cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of a novel process to fabricate hierarchical microporous open-cell polymer foam
Creators: name: Fechtmann, Michael C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: A new process to fabricate polymeric hierarchical microporous foams was developed and the effects of process parameters on the cell structure, Young’s Modulus, ultimate tensile strength and density of the resulting foams were studied. The process uses a suspo-emulsion in which one phase is volatile blowing agent/particle slurry and the other phase is a heat curable polymer. We found that the initial concentration of each of the components had drastic effects on the stability of the suspo-emulsion and whether or not the suspo-emulsion would phase invert to create polymer particles instead of polymer foam. Also, increasing the amount of blowing agent in a given suspo-emulsion resulted in lower density foam with a larger Young’s modulus and higher ultimate tensile strength.  Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was the polymer chosen for the systematic study of the process and epoxy resin was also used to demonstrate the versatility of the process.  Since the resulting foam is microporous and open-celled and because PDMS is hydrophobic, the produced foam rejects high surface tension liquids like water, but absorbs low surface tension liquids like motor oil. Thus, foams fabricated from different compositions were evaluated for their ability to absorb oil for their potential application in maritime oil spill cleanup operations.
Pristis pristis
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Rhinopristiformes
Pristidae
Pristis
Pristis pristis

description: Pristis pristis (Linnaeus 1758) (Fig. 6B). Largetooth Sawfish, Common Sawfish; Pez Sierra, Pejesierra
Vouchers: (other collections) CAS 232274 (2). Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical waters; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) To, Sa, SJ, RF and LN (Atlantic); 0–31 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; CR A2cd (2013), population trend decreasing. Literature: Meek (1907: 104, as Pristis aniquorum Latham 1794 —synonym; brief description, including an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Astorqui (1975: 56, as Pristis perotteti Valenciennes 1841 —synonym; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Villa (1982: 65, as P. perotteti —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 53; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Faria et al. (2013: 136; redescription, including an illustration, identification key and information on distribution), Robertson & Allen (2015: 2309; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 171; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Valerio-Vargas & Espinoza (2019: 231; distribution in Costa Rica, with a map, and conservation status) and Angulo (2021: 20; listed, including information on distribution).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Additional file 1: of Reliability of measurements of the fractured clavicle: a systematic review
Creators: name: Hoogervorst, Paul
name: Gerjon Hannink
name: Geene, Arnoud Van
name: Kampen, Albert Van
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Search query PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane. (DOCX 24Â kb)
Dasyatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1879
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Dasyatidae

