cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nondestructive ultrasonic characterization of armor grade silicon carbide
Creators: name: Portune, Andrew Richard
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Ceramic materials have traditionally been chosen for armor applications for their  superior mechanical properties and low densities. At high strain rates seen during ballistic  events, the behavior of these materials relies upon the total volumetric flaw concentration  more so than any single anomalous flaw. In this context flaws can be defined as any  microstructural feature which detriments the performance of the material, potentially  including secondary phases, pores, or unreacted sintering additives. Predicting the  performance of armor grade ceramic materials depends on knowledge of the absolute and  relative concentration and size distribution of bulk heterogeneities.  Ultrasound was chosen as a nondestructive technique for characterizing the  microstructure of dense silicon carbide ceramics. Acoustic waves interact elastically with  grains and inclusions in large sample volumes, and were well suited to determine  concentration and size distribution variations for solid inclusions. Methodology was  developed for rapid acquisition and analysis of attenuation coefficient spectra.  Measurements were conducted at individual points and over large sample areas using a  novel technique entitled scanning acoustic spectroscopy. Loss spectra were split into  absorption and scattering dominant frequency regimes to simplify analysis. The primary  absorption mechanism in polycrystalline silicon carbide was identified as thermoelastic in nature. Correlations between microstructural conditions and parameters within the  absorption equation were established through study of commercial and custom  engineered SiC materials.  Nonlinear least squares regression analysis was used to estimate the size  distributions of boron carbide and carbon inclusions within commercial SiC materials.  This technique was shown to additionally be capable of approximating grain size  distributions in engineered SiC materials which did not contain solid inclusions.  Comparisons to results from electron microscopy exhibited favorable agreement between  predicted and observed distributions. Developed techniques were applied to large sample  areas using scanning acoustic spectroscopy to map variations in the size distribution and  concentration of grains and solid inclusions within the bulk microstructure. The  experiments performed in this thesis form the foundation of a novel characterization  technique capable of mapping variations in sample composition which could be extended  to a wide range of dense polycrystalline heterogeneous materials.
The role of the hydrophobic core in regulating proteinstability
Creators: name: Pronchik, Jeremy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This thesis answers questions about how the design of proteins maintains dynamic stability. It begins with an investigation into how a globular protein, β -Lactoglobulin A,  accommodates a small molecule into its hydrophobic core. These experiments examine  the events of ligand binding, reporting the pico- to nanosecond motions that stabilize  the ligand. The small molecule, Coumarin 153 (C153), is a dye whose fluorescence energy is modulated by the surrounding protein. Relaxation of the protein about the dye manifests as a time-dependent red shift in observed fluorescence energy. This red shift is successfully separated from the fluorescence of two other C153 dye binding sites with an analysis tool we develop. Using a model fluorescence spectrum, the total fluorescence is decomposed into its three components. binding locations are assigned based on temperature-dependent fluorescence data which reveal site specific thermodynamic  changes in the protein consistent with previous reports. The high temperature denature of β -Lactoglobulin is also manifested as a change in fluctuation activation energies,  which are calculated according to Arrhenius theory. The second part of the thesis establishes the ma jor driving force for the destabilization of an intrinsically disordered protein, an event which initiates its aggregation to amyloid. α-synuclein (αSyn) is the major protein component of pathological Lewy  bodies found in Parkinsonian neural tissue. The majority of in vitro experiments accelerate kinetics with sample agitation in the presence of air or polytetrafluoroethylene   (PTFE). Our experiments use controlled amounts of PTFE to demonstrate the accel-   eration is due to the stabilization of monomeric αSyn at the hydrophobic-hydrophilic   (PTFE-water) interface. This result disproves the widely held assumption that amyloid  kinetics are primarily accelerated by mass transfer and/or fibril fragmentation and calls   for a reevaluation of αSyn amyloid publications. It is determined that only the initial dimerization reaction is surface dependent and a fit of data to an explicit kinetic model allows information of solution phase reactions to be separated from it. A model is developed about a free energy landscape and the resulting kinetic parameters are translated into ∆G and ∆G‡ values for prenuclation, nucleation, and fibrillization reactions.
Mallomonas acaroides var. inermis Fott
Creators: name: Kapustin, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Chrysophyceae
Synurales
Mallomonadaceae
Mallomonas
Mallomonas acaroides
Mallomonas acaroides var. inermis fott

