cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Triforis arthuri Jousseaume 1884
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triforis
Triforis arthuri

description: Triforis arthuri Jousseaume, 1884 [unnecessary replacement name]
Triforis arthurti Jousseaume, 1884: 221.
Type locality. St. John.
Remarks. Triforis arthuri was introduced as a replacement name for Triforis variegata A. Adams, 1854, because Jousseaume was of the opinion that it was already preoccupied by Cerithium variegatum of C.B. Adams. However, C. variegatum C.B. Adams does not exist, being created as a result of lapsus calami (Fernandes et al. 2013) and therefore considered an unnecessary replacement name.
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Bombus terrestris subsp. terrestris Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ornosa, Concepción
name: Torres, Félix
name: Rúa, Pilar De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus terrestris
Bombus terrestris terrestris (linnaeus, 1758)

description: Bombus terrestris terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)
It is considered a native subspecies in the eastern Pyrenees, where it reached an altitude of 2200 m. However, repeated introductions in greenhouses (in Barcelona and Almería provinces since the 80s) has led to its dispersion to other Iberian areas, where it is already naturalized and can be found at higher altitudes 2500–3400 m (Sierra Nevada, 27–30- VII-2010, 5 workers, P. Vargas leg., RBGM) (Ortiz-Sánchez 1992; Ornosa 1996, Vargas et al. 2013).
It has now been collected in the Pyrenees (Table 2) in alpine grasslands and shrublands with scattered patches of subalpine shrub of Juniperus comunis nana Willd. and Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull., between 1720 and 2300 m (Fig. 7), on Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop., Gentiana lutea L., Lonicera pyrenaica L., Lotus corniculatus L., Trifolium pratense L. and Trifolium repens L.
New records. Andorra: Soldeu, 28- VII-2006, 1 queen, C. Ornosa leg., UCME.
Spain: Girona: Camprodón, ski resort, 8- VII-2015, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME. Huesca: Ordesa, Circo de Soaso, 10-07-2014, 1 queen, F. Torres, UCME. Lleida: Baños de Tredós slope, 10- VII-2014, 1 queen, C. Ornosa, UCME. Viella, 13- VIII-2012, 1 worker, P. De la Rúa leg., UMU.
description: Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688
Stictocladius Edwards 1931
Creators: name: Epler, John H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Stictocladius

description: Stictocladius
- One specimen of an undescribed species was collected. In the Western Hemisphere, this genus has been mostly recorded from Argentina, Chile and Peru, but has recently been found in North America (Saether & Cranston 2012). This would be the first record of the genus from Central America. The new Costa Rican species has clear wings and a very low AR of 0.21.
description: Published as part of Epler, John H., 2017, AN ANNOTATED PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) OF ZURQUÍ, COSTA RICA Abstract Introduction, pp. 4-18 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 30 (30) on page 8, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i30.2240, http://zenodo.org/record/7987298
Symmetry breaking at a topological phase transition
Creators: name: Faulkner, Michael F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a foundational concept in physics. In condensed matter, it characterizes conventional continuous phase transitions but is absent at topological phase transitions such as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition - as in the BKT case the expected norm (i.e., the magnitude) of the $U(1)$ order parameter vanishes in the thermodynamic limit at all nonzero temperatures. Phenomena consistent with low-temperature broken symmetry have been observed, however, in many different BKT experiments. Examples include recent experiments on superconducting films and the seminal work on two-dimensional arrays of Josephson junctions. While the inaccessibility of the above thermodynamic limit partially explains this paradox in finite systems, the full dynamical framework of symmetry breaking at the BKT transition remains unresolved. Here we provide this by introducing the broader concept of general symmetry breaking. This encompasses both spontaneous symmetry breaking and the BKT case by allowing the expected norm of the order parameter to go to zero in the thermodynamic limit, provided its directional phase fluctuations are asymptotically smaller. We demonstrate this asymptotically slow directional mixing in the low-temperature BKT phase. This explicitly shows that the order parameter arbitrarily chooses some well-defined direction in the thermodynamic limit, predicting negligible phase fluctuations compared to the expected norm in arbitrarily large experimental BKT systems. Our results provide a model for directional mixing timescales across the diverse array of experimental BKT systems. We suggest various experiments.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Synorthocladius Thienemann 1935
Creators: name: Epler, John H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Synorthocladius

description: Synorthocladius
- Two specimens of an undescribed species were collected. Watson & Heyn (1993) recorded “ Synorthocladius sp. ” from Costa Rica.
