cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mechanisms underlying effects of genetic variance and general anesthetics on pentameric ligand-gated ion channels.
Creators: name: Murlidaran, Sruthi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Two main projects involving molecular dynamics simulation of GABAAR and a collaborative project involving simulations of GLIC receptor are presented in this thesis. The first project involves analyzing and comparing the conformational and functional changes between WT and K289M GABAAR receptor. The second project involves calculating binding affinity for propofol, an intravenous anesthetic, at sites identified experimentally and verified using MD simulations in GABAAR receptor. With comparatively lesser experimental knowledge for binding sites of sevoflurane, we use flooding simulation in addition to MD simulations to find exact binding sites and understand the pathway of binding. The third project involved running MD simulations of a prokaryotic pLGIC, GLIC, a bacterial proton-gated homolog, to understand how the lipid-facing M4 helix modulates channel function.  Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels mediate chemical transmission of nerve signals, when an agonist binds the ECD of the channel, leading to pore opening in the TMD. While various crystal structure of these channels has provided extensive information regarding the neurotransmitter binding sites, open/close conformations, it is still challenging to understand the microscopic interaction that drives this allosteric transition between the ECD to TMD. Molecular dynamics is an effective technique in guiding us to take a closer look at the residue level interactions. Using MD, we show how the difference in electrostatic interactions at the ECD-TMD in GABAAR interface causes the channel to open in case of the WT and destabilize the open state in case of the K289M. Similar computational approaches reveal lipid penetration disrupting the interactions within the TMD helices of the 5ALA-GLIC mutant receptor which validates the reduced channel function in these receptors, as identified by experimentalists. In addition to traditional MD simulations, biased computational techniques, like AFEP helped us isolate putative binding sites, and quantify and rank binding affinities for two commonly used intravenous (Propofol) and inhalational (Sevoflurane) anesthetic, that has experimentally shown to target GABAAR receptors. Furthermore, we are able to compare and explain the protein-anesthetic interactions that cause their affinities to different binding sites in the receptor.
Neptis kupe Aduse-Poku, Lohman & Richardson, 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Aduse-Poku, Kwaku
name: Lohman, David J.
name: Richardson, Ian D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Neptis
Neptis kupe

description: Neptis kupe sp. nov. (Fig. 6)
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 89E58A84-519B-4E2D-AC5B-026DFB151772
In January 2012, Robert Tropek undertook a collecting expedition to Mount Kupe (Koupé) in West Cameroon and captured a specimen with facies similar to those of Neptis lugubris Rebel 1914. This expedition was followed up in April the next year by Szabolcs Sáfián, Robert Tropek, and Marianne Espeland who captured further specimens of this N. lugubris -like species. An ABRI-commissioned collector captured a further specimen the following year. Subsequent molecular analysis showed that the Mt. Kupe specimens are distinct from N. lugubris, and these are described here as Neptis kupe sp. nov. It will be shown that these two species can also be separated by the facies.
Holotype: ♂ Mt. Kupe, Cameroon, 04°48ʹ N, 09°42ʹ E, 1500–1900 m, iv.2014; ABRI-152668, ABRI collector.
Paratypes: ♂ same locality, 7–10.iv.2014, Sáfián, Tropek, Espeland, ANHRTUK00214937, ANHRT collection; ♀: same locality, i.2012, Tropek, ANHRTUK00214938, ANHRT collection; 1 unknown sex: same locality, 7– 10.iv.2014, Sáfián, Tropek, Espeland, ABRI-152667, ABRI collection.
description: Published as part of Aduse-Poku, Kwaku, Lohman, David J. & Richardson, Ian D., 2022, Revision of the genus Neptis Fabricius, 1807 (Papilionoidea: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region, Part 4: The phylogeny of the Nysiades group with eight new species, pp. 130-163 in Metamorphosis 33 (1) on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.4314/met.v33i1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/14682409
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN FILM PRESERVATION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Emeka, Joseph Adeyemi
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Preservation, Digitization, Restoration, Potentials, Pitfalls

