cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trichocoelina magnifica Vilkamaa & Menzel 2019, sp. n.
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Trichocoelina
Trichocoelina magnifica

description: Trichocoelina magnifica sp. n.
Figs 7 B, 9 C, 17 F
Material studied. Holotype male. CANADA, Yukon, North Fork Crossing, Mi 43, Peel Plt. Rd., 3500 ft, 4.VII.1962, R.J. Leech, 1 male (in CNC). Paratypes. CANADA, same data as holotype but 26.VI.1962, 1 male (in MZH); Yukon, Ogilvie Mountains, 7.VII.1962, P.J. Skitsko, 1 male (in MZH).
Description. Male. Head. Colours faded in the specimens studied. Eye bridge 2 facets wide. Face with 10–19 fine setae. Clypeus with 2 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 segments, 1 st segment longer than 3 rd segment, 2 nd segment shortest; 1 st segment with 1–2 setae, with a dorsal patch of sensilla; antennae missing in the specimens studied. Thorax. Colours faded. Anterior pronotum with 6–9 setae. Proepisternum with 13–15 setae. Scutellum with 3 longer and some short and fine setae. Wing. Fumose. Length 2.0– 2.2 mm. Width/length 0.40. Anal lobe weak. Veins distinct. c/w 0.55. R 1 /R 0.60–0.65. stM and fork of M subequal in length. r-m and bm subequal in length. bM non-setose, r-m with 3–4 setae non-setose. Legs. Colours faded. Fore tibial organ forming a small patch of strong setae in depression. Fore tibial spur longer than the tibial width. Abdomen. Colours faded. Hypopygium (Fig. 7 B). Intergonocoxal area long, basally with strongly sclerotized medial stripe, with two distinct setose lobes. Gonocoxa broad, as long as gonostylus, medial margin basally smoothly curved, with normal setosity. Gonostylus (Fig. 9 C) large, laterally roundish, apically slightly narrowed, medially impressed; with short setosity, with a short apical tooth, one megaseta with strong basal body at the apical third and a group of 3 megasetae on common basal body in a more basal position, on the dorsal side of the latter a group of 10–12 megasetae, megasetae rather straight, longer than apical tooth; with a long whiplash seta on ventromedial margin near the basalmost megasetae. Tegmen (Fig. 17 F) longer than broad, apically narrowed, with sharp corners at middle, sclerotized, with large area of small aedeagal teeth. Aedeagal apodeme moderate.
BIN. Unknown.
Discussion. Trichocoelina magnifica sp. n. resembles T. nefrens sp. n. in having a highly modified tegmen and one outstanding medial megaseta, but differs from the latter in its broader tegmen, in having an apical tooth and lacking any subapical megasetae on the gonostylus. See also under T. hians sp. n.
Etymology. The name is Latin, magnifica, referring to the magnificent structure of the hypopygium.
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Upper Middle to upper Miocene seismic sequences, New Jersey middle to outer continental shelf
Creators: name: Degirmenci, Tuce
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The Miocene stratigraphic succession on the middle to outer continental shelf off New Jersey, immediately south of the Hudson Canyon, is examined using high-resolution 2D multichannel seismic (MCS) and log data to evaluate sequence stratigraphic models, aided by results of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 313. High sedimentation, associated with extensive progradation and aggradation, provides a higher resolution record in this region than elsewhere on the shelf. The study of 29 MCS profiles and 4 gamma-ray logs identified and loop-correlated 14 Miocene sequences. Based on log interpretations, highstand systems tracts are associated with most of these 14 sequences; only 3 (sequences A, C, D) exhibit lowstand and transgressive systems tracts.     Topset and foreset deposits on the middle to outer continental shelf are thicker than those on the inner shelf due to pronounced aggradation and progradation. This pattern is attributed to middle to late Miocene deltaic progradation and migration combined with sediment compaction and loading that created the accommodation space for these especially thick shallow-marine deposits.    Seismic profiles provide a means of anticipating sedimentary facies based on the vertical and lateral arrangement of reflectors within sequences, even in the absence of geologic samples and wireline log measurements. This study evaluates models of sequence stratigraphic evolution by utilizing high sedimentation rates, gamma-ray logs and seismic profiles available in this area. Sequence A shows the importance of drill site data. Using cores and logs, IODP Exp313 showed the maximum flooding surface is the first major downlap surface within sequence A, implying this interval is dominated by thick highstand deposits. By contrast, the widely cited Exxon model predicts that this and all sequences have thick lowstand units containing multiple flooding surfaces, overlain by comparatively thin highstand deposits. Furthermore, the present study showed not all sequences are alike. Shell-632 gamma-ray data reveals thick lowstand and transgressive strata in sequence D, and thin highstand strata consistent with the Exxon model. In contrast, many other sequences examined here have thin lowstand and transgressive systems tracts either below seismic resolution or absent, and thick highstand systems tracts that agree with the model built on Expedition 313 studies.
