cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ringicula minor
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Ringiculidae
Ringicula
Ringicula minor

description: Ringicula minor (Grateloup, 1838)
(Fig. 7 C1, C2)
Auricula ringens var. b. minor Grateloup, 1838: 286, pl. 6, fig. 8.
Ringicula minor – Landau et al. 2013: 326, pl. 52, fig.16, pl. 76, fig. 14, pl. (cum syn.).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F11: AMPG (IV) 2488-2531 (44 specimens); sample F12: AMPG (IV) 2532-2540 (nine specimens).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 4.70 mm.
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. NE Atlantic: France (Peyrot 1932; Lozouet et al. 2001; Lesport & Cahuzac 2005; Cahuzac et al. 2012); Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Greece (this paper); Paratethys: Slovakia (Harzhauser et al. 2011).
Middle Miocene. NE Atlantic: France (Peyrot 1932); Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Turkey (Landau et al. 2013); Paratethys: Austria (Hörnes 1852), Hungary (Strausz 1966).
REMARKS
In many specimens the outer lip and the parietal callus are not callous. This was also observed in French representatives of Ringicula minor from the Aquitaine Basin (Lozouet et al. 2001). The large number of fragments documents that this species was among the most frequent species in the shallowmarine assemblage of Felli.
Ringicula minor is a widespread European species (Harzhauser 2014; Landau et al. 2013).
Order CEPHALASPIDEA P. Fischer, 1883
REMARK
Cephalaspidea have been studied recently with an aim to better understand the phylogeny of this diversified order of marine gastropods (Malaquias et al. 2009; Oskars et al. 2015). Even though the relationships between families was clarified by Oskars et al. (2015), the superfamilies Bulloidea Gray, 1827 and Diaphanoidea Odhner, 1914 (1857) remain non monophyletic, with the family Retusidae being paraphyletic.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on pages 346-348, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from aqueous OH radical oxidation of dicarbonyl compounds in the atmosphere
Creators: name: Tan, Yi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) affect visibility, health and global climate. Current chemical transport models cannot represent SOA in the free troposphere. Fog/cloud processing, which is the dominant source of atmospheric sulfate, has been recognized as a missing source of SOA globally. Aqueous photooxidation of water-soluble products (e.g., glyoxal and methylglyoxal) of gas-phase photochemistry yields low-volatility compounds including oxalic acid. When this chemistry takes place in clouds and fogs followed by droplet evaporation (or if this chemistry occurs in aerosol water) then products remain in part in the particle phase, forming SOA. However, current aqueous SOA formation mechanism has not shown how the starting concentrations of precursors and presence of acidic sulfate affect product formation.  Aqueous phase photochemical batch reactions were conducted with glyoxal and methylglyoxal at cloud relevant concentrations, using hydrogen peroxide photolysis as the hydroxyl radical (∙OH) source. Experiments were repeated at higher concentrations and with/without sulfuric acid. Precursors and products were investigated using ion chromatography (IC), electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), and IC-ESI-MS. Products included carboxylic acids and higher molecular weight compounds, which are major constituents of aerosols. Sulfuric acid shows little effect on product formation. Dilute aqueous chemistry models successfully reproduced product formation for glyoxal and methylglyoxal at cloud relevant conditions, but measurements deviated from predictions from predictions at elevated concentrations. Higher molecular weight products become increasingly important as precursor concentration increases. Aqueous radical-radical reactions provide explanations for observed higher molecular weight products. Additionally, acetic acid is identified as an SOA precursor for the first time.  This work provides an improved understanding of aqueous phase dicarbonyl oxidation mechanism and the overall significance of aqueous SOA formation. Kinetic data are made available to regional and global atmospheric models, and the mechanism described in this work will help people to mitigate adverse aerosol effects.
