cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Depth-resolved spectroscopy method and apparatus
Creators: name: Richards-Kortum, Rebecca R.
name: Gillenwater, Ann M.
name: Schwarz, Richard A.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: A61B5/0071
subject: A61B5/0075
subject: A61B5/0088
subject: A61B5/443
subject: A61B5/444
subject: A61B2562/0242
subject: G01N21/49
subject: 356/317

description: Methods and apparatus for depth-resolved spectroscopy. A ball lens may be used to redirect light from a fiber-optic probe so that the light intersects the detection region of a collection probe in a specific depth layer of the specimen. A fiber-optic probe may comprise a collection fiber proximal to a central axis of a ball lens and a pair of illumination fibers distal to the central axis.
title: Method for estimating strain, strain ratios and displacements in a target body
Creators: name: Ophir, Jonathan
name: Righetti, Raffaella
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: A61B8/08
subject: A61B5/442
subject: A61B8/485
subject: A61B8/488
subject: 73/602
subject: 73/614

description: The invention is directed toward a new method for estimating and imaging the spatial and temporal mechanical behavior of materials in responses to a mechanical stimulus. This method is designed to work in inherently noisy applications, such as the imaging of the time-dependent mechanical behavior of biological tissues in vivo and using a preferred hand-held configuration of scanning.
title: Vesce Commune :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
Philonthus upupa Hromadka 2014
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus upupa

description: Philonthus upupa Hromádka, 2014
Philonthus upupa Hromádka, 2014d: 692, Figs 18–20.
One paratype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka): PA*©A*´YPൾ ♀) (: ‘ LIBERIA: / Mt. Nimba. / Grassfield, / 16-25.ix. 1979. [p] // I. Hanski. / B.M 1980-85. [p] // lowland / forest 500m. [p] // In human / faeces [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (Philont.) / upupa sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2006 [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 385, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Dye sensitized solar cells with templated TiO2 coatings
Creators: name: Phadke, Sarika A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Photovoltaic (PV) technology can make a significant contribution in energy production if it becomes more economical and technologically more competitive with other renewable and conventional energy sources. Dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is a third generation PV technology which utilizes easily available raw material and low cost manufacturing methods. The performance of the DSSC technology is not yet at par with the existing crystalline silicon and thin film based photovoltaic technologies. Therefore to realize the real potential of DSSC, fundamental research in understanding the device physics and identifying the most promising cell material and configuration is necessary. This research focuses on the titanium dioxide coating, which is used as the photoanode in the DSSC. The titania coating transfers the electrons injected from the adsorbed dye to the electrode. For efficient regeneration of the dye, the redox electrolyte present in between the two electrodes of the cell has to be in intimate contact with the titania nanoparticles. This requires the titania coating to contain interpenetrating network of meso and macro pores. The present research employs sacrificial templating technique to incorporate porosity into the titania coating. Oil in water emulsions have been primarily used as the templating material and they provide a very cost effective and simple way to produce the porous coatings. Different commercial techniques have been used to produce the emulsion templated titania coatings such as blade coating, spin coating and roll to roll coating. Their microstructures were analyzed and compared in detail. Mercury porosimetry and BET surface area measurements were also employed to characterize the pore size distribution and surface area of the emulsion templated coatings. To understand the effect of the added porosity on the internal resistances and kinetics of the TiO2/dye/electrolyte interface, electrochemical impedance spectroscopic (EIS) analysis was performed. EIS analysis showed that the templated coatings had lower impedances and they provided faster diffusion of ionic species through the titania coating. The current-voltage characterization of the emulsion templated dye sensitized solar cells showed an increase in the photocurrent and photovoltage as compared to the nontemplated cells. Cells templated with the 20 wt% oil in water emulsion had twice the efficiency as compared to the non-templated solar cells.
Psilopleura meridionalis Zerny 1931
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Psilopleura
Psilopleura meridionalis

