cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of Viral Cre-LoxP tools aid genome engineering in mammalian cells
Creators: name: Ranjita Sengupta
name: Mendenhall, Amy
name: Sarkar, Nandita
name: Chandreyee Mukherjee
name: Amirali Afshari
name: Huang, Joseph
name: Lu, Biao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Coding and amino-acid sequences of Cre recombinase. (PDF 40 kb)
The community-level and ecosystem-level consequences of feedbacks between the soil ecosystem and the plant community during forest understory invasion
Creators: name: Elgersma, Kenneth John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation addresses the consequences of reciprocal interactions between the plant and the soil microbial communities, and how those interactions affect nutrient cycling and plant competition during exotic plant invasion. Each chapter is linked by the common theme of evaluating the importance of these feedbacks to the rate of plant invasion in the forest understory.  In the first two chapters, I utilize microcosms to evaluate the importance of leaf litter inputs for plant-soil feedback. The first chapter demonstrates that leaf litter from native and exotic plants create divergent soil microbial communities, altering soil enzyme activities and nitrogen cycling, which in turn affects the growth of native and invasive plants. However, while this plant-soil interaction affects growth rate, it does not change the competitive hierarchy or the success of the invasive plant. The second chapter shows how the effect of an exotic species' leaf litter on soil microbes varies over a range of invasion severity. Using litter mixtures ranging from 0% to 100% exotic litter, I show that ecosystem-level effects of invasion on carbon and nitrogen cycling are linearly related to the exotic plant density, while community-level effects on soil microbes are non-linear and very sensitive to low levels of invasion.  In the final chapters, I extend these results to examine whole-plant effects in more natural plant communities. The third chapter uses a large-scale field experiment to explore the temporal dynamics of invasion impacts. I show that the short-term impact of native and invasive plants on soil microbes is weak, while long-term effects are much stronger. However, after restoration of native plants, the legacy effect of invasion remains strong. Using experimental litter-removal, I also show that belowground plant litter more strongly influences the soil microbial community than aboveground litter.  The fourth chapter examines how the diversity of the native community influences the invasion impact on soils. I show that while diversity has little direct effect, individual native plant species can influence how an exotic invasive shrub affects the soil ecosystem.  Together, these results show that the importance of plant-soil feedbacks for exotic invasion is context- and scale-dependent, exhibiting nonlinear dynamics that depend on the native community and the degree of invasion, and vary in strength over time.
Atta sexdens subsp. robusta Borgmeier, 1939, n. subsp.
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta sexdens
Atta sexdens robusta

