cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Probing the chemistry, structure, and dynamics of the water-silica interface
Creators: name: Lockwood, Glenn K.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Despite its natural abundance and wide-ranging technological relevance, much remains unknown or unclear about water-silica interfaces.  Computer simulation stands to bridge  the gaps of knowledge left by experiment, and a recently developed Dissociative Water Potential has enabled the simulation of large amorphous silica surfaces in contact with water without having to impose a model of surface chemistry a priori.  Earlier work with this model has revealed the existence of several protonated surface sites such as SiOH2+ and Si-(OH+)-Si that have yet to be extensively characterized.  However, both experiment and quantum mechanical simulation have provided an increasing body of evidence that suggests these sites exist, and these sites may play key roles in some of the unexplained phenomena observed in water-silica systems.    To this end, this Dissociative Water Potential has been applied to develop a comprehensive picture of the chemistry, structure, and dynamics of the water-silica interface that is unbiased by any expectation of what sites should form.  The bridging OH site, Si-(OH+)-Si, does form and is characterized as a highly acidic site that occurs predominantly on strained Si-O-Si bridges near the interface.  Similarly, the transient formation of SiOH2+ is observed, and this site is found to be more acidic than Si-(OH+)-Si.  In addition to H3O+ that forms near the interface, all of these sites readily deprotonate and are expected to play a role in the enhanced proton conductivity experimentally observed in hydrated mesoporous silica.    The reactions between water and silica are particularly relevant to the engineering of nuclear waste forms, and the role of water-silica interactions are also explored within the context of the degradation of silica-based waste forms exposed to radiation.  Despite the significant simulation effort employed in glassy waste form research, no molecular models of radiation damage in silica include the effects of moisture.  This deficiency is addressed, and water is found to play a significant role in accelerating the degradation of amorphous silica under irradiation.  Water inhibits healing of the network and promotes the formation of voids into which more water can penetrate, giving way to new damage accumulation mechanisms not seen in any past simulations.
Oncopodura
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Oncopoduridae
Oncopodura

description: Oncopodura gr. tricuspidata Cassagnau, 1964
Name in source. Oncopodura sp. gr. tricuspidata in Deharveng & Bedos (1988) and in Leclerc & Dalger (1988); Oncopodura gr. tricuspidata in Deharveng (1987c); Oncopodura sp. in Leclerc et al. (1988) and Oncopodura spp. in Deharveng & Bedos (2001). Source: Deharveng (1987c), Deharveng & Bedos (1988), Leclerc & Dalger (1988), Leclerc et al. (1988).
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son (N), Prachuap Khiri Khan (W). Surat Thani, Yala (P). Habitat: cave.
Distribution outside Thailand. O. tricuspidata is European.
Remark. Two morphospecies in northern Thailand caves after Deharveng (1987c) and Bedos (1994); in the South present in three caves (probably another species).
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 346, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Ships, security, and symbols
Creators: name: Lee, Sangyup
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: My project asks what brought about a South Korea’s naval construction drive called the “Blue Water Navy (BWN)” initiative, and how the initiative lasted for an extended period (1995-2010).  During the BWN period, South Korea saw an unprecedented growth of the size and capability of the navy.  I test plausible explanations that build on different perspectives including the realist model, the bureaucratic/organizational politics model, the domestic politics model, and the sociological institutionalist (SI) model.  Relying on the SI model as the main analytic framework, I offer a constructivist explanation of the origin and continuation of the BWN initiative.  At the same time, I take an eclectic position in that I understand that there is no single factor that can provide explanations for the phenomena.  I employ process tracing, content analysis (of speeches and statements made by political leaders and newspapers), elite interviews (including former top security advisers to presidents, former ministers of government organizations, naval leaders, Professors, and representatives of civic organizations), and a public survey.      I argue that the BWN initiative came along as the Republic of Korea (ROK) navy was defining the organizational identity and the way it serves the nation.  Previously, the ROK navy was considered a ‘fast-boat navy’ whose primary role was to defend South Korea’s coasts from North Korean infiltrations.  This view about the role of the navy started to change as the navy defined promoting national interest and international standing as part of the organizational essence in the 1980s.  Particularly, naval leaders became vocal about the necessity for the navy to play a leading role in defending and representing national interest in and outside the East Asian region.  Concurrently, the South Korean people increasingly viewed their nation as a sovereign, legitimate, and equal member of the international community in the 1990s.  This internationally oriented image of South Korea represented a departure from the old national identity that was defined in terms of rivalry with North Korea.  I argue that the BWN initiative well resonated among political leaders and the people mainly because people shared the new image or identity of their nation, and they associated it with the meanings of the blue water navy.
Benthonellania Lozouet 1990
Creators: name: Ortega, José Rafael
name: Gofas, Serge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Rissoidae
Benthonellania

