cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solubility and activity coefficient of pharmaceutical compounds in liquid organic solvents
Creators: name: Nti-Gyabaah, Joseph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The production of pharmaceuticals and oligo-sized biochemicals involves liquid solvent selection as a function of solubility, for purification, chemical reaction and formulation.  Selecting the optimum solvent for a particular application is of critical importance to developing efficient process; choosing solvents for pharmaceutical processes has been based on experience and empirical description of experimental results.  Therefore, rapid and reliable prediction of drug solubility is needed for design and optimization of            cost-effective manufacturing processes.  A semi-automated, two-millimeter-scale method, was designed and validated for rapid measurement of equilibrium solubility of crystalline solids in liquid solvents.  Solubilities and stability of model compounds such as lovastatin, simvastatin, and artemisinin, were measured in several solvents and exhibited a maximum deviation of 5% compared to literature data.  Extrapolation of the solubility in the form of activity coefficient was determined to agree with the experimental data.  Calculation of the ideal solubility of crystalline solid in liquid solvent requires knowledge of the difference in molar heat capacity of the solid and super-cooled liquid solute at the solution temperature.  This is a hypothetical parameter and therefore, can not be measured directly, and hence, three assumptions are commonly used in the literature for its estimation.  Evaluation of the assumptions revealed some thermodynamic inconsistencies.  A new strategy was explored to estimate the difference in molar heat capacity, allowing the experimental solubility data to be fitted to the Two-Liquid-Non-Random (NRTL) activity coefficient equation to obtain the model binary energetic interaction parameters.  The binary interaction parameters were successfully used to estimate solubility of the model compounds in mixed solvents.In free energy perturbation (FEP) methods, mutation of lovastatin to simvastatin in five different solvents were carried out to obtain the free energy differences, and hence the ratio of the activity coefficients at infinite dilution.  The FEP calculation reproduced the experimental solubility results quite well, and provides a basis for development of molecular modeling for estimation of pharmaceutical compounds in liquid solvents.
Knowledge and intellectual skill
Creators: name: Orozco, Joshue
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation argues that knowledge is best understood as a true belief acquired through the manifestation of intellectually virtuous performance. I argue that intellectually virtuous performance requires intellectual responsibility but not a characteristic motivation. I distinguish my view from other conceptions of intellectual virtues; particularly the virtue reliabilism of Ernest Sosa and John Greco and the virtue responsibilism of Linda Zagzebski. I argue that intellectual virtues are best understood along the lines of Aristotlean skills by looking at various puzzles in epistemology and showing how this view can make more progress in solving these puzzles than its competitors.
Schizotaenia
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Schizotaenia

description: * Schizotaenia sp.
Material examined: 1 Ƥ.
Sites: 161 (Fig. 19).
Habitats. Phryganic formations with Sarcopoterium spinosum. Altitudinal range: known only from a site at 600 m. Range of leg pairs recorded in Cyprus. 65 (Ƥ).
Remarks. The genus Schizotaenia includes half a dozen species and was previously known only from Tropical Africa (Minelli et al. 2006; Bonato 2011). This is the first record from the W-Palearctic region, although the record ofthe nominal species Porethus pauciporus Chamberlin, 1952 from Cyprus in Fauna Europaea (Enghoff, 2004) could actually refer to Schizotaenia. The species identity of the material examined is uncertain, needing evaluation with respect to other species known in the genus. Specimens probably conspecific with the female from Cyprus have been collected in South-East Anatolia (near Iskenderun; M. Zapparoli, unpublished).
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on pages 298-299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus hyperolius Hromadka 2012
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus hyperolius

description: Philonthus hyperolius Hromádka, 2012
Philonthus hyperolius Hromádka, 2012f: 59, Figs 13–15.
