cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Microctenochira similata
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Microctenochira
Microctenochira similata

description: Microctenochira similata (Boheman, 1855)
Coptocycla similata Boheman, 1855: 177 (original description).
Coptocycla sellata Boheman, 1855: 178 (original description); SPAETH (1926): 59 (synonymy), syn. confirm.
Coptocycla Napaea Boheman, 1862: 411 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Coptocycla napaea: ‘Petropolis Brasiliae’; C. sellata: ‘S:t Paul Brasiliae’; C. similata: ‘Brasilia interior’.
Type material examined. Coptocycla napaea: SYNTYPES: 1 spec., glued, ‘Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || Coptocycla | Napaea Bhn | Type from Bhn [w, hw, cb] || 67·56 [w, p, s]’ (BMNH); 1 spec., pinned (missing pronotum and head), ‘CONSTANC [w, p, cb] || Clark. [w, p, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022329 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).
Coptocycla sellata: SYNTYPE: pinned, ‘ Brasil [w, p, cb] || M. Wien [w, p, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022358 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).
Coptocycla similata: LECTOTYPE (designated by BOROWIEC 1999a): pinned, ‘ Brasil [w, p, cb] || Mhm. [w, p, cb] || Type. [w, p, s] || LECTOTYPE | des. L. Borowiec [r, p, cb] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022356 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS). PARALECTOTYPE: pinned,‘ Brasil [w, p, cb] || Bhn. [w, p, s] || PARALECTOTYPE | des.L.Borowiec [r, p, cb] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022357 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).
Remarks. BOHEMAN (1862) described Coptocycla napaea and compared it with Coptocycla sellata. SPAETH (1926) synonymized the latter with Microctenochira similata and separated M. napaea by the basal spot on pronotum with red (uniformly black in M. similata) and finer punctation of the central yellow spot on elytra. I have studied types of all three taxa and in my opinion all belong to a single species and represent only colour forms. Moreover, M. napaea was based on a teneral specimen and as a result the punctation of its elytra appears finer.
I was able to locate two specimens of M. napaea that belong to the type series. The BMNH specimen, however, does not have a locality label, but is glued and pinned in the same way, on a similar label as other material collected by Clark during his travels in Brazil. Only a small portion of the Cassidinae he collected is provided with original locality labels and if so, frequently only the first specimen in the original series had the label. Therefore I assume the specimen was collected in Petropolis as indicated by BOHEMAN (1862).
Distribution. Argentina: Missiones (BOROWIEC 2002, 2009c); Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul (BOROWIEC 2009c), Rio de Janeiro (BOHEMAN 1862, DONCKIER DE DONCEEL 1884), Santa Catarina (BOROWIEC 2002), Sao Paulo (BOHEMAN 1855, SPAETH 1926); Paraguay (BOROWIEC 1996).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 295-296, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Impact and sensitivity analyses of energy sector emissions
Creators: name: Farkas, Caroline M.
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Year: 2016

description: One in eight deaths globally is due to air pollution. Exposure to high concentrations of atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has negative health consequences. Air quality models, such as the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, are employed to evaluate effectiveness of air pollution abatement strategies partly designed to minimize PM2.5 exposure and protect human health. Energy production and consumption is the largest controllable source sector contributing to ambient PM2.5 mass. The highest electricity sector (energy subdivision) emissions occur on hot, stagnant summer days, when energy demand is highest and the atmosphere is most conducive to photochemical production and PM2.5 accumulation. Electricity generation is positively correlated with peak PM2.5 concentrations. CMAQ consistently underpredicts these peak values. Accurate prediction of peak pollutant concentrations is critical to develop strategies that protect human health.    This dissertation works to reduce underprediction of peak PM2.5 concentrations from an energy sector and heat wave event perspective in the Northeast U.S., where PJM Interconnection governs the electricity transmission for 61 million people. Temporal representation of electricity sector emissions is improved in CMAQ during a heat wave, and episodic increases in peak PM2.5 at the surface and aloft are predicted. PJM EGU emissions, especially sulfate, impact not only the PJM region, but also outlying areas. Monitored and controlled peaking units, EGUs used during highest electricity demand, contribute up to 87% of maximum hourly PM2.5 concentrations. Urban areas experience the highest potential exposure (calculated as population-weighted concentrations (PWCs)) from peaking unit emissions, regardless of the location of predicted peak ambient concentrations. Peaking units contribute substantially to exposure potential on the worse air quality days, but are historically exempt from Federal air quality rules. Eight sensitivity experiments indicate CMAQ-predicted PM2.5 PWCs are most sensitive to uncertainty in onroad primary organic carbon emissions, while ambient PM2.5 concentrations are most sensitive to planetary boundary layer height. Model development strategies optimized to protect health may look different than traditional evaluation-focused strategies optimized to match annual averages in measured PM2.5 mass. This dissertation provides issues to consider for prioritizing model development to address peak air quality events that drive non-attainment and threaten human health.
Aiming for zero
Creators: name: Flagg, Julia Ann
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Year: 2016

