cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Epitenodera brevelytra
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Epitenodera
Epitenodera brevelytra

description: Epitenodera brevelytra (Giglio-Tos, 1912)
Figs. 174–175
Tenodera herbacea var. brevelytra Giglio-Tos, 1912: 52–53.
Type locality. Sakjé, Cameroon.
Distribution. Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon (Giglio-Tos 1912; Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 2022).
Records. CSC: ♀, old camp, 24.X.2000, leg. juv. C. J. Schwarz.
Remarks. This species had been treated as Epitenodera brevipennis by Gillon & Roy (1968). The genus was recently revised by Roy (2022), who assigned the Lamto specimens recorded by Gillon & Roy (1968) to E. brevelytra. Our specimen fits the original description (Saussure 1871b), the type housed in the MFN, and the redescription given by Roy (2022). This species differs from the putatively sympatric E. brevipennis by: smaller body size with an overall stouter body shape; the shorter pronotum (P/p 4.45–4.9 in males and 4.0–4.3 in females, as compared to 5.0–5.7 and 4.1–5.0 in E. brevipennis, respectively); comparatively longer tegmina in females, exceeding the supraanal plate in E. brevelytra while reaching the fifth tergite in E. brevipennis; the costal field lacking the blackish stripe and the white costal stripe present in E. brevipennis; and male genitalia (Roy 2022). The second species of this genus recorded at Lamto, Epitenodera nimbana Roy, 1963 (Gillon & Roy 1968), is distinguished from E. brevelytra by larger body size (up to 90 mm), a black spot on the anterior femora, wings exceeding the tip of abdomen in females, and different male genitalia (Gillon & Roy 1968: Fig. 32; Roy 2022).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Global versus local
Creators: name: Persaud, Kimele
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Expectation for context is perhaps the most influential contributor to episodic memory. Although research has investigated the influence of functional components of scene context in perception, little is known about the independent contributions of these components to long-term episodic memory. In this investigation we find that different from perception, these components make substantially different contributions to memory. Namely, the global context component that binds objects to natural scenes is important at short study times, where a lack of global binding information appears to disrupt meaning extraction. Local context components that bind objects to each other within a scene (i.e., spatial and associative) are important for sustaining memory performance. Disrupted spatial information forces a longer visual search, which requires more study time for effective encoding. Lacking associative information has a detrimental effect on recall following short study times—effectively equating performance to short term memory. This has important theoretical implications.
Choleva (Choleva) uludagica Giachino & Vailati 2000
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva
Choleva uludagica

description: Choleva (Choleva) uludagica Giachino & Vailati, 2000
Choleva uludagica Giachino & Vailati, 2000: 131. Type locality: Turchia, vil. Bursa, Uludag, m 850.
Distribution in Iran. Ardabil, E Abi Beyglu, Saha Dam 1470 m N 38°14'18'' E48°39'43'' leg. Frisch (ZMHB). New record for Iran.
General distribution. Iran. Turkey.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Sphodromantis lineola subsp. lineola
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Sphodromantis
Sphodromantis lineola
Sphodromantis lineola lineola (burmeister, 1838)

description: Sphodromantis lineola lineola (Burmeister, 1838)
Figs. 176–180, 183–184
Mantis (Stagmatoptera) lineola Burmeister, 1838: 537.
Type locality. Sierra Leone.
Distribution. Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon (Beier 1968; Bolívar 1908a; Burmeister 1838; Chopard 1954; Gillon & Roy 1968; La Greca 1967, 1969; Lombardo 1991; Miles 2021; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Rehn 1949; Roy 1963, 1964b, 1965a, 1967, 1968b, 1970b, 1971a, b, c, 1975, 1978, 2010; Roy & Leston 1975).
Records. CSC: ♀, old camp, 10.–15.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, 16.XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, old camp, 17.XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 9 juv., old camp, X.–. XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 467).
Remarks. Next to Polyspilota aeruginosa the most common mantis in the Park. Contrary to the former, S. lineola prefers forest edges and open savanna. This species occurs in two male morphs, one with a broader metazona, distributed mainly in the southern forest block, and a savanna form with a more slender metazona. Both forms co-occur in the CNP. Cohorts of freshly hatched nymphs (Fig. 183) mimic aggregations of the ant Oecophylla longinoda (Edmunds 1972; pers. obs.).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Nargus Thomson 1867
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Nargus

