cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trigonotylus psammaecolor Reuter 1885
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Trigonotylus
Trigonotylus psammaecolor

description: Trigonotylus psammaecolor Reuter, 1885
Comments
This species was recorded from İzmir, Turkey by Önder (1976). However, the presence in İzmir of this European species, which is absent in the Balkan Peninsula, is highly unlikely. Hence we considered this record erroneous, and excluded it from the checklist.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Sysphingta crocea
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Sysphingta
Sysphingta crocea

description: ? S. crocea Rog.
(Ponera crocea R o g.). Das zoologische Museum in Halle besitzt ein Weibchen dieser Art, welche Dr. Roger in kein bestimmtes Genus eingetheilt hat. Bei genauerer Untersuchung zeigt sie eine frappante Uebereinstimmung mit der Beschreibung von Sysphingta, welche Gattung mir nicht durch Autopsie bekannt ist, und wovon bisher nur der Arbeiter beschrieben wurde. Die dreieckigen gezaehnten Kiefer, die vorne einander stark genaeherten und senkrechten Stirnleisten, welche am Vorderrande des Kopfes entspringen, die Einlenkung des Stielchens in der Mitte der Vorderseite des ersten Hinterleibsegmentes, und das eigenthuemlich geformte zweite Hinterleibsegment, welches an der Unterseite nahe dem hinteren Ende nur eine fast kreisrunde Oeffnung, die von den kleinen anderen Segmenten ausgefuellt ist, frei lasst, stellen P. crocea zur Gattung Sysphingta. Das kuerzere letzte Fuehlerglied und das zweizaehnige Metanotum sind wohl keine Merkmale von besonderer Wichtigkeit, nur waere das Merkmal zu beruecksichtigen, dass die Stirnleisten bei Sysphingta in der Weise enden, dass sie unter einem fast rechten Winkel horizontal zur Stirn laufen, waehrend sie bei P. crocea gerade nach hinten ziehen. Das letzte Fuehlerglied ist bei diesem Weibchen kaum so lang als die drei Vorhergehenden zusammen.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 18
Nesiophasma zanum Hennemann 1999
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Nesiophasma
Nesiophasma zanum

description: Nesiophasma zanum Hennemann, 1999
Nesiophasma zanus Hennenmann, 1999: 213, figs. 1–2 (♀). HT, ♀: Nouvelle Guinée, leg. Fruhstorfer [IRSN].
Nesiophasma zanum, Otte & Brock, 2005: 227.
Tirachoidea zanus Redtenbacher, in litt. (MS name).
Vanschuytbroeck & Cools 1981: 17.
Differential diagnosis: Females, the only sex known of this fairly small species, differ from all other known members of the genus by the slender, posteriad directed posterolateral lobes of abdominal terga VII–IX, the comparatively short subgenital plate, that projects beyond the apex of the abdomen by hardly more than the length of the anal segment, as well as the contrasting pale cream probasitarsus, which has the dorsal carina strongly raised to form a rounded lobe.
Comments: This species is so far only known from the unique holotype ♀. In aspect of the geographic distribu-tion with all other members of the genus exclusively known from within the boundaries of Wallacea west of Weber’s line, the locality “Nouvelle Guinée ” must be regarded as doubtful. Judging from the fairly small size and taking known size relations of ♂♂ and corresponding ♀♀ in Nesiophasma into account, this species is not unlikely to be the unknown ♀ of N. oligarches (Günther, 1935) from Sulawesi. However, for any broader discussion and clarification of this hypothesis more material of both taxa is necessary and hoped to become available. Moreover, the generic position of this species is not fully confirmed because it shows strong resemblance to Eucarcharus Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907 in various aspects. ♂♂ and eggs unknown.
Distribution: New Guinea.
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on pages 123-124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Dicyphus (Idolocoris) pallicornis
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Dicyphus
Dicyphus pallicornis

