cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nicella carinata Nutting 1910
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Nicella
Nicella carinata

description: Nicella carinata Nutting, 1910
Nicella carinata Nutting, 1910d: 29–30, pl. 9, fig. 1–1a; pl. 11, fig. 2 (Moluccas).
Nicella coralloides Nutting, 1910d: 27, pl. 9, figs. 2–2a, pl. 11, fig. 1 (Moluccas).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Fernando 2011: 123–124, pl. 84, fig 1–1d (SE coast); Fernando et al. 2017: 284, pl. 133, fig. 1–1d (SE coast).
Literature analysis: The identity of the Indian material assigned to this species is uncertain. The reports by Fernando (2011) and Fernando et al. (2017) are virtually identical but do not figure the large, elongate, flat sclerites characteristic for the genus and clearly illustrated by Nutting. Also, the holotype is mostly dichotomously branched while the Indian material is irregularly pinnate. Although the colony form could suggest an alternative diagnosis for the Indian specimen would be Verrucella, the sclerites include double stars and clubs with a distinct waist and well-defined head that actually come close to those seen in Heliania.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on pages 94-95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Ectobius sylvestris
Creators: name: Ostrovsky, A. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Ectobiidae
Ectobius
Ectobius sylvestris

description: Ectobius sylvestris (Poda, 1761) — Таракан Λесной
МатериаΛ. РеспубΛика БеΛарусь, ГомеΛьская обΛ., Ю окр. г. ГомеΛь, НовобеΛицкое Λ-во, прогаΛина в смешанном Λесу, 06.06.2016, 4♂, 3♀.
Замечания. ПаΛеарктический виΑ, интроΑуцированный в Северную Америку. Отмечается повсеместно в Λесных биотопах. Сапрофаг. Самцы встречаются преимущественно на травянистых растениях и кустарниках, самки — среΑи Λесной поΑстиΛки.
description: Published as part of Ostrovsky, A. M., 2023, Terrestrial Orthopteroid insects (Insecta, Orthopteroidea) of South-Eastern Belarus, pp. 50-68 in Amurian Zoological Journal XV (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-1-50-68, http://zenodo.org/record/11362219
Modern translation
Creators: name: Canwell, Jeremy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: During the Estonian National Awakening, the nineteenth-century period of cultural self-awareness, artists in this eastern European country, subsequently a republic of the USSR, creatively adapted stylistic models originating elsewhere in Europe.  After World War II, artists turned to the United States for inspiration.  This interpretive modernism, which was suppressed under Stalinism, remained integral to Estonian national identity, and resurged in the late-1950s reformist period known as the “thaw.” In the ensuing cultural renaissance of the 1960s, artists recovered the pre-war modernist past while reopening lifelines to contemporary art abroad.  Until cultural retrenchment in the 1970s, artists used unofficial exhibitions to provoke audiences comprising cultural officials, the scientific and creative intelligentsia, and the general public.  This artistic activity must be analyzed in the context of its heritage: a national movement begun in the nineteenth century, and at whose height artists like Paul Raud and Nikolai Triik equated Estonian self-realization with cultural modernity sustained by adaptive processes. Nonetheless, histories of Estonian art appearing after independence in 1991 have scuttled this salient quality in favor of Western modernist paradigms, a cornerstone of which is originality.  This dissertation examines pre-war Estonian art, the totalitarian forms that supplanted those aesthetic modes, and the return of Estonian modernism at unofficial exhibitions staged by Leonhard Lapin, Raul Meel, and other artists in the final decades of Soviet rule.  Concepts drawn from Jüri Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture support the proposed, alternative history of Estonian art, as well as critical reassessment of Cold-War modernist theory that has obscured that history.
Integration of refugees in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Burnett, Kari
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: With the number of refugees increasing worldwide, states not historically refugee destinations and refugees are placed in new roles. Questions arise about how refugees integrate into a new host society, how do identity markers and past experiences affect the integration process, and how do state’s policy choices affect integration processes? I will examine these questions, among others, through an analysis of refugee integration in the Czech Republic (a new destination country for refugees). I derived my data from twenty semi-structured interviews with refugees, institutional interviews and analysis of diverse documents. Findings show that refugees consider obtaining Czech language skills and citizenship as essential for successful integration to take place. In addition, my data shows that policy-makers are often disconnected from the policy implementation process hampering the governments’ integration efforts.
Nicella dichotoma
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Nicella
Nicella dichotoma

