cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of invasion dynamics on post-establishment evolution, global spread, and population detectability
Creators: name: Valentin, Rafael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Research on non-native species has broad implications, ranging from understanding evolutionary adaptation of species in novel environments to ameliorating the negative ecological and economic impacts dangerous non-natives (i.e. invasive) promulgate. Non-native species are those that have been transported either intentionally or by accident by humans out of their native geographical range and released (introduced) into a new non-native location. Although they have long been a part of human society, non-native species numbers have grown exponentially over the last few decades with the rapid growth of global trade. Species are moved via trade as the commodity itself (e.g., ornamental plants or aquarium fish) or as stow-a-ways within the traded commodity or within the packing material and vessels used to transport commodities. Given the ubiquity of invasive species, there is an urgent need to understand the effects of invasion dynamics and build tools that can aid in our efforts to slow their spread or limit their impact.   My research contributes to this understanding at both biogeographical and local scales by addressing: 1) the influence of transport and release on post-establishment morphological evolution within a non-native bird population on Hawaii; 2) the global transportation and release pathways of a rapidly spreading invasive insect that harms agricultural interests worldwide; and 3) the implementation of novel molecular techniques to rapidly detect incipient invasive populations of agricultural pests when at low abundance. To achieve these goals, I use genetic information from the target non-native species. Genetic data is advantageous in this context as it avoids over-reliance on historical records or real-time surveillance to document transportation pathways, does not require a priori assumptions regarding the current distribution of the target species, and is naturally deposited and detectable within the environment for prolonged periods of time. My results inform efforts to manage the global spread of invasive species, and highlight the importance of introduction history on how non-native’s evolutionarily respond to the conditions prevalent in their non-native location.
The stakeholders' relationships and the formation of environmental inequalities in the Valdivia plant, Los Rios region, Chile
Creators: name: Ulloa, Gabriela E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Much of the literature on Environmental Justice documents if a community suffering from an environmental hazard is non-white or low-income, ignoring the community’s context and relationships between them. These relationships reflect the formation of environmental inequality as the continuous shaping and shifting alliances between multiple stakeholders. By following Pellow’s model of Environmental Inequality Formation (2000), this thesis investigates the role that different stakeholders play in the formation of Environmental Inequalities by looking at the events that conforms the Valdivia Plant’s Cruces River pollution, in the Valdivia province, Los Rios region, southern Chile. This thesis was conducted using a qualitative method and case study approach to review the case literature and to gather, code, and interpret secondary sources of information, including archival records and historical documents in the written form of news and texts. The information about the Valdivia plant case was gathered between 1994 and 2007. The results from this thesis show that the stakeholders involved in the case study participated actively and influenced the formation and avoidance of Environmental Inequality, stepping away from traditional assumptions of a “perpetrator-victim” scenario where vulnerable communities are passively bearing the pollution. Accordingly, this thesis also examines the different outcomes that stakeholders can achieve, by comparing the Maiquillahue Bay and the Cruces River stories of success and failure regarding the pollution and environmental inequality coming from the Valdivia Cellulose Plant. Moreover, the purpose of this thesis is to identify the broader causes of Environmental Inequality, moving beyond the common race/class explanations, and looking for structural and local forces that may explain the Environmental Inequality phenomenon. Future research directions in EJ studies should aim to incorporate the multi-stakeholder perspective when looking for the causes of environmental inequality, and to further research locals’ active resistance to environmentally unequal situations.