description: This dissertation research examines carbon neutral pledges made by several nation-states. Several countries have pledged to emit zero net carbon emissions in the near future in response to global climate change. First, this research uses newspaper articles to document which countries have made these pledges. These results show that nine nations have made carbon neutral pledges. Second, this research uses national-level statistics in a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to identify the common confluence of factors that is present in pledging nations. The results show that pledging nations, compared to non-pledging nations, have smaller populations, more egalitarian class structures, better governance, and more international environmental NGOs. Then, this project includes a case study on Costa Rica’s carbon neutrality pledge. The case study has three parts. First, it provides a historical account of how Costa Rica came to have the institutional profile of a country that makes a carbon neutral pledge. It uses archival research to explain how Costa Rica came to have the small size, egalitarian agricultural economy, good governance, and strong NGO presence that characterize pledging nations. Second, it provides a narrative account of the events that preceded the country’s carbon neutral commitment in February 2007. Archival research and interviews with people in government, industry, science, and civil society are used in this case study. In many ways, Costa Rica’s carbon neutral pledge is latest example of a highly ambitious political action that appeals to people’s values. The carbon neutral pledge reaffirms Costa Rica’s role as country that takes care of its people and takes care of the planet. The third and final section of the case study describes what has happened in Costa Rica since the country made the pledge. While political support for the pledge has in some respects waned since the initial commitment, officials are still committed to the carbon neutral goal and they reaffirmed the commitment in the country’s 2015 Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) ahead of the 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Paris.
Microctenochira usta Sekerka 2016, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Microctenochira
Microctenochira usta

description: Microctenochira usta (Boheman, 1855) comb. nov.
Coptocycla usta Boheman, 1855: 306 (original description).
Coptocycla semilunaris Boheman, 1862: 475 (original description), syn. nov.
Coptocycla conspersa Kirsch, 1865: 96 (original description), syn. nov.
Ctenochira tristicula Spaeth, 1902: 93 (original description), syn. nov.
Ctenochira tristicula var. subvittata Spaeth, 1902: 92 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Coptocycla conspersa: ‘ Bogota ’; C. semilunaris: ‘Brasilia?’; C. usta: ‘Cayenna’; Ctenochira tristicula incl. var. subvittata: Peru, Cuzco Region, Marcapata.
Type material examined. Coptocycla usta: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘E. Coll. | Chevt. [w, p, cb] || Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || TYPE [w, p, s] || 32. [w, p, s] || Coptocycla | usta Bhn | Cayenna [w, hw by Chevrolat, s] || 67·56 [w, p, s] || Coptocycla | usta, Bhn | Type ex coll. Chev. [w, hw by Gahan, cb]’ (BMNH).
Coptocycla semilunaris: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || 122 [g, hw, cb] || loc-? [hw] | Baly Coll. | 1905—54. [w, p, cb] || semilunaris MS | 25 [w, hw, s] || semilunaris Boh [w, hw, s] || Coptocycla | semilunaris | Type Bhn [w, hw by Gahan, cb]’ (BMNH).
Ctenochira tristicula incl. var. subvittata: SYNTYPES (MMUE). [Examined but label data not recorded].
Remarks. SPAETH (1902) described Ctenochira tristicula as a distinct species similar only to Microctenochira quadrata due to similarly shaped and deeply impressed clypeus. Later on, SPAETH (1919) studied the type of Coptocycla conspersa and found it is conspecific with C. tristicula. SPAETH (1926) revised Neotropical species of the tribe Cassidini with pectinate tarsal claws and synonymized C. conspersa with Ctenochira semilunaris. Since then the latter name is used as valid for this species. I have studied types of all abovementioned nominal taxa with the exception of C. conspersa and found that they are conspecific with Coptocycla usta. Hence, I transfer the latter species to Microctenochira and synonymize with it M. semilunaris, including all the taxa previously considered as its synonyms.
Distribution. Bolivia: La Paz (SPHAETH 1962); Brazil: Goiás (SPAETH 1926), Pará (BOROWIEC 1996); Colombia (KIRSCH 1865); Ecuador: Napo (BOROWIEC 1996); French Guyana (BOHEMAN 1855, BOROWIEC 2002); Peru: Cuzco (SPAETH 1902, BOROWIEC 2002).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 296-297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Sensuous wanderings
Creators: name: Fognani, Arianna
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Year: 2016

