cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The rare earth carbonates
Creators: name: Kim, Paul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The rare earth carbonates in the broadest definition are an important class of insoluble rare earth solids that account for a large amount of the globe’s rare earth mineral resources and are precipitated as precursor materials in the preparation of other rare earth solids in industrial settings. Understanding how to best extract and utilize the rare earths from carbonate sources starts with a fundamental understanding of the properties of the pure rare earth carbonates, namely the normal carbonates (RE2(CO3)3·xH2O) and the hydroxycarbonates (RE(OH)CO3). This would allow us to improve the efficiency and sustainability of industrial rare earth refinement, find new ways to precipitate the carbonates, and enable important technologies that rely upon a stable supply of rare earths. Thus, a comprehensive review of the normal carbonates and hydroxycarbonates was conducted to find the values for their fundamental properties; crystallographic parameters, thermochemical values, thermal decomposition behavior, and aqueous solubility. Trends with respect to increasing atomic number were established based upon the available literature; lattice parameters shrink, are less thermodynamically stable, decompose at successively lower temperatures, and increase in solubility.  These property values, namely the thermochemical and aqueous solubility values, may then be utilized in thermodynamic simulations to discover new processes by which rare earth carbonates can be precipitated from aqueous solutions of pure rare earth salts or mixed rare-earth/metal cation salts. We have predicted and verified the precipitation of the normal rare earth carbonates from concentrated aqueous solutions of rare earth chlorides using monoethanolamine (MEA) loaded with carbon dioxide (CO2). This precipitation methodology allows for the facile recovery and separation of the reaction products, the normal carbonate(s) and the water soluble MEA salt, the latter of which has applications in other industries.  Finally, a technology/synthesis strategy that offers a low cost, relatively physically robust alternative to optically active components has been explored to demonstrate the necessity of a stable rare earth supply. Optically active, transparent composite materials were created by tuning the refractive index of the polymer matrix (CN551) using ZrO2 nanoparticles to match that of the optically active, micron sized rare earth LYEF phosphor (La0.92Yb0.075Er0.005F3) agglomerates. The nature of the polymer-ceramic composite means that the components are fairly mechanically robust, can load fairly large quantities of optically active components by volume, and are easier to synthesize than their single crystal/polycrystalline counterparts.
Synthesis and reactivity of pincer-ligated metal complexes
Creators: name: Lease, Nicholas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The understanding of small molecule activation by transition metal complexes is key for many fields of study such as organic and inorganic chemistry. Since their initial report in the 1960’s, pincer-ligated (meridional bound tridentate ligands) complexes have demonstrated a rich chemistry for the activation of small molecules. This thesis will focus on new reactivity of known pincer-ligated complexes as well as the synthesis and reactivity of novel pincer-ligated transition metal complexes.     The addition of aryl O-H bonds to olefins (hydroaryloxylation) and cleavage of those C-O bonds (dehydroaryloxylation) have been examined using pincer-ligated iridium complexes. The mechanism of this reaction was determined by experimental (kinetic studies, KIE expt, competition and resting state studies etc.) and computational DFT analysis. The addition of aryl N-H bonds to olefins was not successful catalytically and was determined to have an overall larger energetic barrier by DFT computations.    Novel pincer-ligated osmium complexes were synthesized. These complexes are isoelectronic to (tBuPCP)Ir, one of the most active alkane dehydrogenation catalysts known. The reactivity of these complexes was examined to see how they compared to their isoelectronic iridium analogues.  These complexes were treated with olefins, carbon monoxide and nitrogen. Additionally they were tested for the dehydrogenation of alkanes and alcohols and the hydrogenation of olefins and ketones.    Recent reports have shown that pincer ligated metal complexes are capable of cleaving dinitrogen to form metal nitrides. Novel pincer-ligated rhenium and molybdenum complexes were synthesized in order to study their activity for dinitrogen cleavage. Synthesis of the pincer-ligated metal chlorides was achieved with further study required to test their reactivity with dinitrogen.    Finally new pincer complexes were developed to improve or demonstrate new reactivity. Three approaches were taken when examining new ligands. The first was incorporation of a positive charge away from the metal center in the ligand structure. The second was use of a PPP ligand with the potential for metal-ligand cooperativity. The third was using established ligand frameworks with metals not traditionally used for alkane dehydrogenation. Complexes for each of these strategies were synthesized and characterized.
Eumenes
Creators: name: Arens, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Eumenes

