cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Paracyphononyx ruficrus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Paracyphononyx
Paracyphononyx ruficrus

description: Paracyphononyx ruficrus (Klug, 1834)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Abu Zoherah et al. 1993; Wahis 2002; Gadallah & El-Barty 2011), Yemen (Wahis 2000a, 2002), United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: Asia minor, Egypt, Iran, Israel, South Africa, Zimbabwe (Arnold 1936; Haupt 1962; Wahis 2002; Wolf 2003; Ghahari et al. 2014; Falahatpishe et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Canidae Fischer 1817
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae

description: Key to genera of Canidae in Korea
1 Black cheeks conspicuously contrasting with color of pelage; short ears do not reach eyes................... Nyctereutes
- Cheeks not black; ears reach eyes........................................................................ 2
2 Head-body length> 800 mm; shoulder height> 450 mm ....................................................... 3
- Head-body length <800 mm; shoulder height <450 mm; ears pointed; tail length almost thrice foot length........... Ƒulpes
3 Reddish dorsal color with white ventral pelage; 6 upper and lower cheek teeth.................................. Cuon
- Grayish brown dorsal color; 7 lower cheek teeth......................................................... Canis
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
title: Entwicklung eines Core Outcome Sets für Primär Progressive Aphasie
title: Befragung von Patient:nnen und ihren Angehörigen in Deutschland
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Molt, Christina J.
name: Heidelmann, Lea K.
name: Unger, Nina
name: Rysop, Anna U.
name: Volkmer, Anna
name: Flöel, Agnes
name: Meinzer, Marcus
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: Die Primär Progressive Aphasie (PPA) ist eine neurodegenerative Sprachstörung. Bisher existiert noch kein einheitlicher internationaler Standard klinischer Endpunkte zur Erfassung des Therapieerfolgs bei PPA (Core Outcome Set für PPA, COSPPA). Durch eine hier vorgestellte Befragungsstudie, die Teil einer internationalen Forschungskooperation mit dem University College in London ist, werden mittels einer standardisierten Gruppendiskussionsmethode (Nominelle Gruppentechnik) wichtige Behandlungsziele für Patient:innen mit PPA und ihre Bezugspersonen identifiziert und priorisiert. Die Befragung findet in Kleingruppen mit je 3 – 5 Teilnehmenden und getrennt für Patient:innen und ihre Angehörigen statt. Der Schwerpunkt des vorliegenden Beitrags liegt auf der Vorstellung des Studiendesigns. Bisher wurden eine Patient:innengruppe (n = 5) und drei Angehörigengruppen (insgesamt n = 10) untersucht. Die Rekrutierung der bislang 15 Personen war insbesondere über die Selbsthilfe, die Deutsche Alzheimer Gesellschaft und an Universitätskliniken angesiedelte Gedächtnissprechstunden erfolgreich. Zukünftig soll das Projekt dazu beitragen, Wünsche und Bedürfnisse von Patient:innen und deren Bezugspersonen besser in der Sprachtherapie zu berücksichtigen und internationale standardisierte COS-PPA zu entwickeln.
title: Hurricanes as geological agents : case studies of hurricanes Carla, 1961, and Cindy, 1963
Creators: name: Hayes, Miles Oren
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Coasts -- Texas
subject: Hurricanes
subject: Sedimentation and deposition -- Texas
subject: Storm surges -- Texas

