cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Glaucostegus Bonaparte 1846
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Rajiformes
Rhinobatidae
Glaucostegus

description: Glaucostegus typus (Anonymous [Bennett], 1830)
Giant Guitarfish
Rhinobatus typus Anonymous [Bennett], 1830: 694. Syntypes: BMNH 1852.8.30.17 (dry). Type locality: Sumatra, Indonesia (syntype); India.
Local synonymy: Rhinobatus armatus— Peters, 1877: 853 (Bougainville). Rhinobatus granulatus— Macleay, 1883a: 598 (New Guinea); Ogilby, 1888: 15 (southeastern New Guinea); Fowler, 1941: 315 (Port Moresby). Rhinobatus thouini— Macleay, 1883b: 280 (Hood Bay). Rhinobatos granulatus— Fowler, 1928: 24 (Port Moresby); Kailola, 1987: 27 (Yule Island). Rhinobatos thouiniana— Fowler, 1934: 386 (Fife Bay and Hood Bay). Rhinobatos batillum— Whitley, 1940: 168 (Fife Bay and Port Moresby); Munro, 1958: 113 (Kapa Kapa); Munro, 1967: 19, pl. 2, fig. 24 (New Guinea); Haines, 1979a: 6 (Purari Delta). Rhinobatos armatus— Filewood, 1973: 10 (PNG); Kailola, 1987: 27 (Port Romilly). Glaucosteus typus— White et al., 2018: 210, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (16 spec.) KFRS E.066, female 337 mm TL, Kairuku, Yule Island, Central Province, Jun. 1965; KFRS E.500, juvenile male 397 mm TL, Arehara, Punari River, 20 Apr. 1975; KFRS E.501, juvenile male 407 mm TL, no collection data [possibly = KFRS E.417, one of two males from Western Province]; KFRS E.612, female 410 mm TL, KFRS E.613, juvenile male 410 mm TL, KFRS E.614, juvenile male 380 mm TL, Mullins Harbour, Milne Bay Province, 10°29’2” S, 149°55’40.5” E, <0.2 m depth, 11 Mar. 2016; KFRS E.725, juvenile male 410 mm TL, Freshwater Bay, Gulf of Papua, 8°6’57.6” S, 145°52’1.2” E, 14–17 m depth, 8 Jun. 2014; NMV A 18753 (3 spec.), females 361–375 mm TL, between Port Moresby and KapaKapa, Central Province, May 1881; USNM 40022 (3 spec.), females 280–365 mm TL, Port Moresby; USNM 218541, female 520 mm TL, USNM 218601, juvenile male 340 mm TL, west end of Parama Island, Western Province, 9°1’11” S, 143°21’36” E, 15 Dec. 1975; ZMB 9737, juvenile female 437 mm TL, Bougainville, [probably mid-1875, SMS Gazelle survey].
Remarks: First recorded by Peters (1877) as Rhinobatus armatus from Bougainville, presumably based on ZMB 9737, collected during an expedition on the SMS Gazelle. Commonly caught by coastal fishers in the Western and Milne Bay Provinces, and probably elsewhere. Dried fins and whole specimens observed during recent surveys.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Drosophila mediodelta Heed & Wheeler 1957
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila mediodelta

description: mediodelta Heed & Wheeler, 1957: 21. Type locality: Colombia, El Recuerdo. HT M (USNM). NT Distr.: El Salvador to Colombia. Hunter,1966: 423.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 728, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Drosophila medioparva Heed & Wheeler 1957
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila medioparva

description: medioparva Heed & Wheeler, 1957: 28. Type locality: Costa Rica, Catargo, Turrialba. HT M (AMNH). NT Distr.: Costa Rica to Colombia.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 728, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
L’allongement compensatoire dans les repr´esentations phonologiques: nature, contraintes et typologie
Creators: name: Beltzung, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This PhD dissertation deals with Compensatory Lengthening (henceforth CL) and its formal expression in phonological representations. Compensatory lengthening is a fairly widespread process across the world's languages in which a segment lengthens to compensate for the deletion or migration of an adjacent segment. The most represented case, that is the 'classical' CL case, is triggered by the loss of a consonant in the syllable coda position and followed by the subsequent lengthening of the preceding vowel (cf. chapter 1). While classical CL is relatively frequent, CL triggered by the loss of a consonant in the onset position is claimed to be inexistent (cf. Hayes 1989 among other). Nevertheless, chapter 2 provides some examples of various languages undergoing CL after an onset consonant deletion, what I call 'exotic' CL cases. Chapter 3 states that moraic phonology (McCarthy & Prince 1986, Hayes 1989) fails to account for this kind of process while, obviously, the segmental theories of the prosodic tier (CV theory, X-slot) make correct predictions. In this chapter, the CVCV theory (Lowenstamm 1996, Scheer 2004), a lateral approach of syllabic constituents that comes from Government Phonology, is also discussed. Chapter 4 is intended to give a short introduction/basis to Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993, McCarthy & Prince 1995). Chapter 5 examines several representations of compensatory lengthening in Optimality Theory framework. There, I show that an implementation of the moraic theory in a constraint-based framework such as OT faces several problems (opacity is one of them). Finally, chapter 6 tries to solve these problems and introduces three Optimality Theory based accounts of compensatory lengthening. Among them, one deserves particular attention since it assumes input moraicity revival (cf. Hyman 1985).
Drosophila mediopictoides Heed & Wheeler 1957
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila mediopictoides