Black power, education, and youth politics in Detroit, 1966-1973
Creators: name: Walker, Dara
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation investigates the role of black high school youth in the development of the Black Power movement in Detroit. Specifically, it examines their efforts to institutionalize their vision of education as a means to achieving liberation. As white flight took shape in Detroit during the postwar period, the Detroit Public Schools’ majority black student population encountered a majority white teaching force that resisted their very presence. Through walkouts, building takeovers, and the development of student organizations, black high school youth demanded Black Studies and political education seminars to carve out physical and intellectual space in the Detroit school system. And yet, historians know very little about these youths and their contributions to the long history of African American educational movements from slavery to freedom. This dissertation shows that in the courses they demanded, in the freedom and liberation schools they developed, and in their evaluation of the reformed curriculum, these young activists were architects of the Black Power movement’s educational politics, which emphasized community control of schools.     Using archival research and oral interviews, this dissertation places Black Power studies in conversation with the History of Black Education to make two important arguments about the role of high school youth in social justice movements. First, it argues that black high school youth marshalled their experiences with racial segregation in the North and their engagement with the black radical intellectual tradition to produce the intellectual labor that made possible the institutionalization of culturally relevant and political education. Second, it shows that the pedagogical approaches of movement organizations contributed to young people’s view of education as instrumental to multiple sites of struggle, including local movements around labor, welfare, and policing.
Ecsenius yaeyamaensis
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Ecsenius
Ecsenius yaeyamaensis

description: Ecsenius yaeyamaensis (Aoyagi 1954) —Yaeyama coral blenny (Fig. 122)
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 3 Sept. 2006. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 4 m depth, by Dean Tully on 26 June 2013; a specimen observed at Nemto Island, New Hanover, 4–15 m depth, St. T 23, on 7 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Sri Lanka east to Philippines and Vanuatu, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Solitary or in small groups, on boulders or coral bommies, 1–20 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 258, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Psychic retreats into heroin
Creators: name: Mosdell, Cassia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This ethnographic study considers the accounts of 12 new mothers in recovery for heroin addiction. Using structured interviews, it aims to uncover the historical and ideological contexts of their experiences and seeks to understand how these experiences intersect with axes of power, oppression, and structural inequality. The study draws upon object relations, attachment theory, Lacanian analysis, critical theory, theories of liberation psychology, and a biopsychosocial approach to addiction and harm reduction. It asks: in what ways do interactions with oppressive systems of race, class and gender impinge upon substance using mothers? And how do historical and ideological constructions of motherhood and addiction insidiously insert themselves into the mother-infant dyad? The study identifies three areas of institutional trauma: exclusion from language, loss and bereavement, and sociocultural shame. It argues that these combined institutional harms trigger a psychic retreat into the primordial, preverbal, somatic realm of heroin. Interviews reveal how institutional systems of control constrict voice, language, and symbolization, all of which are central to the phenomenology of addiction. They further  r show that many women suffer a profound and enduring loss from child removal, which increases their risk of future substance use. Analysis of the child welfare system points to structural problems of race and class bias that lead to excessive child protection enforcement. Interviews show that substance using mothers experience a unique duality of shame: the pathogenic shame inherited from their early traumas and a sociocultural shame specific to social constructions of motherhood and to the phenomenology of oppression. The study’s findings stress the need to keep mothers and infants together in drug treatment, and provide strong support for a harm reduction approaches to addiction treatment. It concludes that addiction policy should adopt a harm reduction focus, including the decriminalization of heroin and other drugs, improving access to medication assisted therapy (MAT), and increasing social welfare spending. Finally, the study concludes that therapeutic work with substance using mothers calls for a radical psychoanalysis that bears witness to the trauma of oppression, supports the development of imagination and resistance, and advances the goals of psychic and social liberation.
Choleva
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: 17. Choleva (s. str.) agilis (Illiger, 1798)
Zoogeographic element. Euro-Caucasian.
Distribution. From England, northward up to southern Scandinavia, eastward to the Crimea, Asia Minor and Caucasus.
Distribution in Romania. Epigeal records. Comana (MJ39) (Montandon 1908); Craiova (GQ11) (Eichler 1940); Timişoara (ER16) (Růžička 2003) (Fig. 6).
