cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NJDEP - Golder subsurface vapor intrusion research project
Creators: name: Golder Associates
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2005

description: Report describes results of "year one" research study of soil vapor intrusion titled "Investigation of indoor air quality in structures located above VOC-contaminated groundwater." The purpose of the research program was to evaluate soil vapor instruction into buildings through field measurements, comparison to existing guidance, and site-specific mathematical modeling of vapor intrusion. The testing was performed between 2002 and 2004.
Megalomyrmex pusillus Forel
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Megalomyrmex
Megalomyrmex pusillus

description: Megalomyrmex pusillus Forel, 1912
Possuo alguns operários provenientes do Alto da Serra, S. Paulo, Prof. S. B. Pessoa leg., que concordam bem com a descripção, mas parecem ser ligeiramente maiores (comprimento cerca de 4 mm).
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 421
Cotesia notha Marshall 1885
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia notha

description: Cotesia notha (Marshall, 1885)
Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Ghahari and Fischer 2011b), Lorestan (Ghahari et al. 2012b).
Distribution outside Iran. former Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, UK (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Epirrhoe galiata, Earophila badiata, Abraxas grossulariata, Catarhoe rubidata, Hydriomena furcata, Phigalia pilosaria, Spilosoma lubricipida, Maniola jurtina, Melanargia galathea, Coleophora sarratella, Coleophora milvipennis (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012), Earophila badiata, Horisme vitalbata, Mormo maura (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012). Shenefelt (1972) reported Adscita geryon, Anticlea sp., Biston betularia, Lygris pyraliata, Lycaena phlaeas, Paramesia plantaginis, Stenoptilia zophodactyla, Thetidia sp. Also, Yu et al. (2012) reported Coleophora nigricella, Cosmia pyralina, Earophila badiata, Eulithis pyraliata, Horisme vitalbata, Ipimorpha retusa, Jordanita (Jucasiterna) subsolana, Lithophane semibrunnea, Mesochorus fuscicornis and Phyllonorycter lantanella.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Labor market effects of obesity, smoking, and alcohol use
Creators: name: Dastan, Ilker
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation analyzes the joint effects of obesity, smoking, and binge  drinking on wages and on unemployment by using the National Longitudinal Survey of  Youth data set. The main objective of this study is to show that the effects of these  behaviors on wages and unemployment may not be measured accurately in analyses that  consider only one or two since these behaviors are correlated or tend to cluster. My  results illustrate that failing to include one or more of the health behaviors in wage or  unemployment regression would lead to an underestimation of the impact of being obese  and an overestimation of the effect of binge drinking for both genders. However, when  endogeneity is addressed by employing the Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable  (HTIV) method in wage analysis and the multivariate probit method in unemployment  analysis, I find that the estimated parameters of obesity or binge drinking are not  statistically significantly different whether these behaviors are considered individually or  simultaneously.  iii  This study also conducts several sensitivity analyses. Firstly, the results reveal  that the effects of these behaviors are not interactive. Secondly, the paper illustrates that  the wage penalties for daily smoking are fairly constant over the wage distribution for  both genders, but obesity affects the wages of males and females relatively more at lower  quantiles of wages, and there is no wage penalty for being a binge drinker for either  gender. Further, it is found that smokers are a heterogeneous group of people. In  particular, the wage and unemployment effects of persistent smokers are different than  beginning smokers and quitters. Moreover, obesity affects the wages and the likelihood  of being unemployed of males only at the extremes of obesity. Lastly, I find evidence of  wage penalties for being obese or a smoker in private sector jobs, but in the public sector  only male smokers face lower wages.
Tools from statistical physics for systems biology and for genomics
Creators: name: Dayarian, Adel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: My graduate studies involved three broad classes of problems, each of which are presented in diﬀerent chapters of this thesis. The ﬁrst two parts of my work were related to studying dynamics of biochemical networks. I studied a mean-ﬁeld/stochastic model of epigenetic chromatin silencing in yeast. The model gives rise to diﬀerent dynamical behaviors possible within the same molecular model and provides qualitative predictions that are being investigated experimentally. In another part of my work, I studied a model of segment polarity network in Drosophila and analyzed the parameter space of the system. I particularly studied the relation between the geometry of parameter space and the robustness of the network. I will show that, in addition to the volume, the geometry of this region has important consequences for the robustness and the fragility of a network. A major part of my PhD work involved applications of high-throughput sequencing technologies for extracting information at the genomic level. I present SOPRA, a new algorithm for exploiting the mate pair information for assembly of short reads. I have successfully applied SOPRA to real data and were able to assemble scaﬀolds of signiﬁcant length with very few errors introduced in the process.
