cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of in vitro osteoarthritis models to study the effects of mesenchymal stromal cell treatments
Creators: name: Marrero-Berrios, Ileana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Osteoarthritis (OA), the principal source of physical disability and impaired quality of life in the US, is a chronic age-related disease characterized by the progressive destruction of articular cartilage, leading to total joint deterioration. OA severely burdens the US healthcare system with overall cost of ~185 billion dollars a year. Recent evidence suggests that inflammatory cytokine and chemokine release signals and cellular infiltration ultimately lead to matrix degradation and cartilage destruction. There is currently no cure for OA. Existing treatments alleviate symptoms initially; however, they are not able to alter disease progression and disease development eventually proceeds. Therefore, there is a need to develop effective therapies that could alter OA progression and promote healing in osteoarthritic joints. One approach to alter the progression of OA has been intra-articular administration of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) which secrete anti-inflammatory and regenerative factors that could alter the underlying pathophysiology of OA. However, these cells are not long-lasting when freely administered. We have previously demonstrated that alginate encapsulation of MSC lengthens their survival and promotes their secretory function, a characteristic that could serve as long term treatment for OA. In this dissertation, we investigated whether treatment with MSC or alginate-encapsulated MSC can provide sustained reduction of OA mediated joint inflammation and destruction, and promote healing in an in vitro model of OA. In addition, we aimed to improve on current OA in vitro models which often rely on chemically or mechanically stimulated chondrocytes, the sole cell component of articular cartilage, without taking into consideration other cell types and their interactions in the articular joint. We developed a multi-culture stackable insert system that allows for the 3D co-culture and investigation of multiple cell types, cell-cell interactions, and cell responses to their environment. Such experiments could provide powerful new tools and therapies in an otherwise irreversible progressive disease.
title: Characterization of Facies and Permeability Patterns in Carbonate Reservoirs Based in Outcrop Analogs
Creators: name: Kerans, C. (Charles), 1954-
name: Lucia, F. Jerry
name: Senger, Rainer K.
name: Fogg, Graham E.
name: Nance, Hardie Seay, 1948-
name: Hovorka, Susan D.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: petroleum
subject: reservoirs
subject: carbonate rocks
subject: facies
subject: permeability
subject: outcrops

description: More than 13 billion barrels (Bbbl) of mobile oil and 17 Bbbl of residual oil will remain in San Andres and Grayburg reservoirs at abandonment under current development practices. Through the development and application of new recovery technology, a large part of this resource can be recovered. This report focuses on research for the development and testing of new techniques for improving the recovery of this resource. Outcrop and subsurface geologic and engineering data are utilized to develop new methodologies through the integration of geologic observations and engineering data for improving numerical models that predict reservoir performance more accurately. Extensive regional mapping of the 14-mile by 1,200-foot San Andres outcrop, located on the Algerita Escarpment, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, demonstrates that the San Andres carbonate-ramp complex is composed of multiple depositional sequences that have significant basinward shifts in reservoir-quality facies tracts occurring across sequence boundaries. Detailed geologic and petrophysical mapping of three reservoir-quality facies tracts demonstrates that the fundamental scale of geologic description for reservoir characterization is the parasequence and its component rock-fabric-based facies. Descriptions of cores from the Seminole San Andres Unit illustrate that the parasequence is also the fundamental geologic scale for reservoir mapping in the subsurface.
Cymatoderella morula Rifkind 1993
Creators: name: Rifkind, Jacques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatoderella
Cymatoderella morula

description: Cymatoderella morula Rifkind 1993
Mexico, Chiapas, Hwy. 190, 4 km W. Comitan, vii-7-2021, beating acacia, J. Rifkind, J. M. Leavengood, Jr., E. A. Martinez, colls. New state record. In Mexico, previously recorded from Oaxaca.
description: Published as part of Rifkind, Jacques, 2022, New distributional records for Mexican Cleridae (Coleoptera) with the description of three new species, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (963) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7616600
Compact regular objects from an electrified Tolman-like density: A new interior region for the Kerr-Newman spacetime
Creators: name: Basso, Marcos L. W.
name: Zanchin, Vilson T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charged static and rotating objects as solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell field equations are obtained and studied in the present work. The full spacetime geometry is obtained by matching two spacetime regions, an interior region containing electrified matter and an exterior electrovacuum region. In the static case, the interior region contains a spherically symmetric distribution of matter constituted by a de Sitter-type perfect fluid with electric charge, whose energy density profile is given by a Tolman-like relation. The interior solution is smoothly matched with the exterior Reissner-Nordström electrovacuum solution, thus producing different kinds of objects, such as charged regular black holes and overcharged tension stars, that we analyze in detail. We also investigate the connection between the present static solution and the regular black holes with a de Sitter core presented in the work by Lemos and Zanchin [Phys. Rev. D 83, 124005 (2011)]. We then employ the Gürses-Gürsey metric and apply the Newman-Janis algorithm to construct a charged rotating interior geometry from the static interior solution. The resulting interior metric and the electromagnetic field are smoothly matched to the exterior Kerr-Newman electrovacuum solution, thus producing a regular interior for the exterior Kerr-Newman geometry. The main properties of the complete rotating solution are analyzed in detail, showing that different kinds of rotating objects, such as charged rotating black holes and other charged rotating objects, also emerge in this solution.
Kessleria africana Agassiz 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Agassiz, David J. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Yponomeutidae
Kessleria
Kessleria africana