description: Atta sexdens robusta, n. subsp. (Fig. 15)
Operar o (máximo). - Comprimento total 15-16 mm; largura da cabeça 6 mm, do gaster 4-4.5 mm. A coloração é parda (chocolate), mas varia e é ás vezes bastante ennegrecida. Ha tres pequenos ocellos; o ocello anterior é muito pequeno. Lobos occipitaes ligeiramente brilhantes. Dentes pronotaes inferiores curvados para traz. Os dentes pronotaes e mesonotaes nos indivíduos máximos transformados em tuberculos obtusos ou gibbosidades; os tubérculos mesonotaes muitas vezes são ligados entre si e formam uma gibbosidade transversal. Postpeciolo com 2 carenas divergentes para traz. Gaster muito robusto, sua largura quasi 2/3 da largura da cabeça, com fraco brilho nos lados do primeiro tergito. Pilosidade mais escassa do que era sexdens s. str.
Femea. - De coloração mais escura do que as fê- meas da forma typica (Paramaribo), gaster ás vezes com ligeiro brilho. Escutello com um sulco mediano muito fraco.
Macho. - Epinoto na face declive com um dente pequeno de cada lado, o qual é ausente em material de Paramaribo. Volsellae mais obtusas, também os stipites menos delgados.
Typos numerosos operários, 2 fêmeas, 2 machos (todos do mesmo ninho) de S. Bento, Est. Rio, dr. M. Torres leg. 15.X.1935; Cordovil, Est. Rio, O. Gomes, 1.1921; Rio de Janeiro, L. A. de Azevedo Marques leg. 28. IX. 1927, operários, 1 femea; Rio de Janeiro, Quinta Boa Vista, Monteiro, X.1.1922; Quissamã, Est. Rio, rev. Frei R. Saupp leg. (N.° 100). Na minha collecção e cotypos (de S. Bento) no Instituto de Experimentação Agricola, Rio de Janeiro (N.° 78) e na Defesa Sanitária Vegetal (N.° 3327).
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 426
Performance improvements for unplanned high density wireless LANs
Creators: name: Ergin, Mesut Ali
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Chaotic unplanned IEEE 802.11 WLAN deployments are becoming the norm and such residential deployments have many nearby access points (APs) and stations on the same channel, either due to lack of coordination or insufficient available channels. Thus, inter-cell interference in these high-density settings is common but not well-understood. Our evaluations for such interfering deployments reveal that up-to two-thirds of the WLAN system capacity may be lost in a typical large-apartment building with 50 interfering WLANs In this thesis, we first report on our analysis of high-density unplanned WLANs' performance under realistic scenarios. We find that with a typical TCP-dominant workload, cumulative system throughput is characterized by the number of actively interfering APs rather than the number of clients. We verify that due to TCP flow control, the number of backlogged stations in such a network equals twice the number of active APs. Thus, a single AP network proves very robust even with over one hundred clients, while multiple interfering APs lead to a significant increase in collisions that reduces throughput and affects multimedia traffic. Based on our analysis, we suggest a practical contention window adaptation technique, WiPhi, using information on the number of nearby APs rather than clients. We also point out the need for collision-resilient rate adaptation in such a setting. Together these techniques can largely recover the loss in cumulative throughput in a setting with strongly interfering APs. We then propose an alternative ISP-level solution, HeedNet, recovering lost performance by scheduling the IP packets of the bulk traffic at the ISP edge-router towards interfering APs. It requires no changes to the MAC protocol and the APs of the network, making it a viable solution for ISPs. We evaluate HeedNet via simulations and an actual deployment to show that a significant portion of the lost system capacity can be regained (more than 2.2X improvement compared to legacy). HeedNet also increases the fairness, reducing starvation among WLANs. Additionally, we show that HeedNet improves the performance of the non-scheduled (i.e., non-bulk) traffic considerably, such as VoIP, due to the reduced-collision rate environment it creates.
Perionyx variegatus
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Perionyx
Perionyx variegatus

description: 80. Perionyx variegatus (Michaelsen, 1907)
Perionychella variegata Michaelsen, 1907: 158.
Perionyx variegatus: Stephenson, 1923: 362.
T. Phallut, district Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. TM. ZSIC 2917, ZMUH 7152. D. West Bengal: Darjeeling (Halder 1998), Unspecified localities (Halder et al. 2007). E. Epigeic. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
MOESM1 of Brucella seroprevalence in cattle near a wildlife reserve in Kenya
Creators: name: Enstrรถm, Sofie
name: Nthiwa, Daniel
name: Bett, Bernard
name: Karlsson, Amanda
name: Alonso, Silvia
name: Lindahl, Johanna
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire. This file is containing the questions for the interviews with farmers.
Représentations littéraires du sacré dans le roman maghrébin de langue française
Creators: name: Elsayed, Hanan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This interdisciplinary study explores how Driss Chraïbi’s L’Homme du Livre (1995), Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine (1991), and Anissa Boumediène’s La fin d’un monde (1991) present accounts of particular historical moments in early Islam.  This study explores the role of the imagination as well as freedom of invention when reconstructing historical events.  It engages the novels through a study of the interplay between the literary text and the sources and traditions that impact and shape the text narrative.  Gaining direct access to the original sources in Arabic serves to analyze how religious and early historical materials are considered in and reflected by the fictional texts.  Because the sources tend to differ in both content and approach, this study examines their preoccupations in order to determine the criteria of selection applied by each novelist.
Cotesia salebrosa Marshall 1885
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia salebrosa

description: Cotesia salebrosa (Marshall, 1885)
Distribution in Iran. Kermanshah (Ghahari and Fischer 2012a).
Distribution outside Iran. Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Epirrita dilutata, Leucoma salicis, Erannis defoliaria, Selenia sp., Staphylinus olens, Earophila badiata, Operophtera brumata (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012). In Fennoscandia, this species is considered as parasitoid of Epirrita autumnata (Yu et al. 2012; Ruohomäki et al. 2013). Nixon (1974) and Yu et al. (2012) reported it as a solitary parasitoid of Anarta myrtilli on Colluna, and Yu et al. (2012) reported also Eupithecia intricate, E. valerianata, and Gelis monozonius.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Cotesia saltator Thunberg 1922
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia saltator

