cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beyond Cells and Walls: Exploring Human Rights and Social Justice through Health and Nutrition in Lebanese Prisons
Creators: name: Fakhry, Yasmine
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2024

description: In light of the complex intersection of human rights, imprisonment with health and nutrition, the right to health lays as a basic and fundamental human right that often clashes with vulnerabilities and social injustice behind the prison’s walls and cells.

This study investigates how effectively the Lebanese prison healthcare system aligns with international human rights standards, particularly concerning food and healthcare access. It addresses a gap in research by focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The central question in this thesis asks how effectively does the prison healthcare system in Lebanon meets international human rights standards, addresses the diverse needs of its prisoner population (including considerations of human dignity, physical, mental, and social health), and ensures equitable access for vulnerable groups, while considering potential shortcomings and opportunities for improvement. Data collection included documents review, interviews and self-administered questionnaires. The research explores both areas of strengths, like emergency referral systems, and shortcomings in outdated legislation, overcrowding, dietary quality, health screenings, and mental health resources. Financial and human resource limitations pose significant challenges. This study emphasizes the urgent need for legal reforms, improved policies, and systemic changes to achieve compliance. Multisectoral collaboration involving the Lebanese government through ministries, local and international NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations), and academic institutions is crucial for ensuring equitable healthcare access, upholding human rights and social justice, and ultimately promoting the well-being of all prisoners in Lebanon, and thereby promote for a sustainable society.
The effect of substrate stiffness on uropathogenic E. coli infection
Creators: name: Keklak, Julia T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Both mammalian and bacterial cells respond to environmental cues and then elicit various physiological responses. Mechanical cues, such as surface attachment, have been noted as a critical part of bacterial infection through interaction with mechanosensors and the actin cytoskeleton. Urinary tract infections are a sufficient model for studying attachment due to the mechanism of bacterial infection. The cytoskeleton mediates various cell processes that are involved with infection, such as endocytosis and vesicle trafficking. The disruption of the host actin cytoskeleton leads to increased uropathogenic E. coli infection (UPEC). Since substrate stiffness mediates changes in host cell physiology through cytoskeletal interaction, we explored the UPEC infection process on polyacrylamide gels of differing stiffnesses. We found that UPEC escapes endocytic vesicles and replicates within the cytoplasm on soft gels, yet are trapped within lysosomal-associated membrane protein (LAMP-1) vesicles on stiff surfaces. Cytoplasmic replication is consistent with previous in vivo studies. Increased infection was also found on soft gels when compared with stiff substrates. These findings may provide a more accurate cell culturing model for future UPEC infection studies.
Developing advanced rules and tools to improve in vivo QSAR models
Creators: name: Kim, Marlene T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Together oral bioavailability and hepatotoxicity determine the fate and failure of a new drug in clinical trials.  A promising drug candidate that has little to no oral bioavailability could be considered an ineffective treatment.  If the drug does have high oral bioavailability, yet exhibits severe hepatotoxicity, the drug will be withdrawn from clinical trials.  Thus, oral bioavailability and hepatotoxicity account for a substantial number of drugs eliminated from therapies and withdrawn from the market.  Not only is this a severe financial loss for a pharmaceutical company; it is also a loss for patients who will no longer be able to benefit from the therapeutic effects.  The most common approach to testing oral bioavailability and hepatotoxicity before clinical trials is through animal testing.  The information learned from animal testing is highly valuable, but is expensive, time consuming, and has low throughput.  Cell based assays developed to study specific biochemical mechanisms and toxicity are heavily used as an alternative; however, correlations between complex in vitro and in vivo endpoints are not very clear.  Another alternative is Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) approach.  A QSAR model could evaluate millions of chemicals without requiring them to be synthesized, which saves money, time, and has high throughput. Many predictive QSAR models have been developed since the 1960’s, yet predictive in vivo QSAR models are difficult to build and rare to find.  Developing new methods to integrate mechanistic information and improve in vitro-in vivo correlation(s) for QSAR modeling purposes have been shown to be beneficial and are the focus of this thesis.  The complex in vivo endpoints oral bioavailability and hepatotoxicity were used as example endpoints to model. Methods to curate biological information and in vitro data, specifically high-throughput screening data, and incorporate it into the QSAR models are discussed in great detail.  The performance of the resulting models, as well as their shortcomings is also discussed. Overall, incorporating biological information into the QSAR modeling workflow greatly improved predictions from both the oral bioavailability and hepatotoxicity models.  The new techniques can be adapted to model other complex biological endpoints.