description: meridionalis Zerny, 1931
(Fig. 33)
Psilopleura meridionalis Zerny, 1931b: 11 (Taf. 1, fig. 15). Holotype male [by monotypy]: PARAGUAY, San Bernardino (Fiebrig); with two labels: printed label ”Fiebrig, Paraguay, S. Bernardino” and handwritten label “ Psilopleura meridionalis Zerny ♂ type ”.
Current combination. Psilopleura meridionalis Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the type. Wings rubbed.
Remarks. This species is remarkably similar to the type species of Psilopleura Druce, 1898, P. polia Druce, 1898.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 521, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
The effects of extracellular matrix compliance and protein expression on neurons
Creators: name: Previtera, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Extracellular and intracellular cues affect neuronal morphology and contribute to brain diseases, such as schizophrenia, and injury. First, we examined how extracellular cues influence branching parameters of hippocampal neurons. Brain injury or disease can initiate changes in local or global stiffness of brain tissue. While stiffness of the extracellular environment is known to affect the morphology and function of many cell types, little is known about how the dendrites of neurons respond to changes in brain stiffness. We cultured hippocampal neurons on hydrogels composed of polyacrylamide of varying rigidities to mimic the effects of extracellular matrix stiffness on dendritemorphology. At 12 days in vitro, dendrite branching was altered by stiffness; i.e. branching peaked in neurons grown on gels of intermediate stiffness (8 kPa). Furthermore, we found that ionotropic glutamate receptors play roles in regulating dendrite morphology. AMPA receptors play a role in dendritc arborization for harder stiffness, >2kPa, at all distances from the cell body. NMDA receptors play a role in dendritic arborization for a range of rigidities (1-25 kPa), at only proximal and intermediate distances from the cell body. However, a caveat to these studies is that cell adhesion is affected by the rigidity of these substrates. Addressing this caveat is of great importance because cell density affects dendrite branching. Thus, we also determined whether substrate stiffness plays a critical role in determining dendrite branching independent of cell density. We concluded that substrate stiffness does play a crucial role in determining dendrite branching patterns independent of cell number; however, the density of cells plated on substrates also influences the dendrite branching pattern of neurons. In the second chapter of my thesis, we looked at how intracellular proteins in different sections of the human brain are affected in schizophrenia. By Western blotting, we examined human, postmortem brain samples. NOS1AP protein expression increased in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia and not in the occipital lobe, medial temporal lobe, or cerebellum. Thus, this thesis demonstrates how extracellular and intracellular cues affect disease states, such as brain injury and schizophrenia.
title: Prokaryotic host cells for expressing proteins rich in disulfide bonds
Creators: name: Beckwith, Jonathan R.
name: Georgiou, George M.
name: Ritz, Daniel
name: Faulkner, Melinda
name: Gon, Stephanie
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: C12N9/0065
subject: C12N2500/44
subject: C12N2501/70
subject: C12N2510/02
subject: 435/252.1
subject: 435/70.1
subject: 435/189

description: The invention provides composition and methods for producing proteins of interest which comprise at least one disulfide bond, include proteins which in their mature form do not contain disulfide bonds, but whose precursor molecule contained at least one disulfide bond. The methods employ a host cell modified to more efficiently produce properly folded disulfide bond containing proteins. The host cells generally contain a mutation in one or more reductase genes, and can be further genetically modified to increase their growth rate, and are further optionally modified to increase the expression of a catalyst of disulfide bond formation. Host cells, methods for u sing such to produce proteins of interest, proteins of interest produced by these methods are within the scope of the invention.
Philonthus uraeginthus Hromadka 2012
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus uraeginthus