description: This paper highlights the pitfalls and potentials of digitization of film heritage in the archival domain. The largest issue encountered by the global archive community would be the recent transition from analog to digital technology in the capture, post-production, and distribution of cinematographic works. Due to the emergence of new platforms for access and the fact that digital copies are not susceptible to the same wear and tear as analogue film elements, digitization of historical films has the potential of enabling access on a larger scale. The conflict between the necessity to preserve originals and the need to offer access has been somewhat lessened by digitization. By acting as stand-ins for quick access or as backup copies in case original materials are lost or damaged, digital versions serve preservation functions. Also, negatives that are losing their information value can be preserved by digitization in order to extend access to them and preserve their content. The value of digitization as a preservation tactic has been hotly contested. Despite the benefits of digitization, there are significant technological, legal, financial, and curatorial obstacles or pitfalls that must be addressed in order to realize the potentials
Scapheremaeus digitatus Wang 1998
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus digitatus

description: Scapheremaeus digitatus Wang, 1998
Scapheremaeus digitatus Wang, 1998, 256, figs. 5a,b
Type depository: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Type locality: Mount Jianfeng, Hainan Province, CHINA. Habitat: soil.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Uranium availability and the breeder decision
Creators: name: Holdren, John P.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1974

description: The high priority assigned by the Federal government to the early development and commercial deployment of the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) is attributed by some to the supposition that, without the breeder, a supply-price squeeze on uranium will soon materialize. The present paper examines this supposition by considering the technology and economics of uranium utilization in nonbreeder reactors, in the context of available information about uranium resources at various prices and projections of the growth of nuclear power through 2020. Reactor characteristics, cost sensitivities, and estimates of uranium resources used here are based largely on publications of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The results show that existing reactor technologies -- light-water reactors (LWRs), high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs), or a mix of these -- could meet even the most enthusiastic projections of the expansion of nuclear generation through 2020 from presently known domestic uranium supplies, exploitable at $50 per pound of U_3O_8 or less. The increment in electricity costs that arises from increasing uranium prices in the absence of commercial breeder reactors is about 1 mill/kwhe in 2000 and about 2 mills/kwhe in 2020 in the worst case (very high growth, no HTGRs), and significantly less in more plausible cases. In the prospective of the probable costs of the alternatives, these increments are modest; for example, the breeder's greater insensitivity to the cost of uranium ore could easily be cancelled out if capital costs for the LMFBR prove higher than early estimates.

Briefer attention is given here to potential difficulties with rapid expansion of uranium mining operations, with enrichment capacity, and with environmental impact of mining low grade ores. Timely action in the first two areas would be required to meet high growth projections, but no fundamental obstacles are apparent. The environmental issue needs more study, but on present evidence does not constitute a persuasive case for an early commitment to the LMFBR. It is concluded that the urgency often ascribed to early deployment of LMFBRs on grounds of uranium availability is, in fact, illusory.
description: © 1974 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Research Applied to National Needs (RANN), under Grant No. GI-29726.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo8.pdf
Probing critical spin fluctuations with a composite magnetoelectric method: A case study on a Kitaev spin liquid candidate Na$_3$Co$_2$SbO$_6$
Creators: name: Mi, Xinrun
name: Li, Xintong
name: Zhang, Long
name: Wang, Aifeng
name: Li, Yuan
name: Chai, Yisheng
name: He, Mingquan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In correlated quantum materials, divergent critical fluctuations near the quantum critical point are often closely associated with exotic quantum phases of matter, such as unconventional superconductivity and quantum spin liquids. Here we present a simple yet highly sensitive composite magnetoelectric (ME) method for detecting the critical spin fluctuations in quantum magnets. The ME signal is proportional the magnetostriction coefficient, which directly probes the product of magnetization and spin-spin correlation. As a demonstration, the composite ME method is applied to a Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidate Na$_3$Co$_2$SbO$_6$, which shows signs of magnetic field-induced quantum criticality. Notably, the ME signal prominently diverges at the magnetic field-induced tricritical points, particularly at a tricritical point that lies in close proximity to a zero-temperature quantum critical point. A crucial aspect of these tricritical points is their tunability through the modification of the in-plane magnetic field's direction. The direction of magnetic field can thus serve as a handful yet important tuning parameter, alongside pressure and chemical doping, for searching quantum critical points in quantum magnets with pronounced magnetic anisotropy.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Scapheremaeus emarginatus Hammer 1966
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus emarginatus