description: 68. Mallomonas acaroides var. inermis Fott
Rybinsk Reservoir (Balonov & Kuzmin 1975a).
description: Published as part of Kapustin, Dmitry A., 2024, An updated checklist of the silica-scaled chrysophytes from Russia, pp. 165-193 in Phytotaxa 669 (3) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.669.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14519547
Origins of modernism in French romantic sculpture
Creators: name: Quideau, Florence
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation repositions the place of four Romantic artists within the current discussion of Modern sculpture. Today, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux has displaced Auguste Rodin’s paramount place as the first Modern sculptor. The dynamism, suppleness, truthful movements, appropriate gestures, and accuracy of Carpeaux’s sculptures are considered the epitome of Modernist sculpture. This analysis argues that the portrait-busts and sculpted caricatures of Jean-Pierre Dantan (called Dantan-Jeune), Pierre-Jean David (called David d’Angers), Auguste Préault, and Honoré Daumier exemplified audacious artistic changes made thirty years before Carpeaux. These four artists showed a distinct rejection of formal portraiture and the values of artistic decorum by creating an unprecedented avant-garde style of sculpture. They left purposely their sculpted portraits and caricatures with irregular surfaces, distorted facial features, exaggerated mops of hair, and used colorings, emphasized physiognomic and physiologic characteristics to overthrow Academic traditions of realistic and idealized beautification of sitters. They showed innovation through their use of the two "pseudo sciences", physiognomy and phrenology – the latter considered at the cutting edge of progress – resulting in sculpted portraits, which Salon art critics ridiculed as ugly, caricatural or grotesque. They also exemplified modernism by reversing the traditional making and purpose of sculpture. They subverted artistic expectations by making two-dimensional lithographs and albums based on their three-dimensional portraits and caricatures that were sold to a wide public. The serialization of their works in small-scale further democratized the art of sculpture. These examples show artistic and commercial innovations in the mass-market popularization of sculpted portraiture, which had been shunned by the public because of its repetitive and elitist nature. These four sculptors shattered artistic, political, social, and commercial expectations in the 1830s. Their sculpted portraits and caricatures attest to their modernity, which not only precede Carpeaux's but skip over his generation in a manner that points the way to French Expressionist sculpture of the late nineteenth century. In fact, these four sculptors far exceed Carpeaux’s modernism by showing a rare audacity and creativity that goes well beyond the expressivity of his oeuvre. David d’Angers, Dantan-Jeune, Daumier, and Préault anticipated many of the innovations of Carpeaux, acting as generators rather than simply “forefathers".
Stenus jiajinshanus Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus jiajinshanus

description: Stenus jiajinshanus nov.sp. (Abb. 64, 103, 152)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♂): CHINA: Sichuan, 37 km N Baoxing, Qiao Qi village, Jiajin Shan National Forest Park, 2800m, 30 o 40‘46‘‘N, 102 o 41‘47‘‘E, mixed forest, 15.VI.2014, Hájek & Růžička: im ZMP.
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Brachypter, schwach glänzend, Kopf schwarz, restlicher Körper dunkel kastanienbraun; Vorderkörper grob und sehr dicht, sehr regelmässig punktiert, Abdomen vorn grob und dicht, hinten mässig fein und ziemlich dicht punktiert (Tergit 7: Abb. 103); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. 1. und 2. Kiefertasterglied rötlichgelb, 3. Glied mittelbraun, Fühlerbasis und Beine rotbraun, Fühlerkeule dunkler braun. Clypeus schwarz, Oberlippe braun, heller gesäumt, dünn beborstet. Abdomen seitlich vollständig ungerandet, 4. Tarsenglied gelappt. Oberseite ohne Netzung.
Länge: 2,8-3,3mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,4-1,5mm).
PM des HT: HW: 29; DE: 14.5; PW: 23,5; PL: 22; EW: 29; EL: 23,5; SL: 17,5.
Männchen: Schenkel stark gekeult, Schienen einfach. Metasternum breit eingedrückt, grob und sehr gleichmässig, sehr dicht punktiert und beborstet (Abb. 64), Vordersternite einfach, 7. Sternit vor dem Hinterrand median leicht abgeflacht und daselbst fein und sehr dicht punktiert und beborstet. 8. Sternit mit runder Ausrandung etwa im hinteren Viertel des Sternits. 9. Sternit mit langen Apikolateralzähnen. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Aedoeagus (Abb. 152), Apikalpartie des Medianlobus nach flach konkavem Bogen dreieckig in eine kurz abgerundete Spitze verengt, ventral dicht beborstet; im Innern werden eine grosse, distal seitlich genoppte Ausstülpspange sowie ein stark sklerotisierter, asymmetrischer Innensack deutlich; Parameren deutlich länger als der Medianlobus, mit insgesamt 3 + 3 Borsten.
Weibchen: Unbekannt.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: Diese neue Art gehört in die S. cephalotes- Gruppe und sieht hier äusserlich mit ihrer groben Punktierung zum Beispiel dem S. jizushanus nov.sp. ähnlich, unterscheidet sich aber sofort von ihm durch fehlende Seitenrandung des 3. Abdominalsegments und fehlende Netzung.
E t y m o l o g i e: Der Name dieser neuen Art ist von ihrem Fundort abgeleitet.
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 1365, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141
Structural studies of cytidine repressor and catabolite activator protein
Creators: name: Rao, Ramya Rangesh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The Escherichia Coli Catabolite Activator Protein (CAP) activates DNA transcription at more than a hundred promoters. Cytidine Repressor (CytR), in conjunction with two CAP dimers, acts as a repressor of DNA transcription at the deoP2 promoter. In the first part of this work, we describe a method by which a (CAP)[subscript] 2-CytR-DNA complex can be prepared for structural studies. In the second part of this project, we describe the crystallization of what was initiallyintended to be a (CAP)[subscript] 2-DNA complex in order to study the effects of two CAP dimers on transcription at an artificially constructed promoter containing tandem CAP binding sites. Upon structure determination of the crystal, we observed that while there was no DNA present, the protein had bound multiple Co[superscript]2+ and SO2−/4 ligands. We provide an analysis of the crystal structure and present a possible explanation for the absence of DNA in the structure.
Mallomonas actinoloma var. actinoloma Asmund & E. Takahashi
Creators: name: Kapustin, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Chrysophyceae
Synurales
Mallomonadaceae
Mallomonas
Mallomonas actinoloma
Mallomonas actinoloma var. actinoloma asmund & e. takahashi

