cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phimenes Giordani Soika 1992
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Phimenes

description: Genus Phimenes Giordani Soika, 1992
Phimenes Giordani Soika 1992: 41, 66, replacement name for Phi de Saussure, 1855, nec de Saussure, 1854. Type species: Vespa arcuata Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation (Bequaert 1926: 487), as type species of Phi de Saussure, 1855. Phi de Saussure 1855: 132, 145, name for division IV of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1852: 63 (invalid homonym of Phi de Saussure, 1854). Type species: Vespa arcuata Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation (Bequaert 1926: 487). Phimenes: Girish Kumar 2013b: 120.
Diagnosis. Mandibles elongate, longer than length of clypeus. Clypeus little longer than wide, shallowly emarginate or widely truncate apically (Fig. 2). Cephalic foveae absent. Vertex narrow and sloping behind lateral ocelli. Thorax globular in shape, longer than wide. Anterior face of pronotum smooth and shiny without medial pits or foveae. Pronotal carina generally absent. Notauli absent. Epicnemial carina absent. Pretegular carina present. Tegula longer than wide, weakly emarginate posteriorly, posterior end not reaching end of parategula. Axillary fossa wide. Sutellum weakly convex. Metanotum not dentate. Propodeal dorsum below plane of metanotum, sloping posteroventrally. Superior carina absent. Propodeal orifice wide dorsally. Submarginal carina not produced as pointed/rounded process above valvula. Propodeal vuvlula not separated from submarginal carina. Metasoma petiolate (Fig. 65), petiole length 1.25 × or more than 1.25x length of mesosoma. T1 usually smooth, elongate (Fig. 65). S1 rather gradually widening towards apex, lateral margins of T1 not meeting ventrally usually visible along entire petiole length. T2 not petiolate at base. S2 not concave medially. T2 without apical lamella. Mid tibia with one apical spur. SMC2 basally acute. Prestigma longer than pterostigma (Fig. 58). ♂: F11 hooked, pointed apically and usually longer than preceding flagellomere (Fig. 9); F8 with a cavity on inner margin. Body length usually more than 20 mm.
Distribution. Australian and Oriental Regions.
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Orbital selective Mott transition in 3d and 5f materials
Creators: name: Toropova, Antonina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: We study two types of strongly correlated electron systems in the example of the transition oxide CrO2 and actinide series. We foundthat the physics of both types of materials can be interpreted and discussed using concept of orbital selective Mott transition (OSMT). The theory of OSMT is discussed in framework of themultiorbital Hubbard model applied to the description of t2g orbitals of Cr atoms in chromium dioxide as well as in the framework of a more generalized model for 5f materialscontaining both Hubbard-like and Anderson-like contributions.The electronic structure, transport, and magnetic properties of selected compounds are investigated by means of  Ab Initio calculations.  The many body techniques such as LDA+U anddynamical mean field theory (DMFT) have been used in addition to density functional based local density approximation (LDA) method.The half-metallic ferromagnet CrO2 has been shown to demonstrate effectively weakly correlated behavior in ordered state due to bigexchange splitting within t2g orbitals. The detailed DMFT study with Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) impurity solver revealed that in the paramagnetic state this compound was on the edge of a quantum transition.In the case of the actinide series we first demonstrated the choice of basis which optimum for DMFT based calculations. Bymeans of detailed one-electron band structure analysis we showed that hybridization term of 5f-orbitals with conduction electronsmust be included in the actinide Hamiltonian due to permanent presence of uncorrelated states at Fermi level. We conclude studyof 5f-materials presenting tight-binding parametrization and exploring magnetic characteristics.
Determination of sintering parameters for liquid phase sintering of silicon nitride
Creators: name: Theron, Claire
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The sintering parameters of silicon nitride were determined during the second stage of liquid phase sintering via interrupted sinter forging tests under compressive uniaxial load.The silicon nitride with an yttria-alumina rich secondary phase (Saint-Gobain composition NB D300) was submitted to seven level of stress (from 0.24MPa to 9.41MPa) at three different temperatures (1500°C, 1550°C and 1600°C) with continuous monitoring of the axial and longitudinal shrinkage during all experiments to directly obtain the sintering stress, Poisson's ratio and bulk viscosity.The sintering stress measured in the first 1.5 minutes after reaching temperature was 7.5MPa at 1500°C (~60% theoretical density), 21.5 MPa at 1550°C (~70% dense) and  11.5MPa at 1600°C (~80% dense). The bulk viscosity also peaks at the intermediate density at about 48GPas .This variation is largely attributed to the noticeable changes of microstructure during the second stage of liquid phase sintering, especially the overall pore size distribution as well as the degree to which the liquid phase is fully melted and partially or fully fills the smallest pores.The experimental data were then inserted into a numerical model developed by  Abouaf.  Proper fit of the model could not be obtained without considering the rearrangement stage of sintering.  Considering both the rearrangement and solution-precipitation stages of densification, it was possible   to determine the variation during sintering of different parameters that influences the liquid phase sintering and therefore the microstructure development.
Calyria stigma
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Calyria
Calyria stigma