description: Family Dasyatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1879 (Fig. 2C). Whiptail Stingrays; Rayas Batonas, Chupares, Rayas de Espina, Rayas Látigo
Description: Body strongly depressed; anterior edge of the greatly enlarged pectoral fins attached to the sides of the head via the antorbital cartilage; up to 200 cm in length; disc not more than 1.3 times as broad as long; eyes and spiracles on dorsal surface; gill openings ventral; pelvic fins modified as copulatory organs in males; anal fin absent; tail long (distance from cloaca to tip much longer than disc width), very slender to whip-like, without dorsal fin but with one or more long, poisonous spines; caudal fin absent (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Marine (continental and insular shelves and uppermost slopes, few species oceanic), brackish and freshwater; tropical to warm temperate, Atlantic (including the Mediterranean Sea), Indian and Pacific oceans (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Additional file 3: of The role of psychosocial stress in the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain disorders: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Buscemi, Valentina
name: Chang, Wei-Ju
name: Liston, Matthew
name: McAuley, James
name: Schabrun, Siobhan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Data extraction sheet. Pre-defined data extraction sheet that will be used to extract data of the included studies. (DOCX 14Â kb)
Effect of neighborhood environment and individual social integration on mortality risk
Creators: name: Fleisch Marcus, Andrea
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Background: Neighborhood socioeconomic condition and individual social integration are social constructs that have been independently linked to health.  A decline in neighborhood condition has been linked to increased risks of poor health and mortality while social isolation has been shown to have similar risks.  The goal of this study was to evaluate the association between these two known social determinants of health.  This was achieved through three projects with the following objectives: 1) to evaluate the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic context and distinct forms of social integration, 2) to examine whether neighborhood socioeconomic context influences time-to-death within this sample while controlling for confounders, and 3) to explore whether neighborhood socioeconomic context and social integration together have an impact on time-to-death.  METHODS: The present study used data from the Third National Health and Examination Survey (NHANES III) and the NHANES III Linked Mortality File geocoded according to participants’ residential address and matched to Census data. A measure of neighborhood poverty that examined the proportion of residents in a census tract living below the federal poverty line was used to account for neighborhood context and a modified-Social Network Index was used to measure social integration.  Logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards were used to assess associations while controlling for confounding.  Additive interaction between neighborhood poverty and social integration was also examined. All analyses accounted for the complex sample design and sample weights.  RESULTS: When controlling for individual-level factors, living in high poverty neighborhoods was associated with 4&% (95% confidence interval: 1.15, 1.88) greater odds of having a low score on the SNI when compared with those living in more affluent neighborhoods.  Living in a low poverty neighborhood was associated with a lower mortality risk when compared to living in a high poverty (≥20%) neighborhood.  Those in high poverty neighborhoods with low social integration scores had a 63% (95% confidence interval: 1.34, 1.96) greater mortality risk when compared to those in low poverty neighborhoods with high social integration scores.  CONCLUSION: The results of this dissertation provide evidence of the associations between neighborhood context, social integration and mortality.
The immediate and long term effects of microglial cell activation on stress response in fetal alcohol exposure model
Creators: name: Franklin, Tina Carla
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Fetal alcohol exposure has many detrimental effects on the developing fetus that can result in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). The developing CNS is particularly sensitive to ethanol neurotoxic effects and exposure during the fetal period results in increased neuronal damage and cell death. Furthermore, many of FASD patients display lifelong stress response abnormalities involving alterations in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) response. Microglia, which are long lived self-replenishing CNS immune cells, have been shown to contribute to ethanol induced neurotoxicity through the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and reactive oxygen species. We found that ethanol exposure during the early postnatal period, which is equivalent to the third trimester in humans, significantly increases microglial activation and expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in the mediobasal hypothalamus of neonates. Minocycline, an inhibitor of microglial activation, prevented ethanol induced microglial activation and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines in neonates. Moreover, microglial activation during the neonatal period permanently reduced the number of hypothalamic β-endorphin (BEP) expressing neurons, an endogenous opioid involved in immune and stress regulation.  We provide supporting evidence that the microglia mediated reduction of BEP neurons may contribute to HPA hyper response to acute restraint stress in ethanol exposed animals.   Microglia can initiate and perpetuate stress activation by releasing pro-inflammatory cytokine. It has been shown that microglial stimulation and activation can alter their responses to subsequent stimuli. We found that neonatal ethanol exposure activates hypothalamic microglia and programs them to become more sensitize to subsequent stimuli in adulthood. We demonstrate that neonatal ethanol exposed adult males are hyper-responsive to acute restraint stress and LPS exposure as quantified by the increase in plasma CORT and ACTH levels. This change correlated with an increase expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α in the PVN. Minocycline pre-treatment during neonatal ethanol exposure prevented the increased expression of TNF-α and the hyper response to immune challenge in alcohol fed adult males. This study demonstrates that ethanol exposure during development results in long term alterations in stress response partially due to over sensitized microglia.
HR practice saliency and its influence on psychological climate, job satisfaction and organizational commitment
Creators: name: Garg, Sargam
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This paper introduces the construct of human resource (HR) practice saliency as a key moderating variable in the relationship between HR practices and employee outcomes. I propose that HR practice saliency can help provide an explanation for the variability in the effects of HR practices on employee outcomes. Specifically, I argue that HR practice saliency assessments themselves and also in interaction with employee satisfaction with HR practices influence the nature of the relationship between HR practices and psychological climate, which, in turn, influences employee outcomes. With a student sample I conduct a pilot study to assess if HR practice saliency acts as a moderator in the relationship between HR practices (in a potential organization), and the participant’s intention to pursue that organization for a job. Implications for HR literature and practice are offered.
Hypanus americanus
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Dasyatidae
Hypanus
Hypanus americanus

