cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Low viscosity highly concentrated suspensions
Creators: name: Johnston, Keith P.
name: Mazuski, Maria Andrea
name: Engstrom, Joshua
name: Rodrigues, Miguel Angelo
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: A61K9/0019
subject: A61K38/385
subject: C07K1/113
subject: 530/350
subject: 530/380
subject: 530/387.1

description: The present invention also provides a high concentration low viscosity suspension of an pharmaceutically acceptable solvent with one or more sub-micron or micron-sized non-crystalline particles comprising one or more proteins or peptides. Optionally one or more additives in the pharmaceutically acceptable solvent to form a high concentration low viscosity suspension with a concentration of at least 20 mg/ml and a solution viscosity of between 2 and 100 centipoise that is suspendable upon shaking or agitation, wherein upon delivery the one or more sub-micron or micron-sized peptides dissolves and do not form peptide aggregates syringeable through a 21 to 27-gauge needle.
Planning space versus planning time
Creators: name: Mayhew, Estelle M. Y. (Estelle-Marie Yvonne)
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This study investigated the contribution of task constraints to planning processes and outcomes across four tasks which contained varying numbers of spatial and temporal constraints. Verbal protocols were obtained during forty-five young adults' planning of the four tasks. Participants' conceptualizations in terms of space or time, and their focus on sequencing task elements during planning were clearly related to the spatial, temporal and order constraints in the tasks. Participants were very consistent in the degree to which they focused on time and the amount of verbalizations across tasks, and they were somewhat consistent in their focus on sequencing. They were not consistent in their focus on space. Of the planning outcomes investigated, constraint violations on tasks were related to the proportion of implicit constraints, spatial and temporal efficiency were related to spatial and temporal constraints, and total verbalizations were related total constraints in the tasks. Individual participants' planning outcomes were not related across tasks. The degree to which participants focused on location during planning of a task with mostly spatial constraints was related to spatial efficiency of their plan, this relationship was not seen in a task with spatial and temporal constraints. Various cognitive abilities of were measured, verbal and visuospatial working memory, verbal and nonverbal fluency, processing speed, updating, shifting and inhibition. One measure of visuospatial memory as well as nonverbal fluency was related to the degree to which participants focused on sequencing actions. The results indicate that planning processes are somewhat general, and that planning processes and outcomes vary with constraints contained in planning tasks. It is suggested that conceptualizing planning tasks in terms of constraints allows for valuable comparison across tasks.
Syrphophilus asperatus Dasch 1964
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphophilus
Syrphophilus asperatus

description: Syrphophilus asperatus Dasch 1964a
Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, face with yellow inner orbits, yellow on clypeus, mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, sometimes subtegular ridge, at least a small shoulder mark, and upper mesepimeron; scutellum orange, often with apex yellow. Mesopleuron, mesosternum and often metapleuron dark orange. Legs including all coxae orange; femora orange; hind tibia orange to whitish basally, remainder and hind tarsus dark. Metasoma black, often with some dark orange colour on hind margins of tergites 2 to 5.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow ventrally on scape and sometimes antenna, large central face patch or entire face, lower propleuron, epicnemium, sometimes a stripe on lower mesopleuron, and sometimes part of mesosternum; scutellum with an apical spot or largely yellow. Fore coxa entirely yellow, mid coxa orange with a yellow apex, hind coxa orange. Metasoma black but sometimes with yellow spots apically on third segment.
Material examined. New for Finland: EnL Enontekiö, Jokasjärvi 7686:280, leg. Jussila, 11.–15.VII.2007. 2♂, 1♀, at ZMUC.
Additional material. Sweden: Norrbotten, Kiruna kommun, Abisko, leg. J.E. & R.B. Benson, 13.VII.1954. 1♀; Stockkholms län, Dalarö Malmen, leg. J.Q.&T.H., 15.–26.VIII.1976. 1♀, both at BMNH. Värmland, Munkfors kommun, Ransäter, Ransbergs herrgard. Old mixed deciduous ofrest in stream ravine, N59°47'25.59", E13°24'54.61", leg. SMTP, 10.VII.–24.VII.2005. 1♂, and 18.VI.–27.VI.2005. 1♀; Västerbotten, Sorsele kommun, Ammarnäs, Vindelfjällens naturreservat, Tjulträsklaspen, Alpine birch wood., N65°58.007', E16°03.630', leg. SMTP, 27.VI.–17.VII.2005. 2♀; Norrbotten, Kiruna kommun, Abisko NP, Bare mountain above tree limit, 900m. a.s.l., N68°21.648', E18°43.245', leg. SMTP, 26.VI.–15.VII.2006. 5♀; Norrbotten, Pajala kommun, Vasikkavuoma, mowable bog, N67°13.778', E23°11.200', leg. SMTP, 25.VI.–30.VI.2004. 1♀; Abisko, leg. Krogerus, 6.VII.1939. 1♀; Torne Tr., leg. Malaise, 7.VII.1917. 1♀; all at NRM; Kiruna, 22.VII.1964, 1♀, at ZSM.
Distribution. Holarctic.
Figures. Habitus (Fig. 35 A), male terminal sclerites (Fig. 38 D).
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on pages 100-101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
Parascatopse concava Xiao, Li & Yang, 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xiao, Yishen
name: Li, Zhu
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scatopsidae
Parascatopse
Parascatopse concava

