cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The historic towns and town centres concept and the UNESCO recommendation on the historic urban landscape
Creators: name: Sela Wiener, Adi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Cities -- Historic cities -- Inhabited Historic cities; their protection, nomination and preservation are the focus of this thesis. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) adopted in 2011, and the “Cronocaos” exhibition (Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematso, New Museum NYC, 2011) which raised some criticism about preservation limiting contemporary architecture and urbanism interventions, triggered this thesis.  This thesis, however, posits that the new Recommendation is in fact a natural continuum of previous standard-setting documents developed gradually from the mid-twentieth century to today, and is well connected to current trends rather than being too ambitious and "going too far". A thorough study of the HUL approach and the new Recommendation, along with contemporary sources, provide an understanding of the current professional discourse, and further supports this suggestion.      The thesis findings illustrate that various aspects, such as setting, context, environment; social values and local communities; constant change, contemporary interventions, as well as integrated conservation, planning and management policies included in the 2011 Recommendation were addressed by previous recommendations, declarations, and charters, dealing directly and indirectly with urban heritage. The new Recommendation expands upon some of these issues, clarifies others, and adds new ones. Furthermore, the similar characteristics of cultural landscapes and historic towns as "living properties", and the relationship between the two concepts, demonstrated by the Operational Guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, support applying the landscape approach to the HUL.  By providing a traditional and innovative toolkit, the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation, which is essentially a management plan, will hopefully minimize "the gap existing between the ideal world of the “Charters” and the practical realities," (2010 Preliminary Report). Overall the Recommendation retains strong ties to former international standard-setting documents, demonstrating that it is indeed a natural continuum rather than a disconnected and overly-ambitious preservation trend. This continuum has the potential to be integrated into twenty-first century environmental, ecological and sustainability approaches, and is thus appropriate for its time. Such integration holds promise for improvement of local communities' quality of life - of our life.
Additional file 6: of A modified GC-specific MAKER gene annotation method reveals improved and novel gene predictions of high and low GC content in Oryza sativa
Creators: name: Bowman, Megan
name: Pulman, Jane
name: Liu, Tiffany
name: Childs, Kevin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Codon usage of novel high and low GC genes compared to MSU-RGAP annotation. The solid line represents the expected number of codons (Nc) values under a null model where there is no selection on codon usage. (PDF 3224Â kb)
Amnirana Dubois 1992
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Amnirana

description: Amnirana Dubois, 1992
Two species of this genus were found in Kokolopori, one
present mostly in disturbed habitats, while the second was found only in forest.
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
An intervention and assessment to Improve information literacy
Creators: name: Scharf, Davida
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Purpose:  The goal of the study was to test an intervention using a brief essay as an instrument for evaluating higher-order information literacy skills in college students, while accounting for prior conditions such as socioeconomic status and prior academic achievement, and identify other predictors of information literacy through an evaluation of student behavior and attitude.    Design/Methods/Approach:  An instructional intervention was evaluated using a brief essay as a pre- and posttest of learning in a course in technical communication.  Multiple readers rated essays on five criteria to measure higher-order skills. Interrater reliability and internal consistency of the measures were tested.  Analyses of variance and covariance were used to measure academic gains and to partial out the effects of confounding variables. Student behavior was measured by level of activity in the course management system and essay length.  Student attitude was measured through a content analysis of their reflective statements.  A control group of students who took the same course without the intervention, but who did not take the pretest, also took the posttest.      Findings:  1) The method used for measuring information literacy was found  to be reliable and valid.  2)  The use of the brief essay as a pre- and posttest showed that the students in the treatment group achieved impressive gains in higher-order skills associated with information literacy.  3)  The students in the treatment group significantly outperformed students in the control group with substantive effect sizes explaining results.  4)  Socioeconomic status had no significant impact on information literacy.  5)  Student use of online instructional materials had no significant impact on information literacy.      Originality/Value:  A model of information literacy assessment in higher education was proposed to isolate important classes of variables affecting learning.  An experimental design using multivariate methods to account for the multiple influences of variables on information literacy allowed for the determination and partitioning of the influence of each variable and sets of variables.  This knowledge allows for efficient and systematic progress to be recorded where less productive variables can be dropped from the model and significant and important variables are kept in the model to increase the amount of variability explained in information literacy outcomes.