description: Hypanus americanus (Hildebrand & Schroeder 1928) (Fig. 6C). Southern Stingray; Raya-Látigo Americana, Raya Látigo Blanca
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean; from New Jersey, USA, to southern Brazil; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) BF (Atlantic); 0–3 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; NT A2bd (2020), population trend decreasing. Literature: van den Berghe (2015: 44, as Dasyatis americanus —synonym; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology) and Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 2740; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Pyticeroides pullis Opitz 2010
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Pyticeroides
Pyticeroides pullis

description: Pyticeroides pullis Opitz, 2010
Opitz, 2010:22, figs 22, 45, 63.
Paratype ♀, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: Eldorado do Sul (Fazenda São José), 05.I.2000, I. Heydrich col. (MCNZ 165.861).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Conasprella (Boucheticonus) kimioi
Creators: name: Tenorio, Manuel J.
name: Puillandre, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conasprella
Conasprella kimioi

description: Conasprella (Boucheticonus) kimioi (Habe, 1965)
Figs 25A–D, M, 26
Rhizoconus kimioi Habe, 1965: 47, pl. 4 figs 1–2.
Conus kimioi – R̂ckel et al. 1995b: no. 244, pl. 52 figs 25–27.
Duodenticonus kimioi – Tucker & Tenorio 2013: 241.
Conasprella kimioi – Monnier et al. 2018a: 206.
Material examined
10 lots (10 specimens). See Supp. file 1.
Type material
Holotype JAPAN • 15 mm; off Okinoshima, Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku; ca 100 m depth; NSMT 38675.
Figured material
NEW CALEDONIA • 19 mm; Norfolk Ridge, Munida, off New Caledonia, stn DW3106; 23°02′ S, 168°21′ E; 180‒220 m depth; 27 Oct. 2008; TERRASSES expedition; MNHN (Fig. 25A, D) • 15.3 mm; SE Île des Pins, off New Caledonia, stn DW4741; 22°52′ S, 167°41′ E; 210 m depth; 23 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN-IM-2013-66093 (Fig. 25B) • 18.9 mm; Banc Ellet, off New Caledonia, stn DW3866; 22°52′ S, 169°26′ E; 100 m depth; 16 Sep. 2011; EXBODI expedition; MNHN IM-2009- 31354 (Fig. 25C) • 19 mm; W Île des Pins, off New Caledonia, stn DW4728; 22°43’S, 167°02’E; 150 m; 20 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN-IM-2013-69345 (Fig. 25M).
Geographical distribution and bathymetry
Japan to the Philippines, at depths between 120‒ 250 m. In New Caledonia it has been sampled in several locations in Norfolk Ridge, Grand Passage, and also in Loyalty Ridge, at depths of 100‒ 400 m. Also reported from Fiji in 416 m (Moolenbeek et al. 2008), and Wallis & Futuna Islands in 290‒400 m (Moolenbeek & R̂ckel 1996).
Remarks
Small shell (maximum shell length 23 mm), narrowly conical to conical, with a low to moderate spire of concave outline. Protoconch multispiral of 3.5–3.75 whorls (Fig. 25D). Radular tooth (Fig. 25M) with a short barb, a pointed blade, and a very well developed, pointed posterior blade. The anterior section of the tooth is much shorter than the posterior section. Shaft fold present. A basal spur is present on top of the slanted base.
description: Published as part of Tenorio, Manuel J. & Puillandre, Nicolas, 2023, Revision of the deep-water cone snail fauna from New Caledonia (Gastropoda, Conoidea), pp. 1-134 in European Journal of Taxonomy 896 on pages 36-38, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.896.2291, http://zenodo.org/record/8405510
La estrategia de la alegría en los colectivos artísticos de la dictadura y post-dictadura en España y Argentina (19&3-1989)
Creators: name: Garrote, Valeria
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The strategy of joy analyzes comparatively some of the artistic collectives that used “joy” as a political emotion to deal with the repression and trauma deployed during the dictatorships and post-dictatorships in Spain and Argentina (19&3-1989). My focus departs from the literature about the period that is centered on pain, melancholy and trauma, as well as from criticism coming from cultural studies that has marginalized the artistic expressions of the Buenos Aires Under and the Spanish Movidas, considering them “frivolous” and “hedonistic.” My perspective recognizes sorrow as a point of departure that enabled the emergence of cultural and political collectives in which the main unifying force has been joy. The key concept in my work is a reformulation of the notion of “strategy of joy,” retrospectively defined in the year 2000 by the Argentinian artist Roberto Jacoby. Jacoby defines it as “an attempt at a change of mood” through the occupation of “intermittent and diffuse territories.” In my conceptualization it is a change in emotional habitus through a set of pedagogical and performative appropriations. In a dialog with Jacoby along with a spectrum of social, cultural and political theorists, I study how an emotion like joy became a strategy, and trace its diverse manifestations in theater, performance, pop music, video-clips, film, television, printed media and chronicles. The artists I include within the strategy of joy got involved in the production of new behaviors, emotional habitus and spaces, modifying political identities, and constituting a local political collective and a minor transnationalism that cannot be inscribed within the binary model of cultural practices that involve a majority and a resistance (Lionnet y Shih 2). Through the concept of minor transnationalism I challenge the traditional dominant models of geo-spatial relations and I examine, instead, the links between margins. Argentina and Spain become an interesting case study to analyze lateral connections among marginal groups, between countries that share a transnational moment and a space structured by uneven power relationships.
Pyticeroides similis Opitz 2007
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Pyticeroides
Pyticeroides similis

