cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing the cytotoxicity of newly developed gliadin nanoparticles loading polymethoxyflavones
Creators: name: Wang, Xiangan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Whether the consumption of dietary supplements is helpful or not significantly depends on the bioavailability of the nutraceuticals. Since nutraceuticals dissolve poorly in aqueous system and undergo rapid and intensive metabolism, they are low in bioavailability. In this thesis, a novel delivery system was developed from gliadin to encapsulate polymethoxyflavones, and the cellular uptake and cytotoxicity of the system were assessed upon Caco-2 colon cancer cell lines.     Gliadin is the prolamin from wheat thus is GRAS (generally recognized as safe). The huge production of wheat domestic and oversea makes gliadin easily accessible. Gliadin is not well studied for its formulation of nanoparticles, let alone the physiochemical properties or cytotoxicity of gliadin particles. Polymethoxyflavones (PMF) are flavonoids from citrus peels. Although they have shown health benefits such as anti-cancer and anti-inflammation effects, they are extremely low in bioavailability and hardly dissolve in water.     In the experiments, gliadin was extracted from commercial gluten, and its purity was evaluated before further study. The shape and size of 1 mg/ml gliadin in 60% ethyl-ethanol was shown prolate ellipsoid and 157 Ã… by 27 Ã… by 6 Ã… based on small angel X-ray scattering (SAXS). Preliminary trails were carried out to find out favorable conditions for gliadin nanoparticle formulation. The PMF-loaded gliadin nanoparticles were prepared by induced self-assembly. Particles presented spherical morphology shown by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Particles have a diameter around 150nm without any chemical agent to stabilize. The PMF-loaded gliadin nanoparticles demonstrated little, if there is any, cytotoxicity upon human colon cancer cells. In short, gliadin nanoparticles formulated in this study have reasonable loading and very low cytotoxicity and may be used to load lipophilic nutraceuticals other than PMF.
Probabilistic modeling of flexible pavement overlay performance and performance-related pay adjustment
Creators: name: Wang, Zilong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The performance of pavement plays a critical role in maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction (MR&R) for highway agencies. Reliable and accurate estimation of pavement performance can be instrumental in prioritization of the limited resources and funding in highway agencies.   This dissertation presented a rational development of performance-related pay adjustments framework with deterministic and probabilistic models of pavement performance, with application to in-place air void contents and international roughness index (IRI) of asphalt pavements.  The analyses were performed based on the quality assurance data collected from construction database and pavement performance data extracted from pavement management system. Performance-related pay adjustments were formulated using life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) considering two different scenarios of maintenance strategy and the variations of pavement overlay life. Comparison was made between the calculated performance-related pay adjustments and the pay adjustments currently used by highway agency. The similarity and dissimilarity were discussed and recommendations were provided based on the analysis results.  The results indicate that there are unneglectable variations in the model parameters for estimating the expected pavement life due to deviations in acceptance quality characteristics. This implies that addressing the variations in pavement performance modeling is a critical issue in deriving performance-related pay adjustments. Probabilistic results show that the Bayesian approach with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods can capture unobserved variations in pavement condition data and relate the quality measure to the expected pavement life with satisfactory goodness of fit. The probabilistic modeling results reflect the need to consider the level of reliability in decision making of pay adjustments.  The pavement overlay performance after minor and major rehabilitation was evaluated considering the effect of pre-overlay condition.  Through deterministic LCCA, optimal rehabilitation strategy can be recommended based on pre-overlay condition. Probability index, a risk related factor was proposed based on probabilistic LCCA and demonstrated its merit compared to the result from deterministic analysis. It can quantitatively show the risk of choosing inappropriate rehabilitation treatment under different scenarios for decision maker. The methodology can be implemented into PMS and reduce the failure risk of roadway network.
Typhlatta ceylonica Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Typhlatta
Typhlatta ceylonica