Effect of accelerated curing on surface resistivity and rapid chloride permeability of high performance concrete
Creators: name: Salvador, Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Recently, many bridges have been built using High Performance Concrete (HPC) to increase their durability.  However, when subjected to cracking or exposed to aggressive environments, their durability gradually diminishes, causing corrosion of reinforcement in the deck.  This phenomenon is one of the major factors causing delamination and structural deficiencies of concrete decks.  The corrosion risk is directly related to the chloride ion permeability of the concrete, which can be determined using permeability testing at a minimum of 56 days.  Since the permeability testing is time consuming and labor–intensive, many of State Department of Transportations (DOT’s) are exploring the use of more expedient and less variable testing methods.  To evaluate the long-term durability aspects of HPC at an earlier acceptance age but with a lower cost, two new tests are investigated as potential replacements: accelerated curing and concrete resistivity measurement.  There is a need to understand the effect of accelerated curing on concrete resistivity and chloride ion permeability as a measure of durability.  This paper describes an experimental program to evaluate the effects of accelerated curing on durability performance of HPC.  The Surface Resistivity (SR) and the Rapid Chloride Permeability (RCP) and Rapid Migration (RM) tests were performed on concrete cylinders cured under accelerated as well as normal wet curing conditions.  Results show that the SR test can substitute the RCP and RM tests with moderate accuracy.  Moreover, accelerated curing can expedite the time needed to test permeability, reducing the cost to both DOT’s and contractors.  SR testing combined with accelerated curing correlated well with results from RCP and RM testing, providing a vast reduction in expenses.
As facts and not as shadows
Creators: name: Sablove, Henrietta F.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation examines American architectural and social history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the material culture of study abroad. Focusing on sketchbooks, journals, drawings, correspondence, and photographs of three generations of architects, the study will explore attitudes toward European cultural hegemony, the perceived value of foreign travel, changes in architectural education in the United States, and the process of image-making in the age of photography.  Although the idea of observing and drawing existing monuments is rooted in the tradition of the Grand Tour and the heritage of architectural theorists dating back to Vitruvius, this essay will argue that the practice took on new meaning during a period of expansion, urbanization, and industrialization in America, c. 1850 through the 1930s.    Using case studies of Frank Miles Day, Eleanor Manning, William Jarrett Hallowell Hough, and Louis Skidmore, I have investigated historical, social, and scientific epistemologies, including visual theory, of the period, and the ways in which they affected the education and professional status of American architects. My dissertation also asks why architects continued to draw after photography became commonplace, and why study abroad remained de rigueur even when the first schools of architecture were established in America. In the conclusion, I have discussed the role of hand-drawing in the modern architectural office, and how the use of computer technology is altering architectural practice.
Virtual Co-laboratory for Policy Analysis in Greater L.A.
