cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Statistical distributions describing microbial quality of fresh produce in food service facilities
Creators: name: Shan, Lei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Data on the microbial food quality of fresh Ready-to-eat produces were collected in Rutgers dining services from 2001 to 2013. Total aerobic plate count, total coliforms, confirmed Bacillus cereus count were determined using standard methods. Statistical analysis was performed on foods tested more than 35 times. Statistical distributions and histograms were generated using SigmaPlot and Microsoft Excel. All data could be described using normal distributions, once data above or below the upper or lower limit detection were considered separately. The mean value of total aerobic plate count of fresh produce were ranged from 3.40 to 6.45 log CFU/g. Among all the samples, spinach, pepper and carrot had higher mean count, while apple, onion and cauliflower had the lowest mean counts. Coliforms were most commonly found in apple, broccoli, romaine lettuce and spinach, and least commonly found in pepper. The average count of total coliform count (when present) ranged from 0.60 to 3.46 log CFU/g, with carrot having highest average, while apple having the lowest average count. Bacillus cereus were most commonly detected in onion and least detected in tomato. B. cereus counts (when present) were highest on average in broccoli and lowest in pepper. Average B. Cereus counts for most produces were typically between ranged from 2 and 3 log CFU/g.
Amorphoscelis nigriventer Beier 1930
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Amorphoscelis
Amorphoscelis nigriventer

description: Amorphoscelis nigriventer Beier, 1930:
Guinea to Ghana; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Nargus (Nargus) caspicus Giachino & Vailati 2000
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Nargus
Nargus caspicus

description: Nargus (Nargus) caspicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000
Nargus (Nargus) caspicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000: 59.
Type locality: Iran, Guilan, sur Asâlem, m 1800, 37°38'N / 48°48'E.
Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Asâlem) (Giachino & Vailati 2000). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
title: 050 - Faïenciers de Nevers (Nièvre - France)
title: 050 - Earthenware Makers of Nevers (Nièvre - France)
Creators: name: Généro, Jean-Damien
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Images et édition numérique (XML, LaTeX, PDF) de *Faïenciers de Nevers (Nièvre). Tacherons-propriétaires, dans le système des engagements volontaires permanents, d'après les renseignements recueillis sur les lieux en 1864, avec une étude comparative sur la même famille en 1885, par M. Ernest de Toytot, ancien conservateur du musée céramique de Nevers*, série 2, vol. 1, fasc. 4 (1886), monographie n°50, 1887, p. 177-228.
description: Source: https://ouvriersdeuxmondes.huma-num.fr/monographie/faienciers-nevers-50
description: date: 1886-1887
Regulation of mouse behavior by ephrin-a5
Creators: name: Sheleg, Michal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Social behaviors in mammals are regulated by core neural circuits that respond to stimuli from the environment. These circuits are formed by guidance molecules and create a “map” in the brain that corresponds to sensory surface and motor effectors. Among these guidance molecules are the Eph/ ephrin family of receptor tyrosine kinases. In this study we examined the role of ephrin-A5, a ligand for the Eph receptors, in animal behavior. We found that ephrin-A5 inactivation in the mouse caused delays in the maturation of sensorimotor skills during development and defective behaviors in adult life. Specifically, ephrin-A5-/- mothers are impaired in maternal behavior in the form of nest building and pup retrieval and male null mice show severe reduction in inter-male aggression. In addition, anxiety-like behavior is reduced in both male and female null mice. An examination of the general olfactory function revealed no apparent deficit; ephrin-A5-/- mice were able to use their sense of smell to locate a flavored cereal that was buried beneath the cage bedding, they showed increased investigatory sniffs in response to new odor, and they were able to discriminate between male and female mice, suggesting that neuronal circuits that control foraging and sex discrimination are intact. However stimuli that control maternal care, inter-male aggression and anxiety may not be directed to the appropriate circuits in the null brain. We further examined molecules that have been shown to act in theses circuits such as testosterone, corticosterone, serotonin and arginine vasopressin (AVP) and found alteration in the expression of AVP in the null brain. Taken together, our studies revealed a novel role for ephrin-A5 in the development of appropriate behaviors.
Capraiola orientalis Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Capraiola
Capraiola orientalis