"Chi sono io?" Narrazione storica e soggettività nella "Camicia bruciata" di Anna Banti
Creators: name: Delogu, Lucy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Widely published and read in her day, the novelistic production of twentieth-century writer Anna Banti, a pseudonym for Lucia Lopresti (1895-1985), has today been largely forgotten by the public as well as by the literary establishment. In my thesis I address this lacuna in the Italian literary canon by showing how Anna Banti contributed to the creation of a female literary tradition as well as to the renewal of Italian literature from stylistic and thematic points of view. My study examines Banti’s contribution from a dual perspective: as a promoter of female individuality and independence in contrast to the existent paternal order, and as an innovator of the Italian novel, in particular, the historical Italian novel. I have chosen to concentrate my analysis on the historical novel La camicia bruciata, published in 1973. In the Introduction I provide a historical and cultural overview of Italian society from the end of the nineteen-century through most of the twentieth century.   I pay particular attention to women’s status in society, and to attitudes of the establishment towards women and women writers. In Chapter One I discuss Banti’s personal experience as a woman writer, examining the style and approach that characterized her narrative production. In Chapter Two I examine how Banti stresses the subject of sexual differences in her novels and prose, and how she creates strong female characters who are able to pursue their artistic careers. I also analyze her personal view of maternity, which she sees as an obstacle to women’s artistic expectations. I show how Banti can be considered a modern feminist, even if she has always refused such a label. In Chapter Three I examine the structure of the historical novel La camicia bruciata: I discuss the main characters and the themes of marriage and motherhood. In Chapter Four I examine the difference between the fictional story created by Anna Banti and the historical facts narrated in The House of Medici by Sir Christopher Hibbert and The Last Medici by Harold Acton. The purpose of this analysis is to show how Banti’s personal experience leads her to rearrange historical data so as to give shape and form to her narrative and characters.
Investigation of shape representation using sensitivity to axis and part based transformations
Creators: name: Denisova, Kristina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Part-based approaches organize global shape in terms of segmented parts and their spatial relationships, and are robust under transformations such as articulating limbs that are common in biological objects. It is well documented that transformations that alter qualitative part structure of a shape are more noticeable than those that do not. However, previous work has not compared sensitivity to transformations that change quantitative parameters involving the spatial relationships between parts, without altering the shape's qualitative part structure. Shape transformations were applied to a protruding part attached to a larger base (two-axial-branch shape: Experiment 1) or to a simple elongated shape (single- axis shape, Experiment 2): length, width, curvature, orientation, and location change of the part. Using a 2IFC task, increment thresholds were derived, and in Experiments 1 and 2 were converted into common metrics to enable comparison across transformations. Higher sensitivity was found for transformations involving the intrinsic parameters of a single axial branch such as length, width, curvature, and lower sensitivity for those involving two axial branches such as orientation, location, providing evidence for the single-part superiority effect. In Experiment 3, the orientation of the shapes (two-part and single-part) varied randomly on each trial. Results showed no benefit in sensitivity provided by presence of the base in the two-part shape in Experiment 1. In Experiment 4, the influence of surface, as opposed to contour, geometry was investigated by manipulating figure and ground regions defined by a fixed contour using stereoscopic depth. A protrusion (a positive part) in the figure region corresponded to an indentation in the complementary region (a negative part). Two conditions were tested, orientation and location; for each, sensitivity to positive and negative part changes was compared. Sensitivity was better for positive compared to negative parts in the case of orientation, indicating differential processing for transformations that are biologically plausible; no difference was found for location. Even when sensitivities were compared using a common scale, different transformations elicited very different sensitivities, indicating that purely physical measures of shape similarity are inadequate for perceptual similarity. The results also indicate that shape sensitivity depends on both contour and surface geometry.
Perionyx rimatus Stephenson 1920
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Perionyx
Perionyx rimatus