description: 5. Korrigierender Nachtrag zum Eumenes -Bestimmungsschlüssel in ARENS (2012)
In meinem Bestimmungsschlüssel für die der Eumenes -Arten auf der Peloponnes (ARENS 2012) sind die Angaben zur Clypeus-Zeichnung bei E. pedunculatus und E. subpomiformis versehentlich vertauscht, jedoch wird auf die richtigen Abbildungen verwiesen. Für E. pedunculatus muss es somit korrekt heissen: Clypeus mit mondförmiger gelber Basalbinde, oder zusätzlich unten mit + ausgedehnter Zeichnung seitlich eines Mittelstreifens (Abb. 6). Und für E. subpomiformis: Clypeus gelb mit schwarzer Längsbinde, die unten verkürzt oder auf einen Mittelfleck reduziert sein kann (Abb. 8).
description: Published as part of Arens, W., 2012, Die solitären Faltenwespen der Peloponnes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Raphiglossinae, Eumeninae) - 2. Teil, pp. 933-971 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on page 967, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10079867
Agastomyrma Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva 2015, gen. n.
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Agastomyrma

description: Genus Agastomyrma gen. n.
Type species Agastomyrma laticeps sp. n.
Diagnosis (for fossil imprints). Gyne. Head very big and broad. Scutum does not overhang pronotum. Propodeum without teeth or spines. Petiole with node and peduncle. Also see diagnosis of type species.
Species included. One species described below.
Comparison. Differs from other fossil genera of Myrmicinae in combination of big and broad head, unarmed propodeum, and pedunculate petiole.
Etymology. From Latin agastus (pleasing) and Greek Myrmica (ant).
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 143
Parapercis snyderi Jordan & Starks 1905
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pinguipedidae
Parapercis
Parapercis snyderi

description: Parapercis snyderi Jordan & Starks 1905—Snyder's sandperch
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11182 (1 specimen, 58.5 mm SL, St. DW 4451- 1, 12 km westsouthwest of Kavieng).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan and Korea, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on sand-rubble bottoms near coral or rocky reefs, 10–45 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Evaluating ecosystem functions for coccolithovirus infection of Emiliania huxleyi
Creators: name: Laber, Christien Philip
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi is a globally distributed marine algal  species that regularly forms large surface ocean blooms that can last from weeks to  months. As a cosmopolitan species that also forms calcium carbonate plates called  coccoliths, E. huxleyi plays a critical role in influencing both organic and inorganic  carbon cycles. North Atlantic blooms of the algae are regularly infected by a double  stranded DNA virus called Coccolithovirus (EhV). The ecological and biogeochemical  influences of viral infection in marine algae are largely unknown, although studies  largely suggest infection enhances chemical cycling within the microbial loop. This  dissertation investigates E. huxleyi-EhV interactions within marine algal communities to  further elucidate the role viruses play in influencing their host as well as the surrounding  ecosystem. On a local scale, this was investigated by locating and interrogating  mesoscale North Atlantic blooms of E. huxleyi with a comprehensive toolset using  MODIS/AQUA satellite imagery, a suite of diagnostic lipid- and gene-based molecular  biomarkers, in situ optical sensors, and sediment traps to show that EhV infections are  coupled with particle aggregation, high zooplankton grazing, and enhanced downward  vertical fluxes of both particulate organic and particulate inorganic carbon from the upper  mixed layer to the mesopelagic. The finding that viruses can stimulate vertical carbon  flux through a mechanistic interplay with zooplankton grazers introduces novel  complexities into microbial ecosystem interactions. These bloom communities are  further investigated using optical absorption spectra, phytoplankton pigment composition,  and flow cytometry, revealing EhV infection has little influence driving the variability in  phytoplankton absorption compared to community photoacclimation within the blooms.  It is further observed that photoacclimation driven absorption characteristics are  discernible through different phytoplankton taxonomic compositions. On the global scale,  the known biogeography of EhV infection and diversity of EhVs is expanded out of the  North Atlantic Ocean using a combination of the Tara Oceans global metagenome  database as well as targeted regional sampling throughout the Pacific Ocean. These  results reveal that EhV infection is a global phenomenon tightly coupled to E. huxleyi  production and is pervasive in bloom and non-bloom environments. Collectively, these  studies show that EhVs are an influential regulator of carbon cycling by enhancing  biological pump efficiency and through revealing their global distribution in the ocean.
Trichonotus elegans Shimada & Yoshino 1984
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Trichonotidae
Trichonotus
Trichonotus elegans

