cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Denitrification in urban brownfield wetlands
Creators: name: Palta, Monica Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Wetland processes are highly spatially and temporally heterogeneous, and managers lack models relating important wetland processes to specific combinations of biological communities, flooding, and soils.  Wetlands in urban settings, while having the potential to deliver ecosystem services (nutrient removal) to urban areas, pose a particular challenge in linking ecosystem processes with their environmental drivers, because urban wetlands have been little studied, and each urban system has its own unique set of altered conditions.  These issues are especially true of wetlands that develop on brownfield sites, on highly modified soil materials.  My research questions were the following: (1) Where and when do the highest rates of NO3- removal occur in urban brownfield wetlands, and what are the spatial and temporal dimensions of these high rates?; (2) What are the environmental drivers of denitrification rates in urban brownfield wetlands?; and (3) How can the spatial and temporal dimensions of high NO3- removal rates be modeled and predicted to aid in restoration and management at the watershed scale?   I utilized a combination of lab- and field-based studies to construct models designed to isolate and explain the relationship between environmental variables and soil denitrification rates in urban wetland environments.  Whole-wetland denitrification potential was estimated through spatial interpolation of the variables mediating the highest rates of denitrification at the scale of a couple square meters.  I also measured components of the nitrogen and hydrologic cycle in semi-permanently flooded wetlands to construct ecosystem budgets to estimate the role of denitrification in removing NO3- in these systems.  My research shows that brownfield wetlands in northern New Jersey support active populations of denitrifying bacteria and are potential sinks for NO3- in urban landscapes.  Rates of NO3- consumption in the soils equaled or exceeded the rate of NO3- loading, at least from the atmosphere.  Soil structure and texture, water table levels, and landscape position appeared to be primary determinants of whether a brownfield soils have this ability.  Modifications to hydrology that promote (1) endogenous NO3- production, particularly in low-oxygen waterlogged areas, and (2) contact between stormwater and soils with high macroporosity may augment levels of NO3- removal from soil.
Characterization of shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction using particle image velocimetry
Creators: name: Ojala, Douglas E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: A method for the use of Particle Image Velocimetry in the Rutgers Supersonic Wind  Tunnel is established and described. The use of ice crystals as PIV seed material is tested  using an oblique shock as a step response to estimate the particle lag time and particle  diameter. These values were found to be 2.8 µs and 0.43 µm respectively. The Stokes  number was found to be St = 0.11.  The statistical properties of the undisturbed boundary layer are determined using PIV  data and simplifying assumptions. The boundary layer thickness is δ = 15.6mm and the  free stream velocity is U1 = 621m/s. This velocity corresponds to an approximate Mach  number of 3.22. Using the Clauser method, the shear velocity is u  = 22.45m/s. The  log-law region has a last reliable point at height y+ ≈ 500 and extends to y+ ≈ 3000.  Velocity ﬂuctuation values and trends are in agreement with published results.  Investigation of streamwise XY planes of the boundary layer suggest the existence of  coherent structures, particularly hairpin vortices. Galilean decomposition clearly shows  vortex structures at height y/δ≈0.2 at a convection velocity of Uc/U∞ = 0.75.  Investigating a spanwise XZ plane at height y/δ=0.1 shows coherent regions of high and  low velocity which stretch beyond the ﬁeld of view.  Shock Wave Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction is investigated in the case of a 6  and 9 degree angle of attack ﬂat plate used to generate an oblique shock which impinges  upon the turbulent boundary layer. In the 9 degree case, an average separated region of  the boundary layer exists to be 2.11δ long in the streamwise direction and exhibits the  characteristics of a strong interaction. Ahead of the separated region, a separation shock  shows streamwise motion of about ±0.25δ. The 6 degree case shows no boundary layer  separation in the mean ﬂow. A reﬂected shock exhibits reasonably steady behavior which  is characteristic of a weak interaction. The sonic line shows that the subsonic layer dilates  to a height of y/δ=0.27 and y/δ=0.7 for the 6 and 9 degree case respectively. In both  interactions, the recovery of the boundary layer extends beyond the ﬁeld of view in the  streamwise direction.
