cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rheological properties of granular materials
Creators: name: Vasilenko, Alisa Victoria
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Granular materials can be found at any stage of processing in many industries, such as food, pharmaceuticals, catalysts, and chemicals. These materials exhibit a variety of flow patterns, and their state and behavior differ from application to application. Since there is a lack of fundamental understanding of particulate or powder behavior, multiple problems can be encountered during routine manufacturing. Scale-up can also be a challenge, as the lack of constitutive equations for granular materials forces most scale-up efforts to follow the trial-and-error route.   Powder characterization measurements are employed as both a selection tool and a predictive method for the material's process performance. Therefore, it plays a very important role in process and product development. The numerous existing methods used to characterize the flow properties of powders are mostly application-specific and it is not clear how they correlate with each other or with process performance. Moreover, understanding the relationships between the material properties and the processing conditions is necessary for a successful design of a continuous manufacturing system, which has been a major focus for pharmaceutical industry in the recent years. Before such changes can be implemented, a better understanding of fundamental physical phenomena governing powder flow behavior must be developed.  In this work we study particulate/powder flow behavior experimentally using several characterization methods, including the Gravitational Displacement Rheometer (an avalanching tester), the rotational shear cell, and the compressibility tester. We establish the variables of interest through correlative comparison and study the differences and similarities between the methods in order to investigate particulate/powder flow behavior during processing and characterization. A mixing rule for principal stresses is developed through investigation of shear behavior of binary mixtures in a shear cell. In order to better understand the mixing rule the relationship between the particle-particle contact density and measured stresses in a powder bed is explored with DEM simulations. Powder testing methodologies were applied to a case study where the efficiency of the catalyst dry impregnation process was analyzed. As a result, predictive rules and characterization guidelines were developed for different powder systems subjected to various processing conditions.
TOURIST SATISFACTION AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TOUR GUIDES: A STUDY IN KENYA'S NORTH RIFT REGION.
Creators: name: Grace Atieno, Odongo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Kenya’s tour guides play an important role in presenting the country’s rich tourist products and services. Tour guides roles and performance are important and significant in the Kenyan tour industry as they are the face of the industry. The study explored the broad issues of tour guides performance attributes and tourist satisfaction in North Rift tourist region of Kenya. The study hypothesized that tour guide performance attributes have significant effects on tourist satisfaction and the study used cross sectional research design and applied Performance Evaluation Measurement Analysis (PEMA) to evaluate tour guide performance in the North Rift tour circuit region from both domestic and foreign tourists. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation was used in data analysis. From the data collected and analyzed in the circuit’s three regions of Lake Nakuru, lakes Baringo & Bogoria and Kitale. The Pearson correlation (r) analysis results indicate that the tour guides were ill equipped in equipment & tools of trade (-0.1492), poor personality traits (-0.0049), inability to customize tourist service (0.0084), stimulation of tourist interests (0.0419) and weak in problem solving (0.0184). But overally, the findings indicate that the tour guide performance attributes contribute 78.14% in tourist satisfaction. Therefore, the study recommends that the tour guides should acquire equipment & guiding tools of trade, improve on their personality traits, inculcate the skill of houmour to stimulate tourist interests and enhance their problem solving techniques in order to realize tourist satisfaction.
Episyron albonotatum
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron albonotatum