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0061. Report based on author's dissertation, University of Texas
description: Tropical storms, which cross the Texas coastline with a frequency of 0.67 storms per year, play a major role in nearshore sedimentation on the south Texas coast. Greatest geological effects of these storms are produced by wind-driven waves and by storm surges. The comparison of a part of the nearshore environmental complex of a segment of the south Texas coast before and after hurricane Carla, 1961, shows the effects of the storm. The bottom of the inner neritic zone was both a contributor and a receiver of hurricane deposits. As the storm moved landward, it picked up mollusc shells, rock fragments, coral blocks, and other materials from depths as great as 50 to 80 feet and deposited them on the barrier island. After the storm passed inland, strong currents spilled out of the numerous hurricane channels cut into the island by the storm-surge flood. These currents deposited a thin layer (0.5 to 1.5 inches) of sand over what was previously sandy mud bottom out to depths of 60 feet and a graded layer of fine sand, silt, and clay (a turbidite) farther out on the shelf. The storm removed a belt of foredunes 20 to 50 yards wide from the seaward side of Padre Island and left the foredune ridge with wave-cut cliffs up to 10 feet high. The formation of a broad, flat hurricane beach drastically altered the beach profile. The landward side of the barrier island (wind-tidal flats) received much washover material containing surf zone and beach molluscs. The storm also submerged high-level mud flats along the landward side of Laguna Madre and covered them with a fresh layer of mud. A much milder storm (Cindy) passed through the area in September 1963, and a small swash bar was deposited over the seaward edge of the pre-existing hurricane beach. Some important stratigraphic implications of these observations include: (a) Hurricanes can mix environment-sensitive faunas from a variety of environments into a single sedimentary deposit; (b) hurricanes can play a primary role in sediment transport in nearshore environments; (c) hurricanes displace sedimentary processes such that sediment textures and structures normally related to a particular process (e.g., fluvial channel flow) may occur in alien areas; and (d) a great deal of energy is expended sporadically in nearshore environments rather than in a uniform, constant manner.
Could geoengineering or a regional nuclear warproduce a food crisis in the 21st century?
Creators: name: Xia, Lili
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Anthropogenic climate changes could affect agricultural productivity due to changes in temperature, precipitation, solar radiation and CO2 concentration. To be well prepared for possible futures, it is necessary to study yield changes of major crops under different climate scenarios.  Here I consider two situations: solar radiation management geoengineering and a regional nuclear war.  Although I certainly do not advocate either scenario, we cannot exclude the possibilities: if global warming is getting worse, the world might consider deliberately manipulating global temperature; if nuclear weapons still exist, we might face a nuclear war catastrophe.   I used the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) crop model to simulate crop yield changes in China under different climate scenarios.  Before agriculture simulations, I first evaluated DSSAT for rice, maize and wheat yields in China.   Both G3S geoengineering (reducing solar radiation to balance radiative forcing of Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 (RCP4.5)) and G2 geoengineering hve no significant impact on Chinese rice production and combined with the CO2 fertilization effect, the cooling effect due to geoengineering would improve Chinese maize production by 10% and 14%, respectively.  The different responses to G3S and G2 are due to the stronger cooling effect of G2 compared with their reference cases, RCP4.5 and 1pctCO2, respectively.  The termination of G2 geoengineering shows negligible impacts on rice production but a 20 Mt (12%) reduction of maize production.  The CO2 fertilization effect compensates for the deleterious impacts of climate changes due to G2 geoengineering on rice production, increasing rice production by 8.6 Mt and enhances maize production in G2, contributing 8 Mt (42%) to the total increase.   A regional nuclear war would reduce annual rice production by 23 Mt (24%), maize production by 41 Mt (23%), and wheat production by 23 Mt (50%).  This reduction of food availability would continue, with gradually decreasing amplitude, for more than a decade.  Assuming these impacts are indicative of those in other major grain producers, a nuclear war using much less than 1% of the current global arsenal could produce a global food crisis and put a billion people at risk of famine.
title: Internal structure of the Grand Saline salt dome, Van Zandt County, Texas
Creators: name: Muehlberger, William R.
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1959
Subjects: subject: Geology -- Texas -- Van Zandt County
subject: Salt mines and mining -- Texas -- Van Zandt County

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0038. Includes index
description: Since 1947, the Morton Salt Company's Kleer mine in the Grand Saline salt dome has more than doubled in size. Balk's mapping of the salt structures in the pre-1947 workings showed that (1) the layers of salt near the southeastern border of the dome dip steeply southeast and south, presumably parallel with the dome border. Elsewhere the layers form intricate systems of folds. (2) The axes of all folds plunge nearly vertically. (3) Anhydrite and halite are elongated parallel to the nearest fold axis. (4) The absence of any fractures, faults, cross-cutting salt layers, foreign inclusions, and brine indicates an undisturbed evolution of the deformation structure in a nearly homogeneous, layered salt mass. The present study [1959] includes the new workings and contains a composite map of Balk's study and this one. In addition to confirming Balk's conclusions, this study demonstrates that (1) the structure of this dome is not symmetrical; consequently, this dome probably rose as a series of spines. (2) Radical changes in strike of the trace of the axial planes at the mine levels occur along east-trending planes, which possibly represent zones of failure in the overburden. (3) Attenuation of folds is observed as the perimeter of the dome is approached. (4) Beds of giant salt crystals exhibit cleavage faces several feet on a side.
title: Tertiary formations of Rim Rock country, Presidio County, Trans-Pecos, Texas.
Creators: name: DeFord, Ronald K. (Ronald Kinnison), 1902-1994
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Geology -- Stratigraphic -- Tertiary
subject: Geology -- Texas -- Presidio County