description: Philonthus uraeginthus Hromádka, 2012
Philonthus uraeginthus Hromádka, 2012f: 76, Figs 60–62.
The holotype and one paratype are deposited in NMPC
(general collection and ex coll. L. Hromádka):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ ZIMBABWE / loc. Kutsaga / near Harare airport / 18.vi.1997 W. Rossi leg. [p, yellow label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPE / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / uraeginthus sp. n. / Hromádka, det., 2012. [p, orange label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾ) (: ‘ ZIMBABWE / loc. Kutsaga / near Harare airport / 18.vi.1997 W. Rossi leg. [p, yellow label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / uraeginthus sp. n. / Hromádka, det., 2012. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 385, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
How patrol officers construct and use demographic maps to navigate the social landscapes of their towns of employ
Creators: name: Reck, Paul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In an effort to explain persistent racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes, this project investigates how patrol officers construct cognitive maps of various racial, ethnic, and class groups as a means of navigating the social terrain of their towns of employ.  In particular, I explore how various structural and cultural features of local communities shape and condition officers' social group schemata in order to determine the influence that communal contexts have on officers' social cognition, and ultimately, their approaches to policing various racial, ethnic, and class groups.  Drawing upon 49 ethnographic ride-along interviews and observations with officers in three suburban towns of varying racial, ethnic, and class diversity, I found that communal factors relating to power, culture, and space play a significant role in conditioning officers' social group schemata, and that officers within a particular town collectively construct and share racial and other social group schemata that differ in important ways from those of officers in other towns.  My findings regarding the substantial degree of between town variation in officers' social group schemata challenges the notion that cognition relating to race and other social categories is a rather static, uniform process guided by subconscious racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes that are part of a macro-societal schema.  In addition, my findings call into question conflict theory's fundamental premise that police officers routinely do the bidding of powerful groups at the expense of powerless groups.  My findings demonstrate that even where officers in different towns share similar, negative, stereotypical views of certain racial, ethnic, and class groups, the structural constraints in some communities effectively preclude officers from targeting such groups or otherwise treating them inequitably.  Above all else, my findings highlight how both social cognition and policing are heavily dependent on communal context.
Development and application of a generalized physiologically-based toxicokinetic model for environmental risk assessment
Creators: name: Sasso, Alan F.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This thesis presents the development, evaluation, and application of a generalized toxicokinetic model for mixtures of chemicals. Humans are exposed to mixtures of chemicals that are found together in multiple exposure media (soil, food, and air), and at levels that have been shown to cause adverse effects due to toxic interactions. Although several physiologically based toxicokinetic (PBTK) models exist for different environmental chemicals, using them in assessing risks to co-occurring contaminants is often impractical. This is especially true for the case of toxic metals, where half-lives in the human body span days (e.g. arsenic), months (e.g. methylmercury), and decades (e.g. lead, cadmium). Several differences in the formulation of these models exist with respect to (a) physiological structure (e.g. body tissue volumes and blood flow ratios), (b) general modeling assumptions (e.g. for transport and transformation of the chemicals within the body), and (c) exposure-relevant parameters. Since assumptions made for one metal or metal compound can be incompatible with the assumptions made for another metal, current formulations are inadequate for use in assessing health risks from mixtures of toxic metals. Further complications arise when assessing risks of both metals and nonmetals, which also interact at the toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic levels. The issues of consistent representation of physiology and chemical interactions across different classes of chemicals such as mixtures of metals and mixtures of metals and organics are addressed through the development of a Generalized Toxicokinetic Model for Mixtures of chemicals (GTMM). The GTMM resolves inconsistencies by standardizing the physiology across all models, and by allowing simulations of different models to be done simultaneously.  It has been implemented as a set of modules in Matlab and as a user-oriented graphical interface in Matlab-Simulink. The GTMM has been evaluated with multiple existing PBTK models for individual chemicals, and the results demonstrate that the GTMM  produces identical results as the original published formulations. Subsequently, the GTMM has been applied to different problems relevant to population risk assessment.
title: Artificial disulfide isomerases and uses thereof
Creators: name: Georgiou, George M.
name: Segatori, Laura
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: C07K2319/35
subject: C12N9/90
subject: C12N15/62
subject: C12P21/02
subject: C12Y502/01008
subject: Y02P20/582
subject: 435/70.1
subject: 435/71.1
subject: 435/252.3
subject: 435/252.33
subject: 435/254.11
subject: 435/254.2
subject: 435/320.1
subject: 435/325
subject: 536/23.4
subject: 536/23.7

description: The present invention provides artificial enzymes comprising, e.g., an N-terminal domain derived from E. coli FkpA that allows for dimerization and provides a substrate binding region, and a C-terminal thioredoxin domain derived from E. coli DsbA. Similar to DsbC, such de novo designed chimeric (hybrid) FkpA-DsbA enzymes function, as disulfide reductases, oxidases, or isomerases, and chaperones in vivo and in vitro, despite lacking similarity to DsbC-related polypeptide sequence.
The spatial distribution of lead in urban residential soil and correlations with urban land cover of Balitmore, Maryland
Creators: name: Schwarz, Kirsten
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Lead contamination of the urban environment is not a new phenomenon.  A great deal of research has focused on the health effects of lead-based paint.  Less attention, however, has been given to the potential problem of soil contaminated with lead from the past use of lead-containing products such as lead-based paint and leaded gasoline.  Identifying areas of high contamination is necessary in order to prioritize soil remediation and public health efforts.  This requires a comprehensive understanding of a highly heterogeneous and dynamic system.  This research addresses whether land use or land cover is a better predictor of lead concentrations in soil.  Specifically, this research addresses whether landscape features, including trees, lawns, buildings, and roads, can be used to predict lead concentrations in soil.  Through a method of rapid assessment of soil lead concentrations, I gathered spatially explicit data from urban residential yards to generate several models that predict the spatial distribution of lead in soil.  Using the results of these models, potential inequities associated with the modeled spatial distribution of lead in soil and socio-demographic features were explored.  The results of this study suggest that the distribution of lead in urban residential soils is more closely correlated with features of urban land cover compared to metrics of land use.  Specifically, the spatial distribution of lead in urban residential soils is strongly influenced by three factors: housing age, distance to the major road networks, and distance to built structures.  Through the comparison of various spatial models, this research demonstrates that a greater amount of variation in the data is explained by machine learning techniques compared to traditional modeling techniques.  In addition, important correlations between the modeled distribution of lead in soil and socio-demographic features such as race and poverty have been identified.  Specifically, a greater amount of soil contamination is predicted to be present in high poverty areas.  This research contributes to the growing field of urban ecology by advancing our knowledge of how spatial heterogeneity affects the distribution of a critical pollutant in urban systems.  This work also tests the suitability of using land cover as a predictive ecological variable.
title: Portable fluid warming system
Creators: name: Gill, Brijesh S.
name: Cox, Charles
name: Ezekoye, Ofodike A.
name: Ekici, Ozgur
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: A61F7/0085
subject: 431/328
subject: 431/326
subject: 431/329