description: mediopictoides Heed & Wheeler, 1957: 24. Type locality: Costa Rica, Catargo, Turrialba. HT M (USNM). NT Distr.: Costa Rica to Colombia. Hunter, 1966: 423.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 728, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Arhynchobatidae Fowler 1934
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Rajiformes
Arhynchobatidae

description: Family Arhynchobatidae Fowler, 1934
Softnose Skates
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
The Role of microRNAs in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: MicroRNAs are recently discovered, single-stranded RNA molecules of 18-24 nucleotides that regulate gene expression. It has been shown that a single microRNA can control the expression of hundreds of gene targets. Cancer is a disease where multiple genes are deregulated, so there has been much interest to study whether controlling the levels of microRNAs can restore normal gene expression to slow down the growth and spread of tumor cells. To date, there have been no studies to examine the role of microRNAs in the most aggressive subset of breast cancer, the triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). This subset represents about 20% of breast cancers at diagnosis with a corresponding high prognostic probability of metastasis. At present, no targeted treatments exist for TNBC and standard chemotherapy remains the only therapeutic option.

 Thus, this project seeks to examine the role that microRNAs have in the biology of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell lines. First, we have found that TNBC tend to have high levels of a protein (oncogene) called Myc. For reasons not yet clear, increases in Myc appears to make cells sensitive to cell death by inhibition of another protein called CDK1, a regulator of cell division. This sensitivity to CDK1 inhibition in the context of MYC overexpression is termed “synthetic lethality.” We have also found that upon CDK1 inhibition, a single microRNA, called mir-19a is decreased. Thus, in this project we will further examine how mir-19a and other microRNAs regulate the sensitivity of triple-negative cells to cell death. Another aim is to investigate a group of about 30 microRNAs that appear to be increased in cells that are resistant to the therapeutic drug, Taxol. We will examine to what degree these microRNAs alter the sensitivity to Taxol. Since the recurrence rate of TNBC is very high, the microRNA profile in Taxol-resistant cells may provide additional therapeutic targets to overcome this resistance. Our final aim is to compare another group of 30 microRNAs that have been found to be increased in TNBC cell lines compared to the less aggressive estrogen receptor positive cell lines. We believe these microRNAs underlie the aggressiveness and invasiveness of TNBC relative to the more treatable ER-positive breast cancers.

 Taken together, we anticipate that our studies will reveal individual or combinations of microRNAs that can be used to improve treatment for TNBC either as novel targets of treatment, or as a mean to overcome drug resistance typically seen in metastatic disease or recurrence.
Phonology Shaped by Phonetics: The Case of Intervocalic Lenition
Creators: name: Kaplan, Abby
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The goal of this dissertation is to explore the phonetic bases of intervocalic lenition -- specifically, voicing and spirantization of intervocalic stops. A traditional understanding of phonological patterns like these is that they involve articulatory effort reduction, in that speakers substitute an easy sound for a hard one. Experiment 1 uses a novel methodology to investigate whether voiced and spirantized productions are truly easier than their unlenited counterparts: the speech of intoxicated subjects is recorded and compared with their speech while sober, on the hypothesis that intoxicated subjects expend less articulatory effort. This experiment thus attempts to observe effort reduction in action in the laboratory. The results of Experiment 1 do not provide evidence that voicing and spirantization are effort-reducing; rather, intoxicated subjects exhibit an overall contraction of the articulatory space. Experiments 2 - 4 investigate whether an alternative account of lenition based on perception is viable. Results suggest that attested alternations such as spirantization of voiced stops are preferred on perceptual grounds to unattested alternations such as intervocalic devoicing. Thus, the hypothesis of the P-map (Steriade 2001) can explain the broad strokes of lenition, although differences by place of articulation found in Experiment 3 do not match well with the typology. I conclude with an analysis of intervocalic spirantization couched within Optimality Theory, and particularly Dispersion Theory, using constraints motivated by Experiments 1 - 4. Unlike previous accounts of lenition, this analysis invokes no constraints that directly favor lenited forms over unlenited ones, since no such constraints were motivated by Experiment 1. The constraints that are made available by the experimental results are nevertheless able to account for a sizeable portion of the typology of lenition. I conclude that articulatory factors say less about lenition than traditionally thought, and that perceptual factors say more -- and that theories of phonology that are committed to taking phonetics seriously must take notice.
Notoraja Ishiyama 1958
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Rajiformes
Rajidae
Notoraja