description: T. ceylonica n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 2.6 mm. Rufa, thorace obscuriore; filosa at hand pubescens, laevis, nitidissima, mandibulis dispersissime rude punctatis, met anoto ruguloso, parum nitido, postice tuberculo obtuso; petioli nodi valde compressi lateraliter reticulato-punctulati, anticus postice etiam reticulato-punctulatus, postico distincte longior et subaltior; tibiae pilis abstantibus flavidis.
Von Ceylon, in meiner Sammlung von Herrn Dr. Sichel.
Ausser der ganz verschiedenen Farbe und der Groesse mag diese Art von T. laeviceps Sm. durch das Stielchen verschieden sein, da Herr Smith angibt: " the nodes subglobose, the basal one being the smallest ", waehrend T. punctulata das umgekehrte Verhaeltniss zeigt, denn es ¡st wohl anzunehmen, das Herr Smith den ersten Knoten den Basalknoten nennt.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 22
Repeatability of whole herd lameness scoring: an analysis of a New Zealand dataset
Creators: name: Laven, RA
name: Mason, WA
name: Laven, LJ
name: Müller, KR
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To assess whether a whole-herd lameness score on a New Zealand dairy farm in spring could predict lameness prevalence on the same farm in summer (and vice versa) and whether a single-herd lameness score could be used to determine whether herd lameness prevalence was < 5% in both spring and summer. Prevalence data (proportion of the herd with lameness score ≥ 2 and with score 3; 0–3 scale) from a study where 120 dairy farms across New Zealand were scored in spring and in the following summer were analysed using limits-of-agreement analysis. In addition, farms were categorised as having either acceptable welfare (lameness prevalence < 5% in both spring and summer) or not (lameness prevalence ≥ 5% in either spring or summer or both). The accuracy and specificity of a single, whole-herd lameness score at identifying herds with acceptable welfare were then calculated. The limits-of-agreement analysis suggests that 95% of the time, the prevalence of lameness in summer would be expected to be between 0.23 and 4.3 times that of the prevalence in spring. The specificity and accuracy of identifying a farm as acceptable on both occasions from a single observation were, respectively, 74% and 92% in spring, and 59% and 87% in summer. A single, one-off, whole-herd lameness score does not accurately predict future lameness prevalence. Similarly, acceptable status (lameness prevalence < 5%) in one season is not sufficiently specific to be used to predict welfare status in subsequent seasons. Whole-herd lameness scoring should be used principally as a means of detecting lame cows for treatment. A single whole-herd lameness score by an independent assessor should not be used to determine a herd’s welfare status.
Application of hydrogen bonding in asymmetric hydrogenation
Creators: name: Wen, Jialin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Hydrogen bonding has been widely observed in biosynthesis and enzyme catalysis. It plays an important role in such fields as molecular recognition, supramolecular chemistry and small molecule catalysis. A new concept of organocatalysis emerged in recent two decades. Hydrogen bonding is the keystone for thiourea catalysis or phosphoric acid catalysis. With high turnover numbers and excellent enantioselectivity, transition metal catalysis not only is the arts in academia, but also find its merit in industrial application. Homogeneous hydrogenation, among many successful transition metal catalyzed reactions, has been serving the synthetic communities for many years, both in academia or in industry. The success of secondary interaction and hydrogen bonding offer us an alternative: the combination of hydrogen bonding and steric hindrance help to create a chiral environment in which substrates could be reduced efficiently.  Guided by this rationale, a ferrocene-based bisphosphine/thiourea ligand, ZhaoPhos was synthesized in our group. It was applied in the asymmetric hydrogenation of nitroolefins with hydrogen bonding between the ligand and substrates. Thiourea-carbonyl hydrogen bonding is another model of non-covalent interaction. Therefore, the asymmetric hydrogenation of unsaturated carbonyl compounds is also practical. Besides neutral compounds, ionic unsaturated substrates could form non-covalent interactions with thiourea through anion binding as well. It makes the asymmetric reduction of iminium ions and N-heteroaromatics (quinolines, isoquinolines and indoles) possible. These type of unsaturated compounds were challenging for traditional transition metal catalyzed hydrogenation. They could now be achieved with high enantioselectivity with a rhodium/ZhaoPhos complex. An outer-sphere mechanism involving hydride transfer was proposed since these substrates were thought to lack of coordinating ability to the metal center.  As a traditional catalytic system, rhodium/bisphosphine complexes have been applied to catalyze hydrogenation of C=C bonds in a long time. The application in hydrogenation of non- or weak coordinating unsaturated compounds changed our view towards of this class of complexes. In the meanwhile, the role of hydrogen bonding is still a mechanistically unexplored area: what is the geometry of the ligand-substrate complex? How does the hydrogen bonding influence the activation energy in the transition state? Many in-depth studies are needed in the future.
Sericomyrmex
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Sericomyrmex

