cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Piezoelectricity in ZnO-based multilayer structures for sensor applications
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a multifunctional material with promising applications. Through proper doping, ZnO can be made transparent and conductive, piezoelectric, or ferromagnetic. Piezoelectric ZnO which possess large electromechanical coupling coefficients has been deposited on high velocity and low loss substrates to develop surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices. Such devices can be used in both communications and sensors fields. This dissertation focuses on the integration of piezoelectric ZnO with various important semiconductor materials, including GaN, SiC, and Si, for the acoustic wave based sensor applications.The piezoelectric properties in ZnO/AlxGa1-xN/c-Al2O3 structure are investigated. The layered structure provides the flexibility to tailor acoustic properties by varying the Al composition in AlxGa1-xN, and the thickness ratio of ZnO to AlxGa1-xN. It is found that a wide thickness-frequency product region where coupling is close to its maximum value can be obtained. This multilayer structure is promising to design the high velocity, low loss and wide bandwidth SAW devices, which can be used in both the communications and sensors fields.A new hybrid deposition technology is developed by using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of a thin ZnO buffer layer with a minimum thickness of ~10nm followed by sputtering deposition of a thick (above 2µm) piezoelectric Ni-doped MgxZn1-xO films. This novel deposition technology improves piezoelectric properties of a-MgxZn1-xO (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3) films on r-Al2O3 for ZnO based tunable SAW device.Piezoelectric ZnO/SiC-6H structure offers high velocities and high coupling coefficients for high frequency SAW devices, which can be used in high-temperature and harsh environments. Epitaxial ZnO films grown on c-plane [0001] oriented SiC-6H substrates by MOCVD form a rectifying heterojunction.Thin film bulk acoustic resonators (TFBAR) are demonstrated using piezoelectric MgxZn1-xO films on Si substrates with an acoustic mirror consisting of alternating quarter-wavelength SiO2 and W layers. The bulk acoustic velocity of MgxZn1-xO increases with increasing Mg composition. A mass sensitivity higher than 103 Hzcm2/ng is obtained. ZnO nanostructures possess unique advantages for the biosensor applications, such as giant surface areas, high sensitivity, biological compatibility, and integratability with Si-based electronics. A prototype of biosensors integrating TFBAR with functionalized ZnO nanotips is demonstrated with improved sensitivity.
Is Attachment a Psychoanalytical Theory?
Creators: name: Goliath, Michelle Vianna
name: Theisen Simanke, Richard
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Attachment theory, postulated by John Bowlby in collaboration with psychologists Mary Ainsworth and Harry Harlow, has been the subject of much discussion about its nature. The author considers it a psychoanalytical theory, but his peers in psychoanalysis at the time rejected this idea and offered criticism of his concepts, suggesting that they were not in alignment with the principles of psychoanalysis. At the same time, collaborators Mary Ainsworth and Harry Harlow have repeatedly questioned the necessity of Bowlby’s choice of psychoanalysis as a basis for attachment theory, suggesting that it may not be the most appropriate approach. Lately, attachment theory has been used in many psychology courses and articles, without so much as a single mention to its psychoanalytical nature. This article presents a research proposal for an investigation of the nature of attachment theory on a conceptual level. It poses the question of whether the concepts used as a basis for attachment theory are consistent with psychoanalysis.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No 2 (2024): Brazilian Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Topology and dimensional synthesis of linkage mechanism based on the constrained superposition method
Creators: name: Chen, Wei-Ju
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Mechanism design consists of two parts: kinematic synthesis and kinematic analysis. The classical kinematic analysis based on graphical method or analytical method is hard to implement into computer program and have accuracy issue. In this work, a novel analysis method called the Constrained Superposition Method (CSM) is presented base on Finite Element Method (FEM). The new method is based on the penalty formulation on constrained boundaries in the finite element analysis and then applies superposition to two constrained systems for linkage analysis.  Genetic Algorithm (GA) is combined with this new analysis method to solve mechanism synthesis problem. To further improve the efficiency of evolutionary optimization process, two feasibility checks are introduced to ensure the connectivity and mobility.  Design examples generated from this approach will be presented.
Carineta liturata Torres 1948
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Carineta
Carineta liturata