description: Scapheremaeus emarginatus Hammer, 1966
? Scapheremaeus emarginatus Hammer, 1966, 44, fig. 54.
Type depository: Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen.
Type locality: Mirror Lake, Rotorua; Millford Sound, NEW ZEALAND. Habitat: moist moss under ferns and tall trees, Rotorua; thick, moist moss and dead branches in Nothofagus forest, Millford Sound.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Pomacentrus philippinus Evermann & Seale 1907
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus philippinus

description: Pomacentrus philippinus Evermann & Seale 1907 — Philippines damselfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Allen & Erdmann (2012: 621); a video of a specimen taken east of Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District, 2–38 m depth, St. KR 44, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken off southeastern New Hanover, at 6–21 m depth, St. KR 124, in 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Maldives and Andaman Sea east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal and seaward reefs, 1–12 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Scapheremaeus eugenius Rios & Palacios-Vargas 1998
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus eugenius

description: Scapheremaeus eugenius Rios & Palacios-Vargas, 1998
Scapheremaeus eugenius Rios & Palacios-Vargas, 1998, 209, fig. 14.
Type depository: Department of Biology, Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico, Mexico City. Type locality: Puerto “Los Mazos”, Sierra de Manantlan, Jalisco, MEXICO. Habitat: from mosses, 1450 masl.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Additional file 3: of Efficacy and safety of pertussis vaccination for pregnant women â   a systematic review of randomised controlled trials and observational studies
Creators: name: Furuta, Marie
name: Sin, Jacqueline
name: Ng, Edmond
name: Wang, Kay
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Risk of bias assessment. The risk of bias assessment for all included studies using the Cochrane collaboration risk of bias tools (DOCX 16Â kb)
Scapheremaeus fimbriatus Michael 1890
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus fimbriatus

description: Scapheremaeus fimbriatus (Michael, 1890)
Eremaeus fimbriatus Michael, 1890, 422, pl. 37, fig. 6.
Scapheremaeus fimbriatus: Grandjean, 1934, 114, Fig. 5 e.
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Algiers, ALGERIA.
Habitat: no data given.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Proposal for an Air Pollution Alert System for the South Coast Air Basin
Creators: name: Heitner, Kenneth
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1972

description: The purpose of this proposal is to provide a meaningful alert plan for the South Coast Air Basin that could also be useful in other basins. The key element of the proposal is the calling of a significant number (10-20 per year) of alerts on the days when air pollution levels are predicted to be most severe. During these alerts, definite and enforceable restrictions on use of motor vehicles would be in effect to sharply reduce and/or eliminate pollution from this source. In addition, alert conditions would restrict certain types of industrial and commercial activity. Finally, better health warning information would be provided to allow the most sensitive fraction of the population to avoid exposure to conditions cannot tolerate.

We begin the discussion defining measures of pollution severity based on both the average level and exposure time as a basis for deciding on what measures should be taken. The specific control measures are suggested based on the current distribution of the emissions from various sources. They would limit the emissions of the sources with the highest emission factors first, but progressively tighten the control as the severity of the pollution increases.

A procedure for predicting when alerts will occur is described. This procedure will minimize the disruption involved in calling an alert by taking advantage of the natural diurnal cycle of human activities in the basin. It also recognizes that there is a time lag in the build-up of secondary pollutants (oxidant and NO_2) and that emissions of primary pollutants (hydrocarbons and NOx) must be restricted before the atmospheric reaction takes place.