description: The present invention relates to a portable apparatus for warming biocompatible fluids for use in the treatment of injured patients and a method of heating a biocompatible fluid to treat a patient experiencing hypothermia. The present invention may be used to warm intravenous fluids for trauma resuscitation or to warm air from a ventilator circuit. The portable nature of the present invention makes it highly suitable for field applications, such as a forward surgical hospital near a combat zone.
Additional file 1: of The weight of work: the association between maternal employment and overweight in low- and middle-income countries
Creators: name: Oddo, Vanessa
name: Bleich, Sara
name: Pollack, Keshia
name: Surkan, Pamela
name: Mueller, Noel
name: Jones-Smith, Jessica
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional material includes supplemental tables and figures to support the main manuscript. (DOCX 7866Â kb)
Psilopleura pentheri Zerny 1912
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Psilopleura
Psilopleura pentheri

description: pentheri Zerny, 1912
(Fig. 35)
Psilopleura pentheri Zerny, 1912b: 122. Holotype female [by monotypy]: BRAZIL, Bahia, Joazeiro [Juazeiro], (Dr. Arnold Penther); with four labels: three printed labels ”17.3”, “Ioazeiro” and “Bras. Exped. Penther ‘03”; and one handwritten label “ Psilopleura pentheri Zerny ♀ type ”.
Current combination. Psilopleura pentheri Zerny, 1912.
Condition of the type. Wings and dorsal surface of abdomen worn.
Remarks. This species seems to be closely related to P. kl agesi Rothschild, 1911. Both are probably part of a monophyletic concept of Psilopleura.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
Local intensity and its dynamics in multi-name credit derivatives modeling
Creators: name: Shi, Ming
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: We import the problems and techniques developed for the local volatility model in equity derivatives to multi-name credit modeling, propose and solve analogous problems. In particular, we analyze the properties of the local intensity of the aggregate loss process and explore the stochastic evolution of the local intensity surface under the "top-down" credit modeling framework. The analogy of Dupire's formula, Gyongy's theorem, backward and forward equations are showed and parametric factor models for the dynamics of the local intensity surface will be discussed.
TIBBIY VA FARMATSEVTIK TA'LIMDA  AMALIY MEXANIKA FANINING  O'RNI
Creators: name: Ilxamov, X.Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada oliy tibbiyot o‘quv yurtlarida, xuisusan, Toshkent farmatsevtika institutida o‘qitiladigan amaliy mexanika fanining amaliy ahamiyatiga alohida e’tibor qaratilgan. Shuningdek, ushbu fanning tibbiyotda va dori vositalari ishlab chiqarishda tutgan o‘rni ochib berilib, talabalarga, ya’ni bo‘lajak farmatsevtik ishlab chiqarish texnolog mutaxassislariga texnika fanlarining asosi bo‘lgan amaliy mexanika fanidan bimlarini berish zarurligi ko‘rsatilgan.
title: Methods for determining displacement or strain of a target body
Creators: name: Righetti, Raffaella
name: Ophir, Johathan
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: A61B8/08
subject: A61B5/442
subject: A61B8/485
subject: A61B8/488
subject: 73/602
subject: 73/614