description: Cotesia saltator (Thunberg, 1922)
Distribution in Iran. Sistan & Baluchestan (Khajeh et al. 2014), Iran (no locality cited) (Telenga 1955; Belokobylskij 1998).
Distribution outside Iran. Armenia, Bulgaria, former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012), Belgium, North Africa (Shenefelt 1972).
Host records. Acrolepia autumnitella, Yponomeuta padella, Lymantria dispar (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012), Aporia crataegi, Biston betularia, Yponomeuta malinellus, Phalonia dipoltella (Shenefelt 1972). A solitary parasitoid of Anthocharis cardamines (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012). Yu et al. (2012) reported also Anthocharis euphenoides, Daphnis nerii, Euchloe simplonia, Heliothis peltigera, Hyles euphorbiae.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Atta bisphaerica Forel
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta bisphaerica

description: Atta bisphaerica Forel, 1908 (Fig. 14)
Esta forma, descripta como variedade de sexdens, a meu vêr deve ser elevada á categoria de espécie, principalmente se vollenweideri e columbica são consideradas como espécies. A cabeça é muito característica; os lobos occipitaes são mais ou menos brilhantes. Possuo material de S. Paulo (Cotia, Guaratinguetá, Campinas).
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 426
Additional file 1: of Atrial ERK1/2 activation in the embryo leads to incomplete Septal closure: a novel mouse model of atrial Septal defect
Creators: name: Che-Chung Yeh
name: Yanying Fan
name: Yang, Yi-Lin
name: Mann, Michael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: S1 Methods. (DOCX 34 kb)
Cotesia scabricula Reinhard 1880
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia scabricula

description: Cotesia scabricula (Reinhard, 1880)
Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Ghahari et al. 2012c).
Distribution outside Iran. Armenia, Austria, China, former Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. A solitary parasitoid of Earias clorana (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012), Apotomis capreana, Earias cupreoviridis, Erannis defoliaria, Malacosoma neustria, Orthosia sp., Rabdophaga rosaria (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Selling love
Creators: name: Epstein, Pamela Ilyse
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation uses nineteenth-century personal advertisements to analyze how people created connections in an era of rapid urbanization and commercialization. It analyzes the effect of the market economy, urban growth on intimate relationships, aswell as the integration of personal lives into broader society. It centers around the idea of “public intimacy”; that is, the process through which certain Americans – mostly the urban middle class – forged private relationships within the public eye. Doing so allowsinsight on nineteenth- and early-twentieth century attitudes toward love, marriage, and sexuality in an increasingly anonymous, urban world. Personal columns at first held the promise of an almost utopian space, in which strangers could experiment with creating new personas, determining their own value, and forming and maintaining relationships. The ads offered freedom, but at the same time, forced users to perform their lives in front of an eager and engaged newspaper audience. The ads gave insight into the lives of neighbors, helping people better understand and adapt to large, anonymous cities. After the turn of the century, however, personals were co-opted by entrepreneurs who used the ads for their own gain. Ads from fraudulent matrimonial agencies offered easy wealth through marriage, while at the same time brothels and prostitutes began using the columns, cloaking their ads under the guise of massage parlors and matrimonials. Personals fell victim to commercialization; what had been a place that catered to individuals seeking connections in the market became a venue for people selling love, money, and sex. Until now, personal advertisements have been an entirely unexplored set of sources. This dissertation draws upon thousands of ads from papers all over the country, especially in New York City. In addition, it uses case studies in Chicago and New York to analyze the themes in this project more closely. In the process, it has traced some of the evolutions in American beliefs about the divide between public and private, theinstitution of marriage, and how the growing market economy affected these ideas. Finally, it moves forward to compare the early history of personals to the growth ofonline dating today.
Polypheretima elongata
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Polypheretima
Polypheretima elongata

