cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enterohepatic nuclear receptor signaling during pregnancy
Creators: name: Moscovitz, Jamie Esther
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Physiological adaptations to the intestine-liver axis during pregnancy alter the disposition of xenobiotics and endobiotics. As a result, some pregnant women experience decreased efficacy or adverse reactions to prescription medications (xenobiotic effect), while others may become susceptible to cholestatic liver disease due to enhanced bile acid levels (endobiotic effect). The purpose of this dissertation research was to characterize molecular adaptations in enterohepatic nuclear receptor signaling and downstream bile acid and xenobiotic disposition pathways that can occur during late pregnancy. In ilea collected from mice in late gestation, an overall down-regulation of Farnesoid X Receptor (Fxr/Nr1h4) and Pregnane X Receptor (Pxr/Nr1i2) signaling, including target enzyme and transporter expression, was observed. To explore potential mechanisms, the ability of candidate sex hormones to alter the expression of enzyme and transport genes regulated by FXR and PXR were studied in human intestinal cells. In vitro studies suggest a prominent role for progesterone-mediated interference with PXR signaling in the intestine during pregnancy that could contribute to altered xenobiotic transport. Further assessment of the ability of activated Fxr to modulate hepatic and intestinal regulation of bile acid synthesis and transport pathways during pregnancy was investigated in mice. Treatment of pregnant mice with the specific Fxr agonist GW4064 restored the expression of bile acid synthesis enzymes and transporters towards levels typically observed in virgin mice. This study provides the molecular basis for a novel approach to restore bile acid homeostasis in patients with maternal cholestasis. Finally, loss-of-function studies in pregnant Fxr-null mice revealed that deficiency in the Fxr gene prevents pregnancy-mediated repression of key bile acid regulatory factors and transporters, largely in the intestines. Taken together, these data advance our understanding of alterations in chemical disposition during pregnancy, and the overall â€œprocholestaticâ€  state of pregnancy that sensitizes women to acquiring liver disease.
Investigation of electrodeposited cuprous oxide thin films
Creators: name: Mortensen, Emma L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation focuses on improvements to electrodeposited cuprous oxide as a candidate for the absorber layer for a thin film solar cell that could be integrated into a mechanical solar cell stack. Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is an earth abundant material that has a bandgap of ~2 eV with absorption coefficients around 102-106 cm-1. This bandgap is not optimized for use as a single-junction solar cell, but could be ideal for use in a tandem solar cell device. The theoretical efficiency of a material with a bandgap of 2.0 eV is 20%. The greatest actual efficiency that has been achieved for a Cu2O solar cell is only 8.1%. For the present work the primary focus has been on improving the microstructure of the absorber layer film. The Cu2O films were fabricated using electrodeposition. A seeding layer was developed using gold (Au); which was manipulated into nano-islands and used as the substrate for the Cu2O electrodeposition. The films were characterized and compared to determine the growth mechanism of each film using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to establish and compare the chemical phases that were present in each of the films. The crystal structure of the Cu2O film grown on gold was explored using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and this helped confirm the effect that the gold had on the growth of Cu2O. The Tauc method was then used to determine the bandgap of the films of Cu2O grown on both substrates and this showed that the Au based Cu2O film was a superior film. Electrical tests were also completed using a solar simulator and this established that the film grown on gold exhibited photoconductivity that was not seen on the film without gold. In addition, for this thesis, a method for depositing an n-type Cu2O film, based on a Cu-metal solution-boiling process, was investigated. Three forms of copper were tested: a sheet of copper, electrodeposited copper, and sputtered copper. The chemical phases were observed using XRD, microstructure was examined using SEM, and the electrical properties were tested using a hot probe test. The sputtered copper turned out to be the most stable film so it was used as the n-type in a homojunction solar cell with the p-type electrodeposited Cu2O. Recommendations for future experimentation with Cu2O film development, to improve upon the films and our understanding of the material are included.
Aphaniops stoliczkanus
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Cyprinodontidae
Aphaniops
Aphaniops stoliczkanus

