cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Drosophila parasaltans Magalhaes 1956
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila parasaltans

description: parasaltans Magalhães, 1956: 276. Type locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Alto Rio Negro near the mouth of the Uaupes River, tributary of the Rio Negro. T A?. NT Distr.: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador. Refs.: Magalhães, 1962.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 733, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Nycteris hispida
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris hispida

description: Nycteris hispida (Schreber 1774)
Five specimens were recorded from four localities in southern and northern Mozambique. Nycteris hispida is considerably smaller than N. thebaica with shorter ears and trifid (not bifid) upper incisors (Monadjem et al., 2010).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 39.6 (38.9– 40.2, 2); Bm (adult male) 7.5 (7.0–8.0, 2); FA (adult female) 37.7 (35.3–41.7, 3); Bm (adult female) 6.7 (6.0–7.0, 3). Ear length of a single male was 18.5.
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 381, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
Urolophidae Muller & Henle 1841
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Urolophidae

description: Family Urolophidae Müller & Henle, 1841
Stingarees
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Prdx1 deficiency in mice promotes tissue specific loss of heterozygosity mediated by deficiency in DNA repair and increased oxidative stress
Creators: name: Rani, Vamsi K.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Loss of the H2O2 scavenger protein encoded by the peroxiredoxin 1 (Prdx1) gene in mice leads to elevated intracellular amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and promotes tumorigenesis in several different tissues.  Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) mutations can initiate tumorigenesis through loss of tumor suppressor gene function in somatic cells that carry only one functional allele.  A connection between the severity of oxidative stress and the frequency of LOH mutations has not been previously established in vivo.  Therefore, in this study, we characterized in vivo LOH in ear fibroblasts and splenic T cells of 3-4 month old Prdx1-deficient mice.  We found that loss of Prdx1 significantly elevates ROS levels in T cells and fibroblasts, and that basal levels of ROS are higher in fibroblasts than in T cells, probably due to a less robust Prdx1 peroxidase activity in the former.  Using Aprt as a LOH reporter, we observed an elevation in LOH mutation frequency in fibroblasts, but not in T cells, of Prdx1-/- mice compared to Prdx1+/+ mice.  The majority of the LOH mutations in both cell types were derived from mitotic recombination (MR) events.  Interestingly, Mlh1, which is known to suppress MR between divergent sequences, was found to be significantly down-regulated in fibroblasts, but not in T cells, of Prdx1-/- mice.  Additionally, there was no compensatory increase in expression of base excision repair (BER) genes in Prdx1-/- fibroblasts.  Since these cells had higher amounts of ROS, it suggests that BER activity may be insufficient to manage the increased oxidative DNA damage load.  This could lead to increased formation of SSBs and DSBs, which could require repair by recombination.   A combination of increased amounts of ROS, down-regulation of Mlh1 and inefficient BER may have contributed to the elevation of MR in fibroblasts of Prdx1-/- mice. Additionally, my findings suggest that helix-distorting lesions may also be increased in Prdx1-/- ear fibroblasts and T cells.  Transcription analyses of genes in different DNA repair pathways in the whole spleen tissue with Prdx1 deficiency revealed significant differences in transcription compared to T cells.  I conclude that mechanisms through which Prdx1 deficiency promotes tumorigenesis in specific tissues may be distinct.
title: Data, Data Everywhere: But Not a Drop to Analyze
Creators: name: Santry, Heena P.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2011