description: Published as part of Epler, John H., 2017, AN ANNOTATED PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) OF ZURQUÍ, COSTA RICA Abstract Introduction, pp. 4-18 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 30 (30) on page 8, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i30.2240, http://zenodo.org/record/7987298
Concepts and contentions of coral snake mimicry: a view into the relationship between model, mimic, and dupe
Creators: name: Sena, Anthony Thomas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Whether there is mimicry of venomous New World coral snakes by seemingly harmless species of snakes has been a long debated evolutionary subject. For some, this is considered a classic example of Batesian mimicry where the coral snake color pattern serves as a warning signal to predators and is imitated by non-venomous snakes to obtain the putative advantages without being venomous themselves. In many cases of mimicry, including more substantiated examples of Batesian mimicry, the mimic and the model have a clear relationship with each other as well as with their signal receivers. The relationships among coral snakes, on the other hand, is dynamic between themselves and their mimics in ways that have yet to be comprehensively assessed. The existing literature regarding coral snake mimicry presents a divisive stance on whether or not mimicry is actually occurring or if the similar phenotypes that coral snakes and other, non-venomous snakes share are due to environmental factors unrelated to the phenomenon of mimicry. The factors that are analyzed by both those who reject the mimicry hypothesis and those that support the idea that mimicry is occurring in this system include color pattern function, predatory learning, and biogeographic co-localization between model and mimic. In many cases, snake replica experiments aimed to examine coral snake mimicry have yielded results that have been used to both support and reject mimetic hypotheses, depending on the definition of mimicry being utilized. Herein lies the cause for the disjunction prevalent in coral snake mimicry research: the definition of mimicry is not consistent throughout the scientific community and must be reassessed and agreed upon in order for a comprehensive conclusion to be drawn about New World coral snakes and their potential mimics.
Bombus cullumanus Kirby 1802
Creators: name: Ornosa, Concepción
name: Torres, Félix
name: Rúa, Pilar De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus cullumanus

description: Bombus cullumanus (Kirby, 1802)
Species from Europe and Central Asia (Rasmont 1988, Williams, 1998, Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004), with an elevational distribution between 500 and 2300 m. Its status is Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688
Novel methods and application of optogenetics for determining the functions of keratin filaments in early embryogenesis
Creators: name: Shah, Rucha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: To study the functional role of keratin filaments during early embryological development I developed a novel biomolecular tool for specifically disrupting keratin filaments in living cells. Conventional genetic approaches such as, knockdown, knockout and transgenic overexpression have attempted to study the role of keratin IFs but fall short of identifying the functional significance of keratin filamentous network during early development. The utility of small molecular inhibitors withaferin A and acrylamide to experimentally interfere with keratin network organization were also evaluated in this study. The comparative analysis done here emphasizes that the effect of these inhibitors is dependent on many factors, such as cell type, cell density, dose of the drug and time of exposure. Furthermore, correlative evidence suggests that the keratin network in the vicinity of the cell-cell contacts was resistant to both the small molecular inhibitors. It was also observed that both keratin filaments and keratin precursor particles have spatially defined subcellular localization in tissues, such as presumptive ectoderm and mesendoderm. In order to specifically study the functional role of keratin filamentous network, a genetically encoded PhotoActivatable disruptor of keratin filaments was developed, taking advantage of Xenopus keratin 8 mimetic peptide and a light sensitive LOV domain of the Avena sativa phototropin. The inhibitory effects of this peptide were validated in multiple cell lines and tissues. Upon photoactivation, PA-2B2 induces localized rapid subcellular disruption of the keratin filaments and thus destabilization of the network leading to cell shape changes. Specific disruption of keratin filaments by light-based activation of PA-2B2 leads to a dramatic disruption of early embryological development in Xenopus. Additionally, disruption of keratin filaments leads to failure of fibronectin assembly along the blastocoel roof. Collectively, the data shows the critical importance of keratin filaments in morphogenetically active tissues and early embryogenesis. The optogenetic novel tools developed here to disrupt keratin filaments with spatiotemporal precision are a powerful means to probe keratin filament function within living cells and direct future investigations.
Mesophora aspergata Laseron 1958
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Mesophora
Mesophora aspergata

description: Mesophora aspergata Laseron, 1958
Mesophora aspergata Laseron, 1958: 599, fig. 80–81.
Bouchetriphora aspergata (Laseron, 1958) — Marshall 1983: 63, fig. 5d, 26g –i.
Type locality. Australia, Barrier reef, off Cairns.
Type material. AMS C.46011, holotype.
Distribution. Australia (Laseron 1958; Marshall 1983; Stephens 2017), French Polynesia (Boutet et al. 2020).
Remarks. Figure 26G-I in Marshall (1983) are of another species. Marshall (1983) considered Coriophora nigrogranosa Laseron, 1958 a junior synonym of Mesophora aspergata Laseron, 1958.
