cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multi-objective optimization algorithms considering objective preferences and solution clusters
Creators: name: Taboada, Heidi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This thesis presents the development of new methods for the solution of multiple objective problems. One of the main contributions of this thesis is that it presents new approaches that provide a balance between the determination of single solutions and a set of Pareto-optimal solutions. Existing solution methodologies for multiple objective problems can generally be categorized as single solution methods or Pareto optimality methods. However, for many problems and decision-makers, a balanced approach is more appropriate, and this thesis provides new approaches to meet those needs. Other main contributions are that several novel multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are presented, which offer distinct advantages compared to existing algorithms. Two different new approaches are introduced which can efficiently determine an attractive Pareto set or organize and reduce the size of the Pareto-optimal set. This makes it easier for the decision-maker to comparatively analyze a smaller set of solutions, and finally, select the most desirable one for system implementation. In the first approach, the developed algorithm has the capability to automatically identify an optimal number of clusters in the Pareto-optimal set and provide the decision-maker with representative solutions of each cluster. The second approach is a method that yields efficient results for any user who can prioritize the objective functions. In this method, the objective functions are ranked ordinally based on their importance to the decision-maker, and a reduced Pareto set is determined based on randomly generated weight sets, reflecting the decision-maker preferences.Different new multiple objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are designed as the result of this research and they are described and tested. New ideas have been incorporated into these MOEAs to provide the research community with new alternatives. One of the developed MOEAs is MoPriGA, a multi-objective prioritized genetic algorithm. MoPriGA incorporates the knowledge of the decision-maker objective function preferences directly within the evolutionary algorithm. The idea behind this algorithm is to more intensely focus on the region of the Pareto set of interest to the decision-maker.
Alarcta macrogina
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Alarcta
Alarcta macrogina

description: Alarcta macrogina (Torres, 1949)
Tettigades macrogina Torres 1949: 184 (type material examined).
Type locality. Central Pampa, La Pampa Province, Argentina.
Remarks. The species was reported from the type locality in La Pampa Province by Torres (1949; 1958d). We were sent specimens from Chubut.
New provincial records. Prov. Chubut, Trelew, 29-XI-1997, D. Rojas Lanus coll. (three males, AFSC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Novel Drugs for Lung Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: PTHrP is the abbreviation for parathyroid hormone related protein, a substance that is abnormally expressed in a substantial majority of lung cancers, especially non-small cell lung cancers. PTHrP regulates growth and differentiation in virtually every cell and tissue studied. Our plan is to apply the power of modern combinatorial chemistry to identify novel molecules that can regulate PTHrP and act to inhibit tumor progression. These molecules can become novel drugs for the therapy of lung cancer. Thus, our proposal directly addresses a high priority goal of TDRP, namely the treatment of lung cancer.

 Our proposal directly addresses a high priority goal of TDRP, namely the treatment of lung cancer. We shall undertake the discovery of novel PTHrP-inhibitory compounds that can inhibit the progression of lung cancer. This hall be accomplished by the use of modern combinatorial chemistry that can enable hundreds to thousands-fold more compounds to be synthesized and screened compared to traditional approaches, and offers tremendous enhancement toward the identification of new therapeutic candidates. This work can lead to new treatments for lung cancer.
Teddy bear or tool: Students' perspectives on graphing calculator use
Creators: name: McCulloch, Allison Waling
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Graphing calculators are mainstay in the U.S. high school mathematics curriculum and because of that considerable research has been done on the effect of graphing calculators in the math classroom.  Until recently most of the research on graphing calculator use in mathematics education has either been quantitative in nature, focusing on student achievement and attitude, or qualitative focusing  on the teaching and learning of a particular mathematical topic (Choi-Koh, 2003; Ellington, 2003; Forester & Mueller, 2002; Smith & Shotsberger, 1997, for example).  In addition, there is a growing body of research on how students are adapting graphing calculator technology to their mathematical learning (Artigue, 2002; Drijvers, 2000; Guinn and Trouche, 1999).  However, none of this work addresses how students use the graphing calculator when they are working in independent situations or their perceptions of how the graphing calculator impacts their mathematical experience.  My work aims to attend to this gap in the research.  This dissertation reports on a mixed methods study with data consisting of survey data (n = 111) and in-depth interview data compiled from six case studies.  The case study students participated in a task based interview and a stimulated response reflection interview.  Particular attention was paid to both the affective and mathematical aspects of graphing calculator use.  The data indicates that AP Calculus students value the ability to change the cognitive demand of tasks, the ability to engage in mathematical play, to check their written solutions, and to manage time effectively when doing mathematics.  All of the students reported that using the graphing calculator in each of these ways provides them with both a mathematical and affective pay-off.  Most surprising is that the ways in which the students value using their graphing calculators to solve problems does not coincide with their perceptions of what it means to 'do math' in a school setting.  This result suggests that in the continuing discussion of how and if graphing calculators should be incorporated into school mathematics and assessment it is important to address this inconsistency.
Mémento SPARQL pour Wikidata
Creators: name: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: SPARQL
Wikidata
Blazegraph
Mémento
Cheatsheet
Résidence Wikimédia