description: 75. Perionyx rimatus Stephenson, 1920
Perionyx rimatus Stephenson, 1920: 206.
T. Jorpokhri, Sitong, district Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. TM. ZSIC 275. D. West Bengal: Darjeeling (Halder 1998; Paliwal 2013), Dow Hill Kurseong (Julka 1975; Paliwal 2013). E. NA. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Cotesia ofella Nixon 1974
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia ofella

description: Cotesia ofella (Nixon, 1974)
Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran (Ghahari et al. 2010a), West Azarbaijan (Karimpour et al. 2001). Distribution outside Iran. Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Simara dentinosa (Karimpour et al. 2001; Yu et al. 2012). It has been also reported from Acronicta aceris, A. rumicis, Spilosoma lubricipida (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012) and Euthrix potatoria (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Atta cephalotes Linne
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta cephalotes

description: Atta cephalotes Linné, 1758 (Fig. 18)
Como localidade do typo desta espécie deve ser considerada a Guyana Hollandeza (Surinam). Linneu baseou a sua diagnose (1758) sobre material colleccionado por Rolander, sobre o qual diz H. Baillon (1891, Dictionnaire de Botanique, vol. 3, Paris, p. 742): «Voyageur danois à la Guyane. Hornemann a fait connaitre (1812) le journal de son Voyage à Surinam».
Considero como forma typica abundante material de operarios, 1 macho e 1 fêmea de Lelydorp, localidade que fica a uma distancia de 25 km de Paramaribo (Stahei e Geijskes leg. Abril 1938). Também possuo material colleccionado por Bünzli em Paramaribo, e por N. A. Weber na Guyana Hollandeza e em Trinidad.
Segundo Santschi (1929, p. 92) a cabeça do operá- rio maior apresenta-se muito dividida pelo sulco occipital, o que não se verifica no material de Surinam. A espécie parece variar, bastante e precisava ser revista.
Sobre a nidificação desta espécie, Stahel e Geijskes publicaram ha pouco (1939, Rev. Ent. X, fasc. 1) importante trabalho.
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on pages 423-424
SOCIAL FACTORS DETERMINING CHANGES IN THE SPHERE OF MODERN ECONOMIC TERMINOLOGY
Creators: name: Mukhitdinova, Feruza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article analyzes the systemic connections in this terminology and to present economic vocabulary in an organized form. In our opinion, scientific novelty lies in the attempt to comprehensively analyze this group of terminological vocabulary, in the volume and content that we have identified. The significance lies in the fact that the material is given in the volume and composition in which it functions in the modern Russian language and the results of the study can be used in conducting integrated lessons, which will allow diversifying the forms of training.
Perionyx sansibaricus Michaelsen 1891
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Perionyx
Perionyx sansibaricus

description: 76. Perionyx sansibaricus Michaelsen, 1891
Perionyx sansibaricus Michaelsen, 1891b: 4.
T. Zanzibar. TM. Typus amissus. D. Punjab: Gurdaspur (Dhiman & Battish 2006), Pathankot (Dhiman & Battish 2006). Uttar Pradesh: Mathura (Verma et al. 2010; Prakash 2017), Mirzapur (Verma et al. 2010; Prakash 2017), Eastern Uttar Pradesh (Rai & Nath 2014; Rai 2017), Unspecified localities (Halder et al. 2007). E. Epigeic. G. Native peregrine.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Cotesia ordinaria Ratzeburg 1844
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia ordinaria

