cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Psallus (Psallus) pardalis Seidenstucker 1966
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Psallus
Psallus pardalis

description: Psallus (Psallus) pardalis Seidenstücker, 1966
Fig. 7
Psallus (Psallus) oenderi Wagner, 1976, syn. nov.
Material examined
TURKEY – Isparta Province • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (paratypes of Psallus oenderi); Kovada; 11 Jun. 1975; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
Comments
Psallus oenderi was described from two localities in Turkey by Wagner (1976). In the original article, the author wrote that 14 out of 15 type specimens were collected at Kovada (Isparta) and one of the type specimens was collected at Tak Bah. The latter paratype was preserved in LEMT and we examined the labels of this specimen. The label writes “Fak. Bah.” which stands for the collecting locality and is the abbreviation of “Fakülte Bahçesi” (in English “Garden of the faculty”). Hence this specimen was in fact collected from Bornova, İzmir where the Faculty of Agriculture of Ege University is located. However, an examination of this specimen revealed that it belonged to Psallopsis kirgisica (Becker, 1864). Moreover, we had the chance to examine some of the paratypes collected at Kovada (Isparta) and we discovered that they do not differ from Psallus (Psallus) pardalis Seidenstücker, 1966, both in coloration, morphology (Fig. 7A–B) and in the structure of vesica (Fig. 7C). The illustration of male genitalia of P. oenderi by Wagner (1976) also matches with that of examined paratypes. Therefore, Psallus (Psallus) oenderi Wagner, 1976 is regarded as a junior synonym of Psallus (Psallus) pardalis Seidenstücker, 1966.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Investigating geophysical signatures of long term biodegradation at the oil spill site in Bemidji, Minnesota
Creators: name: Samuel, Ashley Laura
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Biogeophysics is a sub-discipline of geophysics that examines how microbial interactions with geologic materials affect the geophysical signatures within the subsurface.  Biogeophysical measurements were performed at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site in Bemidji, Minnesota where biodegradation of hydrocarbon contaminants is occurring.  Geophysical measurements were acquired to ascertain whether changes in the pore fluid conductivity and/or the production of secondary iron minerals such as magnetite affect geophysical signatures at this site.  The effects of hydrology, geology, oil levels and temperature on geophysical signatures within both an uncontaminated zone and a biodegraded contaminated zone were investigated.     Resistivity, time domain induced polarization and frequency domain induced polarization measurements were acquired from a contaminated location and an uncontaminated location at the site.  Results of this study suggests that the changes in the pore fluid conductivity primarily control the geophysical signatures when compared to the effects of the formation of magnetite within the smear zone in the contaminated zone.  Hydrology, oil levels and temperature do not appear to explain the geophysical signatures from the contaminated location, although natural water table variations can explain the resistivity variations at the uncontaminated location.   This study demonstrates that geophysical methods can be used to assist in the monitoring of the long term changes in geophysical signatures due to natural attenuation processes associated with biodegradation of a crude oil spill.
The role of national innovation systems on FDI
Creators: name: Satoglu, Emine Beyza
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this dissertation is to examine the role of National Innovation Systems on the international investment patterns of the countries from different levels of development. In doing so, Dunning's Investment Development Path (IDP), a country level application of the Eclectic Paradigm of international production, is used as the basis of the study.     The empirical analysis covers 75 countries with thirty years time span from 1985 to 2014. In measurement of National Innovations Systems, explanatory factor analysis method for 15 indicators is used and four factors are identified. The fixed effects longitudinal data analysis is applied to test interaction of these factors with the Net outward investment positions of the countries and how National Innovation System factors affect the location and ownership advantages in different development stages countries are discussed.       The findings of the study indicates that regardless of their development level innovation systems are shown to have particular importance to attract inward direct investment and institutions and policy are key to generate outward FDI for the developed countries.
Migrants, institutional change and the geography of foreign direct investment
Creators: name: Shukla, Pallavi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Increased cross-border human migration has led to a significant increase in the number of foreign-born workers in the business and the society of several recipient countries. In this dissertation, I examine the role of migrants in influencing the foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns between their country of origin (COO) and their country of residence (COR). Drawing on the extant international business, management and macroeconomics literature, I propose a novel theoretical framework on migrants, institutions and FDI, that extends conventional thinking on the drivers of FDI by relating the literature on FDI determinants to the institutional economics and the migration literature streams. Using migrant roles as an anchor for this framework, three roles are identified - (1) Migrants as carriers and conduits of knowledge; (2) Migrants as creators of institutional affinity; (3) Migrants as connectors of institutional environments; this framework forms the basis for the three empirical studies in this dissertation.     In my first study, I examine the role of migrants as creators of institutional affinity (with respect to their COO), and as connectors of institutional environments of their COO and COR, using panel data estimation methods. In my second study, I zoom in to examine the effect of migrant induced institutional affinity and institutional connectedness on FDI at the regional level. In my third study, I examine the extent to which migrant decision-makers influence outward FDI to their COO. I build a novel database for measuring migrant induced institutional changes in the United States (U.S.) context. In addition to that, I rely on the data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. I find that institutional affinity in the migrants' COR with respect to their COO, is a strong predictor of future inward FDI from the migrants' COO for firms from developing countries. Second, I find that migrant decision-makers (from a COO) in a COR are a strong predictor of outward FDI to their COO, when the COO is a developing country. Lastly, I find that institutional connectedness provided by migrants has a positive effect on inward FDI for both, developing and developed countries.
Loricula (Loricula) pselaphiformis Curtis 1833
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Microphysidae
Loricula
Loricula pselaphiformis