description: Genus Benthonellania Lozouet, 1990
TYPE SPECIES. — Benthonellania gofasi Lozouet, 1990, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Ortega, José Rafael & Gofas, Serge, 2019, The unknown bathyal of the Canaries: new species and new records of deep-sea Mollusca, pp. 513-551 in Zoosystema 41 (26) on page 524, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a26, http://zenodo.org/record/3726028
Extending the document
Creators: name: Leong, Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: “Extending the Document” investigates the twenty-first century long poem in the context of the “archival turn” within the humanities.  I argue that writers of what I call “archival long poems” are powerfully responding to a common cultural condition—to the disorienting fact that we have both too much and not enough archive.  Such diverse writers as Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Goldsmith, Mark Nowak, Brenda Coultas, C.D. Wright, Anna Rabinowitz, and M. NourbeSe Philip are locating new representational values within the textual excess of proliferating documentation as well as within archival omissions that represent undocumented heritages.  If the ultimate horizon of the modernist long poem was the breadth of the comprehensive collection, then the contemporary archival long poem aspires to the depth of the specialized monograph.  Such monographic long poems detail accounts of marginalized subjects—from industrial laborers to incarcerated prisoners to the victims of hegemonic violence and genocide.  In this way, poets become not just fabricators of aesthetically-pleasing language but also instigators of conceptual interventions; they become historians, archaeologists, data managers, sociologists, ethicists, and advocates.  “Extending the Document” refutes poetry’s alleged isolation and inwardness by studying contemporary poets who are pushing poetry beyond its disciplinary bounds in order to interrogate the politics of memory and historical knowledge in an age of digital reproduction.
Structural Mechanism of Rb Inactivation in Lung Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer remains the #1 cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. with an estimated 155,000 patients dying in 2017. Smoking contributes to ~85% of lung cancer deaths. Many studies have shown that lung cancer results from deregulation of proteins that control cell division.

 Cell growth and division is coordinated through a variety of phases and between these phases are regulatory checkpoints necessary to ensure quality and integrity of the cell. In particular is the transition between the Gap1 (G1) to DNA synthesis (S) phase that once surpassed, the cell is committed to completing the cell cycle. Therefore, control at the G1/S phase transition needs to be highly maintained. The regulation is maintained and coordinated through a variety of interacting proteins. The Retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (Rb) arrests the cell in the G1 phase. Transition into the S phase occurs by interaction of Cdk4-CycD with Rb. This interaction causes Rb inactivation and pushes the cell to enter the S phase. Lung cancer cells, and in particular lung adenocarcinoma associated with smoking, typically have levels of Cdk4-CycD that are too high. Understanding how Cdk4-CycD induces passage between G1 to S phase is critical to understanding and treating uncontrollable cell growth, a hallmark of cancer disease.

 My proposed project aims to understand how the Rb-Cdk4-CycD interaction occurs and why it is necessary for cell cycle progression. I hypothesize that the association of Cdk4-CycD with Rb changes its molecular structure such that Cdk4-CycD is activated. This activation of Cdk4-CycD then allows for Rb inactivation and passage of the cell into S phase. To test this hypothesis, I will determine the structure of Rb-Cdk4-CycD in complex and perform Cdk4-CycD activity assays to understand the activation mechanism. Additionally, I will develop an assay and perform a screen that is capable of identifying new inhibitors of Cdk4-CycD.