description: Episyron albonotatum (Vander Linden, 1827)
Pompilus albonotatum Vander Linden, 1827:328, ♀.—Dalmatie (Coll. Cabinet du come Déjean).
Distribution in Iran: GOLESTAN (HAUPT 1929A; WOLF 2003; WOLF et al. 2009), TEHRAN (WOLF et al. 2009— AS Episyron albonotatum albonotatum).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia equina
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. divisa hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt, 1877
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt, 1877: 521.
Spongia obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977: 56.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). As proposed below, I assign this material from Key West, Florida to Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Everywhere and nowhere
Creators: name: Vareschi, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Anonymity has a vexed place in the study of English literature. In the field of eighteenth-century literature nearly every work we study was anonymous in its first publication. Nonetheless, named authorship is often a key component in assuring a work’s canonicity; with few exceptions, works that remain anonymous are rarely taught or read. Indeed, we have difficulty conceiving of literary criticism without the author’s name as an organizing principle. The study of anonymity has thus focused less on anonymity as an object of inquiry than as a mystery to be solved or as the condition of textuality or a social condition within modernity. Each approach, however useful, does not account for the phenomenon of anonymous publication itself. My dissertation explores anonymous publication within the long eighteenth century. I examine both literary and non-literary texts to understand the cultural and literary role anonymous texts occupied within the print culture of the eighteenth century and how, increasingly, readers and publishers acknowledged anonymous texts as different from those with named authors. The distinction between named and anonymous texts I argue is central to the formation of the canon of eighteenth-century literature, in which anonymous texts are either recuperated through authorial attribution or disregarded as ephemera. Crucially, once this separation occurs, anonymous publication persists, but it does so largely unnoticed; the acknowledgment of anonymity as a distinct category of authorship coincides with its disappearance in literary history.
Design, modeling and real-time monitoring of continuous powder mixing processes
Creators: name: Vanarase, Aditya U.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Continuous processing is an advantageous alternative for the current methods used in the pharmaceutical manufacturing. Important advantages that it offers include smaller equipment footprint, reduced efforts in the scale-up work, and the potential to utilize already continuous processes to make the entire manufacturing more efficient. In the current pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, powder mixing process is carried out in the batch mode. The necessary methods and guidelines to design an equivalent continuous process are not well established.   The work presented in this dissertation focuses on the characterization, design and optimization of a continuous powder mixing process for pharmaceutical powders. A systematic study was performed of the effects of process and design variables, and material properties involved in the continuous powder mixing process. The bulk powder flow behavior was characterized using the residence time distribution (RTD) measurement approach. Impeller speed, material bulk density and impeller design greatly influenced the mean residence time. With increasing impeller speed, mechanical fluidization was observed, which significantly affected axial dispersion coefficients. Intermediate rotation rates exerted maximum strain on the material, which leads to maximum homogenization. The strain measurements correlated well with the properties of tablets including content uniformity and tablet hardness. Mixing performance was largely dominated by the material properties of the mixture, and the blend uniformity measurement was affected by the sample size analyzed. An experimental protocol was developed to measure the blend uniformity in the in-line mode, and a methodology was further built to quantitatively relate the in-line NIR measurements with the off-line wet chemistry measurements. Considering the shear limitations of the continuous bladed mixer, alternative blending strategies, suitable for blending of cohesive materials were also demonstrated. A combination of a high-shear mixing followed by a low-shear mixing process provided the optimal mixing performance.   The predictive understanding of the continuous powder mixing process developed in this dissertation can assist towards the design and development of a fully controlled continuous manufacturing process.
Episyron arrogans
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron arrogans

description: Episyron arrogans (Smith, 1873)
Pompilus arrogans Smith, 1873:187.
Distribution in Iran: MAZANDARAN (AMIRESMAILI et al. 2010A, B, 2011; AMIRESMAILI & BARARI 2012).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Carabus monilis Fabricius 1792
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Carabus
Carabus monilis