A summary of climate change impacts and preparedness opportunities for the water resources sector in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This report provides an assessment of water resources based perspectives on the topic of adaptation planning for climate change in New Jersey, including strategies related to (1) the availability and delivery of fresh water and (2) the management of waste water and storm water. The analysis will not include the effects of climate change on habitat or fisheries, as these topics will be covered under the natural resources and agriculture scoping papers, respectively. Any current New Jersey efforts as well as current and planned adaptation practices and strategies in other states are presented as the basis for a series of recommendations to address additional needs as a starting point for discussion and prioritization of comprehensive adaptation planning for New Jersey.
Additional file 1: of The use of smartphones to influence lifestyle changes in overweight and obese youth with congenital heart disease: a single-arm study
Creators: name: Rombeek, Meghan
name: Jesus, Stefanie De
name: Altamirano-Diaz, Luis
name: Welisch, Eva
name: Prapavessis, Harry
name: Seabrook, Jamie
name: Norozi, Kambiz
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*. (DOC 121Â kb)
Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure-shed: Process, approach, tools, and strategies
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: While current rates of sea level rise and associated coastal flooding in the New York City region appear to be manageable by stakeholders responsible for communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure, projections for sea level rise and associated flooding in the future, especially those associated with rapid icemelt of the Greenland and West Antarctic Icesheets, may be outside the range of current capacity because extreme events might cause flooding beyond today’s planning and preparedness regimes. This paper describes the comprehensive process, approach, and tools for adaptation developed by the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) in conjunction with the region’s stakeholders who manage its critical infrastructure, much of which lies near the coast. It presents the adaptation framework and the sea-level rise and storm projections related to coastal risks developed through the stakeholder process. Climate change adaptation planning in New York City is characterized by a multi-jurisdictional stakeholder–scientist process, state-of-the-art scientific projections and mapping, and development of adaptation strategies based on a risk-management approach.
New Jersey and the surging sea: A vulnerability assessment with projections for sea level rise and coastal flood risk
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, and the scientific community is confident that global warming is the most important cause. Higher sea levels translate to more and higher coastal floods.Using local sea level projections based on scenarios from a technical report for the National Climate Assessment, this analysis finds a 3-in-4 chance of historically unprecedented coastal flooding in the northern New Jersey/New York Harbor area by 2100, assuming sea level rises on the fast end of the spectrum; or a 1-in-10 chance under a slow rise scenario as might be expected under reduced carbon emissions. We find that sea level rise from warming has already increased the likelihood of extreme flooding in the area – flooding high enough to seriously threaten the PATH transit system – by 50%.285 square miles of land lie less than 5 feet above the high tide line in New Jersey. This land is home for 295,000 residents, 23% of whom live in just 3 zip codes. $112 billion in property value sits on the same land, as do some 2,100 miles of road, 1,&00 EPA-listed sites, and 45 public schools. These numbers grow by more than half when assessed at 9 feet above the high tide line – Sandy’s peak flood elevation as measured at the Battery in New York City, and most likely close to the peak flood height at Sandy Hook, NJ, as well.In the coastal and low-lying counties of New Jersey, the most socially vulnerable populations are twice as likely than the population as a whole to be flooded at either level.This updated report is being released as a summary of findings coincident with the upgrade of a New Jersey Surging Seas Risk Finder online tool, accessible at http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/ssrf/new-jersey/.
2014 multi-jurisdictional all-hazard mitigation plan, Ocean County, New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The Plan is the result of work by citizens of Ocean County to develop a pre-disaster, multi-hazard mitigation plan to guide the County towards greater disaster resistance, and also respect the character and needs of the community. The Plan has been prepared to meet requirements set forth by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management (NJOEM) in order for the County to be eligible for funding and technical assistance from state and federal hazard mitigation programs. This plan includes a community profile and asset inventory as well as discussion of: its planning process; risk assessment of natural,  human-made, and climate change hazards; capability assessment; mitigation strategy; plan maintenance; and plan adoption.
Hemipepsis vindex Smith 1855
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Hemipepsis
Hemipepsis vindex