description: 39. Kessleria africana sp. nov.
Description of adult (Plate 6). Wingspan 15–17 mm. Head tufted, ochreous; labial palpus inclined to droop, pale ochreous, segment 3 at least as long as segment 2; scape dark brown, flagellum annulate dark brown and whitish. Thorax shining golden brown, often white posteriorly, tegula dark fuscous. Forewing glossy whitish much irrorate brown, a blackish central spot before middle, another beyond disc, a blackish line around termen, fringe shining pale fuscous. Hindwing pale grey. Forelegs banded pale ochreous and fuscous, mid- and hind-leg pale fuscous, darker near joints. Abdomen pale brownish grey, sternal segments covered with small spinules.
Male genitalia (Plate 16). Uncus simple, socius gently curved ending with a spine; valva with apex forming a hook, sacculus small, ending with spines, saccus narrow and straight. Aedeagus about twice length of valva with cornutus ½ of its length.
Female genitalia (Plate 26). Lobes of lamella postvaginalis narrow and widely separated, ostium small, ductus long and narrow, with weak scobination for most of its length; corpus bursae more or less ovoid, a symmetrical signum bearing short spines; ductus at least as long as abdomen.
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the brightly coloured forewing with four large blackish spots, in the male genitalia by the shape of the apex of the valva, short sacculus and long slender saccus; in the female genitalia by the lamella postvaginalis lacking the caudal pads of other species,.
Biology. The species has been reared from Dovyalis longispina (Flacourtiaceae). Adults recorded in January, March, November and December.
Derivation of the name. From the Continent of Africa where the species is found.
Distribution. Kenya, Rift Valley and Central provinces above 2000 m.
Type material. Holotype ♂ KENYA; Rift Valley, Turi, 8500 ft, 29.i.1999, D.J.L. Agassiz; 10 paratypes: ♂ same locality as holotype, 14.iii.1999, DJLA slide 1277; 1 ♀ same locality as holotype, l. on Dovyalis em. 28.xii.1998; 2 ♂ 5 ♀ Rift Valley, Molo, 8600 ft, 27.iii.1999, D.J.L. Agassiz; 1 ♀ Central, Castle Forest Lodge 2060 m, 0°22’51’’S 37°18’35’’E 20.xi.2009, D.J.L. Agassiz. (DJLA).
description: Published as part of Agassiz, David J. L., 2019, The Yponomeutidae of the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4600 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4600.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000391
Eucidaris metularia
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Echinoidea
Cidaroida
Cidaridae
Eucidaris
Eucidaris metularia

description: Eucidaris metularia (Lamarck 1816)
FIGURE 2
The specimen observed was from 14m on Steep Island, on rocky substratum. This species is rarely seen in Hong Kong waters, with only a single sighting recorded in our survey. Eucidaris metularia is distinguished from the other cidarid urchin seen in Hong Kong by spine morphology which are blunt-tipped with banded coloration and spine length roughly equal in size to the test diameter in E. metularia versus Prionocidaris baculosa which has spines that are narrow to pointed, lack banding coloration and show spine length at least twice the test diameter with serrations along the spine surface. In terms of size. E. metularia horizontal test diameter is not known to exceed 30 mm whereas most adult Prionocidaris baculosa are generally larger than 30 mm in horizontal test diameter.
The colour in life is purplish-brown with the spines distinctly banded. It is widely distributed over the Indo-West Pacific region from Mozambique to the Hawaiian Island. A molecular phylogeny and biogeographic survey of Eucidaris spp. across its range, including E. metularia was published by Lessios et al. (1999). Eucidaris metularia has been reported from Xisha Island and the southern end of Hainan Island (Liao & Clark 1995). This is the first occurrence in Hong Kong waters.
Feeding habits and other biology of Eucidaris metularia are poorly understood. Mortensen (1928) reported coralline algae, bryozoans, sponges and other “bottom material” from gut contents, but surprisingly little could be located. While not abundant in Hong Kong, other species of Eucidaris, such as Eucidaris thouarsii in the Galapagos have demonstrated ecological importance in coral reef settings (Glynn et al. 1979) and there is likely significance for E. metularia among coral settings in Chinese habitats.
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 14.0 m.
Outside Hong Kong. Mozambique and the Red Sea to the Fiji, Gilbert, and Hawaiian Islands and from south Japan to the north coast of Australia. 5–570m.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Aphelocerus delicatulus Barr 1976
Creators: name: Rifkind, Jacques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Aphelocerus
Aphelocerus delicatulus

