cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Philonthus quelea Hromadka 2013
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus quelea

description: Philonthus quelea Hromádka, 2013
Philonthus quelea Hromádka, 2013b: 11, Figs 23–25.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ ZIMBABWE / loc. Kutsaga / near Harare airport / 18.vi.1997 W. Rossi leg. [p,yellow label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / quelea sp.nov. / Hromádka, det. 2012. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 380, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
title: Mixed matrix membranes and methods for making the same
Creators: name: Miller, Stephen J.
name: Koros, William
name: Vu, De Q.
name: Mahajan, Rajiv
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: B01D69/08
subject: B01D53/228
subject: B01D67/0067
subject: B01D67/0083
subject: B01D69/141
subject: B01D71/021
subject: B01J20/20
subject: B01J20/28026
subject: B01J20/28033
subject: B01J20/2808
subject: B01D2323/08
subject: Y10S977/778
subject: Y10S977/783
subject: Y10S977/786
subject: Y10S977/788
subject: Y10S977/882
subject: 518/722
subject: 95/51
subject: 95/54
subject: 96/4
subject: 96/8
subject: 977/778
subject: 977/783
subject: 977/786
subject: 977/788
subject: 977/882

description: Mixed matrix membranes capable of separating carbon dioxide from mixtures including carbon dioxide and methane, and processes for purifying methane using the membranes, are disclosed. The membranes are preferably polymer membranes that include discrete carbon-based molecular sieve particles with sizes of between about 0.5 microns to about 5.0 microns. The particles are formed by pyrolyzing a precursor polymer in the form of a powder or film. The pyrolyzed polymer is then ideally milled to desired small size particles. The preferred ratio of particles to polymer is about 0.25 to about 1.0 by volume. A preferred method for preparing the mixed matrix membrane is by dispersing the particles in a solvent, adding a small quantity of the desired polymer or “sizing agent” to “size” or “prime” the particles, adding a polymer, casting a film of the polymer solution, and evaporating the solvent to form a mixed matrix membrane film. The mixed matrix membrane film permits passage of carbon dioxide and methane, but at different permeation rates, such that the ratio of the relative permeation rates of carbon dioxide to methane is larger through the mixed matrix membrane film than through the original polymer. The mixed matrix membrane is preferably in the form of a dense film or a hollow fiber. A mixture containing carbon dioxide and methane can be enriched in methane by selective passage of carbon dioxide over methane in a gas-phase process through the membrane.
Suburbanization and amphibians
Creators: name: Felson, Alexander Jacob
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Regulations guiding land development around seasonal isolated wetlands disregard habitat requirements for specialized faunal inhabitants. This oversight needs to be addressed at multiple scales in order to sustain future seasonal pond inhabitants. In particular, pool-breeding amphibians are suffering worldwide decline and are susceptible to water quality, temperature, hydrology and watershed impacts. The complex aquatic-terrestrial lifecycle of amphibiansmakes them sensitive to terrestrial habitat alterations and fragmentation. The temporal variation in hydroperiod within individual ponds and variation inhydrology across ponds within a landscape create a stochastic system. In these systems amphibian populations likely function as metapopulations, and rely on juvenile dispersal and rescue effects to counter local extinction. Given the limited regulations at the local, state and federal level, maintaining amphibian breedingpopulations will require efforts at the pond, migration corridor, upland habitat, watersheds and regional connectivity levels. Addressing these gaps requiresfurther basic research to expose hidden aspects of amphibian lifecycle patterns, in part due to their fossorial nature as well as the challenges of interpretingmetapopulation connectivity. Addressing the gaps also requires translating the ecological requirements into preservation tactics within the pressures of landdevelopment, which poses substantial challenges. I utilized designed experiments, which serve as a hybrid research and planning approach, to navigate these complex circumstances. Here, I present a series of large-scale field experiments situated within a 500-hectare privately owned suburban development project located in Tuxedo, New York. The field experiments were implemented as part of the masterplanning process with the aim of exposing andaddressing several of these regulatory gaps from both a basic science and applied solutions perspective. A series of drift fence and pit-fall trap experiments provides data at the scale of individual breeding populations and their migration patterns to and from ponds. Larval density studies utilizing replicate enclosures evaluate the impact of within pond density versus variability of habitat quality across ponds. This analysis provides a bioassay of species performance teasing apart the presumed dominant effect of density versus variation across ponds. The results of this study indicate that physical and biotic pond scale factors havea far greater effect on survival and fecundity than density. These results differ from the environmental consultant's evaluation of the same ponds and call intoquestion the current rapid assessment of pond habitat.
