cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Predicting improvement in cognitive behavioral therapy for somatization disorder: the role of alexithymia
Creators: name: Reese, Jennifer Barsky
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Alexithymia has been defined as difficulty identifying and expressing emotions and an externally oriented mode of thinking. Previous research has linked alexithymia with somatoform symptoms yet there is little prospective data examining the role of alexithymia in somatization disorder. Thus, changes in alexithymia were examined over the course of a 10-session controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy for somatization disorder. It was predicted that the treatment would lead to reductions in alexithymia not seen in the group whose physicians received only a psychiatric consultation letter (PCL) and that CBT participants would score significantly lower on alexithymia than PCL participants. It was also hypothesized that changes in alexithymia from pre- to post-test, assessed through the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), would predict improvement in somatization symptoms, as assessed through the Clinician's Global Impression Scale for Somatization Disorder (CGI-SD) at post-test and at 12-month follow-up. Daily symptom diaries and physical functioning, assessed through the MOS-PF, were also examined as outcomes. Participants were 84 individuals diagnosed with full somatization disorder according to the DSM-IV. Baseline severity and post-treatment mental health, defensiveness, and somatosensory amplification were controlled for in regression analyses. Results partially supported hypotheses. Participants in the CBT condition decreased more in the TAS-20 and the DIF domain and marginally more in the EOT domain over the course of the study than participants in the PCL condition. They differed significantly from PCL participants at post-treatment in the EOT domain but not in the full scale TAS-20 or in any other domains.  There were no significant differences between groups in alexithymia at follow-up. Decreases in alexithymia were significantly correlated with improvement in somatization symptoms and greater physical functioning. Although decreases in alexithymia significantly predicted certain outcomes at post-treatment and follow-up over and above control variables, tests for mediation yielded non-significant results. Findings from the current study support emotional functioning as a factor in somatization but do not advance the notion of alexithymia as a mediator of improvement in treatment for somatization disorder. Implications and suggestions for future areas of research are discussed.
Molecular analysis of microbial 16S rRNA, mcrA, dsrAB and pmoA genes from deep-sea hydrothermal vent and cold seep sites
Creators: name: Reed, Andrew Jay
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Methane and sulfide are primary sources of energy supporting the dense macrobiological communities often found in cold seep areas and both free-living and symbiotic microorganisms depend on energy provided by the sharp gradient of sulfide and the reservoir of methane in the underlying sediments. In deep-sea hydrothermal vent areas, sulfide is typically the primary source of energy for microbial primary production. To investigate microbial populations and community structure in these areas, microbial communities from both deep-sea hydrothermal vent (Rainbow and Logatchev hydrothermal vent fields, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Atlantic Ocean; 9°N hydrothermal vent area, East Pacific Rise, Pacific Ocean) and cold seep areas (Blake Ridge, western Atlantic Ocean; Florida Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico) were evaluated by molecular phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA, mcrA, dsrAB and pmoA gene sequences. Twenty-one clone libraries were obtained using DNA from friable vent chimney material (hydrothermal vent areas) and from vertically subsampled (top, middle and bottom) sediment core samples (cold seep areas), screened by RFLP and sequenced. At the Florida Escarpment, phylogenetic analysis of bacterial 16S rDNA suggests the dominance of ε-Proteobacteria in the top zone, the ε- δ- and γ-Proteobacteria in the middle zone and the δ-Proteobacteria in the bottom zone of the core. Archaeal diversity was low throughout, but increased with depth. Cold seep mcrA sequences were distributed among the ANME-2c, -2d and -2e groups. Clone library dsrAB sequences grouped primarily within the orders Desulfobacteriales, Syntrophobacteriales and the gram-positive order Clostridales. Clone library pmoA sequences grouped among the Type I methanotrophs (γ-proteobacteria) within the order Methylococcales. Most sequences recovered represented as-yet-uncultivated phylotypes distinct from any other cultivated or environmental clones. In addition, this investigation presents for the first time environmental mcrA sequences detected from chimney samples collected from a bare basalt, high-temperature deep-sea hydrothermal vent area that are related to ANME-2e sequences previously shown to be associated with the anaerobic oxidation of methane.
Economic impact of price controls and regulations: case of GM cotton in India
Creators: name: Rao, Smriti S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Bt cotton has been extremely popular with Indian farmers ever since unapproved varieties were introduced in Gujarat in 2001 by Navbharat Seed Company Ltd.  Cotton hybrids with approved bt traits were released by Monsanto through the joint venture MMB (Mahyco Monsanto Biotech) in 2002.  MMB had the first mover advantage because they had the only approved bt genes for commercialization in India thereby making considerable profits.  This attracted a large number of firms to license the technology from MMB.  However, in 2006 the government of Andhra Pradesh (AP) filed a petition with the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) seeking to reduce prices.  The Commission agreed but MMB appealed to the Supreme Court.  Meanwhile, the AP government negotiated with the seed companies to set the prices of hybrid bt cotton seed at $18/packet (of 450 grams) inclusive of technology fee which is much lower than the $29/packet that MMB had been selling it at.  Soon other state governments adopted the same pricing policy. This paper primarily attempts to perform a cost-benefit analysis using the economic surplus model to address the immediate and longer term impact of price controls on farmers.  A number of seed companies, especially the multinationals are concerned that this governmental intervention could inhibit innovation, which would mean that farmers would lose out on economic surplus in the future.  We attempt to measure these losses.  Our analysis finds that the current benefits to the farmers outweigh the losses of benefits due to non availability of some of the most easily measurable new technologies.
Atypena cirrifrons Heimer 1984
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Atypena
Atypena cirrifrons