description: 42. Aphaniops stoliczkanus (Day, 1872) ―Arabian Killifish, Arabian Tooth-carp― Native
Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinodon stoliczkanus Day, 1872:258 [from a stream at the village Joorun and along edge of the Rann River, Lodai, India, 22°30’N, 69°20’E; Syntypes: (28) AMS B.7730-31 (2), BMNH 1889.2.1.2065-2074 (orig. 21), ZSI 1477-78 (1, 1)].
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Saudi Arabia, Oman, and UAE by Freyhof et al. (2017), Freyhof et al. (2020), Esmaeili et al. (2022), and Zarei et al. (2023).
General distribution. Middle East, South Asia: Oman and Persian Gulf east to Pakistan and Gujarat (India). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Widely distributed in the coastal area of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE.
Economic importance. No commercial importance. It has potential to be used as aquarium fish.
Conservation. Least Concern (LC).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Stress parallels in modern OT
Creators: name: McManus, Hope Eliza
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Year: 2016

description: A phonological typology for stress consists of a set of stress patterns that displays contrasts along distributional features of stress. In this dissertation, I argue that OT typologies, modeling stress, are characterized by families of parallel properties that fully regulate these contrasts. Empirically, this analysis unveils significant, pervasive relationships across stress patterns that have not been identified previously.    The 'property' (Alber and Prince 2016) is the fundamental unit of analysis of the OT typology: It classifies languages both grammatically, in terms of ranking conditions called 'values', and phonologically, because a property value realizes a phonological 'trait' that all forms of the language must comply with.    Property families classify languages of independent OT typologies into the same classes. Across typologies, a single phonological contrast has multiple reflexes. The consequence is that languages of the same class share aspects of their grammar, correlated with the same kind of formal, extensional effects. This is the case, despite the fact that languages of the same class do not necessarily share any forms.    To highlight the scope of this result, a single property family predicts that the following contrasts are equivalent: whether a language parses every syllable into a foot, whether a language is fully quantity-sensitive, requiring stress on every 'Heavy' syllable, whether a language is 'default-to-opposite' for the positioning main stress.
Gambusia holbrooki Girard 1859
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Gambusia
Gambusia holbrooki

description: 43. Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 ―Eastern Mosquitofish― Exotic
Taxonomy. Original description: Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859:62 [Palatka, eastern Florida, (Palatka, eastern Florida and Charleston, South Carolina), U.S.A.; Lectotype: ANSP 6976]. Synonyms: Haplochilus melanops Cope, 1870; Gambusia modesta Ahl, 1923; Gambusia myersi Ahl, 1925.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First record from Saudi Arabia by Al-Kahem-Al-Balawi et al. (2008); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020).
General distribution. North America: Atlantic and Gulf Coast drainages, eastern U.S.A.; widely introduced elsewhere for mosquito control. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia: Al-Ahsa Oasis as well as the adjacent Al-Asfar Lake in the eastern province. Also, in Wadi Hanifah in Riyadh province, Al-Kharj and Layla Lake.
Economic importance. No commercial importance. It can be used to control mosquito population.
Reasons of introduction. Biological control of mosquito.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Organizing collective intimacy
Creators: name: Meunier, Etienne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In the years after the onset of the AIDS pandemic, New York State outlawed sexual activity in commercial venues, leading to the gradual closure of most of the bathhouses, sex clubs, and adult theaters where gay men had been having sex in New York City (NYC) for decades. Indirectly, these restrictive interventions led to the proliferation of underground sex clubs, which have become the main institution for gay group sex in NYC today. This study wants to understand what type of social and sexual practices take shape in the context of clandestine sex clubs. To do so, this dissertation provides a history of gay cruising, a review of the empirical literature on gay public sex, ethnographic data describing the organization of NYC's private sex clubs and their norms of interaction, and data from in-depth interviews with sex-party-goers. Past research on gay cruising emphasized its anonymous and impersonal aspects, but this study found private sex clubs to be the site of what I call collective intimacy. By practicing collective intimacy, sex-party-goers break the traditional boundaries between sex, intimacy, and sociability. The organization and environment of private sex clubs foster collective intimacy by putting groups of gay men together in places where they must share close physical intimacy and where repeat encounters are likely. Instead of disrupting sexual networks, restrictive interventions had instead created a context of clandestinity in which sex-party-goers are more closely connected to one another. Practices of collective intimacy are likely to be present in the future because they answer a growing need for sexual recreation and for flexible intimate and social relations.
Submission to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for matching funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of Spring Lake diagnostic/feasibility study; phase I proposal for the Clean Lakes Project, Spring Lake Borough, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1998

description: This proposal for funding was submitted to the state DEP for matching funding from U.S.Environmental Protection Agency to conduct the phase I diagnostic/feasibility study for restoration of Spring Lake. The document contains submission paperwork along with an introduction, scope of work, project costs, project schedule, and literature cited.
Final report- Manahawkin Lake rehabilitation project, phase II; A. Paul King County Park Manahawkin, New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1995