description: Genus Nargus Thomson, 1867
Nargus Thomson, 1867: 349, type species: Choleva velox Spence, 1815.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Medicinal plants with antioxidant and antiinflammatory properties in cancer prevention
Creators: name: Paredes Gonzalez, Ximena Alejandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Plants extracts have been used in the folk medicine for hundreds of years because it is believed that they constitute a natural approach in dealing with many diseases including cancer. To detect, prevent and treat cancer before it arises is a great promise in personalized medicine and chemopreventive compounds that have the ability to suppress or block tumor progression are an important approach that has gained increasing attention due their low side effects. Many of these plants and their bioactive compounds have the ability to modulate reactive oxidative species, inflammation, apoptosis mediators and Nrf2/ARE signaling pathway. In this dissertation, we have explored the effect of glucosinolates and the main bioactive compounds of Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Matricaria recutita L. in order to have a better understating on how they are able to activate Nrf2 signaling and the role that they play in Nrf2 interaction with anti-inflammatory, pro-apoptosis and epigenetic signals. We have also discussed the emerging field of cancer and obesity on that crosstalking of these pathways play a pivotal role worsening cancer outcomes representing an emergent and challenging field for prevention and treatment that needs to be further addressed in the future.
Ethnographic experimentalism
Creators: name: Prakash, Shambhavi
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Year: 2015

description: This dissertation explores the registers in which German filmmaker and artist Ulrike Ottinger (1942-) and writer Hubert Fichte (1935-86) push the boundaries of the representation of others – both non-European cultural others, as well as the silenced internal others of Europe and Germany – and the kind of aesthetic strategies they use to challenge the normative discourses about these others. I contend that their use of experimental aesthetic strategies foreground aspects of indeterminacy and relationality that are invariably a basic but often concealed part of cross-cultural encounters as well as of normative practices dominant within a culture. I do this by examining two of Ottinger’s films – Freak Orlando (1981) and Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989) – and two of Fichte’s poetic ethnographic works – Die Palette (1968) and Petersilie (1980). The choice of these four works – in each case, one work on non-European cultures and one on Europe’s own marginalized, persecuted and silenced others – serve to identify the framing principle of the other, be it Europe’s external or internal others.     Ulrike Ottinger and Hubert Fichte are both known for their ethnographic approach, and the reception of their works tends to divide their oeuvre into early and later phases. It is the later phase, engaging with non-European cultures, that gets categorized with its perceived distance to Europe as ‘ethnographic’. I examine, instead, how both artists challenge traditional ethnographic discourse and how their ethnographic interest is also reflected in their early works and not only in the later ones.
In-situ and operando characterization of batteries with energy-dispersive synchrotron x-ray diffraction
Creators: name: Paxton, William Arthur
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Batteries play a pivotal role in the low-carbon society that is required to thwart the effects of climate change. Alternative low-carbon energy sources, such as wind and solar, are often intermittent and unreliable. Batteries are able capture their energy and deliver it later when it is needed. The implementation of battery systems in grid-level and transportation sectors is essential for efficient use of alternative energy sources.    Scientists and engineers need better tools to analyze and measure the performance characteristics of batteries. One of the main hindrances in the progress of battery research is that the constituent electrode materials are inaccessible once an electrochemical cell is constructed. This leaves the researcher with a limited number of available feedback mechanisms to assess the cell’s performance, e.g., current, voltage, and impedance. These data are limited in their ability to reveal the more-localized smaller-scale structural mechanisms on which the batteries' performance is so dependent.    Energy-dispersive x-ray diffraction (EDXRD) is one of the few techniques that can internally probe a sealed battery. By analyzing the structural behavior of battery electrodes, one is able to gain insight to the physical properties on which the battery’s performance is dependent. In this dissertation, EDXRD with ultrahigh energy synchrotron radiation is used to probe the electrodes of manufactured primary and secondary lithium batteries under in-situ and operando conditions. The technique is then applied to solve specific challenges facing lithium ion batteries.    Diffraction spectra are collected from within a battery at 40 micrometer resolution. Peak-fitting is used to quantitatively estimate the abundance of lithiated and non-lithiated phases. Through mapping the distribution of phases within, structural changes are linked to the battery’s galvanic response. A three-dimensional spatial analysis of lithium iron phosphate batteries suggests that evolution of inhomogeneity is linked to the particle connectivity. Despite a non-linear local response, the average of the measured ensemble behaves linearly. The results suggest that inhomogeneity can be difficult to measure and highlights the power of the EDXRD technique. Additional applications of EDXRD are discussed.
Demochrus Thomson 1867
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Demochrus