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Development of new methods for activation of inert N-C bonds
Creators: name: Shi, Shicheng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: The amide bond is one of the most important functional groups in chemistry and biology. It would be appealing to use amides as N-C(O) electrophiles in transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, however, the high activation energy required for N-C(O) scission, a consequence of amidic resonance (approximately 40% double bond character in planar amides, 15-20 kcal/mol barrier to rotation), makes selective metal insertion into the N-C(O) bond a classic problem in catalysis. In 2015, our group introduced a new mode for amide bond activation enabled through ground-state-destabilization. Based on this concept, we have successfully developed N-acyl-glutarimide amides as highly effective amide-based electrophiles, in which the amide bond exhibits nearly perpendicular twist (T = 87.8º). This thesis describes our studies on: 1) the development of novel transition-metal-catalyzed transformations of amides by N-C(O) activation; 2) the development of new amide precursors for cross-coupling reactions; 3) the development of new, general catalytic systems for acyl-cross-coupling reactions. Specifically, the thesis addresses: 1) the development of novel decarbonylative cross-coupling reactions using amides as aryl equivalents, including Ni-catalyzed decarbonylative Suzuki cross-coupling, Pd-catalyzed decarbonylative cyanation, and Pd-catalyzed decarbonylative borylation; 2) the development of a general catalytic system for acyl Negishi cross-coupling reactions of N-acyl-glutarimides, N,N-di-Boc2 amides and N-acyl-succinimides; 3) the development of Pd-NHC catalytic systems for acyl Suzuki cross-coupling of esters, acyl Buchwald-Hartwig cross-coupling of amides and esters, and acyl Suzuki cross-coupling of triflamides.
Beardius Reiss & Sublette 1985
Creators: name: Epler, John H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Beardius

description: Beardius
- Two species were collected; B. triangulatus was described from Costa Rica by Andersen & Saether (1996). One specimen of an undescribed species was collected. The genus was recently revised by Pinho et al. (2013).
description: Published as part of Epler, John H., 2017, AN ANNOTATED PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) OF ZURQUÍ, COSTA RICA Abstract Introduction, pp. 4-18 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 30 (30) on page 9, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i30.2240, http://zenodo.org/record/7987298
Race and the language of legislating order: tracing the evolution of quality of life ordinances
Creators: name: Trocchio, Sarah
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Since the 1990s, city councils in the United States have sanctioned order maintenance policing (OMP) practices through Quality of Life (QOL) ordinances. These laws, which proliferated during the punitive turn, empower police to serve as gatekeepers of physical and social order. To explain the stark ethnoracial disparities associated with OMP-related laws, scholars often use minority threat theory, which contends that as minority populations increase, politicians institute severe control responses to manage perceived social, political, and economic threats associated with those demographic changes (Blalock, 1957). While disparities persist today, questions remain about the durability of OMP practices and their impact on the policing of minorities. Since the 1990s, new policing trends have emerged, and it is unknown how these have affected the tone and scope of QOL ordinances. Further, tracing the influence of race in legislation over time is empirically challenging, since modern policy often invokes race tacitly, making it difficult to identify potential threat expressions in policies, especially through quantitative methods (Murakawa & Beckett, 2010).This dissertation contributes to minority threat theory by using multiple methods to explore the presence and evolution of race-coded (RC) language in QOL ordinances in a nationally representative sample of cities (N=69), and evaluate the contextual factors that may influence observed trends in its use. Specifically, it assesses empirical support for minority threat explanations of implicit racial signaling in ordinances. I use Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) to measure the existence and nature of RC language at two time periods: 1.) the height of the punitive turn (1997-2000), and 2.) today (2018). Results from the QCA are employed to generate variables that describe the patterning of RC language. Those variables are subjected to bivariate analyses evaluating the suitability of minority threat explanations, and offering insights about additional city-level factors that may explain RC language use. The final phase of this dissertation uses case study analysis of three cities, drawing on interviews, ordinance language, and news coverage to inductively explore the mechanisms that undergird legislative action regarding minority threat expressions in local policy, and ends with the presentation of an initial theoretical model for understanding this process.
Craspedophorus strachani subsp. bamendanus Häckel 2017, n. ssp.
Creators: name: Häckel, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Craspedophorus
Craspedophorus strachani
Craspedophorus strachani bamendanus

description: 16b. Craspedophorus strachani bamendanus n. ssp.
(Plate 2, Figs 10, 11, Plate 12, Fig. 94)
Type locality. “Bamenda, Cameroun, Nord-Ouest [= Cameroon, Northwest]”.