description: Aide mémoire pour maîtriser les requêtes SPARQL. Il présente quelques paramètres spécifiques au duo Wikidata-Blazegraph mais pourra être utile pour d'autres points de terminaison SPARQL. 

Le cheatsheet a été pensé pour différents niveau de maîtrise du langage de requêtes SPARQL. Une signalétique indique trois niveaux de difficulté (facile, intermédiaire, difficile).

Plan : 

Anatomie d'un élément Wikidata

Interface de requête SPARQL des données RDF

Graphe des triplets RDF

Anatomie d'une requête SPARQL

Symbles

Exemples de requêtes

Clause SELECT

Clause WHERE

Chemins de propriétés

Modèle de données RDF

Combinaison de graphe

Fonctions

Qualificatif, référence, rang

Voir aussi

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Document réalisé dans le cadre de la résidence Wikimédia au sein de l'Urfist méditerranée destinée à accroître les liens entre l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche et le mouvement Wikimédia. Pour en savoir plus : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wikifier la science/Nice
Alarcta minuta
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Alarcta
Alarcta minuta

description: Alarcta minuta (Torres, 1949)
Tettigades minuta Torres 1949: 187 (type material examined).
Type locality. Central Pampa, La Pampa Province, Argentina.
Remarks. The species was recorded previously only from the type locality in La Pampa Province (Torres 1949; 1958d). We collected specimens in Buenos Aires, La Pampa and San Juan Provinces. The species is associated with the Espinal and Monte floristic provinces (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
New provincial records. Buenos Aires, Pehuen-Có, 17-XI-1981, J.E. & M.S. Heath (two males, MSHC); San Juan, Rt. 148— 22 km N Mercedes, 11-XII-1986, F. Noreiga Coll. (one male, MSHC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
The media-government relations: comparative analysis of the United States, South Korea and North Korea's media coverage of foreign policy
Creators: name: Kang, Wha In
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this research is to evaluate the media-government relations through a comparative analysis of the United States, North Korea, and South Korea's news media coverage of foreign policy between 2000 and 2001 during which the three nations were actively involved in diplomatic talks, but failed.  This study observes how reporting of foreign policy supports or challenges a government by analyzing themes, news sources, opinion direction, and media representation, and explores what determines the role of the news media in relation to government. Content analysis is conducted to measure media attention, valence, news source, and media representation. Media attention is measured by grouping the thematic frequency into 48 bi-weekly intervals. Valence (opinion direction) is assigned to all voices appeared in a news story in accordance with its consistency with a nation's foreign policy. A nation's foreign policy is conceptualized on the basis of a President's frame of reference in order to distinguish a government's perspective from other contending forces' perspectives. The research is conducted based on two key concerns and questions. First, there is a concern that the media reporting of foreign policy is constrained by a government. If so, how can the policy be contested by different forces? Second, if each nation's journalism practice represents a unique mode of media and political system, how can the role of media in relation to government be compared? This study found that first, the role the news media shifts in the range from a site of struggle to a site of ideological reproduction, depending on the existence of political challenge and the construction of critical media discourse. Second, when a nation's foreign policy addresses national interests, it gains the support of its public. However, it has no guarantee to be equally supported by other nations if there is a conflict between two nations' interests. Constituting hegemony within a national boundary is not tantamount to constituting the same hegemony in the international community. The disparity between two nations' interests can cause damage to the leadership when it becomes a critical media discourse.
Anterhynchium (Anterhynchium) abdominale subsp. bengalense
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Anterhynchium
Anterhynchium abdominale
Anterhynchium (anterhynchium) abdominale bengalense (de saussure, 1855)