Additional file 1: of Wetland characteristics linked to broad-scale patterns in Culiseta melanura abundance and eastern equine encephalitis virus infection
Creators: name: Skaff, Nicholas
name: Armstrong, Philip
name: Andreadis, Theodore
name: Cheruvelil, Kendra
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Method of spatial scale and temporal lag selection. (DOCX 123 kb)
Calonotos aequimaculatus Zerny 1931
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Calonotos
Calonotos aequimaculatus

description: aequimaculatus Zerny, 1931
(Figs. 26–27)
Calonotos aequimaculatus Zerny, 1931a: 243. Lectotype hereby designated, male, [BRAZIL, Pará], Taperinha, with one printed label “Unt. Amaz. Taperinha b. Santarem 1– 10.viii.’27 Zerny” and handwritten label “ Calonotos aequimaculatus Zerny type ♂”. Two paralectotypes, one male and one female. Male with similar labels, differing only in the date, which is “ 21–30.vi. ’27”; female with same data as lectotype.
Current combination. Calonotos aequimaculatus Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Perfect condition. Paralectotypes. Both male and female in perfect condition.
Remarks. C. aequimaculatus was described from the three specimens found in the NHMW. Zerny (1931a) mentioned that the species differs from all others mentioned in the same work. He compared this species with Calonotus [sic] niger Gaede, 1926, and according to him, it differs from the latter in the presence of golden-green longitudinal bands on the abdomen. The holotype of C. niger is deposited at the ZMHB, and its examination revealed other characters differing it from C. aequimaculatus, such as the absence of white dots on the frons of C. niger, which also has only one post-discal hyaline spot on the forewings.
Cerda (2008) illustrated both the habitus and the male genitalia of C. aequimaculatus. This author also mentioned that he “arbitrarily regarded females of small size carrying small white spots on the forewings” as females of this species, but provided no illustrations of them.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 518, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
title: Detection system based on an analyte reactive particle
Creators: name: Neikirk, Dean P.
name: Shear, Jason B.
name: McDevitt, John T.
name: Anslyn, Eric V.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: B01L3/50276
subject: B01L2200/0668
subject: B01L2300/0636
subject: B01L2300/0819
subject: B01L2300/0877
subject: B01L2400/049
subject: G01N21/77
subject: G01N21/253
subject: G01N21/6452
subject: G01N21/78
subject: G01N2021/7786
subject: 422/82.5
subject: 422/82.8
subject: 435/288.7
subject: 435/4
subject: 435/6.19
subject: 435/24
subject: 435/287.2
subject: 435/288.4
subject: 435/288.5
subject: 436/164
subject: 436/172
subject: 436/518

description: A system for the rapid characterization of multi-analyte fluids, in one embodiment, includes a light source, a sensor array, and a detector. The sensor array is formed from a supporting member into which a plurality of cavities may be formed. A series of chemically sensitive particles are, in one embodiment positioned within the cavities. The particles may be configured to produce a signal when a receptor coupled to the particle interacts with the analyte. Using pattern recognition techniques, the analytes within a multi-analyte fluid may be characterized.
Performance evaluation of the cache and forward routing protocol in multihop wireless subnetworks
Creators: name: Gopinath, Snehapreethi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Cache aNd Forward (CNF) is a clean-slate protocol architecture for content delivery services in the future Internet. CNF is based on the concept of store-and-forward routers with large storage, opportunistic delivery to occasionally disconnected mobile users and in-network caching of content. The CNF architecture uses a storage-aware routing protocol (which can choose to store rather than forward data), along with a reliable hop-by-hop transport protocol in place of end-to-end TCP for reliable delivery of media files. This thesis presents the design and experimental evaluation of the routing protocol for CNF in context of a multihop wireless access network scenario. The protocol is designed to transmit files only when the end-to-end path quality is considered to be acceptably high. The aim here is to optimize a social metric such as the overall network throughput through opportunistic transmission during periods of good path quality. If the routed path is determined to be temporarily degraded, either due to poor channel conditions or mobility, the protocol may decide to store the file. This decision is based on a two-dimensional routing metric which considers the value of both short-term and long-term path metrics such as ETT (expected transmission time) to determine whether to forward or store. In addition to path quality, storage capacity in the downstream routers to the destination is also considered while making the store or forward decision. The CNF protocol stack over multihop 802.11 access networks with CNF routers has been implemented as a real-time proof-of-concept prototype on the ORBIT testbed. Baseline results for the storage aware routing with hop-by-hop transport show significant throughput gains for the CNF stack over the TCP/IP stack for a variety of topologies and network conditions. For example, for a 5-node multihop topology under varying loss conditions, the throughput achieved by CNF is 2X that of TCP. Moreover, as the loss conditions worsen, TCP tends to fail completely, while a graceful degradation of the CNF protocol stack is observed.