Nerds in trouble
Creators: name: Langer, Bernard S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Nerds in Trouble is a collection of fictional short stories about socially inexpert individuals imperiled by earthquakes, volcanoes, and persons of the opposite sex. Through humor and outlandish settings, it explores themes of insecurity, romantic attraction, civil infrastructure, seasonal produce, social maturation, and plate tectonics.
Depth Awakens: A Depth-perceptual Attention Fusion Network for RGB-D Camouflaged Object Detection
Creators: name: Liua, Xinran
name: Qia, Lin
name: Songa, Yuxuan
name: Wen, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Camouflaged object detection (COD) presents a persistent challenge in accurately identifying objects that seamlessly blend into their surroundings. However, most existing COD models overlook the fact that visual systems operate within a genuine 3D environment. The scene depth inherent in a single 2D image provides rich spatial clues that can assist in the detection of camouflaged objects. Therefore, we propose a novel depth-perception attention fusion network that leverages the depth map as an auxiliary input to enhance the network's ability to perceive 3D information, which is typically challenging for the human eye to discern from 2D images. The network uses a trident-branch encoder to extract chromatic and depth information and their communications. Recognizing that certain regions of a depth map may not effectively highlight the camouflaged object, we introduce a depth-weighted cross-attention fusion module to dynamically adjust the fusion weights on depth and RGB feature maps. To keep the model simple without compromising effectiveness, we design a straightforward feature aggregation decoder that adaptively fuses the enhanced aggregated features. Experiments demonstrate the significant superiority of our proposed method over other states of the arts, which further validates the contribution of depth information in camouflaged object detection. The code will be available at https://github.com/xinran-liu00/DAF-Net.
The state of Jefferson
Creators: name: Lary, Nina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The State of Jefferson is the story of Anita, Nina, and Chris, a single-mother, two-kid family that is formed and transformed by a trio of fires. Trying to settle her transient instincts and create stability for her children, Anita buys a home in deep northern California, a supposedly “cosmic” region that turns out to be primarily populated by Bud drinkin', gun-totin' good ol’ boys. A region so remote that its residents tried to secede from the U.S in the 1940s—if successful, the State of Jefferson would have been the 49th State. Amidst the evergreens, the family walks a line between mysticism and madness, and after a dramatic fiery finale, leaves 20-something Nina wondering how much her mother’s spiritual language and practices had been covering up. The State of Jefferson asks us to consider in what ways transcendence might be just another word for annihilation.
Extending the Doubling Conjecture
Creators: name: Uptegrove, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In the previous day’s session, students conjectured that, once they had a model for comparing the fractions 2/3 and 3/4, it was possible to build another model twice the size of that original model.In this session, Alan uses the doubling conjecture to build three models to compare 1/2 and 2/5.  The first model uses one orange rod to represent 1; the second uses two orange rods to represent 1; the third model uses four orange rods to represent 1. Alan conjectures that adding four orange rods to his largest model would result in a very large model that will also work.This analytic is from raw video A73, October 8, 1993.
Enghoffosoma spinipleurum
Creators: name: Likhitrakarn, Natdanai
name: Jirapatrasilp, Parin
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
name: Panha, Somsak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Enghoffosoma
Enghoffosoma spinipleurum

description: 64. Enghoffosoma spinipleurum (Carl, 1941)
Sundanina spinipleura Carl, 1941: 366 (D).
“ Sundanina ” spinipleura — Jeekel, 1968: 64 (M).
Tylopus spinipleura — Golovatch, 1984: 69 (M).
Sundanina spinipleura — Golovatch and Enghoff, 1993: 85 (M).
Enghoffosoma spinipleurum —Golovatch, 1993: 8 (D); 2011: 262 (M); Nguyen and Sierwald, 2013: 1258 (L); Likhitrakarn et al., 2014b: 492 (L).
Record from Myanmar: Chin-Hills, Chin State, northwestern Burma (Carl 1941). Based on two syntypes, one male and one female, both in the London Museum. The male has since been revised and designated as lectotype (Golovatch 1993).
