cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stellasteropsis colubrinus Macan 1938
Creators: name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Goniasteridae
Stellasteropsis
Stellasteropsis colubrinus

description: Stellasteropsis colubrinus Macan 1938
Figure 36 D
Macan 1938: 395; Clark & Rowe 1971: 32, 48 (as Stellasteropsis colubrinus)
Diagnosis. This largely follows Macan’s (1938) description and is included herein for completeness and convenience.
Body strongly stellate (R/r=3.0), arms sharply triangular, tapering. Interradial arcs acute. Abactinal, marginal, actinal surfaces covered by continuous granule-invested integument. Abactinal plates abutting, polygonal in outline, no spines or tubercles present. Pedicellariae absent. Superomarginals strongly convex forming heterogeneous periphery. Distalmost four or five inferomarginal plates with tubercle on outer distal corner. Furrow spines four or five. Adambulacral plate surface covered by granules, no differentiated accessories or spines. Granules coarser than those present on actinal surface.
Comments. Stellasteropsis colubrinus reported by Chao from Taiwan [1990: 410, Figs 3B, 21, 22 (in checklist)] were misidentified. Based on Chao’s images, these show the papular pore pattern and tubercles of juvenile oreasterids, most likely in the genus Pentaceraster.
The strongly stellate body shape, elongate arms, absence of abactinal spines or tubercles as well as the number of furrow spines suggests that that affinities of this species lie with the more southern Stellasteropsis fouadi, especially those individuals with smaller, narrower arms. However, this species shares the more pronounced superomarginal convexity and the inferomarginal tubercles with Stellasterospsis tuberculiferus suggesting an intermediate morphology between the two species.
Occurrence. Gulf of Aden, Arabian coast, 13.5-200 m
description: Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2018, New genera, species and occurrence records of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Indian Ocean, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 4539 (1) on pages 93-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4539.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2615911
Tachysphex pulcher Pulawski 1967
Creators: name: Rezaei, Shohreh
name: Fallahzadeh, Majid
name: Saghaei, Nazila
name: Sadeghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Tachysphex
Tachysphex pulcher

description: Tachysphex pulcher Pulawski, 1967
Distribution in Iran: Khuzestan, Teheran (Pulawski 2007), West Azerbaijan (Samin & Bagriacik 2016).
General distribution: Palaearctic (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Yemen, United Arab Emirates).
description: Published as part of Rezaei, Shohreh, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Saghaei, Nazila & Sadeghi, Maryam, 2020, An annotated catalogue of the genus Tachysphex Kohl, 1883 of Iran (Hymenoptera Apoidea, Crabronidae), pp. 67-82 in Zootaxa 4890 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4301560
History of development in the Delaware Valley region
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1976

description: This study traces factors which shaped development patterns in the region over the years from the beginning of European settlement to 1975. This span of time is segmented into six significant periods: prior to 1700, 1700 to 1800 , 1800 to 1860, 1860 to 1900, 1900 to 1930, and 1930 to 1975. While emphasis is placed on the impact of technological innovations, especially transportation, other shaping forces such as social values and government policy are not overlooked, The final chapter presents an analysis of the future based on insight gained from the study of the forces which lead to the present state of the region. This report includes a series of seven maps illustrating the evolution of the regions development pattern. Also included are numerous tables presenting statistical support to the text.
Apply DEM to study wet binder addition and dry binder addition wet granulation in a high shear granulator
Creators: name: Chen, Sheng-Wen
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Year: 2017

description: Wet granulation is widely used in many industries especially in the pharmaceutical industry for its capability to improve flowability and handling of powder substances. A discrete element model (DEM) was developed to study two kinds of liquid addition methods in wet granulation in high shear granulator: wet binder addition (WBA) and dry binder addition (DBA). To define the complex interaction in the systems, liquid bridge model and powder penetration theory are applied to develop the contact model. The DBA system possesses ten times higher viscosity particles than the WBA system. The results of two systems were compared and differences in viscosity profile were identified. Viscous regions are found to move when time progressing. The relationship between impeller and viscosity profile are studied. The great difference in viscosity is related to strong liquid bridge force and average bridge number in the DBA system. The strong liquid bridge force results in larger granules in the DBA system.
Real property market responses to coastal flooding
Creators: name: Chandra Putra, Handi
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Year: 2017