The holotype and nine paratypes are deposited in NMPC
(general collection and ex coll. L. Hromádka):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ Kenya / Ngulia Lodge / 10/3 70 Palm [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HO- LOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s.str.) / hyperolius sp. nov / Hromádka, det. 2011. [p, red label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾඌ, (8 unsexed specimens):‘ KENYA / Shimba For./ 17. 3. 1970 / T. Palm, leg [p, violet label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s.str.) / hyperolius sp. nov / Hromádka, det. 2011. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 372, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Small molecule modulation of splicing factor expression is associated with rescue from cellular senescence
Creators: name: Latorre, Eva
name: Vishal Birar
name: Sheerin, Angela
name: J. Jeynes
name: Hooper, Amy
name: Dawe, Helen
name: Melzer, David
name: Cox, Lynne
name: Faragher, Richard
name: Ostler, Elizabeth
name: Harries, Lorna
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Changes in inflammatory proteins following treatment with resveratrol analogues. (DOCX 13Â kb)
title: System, method and apparatus for improved electrical-to-optical transmitters disposed within printed circuit boards
Creators: name: Chen, Ray T.
name: Choi, Chulchae
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: G02B6/4214
subject: G02B6/43
subject: H05K1/0274
subject: H05K1/0203
subject: 257/722
subject: 257/728
subject: 257/E23.010
subject: 257/E23.178
subject: 257/E25.032
subject: 385/50
subject: 385/42
subject: 385/44
subject: 385/88
subject: 438/29
subject: 438/39
subject: 438/72

description: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for improved electrical-to-optical transmitters (100) disposed within printed circuit boards (104). The heat sink (110, 200) is a thermal conductive material disposed within a cavity (102) of the printed circuit board (104) and is thermally coupled to a bottom surface (112) of the electrical-to-optical transmitter (100). A portion of the thermal conductive material extends approximately to an outer surface (120, 122 or 124) of a layer (114, 116 or 118) of the printed circuit board (104). The printed circuit board may comprise a planarized signal communications system or an optoelectronic signal communications system. In addition, the present invention provides a method for fabricating the heat sink wherein the electrical-to-optical transmitter disposed within a cavity of the printed circuit board is fabricated. New methods for flexible waveguides and micro-mirror couplers are also provided.
title: Apparatus for solving differential equations
Creators: name: Bryant, Michael D.
name: Fernandez, Benito R.
name: Seth, Ashish
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: G06J1/00
subject: G06G7/18
subject: 708/6
subject: 708/822

description: An apparatus for solving time-continuous differential equations is disclosed. The apparatus includes a group of hybrid integrators interconnected to each other. Each one of the hybrid integrators includes an analog integrator, a conversion logic and multiple digital registers. The analog integrator generates an analog output, and the conversion logic along with the digital registers converts the analog output to a digital output. The analog output and the digital output are then combined to yield an integrated output. The integrated output is fed to the hybrid integrators within the group.
A generalized hybrid fuzzy-Bayesian methodology for modeling complex uncertainty
Creators: name: Öztekin, Ahmet
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Due to its well understood nature and its ability to model many phenomena in the physical world extremely well, probability theory is the method of choice for dealing with uncertainty in many science and engineering disciplines. However, as a tool for building representative models of complex real world systems, probability theory has a rather recent history which starts with the introduction of Bayesian Networks (BN).Broadly construed, the BN model of a system is the compact representation of a joint probability distribution of the variables comprising the system. Many complex real-world systems are naturally represented by hybrid  models which contain both discrete and continuous variables. However, when it comes to modeling uncertainty and to performing probabilistic inferencing about hybrid systems, what BNs have to offer is quite limited. Although exact inferencing in BNs composed only of discrete variables is well understood, no exact inferencing algorithms exist for general hybrid BNs.In this thesis we concentrate on the problem of inferencing in Hybrid Bayesian Networks (HBNs). Our focus, hence our contributions are three-fold: theoretical, algorithmic and practical. From a theoretical point of view, we provide a novel framework to implement a hybrid methodology that complements probability theory with Fuzzy Sets to perform exact inferencing with general Hybrid Bayesian Networks that is composed of both discrete and continuous variables with no graph-structural restrictions to model uncertainty in complex systems. From an algorithmic perspective, we provide a suite of inferencing algorithms for general Hybrid Bayesian Networks. The suite includes two new inferencing algorithms for the two different types of Fuzzy-Bayesian Networks introduced in this study. Finally, from a practical perspective, we apply our framework, methodology, and techniques to the task of assessing system safety risk due to the introduction of emergent Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System.