description: Aphelocerus delicatulus Barr, 1976
Mexico, Puebla, Jolapan, Rancho el Salado, Ladera W. del Cerro Colorado, 1061 m, 18.3625 N, 98.9811 W, Selva Baja Caducifolia, 6-x-2010, V. H. Toledo, F. Hinterholtzer, J. G. Martinez, colls. (CIUM). New state record. Previously known from Sinaloa, Jalisco, Colima, Morelos, and Oaxaca.
description: Published as part of Rifkind, Jacques, 2022, New distributional records for Mexican Cleridae (Coleoptera) with the description of three new species, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (963) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7616600
title: Dominant Control of Reservoir-Flow Behavior in Carbonate Reservoirs as Determined from Outcrop Studies
Creators: name: Senger, Rainer K.
name: Lucia, F. Jerry
name: Kerans, C. (Charles), 1954-
name: Ferris, Malcolm Alexander, 1961-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: petroleum
subject: reservoirs
subject: flow
subject: carbonate rocks
subject: outcrops

description: The investigation of carbonate-ramp deposits of the upper San Andres Formation that crop out along the Algerita Escarpment, New Mexico, is a research element of ongoing geologic and petrophysical studies conducted at the Bureau of Economic Geology's Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory (RCRL). The primary goal of the investigation is to develop an integrated strategy involving geological, petrophysical, geostatistical, and reservoir-simulation studies that can be used to better predict flow characteristics in analogous subsurface reservoirs. Geologic investigations and detailed measurements of petrophysical parameters on continuous outcrop were used to determine not only the vertical distribution of the data but also their lateral distribution, which is typically lacking in subsurface studies. To characterize the complex heterogeneity associated with depositional and diagenetic processes at the interwell scale, detailed permeability data were collected within the overall geologic framework from the outcrop at Lawyer Canyon, Algerita Escarpment, New Mexico (fig. 1). Geologic mapping showed a series of upward-shallowing parasequences (10 to 40 ft thick and several thousand feet long). Parasequence boundaries are typically marked by tight mudstone/wackestone beds that display variable degrees of lateral continuity ranging from several hundred feet to more than 2,500 ft and are potentially important as flow barriers (fig. 2). Within these parasequences, distinct variability of facies and petrophysical characteristics is present at scales well below those of interwell spacing typical for their subsurface counterparts (660 to 1,330 ft). Pore types and permeability-porosity relationships can also be specific to individual parasequences.
Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick 1923
Creators: name: Agassiz, David J. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Yponomeutidae
Xyrosaris
Xyrosaris obtorta

description: 41. Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick, 1923
Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick, 1923: 554
Type locality: Rodriguez Island.
Redescription of adult (Plate 6). Wingspan 10 mm. Head tufted, brownish white, palpus clothed with white scales. Thorax and tegula whitish irrorate pale brown. Forewing whitish, inwardly oblique partial fascia from dorsum just before halfway, a diffuse spot near costa and furhter spots towards termen, a blackish line around termen; fringe dark brown. Hindwing pale grey.
Male genitalia. Not examined.
Female genitalia. Not examined.
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the blackish spot on dorsum before middle which is almost extended to an inwardly oblique fascia and the pair of spots towards apex.
Biology. Not known.
Distribution. Rodriguez Island.
Type material. Lectotype ♂ (designated by Lewis & Sohn, 2015) Specimen without abdomen, Rodriguez Is. viii–xi.1918 H.F. Tomasett & H.J. Snell coll. Paralectotype ♀ hereby designated, same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Agassiz, David J. L., 2019, The Yponomeutidae of the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4600 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4600.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000391
Chirality Effects in Molecular Chainmail
Creators: name: Klotz, Alexander R.
name: Anderson, Caleb J.
name: Dimitriyev, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Motivated by the observation of positive Gaussian curvature in kinetoplast DNA networks, we consider the effect of linking chirality in square lattice molecular chainmail networks using Langevin dynamics simulations and constrained gradient optimization. Linking chirality here refers to ordering of over-under versus under-over linkages between a loop and its neighbors. We consider fully alternating linking, maximally non-alternating, and partially non-alternating linking chiralities. We find that in simulations of polymer chainmail networks, the linking chirality dictates the sign of the Gaussian curvature of the final state of the chainmail membranes. Alternating networks have positive Gaussian curvature, similar to what is observed in kinetoplast DNA networks. Maximally non-alternating networks form isotropic membranes with negative Gaussian curvature. Partially non-alternating networks form flat diamond-shaped sheets which undergo a thermal folding transition when sufficiently large, similar to the crumpling transition in tethered membranes. We further investigate this topology-curvature relationship on geometric grounds by considering the tightest possible configurations and the constraints that must be satisfied to achieve them.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
Xyrosaris secreta Meyrick 1912
Creators: name: Agassiz, David J. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Yponomeutidae
Xyrosaris
Xyrosaris secreta