description: Subgenus Demochrus Thomson, 1867
Demochrus Thomson, 1867: 350, type species: Choleva anisotomoides Spence, 1815.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Sphodromantis gracilicollis subsp. gracilicollis Beier 1930
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Sphodromantis
Sphodromantis gracilicollis
Sphodromantis gracilicollis gracilicollis beier, 1930

description: Sphodromantis gracilicollis gracilicollis Beier, 1930
Figs. 185–187
Sphodromantis gracilicollis Beier, 1930: 452–453.
= Hierodula (Sphodromantis) gracilinota Beier, 1935: 87. (replacement name for homonymy reasons)
Type locality. Bibianaha, Ghana.
Distribution. Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (Gillon & Roy 1968; La Greca 1967; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1963, 1964b, 1965a, 1975, 2010; Roy & Leston 1975).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, IV.–VI.2021, E. Frank leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 559).
Remarks. A forest species known from several localities in Ivory Coast, including Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Miles 2021; Roy 1964a, 1975); not as strictly bound to closed rainforests as S. aurea Giglio-Tos, 1917. First instar nymphs are green and do not mimic ants (pers. obs.).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Nargus (Demochrus) gianassoi Giachino & Vailati 2004
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Nargus
Nargus gianassoi

description: Nargus (Demochrus) gianassoi Giachino & Vailati, 2004
Nargus (Demochrus) gianassoi Giachino & Vailati 2004: 107.
Type locality: NW Iran, Kordestān, 15 km N Kāmyārān, m 1700.
Distribution in Iran. Kordestan (Giachino & Vailati 2004). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Information, accountability, and political preferences
Creators: name: Pierce, Douglas R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Political scientists have long endorsed a theory of preference formation based on a model of political expertise. According to this line of thinking, optimal political preferences result from reason, logic, and the appraisal of factual evidence. Accordingly, politically sophisticated citizens are assumed to develop political preferences that are more rational, less biased, and more correct than those of the less informed members of the electorate. In this project, I challenge this orthodox view. I argue that most political preferences are rooted in the personality traits, values, and cultural worldviews of people and are formed on the basis of affective reactions to stimuli rather than through the reasoned consideration of information.  The affective nature of political judgments implies that information serves primarily to rationalize rather than form opinions. Since political preferences are an important signifier of group and individual identity, I posit that the social need to be accountable for one's opinions is a major explanatory factor in the development of political expertise. I develop a conceptualization of political preferences as affective judgments situated in social reality and hypothesize that political information acquisition serves an important social function. Based on this conceptualization, I contend that what separates political experts from non-experts is not the degree of information used to form a preference, but rather the nature of the social incentives that motivate certain individuals to seek information in order to defend, rationalize, and justify their preferences. I present data from the National Election Surveys and two original experiments to support my claims that increasing the amount of information a subject possesses about politics does not necessarily change their preferences and that the social expectation of accountability significantly influences the way subjects process information about political candidates.
Nargus (Demochrus) lenkoranus Reitter 1884
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Nargus
Nargus lenkoranus

description: Nargus (Demochrus) lenkoranus (Reitter, 1884)
Choleva (Nargus) lenkorana Reitter, 1884: 45. Type locality: [Azerbaijan:] Lenkoran.
Nargus gracilis Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1967: 226. Type locality: Arménie: Tsarkadzor.
Distribution in Iran. MaZandaran (Pol-e-Zanguleh) (SZymcZakowski 1976).
General distribution. Armenia, AZerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan (Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Gigliotoscelis simulans
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Gigliotoscelis
Gigliotoscelis simulans