description: 81. Polypheretima elongata (Perrier, 1872)
Perichaeta elongata Perrier, 1872: 124.
Perichaeta biserialis Perrier, 1875: 1044.
Amyntas biserialis: Beddard, 1900a: 638
Amyntas acystis: Beddard, 1900a: 638
Megascolex elongata: Vaillant, 1889: 81.
Perichaeta acystis Beddard, 1895: 423
Perichaeta monocystis Horst, 1899: 202 (lapsus pro acystis Beddard, 1895).
Amynthas elongata: Beddard,1900a: 650.
Pheretima elongata: Michaelsen, 1900: 265.
Metapheretima elongata: Sims & Easton, 1972: 205
Polypheretima elongata: Easton, 1979: 53.
Polypheretima elongata (Perrier). Blakemore 2016: 578.
T. Peru. TM. MNHN 633–44. D. Punjab: Ludhiana (Battish & Dhiman 2002; Dhiman & Battish 2006), Rupnagar (Battish & Dhiman 2002; Dhiman & Battish 2006), Sirhind (Battish & Dhiman 2002; Dhiman & Battish 2006). Uttar Pradesh: Aligarh (Verma et al. 2010; Yadav 2014; Prakash 2017). West Bengal: Namkana, Sunderbans (Stephenson 1920), Kolkata (Stephenson 1920; Halder 1998), Unspecified localities (Halder et al. 2007), South 24 parganas (Halder 1998). E. Endogeic. G. Exotic peregrine.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Multi-wavelength applications of gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Fadely, Ross
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Using an array of multi-wavelength data, we examine a variety of astrophysical problems with gravitational lensing.  First, we seek to understand the mass distribution of an early-type galaxy with an analysis of the lens Q0957+561.  We dissect the lens galaxy into luminous and dark components, and model the environment using results from weak lensing.  Combining constraints from newly-discovered lensed images and stellar population models we find the lens has a density profile which is shallower than isothermal, unlike those of typical early-type galaxies.  Finally, using the measured time delay between the quasar images we find the Hubble constant to be H_0=79.3^{+6.7}_{-8.5} km s^{-1} Mpc^{-1}. One intriguing application of lensing is to exploit the lens magnification boost to study high-redshift objects in greater detail than otherwise possible. Here, we analyze the mid-infrared properties of two lensed z~2 star-forming galaxies, SDSS J120602.09+514229.5 and SDSS J090122.37+181432.3, using Spitzer/IRS spectra to study their rest-frame ~ 5-12 micron emission.  Both systems exhibit strong polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features in the spectra, indicating strong star formation and the absence of significant AGN activity.  For SDSS J090122.37+181432.3, this detection belies that inferred from optical measurements, indicating mid-IR spectroscopy provides key information needed to understand the properties of high-redshift star-forming galaxies.  While lensing provides measurements of the macroscopic properties of lens systems, it can also shed light on small-scale structure of galaxies. To identify and understand lens substructure, we examine the multi-wavelength properties of flux ratios for six lenses.  Variations of the flux ratios with wavelength can be used to study the lensed quasars and the small-scale mass distribution of lens galaxies. We detect strong multi-wavelength variations in the lenses HE 0435-1223 and SDSS 0806+2006. For HE 0435-1223, we study its substructure with a series of lens models which add clumps of mass near the lensed images.  We detect the presence of a clump near image A, with a mass of log(M_A( 0.00092.
Atta bisphaerica subsp. opaciceps Borgmeier, 1939, n. subsp.
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta bisphaerica
Atta bisphaerica opaciceps

description: Atta bisphaerica opaciceps, n. subsp. (Fig. 16)
Differe da forma typica pela cabeça menos larga* sulco occipital menos profundo, gaster mais brilhante, coloração mais clara (vermelho-amarella) e a cabeça inteiramente mate (em bisphaerica mais ou menos brilhante nos lobos occipitaes). A cabeça é inteiramente desnudada (como em bisphaerica).
Typos: muitos operários de Tapera, Pernambuco, rev. Dom B. Pickel leg.
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 427
Polypheretima taprobanae
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Polypheretima
Polypheretima taprobanae