 The Rb-Cdk4-CycD pathway is frequently seen in many tobacco-induced lung cancers and my study will contribute to filling in the gap in understanding mechanistic control between cell cycle phases. Not only will this project help in the overall effort to find a therapeutic for lung cancer, we aim to better inform the general public of what happens within our bodies when tobacco-related products are ingested. TRDRP and the goal of this project aim to expose the risks caused by tobacco-related products and to strive for a tobacco-free California.
The effect of stathmin on eribulin anti-mitotic activity
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Eribulin mesylate is an analog of the natural compound halichondrin B, initially isolated from a sponge, and is in phase II and III clinical trials for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. Eribulin targets and binds to tubulin, an important cellular protein involved in cell division. Anti-cancer drugs that block microtubule assembly (e.g., Vinblastine) or disassembly (e.g. Paclitaxel) have a long history of use, but variable response rates and toxicity limits their effectiveness. Thus, other targeted therapeutics are need to selectively block microtubule-dependent cell division specific to cancer cells, or predict which patients will respond to existing drugs. Stathmin is a microtubule-associated protein, which binds both soluble tubulin and polymerized microtubules. It is also a prognostic factor for breast cancer, and is found to be overexpressed in approximately 25% of breast cancers, most often in aggressive and highly proliferative tumors. Stathmin is also being examined as a predictive factor for tumor response to anti-tubulin agents.

 The goal of this dissertation project is to nvestigate the interactions between stathmin protein and eribulin, both biochemically (structural analysis) and functionally in cultured breast cancer cells. Because stathmin binds and forms a complex with tubulin, I will investigate the effects of stathmin on eribulin binding. To relate these findings to cancer treatment, I will vary stathmin expression within breast cancer cell lines, and test the cells for their sensitivity to eribulin. For biochemical studies we will use a radioactively-labeled drug conjugate of eribulin and purified tubulin and stathmin. Cell function studies will be carried out by altering stathmin levels using siRNA (inhibitory RNA) and a stathmin expression vector (increases stathmin amounts). I will use two breast cancer cell lines: BT549 and MCF7. BT549 expresses stathmin at 11-fold higher levels than normal breast tissue. I will reduce stathmin in these cells and test their sensitivity to eribulin. MCF7 cells have a slightly lower than normal stathmin expression. In these cells, I will overexpress stathmin to test for altered sensitivity or resistance to eribulin.

 Stathmin has the potential to be an important biomarker in breast cancer, and might be used to predict response to tubulin-targeting anti-cancer drugs. Understanding how stathmin interacts with these compounds, and how these interactions can influence tumor response, will better our ability to treat cancers based on individual protein expression. Improvements in biomarker discovery and testing will allow oncologists to tailor chemotherapy regimens to individual patients, improving treatment response and reducing side-effects.
Subscrancia albobrunnea Kiriakoff 1970
Creators: name: László, Gyula M.
name: Schintlmeister, Alexander
name: Vetina, Alvaro A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Notodontidae
Subscrancia
Subscrancia albobrunnea

description: Subscrancia albobrunnea Kiriakoff, 1970 (Figs. 12–13, 109)
Subscrancia albobrunnea Kiriakoff, 1970, Annals of the Transvaal Museum 26(9): 188. Type locality: [South Africa] Natal, St. Lucia lake. Holotype, male (TMSA).
description: Published as part of László, Gyula M., Schintlmeister, Alexander & Vetina, Alvaro A., 2021, A contribution to the knowledge of the prominent moths (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea Notodontidae) of the Maputo Special Reserve with descriptions of four new species, pp. 201-243 in Zootaxa 4965 (2) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4749851
Specific targeting of breast cancer stem cells
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Breast cancer is a very heterogeneous disease and different patient subgroups vary drastically in clinical outcomes. While the chances to achieve a complete remission are comparatively good in breast cancer, reoccurrence of the disease remains a major problem. A recently developed hypothesis suggests that cancer stem cells, a subpopulation of tumor cells with the ability to self-renew or differentiate into more mature cancer cells, are the major drivers of tumor propagation and metastasis, and potentially tumor recurrence. A cell surface protein marker, called CD44, has been used as a marker for breast cancer stem cells. While CD44 is not an ideal therapeutic target due to its wide expression on many cell types, it can be used to guide identification of other biomarkers co-expressed on CD44 positive breast cancer cells. However, a selection technique that identifies co-expressed markers on specific cell types has not been developed and is the focus of this research.

