cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recent advances in computer experiment modeling
Creators: name: Liu, Yufan
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Year: 2014

description: This dissertation develops methodologies for analysis of computer experiments and its related theories. Computer experiments are becoming increasingly important in science and Gaussian process (GP) models are widely used in the analysis of computer experiments. This dissertation focuses on two settings where massive data are observed on irregular grids or quantiles of correlated data are of interests. In this dissertation, we first develop Latin Hypercube Design-based Block Bootstrap method. Then, we investigate quantiles of computer experiments in which correlated data are observed and propose penalized quantile regression with asymmetric Laplace process.     The computational issue that hinders GP from broader application is recognized, especially for massive data observed on irregular grids. To overcome the computational issue, we introduce an efficient framework based on a novel experimental design based bootstrap method. The main challenge in GP modeling is the estimation of maximum likelihood estimators because it relies heavily on large correlation matrix operations, which are computationally intensive and often intractable for massive data. Using the idea of design-based data reduction, the proposed framework provides an asymptotically consistent estimation for the parameters in GP with a dramatic reduction in computation. The finite-sample performance is examined through simulation studies. We illustrate the proposed method by a data center example based on tens of thousands of computer experiments generated from a computational fluid dynamics simulator.     GP models and many other existing approaches focus on modeling the conditional mean of the response variable in computer experiments. Little work has been done to study quantile regression model that incorporate data dependence although in practice it is often of substantial interest. In addition, high dimensional data often display heterogeneity and call for models with sparsity in which only a small number of covariates have influence on the conditional distribution of the response. We propose a new modeling framework to model different quantiles in computer experiments and identify important effects for each quantile. The proposed approach utilize asymmetric Laplace process (ALP) instead of Gaussian process modeling. Also, penalized likelihood estimators for ALP are studied. We show that  penalized quantile asymmetric Laplace estimator can select true relevant covariates when the number of covariates is large and the number of covariates is able to grow to infinity with the number of observations increasing infinity. Penalized quantile regression with asymmetric Laplace process is demonstrated numerically with simulation and a real data example.
The effects of coccoliths on photosynthesis in Emiliana huxleyi
Creators: name: Lyon, Dean Grooms
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Year: 2014

description: Coccoliths are calcium carbonate exoskeletons produced by some unicellular marine algae referred to as coccolithophores. Large coccolithophore blooms play a significant role in the Earth’s biogeochemical cycling and these blooms can often be seen from space. Despite numerous studies on coccoliths we still lack a complete understanding of their function. To test whether coccoliths enhance photosynthesis by amplifying incident radiation I measured bio-optical properties of the common coccolithophore Emiliana huxleyi. Variable fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy measurements of E. huxleyi cells with and without coccoliths (removed by bubbling CO2 into the media) suggest that coccoliths do not enhance the light within cells, and if anything, shade them slightly due to increased scattering. This indicates that calcification does not provide any optical advantage for individual cells. Bubbling E. huxleyi with CO2 to remove the coccoliths led to acidification of the media and stimulated ΔpH-related non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) and reduced net photosynthesis.  The reason for the reduction in net photosynthesis is unclear, as it does not appear to be entirely a consequence of stimulated NPQ. My results suggest that there is no photonic effect of coccoliths that has a biological function.
Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Vespertilio
Vespertilio murinus