description: The high development pressure in coastal areas overlaps with significant natural hazards, such as storm surge related to flooding caused by hurricanes. Because of this, coastal zone management (CZM) becomes more important. Through CZM programs, the federal government has assisted state governments in improving local coastal planning and management. Studies in the implementation and practice of CZM in the United States include: protection of beaches, estuaries; and redevelopment of urban ports and waterfronts. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed land use regulations and technical guidelines as part of the coastal management efforts. Another important program to protect real property owners from severe flood damages on their properties is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).    Therefore, this dissertation investigates the effects of coastal flooding on the dynamics of real property markets. Within the dynamics of real property markets, stakeholders respond to flooding differently based on their roles and interests. Real property market stakeholders’ adaptive behavior in response to coastal flooding is the interest of this dissertation.    The complexity of these socio-economic phenomena interacting with ecological phenomena requires research methodologies that are able to analyze both at the aggregate level and at the micro level. Thus, this dissertation employs spatial hedonic regression pricing models that have been used traditionally in property appraisals, and agent-based modeling (ABM) that has recently gotten into attention among researchers as a tool to explore behaviors and emergences. By using a case study of real estate markets in Monmouth County, New Jersey, this dissertation investigates how these markets respond to coastal flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy that made landfall on October 30, 2012.    The resulting hedonic regression analyses find that flood risks are capitalized in real property prices. FEMA floodplain maps are found to inform the prices as suggested in lower prices among floodplain properties than similar properties located outside the floodplain. The findings also suggest that flooding affects real properties based on tenureship. Flooding has more impacts on owner-occupied properties than absentee-owner properties. In an analysis of the flood insurance market, the findings suggest that communities are not well-prepared for flooding, particularly coastal flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy. The ABM modeling outputs explore the non-marginal changes in property prices, which include the stakeholders’ flood adaptation behaviors and the emergence of urban disinvestment and population decline caused by the capitalization of flood risks into real property prices.
Multiplayer game frameworks for crowd-aware co-design of environment
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Nilay
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: This paper proposes two frameworks in the field of Games in Research.  • Proposal1 Architectural design decisions stand to benefit by accounting for the presence and activities of human crowds that inhabit these spaces. Computational methods for simulating synthetic crowds provide a cost-effective means of exploring and analyzing the design search space. However, the crowd-aware architectural design is a complicated combinatorial decision process, where small changes in the design solution may affect crowds and their flow patterns in unexpected and potentially unintuitive ways. Existing solutions rely on expert intuition or automation, but are unable to account for much contradicting, and often subjective properties while optimizing designs. A single solution approach may also miss potential design solutions that achieve the desired objective specifications while meetingsubjectivecriteria. Weproposeameansofcombiningthesemethodsinagamified framework. Using our system, “players" (novice users or experts) can rapidly iterate on their designs while soliciting feedback from computer simulations of crowd movement, as well as the designs of previous players. Our approach affords a new way of thinking of the solution space in that it inherently supports competitive co-design and crowdsourced solutions. We evaluate our framework through a user study and demonstrate the potential  ii  of crowd-aware co-design of environments using simulation guided multiplayer games.  • Proposal2 Games in research is a modern trend in the world of research. Games are being used to simulate, monitor and test occurrences in reality. However, Game development knowledge is the initial requirement to use games in research either in any non-technical or technical field. Besides, availability of existing games suited to research is very meager. Also, attracting and reaching out to enough users for proper user study is a difficult task. We propose a connected real-time website and desktop-based game application. The website is themed as a social network which will help connect researchers with gamers and keep them updated. Our application also allows a researcher to choose and modify a few configuration parameters to change the game according to his requirement as well as dedicated ownership to the collected data. The game application provides a robust Massive Multiple Online game environment for a smooth and exciting gaming experience to involve gamers to contribute to research.
The Bernheim Petition
Creators: name: Cieplinski, Feigue
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Year: 2017

description: In May 12, 1933, a petition in the name of Franz Bernheim was sent by the Zionist  leadership to the League of Nations in an effort to defend the Jews of German Upper Silesia from  Hitler’s legal onslaught of their civil and social rights. Since the region was protected by the  German-Polish Convention of 1922, the Council of the League of Nations accepted the petition as  legitimate and ruled that the Nazi German government had to comply with its international  obligations. In an attempt to halt further political damage, and only after a protracted discussion, it  agreed to comply. The German-Polish Convention would expire on July 15, 1937, in which date all  Nazi laws would apply to this region. In the interim, Nazi compliance was uneven at best. Given  these results, the Zionist leaders chose to concentrate their efforts on the Zionist project in  Mandate Palestine as a more viable goal to defend Jewish rights.
Cominuscule flag varieties and their quantum K-theory
Creators: name: Chung, Sjuvon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: This thesis investigates the ring structure of the torus-equivariant quantum K-theory ring QKT(X) for a cominuscule flag variety X.  As a main result, we present an identity that relates the product of opposite Schubert classes in QKT(X) to the minimal degree of a rational curve joining the corresponding Schubert varieties.  Using this we infer further properties of the ring QKT(X), one of which is that the Schubert structure constants always sum to one.    We also introduce a formula for the quantum product of Schubert classes in projective space Pn.  As a corollary we establish Griffeth-Ram positivity of the Schubert structure constants for QKT(Pn).  After a closer analysis, we conclude that the rings QKT(Pn) are isomorphic for all n.
Evaluating model free policy optimization strategies for non linear systems
Creators: name: Chukka, Aditya H.
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Year: 2017