description: 69. Mallomonas actinoloma var. actinoloma Asmund & E. Takahashi
Magadan Region (Kuzmin et al. 1989); Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Siver et al. 2005); Republic of Yakutia (Bessudova et al. 2021); Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (Bessudova et al. 2023d).
description: Published as part of Kapustin, Dmitry A., 2024, An updated checklist of the silica-scaled chrysophytes from Russia, pp. 165-193 in Phytotaxa 669 (3) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.669.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14519547
I. New strategy for the synthesis of TMC-95A II. Selective ortho-substitution on substituted aryl rings  III. Characterization of steroidal glycosides from easter lily
Creators: name: Ramanathan, Ahalya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: TMC-95A is a natural product which has demonstrated inhibition activity against the proteasomal pathway. Though its biological activity is proven, the total synthesis of the molecule is challenging in many ways.   In this thesis the synthetic strategy taken for the partial synthesis of the northern fragment of the TMC-95A is described. Part of the synthetic studies on the northern fragment involves selective ortho substitution on the indole aromatic ring. It was successfully achieved by protecting the para position with a bromo substituent.  This selective ortho substitution was studied further on simple aromatic compounds. Bromides and chlorides at the para position were selectively removed in the presence of sensitive functional groups, which allowed this method to be utilized for selective ortho substitution.  Model studies on 3-methyloxindole were carried out as part of the TMC-95A project. Although the model study gave very different results as opposed to the TMC-95A tryptophan intermediates, the outcome was interesting and turned out to be a project on its own. The halogen substitution at the α-position and sequential conversion of the halide to hydroxyl group was an interesting discovery.  Several arylsulfonylhydroxylamines were investigated for the synthesis of the 1-propynamie, which will be used in the preparation of the TMC-95A Z-enamide sidechain. It was discovered that an arylsulfonylhydroxylamine with a dodecyl chain dissolved in THF and ether solvents at lower temperatures. This property should allow for the in situ synthesis of 1-propynamine. Synthesis of a TMC-278 model compound was successfully accomplished in 3 steps. The key step was the coupling of the pyrimidine intermediate with an aniline, which was achieved after oxidizing the sulfide substituent on the aminopyrimidine substrate. In contrast to literature reports with hydroxypyrimidines, the coupling with the sulfide itself does not occur with aminopyrimidines.  A collaborative project with the Gianfagna group in the Department of Plant Science ¬- characterization of saponin compounds isolated from a species of Easter Lily by NMR was also accomplished.
Stenus chapingshanus Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus chapingshanus