description: Dicyphus (Idolocoris) pallicornis (Fieber, 1861)
Material examined
Dicyphus sp.
TURKEY – Bilecik Province • 1 ♀; Bozöyük; 29 May 1971; F. Önder leg.; LEMT. – Zonguldak Province • 1 ♀; Çaycuma; 31 May 1980; EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
Comments
This Euro-Mediterranean species was recorded twice from Turkey (Önder 1976; Lodos et al. 2003). We examined specimens that these records refer to, and they were both females and could not be reliably identified to species level. However, their morphological and morphometric characters could reliably exclude D. (I.) pallicornis. Therefore, we excluded this species from the checklist.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
The solid state conversion reaction of cobalt oxide and iron fluoride thin films
Creators: name: Thorpe, Ryan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Iron (II) fluoride and cobalt (II) oxide are candidate electrode materials for a new class  of rechargeable lithium ion batteries known as conversion batteries. Although the energy  storage capacity of these materials represents a significant improvement over that of conventional electrode materials, many challenges must be overcome before conversion batteries  can become commercially viable. Chief among these challenges is a loss of energy storage  capacity as a function of the number of charge-discharge cycles. In this study, FeF2 and  CoO thin films have been studied as solid state analogues for lithium ion battery electrodes.  These films were grown with different crystalline orientations and exposed to lithium in an  ultra high vacuum chamber in order to simulate the discharge of a conversion electrode.    The electronic structure and chemical phase of the films before and after exposure to  lithium were characterized using x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS), and inverse photoemission spectroscopy (IPS). The depth  and homogeneity of the conversion reaction in the thin films was measured as a function of  lithium exposure using angle-resolved XPS (ARXPS). The crystalline structure and morphology were studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and transmission electron  microscopy (TEM).    For polycrystalline FeF2 and CoO films, the products of the solid state conversion reactions were similar to those observed in electrochemical measurements. However, parasitic  reaction pathways were identified for both reactions. The products of these reaction were  found to inhibit the full conversion of the thin films, and are possibly responsible for the  poor reaction kinetics in electrochemical cells. Furthermore, the diffusion of lithium into  the FeF2 and CoO surfaces, and the concomitant conversion reaction, was found to depend  strongly on the orientation of the surface. These differences in diffusivity could partially be  explained through geometric analyses of the crystalline structure of the films.
Aholcocerus jakli Yakovlev & Witt, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Witt, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Aholcocerus
Aholcocerus jakli

description: Aholcocerus jakli Yakovlev & Witt sp. nov.
(Figs 1, 7)
Type material: Holotype: ♂, Indonesia, Lesser Sundas, Lomblen Isl., S Coast, Lamalera vill[age]. env., 100-400 m, 08- 14.11.2006, leg. Jakl (MWM); paratypes: 18 ♂, same locality and data (MWM).
Description. Male. Length of fore wing of holotype 12 mm (of paratype 9‾ 13 mm). Antennae rod-like, not pectinate. Thorax and abdomen covered with pale grey scales, patagia brown, tegulae pale grey. Fore wing grey, with pattern of small black strokes, more expressed on costal edge of wing, and two oblique transverse thin black bands. Hind wing dark grey with poorly expressed dark spot in discal area. Front edge of wing and basal area without pattern. Fringe on both pairs of wings mottled (pale between veins, dark near veins).
Male genitalia (Fig. 2) symmetric. Uncus wide with rounded apex; gnathos arms thick, short; gnathos small, covered with fine spikes; valve with sclerotized proximal area, distal fourth membranous, large semicircular crest with wrinkled inner edge on costal margin of valva; sacculus well expressed; transtilla process thin, short (in length equal to ¼ of valva), hook-bent, apex tapered; juxta tiny, with two long paddle-like lateral processes diverging at an angle of 90°; saccus semicircular, of medium size; phallus equal to valve in length, slightly bent in middle third, apex of phallus obliquely cut, vesica aperture in dorsoapical position, in length equal to 1/3 of phallus, vesica without cornuti.
Female unknown.
Diagnosis. Aholcocerus jakli is distinguished from other species of the genus by two features: colour of the hind wing (front edge and basal area without pattern) and the form of the uncus which is very wide, with a rounded apex.
Etymology. The new species is named after the collector of type specimens, entomologist Stanislav Jakl.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V. & Witt, Thomas J., 2016, A world catalogue of Aholcocerus Yakovlev, 2006 (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) with description of a new species from Indonesia, pp. 93-96 in Zootaxa 4205 (1) on pages 93-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/192569
Asceles Redtenbacher 1908
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Asceles