description: Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758 —Particolored Bat
Ƒespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758 p.32; Type locality- Uppsala, Sweden; Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.14; Son, 2001 p.118; Yoon, 2004 p.77.
Ƒ. murinus murinus: Kuroda, 1938 p.101; Won, 1958 p.458; Won, 1967 p.342; Won, 1968 p.125; Yoon, 1992 p.46.
Range: A few records of V. murinus occur in the extreme northern Korean Peninsula (Kim et al. 2015), but no record exists in South Korea (Won & Smith 1999; Fig. 33).
Remarks: Populations in Korea were classified as the Subspecies V. m. murinus (Won 1968). Eastern populations were subsumed as V. m. ussuriensis with populations in northeastern China and Siberia (Wilson 2008). Kruskop et al. (2012) found that V. murinus had genetic uniformity (<1% cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 divergence) across the Palearctic distribution.
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
Analysis of Circulating Tumor RNA for Early Detection of Lung Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer is strongly associated with smoking and is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. Compared to never smokers, smokers are >20 times more likely to develop lung cancer. The reasons for the poor overall survival of lung cancer patients are multifactorial and the exact mechanisms underlying cancer progression are poorly understood. However, lung cancer patients detected at early stages can often be cured. Therefore, developing biomarkers for the detection of early stage lung cancers is an important goal. Tumor-specific dysregulation of nucleic acids can be used for unique molecular signature of cancers and represents an ideal biomarker for measuring the presence of tumors. I hypothesize that identification of tumor-specific circulating RNAs using an ultrasensitive method that we have developed will provide a sensitive and specific strategy for detecting early stage of lung cancer. My mentor’s lab has previously developed a non-invasive method called Cancer-derived Cell-free DNA Profiling by Deep Sequencing (CAPP-Seq) for detection of cell-free DNA. This approach involves capture of target regions followed by next generation sequencing. To date, this method has never been applied to cfRNA. In this proposal I will develop a novel strategy for early detection of lung cancer based on next generation sequencing of circulating RNAs. To do so I will adapt the CAPP-Seq method for detection of tumor-derived cfRNA. I propose the following two specific aims: Specific Aim 1 – Development of Lung Cancer RNA CAPP-Seq: First, I will analyze in plasma of lung cancer patients to identify the RNAs. To do this I will utilize publicly available gene expression data to identify RNAs (including mRNAs and non-coding RNAs) highly expressed in non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) but not in blood cells. To this list, I will add ~200 exons that are most frequently mutated in NSCLC, since in addition to detecting the presence of circulating RNAs, my approach will allow identification of somatic mutations and RNA mutations. I will then generate a CAPP-Seq selector and will test its sensitivity and specificity using spiking experiments of lung cancer cell line RNA into healthy donor plasma to detect lung cancer. Specific Aim 2 – I will apply the Lung Cancer RNA CAPP-Seq selector to plasma samples from NSCLC patients (Stages I-III) as well as to healthy controls. The samples for these patients are already present in a plasma bank in my mentor’s lab. I will analyze the sensitivity and specificity of my new approach and compare it to that of standard DNA-based CAPP-seq. If successful, current research proposal could enhance specificity and sensitivity of cancer detection applicable for lung cancer diagnosis with high impact on the field.
Women's labor in the global city
Creators: name: Lovin, Carmen-Laura
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Year: 2014

description: This dissertation explores depictions of working women in three transnational urban spaces, Sibiu (Romania), Berlin (Germany) and Newark (New Jersey, USA). In the aftermath of the cold war and in the midst of globalization, these cities represent marked sites in the geopolitical axes of "west"/"east." Each city has grappled with labor restructuring, the upward redistribution of wealth, urban dilapidation, and segregation. Each city has also deployed a commodified version of multiculturalism to foster tourism, corporate development, and diverse strategies for reinvestment and revitalization. Within these contexts, I looked for contemporary art projects that render topical phenomena such transnational work migration, changing labor practices, new modes of livelihood, and new gendered, racialized and classed identities.    This dissertation relies on data and representational materials collected through extensive multi-location field research in Sibiu, Berlin and Newark. The case study on Sibiu foregrounds working women of three different ethnicities, Romanian, Romani and Saxon, and traces their articulation in relation to practices of transnational work migration. The case study on Berlin continues the engagement with transnational migrant workers. The theme of sexuality constitutes its core analytical dimension, as representations of voluntary and coerced sex work take the center stage of the visual arts projects encountered in Berlin. Finally, in the case of Newark, an U.S. city where work disappeared with the transnationalization of industrial production, the theme of racial neoliberal subject formation informs the analysis of the documentary representation of a young woman's work as a community activist.    Interrogating concepts of urbanity, representation, and affect, this research also identifies limitations of recent accounts of affective theories, methodologies and politics, arguing that while taking the affective turn in humanities and social science, researchers should continue to supplement their readings, viewing, and theorizations with contextualized examinations of informed by political economy and inquiries into the meaning making practices of situated subjects.
Changes in nucleus accumbens core firing patterns during reward-related events
Creators: name: Ma, Sisi
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Year: 2014

description: Learning is characterized by the ability to appropriately respond to external cues   that predict rewarding or aversive outcomes. The nucleus accumbens is a key   mediator of reward prediction and reward-related behaviors. However, it is not   well understood how accumbens neurons acquire and maintain their   responsiveness to these events. In the present study, 56 nucleus accumbens   core neurons were electrophysiologically recorded over 10 sessions when the   animals were trained in a conditioning paradigm. Changes in firing rates of core   neurons were analyzed over training days during the following events: reward   cue presentation, cued and non-cued approaches towards the reward, reward   consumption and reward seeking. As a population, core neurons displayed an   increase in firing rate in response to presentation of the reward predicting   auditory cue. The latency of core activity in response to the auditory cue was   significantly reduced after animals acquired the task. Increased firing rates were   also observed during approach behaviors following the onset of cue, but not
“‘Ghastly females' and 'wanton corrosion'
Creators: name: Magnusen, Kaia L.
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Year: 2014