description: 82. Polypheretima taprobanae (Beddard, 1892)
Perichaeta taprobanae Beddard, 1892a: 163.
Perichaeta pauli Michaelsen, 1897: 234.
Pheretima taprobanae typica: Michaelsen, 1900: 308.
Amynthas taprobanae: Beddard, 1900a: 648.
Pheretima taprobanae: Stephenson, 1923: 312.
Metapheretima taprobanae: Sims & Easton, 1972: 233.
Polypheretima taprobanae: Easton, 1979: 45.
Polypheretima taprobanae (Beddard). Blakemore 2016: 586.
T. Sri Lanka. TM. BMNH 1904:10:5:163–4, 1972:1:6–11. D. Punjab: Ludhiana (Battish & Dhiman 2002). E. NA. G. Exotic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on pages 275-276, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
RNA structure analysis via the rigid block model
Creators: name: Esguerra, Mauricio Esguerra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: RNA structure is at the forefront of our understanding of the origin of life, and the mechanisms  of life regulation and control. RNA plays a primordial role in some viruses. Our knowledge of  the importance of RNA in cellular regulation is relatively new, and this knowledge, along with the  detailed structural elucidation of the transcription machine, the ribosome, has propelled interest  in understanding RNA to a level which starts to closely resemble that given to proteins and  DNA.  In the process of progressively understanding the landscape of functionality of such a complex  polymer as RNA, one practical task left to the structural chemist is to understand the details  of how structure relates to large-scale polymer processes. With this in mind the fundamental  problems which fuel the work described in this thesis are those of the conformations which  RNA’s assume in nature, and the aim to understand how RNA folds.  The RNA folding problem can be understood as a mechanical problem. Therefore efforts  to determine its solution are not foreign to the use of statistical mechanical methods combined  with detailed knowledge of atomic level structure. Such methodology is mainly used in this work  in a long-term effort to understand the intrinsic structural features of RNA, and how they might  relate to its folding.
Breeding snowy plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) exhibit variable response to human disturbance on two islands in southwest Florida
Creators: name: Faillace, Cara A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Human disturbance has been implicated in population declines and decreased productivity in shorebirds, including the Snowy Plover, around the world.  In this study, we examined the response of Snowy Plovers nesting on two islands in Southwest Florida, Sanibel and La Costa Islands, to human disturbance.  We recorded flush distances and time spent off the nest for incubating birds in response to approach by a human on both Sanibel and La Costa, and for approach by a leashed dog on Sanibel only.  We also recorded the first reaction distance of Snowy Plover adults and broods to approach by a human on both islands, and activity budgets of adults and chicks in the presence and absence of human activity.  We conducted Bayesian analyses on all approach data.  We used Principal Component Analysis, followed by Multivariate Analyses of Variance on activity budget data to examine the effect of people on bird behavior.  We found that incubating birds on Sanibel flushed at significantly shorter distances from a person than did birds on La Costa; additionally, we found that Sanibel birds flushed at significantly greater distances from a dog than from a person.  For time off nest, we found that birds remained off a nest for a significantly longer period of time following a flush by a dog than by a person; no difference between birds nesting on Sanibel and La Costa, however, was observed for time off nest.  Brood reaction distance remained constant over the pre-fledged period and did not differ between broods that fledged and those that did not.  We found that broods from La Costa reacted to human disturbance at greater distances than did broods on Sanibel.  Additionally, human presence, regardless of activity type, resulted in altered behavior of Sanibel Snowy Plovers.  In particular, running and foraging behaviors decreased, while walking increased.  Beach driving vehicles also resulted in altered behavior of Sanibel Island broods.  The presence of vehicles resulted in increased sitting and decreased standing.  Variable response to human disturbance on Sanibel and La Costa Islands may result from differences in routine disturbance experienced by breeding birds.
Methods of evaluation of performance of adaptive designs on treatment effect intervals and methods of designing two-stage winner designs with survival outcomes
Creators: name: Fang, Fang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The accuracy of the treatment effect estimation is crucial to the success of  phase 3 studies. The calculation of fixed sample size relies on the  estimation of the treatment effect and cannot be changed during the trial.  Oftentimes, with limited efficacy data available from early phase studies  and relevant historical studies, the sample size estimation may not  accurately reflect the true treatment effect. Several adaptive designs have  been proposed to address this uncertainty in the sample size calculation. These adaptive designs provide the flexibility of sample size adjustment  during the trial by allowing early trial stopping or sample size  re-estimation at the interim look(s). The use of adaptive designs can  optimize the trial performance when the treatment effect is an assumed  constant value. However in practice, the treatment effect is more reasonable  to be considered within an interval rather than as a point estimate. Proper selection of adaptive designs will decrease the failure rate of phase 3  clinical trials and increase the chance for new drug approval. This dissertation proposes an optimal design based on an interval using the  "regret concept". A mathematical framework is developed to evaluate the  adaptability of different designs. In addition, this dissertation identifies  the factors that may affect the performance of adaptive design and derives  the expected sample size for two-stage sample size re-estimation designs. In drug development, a phase 2 trial may not be feasible due to long  follow-up or lack of resources. So it may necessary to evaluate several  promising regimens in the confirmatory phase 3 trial. In this case, an  interim analysis is often used to drop the inferior arms and to avoid the  high cost, long term trial conduction, and exposure to ineffective  treatment. This approach is considered as combining the two phases into one  study: phase 2 portion will be carried out by the interim analysis. When  appropriate surrogate endpoints exist, such as progression free survival in  oncology trials, they can be used at the interim analysis to accelerate the  drug development process. The statistical frameworks are available in the  literature for designs with continuous endpoints. However, it is very  challenging to derive the correlation between log-rank statistics at interim  and final analysis when survival endpoints are used. An asymptotic  correlation of log-rank statistics is developed and the features for a  two-stage design survival trial using same or different endpoint at interim  analysis is explored.
Cotesia setebis Nixon 1974
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia setebis

