cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Meaning-making in a medical world
Creators: name: Smith, Dena T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In this study, I interview psychiatrists and psychologists (N=40) in order to assess their feelings about the role of medication, talk-therapy, and diagnosis in practice; in general, I explore what practitioners feel is the best modality for treating patients. Though there is extensive research on psychiatric paradigms, on prescribing patterns and trends in the use of talk therapy, there is to date no comprehensive project that involves interviews with mental health practitioners - doctors who have become central figures in American culture. I address the assumption in the literature that the classic Freudian, psychodynamic, or psychoanalytic model is at odds with the biological, diagnostic or medical model that dominates psychiatry today. In the 1980s, psychiatry underwent a dramatic shift its approach to treatment; the once dominant psychodynamic model gave way to the biological model, which is characterized by treatment with medications, short visits with doctors, and which targets assumed underlying imbalances of chemicals in the brain. Until the 80s, patients generally engaged in long-term, in-depth talk-therapy with practitioners who believed their problems stemmed from trauma, psychological development and repression. Therefore, psychodynamic therapists believed that uncovering the meaning of patients’ symptoms using the “talking cure” could relieve suffering. Today, there is little psychodynamic practice in the United States. Psychodynamically oriented practitioners are often accused of employing unscientific treatment methods. Most theorists suggest that the psychoanalytic and the biological model are irreconcilable in their assumptions about etiology and treatment approaches. Yet there are a handful of practitioners who choose to train in psychoanalysis to strengthen their talk therapy skills after medical training in psychiatry or graduate programs in psychology. Thus, practitioners negotiate the boundaries between the dynamic and biological paradigms. Given the major changes in the mental health field and the potential struggles for practitioners who work within multiple treatment modalities, I explore how the tensions between the psychodynamic and biological models affect psychiatrists and psychologists. In short, I explore whether and to what extent these potential clashes between these paradigms manifest in practice (and how practitioners avoid them in other cases).
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. corlosiformis Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia officinalis
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. corlosiformis hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. corlosiformis Hyatt, 1877
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. corlosiformis Hyatt, 1877: 513, pl. 16 fig. 14.
Euspongia officinalis var. rotunda; Von Lendenfeld 1889: 269.
Spongia tubulifer a; Wiedenmayer 1977: 55.
Spongia pertusa; Van Soest, 1978: 12.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). I propose to assign this material from the Caribbean region to Spongia (Spongia) anclotea De Laubenfels & Storr, 1958, of which Spongia pertusa sensu Van Soest, 1978 is a synonym (cf. Van Soest et al. 2020: 45).
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Dromius quadraticollis A. Morawitz 1862
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dromius
Dromius quadraticollis

description: Dromius quadraticollis A. Morawitz, 1862
Cottens (FR), Bois de Chavailles Est, 620 m, 571.0 /178.0, 13.3.2012: 3 Ind.
Cottens (FR), Bois de Chavailles Millieu, 665 m, 570.5 /177.7, 13.3.2012: 3 Ind.
Oppligen (BE), Hasli West, 570 m, 612.0 /184.3, 6.1.2014: 1 Ind.
Oppligen (BE), Hasli Nord, 575 m, 612.2 / 184.5, 6.1.2014: 4 Ind.
Bessonnens (FR), Pra Chermin, 695 m, 555.0 / 154.2, 22.1.2015: 5 Ind.
Die in Hoess (2009) genannte Methode funktioniert weiterhin; alle aufgeführten Tiere wurden in Wäldern an Tannen (Abies alba) gefunden. Bei Bern und der Ruine Riedburg konnte ich die Art erneut nachweisen. Drei Nachsuchen anno 2015 in der Nordostschweiz (Weisslingen (ZH), Merishausen (SH), Uzwil (SG)), wo die Art bislang noch nicht gemeldet wurde, blieben erfolglos. Günstige Stellen – wie die oben genannten – lassen sich auch mithilfe der Luftbilder auf www. map.geo.admin.ch ermitteln, da sich Tannen an der Kronenform von den schmalstrahlig wachsenden Fichten unterscheiden lassen. Wenn noch Höhenlage und Luftfeuchtigkeit durch Gewässernähe stimmen, ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit hoch, D. quadraticollis zu finden.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 60, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Homonotus Dahlbom 1843
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Homonotus