description: Heena Santry, M.D., M.S. will discuss the challenges she faced as a researcher in converting two decades worth of trauma registry data into usable form for analysis. Dr. Santry is Assistant Professor of Surgery and Quantitative Health Sciences where she also serves as Director of Trauma Outcomes Research and Quality Assessment. She is also a UMass Clinical Research Scholar funded through the CTSA.
Must be treated with respect
Creators: name: Ragsdale, Randi Renee
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This paper explores the ethical protocols for the handling of human remains sourced in Central America and stored in academic collections within the United States. Although all such institutions profess a commitment that osteological remains “Must be treated with respect,” the definition of what constitutes “respect” is often subjective. My research and data collected will draw upon the international mandates that govern the exportation, storage, study, and conservation of human remains with attention to three aspects that contribute to the legal framework in which human remains fall: 1) The laws and where they originate; 2) The organizations that maintain these laws; and 3) The extent by which these laws are applied and enforced. I will compare varying internal policies directed towards the conservation and handling of human remains in four academic institutions. As these policies and practices are necessarily institution-specific, they will be compared to demonstrate areas of significant alignment and areas of contrast. The ultimate goal is to establish how following ethical guidelines can become a sustainable feature in archaeological practice by crafting a framework in which ethical principles are designed in such a way that they can have a positive impact on the quality of scientific data.  This position is supported by a demonstration of how standardization in ethical issues has consequences for the standardization in the scientific method and long-term conservation of remains.  Other improvements discussed include the possibility for enhanced international cultural diplomacy to impact the overall discipline of archaeology in the public perception of its role as a steward of important cultural heritage.
Genome-wide screening and physiological responses of saccharomyces cerevisiae to the volatile organic compound 1-octen-3-ol
Creators: name: Pu, David C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: A major fungal volatile organic compound (VOC) called 1-octen-3-ol or "mushroom alcohol," is produced by most fungal species and is responsible for much of their characteristic musty odor. We believe that fungal VOCs are serving as chemical compounds that signal within a single organism or signal within members of a single species. Also, fungal VOCs may cause “sick building syndrome” (SBS). In this study, we used Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model for understanding 1-octen-3-ol toxicity on a genome-wide level. A yeast growth assay using solid media prepared in plates sealed with Parafilm was developed. Conditions were identified which permitted reproducible yeast growth measurements when cultures were exposed to 1-octen-3-ol, a challenge due to the volatile nature of the compound. At 48 hours, 300 ppm of 1-octen-3-ol was found to completely inhibit growth of BY4741, a wild type strain. To identify genes and pathways involved in 1-octen-3-ol resistance, we carried out a high-throughput viability assay using the non-essential yeast knockout (KO) library. Of the ~ 4976 strains, we found that 92 (1.8%) showed resistance to 300 ppm of 1-octen-3-ol of which 21 (22.8%) are related to endosome transport. More specifically, 1-octen-3-ol is very likely to inhibit cell grow by the ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process via the multivesicular body sorting pathway.
Drosophila paulistorum Dobzhansky & Pavan, in Burla et al. 1949
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila paulistorum

description: paulistorum Dobzhansky & Pavan, in Burla et al. 1949: 301. Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Mogí das Cruzes. HT A (MZUSP). NT Distr.: Costa Rica to Brazil. Colombia (Cundinamarca (Fusagasugá), Magdalena (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta)). Refs.: Hunter & Navarro, 1969: 1102; Hoenigsberg et al. 1977: 300; Hoenigsberg, 1995a: 87.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 733, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Spinilophus Yearsley & Last 2016
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Urolophidae
Spinilophus