description: The invention is directed toward a new method for estimating and imaging the spatial and temporal mechanical behavior of materials in responses to a mechanical stimulus. This method is designed to work in inherently noisy applications, such as the imaging of the time-dependent mechanical behavior of biological tissues in vivo and using a preferred hand-held configuration of scanning.
Adaptive search behavior
Creators: name: Smith, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: When an interactive search system returns a results list that fails to meet its user's information need, the user experiences a query failure. With the present generation of search systems, except for the most common and simple information needs, users often encounter query failure. This dissertation examined the behaviors searchers use when overcoming query failure. Specifically, this dissertation compared searches conducted on systems operating at three different levels of performance in a single mixed-model factorial experiment, with system performance as the independent variable. The General Linear Model and planned contrasts were used in an exploratory analysis of the effects of system performance on system responses, search behavior, and searcher productivity. Thirty-six volunteers from the Rutgers University community participated in the study. The study found that when system performance is degraded, searchers increase the pace of query submissions. Inter-query time intervals are shorter when results lists are shorter and when a spelling error message is displayed with a results list. These findings suggest that a system capable of monitoring a user's query submission rate and the characteristics of its own responses may be able to detect and assist a user experiencing a difficult search.
Sphecosoma perconstrictum Zerny 1912
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Sphecosoma
Sphecosoma perconstrictum

description: perconstrictum Zerny, 1912
(Fig. 36)
Sphecosoma perconstrictum Zerny, 1912b: 121. Holotype male [by monotypy]: [BRAZIL], Santa Catarina, 1886 (Funke); with two handwritten labels: “S. Katherin., Funke, 86” and “ Sphecosoma perconstrictum Zerny type ♂”.
Current combination. Pleurosoma perconstrictum (Zerny, 1912).
Condition of the type. Right fore and hindlegs missing. Tips of both antennae broken.
Remarks. This species was transferred to Pleurosoma Orfila, 1935 by Simmons and Weller (2006).
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
MOESM2 of Differences in the genetic control of early egg development and reproduction between C. elegans and its parthenogenetic relative D. coronatus
Creators: name: Kraus, Christopher
name: Schiffer, Philipp
name: Kagoshima, Hiroshi
name: Hiraki, Hideaki
name: Vogt, Theresa
name: Kroiher, Michael
name: Kohara, Yuji
name: Schierenberg, Einhard
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. a, c, Sequence comparison of the small (SSU) and large subunit (LSU) rDNA genes of D. coronatus. b, Collapsed Maximum Likelihood (ML) tree representing clustering of sequenced clones for the SSU rDNA gene. (d) Collapsed ML tree representing clustering of sequenced clones for the LSU rDNA gene. Bootstrap values are shown above and posterior probability values beneath branches.
Micropen direct-write technique for fabrication of advanced electroceramic and optical materials
Creators: name: Sun, Jingjing
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Direct-write technologies, a subset of the rapid prototyping, have been applied for many applications including electronics, photonics and biomedical engineering. Among them, MicropenTM is a promising technique, providing precision deposition of materials with various viscosities, on-line design changes and writing on nonplanar substrates. The objective of this project was to directly write two- and three-dimensional novel structures by MicropenTM for potential optical and transducer applications. First, to gain a basic understanding of MicropenTM operation, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) solutions were developed as a model system. The effects of solution rheological properties on deposition conditions were investigated. Secondly, PMMA/SiO2 hybrids were developed using sol-gel process. The effects of organic/inorganic ratios on thermal stability, microstructure and optical properties were studied. The solution with 80 wt% PMMA loading was chosen to deposit lines for optical applications. Another application was the direct-write of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thick films (6-70 µm) for MEMS or high frequency medical imaging applications. Pastes consisting of 15-30 vol% ceramic loading in a sol-gel solution were prepared for the deposition of films on various substrates. The PZT sol was used as a binder as well as to achieve low temperature heat treatment of the films. Using the 15 vol% paste with a 250-µm pen tip, a four-layer film was deposited on a silicon substrate. This 16-µm film with 1 cm2 area had K of 870, tanδ of 4.1%, Pr of 12.2 µC/cm2 and Ec of 27 kV/cm. Furthermore, MicropenTM was utilized for the direct-write of ceramic skeletal structures to develop PZT ceramic/polymer composites with 2-2 connectivity for medical ultrasound transducers. Ceramic/binder based pastes were developed as writing materials. The 35 vol% paste exhibited shear thinning with a viscosity of 45 Pa•s at lower shear rate and 3 Pa•s at higher shear rate. Using a 100-µm pen tip, the fabricated composite with ~360 µm height had resonance frequencies of ~4 MHz, and electromechanical properties of K=650, tanδ=2.1%, kt=0.60 and d33=210 pC/N. Finally, composites with linear and Gaussian volume fraction gradients were fabricated by MicropenTM. Their vibration amplitude profiles showed maximum output at center with gradual decreasing towards edge of the composites.
title: Control-flow prediction using multiple independent predictors
Creators: name: Keckler, Stephen W.
name: Burger, Douglas
name: Ranganathan, Nitya
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: G06F9/3885
subject: G06F9/3848
subject: 712/239
subject: 712/240