description: Hemipepsis vindex Smith, 1855
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Oman (Schmid-Egger, unpublished), Saudi Arabia (Abu Zoherah et al. 1993 as Salius vindex), Yemen (Kohl 1906 as Salius (Hemipepsis) extraneus Kirby, 1900; Wahis 2000a).
Extralimital distribution: Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe (Arnold 1932; Guiglia 1955).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of miR-200b downregulates CFTR during hypoxia in human lung epithelial cells
Creators: name: Bartoszewska, Sylwia
name: Kamysz, Wojciech
name: Jakiela, Bogdan
name: Sanak, Marek
name: Jarosław Króliczewski
name: Bebok, Zsuzsa
name: Bartoszewski, Rafal
name: Collawn, James
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Endogenous levels of miR-200b in NHBEC, Calu3 and 16HBE14o- cells. (A) Comparison of CFTR mRNA (white) and miR-200b (grey) relative levels between NHBEC (primary cells), Calu3 and 16HBE14o- cells during normoxic conditions. CFTR mRNA levels from 2 independent experiments (n = 8) are plotted normalized to 18S rRNA levels and expressed as a fold change over the NHBEC levels. miR-200b levels from 2 independent experiments (n = 8) are plotted normalized to RNU48 levels and expressed as a fold change over the NHBEC levels. (B) NHBEC, Calu3 and 16HBE14o- cells were transfected with miR-200b antagomir (left) or mimic (right) and the miRNA levels were monitored in qRT-PCR experiments. miR-200b levels from 2 independent experiments (n = 8) are plotted normalized to RNU48 levels and expressed as a fold change over the transfection control. Error bars represent standard deviations (SD). Significant changes (P
Trichocoelina olschwangi Vilkamaa & Menzel 2019, comb. n.
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Trichocoelina
Trichocoelina olschwangi

description: Trichocoelina olschwangi (Mohrig & Mamaev, 1983) comb. n.
Literature. Lycoriella (Hemineurina) olschwangi Mohrig & Mamaev—Mohrig et al. (1983a) 12, fig. 2 a–d; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 410, figs 382–384.
New records. CANADA, Yukon, Ogilvie Mts., North Fork Pass, 4100 ft, 21.VI.1962, P. J. Skitsko, 1 male (in CNC); USA, Colorado, Mt. Evans, Summit L. (Lake), Flats, 24.VII.1961, C.W. Mann, 1 male (in MZH).
BIN. Unknown.
Discussion. The species was described from one male from Southern Yamal by Mohrig & Mamaev in Mohrig et al. (1983a) and redescribed by Menzel & Mohrig (2000). The species differs from all other Trichocoelina in in its gonostylus having a peculiar median lobe with a few megasetae pointing in different directions.
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Stakeholder engagement report: Agriculture
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This report documents work on behalf of the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance to understand climate change preparedness in New Jersey’s agriculture sector.  This outreach process has been conducted to inform development of public policy recommendations to enhance climate change preparedness in New Jersey. An online survey instrument was administered to representatives of the agriculture community and in-depth one-on-one interviews were conducted with representatives of various stakeholder groups, to complement the surveys. This report is a summary of stakeholder perceptions, observations, needs and recommendations based on these surveys, interviews and focus groups.
Hemipepsis vestitipennis Turner 1918
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Hemipepsis
Hemipepsis vestitipennis

description: Hemipepsis vestitipennis Turner, 1918
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Wahis 2000a).
Extralimital distribution: Somalia, Uganda (Guiglia 1940; Wahis 2000a).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
title: Ayote, Calabaza de Castilla, Calabaza Moscada, Calabaza Pellejo, Chicamita, Lacayote, Sequaloa, Zapallo :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Butternut Squash