description: Calyria stigma (Walker, 1850). New record.
Cicada stigma Walker 1850: 167 (type material examined).
Type locality. Brazil.
Remarks. The species previously was reported from Brazil and Bolivia (Metcalf 1963c). We collected our specimens at several sites in Misiones Province. The species was collected in the understory of the Paranense floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
Material examined. Misiones, Azara, 5-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Misiones, 10 km S San Jose, 5-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Misiones, Dto. Leandro N. Alem, 4 km NW Alem, Rt. 14, 6-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Misiones, Dto. Leandro N. Alem, 9 km E of L.N. Alem, 6-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Misiones, Dto. Candelaria, Sanata Ana, 6-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one male, two females, MSHC, one male, AFSC); Misiones, Parque National Iguazú, Research Station CIES. 185 msnm, 6-I-2008, S 25 o 40.733’ W 54 o 26.972’, Hg-vapor, S 25 o 40.733’ W 54 o 26.972’, Moulds, Hill, Marshall & Goemans 08.AR.MN.IES.05 (one male, UCMS); Misiones, Parque National Iguazú, Research Station CIES. 185 msnm, 6-I-2008, S 25 o 40.733’ W 54 o 26.972’, Hg/Search, S 25 o 40.733’ W 54 o 26.972’, Moulds, Hill, Marshall & Goemans 08.AR.MN.IES.06 (one male, UCMS); Misiones, RN 14, 7 km NE Campo Grande. 458 msnm. 5-I-2008, Search. S 27 o 10.161’ W 54 o 55.937’, Moulds, Hill, Marshall & Goemans 08.AR.MN.NCG.01 (one male, UCMS).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Parnisa Stal 1862
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Parnisa

description: Parnisa Stål, 1862
Type species. Cicada proponens Walker, 1858c (Brazil).
Remarks. The new species described here are the first records of the genus in Argentina. The genus has now been recorded from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2007a; 2010a; 2013).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Phimenes flavopictus
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Phimenes
Phimenes flavopictus