Henry Adams and the forms of historical explanation
Creators: name: Gilmartin, Virginia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Henry Adams' thinking began and ended with forms, the models he was given that no longer worked, and the new forms he sought that might shape a future, or project its pattern.  Dismayed by the experience of accelerating change, he tried to use history to identify and explain the forces at work. This dissertation explores Adams' search for an adequate explanation as a series of experiments in form. An examination of his major works, the History of the United States, Democracy and Esther, the Memoirs of Arii Taimai, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and The Education of Henry Adams, reveals the extent to which Adams always wrote as a historian and yet in resistance to the prescriptions of history. His experiments started with inherited models, which he tried to remake for a new age, but what Adams usually produced was not a reformation, but a proliferation of forms. Whatever their genre, Adams' texts continually rebel against expectations. By resisting a conventional emplotment, which is action fitted to historical time, in effect they rebel against history. Adams' experiments end in impasse, uncertainty, and questions, but his failures authorize new investigations. Adams' writing is full of irreconcilable elements and dialectics that can never be resolved; foremost among these is sexual difference. Treated as alternating polarities of form, these conflicts can be a source of creative tension and imaginative possibility. Adams insisted on history as both art and science despite the uneasy coexistence of the two. What scientific history meant to him shifted from a belief in a Rankean methodology, to the adoption of the explanatory language of the social and physical sciences, to the dream of a great generalization putting all human history under law. The legacy of his name made him a historian, yet one with an orientation to ultimate ends rather than origins. For Adams, history was written with a civic purpose. Questions of form could not be separated from that purpose, nor the vexed problem of finding an audience.
Paleoecology and taphonomy of a hominid-bearing site
Creators: name: Hagemann, Sabine I.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This thesis describes the controlled taphonomic study undertaken at Allia Bay, northern Kenya in 1997, and new information about the paleoecology of our early ancestor Australopithecus anamensis.  The investigation of a highly fossiliferous channel-fill accumulation included taxonomic assessment, body part identification, bone weathering stages, bone surface modification, abrasion and polish levels for 2,194 specimens.  Taxonomic representation was diverse, with twenty five species, ranging from fish and reptiles to primates and large mammals.  While non-mammals dominated the collection, mammals contributed the greatest diversity.  Despite the rolled and broken nature of the elements, the sample provided impressive taphonomic information including indication of pre and post fossilization weathering as well as high levels of abrasion and low levels of polish.The sedimentology of the channel deposit was also investigated based on three new profiles.  An 864-member modern mammalian comparative database was created against which the study assemblage was examined.  Four broadly contemporaneous East African Plio-Pleistocene localities, examined and compared to the study, displayed similar paleoecological results.  All of the localities are a mosaic of habitats from forested areas to open grasslands with three of them showing strong similarities with Allia Bay.  The Allia Bay 261-1 locality displayed evidence of open grassland along with open/closed savanna woodland, indicating a range of habitats available to Austalopithecus anamensis.This study, while small in scope, supports the value of taphonomic assessment in paleoenvironmental reconstruction.
Philonthus ralumensis Bernhauer 1915
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus ralumensis

description: Philonthus ralumensis Bernhauer, 1915
Philonthus ralumensis Bernhauer, 1915: 188.
One syntype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
SYN*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen): ‘Neu-Britannien / Ralum / F.Dahl S.[p,
violet label] // ralumensis / Brnh. Cotypus [hw]’.
Current status. Valid species, see Hൾ*©MAN (2001b).
