cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The impact of accountability based reform on social justice education
Creators: name: Dillon, Amanda
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In an era increasingly dominated by a shift towards standardization and high stakes testing in education, accountability based reforms (ABR) that are aimed at improving outcomes for students who have been historically marginalized may actually be forcing teachers to abandon culturally relevant practices that have long been thought to be an important way to equalize educational experiences and empower these very same students. While both social justice education and ABR advocate improving education for minority students, I explored whether there was additional pressure placed on social justice educators by their attempt to navigate ABR while maintaining their identities and core beliefs as social justice educators. Despite early findings that ABR limits the curriculum and focuses skills-based instruction on testing questions(see, for example, Finnegan, 2007; Rowan, 1996; Hamilton, Steecher, & Yuan, 2008; Firestone, Mayrowetz, & Fairman, 1998), standardized testing and ABR are a reality that educators must address, and social justice educators must find ways to do so while holding all students to high standards, developing critical consciousness in their students, and creating a curriculum that represents diverse knowledge and ways of knowing (Feger, 2006; Brown, 2003; Sheets, 1995; Ladson-Billings, 1995).    This phenomenological case study of two teachers, one in a traditional public school and one in a charter school, examined the ways that their discourses around their social justice identities were shaped by both the policy and school. Analysis of these discourses using Gee's (2011) tool demonstrated that the context in which the teacher worked, the amount of support and collaborative opportunities available, and the personal educational and racial history of the teacher all influenced the figured worlds that they developed surrounding social justice and ABR. Both teachers enacted figured worlds that represented an amalgamation of political and social goods valued by ABR and SJE. Ultimately, the discourses of these two teachers pointed to a need for less emphasis on standardized test data in evaluating teacher and student growth, more opportunities for collaboration, and greater attention in research to the ways that social justice educators can use ABR policies to support the development of social justice oriented classroom curriculum.
Sciapus maritimus Becker 1918
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sciapus
Sciapus maritimus

description: 94. Sciapus maritimus Becker, 1918
Material examined. 1♂, Vitebsk Reg., Orsha environs, 54.58 ° N, 30.45 ° E, 2.08.2019, N. Vikhrev.
Distribution. Type locality: “Nordseekuste auf sylt; Sud-Frankreich; Polen ” (Germany, France, Poland). European species. First record from Belarus.
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
Macroscopic emulation of microscopic magnetic particle systems
Creators: name: Spūlis, Viesturs
name: Gorovojs, Daniels
name: Pudāns, Jānis
name: Lopatko, Rolands
name: Stikuts, Andris P.
name: Brics, Mārtiņš
name: Kitenbergs, Guntars
name: Cīmurs, Jānis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we show that macroscopic experiments can be used to investigate microscopic systems. Such macroscopic experiments enable testing the assumptions and results obtained by theoretical considerations or simulations that can not be obtained under microscope (e.g., the orientation of a spherical particle). To emulate the dynamics of a single hematite cube immersed in water and subjected to a rotating magnetic field, a cubic magnet is firmly positioned in a 3D printed superball shell. The dimensionless parameters of the microscopic and macroscopic systems can be equalized by using a glycerol-water mixture instead of water as well as by the material and infill of the 3D printed shell. The pose of the superball is tracked using ArUco stickers which act as fiducial markers. It was found that there is a qualitative agreement between the macroscopic experiments and theoretical predictions. However, the reduced thermal effects in the macroscopic experiments lead to an increase in friction between the superball and the surface, thus shifting the critical frequency of the system. Since the shell is 3D printed, the given method can be extended to any shape and magnetization orientation.
description: 21 page, 6 figures, 1 table. Submitted to JMMM special issue ICMF 2023. Presented as poster in ICMF 2023
Leprocaulinus sulawesiense Hennemann 2021, n. sp.
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Leprocaulinus
Leprocaulinus sulawesiense