Remark. This is the type-species of the genus Enghoffosoma.
description: Published as part of Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2017, A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 4350 (1) on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1050931
Additional file 3: Table S3. of Proteomic analysis of trochophore and veliger larvae development in the small abalone Haliotis diversicolor
Creators: name: Guilan Di
name: Xianghui Kong
name: Xiulian Miao
name: Yifang Zhang
name: Miaoqin Huang
name: Yuting Gu
name: Weiwei You
name: Jianxin Zhang
name: Caihuan Ke
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Differentially abundances 2-DE gel protein spots between trochophore larvae and veliger larvae stage identified by MALDI-TOFâ  TOF. (DOC 128Â kb)
Students Compare 1/4 and 1/9
Creators: name: Uptegrove, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The class is investigating the difference between 1/4 and 1/9.  In initial discussions, some students agree with Meredith, who says that the difference is 1/5 because 9 – 4 = 5.  Researcher Maher indicates to the class that if they apply Meredith’s rule to 1/2 and 1/4, they would get an answer of 1/2, challenging their earlier reasoning that produced an answer of 1/4. Some students build one model to show ninths and a second model (of a different length) to show fifths. For example, Alan builds one model where the blue rod represents 1 and so the white rod would have the number name of 1/9 and a second model where the purple rod represents 1and so the white rod would have the number name of 1/4. Alan concludes that 1/9 is smaller than 1/4, but he is unable to determine the difference using these models. After he is unsuccessful in his attempt to construct a model that can be divided into ninths and fourths, Alan conjectures that the reason is that it is not possible to build a model when one denominator is odd and the other is even. Researcher Maher reminds him  that in previous sessions, he  built a model for comparing 1/2 and 2/3; in another previous session, he built a model to compare  3/4 and 2/3.Meanwhile, James builds a model consisting of 3 orange rods and a dark green rod (36 cm.) that can be partitioned into ninths and fourths.  He presents the model to Researcher Davis.  First, James claims that the difference is 1/5, illustrating this difference by 5 white rods. Researcher Davis responds by asking James to clarify what number name is assigned to one white rod, and then of two white rods.  James responds 1/36 and 2/36, respectively. James realizes that if the difference between 1/4 and 1/9 is represented by 5 white rods, then that difference must be 5/36. James then presents this finding to the class.
Failed states and the effects of instability
Creators: name: Lisner, Matthew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The demands of statehood, “ensuring peace and stability, the rule of law”, and “good governance” can be difficult to achieve (Hashi, 2015). It is not uncommon for some polities to fail outright. When a state lacks the capacity to enforce binding laws, monopolize force, and collect tax, for an extended period of time, it has failed (Lambach, Johais, & Beyer, 2015). The consequences of failure are rarely isolated. The instability associated with fragile and failed states causes disruptions for the international community. Responding to disruptions, outside actors may attempt to preserve authoritarian regimes in order to maintain or reestablish stability. The intent of this paper is to (1) review the definitions of states and failed states, (2) examine the internal and external effects of failed states, (3) review disruptive externalities caused by failure in the Middle East and North Africa and to (4) consider the effects of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is more likely to disrupt its own citizens, rather than the international community. This by no means is an endorsement of oppression in the name of international stability. In the absence of stability some may reminisce about the old regime, but regression may only delay an inevitable collapse. In fact, predatory authoritarian behavior may lead to civil uprisings. Which in turn facilitate state failure and subsequent regional destabilization. The international community must work through the challenges of state failure by offering appropriate assistance. A failed state is more disruptive to the international community only in regards to spillover (externalities) than authoritarianism.