description: Nicella dichotoma (Gray, 1860)
Scirpearia dichotoma Gray, 1860: 481 (Mauritius).
Nicella mauritiana Gray, 1870a: 40, fig. 12.
Nicella dichotoma Bayer & Grasshoff 1994: 41, figs. 14–15.
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Thomas & George, 1986: 108–109, fig. 1q, 1–3, x (Tuticorin).
Literature analysis: This species was originally described by Gray as Scirpearia dichotoma from Mauritius and then later synonymised by the same author under Nicella mauritiana Gray, 1870.A number of authors have recorded the species from the type locality, but accurate details of the sclerites were not known until the publication of Bayer & Grasshoff (1994). The specimen described as this species by Thomas & George (1986) as occurring in the region is unrecognisable, and in their 1987 paper and in the publications of Thomas & George (1987), Kumar et al. (2014a) and Venkataraman et al. (2004) just list the species.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Callotillus intricatus Wolcott and Dybas 1947
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Callotillus
Callotillus intricatus

description: Callotillus intricatus Wolcott and Dybas, 1947
Type Locality: Farm La Caja, 8 km. west of San Jose, Costa Rica. Type depository: The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH).
Material examined: PARATYPE: 1 male: Farm La Caja, 8 km W San José, Costa Rica, Eing, 12-VI to 20-VII- 1924, hand written red label. OTHER MATERIAL: 2 females: Costa Rica, Guanacaste, 3 km SW of R. Naranjo, 11–18-III-1992, F. D. Parker; 1 male, 1 female: Costa Rica, Guanacaste, 14 km S Cañas, 2-III-1990, F. D. Parker; 1 male, 2 females: Panama, Coclé province, El Valle [Anton], 19-II-1999, W. E. Wappes.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Quantification and analysis of upper-extremity hemiparesis using a novel human-computer interface
Creators: name: Brunfeldt, Alexander Thomas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: A new device, DynaWand was designed, fabricated, and programmed, to register  grip force while simultaneously controlling a computer cursor. DynaWand was tested on  12 children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) ages 5-13 (mean = 7.3, Std = 2.3) and 18 age  matched controls ages 5-11 (mean 8.2, Std = 1.9). The two tests administered were a Fitts  tests and a Grip Precision test. The Fitts test was conducted using the DynaWand's  imbedded accelerometer as a tilt sensor, capable of controlling a computer cursor. The  results from the Fitts test were used to calculate the Psychomotor Delay (PMD)  associated with the movement trials. The Grip Precision test used the DynaWand's Force  Sensitive Resistors (FSRs) and accelerometer to measure the grip force to load force  onset latency and grip force at load force onset. Results from the Fitts test show that  PMD for the impaired arms of the CP group averaged 184 ± 80ms and 165 ± 11ms on  day 1 and day 2 of testing, respectively. The unimpaired arms of that group averaged 132  ± 108ms and 127 ± 100ms. The average PMD value for the control group was 130 ±  92ms. The grip-to-load force onset latency for the impaired and unimpaired arms of the  CP group averaged 171 ±114ms and 39 ± 25ms, respectively. Controls averaged 45 ±  45ms. The grip force at load force onset for the impaired and unimpaired arms of the CP  group was 215 ± 172 and 17 ±16 relative force units, respectively. Controls averaged 57  ± 76 relative force units. These results show the unimpaired arms of the CP group had  similar PMD values to the control and these delays were shorter than the impaired arms.  The grip-to-load force onset latency for the impaired arms of the CP group was  substantially higher than the unimpaired arms and controls. This suggests the DynaWand  may be capable of quantifying temporal and force-related aspects of coordination deficits  in children with hemiparetic injuries.
A systematic scheme to maintain multiple characteristics for effective polygon rasterization
Creators: name: Zhou, Chen
name: Li, Manchun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Polygon characteristics, including area, shape, and topology, may be lost during rasterization, leading to inaccurate analyses. Maintaining multiple characteristics remains a challenging multi-objective optimization problem. This study introduces improved strategies for flexibly maintaining multiple characteristics (ISMMC). Errors related to area (A), shape (S), and topology (T) are addressed using six prioritized sequences: AST, ATS, TAS, TSA, STA, and SAT, where the order of the letters denotes the sequence of error correction. The importance (I) of land-use types (LUT) is also considered when developing a strategy based on the TSA (ITSA) that maintains characteristics for important LUTs. The ISMMC achieved a total improved accuracy (IA) of ≥0.05 for 98.67% of 150 tested cases. The STA, SAT, TAS, and TSA yielded the highest area, shape, topological, and total accuracies. The STA achieved a summed AI increase ≥20.36% compared to the existing version. The runtime was ≥85.46 times the scanline runtime, and the threshold cell size (≤50 m) balanced the IA and runtime. The ITSA improved accuracy by 83.33% and 6.67% of solutions when preferentially maintaining one or two important LUTs, outperforming the existing STA. Overall, these developments improve accuracy with flexibility in rasterization results and subsequent raster applications.
Nicella elegans Fernando 2017
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Nicella
Nicella elegans