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: A virtual (online) co-laboratory will be developed, aimed to revolutionize policy analysis for the Greater Los Angeles Region by making it possible for Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Urban, Public, Environmental Economists from the UC system to collaborate productively using the best-practice computable economic models available. This first-ever virtual co-laboratory will be housed at UC-Riverside (host campus) and will synergize experts from UC-Santa Barbara who will provide the data architecture, geographic information interface and a human-computer interface for diverse users to interact and collaborate on policy analyses online. Planning, public policy, architecture and green development experts from UC-Berkeley will contribute to such policy areas as transit-oriented development, green development and zero-waste development. The co-laboratory will utilize the RELU-TRAN (a computable dynamic general equilibrium model) developed by Alex Anas (Project Director) with funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. EPA. The model will be calibrated to the Greater L.A. Region and the co-laboratory’s technical development will be complete in the first two years. In the last three years, the co-laboratory will see numerous policy analyses, engaging practitioners from SCAG (Southern California Association of Governments) with experts from the three campuses. Once launched in the environment of the co-laboratory, the RELU-TRAN model will be capable of examining a variety of policy solutions in the areas of environmental quality, energy use, land use, housing, transportation and the interaction of these areas in the regional economy. The modeling of these policies with feedback between the academic experts on the one hand and the practitioners on the other hand will result in better and more practically relevant thinking about policy, and the better education of all engaged in the project including post-docs and graduate students. The co-laboratory’s success and progress will be evaluated annually in a two-step process. The first step, a self-review and evaluation will be followed by a second step, in which the impartial evaluation from a panel of 8-12 expert academics and practitioners who are not involved in the project will be sought. The reviews will focus on three areas: (a) Successful development and operation of the co-laboratory from the points of view of academic as well as practitioners; (b) Volume and quality of scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals; (c) Success in the solicitation of external research funds from State and federal agencies and private foundations. The last area of success is especially important because it will secure the long term viability of the MRPI. After the five years, the co-laboratory will be extended to all of California.
Highly polar organic compounds in atmospheric fine particles and cloud water
Creators: name: Sagona, Jessica Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Particulate matter is a ubiquitous component of Earth’s atmosphere, but the degree to which it influences cloud formation and climate is not well understood.  Highly polar organic compounds, or HPOC, are thought to be important in cloud formation due to their ability to attract water molecules.  This study’s goals included the quantification of HPOC in the atmosphere, study of correlations with sulfate and ozone to determine if the same production mechanisms are relevant, and study of temporal trends.  Two sample sets were analyzed: a set of particulate matter filters from in and around the New York City area collected from 2002-200&, and a set of cloud water samples from upstate New York collected in the summer of 2010.  A lab method for the use of PFBHA was developed to facilitate analysis of compounds with an oxygen atom double-bonded to a carbon atom.  This method was used in conjunction with BSTFA derivatization, which aids analysis of acids and other compounds containing a hydrogen atom bonded to an oxygen atom.  Samples were analyzed with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.  The results focus primarily on four HPOC: cis-pinonic acid, glyoxal, glyoxylic acid, and oxalic acid.  These and other compounds were quantified in both sample sets.  The concentrations of the compounds varied from season to season in the PM samples, but there was no clear seasonal cycle.  Concentrations were typically highest at the urban sites.  HPOC made up a larger portion of total organic carbon within the cloud water than in the PM, even though the amount of total organic carbon was higher in the PM.  The correlation of HPOC with sulfate was considerably more pronounced in the cloud water samples, suggesting that, like sulfate, several of these compounds may be produced primarily within cloud droplets.
Amnirana albolabris
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Amnirana
Amnirana albolabris

description: Amnirana cf. albolabris (Hallowell, 1856)
Fig. 11E–F.
Area: All.
Season/survey: Wet (May 2018, Nov 2018), dry (Aug 2019, Jul 2020).
Material: CSB:Herp: RNBK 004–006, 011, 014, 015, 017, 024, 026, 030, 039, 042, 046–049, 053, 055, 060, 077, 079, 090, 097, 100, 102, 104, 106, 112, 166, 191, 425, 427–430, 476–478, 502–504, 525, 529, 553–560, 565, 566, 576, 607, 608, 650, 685, 708–710, 723–726, 745–747, 753–755, 835, 836, 838, 862–865; IVB-H-CD 18066–18068, 18083, 18084, 18171–18175, 18390.