description: My dissertation “Sensuous Wanderings: Urban Spaces in the Literary Imagination of Italian Writers in Alexandria, Egypt” explores the literary invention of Alexandria cityscape from the early 1900’s and the 1940’s in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Giuseppe Ungaretti’s travelogues (Il fascino dell’Egitto and Quaderno egiziano) and Enrico Pea and Fausta Cialente’s narratives (Vita in Egitto, Ballata levantina, respectively). Inspired by Bertrand Westphal’s notion of geocriticism and adopting a sensory-centered approach, my research demonstrates that their representations of the city rather than debunking the imperialistic perspectives at the core of the Western literary invention of Alexandria, they contribute to it. Relying on the writers’ sensuous perceptions of the city space I demonstrate that despite their privileged position as inside and/or outside members of the international community, and despite their political activism and anti-colonial intents, their narratives reenact and reify dynamics of urban separation, cultural hierarchy, and political dominance.
Additional file 1: of Barriers or gaps in implementation of misoprostol use for post-abortion care and post-partum hemorrhage prevention in developing countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Samnani, Amir
name: Narjis Rizvi
name: Tazeen Ali
name: Farina Abrejo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Annexes or list of tables. (DOCX 172Â kb)
Maternal T cell immune activation and postnatal stress
Creators: name: Fox, Nicholas W.
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Year: 2016

description: Prenatal maternal immune activation (MIA) is a risk factor for several psychopathologic disorders, including bipolar disorder, autism, and schizophrenia.  Most research has focused on using toll-like receptor agonists such as lipopolysaccharide or the synthetic viral genome analogue polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid as experimental immune activators.  Little is known about how T cells, necessary for successful clearance of viruses and bacteria, may influence the neurodevelopment of the gestating fetus.  Additionally, MIA has been implicated as the first hit in a two-hit hypothesis of schizophrenia development when coupled with a secondary insult, such as psychological stress, during adolescent neurodevelopment.  To this end, I challenged pregnant C57BL/6J mice on day E12.5 of gestation with 200ug/kg of purified staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA), a potent superantigen, to oligoclonally activate maternal T cells.  After birth, both male and female offspring were randomized into “stress” or “no stress” groups, where “stress” animals would experience a 14 day battery of mild, unpredictable stressors.  All animals were then tested for spatial navigation in a water radial arm maze (wRAM), anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus maze (EPM) and open-field, and sensorimotor gating, as measured by prepulse inhibition (PPI).  In the wRAM, during hidden platform training, SEA-No Stress animals took significantly longer to find the escape platform and traveled significantly farther before finding it.  SEA-No Stress animals also had a significantly higher number of fail errors, where they did not find the platform within 60 seconds.  When testing for spatial memory, SEA-Stress animals spent the least amount of time in the platform arm, as well as taking significantly longer to make first entry.  Stressed animals traveled further total distance in both the EPM and open field. Animals from SEA treated mothers spent less time investigating a novel object in the open field, as well as spent more time on the perimeter of the maze. No differences were observed between animals in PPI.     Together, these findings suggest that specific T cell activation during pregnancy alters behavioral development in the offspring.  Additionally, adolescent stress does not have an additive effect on prenatal SEA treatment, but rather combines to form a unique phenotype.
Color composition
Creators: name: Gang, Joshua E.
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Year: 2016

description: Recent research has used crowd sourced corpora of language to learn grounded meanings  that associate color descriptions with uncertain regions in hue-saturation-value color  space. In this paper, we explore the degree to which the interpretation of syntactically-  complex color terms can be predicted compositionally from their constituents. Using  both Elastic Net Regressors and Random Forest Regressors, we build models to predict  the composed colors present in both Lux and in the tail data that was unused during the  learning of Lux. We evaluate the performance of the models by assessing the learned  parameters against the Lux parameters. We additionally look at novel human-generated  descriptions and build a system that names colors productively.
Small deviations of sums of random variables
Creators: name: Garnett, Brian
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Year: 2016

description: In this thesis, we study the probability of a small deviation from the mean of a sum of independent or semi-independent random variables. In contrast with the rich history of large deviation inequalities, small deviations have only recently gained attention, and we make contributions to several problems on this topic.  Perhaps the most significant result in this field was an inequality proved by Feige. Let X1, . . . , Xn be nonnegative independent random variables, with E[Xi] ≤ 1 ∀i, and let X =  ni=1 Xi. Then for any n,  Pr[X < E[X] + 1] ≥ α > 0,  for some α ≥ 1/13. This bound was later improved to 1/8 by He, Zhang, and Zhang. Building off their work, we improve the bound to approximately .14. The conjectured true bound is 1/e ≃ .368, so there is still (possibly) quite a gap left to fill.  We also consider whether or not such small deviation inequalities hold for k-wise independent random variables. We show that for some classes of random variables, 4- wise independence is sufficient for a constant lower bound of α = 1/6, which we show to be tight. Furthermore, we present counterexamples showing that 3-wise independence is insufficient for a positive constant lower bound.  For sums of Bernoulli random variables, we can let α = 1/e. We also show that k-wise independence can bring us arbitrarily close to that bound for large enough k.
Additional file 2: of Barriers or gaps in implementation of misoprostol use for post-abortion care and post-partum hemorrhage prevention in developing countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Samnani, Amir
name: Narjis Rizvi
name: Tazeen Ali
name: Farina Abrejo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: PRISMA Checklist. (DOC 52Â kb)
Nuzonia gestatrix
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Nuzonia
Nuzonia gestatrix

