cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Axina furcula Opitz 2020, new species
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina furcula

description: Axina furcula Opitz, new species
Figures 49, 72, 121.
Type material. Holotype. Female. Type locality: Brazil: Minas Gerais, Pedra Azul,?- XI- 1972, 800 m, Moacir Alvarenga (FSCA). Paratypes. 36 specimens. Brazil: Estado do Minas Gerais: Pedra Azul,?- XI- 1972, 800 m, Oliveira (WOPC, 2); Estado do Bahia, Cachimbo,?-?-1890, Ch. Pujol (AMNH, 1; BMNH, 1; CMNC, 1; CUIC, 1; CASC, 1; CMNC, 1; CSCA, 1; EMEC, 1; FMNH, 1: MCNZ, 1; MNHN, 13; OXUM, 1; SDEI, 1; USNM, 1; WOPC, 5,); Villa Victoria,?-?-1890, Ch. Pujol (MNHN, 1); Santo Antônio da Barra, Ch. Pujol,1890 (MNHN, 1); Estado do Pernambuco, Cerra de Communati, 12-III-1893, Gounelle (MNHN, 1).
Diagnosis. The midelytral black fascia does not traverse the sutural margin in specimens of this species, which is not the case in superficially similar specimens of A. latilinea.
Description. Size. Length 9.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 121. Color. Cranium and prothorax black, except pronotal disc lighter at middle; antenna testaceous; mesothorax brown; metathorax and abdomen testaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly testaceous, humerus and epipleural margin widely black, black region extended medially near apex and near elytral middle; legs bicolorous, distal ½ of femora and proximal ½ of tibiae black, remainder of legs testaceous; abdomen brown. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 40/18. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 paralateral spheroid tumescences, one narrow linear short tumescence behind middle, disc concave near middle; PW/PL 95/120; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral ½, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 400/65. Abdomen. Aedeagus, phallobasic lobes angular at base, acuminate; phallobasic lobes long, narrow; margin of phallic plates minutely serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated (Fig. 49).
Variation. Size. Length 5.8–9.3 mm; width 1.3–2.0 mm. Except for body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.
Natural history. Specimens were collected in Brazil during November, at 800 m.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 121). This species is known from Brazil.
Etymology. The specific epithet, furcula, is a Latin noun with a meaning of “fork”. I refer to the acuminate condition of the phallobasic lobes.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Elasmus longiclava Graham
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 27. Elasmus longiclava Graham
Material examined. See Yefremova & Strakhova (2012).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Y. malinellus (Yponomeutidae) and Etiella sp. (Phycitidae), both species belong to Lepidoptera (Yefremova & Strakhova 2010).
Distribution. Israel (Yefremova & Strakhova 2012); Palearctic (Graham 1995; Yefremova & Strakhova 2010).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Elasmus lutens Crawford
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 28. Elasmus lutens Crawford
Material examined. See Yefremova & Strakhova (2012). Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Israel (Yefremova & Strakhova 2012); Indo-Malayn realm: India and Philippines (Verma et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Axina megaspina Opitz 2020, new species
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina megaspina

description: Axina megaspina Opitz, new species
Figures 30, 72, 122.
Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: BOLIVIA, S. Cruz Dept. 20 km N Camiri Rd to Eyti, 8-9-XII. 2015, Wappes & Kuckartz (FSCA). A second label reads: & Skillman, 6–8 km E Hwy 9 El 1250 m, 19°52 ′ S 63°29 ′ W.
Diagnosis. The prothoracic femur is bicolorous in the members of this species; it is unicolorous in superficially similar specimens of A. fasciata.
Description. Size. Length 10.2 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form. As in Fig. 122. Color. Cranium black; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter and middle of disc testaceous; pterothorax mostly testaceous, infuscated anteriorly; elytra bicolorous, mostly testaceous, epipleural margin broadly black, black region extends mesally at humerus, elytral middle and prepapically broadly extended across sutural margin near apex; legs bicolorous, distal ½ of femora and proximal region of tibiae black, remainder of legs testaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 40/25. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 115/150; elytra, asetiferous punctures subseriate, punctures extend to elytral ½, interstitial spaces wide; EL/EW 480/90. Abdomen. Aedeagus (Fig. 30), phallobase with large spine near lobes; phallobasic lobes slightly diverging; edges of phallic plates minutely serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Natural history. The holotype was collected in December at 1,250 m.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 72). This species is known from Bolivia.
Etymology. The specific epithet, magaspina, is a compound name that stems from the Greek megas (= large) and the Latin spina (= spine). I refer to the very large spine at the base of the phallobasic lobes.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Elasmus nudus Nees
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 29. Elasmus nudus (Nees)
Material examined. See Yefremova & Strakhova (2012).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Etiella sp. (Phycitidae), Y. malinellus (Yponomeutidae), Porthesia chrysorrhoea L. (Lymantriidae), Leucospis sp. (Leucospidae) and Cydia pomonella (L.) (Tortricidae) all species belong to Lepidoptera (Yefremova & Strakhova 2010).
Distribution. Israel (Yefremova & Strakhova 2012); Palearctic (Graham 1995; Yefremova & Strakhova 2010).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
TOPICS program T-4001 (9) Bergen County study area II: Technical memoranda Volume I - manual traffic counts
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1975

