cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Love and activism
Creators: name: Rzeszutek, Sara Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This political biography of James and Esther Cooper Jackson illustrates that the United States’ diplomatic relationship with the Soviet Union shaped the way activists approached the twentieth century Black freedom movement precisely because this relationship also shaped their personal lives.  A Black Communist couple, James and Esther Cooper Jackson’s experiences offer a way of understanding how individuals developed, adapted, and understood their own politics and participated in multiple movements as the Cold War shaped U.S. political discourse.  The dissolution of the U.S.-Soviet World War II alliance led many leftwing activists to step back from the political spotlight, but others, like the Jacksons, believed in the urgency of the Black freedom movement and continued to act in ways that drew on their Communist background and personal convictions.  The start of the Cold War inaugurated a period of trial and error for leftist Black activists, as the methods they had used before and during World War II no longer reflected the political climate in the United States.  My work offers insight into the relationship between the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) and the civil rights movement, the CPUSA’s progression on the subjects of race and gender, and the life of a couple whose love sustained their activism, and whose activism nourished their relationship.  Following the Jacksons’ lives throughout the Black freedom movement demonstrates that while the Cold War restricted more radical forms of activism in the United States, dedicated leftists continued to challenge conventional thinking and remained engaged in civil rights struggles.  The Jacksons’ lives reveal that anticommunism influenced the direction and methods of the civil rights movement, but did not prevent Communists from contributing to the broad ideological struggle against racial injustice in the United States.
Himantariidae Cook 1895
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae

description: Family HIMANTARIIDAE Cook, 1895
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Vertical Charge Transport in Stacked 2D-3D van der Waals Heterogeneous Interface
Creators: name: Jabegu, Tara
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2024

description:
Achieving ohmic contacts remains a significant challenge in the development and integration of devices based on two-dimensional materials, primarily due to the substantial mismatch between their electronic properties and those of traditional metal-based and van der Waals electrodes. While most research has focused on electronic energy band alignment, the impact of momentum mismatch on carrier transport across van der Waals gaps has been largely overlooked. In our study, we use graphene-silicon junctions to show that electron momentum distribution plays a crucial role in determining the electronic behavior of van der Waals contacts. By strategically introducing scattering centers at the interface to provide additional momentum and address the mismatch, we enhance junction conductivity by over three orders of magnitude, achieving high-quality ohmic contacts. This work provides a framework for designing high-performance ohmic van der Waals contacts that account for both energy and momentum alignment, paving the way for efficient 2D-3D system integration and advancing post-CMOS architectures.
Measuring mass
Creators: name: Sánchez, Ricardo Zánmar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is concerned with the motions of gas in disk galaxies and with the motions of stars in a globular cluster to learn about their mass content.First we study non-circular streaming motions of HI gas in five representative disk galaxies with a bisymmetric model. We show that this physically motivated method can represent a wide range of bar-like distortions and that its model parameters can be related to useful physical parameters of galaxies like the amplitude of the forced non-circular speed, the bar angle, and the halo ellipticity. We also model the non-circular gas flow in the strongly barred galaxy NGC~1365. The gravitational potential is based on new observations that include photometric imaging, Fabry-Perot emission line imaging spectroscopy and a detailed re-analysis of archival HI data from the VLA. We use our 2-dimensional velocity map to constrain the strength and positions of the shocks in hydrodynamical simulations and find that better agreement is found with a massive, but not fully maximal disk $(m{M/L}simeq 2.0pm 1.0)$ and a fast bar (corotation at 1.2$m{R_{bar}}$). The analysis was complicated by the discovery of an asymmetric distribution of dust and kinematics in the bar region despite the remarkably bisymmetric distribution of the I-band light.We have measured 543 radial velocities of stars in the direction of the Galactic globular cluster M80 with Fabry-Perot absorption-line imaging spectroscopy. The data is used to derive the total mean velocity of $7.39 pm 0.54$ kms, the total velocity dispersion of $10.1 pm 0.4$ kms, a declining dispersion profile, and the rotation of the cluster. M80 is rotating with an amplitude of $2.42 pm 0.81$ kms along an axis with a position angle of $246.1degr pm 17.1$ (measured from North through East), which is perpendicular to the major axis of the cluster flattening. We have fitted single- and multi-mass Michie-King models to our velocity data and to surface-brightness profiles taken from the literature.Only when we increase the expected present-day number of white dwarfs are we able to match the expected $M/L_V$ of the stellar population with the dynamically-derived value of $3.0pm0.3$. We tentatively interpret this as evidence of tidal stripping given that M80 is on an orbit that keeps it in the inner regions of the Galaxy and therefore has probably experienced significant tidal mass loss.
Brown et al_Museums as non-formal educational agoras for intersectionally inclusive engagement_Qualitative case studies in Malta and Italy: Semi-Structured Interview Schedule
Creators: name: Brown, Maria
name: Martinelli, Lucia
name: Rempel, Sarah
name: Kim, Kai
name: Whytock, Rhona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Semi-structured interview schedule used for the research study that informed the article Museums as non-formal educational agoras for intersectionally inclusive engagement_Qualitative case studies in Malta and Italy.
Sensitive Study of Cosmic Ray Flux Variation with Space Weather and Geomagnetic Disturbances
Creators: name: Mubashir, Arfa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2024

