cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Allometopon
Creators: name: Owen Lonsdale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Clusiidae
Allometopon

description: Allometopon female 1
Figs 321, 322
Description. General: (Figs 321, 322) Body length 2.6–3.2mm. Arista short plumose. M1+2 ratio 4.1–5.7. First flagellomere enlarged. Male unknown.
Chaetotaxy: Three fronto-orbital setae, anterior seta approximately 2/3 length. Ocellar seta thin and slightly longer than ocellar tubercle. Postvertical seta minute. Interfrontal seta minute. First flagellomere along distal margin with hairs longer than width of base of arista. Anterior dorsocentral half length of posterior dorsocentral; closely set posteriorly. Acrostichal seta weak, slightly larger than surrounding setulae. Two lateral scutellar setae with anterior seta short, thin.
Colour: Setae brown, yellow below anepisternal seta. Head yellow with orange tint on frons, and head below antenna whitish-yellow; dorsal half of first flagellomere dark brown; arista white with apex brownish; ocellar tubercle dark brown; posterolateral corner of frons with dark brown stripe surrounding base of vertical setae and usually also posterior fronto-orbital seta, and continuing onto lateral margin of back of head; base of second and sometimes hind fronto-orbital with ill-defined brown spot(s); face brownish-orange between antennal bases; clypeus with orange tint; palpus lightly infuscated apically; parafacial, gena and postgena silvery tomentose. Notum dark brown with venter of postpronotum yellow. Pleuron and legs yellow with faint orange to brown mottling dorsally on anepisternum and anepimeron. Halter yellow. Wing dusky, becoming clearer posteriorly. Abdomen yellow with tergites 1–7 dark brown; sternites posterior to sternite 1 brownish to mottled brown (posterior sternites obscured).
Female terminalia: Not dissected.
Distribution: Papua New Guinea.
Material examined: PAPUA NEW GUINEA. East Sepik Province: Imbia, near Maprik, 19.xii.1963, D.K. McAlpine (1♀, AMSA), 22.xii.2963 (1♀, AMSA), Kuminibus, near Maprik, 17.xii.1963, D.K.McAlpine (2♀, AMSA).
Comments: Most characteristic of this female is the narrow, paired markings on the back of the head, representing the outer portion of the wedge-shaped stripes seen in most other Allometopon, as well as a dark brown notum and pale pleuron with the dorsum of the anepisternum and anepimeron lightly infuscated, and variable brown markings on the frons from the base of the vertical setae to the base of the fronto-orbitals. These female share similarities with A. hirsutum (Fig. 107), including the dark orbital plate (more extensive in A. hirsutum), the mostly pale arista and the length of the cephalic setae.
description: Published as part of Owen Lonsdale, 2016, Revision of the genus Allometopon Kertész (Diptera: Clusiidae), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4106 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258766
Hypoxylon bellicolor Cedeno-Sanchez, L. Wendt & L. C. Mejia 2020
Creators: name: Reyes, Pamela E.
name: Pinzón, Juan Pablo
name: Valenzuela, Ricardo
name: Raymundo, Tania
name: Tun-Garrido, Juan
name: García-Sandoval, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Pleosporales
Cucurbitariaceae
Hypoxylon
Hypoxylon bellicolor