Testing a model of change in achievement mentoring for school behavior problems
Creators: name: Taylor, Andrea Lynne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Two previous randomly controlled trials of a 5-month, school-based mentoring intervention plus booster sessions delivered by school personnel support the efficacy of this program in reducing declines in school behavior outcomes related to academic achievement, such as discipline referrals and grades, in at risk, urban, minority youth. However, the mechanisms responsible for this effect are unknown. One hypothesis is that the intervention effects changes in cognitions related to school engagement, particularly those related to the degree to which a student perceives the school environment to meet fundamental needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Changes in these cognitions, in turn, could result in school behavior changes. The current research, which joined samples from the previous two trials with a third trial in order to increase power, evaluated the impact of this school-based intervention on cognitive and behavioral outcomes, and the role of cognitions as mediators of the intervention’s effect on behaviors.  Ninth grade ethnic minority students (N = 124) identified as academically at risk by school personnel participated in three randomized controlled trials of the Achievement Mentoring Program in two secondary schools in urban, low income areas in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.  Program effects and mediation were examined using regression analysis. Results of these analyses indicated the mentoring intervention significantly reduced student discipline referrals at follow up and this effect was moderated by previous number of discipline referrals. No statistically significant effect on cognitive outcomes was identified and no evidence of mediation by cognitive measures was found for the sample. These results provide support for the mentoring program as an effective intervention on school behavior in at risk, urban, minority youth.  Implications of the findings in regard to mechanisms of change are discussed.
Retusa T. Brown 1827
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Retusidae
Retusa

description: Genus Retusa T. Brown, 1827
TYPE SPECIES. — Bulla obtusa Montagu, 1803, by subsequent designation (Iredale 1915). Recent, Europe.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 348, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Improved active shape models for segmentation of the prostate on MR imagery
Creators: name: Toth, Robert James
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Segmentation aims to determine which locations within an image contain the object of interest.  Segmentation of the prostate boundary on clinical images is useful in a large number of applications including calculation of prostate volume pre- and post-treatment, detection of extra-capsular spread, and creation of patient-specific anatomical models. Manual segmentation of the prostate boundary is, however, time consuming and subject to inter- and intra-reader variability. T2-weighted (T2-w) Magnetic Resonance (MR) structural imaging (MRI) and MR Spectroscopy (MRS) have recently emerged as promising modalities for detection of prostate cancer in vivo.  With the recent advance in prostate imagery, we have generated an accurate prostate segmentation system for MR imagery.  Our system builds upon the popular Active Shape Model (ASM) framework, in which a statistical description of the shape is first generated, after which an appearance of the object of interest is modeled.      In our system, the shape model can be generated in either 2D or 3D, and is defined by a set of anatomical landmarks.  For the appearance model, we offer several improvements.  We generated statistical texture features of the prostate images, and use those features to overcome limitations of solely using intensities.  In addition, we use intelligent feature selection algorithms including forward feature selection and adaboost to determine which features to include in our segmentation system.  The statistical appearance models are not modeled as a simple Gaussian distribution, but rather as a sum of Gaussians, resulting in more accurate models.  In 2D, a local appearance model is generated for each landmark location on the prostate border.  However, in 3D this is infeasible, so we generate a global appearance model describing the voxels within the prostate.  The 2D ASM resulted in a Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.85, while our 3D system resulted in a DSC of 0.89 (over 56 and 37 studies respectively).  This is comparable to other state of the art prostate MR segmentation schemes.  Finally, we have shown that in the specific application of prostate volume estimation, our system performs more accurate volume estimations than currently employed clinical models.  Our system achieved a correlation (R^2 value) with the ground truth volume of 0.82 while the clinical model achieved an R^2 value of 0.70.  Our system had a volume fraction of 1.05 in comparison to the ground truth volume, while the clinical model achieved a volume fraction of 1.14.  Overall, we have developed an efficient, accurate, and useful prostate segmentation scheme for MR imagery.
Selatosomus chassaini Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia 2015
Creators: name: Qiu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus chassaini

description: 5. Selatosomus chassaini Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia, 2015
Type locality: “ China: Henan, Funiu Shan [Ḫ†Ɯ], Baotianman [Íƙae]”.
Distribution: Henan.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Lu, 2023, Selatosomus luhuaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) from Sichuan Province, China, with an annotated checklist of the Chinese species of Selatosomus, pp. 173-186 in Zootaxa 5228 (2) on page 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7532524
System integration and image pre-processing for an automated, real-time identification and monitoring system for coral reef fish
Creators: name: Tonde, Chetan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In this work we build an underwater vision system capable of monitoring the activities of fish found near coral reefs. We propose a unique hardware platform capable of monitoring a volume of water in a very efficient and cost effective way. We also develop algorithms required to take advantage of such a system. There are three main contributions of this work, which are; (1) using two right-angled camera’s to capture underwater image sequences, (2) developing algorithms to track and pre-process images for recognition (3) and demonstrating that we can recognize fish families or in some cases exact fish species using fish shape(with size, color and pattern features to be added later). We conclude from this work that using just two cameras in a right-angled setup is a cheap and effective way of monitoring fish activities in general. It is cost effective when compared to using multiple cameras and also less computationally intensive. We developed and modified our approach based on observations we made while testing this setup and accommodated these modifications in our software. We installed this system  at the artificial coral reef in the New York Aquarium and periodically collected image sequences for processing. We demonstrate our results on the collected sequences and show pre-processing results on them. We also demonstrate, using shape feature from a fish sequence we collected at the aquarium (using cross-validation); that we can recognize fish families or in some cases exact species using those features.