description: Atypena cirrifrons (Heimer, 1984)
Material examined. 1 Male, 1 female (ZMMU), INDIA, Orissa, 19.982°N 86.016°E; 8–9.I.2014; K. Tomkovich leg.
Remarks. The species is new to the fauna of India.
Distribution. Vietnam (Heimer 1984), China (Zhu & Sha 1992), Laos, Thailand (Tanasevitch 2014a, 2014b), eastern India.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
The relationship between interpersonal factors and drinking outcomes of women recovering from alcohol use disorders: testing the potential mediational role of intra-individual factors
Creators: name: Reel, Dorian Hunter
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Year: 2008

description: Aim: To test the validity of four proposed mediators of the impact of alcohol-specificsocial support on drinking outcomes: coping, motivation, negative affect and self-efficacy.Method: Participants included 158 women participating in two Cognitive Behavior Therapyclinical trials. All participants completed an extensive battery of assessments prior to treatment entry, just post-treatment (three-months) and six months post-treatment. The measures used for this study included the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory to assess negative affect, the Coping Behaviours Inventory to assess coping, the Important People and Activities Interview to assess social support for drinking and for not drinking, the Situational Confidence Questionnaire to assess self-efficacy, the Stages of Change Readiness and TreatmentEagerness Scale to assess motivation, and the Timeline Follow-back Interview to assess drinking frequency and intensity. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted toconstruct latent models of each of the proposed mediators. Structural equation models were thenconstructed and estimated to evaluate the hypothesized mediational models. Results: Coping and self-efficacy at the end of treatment were predictive of drinking frequency and intensity at six month post-treatment follow-up, and negative affect and motivation at the end of treatment were predictive of drinking frequency at six month post-treatment follow-up. However, neither coping, negative affect, nor self-efficacy was predicted significantly by abstinence-specific social support. Motivation was negatively predicted by support for drinking, but not by support for not drinking. The relationship between support for drinking and drinking frequency was found to be partially mediated by motivation. Conclusion: Motivation may be a mechanism by which social support exerts its effect on drinking outcomes. More work is needed to further probe the potential roles of each of these variables in mediational models and to understand the mechanisms by which general social support impacts drinking outcomes.
Degree modification in natural language
Creators: name: Rett, Jessica
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation is a study of the roles played by degree modifiers -- functions from sets of degrees to sets of degrees -- across different constructions and languages. The immediate goal of such a project is a better understanding of the distribution of these morphemes and how they contribute to the meaning of an expression. More broadly, a study of the semantics of degree modifiers is of interest because it helps demonstrate parallels between the degree and individual domains. Chapter 1 introduces the assumptions made and practices followed in the dissertation. Chapter 2 presents a first study of degree modification: 'm-words,' a term I use to refer to 'many', 'much', 'few', 'little', and their cross-linguistic counterparts. I argue that they are functions from a set of degrees to its measure. This characterization is based on accounts of m-words as differentials in comparatives; I extend it to other occurrences of m-words, e.g. as they occur pre-nominally and in quantity questions in Balkan languages. Chapter 3 broadens the study of degree modifiers to the semantic property 'evaluativity'. A construction is evaluative if it refers to a degree that exceeds a standard, as in 'John is tall'. I argue that evaluativity is encoded in the null degree modifier 'EVAL,' a function from a set of degrees to those which exceed a contextually-valued standard. Evidence for this approach is the occurrence of evaluativity in expressions with and without degree quantifiers (pace 'POS' approaches). I extend the account to a wide variety of evaluative and non-evaluative constructions. Chapter 4 begins as an extension of Chapter 3: it is a study of exclamatives (like 'Boy, how very tall John is!'), which seem to be evaluative. Addressing this issue, I argue, requires characterizing the content of exclamatives as degree properties. In the end, such an account suggests that the scope of degree modification extends beyond canonical degree constructions.
Badister Clairville 1806
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Badister