Type material. Holotype (♂): “ Cameroun. Province du / Nord-Ouest. Bamenda. / 17. IV. 2009 ” (Plate 2, Fig. 10, Plate 12, Fig. 94, NMPC). Paratype: 1♀ same labeled as holotype (Plate 2, Fig. 11, cDM).
Description of holotype. Length 22.5 mm, width 8.8 mm. Head and pronotum same as in C. strachani strachani, elytra weakly more prolonged and flatter, elytral colouration distinctly different with maculae darker, humeral macula more transverse, more regularly bordered (less denticulated), wider—reaching from IV to VIII interval, resembling that in C. tetrastigma (Chaudoir, 1850). Aedeagus seems the same as in other subspecies of C. strachani (Plate 12, Figs. 91–94).
Distribution. Northwestern Cameroon, known only from the type lokality.
description: Published as part of Häckel, Martin, 2017, A contribution to the knowledge of the subfamily Panagaeinae Hope, 1838 from Africa. Part 3. Revision of the Craspedophorus strachani and C. brevicollis groups (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4330 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4330.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010167
Public sector collective bargaining during municipal State takeovers: towards a theory of local government employees
Creators: name: Viswanath, Shilpa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Local government employees in the United States share a multifaceted relationship with their state governments. This complex relationship between public employees at the local level and their state governments are heightened during state takeovers of a municipality. This study explores the outcomes of public sector collective bargaining during a state takeover of a municipality. Using the theoretical framework of the Public Service Model, this study employs a longitudinal case study strategy of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The study examines the context of Atlantic City Police Officers and Atlantic City Firefighter’s, substantive rights and procedural due process rights during a state takeover. Using ethnographic data (via participative observation), primary data (via interviews) and secondary data (via documentary evidence), collected between the period 2016 to 2019, the study performs process tracing to understand local government employee rights and collective bargaining outcomes during the recent state takeover of Atlantic City, NJ.Process tracing results indicate that when distressed municipalities in home rule states such as New Jersey are placed in state receivership the local government employee’s labor contracts with the city are severely impaired. Further, local government employees also face infringements of substantive rights and procedural due process rights when placed in state receivership. The findings of this study have both practical and theoretical purpose. The study makes practical recommendations for labor unions in other distressed municipalities. On the theoretical front, the study introduces a ‘quadruple legal framework’ to study local government employee rights.
On products of beta and gamma elements in the homotpy of the first Smith-Toda spectrum
Creators: name: Shimomura, Katsumi
name: Shimomura, Mao-No-Suke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we determine the first cohomology of the monochromatic comodule $M^1_2$ at an odd prime, and apply the results to show non-trivialities of some products of beta and gamma elements in the homotopy groups of the Smith-Toda spectrum $V(1)$. The cohomology for a prime greater than three was determined by the first author. Here, we verify them and determine the cohomology at the prime 3 by elementary calculation. The cohomology will be a stepping stone for computing the cohomology of the monochromatic comodule $M^3_0$, which we hope to determine for a long time.
Three essays on the adoption and application of emerging technologies in accounting
Creators: name: Yan, Zhaokai
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Technologies are evolving at an unprecedented pace and pose significant challenges and opportunities to the accounting and auditing profession. This dissertation consists of three essays that examine how emerging technologies can be accepted and adopted by auditors and managerial accountants.The first essay attempts to incorporate the disruptive innovation concept (Christensen 1997) in understanding the adoption process of disruptive innovations in the audit domain. The essay defines sustaining and disruptive innovations from the auditing perspective and indicates that disruptive innovations can impact audit procedures at both the technology level and the methodology level. The disruptive innovations acceptance framework is then proposed to illustrate that sustaining innovations are adopted and developed within the audit practice, whereas disruptive innovations are developed by external parties. The disruption occurs when an emerging technology or methodology becomes accepted by audit regulations and adopted in audit practice. Further improvements on the adopted disruptive innovation become sustaining innovations.The second essay aims at proposing the Contract Analytics Framework (CAF) to aid in the analysis of populations of perceived low-risk contracts. The essay identifies and describes six functional areas in the CAF framework: (1) Document Management; (2) Content Identification; (3) Cutoff Testing; (4) Record Confirmation; (5) Term Verification; and (6) Additional Audit Tasks. The CAF framework can be applied to audit tasks based on auditing standards, especially in the audit stages of risk assessment, substantive tests, and review. The framework is implemented on a group of reinsurance contracts to demonstrate the feasibility of auditing full populations of contracts. The third essay proposes the Managerial Accounting Data Analytics (MADA) framework based on the balanced scorecard theory. MADA provides management accountants the ability to utilize comprehensive business analytics to conduct performance measurement and provide decision related information. With MADA, three types of business analytics (i.e., descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive) are implemented into four corporate performance measurement perspectives (i.e., financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth) in an enterprise system environment. Other related issues that affect the successful utilization of business analytics within a corporate-wide business intelligence (BI) system, such as data quality and data integrity, are also discussed.