description: Anterhynchium (Anterhynchium) abdominale bengalense (de Saussure, 1855)
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: Kerala [Palakkad (Malampuzha, Walayar Forests)], Tamil Nadu; Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan [Udaipur], Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal [Barrackpore].— Nepal (van der Vecht 1963; Gusenleitner 2006; Girish Kumar 2013c; Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Alarcta quadrimacula Torres 1958
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Alarcta
Alarcta quadrimacula

description: Alarcta quadrimacula Torres, 1958
Alarcta quadrimacula Torres 1958d: 26 (type material examined).
Type locality. El Sosneado, Mendoza Province, Argentina.
Remarks. The species is known from the type series collected in La Pampa and Mendoza Provinces (Torres 1958d). We collected specimens in Mendoza Province. The species is associated with the Monte floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Static and dynamic adsorption of ?-lactoglobulin on polymeric membrane surface and development of novel membranes by surface modification
Creators: name: Kim, Jun Tae
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The protein adsorption on polymeric membrane surface is the major factor to cause the membrane fouling in ultrafiltration (UF) processing to concentrate, fractionate, and separate whey proteins from liquid whey which is byproduct of cheese manufacturing process. Membrane fouling, which is defined as the decrease of the filtration performances such as permeation flux, efficiency, and selectivity is still one of the major problems encountered in many food industries employing membrane separation processing. In order to better understand fouling mechanism, to optimize the process condition to minimize fouling, and to develop the novel membranes to reduce fouling, the protein adsorption on the polymeric membrane surface was studied by static adsorption and dynamic adsorption experiments.From the static adsorption experiment, the adsorption capacity and the surface heterogeneity of ?-lactoglobulin were determined at various conditions of the protein solution by an adsorption isotherm. Dynamic adsorption process was studied by QCM-D, which allows monitoring of the protein adsorption process in real time by simultaneously measuring of frequency shift (?f) and dissipation shift (?D).To develop the novel membranes to reduce the protein adsorption and fouling, two surface modification methods were developed by hydrophilic polymers grafting using UV/Ozone treatment and thin film composite (TFC) through interfacial polymerization. The hydrophilic polymer grafted membranes might reduce the hydrophobic interactions between protein and membrane surface by improve the hydrophilicity of the polymeric membrane. UV/Ozone is one of the powerful techniques to initiate and activate the polymeric membrane surface to graft the hydrophilic polymers. Interfacial polymerization has been a well established way to prepare the thin active layer by a polycondensation reaction in two immiscible phases (organic solvent and water phase). Dense and thin polyamide layer can be formed on the polymeric membrane surface. The hydrophilic polymers such as PVA, PEG, and chitosan were modified on the polyamide thin layer to improve the hydrophilicity of the modified membranes. Some surface properties of modified PES membranes were characterized by contact angle, FT-IR, XPS, and AFM. These results proved that PES membranes were modified successfully with hydrophilic polymers and showed more hydrophilic property and lower protein adsorption.
Hypoxia inducible factor: targeted anticancer prodrug
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: In vitro and in vivo antitumor effect of the combination of an inducer of cell death (anticancer drug) and a suppressor of cellular resistance (antisense oligonucleotides targeted to hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha, HIF1A, mRNA) was evaluated.The proposed novel HIF targeted anticancer prodrug includes three main components: (1) drug carrier, (2) an apoptosis inducing agent (anticancer drug) and (3) a suppressor of HIF1A protein. Doxorubicin (DOX) and camptothecin (CPT) were used as anticancer drugs. ASO targeted to HIF1A mRNA was used as a suppressor of HIF1A protein. Two types of carriers have been used in vitro: liposomes and polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymer. Polymeric liposome is used as an in vivo carrier. Anticancer efficacy of proposed prodrugs has been evaluated in vitro using human ovarian and breast carcinoma cells and in vivo on nude mice bearing xenografts of multidrug resistant human ovarian tumor.Both in vitro and in vivo experiments showed that ASO targeted to HIF1A mRNA decreased the overexpression of the HIF1A protein induced by hypoxia and anticancer drugs. The designed drug delivery system provided for intracellular delivery of active components and suppressed cellular antiapoptotic defense leading to the more pronounced induction of P53 and caspase-dependent signaling pathway of apoptosis when compared with an anticancer drug alone.Data obtained in both in vitro and in vivo experiments showed that the proposed novel prodrug approach will form a foundation for a novel type of cancer therapy based on the combined use of a suppressor of HIF1A protein and an anticancer drug. Such combination therapy shows a high potential in preventing the development of resistance in tumor cells and thus will increase the efficacy of cancer therapy to an extent that cannot be achieved by individual components applied separately.