description: Nicella elegans Fernando, 2017 (species status uncertain)
Nicella gracilis Fernando, 2011: 126–127, pl. 88, fig. 1–1f (Kanyakumari).
Nicella elegans nom. nov. Fernando et al. 2017: 288, pl. 135, fig. 1–1f (Cuddalore).
Opinion: This species does occur in the region.
Justification:
Literature analysis: Originally named as Nicella gracilis Fernando, 2011, Fernando et al. (2017) changed the name to Nicella elegans as the former was preoccupied by Nicella gracilis Cairns, 2007. Without more detailed descriptions and larger illustrations of the sclerites it would be difficult to distinguish this species from any similar taxa.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Symbolic forms and human freedom
Creators: name: Billmaier, Susan E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: My assertion is simply that when understood in its fullness and in all its complexity, Cassirer’s Symbolic Forms offers a method for overcoming cultural divisions through a “middle way” advanced by and through symbolic forms. Human interpretations of perspective must evolve. Connection to others (as opposed to separation from others) is the basis for genuinely ethical attitudes and actions. Ethical precepts of the past are becoming the imperatives for survival in the future. We must now choose conscious ethical evolution. The principles that we learn from symbolic forms can be used as guides to overcoming separation, reconciling difference, and giving meaning to everyday experience. These principles can assist us in navigating the complexities of ethical decision making, and can point us toward moral action, transforming stagnant mores of today into living, dynamic, cultural expressions tomorrow. Each self-identity becomes enriched and expanded through interaction with different belief systems, cultures, faiths, norms, and values. As people open themselves to multifarious experiences, their own center becomes more secure, while their outward expression becomes more multi-dimensional and diverse. Ethics becomes a project of breaking down internal and external boundaries which prevent people from perceiving from a variety of perspectives. Self-knowledge becomes a means for responsible action in collaboration, not opposition, with others. This is the outcome of the use of symbolic forms. Each aspect in the design of Cassirer’s symbolic forms speaks to a new evolution of our interpretation of our perceptions which we can apply to people, situations and relationships, and cultural forms.
Cylidrus abdominalis Klug 1842
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cylidrus
Cylidrus abdominalis

description: Cylidrus abdominalis Klug, 1842
Type locality: Brazil. Type depository: Germany, Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität (ZMHB).
Material examined: 1 female: Espirito Santo, [Brazil], Schmidt, 100 m, 1905; 1 male, 1 female: Brasil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Selvíria, UNESP Farm, ex Hevea brasiliensis bole, 10-VII-1990, S. R. Rodrigues; 1 female: Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 7-VIII-1944, F. Plaumann; Brazil, Nova Teutonia, IX-1973, F. Plaumann.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Missionaries of modernity
Creators: name: Blussé Van Oud-Alblas, Jan-Jacob
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This study compares the role played by Dutch and American engineers in the colonial governments of the Netherlands Indies and the American-controlled Philippines in the 1900-1920 timeframe. It contends that these colonial engineers extensively influenced the practical implementation of the civilizing missions of that were formulated in the United States and the Netherlands around 1900. Through the use of a sustained comparison between the activities of the engineers in these two Western countries and their tropical colonies the unique aspects of the American policy of “benevolent assimilation” and the Dutch “ethical policy” will be drawn into focus. This study makes use of the technocracy heuristic to analyze the behavior and ambitions of the engineers. Technocracy in this case refers to rule by experts, a goal that many members of the engineering profession that had emerged in both countries in the 1890s strove for. Such a political system could not be implemented in the Dutch and American metropoles, but in the colonies the engineers faced fewer obstacles to their political agenda. The technocratic ambitions of the engineers are reconstructed here by analyzing the rhetoric they used and the discourses they drew upon in their journals. In the first part of this study the emergence of the engineering profession in the Netherlands Indies and the United States is compared. The rhetoric of the engineers on either side of the Atlantic evinces important similarities, as does the receptiveness of politicians and public to their ideas. The new mode of imperialism and the civilizing missions that either country articulated concurrently also bear close resemblance. A series of vignettes in the second part of this study describing the practices and ideology of the colonial engineers working in the Netherlands Indies and the Philippines reveals how the meanings of the technologies they used were socially constructed. They show that the Americans possessed a unique willingness to have the Filipinos participate in their developmental strategy, whereas the Dutch did not cross the ethnographic separation from the Indonesians. This finding to an extent confirms the “exceptionalism” of American empire in this period.
Blattella germanica
Creators: name: Ostrovsky, A. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Ectobiidae
Blattella
Blattella germanica