description: Hypoxylon bellicolor Cedeño-Sanchez, L. Wendt & L. C. Mejía 2020 Mycosphere 11 (1): 1464 (2020).
Fig. 4
Description.
Stromata effused-pulvinate 20–90 mm long × 10–30 mm wide, Rust (39) (Fig. 4 a) pruinose surface with rust granules beneath the surface (Fig. 4 b), KOH-extractable pigments Luteous (12) (Fig. 4 c); perithecia ovoid, umbilicate ostioles (Fig. 4 d); asci 8 - spored cylindrical, the spore bearing part 40–80 µm long × 5–6 µm wide, stipes 30–35 µm long, with amyloid, discoid apical apparatus 2–3 µm high × 2 µm wide (Fig. 4 e); ascospores 10–12 µm long × 4–6 µm wide, with germ slit straight less than spore-length on the convex side, perispore dehiscent in 10 % KOH with coil-like ornamentation (Fig. 4 f).
Specimens examined.
Mexico • Campeche, Champotón-Campeche highway; 19 Jan 2018; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 145 • Quintana Roo, Centro de Conservación y Educación Ambiental, Cozumel; 20 Jan 2018; R. Valenzuela leg.; ENCB 17942 • Yucatán, east from the cemetery, comisaría Xmatkuil; 15 Oct 2021; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 7 • ibid.; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 9 • Southern Ecological Park, Mérida; 21 Sept 2022; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 45 • Ría Celestún Biosphere Reserve; 29 Oct 2022; P. Reyes leg.; UADY 55.
Host.
Growing on dead wood of Lysiloma latisiliquum (L.) Benth. (Fabaceae), Lonchocarpus sp. (Fabaceae) in deciduous forest; on dead wood of Conocarpus erectus L. (Combretaceae) in coastal dune vegetation.
Known distribution.
Panama (Cedeño-Sanchez et al. 2020).
Notes.
It shares a stromata color and yellow pigments with H. perforatum, however this one is characterized by having a white disc surrounding the ostioles; in addition it has a cosmopolitan distribution (Ju and Rogers 1996).
description: Published as part of Reyes, Pamela E., Pinzón, Juan Pablo, Valenzuela, Ricardo, Raymundo, Tania, Tun-Garrido, Juan & García-Sandoval, Ricardo, 2024, Two new species and a new record of Hypoxylaceae (Xylariales, Ascomycota) from Mexico, pp. 111-127 in MycoKeys 111 on pages 111-127, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.111.133046
Untitled ItemThe medullary serotonergic centres involved in cardiorespiratory control are disrupted by fetal growth restriction
Creators: name: Ahmadzadeh, Elham
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024

description: Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is associated with cardiovascular and respiratory complications after birth and beyond. Despite research showing a range of neurological changes following FGR, little is known about how FGR affects the brainstem cardiorespiratory control centres. The primary neurons that release serotonin reside in the brainstem cardiorespiratory control centres and may be affected by FGR. At two time points in the last trimester of sheep brain development, 110 and 127 days of gestation (0.74 and 0.86 of gestation), we assessed histopathological alterations in the brainstem cardiorespiratory control centres of the pons and medulla in early-onset FGR versus control fetal sheep. The FGR cohort were hypoxaemic and asymmetrically growth restricted. Compared to the controls, the brainstem of FGR fetuses exhibited signs of neuropathology, including elevated cell death and reduced cell proliferation, grey and white matter deficits, and evidence of oxidative stress and neuroinflammation. FGR brainstem pathology was predominantly observed in the medullary raphé nuclei, hypoglossal nucleus, nucleus ambiguous, solitary tract and nucleus of the solitary tract. The FGR groups showed imbalanced brainstem serotonin and serotonin 1A receptor abundance in the medullary raphé nuclei, despite evidence of increased serotonin staining within vascular regions of placentomes collected from FGR fetuses. Our findings demonstrate both early and adaptive brainstem neuropathology in response to placental insufficiency. KEY POINTS: Early-onset fetal growth restriction (FGR) was induced in fetal sheep, resulting in chronic fetal hypoxaemia. Growth-restricted fetuses exhibit persistent neuropathology in brainstem nuclei, characterised by disrupted cell proliferation and reduced neuronal cell number within critical centres responsible for the regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory functions. Elevated brainstem inflammation and oxidative stress suggest potential mechanisms contributing to the observed neuropathological changes. Both placental and brainstem levels of 5-HT were found to be impaired following FGR.
Stability of two-layer stratified flow down an inclined plane
Creators: name: Kao, Timothy W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1964

description: The stability of flow down an inclined plank has been investigated for the case of a stratified fluid system consisting of two layers of viscous fluid of different densities. This problem is an extension of the works of Benjamin and Yih for a homogeneous fluid; thus their results are a special case of the solution for this more general problem. Asymptotic cases for long and short wave-length disturbances are considered, and the neutral stability curve is estimated. Reynolds numbers for the bifurcation point of the neutral curve are found for various ratios of density and depth of the two layers. For long waves, shear wave instability is also studied and is found to be damped. It is found that the addition of another film of fluid of lighter density over the original film destabilizes the original free surface disturbances.

It is hoped that this work will bear on problems of film flow stabilizing techniques, and will also be of interest in the study of the stability of undercurrents in reservoirs.
description: © 1964 W. M. Keck Laboratory of Hydraulics. California Institute of Technology.