description: Gigliotoscelis simulans (Giglio-Tos, 1913):
Guinea to DRC; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Teacher professional development for English language education in India
Creators: name: Ramamurthy, Kiran
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The ability to speak English can have a significant impact on the life of a student in India (Canagarajah, 2007; Hosali, 2005; Krishnaswami & Burde, 1998). While the demand for English continues to be high throughout the nation, access to a high quality English language education is affected by many factors and can be difficult to find (Saghal, 1991; Sridhar, 1991; Sharma, 2005).     The Indian government has attempted to improve the quality of language education over the past ten years by encouraging teachers to implement best practices for language acquisition.  One program which prepares in-service teachers (ISTs) in understanding and implementing those best practices is the Academy for the Teaching of English (ATE).  The goal of this project was to provide a qualitative case study of the ATE in order to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the teacher professional development program in question while determining what the language education community can learn from the study’s findings.    The project was a qualitative case study of the teacher professional development program at the Academy for the Teaching of English.  I performed one-on-one interviews with 9 professors/ administrators, and interviewed 21 in-service teachers (ISTs) in focus groups.  I observed over 40 hours of classroom instruction at the ATE, analyzed relevant documents, and also observed the ISTs giving their sample lessons at the end of the program.    The data showed that the ISTs were indeed focusing on how to implement the best practices recommended into their classrooms.  However, the data revealed the numerous obstacles the ISTs face in trying to implement those best practices when they returned home.  Recommendations are made regarding improving the program at the ATE and finally, the paper highlights what is significant about the findings to readers interested in English language education around the world.
Nargus (Demochrus) mohammedis Saulcy 1865
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Nargus
Nargus mohammedis

description: Nargus (Demochrus) mohammedis (Saulcy, 1865)
Choleva mohammedis Saulcy, 1865: 428. Type locality: Palestine: Jérusalem.
Nargus armatus Hustache, 1912: 346. Type locality: Syrie: Beyrouth.
Distribution in Iran. “ Persia merid.” (in coll. Doria, no locality cited) (Jeannel 1936, misidentified as Catops peyerimhoffi Portevin; SZymcZakowski 1965).
General distribution. Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria (Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Design and characterization of the tensile properties of 3-d braid-twist ligament scaffolds
Creators: name: Rao, Rohit
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: There are roughly between 100,000 -250,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries that are annually diagnosed in the U.S. alone. Around 50,000 of these require surgical reconstruction and replacement of the ACL [1-2]. The current treatment of choice is the use of an autograft harvested from the patellar tendon, the hamstring tendon or quadriceps tendons. However, autologous grafts are associated with a number of drawbacks including donor site morbidity and the requirement of two surgeries to carry out the ACL replacement. Therefore, alternative techniques need to be developed for ACL reconstruction. Recently tissue engineering-based scaffolds have received wide attention as potentially viable alternatives to autografts. This report discusses the development and characterization of the tensile properties of a 3-D braid twist scaffold fabricated using an automated braiding machine. The braiding angle of the scaffolds was altered in a controllable manner. Scaffolds with three different braiding angles; 53°, 63° and 72° were obtained to determine the effect of braiding angle on the tensile properties of the braid-twist scaffolds. Based on these studies scaffolds with a braiding angle of 72° were determined to have tensile characteristics most suitable for ligament replacement. Future studies will further evaluate the mechanical and biological properties of these scaffolds.
Development of amine alpha-functionalizations involving azomethine ylides intermediates
Creators: name: Richers, Matthew Tracy
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Year: 2015