description: Carabus monilis Fabricius, 1792
Sent (GR), La Fuorcha, 1260 m, 821.3/ 188.5, 10.7.2011: 1 Ind.
Carabus monilis ist auch heute noch fast überall in der Schweiz zu finden, im Südosten des Landes sind aber keine neueren Nachweise mehr bekannt. Er wurde im Engadin zuletzt 1950 und im Kanton Graubünden letztmals 1970 festgestellt.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 60, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Poverty deconcentration, housing mobility, and the construction of recent US housing policy
Creators: name: Tursi, Natasha Ona
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This study seeks to answer how and why poverty deconcentration and housing mobility have dominated recent housing policy discourse and produced the Moving to Opportunity demonstration program as HUD’s primary housing initiative in the 1990-2000 period.  Through the examination of the policy discourse imbuing MTO I attempt to elucidate power relations and the role of elites in cultivating the housing mobility discourse.  In addition, I demonstrate the hegemonic processes through which the dominant discourse proliferates.  Employing a postpositivist approach to policy analysis, I examine the process of policy deliberation to expose the deliberative and discursive mechanisms through which MTO was engendered.  Towards this end, the study explores the process, nature, and dynamics of policy deliberations at HUD to understand how federal policies are formed particularly with regard to embedded power dynamics and democratic processes.  By illustrating the discursive practices that produced MTO, I uncover the politics, assumptions and frames through which HUD views poverty concentration, housing mobility, and voucher recipients.    By depicting the evolutionary (genealogical) stages of MTO through a frame-critical discourse analysis, this study delimits the empirical findings produced through the demonstration.  To that end I employ Fischer’s logic of policy evaluation and elucidate four interrelated discourses, which “extend from concrete empirical questions pertinent to a particular situation up to the abstract normative issues concerning a way of life” (1995:18).  Accordingly, I produce an overall analysis of MTO, and offer suggestions on how the demonstration could have been structured or delineated differently, and what alternative assumptions or frames might have led to different analytical results.
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia equina
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. mexicana hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt, 1877
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt, 1877: 521, pl. 16 fig. 28.
Spongia obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977: 56.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). As proposed below, I assign this material from Vera Cruz, Caribbean Mexico to Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Regulation of HIV-1 Tat activity via lysine methylation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The hallmark of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the progressive depletion of CD4+ T helper cells, responsible for the host defense against foreign pathogens. During this process the immune system becomes highly compromised thus facilitating infection of the host by a multitude of pathogens. In HIV-infected individuals, the rate of viral replication correlates with the rate of CD4+ T cell depletion and the progression to AIDS. Viral replication is critically regulated at the transcriptional level. During productive infection the HIV promoter located within the 5’ long terminal repeat (LTR) is activated by a combination of cellular transcription factors/coactivators and the viral Tat protein. Tat stimulates HIV transcription elongation by recruiting the cyclinT1/CDK9 cellular complex to the TAR element, an RNA stem-loop structure formed at the 5' extremities of the HIV viral transcripts. During latent infection the HIV promoter is silenced and HIV gene expression (including Tat) is suppressed. We study the molecular mechnisms of Tat function as an important target for antiviral therapy in active and latent infection. We and others have previously shown that Tat function is regulated by posttranslational modifications, including acetylation of lysine 50. Tat acetylation leads to the dissociation of the Tat/TAR/cyclinT1/CDK9 complex and generates a new protein-protein interface for the PCAF coactivator. Acetylation of Tat is a reversible process mediated by an enzyme called SIRT1, which recycles the non-modified form of Tat to initiate a new transcriptional cycle. We now identified a new posttranslational modification in Tat, which regulates Tat function. We observed that Tat specifically interacts with the lysine methyltransferase Set9 in lymphocytes, and that Set9 monomethylates Tat at lysine 51. Our preliminary results show that this modification inhibits Tat’s transcriptional activity. The goal of this proposal is to determine the role of Tat methylation in HIV infection. Special emphasis lies on the possibility that Tat methylation inactivates Tat in latently infected T cells. We will generate antibodies specific for methylated lysine 51 or dual specific for acetylated lysine 50/methylated lysine 51 and examine levels of methylated Tat in productively and latently infected T lymphocytes. We will study whether the presence of a monomethyl group at lysine 50 affects the interaction of Tat with TAR RNA or cellular cofactors such as cyclinT1 and PCAF and will attempt to identify novel interaction partners of methylated Tat. We will downregulate Set9 expression using siRNAs in CD4+ T cells and monitor HIV replication in these cells. We anticipate that these studies will further our understanding of the molecular regulation of HIV transcription by Tat postttranslational modifications and will provide new targets for therapeutic intervention.
Episyron coccineipes
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron coccineipes