Appropriate plant genotypes for urban ecological restoration
Creators: name: Norin, Carolyn Susan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Given the unprecedented increase in urbanization and its effect on natural ecosystems, the effort to restore human-impacted land is timely and essential. Flexible and stress-resistant plant genotypes may provide a practical solution for restoration of constantly changing and stressful environments, yet there has been little progress linking general stress tolerance with plants being used in urban restoration. This dissertation project uses a novel, experimental approach to test and determine the importance and effectiveness of phenotypically plastic and stress-resistant plant genotypes in the ecological restoration of urban and degraded land.  Using a model system involving the annual cress, Arabidopsis thaliana and the heat-shock protein (HSP) induced stress response system; I began this dissertation by testing if the presence of an induced stress response (HSP17.6) was essential for overall success. I found that mutant plants lacking a working HSP17.6 response generally showed an inability to cope with various types of abiotic urban stress. This difference was generally more pronounced in high stress conditions, providing evidence of adaptive plasticity. I then expanded the investigation by using six field-collected Arabidopsis genotypes and by adding a molecular analysis of the expression of both HSP17.6 and HSP101. I tested for natural variation in stress response, and then sought to use that information to predict success in various stressful conditions. While I found natural variation both in phenotype and the expression of HSP genes in stress, I saw little correlation between HSP expression and fitness, suggesting that predicting plant success via such molecular data may have limited utility. I did, however, identify “stress-resistant” genotypes, which consistently performed best across all stress treatments. Finally, I tested whether those stress-resistant genotypes continued to exhibit success in novel stress conditions.  They did, which suggests that simple preliminary stress tests can provide a reasonable and quick method of genotype selection, especially for practitioners restoring urban and degraded land.  I conclude that stress-resistant genotypes may be the best option when planting in heterogeneous soils with unknown stressor combinations in novel urban restoration sites.
Application of dynamic global sensitivity analysis in complex systems
Creators: name: Niotis, Vasilios
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: One of the major problems of complex mathematical models that are used to approximate systems and processes is the lack of precise parameter values. This often leads to a high degree of uncertainty in the simulated processes, which in most cases is an undesirable constraint. The uncertainty in parameter values can be addressed using sensitivity analysis, which is the study of how output variations can be apportioned to different sources of variation in the input parameters.  The first part of this work consists of the application of time-varying global sensitivity analysis techniques in a mathematical model of human endotoxemia. In general, biological systems contain a large number of components that interact with each other, making the application of sensitivity analysis a valuable tool to decipher the most critical dynamics of the system. Through sensitivity analysis the parameters or components that have little effect on the model but are experimentally observed to be significant for the system, are identified. The results imply the need for better parameter estimation, after further experimentation, or model modifications that will capture the experimentally observed system dynamics.  In the second part of this work, the complexity of how interactions between the different unit operations of a continuous tablet manufacturing flowsheet simulation affect the overall product quality is studied. Both quantitative and qualitative results reveal how different uncertain variables of a process dynamically affect an output through the use of time-varying global sensitivity indices. Thus the most important and critical parameters for a certain output are identified at different time points. Such an approach of global sensitivity analysis is not only used to draw significant conclusions about the interactions between specific uncertain inputs to outputs, but also points out necessary correlations that the model fails to capture.  Through this work it is shown that sensitivity analysis should have an important part during the development and validation of a computational model in any scientific field. It allows the quantitative and qualitative investigation of variation and perturbation effects on the system behavior and correlation with experimental data.
Trending Time-Varying Coefficient Spatial Panel Data Models
Creators: name: Chang, Hsuan-Yu
name: Song, Xiaojun
name: Yu, Jihai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This article investigates the estimation and inference of spatial panel data models in which the regression coefficient vector is a trending function. We use time differences to eliminate the individual effects and employ various GMM estimations for regression coefficients with both linear and quadratic moments. Time trend estimator based on these GMM estimations is also proposed. Monte Carlo experiments show that the finite sample performance of the estimators is satisfactory. As an empirical illustration, we investigate the trending pattern of the spillover effect of air pollution among Chinese cities from 2015 to 2021.