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0036. Reprinted from the Texas journal of science, vol. X, no. 1, March 1958. Bibliography: p. 29-37.
description: The rim rock of the Vieja Rim, the quartz pantellerite of Lord, is named the Bracks Rhyolite. Beneath the Bracks, the "Vieja series" of Vaughn (1900), which is newly subdivided into five formations named, in descending order, the Chambers Tuff, Buckshot Ignimbrite, Colmena Tuff, Gill Breccia, and Jeff Conglomerate, rests unconformably on Upper Cretaceous formations. The Vieja Group is expanded to include also the Bracks and three overlying formations, named, in ascending order, the Capote Mountain Tuff, the Brite Ignimbrite, the Petan Basalt. An ancient post-volcanic gravel above the Petan antedates the bolson fill. The minimum hiatus at the base of the Vieja may include part of the Upper Cretaceous, all the Paleocene, and most of the Eocene epochs. The age of major faulting that created the bolsons is pre-Pleistocene, and probably most of the bolson fill was deposited before the end of the Tertiary Period.
title: Determining the source of nitrate in ground water by nitrogen isotope studies
Creators: name: Kreitler, Charles W.
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Groundwater -- Pollution -- Texas -- Runnels County

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0083. Based on the author's thesis (M.A.), University of Texas at Austin, 1972
description: Nitrogen isotope ratios of ammonium and nitrate ions from soil and water samples can be analyzed reproducibly with an experimental error of approximately +/-1 parts per thousand (ppt). Two isotopic ranges of soil nitrate are found in the soils of southern Runnels County, Texas. Nitrate from the decomposition of animal waste nitrogen has a dN15 of +10 ppt to +22 ppt. The isotopic ratio is controlled by the volatilization of isotopically light ammonia gas during the decomposition of urea in urine. Nitrate derived from the mineralization of organic nitrogen in cultivated soils has a dN15 of +2 ppt to +8 ppt. In southern Runnels County, the major source of nitrate in ground water is natural soil nitrate. The isotopic composition of ground-water nitrate beneath cultivated fields corresponds with dN15 of natural soil nitrate. Ground waters beneath farmhouse-barnyard complexes have a higher average dN15, indicating the addition of animal waste nitrate. Eleven samples of ground water from Macon County, Missouri, have dN15 of +10 ppt to +19 ppt, indicating that the waters are contaminated with nitrate from animal wastes. Nitrates in ground waters from the Upper Glacial aquifer in Queens County, New York, appear to be from an animal waste source, whereas nitrates in ground waters from the Magothy aquifer in Nassau County, New York, appear to be from either natural soil nitrogen or artificial fertilizer.
title: Gum Hollow fan delta, Nueces Bay, Texas
Creators: name: McGowen, J. H.
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Gum Hollow Delta (Tex.)
subject: Sediments (Geology) -- Texas -- Gum Hollow Delta