Retusa truncatula
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Retusidae
Retusa
Retusa truncatula

description: Retusa truncatula (Bruguière, 1792)(Fig. 7 D1-D3)
Bulla truncatula Bruguière, 1792: 377.
Retusa truncatula – Landau et al. 2013: 337, pl. 77, fig. 11 (cum syn.).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F11: AMPG (IV) 2541-2544 (four specimens).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 0.62 mm.
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Greece (this paper) (Aquitanian); Paratethys: Austria (Harzhauser 2002) (Burdigalian).
Middle Miocene. NE Atlantic: France (Peyrot 1932); Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Turkey (Landau et al. 2013); Paratethys: Austria (Hörnes 1856; Berger 1953), Poland (Bałuk 1970), Hungary (Strausz 1966).
Late Miocene. NE Atlantic: Portugal (Landau et al. 2013), Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Sacco 1896).
Early Pliocene. NE Atlantic: Spain (Landau et al. 2011), central Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Chirli 2013).
Early Pleistocene. central and eastern Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Cerulli-Irelli 1910), Greece (Koskeridou et al. 2009).
Early-Middle Pleistocene. eastern Mediterranean Sea: Greece (Nielsen et al. 2006).
Recent. NE Atlantic, Baltic Sea to Canary Islands and Mediterranean Sea (Thompson 1988; MolluscaBase 2018).
REMARKS
Juveniles, small specimens and fragments of Retusa truncatula were recovered in the Greek material. The morphology of the specimens of the present material is consistent with the range of variation of R. truncatula.
Retusa truncatula has been recorded widely in the fossil record and it is still present in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (Landau et al. 2013; MolluscaBase 2018). It is possible that we are dealing with a cryptic species since the taxon seems very long-lived and widespread. As Oskars et al. (2015) mention, the phylogenetic relationships of the family should be investigated in detail, which could bring more information relative to the fossil representatives of the family Retusidae.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 348, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Water quality issues and life-cycle energy consumption of glass container recycling in New Jersey
Creators: name: Tsai, Ching-Ling
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Alternative uses of cullet (crushed recycled glass containers) that is difficult to use as feedstock in new glass container production have grown rapidly.  The cullet is mainly used as aggregate in construction projects and in landfills as daily cover, drainage layer, or road pavement.  Despite the increasing use as aggregate, it is unclear if this practice is environmentally sustainable.  In the first part of this study, water quality issues associated with this practice are assessed.  Glass cullet that is stockpiled uncovered before use as aggregate can release leachate to the surrounding environment.  Leachate is generated from rainwater that has percolated through the cullet stockpile and dissolved and suspended some of the contaminants, such as food/beverage residuals and paper.  Field stockpiles were constructed to monitor leachate quantity and quality as well as to evaluate the cullet treatment within the stockpiles.  The results of the leachate characterization showed that leachate is a potential source of water pollution.  The analyzed pollutant levels were in most cases comparable to or higher than those of untreated domestic wastewater or urban stormwater.  Both mechanical turning and forced aeration of cullet stockpiles can enhance the degradation of the organic constituents inside the stockpiles.  However, active aeration needs to be combined with mechanical turning to be effective.  The second part of the study assesses the life-cycle energy consumption associated with glass container recycling including its different end uses.  A material flow and energy analysis quantifies glass container flows used and discarded in 2008 in New Jersey and its associated energy consumption from raw material extraction to final use and disposal.  The results of the analysis showed that about five times more (255,600 tons) recycled glass containers were used as aggregate compared to use as feedstock in glass container or fiberglass production.  Most likely this can be attributed to the quality of the cullet that cannot meet the industry specifications.  However, the energy analysis confirmed the benefit of use as feedstock in glass container or fiberglass production. To allow the use of cullet as feedstock in glass container production, the quality of the cullet must be improved.