Ellisella cercidia Grasshoff 1999
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella cercidia

description: Ellisella cercidia Grasshoff, 1999
Ellisella cercidia Grasshoff, 1999: 78, fig. 129; pl. 8, fig. 4 (New Caledonia).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Kumar et al. 2014a: 12, pl. 3, fig. A–D (Andaman Is.); Fernando et al. 2017: 230, pl. 108, fig. A–D (Andaman Is.).
Literature analysis: The publications of Kumar et al. (2014a) and Fernando et al. (2017) both present identical accounts, but without more detailed descriptions and larger illustrations of the sclerites it would be difficult to recognise their species, and without a revision of the genus it would probably be impossible to assess its validity as a new species. However, the true characteristics of the Indian material are unknown because the descriptive text is almost word-for-word the same as that in Grasshoff (1999) including the size of the sclerites, which do not have large irregular-shaped tubercles and are quite unlike those of the holotype. Kumar et al. (2015) just listed the species and figured the same specimen, while Kumar et al. (2018a) just lists the species.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Ellisella ceylonensis
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella ceylonensis

description: Ellisella ceylonensis (Simpson, 1910)
Scirpearia ceylonensis Simpson, 1910: 109–111, fig. 105–107 (off Galle, Sri Lanka).
Opinion: This species does occur in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Fernando 2011: 111, pl. 69, fig. 1–1d (Cuddalore); Fernando et al. 2017: 232, pl. 105, fig. 1a–1d (Cuddalore).
Literature analysis: This species was first recorded from Sri Lanka by Simpson under the old name Scirpearia, with only a few small sclerite illustrations. Given the small differences in sclerite shape among the nominal species of Ellisella this leaves the species extremely difficult to recognise. Kükenthal transferred the species to the genus Ellisella and included Verrucella flavifera Nutting, 1910 as a synonym apparently with little evidence because Nutting did not specifically describe or figure the sclerites. The publications of Fernando (2011) and Fernando et al. (2017) both present identical accounts, but without more detailed descriptions and larger illustrations of the sclerites it would be difficult to recognise their species. These authors had a white specimen with many polyps distributed on the branches, whereas the holotype was orange-yellow with reddish polyps that were arranged in 2 single rows along the branches.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Agnesiella (Agnesiella) polita Huang & Zhang 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Junjie
name: Zhang, Yalin
name: Huang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Agnesiella
Agnesiella polita

description: Agnesiella (A.) polita Huang & Zhang sp. nov.
(Figs 4, 8, 12, 16, 89–96)
Measurement. Male, 3.25 mm (including wings).
Vertex and upper side of thorax yellow (Figs 4, 8). Face with dark brown transverse streaks on brown frontoclypeal area, anteclypeus and lorum brown, gena black-brown (Fig. 16). Vertex with a brown stripe anteriorly connecting 2 lateral round black-brown patches. Pronotum with a central oval patch blackish and 2 pairs of lateral patches blackish, 2 brown bands between central and lateral patches. Scutum with 2 small light ochre patches on central area, triangles blackish brown. Scutellum with central area brownish, both sides of basal half yellow ochre and distal half brown (Fig. 12). Forewing yellowish with 2 patches on clavus that one at base black-brown and the other brown band extended from central part to corium; patch at distal end of CuA vein brownish; brochosome field yellowish (Figs 4, 89).
Abdomen blackish, abdominal apodemes reaching center of 6th abdominal sternite (Fig. 90). Male pygofer side subquadrate with a long digitiform appendage directed backwards on posterior margin (Figs 91, 92). Subgenital plate without subapical protrusion (Fig. 93). Paramere with apical 1/4 curved laterad nearly at right angle, subapical protrusion absent (Fig. 95). Connective with stem nearly 2 times as long as lateral arms, central lobe absent (Fig. 94). Aedeagal shaft arched and slightly expanded dorsally near base, with an arcuate dorsal extension subapically and a narrow ridged ventral appendage approximately on apical 1/2 (Fig. 96).
Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Hubei Province, Xingshan, Longmen river, 1300m, 13-IX-1994, coll. Fasheng Li. Paratype: 2♂, CHINA, Guangxi Province, Guilin Huaping National Nature Reserve, 500m, 10- VII-2019, coll. Junjie Wang.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word “politus which means “smooth, referring to the paramere without a subapical protrusion (Fig. 95).
Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (A.) recurva sp. nov., but differs in the male pygofer side with a long digitiform appendage directed backwards and without rigid microsetae (Figs 91, 92), and in the aedeagal shaft with a longer ridged ventral appendage (Fig. 96).
description: Published as part of Wang, Junjie, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with descriptions of 13 new species, pp. 201-233 in Zootaxa 5094 (2) on pages 213-216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5965091
Forecasting Inflation Using Economic Narratives
Creators: name: Hong, Yongmiao
name: Jiang, Fuwei
name: Meng, Lingchao
name: Xue, Bowen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We use economic narratives to forecast inflation with a large news corpus and machine learning algorithms. The economic narratives from the full text content of over 880,000 Wall Street Journal articles are decomposed into multiple time series representing interpretable news topics, which are then used to predict inflation. The results indicate that narrative-based forecasts are more accurate than the benchmarks, especially during recession periods. Narrative-based forecasts perform better in long-run forecasting and provide incremental predictive information even after controlling macroeconomic big data. In particular, information about inflation expectations and prices of specific goods embedded in narratives contributes to their predictive power. Overall, we provide a novel representation of economic narratives and document the important role of economic narratives in inflation forecasting.
Ellisella eustala Grasshoff 1999
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella eustala

description: Ellisella eustala Grasshoff, 1999
Ellisella eustala Grasshoff, 1999: 80, fig. 132; pl. 9, fig. 3 (New Caledonia).
Nicella flabellata Tixier-Durivault 1970: 332.
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Kumar et al. 2014a: 14, pl. 4, fig. A–D (Havelock Is.); Fernando et al. 2017: 234, pl. 108, fig. A–D (Havelock Is.).
Literature analysis: The publications of Kumar et al. (2014a) and Fernando et al. (2017) present identical accounts, but the true characteristics of the material are unknown because their description is taken virtually wordfor-word from parts of Grasshoffs original text, even incorporating the same sclerite and colony measurements. This has resulted in the size of their specimen being reported as 18 x 9 cm but also as 30 to 50 cm as per Grasshoff’s text. Importantly, three of their sclerite illustrations also appear in modified form in their descriptions of E. azillia Grasshoff, and three from the Fernando et al. (2017) description also appear in modified form in the Kumar et al. (2014a) figures for Verrucella gabulensis Grasshoff. Ellisella eustala is probably endemic to New Caledonia.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Pathogen simulation using soil and water tool (SWAT) model and bacteroides source tracking technique
Creators: name: Niazi, Mehran
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The Upper Salem River Watershed (USRW), located in southern New Jersey, is listed as impaired for pathogens by The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) (NJDEP 2011).  A 2003 Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the watershed recommended the use of pathogen source tracking to identify pathogen sources and develop a quantitative model to simulate pathogen pollution in the watershed (NJDEP 2003).  This research comprises three parts:   a) Fecal coliform and E. coli simulation using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model in the USRW; this is the first study to conduct sensitivity analysis, calibration and validation of the SWAT model for two widely used pathogen indicators for multiple sampling stations in one watershed.  The results of the sensitivity analysis indicate that pathogen input is the most sensitive parameter in the simulation of both indicators.  Fecal coliform and E. coli simulation at five of six sampling stations generally showed good calibration and validation based on Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency values (0.04 to 0.71). b) Investigation of temperature effects on the persistence of bovine-Bacteroides; the primary goal of this part of the research was to identify the decay rate of bovine- Bacteroides in stream water at 4°C, 20°C and 30°C.  The decay constant of bovine-Bacteroides was calculated between 0.01 h-1 in the mesocosm incubated at 4°C to 0.05 h-1 in the mesocosm at 30°C.  Comparison of this study with other similar studies indicates that as temperature increased, a greater discrepancy in compared constant values was observed.    c) Pathogen source tracking was done using a multiple linear regression analysis in the USRW.  The primary goals of this research phase were to use a bovine-Bactreroides source tracking technique to investigate if bovine feces are a contributing pathogen source to the river system and to identify the spatial distribution of bovine pathogen discharge to the USRW.  The results of the simulated model showed agreement with the potential bovine distribution sources (i.e., animal feeding facilities).  A probability of occurrence map of bovine derived pathogens was also developed to spatially identify which sub-watersheds have greater likelihood of pathogen contributions from bovine sources.