description: Trichonotus elegans Shimada & Yoshino 1984 —Elegant sand-diver
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 27 May 2007, and at 10 m depth by Dean Tully on 19 Sept. 2015.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Maldives east to Marshall Islands and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Guinea. Sand and rubble bottoms, 1–40 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Determining the regulation and requirements of the three Aurora kinases in mammalian female meiosis
Creators: name: Legeza Nguyen, Alexandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Infertility is a condition that impacts 1 in 6 couples worldwide and is defined as the inability to get pregnant, or stay pregnant, after 1 year of trying to conceive. The causes of infertility are vast, and can stem from either the paternal and maternal side or a combination of the two. One common source of infertility is the presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes (aneuploidy) in the developing egg or sperm. Aneuploidies are frequently incompatible with life, and in humans are the major genetic contributor to miscarriage, infertility, developmental disabilities, and failure of in vitro fertilization. While rare in most organisms, humans are particularly prone to chromosomal abnormalities, with 10–30% of fertilized eggs being aneuploid, accounting for nearly one third of miscarriages. This is in stark contrast to only 1-2% of sperm being aneuploid. Aneuploidy in eggs most often arises due to errors in the first meiotic division, accounting for greater than 56% of all occurrences in both male and female meiosis. The Aurora kinases are a family of serine/threonine kinases critical to regulating chromosome segregation and preventing aneuploidy in both mitosis and meiosis. While the functions of these proteins in mitosis are well understood, their function, regulation, and localization in meiosis remains unclear.  Here we sought to understand the distinct functions of the three Aurora kinases expressed in female meiosis; Aurora A, Aurora B, and Aurora C. We show that Aurora C localization is regulated via the phosphorylation of Histone 3 at Threonine 3 by Haspin kinase, and this localization is imperative for the correction of aberrant kinetochore-microtubule attachments and mitigating chromatid condensation. Utilizing a meiosis specific Cre-lox system we show for the first time the requirement for Aurora kinase B in mouse oocytes and a specific function in regulating meiotic cohesion. Next we discover the presence of a negative regulatory network among the Aurora kinases, with Aurora C uniquely required to restrict Aurora A to spindle poles while Aurora B is required to restrict Aurora C activity. Failure for any of these kinases to function properly can lead to meiotic arrest, small spindle structures, chromosomal alignment defects, the premature separation of sister chromatids, and ultimately meiotic aneuploidy. Finally, we identified the presence of a human variant in the Aurora kinases that may be protective of gamete euploidy. Understanding how the Aurora kinases regulate meiosis is critical to our understanding of this unique cell cycle and correspondingly, how errors in meiosis I can lead to aneuploidy in eggs. The information discovered in this thesis work provides insight into the basic machinery that controls meiosis and more importantly will pave the way for the development of appropriate diagnostics and interventions to help women achieve pregnancy with egg cells containing the correct number of chromosomes.
The silence they break about the decisions they make
Creators: name: Leland, Andrew Scott
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation explores the experiences of 22 gay-fathered households with their children’s schooling, and to understand the unique sociopolitical environments of same-sex parenting that may shape these experiences.  Research has documented the vacillating and sometimes hostile environment for gay individuals in schools.  Studies have also begun to examine the interface of same-sex parents in school-to-home contexts, but have only presented perspectives of lesbian mothers and gay fathers as aggregated data.  Gay fathers’ experiences alone have not been represented, even given the increasing visibility of gay fatherhood and same-sex parenting in politics and social discourses.  Through modes of phenomenological inquiry, this study begins to fill the research void by analyzing data sources that include semi-structured interviews, statewide policy documents, and forms of school-to-home communication.  Findings show a range of experiences, particularly for fathers navigating heteronormative and heterosexist school practices and policies, as well as their interactions with students, teachers, and school personnel on social and cultural constructions of family and gender.  Moreover, their experiences with regard to access, visibility, and beliefs about LGBTQ-related topics tend to differ in areas based on the levels of inclusion, protection, and cultural competency of their surrounding community contexts.  The findings from this study can inform school leaders, education program providers (EPPs), policymakers, and future research concerning gay fathers and their families
Integrated optimization method for plastic injection molding
Creators: name: Li, Jiaming
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This thesis presents a integrated optimization method to find the optimized operational parameters in Plastic Injection Molding (PIM), such as flow rate, melt temperature, mold temperature, pressure holding time and packing pressure that will minimize the shrinkage under the constraints of injection pressure and cooling time.  Design of Experiments (DOE) is used to reduce the computational cost for simulations.  Furthermore, the possibility value (P-value) is adopted to identify the significant factors among all design variables with respect to each functions. Monotonicity Analysis is then employed to detect the active constraints and to reduce the complexity of the original optimization problem so that the problem can be easily solved by a simple regression. Finally, the responses obtained by the simulation with the optimized operational parameters are used to validate our solutions.      Two design examples are presented in this paper.  For both examples, twenty-five initial samples are evaluated using Solidworks Plastic based on the orthogonal array from the DOE with five variables. There are two constraints on injection pressure and cooling time. P-value shows that packing pressure is not a significant factor for shrinkage and two constraints in both examples, then it can be moved out in later optimization. The exact value of flow rate and pressure holding time can be found out by Monotonicity Analysis. Finally, by solving the regression equations with melt temperature and mold temperature, the optimal parameters combination will be solved. Using the optimized parameters in simulation, the shrinkage for first example and second example are 0.3988mm and 0.0768mm, both of the shrinkage results are smaller than that in initial samples which can satisfy the constraints.
Constructing confidence intervals in high-dimensional models and dealing with pleiotropy in mendelian randomization
Creators: name: Li, Sai
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Constructing confidence intervals in high-dimensional models is a challenging task due to the lack of knowledge on the distribution of many regularized estimators. The debiased Lasso approach (Zhang and Zhang, 2014) has been proposed for constructing confidence intervals of low-dimensional parameters in high-dimensional linear models. This thesis generalizes the idea of “debiasing” to make inference in high-dimensional Cox models with time-dependent covariates. A quadratic optimization algorithm is proposed for computing the debiased Lasso estimator and its benefits are demonstrated. This thesis also studies the sample size conditions for inference in high-dimensional linear models with bootstrapped debiased Lasso. It is proved that bootstrap can further correct the bias of debiased Lasso and new sample size conditions involving the number of weak signals are obtained.  In many economical and biological applications, estimating the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome is an important task. Mendelian Randomization, in particular, uses genetic variants as instruments to estimate causal effects in epidemiological studies. However, when there exist pleiotropic effects, conventional instrumental variable methods can be biased. Theoretical properties of Bayes estimators induced by single and mixture Gaussian priors are studied in the existence of pleiotropy. The methods under consideration are generalized to deal with summarized data and demonstrated in various simulation settings and on two real datasets.
Trichonotus halstead Clark & Pohle 1996
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Trichonotidae
Trichonotus
Trichonotus halstead