description: Cotesia ordinaria (Ratzeburg, 1844)
Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Sakenin et al. 2012), Lorestan (Ghahari et al. 2012b).
Distribution outside Iran. Austria, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin (Shenefelt, 1972), China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, UK (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Blennocampa pusilla, Dendrolimus albolineatus, D. pini, D. punctatus, D. sibiricus, D. spectabilis, D. superans, Macrothylacia rubi (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012). In Europe, it has been reported from Dendrolimus pini and Macrothylacea rubi (Fahringer 1936; Yu et al. 2012). In Japan, it has been reported from Dendrolimus albolineatus and D. spectabilis (Watanabe 1937; Yu et al. 2012). Yu et al. (2012) reported Amata palestinae, Brachymeria secundaria, Dendrolimus tabulaeformis, Gelis aerator, G. hortensis, Lysibia nana, Mesopolobus subfumatus, Mokrzeckia pini.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
An object-oriented representation for efficient reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Diuk Wasser, Carlos Gregorio
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Agents (humans, mice, computers) need to constantly make decisions to survive and  thrive in their environment. In the reinforcement-learning problem, an agent needs to  learn to maximize its long-term expected reward through direct interaction with the  world. To achieve this goal, the agent needs to build some sort of internal representation  of the relationship between its actions, the state of the world and the reward it  expects to obtain. In this work, I show how the way in which the agent represents state  and models the world plays a key role in its ability to learn effectively. I will introduce  a new representation, based on objects and their interactions, and show how it enables  several orders of magnitude faster learning on a large class of problems. I claim that  this representation is a natural way of modeling state and that it bridges a gap between  generality and tractability in a broad and interesting class of domains, namely those of  relational nature. I will present a set of learning algorithms that make use of this representation  in both deterministic and stochastic environments, and present polynomial  bounds that prove their efficiency in terms of learning complexity.
Forms of exchange
Creators: name: Di Loreto, Sonia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: My dissertation examines epistolary exchanges in the 1830-1850 transatlantic world as vehicles for the formation and circulation of ideas about the nation. Some of the innate characteristics of letter writing and letters, such as flexibility and high mobility, a wide temporal trajectory, defiance of national borders, and dialogical openness, made letters the privileged site where a transnational circulation of ideas about the nation could take place. By concentrating on letter writing and epistolary exchanges, I trace how, in spite of its emphasis on the national arena, the process of nation building in the nineteenth century really occurs within a cosmopolitan and transnational landscape, where observations about the nation, and national ideals circulate and are mutually inflected. The interesting status of the letter in the  nineteenth century, as a piece of writing in between public and private communication, pointed to that space where individuals, away from certain conventions of public discourse, could most experimentally articulate their opinions about public issues. The decades considered in this study are a crucial moment both for epistolary production, and for the historical events revolving around concepts about the nation, in the United States and in Europe. Within these chronological boundaries, I focus on a specific group of writers, who had similar interests, who operated transnationally, and who were corresponding with one another. Margaret Fuller, Costanza Arconati, Giuseppe Mazzini, Thomas Carlyle, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, in fact, were in different ways invested in ideas and ideals of national belonging, and they considered themselves as public figures whether through their political career (as in the case of Giuseppe Mazzini), or through their concern and interventions in the civil and public world.
Perionyx setnai Stephenson 1931
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Perionyx
Perionyx setnai

description: 77. Perionyx setnai Stephenson, 1931
Perionyx setnai Stephenson, 1931a: 63.
T. Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. TM. NA. D. West Bengal: Darjeeling (Paliwal 2013). E. NA. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Immigrants of a different religion
Creators: name: Dizgun, John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This study explores Jewish and non-Jewish Argentine reactions and responses to four pivotal events that unfolded in the twentieth century: the 1919 Semana Trágica, the Catholic education decrees of the 1940s, the 1962 Sirota Affair, and the 1976-1983 Dirty War. The methodological decision to focus on four physically and/or culturally violent acts is intentional: while the passionate and emotive reactions and responses to those events may not reflect everyday political, cultural, and social norms in twentieth-century Argentine society, they provide a compelling opportunity to test the ever-changing meaning, boundaries, and limitations of argentinidad over the past century. The four episodes help to reveal the challenges Argentines have faced in assimilating a religious minority and what those efforts suggest about how various groups have sought to define and control what it has meant to be “Argentine” over time. Scholars such as Samuel Baily, Fernando DeVoto, José Moya and others have done an excellent job highlighting how Italian and Spanish immigrants have negotiated and navigated the competing demands of ‘ethnic’ preservation and ‘national’ integration in Argentina. However, Italians and Spaniards— who comprised 85% of the total immigrant population between 1870-1930— benefited from a religious, linguistic, and cultural familiarity with their host country that Jewish immigrants did not. The presence of Jewish immigrants and later Jewish Argentines challenged the efforts of Argentines to assimilate newcomers in ways Catholic immigrants and Catholic Argentines could not. Since the days of Alberdi and Sarmiento, Argentina has often championed itself as a nation of liberal secularism and religious tolerance, yet the overwhelming majority of Catholic immigrants were not in a position to test the civic and cultural boundaries of that rhetoric and reality the way Jews did. Jewish Argentines, more so than their Spanish and Italian counterparts, forced a diverse cross-section of Argentines to ‘clarify’ their definitions of civic assimilation, national integration, and the place reserved for minorities within their visions of Argentina and argentinidad.
Cotesia praepotens Haliday 1834
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia praepotens