description:
Driven by the advancements in particle detection technologies, in recent years, there has been a growing interest in using cosmic rays for many practical applications ranging from tomography to space and earth weather monitoring. The challenge in space and earth weather monitoring on a global scale using cosmic rays is to deploy many efficient and affordable detectors that can provide accurate correlations between cosmic ray flux variations and weather conditions. To address this challenge, low-cost and portable muon particle detectors have been developed at Georgia State University as part of the Global Network of Cosmic Ray Detectors for Space and Terrestrial Weather Observation (gLOWCOST). In this study,  we aim to determine the correlation and cross-correlation between cosmic ray measurements and the interplanetary solar wind parameter changes at the L1 Lagrange point and geomagnetic indexes. In particular, we have investigated how changes in solar wind plasma, interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) strength, and variations in geomagnetic indices like Kp (planetary index) and Dst (disturbance storm time index) affect cosmic ray (CR) flux at Earth's surface. The results of this analysis show that the muon detectors installed at different geomagnetic cut-off rigidities demonstrate a strong correlation with neutron monitors (NM) and space parameters.  All detectors observed a significant flux decrease, i.e., Forbush decrease (FD), during the arrival of interplanetary shocks and geomagnetic storms. Interestingly, for some events, the decrease could be observed several hours before the onset of the first considered interplanetary shocks at L1 driven by the high-speed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and related geomagnetic storms (GS). We also determined the time lag over the long term and short term period between cosmic ray flux and changes in solar wind parameters (e.g., IMF, solar wind velocity), Sunspot number (R), and geomagnetic indices (Dst, Kp). The time lag, observed as a delay of 5-10 hours based on preliminary cross-correlation analysis between cosmic ray variability and Dst is important because it suggests that cosmic rays might be able to give us an early warning before geomagnetic storms occur. The findings from this study have the potential to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between cosmic rays, space parameters, and Earth's atmospheric parameters and gain deeper insight into how cosmic ray flux measurements (muons and neutrons) can be used as predictive indicators for geomagnetic storms.
Philonthus janus Smetana 1995
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus janus

description: Philonthus janus Smetana, 1995
Philonthus janus Smetana, 1995: 324, Figs 490–495.
Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hro-
mádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾඌ (2 unsexed specimens): ‘ONT. Rondeau Pr. / Park SouthPt. / Trail 2.VI.1985 / A.Smetana [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPE / Philonthus / janus / A. Smetana 1993 / CNC No.21960 [p, yellow label]’.
Current status. Valid species, see Hൾ*©MAN (2001b).
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 373, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Materials
Creators: name: Hossaini, Sayed Jaber
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2024