description: Genus Asceles Redtenbacher, 1908
(Fig. 48)
Type-species: Necroscia malaccae Saussure, 1868: 69, by subsequent designation of Brock, 1995: 87.
Comments: This speciose genus is widely distributed throughout most of the Oriental region and also has species in New Guinea. On Sulawesi it is represented with only one known species, that is briefly discussed below.
The Philippine Sipyloidea morio Redtenbacher, 1908 was described from a unique male from an unspecified locality. The authors collections contains three ♂♂ from the island of Mindoro, Philippines and these have shown S. morio to be very similar and apparently congeneric to the Sulawesian Asceles rufescens (Redtenbacher, 1908). Therefore, Redtenbacher’s species is here transferred to Asceles and now becomes Asceles morio (n. comb.). One of the syntypes of Asceles rulanda rulanda Redtenbacher, 1908 in the collection of NHMW is from the island of Luzon, Philippines, while all other syntypes are from New Guinea and the island of Buru in Wallacea. Hence, this Philippine specimen is likely to be the opposite sex of A. morio but this assumption deserves scrutiny of the entire syntype series at NHMW. Asceles rulanda modestior (Redtenbacher, 1908) from “ Moluccas ” was placed as a subspecies of A. rulanda by Günther (1934b: 85) but unfortunately the status of this taxon cannot be surveyed because the holotype is not traced in the collection of MNCN. Examination of the type specimens of Sipyloidea roseonotata Redtenbacher, 1908 from “ Moluccas ” in NHMW and Roon Island (Bismarck Archipelago) in ZMUH has proven this species to be a likely synonym of either A. rulanda rulanda or A. rulanda modestior. Consequently, and because there can be no doubt it is congeneric to either of these roseonotata is here transferred to Asceles and now becomes Asceles roseonotata (n. comb.). The authors collection contains a series of specimens from the islands of Buru and Seram as well as from the Aru islands, which all key out to rulanda and roseonotata but apparently represent two distinct species. Much further work is needed for clarifying the identities, possibly synonymies and relationships of modestior, roseonotata, rulanda and morio.
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Pachycondyla lineaticeps Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Pachycondyla
Pachycondyla lineaticeps

description: P. lineaticeps n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 9 - 8 mm. Nigra, flavide sericeo-pubescens, pilis paucis abstantibus, mandibulis, antennis tarsisque fuscis; mandibulae vix nitidae, subtilissime et indistincte coriaceo-rugulosae punctis nonnullis dispersis; clypeus carinatus subtiliter rugulosus, medio sublaevis, margine antico rotundata-angulato; genae carina instructae et antennae fossa longitudinaliter rugosae; frons et vertex longitudinaliter et regulaliter lineato-striata; oculi in capitis laterum medio; thorax rugose reticidato-punctatus inter mesonotum et metanotum incisara transversa; pronotum supra deplanatum utrimque distincte carinatum; metanotum parte basali postice sulco tenuissimo longitudinali; petiolus supra nodo magno subcubico, subtiliter ruguloso, planitia antica arcuatim transeunte in planitias laterales rugis nonmdlis, planitia superiore etiam arcuatim transeunte in planitiam posticam; abdomen distincte constrictum inter segmentum primum et secundum, ejus punctura temas propter pubescentiam densam vix perspicua; tibiae pilis nonnullis abstantibus.
Aus Mexico; in meiner Sammlung von Dr. Sichel.
Durch das Stielchen mit P. villosa zunaechst verwandt unterscheidet sich diese neue Art sowohl von dieser als von den uebrigen Arten durch die Sculptur, welche nur am Hinterleibe wegen der reichlichen Pubescenz undeutlich ist; nach Entfernung derselben zeigt sich eine feine eingestochene Punktirung in der Weise, dass aus jedem Punkte ein anliegendes Haerchen entspringt.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 19
The laws of physics as a consequence of the undeniable existence of information
Creators: name: Harvey-Tremblay, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 20304 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Thermodynamics