description: Genus Homonotus Dahlbom, 1843
Homonotus Dahlbom, 1843:34. Type species: Sphex sanguinolenta Fabricius, 1793.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Towards a transgender sublime
Creators: name: Singer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation offers a corrective to limited interpretations of the category transgender across literary and medical discourses, as well as visual culture and new media. Most often, the term transgender is used as a stable category of personhood, or, alternately, as an umbrella term that encompasses all sex and gender variance. Suchusage results in reductive models in medical and educational contexts, as well as closed narrative structures in literary and popular cultural depictions of trans-subjectivity and embodiment. By contrast, I understand “transgender” as a proliferative matrix thatproduces representations of rapidly shifting embodiments and identities that exceed sex/gender categorization. I theorize the effect of proliferation as the “transgender sublime” to account for encounters with representational excess—whether in publichealth settings or popular culture—that can overwhelm perception and unsettle familiar ways of knowing. Insofar as it demands an interpretive practice based on “shimmering” mobility, this phenomenon harbors a transformative potential: a politics of transgender sublimity promotes categorical excess as a means to enable new modes of subjectivity. In the first chapter, I critique a widespread educational model called the“transgender umbrella.” I identify the manner by which it represents, in visual form, the taxonomic excess that conditions transgender sublimity. The second chapter is an ethnographic study of a trans-specific harm reduction program that negotiates binarygenderedHIV-prevention strategies in public health worlds. I argue that by recoding binary-gendered institutional practices, such programs re-contour social imaginariesthrough mobilization of categorical and representational excess. Chapter Three analyzes trans man Thomas Beatie’s online autobiographical account of his pregnancy that is accompanied by a photograph of his pregnant body. I argue that visualizing “the pregnantman” occasions an incitement to discourse about how the sight of a pregnant man renders viewers speechless: speechlessness being symptomatic of a representational limit that signals the transgender sublime. The final chapter critiques the “wrong body” trope found in psychological and medical literature, as well as in transsexual autobiographies that follow the Bildungsroman structure. I compare this with My Right Self, an online photonarrative project that uses the excesses of transgender sublimity to imagine and represent alternate wor(l)ds.
L1-guided differentiation of embryonic stem cells towards neural lineages
Creators: name: Shih, Hsuan Yu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent cells that have the ability to differentiate into cell lineages from all three germ layers. However, the use of stem cells in therapeutics relies on the ability to control their differentiation.  Studies have shown that implantation of undifferentiated ES cells into an injury site leads to their spontaneous differentiation and potential tumor formation. One method to control stem cell differentiation is through the design of biomaterials that mimic the natural microenvironment during development. Biomaterials can provide a microenvironment in which host as well as replacement therapeutic cells can reside. Controlling this microenvironment provides opportunities to present specific physical and soluble cues that control cell and tissue fate.  Herein, we conjugate the cell adhesion molecule L1 to type I collagen to allow for its sustained, physiologically relevant presentation. L1 is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily shared by neural and immune cells and has been shown to promote neurite extension as well as functional recovery in adult rats after contusion-induced spinal cord injury. In this study, we will investigate the role of L1 on mouse embryonic stem cells. We will assay the effects of L1 presentation on cell adhesion, proliferation, and most importantly differentiation of embryonic stem cells (mESCs). As L1 has a homophilic binding domain, we will study the effects of using a genetically modified mESCs that overexpress L1 in combination with our L1-grafted biomaterial.  Collectively, these studies will provide greater insight into the role of designing materials to guide the differentiation of stem cells. These materials may be used as delivery mechanisms for stem cell therapeutics or scaffolds on which ones own stem cells can differentiate towards a particular required cell type or lineage.
Finite mixture regression models and applications
Creators: name: Shen, Junwu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Finite mixture models have been used to analyze data in a heterogeneous population. In this dissertation, we aimed to propose two statistical methodologies: one is the mixture regression model analysis accommodating repeated measures and observations under detection limits; the other is the GOF test for evaluating the model fit of mixture regression models, with and without random effects. Both methodologies were applied to the analysis of the 8-isoprostane data in the HEART study.    A general framework for random effects finite mixture regression models was proposed to analyze repeatedly measured data with observations under a detection limit. The non-detectables were treated as left-censored observations and the regression parameters were estimated by the maximum likelihood method. Using normal mixture models as an example, we demonstrated that the parameter estimators are unbiased.     In addition, we proposed a prototype goodness-of-fit test method based on the principle of cumulative residuals. Cumulative pseudo-residuals were defined based on the score functions and then a GOF test was proposed accordingly for two-component normal mixture models with and without random effects. Extensive simulation studies showed that the proposed GOF tests maintained the type I error rate, and had a reasonable power to detect model deviations.
Gonaporus ecbatanus Wolf 1990
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Gonaporus
Gonaporus ecbatanus