description: Pyticeroides similis Opitz, 2007
Opitz, 2007:113, figs 7, 57, 59, 82, 99, map 3.
Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, Rondônia: Ariquemes (62 km SE), 5–16.XI.1996, W. J. Hanson col. (MCNZ 237.481).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Additional file 2: of FLIM-FRET analyzer: open source software for automation of lifetime-based FRET analysis
Creators: name: Jiho Kim
name: Tsoy, Yury
name: Persson, Jan
name: Grailhe, Regis
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: User guide. (DOCX 4536Â kb)
Araucarius crassipunctatus Mecke 2000
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Araucarius
Araucarius crassipunctatus

description: Araucarius crassipunctatus Mecke, 2000
Mecke, 2000:196, figs 4–6, 10–12.
Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula, 21.II.1998, R. Mecke col. (MCNZ 162.455). Paratype ♀, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula, 01.XII.1998, R. Mecke col. (MCNZ 162.441).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Computational aspects of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz method via a polynomial approach to matrix and hypermatrix algebra
Creators: name: Gnang, Edinah K.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: We discuss a polynomial encoding which provides a unified framework for  discussing the algebra and the spectral analysis of matrices and hypermatrices.  In addition to describing some algorithms for performing orthogonalization  and spectral analysis of hypermatrices, we discuss some computational  aspects, more specifically the important role of symmetries in Alon’s Combinatorial  Nullstellensatz method for solving combinatorial problems.
Additional file 2: of Reliability of measurements of the fractured clavicle: a systematic review
Creators: name: Hoogervorst, Paul
name: Gerjon Hannink
name: Geene, Arnoud Van
name: Kampen, Albert Van
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Nonregistered PROSPERO review protocol. ReviewProtocol_MeasurementsClavicle. (PDF 60Â kb)
Potamotrygonidae Garman 1877
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Potamotrygonidae