Finally, we give estimates of how often different levels of alert would typically be called, based on the suggested levels. The use of alerts as an incentive to adopt low emissions technology and/or adopt activities that reduce the per capita pollution, such as car pooling, will also be discussed.
description: © 1972 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Research Applied to National Needs, (RANN), under Grant No. GI-29726.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo1.pdf
What type of inference is planning?
Creators: name: Lázaro-Gredilla, Miguel
name: Ku, Li Yang
name: Murphy, Kevin P.
name: George, Dileep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiple types of inference are available for probabilistic graphical models, e.g., marginal, maximum-a-posteriori, and even marginal maximum-a-posteriori. Which one do researchers mean when they talk about "planning as inference"? There is no consistency in the literature, different types are used, and their ability to do planning is further entangled with specific approximations or additional constraints. In this work we use the variational framework to show that, just like all commonly used types of inference correspond to different weightings of the entropy terms in the variational problem, planning corresponds exactly to a different set of weights. This means that all the tricks of variational inference are readily applicable to planning. We develop an analogue of loopy belief propagation that allows us to perform approximate planning in factored-state Markov decisions processes without incurring intractability due to the exponentially large state space. The variational perspective shows that the previous types of inference for planning are only adequate in environments with low stochasticity, and allows us to characterize each type by its own merits, disentangling the type of inference from the additional approximations that its practical use requires. We validate these results empirically on synthetic MDPs and tasks posed in the International Planning Competition.
description: Camera-ready version update
An examination of pathways to college and away from crime among youth residing in single-mother households located in an at-risk community
Creators: name: Previ, Barbara
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Dangerous communities that are filled with poverty present youth with obstacles to escaping the at-risk community such as high crime rates, failing schools, and community violence.  Children living in these disadvantaged neighborhoods also suffer a multitude of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) including parental separation and divorce, leading to the child being raise in a single-mother household.  The extant literature on single-mother households describes the host of problems that children from these families have, but fail to address how children from single-mother households can escape the at-risk community and achieve academic success.  This investigation explores the methods in fostering success among a sample of college students and graduates who grew up in Camden, New Jersey.  Respondents (N=41) shared their perceptions of how their mothers helped them become academically successful while also shielding them from the crime, drugs, and poverty within their homes and neighborhoods.
Gender disparity for women in collegiate sport administrative positions, examining candidate pools and the selection process
Creators: name: Reiter, Annette
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: While Title IX has been monumental in creating more opportunities for females playing college sports, an unforeseen consequence of Title IX has been the decrease of women coaches and administrators at the collegiate level. Prior to Title IX, 90 percent of women’s collegiate teams were coached by females; today that number is just 43 percent. What accounts for this decrease in the percentage of women coaches at the collegiate level? Research has suggested that there are cultural and social mechanisms in place, exposing the gender inequalities that women face in male dominate sport administrative positions. The focus of this inquiry is to examine the formation of candidate pools and the selection process and attempt to find solutions to a gendered balance workforce.  Regardless of the cause, to what extent should college administrations be held accountable for responding to social influences on the gendered construction of their applicant pool, and what, if anything, should they do to incorporate changes to improve gender balance in athletic leadership?
Refinable modeling for unbinned SMEFT analyses
Creators: name: Schöfbeck, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present techniques for estimating the effects of systematic uncertainties in unbinned data analyses at the LHC. Our primary focus is constraining the Wilson coefficients in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT), but the methodology applies to broader parametric models of phenomena beyond the standard model (BSM). We elevate the well-established procedures for binned Poisson counting experiments to the unbinned case by utilizing machine-learned surrogates of the likelihood ratio. This approach can be applied to various theoretical, modeling, and experimental uncertainties. By establishing a common statistical framework for BSM and systematic effects, we lay the groundwork for future unbinned analyses at the LHC. Additionally, we introduce a novel tree-boosting algorithm capable of learning highly accurate parameterizations of systematic effects. This algorithm extends the existing toolkit with a versatile and robust alternative. We demonstrate our approach using the example of an SMEFT interpretation of highly energetic top quark pair production in proton-proton collisions.
description: 54 pages, 13 figures
Periodic Motor Vehicle Inspection as a Smog Abatement Measure in the South Coast Air Basin
Creators: name: Easterling, Mahlon
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1973

description: It is well known that emissions from motor vehicles are the major cause of smog in the South Coast Air Basin. In an attempt to reduce  the smog a strategy has been adopted by the State of California based on the idea of reducing emissions from each vehicle per mile driven rather than restricting the number of vehicles or the amount any vehicle is operated. The principal elements of this strategy are three. The one is a set of emission standards for new vehicles which becomes more severe with each model year until 1975 when the federal emissions standards become effective. The second is a program whereby existing vehicles are retrofitted with one or more emission control devices whenever the Air Resources Board determines that appropriate devices are both effective and available. The third is a system of tax exemptions designed to encourage the conversion of existing vehicles to burn gaseous fuels. This paper discusses periodic motor vehicle inspection and maintenance as a fourth element which could be incorporated into the strategy to complement the existing measures.