description:
In this dissertation, we theoretically explore the ultrafast nonlinear process in nanoflakes of 2D materials placed in the field of a femtosecond-long optical pulse. The duration of a pulse is of the order of a few femtoseconds and its amplitude is in the range of 0.1-1.5 V/A. To be more specific, we study ultrafast electron dynamics in transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) quantum dots. Different sizes of quantum dots (QD) of a hexagonal shape are considered. Taking into account that the valence and conduction bands of TMDC materials are mainly formed by d orbitals of the corresponding metal atoms, we consider a three-band tight binding model of TMDC, where the spin-orbit coupling is also included into the model. The energy spectra were calculated for different sizes of TMDC QDs and, for all cases, the anticipated in-gap edge states were observed. With increasing the QD size, the band gap decreases and asymptotically approaches the band gap of the corresponding TMDCs monolayer. In the thesis, two nonlinear characteristics of electron dynamics in TMDC QDs are considered. The first one is the absorption of an optical pulse by TMDC QDs. Such an absorption is determined by the residual electron population of the excited QD states, i.e., population after the pulse. As a function of the field amplitude, the absorption first increases at low amplitudes, shows a peak at an intermediate amplitude, and then converges to a constant value at high amplitudes. The second characteristic of nonlinear electron dynamics is the high harmonic generation, which is determined by the time dependence of the generated electron dipole moment during the pulse. The generation of high optical harmonics was studied for different TMDC materials, different QD sizes, and different characteristics of the optical pulse. One of the characteristics of the corresponding radiation spectrum is the cutoff frequency, which is the highest-order harmonics that can be generated for the pulse of a given intensity. As a function of the QD size, the cutoff frequency shows the maximum value at intermediate QD sizes, which is realized for TMDC QD consisting of around 61 metal atoms. Such nonmonotonic dependence of the radiation spectra on the parameters of TMDC QD shows that the strongest nonlinear optical response of TMDC QDs occurs at QD of a finite size.
Bothriogaster Selivanov 1879
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Bothriogaster

description: Bothriogaster Selivanov, 1879
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Mass transfer, mixing, Chinese hamster ovary cell growth and antibody production characterization using Rushton turbine and marine impellars
Creators: name: Sandadi, Sandeepa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Large scale production of monoclonal antibodies has been carried out over the years using bioreactors with different length to diameter ratios, and diverse impeller and sparger designs. The differences in these physical attributes often result in dissimilar mass transfer, shear dynamics and mixing inside the bioreactor, that lead to disparities in cell growth and antibody production. A rational analysis of impeller design parameters on cell growth, protein expression levels and subsequent antibody production is needed to understand such differences and has not been investigated in depth before. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Rushton turbine and marine impeller designs on Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell growth and metabolism, and antibody production and quality. Experiments to evaluate the mass transfer and mixing characteristics were conducted to determine if the nutrient requirements of the culture would be met. The analysis of mixing times indicated significant differences between marine and Rushton turbine impellers at the same power input per unit volume of liquid (P/V). However, no significant differences were observed between the two impellers at constant P/V with respect to oxygen and carbon dioxide mass transfer properties. Experiments were conducted with CHO cells to determine the impact of different flow patterns arising from the use of different impellers on cell growth, metabolism and antibody production. The analysis of cell culture data did not indicate any significant differences in any of the measured or calculated variables between marine and Rushton turbine impellers. A deterministic model was constructed to describe culture behavior under the different flow patterns and the parameters were solved for both marine and Rushton turbine impellers. This work was intended to bridge the gap in understanding the relationship between impellers with different flow patterns and their effect on CHO cells and productivity. Literature in this area has been inadequate and therefore this work is a significant advancement in this area. More importantly, this study was able to demonstrate that the quality of the antibody was not altered with a change in the impeller geometry, which is of critical importance to the biopharmaceutical industry today.
Bothriogaster signata Kessler 1874
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Bothriogaster
Bothriogaster signata