description: 40. Xyrosaris secreta Meyrick, 1912
Xyrosaris secreta Meyrick, 1912: 67
Type locality: Republic of South Africa: Kwazulu Natal, Mfongosi.
Description of adult (Plate 6). Wingspan 13–17 mm. Head brownish white, labial palpus segment 3 with a tuft of whitish scales, segment 2 paler brown; scape brownish white, flagellum annulate brown and whitish. Thorax and tegula brownish white with some darker scaling. Forewing pale brown with a suffusion of whitish and fuscous scales, sometimes a blackish spot near base, below costa at ⅓, and ⅔ and in apex, but often these markings are obsolete. Hindwing grey.
Male genitalia (Plate 16). Socius slender with a small spine at the tip, uncus tapered to apex; valva gently rounded, spines along dorsum, sacculus distinct, saccus slender. Aedeagus weakly sclerotised, twice length of valva, a pair of weak cornuti for about ¼ of its length.
Female genitalia (Plate 26). Lamella postvaginalis lobes very close together, ostium without sclerotisation, antrum short and straight, ductus bursae long with scobinate band along its length, corpus bursae ovoid, a large signum with symmetrical spines and a spatulate projection at the posterior end which is almost at right angles to the remainder of the signum.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from othe species by the dark spot on dorsum just before ½ which is preceded by a white marking.
Biology. The species has been reared from fruits of Olea europaea cuspidata and Gynosporia senegalensis, adults recorded in every month except April, May and August.
Distribution. Kenya, Rift Valley and Central provinces above 2000 m, Republic of South Africa and Madagascar.
Type material. Holotype SAMC.
Other material examined: KENYA: Rift Valley, Turi 8500 ft. 13.xii.1998, 12.ii.1999, 4.iii.1999, 9.iii.1999 (3), 10.iii.1999, 13.iii.1999, 17.iii.1999, 25.iii.1999, 13.vi.1999, 14.vi.1999, 25.vi.1999, 28.vi.1999, 1.ix.1999, 29.ii.2000, 9.iii.2000, 11.iii.2000, 7.vii.2000, 10.vii.2000; Rift Valley, Molo 8600 ft, 27.iii.1999, Rift Valley, Kaptagat 7000 ft 15.i.2000;[KENYA] Escarpment 7500–8500 ft | Kikuyu BEA| E. Africa ix–x.1900| Doherty (NHMUK); REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: East Cape, Sneeuberg, Asante Sana 1 ♂ 1 ♀ 2–6.ix.2011, 1 ♂ 3 ♀ 22–26.i.2012, 1 ♀ 24.i.2012 Waterkloof, 5 ♀ 5–14.xi.2012, 3 ♂ 6 ♀ 28.ii–5.iii.2014 (MfN).
description: Published as part of Agassiz, David J. L., 2019, The Yponomeutidae of the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4600 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4600.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000391
Prionocidaris baculosa
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Echinoidea
Cidaroida
Cidaridae
Prionocidaris
Prionocidaris baculosa

description: Prionocidaris baculosa (Lamarck 1816)
FIGURE 3A–E
Comments
Figure 3 A-D documents the first occurrence of this species from Hong Kong, where it was recorded from the Ninepin Islands at 18.0 m. This species occurs between 10-30 m in rocky habitats from this region.
Prionocidaris baculosa has been recorded previously from China and throughout the Indo-Pacific, specifically from Japan to the west coast of Australia, the Philippines, the Indonesian region and in the Indian Ocean from Ceylon, the Red Sea and Mauritius, between depths of 0 to 250 m (Liao & Clark 1995; Schultz 2015).
Feeding observations of this species are included in the Discussion.
In situ and aquarium observations
In situ observation of one individual (Fig. 3A) showed a majority of spines carrying fouling materials on them, with only approximately five spines in view without any fouling growth. These spines appear to be shorter and could represent spine loss from predators or other damage or possibly there is preferential fouling growth on the more elongate spines. Reasons for this preferential growth are unclear.
Under aquarium conditions (Fig. 3B–D), one individual was observed attacking two asteroids, including Luidia maculata (Fig. 3B) and the oreasterid Culcita novaeguineae suggesting predatory tendencies. These were not observed in the field.
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 10–30 m.
Outside Hong Kong: southern China, in the vicinity of Hainan Island, and throughout the Indo-Pacific, Japan to the west coast of Australia, the Philippines, the Indonesian region and in the Indian Ocean from Ceylon, the Red Sea and Mauritius, between depths of 0–250 m.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on pages 11-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Cymatoderella patagoniae Knull 1946
Creators: name: Rifkind, Jacques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatoderella
Cymatoderella patagoniae