description: The present disclosure generally describes computing systems with a multi-core processor comprising one or more branch predictor arrangements. The branch predictor are configured to predict a single and complete flow of program instructions associated therewith and to be performed on at least one processor core of the computing system. Overall processor performance and physical scalability may be improved by the described methods.
title: System and method for pump with deformable bearing surface
Creators: name: Smalling, Richard W.
name: Gohean, Jeffrey R.
name: Pate, Thomas D.
name: Longoria, Raul G.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: F04B49/00
subject: F04B17/04
subject: 417/505
subject: 417/53
subject: 417/417
subject: 417/519

description: Systems and methods for pumping fluid comprising a pumping chamber, a pump inlet, a pump outlet, a valving mechanism, and a drive piston or pumping chamber wall including a deformable surface configured to provide elastohydrodynamic lubrication during operation.
Forests Are Us Research Update May 2024.pdf
Creators: name: Ussenaliyeva, Aizhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310102
subject: Cell development, proliferation and death
classificationCode: 310101
subject: Analytical biochemistry
classificationCode: 370702
subject: Ecohydrology
classificationCode: 370703
subject: Groundwater hydrology
classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring
classificationCode: 410401
subject: Conservation and biodiversity

description: Research update May, 2024
Numerical modeling of microfluidic two-phase electrohydrodynamic instability
Creators: name: Thenkarai Narayanan, Venkat Raman
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Organic-aqueous liquid (phenol) extraction is one of many standard techniques to efficiently purify DNA directly from cells. Effective dispersion of one fluid phase in the other increases the surface area over which biological component partitioning may occur, and hence enhances DNA extraction efficiency. Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) instability can be harnessed to achieve this goal and has been experimentally demonstrated by Zahn and Reddy (2006). In this work, analysis and simulation are combined to study two-phase EHD instability. In theproblem configuration, the organic (phenol) phase flows into the microchannel in parallel with and sandwiched between two aqueous streams, creating a three-layer planar geometry; the two liquid phases are immiscible. An electric field is applied to induce instability and to break the organic stream into droplets. The Taylor-Melcher leaky-dielectric model is employed to investigate this phenomenon. A linear analysis is carried out with a Chebyshev pseudo-spectral method, whereas a fully nonlinear numerical simulation is implemented using a finite volume, immersed boundary method (IBM). The results from both models compare favorably with each other. The linear analysis reveals basic instability characteristics such as kink and sausage modes. On the other hand, the nonlinear simulation predicts surface deformation in the strongly nonlinear regime pertinent to droplet formation. These numerical tools will be used to investigate the effects of the applied electric field, geometry, and convective flow rate on mixing and dispersion. The eventual objective is to maximize surface area of the organic phase under given experimental conditions for optimized DNA extraction.
Saurita pilipennis Zerny 1931
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Saurita
Saurita pilipennis