description: This final report describes the phase II rehabilitation project for Manahawkin Lake. The project entailed a sediment dredging project and creation of sediment holding basins. Monitoring results that followed the project showed satisfactory results in terms of improved water quality. The report also includes the phase II application.
Reuteria marqueti Puton 1875
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Reuteria
Reuteria marqueti

description: Reuteria marqueti Puton, 1875
See Çerçi et al. (2020).
Subfamily Mirinae Hahn, 1833
Genus Mermitelocerus Reuter, 1908
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 11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Poecilia latipinna
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Poecilia
Poecilia latipinna

description: 44. Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821) ―Sailfin Molly― Exotic
Taxonomy. Original description: Mollienesia tipinna Lesueur, 1821:3, pl. 3 [from freshwater ponds in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Lectotype: MNHN B-0929]. Synonyms: Poecilia lineolata Girard, 1858; Limia matamorensis Girard, 1859; Poecilia multilineata Lesueur, 1821; Limia poeciloides Girard, 1858.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman by Al-Kahem-Al-Balawi et al. (2008), Freyhof et al. (2020), Al Jufaili & Jawad, (2020), and Esmaeili et al. (2022).
General distribution. North America: southeastern U.S.A. south to Tuxpan (Veracruz, Mexico); introduced widely elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia: Al-Ahsa Oasis as well as the adjacent Al-Asfar Lake, Wadi Hanifah in province, Al-Kharj and Layla Lake south of Riyadh, Al-Qatif Oasis and Anik drainage in eastern province. Bahrain: (Adhair Park). Oman: Al Bahayes and Al-Amarat (Al Amirat), Muscat Governorate.
Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.
Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
The presence of particulate material and comparative toxicity of crude oil in finfish from the northern Gulf of Mexico
Creators: name: Millemann, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DHOS) was an unprecedented event causing the release of 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the northern Gulf of Mexico on April 20th, 2010. This spill occurred at a depth of 1500 m approximately 66 km offshore. The unique nature of the spill caused potential exposure scenarios to major coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico including wetland habitats, benthic reefs, the air-sea interface, and pelagic zones between the leaking wellhead and the coast. In the aftermath of large disasters such as the DHOS, the main question that is asked is, "What are the long term impacts to the natural resources and habitats affected?"  One such resource, the economically and ecologically important filter-feeding species Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus), was the primary species of concern in this dissertation. Menhaden play a key role in the transfer of energy up the food chain and serve as an important forage species for many secondary and tertiary consumers. It was hypothesized that Gulf menhaden exposed to crude oil will show lesions in the gills and heart representative of acute and chronic exposures, based on the time of collection and exposure scenario. Additional studies examined the role of particulates in the toxicity of crude oil, as well as comparative evaluation of the sensitivity of menhaden and differences in target organ/phenotype of fish species that inhabit similar habitats. We found that there was evidence of crude oil exposure to Gulf menhaden based on gill, stomach, and heart lesions in the years following the spill as well as an increase in whole fish tissue polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations relative to a reference sample. Particulates with strong PAH signatures were also found in the hearts of the collected fish; however, our additional studies show that penetration of particulate material into the vasculature of selected fish is not likely due solely to particle exposures. Gulf menhaden were also shown to be more sensitive to crude oil exposures than Florida pompano. In our experiments, craniofacial neuromast cells and olfactory lamellae were severely impaired in exposed Gulf menhaden while pompano displayed a much higher prevalence of secondary gill lamellar adhesion as a result of the exposures. This dissertation highlights the importance of evaluating different species for their sensitivity to crude oil, the lesions present in fish exposed to crude oil, and also presents data on the ability of particulates to cross epithelial barriers. These findings may be relevant to both industrial particulate matter and micro plastics within the aquatic environment.
Mermitelocerus schmidtii
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Mermitelocerus
Mermitelocerus schmidtii