description: Genus Notoraja Ishiyama, 1958
Velvet Skates
Notoraja (subgenus of Breviraja) Ishiyama, 1958: 322. Type species: Raja tobitukai Hiyama, 1940, by original designation (also monotypic).
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Tobacco Policies and Disparities: California vs. the US
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: We propose to analyze representative population-level data to compare California’s progress relative to the rest of the US in reducing racial/ethnic disparities in cigarette smoking initiation, consumption level (non-daily smoking, light daily smoking, heavy daily smoking), and cessation (quit attempts relapse, successful cessation). We also aim to expand quasi-experimental methods to allow for the assessment of the distribution of inequalities in cigarette smoking initiation, consumption and cessation across race/ethnic groups, as impacted by smoke-free laws and increased cigarette taxes. Capitalizing on a natural experiment, we will compare California, a state with a large, diverse population that implemented such policies in the 1990s, with a synthetic control group of US states that did not implement such policies to understand changes across race/ethnic groups attributable to such policies. We will then quantify the extent to which these policies affected predictors of cigarette smoking initiation, consumption and cessation across race/ethnic groups in California compared to a synthetic control group of US states. Finally, we will examine other-tobacco-product (OTP) use, including cigars/cigarillos, electronic cigarettes and hookah, and its effect on the cigarette smoking continuum across priority population groups. Specifically, we will examine whether California’s various population groups are using OTPs differently than the rest of the US and, if so, how cigarette smoking disparities are affected.

 We refer to California’s racial/ethnic priority populations as including the following groups: African Americans/Blacks, American Indians, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders and Hispanics/Latinos. Within these priority populations will consider age, gender and socioeconomic disparities between and within groups, as well as nationality-subgroup differences within Asian Americans (e.g., Chinese, Filipino) and Hispanics/Latinos (e.g., Mexican, Puerto Rican). Results from this project can lead to improved prevention, control and intervention efforts to reduce tobacco-related health disparities in California.
Predicting response to mTOR inhibitors in oral cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The use of “mammalian target of rapamycin” (mTOR) inhibitors for prevention and treatment of oral cancer is an exciting new prospect in the field of cancer prevention. The application to oral cancer, a cancer whose primary risk factors include tobacco and alcohol use, comes at an important time when there is high prevalence but relatively few therapeutic options, resulting in a five-year survival rate of 50 percent. In several studies, mTOR inhibition was able to prevent progression of pre-cancerous lesions to oral cancer and even stopped tumor growth. Despite the promise of this new therapeutic, resistance to mTOR inhibition limits the full potential of this targeted therapy. The goal of this proposal is to use genome-wide approaches to identify predictive biomarkers of sensitivity to mTOR inhibition, especially metformin, in both oral premalignant lesions (OPL) and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC). In this work, mTOR inhibition will be studied in a reverse engineering approach, first removing genes, or activating pathways, treating with mTOR inhibitors and then studying the response. As well as in a forward direction, by first treating cells, OSCC or OPL with mTOR inhibitors then studying the effect of the therapy. By characterizing resistance to mTOR inhibition in oral cancer and identifying biomarkers, this work will increase the precision of this promising new chemopreventive therapy.
Minimal Reduplication
Creators: name: Saba Kirchner, Jesse
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation introduces Minimal Reduplication, a new theory and framework within generative grammar for analyzing reduplication in human language. I argue that reduplication is an emergent property in multiple components of the grammar. In particular, reduplication occurs independently in the phonology and syntax components, and in both cases it occurs due to the ordinary workings and independently-motivated properties of those components. Therefore, no special theoretical machinery is necessary in order to analyze reduplication.Phonological and syntactic reduplication both have distinct properties, which I lay out and explore in some depth. In cases of phonological reduplication (which includes morphological reduplication), reduplication occurs as a phonological repair process. These reduplication constructions are minimal in phonological size, they exhibit TETU, and they interact normally with morphophonology. No RED morpheme or constituents like “base” and “reduplicant” are needed to analyze them successfully.Syntactic reduplication occurs when a syntactic constituent is copied and merged with another morpheme, creating a complex constituent with two daughters below X0. These cases are not limited in phonological size and do not exhibit TETU. They are restricted in their interaction with morphophonology. In addition, due to the nature of the merged constituent, these constructions sometimes exhibit phonological behavior which appears to be non-optimizing.Case studies are presented with data from Kwak’wala, Tamil and Samala, with supporting evidence from many other languages.
Notoraja sereti White, Last & Mana 2017
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Rajiformes
Rajidae
Notoraja
Notoraja sereti