description: Gonaporus ecbatanus Wolf, 1990b
Gonaporus ecbatanus Wolf, 1990b:632, ♀.— Iran, Teheran, Steppa 30 km S. di Teheran (OLL).
Distribution in Iran: TEHRAN (WOLF 1990B; WOLF et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Dromius schneideri Crotch 1871
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dromius
Dromius schneideri

description: Dromius schneideri Crotch, 1871
Sonceboz-Sombeval (BE), Sous les Prises, 725 m, 578.7 /227.7, 15.3.2012: 2 Ind.
Corgémont (BE), Pâturage du Droit, 750 m, 577.6–578.1/ 227.8-227.9, 2.12.2015: 4 Ind.
Für D. schneideri günstige Weiden mit Kiefern, unter deren Rindenschuppen die Adulttiere überwintern, sind selten und möglicherweise weiter westlich im Jura nicht vorhanden.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 61, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Homonotus sanguinolentus
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Homonotus
Homonotus sanguinolentus

description: Homonotus sanguinolentus (Fabricius, 1793)
Sphex sanguinolentus Fabricius, 1793:211.—Germania.
Distribution in Iran: FARS (FALAHATPISHE et al. 2016), KHORASAN (EBRAHIMI et al. 2008), MAZANDARAN, WEST AZERBAIJAN (WOLF et al. 2009— AS Homonotus balcanicus HAUPT, 1927).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on pages 465-466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Pompilus arcanus
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Pompilus
Pompilus arcanus

description: Icazus arcanus (Priesner, 1955)
Pompilus arcanus Priesner, 1955:98, Syntypes ♀ ♂.— Egypt, many locations (NHMW).
Distribution in Iran: FARS (FALAHATPISHE et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Essays on Bayesian inference in regression models with non-normal error terms
Creators: name: Shimizu, Haruhiko
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The dissertation consists of three essays on regression models with non-normal error terms.    In the first essay, I consider the Bayesian analysis of regression model with the error term following the exponential power distribution (EPD) that includes normal and Laplace distributions as special cases. Many empirical data are known to follow non-normal distributions. If we use a distribution that is flexible enough to include the normal distribution as a special case, we may be able to explain the data better. In estimating the regression model I use a modified efficient jump algorithm for Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) draws of the parameters of the epd distribution.  I also discuss the unbiasedness of the least absolute deviation (LAD) estimator. The LAD estimator of the regression coefficients turns out to be unbiased except for the constant term even if the error term has a skewed distribution.    Second essay is about the censored model known as the Tobit. Yu and Stander (2007) proposed a Bayesian quantile regression model using the asymmetric Laplace distribution (ALD). Yu and Staner (2007) formulated the likelihood function based on the quantiles. I construct the likelihood function based on the usual way the Tobit regression model is defined in econometrics. I show by using Monte Carlo simulation experiments that the way I constructed the likelihood function works better than Yu and Stander's likelihood function judged by the mean squared errors. I present an application using the data on hours worked by women.    In the third essay, I evaluate the performance of a popular Bayesian model selection criteria known as the deviance information criterion (DIC) proposed by Spiegelhalter et.al (2002). I use the Tobit regression models. I find from the simulation analysis that if the data are generated from the ALD, the DIC consistently chooses the correct model. If the data is generated from the normal distribution, the performance of the DIC depends on the signs of the regression coefficients. As a real data analysis the Tobit regression model is applied to the number of medals obtained in the Olympic Games by participating countries.
(Re)visions of love
Creators: name: Shea, Kathleen J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation explores the revised publication of the Amores as Ovid’s triumphal monument to elegy, one which rivals Augustus’ political activities and building projects and is a fitting self-tribute to Ovid’s early literary career.  Ovid’s revised arrangement of the three books function as a vehicle of new meaning and aesthetics for the work as a whole. In each libellus, Ovid rearranges the poems in light of a major monument of Augustan Rome, challenging the reader to visually “see” both the elegiac and the Augustan monuments simultaneously and to construct meaning and political discourse from their comparison. The major monument is introduced in each book’s second poem, which effectively revises the books’ programmatic initial poems and presents the monument as the proper ambience for understanding the schematic and thematic arrangement of each book. Through this new comparative structure, Ovid voices dissent from the Augustan Principate and creates his own didactic message about the proper tension between the ruler’s auctoritas and the citizens’ libertas in a peaceful Rome.    In Amores 1 Ovid maps his new arrangement onto the recently dedicated Forum Augustum to highlight Augustan intrusion in the lives of Romans and to lampoon the monument’s triumphal claims. In Amores 2 the Portico of the Danaids at the Temple of Palatine Apollo evokes Augustus’ propagandistic message of moral renewal at the end of the civil wars, a message that Ovid rejects and recasts by presenting an indictment of Augustus’ marriage legislation as constituting a continuation of civil aggression in the private sphere. In Amores 3, the poet presents two distinct visions of the valley of the Circus Maximus to highlight the layered structure of Roman landscape and identity and introduce the major structuring theme of the final libellus, the raw natural environment and the fictive arts of the poets, and politicians, who shape that nature. Ovid’s politics, however, are not thoroughly subversive. Rather, he offers the Princeps some realistic advice on the need for moderation. He does not object to Augustus’ rule per se, but to Augustus’ over-reaching and moralizing control that endangers the libertas of Rome’s citizens and Rome’s poets.
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. aperta Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia officinalis
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. aperta hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. aperta Hyatt, 1877
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. aperta Hyatt, 1877: 513 (no illustration)
Euspongia officinalis var. rotunda; Von Lendenfeld 1889: 269.
Spongia tubulifer a; Wiedenmayer 1977: 55.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). I propose to assign this material from the Caribbean region to Spongia (Spongia) tubulifera Lamarck, 1814 in accordance with Wiedenmayer.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. disciformis Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia officinalis
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. disciformis hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. disciformis Hyatt, 1877
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. disciformis Hyatt, 1877: 513 (no illustration).
Spongia tubulifer a; Wiedenmayer 1977: 55.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). I propose to assign this material from the Caribbean region to Spongia (Spongia) tubulifera Lamarck, 1814.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Chlaenius vestitus
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Chlaenius
Chlaenius vestitus