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Istiblennius edentulus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Istiblennius
Istiblennius edentulus

description: Istiblennius edentulus (Forster & Schneider in Bloch & Schneider 1801) —Rippled rockskipper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Emirau Island, St. Mathias Group by Kailola (1975: 200). KFRS material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 4.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Found in rubble or rock areas, including tidal pools, 0–5 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 258, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Myrmicinae Lepeletier 1835
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae

description: Myrmicinae incertae sedis
Four fossils (PIN 3429/1146, 1151, 1160, 1163) unquestionably belong to Myrmicinae but cannot be attributed to a genus because of poor preservation state. It cannot be excluded as well that they might belong to above described species.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 146
Understanding electron transfer processes with multiscale quantum chemistry methods
Creators: name: Ramos Silva, Pablo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The research described in this dissertation consists of two projects. First, the application and improvement of a subsystem DFT method to describe charge transfer reactions in biosystems and molecular materials. Second, the development and validation of a constrained subsystem DFT method to model charge and excitation energy transfer processes in molecules and condensed phases.    After introducing the theory of charge transfer reactions in condensed phases (chapter 1), the candidate outlines original and well-established avenues to obtain the electronic couplings (the key parameter to understand the dynamics of these processes). The first project is presented in chapter 3, in which a benchmark study against high-level methods is presented followed by the analysis of the environmental effects on the hole transfer in DNA oligomers. In chapter 4 the advantages of the candidate's method are pointed out, especially its ability to combine Constrained DFT and subsystem DFT formalisms. Such a flexible method enables the study of the effects of the phosphate group on hole transfer couplings in DNA for the first time in the literature. Additional applications of this method are given in chapter 5, where the quality of the calculated excited states is examined. Finally, in the last chapter two applications are presented: modeling of (1) the hole transfer in Fe-TPP dyads; and (2) charge transfer in the peptidylglycine-α-hydroxylating monooxygenase enzyme.    Every project is published or in the process to be published by the candidate in co-authorship with the candidate's scientific advisor and other collaborators in peer-reviewed journals.
Choleva
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: 18. Choleva (s. str.) oblonga Latreille, 1807
Zoogeographic element. European.
Distribution. Europe, Asian Turkey.
Distribution in Romania. Epigeal records. Bäile herculane (FQ17)(Jeannel 1923); Sibiu (KL77), Uivar (DR95) (both: Kuthy 1896); Cârţa (LL17), Ocna de Mureş (GS13) (both: Ormay 1888, as Ch. intermedia), Zärneşti (LL64) (Petri 1912). Hypogeal records. P. No. II in the Vizu Valley (3707/69) (FS09), P. de Sus de la Boiu (3011/ 12) (FR19) (both: Elmer 1921; Decou 1964); P. din Piatra Barisorului (2108/1) (FR53) (Jeannel 1923), P. 6 din Valea Lupşei (2122/6) (FQ49) (Decou 1964); Casimcea (outcrops of limestone) (PK13) (Nitzu 2002) (Fig. 6).
Ecological status. Subtroglophile.