 We will utilize a novel approach to detect breast cancer stem cell biomarkers using antibodies (Ab). Our initial work will be to screen large combinatorial phage (virus) libraries prepared from patient lymphocyte samples against archived breast tumor tissue samples. Our goal is to isolate Ab-derived protein sequences on the phage which bind to markers co-expressed with CD44 on breast cancer cells. We anticipate isolating a panel of Ab binding to breast cancer stem cells that we can produce in larger quantity using recombinant expression in bacteria (E. coli). We will test these Ab to: (1) further validate the “stem cell hypothesis” for breast cancer, (2) define stem cell “expression signatures” for stratification breast cancers for better targeted treatment therapies, and (3) use as a basis to make additional cancer stem cell specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb) for targeted therapies

 Our project is true “high risk-high reward”, and we hope that the Ab generated from our approach will allow to further characterize cancer stem cells and serve as candidates for targeted therapies against breast cancer in patients.
Tomocerus Jantarit, Bedos & Deharveng, 2016, n.sp.
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Tomoceridae
Tomocerus

description: Tomocerus spp.*
Name in source. Tomocerus n.sp. in Deharveng & Bedos (1993b). Source: Deharveng et al. (1989), Deharveng & Bedos (1993b), Bedos (1994).
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai (N). Habitat: above 1150 m. in Doi Inthanon forest. Remark. One or more probably two morphospecies in Doi Inthanon (Bedos 1994).
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 346, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Subscrancia pinheyi László & Schintlmeister & Vetina 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: László, Gyula M.
name: Schintlmeister, Alexander
name: Vetina, Alvaro A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Notodontidae
Subscrancia
Subscrancia pinheyi

description: Subscrancia pinheyi (Kiriakoff, 1965) comb. nov. (Figs. 14–15, 110, 137)
Scrancia pinheyi Kiriakoff, 1965, Bulletin et Annales de la Société entomolgique de Belgique 101(18): 331–340. Type locality: [Mozambique] Chiluva Hills. Holotype, male (NHMZ).
description: Published as part of László, Gyula M., Schintlmeister, Alexander & Vetina, Alvaro A., 2021, A contribution to the knowledge of the prominent moths (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea Notodontidae) of the Maputo Special Reserve with descriptions of four new species, pp. 201-243 in Zootaxa 4965 (2) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4749851
Hannah Arendt
Creators: name: LaFay, Marilyn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The argument that I present is that Arendt falls short of providing a mitigation of the political crisis of modernity.  She commits what I see as a fundamental error, that of confusing an existential self for a political self. Her primary goal, I believe, is to establish a means by which we may exercise the existential self safely, from within a virtuous community. The concern I have with Arendt’s political work is that it does not provide a political solution to political problems, but rather relies on an existential self-exposure that lacks the values of political commitment. Despite all of her good intentions, the result is a politics without direction.   Arendt is unwilling to allow human civilization to be thrown onto the rubbish heap, and she attempts to indicate the ways in which humanity can actively create and maintain the world: we need not succumb to fate. Arendt wants to strip the individual of both narcissism and hubris, of the compulsion toward authenticity, and wants Self and community to recognize that both are man-made. Because of the artifice of both, each requires a constant vigilance and care. Her political thought relies upon an insistence on the human ability to create and respond, to actively generate the world in which we live. Public space is to be valued as that which allows individuals to overcome their sense of superfluousness, and thus, public space is valued  not as a political starting point, but for its own being-ness. She attempts to substitute the yearning of existentialism into an expressly political domain.   Ultimately, it is Arendt’s narrow reading of ‘ideology’ on which her theory flounders. She fails to recognize that ideologies can be viewed as either ‘progressive’ or ‘reactionary,‘ viewing all instead as part of a single Tradition.   However, as I argue, without ideology, we cannot translate political goods into political goals.  Arendt refuses to view ideology as a freely-chosen position that represents my choices about the ‘best society,’ of what I wish to attach myself to in order to see my principles and interests met.
Quantifying of Stem Cell Toxicology with Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The high volume of complex data collected during stem cell toxicology experiments necessitates the use of computational analysis tools. Modalities of data including microscopy images and molecular data such as DNA/RNA sequences, and protein information provide unique insights into cellular physiology. For example, behavioral dynamics of colonies are observed via time-lapse microscopy images, and analysis of proteins on the surface of, and within cells, provides a more detailed explanation of the underlying mechanisms of these changes. The goal of this project is to use Deep Learning, a subset of Artificial Intelligence computer algorithms, to combine microscopy and molecular data into a single, predictive model of stem cell development under toxic exposure to chemicals from cigarettes and cigarette alternatives. Data will be collected, over time, in the aforementioned modalities, for experiments involving exposure of human embryonic stem cell colonies to various combinations of cigarette chemicals. The database established from these experiments will be used to design and test multiple configurations of our model in tasks related to determining temporal mechanisms of cell health and other developmental changes. The results of the experiments will be disseminated in a variety of manners including peer reviewed journals, and community engagement, in order to inform the public of the developmental risks associated with the use of tobacco products.
Arrhopalites anulifer Nayrolles 1990
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Arrhopalitidae
Arrhopalites
Arrhopalites anulifer