description: The Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (ILQR), a variant of Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) is a tool for optimizing both open-loop trajectories and guiding feedback controllers using dynamics information that can be inferred from data. This technique assumes linear dynamics and quadratic cost functions and improves the control policy iteratively until convergence. We demonstrate the capabilities of this framework in designing controllers for regulating both natural and custom behavior on a simple pendulum, the primitive non linear system. The method's assumptions limit its validity to smaller regions of the state space. Direct Policy Search methods use Reinforcement Learning to develop controllers for such scenarios. Nevertheless, these methods require numerous samples to generate an optimal policy and often converge to poor local optima.    Guided Policy Search (GPS) is a new technique that optimizes complex non-linear policies, such as those represented through deep neural networks, without computing policy gradients in high dimensional parameter space. It trains the policy in a "supervised" fashion using numerous locally valid controllers produced by ILQR. GPS provides appealing improvement and convergence guarantees in simple convex and linear settings and bounds the error in a non-linear setting. We apply Guided Policy Search to generate control policies for locomotion of a tensegrity robot, producing closed-loop motion that could not be achieved with previous methods.
Tachysphex simplex Pulawski 1971
Creators: name: Rezaei, Shohreh
name: Fallahzadeh, Majid
name: Saghaei, Nazila
name: Sadeghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Tachysphex
Tachysphex simplex

description: Tachysphex simplex Pulawski, 1971
Tachysphex longipalpis simplex Pulawski 1971:302, ♀, ³. Holotype: ³, Turkmenistan: Krasnovodsk. Paratypes: Iran and Israel.
Distribution in Iran: Tehran (Pulawski 1971).
General distribution: Palaearctic (Iran, Israel, Oman, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates).
Remarks: This taxon was originally described as the subspecies Tachysphex longipalpis simplex from Turkmenistan (Holotype), Iran and Israel (Paratypes) (see Pulawski 1971). Recently, Straka & Schmid-Egger (2017) recorded it from United Arab Emirates and raised it to full species status.
description: Published as part of Rezaei, Shohreh, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Saghaei, Nazila & Sadeghi, Maryam, 2020, An annotated catalogue of the genus Tachysphex Kohl, 1883 of Iran (Hymenoptera Apoidea, Crabronidae), pp. 67-82 in Zootaxa 4890 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4301560
A landscape integrity method for determining tradeable credits as the basis for conservation banking
Creators: name: Conroy, Margaret Eleanor
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Year: 2017

description: Habitat destruction and degradation are the most pervasive threats to biodiversity and contribute to the endangerment of many threatened or endangered species. The Endangered Species Act protects the ecosystems on which the endangered species depend through the mitigation hierarchy: avoid, reduce or compensate for negative impact to habitat. A piecemeal approach to mitigation, whereupon each project is compensated for separately often results in small non-sustainable parcels of habitat scattered throughout the landscape, is discouraged while consolidated market-based mitigation approaches are encouraged. Proactive planning and pooling of habitat mitigation areas can result in more cohesive, larger areas being conserved. Conservation banking, a key method of off-site consolidated mitigation, has been shown to be beneficial.  However, there are barriers to implementing conservation banking; a major difficulty being a ready means of determining habitat mitigation debits and credits. It is especially difficult to determine debits and credits without having population presence data or detailed ground-level surveys. I developed a method of valuing habitat based on a characterization of landscape integrity from an individual species perspective. The methodology relies  primarily land use/land cover Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, along with life history and home range/habitat use information for each species. An assessment using independent sightings data, multiple metrics, and 15 species of a variety of taxa confirms the reliability of the wildlife habitat values calculated. From the wildlife habitat values I developed a system that establishes both debits, the value of the habitat lost if land is developed, and credits, the increase in the value of the land if it is preserved and managed in perpetuity for the good of the species in question. All values are based on place-based decision-making. Debit and credit values can be used together to attempt no net loss of habitat value.
Tachysphex argentatus Gussakovskij 1952
Creators: name: Rezaei, Shohreh
name: Fallahzadeh, Majid
name: Saghaei, Nazila
name: Sadeghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Tachysphex
Tachysphex argentatus