description: Phimenes flavopictus (Blanchard, 1849)
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, GKVK, 916 m, 16. vi.1979, 1 ♀, coll. CBG; 5. vii.1980, 1 ♂, coll. GTVR; Allalasandra, vii.1979, 1 ♀, coll. Gopal; 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 18. vii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. N.M. Lepakshi; 2, 5, 19, 25. iv.2009, 1 ♀, 3♂, coll. R.N. Geetha; 7. iv.2009, 1 ♂; 3, 23. x.2009, 2 ♂, coll. H.C. Latha; 15.iii, 19. iv.2009, 1 ♂, 1♀; 1. ii.2014, 2 ♀, coll. A. Pannure; 20. xi.2013, 4 ♀, coll. S. Najeer. Chikkaballapur, Nandi hills, 1271 m, 13°20' N 77°41' E, 3. iii.2013, 1 ♀, coll. V.V. Belavadi; 3. iii.2013, 1 ♀, M. Thippaiah. Chikkmagaluru, Mudigere, 4. ii.2013, 1 ♀, coll. UG483; 8. x.2014, 1 ♀, coll. B.K. Pooja; Malaya Marutha, 12. v.2011, 1 ♀, coll. H.M. Yeshwanth. Dakshina Kannada, Moodabidri, 80 m, 13°06' N 75°06' E, 25. vii.2015, 1 ♀, coll. C. Prashantha. Hassan, Agriculture college, 10. x.2014, 1 ♀, coll. H.P. Kavya. Kodagu, Kirgoor, 18. iv.1979, 1 ♀, coll. Girish. Kolar, Horticulture college, 830 m, 13°07' N 78°10' E, 16. xii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. UG. Koppal, Munirabad (Pampavana), 466 m, 15°33' N 76°33' E, 5. xii.2012, 1 ♀; 4. ii.2013, 1 ♀, coll. S. Najeer. Tumkur, Sira, 657 m, 13°74' N 76°90' E, 11. v.2014, 1 ♂, coll. S.N. Bhagyasree. Uttara Kannada, Sirsi, Yana, 262 m, 14°35' N 74°50' E, 21. xi.2012, 1 ♀, coll. R. Girish. Kerala: Ernakulam, 4 m, 9°59' N 76°17' E, 14. viii.2011, 1 ♀, coll. T.V. Aswathy. Trivandrum, 1. vi.2014, 1 ♀, coll. Anjali.
Distribution. India: Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.— China, Hong Kong, Indonesia [Sumatra, Krakatau], Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam (Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2010; Girish Kumar 2013b; Nguyen et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
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description: This work is devoted to the development of an algorithm to reduce noise in the image. In the course of the work the main types of noise and mechanisms of their occurrence are considered. The principles of neural networks construction and basic blocks are considered. As a result, a neural network for noise reduction is constructed. Evaluation of the results on photographs as well as on medical ultrasound images is carried out.
Design of polymeric delivery system with targeted drug release profiles for hydrophilic and lipophilic compounds
Creators: name: Thakur, Rashmi A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The delivery of hydrophilic drugs and macromolecules through the uppermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, is particularly challenging.  The use of chemical enhancers, iontophoresis, sonophoresis and microneedles are some methods of overcoming the barrier properties of the skin and achieving transdermal drug delivery.  One of the versatile approaches is the use of microneedles for delivery of therapeutic agents to various depths in the skin and in addition for controlled releasing drug polymer coatings.  In our study silicon microneedles were coated with a polymer-drug combination. Dip coating and electrospinning, a technique of making polymer nanofibers, were two methods employed to achieve such coatings.  Dual drug loading in a single electrospun scaffold was also be attempted by a novel dual spinneret technique established by us.  This scaffold was created as a potential wound healing dressing. This method of electrospinning enabled inclusion of larger quantities of two actives into the same scaffold.  Such electrospun polymer fibers were directly deposited on microneedles and evaluated for drug release characteristics.  It is expected that this novel drug delivery system will eventually allow immediate as well as sustained release of not only hydrophilic and lipophilic compounds but also high molecular weight compounds.
Oreumenoides Giordani Soika 1961
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Oreumenoides