description: Blattella germanica (Linnaeus, 1767) — Таракан рыжий (прусак)
МатериаΛ. РеспубΛика БеΛарусь, ГомеΛьская обΛ., г. ГомеΛь, пр. Αенина, на наружной стене зΑания, 05.11.2019, 1♀; там же, на тротуаре, 03.08.2021, 1♂; г. ГомеΛь, пр. Космонавтов, в жиΛой квартире, 30.12.2020, 1♀; там же, 02.01.2021, 1♀.
Замечания. КосмопоΛит. Синантроп. Обитает в жиΛых Αомах, а в тёпΛое время гоΑа может встречаться и вне отапΛиваемых помещений. Сапрофаг. ВреΑитеΛь пищевых запасов, книг, обоев и т. Α.
ОтряΑ Dermaptera De Geer, 1773 — Уховертки, иΛи КожистокрыΛые Семейство Labiduridae Verhoeff, 1902 — ΑабиΑуриΑы
description: Published as part of Ostrovsky, A. M., 2023, Terrestrial Orthopteroid insects (Insecta, Orthopteroidea) of South-Eastern Belarus, pp. 50-68 in Amurian Zoological Journal XV (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-1-50-68, http://zenodo.org/record/11362219
Nicella laxa Whitelegge 1897
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Nicella
Nicella laxa

description: Nicella laxa Whitelegge, 1897
Nicella laxa Whitelegge, 1897: 318, pl. 17, fig. 30–33 (Funafuti).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Kumar et al. 2014a: 32, pl. 13, fig.A–D (Twin Islands); Fernando et al. 2017: 296, pl. 139, fig. A–D (Twin Islands).
Literature analysis: This species was established for a specimen from Funafuti in the Central West Pacific. It has been synonymised with Scirpearia dichotoma Gray and Nicella mauritiana Gray, but is currently accepted as a valid species. Whitelegge only presented three rudimentary sclerites drawings, and as the holotype has never been redescribed, the exact details of the sclerites are unknown. But Whitelegge did record the double heads of the surface layer as being 0.05–0.07 mm long and the subsurface sclerites as “broad or narrow fusiform spindles, with rather obtusely pointed ends …some of which possess a transverse median constriction”, and as being 0.1–0.25 mm long. Grasshoff (1999) assigned material from New Caledonia to this species but recorded the surface sclerites as only 0.03–0.04 mm long and the subsurface as only 0.07–0.09 mm long, and there is only the slightest hint of a median constriction in a few of the figured sclerites.
The publications of Kumar et al. (2014a) and Fernando et al. (2017) present identical accounts and state that there is a “subsurface layer of flattened rods or spindles generally without a distinct waist” that can be “two to four times the length of the double heads”. But their figure shows subsurface sclerites that are not flattened, that have a distinct waist, that are only about twice the length of the surface sclerites, and that just have a few girdles of tubercles, quite unlike those figured by Whitelegge. It seems much more likely the Indian material is a species of Verrucella. Kumar et al. (2015) just lists the species and figure the colony from the 2014 and 2017 papers above. Kumar et al. (2018a) just lists the species.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Cymatoderella morula Rifkind 1993
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatoderella
Cymatoderella morula