Dual-task training interventions and outcome measurements for bipedal upright balance rehabilitation in people with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease: A scoping review of the literature.
Creators: name: Cakmak, Nesibe
name: Logan, Angela
name: Freeman, Jennifer
name: Bunn, Lisa
name: Carroll, Camille
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Balance
subject: Dual task
subject: Parkinson's Disease
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Postural sway
subject: Scoping review protocol

description: This project is a scoping review with two main aims. First to examine the literature regarding the effectiveness of different dual-task training types and task combinations. Second to examine what outcome measurements for improving bipedal upright balance in people with mild to moderate PD are in use. The objectives are to explore the primary task types involving bipedal balance-related exercises and secondary task types involving motor or cognitive tasks and their combinations in dual-task training; to explore the balance-related outcome measurements embedded within the clinical effectiveness studies published in the literature; to determine existence of evidence investigating the superiority of one dual-task combination over another dual-task combination in the training for improving balance in people with mild to moderate PD; to summarise the differences in relevant balance outcomes in trials investigating the superiority of the task combinations within dual-task training interventions; to identify and summarise the experiences and views of people with PD regarding dual-task interventions within the qualitative studies.
Baptizing meanings for concepts
Creators: name: Oved, Iris
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Most people find it obvious that concepts like APPLE, DOG, WATER, CACTUS, SWIM, CHIRP, FURRY, and SMOOTH (i.e., lexical concepts) are acquired from perceptual experiences along with some kind of inferential procedure. Models of how these concepts are inferentially acquired, however, force the acquired concepts to be representationally complex, built from, and composed by, the more primitive representations (e.g., GOLD is built from perceptual representations of yellowness, shininess, malleability, and so on). Since at least the time of Plato, philosophers and psychologists have struggled to find complex sets of representations that have the same meanings, definitionally or probabilistically, as these concepts. For example, to think about the property-kind being gold is not the same as to think about the complex property-kind being (probably) yellowish & (probably) shiny & (probably) malleable....  I call this Fodor's Challenge: Find an acquisition process that is genuinely inferential and yields a concept that genuinely is one of these lexical concepts. Rather than continue the pursuit of a complex representation that has the same meaning as our concept GOLD. I offer a model on which many lexical concepts are acquired from perception and inference, without being built up from, and composed by, the representations involved. The model, Baptizing Meanings for Concepts (BMC), is inspired in part by Saul Kripke's (1970) baptism process for assigning meanings to linguistic terms.  Many lexical concepts, according to the BMC, are acquired by inferring the presence a new property-kind, picking out the property-kind in terms of those perceptible features, and then assigning a simple mental term, a concept, for that (purported) property-kind.
[Cher et éminent Ami… et Secrétaire Général, la liste est arrivée à point]
Creators: name: Pierre, Gallice
name: Gallice, Pierre
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Comité de Liaison Scientifique et Universitaire Franco-cubain
Fidel Castro
Heberto Padilla

description: Destinataire : Dacunha-Castelle, Didier
description: Lettre de l’Attaché Culturel et de Coopération Technique à la Havane. L’auteur de la lettre évoque une liste (de coopérants) arrivée à point. Il attend trois missions scientifiques : géologie, agronomie (INRA) et vétérinaires. Il évoque : les attaques de Fidel Castro contre l’impérialisme, Heberto Padilla, Selze (?), Antonini, l’Informatique, les Comerciaux, Baudilio Castellanos García, et son prochain départ de Cuba pour cause de mutation.
description: Carta del Agregado Cultural y de Cooperación Técnica a La Habana. El autor de la carta evoca una lista (de cooperantes) puntual. Espera tres misiones científicas: geología, agronomía (INRA) y veterinaria. Evoca: los ataques de Fidel Castro contra el imperialismo, Heberto Padilla, Selze (?), Antonini, la Informática, los Comerciantes, Baudilio Castellanos García, y su próxima salida de Cuba por mutación.
description: Notes : Soleil souriant dessiné en haut à gauche de la première page de la lettre.
description: Source: DDC-C-1971-04-27
description: Source: Localisation de la ressource : Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines (CRLA–Archivos, ITEM UMR8132). MSHS - Bât. A5, 1er étage 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre - TSA21103. 86073 Poitiers cedex 9.