description: pilipennis Zerny, 1931
(Fig. 37)
Saurita pilipennis Zerny, 1931b: 12 (Taf. 1, fig. 2). Lectotype hereby designated, male, COLOMBIA, Pacho, 2200m (Fassl); with two labels: one printed label “Pacho, Colomb. Ost Cord. 2200m, coll. Fassl”, and a handwritten label “ Saurita pilipennis Zerny ♂ type ”. One paralectotype, female, with exactly the same labels.
Current combination. Saurita pilipennis Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Wings slightly rubbed, left antenna broken. Paralectotype. Right antenna missing. Left hindwing with a slight damage near the internal margin.
Remarks. This species was described from the specimens mentioned above. It most likely does not belong in Saurita Herrich-Schäffer, 1855, which seems to be polyphyletic. It resembles many species that are currently placed in Chrostosoma Hübner, [1819], such as C. fassli Draudt, 1915, and C. tabascensis Dyar, 1916.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on pages 522-523, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
Estimation and equalization of communications channels using wavelet transforms
Creators: name: Vaz, Canute
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation features the development of signal processing strategies for the estimation of the impulse responses of channels and the equalization of the effects of channels on communications signals propagating through them using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT).  The two strategies are developed as part of a wavelet-based signal processing platform, which can be used to enable reconfigurable radio transceivers.In broad terms, the approach that is taken is to recast standard discrete time-domain signal processing procedures into a DWT-based framework.  To facilitate this, three equivalent techniques of DWT-based convolution are devised.  The techniques are described analytically using a systems-theoretic approach.  The convolution techniques use both standard subband coding as well as polyphase filter implementations.Consequent to the development of DWT-based convolution is a DWT-based deconvolution procedure that is derived analytically.  The deconvolution procedure is then applied to the problem of the estimation of several time-invariant multipath communications channels.  Conditions of slow and fast fading are considered, and faded test signals are also subjected to Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) that result in ratios of bit-energy-to-noise-power-density, Eb/N0, in the range of 0 to 60 dB.  Monte Carlo simulations of the estimation of the channel impulse responses yield Mean-Square Error (MSE) results with excellent statistical agreement even for coarse levels of DWT resolution when compared with standard discrete time-domain deconvolution.Using DWT-based convolution the linear equalization techniques of Zero Forcing Equalization (ZFE) and Minimum Mean-Squared Error (MMSE) equalization, are formulated and implemented in the wavelet-domain.  Monte Carlo simulations of the equalization of a fast fading channel with Eb/N0 in the range from 0 dB to 60 dB show that the performance of both linear equalizers in the time and wavelet-domains is essentially  identical.Allied with the primary objective of the dissertation, both DWT-based channel estimation and equalization are included in communications systems.  In Monte Carlo simulations of these systems, signals that are digitally modulated with the Binary Amplitude Shift Keying (BASK), Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) and 16-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (16-QAM) schemes are propagated through a fast fading channel.  The faded signals are subjected to AWGN resulting in Eb/N0 in the range from 0 dB to 20 dB.  The performance of these hybrid time- and DWT-based communications systems is evaluated with Symbol Error Rate (SER) curves that show no decrease in performance when compared with discrete time-domain system methods.
title: Scalable bus-based on-chip interconnection networks
Creators: name: Keckler, Stephen W.
name: Grot, Boris Robert
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: G06F15/7825
subject: 370/389
subject: 709/238
subject: 712/11
subject: 712/220

description: The present disclosure generally relates to systems for routing data across a multinodal network. Example systems include a multinodal array having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of physical communication channels connecting the nodes. At least one of the physical communication channels may be configured to route data from a first node to two or more other destination nodes of the plurality of nodes. The present disclosure also generally relates to methods for routing data across a multinodal network and computer accessible mediums having stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing techniques for routing data across a multinodal network.
Epimeria (Drakepimeria) schiaparelli d'Acoz & Verheye 2017, subgen. nov.
Creators: name: d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem
name: Verheye, Marie L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Epimeriidae
Epimeria
Epimeria schiaparelli

description: Epimeria (Drakepimeria) schiaparelli subgen. nov. Lörz, Maas, Linse & Fenwick, 2007
Epimeria schiaparelli Lörz, Maas, Linse & Fenwick, 2007: 25, figs 1–7.
Epimeria schiaparelli – Lörz & Coleman 2009: unnumbered photograph on p. 17.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis based on the figures of Lörz et al. (2007).
Pereionites 1–2 smooth; pereionite 3 with posterior mid-dorsal bump and pair of dorsolateral protrusions; pereionites 3–7 with moderately slender mid-dorsal tooth of length increasing posteriorly and pair of dorsolateral smaller teeth; mid-dorsal tooth of pleonite 3 narrow and without median notch. Urosomite 2 with pair of small dorsolateral teeth pointing upwards. lateral carina of coxa 4 with well-developed tooth pointing backwards. Peduncle of antenna 1: article 1 with short lateral and medial teeth, with long ventral tooth reaching tip of article 2 (teeth excluded); article 2 with long lateral and medial teeth overreaching article 3; article 3 with short ventral tooth shorter than article itself.
Colour pattern
Usually whitish with irregular pale orange patches, more rarely whitish with red transverse stripes (one stripe per body segment).
Body length
30 mm.
Distribution
Western Ross Sea, 130–350 m.
Remarks
Epimeria schiaparelli is very similar to E. corbariae sp. nov. They can be differentiated by the dorsal ornamentation of pereionite 3: a posterior bump in E. schiaparelli vs a tooth in E. corbariae sp. nov.
description: Published as part of d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem & Verheye, Marie L., 2017, Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea), pp. 1-553 in European Journal of Taxonomy 359 on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694
Himantura gerrardi Gray 1851
Creators: name: Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
name: Alpermann, Tilman J.
name: Mal, Ahmad O.
name: Gabr, Mohamed H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Dasyatidae
Himantura
Himantura gerrardi