description: 2. Parascatopse concava sp. nov.
(Figs. 6 –10)
Diagnosis. This species can be separated from the Palaearctic species by the strongly concaved median posterior margin of tergite 7. The concavity reaches the middle of tergite 7, with two sharp angles on its posterior margin. The genital capsule of P. concava is rectangular in general shape, proximally with two sharp angles which can be easily distinguished.
Description. Male (Fig. 6). Body length 1.2–1.4 mm, wing length 0.8–0.9 mm.
Head. Dark brown, higher than long; antennae uniformly brown, 10-segmented; flagellum 8- segmented and with microtrichia; last flagellomere elongate, twice as long as preceding flagellomere, covered with at least 3 whorls of microtrichia; eyes holoptic; palpus oval in general shape, one-segmented, slightly sharpened apically; occiput pilose.
Thorax. Yellowish brown, shining, and stout; scutum sparsely covered with short setae; anterior spiracular sclerite setose, generally oval; halters dark, devoid of setae on its stem; knob slightly lighter than stem. Legs short and concolorous with body, except for some dark brown areas on middle and hind femora, as well as part of hind tibia.
Wing (Fig. 7). Nearly hyaline; R 1 and R 4+5 sclerotized, other veins weakly visible; membrane of wings covered with microtrichia, macrosetae on posterior veins and membrane absent; R 1 and R 4+5 smoothly reaching anterior margin; second costal section markedly shorter than first costal section; stem of M much shorter than its forks; M 1 and M 2 complete, long and symmetrical; CuA double curved, without macrosetae.
Abdomen. Strong, dull, longer than wide; tergites 1–7 developed, tergite 1 much thinner and smaller than the others; tergite 7 (Fig. 9) strongly concaved posteriorly; sternites 2–6 developed, sternite 7 (Fig. 8) truncate on posterior margin and setose.
Male terminalia (Fig. 10). Terminalia approximately rectangular, ventrally with a two-branched structure at junction of terminalia and sperm pump; epandrium developed and apically setose; aedeagus obvious and shortened; sperm pump larger than terminalia and dark.
Female. Unknown.
Type Material. HOLOTYPE: ♂, China, Zhejiang, Anji, Mt. Longwang [30°38’N, 119°40’E, 200m], collected by sweep net, 1996. Ⅴ. 12, Hong Wu (CAU). PARATYPES: 3♂, same data as holotype (CAU).
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin adjective “concavus” and refers to the strongly concaved tergite 7.
description: Published as part of Xiao, Yishen, Li, Zhu & Yang, Ding, 2024, Two new species of Parascatopse Cook, 1955 (Diptera: Scatopsidae) from China, with a key to species in the Palearctic and Oriental Regions, pp. 89-94 in Zootaxa 5538 (1) on pages 91-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/14611494
title: Earth Science Education & Engagement Post 2020
Creators: name: S., Blewett
name: R., Przeslawski
name: S., Blewett
name: K., Selway
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: education
subject: science communication
subject: Published_External

description: Many people fondly remember assembling their first rock collection or exploding a baking soda volcano as a child. These experiences can be a great gateway into the Earth sciences, but a more tailored and modern approach will ensure future generations are geoscience-literate and eventually able to contribute to the workforce.
In this presentation, we

1. Use the Geoscience Australia Education Program as a case study of changing approaches to Earth science education and engagement, particularly after the global pandemic;

2. Discuss four key challenges facing geoscience education and engagement; and

3. Apply these challenges to efforts to promote Earth science to students in later high school, including summarising some of the broader data surrounding the attitudes and priorities of this demographic.