description: Loricula (Loricula) pselaphiformis Curtis, 1833
Fig. 8
Material examined
TURKEY – Karaman Province • 1 ♂; Sarıveliler, Karahasan Pass; 1750 m; 25 Jun. 2023; B. Çerçi leg.; on Berberis vulgaris; BCIT. – Mersin Province • 1 ♀; Tarsus, Ballıca; 8 May 1985; EUAPP exp.; on Quercus sp.; LEMT.
Comments
This small microphysid species lives on lichens growing on deciduous trees of many species and feeds on small insects, mostly psyllids. It is widely distributed in the European continent, but it prefers cold climate and becomes exceedingly rare towards the southern regions (Péricart 1972). In the Mediterranean basin, it was recorded from Greece and Israel (Aukema 2023). The record from Israel was from the western Judaean Mountains and the exact locality of the record from Greece was not mentioned (Péricart 1972). Both examined specimens were collected from Southern Turkey. The specimen from Karaman (Fig. 8A) was collected at 1750 m and the specimen from Mersin (Fig. 8B) was collected at sea level, in a region with very warm climate. Until now, only one species of Microphysidae, Loricula (Loricula) bipunctata (Perris, 1857), was known from Turkey. It is easily distinguished from L. (L.) pselaphiformis by shiny dorsum and pale-colored hemelytra (Péricart 1972).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Characterization of IGF-1 expessing RG3.6 cells for transplantation following traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Singh, Sweta
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Traumatic brain injury is one of the leading cause of neuronal damage which affects the  cognitive function of the brain. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) also causes damage to the  neuronal stem cells pool. IGF-1 is an important trophic factor that increases cell survival  by inducing neuroprotection and anti-apoptotic activity. Therapeutic strategy to protect  the neurons/neuronal stem cell pool and restoration of damage neuron and induce their  ability to produce multipotent, proliferative cell that can adopt the neuronal phenotype  could have beneficial effect on functional recovery of the brain after TBI. Here, we  characterized and used genetically engineered rat neural stem cells, RG3.6/IGF-1+ cells,  which conditionally express the insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Our results demonstrate  that IGF-1 induces neurogenesis in a culture system and in damaged area of the rat brain  after transplantation and could have important implication in amelioration of brain  damage after TBI.
Orbital State Estimation Based On The Extended Kalman Filter With Emergency Scenario
Creators: name: Frej, Dominik
name: Barciński, Tomasz
name: Nanjangud, Angadh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: kalman filter
matlab
orbital mechanics
satellites
GMAT
J2
CG

description: The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based on both central body (CG) and J2 perturba-

tion (J2) gravity models were implemented to estimate the orbital state of a satellite in orbit

around Earth. The estimate was compared to the trajectory generated by General Mission

Analytical Tool (GMAT) which was assumed to be a real state. The onboard measure-

ment was provided by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The EKF

performance was verified by considering unfiltered measurement signals; it was found that

the EKF reduces measurement error by up to 90%. To simulate an emergency scenario, the

measured state was temporarily disengaged, and the capability of EKF to maintain low state

estimation error was investigated. The simulation results proved that the state estimation

of CG and J2 models are comparable if the satellite has continued access to measured data.

The emergency study, however, found that the J2 model produces more accurate results by

at least one order of magnitude as compared to the CG model. To investigate how quickly

the true state can be restored after the emergency, the recovery time was examined and

found to be on the order of 10 – 20 s for all cases studied.
Thilachium
Creators: name: Fici, Silvio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Capparaceae
Thilachium