There is abundant experimental evidence to show that each of the three measures in the present strategy is capable of materially reducing emissions. Unfortunately there is a growing body of data that shows that the measures are often not as effective as they might be. Usually the reason that a measure is ineffective on a particular vehicle is that the vehicle is malfunctioning or misadjusted. It is a truism that any vehicle will emit more if it is malfunctioning or misadjusted than if it is operating properly. Depending on the nature of the malfunction or misadjustment the excess in emissions may be anywhere from a few percent to several hundred percent. For the very low emission vehicles to be produced in the latter half of this decade it is expected that certain not too uncommon kinds of malfunction would increase their emissions by several thousand percent. The periodic inspection and mandatory maintenance discussed below is intended to return improperly operating vehicles to proper operation and thus cause each vehicle to achieve its normal level of emissions rather than some higher level.
description: © 1973 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Research Applied to National Needs (RANN), under Grant No. GI-29726.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo2.pdf
Scapheremaeus fisheri Aoki 1966
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus fisheri

description: Scapheremaeus fisheri Aoki, 1966
Scapheremaeus fisheri Aoki, 1966, 772, fig. 8.
Scapheremaeus fisheri: Chakrabarti & Bhaduri, 1972, 500.
Type depository: Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
Type locality: Midway Island, HAWAIIAN ARCHIPELAGO.
Habitat: from nest of Diomedea immutabilis (Aoki, 1966); from humus and decaying leaves of an ornamental tree (Polyanthia longifolia) (Chakrabarti & Bhaduri, 1972).
Distribution: Midway Island (Aoki, 1966); India (Chakrabarti & Bhaduri, 1972).
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
A construction of the Stone–Čech Compactification and dynamical applications
Creators: name: Salvatore, Nicholas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The ultimate goal of this thesis is to present how the Stone–Čech Compactification can be used to capture the asymptotic behavior of dynamical systems.    We will first cover preliminary definitions and properties of dynamical systems and $varepsilon$-semigroups. Then we will construct the Stone-Cech compactification using ultrafilters. The final section will recharacterize the dynamical structures in the first section in terms of the Stone-Cech Compactification and contain a proof of the Auslander Ellis lemma.
Making space in the Anthropocene
Creators: name: Silcox, Nicholas R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Ecocrticism has often prioritized the reversal or resistance of ecological collapse, often articulating a desire to return to a pre-Anthropocene moment. However, ecocriticsm does not often articulate a way of being present with ecological catastrophe. This is crucial  given that climate change has already begun to reshape our world and way of life. I argue that the theoretical framework of “unworlding” provides a model of being-with catastrophe. I argue that ecocriticsm should be attuned, not to worldbuilding narratives, but the ways in which these narratives unworld our world. Speculative fiction and genre fiction contribute to the opening up of ecological possibility by acknowledging the mesh of ecology and calling attention to the objects that occupy the space of ecology.  “Something is terribly wrong.” This is the opening of the digital serial 17776, a multimedia, experimental work of fiction released on sbnation.com. The initial page, a feigned sports journalism article erupts into a sprawling narrative in which humans no longer die, they are immortal. To pass the time, humans play “open-world” style football games. The use of games in the text contributes to unworlding. Specificially, the use of gaming in the narrative allegorizes the experience of reading speculative fiction, the creation of worlds that expose the mesh of ecology. The use of gaming at the level of form unworlds the world for the reader through upending traditional readerly expectations. Gaming is a mechanic of unworlding. Speculative fiction and gaming share a relationship in that they are worldbuilding activities and both call attention to the mesh of ecology. Both are acts of unworlding. Ecocrticism would benefit from a broader consideration of speculative fiction for its ability to contribute to a process of unworlding, a necessary theoretical framework for living in and through the Anthropocene and ecological catastrophe.
Pomacentrus reidi Fowler & Bean 1928
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus reidi