Retranscription interview Lamp, ingénieur du son et patron, Studio Lamp
Creators: name: Costantini, Stephane
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Retranscription interview Lamp, ingénieur du son et patron, Studio Lamp. Enregistré à Studio Lamp, Pikine Ouest, Sénégal.
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Systems biology approaches to corticosteroid pharmacogenomics and systemic inflammation
Creators: name: Nguyen, Tung Thanh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Despite increasing knowledge about pathophysiological pathways and cellular processes involved in diseases, the molecular mechanisms and physiological significance are not fully understood. Consequently, within this exploratory research we wish to lay the foundations for developing bioinformatics tools and systems biology approaches towards the analysis and modeling of transcriptional dynamics and the understanding of gene transcriptional regulatory program. Two in vivo models, namely corticosteroid pharmacogenomics in rat and human endotoxemia in human, have been investigated to gain insights into (1) adverse-effects, tissue-specificity, and circadian effects under corticosteroid treatment, (2) temporal regulatory programs in acute inflammation, and (3) cellular variability and synchronization as well as time-dependent systemic responses under acute stress.  In order to pursue these goals, the hypothesis that informative components of the genome-wide transcriptional dynamics are composed of genes which are either co-expressed and co-functional or co-expressed across multiple conditions has been pursued to identify significant genome-wide transcriptional signatures. Concepts from consensus clustering and meta-analysis have been explored to avoid the bias and assumption of each single clustering method/metric and handle challenges in the analysis of microarray data from heterogeneous sources. Subsequently, the mysteries and complexities of transcriptional regulation have been explored by using two main strategies, namely phylogenetic foot-printing and context-specific CRM search, to identify relevant transcriptional regulators and examine the putative temporal transcriptional regulatory program. Additionally, an in silico multi-level agent-based model of human endotoxemia has been constructed to gain insights into cellular behaviors and circadian effects under acute stress. The model captures stochastic transcriptional dynamics and critical aspects of the in vivo physiological human endotoxemia model. By defining novel hypothetical quantities such as the variability-based fitness and the synchronization level, we provided a step forward to the exploration of cell-to-cell variability and stochastic dynamics of cellular behaviors as well as predictive implications inferred from cellular variability.   In summary, our work aims at (i) identification of critical transcriptional signatures and regulatory controls to provide a better understanding of system behaviors and (ii) simulation to understand the cellular behaviors and circadian effects within specific contexts.
Higher education and democratic politics in post-reform India
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Simantini
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: A puzzle of economic liberalization in democratic and democratizing countries is how reforms were implemented in rent-seeking economies where diverse interests competed with one another for monopoly over state-owned resources. In answering this question, scholars of comparative politics have drawn attention to how policymakers have tried to manage the costs for social groups that stand to lose from reform. For instance, the persistence of rent-seeking in liberalizing states has resulted from the state’s attempts to placate powerful constituencies faced with adequate incentives to organize against reform. In this dissertation I use the case of post-liberalization India to contribute to this scholarship.      I argue that the Indian state has sought to manage the costs of reform by using the policy arena of education reform as a site of patronage and social management. However, such policies have had unintended consequences, as reforms have produced new elite groups that have influenced policy outcome via mobilization in non-electoral spaces such as the judiciary. In investigating the politics of opposition by such elite groups, my dissertation shows how the Supreme Court became the site for consolidation of a post-reform entrepreneurial identity that arose at the intersection of discourses on caste, community and religion. Thereby, it also looks at the ways in which the judicial institution has traditionally served as the institutional counter-mechanism to policy-making by legislatures in democracies.