description: Cotesia praepotens (Haliday, 1834)
Distribution in Iran. Qazvin (Ghahari et al. 2011b).
Distribution outside Iran. Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldoava, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UK, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Eupithecia expallidata, E. nanata, E. millifoliata, Erannis defoliaria, Operophtera brumata, Euproctis chrysorrhoea, Orthosia miniosa, Lymantria dispar, Tortrix viridana (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012), Euproctis similis (Shenefelt 1972). Nixon (1974) reported this species as a solitary parasitoid of Operophtera brumata. Abrostola triplasia, Agriopis leucophaearia, A. marginaria, Alsophila aescularia, Archips crataegana, Cnaemidophorus rhododactylis, Drymonia dodonaea, D. ruficornis, Elachista gleichenella, Eupithecia expallidata, E. gueneata, E. succenturiata, E. similis, Eupsilia transversa, Iolana iolas, Isturgia arenacearia, Operophtera brunnea, Orthosia cruda, Phigalia pilosaria, Phyllonorycter spinicolella, Poecilocampa populi, Stenoptilia veronicae, Yponomeuta cagnagella (Yu et al. 2012). In former Czechoslovakia, it has been reported from Operophtera fagata (Shenefelt 1972; Tobias 1986; Yu et al. 2012), Agriopis aurantiaria and Agriopis bajaria (Nixon 1974; Tobias 1986).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Computational prediction and experimental verification of gene regulatory elements in neuronal development
Creators: name: Doh, Sung Tae
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Completion of the human genome sequence along with other species allows for greater understanding of the biochemical mechanisms and processes that govern healthy as well as diseased states. Non-coding regions have been shown to play a critical role as gene regulatory elements. Enhancers that regulate transcription processes have been found in intergenic regions. Many regulatory elements found in non-coding regions are highly conserved across different species. While current sequence based computational methods are continuously improving in accuracy and scope, determining the time and tissue specific function of gene regulatory elements remain largely elusive. The goal of this dissertation is to identify novel gene regulatory elements involved in neuronal development using a combined approach which utilizes both computational prediction and experimental verification. We describe a method for utilizing genomes, annotations, computational tools, expression data, and molecular genetics methods to predict gene regulatory elements and confirm the function of these elements.  In particular, the non-coding regions of homologous and functionally related genes are analyzed to identify highly conserved regions predicted to have gene regulatory function. To facilitate in the acquisition of desired sequences, a web tool was created to retrieve non-coding sequences based on annotations. Using multiple pair-wise alignments of non-coding sequence, over 502 conserved regions have been identified, at least 3 of which are well characterized, known enhancer elements. Previous studies utilized transgenic animals to experimental confirm the function of conserved regions. These animals are time consuming and expensive to generate. In contrast this study uses in ovo and in vivo electroporation of a plasmid DNA reporter construct for the confirmation of function. By transfecting the plasmid DNA reporter constructs into an animal model, enhancer function can be confirmed by the expression pattern of the reporter gene. Ten novel enhancers have been experimentally verified of which 2 have been characterized for the purpose of this study.  Identification of novel gene regulatory elements allows for a better understanding of the mechanisms of gene regulation which may lead to the eventual control of gene expression. This has important implications and applications ranging from directing stem cell differentiation to designing new sequence based therapeutics.
Atta sexdens Linne
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta sexdens