Comments: This species belongs to the taxonomically unresolved A. albolabris species complex (Jongsma et al. 2018), distributed mostly in Central Africa from Nigeria to Uganda (Channing and Rödel 2019). The Kokolopori population probably belongs to the central Congolian evolutionary lineage. Some individuals have contrasting coloration with a dark dorsum, bright lips and spots on the flanks, and a distinctly marbled venter (Fig. 11F), a color pattern not known to us from other parts of Central Africa. However, most individuals are lighter and not as contrasting (Fig. 11E). This species was commonly found in most habitats, but especially in disturbed places near human settlements and along streams. This species does not seem to enter deeper primary forests. The tadpoles are contrastingly colored with black spots on a red background. The skin glands of tadpoles produce a poisonous secretion, making them unpalatable to most vertebrate predators (Channing et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
Megabalaninae Leach 1817
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Balanidae

description: SUBFAMILY MEGABALANINAE
† Austromegabalanus Newman, 1979 (Miocene– Recent) (eight species)
†† Fosterella Buckeridge, 1983 (Pliocene–Pleistocene) (four species)
† Megabalanus Hoek, 1913 (Oligocene–Recent) (37 species)
† Notomegabalanus Newman, 1979 (Miocene– Recent) (13 species)
Paractinobalanus Carriol, 2008 (Miocene) (one species)
Pseudoacasta Nilsson-Cantell, 1930 (one species)
†† Tasmanobalanus Buckeridge, 1993 (Oligocene– Pliocene) (one species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 837, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Amnirana lepus
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Amnirana
Amnirana lepus

description: Amnirana lepus (Andersson, 1903)
Fig. 11G.
Area: Yalokole, Yetee, Yotemankele.
Season/survey: Wet (May 2018, Nov 2018), dry (Aug 2019).
Material: CSB:Herp: RNBK 131, 155, 179, 209, 210, 230, 419, 561–564, 567–569, 575, 609, 682–684, 686– 689, 692, 693; IVB-H-CD 18052, 18064, 18065.
Comments: This species is known from Cameroon to DRC, but has also recently been recorded in northern Angola (Jongsma et al. 2018; Ernst et al. 2020). Compared to A. cf. albolabris, it has been encountered relatively rarely in Kokolopori. It is more confined to forested habitats than the previous species. Females are much larger than males.
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
An investigation of two engagement structures inmiddle school mathematics classrooms
Creators: name: Rossman, Cathleen F.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Engagement and motivation have become increasingly important to mathematics  education, particularly as concern about the educational success of students in the US  grows. As a way to describe the patterns cognitive, behavioral, and affective engagement  of students, Goldin, Epstein, Warner, and Schorr (2011) developed the theoretical  concept of engagement structures. Engagement structures are idealized, recurring highly  dynamic affective patterns inferred from behavior. This study focuses on characterizing  two of these patterns of behavior: Let Me Teach You (LMTY) and Look How Smart I  Am (LHSIA) in the context of urban middle-school students working on a conceptually  challenging problem. These structures were selected because they both are likely to focus  on the mathematical content as well as require interaction between students.  This dissertation reports on a qualitative study with video and audio data as well  as survey responses of 55 seventh- and eighth-grade students in four classes in a large  urban school district in NJ. These students worked in small groups (3-4 students) on the  same task. The students’ survey responses were compared to the findings based on the audio and video analysis. The results indicate that students appear to help one another  and are often, though not always, willing to accept help from classmates. Students who  attempt to impress others in some way may be trying to prove they are smarter than  others or may wish to be perceived at least as smart as their classmates. Behavioral  features for each engagement structure emerged from the data and describe the different  behaviors that seem to be in service of the same goal. The features associated with the  LMTY structure are: 1) teaching to clarify, 2) teaching procedures, 3) teaching or  explaining strategies, and 4) checking for understanding. The features associated with the  LHSIA structure are: 1) expressing an idea, 2) stating an answer or answers, 3) correcting  others, 4) stating, “I’m smart,” or “We’re smart,” 5) keeping up with others in the group.  This study, an initial investigation of two patterns of engagement, contributes to a goal of  better understanding the complexity of “in the moment” engagement in the mathematics  classroom.