description: Family Potamotrygonidae Garman 1877 (Fig. 2D). River Stingrays, Whiptail Stingrays; Rayas de Espina, Rayas Látigo
Description: Body strongly depressed; anterior edge of the greatly enlarged pectoral fins attached to the sides of the head via the antorbital cartilage; up to about 100 cm in length; disc a rounded rhomboid, wider than long, evenly rounded at the front; eyes and spiracles on dorsal surface; gill openings ventral; pelvic fins modified as copulatory organs in males; anal fin absent; tail long (distance from cloaca to tip much longer than disc width), very slender to whip-like, without dorsal fin but with one or more long, poisonous spines; caudal fin absent (Nelson et al. 2016).
Distribution: Marine (continental and insular shelves and uppermost slopes), brackish and freshwater (mostly); tropical to warm temperate, North, Central and South America and Atlantic and Pacific oceans (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF INFORMATION QUALITY- FARMER'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE E-GOVERNANCE PORTAL IN AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Creators: name: SHEEDHAL K REJI
name: Dr. MOULYA B
name: Dr. P S RAJESWARI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Information Quality (IQ), E-Governance, Agriculture Sector, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Rural Communities, Digital Literacy, Technology Adoption.

description: Abstract

The agricultural sector in India serves as a vital revenue source for rural communities, with approximately 82% of the population engaged in farming. Despite its importance, the sector faces challenges due to insufficient technical inputs. This research examines the role of e-governance and its technological contributions to the agricultural sector, focusing on factors influencing farmers' intention to use technology in Kerala. By extending the Traditional Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with the external variable Information Quality (IQ), the study measures farmers' satisfaction with the e-governance portal. A survey was conducted with 401 farmers, and the collected data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The findings indicate that Information Quality positively affects Perceived Ease of Use (PEU), Perceived Usefulness (PU), and Attitude (ATT) among farmers. The results show significant relationships between PEU and PU (path coefficient = 0.285), PEU and Behavioral Intention (BI) (path coefficient = 0.060), PU and ATT (path coefficient = 0.472), PU and BI (path coefficient = 0.322), and ATT and BI (path coefficient = 0.528). Additionally, IQ shows significant positive effects on PEU (path coefficient = 0.692), PU (path coefficient = 0.630), and ATT (path coefficient = 0.475). These findings highlight the importance of providing high-quality, relevant, and timely information to farmers through e-governance portals to enhance their ease of use, perceived usefulness, and positive attitudes towards technology adoption. The study offers policy implications and recommendations for improving the effectiveness of e-governance initiatives in the agricultural sector.
Decision analytics for sonar placement to mitigate maritime security risk
Creators: name: Ghafoori, Amir
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Two optimization methodologies are proposed for sonar placement in ports and waterways to keep the environment under surveillance against security threats. The optimization models are named Probabilistic Risk Model (PRM) and Strategic Risk Model (SRM). The PRM resembles a typical sensor placement problem in the sense that they share some constraints and a similar objective function, yet the PRM integrates a number of features that are specific to our problem. The SRM is a game theoretic model that takes the intelligent actions of the attackers into account.  This study focuses on the attacks that are initiated through the water and are targeting the infrastructures at a port or a waterway. The sonars are placed under the water. They are utilized to detect anomalies such as divers, torpedoes or explosives mounted on the hull of vessels that can be potential sources of a terrorist attack. The proposed models are grid based meaning that a hypothetical two dimensional grid of cells is placed on the environment to discretize it. This process allows us to measure various specifics of different sections of the environment via cells.   