description: Chlaenius vestitus (Paykull, 1790)
Fläsch (GR), Tola, 500 m, 757.2 /209.9, 17.5.2014: 1 Ind.
Dies ist erst der zweite Fund dieser Art aus dem Kanton Graubünden; der andere stammt aus dem Jahre 1942.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 60, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Improving performance, privacy and relevance of location-based services for mobile users
Creators: name: Shankar, Pravin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular due to the  ubiquity of smartphones and the emergence of vehicular computing  applications. Mobile clients have traditionally been consumers of  location-based services, but various social applications have recently  demonstrated that mobile clients can also be producers of  location-based data. Our thesis is that the quality of the  location-based services critically depends on the performance of the  service, the privacy assurances offered to the clients, and the  quality of the data provided by the service. In this dissertation, we  propose three contributions addressing key aspects of these  challenges: network performance, location privacy for the mobile  clients, and relevance of data provided by the service.    With respect to the wireless network performance for location-based  services, we present Context-Aware Rate Selection (CARS), a rate  adaptation algorithm that makes use of knowledge of speed and distance  between communicating nodes to choose the optimum transmission  rate. Our experimental evaluation in real outdoor vehicular  environments shows that CARS adapts to changing link conditions at  high vehicular speeds significantly faster than existing  rate-adaptation algorithms.    With respect to the client location privacy, we present SybilQuery, a  fully decentralized and autonomous k-anonymity-based scheme that  generates synthetic queries that resemble a real client query. Our  experiments on real mobility traces of approximately 500 cabs in the  San Francisco Bay area show that SybilQuery can efficiently generate  synthetic queries and that these queries are indistinguishable from  real queries.    Finally, with respect to improving the relevance of location-based  data, we present SocialTelescope, a novel location-based service that  leverages user interactions in mobile social networks to infer  people's preference for places. Our results evaluating the coverage  and relevance of our system in comparison to current state-of-the-art  approaches show that our approach returns results that are at least as  relevant as those returned by current approaches, at a substantially  lower cost.    The main conclusion of this dissertation is that location-based  services can become truly ubiquitous services by providing mobile  clients with good network performance, privacy guarantees, as well as  relevant results.
Microphadnus Cameron 1905
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Microphadnus