PrEP Linkage Adherence & Pharmacology in Transgender Persons
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: With the introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV it is even more evident how transgender persons have been largely under served for HIV prevention. Experience with PrEP in transgender persons is generally lacking for how individuals will be engaged in care and whether they will be take their medication regularly. Fundamental questions about the how these drugs may interact with hormonal treatment are still outstanding. In this proposal, we developed scientific aims that were developed through community consultation to study PrEP in transgender persons. Based on these efforts we will examine methods to facilitate linkage into PrEP treatment and ways to assist in remembering to take medication, specifically designed for transgender women and men. Concern over drug interactions with hormone therapy was a common theme in our meetings with the community resulting in an aim to determine if there is any interaction of PrEP medication (tenofovir (TDF) and emtricitibine (FTC)) with hormonal therapy. Our study will enroll 300 transgender women and men who need HIV prevention to receive TDF/FTC for 48 weeks at five study sites as part of the California Collaborative Treatment Group (CCTG) that combine three academic centers (UCSD, Harbor-UCLA and USC) with the largest providers of transgender services in Los Angeles (The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center) and San Diego (Family Health Centers). Combined our sites have already provided PrEP in demonstration projects to over 600 individuals. For linkage improvement we will test if a transgender focused case management approach to contextualize PrEP within the needs of the whole person can improve PrEP linkage and engagement. For medication adherence we will use an already developed text messaging reminder system and test if added real-time counseling at times of missed doses will improve overall success in taking regular dosing over the course of study. We will use the daily reporting of doses taken by text messaging to confirm whether the same drug levels expected to be protective for HIV are achieved by transgender women on hormonal therapy and if taking TDF/FTC is associated with any changes in hormone levels. We expect these aims to deliver implementable real world solutions for PrEP delivery. Combined the aims of this proposal will provide the scientific rigor needed to support clinical guidelines on PrEP use in transgender persons.
MOESM1 of Metabolic engineering of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 for improvement of 1,3-propanediol and glycerol production based on in silico simulation of metabolic flux distribution
Creators: name: Hirokawa, Yasutaka
name: Matsuo, Shingo
name: Hamada, Hiroyuki
name: Matsuda, Fumio
name: Hanai, Taizo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional tables.
Chiromantis Peters 1854
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Rhacophoridae
Chiromantis

description: Chiromantis Peters, 1854
The only species of this genus, C. rufescens, is known from Central Africa. However, a recent phylogeographic study has shown that the north-central and eastern Congolian population is relatively divergent (the estimated origin is dated to the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary) and may represent a distinct species (Leaché et al. 2019). Representatives of this genus deposit eggs into foam nests attached usually to branches above water (Channing and Rödel 2019). The foam is produced from a secretion during oviposition by beating the secretion by both females and males, sometimes including multiple males.
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
Pyrgomatidae Gray 1825
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Pyrgomatidae

description: †FAMILY PYRGOMATIDAE GRAY, 1825
Diagnosis: Wall of four or six plates or wholly concrescent; parietes solid or tubiferous; when tubiferous, tubes occur between outer lamina and sheath or between external ribs of wall; interlaminate figures complex, radii solid; basis calcareous, rarely tubiferous, membranous in Pyrgospongia.
Comment: All species of this family are highly s p e c i a l i z e d t o s y m b i o s i s i n c o r a l s o r s p o n g e s (Anderson, 1992). This has affected many extreme morphological specializations in some clades. The existing subdivisions within the family may not always be based on monophyletic groups, but we have decided to retain them anyway. A future revised division is much needed.
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 837, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
The vertical dimension of deer browse effects on forest understories
Creators: name: Rohleder, Linda
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Throughout their range, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) have significantly altered the diversity and productivity of plants upon which they browse in forest understories as well as the average heights of many of these species, yet traditional vegetation surveys can fail to capture changes occurring at higher levels in the vertical dimension.    In Chapter 1 I examine fine-scale understory changes in the vertical dimension by measuring vegetation density and species richness at 20 cm intervals from ground level to two meters at 44 pre-existing deer exclosures of various ages in New Jersey and Maryland forests. I found that vertical vegetation density and species richness were significantly greater at every height when protected from deer. Deer affected density at all heights somewhat evenly but the impact on species richness was significantly greater in the lower heights. The impact on species richness was significantly correlated to exclosure age at virtually every height. My results indicate that multiple heights must be measured to obtain a full picture of deer impacts.      In Chapter 2 I explored the relationship of the vertical species richness profile to deer densities by measuring species richness at 20 cm intervals up to two meters across 10 forests in the Washington D.C. region with a gradient of deer densities (5 deer/km2 to &8 deer/km2). Vertical profiles of species richness followed a negative exponential distribution for all sites with the coefficient of the exponential describing the rate of understory species loss in the vertical dimension. This species attenuation coefficient was linearly related to the deer density explaining 31% of the variation.    In Chapter 3 I test various floristic quality indicators for their ability to capture the effects of deer on forests. Using data collected at the same exclosures and forests as above, I found that the Floristic Quality Assessment Index (FQAI) and the Plant Stewardship Index (PSI) indicated increased quality inside deer exclosures that increased slowly the longer the plots had been protected from deer browse. FQAI and PSI were also well-correlated to deer densities (r2 = 0.25 and 0.31, respectively) showing decreased quality as deer density increased.