description: I suggest and formalize an alternative approach to understand the universe in which a large blob of irreducible facts, rather than a small list of axioms, define the theory. The blob of facts is given a physical interpretation when it is structured as a Gibbs ensemble. In the case where the facts are logically verifiable, the Gibbs ensemble describes a thermal universal Turing machine which spawns the whole system. The Lagrange multipliers of the partition function are the Planck units. The background, a thermal spacetime, emerges as a consequence of the limits applicable to the conjugate pairs. The background obeys Special and General relativity, dark energy, the arrow of time, the holographic principle, the Schrödinger equation and the Dirac equation.
Beyond exposure
Creators: name: Teodoro, Rannie Rose
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The traditional transmission model of communication continues to occupy a major portion of the current health communication research agenda, with the typical health communication application being the dissemination of well-crafted informational or persuasive messages through a mix of communication channels to a carefully selected target audience. However, systematic reviews of existing evidence suggest that the impact of this approach tends to be limited and modest at best because other forces, often more powerful, govern people's behaviors. This perspective, along with the increasingly merging areas of interpersonal and mediated communication, highlight a promising landscape advantageous for promoting or otherwise enabling healthier behaviors, positive outcomes, and lifestyles via a broader and more sophisticated range of human and mediated channels of health promotion and health delivery systems. Considering the need for a revised approach, this project (1) outlines a conceptual model of patient engagement where individuals are considered self-determined agents navigating fluctuating levels of uncertainties and stimuli, (2) provides a conceptualization of engagement as a communication-enabled mechanism that can facilitate the ability of individuals to achieve and maintain favorable health outcomes, and (3) conducts a preliminary empirical testing of select components of the model. The primary goal of the empirical study was to test a key assumption of the proposed model, namely that people are most likely to actively engage health information when they experience a triggering event or an event that crosses the threshold of uncertainty that they can tolerate. Analyzing cross-sectional data from a nationally-representative sample of U.S. adults from the Pew Research Center's 2012 Tracking for Health Survey, findings suggest that there are statistically significant differences in patient engagement (information seeking, social support seeking, sharing) between those who report experiencing triggering stimuli versus those who report experiencing signaling stimuli. These findings have implications for the ways and critical periods patients can sufficiently activate engagement behaviors and sustain improved health outcomes.
Comparing Unstable Cislunar Orbits for Efficient Transfers to Deep-Space Targets
Creators: name: Richmond, Jonathan Howard
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400199
subject: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 400107
subject: Satellite, space vehicle and missile design and testing

description: With increasing interest in cislunar operations and exploration of deep space destinations like Mars, a foundational understanding of cislunar dynamics and their potential for facilitating departure from the vicinity of Earth is essential. This investigation addresses this need by analyzing system departure characteristics from a variety of periodic orbit families with unstable members in the Earth-Moon Circular-Restricted 3-Body Problem (CR3BP).Specifically, a cislunar-to-Mars transfer methodology is developed, leveraging multi-body dynamical systems theory, especially invariant manifolds of periodic orbits, to design lower energy deep space transfers in comparison to traditional methods. The proposed approach generates families of end-to-end transfers that vary in total maneuver delta-v cost and time-of flight, originating from different unstable cislunar orbits. The tradespaces of these transfer families are then analyzed and compared across various departure orbits to identify departure characteristics across orbit families and energy levels (Jacobi constants). The analysis reveals certain unstable Earth-Moon CR3BP orbit families with more favorable departure characteristics.Additionally, this investigation compares the computed deep space transfer costs with those of traditional interplanetary transfers and others from existing literature. Although this transfer design strategy is specifically applied to Mars transfers in this investigation, the methodology is broadly applicable to other deep space destinations. Furthermore, the general findings on cislunar departure characteristics have implications for mission designs to destinations beyond the Earth-Moon region.
Towards an error detection test framework for molecular dynamics applications
Creators: name: Tripathi, Suvigya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The reliability of a fully developed software is critical, since it determines a software's credibility  and user satisfaction in the application. A major challenge in the  eld of testing is to bridge the  gap between the customer requirements and the actual outcome of the software. There are several  applications in the  field of chemical sciences for Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. These  applications are chemical engineers' tools to study the simulations and analyze the results. The  EnsembleMD Toolkit and RepEx are Python-based tools for developing MD applications providing  an abstraction that enables the efficient and dynamic usage of High Performance Computing (HPC).    The EnsembleMD toolkit and RepEx facilitates a simple framework for MD applications, but  they lack the feature of testing their functionality during Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).  Checking the errors and faults at all stages of the SDLC, namely, development, deployment and  run-time is crucial to ensure the proper functioning of the scientific tools and applications.    Frequent changes in the system configuration of supercomputers impose the necessity of a plat-  form which can provide a sanity check on all the components. To address these requirements, we  have developed a Testing Framework. This framework has three primary design components: (1)  Support of testing the Application Program Interfaces (APIs) of the toolkit during development, (2)  Support for testing of faults during their deployment on supercomputers and (3) Support for logging  the run-time exceptions and errors. This test bench enables the developers of various scientific tools  viz. EnsembleMD, RepEx, Amber, etc. to easily and scalably debug the issues faced by the users.
Calvisia (Conocalvisia) Seow-Choen 2016
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Calvisia

description: Subgenus Conocalvisia Seow-Choen, 2016
Type-species: Necroscia virbius Westwood, 1859: 154, pl. 16: 2, by original designation.
Comments: Principally, this is a Sundaland genus and subgenus, which has by far most of its representatives distributed throughout Borneo. It is represented on Sulawesi with only one known species.
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Orthotylus (Orthotylus) quercicola Reuter 1885
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Orthotylus
Orthotylus quercicola