description: Mermitelocerus schmidtii (Fieber, 1836)
Comments
This European species was recorded from Turkey only by Reuter (1890), without any exact locality. Since this record, it has not been collected in Turkey, and it was not mentioned from Turkey by Kerzhner & Josifov (1999). Therefore, the presence of this species in Turkey should be confirmed. However, its presence in the eastern Black Sea region is not unlikely.
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 11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Very efficient approximation algorithms to edit distance problems
Creators: name: Naumovitz, Timothy Ryan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This thesis deals with the question of approximating distance to monotonicity in the streaming setting as well as the task of approximating the ulam distance between two permutations. Both of these problems are variants of the edit distance problem which, given two input sequences, is the minimum number of insertions and deletions (and in some cases, substitutions) needed to transform one sequence into the other. The distance to monotonicity of a sequence of n numbers is the minimum number of entries whose deletion leaves an increasing sequence. We give the first deterministic streaming algorithm that approximates the distance to monotonicity within a 1+ ε factor for any fixed ε > 0 and runs in space polylogarithmic in the length of the sequence and the range of the numbers. The best previous deterministic algorithm achieving the same approximation factor required space Ω(√ n) [13]. Previous polylogarithmic space algorithms were either randomized [22], or had approximation factor no better than 2 [9]. We also give polylogarithmic space lower bounds for this problem: Any deterministic streaming algorithm that gets a 1 + ε approximation requires space Ω( 1 ε log2 (n)) and any randomized algorithm requires space Ω( 1 ε log2 (n) log log(n) ). The Ulam distance between two permutations of length n is the minimum number of insertions and deletions needed to transform one sequence into the other. We provide an algorithm which, for any fixed ε > 0, gives a (1 + ε)-multiplicative approximation for the Ulam distance d in O˜ ε(n/d + √ n) time, which has been shown to be optimal up to polylogarithmic factors. This is the first sublinear time algorithm (provided that d = (log n) ω(1)) that obtains arbitrarily good multiplicative approximations to the Ulam distance. The previous best bound is an O(1)-approximation (with a large constant) by Andoni and Nguyen [4] with the same running time bound (ignoring polylogarithmic factors).
Investigation of fundamental growth mechanisms in pulsed laser deposition synthesis of nanostructured materials
Creators: name: Mozet, William Thomas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Studies are conducted to better understand growth mechanisms in pulsed laser deposition (PLD) synthesis of nanostructured materials, namely graphene and bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3).  For graphene, as the substrate temperature increases, the order of the film increases, from an amorphous carbon film to nanocrystalline graphite and few-layer graphene (FLG).  By using a high energy laser, the size and type of ablated species can be controlled to create films with smaller nanocrystalline domains.  PLD allows the thickness of the films to be directly controlled by the deposition duration.  Films can be grown on arbitrary substrates, unlike other methods which utilize surface chemistry.  Substrate morphology also affects the samples, with higher surface roughness leading to larger D/G and 2D/G ratios.  Polishing substrates prior to deposition can decrease these ratios by up to 15%.  Here, the type of carbon source has little impact on sample growth, except in atmospheric growth of graphene, which may not be an optimal condition because of energy loss of the carbon species.  In-situ plasma plume analysis is conducted to analyze the species being ablated from the target.  Ablated species consist primarily of C+ ions, with some neutral C and C2 species.  Ablated C+ ions are at temperatures as high as 12,000 K in vacuum and 10,000 K in 0.1 torr argon.  For bismuth telluride, optimal growth conditions are found for the stoichiometric transfer of Bi2Te3, which can vary from system to system.  In general, a deposition temperature of 200Â°C and a deposition pressure of 0.1 to 1.0 torr argon are required for stoichiometric transfer.  Using a high energy laser for ablation leads to smaller grain sizes in the nanostructured films.  In addition, using a nitrogen atmosphere instead of argon leads to increased gas-phase condensation prior to deposition, resulting in a highly featured surface.  When outside of the ideal pressure range, the substrate material can significantly affect the surface morphology of the sample, ranging from smooth films to nanoparticles and nanorods.  These morphologies affect the electrical properties of the material.  In general, the lowest electrical resistance came from films grown using 532 nm laser irradiation, which leads to larger grain sizes and more featured surfaces.  Films grown at slightly reduced pressure, which leads to more featured surfaces, are also low in electrical resistance.  These films also have large Seebeck coefficients, both of which lead to a higher thermoelectric figure of merit.
Design of peptide inhibitors for influenza a non-structural protein 1
Creators: name: Nosker, Patrick Leonard
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Influenza A is responsible for tens of thousands of annual fatalities in the United States. The conventional medical strategy relies on prevention of infection using vaccines where are mildly effective at best and require yearly updates to reflect the expected prevalent strains, and anti-viral drugs for which there is significant clinical resistance. With this in mind, the non-structural protein 1 of influenza A (NS1A) is an appropriate target with high conservation and a multitude of anti-immune effects. It features an array of high surface area interactions which may be targetable using peptides.    We are developing molecular design tools to reliably create short (<20 amino acid) molecules with half-life and stability sufficient for drug-like function. In this thesis, I will explore D-amino acid motifs for increasing stability of peptides in the ideal Trp-cage peptide system and implement designed motifs in peptides designed to target the NS1A protein. Finally, we will demonstrate inhibition of the NS1A protein using our designed peptides.
Poecilia reticulata Peters 1859
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Poecilia
Poecilia reticulata