description: Capraiola orientalis Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Capraiola orientalis Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 790.
Type locality: Iran, Mazandaran, Gol-e-Loweh, 700 m, 37°20'N / 55°44'E.
Distribution in Iran. MaZandaran (Gol-e-Loweh) (Zoia & Rampini 1994). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Amorphoscelis laxeretis Karsch 1894
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Amorphoscelis
Amorphoscelis laxeretis

description: Amorphoscelis laxeretis Karsch, 1894:
Sierra Leone to Gabon; a forest species known to occur at Bouaflé and Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975)
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Iranobathyscia Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Iranobathyscia

description: Genus Iranobathyscia Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Iranobathyscia Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 786, type species: Iranobathyscia jeanneli Zoia & Rampini, 1994.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
An experimental study of the triangle algorithm with emphasis on solving a linear system
Creators: name: Shen, Hao
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The triangle algorithm, Kalantari [4], is designed to solve the convex hull membership problem. It can also solve LP, and as shown in Kalantari[1] solve a square linear system. In this thesis we carry out some experimentation with the triangle algorithm both for solving convex hull problem and a linear system, however, with more emphasis on the latter problem.    We first tested the triangle algorithm on the convex hull problem and made comparison with the Frank-Wolfe algorithm. The triangle algorithm outperformed the Frank-Wolfe for large scale problems, up to 10,000 points in dimensions up to 500.  The triangle algorithm takes fewer iterations than the Frank-Wolfe algorithm.     For linear systems, we implemented the incremental version of the triangle algorithm in [1] and made some comparison with SOR and Gauss-Seidel methods for systems of dimension up to 1000. The triangle algorithm is more efficient than these algorithms taking fewer iterations.     We also tested the triangle algorithm for solving the PageRank matrix by converting it into a convex hull membership problem. We solved the problem in dimensions ranging from 200 to 2200. We made comparisons with the power method. The triangle algorithm took less iterations to reach the same accuracy.     Additionally, we tested a large scale PageRank matrix problem of size of 281,903 due to S. Kamvar. Surprisingly, the triangle algorithm took only 1 iteration to obtain a solution with the accuracy of $10^{-10}$.
Assessing the viability of index insurance as an adaptation tool in a changing climate context
Creators: name: Siebert, Asher
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation contributes to the literatures on climate extremes, climate change, and financial adaptation. In a developing world context, weather based index insurance is emerging as a potential financial adaptation for poor populations that have historically been excluded from financial markets. Index insurance has potential drawbacks as well as benefits and there are a number of practical implementation challenges. However, as index insurance is sensitive to threshold crossing extreme event (TCE) frequency and as climate change renders the climate system non-stationary, there is a need to assess how the frequency of extreme events may change as the climate system evolves.   In an effort to address this research question for both hydroclimatological extremes (floods and droughts) and their associated risks, this dissertation explores the potential long-term viability of drought index insurance contracts for subsistence millet farmers and flood index insurance contracts for irrigated rice farmers in the West African Sahel nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Potential hypothetical contracts were chosen on the basis of correlation analysis and Gerrity skill analysis between multiple potential geophysical indices and national crop production data.   Monte Carlo statistical methods are used extensively to simulate future streamflow and precipitation scenarios and are integrated with global climate model projections of precipitation. TCE frequency is found to be particularly sensitive to multi-decadal variability (MDV) and to changes in the mean (and less sensitive to changes in the variability). Moderate changes in the mean can have a more than two fold impact on the TCE frequency and multi-decadal variability typical of the region is shown to have a significant effect on the likelihood of a large number of TCEs in a specified time window. These changes to TCE frequency have important implications for both the actuarial and uncertainty related costs of index insurance over time; thereby creating challenges for long term index insurance viability. While specific results are simulation dependent, the more extreme scenarios indicate that there may be important limitations to the viability of index insurance in the future.
Amorphoscelis lamottei Roy 1963
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Amorphoscelis
Amorphoscelis lamottei