description: 7. Leprocaulinus sulawesiense n. sp.
Distribution: S-Sulawesi, Prov. Sulawesi Selatan, Gunung Latimojong, Rantemario, Uru 800 m [MNHU]; S-Sulawesi, Prov. Sulawesi Selatan, Rantepao Palopo km12, ca. 1100 m [coll. FH]; S-Sulawesi, Prov. Su-lawesi Selatan, Tana Toraja, 700 m [coll. FH]; SE-Sulawesi, Mengkoka Mountains, Gunung Tanke Salokko [MNHU].
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Comparison of non-toxic methods for creating beta-carotene encapsulated in pmma nanoparticles
Creators: name: Dobrzanski, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Nano/microcapsules are becoming more prevalent in various industries such as drug delivery, cosmetics, etc. Current methods of particle formation often use toxic or carcinogenic/mutagenic/reprotoxic (CMR) chemicals. This study intends to improve upon existing methods of particle formation and compare their effectiveness in terms of entrapment efficiency, mean particle size, and yield utilizing only non-toxic chemicals.  In this study, the solvent evaporation (SE), spontaneous emulsification, and spontaneous emulsion solvent diffusion (SESD) methods were compared in systems containing green solvents ethyl acetate, dimethyl carbonate or acetone. PMMA particles containing encapsulated beta carotene, an ultraviolet sensitive substance, were synthesized. It was desired to produce particles with minimum mean size and maximum yield and entrapment of beta carotene. The mass of the water phase, the mass of the polymer and the pumping or blending rate were varied for each synthesis method. The smallest particle sizes for SE and SESD both were obtained from the middle water phase sizes, 200 g and 100 g respectively. The particles obtained from the larger water phase in SESD were much bigger, about 5 microns in diameter, even larger than the ones obtained from SE. When varying the mass of PMMA used in each synthesis method, as expected, more PMMA led to larger particles. Increasing the blending rate in SE from 6,500 to 13,500 rpm had a minimal effect on average particle size, but the higher shear resulted in highly polydisperse particles (PDI = 0.87). By decreasing the pump rate in SESD, particles became smaller and had lower entrapment efficiency.  The entrapment efficiencies of the particles were generally higher for the larger particles within a mode. Therefore, we found that minimizing the particle size while maximizing entrapment were somewhat contradictory goals. The solvent evaporation method was very consistent in terms of the values of mean particle size, yield, and entrapment efficiency. Comparing the synthesis methods, the smallest particles with the highest yield and entrapment efficiency were generated by the spontaneous emulsification method.
Collagen methacrylamide - a photocrosslinkable, thermoreversible collagen-based biomaterial
Creators: name: Drzewiecki, Kathryn Emily
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Ideal properties of biomaterials for tissue engineering applications include biocompatibility, tissue mimicry, the ability to support cell attachment and growth, biodegradability, and control of biochemical and mechanical properties. Type-I collagen, a protein found throughout many tissues throughout the body, can be extracted from animal tissue and used to make fibrillar hydrogels or scaffolds for tissue engineering. While these collagen scaffolds have many of the optimal design parameters for biomaterials, the lack of control of scaffold properties is highly disadvantageous for its use in new tissue engineering paradigms. Previous studies have focused on developing a photoreactive collagen that could be biochemically and mechanically tuned via the application of light by functionalizing collagen with methacrylic acid to create collagen methacrylamide (CMA). This dissertation focuses on the characterization, continued development, and applications of CMA as a collagen-based biomaterial for tissue engineering.  We demonstrated that fibrillogenesis of CMA, in contrast to type-I collagen, is thermoreversible. CMA can reversibly cycle between two states: it  ii  forms fibrillar hydrogels at 37 Â°C, and disassembles into a liquid suspension at temperatures less than 10 Â°C. The CMA synthesis procedure was revisited to better understand how methacrylation caused thermoreversibility. Of two methods used for conjugation, one results in a thermoreversible collagen. Thermoreversibility was not specific to the methacrylic acid - other compounds were conjugated and found to make collagen thermoreversible.  In using circular dichroism spectroscopy to characterize the temperature-dependent protein structure of collagen, we found that collagen fibrils were displayed a unique signal; the fibril spectrum was seen as a negative peak at ~204 nm in contrast to the triple-helix signal in collagen's monomeric form that is characterized by a positive peak at ~222 nm. This signal was exclusive to the collagen fibril, and was used it as a tool to monitor collagen fibrillogenesis among other changes in collagen higher order structure  Finally, we developed a method of free-form fabrication of CMA, where hydrogels are constructed through self-assembly, photocrosslinking of specific geometries, and cold-melted to remove regions that were not exposed to light. Customized hydrogels can be fabricated with or without cells, or further processed into sponges. Hydrogels were also shown to be biocompatible in a subcutaneous implant model. In comparison to many 3D printing strategies, CMA free-form fabrication is very simple to implement and is inexpensive, prompting continued development of CMA in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Garra gallagheri Krupp 1988
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Garra
Garra gallagheri