La rebelión de las niñas: cuerpos, poder y subjetividad en la representación de niñas y adolescentes por escritoras del Caribe hispano
Creators: name: Celis, Nadia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: "La rebelión de las niñas: cuerpos, poder y subjetividad en la representación de niñas y adolescentes en escritoras del Caribe hispano" explores the acquisition of women's subjectivity by analyzing images and voices of young girls and adolescents. This research aims at filling a void in the field of Caribbean Studies by establishing a dialogue between women writers from the continental Caribbean whose works have received scarce critical attention (Fanny Buitrago and Marvel Moreno from Colombia, and Antonia Palacios from Venezuela), and better known writers from the islands (Rosario Ferré, Magali García Ramis and Mayra Santos-Febres from Puerto Rico, and Julia Álvarez from the Dominican Republic). Girls' bodies are interpreted both as the site of interplay among the psychological, sexual, social and cultural forces that shape female subjectivity, as well as the means of the girls' "rebellions" against the patriarchal norm. Narratives of formation portray how subjectivity emerges from the tension between the &amp;amp;amp;quot;lived body&amp;amp;amp;quot; and the objectified body, socially produced through the inscription of its materiality by relations and techniques of power. The role that girls and images of girlhood play in sustaining and challenging &amp;amp;amp;quot;womanhood&amp;amp;amp;quot; is also emphasized by reading women's narratives against the background of cultural beliefs about girlhood. In addition, these narratives depict the social and political transformations experienced by women from the fifties to the new millennium. The persistence of girls' susceptibility to the control and appropriation of their bodies, demonstrates one of the main hypothesis of this work: that becoming a &amp;amp;amp;quot;woman&amp;amp;amp;quot; under the patriarchal norm requires the inner dissociation of the body from the self. Therefore, attaining &amp;amp;amp;quot;a body of their own&amp;amp;amp;quot; is one of the primary challenges in the women's pursuit of autonomous subjectivities.My theoretical approach draws on feminist theories of embodiment by Elizabeth Gross and Judith Butler among others, as well as on philosophers like Luce Irigaray, Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur. It is also nourished by the theories and research clustered in the field of Girls' Studies, especially works on psychoanalysis, sociology, media and cultural studies of theorists such as Emilce Dio Bleichmar, Valerie Walkerdine and Catherine Driscoll.
Candidate gene and microRNA expression studies of schizophrenia
Creators: name: Bruse, Shannon E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder affecting 0.5-1% of the world's population. Schizophrenia has a significant genetic component, but the early search for specific genes has been slowed by a number of factors, including a lack of inexpensive genotyping methods suitable for targeted genetic studies. This work describes the development of an inexpensive multiplexed genotyping assay ideal for candidate gene studies. Furthermore, we describe application of this technology to the study of three schizophrenia candidate genes - SNAP-25, ZDHHC8, and DGCR8. Both SNAP-25 and ZDHHC8 are involved in glutamate signaling at the NMDA receptor, and dysfunction in glutamate signaling at the NMDA receptor is one of the leading theories of the etiology of schizophrenia. DGCR8 is an RNA-binding protein necessary for the processing of microRNAs, a class of small RNAs important in the development and maintenance of the mammalian central nervous system. Though we failed to find evidence of genetic association with ZDHHC8, we did identify a genetic association between schizophrenia and variants within both the SNAP-25 and DGCR8 genes. Our results with DGCR8 provide the first genetic link between the microRNA biogenesis pathway and a major neuropsychiatric disorder. Additionally, we performed quantitative microRNA expression profiling in post-mortem brain samples from patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and psychiatrically normal controls. We began with a pilot study comparing the expression of 158 microRNAs in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (BA9) of post-mortem brain tissue. Based on initial results, we assessed the expression of a number of specific microRNAs in a large, well characterized sample set from patients with schizophrenia (n=35), bipolar disorder (n=35), and psychiatrically normal controls (n=35). In the larger sample set, we observed overexpression of one microRNA, hsa-mir-372. This overexpression was observed in two separate brain regions from patients with both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, though no differential expression of any microRNA tested was deemed statistically significant.
Alarcta terrosa Torres 1958
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Alarcta
Alarcta terrosa