description: Amorphoscelis lamottei Roy, 1963:
Guinea to DRC; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Songbird premotor nucleus hvc auditory responses are robust, dynamic, and reflect learned predictive values in awake zebra finches
Creators: name: Soyman, Efe
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Premotor and motor areas of the human brain are known to take part in various perceptual phenomena, the most significant of which is speech perception. The present study tests the involvement of a premotor vocal structure in perception of various acoustic signals, using the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), a songbird species that provides the best-studied model organism for vocal learning. Water-deprived zebra finches were trained in a differential classical conditioning task in which CS+ stimuli predicted a water reward while CS- stimuli did not result in any outcome. When stimulus discrimination reached criterion, a set of novel auditory stimuli was passively presented in the absence of water-deprivation outside of the training apparatus ~20 hours before the neural recordings.  In awake, restrained birds, electrophysiological activity in response to bird’s own song (BOS), CS+, CS-, passively familiar (PasFam), and novel stimuli was recorded from multiple sites in the vocal premotor nucleus HVC and the HVC Shelf region bilaterally. Multi-unit responses in HVC were found to be highest for BOS, followed by CS+ and Novel, which were higher than CS- stimuli. Furthermore, responses decreased in magnitude with stimulus repetition (adapted) for all stimuli except BOS. BOS-bias over Novel stimuli was found to be higher in right than in left HVC. In HVC Shelf, there was no BOS-biased activity and responses to all stimuli decreased with repeated presentation. Responsive single neurons in HVC showed the same pattern as multi-unit activity among stimulus categories, but, as a population, their responses did not adapt to stimulus repetition. Overall, the results suggest that the premotor nucleus HVC has robust and dynamic auditory responses that also reflect learned predictive values in awake zebra finches. These neural mechanisms may potentially reveal general principles that can be applied to understand the role of human speech production brain regions in recognition and discrimination of speech sounds.
Iranobathyscia jeanneli Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Iranobathyscia
Iranobathyscia jeanneli

description: Iranobathyscia jeanneli Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Iranobathyscia jeanneli Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 786. Type locality: Iran: Mazandaran, Nowshahr.
Distribution in Iran. MaZandaran (Zoia & Rampini 1994). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Estimation and adaptive equalization of communications channels
Creators: name: Sridhar Dharmarajan, Karthik
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The focus of this research is to determine the channel impulse response of a communications link and then equalize the channel to mitigate the e ffects of fading on the received signal. Traditionally, channel identifi cation is achieved using a deconvolution process implemented in the time-domain. An alternative method is to perform deconvolution, for the purpose of estimating communications channel structures, in the  wavelet transform domain. This approach is attractive for use in agile transceivers that utilize the wavelet domain for functions such as automatic modulation recognition. An equivalent method for deconvolving discrete time-domain signals within the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) framework is explained. This method of deconvolution can be applied at any level of DWT resolution from which the complete channel impulse response can be estimated. Computer simulations have been conducted to characterize the performance of the channel estimation algorithm using the Mean Square Error (MSE) criterion. The simulation experiments are performed for two di fferent channel models characterized by a Power Delay Profi le (PDP), i.e., the Gaussian PDP and the Exponential PDP. Channel conditions of slow and fast fading are considered. In addition, the faded channel output signals are corrupted by AWGN having ratios of bit energy-to-noise spectral density, Eb/N0, in the range from 0 to 30 dB. It has been found that, for both channel models, the best channel impulse response estimate is obtained from the DWT detail coe fficients at the  1st level of resolution resulting in computational effi ciency.  A novel method, based on the classic LMS algorithm, has been developed for adaptive equalization of channels in the wavelet domain. Computer simulation experiments for channel equalization show that the DWT-LMS algorithm, using a Haar wavelet, performs better than the LMS algorithm for the Gaussian PDP channel in terms of the achievable bit error probabilities.
Numerical modelling of forced convection in a cavity due to finite heat sources
Creators: name: Srigiriraju, Chandra Sekhar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The problem of forced convection in a cavity is very well know and widely studied in the field of fluid mechanics. Numerous numerical techniques are present in literature which successfully simulate the fluid flow in a cavity upto a certain degree of accuracy. This present study is inspired by the physical phenomenon of fire in a ventilated aircraft cabin. Fluid flow inside a cavity is simulated numerically and the boussinesq approximation is considered in all the simulations. The governing equations and boundary conditions are solved using a commercially available code, namely Ansys Fluent. Benchmarking is done by solving the classic problem of a differentially heated two dimensional enclosed cavity. In first part of this study a rectangular cavity with vents is considered. Heat flux is applied to the bottom wall of the cavity. The inlet velocity and the heat flux applied are considered as parameters in the simulation. Different configurations of the cavity are considered by changing the location of the inlet and outlet vents. The simulations run are laminar as well as steady state in nature. The effects of buoyancy for varying heat fluxes are considered in detail. Comparative studies are done to find the best configuration in terms of heat removal. The second part of this study involves the numerical simulation of forced convection in a two dimensional aircraft fuselage cross-section with contains two seats. The seats are modeled as zero thickness walls and a temperature gradient is created by applying heat flux to them. The simulations are transient as well as turbulent in nature. Different configurations of the cross-  iii  section are considered. The velocity vector fields and the temperature contours are studied in detail. Comparative studies are done to find the most efficient configuration for heat removal.
Amorphoscelis chopardi Roy 1962
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Amorphoscelis
Amorphoscelis chopardi