description: Stenus chapingshanus nov.sp. (Abb. 30, 93, 196)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♀): CHINA: Sichuan, Mt. Jidingshan (Chapingshan), 3820m, Mao Xian, 22.IX.1996, S. Nomura: in coll. Watanabe (TUA).
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Apter, schwach schimmernd, Kopf schwarzbraun, übriger Körper kastanienbraun; Stirn grob, Pronotum und Elytren sehr grob, sehr dicht punktiert (Abb. 30), Abdomen vorn mässig grob und mässig dicht, hinten fein und dicht punktiert (Tergit 7: Abb. 93); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. 1. und 2. Glied der Kiefertaster gelblich, 3. Glied rötlichgelb, Fühlerbasis hellbraun (Keule fehlt dem HT), Beine rötlichbraun. Clypeus dunkelbraun, Oberlippe braun, heller gesäumt, mässig dicht beborstet. 3. und 4. Abdominalsegment mit unvollständiger Seitenrandung, 5. Segment links mit vollständiger, sehr dünner Seitenrandung, rechts unvollständig gerandet, 4. Tarsenglied gelappt. Abdomen mit äusserst flacher Netzung.
Länge: 2,5-3,0mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,4mm).
PM des HT: HW: 27,5; DE: 15; PW: 22; PL: 21; EW: 27; EL: 22; SL: 18.
Männchen: Unbekannt.
Weibchen: 8. Sternit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Valvifer apikolateral mit spitzem Zahn. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Spermatheka (Abb. 196), Infundibulum sehr auffällig: nach einem breiten Trichter in eine Röhre verengt, die etwa dreimal so lang wie breit ist; mittlerer Spermathekengang mehrfach gewunden, Endschlauch wenig länger als der mittlere Spermathekengang.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: Diese neue Art gehört der S. cephalotes- Gruppe fällt durch ihre sehr grobe, regelmässige Punktierung der Elytren (Abb. 30) auf. Sie unterscheidet sich von allen Nahverwandten, deren Spermatheka bekannt ist, durch dieselbe.
E t y m o l o g i e: Der Name dieser neuen Art ist von ihrem Fundort abgeleitet.
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 1366-1367, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141
Design of loss functions and feature transformation for minimum classification error based automatic speech recognition
Creators: name: Ratnagiri, Madhavi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: An automatic speech recognition system has two main components, the front end feature processing component, followed by a model training component. A widely used algorithm for training models is Minimum Classification Error (MCE) that designs the model parameters to minimize recognition error. One approach for designing the feature processing component to minimize the error in recognition is transforming the features using the MCE criterion that is most commonly used only to estimate the model parameters. Past efforts that have integrated feature transformation into MCE training assumed the Hidden Markov Model state distributions were represented by diagonal covariance Gaussian mixtures when estimating the model parameters; but assumed full covariance Gaussian mixtures when estimating the feature transformation matrix. We rectify this discrepancy in assumptions, derive and implement the MCE based feature transformation, using diagonal covariance Gaussian mixtures.  For designing the model parameters, MCE minimizes the recognition error using a standard sigmoid loss function, which is a Parzen window estimate of the Bayes risk. Using different kernels for Parzen Window estimation we developed new loss functions, viz. the Gaussian Kernel based loss and Generalized Savage loss. Investigation into the recognition performance of these loss functions lead to the introduction of a new large margin based loss function for MCE (LM-MCE) where the error is minimized and margin maximized. Minimizing the error, aims to shift the decision boundary so the wrongly classified tokens move to the side of the correct class, (however some of these tokens could lie on or close to the boundary); while increasing the margin between the correctly classified tokens and the decision boundary, removes some of these tokens away from the boundary and improves the robustness of the classification. Unlike previous studies, this effort does not require MCE training prior to maximizing the margin nor does it require non-optimal manual increments of the margin shifts; and since this loss function is bounded, it is not susceptible to outliers. The development of the new LM-MCE loss function has a theoretical basis in the Vapnik and Chervonenkis (VC) theory and was developed using the Bayes risk formulation.
Representations of African women in the American and French press, 1990-2005
Creators: name: Ruginyte, Dovile
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Africa has been subject to Western misrepresentations since the earliest ventures of Europeans into the continent. The colonial clichés of Africa as the “Dark continent” and its people as lazy, licentious savages incapable of progress have been established to justify Western exploitation of Africa. African women have been particularly subject to the derogatory Western gaze. Most existing studies of the Western media’s representations of Africans suggest that the media continue recycling these colonial stereotypes. The study examined four hundred forty four articles about African women in the New York Times and Le Monde from 1990 to 2005 to determine to what extent their representations continued to be shaped by colonial clichés. The study found that only about half of the portrayals of African women are crisis-driven. The rest of the stories present African women outside crises situations: e.g., going about their daily lives, participating in politics and interested in fashion. The study also demonstrated that Le Monde’s discourses about African women are somewhat more subtle and sophisticated than those of the New York Times, which often relies on simplistic and reductionist interpretations of complex situations. Le Monde’s coverage nevertheless deteriorates when the issues discussed are perceived as having political currency in France. The coverage in both newspapers also suffers from systematic omissions of a larger political and historical context that would better contextualize situations and would also expose France and America’s role in African events. Finally, the New York Times’ reporting is distinguished by the trend of advocacy journalism. While the intentions of journalists/advocates are necessarily benevolent, the outcome of these writings is somewhat ambiguous, often projecting African women at their worst: suffering, desperate, and to be pitied.
Stenus qionglaishanus Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus qionglaishanus