description: Genus Badister Clairville, 1806
Subgenus Badister Clairville, 1806
Badister (Badister) bullatus (Schrank, 1798) Citations: Without exact locality (Wrase, 2009a).
Badister (Badister) meridionalis Puel, 1925
Citations: Bandar-Pahlavi (Prov. of Gilan; Wrase, 2005).
Badister (Badister) naviauxi Wrase, 1995
Citations: KhorramShahr (Prov. of Khuzestan; Wrase, 1995).
Badister (Badister) iranicus Jedlička, 1961 = imperfectus Jedlička, 1961
Citations: Rasht (Prov. of Gilan; Jedlička, 1961).
Subgenus Trimorphus Stephens, 1828
Badister (Trimorphus) sodalis (Duftschmid, 1812) Citations: Without exact locality (Bodemeyer, 1927b).
Subgenus Baudia Ragusa, 1884
Badister (Baudia) collaris Motschulsky, 1844 Citations: Shadegan (Prov. of Khuzestan; Kult, 1961).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Water mass classification using band ratios
Creators: name: Ramadurai, Ramya
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Year: 2008

description: The Hudson River plume has been the topic of consideration and observation in order to try and understand the physical, chemical and biological behavior of the plume which is a key component of the oceanography of the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) region off the east coast of the United States. One approach towards understanding the chlorophyll production for the plume would be to make use of satellite data to measure the optical ocean color properties of these waters. In this direction classifying the water masses of the Hudson River plume according to these optical properties would be an interesting method of analyzing the satellite data for the purpose of understanding and identifying the physical and biological changes and the correlation between them in this region.The first step is to design and implement a water mass classification algorithm in the LaTTE (Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment) region of the MAB. It takes about 1-2 weeks for the nutrients from the freshwater from the Hudson Estuary to be dissipated and mixed with the open ocean. This classification algorithm is developed using ocean color data from the Sea viewing WIde Field of view Sensor (SeaWiFS). The algorithm is validated by overlaying ship salinity tracks on the classified water masses to show that salinity values change at the boundaries of the classified regions, due to the mixing and export of freshwater across the shelf.We analyze global Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data collected over the years 1995-2005 for summer and winter in order to find coastal estuarine ecosystems that may display similar behavior as the Hudson River Estuary. Looking at the seasonal variation in this data, we observe that the regions of MAB and the East Asian coast are found to have strikingly similar seasonal behavior. This leads into the third and the last step of the process which involves applying the water mass classification algorithm to ocean color data from eastern coastal Asia. It is observed that the algorithm well in the seas of Okhotsk, Japan and East China where it is able to identify plume water and non river water.
Bathyphantes Menge 1866
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Bathyphantes

description: Bathyphantes Menge, 1866
Type species: Bathyphantes gracilis (Blackwall, 1841).
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Anisodactylini Lacordaire 1854
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae

description: Tribe Anisodactylini Lacordaire, 1854
Note: The species Scybalicus oblongiusculus (Dejean, 1829), was cited from Bojnourd (Prov. of North Khorasan), by Ghahari & Kesdek (2012), but according to Kataev & Wrase (2003) it is distributed in the West Palearctic region: Algeria, Great Britain, Italy, Malta, Spain and Tunisia. Therefore, its citation from Iran is possibly based on wrongly identified specimens. The species should be removed from Iranian fauna.
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 70-71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Molecular analysis of phenanthrene degradation by  Comamonas testosteroni GZ38 and Acidovorax sp. GZ39
Creators: name: Pesce, Karen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are toxic pollutants that are present in a variety of environments.  Some bacterial species have the ability to metabolize these compounds and use them as energy sources for growth. Comamonas testosteroni GZ38 and Acidovorax sp. GZ39 were isolated from the Passaic River, NJ, based on their ability to grow on phenanthrene.  These isolates are unusual in that they can grow on phenanthrene but not on naphthalene. The genes that code for phenanthrene degradation in GZ38 and GZ39 were identified.  The DNA sequence of the genes is unique with respect to other sequences in the GenBank database with a single match to a putative phenanthrene degradation gene cluster from the phenanthrene degrader Alcaligenes faecalis AFK2 (GenBank accession number AB024945).  BLAST matches to the putative genes in both operons suggest that phenanthrene degradation proceeds through phthalate.  The putative phthalate degradation gene clusters from GZ38 and GZ39 have also been identified and sequenced. RT-PCR analysis of the phenanthrene degradation genes of GZ39 showed that the genes are expressed as one continuous transcript beginning with a transposase that is upstream from the start of the phenanthrene operon. The phenanthrene degradation genes of GZ38 are also expressed as one continuous transcript but it does not include a transposase located upstream from the operon. For both GZ38 and GZ39, expression of the genes was observed with both phenanthrene and succinate as growth substrates.  RT-qPCR results for GZ38 showed that the phenanthrene degradation genes were equally expressed on phenanthrene and succinate. A lacZ assay demonstrated that the promoter region upstream of the phnAb gene in GZ39 is constitutively active. A 5' RACE assay was performed in order to map the transcription start site of the phenanthrene operon in GZ39.  Inactivation of the phthalate dioxygenase in GZ39 resulted in the accumulation of phthalate when grown on phenanthrene and provides strong evidence that phenanthrene degradation proceeds through phthalate.  Although the phenanthrene degradation genes of GZ38, GZ39, and AFK2 are nearly identical, this is the first report of functional information relating to these genes.
Evaluation von Qubes OS für den Einsatz in Klein- und Mittelständischen SW-Entwicklungsunternehmen
Creators: name: Tobias Schotter
Publisher: name: Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden
Year: 2022
Subjects: CyberLytics