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0069.
description: A study of Gum Hollow delta, a modern fan delta along the north shore of Nueces Bay, Texas, was undertaken to determine the mechanics of fan development and the relationships between sedimentary processes and structures. In addition this study provides criteria that can be utilized in recognizing ancient fan delta deposits and in making a distinction between ancient fan and bayhead deltas. Further, the study documents changes in form of the fan and relates these changes to specific geologic processes. Observations were made on the active fan segment regularly from the spring of 1966 through early summer of 1967 and after hurricanes or exceptionally heavy rainfall since early summer 1967. Data obtained from observations made on the active fan segment, in conjunction with a series of photomosaics (beginning in 1939 and continuing through 1963), were used in the interpretation of depositional conditions prevailing during construction of the presently inactive fan segments.
Additional file 1: of Global health education in United States anesthesiology residency programs: a survey of resident opportunities and program director attitudes
Creators: name: Gunisha Kaur
name: Sheida Tabaie
name: Jasmit Brar
name: Tangel, Virginia
name: Pryor, Kane
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Program Director Questionnaire. (PDF 77Â kb)
Some results in the representation theory of strongly graded vertex algebras
Creators: name: Yang, Jinwei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: In the first part of this thesis, we study strongly graded vertex algebras and their strongly graded modules, which are conformal vertex algebras  and their modules with a second, compatible grading by an abelian group satisfying certain grading restriction conditions. We consider a tensor product of strongly graded vertex algebras and its tensor product strongly graded modules. We prove that a tensor product of strongly graded irreducible modules for a tensor product of strongly graded vertex algebras is irreducible, and that such irreducible modules, up to equivalence, exhaust certain naturally defined strongly graded irreducible modules for a tensor product of strongly graded vertex algebras. We also prove that certain naturally defined strongly graded modules for the tensor product strongly graded vertex algebra are completely reducible if and only if every strongly graded module for each of the tensor product factors is completely reducible. These results generalize the corresponding known results for vertex operator algebras and their modules.    In the second part, we derive certain systems of differential equations for matrix elements of products and iterates of logarithmic intertwining operators among strongly graded generalized modules for a  strongly graded conformal vertex algebra under suitable assumptions. Using these systems of differential equations, we verify the convergence and extension property needed in the logarithmic  tensor category theory for such strongly graded generalized modules developed by Huang, Lepowsky and Zhang.
Simulation approach to two-stage bond portfolio optimization problem
Creators: name: Xu, Chuan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Studies on two sides are done in this thesis. First, we consider bond portfolio optimization problem under stochastic optimization structure; second, specific algorithm to solve the problem is explored. A stochastic model for the problem is constructed. Investor is able to minimize the cost of setting up bond portfolio to cover random obligations with our model. The idea of rebalancing is introduced into our model. Investor could adjust the portfolio after he have set up the bond portfolio. Thus, we develop a two-stage stochastic programming with recourse model for bond optimization problem. Specific algorithms to solve the problem are also discussed in the thesis. We focus on simulation approach since it is able to handle special case of the problem whose random variables in constraints have continuous distribution. The key points of the approach are introduced and discussed. We successfully implement the approach on our model. Various numerical example tests with different scenario settings are carried out to see the impacts of different factors on the optimum value, optimum solution and the quality of results. The validity of our model and the efficiency of simulation approach are proved by the results. Several future research directions on this topic are also discussed in the thesis.
Influence of high RAP on binder properties in hot mix asphalt of Northeast
Creators: name: Zvirblis, Donatas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The impact of recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) materials on pavement performance is an important topic of study in the asphalt industry due to environmental and cost benefits. A major issue with RAP is that many agencies are still reluctant to allow producers to use more than 10 to 20 percent RAP because of concerns that mixtures with higher RAP contents will be too stiff, less workable and prone to field failures. However, the recent increases in the cost of asphalt binder and the shrinking supplies of quality aggregate has made the use of higher RAP content in hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures a priority for the industry. In this study, eighteen plant produced mixtures were obtained from three locations in the Northeast: New York, New Hampshire and Vermont. These mixtures were produced using different RAP contents of 0%, 20%, 30% and 40%.  The eighteen mixtures were carefully extracted using American Association of State Highway and Transportation (AASHTO) T164 method “A” using trichloroethyleneand recovered with AASHTO T1&0 procedure. The recovered binder was then tested using Direct Shear Rheometer (DSR) and Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR) with AASHTO T315 and T313 procedures respectively. The results obtained from these tests were used to determine the continuous grade of the binders. They were then analyzed and compared to one another. Master curves were created for each recovered binder with RHEA and the data obtained from DSR frequency sweet sequence with a 4mm plate. The data recovered from master curves were used to plot black space and, crossover frequency and R-value graphs to show age hardening of binder.  This paper investigates the influence of high RAP on asphalt binder stiffness and ductility.
title: Depositional systems in the Woodbine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Northeast Texas
Creators: name: Oliver, William B. (William Benjamin), 1944-
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Geology -- Texas
subject: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cretaceous