description: Otto Dix, who was associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit artistic style that arose during Germany’s chaotic Weimar Republic (1918 – 1933) appropriated themes and motifs used by Old Master artists and manipulated them to address both his personal anxieties and Germany’s unstable present.  He specifically engaged Old Master motifs pertaining to death, decay and women who cause men harm including the Totentanz, vanitas motifs, the Judgment of Paris and witches.  He made no secret of his admiration for artists of the past such as Hans Baldung Grien, Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Dürer and his calculated references to their works were not only acknowledgements of the inspiration he found in them but also challenges to their artistic legacies.  Dix was particularly intrigued by Old Master motifs that linked women, sex and death as these themes coincided with key elements of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.  During the interwar years, anxieties about gender politics manifested themselves in debates pertaining to the changing status and roles of women.  In particular, the economically and sexually liberated Neue Frau was perceived as posing a threat to the patriarchal social order and to German masculinity.  In light of Germany’s humiliating defeat, “deviant” women, including New Women and prostitutes, were perceived as being socially and morally suspect and were accused of a variety of offenses ranging from the corruption of society to the emasculation of German men.  In many of his Weimar works, Dix linked the ideas of death and decay with images of “fallen” women, such as New Women, widows and prostitutes.  In these ambiguous representations of “deviant” females in which the distinctions between prostitutes and non-prostitutes are elided, the tensions between perceptions and images of prostitutes and New Women are confronted but never fully resolved.  In these works, Dix deliberately referenced and ambitiously manipulated Old Master motifs and incorporated elements of Nietzsche’s philosophy in order to make a case for his own artistic legacy and to propagate a public persona that fulfilled Nietzschean ideals of the Übermensch.
Probing the Active Site Flexibility of HIV-RT
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This study aims to determine precisely how the HIV virus rapidly becomes resistant to most drugs that are used to treat it. All of the mutations happen as the virus' genetic sequence is being copied, when the enzyme that copies it (HIV Reverse Transcriptase) makes errors. It is not known exactly why the enzyme makes so many errors when copying the RNA of the virus. It is our hypothesis that most of these errors occur because the enzyme is more flexible than most DNA-copying enzymes. We believe it is because the enzyme must copy both RNA and DNA (unlike most enzymes), and DNA is a little larger than RNA. Thus the enzyme must have a little extra space (and flexibility) when it is copying RNA, and this leads to making more errors. I will test the hypothesis by making RNA that is progressively larger and testing how the enzyme responds to the increasing size. If we are right, then as size gets larger the enzyme should make fewer errors. This research is important to California because there are an estimated 100,000 people in the state who are under treatment for AIDS, and a substantial fraction of them already carry strains of the disease that are resistant to at least one drug. Thus new and more effective drugs are always needed. Most current treatments for HIV infections are based on molecules that are targeted to HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase. If we can gather more information about what sizes of molecules fit best in the enzyme, and how size affects its error rate, then this will be useful information that should help future researchers design better treatments for the disease. This fellowship will also be important to me (the postdoctoral applicant), by supporting training for my future career. I hope to take a position as an academic researcher working at the chemistry-biology interface, and this work will give me new experience and expertise in the chemistry and biochemistry of RNA and DNA.
Blurring boundaries, claiming space
Creators: name: Majumdar, Bijita
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Year: 2014