Draberiella (Draberiella) Dworakowska 1971
Creators: name: Wang, Junjie
name: Zhang, Yalin
name: Huang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Draberiella

description: Subgenus Draberiella (Draberiella) Dworakowska, 1971
Agnesiella (Draberiella) Dworakowska, 1971: 647
Sarejuia Ghauri, 1974: 556; Sharma & Malhotra, 1981: 41
Distribution: China, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Vietnam, Burma.
description: Published as part of Wang, Junjie, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with descriptions of 13 new species, pp. 201-233 in Zootaxa 5094 (2) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5965091
Design of 2D re-entrant auxetic lattice structures with extreme elastic mechanical properties
Creators: name: Hedayati, Reza
name: Sadighi, Mojtaba
name: Gholami, Erfan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Auxetics have emerged recently as an exciting class of mechanical metamaterials that are identified by negative Poisson’s ratio. The mechanical properties of rationally designed auxetic metamaterials are mostly influenced by their topological characteristics rather than the material properties of their constituent material. The goal of this paper is to use optimization algorithms to achieve the desired target mechanical properties for reentrant auxetic metamaterials. The GEKKO optimization package in Python is used for optimizing the geometry of auxetic lattice structures. Several mechanical properties including Poisson’s ratio, relative Young’s modulus, relative yield stress, and relative energy absorption capability, as well as the noted properties normalized with respect to relative density and relative Young’s modulus are chosen for being minimized or maximized. ANSYS finite element package is also implemented for validation of the results obtained from the optimization algorithm. According to the results, to achieve the maximum magnitude of Poisson’s ratio (positive and negative), the size of the unit cell in the lateral direction must be selected to be maximum and the thickness must become minimum. Moreover, to achieve the maximum value of the relative Young’s modulus or energy absorption in any direction, the size of the unit cell in that direction must be maximized. Also, to achieve the maximum amount of relative yield stress in both directions, the unit cell must have a maximum thickness and an internal angle close to zero.
Estimation of the Local Conditional Tail Average Treatment Effect*
Creators: name: Chen, Le-Yu
name: Yen, Yu-Min
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: The conditional tail average treatment effect (CTATE) is defined as a difference between the conditional tail expectations (CTE’s) of potential outcomes, which can capture heterogeneity and deliver aggregated local information on treatment effects over different quantile levels and is closely related to the notion of second-order stochastic dominance and the Lorenz curve. These properties render it a valuable tool for policy evaluation. In this paper, we study estimation of the CTATE locally for a group of compliers (local CTATE or LCTATE) under the two-sided noncompliance framework. We consider a semiparametric treatment effect framework under endogeneity for the LCTATE estimation using a newly introduced class of consistent loss functions jointly for the CTE and quantile. We establish the asymptotic theory of our proposed LCTATE estimator and provide an efficient algorithm for its implementation. We then apply the method to evaluate the effects of participating in programs under the Job Training Partnership Act in the US.
Development of microfluidic modules for DNA purification via phenol extraction and analyte concentration using transverse electrokinetics
Creators: name: Morales, Mercedes C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: In this work, microfluidic platforms have been designed and evaluated to demonstrate microscale DNA purification via organic (phenol) extraction as well as analyte trapping and concentration using a transverse electrokinetic force balance.   First, in order to evaluate DNA purification via phenol extraction in a microdevice, an aqueous phase containing protein and DNA and an immiscible receiving organic phase were utilized to evaluate microfluidic DNA extraction under both stratified and droplet-based flow conditions using a serpentine microfluidic device. The droplet based flow resulted in a significant improvement of protein partitioning from the aqueous phase due to the flow recirculation inside each droplet improving material convective transport into the organic phase. The plasmid recovery from bacterial lysates using droplet-based flow was high (>92%) and comparable to the recovery achieved using commercial DNA purification kits and standard macroscale phenol extraction.   Second, a converging Y-inlet microfluidic channel with integrated coplanar electrodes was used to investigate transverse DNA and protein migration under uniform direct current (DC) electric fields. Negatively charged samples diluted in low and high ionic strength buffers were co-infused with a receiving buffer of the same ionic strength into a main channel where transverse electric fields were applied. Experimental results demonstrated that charged analytes could traverse the channel width and accumulate at the positive bias electrode in a low electroosmotic mobility and high electrophoretic mobility condition (high ionic strength buffer) or migrated towards an equilibrium position within the channel when both electroosmotic mobility and electrophoretic mobility are high (low ionic strength buffer). The different behaviors are the result of a balance between the electrophoretic force and a drag force induced by a recirculating electroosmotic flow generated across the channel width due to the bounding walls.   The miniaturization of DNA phenol extraction and the novel electrokinetic trapping techniques presented in this research are the initial steps towards an efficient DNA sample preparation chip which could be integrated with post-extraction DNA manipulations for genomic analysis modules such as capillary electrophoretic separations.