description: Amorphoscelis chopardi Roy, 1962:
Ivory Coast to Ghana; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Parbatthorax Tanasevitch 2019
Creators: name: Irfan, Muhammad
name: Peng, Xianjin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Parbatthorax

description: Genus Parbatthorax Tanasevitch, 2019
Type species
Parbatthorax unicornis Tanasevitch, 2019.
description: Published as part of Irfan, Muhammad & Peng, Xianjin, 2019, The genus Parbatthorax Tanasevitch, 2019 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) new to China, with a new species from the Gaoligong Mountains, pp. 1-11 in European Journal of Taxonomy 555 on page 2, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.555, http://zenodo.org/record/3470282
Sbordoniola Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Sbordoniola

description: Genus Sbordoniola Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Sbordoniola Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 794, type species: Bathyscia persica Abeille de Perrin, 1881.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Sbordoniola ciliata Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Sbordoniola
Sbordoniola ciliata

description: Sbordoniola ciliata Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Sbordoniola ciliata Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 801.
Type locality: Iran: Mazandaran, s/Amol, 36°17'N / 52°22'E.
Distribution in Iran. MaZandaran (Zoia & Rampini 1994). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Paramorphoscelis gondokorensis Werner 1907
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Amorphoscelidae
Paramorphoscelis
Paramorphoscelis gondokorensis

description: Paramorphoscelis gondokorensis Werner, 1907:
Senegal to Sudan; a savanna species known from several localities in Ivory Coast (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Analysis for the 2011 draft New Jersey energy master plan update
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This DRAFT presentation contains three main sections. First, it provides a summary of the New Jersey Energy Master Plan Statute and the major goals of the 2008 Energy Master Plan. Second, the presentation contains a comparison of projections made in 2008 with updated projections based primarily but not exclusively on the R/ECONTMState Economic model. Finally, the presentation contains information regarding costs of various generation technologies and associated assumptions.
Sbordoniola elburzensis Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Sbordoniola
Sbordoniola elburzensis