description: Notoraja sereti White, Last & Mana, 2017d
Papuan Velvet Skate
Notoraja sereti White, Last & Mana, 2017d: 220, Figs 1 –8. Holotype: NTUM 10067. Type locality: southeast of Sek Island, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
Local synonymy: Insentiraja subtilispinosa— Fricke et al., 2014: 15 (Madang Province). Notoraja sereti White et al., 2017d: 219, Figs 1 –8 (Madang Province)— White et al., 2018: 216, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (3 spec.) NTUM 10042 (paratype), female 458 mm TL, east of Sek Island, Madang, 5°06' S, 145°53' E, 960–980 m depth, 30 Nov. 2012; NTUM 10067 (holotype), female 459 mm TL, southeast of Sek Island, Madang, 5°07' S, 145°53' E, 980 m depth, 2 Dec. 2012; NTUM 10330 (paratype), adolescent male 363 mm TL, Astrolabe Bay, Madang, 5°21' S, 145°53' E, 800–820 m depth, 14 Dec. 2012.
Remarks: Only recently discovered based on 3 specimens caught during deepwater surveys off Madang Province in 2012; recently described as a new species by White et al. (2017d). Endemic to PNG.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Drosophila mediostriata Duda 1925
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila mediostriata

description: mediostriata Duda, 1925: 223. Type locality: Costa Rica, Catargo, La Suiza de Turrialba. HT M (HNHM). NT Distr.: El Salvador to Brazil and Bolivia. Colombia (Bogota, D:C, Amazonas (Leticia), Cundinamarca (Fusagasugá), Magdalena (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), Villa del Cauca (Palmira)). Refs.: Hunter, 1964: 39; Hunter & Navarro, 1969: 1102; Hoenigsberg, 1995a: 87, 1995b: 177, Yoon, 1996: 42.
crocina Patterson & Mainland, 1944: 34. Type locality: Mexico, Veracruz, Córdoba. ST B (USMN). Syn. Vilela & Bächli, 1990: 100.
campestris Burla in Pavan, 1950: 9. Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Pirassununga, Goiás, Palma, Monjolinho, Território of Acre, Moa, Baia, Sobrado, Salitre. ST B (MZUSP)?. Syn. Wheeler, 1970: 14.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 728, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Treating NSCLC with Next-Gen RNAi Therapeutics Target
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in men and women in the US with more people dying of lung cancer than the combined total from colon, breast and prostate cancer (more than 150K deaths/year). Unfortunately, lung cancer is often diagnosed at advanced or metastatic stages when the disease has already become very aggressive. Lifestyle choices, especially smoking, serves to drive mutation of genes, called oncogenes, that drive the cancer cell growth, survival and metastasis. Current therapeutic approaches, including surgery, radiation, combination chemotherapy, and recent advanced therapies of target inhibitors and immunotherapy, result in 30 percent survival. Unfortunately, that leaves 70 percent of lung cancer patients without any therapeutic options. Many of the smoking-induced lung cancer driver oncogenes, specifically KRAS and MYC, are undruggable by current therapeutic approaches. However, siRNA-induced RNA interference (RNAi) responses have great potential to develop truly precision medicines that can revolutionize the treatment of lung cancer and target the entire “undruggable” genome, including cMYC and all mutant forms of KRAS. Unfortunately, RNAi therapeutics cannot be delivered in cancer cells. Thus, RNAi delivery remains the technological problem to solve. Our high risk/high gain proposal directly tackles the RNAi delivery problem by developing Antibody-RNAi Conjugates (ARCs). ARCs use the exquisite cell targeting selectivity of antibodies that we will link to next-generation RNAi triggers, called siRNNs, that our lab recently developed. We will generate ARCs that target the KRAS and cMYC driver oncogenes and treat preclinical mouse models of lung cancer with combinations of ARCs to induce a synthetic lethal RNAi response that selectively kills the lung cancer cells based on their mutant genetics, while sparing normal cells. Looking at the big picture, the successful development of ARC RNAi delivery technology here has the potential to enable generating ARC RNAi therapeutics capable of selectively hitting all other driver oncogenes in lung cancer.
Prosodic Domains and Ambisyllabicity in Optimality Theory
Creators: name: Hong, Soonhyun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1997