Buckle propagation failure of subsea pipelines; experimental, analytical, and numerical simulations
Creators: name: Alrsai, Mahmoud
name: Alsahalen, Ala’
name: Karampour, Hassan
name: Albdour, Mohammad S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: This research program investigates buckle propagation in subsea pipeline systems, The study aims to understand and predict propagation pressure (PP), essential for ensuring the structural integrity and safe operation of these pipelines, hypothesizing that incorporating strain hardening effects into the strain energy approach can significantly enhance the prediction of propagation pressure (PP) and that geometric parameters, particularly the diameter-to-thickness (D/t) ratio, play a major role in PP prediction. Accurate PP prediction is essential for ensuring the structural integrity and safe operation of these pipelines. The investigation is conducted through analytical, experimental, numerical, and machine learning approaches. A new analytical solution for PP is proposed, incorporating strain hardening effects using a strain energy approach. Experimental tests conducted using a hyperbaric chamber cover a wide range of pipeline configurations and materials, including steel, aluminum, and stainless steel. Complementing experimental data, numerical simulations using finite element methods facilitate parametric dependence analysis and the visualization of results through 3D charts. More than 600 FE models were simulated to investigate the influence of geometric and material parameters on PP. The findings from both experimental and numerical analyses indicated that the geometric and material properties have a significant impact on PP, specifically, the diameter-to-thickness (D/t) ratio, yield stress (σy), and tangent modulus (E′). Furthermore, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been used to predict the PP value and have concluded that the Random Forest (RF) technique outperformed the K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network techniques. Overall, this study concludes that analytical, numerical, and machine learning approaches offer valuable insights into buckle propagation in subsea pipelines, contributing to improved safety and reliability in offshore oil and gas operations.
Agnesiella (Draberiella) irma Dworakowska 1977
Creators: name: Wang, Junjie
name: Zhang, Yalin
name: Huang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Agnesiella
Agnesiella irma

description: Agnesiella (D.) irma Dworakowska, 1977 rec. nov.
(Figs 17, 21, 25, 29, 97–105)
Agnesiella (D.) irma Dworakowska, 1977: 36
Specimens examined. 7♂ 2♀, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xinzhu, 2500m, 15-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska; 3♂, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Jinping, 1700m, 14-V-1956, coll. Keren Huang.
Distribution. China (Yunnan), Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Wang, Junjie, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with descriptions of 13 new species, pp. 201-233 in Zootaxa 5094 (2) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5965091
Shifts in microbial community structure as aresult of a wildfire in the New Jersey Pinelands
Creators: name: Mikita, Robyn Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: As the threat of wildfires in the United States increases due to global warming,  understanding their effects on the soil biological community becomes central to recovery  efforts. Therefore, it is important to study microbial community dynamics in forest soils  impacted by fires from the view of elucidating how the new state compares with the  original state of the microbial community. For this study, wildfires were hypothesized to  cause a shift in the microbial community structure with dominant microbes being those  best capable of responding to changes in their environment caused by the perturbation.  The objectives of this research were to examine the recovery of the forest soil microbial  communities after a wildfire and to investigate the state of the communities more than  two years post-fire. After a wildfire occurred in the New Jersey Pinelands in 2007, soil  samples were collected from the organic and mineral layers of two severely burned sites  and an unburned control site over the span of two years following the fire. Microbial  community composition was evaluated by principal component analysis and multivariate  analysis of variance of molecular fingerprint data for bacterial, archaeal, and fungal-specific  amplicons from denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. The bacterial  communities in the samples collected from 2 and 5 months following the fire clustered  separately from those collected 13 and 17 months post-fire in two-dimensional space,  indicating that the soil bacterial community structure changed with time following the  fire. Deeper evaluation of the bacterial, archaeal, and fungal community patterns  revealed that even though there were common bands between the unburned and the  severely burned samples, the community structure of the samples from the unburned site  grouped separately from those of the severely burned sites collected 2, 13, and 25 months  post-fire. Generally, the microbial community composition in the unburned samples did  not change significantly over two years. These data support the hypothesis that the soil  microbial community was selected by both the direct and indirect effects associated with  the wildfire in the initial two years after the perturbation. Rather than return to the predisturbance  state, the soil microbial communities may reflect an alternate state two years  following the fire.