description: This dissertation scrutinizes the history of Indian colonial migrants in South Africa between 1860 and 1915 to analyze the politics of belonging, social exclusion, and diasporic consciousness through a detailed analysis of archival sources and secondary material. As Indians moved from one part of the British Empire to another as labor migrants and for the purposes of trade, they experienced conditions of racial discrimination which were similar to those in British India, yet differently structured on account of a distinctive set of colonial laws, modalities of rule and socio-economic circumstances. This led to the development of a set of survival strategies, on the part of Indians both indentured and middle class, that incorporated the combined approach of accommodation and resistance while interacting with the colonial state and its machinery of control. I argue that in their struggle for legitimacy, Indians claimed the status of imperial citizens, thus drawing on their standing as British subjects in India to claim political and social entitlements in South Africa. This blurs the boundary between the citizen and the subject and I contend that it is through their claim to rights as imperial citizens that Indians trouble the ideology and discourse of citizenship and provide empirical evidence of the transactional and mobile nature of this category.   This dissertation is also an analysis of a new form of resistance politics – Gandhian satyagraha that was non-violent in nature, based on the belief in the right to acts of civil disobedience as imperial citizen/subjects, and involved the mass participation of Indian migrants who were divided by class, gender and religion. This history allows me to argue that ‘the Indian community’ did not exist a priori and had to be produced in order to be effective in resistance. I highlight the contingent, fluid nature of the category of community and argue that for colonial Indian migrants, community only existed in heightened moments of communal anxiety, which culminated in mass action, and dissipated with the end of the crisis.   At a macro level, this dissertation is an exploration of the geopolitical relationship between the metropole and the colonies and as such, contributes to the sociology of empire, labor migration, diasporic studies and the sociology of citizenship.
Aporinellus vanharteni Schmid-Egger 2017
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Aporinellus
Aporinellus vanharteni

description: Aporinellus vanharteni Schmid-Egger, 2017
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: No records.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Collaboration of MYC and CSN5 in breast cancer progression
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Cancer has been described as a wound that does not heal, since the molecular programs of normal wound healing are thought to be reactivated in cancer metastasis. Based on this concept, my mentor’s laboratory (Dr. Howard Chang, Stanford University) previously identified a gene expression signature of 512 genes, termed the wound response signature that is a robust predictor of death and metastasis in breast cancer. While prognostic information from the wound signature is extremely useful, preventing and treating cancer is the ultimate goal. Understanding the biological basis of the wound signature would lead to a better understanding of the cancer itself and potentially lead to the identification of novel therapeutic targets to prevent breast cancer growth and metastasis. We discovered that amplifications of the chromosomal loci encoding MYC and CSN5 are sufficient to activate the wound signature and showed that these two genes functionally cooperate to induce changes that are associated with invasive tumor cells.

 The aim of this project is to define the roles of MYC and CSN5 in a genetically defined human breast cancer cell line and to determine the requirement of CSN5 for breast cancer development in vivo using a genetically defined mouse model of breast cancer. MYC is a well known oncogene that was first identified as the cellular homolog of an avian viral gene. MYC is a transcription factor that has hundreds of targets, and it is known to be amplified in many types of cancer. MYC protein stability and activity is regulated by SCF ubiquitin ligase complexes, and CSN5 is believed to be a general activator of these SCF complexes.

 Our experiments use mammary epithelial cells transformed through the addition of specific genetic elements also spontaneously induced clonal amplifications of MYC and CSN5. This system will enable dissection of the functional role of MYC and CSN5 to induce tumor growth. Further, using regenerated breast glands from transgenic mammary progenitor cells that produce breast tumors that resemble the human disease, we will further elucidate the requirement of MYC and CSN5 in tumor initiation and progression.

 Studying the role of MYC and CSN5 in breast cancer progression will help lead towards an understanding of the mechanism underlying poor-prognosis, metastatic breast cancers. Tumors that express the wound signature have a two-fold increased risk of metastasis and a three-fold increased risk of death; however there are very few therapy options for these patients. The study proposed here has the potential to identify new therapeutic targets that could specifically inhibit the growth of these highly aggressive tumors, giving these breast cancer patients a new option for treatment.
Integrating affective and cognitive correlates of heart rate variability
Creators: name: Mann, Sarah L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: High frequency heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of neurocardiac communication that is thought to reflect predominantly parasympathetic cardiac regulation. Low HRV has been associated empirically with clinical and subclinical levels of anxiety and depression and, more recently, high levels of HRV have been associated with measures of executive functioning. These findings have informed theories proposing that HRV may provide an autonomic index of a broad, self-regulatory capacity underlying aspects of emotion regulation and cognitive control. This study sought to operationalize and test this proposition using a structural equation modeling approach by examining the relationships of HRV to negative affect (NA) and executive functioning (EF) in a large sample of U.S. adults spanning six decades of age (30s–80s). HRV was modeled as a predictor of an NA factor (self-reported trait anxiety and depression symptoms) and an EF factor (performance on three neuropsychological tests tapping facets of executive abilities). Alternative models also were tested to determine the utility of HRV for predicting EF, with and without statistical control of demographic and health-related covariates. In the initial structural, model HRV showed a significant relationship to EF and a nonsignificant relationship to NA. When covariates were included in the model, HRV’s associations with both constructs were nonsignificant. Age emerged as the only significant predictor of NA and EF in the final model, showing inverse relationships to both. Findings may reflect population and methodological differences between the present thesis and prior research, but they also suggest potential refinements to the interpretations of earlier findings and theoretical claims regarding HRV.
Additional file 1: of Declining amenable mortality: a reflection of health care systems?
Creators: name: Gianino, Maria
name: Lenzi, Jacopo
name: Fantini, Maria
name: Ricciardi, Walter
name: Damiani, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: List of 22 European OECD countries. (PDF 18Â kb)
Metallyticus Westwood 1835
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Konopik, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Metallyticidae
Metallyticus