description: Key to the species of Thilachium in Madagascar
1a. Leaves always simple or 1-foliolate: 2a. Inflorescence dense subumbel or corymb up to 16-flowered; pedicels 8–12 mm long............................................................................ T. latifolium Fici, sp. nov. 2b. Inflorescence loose corymbose raceme up to 10-flowered, or 2 or 3 flowers at the top of lateral twigs or on the branches; pedicels ≥ 12 mm long: 3a. Petioles ≥ 80 mm long; leaf blade ≤ 10 mm wide..................... T. pouponii Aubrév. & Pellegr. 3b. Petioles ≤ 40 mm long; leaf blade ≥ 18 mm wide: 4a. Petioles 8–12 mm long; inflorescence 8–10-flowered; stamens 25–30; anthers 2.5 mm long................................................................ T. monophylum Hadj-Moust. 4b. Petioles (11–) 19–40 mm long; inflorescence 2–6-flowered; stamens ≥ 30; anthers 1.5–2.0 mm long: 5a. Leaf blade subemarginate, 25–75 mm long; 4–6 flowers in terminal corymbs; pedicels (30–) 35– 50 mm long....................................................... T. laurifolium Baker 5b. Leaf blade acuminate (75–) 100–153 mm long; 2 or 3 flowers at the top of lateral twigs; pedicels 12–18 mm long................................................. T. madagascariense Fici
1b. Leaves 3-foliolate, rarely with simple leaves intermixed or on fertile branches: 6a. Leaflets linear or narrowly oblong, 2–12 mm wide; fruit 8–10 mm wide............. T. angustifolium Bojer 6b. Leaflets elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate, obovate or panduriform, (6–) 10–53 mm wide; fruit 12–40 mm wide: 7a. Leaflets heteromorphic, lanceolate and panduriform........................... T. panduriforme Juss. 7b. Leaflets not heteromorphic: 8a. Pedicels 6–8 mm long................................................... T. sumangui Bojer 8b. Pedicels 10–21 mm long: 9a. Gynophore 23–32 mm long; filaments 27–36 mm long........................ T. africanum Lour. 9b. Gynophore 7–20 mm long; filaments ± 10 m long: 10a. Pedicels ± 10–13 mm long; stamens ± 15; fruit 40–50 mm long.......... T. humbertii Hadj-Moust. 10b. Pedicels 15–20 mm long; stamens 30–40; fruit 7–8 mm long............... T. seyrigii Hadj-Moust.
description: Published as part of Fici, Silvio, 2023, A new species of Thilachium (Capparaceae) from the Analanjirofo Region, Madagascar, pp. 1-6 in Bothalia (a 4) (a 4) 53 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.38201/btha.abc.v53.i1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10550926
Blissus hirtulus Burmeister 1835
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Blissidae
Blissus
Blissus hirtulus

description: Blissus hirtulus Burmeister, 1835
Fig. 9A
Material examined
TURKEY – Hatay Province • 1 ♂; İslahiye; 3 Jun. 1985; EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
Comments
A rarely collected species that lives on banks of water. Its biology is unknown (Péricart 1998a). It has a wide distribution range spanning from North Africa and the Afrotropical region to the Arabian Peninsula and extends to India, China, and Japan in the east (Aukema 2023). It was recorded from Egypt, Tunisia, and Israel in the Mediterraean basin (Péricart 1998a; Kment & Batelka 2005; Linnavuori et al. 2014). A close relative of this species, Blissus putoni Jakovlev, 1875 has a Central Asian-Mediterranean distribution extending from Greece to SW China (Aukema 2023). This species was recorded from Selçuk, İzmir in Turkey, lives in an ecological niche similar to that of B. hirtulus. It is distinguished from the latter by the rounded apex of scutellum, hemelytra not reaching to the apex of abdomen and clavi of hemelytra not touching each other (Péricart 1998a).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 31, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
#Legitimacy : public legitimation strategies of international organizations on social media
Creators: name: El Kady, Robin
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2025
Subjects: International organizations
United Nations
Social media
Public communication
Strategic action
Authority
Natural language processing
Legitimation

description: Social media is extensively used by international organizations (IOs) and provides them with novel opportunities to engage their audiences. The scholarly literature has yet to thoroughly explore the implications of the new medium and how it affects IOs’ agency, authority, and legitimation. Therefore, this thesis asks why and how IOs use social media in their communication practice. The thesis argues that IOs use social media strategically to legitimate themselves to the public in order to preserve their authority. Drawing on new media scholarship, the thesis conceptualizes IOs’ public on social media as fragmented and consisting of IO opinion leaders, seekers, and avoiders, whose legitimacy beliefs are all crucial for the preservation of IOs’ authority. The thesis argues that IOs leverage social media’s velocity, connectivity, and immediacy to pursue three modes of legitimation: 1) long-term planning, 2) targeting of IO opinion leaders, seekers, and avoiders, and 3) responsiveness to user engagement, world events, breaking news, and delegitimation. Thereby, IOs can spread relevant and relatable legitimacy claims to their publics. This thesis applies a mixed method approach to empirically explore the theorizations by studying the Twitter communications of the United Nations (UN). 1) Expert interviews with IO social media practitioners allowed the study of the UN’s strategic reasoning and decision-making processes behind the adoption and use of social media. 2) Quantitative methods derived from computational social science enabled the assessment of the UN’s extensive Twitter output. 3) Qualitative content analysis allowed the in-depth study of the ways in which the UN promotes legitimacy claims on Twitter. This thesis contributes to the scholarly understanding of IOs’ legitimation practice in the digital age and how social media changes its substance and methods.
Cymbasoma turcorum Suárez-Morales & Üstün 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Suárez-Morales, Eduardo
name: Üstün, Funda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Monstrilloida
Monstrillidae
Cymbasoma
Cymbasoma turcorum