description: 45. Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1859 ―Guppy― Exotic
Taxonomy. Original description: Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1859:412 [Guayre River, Caracas, Venezuela; Syntypes: BMNH 1866.6.6.3 [ex ZMB] (1); ZMB 3468 (9), 3469 (8, lost)]. Synonyms: Girardinus guppii Günther, 1866.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First record from Saudi Arabia by Al-Kahem-Al-Balawi et al. (2008); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020).
General distribution. Northern South America: coastal drainages between the Orinoco delta (Venezuela) and the Essequibo River delta, Guyana, Venezuelan Islands, the Netherlands Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago; widely introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia: Wadi Hanifah in Riyadh province, Al-Kharj and Layla Lake south of Riyadh, and Al-Ahsa Oasis, Anik drainage in eastern province.
Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.
Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on pages 218-219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes 1846
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Poecilia
Poecilia sphenops

description: 46. Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes, 1846 ―Mexican Molly― Exotic
Taxonomy. Original description: Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes, 1846:130, Pl. 525-526, bottom [Veracruz, Mexico; Lectotype: MNHN B-0930]. Synonyms: Poecilia s pilurus Günther, 1866.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First record from Saudi Arabia, and UAE by Al-Kahem-Al-Balawi et al. (2008) and Freyhof et al. (2020), respectively.
General distribution. Both slopes of southern North America and central America: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Introduced in Tobago, Society Islands and elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia: Al-Ahsa Oasis and adjacent Al Asfar Lake in eastern province, coastal wetlands in Salwa, north of Qatif and south of Jubail. UAE: Ruwayyah.
Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.
Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Miris striatus
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Miris
Miris striatus

description: Miris striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Comments
This European species was recorded from Turkey only by Reuter (1896), without exact locality. It has not been reported from Turkey since then and its presence in Turkey should be confirmed.
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 12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Xiphophorus maculatus
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
name: Hamidan, Neshat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Xiphophorus
Xiphophorus maculatus

description: 47. Xiphophorus maculatus (Günther, 1866) ―Platy, Southern Platyfish― Exotic
Taxonomy. Original description: Platypoecilus maculatus Günther, 1866:350 [Mexico (Central America); Syntypes: BMNH 1857.7.31.11-12 (2)]. Synonyms: Platypoecilus nigra Brind, 1914; Platypoecilus maculatus var. nigra Gerlach, 1912; Platypoecilus maculatus var. pulchra Schreitmüller, 1910; Platypoecilus rubra Stansch, 1914.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First record from Saudi Arabia by Al-Kahem-Al-Balawi et al. (2008); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020).
General distribution. Southern North America and central America: Atlantic slope of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala; introduced widely elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia: Wadi Hanifah near Riyadh; Al- Kharj and Layla Lake south of Riyadh; Al-Ahsa Oasis in eastern province.
Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.
Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
description: Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316
Domain-specific differences between alpha- and beta-synuclein serve as a threshold for fibril formation in combination with changes in environmental conditions
Creators: name: Olson, Michael P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Alpha-synuclein (asyn) is a 140 amino acid intrinsically disordered protein that is known to form fibrils found in patients with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Beta-synuclein (bsyn) is a homolog of asyn, but is not known to form fibrils and is an inhibitor of asyn aggregation under physiological conditions. Both proteins can be divided into three domains with distinct properties: N-terminal, NAC, and C-terminal. By combining domains of asyn and bsyn to form chimera structures and analyzing them through a combination of Thioflavin T binding assays, NMR, AFM, and computational studies of each expected fibril state, this study will show that chimeras with a bsyn NAC region require a reduction in pH to form fibrils, while asyn NAC chimeras are more similar to asyn in their aggregation behavior and possibly energetics within the fibril state. The regions flanking the NAC seemed to be able to regulate aggregation, where certain combinations were more inhibiting of aggregation (asyn N-terminal with bsyn C-terminal), while one combination may have actually accelerated aggregation (bsyn N-terminal with asyn C-terminal) relative to asyn. Computational studies made clear that the bsyn NAC proteins must have a different fibrillar structure than asyn, and a combination of NMR chemical shift data and energies determined from computation supported the idea that some allosteric effects may influence a possibly crucial region in the chimeras (residues ~55 to 60). This study provided more information as to how a protein like bsyn can possibly overcome the influence of inhibiting regions under non-physiological conditions to form fibrils and indicates that utilizing the properties of bsyn's C-terminal domain can lead to the proposal of especially effective inhibitors of asyn aggregation.
Verzeichnis Testverfahren: Teil (3): Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Langnamen (29., aktualisierte Auflage 2023)
Creators: name: Leibniz-Institut Für Psychologie (ZPID)
Publisher: name: ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: PSYNDEX
subject: PSYNDEX Tests
subject: PSYTKOM
subject: Psychologie
subject: Pädagogik
subject: Psychologische Diagnostik
subject: Testverfahren
subject: Information
subject: Informationsdienste
subject: Informationssysteme
subject: 150