description: Orthotylus (Orthotylus) quercicola Reuter, 1885
Material examined
Orthotylus (Orthotylus) sp.
TURKEY – Kastamonu Province • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Tosya; 8 Jun. 1980; EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
Comments
This Balkanian species was recorded from Turkey once, by Lodos et al. (2003). We examined the voucher specimens and the male genital structures of the only male specimen. They show remarkably unique morphology, easily distinguishing it from all the previously described species. However, the poor condition of the specimen did not allow description of this new species.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Gravitational Bound Waveforms from Amplitudes
Creators: name: Adamo, Tim
name: Gonzo, Riccardo
name: Ilderton, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the aim of computing bound waveforms from scattering amplitudes, we explore gravitational two-body dynamics using the Schwinger-Dyson equations and Bethe-Salpeter recursion. We show that the tree-level scattering waveform admits a natural analytic continuation, in rapidity, to the bound waveform, which we confirm from an independent calculation, in the Post-Newtonian expansion, of the time-domain multipoles at large eccentricity. We demonstrate consistency of this scattering-to-bound map with the Damour-Deruelle prescription for orbital elements in the quasi-Keplerian parametrization (which enters into the evaluation of the multipoles) and with the analytic continuation, in the binding energy, of radiated energy and angular momentum at 3PM.
description: 46 pages, 10 figures; v2: typos corrected, references added
The significance of convective cloud microphysics for climate model simulations of rainfall in the West African Sahel at seasonal time scales
Creators: name: Trabachino, Lynne C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This study uses a non-traditional method to substantiate the underlying influence of the parameterization of subgrid-scale convective processes on the capability of the latest generation of global climate models to simulate the seasonal cycle of rainfall associated with the West African monsoon and establish a direct connection between the treatment of convective rainfall and overall model performance on seasonal time scales.  To establish the degree to which convective parameterizations may influence model simulations at seasonal scales more definitively, a single column of grid-scale output was extract from an emissions scenario experiment for two coupled models and compared to the observed evolution of rainfall, surface meteorology, the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere, clouds and radiation, obtained during 2006 in Niamey, Niger.  Overall both models demonstrated a remarkable capability to comprehensively capture the seasonal cycle of the West African monsoon in the vicinity of Niamey.  However, the results confirm that deficiencies in subgrid-scale physics can be a significant source of error with regards to the timing of simulated rainfall at seasonal scales and, in some models dominate non-local sources of error.  Comparison of the performance of each model and their respective convective parameterizations indicated that the capability to simulate the seasonal cycle of rainfall in the Sahel with realistic timing appears to be more sensitive to a realistic representation of convective precipitation microphysics than to a realistic representation of the organization of convective structures.   The perspective gained from this study sheds a more positive light on the present capabilities of coupled models to simulate convection in the Sahel and suggests that resolution of the long-standing disagreement in rainfall projections among different coupled models may be more within reach than previously advocated by performance evaluations based on traditional methods.
Leptogenys ingens Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Leptogenys
Leptogenys ingens

description: L. lugens n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 13 mm Pilosa, nigra, mandibularum apice, funiculis tarsisque castaneis; mandibulae nitidae, disperse punctatae, lineares, depressae, apice oblique truncatae; clypeus striolatus antice bidentatus et medio processu porrecto apice tridenticulato; funiculi articulus secundus tertio duplo longior; caput opacum, antice longitudinaliter striatum, post ice dense punctato-rugulosum; thorax inermis, opacus, supra medio paulo depressum, pronoto punctato-ruguloso, mesonoto et metanoto transverse rugoso-striatis; petioli nodus crassus dispersissime punctatus, antice valde convexus, postice planus, transverse striatus, supra postice processu conico obtuso oblique directo; abdomen nitidum, sublaeve, dispersissime punctatum; unguiculi pectinati.
Aus Columbien; im zoologischen Museum in Halle
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 20
Characterization of the interaction of daptomycin with bacterial liposomal analogues
Creators: name: Varghese, Nevin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Efforts to curb the prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria are unable to keep up with the aggressive adaptation of these bacterial species to existing antibiotics. Therefore, examining the interaction of existing antibiotics with bacteria may reveal previously unknown bacterial susceptibilities. Daptomycin is a typical second-line treatment for antibiotic-resistant gram positive bacterial strains, like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Its proposed mechanism of action is to bind to the negatively charged phosphatidyglycerol (PG) head groups of the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane via a calcium ion dependent process. However, the specific mechanisms by which daptomycin exerts its bacteriocidality are currently unknown. It has been hypothesized that bacterial membrane rigidity may have an effect on susceptibility to daptomycin. Additionally, there is evidence to suggest that the charge of the bacterial membrane charge affects daptomycin's mechanism of action. Our study aims to systematically analyze the interaction of daptomycin with liposomal bacterial analogues by varying the rigidity and the zeta potential of the liposomes. Our results show possible mechanisms for targeting daptomycin resistance in gram positive bacteria.
Ectatomma opaciventre
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Ectatomma
Ectatomma opaciventre