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Istiblennius lineatus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Istiblennius
Istiblennius lineatus

description: Istiblennius lineatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836) —Lined rockskipper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Emirau Island, St. Mathias Group by Kailola (1975: 200). KFRS material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 4.—General distribution: Laccadive and Maldive islands east to Marshall Islands and Pitcairn, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in groups on rocky shores and exposed intertidal areas, 0–3 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
The ligand preferences of innate immune receptors RIG-I and LGP2
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The innate immunity serves as the first line against pathogen defense. Many receptors and factors play important roles in the innate immune response. A receptor family, retinoic-acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs) consist of three members, RIG-I, MDA5 and LGP2. RIG-I specifically distinguishes viral RNAs in a diverse cellular RNA environment. When activated by these RNAs, RIG-I triggers downstream pathways and induces innate immune responses such as interferon production to establish an anti-viral state in host cells.  Based on previous studies, the 5’ triphosphorylated (5’ppp) blunt-ended RNA bearing a double-strand (ds) panhandle structure at the 5’ end is the ligand for RIG-I. This 5’ triphosphorylation is often seen in viral RNAs. Cellular RNAs, such as messenger RNAs, are usually “capped” at the 5’ end with a 7-methyl guanidine (m7G) via a triphosphate bridge (cap-0). Since the triphosphate is “protected” by the m7G, it was believed that the structural basis of RNA discrimination by RIG-I was the presence of m7G. However, our biochemical, biophysical and cell signaling studies show that RIG-I can recognize dsRNA with cap-0 to a similar extent as 5’ppp dsRNA. Structural data of RIG-I in complex with Cap-0 RNA reveals the ability of RIG-I to accommodate the m7G moiety. In contrast, dsRNA with m7G and an additional 2’-O-methyl group on the 5’ end nucleotide ribose (cap-1) does not stimulate RIG-I and abrogates RIG-I signaling through a mechanism involving residue His830. This histidine is critical for RNA discrimination by RIG-I.  Unlike RIG-I, the role of the innate immune receptor LGP2 is not well understood. Lacking domains for signaling, LGP2 is believed to be a regulator of RIG-I and MDA5. Characteristics of nucleic acid binding by LGP2 are not understood, and its relationship with RIG-I needs further studies. Our biochemical studies of LGP2 show higher ATP turnover rate in the presence of 5’OH dsRNA than viral RNA mimics, and the binding affinity of LGP2 with 5’OH dsRNA is relatively tight. 5’OH dsRNA has been shown to activate RIG-I, indicating an overlap in ligands between LGP2 and RIG-I. Competition assays show 5’OH dsRNA preferentially interacts with LGP2, suggesting a mechanism in which LGP2 sequesters non-PAMP ligand of RIG-I to diminish misactivations.  Overall, the studies provide further understanding of the early steps in the anti-viral process from the activation stage, which could aid in vaccine development and the design of compound agonist to complement approaches for developing RLR based therapeutics.
On parameter estimation of state space models and its applications
Creators: name: Wang, Liang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: State space model is a class of models where the observations are driven by underlying stochastic processes. It is widely used in computer vision, economics and financial data analysis, engineering, environmental sciences and etc. My thesis mainly addresses the parameter estimation problem of state space model and the applications of it.  This thesis starts with a brief introduction and the motivation for studying the problems in the first chapter. The second chapter follows the first one by covering the main tools used to study the topics in the thesis. The general framework of state space models and its related filtering methods, Kalman Filtering for linear Gaussian models and sequential Monte Carlo for other cases, are introduced. The information criteria, as a tool for model selection, are also covered in this chapter.  The parameter estimation problem is mainly discussed in the third chapter.  Two algorithms under the general framework of Stochastic Approximation methods are proposed. These two algorithms attain much faster convergence rate and less computational cost by variance reduction techniques which utilize the property of sequential Monte Carlo methods. Two numerical examples are examined to compare the performance.  Another contribution of Chapter 3 is the application of sequantial Monte Carlo methods in modeling and predicting the bond yield curve with regime-switching Dynamic Nelson-Siegel model.  The fourth chapter, which is a joint work with Hao Chang, develops a state space model with regime switching to detect periodically collapsing rational bubbles in stock price. The present-value stock-price model is expressed in a state space form and the bubble process is modeled as a conditional dynamic linear system. The asset-bubble system is estimated by a novel sequential Monte Carlo based method, Mixture Kalman Filter (MKF). The efficacy of the proposed method is examined by simulated observations and real stock index of the US market.  Another application of state space model with regime switching is discussed in the fifth chapter, in which real-time Blood Glucose Monitoring problem is addressed using a conditional dynamic linear system modeling. A study with a biostatistical dataset, Star 1 dataset, has shown the advantage of the proposed novel estimation framework.  In the sixth chapter, a nonparametric regression model, $ l1 $ trend filtering method is discussed. Two trend filtering models out of state space representation, both of which have similar property as $ l1 $ trend filtering, are proposed. With the implementation of sequential Monte Carlo methods as well as a greedy Viterbi algorithm, both trend filtering models can operate on-line rather than just on batch data. To better emphasize the two models' improvement in on-line trend filtering, a real world econometrics topic is introduced. The econometric example shows the competence of trend filtering as well as the efficiency of the proposed models.