description: Himantura gerrardi (Gray, 1851)
Material examined. SMF 34957, 1 female, 1 male (2: 28.7–34.8 cm); KAUMM 48, male (1: 20.2 cm); SMF 34958, female (1: 23.9 cm); KAUMM 18, female (1: 21.0 cm); KAUMM 19, male (1: 24.2 cm).
Remarks. Gohar & Mazhar (1964) identified two specimens, male of 229 cm and female of 209 cm length, collected near Jubal Island, northern Red Sea as H. gerrardi. Both specimens had part of the tail missing, but the rest of tail was plain brown without any bands. Also both specimens had slightly enlarged denticles on the trunk, with no prominent tubercle in midside, whereas all specimens examined here are characterized in having a prominent tubercle in midside and the tail coloration consists of alternating dark and pale bands. Therefore we believe that Gohar & Mazhar’s record is based on a misidentification of H. fai Jordan & Seale, 1906. As Himantura gerrardi is a complex of similar species and currently under study by Peter Last (CSIRO), specimens trawled off Jizan, Saudi Arabia, are provisionally identified H. gerrardi, pending a revision of the complex.
description: Published as part of Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Alpermann, Tilman J., Mal, Ahmad O. & Gabr, Mohamed H., 2014, Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea, pp. 401-437 in Zootaxa 3852 (4) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/225360
title: Luminescent nanostructured materials for use in electrogenerated chemiluminescence
Creators: name: Bard, Allen J.
name: Fan, Fu-Ren F.
name: Yu, Jiaguo
name: Omer, Khalid
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: B82Y15/00
subject: B82Y20/00
subject: C07C2/64
subject: C09K11/06
subject: C09K11/07
subject: C09K2211/1007
subject: C09K2211/1011
subject: G01N21/64
subject: G01N21/66
subject: G01N21/76
subject: Y10T428/298
subject: Y10T428/2982
subject: 422/82.8
subject: 436/172
subject: 436/501
subject: 436/546

description: A nanostructured particulate material, which includes a redox active luminescent organic and/or ionic compound, is provided herein. The nanostructured particulate material may be used for determining the presence of an analyte of interest in a sample by detecting the emitted electromagnetic radiation generated by exposing a reagent mixture, which includes the nanostructured material and the target analyte, to chemical or electrochemical energy.
Taeniura lymma Forsskal 1775
Creators: name: Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
name: Alpermann, Tilman J.
name: Mal, Ahmad O.
name: Gabr, Mohamed H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Dasyatidae
Taeniura
Taeniura lymma

description: Taeniura lymma (Forsskål, 1775)
Material examined. SMF 34961 (1: 18.1 cm); KAUMM 20 (1: 16.8 cm).
description: Published as part of Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Alpermann, Tilman J., Mal, Ahmad O. & Gabr, Mohamed H., 2014, Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea, pp. 401-437 in Zootaxa 3852 (4) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/225360
Gas phase studies of hypoxanthine
Creators: name: Sun, Xuejun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Hypoxanthine is not only a naturally occurring nucleobase in tRNA but also a damaged one in DNA arising from oxidative deamination of adenine. This thesis describes studies of the intrinsic reactivity of hypoxanthine as a free base and the stability of DNA duplexes containing hypoxanthine in the gas phase versus in solution by calculation and mass spectrometry methods.   Firstly, the free base of hypoxanthine is studied as a damaged nucleobase. Hypoxanthine is one of the damaged nucleobases that can be excised by Alkyladenine DNA glycosylase (AAG) in humans. To understand the intrinsic properties of hypoxanthine, we examined the gas phase acidity and proton affinity using quantum mechanical calculations and gas-phase mass spectrometric experimental methods. We find that the N9-H of hypoxanthine is more acidic than that of adenine and guanine, pointing to a way by which AAG may discriminate damaged bases from normal bases. We hypothesize that AAG may cleave certain damaged nucleobases as anions and the active site may take advantage of a nonpolar environment to favor deprotonated hypoxanthine as a better leaving group than adenine and guanine. The acidities of AAG substrates have been compared with those of normal bases by calculations and Cooks kinetics method. In addition, the acidity differences between damaged and normal bases are enhanced in the gas phase when we compare them with the acidities in solution. These results support our hypothesis.Secondly, to understand the effect of hypoxanthine on DNA stability, we study a series of 9-mer DNA duplexes with the sequence 5'-d(GGTTXTTGG)-3'/3'-d(CCAAYAACC)-5', where the central base X or Y = adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and hypoxanthine (H). Comparison of the duplex stability in the gas phase versus in solution indicates that hypoxanthine has much less of a destabilizing effect in the gas phase versus in solution, relative to the normal complementary duplexes. The biological implications of these results are discussed in the context of hypoxanthine both as a universal base and as a damaged base.