description: Das Verzeichnis Testverfahren weist die bereits dokumentierten Verfahren im Datenbanksegment PSYNDEX Tests der Datenbank PSYNDEX nach, die vom ZPID und anderen Datenbankhosts online angeboten wird. Die Nachweise umfassen Tests, Skalen, Fragebögen, apparative Testverfahren, Methoden der computergestützten Diagnostik und andere diagnostische Verfahren aus allen Bereichen der Psychologie, psychiatrische Skalen und Methoden sowie pädagogische Verfahren einschließlich Schulleistungstests; auch Adaptationen von amerikanischen, englischen und anderssprachigen Tests sowie zahlreiche informelle Forschungsinstrumente sind enthalten. Die derzeit vorliegende 29., aktualisierte Auflage mit Stand Januar 2023 benennt 8511 Testnachweise mit Test-Kurznamen (Testabkürzungen, Akronyme), Test-Langnamen (Titel eines Tests oder Verfahrens), Autoren, Jahr der Publikation und Dokumentennummer bzw. 3663 Testrezensionen zu 1634 Testverfahren. Anhand der Dokumentennummern kann auf die zum Teil umfassenden Beschreibungen zurückgegriffen werden. Das Testverzeichnis kann kostenfrei zum eigenen Gebrauch im PDF-Format heruntergeladen werden. - Inhalt: Einführung. (1) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Inhaltsbereichen. (2) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Kurznamen. (3) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Langnamen. (4) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Autoren. (5) Verzeichnis der Testrezensionen. (M.E. - ZPID)
The effects of incorporating community supported agriculture on the profitability of farms in the Northeastern U.S.
Creators: name: Oberstein, David Moses
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The number of farms in the United States has been in a constant decline for nearly ninety years, while simultaneously there have been increases in the average size of farms and in the total value of agricultural output.  While there are many causes of the decline of farms, there seem to be few solutions that help to maintain farm viability.  This is especially true of farms in the Northeastern U.S. which face different pressures and risks, particularly those associated with urbanization when compared to farms in other regions in the nation.     Previous studies have shown that direct marketing of agricultural products to consumers is one of the ways to enhance the profitability for farms.  This thesis explores that notion by examining a less well-researched direct marketing method known as community supported agriculture (CSA).  Specifically, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze whether there are meaningful profit differentials between direct market farms that incorporate CSA into their marketing mix and those that do not.  Respondent level data from the 2007 U.S. Census of Agriculture are analyzed to characterize the demographic, economic and structural features of direct market farms that incorporate CSA into their marketing mix.  The eleven states in the greater Northeast region of the U.S. provide the geographic context for the study.   The analysis showed that Northeast CSA farms tended to be small farms which more heavily depended on direct sales to consumers when compared to all U.S. farms.  CSA farms were also operated by younger principal operators who were more likely to be female. While looking at the raw data and characterizing farms based on averages was helpful, econometric modeling was used to gain a more accurate view of the effects of CSA incorporation on farm profitability.  An ordinary least squares model was estimated to explain the impact on a farmsâ€™ net cash income of having a CSA in the greater Northeast, while taking into account other factors that impact farm income such as demographic, organizational and socio-economic factors of farms and farmers.    The models revealed a statistically significant, positive effect for the inclusion of a CSA for farms operating in the large family farm category.  The results provide some evidence that large family farms in the Northeast could benefit from incorporating a CSA into their marketing mix.  Given the study limitations, continued research, perhaps using an expanded dataset or more recent data, could potentially corroborate and expand upon these results.
Myrmecoris gracilis
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Myrmecoris
Myrmecoris gracilis