description: Tachysphex argentatus Gussakovskij, 1952
Material examined: 2♀, Iran, Fars Province, Larestan (Baen), 27º39’54’’N, 54º16’39’’E, 914m a. s. l., 5-9.IV.2018, leg. Sh. Rezaei; 1³, 1♀, same data, 10-20.IV.2018; 1♀, Dasht-e Arzhan, 29°39’39.047”N, 51°59’3.439”E, 2152 m a. s. l., 15-21. V.2018, leg. Sh. Rezaei; 1♀, same data, 28.VIII.2018 - 3.IX.2018.
Distribution in Iran: Fars (Rezaei & Fallahzadeh 2015; Sadeghi et al. 2018, current study).
General distribution: Afrotropical (Eritrea, Mali, Sudan); Palaearctic (Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Oman, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen)
description: Published as part of Rezaei, Shohreh, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Saghaei, Nazila & Sadeghi, Maryam, 2020, An annotated catalogue of the genus Tachysphex Kohl, 1883 of Iran (Hymenoptera Apoidea, Crabronidae), pp. 67-82 in Zootaxa 4890 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4301560
Stellasteropsis pharaonum Mah, 2018, nov. comb.
Creators: name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Goniasteridae
Stellasteropsis
Stellasteropsis pharaonum

description: Stellasteropsis pharaonum nov. comb. (Roman & Strougo 1987)
Figure 36 A
Roman & Strougo 1987: 29 (as Fayoumaster)
Diagnosis. Arms elongate, triangular. Interradial disk plates paired with contact aligned with interradial superomarginals. Marginal plates wide interradially becoming wide distally. Superomarginals with granular cover, short tubercular spines on abactinal surface.
Comments. Although numerous characters place Fayoumaster within the synonymy of Stellasteropsis there is less support that Stellasteropsis pharaonum nov. comb. is conspecific with any extant species of Stellasteropsis. The tubercles present on the superomarginals in S. pharaonum are completely absent in most species of modern Stellasteropsis save for Stellasteropsis tuberculiferus which has tubercles, but limited to the superomarginals on the distal arm region. Also dissimilar with other Stellasteropsis spp. are the carinal plates, which are wide in S. pharaonum but more equal in length and width in other Stellasterospsis species. Stellasteropsis tuberculiferus also displays tubercles on the weakly convex abactinal plates which are absent on the mostly flat plates in S. pharaonum. Stellasteropsis pharaonum is left as a separate species pending further data on variation and relationships within Stellasteropsis.
Occurrence. Late Eocene, Qasr el Sagha Formation, Egypt.
Material Examined. MNHN R06558, Holotype. Qasr el Sagha, Egypte. Upper Lutetien. R06449 Paratype. Qasr el Sagha, Egypte. Upper Eocene.
description: Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2018, New genera, species and occurrence records of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Indian Ocean, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 4539 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4539.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2615911
Orbital drift, stress-free configuration, and shape memory of red blood cells in shear flow
Creators: name: Cordasco, Daniel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Three-dimensional numerical simulations using an immersed boundary/front-tracking method are utilized to study some novel dynamics of red blood cells (RBCs) in shear flow beyond the well-known rigid-body-like tumbling (TB) and fluid-like tank-treading (TT). These computational simulations are the first to address the following problems: (a) Orbital drift. It is shown that red blood cells may exhibit a precessing motion around the vorticity axis or a kayaking motion about the shear plane. Unlike rigid ellipsoids in Stokes flow, it is observed that deformable cells reorient their axis toward the vorticity axis or toward the shear plane depending on the initial shape, shear rate, and viscosity ratio. (b) Stress-free configuration. We consider the possibility that the resting biconcave membrane of the RBC may not be stress-free. It is shown that the assumption of stress-free shape can have a profound effect on the cell deformation and dynamics at low viscosity ratios representative of many in vitro studies. (c) Intermittency. We present the first evidence of intermittent sequences of TB and TT for deformable cells.  The intermittent dynamics occur in an irregular sequence while in the synchronized dynamics TB and TT occur simultaneously with integer ratio of rotational frequencies. (d) Dynamics in oscillating shear. A comprehensive analysis of RBC motion in oscillating shear flow is performed and the existence of a chaotic motion is shown. (e) Shape memory. Lastly, we present the first 3D computational study to resolve the shape memory of RBCs in which membrane elements return to their original locations as well as global recovery of the biconcave shape after flow cessation. The timescale of recovery is orders of magnitude longer than that The timescale of recovery is orders of magnitude longer than that observed in simple stretch-relaxation experiments and is also strongly dependent on RBC stress-free configuration. The shape memory is shown to exist even when the membrane is displaced normal to the plane of shear flow.
How can landscape architects create urban gardens as a catalyst for learning?
Creators: name: Collins, Meghan Therese
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Urban green space, children’s gardens and school gardens play important roles in the effort to introduce children to the natural world. Educational gardens have become a popular trend over the last twenty to thirty years because they introduce children to science and the natural world, in addition to providing places for play or quiet contemplation. Another driver for implementation of gardens is the public health improvements that have been linked to the act of gardening and the accessibility of urban gardens and gardens for children.   This paper explores design opportunities to create naturalistic spaces that fulfill the developmental needs of urban children. It explores the benefits of naturalized spaces and gardens on youth, linking the current educational garden movement to the history of school and community gardens while applying key design principles for gardens to a vacant lot in Trenton, New Jersey for the Boys & Girls Club of Mercer.   Using the themes of nature-deficit disorder and every day nature as a framework for analysis, it considers the design for the Boys & Girls Club Garden within the context of several other gardens for children throughout the country. The analysis relates the observed qualities of the selected gardens to psychological research and desired public health outcomes. The findings convey the applicable features of design that contribute to well-designed spaces for children and express additional efforts that should be undertaken in future designs to improve exposure to everyday nature.
Indigenous Democracy in Africa: A Critical Exploration
Creators: name: saauda, Mohammed
name: Kamak, Rami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The discourse surrounding democracy in Africa is undergoing a significant transformation. For decades, Western models dominated the conversation, often imposed during the colonial era. However, a growing movement advocates for incorporating indigenous governance practices into contemporary African democracies. This article critically examines this proposition, exploring its strengths, limitations, and potential pathways forward.
Stellasteropsis tuberculiferus Macan 1938
Creators: name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Goniasteridae
Stellasteropsis
Stellasteropsis tuberculiferus