description: The α-functionalization of amines is a synthetic challenge of much interest to organic chemists. Common methods involve deprotonation with strong bases or oxidation with stoichiometric oxidants or transition metal catalysts. An alternative redox-neutral azomethine ylide-mediated approach to amine functionalization that harnesses the intrinsic reactivity of simple aldehyde and amine precursors without the need for harsh oxidants or bases will be detailed in this dissertation. The development of non-pericyclic amine annulations yielding aminal, N,O-acetal and N,S-thioacetal products will be discussed along with joint computational and experimental mechanistic studies on these reactions. The aminals are closely related to several naturally-occurring alkaloids and multiple methods were developed to synthesize these bioactive natural products and analogs. Additionally, two more azomethine ylide-based reactions will be discussed. The first is a variant on the classical Strecker reaction using α-amino acids which decarboxylatively gives rise to cyclic α-amino nitriles. Finally, a redox-neutral 1,5-electrocyclization reaction between secondary amines and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds yielding amine heterocycles will be demonstrated.
Maculatoscelis ascalaphoides
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Maculatoscelis
Maculatoscelis ascalaphoides

description: Maculatoscelis ascalaphoides (Bolívar, 1908):
Guinea to Tanzania; less dependent on forests, known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Microencapsulation of bitter phytonutrients from citrus by-products and application thereof to fruit juices
Creators: name: Rivera, Teodoro
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Year: 2015

description: Every year, there are over 30 million metric tons of by-products generated by the citrus juice industry. It is well known that these types of by-products contain components which have been clinically proven to fight disease. Among them are the phytonutrients; of high interest are specifically the limonoids and flavonoids.  It is unfortunate that many of these by-products go to “waste” due to several reasons; one of them being off taste! In fact, limonin is a component found in citrus fruit that in high levels directly lowers the taste quality of the juice due to its bitter notes. The scope of this project is to capture the nutritious by-products and incorporate them back into juices in a way where the off flavors are concealed to consumers. For this project, two by-products were collected; orange seeds and orange rag. These by-products were stabilized via dehydration followed by milling. Then, microencapsulation trials were conducted to identify a suitable water-proof coating material that would be effective in concealing the off flavors these ingredients impair. At the completion of experimental trials, it was determined that hot melt fluidized bed coating using food grade carnauba wax was the most effective path for application work. Although shelf life studies did not meet the 10 week requirement for typical chilled juices, there is potential to apply these microcapsules to products which have a shelf life requirement of 6 weeks or lower. Application potential also exists for products which have a twist cap or sachets for used at time of consumption. Recommended next steps include microencapsulation work where a multi-layer coating can be applied to prolong shelf life of the microcapsules.    Research done on citrus phytonutrients indicates many diverse benefits including the potential to fight cancer and cardiovascular disease. The ideal outcome of this field of work is to re-incorporate by-products back into juices to make them more wholesome and significantly increase the health and wellness potential.
Bismuth ferrite based thin films, nanofibers, and field effect transistor devices
Creators: name: Rivera-Beltrán, Rut
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In this research an attempt has been made to explore bismuth ferrite thin films with low leakage current and nanofibers with high photoconductivity.  Thin films were deposited with pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method. An attempt has been made to develop thin films under different deposition parameters with following target compositions: i) 0.6BiFeO3-0.4(Bi0.5K0.5)TiO3 (BFO-BKT) and ii) bi-layered 0.88Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–0.08Bi0.5K0.5TiO3–0.04BaTiO3/BiFeO3 (BNT-BKT-BT/BFO). BFO-BKT thin film shows suppressed leakage current by about four orders of magnitude which in turn improve the ferroelectric and dielectric properties of the films. The optimum remnant polarization is 19 µC.cm-2 at the oxygen partial pressure of 300 mtorr. The BNT-BKT-BT/BFO bi-layered thin films exhibited ferroelectric behavior as: Pr = 22.0 µC.cm-2, Ec = 100 kV.cm-1 and r = 140. The leakage current of bi-layered thin films have been reduced two orders of magnitude compare to un-doped bismuth ferrite.     Bismuth ferrite nanofibers were developed by electrospinning technique and its electronic properties such as photoconductivity and field effect transistor performance were investigated extensively. Nanofibers were deposited by electrospinning of sol-gel solution on SiO2/Si substrate at driving voltage of 10 kV followed by heat treatment at 550 ◦C for 2 hours.   The composition analysis through energy dispersive detector and electron energy loss spectroscopy revealed the heterogeneous nature of the composition with Bi rich and Fe deficient regions. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results confirmed the combination of Fe3+ and Fe2+ valence state in the fibers. The photoresponse result is almost hundred times higher for a fiber of 40 nm diameter compared to a fiber with 100 nm diameter.  This effect is described by a size dependent surface recombination mechanism. A single and multiple BFO nanofibers field effect transistors devices were fabricated and characterized.  Bismuth ferrite FET behaves as p-type semiconductor. The carrier mobility for a single nanofiber FET was found as 0.2 cm2/V.s at 100 V driving voltage, while the carrier mobility of multiple nanofibers FET was maintained at 10 V driving voltage.     The results of this study present the versatility of BFO in the form of thin films and nanofibers for different electronic applications such as ferroelectric memories, transistor and light sensor.
Maculatoscelis maculata
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Maculatoscelis
Maculatoscelis maculata