description: Bachelor's Thesis
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Indoor localization in wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Patel, Amar H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: We considered the issue of indoor localization through the use of wireless sensor networks (WSN). We value not necessary the algorithm that provides the best accuracy but the one that provides a good enough level of accuracy in a simple and efficient manner.  In the first part of our work we examined some state-of-the-art localization techniques that are deployable on wireless sensor motes. These techniques are evaluated to a set of criteria that an indoor WSN-based localization application mustconsider. In our investigation, we considered not only accuracy but many other factors that determine a suitable indoor WSN-based localization system. These factors among other things determine energy efficiency. We broadly separate the criteria list into two categories: efficiency-based and accuracy-based. We discovered that one of the techniques, Ecolocation, evaluates quite well to the efficiency-based criteria, but the evaluationof the accuracy-based criterions is not as promising. However, the inherent simplicity and potential for good performance (based on openenvironment results) make the algorithm quite attractive. We proceeded to modify the algorithm to improve its accuracy while maintaining itspositive qualities. Our Weighted-Constraints algorithm, named as such due to the nature of the modification, performs in terms of average error 13.1% better than the original Ecolocation algorithm in an open environment. Furthermore, our modified algorithm shows it is more robustto noise compared to the original algorithm by perform on average 21.2% better in a noisy environment.
Effects of erythropoietin and lithium on neural  precursors and blood-derived cells
Creators: name: Qu, Zhao Xia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Recent studies suggest that two hematopoietic drugs, erythropoietin (EPO) and lithium, can be used to treat various central nervous system (CNS) diseases, and that neural precursor stimulation contributes to their beneficial effects on CNS diseases.  We studied the effects of these two drugs on neural precursor cells and N01.1, a neonatal rat blood-derived cell clone generated in our laboratory, exhibiting some features of neural precursors. My experimental results suggest that EPO promotes neural precursor cell growth in vitro, and may stimulate expression of EPO receptor and neural stem cell marker nestin in rat spinal cords to benefit spinal cord injury.  These studies provide important insight into the physiological functions and beneficial effects of EPO in the CNS.  In addition, my studies suggest that lithium promotes proliferation but not survival of neural precursors in vitro, and the mechanism does not necessarily involve neurotrophic factors, or inositol depletion, but may involve GSK-3beta inhibition and NFAT activation.  These findings not only provide mechanistic insights into the clinical effects of lithium, but also suggest an alternative therapeutic strategy for bipolar disorder and other neural diseases. EPO activated ERK pathway in N01.1 cells, which may through a c-Raf-independent mechanism.  In addition, EPO tended to increase RNA levels of anti-apoptotic gene Bcl-w but not Bcl2 or Bcl-xL in N01.1 cells.  These results suggest that EPO may promote N01.1 cell survival or proliferation through a mechanism different from that in erythroid precursor cells.  Lithium significantly promoted cell number increase and stimulated neurotrophic factor RNA expression in N01.1 cell cultures.  In addition, lithium treatment of rats that had N01.1 cells transplanted into their injured spinal cords robustly increased N01.1 cell numbers and remarkably increased RNA levels of several neurotrophic factors in the spinal cords.  These results suggest a new powerful method for improving survival or proliferation of cells transplanted into the CNS, and a new method for stimulating neurotrophic factor expression in the CNS after injury.
Construct validation of the doctor expertise scale in a primary care setting
Creators: name: Phillips, Leigh Alison
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The construct of Doctor Expertise is introduced and an initial measure of the construct is presented along with its construct validation in the context of a primary care medical setting.  The Doctor Expertise Scale is theorized to measure important, predictive relationships between Doctor Expertise, or the general ability of a doctor to elicit a patient's mental model of his/her presenting problem and to communicate differences between the patient's model and the medical model, and health outcomes, such as patient treatment adherence and problem resolution.  Content-related, criterion-related, and construct-related validity evidence is demonstrated and further steps for scale validation are presented.
Bathyphantes paracymbialis Tanasevitch 2014
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Bathyphantes
Bathyphantes paracymbialis