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Vulnerable populations to climate change in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this report is to identify vulnerable populations to climate change, which are specific to New Jersey. In doing so, the report aims to identify the characteristics of these groups and where concentrations of these populations are located in the state. To demonstrate the potential impacts to these communities from environmental hazards related to climate change, flooding and future sea-level rise is examined. Lastly, programs aimed at enabling communities to assess their own vulnerabilities will be discussed.
The politics of Atlanta’s public housing
Creators: name: Drake, Akira
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this research is threefold: to theorize the political viability of the public housing development as a political opportunity structure; to understand the creation, marginalization, and demolition of this political opportunity structure in Atlanta; and to explicate the movements from within the public housing development that translated to a more empowered residential base, and more livable communities in Atlanta, GA between the 1936 and 19&5.  The literature on the positive productive functions of public housing is interspersed within the literature on the politics of public housing policies (at the national level), the politics of public housing developments (at the local level), the production of a racial geography in the City of Atlanta, and the productive functions of welfare institutions (including, but not limited to, public housing developments).  Further, this project attempts to understand empirical benefits of political opportunity structures, particularly as it relates to low-income and minority housing movements in the city of Atlanta.  Theoretically, political opportunity structures provide a neutral platform for low-income city dwellers that have historically been denied the legal means to challenge neighborhood change, and participate in formal urban political processes and institutions.  In fact, low-income groups have routinely been uprooted from their neighborhoods, contained to specific areas of the city, while those of greater means invoke a litany of legal obstructions (from restrictive covenants to lot size requirements) to prevent the free movement of low-income residents.  Thus, political opportunity structures that are permanently housed in low-income and minority neighborhoods are the theoretical response to the disparities in political opportunity and collective efficacy between socioeconomic groups in the city.  Using the case study examples of University Homes, Perry Homes, and Grady Homes, this dissertation examines the uses of public housing developments in Atlanta as political opportunity structures for low-income and working-class African-Americans from 1936 to 19&5.  The research uses a historical methodology of data collection to create a grounded theory of racial politics in the city, as well as to analyze the production of equitable outcomes and processes in the urban planning process through public housing developments.
Active low-power modes for main memory
Creators: name: Deng, Qingyuan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Main memory is responsible for a significant fraction of the energy consumed by servers. Prior work has focused on exploiting memory low-power states to conserve energy. However, these states require entire ranks of DRAM to be idle, which is difficult to achieve even in lightly loaded servers. In this work, we propose three techniques for exploiting active low-power modes to conserve full-system energy, while remaining within user-prescribed performance bounds. The first technique, called MemScale, creates active memory system low-power modes by applying dynamic voltage and frequency scaling to the memory controller and dynamic frequency scaling to the memory channels and DRAM devices. The second technique, called CoScale, coordinates the CPU and main memory active low-power modes to avoid instability and increase energy savings. The third technique, called MultiScale, tackles servers with multiple memory controllers, by coordinating the active low-power modes across the controllers.  Our extensive results demonstrate that the three techniques reduce full-system energy consumption significantly, compared to prior approaches, while consistently remaining within the user-prescribed performance bounds. We conclude that the potential benefits of those three mechanisms and policies more than compensate for their small hardware cost.
Prevalence of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome among Women in Rural area and the Outskirts of Baghdad
Creators: name: Khansaa H.M
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Background: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder affecting women of reproductive age. It is characterized by irregular menstrual cycles, excess androgen levels and polycystic ovaries. PCOS poses significant health burden due to its associated reproductive, metabolic and psychological complications. Most of the existing research on PCOS epidemiology has been conducted in urban areas. However, rural populations could be at different risk due to environmental and lifestyle factors distinct from urban settings.

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of PCOS among women in rural area and outskirts of Baghdad.

Methodology: This will be a cross sectional study conducted in rural and outskirts across Baghdad. Among the 3370 patients, 131 individuals have been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and have visited the outpatient clinic between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022. Their objective of visiting was to undergo screening, determine the reasons, and receive suitable therapy for their condition. Written informed consent will be obtained and participants will be asked to fill a questionnaire including demographic details, medical history, lifestyle factors etc. Clinical and biochemical assessment including body mass index, waist circumference, hormone (testosterone, progesterone) levels and transvaginal ultrasound will be done to diagnose PCOS status according to the Rotterdam criteria. Collected data will be entered and analyzed using SPSS software.