Bombus cullumanus subsp. cullumanus Kirby 1802
Creators: name: Ornosa, Concepción
name: Torres, Félix
name: Rúa, Pilar De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus cullumanus
Bombus cullumanus cullumanus (kirby, 1802)

description: Bombus cullumanus cullumanus (Kirby, 1802)
In the Iberian Peninsula, only six individuals of the nominal subspecies were known (Table 2) in locations from the Pyrenees and Navarra, between 1200 and 2300 m (Rasmont 1988; Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004), resembling a small, fragmented and declining population (Rasmont et al. 2006, Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2011). Some historical Pyrenean records are uncertain. In recent Pyrenean samplings, it has been collected once at 1000 m (Fig. 7) in a forestal pasture on Sedum sediforme (Jacq.) Pau. The last previous records of this species included two individuals from 1982 (Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2011).
B. cullumanus cullumanus was assessed as Vulnerable in IUCN Spanish Red List (Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2011). It has an elevational tendency, and it is declining in the Pyrenees (Table 2, Fig. 2).
New records. Spain: Girona: Ribes de Freser, 24-VII-2009, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME.
description: Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688
Combining engineering and data-driven approaches to model the risk of excavation damage to underground natural gas facilities
Creators: name: Abusnina, Hamza
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: In the United States there are thousands of gas pipe miles, long grids, and networks of natural gas lines across the states. Recent pipeline leaks and explosions in various regions have driven the industry to re-evaluate on-going efforts aimed at aggressive pursuit of preventive strategies. Considering that safety and environmental risk is a major issue, particularly in cases where underground gas line damages and other explosions are involved, pipeline accidental risk represents both financial and social interests in the gas pipeline industry. It is possible to, knowingly or unknowingly, damage underground gas services, water services, electrical services, etc. Incidents involving infrastructure damage are far more common than perceived; and these incidents result in hundreds-of-thousands, if not millions, of dollars in repair or replacement. Damages to underground facilities may occur by large construction contractors or by homeowners.The main objective of this research is two-fold: a) to determine the important risk factors contributing to the underground gas pipe damages; b) to identify inputs required for an effective evaluation and assessment of the risk encountered in exchange of information between different parties involved during the repair of underground gas pipelines. Predictive Model will be developed based on machine learning algorithms (Logistic Regression) to be used in predicting the important risk factors affecting the underground Gas Pipe Damages. The research will systematically analyze the risk of underground gas pipeline network damage including; process the data collected from agency, organize/classify the data based on certain parameters, process the data, develop integrated risk model and influence diagram. Next, Bayesian Network will be developed based on the derived important factors, and calculated probabilities for each attribute.
Analysis and integration of omics data: applications in drug pharmacogenomics and endogenous circadian behavior
Creators: name: Acevedo, Alison
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: The integration of data across omics levels is necessary to accurately reflect physiology, whose behavior is not limited to one molecular component level. Further, integration of information across experimental platforms, time scales, dosing regiments, tissues, and organisms is necessary for the extraction of all possible meaning from the wealth of existing data stored across databases globally and for the development of research that is translatable between organisms. In the enclosed dissertation, we present a pathway-based meta-analysis approach integrated with multivariate decomposition techniques for processing temporal expression data. This framework is designed for application to expression data from any omics level, incorporates information from multiple databases, and is modular in that it can interrogate expression data with pathways extracted from multiple databases. This framework is applied to investigate the dosing- and tissue-dependent effects of the corticosteroid methylprednisolone, as well as the endogenous expression of model organisms critical to pre-clinical studies, rat and mouse. Such analyses both characterize systems not yet completely understood and exemplify the strength of a systems pharmacology understanding applied within translational research.