description: Trichonotus halstead Clark & Pohle 1996 —Halstead's sand-diver
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11193 (1 specimen, 67.3 mm SL, St. CP 4455-20, eastnortheast of Bangatang), NTUM 11333 (1 specimen, 75.0 mm SL, St. DW 4493-2, northwest of New Hanover), and NTUM 11378 (1 specimen, 75.0 mm SL, St. DW 4505-4, 3.7 km westnorthwest of Kavieng). Specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 14 June 2007.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Sulawesi (Indonesia) to Papua New Guinea. Sand and rubble slopes, 12–35 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Young people’s information practices in library makerspaces as informal learning environments
Creators: name: Li, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Within the past decade, the maker movement and culture have received a lot of interest and support from the government, research institutes, museums, libraries, and schools in the United States. Makerspaces are important because they fit in with broader concerns of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and provide informal learning opportunities for people to engage in situated and practical intelligence that contributes formal learning. A review of the literature on library makerspaces shows a growing but still limited number of empirical studies in Library and Information Science (LIS) that have explored this phenomenon, especially from the perspective of makerspace users, such as young people. It remains unknown how young people engage with information as they participate in library makerspace activities.     This dissertation aims to understand the opportunities and desired outcomes of makerspaces in libraries from the perspective of young people, also to develop a holistic understanding of information practices of young people participating in makerspace activities, and to understand the affordances and constraints of technologies and materials in young people’s information practices. A total of twenty-one young people at two library makerspaces participated in this study.     Based on the analysis of qualitative data from field observations, individual interviews, photovoice, and focus groups, this dissertation shows that from the perspective of young people, the opportunities and desired outcomes of makerspace participation are centered on four major themes: make, learn, social, and interest. Young people’s information practices of seeking, using, and sharing at the makerspaces are largely social oriented and embedded in their makerspace activities. One salient practice of becoming informed during makerspace activities is through tinkering and embodiment. Additionally, the makerspaces have a robust culture of asking and information sharing, in which young people can freely generate questions and engage in inquiry. The value of visual information is highlighted in young people’s information-searching practices in the library makerspaces. Situations when young people switch from individual to collaborative information practices are further identified.    This dissertation has theoretical, methodological, and practical contributions and implications. Theoretically, it offers an empirical research-based conceptualization of library makerspaces, contributes to the body of scholarly work on young people’s information practices in everyday life and informal learning. Implications for professional practices include a visual guide for makerspace activities and strategies in supporting young people’s information practices in library makerspaces as informal learning environments.
Biology for Agriculture
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1959