description: Maculatoscelis maculata (Roy, 1965):
Ivory Coast to Ghana; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Drawing comparisons between drawing performance and developmental assessments
Creators: name: Rehrig, Gwendolyn Louise
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Human figure drawing tasks like the Draw-A-Person (DAP) task have long been used to assess intelligence (Goodenough, 1926). To what extent are these tasks valid as measures of cognitive ability? What other skills, if any, do DAP intelligence tests measure? This study investigates the skills tapped by drawing and investigates risk factors associated with poor drawing. Self-portraits of 345 preschool children were scored using the DAP:IQ rubric (Reynolds & Hickman, 2004) and were scored for overall aesthetic quality by artists. Analyses of children’s fine motor, gross motor, social, cognitive, and language skills revealed fine motor and cognitive skills predicted aesthetic scores, but only fine motor skills predicted DAP:IQ scores. Being male and born with low birth weight were risk factors for poor drawing skills. These findings suggest that the DAP:IQ could be used as an easy way to screen for fine motor disturbances in at-risk children. Furthermore, researchers who use human figure drawing tasks to measure intelligence should compare performance on said tasks with measures of fine motor skill in addition to standard measures of intelligence.
The external-internal loop of interference
Creators: name: Sauce Silva, Bruno
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Attention is a component of the working memory system responsible for keeping track of relevant information.  Activities in the real world are often plagued by interference, and the source of this interference, either external or internal, might matter a great deal to individual differences in attention.  By definition, external attention (also called “selective attention”) protects working memory against sensorial distractors of all kinds, while internal attention (also called “inhibition”) protects working memory against emotional impulses, irrelevant information from memory, and automatically-generated responses.  At present, it is unclear if these two types of attention exist in non-human animals, and how they might impact performance on other cognitive processes, such as learning.  By using a battery of diverse attention tests, here we aimed both to explore this issue, and to obtain a robust (and less task-specific) measure of attention in mice.  Exploratory factor analyses revealed two factors (that, due to the design of the tests, we interpreted as external and internal attentions) accounting, in total, for 73% of the variance in attentional performance.  Then, confirmatory factor analyses showed an excellent fit of the model of attention sub-divided as external and internal (with a resulting correlation of 0.43), while, contrary to our expectation, the model of attention as one general factor did not fit the data.  Regarding the relationship between attention and learning (from the preparatory tasks of acquisition required for our tests of attention), higher resistance against external sources of interference promoted better learning under novel circumstances, but tended to impair performance when cognitive flexibility was required, while the opposite pattern occurred for individuals with high internal attention.  The results here suggest that there can be, at least, two types of attention behind the common variance in attention tasks in mice, and that external and internal attentions might have opposing influences on learning.
Observer-based force reconstruction technique
Creators: name: Sanchez, Joey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: An important problem in engineering is the determination of the system input based on the system response. This type of problem is difficult to solve as it is often ill-defined, and produces inaccurate or non-unique results. Current input reconstruction techniques typically involve the employment of optimization methods or additional constraints to regularize the problem, but these methods are not without their flaws as they may be sub-optimally applied and produce inadequate results. To overcome these obstacles, linear dynamical systems theory and control systems theory are utilized in this work to develop a method that is asymptotically convergent to the exact solution.    To address the inverse problem, multiple concepts are utilized. We perform an equilibrium analysis of linear dynamical systems with time-dependent inputs, and derive expressions for the dynamical equilibrium and remainder to provide a measure of the accuracy of the approximation.  Then, concepts from control theory are used to define an unperturbed estimation system with observer feedback. We define an error system that consists of the difference between the estimate and actual system, and apply the concepts from our equilibrium analysis to develop a direct relationship between the system response and the applied force. Additionally, using an observer feedback gain, we are able to design the eigenvalues such that the derivatives of the applied force are filtered out and we obtain the input.    This method was applied to lumped-parameter systems, continuous systems discretized using modal analysis, systems with probabilistic inputs, and a class of nonlinear systems. For each of these cases, we perform an error bounds analysis on bounded and unbounded inputs that are infinitely continuous and differentiable, and inputs with jump discontinuities to determine the quality of our estimate for the input. The results from these analyses demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed estimation method under various input conditions, and show the asymptotic nature of the estimate to the actual applied force. For each of these cases, examples are presented detailing the application of the proposed method under various loading conditions.
Tumor responsive targeted multifunctional nanosystems for cancer imaging, chemo- and siRNA therapy
Creators: name: Savla, Ronak
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Year: 2015