Additional file 3: of Husk to caryopsis adhesion in barley is influenced by pre- and post-anthesis temperatures through changes in a cuticular cementing layer on the caryopsis
Creators: name: M. Brennan
name: T. Shepherd
name: S. Mitchell
name: C. Topp
name: S. Hoad
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S4 a is a light micrograph of a resin-embedded barley grain at GS 85 stained with 1% (w/v) Toluidine bue O and counter-dyed with 1:1 0.1% (w/v) Sudan Red in polyethylene glycol:90% (v/v) glycerol. The interface between the pericarp epidermis and the husk (where the cementing layer is present) is shown (black arrow). The testa cuticle has dyed with Sudan Red (black and white arrow). The aleurone layer (black and gray arrow) marks the beginning of the endosperm. b shows the separation of the pericarp cuticle (black arrow), exposing the underlying pericarp cell wall (black and white arrow). c is a high-resolution of the smooth surface of the Nudinka pericarp at GS 77. There is no evidence of a cementing material, and no damange to the cuticle surface. (PDF 483Â kb)
Function and regulation of wishful thinking, a BMP type II receptor
Creators: name: Marmion, Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Development is controlled by a surprisingly small number of genetic pathways. One such pathway is called the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) pathway, similar from flies to humans. We used the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to study the BMP pathway during Drosophila oogenesis, the formation of the egg. While the pathway is relatively simple, there exist combinations between the three different ligands, and four different receptors.    My work focused largely on the two type II receptor, specifically on Wishful thinking (WIT). Much is known about the dynamic expression of the type I receptor during oogenesis, Thickveins. However, the pathway requires action of both type I and type II receptors. We found that WIT performs a necessary role during oogenesis and is regulated, indirectly, by BMP signaling. WIT is required for proper patterning of pathway target genes and necessary for proper formation of the eggshell. We also used a new technology, CRISPR/Cas9, to specifically remove the WIT locus from its endogenous location in the genome. This allowed for introduction of new alleles, including a tagged variant and conditional null, for future study of this gene. In the future, this may be applied to other genes in Drosophila oogenesis.    Since gene patterning is crucial to development, we also worked in a collaborative effort to describe other complex gene patterns during Drosophila oogenesis. The Chorion proteins (CPs) are constituents of the eggshell and are expressed in a highly complex and dynamic fashion. We developed a system to computationally analyze gene pattering, dynamics, and conservation by utilizing a simple binary matrix. This matrix was then able to be used to predict the origin of a new domain in a related species of Drosophilid, the dorsal ridge of D. nebulosa and D. willistoni. This work served as a jumping point for multiple lab projects to study the patterning of this domain by another signaling pathway, the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).
Watching television with friends
Creators: name: Maurer, Cynthia Michielle
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This qualitative work examines the role of tween live-action television shows in the friendships of four tween girls, providing insight into the use of televisual material in peer interactions. Over the course of one year and with the use of a video camera, I recorded, observed, hung out and watched television with the girls in the informal setting of a friend’s house. I found that friendship informs and filters understandings and use of tween television in daily conversations with friends. Using Erving Goffman’s theory of facework as a starting point, I introduce a new theoretical framework called friendship work to locate, examine, and understand how friendship is enacted on a granular level. Friendship work considers how an individual positions herself for her own needs before acknowledging the needs of her friends, and is concerned with both emotive effort and social impact. Through group television viewings, participation in television themed games, and the creation of webisodes, the girls strengthen, maintain, and diminish previously established bonds. I show how characters, narratives, and shows create a shared televisual lexicon the girls use to challenge and support each other, (re)aligning with and separating from friends to fulfill individual wants. I found that before television could be discussed, the girls negotiated their social relationships, and once established, conversation about televisual material is filtered through their friendships.
Eudasypeltis pusillus Pocock 1895
Creators: name: Likhitrakarn, Natdanai
name: Jirapatrasilp, Parin
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
name: Panha, Somsak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Eudasypeltis
Eudasypeltis pusillus

description: 65. Eudasypeltis pusillus Pocock, 1895
Eudasypeltis pusillus Pocock, 1895: 796 (D).
Eudasypeltis pusillus — Attems, 1898: 340 (D); 1914: 201 (L); 1936: 218 (L); 1937: 149 (D, K); Jeekel, 1965a: 96 (M); 1965b: 124 (L); Jeekel, 1968: 57 (M); Golovatch, 1996: 73 (D, K); Likhitrakarn et al., 2010a: 215 (M, K); Nguyen and Sierwald, 2013: 1243 (L).
New material: 1 male (CUMZ), Myanmar, Kayin State, Hpa-an District, near Yathay Pyan Cave, 16˚50′07″N, 97˚34′15″E, 15 m a.s.l., 16.0 6.2016, leg. R. Srisonchai.
Record from Myanmar: Plapoo on Mt Mooleyit, Tenasserim (Pocock 1895). Based on the male holotype in the London Museum, revised by Golovatch (1996).
Remark. This is the type-species of the genus Eudasypeltis.
description: Published as part of Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2017, A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 4350 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1050931
Social Innovation Labs and Sustainable Development: Exploring a Social Innovation Approach
Creators: name: Journal of Hunan University Natural Sciences
Publisher: name: Journal of Hunan University Natural Sciences
Year: 2019
Subjects: Social innovation, Social Labs, Complexity, Sustainability

description: Abstract (English): Social innovation has become emerging field in todays’ emergent socio-economic environment. Social innovation Labs are known as entities that rigorously work on complex social problems by involving multi-disciplinary stakeholders to create an environment for innovation and experimentation. These labs offer wide range of perspectives of social problems to be solved with the help of design thinking process supported by prototype solutions. These labs are becoming important ingredients for developing countries to create sustainable solutions of complex problems at systemic level by involving communities and key stakeholders.