description: 15. Garra gallagheri Krupp, 1988 ―Black Garra― Endemic
Taxonomy. Original description: Garra barreimiae gallagheri Krupp (1988):402, fig. 1 [Wadi Bani Khalid north of Muqal, 22°40’N, 59°05’E, Oman; Holotype: SMF 17262]. Synonyms: None.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Oman in original description by Krupp (1988); confirmed by Lyon et al. (2016); Freyhof et al. (2020), Kirchner et al. (2020), Esmaeili et al. (2022), and Sayyadzadeh et al. (2023).
General distribution. Middle East: Wadi Bani Khalid and falaj irrigation systems downstream (Oman endemic). Habitat: freshwater.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman: Wadi Bani Khalid and falaj irrigation systems downstream, Falaj in Bani Bu Ali, Sur Bridg Sur Al Sharqiya Governorate and Wadi Bani Khalid.
Remarks. Krupp distinguished G. b. gallagheri from G. b. barreimiae by presence of 8 dorsal-fin rays (vs. 7). It is likely that Krupp counted the posterior pair of fin rays based on one pterygophore as two rays, thus 8 rays as counted by Krupp (1988) can be treated as 7½ rays. Individuals of G. gallagheri from its type locality had 7½ branched dorsal-fin rays (see Kirchner et al. 2020).
Economic importance. No commercial importance.
Conservation. Endangered (EN).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on pages 209-210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Sciapus platypterus
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sciapus
Sciapus platypterus

description: 95. Sciapus platypterus (Fabricius, 1805)
References. Schnabl 1877; 1881; Schnabl et al. 1877 (as Psilopus platypterus).
Distribution. Type locality: Germany. Belarus (Minsk); European species.
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
A resource induced shift in growth strategy and rhizome morphology in a non-native clonal plant species
Creators: name: Echols, Joshua D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In recent years, a non-native plant, Aralia elata, has emerged as an invasive plant species in the eastern United States. Introduced in New York in the 1830s, A. elata has since spread, via avian dispersal, across much of the mid-Atlantic region. The large scale windthrow and resulting canopy gaps created by the storms of 2011 and 2012 produced the disturbed habitat preferred by A. elata. Clonal growth is a life history trait common among invasive plant species, including A. elata, affording the genet the benefit of improving its fitness through the production of an exploratory rhizome system capable of foraging to acquire limited resources. I hypothesized that the amount of canopy cover will affect rhizome growth dynamics and main stem size over the first three years of invasion. Rhizome dimension data of 150 individual genets were collected and plotted against the percent open canopy. Results indicate that rhizome size and structure are significantly affected by the percent of open canopy. Plants occupying higher light locations had larger main stems, more rhizomes with more branching points, and were shorter in total length than plants growing in low light, indicating investment by the genet into its current location. Unexpectedly, plant growing in low light conditions possessed the longer, less branching rhizome morphology often observed in foraging plants, suggesting that they were attempting to escape the lower light location.
Sympycnus aeneicoxa
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sympycnus
Sympycnus aeneicoxa

description: 96. Sympycnus aeneicoxa (Meigen, 1824)
References. Schnabl 1877; 1881; Schnabl et al. 1877.
Distribution. Type locality: not given. Belarus (Minsk); mainly West-Palaearctic species.
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
Leprocaulinus vipera subsp. vipera vipera (Kaup 1871
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Leprocaulinus
Leprocaulinus vipera
Leprocaulinus vipera vipera (kaup, 1871: 39)

description: 8. Leprocaulinus vipera vipera (Kaup, 1871: 39) [Necroscia].
LT, ♂: Necroscia vipera Kp. Celebes [HLDH]; PLT, ♂: Necroscia vipera Kp. Celebes [HLDH, not traced].
Comments: Unfortunately, no fresh material of this species has so far become available for properly re-describing and distinguishing it from closely related taxa. Furthermore, the ♂ LT in HLDH is incomplete and lacks the apex of the abdomen, which adds to the current difficulties concerning the taxonomy of Leprocaulinus of Wallacea. The three subspecies and six synonyms currently listed under L. vipera are very doubtful. One of these, C. mammatus (Rehn, 1904), is here removed from synonymy under L. vipera and reinstated as a valid species.
Distribution: “ Sulawesi ” [HLDH].
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Democracy's fanatics
Creators: name: Eber-Schmid, Noah R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Extending insights from contemporary democratic theory to the history of American political thought, this dissertation examines how extremism and fanaticism shaped practices of popular democratic politics during the American Founding era. Focusing on the ways that political actors advocated intractable positions and used passionate, intolerant, and often violent means to resist perceived obstacles to democratic political equality, this project demonstrates that extremism can be a democratic tool when it animates public opinion to resist and remove obstacles to political equality. Concentrating on the discourse of patriotism, zealotry, insurrection, and popular sovereignty surrounding the Boston Massacre and its memorialization, the unrest of Shays's Rebellion, the political thought of Democratic Societies, and American reactions to the French Revolution, this dissertation argues that American democratic theory must rethink how popular democratic politics is conceptualized and address the theoretical question of what role a democratic politics shaped by extremism plays in the democratic life of the American polity. Following this insight, a new appreciation for the role of "extremists" in advancing democratic claims is necessary.
Current challenges in fundamental physics
Creators: name: Egana Ugrinovic, Daniel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider completed the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model is a remarkably successful theory of fundamental physics, but it suffers from severe problems. It does not provide an explanation for the origin or stability of the electroweak scale nor for the origin and structure of flavor and CP violation. It predicts vanishing neutrino masses, in disagreement with experimental observations. It also fails to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe, and it does not provide a particle candidate for dark matter. In this thesis we provide experimentally testable solutions for most of these problems and we study their phenomenology.
Sympycnus pulicarius
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sympycnus
Sympycnus pulicarius