description: Alarcta terrosa Torres, 1958
Alarcta terrosa Torres 1958d: 30 (type material examined).
Type locality. Central Pampa, La Pampa Province, Argentina.
Remarks. The species is known only from the type series collected in La Pampa Province (Torres 1958d).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Null subject patterns in language contact: the case of Dominican Spanish
Creators: name: Cabrera-Puche, Maria J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors, such as language contact. In this dissertation, language internal changes and the effects of language contact on linguistic change are studied by analyzing four properties normally associated with the pro-drop parameter (phonologically null subjects, SV inversion, expletives, and that-trace filter) in Dominican Spanish (DS). The internal diachronic change is studied in forty DS speakers from two areas of the Dominican Republic (DR): El Cibao (n = 20) and Santo Domingo (n = 20). DS has been said to be undergoing an internal diachronic change towards a non-null subject language, but still reflecting properties of null subject languages, and El Cibao has been considered the area leading this linguistic change. A study of the four pro-drop properties mentioned above by speakers from Santo Domingo and El Cibao, two distinct geographical areas in the DR, and by speakers of different age ranges and different educational levels was conducted in order to find evidence of the spread of this internal change throughout the island. Data for the study was obtained from oral production and grammaticality judgment tasks. This dissertation also addresses the influence that other languages exert on the four pro-drop properties in DS. Data from a group of twenty DS/English bilingual speakers who are exposed to English, Caribbean (Puerto-Rican, Cuban, and DS) and non-Caribbean Spanish varieties (GS) were collected and analyzed to determine the effects of language contact on language change. English and GS have opposite values in the representation of these properties, whereas the Caribbean group has a mixed-system.Results show that the four properties are affected differently. Specifically, the SV inversion property seems to be affected by English more than the phonologically null subject property. However, no statistically significant data was obtained for the other two properties. Therefore, two suggestions arise: 1) these four pro-drop properties do not form a cluster of properties, or 2) these four properties are affected differently by a language contact situation.
Anterhynchium (Anterhynchium) mellyi
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Anterhynchium
Anterhynchium mellyi

description: Anterhynchium (Anterhynchium) mellyi (de Saussure, 1852)
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, GKVK, 916 m, 25. ix.1988, 1 Ƌ, coll. C.T. Swamy; 16. vi.1979, 1 ♂, coll. Ghorpade; 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 3. iii.2012, 1 ♀; 1. ii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. A. Pannure; 5. xi.2014, 1 ♀, coll. Zammeroddin; 10. x.2012, 1 ♀, coll. R. Girish; 19. vi.2008, 1 ♀, coll. C.M.K Swamy; 21. xi.2009, 1 ♀, coll. R.N. Geeta; 6. vii.2010, 1 Ƌ, coll. E.D. Nayana; Hebbal, 900 m, 13°02' N 77°35' E, 31.x, 20. xi.2014, 1 ♂, 1♀, coll. Zammeroddin; Sadahalli, 906 m, 13°12' N 77°38' E, 4. xi.2014, 1 ♀, coll. Zammeroddin. Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere, ZARS, 931 m, 29°10' N 75°46' E, 10. x.2012, 1 ♀, coll. Y. Diwakar. Hassan, Agriculture college, 950 m, 12°58' N 76°16' E, 2013, 2014, 2♂, coll. students; karekere, 934 m, 13°06' N 76°10' E, 23. vi.2014, 1 ♀, coll. C. Prashantha. Shimoga, 13. v.2013, 1 ♂, coll. Rauhiya.
Distribution. India: Karnataka; Assam, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh [Allahabad], West Bengal [Barrackpore].— China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam (van der Vecht 1963; Gusenleitner 1988; Girish Kumar 2013c; Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b; Nguyen et al. 2014; Nguyen 2015c).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Science and health web information utilization: an investigation into knowledge building by everyday life information seekers
Creators: name: Bird, Nora J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Two studies examined information utilization by adult everyday life information seekers in the context of science and health information. A coding scheme developed by Todd (2006) was applied to a one group pre-test post-test protocol where Web users served as their own controls in non-random groups and were asked to describe the knowledge that they have about one of two topics: genetically modified food in the first study and food safety concerns in the second study. After Web searching and choice of sites, they were asked to state what they knew about the topic again. The coding structure was used to compare the before and after statements as to structure, accuracy, and extent of knowledge. In addition, an instrument devised by McInerney (2000) and refined by further research (McInerney & Bird, 2005) was used by the participants to judge the quality of the Web resources that they encountered. Web quality factors included in the tool were investigated to see which, if any, helped the participants build knowledge structures.In both studies, there was an increase in the total number of relational statements made by the participants at the post-test stage. The increases were in both Facts and Implications type statements. The detected knowledge structure changes mirrored an increase in the extent of topic knowledge, but accuracy actually decreased or stayed the same. In the first study, University affiliates produced significantly more total relational statements on the post-test. In the second study, participants who had more food preparation experience and were more educated produced more Implications statements than other groups. Only the graphics quality ratings were shown to have an effect on quantity of relational statement production in the first study. In the second study, utilization of low quality rated Websites was associated with production of Facts statements, while high quality Websites was associated with Implications statements. Credibility and overall quality were correlated with each other in the second study. Results suggest avenues for future research.
Tettigotoma Torres 1942
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Tettigotoma