description: Stenus qionglaishanus nov.sp. (Abb. 36, 124, 214)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♀)und 1♀ - Paratypus: CHINA: W Sichuan, Aba Tibetian Aut. Pref., Weizhou Co., Qionglai Shan, Wolong valley, 69 km WSW Guanxian, 3500m, 30 o 53.57’N, 102 o 58.63’E, mixed fiorest, 15.VII.1999, A. Pütz.- HT in coll. Pütz (Eisenhüttenstadt), PT in cP.
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Apter, schwach glänzend, Kopf schwarz, restliche Oberseite dunkel kastanienbraun; Vorderkörper grob und sehr dicht, auf den Elytren auch kurz-zusammenfliessend punktiert/skulptiert (Abb. 36), Abdomen vorn ziemlich grob und dicht, hinten fein und dicht punktiert (Tergit 7: Abb. 124); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. Kiefertaster gelb bis rötlichgelb, Fühlerbasis und Beine hellbraun bis rötlichbraun, Fühlerkeule braun. Clypeus schwarzbraun, Oberlippe braun, dünn beborstet. Abdomen seitlich vollständig ungerandet, 4. Tarsenglied gelappt. Nur das hintere Abdomen zeigt Netzungsspuren.
Länge: 2,8-3,3mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,6mm).
PM des HT: HW: 30,5; DE: 17; PW: 25; PL: 24; EW: 30,5; EL: 25,5; SL: 20.
Männchen: Unbekannt.
Weibchen: 8. Sternit zum Hinterrand sehr flach stumpfwinklig verengt. Valvifer mit spitzem Apikolateralzahn. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Spermatheka (Abb. 214), Infundibulum breit hufeisenförmig, mittlerer Spermathekengang dünn, mehrfach gewunden, Endschlauch kaum länger als der mittlere Spermathekengang.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: Diese neue Art gehört der S. cephalotes- Gruppe fällt durch ihre grobe, etwas unregelmässige, leicht rugose Punktierung der stark unebenen Elytren auf. Sie unterscheidet sich von ihren Nahverwandten unter anderem durch den Bau ihrer Spermatheka.
E t y m o l o g i e: Der Name dieser neuen Art ist von ihrem Fundort abgeleitet.
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 1367, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141
Mallomonas actinoloma var. maramuresensis L. S. Peterfi & Momeu
Creators: name: Kapustin, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Chrysophyceae
Synurales
Mallomonadaceae
Mallomonas
Mallomonas actinoloma
Mallomonas actinoloma var. maramuresensis l.ş. péterfi & momeu

description: 70. Mallomonas actinoloma var. maramuresensis L.Ş. Péterfi & Momeu
Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Siver et al. 2005); Leningrad Region (Safronova & Voloshko 2013); Nizhniy Novgorod Region (Gusev et al. 2019); Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (Bessudova et al. 2023d).
description: Published as part of Kapustin, Dmitry A., 2024, An updated checklist of the silica-scaled chrysophytes from Russia, pp. 165-193 in Phytotaxa 669 (3) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.669.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14519547
Stenus vicinicola Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus vicinicola

description: Stenus vicinicola nov.sp. (Abb. 41, 84, 134, 187)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♂): CHINA: Sichuan, Jinfo Shan, 1800m, 26: VI.1998, A. Smetana (C 70): in coll. Smetana (NMNST).
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Apter,mässigschimmernd,Kopfschwarz,Pronotum und Abdomen dunkel kastanienbraun, Elytren kastanienbraun mit verwaschener Aufhellung in der Mitte der Seitenhälfte (Abb. 41); Vorderkörper grob und sehr dicht punktiert, Abdomen vorn ziemlich grob, hinten fein und ziemlich dicht punktiert (Tergit 7: Abb. 134); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. Kiefertaster gelb, Fühlerbasis und Beine hellbraun, Fühlerkeule mittelbraun. Clypeus schwarzbraun, Oberlippe braun, heller gesäumt, dünn beborstet. Abdomen seitlich vollständig, linienartig gerandet, 4. Tergit gelappt. Abdomen flach, Pronotum deutlich genetzt.
Länge: 2,5-2,8mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,4mm).
PM des HT: HW: 29; DE: 14; PW: 21,5; PL: 21,5; EW: 25; EL: 24; SL: 16.
Männchen: Beine einfach. Metasternum eingedrückt, grob und ziemlich dicht auf genetztem Grund punktiert und beborstet (Abb. 84), Vordersternite einfach, 5. und 6. Sternit in der Mitte dichter als an den Seiten punktiert und beborstet, 7. Sternit längs der Mitte sehr flach eingedrückt und daselbst feiner, und besonders hinten, dichter als an den Seiten punktiert und beborstet, Hinterrand kaum erkennbar ausgerandet. 8. Sternit mit schmalrunder Ausrandung etwa im hinteren Neuntel des Sternits. 9. Sternit apikolateral mit langem, spitzem Zahn. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Aedoeagus (Abb. 187), Apikalpartie des Medianlobus spitzwinklig in eine dünne Spitze verengt, ventrolateral mit zahlreichen Sinnesborsten; im Innern werden kräftige Ausstülphaken sowie ein stark sklerotisierter, hantelförmiger Innensack deutlich; Parameren viel länger als der Medianlobus, mit insgesamt 5 + 5/6 langen Borsten.
Weibchen: Unbekannt.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: Diese neue Art der S. cephalotes- Gruppe fällt durch die schwache Aufhellung ihrer Elytren auf. Sie unterscheidet sich von allen ihren Nahverwandten durch ihre Sexualcharaktere.
Bemerkung: Der HT ist nach Präparation und Messung aus Versehen stark beschädigt worden.
E t y m o l o g i e: Weil sie als Nachbar von S. jinfoshanus nov.sp. lebt, nenne ich diese neue Art " vicinicola " (Lat. = in der Nachbarschaft wohnend).
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 1371-1372, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141
Polycyclic hydrocarbon contamination in and around the Arthur Kill, Staten Island, New York
Creators: name: Rustic, Gerald Thomas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants.  PAHs are often found in industrialized and urbanized areas as a result of industrial processes, combustion of carbon-bearing compounds, and urban runoff.  The area surrounding the Arthur Kill in Staten Island, New York, is an area with a long history of industrial activity, pollution, and anthropogenic contamination.  The area is known to have elevated levels of metal pollution  which has impacted the benthic infaunal community dynamics.  The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of PAHs present in sediments in and around the Arthur Kill, and to determine if the levels of PAHs present have affected benthic macroinfaunal community structure.  Sediment PAH concentrations were measured using isotope dilution mass spectrometry, and the effects of that contamination on community structure were determined using linear regression, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA).  Organic carbon normalized PAH concentrations ranged from 45 to 211 ug/g organic carbon, below concentrations considered dangerous.  No significant relationship was found between benthic macrofauna biomass or abundance using the various statistical methods, suggesting that PAH contamination is not a driving factor in the community composition in and around the Arthur Kill.
Exile and empire
Creators: name: Sammond, Kenneth
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Year: 2011