Choleva
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: 19. Choleva (s. str.) nivalis (Kraatz, 1856)
(= Choleva biharica Fleischer, 1888)
Distribution in Romania. Epigeal records. Spinuş (ET82) (as Ch. biharica) (Fleischer 1888); Piatra Craiului (LL63) (Ganglbauer 1899; Petri 1912); Fägäraş (LL47), Turda-Arieş (GS15), Scärişoara (FS44), (all: Jeannel 1923). Hypogeal records. P. No. I–II in the Vizu Valley (3707/69) (FS09), P. Padiş (3440/3) (FS36) (Elmer 1921; Decou 1964); P. de la Boiu (3011/12) (FR19), P. de la Sohodolul Cicerei (2406/82) (FS35) (all: Decou 1964); Vârghişului gorge (MSS) (LM82) (Nitzu et al. 2007) (Fig. 7).
Ecological status. Subtroglophile.
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on pages 359-360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Design and synthesis of microporous metal-organic frameworks for adsorption related applications
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), constructed via self-assembly of metal ions (or clusters) and organic ligands through coordination bonds, represent a relatively new family of multifunctional porous materials. MOFs feature high porosity, tunable pore structure (pore size and pore shape) and functionality, making them hold great promise for adsorption related applications. Utilizing MOFs for industrially relevant adsorption related applications are explored.  With the strategy of topology directed design and synthesis, a series of Zr-MOFs with intriguing structure features have been achieved. They exhibit high porosity, good stability and optimal pore structure for separation of alkane isomers. Their ability of separating C6 alkane isomers, which is industrially critical for octane number upgrading of gasoline, outperforms the commercially used material zeolite 5A.  iii  The feasibility of utilizing MOFs for adsorptive separation of noble gases has also been studied. After screening of a number of MOFs, a microporous MOF built on Co2+ and formate has been identified to show highly selective adsorption of Xe over Kr. In a separate work, we try to understand the interaction between noble gases and a flexible MOF structure from molecular level via single crystal X-ray diffraction. Noticeably, the framework exhibits an unprecedented temperature-dependent breathing phenomenon upon noble gas adsorption.  We have also evaluated the possibility of using MOFs in food chemistry. A moisture-sensitive MOF has been synthesized, which exhibits high uptake capacity and moisture-triggered controlled release of a natural food preservative. The mechanism of controlled release has also been investigated.  Other adsorption related applications such as chlorocarbon capture by highly hydrophobic MOFs have also been explored.