description: This course in biology has been specifically designed for terminal students who will not do any further formal study of this subject, and the presentation of the facts and principles have been made with that objective in view. The factual information and illustrative materials included in this course in biology for vocational agriculture students are not presented as being any better for teaching a course in applied biology than that which already exists, but rather represents what has been found useful over a period of years when teaching both highschool vocational agriculture and non-lab or applied biology courses concurrently.The largest part of the manuscript in this course has been taken directly from lesson plans prepared for presenting farm problems where various scientific principles of biology are involved, over a life -time experience of teaching.It is understood that many authorities have been drawn upon for the interpretive science and related information included in this course, and to them we are indebted, We have also sought the advice and aid of other persons including regular science and vocational agriculture teachers, in organizing the manuscript from a vocational angle.
Adocimus Murray 1864
Creators: name: Kirejtshuk, Alexander G.
name: Kovalev, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nitidulidae
Adocimus

description: 4. Subgenus Adocimus Murray, 1864
Adocimus Murray, 1864: 310.
Type-species: Adocimus bellus Murray, 1864: 311; by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Body moderately wide and elongate oval; elytra with more or less obliterate to obsolete striae; head sharply narrowed to base, with moderately small and finely faceted eyes located behind middle; prothoracic lateral carinae rather smoothed; pronotal anterior angles widely rounded; scutellar shield subpentangular; tibiae swollen (less dorsoventrally compressed) and with group of short and thick spines at apex; femora rather wide and thick; tarsi with moderately lobed tarsomeres 1–3.
Composition. This subgenus includes one described species, although few undescribed species of it have been collected in New Guinea and surrounding islands.
Distribution. New Guinea and surrounding islands.
description: Published as part of Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. & Kovalev, Alexey V., 2022, Monograph on the Cillaeinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from the Australian Region with comments on the taxonomy of the subfamily, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 5103 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5103.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6245709
Several topics in experimental mathematics
Creators: name: Lohr, Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This thesis deals with applications of experimental mathematics to a number of problems. The first problem is related to random graph statistics.We consider a certain class of Galton-Watson random trees and look at the total height statistic. We provide an automated procedure for computing values of the moments of this statistic. Taking limits, we confirm via elementary methods that the limiting (scaled) distributions are all the same.    Next, we investigate several problems related to lattice paths staying below a line of rational slope. These results are largely data-based. Using the generated data, we are able to find recurrences for the number of such paths for the cases of slopes 3/2 and 5/2. There is also investigation of a generalization of these problems to three dimensions.    We also examine generalizations of Sister Celine's method and Gosper's algorithm for evaluating summations. For both, we greatly extend the classes of applicable functions. For the generalization of Sister Celine's method, we allow summations of arbitrary products of hypergeometric terms and linear recurrent sequences with rational coefficients. For the extension of Gosper's algorithm, we extend it from solely hypergeometric sequences to any multi-basic sequence. For both, we have numerous applications to proving, or reproving in an automated way, interesting combinatorial problems.    We also show a partial result related to the bunk bed conjecture, a problem concerning random finite graphs. Let $G$ be a finite graph. Remove edges from $Gsquare K_2$ independently and with the same probability. In $Gsquare K_2$, there is an edge placed between all vertices of $G$ and the corresponding vertex in a copy of $G$. Then, label these vertices as either $(v,0)$ or $(v,1)$ for each $vin V(G)$. The conjecture says that for any $x,y in V(G)$, it is least as likely to have $(x,0)$ connected to $(y,0)$ as to have $(x,0)$ connected to $(y,1)$. We prove the conjecture in the case that only two of the edges going between the two copes of $G$ are retained.
Leiodidae Fleming 1821
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae

description: Family Leiodidae Fleming, 1821
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 352, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Grammatical acceptability among Spanish monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children
Creators: name: Lingwall Odio, Anne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation investigates patterns of grammatical acceptability of copular verbs in obligatory contexts among Spanish monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children. In Spanish, ser must be paired with a DP complement and estar with an adjectival passive. I question whether the two populations of speakers will demonstrate similar patterns of acceptability with the copulas, and whether or not each group’s pattern changes as the children age. I also investigate the potential effect of initial age of onset to English as a contributing factor in the bilingual speakers’ patterns of acceptability. Two experimental measures were created to empirically test these questions, a forced-choice, grammaticality judgment task (Unsworth, 2014) and a ternary-Likert acceptability judgment task (Katsos and Bishop, 2011).    There were 91 participants in this dissertation study (57 Spanish monolingual speakers (4;6-10;9, M = 7;6) and 34 Spanish-English bilingual speakers (4;6-12;2, M = 8;5) with 13 adult, Spanish-dominant controls. Results from the two experimental tasks show that monolingual and bilingual children differ in their patterns of acceptability of ser and estar with obligatory predicates. From the earliest age of testing, monolingual children are shown to accept ser with DPs and estar with adjectival passives but older participants continue to demonstrate variability in their acceptability of estar + adjectival passives. Bilingual children also show high levels of acceptability of grammatical ser and estar with their complements from the earliest age of testing, with increased acceptability of ser + DP with age. Both younger and older bilingual children show similar variability with estar + adjectival passives, demonstrating a preference for overgeneralization of ser in these cases. The present research did not reveal robust findings due to the initial age of onset among the bilingual speakers.    The results from the two tasks provide a baseline of data highlighting the differences in acceptability between two populations of child Spanish speakers, as well as a locus for overgeneralization of the copulas, based on their underlying linguistic structure.
Cholevinae Kirby 1837
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae

description: Subfamily Cholevinae Kirby, 1837
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 352, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
Trichonotus setiger Bloch & Schneider 1801
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Trichonotidae
Trichonotus
Trichonotus setiger

description: Trichonotus setiger Bloch &Schneider 1801 —Spotted sand-diver
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11194 (1 specimen, 59.1 mm SL, St. CP 4455-21, northeast of Bauddisson Island). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District by Dietmar Amon on 10 May 2009.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Sand and rubble bottoms, 1–60 m depth. Marine.
Remarks. The species was previously known from depths of 1–20 m; the present specimen represents a new depth record for the species, which occurs down to at least 60 m depth.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Crude conservation
Creators: name: Lutz, Raechel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: “Crude Conservation: Nature, Pollution, and Technology at Standard Oil’s New Jersey Refineries, 1870-2000” investigates the complex environmental and technological histories of petroleum refining. I explore how two of Standard Oil’s refineries—located in Bayonne and Linden, New Jersey, each operating for over one hundred years—contributed significantly to the social changes wrought by oil. Since the late nineteenth century, oil has profoundly altered almost all aspects of modern American life. However, many Americans are insulated from direct exposure to the negative consequences of its use, such as environmental degradation and climate change. Oil refining itself is often overlooked in a growing literature on the history of energy, yet refineries are central to transforming crude oil into petroleum products. Refineries and processes of material transformation are significant in exploring oil’s social and environmental consequences. I examine Standard Oil of New Jersey’s history pollution, its refinery conservation methods, and its public relations rhetoric of scientific, technological, and environmental expertise. I argue the company constructed a reputation for expertise that allowed it to join and ultimately shape debates over what to do about oil pollution. Standard Oil of New Jersey worked hard to convince Americans that it was not creating, but rather solving, environmental problems.
Acanthaphritis barbata
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Percophidae
Acanthaphritis
Acanthaphritis barbata