description: Tettigotoma Torres, 1942
Type species. Tettigotoma maculata Torres, 1942.
Remarks. Currently the genus is known only from Argentina (Metcalf 1963c).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Anterhynchium (Dirhynchium) coracinum van der Vecht 1963
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Anterhynchium
Anterhynchium coracinum

description: Anterhynchium (Dirhynchium) coracinum van der Vecht, 1963
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: Kerala [Thenmala, Travancore], Tamil Nadu [Nilgiri Hills].— Thailand (van der Vecht 1963; Gusenleitner 1988).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Silenzio e inganno: L'amara scienza della dissimulazione tra Tasso e Accetto
Creators: name: Bilotta, Monica
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation explores representations of silence and deception in Italian literature of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, the religious tragedies of Federico Della Valle (Iudit, Ester, La reina di Scozia), and Traiano Boccalini's satires (Ragguagli di Parnaso).  I analyze how these different works portray strategies of deception as a morally legitimate means of achieving religious and political independence from the increasing control of State and Church.  Although such strategies are not explicitly theorized until a few decades later in Torquato Accetto's Dissimulazione onesta (1641), my close examination of the historical, social and literary contexts of these works explores the cultural practices that helped to shape philosophical inquiry into the moral ramifications of silence and deception, a quest that involved heretics, rulers and even missionaries of the same period. In addition, I devote particular attention to issues of gender, as some of the female characters in these texts play an essential role in the construction of what I term "moral simulation."Ultimately, I claim that silence and deception alter traditional representations of reality in different genres, resulting in more porous boundaries between genres.  Although rooted in the necessity to protect the life of the authors and the dissemination of their works, the use of allusive and oblique rhetorical strategies becomes a literary code for any text which discusses the interaction between politics and religion.  Such a direct reference to the fictive nature of literature shares significant points of intersection with the baroque celebration of ingegno as the fundamental means of achieving aesthetic pleasure. By challenging the limits of rhetoric, the authors of the Counter Reformation explore the unattainability of transparency in human relationships.
Novel Therapy Sensitization Strategy for Lung Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Therapy resistance and therapy toxicity pose major challenges for lung cancer treatment. This study will explore a novel molecularly-targeted strategy for therapy sensitization of lung cancer that could reduce therapy toxicity, improve treatment outcome, and reverse therapy resistance for a large fraction of lung cancer patients whose tumors have failed conventional approaches. The approach involves the use of inhibitors of a group of cellular enzymes known as histone acetyltransferases, or HATs. These enzymes regulate DNA function and are attractive targets for novel drug development, but the development of HAT inhibitors has progressed slowly. Importantly, HATs can promote resistance to several important lung cancer therapeutic drugs that act by damaging cellular DNA by contributing to the cellular process of DNA repair. We have recently observed that treatment of lung cancer cells with the synthetic HAT inhibitor, Spermidine-CoA, (abbreviated below as Spd-CoA) or with a truncated analogue of Spd-CoA, prevents DNA repair and enhances lung cancer cell killing by several lung cancer therapeutic drugs and radiation. The therapy sensitization effect is specific for cancer cells, and therefore will not increase toxicity to normal tissue and may allow lower doses of therapy to be used for all treatment regimens. The synergizing drugs include the lung cancer therapeutic cisplatin (Platinol®), which has been used as a first and second-line therapy for lung cancer, and the plant alkaloid, camptothecin, from which an important class of lung cancer therapeutics is derived (Irinotecan [Camptosar®], Topetecan [Hycamtin]). We hypothesize that these and related compounds that inhibit HAT could constitute a novel class of potent therapy sensitizers for lung cancer that could reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy and greatly improve treatment outcome for advanced disease. We are proposing to test this hypothesis by evaluating the activities in lung cancer cells of the two synthetic spermidine-based HAT inhibitors, as well as several plant-derived HAT inhibitors. We will also examine the basis of cancer cell specificity, as this will provide a rationale for further improvements on inhibitor design (Aim 1). To validate the potential of spermidine-based HAT inhibitors in vivo, we will carry out a rigorous pre-clinical evaluation in mouse models for human lung cancer (Aim II). This study represents a new direction in lung cancer research, and could lead to significant improvements in lung cancer patient survival and quality of life. If successful, the project will lead to a better understanding of the biological properties in vitro and in vivo of two first generation Spd-based HAT inhibitors, and to establish a rationale for a larger full-scale study into the development and characterization of improved spermidine-based structures with increased potency.
Saltation of  pneumatically conveyed nanoparticles
Creators: name: Betin, Suleyman Kemal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The saltation velocity, the air velocity at which particles start to settle and form dunes and layers during their pneumatic transport, is experimentally studied for nano-particle aerosol in a horizontal pipe. The nano-particles used are silica with primary particle size of 30nm and agglomerate size of 200-300nm and carbon black with average size of 45 nm. The nano-particle aerosol is characterized using DMA. The saltation of nano-particle aerosol is compared qualitatively with that of glass beads and quantitatively with the predicted values of Matsumoto correlation, which is verified for 47.5 µm glass beads. The saltation of nano-particle aerosols was different than that of 47.5 µm glass beads in terms of the form and the initial position of the particles that settle. The saltation Froude numbers predicted by Matsumoto are an order of magnitude higher than the experimental results for nano-particles and the discrepancy is explained by comparing the external forces acting on a particle through its interaction with another particle. The saltation of the silica nano-particles was different than that of carbon black nano-particles: the saltation Froude number was essentially independent of mass loading ratio for nano-silica. The difference in the saltation behavior of two nano-particle aerosols is explained by particle charge measurements and control volume analysis.
Taste and endocrine factors in women with gestational diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Belzer, Lisa Michelle
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Year: 2008