description: Genus Oreumenoides Giordani Soika, 1961
Oreumenoides Giordani Soika 1961: 245, Type species: Eumenes edwardsi de Saussure, 1852, by original designation.
Diagnosis. This monotypic genus is similar with Phimenes. Mandibles elongate, longer than length of clypeus. Clypeus longer than wide, weakly emarginate apically. Cephalic foveae absent. Vertex sloping behind lateral ocelli. Anterior face of pronotum smooth and shiny without medial pits or foveae. Pronotal carina generally incomplete, present only dorsally. Epicnemial carina absent. Pretegula carina present. Tegula longer than wide, not emarginate adjoining parategula, not reaching parategula posteriorly. Scutellum flat. Metanotum not dentate. Axillary fossa wide. Propodeal dorsum below plane of metanotum. Superior carina usually absent. Propodeal orifice wide dorsally. Submarginal carina not produced as pointed/rounded process above valvula. Propodeal vuvlula not separated from submarginal carina posteriorly. Metasoma petiolate, petiole length 1.25x or more than 1.25 × length of mesosoma. T1 usually smooth, elongate (Fig. 77). S1 rather gradually widening towards apex, lateral margins of T1 not meeting ventrally usually visible along entire petiole length. T2 petiolate at base and without apical lamella. Mid tibia with one apical spur. SMC2 basally acute. Prestigma shorter or equals to pterostigma (Fig. 59). ♂: F11 minute, not hooked; no cavity on apical flagellomeres (Fig. 10). Body length usually 20 mm.
Distribution. Oriental and Palearctic Regions.
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Interplay of polymer and oligonucleotide properties in the nature of antisense effects
Creators: name: Sundaram, Sumati
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Antisense oligonucleotides can be utilized to silence the expression of a target gene via sequence-specific complementary base pairing. Antisense technology is applied as a basic research tool and is being developed therapeutically for a wide range of indications including cancer, inflammatory diseases and viral diseases. Its widespread application is impeded by the poor cellular delivery of oligonucleotides (ONs). Rational design of carriers for enhanced ON delivery demands a better understanding of the role of the vector on the extent and time course of antisense effects. This work highlights the interplay of polymer and ON properties in the nature of polymer mediated antisense responses. First, we demonstrate that ON structure exerts a significant influence on the strength of ON binding to, and dissociation from, the cationic polymer, poly-L-lysine. The finding implicates secondary structure as a relevant design parameter for antisense ONs and stresses the need for a comprehensive evaluation of ON-polymer structure-activity effects. Next, using well-characterized cationic polymer polyethyleneimine (PEI), we focus on understanding the effects of polymer molecular weight (MW) and ON backbone chemistry on antisense activity. We measure physico-chemical properties of complexes between PEI and phosphodiester and phosphorothioate backbone ONs, and evaluate their ability to deliver ONs to cells, leading to an antisense response. Our key finding is that the antisense activity is not determined solely by PEI MW or by ON chemistry, but rather by the interplay of both factors. Of particular importance is the strength of interactions between the carrier and the ON, which determines the rate at which the ONs are delivered intracellularly. Finally, we utilize the chemistry of the ONs as a means to influence the strength of interactions between PEI and ONs, and hence control the final antisense response. We show that it is possible to improve dramatically the efficiency of lower PEI MWs as ON carriers by manipulating the degree of phosphorothioate substitution in the ON chemistry. By correlating the PEI MW & ON chemistry with the observed antisense effects, we draw insightful structure-property relationships that will aid the rational design of ON carriers.
Selected problems in time-dependent quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Stucchio, Chris
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Time-dependent quantum mechanics is an important field, which is not completely understood. Of principal interest is the behavior of solutions of the time dependent Schrödinger equation, possibly including nonlinear terms to model interactions between particles. In this work, we study the time-dependent behavior of solutions of the Schrödinger equation by a variety of methods. Using techniques of exponential asymptotics, we study the behavior of a model atom in a realistic radiation field. We prove complete ionization for such a system. We also introduce a new method of open boundaries for numerically solving linear and nonlinear Schrodinger equations. The method introduced is the Time Dependent Phase Space Filter (TDPSF), which filters outgoing waves based on phase space localization. The method is provably correct, and can be extended to slowly decaying potentials.
Acyroneura Torres 1958
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Acyroneura

description: Acyroneura Torres, 1958
Type species. Acyroneura singularis Torres, 1958 (Argentina).
Remarks. The genus is currently known from Argentina (Torres 1958b) and Uruguay (Ruffinelli 1970).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Oreumenoides edwardsii
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Oreumenoides
Oreumenoides edwardsii