description: Genus Microphadnus Cameron, 1905
Microphadnus Cameron, 1905:212. Type species: Microphadnus bicolor Cameron, 1904, by subsequent designation of Arnold, 1937:68.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
A nanochannel with an embedded transverse graphene tunneling electrode for molecular probing and as a future tool for DNA sequencing
Creators: name: Schottdorf, Manuel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Single layer graphene, as a one-atom-thick highly conductive layer, is  an exciting candidate for highly localized tunneling measurements because it is sufficiently thin to resolve a single molecule. We have fabricated graphene tunneling junctions confined within a nanochannel to explore the feasibility of developing a single-molecule sequencing tool for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The unprecedented thinness of graphene electrodes allows to overcome the problems encountered using metallic electrodes, which are too bulky for single-molecule resolution. By confining of the molecule in a nanochannel, a long and narrow structure through which it can be dragged electrophoretically, it is possible to slow down the DNA sufficiently to achieve single base translocation. We show an experimental realization of the first steps towards a new graphene sequencing device. First, we present a new experimental technique for the production of nanogaps in a sheet of graphene. Applying a high current density in a graphene strip removes material from the strip resulting in the formation of nanogaps and tips. Starting from graphene grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), we fabricate those structures. We show transport measurements of graphene devices in helium, air and vacuum demonstrating the realization of tunneling gaps. Second, we embed graphene tunneling junctions in a nanochannel and measure tunneling currents through various liquids. Using Simmons' model we calculate the work function between graphene and those liquids. Third we present evidence for inelastic tunneling through different molecules especially Rhodamine B and Adenosine monophosphate. We compare the results with data from optical spectroscopy.
Cosmic ray exposure ages of iron meteorites using  ³⁹K-⁴⁰K-⁴¹K dating
Creators: name: Shankar, Nirmala
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This research involves the determination of the cosmic ray exposure ages of iron meteorites using ³⁹K-⁴⁰K-⁴¹K  dating. Potassium was separated from nickel using ~ 4 mL of Chelex-100 resin and 15 mL of ammonium acetate (a mixture of equal volumes of 2 M acetic acid and 3 M aqueous ammonia) as eluent. Nickel was retained as a complex and potassium elutes out. The method is effective because of a low value for the blanks (~ 50 ng of potassium) that could be achieved. The concentration of the separated K, measured using Graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS), inductively coupled mass spectrometry (ICPMS) and isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) and will be used for the calculation of ³⁹K-⁴⁰K-⁴¹K exposure ages of iron meteorites. Potassium was successfully separated from multiple samples of 8 iron meteorites. The calculated CRE age (378 Ma) agrees for the meteorite Brownfield (355 Ma, Voshage and Feldmann, 1979) with the literature value. The literature value (645 Ma, Voshage and Feldmann, 1979) is ~3 times the value calculated (190 Ma, this work) for Picacho. Further studies are suggested and may be the awaited results from Harvard for some 8 samples will give us more information. A portion of the research is also focused on the measurement of activities of the cosmogenic nuclides  ²⁶Al,  ¹⁰Be, ³⁶Cl and ⁶⁰Fe. The ¹⁰Be(dpm/kg) and ³⁶Cl(dpm/kg) activities obtained were combined with available data from literature (Ammon et al., 2009) and the ⁴⁰K(dpm/kg) activities were predicted. The predicted K[subscript cos] (Total) concentrations were ~40 % higher for Brownfield and ~100 % higher for Picacho as compared with the experimentally determined values. To validate these results further work is suggested for the separation of potassium isotopes from irons and measuring the cosmogenic content. Newly measured ⁶⁰Fe activities of the meteorites Brownfield, Charlotte, Grant, NWA468, Picacho, Signal Mountain and Tlacotepec were reported and the ⁶⁰Fe(dpm/[kgNi] activities are in the range 0.3 – 1.5(dpm/[kgNi]). The ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar apparent age, isochron, and cosmic ray exposure ages of 3 martian meteorites (ALHA 77005, Shergotty, Y000749) and a eucrite (Pasamonte) were also reported.
Diogenes avarus Heller 1865
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Diogenidae
Diogenes
Diogenes avarus