description: Acanthaphritis barbata (Okamura & Kishida 1963) —Barbel duckbill
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11301 (1 specimen, 62.7 mm SL, St. CP 4489-7, northwest of New Hanover).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1.—General distribution: Philippines to Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern Western Australia. Found on soft bottoms of the continental slope, 175–480 m depth. Marine.
Remarks. Another specimen was collected northeast of Normanby Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, NTUM 12272 (1 specimen, 54.7 mm SL, St. DW 4315-10, 09°50’S 151°31’E, 480–510 m depth, R/V Alis, 3 May 2014).
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Agastomyrma laticeps Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Agastomyrma
Agastomyrma laticeps

description: Agastomyrma laticeps sp. n.
(Fig. 26)
Material. Holotype PIN 3429/1178, PIN 3429/1173 (counterprint of the same specimen), gyne.
Description. Gyne. Body length ca.4mm. Head very large, 0.86 times as long as wide, with weakly convex sides, rounded occipital corners and straight occipital margin. Eyes comparatively small, oval, situated in the middle of the sides of the head. Gena longer, than maximum eye diameter. Scutum longer than wide and 3 times as long as scutellum. Propodeum unarmed. Petiole with rounded node and comparatively long peduncle, 1.7times as long as high. Postpetiole a little longer than high. Gaster oval. Head and evidently mesosoma densely longitudinally striated.
Measurements of holotype, mm: AL 1.3; HL 0.9; HW 1; ED 0.14; SctL 0.46; SctlL 0.15; PtL 0.25; PtH 0.15; PptL 0.27; PptH0.25.
Etymology. Laticeps is the Latin for “with wide head”.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 143
From cure to care : wie Pflegefachpersonen Patient:innen mit einem malignen Tumor in der Transition von der kurativen zur palliativen Therapie unterstützen können
Creators: name: Ardüser, Shania
name: Blumenthal, Céline
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: Transition
Transitional care
Curative
Palliative
Palliative care
Cancer patient
Oncology patient
Nurse
Nursing intervention
610.73: Pflege

description: Darstellung des Themas: Die Transition von der kurativen zur palliativen Therapie sowie die pflegerische Versorgung ist eine grosse Herausforderung für Patient:innen, Angehörige und Pflegefachpersonen.

Fragestellung: Mit welchen pflegerischen Interventionen können Pflegefachpersonen Patient:innen mit einer malignen Tumorerkrankung in der Transition von der kurativen zur palliativen Therapie unterstützen?

Methode: Nach einer systematisierten Literaturrecherche in den Datenbanken CINAHL Ultimate und PubMed wurden sieben qualitative Studien ausgewählt, zusammengefasst, kritisch gewürdigt und diskutiert.

Relevante Ergebnisse: Pflegefachpersonen sollten personenzentriert handeln, vertrauensvolle Beziehungen zu den Patient:innen aufbauen, ihre Präsenz sicherstellen und sie ganzheitlich betrachten. Durch individuelle Informationsvermittlung und Gesprächsführung kann der Transitionsprozess positiv beeinflusst werden. Dabei sind emotionale Unterstützung, Angstlinderung und Sicherheitsvermittlung entscheidend. Die Entscheidungsfindung sollte im interprofessionellen Team und gemeinsam mit Patient:innen und Angehörigen erfolgen. Zusätzlich trägt das gemeinsame Verständnis der Palliative Care und die Bestimmung des geeigneten Transitionszeitpunktes zu einem erfolgreichen Transitionsprozess bei.