description: TOPICS, the acronym for "Traffic Operations Program to Increase Capacity and Safety", was a program designed to effectively channel Highway Trust funds into the revitalization of traffic networks in urban areas. This first volume of the 1975 report consists of manual traffic counts of the municipalities of Bergen County, NJ.
Elasmus phthorimaeae Ferriere
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 30. Elasmus phthorimaeae Ferrière
Material examined. See Yefremova & Strakhova (2012).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) (Ferrière 1947). Distribution. Israel (Yefremova & Strakhova 2012); Palearctic (Graham 1995; Yefremova 2007).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Axina sexmaculata Spinola 1844
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina sexmaculata

description: Axina sexmaculata Spinola, 1844
Figures 72, 123.
Axina sexmaculata Spinola, 1844: 124. Holotype. Male. Type locality: Brazil (MRSN). Corporaal 1950: 98. Ekis 1975: 19.
Diagnosis. The cranium is black in specimens of A. sexmaculata. It is red-castaneous in superficially similar specimens of A. fortipes.
Redescription. Size. Length 10.0 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form. As in Fig. 123. Color. Cranium black; antenna testaceous; thorax, legs, and abdomen light castaneous; elytra bicolorous, mostly light castaneous, with three black maculae, one subquadrate on humeral angle, one transverse near elytron middle, and one transverse preapically. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/10. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 100/140; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend to elytral apical ½, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 440/80. Abdomen. Aedeagus, phallobasic lobes very short, slightly diverged; phallic plates minutely serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Variation. Size. Length 8.0– 12.2 mm; width 2.0–3.0 mm. Some specimens have the sides of the pronotum black.
Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during December at 1,250 m, and in Brazil during November.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 72). In addition to the holotype, I examined 11 specimens from: Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, 20 km N Camiri Rd to Eyti, 8-9-XII-2015, 1,250 m, Wappes, Kuckartz & Skillman. Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Villa Victoria,?-?-1890, C. H. Pujol; Cachimbo,?-?-1890, C. H. Pujol; Encruzilhada,?- XI-1975, Moacir Alvarenga; San Antonio da Barra,?-?-1890, Ch. Pujol; Estado do Minas Gerais, Pedra Azul,?- XI-1971, F. M. Oliveira; Estado do Espírito Santo,?-?-1909, collector not legible; Estado do Paraiba, Santa Rita, collection day not noted, F, Salhsberg. Argentina: Provincia Entre Rios, Paraná, Tiju,?-?-1911, E. R. Wagner. Specimens are deposited in: MNHN, SDEI, WFBM, and WOPC.
Notes. The holotype was examined, but the description is based on a homotype specimen.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Computer Simulations of Warm Dense Planetary Materials
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This proposal is focused on materials' properties at extreme pressures and temperatures that occur in planetary interiors and can be generate in laboratory shock wave experiments. The goal of the work is to develop a new computer simulation technique that can describe the regime of warm dense matter from first-principles. The PI's expertise in planetary science and in path integral Monte Carlo simulations will be combined with the experience in massively parallel density functional molecular dynamics simulations performed in the Quantum Simulation Group at LLNL. The work will lead to more accurate models of giant planet interiors and to theoretical predictions and interpretations of experiments at the National Ignition Facility. A major part of the funding support a graduate student who will work jointly with the PI and LLNL group.
TOPICS—Monmouth County, Volume 2
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1973