We hope that this presentation will help guide the discussion on how we can most effectively ignite the interest of the next generation in pursuing Earth Science.
Management practices, environment, and spray adjuvants influence efficacy and metabolism of bispyribac-sodium in turfgrass
Creators: name: McCullough, Patrick Edgeworth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Bispyribac-sodium has shown potential for selective annual and roughstalk bluegrass control in cool-season turfgrasses but further research is needed for successful integration in to turf management programs.  The objectives of this research were to investigate the influence of management practices, environment, and spray adjuvants on efficacy and metabolism of bispyribac-sodium in turfgrass.  In field experiments, sequential bispyribac-sodium applications controlled annual bluegrass 93% but trinexapac-ethyl did not affect efficacy.  Tank mixing trinexapac-ethyl with bispyribac-sodium provided similar annual bluegrass control to the herbicide alone.  In field experiments, withholding nitrogen increased annual bluegrass and creeping bentgrass sensitivity to bispyribac-sodium while grasses fertilized biweekly generally had darker color.  Weekly nitrogen treatments increased 14C-bispyribac-sodium metabolism in both grasses compared to the unfertilized.  In field experiments, discoloration of creeping bentgrass putting greens was greatest from applications of 37 g/ha every ten days compared to 74, 148, or 298 g/ha applied less frequently.  Chelated iron effectively masked discoloration of creeping bentgrass putting greens from bispyribac-sodium while trinexapac-ethyl inconsistently masked these effects.  In field experiments, bispyribac-sodium regimes totaling 148, 222, and 296 g/ha controlled annual bluegrass 81, 83, and 91%, respectively, over two years.  Pooled over herbicide rates, bispyribac-sodium applied two, three, and six times controlled annual bluegrass 78, 83, and 94%, respectively.  Bispyribac-sodium and sulfosulfuron provided substantial reductions (80 to 100%) in roughstalk bluegrass cover in creeping bentgrass fairways by late July but regrowth was detected by October in three years suggesting herbicide applications did not control vegetative stems or crowns.  In growth chamber experiments, annual bluegrass chlorosis and clipping reductions from bispyribac-sodium were exacerbated by increased temperature from 10 to 30° C.  Conversely, creeping bentgrass was most sensitive to bispyribac-sodium at 10° C but chlorosis and clipping reductions were less substantial at 20 and 30°.  Spray adjuvants increased 14C-bispyribac-sodium foliar absorption by two to threefold in laboratory experiments and improved annual bluegrass control in field experiments by 25 to 50% from treatments with no adjuvants.  In metabolism experiments, half life of 14C-bispyribac-sodium in annual bluegrass, creeping bentgrass, and perennial ryegrass was estimated at greater than seven days, one day, and two days, respectively.
Cacia (Ipocregyes) albocancellata Breuning 1974
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman
name: Vitali, Francesco
name: Barsevskis, Arvids
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cacia
Cacia albocancellata

description: Cacia (Ipocregyes) albocancellata Breuning, 1974
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 79: 75.
Distribution: Philippines without further details.
Type and depository information: Holotype male, MNHNP.
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman, Vitali, Francesco & Barsevskis, Arvids, 2023, Catalog of the genus Cacia Newman (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) in the Philippines with description of two new species, pp. 537-551 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on page 543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7609568
Selfcoelum problematicum Stossich 1902, n. comb.
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Echinostomida
Cyclocoelidae
Selfcoelum
Selfcoelum problematicum

description: S. problematicum (Stossich, 1902) n. comb.
Type host. Totanus calidris Linnaeus (Not a recognized species = nomen dubium) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
Type locality. Europe; specific type locality unknown.
Additional hosts. Common greenshank, Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus) (Syn. Totanus glottis [Gunnerus]); wood sandpiper, Tringa glareola Linnaeus (Syn. Totanus glareolus Vieillot) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
Additional locality. Africa, specific locality unknown—Yamaguti (1971).
Previously proposed synonyms. Cyclocoelum (Postpharyngeum) problematicum Stossich, 1902 — Witenberg (1923); Cyclocoelum obscurum (Leidy, 1887) — Joyeux & Baer (1927) and Dubois (1959); and Cyclocoelum mutabile (Zeder, 1800) — Bashkirova (1950).
Remarks. This species was originally described as Cyclocoelum problematicum Stossich, 1902; however, Stossich (1902) provided only body length, body width, egg length and egg width. Kossack (1911) mentioned that Stossich (1902) was concerned that this species really might not be distinct. However, Kossack (1911) found enough differences in the specimens used in the original description (one of which demonstrated “perfectly the characteristic of C. problematicum ”) and redescribed the species. No oral or ventral sucker described—Stossich (1902); Kossack (1911).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
title: Maintaining shale stability by pore plugging
Creators: name: Sharma, Mukul M.
name: Chenevert, Martin E.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: C09K8/032
subject: C09K8/05
subject: C09K2208/10
subject: C09K2208/12
subject: E21B49/005
subject: 166/293
subject: 166/294