description: E. opaciventre Rog.
Femlina: Long. 15 mm. Ferruginea, subtilissime albido sericea, antennis tarsisque, infuscatis; mandibulae, clypeus, capitis latera, thorax atque petiolus subtiliter et regulariter striata, caput inter antennas et oculos longitudinaliter reticulato-rugulosum atque punctatum, frons vero striata, abdomen densissime punctatum; clypeus antice angulatim productus; vertex tuberculis duobus; pronotum tuberculis tribus; metanotum breve et bidentatum.
Von Santa Fe; im zoologischen Museum in Halle.
Diese Art, von welcher nur der Arbeiter bekannt und deren Vaterland bisher zweifelhaft war, gehoert zum Subgenus Ectatomma wegen der halbkugeligen Erhoehungen zwischen den Stirnleisten, dem mit zahnartigen Hoeckern versehenen Pronotum, dem zweizaehnigen Metanotum, so wie wegen der quergestellten, dicken und unbewehrten Schuppe des Stielchens.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 20
Life after subculture
Creators: name: Torkelson, Jason
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Youth culture and youth-oriented subcultures have long captured the attention of social scientists, popular media, and concerned parents alike.  Yet, even as the majority of punk's 1970's pioneers and the counterculturalists of the 1960's have long left community and defining elements of style behind, we still only know little about how individuals' adult lives might nonetheless be informed by involvements such as these.  My dissertation draws upon 44 face-to-face in-depth interviews with individuals who transitioned out of straightedge - a clean-living youth scene that has been associated with punk and hardcore music since the early 1980's based upon a lifetime pledge to abstain from intoxication.  Interview data show former straightedge adherents believe their time as straightedge, an affiliation they have all categorically relinquished, has nonetheless laid bases for the ways they currently see themselves within the world and the lives they profess to be leading in their post-straightedge years.  Rather than being part of an exploratory period that ends as many scholarly understandings of both youth subculture and adult transition indicate, findings suggest that elective youth identities may instead significantly influence how the transition to adulthood is negotiated and how adulthood is configured in the longer-term, which, arguably marks among the larger changes in the process of aging since the middle 20th Century.  Deeper in this vein, where it is generally understood that individuals are exploring greater amounts of identities, consumption phases, and communities in the course of their lives relative to prior generations, there has been surprisingly little inquiry into the potential significance of those that are relinquished.  Here, findings indicate that retrospective interpretive inquiry into relinquished identities can shed unique light upon elective cultural affiliation, both as a facet of subjective life history and with regard to what larger identification nodes can potentially mean.
Correlation of compression models to material properties
Creators: name: Vadodaria, Shishir
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Compression is the final unit operation in a pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing process scheme that produces the compact. Since compression determines some of the major critical quality attributes (CQA's) of tablets, such as hardness and disintegration time, understanding the effect of compression parameters on tablet quality is essential. The objective of this study is to develop a proof-of-concept methodology to correlate material properties to equipment and process performance using semi-empirical models, specifically compression models, and predict model coefficients. In this study, experiments involving some commonly used pharmaceutical ingredients such as lactose, microcrystalline cellulose, and acetaminophen was performed. The excipients were blended with varying levels of magnesium stearate ranging from 0.25 - 1.5% and the blends were characterized. The material properties measured for the blends were compressibility, permeability, cohesion, density, and particle size. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was performed to understand the operating material design space. After tablet compaction, the compression data values were regressed to the unknown coefficients of the Kawakita compression model and the Kuentz hardness equation. The parity plots, R-Squared (R2) and RMSE values showed a good fit between experimental data and the model output obtained using the regressed coefficients. Partial Least Square (PLS) regression was performed using the regressed coefficient values to obtain a linear correlation between the regressed coefficients and the original blend material properties. The PLS model regression presented less than 10% error for most of the calibration points and a decent prediction of the model coefficients for the validation points. The results obtained indicate that correlations between material properties and semi-empirical model coefficients are feasible and it is possible to predict the response of model coefficients with decent accuracy. This work can be used as a basis to expand material property and process parameter correlations to semi-empirical models of other unit operations involved in pharmaceutical processing in the future.
Age and growth of a subtropical marsh fish
Creators: name: Vastano, Anthony R.
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Year: 2016