description: Oreumenoides edwardsii (de Saussure, 1852)
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, GKVK, 916 m, 14. iv.1983, 3 Ƌ, coll. V.V. Belavadi; 2. iii.1980, 5 Ƌ, 1♀, coll. A.R.V Kumar; 14. ix.1981, 1 ♀, coll. B. Mallik; 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 1.i, 7. iii.2012, 2 ♂; 1. ii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. A. Pannure; 1. vii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. N.M. Lepakshi; 17. iii.2013, 1 ♀, coll. S. Najeer; 12. ii.2013, 1 ♂, coll. H.M. Yeshwant. Chitradurga, Holalkere, 735 m, 14°04' N 76°18' E, 24. xii.2014, 1 ♂, 1♀, coll. C. Prashantha. Gulberga, 24. i.1982, 1 ♀, coll. A.R.V Kumar. Kolar, Horticulture college, 830 m, 13°07' N 78°10' E, 16. xii.2014, 1 ♂, coll. A. Pannure. Ramanagara, Sangama, 6. iv.2009, 2 ♂, coll. V.V. Belavadi.
Distribution. India: Karnataka, Kerala [Palakkad (Malampuzha)], Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra [Karad], Rajasthan [Dausa], Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.— Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand (Gusenleitner 2006; Girish Kumar 2011; Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014, 2015b).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Exploration of benzimidazole chemistry
Creators: name: Stibrany, Robert T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Benzimidazoles have far reaching applications in the field of chemistry and beyond. The major focus of this work is on the synthesis of benzimidazoles and bis(benzimidazoles) and subsequent complexation chemistry which has been further applied to areas such as constrained geometry and catalysis. A number of new techniques, such as the facile oxidation of methylene bridged benzimidazoles, have been elucidated in this study. Many improvements in experimental conditions have also been found in the syntheses of members of this class of compounds. We report here the preparation and characterization of two systems with constrained coordination geometries. The first consists of tetrahedrally constrained complexes using bis[rac-2,2'-bis[2-(1-alkylbenzimidazol-2-yl)]biphenyl] characterized with several transition metal ions. The second consists of chiral, square-bipyramidally constrained complexes using chiral bis[1,2-bis(1-alkylbenzimidazol-2-yl)-1',2'-bis(alkoxy)ethane] with first and second row transition metal ions. The copper complexes of selected bis(benzimidazoles) have been found to catalyze the oxidative carbonylation of methanol to form dimethyl carbonate. Such complexes have also been found to be remarkable polymerization catalysts with the ability to homopolymerize and copolymerize olefins and acrylates.
Role of protein phosphatase 2A in lung cancer
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: Smoking causes lung cancer through mutation of genes that are involved in controlling the growth of lung cells. Two classes of genes are important in growth control: (1) Genes that stimulate growth (oncogenes), and (2) genes that inhibit growth (tumor suppressor genes). The former become activated by mutation whereas the latter become inactivated by mutation or deletion. In most cancers, including lung cancer, mutation of both types of genes contributes to the development of cancer.

 For many years, our laboratory has investigated the enzyme called protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A). PP2A controls the function of other proteins by removing phosphate residues from the amino acids serine and threonine. PP2A consists of a trimeric complex of a catalytic subunit (C) and two regulatory subunits (A and B). There are two different forms of A (Aa and Ab), two forms of C (Ca and Cb), and many different forms of B subunits grouped in families called B, B', B'', and B'''. Both forms of A were recently found to be mutated or deleted in lung cancer and other cancers, suggesting that they play a role as tumor suppressors. Our previous hypothesis was that these mutations affect the capacity of the A subunits to bind certain B subunits and thereby inhibit formation of specific trimeric PP2A complexes that are important in tumor suppression. During the previous funding period we have demonstrated that this hypothesis is indeed correct. Some mutations are highly specific causing the A subunit to be defective in B' binding only, while being normal in B and B'' binding. Now, we propose that expression of A subunit mutants defective in binding B' subunits triggers a signal in the cytoplasm that is transmitted to the cell nucleus and stimulates cell growth. The particular pathway that we believe to be triggered by mutation is called the Wnt signaling pathway.

 The proposed work is highly relevant to understanding the cause of lung cancer since it is expected to establish a link between A subunit mutations that occur in lung cancer and the Wnt signaling pathway which plays an important role in many cancers. Several A subunit mutants were found in tumor cell lines from smokers, suggesting that smoking may result in a loss of the tumor suppressor function of PP2A. It is conceivable that in the future, based on our studies, drugs can be found that revert the effect of A subunit mutations in lung cancer, i.e. drugs that bind to a mutant A subunit and restore its binding to the B' subunit resulting in normal function of PP2A. Since we are dealing with an enzyme, searching for such drugs in a natural product or synthetic compound library is a realistic future goal.
Acyroneura singularis Torres 1958
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Acyroneura
Acyroneura singularis

description: Acyroneura singularis Torres, 1958
Acyroneura singularis Torres 1958b: 18 (type material examined).
Type locality. Ituzaingó, Corrients, Argentina.
Remarks. The species is known from Argentina (Torres 1958b) and Uruguay (Ruffinelli 1970). Torres (1958b) reported specimens from Corrientes and Entre Rios Provinces.
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Pager-assisted smoking cessation treatment
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: Cigarette smoking is the major preventable cause of death in the United States. It has been estimated that more than 420,000 deaths occur each year in this country as a result of tobacco use. The prevalence of smoking in the U.S., which had been decreasing, has now plateaued. Although millions of Americans have quit smoking, approximately one in four continue to smoke. The rate of cigarette smoking is much higher among veterans than in California’s population at large. A majority of smokers who quit relapse within one year. There is a clear need to identify and investigate more effective methods of treating nicotine addiction, particularly those utilizing advances in communication technology. The results of our recent pilot study support the idea that alphanumeric pagers can be used to help smokers to quit smoking and stay quit.