description: TOPICS, the acronym for "Traffic Operations Program to Increase Capacity and Safety", was a program designed to effectively channel Highway Trust funds into the revitalization of traffic networks in urban areas. This study evaluated the efficiency of the existing network of streets and highways in fulfilling the community's transportation requirements.
Modeling and analysis of continuous powder blending
Creators: name: Gao, Yijie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The main focus of our research is to investigate continuous powder blending. The unit operation of powder blending is widely used to reduce the heterogeneity degree of product mixture in the manufacture of catalysts, cement, food, metal parts, and many other industrial products. Currently in pharmaceutical industry, continuous powder blending has received more attention as an efficient alternative to the traditional batch blending of powders due to its ability in handling high-flux continuous tablet manufacturing. Numerous previous approaches have been performed focusing on investigating the applicability of continuous manufacturing system. However, the development of reliable industrial system is limited by the inaccuracy of mixing index, the complicated effects of operating conditions and the black-box characterization method, all of which result from the lack of a theoretical model that can quantitatively characterize the whole continuous powder mixing process. Therefore, the overall research objective of this work is to develop a general standard method for quantitative process design and control. In this context, three different specific aims are accomplished. We analyze and distinguish different heterogeneity sources in the continuous blending process and develop a general model of continuous blending. Fourier series is applied to characterize the axial blending component, and a periodic section model is developed to capture the cross-sectional blending component. Based on the modeling work, efficient design, control, and scale-up strategies applicable for practical blending of pharmaceutical powders are determined. The effectiveness of the methodology is demonstrated in particle blending simulations and experiments using industrial mixing apparatuses to check its applicability and robustness in pharmaceutical industrial use.
Jusepe de Ribera's artistic identity and self-fashioning in early modern Italy and Spain
Creators: name: Estevez, Lisandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation considers the ways in which Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) fashioned his artistic identity and sought to elevate his social status in Spanish Naples. My dissertation studies alternative ways of understanding the social status of Spanish painters.     Organized in five chapters, my dissertation examines the methods Ribera used to shape his artistic identity as a Spanish painter working in viceregal Naples.  In chapter one, I consider the outward markers of Ribera’s success: the practical strategies he took to ensure his economic success and to elevate his social position.  The second chapter deals with Ribera’s intellectual self-fashioning and the cultivation of his “learned naturalism.”  A systematic study of the artist’s signatures in his paintings, drawings, and prints forms the core of the third chapter of this dissertation.  In this same chapter, I analyze extant early modern portraits of the artist, both accurate and fanciful, in assessing an approximate likeness of the painter. I analyze Ribera’s critical fortunes and biographies in the fourth chapter to see how early modern art biographers virtually “painted” varying literary portraits of Ribera as portrayed in early modern Italian and Spanish art treatises and biographies. Chapter five focuses on how Ribera’s image was further cultivated by early modern Spanish and Neapolitan Baroque poets and playwrights.
Elachistocythere Williams & Weaver 2018, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Elachistocythere