description: 97. Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallén, 1823)
References. Sack 1925 [as Sympycnus annulipes (Meigen, 1824)].
Distribution. Type locality: not given (Sweden). Belarus (Grodno); mainly West-Palaearctic species; California.
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
Garra lautior Banister 1987
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Garra
Garra lautior

description: 16. Garra lautior Banister, 1987 ― Smooth Hadhramut Garra― Endemic
Taxonomy. Original description: Garra lautior Banister, 1987:65, figs. 2b, 6, 7 right, 8-9, 11-12 [Qasam area, Wadi Hadhramut, Yemen; Holotype: BMNH 1976.4.7.398] Synonyms: None.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Yemen in original description by Banister (1987); confirmed by Lyon et al. (2016), and Freyhof et al. (2020).
General distribution. Middle East: Wadi Hadhramut drainage, Yemen. Habitat: freshwater.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen: Wadi Hadhramut drainage.
Economic importance. No commercial importance. Conservation. Endangered (EN).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Language guided visual perception
Creators: name: Elhoseiny, Mohamed
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: People typically learn through exposure to visual facts associated with linguistic descriptions. For instance, teaching visual concepts to children is often accompanied by descriptions in text or speech. In a machine learning context, these observations motivate the question of how this learning process could be computationally modeled to learn visual facts. We explored three settings where we showed that combining language and vision is useful for visual perception in both images and videos.    First,  we addressed the question of how to utilize purely textual description of visual classes with no training images, to learn explicit visual classifiers for them. We propose and investigate two baseline formulations, based on regression and domain transfer that predict a classifier. Then, we propose a new constrained optimization formulation that combines a regression function and a knowledge transfer function with additional constraints to predict the classifier parameters for new classes.  We also proposed kernelized models which allows defining any two kernel functions in the visual space and text space. We applied the studied models to predict visual classifiers for two fine-grained categorization datasets, and the results indicate successful predictions of our final model against several baselines that we designed.      Second, we modeled video event search as a language&vision problem where we proposed a zero-shot Event Detection method by Multi-modal Distributional Semantic embedding of videos.  Our Zero-Shot event detection model is built on top of distributional semantics and extends it in the following directions: (a) semantic embedding of multimodal information in videos (with focus on the visual modalities), (b) automatically determining relevance of concepts/attributes to a free text query, which could be useful for other applications, and (c) retrieving videos by free text event query (e.g., ``changing a vehicle tire'') based on their content.  We validated our method on the large TRECVID MED (Multimedia Event Detection) challenge. Using only the event title as a query, our method outperformed the state-of-the-art that uses big descriptions.    Third and motivated by the aforementioned results,  we proposed a uniform and scalable setting to learn unbounded number of visual facts. We proposed models that can learn not only objects but also their actions, attributes and interactions with other objects in one unified learning framework and in a never ending way. The training data comes as structured facts in images,  including (1) objects (e.g., ), (2) attributes (e.g.,), (3) actions (e.g., , and (4) interactions (e.g., ). We have worked on the scale of 814,000 images and 202,000 unique visual facts. Our experiments show the advantage of relating facts by the structure in the proposed models compared to four designed baselines on bidirectional fact retrieval.
Syntormon pumilus
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Syntormon
Syntormon pumilus