description: In Optimality Theory, Generalized Alignment (McCarthy & Prince 1993b) has been successful in encoding the close relationship between prosodic structure and morphological structure.        However, surface syllabification renders morphological boundaries opaque in a compound /CVC-VC/, in which each Root of the compound is identified as a separate PrWd in a language such as Korean (Kang 1992).  In such case, owing to the requirement of ONSET, the final consonant of the first Root of the compound must be syllabified as an onset, leading to PrWd-Root misalignment.  However, we show that unique-onset syllabification is empirically not tenable in Korean;  a variety of phonological phenomena suggest that this consonant must be syllabified as a coda, seemingly requiring an abstract syllabification and thus posing a challenge to Optimality Theory, in which abstract syllabification is impossible.This dissertation proposes that a Root juncture is in fact non-crisply aligned with a PrWd juncture.  We further argue that the PrWd-final consonant which is followed by a vowel across a PrWd juncture is realized as ambisyllabic.  This proposal is strongly supported by several Korean phonological phenomena and English flapping.  We demonstrate in Korean that /n/-insertion is compelled to avoid an ambisyllabic consonant before a high front vocoid.  We also show in Korean that over application of Coda Neutralization and under application of primary palatalization of aPrWd-final consonant before a high front vocoid across a PrWd juncture are due to the ambisyllabicity of the PrWd-final consonant.Additionally, we analyze primary palatalization, secondary palatalization and Umlaut in Korean (Iverson 1993, Kiparsky 1993 for Korean and Hume 1990).  We will demonstrate that Umlaut is blocked across a secondarily palatalized coronal consonant before a high front vocoid.  We propose that Umlaut and secondary palatalization are a single phonological phenomenon and secondary palatalization blocking of Umlaut results from a consipiracy to force the V-place of a high front vocoid to spread only once.
title: The Equations of RDX2 Revised and Estimated to 4Q 1972
Creators: name: Maxwell, Tom
name: Helliwell, John
name: Aubry, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1976

description: This fourth version of RDX2, Bank of Canada Technical Report 5, is the latest variant of the quarterly econometric model of the Canadian economy developed in the Research Department of the Bank of Canada.
description: Dans ce cinquième Rapport technique publié par la Banque du Canada, nous présentons la quatrième version du modèle économétrique trimestriel de l'économie canadienne, RDX2, construit par le Département des Recherches de la Banque du Canada.
Tidal Stellar Streams: what do they say about our Universe?
Creators: name: García Argumánez, Ángela
name: Gomez-Flechoso, Maria Angeles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Poster presented at the XVI Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA) held in Granada in July 2024.

Abstract:

The present cosmological model (ΛCDM) predicts that galaxy formation occurs in a hierarchical way. This implies that a galaxy like the Milky Way (MW) has been formed by the merger of smaller galaxies and by the accretion of dwarf galaxies.

The dwarf galaxies that are accreted in this process are first destroyed and then integrated into the halo of the main galaxy. During the first stages, the tidal forces generate stellar streams of low surface brightness (LSB). The number of these stellar tidal streams and their characteristics depend on the dark matter model of our Universe, as this is responsible of how galaxy accretion occurs.

The ARRAKIHS space mission will observe, for the first time, stellar tidal streams from space down to very faint surface brightnesses (~30-31 mag/arcsec²) and will therefore allow us to study the nature of dark matter.

In this poster we show how ARRAKIHS will provide robust statistics of the number and shapes of these stellar streams (formed in the accretion of satellite galaxies), as well as the implications this will have for our knowledge of dark matter.
Parallelism and Planes in Optimality Theory: Evidence from Afar
Creators: name: Fulmer, Sandra Lee
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1997