Keywords (English): Social innovation, Social Labs, Complexity, Sustainability
Accounting for membership
Creators: name: Medina Jr., Michael A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Traffic stops are one of the most common police interactions in the daily lives of Americans. Thought to be routine by most, traffic stops are actually some of the most eventful and complicated police interactions. In light of current controversies surrounding discretionary behavior and police conduct during traffic stops, I examine the relationship between race of the driver, race of the officer, sex of the driver, age of the driver, and police conduct/use of force during traffic stops. Using data from the 2011 Police and Public Contact Survey, collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, I examine which factors are associated with both initial contact with officers and incident outcomes, which allow for a better understanding of whether certain groups are more likely to receive a ticket, be exposed to force, or perceive their experience to be unfair. Logistic regression models reveal that being black is significantly associated with a higher likelihood of being stopped in a car compared to white drivers, however Latinos are less likely to be stopped in a car than black drivers. Both Latinos and blacks are also more likely to perceive the outcome of their stop as unfair, even when the officer is non-white. Importantly, being black was only associated with an increased likelihood of getting a ticket in cases where the officer was white. The implications are discussed.
Additional file 3: of Husk to caryopsis adhesion in barley is influenced by pre- and post-anthesis temperatures through changes in a cuticular cementing layer on the caryopsis
Creators: name: M. Brennan
name: T. Shepherd
name: S. Mitchell
name: C. Topp
name: S. Hoad
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S4 a is a light micrograph of a resin-embedded barley grain at GS 85 stained with 1% (w/v) Toluidine bue O and counter-dyed with 1:1 0.1% (w/v) Sudan Red in polyethylene glycol:90% (v/v) glycerol. The interface between the pericarp epidermis and the husk (where the cementing layer is present) is shown (black arrow). The testa cuticle has dyed with Sudan Red (black and white arrow). The aleurone layer (black and gray arrow) marks the beginning of the endosperm. b shows the separation of the pericarp cuticle (black arrow), exposing the underlying pericarp cell wall (black and white arrow). c is a high-resolution of the smooth surface of the Nudinka pericarp at GS 77. There is no evidence of a cementing material, and no damange to the cuticle surface. (PDF 483Â kb)
The physicality of spirituality
Creators: name: Miller, Angela
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Religion, as an institutional and systematic set of beliefs, has been a means of division and differentiation for centuries, despite each religion’s ability to unify its individual believers through shared practices and ideologies.  This thesis argues that there is in fact a universal religion, one discovered in the artifacts of man: his artistic creations.  Presenting various works of literature as such artifacts, this paper reveals the universal and transcendent existence of man: the physicality of spirituality.  Physicality is discussed as a triad: man experiences his earthly life in a physical body, captures the essence of that experience, and expresses said essence through various art forms.  This triad of physicality, of existence, is the only means of truly knowing or manifesting the soul, the spirit.   Expressing the physicality of his spirituality, man takes part in a universal religion that is art; his universal language is poetry.
Echiniscus blumi Richters 1903
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Echiniscus
Echiniscus blumi

description: Echiniscus blumi Richters 1903
I have identified 1,302 specimens from all kinds of samples collected. Several morphotypes of Echiniscus blumi were identified in this study (Fig. 2). The typical morphotype of this species (with lateral filaments at positions B, C and D; Table 4) (Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983) was observed in 84% of all the specimens examined, while 7 morphotypes were found to represent less than 15% each as follows (Fig. 2): (i) 14% of the specimens lacked a lateral filament at position B, (ii) 0.8% lacked a lateral filament at position D, (iii) 0.1% lacked lateral filaments at positions B and C, (iv) 0.08% had no filaments at positions C and D, (v) 0.08% lacked dorsal spines at position D, (vi) 0.4% lacked filaments at positions B and D and (vii) 0.5% lacked filaments at position C. Different morphotypes appear mixed within the same sample. Juvenile specimens, those with only two claws per leg, showed dorsal spines instead of dorsal filaments at position B. I recognized three sizes of cuticle sculptures with the same design (i.e., blumi type (Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983)): large, normal and small (comparing individuals of similar body length). Besides, several specimens showed two spurs at the base of the external claws of the fourth pair of legs while the remainder had only one spur. Mean body size was 507 μm (SD 85), range 208 to 748 μm. This species has been cited for Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Oceania. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Portugal (Da Cunha 1941; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1985) and Spain (Mihelčič 1955). Echiniscus blumi was collected at 35 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
MOESM4 of Comparative characterization of all cellulosomal cellulases from Clostridium thermocellum reveals high diversity in endoglucanase product formation essential for complex activity
Creators: name: Leis, Benedikt
name: Held, Claudia
name: Bergkemper, Fabian
name: Dennemarck, Katharina
name: Steinbauer, Robert
name: Reiter, Alarich
name: Mechelke, Matthias
name: Moerch, Matthias
name: Graubner, Sigrid
name: Liebl, Wolfgang
name: Schwarz, Wolfgang
name: Zverlov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4. Â Binding properties of cellulosomal cellulases on the recombinant scaffolding protein CipA8.