Schlussfolgerung: Da Pflegefachpersonen oft eine entscheidende Rolle im Transitionsprozess spielen, ist es unabdingbar, dass sie geeignete Interventionen kennen, um diesen für die Patient:innen zu erleichtern. Um den Prozess möglichst fliessend zu gestalten, sind individuelle Anpassungen bezüglich der entsprechenden Interventionen notwendig.
Acanthaphritis grandisquamis Gunther 1880
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Percophidae
Acanthaphritis
Acanthaphritis grandisquamis

description: Acanthaphritis grandisquamis Günther 1880 —Largescale duckbill
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11027 (1 specimen, 69.8 mm SL, St. CP 4499-16, northwest of New Hanover), and NTUM 11369 (1 specimen, 68.8 mm SL, St. CP 4502-5, 6.7 km northwest of Kavieng). Other material: NTUM 11013 (1 specimen, 87.6 mm SL, St. CP 4277-8, Papua New Guinea, off northwestern Bougainville Island, 05°44.27’S 154°03.55’E– 05°43.75’S 149°02.55’E, 386–390 m depth, R/ V Alis, 28 Apr. 2014).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: eastern Indonesia east to Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), north to South China Sea. Found on soft bottoms of the continental slope, 218–480 m depth. Marine.
Remarks. The above mentioned specimen from off Bougainville represents the most eastward record of this species, while the Woodlark Island specimen represents the southernmost record. Several additional specimens (not listed above) were collected around northern New Ireland.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 251, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Herausforderungen in der Pflege : Dekubitus bei Personen mit Skin of Color erkennen
Creators: name: Arijon Otero, Aroa
name: Ruckstuhl, Lucy
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pressure injury
subject: Skin of color
subject: Early detection
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 610.73: Pflege
subject: 616: Innere Medizin und Krankheiten

description: Darstellung des Themas: Das Erkennen von Dekubitus bei Patient:innen mit Skin of Color (SoC) stellt in der medizinischen Pflege eine grosse Herausforderung dar. Angesichts der zunehmenden Diversität in der Bevölkerung besteht die Notwendigkeit einer angepassten Herangehensweise.

Fragestellung: Wie können Pflegefachpersonen in der Praxis unterstützt werden, um im Akutspital einen Dekubitus bei erwachsenen Patient:innen mit Skin of Color zu erkennen?

Methode: Die themengeleitete Arbeit umfasst die Analyse relevanter Studien und Artikel in Datenbanken wie PubMed und CINAHL Ultimate. Darüber hinaus wurden andere Medien, wie beispielsweise die Website «Wounds International» und Google Scholar, als Quellen herangezogen. Die durchgeführte Recherche führte zu acht relevanten Quellen, auf die Bezug genommen wird. Der Praxistransfer wurde mithilfe des Evidence-based-Practice-Modells durchgeführt.

Ergebnisse: Zwischen Patient:innen mit SoC und anderen Patientengruppen besteht eine signifikante Diskrepanz in Bezug auf die Häufigkeit der Früherkennung von Dekubiti. Pflegefachpersonen sind auf die Unterschiede bei der Diagnostik von Patient:innen mit SoC oft unzureichend vorbereitet. Dies führt einerseits zu einer mangelhaften Prävention, andererseits steigt die Zahl weiter fortgeschrittener Dekubiti.

Schlussfolgerung: Die Integration von Diversitätsaspekten in der Ausbildung und in der Praxis ist bedeutsam, um eine gleichberechtigte Pflege für alle Patient:innen sicherzustellen.
Anemadini Hatch 1928
Creators: name: Nitzu, Eugen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae

description: Tribe Anemadini Hatch, 1928
description: Published as part of Nitzu, Eugen, 2013, The Cholevinae of Romania (exclusive of Leptodirini) (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) with special reference to the hypogeal records, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 3620 (3) on page 352, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/216183
title: Multi-sided platforms in competitive B2B networks with varying governmental influence – a taxonomy of Port and Cargo Community System business models
Creators: name: Tessmann, Ruben
name: Elbert, Ralf
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2025

description: Our knowledge on differences in business model characteristics of thriving and failing Multi-Sided Platforms in competitive B2B networks (B2B-MSP) and potential influences of increasing governmental involvement remains fragmented. This study develops a taxonomy to classify special B2B-MSP with varying governmental influence in the supply chain and transportation context, viz. Port and Cargo Community Systems (CS). Based on the classification of 44 international CS, we identify four archetypes using cluster analysis. The taxonomy provides practitioners with a differentiated view on the configuration options of CS business models including the involvement of governmental institutions, while the presented archetypes contribute an aggregated view of CS business models. The statistical analysis of our results provides initial explanatory approaches on CS business model dimension interdependencies, thereby laying the basis for a deeper understanding of sectoral and geographic differences of B2B-MSP and their diffusion dynamics as well as facilitating a higher contextualization of future research.