description: Episyron coccineipes (Saunders, 1904) #
Pompilus coccineipes Saunders, 1904:548.
Distribution in Iran: HAMADAN (WOLF et al. 2009— AS Episyron coccineipes coccineipes).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia equina
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. obscura hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt, 1877
(Figs. 2F–H)
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt, 1877: 521, pl. 16 fig. 29.
Spongia obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977: 56, pl. 2 fig. 3, pl. 3 (with additional synonyms); Van Soest, 1978: 14, pl. II fig. 3, text-fig. 3.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5), and elevation in rank as Wiedenmayer and Van Soest have attempted is similarly invalid (ICZN art. 45.5.1). Since the synonyms listed by Wiedenmayer do not contain an available species name, I assign Wiedenmayer’s material from Nassau, Bahamas and Key West, Florida to Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977 (allowed under ICZN art. 45.5.1), with dried holotype USNM 30097, fieldnr. O651 (depicted in Wiedenmayer 1977: pl. 2 fig.3), locality W of Andros Island, Bahamas, approximate coordinates 24.21°N 78.04°W, depth 2 m. Unavailable names of several Hyatt (1877) varieties of S. e. subsp. cerebriformis (divisa, mexicana, plana and typica) are also attributable to this species.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Alkali-phosphate common-ion system for synthesis of rare-earth orthophosphates
Creators: name: Uhrin, Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Rare-earth orthophosphate crystals are interesting materials for many optical applications, because their physical properties often exceed those of currently used materials.  In particular, Ce:LuPO4 is useful for positron emission tomography (PET).  The most important reason why this and other rare-earth orthophosphate crystals haven’t been commercialized is the absence of large crystals suitable for devices.  The greatest impediment is the lack of a suitable crystal growth process.  A Pb2P2O7 solution has been used for many years to produce a complete series of lanthanide orthophosphate crystals, but this solution raises some serious environmental concerns.  In addition, large crystals of a reproducible size and quality that are required for device fabrication do not result, and the crystals tend to be platy.  It is generally known that a change in solution acidity or basicity affects the habit of grown crystals.  Consequently, it was theorized that a potassium-based system (i. e. more basic) would result in equiaxed crystals, and such a system has been investigated in an effort to obtain a partial phase diagram for the KPO3-Lu2O3 pseudo-binary system.  Various techniques were employed to confirm a molten solution composition from which crystals can be grown.  LuPO4 crystals were produced from solutions with different K2O/P2O5 ratios and varied Lu2O3 concentrations.  This provided information on the preferred composition range for single phase LuPO4, as well as the solid phases expected within the range of compositions that was studied.  X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis provided a useful tool to identify the solid phases.  Powder synthesis with subsequent XRD analysis was also utilized in some cases, since numerous single and mixed phosphate compounds are possible and a complete set of diffraction files is not available.  Knowledge of the cerium concentration is also required in the case of Ce:LuPO4, so a K2O-CeO2-Lu2O3-P2O5 glass was developed.  Samples containing varied cerium concentrations were examined using optical absorption spectrometry in order to correlate the ultraviolet peak height with cerium concentration.  Finally, differential thermal analysis (DTA) was employed to identify the location of phase transitions within the selected composition range.  These data were then utilized to construct a partial phase diagram up to 5 m% Lu2O3.  The predicted composition/temperature range was applied to produce small, optically transparent, equiaxed crystals of Ce:LuPO4, Ce:GdPO4, Nd:LuPO4, YPO4, TbPO4, and CePO4.  This confirmed that the KPO3-based solution was universally applicable to a complete range of lanthanide orthophosphates.  Furthermore, it could be concluded that other alkaline solvents such as LiPO3 and NaPO3 might produce similar results.
Episyron flavipes Haupt 1962
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron flavipes