description: 98. Syntormon pumilus (Meigen, 1824)
References. Schnabl 1877; 1881; Schnabl et al. 1877.
Distribution. Type locality: not given (Sweden). Belarus (Minsk); mainly West-Palaearctic species.
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
Sexual minority stress and psychological risk for nonsuicidal self-injury
Creators: name: Fehling, Kara Binder
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Sexual minorities consistently have been shown to be at greater risk for mental health problems and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors, and this increased risk appears caused by both general psychological risk factors and sexual minority stressors. Most past research on NSSI in sexual minorities, however, has focused on youth populations and has studied general psychological risk factors and sexual minority stressors separately. The current study fills these gaps in the literature by examining NSSI in a sexual minority adult population, examining both general mental health variables and sexual minority stressors together in their relationship to NSSI. 388 adults, 303 of whom were sexual minorities, completed a computerized task to measure internalized homophobia as well as a variety of questionnaires about NSSI, mental health difficulties, and experiences of sexual minority stress. Results found that sexual minority adults were significantly more likely than exclusively heterosexual adults to have engaged in NSSI, to have higher levels of NSSI behaviors, to experience higher levels of mental health problems (such as depression and emotion dysregulation), and to experience higher levels of sexual-orientation-based discrimination. Similarly, self-injuring sexual minority adults reported higher levels of mental health problems than non-self-injuring sexual minority adults. Regression analyses revealed that mental health problems predicted lifetime NSSI behaviors in sexual minority adults, but that sexual minority stressors did not. These findings suggest that NSSI remains a significant problem into adulthood for sexual minorities and that addressing general mental health problems via clinical intervention and prevention programs might work to decrease this population's increased risk.
Syntormon tarsatus
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Syntormon
Syntormon tarsatus

description: 99. Syntormon tarsatus (Fallén, 1823)
References. Schnabl 1881.
Distribution. Type locality: Sweden. Belarus (Minsk); Trans-Palaearctic species.
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
Garra longipinnis Banister & Clarke 1977
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Garra
Garra longipinnis

description: 17. Garra longipinnis Banister & Clarke, 1977 ―Jabal Akhdar Garra― Endemic
Taxonomy. Original description: Garra longipinnis Banister & Clarke, 1977:137, fig. 23 [Saiq, Jabal al Akhdar, 23°02’N, 57°28’E, Oman; Holotype: BMNH 1968.10.11.1]. Synonyms: None.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Oman in original description by Banister & Clarke (1977); confirmed by Lyon et al. (2016), Pichler et al. (2018), Freyhof et al. (2020), Kirchner et al. (2020), Esmaeili et al. (2022), and Sayyadzadeh et al. (2023).
General distribution. Middle East: southern Hajar Mountains (Oman endemic). Habitat: freshwater.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman: Southern Hajar Mountains, Wadi Dhum, Wadi Falahi, Hoti Pit, Lizq, Ain Wadhah Bahla Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Hoota cave Al Hamra Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Tanuf Nizwa Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Wadi Andam Al Wusta Governorate, Saiq.
Economic importance. No commercial importance.
Conservation. Endangered (EN).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Multi-level representation learning via ConvNeXt-based network for unaligned cross-view matching
Creators: name: Guan, Fangli
name: Zhao, Nan
name: Fang, Zhixiang
name: Jiang, Ling
name: Zhang, Jianhui
name: Yu, Yue
name: Huang, Haosheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Space Science
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Cross-view matching refers to the use of images from different platforms (e.g. drone and satellite views) to retrieve the most relevant images, where the key is that the viewpoints and spatial resolution. However, most of the existing methods focus on extracting fine-grained features and ignore the connection of contextual information in the image. Therefore, we propose a novel ConvNeXt-based multi-level representation learning model for the solution of this task. First, we extract global features through the ConvNeXt model. In order to obtain a joint part-based representation learning from the global features, we then replicated the obtained global features, operating one copy with spatial attention and the other copy using a standard convolutional operation. In addition, the features of different branches are aggregated through the multilevel feature fusion module to prepare for cross-view matching. Finally, we created a new hybrid loss function to better limit these features and assist in mining crucial data regarding global features. The experimental results indicate that we have achieved advanced performance on two common datasets, University-1652 and SUES-200 at 89.79% and 95.75% in drone target matching and 94.87% and 98.80 in drone navigation.
Mnesilochus Stal 1877
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Mnesilochus