description: Carineta liturata Torres, 1948
Carineta literata Torres 1948a: 116 (type material examined).
Type locality. Catamarca, Argentina.
Remarks. Currently the species is known only from Catamarca Province in Argentina (Torres 1948a).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Spectrum sensing for wireless broadcast communication systems
Creators: name: Chen, Hou-Shin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Spectrum sensing is the methodology used to determine the existence of a specific signal type in very low signal to noise power ratio (SNR)  environments. Spectrum sensing is one of the core technologies for the application of Cognitive Radio (CR). An IEEE 802.22 Working Group has developed a Standard to implement CR in the wireless services spectrum. The spectrum, however, has already been allocated to the TV Broadcast Service which delivers ATSC Digital TV (DTV) signals. Cognitive Radio systems are intended to co-exist within the spectrum licensed to TV channels and operate on a non-interfering basis. At present, there are three TV broadcast Standards worldwide, namely the ATSC DTV Standard [1], ETSI DVB-T Standard [2], and the NSPRC DMB-T Standard [3]. The transmitted signals defined by these three Standards possess different characteristics. Thus, in order to apply CR in the DTV bands, different spectrum sensing techniques are needed for these three broadcast Standards. In this thesis, the focus is on the development of suitable spectrum sensing algorithms for the DTV signals defined by these three Standards. In addition, wireless microphone devices use frequency bands that are located within the allocated DTV bands. Cognitive Radio systems should transmit and receive using spectrum that is idle. Hence, in this thesis, spectrum sensing algorithms are also designed to detect the presence of wireless microphone signals. When developing an algorithm to perform spectrum sensing for aspecific signal, we make use of particular characteristics embedded in the transmitted signals to design effective detector structures that can discriminate between the presence or absence of licensed information bearing signals. One useful method employed in this thesis is to utilize the cyclostationary property that is present in most of the transmitteddata signals to perform spectrum sensing. Additionally, the probability of false alarm and probability of misdetection performance metrics for signal detectors employing different spectrum sensing algorithms are analyzed. The spectrum sensor operating characteristic curves for the different detectors are demonstrated by the use of computer simulations. Simulation results indicate that the spectrum sensing algorithms developed in this thesis can efficiently detect the presence of primary licensed signals when the SNR is as low as -20 dB. Finally, selected spectrum sensing algorithms are implemented using an FPGA-based hardware platform. The hardware implementation of the spectrum sensors verified their performance, as well as demonstrated their practicality due to the low complexity of the algorithms.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATION THROUGH ETHNOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY IN KAZAKHSTAN
Creators: name: Ashimova Aibota Maksatkyzy
name: Nurkusheva Lyazzat Tuleuvna
Publisher: name: In The World Of Science and Education
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ethnography
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Industrial Design Education
subject: Multidisciplinary Approaches
subject: User-Centered Design
subject: Cultural Awareness
subject: Kazakhstan