Meiacanthus atrodorsalis
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Meiacanthus
Meiacanthus atrodorsalis

description: Meiacanthus atrodorsalis (Günther 1877) —Yellowtail fangblenny
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, by Dean Tully); a video of a specimen taken off southern New Hanover at 3–47 m depth, St. KR106, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Caroline Islands and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Solitary or in pairs, in coastal, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 1–30 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Hybrid improper ferroelectricity and magnetoelectric effects in complex oxides
Creators: name: Wang, Yazhong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This thesis contains several investigations of ferroelectricity and magnetoelectric effects in  complex oxides. We start by reviewing the history and mechanisms of ferroelectricity and  multiferroics, then give a brief introduction to proper ferroelectricity, improper ferroelectricity,  hybrid improper ferroelectricity and polar magnets. In the hybrid improper ferroelectricity  section, several major systems are explained in detail including (AA')B2O6 double  perovskites, (ABO3)2/AO Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) phase and A'(AB2O7) Dion-Jacobson  (DJ) phase. Next, our investigations are divided into two parts. The  rst half focuses on  the study of ferroelectricity and domain wall ( ferroelectric vs. ferroelastic, charged vs. noncharged)  motion in Sr3Sn2O7 system (n=2, RP phase). We discover that layered Sr3Sn2O7  exhibits switchable polarization at room temperature, demonstrating that Sr3Sn2O7 is the   rst room-temperature insulating ferroelectric containing Sn4+. The in situ poling results  on Sr3Sn2O7 using focused electron beams in transmission electron microscopy unveil the  intriguing ferroelectric domain switching kinetics: ferroelectric noncharged domain walls  move fast while ferroelectric charged domain walls do not move, probably due to octahedral  rotation switching is easier along the c axis. Furthermore, due to small coercivity, we  could erase (shrink) and re-generate (expand) orthorhombic twin domains using different  direction strains. The corresponding ferroelectric-ferroelastic domain patterns are observed  under transmission polarized optical microscope (TPOM) and in-plane piezo-response force  microscope (IP-PFM). These discoveries reveal the rich scienti c nature of the Sn-containing  ferroelectric and provide potential application opportunities of it. In the second half of the  thesis, we focus on the study of M2Mo3O8 (M=Fe, Mn, Zn, Ni, Co) polar magnets. In polar  magnets, the absence of poling requirements due to the polar nature makes possible utilization  of giant ME coefficients as necessary for applications. Our works unveil the magnetic  properties and the ME coupling inside this system, especially the largest ME coefficient  in Fe2Mo3O8 among all discovered polar magnets and the in-plane magnetic ordering in  Ni2Mo3O8 for the  rst time. In Fe2Mo3O8, hidden ferrimagnetism of the Fe-O layers  strongly enhances the magnetic response in the transition  eld, providing an explanation  for the observed giant differential ME coefficients. Our results demonstrate the promise of  polar magnets as ME system and indicate that their functional properties could be further  enhanced by presence of a local ("hidden") magnetic moment that can be easily converted  to macroscopic magnetization by an applied  field.
Meiacanthus crinitus Smith-Vaniz 1987
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Meiacanthus
Meiacanthus crinitus

description: Meiacanthus crinitus Smith-Vaniz 1987 —Hairtail fangblenny
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken on north coast of Manne Island, Kavieng District at 1–11 m depth, St. KR 36, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); a specimen observed at Anelaua Island, New Hanover, 2–16 m depth, St. T 22, on 8 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Solitary or in pairs, in sheltered coastal reefs, 1–20 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Choleva
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: 20. Choleva (s. str.) oresitropha Ganglbauer, 1896
Zoogeographic element. East-Carpathian endemic.
Distribution. Rodnei Mt. (Kuthy 1896; Petri 1912; Jeannel 1923).
Distribution in Romania. Epigeal records. Pietrosul Mare al Rodnei (LN25) (Nitzu et al. 2008) (Fig. 7).
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Choleva
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: 21. Choleva (s. str.) reitteri Petri, 1915
Zoogeographic element. European.
Distribution. Southern Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece.
Distribution in Romania. Epigeal records. Cârţei Mt. (Cândrel) (KL76), Retezat Mt. (Lunca Negru) (FR61), Bihor (Valea Vida) (FS09) (all: Jeannel 1923; Petri 1926) (Fig. 7).
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Meiacanthus grammistes
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Meiacanthus
Meiacanthus grammistes

description: Meiacanthus grammistes (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836) —Striped fangblenny
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 7 m depth, by Dean Tully on 18 Sept. 2012; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Caroline Islands and New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 0–10 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Simulation-based process analysis and optimization for continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing
Creators: name: Wang, Zilong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This thesis explores to apply simulation-based mathematical tools to understand and improve continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. On the basis of a continuous direct compaction process, we propose a framework consisting of global sensitivity analysis, feasibility analysis, and optimization to systematically extract process knowledge from simulation models. Under this framework, efficient analysis and optimization methods have been developed for both deterministic systems and stochastic systems. Specifically, mathematical techniques including surrogate modeling and adaptive sampling are adopted to address difficult problems involving computationally expensive black-box systems. The developed algorithms in this thesis can be used to obtain a comprehensive knowledge of solids-based pharmaceutical processes.