description: Compositions and methods for improving wellbores stability of a hydrocarbon bearing shale formation using nanoparticles to decrease swelling and plug pore throats.
Circumvitellatrema Dronen, Greiner, Ialeggio & Nolan 2009
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Circumvitellatrema

description: Circumvitellatrema Dronen, Greiner, Ialeggio & Nolan, 2009
(Members of this genus have a postpharyngeal genital pore and the vitelline fields are confluent both anteriorly and posteriorly) (Table 8)
Diagnosis. Cyclocoelidae; Cyclocoelinae. Body lanceolate to linguiform, often tapered anteriorly. Rudimentary oral sucker often present; rudimentary ventral sucker generally absent. Genital pore postpharyngeal. Ovary intertesticular forming a triangle with oblique testes near posterior arch of cyclocoel. Uterine coils somewhat extracecal, not generally invading posttesticular space. Vitelline fields confluent anteriorly and posteriorly forming continuous loop in body. Parasites in air sacs and lungs of birds.
NP = Not present. 1Estimated from figure in original description.
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Circumvitellatrema momota Dronen, Greiner, Ialeggio & Nolan 2009
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Circumvitellatrema
Circumvitellatrema momota

description: Circumvitellatrema momota Dronen, Greiner, Ialeggio & Nolan, 2009 — Type species
Type host. Blue-crowned motmot, Momotus momota (Linnaeus) (Coraciiformes: Momotidae). Type locality. Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. This is likely a species that was introduced in imported exotic birds; natural host unknown.
Remarks. Rudimentary oral sucker present—Dronen et al. (2009).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Ecological and  behavioral implications of new archaeological occurrences from Upper burgi exposures at Koobi Fora, Kenya
Creators: name: McCoy, Jack Thomas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The appearance of the genus Homo is a landmark event in human evolution.    While extensive research has been conducted regarding the physical evolution of this genus, there has been little research into evolving behaviors that may have differentiated Homo from the earlier hominins.  Australopithecines were present in East Africa from about 4.4 million years ago to perhaps 0.7 million years ago, but there is presently no evidence of tool use (stone tools or modified bone) prior to 2.5 million years ago.  The introduction of significant amounts of meat into the diet coupled with the use of stone tools near the end of the Pliocene may represent early behaviors that define the genus Homo.  The exposed sediments of the Upper Burgi Member at Koobi Fora provide a unique opportunity to study the factors that drove the onset of this behavior.  Koobi Fora has yielded a continuous paleontological record of hominin evolution that extends back over 4 million years, including early Homo fossil skulls KNM-ER-1470 and KNM-ER-1813.  However, there has been no systematic archaeological research conducted in the time interval prior to 1.9 million years ago when the Upper Burgi Member sediments were deposited.  This research addresses that void through a systematic ecological, geological, and archaeological study of specific Upper Burgi exposures.  Surface survey and excavation produced fossil flora and fauna from these ancient sediments enabling detailed reconstruction of animal communities and hominin habitat.  Fossil bones of animals exploited for food preserve unequivocal evidence of hominin modification during butchery and these modified bones are the archaeological traces that this research utilized to identify hominin presence on the landscape and associated habitat utilization.  This study focuses on evolving behavior defined by these new archaeological traces to make meaningful inferences about changing diet and foraging strategies at geographically widespread locations across the ancient Upper Burgi landscape.  Utilizing the data developed in this research together with published data from other late Pliocene sites in Kenya and Ethiopia, a model of this unique behavior is hypothesized for this specific region of East Africa.
Role of values and effecting value change in solutions organizations
Creators: name: Michael, Boniface
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Scholars of Organization Theory offer different views on the values needed by solutions organizations, strategically oriented towards offering customized solutions to clients and on the question on value change. On values, one view is that Performance values that motivate individual action works. Another view is that Clan values that emphasize collective action works. A more recent view is that Collaborative values that emphasize interdependent action are key.  On effecting value change; existing research offers top down change driven by leaders, spontaneous decentralized change that is scattered and oriented to multiple values and interactive change based on joint dialogue. Two research questions are answered: what is the link between shared values and a solutions strategy and which change process effects value change?This study followed a mixed method approach. The findings are based on confirming evidence of a set of presuppositions drawn from existing theory and patterns that were surfaced inductively based on disconfirming evidence. Data from two primary research sites and nine secondary research sites were collected using semi structured interviews and archival sources.The study finds evidence of Performance, Collaborative and Clan value patterns that were hypothesized a priori. Another value pattern, the Ethical value pattern that emphasizes ethical action was surfaced inductively. The study finds that the Collaborative value pattern supports a solutions strategy more completely than the Ethical, Performance and Clan value patterns, by supporting external customer focus, integration of the workforce and collaboration across decentralized organizations. The study finds that the interactive process effects value change in the direction of ethical and collaborative value patterns by identifying new values, overcoming previous value commitments and building new value commitment. The top down and spontaneous decentralized processes are weak at overcoming old value commitment; the former process is also weak at building new value commitment, while the latter process results in multiple value frameworks. This study contributes to research and practice by clarifying the link between values and solutions strategy. It also provides insights into effecting value change.
The ecology and the biological control of the annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis Kirby  (Coleoptera: curculionidae) using entomopathogenic nematodes (rhabditida: steinernematidae and heterorhabditidae)
Creators: name: McGraw, Benjamin Alexander
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis Kirby, is a highly destructive insect pest of fine turfgrass in the northeastern United States and eastern Canadian provinces.  I examined the spatial ecology of L. maculicollis and assessed the virulence of endemic and released entomopathogenic nematodes to weevil stages to develop ecologically based control programs.  Endemic populations of Steinernema carpocapsae Weiser and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar infected a range of weevil instars and caused moderate generational mortality.  The variability in seasonal abundance of endemic nematode populations and the variability in weevil generational mortality suggests an inability for reliable pest population regulation.  Laboratory bioassays demonstrated that L. maculicollis fourth- and fifth-instar larvae were moderately to highly susceptible to nematode infection.  Several species of nematodes significantly reduced densities of both instars, although a decrease in susceptibility to nematodes was observed as the insect aged.  No difference was observed between the virulence of endemic and commercial nematode strains to any L. maculicollis stage tested.  Field trials conducted over a three year period demonstrated great variability in the ability of commercial and endemic nematodes applied at standard field concentrations to reduce L. maculicollis densities below damage thresholds.  Many factors, including nematode concentration, weevil spatial distribution and density, and timing of application are believed to have contributed to the variability in control.     The spatio-temporal distribution of emerging overwintering adult populations, first generation larvae and the distribution of host plants were examined to identify the spatial structure of populations, better target curative controls and develop monitoring programs.  Significant aggregations of cumulative adult captures, larvae and their preferred hosts (Poa annua L.) were found on fairway edges when the entire width of fairways was sampled.  Adult distribution rarely coincided with the following week's spatial pattern, suggesting that adults actively disperse across fairways throughout the oviposition period.  Spatial association was detected between adults and larvae, but rarely between either stage and P. annua.  The findings challenge assumptions of L. maculicollis host preference, but suggest a potential for targeting controls.  The data were used to develop sequential sampling programs to rapidly assess adult densities and estimate the threat of larval damage.
Syrphophilus bizonarius
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphophilus
Syrphophilus bizonarius