The author wishes to thank Professor N. H. Brooks for his
encouragement during the course of this investigation. He is also indebted to Mr, Loh-Nien Fan, Graduate Research Assistant, who wrote the FORTRAN IV programs for the numerical computations of the curves in Figures 3 through 7. The computations were executed on an IBM 7094 computer of the Booth Computing Center of the California Institute of Technology. The project was supported by U. S. Public Health Service Grant WP-00428. The author also wishes to thank Mrs. Pat Rankin for her typing service.
Katsuwonus pelamis
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scombridae
Katsuwonus
Katsuwonus pelamis

description: Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758) —Skipjack tuna
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Ningin Island, New Ireland by Munro (1958: 263); also reported from New Ireland as Euthynnus alletteratus (non Rafinesque, 1814) by Munro (1958: 263). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Pelagic, schooling offshore, 0–260 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Galendromimus (Galendromimus) multipoculi Zacarias, Moraes & McMurtry
Creators: name: Demite, Peterson R.
name: Lofego, Antonio C.
name: Feres, Reinaldo J. F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Galendromimus
Galendromimus multipoculi

description: Galendromimus (Galendromimus) multipoculi Zacarias, Moraes & McMurtry
Galendromimus multipoculi Zacarias et al., 2002: 2.
Galendromimus (Galendromimus) multipoculi.— Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 141.
Specimens examined: Novo Horizonte: Inga cf. vera, VI-2007 (6), IX-2007 (3). Previous records: Brazil
description: Published as part of Demite, Peterson R., Lofego, Antonio C. & Feres, Reinaldo J. F., 2011, Phytoseiidae (Acari) in forest fragments in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 31-56 in Zootaxa 3086 on page 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205371
Allometopon
Creators: name: Owen Lonsdale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Clusiidae
Allometopon

description: Allometopon female 2
Figs 323, 324
Description. General: (Figs 323, 324) Body length 3.3–3.9mm. Arista short plumose. M1+2 ratio 3.7–4.4. First flagellomere subcircular. Male unknown.
Chaetotaxy: Three fronto-orbital setae, anterior seta 2/3 length. Ocellar seta approximately 1.5 times length of ocellar tubercle. Postvertical seta minute. Interfrontal seta minute. First flagellomere with longer hairs along distal margin. Anterior dorsocentral half length of posterior dorsocentral; closely set posteriorly. Acrostichal seta small, thin. One lateral scutellar seta.
Colour: Setae light brown to brown, yellow below anepisternal seta. Head yellow, yellowish-white below antenna excluding face and mouthparts; first flagellomere light yellow with dorsal half dark brown; ocellar tubercle dark brown; parafacial, gena and postgena silvery tomentose. Scutum yellow with long pointed medial stripe nearly attaining anterior margin; lateral margin with brown stripe from postpronotum to supra-alar region, excluding venter of postpronotum and sometimes anterolateral suture of notopleuron. Scutellum brown with corner yellowish to distinctly yellow. Metanotum yellow with mediotergite and posterodorsal corner of anatergite light brown. Pleuron and legs light yellow. Halter yellow. Wing lightly clouded with posterior margin and sometimes small subapical gap in cell R2+3 clear. Most of tergite 2 and tergites 3–6 with wide dorsal stripe, tergite 7 with narrower stripe; abdomen yellow past tergite 5 if basal half of arista white.
Female terminalia: Not dissected.
Distribution: Papua New Guinea.
Material examined: PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Central Province: nr Eiloga, 31.v.1981, rainforest, J.W. Ismay (1♀, AMSA), Morobe Province: Bubia, near Lae, 27.xii.1963, D.K. McAlpine (1♀, AMSA), Oro Province: Ongaho, Popondetta subdist., 28.x.1963, D.K. McAlpine (1♀, AMSA).
Comments: These females are superficially similar to Allometopon cavernosium (Fig. 29), which has similar notal colouration and similar chaetotaxy, but the males of that species are otherwise dissimilar in colouration and may not be related. Allometopon cheiris (Fig. 35) is also superficially similar, and also has no pigment on the back of the head, but confident associations with this species cannot currently be made.
description: Published as part of Owen Lonsdale, 2016, Revision of the genus Allometopon Kertész (Diptera: Clusiidae), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4106 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258766
Joint public hearing before Assembly State Government Committee and Assembly Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Assembly bill no. 2019, Assembly Committee substitute for Assembly bill no. 2019 (abolishes the Department of Energy and transfers certain of its powers to the Department of Commerce & Economic Development) and Assembly bill no. 2080 (abolishes the Department of Energy and transfers certain of its components and necessary functions to the Department of Environmental Protection and State, as appropriate) : April 17, 1986, Room 403, State House Annex, Trenton, New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1986

description: Transcript of a public hearing held on April 17, 1986 on New Jersey Assembly Bills No. 2019 and No. 2080, both of which abolish the Department of Energy and transfer certain of its powers, components and functions to the Departments of Commerce and Economic Development, Environmental Protection and State, as appropriate.
Rastrelliger kanagurta
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scombridae
Rastrelliger
Rastrelliger kanagurta