description: Stellasteropsis tuberculiferus Macan 1938
Figure 36 C
Macan 1938: 398
Diagnosis. A stellate species (R/r= 2.7) with weakly tapering arms which broaden at the base. Abactinal plates strongly convex, Tubercles present on radial and adradial abactinal plates. Lateral face of inferomarginals coarse on central surface, distally with one or two tubercles. Furrow spines five.
Comments. Stellasteropsis tuberculiferus shares closest resemblance with Stellasteropsis colubrinus which display strongly convex marginal plates and slender, elongate arms (R/r>3.0). The more southern occurring Stellasteropsis fouadi, in contrast, lacks tubercles from the abactinal and inferomarginal plates, displays flatter marginal plates, which form a more homogeneous peripheral profile This species has perhaps the closest resemblance to the Eocene Stellasteropsis (ex. Fayoumaster) pharaonum nov. comb. in that it shares the presence of tubercle or spines on marginal and abactinal plates.
Occurrence: Arabian coast, 38 m.
description: Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2018, New genera, species and occurrence records of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Indian Ocean, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 4539 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4539.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2615911
Overcoming challenges for skin deposition of drugs
Creators: name: Dorrani, Mania
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Delivery of macromolecules such as siRNA into cells that reside in the basal epidermis of the skin is a major challenge due to the transport barriers that need to be overcome. siRNAs have potential therapeutic applications in various dermatological diseases such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and cancer. Unfortunately, thelow permeability of siRNA through the stratum corneum and epidermis has significantly limited its use for topical application. There are two important factors that specify permeation and deposition of molecules into the skin. One is the membrane properties, and the second is the molecule properties. The objective of this study was to develop a topical siRNA delivery system that can permeate through the stratum corneum and viable epidermis and efficiently deposit therapeutic levels of siRNA to the basal epidermis/upper dermis where melanoma cells reside. To achieve this objective, we first compared permeation rate variation of different hydrophilic and lipophilic compounds through the human cadaver skin samples and two synthetic membranes. Afterward, in order to specify molecular properties that can deposit into the skin, we formulated two lipophilic antimicrobial agents and compared their skin deposition and permeation rate. At the end, we formulated series of liposome compositions that contained various concentrations of edge activator in their structures and then complexed with siRNA at different ratios to generate a small library of liposome-siRNA complexes (lipoplexes) with different physicochemical properties. In this study we used melanoma as a disease model. Through use of quantitative imaging analysis, we identified the necessary design parameters for effective permeation of lipoplexes through the skin layers and deposition at the upper dermis. The ability of the formulated lipoplexes to internalize into melanoma cells, knockdown the expression of the BRAF protein and induce cell death in melanoma cells was studied by fluorescent microscopy, in-cell immunofluorescence assay and WST-1 cell proliferation assay. By providing direct quantitative and qualitative microscopy evidence, the results of this study demonstrate for the first time that the passive delivery of an edge-activated liposomal formulation can effectively carry siRNA through the stratum corneum and deposit it at the lower epidermis/upper dermis.
Tachysphex desertorum F. Morawitz 1894
Creators: name: Rezaei, Shohreh
name: Fallahzadeh, Majid
name: Saghaei, Nazila
name: Sadeghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Tachysphex
Tachysphex desertorum