description: Cymatoderella patagoniae Knull 1946
Mexico, Nayarit, vic Presa El Cajon, Tropical Deciduous Forest, 2687′, on flowering tree (“Cachimbo?”), vii-8- 2019, J. Rifkind & E. Martinez, colls. New state record. In Mexico, previously known from Jalisco, Michoacán, and Morelos.
description: Published as part of Rifkind, Jacques, 2022, New distributional records for Mexican Cleridae (Coleoptera) with the description of three new species, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (963) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7616600
Countering adversarial perturbations in graphs using error correcting codes
Creators: name: Jabari, Saif Eddin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of a graph subjected to adversarial perturbations, such as those arising from cyber-attacks, where edges are covertly added or removed. The adversarial perturbations occur during the transmission of the graph between a sender and a receiver. To counteract potential perturbations, this study explores a repetition coding scheme with sender-assigned noise and majority voting on the receiver's end to rectify the graph's structure. The approach operates without prior knowledge of the attack's characteristics. We analytically derive a bound on the number of repetitions needed to satisfy probabilistic constraints on the quality of the reconstructed graph. The method can accurately and effectively decode Erdős-Rényi graphs that were subjected to non-random edge removal, namely, those connected to vertices with the highest eigenvector centrality, in addition to random addition and removal of edges by the attacker. The method is also effective against attacks on large scale-free graphs generated using the Barabási-Albert model but require a larger number of repetitions than needed to correct Erdős-Rényi graphs.
Triforis (Monophorus) dollfusi var. taurotransiens Sacco 1895
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triforis
Triforis dollfusi
Triforis (monophorus) dollfusi var. taurotransiens sacco, 1895

description: † Triforis (Monophorus) dollfusi var. taurotransiens Sacco, 1895
Triforis (Monophorus) dollfusi var. taurotransiens Sacco, 1895: 65, pl. 3, fig. 68.
Original localities. ”Colli Torinesi” (surroundings of Torrino) or “Astigiana” (area surrounding the town of Asti), Italy.
Type stratum. Miocene, “ Elveziano”.
Type material. Type material not located so far.
Distribution. Italy (Sacco 1895).
Geological age. Miocene (Sacco 1895).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
title: University Lands Advanced Recovery Initative
Creators: name: Major, R. P.
name: Kerans, C. (Charles), 1954-
name: Barnaby, Roger J.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: University Lands
subject: Texas
subject: enhanced oil recovery
subject: advanced recovery techniques
subject: petroleum engineering
subject: reservoir management

description: Hydrocarbon production from West Texas lands held by The University of Texas System has been in decline since the 1960s (fig. 1). Nonetheless, analysis of resources on University lands indicates that of the 7,252 million stock tank barrels (MMSTB) of original oil in place, only 1,679 MMSTB has been recovered since production was established early in this century, and only 150 MMSTB of reserves exist. Unless advanced development practices are applied to University lands fields, some 5,423 MMSTB will therefore remain unrecovered in existing fields. Importantly, 2,140 MMSTB of this resource, nearly one-third of the original oil in place, is mobile oil that can be recovered using standard drilling and completion practices, provided that wellbores and completion intervals are geologically targeted to access this unrecovered resource (fig. 2). The goal of the University Lands Advanced Recovery Initiative is to characterize selected University Lands reservoirs to aid operators in geologically targeting the remaining hydrocarbon resource to stem the decline in University Lands production. This project is funded by The University of Texas (U.T.) System and by matching funds from operators of University Lands fields chosen for site-specific studies. The agreement between the Bureau of Economic Geology and the U.T. System was finalized on July 29, 1996. Three individual site-specific projects have been initiated in the first year of the project: (1) Fuhrman-Mascho Block 10 Unit, a San Andres-Grayburg carbonate and sandstone reservoir in Andrews County operated by Arrow Operating Company, (2) University Waddell Devonian field, a Devonian chert reservoir in Crane County operated by Pennzoil, and (3) North McElroy Grayburg field, a Grayburg carbonate reservoir in Crane and Upton Counties newly acquired by Apache Corporation (fig. 3). Fuhrman-Mascho and University Waddell fields have recovery efficiencies significantly below that of comparable fields within the same geologically based play. McElroy field, although producing at an efficiency above play average, contains an enormous 832 million barrels of unrecovered mobile oil (table 1).
Post-Newtonian expansions of extreme mass ratio inspirals of spinning bodies into Schwarzschild black holes
Creators: name: Skoupý, Viktor
name: Witzany, Vojtěch
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA are expected to detect inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. Modeling such inspirals requires fully relativistic computations to achieve sufficient accuracy at leading order. However, subleading corrections such as the effects of the spin of the inspiraling compact object may potentially be treated in weak-field expansions such as the post-Newtonian (PN) approach.
 In this work, we calculate the PN expansion of eccentric orbits of spinning bodies around Schwarzschild black holes. Then we use the Teukolsky equation to compute the energy and angular momentum fluxes from these orbits up to the 5PN order. Some of these PN orders are exact in eccentricity, while others are expanded up to the tenth power in eccentricity. Then we use the fluxes to construct a hybrid inspiral model, where the leading part of the fluxes is calculated numerically in the fully relativistic regime, while the linear part in the small spin is analytically approximated using the PN series. We calculate LISA-relevant adiabatic inspirals and respective waveforms with this model and a fully relativistic model. Through the calculation of mismatch between the waveforms from both models we conclude that the PN approximation of the linear-in-spin part of the fluxes is sufficient for lower eccentricities.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
Iniforis douvillei Jousseaume 1884
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Iniforis
Iniforis douvillei