description: Cotesia setebis (Nixon, 1974)
Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Ghahari et al. 2011a).
Distribution outside Iran. Bulgaria, former Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Mongolia, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (Yu et al. 2012), Slovakia (Papp 1987, 2009).
Host records. Eupethecia veratraria (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Additional file 2: Figure S1. of Viral Cre-LoxP tools aid genome engineering in mammalian cells
Creators: name: Ranjita Sengupta
name: Mendenhall, Amy
name: Sarkar, Nandita
name: Chandreyee Mukherjee
name: Amirali Afshari
name: Huang, Joseph
name: Lu, Biao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The conditional removal of floxed RFP from HEK293 genome by Cumate-induction. (PDF 412 kb)
Pontodrilus litoralis
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Pontodrilus
Pontodrilus litoralis

description: 83. Pontodrilus litoralis (Grube, 1855)
Lumbricus litoralis Grube, 1855: 127.
Pontoscolex arenicola Schmarda, 1861: 11 (part.).
Pontodrilus marionis Perrier, 1874a: 1582.
Pontodrilus bermudensis Beddard, 1891: 96.
Cryptodrilus insularis Rosa, 1891: 387.
Pontodrilus arenae Michaelsen, 1892: 222.
Pontodrilus sp. Michaelsen, 1894: 184.
Pontodrilus hesperidum Beddard, 1894: 37.
Pontodrilus insularis: Beddard, 1895: 471.
Pontodrilus michaelseni Eisen, 1895: 73.
Pontodrilus ephippiger Rosa, 1898: 277, 281.
Pontodrilus matsushimensis Iizuka, 1898: 21.
Pontodrilus ephippiger laysanianus Michaelsen, 1899d: 217.
Pontodrilus matsushimensis chathamianus Michaelsen, 1899d: 220.
Pontodrilus michaelseni hortensis Eisen, 1900: 129, 241.
Pontodrilus laccadivensis Beddard, 1903: 374.
Pontodrilus crosslandi Beddard, 1906: 561.
Pontodrilus albanyensis Michaelsen, 1907: 185.
Pontodrilus bermudensis ephippiger: Stephenson, 1915: 145.
Plutellus (Pontodrilus) bermudensis: Michaelsen, 1922: 22.
Pontodrilus albanyensis var. cygni Jackson, 1931: 94.
Plutellus (Pontodrilus) matsushimensis indica Michaelsen, 1935b: 106.
Pontodrilus gracilis Gates, 1943b: 100.
Pontodrilus litoralis (Grube). Blakemore 2016: 285.
T. French Riviera. TM. MNHU 216 (siccum specimen) (Hartwich & Kilias 1989), WUMW 506. D. West Bengal: South 24 parganas (Halder 1998). E. NA. G. Exotic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 276, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Ambient air pollution and the risk of stillbirth in New Jersey
Creators: name: Faiz, Ambarina
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Year: 2010