Anticipated Results: The study expects to find 66.3% of PCOS cases were in the age less than 25 years old; 92.8% were married; 42% had a high school education; 65% were obese and 74.2% of them had a history of infertility. Only 1.2% had a repeated abortion and 24.6% had irregular menstrual periods. The findings emphasize the need for targeted healthcare strategies that address the unique needs of this population. By raising awareness, improving access to healthcare services, and promoting healthy lifestyles, the burden of PCOS can be reduced, and the overall well-being of women in rural areas can be improved
A systematic study of phosphorescent probes in cryosolvents, amorphous solids, and proteins
Creators: name: Draganski, Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: A systematic comparison was made of four different phosphorescent probes: erythrosine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and vanillin.  Over a large temperature range, phosphorescence decays were collected for each in a 3:1 glycerol-water (v/v) mixture, a well characterized glass-forming solvent.  The molecular mobility results were compared to fluctuations in the solvent as determined by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy.  The rate of non-radiative decay of each probe followed the solvent fluctuations at different temperature ranges and with differing degrees of efficiency.    Phosphorescence of two single-tryptophan proteins, human serum albumin (HSA) and a 20-amino acid tryptophan cage mini-protein, was collected in glycerol-water solvent.  The results are consistent with the solvent slaving model in that the activation energy for the observed rate of non-radiative transition for the tryptophan residue matches that of specific solvent motions.   In the glassy state, Arrhenius-like behavior reveals that the probe mobility is dominated by a low-energy vibrational process.  As temperature is raised above Tg, the probe motions become increasingly driven first by β-fluctuations of the protein hydration shell, and eventually by α fluctuations of the bulk solvent.    The effect on protein dynamics of an amorphous solid matrix was investigated.  Free tryptophan and HSA were embedded in glucose, sucrose, maltose, and trehalose glasses.  Tryptophan phosphorescence decays were collected over a wide temperature range.  Temperature correlations between protein mobility and bulk mobility were generated.  In the glassy state, despite a significantly faster process in the protein than in the bulk, Arrhenius-like behavior revealed similar energetics.  Both values climb in similar fashion until the Tg of the bulk matrix is approached, where there is a decoupling of matrix and protein dynamics. The fluorescence of pyranine bound to HSA probes the water in the protein’s hydration shell.  The sugars are seen to dehydrate the hydration shell to different degrees.
Hemipepsis sabulosa
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Hemipepsis
Hemipepsis sabulosa

description: Hemipepsis sabulosa (Smith, 1855)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Wahis 2000a).
Extralimital distribution: Egypt, West Africa (Arnold 1932; Priesner 1955).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of invasion success in a mosquito
Creators: name: Egizi, Andrea M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The label ‘invasive’ is most often applied to exotic species that have established and spread, frequently becoming so abundant that they have negative impacts on humans and ecosystems. Understanding what factors promote invasiveness may allow us to better manage the impacts of exotic species. In my dissertation I strive to elucidate ecological and evolutionary processes responsible for the success of an emerging invasive mosquito, Aedes japonicus japonicus, a cold-adapted species from Asia with established populations in Europe, North America, and surprisingly, in sub-tropical Hawaii. In Chapter 1, I report the results of laboratory experiments examining the interactions between larvae of Ae. j. japonicus and another invasive mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, and associated microbial fauna. In a high temperature experiment, Ae. j. japonicus only survived when Cx. quinquefasciatus, a tropical and pollution-tolerant species, was present. Treatments with Cx. quinquefasciatus contained significantly lower numbers of a protozoan flagellate that is potentially toxic to Ae. j. japonicus. From these findings I speculate that some invasive mosquitoes can ameliorate habitat conditions allowing other species to exploit new geographic areas and microhabitats, the first time that facilitation between mosquitoes has been proposed. In Chapters 2 and 3, I describe the genetic structure of Ae. j. japonicus across elevational gradients in Hawaii and Virginia, respectively. In Hawaii, populations at warmer low elevations display signatures of bottlenecks, including lower genetic diversity and greater genetic differentiation, which support the findings from Chapter 1 that this species survives poorly at warm temperatures. In Virginia, I also observed elevational differences in genetic patterns consistent with temperature-mediated selection, though frequent long-distance dispersal events (probably human-mediated transportation along roads) augment genetic diversity within low elevation populations. In summary, I postulate that Ae. j. japonicus has profited from habitat amelioration by co-occurring mosquitoes and from long-distance transport by humans. In fact, I hypothesize that humans have driven the post-establishment evolution of invasiveness in this mosquito, both by increasing genetic diversity though population admixture and by exposing it to novel selective pressures. These results underline the importance of preventing multiple introductions and restricting gene flow between exotic populations in order to limit their evolutionary potential.
Additional file 1: of Repeat testing for chlamydia trachomatis, a â  safe approachâ   to unsafe sex? a qualitative exploration among youth in Stockholm
Creators: name: Nielsen, Anna
name: Costa, Ayesha De
name: Danielsson, Kristina
name: Salazar, Mariano
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Interview guide Youths. (DOC 31 kb)
Trichocoelina planilobata Vilkamaa & Menzel 2019, sp. n.
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Trichocoelina
Trichocoelina planilobata