description: Elachistocythere Hart & Hart, 1970
1970 Elachistocythere gen. nov. —Hart & Hart: 279 (T).
1974 Elachistocythere Hart and Hart, 1970.—Hart & Hart: viii, 144, 147, Fig. 42 (C, D, H, R, T).
1974 Elachistocythere Hart and Hart, 1970.—Hartmann & Puri: 51 (C).
1975 Elachistocythere Hart & Hart, 1970.—Hart & Hart: 55 (C, D, H).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Elasmus platyedrae Ferriere
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 31. Elasmus platyedrae Ferrière
Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Western Negev, sweeping, Be’er Milka, 28.iii.2014 (Z. Yefremova). Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders and Perixopia malvella (Hübner) (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) (Ferrière 1947; Yefremova & Strakhova, 2010).
Distribution. Israel (Yefremova & Strakhova 2012); Nearctic, Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan and Palearctic ecorealms (Ferrière 1947; Graham 1995; Yefremova 2007).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Patterns of climate variability in the Western Equatorial Pacific during the Common Era
Creators: name: Esswein, Katherine Lee
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Paleoclimate records suggest significant multi-centennial climate variability during the past two millennia, the Common Era (CE), despite the apparently small changes in external forcings. Proxy records suggest that the Northern hemisphere (NH) was about 0.8 °C cooler during the Little Ice Age (LIA, 1450-1850 CE) relative to the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA 950-1250 CE) and the last century.  The majority of these anomaly reconstructions are from terrestrial records in the NH while information from the Indo-Pacific Warm pool (IPWP) are limited. As the latter exert strong influence on atmospheric convection and thus global climate and rainfall studying the climate of IPWP during the CE can help discern natural variability as well as anthropogenically forced alterations.     Here I use planktonic foraminifera in rapidly accumulating sediments to reconstruct sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity in the Indonesian Seas to investigate changes in tropical temperature anomalies and monsoon strength throughout the CE.  I have studied two sediment cores, one in the northern Makassar Strait, and the other in the Java Sea. The reconstruction of climate parameters is obtained by measuring magnesium/calcium ratios (Mg/Ca) and the oxygen isotopic (δ18O) composition in the tests of a surface dwelling foraminifer, Globigerinoides ruber (sensu stricto). The combined multi and gravity cores exhibit a significant trend in SST from northern to southern Makassar strait, suggesting significant local variability superimposed on the regional and global signals.  A compilation of my Makassar Strait records with previously published records shows a 0.60 ± 0.25 °C cooling in the LIA and temperatures about as warm as the reference period (1860-1890 CE) during the MCA which is highly correlated with the NH temperature reconstruction.  Model output showing the SST variability with forcing parameters held constant in the same region show ± 0.25 °C unforced variability leaving evidence that the SST variability in the proxy compilation could be externally forced.    Paired measurements of Mg/Ca-SST and δ18Ocalicte data are used to derive the δ18Osw, a proxy for salinity which shows more depleted values in sites south of the equator during the LIA, interpreted as fresher conditions. This apparent freshening of the surface water suggests enhanced precipitation associated with the Indonesian boreal winter monsoon.
Lepetidae
Creators: name: Leal, José H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Lepetidae

description: Family Lepetidae
Propilidium curumim Leal & Simone, 1998 (Figure 1); one paratype.
description: Published as part of Leal, José H., 2021, Type specimens in the molluscan collection of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, Florida, USA, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4951 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4655535
Papers on pragmatism
Creators: name: Donaldson, Thomas Mark Eden
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Chapter One: James is often accused of claiming that a belief is true just in case it is useful. The objections to this view are obvious. I offer a more sophisticated interpretation of James's theory of truth, and defend it from the standard objections.    Chapter Two: I discuss Steve Stich's notorious claim that `once we have a clear view of the matter, most of us will not find any value, either intrinsic or instrumental, in having true beliefs.' I argue that Stich reaches this conclusion only because he makes some false assumptions about content-determination. I show that using an interpretationist account of content-determination we can explain the value of true beliefs.     Chapters Three and Four: `Definitionalism' is my name for the thesis that the theorems of mathematics are a priori because they are entailed by definitions. I discuss two objections to this view: the `Kantian' objection and the Quinean objection. According to the `Kantian' objection, definitionalism must be false because existential generalisations can't be true by definition. According to the Quinean objection, the definitionalist's distinction between definitions and other statements is illicit, because it is not discernible in mathematical practice. I argue that the Kantian objection is misguided, but the Quinean objection is correct.    Chapter Five: Elitists draw a distinction between two sorts of word: the elite and the plebeian. They claim that only by using the elite words can we describe the world as it is `anyway'; using the plebeian words, we can at best describe the world as it seems to us, with our own particular physiology, tastes and history. For the sake of argument I grant these claims, but then contend that we have no way of identifying the elite expressions.
Elasmus steffani Viggiani
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 32. Elasmus steffani Viggiani
Material examined. See Yefremova & Strakhova (2012).
Hosts. Gregarious ectoparasitoid of Tortricidae, Yuponomeutidae (Lepidoptera) (Viggiani & LaSalle 1994). Ectoparasitoid of Tachyptilia disquei Meess (Gelechiidae), and hyperparasitoid of Apanteles sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) (Yefremova & Strakhova 2010).
Distribution. Israel (OILB 1971); Palearctic (Viggiani & LaSalle 1992; Graham 1995; Yefremova & Strakhova 2010).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Elachistocythere merista Hart & Hart 1970, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Elachistocythere
Elachistocythere merista

description: * Elachistocythere merista Hart & Hart, 1970
1970 Elachistocythere merista sp. nov. —Hart & Hart: 279–283, Figs. 1 –9 (D, H, R, T).
1974 Elachistocythere merista Hart and Hart, 1970.—Hart & Hart: 145, 147, 148, 154, 176, 215, 235, Pl. XXXIX Figs. 6–9, Pl. LIX (C, D, H, K, T).
1975 Elachistocythere merista Hart & Hart, 1970.—Hart & Hart: 55 (C, D, H).
2014a Elachistocythere merista Hart & Hart, 1970.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Cocculinidae Dall 1882
Creators: name: Leal, José H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cocculinida
Cocculinidae