description: Cymatoderella morula Rifkind, 1993
Type locality: Mexico, Oaxaca, Sierra de Miahuatlán. Type depository: California Academy of Science Collection (CASC).
Material examined: PARATYPES: 1 male: Mexico, Oaxaca, Sierra de Miahuatlán, 5500’, Highway 175 10 km S of Miahuatlán, 5-VII-1989, E. Barchert, A. Evans, J. Rifkind, on dry oak forest; 1 male: Honduras, vic. L. Yojoa, Montaña de Pozo Azul, 28-V-1979, E. Giesbert. OTHER MATERIAL: 1 male: Guatemala, departamento de Alta Verapaz, 57 km N of El Rancho, on new Cobán highway, 30-V- 1973, 1463 m, W. Opitz; 1 female: Nicaragua, Granada, Reserva Natural Volcan Mombacho, 11° 50’ 04” N, 85° 58’ 48” W 1100 m, 19-V-2000, Smith, Ocampo, Cave, Cordero, m. v. light.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Is how you say it more important than what you say?
Creators: name: Berger, Marci Susan Reiss
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Framing an issue often sets the parameters of any public policy debate, including healthcare, and Issue Framing may predetermine the outcome.  Can Issue Framing explain why New Jersey, a traditionally activist state, played a leading role on Stem Cell Research while lagging behind on Needle Exchange programs?  It is hypothesized that Issue Framing will play a large role in explaining this legislative dichotomy. This hypothesis was found to be partially correct after analyzing both primary and secondary sources.  Issue Framing was found to play a role in the debate phase of the policy process, but other factors also contributed to the different paths of Needle Exchange and Stem Cell Research in New Jersey.
Repetition, alignment, and curvature
Creators: name: Barks, Alicia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This project considers repetition as both individual action and accumulated force.  Thinking of repetition in this way means finding ourselves, with each repeated action,  between the force of what we have done and the potential of what we can yet do. From  this position, the project will, first, explore how previous repetition creates inertia toward  future action. Second, it will explore the possibility of ongoing negotiation of this inertia  in a way that allows some indeterminacy to exist for our future actions (which is also to  say our future identities). The first chapter considers how it is that repetitions compress over time into habit  and how this compression allows past actions to be made useful for present and future  action. The chapter will challenge the understanding of habit as a static position, or place  of stagnation, for the body and instead address it as a necessary process. It will account  for the formation of habits as well as their effects (effects that include the creation of our  identities and placement into categories).  That our actions, reactions, and repetitions occur in a context of prescriptive (if  not coercive) forces is addressed in the second chapter, specifically through technique of  ii  discipline and the effects of normalization. The second chapter addresses the disciplinary  techniques employed to move bodies toward a particular, recognizable form and to value  bodies relative to their distance from this form, and their distance from other bodies. Through Michel Foucault and Sara Ahmed, pressures of normalization are discussed in  terms of pressure on the body to align with other bodies, and extended to the example of  femininity.  Retaining the terms of straightness and alignment, the third chapter will consider  curvature as a departure that may be painful and punishable but which has the potential to  open new possibilities of action for the future. It provides a way of relating to our own  inevitable repetitions and forces that seek to direct those repetitions.
title: A jurisprudential analysis of the Canadian defence of voluntary intoxication
Creators: name: Lutz, Makenna
Publisher: name: Mount Royal University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04evsam41
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Voluntary intoxication
Intoxication defence
Automatism
Criminal code s. 33.1

description: The jurisprudence following the defence of voluntary intoxication has remained a controversial topic within the legal system. This thesis evaluates the prominent landmark cases that have shaped the present voluntary intoxication defence and s. 33.1 of the Criminal Code. This Criminal Code section bars the use of the intoxication defence while under extreme intoxication in cases involving harm towards the bodily integrity of another. Section 33.1 has yet to be revisited in the past 20 years. Included in this thesis is the analysis of each precedented case and the majority and dissenting decisions presented by the Supreme Court of Canada. Drawing on case law from both the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, this thesis is a semi-comprehensive historical timeline of the jurisprudence surrounding the defence. While there are compelling arguments for both the constitutionality and unconstitutionality of s. 33.1, the Supreme Court of Canada has yet to conclude on the long-standing legislation. The Supreme Court will decide on the controversial topic in the upcoming months in an amalgamated hearing of R v Sullivan [2020] and in the case of Thomas Chan. This thesis includes a discussion of possible Supreme Court outcomes for the defence and Criminal Code s. 33.1.
Apaf-1 is a Transcriptional Target for the ZNF217 Oncogene
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The ZNF217 oncogene is amplified and over-expressed in 20-30% of early stage breast tumors, and it appears to play a key role during early transformation of normal human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC). Research with ZNF217 has shown that inserting this oncogene into HMEC will allow them to grow indefinitely and immortalize. In addition, preliminary data from our lab and collaborators, suggests ZNF217 protects breast tumor cells from cell death upon doxorubicin treatment. Such chemotherapeutic agents, used in advanced stages of cancer, cause DNA double-stranded breaks that trigger cell death pathways leading to elimination of the tumor cell. We hypothesize that ZNF217 prevents the execution of the cell death pathways, both early in the immortalization process and later, at malignant stages of tumor progression, allowing abnormal cells to survive.