description: Tachysphex desertorum F. Morawitz, 1894
Distribution in Iran: Sistan & Baluchestan (Pulawski 1971), Tehran (Pulawski 2007).
General distribution: Palaearctic (Algeria, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
description: Published as part of Rezaei, Shohreh, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Saghaei, Nazila & Sadeghi, Maryam, 2020, An annotated catalogue of the genus Tachysphex Kohl, 1883 of Iran (Hymenoptera Apoidea, Crabronidae), pp. 67-82 in Zootaxa 4890 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4301560
Reducing directly connected stormwater infrastructure and the associated benefits
Creators: name: Del Monaco, Nicole
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The emerging field of urban watershed protection often lacks a unifying goal to guide the efforts of many of its multi-disciplined participants – planners, engineers, landscape architects, scientists, and local officials. This lack of common goal has made it difficult to achieve a consistent result. This paper proposes to define a unifying goal based on a physically defined unit – imperviousness. Many studies have dealt with total impervious area (TIA), but often times this TIA contributes minimally to the pollutants that accumulate on impervious surfaces and wash into New Jersey’s waterways during storm events. The purpose of this study is to examine and quantify mitigation strategies that are designed to reduce the impacts of directly connected impervious areas (DCIA). It is the DCIA that are directly harming local streams, rivers, lakes and bays. By implementing green stormwater infrastructure in a given watershed to directly intercept the runoff washing off of these DCIA, water quality, aquatic life, runoff volumes, peak discharge, and baseflow impacts can be reduced, and stream quality can be improved.
Tachysphex dignus Kohl in Kohl & Handlirsch 1889
Creators: name: Rezaei, Shohreh
name: Fallahzadeh, Majid
name: Saghaei, Nazila
name: Sadeghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Tachysphex
Tachysphex dignus

description: Tachysphex dignus Kohl in Kohl & Handlirsch, 1889
Distribution in Iran: Sistan & Baluchestan (de Beaumont 1970; Pulawski 1971; 2007), Kurdistan (Pulawski 2007), Fars (Atbaei et al. 2015; Rezaei & Fallahzadeh 2015), Golestan (Ghahari 2018).
General distribution: Oriental (Pakistan); Palaearctic (Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Yemen).
description: Published as part of Rezaei, Shohreh, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Saghaei, Nazila & Sadeghi, Maryam, 2020, An annotated catalogue of the genus Tachysphex Kohl, 1883 of Iran (Hymenoptera Apoidea, Crabronidae), pp. 67-82 in Zootaxa 4890 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4301560
Aristaeomorpha foliacea
Creators: name: Mantelatto, Fernando L.
name: Al, Et
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Aristeidae
Aristaeomorpha
Aristaeomorpha foliacea

description: Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827)
Penaeus foliacea Risso, 1827: 69; pl. 2, fig. 6.
Material examined. None
Distribution. Western Atlantic—USA (Massachussets, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana),
Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul). Eastern Atlantic—Bay of Biscay (France) to South Africa, including the Mediterranean Sea. Indo-West, northern and southern Pacific—Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania, Maldives Islands, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Japan, Fiji Islands and New Zealand (Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997; D’Incao 1998; Dall 2001; Serejo et al. 2007; Tavares & Serejo 2007).
Remarks. Previous records of the coast of São Paulo, between 700 and 800 m deep and 23ºS and 25ºS, caught by commercial trawling fishery off Brazil, between 2000 and 2007 (Dallagnolo et al. 2009; Pezzuto 2016).
description: Published as part of Mantelatto, Fernando L. & Al, Et, 2022, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: V. Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata [Achelata, Astacidea, Axiidea, Caridea (Alpheoidea and Processoidea excluded), Gebiidea, Stenopodidea], pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 5121 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5121.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6399728
Aristaeopsis edwardsiana
Creators: name: Mantelatto, Fernando L.
name: Al, Et
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Aristeidae
Aristaeopsis
Aristaeopsis edwardsiana