description: This article investigates the integration of ethnographic methods and psychological principles into industrial design education, focusing on Kazakhstan. The study combines a systematic review of relevant literature with empirical data gathered from ethnographic observations and semi-structured interviews conducted at Kazakh design institutions. The research aims to evaluate how these multidisciplinary approaches contribute to the development of student competencies in creativity, empathy, cultural awareness, and user-centered design. Ethnographic methods enable students to incorporate cultural contexts into their design processes, which is particularly relevant in Kazakhstan due to its rich cultural heritage. By studying both traditional and modern design practices, students develop a culturally sensitive approach to industrial design. Meanwhile, psychological principles, such as user behavior analysis and cognitive load theory, promote empathy and improve design functionality. Together, these approaches encourage students to create more user-centered, sustainable, and innovative designs. The findings suggest that the integration of ethnography and psychology into the curriculum enhances student outcomes in creativity, empathy, and cultural sensitivity. This research underscores the importance of incorporating multidisciplinary methods into industrial design education and offers a framework for enhancing the curricula of Kazakh design institutions and beyond.
A Compulsion to Language in Psychoanalysis?
Creators: name: De Almeida, João José R. L.
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Can Wittgenstein’s philosophical method illuminate our understanding of psychoanalysis? This article argues yes, by analyzing Lacan’s ‘Science and Truth’. Focusing on Lacan’s structuralist concept of the subject, shaped by language and desire, the article highlights how a Wittgensteinian lens offers insights for a global assessment of what we do by applying psychoanalytic concepts.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No 2 (2024): Brazilian Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Data compression in dynamic systems
Creators: name: Chen, Su
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Data compression in dynamic systems has several applications in the real world. Unlike the compression of static data, both data and intrinsic data patterns may change over time. A good compression in dynamic systems should either keep compression accurate for dynamic data or change its compression strategies for dynamic data patterns. In this thesis, we study both scenarios with applications from the real world. First, as an example of compression in dynamic systems with changing data, we discuss a lossy compression in databases, called synopsis, which helps the query optimizer speed up the query process. We introduce new Haar wavelet synopsis for nonuniform accuracy and time-varying data that can be generated in near linear time and space, and updated in sublinear time. The effectiveness of our data synopsis is validated against other linear time methods by using both synthetic and real data sets. Second, as an example of compression in dynamic systems with changing data patterns, we propose a novel compression algorithm, called IPzip, which compresses IP network traffic both online and offline for efficient data transfer and storage. IPzip achieves better compression ratios by learning patterns residing in both data structures and content. We also propose a methodology to monitor over time the effectiveness of the current compression and start new pattern learning when intrinsic traffic structure changes. Finally, via trace-driven experiments on network traffic obtained from Tier-1 ISPs, we validate that IPzip achieves better performance compared to previous approaches.
From Element to Structure
Creators: name: Santana, Izabela Loner
name: Perez, Daniel Omar
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this article is to discuss the changes in the conception of language in Jacques Lacan’s teaching based on the transformation of its minimum element, the signifier. We will begin by reconstructing the first definition of the signifier that we find in the Seminar of the 1950s with anthropological-linguistic structuralism, approaching its transformation at the beginning of the 1960s with the introduction of the unary trait. In this paper, we will try to extract each comprehension of language that follows or are derived from the different definitions of signifier. Doing so, we will indicate the solidarity between the element and the structure, that is, how the properties of one interfere in the consistency of the other and how, in the change operated by Lacan on the element, a modification is extracted in the structuring of language.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No 2 (2024): Brazilian Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Evaluating the effects of climate change on river water temperature downstream of a hydropower reservoir in western Canada
Creators: name: Gatien, Philippe
name: Arsenault, Richard
name: Martel, Jean-Luc
name: Khorsandi, Mostafa
name: St-Hilaire, André
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper evaluates the impact of climate change on the water temperature of the Nechako River near the town of Vanderhoof (British Columbia, Canada). To do so, the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) hydraulic and water temperature model was used with data from 10 climate models representing two Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP 2-4.5 and SSP 5-8.5) over two future time periods (2041-2070 and 2071-2100). The results showed an upward trend in projected water temperatures for all tested discharge rates from the impounding reservoir during the warmest periods of the year. The study found that water temperatures are expected to increase by up to 2.57 °C for the near future (2041-2070) and up to 3.56 °C on average for all flow scenarios studied for a far future (2071-2100) when using SSP5-8.5. The timing of the peak water temperature during the summer is also expected to shift, with maximum water temperatures occurring up to 10 days later than in the reference period. In 10.3% of the far future SSP5-8.5 scenarios, at least one day per summer had a mean daily temperature of at least 24 °C, which exceeds limits of 20 °C for sockeye salmon and 21 °C for white sturgeon which are considered detrimental for the fish. It has been shown that over 50% of sockeye salmon will stop their sustained swimming at water temperatures of 24 °C due to cardiac limitations.
Carineta maculosa Torres 1948
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Carineta
Carineta maculosa

description: Carineta maculosa Torres, 1948
Carineta fasciculata [nec Germar] Jacobi 1907a: 18.
Carineta maculosa Torres 1948a: 114 (type material examined).
Type locality. Villa Nougués, Tucumán Province, Argentina.
Remarks. The species has been recorded from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2007a; 2010a). It was reported from Catamarca and Tucumán Provinces in Argentina (Torres 1948a; Hayward 1960) and we have seen a specimen from Salta Province.
New provincial records. David Emery (DECA) has a male from Salta, 8km S Guochipas (1120m), 25 o 33.07’S; 65 o 32.41’E, 20-I-2006.
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on pages 69-70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Teratoscincus microlepis Nikolsky 1900
Creators: name: Ananjeva, Natalia B.
name: Milto, Konstantin D.
name: Barabanov, Andrei V.
name: Golynsky, Evgeny A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Sphaerodactylidae
Teratoscincus
Teratoscincus microlepis