Life in car land
Creators: name: Williams, Kari
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This manifesto on the car landscape interrogates and redesigns a suburban highway strip in New Jersey. The 17.2 mile stretch of U.S. Route 1 between Trenton and New Brunswick is a divided surface highway that frustrates drivers, is unsafe for pedestrians, and impossible for cyclists. The thesis questions how this failing landscape came about, and what forces prevent it from improving. In doing so, it explores the landscape implications of our co-dependence on the car, considering both the driving experience and associated land uses. The research exposes the twentieth-century illusion that mechanized speed provides individual autonomy and progress. It then looks toward the future, at the potential of autonomous vehicle technology to change our relationship with cars and thereby reshape suburban transportation infrastructure.   The proposed design solution for Route 1 separates ourselves from our cars. The design functions at multiple scales, from regional planning, to highway infrastructure, to site-scale landscapes. At its most essential, the proposal is a separation of fast through-traffic and slower local traffic, utilizing a series of flyways that bridge each intersection. That separation reverses our notion that fast is freedom by calling for discrete realms and speeds for two different autonomies: mechanized and personal. In addition, the flyways shrink the amount of space currently consumed by interchanges and highway ramps, claiming approximately 200 acres of publicly-owned land back from the car. The reclaimed landscapes at each intersection become community and ecological resources to spur new, human-centric, relationships to Route 1.
Choleva
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: 23. Choleva (s. str.) glauca Britten, 1918
Zoogeographic element. Central-Eastern European.
Distribution. From southern part of Northern Europe to Central and Eastern Europe.
Distribution in Romania. Epigeal records. Mt. Sibiu (KL76), Mt. Bihorului (FS44) (Jeannel 1923; Petri 1926); Maramureş (LN18/19) (Jeannel 1923). Hypogeal records. P. Corobana M ândr uţului (3402/53) (FS44) (Jeannel 1923); P. de la Alunii Negri (2110/8) (FR51), P. Ponorici-Cioclovina (2063/7) (FR65), P. 9 in Varghişului gorge (1200/9)(LM82) (all: Decou 1964) (Fig. 9).
Ecological status. Troglophile.
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 362, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Great expectations
Creators: name: Whytlaw, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Within the 21st Century, New Jersey has been involved in 20 federally declared environmental disaster events by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA 2017).  Of those 20, three have been major tropical-induced events that made direct or indirect landfall in the State.  The most recent extra-tropical system (i.e. Superstorm Sandy) made direct landfall along the southern part of the New Jersey coast and caused more destruction to ecological, social, and infrastructure systems than some municipalities had seen in all prior events combined.  Forty-six percent of the total deaths reported during Sandy, or 45 people out of the total 93 deaths, were seniors over the age of 65 (Greenberg 2014c).   A regulation was passed in New Jersey in 2007 that required long-term care facilities to develop emergency operations plans (N.J.A.C. 8:39 and 8:43E).  However, the legislation lacks details of enforcement needed to ensure facilities are meeting the outlined requirements.  Requirements include review of plans with local emergency managers, but officials are not provided a mechanism to demand changes be made to a private facility’s plan. The most crucial issue is the lack of protocols to ensure multiple facilities are not simultaneously reliant upon the same resources under a disaster within the same municipality.    This research examines the level of preparedness of senior facilities to respond to environmental natural hazards in New Jersey as well as their coordination with the local emergency responder community. The research uses mixed-methods to identify overall preparedness. The findings indicate that there is coordination between local (i.e. municipal or county) emergency managers and senior facilities located within their jurisdictions. The level of coordination varies depending on the MCC Region of the State the facility is located in as well as the individual importance coordination and collaboration are perceived by both the facility administrators as well as the emergency managers.