description: In this dissertation I show that the representations in Optimality Theory must be extended to allow multiple planes. The variable-position affixes in Afar occur as either prefixes or suffixes depending on the initial segment of the verb root. If the root begins with [i], [e(e)],[o(o)] or [u], the affix is a prefix (e.g., t-okm-e# (2-eat-perf) 'You(sg.) ate'); if it begins with [a] or a consonant, the affix is a suffix (e.g., rab-t-e# (die-2-perf) 'You died').  Additionally, plural not only appears as a prefix or a suffix, but when a suffix it can either precede or follow aspect (rab-n-e# (die-pl-perf) 'I died' vs. rab-e#-n (die-perf-pl)'They died').  A parallel model in Optimality Theory is unable to account for the different order of affixes in forms such as rab-n-e# vs. rab-e#-n. The Multiplanar Model, which posits that output representations consist not only of a word plane but also an affix plane is able to account for this data. The representations for the two forms are: [y-e-n], [rab-e-n] and[n-e], [rab-n-e]. In the first case, plural is specified as the right most morpheme by morphological constraints.  Even though /y/, the third person marker, cannot surface on the word plane, it satisfies ONSET on the affix plane. This contrasts with the second case, where ONSET, being higher ranked than PLURAL (R), requires that plural occurs to the left of aspect to fill the onset position on the affix plane. I then show a serial monoplanar model can also account for this data. Finally, I compare the serial and multiplanar models, arguing that phonological evidence supports the Multiplanar Model.
Rajidae Blainville 1816
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Rajiformes
Rajidae

description: Family Rajidae Blainville, 1816
Hardnose Skates
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Drosophila mercatorum Patterson & Wheeler 1942
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila mercatorum

description: mercatorum Patterson & Wheeler, 1942: 93. Type locality: USA, California, Santa Barbara Country, Santa Barbara. LT M (AMNH). Lectotype des. Vilela 1983: 38. NE, PA, NT, AF, AU Distr. Cosmopolitan. Colombia (Bogota, D:C, Caldas (Manizalles), Meta (Villavivencio), Valle del Cauca (Palmira)). Refs.: Hunter, 1964: 39; Yoon, 1996: 34.
carinata Grimshaw, 1901: 70. Type locality: USA, Hawaii, Kona, 4000 ft & Olaa. ST F (BMHN). Syn. Hardy, 1965: 204. Suppresed by ICZN 1977: 164.
pararepleta Dobzhansky & Pavan, 1943:52. Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Mogí das Cruzes. HT M (MZUSP). Reduced to subspecies by Wharton 1944: 183.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 728, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Sign-Based Morphology and Phonology with special attention to Optimality Theory
Creators: name: Orgun, Cemil Orhan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1996

description: This dissertation develops Sign-Based Morphology (SBM), a novel,comprehensive theory of the phonology-morphology interface.SBM is a declarative theory that derives cyclic phonological effects from static constituent structure configurations. Its existence is proof that, contrary to commonly expressed beliefs, there is nothing intrinsically or irreducibly derivational about cyclic phonology.Though sharing fundamental insights with current paradigmatic approaches to the phonology-morphology interface (Steriade 1994, Kenstowicz 1995, McCarthy 1995, Benua 1995, 1996), SBM differs from them in certain crucial respects. Its unique constructional orientation enables SBM to offer principled accounts of five critically important phenomena that existing paradigmatic approaches are unable to deal with in a satisfactory manner: SBM (1) predicts the inside-out nature of cyclic phonological effects, (2) deals successfully with Bracket Erasure effects, (3) handles morphologically bound stems that act as cyclic phonological domains, (4) handles noncyclic as well as cyclic phonological effects, and (5) deals with cyclic effects involving ungrammatical stems.SBM shares properties of all three traditional types of morphological theories: Item-and-Arrangement (IA), Item-and-Process (IP), and Word-and-Paradigm (WP). Combining a constituent structure-based view of morphology with a realizational approach to affixation, SBM builds on ideas in both IA and IP approaches to morphology. It also has a plausible paradigmatic interpretation, incorporating insights of the WP approach. By using insights from these approaches to morphology, usually assumed to be mutually incompatible, SBM captures their individual advantages while avoiding their pitfalls.
Estimating Sharpe ratio function in the presence of measurement error
Creators: name: Lin, Hongmei
name: Zhang, Shaodong
name: Xu, Wenchao
name: Tong, Tiejun
name: Zhang, Riquan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In financial econometrics, the Sharpe ratio function serves as a gold standard to measure the return-to-risk ratio for comparing different assets or trading strategies. In the recent literature, several methods have been developed to directly or indirectly estimate the Sharpe ratio function, yet none of them apply to the scenario where the covariates are measured with error. To handle this problem, we propose a new method by incorporating the local polynomial smoothing and SIMEX to simultaneously estimate the Sharpe ratio function and the negative log-volatility function in the presence of measurement error. The asymptotic bias and variance of the proposed estimators are also derived under some regularity conditions. We further conduct Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the finite sample performance, and apply two real data examples to illustrate the usefulness of our new method.
Tidal Stellar Streams: what do they say about our Universe?
Creators: name: García Argumánez, Ángela
name: Gomez-Flechoso, Maria Angeles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Poster presented at the XVI Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA) held in Granada in July 2024.