description: Bothriogaster signata (Kessler, 1874)
Bothriogaster affinis (gen.) Szel. et mihi: Verhoeff 1901: 410 (synonymy).
Bothriogaster signata cyprica Chalande & Ribaut, 1909: 269, Fig. 49 (synonymy).
Bothriogaster aegyptiaca Attems, subsp. cyprica Chalande & Ribaut, 1909: Turk 1952: 657 (synonymy).
Material examined: 18 3, 12 ƤƤ.
Sites: 1, 10, 18, 22 (published), 27, 47, 54, 55, 56, 77 (published), 85, 86 (published), 91, 100, 110, 116, 139, 149, 150, 174, 175, 179, 185 (Fig. 20).
General distribution. Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (mainland, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese), FYR Macedonia; North Africa: Egypt, Libya (Cyrenaica, Tripolitania), Tunisia; West Asia: Caucasus, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey; Central Asia: Turkestan, Uzbekistan (Zapparoli 1991; Simaiakis et al. 2005).
Chorotype. Turanic-Mediterranean.
Habitats. Maquis with Pinus, Juniperus, Acacia and Cupressus, phrygana with Sarcopoterium spinosum, patches with Pinus and Acacia, fields with Ceratonia, cultivations with vineyard, patches with Eucalyptus, Pinus forests, mixed forests with Pinus and Quercus.
Altitudinal range: 5–1150 m.
Range of leg pairs recorded in Cyprus. 89–103 (3) and 93–107 (ƤƤ).
Remarks. Generically quoted from Cyprus by Verhoeff (1901) under B. affinis. Afterwards cited by Chalande & Ribaut (1909) who, on a single female generically quoted from „ Chypre “, described a new subspecies, B. a. cyprica, without any taxonomic significance (cf. Attems 1929: 49). Also recorded from “Apos, Andreas”, misprinted for "Apos. [= Apostolos] Andreas", under B. aegyptiaca cyprica by Turk (1952).
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Understanding teamwork in trauma resuscitation through analysis of team errors
Creators: name: Sarcevic, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: An analysis of human errors in complex work settings can lead to important insights into the workspace design. This type of analysis is particularly relevant to safety-critical, socio-technical systems that are highly dynamic, stressful and time-constrained, and where failures can result in catastrophic societal, economic or environmental consequences. Some examples of such systems include an airplane cockpit, the stock market, a hospital, and a nuclear power plant. The research described in this dissertation focuses on advanced trauma care, an additional example of a socio-technical system in which medical teams use complex work processes while treating severely injured patients early after injury. Despite advances in trauma care over the past few decades, errors are still observable, even among the most experienced teams. This dissertation focuses on teamwork errors. It identifies and analyzes why, when, and how teamwork errors occur in trauma resuscitation. The objective was to gain deep insights and knowledge of the work of trauma teams to inform the development of information technologies to support teamwork and detect and prevent errors. Through an extensive ethnographic study and a mixture of techniques including cognitive work analysis and grounded theory approach, four team error types were identified. These include: interpretation errors, caused by inefficient evidential data integration; communication errors, caused by failures to report critical patient information; management errors, caused by inefficient tracking of the progress of multi-step procedures; and, concurrency errors, caused by parallel activities over the shared resources. Findings from this study have broader applicability to other collaborative and highly dynamic work settings that are prone to human error. This work contributes to the fields of Information Science and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work by adding to the understanding of collaborative information seeking in large collocated teams; identifying the challenges and opportunities for information technology support of teamwork in time- and safety-critical settings; and, providing specific recommendations for technological support of teamwork in trauma resuscitation, a domain of great societal importance.
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING CHALLENGES IN GREEN BANKING INITIATIVES IN RWANDA
Creators: name: 1Mbonigaba Celestin, 2Abdourahman Farah & 3Ahmed Mansour, 4Kiuri Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: This study examines the financial accounting challenges in implementing green banking initiatives in Rwanda, focusing on transparency, accountability, and sustainability in financial reporting. A qualitative methodology was employed, analyzing secondary data from academic journals, policy documents, and industry reports published before 2012. Thematic and comparative analyses identified key barriers, including high implementation costs (67% of banks) and regulatory framework gaps (49%), validated through logistic regression showing significant negative impacts (high costs: β = -0.63, p < 0.01; regulatory gaps: β = -0.45, p < 0.05). Adoption rates of green banking initiatives increased significantly from 14.3% in 2008 to 50% in 2012 (χ² = 12.45, p < 0.01). Moreover, a paired t-test indicated significant financial benefits post-adoption (t = 3.76, p < 0.01), such as improved brand reputation (50%). Despite progress, limited employee awareness (only 20% reported high awareness) and inadequate regulatory incentives (e.g., tax breaks reported by 25% of banks) persist as barriers. The study recommends strengthening regulatory frameworks, enhancing capacity-building efforts, introducing fiscal incentives, and increasing public awareness to foster the integration of sustainable practices in Rwanda’s banking sector.
Emotional regulation and motivation to drink
Creators: name: Schaller, Tomoko Udo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Despite support for the effectiveness of alcohol use disorders (AUD) treatment programs and the positive impact of policy changes related to alcohol use, AUD remains a major public health concern in the United States. As part of an effort to encourage transdisciplinary research, the integration of objective biological measures for AUD risk and existing psychosocial-based risk measures (e.g., demographic variables, personality characteristics, comorbid psychological disorders) are emerging as important areas of inquiry, with implications for the prevention and treatment of AUD. Theories of alcohol use emphasize the fundamental role of emotional regulation in drinking behaviors, and multiple psychosocial factors have been identified which influence such motivations for alcohol use. Through three separate, laboratory-based experimental investigations, this dissertation aimed to gain an understanding of the physiological mechanisms underlying the relationship between psychosocial factors (gender, personality, family history) and one’s desire to use alcohol for emotional regulation. In particular, this dissertation focused on examining the applicability of heart rate variability (HRV), an established psychophysiological measure of peripheral and central modulation of emotional arousal, in studying individual differences in emotional regulation. Changes in HRV in response to experimental manipulation of emotion and adaptive responding were linked to gender and personality differences in motivations for alcohol use. Gender differences in emotional reactivity suggest distinctive pathways toward unhealthy use of alcohol in men and women; that is, the pharmacological effects of alcohol appear to directly promote alcohol use in men, whereas cognitive expectancies, such as expectation that alcohol can counteract negative emotions, may underlie alcohol use in women, particularly when they are prone to negative mood states. Further, personality constructs of negative emotionality were associated with physiological dysregulation of emotion, which was linked to tendency to use alcohol for emotional regulation, particularly to suppress negative emotion. As a future direction, identification of malleable biological markers and the translation of these findings into clinical practices may help to better identify individuals at risk and suggest a novel approach for preventing or intervening in the development of AUD, which may in turn contribute to population health.
Philonthus jelinekianus Hromadka 2009
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus jelinekianus