 Based on its protein structure, it is likely that ZNF217 is a DNA-binding protein and acts at specific DNA sites in promoter regions, along with other proteins, in a transcription regulatory complex. Our recent data suggests ZNF217 binds to and represses the Apaf-1 (apoptotic protease-activating factor-1) promoter, which would otherwise trigger cell death pathways. We are now performing additional analyses using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays to identify other promoters regulated by ZNF217. We are also characterizing ZNF217-regulated promoters to determine if ZNF217 contributes to neoplastic transformation by causing changes in chromosomal structure.

 Identifying ZNF217 target genes and characterizing how ZNF217 functions to regulate genes such as Apaf-1 will facilitate the design of drugs to make chemotherapy more effective.
Protective role of polysaccharide from the roots of Millettia speciosa Champ in mice with ulcerative colitis induced by dextran sulphate sodium
Creators: name: Lu, Yanfei
name: Wu, Rihui
name: Liu, Jiaquan
name: Huang, Jinwen
name: Liu, Qiu
name: Yao, Min
name: Wu, Jingyu
name: Ye, Jiming
name: Li, Dongli
name: Gan, Lishe
name: Jin, Jingwei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: This study investigated the therapeutic mechanism of Millettia Speciosa Champ. polysaccharide (MSCP), also known as Niu Dali polysaccharide, in treating ulcerative colitis (UC) using a dextran sulphate sodium (DSS) induced colitis model in C57BL/6 mice. Mice were randomly assigned to four groups: control, DSS model, and low- and high-dose MSCP treatment groups (50, 100 mg/kg/day, respectively). MSCP administration began concurrently with DSS induction. Throughout the intervention, changes in body weight and disease activity index were monitored. On day 44, colonic tissues were collected for analysis after measuring their lengths. Results demonstrated that MSCP effectively ameliorated DSS-induced chronic colitis by suppressing proinflammatory cytokine secretion, enhancing anti-inflammatory cytokine production, restoring intestinal epithelial barrier integrity, and downregulating TLR4 expression.
Calcinus gaimardii
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Diogenidae
Calcinus
Calcinus gaimardii

description: Calcinus gaimardii (H. Milne Edwards, 1848)
(Fig. 4C)
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 6, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
Epigenetic effects of fetal alcohol exposure on hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin gene
Creators: name: Bekdash, Rola Aldana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Hypothalamic POMC neurons, one of the major regulators of the HPA axis, immune functions, and energy homeostasis, are vulnerable to the adverse effects of fetal alcohol exposure (FAE) exhibiting a significant decrease in POMC gene expression and functions in the arcuate area of the hypothalamus of adult offspring.  This permanent deficit in gene expression could be caused by epigenetic mechanisms such as histone modifications and DNA methylation induced by alcohol exposure during critical period of development.  We found that FAE decreased significantly the protein and mRNA levels of histone-modifying enzymes that methylate H3K4me2,3 (Set7/9), acetylate H3K9 (CBP) or phosphorylate H3S10. These are activation marks that correlate with gene expression. FAE significantly increased the protein levels and gene expression of G9a and Setdb1 that methylate the repressive mark H3K9me2 in β-endorphin-producing POMC neurons of adult offspring. These changes were associated with increased levels of the DNA-methyltranferase Dnmt1 and the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 MeCP2 but not Dnmt3a.  Microarray analysis confirmed that alcohol exposure modulated the gene expression profile of the epigenetic machinery in LCM-captured POMC neurons. ChIP assay revealed a significant reduction in the activation mark H3K4me3 along Exon 3 of POMC gene in alcohol-exposed rats associated with no change in the repressive mark H3K9me2 in Exon 3 and promoter region of POMC gene. We then examined whether gestational choline supplementation, a major methyl donor, could mitigate alcohol adverse effects on POMC neurons.  Gestational choline normalized in alcohol-exposed rats the methylation of H3K4 and H3K9 with no significant effect on other histone marks such as acetylated H3K9 or phosphorylated H3S10. Similarly, gestational choline normalized the protein levels and gene expression of histone-modifying and DNA-methylating enzymes in POMC neurons.  This data correlated with normalization of POMC gene methylation, POMC gene expression and β-EP peptide production.  In conclusion, these studies demonstrate that FAE induces long-lasting epigenetic modifications of POMC gene in the hypothalamus by altering histone marks and methylation state along POMC gene. The hypermethylation state of POMC gene might be a cause for induction of lower β-endorphin activity and its inhibitory regulation of stress axis function in the adult offspring.
Preventing and diagnosing software upgrade failures
Creators: name: Bachwani, Rekha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Modern software systems are complex and comprise many interacting and dependent  components.  Frequent upgrades are required to fix bugs, patch security  vulnerabilities, and add or remove features.  Unfortunately, many upgrades  either fail or produce undesired behavior resulting in service disruption, user  dissatisfaction, and/or monetary loss.  To make matters worse, when upgrades  fail or misbehave, developers are given limited (and often unstructured)  information to pinpoint and correct the problems. In this dissertation, we propose two systems to improve the management of  software upgrades.  Both systems rely on environment information and dynamic  execution data collected from users who have previously upgraded the software.  The first (called Mojave) is an upgrade recommendation system that informs a  user who intends to upgrade the software about whether the upgrade is likely to  succeed.  Regardless of Mojave's recommendation, if the user decides to  upgrade and it fails, our second system (called Sahara) comes into play.  Sahara is a failed upgrade debugging system that identifies a small subset of  routines that are likely to contain the root cause of the failure.  We evaluate  both systems using several real upgrade failures with widely used software. Our  results demonstrate that our systems are very accurate in predicting upgrade  failures and identifying the likely culprits for upgrade failures.
Nicella magna Grasshoff 1999
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Nicella
Nicella magna