description: Sericomyrmex Mayr.
Mas: Mandibulae elongato-trigonae, margine masticatorio antice dentato, postice acuta, margine postico duplo longiore, apice acuto, falcato. Clypeus parum convexus, angulo postico vix inter antennarum articulationes interserto. Prope marginem oculi internum carina distincta acuta. Laminae frontales modice breves, crassae, elevatae, inter se aream frontalem includentes. Antennae 12 articulatae, scapo longo tenui, funiculi clava longa quadriarticulata. Ocelli tuberculo capitis insidentes. Caput pone oculos sensim attenuatum. Thorax inermis, mesonoto lineis duabus convergentibus. Petiolus magis rotundatus et gracilior ut in femina, segmento primo supra bidenticulato. Genitalia occulta, a pygidia et a hypopygio obtecta, solummodo penicilli clavati visibiles. Pedes tenues, valde elongati, pedes posteriores sine calcaribus distinctis. Alae ut in femina.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 22
Nabis (Dolichonabis) limbatus Dahlbom 1851
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Nabidae
Nabis
Nabis limbatus

description: Nabis (Dolichonabis) limbatus Dahlbom, 1851
Comments
This species was recorded from Turkey once, by Kıyak (1993a). In this paper, the author shared an illustration of a specimen identified as Nabis limbatus. The examination of this illustration revealed that it depicted a nymph of a Nabis species, which, due to its long wings, surely did not belong to N. limbatus. Hence we excluded this species from the checklist.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
title: Wirtschaft und Identität erzählen
Creators: name: Terborg, Karin
Publisher: name: KOBRA Universität Kassel
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 800
subject: 800
classificationCode: 330
subject: 330
classificationCode: Literatur
subject: Literatur
classificationCode: Finanzkrise
subject: Finanzkrise
classificationCode: Wirtschaftskrise
subject: Wirtschaftskrise
classificationCode: Identität
subject: Identität

description:
Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/2009: ein finanzökonomisches Jahrhundertereignis mit gravierenden wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftspolitischen Folgen, das in der Literatur facettenreich verarbeitet wird. Bemerkenswert ist, dass hier der globale Systemcrash erzählerisch genutzt wird, um die Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen subjektiver Identitätsbildung in einer ökonomisch geprägten Gesellschaft auszuloten. Karin Terborg untersucht erstmals in der Forschung umfassend die deutschsprachige Finanz- und Wirtschaftskriseliteratur – mit besonderem Fokus auf die erzählerische Verflechtung von »Wirtschaft« und »Identität« im narrativen Modus »Krise«.
Sericomyrmex opacus
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Sericomyrmex
Sericomyrmex opacus

description: S. opacus Mayr.
Mas.: Long. 5.3 mm. Testaceus, opacus, flavide pubescens et pilosus, mandibulis nitidissimis laevibus, oculis nigris, alis infuscatis costis testaceo-fuscis.
Von Rio de Janeiro; die beiden gefluegelten Geschlechter im zoologischen Museum in Halle.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 23
Reduced anthelmintic use on 13 New Zealand sheep farms: farmer motivations and practical implementation
Creators: name: Ridler, AL
name: Hytten, K
name: Gray, DI
name: Reid, JI
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To describe the personal drivers, sources of information and gastro-intestinal parasite control methods used by a group of New Zealand sheep farmers identified as low users of anthelmintic (AHC), and their perception of the efficacy and impacts of this approach. A convenience sample of 13 sheep farmers farming with a policy of reduced AHC use (no pre-determined routine treatments of ewes >19 months old and/or lambs not routinely treated at pre-determined intervals from weaning through to late autumn) were identified. Semi-structured interviews were conducted regarding their farming philosophy, motivations for reducing AHC use, perceptions of the impacts of farming with reduced AHC use, and parasite control practices. Semi-quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics for demographic data and categorising participants’ use of AHC and non-chemical control methods. Qualitative data regarding participants’ motivations, approaches and rationale were analysed by systematic analysis of the transcripts and distillation of key concepts. Participants had been operating with reduced AHC use for 3 to  ≥20 years. Key motivators for reducing AHC use were a diagnosis of anthelmintic resistance (AR) or concerns about AR developing. Parasite management information came from a wide range of sources. All respondents expressed overall positive views regarding the impacts of reduced AHC use but detailed information was not available. All identified that regular monitoring, based primarily on subjective animal and non-animal factors was important for their parasite control strategy. Most used faecal egg counts (FEC), often in an ad hoc manner. Five never treated adult ewes, two routinely treated ewes prior to lambing with short-acting AHC and the remainder occasionally treated a small number in low body condition. Four routinely treated some or all lambs at 28–30-day intervals from weaning to late autumn while the remainder based their treatment decisions for lambs on monitored information. All placed heavy emphasis on feeding sheep well, ensuring high post-grazing residuals, and cross-grazing. AR was a key motivator for participants to reduce AHC use, and a range of information sources and decision-making processes were used. Key parasite management practices were monitoring, primarily using subjective assessments, emphasis on feeding stock well and cross-grazing. The rising prevalence of AR will likely result in increasing the motivation for sheep farmers to reduce their AHC use. Veterinarians will play a key role in providing advice and assistance to facilitate changes in parasite management.
Nabis (Nabis) provencalis Remane 1953
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Nabidae
Nabis
Nabis provencalis