description: Diogenes avarus Heller, 1865
(Fig. 8A)
Habitat. Sandy, muddy and gravel shore, reef flat, intertidal.
Distribution. From East Africa and the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean to Thailand, the Malay Archipelago, Vietnam, the Philippines, and northern Australia. Indonesia: Lombok, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua.
Remarks. This is a very common species on sandy muddy shores. Forest (1956), McLaughlin and Clark (1997), Rahayu and Forest (1995), Rahayu and Komai (2000), Rahayu and Hortle (2002), Siddiqui et al. (2004) have discussed the variability of the following morphological characters: proportion of ocular peduncles against corneas and shield; presence or absence of spine on fourth segment of antennal peduncles; shape of left cheliped; presence or absence of row of spines on dorsal margin of propodus and carpus of second and third pereopods.The color in life of the specimens in this study is different than those described by Morgan (1987a) for the specimens from Australia, and Haig and Ball (1988) for the specimens from Banda, Maluku. In the present specimens the color is as follows: ocular peduncles blue with oblique dark brown band proximally, left cheliped dark brown with dactyl and fixed finger light brown, ambulatory legs dactyl and merus light brown with dark brown or black band proximally, while the propodus and carpus brownish blue distally, dark brown or black proximally (Fig. 8A). The color of the specimens from Australia is as follows: ocular peduncles cream sometimes with blue-green fleck proximally, cheliped cream with variable area of brown especially on propodus ventrally, ambulatory legs cream, propodus brown near mid-length, and scattered brown areas on carpus and merus. Whereas the specimen from Banda has ocular peduncles uniform light brown, or brown with broad, oblique white band medially, carpus and merus of large cheliped solid light brown, chela white; dactylus of ambulatory legs dark brown proximally and white distally; propodus white medially, dark brown proximally and light brown distally; carpus light brown with white band distally; merus with two brown bands.
Considering the variability of morphological and color characters mentioned above, it is possible that more than one species has been identified as D.avarus in different areas of the Indo-West Pacific. It is beyond the scope of this study to resolve the validity of D. avarus across its distribution.
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 15, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
History, preservation and reconstruction in Siena
Creators: name: Scappini, Chiara
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Year: 2011

description: This dissertation concerns the Fonte Gaia, the most significant civic monument in Siena, located in the Piazza del Campo facing the town hall, the Palazzo Pubblico. The complex of reliefs and statues that decorated the fountain is considered one of the major expressions of Italian Quattrocento sculpture. Yet the fountain in its current iteration is not the original, eloquent masterpiece completed in 1419 by hometown sculptor Jacopo della Quercia (c. 1374-1438); rather, it is a nineteenth-century reconstruction commissioned from Tito Sarrocchi (1824-1900) by a committee of leading Sienese citizens. This study begins with a new assessment of the Fonte Gaia in the Renaissance and follows its history into the nineteenth century. I show how an earlier Trecento fountain on the site influenced the form and decoration of Quercia’s later fountain, and I address the lacunae in the scholarship of the Fonte Gaia that would account for its afterlife. I elucidate Quercia’s complex iconographic program through my analysis of the drawing attributed to his hand and the relationships between his program for the Fonte Gaia and Taddeo di Bartolo’s fresco program in the Antechapel of the Palazzo Pubblico of 1414. I demonstrate the importance of Sarrocchi’s nineteenth-century plaster casts, often overlooked by scholars, in the effort to decipher Quercia’s original sculptures, and I show how the modern restoration (1989-2010) of the fountain by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure can help us to further understand the nature of his stone material, the previously unsuspected presence of polychromy, and the nature of his Renaissance design.                 Through an examination of pertinent documents, I explain how the nineteenth-century project to restore the fountain, stimulated by the Risorgimento, was a reflection of the social and political history of Siena and of modern Italy. Visual evidence indicates that Sarrocchi’s revival sculpture, currently in situ, cannot be considered a copy of Quercia’s Fonte Gaia, but rather a variant of it. My dissertation demonstrates how Sarrocchi’s fountain --heavily influenced by the Italian art movement Purism and the prevailing restoration theories that circulated in Siena at the time -- reflects the reception of Renaissance art in the nineteenth century.
Adaptive geolocation based interference control for hierarchical cellular network with femtocells
Creators: name: Sagari, Shweta
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Year: 2011