description: Sbordoniola elburzensis Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Sbordoniola elburzensis Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 811.
Type locality: Iran: Mazandaran, s/Tchalus, 36° 33'N / 51°23'E.
Distribution in Iran. MaZandaran (Zoia & Rampini 1994). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
The Brauer-Manin obstruction on families of hyperelliptic curves
Creators: name: Tyrrell, Thomas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In [19], Manin introduced a way to explain the failure of the Hasse principle for algebraic varieties over a number field. For curves, the problem of whether all such failures can be explained by this method is open. In this thesis, we construct unramified quaternion algebras that obstruct the existence of rational points on families of curves admitting maps to elliptic curves.  In Chapter 1, we introduce the Brauer group of a projective variety. For curves, we relate the Brauer group to torsors over the Jacobian of the curve, and establish some properties of the Brauer group over local fields that will simplify later computations.  In Chapter 2, we define the Brauer-Manin obstruction and show that it explains all failures of the Hasse principle for genus 1 curves and curves without a degree 1 rational divisor. After reviewing a topological and more computational characterization of the obstruction, we note that it suffices to consider curves that admit maps to positive rank abelian varieties. Having established the obstruction, we introduce the motivating example for this thesis - a construction by D.Quan [21] of a genus 11 hyperelliptic curve and an unramified quaternion algebra that obstructs the existence of rational points on it.  ii  The next two chapters may be roughly described as the "global" and "local" compo- nents of this thesis. In Chapter 3, we review the geometry of split Jacobians and ruled surfaces. We then use recent work of Doerksen and Bruin [2] on the characterization of (4,4)-split Jacobians to analyze the ramification of the algebra introduced by Quan.  In Chapter 4, we apply the results of the previous chapter to construct quaternion algebras on a family of hyperelliptic curves of genus 5. With the local results of Chap- ter 1, we give a new analysis of Quan’s example, and show these quaternion algebras obstruct the existence of rational points in the family.  In Chapter 5, we briefly describe a conjecture of Poonen concerning the topological characterization of the Brauer-Manin obstruction given in the second chapter. With code executed in sage, we provide additional computational evidence for the conjecture that all failures of the Hasse principle for curves are explained by the obstruction.
Negromantis modesta Giglio-Tos 1915
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Nanomantidae
Negromantis
Negromantis modesta

description: Negromantis modesta Giglio-Tos, 1915:
Ivory Coast to Gabon; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
En los umbrales de la tardomodernidad: transformaciones discursivas en cinco novelas del Caribe insular.
Creators: name: Trauger, Mirna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation explores the discursive transformations in five novels written after 1969 by Hispanic Caribbean writers.  Through a focus on language, on the relationship between history and fiction, on collective memory, and on the body, the author aims to show that these twentieth century novels straddle both modernism and postmodernism, exploring new ways of expressing their concerns while remaining rooted in modernist traditions. The first chapter examines the subversive use of proverbs, gossip, and superstition as a means of challenging the phallocentric thinking that relegates women to a position of alterity in La casa de la laguna by Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferré and in En el tiempo de las mariposas by Dominican writer Julia Álvarez.   The second chapter analyzes how Canción de Rachel, a testimonial novel written by Cuban writer Miguel Barnet, employs strategies generally associated with postmodernism in order to reevaluate the past and break free from its racist and dogmatic legacy. Rachel’s testimonial voice shares the narrative space with a plethora of other voices including the author/ethnographer’s. Their versions of the past are individual, fragmented and incomplete. The third chapter focuses on the fictionalization of history in La llegada by Puerto Rican writer José Luis González. The author analyzes the dialogue that the novel undertakes with the visual intertext, images taken from Our Islands and Their People as Seen with Camera and Pencil (1899), in order to show that historical writing as well as the photographic image are neither objective nor complete truths. In the final chapter, the author examines the strategies of transgression that are articulated from the lens of the sick body. The playful use of parody, intertextuality, ambiguity, and dispersion that distinguish Severo Sarduy’s previous works are still detectable in his last novel although they are intermixed with a desperate search for order and meaning. Sarduy opens a new discursive space for the abject body, in this case, the ill and dying body, and calls for a reinterpretation of illness that does not treat body and person as separate entities.
Single cell organizational imaging of cytoskeletal and nuclear proteins
Creators: name: Vega, Sebastian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Two major challenges plague the robust design of stem cell-derived tissues for regenerative therapies: (1) the phenotypic and functional heterogeneity inherent in stem cell cultures, and (2) the dynamic, long-term nature of stem cell responses to microenvironmental cues. Several tools have emerged to precisely characterize how stem cells respond to various stimuli and scaffold properties; however, these tools are limiting because they are population-based and rely on the detection of markers expressed in fully differentiated cells. Thus, methods to characterize individual stem cells from a population is key for establishing cell-biomaterial relationships necessary to design scalable constructs for tissue engineering applications.    This thesis dissertation focuses on the utility of single cell profiling techniques to identify the heterogeneity within cell cultures and characterize responses to controllable changes in diverse microenvironments. This method relies on the quantification of metrics derived from images of cytoskeletal and nuclear proteins that are sensitive to microenvironmental cues that influence cell state. This is achieved by pursuing two thesis-specific aims: (1) to utilize single cell biological imaging and machine learning techniques to identify cell subtypes in heterogeneous cultures, and (2) to use early morphological descriptors of intranuclear mechanotransductive proteins to predict long-term stem cell responses to biomaterials.    In this study we report that single cell imaging-based profiling of cytoskeletal actin and nuclear mitotic apparatus (NuMA), a cell cycle regulating protein, can identify different cell phenotypes in heterogeneous stem cell cultures, progenitor cells derived from different tissue sections ex vivo, and stem cell responses to a diverse set of surface chemistries. We also show that the early (3 day) organization of interchromatin domains varies in human mesenchymal stem cells exposed to a variety of growth factor combinations and complex topographical microenvironments that induce long-term (> 7 day) divergent phenotypic outcomes.    In summary, the results presented in this thesis dissertation show that single cell imaging-based profiling can be utilized to identify cell subtypes and predict microenvironment-induced differentiation fates at earlier times and with more resolution than current screening assays. This work can help lay the foundation for a new generation of single cell-based biomaterial screening tools and cellular phenotyping techniques.
Automatic and interactive segmentations using deformable and graphical models
Creators: name: Uzunbas, Mustafa Gokhan
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Year: 2015