description: Metallyticus Westwood, 1835
= Metalleutica Burmeister, 1838
Members of this lineage are bark-dwellers. Five species occur in Borneo.
Metallyticus splendidus Westwood, 1835 §
= M. splendidus var. viridi-auratus Westwood, 1889
Distribution. S India, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Pulau Pinang, Pulau Sinkep, Java, Borneo, Maluku Islands (Ehrmann 2002, Wieland 2008).
Bornean records. Sarawak: Kuching (Wieland 2008; SMSM), Limbang (SMSM), Mt. Matang (SMSM); Sabah: Mt. Kinabalu (Wieland 2008); Kalimantan: Pontianac (Wieland 2008), Poeloe Island (SMNK, specimen listed as M. violaceus in Wieland 2008).
Metallyticus violaceus (Burmeister, 1838)
Metalleutica violacea Burmeister, 1838
= Metalleutica vitripennis Burmeister, 1838
= Mantis chalybea Audinet-Serville, 1839
= Metallyticus splendidus var. purpureus Westwood, 1889
Distribution. India (Kerala), Myanmar, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Pulau Sinkep, Java, Borneo, Mindanao (Werner 1922, 1923, Ehrmann 2002, Wieland 2008).
Bornean records. Sarawak: Baram River (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1898, Wieland 2008); Sabah: Mt. Kinabalu (Wieland 2008); Kalimantan: Mahakkam River (Wieland 2008).
Metallyticus semiaeneus Westwood, 1889
Distribution. Sarawak (Shelford 1903, Wieland 2008).
Bornean localities. Sarawak: Kuching (SMSM), Mt. Matang (SMSM).
Metallyticus fallax Giglio-Tos, 1917
Distribution. Sumatra, Borneo (Giglio-Tos 1917, Wieland 2008).
Metallyticus pallipes Giglio-Tos, 1917
Distribution. Borneo (Giglio-Tos 1917).
Remarks. somewhat enigmatic species, no data available since original description.
Fam. Amorphoscelidae Stål, 1877 1
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J. & Konopik, Oliver, 2014, An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak, pp. 130-168 in Zootaxa 3797 (1) on page 134, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/226038
Is collaboration a necessary component of problem-based learning?
Creators: name: Manente, Christopher James
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The instructional method of problem-based learning (PBL) has continued to grow in popularity among educators at all levels despite a lack of definitive empirical support for its use. To date, research findings documenting positive outcomes associated with PBL have been largely insufficient in addressing many of the concerns raised by critics of the method.  Specifically, many of the studies in problem-based learning to this point have involved an absence of experimental control and/or the presence of significant methodological flaws, both of which have drawn the criticism that the collective body of research related to the efficacy of PBL suffers from a general lack of validity (Colliver, 2000; Savery, 2006).     The current study involved a component analysis of problem-based learning conducted in an authentic learning environment.  This research sought to answer the following questions: What is the influence of positive interdependence within groups on student performance in PBL?  What is the influence of the social aspect of group work on student performance in PBL?  What is the influence of PBL instructional designs on the development of skills needed for successful collaboration?    A crossed, within-subjects design was used to compare the academic performance of students across three experimental conditions within the context of three sections of an undergraduate Educational Psychology course.  The three conditions included PBL-Positive Interdependence, PBL-High Positive Interdependence, and PBL-Independent.  The instructor, course content, instructional time, and course materials were controlled to ensure consistency across the three sections.   The results of the current study suggest that the collaborative aspect of PBL is essential to the success of students engaged in this form of instruction.  Additionally, the findings of the current study suggest that student success in collaborative learning environments may rely on the existence of adequate structure to scaffold the students’ development of skills related to the collaborative process. The findings of the current study confirm that PBL is most effective when implemented in its purest form, and that problem-based instructional designs without a collaborative component cannot be considered as a pedagogically equivalent alternative to problem-based learning as it is commonly defined.
Vespertilio sinensis
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Vespertilio
Vespertilio sinensis