description: Genus Mnesilochus Stål, 1877
(Figs. 17–18)
Type-species: Mnesilochus capreolus Stål, 1877: 39, by subsequent designation of Kirby, 1904: 320.
Comments: This genus is distributed in Borneo, Palawan and the Philippines and the author is aware of an as yet undescribed species that occurs on Sangihe Island north of Sulawesi. The two species here described are the first records of the genus from Sulawesi.
Mnesilochus has been removed from synonymy with Carausius Stål, 1875 and reinstated as a valid genus by Hennemann & Conle (2007: 66). These authors and Seow-Choen (2016: 279) have attempted a clear separation from the very similar Hermagoras Stål, 1875 but morphological characters in the insects are scarce and merely include whether the mesosternum is keeled medio-longitudinally (Hermagoras) or not (Mnesilochus) and whether the eggs are round to ovoid with a rounded polar area (Hermagoras) or more or less laterally compressed and have a polar mound (Mnesilochus). The distinction presented by Seow-Choen (2016: 279) includes an erroneous character and thus deserves clarification. In addition to the morphology of the mesosternum, the author stated in the key to Bornean genera of Lonchodinae: Lonchodinae “ Postero-dorsal carina of profemur curved forwards, lamellate and may be foliaceous covering totally or partially antero-dorsal carina which is generally straight ” for Hermagoras and “ Postero-dorsal carina of profemor nut usually lobes ” for Mnesilochus (Seow-Choen, 2016: 279). This distinction does not hold true because Seow-Choen misinterpreted the anterodorsal carina as the posterodorsal carina and the anteroventral carina as the anterodorsal carina. Actually, the morphology of the profemur is basically identical in these two genera and remarkable in that the medioventral carina is very prominently developed, lamellate and strongly displaced towards the interior/anterior, resulting in that the anteroventral carina is strongly shifted inwards and upwards and notably approaches the anterodorsal carina. The anterodorsal carina (not the posteroventral carina as wrongly stated by Seow-Choen) is much expanded, lamellate and curved forwards to partly or completely cover the anteroventral carina in dorsal aspect. The posterodorsal carina in fact is very indistinct and not raised at all, being low and merely represented as an obtuse keel or ridge.
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
A test of three hypotheses to explain the dominance penalty for sexually agentic women
Creators: name: Fetterolf, Janell Cora
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Year: 2016

description: The sexual double standard is often investigated as unequal tolerance for sexual experience, but recent research has found resistance to female sexual agency as well (i.e., enjoyment of being sexualized; Infanger, Rudman, & Sczesny, 2016). This pattern imitates rejection of female agency in employment contexts (e.g., competing for leadership roles; Rudman, Moss-Racusin, Phelan, & Nauts, 2012). Female agency, whether sexual or professional, evokes perceptions that targets are “too dominant,” which results in social or economic penalties. The current study sought to conceptually replicate Infanger et al.’s findings while examining three potential moderators of the dominance penalty for sexually powerful women. Specifically, sexually powerful women may be viewed as too dominant because they (1) threaten men’s higher status (the status incongruity hypotheses; Rudman et al., 2012), (2) decrease the value of other women’s sexual favors (sexual economics theory; Baumeister & Vohs, 2004), or (3) threaten women’s protected status, which depends on women being chaste and submissive (the male protection hypothesis). However, results did not support a dominance penalty for female sexual power. Instead, male and female targets who espoused a powerful, manipulative form of sexuality, compared to those who did not, were (1) viewed as more dominant and less communal, (2) disliked, and (3) sabotaged on a future task. Further, results of mediation analyses were consistent with the idea that sexually powerful targets, compared to low power targets, were sabotaged because they were disliked, and disliked because they were viewed as less communal, not too dominant.
Enlightenment phenomenology
Creators: name: Fesi, Joshua Israel
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Year: 2016

description: This dissertation examines the development of focalization as it occurs in urban narratives over the course of the British eighteenth century, specifically urban observer narratives which foreground modal shifts between external and internal perspectives, which, in the words of cognitive linguist Ronald Langacker, "objectify" an otherwise peripheral observer. Drawing from a range of literary genres that include early urban satires, periodicals by Edward Ward and Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, prints by William Hogarth, and novels by Frances Burney and Jane Austen, my dissertation situates narratological innovations in focalization within a broader history of ideas - that of phenomenological inquiry. I argue that eighteenth-century urban narratives offer an alternative to contemporaneous empiricist epistemologies, which model perception as fundamentally passive and disembodied, by modeling phenomenological concerns such as active perception, delimited attention, pre-reflective consciousness, social attunement, and everyday being-in-the-world.
Systenus pallipes
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Systenus
Systenus pallipes