description: Aristaeopsis edwardsiana (Johnson, 1868)
Penaeus edwardsianus Johnson, 1868: 897.
Material examined. None.
Distribution. Western Atlantic— Bermuda, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea to French Guiana, and Brazil (Amapá, Pará, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul). Eastern Atlantic— Portugal (Azores and Madeira Islands), Spain (Canary Islands), Morocco, Western Sahara to South Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Sea. Indo-West, northern and southern Pacific—Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonesia, Japan, South China Sea, Australia, Wallis, and Futuna Islands (Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997; Dall 2001).
Remarks. Previous records of the coast of São Paulo, between 700 and 800 m deep and 23ºS and 25ºS, caught by commercial trawling fishery off Brazil, between 2000 and 2007 (Dallagnolo et al. 2009; Pezzuto 2016). There are 16S and COI sequences (AY601734 and KX196551, respectively) available on GenBank of a specimen from Gulf of Mexico by Vázquez-Bader et al. (2004).
description: Published as part of Mantelatto, Fernando L. & Al, Et, 2022, Checklist of decapod crustaceans from the coast of the São Paulo state (Brazil) supported by integrative molecular and morphological data: V. Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata [Achelata, Astacidea, Axiidea, Caridea (Alpheoidea and Processoidea excluded), Gebiidea, Stenopodidea], pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 5121 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5121.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6399728
Tachysphex incanus de Beaumont 1940
Creators: name: Rezaei, Shohreh
name: Fallahzadeh, Majid
name: Saghaei, Nazila
name: Sadeghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Tachysphex
Tachysphex incanus

description: Tachysphex incanus de Beaumont, 1940
Distribution in Iran: Fars (Sadeghi et al. 2016; 2018)
General distribution: Afrotropical (Mauritania); Palaearctic (Egypt, Libya).
description: Published as part of Rezaei, Shohreh, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Saghaei, Nazila & Sadeghi, Maryam, 2020, An annotated catalogue of the genus Tachysphex Kohl, 1883 of Iran (Hymenoptera Apoidea, Crabronidae), pp. 67-82 in Zootaxa 4890 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4301560
Future development plans the New Jersey Pinelands region
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1964

description: This final report contains recommendations for the future development of the 950 square mile Pinelands Region of New Jersey. The report is the result of two years of intensive study by the Planning Board and its consultant. It includes a summary of the basic data study, a description of the alternative design approach to plan preparation, a description of the consultant's recommended development plan, and a proposed means of plan implementation.
Zoning in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1956

description: This report is in the nature of a summary statement of the principal characteristics common to zoning laws throughout the state of New Jersey. Since zoning is a dynamic process with amendments, revisions and court decisions constantly effecting the prevailing law, some parts of this study will gradually become out-of-date. It is hoped that this report will aid communities in their constant efforts to improve and protect their growth and development, by furnishing examples of what is standard and accepted practices in the zoning field.
Delaware and Raritan Canal in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1937

description: The State of New Jersey, Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission was created by the state legislature and is engaged in marshaling data to be submitted to a special board of army engineers or to any appropriate Congressional committee in support of the proposed plan to have the federal government take over, improve and operate the Delaware and Raritan Canal.The great public interest manifested by municipalities along the Atlantic Sea-coast, shippers, industries, marine concerns, and pleasure boat organizations indicate the vital need for adoption in the near future of a plan to improve and operate the canal substantially along the lines herein after described. The Commission has given careful study to other plans proposed and has come to its considered judgement that the only practical solution of the problem for the completion of the Atlantic Intra-Coastal Waterway System is to utilize the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
Commission meet of the state beach erosion commission "shore protection fund update U.S. army corps beach replenishment project update"
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1994

description: A record of testimony presented to the New Jersey State Beach Erosion Commission concerning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers efforts to replenish the natural resources related to the upkeep and recreational availability of New Jersey shorelines.
MPEC 2025-A174 : OBSERVATIONS AND ORBITS OF COMETS AND A/ OBJECTS
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: OBSERVATIONS AND ORBITS OF COMETS AND A/ OBJECTS

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Commission meeting of state beach erosion commission "testimony concerning the impact of the proposed change in federal funding for beach replenishment projects, innovative shore protection technologies, and status of shore protection projects in the state"
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2001

description: This document records testimony concerning the impact of proposed change in Federal funding for beach replenishment projects, innovative shore protection technologies, and status of shore protection projects in the state of New Jersey.
Quantum Engineered Plant Fabrication
Creators: name: Rini, Patrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461307
subject: Quantum computation
classificationCode: 310803
subject: Plant cell and molecular biology
classificationCode: 310805
subject: Plant pathology
classificationCode: 310806
subject: Plant physiology
classificationCode: 310804
subject: Plant developmental and reproductive biology
classificationCode: 310899
subject: Plant biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310802
subject: Plant biochemistry
classificationCode: 400912
subject: Quantum engineering systems (incl. computing and communications)