Additional file 3: Table S2. of Human umbilical cord Wharton jelly cells promote extra-pancreatic insulin formation and repair of renal damage in STZ-induced diabetic mice
Creators: name: Maldonado, Martin
name: Tianhua Huang
name: Lujun Yang
name: Xu, Lan
name: Ma, Lian
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Distribution of ALU elements in TM. Legend: ALU-specific primers were detected using qPCR with a hydrolysis probe. The values are expressed as the percentage of the total infused cells. “Unidentified cells” are the percentage of human DNA not detected in the analyzed organs. The number of hUCWJCs found in mouse tissue was calculated by comparing the expression of human ALU sequences in mice with those of 5 × 106 hUCWJCs. qPCR samples were run in triplicate. (DOCX 16 kb)
Nuclear organization of mouse Hox cluster paralogs during mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation to neural stem cell
Creators: name: Panicker, Priya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this project we use Hox genes as a genetic tool to understand how nuclear architecture regulates cell differentiation during embryonic development. Hox genes come under the category of homeobox genes, a highly evolutionarily conserved group of genes with an important role during embryogenesis. Hox genes are located on 4 distinct chromosomes, in cluster paralogs (HOX A, B, C, D). Each individual cluster contains up to 13 homologous genes and corresponding genes on different clusters (e.g., HoxA13, HoxD13) exhibit varying degrees of functional redundancy. The position of a gene in the cluster is related to its spatiotemporal pattern of expression along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo. The coordination of the spatiotemporal expression of equivalent paralog group genes on different clusters/chromosomes is coordinated is still not known. Our primary hypothesis is that nuclear architecture defines a regulatory framework of Hox cluster loci in the nucleus when the Hox cluster transcription is activated and maintained. We did a comparative analysis on the Hox cluster nuclear architecture in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and fibroblast growth factors (FGF) - induced differentiation to neural stem cells (NSC). We show for the first time that Hox gene expression is induced by FGF treatment in vitro simultaneously in the four Hox cluster. Using three-dimensional confocal fluorescence microscopy, FISH and computational techniques, we mapped the position of Hox gene cluster paralogs in individual nuclei of both cell types. We did not observe nuclear colocalization of Hox heterologous cluster in NSC. However, we observe that heterologous clusters tend to occupy similar nuclear domains in NSC, which may favor undetected long-range gene interactions. Nevertheless, our results indicate that Hox gene cluster nuclear three-dimensional organization is neither random nor correlated to the changes in nuclear volume and shape that parallel cell differentiation.
Fabry-Perot studies of the Milky Way bar
Creators: name: Rangwala, Naseem
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Galactic bars and bulges play an important role in the formation and evolution processes in disk galaxies. There is now substantial evidence that our Galaxy is barred, and many unresolved questions about the structure, dynamics and star formation history of the inner Galaxy remain.We use Fabry-Perot (FP) absorption line imaging spectroscopy to measure radial velocities using the CaII8542 line in 3360 stars towards three lines of sight in the Milky Way's bar: Baade's Window and offset positions at (l,b) ~ (pm 5.0, -3.5). This sample includes 2488 bar red clump giants, 339 bar M-giants, and 318 disk main sequence stars. We measure the first fourmoments of the stellar velocity distribution of the red clump giants, and find it to be symmetric and flat-topped. We detect stellar streams at the near and far side of the bar with velocity difference ~ 30 km/s at l = +/- 5, indicating strong non-circular motions. We donot detect two separate streams in Baade's Window. Our M-giants kinematics agree well with previous studies, but have dispersions systematically lower than those of the red clump giants by ~10 km/s.We show that reliable absorption line strengths can also be measured using FP spectroscopy. TheCaII8542 line is a good indicator of metallicity and its calibration to [Fe/H] is determined for globular cluster red giants in previous investigations. We derive such a calibration for the bulge giants and use it to infer metallicities for our red clump sample. We present the stellar metallicity distributions along the major axis of the bar. We find the mean [Fe/H] in Baade's Window close to solar, and the distribution in this field agrees well with previous works. We find negative gradients in the mean metallicity and its dispersion along the bar. We detect a signature of a possible new tidal stream at l = +5.5, in both our velocity and metallicity distributions. We also measure the metallicity of a bulge globular cluster NGC 6522 in our Baade's Window field to be -0.9 dex, in good agreement with previous high-resolution spectroscopic measurements, demonstrating the reliability of our metallicity measurements.We also present the design and testing of the FP system for the 10-meter class Southern African Large Telescope, and its characterization as measured in the laboratory. It provides spectroscopic imaging at any desired wavelength spanning a bandpass 430 -- 860 nm, at four different spectral resolving powers ranging from 300 to 9000. This FP system will provide apowerful tool for imaging spectroscopy on one of the world's largest telescopes.