description: Pomacentrus reidi Fowler & Bean 1928 —Reid's damselfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen in a video of a specimen taken in Nissel Passage, Kavieng District, at 6–22 m depth, St. KR 4, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Eastern Indonesia and Philippines east to Palau and Vanuatu, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in seaward reefs and deep lagoons, 12– 70 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Neptis jamesi Aduse-Poku, Lohman & Richardson, 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Aduse-Poku, Kwaku
name: Lohman, David J.
name: Richardson, Ian D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Neptis
Neptis jamesi

description: Neptis jamesi sp. nov. (Fig. 12)
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: E5A4EA66-C88C-44B9-B644-0C49CBCBD393
Six specimens of N. jamesi from the north-eastern DRC have been barcoded. One of these, a male in the ABRI collection, was selected as the holotype and is shown in Fig. 12 along with a female paratype and specimens of N. nanciae.
Holotype ♂: Kithokolo, Nord- Kivu, DRC, 01°10ʹ S, 29°13ʹ E, 1900–2000 m, xi.2014, ABRI-152959, ABRI collection.
Paratypes 2♂ and 3♀: data shown in Table 2.
description: Published as part of Aduse-Poku, Kwaku, Lohman, David J. & Richardson, Ian D., 2022, Revision of the genus Neptis Fabricius, 1807 (Papilionoidea: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region, Part 4: The phylogeny of the Nysiades group with eight new species, pp. 130-163 in Metamorphosis 33 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.4314/met.v33i1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/14682409
Insights into the Structured Coordination Game with Neutral Options through Simulation
Creators: name: McAlister, John S.
name: Fefferman, Nina H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91A25 (Primary), 91A43 (Secondary)

description: Coordination games have been of interest to game theorists, economists, and ecologists for many years to study such problems as the emergence of local conventions and the evolution of cooperative behavior. Approaches for understanding the coordination game with discrete structure have been limited in scope, often relying on symmetric reduction of the state space, or other constraints which limit the power of the model to give insight into desired applications. In this paper, we introduce a new way of thinking about equilibria of the structured coordination game with neutral strategies by means of graph partitioning. We begin with a few elementary game theoretical results and then catalogue all the Nash equilibria of the coordination game with neutral options for graphs with seven or fewer vertices. We extend our observations through the use of simulation on larger Erdős-Rényi random graphs to form the basis for proposing some conjectures about the general relationships among edge density, cluster number, and consensus stability.
Additional file 2: of An optimized background regimen design to evaluate the contribution of levofloxacin to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment regimens: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Bouton, Tara
name: Phillips, Patrick
name: Mitnick, Carole
name: Peloquin, Charles
name: Eisenach, Kathleen
name: Ramonde Patientia
name: Lecca, Leonid
name: Gotuzzo, Eduardo
name: Gandhi, Neel
name: Butler, Donna
name: Diacon, Andreas
name: Martel, Bruno
name: Santillan, Juan
name: Hunt, Kathleen
name: Vargas, Dante
name: Groote-Bidlingmaier, Florian Von
name: Seas, Carlos
name: Dianis, Nancy
name: Moreno-Martinez, Antonio
name: C. Horsburgh
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: OPTI-Q Study protocol version 1.6. This document provides the full protocol for the OPTI-Q Study as of 21 January 2014. (DOCX 323 kb)
Additional file 2: of ENCoRE: an efficient software for CRISPR screens identifies new players in extrinsic apoptosis
Creators: name: TrĂźmbach, Dietrich
name: Pfeiffer, Susanne
name: Poppe, Manuel
name: Scherb, Hagen
name: Doll, Sebastian
name: Wurst, Wolfgang
name: Schick, Joel
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ENCoRE Quick Guide for downloading and processing CRISPR screens with ENCoRE. (PDF 942 kb)
Identity politics, social media and the 2016 presidential election
Creators: name: Urban, Eric
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This capstone project explored the impact social media had on the presidential election of 2016.  As social media became integrated more into American culture, presidential candidates took advantage of the ability to connect to their constituents on a personal level.  The American public was also able to become current on national and global events, allowing them to become political watchdogs.  As Americans became more informed, they found that their position in politics and identity politics was seen as their ideologies were not being met and the government did provide for them.  Their personal views on various issues may not be met by the current system, thus they aligned with candidates that shared similar ideologies.  Social media allowed the candidate and the public to speak together to voice their concerns.  Politicians aimed to meet the needs of the public and the public used social media identities to leverage their voting power.   Though identity politics is seen on both sides, Trump was able to speak to a “silent majority” repeatedly on social media on a personal yet broad level, attracting voters that the previous president seemed to have ignored.  Hillary Clinton appealed to specific social groups that could possibly have had their political needs unmet elected.  This paper provided an overview of how each candidate used social media to appeal to a politically divided nation in 2016.  Facebook and Twitter are the two main social media platforms discussed in this research.
Analysis of an Evaporative Controls Retrofit Program for the South Coast Air Basin
Creators: name: Heitner, Kenneth
name: Williams, Randall G.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1973