description: Cymbasoma turcorum sp. nov.
[ZooBank LSID # for the specific name]
Cymbasoma turcorum Suárez-Morales & Üstün, 2018: 547–551, figs 2, 3 (unavailable; source paper deemed unpublished).
Type material. Holotype adult female deposited in collection of Zooplankton held at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECO- SUR), in Chetumal, Mexico (ECO-CHZ-10336), collected from plankton on 6 June 2016 at station B, Hamsilos Bay, Sinop, Turkish coast of the Black Sea (35°02’36”E, 42°03’36”N); specimen partially dissected, with selected appendages mounted on slide in glycerine, sealed with Entellan®.
Diagnosis. (Female) Body length excluding antennules and caudal rami 0.933 mm (67.2% cephalothorax, 11% urosome). Oral papilla at 26% of cephalothorax length. Ventral part of “forehead” with few shallow, transverse striations. Antennules 38% as long as cephalothorax, three-segmented (fusion of segments 3 and 4). Among antennular setae, elements of 2v group remarkably long, element 3 long and setiform, element IIId reduced, elements b 1-5 unbranched. Outer apical exopodal setae of legs 1–4 spinulose externally, bearing short setules internally. Endopodal lobes of fifth legs unarmed, asymmetrical; exopodal lobes subrectangular, with two large, subequally long apical setae and one small medial seta, latter not exceeding exopodal lobe in length. Ovigerous spines separated at base, 70% as long as body. Anal somite smooth, lateral margins expanding posteriorly.
Etymology. A genitive plural noun honoring the people of Turkey, the country of the type locality.
Remarks. A full description and taxonomic illustrations of C. turcorum, including comparisons to known congeners, was provided by Suárez-Morales & Üstün (2018).
description: Published as part of Suárez-Morales, Eduardo & Üstün, Funda, 2020, Validation of Cymbasoma turcorum and Monstrillopsis pontoeuxinensis, two monstrilloids from Turkey described by Suárez-Morales & Üstün in 2018 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Monstrilloida), pp. 149-150 in Zootaxa 4779 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/3831676
Heterocordylus (Heterocordylus) cytisi Josifov 1958
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Heterocordylus
Heterocordylus cytisi

description: Heterocordylus (Heterocordylus) cytisi Josifov, 1958
Fig. 9B
Material examined
TURKEY – İzmIr ProvInce • 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Ödemiş, Bozdağ; 24 May 1978; F. Önder leg.; on Leguminosae; LEMT.
Comments
A Balkanian species that lives on Chamaecytisus spp. (Fabaceae Lindl.) and captured together mostly with H. (H.) leptocerus (Kirschbaum, 1856) and rarely with H. (H.) genistae (Scopoli, 1763) (Josifov 1958; Kment & Baňař 2012; Kment et al. 2013b). Due to its close resemblance to both species, it was repeatedly overlooked or misidentified in the literature (Kment & Baňař 2012; Kment et al. 2013b). Males of the newly recorded species can only be reliably distinguished from these two species by the different shape of parameres. However, females can be distinguished by the shape of second antennal segment which is cylindrical in H. leptocerus, cylindrical in the basal ⅓ and strongly inflated in the apical ⅔ in H. cytisi and gradually inflated throughout its whole length in H. genistae (Fig. 9B) (Josifov 1958). Additionally, females of H. cytisi and H. genistae are distinguished by different shapes of squama covering the base of ovipositor (Kment et al. 2013b).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 31, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Essays on hedge fund activism
Creators: name: Wang, Xianjue
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The first essay focuses on detailed activities in hedge fund activism targets. We perform a textual analysis of 8-Ks filed by 693 firms targeted by hedge fund activists over the 2005 to 2012 period to document the comprehensive material changes that these firms undergo after being targeted. We benchmark the changes in the year after the 13D filing to those in the year prior to 13D filing, and then control for changes over the same period in propensity score matched firms. The difference-in-differences results suggest that targets of hedge fund activism that are not acquired experience significantly higher incidence of CEO appointments and director arrivals that are both associated with higher shareholder value. The evidence also suggests that some changes that activists request like repurchases, sale of assets and bylaw changes though more frequent are not associated with any value gains. The evidence complements prior work by showing that activists potentially create value through governance changes along with pressurizing the target to sell itself.  The second essay investigates the role of institutional investors in hedge fund activism. Hedge funds activists do not usually hold a large stake in the target firm. Institutional owners by their support or lack thereof can have a significant impact on the success of the activist's campaign.  We develop three measures of institutional ownership that is likely to be supportive of activism.  Over the period 2004 to 2012 we find that high pre event activism friendly institutional ownership is associated with significantly higher short term and long term stock returns and operating performance of the target firm.  Pre event ownership by activism friendly institutions also significantly increases the likelihood of being targeted by hedge fund activists.  The paper is one of the first to document that composition of institutional ownership has a significant impact on the likelihood of and value created from hedge fund activism.
Monstrillopsis pontoeuxinensis Suárez-Morales & Üstün 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Suárez-Morales, Eduardo
name: Üstün, Funda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Monstrilloida
Monstrillidae
Monstrillopsis
Monstrillopsis pontoeuxinensis