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 381, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Automatic recognition and demodulation of digitally modulated communications signals using wavelet-domain signatures
Creators: name: Ho, Ka Mun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Wavelet transform-based methodologies for both Automatic Modulation Recognition (AMR) and Demodulation of digitally modulated communications signals can be utilized in an enabling platform for the implementation of a new class of communications systems. In particular, such techniques could enable the development of agile radio transceivers for use in both commercial and military applications. Such radio transceivers would have the ability to transmit and receive signals using many different modulation schemes while employing a common receiver architecture based on a single demodulator. In this dissertation, the development of AMR and Demodulation techniques are based on the relatively new mathematical theory of Wavelet Transforms (WTs). Information-bearing signals acquired by communications receivers are transformed into the wavelet-domain using the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and then applied to signal processing algorithms that also use the CWT in conjunction with pattern recognition techniques. In particular, the method of template-matching is used for both the AMR and Demodulation processes. Signal templates characterizing various modulated signals are used for both processes. The signal templates are determined based on the signal features present in the fractal patterns of their corresponding scalograms for specific modulation schemes as they appear in the wavelet-domain. The algorithms developed in this work are capable of both classifying the method of modulation used in the acquired signal, as well as subsequently automatically demodulating the signal to recover the message. The classes of digitally modulated signals considered in this work include variants of the Amplitude-, Frequency-, Phase-Shift Keying modulation families, i.e., ASK, FSK, and PSK, respectively, and multiple-level Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (M-ary QAM) families. The AMR and Demodulation performances are evaluated in the presence of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) over a wide range of Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) values.  Through extensive Monte Carlo computer simulations it is determined that the average correct classification rates using wavelet-based AMR for PSK, ASK, and QAM are over 98%, and over 90% for FSK signals, all at an SNR of 0 dB. The Bit Error Rate (BER) performance obtained using wavelet-based Demodulation is at least one order of magnitude better than the matched filter-based BER performance realized for the modulation schemes considered.
Calonotos angustipennis Zerny 1931
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Calonotos
Calonotos angustipennis

description: angustipennis Zerny, 1931
(Fig. 29)
Calonotos angustipennis Zerny, 1931a: 243. Lectotype hereby designated, male, [BRAZIL, Pará, Santarém], Taperinha, with two labels: printed label “Unt. Amaz. Taperinha b. Santarem 1– 10.vii.’27 Zerny” and handwritten label “ Calonotos angustipennis Zerny type ♂”. Two paralectotypes, one male and one female. Male with two labels: printed label “Unt. Amaz. Taperinha b. Santarem 21–31.viii. ’27 Zerny” and type label; female with two labels: printed label “Taperinha b. Santarem G. Hagmann” with date handwritten on the underside “x.’22” and handwritten type label.
Current combination. Calonotos angustipennis Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Wings somewhat worn. Paralectotypes. Both in perfect condition.
Remarks. Calonotos angustipennis was described from three specimens, two males and one female, the latter from October, 1922. We found the three specimens mentioned in the original description, plus a fourth one with the typical type label with Zerny’s handwriting. Because a label is not necessarily evidence that the specimen bearing it is part of the type series (ICZN, article 72.4.7), we consider only the three specimens mentioned in the original description as part of the type series. The male from July, 1927 was chosen as the lectotype because it has the genitalia partially extroverted from the abdomen, which can aid unequivocal identification without the need for dissecting it. Cerda (2008) provided illustrations of the male genitalia for this species, which match those of the lectotype.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on pages 518-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
Estimating traffic impacts of an off-hour delivery program using a regional planning model
Creators: name: Iyer, Shrisan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In this study a methodology is developed to employ a regional planning model to study the effects of an off-hour delivery program on the transportation network of New York City. The off-hour delivery program under study would shift deliveries to food and retail-related businesses within the borough of Manhattan to the overnight hours, by offering businesses a tax deduction incentive. Behavioral data describing the percentage of receivers participating by tax incentive offered is obtained and translated to commercial vehicle trips. The New York Best Practice Model, a regional travel demand model, is used to measure the impacts of shifting commercial vehicle trips on the rest of the traffic network. The results show that increasing tax incentive amounts reduces the amount of congestion throughout the regional highway network, and thus the proposed program would beneficial to transportation network. Further sensitivity analysis finds that running the highway assignment portion of the model alone does not produce expected results when changes are made to the highway network, and furthermore that the model is very sensitive to changes and its results unpredictable. In order to fully validate the results other models should be used in parallel with the regional planning model.
Genome-wide expression analysis implicates working memory associated genes in the general learning abilities of outbred mice
Creators: name: Kolata, Stefan Matthew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Previously, we have reported the existence of a general learning factor in genetically heterogeneous mice, and this factor is in many ways analogous to general intelligence in humans. This previous work established that the processes underlying general learning abilities in mice are, as in humans, related to working memory capacity and specifically selective attention. In the present set of experiments, using gene-expression microarray technology that allowed us to quantify the expression of ~25,000 genes simultaneously, we assessed the gene expression profiles of the best and worst learners from a sample of 60 mice (in two replications). For each group we compared four different brain regions (prefrontal cortex, the remaining cortex, cerebellum and hippocampus). The most consistent pattern of differential expression was found in the prefrontal cortex, here a set of genes associated with the efficacy of dopamine functioning (i.e., Drd1a, Darpp-32, Rgs9) were upregulated in the fastest learners.  As prefrontal dopamine functioning is associated with working memory, these results dove-tail with our previous behavioral results that demonstrated a relationship between working memory capacity and general learning abilities.  This relationship was further verified through a quantitative PCR analysis where we demonstrated a significant correlation between the expression of these prefrontal dopamine genes and the general learning abilities of 48 mice. In total these results suggest that working memory and specifically dopamine signaling efficacy in the prefrontal cortex may be crucial for the establishment of general learning abilities.