description: The retrofitting of evaporative control systems to pre-l970 model light duty vehicles is one of the few viable options available to speed up the rate of reduction of reactive hydrocarbon emissions over the next few years. (All l970 and later light duty vehicles were required by California how to be fitted with evaporative control systems.) The purpose of this paper is to give a more detailed analysis of this particular retrofit option.

The pre-l970 vehicle population of the South Coast Air Basin is analyzed back to 1962 to find which makes and models will continue to constitute a major fraction of the vehicle population over the next few years. These are the vehicles that it will be most practical to retrofit, since a retrofit kit can cover a large number of vehicles.

On the basis of this population analysis, we have made a series of case studies, illustrating how the new vehicle control technology can be adopted to the retrofit situation. The cost of the materials and labor are estimated in detail, in order to obtain a realistic idea of typical retrofit costs.

The possibility of a partial retrofit of controls covering either the carburetor or the fuel tank is also discussed.

Finally, the legal status of the retrofit situation is reviewed. The cost of a retrofit program covering 65 percent of the eligible vehicles is estimated at about 200 million dollars for the South Coast Air Basin. This is a 'one time' cost, which could be spread over a 1-2 year retrofit program.
description: Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Research Applied to National Needs, (RANN), under Grant No. GI-29726.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo3.pdf
Temperature dependency of predator-prey interactions
Creators: name: Walker, Ryan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Temperature dependency of consumer–resource interactions is of fundamental importance for understanding and predicting the responses of food webs to climate change. Previous studies have shown temperature-driven shifts in herbivore consumption rates and resource preference resulting from differences in resource nutrient content, but little is known about the role of nutrition in temperature-driven shifts in predator-prey interactions. I performed a laboratory experiment to study the effects of increased temperatures and prey macronutrient content (lipid dense or protein dense) on interaction strengths and predator nutrition using wolf spiders (Pardosa sp) as study model. Additionally, I tested the effects of local thermal adaptation or acclimatization on predator nutritional demands using a field reciprocal transplant experiment between low (26°C) and high (15°C) elevations using two common spider species (Leucauge sp and Cyclosa sp) present along the elevation gradient. Spider feeding rates increased with warmer temperatures, but feeding responses differed depending on prey macronutrient content. Spiders fed lipid dense prey showed a sharp, rapidly saturating increase in feeding rates while those fed protein dense prey showed more gradual increases with increasing temperature. My transplant experiment revealed that populations from Leucauge sp and Cyclosa sp consistently showed higher prey mass consumption at the low elevation/warmer site than their counterparts from a high elevation/cooler site. The strong elevation differences on prey mass consumption are consistent with acclimatization responses to contrasting thermal environments. Overall, rising temperatures affected predator-prey interactions by increasing the strength of interactions and the demands of both, energy and protein by predators. Further, my findings suggest that spiders are able to increase their feeding rates and prey mass consumption in response to temperature changes over a short time period, which might represent important buffers against climate change.
Pomacentrus simsiang Bleeker 1856
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus simsiang