Buoyancy considerations in a fluidized bed of ground particles
Creators: name: Rao, Prakash R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The research conducted for this thesis determines and quantifies the forces acting on a large submerged object in a gas-solid fluidized bed of Geldart A ground particles at the onset of bubbling.  In particular, the additional load from the previously reported de-fluidized region of particles found above submerged objects in fluidized beds is quantified. A force model was developed and comparisons between this and the experimental data yielded properties of the de-fluidized region, such as the shape and height of the hood, and the angle to which it rises. Drag is measured by comparing forces on objects of different geometries subject to the same conditions. Buoyancy was measured by summing the pressure force acting to push the submerged object out of the bed and the counteracting pressure force of the bed over the submerged object pushing it deeper into the bed.  The de-fluidized region is found to have a significant impact on the buoyancy of the object by creating an additional weight force above the object thus increasing the pressure in this region. Explanations for the hood shape and size are made through phenomenological results obtained through visual observations. Particle transport through voidage collapses at the surface, i.e. “bubbling”, create a secondary particle circulation within the bed adding particles to the top of the hood. The size of the bubbles appears to determine the extent of the hood.
Stenotaenia C.L. Koch 1847
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Stenotaenia

description: Stenotaenia C.L. Koch, 1847
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus inachus Smetana 1995
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus inachus

description: Philonthus inachus Smetana, 1995
Philonthus inachus Smetana, 1995: 103, Figs 71–76.
One paratype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen):‘AZ. Chiricahua / Mts. Rustler Park / 8400’ 26-27.VII. / 1979 A. Smetana [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPE / Philonthus / inachus / A. Smetana 1993 / CNC No.21949 [p, yellow label]’.
Current status. Valid species, see Hൾ*©MAN (2001b).
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 372, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Combinatorial pattern-based survival analysis with applications in biology and medicine
Creators: name: Reddy, Anupama Rajasekhara
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In the current era of targeted therapies and personalized medicine, survival analysis (predicting survival time of patients) is a very important problem. Survival analysis is similar to regression except for the presence of censored observations (observations with incomplete survival time information). We propose to use a combinatorial pattern-based methodology, Logical Analysis of Data (LAD), for survival analysis. LAD is a two-class classification method. In this thesis we extend LAD for survival analysis in various ways. Our first approach is to define high- and low-risk patients, and reduce the problem to two-class classification. This approach is particularly useful for datasets with a large number of samples, and small number of features. In datasets where the feature space is high-dimensional (for example, gene expression data), we first used an unsupervised clustering approach to identify robust clusters in the data, the hypothesis being that the different clusters are associated with different survival profiles. We present a linear programming model to predict survival. Finally, we develop a new method, Logical Analysis of Survival Data (LASD), and validate it on a kidney cancer dataset. Ensemble methods are presented to improve the robustness of LASD.