description: Introduction  The purpose of this study was to examine the secular trends in the rates of stillbirth by race and ethnicity and to examine the risk of stillbirth with increase in ambient air pollution in each of the three trimesters of pregnancy and with short term increase in ambient air pollution. Materials and Methods  We used New Jersey births and fetal deaths records linked to hospital discharge data for 1997-2005. Gestational age specific stillbirth rates were calculated by fetus at risk approach and Cox proportional hazard model was used to estimate the risk of stillbirth. We used logistic regression models to estimate the risk of stillbirth associated with incremental increase in ambient air pollution in each of the three trimesters. The association of transient increase in ambient air pollution with the risk of stillbirth was analyzed with a time stratified case crossover design using conditional logistic regression. Results  The rate of stillbirth was 4.4 per 1000 total births (3.4 for white non-Hispanics, 7.9 for black non-Hispanics and 4.4 for Hispanics /1000 total births) in NJ for the period 1997 to 2005. The rates of stillbirth decreased only for white non-Hispanics but remained unchanged for other race/ethnicity groups. In the first trimester, increased risk of stillbirth was associated with interquartile range increase in PM2.5 (OR 1.14, 95% CI, 1.00, 1.31) and NO2 (OR 1.10, 95% CI, 1.00, 1.21) and SO2 (OR 1.12, 95% CI, 1.00, 1.25) and with PM2.5 ( OR 1.20, 95% CI, 1.04, 1.37) in the second trimester and with SO2 in both 2nd trimester (OR 1.21, 95% CI, 1.03, 1.29) and the 3rd trimester (OR 1.18, 95% CI, 1.00, 1.28). There was an increased risk of stillbirth for each interquartile range increase in 2nd day concentration of SO2 (RR 1.12, 95% CI, 1.02-1.23) and CO (RR 1.20, 95% CI, 1.04-1.38).  Conclusion  We found an increased risk of stillbirth associated with increase in ambient air pollution in all three trimesters of pregnancy and with short term increase in ambient air pollution. Understanding the biological mechanism for the association of criteria pollutants with the risk of stillbirth merits attention.
Tonoscolex horai
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Tonoscolex
Tonoscolex horai

description: 84. Tonoscolex horai (Stephenson, 1922)
Megascolex horai Stephenson, 1922: 432.
Tonoscolex horai (Stephenson). Gates 1934: 256.
T. Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India. TM. ZSIC 703. D. West Bengal: Coochbehar (Halder 1998). E. NA. G. Native.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 276, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Between commodification and emancipation
Creators: name: Feldhaus, Julia Silvia
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Year: 2010

description: This dissertation investigates the conflict between the powerful emancipatory image of the New Woman as represented in the illustrated magazines of the Weimar Republic and the translation of this image into a lifestyle acted out by women during this era. I argue that while female journalists promote the image of the New Woman in illustrated magazines as a liberating opening onto self-determination and self-management, this very image is simultaneously and paradoxically oppressive. For women to shake off the inheritance of a patriarchal past, they must learn to adjust to a new identity, one that is still to a large extent influenced by and in the service of men. The ideal beauty image designed by female journalists as a framework for emancipation in actuality turned into an oppressive normalization in professional and social markets in which traditional rules no longer obtained. Women enjoyed the sexual liberation the New Woman‘s image proffered. Yet, at the same time, they struggled to adjust to the image the media promoted – in particular to the demands of a perfect body and a blemish-free surface. Through an analysis of the contributions of female authors to the popular illustrated magazines of the Weimar Republic and the literary texts of these same authors, I draw out the subtleties of the identity struggle the New Woman endured. The authors I consider were themselves torn between the demands of the largely masculine publishing house Ullstein and their personal interests as female authors. While Ullstein asked its authors to retail the New Woman image and sell themselves as authentic New Women, Vicki Baum, Gina Kaus and Irmgard Keun nonetheless took a critical position toward this very image in their works. This complication informs my reading of Irmgard Keun‘s Gilgi-eine von uns (1930) and Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932), Vicki Baum‘s Pariser Platz 13 (1930), and Gina Kaus‘ss novel Die Verliebten (1929). These texts show a deep ambivalence about the representation of women in the Ullstein magazines Uhu, Die Dame and Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. While the image of the New Woman is constructed in these illustrated magazines, its feasibility is problematized in the literary works of the female writers I consider in this dissertation.
Atta laevigata Fred
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta laevigata

description: Atta laevigata Fred. Smith, 1858 (Fig. 13)
Possuo muito material de Pará (Santarém, localidade do typo), Amazonas, Goyaz, S. Paulo, Minas Geraes. A cabeça dos soldados pôde alcançar uma largura de 7.5 mm.
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 427
Cotesia sessilis Geoffroy 1785
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia sessilis

description: Cotesia sessilis (Geoffroy, 1785)
Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran (Ghahari et al. 2010c as C. juniperata), Ardabil (Ghahari et al. 2011a as C. tetrica).
Distribution outside Iran. Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, UK, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Aporia crataegi, Eriogaster lanestris, Hedya ochroleucana, Helicoverpa armigera, Heliothis peltigera, Lyonetia rajella, Malacosoma castrense, M. neustria, Metendothenia atropunctana (Yu et al. 2012). Shenefelt (1972) recorded this species from Arctia caja, Cacoecia sp., Coleophora ballotella, C. mayrella, Erebia sp., Eupithecia exiguata, E. pimpinellata, Hedya dimidiana, Maniola jurtina, Operophtera brumata, Pararge megera, Parasemia plantaginis, Penthina ochromelana, Phalaena hyemalis, Phyllonorycter salictella, Ph. strigulatella, Tephroclystia sp., Tortrix laevigana and Zygaena filipendulae. It was reported from Eupithecia egenaria, E. intricata and Thera juniperata by Nixon (1974) and from Saturnia pavonia (Mason 1981; Papp 1990).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Predicting and monitoring drought in the humid tropics
Creators: name: Fernando, Dinali Nelun
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Year: 2010