The contribution of this study to the literature of maritime security risk is that it is the first study that models the sonar placement problem via game theory in ports and waterways. Moreover, both models address a number of key concepts of sensor placement which are mostly ignored in the literature.   The SRM’s advantage over PRM is the integration of the attacker’s intelligent factor into the modeling effort. SRM allows the attacker to be intelligent. This approach is translated to a two player game where the opponents seek to maximize their own payoffs. Various models of this two player game are discussed and modeled. The last model which is a general-sum two player game is the most general model and is capable of integrating real world assumptions.
Fusogenic anti-PSMA liposomes for antivascular chemotherapy
Creators: name: Gomez, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Since no treatment exists to cure advanced solid tumors, there is a growing need for innovative strategies to treat these patients. Antivascular therapy works by delivering therapeutics to tumor neovasculature to cut off blood supply and nutrients to the tumor, resulting in apoptotic or necrotic death. This study aims to selectively deliver to tumor vasculature adequate concentrations of the chemotherapeutic doxorubicin encapsulated in pH-tunable liposomes with doubly fusogenic properties for enhanced bioavailability. A PSMA (prostate specific membrane antigen)-targeting ligand is conjugated on the surface of liposomes to achieve high specificity to tumor endothelium, which uniquely expresses PSMA since normal endothelium is consistently PSMA-negative. A pH-responsive fusogenic peptide (GALA) is also attached on the liposome surface and remains masked during circulation of liposomes in the blood stream. Upon PSMA-mediated endocytosis of liposomes by tumor endothelial cells, pH acidification induces lipid phase-separation and domain formation on liposome membranes activating two fusion mechanisms — (1) the fusion peptides change their conformation from random coils to alpha-helices, become unmasked and available to interact with the endosomal membrane, and (2) the liposomal domain boundaries serve as sites to nucleate fusion with the endosomal membrane. As a result liposomes are expected to release the encapsulated cargo directly into the cytoplasm of tumor endothelial cells, avoiding entrapment in the endosomal pathway. The first part of this study uses a parallel plate flow chamber to mimic blood flow conditions and measures binding and internalization of PSMA-targeting liposomal doxorubicin by prostate adenocarcinoma cells expressing varying levels of PSMA and human endothelial cells induced to express PSMA. The second part of this study aims to evaluate the membrane activity of GALA–labeled liposomes by varying membrane parameters. To monitor fusogenic activity, the self-quenching relief of a fluorescent dye encapsulated in endosomal-analogue vesicles incubated with GALA-labeled liposomes is measured. Since self-quenching is inversely proportional to content release, we observe that GALA-labeled liposomes exhibit pH-triggered membrane activity and induce content release of the endosomal analogues at late endosomal pH values.
Additional file 2: of Effects of a liquefied petroleum gas stove intervention on pollutant exposure and adult cardiopulmonary outcomes (CHAP): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: FandiĂąo-Del-Rio, Magdalena
name: Goodman, Dina
name: Kephart, Josiah
name: Miele, Catherine
name: Williams, Kendra
name: Moazzami, Mitra
name: Fung, Elizabeth
name: Koehler, Kirsten
name: Davila-Roman, Victor
name: Lee, Kathryn
name: Saachi Nangia
name: Harvey, Steven
name: Steenland, Kyle
name: Gonzales, Gustavo
name: Checkley, William
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set Items. (PDF 45 kb)
Araucarius kuscheli Mecke 2000
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Araucarius
Araucarius kuscheli

description: Araucarius kuscheli Mecke, 2000
Mecke, 2000:196, figs 1–3, 7–9.
Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula, 23.II.1998, R. Mecke col. (MCNZ 162.506). Paratypes: ♀, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula, 08.I.1998, R. Mecke col. (MCNZ 162.491); 3♀, 23.II.1998, R. Mecke col. (MCNZ 162.483, 162.493, 162.502).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Styracura schmardae
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Potamotrygonidae
Styracura
Styracura schmardae