title: Veza Común :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Philonthus indicator Hromadka 2011
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus indicator

description: Philonthus indicator Hromádka, 2011
Philonthus indicator Hromádka, 2011a: 198, Figs 22–24.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ABESSIN. / Kristensen [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str) / indicator sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2009 [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 373, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Automated discovery and proof  in three combinatorial problems
Creators: name: Raff, Paul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this Ph.D. disseration, I will go over advances I have made in three combinatorial problems. The running theme throughout these three problems is the novel use of computers to aid not only in the discovery of the theorems proved, but also in the proofs themselves. The first problem concerns the quantity f_D(n), defined as the size of the largest subset of [n] avoiding differences in D. Originally motivated by the Triangle Conjecture of Schutzenberger and Perrin, we again define an enumeration scheme that will find, and prove automatically, the sequence {f_D(n)} from 1 to infinity for any prescribed D. Although the Triangle Conjecture has long been refuted, we present an asymptotic version of it and prove it. The second problem involves the enumeration of spanning trees in grid graphs – graphs of the form G x P_n (or C_n) for arbitrary G. An enumeration scheme is developed based on the partitions of [n], yielding an algorithmic method to completely solve the sequence for any G. These techniques yield a surprising consequence: sequences obtained in this manner are divisibility sequences. Thefinal problem is the firefighter problem, a dynamic graph theory problem modeling the spread of diseases, information, etc. We will present the problem as it applies on the two-dimensional grid and prove new upper and lower bounds, found mainly through computer experimentation.
Wayfinder
Creators: name: Peery, Christopher
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The decreasing costs of computing devices, increases in connectivity, and improved performance are altering the computing environments of users in fundamental ways. Users are no longer restricted to operating single devices in isolation but rather distribute and accessinformation across many devices and develop complex sharing patterns among groups of users. Unfortunately, while these trends are significantly enriching the user's computing experience, they are also increasing the data management overhead as users must explicitlyreason about data placement and replication across multiple devices and logical sharing groups.In this thesis, we present the Wayfinder file system, which was designed to simplify the management of information in federate systems.  Wayfinder focuses on three critical management deficiencies present in most current federated environments: 1) the lack of a consistent view for stored information across devices, 2) the required manual management of replicated information, and 3) the limited search/ranking capability for finding relevant information.The Wayfinder file system addresses these deficiencies by providing three synergistic abstractions: 1) a global namespace that is uniformly accessible across connected and disconnected operation, 2) a user-centric automatic availability management to ensure continuous access to information based on data-centric availability policies, and 3) a multi-dimensional fuzzy search framework that significantlyimproves relevance ranking.  We will show that these abstractions simplify the management burden by requiring users to reason only about the data and its properties while ignoring the underlying physicalcomplexities of the system.Underlying all three abstractions is a common implementation layer that adheres to three principles. First, any subset of nodes in a Wayfinder community can interact normally when they are interconnected, regardless of the membership of the subset. Second,all protocols and interactions are tolerant of a weakly consistent model allowing them to suffer unexpected devices departures. Finally, devices are assumed to be owned by specific users and so should prioritize the needs of their owners in the presence of resourceconstraints, while using excess resources to benefit the community as a whole.
Impact of cultural management on anthracnose severity of annual bluegrass putting green turf
Creators: name: Roberts, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Anthracnose (Colletotrichum cereale Manns) has become an increasingly destructive disease of annual bluegrass (ABG) [Poa annua L. f. reptans (Hausskn) T. Koyama] putting green turf over the past two decades.  Cultural management to enhance the playing surface characteristics of putting greens are thought to enhance abiotic stress and predispose turf to anthracnose.  Three field trials conducted from 2006 to 2008 evaluated the effects of irrigation, equipment traffic and lightweight rolling, and sand topdressing on anthracnose severity of ABG turf mowed at 3.2 mm.   Severe deficit irrigation [40% replacement of reference evapotranspiration (ETo)] increased anthracnose severity during the study. Anthracnose was less severe under greater irrigation quantity.  However, irrigating at 100% ETo resulted in disease severity similar to irrigation at 40% ETo by the end of 2006 and 2008.   Irrigation to replace 80% ETo typically resulted in the least amount of disease and the best turf quality.  Plots receiving turning of mowers and lightweight rollers as well as clean-up mowing (representing the putting green perimeter) had lower disease severity compared to center plots on 6 of 13 dates in 2007 and 2008.  Additionally, lightweight rolling reduced anthracnose 2 to 13% compared to non-rolled turf in 2007 and 2008; the heavier sidewinder roller treatment had less disease than the triplex mounted vibratory roller treatment on 4 of 13 rating dates.  Initially, turf receiving sand topdressing (0.3 L m-2 wk-1) had a small increase in disease compared to non-topdressed turf during 2007; however, disease decreased as much as 9% by August 2007 and again in 2008 on topdressed plots.  Surprisingly, turf receiving foot traffic (5 d wk-1, ~200 rounds d-1) had as much as 27% lower disease severity than non-trafficked turf.  This effect was independent of the level of sand topdressing during 2007 and 2008.  The treatment combination of weekly topdressing and frequent foot traffic resulted in the best turf quality by the end of both seasons. Overall, the results of these three studies indicate that best management practices should be an integral component of a disease control program intended to reduce anthracnose severity on ABG putting green turf.