description: Nicella magna Grasshoff, 1999
Nicella magna Grasshoff, 1999: 84, fig. 141c, 142–143 (New Caledonia).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Fernando 2011: 127–128, pl. 90, fig. 1–1d (Cuddalore); Fernando et al. 2017: 298, pl. 140, fig. 1– 1d (Cuddalore).
Literature analysis: The descriptions of the Indian material, under the species name Nicella magma (sic), by Fernando (2011) and Fernando et al. (2017) are identical and state that the colony “is in complete agreement with the description of the recently reported new species Nicella magna ”, but their material differs markedly to the holotype from New Caledonia described by Grasshoff. They state that the branching of their material is dichotomous, as is the holotype, whereas it is actually lateral, and in their sclerite figure the long spindles have pointed ends, a distinct waist and numerous girdles of tubercles, whereas those of the holotype have rounded ends, no waist and the tubercles are “loosely scattered”. In the text the authors state that these sclerites are 0.14 mm long (in the holotype they are 0.15 mm), but the scale in their figures shows the sclerites are over 0.2 mm long. This species is possibly endemic to New Caledonia.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Cymatoderella patagoniae Knull 1946
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatoderella
Cymatoderella patagoniae

description: Cymatoderella patagoniae (Knull, 1946)
Type locality: Arizona, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz Co. Type depository: The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH).
Material examined: PARATYPES: 18 males, 12 females: Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, VII-2–3, D. J. and J. N. Knull; 1 male, 1 female: Peloncillos Mountains, 33 mi E of Douglas, Arizona, 17-VII-1973, S. McCleve. OTHER MATERIAL: 2 males, 1 female: Mexico, Sonora, Highways 15, 12 mi N of Hermosillo, 14-VIII-1965, G. H. Nelson, on Olneya tesota Gray; 1 male: Mexico, Jalisco, 22 km SW Llano Grande, 270 m, 28-VI-1995, R. L. Westcott.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Labidura riparia
Creators: name: Ostrovsky, A. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Dermaptera
Labiduridae
Labidura
Labidura riparia