Seismic stratigraphy of the Georges Bank Basin: implications for carbon sequestration
Creators: name: Adams, Alexandra Cathren
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: I evaluate Cretaceous sediments in the western part of the Georges Bank Basin (WGBB), offshore Massachusetts, United States, for carbon capture and storage (CCS) potential as part of Mid-Atlantic Offshore Carbon Storage Resource Assessment Program (MAOCSRAP). Previous studies have recognized that Cretaceous sands in the GBB may be viable targets for carbon injection due to the high porosity and permeable nature of the reservoirs, as well as a suitable cap rock confinement, but questioned their suitability due to shallow burial depths. Using the modern techniques of sequence stratigraphy and a modern analysis software tool (Petrel), I evaluate WGBB CCS potential using ~13,800 km of recently released 2D multi-channel (MCS) profiles integrated with 10 previously interpreted geophysical well-logs from the Eastern GBB. By mapping significant seismic horizons, defining internal reflection terminations and seismic geometries correlated with depositional facies, I identify five Cretaceous seismic sequences within four sedimentary units. The Berriasian to Barremian fluvial-deposited sand-prone Missisauga Formation was deposited during a regressive interval with northern-sourced sediment depocenters. A transition to a relatively thin shale-rich depositional sequence, the Naskapi Shale, represents the beginning of a major marine transgression initiated during the early Aptian. As sedimentation rates increased in the Albian to early Cenomanian, and sequence depocenters subsequently shifted landward, depositional environments transitioned from primarily terrestrial to nearshore/shelf/deltaic coeval with deposition of the thick, sandy Logan Canyon Formation sequences. Slightly irregular, hummocky, low-angle Albian clinoforms occur in the southeastern region. Reflection surfaces become more parallel upsection, coinciding with deeper paleowater depths. Prograding Cenomanian shingled clinoforms associated with toplap and downlap indicate prodelta to nearshore environments. Turonian to Coniacian deposition of the shale Dawson Canyon Formation and a shift in sedimentary depocenters to outer shelf deposits suggest a marine regression following the Aptian to late Cenomanian rise in relative sea-level. The sand reservoirs are mapped below the depth of supercritical CO2 storage (~800 m) and have sufficient shale cap rock confinement, therefore supporting the Lower Cretaceous Missisauga sands and mid-Cretaceous Logan Canyon sands in the southeastern subarea as potential viable targets for effective CCS. However, to assure successful sequestration, wells must be drilled locally to provide accurate porosity and permeability values, as well as to reinforce interpretations of the depositional facies and lithostratigraphy.
Development of a click chemistry based screening methodology for the directed evolution of glycosynthases
Creators: name: Agrawal, Ayushi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Glycans are the most abundant biomolecules in nature and play a significant role in biological systems. They are involved in diverse biological processes such as intercellular signaling, intracellular metabolism, and protein folding. Hence, while the importance of glycans in the fields of chemistry, biology, and bioengineering is being increasingly recognized, limited progress has been made due to the lack of well-defined glycan based reagents available for research applications. Development of efficient chemoenzymatic routes for synthesis of the designer carbohydrates (or glycans) has therefore gained momentum in recent years. Glycosynthases are mutant glycosidase enzymes that can catalyze the formation of glycosidic bonds (between monosaccharide groups) instead of breaking/cleaving these bonds. But identifying a suitable glycosidase from a library of mutants that can act as an efficient glycosynthase for targeted donor or acceptor sugars is still very challenging. This study focuses on the development of a high-throughput screening (HTS) method to rapidly screen and evolve glycosynthase variants generated using traditional directed evolution techniques to enhance catalytic activity or product specificity. A model glycosynthase was used here for validation of this HTS method. Random mutagenesis (via error-prone PCR) was performed on this model glycosynthase to generate a library of mutants that were then screened using this validated HTS method.
Challenges and opportunities in meeting health care needs of patients with behavioral health and chronic medical comorbidities in primary care settings
Creators: name: Ahmad, Sana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Behavioral health disorders, comprising mental illness and behavioral health disorders, are common among adults, especially those with lower socioeconomic status, and frequently co-occur with chronic physical health conditions. Prevalence of behavioral health disorders is twice as high among Medicaid enrollees as in the general population, and of the nearly one-third of Medicaid enrollees with mental illness, more than half also have chronic medical comorbidity. It is important, thus, to identify how to provide high-quality care for this population.Patients with behavioral health disorders often first present to primary care, and nearly one-third of adults who have a mental health visit seek care solely in primary care settings. Primary care practices provide a key opportunity to address critical patient needs but often struggle to manage these patients. Integration of behavioral health services in primary care settings along with continuity of care with primary care providers are aspects of care provision that present an opportunity to improve care. While shown to generally achieve positive clinical outcomes and reduce cost, there is lack of research on how these aspects of primary care practices might improve care for patients with behavioral health and other chronic medical comorbidities seeking care in primary care. Focusing on New Jersey (NJ), this study examines state-wide data to analyze how provider effort to locally integrate care relates to utilization of costly inpatient services for low-resource patients across diverse primary care practices. We will specifically look at whether primary care practice efforts to co-locate behavioral health providers, such as psychiatrists, or psychologists, improves care for NJ Medicaid enrollees with behavioral health and other chronic conditions. Additionally, this dissertation will also investigate how continuity of care with primary care providers relates to use of hospital services along with Medicaid spending for patients with behavioral health and chronic physical conditions. Overall, I hope to shed light on how to improve care in primary care settings for patients with behavioral health disorders and other chronic comorbidities.