Single walled carbon nanotube networks as substrates for bone cells
Creators: name: Tutak, Wojtek
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: A central effort in biomedical research concerns the development of materials for sustaining and controlling cell growth. Carbon nanotube based substrates have been shown to support the growth of different kinds of cells. However the underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly defined. To address the fundamental question of mechanisms by which nanotubes promote bone mitosis and histogenesis, primary calvariae osteoblastic cells were grown on single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) network substrates. Using a combination of biochemical and optical techniques, we demonstrate here that SWNT networks promote cell development through two distinct steps. Initially, SWNTs are absorbed in a process that resembles endocytosis, inducing acute toxicity. Nanotube mediated cell destruction, however, induces a release of endogenous factors that act to boost the activity of the surviving cells by stimulating the synthesis of extracellular matrix. In the second part of the research, minimally invasive SWNT matrices were used to further investigate network properties for biomedical applications without extensive presence of cytotoxicity. In the literature, carbon nanotube based substrates have been shown to support the growth of different cell types and, as such, have raised considerable interest in view of their possible use in biomedical applications. Nanotube matrices that are embedded in polymers cause inherent changes in nanotube chemical and physical film properties. Thus, it is critical to understand how the physical properties of the pristine networks affect the biology of the host tissue. Here, we investigated how the physical and chemical properties of SWNT networks impact the response of MC3T3-E1 bone osteoblasts. We found that two fundamental steps in cell growth: initial attachment to the substrate and proliferation, are strongly dependent on the energy and roughness of the surface, respectively. Thus, fine-tuning the properties of the film may represent a strategy to optimize the response of the biological host. Outlined above results led to a next set of experiments in which in-situ, real time cell interactions with SWNT films were investigated. Direct electrical measurements on SWNT thin films on changing osteoblastic cell growth were conducted. The experiments indicated that in fact the nanotube films have capability of hosting and sensing initial cell material interactions.
Protected quantum bits and Josephson junction arrays
Creators: name: Usmanov, Ruslan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis we consider a Josephson junction device whose symmetry is described by the point group Td. It can be visualized as a tetrahedron that contains two Josephson junctions  on each edge. We find the conditions under which the ground state of the system is degenerate or almost degenerate. In this case, the low-energy degrees of freedom can be mapped to the Hilbert  space of a quantum spin 1/2. We evaluate effects of different physical perturbations on the degenerate ground state and find that they are small for most perturbations. We argue that this  system can be considered as a very promising candidate for a protected quantum bit with built-in error correction. We propose and discuss an experimental method that allows to test validity of some of the theoretical results obtained for the tetrahedral Josephson junction array and other similar symmetric circuits. We have chosen a simpler pyramidal array to demonstrate the main ideas of our method. Even though the noise resistance and theoretical decoherence time of the pyramidal array are worse than  those of the more complex tetrahedral systems, it is much easier to realize the pyramid experimentally. The proposed design can be used with any symmetric Josephson junction circuit.  We explore a natural generalization of the tetrahedral quantum bit and consider devices whose symmetry can be described by one of the higher-order permutation groups Sn. We study the level structure and the associated built-in protection of some conceptually simple circuits and show that these circuits have many interesting properties. In particular, their ground state can be highly degenerate and stable with respect to perturbations violating the symmetry. Unfortunately,  these highly symmetric systems consist of a large number of identical Josephson junctions. This makes them too complicated for experimental realization.
Pyrunculus Pilsbry 1895
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Retusidae
Pyrunculus

description: Genus Pyrunculus Pilsbry, 1895
TYPE SPECIES. — Bulla pyriformis A. Adams in Sowerby, 1850, by monotypy. Recent, China Sea.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 348, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Creating deliberation in the context of social conflict
Creators: name: Vasilyeva, Alena L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The dissertation explored how deliberative activity is constructed within ongoing social conflict. The study examined mediator actions for keeping the disputants on task – that is, on negotiating plans about caring for their children. This focus enabled an empirical investigation of three interrelated theoretical interests: (1) how an institutionally preferred form of interactivity is constructed in the ongoing course of interaction, (2) the role of the mediator as an ostensible designer of communication activity, and (3) the relationship between interaction and reasoning. An existingcollection of 18 transcripts from audio recordings of mediation sessions at a mediation center in the western United States served as a source of interactional data. The participants of mediation sessions were eight mediators and 17 divorcing or divorced couples. The main focus of observation was on mediator communicative practices for keeping disputants on task. These were observed by attending to the word choices of mediators and their language actions evident across a corpus of transcripts. As thedialogue quality is a mutual achievement of all the participants, not just the mediator, the center of attention was also on different linguistic and interactional resources disputants provide in the course of interaction. The simple categories were useful for getting at higher order concepts such as topics and dialogue activities. There were four main findings from the empirical study. First, an institutionally preferred form of interactivity is constructed ongoing, often implicit, negotiation of what is on or off task through theuses of linguistic and interactional “materials” available in the moment to the participants. Second, mediators’ uses of language to make references, establish topics,and launch dialogue activities are design moves that signal what is on-task and thus articulate the deliberative activity. Third, mediators construct their interventions in such a way as to balance concerns for face and the institutional goal for interaction. Fourth,argument and reasoning are constituted through interaction that imposes various constraints on what contributions are appropriate in mediation talk.