description: Nuzonia gestatrix (Boheman, 1855)
Charidotis Gestatrix Boheman, 1855: 47 (original description).
Charidotis luculenta Boheman, 1862: 379 (original description), syn. nov.
Litocassis placidula Weise, 1921: 198 (original description); SPAETH (1931b): 184 (synonymy), syn. confirm.
Type localities. Charidotis gestatrix: Brazil, Pará [fixed by lectotype designation]; C. luculenta: ‘Cayenne’; Litocassis placidula: ‘Manáos’ [= Brazil, Amazonas, Manaus].
Type material examined. Charidotis gestatrix: LECTOTYPE (designated by BOROWIEC 1999a): pinned, ‘29463 [w, p, s] || Para int. [g, hw, cb] || Sieber [g, hw, cb] || geftatrix. Lacord. [w, hw by Boheman, s] || LECTOTYPE | des. L. Borowiec [red, p, cb]’ (ZMHB). PARALECTOTYPE: pinned, ‘ Cayen [w, p, s] || Mhm. [w, p, cb] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022389 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).
Charidotis luculenta: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘Ex Musaeo | Mniszech [w, p, cb]’ (MNHN).
Litocassis placidula: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘Maná- | os [w, p, cb] || Amazon | Roman [w, p, cb] || aug. [w, p, cb] || Typ. [w, p, cb] || Litocassis | placidula | m. [w, hw by Weise, cb] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022390 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).
Remarks. SPAETH (1931b) synonymized Litocassis placidula with Nuzonia gestatrix. I have compared both types and the synonymy is correct. Additionally, I have studied the holotype of Nuzonia luculenta and in my opinion it is only a colour form of N. gestatrix. It has elytral disc mostly brown with two yellow circular spots in anterior third and laterally with deep yellow emargination around midlength, other characters are identical to N. gestatrix. The latter has elytra mostly yellow with thin brown pattern dividing each elytron to two or three large yellow areas: basal on basal third of disc, lateral (identical to the lateral emargination of N. luculenta) and apical. Often the stripe dividing the two last yellow areas is reduced to a short projection of the central broad band or completely reduced. The brown pattern of N. gestatrix exactly demarcates the outer margin of the brown pattern of N. luculenta and I therefore consider the latter only a colour morph of N. gestatrix and synonymize them.
Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas (WEISE 1921) and Pará (BOHEMAN 1855); French Guyana (BOHEMAN 1855).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
From coordinate descent to social sampling
Creators: name: Ghassemi, Mohsen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The unprecedented rate at which data is being created and stored calls for scalable optimization  techniques that allow e cient Big Data" analysis. In this work where there is only one  computing node, that modi es the coordinate-sampling distribution for stochastic coordinate  descent: we call this proportional stochastic coordinate descent (PSCD). This method treats  the gradient of the function as a probability distribution to sample the coordinates, and may be  useful in so-called lock-free decentralized optimization schemes. Although stochastic coordinate  descent methods seem attractive due to their small per-iteration complexity, they show high  variance in performance compared to full gradient descent algorithms. In order to address this  issue we propose stochastic variance reduced coordinate descent that takes information from  the previous gradient estimates into account. Lastly, we consider stochastic message passing  algorithms that limit the communication required for decentralized and distributed convex optimization  and provide convergence guarantees on the objective value. For general distributed  optimization in which agents jointly minimize the sum of local objectives we propose treating  the iterates as gradients and propose a stochastic coordinate-wise primal averaging algorithm  for optimization.
Plagiometriona bremei
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Plagiometriona
Plagiometriona bremei

