cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Розвиток підприємств харчової промисловості (виноробної галузі)  України в умовах війни: виклики та ризики у питаннях удосконалення бізнес-процесів дистрибуції і реалізації продукції
Creators: name: Шимановська-Діанич, Л. М.
name: Педченко, Н. С.
name: Лозова, О. В.
name: Кучер, М. М.
name: Стеблюк, Н. Ф.
name: Вишнікіна, О. В.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: виноробна галузь, підприємства, логістика, дистрибуція, виклики, ризики, бізнес-процеси

description: Проаналізовано чинники розвитку виноробної галузі та її підприємств, визначено  виклики та ризики, зокрема,  для дистрибуції і реалізації  продукції. Встановлено, що в умовах війни на підприємствах відбувається значне скорочення персоналу та асортименту; зміна вподобань покупців; підвищення відпускних цін; підвищення вартості логістики; погіршення умов співпраці з партнерами; зниження націнок для утримання цін. Використання результатів аналізу дозволить розробити напрями  подальшого розвитку та пропозиції з удосконалення бізнес-процесів дистрибуції та реалізації їх продукції, особливо за рахунок її трансформації через рух у бік мультиканальності, формування власних мереж, автоматизацію з використання пристроїв віртуальної реальності, зміну моделей управління контрактами, подальшу роботу над питаннями промозалежності та прибутковості.
Discourses of ordinary justice
Creators: name: Mariano, Trinyan Paulsen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In Discourses of Ordinary Justice, I read fiction by Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Richard Wright as engaging with the most pressing legal issues of the early twentieth century: injury and compensation, the nature of privacy, and the legality of segregation.  In my first chapter, I argue that The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Chesnutt represents a rare early twentieth-century attempt to think through the legal arguments surrounding tort-based reparations for slavery. In my second chapter, I argue that through her fiction’s preoccupation with the sale of personal letters, Edith Wharton created a counter-discourse to the common law right to privacy that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. While the legal right to privacy claims to keep the public from accessing a protected sphere of domesticity, Wharton’s fiction shows how privacy rights actually enable one to manage the circulation of one’s own public image, converting domesticity into valuable public currency and creating a lucrative market for blackmail.  In my final chapter, I read Native Son alongside Legal Realism, a controversial jurisprudential movement of the 1930s, in order to recover Wright’s critique of de facto segregation and the rhetoric of neutrality surrounding the production of American law. I argue that, using the interpretive strategies of the Legal Realists, Wright exposes laws protecting real property as a sublimated system of racial segregation.       Discourses of Ordinary Justice uses early twentieth-century American fiction to depict the shaping power of contexts and arguments weeded out of turn-of-the century legal discourse.  These contexts and arguments, rendered invisible by formal legal discourse, subsist in literature that represents the multiple and conflicting legal arguments un-reconciled by formal decrees. Through analyzing fiction written by authors who theorize the limits of the law, I take literary texts seriously as documents of legal history that call attention to the mutability of law’s conceptual boundaries and enable us to re-embed law in society.
Spotlight on the Indians
Creators: name: Matallana-Peláez, Susana E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This study traces the first one-hundred years after the Spanish conquest of the Alto Magdalena Region (1535-1629) in present-day Colombia. In doing so, it focuses primarily on the indigenous actors – male and female, local and non-local – who took part in one way or another in this enterprise. As such it is based on the analysis of twenty-two unpublished archival documents dating from 1540 through 1669. This study argues that Belalcázar‟s Yanacona (Inca) allies played a major role in the conquest and colonization of the Alto Magdalena region, and that Yanacona women were an important part of this expedition. It also argues that Belalcázar and his troops encountered local matrilineal societies (Yalcones, Panches, Coyaimas, Natagaimas, Pixaos) in which women held significant political power, and that a local female (Yalcón) leader by the name of Guatepán may have given rise to the legend of La Gaitana. With regards to the wars of resistance that took place between the second half of the sixteenth century through the beginning of the seventeenth century, it claims that local indigenous groups such as the Coyaimas and Natagaimas who sided with the Spanish were instrumental in defeating the Pixao Indians who were the principal leaders of the revolts. Along this line, it contends that the vicious and “fratricidal” wars between the Indians who sided with the Spanish and those who sided against them were a decisive factor for Spanish victory. In addition it purports to show that local indigenous shamans known as mohanes were in fact politico-religious leaders who were persecuted by Spanish authorities not for religious but for political reasons, and more specifically for their role as leaders of the resistance. Finally, it argues that the wars that ensued after the Spanish incursion destroyed the social networks on which so much of local women‟s power was based, and that as a result, local indigenous women lost much of their traditional power and status.
Open Harmony
Creators: name: Stensberg, Siri
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Abstract
Contemporary
Installation
Light
Painting
Sculpture