Human motion recognition using a wireless wearable system
Creators: name: Varkey, John Paul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The future of human computer interaction systems lies in how intelligently these systems can take into account the user's context, that is, how well the data that they produce characterizes the user's current situation. Context awareness is essential for ubiquitous and wearable computing. Research on recognizing the daily activities of people has progressed steadily, but little focus has been devoted to recognizing activities along with the movements involved in it. For many applications such as rehabilitation, sports medicine, geriatric care, and health/fitness monitoring, the importance of combined recognition of activity and movements within an activity can drive health care outcomes. Motion recognition aims at recognizing the actions of one or more users from a series of observations on the users' actions and environmental conditions. Sensor-based motion recognition integrates the emerging area of wireless sensor networks with novel machine learning techniques to model a wide range of human motions. A novel algorithm is proposed that can be tuned to recognize on-the-fly either range of activities or fine motor movements within a specific activity using wirelessly connected sensor motes (equipped with accelerometers and gyroscopes) attached to different body sites. This thesis describes a novel algorithm for both situations and also presents a case study on optimal feature set from sensor values and various parameter values for the algorithm to detect the fine motor movements within an activity.
Estuarine habitat ecology of adult weakfish (Cynoscion regalis)
Creators: name: Turnure, Jason
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The habitat ecology of adult weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) remains poorly understood, although they comprise an important ecological and economic portion of estuarine environments.  Weakfish are particularly susceptible to confusion over how to best delineate important habitat resources, such as those used for reproduction, because they may change over multiple spatial (coastal and estuary) and temporal (seasonal and diel) scales. In this study, weakfish habitat dynamics were evaluated at multiple scales using acoustic telemetry within the Mullica River-Great Bay estuary in southern New Jersey.  At the broader estuary scale, residency, habitat use, and movements were quantified across the reproductive/post-reproductive season.  Tagged adult weakfish were resident in bay, lower river, and subtidal creek habitats during reproduction (May through July) and following the reproductive season (August through November) but showed limited use of inlet and upriver habitats in both seasons. Movement rates increased at the end of the post-reproductive season and weakfish apparently moved into fringing, unmonitored habitats within the study area following the reproductive period.  Estuarine egress occurred throughout the study period but was lowest during July and highest during the final month of emigration in November.  At smaller spatial scales, weakfish displayed patterns of site fidelity both seasonally and daily. At the seasonal scale, a majority of weakfish tagged in 2008 maintained fidelity to their original tagging location or established new “core areas” in other parts of the estuary.  In both cases, fish were detected at these areas for the duration of their residency or made short- or long-term excursions before returning to their original core area.  At the diel scale, weakfish displayed movements of varying distances from their original tagging location beginning around sundown and returning around the sunrise period, which also corresponds to the timing of nightly weakfish reproduction.  These findings represent new evidence of the role that estuary habitats may play in adult weakfish life history and, because weakfish habitat dynamics may be influenced by reproduction, it will be important to incorporate these changes into future management of the fishery.