description: Trichocoelina planilobata sp. n.
Figs 12 A, 13 C, 18 E
Material studied. Holotype male. FINLAND, Li (Lapponia inarensis), Utsjoki, Pummankijoki (grid 7759292:539670), sandy river bank, pitfall trap, 13.VI–13.VII.2016, J. Salmela (in MZH).
Description. Male. Head. Face and antenna pale brown, maxillary palpus pale yellowish. Eye bridge 3–4 facets wide. Face with 20 setae. Clypeus with 1 seta. Maxillary palpus with 3 segments, 1 st segment longer than 3 rd segment, 2 nd segment shortest; 1 st segment with 1 seta, with a large dorsal patch of sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres smooth, body of 4 th antennal flagellomere 2.3x as long as wide, the neck shorter than broad, the longest setae longer than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Dark brown, setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 5 setae. Proepisternum with 12 setae. Scutellum with 4 longer and some short and fine setae. Wing. Fumose. Length 1.7 mm. Width/length 0.40. Anal lobe rather weak. Veins distinct. c/w 0.70. R 1 /R 0.50. stM shorter than fork of M. r-m longer than bM, both non-setose. Halter yellow. Legs. Yellow, coxal setae pale. Fore tibial organ forming a rather large patch in shallow depression. Fore tibial spur longer than the tibial width. Abdomen. Pale brown, setae pale and rather long. Hypopygium (Fig. 12 A). Brown, as abdomen. Intergonocoxal area moderately long, with very broad, apically divided setose lobe (Fig. 18 E). Gonocoxa moderately broad, longer than gonostylus, medial margin strongly curved, with sparse setosity, ventroapically with denser setosity. Gonostylus (Fig. 13 C) long, broadest medially, apically truncate; impressed; with normal setosity, a long apical tooth, and one dorsal, two subapical and two medial megasetae; megasetae longer than tooth, basally angulate; with one well-differentiated whiplash seta on ventromedial margin. Tegmen broader than long, strongly sclerotized, aedeagal teeth not detectable in the specimen studied. Aedeagal apodeme rather long and strong.
BIN. Unknown.
Discussion. Trichocoelina planilobata sp. n. can be distinguished from all other congeneric species by its very broad intergonocoxal lobe of hypopygium. For further discussion, see under T. dispansa sp. n.
Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin words plana, flat, and lobus, lobe, referring to the broad intergonocoxal lobe of the hypopygium.
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Hemipepsis Dahlbom 1843
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Hemipepsis