description: This dissertation juxtaposes Virgil’s Aeneid with Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in order to explore how epics, which question and upend our very ideas of civilization, represent a crisis in culture and anticipate new ways of imagining community. This juxtaposition, developed from allusions to Virgil found in The Satanic Verses, examines how Virgil’s epic imagines empire and how Rushdie’s work, as a type of epic, creates a narrative that I term, ‘post-imperial.’  Post-imperial narrative is defined as part of the evolution of the epic genre and its ways of imagining community. To create this definition, I represent a genealogy of epic traits both structural and thematic, arguing that epic themes express totalizing perspectives and changes that irrevocably alter the world. This genealogy reveals how epics imagine communities by creating self-definitional traits, historical and cosmological contexts, and anticipated futures.  I argue that the Aeneid, an epic concerned with the founding of Rome, a new type of imagined community, provided a central basis upon which the British Empire imagined itself and based its imperial aspirations. The Aeneid is examined within three  iii  contexts: first, how it imagined and subverted the ‘national’ ideals of the nascent Roman Empire; second, how it was interpreted and used by the British Empire to justify aspirations of conquest and subjugation; and, finally, how it was rejected by post-colonial British writers for its role in imagining empire.  As a post-imperial text, The Satanic Verses is situated and analyzed in relation to the ways that Virgil’s Aeneid was recognized as the national epic from which Western imperial ideals have been drawn. As such, I shed light on the epic, explore the ways the Roman and British Empires are understood, and introduce the post-imperial as a way in which texts have begun to supersede Western narratives of empire.  Finally, this dissertation argues that the trope of the exile makes such epics possible, proposing that the ‘national’ community imagined in Virgil’s Aeneid requires a protagonist who is both foreign and native, but regarded by many natives as an outsider. It concludes that post-imperial texts also require a similar type of protagonist.
Chaetocnema (Chaetocnema) yonyonae Chen 1934
Creators: name: Ruan, Yongying
name: Yang, Xingke
name: Konstantinov, Alexander S.
name: Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal D.
name: Zhang, Mengna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chaetocnema
Chaetocnema yonyonae

description: 49. Chaetocnema (Chaetocnema) yonyonae Chen, 1934
Chaetocnema yonyonae Chen, 1934: 246. TL: Vietnam (Tonkin). TD: MNHN.
Distribution: Vietnam (Tonkin).
Host plants: Unknown.
Description (after Chen 1934): Body length 2.5 mm. Antennae stout, pronotum with posterior angle rounded, somewhat produced. Body ovate, rather strongly narrowed behind. Shining metallic blue, with the pronotum slightly green; four basal antennomeres and legs dark red-brown; apical antennomeres piceous; posterior femora metallic.
Head finely granulose, very sparsely and finely punctate, with frontal transverse depression very shallow and clypeus with a few setae on each side. Antennae reach a little beyond humeral calli, second antennomere thicker but not shorter than the third or fourth, each of the following antennomeres slightly longer than fourth and thicker than most other species of the genus. Pronotum finely and very closely reticulate, covered with moderately strong but fairly close punctation, basal transverse row of punctures absent; lateral margins converging in front; posterior angles rounded, somewhat produced. Scutellum semi-circular, impunctate. Elytra rather strongly punctate, punctures very regularly arranged; interstices distinctly and closely punctate, lateral ones subcostate.
Remarks: We could not locate the type in MNHN. Based on the original description, this species closely resembles C. yunnanica in almost all aspects. However, in C. yonyonae, the vertex is punctate in the middle and not raised (in C. yunnanica, vertex is impunctate in the middle and distinctly raised). This species can be separated from its other Oriental congeners by the strongly narrowed hind part of the body and the strongly and very closely punctate elytral interspaces (Chen, 1934).
description: Published as part of Ruan, Yongying, Yang, Xingke, Konstantinov, Alexander S., Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal D. & Zhang, Mengna, 2019, Revision of the Oriental Chaetocnema species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), pp. 1-206 in Zootaxa 4699 (1) on page 123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4699.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3543038
Search for hadronic resonances in multijet final states with the CDF detector
Creators: name: Seitz, Claudia
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Year: 2011