Using the analytic hierarchy process to improve the Rutgers simple bridge security checklist
Creators: name: Valeo, Meghann M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the New Jersey Department of Transportation asked Rutgers University to develop a checklist to be used by bridge inspectors to provide department leaders with security data for the entire bridge inventory.  Rutgers University quickly developed a concise checklist which could be used for this purpose.  The existing tool consists of 37 questions broken down into 3 categories, which are Occurrence (O), Vulnerability (V), and Importance (I).  The overall risk of the structure is measured in terms of the equation Risk = O x V x I. While the methodology behind the development of this tool was sound, the weights of the questions were based on academic case studies rather than statistical research.  The use of this methodology limits the use of the checklist in real world applications.  In order to implement this checklist, there was a need to statistically justify the weights assigned to each question.    In order to improve this tool, a survey was administered to industry subject matter experts from across the United States to determine the relative importance of each question within the checklist.  The data from the survey was analyzed using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and new weights were assigned to each question.  There were significant differences found between some of the new and the previously assigned question weights.  Some of these differences could be accounted for by examining the practicality versus academic value of certain questions.   It was concluded that although the survey was extremely long, the Analytic Hierarchy Process was an effective methodology to use in the assignment of the question weights.  Following the completion of the analysis, the bridge security checklist was updated with the new weights, and presented to state leadership for future implementation.
Communication-participation behavior during the delivery of breast-cancer care
Creators: name: Venetis, Maria Koskan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This two-study dissertation examines the association between communication-participation behaviors and cancer patients’ post-visit psychosocial health outcomes. Study one was a meta-analysis of 25 articles (including 10 distinct data sets) that examined the association between patient-provider communication and patients’ post-visit satisfaction. The meta-analysis found that communication behaviors representing patient-centered care were significantly associated with patients’ post-visit satisfaction. Study two was conducted to further explore the association between communication-participation behaviors and patients’ post-visit psychosocial health outcomes. Communication-participation behaviors included: (1) surgeon partnership building; (2) surgeon supportive talk; (3) client assertive responses; (4) client question asking; and (5) client expression of concern (Street & Millay, 2001). Inductive/grounded thematic analysis (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) of these communication-participation behaviors produced six secondary communication-participation variables: (1) surgeon partnership building: question solicitation; (2) surgeon partnership building: other; (3) patient assertive responses: stating preferences; (4) patient assertive responses: challenging surgeon; (5) patient question asking: self-initiated; and (6) patient question asking: prompted. Patients’ psychosocial outcomes included: (1) illness uncertainty (Mishel, 1988); (2) mental adjustment to cancer (Watson et al., 1988); (3) patients’ satisfaction with surgeons’ visit communication; (4) patients’ satisfaction with treatment plans; and (5) patients’ intentions to adhere to treatment plans. Data were videotapes of treatment-decision-making conversations between a single surgeon and 51 of his newly diagnosed female breast-cancer patients, as well as pre- and post-visit surveys. Major findings were that communication-participation behaviors were significantly associated with decreases in patients’ uncertainty and increases in patients’ adaptive coping styles. For example, increases in surgeon partnership building were associated with decreases in patients’ unpredictability uncertainty from pre- to post visit; increases in patient assertive responses: stating preferences were associated with increases in patients’ fighting spirit and decrease in anxious preoccupation from pre- to post visit; increases in patient assertive responses: challenging surgeon were associated with decreases in patients’ fatalism from pre- to post visit. Communication-participation behaviors, and in particular patient question asking,  were significantly, negatively associated with  patients’ satisfaction with treatment plans and patients’ intentions to adhere to treatment plans. These findings, their implications, and directions for future research are discussed.
Selatosomus chengdensis Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia 2015
Creators: name: Qiu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus chengdensis

description: 6. Selatosomus chengdensis Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia, 2015
Type locality: “ China: N Hebei, Chengde [AEë], ca. 20 km NNO of Qijia [Ɩ Ẏä]”.
Remarks: Schimmel et al. (2015) also recorded this species from “N Hebei /Nei Mongl, pass Chengde [AEë]- Chifeng [ňė]”, “Wutai-Shan [Ƃ ḊƜ]”, and “Hunyuan [ŭă], Heng Shan [DƜ]”. Schimmel et al. (2015) included Shaanxi in the distribution, however, the distribution of Shaanxi is wrong due to the confused spelling of Shaanxi and Shanxi by the authors.
Distribution: Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Lu, 2023, Selatosomus luhuaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) from Sichuan Province, China, with an annotated checklist of the Chinese species of Selatosomus, pp. 173-186 in Zootaxa 5228 (2) on page 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7532524
Pyrunculus sp. Pilsbry 1895
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Retusidae
Pyrunculus
Pyrunculus sp.

description: Pyrunculus sp.
(Fig. 7 E1, E2)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F11: AMPG (IV) 2545, 2546 (two specimens [1 incomplete]).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 2.80 mm.
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Greece (this paper).