description: Syrphophilus bizonarius (Gravenhorst 1829, Bassus)
Bassus cingulatus Holmgren 1858
Bassus frontalis Brischke 1878 (homonym)
Zootrephes inconstans Davis 1895
Bassus saginatus Provancher 1879
Homocidus iwatensis Uchida 1930
Homocidus satoi Uchida 1930
Diagnosis. Fore wing length 3.5–4.5 mm. Antenna of both sexes with 17–21 flagellomeres. Mesoscutum smooth and shining between weak punctures. Mesopleuron smooth and shining between weak punctures which are more than their diameter apart. Sternaulus strongly impressed. Propodeum with a full set of strong carinae enclosing basal, lateral and petiolar areas, the areas with rugose sculpture. First tergite with median dorsal carinae strongly developed at least on basal half. Second and third metasomal tergites strongly punctate against a smooth and polished or sometimes more coriaceous background.
Colouration of females. Antenna brown to orange, often paler below. Head and mesosoma black, face with yellow inner orbits, yellow on clypeus, mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, sometimes subtegular ridge, small to large shoulder mark, and upper mesepimeron; scutellum usually yellow, at least with yellow apex. Legs orange, coxae and often mid and hind trochanters black; femora orange, marked with black below, sometimes hind femur all dark; hind tibia orange with apex and sometimes base dark, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma orange on tergites 2 to 3 or 4 but sometimes dark and only with orange or yellow apical bands on tergites 2 to 3.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow ventrally on scape, pedicel and sometimes basal flagellomeres, face with yellow inner orbits and a central yellow spot. Fore and mid coxae sometimes entirely yellow, hind coxa black with a yellow apex. Metasoma as in females but often tergites 2 and 3 black basally.
Material examined. Lectotype of Bassus cingulatus Holmgren: Sweden, Lapland, leg. Boheman. 1♂, at NRM.
New for North Korea: Prov. Ryang-Gang, Hyesan, Mt. Ze-dong, 1150m, leg. J.Papp & J.Vojnits, 26.VII.1975. 2♂, at TMA. New for Ukraine: SE, Lugansk reg, Provalie, leg. Osipov, 23.V.2003. 1♀, at MR. New for Vietnam: Tonkin, Hoang Lien N.R., 10 km SW Sa Pa, c. 1550m, leg. C.v.Achterberg, 23.X.1999. 1♀, 26.–28.X.1999. 1♀, 24.X.1999, 1♀, all at RMNH.
Finland (6), Germany (2), Hungary (12), Italy (1), North Korea (2), Norway (3), Russia (6), Spain (1), Sweden (>100), Switzerland (50), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1), United Kingdom (1), Vietnam (3).
Distribution. Holarctic and Oriental.
Figures. Sternaulus (Fig. 25A), habitus (Fig. 35 B).
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on page 101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
title: The Australian Geospatial Reference System: The Foundation for Positioning Australia
Creators: name: J., McCubbine
name: N., Brown
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: positioning
subject: Positioning Australia
subject: Published_External