description: Genus Spinilophus Yearsley & Last, 2016
New Ireland Stingaree
Spinilophus Yearsley & Last, 2016: 36. Type species Urolophus armatus Müller & Henle, 1841, by original designation (also monotypic).
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
The development of episodic foresight in preschoolers
Creators: name: Prabhakar, Janani
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: How does the ability to think and plan into the future develop? Previous studies suggest  that the ability to think about and act upon the future, a process referred to as episodic  foresight, emerges between the ages of 3 and 4 (Atance, 2008). However, it is unclear  what underlying processes change during the development of episodic foresight. We  hypothesize that episodic foresight consists of two separate processes: 1) the formation  and maintenance of goals, and 2) the construction of simulated scenarios, each of which  can be made more or less difficult based on the task at hand. We report an experiment  that tested the emergence of these processes. The experiment focused primarily on the  effect of the number of features that must be constructed and held in memory (4 or 6) and  the goals that must be maintained (Subgoal then Final). The results indicate that fouryear-  old children are able to envision the future to successfully accomplish future goals,  but are subject to working memory demands when there are more features in the future  environment. However, three-year-olds are only able to attribute goals when the feature  demands are low. When there are fewer features to construct, three-year-olds maintain  only the final goal, ignoring the subgoal. Therefore, the development of episodic  foresight progresses in conjunction with working memory, simulation and goal  maintenance abilities.
Degenerate partial differential equations and applications to probability theory and foundations of mathematical finance
Creators: name: Pop, Camelia Alexandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: In the first part of our thesis, we prove existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions for a certain class of degenerate parabolic partial differential equations on the half space which are a generalization of the Heston operator.   We use these results to show that the martingale problem associated with the differential operator is well-posed and we build generalized Heston-like processes which match the one-dimensional probability distributions of a certain class of It^o processes.     The second part of our thesis is concerned with the study of regularity of solutions to the variational equation associated to the elliptic Heston operator.   With the aid of weighted Sobolev spaces, we prove supremum bounds, a Harnack inequality, and H"older continuity near the boundary for solutions to elliptic variational equations defined by the Heston partial differential operator.     Finally, we establish stochastic representations of solutions to elliptic and parabolic boundary value problems and obstacle problems associated to the Heston generator. In mathematical finance, solutions to parabolic obstacle problems correspond to value functions for American-style options.
Impact of Palliative Care Interventions on Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis prisma checklist and flow chart and large tables
Creators: name: Aleid, Abdulsalam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320599
subject: Medical biochemistry and metabolomics not elsewhere classified

description: Impact of Palliative Care Interventions on Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The project contains the following underlying data: - [PRISMA checklist and PRISMA flowchart] (Checklist of how the study was conducted and number of databases and studies included). Data are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
Nycteris macrotis Dobson 1876
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris macrotis

description: Nycteris macrotis Dobson 1876
Four specimens were collected from three sites in southern, central and northern Mozambique. Live individuals can be confused with N. thebaica, but N. macrotis is slightly larger with longer forearm, and is easily distinguished by the semi-lunate tragus.
The skull morphology of the two species differs significantly with N. macrotis having a more robust skull with a longer condylo-incisive length (> 18.8 mm) (Monadjem et al., 2010).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 52.0 ± 1.40 (50.4–53.0, 3); Bm (adult male) 16.7 (15.0–17.5, 3); FA (adult female) 52.2 (1); Bm (adult female) 16.0 (1).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 381, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
Spinilophus armatus
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Urolophidae
Spinilophus
Spinilophus armatus

description: Spinilophus armatus (Valenciennes, 1841)
New Ireland Stingaree
Urolophus armatus Valenciennes in Müller & Henle, 1841: 174. Holotype: MNHN 0000 - 2331. Type locality: New Ireland.
Local synonymy: Urolophus armatus Müller & Henle, 1841: 174 (New Ireland)— Garman, 1913: 407 (New Ireland); Fowler, 1941: 443 (New Ireland); Munro, 1958: 114 (New Ireland); Munro, 1967: 13 (New Guinea); Kailola, 1987: 32 (New Ireland). Droliphus armatus— Filewood, 1973:11 (New Britain; misspelling). Spinilophus armatus —Last et al., 2016i: 678 (New Ireland); White et al., 2018: 272, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (1 spec.) MNHN 0000-2331, juvenile male 170 mm TL, New Ireland, [1820–1830s].
Remarks: Only known from a single specimen taken off New Ireland in the 1800s by Lesson and Garnot. Previously placed in the genus Urolophus. Only known from a single specimen collected by Lesson and Garnot off New Ireland prior to 1841. Assuming the collector and New Ireland location for the specimen are correct, it is most likely the specimen was collected from Port Praslin, just north of Tawanlik Cape and south of Lambom; this site was visited by during the Voyage autour du monde onboard the Coquille on the 12 August 1823. However, this species was never mentioned in the fish descriptions by Lesson following the voyage.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Drosophila prosaltans Duda 1927
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila prosaltans