description: Plagiometriona bremei (Boheman, 1855) stat. restit.
Coptocycla Brèmei Boheman, 1855: 243 (original description).
Type locality. ‘Columbia; Bogota’.
Type material examined. SYNTYPE:?♀, pinned, ‘ Colum- | bia [w, p, cb] || M. Wien [w, hw, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022546 [w, p, cb] ’ (NHRS).
Remarks. BOHEMAN (1855) described this taxon from at least two specimens as he mentioned two depositories (NHRS and collection of Brême). SPAETH (1912) transferred it to Plagiometriona and later, reduced its status to aberration of P. buqueti (Boheman, 1855) without any comments (SPAETH 1937). Since then, P. bremei was considered its junior subjective synonym (see BOROWIEC 1999a).
I have examined types of both taxa and in my opinion they represent two distinct species and I therefore remove P. bremei from synonymy of P. buqueti and restore its species status. See Table 1 for distinguishing characters between the two species.
Distribution. Colombia (BOHEMAN 1855).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 297-298, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
The electronic cigarette retail environment in New Jersey and its associations with community demographics and youth vaping behaviors
Creators: name: Giovenco, Daniel Philip Downs
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Background: E-cigarette use is on the rise among youth nationally, as well as in New Jersey. Little is known about how e-cigarette availability varies across communities and how exposure to e-cigarette advertising may influence use among youth.     Objectives: This dissertation aims to: 1) Document the relationship between community demographics and the presence of vape shops in New Jersey, 2) characterize the e-cigarette retail environment around 41 New Jersey high schools, and 3) examine associations between e-cigarette promotion at the point-of-sale and vaping behaviors among high school students participating in the 2014 New Jersey Youth Tobacco Survey (NJYTS).    Methods: A combination of geographic information systems (GIS), census tract demographic data, store audits, and youth survey data from the 2014 NJYTS were used to describe community correlates of e-cigarette retail and its associations with vaping behaviors among youth.    Results: E-cigarettes were significantly less likely to be available and advertised in communities with a large proportion of black residents. In predominantly white neighborhoods, e-cigarettes were advertised proportionally more than other tobacco products. Although tobacco use history is the strongest predictor of e-cigarette use among students, the e-cigarette retail environment near schools was independently associated with both ever and current use.    Conclusions: The e-cigarette industry currently faces no federal marketing restrictions. This dissertation documented a high prevalence of point-of-sale promotions in areas where youth spend time and revealed strong associations between the local tobacco retail environment and e-cigarette use. Policies that make e-cigarettes less available and less appealing to youth may slow rates of uptake and ultimately benefit public health.
Dyscolus arborarius Moret 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Moret, Pierre
name: Murienne, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dyscolus
Dyscolus arborarius

description: Dyscolus arborarius Moret sp. nov.
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Figs 25–26
Etymology
Latin adjective meaning ‘related to trees’.
Type material
Holotype (only known specimen)
ECUADOR • ♂; Loja Province, Parque Nacional Yacuri, Waypoint 170; 4.781387º S, 79.386938º W; 2870 m a.s.l.; 4 Aug. 2016; P. Moret and S. Aguirre leg.; COI voucher PM170-02, BOLD sequence SUM191-18; MNHN.
Diagnostic description
Habitus: Fig. 25. Wingless. Body length: 10.8 mm. Body dark brown with the sides of the pronotum and the elytral sutura reddish brown; femora dark brown; rest of the legs, antennae and mouthparts reddish brown. Elytral microsculpture shallowly impressed, transverse. Head large and convex; eyes prominent, very convex; basal constriction strong; mandibles relatively short. Antennae thin, very elongate. Pronotum subcordiform, sides moderately arcuate anterad, slightly sinuate posterad; hind angles obtuse; two pairs of lateral setae. Elytra elongate-ovate with effaced humeri, subapical sinuation obsolete; striae narrow and shallowly impressed; intervals flat; third elytral interval with two or three discal setae. Last visible abdominal ventrite of the male with two pairs of apical setae. Legs thin and elongate. Fourth metatarsomere oval-shaped, with one pair of dorsolateral subapical setae and long apical lobes, the external lobe nearly two times longer than the inner lobe. Male genitalia: Fig. 26. Median lobe weakly arcuate, apex short, acute, endophallus with one subapical sclerotized structure. Female genitalia: unknown.
Comparisons
According to the COI gene, D. arborarius Moret sp. nov. belongs to the marini clade, close to D. ruizi Moret sp. nov. It can be easily distinguished from the other species of this clade by its slender body, large head with very prominent eyes, and effaced humeri.
Habitat
Upper montane forest on the Eastern slope of the Andes, at around 2870 m a.s.l. Collected by pyrethrin insecticide fogging on mossy branches and epiphytes, two metres above ground.
Geographic distribution
Only known from the type locality in Southern Ecuador, in Parque Nacional Yacuri. Probably microendemic.
description: Published as part of Moret, Pierre & Murienne, Jérôme, 2020, Integrative taxonomy of the genus Dyscolus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Platynini) in Ecuadorian Andes, pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 646 on pages 27-29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.646, http://zenodo.org/record/3829682
Additional file 2: of Barriers or gaps in implementation of misoprostol use for post-abortion care and post-partum hemorrhage prevention in developing countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Samnani, Amir
name: Narjis Rizvi
name: Tazeen Ali
name: Farina Abrejo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: PRISMA Checklist. (DOC 52Â kb)
Plagiometriona buqueti
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Plagiometriona
Plagiometriona buqueti