description: This thesis presents adaptive interference control methods to mitigate undesirable interference effects from femtocells to macrocell users in hierarchical cellular networks. The study in this thesis begins by quantifying the deterioration in performance experienced by macrocell users on the downlink in a simulated 3G/CDMA environment. Our baseline results show that the median deterioration in signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) observed for the macrocell users may be up to 10dB and the outage probability increases by large extend. In the next part of study, we propose interference mitigation schemes - ‘Proximity Based Iterative’ (PBI) scheme and ‘Adaptive Interference Scaling’ (AIS) scheme to adjust femtocell power to reduce femtocell interference effect on macrocell users. We show that previously studied mechanisms like the load-spillage, utility based power adaptation usually require relatively high system overhead due to over-the-air signalling for estimation of interference. Proposed PBI and AIS schemes avoid such over-the-air signalling and make use of geo-location information and backhaul signalling for the femtocell interference estimation. These schemes achieve power re-distribution by scaling power uniformly across femtocells, while allowing the network operators to set desired target data rates.  Results from simulations show that the PBI and AIS schemes are able to increase the number of macrocell users achieving chosen target data rates by up to 158% when compared with the value when femtocell transmission power is at maximum. However, in case of the PBI scheme, results shows that 25% of femtocell users may receive rates below the target rate. The AIS scheme provides an improvement over the PBI scheme by adjusting femtocell power according to the interference contribution by each femtocell. Thus, AIS achieves better performance and only up to 12:2% of femtocell users receive rates below the target rate.    This study concludes with parametric evaluation of system throughput as a function of both macrocell and femtocell user densities. Qualitative results are provided to support the conclusion.
Microphadnus pumilus
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Microphadnus
Microphadnus pumilus

description: Microphadnus pumilus (Costa, 1882)
Aporus pumilus Costa, 1882:54, ♂.— Italy, Camaldosi (coll. Mus. Napoli).
Distribution in Iran: FARS (FALAHATPISHE et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. duplex Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia officinalis
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. duplex hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. duplex Hyatt, 1877
Spongia officinalis subsp. tubulifera var. duplex Hyatt, 1877: 513 (no illustration).
Spongia tubulifer a; Wiedenmayer 1977: 55.
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). I propose to assign this material from Havana, Cuba to Spongia (Spongia) tubulifera Lamarck, 1814, in accordance with Wiedenmayer.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Impacts of medical and wellness tourism centers on the communities around them
Creators: name: Rudra, Purba
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Over the past decade or so the movement of patients and wellness seekers across borders, over long distances, has increased and India has been the destination of choice for many.  This is private sector led growth, but the government has provided support in terms of subsidies and its promotion. With the alignment of governmental support and other enabling circumstances, many new centers-both corporate hospitals and Ayurvedic wellness centers-have opened in India. The case studies for this research were centers in Delhi, for medical tourism, and Kerala, for wellness tourism.   This study involved assessing the impacts of these centers on the local communities around them, in terms of medical, economic, and infrastructural consequences. Another question was whether these centers formed enclaves, of varying degrees, where the impacts were focused, or were there significant benefits for these communities from the centers being there.  The flow of benefits to the locals, in terms of access to healthcare and other economic and infrastructural impacts was limited, more so around the wellness tourism centers. Many, living close to these centers, could not afford the facilities because of the expense involved. All the medical tourism centers in the study were built on land given at concessional rates, with the promise that the hospitals would reserve a certain percentage of their outpatient and inpatient capacities for people below poverty level. Most of these hospitals have failed to follow that. In terms of other benefits, some local businesses and the accommodation sector have benefitted from these centers being located in their neighborhoods.
Nanoclavelia leucoptera
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Nanoclavelia
Nanoclavelia leucoptera

description: Nanoclavelia leucoptera (Dahlbom, 1845)
Pompilus leucopterus Dahlbom, 1845:453, ♂.— Germania.
Distribution in Iran: GUILAN (WOLF 1977), MAZANDARAN (HAUPT 1929A; WOLF 1977 — AS Psammochares sedulus HAUPT, 1929A).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
I bambini e la  mafia
Creators: name: Santoro, Lara
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Year: 2011