description: 187. Arrhopalites anulifer Nayrolles, 1990
Name in source. Arrhopalites in Deharveng (1987c). Source: Deharveng (1987c), Nayrolles (1990), Bedos (1994), Rojanavongse et al. (unpublished report). Type deposition: MNHN, BPBM, BDCM, LEITT. Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai (N). Habitat: cave, soil, decaying wood, up to 1720 m. in Doi Chiang Dao. Distribution outside Thailand. Only known from Thailand.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Wide-Baseline Light Fields – Imaging and Applications
Creators: name: De Zeeuw, Michael
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The world around us is filled with complex visual phenomena that we may wish to understand or recreate. Iridescence, intricate geometry, and complex spatial texture are all examples of such phenomena that can be challenging to both capture and represent. In order to characterize them, we need to consider how light interacts with different spatial points over a broad range of incoming and outgoing directions. Light field cameras provide a framework for capturing this spatial and angular information in a single image exposure; however, traditional hand-held light field cameras only observe a small fraction of the cone of light emitted by a given scene point. As a consequence, the study of interesting angular effects like iridescence are beyond the scope of such cameras. 
The aim of this thesis is to present a novel light field imaging device capable of measuring over a wide baseline and to explore the space of applications that would significantly benefit from such light field data. We motivate why and how wide-baseline light fields (WBLFs) open up many exciting new capabilities in light field processing, 3D shape reconstruction, and iridescent reflectance capture. 
The core contribution of this thesis is the imaging system design for a WBLF camera. We achieve a wide-baseline by imaging the scene indirectly through an ellipsoidal mirror. The combination of a light field camera and the ellipsoidal mirror provides rich measurements in space and angle. We further analyze the captured light fields to understand the system’s capabilities, including considerations of resolution, angular range, coverage, and depth of field. Additionally, we develop a novel calibration procedure to account for the unique challenges present in such an imaging system. 
We show this WBLF camera in action through a set of di?erent applications that benefit from our data. First, we develop a suite of geometric processing algorithms to provide a parallel to the techniques employed in traditional light field imaging, including viewpoint synthesis, refocusing, and shape reconstruction. In particular, our shape reconstruction technique leverages the unique benefits of the WBLF camera to jointly estimate 3D shape and surface normals. Second, we develop a network similar to state-of-the-art 3D scene representations to train over WBLF data and produce 3D shape and reflectance reconstructions for small objects with varied appearance. Finally, we show that our system is capable of measuring the high dimensionality of the spatially-varying bidirectional reflectance distribution function (SVBRDF) efficiently. We additionally develop a neural SVBRDF representation to render the captured data over a broad range of novel viewpoints, illuminations, and geometries. 
In total, these contributions provide a significant advance to light foeld imaging by establishing the foundation for wide-baseline light field imaging and its applications.
Social preferences, occupational choice and labor market performance
Creators: name: Isgin, Ebru
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The first essay analyzes the role of information transparency on fairness and reciprocity in long-term labor market relationships. The main finding of the second chapter is that transparency serves as an effective mechanism to both improve worker welfare and total market efficiency. Fairness, which means that an increase in the generosity of a contract offer is reciprocated by an increase in the effort level, is a prominent concern under information transparency. When workers are informed about firms' productivity levels and potential profits, firms propose higher wages that represent a more fair division of total surplus. Workers respond to generous offers with high effort levels. However, workers' response to wages is not constant and depends on the following factors. It is elevated with information transparency. That is, for given wages, workers provide more effort under full information. It also depends on whether a wage offer represents a fair share of the final surplus.  The second essay analyzes the role of information transparency and communication in short-term employment relationships. The evidence shows that the level of trust and reciprocity is significantly reduced if there is no contract renewal. While information transparency was critical in long-term relationships, it does not have a substantial effect in short-term relationships. Wage offers are lower and compressed regardless of how workers are informed. On the other hand, communication enhances trust and reciprocity more significantly than any other factor that is controlled for.  The third essay studies the occupational choice of agents between working for wages and becoming entrepreneurs. The main finding is that policies that improve worker's welfare also improve the terms for entrepreneurs. If the tax rates on entrepreneurs and the working wages are raised, entry into entrepreneurship slows down. This increases the average quality and consequently, the average success rate of entrepreneurs when a high wage-high tax regime is adopted. The credit market offers lower interest rates to potential entrepreneurs due to higher average success rates. On the other hand, overconfidence exists among potential entrepreneurs. The average rate of success is lower with overconfidence, which only worsens the adverse selection problem in the credit market.
Palazzia ausonia
Creators: name: Ortega, José Rafael
name: Gofas, Serge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Trochida
Skeneidae
Palazzia
Palazzia ausonia