description: Episyron flavipes Haupt, 1962 #
Episyron flavipes Haupt, 1962:52, ♂.— Israel, Ein Harod (Tel Aviv).
Distribution in Iran: HORMOZgAN (WOLF et al. 2009) AS Episyron bifasciatus PRIESNER, 1955.
Remarks: Episyron bifasciatus PRIESNER, 1955 HAS NEVER BEEN DESCRIBED. IT IS ONLy MENTIONED IN PRIESNER (1955:150) BELOW Episyron flavipes AS “ Episyron bifasciatus PRIES. IN SCHED.ˮ. THE TRUE IDENTITy OF THE SPECIMENS MENTIONED By WOLF et al. (2009) IS DOUBTFULL.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Experimental Study on Direct-Shear Behaviour of Narrow Joints in Socket Connections for Precast Pier-to-Pile Footing Systems
Creators: name: Chen, Mingzhu
name: De Corte, Wouter
name: Jiang, Haibo
name: Taerwe, Luc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The application of precast concrete segmental piers in modern construction, being economic and environmental, is an inevitable global trend. With the ease of construction and high performance, socket connections have a broad prospect for substructures, which can connect precast piers to footings with preformed sockets through narrow joints grouted by high-performance cement-based materials. However, these joints are different in direct-shear behaviour than those in precast concrete segmental beams. In this study, the direct-shear behaviour of narrow joints in socket connections for precast pier-to-pile footing systems is investigated through experimental analysis. The joint specimens were designed as full-scale local models for push-out tests. The analysis examines the direct-shear strength, failure modes, and stress distribution mechanisms of two dimensional socket connections. It is expected to provide input for the structural design of much more complex three dimensional precast socket-connected piers with support plates. The results reveal that improving the tensile strength of the grouting material by applying steel-fiber reinforced concrete or self-compacting concrete, decreasing the width of the joints and increasing the number of shear keys are all beneficial to improve the direct-shear performance, while the use of corrugated steel pipes as a stay-in-place formwork without additional reinforcements in footings reduces this characteristic.
Calathus ambiguus
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Calathus
Calathus ambiguus

description: Calathus ambiguus (Paykull, 1790)
Diese seltene Art wird in jüngster Zeit nur noch im Wallis gefunden. Ich selbst erbeutete sie seit 2009 (siehe auch Hoess 2009) regelmässig in der Nähe von Rebbergen und seltener in Trockenhängen in den Gemeinden Ardon, Chamoson, Fully, Hohtenn, Niedergesteln, Raron und Varen. Insbesondere im Herbst ist sie dort eine der wenigen noch aktiven Arten, was auch gut zum Phänogramm in Luka et al. (2009) passt. Wiederholt kommt der ebenfalls seltene C. cinctus Motschulsky, 1850 mit ihr zusammen vor.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 59, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia equina
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. plana hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877
Spongia equina subsp. cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877: 520, pl. 15 fig. 8 (in part, Florida specimens only).
Spongia obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977: 56.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). As proposed above, I assign this material from Florida to Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Calathus micropterus
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Calathus
Calathus micropterus

description: Calathus micropterus (Duftschmid, 1812)
Villeret (BE), Chasseral, 1560 m, 570.3/ 219.8, 21.9.2015: 2 Ind.
Diese in den Alpen noch häufige Art wurde im Jura zuletzt 1996 nachgewiesen. Möglicherweise gehen ihr dort wegen der Klimaerwärmung die geeigneten Lebensräume aus.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 60, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Clibanarius merguiensis De Man 1888
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Diogenidae
Clibanarius
Clibanarius merguiensis

description: Clibanarius merguiensis De Man, 1888
(Fig. 7C)
Habitat. Sandy, rocky shore, seagrass bed, and reef flat, intertidal.
Distribution. West Indian Ocean to Thailand, Vietnam and the Malay Archipelago, and the Philippines and Taiwan. Indonesia: Lombok, Sulawesi and Maluku.
Remarks. In life the species is recognizable by the yellowish orange with tinge of blue broad stripe on the dark brown or black of ambulatory legs. This color fades rapidly in the preservative.Color variation discussed by Rahayu and Forest (1993) were also found in the specimens in this study:
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 13, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
Comprehensive Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Agriculture
Creators: name: Patrick R.
Publisher: name: Patrick R.
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sustainable farming practices
subject: Precision agriculture
subject: Climate-smart agriculture
subject: Resources management
subject: Soil health
subject: Water conservation
subject: Renewable energy in agriculture
subject: Biodiversity
subject: Food Security
subject: Technological innovation
subject: Regenerative agriculture
subject: Urban agriculture
subject: Agricultural policy
subject: Common agricultural policy
subject: Labor shortages
subject: Economic sustainability
subject: Resource Depletion and Management
subject: Climate change adaptation
subject: Soil Health and Conservation
subject: Technological Innovations
subject: Sustainable Practices
subject: Policy and Regulation
subject: Economic Challenges
subject: Urbanization and Land Use
subject: Consumer Demand and Food Quality
subject: Education and Training