description: Nabis (Nabis) provencalis Remane, 1953
Comments
Nabis (Nabis) provencalis is a West European species and its presence in Anatolia is highly unlikely. Therefore, we considered its only record from Turkey, by (Kıyak 1990), erroneous and did not include this species in the checklist.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
title: Exploring the oxidation behavior of undiluted and diluted iron particles for energy storage: Mössbauer spectroscopic analysis and kinetic modeling
Creators: name: Spielmann, Jonas
name: Braig, Daniel
name: Streck, Antonia
name: Gustmann, Tobias
name: Kuhn, Carola
name: Reinauer, Felix
name: Kurnosov, Alexandr
name: Leubner, Oliver
name: Potapkin, Vasily
name: Hasse, Christian
name: Deutschmann, Olaf
name: Etzold, Bastian J. M.
name: Scholtissek, Arne
name: Kramm, Ulrike I.
Publisher: name: Royal Society of Chemistry
Year: 2024

description: Iron is an abundant and non-toxic element that holds great potential as energy carrier for large-scale and long-term energy storage. While from a general viewpoint iron oxidation is well-known, the detailed kinetics of oxidation for micrometer sized particles are missing, but required to enable large-scale utilization for energy production. In this work, iron particles are subjected to temperature-programmed oxidation. By dilution with boron nitride a sintering of the particles is prevented enabling to follow single particle effects. The mass fractions of iron and its oxides are determined for different oxidation times using Mössbauer spectroscopy. On the basis of the extracted phase compositions obtained at different times and temperatures (600–700 °C), it can be concluded that also for particles the oxidation follows a parabolic rate law. The parabolic rate constants are determined in this transition region. Knowledge of the particle size distribution and its consideration in modeling the oxidation kinetics of iron powder has proven to be crucial.
Mental health and academic achievement
Creators: name: White, Gwyne Withorn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Academic success can be considered a core metric by which to measure the relative success of a youth's childhood as the skills conveyed and measured in school are such as to foster positive long-term outcomes. Therefore, all efforts ought to be made towards encouraging this achievement. School success however, is a complex phenomenon shaped by a wide variety of factors and many Latino adolescents are missing opportunities to develop their full potential in the United States educational system. The goal of this project was to present a perspective on students' relationship to their academic outcomes that emphasizes the role of the mental health and self-efficacy of Latino youth towards their learning and academic success. The present study examined the relationship between students' broad mental health risk, general self-efficacy, and achievement outcomes. The district in which this study was conducted has one of the lowest graduation rates in the state of New Jersey (under 60%) and reading and math testing scores ranking below the 15th percentile. The high school was comprised of 1397 students, grades 9 through 12 of whom 485 met criteria for further analysis by virtue of being Latino, completing the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) as well as meeting other demographic criteria. The results of this study indicated that mental health risk's impact on academic achievement outcomes are mediated by perceived general self-efficacy. This finding appears most significantly for the relationship between internalizing symptoms and final Language Arts grade as well as GPA. Specifically, the current study found that when an adolescent's self-reported internalizing symptoms go up by 1, the indirect, mediated effect by self-efficacy is that final Language Arts grade goes down by .16 and GPA goes down by .01. Broadly, the effect sizes reflecting these findings are small, but add to the field suggesting that academic self-efficacy is a predictor of school success for Latino students. The findings here offer an important potential area for intervention that can and ought to be explored in furtherance of the goal of encouraging school achievement in at-risk populations.
Physiological color change in the blue-fronted dancer damselfly
Creators: name: Whispell, Amanda Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Several studies have established the existence of temperature-controlled physiological color change (PCC) in Odonata species. Individuals capable of this PCC darken to “dark-phase” (DP) coloration below a temperature threshold and return to “bright-phase” (BP) coloration once above it. The stimulus controlling PCC in Argia apicalis (Say) has been contentious since first studied in the 1960s, as BP and DP males are often present under seemingly identical conditions. In Chapter 1, my goal was to determine if the control of A. apicalis male PCC could be attributed to one specific variable or if it is dual-controlled. I first tested whether ambient temperature can be used to predict color phase and found that it is a significant predictor of DP coloration in solitary males only. I next looked for an association between DP coloration and mating status (mating or solitary) and found that DP is far more likely to be exhibited by mating males, thus PCC is also mating-controlled in A. apicalis males. Finally, I looked for a relationship between mating stage and color phase and established that matingcontrolled PCC is initiated during copulation, further supporting the link between mating and PCC. Additionally, males were darkest during oviposition—the mating stage when males may be most vulnerable to predation. My results indicate that A. apicalis males possess dual-controlled PCC. In Chapter 2, my objective was to establish whether DP coloration could be operating as an anti-predator defense strategy in A. apicalis males. I first measured the reflectance spectra of DP and BP males and found that BP males are approximately 4.8 times brighter than DP males. I subsequently performed a binary choice experiment to determine whether BP males suffer higher levels of predation than DP males. I tested two predator groups for their color phase preference: avians, Gallus gallus domesticus (Linnaeus), and anurans, Lithobates clamitans melanota (Rafinesque) and Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw). I found that both groups attacked significantly more BP than DP models, so it is plausible that the mating-controlled PCC exhibited by A. apicalis males could be functioning as an anti-predator defense strategy during oviposition
Ischnomyrmex exasperatus Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Ischnomyrmex
Ischnomyrmex exasperatus