Pseudoholomorphic quilts and Khovanov homology
Creators: name: Rezazadegan, Reza
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: We generalize the symplectically-defined link homology theory developed by Paul Seidel and Ivan Smith to an invariant of tangles. We obtain a group-valued invariant, a functor-valued (or symplectic-valued functor) invariant and an ay functor-valued one for tangles. We provide evidence for the equivalence of this invariant with Khovanov's combinatorially defined invariant by showing the equivalence for flat (crossingless) tangles and their cobordisms. We also obtain an exact triangle for the Seidel-Smith invariant similar to that of Khovanov.
title: Mechanically tunable optical-encoded force sensor
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaojing
name: Kumar, Karthik
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: G01L1/24
subject: G01L1/04
subject: 73/800
subject: 73/105

description: An optical-encoded force sensor is disclosed. The optical-encoded force sensor includes a cantilever probe having a probe tip, a set of reflective phase gratings and multiple nano-photonic displacement sensors. The reflective phase gratings are mechanically coupled to the cantilever probe, and the nano-photonic displacement sensors are mechanically coupled to the reflective phase gratings. In response to a load being applied to the probe tip, the reflective phase gratings can be compressed such that a diffraction order of the reflective phase gratings changes according to the force of the applied load.
Stenotaenia naxia Verhoeff 1901
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Stenotaenia
Stenotaenia naxia

description: * Stenotaenia naxia (Verhoeff, 1901)
Material examined: 7 3, 7 ƤƤ, 4 unsexed.
Sites: 1, 4, 27, 52, 54, 57, 110, 122, 123, 125, 146, 169, 175, 180 (Fig. 19).
General distribution. Europe: Cyprus, Greece (Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese). West Asia: Cyprus, Palestine (Bonato & Minelli 2008).
Chorotype. East Mediterranean.
Habitats. Maquis and phryganic formations, in habitats with Pinus, Acacia and Cupressus, Pinus forests, mixed forests with Pinus, Quercus and Acer.
Altitudinal range: 10–1340 m.
Range of leg pairs recorded in Cyprus. 71–79 (3) and 75–89 (ƤƤ).
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Formal calculus, umbral calculus, and basic axiomatics of vertex algebras
Creators: name: Robinson, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The central subject of this thesis is formal calculus together with certain applications to vertex operator algebras and combinatorics.  By formal calculus we mean mainly the formal calculus that has been used to describe vertex operator algebras and their modules as well as logarithmic tensor product theory, but we also mean the formal calculus known as umbral calculus.  We shall exhibit and develop certain connections between these formal calculi.  Among other things we lay out a technique for efficiently proving certain general formal Taylor theorems and we show how to recast much of the classical umbral calculus as stemming from a formal calculus argument that calculates the exponential generating function of the higher derivatives of a composite function.  This formal calculus argument is analogous to an important calculation proving the associativity property of lattice vertex operators.  Weuse some of our results to derive combinatorial identities.  Finally, we apply other results to study some basic axiomatics of vertex (operator) algebras.  In particular, we enhance well known formal calculus approaches to the axioms by introducing a new axiom, "weak skew-associativity,'' in order to exploit the$mathcal{S}_{3}$-symmetric nature of the Jacobi identity axiom.  In particular, we use this approach to give a simplified proof that the weak associativity and the Jacobi identity axioms for a module for a vertex algebra are equivalent, an important result in therepresentation theory of vertex algebras.