description: 100. Systenus pallipes (von Roser, 1840)
References. Bańkowska 1995 (Vitebsk Region, Kvetcha).
Distribution. Type locality: not given (Wurttemberg, Germany). Belarus (Vitebsk). Europe; Israel, Russian Primorye, Turkmenistan.
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Linn.: comprehensive insights into its medicinal, phytochemical and safety profiles
Creators: name: Tipugade, Omkar
name: Sawale, Jyotiram
name: Jadhav, Namdeo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Linn., commonly known as the ‘Tree of Sadness’ belongs to Oleaceae family. In Ayurvedic, Siddha, Unani, and Homeopathic therapeutic systems, it has been used to treat various conditions, including ulcers, skin diseases, hair loss, piles, liver diseases, rheumatism, and malarial fevers. Anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, anticancer, hepatoprotective, antioxidant, and wound healing actions of extracts from N. arbor-tristis Linn. have been verified by researchers. Alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, sterols, triterpenes, saponins, and glycosides are the bioactive components found in the plant. This review compiles scientific data from various sources, including Scopus, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar, to provide a comprehensive overview of N. arbor-tristis Linn. It focuses on the plant’s pharmacological activities, phytochemical properties, phytoformulation, toxicological aspects, and ethnomedicinal uses, summarising worldwide studies. Future research on N. arbor-tristis Linn. should focus on isolating and characterising bioactive compounds, understanding their mechanisms, conducting toxicological assessments for safety, and exploring synergistic effects with other drugs.
Tachytrechus ammobates
Creators: name: Grichanov, Igor Ya.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Tachytrechus
Tachytrechus ammobates

description: 101. Tachytrechus ammobates (Haliday, 1851)
References. Stackelberg 1962: 291 [as Tachytrechus plumipes (Fallén, 1823); Vitebsk Region; no material provided].
Material examined. 1♂, 1♀, Vitebsk Reg., Braslaw environs, 3.08.2019, 55.635 ° N, 27.033 ° E, 26.05.2020, K. Makovetskaya.
Distribution. Type locality: Sweden; Germany. Belarus (Vitebsk); Europe; Russia (Karelia, Leningrad, Pskov, “Siberia”).
description: Published as part of Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2022, An annotated checklist of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) species from Belarus, with new records, pp. 186-198 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIV (2) on pages 195-196, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-2-186-198, http://zenodo.org/record/11362185
Seasonal and spatial variability in temperature, salinity and circulation of the Middle Atlantic Bight
Creators: name: Fleming, Naomi Elisabeth
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Year: 2016