Believing, knowing, acting
Creators: name: Roeber, Daniel Blake
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Interest-relative invariantism conjoins the interest-relativist thesis that knowledge depends in part on our interests with the invariantist thesis that ‘knows’ is not a context-sensitive word. Neither thesis entails the other, and interest-relativism is interesting in its own right. If interest-relativism is true, then knowledge depends in part on truth-irrelevant factors, since our interests will often be irrelevant to our grip on the truth. In Chapter 1, I steer the debate away from the invariantist thesis that ‘knows’ is not a context-sensitive word and toward the interest-relativist thesis that knowledge depends in part on our interests. Interest-relativism comes in two varieties: what I call ‘pragmatism’ and ‘intellectualism.’ Pragmatism is the view that practical interests can make a difference to knowledge, while intellectualism is the view that intellectual interests can make a difference to knowledge. Pragmatism and intellectualism might both be true, but neither view entails the other. While pragmatism has received considerable attention in the literature, intellectualism has scarcely been identified as a position in logical space, and it has no defenders. As a result, many philosophers think they can resist interest-relativism by simply resisting pragmatism. In Chapters 2 through &, I show otherwise. First, in Chapters 2 through 6, I argue extensively against pragmatism. Then, in Chapter &, I argue for intellectualism. Since purism is just the denial of pragmatism, and since intellectualism is a species of interest-relativism, Chapters 2 through & jointly defend purist interest-relativism. Knowledge depends in part on our interests, but not on our practical interests, I argue. Along the way, I sketch a theory of belief, apply this theory of belief to questions about the value of knowledge, and say how believing that p relates to one’s credence that p.
Additional file 2: of Dangguijakyak-san ameliorates memory deficits in ovariectomized mice by upregulating hippocampal estrogen synthesis
Creators: name: Deok-Sang Hwang
name: Namkwon Kim
name: Choi, Jin
name: Kim, Hyo
name: Hocheol Kim
name: Oh, Myung
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: DJS did not induce serum estrogen synthesis in OVX mice (PDF 132Â kb)
Reconsidering religion
Creators: name: Robinson, Malila N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation analyzed the legal and policy issues involved with teaching about religion in U.S. public schools as part of a multicultural curriculum. U.S. public schools are government entities, and thus, the people who work within the public education system are bound by U.S. laws, policies, regulations and court rulings relating to schools. This dissertation used federal and lower court rulings dealing with Constitutional demands for the separation of church and state and the resulting public school policies and practices to highlight the difficulties many school teachers and administrators have attempting to sift through dense and often vague or contradictory legal dicta contained therein.   Additionally, this dissertation combined legal, religious and socio-political theories to create a new theoretical framework, Critical Religious Legal Theory, which was then used to analyze the structures that shape educational law and policy in the realm of teaching about religion in public schools. The analysis focused on critically analyzing the laws and policies dealing with religion and public schools as social phenomena and as tools of control, and the education law and policy makers in the context of the social and political atmosphere at the time that the laws/policies were created. This dissertation also critically analyzed the generally accepted Christian norms in public education and America’s reliance upon ceremonial deism, as it relates to public schools. And this research explained how religion has been used as a tool of control and how and why religion can and should be demystified through the use