Eudasypeltis setosus
Creators: name: Likhitrakarn, Natdanai
name: Jirapatrasilp, Parin
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
name: Panha, Somsak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Eudasypeltis
Eudasypeltis setosus

description: 66. Eudasypeltis setosus (Pocock, 1894)
Strongylosoma setosum Pocock, 1894b: 320 (D).
Eudasypeltis setosus — Pocock, 1895: 797 (M); Attems, 1898: 341 (D); 1914: 201 (L); 1936: 218 (L); 1937: 149 (D, K); Sinclair, 1901: 521 (L); Jeekel, 1968: 57 (M); Golovatch, 1996: 73 (D, K); Likhitrakarn et al., 2010a: 215 (D, K); Nguyen and Sierwald, 2013: 1243 (L).
Record from Myanmar: Mergui, Owen’s Island (Pocock 1894). Based on the male holotype in the London Museum, revised by Golovatch (1996).
Remark. Also recorded from Thailand (Likhitrakarn et al. 2010a).
description: Published as part of Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2017, A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 4350 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1050931
Open Access Policy der Max Weber Stiftung
Creators: name: Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Open Science
Max Weber Stiftung
Policy
Open Access

description: Die Max Weber Stiftung setzt sich für eine offene Wissenschaft ein, in der möglichst alle Komponenten des Forschungsprozesses frei zugänglich, nachvollziehbar und nachnutzbar sind, um Forschung, Innovation und Transfer in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und interessierter Gesellschaft zu fördern. Die Stiftung versteht Open Access im Sinne der offenen Bereitstellung von und des freien Zugangs zu qualitätsgeprüften Publikationen unter standardisierten offenen Lizenzen als zentralen Baustein von Open Science und als Teil guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis.

Die vorliegende Open Access-Policy leitet sich aus den Zielvereinbarungen der MWS mit dem Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), dem Nachhaltigkeitskonzept und der Strategie der MWS bis zum Jahr 2030 ab.
Accuracy of thin slice judgments of same-sex couples
Creators: name: Nanassy, Autumn Devereaux
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: People are surprisingly accurate in making snap judgments about others’ personalities, relationships, and even sexual orientations. However, the majority of “accuracy research” has focused on examining heterosexual individuals and couples. The current study is unique in that it employs behavioral observations to examine self-observer agreement among gay male and lesbian couples.  Seventy-two gay male couples and 72 lesbian couples were video recorded completing tasks that focused on health issues. All participants provided self-reports of the quality of their relationship and relationship satisfaction. Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling was used to determine actor and partner effects, with participants’ and their partners’ self-reports of their relationship quality and satisfaction as predictors of Thin Slice observational ratings.   Results indicate that there are actor effects for both gay men and lesbian women on the relationship dimensions of conflict and commitment, suggesting that conflict and commitment can be observed within just 30-seconds of behavioral observation.  These findings have implications for social assessments made daily about others’ relationships as well as therapeutic interventions.
MPEC 2024-X36 : 2012 PB20
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Dynamics in Explicit Gradient Elasticity: Material Frame-Indifference, Boundary Conditions and Consistent Euler–Bernoulli Beam Theory
Creators: name: Tsakmakis, Charalampos
name: Broese, Carsten
name: Sideris, Stergios Alexandros
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The paper is concerned with the boundary conditions of explicit gradient elasticity of Mindlin’s type in dynamics. It has been argued in an earlier paper that acceleration terms should not be present in the boundary tractions because of objectivity arguments. This is discussed in the present paper in more detail, and it is supplemented by assuming the validity of the principle of material frame indifference. Furthermore, new examples are discussed in order to illustrate that significant differences exist in the responses predicted by boundary tractions with and without acceleration terms.