description: Pomacentrus simsiang Bleeker 1856 —Moluccan damselfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken east of North Cape, Kavieng District, 3–20 m depth, St. KR 20, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Micronesia and Papua New Guinea. Found in silty shoreline reefs and lagoons, 1–10 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Scapheremaeus flamiferus Palacios-Vargas & Rios 1998
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus flamiferus

description: Scapheremaeus flamiferus Palacios-Vargas & Rios, 1998
Scapheremaeus flamiferus Palacios-Vargas & Rios, 30, figs. 1–4.
Type depository: Museo Entomologico, Leon, Nicaragua. Type locality: “Las Delicias”, Leon, NICARAGUA. Habitat: ex. Tillandsia sp. on Crescentia alata, tropical forest. Distribution: Nicaragua, Mexico.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Childhood adversity and social support as factors in student veterans' academic outcomes
Creators: name: Vanacore, Sarah
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: As veterans enter higher education at great numbers, colleges and universities have struggled to find ways to support them. This study considered factors that may affect student veterans’ educational outcomes through two sets of analyses. The first set of analyses addressed three research questions related to the main effects and moderation of childhood adversity, social support, and veteran status on grade point average (GPA). The second set of analyses considered veterans in closer detail, investigating whether social support protects student veterans from worse educational outcomes associated with childhood adversity. I hypothesized that both childhood adversity and veteran status will have independent, negative relations with GPA and that veterans with a history of childhood adversity would have lower GPAs than their civilian peers. I also hypothesized that social support would moderate the relation between childhood adversity and GPA in the sample of student veterans. However, this study did not support these hypotheses. This may suggest that there were other variables involved, such as other lifetime experiences, or protective factors that I did not measure.
Neptis nanciae Aduse-Poku, Lohman & Richardson, 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Aduse-Poku, Kwaku
name: Lohman, David J.
name: Richardson, Ian D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Neptis
Neptis nanciae

description: Neptis nanciae sp. nov. (Fig. 12)
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Two specimens of N. nanciae from high elevation forest in the north-eastern DRC have been barcoded. One of these, a male in the ABRI collection, is selected as the holotype and is shown in Fig. 12 along with a female paratype and specimens of Neptis jamesi.
Holotype: ♂ Kithokolo, Nord- Kivu, DRC, 01°10ʹ S, 29°13ʹ E, (-1.1667°, 29.2167°), 1900–2000 m, vi.2014, ABRI-150683, ABRI collection.
Paratype: ♀ Kithokolo, Nord- Kivu, DRC, 01°10ʹ S, 29°13ʹ E, (-1.1667°, 29.2167°), 1900–2000 m, v.2012, ABRI-152952, ABRI collection
description: Published as part of Aduse-Poku, Kwaku, Lohman, David J. & Richardson, Ian D., 2022, Revision of the genus Neptis Fabricius, 1807 (Papilionoidea: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Afrotropical Region, Part 4: The phylogeny of the Nysiades group with eight new species, pp. 130-163 in Metamorphosis 33 (1) on pages 141-142, DOI: 10.4314/met.v33i1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/14682409
A class of ghost-free theories in symmetric teleparallel geometry
Creators: name: Bello-Morales, Antonio G.
name: Jiménez, Jose Beltrán
name: Cano, Alejandro Jiménez
name: Maroto, Antonio L.
name: Koivisto, Tomi S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theories formulated in the arena of teleparallel geometries are generically plagued by ghost-like instabilities or other pathologies that are ultimately caused by the breaking of some symmetries. In this work, we construct a class of ghost-free theories based on a symmetry under Transverse Diffeomorphisms that is naturally realised in symmetric teleparallelism. We explicitly show their equivalence to a family of theories with an extra scalar field plus a global degree of freedom and how Horndeski theories and healthy couplings to matter fields can be readily accommodated.
description: 11 pages, no figures. V2: 13 pages, added clarifications and references, matches published version
Scapheremaeus foveolatus Mahunka 1987
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus foveolatus

description: Scapheremaeus foveolatus Mahunka, 1987
Scapheremaeus foveolatus Mahunka, 1987, 262: figs. 22–25.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889