description: Plagiometriona buqueti (Boheman, 1855)
Coptocycla Buqueti Boheman, 1855: 371 (original description).
Type locality. ‘Columbia’.
Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (designated by BOROWIEC 1999a):♂, pinned, ‘Colum- | bia [w, p, cb] || Buquet [w, hw, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || LECTOTYPE | des. L. Borowiec [r, p, cb] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022544 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS). PARALECTOTYPE: pinned, ‘Colum- | bia [w, p, cb] || Fairm. [w, p, s] || PARALECTOTYPE | des. L. Borowiec [r, p, cb] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022545 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).
Remarks. SPAETH (1937) reduced Plagiometriona moesta (Boheman, 1855) as an aberration of P. buqueti, probably based on the primary description. Since then the former taxon has been considered as synonym of the latter (see BOROWIEC 1999a). According to the primary description BOHEMAN (1855) compared P. moesta to P. buqueti and mentioned that it has acutely pointed humeral angles and yellow elytra with a large black spot reaching far beyond the middle of elytra. Although many species of Plagiometriona display significant variability in the dorsal colour pattern (e.g. FLINTE et al. 2010), P. buqueti belongs to a group of species with fairly constant elytral pattern. Therefore it is desirable to study the type of P. moesta to verify whether the synonymy is valid.
The distribution is given according to WAGENER (1877), who published several faunistic records of P. buqueti from Colombia. It is necessary to verify respective specimens as they might also belong to P. bremei.
Distribution. Colombia: Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima (WAGENER 1877).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 298, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Saint Augustine
Creators: name: Gören, Arif
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Year: 2016

description: Saint Augustine’s understanding of the grace of God and human beings’ free choice of the will underwent significant changes. On the one hand, Augustine never ceased to defend the existence of free choice of the will for the sake of goodness, omnipotence, and justice of God. On the other hand, as soon as he converted to Christianity he accentuated the role of God’s grace over human beings’ good actions. His growing concern for divine omnipotence forced him to accentuate the role of God’s grace while lessening the role of human beings’ free choice of the will in their good works. Augustine’s final views on the grace of God and human beings’ free choice of the will are in serious tension. His concern with the omnipotence of God caused him to give no role to human beings. Human beings after the fall cannot freely will or do anything unless God bestows His grace to them. Yet, to hold human beings responsible for the existence of sin, free will must exist. Therefore, Augustine argued that the disobedience of Adam and Eve removed the capability of doing good for all humanity. With the fall, human beings produced their personal sin and became totally incapable of willing and doing good. The Grace of God, therefore, is only hope for salvation. Augustine’s final views on the grace of God and human beings’ free choice of the will put him in a position where he contradicts with God’s justice. Augustine argued that God has predestined all human beings either to salvation or to damnation. Hence, human beings are not capable of acting contrary to what God determined for them. Yet, Augustine strongly advocated that human beings are responsible for their actions. In other words, God holds a person responsible for things beyond his control.
Additional file 1: of Prediction of clinical response to drugs in ovarian cancer using the chemotherapy resistance test (CTR-test)
Creators: name: Kischkel, Frank
name: Meyer, Carina
name: Eich, Julia
name: Nassir, Mani
name: Mentze, Monika
name: Braicu, Ioana
name: Kopp-Schneider, Annette
name: Jalid Sehouli
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
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subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
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subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Percentage of viable cells and tumor cells. The percentage of viable cells and tumor cells of the different patient samples (Responder or Non-Responder for Monotherapy, Monotherapy plus Avastin or Combination Chemotherapy) is presented. (PDF 29 kb)
EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF THE LUCAS CPR DEVICE IN PREHOSPITAL CARE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Abdulelah Hejji Musayikh Alanazi,  Emad Fadhel Ahmed Alanazi,  Nasser Mohammed Jaddua Alanazi, Derea Saud Alotaibi,  Ayed Obaid S. Alenazi,   ‏Hamoud Mohsen Al subaie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The LUCAS CPR device has emerged as a groundbreaking tool in prehospital care, designed to deliver consistent and high-quality chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This article critically evaluates the device's impact on patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and prehospital emergency services. By synthesizing findings from clinical trials, observational studies, and real-world applications, the analysis highlights the advantages of the LUCAS device in improving survival rates, reducing fatigue among emergency medical personnel, and enhancing workflow in challenging environments. However, the study also addresses limitations, such as cost, device-related complications, and varying efficacy across patient profiles. Recommendations for future research and integration strategies are provided to maximize its potential in prehospital care.