description: I. exasperatus n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 3 - 7 mm. Pilosa, obscure ferruginea, tarsis ochraceis, abdomine nigricante; subopaca, abdomine pedibusque nitidis; mandibulae striatae et dispersissime punctatae, apice laeves et nitidae; funiculi articulus nonus octavo duplo longior; caput dense reticulato - punctatum, clypeo, area frontali, fronte genisque rugis nonnullis longitudinalibus; vertex collo brevi; thorax dense reticulato-punctatus sulcis duobus transversis suturalibus; pronotum rugis nonnullis transversis et antrorsum vix productum; metanotum spinulis duabus erectis divergentibus acutis; petiolus tenuiter punctatus; abdomen laeve, nitidum; pedes subtilissime coriaceo-rugulosi pilis copiosis abstantibus.
Im zoologischen Hofcabinete in Wien, ohne Vaterlandsangabe.
Von I. longipes unterscheidet sich diese Art durch die Sculptur, durch den hinter den Augen viel kuerzeren Kopf, durch das nach vorne sehr wenig verlaengerte Pronotum, sowie dadurch, dass nur die drei letzten Geisselglieder stark verlaengert sind.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 23
Metopoplax ditomoides
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Oxycarenidae
Metopoplax
Metopoplax ditomoides

description: Metopoplax ditomoides (A. Costa, 1847)
Comments
A West Mediterranean species that was recorded from Kırşehir and Çankırı (Özsaraç 2004; Yazıcı et al. 2022). These records most probably refer to M. origani (Kolenati, 1845), a species similar to M. ditomoides but widely distributed in Turkey. Therefore, M. ditomoides is excluded from the Heteroptera checklist of Turkey.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Pachybrachius fracticollis
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhyparochromidae
Pachybrachius
Pachybrachius fracticollis

description: Pachybrachius fracticollis (Schilling, 1829)
Material examined
Remaudiereana annulipes
TURKEY – DIyarbakır ProvInce • 1 ♂; Merkez; 15 Jul. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT. – Mersin Province • 1 ♀; Merkez; 14 Feb. 1984; EUAPP exped.; LEMT. – Hatay Province • 1 ♀; Dörtyol; 29 May 1985;
EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
Comments
This species was recorded from Diyarbakır, Hatay and Mersin (Önder &Adıgüzel 1979; Lodos et al. 1999). A re-examination of specimens from all these provinces revealed that they belonged to Remaudiereana annulipes (Baerensprung, 1859). Therefore, this species is excluded from the Heteroptera checklist of Turkey.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Understanding gelation systems with different gelling mechanisms in foods
Creators: name: Xia, Qiuyang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: We explored several typical food gel systems to understand the structure-rheology relationship. The first one is zein protein in aqueous ethanol solution. We utilized rheology techniques, in effort to understand the aging phenomenon in zein solution. Time evolution of storage and loss modulus of zein solution with and without perturbation is tested. We conclude that the aging of zein solution follows a power law relation with time.   The second system is BLG fibril and pectin complex. Fibrillar aggregates of beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) were prepared by heating at pH2 and 90 oC for different time period. Progress of protein hydrolysis was estimated by gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Morphology of fibril/pectin complex is probed by turbidity titration, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS). Secondary structure of fibrils with and without pectin complexation is studied by circular dichroism (CD). Our results suggest that the complexation process between BLG fibril and pectin is self-facilitated, results in system heterogeneity. BLG fibrils retained their linear structure at large length scale when associate with pectin. At local regions clusters and bundles are formed. The mixture of BLG-pectin and BLG fibril-pectin can be well separated domains that can be resolved by small angle X ray scattering. Addition of pectin can significantly change secondary structure of heated BLG.   We validated microrheology technique in our lab. We compared the results from microrheology to that from bulk rheology in Newtonian-fluids and acrylamide gels. We found excellent agreement between bulk and micro- rheology in such "classic"  conditions. We further used carrageenan solution, a complex fluid, and found significant difference between the two methods. The result shows that pores with size large than probe particles exist in carrageenan solution.   We then used microrheology to test the gelation of KGM solution, and compared the results with bulk rheology. The effect of temperature, KGM concentration and calcium carbonate concentration are tested. We again found significant lower storage and loss modulus obtained from microrheology. The gelation rate of KGM gel was increased with increase of temperature and/or increase of coagulant concentration. The final storage modulus of the KGM gel on the other hand, decreases with increase of temperature and coagulant concentration. We found negative relation between inhomogeneity and storage modulus, which can be explained by cascade theory. We also found monotone increase of storage modulus during heating time in microrheology experiment, further confirmed that the peak in storage modulus in bulk rheology is due to syneresis. The increase of coagulant concentration will improve the storage modulus of cured gel. Microrheology results suggested no significant relation between inhomogeneity and coagulant concentration.
Closterotomus putoni
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Closterotomus
Closterotomus putoni