description: Image segmentation i.e. dividing an image into regions and categories is a classic yet still challenging problem. The key to success is to use/develop the right method for the right appli- cation. In this dissertation, we aim to develop automatic and interactive segmentation methods for different types of tissues that are acquired at different scales and resolutions from different medical imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance (MR), Computed Tomography (CT) and Electron Microscopy (EM) imaging.  First, we developed an automated segmentation method for segmenting multiple organs simultaneously from MR and CT images. We propose a hybrid method that takes advantage of two well known energy-minimization-based approaches combined in a unified framework. We validate this proposed method on cardiac four-chamber segmentation from CT and knee joint bones segmentation from MR images. We compare our method with other existing techniques and show certain improvements and advantages.  Second, we developed a graph partitioning algorithm for characterizing neuronal tissue structurally and contextually from EM images. We propose a multistage decision mechanism that utilizes differential geometric properties of objects in a cellular processing context. Our results indicate that this proposed approach can successfully partition images into structured segments with minimal expert supervision and can potentially form a basis for a larger scale volumetric data interpretation. We compare our method with other proposed methods in a workshop challenge and show promising results.  Third, we developed an efficient learning-based method for segmentation of neuron struc- tures from 2D and 3D EM images. We propose a graphical-model-based framework to do inference on hierarchical merge-tree of image regions. In particular, we extract the hierarchy of regions in the low level, design 2D and 3D discriminative features to extract higher level information and utilize a Conditional Random Field based parameter learning on top of it. The effectiveness of the proposed method in 2D is demonstrated by comparing our method with other methods in a workshop challenge. Our method outperforms all participant methods ex- cept one. In 3D, we compare our method to existing methods and show that the accuracy of our results are comparable to state-of-the-art while being much more efficient.  Finally, we extended our inference algorithm to a proofreading framework for manual cor- rections of automatic segmentation results. We propose a very efficient and easy-to-use inter- face for high resolution 3D EM images. In particular, we utilize the probabilistic confidence level of the graphical model to guide the user during interaction. We validate the effective- ness of this framework by robot simulations and demonstrate certain advantages compared to baseline methods.
Making sense of energy transitions locally
Creators: name: Vancura, Peter
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Year: 2015