title: Compositions and methods for treating bone deficit conditions
Creators: name: Petrie, Charles R.
name: Orme, Mark W.
name: Mundy, Gregory R.
name: Baindur, Nand
name: Robbins, Kirk G.
name: Kontoyianni, Maria
name: Hurley, Laurence H.
name: Kerwin, Sean M.
name: Harris, Scott M.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: A61K31/44
subject: 514/332
subject: 514/242
subject: 514/245
subject: 514/252.11
subject: 514/255.5
subject: 514/256
subject: 514/275
subject: 514/334

description: Compounds containing two aromatic systems covalently linked through a linker containing one or more atoms, or “linker” defined as including a covalent bond per se so as to space the aromatic systems at a distance 1.5-15 å, are effective in treating conditions associated with bone deficits. The compounds can be administered to vertebrate subjects alone or in combination with additional agents that promote bone growth or that inhibit bone resorption. They can be screened for activity prior to administration by assessing their ability to effect the transcription of a reporter gene coupled to a promoter associated with a bone morphogenetic protein and/or their ability to stimulate calvarial growth in model animal systems.
Conditional models for 3D human pose estimation
Creators: name: Kanaujia, Atul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Human 3d pose estimation from monocular sequence is a challenging problem, owing to highly articulated structure of human body, varied anthropometry, self occlusion, depth ambiguities and large variability in the appearance and background in which humans may appear. Conventional vision based approaches to human 3d pose estimation mostly employed "top-down methods", which used a complete 3d human model, in a hypothesized pose, to explain the configuration of the humans in the observed 2d image. In this thesis, we work with "bottom-up methods" for human pose estimation, that use low level image features to directly predict 3d pose. The research draws on recent innovations in statistical learning, observation-driven modeling, stable image encodings, semi-supervised learning and learning perceptual representations. We address the problems of (a) modeling pose ambiguities due to 3d-to-2d projection and self occlusion, (b) lack of sufficient labeled data for training discriminative models and (c) high dimensionality of human 3d pose state space. In order to resolve 3d pose ambiguities, we use multi-valued functions to predict multiple plausible 3d poses for an image observation. We incorporate unlabeled data in a semi-supervised learning framework to constrain and improve the training of discriminative models. We also propose generic probabilistic Spectral Latent Variable Models to efficiently learn low dimensional representations of high dimensional observation data and apply it to the problem of human 3d pose inference.
Singular perturbation methods in credit derivative modeling
Creators: name: Koo, Jawon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This thesis introduces the dynamical pricing model andapproximation method in pricing a "Collateralized DebtObligation" (CDO).  For this purpose we use a two-dimensional, self-affecting Markov process of discrete-valued aggregate loss process and stochastic factor process in its intensity. We review several models for pricing of multi-name credit derivativeproducts and explain in detail a two-dimensional Markov intensity model proposed by Halperin and Arnsdorf.Using the model by Halperin and Arnsdorf, we derive the Kolmogorov forward partial differential equation for the transition density function of the underlying two-dimensional Markov process. We use the singular perturbation method to obtain an approximate solutionto this partial differential equation in the case of a fast mean reverting stochastic intensity model. We perform an error analysis to determine the accuracy of our approximate solution.
Philonthus threskiornis Hromadka 2013
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus threskiornis

description: Philonthus threskiornis Hromádka, 2013
Philonthus threskiornis Hromádka, 2013e: 245, Figs 125–128.