description: Family Cocculinidae
Macleaniella moskalevi Leal & Harasewych, 1999); five paratypes.
description: Published as part of Leal, José H., 2021, Type specimens in the molluscan collection of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, Florida, USA, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4951 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4655535
High pressure phase transformations in polycrystalline yttrium oxide
Creators: name: Deutsch, Stuart
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Numerous studies have been performed on high-pressure/high temperature phase transitions in rare-earth sesquioxides. Most of these studies were performed using diamond-anvil presses, which limits the size of samples that can be processed. Hence, studies of microstructural and properties changes accompanying phase transitions have been largely neglected.    The purpose of this study has been to fill this gap, working with polycrystalline cubic-Y2O3 because of its importance in IR window and dome applications. We selected Diamond Materials Inc. as partner in this investigation, since this company has the expertise to make test pieces under well-controlled HPHT-processing conditions, thus ensuring that the results obtained for one batch of samples to the next are reproducible. This turned out to be crucial, since variations in applied pressure (1.0 to 8.0 GPa range), and holding times (seconds to hours), resulted in significant changes in observed micro/nano-structures. The temperature was fixed at 1000°C in order to limit HPHT-processing variables to pressure and holding time. In view of the results reported here, it now seems clear that extending the investigation to higher temperatures and lower pressures would be productive.    The principal accomplishments of this research are as follows: (1) optimization of a reversible-phase transformation process to convert polycrystalline cubic-Y2O3 into the nanocrystalline state, involving a forward-phase transformation from cubic-to-monoclinic (c-to-m) Y2O3 at a high pressure (8.0 GPa) followed by a reverse-phase transformation from monoclinic-to-cubic (m-to-c) Y2O3 at a lower pressure (1.0 GPa); (2) discovery of a transformation-induced crystallization process to convert polycrystalline c-Y2O3 into columnar-grained m-Y2O3, and possibly into single-crystal m-Y2O3 - the driving force is attributed to a pressure-induced phase transformation that occurs at the tips of the growing columnar-grains; (3) formation of a mixed-phase (c-Y2O3/m-Y2O3) nanocomposite due to incomplete reverse transformation from m-to-c Y2O3 - a near 50:50 nanocomposite displays the highest hardness; and (4) insight into infiltration of carbon-containing gases (e.g. CO, CO2), formed via reactions between carbon heater and entrapped gases (e.g. O2, H2O) in the pressure cell, into cracked grain boundaries to form carbon particles/films via a vapor-deposition mechanism, and into uncracked grain boundaries to form carbon-rich species via a boundary-diffusion mechanism.
Post-secondary planning paradoxes
Creators: name: Devine Eller, Audrey Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation examines the interactional processes that lead to stratified post-secondary planning and outcomes among high school students. In contrast to most sociological research on education, I study “regular” students, neither the overachievers nor those at risk of dropping out. I address how the mundane details of students’ daily lives are patterned to produce and reproduce systems of privilege. In the first of two waves of research, I interviewed 28 New Jersey counselors. In the second wave, I spent two years shadowing students through 11th and 12th grades at one racially and socioeconomically diverse high school in the suburban fringe of New York City. Multiple ethnographic methods included focus groups, school-day shadowing and repeated interviews of 17 focal students, and interviews with teachers, parents, counselors, and administrators. I argue that students’ lives are structured by a series of paradoxes, beginning with the college-for-all paradox: we expect all students to go to college, and yet fewer than half do. I explore a number of sub-paradoxes that structure student experience in high school. First, some counselors employ a pedagogical role; they scaffold post-secondary planning to foster a “dependent independence” that makes it (incorrectly) appear that students are doing it on their own. Second, New Jersey High School (NJHS) sends a series of complex mixed messages about college in response to a student body with diverse post-secondary outcomes. Mixed messages appear in formal and informal interactions and in the school’s institutional structures. NJHS tells students that college is for everyone, but it’s actually not for all of them. Third, students must navigate through these vague messages to figure out where they fit vis-à-vis their classmates and how that might inform their post-secondary plans. They must do this in a cultural space in which they are just learning which comparisons are acceptable and which must be left implicit. These strategies allow students to adjust their expectations while absolving teachers and counselors from giving advice that is difficult to hear. This leaves students with often mistaken impressions of solid college plans, and they thereby come to understand not going to college as a personal failure.
Pseudococculinidae C.S.Hickman 1983
Creators: name: Leal, José H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Lepetellida
Pseudococculinidae