description: Open Harmony is an immersive installation that explores the intersection of material, color, light, space, and sound. The work directs attention to synthetic and organic debris that I elevate beyond the limits of form and function through thoughtful processes. The interaction of materials with color and space draws interdisciplinary connections to the languages of abstract painting and music. Complex orchestration of forms in the gallery asks the viewer to spend time with the work and invites them to explore multiple viewpoints as they walk through the space. Open Harmony fosters a sense of interconnectedness and endlessness as the viewer becomes lost in the multitude of dynamic constellations. In this, I seek to foster a sense of looking and fluid moving that allows the viewer to forget where they came from, where they need to go, and even for a moment, be physically and psychologically present through their senses.
Building Tobacco Cessation Connections Across Los Angeles Co
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The signature health service research project will evaluate the impact of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LA DHS) integrating the California Smokers’ Helpline (Helpline) with the LA DHS eConsult system. As the nation’s second largest public health system, LA DHS operates an eConsult web portal for provider communication that has grown to connect about 4000 primary care providers with community-based specialists, averaging 13,000 eConsult requests per month. The Helpline offers free evidence-based telephone counseling in multiple languages, and has collaborated with the 5 University of California health systems in successfully implementing the state’s first eReferrals with over 3000 patients referred to date. The novel feature of the LA DHS eConsult system is that it bypasses the different electronic health records systems across LA DHS and community clinic providers. LA DHS providers could use the eConsult system to directly refer their patients-- who are low socioeconomic, racially/ethnically and linguistically diverse, and geographically dispersed—to free, multilingual telephone-based counseling services at the Helpline.

 Over two years, the study will analyze the uptake of LA DHS eConsult referrals by clinic, as well as the LA County Helpline caller demographics and Helpline service outcomes (contacted and counseled) for those with an eConsult referral. Consortium partners will include UC Davis (Administrative Core and PI: Elisa Tong), LA DHS (Co-Investigator: Hal Yee), and the Helpline for implementing and evaluating the impact of the LA DHS eConsult system integrating the Helpline. An External Advisory Board consisting of the two largest Medi-Cal managed care plans (LA Care Health Plan and Health Net) and the LA County Tobacco Control Prevention Program will be involved in discussing the study progress and future strategies for research plans to improve tobacco cessation services in LA County. Other state and national stakeholders will also be informed of the study findings.
Primno macropa Guerin-Meneville
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phrosinidae
Primno
Primno macropa

description: Primno macropa Guérin­Méneville
Primno macropa Guérin­Méneville, 1836b: 4, pl.17, fig. 1a–f.
Primno menevillei Stebbing, 1888: 1447–1448, pl.179B.
Primno antarctica Stebbing, 1888: 1448–1451, pl. 209B.
Type material The holotype female of P. macropa is in the ANSP (CA 2685) (see above).
Type material of synonyms
The holotype female of P. menevillei is in the BMNH (89.5.15.244): on three microscope slides.
A syntype female of P. antarctica is in the BMNH (89.5.15.245): in spirit.
Remarks
This is one of larger species of Primno, attaining lengths of up to 15 mm. It is very similar to P. abyssalis which, until relatively recently (Bowman 1985), was considered a synonym. Although Bowman (1978) presumed the type of P. macropa was lost, his studies of this species are confirmed by the examination of the type, which probably came from the subantarctic waters off Chile. The distribution of this species is restricted to the subantarctic biotic province.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734
Cold War capital
Creators: name: MacDougall, Carla Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation explores the relationship between urban space, protest, and identity in West Berlin by investigating the politics of urban renewal in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. In 1963, the West Berlin government announced a comprehensive program of urban renewal, which entailed the clearance of the nineteenth-century housing stock, its replacement with modern apartments, and a clear separation of urban functions. As was the case across West Germany and in West Berlin, modernist urban planning emerged in the late 1950s as a potent spatial expression and political tool of postwar capitalism and democracy. Given its status as a divided city, Berlin more than any other German city became a key site in postwar developments and discourses of modernization, urbanism, capitalism, and democracy. By the early 1970s, plans to transform and rehabilitate Berlin’s urban environment became inextricably linked to broader West German fears and anxieties about “foreignness,” the urban poor, and political radicalism. In this context, the cultural and political importance of Kreuzberg as a locus of West German anxieties cannot be underestimated.     In the same period, vocal opposition and protest against the city’s renewal plans took shape revealing the interplay between the urban environment and the possibilities of political action in postwar German history. This study sets out to investigate the historical counter-narratives beneath the iconic image of West Berlin as the symbolic capital of the “free world.” I argue against customary representations of left-alternative protest in 1970s and 80s West Berlin as the work of a radical group of self-indulgent squatters, punks, eco-freaks, and dropouts, and offer a different reading of these ‘anti-establishment’ actors.  My research demonstrates that this brand of urban radicalism of 1980s West Berlin had its roots in long-standing, broad-based political and cultural struggle with parallels in other Western European cities, all of which were attempts to redefine urban spaces from below.
Coupatezia Cappetta 1982
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Coupatezia