description: As humanity faces intensifying challenges from climate change, population growth, and limited natural resources, the demand for resilient, high-yield crops is more urgent than ever. This paper introduces **Quantum Engineered Plant Fabrication (QEPF)**, a novel theoretical framework that leverages quantum mechanics, synthetic biology, and advanced computational techniques to redefine the boundaries of agricultural science. By manipulating plant biology at atomic and quantum scales, QEPF has the potential to overcome traditional genetic limitations, enabling the creation of crops with unprecedented traits. We explore the scientific principles, computational methods, practical applications, and ethical considerations underpinning this transformative approach.
Taiyutyla Chamberlin 1952
Creators: name: Shear, William A.
name: Richart, Casey H.
name: Wong, Victoria L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Chordeumatida
Conotylidae
Taiyutyla

description: Taiyutyla Chamberlin 1952
Taiyutyla Chamberlin 1952:1. Type species, Taiyutyla jonesi (Chamberlin, 1951) by original designation of its synonym (see below for full details), T. corvallis Chamberlin, 1952. Hoffman, 1961:270; Shear, 1971:86, 1976:6, 2004:15.
Diagnosis: Taiyutyla species may be distinguished from sympatric conotyline genera of western North America by a T-shaped process on the posterior surface of the posterior gonopod coxites (see species descriptions and illustrations below). The stem of the T (which may be very short) connects the branch to the coxite, and the ventral and dorsal limbs of the T-cap may have various modifications. This definition restricts Taiyutyla to the following described and new species: jonesi (Chamberlin, 1951), napa Shear, 1971, francisca Shear, 1971, benedictae Shear, 1976, prefemorata Shear, 1976, variata Shear, 1976, clarki Shear, 1976, T. amicitia n. sp., T. acuphora, n. sp., and T. tillamook n. sp., the last three described below. See Shear (1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 2004) and Shear and Krejca (2011) for more detailed morphological data. The remaining previously described species and new species described here are grouped in new genera.
The anterior gonopods of Taiyutyla species are usually simple and erect, but sometimes with elaborations at the tips. The posterior gonopod coxites carry an anterior part that may be terminally blunt, abruptly acute, or with processes. The posterior part consists of the T-shaped branch, the ventral process of which is covered in fine, short, unbranched cuticular fimbriae. The dorsal process may be either smooth, or bear long, branched fimbriae. Near the point where the T-shaped branch joins the body of the coxite, a pore may be seen, often with exudate preserved, and subtended by one or two fimbriate branches or regions. These branches may serve as a sheath or groove in which the ventral process of the T-shaped branch is carried. The T-shaped branch may be homologous to what we are calling the pseudoflagellar branch of species of Bifurcatella, n. gen. (see below).
Distribution: From the San Francisco Bay region north through northern California, including the Sierra Nevada, to Oregon, Washington and British Colombia, Canada. Females of a probable Taiyutyla species yet to be described have been taken in the Alexander Archipelago and continental southern Alaska (Shelley et al. 2009). The inclusion of T. amicitia n. sp. extends the range of the genus east to Idaho.
New records of previously described species
description: Published as part of Shear, William A., Richart, Casey H. & Wong, Victoria L., 2020, The millipede family Conotylidae in northwestern North America, with a complete bibliography of the family (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Heterochordeumatidea, Conotyloidea), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4753 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4753.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983782
Law in a World of Shadows: The Duty to Prevent Genocide and the Ecology of Norms
Creators: name: Yang, Melody
name: Morss, John R
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 489999
subject: Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified

description: Prevention in its various forms is arguably the most important of the objectives of international agreements targeting heinous conduct. Yet the assessment of prevention involves the calibration of effects that are intangible or indirect when contrasted with concrete outcomes such as the prosecution of offenders under criminal law. The evaluation of effectiveness in relation to such intangible effects calls for interrogation of the wider context or ‘ecology’ of international regulation including both synergies and conflicts of relevant norms. Against this background, this article assesses the status of the duty to prevent genocide applicable to States Parties under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948; given the near-absolute prohibition of the unilateral use of force enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, it explores whether the unilateral use of force is permissible to prevent genocide. Available proposals designed to resolve this conflict within the international legal system are evaluated with attention being paid to the peremptory nature of the relevant conflicting norms. It is concluded that the unilateral use of force is not permissible to prevent genocide under the existing international legal system. This conflict of norms illustrates the ecological interrelationships between norms.
ANJEC report Winter 2010 Vol. 30 No. 1
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This quarterly journal, published by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), offers practical suggestions for local action and explores environmental issues in New Jersey. Full-length feature articles in this issue cover subjects such electric lines, septic care, green jobs, air pollution, promoting awareness, and other environmental endeavors.