Resurrecting the past
Creators: name: Rossi, Michael A
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The increasing number of states transitioning from authoritarian rule over the last twenty years has prompted scholars to develop more robust definitions of democracy. Specifically, calls among social scientists for more dynamic models of democratic transition have included a need in identifying a particular “quality” of democracy that exceeds earlier models of procedural electoral regimes. However, even these deeper understandings of democracy that account for civic institutions, regime transparency, social justice, and the rule of law often fail to account for how states can develop a more robust democratic society. The divide between theories of “thick” democracy and the increasing number of illiberal democratic regimes that operate within a hybrid system of democratic and authoritarian practice has, I believe, encouraged greater research into a reexamination of the relationship between politics and culture. This study argues that a political movement, regardless of ideology or orientation, that roots itself within specific historical and cultural narratives of a community, enjoys greater degrees of social control and public acceptance. Conversely, a movement that ignores national symbols and historical narratives risks both political irrelevancy and social disengagement. Through an examination of historical documents, historical school textbooks, 2008 presidential and parliamentary election campaign material, personal interviews, and polling data collected from research institutions throughout Serbia and Europe, I argue that the legitimacy and saliency of either democracy or authoritarianism is dependent on how political elites shape their personal strategies and goals to be congruent with collective identity.
Hyperspectral Speckle Imaging
Creators: name: Johns, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2024

description:
Imaging objects in space is of interest to both astronomers and government agencies alike. Various government agencies are interested in maintaining situational awareness in the final frontier by direct monitoring of space-based assets. Monitoring man-made objects requires direct imaging techniques. However, corruption by the Earths atmosphere makes direct imaging more difficult. Techniques such as speckle imaging have been employed to freeze the atmosphere and recover the underlying object with high fidelity. State-of-the-art speckle imaging techniques, namely Multi-Frame Myopic Deconvolution (MFMD), rely on wavefront sensing to provide accurate Point-Spread Functions (PSFs) for recovery of the underlying object. First, we show successful recoveries of simulated scenes with spatially-varying PSFs. We show that, for fields once considered isoplanatic, there are considerable advantages to including anisoplanatic effects in the recovery process, such as improved accuracy on recovered flux ratios and improved object morphology. This allows for full atmospheric tomography and improves the fidelity of both on- and off-axis sources. Typically, speckle images are collected across a narrow bandpass. Here we also extend speckle imaging to a broad spectral range (?? ? 600 nm), i.e. hyperspectral speckle imaging, using numerical simulations of broadband speckle images. This brings with it vital gains in sensitivity and improved sampling of the wavefront from chromatic effects. From this, spectral information on the target is recovered, which could pave the way for future material aging studies. Finally, to complement these numerical studies we built a suite of optical experiments to simulate turbulence and simulate wavefront sensing instruments. We also develop and deploy the ARGOS 2-channel broadband imaging instrument on the Hard Labor Creek Observatory (HLCO) 0.7m telescope with limited success.
Philonthus jaculus Hromadka 2013
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus jaculus

description: Philonthus jaculus Hromádka, 2013
Philonthus jaculus Hromádka, 2013e: 219, Figs 46–48.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘REP. SOUTH AFRICA:Natal / Cathedral Peaks For. / Sta., 75km WSW Estcourt / 7-31.XII.1979,S&J Peck [p] // Ber 4,13.XII.79 / Bothas Shelter / Hyrax (Procavia) dung, 1760m [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / jaculus sp.nov. / Hromádka, det. 2009. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 373, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
New results in optimization with functional constraints
Creators: name: Rudolf, Gábor
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: We consider optimization problems featuring nonnegativity constraints on functions associated with the decision variables. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the topic of optimization over the cone of positive polynomials. We present a method for constructing non-negative spline approximations to the arrival rate of a non-homogenous Poisson process based on observed arrival data, along with numerical results and a comparison to previous approaches. Our results are obtained by formulating the problem as asemidefinite program; we explore the theoretical obstacles to a more direct method by proving that only a constant number of linearly independent bilinear optimality conditions exist for cones of positive polynomials, regardless of dimension.In the second part we look at optimization with second order stochastic dominance constraints. Here the functional inequalities appear naturally, featuring the integral of the distribution function of a random variable defined by the decision variables. We develop new duality results as well as cutting plane methods thatare shown to perform well on a class of portfolio optimization problems. Finally we point out an interesting connection, arising as part of our duality considerations, between the theory of measures with given marginals and network feasibility. This results in a new proof of Strassen's Theorem from its trivial discrete case.