description: Genus Coupatezia Cappetta, 1982
Type species
Coupatezia woutersi Cappetta, 1982, middle Eocene, Belgium.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 117, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Between symptom and symbol
Creators: name: Loeb, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This comparative analysis of Freudian psychoanalysis and Jewish mystical writing examines the thematic preoccupations, hermeneutic strategies, and discursive structures that link these two bodies of thought.  It maintains that early Kabbalist writing and Freudian psychoanalysis share an inherently Jewish episteme, with a fundamental consistency and common ethos.  The analysis argues that Jewish mystical writing and psychoanalysis are linked by their shared recognition of exile as a primary metaphysical condition of human subjectivity.  Because their understanding of the Subject is rooted in an exilic configuration, in which the Subject is constituted by an internal barrier or limitation, Kabbalist writing and psychoanalysis share similar understandings of materiality and embodiment.  Specifically, both the mystical symbol and the Freudian symptom function as analogues for the conceptualization of language and of consciousness, and are each structured by a paradoxical process of veiling and revealing.  From a strategic historic standpoint, the analysis shows how Freudian psychoanalysis and Kabbalism intervened in the rigid epistemological and religious structures from which they emerged by introducing uncertainty, indeterminability, and radical contingency into what were increasingly narrow and inflexible positivist worldviews.  Drawing on the work of Daniel Boyarin, Eric Santner, and Jacques Lacan, the dissertation maintains that by placing Jewish mystical writing and psychoanalysis into dialogue, we can define a specific philosophy of ethical social relations.  Through close reading and examination of the concept of idolatry, as well as pertinent literary instances drawn from Eco, Borges, and Pynchon, the analysis argues that both psychoanalysis and Kabbalism are concerned with the movement away from closed or self-aggrandizing discourse towards something more authentic, which for both involves the Subject’s experience of self-truth through the Other.  Finally, the dissertation performs a literary analysis of narrative techniques and motif within the Bahir and Zohar as well as Freud’s most pertinent writings on culture, particularly Beyond the Pleasure Principle and “The Uncanny,” in order to examine how these polyphonic bodies of thought each construct discursive strategies that subvert fundamentalist modes of discourse, and how the human encounter with suffering and unknowability informs their common devotion to the therapeutic bonds of community.
Primno latreillei Stebbing
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phrosinidae
Primno
Primno latreillei