description: The Positioning Australia program is a $225 million commitment from the Australian Government to provide 10 cm accurate positioning to all Australians. This is a significant improvement from the 5-10 m accuracy you can currently achieve using GPS enabled devices.
In anticipation for the growing use and reliance on positioning technology, Geoscience Australia has led the upgrade of Australia's Geospatial Reference System (collection of datums, reference frames, models, infrastructure and standards) to ensure Australian's can maximise the benefits of precise positioning.
This talk will explain why the Australian Geospatial Reference System is the foundation for the Positioning Australia program.
Wardianum Witenberg 1923
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Wardianum

description: Wardianum Witenberg, 1923
(Members of this genus have a postpharyngeal genital pore, the vitelline fields are not confluent posteriorly and the testes are side by side or nearly so) (Table 13)
Diagnosis. Cyclocoelidae; Haematotrephinae. Body, lanceolate to linguiform, sometimes tapered anteriorly. Rudimentary oral sucker occasionally present; rudimentary ventral sucker generally absent. Genital pore postpharyngeal. Ovary pretesticular forming triangle with side by side testes near posterior arch of cyclocoel. Uterine coils generally overreaching ceca laterally to some extent, generally not invading posttesticular space. Vitelline fields not confluent posteriorly. All but W. facioi (Brenes & Arroyo, 1962) n. comb. from Jacana spinosa spinosa (Charadriiformes: Jacanidae) parasites in air sacs and lungs of charadriiform birds, mostly scolopacids.
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
A multi-level study of human recreational activity and Least Tern (Sterna antillarum) responses
Creators: name: Mendillo, Kimberly A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In New Jersey, Least Terns (Sterna antillarum) nest primarily on sandy ocean beaches, where they must often share their breeding space with beach recreationists.  The goal of this study was to determine whether hatching success, behavioral responses, or stress hormone levels in nesting Least Terns vary with exposure to human recreational activity.  In particular, I was interested in knowing if birds exposed to more frequent activity exhibit elevated responses or if they habituate to human activity, and whether any such changes have consequences for hatching success.  I quantified human activity at multiple sections of beach at a single site where human activity varied with distance from public entrances.  Birds were observed for several behavioral responses and were subjected to a capture-stress protocol to measure adrenocortical stress responses.  There was no clear relationship between human activity and hatching success.  Although a significant negative relationship was found for birds laying early in the season, it was heavily dependent on a single nest.  Hatching success was influenced mainly by lay date, due to gull predation on late-nesting birds.  Behavioral responses were related to human activity levels.  Nests in areas of high human activity had a significantly higher probability of flushing in response to human approaches and were left exposed more frequently than nests in low activity areas.  Neither nest failure (all causes combined), nor nest predation specifically, was related to flush probability or frequency of nest departures.  Thus the increased flushing did not appear to be sufficient to decrease hatching success.  Whether flush rates experienced at beaches with higher traffic would reduce hatching, and whether chick survival is affected differently by such exposure, remain open questions.  Successful nests were more aggressively defended than nests that failed.  No relationships were found between human activity levels and stress hormone levels, but few birds were trapped (N = 12) and power to detect patterns was likely low.  Given that behavioral responses were elevated over the relatively low levels of traffic observed at this beach, and that the consequences of such increases are not fully understood, there should be some sites where recreation is prohibited.
title: The Positioning Australia Program – Delivering a National Positioning Capability
Creators: name: R., Ruddick
name: R., Ruddick
name: A., Peterson
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: positioning
subject: Positioning Australia Program
subject: Published_External

description: The Positioning Australia Program is delivering every day. Thousands of users from all around the country connect to our systems to access accurate and reliable data from a national network of continuously operating reference stations.