description: Palazzia ausonia (Palazzi, 1988)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 sh., DW130.
REMARK
Originally described from the Tyrrhenian Sea in 500 m depth, subsequently reported from off Iceland and Norway (Warén, 1991); new record for the Canaries.
description: Published as part of Ortega, José Rafael & Gofas, Serge, 2019, The unknown bathyal of the Canaries: new species and new records of deep-sea Mollusca, pp. 513-551 in Zoosystema 41 (26) on page 523, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a26, http://zenodo.org/record/3726028
Health effects of e-cigarette refill fluids
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Determining the toxicity of electronic cigarette refill fluids is difficult due to the thousands of products sold worldwide. Refill fluids contain many flavor chemicals at varying concentration that can influence refill fluid toxicity. We have found that popular refill fluids with high concentrations (>1 mg/ml) of flavor chemicals decreased cultured lung cell survival. To help us better select and screen for potential toxic products, we identified 53 refill fluids in online forums that users reported made them ill. We purchased these refill fluids from local and online shops, and call this collection our “sickness-inducing” library or SIL. In this project, we propose three Specific Aims to test the hypothesis that refill fluids in the SIL have high concentrations of flavor chemicals that negatively affect cultured lung cells and human health. Specific Aim 1: Determine the toxicity for each refill fluid and a subset of flavor chemicals in the SIL. Specific Aim 2: Evaluate the mode-of-action of a subset of authentic standards of flavor chemicals at non-lethal concentrations. Specific Aim 3: Determine if humans using popular SIL products have elevated biomarkers of harm in urine and altered gene expression in nasal scrapes. Flavor chemicals have been identified and quantified in all SIL products. Refill fluids containing “authentic standards” of flavor chemicals found in high concentrations will be made by using appropriate solvents for cytotoxicity testing. We will also look at the effects of each chemical on cultured lung cells after exposing them to refill fluids at different doses and observing them in time-lapse videos. In our human study, we will recruit human participants using these products and compare their biological samples (urine and nasal) to non-smoker groups using RNA-seq (a technology that allows us to detect changes in gene expression). Biomarkers of harm can be detected by commercial enzyme-linked assay kits. This will be the first translational study relating the concentration of refill fluid flavor chemicals to human health using a sickness-inducing library. Data will be useful to regulatory agencies, healthcare professionals, and the public. The proposed project directly addresses TRDRP’s research priorities in Environmental Exposure and Toxicology, Pulmonary Biology and Lung Disease, and Tobacco Control.
Managing energy usage and cost through load distribution in multi-data-center services
Creators: name: Le, Kien Trung
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Multi-data-center services will soon be common place. These services raise many questions about how exactly to distribute the offered load across the data centers.  In fact, different load distributions may produce wildly different monetary costs, performance, and/or energy consumption. Moreover, these large services consume large amounts of energy produced via carbon-dioxide-intensive means.  We refer to this as ``brown energy'', in contrast to renewable or ``green'' energy. This large energy consumption represents significant and fast-growing financial and environmental costs. Increasingly, services are exploring dynamic methods to manage energy and  energy-related costs while respecting their service-level agreements (SLAs). Furthermore, it will soon be important for these services to manage their usage of brown or green energy.    Based on these observations, this dissertation explores load distribution policies that minimize cost or energy consumption, while respecting the services' performance requirements. First, we design, implement, and evaluate software support for multi-data-center Internet service providers to take advantage of temporal and spatial variability of electricity prices and on-site generation of green energy. Second, we extend this framework with support for capping brown energy consumption without excessively increasing costs or degrading the performance of Internet services. Third, we design, implement, and evaluate cost-aware policies for placing and migrating virtual machines in high performance cloud computing services.     Our results show that our framework is very effective at allowing services to trade off brown energy consumption and cost. For example, using our policies, the service can reduce brown energy  consumption by 24% for only a 10% increase in cost, while still abiding by SLAs. Our virtual  machine migration framework demonstrates that (1) our policies can provide large cost savings,  (2) load migration enables savings in many scenarios, and (3) all electricity-related costs must be  considered at the same time for higher and consistent cost savings. Overall, our work demonstrates  the value of load distribution across data centers, formal optimization techniques, workload prediction, and electricity price prediction for energy management.
Arrhopalites chiangdaoensis Nayrolles 1990
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Arrhopalitidae
Arrhopalites
Arrhopalites chiangdaoensis