description: This dissertation examines the representation of children and the Mafia in 21st century Italian  texts, by analyzing them both in terms of their adherence to bildungsroman standards and of their  significance within the tradition of the Mafia-genre. In addition, I demonstrate how these texts  establish a connection with the aesthetic models of Italian Neorealism. This dissertation is  divided into four chapters, each with a specific theoretical approach. In the first chapter, I use a  Freudian-Jungian perspective and Turner’s anthropological studies to show how the transition  into adulthood in Certi bambini and Gomorra follows the pattern of a "masculinization", which is  understood as a process through which the male child integrates into the paternal culture of the  Mafia, as he internalizes the typical values of the "man of honor". In chapter two, I analyze how  the child’s unwillingness to integrate into the Mafia culture, both in I cento passi and Io non ho  paura, brings about a violent father-son confrontation, ultimately resulting in a symbolic  parricide. Here, too, I utilize a psychoanalytic approach, drawing in Freud’s oedipal complex, as  well as in Lacan’s Name-of-the-Father. The third chapter has a philosophical-anthropological  frame, drawing support in René Girard’s studies on the sacrificial victim. I show how the  presence of the child-martyr, depicted as figura Christi, reduplicates the idea of sacrifice carried  out by Placido Rizzotto and Alla luce del sole. The death of the innocent child mirrors the  sacrifice of the anti-Mafia hero and functions as a means of expiation and redemption. The fourth  chapter is gender-charged as it deals with the representation of the female child within the Mafia.  Drawing in gender and queer theory, specifically in the works of Cixous, De Beauvoir and  Butler, I demonstrate how the female protagonists of Canto al deserto and La siciliana ribelle  come to represent a new type of woman in the male-dominated Mafia world. I suggest that in  their transitional state from childhood to adulthood, we see the symbol of a historic transition  taking place within the Mafia patriarchal order, in which, despite all contradictions, the woman is  emerging from her "invisibility" and becoming more empowered.
Modeling financial markets using mixed minority/majority games
Creators: name: Savjani, Niki
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Financial markets are considered to be a system formed due to the interaction between heterogeneous individuals. Many models have tried emulating it and have tried to uncover the working behind it. Minority Game Model is one such model which has tried to emulate it. It is a game consisting of heterogeneous agents who believe that to gain profit one needs to be in the minority. However, it has been proved that the financial market consists of both fundamentalists (i.e. individuals gaining profit by being in the minority) as well as noise traders (individuals gaining profit by following the herd). So, we have used the Mixed Game Model to emulate financial markets which consists of Minority and Majority game players. Although it has been proved that the mixed game model is a suitable model to imitate financial world, we have observed that it still has many limitations like the two groups of agents have same properties and thus they lack in heterogeneity and also that the life of each agent is constant. But in real world, every individual has a unique memory and learning ability and will join and leave the markets as well. To improve on these limitations we have created the model, “Highly Heterogeneous Model” which removes both of these limitations. Also, we show that the new improved game improves the performance of the majority game players by 2.35 % and minority game players by 4.45 %. Apart from this we observed that all the models which have emulated financial market by using Minority Game have concentrated on the combined effect of agents of financial factors like prices, returns and volatilities i.e. they are synchronous. With the availability of high frequency data, its analysis has been continuously gaining importance in recent years. We have thus also studied this behavior of market using the asynchronous form of the game known as the “Asynchronous Mixed Game Model”. We finally also prove that the Highly Heterogeneous Game represents the daily time series and the Asynchronous Mixed Game represents the high frequency time series of real financial world.
Dyschirius abditus Fedorenko 1993
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dyschirius
Dyschirius abditus

description: Dyschirius abditus Fedorenko, 1993
Guggisberg (BE), Hoflanderebrügg, 920 m, 591.8 /173.7, 25.4.2009: 1 Ind.
Schwarzenburg (BE), Holzmatt Schwarzwasser S, 625 m, 595.5/187.9, 20.3.2014: 1 Ind.
Von dieser seltenen Art liegen dem CSCF nur wenige neue Daten aus den Kantonen Freiburg und Tessin vor. Sie ist stark an natürliche Flüsse mit Kiesbänken gebunden.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 61, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Nanoclavelia Haupt 1962
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Nanoclavelia

description: Genus Nanoclavelia Haupt, 1962
Nanoclavelia Haupt, 1962:22. Type species: Pompilus leucopterus Dahlbom, 1845, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890