description: Closterotomus putoni (Horváth, 1888)
Closterotomus costae sensu Önder (1976: 142).
Closterotomus costae sensu Lodos et al. (2003: 18).
Closterotomus costae sensu Yazıcı & Yıldırım (2016b: 872).
Comments
Closterotomus costae is a Caucasian species whose distribution is restricted to the Caucasian region (Aukema 2023). It has been recorded from the Black Sea, Mediterranean, Central Anatolian, Southeastern Anatolian, and Marmara regions of Turkey by several authors (Önder 1976; Lodos et al. 2003; Yazıcı & Yıldırım 2016b). However, considering its local distribution in Caucasus and Transcaucasia, records of this species other than the Black Sea region should refer to C. putoni, a closely related species that distributes in the East Mediterranean region (Aukema 2023).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Understanding the National Flood Insurance Program in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: This report looks at how the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) operates in New Jersey and how price changes will affect New Jersey residents. It provides: background on the general structure and operation of the NFIP in section 2; examines the NFIP in New Jersey, looking at trends and patterns in policies, premiums, and claims paid in section 3; provides a detailed discussion of how the NFIP sets rates and how rates are changing with the 2012 and 2014 legislation in section 4; and simulate 2016 NFIP annual premiums for example New Jersey homes in section 5. The report also contains its conclusion in section 6 and appendices with more details.
Macromischa
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Macromischa