One paratype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ, (dissected genitalia on a separate plastic card): ‘S.AFRICA. Mount.Sheba / E.Tvl. 19.i.1974 / G.F.Bornemissza / B.M.1974-172 [p] // Pig / Dung [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (Philonthus) / threskiornis sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2006 [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 384, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
title: Crosslinked and crosslinkable hollow fiber mixed matrix membrane and method of making same
Creators: name: Miller, Stephen J.
name: Koros, William
name: Vu, De Q.
name: Wallace, David Mark
name: Wind, John D.
name: Staudt-Bickel, Claudia
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: B01D67/0093
subject: B01D53/22
subject: B01D53/228
subject: B01D63/02
subject: B01D63/021
subject: B01D69/08
subject: B01D69/141
subject: B01D71/64
subject: B01D71/82
subject: B01D2313/18
subject: B01D2323/30
subject: Y02C20/20
subject: Y10S55/05
subject: 55/DIG5
subject: 96/10
subject: 96/8
subject: 96/14

description: A composition of and a method of making high performance mixed matrix hollow fiber membranes is described. The membranes have a high resistance to plasticization by use of a predetermined amount of crosslinking. The preferred polymer material for the membrane is a polyimide polymer continuous phase comprising ester crosslinks and a molecular sieve material dispersed within the polymer continuous phase. The resultant mixed matrix hollow fiber membrane exhibits a high permeance of CO2 in combination with a high CO2/CH4 selectivity. Another embodiment provides a method of making the mixed matrix hollow fiber membrane from a monesterified polymer followed by final crosslinking after hollow fiber formation.
Reactions of (PCP)Ir complexes with small molecules
Creators: name: Kundu, Sabuj Kumar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Iridium pincer complexes (R4PCP)IrHn (PCP=[k3-2,6-C6H3(CH2PR2)]) are effective catalysts for the dehydrogenation of alkanes. We wished to design pincer ligands in which the set of phosphinoalkyl groups would offer (a) maximal steric "protection" against cluster-formation (b) minimal hindrance to C-H addition, and (c) resistance to decomposition and self-dehydrogenation (unlike iPr groups). Thus, we have synthesized iridium complexes of ligands tBu3MePCP ([C6H3(CH2PtBuMe)(CH2PtBu2]). (tBu3MePCP)IrH4 (1) shows more efficiency in dehydrogenation of alkanes than either(tBu4PCP)IrHn or (iPr4MePCP)IrHn. (tBu3MePCP)IrH4 was also found to be a very effective catalyst in alkane metathesis.Although isocyanides are important building blocks in organic synthesis, their commercial availability is limited compared to other chemicals. (PCP)Ir complexes react with different secondary methyl amines and at ambient temperature to formcorresponding iridium isocyanide complexes (PCP)Ir(H)(H)(CNR), 3-1 (a-e) which react with CO forming (PCP)Ir(CO) to liberate the corresponding isocyanide.The addition of PhCCH to highly stable complexes, (PCP)IrL (L = CO, CNR), is challenging. (PCP)IrL (L = CO, CNR) complexes react with PhCCH in presence of acid to form complex (PCP)Ir(CO)(H)(CCPh) (5-3) and (PCP)Ir(CNBz)(H)(CCPh) (5-1), respectively, in which hydride and acetylide group are trans to each other. The reaction proceeds via the cationic intermediate [(PCP)Ir(CO)(H)]+. Solid-supported catalysts have significant advantages over homogeneous systems, particularly with respect to product-catalyst separation. We have investigated several routes to the development of supported pincer-ligated iridium catalysts. The p-dimethylamino- substituted PCP complex is found to bind strongly to alumina while maintaining the same high activity (or even slightly greater) for alkane-dehydrogenation as found in the solution phase.A broad range of (PCP)Ir complexes with widely varying steric and electronic effects have been synthesized and studied including (PCP)IrL, (PCP)Ir(H)(H)L and PCP)Ir(H)(Cl)L, (L = various P- and N-donors, N2, various olefins). The relative thermodynamics of these adducts have been detected by equilibrium measurements and calculated using DFT. Precursors of "(PCP)Ir" cleaves sp3 C--O bonds of various esters (RCO2R1, R1= alkyl) to give (PCP)Ir(R1)(O2CR) or, in cases where R1 has a b-hydrogen, (PCP)Ir(H)(O2CR) plus the corresponding alkene derived from R1.