DESCRIPTION
Shell small, fragile, elongated pyriform, one whorl visible. Sculpture of fine growth lines. Apex angular, apical umbilicus narrow (0.34 mm); umbilicus not observable; anterior end rounded; aperture long, wide anteriorly, narrowing abruptly at about º⁄5 of its length. Outer lip morphology not preserved.
REMARKS
One complete specimen and a second, incomplete specimen of a Pyrunculus species are available. The species is reminiscent of the widespread Miocene Pyrunculus elongatus (Eichwald, 1830) but differs in its smaller size, more slender outline and the more pronounced concavity in the upper part of the last whorl. Moreover, its apex is wider and straighter than in P. elongatus. Dorsally, the outline forms an almost straight line on the left side, whereas the right side is more angular, with a small angle at about 2/3 of the height of the shell.
The Greek specimens seem to represent a new species, but due to the low number of available specimens and their moderate preservation; we refrain from describing it formally as new.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 348, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Towards autonomic virtual machine management
Creators: name: Wagh, Siddharth
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Year: 2010

description: Virtual machine technologies are gaining wide acceptance in today’s era due to invaluable services in system management, server consolidation, and secure resource containment along with providing requisite application execution environment. Every virtual machine platform reduces dependence on hardware by fully or partially abstracting operating systems enabling flexible control of manipulation or migration of guest machines by manual system administration or reactive/proactive approaches to management. This dissertation focuses on resolving the resource reservation problem to help define a mathematical model and study interference within multiple virtual machines while trying to achieve load balancing and improve performance efficiency. Our goal is three-pronged. Firstly, we aim to understand the underlying support available for virtual machine migration and pursue new technologies or abstractions to improve efficiency and speed of the data transfer. Secondly, we carefully evaluate all the resources used by VMs for proper functioning and study the synchronization and multiplexing processes underneath which delineate when and where to migrate a virtual machine. Finally, we attempt to deduce the action to perform on running VMs (manipulation or resource configuration) so as to resolve the issue at hand. To achieve these goals, we follow a step-by-step procedure limiting the number of variable parameters and analyze the outcome of focal experiments. The results show that, using RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) to perform virtual machine migration can be used only in scenarios where the underlying hardware offers support for such transactions (eg. InfiniBand architecture) and such an abstraction over TCP/IP does not ameliorate efficiency of VM transfers. Further, a utility based function designed to analyze environment and application metrics and project an area of good/bad states on a map would require a plethora of parameters increasing its complexity. Considering VM re-distribution, one can predict the ideal number and time of migration of guest virtual machines on any configuration by gathering statistics from parallel migration for graphical analysis. Parallel VM migration gives us shorter average transfer time and higher latencies per VM. Pinning of virtual CPUs to VMs improves the performance efficiency of applications compared to sharing of CPUs.
Efficient learning of relational models for sequential decision making
Creators: name: Walsh, Thomas J.
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Year: 2010

description: The exploration-exploitation tradeoff is crucial to reinforcement-learning (RL) agents, and a  significant number of sample complexity results have been derived for agents in propositional  domains. These results guarantee, with high probability, near-optimal behavior in all but a  polynomial number of timesteps in the agent’s lifetime. In this work, we prove similar results  for certain relational representations, primarily a class we call “relational action schemas”.  These generalized models allow us to specify state transitions in a compact form, for instance  describing the effect of picking up a generic block instead of picking up 10 different specific  blocks. We present theoretical results on crucial subproblems in action-schema learning using  the KWIK framework, which allows us to characterize the sample efficiency of an agent learning  these models in a reinforcement-learning setting.    These results are extended in an apprenticeship learning paradigm where and agent has  access not only to its environment, but also to a teacher that can demonstrate traces of  state/action/state sequences. We show that the class of action schemas that are efficiently  learnable in this paradigm is strictly larger than those learnable in the online setting. We link  the class of efficiently learnable dynamics in the apprenticeship setting to a rich class of models  derived from well-known learning frameworks. As an application, we present theoretical and empirical results on learning relational models  of web-service descriptions using a dataflow model called a Task Graph to capture the important connections between inputs and outputs of services in a workflow, with experiments constructed  using publicly available web services. This application shows that compact relational models  can be efficiently learned from limited amounts of basic data. Finally, we present several extensions of the main results in the thesis, including expansions  of the languages with Description Logics. We also explore the use of sample-based planners to  speed up the computation time of our algorithms.