Petroscirtes breviceps
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Petroscirtes
Petroscirtes breviceps

description: Petroscirtes breviceps (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836) —Shorthead fangblenny (Fig. 123)
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 27 May 2007.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northwestern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal and lagoon reefs, often hiding in empty worm tubes or shells, 0–10 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Typical
Creators: name: Wilhelm, Isaac
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Typicality is routinely invoked in science and mathematics: typical gases in a low-entropy macrostate evolve to a higher-entropy macrostate; typical quantum systems exhibit probabilistic behavior; typical realizations of percolation models with p>1/2 contain an infinite open cluster. And typicality facts like these back many explanations. But what is it for something to be typical? And how do typicality facts explain? In this paper, I analyze the notions of typical properties, typical objects, and typicality explanations. I show how typicality is used to explain mathematical, statistical mechanical, and quantum mechanical phenomena. Finally, I argue that typicality is distinct from probability.
MPEC 2025-B169 : 2025 BN6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 BN6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Choleva
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: 24. Choleva (s. str.) angustata (Fabricius, 1781)
Zoogeographic element. European.
Distribution. Europe: from Northern (Sweden, Norway) to Western (England), Central and South-Eastern (the Balkan Peninsula: Bulgaria, Greece).
Distribution in Romania. Epigeal records. Sibiu (KL77) (Petri 1926); Timişoara (ER16), Mehadia (FQ07) (all: Kuthy 1896); Bäile Herculane–Domogled (FQ17) (Jeannel 1923). Hypogeal records. P. 6, 12, 13 in the Lupsa Valley (2122/6, 12, 13) (FQ49) (Decou 1964) (Fig. 9).
Ecological status. Subtroglophile.
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on pages 362-363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Nozzle-based additive manufacturing of fiber-filled thermosets
Creators: name: Xie, Jingjin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The intent of this work is to develop a framework towards nozzle-based additive manufacturing (AM) of thermal curing polymers embedded with fibers, which could enable functional tools and actuators made of hard and soft materials. Thermosetting systems, such as epoxies, cyanate esters (CE), and silicones, represent a class of materials that do not allow reversible liquid-solid phase changes at an elevated temperature. Extruded thermosetting composites have the potential to overcome issues with limited mechanical stability and strength as presented in thermoplastic materials at high temperatures; it also allows further tuning the characteristics of extruded parts by leveraging the filler materials' unique properties. A nozzle-based approach becomes preferable not only because of its simplicity in configuration and ease of use, but also its additional layer of protection as the extruding materials are in closed containers, which is beneficial for unique applications, such as in-space additive manufacturing (ISAM).  This work focused on a proof-of-concept solution for AM of thermosetting composites, accompanied with material characterizations, experimental validations and numerical analysis of a scalable, reproducible system. It consists of systematic reviews and studies of the mechanical, thermal, and rheological properties of two representative thermosetting systems, i.e., Ecoflex 0050 and G/Flex. The experimental study includes material processing, extrusion of fiber-embedded polymers, characterization of cure kinetics, rheology of polymers, and evaluation of printed parts. With milled carbon fibers (up to 20 wt%), the experimental results also showed tunable mechanical and thermal performance by using shear-induced alignment of filler materials. Finally, this work suggests two schemes for 2-D and 3-D multiphysics simulations based on the developed models for rheological properties and cure kinetics. The predictive tools could be advantageous in design of parts, elimination of errors, and tuning of processing parameters.
Petroscirtes mitratus Ruppell 1830
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Blenniidae
Petroscirtes
Petroscirtes mitratus

description: Petroscirtes mitratus Rüppell 1830 —Highfin fangblenny
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 19 Feb. 2010; a video of a specimen taken at Kawauiliaka Island, off northeastern New Hanover, at 3–12 m depth, St. KR 132, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Found in seagrass habitats, 1–5 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163