description: Over the coming decades, it is likely that many places around the United States and around the world will be transformed by new efforts to produce unconventional fossil fuels. Before this development is fully underway, it is important to better evaluate how these technologies are grounded in the character of particular regions. This study sets out to gain a foothold into the ways that new unconventional energy projects and particular places are co-shaping one another. I argue that this objective can be realized by engaging and deepening dialogue between research on socio-technical transitions and research on the community experience and regional economic geographies of resource and industrial development. The overarching research questions here are: How are niche projects and regime dynamics shaped by local context. In turn how are local conditions shaped by energy projects?  How do they co-evolve as socio-technical projects?  I examine these questions through a case study of shale gas development in northeastern Pennsylvania, which is a new place of energy development that is only recently gaining research attention. A main objective of this dissertation is to address the need to better understand transitions by investigating interactions between shale energy technologies and northeastern Pennsylvania as a region and place.     The dissertation first analyzes the history and geographic patterning of the shale mode of producing energy, highlighting the way major shale operators deploy business models and technologies that one local development official characterized as "itinerant factories." This term underscores the pace and scale of an extraction campaign, the impulse to standardize development across places, and its migratory volatility. Over five years, northeastern Pennsylvania experienced this migratory volatility as a drilling boom followed by a significant downturn in activity. The second part of this dissertation analyzes data collected through two rounds of interviews with local participants in northeastern Pennsylvania. Evidence assembled from interviews documents social perspectives on the shale gas regime, place transformation, economic development, and the challenges of governance. The research supports the proposition that making sense of energy transitions locally can be improved by linking research on socio-technical transitions with research on the community experience of energy development.
Intrinsic charge transport at interfaces between organic semiconductor and high-k dielectrics
Creators: name: Wang, Szu-Ying
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Year: 2015

description: Rubrene single crystals have the highest field effect mobility (~20cm2/Vs) among other organic single crystals for now. However, the charge transport mechanisms are still unsure. Some people think it is band-like transporting while others think it’s small polarons hopping. Understanding the transporting mechanisms can help us optimize the device performance. It has been found that high-k materials will reduce the mobility of organic semiconductors due to the formation of Fröhlich polarons. And the field effect mobility is reversely proportional to the dielectric constants of dielectric layers. Until now, people have been fabricating devices with different methods to grow high-k dielectric layers on top of different piece of rubrene single crystals. In this way, it will create a large error instead of accurately study the relations between dielectric constants and mobility. In this thesis, we introduce a novel method called “vacuum lamination” in order to study the system more carefully. Through this method, a single piece of rubrene crystal with pre-painted contacts can be examined repeatedly with removable dielectric layers laminate on top of it. And we used atomic layer deposition (ALD) system to deposit high-k dielectric material (Al2O3) on top of polyimide substrates which can be easily removed later without harming the surface of rubrene crystal. Different thicknesses of dielectric layers have been studied. In this study, we found the mobility reduced significantly after rubrene in contact with high-k material, and the mobility recovered after removing it.
Sbordoniola gianassoi Giachino 2003
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Sbordoniola
Sbordoniola gianassoi

description: Sbordoniola gianassoi Giachino, 2003
Sbordoniola gianassoi Giachino, 2003: 249.
Type locality: NW Iran, Guilan, 25 km SW di Asalem, 850 m.
Distribution in Iran. Guilan, Asalem (Giachino 2003). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Tarachodes (Chiropacha) saussurei Giglio-Tos 1911
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Eremiaphilidae
Tarachodes
Tarachodes saussurei

description: Tarachodes (Chiropacha) saussurei Giglio-Tos 1911:
Senegal to Cameroon: a savanna species recorded from neighboring Ghana and Burkina Faso (Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1971b; Roy & Leston 1975; pers. obs.); expected to occur at least in the northern parts of the NP.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
The role of sedimentary sulfide in seagrass decline in Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey
Creators: name: Waite, Nicole L.
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Year: 2015