description: Fundulus grandis, the Gulf Killifish, is an abundant fish species with a widespread distribution throughout the marshes of the Gulf of Mexico. The wide distribution and high site fidelity of this species makes it an ideal indicator species for Gulf of Mexico brackish and salt marshes, which experience a diversity of anthropogenic disturbances. Despite the ecological, commercial, and scientific importance of F. grandis, little is known of its growth pattern, and age determination methods are currently lacking. Age and growth information is essential for understanding baseline growth patterns. By combining a tag-recapture study with a chemical marker to stain otoliths, I validated an ageing method for F. grandis using whole otoliths and determined growth rates of F. grandis in winter (n = 58) and summer  (n = 36) in Louisiana. The recapture rates for tagged individuals during winter and summer were 10% and 12%, respectively. Mean somatic growth in length was significantly greater during the winter (0.085 mm per day) than the summer (0.054 mm per day). In contrast, mean otolith growth was significantly greater during the summer (1.37 Âµm per day) than the winter (0.826 Âµm per day). The observed uncoupling of somatic and otolith growth is attributed to warm summer temperatures which led to enhanced otolith growth while simultaneously reducing somatic growth. Fundulus grandis were aged to a maximum of 2.25 years. The parameters of the Von Bertalanffy growth model were estimated as: L∞ = 87.27 mm, k =2.43 year –1, and t0 = –0.022. These findings reveal basic age and growth information for F. grandis, demonstrating faster growth and a shorter lifespan than its congener species, Fundulus heteroclitus.
Development and application of theoretical techniques towards large-scale calculations and bulk simulations of ionic liquids
Creators: name: HALAT, PETER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340701
subject: Computational chemistry
classificationCode: 340704
subject: Theoretical quantum chemistry

description: In this thesis, a variety of techniques are developed and applied onto ionic liquids. Ionic liquids themselves are highly versatile compounds, wholly consisting of ions (like table salt) but are solid at low temperatures (unlike table salt). Ionic liquids are important liquids for batteries and energy storage. This thesis builds upon existing research to refine computational methods to predict properties of various ionic liquids.
Un espace modernista tutto per sé: l’eredità di Virginia Woolf tra le pieghe delle “scritture di vita” di Negri, Banti, Manzini e Ortese
Creators: name: Vedovi, Lucia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation examines the original mixture of Baroque legacy and Modernist experimentalism patterned after Virginia Woolf’s model in a selection of twentiethcentury Italian women writers. My research contributes to provide a better definition and a more thorough understanding of the Modernist phenomenon in Italy, by arguing that Italian literary modernity was achieved most successfully by the very writers who were unrepresented in the modernist literary canon, namely Ada Negri, Anna Banti, Gianna Manzini, and Anna Maria Ortese. Through Deleuze and Guattari’s reflections on a modern “virtual space,” Merleau-Ponty’s concept of “resemblances” among writers over time, Benjamin’s investigations on “modern phenomena, ” and Drucker’s examination of a “virtual espace” conceived by some early twentieth-century Western European painters, my comparative analysis at the intersection of art and literature demonstrates how the idea of a literary “espace” that characterizes modernity functions as an alternative space, a re-discovered homeland, even “a room of their own,” in the case of these prominent Italian women writers of the 20th century. Ultimately, my thesis shows how the Baroque legacy on one hand and the more or less explicitly acknowledged “literary motherhood” towards Virginia Woolf’s Modernism on the other constitute the traits that most characterize this “other reality,” perceived by the subject, beyond the more superficial façade of external reality. In fact, their literary output is marked by such an original combination of prose and lyrical stylistic features that clearly denotes, on one hand, a resemblance with the seventeenth-century rupture with the poised rationality of the Renaissance; and, on the other, with Woolf’s unprecedented experimentalism
Direct access to xenicane diterpenoids structure space and new insight in allenic transformations
Creators: name: Wang, Huan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Disclosed in this dissertation are the design, synthesis, and preliminary biological evaluation of novel xeniolides that selectively activate apoptosis in precancerous cells. A divergent synthetic strategy to gain direct access to this semi-validated anticancer structure space from a single intermediate is designed. The chemical synthesis of this lynchpin compound, including a new Morita-Baylis-Hillman-type cyclization, new C-C fragmentation mechanistic insight, conversion of the lynchpin to a diverse set of related targets, and the identification, through biological evaluation, of new simplified, synthetic xeniolides that rival the parent natural products in terms of potency and especially in terms of selectivity.  Catalytic allene osmylation featured by a five-step sequence to 4,10-didesmethyl (9S)-dihydro-erythronolide A and a mechanism study, and a molecular platform for catalytic allene epoxidation and a computational model explaining the stereochemical outcome are described.
Orthotylus (Pinocapsus) fuscescens
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Orthotylus
Orthotylus fuscescens