description: prosaltans Duda, 1927: 164. Type locality: Paraguay, Hohenau, 250 m. HT F (SMT). NT Distr.: Mexico to Argentina. Colombia (Cundinamarca (Fusagasugá), Magdalena (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), Santander (Bucaramanga)). Refs.: Magalhães, 1962: 141; Hunter, 1966: 423, Hunter & Navarro, 1969: 1102; Hoenigsberg, 1995a: 87; Yoon, 1996: 22.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 733, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Impact of Palliative Care Interventions on Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis prisma checklist and flow chart
Creators: name: Aleid, Abdulsalam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320599
subject: Medical biochemistry and metabolomics not elsewhere classified

description: Impact of Palliative Care Interventions on Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The project contains the following underlying data: - [PRISMA checklist and PRISMA flowchart] (Checklist of how the study was conducted and number of databases and studies included). Data are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
Nycteris thebaica E. Geoffroy 1813
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris thebaica

description: Nycteris thebaica E. Geoffroy 1813
Six specimens were recorded from four sites in central Mozambique. This species can easily be confused with N. macrotis but is slightly smaller and more gracile (see above), and has a pyriform tragus (Monadjem et al., 2010).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 45.9 ± 1.77 (43.9–47.8, 4); Bm (adult male) 9.3 ± 1.50 (8.0– 11.0, 4); FA (adult female) 47.1 ± 0.76 (46.6–48.0, 3); Bm (adult female) 10.3 ± 1.04 (9.5–11.5, 3). Ear length of a single male was 29.3.
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on pages 371-391, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
The haunted public sphere
Creators: name: Polak-Springer, Katrin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: My dissertation sheds light on the German filmmaker and author Alexander Kluge and his ideas on filmmaking as they evolved out of his conception of the public versus the private spheres since the early 1960s. It was Kluge’s contention that personal experiences of war and violence could not be expressed publicly in the postwar Federal Republic, causing a rift between the two realms and a haunting presence of trauma within individuals and society as a whole. What Kluge, in cooperation with Oskar Negt, called “alternative public sphere” in Public Sphere and Experience (1972) and History and Obstinacy (1981) is closely linked to Woman and so-called “proletarian” forces countering instrumental reason and the bourgeois cultural matrix. Analyzing four crucial films from Kluge’s creative work, I outline the increasingly allegorical role of his concept of “female mode of production,” which constitutes Kluge’s aesthetics and thematic focus.  How the ideas of “alternative public sphere” and “female mode of production” are linked to the cinema and Kluge’s theory of film is the focus of another chapter that scrutinizes Kluge’s recent literary compilation Cinema Stories (2007). Finally, I read a selection of contemporary German films considered the new filmic avant-garde through the lens of      Kluge’s approach to film, to the “female mode of production,” and to the public sphere. This allows me to compare the ethics, the formal and political attitude of the so-called Berlin School directors to the vanguard movement of Young German Film in the sixties and early seventies. I conclude that the filmic Autoren today deal with a similar problem as Alexander Kluge has done throughout his career, namely the dissociation of personal, lived experience from public representation. They also employ formal and thematic strategies that can be related to the thoughts behind the Oberhausen generation of German filmmakers. While the generation of the leftist student movements sought public recognition of the atrocities committed under National Socialism, the Berlin School directors deal with mediated experience in times of media and finance corporatism as virtual realities threaten to take over the empiric world.
Ads in Facebook
Creators: name: Paravastu Pattarabhiran, Lavanya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Understanding the relevancy of user-targeted ads on social networking websites requires the information about the heterogeneous user data and the corresponding ads that are targeted towards the user. This can be accomplished by performing a large scale collection of ads seen by users online on various social networking sites. For the purpose of this research, Facebook was considered as the social networking website. Since using real user profiles may involve privacy issues, dummy profiles were created and the targeted ads were analyzed. Moreover, in order to limit the amount of data being collected and analyzed, the study targeted Facebook ads from a region, India. An automated script in java and selenium was also developed to collect the ads that were targeted at the dummy profiles created. The data collected was analyzed using General Linear Modeling to understand the dependency between category of advertisement shown to a user and profile characteristics like age, gender and location.
Urolophus Muller & Henle 1837
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Urolophidae
Urolophus