description: Bathyphantes paracymbialis Tanasevitch, 2014
Material examined. 1 Female (MHNG), MYANMAR, Mandalay Region, Pyin Oo Lwin District, National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens, 21°59’39”N 96°27’57”E, 1120 m a.s.l., evergreen hill forest; 9.VII.2014; P. Schwendinger leg. [MT-14/02]. 1 female (MHNG), Pyin Oo Lwin District, Pwe Kauk Falls, 22°03’51”N 96°32’10”E, 990 m a.s.l., evergreen gallery forest; 10.VII.2014; P. Schwendinger leg. [MT-14/03]. 1 male (MHNG), INDONESIA, Sumatra, North Sumatra Province, 13 km from Prapat, 1.5 km SE of Kampus Kehutanan Aeknauli, hill forest near road Prapat to Pematangsiantar, 2°42’38”N 98°56’16”E, 1150 m a.s.l.; 30.VI. and 2.VII.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/30].
Remarks. The species is new to the faunas of Myanmar and Indonesia.
Distribution. Southeastern China (Zhao & Li 2014), Laos, Thailand, West Malaysia (Tanasevitch 2014a, b), Myanmar and Indonesia.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Coping with climate change: toward a theory of adaptive capacity
Creators: name: Posey, John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: As the earth's climate changes in response to atmospheric greenhouse gases, communities around the world will be faced with new conditions.  This dissertation investigates factors that influence the ability of municipalities to adapt to a changing climate.       Prior literature has assumed that there is a relationship between adaptive capacity and indicators of socio-economic status (SES) such as income and race.  However, this relationship has not been adequately tested at the community level.       This dissertation makes three contributions to literature on adaptive capacity.  First, it offers a quantitative test of the relationship between SES and adaptive capacity at the community level.  The evidence presented in this dissertation supports the previously hypothesized relationship.       Second, I employ social capital theory, regime analysis and structuration theory to explain the relationship between SES and adaptive capacity.  I argue that racial and economic polarization can discourage the formation of a stable and broad-based governing coalition, thereby diminishing the development of adaptive capacity.       Third, the dissertation presents a historical comparison between Louisville, Kentucky and New Orleans, Louisiana to illustrate the usefulness of social capital theory, regime analysis and structuration theory to the study of adaptive capacity.
Crasodactylus Guerin-Meneville 1847
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Crasodactylus

description: Genus Crasodactylus Guerin-Meneville, 1847
Crasodactylus punctatus Guerin-Meneville, 1847
Studied material: Geno, 2014 and Shamil River, 2015 (Prov. of Hormozgan). Citations: Without exact locality (Ito, 2003).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Entwurf und Implementierung einer Webanwendung zur einfachen Fernsteuerung von Digitalmischpulten
Creators: name: Thomas Stangl
Publisher: name: Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden
Year: 2022
Subjects: CyberLytics

description: Bachelor's Thesis
description: biblatex/biber: @Thesis{stangl_thomas_2022bt,  author = {Stangl, Thomas},  title = {{Entwurf und Implementierung einer Webanwendung zur einfachen Fernsteuerung von Digitalmischpulten}},  institution = {Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden},  year = 2022,  month = mar,  type = {Bachelorarbeit},}
Batueta Locket 1982
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Batueta

description: Batueta Locket, 1982
Type species: Batueta voluta Locket, 1982.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Progonochaetus Muller 1938
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Progonochaetus