description: Philonthus jelinekianus Hromádka, 2009
Philonthus jelinekianus Hromádka, 2009a: 674, Figs 8–12.
One paratype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ (): ‘Umuahia / J.L.GREGORY / 1960 - 15-vii [hw] // C.E. Tottenham / collection./ B.M. 1974-587. // ex coll.L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS {s. str.) / jelinekianus sp. nov. / Hromádka det. 2008. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 373, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Performance analysis of the WiNC2R platform
Creators: name: Satarkar, Sumit
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: A Cognitive Radio (CR) is an intelligent transceiver device, able to support multiple technologies, dynamic re-configurability, ease of programming and collaboration with other CR devices to improve the communication efficiency. The two key requirements for an efficient CR implementation are flexibility in operation/programming and speed. WiNC2R (Winlab Network Centric Cognitive Radio) achieves high speed of operation using its hardware platform and flexibility using its software-configurable architecture. The current WiNC2R architecture implements an 802.11a-like OFDM flow. We evaluate the WiNC2R hardware architecture to see the modularity in the architecture, separation of data and control flow and the performance in terms of latency and throughput. To test the system, the Xilinx Bus Functional Model environment, which is designed to test the IBM standard bus-architecture-based hardware systems, is used. We use a simple ALOHA protocol in the MAC layer to communicate between two WiNC2R nodes and evaluate the performance under the best-case scenario, where the performance is only hindered by the architecture itself rather than external conditions like channel state. The results of our basic experiments showed that for a single OFDM 802.11a-like flow, the Unit Control Modules (UCM) were idle for almost 80% of the total processing time. We then tested the WiNC2R system to study the effects of changing the frame size. It was seen that the latencies in the WiNC2R transmitter are frame-size dependent while those in the receiver mainly depend on the size of the data in the last chunk rather than the size of the whole frame. We suggest that chunk size should be 2 OFDM symbols, and chunking be moved to MAC layer for better performance. We give analytical estimates of resulting performance improvement. In the next experiment, we describe virtualization in the WiNC2R by adding more flows. We describe the steps to implement the additional flows and estimate maximum number of concurrent flows possible. In the last analysis, we show the effect of operating clock frequency on the performance. We prove that at 250 MHz operating frequency and 2 OFDM symbols per chunk, the current WiNC2R implementation will be able to satisfy the SIFS criterion.
Enhancements of the generic manifold user interface
Creators: name: Sidhanti, Raghavendra Y.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Manifold is an attempt to create a generic UI which would be application-independent, where the UI can be easily “detached” from one application and “attached” to another one. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern is a popular design pattern used in User Interfaces which has been employed in manifold. In this pattern, a user generates input device events which are interpreted as actions on the domain model via a Controller. After execution of the requested actions, the model sends notifications about the effect of the actions, and the notifications are visualized as feedback to the user.Different applications have different sets of inputs and so the UI should be able to translate a users input on manifold’s workspace to that of the domain model. To solve these issues, the MVC design and the Event Frame concept has been incorporated. The EventFrame conveys user’s intentions (event) in a standardized format to the Controller to be acted up on the domain model.The EventFrame being the only “medium” to communicate to the Controller makes it pivotal in communication between the UI and the domain model. We envision manifold to grow in to a complex application that would cater to various complex domain models on the internet where XML is gaining popularity as a way to share and transport data. In such a situation, the number of messages sent between the manipulator and Controller would be enormous. We felt that in such a situation, the Event Frame would be a bottle neck to performance.Considerable amount of my work in this thesis concerns with re-engineering the Event Frame in order to make it “web friendly”. We eliminated the Hashtable to represent the EventFrame with a comma separated String that would make it easier for the XML parser to parse data. The modifications made to the application and performance enhancements have been described in detail.Property editors are used to edit the properties/attributes of a selected glyph.  It exposes the glyph’s properties for editing. Every time a new glyph is selected, the old editors are emptied from the viewer, and the new set of editors are loaded. My work in this thesis describes the implementation of newer property editors incorporated in to the property viewer panel that will provide a user with enhanced options to edit a selected glyph. The newer property editors incorporated are a fill color editor which fills the interior of a glyph with a user specified color and a stroke editor which edits the stroke of a glyphs boundary.Lastly, while the basic feature of being able to draw a glyph and perform actions on them using tools worked, there were certain issues with the property viewer that prevented the properties editors from being displayed in the property viewer pane. My preliminary work was to eliminate these issues. I have described the issues with in the application and the solutions employed to eliminate them.