description: Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier 1816) —Indian mackerel
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Port Praslin, New Ireland as Scomber loo by Lesson (1829: 277) and Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1832: 52), based on MNHN A2910 (see Collette 1966: 365). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northwestern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal bays, harbours and deep lagoons, usually in some turbid plankton-rich waters, 20–90 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Allometopon
Creators: name: Owen Lonsdale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Clusiidae
Allometopon

description: Allometopon female 3
Figs 325, 326
Description. General: (Figs 325, 326) Body length 3.7–4.1mm. Arista long pubescent. M1+2 ratio 2.8–2.9. First flagellomere relatively high with venter bulging. Male unknown.
Chaetotaxy: Three fronto-orbital setae, slightly decreasing in length anteriorly. Ocellar seta twice length of ocellar tubercle. Postvertical seta absent. Interfrontal seta small. First flagellomere along distal margin with hairs longer than width of base of arista. Anterior dorsocentral half length of posterior dorsocentral; closely set posteriorly. Acrostichal seta well-developed. One lateral scutellar seta.
Colour: Setae brown, paler on legs and pleuron. Head yellow, yellowish-white below antenna excluding face and mouthparts; dorsal half of first flagellomere dark brown; ocellar tubercle dark brown; posterolateral corner of frons with dark brown stripe along eye enclosing bases of vertical setae and posterior fronto-orbital; back of head with one pair of stripes radiating from foramen; parafacial, gena and postgena silvery tomentose. Notum yellow in ground colour; scutum with one pair of complete dorsocentral stripes that are very wide postsuturally and narrowed anteriorly, widening again at anterior margin; narrow brown stripe extending anteriorly along margin from dorsocentral stripe to supra-alar region, widening laterally, and not extending onto venter of postpronotum or anterior region of notopleuron. Scutellum brown with narrow medial yellow stripe expanding apically. Metanotum yellow with mediotergite and posterodorsal corner of anatergite brown. Pleuron and legs light yellow. Halter yellow. Wing dusky, clearer posterior to vein M. Abdomen yellow with tergites1–5 brown with lateral margin yellow, tergite 6 with brown dorsal stripe and tergite 7 brown with anterolateral corner yellow.
Variation: Sulawesi female differs in having the pigment along the anterior margin of the first flagellomere faded, the ocellar tubercle surrounded by a small brown triangular spot, and the scutellum entirely brown.
Female terminalia: Not dissected.
Distribution: Indonesia (Sulawesi), Papua New Guinea.
Material examined: INDONESIA. Sulawesi Utara, Dumoga-Bone N.P., Project Wallace, Rentice 3 nr base camp, 3.xii.1985, B.R. Pitkin (1♀, BMNH). PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Central Province: Aroa R., Aroana Estate, 30.xi.1963, D.K. McAlpine (1♀, AMSA).
Comments: The chaetotaxy and the cephalic and notal pattern of these females are similar to the males of Allometopon conopeum (Figs 40–43), but the notal pattern of the females is darker and more expansive.
description: Published as part of Owen Lonsdale, 2016, Revision of the genus Allometopon Kertész (Diptera: Clusiidae), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4106 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258766
Scomberomorus commerson
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scombridae
Scomberomorus
Scomberomorus commerson

description: Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepède [ex Commerson] 1800) —Narrow-banded Spanish mackerel, kingmackerel (Fig. 153)
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Feni Island and New Hanover as Cybium commersoni by Munro (1958: 262–263); subsequently reported from Tigak Islands, Kavieng by Wright & Richards (1985: 73). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell during 7–28 June 2014. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 12 Oct. 2007. KFRS material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 5.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Palau and Fiji north to Korea and southern Japan, south to New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island, recently immigrated into eastern Mediterranean through Suez Canal. Pelagic, from shallow water to edge of continental shelf, 10–70 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Allometopon
Creators: name: Owen Lonsdale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Clusiidae
Allometopon