Power, politics, and participation
Creators: name: Nickels, Ashley Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This research focused on the ways in which municipal takeovers reshape local democracy, not only by suspending representative government, but disrupting the existing order and creating opportunities and incentives that shift power in the local political system. The primary question that guided this research was: how, through its implementation, does municipal takeover policy reshape local democracy? Drawing from a constructivist-institutionalist framework, I found that the tools and strategies designed by the state to fix a local government’s fiscal health have both instrumental and symbolic effects, which restructured who, and by what means residents, groups, and organizations, participated politically.   To answer the question about how municipal takeover policy reshapes local democracy and to identify the causal mechanisms that explain how municipal takeover can alter the local political system, this project utilized a policy-centered case study of Flint, Michigan, a city most recently in the news for lead contamination in its water. Michigan has one of the most aggressive policies for addressing local fiscal crises in the United States; state law effectively suspends the governing authority of local elected officials and puts in place state-appointed Emergency Managers. My analysis drew on documentary evidence from state and local government, news media, and Flint-focused urban histories; fieldwork conducted during the summer of 2015, at which time I interacted with many residents and local stakeholders; and 35 semi-structured interviews. Information gleaned from the data was analyzed using both interpretive and process tracing tools.   This study shows that municipal takeover policy had a significant impact on local democracy in Flint. I found that the policy, when implemented, disparately impacted members of the community: benefiting some, while burdening others. How residents made meaning of takeovers was related to how they responded politically. As a result of changes in participatory access, allocation of resources, and their perception of the takeover, opponents of the policy created and utilized new pathways to power, undermining the inherent lack of democratic participation provided under takeovers and ameliorating the symbolic effects of the perceived threat to democracy.
Additional file 1: of Role of renal function in risk assessment of target non-attainment after standard dosing of meropenem in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
Creators: name: Ehmann, Lisa
name: Zoller, Michael
name: Minichmayr, Iris
name: Scharf, Christina
name: Maier, Barbara
name: Schmitt, Maximilian
name: Hartung, Niklas
name: Huisinga, Wilhelm
name: Vogeser, Michael
name: Frey, Lorenz
name: Zander, Johannes
name: Kloft, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Study design.pdf. (PDF 170 kb)
Helicorthomorpha ocellata
Creators: name: Likhitrakarn, Natdanai
name: Jirapatrasilp, Parin
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
name: Panha, Somsak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Helicorthomorpha
Helicorthomorpha ocellata

description: 67. Helicorthomorpha ocellata (Pocock, 1895)
Strongylosoma ocellatum Pocock, 1895: 801 (D).
Strongylosoma ocellatum — Attems, 1898: 298 (D); Weidner, 1960: 90 (L); Jeekel, 1965a: 96 (M); 1965b: 124 (L).
Orthomorpha (Helicorthomorpha) ocellata — Attems, 1914: 198 (L, K).
Helicorthomorpha ocellata — Attems, 1936: 215 (L); 1937: 147 (D); Jeekel, 1980b: 664 (L. M); Wang and Mauries, 1996: 86 (M); Nguyen and Sierwald, 2013: 1308 (L).
“ Helicorthomorpha ” ocellata — Jeekel, 1968: 64 (M).
Helicorthomorpha holstii uncinata Attems, 1937: 68 (D), synonymized by Jeekel (1980b: 664).
Helicorthomorpha holstii uncinata — Jeekel, 1967: 371 (L).
Helicorthomorpha uncinata— Jeekel, 1968: 70 (M).
Records from Myanmar: Rangoon; Tharrawaddy; Taikkyii in Pegu (Pocock 1895). Based on an indefinite number of syntypes of both sexes, mostly in the London Museum (Pocock 1895), two in the Hamburg Museum (Weidner 1960).