description: Atta sexdens Linné, 1758 (Fig. 17)
Esta espécie foi descripta pelo seu autor juntamente com cephalotes, sobre material colleccionado por Rolander em Surinam. Como forma typica considero abundante material (operários, fêmeas, machos) de Paramaribo, Lelydorp, Surinam(Stahel e Geijskes leg.). A mesma forma recebi do dr. N. A. Weber da Guyana Ingleza (Courantyne River, N.° 548, 556). Dou uma figura da cabeça de um operário maior de Paramaribo. Os ninhos desta espécie foram estudados ultimamente por Stahel e Geijskes (1939).
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 424
Evaluating the impact of gate strategies on a container terminal's roadside network using microsimulation
Creators: name: Dougherty, Patrick Shane
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Intermodal Marine Container Terminals (IMCTs) are experiencing consistent growth in container volumes and are under pressure to come up with strategies to increase their capacity to accommodate the increasing demand. In addition to the deterioration of the performance of terminal and drayage operations, the environmental effect from idling trucks has been starting to emerge as a serious problem. Different solutions have been proposed to address the issue and reduce the amount of externalities from drayage operations including new technologies, operational strategies and financial mechanisms. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a simulation model capable of modeling a number of different gate strategies, using real world data, and evaluate the possible benefits that different operational improvements may have in reducing congestion in the vicinity of the terminals. For the purpose of the thesis the Port of Newark/Elizabeth in New York and New Jersey was selected to evaluate the roadside impacts of the two most common operational strategies (a gate appointment system and extended gate hours) using dynamic microsimulation. Several demand shifting scenarios were tested for a base year and future years and an extensive sensitivity analysis was performed based on the output of these simulations. Results from the sensitivity analysis were used to determine the percentage of truck demand that would theoretically need to be shifted to off peak weekday or weekend hours in order to maintain an efficient level of service on the roadway network at the Port Newark/Elizabeth for each simulated year.
Cotesia risilis Nixon 1974
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia risilis

description: Cotesia risilis (Nixon, 1974)
Distribution in Iran. Ilam (Ghahari et al. 2011d), West Azarbaijan (Ghahari and Fischer 2011a; Samin 2015). Distribution outside Iran. former Czechoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Solitary parasitoid of the larva of Gonepteryx rhamni (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012), Gelis areator, Gonepteryx cleoplatra (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
If the map cart won't come to the library: Building a bespoke map cart for the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection
Creators: name: Glover, Bronwen
name: Goudarzi, Saman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Moving large format items always poses a challenge in collections. At McMaster University, the rare maps collection is held on a different level to the Map Library, which makes moving maps for teaching, reference, and assessment even more challenging. Although the utilization of a map cart would be the apparent solution, such a tool is not readily accessible for procurement from library/archival supplies vendors. This is the predicament that confronted McMaster’s Map Library when looking to undertake a series of collection management projects. In this presentation, we detail the steps taken and lessons learned in creating a bespoke map cart.
Perionyx sikkimensis subsp. sikkimensis
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Perionyx
Perionyx sikkimensis
Perionyx sikkimensis sikkimensis (michaelsen, 1907)