of multicultural curricula that are inclusive of religion to (amongst other things) promote secular “moral truths” in character education like goodness, justice, love, truth while dispelling the religious stereotypes and prejudices that have been promulgated. The research generated by this dissertation, along with the pre-existing body of research on the intersection of religion and public schools, can be used by researchers, administrators and educators to expand the curricula in public schools to include courses where religion is discussed, in a constitutionally permissible manner, to inoculate against the ignorance behind many religiously motivated hate crimes.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Severe maternal outcomes and quality of care at district hospitals in Rwandaâ   a multicentre prospective case-control study
Creators: name: Sayinzoga, Felix
name: Bijlmakers, Leon
name: Velden, Koos Van Der
name: Dillen, Jeroen Van
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Comparison table of WHO and Haydom criteria for near miss cases. (DOCX 18Â kb)
How students combine resources to build understanding of complex topics
Creators: name: Richards, Alan J
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The field of Physics Education Research (PER) seeks to investigate how students learn physics and how instructors can help students learn more effectively.  The process by which learners create understanding about a complex physics concept is an active area of research.    My study explores this process, using solar cells as the context.  To understand how a photovoltaic cell works involves drawing knowledge from many different areas of physics, so this provides a fertile area to study how students build understanding of complex ideas. I have used the "knowledge in pieces" theoretical framework to understand how students learn about solar cells by activating cognitive resources.  In this framework, we can see learners building understanding out of more basic bits of knowledge, known as resources, that are derived from students' prior experience.  This study seeks to learn more about how students combine multiple resources as they construct understanding of a complex physics topic.  To achieve this goal, I have created instructional materials and assessment instruments used to collect written and spoken data on students' reasoning.  The analysis of this data revealed that students are most likely to successfully build understanding when they activate multiple types of resource simultaneously.  I propose possible explanations for this pattern and present ways this finding could impact instruction.
title: Menschbezogene Auswirkungen der Autonomie auf Planungs- und Handlungsebene in der Mensch-Roboter-Kooperation
Creators: name: Klaer, Verena Nicola
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2025

description: Die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift befasst sich mit den Auswirkungen von Autonomie von Arbeitspersonen in der Mensch-Roboter-Kooperation in Bezug auf deren Motivation, Leistung, Beanspruchung und die Bewertung der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Roboter. Die Autonomie der Arbeitspersonen in Zusammenarbeit mit einem Leichtbauroboter wurde hierzu in einer empirischen Studie auf Planungs- und Handlungsebene differenziert untersucht. Auf Basis des Stands der Forschung wurde die Studie in einem Mixed-Design konzipiert. Die 59 Versuchsteilnehmenden erfuhren zwei Stufen der Autonomie auf Handlungsebene bei der Montage von insgesamt 20 Baugruppen in Kooperation mit einem Leichtbauroboter. Zusätzlich wurden die Versuchspersonen gleichmäßig auf zwei Gruppen (mit niedriger und hoher Autonomie auf Planungsebene) aufgeteilt. Während der Bearbeitung der Arbeitsaufträge wurde die Leistung der Versuchspersonen anhand der Gesamtdauer eines Zyklus und die physiologische Beanspruchung anhand der Herzschlagrate gemessen, nach jeweils 8 Bauteilen füllten die Teilnehmenden einen Fragebogen zur Bewertung ihres Autonomieempfindens, der Beanspruchung und der Bewertung der Teamzusammenarbeit aus.