description: Monstrillopsis pontoeuxinensis sp. nov.
[ZooBank LSID # for the specific name]
Monstrillopsis pontoeuxinensis Suárez-Morales & Üstün, 2018: 553–555, figs 4, 5 (unavailable; source paper deemed unpub-
lished).
Type material. Holotype adult male deposited in collection of Zooplankton held at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECO- SUR), in Chetumal, Mexico (ECO-CHZ-10337), collected from plankton on 6 June 2016 at station B, Hamsilos Bay, Sinop, Turkish coast of the Black Sea (35°02’36”E, 42°03’36”N); specimen partially dissected with selected appendages mounted on slide in glycerine, sealed with Entellan®.
Diagnosis. (Male) Body length excluding antennules and caudal rami 0.561 mm (48% cephalothorax, 52% urosome). Oral papilla at 31% of cephalothorax length. “Forehead” with anterior notch and few transverse striations. Antennules 1.2 times as long as cephalothorax, with distinct rounded inner proximal expansion of fifth segment. Among antennular setae, elements 1, 2v 1-3, and 3 long and setiform, element 4v1 longest among neighboring elements, elements B–D unbranched; apical process of fifth segment separated as distinct spiniform element 2. On legs 1–4, intercoxal sclerite spinulose, outer apical exopodal seta smooth externally, sparsely setose internally. Type II genital complex present, with two pairs of small, rounded processes medial to bases of lappets. Anal and preanal somites incompletely separated. Four setae on each caudal ramus subequally long.
Etymology. An adjective combining the ancient Greek name of the Black Sea, Póntos Eúxeinos, with the Latin locational suffix - ensis (feminine to match the gender of the genus).
Remarks. A full description and taxonomic illustrations of M. pontoeuxinensis, including comparisons to known congeners, was provided by Suárez-Morales & Üstün (2018).
description: Published as part of Suárez-Morales, Eduardo & Üstün, Funda, 2020, Validation of Cymbasoma turcorum and Monstrillopsis pontoeuxinensis, two monstrilloids from Turkey described by Suárez-Morales & Üstün in 2018 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Monstrilloida), pp. 149-150 in Zootaxa 4779 (1) on page 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/3831676
Oil presses and productive capacity at Vacone archaeological site
Creators: name: Webb, Jennifer
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Vacone is an archaeological villa site in central Italy from the Late Roman Republic and Early Roman Empire. It was inhabited from roughly the first century BCE through the second century CE. Joint excavations between the Rutgers Field School and the Italian government began there in 2012.  Two important functions of a villa were the production of wine and of olive oil by means of stone presses. The villa at Vacone is unusual in having two presses, which represent a significant investment of capital and a high productive capacity at the site. Evidence such as a cocciopesto treading floor, plaster-lined sedimentation vats, and torcular press rims suggest that the presses were used first for oil, then converted to wine presses at a later date.   These conclusions may be able to direct further fieldwork at the site by means of site reconstruction through comparison with similar central Italian villas.
Globiceps (Globiceps) coryli V. G. Putshkov 1970
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Globiceps
Globiceps coryli