Craspedophorus strachani subsp. monardi Basilewsky 1951
Creators: name: Häckel, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Craspedophorus
Craspedophorus strachani
Craspedophorus strachani monardi basilewsky, 1951

description: 16d. Craspedophorus strachani monardi Basilewsky, 1951
(Plate 1, Figs 7–9, Plate 12, Fig. 93)
Craspedophorus strachani monardi Basilewsky, 1951a: 385 (type locality “Cameroun: Ngaouyanga [=Cameroon, North]”), 1951b: 206. Lorenz 2005: 321, Häckel and Farkač 2012: 83.
Type material. Paratypes. 3♂,2♀: “Paratypus [printed in black on red label]/ Ngaouyanga / juillet [printed in black on white label]// Miss. Sci. Suisse / Caméroun 1947 [handwritten in black on white label]// Coll. Mus. Congo / Col. P. Basilewsky [printed in black on white label], 1♀ same labeled except “ Craspedophorus / Strachani Hope / s. monardi. m. [handwritten in black]/ P. Basilewsky det. [printed in black on white label]” (Plate 1, Figs 8, 9, MRAC); 1♂,1♀ same labeled except “Sakdje / Aout [printed in black on white label]” (Plate 1, Fig. 7, Plate 12, Fig. 93, MRAC, NMPC).
Note. This subspecies is based on 23 specimens, collected in northern Cameroon. Description (in part, see Basilewsky 1951a: 385): “Specimens, collected by Dr. Monard, differ from typical form of West Africa, and from specimens, collected in northern Belgian Congo, in their elytra less convex and in their different elytral colouration, with lemon yellow maculae, which are more shiny and distinctly longer. [In C. s. monardi] humeral macula consists of seven macular spots, distinctly elongating from III to IX interval, spot on III interval very short, spot on IX interval mostly elongated moreless posteriorly; preapical macula consists of six spots, reaching from III to VIII interval, spot on III interval very short, spot on VI interval markedly shorted anteriorly. In two specimens humeral maculae, each with macular spot on IX interval prolonged almost as posterior as spots of preapical macula are located (Plate 1, Fig. 7). Also in one specimen from Ngaouyanga both maculae on each elytron jointed, forming one wide longitudinal band from III to IX interval anteriorly and from III to VIII interval posteriorly, distinctly narrower on intervals IV to IX; this band is symmetrical on each elytron, creating bizarre aspect in this genus” [from French].
Distribution. Northern Cameroon.
description: Published as part of Häckel, Martin, 2017, A contribution to the knowledge of the subfamily Panagaeinae Hope, 1838 from Africa. Part 3. Revision of the Craspedophorus strachani and C. brevicollis groups (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4330 (1) on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4330.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010167
Caladomyia Sawedal 1981
Creators: name: Epler, John H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Caladomyia

description: Caladomyia
- Two undescribed species were collected; one specimen of one species, two of the other. The genus was recently reviewed by Trivinho-Strixino (2012).
description: Published as part of Epler, John H., 2017, AN ANNOTATED PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) OF ZURQUÍ, COSTA RICA Abstract Introduction, pp. 4-18 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 30 (30) on page 9, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i30.2240, http://zenodo.org/record/7987298
Bombus soroeensis Fabricius 1776
Creators: name: Ornosa, Concepción
name: Torres, Félix
name: Rúa, Pilar De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus soroeensis

description: Bombus soroeensis (Fabricius, 1776)
Palearctic species, distributed in Europe from Spain to the southern part of central Siberia and Turkey and the Carpathian (Delmas 1976). In the Iberian Peninsula it is frequently observed in the Pyrenees and locations from the Cantabrian Range, between 600 and 2500 m (Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004).