description: Genus Progonochaetus Müller, 1938
Subgenus Progonochaetus J. Müller, 1938
Progonochaetus (Progonochaetus) laevistriatus Sturm, 1818 Citations: Without exact locality (Wrase, 2005).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Three-dimensional computational modeling and simulation of cell rolling and deformation on an adhesive surface in shear flow
Creators: name: Pappu, Vijay
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Three-dimensional computational modeling and simulations are presented on the rolling motion of a deformable cell on an adhesive surface in shear flow. The problem is motivated primarily by the adhesive rolling motion of white blood cells or leukocytes in response to inflammation in the body. The methodology is based on an immersed boundary method to predict cell deformation, and a Monte Carlo simulation to model the random formation and breakage of the adhesion bonds formed between a ligand-bearing cell and a receptor-coated surface. The multiscale and multiphysics modeling developed in this study allows us to resolve the complex coupling between the hydrodynamics, the deformation dynamics of the cell, and the biophysics of the adhesion bonds. In the thesis, we address the sequence of events that are encountered in the multistep process of cell rolling, namely, the initial arrest of the cell, followed by its deformation and spreading on the substrate, and the subsequent quasi-steady rolling motion. We provide phase diagrams for cell adhesion/escape, and showed that the hydrodynamic lift, that exists on a deformable cell in the wall-bounded motion, plays a major role in the process. The experimentally observed 'stop-and-go' motion of the cells is predicted in our simulations. After providing results on the general adhesive rolling motion, we focus specifically on the rolling dynamics of the leukocytes, and study the effect of cell deformability, shear rate and cell concentration on the instantaneous and time-averaged rolling characteristics. We also study the biophysical characteristics of the adhesion bonds during the rolling process. Finally, we consider the effect of the adherent leukocytes on the surrounding flow in terms of the changes in tracer dispersion and the vascular flow resistance. Comparison with experimental measurements (in vitro and in vivo) is presented throughout the thesis.
Feature tracking of 3D scalar datasets in the 'visit' environment
Creators: name: Pangrikar, Rohini M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Visualization of 3D scientific time varying datasets is a challenging task due to the large amount of data to be processed. Such datasets can contain evolving patterns, visualization of which can give an intuitive interpretation of a dataset under study. The Vizlab at Rutgers has pioneered in the development of feature tracking of 3D scalar datasets by isolating features or region of interest and tracking them over subsequent time steps by using spatial matching. Once these features are extracted and tracked, their evolutionary information can be used for iso-surface visualization by color coding each feature such that evolving patterns are easy to follow.This thesis presents the development of Feature Tracking of 3D scalar datasets in VisIt, a free interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data. The implementation is divided into two modules. The first module, implemented as 'FeatureTrack' operator plug-in, performs feature extraction, quantification and stores iso-surface information for each timestep, then tracks features over subsequent timesteps. The second module, implemented in conjunction with the 'polyfile' reader plug-in, 'TrackPoly' operator plug-in and 'PolyDataPlot' plot plug-in, performs visualization. Separation of visualization from feature tracking enables 'selective enhanced visualization' so only features of interest are selected and tracked over time.
Batueta baculum Tanasevitch 2014
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Batueta
Batueta baculum

description: Batueta baculum Tanasevitch, 2014
Material examined. 2 Males, 2 females (SMF), LAOS, Bokeo Province, Nam Kham National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Ban Na Luang, 20°21’71.7”N 100°41’34.9”E, 499 m a.s.l., disturbed primary forest, leaf litter, sifting, at day; 10.VI.2013; P. Jäger leg. 1 male (MHNG), INDONESIA, Sumatra, North Sumatra Province, on road from Pematangisantar, 18 km to Prapat, Campus Kehutanan Aeknauli, forest in Bukit Parasat mountains, station “ Logging trail #2” of Dr Diehl, pitfall trap #2, under bamboo stand; 12–27.XI.1985; B. Hauser leg. [Sum-85/24]. 1 male (MHNG), Jambi, km 15 road Sungaipenuh to Tapan, 1450 m a.s.l., plant debris in degraded montane Lithocarpus-Castanopsis forest, sifting; 9.XI.1989; D. Burckhardt, I. Löbl & D. Agosti leg. [10]. 1 male, 1 female (MHNG), 5 km W of Brastagi, Tongkoh, 1450 m a.s.l., mixed pine forest with many epiphytes, vegetation debris, sifting; 3.XII.1989; D. Burckhardt, I. Löbl & D. Agosti leg. 2 males (MHNG), Sipirok, Dolok Sipirok N.P., near hot springs, ca. 30 km N of Padangsidempuan, 1°33’55”N 99°17’03”E, 1000 m a.s.l., disturbed hill forest; 16.VI.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/22]. 1 male, 2 females (MHNG), Lumban Rang N.P., near road Prapat to Porsea, 15 km from Prapat, 2°36’14”N 99°02’42”E, 1350 m a.s.l., primary forest; 1.VII.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/31]. 1 female (MHNG), West Sumatra Province, Panti, 250 m a.s.l., sifting plant debris in lowland swamp forest; 19.XI.1989; D. Burckhardt, I. Löbl & D. Agosti leg. [23]. 2 males, 1 female (MHNG), Batang Palupuh Rafflesia Sanctuary, 12 km N of Bukittinggi, 0°14’32”S 100°21’10”E, primary forest, 900–1100 m a.s.l.; 2–3.VI.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/05]. 3 males (MHNG), old secondary forest above Harau Canyon, N of Payakumbuh, 0°05’46”S 100°39’58”E, 750 m a.s.l.; 7.VI.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/11]. 1 male, 1 female (MHNG), primary forest at bottom of Harau Canyon near Echo Point, N of Payakumbuh, 0°06’21”S 100°39’50”E, 500 m a.s.l.; 8.VI.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/13]. 1 male, 7 females (MHNG), Borneo, EAST MALAYSIA, Sarawak, Mulu National Park, 100 km SEE of Miri, 4°00’N 14°49’E, 200 m a.s.l., Winklerextraction; 19–24.VIII.2003; A. Schulz leg. [AS /03-7].
Remarks. The species is new to the faunas of Laos, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Distribution. Thailand, West Malaysia (Tanasevitch 2014b), Laos, Indonesia and East Malaysia.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Anisodactylus Dejean 1829
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Anisodactylus