The role of dissolved organic matter in structuring microbial community composition
Creators: name: Sipler, Rachel Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is an important source of nutrients in aquatic systems contributing to the growth of phytoplankton and bacteria. The overall response appears to be driven by the phytoplankton and bacteria species present as well as the composition of DOM provided. This dissertation explores the bioavailability of allochthonous and autochthonous DOM sources to, and its affect on, the growth of marine phytoplankton and bacterial community abundance and composition. This research utilizes advanced chemical (electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS)) and molecular (terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP)) techniques to characterize the DOM and microbial community.  To investigate the role of allochthonous DOM in phytoplankton growth, DOM from two different riverine sources from watersheds with different land use practices, was supplied to a natural cyanobacteria population. The bioavailability of autochthonous DOM was investigated by supplying DOM produced by a single culture of cyanobacteria to a natural dinoflagellate bloom community. The potential negative effect of an individual autochthonous DOM compound was investigated through the addition of marine toxin, brevetoxin, to three different natural bacterial communities. This dissertation resulted in the first ESI-MS characterization spectra of the DOM associated with three different natural phytoplankton blooms, a culture of cyanobacteria, and two different South Florida rivers.  It was also the first study to identify previously uncharacterized allochthonous and autochthonous DOM masses bioavailable to natural marine phytoplankton communities. Bulk level analyses within these experiments quantified lower limits for the bioavailability of allochthonous and autochthonous DOM sources and the relative community response to each of these sources. This dissertation also represents the first molecular evaluation of the bacteria associated with a  bloom and the first investigation of the allelopathic properties of brevetoxin. It has discussed and applied the use of ESI-MS to investigate the bioavailability of complex DOM, identified and quantified potential nutrient sources and linked marine toxin production to changes in bacterial community composition.
Genetic diversity of Kentucky bluegrass genotypes in morphological, agronomic, and abiotic stress tolerance characteristics
Creators: name: Shortell, Robert R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) is a perennial turfgrass species that is widely adapted to many distinct environments.  Kentucky bluegrass reproduces through an asexual process called apomixis, resulting in many unique and distinctly different cultivars with specific niche uses.  Therefore it is important to quantify and classify the broad range of adaptations within this species.  The objectives of this study were to: i.  Classify Kentucky bluegrass genotypes based on morphological and agronomic traits and determine their inheritance patterns, ii.  Evaluate the range of variability Kentucky bluegrass cultivars and selections exhibit in response to a novel annual bluegrass control, bispyribac-sodium herbicide, iii.  Determine the effects of fertilizer on the response of Kentucky bluegrass cultivars and selections to bispyribac-sodium herbicide, and iv.  Evaluate the diversity of Kentucky bluegrass cultivars and selections in their rooting ability under heat stress.  To do this a number of experiments were designed between the summers of 2004 and 2008 at the Rutgers University Plant Science Research Farms in Adelphia and New Brunswick, NJ.  There is variation in morphological and agronomic traits in Kentucky bluegrass leading to a 12 group classification system based on the cultivars and selections evaluated.  The traits that define these types are highly heritable.  There is a differential response among Kentucky bluegrass cultivars and selections to bispyribac-sodium herbicide with some exhibiting almost complete tolerance and others complete susceptibility.  Fertilizer can offset the injury associated with bispyribac-sodium herbicide on some cultivars, but actually increases the injury seen on others.  There is variation in the rooting ability of Kentucky bluegrass cultivars under heat stress and based on the work of others it should be possible to select for and improve upon this trait.  Kentucky bluegrass is a high quality turfgrass species with many distinct uses and based on these results the selection and management of Kentucky bluegrass cultivars is greatly simplified leading to proper cultivar use and long-term persistence.