A national capability cannot be achieved alone, it takes collaboration across all levels of government and industry. In this presentation Ryan and Amy will show how open data delivered through Positioning Australia is supporting the inland rail project and delivering better positioning services for farmers in South Australia.

There have been many challenges to overcome in delivering this national capability. The speakers will discuss how GA has partnered with industry to facilitate access to land and build infrastructure across the nation during the COVID lockdowns and border closures.

Finally, Ryan and Amy will share how we are working to continuously improve our offerings and access to our data and change the positioning landscape in Australia.
Syrphophilus scabriculus
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphophilus
Syrphophilus scabriculus

description: Syrphophilus scabriculus (Holmgren 1858, Bassus)
Bioblapsis tricincta Ashmead 1902 (syn. nov.)
Diagnosis. Fore wing length 3.5–4.8 mm. Antenna of both sexes with 16–18 flagellomeres. Mesoscutum smooth with some fine sculpture centrally, punctures with margins indistinct and restricted to anterior margin.
Mesopleuron smooth with some fine sculpture on lower half. Sternaulus weakly impressed. Propodeum with a full set of strong carinae enclosing basal, lateral and petiolar areas, the areas with rugose to coriaceous sculpture. First tergite with median dorsal carinae usually only present on basal third. Second and third metasomal tergites with punctures indistinct against the rugulose or coriaceous background.
Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, yellow inner orbits often restricted to above the antennae, yellow or orange on clypeus and mouthparts, yellow on hind corner of pronotum, tegula, and sometimes upper mesepimeron; without yellow shoulder marks, scutellum black. Legs orange, coxae and trochanters black; femora orange, marked with black ventrally; hind tibia orange with apex dark, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma black with orange or yellow apical bands on tergites 2 to 3 or 4.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow ventrally on scape and pedicel, face with yellow inner orbits and a central yellow spot, mesosoma black. Fore and mid coxae with yellow apices, trochanters sometimes yellow. Metasoma as in female.
Material examined. Lectotype of Bassus scabriculus Holmgren: Sweden, Dalarna, leg. Boheman. 1♀, at NRM (hereby designated). Holotype ♂ of Bioblapsis tricincta Ashmead: USA, Alaska, Berg Bay, 10.VII.1899, 1♂ (damaged), at USNM.
New for Finland: InL Utsajoki, Kevo, leg. Jussila, 13.VII.1959. 1♂, 1♀, at NMBE; EnL, Enontekiö, Toskaljärvi 7689:280, leg. Jussila, 15.VII.2007. 1♀, at RJ; InL Utsajoki, Kevo, leg. Jussila, 13.VII.1959. 1♂, at RJ; Utsjoki Li, leg. Karvonen, 2.VII.1967. 1♀, at RJ. New for Norway: Dovrefjell, Kongsvoll, 1000–1500m, leg. J.E. & R.B. Benson, 25.VI.–3.VII.1966. 1♀, 8.–27.VI.1967. 3♂, 4♀; Buskerund Fylke, Geijo, 1000–1100m, leg. J.E. & R.B. Benson, 16.–24.VI.1965. 1♀; all at BMNH; Telemark, 3 km E Kalhovd, 900–1000m, N60°04', E8°23', leg. Munk, 27.VII.1987. 2♀, at MR.
Canada (1), Finland (4), Norway (11), Sweden (30).
Distribution. Holarctic.
Figures. Habitus (Fig. 35 C).
Notes. This species was formerly known as Syrphophilus tricinctus (Ashmead), but examination of the type of Bassus scabriculus Holmgren showed that this is not a synonym of S. tricinctorius but instead identical with the former species.
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on pages 101-102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
title: Australia's Identified Mineral Resources: Taking on the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Creators: name: A., Britt
name: A., Britt
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: mineral exploration
subject: Australia's Identified Mineral Resources
subject: Published_External