Ergebnis der Studie war, dass sich eine Einbindung der Versuchspersonen auf Planungsebene positiv auf das Autonomieempfinden auswirkt. Die Gestaltung der Autonomie auf Handlungseffekte wies hingegen keine signifikanten Effekte auf. Das Autonomieempfinden steht dabei in einem positiven Zusammenhang mit der intrinsischen Motivation und identifizierten Regulation der Versuchspersonen. In Bezug auf die Leistung konnten keine Effekte auf die normierte Ausführungsdauer gezeigt werden. Allerdings zeigte sich ein positiver Effekt der Prozessauswahl auf die Gesamtdauer. Bei insgesamt geringen Werten der Beanspruchungskenngrößen konnte lediglich ein Einfluss des Autonomieempfindens auf die mentale Beanspruchung festgestellt werden. In Bezug auf die Bewertung der Teamzusammenarbeit wirkten sich insbesondere die wahrgenommene Autonomie und selbstregulierte Komponenten der Motivation positiv auf eine Bewertung der Teamzusammenarbeit aus.
Die Ergebnisse der Studie indizieren somit positive Effekte des Autonomieempfindens auf die Motivation und Bewertung der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Roboter und zeigen, dass sich eine Einbindung der Arbeitsperson in die Prozessgestaltung positiv auf die Gesamtleistung des Systems auswirken kann.
Chiromantis rufescens
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Rhacophoridae
Chiromantis
Chiromantis rufescens

description: Chiromantis cf. rufescens (Günther, 1869)
Fig. 11H.
Area: Bechuchuu, Yalokole, Yotemankele.
Season/survey: Wet (May 2018, Nov 2018), dry (Aug 2019, Jul 2020).
Material: CSB:Herp: RNBK 218, 235, 255, 283, 538, 539, 814–817; IVB-H-CD 18236.
Comments: A relatively rarely encountered species in Kokolopori. Foam nests with adults sitting nearby were observed on vegetation in secondary forest during both the wet and dry seasons (May 2018, Jul 2020). Some foam nests were found almost on the ground near a swamp. It is not known how far into the Central Congolian forests this species is distributed, however some specimens in the RMCA are also from the more western province of Équateur.
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
Ceratoconchinae Newman & Ross 1976
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Pyrgomatidae

description: †SUBFAMILY CERATOCONCHINAE NEWMAN & ROSS, 1976
Ceratoconcha Kramberger-Gorjanovic, 1889 (27 species)
†† Eoceratoconcha Newman & Ladd, 1974 (Miocene– Pliocene) (three species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 837, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CREC)
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CREC) constitutes a multi/transdisciplinary effort to address the state’s interconnected crises in education, employment, health, nutrition, housing, and the environment. These crises exacerbate social, economic, and political inequalities; threaten the state’s intellectual, technological, and economic competitiveness; and undermine the capacity of the university to meet its public service mission. CREC investigates the intersections of the crises to shape research-based responses directly geared into policy and community contexts. CREC employs innovative collaborative research methodologies and partnerships that draw together university researchers from across the social, behavioral, health, and natural sciences to work directly with policy makers, governmental agencies, and community-based entities. This repositions research to confront complex interrelated problems whose resolution entails working outside traditional institutional and intellectual boundaries and requires integration of existing data bases as well as more innovative uses of digital media to be understood and addressed. A growing number of U.C. faculty members, graduate students, research centers, and programs pursue multi/transdisciplinary research agendas that operate at the nexus of the university, community, and policy making, and that utilize new media in their methods and in the dissemination of research. These emergent modes of scholarship and practice raise challenging epistemological, ethical, and pragmatic questions that require systematic investigation in their own right in order to institutionalize them and enable the U.C. to better understand and address the state’s crises. In addition to seeding innovative research and preparing a new generation of scholars skilled in connecting and communicating with both policy-makers and local communities, CREC will coordinate and focus existing U.C. system-wide efforts and increase their impact. CREC will establish U.C. at the leading edge of strategic interventions in the state’s crises, and promulgate research findings and policy recommendations to multiple audiences utilizing both new and traditional media.
Megatrematinae Holthuis 1982
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Pyrgomatidae

description: †SUBFAMILY MEGATREMATINAE HOLTHUIS, 1982
Adna Sowerby, 1823 (one species)
† Megatrema Sowerby, 1823 (Pliocene–Recent) (two species)
Memagreta Ross & Pitombo, 2002 (one species)
† Pyrgomina Baluk & Radwanski, 1967 (Pliocene– Recent) (six species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 837, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275