Narrative worlds and fictional worlds
Creators: name: Sorrell, Peter
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Through a focused exploration of “experimental” novels by Raymond Queneau, Claude Simon, and Alain Robbe-Grillet, the reading experience is reexamined in this dissertation.  Special attention is paid to the process of “worldbuilding,” namely the symbiotic relationship between synthetic reading competency and higher-level acts of interpretation. It is argued throughout that readers interact with literary texts not simply as verbal structures, but also by co-creating a multiplicity of imaginary worlds subtended by intentional structures that span the divide between reader and text.  The intentional attenuation of subject and object is characteristic of the aesthetic experience as described by Dufrenne, Iser, and Merleau-Ponty, and it is further intensified in the novels of Queneau, Simon, and Robbe-Grillet, which address the status of fiction in fiction.  In this way, the reader’s attention wanders between the worlds depicted by texts and the words by means of which these worlds are depicted.  The work of these authors is marked by transition and transaction on the part of character and reader.  Behind Queneau’s language-games, a multiplicity of fictional worlds rapidly cycles in and out of being.  Simon’s densely packed prose shifts the novice reader into his fictional worlds through the figure of the “soldier-subject.”  The geometric simplicity of Robbe-Grillet’s descriptions hides the impossibility of deciphering the events of his fictional worlds.  The reader’s interaction with these texts is dynamic, relying upon the basic process of building a world out of disparate textual and extra-textual elements.Following possible worlds theorists such as Dolezel and Pavel, the two primary worlds engendered by the literary artwork are conceived of as (1) “narrative,” whereby the reader manipulates the linguistic building blocks of the text, and (2) “fictional,” in which the reader transcends such language-based constraints to emerge into a space clearly distinguished from everyday life.  Examination of the reader’s nonlinear movement between intertwined narrative and fictional worlds demonstrates Matei Calinescu’s provocative notion that every reader is a rereader.  It is suggested that understanding the reader’s movement between absorption in a text and interaction with a text by means of worldbuilding might elucidate a novel kind of “rereading” exemplified by new technologies.
Characterization of bacterial processes in the subsurface and the atmosphere
Creators: name: Son, Eun Kyeu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation describes research that seeks to expand understanding of bacterially-mediated biotransformation in subsurface groundwater and the atmosphere.  In the first study a highly tetrachloroethene (PCE)-enriched culture, RU11/PCE was developed from contaminated aquifer materials. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), 16S rRNA clonal library analysis, and direct sequencing of 16S rRNA, sod and gyrB genes revealed a single bacterial species, Dehalococcoides, in the RU11/PCE culture. However, because the 16S rRNA, sod and gyrB genes of the Dehalococcoides spp. are highly conserved, the possibility that more than one strain of Dehalococcoides was present could not be conclusively eliminated. The reductive dehalogenase gene profile of the RU11/PCE culture was different than that of other previously reported Dehalococcoides pure cultures and unlike other chloroethene-respiring Dehalococcoides spp., RU11/PCE grew on PCE, TCE, cis-1,2-DCE or VC.The second study addressed the hypothesis that the air contains an active microbial ecosystem. Rotating bioaerosol bioreactors were manufactured to keep bacteria suspended in the presence of a volatile substrate while measuring their activity. A qPCR method was developed and used along with an ATP assay, microscopy, and plate counts to enumerate airborne bacteria. Although the gas-phase reactors could retain bacteria and volatile substrates for days, results using live aerosolized Xanthobacter autotrophicus and Bacillus subtilis indicated no growth. In tests with X. autotrophicus, no culturable cells were recovered under any condition. B. subtilis aerosols from dilute substrate yielded higher culturability than aerosols from distilled water with no TSB substrate. Lack of culturability occurred despite presence of airborne bacteria over time, as measured by qPCR and ATP.  Techniques were also developed to characterize microbial communities in atmospheric samples. The bacterial components of a pooled sample of atmospheric water collected in the vicinity of Oklahoma City, OK were analyzed using DGGE and clone library analysis. From DGGE analysis, six out of eight strains detected belong to the phyla of Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria and Bacteriodetes. In clone library analysis, 12 bacterial strains were identified (from 78 total) with dominant occurrence of the genera, Sphingomonas, Pedobacter, and Curtobacterium spp. The bacterial populations detected from the two methods were composed of strains of diverse origins.
Thracophilus Verhoeff 1926
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Thracophilus