description: Cancer is one of the most insidious diseases. Compromising of over 100 different types and sharing the unifying factors of uncontrolled growth and metastasis, unmet clinical needs in terms of cancer diagnosis and treatment continue to exist. It is widely accepted that most forms of cancer are treatable or even curable if detected before widespread metastasis occurs. Nearly a quarter of deaths in the United States is the result of cancer and it only trails heart disease in terms of annual mortality.   Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy are the primary treatment modalities for cancer. Research in these procedures has resulted in substantial benefits for cancer patients, but there is still room for an improvement. However, a time has been reached at which it appears that the benefits from these modalities have been reached the maximum. Therefore, it is vital to develop new strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.  The field of nanotechnology is concerned with structures in the nanometer size range and holds the potential to drastically impact and improve the lives of patients suffering from cancer. Not only can nanotechnology improve current methods of diagnosis and treatment, it has a possibility of introducing newer and better modalities.  The overall purpose of this work is to develop novel nanotechnology-based methodologies for the diagnosis and treatment of various forms of cancers.  The first aim of the project is the development of a multifunctional targeted nanosystem for the delivery of siRNA to overcome drug resistance. The second aspect is the synthesis of a quantum dot-based delivery system that releases drug in response to pH changes. The third aim is the development of a targeted, tumor environment responsive magnetic resonance nanoparticle contrast agent coupled with a nanoparticle-based treatment.
Nargus (Demochrus) sengleti Giachino & Vailati 2000
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Nargus
Nargus sengleti

description: Nargus (Demochrus) sengleti Giachino & Vailati, 2000
Nargus (Demochrus) sengleti Giachino & Vailati, 2000: 92.
Type locality: Iran, Guilan sur Asâlem m 1200, 37°40'N / 48°52' E.
Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Giachino & Vailati 2000). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Biochemical and physiological characterization of caspase activity in haloarchaea
Creators: name: Seth Pasricha, Mansha
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Year: 2015