description: Allometopon female 4
Figs 327, 328
Description. General: (Figs 327, 328) Body length 2.7–3.7mm. Arista short plumose. M1+2 ratio 3.3–3.7. First flagellomere large, subcircular. Clypeus broad, thick. Male unknown.
Chaetotaxy: Three fronto-orbital setae with anterior seta slightly shorter. Ocellar seta twise length of ocellar tubercle. Postvertical seta absent. Interfrontal seta small. First flagellomere along distal margin with hairs as long as width of base of arista. Anterior dorsocentral half length of posterior dorsocentral; closely set posteriorly. Acrostichal seta small. Two lateral scutellar setae with anterior seta smaller.
Colour: Setae brown to dark brown. Head partially yellow, dirty white below antenna; first flagellomere brown; frons dark brown, with posterolateral corner yellow around base of vertical setae, orbital plate with irregular, mottled yellowish stripe, anteromedial region orangish, and with one pair of minute yellowish spots posterolateral to ocellar tubercle; back of head brown with venter yellow; inner margin of parafacial and venter of gena with shining dark brown line; face black to dark brown except for orange region between antennal bases and light yellow spot below antennae; clypeus dark brown; palpus brown with base yellowish; parafacial, gena and postgena silvery tomentose. Thorax dark brown (dorsum darker). Legs dark brown with apices of coxae yellow, trochanters yellow, base and apex of tibiae and femora narrowly yellow, tibiae paler brown, tarsi yellowish-white. Halter yellow. Wing lightly clouded, darker anterodistally. Abdomen dark brown to tergite 7, segment 8 not visible, segment 10 and cercus yellow.
Female terminalia: Not dissected.
Distribution: Papua New Guinea.
Material examined: PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Central Province: Musgrave R. near Pt. Moresby, 950 ft., 8.xii.1963, D.K. McAlpine (1♀, AMSA), East Sepik Province: Imbia, near Maprik, 19.xii.1963, D.K. McAlpine (1♀, AMSA).
Comments: These exceptionally dark females are characterized by an entirely dark thorax, a blackish face, mostly dark legs and a dark brown frons with an orange anteromedial spot and irregular yellow lateral stripe. They are likely related to Allometopon tenebrae (Fig. 269) or A. lunatum (Fig. 137) on the basis of similarities in chaetotaxy and the colour of the frons.
description: Published as part of Owen Lonsdale, 2016, Revision of the genus Allometopon Kertész (Diptera: Clusiidae), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4106 (1) on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258766
Allometopon
Creators: name: Owen Lonsdale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Clusiidae
Allometopon

description: Allometopon female 5
Figs 329, 330
Description. General: (Fig. 329, 330) Body length 4.7mm. Arista pubescent, with hairs slightly longer apically. M1+2 ratio 3.9. First flagellomere well-developed, not obviously enlarged, slightly higher than long. Clypeus broad, robust. Male unknown.
Chaetotaxy: Three fronto-orbital setae, anterior seta approximately ¾ length. Ocellar seta twice length of ocellar tubercle. Postvertical seta as long as tubercle. Interfrontal seta well-developed. Frons with minute setulae. Three closely spaced dorsocentrals posteriorly on scutum; anterior seta as long as acrostichal, middle seta slightly more than half length posterior seta. Acrostichal seta well-developed. One lateral scutellar seta.
Colour: Setae brown to dark brown, paler on legs and whitish portion of pleuron. Head yellow with first flagellomere dark brown above point of pedicel, ocellar tubercle dark brown, face dirty light yellow, clypeus dark brown with centre light brown, apical and ventral margins on distal half of palpus brownish, back of head whitish ventrally, and parafacial, gena and postgena whitish and silvery tomentose. Notum with orange-brown tint that makes underlying dark brown pattern on scutum difficult to distinguish; scutum with one pair of narrow dorsocentral stripes nearly reaching transverse suture that are connected on basal half, and lateral margin of scutum with stripe that extends onto (and slightly expands on) posterior region of notopleuron. Scutellum dark brown with faint orange tint on apical and lateral surfaces, being palest at base of apical setae. Metanotum dark brown, paler medially on mediotergite. Pleuron yellowish-white with dark brown subnotal stripe from dorsal half of proepisternum to dorsal half of anepimeron. Wing dusky, slightly darker along anterior margin. Halter whitish with knob dark brown. Legs yellowish-white. Abdomen dark brown with segment 8 paler and segment 10 and cercus light brown.
Female terminalia: Not dissected.
Distribution: Madagascar.
Material examined: MADAGASCAR. Tamatave Torotorofotsy, Andasibe (Perinet), 22km NW, 18˚46.25′S, 48˚25.93′E, 23–25.x. 2014, 960m, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & R. Harin’Hala, Malaise traps primary rainforest (1♀, BMSA).
Comments: This relatively large species, known from a single female, is characterized by an entirely brown halter knob, three dorsocentrals, a dark subnotal stripe, and a dark notum with three postsutural vittae.
description: Published as part of Owen Lonsdale, 2016, Revision of the genus Allometopon Kertész (Diptera: Clusiidae), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4106 (1) on pages 67-68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258766
Ctenomyidae Lesson 1842
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae

description: Family CTENOMYIDAE
(TUCO-TUCOS)
• Smallto medium-sized subterranean rodents, with large heads, small eyes and ears, heavily built cylindrical bodies, short legs, and hairy thick and short tails.
• 15-65 cm. • Neotropical Region.
• Sand fields, dunes, and forests.
• 1 genus, 69 species, 83 taxa.
• 3 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 6 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Ctenomyidae, pp. 498-534 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 511, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6588177
Thunnus alalunga
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scombridae
Thunnus
Thunnus alalunga

description: Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre 1788) —Albacore
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland as Neothunnus macropterus by Nakamura (1954: chart 4); reported from St. George Channel, New Ireland, and Feni and Green islands, by Munro (1958: 263). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3, 5.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, in the western Pacific south to New Zealand. Oceanic, pelagic, 0–600 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Report on the 61st Annual International Mathematical Olympiad
Creators: name: Bajnok, Bela
name: Chen, Evan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 00

description: We present the problems and solutions to the 61st Annual International Mathematical Olympiad
Thunnus obesus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scombridae
Thunnus
Thunnus obesus

description: Thunnus obesus (Lowe 1839) —Bigeye tuna
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover and New Ireland as Parathunnus sibi by Nakamura (1954: chart 3); reported as Parathunnus mebachi by Munro (1958: 264). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District by Dean Tully in Sept. 2015.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, in the western Pacific south to northern New Zealand. Oceanic, pelagic, 0–250 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on pages 312-313, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Ctenomys andersoni Gardner, Salazar-Bravo & Cook 2014
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys andersoni

description: 1.
Anderson’s Tuco-tuco
Ctenomys andersoni
French: Tuco-tuco dAnderson / German: Anderson-Kammratte / Spanish: Tuco tuco de Anderson
Other common names: Anderson's Cujuchi
Taxonomy. Ctenomys andersoni Gardner, Salazar-Bravo & Cook, 2014,
“Bolivia, Department of Santa Cruz, Cerro Itahuaticua, 19°48’S, 63°31’'W, 810 m elevation.”
Initially named C. “ita” by E. P. Lessa and J. A. Cook in 1998. It has been recently assigned to the boliviensisspecies group, based on mtDNA analysis. Chromosomal complement is 2n = 46 and FN = 50, and the form of sperm is unknown. Monotypic.
Distribution. CS Bolivia, known only from the type locality at Cerro Itahuaticua at 800-1800 m altitude.
Descriptive notes. Total length 183-310 mm, tail 35-90 mm, ear 3—10 mm, hindfoot 21-41 mm; weight 83-360 g. Anderson’s Tuco-tuco is medium to large-sized. Dorsal fur is thick, buffy brown to mummy brown, with light olive brown stripe starting at head proceeding to back. Ventral pelage is pale olive buff, with basal neutral gray or deep neutral gray hairs and wash of pale olive-buff or buffy brown in superficial part, appearing clearer than dorsal fur. Skull is robust, zygomatic arches are broad, and auditory bullae are inflated. Nasal bones are broad, and mandible is robust showing a coronoid process falciform and angled strongly backward; condyloid process is also strong, bearing well-developed articulation flange. Upperincisors are large, proodont, and covered with orange enamel.
Habitat. Known only from type locality at Cerro Itahuaticua in south-central Bolivia. Vegetation is a mixture of deciduous thorny trees (Fabaceae) and several species of cacti, primarily Opuntia spp. Limestone outcrops are common on hillsides. This locality is in the ecoregion known as Andean Dry Valleys.
Food and Feeding. There is no information available for this species.
Breeding. There is no information available for this species.
Activity patterns. There is no information available for this species.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no information available for this species.
Status and Conservation. Anderson’s Tuco-tuco has not yet been assessed on The [UCN Red Lust.
Bibliography. Gardner et al. (2014), Lessa & Cook (1998), Mascheretti et al. (2000).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Ctenomyidae, pp. 498-534 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 513, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6588177
Ctenomys bicolor Miranda-Ribeiro 1914
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys bicolor