description: Genus Anisodactylus Dejean, 1829
Subgenus Anisodactylus Dejean, 1829
Anisodactylus (Anisodactylus) binotatus (Fabricius, 1787)
= brevicollis Chaudoir, 1844
Studied material: Nowshahe, Khirood Forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran); (ZMTU): Ghole, Sabz, Shahr-e Kord, 2012 (Prov. of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari).
Citations: Province Mazandaran (Chaudoir, 1844); Kurusch-göl (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Mandl, 1963); Bandare Anzali, Kouchesfahan and Miankouh (Prov. of Gilan; Salari et al., 2013).
Anisodactylus (Anisodactylus) nemorivagus (Duftschmid, 1812) Citations: Without exact locality (Hieke & Wrase, 1988).
Subgenus Pseudanisodactylus Noonan, 1973
Anisodactylus (Pseudanisodactylus) signatus Panzer, 1796
Studied material: (ZMTU): Nowshahr, Khirood Forest (Prov. of Mazandaran). Citations: Province Mazandaran (Chaudoir, 1844); Bandare Anzali, Kouchesfahan, Lahijan and Lowshan (Prov. of Gilan; Salari et al., 2013).
Subgenus Hexatrichus Tschitschérine, 1898
Anisodactylus (Hexatrichus) poeciloides pseudoaeneus Dejean, 1829 Studied material: (ZMTU): Neyzar, 2012 (Prov. of Qom) Citations: Province Mazandaran (Chaudoir, 1844).
Subgenus Pseudodichirius Lutshnik, 1921
Anisodactylus (Pseudodichirius) intermedius Dejean, 1829 Studied material: (ZMTU): Najmaabad, 2010 (Prov. of Tehran). Citations: Without exact locality (Hieke & Wrase, 1988).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Origination of Ds elements from Ac elements in maize: characterization of Ac derivatives from bz-m39(Ac)
Creators: name: Pan, Hongbo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The maize genome contains a large number of both DNA transposons and retrotransposons. It is already known that retrotransposons are located in the highly methylated intergenic regions where recombination does not take place. However, DNA transposons are located in the eukaryotic regions of the maize genome, where they are able to interact with the host genes. It has been recently known that two transposable elements in direct orientation in the same chromosome may recombine occasionally with each other, which leads to the deletion of the intervening fragment. Based on this fact, it would be interesting to find out whether two elements in different homologues are able to recombine at meiosis. A series of Ac derivatives that originated de novo from bz-m39 (Ac) have been generated previously by Dr Dooner's lab. Some of these Ds derivatives appear to be large ([greater than] 4kb) based on Southern blots. It may be possible to recombine two Ds elements with non-overlapping deletions to reconstruct a 4565-bp Ac element. Hence these derivatives' exact sequence composition needs to be defined. In this research project, I characterized 23 Ac-derivatives, and the results indicate that most of these derivatives are composed of fragmented transposon structures. Some of them are Ds elements with or without filler DNA; some of them are single-ended fractured Ac (fAc) elements with either 5' or 3' missing ends, yet not transposed, which have not been reported before, indicating that Ac may undergo not only internal deletions but also terminal deletions that are sometimes accompanied by deletion of its flanking sequence. Microhomology, which is the main mechanism to explain the non-homologous end-joining repair of deletions in Ac, was discovered at the deletion junctions of most of these derivatives. The next step is to select suitable derivatives to carry out the recombination experiment by crossing and measuring the frequency of meiotic recombination within the transposable element (TE) in bz, which will be compared then to recombination in bz.  Here, I present the molecular analysis of these 23 derivatives.
Identification and characterization of a novel monooxygenase from Burkholderia xenovorans LB400
Creators: name: Montes-Matias, Marie Carmen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Whole genome sequences have been key elements in discovering new genes and in predicting protein function.  A gene found in Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 encodes a protein that is 77% identical and 85% similar to the p-cymene monooxygenase from Pseudomonas putida F1.  Phylogenetic analysis of this enzyme reveals that it is closely related to cymene, xylene and alkane monooxygenase.  Protein alignment of these sequences identified 10 conserved histidine residues, of which 8 were reported to be essential for catalysis in alkane monooxygenase. The identified consensus sequence for these enzymes is [HX(3)HX(25)HX(3)HHX(139)HX(2)HH], which is characteristic of membrane-bound hydroxylases with an active site that require iron and the activation of molecular oxygen for their catalytic cycle.  In order to analyze the B. xenovorans LB400 monooxygenase enzyme in more detail, we cloned the cognate genes into the expression vector pQE.30 and performed biotransformation assays to determine the substrate specificity of the CymA1A2-like enzyme.  The novel monooxygenase found in LB400 hydroxylates p-cymene to the product p-cymen-8-ol.  The cymene monooxygenase found in P. putida F1 hydroxylated the methyl group of p-cymene, while the novel monooxygenase catalyzed the hydroxylation of the carbon of the isopropyl group adjacent to the benzene ring.  The enzyme also oxidized the substrates cumene, isobutylbenzene, n-butylbenzene, propylbenzene, 1, 4-diisopropylbenzene, tert-butyltoluene, sec-butylbenzene, and 4-ethyltolunene in addition to p-cymene.  The collected data indicate that the LB400 monooxygenase described above is able to catalyze an interesting and novel reaction, but its physiological role is still unidentified.  Steric hindrance and chain length definitely play an important role in determining the enzyme specificity.  Metabolite analysis and RT-PCR data indicated that there is no correlation between the novel enzyme activity and growth of the strain on p-cymene, propylbenzene, 1,4-diisopropylbenzene, 4-ethyltoluene, n-butylbenzene, isobutylbenzene, sec-butylbenzene, tert-butylbenzene, and tert-butyltoluene.  Other pathways and enzymes are involved in the degradation of these substrates.  This data indicates that although bioinformatic analysis is a valuable tool in protein analysis and function prediction, it cannot always accurately predict the catalytic activity and physiological role of an enzyme.
Batueta voluta Locket 1982
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Batueta
Batueta voluta