description: Hemipepsis sp.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Oman (Monks et al. 2019).
Remarks: This entry involves a species that may be the same as a named species appearing above.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Additional file 2: of Quality assurance of the SCOPE 1 trial in oesophageal radiotherapy
Creators: name: Wills, Lucy
name: Rhydian Maggs
name: Lewis, Geraint
name: Jones, Gareth
name: Nixon, Lisette
name: Staffurth, John
name: Crosby, Tom
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: SCOPE1 Trial Radiotherapy Procedures Document. (PDF 2300Â kb)
Bad girls
Creators: name: Francis, Leigh-Anne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation analyzes the intersections of gender, race and class by exploring crime, punishment, labor and community in New York City and Auburn Prison. “Bad Girls” focuses primarily on African American women while offering comparisons with European immigrant and native-born white women criminals and inmates. Most histories of African American women prisoners privilege white reformers’ views. My dissertation centers the perspectives of the convicts. Additionally, these historical studies present women’s criminal activity primarily as a moral problem; my dissertation argues that crime was a form of work for many black women. It also explores the community, relationships, beliefs and practices that imprisoned women forged to survive their incarceration.  In the post-Civil War era, the vast majority of African American women lived in severe poverty. Recognizing that acute social, political, and economic vulnerabilities are race and gender specific, “Bad Girls” argues that efforts to overcome them led many black women to commit crimes in order to survive or support their family. Most of those sent to Auburn were poor New York City residents – including many southern migrants – for whom theft helped meet basic needs. Given black women’s limited access to legitimate work, it is not surprising that some turned to illegal work to sustain themselves, in part or in full.   Bad Girls” also examines imprisoned women’s resistance to penal policies and practices. Female inmates established multi-racial, multi-ethnic communities that helped them survive incarceration. Yet African American, European immigrant, and native-born white women still constituted discrete groups with distinct cultural practices. In 1913, Auburn inmates acquired a degree of self-determination following an undercover investigation by Madeleine Doty, a white middle class reformer. As a result of Doty’s expose, inmates were allowed to organize a Prisoner’s League that challenged longstanding and abusive policies. White working-class matrons experienced their efforts as an attack on their position. This struggle between the all-white prison matrons and the mixed-race community of inmates, ultimately, resulted in the disbandment of the League. Still, this history suggests that even as the penitentiary shaped and transformed incarcerated women, so too did incarcerated women shape and transform Auburn prison.
Slice filtration and torsion theory in motivic cohomology
Creators: name: Fu, Knight
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Year: 2014

description: We show that the category HI of homotopy invariant Nisnevich sheaves with transfers and the category CycMod are each equipped with a strong filtrations and a strong cofiltration. To do so, we first define pre-coradicals and coradicals on well-powered abelian categories, and show that every isomorphism class of coradical is associated to a canonical torsion theory. We then summarize the theory of motivic cohomology needed to define HI, its symmetric monoidal structure and its partial internal hom. Along the way, we recall the construction of the slice filtration on DM;{eff,−}, and extend the filtration structure on DM;{eff,−} to DM.  We then define and construct the torsion filtration on HI by constructing a sequence of coradicals. We explain how the torsion filtration is related to the slice filtration on DM;{eff,−}. We extend the torsion filtration to the category HI7* of homotopic modules. Appealing to the categorical equivalence between HI7* and CycMod, we obtain the torsion filtration on CycMod. Finally, we generalize the conditions under which torsion filtrations exist for the heart of a tensor triangulated category.
Reliability analysis for systems subject to degradation and shocks
Creators: name: Ghorbani, Sara
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Year: 2014

description: Engineering systems usually deteriorate due to some underlying degradation processes and possibly random shocks. Accurate modeling of the effect of these processes on the system leads to better system reliability estimation. This dissertation investigates the impact of degradation processes and random shocks on systems and studies the optimal maintenance policies for such systems.   We develop new reliability models which offer more realistic system reliability estimation. Model 1 considers the effect of system’s age on shock damage magnitudes. This is due to the fact that systems become more vulnerable to shock damage magnitudes as it ages. Model 2 extends Model 1 by considering the correlation between degradation processes and accumulated shock damages. Both models assume that the shock damage magnitudes are s-independent and time-variant. For each model, the system reliability expression is developed and the associated parameter estimation method is presented. Numerical analyses and Monte Carlo simulation are conducted on different parameters of reliability expression to validate the analytical reliability expressions.  Furthermore, we develop a generalized threshold-type condition-based maintenance (CBM) policy for a system subject to multiple competing risks including degradation process and sudden failure where the maintenance is considered to be imperfect. The objective of this study is to obtain the optimal preventive maintenance threshold maximizing system’s average availability. The model can also accommodate the correlation among multiple failure modes. The special case of such a system subject to two independent competing risks, degradation and sudden failure is studied where the degradation process is described according to Model 2. Finally, numerical optimization analyses and sensitivity analyses on optimum policy are conducted and presented accordingly.
Hemipepsis yemenita Wahis 2000
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Hemipepsis
Hemipepsis yemenita