description: Styracura schmardae (Werner 1904) (Fig. 6D). Caribbean Whiptail Stingray; Raya Coluda Caribeña, Chupare, Lebisa
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean; from southern Mexico, Bahamas and Cuba to French Guiana; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) BF (Atlantic); 0–3 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; EN A2d (2021), population trend decreasing.
Literature: van den Berghe (2015: 44, as Himmantura schmardae —misspelled and synonym; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology) and Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 2746; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
A study of positive and negative affective states in collaborative information seeking
Creators: name: González-Ibáñez, Roberto I.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Emotions and other affective processes have long been considered essential elements in people’s lives. Whether during intimacy or in social contexts, human beings experience a wide spectrum of emotions every day, all the time. Despite emotion research conducted in various domains, little is known about the role of affects, emotions, feelings, and mood in the information search process, especially when this is carried out by teams. In this regard, this dissertation aimed to understand whether the affective dimension plays a role in collaborative information seeking (CIS) through four research objectives: (1) study how initial affective conditions influence information practices; (2) investigate what affective processes are typically expressed and experienced in information search; (3) examine how initial affective conditions and those derived from social interactions during the collaboration process influence team performance; and (4) study positivity ratio in collaborative search and their relation to team performance. To accomplish these research objectives, a controlled lab study with 135 participants distributed in fixed experimental conditions and a control group was conducted. In each experimental condition, participants were individually treated with affective stimuli in order to elicit positive and negative affective states.  Results from this study suggest that initial affective states may define and/or shape information processing strategies. Additionally, in collaborative settings, it was found that the interplay of similar or different affective processes could change the way searchers interact with each other, their frustration levels, affective load, and the quality of their work. This dissertation and the findings presented have theoretical implications in the study of collaborative and individual information seeking. Specifically, it gives the affective dimension a central role that could define the way people search, evaluate, and make sense of information. In terms of practical implications, if affective processes play such a key role in information seeking, this may redefine the design of information system by incorporating the ability to identify searchers’ initial affective states and provide the necessary resources to support their information processing strategies. Finally, this dissertation also contributes with a research framework and a methodological approach to carry out experimental evaluations to investigate the role of the affective dimension in both collaborative and individual information seeking.
Xylechinosomus lucianae Mecke 2004
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Xylechinosomus
Xylechinosomus lucianae

description: Xylechinosomus lucianae Mecke, 2004
Mecke, 2004:217, figs 1–7.
Holotype ♀, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula (Pró-Mata, 50°13’W, 29°29’S, ca. 900 m), 22.XI.1999, R. Mecke col., ex Araucarius angustifolia (MCNZ 234.790). Paratypes: 6♂, 10♀, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula (Pró-Mata, 50°13’W, 29°29’S, ca. 900 m), 22.XI.1999, R. Mecke col., ex Araucarius angustifolia (MCNZ 234.791–234.806).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Additional file 4: of The role of psychosocial stress in the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain disorders: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Buscemi, Valentina
name: Chang, Wei-Ju
name: Liston, Matthew
name: McAuley, James
name: Schabrun, Siobhan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Checklist to assess methodological quality of studies. Checklist that will be used to assess the included studies. (DOCX 16Â kb)
Synagogue consolidation in post-war New Jersey
Creators: name: Gosnell, Jason Ross
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The consolidation of synagogues in post-war New Jersey is neither new nor unique. City synagogues country wide with the onset of suburbanization in the 1950s relocated to and/or reorganized in the suburbs. Yet, regardless of the relocations and/or reorganizations of city synagogues, the suburbs witnessed almost two decades of synagogue growth. In the 19&0s, however, as the initial reasons for synagogue consolidation changed, net gains in synagogue growth ceased.  Surprisingly, although the number of synagogues has decreased and the rate of synagogue consolidation has increased, there is a lack of academic sources dedicated exclusively to those issues surrounding synagogue consolidation. Indeed, the most notable literature concerning synagogue consolidation is that published by communal leadership. Providing congregations wishing to explore consolidation with insight into the issues that arise during the merger process, these sources are practice guides more than academic works. They do not place these mergers within the historical contexts of American Jewry and Judaism in post-war America nor do they examine the ways in which the details of such mergers are informed by these contexts.  It is thus the goal of this case study to fill in some of the lacunae left by both the academic and communal worlds. In order to do such, this case study will concentrate on five Conservative congregations which were established in Woodbridge Township between 1913 and 19&& and were subsequently absorbed by a congregation outside of the Township in 2003 and 2006. It will examine the information obtained from: the interviews I conducted with clergy and congregants who served as officers and/or board members of the respective synagogues, the Woodbridge Township Library’s oral histories, the congregations’ archival records, local newspaper articles which discussed the consolidations and various other sources reviewed in order to properly locate Woodbridge Township’s Jewish community within a larger historical framework. It will thereafter explore the major issues that each congregation confronted in consolidating; and further discuss the phenomenon of merger in Woodbridge Township and its related issues within the contexts of post-war American Jewry and Judaism.
Lepisosteidae Agassiz 1832
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Lepisosteiformes
Lepisosteidae