description: Macromischa Rog.
Diese Gattung wurde von Dr. Roger als zweifelhaft aufgestellt, da er keine scharfen Merkmale zur Unterscheidung von Myrmica gefunden hat. Bei Gelegenheit eines Besuches in Rauden habe ich die Typen dieser an Schoenheit die anderen Ameisen ueberragenden Gattung gesehen, und ich glaube, an dem Mangel der Sporne an den Mittel- und Hinterbeinen ein hinreichendes provisorisches Merkmal zu erkennen, bis die gefluegelten Geschlechter bekannt sein werden. Bis jetzt sind von dieser Gattung nur Arten aus Cuba bekannt, das hiesige Universitaets-Museum, so wie das zoologische Hofcabinet, besitzen aber von der Goldkueste zwei Arten, welche mit Macromischa im Wesentlichen uebereinstimmen, so dass ich sie nur zu dieser Gattung stellen kann; die Schoenheit haben sie jedenfalls nicht mit den cubaischen Arten gemein.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 23
Anthropocentric Attitudes in Modern Society
Creators: name: Gribben, Jennifer
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Anthropocentrism, or human-centered bias, is an ever-present, yet rarely addressed, issue in modern society. This pervasive perspective, in which human life is seen as inherently valuable while other species and ecosystems are not, has influenced the damaging ways humans interact with nature. Anthropogenic climate change, an outcome of anthropocentrism, and the denial of its existence or effects on the planet can help us understand the pervasiveness of this perspective and the great harm it can cause to human and nonhuman animals alike. We hope to broaden society’s awareness of its own anthropocentric tendencies, such as climate change denial, by requesting that Universities consider adding courses on Anthropocentrism in the hopes that it will influence attitudes and behaviors that inherently value not just humans, but all species and environments on earth, many of which have already been damaged or threatened due to pervasive human-centered thinking.
Arcuate ER alpha-mediated estrogen signaling pathways and regulation of KNDy-associated gene expression in female mice
Creators: name: Yang, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Central signaling of 17β-estradiol (E2) in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) is important in many homeostatic functions including reproduction, energy balance, and thermoregulation, among others. KNDy neurons that coexpress kisspeptin, neurokinin B, and dynorphin function in control of multiple homeostatic functions and are integrators of reproduction and energy balance. In this dissertation, I characterize ER-mediated and ER-independent signaling in the ARC and identify the impact of energy balance and E2 on KNDy neurons. First, I characterize ER-mediated E2 signaling in the ARC, where E2 binds to estrogen receptor-alpha (ERα), translocates to the nucleus, and regulates gene transcription by binding to the Estrogen Response Element (ERE) on DNA through ERE-independent signaling. However, E2 also functions through ERE-independent signaling, such as interacting with nuclear transcription factors and binding to E2- responsive G-protein coupled receptors. I use three genotypes of mice: 1) wild-type, 2) knock in/knock out (KIKO), which lack ERE-dependent signaling, and 3) ERα total knock out (ERKO) to determine differential E2 signaling in the ARC. I found that multiple genes involved in reproduction and energy balance are controlled by E2 through ERE- dependent and ERE-independent mechanisms and identify novel signaling pathways that are modulated by E2. In the last section, I examined the interactions of E2 and energy balance on KNDy-associated gene expression in the ARC. I determined that in overnutrition and undernutrition, ARC expression of KNDy neuropeptides and receptors is disrupted, leading to downstream changes in gonadotropin (LH and FSH) production. Our previous studies found that in NPY/AgRP neurons, E2 interacted with fasting and diet-induced obesity to regulate genes involved in ghrelin signaling. Overnutrition and undernutrition did not regulate these ghrelin signaling genes in Tac2 neurons. However, E2 augments the expression of growth hormone secretagogue receptor (Ghsr), ghrelin’s receptor, in Tac2 neurons by six- to eight-fold, suggesting that E2 modulates ghrelin signaling in KNDy neurons. In summary, our results suggest differential E2 signaling mechanisms in the ARC are important to maintain energy homeostasis and reproduction and that expression of KNDy genes are regulated by both positive and negative energy balance, leading to downstream changes in reproduction.
Macromischa aculeata Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Macromischa
Macromischa aculeata

description: M. aculeata n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 4 mm. Castanea, abdomine fusco, abstante albido-pilosa, haud pubescens; mandibulae striolatae, apice sublaeves, prope marginem masticatorium serie punctorum; clypeus deplanatus longitudinaliter rugosus, medio laevigatus, tenuissime coriaceo-rugulosus, margine antico paulo emarginata; laminae frontales angustissimae, antice latiores; funiculi clava distincte triarticulata; frons, vertex antice et capitis latera haud dense rude et longitudinaliter rugosa, vertex postice rude reticulato-rugosus; thorax rude longitudinaliter rugosus, sutura meso-metanotali paulo impressa; pronotum postice utrimque obtuse angulatum; metanotum spinis duabus longis, parte metanoti basali fere duplo longioribus, oblique sursum et postice versus directis; petioli segmentum primum nitidum antice tenuiter petiolatum et sublaeve, postice nodo elevato transverso parte antica petiolata breviori, longitudinaliter rugoso et subtilissime coriaceo-ruguloso, segmentum secundum, subglobosum, sublaeve et nitidum.; abdomen nitidum et laevissimum; pedes pilis abstantibus, albicantibus.
Von der Goldkueste in Afrika.
Diese Art hat habituell viele Aehnlichkeit mit Myrmica laevinodis, unterscheidet sich aber, ausser dem generischen Charakter, besonders durch den flachen Clypeus, durch die langen, duennen, nadeifoermigen Dornen des Metanotum und durch den ziemlich langen, duennen stielfoermigen vorderen Theil des ersten Stielchensegmentes.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 24
Regulation of organic anion transporters
Creators: name: Xu, Da
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Organic anion transporters (OATs) are a group of transporters that interact with organic anionic molecules or zwitterions in our body. OATs mainly exist in the kidney and mediate the disposition of a wide range of endogenous physiological substances, exogenous clinical drugs and toxins. Thus, to understand the regulation of OATs has profound physiological and clinical significance.   Like other proteins, OATs can be regulated at different levels from gene to protein, including at transcriptional, post-transcriptional, translational, and post-translational stages. This dissertation mainly focuses on the regulation of OATsat post-translational levels, specifically the role of ubiquitination in regulating OATs.   In the first part, an overview of OATs and their regulation will be introduced. Several mechanisms underlying the post-translational regulation of OATs uncovered previouslyby our laboratory will be elaborated, including the regulation of OATs by ubiquitination.  From the second to the fifth part, I will introduce our detailed investigation underlying protein kinase-regulated OAT ubiquitination and function; specific emphasis will be placed on identification of ubiquitin enzymes.   In the last part, I will summarize about my research and propose the future direction for the study.
Cyphodema undetermined
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Cyphodema
Cyphodema undetermined