description: 78. Perionyx sikkimensis sikkimensis (Michaelsen, 1907)
Perionychella sikkimensis Michaelsen, 1907: 156.
Perionyx sikkimensis: Michaelsen, 1910 (in part): 60.
Perionyx sikkimensis sikkimensis (Michaelsen). Blakemore 2007: 48.
T. Sandakphu, district Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. TM. ZSIC 2915, ZMUH 7151. D. West Bengal: Darjeeling (Halder 1998; Paliwal 2013), Kurseong (Michaelsen 1909; Paliwal 2013). E. NA. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
A study of stagewise phase II and phase II/III designs for clinical trials
Creators: name: Dong, Gaohong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Clinical trials play vital roles in drug development. Traditionally, phase II and phase III studies are conducted separately. However, in the pharmaceutical industry there is a recent trend toward combining phase II and phase III in a seamless fashion (a so-called phase II/III clinical trial). To first understand traditional phase II clinical trial designs, we develop two two-stage single-arm phase II clinical trial designs: a Bayesian-frequentist design and a Bayes factor-based design. Both designs control frequentist Type I and Type II error rates. Then we develop a varying-stage adaptive phase II/III clinical trial design. In this design, in addition to traditional initial learning stage (phase II) and final confirmatory stage (phase III), we also consider whether there is a need to have an intermediate stage to obtain more data, so that a more informative decision can be made to advance the trial to the final confirmatory stage. With respect to adaptations, we consider dropping dose arm(s), changing the primary study endpoint, determining sample size, and early stopping for futility. We use an adaptive combination test to perform final statistical analyses. Under conditional distribution of p-values or combined p-values, we derive Type I error rate and statistical power for each decision path. By applying closed testing procedure, we control family-wise Type I error rate at nominal level of α in the strong sense.
New woman theatre and the British avant-garde, 1879-1925
Creators: name: Dovale, Leslie Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation explores how women theatre professionals on the forefront of suffrage activism—playwrights, directors, dramaturg and actresses—influenced late Victorian and modernist British drama. The theatre artists featured in this project include playwright-translator-actress-producer Elizabeth Robins, playwright-translator-actress Christopher St. John (Christabel Marshall), and director-designer-actress-producer Edith Craig. Recent studies that consider their work treat first wave feminist or suffrage drama as a separate analytic category. In contrast, I explore their contributions to British modernist drama and re-situate their work in the context of international theatrical modernism. My project covers a range of innovative theatrical activities by these female dramatists, centered on their avant-garde impulses to deconstruct the subject and continually experiment with form. I consider Robins‘ central role in translating, performing in and directing interpretations of Henrik Ibsen‘s dramas, her later feminist critique of Ibsen and subsequent new ways of portraying female political subjectivity in her plays Alan‘s Wife (1893) and Votes for Women (1907). My chapter on Edith Craig considers how her feminism intersected with her extensive theatrical career and showcases some of her contributions to British modernist theatre. I illustrate Craig‘s engagements with international avant-gardism through an analysis of two plays she directed: a Russian symbolist drama and Japanese marionette play. My final chapter reviews the theatrical career of little-studied playwright Christopher St. John, with particular attention to dramaturgical activities with the Pioneer Players (literary management, translation, and advocacy for experimental European drama). I discuss St. John‘s many important contributions to documenting women‘s history and analyze her play The First Actress, arguing for her innovative appropriation of the pageant form for political ends. My literary analysis of dramatic texts is enriched by archival research into the lives of these artists, their correspondence, theatrical reviews, working documents such as promptbooks (play texts with actress‘s or director‘s notes), lighting and sound plots, and writings by their colleagues and other contemporaries. In this dissertation I hope to contribute to the history of avant-garde and modernist drama studies in Britain and add dimension to the cultural histories of first wave feminism and fin-de-siècle theatre.
Applications of signaling theory to contemporary human courtship
Creators: name: Dunham, Bria Lane
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Signaling theory, a popular approach in ethology and theoretical biology, can be employed to better understand social interaction in humans. Applied to contemporary human courtship, signaling theory can provide a framework for interpreting information transmitted at an initial encounter, signals conveyed at key relationship phases both within a romantic couple and to outside parties, and the regular communicative exchange within established relationships. This dissertation applies signaling theory to courtship in testing evolutionary hypotheses within three projects, each involving a different subject population situated at a salient courtship phase. The first project addresses the signaling value of women's faces absent any other information, which is analogous to a first meeting prior to the beginning of courtship. Testosterone-mediated facial features were positively associated with viewer perceptions of masculinity, positively associated with self-reports of sociosexual attitudes and behaviors, and negatively associated with viewer perceptions of attractiveness. The second project explores the signaling potential of engagement rings among a sample of Ohio newlyweds. Engagement ring cost was positively associated with male income and female income, and was negatively associated with female age, indicating that engagement ring cost may reflect both male and female mate value. The cost of engagement rings as a proportion of male salary was positively associated with courtship duration, suggesting that engagement ring cost may reinforce a signal of commitment already conveyed by a lengthy courtship. The third project concerns notions of spousal obligation on the Honduran island of Utila. This project used an experimental interview setting to elicit and measure audience effects.  In response to key questions about characteristics sought in wives, men interviewed in the presence of their wives used more forceful rhetoric. Furthermore, men's responses more frequently emphasized women's morality whereas women's responses more frequently emphasized male resource control.
Atta sexdeds subsp. rubropilosa Forel
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta sexdeds
Atta sexdeds subsp. rubropilosa forel