description: Primno latreillei Stebbing
Primno latreillei Stebbing, 1888: 1445–1447, pl.179A.
Type material
The three syntypes of P. latreillei are in the BMNH (89.5.15.243): on four microscope slides.
Remarks
This is one of the smaller species of Primno, with adults reaching only 6–10mm in length. It is very similar to P. johnsoni, and Vinogradov et al. (1982) regard P. johnsoni as a junior synonym of P. latreillei. Amongst the Australian material examined (Zeidler 1992a, 1998) there was considerable variation in the relative length of the basis of pereopod 7 compared to the remaining articles combined, ranging from slightly longer to about twice as long. This brings the specimens within the morphological range of P. johnsoni, which is probably synonymous with P. latreillei. The morphological variation found in pereopod 7 appears to be ontogenetic.
Primno latreillei seems to have a scattered distribution having been recorded from the Tasman Sea, the North Pacific Ocean (off California), the Red Sea, the eastern Mediterranean Sea and the south­eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734
Investigating the carcinogenicity of e-cig
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This project will address the overall health impact of electronic cigarette (e-cig) use, which is a major public health concern. E-cigs are increasingly promoted as safe alternatives to conventional tobacco cigarettes or as aids to smoking cessation. E-cigs are rapidly gaining acceptance in the United States and many parts of the world, especially among children and young adults. However, very little is known about the health consequences of e-cig use. The studies described in this “Pilot Research Award” application will investigate, for the first time, the cancer-causing potential of e-cig in a validated mouse model. We will use state-of-the-art DNA sequencing-based techniques, developed in our laboratory (Nucleic Acids Res, 2012) and others’, to investigate the cancer-relevant biological effects of e-cig aerosol, and compare the results to those of cigarette smoke. Using a microprocessor-controlled vaping machine, we will expose mice to e-cig aerosol, harvest their lungs, and measure molecular changes that are known to be associated with cancer. The culmination of the studies described in this proposal is expected to result in data that can help clarify the health risks/benefits of e-cig use relative to cigarette smoking. This information will assist regulatory agencies in making scientifically based decisions on the development and evaluation of regulations on e-cigs and other tobacco products to protect public health and to reduce tobacco use by minors.
Organization and regulation of neuronal intrinsic properties in the spiral ganglion
Creators: name: Liu, Qing
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: My dissertation projects were carried out to explore the functional significance of the first auditory neural element, the spiral ganglion neurons, in coding sound information. Through patch clamp recording and immunocytochemical approaches two distinct organizational patterns of neuronal firing properties were identified in a preparation that retains neuronal relative position in vitro. The first is a gradient of timing-related features that corresponds well with the tonotopic map across the cochlea. The second is non-monotonically distributed threshold levels that show the greatest sensitivity in the middle cochlea, thus overlapping with the range of best hearing. These findings suggest neuronal intrinsic membrane properties could potentially contribute to encoding distinct auditory features related to modalities such as frequency and intensity.        We further investigated how diversified intrinsic excitability may help form neuronal population code with firing rate changes to represent different sound levels. Inner hair cells send discrete auditory signals to 20-25 auditory nerve fibers, each forming one synapse on a single receptor. Although these fibers convey identical frequency information, they display diverse thresholds and spontaneous rates. This is important because it extends the coding range of the neuronal population by shifting their rate level functions. Moreover, nerve fibers in the mid-cochlear display specialized sensitivity (Taberner and Liberman, 2005), which overlaps with animals’ best frequency range.         We found intrinsic voltage thresholds were heterogeneous in each region, which, interestingly, are also most sensitive in the mid-cochlea. Characterization of neuronal resting potential revealed the enhanced mid-cochlea sensitivity might be contributed by dual parameters of intrinsic excitability that the most sensitive sub-threshold ranges were achievable with subtractive effects of decreased threshold and elevated resting potential in the middle ganglion. The pharmacological studies demonstrated α-dendrotoxin sensitive, shaker-related potassium channels could non-monotonically regulate neuronal threshold and resting potential, whereas Ih current contributes predominantly to resting potential regulation. The investigation of spiral ganglion neuron intrinsic excitability based on resting potential and voltage threshold measurements suggests that in addition to middle ear mechanics and synaptic mechanisms the neurons themselves are relevant to the auditory nerve fibers in vivo responses to different sound levels.
Primno abyssalis Bowman
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phrosinidae
Primno
Primno abyssalis