description: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is hyperglycemia first identified during pregnancy.  Many metabolic parameters increase across normal gestation, but may exceed those levels in pregnancies where GDM develops.  Studies on the time course and pattern of metabolic factors in GDM are conflicting.  Additionally, past research suggests changes in cravings and dietary intake during normal pregnancy and taste alterations in diabetes and pregnancy.  Such parameters have been studied only on a limited basis in women with GDM.   In this dissertation, we examined metabolic, taste and dietary measures across pregnancy.The temporal profile of insulin, cortisol and leptin was determined in women who developed GDM and those who remained normal glucose tolerant (NGT).  Fasting insulin levels were higher at 24-28 weeks gestation than during postpartum in women with GDM, however it was not until 34-38 weeks that insulin differed from postpartum in NGT women.  Both pregnant groups showed similar increases in cortisol levels across gestation.  From 16-20 weeks to 24-28 weeks, leptin rose rapidly in women with GDM and was marginally higher in GDM women relative to NGT women at 24-28 weeks.  By 34-38 weeks, leptin values did not differ between pregnant groups.We also studied pregnancy and GDM effects on sweet taste perception and preference, and examined relationships of taste parameters with circulating hormones.  Women with GDM exhibited higher preference for sucrose-sweetened milk as well as positive relationships between liking of glucose solutions and sucrose-sweetened milk and insulin and leptin, respectively.  Women with NGT reported higher intake of all sweet food and beverage at 24-28 weeks, primarily as fruit and fruit juice, while women with GDM reported higher frequency of sweet cravings at 34-38 weeks gestation.These results suggest that women challenged with concurrent pregnancy and diabetes exhibit early rises in insulin and leptin during gestation and such endocrine changes may be related to elements of sweet taste.  Additionally, during late gestation, although women with GDM report following a carbohydrate controlled diet, they show a higher preference and craving for sweet taste.  In GDM, alterations in sweet taste and differences in sweet cravings and food intake may be metabolically or psychologically based.
Tettigotoma maculata Torres 1942
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Tettigotoma
Tettigotoma maculata