description: Globiceps (Globiceps) coryli V.G. Putshkov, 1970
Fig. 10A–C
Material examined
TURKEY – Bartın ProvInce • 1 ♂; Merkez; 31 May 1980; EUAPP exped.; on Crataegus sp.; LEMT. – Bolu Province • 2 ♀♀; Merkez; 19 Jul. 1979; EUAPP exped.; LEMT. – Bolu Province • 3 ♀♀; Çerkeş; 13 Jul. 1979; EUAPP exped.; LEMT. – Giresun Province • 1 ♂; Piraziz; 26 Jun. 1981; EUAPP exped.; on Corylus avellana; LEMT. – Kastamonu Province • 5 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Devrekâni; 19 Jun. 1979; EUAPP exped.; LEMT. – Samsun Province • 1 ♂; Tekkeköy, Gelemen; 16 Jun. 1981; EUAPP exped.; on Corylus avellana; LEMT. – Trabzon ProvInce • 1 ♂; Akçaabat; 26 Jun. 1981; EUAPP exped.; on Corylus avellana; LEMT. – Ordu Province • 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Altınordu; 26 Jun. 2017; B. Çerçi leg.; on Corylus avellana; BCIT.
Comments
This species is distributed locally in the Caucasian region and is strictly bound to Corylus avellana L. (Putshkov 1970). We examined many specimens collected from Corylus avellana along the Black Sea region, from Bartın in the west to Trabzon in the east. Specimens from Ordu (Fig. 10A–C) were collected with Orthonotus rufifrons (Fallén, 1807), Phylus (Phylus) coryli (Linnaeus, 1758) and Leucodellus zagdani (V.G. Putshkov, 1970). The newly recorded species appears very similar to Globiceps sphaegiformis (Rossi, 1790), a species associated with Quercus spp., but differs from it by the shape of the callosity of anterior lobe of pronotum, which projects upward to form a distinct horn in the latter (Fig. 10D) but does not project at all and forms a rectangle in the former (Fig. 10B) (Putshkov 1970).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 32, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Essays in empirical asset pricing
Creators: name: Xu, Weike
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation includes two essays. The first essay examines how changes in ownership breadth affect the profitability of 21 anomaly-based strategies. I find that the profitability of these strategies is weaker following a growth in ownership breadth in the prior quarter. The return pattern is primarily attributed to the insignificant returns in the short portfolios. In addition, reduction in short-sale constraints due to increase in the ownership breadth can explain the insignificant return in the short portfolio. The conclusions stay the same after controlling for the common risk factors including the Fama-French three factors and the momentum factor. My results are robust to different size groups, different portfolio weighting methods, an alternative measure of active institutional investors and cross-sectional regression tests. These findings indicate that active institutional investors improve market efficiency.  In the second essay, I examine how the relaxation of short-sale constraints affects the readability in financial disclosures using a natural experiment. From 2005 to 2007, the SEC implemented a pilot program in which one-third of the Russell 3000 stocks were randomly selected as pilot stocks and were exempted from short-sale price tests. I find that the readability of 10-K reports for the pilot stocks significantly decreases during the program period. Moreover, the relation between a reduction in short-sales constraint and annual report readability is not uniform in the cross-section. I find that the results are more pronounced for firms that are smaller, less profitable or riskier; for firms that have lower institutional ownership or analyst coverage; and for firms with worse corporate governance or corporate social responsibility. I conclude that Regulation SHO leads to lower readability in the context of financial disclosures.
Mesopsallus fagi Drapolyuk 1990
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Mesopsallus
Mesopsallus fagi

description: Mesopsallus fagi Drapolyuk, 1990
Fig. 11A
Material examined
TURKEY – Artvin Province • 1 ♂; Borçka, Murgul; 5 Sep. 1971; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
Comments
The genus Mesopsallus Wagner, 1970 was recently erected to genus level and re-diagnosed by Konstantinov (2023). Several species that previously were placed in three different genera were brought together in this genus by Konstantinov (2023) due to shared J-shaped vesica equipped with a large, round and distinctly sculptured secondary gonopore located almost at the apex of the vesica, and straight apical blade. The genus now contains following ten species: M. ambiguus (Fallén, 1807), M. tibialis (Reuter, 1894), M. fagi (Drapolyuk, 1990), M. holomelas (Reuter, 1906), M. samdzijonicus (Josifov, 1983), all previously in Psallus; M. amygdali (Wagner, 1960), M. mali (Meyer-Dür, 1843), M. rhodani (Fieber, 1861), all previously in Atractotomus; M. pici (Reuter, 1899) and M. validus (Reuter, 1901), both previously in Heterocapillus (Konstantinov 2023). Mesopsallus tibialis is endemic of the Iberian Peninsula and distinguished from other species of Mesopsallus that were previously placed in Psallus, by unicolorous black hemelytra, including cuneus (Wagner 1975). Both M. ambiguus and M. fagi are variable in coloration, the latter is paler in coloration and has yellowish-brown to yellow-colored legs whereas the legs of the former are brown (Drapolyuk 1990; Wyniger 2004). More importantly, the apical process of vesica is longer and claw-like in M. ambiguus (see Rizzotti Vlach 2000: figs 1–6) but much shorter and hook-like in M. fagi (Fig. 11A). This species was described from Zakatala and Kuba districts of Azerbaijan and has never been recorded in the literature since its original description (Drapolyuk 1990). It lives on Fagus orientalis and feeds on psyllid larvae (Drapolyuk 1990).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Mass spectrometry based methods for studies of component assembly and structure/dynamics of thiamin diphosphate dependent enzymes
Creators: name: Zhou, Jieyu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: For the metabolism of a cell, most of the proteins function as complexes rather than by themselves. Understanding not only how proteins behave in isolation but also how they recognize their binding partners is therefore critical for understanding the functions of proteins. In recent decades, our understanding of protein-protein or protein-ligand interactions have moved beyond rigid binding to conformational changes upon binding, multistep ordered assembly, and structural fluctuations occurring within fully assembled complexes. In this thesis, the Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) and Chemical Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry (CX-MS) methods were employed to study the assembly of human 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex (OGDHc). Our experiments revealed the binding loci, which is essential to the assembly of human OGDHc. Our findings provide a new insight to understand the structure, organization and assembly of the human OGDHc. Moreover, we have used HDX-MS to explore the protein-ligand interactions of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXPS). The unique peptides exhibiting EX1-type HDX kinetics found in this thiamin diphosphate (ThDP) dependent enzyme enable us to understand how DXPS structure and dynamics respond to different ligands. A better picture of ligand induced DXPS conformational changes can be provided to help elucidate the mechanism of catalysis, and enable structure-based inhibitor design.
Arthroleptis adelphus Perret 1966
Creators: name: Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto
name: Calvo-Revuelta, Marta
name: Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago
name: De, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Arthroleptidae
Arthroleptis
Arthroleptis adelphus