description: Teratoscincus microlepis NIKOLSKY (1899: 145)
Holotype:
ZISP 9164, adult male, “Duz-ab in Kirmano orientali” [Duz-Abad, Saragad Region, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, 29.50 N 60.86 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 15.VI.1898.
Present name: Teratoscincus micropelis Nikolsky 1899 fide Macey et al (1999), Anderson (1999) and Nazarov et al. (2017).
Remarks: The original description of this species was published in October 1899 (Asanovich et al. 2006).
description: Published as part of Ananjeva, Natalia B., Milto, Konstantin D., Barabanov, Andrei V. & Golynsky, Evgeny A., 2020, An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia, pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 4722 (2) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3605815
Studies on secondary metabolites associated with witches' broom disease, floral biology, and seed fermentation in cacao
Creators: name: Chaves, Fábio C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Theobroma cacao L., a tree native to the Amazon, is cultivated in the tropics throughout the world for its seeds, used primarily for chocolate production. Cacao production is limited by several problems. Cocoa pod borer, an insect that burrows through pods, damages seeds, allowing contamination by toxigenic fungal species. Many fungal diseases infect cacao. Among them, Moniliophthora perniciosa, the causal agentof witches' broom disease, severely affects plantations throughout South America and the Caribbean. Cacao yields are further limited by the naturally low rates of fruit set. Moreover, disease tolerant varieties are usually self-incompatible low producers and do not give a superior chocolate flavor compared to some disease susceptible and selfcompatiblegenotypes with highly valued aroma compounds.During this project, problems associated with three main aspects of cacao were investigated: disease, production and processing. Studies on plant-endophyte-pathogen interactions allowed for the identification of new possible mechanisms of disease control; studies on cacao flower physiology indicated ways to improve pollination and therefore increase fruit set and crop yield; and investigations of the fermentation step of cacao processing permitted discovery of a method for maintaining higher levels of compounds valued by cacao manufacturers. Flavan-3-ol monomers and oligomers, purine alkaloids and salicylic acid, volatile organic compounds, polyketides and other phenolic compounds were among the determined bioactive compounds found in cacao, pathogens and endophytes, with influence on disease, production, and processing.
The fifth commandment and other short stories by Rocio Qespi
Creators: name: Carbajal, Aleksandra M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Rocío Qespi is a Peruvian author who writes short stories that center around the themes of love, chess, and personal experiences. Her prose is a rich tapestry of allusions to the work of other Latin American authors and artists as well as a reference to events from her own life. As her translator, I had the opportunity to work closely with the author as I resolved problems encountered during the process of translating her prose. Following a brief introduction that describes these problems and their solutions, is a selection of the translated stories taken from the collection El cuarto mandamiento, which has been published by Mundo Ajeno in Peru.
Lacan, Nietzsche, and the Problem of a Supposed Decentered Subject from Psychoanalysis
Creators: name: Da Fonseca, Eduardo Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The objective of this article is to compare some aspects of Friederich Nietzsche’s and Jacques Lacan’s conceptions of the subject. The text proceeds from the observation that in both Nietzsche and Lacan, human language, its function, and its field are considered from a primary and founding perspective of the world, that is, poetic, even though such proximity to this point of view hides some differences and tensions, which we will also try to identify. Such contrasts occur especially with regard to the greater breadth and radicality in the scope of Nietzsche’s critical reflection on the problematic nature of the characterization of the unity of the Self, even though Lacan’s decentered subject seems to follow in the same direction.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No 2 (2024): Brazilian Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
New avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1987-1999
Creators: name: Bryzgel, Amy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation examines the resurgence of avant-garde art in the work of three performance artists from different post-communist countries under the Soviet sphere of influence: Russia, Latvia and Poland. I examine the work of Latvian artist Miervaldis Polis, Russian artist Sergei Bugaev (Afrika) and Katarzyna Kozyra from Poland as a means of evaluating the changing circumstances in which new art was produced in the late-Soviet and Post-Soviet era. Through a case-study analysis of artistic performances by three artists in these contiguous but contrasting countries of the former communist region of Europe, I demonstrate how the divergent experiences of late and post-socialism were uniquely presented in the visual arts and also uniquely received by audiences. Because performance is ephemeral and foregrounds artist-audience interaction, by focusing on performance art in these countries, I am able to specifically orient my study around the exchange between artist and viewer. The artists represent neither their nation nor their generation, but their performances address both the shared and specific conditions of cultural practice the wake of socio-political change.