description: Family Pseudococculinidae
Amphiplica plutonica Leal & Harasewych, 1999 (Figure 2); five paratypes.
description: Published as part of Leal, José H., 2021, Type specimens in the molluscan collection of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, Florida, USA, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4951 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4655535
Investigation of the optical transition in the 229Th nucleus
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: We propose the construction of a frequency standard based on an optical transition in the 229Th nucleus. Recent data indicates that this transition has the lowest energy of any known nuclear excitation, which should make it amenable to study by laser spectroscopy. Because nuclear energy levels are relatively insensitive to their environment, the complicated vacuum apparatus of current optical frequency standards can be replaced by a single crystal doped with 229Th atoms. Preliminary analysis indicates that this system should possess the highest Q-factor of any known laser-accessible transition, and thus may achieve an improvement in precision of as much as 10^6 over current optical frequency clocks. Furthermore, because of the larger energy scales inherent to nuclear interactions, this transition appears to be at least 10^3 times more sensitive to any variation in the fundamental constants. The construction of the system appears to be surprisingly easy, as preliminary crystals doped with the (more stable) 232Th isotope have already been produced.
Herpetocythere Hart & Hart 1967, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Herpetocythere

description: Herpetocythere Hart & Hart, 1967
1967b Herpetocythere gen. nov. —Hart & Hart: 6, 7, 8, 18, 50 [by implication], 51, Fig. 94 (D, K, R, T).
1974 Herpetocythere Hart and Hart, 1967.—Hart & Hart: viii, 145, 148, Fig. 43 (C, D, H, K, T).
1974 Herpetocythere Hart & Hart, 1967.—Hartmann & Puri: 51 (C).
1975 Herpetocythere Hart & Hart, 1967.—Hart & Hart: 55 (C, D, H).
2017 Herpetocythere Hart & Hart, 1967.—Weaver & Williams: 579 (R).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Multifunctional mesoporous and nanostructured catalysts
Creators: name: Das, Sayantani
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Novel multifunctional mesoporous and nanostructured catalysts containing two or more different types of judiciously chosen functional / catalytic groups were developed and their unique and cooperative catalytic activities in various useful organic reactions were explored. First, mesoporous silica material containing tertiary amine/silanol groups was synthesized by simple postgrafting synthetic method. The material was found to exhibit efficient cooperative acid/base bifunctional catalytic activity towards Michael addition reactions between trans-β-nitrostyrene and various active methylene compounds such as malononitrile, acetylacetone and dimethylmalonate. Besides serving as a solid base catalyst, such organoamine-functionalized mesoporous silica materials can be utilized as effective support materials for catalytically active organometallic complexes. This was demonstrated by immobilizing ethylenediamine onto mesoporous silica via postgrafting synthetic method and then complexing Fe(III) onto the supported ethylenediamine groups. This yielded a bifunctional Fe(III)/silanol-based heterogeneous catalyst that showed efficient catalytic activity towards epoxide ring opening reactions. Next, the potential of these types of organic-functionalized mesoporous silicas for immobilization of metallic nanoparticle catalysts was investigated. Specifically, mercaptopropyl-functionalized mesoporous silica was synthesized and the material was then supported with ultrasmall Aun nanoclusters. The catalytic properties of the resulting materials in styrene oxidation were studied. Furthermore, the effect of the removal of the thiol groups from around the surfaces of the gold nanoclusters on catalytic activities of the mesoporous silica-supported nanoparticles was investigated. As mesoporous silica have some limitations of crowding in their pores and poor mass transport for reactants when they are functionalized with larger groups such as nanoparticles, a new strategy was developed, where such catalytic groups were immobilized on the outer surface of silica microspheres. These supported nanoparticle catalytic groups on the silica nanospheres were further coated with a porous silica shell in order to overcome their possible aggregation, sintering and loss of catalytic activities. The resulting nanomaterials, dubbed produced SiO2-Au-pSiO2 core-shell-shell microspheres, were then used as efficient and recyclable nanocatalysts for styrene epoxidation. This strategy was further extended to core-shell-shell microspheres containing the metal (e.g., Pd) nanoparticles within G4 PAMAM dendrimers that are supported on silica nanosphere cores and coated by nanoporous silica shells. These nanomaterials, denoted as SiO2-Pd/PAMAM-pSiO2 core-shell-shell microspheres, were shown to serve not only as efficient and recyclable catalysts but also as selective catalysts for specific functional groups in hydrogenation reaction of various substrates.
The last war we liked
Creators: name: Dudas, David Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This research explores the sources that shape content, continuity, and change in U.S. foreign policy from the period of 1968 through 2006 with a focus on American Army doctrine, and specifically the tension between counterinsurgency and more traditional forms of warfare.  Unlike previous assessments, I argue that although international, organizational, and bureaucratic contexts of action are important to understanding the origins of doctrine, they are insufficient without reference to policymakers’ understandings of dominant views of the American way of war in the public mind.  And where analysts have examined continuity under a bipolar international system as well as organizational culture, I trace the origin of policymakers’ ideas and their assessments of domestic political and cultural contexts of action against the backdrop of external threats to the state and dominant groups within the Army.  Consequently, this study argues that the American experience in war does not readily fit the maxim that armies tend to fight the next war as they did the last, rather the American historical context suggests we fight the next war as the last war we liked.  Last, this study equally concerns itself with the responsibility of policymakers to articulate to the American public the nature of the international environment and the required means to achieve policy ends.