description: Vespertilio sinensis (Peters, 1880) —Asian Particolored Bat
Ƒesperus sinensis Peters, 1880 p.259; Type locality- Beijing, China; Simmons, 2005 p.498.
Ƒespertilio murinus superans Thomas, 1898 p.770; Type locality- Hebei, China; Kuroda, 1938 p.102; Tate, 1947 p.90.
Ƒespertilio superans: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.152; Won, 1958 p.458; Won, 1967 p.344; Won, 1968 p.122; Corbet, 1978 p.58; Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.15; Yoon, 2010 p.77.
Ƒespertilio superans superans: Corbet, 1978 p.58.
Range: The distribution of V. sinensis covers all Korea (Yoon 2010), but the Asian particolored bat appears more in northern Korea (Won 1968; Fig. 34). The species was locally abundant even around Seoul and Gyeonggi Province until the 1970s but is extremely rare in South Korea (Son 2001). This species was recently discovered in Busan, Geoje and Mungyeong, South Korea.
Remarks: This bat has a confusing taxonomy. Vespertilio namiyei was considered a subspecies of V. sinensis (Corbet 1978; Simmons 2005). Vespertilio sinensis was erroneously assigned to the Genus Nyctalus (Simmons 2005) and listed as a synonym of N. noctula (Corbet 1978; Koopman 1993). Some taxonomists insisted on the name V. superans (Yoon 2010). However, V. sinensis has priority as the oldest name for this species (Horácek 1997; Simmons 2005).
Conservation status: The Red Data Book for North Korea lists the species as ‘Rare’ (MAB National Committee of DPR Korea 2002), whereas, in South Korea it is listed as ‘Least Concern’ (NIBR 2012).
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
Bodies of value
Creators: name: Mazzaschi, Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Proceeding through case studies of actors involved in transnational instantiations of plastic surgery practice or discourse, this dissertation demonstrates that a transnational lens illuminates new dimensions of plastic surgery’s history and its contemporary manifestations. Examining plastic surgeons’ development efforts after WWII, the transnational charity Operation Smile, and cosmetic surgery tourism to Johannesburg, South Africa, the dissertation examine how surgeons’ and patients’ involvement in transnational work affects their understandings race, gender, and health. I argue that, in all three cases, the demarcation between reconstructive and cosmetic surgery is racialized: On the one hand, cosmetic patients understood as paradigmatically white and from the “developed world,” enacting forms of self-investment through medical markets. On the other hand, recipients of reconstructive surgery, associated with particular geographical areas and racialized as nonwhite, are understood as objects of external investment. I show that the concept of race operative in transnational surgical contexts is not, first and foremost, an anatomical one; rather surgeons produce a nonbiological but still embodied conception of race that is linked to cultural and economic difference. Finally, I show that plastic surgery’s expansive conception of health—incorporating bodily, psychic, and social dimensions—is precisely what allows it to engage in the forms of racialization I describe and what enables the specialty to incorporate itsef into a variety of economic rationalities.
Amorphoscelis Stal 1871
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Konopik, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Amorphoscelis

description: Amorphoscelis Stål, 1871
A species-rich genus distributed in tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. They are found on bark and branches, where they feed mainly on ants (Roy 1963). At least nine species occur in Borneo.
Amorphoscelis borneana Giglio-Tos, 1913
Distribution. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, E Borneo (Hebard 1920, Roy 1967, 2011). Bornean record. Sabah: Mt. Kinabalu (Roy 1967).
Amorphoscelis singaporana Giglio-Tos, 1915
Distribution. India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo (Roy 2011). Bornean record. Sabah: Netenam Agr. Res. Station (Roy 2011).
Amorphoscelis reticulata Werner, 1933
= Amorphoscelis micans Beier, 1937
Distribution. C & N Borneo (Werner 1933, Roy 1967, 2011). Sarawak: Mt. Dulit (Beier 1937); Sabah: Danum Valley (Roy 2011; AFUW); Kalimantan: Soekaranda (Roy
1967), Liang Hveboeng (Roy 2011).
Amorphoscelis siebersi Werner, 1933
Distribution. C & N Borneo (Werner 1933, Roy 1967, 2011). Sabah: Jesselton (Roy 2011).
Amorphoscelis subnigra Werner, 1933
Distribution. C & N Borneo (Werner 1933, Roy 1967, 2011).
Brunei: S. Selanjak (Roy 2011); Sabah: Jesselton (Roy 2011), Crocker Range (AFUW).
Amorphoscelis rufula Roy, 1967
Distribution. NE Borneo: Sabah: Bettotan (Roy 1967, 2011).
Amorphoscelis bimaculata Roy, 2011
Distribution. NE Borneo: Sabah: Danum Valley (Roy 2011).
Amorphoscelis huismani Roy, 2011
Distribution. N Borneo: Sabah: Netenam Agr. Res. Station; Lahad Datu; Segama (Roy 2011).
Amorphoscelis sp.
Distribution. N Borneo: Sabah (AFUW).
Remarks. undescribed species.
Fam. Thespidae Saussure, 1869 1
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J. & Konopik, Oliver, 2014, An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak, pp. 130-168 in Zootaxa 3797 (1) on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/226038
Eptesicus Rafinesque 1820
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus

description: Genus Eptesicus Rafinesque, 1820
Eptesicus represents the only genus of the Tribe Eptesicini, Subfamily Vespertilioninae in Korea. Three species were previously listed in Korea, but the presence of E. kobayashii Mori, 1928 lacks substantial support. Eptesicus kobayashii was reported as a new endemic species in 1928 based on three specimens from Pyeongyang. However, these samples became unavailable and prevented taxonomic research on this species. The uncertain taxonomic status of E. kobayashii led Koopman (1993, 1994) to propose it as a synonym of E. bottae. Based on morphological similarities with E. serotinus, Horácek et al. (2000) suggested that the three Korean specimens might belong to the latter species. The collection of E. kobayashii ended after the 1920s. The assigned identity and purported record in 1979 remains questionable; thus, one must conclude that either these specimens were erroneously identified (in this case, E. kobayashii is not a valid taxon), or the species no longer occurs in Korea. Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) listed E. kobayashii as incertae sedis. Because no specimen has been collected in about 100 years, the existence of this bat is questionable and listing of Kobayashi’s serotine as a species in Korea seems unwarranted at this time. Kishida and Mori (1931) listed E. rananensis in northern Korea without any description or explanation. Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) considered the species as a nomen nudum. Won (1968) delisted E. rananensis from the mammals of Korea. Therefore, we confirm only two species of Eptesicus in Korea.
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
Catalyzed networks
Creators: name: McCarthy, John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This thesis presents a case study of a government-led effort to foster inter-industry linkages in central New Jersey’s biopharmaceutical cluster.  It uses in-depth interviews to inform a framework explaining how a government-funded intermediary functioned to stimulate economically valuable collaborations between key and previously unconnected regional stakeholders.  It also employs a quasi-longitudinal network analysis to measure the network growth and relationship quality of a sample of 38 individuals who had varying levels of participation in the effort. Discussion and possible implications for regional economic development policy are offered in closing.
New insights into peculiar thermonuclear supernovae and line of sight effects in gravitational lensing
Creators: name: McCully, Curtis
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and gravitational lensing are important cosmological probes, but both are limited by theoretical, systematic uncertainties. One key uncertainty in distances derived using SNe Ia  is our lack of understanding of the explosion mechanism for normal SNe Ia.  We have studied peculiar type Iax supernovae that appear to be related to normal SNe Ia with the goal of understanding white dwarf explosions as a whole. In Chapter 2, using late-time Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of SN 2008A and SN 2005hk, both prototypical SNe Iax,  we argue that these objects are pure deflagration explosions that do not unbind the white dwarf.  In Chapter 3, we present observations of the type Iax SN 2012Z, one of the nearest ever discovered.  Fortunately for us, its host galaxy, NGC 1309, was observed extensively with HST/ACS (to measure a Cepheid distance),  giving us incredibly deep pre-explosion images of the site of SN 2012Z. We find that there is a source coincident with the position of the SN.   We argue that the source is likely a helium star companion to the white dwarf that exploded.    In galaxy-scale gravitational lenses, one of the largest systematic uncertainties arises due to other mass in the environment of the lens or along the line of sight (LOS). In Chapter 4, we develop an analytic framework to account for LOS effects. Our framework employs a hybrid approach treating a few perturbing galaxies as strong lenses, making it accurate,  while treating the rest in the weak lensing approximation, making it also computationally efficient. In Chapter 5, we test our framework using simulations of realistic mass models.  We suggest a method to characterize the strength of the LOS effects allowing us to systematically test when the weak lensing approximation is valid. We show that LOS effects are not equivalent to a single shear, but these non-linear effects are correctly captured by our framework.  Our new methodology can be used to constrain cosmological parameters, like the Hubble Constant, in the era of precision gravitational lensing measurements.
Haania Saussure 1871
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Konopik, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Thespidae
Haania