description: Arthroleptis adelphus Perret, 1966 Photo figures 3A–C
TYPE LOCALITY.— “Foulassi”, near Sangmelima, Cameroon.
DISTRIBUTION.– This species ranges over the forests of the Gulf of Guinea region, from southern Cameroon to Gabon. In Equatorial Guinea, A. adelphus has been recorded in Río Muni, at Monte Alén National Park (De la Riva 1994), and on Bioko at Pico Basilé (Blackburn 2008) (Map 2A).
COMMENTS.— Our identifications of the preserved A. adelphus are confirmed by molecular data (authors’ unpublished data). Two preserved specimens (MNCN 48825–48826) from Batete, Bioko, have a striped pattern. The external morphology of this species is similar to that of members of the A. poecilonotus species complex (see entry for A. aff. poecilonotus), and a close relationship has been evidenced by molecular data (Blackburn 2008). However, in life, A. adelphus can be diagnosable by the presence of marked and larger skin granules over the dorsal and lateral parts of the body, whereas in A. poecilonotus the dorsal surface of the skin is smoother and homogenously granulated. Additional subtle differences such as the metatarsal tubercle and the subarticular tubercle of Finger I seem to be diagnostic (Dewynter et al. 2018).
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— Nine specimens. Illadji River, Bioko, 03°19ʹ46.04ʺN, 08°40ʹ26.13ʺE, 14 November 2003 (MNCN 48833); surroundings of BBPP camp, Caldera de Luba, Bioko, 03°20ʹ47.32ʺN, 08°29ʹ48.44ʺE, 26 November 2003 (MNCN 48827–48828, MNCN 48830, 48832), 27 November 2003 (MNCN 48829, 48831); path behind church in Bakelele forest, Batete, Bioko, 03°26ʹ37.34ʺN, 08°30ʹ24.76ʺE; 02 November 2003 (MNCN 48825–48826).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta, Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago & De, Ignacio, 2020, Synopsis of the Amphibians of Equatorial Guinea based upon the Authors' Field Work and Spanish Natural History Collections, pp. 137-230 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (8) on page 146, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11105986
What motivates Russia?
Creators: name: Zboray, Michael D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation was made possible by a nationally competitive fellowship from IREX. I received six months of financial support from IREX’s Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IARO) that funds policy-relevant research in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. The fellowship was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and allowed me to conduct field research in Moscow and Kazan between January 2014 and July 2014. I also traveled to Shanghai and Beijing for a total of four weeks to interview Chinese researchers. This fieldwork consisted of archival research and semistructured interviews with policy experts. I use both qualitative and quantitative approaches including a modified Q-analysis to derive findings. The dissertation focuses on analyzing Russia’s motivations for participating in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an understudied, yet vital, regional organization – the largest in the world. The Russian-Chinese relationship is the fulcrum of a broader membership that includes eighteen other members, notably India and Pakistan. My research specifically addresses the question: “Why does Russia cooperate with China in the SCO given decades of political tensions between Moscow and Beijing?” In order to answer this question, I examine three main explanations for Russian participation in the SCO based on geopolitics, economics, and internal security. My primary hypothesis investigates whether Russia collaborates with China to safeguard itself from Wahhabi-inspired terrorism. My research concludes with theoretical and policy findings in the final chapter. I will briefly recapitulate four main points. First, anti-Americanism has not translated into a decisively anti-American vector for the SCO. Second, Russia’s rapprochement with China is not primarily due to increases in the sale of natural gas and oil. Moreover, Russia interprets China's plans for trade liberalization as an indirect way of controlling Central Asia. Third, Russian cooperation with China in the SCO is most likely due to the threat of terrorism. Based on Russia's ongoing conflict with jihadi terrorism and its belief that Saudi Arabia is the primary source of Wahhabism, it is important that Central Asia not become an area that could fuel terrorism. Fourth, my findings also include the results of a crucial case study that I conducted in city of Kazan. The results of the case study provide a secondary test of the primary argument and confirm that Wahhabism may in fact present a wider challenge to Russia.
Sex-specific inequalities in the use of drug-coated balloons for small coronary artery disease: a report from the BASKET-SMALL 2 trial
Creators: name: Rubini Gimenez, Maria
name: Scheller, Bruno
name: Farah, Ahmed
name: Ohlow, Marc-Alexander
name: Mangner, Norman
name: Weilenmann, Daniel
name: Wöhrle, Jochen
name: Cuculi, Florim
name: Leibundgut, Gregor
name: Möbius-Winkler, Sven
name: Cattaneo, Marco
name: Gilgen, Nicole
name: Kaiser, Christoph
name: Jeger, Raban V.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sex inequalities
subject: Drug-coated balloon
subject: Small coronary artery disease
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Background and objectivesRecent data have established non-inferiority of drug-coated balloons (DCB) compared to drug-eluting stents (DES) for treatment of small-vessel coronary artery disease. Since coronary vessels in women might have anatomical and pathophysiological particularities, the safety of the DCB strategy among women compared to men needs to be assessed in more detail.MethodsIn BASKET-SMALL 2, patients with de novo lesions in coronary vessels < 3 mm and an indication for percutaneous coronary intervention were randomly allocated (1:1) to DCB vs. DES after successful lesion preparation. The primary objective of the randomized trial was to establish non-inferiority of DCB vs. DES regarding major adverse cardiac events (MACE; i.e., cardiac death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization) after 12 months. The aim of the current sub-analysis is to evaluate whether the DCB strategy is equally safe among women and men after 12 and 36 months.ResultsAmong 758 randomized patients, 382 were assigned to DCB (23% women) and 376 to DES (30% women). In general, women were older, had more often diabetes mellitus and renal insufficiency, and presented more often with an acute coronary syndrome, whereas men were more often smokers, had multivessel disease and a previous history of acute myocardial infarction, and received a treatment with a statin. After 3 years, the primary clinical end point was not significantly different between groups (13% women vs. 16% men, HR 0.82; 95% CI 0.52−1.30; p = 0.40). There was no interaction between sex and coronary intervention strategy regarding MACE at 36 months (10% women vs. 16% men in DCB, 16% women vs. 15% men in DES; pinteraction = 0.31).ConclusionIn small native coronary artery disease, there was no statistically significant effect of sex on the difference between DCB and DES regarding MACE up to 36 months.Clinical trial registrationURL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01574534.Graphical abstractCAD coronary artery disease, MACE major adverse cardiovascular events, HR Hazard ratio, DCB drug-coated balloon, DES drug-eluting stent.
Gymnostigmaeus Ehara & Ueckermann 2006, n. gen.
Creators: name: Ehara, Shôzô
name: Ueckermann, E. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Stigmaeidae
Gymnostigmaeus