description: Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor (BBLEH) is a highly eutrophic estuary on the New Jersey coast that has experienced parallel seagrass loss in past decades. Further damage to the ecologically and economically important seagrass communities are likely to occur as eutrophication continues. Previous eutrophication studies in BBLEH have not addressed the sediment chemistry, and therefore could be missing a critical component in understanding the current, and potential future, health of the estuary. Of particular importance is the possible accumulation of toxic dissolved sulfide in sediment pore waters. This study investigated the impacts of eutrophication on sedimentary sulfide as a threat to seagrass populations and the underlying redox state and buffering capacity of the sediments in controlling sulfide accumulation in BBLEH.    Sediments in BBLEH are becoming sulfidic year-round within the top 7cm. Sulfide accumulation is low in summer and fall (below 250µM) but concentrations reach 2000µM in spring throughout the estuary. Concentrations are similar between barren and seagrass sediments. However, dissolved H2S and Fe2+, and solid phase Mn, U, and Mo indicate that sediments in the northern, more eutrophic, segment are more reducing, transition to an anoxic state and begin to accumulate H2S at shallower sediment depths (2-4cm), where it is more likely to intrude into seagrass roots, than in the central and south segments (4-7cm) of the estuary. Furthermore, Fe-S chemistry suggest that reactive Fe is lower in the north with Fe-oxyhydroxides and FeS having been converted to pyrite, while Fe-oxyhydroxides and FeS are still present in the central and south segment. Thus, the buffering capacity has been exhausted and sulfide removal is diminished in the north, but not in the central and south. This study shows that continued eutrophication since the 1990’s has made the northern segment of the BBLEH more susceptible to future sulfide toxicity, thereby posing a greater threat to the survival of seagrass in that region. Findings suggest that greater emphasis needs to be placed on sediment conditions that may negatively impact seagrass and coastal ecosystems in future eutrophication assessments.
Fracture modeling of asphalt concrete with heterogeneous microstructure
Creators: name: Wang, Jian
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Year: 2015

description: Understanding fracture resistance of asphalt concrete is of great importance in designing pavements with long service life. This thesis focused on studying the micro and global fracture behavior of heterogeneous asphalt concrete with a numerical analysis approach. Finite element (FE) models were built with the capacity of taking heterogeneity into consideration.  The asphalt concrete was modeled as a multi-phase material with coarse aggregates and fine aggregate matrix (FAM). Viscoelastic properties were assigned to the FAM. Different damage models were incorporated to study fracture at two length scales: micro-fracture within FAM and coarse aggregate-FAM interface under small displacement and global fracture resistance in the semi-circular bending (SCB) test.   For micro-fracture simulation, asphalt mixture was modeled with both adhesive and cohesive failure potential. Two different fracture models, cohesive zone model (CZM) and extended finite element model (XFEM), were adopted to simulate fracture damage within the FAM (cohesive failure) and at the FAM-aggregate interface (adhesive failure), respectively. For global fracture properties, the SCB test was simulated to predict the crack propagation pattern and the load-crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD) curve of asphalt concrete. Parametric studies with different material properties of FAM and coarse aggregates-FAM interface, morphological characteristics of coarse aggregates, and testing conditions (loading rate and temperature) were carried out to study their effects on fracture behavior of asphalt concrete.  The numerical models provide an effective method to study fracture mechanism of heterogeneous asphalt concrete and generates meaningful findings. The development of cracking shows that the damage in the FAM material would initiate first at a small displacement and then interconnect with the damage developed at the FAM-aggregate interface. The higher angularity and larger aggregate size induces the greater damage level; while the orientation angle along with aspect ratio has influence on the anisotropic behavior of asphalt concrete. On the other hand, the SCB test simulations show good agreements with experimental results in the literature. Increasing fracture strength and energy of FAM significantly improves fracture resistance of asphalt concrete. The spatial distribution and angularity of coarse aggregate affect crack path; while the gradation and size of coarse aggregate affect fracture strength of asphalt concrete.
Sbordoniola ircanica Zoia & Rampini 1994
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Sbordoniola
Sbordoniola ircanica

description: Sbordoniola ircanica Zoia & Rampini, 1994
Sbordoniola ircanica Zoia & Rampini, 1994: 819.
Type locality: Iran: Mazandaran, s/Amol, 36°17'N / 52°22'E.
Distribution in Iran. MaZandaran (Zoia & Rampini 1994). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Tarachodes (Tarachodina) gerstaeckeri Werner 1907
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Eremiaphilidae
Tarachodes
Tarachodes gerstaeckeri

description: Tarachodes (Tarachodina) gerstaeckeri Werner, 1907:
Ivory Coast to Cameroon; a forest species known to occur at Lamto (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768