description: Family Lepisosteidae Agassiz 1832 (Fig. 2E). Gars; Gaspares, Pejelagartos
Description: Body elongate, cylindrical; up to 300 cm in length; nostrils at front of snout; snout long and conical, with large fangs in both jaws; scales ganoid, about 50–65 along the lateral line; dorsal fin far posterior, with few rays; abbreviated heterocercal tail (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Freshwater, occasionally brackish, very rarely in marine water; eastern North America, Central America (south to Costa Rica) and Cuba (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Additional file 2: of Effects of a liquefied petroleum gas stove intervention on pollutant exposure and adult cardiopulmonary outcomes (CHAP): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: FandiĂąo-Del-Rio, Magdalena
name: Goodman, Dina
name: Kephart, Josiah
name: Miele, Catherine
name: Williams, Kendra
name: Moazzami, Mitra
name: Fung, Elizabeth
name: Koehler, Kirsten
name: Davila-Roman, Victor
name: Lee, Kathryn
name: Saachi Nangia
name: Harvey, Steven
name: Steenland, Kyle
name: Gonzales, Gustavo
name: Checkley, William
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set Items. (PDF 45 kb)
Additional file 1: of The macro-economic determinants of health and health inequalitiesâ  umbrella review protocol
Creators: name: Yannish Naik
name: Baker, Peter
name: Walker, Ian
name: Tillmann, Taavi
name: Bash, Kristin
name: Quantz, Darryl
name: Hillier-Brown, Frances
name: Bambra, Clare
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: PRISMA-P checklist. (DOC 84Â kb)
Atractosteus tropicus Gill 1863
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Lepisosteiformes
Lepisosteidae
Atractosteus
Atractosteus tropicus

description: Atractosteus tropicus Gill 1863 (Fig. 6E). Tropical Gar; Gaspar, Pejelagarto, Gaspar Tropical
Vouchers: UCR 0542-009 (2), 1049-001 (3), 1064-001 (1), 1084-001 (1) and 1085-001 (1); FMNH 5900 (1), 5901 (6), 5902 (1) and 83719 (1); other collections: UMMZ 204003 (1) and 204004 (1). Distribution: North and Central America; from southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica, Atlantic and Pacific drainages; (Nicaragua) IM, SJ, RF and LN (Atlantic); 20–31 masl; Sec, Pot. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend decreasing. Literature: Meek (1907: 104, as Lepisosteus tropicus —synonym; brief description, including an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Fowler (1923: 24, as L. tropicus —synonym; listed, including information on distribution), Astorqui (1975: 60, as L. tropicus —synonym; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Villa (1982: 70, also as Atractosteus spatula (Lacepède 1803) —misidentification; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 57; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Robertson & Allen (2015: 2629; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Angulo (2021: 20; listed, including information on distribution) and Palacios et al. (2023: 1; Conservation genetics, including information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788