description: Modern agriculture is an intricate system at the center of human survival, yet it faces escalating challenges across environmental, economic, technological, social, and policy domains. From climate change and soil degradation to labor shortages and market instability, these challenges undermine global food security and environmental sustainability. This thesis identifies these core issues and proposes innovative, practical, and scalable solutions tailored to diverse agricultural contexts. By integrating these solutions into a holistic framework, this study provides a pathway for the development of a resilient and sustainable agricultural system.
Episyron gallicum
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron gallicum

description: Episyron gallicum (Tournier, 1889b)
Pompilus gallicus Tournier, 1889b:172.—Mont-Marsan, France.
Distribution in Iran: GOLESTAN (WOLF 1977 — AS Episyron intermedius HAUPT, 1929A), MAZANDARAN (AMIRESMAILI et al. 2011; AMIRESMAILI & BARARI 2012; HAUPT 1929A—AS Episyron intermedius HAUPT, 1929A); NO LOCALITy CITED (WOLF et al. 2009— AS Episyron gallicum gallicum (TOURNIER, 1890)).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Simplified prediction equation for ultimate stress in beams prestressed with hybrid tendons
Creators: name: Unal, Gonca
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The use of unbonded tendons is getting more widespread in post-tensioning industry; especially in rehabilitation and strengthening of existing damaged concrete members. The prediction of the stress at ultimate in unbonded tendon is important in calculating the capacity of structural members. This thesis presents a simplified prediction equation for concrete beams prestressed with hybrid (a combination of bonded and unbonded) tendons. The proposed equation is based on the Generalized Incremental Analysis (GIA) which uses the trussed-beam model developed by Ozkul et al. (2008) and Nassif et al. (2003).  The main objective of this research is to develop a simple, but accurate design equation for the prediction of the stress at ultimate in unbonded tendon. Most important parameters such as loading type, effective prestress of unbonded tendon, concrete strength, area of steel reinforcement and span-to-depth ratio are taken into consideration. The equation is applicable to beams prestressed with unbonded or hybrid, FRP or steel, external or internal tendons. For the validation of the proposed simplified equation, test results available in the literature (199 beams) are collected. The results show that the proposed simplified equation exhibited very good accuracy for the calculation of stress at ultimate in unbonded tendon.  The simplified equation is easy to use, accurate and applicable to any material type and combination of tendons.
European Union efforts to fight judicial corruption
Creators: name: Trapp, Marius Benjamin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This Master’s thesis addresses the EU efforts to fight judicial corruption in Romania. I argue that EU membership conditionality was relatively effective to lower the level of judicial corruption before Romania entered the EU in 2007. In addition, the EU socializationand the domestic factors – legacy of communism, objective-material factors, and public opinion and levels of public trust – are quite influential regarding the implementation of EU initiatives and show the complexity of the Romanian case. Rather than usingmerely the top-down logic of corruption indices or governance indicators, I also apply a bottom-up perspective and therefore particularly draw attention on disregarded measurement. This approach bears the benefit of capturing a range of informal practices thatare misinterpreted by the recent conceptualization of corruption. The before-after case study design and the process-tracing method allowed the analysis of pre-accession and post-accession conditionality in the context of judicial corruption. By assessing the EUprogress reports, the NIT scores and reports, the CPI and the GRECO reports, I found several remarkable developments regarding the fight against judicial corruption.Two of the key elements of EU conditionality – conditions and monitoring – have evolved significantly.Thus, the introduction of post-accession benchmarks and the strengthening of the monitoring process represent important steps in the evolution of EU efforts to fight judicial corruption in Romania. However, the analysis shows that it is difficult to compensatethe pre-accession conditionality through post-accession monitoring mechanisms.Although the analysis confirms that EU efforts had a significant impact to fight judicial corruption in Romania before accession, there is still room for improvements for the post-accession phase. Regarding the incentive structure, the analysis of the key documents finds evidence that this element of EU conditionality may be the main weakness. After Romania entered the EU, the EU lost its attractive accession advancement rewardsand was merely able to rely on explicit threats to induce compliance. However, the limited penalizing power of the remedial and preventive sanctions set up in theframework of the CVM causes a fairly weak incentive structure which negatively influenced the effectiveness of post-accession conditionality.
Modeling regulation of transcription initiation
Creators: name: Traldi, Eliane Zerbetto
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The concept of activation in transcriptional regulation is based on the assumption that product mRNA increases monotonically as a function of regulator concentration. We analyze the Shea-Ackers model of transcription and find this assumption to be correct only for the simplest of promoters. We define a new regulatory constant that is a nonlinear combination of association and transcription initiation constants characterizing activation and repression for more complicated promoters. Our results can guide the synthesis of new promoters and lead to a deeper understanding of the constraints guiding the natural promoters evolution.    Using a validated mathematical model based on the Shea-Ackers transcription rate function, we then show that two modes of upregulation have very different effects on the function of promoter PRM in phage lambda. We predict that if CI2 bound to OR2 produced equal increase in RNAP-DNA binding constant (compared to wild-type increase in the closed-open transition probability), the lysogen would be significantly less stable.    We then focus on the promoter clearance process during transcription initiation. Our work builds upon an initial sequence-dependent three-pathway model proposed by Xue et al. After making several modifications to this model and not being able to satisfactorily match experimental data, we introduce a new parameter to the model: the possible formation of secondary structure in the single stranded scrunched DNA accumulated before RNA polymerase is able to escape the promoter .
Dromius fenestratus
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dromius
Dromius fenestratus