description: Iniforis douvillei Jousseaume, 1884
Iniforis douvillei Jousseaume, 1884: 241, pl. 4, fig. 3.
Triforis douvillei (Jousseaume, 1884) — Tryon 1887: 180, pl. 37, fig. 98.
Trifora douvillei (Jousseaume, 1884) — Viader 1937: 43.
Type locality. Mauritius.
Type material. MNHN-IM-2000-716, holotype.
Distribution. Mauritius (Jousseaume 1884; Tryon 1887; Paetel 1888; Viader 1937), New Caledonia (Hervier 1899).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Coelopleurus maculatus A. Agassiz & H. L. Clark 1907
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Echinoidea
Arbacioida
Arbaciidae
Coelopleurus
Coelopleurus maculatus

description: Coelopleurus maculatus A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark 1907
FIGURE 4A–C
Comments
This species was identified based on the pointed, conical secondary spines present on the aboral surface and the banded primary spines.The bright red bands of the primary spines, the white spine base and the purple interambulacral regions also corresponds to the summary description of this species as outlined by Shigei (1986).
This represents the first occurrence of this species from Hong Kong harbor and from 15 m depth. This is the shallowest known collection of this species which had previously been known from much deeper waters, 70– 360m.
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 17 m.
Outside Hong Kong. Taiwan, Hawaiian Islands, Southern Japan, including Sagami Bay, Kagoshmna Bay, Korea Strait to the Mollucan Sea, Philippines and the Kei Islands. 70–360 m.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Age stratified hospitalization characteristics of chronic kidney disease patients
Creators: name: Alyami, Emad Mohammed
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Background: Chronic Kidney disease is recognized as a significant health problem affecting about 14.8% of the US population. CKD is the ninth leading cause of death in the united states . CDC projected the prevalence of CKD for 65 and older to slightly increase to 37.8 %.4 CKD not only accounts for more death than prostate and breast cancer put together but also contribute to other diseases which increase the probability of higher prevalence in heart disease and . In a study that focused on the future burden of CKD, they found that by 2030 adults of 30 years or older may increase from 14.8% to 16.7%.Methods: The data were obtained from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) and were used to identify the relationship between length of stay, total charges, mortality and CKD. After merging the data, a total sample of 660,663 out of 30,931,761 discharge records of patients were diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. SAS Enterprise was used to perform descriptive and inferential analysis. RESULTS: The results showed that total charges, length of stay and mortality for CKD patients increases with the presence of comorbidities. Also, patients between the age of 0-19 and have hypertension their risk of developing CKD increases by 18x. Patients in their 20s and has hypertension are at a risk of developing CKD by almost 3 times when they reach 50 if they do not control their hypertension. Also, patients with complicated diabetes their risk increases by 8x where anemia at 4x. Conclusion: In this study comorbidities across all age groups such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, anemia, and congestive heart disease increases the likelihood of developing CKD. Patients with these risk factors should follow guidelines to control their condition to avoid developing CKD.
title: Dune and Beach Dynamics in Galveston County, Texas 1994-1998: Critical Information for Coastal Management
Creators: name: Gibeaut, James
name: Gutiérrez, Roberto, 1951-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Dune dynamics
subject: beach dynamics
subject: Galveston County
subject: Texas
subject: coastal management