description: 188. Arrhopalites chiangdaoensis Nayrolles, 1990
Name in source. Arrhopalites in Deharveng (1987c). Source: Deharveng (1987c), Nayrolles (1990), Bedos (1994), Deharveng & Bedos (2001), Rojanavongse et al. (unpublished report). Type deposition: MNHN, BPBM, BDCM, LEITT.
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai (N). Habitat: cave.
Distribution outside Thailand. Only known from Thailand.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Heat conduction in low dimensional lattice systems
Creators: name: Kannan, Venkateshan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: We study heat conduction and other nonequilibrium properties of one dimensional chain of particles, ordered and disordered, harmonic and anharmonic. Our results include derivation of oscillatory temperature profile for harmonic alternating mass chains, demonstration of finite heat conductivity for disordered harmonic chains with velocity-flipping noise, description of fluctuations for ordered harmonic systems with noise, and understanding the behavior of systems with noise and anharmonicity.  We provide a comparative analysis of the effects of the various dynamics and system parameters on the characteristics of the nonequilibrium steady state of the chain.
Benthonellania agastachys Bouchet & Waren 1993
Creators: name: Ortega, José Rafael
name: Gofas, Serge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Rissoidae
Benthonellania
Benthonellania agastachys

description: Benthonellania agastachys Bouchet & Warén, 1993(Fig. 8 A-D)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 84 sh., DW130.
REMARK
Hernández et al. (2011) reported Benthonellania oligostigma Bouchet & Warén, 1993 from the Canaries, and illustrated a specimen (from the private collection of Winfried Engl, Germany) collected in 330 m depth off Fuerteventura. However B. oligostigma, originally described from off Madeira in 990 m depth, has a much more conical, not cyrtoconoid spire, has about half as many axial ribs as the species found in the Canaries, does not have a thickened outer lip and has a much more blurry spiral sculpture. Conversely, both our specimens and that illustrated by Hernández et al. adjust to Benthonellania agastachys, described from a single juvenile specimen collected in 500 m between Fuerteventura and Cape Juby, Morocco (actually in Moroccan waters but very close to the divide). Benthonellania agastachys was abundant in DW130 and a fully adult shell, with well-developed outer lip, is here figured.
description: Published as part of Ortega, José Rafael & Gofas, Serge, 2019, The unknown bathyal of the Canaries: new species and new records of deep-sea Mollusca, pp. 513-551 in Zoosystema 41 (26) on page 524, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a26, http://zenodo.org/record/3726028
Pseudorethona albicans
Creators: name: László, Gyula M.
name: Schintlmeister, Alexander
name: Vetina, Alvaro A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Notodontidae
Pseudorethona
Pseudorethona albicans

description: Pseudorethona albicans (Walker, 1855) (Figs. 25–26)
Rethona albicans Walker, 1855, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part V, Lepidoptera Heterocera 5: 1043. Type locality: [South Africa] Caffraria. 2 syntypes, male and female (NHMUK).
description: Published as part of László, Gyula M., Schintlmeister, Alexander & Vetina, Alvaro A., 2021, A contribution to the knowledge of the prominent moths (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea Notodontidae) of the Maputo Special Reserve with descriptions of four new species, pp. 201-243 in Zootaxa 4965 (2) on page 209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4749851
title: Angelonia :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Angelonia