description: Thracophilus Verhoeff, 1926
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
18th and early 19th century industry in Middlesex County
Creators: name: McCabe, Ruth
Publisher: name: The Study Club
Year: 1968

description: This presentation by Ruth McCabe tells the story of Middlesex County industry in the 18th and 19th century, drawing from sources such as a pamphlet entitled "New Brunswick and its industries" by A.E. Gordon in 1873. Diverse industries such as rubber and saw mills are discussed.
Education in Middlesex County
Creators: name: Joyce, Ann
Publisher: name: The Study Club (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Year: 1968

description: A presentation by Ann Joyce to the Study Club in 1968 includes a review of the history of Middlesex County from the time of the Dutch settlers to the present. By examining the history, she draws conclusions about the needs and development of education in the county, highlighting the development of public schools.
Philonthus hylaeus Smetana 1995
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus hylaeus

description: Philonthus hylaeus Smetana, 1995
Philonthus hylaeus Smetana, 1995: 399, Figs 634–639.
Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hro-
mádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾඌ (2 unsexed specimens):‘La. Concordia / Pa. 5 mi Wr-Fe/ riday 2.V.76 / A. Smetana [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPE / Philonthus / hylaeus / A. Smetana 1993 / CNC No.21969 [p, yellow label]’.
Current status. Valid species, see Hൾ*©MAN (2001b).
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 372, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Thracophilus cilicius Attems 1947
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Thracophilus
Thracophilus cilicius

description: * Thracophilus cilicius Attems, 1947
Material examined: 3 3, 5 ƤƤ.
Sites: 110, 124, 125, 141, 179 (Fig. 20).
General distribution. West Asia: Cyprus, Turkey (Western-Taurus) (Attems 1947).
Chorotype. East Mediterranean.
Habitats. Pinus forests, mixed forests with Pinus and Quercus, ravines with Platanus, Quercus and Juniperus.
Altitudinal range: 300–1340 m.
Range of leg pairs recorded in Cyprus. 69 (3) and 75–77 (ƤƤ).
Remarks. Thracophilus includes some nominal species hitherto known from scattered localities of Herzegovina, Bulgaria (Rodópi Mts.), Greece (Híos Is.), Turkey (Cilicia) and Palestine (Matic & Darabantu 1974; Stavropoulos & Matic 1990). These species have been mainly described on single specimens and, according to the Matic & Darabantu’s (1974) key, are distinguished on morphological characters whose variability is still poorly known, such as the number of the denticles on the labrum, the number of the teeth on the mandibular lamellae, the number of such lamellae, and the number of leg-bearing segments.
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Campbell-Strong profile
Creators: name: Johns, Beatrice
name: Campbell, Margaret
name: Strong, Dorothy
Publisher: name: The Study Club (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Year: 1985

description: A survey of the club members, conducted by Margaret (Peg) Campbell and Dorothy Strong along with a narrative written by Beatrice Johns describing the results of the survey. This provides an interesting description of the club members and their education, family lives and areas of interest.
Philonthus lagonosticta Hromadka 2010
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus lagonosticta

description: Philonthus lagonosticta Hromádka, 2010
Philonthus lagonosticta Hromádka, 2010e: 33, Figs 88–92.
One paratype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ) (: ‘728 [p, pink label] // Eboufek./ 28.vii.[sic!] 1993 / FITrap 1. [p] // CAMEROON: / Mbalmayo F. Res. / TIGER Survey. / BM 1994-148. [p] // 155 [hw] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (Pseudoph.) / lagonosticta sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2008.[p, pink label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 374, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030