description: Tettigotoma maculata Torres, 1942
Tettigotoma maculata Torres 1942: 254 (type material examined).
Type locality. The holotype male was described without locality data.
Remarks. The species is known only from Argentina (Metcalf 1963c). Torres (1942) lists an allotype (sic) male collected at “Pampa Central”. Metcalf (1963c) took this to mean La Pampa Province but the Pampas floristic province extends over several provinces (Cabrera 1971; Sanborn et al. 2011a). Specific location data were provided by Torres (1948b) with specimens being reported from Córdoba and Mendoza Provinces. We collected specimens in Mendoza Province. We found the species associated with the Monte floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a) suggesting the “ allotype ” was collected on the western edge of the “Central Pampa” and not in La Pampa Province.
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Study the effect of nicotine on airway inflammation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Chronic Airway hyperreactivity (AHR), a cardinal feature of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects more than 20 million individuals in the United States. Many Americans are affected by a serious chronic lung condition characterized by episodes or attacks of inflammation and narrowing of the small airways in response to certain triggering agents. The proposed project addresses many basic scientific questions that will help to understand the mechanisms resulting in airway sensitization and the development of lung inflammation. Our preliminary data suggest that one major trigger for lung diseases is exposure to nicotine, whether through active or second hand exposure to cigarette smoking. Since disruption of airway mucosal homeostasis is an important factor in the induction of airway sensitization, airway resident cells or their products may affect the outcome of exposure to triggers such as nicotine. It is therefore important to elucidate how immune cells located in airway mucosa could interact with each other and play a role in the development of AHR.

 Today, many different treatments for lung diseases are available. However, they only help patients to breathe easier, and they also reduce the swelling and inflammation in the air tubes for a short period of time. But one way to prevent lung diseases, to reduce the incidence and exacerbation of lung disease and to discover cures for lung disease and improve it’s diagnosis and treatment is to strongly support research, and especially the understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved. We believe targeting bronchial immune cells, such as T cell subsets and Natural Killer T cells (NKT), which are directly present and responsible for lung inflammation and AHR, would be potentially a more direct, physiological and specific therapy than any other treatments. Since our preliminary results suggest that the number of lung NKT cells increase in lungs after exposure to nicotine, we intend to study the effect of nicotine on activation of NKT cells. We believe that exposure to smoke and nicotine might affect the number and activation mode of NKT cells in the lungs and therefore directly affect the development of airway inflammation and AHR. The results of our proposed studies might help to explain why active and second hand smoking is a risk factor for the onset of airway inflammation, such as COPD and asthma. A better understanding of the mechanisms resulting in airway sensitization is a valuable approach towards therapy and because of the possible clinical relevance by targeting cells that are responsible for lung inflammation, major progress is to be expected.
An improved numerical model for calculations of transport and size distributions of atmospheric aerosols and cloud droplets
Creators: name: Akberov, Roald
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Year: 2008

description: Aerosols and cloud droplets in the atmosphere appear in different sizes. They can be transported by wind and experience various microphysical changes due to nucleation, collisional and condensational growth, evaporation and sedimentation. These microphysical processes affect optical properties of clouds and aerosols, and through it, they affect climate. Climate models usually lack a microphysical module, but instead use various parameterizations to represent clouds in the terrestrial atmosphere. Coupling between cloud microphysical models and climate models could improve the quality of numerical predictions of climate. In this study, CARMA (Community Aerosol and Radiation Model for Atmospheres), which is one of the best available microphysical models for calculation of size distributions of atmospheric aerosols and cloud droplets based on environmental conditions, has been redesigned and rewritten for coupling with numerical models of climate. In the revised model, data transfer between subroutines is handled via lists of arguments. The microphysical part of CARMA v. 2.2 was isolated from other processes, such as radiation and transport, and prepared for coupling with existing climate models. Changes were made to the vertical transport subroutines. The PPM (Piecewise Parabolic Method) method of solving the advection equation was replaced with the REA (Reconstruct-Evolve-Average) method, complemented with the minmod slope limiter. The sedimentation equation is now solved using the upwind method. Sedimentation fluxes, used by the upwind method, are calculated inside the microphysical part of CARMA. The ability of the revised CARMA model to reproduce the observed microstructure of a marine stratocumulus cloud over the North Sea was tested. The improved model closely reproduces most of the observed properties of the cloud and aerosols.