Keywords: LUCAS CPR device, prehospital care, mechanical CPR, cardiac arrest, emergency medical services, patient outcomes, operational efficiency, healthcare innovation.
Echiniscus canadensis Murray 1910
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Echiniscus
Echiniscus canadensis

description: Echiniscus canadensis Murray 1910
I observed several morphotypes among the 2,712 specimens examined (Fig. 3). Typical appendages (no lateral filaments, dorsal filaments at position C or dorsal spines at position D; Table 4 and Fig. 3) (Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983) were observed in 92% of the total specimens. Overall, eight morphotypes were distinguished (Fig. 4): (i) lacking one dorsal filament at position C (1.3% of all specimens analyzed), (ii) lacking dorsal filaments at C (0.3%), (iii) lacking one dorsal filament at B and dorsal spine at D (0.3%), (iv) lacking dorsal spines at D and one dorsal filament at C (0.3%), (v) lacking dorsal filaments at C and one dorsal spine at D (0.2%), (vi) lacking one dorsal spine at D (1.4%) (morphotype only found in juvenile specimens), (vii) no dorsal spines at D (4%) (morphotype only found in juvenile specimens) and (viii) no dorsal appendices (0.2%) (this morphotype may be easily mistaken for Echiniscus dearmatus Bartos 1935 but Ramazzotti and Maucci (1983) considered it a synonymy of Echiniscus canadensis). Several of these morphotypes can be found mixed within the same sample. Once again, I discerned three size categories for blumi sculpture design. I also detected some specimens with two spurs at the base of the external claws of the fourth pair of legs. Mean body size was 412 μm (SD 110), range 242 to 880 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, America and Africa. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Portugal (Da Cunha 1941; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985) and Spain (Rodríguez Roda 1949; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984). Echiniscus canadensis was collected at 35 sampling points (Table 3), in all habitats but LT.
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
High pressure assisted infusion of calcium in PME treated baby carrots
Creators: name: Gosavi, Noopur Sanjay
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Year: 2016

description: High pressure processing (HPP) is a technology in which foods are subjected to high pressures in the range 100 MPa – 800 MPa. HPP has been greatly explored as a process technology for ensuring food safety in the past. Recently, this technology has shown a great promise to enhance the infusion of biomolecules into food systems. The aim of this project was to explore and evaluate HPP as a technique for infusion of calcium in a food matrix, specifically baby carrots.    HPP was employed in infusing calcium in PME (pectin methylesterase) treated baby carrots. Calcium lactate gluconate (CLG) salt was used as the infusate solution. The effect of HPP was evaluated on the extent of calcium infusion in baby carrots along with its effect on other important attributes of baby carrots, such as beta-carotene extractability, hardness (N), and color. In addition, the effect of pressure cycling on calcium infusion were also studied.    Fifteen HPP experiments were performed following a Box-Behnken design of experiments. The three independent factors evaluated were pressure (MPa), time (min), and CLG solution concentration (% w/v). To evaluate the effect of pressure cycling, high pressure infusion was carried out by varying the number of cycles as 1, 3, and 5 keeping the maximum pressure level, the total hold time at maximum pressure, and the maximum CLG solution concentration fixed. Unprocessed baby carrots, osmotically infused baby carrots, and vacuum infused baby carrots were used as controls.    It was observed that HPP enhanced the infusion of calcium in PME treated baby carrots from 19.5 mg/serving to up to 134 mg/serving of baby carrots, which is more than 10 % of the RDA of calcium, and was more than 3 times the amount of calcium infused in osmotically and vacuum infused controls. The processing variables of pressure, time, and CLG concentration, all played a significant role in determining the amount of calcium infused. The amount of infused calcium increased with the number of pressure cycles (1 to 5). The extractability of beta-carotene from the HPP calcium infused baby carrots was 4-5 times higher than the unprocessed control. The hardness of the baby carrots was observed to increase after calcium infusion, but the color of the carrots became darker. Microbial shelf life of the calcium infused baby carrots was observed to be only 4 days, indicating that further research is needed to optimize the handling and post-processing techniques.    In conclusion, HPP was found to enhance the infusion of calcium in PME treated baby carrots while also improving the extractability of beta-carotene and increasing the hardness, but darkening the color.
Additional file 3: of Barriers or gaps in implementation of misoprostol use for post-abortion care and post-partum hemorrhage prevention in developing countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Samnani, Amir
name: Narjis Rizvi
name: Tazeen Ali
name: Farina Abrejo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