description: Labidura riparia (Pallas, 1773) — Уховёртка прибрежная
МатериаΛ. РеспубΛика БеΛарусь, ГомеΛьская обΛ., г. ГомеΛь, ЦПКО, на пΛитах набережной р. Сож, 01.08.2016, 1♂, 2♀; там же, 28.08.2016, 2♀; там же, 02.09.2016, 6♂, 13♀, 1 нимфа; там же, 12.09.2017, 2♂; там же, 24.07.2018, 1♂; В окр. г. ГомеΛь, поΑ укрытием на песках в пойме р. Ипуть, 14.06.2017, 1 нимфа; ГомеΛьский р-н, окр. Α. Уза, песчаный карьер, поΑ укрытием, 12.08.2017, 1 нимфа; там же, 10.09.2017, 1♂.
Замечания. КосмопоΛит. Геобионт. Встречается по песчаным и супесчаным берегам воΑоёмов, нереΑко образуя скопΛения по 5–10 экземпΛяров поΑ оΑним укрытием. Сапрофаг, скΛонный к хищничеству.
description: Published as part of Ostrovsky, A. M., 2023, Terrestrial Orthopteroid insects (Insecta, Orthopteroidea) of South-Eastern Belarus, pp. 50-68 in Amurian Zoological Journal XV (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-1-50-68, http://zenodo.org/record/11362219
Developed and vacant land (Piscataway) derived from TIGER and LANDSAT TM: Map
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1994

description: Comparison map (Piscataway) of developed and vacant land derived from TIGER and LANDSAT TM; the determination of the amounts of developed land can vary when LANDSAT TM data and the TIGER data are combined, and/or when different housing unit density thresholds are used.
Nicella pustulosa Thomson & Simpson 1909
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Nicella
Nicella pustulosa

description: Nicella pustulosa Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Nicella pustulosa Thomson & Simpson, 1909: 267–268, pl. 5, fig. 6; pl. 8, fig. 11 (Laccadives; Andamans).
Opinion: This species does occur in the region but its true identity is unknown.
Justification:
Literature analysis: Kükenthal (1924) synonymised this species, using a question mark, with Phenilia sanguinolenta Gray, 1859, but the redescription of that species given by Bayer & Grasshoff (1994: 39) clearly shows that it is very different from Nicella pustulosa. It is more likely that the species belongs in the genus Verrucella, but some of the sclerites illustrated by Thomson & Simpson are quite unusual, so the actual genus represented by Thomson and Simpsons’ material remains unknown. Rao & Devi (2003) just list the species.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Unveiling the therapeutic potential of neem flower: a phytochemical study for antidiabetic and anticancer properties
Creators: name: Jadhav, Vibhavari P.
name: Suryawanshi, Yogeshwar R.
name: Parameswaran, Sujatha
name: Wankhede, Nilesh N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: The study explores the medicinal properties of neem blossoms, highlighting their potential as less harmful and more beneficial than other plant parts, while also analysing extraction solvent effects. The Soxhlet extraction method was employed to extract phytochemicals using solvents based on their polarity, including chloroform, ethyl acetate, ethanol, and methanol. The study analysed four extracts for antidiabetic and anticancer properties. The ethanolic extract was found to be most effective against diabetes and cancer cells. It can actively inhibit the activity of (dipeptidyl peptidase 4) DPP-IV which leads to the decrease in sugar levels by increased activity of incretins. Similarly, extracts have shown good anticancer activity in [3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazolyl-2)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide)] MTT assay. Among all extract studied ethanolic extract proved as the most active extract and was further qualitatively studied by using High-resolution mass spectra to analyse the chemical composition of the neem flower. 33 different compounds were identified from the most active extract of Azadirachta Indica.
Developed and vacant land  (Essex Fells) derived from TIGER and LANDSAT TM: Map
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1994

description: Comparison map (Essex Fells) of developed and vacant land derived from TIGER and LANDSAT TM; the determination of the amounts of developed land can vary when LANDSAT TM data and the TIGER data are combined, and/or when different housing unit density thresholds are used.
Verrucella balasubramaniani Fernando 2011
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Verrucella
Verrucella balasubramaniani

description: Verrucella balasubramaniani Fernando, 2011 (species status uncertain)
Verrucella balasubramaniani Fernando, 2011: 115–116, pl. 74, fig. 1–1d (SE coast between Puducherry and Cuddalore); Fernando et al. 2017: 258, pl. 120, fig. 1–1d (SE coast between Puducherry and Cuddalore).
Opinion: This species does occur in the region.
Justification:
Literature analysis: The descriptions of the Indian material by Fernando (2011) and Fernando et al. (2017) are identical. A more detailed report on the sclerites is necessary but the dense bushy colony form would seem to be a distinguishing character except for the fact that a colony with similar growth form is figured in the description of V. umbraculam by Fernando (2011; pl. 83, fig. 1j) and Fernando et al. (2017; pl. 132, fig. 1j.).
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327