description: Changes in beach and dune topography along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline in Galveston County, Texas were documented by comparing topographic transects oriented perpendicular to the shoreline (beach profiles) at 32 locations. All profiles were measured in September 1994 and again in November 1997. Subsets of the profiles were measured in 1995, 1996, and within weeks before and after Tropical Storm (TS) Frances in September 1998. Data on ocean level, waves, wind, and surface currents were compiled for the period to examine the response of the shoreline to certain conditions. In conjunction with this study, airborne laser terrain mapping (ALTM) surveys were conducted in November 1997, August 1998, and September 1998. The ALTM surveys were sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and have been evaluated for their usefulness in beach and dune studies.
An agile research data repository of acute kidney injury using property graph databases
Creators: name: Baghal, Ahmad S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: The increased adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) systems and emergence of clinical data warehouses to integrate data from diverse data sources energized clinical research and prompted the biomedical informatics community to envision and implement efficient and effective tools to facilitate conduct of research. Data warehousing, a valuable platform to provide clinical data for secondary use, is one tool, traditionally built using relational database models. Though relational models proved solid in data management applications across industries, the complexity and variety of clinical data require an agile technical environment that responds to evolving research data needs. A property graph model’s data connectedness, data exploration, and visualization capabilities make it a solid candidate to represent and manage clinical knowledge. This study uses acute kidney injury (AKI) disease, an important and often overlooked disease process, to represent clinical data extracted from institutional data warehouse in a graph model. The resulting AKI graph model, which consists of entities (nodes) connected through meaningful relationships (edges), provides easy access to explore and view query results in either graphical or tabular format. The AKI model, conceptually a data lake, is horizontally scalable, which can integrate with other graphbased clinical domains of knowledge. Moreover, the AKI graph schema provides the right structure for a Bayesian network, which helps implement a Bayesian inference model to estimate AKI patients’ outcomes probabilities, and also helps envision a Markov Chain transitions model to predict non-AKI patients’ probabilities of requiring dialysis within a 48-hour.
A tensor model for the calibration of air-coupled ultrasonic sensor arrays in 3D imaging
Creators: name: Müller, Raphael
name: Allevato, Gianni
name: Rutsch, Matthias
name: Haugwitz, Christoph
name: Liu, Tianyi
name: Kupnik, Mario
name: Pesavento, Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Arrays of ultrasonic sensors are capable of 3D imaging in air and an affordable supplement to other sensing modalities, such as radar, lidar, and camera, i.e. in heterogeneous sensing systems. However, manufacturing tolerances of air-coupled ultrasonic sensors may lead to amplitude and phase deviations. Together with artifacts from imperfect knowledge of the array geometry, there are numerous factors that can impair the imaging performance of an array. We propose a reference-based calibration method to overcome possible limitations. First, we introduce a novel tensor signal model to capture the characteristics of piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers (PUTs) and the underlying multidimensional nature of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sensor array. Second, we formulate and solve an optimization problem based on this model to obtain the calibrated parameters of the array. Third, we assess both our model and the commonly used analytic model using real data from a 3D imaging experiment. The experiment reveals that our array response model we learned with calibration data yields an imaging performance similar to that of the analytic array model, which requires perfect array geometry information.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures. This work has been accepted for publication by Elsevier B.V
Xyrosaris louisae Agassiz 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Agassiz, David J. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Yponomeutidae
Xyrosaris
Xyrosaris louisae

description: 43. Xyrosaris louisae sp. nov.
Description of adult (Plate 6). Wingspan 11–13 mm. Head tufted greyish white, labial palpus slender, segment 3 longer than segment 2, greyish white; scape pale brown, whitish at each end, flagellomeres weakly annulate whitish and pale fuscous. Thorax and tegula pale fuscous. Forewing whitish fuscous, paler dorsally, with an irregular scattering of darker scales, termen edged black, terminal fringe blackish, paler towards dorsum. Hindwing pale grey. Abdomen greyish.
Male genitalia (Plate 16). Uncus with termen flattened, socius comparatively long each with a spine at the apex, valva with gently concave costa, a raised process near base, saccus long and slender; aedeagus longer than valva, almost straight with a pair of cornuti.
Female genitalia. Not examined.
Diagnosis. Distinguished by its dark forewing with few distinctive markings, in the male genitalia with long narrow socii and valva of simple shape with a bulbous area near the base and aedeagus with two distinctive cornuti.
Biology. Not known, adults recorded October and November.
Derivation of the name. Named after our granddaughter Louisa.
Distribution. Kenya, only known from the southern slopes of Mt Kenya.
Type material. Holotype ♂, KENYA; Central, Castle Forest Lodge 2050 m 25.x.2016 D. Agassiz & K. Larsen slide DJLA 1589. 2 paratypes, 1 ♂, same data as holotype, 1 ♂ same locality 4–6.xi.2013 Agassiz, Beavan, Heck- ford & Larsen. slide DJLA 1332. (DJLA).
description: Published as part of Agassiz, David J. L., 2019, The Yponomeutidae of the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4600 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4600.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000391
Diadema savignyi
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Echinoidea
Diadematoida
Diadematidae
Diadema
Diadema savignyi