Ellisella laevis
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella laevis

description: Ellisella laevis (Verrill, 1865)
Juncella laevis Verrill, 1865: 189 (Hong Kong).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Fernando 2011: 127, pl. 89, fig. 1–1d (SE coast); Fernando et al. 2017: 294, pl. 138, fig. 1–1d (SE coast); Kumar et al. 2019b: 1569, fig. 2 (13) (South Andaman).
Literature analysis: This species was erected by Verrill under the genus Junceella for a specimen from Hong Kong. The species is now recognised as an Ellisella. Fernando (2011) and Fernando et al. (2017) both present identical descriptions of a colony they assign to Nicella laevis (Verrill). Their colony is unbranched, whereas species of Nicella form multi-branched fans. Ellisella species form dichotomously branched, bushy colonies with whip-like branches, so the Indian material would appear to be a species of Viminella. Kumar et al. (2019b) list Nicella laevis and provide an underwater image of an unbranched, white, whip-like colony.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Trending time-varying coefficient spatial panel data models*†
Creators: name: Chang, Hsuan-Yu
name: Song, Xiaojun
name: Yu, Jihai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This paper investigates the estimation and inference of spatial panel data models in which the regression coefficient vector is a trending function. We use time differences to eliminate the individual effects and employ various GMM estimations for regression coefficients with both linear and quadratic moments. Time trend estimator based on these GMM estimations is also proposed. Monte Carlo experiments show that the finite sample performance of the estimators is satisfactory. As an empirical illustration, we investigate the trending pattern of the spillover effect of air pollution among Chinese cities from 2015–2021.
A face tracking system for dynamic event recognition
Creators: name: Michael, Nicholas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Face tracking has numerous applications in the field of Human Computer Interaction and behavior understanding in general. Yet, face tracking is a difficult problem because the tracker must generalize to new faces, adapt to changing illumination, keep up with fast motions and pose changes, and tolerate target occlusion. We first present our efforts to develop a system for probabilistic face tracking, using anthropometric and appearance constraints. We then move onto the focus of our work, which is the application of the face tracker to two interesting recognition problems. Firstly, given that sign language is used as a primary means of communication by deaf individuals and as augmentative communication by hearing individuals with a variety of disabilities, the development of robust, real-time sign language recognition technologies would be a major step forward in making computers equally accessible to everyone. However, most research in the field of sign language recognition has focused on the manual component of signs, despite the fact that there is critical grammatical information expressed through facial expressions and head gestures. Therefore, we present our novel framework for robust tracking and analysis of facial expressions and head gestures, by means of a dynamic feature descriptor, a 3D face model and temporal models, with an application to sign language recognition. We apply it to successful continuous recognition of six different classes of non-manual grammatical expressions. Secondly, deception is present in our everyday social and professional lives and its detection can be beneficial, not only to us individually but to our society as a whole. For example, accurate deception detection can aid law enforcement officers in solving a crime. It can also help border control agents to detect potentially dangerous individuals during routine screening interviews. Therefore, we also present two novel methods for deception detection, using only visual cues extracted from our face tracker and a skin blob tracker, both with promising results. One is based on a novel kernel density descriptor of human behavior, which can differentiate normal behavior profiles from over-controlled and agitated ones, using nearest neighbor search. The other is based on the notion of subject-interviewer synchrony.