description: Genus Urolophus Müller & Henle, 1837a
Stingarees
Urolophus Müller & Henle, 1837a: 117. Type species: Raja cruciata Lacepède, 1804, by original designation.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Chaerephon ansorgei
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Chaerephon
Chaerephon ansorgei

description: Chaerephon ansorgei (Thomas 1913)
Nine individuals were netted across a small stream in northern Mozambique. Prior to our expeditions there was only a single record of this species from Chiutu, central Mozambique (Monadjem et al., 2010).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 45.7 (1); Bm (adult male) 22 (1); FA (adult female) 46.2 ± 0.78 (44.8–47.3, 8); Bm (adult female) 19.1 ± 1.10 (18.0–20.0, 8).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on pages 371-391, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
Drosophila saltans Sturtevant 1916
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila saltans

description: saltans Sturtevant, 1916: 328. Type locality: Cuba, Guantánamo. HT M (MCZ). NT Distr.: Cuba, Mexico to Brazil. Refs.: Hoenigsberg et al., 1977: 298.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 734, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
A secure and efficient inventory management system for disasters
Creators: name: Ozguven, Eren Erman
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Over the last three decades, disasters worldwide claimed more than 3 million lives and adversely affected the lives of at least 1 billion people (Noji, 1997). Regarding the threats posed by these disasters, emergency disaster management has emerged as a vital tool to reduce the harm and alleviate the suffering these disasters can cause to their victims. A significant task of planners involved in emergency disaster management is planning for and satisfying the vital needs of the people located in emergency shelters such as the Superdome in New Orleans.   This thesis proposes a novel and comprehensive framework for the development of a humanitarian emergency inventory management system based on the real-time tracking of emergency supplies and demands through the integration of emerging technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) for commodity tracking and logistics. The novelty of this thesis is that, for the first time in the emergency inventory management field, the proposed approach combines an offline planning strategy with online control techniques in a unified framework. Within this framework, the offline planning problem is solved by the stochastic humanitarian inventory management approach, whereas the online modeling strategies include the application of neural network-based functional approximation, simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA), and continuous time model predictive control (CMPC) techniques.  Unlike previous studies, the flexibility of the proposed inventory management and control model allows the application of the developed mathematical model to extreme events making online real-time tracking possible. Realistic case studies built using information available from past disasters are used to examine the differences in inventory strategies for different types of disasters based on the impact area and duration of the extreme event. The proposed methodology is also capable of representing and understanding real-life cases where uncertainty and limitations on the inventory levels and flow of supplies can be modeled by introducing different levels of stochasticity and real-life constraints.   The overall findings of this thesis have pointed out that the proposed integrated framework can be efficiently used for emergency inventory planning and inventory control during disaster relief operations without ignoring the real-world uncertainties, fluctuations, and constraints of disaster conditions.
Drosophila septentriosaltans Magalhaes & Buck, in Magalhaes 1962
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila septentriosaltans