Death Drive, Repetition Compulsion, and Primary Masochism
Creators: name: De Souza Noto, Carolina
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: This article takes up the 1920 Freudian text, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, to think about how psychic life is described in terms of drive imbrication or the connection between libido and the death drive and to suggest that the compulsion to repeat pain and displeasure can be thought of as an attempt to reestablish the primary masochism, which for some reason would have failed.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No 2 (2024): Brazilian Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Large-scale flood modelling based on LiDAR data: a case study in the Southwest Miramichi watershed, New Brunswick, Canada
Creators: name: Choné, Guénolé
name: Mazgareanu, Iulia
name: Biron, Pascale M.
name: Buffin-Bélanger, Thomas
name: Larouche-Tremblay, François
name: Perry, Brian
name: Fortin, Maxim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: With Canada’s river basins extending over almost 10 million km2, producing flood maps sufficiently accurate to be used for planning purposes at a reasonable cost is a challenge. Bathymetric data, in particular, are difficult and expensive to obtain and represent a major challenge for regional or global flood models as it is clearly not realistic to acquire river bathymetry data for large territories. In this study, we present an improved version of a large-scale flood modelling approach developed in Quebec, where bathymetry is estimated from Manning’s equation based on LiDAR data water surface slope, and apply it to network of 512 km of rivers in the Southwest Miramichi watershed in New Brunswick, Canada. Comparison with a HEC-RAS model that did not include bathymetry highlights how crucial it is to correctly assess the bed elevation. When compared to the measured discharge and water level data at a gauging station, the HEC-RAS model systematically overestimates flood levels (bias of 2.36 m) whereas for the large-scale flood model the bias is 0.09 m and the RMSE 0.11 m. The semi-automated large-scale methodology took about 1 hr/km and was able to simulate flood levels for the Southwest Miramichi watershed at an unprecedented accuracy at this scale.
Under house arrest: women, narration and transgression in novels of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola
Creators: name: Boyle, Carol A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation studies the narrations of the domestic spaces assigned to nineteenth-century bourgeois women in Eugénie Grandet, and La vieille fille by Balzac, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, and L'assommoir and Une page d'amour by Zola.   The female protagonists in these novels are represented in relation to the houses they inhabit, and architectural elements--doors, windows, stairs--stage the boundaries and the tense association between the women and their domestic environments.   Since I primarily use phenomenological analysis in this study,  I focus on the various narrative perspectives which introduce the reader into domestic spaces meant to remain private.The narrators, often unnamed but distinctly present in the text of Balzac's  Eugénie Grandet and La vieille fille, relate the situation of unmarried, provincial women whose houses embody the possibility of inheritance or the transmission of a fortune.   The houses become prisons.   Eugénie Grandet submits to the authority of a possessive father, while Rose Cormon loses her autonomy as the owner of her venerable home and submits to the rule of her financially ambitious and vulgar husband.   In Madame Bovary, a provincial married woman, caught between domesticity and a desire for a more expansive life, is represented through various narrative focalizations, including the perspective of female neighbors who function as a moral police, watching her every move.   Windows, in this novel, articulate a privileged vantage-point.   In L'assommoir, Zola, through a narrative eye that functions as a voyeuristic camera, exposes the permeability of the public and the private spheres in a working-class context; and, in Une page d'amour, he reveals the dramatic strategies of upper bourgeois women to adapt to the stifling interiors of their Parisian apartments.   I show in my analysis of these novels how narrators penetrate private domestic spaces, and how efforts on the part of the female protagonists to reconfigure or escape the confinements of the male guardians of the home, result in frustration and failure.
Carineta platensis Berg 1882
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Carineta
Carineta platensis