description: This thesis describes a search for a new hadronic resonance in 3.2 fb [superscript]-1of data using the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The Fermilab Tevatron accelerator collides beams of protons and antiprotons at a center of mass energy of [square root] 8 = 1.96 TeV.   A unique approach is presented to extract multijet resonances from the large QCD background.  Although the search is model independent, a pair produced supersymmetric gluino decaying through R-parity violation into three partons each is used to test our sensitivity to new physics. We measure these partons as jets, and require a minimum of six jets in an event.  We make use of the kinematic features and correlations and use an ensemble of jet combinations  to distinguish signal from multijet QCD backgrounds. Our background estimates also include all-hadronic tt[bar] decays that have a signature similar to signal. We observe no significant excess in an invariant mass range of 77 GeV/c [superscript]2 to 240 GeV/c[superscript]2 and place 95 % C.L. limits on [sigma](pp[bar] [right arrow] [tilde]g[tilde]g [right arrow] 3jets + 3jets) as a function of gluino invariant mass.
'Border consciousness' and the re-imagination of nation in the films of Akin, Dresen and Petzold
Creators: name: Sclafani, Kathleen J.
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Year: 2011

description: In my dissertation I explore the role that borders play in the construction of  German identity through the films of Fatih Akin, Andreas Dresen and Christian  Petzold.  Despite the insistence of conservatives that Germany is not an   “immigration country,” I argue that the historical fluctuation of borders and the movement of populations into and out of Germany have resulted in a heightened   awareness of borders and their significance that contributes to a sense of  ambivalence about national identity.  This heightened awareness can be seen as a   type of “border consciousness,” a term that originated in Chicano/a studies and has  been used to analyze exilic and diasporic cinema but which I reconsider in the   context of German film. By examining tropes of borders and border crossings, as  well as representations of liminality in the work of German filmmakers from various   backgrounds, I argue that in these works, border consciousness can be seen as a  function of a relationship to national boundaries rooted in histories of displacement,   but not necessarily limited to the experiences of migrants and minorities. Drawing  upon the work of literary scholars Leslie Adelson and Andreas Huyssen and film scholar Hamid Naficy, I contend that the films I discuss provide evidence for the   emergence of new national narratives that could potentially link Germans from minority groups to a broader national imaginary and offer an alternative to the   language of divisiveness currently dominating public discourse. In addition, I  question how this development can be seen in the context of changes in the   European film industry that have begun to redefine ‘national’ cinema, encouraging   the embrace of filmmakers who figuratively extend the boundaries of the nation
Dimensions of drug information
Creators: name: Sharp, Mark E.
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Year: 2011

description: The high number, heterogeneity, and inadequate integration of drug information resources constitute barriers to many drug information usage scenarios. In the biomedical domain there is a rich legacy of knowledge representation in ontology-like structures that allows us to connect this problem both to the very mature field of library and information science classification research and the very new field of ontology matching/merging (OM). We argue for a broad view of OM that makes room not only for the "pre-formal" phase/type of multi-ontology integration exemplified by RxNorm and the UMLS Metathesaurus, but also for an even earlier phase/type when "What is there?" in a domain has to deal with implicit and poorly structured "ontologies" that barely qualify as such. Such is the case in the drug domain.  We introduce dimensions of drug information as an approach to early, pre-formal OM in the drug domain that draws inspiration and incorporates principles from facet analysis, domain analysis, and Semantic Web research on linked data and mashups.  By surveying 23 publically available drug information resources, we identified 39 dimensions relevant to four drug (sub)domains - pharmacy, chemistry, biology, and clinical medicine - and mapped them to the resources   An arbitrary four-domain, monohierarchical classification of the dimensions produced, by extension, a reasonable four-domain resource classification.  Correspondence analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis also produced evidence of its partial validity.  Detailed analysis of information on nine parent drug compounds from 15 resources refined this high-level dimensional mapping and identified hundreds of subdimensions which could be expressed as a six-level hierarchy.  Based on these dimensions, we integrated this information in an experimental database and showed that it was useful (1) as a training set for automating the normalization of additional raw data from the same 15 sources, bringing the important goal of building an integrated, comprehensive (all drugs) database within reach, and (2) for satisfying a variety of use cases, some quite complex, derived from published literature representing the user types corresponding to our domain focus.
Factors influencing the proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes in the soil environment
Creators: name: San Miguel, Cristiane
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Year: 2011