description: Batueta voluta Locket, 1982
Material examined. 1 Male (ZMMU), VIETNAM, Dong Nai Province, Mada, dipterocarp forest; 20.IV.– 10.V.1995; T. Sergeeva leg.
Remarks. The species is new to the fauna of Vietnam.
Distribution. Singapore, West Malaysia (Locket 1982), southern Thailand (Tanasevitch 2014b), Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 330, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Differentiation of human and murine embryonic stem cells: studies on the combined roles of adhesion molecules and growth factors
Creators: name: Moore, Rebecca
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Year: 2008

description: The field of stem cell bioengineering can potentially revolutionize cell-based therapies for functional replacement of complex systems like the liver and nervous system.  Despite significant challenges ahead, mouse and human embryonic stem (ES) cells can serve as a potential cell source for transplantation medicine, and efforts are being actively directed to guide ES cell development and maturation [1-3].  The murine ES cell model has been demonstrated to be highly organotypic based on its successful realization of specific lineages [4], but current efforts have been focused toward human ES differentiation. Despite the many research efforts, the molecular signals that can effectively promote the integration and specific differentiation of ES cells are not well characterized.  In this dissertation, I examined the molecular and microscale parameters governing the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into hepatic and neural tissue.  The goals of this study are two-fold; first, we sought to identify the nature of and presentation approaches for molecular signals that promote the liver-specific maturation of mouse and human ES cells through cell-cell adhesion molecule, E-cadherin, and growth factor stimulation.  Secondly, we investigated the effects of E-cadherin on neural differentiation of human ES cells.  Overall, our hypothesis is that optimal combinations of molecular growth factors and the presentation of cell adhesion molecules can provide effective tools for regenerative and reparative medicine for cell-based therapy.
Gynandromorphus Dejean 1829
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Gynandromorphus

description: Genus Gynandromorphus Dejean, 1829
Gynandromorphus etruscus etruscus (Quensel, 1806) Citations: Without exact locality (Ito, 2003).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
How Luxury and Legacy Effects Shape Urban Avifauna in Los Angeles, California
Creators: name: Pozo, Melanie
name: Tomasi, Herman
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2024

description: Is L.A.’s bird population shaped by historic redlining and income inequality? This lesson will introduce luxury and legacy effects hypotheses as they relate to urban avifauna in LA neighborhoods. Students will using simple linear regression and ANCOVA to assess whether historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality have a significant effect on the types of birds present in different LA neighborhoods.
Diachromus Erichson 1837
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Diachromus

description: Genus Diachromus Erichson, 1837
Diachromus germanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran). Citations: Kurusch-göl (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Mandl, 1963); Dschaz-Morian (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963); 50 km East of Ahar (Prov. of West Azarbaijan; Wrase, 2005); Gorgan env. (Prov. of Golestan; Afshari & Khormali, 2014).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494