Abstract:

The present cosmological model (ΛCDM) proposes a hierarchical process for galaxy formation, which implies that a galaxy like the Milky Way (MW) has been formed by the merger of smaller galaxies and by the accretion of dwarf galaxies.

The dwarf galaxies that are accreted in this process are first destroyed and then integrated into the halo of the main galaxy. During the first stages, the tidal forces generate stellar streams of low surface brightness (LSB). The number of these stellar tidal streams and their characteristics depend on the dark matter model of our Universe since this, in turn, regulates how galaxy accretion processes occur.

The ARRAKIHS space mission will for the first time observe stellar tidal streams from space down to very faint surface brightnesses (~30-31 mag/arcsec²) and will therefore allow us to study the nature of dark matter.

In this poster we show how ARRAKIHS will provide robust statistics of the number and shapes of these stellar streams (formed in the accretion of satellite galaxies), as well as the implications this will have for our knowledge of dark matter.
Parsing below the Segment in a Constraint Based Framework
Creators: name: Zoll, Cheryl Cydney
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1996

description: This dissertation proposes a new model of subsegmental phonology within Optimality Theory that differs from standard Auto segmental Phonology both in its limited use of representational distinctions and in the form of the grammar to which the representations submit. The research focuses particularly on phonological units which are invisible to parsing in certain contexts, such as floating features and ghost segments, and demonstrates that the current understanding of segmental representation does not adequately  characterize the full range of subsegmental phenomena found cross-linguistically. I propose instead an analysis in the framework of Optimality Theory in which the grammar derives the variety of surface phenomena from a single underlying representation. The typology which results from this analysis correctly classifies the entire range of behavior associated with subminimal phonological units while allowing a unique characterization of the immunity of defective segments from the demands of regular parsing. This dissertation thus both enlarges the empirical foundation on which an adequate theory of segment structure must be based, and in developing such an account sheds new light on classic problems of subsegmental parsing.
Drosophila metzii Sturtevant 1921
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila metzii

description: metzii Sturtevant, 1921: 78. Type locality: Cuba, Herradura. HT M (AMNH). NT Distr.: West Indies, Mexico to Colombia, Trinidad, Cuba, Ecuador and Galápagos. Ref.: Hunter, 1964: 39.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 728, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley 1939
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Rajiformes
Rhinobatidae
Rhynchobatus
Rhynchobatus australiae

description: Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939b
Whitespotted Wedgefish
Rhynchobatus djiddensis australiae Whitley, 1939b: 245, Fig. 14. Holotype: AMS IA.4959. Type locality: off Manning River mouth, New South Wales, Australia.
Local synonymy: Rhynchobatus djiddensis— Filewood, 1973 (in part): 10 (PNG). Rhynchobatus australiae— White et al., 2018: 202, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: None.
Remarks: Filewood (1973) recorded only Rhynchobatus djiddensis from PNG; included in synonymy of this species and R. palpebratus by default but may not have encountered both species at that time. Recently verified from coastal fisheries catches from the Milne Bay Province and from underwater photographs taken off Kavieng by D. Amon (Lissenung Island).
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
The Space of Case
Creators: name: Lestrade, Sander
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: A functionally motivated account of the use of morphological case is proposed, combining insights from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology, and corpus research. The use of case is argued to follow from economy and generalization principles that are necessary for efficient communication. Special attention is given to the spatial use of case, which expresses the most frequent spatial meaning aspect: the change of relative position. By the focus on spatial case, this study complements existing literature on spatial ad positions on the one hand and structural case on the other.
Multi-Shade Composite Layering: Case Report
Creators: name: Abdulgani A.
name: Qawasmeh N.
name: Alsagheer M.
name: Abdulgani M.
name: Abu-Hussein M.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Composite resin bonding is the quickest, most conservative and affordable method to repair minor tooth fractures and replace old anterior fillings. Thanks to improvements in color and strength, the dentist has ultimate control over the final outcome of this transformation. Layering of different colors and opacities allows the composite to mimic natural dentin and enamel. These composites can exhibit an accurate reproduction of the chroma, opacity, and translucency of natural dentin and enamel. Providing a patient with a multi-shade anterior composite can increase their self-esteem. This article discusses the use of a multi- shade layering technique in a 19-year-old patient
Cannabis and Tobacco Co-Use and the Developing Brain
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Studies suggest cannabis use and nicotine and tobacco products (NTP) negatively impact the developing brain. Despite evidence that regular use of both of these substances may result in worse performance on tests of mental processes (e.g., memory) and increased risk of mental health problems and addiction, there is little research on how using both of these substances may change the adolescent brain and leave some youth vulnerable to poorer physical and mental wellness. The aims of the proposed research are to recruit a large sample of adolescents (N=200) ages 16-22 who report using both cannabis and NTP, cannabis only, NTP only, and minimal to no use of either substance to compare: 1) differences in brain health 2) differences in memory, attention, and concentration, and 3) differences in mood, anxiety, and problems in their life. Adolescents have high peak use rates of NTP and as a result are specifically targeted by the tobacco industry. Similarly, as more states legalize cannabis use, more teens may use NTP and cannabis together. Yet, there is no research examining how use of these two substances together may change the adolescent brain. This research will help inform health care providers working with adolescents, as well as public health campaigns, prevention programs, and law makers.
Effect of nicotine exposure on mitochondria in myocytes
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The use of e-cigarettes delivering aerosolized nicotine as an alternative to smoking has increased exponentially in recent years. However, how the nicotine exposure affects the health of the heart is currently unknown. It is therefore important to better understand how nicotine might cause harm to the cells in the heart. Mitochondria are responsible for providing the beating muscle cells in the heart with energy. In this pilot proposal, we will examine how nicotine exposure affects the function of these organelles and their elimination from the cell. When mitochondria become damaged or dysfunctional, they can cause harm to the cell which can lead to cell death. Normally, these mitochondria are quickly removed by vesicles called autophagosomes in a process known as mitochondrial autophagy or mitophagy. When this process is impaired, it leads to accumulation of damaged mitochondria. In this proposal, we will examine how chronic exposure to nicotine affects the degradation of dysfunctional mitochondria via autophagy. These studies will provide important new insights into how nicotine exposure affects the clearance of damaged mitochondria in the heart and whether this will have adverse consequences for the heart, in particular during stress.
Drosophila moju Pavan 1950
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila moju