description: Carineta platensis Berg, 1882
Carineta platensis Berg 1882: 45 (type material examined).
Type locality. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Remarks. The type specimen was the only specimen used in the description of the taxon. The type specimen was reported as lost and the species considered unidentifiable (Torres 1948a). However, one of us (AFS) has seen a specimen labeled as the type of C. platensis in the MFNB collection. The species was reported only from Buenos Aires (Berg 1882).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Carineta propinqua Torres 1948
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Carineta
Carineta propinqua

description: Carineta propinqua Torres, 1948
Carineta propinqua Torres 1948a: 122 (type material examined).
Type locality. Volcán, Jujuy Province, Argentina.
Remarks. Currently the species is known only from Jujuy and Tucumán Provinces in Argentina (Torres 1948a; Hayward 1960).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Teratoscincus zarudnyi NIKOLSKY 1896
Creators: name: Ananjeva, Natalia B.
name: Milto, Konstantin D.
name: Barabanov, Andrei V.
name: Golynsky, Evgeny A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Sphaerodactylidae
Teratoscincus
Teratoscincus zarudnyi

description: Teratoscincus zarudnyi NIKOLSKY (1896: 370) (Fig. 3)
Holotype:
ZISP 8804, “Rume in Persia orientali” [Rum, South Khorasan Province, Iran, 33.45 N 59.19 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 15.V.1896 (Fig. 3).
Present name: Teratoscincus keyserlingii Strauch, 1863 fide Macey et al (2005), Anderson (1999) and Nazarov et al. (2017).
description: Published as part of Ananjeva, Natalia B., Milto, Konstantin D., Barabanov, Andrei V. & Golynsky, Evgeny A., 2020, An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia, pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 4722 (2) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3605815
Pornography as a Logical and Psychoanalytic Issue
Creators: name: De Távora Sparano, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The topic of pornography raises many philosophical, political, moral, legal, and psychoanalytic questions. The latter addresses the issues of sex, pleasure, and domination, and consequently the real of the body. Pleasure and jouissance, valued by Lacanian psychoanalysis, have, in the word, in the structure and in the movement of the four discourses (of the master, the university, the hysteric, and the analyst), plus the discourse of the capitalist, as well as in the mathemes of sexuation, a possibility of circumventing the void left by the jouissance (as evidenced in pornography). It is through language that a possibility arises for the theme to be read and the subjects 'listened to', following the psychoanalytic norm of floating attention, in the analysis of social and sexual relationships.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No 2 (2024): Brazilian Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Selective plant growth using D-amino acids
Creators: name: Bosacchi, Massimo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Selectable marker genes are essential for the efficient selection of transgenic plants. Heterologous genes used as markers typically encode enzymes that neutralize a toxic compound, allowing for positive selection of plants containing the marker. We report on the efficacy of a novel marker gene system that exploits the varying phytotoxicity of D-amino acids and their oxidative deamination products. Our investigation of a putative DAAO gene from Schizosaccharomyces pombe reveals sufficient oxidative deaminase activity to confer D-alanine and D-serine tolerance to transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants carrying the heterologous spDAAO gene. We have demonstrated that the spDAAO, when used in conjunction with D-alanine, allows for the positive selection of primary transformants at levels comparable to hygromycin. Additionally, our selection scheme carries the potential for negative selection in the presence of different selection substrates, such as D-valine or D-isoleucine. This attribute, known as conditional selection would provide particular utility to applications involving site-specific recombinase mediated marker gene removal.
‘Bisexuality’ in the Origins of Psychoanalysis
Creators: name: Namba, Janaína
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Many authors have examined texts by Freud that belong to the “prehistory” of psychoanalysis. They deal with anatomy, physiology and neuropathology and date from the period from 1876 to 1886. In this article we examine some of these texts and point to some consequences of the study of this beginning of Freudian psychoanalytic thought.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No 2 (2024): Brazilian Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
The impact of firm, individual, and government choice on health outcomes
Creators: name: Bowblis, John R.
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Year: 2008

description: This dissertation is comprised of three essays that consider how choices made by firms, individuals, and governments have impacts on health outcomes.  In the first essay, a legislative policy shock is used to determine why nursing home facilities converted to a new ownership type and how these conversions subsequently lead to changes in the quality of care provided between 1999 and 2004.  As a result of a legislative change in reimbursement policy, nearly five percent of nursing homes converted.  Conversions from a not-for-profit to for-profit was found to be associated with a decrease in the use of physical restraints while the proportion of residents with pressure ulcers in facilities that converted from for-profit to not-for-profit increased.  The second essay analyzes how promotion of sickness insurance by the government contributed to the reduction in the infant mortality rate in six European countries between the Franco-Prussian War and the Great War.  The results suggest that for every additional percentage point of the adult population that is covered by sickness insurance infant death rates declined by additional 0.39 to 1.11 deaths per 1000 live births in this period.  The final essay studies how individual choice to purchase insurance affects out-of-pocket expenditures on antidepressant medications by elderly Medicare recipients.  This essay discusses the econometric problems faced in the estimation of medical expenditures and finds that the average out-of-pocket expenditure on antidepressants decreases with supplemental insurance.
Can regulatory takings litigation cause a chilling effect?  A study of law and federal environmental regulation
Creators: name: Botello-Samson, Darren
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Year: 2008