 The primary purpose of the proposed study will be to investigate the effectiveness of using alphanumeric pagers to send therapeutic messages to facilitate smoking cessation and relapse prevention. We will enroll 360 current smokers into the study. Two treatment groups will be compared. Both groups will receive nicotine patches and individual smoking cessation counseling. In one group, participants will be provided with alphanumeric pagers and will receive messages on these pagers for 3 months. The therapeutic messages that are sent to participants on these pagers will be matched to stages of change and will focus on motivation enhancement, quitting skills training, and relapse prevention. We will evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions at their conclusion (3 months) and again 12 months after enrollment.

 The use of alphanumeric pagers in smoking cessation treatment represents a merger between communication technology and behavior-change strategies designed to promote smoking cessation, behavioral self-regulation, maintenance of coping skills, and relapse prevention. It also represents a creative approach to the problem of how medication treatment for smoking cessation can be enhanced without adding more clinic visits, which is often a difficulty for smokers with low socio-economic status.
Community management of protected areas for conservation (COMPACT): a promising approach to integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs)
Creators: name: Sen, Ishaani
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) aim to combine the goals of biological conservation and socio-economic development.  In this thesis I explore the historical context of ICDPs, analyze the debate around ICDPs, and put forth recommendations for future ICDPs.   I then go on to examine the Community Management of Protected Areas for Conservation (COMPACT), a suite of ICDPs implemented by the Small Grants Programme of the Global Environment Facility.  I analyze the COMPACT methodology and approach to understand why COMPACT initiatives are innovative and successful.  I use COMPACT projects implemented in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site as a case study in this analysis.  I conclude by highlighting the key aspects of COMPACT's methodology and approach that have enabled it to successfully combine conservation and development goals.
Involvement of PI3K pathway in bladder cancer invasion
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: Bladder cancer is the fifth most frequently diagnosed tumor in the United States, with more than 50,000 new cases and 11,000 deaths annually. Cigarette smoking is the premier etiological factor in bladder cancer. Strong links have been established between bladder cancer risk and the number of years an individual smokes cigarettes, as well as the number of cigarettes smoked per day. Moreover, smokers who quit after bladder cancer diagnosis fare better than patients who continue smoking. Hence, bladder cancer is one of the many diseases intimately associated with tobacco use. It is thought that many bladder tumors arise as a result of the body’s mechanism of extruding carcinogens as waste. Tobacco-derived carcinogens accumulate in the urine allowing for the continuous exposure of bladder epithelial cells to these agents. Carcinogens then induce mutations in genes that are responsible for the control of cellular growth properties. Mutations in genes involved in biochemical pathways that control cellular growth are thought to be responsible for the creation of new tumors and their progression to malignancy. The purpose of this proposal is to understand the contribution of a specific biochemical pathway to the progression of bladder cancer.

 During their progression to malignancy cells from a primary tumor migrate through surrounding tissue as a first step in metastasis. This process, called invasion, is dependent of the ability of the tumor cell to degrade its surrounding tissue environment and migrate away from the primary tumor. The proposed studies focus on elucidating the participation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), an enzyme known to mediate cellular movement, in the invasive properties of bladder cancer cells. Using cultured human bladder tumor cell lines we will examine how the activation of PI3K and other components in its biochemical pathway influence invasion. Moreover, we will examine bladder cancer samples from patients to determine whether the activation of this pathway correlates with the progression of the disease, and hence could be used as a prognostic factor in the clinic.
Alastor (Alastor) abditus van der Vecht 1981
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Alastor
Alastor abditus

description: Alastor (Alastor) abditus van der Vecht, 1981
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Chikaballapur, Nandi hills (Near), 1460 m, 13°22.24' N 77°41.02' E, 7.vi.2011, 1♂, coll. H.M. Yashwant.
Distribution. India: * Karnataka, Kerala [Kothamangalam, Themala], Tamil Nadu [Karamandai, Madurai].— Sri Lanka (van der Vecht 1981; Gusenleitner 2006; Girish Kumar & Carpenter 2015).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Nosola Stal 1866
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Nosola