The effect of sediment accumulation on the hydraulic conductivity of pervious concrete
Creators: name: Walsh, Sean Patrick
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Year: 2010

description: Pervious concrete systems can reduce stormwater runoff, minimize non-point source pollution, and increase groundwater recharge. Engineers are often hesitant to use pervious concrete because it costs more than traditional concrete and there is thepossibility that the pervious concrete will clog prematurely; thereby removing any of thehydraulic advantages that pervious concrete provides. Pervious concrete clogs because sediment builds on the surface by filling in all the void spaces, thus reducing its hydraulic conductivity. In this study, pervious concrete cores were used to measure the effects ofsediment accumulation on their hydraulic conductivity. Established sediment loading rates were used to measure how the hydraulic conductivity changed as sediment accumulated at or near the surface of pervious concrete. The results were used to developa model to predict the hydraulic conductivity of pervious concrete based on its initial hydraulic conductivity, the amount of sediment deposited at or near its surface and the soil type of the sediment. The model presented here can be used to craft better maintenance plans to extend the life of pervious concrete and use pervious concrete more efficiently.
Leveraging wireless network virtualizaton for flexible sharing of  WLANs
Creators: name: Vete, Dipti
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Year: 2010

description: Providing air-time guarantees across a group of clients forms a fundamental building block in sharing an access point (AP) across different virtual network service providers. Though this problem has a relatively simple solution for downlink group scheduling through traffic engineering at the AP, solving this problem for uplink (UL) traffic presents a challenge for fair sharing of wireless hotspots. Among other issues, the mechanism for uplink traffic control has to scale across a large user base, and provide flexible operation irrespective of the client channel conditions and network traffic loads. In this thesis the SplitAP architecture is proposed that addresses the problem of sharing uplink airtime across groups of users by extending the idea of network virtualization. The architecture discussed in this thesis allows different algorithms to be deployed on it for enforcing UL airtime fairness across different client groups. In this thesis, the design features of the SplitAP architecture are highlighted followed by results from evaluation on a prototype deployed with the two algorithms for controlling UL group fairness like: (1) Linear Proportional Feedback Control (LPFC) and (2) Linear Proportional Feedback Control plus (LPFC+). Performance comparisons on the ORBIT testbed show that the proposed algorithms are capable of providing group air-time fairness across wireless clients irrespective of the network volume, and traffic type. The algorithms show up to 40% improvement with a modified Jain fairness index.
Volvulella Newton 1891
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Rhizoridae
Volvulella

description: Genus Volvulella Newton, 1891
TYPE SPECIES. — Bulla acuminata Bruguière, 1792, by subsequent designation (Adams 1862). Recent, Europe.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 348, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Lithofacies and depositional environment spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary on the New Jersey coastal plain
Creators: name: Wahyudi, Hendra
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Year: 2010

description: The sedimentary record spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary was examined in outcrop and in seven cores recovered from a 50 km long transect along the outcrop belt on the New Jersey coastal plain. The objectives were to: (1) conduct a high-resolution study of the K/Pg lithofacies, (2) document spatial and temporal changes in composition and texture of the sediments, and (3) interpret any changes in the depositional environment across this important geological boundary when a mass extinctions occurred. Analyses include core description, textural, petrographic, microprobe, and XRD analyses. Five lithofacies were interpreted in the Upper Cretaceous sediments and three lithofacies were recognized from the lowermost Paleogene deposits.  Microprobe studies show the chemistry of Upper Cretaceous and lowermost Paleogene glauconite are identical (~7-8% K2O), but their color difference may suggest different redox condition. XRD analyses show the Upper Cretaceous clay contains more land-derived detritus than the lowermost Paleogene clay. The following sequence of events is interpreted from the sediment record spanning the K/Pg boundary: (1) deposition in near-shore setting and slow sedimentation in middle shelf when sea level was falling, albeit still shelfal depth; (2) deposition of K/Pg lithofacies when sea level was falling possibly creating a diastem but not a sequence boundary, per se; (3) a transgression above the K/Pg boundary; and  (4) deposition in middle shelf possibly with decreased ocean productivity and a more reducing environment.   There is no sedimentological evidence above the K/Pg boundary, suggesting tsunami-related deposition associated with a bolide impact. Either a tsunamite was eliminated by bioturbation, or NJCP was too far from the impact site to be affected. A transgressive lag, instead, was formed by normal sedimentation during the subsequent transgression in the early Paleocene.