description: Dromius fenestratus (Fabricius, 1794)
Merishausen (SH), Staanenweg, 640 m, 685.7/ 289.9, 20.2.2015: 1 Ind.
Neu für den Kanton Schaffhausen. In der Nordostschweiz wurde D. fenestratus seit 1992 nicht mehr gemeldet. Das Tier aus Merishausen hat stark reduzierte Flecken auf den Elytren, die im Feld nicht auf den ersten Blick zu sehen waren.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 60, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Clibanarius striolatus Dana 1852
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Diogenidae
Clibanarius
Clibanarius striolatus

description: Clibanarius striolatus Dana, 1852
(Fig. 7E)
Habitat. Mud substrate near mangrove or seagrass bed, intertidal.
Distribution. From the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean to the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan. Indonesia: Jawa, Kalimantan, Lombok, Sulawesi, and Maluku.
Remarks. This is a very common species in Indonesian waters. The dark brown stripes on the light green ambulatory legs easily separated this species from the congeners.
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 13, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
Episyron obesus Gussakovskij 1932
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron obesus

description: Episyron obesus Gussakovskij, 1932 #
Episyron obesus Gussakovskij, 1932:302, ♀.— Iran, Kerman (ZIN?).
Distribution in Iran: KERMAN (GUSSAKOVSKIJ 1932).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Boiling and spreading behavior of impinging nanofluid droplets on a heated surface
Creators: name: Torres, Jonathan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The effects of nanofluids on water drops impinging onto heated surfaces are studied.  This includes analyzing the drop spreading and boiling behavior. In order to view the impingement of the drops, a transparent ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) coated quartz glass is modified into a transparent heater and is used to simulate the heated surface. Two different concentrations of alumina oxide nanoparticles are studied and compared to pure water. The drops are studied under 4 different Weber number conditions and surface temperatures in the range 100°C-200°C and 275°C. The boiling regions observed in this studied ranged from the convective boiling region to the film boiling region. Boiling properties of the drop are visualized with a high speed image acquisition system. The spread behavior of the droplets is studied and compared with analytical theories. Boiling behavior is significantly altered with the addition of nanofluids most significantly in the nucleate boiling region. Nanofluid drops show an increase in bubble production and growth when compared to pure water drops. As a result, the nanofluid drops experience a more intense nucleation boiling than water drops. The Leidenfrost temperature is also studied for the different nanofluid concentrations.  Furthermore results show that nanofluids prevented the formation of dry areas at certain We and Ts, but when dry areas are present they last longer. Last, the spreading behavior of nanofluid drops registered higher β values especially at the higher Ts when compared to pure water. This is due to their increased amount of nucleation during the boiling of the drop.
Episyron rubicundus Gussakovskij 1932
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron rubicundus