description: Genus Gymnostigmaeus n. gen.
Type species: Gymnostigmaeus akaminei n. sp., by monotypy.
Diagnosis
Idiosoma elongate­oval, with 12 pairs of dorsal setae (3 pairs on prodorsum, 9 pairs on opisthosoma); neither shields nor platelets present on dorsum and venter which are entirely striate. Postocular bodies absent. Tibiae III and IV without solenidia. Empodia arising distally on a swollen arolium.
The genus Gymnostigmaeus n. gen. is similar to Parastigmaeus Kuznetzov, Pilonychiopus Meyer, Summersiella González­Rodríguez and Neilstigmaeus Gerson & Meyer in having a swollen arolium on the leg tarsi (González­Rodríguez, 1967; Meyer, 1969; Kuznetzov,1984; Ueckermann & Meyer, 1987; Gerson & Meyer, 1995; Khanjani & Ueckermann, 2002). However, the new genus is distinct in lacking shields and platelets on the dorsum and venter. Parastigmaeus differs from the new genus in the presence of a suranal shield and tibiae III–IV bearing solenidia. Pilonychiopus further differs from Gymnostigmaeus n. gen. in having a suranal shield present, tarsi without claws and tibiae III–IV with solenidia. Summersiella differs in that the dorsum has 13 pairs of setae, dorsum with prodorsal and suranal shields, palptarsus bent, empodium situated at base of arolium and tibiae III–IV with solenidia. Neilstigmaeus differs from the new genus in having 3 dorsal shields, leg tarsi without claws and tibiae III–IV with solenidia. It is also closely related to Erynglpusopsis Tseng in general appearance, the absence of postocular bodies and solenidia on tibiae III–IV. According to Tseng’s (1982) key and figures, Gymnostigmaeus n. gen. differs from Erynglpusopsis in the absence of dorsal and ventral shields and platelets, presence of an arolium on the leg tarsi, having 12 pairs of dorsal setae and absence of a distinct suture between prodorsum and opisthosoma.
Etymology
The generic name Gymnostigmaeus is a combination of the Greek word “ gymnos ” (bare or naked) and the generic name Stigmaeus. It is masculine in gender, and refers to the absence of dorsal and ventral shields and platelets.
description: Published as part of Ehara, Shôzô & Ueckermann, E. A., 2006, A new genus of Stigmaeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from Okinawa Island, pp. 29-36 in Zootaxa 1160 on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2645208