Study of application aware techniques for system and runtime power management
Creators: name: Doddaghatta Shashidhar, Sharat Chandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Energy efficiency of large-scale data centers is becoming a major concern not only for reasons of energy conservation, failures, and cost reduction, but also because such systems are soon reaching the limits of power available to them. Like High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, large-scale cluster-based data centers can consume power in megawatts, and of all the power consumed by such a system, only a fraction is used for actual computations. In this paper, we study the potential of application-centric aggressive power management of data center's resources for HPC workloads. Specifically, we consider power management mechanisms and controls (currently or soon to be) available at different levels and for different subsystems, and leverage several innovative approaches that have been taken to tackle this problem in the last few years, can be effectively used in an application-aware manner for HPC workloads.  To do this, we first profile standard HPC benchmarks with respect to behaviors, resource usage and power impact on individual computing nodes. Based on a  4  power and latency model and the workload profiles, we develop an algorithm that can improve energy efficiency with little or no performance loss. We then evaluate our proposed algorithm through simulations using empirical power characterization and quantification. Finally, we validate the simulation results with actual executions on real hardware. The obtained results show that by using application aware power management, we can reduce the average energy consumption without significant penalty in performance. This motivates us to investigate autonomic approaches for application-aware aggressive power management and cross layer and cross function predictive subsystem level power management for large-scale data centers.
Mechanisms mediating macrophage activation during acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity
Creators: name: Dragomir, Ana-Cristina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Classically and alternatively activated macrophages and inflammatory mediators they release play a key role in the pathogenesis of acetaminophen (APAP)-induced hepatotoxicity. In the present studies, we investigated the role of the DNA-binding protein, high mobility group box-1 (HMGB1), and the β-galactoside binding lectin, galectin-3 (Gal-3), in regulating the phenotype of activated macrophages in the liver following APAP intoxication. Culture medium collected from hepatocytes treated for 24 h with 5 mM APAP (CM-AA) stimulated macrophage production of reactive oxygen species and upregulated expression of the antioxidant enzymes catalase and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1). CM-AA also upregulated expression of the proinflammatory chemokines MIP-1α (CCL3) and MIP-2 (CXCL2), and the eicosanoid biosynthetic enzymes, COX-2 and 12/15-LOX, effects dependent on the p44/42 MAP kinase. Treatment of hepatocytes with ethyl pyruvate (EP) prior to APAP blunted the effects of CM-AA on macrophage ROS production, expression of antioxidant proteins, and COX-2, suggesting that part of the activity in CM-AA was HMGB1. Further studies demonstrated that APAP-induced hepatotoxicity was associated with upregulation of Gal-3 mRNA and protein expression. Loss of Gal-3 resulted in reduced hepatotoxicity in response to APAP. This correlated with decreases in APAP-induced expression of the inflammatory proteins lipocalin 2 (24p3), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), interleukin-12 (IL-12), tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-), macrophage inflammatory protein-3 (MIP-3α), CD98, the macrophage Gal-3 receptor, and TNF-α receptor 1 (TNFR1). In contrast, APAP-induced expression of the alternative activation markers Ym1 and Fizz-1, as well as tissue repair, was increased in Gal-3-/- mice. These results suggest that Gal-3 contributes to inflammatory mediator production and hepatotoxicity after APAP. We next investigated the role of Gal-3 in regulating macrophage proinflammatory phenotype. Following APAP intoxication, increased numbers of proinflammatory CD11b+/Ly6Chi macrophages accumulated in necrotic regions of the liver. These cells were distinct from resident Kupffer cells and expressed Gal-3. Loss of Gal-3 resulted in reduced accumulation of CD11b+/Ly6Chi macrophages in response to APAP and increased accumulation of anti-inflammatory CD11b+/Ly6Clo macrophages. These results suggest that Gal-3 promotes a proinflammatory, classically activated macrophage phenotype in the liver during APAP-induced hepatotoxicity. Taken together, these studies indicate that multiple mechanisms contribute to proinflammatory macrophage activation following APAP intoxication.
Elasmus unicolor Rondani
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 33. Elasmus unicolor (Rondani)
Material examined. See Yefremova & Strakhova (2012).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Coleophoridae and Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) (Trjapitzin 1978). Distribution. Israel (Yefremova & Strakhova 2012); Palearctic (Trjapitzin 1978; Graham 1995; Yefremova & Strakhova 2009).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Second survey of current research in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Creators: name: Matlack, Glenn R.
name: Good, Ralph E.
name: Gibson, David J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1986