description: Diadema savignyi (Audouin 1809)
and Diadema setosum (Leske 1778)
FIGURE 5A (D. setosum), 5B (D. savignyi)
Comments
Diadema is intensively studied and many species are dealt with in much greater detail elsewhere (e.g. Muthiga & McClanahan 2020), and as such, are only included briefly here out of completeness. Chinese Diadema species were documented by Liao & Clark (1995). Both species are significant as subjects for understanding relationships between species across the tropical-Indo-Pacific region (e.g. Lessios 2000). Diadema setosum in particular has been the cause of coral bioerosion in Hong Kong (Dumont et al. 2013; Qiu et al. 2014).
Both species are widely occurring throughout the Indo-Pacific. Diadema savignyi prefers exposed settings and is recorded from deeper depths (0–60 m) (Fig. 5B) compared to Diadema setosum which prefers sheltered sites at shallower depths, from 0–30 m (Schultz 2015). In Hong Kong D. savignyi has been observed at Tung Ping Chau, Sung Kong and Wang Lan Island (Fig. 5B) at deeper depths,> 10.0 m in rocky habitats and but is more rarely seen. Liao & Clark (1995) reported Diadema savignyi as being very abundant at Hainan Island, such that the spines prevented steps between them. Diadema setosum has been observed at Sharp Island (Fig. 5A), and is more common in eastern waters.
Diadema savignvi is distinguished by a black anal cone and bold blue arch of iridophore pattern on the genital plates, whereas Diadema setosum bears white with an orange ring on its anal cone and blue spotted iridophore pattern (Schultz 2015).
Occurrence/Distribution
Diadema savignyi
Hong Kong, 1–25 m
Outside Hong Kong, throughout the Indo-Pacific, except Pakistan and West India, Maldives and the Hawaiian Islands, 0–30 m.
Diadema setosum
Hong Kong, 1–30 m
Outside Hong Kong, southern China and throughout the Indo-Pacific. 0–60 m. (based on Liao & Clark 1995).
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Aphelocerus scutellaris
Creators: name: Rifkind, Jacques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Aphelocerus
Aphelocerus scutellaris

description: Aphelocerus scutellaris (Chevrolat,1874)
Mexico, Oaxaca, Hwy 131 at San Juan Lachao, 3574′, Oak Forest, vi-23-2015, beating tree, J.Rifkind, coll. New state record. Previously recorded from Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Chiapas.
description: Published as part of Rifkind, Jacques, 2022, New distributional records for Mexican Cleridae (Coleoptera) with the description of three new species, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (963) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7616600
Mastonia ducosensis Jousseaume 1884
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Mastonia
Mastonia ducosensis

description: Mastonia ducosensis Jousseaume, 1884
Mastonia ducosensis Jousseaume, 1884: 251, pl. 4, fig. 10.
Triforis ducosensis (Jousseaume, 1884) — Tryon 1887: 182, pl. 38, fig. 12.
Trifora ducosensis (Jousseaume, 1884) — Viader 1937: 43.
Type locality. New Caledonia.
Type material. MNHN-IM-2000-715, syntypes.
Distribution. Djibouti (Lamy 1905), Mauritius (Viader 1937), New Caledonia (Jousseaume 1884; Paetel 1888; Hervier 1899; Lamy 1905), Red Sea (Jousseaume 1898; Dekker & Orlin 2000).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Aulicus nero Spinola 1844
Creators: name: Rifkind, Jacques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Aulicus
Aulicus nero

description: Aulicus nero Spinola, 1844
Mexico, Guerrero, Hwy. 95, 3 km S Xalitla, 18°00′ N, 98°24′ W, 610m, July 17, 1992, C.L.Bellamy, coll.; Mexico, Guerrero, Cañon del Zopilote, 7.8 km N Milpillas, July 6, 1992, T. C. MacRae, coll. (TCMC); Mexico, Morelos, Tlaquiltenango, S San Pablo Hidalgo, 18° 34′ 50.1″ N, 99° 02′ 17.9″ W,Alt 973 m, en floras de Acacia picachensis, 26-vi-2006, Colls, A.M. Corona, V. H. Toledo. New state record. Previously recorded from Estado de México, Michoacán, Puebla, and Oaxaca.
description: Published as part of Rifkind, Jacques, 2022, New distributional records for Mexican Cleridae (Coleoptera) with the description of three new species, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (963) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7616600