description: Caspases, cysteine aspartate-specific proteases, are key initiators and executioners of programmed cell death across a wide array of life. Archaea had been absent from the caspase inheritance discussion due to a notable lack of gene homologues with diagnostic domain signatures. Nonetheless, extremely high, basal caspase-like catalytic activity linked to the cellular stress response was recently demonstrated in the model haloarchaeon, Haloferax volcanii, and shown to be widespread among diverse phyla of archaeal extremophiles. In this dissertation, the catalytic specificity of observed caspase activity in H. volcanii was rigorously tested using hydrolytic assays with a diverse suite of canonical, fluorogenic protease substrates and inhibitors, with model serine and cysteine proteases serving as controls. It was demonstrated that H. volcanii possesses an extremely high level and highly specific caspase-like activity in exponentially growing cells that most closely resembles caspase-4.  It is the dominant cellular proteolytic activity, is preferentially inhibited by a pan- caspase inhibitor, and has no cross-reactivity with other known protease families.   Biochemical purification and in situ trapping with biotinylated fmk- and AOMK-based inhibitors, combined with genome-enabled proteomics and structural alignments were collectively used to identify the protein(s) that are associated with this caspase activity. These analyses identified a diverse suite of cellular proteins including thermosomes, proteasomes, a cell division protein, an ATPase (recently identified as an activator of proteasomal degradation), a putative nuclease, a putative aminopeptidase, elongation factor αEF-2, and an ornithine cyclodeaminase as key proteins associated with caspase activity.  These findings biochemically connected caspase activity in H. volcanii to specific stress-related protein complexes, including those involved in the unfolded protein response (UPR).  A subset of these candidate proteins were targeted for gene knockouts to empirically test their relationship to caspase activity, to assess their physiological roles, and link to UPR through incubations with canavanine. We show that loss of this activity or reduction from a critical threshold level has important consequences to organismal fitness, placing caspase activity in a novel cellular context.  Given the deep archaeal roots of eukaryotes, we posit that it evolved as part of a cellular protein-quality control system, ensuring proper production, folding, and degradation.
Real-time air quality measurements using mobile platforms
Creators: name: Sevusu, Parveen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Air pollution poses a serious threat to our health and quality of life. Measuring pollution in the air we breathe and sharing the results with our peers is an important step in increasing social awareness for creating a clean environment. Usually, pollution measurements are conducted using expensive monitors at fixed locations. These measurements fail to provide accurate real-time pollution information in most of the highly polluted roads. It is desirable to have access to real time fine-grained measurements to be able to quickly analyze and identify alarming levels of pollutants.  Pervasiveness of smart phones with internet connectivity and increased availability of personal air quality sensors provide a unique opportunity to develop air pollution conscious community of users for collecting and sharing real time air pollution data. In this thesis, we propose air quality monitoring through mobile sensors, which are low-power, low-cost, designed to sample air pollutants such as carbon mono-oxide, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide, environmental temperature, humidity and air pressure and communicate via Bluetooth with a smartphone. We built an iOS mobile application that makes use of location services available on the mobile phones, to record GPS co-ordinates along with air pollution readings. We built a mobile to cloud replication model, data exchange protocol and outlier detection for anomalous sensor readings. We also employed spatial database queries to optimize location based pollution data sharing and visualization of pollution data overlays on mobile map displays. We evaluated our mobile pollution-sensing model against stationary NJ DEP monitor and studied spatial granularity of pollution data.
A lysine desert protects sumo-targeted Ub ligases from auto-ubiquitination and proteolysis to maintain genome stability in yeast
Creators: name: Sharma, Pragati
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Post-translational modification by SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier) regulates the enzymatic activity, subcellular localization, and protein-protein interactions of modified target proteins. SUMO has also been implicated in proteasome-dependent protein degradation with the identification of a special class of enzymes termed, SUMO-Targeted Ubiquitin Ligases (STUbLs). These conserved enzymes typically possess multiple, tandem SUMO-Interaction Motifs and a RING domain that together facilitate the conjugation of ubiquitin to SUMO-modified target proteins. Originally discovered as essential gene pair for the viability of RecQ helicase-deficient yeast, SLX5 and SLX8 code for a heterodimeric STUbL. Two novel alleles of SLX5 were isolated in a forward genetic screen for suppressors of genome instability. A combination of genetic and biochemical experiments indicate that these alleles disrupt a conserved lysine desert, unique to STUbLs, leading to Slx5’s auto-ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation. The results are consistent with the idea that STUbLs employ a lysine desert as a defense against self-destruction.
Caudatoscelis marmorata
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Caudatoscelis
Caudatoscelis marmorata

description: Caudatoscelis marmorata (Roy, 1965):
Ivorian endemic; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Nargus (Nargus) iranicus Giachino & Vailati 2000
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Nargus
Nargus iranicus

description: Nargus (Nargus) iranicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000
Nargus (Nargus) iranicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000: 64.
Type locality: Iran, Mazandaran, route de Tchortech, m 800, 36° 49'N / 50° 41'E.
Distribution in Iran. MaZandaran (Tchortech) (Giachino & Vailati 2000). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Capraiola Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Capraiola

description: Genus Capraiola Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Capraiola Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 790, type species: Capraiola orientalis Zoia & Rampini, 1994.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324