description: 2.
Bicolored Tuco-tuco
Ctenomys bicolor
French: Tuco-tuco bicolore / German: Zweifarbige Kammratte / Spanish: Tuco tuco bicolor
Taxonomy. Ctenomys bicolor MirandaRibeiro, 1914,
“Mato Grosso.” Restricted by C. J. Bidau and F. D. de Avila-Pires in 2009 to Rondonia State, Brazil, 12°01°’S, 60°57'W, at 335 m elevation.
Ctenomys bicolor is not included in any species group. Chromosomal complement is 2n = 40 and FN = 68. Monotypic.
Distribution. SW Amazonian Brazil (Rondonia State), known only from José Bonifacio Indian Village (12° 10" S and 60° 09’ W), where initially collected in 1914, and Pimenta Bueno (12° 12’ S and 60° 41° W).
Descriptive notes. Head—body average 314 mm, tail ¢.89 mm, hindfoot with claw average 45 mm and without claw 39-9 mm; weight average 418 g. The Bicolored Tuco-tuco is medium-sized. Two colors are known: one phenotype is totally black, and the second phenotype has brown dorsum and light venter.
Habitat. Sandy soils in and along borders of the southern Amazon Basin forest. The Bicolored Tuco-tuco also occurs in areas that have been deforested for manioc (cassava) culture.
Food and Feeding. There is no information available for this species.
Breeding. There is no information available for this species.
Activity patterns. There is no information available for this species.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no specific information for this species, but the Bicolored Tuco-tuco is solitary.
Status and Conservation. The Bicolored Tuco-tuco has not yet been assessed on The IUCN Red List.
Bibliography. Bidau (2015), Bidau & de Avila-Pires (2009), Stolz et al. (2013).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Ctenomyidae, pp. 498-534 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 513, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6588177
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Xiphiidae
Xiphias
Xiphias gladius

description: Xiphias gladius Linnaeus 1758 —Swordfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas. Oceanic and epipelagic, 0–800 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 313, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
The targum (1870:Apr.)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1870

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Ctenomys boliviensis Waterhouse 1848
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys boliviensis

description: 3.
Bolivian Tuco-tuco
Ctenomys boliviensis
French: Tuco-tuco de Bolivie / German: Bolivien-Kammratte / Spanish: Tuco tuco de Bolivia
Taxonomy. Ctenomys boliviensis Waterhouse, 1848,
“Plains of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.” Refined by O. Thomas in 1921 to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 480 m, 17° 48’ S, 63° 10° W.
Based on biogeographical studies, Ctenomys boliviensis belongs to the Bolivian-Matogrossense group, but through molecular markers, it is included in the boliviensis-species group. Ctenomys boliviensis has symmetric sperm and polymorphic chromosome number of 2n = 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, and 46 with FN = 64. Monotypic.
Distribution. EC Bolivia (Santa Cruz Department).
Descriptive notes. Head-body ¢.276 mm (males) and c.221 mm (females), tail c.80 mm (males) and c.95 mm (females), ear 12 mm (males) and 9 mm (females), hindfoot 46 mm (males) and 45 mm (females); weight up to 650 g (males) and 420 g (females). The Bolivian Tuco-tuco is large-sized. It has soft fur that is very glossy and short; pelage is generally bright rufous-brown. Head and snout are blackish brown. Underparts are bright rusty yellow, exceptfor the space between hindlegs. The Bolivian Tuco-tuco has broad, poorly defined dark brown band along back of neck to front of back and large white patch covering front of abdomen. Tail is dark brown above and pale brown beneath. Upper incisors are very broad. Skull is remarkable for its narrowed middle part of rostrum.
Habitat. Dry soil in areas not frequently flooded.
Food and Feeding. The Bolivian Tuco-tuco feeds on underground tuber and roots.
Breeding. Mean litter size of the Bolivian Tuco-tuco is 1-7 young (range 1-5 young).
Activity patterns. There is no information available for this species.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no specific information available for this species, but the Bolivian Tuco-tuco is solitary.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List.
Bibliography. Anderson (1997), Anderson et al. (1987), Bidau (2015), Cook et al. (1990), Gardner et al. (2014), Thomas (19211), Vitullo & Cook (1991).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Ctenomyidae, pp. 498-534 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 513, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6588177
Ctenomys erikacuellarae Gardner, Salazar-Bravo & Cook 2014
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys erikacuellarae