description: septentriosaltans Magalhães & Buck, in Magalhães, 1962: 142. Type locality: Colombia, Aracataca. ST B (USNM) NT Distr.: Colombia.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 734, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Implicit coordination techniques for wireless communications
Creators: name: Oh, Sangho
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: In distributed networks with a large number of network nodes, direct coordination of communication nodes for performance optimization is an inefficient and difficult task that demands global knowledge of the network status. Hence, implicit coordination techniques, that indirectly infers the network status from the delay and loss of the packets that are received, transmitted, or overheard, have been developed for network performance improvement. Implicit coordination can be accomplished while preserving the valuable network bandwidth resource that can be easily exhausted during the coordination processes. Well-designed implicit coordination techniques, such as TCP in IP protocols or CSMA in 802.11 systems, can make the communication system more efficient and reliable by eliminating or reducing overheads and latency for coordination.     In this paper, implicit coordination techniques are designed and implemented for a number of practical cooperative communication protocols in wireless networks. Firstly, an implicit coordination technique is applied for vehicular networks where adaptability and scalability are major concerns owing to dynamically varying network conditions. For efficient and reliable dissemination of life-safety messages, packet relay nodes are implicitly coordinated for their cooperative relay of the packets received. Next, a joint power control and scheduling problem is discussed in wireless peer-to-peer to networks. Implicit coordination technique is applied to solve complicated resource allocation problems. The resulting coordination algorithm is fully distributed and improves both throughput efficiency and user fairness to the network, relying only on the local information of individual nodes. Lastly, implicit coordination techniques are used to protect the location privacy of the wireless nodes that are collaborating for their location privacy. Two novel cooperative location privacy protection methods, Location Cloaking and Location Cloning, are designed in the communication physical layer. Then, implicit coordination techniques are applied to protect the location privacy of cooperator nodes whose location information may be threatened while cooperating with another node. Implicit coordination also minimizes the risks caused from extra packet transmissions during cooperative operations.
Urolophus bucculentus Macleay 1884
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Urolophidae
Urolophus
Urolophus bucculentus

description: Urolophus bucculentus Macleay, 1884
Sandyback Stingaree
Urolophus bucculentus Macleay, 1884: 172. Holotype: AMS B.642. Type locality: outside Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.
Local synonymy: White et al., 2018: 274, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (1 spec.) NTUM 11499, 210 mm DW (tail missing), west of New Hanover, New Ireland, 2°25’ S, 149°54’ E, 269–279 m depth, 6 Sep. 2014.
Remarks: First record of this species from PNG and first record outside of Australia; previously considered to be endemic to southeastern Australia. Identification verified with molecular data (G. Naylor, unpubl. data).
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Aetobatidae Agassiz 1858
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Pisces
Myliobatiformes
Aetobatidae

description: Family Aetobatidae Agassiz, 1858
Pelagic Eagle Rays
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Drosophila simulans Sturtevant 1919
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila simulans

description: simulans Sturtevant, 1919: 153. Type locality: USA, Florida, Lakeland. HT M (AMNH). NT NE PA AF OR AU Distr.: cosmopolitan. Colombia (Bogota, D:C, Amazonas (Leticia), Cundinamarca (Fusagasugá)). Refs.: Hunter, 1960: 86; Hunter, 1964: 39; Hunter, 1966: 423; Hunter & Navarro, 1969: 1102; Yoon, 1996: 14.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 734, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Aetobatus Blainville 1816
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Aetobatus