description: This dissertation develops an operational tool for predicting and monitoring drought applicable to the humid tropics. Using Sri Lanka as a case example, it examines whether droughts in the humid tropics are predictable on an operational basis, and investigates how moisture stress may be monitored as a season unfurls. Droughts in Sri Lanka occur when rainfall during the main cultivation season – the Maha (October-March) – fails. Such droughts profoundly impact rice production. From 1951-2008, there were 4 extreme [Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)
The effects of copper on the soil bacterial community in an agricultural soil
Creators: name: Filipowicz, Urszula I.
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Year: 2010

description: Copper is an essential trace element needed for microbial growth and development; however, it is also toxic in higher concentrations. Typical background levels of copper in U.S. soils range from 5 to 50 µg/g dry weight. Elevated copper levels are hypothesized to cause a shift in the soil microbial community resulting in more copper resistant microbes. With the objective of evaluating major shifts in soil bacterial community composition as a result of elevated copper concentrations, three sets of soil microcosms were constructed using an agricultural soil collected from the Adelphia Freehold Research Center.  The shifts in the bacterial community within the microcosms were investigated through denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE).  These data revealed the emergence of a variety of bacteria in the presence of elevated copper. Results indicated that a bacterium most similar to the order Sphingobacteriales was present in 500 µg/g copper amended microcosms, with no additional carbon supplementation after 91 days of incubation. A Chloroflexi-like bacterium was shown to be tolerant of copper in the 250 and 500 µg/g copper amendments after 14 days of incubation. A bacterium from the phylum Actinobacteria was present in highly copper contaminated microcosms (2,000 µg/g).   In addition, a microorganism most closely related to the Arthrobacter sp. was shown to be tolerant of 500 µg/g copper, however only while in the presence of an added simple carbon source. Lastly, a bacterium belonging to the Rubrobacteraceae family of Actinobacteria was revealed in copper amended soils regardless of whether a carbon source was supplemented. The presence of these copper tolerant bacteria in a previously uncontaminated agricultural soil suggested a native copper resilience within the bacterial community.
Symplectic-N in strongly correlated materials
Creators: name: Flint, Rebecca
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Year: 2010

description: Strong correlations between electrons often generate unexpected new collective behavior that we  call emergent phenomena. Strong interactions can ramp up the relevant scales, creating massive  electrons in heavy fermion materials and high transition temperatures in superconductors, or lead  to entirely new states of matter with low energy excitations containing a fraction of the original  electron. These phenomena provide unique challenges to theorists as they sit at the intersection of  kinetic and potential energy scales, where perturbative many body techniques fail.  One useful method here is the large N approach, which generalizes the number of components  of the electron spin from 2 to N, providing an artificial perturbation expansion about a strongly  correlated state which, if chosen properly, captures the essential physics. To do so, we must ensure  that the large N limit maintains the important symmetries. While SU(N) is the traditional large-N  limit, not all SU(N) spins invert under time-reversal for N > 2. To treat phenomena like frustrated  magnetism and superconductivity that contain particle-particle singlets, we must restrict ourselves  to the subgroup of time-reversing spins, SP(N), a large N limit we call symplectic-N.  The correspondance of time-reversal and symplectic symmetry, and its consequences for spin  and Hubbard operator representations are discussed in Chapter 2, which provides the mathematical  backbone of this dissertation. Chapter 3 develops a symplectic-N treatment of frustrated magnetism,  treating ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic correlations on equal footing, before we move on to unconventional superconductivity. First we show how composite pairs, bound states between  local moments and conduction electrons in two orthogonal symmetry channels, emerge from the  large N limit of the two channel Kondo model in Chapter 4, and then discuss how composite  pairing interacts cooperatively with magnetic pairing in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6, we examine the  interplay of composite pairing and valence fluctuations in the two-channel Anderson model. Finally,  Chapter 7 studies the effect of Coulomb repulsion on s  +/- pairing in a t-J model of the iron-based  superconductors.