description: The classical story of regulatory takings litigation, which demands compensation under the Fifth Amendment from regulatory agencies which restrict property use and/or development, predicts that such litigation can cause a chilling effect, or a reduction in an agency's regulatory output, to offset and/or avoid such compensatory demands.  Such predictions are based on assumptions rooted in economic analyses of law and regulatory behavior.  Quantitative, qualitative, theoretical, and legal analyses were conducted on takings litigation involving two federal environmental programs, the Endangered Species Act and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, to test the acceptability of such assumptions.   By interpreting such litigation through the lens of legal pluralism, an anthropological approach to the study of law when multiple legal traditions exist in the same space and time, the nature of takings litigation as a dialectic and hermeneutic evolution between the constitutional codification of property rights and the common law traditions of nuisance and public welfare is revealed.  Regulatory takings law is, therefore, not an economic equation determining some restrictions compensable and others not; it is a fluid body of law, heavily determined by contexts of meaning which, themselves, change over time and place.  From this perspective, the perceptions of regulatory agents become central, as the likelihood of a chilling effect is dependent upon their perceptions of their own powers and responsibilities under takings jurisprudence and their enabling statutes.  Interviews with such personnel revealed that any chilling effect caused by takings litigation must overcome institutional constraints which shape those agents' perceptions and awareness of takings and environmental legal rights and responsibilities.  These institutions include the external and internal fragmentation of regulatory decision-making, the presence of an agency culture of enforcement, the particulars of the relationship between the regulators and the regulated, and the effect of a maintained regulatory presence of the program, shaping the perceived acceptability of property restraints necessary for successful implementation.
Delta de Saussure 1855
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Delta

description: Genus Delta de Saussure, 1855
Delta de Saussure 1855: 130, 132, 143, name for divisions II and III of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1852: 44, 60. Type species: Vespa maxillosa De Geer, 1775 [Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758], by subsequent designation (Bequaert 1925a: 137), erroneously as Sphex maxillosus De Geer, corrected by Bequaert 1926: 487. Senior subjective synonym of Phi de Saussure, 1855 (type species: Vespa arcuata Fabricius, 1775) and of Erinys Zirngiebl, 1953 (type species: Vespa unguiculata Villers, 1789 by monotypy). Raised to generic rank by Blüthgen 1953: 3.
Delta: Carpenter 1986: 68; van der Vecht & Carpenter 1990: 18; Nguyen 2015b: 95 –96.
Diagnosis. Mandibles elongate, longer than length of clypeus, teeth absent or inconspicuous. Clypeus little longer than wide, shallowly emarginate or widely truncate apically. Cephalic foveae absent. Vertex narrow and sloping behind lateral ocelli. Anterior face of pronotum smooth and shiny without medial pits or foveae. Thorax globular in shape, longer than wide (Fig. 13). Pronotal carina usually incomplete, not developed on lateral sides of pronotum. Notauli absent. Pretegular carina present (Fig. 18). Epicnemial carina absent on mesepisternum. Tegula longer than wide, generally rounded or weakly emarginate adjoining parategula, posterior end not reaching end of parategula (Fig. 25). Scutellum generally convex. Metanotum not dentate. Axillary fossa wide (Fig. 25). Propodeal dorsum below plane of metanotum, sloping posteroventrally. Superior carina absent. Propodeal orifice wide dorsally. Submarginal carina not produced as pointed/rounded process above valvula. Propodeal vuvlula not separated from submarginal carina posteriorly. Metasoma petiolate, petiole length less than 1.25 × length of mesosoma, never shorter than mesosoma (Figs 64, 76) (this character distinguish Delta from closely related Phimenes and Oreumenoides). T1 usually smooth and wider in apical half. S1 rather gradually widening towards apex, lateral margins of T1 not meeting ventrally usually visible along entire petiole length (Fig. 69). Apical margin of T2 not lamellate (Fig. 73). S2 usually concave medially. Mid tibia with one apical spur. SMC2 basally acute. Prestigma equals or little longer than pterostigma. Ƌ: F11 hooked, pointed apically, longer than previous ones; F8 with a cavity on its inner margin (Fig. 12). Body length usually more than 20 mm.
Distribution. Southern Palearctic, Oriental, Australian, Ethiopian Regions and New World (introduced).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Carineta scripta Torres 1948
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Carineta
Carineta scripta

description: Carineta scripta Torres, 1948
Carineta scripta Torres 1948a: 118 (type material examined).
T ype locality. Jujuy, Argentina.
Remarks. The species was reported from Catamarca, Salta, and Tucumán Provinces in Argentina (Torres 1948a; Hayward 1960).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Expression and analysis of ricin A chain in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Creators: name: Baricevic, Marianne Michelle
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Year: 2008