The species is not considered threatened at a continental scale: Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688
Some methods for statistical inference using high-dimensional linear models
Creators: name: Ahmed, Talal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: The ordinary linear model has been the bedrock of signal processing, statistics, and machine learning for decades. The last decade, however, has witnessed a marked transformation of this model: instead of the classical low-dimensional setting in which the sample size exceeds the number of features/predictors/variables, we are increasingly having to operate in the high-dimensional setting in which the number of variables far exceeds the sample size. Although such high-dimensional settings would ordinarily lead to ill-posed problems, the inference task has been studied under the rubric of high-dimensional statistical inference, where various notions of structure have been imposed on the model parameters to obtain unique solutions to the inference problem. While there are many statistical methods that guarantee unique solutions, these methods can easily become computationally prohibitive in ultrahigh-dimensional settings, in which the number of variables can scale exponentially with the sample size. In other cases, the traditional notions of structure on model parameters can be rather restrictive, especially when the variables naturally appear in the form of a multi-way array (tensor), as in the case of neuroimaging data analysis.The purpose of this dissertation is to study inference using high-dimensional linear models for the cases when (i) the number of variables can scale exponentially with the number of samples, and (ii) the variables naturally form a tensor structure. Specifically, for each of these respective cases, the dissertation (i) proposes an efficient inference approach, (ii) provides high-probability performance guarantees for the proposed approach, and (iii) demonstrates efficacy of the inference approach in statistical analysis of real-world datasets.
Triphoris (Ino) asperrima Hinds 1843
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphoris
Triphoris asperrima

description: Triphoris (Ino) asperrima Hinds, 1843
Triphoris (Ino) asperrimus Hinds, 1843b: 18.
Triforis asperrimus Hinds, 1843 in Tryon 1887: 181, pl. 38, fig. 6.
Triphora asperrima Hinds, 1843 in Kuroda & Habe 1952: 91.
Inella asperrima (Hinds, 1843) in Kosuge 1962a: 120, pl. 7, fig. 4.
Liniphora asperrima (Hinds, 1843) in Habe & Kosuge 1966: 107, pl. 41, fig. 36.
Type locality. New Guinea, dredged from a muddy bottom in 8 fathoms deep (15 m).
Type material. NHMUK 1879.2.26.203, holotype.
Distribution. French Polynesia (Tröndle & Boutet 2009; Boutet et al. 2020), Japan (Kuroda & Habe 1952; Kosuge 1962a; Higo et al. 1999; Okutani 2000; Dumrongrojwattana et al. 2016; Okutani 2017), Marshall Islands (Kosuge 1990), New Guinea (Hinds 1843b; Hinds 1844; Tryon 1887; Paetel 1888; Kosuge 1962a; Albano et al. 2019), Papua New Guinea (Higo et al. 1999), Philippines (Higo et al. 1999; Poppe 2008), Thailand (Dumrongrojwattana et al. 2016; Dumrongrojwattana & Tanamai 2020; Wells et al. 2021).
Remarks. The genus Triphoris is of feminine gender, therefore the name should be Triphoris asperrima.
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Mirror of Orbifold Singularities in the Hitchin Fibration: the case $(\text{SL}_n,\text{PGL}_n)$
Creators: name: Ruan, Yongbin
name: Shu, Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the geometry of singular $\text{SL}_n$-Hitchin fibres over the elliptic locus. We show that orbifold singularities appear in the $\text{PGL}_n$-moduli space $M^{ell}(\text{PGL}_n)$ exactly when the $\text{SL}_n$ side $M^{ell}(\text{SL}_n)$ has a reducible Hitchin fibre. Our main theorem shows that the Fourier-Mukai transform of a skyscraper sheaf supported at an orbifold singularity in $M^{ell}(\text{PGL}_n)$ satisfies a version of the fractional Hecke eigenproperty, as conjectured by Frenkel and Witten.
GLACIAL: Granger and Learning-based Causality Analysis for Longitudinal Imaging Studies
Creators: name: Nguyen, Minh
name: Ngo, Gia H.
name: Sabuncu, Mert R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Granger framework is useful for discovering causal relations in time-varying signals. However, most Granger causality (GC) methods are developed for densely sampled timeseries data. A substantially different setting, particularly common in medical imaging, is the longitudinal study design, where multiple subjects are followed and sparsely observed over time. Longitudinal studies commonly track several biomarkers, which are likely governed by nonlinear dynamics that might have subject-specific idiosyncrasies and exhibit both direct and indirect causes. Furthermore, real-world longitudinal data often suffer from widespread missingness. GC methods are not well-suited to handle these issues. In this paper, we propose an approach named GLACIAL (Granger and LeArning-based CausalIty Analysis for Longitudinal studies) to fill this methodological gap by marrying GC with a multi-task neural forecasting model. GLACIAL treats subjects as independent samples and uses the model's average prediction accuracy on hold-out subjects to probe causal links. Input dropout and model interpolation are used to efficiently learn nonlinear dynamic relationships between a large number of variables and to handle missing values respectively. Extensive simulations and experiments on a real longitudinal medical imaging dataset show GLACIAL beating competitive baselines and confirm its utility. Our code is available at https://github.com/mnhng/GLACIAL.
description: Accepted for publication at the Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA) https://melba-journal.org/2024:028