description: Primno abyssalis Bowman
Primno abyssalis Bowman, in Fulton, 1968:104,109.
Type material
The holotype female is in the USNM (Cat. no. 213613), and two female paratypes are in the collections of Scripps Institution of Oceanography: in spirit.
Remarks
This is the largest species of Primno, with adults reaching 21 mm in length. Bowman (1985) suggests that this species is derived from P. macropa, or its progenitor, which was originally limited to the southern hemisphere, but during the ice age ranged into the North Pacific. When the oceans warmed again the continuity was broken, leaving the North Pacific population isolated. Its distribution is now restricted to the subarctic province of the North Pacific Ocean.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734
D1.2 Ongoing Recommendations for EFRA Work
Creators: name: Hürriyetoğlu, Ali
name: van der Velden, Bas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This deliverable describes a roadmap created by the EFRA consortium and the requirements for realising this roadmap. We first provide details of the requirements of the proposed roadmap in Chapters 3-6. Next, analysis and requirements of the use-cases that are part of EFRA project are provided in Chapter 7. Finally, the roadmap of the project is provided in terms of outcome tables in Chapter 8. The basis of the presented roadmap is reported in the Annexes in terms of literature surveys and additional details at the end of this document.
Hypolophodon Cappetta 1980
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Dasyatidae
Hypolophodon

description: Genus Hypolophodon Cappetta, 1980
Type species
Hypolophus sylvestris White, 1931, Ypresian, the United Kingdom.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 118, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Primno brevidens Bowman
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phrosinidae
Primno
Primno brevidens

description: Primno brevidens Bowman
Primno brevidens Bowman, 1978: 8–10, figs 3d–j, 5–8.
Type material
The holotype and paratypes are in the USNM (Cat. no. 170203 & 4): in spirit.
Remarks
This is one of the medium sized species of Primno reaching lengths of 9 mm. It is distinguished (together with P. evansi) from its congeners by the short teeth on the anterior margin of the carpus of pereopod 5. It is very similar to P. evansi but seems to be restricted to the mid­Pacific. Bowman (1978) also records it from the southeastern part of the Gulf of Guinea, but this material may be referable to P. evansi, if these two species should be maintained as geographically isolated entities. However, I have also seen a female specimen from the Gulf of Guinea (Galathea stn. 66) which is referable to P. brevidens rather than P. evansi.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734
Primno johnsoni Bowman
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phrosinidae
Primno
Primno johnsoni

description: Primno johnsoni Bowman
Primno johnsoni Bowman, 1978:15, figs 11–13.
Type material The holotype and paratypes are in the USNM (Cat. no. 170234–41): in spirit.
Remarks
This is also one of the medium sized species of Primno, reaching lengths of 9 mm. Its similarity to P. latreillei has already been discussed under that species. Vinogradov et al. (1982) regard it a synonym of P. latreillei.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734
Essays on high-skilled migration
Creators: name: Lin, Shu-Ming
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation is comprised of three essays that focus on high‐skilled migrations and how these are influenced by public policy and their economic impacts.The first essay links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Using event study analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the profit of employers and shareholders, in particular the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) of 1998 nearly doubled the available number of H‐1B visas for skilled foreign workers in FY 1999. The empirical results show that top H‐1B visa user industries enjoyed significant and positiveexcess returns with the passage of the ACWIA of 1998, while industries with little need for H‐1B visas experienced no significant changes. Robustness checks including international comparisons, nonparametric modeling and a sample‐split Chow structural break test support the results. In the second essay, I investigate the findings of the first essay by employing two multi‐factor models—Fama‐French three‐factor model and Fama‐French‐momentumfour‐factor model. Fama and French (1993) claim that the three‐factor model does a better job isolating the firm‐specific components of returns. In contrast, Campbell, Lo and Mackinlay (1997) argue that in practice the gains from employing multi‐factormodels for modeling the normal returns are limited. The results support the point of Campbell, Lo and Mackinlay (1997). In the third essay, I use microdata on immigrants from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses to examine the growing earnings differentials between foreign‐born Taiwanese and all other foreign‐born immigrants. By decomposing the earnings gap, Ishow that over one‐third of this gap (36% in 1990, 37% in 2000) can be attributed to the better endowment (higher education) of the Taiwanese. Among foreign‐born Taiwanese from 1960 to 1999, 60% of the master degrees, 80% of the professional degrees and92% of the doctorate degrees were earned in the United States. The growing numbers and rising percentage of U.S. earned degrees among the Taiwanese indicate their higher earnings relative to other immigrants in 1990 and 2000 can be attributed to their successful economic assimilation into the United States.
Primno evansi Sheader
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phrosinidae
Primno
Primno evansi

description: Primno evansi Sheader
Primno evansi Sheader, 1986: 977–979, figs 1–3.
Type material The holotype and paratypes are in the BMNH (1984: 298–302): in spirit.
Remarks
This is the smallest species of Primno, with adults of about 6 mm in length. It is very similar to P. brevidens, and it is possible that it represents a North Atlantic form of this species. However, until more material becomes available it seems prudent to recognise this North Atlantic form as a separate species.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734
D2.3 Report on Data Expansion and Population
Creators: name: Karvounis, Manos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The document presents an overview of the EFRA Data Platform's data assets and sources. It details the sources, challenges, and recent integrations of data relevant to global food safety. The EFRA Platform already contains millions of data records from highly heterogeneous sources, including:

1. Public Food Safety Authorities: Data from over 50 international food safety authority websites, daily scraped and customized for efficient information extraction. The challenge is the data's heterogeneity in language, format, and lack of a global schema.

2. EFSA Lab Tests: Annual lab test results from the European Food Safety Authority, aggregated from national authorities across Europe, with the challenge of transforming non-machine-readable formats.

3. Food Safety News Sites: Up-to-date information from authoritative food safety websites, requiring sophisticated processing to structure the natural language content.

4. Weather Data: Weather information from the Visual Crossing API, with challenges in data consistency and quality due to variations in measurement units and discrepancies in timestamps.

5. Regulatory Bodies: Regulations and news from public authorities worldwide, featuring language diversity, various document formats, and complex tables that complicate data parsing.

6. Pests Data: Scientific data on pests, manually extracted and paired with pesticide information from governmental sources, presented in machine-readable formats.

7. Food-safety Videos: Information extracted from food safety videos from CDC, EFSA, and USDA via speech transcription, with recent additions to the data sources.

8. Private Sources: Data from the Agrivi Platform on farm management, pest alarms, and weather parameters; the Moy Park MTech Platform on poultry production and Salmonella testing; and the Food Fortress Platform on mycotoxin analysis in animal feed.

The executive summary highlights the integration of various data sources into EFRA, enhancing the understanding of food safety trends, and elaborates on the data's format, the languages it's presented in, the inherent challenges in handling and standardizing the diverse information, and the solutions implemented to create a uniform dataset for stakehold
Jacquhermania Cappetta 1982
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Gymnuridae
Jacquhermania