In vitro and in vivo anti-inflammatory effects of rosmanol and carnosol isolated from rosemary
Creators: name: Lee, Jong Hun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) leaves are widely used as food ingredient, and have been focused on their strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer activities. Rosmanol is transformed from carnosol, one of strong antioxidant in rosemary extract, in the presence of oxygen and demonstrated that it has a potential for anti-inflammatiory activities. Our study consists of two parts: Anti-inflammatory activity of rosmanol on LPS induced iNOS and COX-2 in RAW 264.7 cells and inhibition activity of rosmanol and carnosol on TPA inflammation in mouse ear. In first study, rosmanol markedly inhibited LPS-stimulated iNOS and COX-2 protein and gene expression, as well as their regulated products, NO and PGE2. Treatment with rosmanol also reduced translocation of NF-κB through preventing degradation and phosphorylation of IκB. Western blot analysis showed that rosmanol significantly inhibited translocation and phosphorylation of NF-κB and STAT3, and the protein expression of C/EBPβ and C/EBPδ. Our results showed that rosmanol down-regulates iNOS and COX-2 gene expression by inhibiting the activation of NF-κB through interfering with the activation of PI3K/Akt and MAPK signal pathway. Based on the positive results of in vitro activity of rosmanol and the similarity of chemical structure with carnosol, we designed and performed in vivo study with rosmanol and carnosol. In inhibitory activity of rosmanol and carnosol on TPA-induced persistent inflammation in mouse ear, we examined inhibitory activity of rosmanol and carnosol on production of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as Il-1β and Il-6. The expression of inflammatory COX-2 and its upstream regulators such as NF-κB and IKK-β, and its product, PGE2 were also examined. A large amount of COX-2 expression and its up-stream regulators were detected in LPS induced mouse ear. In rosmanol and carnosol treated group, expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and PGE2 were decreased markedly. The expression of COX-2 was also reduced, which was resulted from inhibiting up-stream regulators such as NF-κB and IKK-β. In histology of rosmanol and carnosol treated groups their all inflammatory parameters are shown to be much milder condition. Also, there is significant reduced in degree of inflammation index. Taken together, rosmanol and carnosol, abundant ingredient in rosemary might be a potent anti-inflammatory reagent.
MPEC 2024-Y249 : A/2024 W2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: A/2024 W2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Inflammatory and antioxidant status of horses undergoing intense exercise and nutritional supplementation
Creators: name: Lamprecht, Emily Dawn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Markers of inflammation and antioxidant status were used to partially characterize physiological responses to a single bout of intense, exhaustive exercise in healthy Standardbreds, and to evaluate anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of an antioxidant enzyme supplement, with a particular focus on joint health. Main objectives were to 1) identify a model of exercise-induced inflammation by comparing inflammatory responses to different modes of exercise, 2) evaluate effects of supplemental superoxide dismutase (SOD) on exercise-induced inflammatory response and antioxidant status, and 3) evaluate effects of repeated arthrocentesis, exercise, and SOD supplementation on markers of inflammation and cartilage metabolism, in horses. For the first study, a repeated sprint exercise test was identified as the most strenuous compared to interval- and graded exercise tests. This was based upon post-exercise systemic increases in pro-inflammatory cytokine transcripts, decreases in circulating nitric oxide (NO), and peak heart rate response. The second study showed increases in interfereron-gamma, interleukin-1 beta, and interleukin-10 cytokine transcripts, upregulated antioxidant defenses (SOD, total glutathione, glutathione peroxidase), and a decline in plasma NO, following intense exercise. Supplemental SOD (3000 IU/d for 6 wks) had no detectable influence on markers of performance, inflammatory response, or antioxidant status relative to intense exercise, and compared to the placebo control. The third study showed that repeated arthrocentesis in the same joint did not alter synovial fluid concentrations of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), although anabolic cartilage metabolism, measured by chondroitin sulfate-846 (CS), was elevated at the last sample, indicating sensitivity to repeated synovial fluid aspiration. Following exercise, increases in PGE2 relative to pre-exercise concentrations, and transient increases in CS, indicated healthy adaptive responses to exercise. Similar to the second study, supplemental SOD had no influence on PGE2 or CS, suggesting it was not an effective solution for reducing exercise-induced inflammation or improving antioxidant status in horses. These studies contribute to a limited working knowledge of inflammatory and antioxidant responses to intense exercise, and may be useful when differentiating between adaptive responses and early pathological changes resulting from exercise-induced stress in horses.
title: Optoelectronic and electronic devices based on quantum dots having proximity-placed acceptor impurities, and methods therefor
Creators: name: Deppe, Dennis G.
name: Shchekin, Oleg
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: B82Y20/00
subject: B82Y10/00
subject: H01L29/127
subject: H01S5/341
subject: H01S5/06226
subject: H01S5/1039
subject: H01S5/22
subject: H01S5/2231
subject: H01S5/3086
subject: H01S5/3407
subject: H01S5/3412
subject: 257/E29.071
subject: 372/45.1

description: Solid-state optoelectronic and electronic devices that use semiconductor quantum dots for manipulation of photonic or electronic properties include a semiconductor active region forming a quantum dot heterostructure having a plurality of quantum dot layers each having discrete quantum hole states and a p-type impurity layer formed proximate to at least one of the quantum dot layers to provide excess equilibrium hole charge to occupy at least some of the discrete quantum hole states to improve To and other performance characteristics of quantum dot devices.