description: Myrmecoris gracilis (R.F. Sahlberg, 1848)
Comments
This is a Sibero-European species that was recorded from Turkey, twice, by Yayla (1984) from Antalya and by Kıyak (2019) from Ankara. As discussed below, the record by Yayla (1984) was based on a misidentified specimen. Similarly, it is highly probable that the record by Kıyak (2019) too is based on the misidentification of a similar myrmecomorphic Heteroptera species. Therefore, this record needs confirmation.
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 12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Verzeichnis Testverfahren: Teil (4): Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Autor*innen (29., aktualisierte Auflage 2023)
Creators: name: Leibniz-Institut Für Psychologie (ZPID)
Publisher: name: ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: PSYNDEX
subject: PSYNDEX Tests
subject: PSYTKOM
subject: Psychologie
subject: Pädagogik
subject: Psychologische Diagnostik
subject: Testverfahren
subject: Information
subject: Informationsdienste
subject: Informationssysteme
subject: 150

description: Das Verzeichnis Testverfahren weist die bereits dokumentierten Verfahren im Datenbanksegment PSYNDEX Tests der Datenbank PSYNDEX nach, die vom ZPID und anderen Datenbankhosts online angeboten wird. Die Nachweise umfassen Tests, Skalen, Fragebögen, apparative Testverfahren, Methoden der computergestützten Diagnostik und andere diagnostische Verfahren aus allen Bereichen der Psychologie, psychiatrische Skalen und Methoden sowie pädagogische Verfahren einschließlich Schulleistungstests; auch Adaptationen von amerikanischen, englischen und anderssprachigen Tests sowie zahlreiche informelle Forschungsinstrumente sind enthalten. Die derzeit vorliegende 29., aktualisierte Auflage mit Stand Januar 2023 benennt 8511 Testnachweise mit Test-Kurznamen (Testabkürzungen, Akronyme), Test-Langnamen (Titel eines Tests oder Verfahrens), Autoren, Jahr der Publikation und Dokumentennummer bzw. 3663 Testrezensionen zu 1634 Testverfahren. Anhand der Dokumentennummern kann auf die zum Teil umfassenden Beschreibungen zurückgegriffen werden. Das Testverzeichnis kann kostenfrei zum eigenen Gebrauch im PDF-Format heruntergeladen werden. - Inhalt: Einführung. (1) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Inhaltsbereichen. (2) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Kurznamen. (3) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Langnamen. (4) Testverzeichnis geordnet nach Autoren. (5) Verzeichnis der Testrezensionen. (M.E. - ZPID)
Odontoplatys bidentulus
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Odontoplatys
Odontoplatys bidentulus

description: Odontoplatys bidentulus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842)
Comments
This species was recorded from Turkey by Önder (1976), based on specimens that were collected from Karabük and preserved in British Museum of Natural History. However, this species is distributed locally in Balkan Peninsula, and it is highly likely that these specimens belong to Odontoplatys suturalis (Jakovlev, 1883), a Ponto-Caucasian species that is widely distributed along the Black Sea costs of Turkey (Çerçi et al. 2022). Therefore, this record needs confirmation.
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 12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Exercise as a neurobehavioral therapy for cognitive control deficits in major depressive disorder
Creators: name: Olson, Ryan L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with a number of symptoms, including cognitive dysfunction and maladaptive ruminative thought patterns. Although consistent evidence indicates that aerobic exercise is beneficial for reducing depressive symptoms in MDD, little is known about the influence of exercise on neurocognitive deficits found in depression. This is important for establishing exercise as a neurobehavioral therapy for depression, that is, an intervention that addresses biological mechanisms believed to underlie the disorder. Here, we investigated whether the N2 and P3 components of the human event-related potential (ERP) could be used to index cognitive impairments in MDD, and whether these neurophysiological measures were correlated with ruminative thought patterns. Although there were no differences in P3 amplitude by depression status, N2 amplitudes were significantly reduced in individuals with MDD relative to healthy controls, indicating that reductions were associated with higher rumination levels. These findings demonstrate that individuals with MDD may experience impaired cognitive control while attending to varying environmental stimuli. Because of our findings related to impaired cognitive control processes, we examined the neurophysiological and behavioral correlates of cognitive control during single bouts of low- and moderate-intensity exercise in healthy young adults to determine if neurocognitive function is modifiable by aerobic exercise. Importantly, acute exercise was shown to modify these ERP components, such that increased N2 and P3 amplitudes were found during exercise at low and moderate intensities relative to rest. Although this study was performed in nondepressed participants, it suggests an upregulation of cognitive control during aerobic exercise that may be maintained through a program of chronic exercise. Finally, we examined the effects of a moderate-intensity aerobic exercise intervention performed three days/week for 8 weeks. The aerobic exercise condition exhibited enhanced cognitive control (i.e., N2 amplitude) and reduced depressive symptoms among individuals with MDD; however, these exercise-induced changes in cognitive control were not found to significantly mediate pre-to-post changes in symptom outcomes. These findings support the use of exercise as a neurobehavioral therapy for MDD and suggest the possibility of incorporating exercise as a stand alone or augmentation strategy for conventional treatments.
Picromerus nigridens
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Picromerus
Picromerus nigridens