description: Orthotylus (Pinocapsus) fuscescens (Kirschbaum, 1856)
Material examined
Orthotylus (Pinocapsus) girayi sp. nov.
TURKEY – Isparta Province • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Eğirdir; 11 Jun. 1973; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
Comments
This species was recorded from Turkey by Önder (1976). After examining the voucher specimens, we discovered that they belong to a new species described below as Orthotylus (Pinocapsus) girayi Çerçi & Tezcan sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Platycranus (Platycranus) putoni Reuter 1879
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Platycranus
Platycranus putoni

description: Platycranus (Platycranus) putoni Reuter, 1879
Material examined
Platycranus (Platycranus) remanei
TURKEY – Elazığ ProvInce • 13 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀; Karakoçan; 15 Jun. 1975; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
Comments
This species was recorded from Elazığ, Turkey by Önder (1976). In the recent review of the genus, Knyshov & Konstantinov (2013) did not mention the presence of this species in Turkey. We examined the voucher specimens collected from Elazığ and concluded that they belong to P. (P.) remanei Wagner, 1955, therefore, we excluded this species from the Heteroptera checklist of Turkey.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Using multivariate analysis for pharmaceutical drug product development
Creators: name: Wang, Yifan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Manufacturing of pharmaceutical products has a prominent role in the healthcare industry. Generally, the ultimate aim of pharmaceutical development is to release to the market products with acceptable quality. As advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies such as continuous tablet manufacturing, are developed and embraced, it is essential to adopt a scientific, risk-based, and proactive approach for pharmaceutical development. The work presented in this dissertation focuses on using multivariate analysis tools to establish a predictive capability for pharmaceutical process and product development, especially when the amount of materials available is limited. Importantly, the methodologies developed in this dissertation can be applied easily to powder handling and processing in a wider range of industries, such as cosmetic, catalyst, chemical, petrochemical, and food.   In this work, methods for analyzing flow properties of raw materials and predict process performance were developed. A method to analyze shear cell data of powders measured under different initial consolidation stresses was introduced.  The method was shown to reduce significantly the complexity of shear cell data, and to enabled comparison of materials measured under different initial consolidation stresses. In addition, a predictive correlation between material flow properties and feeder performance was developed. By using multivariate models, the feeding performance of a material with given flow properties can be predicted and quantified.   Using a quality-by-design approach, the cohesion of a powder mixture can be predicted based on the concentration of each ingredient. The prediction model was further supplemented by a study investigating two mixing systems. Using statistical analysis, the effect of lubrication on blend flow properties was discussed. By quantifying the correlations between different flow property measurements, mixing systems that have different mixing mechanism were compared.   Disadvantages of widely used dissolution comparison methods were addressed. Statistically reliable methodologies to analyze, compare, and predict drug in vitro release profiles were proposed. The proposed methods were shown to be able to consider the self-correlated intrinsic nature of dissolution profiles, and to use within-group variability to estimate the reliability of observations. Additionally, the work presented a case study to improve real-time release testing for advanced tablet manufacturing processes by achieving predictive capability for nondestructive dissolution testing. Using hierarchical multivariate analysis, the validated prediction models were able to predict dissolution profile of an individual tablet based on its NIR spectrum.
Prionopelta punctulata Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Prionopelta
Prionopelta punctulata

description: P. punctulata n. sp.
Femina: Long. 2.5 mm Testaceo-rufa, mandibulis, antennis pedibusque testaceis, oculis nigris, capite supra fuscescenti; nitida, flavide pubescens, subtiliter at haud dense punctata.
Vom Parana in Suedamerika; im zoologischen Museum in Halle.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 22
Additional file 1: Figures S1-S27. of Weighted likelihood inference of genomic autozygosity patterns in dense genotype data
Creators: name: Blant, Alexandra
name: Kwong, Michelle
name: Szpiech, Zachary
name: Pemberton, Trevor
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary figures and their legends. (PDF 38834Â kb)