description: The physical oceanography of the Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB) is investigated, with an emphasis on identifying seasonal and alongshore variability within the region. While many previous studies assume uniform values throughout the MAB, and provide only a two-dimensional view of temperature, salinity and circulation, here a fully three dimensional spatial atlas of the MAB is developed for each month of the year. Case studies of the low-salinity coastal plumes, and glider observations near the shelfbreak, highlight the alongshore variability that exists within the MAB.  A weighted least squares regression technique is used to map historical temperature and salinity data onto a gridded four dimensional atlas, dubbed MOCHA (The Mid-Atlantic Ocean Climatological and Hydrographic Atlas). MOCHA fields compare well to the input data, to independent datasets, to other climatologies, and even to sophisticated real-time ocean models.  MOCHA provides a detailed four-dimensional view of the Middle Atlantic Bight "cold pool" . The well-known cycles of the warming of a summer mixed layer with a strong thermocline, and the development and shrinking of the cold pool, are clearly evident in MOCHA fields. Alongshore variations in the extent of the cold pool are observed.  A coastal ocean model of circulation and transport is developed using MOCHA as input, calculating box volume budgets of water, heat and freshwater. The seasonal cycles of heat and freshwater budgets are quantified, and the alongshore variability in sea-surface slope and offshore transport is identified. MAB waters, heat and freshwater are both lost and gained across the 85-m isobath along the entire length of the MAB, with the majority of MAB water turning offshore north of Cape Hatteras. Little, if any, of the MAB water volume enters the South Atlantic Bight (SAB), however the location of the offshore turn, and the amount entering and leaving the SAB vary seasonally.  Overall, MOCHA provides a much more detailed view of the MAB than previously published, and indicates that there is strong seasonality in temperature, salinity and circulation, along with considerable along-shore variation in properties that should be taken into consideration during future studies.
Short-term responses of terrestrial skinks to habitat enhancement in a pest-invaded landscape on mainland New Zealand
Creators: name: Herbert, Sarah M.
name: Kelly, Florence B. J.
name: Panteleeva, Elizabeth
name: Dean, Sydney M.
name: Hartley, Stephen
name: Nelson, Nicola J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Habitat loss is a key threat to reptiles; therefore, habitat restoration should be an effective means of reptile conservation. However, there is scant evidence that such interventions provide population-level benefits, particularly where native reptiles are also threatened by invasive predators. We conducted a before-after-control-impact habitat enhancement experiment on skinks (Oligosoma polychroma and O. aeneum) in a predator-invaded area of mainland New Zealand. Pre-enhancement lizard monitoring was conducted in 12 plots for six months. Native plants were added to six ‘enhancement’ plots in months 8-10, minor gap infill planting was conducted in months 10-13, and rock piles were constructed in months 13-15. Post-enhancement monitoring was carried out at 12 and 23 months. Apparent survival of O. polychroma increased significantly in response to enhancement, but this did not result in increased abundance within the 23-month monitoring timeframe. Enhancement did not affect any of the measured population parameters of O. aeneum. Therefore, adding rocks and native vegetation to sites may be a suitable intervention for improving survival or reducing emigration of O. polychroma without affecting co-occurring lizard species.
Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network Based Immersive VR System for Cognitive Computer Gaming
Creators: name: "Research Bhushan" Dr.P.S.Jagadeesh Kumar
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Culmination in the simulation of immersive virtual reality system has provoked intensifying stratum of common sense and splinter group in inherent character that closely mandrill corporeal authenticity in building efficient computer game using multilayer perceptron neural network. In this paper, the winch in motion supremacy through two-level formation steering is conferred and kinematic movement algorithm heralds an intent momentum, subsequently multi-core processing and hyper threading is dilapidated to put its direction to assist in the formation of 3D video games. Nevertheless, immersive virtual reality system bequeaths computer stimulated behaviour and dynamism of their individual for efficient swiftness by means of agent based artificial intelligence.
Active and passive sampling of Tacony-Frankford Creek in Philadelphia, PA
Creators: name: Francisco, Kelly L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Water, sediment and fish were sampled at various times and locations between 2008 and 2011 on the Tacony-Frankford Creek, a tributary to the Delaware River in Philadelphia, PA. The study sought to identify spatial and temporal trends, identify the sources and fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds, and explore an alternative sampling method for PAH and PCB compounds in the stream. Grab samples of sediments and whole water were collected between November 2008 and April 2010, and fish samples were collected in June 2010 and analyzed for 28 PAH compounds. Total sediment concentrations of ΣPAH ranged from 3,200 ng/g to 72,000 ng/g at various locations in the tidal and non-tidal regions of the tributary and 25,000 ng/L in the Delaware River. The ΣPAH concentration in water ranged between 170 ng/L and 580 ng/L in the tributary and between 130 ng/L and 150 ng/L in the Delaware River. The concentration of ΣPAH varied greatly depending on the type of fish and tissue, and ranged from 43 ng/g in catfish livers to 1,300 ng/g in white perch organs (minus livers). The PAH concentration in water and sediment samples exhibited spatial trends but no identifiable temporal trend. The primary source of PAHs to the stream for the time period was motor vehicle emissions. In June 2011, grab samples of whole water were collected at different times in the tidal cycle at a single location and filtered to separate suspended particles from the aqueous samples. Both fractions were analyzed for PAH and PCB concentrations to determine whether sampling depth and time impact the concentrations in a tidal stream. The sum of 16 PAH compounds ranged from 74 to 160 ng/L and the sum of 41 PCB compounds ranged from 2.7 to 7.9 ng/L in the whole water samples. The results showed that sampling depth impacts both classes of compounds, with concentrations higher near the sediment bed than near the surface and affected mostly by the portion that was associated with particles. Timing of sampling during the tide had a much larger impact on the concentration of PAHs than PCBs. Passive sampling was explored as a technique to mitigate the temporal variability that was evident in the study stream. Polyoxymethylene (POM) was investigated as a material to collect passive samples in small aquatic systems. In the laboratory, 76 μm thick POM sheets exhibited fast sorption, coming to equilibrium with aqueous-phase phenanthrene within 2 weeks at 23o C and 5 weeks at 4°C. Partitioning coefficients log(KPOM) were calculated for 16 PAH and 41 PCB compounds and ranged from 3.1 to 6.4, and 4.1 to 6.1, respectively. The log(KPOM) values were used with collected POM concentrations to predict PAH and PCB concentrations in the aqueous phase and were found to underpredict the aqueous phase for most compounds. Correlations between POM films and sediments or biota were not very strong, except for samples of white sucker fish and catfish livers.