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0073.
description: The Woodbine Formation is composed largely of terrigenous sediment eroded from Paleozoic sedimentary and weakly metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Ouachita Mountains in southern Oklahoma and Arkansas and subsequently deposited in a complex of nearshore environments along the margins of the broadly subsiding Northeast Texas Basin. Three principal depositional systems are recognized in Woodbine rocks--a fluvial system, a high-destructive delta system, and a shelf-strandplain system. Their recognition is based on a regional outcrop and subsurface investigation in which external geometry of framework sands was integrated with lithology, sedimentary structures, fossil distribution, and bounding relationships. Two components of the fluvial system, a tributary channel sand facies and a meander belt sand facies, are developed in the Dexter Member (lower Woodbine) northeast of a line from Dallas to Tyler. To the south and southwest, a high-destructive delta system is persistent throughout the entire Woodbine section. The three component facies of the delta system are: progradational channel-mouth bar sands; coastal barrier sands, deposited along shore adjacent to the channel mouth; and prodelta-shelf muds. The Lewisville (upper Woodbine) shelf/strandplain system, developed in the northern third of the basin marginal to principal deltaic facies, is composed of two facies: shelf muds and strandplain sands, accumulated along shore. Near the end of Woodbine deposition, but before transgression by Eagle Ford seas, emergence of the Sabine Uplift resulted in erosion of Woodbine sediments, which were subsequently redeposited along margins of the uplift as the Harris Sand. The close correspondence of Woodbine oil and gas fields with deltaic and strandplain sands suggests that on a regional scale facies distribution is as important as structure in governing the occurrence of hydrocarbons.
Effectiveness of tuned mass dampers in mitigating earthquake ground motions in low and medium rise buildings
Creators: name: Zhou, Zixiang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Tuned mass dampers (TMD’s) are passive energy devices used to reduce undesired vibrations in a number of structures or structural components such as industrial buildings, floor systems, machine foundations and others. There has been few studies on the effectiveness of TMD’s in reducing earthquake effects in low rise and medium rise buildings. This paper investigates the effectiveness of tuned mass dampers on the response of low rise and medium rise buildings under earthquake ground motions. Numerical integration methods were used to solve the systems of coupled equations of motion and a MATLAB code was developed to solve the system of equations of motions. Response parameters include roof displacements, base shears, and inter-story drifts. Results from this analysis showed that the TMD can be effective in reducing drift values and base shears in low and medium rise buildings. The reduction was dependent on the TMD properties and location. The numerical solution can be used to obtain the optimum properties of the dampers. A reduction of about 30% was observed in roof displacements for a mass ratio of 10% of the modal mass. A 25% reduction in base shear was also observed for certain cases despite the overall increase of mass of the system. However, this reduction should be interpreted taking into consideration the magnitude of drifts and base shears to justify the use of TMD’s. Also it should take into account the size of the TMD and the structural design requirements associated with the added TMD.
Additional file 4: of Systematic literature review of built environment effects on physical activity and active transport â   an update and new findings on health equity
Creators: name: Smith, Melody
name: Hosking, Jamie
name: Woodward, Alistair
name: Witten, Karen
name: MacMillan, Alexandra
name: Field, Adrian
name: Baas, Peter
name: Mackie, Hamish
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies - Component Ratings of Study. (DOCX 12 kb)
Pompilus cinereus Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Pompilus
Pompilus cinereus

description: Pompilus cinereus Fabricius, 1775
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Day 1981; Wahis 2000a). Extralimital distribution: Widely distributed in Afrotropical, Australian, Indo-Malay and Palaearctic regions (Wolf
1970a, 2005: Day 1981, 1988; Straka 2007; Wolf et al. 2009; Yildirim & Wahis 2011; Loktionov & Lelej 2014,
2017a).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Statilia Stal 1877
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Konopik, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Statilia

description: Statilia Stål, 1877
Related to Mantis, this genus includes 10 species in S and SE Asia, one of which is widespread across most of the afrotropical, oriental and australo-papuan realms. Two species occur in Borneo. Members of this genus are generalist ambush hunters, exhibiting green/brown polyphenism. They are found on grass and weeds, in open, disturbed habitats, avoiding dense forests.
Statilia maculata maculata (Thunberg, 1784)
Mantis maculata Thunberg, 1784
= Pseudomantis haani Saussure, 1871
= Statilia haani var. major Werner, 1922
Distribution. India (Annam), Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Labuan, Palawan, Maluku Islands, New Guinea (?) (Giglio-Tos 1912, 1927, Hebard 1920, Ehrmann 2002).
Bornean records. Sarawak: Mt. Santubong (SMNK), Batang Ai (SMNK), Mt. Dulit (Beier 1937); Sabah: Labuan Island (Hebard 1920), Sandakan (Hebard 1920), Poring Hot Springs (SMNK), Maliau Basin (OK in situ), Kalabakan (OK in situ); Kalimantan: Mentawir (Beier 1958), Tabang (Beier 1958), Bengen River (Beier 1958), Marah (Werner 1933).
Remarks. We consider its occurrence in New Guinea (Ehrmann 2002) doubtful; no specimens listed by Beier (1965).
Statilia nemoralis (Saussure, 1870) §
Pseudomantis nemoralis Saussure, 1870
= Mantis orientalis Saussure, 1870
= Statilia nemoralis var. infuscata Giglio-Tos, 1927
= Mantis nobilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1892
Distribution. E India, S China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines (Giglio-Tos 1912, 1927, Ehrmann 2002).
Bornean records. Sarawak: Kuching (Giglio-Tos 1912), Mt. Matang (Giglio-Tos 1912); Sabah: Mt. Kinabalu (SMNK).
Remarks. This species was described as Pseudomantis nemoralis after a female from the N Philippines (Saussure 1870, page 229) and later (Saussure 1971) united “with some doubt” with a male from “Indes orientales” described as Mantis orientalis in the same work (Saussure 1870, page 233). The male does not exactly fit the diagnosis of the female. Statilia nemoralis as currently conceived, particularly material from the Sunda Islands, needs to be re-evaluated.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J. & Konopik, Oliver, 2014, An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak, pp. 130-168 in Zootaxa 3797 (1) on page 152, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/226038
Vulpes Frisch 1775
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Vulpes