description: Haania Saussure, 1871
= Parairidopteryx Saussure, 1871
= Hystricomantis Werner, 1922
= Ceratohaania Tinkham, 1937
Members of this lineage are found from lowland to submontane forests and usually occur at higher elevations. They live on tree bark covered by mosses and liverworts. Ten described and several undescribed species distributed over SE Asia.
Haania confusa Saussure, 1871
Haania (Parairidopteryx) confusus Saussure, 1871 = Mantis (Oxypilus) lobiceps De Haan, 1842 (partim)
= Parairidopteryx intermedia Werner, 1930
Distribution. Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo (De Haan 1842, Beier 1952).
Bornean records. Sarawak: Mt. Matang (Werner 1930), Mt. Dulit (Beier 1937); Brunei: Kuala Belalong (SMNK); Kalimantan: Pajan River (Werner 1930), Tabang (Beier 1958).
Haania borneana Beier, 1952
Distribution. N Borneo: Sabah: Bettotan (Beier 1952), Tawau Hills (AFUW).
Fam. Liturgusidae Giglio-Tos, 1915 1
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J. & Konopik, Oliver, 2014, An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak, pp. 130-168 in Zootaxa 3797 (1) on pages 135-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/226038
Integral forms for certain classes of vertex operator algebras and their modules
Creators: name: McRae, Robert H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: We study integral forms in vertex operator algebras over $mathbb{C}$. We prove general results on when a multiple of the standard conformal vector $omega$ can be added to an integral form of a vertex operator algebra and when intertwining operators among modules for a vertex operator algebra respect integral forms in the modules. We also show when the $mathbb{Z}$-dual of an integral form in a module for a vertex operator algebra is an integral form in the contragredient module. As examples, we consider vertex operator algebras based on affine Lie algebras and even lattices, and tensor powers of the Virasoro vertex operator algebra $L(frac{1}{2},0)$. In particular, we demonstrate vertex algebraic generators of integral forms for standard modules for affine Lie algebras that were first constructed in work of Garland; we reprove Borcherds' construction of integral forms in lattice conformal vertex algebras using generators; and we find generating sets that include $omega$ for integral forms in tensor powers $L(frac{1}{2},0);{otimes n}$ when $nin 4mathbb{Z}$. We also construct integral forms in modules for these vertex operator algebras using generating sets, and we show when intertwining operators among modules for these vertex operator algebras respect integral forms in the modules.
Database Analysis of HIV Drug Resistance Patterns
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The introduction and widespread use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has greatly helped many individuals with HIV to lead healthier, longer lives. Despite this success, tens of thousands of people with HIV carry viruses that are resistant to multiple types of drugs. Some are unable to achieve virus repression, and others may be at risk of developing resistance to their current treatment. There are major gaps in what researchers know about drug resistance for the complex drug combinations that are the standard of care today. The Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database (HIVdb) provides a unique resource for scientists studying which virus which mutations are associated with past therapies or can predict poor response to new treatments. However, such data are complex and difficult to analyze with current software programs. Investigators urgently require new tools to make scientific sense out of such information. In our proposed IDEA application, we address this challenge by creating a software program that can automatically extract from the database high-level patterns, such as definitions of outcomes. Our software approach can reduce the time-consuming efforts that researchers undertake in repeatedly applying medical knowledge in data analysis, and thus can speed the use of data in the HIVdb. Our research efforts will define a knowledge resource on HIV drug resistance, will develop a software program for clinical data abstraction, and will test the clinical usefulness of our approach. The results of our work may significantly help investigators and providers advance knowledge of which drug regimens are best suited for individuals living with HIV infection.
Arachnospila (Ammosphex) consobrina subsp. heringi
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Arachnospila
Arachnospila consobrina
Arachnospila (ammosphex) consobrina ssp. heringi (haupt, 1928)

description: Arachnospila (Ammosphex) consobrina ssp. heringi (Haupt, 1928)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Gadallah & El-Barty 2011), Yemen (Wahis 2000a). Extralimital distribution: Canary Islands, Tanzania (Haupt 1928; Arnold 1960; Wolf 1978a; Wahis 2000a).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039