description: Manure is increasingly land applied as the organic industry booms. At the same time, antibiotic resistance (AR) in pathogenic bacteria is rendering many antibiotics useless and there is growing concern regarding AR in environmental organisms. It has been suggested that soils contain a vast and mobile reservoir of AR determinants, dubbed the soil resistome. Studies have shown the transfer of AR genes in soils, which may be enhanced by a variety of soil properties, which may, themselves, be impacted by manure amendment. Additionally, manure may contain antibiotic residues and AR enteric organisms that are introduced to soil through land application. Thus, environmental bacteria may acquire AR genes from introduced enterics or may contribute AR to these introduced species. Chapter 1 describes a study of the impact of both manure and an acidic food processing waste on a varitey of soil properties in an attempt to determine the role waste amendment may play in enhancing AR proliferation. Results indicate that manure amendment enhanced several properties associated with genetic transfer. Conversely, amendment with cranberry processing waste lowered the likelihood of AR dissemination. Analysis of metabolic diversity data revealed the limitation of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with these datasets and a new, direct comparison analysis was developed, as outlined in Chapter 2. To investigate the possible origins of AR, a soil bacterium, isolated in 1963, was assayed for its ability to resist multiple antibiotics, including two introduced after 1963, as described in Chapter 3. It was determined that this organism was highly resistant to all drugs tested, including ciprofloxacin (CIP),  a fully-synthetic compound introduced 25 years after isolation. Several resistance mechanisms, including those most common for CIP, were tested for, unsuccessfully. Thus, the mechanism(s) utilized by this organism remain unknown but appears to be novel. Chapter 4 describes a microcosm study, undertaken to evaluate the impact of manure free of  antibiotics and enterics on AR proliferation. The findings indicate that “clean” manure may actually limit the occurrence of AR in the soil environment by reducing stress response in indigenous bacteria. Furthermore, the data suggest stress response can protect against therapeutic levels of antibiotic.
Chaetocnema (Udorpes) Motschulsky
Creators: name: Ruan, Yongying
name: Yang, Xingke
name: Konstantinov, Alexander S.
name: Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal D.
name: Zhang, Mengna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chaetocnema

description: Subgenus Udorpes Motschulsky
Udorpes Motschulsky, 1845: 107. Type species: Udorpes splendens Motschulsky, 1845, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Ruan, Yongying, Yang, Xingke, Konstantinov, Alexander S., Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal D. & Zhang, Mengna, 2019, Revision of the Oriental Chaetocnema species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), pp. 1-206 in Zootaxa 4699 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4699.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3543038
Effect of processing on pinhão seeds and extrudabilty of pinhão flour
Creators: name: Singla, Nidhi
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Year: 2011

description: Pinhão is the seed of Brazilian Pine (Araucaria angustifolia), a conifer that grows in the south of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Pinhão seeds are very good source of carbohydrates but there is no wide scale consumption of these seeds hence a large quantity is lost at the end of each harvest. Due to high humidity, seeds can easily be contaminated by fungi during stockpiling, thus hindering its commercialization. The seeds are traditionally used as source of flour for baking or cooked in hot water, peeled, and consumed. The objectives of my research were: (1) To study the migration of polyphenols  from hull to seed during atmospheric and pressure cooking of pinhão seeds and; (2) To test the extrudability of pinhão flour fortified with soy flour to make snack food. The hull of pinhão has ample amount of phenolics but hull forms the non-edible part of the whole nut. It has been proved by previous researchers that  phenolics diffuse from the hull to the seed during atmospheric cooking. In this study we investigated the migration of phenolics during atmospheric and pressure cooking as a function of time. More migration of phenolics from hull to seed occured in a shorter time period during pressure cooking as compared to atmospheric cooking which proved that pressure cooking is an efficient cooking process as regards to polyphenolic content in cooked seeds. We also studied the single screw extrusion of pinhão flour fortified with soy flour using Response Surface Methodology. Box-Behnken (BBD) design was used to obtain the extrusion conditions to make extrudates. The process parameters during the extrusion were moisture content of the blended flour (17-24% w.b.), barrel temperature (120- 180°C), and ratio of pinhão flour to soy flour (1-3). The physical characteristics studied were sectional expansion index, bulk density, breaking strength, hue, chroma, water absorption index, and water solubility index. The total phenolic content of the blended flour and extrudates was also compared; it was found that there was substantial loss in polyphenols after extrusion cooking. For the expansion of the extrudates, maximum puffing of the samples was obtained at 17% moisture content of the blended flour, 150°C barrel temperature, and 3:1 ratio of pinhão flour to soy flour. Sensory testing of the selected extrudate samples was also conducted and results showed that sample extruded at low moisture content and high pinhão to soy flour ratio was perceived and liked by subjects the most.
Mallomonas actinoloma var. nadiensis Durrschmidt
Creators: name: Kapustin, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Chrysophyceae
Synurales
Mallomonadaceae
Mallomonas
Mallomonas actinoloma
Mallomonas actinoloma var. nadiensis dürrschmidt

description: 71. Mallomonas actinoloma var. nadiensis Dürrschmidt
Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Siver et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of Kapustin, Dmitry A., 2024, An updated checklist of the silica-scaled chrysophytes from Russia, pp. 165-193 in Phytotaxa 669 (3) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.669.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14519547