description: Genus Jacquhermania Cappetta, 1982
Type species
Cestracion duponti Winkler, 1876, Lutetian, Belgium.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 120, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
In vivo study of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in C.elegans
Creators: name: Liu, Gang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System (UPS) is an important regulatory mechanism used to control acute protein turnover and scavenge misfolded proteins in numerous cellular processes. (CM Pickart etc 2001). Indeed, the failure of the UPS to remove misfolded proteins is believed to contribute to aging as well as several neurodegenerative disorders. Although recent studies have explored the biochemical function and protein-protein interactions of the UPS, regulated changes in UPS activity have been difficult to observe in vivo in specific tissues as animals develop and age. Here we have employed the GFP reporter UbG76V-GFP, which was developed for monitoring UPS activity (N. P. Dantuma, K etc, 2000), to study the tissue- and age-specific regulation of proteolysis in C. elegans. The UbG76V-GFP reporter contains a mutated ubiquitin fused to GFP, and is a substrate for polyubiquitination and degradation by the 26S proteasome. Here we employ this reporter as a substrate for degradation by UPS activity to study the regulation of proteolysis in intact C. elegans animals. Mutations in the ubiquitin moiety that prevent K48 and K63 polyubiquitin chain addition block turnover of the reporter. Mutations and RNAi treatment that reduce 26S Proteasome activity also block reporter turnover, confirming the in vivo functionality of this UPS reporter. With this reporter we identify several different regulators of the UPS activity. The UFD pathway, including the E3 ligase CHN-1 and the E4 enzyme UFD-2, as well as a new E3 ligase, HECD-1, are required for maintaining UPS activity  iii  in maturing adults. Mutations that reduce UFD gene activity do not appear to grossly affect larval health, but greatly shorten the lifespan of adult nematodes, suggesting that the UPS activity is critical for long-term viability. We also find that EGF signaling through the Ras-MAPK pathway and the transcription factors EOR-1 and EOR-2 is critical for maintaining UPS activity in adult worms. Animals that fail to maintain their UPS activity at midlife via EGF signaling have a shortened lifespan, whereas animals with over-activated EGF signaling have an increased lifespan. Taken together, our results suggest that the UFD pathway and EGF signaling maintain long-term protein homeostasis by regulating UPS activity in anticipation of aging. We also apply microarray analysis to identify genes that are regulated by the EGF signaling and we find that several F-box proteins and a Skp1 ortholog, which are E3 components, are up-regulated by EGF signaling. Finally, we performed an RNAi library screen for modulators of UPS activity, and we also found that knocking down F-box proteins can suppress the UPS activity. We also tested whether worms had activated their oxidative stress response using the gcs-1::GFP reporter, and we observed accumulation of GFP in the tail and intestine of both hecd-1 and EFG signaling mutant worms. Thus we reach the conclusion the UPS activity might affect life span by regulating oxidative response in worms.
Silicone Wristbands: Personal Samplers for Tobacco Toxicants
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of tobacco smoke, but measuring exposure to tobacco smoke chemicals in children is difficult and expensive. This study will evaluate whether a simple silicone wristband can be worn and used as a sampler to absorb and record children’s exposure to nicotine and other toxic compounds in tobacco smoke and e-cigarettes. We will ask children to wear one wristband for two days and two for 1 week. We will compare three exposure groups, consisting of children living with either nonsmokers/non e-cigarette users, smokers, or e-cigarette users. We will measure nicotine and other compounds from tobacco and e-cigarettes in the wristbands through analysis in our laboratory. We will compare the wristbands to other established methods of measuring exposure and ask participants about the ease of use and acceptability. In preliminary studies, the silicone wristband has been shown to be able to detect a wide variety of environmental chemicals. However, no one has yet determined whether it will be useful for detecting tobacco-related chemicals. If this wristband proves acceptable, this study will provide a new inexpensive tool to detect tobacco smoke chemicals and to protect children and other vulnerable populations affected by tobacco exposure.
E-Cigarettes and Coronary Endothelial Function in Dual Users
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The increasing popularity and evolving technology of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have outpaced the scientific research needed to propose evidence-based regulation. The greatest increase in use of e-cigarettes, by far, is by young adult cigarette smokers—dual users—who endorse marketing claims that these products are safe and help them cut down on their cigarette tobacco smoking. Given the potent toxicity of cigarettes on the heart and blood vessels, it is very important to determine if the safety claims about e-cigarettes are true. Regular cigarette smoke contains fine particles, created from burning the cigarette, that enter the body through the lungs and damage blood vessel function leading to heart disease. Though the exposure to toxins is far less with e-cigarettes, they still deliver nicotine vapor which contains unknown particles that may damage blood vessels. While cigarette smoking is well known to impair the regulation of blood flow in the heart the comparative effect of e-cigarettes has not been previously studied. Because the effect of the particles produced by e-cigarettes on blood vessel function is unknown, we will use advanced cardiac ultrasound, combined with handgrip exercise to evaluate the effect of nicotine free and high nicotine electronic cigarette liquid on blood flow regulation. Subjects will also have heart blood vessel function evaluated before and immediately after smoking a regular cigarette. To determine if reduced nitric oxide (a molecule that relaxes blood vessels) is the reason for the reduced blood flow regulation cause by cigarettes and e-cigarettes, we will ascertain if L-arginine (a molecule that replenishes nitric oxide) will reverse the reduced blood flow regulation. The results of this study will fill in large gaps in our understanding of the acute effects of e-cigarettes on blood flow regulation in the heart and in so doing inform currently debated California and national policy decision about the regulation of e-cigarettes. In addition the results will generate exciting information to capture additional funding to further study the mechanisms by which e-cigarettes impair blood flow regulation in the heart.