Remark. Also found in China (Attems 1937).
description: Published as part of Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2017, A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 4350 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1050931
Non-droplet based microfluidic devices for calcium oxalate crystallization
Creators: name: Obaid, Asma
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Microfluidic systems provide a distinct environment to study crystallization because of their unique properties, which include their superior heat and mass transport control. While continuous flow platforms are particularly appealing for crystal synthesis because of their relative simplicity, crystal adhesion to the channel wall is routinely a problematic issue. However, appropriately configured systems can minimize this problem. To this end, a non-droplet-based system that reduces or circumvents the problematic issue of crystal adhesion during crystallization in microfluidic devices has been developed. The capabilities of this system with respect to the effect of local system parameters (e.g., calcium and oxalate ion concentration, and the concentration of certain pertinent chemical species) on the calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystallization process have been examined. A variety of microscopy-based methods (including scanning electron, confocal Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared microscopy) were used to demonstrate that the dispersity in crystal size, shape and morphology increases with increasing calcium and oxalate ion input concentrations into the system. Additionally, CaOx crystals formed in high oxalate ion environments were found to be small in size when compared to those created in a calcium-rich environment. CaOx crystallization experiments involving a variety of chemical species show that this system can readily be applied to establish the influence of specific entities on a crystallization process. Design improvements, based on the obtained results, are outlined.
The promise of feminist liberation theology to address women's oppression in Latin America
Creators: name: Rodenheiser, Adriana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In this paper, I will explore the importance of the rise of ideologies like Liberation Theology which brought attention to the injustices suffered by the poor and their need for liberation. I will discuss how they inspired other movements of liberation around the world, such as Latin American Feminist Liberation Theology, a feminist theology dedicated to the liberation of women in the Caribbean, Central, South and South America.                             Through scholarly research, I will analyze the complexity of women’s oppression in the continent as the combination of the patriarchal ideology imposed by the Catholic Church, machismo, and marianismo, a unique phenomenon developed in the continent since the conquest.             My research will also demonstrate how the complexity of women’s situation in Latin America demands the implementation of different methodologies and ideologies in order to succeed: the implementation of Base Ecclesial Communities or CEBs which allow women to become active participants in their communities. The need of teaching a new image of Mary supported by a new interpretation of the Bible will allow Mary to become a positive model for women. It will help them escape the negative aspects of marianismo which have made them active participants in their own oppression throughout the centuries.   Finally, the implementation of those methodologies and ideologies combined with the principles of Latin American Feminist Liberation Theology under the guidance of Latin American Feminist theologians may constitute the best answer to make the liberation of women from oppression in Latin American’ societies a reality.
MPEC 2024-X37 : 2024 WH18
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 WH18

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Sam & Verna
Creators: name: Ruiz, Alexander
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Losing a parent is one of those inevitable moments for which no one is ever truly prepared. For Sam, whose relationship with his mother was never exactly easy, the news of her sudden and accidental death leaves him numb and unsure of how to mourn beyond handling her affairs and attempting to forge on with his life, hand-in-hand with his girlfriend, Arianna. Not long after he buries everything left unsaid along with his mother’s body, however, a series of comical, supernatural experiences clue him in that his mother may be dead, but is far from gone.  When Verna returns from the dead as vivacious and intrusive into her son’s life as she was when she was alive, her newfound abilities as a ghost and her mysterious second chance to experience the world and spend time with Sam tear his life asunder. With good intentions and terrible execution, Sam forges onward, hell-bent on doing right by his mother while simultaneously setting her up to haunt and be happy in a way that he failed to while she lived.  Sam & Verna takes every trope of every ghost story, horror movie, and mama’s boy tale and twists them into a comic farce with heart (that maybe doesn’t beat) and sass that refuses to remain silent, even in the face of death.
Satoshi's broken promise
Creators: name: Russo, Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This paper is an examination of the oft-made claim that bitcoin will ‘change the world’ by ushering in an era of secure, autonomous banking in agreement with cyber-libertarian ideology. Drawing on the work of Nathaniel Popper, Alexander Galloway, Robert Kutiŝ, Steve Holmes, James J. Brown Jr., and others, bitcoin is here analyzed as yet another digital artifact promising revolution while at the same time instituting its own brand of control. In the case of bitcoin, such control is not merely ideological, but procedural. Because the procedural rhetorics that govern persuasive technologies are not always in agreement with the discursive rhetorics surrounding these same technologies, users who choose bitcoin as a means to enact the cyber-libertarian argument are persuaded by the software to contradictory ends. In this sense, libertarian bitcoiners are more constrained than they are free.
Additional file 4: Table S4. of Proteomic analysis of trochophore and veliger larvae development in the small abalone Haliotis diversicolor
Creators: name: Guilan Di
name: Xianghui Kong
name: Xiulian Miao
name: Yifang Zhang
name: Miaoqin Huang
name: Yuting Gu
name: Weiwei You
name: Jianxin Zhang
name: Caihuan Ke
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Differentially abundances proteins between trochophore larvae and veliger larvae stage identified by label-free analysis. (DOC 220Â kb)