description: moju Pavan, 1950: 19. Type locality: Brazil, Pará, Belém. LT M (MZUSP). NT Distr.: Costa Rica to Brazil and Bolivia. Colombia (Meta (Villavicencio). Refs.: Vilela, 1983: 18.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 728, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Effect of Nicotine
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The gut is a complex environment; its mucosal barrier serves as the critical frontier between trillions of microbes and diverse food antigens and toxins within the gut lumen and the body’s immune system. The gut barrier is comprised of a single layer of epithelial cells, bound by cell-cell junctions. An impaired gut barrier, i.e., ‘leaky gut’, is believed to be a major contributor to the initiation and/or progression of systemic chronic inflammation, which in turn fuels the progression of various chronic diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis and arthritis.

 Although their impact on cultured cell lines have been reported previously, no studies have investigated the impact of nicotine, e-cigarettes and cannabis on physiologically relevant models, and little or nothing is known regarding how these toxins impact the gut barrier. This proposal seeks to study the impact of 3 toxins-- nicotine, e-cigarettes (vaping) and cannabis on this critical frontier.

 Our lab has recently described the importance of a novel molecular mechanism, a specialized signaling program called the stress-polarity signaling (SPS) pathway. This pathway acts as a S.W.A.T team that is deployed by the cells in the gut lining under duress to fortify the cell-cell junctions against stress-induced collapse. Preliminary studies with a novel stem-cell based organoid model system that recapitulates the complexity of the human gut barrier, the so-called ‘gut-in-a-dish’ have shown that nicotine, e-cigarettes and cannabis erode the integrity of the gut barrier via their ability to suppress the SPS-pathway. Going forward, the proposed studies capitalizes on the strengths and expertise of two investigators to determine the effects of the 3 toxins (alone or in combination) on the integrity of the gut barrier and the SPS-pathway using the gut-in-a-dish model. Additionally, the SPS-pathway will be assessed in the colonic biopsies from veterans undergoing routine colonoscopy who take one or more of the substances.

 These studies are expected to provide mechanistic insights into the gut barrier-protective/destroying effects of nicotine, e-cigarettes and cannabis on the front line of host-defense, i.e., the gut barrier. We anticipate that this project will help improve public health guidelines by further refining cannabis-related laws and establish thresholds for smoking and vaping that is compatible with healthy living.
Always Remember 9/11 Exhibit: September 16 through November 20, 2010.
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The Always Remember 9/11Exhibit featuring works commemorating the lives and stories of September 11, 2001, will open at the Brodsky Center Gallery at the Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center, 10 Livingston Ave., Thursday, Sept. 16, with a free public reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The exhibition will continue through Nov. 30.
Dipturus Rafinesque 1810
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Rajiformes
Rajidae
Dipturus

description: Genus Dipturus Rafinesque, 1810a
Hardnosed Skates
Dipturus Rafinesque, 1810a: 16. Type species: Raja batis Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878