description: Cyphodema sp.
Cyphodema rubricum sensu Önder (1976: 162).
Comments
Cyphodema rubrica Seidenstücker, 1954, was recorded from İstanbul by Önder (1976). Matocq et al. (2014) convincingly argued that this record was highly dubious, since this species had only been recorded from Syria, Iraq, and Southeast Anatolia. Unfortunately, despite our thorough search in the collection of LEMT, we could not locate the voucher specimen. However, in accordance with Matocq et al. (2014), we consider this record erroneous and eliminate this species from the Heteroptera fauna of İstanbul.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Polymerus (Poeciloscytus) asperulae
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Polymerus
Polymerus asperulae

description: Polymerus (Poeciloscytus) asperulae (Fieber, 1861)
Polymerus microphthalmus sensu Lodos et al. (2003: 37).
Material examined
TURKEY – Kahramanmaraş ProvInce • 1 ♀; Andırın; 20 Jul. 1984; EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Robust medical image recognition and segmentation
Creators: name: Yan, Zhennan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In recent decades, with increasing amount of medical data, clinical trials are designed and conducted to explore whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans. In clinical trials, due to the large variance of collected image data and limited golden standard training samples, designing a robust and automated algorithm or framework for quantitative medical image analysis is still challenging and active field of research. Many state-of-the-art algorithms are designed/trained for specific anatomies or tasks with corresponding prior knowledge. In this dissertation, we focus on robust and easy-to-use solutions for two fundamental and key modules in medical image analysis, specifically, anatomy recognition and segmentation.    The medical image recognition is formulated as a classification problem to identify the body section from which the image is taken. The problem is solved by a patch-based convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed method can utilize the image-level label to discover discriminative local patches without local annotations and train classifier using these local features. Its performance in our application is superior to conventional models using ad-hoc designed features as well as standard CNN. Accurate and efficient image recognition serves as a reliable initialization module for anatomy segmentation algorithms.    In medical image segmentation, precise labeling usually relies on prior knowledge due to ambiguous visual clues of different anatomies and between-subject variance. We use Gaussian Mixture Model and Markov Random Field to model the appearances and spatial relationships of voxels in medical image. To finely utilize the prior knowledge from training atlases (medical image and its corresponding label image), we design an adaptive statistical atlas based method to segment new subjects which could be very different from the training samples. The method is shown robust and accurate in brain segmentation and can be easily applied in other applications.
Multi-gated perimeter flow control for monocentric cities: Efficiency and equity
Creators: name: Jusoh, Ruzanna Mat
name: Ampountolas, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A control scheme for the multi-gated perimeter traffic flow control problem of cities is presented. The proposed scheme determines feasible and optimally distributed input flows for the various gates located at the periphery of a protected network. A parsimonious model is employed to describe the traffic dynamics of the protected network. To describe traffic dynamics outside of the protected area, the state-space model is augmented with additional state variables to account for vehicle queues at store-and-forward origin links at the periphery. The perimeter flow control problem is formulated as a convex optimisation problem with finite horizon, and constrained control and state variables. It aims to equalise the relative queues at origin links and to maintain the vehicle accumulation in the protected network around a desired set point, while the system's throughput is maximised. For real-time control, the optimal control problem is embedded in a rolling-horizon scheme using the current state of the system as the initial state as well as predicted demand flows at entrance links. Furthermore, practical flow allocation policies for single-region perimeter control without explicitly considering entrance link dynamics are presented. These policies allocate a global perimeter-ordered flow to candidate gates at the periphery of a protected network by taking into account the different geometric characteristics of origin links. The proposed flow allocation policies are then benchmarked against the multi-gated perimeter flow control. A study is carried out for a 2.5 square mile protected network area of San Francisco, CA, including fifteen gates of different geometric characteristics. The results have showed that the proposed scheme is able to manage excessive queues outside of the protected network and to optimally distribute the input flows, which confirms its efficiency and equity properties.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, 3 Tables, Provisionally accepted for publication in Control Engineering Practice