description: Nosola Stål, 1866
Type species. Nosola paradoxa Stål, 1866 (Bolivia).
Remarks. This monospecific genus is known from Argentina and Bolivia (Metcalf 1963c).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Modeling sleep disturbance during nicotine withdrawal
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 goal of our proposed research is to investigate changes in sleep due to nicotine withdrawal in an animal model. Insomnia and frequent awakening from sleep are common side effects of tobacco withdrawal, which can also affect mood and daytime sleepiness. Since insomnia and other withdrawal symptoms are distressing and disabling, they make it harder to stop smoking and contribute to the continuation of smoking. Sleep disturbance is likely due to the effects of nicotine, the active component in cigarette smoke, on brain chemical (neurotransmitter) pathways that normally regulate the sleep-wake cycle. The goal of our proposed research is to establish sleep recording during nicotine dependence and withdrawal. We will optimize the nicotine delivery method and determine the proper dose of nicotine and time of nicotine delivery in order to show measurable and reliable sleep disruption during nicotine withdrawal in the rat.

 This model can then be used to test drugs that may be used to treat nicotine withdrawal symptoms. For example, we will use our model to test the effects of the smoking cessation aid Zyban® (bupropion) on sleep. Bupropion is a mild antidepressant used to treat nicotine craving and nicotine withdrawal symptoms such as depression and irritability. Unfortunately, insomnia is a major side effect in some people taking this drug. Therefore, we may see the animal equivalent of insomnia during bupropion delivery in our model.

 The final aim of our proposed project is to look for changes due to nicotine delivery or nicotine withdrawal in two of the major neurotransmitter systems involved in the control of the sleep-wake cycle. If we find that they are altered, they may be good candidates for drug treatment in order to decrease the insomnia and sleep disruption seen in nicotine withdrawal. By helping to alleviate withdrawal symptoms, our development of the proposed model will help to increase smoking cessation (or cessation of other tobacco use) and thereby decrease tobacco- and smoking-related heath problems.
The effect of attention training on emotional vulnerability and food consumption following a stressor
Creators: name: Schlam, Tanya Rachelle
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Individuals with anxiety typically display an attentional bias toward threat that may contribute causally to the development and maintenance of anxiety. C. MacLeod, E. Rutherford, L. Campbell, G. Ebsworthy, and L. Holker (2002) showed that manipulating attentional bias toward and away from threat can modify emotional vulnerability. This experiment attempted to replicate and extend this finding to undergraduates (N = 67) reporting average anxiety, but above-average emotional overeating tendencies. An objective outcome was added (calories consumed during a "taste test". Participants were double-blindly assigned to an "attend-neutral" attention training condition of the dot probe task (in which the probes replaced neutral words to train a bias toward neutral words) or an "attend-negative" condition (in which the probes replaced negative words). It was hypothesized that the attend-neutral group would report less negative affect following a stressor and consume fewer calories than the attend-negative group.   Reaction times to each of the two types of trials (where probes replaced neutral or negative words) showed high internal consistency. However, Cronbach's alpha for attentional bias scores (the difference between reaction times to detect probes replacing neutral words and probes replacing negative words) was low pre- and posttraining (.50 and .33).Perhaps related to the dot probe task's low reliability, the attend-neutral group's bias score did not change. The attend-negative group, however, developed the predicted bias toward negative words. Contrary to predictions, both groups reported equivalent negative affect increases following the stressor and consumed equivalent calories during the "taste test." In exploratory analyses of the top one-third of the sample on trait anxiety, the attend-negative group showed a trend toward the predicted greater increase in negative affect following the stressor compared with the attend-neutral group, r = .39 (a medium effect size). The two groups, however, consumed equivalent calories. A clinically or subclinically anxious sample that displays a bias toward threat seems to increase the likelihood of training a bias away from threat. At 1-month follow-up, unexpectedly, the attend-negative group reported decreased general distress compared to the attend-neutral group, who reported an increase, possibly suggesting that training toward threat could function as exposure and decrease anxiety.
Nosola paradoxa Stal 1866
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Nosola
Nosola paradoxa

description: Nosola paradoxa Stål, 1866
Nosola paradoxa Stål 1866: 171 (type material examined).
Type locality. Bolivia.
Remarks. The species is known from Argentina and Bolivia (Metcalf 1963c) with Argentine specimens being collected in Salta Province (Torres 1945a).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Selymbria Stal 1861
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Selymbria