description: Ricin is a ribosome inactivating protein (RIP) isolated from ricinus communis, the castor bean plant.  RIPs catalytically depurinate an adenine residue from the highly conserved sarcin/ricin loop in the large ribosomal RNA subunit, rendering the ribosome unable to translate protein.  Due to its potential use as a bioweapon, understanding how ricin gains access to and depurinates ribosomes is of high importance.  There is currently no approved vaccine or treatment for ricin intoxication.  Learning the residues that are critical for ricin toxicity and enzymatic activity may help to generate a potential vaccine for ricin exposure.  Here, I describe an analysis of ricin A chain (RTA), the enzymatic subunit of ricin, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.  The results provide evidence that ricin cytotoxicity is not necessarily a result of ribosome depurination and translation inhibition, ricin utilizes components of the ER Association Degradation (ERAD) pathway to reach the cytosol from the ER and the C-terminus of RTA is essential for enzymatic activity and protein translocation across the ER membrane.
Creep resistance and strain-rate sensitivity of nanocrystalline materials
Creators: name: Barai, Pallab
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Year: 2008

description: A micromechanics-based continuum model is developed to determine the creep resistance and strain-rate sensitivity of the nanocrystalline materials. The solid is idealized as a two (or three) phase composite, where the grains were treated as spherical inclusions, the grain boundary as the matrix and the pores/voids as the third phase (if present in the solid) of the composite. The strain of an individual phase is taken to be the sum of elastic and creep/viscoplastic components. Within the elastic context the homogenization scheme is developed based on the Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka approach. The Laplace transform was used to convert the linear elastic homogenizationmethod to a linear viscoelastic one, and then to convert the viscoelastic response to viscoplastic one, during which the Maxwell viscosity of the viscoelastic phases is replaced by the secant viscosity of the viscoplastic phases. A nonlinear-rate dependent constitutive equation is assumed for both the grain interior and grain boundary to calculate the secant viscosity of the individual phase at a given stage of deformation. The drag stress of the grain interior is assumed to follow the Hall-Petch effect, but that of the grain boundary phase is taken to be size-independent. By using the field-fluctuation method, the effective stress (or effective strain rate) of the constitutive phase is derived in terms of the applied stress (or applied strain rate). The change in porosity under different loading conditions is also incorporated within the model.The validity of the model was verified by comparing the predicted stress-strain results with the experimental data of Sanders et al. [42], Wang et al. [43] and Wang et al. [44] for the creep response, and Khan et al. [48] and Khan and Zhang [49] for the constant strain-rate loading. The model is capable of capturing both hardening and softening of material as grain size decreases from coarse grain to the nanometer range. The latter characteristic is also known as the inverse Hall-Petch effect and this occurs in both creep and constant strain-rate response. As a result, the critical grain size at which the solid has maximum strength can be estimated using this method. With the presence of porosity, the developed model is also able to capture the nonlinearity in the stress-strain plot under hydrostatic loading.
The effects of causal beliefs on the stigmatization of obesity
Creators: name: Bannon, Katie
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Year: 2008

description: Weight disorders and overeating are increasingly being labeled as addictions. It is important to identify and understand the consequences of this label for the stigmatization of obese individuals, the treatments to which they are assigned, and the anticipated outcomes of those treatments. This study was designed to determine whether causal beliefs about the etiology of obesity affect participants' attitudes toward obese individuals. It also examined participants' beliefs about prognoses and appropriate treatments. In a 2x3 between-subjects design, undergraduate students from Rutgers University (N=374) were assigned randomly to one of six conditions.  Participants read a scenario about either an obese woman or an obese woman with binge eating disorder (BED) followed by an account of the cause of her obesity as a psychological disorder, a biological addiction, or a disorder of ambiguous origins (Cause). Participants then completed a battery of questionnaires designed to assess stigma and beliefs about the person and her treatment and prognosis. The Cause manipulation check revealed no difference between groups and there were no significant differences between the Cause conditions on any of the dependent measures. Participants in the obesity with BED condition rated obese persons as less attractive and more to blame for their weight, and indicated that they desired more social distance from obese persons compared with participants in the non binge eating condition. Participants also judged obese persons with binge eating disorder as having a more severe illness, to be more likely to drop out of treatment, and rated their illness as less curable.  The demonstration of the importance of obese persons' behavior (binge-eating) has important implications for understanding the stigmatization of this disorder. Future work should examine treatment attributions and prognostic beliefs of mental and physical health professionals, and of obese individuals with and without binge eating disorder.  Efforts at stigma reduction should target binge eating as well as obesity.
Gradient estimates for the conductivity problems
Creators: name: Bao, ShiTing
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Year: 2008

description: We establish both upper and lower bounds of the gradient estimates for solutions to the perfect conductivity problem in the case where perfect (stiff) conductors are closely spaced inside an open bounded domain. These results give the optimal blow-up rates of the stress for conductors with arbitrary shape and in alldimensions. While for solutions to the insulated conductivity problem we also obtain an upper bound of the gradient estimates.