description: Genus Aetobatus Blainville, 1816
Pelagic Eagle Rays
Aetobatus Blainville, 1816: 112. Type species: usually given as Raja narinari Euphrasen, 1790, by subsequent designation by Müller & Henle (1837 or 1838).
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Feature selection with applications to text classification
Creators: name: Neu, David Joseph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Application of a feature selection algorithm to a textual data set can improve the performance of some classifiers. Due to the characteristics, specifically the size, of textual data sets researchers have traditionally relied on a family of simple heuristics to perform feature selection. These heuristics, which in practice are quite effective, use functions of individual feature statistics, that we refer to as feature ranking functions, to order the feature set.        We are interested in identifying the most effective feature ranking functions. To do this we begin by defining a feature set evaluation methodology. Traditionally the performance of feature selection algorithms has been measured by comparing the performance of classification algorithms before and after feature selection. Instead, we measure various criteria of the selected feature set itself, including measures of separation, noise, size, and robustness. We demonstrate that many of these criteria are competing, and show how the tools of multicriteria optimization can be employed to rank the performance of feature selection algorithms.       Using this methodology we evaluate the performance of a large set of feature ranking functions, including a function that measures the rareness of a feature assuming that relevant and irrelevant documents are generated by two independent stochastic processes. Motivated by the results, we identify the defining characteristics of the functions that are most successful, noting that many of these can be written as ratios of measures of separation to measures of noise.        Next we introduce a set of axioms which we believe that feature ranking functions should satisfy, and study the set of these functions that can be represented as a linear combination of some finite set of basis functions. We demonstrate that many of the functions or approximations to the functions that we studied are members of this set. Next consider the set of coefficient vectors of this set and show that it is convex, bounded, and not empty. We conclude by investigating the performance of other approaches to feature selection including greedy and ensemble algorithms that use feature ranking functions.
Evolutionary and demographic processes in the invasive weed Microstegium vimineum
Creators: name: Novy, Ari E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus (stiltgrass) is considered among the most invasive plants in the eastern United States. There has been considerable study of this species’ ecology and management though far less attention has been paid to its molecular ecology and the evolutionary processes which may influence its invasion success. Here, I describe a newly developed molecular marker system (microsatellite) which I used to examine M. vimineum’s genetic population structure and diversity in both its native and introduced ranges. I found clear signals that M. vimineum’s mating system is the most important determinant of the species’ population structure and variability. The invasive range had lower genetic diversity overall, probably due to founder effects. Also, population and regional genetic differentiation appeared to be ‘in process’ in the invasive range. Furthermore, M. vimineum’s mixed cleistogamous/chasmogamous mating system allowed for the near fixation of microsatellite genotypes in a given population by high rates of selfing, while still permitting the persistence of allelic diversity and generation of new genotypes at low frequency via occasional outcrossing. Thus, this mating system may confer adaptive advantage to the species as it settles upon fit genotypes in a given area while retaining evolutionary potential for range expansion into new habitats. I also attempted to discern adaptively significant phenotypes in M. vimineum through the measurement of phenological variation of plants originating from across the species’ invasive range under manipulated light treatments. Flowering time and biomass were both strongly correlated with the latitude of population origin such that populations collected from more northern latitudes flowered significantly earlier at lower biomass than populations from southern locations. This pattern suggests rapid adaptive evolution of phenology over a period of less than one hundred years, and such changes have likely promoted the northward range expansion of this species. Interestingly, barriers to gene flow, including bottlenecks and inbreeding, have apparently not forestalled adaptive processes for this plant. Based on literature review and these new data, I hypothesize that adaptive evolution of phenological traits may be widespread in many invasive plant species and an essential process during range expansion.
title: Sectoral Analysis of RDX2 Estimated to 4Q72
Creators: name: Aubry, Jean-Pierre
name: Elisa, McFarlane
name: Lloyd, Kenward
name: Kohli, Ulrich
name: de Bever, Leo
name: Longworth, David
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1976

description: This report is an analysis, by sector, of the RDX2 econometric model which has been revised and estimated to the fourth quarter of 1972 and published as Bank of Canada Technical Report 5.
description: Ce Rapport technique est une analyse de chaque secteur de la plus récente version du modèle RDX2 présentée dans le Rapport technique N°5.
Animalia
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia

description: sturtevanti Duda, 1927: 167. Type locality: Bolivia, La Paz, Mapiri, Sarampioni, 700 m. HT F (SMT). Junior synonym of D. earley and D. pilifacies, but is the only name wich has been used in numerous articles acc. to Magalhães, 1962. NT Distr.: Belize to Brazil, Colombia (Cundinamarca (Fusagasugá), Magdalena (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), Santander (Bucaramanga)), Antilles. Refs.: Magalhães, 1962; Hunter & Navarro, 1969: 1102; Hoenigsberg, 1995a: 87; Yoon, 1996: 22.
earlei Sturtevant, 1916: 329. Type locality: Cuba, Herradura. HT M (AMNH).
pilifacies Malloch, 1926: 29. Type locality: Costa Rica, Alajuela, San Mateo, Higuito. HT F (USNM).
biopaca Sturtevant, 1942: 37. Type locality: Guatemala, Izabal, Quirigua. ST B (AMNH)?. Syn. Dobzhansky & Pavan, 1943: 17.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 734, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
The relationship between the ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) and salt marsh shoreline erosion
Creators: name: Moody, Joshua Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Marsh erosion is a major concern for estuaries as various factors threaten shorelines. The ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa is a prominent component of the Delaware Bay estuarine ecosystem.  A synergistic relationship exists between the ribbed mussel and the salt marsh cordgrass Spartina alterniflora in which the deposition of nutrient rich feces from the mussels enhances S. alterniflora production, helping to create natural levees along the marsh edge.  These levees and marsh vegetation trap sediments enhancing vertical accretion.  From this synergistic relationship, it is hypothesized that, within certain energy regimes, salt marsh shoreline erosion decreases as mussel density increases.   To test the hypothesis, mussel and plant demographics, mass transfer rates (energy), nutrient concentrations and annual lateral shoreline movement were quantified at three sites within four tributaries of the Delaware Estuary (n = 12 sites).  In order to avoid spurious correlations due to the large number of potential interactions, Bayesian factorial and hierarchical modeling techniques were employed to identify potential relationships that occur between the variables within and among study sites. Results indicated that while the presence of mussels and the mass transfer rate of the adjacent water body influence the degree of erosion or accretion measured at the study sites, the river, and the location of the site within it, plays a major role in determining the degree to which these factors have an effect.
Chaerephon pumilus
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Chaerephon
Chaerephon pumilus

description: Chaerephon pumilus (Cretzschmar 1826)
This species was recorded from four sites across the country. It has previously been collected widely in southern and central Mozambique (Smithers and Lobão Tello, 1976).
Field measurements: FA (subadult male) 38.0 (1); Bm (subadult male) 8.0 (1); FA (adult female) 38.0 ± 0.76 (36.9–39.0, 7); Bm (adult female) 11.2 ± 1.04 (9.5–12.0, 5).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on pages 371-391, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
Aetobatus ocellatus
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Aetobatus
Aetobatus ocellatus

description: Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823)
Spotted Eagle Ray
Myliobatus ocellatus Kuhl in van Hasselt, 1823: 316. No original types designated; Neotype: MZB 18225; neotype designation by White et al. (2010). Type locality: Java, Indonesia.
Local synonymy: Myliobatis punctatus Miklouho-Maclay & Macleay, 1886: 675, pl. 46 (figs 1-6) (Hermit Islands; Admiralty Islands). Aetobatus punctatus— Munro, 1958: 114 (Haidana Island; Waterfall Bay, New Britain). Aetobatus ocellatus— Munro, 1967: 16, pl. 2, fig. 21 (New Guinea); White et al., 2018: 280, figs (PNG). Aetobatus narinari— Filewood, 1973: 14 (PNG); Haines, 1979a: 6 (Purari Delta); Allen et al., 2003: 112 (Milne Bay); Hamilton et al., 2009: 73 (northern Bismarck Archipelago); Drew et al., 2012: 5 (Bootless Bay). Aetobatis narinari— Gochfeld, 1996: 43 (southern New Ireland).
PNG voucher material: (3 spec.) FMNH 120552, female ~ 350 mm DW, boat jetty at Tahira, Bootless Bay, Port Moresby, 9°30’26” S, 147°17’12” E, 18 Jan. 2011; KFRS E.684, male 880 mm DW, Daru fish market, Daru, Western Province, 23 Oct. 2014; NMV A 15817 (stuffed), 545 mm DW, no collection data.
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Miklouho-Maclay & Macleay (1886) who described it as a new species, Myliobatis punctatus, from the Hermit and Admiralty Islands. Previously considered synonymise with Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) but the latter species restricted to the Atlantic Ocean. Previously placed in the family Myliobatidae.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Drosophila sucinea Patterson & Mainland 1944
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila sucinea

description: sucinea Patterson & Mainland, 1944: 31. Type locality: Mexico, Puebla, Petlalcingo. T A?. NT Distr.: Mexico (Puebla) to Ecuador. Colombia (Antioquia (Medellin), Cundinamarca (Fusagasugá)). Refs.: Hunter, 1966: 423; Hunter & Navarro, 1969: 1102; Yoon, 1996: 21.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 734, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272