description: The year 2020 has, for many people, seemed apocalyptic: the unprecedented fires of the summer, damaging storms, locust plagues, the global pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions. The Australian resources sector offers hope for combating war, pestilence, famine and death by providing the raw materials, including critical minerals, for making modern technologies and developing new ones. We use minerals for renewable energy, defence capability, medical diagnostics and treatment, transport, communications, entertainment and agriculture. The Australian Government has assessed the nation's minerals inventory since 1975, recognising that understanding our identified resource potential is the first step to realising the responsible production of the minerals needed for longer, healthier and wealthier human life across the world. In 2020 and beyond, Australia's minerals sector has an opportunity to spearhead the Covid-19 recovery and support the technologies needed for a cleaner, environmentally robust and prosperous planet - stopping the four horsemen in their tracks.
Coupled embedding of sequential processes using Gaussian process models
Creators: name: Moon, Kooksang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this dissertation we consider the task of making predictions from high dimensional sequential data. Problems of this type arise in many practical scenarios, such as the estimation of 3D human figure motion from a sequence of images or the predictions of implied volatility trends from sequences of option market indicators in financial time-series analysis. However, direct predictions of this type are typically infeasible due to high dimensionality of both the input and the output data, as well as the existence of temporal dependencies. To address this task we present a novel approach to subspace modeling of dyadic high dimensional sequences which have a co-occurrence or regression relationship. Statistical reasoning suggests that predictions made through low dimensional subspaces may improve the performance of predictive models if such subspaces are properly selected. We show that selection of such optimal predictive subspaces can be made, and is largely analogous, to the task of designing a particular family of Gaussian processes (GP). As a consequence, many of the models we consider here can be seen as a generalization of the well-known GP regressors.We first study the role of dynamics in subspace modeling of single sequence and propose a new family of marginal auto-regressive (MAR) models which can describe the space of all stable auto-regressive sequences. We utilize the MAR priors in a Gaussian process latent variable model (GPLVM) framework to represent the nonlinear dimensionality reduction process with a dynamic constraint. To model the low dimensional embedding in the prediction tasks, we propose two alternative approaches: a generative model and direct predictive, discriminative model. For the generative modeling approach, we extend the framework of probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) models in a sequential setting. This dynamic PLSA approach results in a new generative model which learns a pair of mapping functions between the subspace and the two data sequences with a dynamic prior. For the discriminative modeling approach, we address the problem of learning optimal regressors that maximally reduce the dimension of the input while preserving the information necessary to predict the target values based on the sufficient dimensionality reduction concept. Instead of the iterative solutions of previous approaches, we show how a globally optimal solution in closed form can be obtained by formulating a related problem in a setting reminiscent of the GP regression. In the set of experiments on various vision and financial time-series prediction problems, the proposed two models achieve significant gains in accuracy of prediction as well as interpretability, compared to other dimension reduction and regression schemes.
Thermodynamic design, characterization, and evaluation of a nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite collagen allograft composite
Creators: name: Mossaad, Christina Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: There is a growing need for bone to be produced synthetically due to the rising rates of osteoporosis and decreasing levels of bone mineral density in the rapidly aging population of baby boomers.  Bone is a complex composite material of hydroxyapatite and collagen built to withstand tremendous compressive and tensile loads.  The inorganic phase can be synthesized by various techniques including sol-gel, phase transformation, hydrothermal, mechanochemical, chemical precipitation and precipitation in simulated body fluid. However, high temperatures, high pressures, extreme pH values, low yield, vigorous washing and long reaction times limit biological applications and processing with biological tissues such as allografts used in a manifold of medical applications.  To address the gap in hydroxyapatite synthesis technology for these applications, the research was divided into three parts: thermodynamic modeling, powder characterization, and the application to allograft materials for in-vivo studies.  The thermodynamic modeling contained in the first chapter investigated four precursor systems of interest and their fit or dissidence with the biomimetic paradigm proposed.  The calcium acetate-potassium phosphate tribasic synthesis system was found to be the most robust and was thoroughly characterized in the second chapter, which revealed the particle size to be below 10 nm, which is among the smallest recorded in literature.  In addition, characterization in this size range proved difficult and an uphill crystalline to amorphous phase transition was observed when left in dry storage over 5 months.  In the third chapter, an inherent precursor buffering system was employed and the adaptation of the technology to aseptic conditions was carried out in effort to mineralize allograft materials for an in-vivo ectopic athymic rat study.  The study revealed that the nanoscale hydroxyapatite synthesized on the surface allowed increased wet-state fiber cohesivity, which caused a change in tissue response over the control allograft where the allograft produced chondrocytes-cartilage-rich tissue and the composite produced osteoblast-adipose-rich tissue resembling bone marrow.  Overall the research was successful in establishing the utility of thermodynamic modeling in designing a biomimetic system that can be aseptically adapted to allograft and other bone-related technologies, which is a rising field in the forefront of medicine.