description: Picromerus nigridens (Fabricius, 1803)
See Fent & Dursun (2022).
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 12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Camponotus pullatus Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Camponotus
Camponotus pullatus

description: C. pullatus n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 7.5 - 9 mm Nigra, opaca, mandibulis obscure castaneis, funiculis pedibusque fuscis, coxis atque tarsorum apicibus testaceis, segmentorum abdominalium marginibus distincte flavescentibus; caput, thorax et abdomen copiose pilisflavidis erectis vestita at sparse pubescentia, antennae tibiaeque absque pilis flbstantibus; caput et thorax subtilissiMe et densissime reticulato-punctata, abdomen vero subtilissime transverse ruguloso-striatum, pedes subtiliter coriaceo-rugulosi; thorax supra arcuatim convexus sine incisura inter mesonotum et meta-. notum; squama petiolaris ovalis, antice convexa, postice plana.
Aus Mexico, zwei Exemplare in meiner Sammlung von Herrn Dr. Sichel.
Diese Art steht mit C. rufipes Fabr. in naechster Verwandtschaft. Die allgemeinen Koerperumrisse sind ebenso wie bei C. sylvaticus, daher weniger staemmig und schmaeler in den einzelnen Theilen, als dies bei C. rufipes der Fall ¡st. In der Faerbung unterscheidet sie sich von dieser durch die schmutzig blassgelben Mittel- und Hinterhueften, durch die ebenso gefaerbte Endhaelfte der Vorderhueften, sowie durch die gleichmaessig braun gefaerbten Schenkel und Schienen. Der lappenartig' nach vorne gezogene, beim kleinen Arbeiter deutlich, beim grossen sehr undeutlich gekielte Clypeus ist in der Mitte nicht, wie bei C. rufipes, ausgerandet. Die Schuppe ist vorne deutlich staerker gewoelbt als bei C. rufipes und daher dicker. Die Sculptur des Kopfes, des Thorax, der Schuppe und der Beine ist so wie bei der brasilianischen Art eine sehr feine, sehr dichte fingerhutartige Punktirung, der Hinterleib aber zeigt eine aeusserst feine, aber scharfe, etwas runzlige Querstreifung, waehrend dieser bei C. rufipes fingerhutartig punktirt ist. Die Groesse der neuen Art ist etwas geringer, so wie der Fuehlerschaft und die Schienen nicht abstehend behaart sind, waehrend beide bei C. rufipes reichlich mit abstehenden langen Borstenhaaren bekleidet sind.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 1
Bauhinia malabarica Roxb.
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Subir
name: Pathak, Mithilesh Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Bauhinia
Bauhinia malabarica

description: Bauhinia malabarica Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832: 321. 1832.
Ξ Bauhinia malabarica Roxb., Hort. Bengal.: 31. 1814 [nom. nud.].
Ξ Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth. in Miq., Pl. Jungh.: 261. 1852.
Neotypus (designed here): INDIA: India Orientalis, 1813, Roxburgh s.n. (BM [BM001001035], arrow) (Fig. 1).
description: Published as part of Bandyopadhyay, Subir & Pathak, Mithilesh Kumar, 2013, Neotypification of Bauhinia malabarica Roxb. (Fabaceae), pp. 193-195 in Candollea 68 (2) on page 194, DOI: 10.15553/c2012v682a2, http://zenodo.org/record/6046095