description: Atta sexdeds subsp. rubropilosa Forel, 1908
Uma subespécie (raça) geneticamente bem fixada. Possuo muito material de S. Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. As observacoes biológicas de Eidmann (1935) se referem a esta subespécie.
Ignoro onde foi descripta a var. bolchevista For., mencionada por Santschi (1929), e segundo esse autor differente por «les bosses occipitales lisses et luisants.»
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 424
Creep and shrinkage of self-consolidating concrete
Creators: name: El-Khoury, Raymond D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The creep and shrinkage properties of Self Consolidating Concrete (SCC) containing supplementary cementitious material such as silica fume (SF), Fly Ash (FA) and slag (SL), are based on limited research on normal or high performance concrete. Thus, there is a need for comprehensive testing and evaluation of self consolidating concrete mixes containing supplementary cementitious material to determine their mechanical and physical. The objective of this research is to study the effect of different cementitious material on the creep and shrinkage behavior of structures made with SCC. Twelve self consolidating concrete (SCC) mixes were considered for the experimental program. Differentpercentages of FA, SF, SL, and Type I Cement were incorporated into the mix designs. Concrete specimens were fabricated and tested for their compressive strength, tensile strength, elastic modulus, shrinkage and creep. Existing creep and shrinkage prediction models were also studied and evaluated for SCC.The study found that the addition of SF and SL decreased the specific creep, whereas theaddition of fly ash had no influence on specific creep. In addition, a reduction in the cement content helped to reduce the specific creep. Drying shrinkage was not affected by the increase in silica fume content, and it slightly decreased with an increase in fly ash and slag. A reduction in cement content also resulted in a reduction in shrinkage strain. Based on different methods of comparison, the CEB, GL2000 and Dilger models predicted shrinkage well, while the B3, GZ and Sakata models predicted creep well.
Cotesia rubecula Marshall 1885
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia rubecula

description: Cotesia rubecula (Marshall 1885)
Distribution in Iran. Hamadan (Khanjani 2006 as Apanteles rebecula).
Distribution outside Iran. Australia (Parrott 1953; Shenefelt 1972), Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, USA, Ukraine, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012), Scotland, Tasmania (Shenefelt 1972).
Host records. Pieris rapae, P. napi, P. brassicae, Pieris sp., Hemaris fuciformis, Laothoe populi, Macrothylacia rubi, Plutella xylostella (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012). Nixon (1974) reported it as a solitary parasitoid of Pieris rapae. Yu et al. (2012) reported also Acrolyta nens, Agasthenes varitarsus, Autographa gamma, Baryscapus galactopus, Conura side, Conura torvina, Cotesia glomerata, Gelis aerator, Hellula rogatalis, Hyles euphorbiae, Isdromas lycaenae, Lysibia nana, Mamestra brassicae, Mesochorus anomalus, M.discitergus, M. gemellus, M. olerum, M. orbitalis, Pediobius sp., Pontia protodice, Stictopisthus bilineatus, Tetrastichus sinope, Totrix viridana, Trichomalopsis braconophaga.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Atta vollenweideri var. tristis Santschi
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta vollenweideri
Atta vollenweideri for. var. tristis santschi

description: Atta vollenweideri For. var. tristis Santschi
Possuo tres operários cotypos que devo á gentileza do dr. Santschi (Santa Fé, v. Steiger). O gaster é inteiramente liso e brilhante.
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 424
Perionyx simlaensis
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Perionyx
Perionyx simlaensis

description: 79. Perionyx simlaensis (Michaelsen, 1907)
Perionychella simlaensis Michaelsen, 1907: 157.
Perionyx simlaensis: Stephenson, 1923: 359.
T. Dharmpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. TM. ZSIC 2988, BMNH 1925:5:12:79. D. Haryana: Yamuna Nagar (Bhardwaj & Sharma 2016; Ahmad et al. 2020b). Punjab: Hoshiarpur (Dhiman & Battish 2006). Uttar Pradesh: Saharanpur (Gates 1960). West Bengal: IBG Howrah (Goswami & Gupta 2015). E. Epigeic. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Atta vollenweideri subsp. lugens Borgmeier, 1939, n. var.
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta vollenweideri
Atta vollenweideri lugens

description: Atta vollenweideri lugens, n. var. (Fig. 19)
Differe da var. tristis pela esculptura do gaster; o primeiro tergito é brilhante somente nos lados, mas mate na região dorsal. Em indivíduos mínimos, ás vezes o gaster inteiro pode ser brilhante. A coloração é característica: o thorax na maior parte bem como o peciolo são ennegrecidos; a cabeça é vermelho-escura e forma um certo contraste com o thorax.
Typos numerosos operários de Nova Teutonia (localidade do typo), Sta. Catharina, F. Plaumann leg. 7.VI.1939; também alguns operários, 1 femea e 1 macho de Bom Retiro, Sta. Catharina, Borgmeier leg. 1929 (N.° 443).
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on pages 424-425