description: Genus Vulpes Frisch, 1775
A single species, V. vulpes occurred in Korea.
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
title: Pleistocene Equidae of Texas
Creators: name: Quinn, James Harrison
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: Equidae -- Texas
subject: Horses, Fossil -- Texas
subject: Paleontology -- Texas

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0033. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [31]-32.
description: Pleistocene-age fossil horses of Texas belong to at least three faunal assemblages. The oldest contains Hippotigris (= Plesippus) which disappeared before Yarmouthian time. The second contains Equus scotti and Onager semiplicatus (= Equus (Asinus) calobatus) which disappeared before Sangamon time. Both these groups are found on the High Plains but not on the Coastal Plain or along the central Texas rivers, where a later fauna, probably of Sangamon age, is found which contains remains of Equus, Asinus, and Onager but no Hippotigris. The Texas Onager material is referable to the Asiatic group and in addition to O. semiplicatus contains O. lambei, O. littoralis, O. fraternus, O. complicatus, and others; one new form is described herein. Post-Pleistocene horses of the Texas High Plains region contain Equus caballus, both the draft and pony-horse types. These are treated as subspecies, Equus c. caballus for the larger and Equus c. laurentius for the smaller form. E. laurentius was described by Hay (1913a) and the type has subsequently been considered a "feral" horse that somehow became fossilized. It seems doubtful that fossilization could have taken place in less than 400 years, the maximum time available for a "feral" horse. Also, E. laurentius is inseparable from E. niobrarensis alaskae and the Texas materials. Two new species are described, five species are transferred to Onager, and additional species are reconsidered.
Modeling the effects of the two stochastic-processes on the reliability and maintenance of k-out-of-n surveillance systems
Creators: name: Zhang, Yao
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Surveillance systems, including security cameras, have been widely used to monitor some critical processes and enhance the safety-security level of high-risk large-scale security systems. The failure of these systems should be analyzed and associated with the intrusion/incident arrival process in order to achieve a comprehensive representation of the system outcomes. This thesis aims to model the effects of the two stochastic processes on the reliability modeling of the surveillance systems. The two processes are: (1) the traditional system failure process (first process) and (2) the intrusion/incident arrival process or the demand process (second process).  In this research we develop reliability models with considerations of the two stochastic-processes for the k-out-of-n surveillance systems. The first model considers the undetectable failures of each subsystem along with the random environmental factors, the skill factor of the intruders to avoid detection, and a periodic inspection maintenance aspect. The second model includes both the detectable and undetectable failure modes for the subsystems. The reliability of the system is derived with a consideration of an opportunistic maintenance policy. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the validity of the modeling and the sensitivity of various model parameters.  We also develop a cost model with considerations of both the detectable and undetectable failure modes for the subsystems. We then obtain the opportunistic maintenance policy that minimizes the total system cost based on the second model. We also extend the second reliability model by considering the fail-safe error for each subsystem in the two-process modeling of the k-out-of-n surveillance systems. Numerical examples are discussed to illustrate the model developments and results.
Design of observers for systems with slow and fast modes
Creators: name: Yoo, Heonjong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This thesis considers the design of observers for systems with slow and fast modes. The  existing design method were able to achieve that goal with O( ) accuracy. Where    is a small positive parameter that indicates seperation of system state space variables  into slow and fast. We design independent slow and fast reduced-order observer with  exact accuracy, and place their closed-loop eigenvalues exactly at the desired location.  Furthermore, we apply the two stage method to design the full-order observer. The two  stage method results in full-state feedback control for each subsystems which makes  the subsystems asymptotic stable. Lastly, the crucial theme of the online savings is  the fact that the design allows complete time-scale seperation for both the observer  and controller through the complete and exact decomposition into slow and fast time  scales. The above method reduces both o -line and on-line computations. In this  thesis, we demonstrate the e ectiveness of the two stage methods through theoretical  and simulation results.
title: Texas gemstones
Creators: name: King, Elbert A.
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1961
Subjects: subject: Mineralogy -- Texas
subject: Precious stones -- Texas