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Arrhopalites Jantarit, Bedos & Deharveng, 2016, n.sp.
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Arrhopalitidae
Arrhopalites

description: Arrhopalites spp.*
Name in source. Arrhopalites n.sp. 1 to 4 in Deharveng & Bedos (1993b). Source: Deharveng (1987c), Deharveng & Bedos (1988, 1993b, 2001), Deharveng et al. (1989), Bedos (1994).
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai (N), Nakhon Ratchasima (NE), Phang Nga (P). Habitat: cave in Chiang Rai and Phang Nga province; mostly above 1700 m in Doi Inthanon forest; soil s.l. in dry evergreen lowland forest in Nakhon Ratchasima province (Wiwatwitaya & Takeda 2005).
Remark. Seven morphospecies of which four in Doi Inthanon (Bedos 1994), one in Chiang Rai province (Deharveng 1987c), one in Phang Nga province (Deharveng & Bedos 1988), one in Nakhon Ratchasima province (Wiwatwitaya & Takeda 2005). The taxonomic status of the different forms is not known, except the morphospecies of Doi Inthanon.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
The Role of CD28 Family Receptors/Ligands in AIDS-Lymphoma
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lay Abstract The Role of CD28 Family Receptors/Ligands in AIDS-Lymphoma Lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, occurs much more frequently in people who have HIV infection compared to healthy, uninfected, people. Although the rate of AIDS-lymphoma has dropped since the advent of effective drugs against HIV, it still remains much higher than the rate of lymphoma in the general population. Although more effective treatments for this cancer have become available in recent years, there is still considerable room for improvement, as many people still die of this disease in the long term, including in California. Recently, we have determined that cells of many ARL tumors have on their surface certain molecules (CD28, PD-1, and PD-L1) that may fuel their growth, make them more resistant to chemotherapy, or stop the immune system from attacking them. In the proposed pilot studies, we hypothesize that blocking these molecules with drugs will stop tumor growth. In a first set of studies, we will examine expression of these molecules on a wide variety of ARL specimens obtained from pathology labs. We will also examine what these molecules do in experiments in which cells from ARLs are grown in culture. We have also developed mouse models of ARL in which human ARL tumors grow in mice. Tumors in these mouse models closely resemble human ARL. Since experiments in cell cultures sometimes do not show everything that is going on in actual tumors in humans or animals, we will perform studies of the cell surface molecules (CD28, PD-1, PD-L1) in our mouse models to gain a fuller sense of what these molecules are doing. Drugs are available that can inhibit these cell surface molecules, and we will inject these drugs into mice with ARL tumors and determine if they will inhibit tumor growth, make tumors more susceptible to traditional chemotherapy, or make tumors more susceptible to chemotherapy. We think that, given our preliminary data, there is a significant likelihood that these studies will be successful. If so, we will use the data from these studies to apply for more comprehensive funding for studies in this area from other sources. The successful completion of the proposed studies could lead to new treatments for ARL. We note that in the last several years drugs targeting the PD-1 and PD-L1 have shown amazing success in treating a variety of tumors. It seems likely that these drugs could be used to treat ARL, as well.
"Making the dignity of our labor a reality"
Creators: name: Hardin, Anastasia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This thesis investigates the local movement of household workers in New York from 1960-1980. Adding to labor and feminist histories that challenge the notion of domestic workers as “unorganizable,” this thesis provides an account of the Household Technicians of New York, an organization created and run by working-class Black women in New York. These women fought to gain decent pay and benefits for their labor, and dignity and respect as household workers. With the use of meeting notes, recordings, correspondences, and publications, as well as secondary sources, this thesis examines the vision of the Household Technicians of New York, within the context of the larger national movement of household workers in the 1960s and 1970s.     This study pays particular attention to tensions within the movement of household workers and to the efforts to find allies, two topics which have yet to be fully explored in previous scholarly literature on domestic worker organizing. This thesis finds that the Household Technicians of New York saw an alliance with women’s movement, largely middle class white women, as central to redefining household work. At the same time, the larger women’s movement was trying to find ways to get women out of the household all together. Rather than focus on the civil rights movement or labor movement, household workers made a strategic choice to focus on the women’s movement. Through this alliance, they hoped to create a coalition of household workers and employers. While the women’s movement did have brief moments when it worked with household workers, ultimately, white feminists were unable to see Black household workers as a part of their vision for liberation.