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Echiniscus bisetosus Heinis 1908
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Echiniscus
Echiniscus bisetosus

description: Echiniscus bisetosus Heinis 1908
Specimens with the two morphotypes described for Echiniscus bisetosus (Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983) were identified, among eleven specimens isolated: type C (Table 4), representing 82% of specimens, and type D (Table 4), representing 18%. Both types of Echiniscus bisetosus showed asymmetries. Morphotypes C and D were not mixed within the same sample. Differences were noted in the size of the cuticle sculpture pattern (i.e., blumi type (Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983)). Body size ranged from 308 to 704 μm, mean 457 μm (SD 113). The species has been cited for Europe, Asia, America and Africa. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Portugal (Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985), but this is the first record for Spain (Table 2). Echiniscus bisetosus was found at eight sampling points (Table 3), but always in MR samples.
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Dyscolus crespoae Moret 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Moret, Pierre
name: Murienne, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dyscolus
Dyscolus crespoae

description: Dyscolus crespoae Moret sp. nov.
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Fig. 29
Etymology
Noun in the genitive case, dedicated to Verónica Crespo, professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, limnologist and specialist of the ecology of Andean tropical streams.
Type material
Holotype
ECUADOR • ♀; Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Parque Nacional Podocarpus, Estación El Colibrí; 3°59′16.1″ S, 79°5′39.0″ W; 2110 m a.s.l.; 18 Mar. 2015; P. Moret and C. Ruiz leg.; by night 19.30– 21 pm; on the ground; QCAZ.
Paratype
ECUADOR • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; COI voucher PM402-03, BOLD sequence SUM188-18; CPM.
Diagnostic description
Habitus: Fig. 29. Wingless. Body length: 10.6 mm (paratype) to 11.3 mm (holotype). Head and pronotum black, elytra nigropiceous; legs, antennae and mouthparts brownish to reddish brown. Dorsal integuments shiny, elytral microsculpture transverse. Head relatively small, elongate, eyes prominent, genae long, almost flat. Pronotum cordiform; sides markedly sinuate basally, hind angles obtuse and sharp; laterobasal impressions deep, lateral margins reflexed; two pairs of lateral setae. Elytra oval, convex; striae entire, shallowly impressed, distinctly punctate; intervals flat; preapical sinuation weakly marked. Third elytral interval without discal setae. Last visible abdominal ventrite with two pairs of setae along its apical margin. Legs moderately slender, all tarsi densely pubescent ventrally; metatarsomeres 1–3 bisulcate; external lobe of the fourth metatarsomere 2.5 times longer than inner lobe; fifth metatarsomere asetose ventrally. Male unknown. Female genitalia: unstudied.
Comparisons
This species belongs to the same clade as D. ravidus Moret sp. nov. Both have the same general aspect and share the character of an asetose third interval, but in D. crespoae Moret sp. nov. the dorsal surface is shiny with a transverse microsculpture on the elytra, the elytra are more convex, the hind angles of
the pronotum more obtuse, the ventral pubescence of the tarsi denser, the apical lobes of the fourth metatarsomere more asymmetrical.
Habitat
Montane forest on the Eastern slope of the Andes, at around 2100 m a.s.l. Active at the beginning of the night (7.30–9 pm) on the surface of the leaf litter above ground.
Geographic distribution
Only known from the type locality in Southern Ecuador, in the Parque Nacional Podocarpus. Probably microendemic.
description: Published as part of Moret, Pierre & Murienne, Jérôme, 2020, Integrative taxonomy of the genus Dyscolus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Platynini) in Ecuadorian Andes, pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 646 on pages 30-32, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.646, http://zenodo.org/record/3829682
Additional file 3: of Barriers or gaps in implementation of misoprostol use for post-abortion care and post-partum hemorrhage prevention in developing countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Samnani, Amir
name: Narjis Rizvi
name: Tazeen Ali
name: Farina Abrejo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

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Thlaspidosoma Spaeth 1901
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Thlaspidosoma

description: Thlaspidosoma Spaeth, 1901
Thlaspidosoma Spaeth, 1901: 4 (original description).
Type species: Thlaspidosoma dohrni Spaeth, 1901 designated by SPAETH (1914).
Remarks. SPAETH (1901) proposed the genus Thlaspidosoma Spaeth, 1901 and considered it a feminine. The name is a combination of the genus name ‘ Thlaspida ’ and Greek word σῶμα (sóma, meaning body) and thus is neuter. Hence gender agreement of the endings of all names which are adjectives (denoded in following list by an asterisk) in species currently included in the genus (see BOROWIEC 1999a) is corrected to neuter (ICZN 1999: Art. 31.2):
* Thlaspidosoma assamense Spaeth, 1926
* Thlaspidosoma breve Chen & Zia, 1964
* Thlaspidosoma celebense Spaeth, 1933
Thlaspidosoma dohrni Spaeth, 1901
* Thlaspidosoma fallaciosum Spaeth, 1901
* Thlaspidosoma gracilicorne Spaeth, 1915
Thlaspidosoma horsfieldi (Boheman, 1855)
* Thlaspidosoma philippinum (Spaeth, 1916)
* Thlaspidosoma rizalense Spaeth, 1933
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 299-300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725