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0042.
description: Stones and minerals that are sufficiently beautiful, durable, and rare are known as gemstones. A gemstone with only one of these qualities is less desirable than one with all three. For example, a stone with rich color but not sufficiently durable to withstand daily wear in rings finds little favor as a gemstone except in brooches or pins where the stone is relatively safe from abrasion. Likewise, a stone that is beautiful and durable may be of little interest as a gemstone because it is commonly found in great quantities. To be valued highly, gemstones must be beautiful to the eye, durable enough to withstand wear, and rare enough so that they are not easily obtained.
Rhaphium Meigen 1803
Creators: name: Grootaert, Patrick
name: Taylor, Christopher
name: Guénard, Benoit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Rhaphium

description: Genus Rhaphium Meigen, 1803
Type species
Rhaphium macrocerum Meigen, 1824.
Diagnosis
Rhaphium may be recognised by the following features (Tang et al. 2016): vertex flat; ocellar seta nearly as long as vertical seta; face distinctly narrower than frons; clypeus not distinctly separated from face; antenna black, postpedicel elongate, 2 to 8 × as long as wide, arista apical; propleuron without distinct bristle but with dense white hairs; hind coxa with or without an exterior bristle near middle; mid and hind femora both with preapical bristle(s); wing vein M straight and not bifurcated, R 4+5 apically parallel with M or slightly convergent, CuAx ratio less than 1; abdominal segments 1–3 usually with long pale hairs, segment 6 visible and hairy; male terminalia small, connected tightly with pregenital segment, hidden in apex of abdomen, cap-like, cercus long and narrowed towards tip, with hairs and bristles.
description: Published as part of Grootaert, Patrick, Taylor, Christopher & Guénard, Benoit, 2019, Three new species of Rhaphium Meigen, 1803 from mangroves in Hong Kong (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Rhaphiinae), pp. 1-21 in European Journal of Taxonomy 540 on page 3, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.540, http://zenodo.org/record/3357392
Role of reactive lipid mediators in oxidative stress-induced toxicity
Creators: name: Zheng, Ruijin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The overall goal of this study is to investigate the role of reactive lipid mediators generated during oxidative and nitrosative stress on adaptive responses in corneal epithelial cells and skin keratinocytes.  Adaptive responses include changes in enzymes in the detoxification of reactive intermediates, stress response genes and antioxidants.  The skin and cornea are highly sensitive to oxidative stress induced environmental insults such as ultraviolet light and various chemical toxicants. Oxidative stress is associated with the excessive generation of highly toxic intermediates including superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals.  By initiating lipid peroxidation, these reactive oxygen species (ROS) can generate α, β-unsaturated hydroxyalkenals.  One of these electrophilic species is 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE), a relatively abundant reactive aldehyde.  Nitration products of unsaturated fatty acids including electrophilic fatty acid nitroalkenes represent another important class of endogenous lipid mediators formed in response to nitrosative stress.  Nitro-fatty acids such as nitrooleic acid, as well as 4-HNE can form adducts with biomolecules via Michael addition, most notably, proteins.  By reacting with signaling proteins, nitrooleic acids and 4-HNE can regulate their function and control expression of adaptive response proteins.  In the present studies we characterized the effects of 4-HNE and nitrooleic acids on expression of adaptive response genes in corneal epithelial cells and keratinocytes.  We also examined signal transduction pathways mediating changes of these genes including mitogen-activated protein kinases and phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling.  We also evaluated the role of caveolae in mediating the actions of 4-HNE and the nitro-fatty acids.  This thesis is divided into four parts: 1. The generation of 4-hydroxynonenal in rabbit cornea organ cultures treated with UVB light and nitrogen mustard; 2. Modulation of keratinocyte expression of antioxidants by 4-HNE; 3. Regulation of keratinocyte expression of stress proteins and antioxidants by 9- and 10-nitrooleic acid; and 4. Differential metabolism of 4-HNE in liver, lung and brain of mice and rats.  These findings indicate that 4-HNE and electrophilic nitrofatty acids effectively modulate expression of antioxidant enzymes in corneal epithelial cells and keratinocytes.  Changes in expression of adaptive response genes in these cells may be important in protecting the eye and skin from oxidative stress.
title: Handbook of Cretaceous Foraminifera of Texas
title: Cretaceous Foraminifera of Texas
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Frizzell, Don L. (Donald Leslie), 1906-1972
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1954
Subjects: subject: Foraminifera, Fossil
subject: Paleontology -- Cretaceous
subject: Paleontology -- Texas