description: Selymbria Stål, 1861
Type species. Cicada stigmata Germar, 1834 (Brazil).
Remarks. Our records are the first for the genus in Argentina. The genus is known from Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana, Guatemala, and Panama (Metcalf 1963c; Ramos and Wolda 1985; Sanborn 2010b; 2011b; 2013).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Advances in decentralized and stateful access control
Creators: name: Serban, Constantin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The economy and security of modern society relies on increasingly distributed infrastructures and institutions, such as the banking system, government agencies, and commercial enterprises. This trend raises both the importance of access control technology and itscomplexity.  Law-Governed Interaction (LGI) represents an advanced access control mechanism that satisfies many of the challenges posed by modern computing. LGI, however, has been defined for asynchronous,message passing, communication, leaving unsupported the wide range of applications that employ synchronous communication. Furthermore, no formal mechanism had been designed for adapting its policies in the presence of ever-changing security requirements.  My dissertation addresses these issues as follows. It introduces Regulated Synchronous Communication, a novel access control model for synchronous, request-reply communication; it proposes Hot Updates, a mechanism for changing the policy of a distributed  system while the system continues to operate.Regulated Synchronous Communication extends the LGI mechanism to synchronous communication, thus providing advanced control over this important and popular mode of communication. Among the novel characteristics of this model are: the control of both the request and the reply; regulated timeout capability provided to clients, in a manner that takes into account the concerns of their server; and enforcement on both the client and server sides.Hot Updates addresses the issue of changing the access control policy of a large distributed system, in the context of LGI. Hot Policy Updates undertakes a number of challenges such as a) how to propagate the policy updates throughout the system, b) when to update the policywith respect to an individual component, and c) how to avoid, minimize or compensate possible inconsistencies that appear during the updateprocess.Both Regulated Synchronous Communication and Hot Updates had been implemented using Java Laws, a novel Java-based language forexpressing access control policies for LGI. Java Laws provides a common platform for applying fine-grained access control particularlysuitable for distributed applications written in Java. Among other advantages, Java Laws enables an efficient enforcement of accesscontrol, as well as good scalability and portability across various operating systems.
Reducing digital test volume using test point insertion
Creators: name: Sethuram, Rajamani
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Test cost accounts for more than 40% of the entire cost for making a chip. This figure is expected to grow even higher in the future. Two major factors that determine test cost are a) test volume and b) test application time. Severaltechniques such as compaction and compression have been proposed in the past to keep the test cost under an acceptable limit. However, due to the ever increasing size of today's digital very large scale integrated circuits, all prior known test cost reduction techniques are unable to keep the test cost under control.In this dissertation, we present a new test point insertion (TPI) technique for regular cell-based application specific integrated chips (ASICs) and structured ASIC designs. The proposed technique can drastically reduce the test volume, the test application time and the test generation time. The TPI scheme facilitates the compression and the compaction algorithm to reduce test volume and test application time. By facilitating the automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) algorithm, we also reduce the test generation time. Test points are inserted using timing information, so they do not degrade performance. We present novel gain functions that quantify the reduction in test volume and ATPG time due to TPI and are used as heuristics to guide the selection of signal lines for inserting test points. We, then, show how test point insertion can be used to enhance the performance of a broadcast scan-based compressor. To further improve its performance, we use a new scan chain re-ordering algorithm to break the correlation that exists among different signal lines in the circuit due to a particular scan chain order.Experiments conducted with ISCAS '89, ITC '99, and few industrial benchmarks clearly demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of the proposed technique.By using very little extra hardware for implementing test points and very little extra run time for the TPI step, we show that the test volume and test application can be reduced by up to 64.5% and test generation time can be reduced by up to 63.1% for structured ASIC designs. For the cell-based ASICs with broadcast scan compressors, experiments indicate that the proposed technique improves the compression by up to 46.6% and also reduces the overall ATPG CPU time by up to 49.3%.
Alastor (Alastor) sulcatus van der Vecht 1981
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Alastor
Alastor sulcatus

description: Alastor (Alastor) sulcatus van der Vecht, 1981
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Mysore, Chinnamballi, 716 m, 12°05' N 76°49' E, 30.vii.2014, 1♀, coll. C. Prashantha.
Distribution. India: * Karnataka, Puducherry.— Sri Lanka (van der Vecht 1981; Girish Kumar & Carpenter 2015).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090