description: Hemipepsis yemenita Wahis, 2000
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Wahis 2000a).
Extralimital distribution: Somalia (Wahis 2000a).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Java atropos Smith 1855
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Java
Java atropos

description: Java atropos Smith, 1855
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Wahis 2000a).
Extralimital distribution: South-West Asia, Tropical Africa (Wahis 2000b).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Analysis of TGFβ receptor trafficking and signaling
Creators: name: Gleason, Ryan Joseph
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Year: 2014

description: Members of the transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) superfamily function in a  compelling array of developmental processes. This family of secreted ligands, as  well as the signal transduction pathway, are highly conserved across metazoan  biology. Due to this high level of conservation, the work described in this  dissertation utilizes C. elegans as a genetic model organism to further elucidate  fundamental mechanisms of TGFβ signaling.  The Sma/Mab pathway, a conserved TGFβ pathway, regulates diverse  developmental programs such as body size and innate immunity, among others.  We performed a microarray study to uncover a system wide analysis of how such  diverse developmental programs are executed. Consistent with the regulation of  body size by the pathway, genes involved in protein synthesis, degradation, and  metabolism were upregulated by Sma/Mab signaling. In addition, genes involved  in innate immunity were also positively regulated by the pathway.  Transport of the TGFβ receptors from the plasma membrane to endosomes has  been proposed to promote TGFβ signal transduction and shape ligand gradients  throughout development. However, how the postendocytic trafficking of TGFβ  receptors contributes to the regulation of signal transduction has remained  enigmatic. In this study we set out to identify the molecular sorting complexes  that regulate the TGFβ receptors’ recycling and to determine how receptor  recycling affects signaling. Our in vivo results provide evidence that clathrindependent  endocytosis is necessary for TGFβ signaling in C. elegans.  Furthermore, we find that after internalization, two distinct recycling pathways  regulate the transport of the type I and type II receptors back to the cell surface.  Recycling of the type I receptor is regulated by the retromer complex, whereas  the type II receptor is recycled via a distinct recycling pathway regulated by  ARF-6.  Genetic screens performed in our lab based on the Sma body size phenotype  have uncovered several TGFβ signaling components. From this screen  sma-10(wk88) has been characterized as a positive regulator of TGFβ signaling.  I have shown that SMA-10 regulates the intracellular trafficking of the type I and  type II TGFβ receptors. Furthermore, my studies show that SMA-10 localizes to  both early and late endosomes.
Stochastic dilemmas
Creators: name: Goschin, Sergiu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: One of the significant challenges when solving optimization problems is addressing possible inaccurate or inconsistent function evaluations. Surprisingly and interestingly, this problem is far from trivial even in one of the most basic possible settings: evaluating which of two options is better when the values of the two options are random variables (a stochastic dilemma).    Problems in this space have often been studied in the statistics, operations research and computer-science communities under the name of "multi-armed bandits". While most of the previous work has focused on dealing with noise in an online setting, in this dissertation, I will focus on offline optimization where the goal is to return a reasonable solution with high probability using a finite number of samples. I will discuss a set of problem settings of increasing complexity that allow one to derive formal algorithmic bounds. I will point to and discuss interesting connections between stochastic optimization and noisy data annotation, a problem where the goal is to identify the label of an object from a series of noisy evaluations.    As a first contribution, I will introduce and formally analyze a set of novel algorithms that improve the state of the art and provide new insights for solving the stochastic optimization and noisy data-annotation problems. I will then formally prove a novel result: That a widely used derivative-free optimization algorithm (the cross-entropy method) is optimizing for quantiles instead of expectation in stochastic optimization settings. I will back up the theoretical claims on the optimization side with experimental results in a set of non-trivial planning and reinforcement-learning domains. Finally, I will discuss the application of the above algorithms for solving noisy data-annotation problems in a setting involving real crowdsourcing experiments.