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0022.
description: Preparation of a desk-side reference manual of Cretaceous foraminifera was undertaken as a project of the Bureau of Economic Geology, where I was a staff member during the summers of 1945 to 1947 and during July of 1951. Although the Handbook is intended primarily for the advanced college-level student and routine commercial laboratory micropaleontologist, it should be useful as well to the specialist. The accuracy of a compilation of this kind is never greater than that of the sources from which it is taken, and errors of transcription and interpretation are unavoidable. If the Handbook proves as valuable to micropaleontologists in general, however, as I have found the manuscript to be during the time of its accumulation, its purpose will be well served.
Pseudopompilus humboldti
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Pseudopompilus
Pseudopompilus humboldti

description: Pseudopompilus humboldti (Dahlbom, 1845)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Abu Zoherah et al. 1993). Extralimital distribution: Egypt, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan (Priesner
1955, 1960; Haupt 1962; Wolf 1995, 1997, 1998c, 2005; Wahis & Terzo 1996; Özbek et al. 2000; Wolf et al.
2009; Yildirim & Wahis 2011).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Biomarker discovery for microarray data by enriched methods, stochastic approximation and mixed effect models
Creators: name: Yi, Lan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Nowadays microarray technology enables scientists to monitor the expression levels of hundreds of thousands of genes simultaneously. Because of the high cost of such experiments, the sample size is small, typically, only a few dozen. In this thesis, we propose a new perspective on microarray data. We believe microarray data generally contain three types of signals: specific signal, non-specific signal and spurious signal.  We propose an enriched method for biomarker discovery which strengthens the specific signal (biomarkers) and weakens the spurious signal. We show that our enriched version of  principal component analysis will highlight the specific signals in the data and can help separate different signals. We also show that enriched principal component analysis along with linear discriminant analysis will improve the classification and prediction of microarray data, comparing to some other popular methods. The results from our method are easy to interpret, too. We also prove the stochastic approximation procedure used in conditional t test converges under some general assumptions.  Finally we discuss about analyzing the data from one novel experiment to find groups of genes (biomarkers), applying hierarchical clustering and nonlinear mixed effect models.
Hierodulella Giglio-Tos 1912
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Konopik, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Hierodulella

description: Hierodulella Giglio-Tos, 1912
Poorly known genus related to Hierodula, previously considered endemic to Wallacea. Recent Bornean records by Svenson & Whiting (2009, supplementary information). Arboricolous.
Hierodulella reticulata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898)§ Hierodula reticulata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898
Distribution. Lombok, Sumbawa, Borneo (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1892, Ehrmann 2002, Svenson & Whiting 2009).
Hierodulella celebensis Beier, 1935
Distribution. Borneo, Sulawesi (Beier 1935c, Ehrmann 2002, Svenson & Whiting 2009).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J. & Konopik, Oliver, 2014, An annotated checklist of the praYing mantises (Mantodea) of Borneo, including the results of the 2008 scientific expedition to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife SanctuarY, Sarawak, pp. 130-168 in Zootaxa 3797 (1) on pages 152-153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3797.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/226038
Nyctereutes Temminck 1838
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Nyctereutes

description: Genus Nyctereutes Temminck, 1838
Nyctereutes, the only canid with abundant populations throughout Korea, is a monospecific genus.
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
title: Mineral resources of the Colorado River Industrial Development Association area
Creators: name: Dietrich, John W.
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Mines and mineral resources -- Texas

description: To obtain a print version of this publication visit: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/ and search for: RI0037. Part of illustrative matter fold in pocket.
description: The Colorado River Industrial Development Association area consists of ten counties [Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Colorado, Fayette, Llano, Matagorda, San Saba, Travis, and Wharton counties] in the lower watershed of Colorado River in Texas. The rocks exposed in the upriver part of the area include Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rocks and Paleozoic and Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. In the Austin region Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rocks are exposed. In the downstream part of the area the rocks are of Tertiary and Quaternary ages. The principal mineral resource materials are industrial rocks and minerals. In the part of the area from Austin upstream, the most important materials are building stone, chemical limestone and dolomite, cement materials, graphite, soapstone, serpentine, vermiculite, and iron ore. From Austin downstream, the most important materials are sand and gravel, bleaching clay, burning clay, lignite, salt, sulfur, and oyster shell. There are small or low-grade deposits of many other materials, especially in the upriver region.