description: At its inception, the Division of Pinelands Research undertook a survey of the scientific community to determine the extent and nature of current research within the Pine Barrens. This survey has served two functions: First, the information generated has helped to identify gaps in our understanding of the Pine Barrens ecosystem, and has thus suggested necessary directions of future research. Second, the survey has facilitated immediate communication between those scientists investigating specific problems and the Pinelands Commission and other land managers who require that information for their immediate decisions. To keep the survey current, and maintain its usefulness as a reference, the survey must be updated at regular intervals. Consistent with this need, research scientists were contacted in late 1985 and early 1986 for input for a second edition of the survey. Since the original survey, additional scientists have begun projects in the region, and others have finished projects and are dropped from the directory. The results of the update are compiled into this second edition.
Anatomidae J.H.McLean 1989
Creators: name: Leal, José H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Lepetellida
Anatomidae

description: Family Anatomidae
Anatoma plicatazona Geiger & McLean, 2010; one paratype (missing).
description: Published as part of Leal, José H., 2021, Type specimens in the molluscan collection of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, Florida, USA, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4951 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4655535
In Vivo Effects of Chinese Herbal Extracts on Breast Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a treatment modality that has been used for centuries to treat cancer, prolong life, and increase the quality of life for cancer patients. The lack of evidence-based clinical trials coupled with the proliferation of anecdotal and case report studies of TCM make it an important treatment modality to study. TCM use in the San Francisco Bay Area is widespread and frequently used by our patient population, thus it can be studied using standard research models at our institution. There is a high degree of conformity among TCM practitioners in terms of diagnoses and treatments due to the extensive historically-based documentation of TCM treatment modalities.

 We have recently obtained laboratory data on the effects of over 70 Chinese herbal extracts on the growth of breast cancer cells in culture. These herbs have been traditionally prescribed by TCM practitioners for metastatic breast cancer and other cancer patients. Many of these herbal extracts demonstrated significant inhibitory effects in our initial screening. We now propose to examine the effects of these herbal extracts in mice with breast cancer. We will prepare "teas" of some of the herbs that demonstrated growth inhibitory activity on breast cancer cell lines in culture and administer these orally to mice with breast cancer to examine the anti-tumor effects of these herbs. We will also isolate various constituents from these herbal teas and test these both on cell lines in culture and on breast cancer growth in mice.

 Rather than randomly screening thousands of plants for anti-breast cancer activity, we have focused on plants that have been used for hundreds/thousands of years in Chinese medicine. In addition, we are administering these agents as "teas" which is how they are traditionally administered to patients.
A long term research and management plan for the New Jersey Pinelands
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1986

description: Through the development of a long-term research plan, the Council on Pine lands Research and Management seeks to enhance and direct the role that research plays in Pinelands preservation efforts. Independently conducted study efforts have greatly increased our general knowledge of the complexities of this unique ecosystem. The full benefit of these programs, however, has not been realized due to the absence of a comprehensive and coordinated ecosystem level approach.