description: 4.
Erika’s Tuco-tuco
Ctenomys erikacuellarae
French: Tuco-tuco d'Erika / German: Erika-Kammratte / Spanish: Tuco tuco de Erika
Taxonomy. Ctenomys erikacuellarae Gardner, Salazar-Bravo & Cook, 2014,
“Bolivia, Department of Chuquisaca, 19°43’ S, 63°51’ W, elevation 1200 m.”
Ctenomys erikacuellarae was initially named C. “monte” by E. P. Lessa and J. A. Cook in 1998. It has been recently assigned to the boliviensisspecies group, based on mtDNA analysis. Chromosomal complement is 2n = 24 and FN = 40. Monotypic.
Distribution. SC Bolivia, on the E flanks of the Andes in Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca departments.
Descriptive notes. Total length 184-331 mm, tail 25-96 mm, ear 5-10 mm, hindfoot 28-44 mm; weight 82-390 g. Erika’s Tuco-tuco is medium-sized. Pelage is dense, fine, and soft. Dorsum ranges from ocherous orange to buckthorn-brown; upper surface of head and muzzle are blackish brown, with mid-dorsal band of fuscous black hair that runs toward rump. Venter is drab brown or buffy brown, showing large white or light buff markings on inguinal, axillary, or pectoral regions. Collar of light hair extends ventrally from pinnae to gular region. Skull of Erika’s Tuco-tuco is robust, zygomatic arches are broad, and auditory bullae are inflated. Nasal bones are short and broadest anteriorly, with flat dorsal edges. Mandible is robust with coronoid process falciform. Upper incisors are large, robust, opisthodont, and covered with orange enamel.
Habitat. Andean Dry Valley ecoregion at elevations of 800-1800 m (based on only three collection localities).
Food and Feeding. There is no information available for this species.
Breeding. There is no information available for this species.
Activity patterns. There is no information available for this species.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no information available for this species.
Status and Conservation. Erika’s Tuco-tuco has not yet been assessed on The IUCN Red Last.
Bibliography. Gardner et al. (2014), Lessa & Cook (1998).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Ctenomyidae, pp. 498-534 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 513, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6588177
CircuitVAE: Efficient and Scalable Latent Circuit Optimization
Creators: name: Song, Jialin
name: Swope, Aidan
name: Kirby, Robert
name: Roy, Rajarshi
name: Godil, Saad
name: Raiman, Jonathan
name: Catanzaro, Bryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatically designing fast and space-efficient digital circuits is challenging because circuits are discrete, must exactly implement the desired logic, and are costly to simulate. We address these challenges with CircuitVAE, a search algorithm that embeds computation graphs in a continuous space and optimizes a learned surrogate of physical simulation by gradient descent. By carefully controlling overfitting of the simulation surrogate and ensuring diverse exploration, our algorithm is highly sample-efficient, yet gracefully scales to large problem instances and high sample budgets. We test CircuitVAE by designing binary adders across a large range of sizes, IO timing constraints, and sample budgets. Our method excels at designing large circuits, where other algorithms struggle: compared to reinforcement learning and genetic algorithms, CircuitVAE typically finds 64-bit adders which are smaller and faster using less than half the sample budget. We also find CircuitVAE can design state-of-the-art adders in a real-world chip, demonstrating that our method can outperform commercial tools in a realistic setting.
description: Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024; the first two authors contributed equally
Istiophorus platypterus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Istiophoridae
Istiophorus
Istiophorus platypterus

description: Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw in Shaw & Nodder 1792) —Indo-Pacific sailfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and Indo-West Pacific. Oceanic and epipelagic, 0–200 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 313, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
The Merits of Screening Automation for Bibliometric Analyses: The Case of Translational Psychotherapy
Creators: name: Petrule, Claudiu
Publisher: name: ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: machine learning
subject: metascience
subject: methods and techniques
subject: screening automation
subject: translational research
subject: 150

description: Analyzing emerging fields using traditional bibliometric techniques can be difficult due to inconsistent terminology and vague or porous boundaries. The absence of precise terms for database search queries can hinder efforts to fully cover a given construct of interest and may result in biased or distorted representations. The common solution of widening the scope of the search can lead to the inclusion of a large number of false positives, making it difficult to distinguish eligible data from noise. As a consequence, the drastically increased amount of records makes screening an absolute requirement for building a complete and accurate dataset.
Assessment and potential for phyto-and-mycorremediation of soil heavy metal pollution in southern New Jersey (USA)
Creators: name: Cook, Zachary
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Two studies were performed and are presented in this thesis. The first study (Chapter I) involves the characterization of soils in Southern New Jersey. This was performed with the creation of an urban-rural sampling gradient which starts in city of Camden and extends to Salem county. The physiochemical properties and four heavy metal concentrations Zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu), Lead (Pb), and Iron (Fe) were determined from soil samples collected along this urban-rural sampling gradient. The urban soil Zn, Cu, Pb, and Fe concentrations were averaged and used to conduct the second study (Chapter II). The second study tests the phytoremediation potential of two plant species, Trifolium repens (white clover) and Panicum virgatum (switch grass) with a mycorrhizal inoculum.