Pseudosphex deceptans Zerny 1912
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Pseudosphex
Pseudosphex deceptans

description: deceptans Zerny, 1912
(Fig. 30)
Pseudosphex deceptans Zerny, 1912b: 121. Lectotype hereby designated, male, [BRAZIL], Santa Catarina, Blumenau, 1889 (Hetschko), with a printed label “Hetschko 89 Blumenau” and a handwritten label “ Pseudosphex deceptans Zerny Type ♂”. Seven paralectotypes, males, with the following labels: four specimens with exactly the same labels as the lectotype; one with type label and handwritten locality label “S. Katherine Funke 86”; another with three labels, type label, “S. Katharin Funke 86”, and “ Myrmecopsis polistes Hb. Det. Rebel ”, the last label with indecipherable words written in pencil and an “X”, also in pencil, indicating the incorrectness of the identification; last paralectotype with three labels, all handwritten “Blumenau Brasilien ”, “mim. Polybia fasciata [indecipherable handwriting] Lep.”, and type label.
Current combination. Myrmecopsis deceptans (Zerny, 1912).
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Perfect condition. Paralectotypes. Specimens collected by Hetschko: wings somewhat rubbed, antennae soiled with what appears to be fungal hyphae, one of them with both antennae missing. Specimen identified as Myrmecopsis polistes by Rebel with the abdomen kept in a gelatin vial. Last paralectotype with right forewing slightly wrinkled, otherwise in good condition.
Remarks. This species was described from the eight specimens mentioned above. It was revalidated from its synonymy under Pseudosphex melanogen Dyar, 1910 by Simmons and Weller (2006), who also placed both species in Myrmecopsis Newman, 1850. Simmons and Weller (2006) resurrected this genus to encompass several species previously placed in Pseudosphex Hübner, 1818.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
title: Remote temperature measuring system for hostile industrial environments using microwave radiometry
Creators: name: Pearce, John A.
name: Stephan, Karl David
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: G01K11/006
subject: 374/122
subject: 374/128
subject: 374/E11.003

description: A system and method for remotely measuring the temperature of an object using microwave radiometry that may be used in hostile environments. A single pole-single throw reflective PIN diode switch is operable in a PASS mode and a BLOCK mode. In the PASS mode, the switch passes the power received from the object to a low-noise block converter (“LNB”) for amplification. In the BLOCK mode, the switch blocks the object power and reflects the load noise power of an ambient temperature load to the LNB. A detector diode detects the amplified power output during both the BLOCK and PASS mode and the AC signal from the detector is converted to an output signal proportional to the difference in the noise powers detected in the PASS and BLOCK modes. A servo loop uses the output signal to generate a feedback signal to a noise injection diode that causes the diode to inject sufficient power into the LNB to automatically maintain a balance between noise power measured in the PASS mode and the combined noise powers measured in the BLOCK mode. The output signal is then used to compute the temperature of the object.
Working memory training increases general learning abilities in CD-1 outbred mice
Creators: name: Light, Kenneth Royce
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: General intelligence is a cognitive trait that is purported to influence most domain-specific learning abilities in humans. Like humans, CD-1 outbred mice express individual differences in their "general" cognitive abilities, such that performance across diverse batteries of learning tasks tend to be positively correlated, and this general learning factor accounts for 32-48% of the variance of individual animals performance in cognitive test batteries. It has been demonstrated that in both humans and mice, the efficacy of working memory capacity correlates highly with measures of general cognitive ability. In three experiments, here we demonstrate that in genetically heterogeneous mice, repetitive working memory training promotes an increase in selective attention and has a commensurately positive effect on the animals' aggregate performance on a battery of five learning tasks. The enhancement of general cognitive performance by working memory exercise was attenuated if the selective attention demands of that exercise were reduced. Finally, because much of the human research conducted on working memory training is done in pre-pubescent children, we trained a group of mice beginning in pre-pubescence and found no difference between that group and one trained at our typical young-adult age. In total, these results provide initial evidence that the efficacy of working memory capacity and selective attention are causally related to an animal’s general cognitive performance, and suggest behavioral strategies to promote those abilities.
Philonthus treron Hromadka 2012
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus treron

description: Philonthus treron Hromádka, 2012
Philonthus treron Hromádka, 2012f: 74, Figs 54–56.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ TANZANIA / Mwanza / 11.x.1969 / Ardö leg. [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / treron sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2011. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 384, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030