Column generation and network modeling in large-scale logistics networks
Creators: name: Liang, Zhe
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Decomposition has been used in solving numerous problems in mathematics, computer science, engineering, management, and operations research. In this dissertation, we use decomposition methods to solve three practical combinatorial optimization problems arising in telecommunication and airline planning.    In the first part of the dissertation, we study a redundant multicast routing problem with group diverse constraint (RMRGD) that arises in many network applications such as communication systems, power supply distribution systems, transportation networks, etc. We propose three mixed integer programming (MIP) models, an edge-based, a path-based, and a tree-based model, to solve RMRGD. We proposed two decomposition methods based on the column generation and branch-and-price to solve the path-based and tree-based models. Our empirical results suggest that the edge-based model is superior in solving small and mid-sized problems, whereas the tree-based model performs better for large problems.    In the second part of the dissertation, we study the flight conflict resolving problem (FCR). The purpose of flight conflict re-scheduling problem is to provide a flight schedule that minimizes the total penalty cost of schedule changes, while maintaining the FAA separation standard between aircrafts. We propose a set-partitioning-based flight sequence model (FSM) that selects an optimal set of flight sequences to minimize the total penalty cost. We also extend the FSM to consider equity among airlines because such corporate decision making (CDM)-feature is necessary and critical for the future aviation systems. The computation results show the proposed solution methods outperform other solution methods, and solve the real life test cases optimally within reasonable time    In the third part of the dissertation, the aircraft maintenance routing problem is studied. The aircraft maintenance routing problem is aimed at scheduling the aircraft rotations so that adequate maintenance opportunities are provided to every aircraft in the fleet. In this dissertation, we present two new compact rotation-tour network representations for the daily aircraft maintenance routing problem (AMR) and the weekly aircraft maintenance routing problem (WAMR), and propose new mixed-integer linear programming formulations to solve these two problems. The computational study suggests the proposed models are able to solve large real-life test instances optimally in reasonable time.
Regulation of mammalian mRNA decapping
Creators: name: Li, You
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The modulation of mRNA degradation plays a critical role for regulation of gene expression.  A major mRNA decay pathway in mammals proceeding from the 5' to 3' end is initiated with shortening of 3' poly (A) tail, followed by the cleavage of the 5' cap structure (decapping) and degradation of the mRNA body by the Xrn1 exoribonuclease. Dcp2 is a well characterized mRNA decapping enzyme. It is an RNA binding protein that must bind the RNA in order to recognize the cap for hydrolysis. We identified mRNAs bound by human Dcp2 by coimmunoprecipitation and microarray analysis. Further biochemical assays identified a sequence element of 60 nucleotides at the 5´ terminus of the mRNA encoding Rrp41 as a specific Dcp2 substrate which could specifically bind Dcp2 protein and enhance Dcp2 decapping. Mutational analysis of this element revealed a stable stem-loop structure (termed DBDE) contained in the first 33 nucleotides is critical for Dcp2 decapping stimulation. A bioinformatic search was carried out to identify a subset of mRNAs that have a comparable stem-loop structure at the 5′ end as potential Dcp2 substrates.  We identified a second cytoplasmic mRNA decapping enzyme Nudt16 in mammalian cells and established stable MEF cells that contained reduced level of Dcp2 and/or Nudt16 protein. Using these MEF cells, we demonstrated the distinct roles for Dcp2 and Nudt16 in nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD), ARE-mediated decay and miRNA mediated gene silencing. Our results indicated that NMD preferentially utilizes Dcp2 rather than Nudt16; Dcp2 and Nudt16 are redundant in miRNA mediated silencing; and Dcp2 and Nudt16 are differentially utilized for ARE-mRNA decay. At last, we demonstrated that anti-viral immune response was regulated by Dcp2 in mouse embryonic fibroblast. In MEF cells lacking Dcp2 protein, interferon-mediated anti-viral response was significantly elevated. We identified IRF7, a crucial transcription factor in anti-viral immunity, as the direct target of Dcp2. Knockdown of Dcp2 led to stabilization of IRF7 mRNA and increased IRF7 protein level. Therefore, Dcp2 functions as a negative regulator of interferon-mediated anti-viral immunity. Interestingly, Dcp2 expression is also induced in virus infection, suggesting a negative feedback loop in the anti-viral immune response.
A curse upon the nation
Creators: name: Lewis, Kay
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation argues that ideas about black and white extermination in a war between the races influenced the development of slavery and precluded the acceptance of black freedom in America. Beyond the instrumentality of violence that we know was part of the master slave relationship, this study examines what impels white ideas in the eighteenth and nineteenth century that emancipation would ultimately lead to a race war. It attempts to demonstrate how ideas of extermination became part of the brutal legacy of racial control that sustained the institution of slavery and violence in the post-Civil War South. “A Curse Upon the Nation” traces the progression of these beliefs from the colonial period to the post Reconstruction era and how they traveled from Europe, Africa, and then to America, revealing that ideas about extermination became inextricably tied to race and freedom, making survival an important form of resistance for blacks in America.