description: Episyron rubicundus Gussakovskij, 1932 #
Episyron rubicundus Gussakovskij, 1932:301, ♀.— Iran, Mekran (ZIN?).
Distribution in Iran: SISTAN-O BALUCHESTAN (GUSSAKOVSKIJ 1932).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Learning the manifolds of local features and their spatialarrangements
Creators: name: Torki, Marwan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Local features play an important role for many computer vision problems; they are highly  discriminative and possess invariant properties. However, the spatial configuration of local features  plays an essential role in recognition. Spatial neighborhoods capture local geometry and  collectively provide shape information about a given object. In this dissertation we studied  explicit and implicit ways to exploit the joint feature-spatial arrangement in images for recognition  problems. We introduce a framework to learn an embedded representation of images that  captures the similarity between features and the spatial arrangement information. The framework  was successfully applied in object recognition and localization context. The framework  was also applied for feature matching across multiple images. We also showed the viability  of the framework in regression from local features for viewpoint estimation. We also studied  implicit ways to exploit the feature-spatial manifold structure in the data without explicit embedding  and within a transductive learning paradigm for object localization. We learned the  labels of the local features from an object class in a manner that provides spatial and feature  smoothing over the labels. To achieve that we adapted the Global and Local Consistency Solution  for Label Propagation to our implicit manifold model to infer the labels of local features.  We showed excellent accuracy rates with very low false positive rates on the learned features  labels in the test images.
From chattas to churidars
Creators: name: Thomas, Sonja
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation is a critical analysis of the feminist concept of intersectionality and a necessary contribution into the study of caste, class, race, religion and gender in South Asia.  Rather than viewing identities as merely overlapping, I argue that there exist countless “acts” that implicate the co-constitutive, relational, and fluid nature of identities.  Particularly focusing on the upper-caste Syrian Christian community in postcolonial Kerala, India, I examine “acts” in the form of embodied clothing practices, women’s mobility in public spaces and political protests. My dissertation especially intervenes into dominant discourses within South Asian and Women’s and Gender Studies.  I reassess of the concept of race in South Asia, provide a sustained ethnographic and historical analysis of the state of Kerala, India, and I place the fields of South Asian and Women’s and Gender Studies into critical dialogue with each other.  To make these interventions, I use a variety of sources collected through interdisciplinary research methods.  These methods include ethnography, archival methods, feminist and postcolonial theoretical analysis, and visual culture analysis. In the first and second chapters of the dissertation, I provide an overview of the dissertation, my field site and a history of the Syrian Christian community.  In the third and fourth chapters I explore the relations between class, caste, race, religion and gender through an examination of the women’s (in)ability to move freely in a changing public sphere.  Following this, in chapters five and six I analyze how Syrian Christians have used their social privileges to politically mobilize, define a nation-wide minority identity, and protect their dominance in Kerala’s private education sector.  In the last chapter, I bridge Women’s and Gender Studies with South Asian Studies and examine each of the disciplines’ approach to studying differences between peoples in India.  From the chatta, a clothing worn in colonial Kerala by Syrian Christian women alone, to the churidar worn today by women of all classes, castes, races and religions, I examine how “acts” of class, caste, race, religion and gender may continue previous divisions between groups, justifying forms of oppression and ultimately upholding systems of domination in India today.
Episyron rufipes
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Episyron
Episyron rufipes

description: Episyron rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sphex rufipes Linnaeus, 1758:571.
Distribution in Iran: GOLESTAN (EBRAHIMI et al. 2008), MAZANDARAN (HAUPT 1929A; EBRAHIMI et al. 2008), NORTHERN IRAN (WOLF 1959); NO LOCALITy CITED (GUSSAKOVSKIJ 1932).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890