cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Live-load models for design and fatigue evaluation of highway bridges
Creators: name: Davis, Joseph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: New load design factors and models are introduced to account for site-specific live-load demands in the state of New Jersey. Live-load for highway bridges is highly site specific. The current AASHTO LRFD design specifications provide a notional design truck to which load factors are applied. These strength design factors were calibrated using reliability theory to provide a consistent level of safety for various spans and bridge types. The original calibration was done using a small sample of data from decades ago.  Truck weights and volumes have significantly increased, reducing the level of safety of highway bridges designed today.  Live-load is quantified using an extensive weigh-in-motion (WIM) database for the state of New Jersey as well as instrumentation at a bridge located in the heart of Port Newark, NJ. An integrated system combines a WIM system to measure truck loads and a data logger to capture the strains and deflections.  This, first of its kind, system provides a complete picture of bridge behavior. The WIM data collected include all of the parameters needed to quantify truck loading: gross and axle weights, axle spacings, classification, counts, speeds, lane, etc. The bridge response includes parameters such as: strains and deflections.Information on truck loads are used to develop load effect envelopes for various span lengths. The load effects are then extrapolated using Normal probability paper to predict the maximum expected levels for the full service life of 75 years. The effect of other distributions, various measurement durations, and truck multiple presence is also studied. Based on the analysis of moment and shear envelops for various spans, it was found that the current load factors must be increased to maintain the level of safety that the code dictates. A new load model is proposed to provide a more uniform bias for New Jersey trucks.Fatigue load effects are studied in terms of effective truck weights, truck dimensions, and multiple presence in comparison with current evaluation procedures. Experimental load and response data from the instrumented bridge along with computer models is used to study the effect of truck weight, volume, and multiple presence of the fatigue life. Statistical techniques developed by the automotive industry are applied to short experimental measurements to predict a fatigue load profile that would be expected if measurement extended to a much longer duration. The rainflow extrapolation techniques utilize Extreme Value Theory and non-parametric smoothing methods to render a future prediction of the rainflow counted stress cycle matrix. The effect of measurement duration, seasonality, and truck multiple presence on fatigue life prediction is studied.
Transport policies, travel behavior, and sustainability: a comparison of Germany and the U.S.
Creators: name: Buehler, Ralph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation investigates the influence of transport policies on individual travel behavior in Germany and the U.S.  In spite of increasing automobile use in both countries, Germany has been more successful than the U.S. in maintaining a more balanced, sustainable transport system.  In 2002, Americans drove 125 percent more kilometers per capita than Germans. Walking, cycling, and public transport accounted for only 14 percent of all trips in the U.S., compared to 40 percent in Germany.  Excessive reliance on the car is responsible for unsustainable trends such as environmental pollution, oil dependence, obesity, traffic congestion, and road fatalities. In 2005, urban transport energy use and CO2 emissions per capita were three times higher in the U.S. than in Germany.   This analysis contains two parts capturing the interdependencies of transportation policies and individual travel decisions. A descriptive and qualitative examination of differences in travel trends and transport policies over time sets the frameworks within which individuals make daily travel choices in each country.  A multivariate analysis based on two comparable national travel surveys then explores the intricacies of these choices.   The analysis shows that policies and institutions in the U.S. contribute to making car use cheaper, easier, and more common than in Germany.  In 2005, for example, revenues from roadway user taxes and fees in Germany were 2.6 times larger than roadway expenditures by all levels of government, compared to net subsidies for roadways in the U.S.  Unlike the majority of American cities, most German municipalities promote non-automobile travel and impose restrictions on driving, thus making car travel slower and less attractive. In 2002, average car travel speeds in the U.S. were 33 percent faster than in Germany.  Multivariate analyses showed that transportation policies accounted for up to 25 percent of the variability explained in travel behavior.  Several policy recommendations follow from this research. First, higher population density, a greater mix of land uses, access to public transportation, and higher gasoline prices reduce car travel. Second, higher car-ownership rates and faster average car travel speeds increase car use. Lastly, the combination of car-restrictive policies with measures that increase the attractiveness of non-automobile modes has been key to more limited car use in Germany.
Apodynerus Giordani Soika 1993
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Apodynerus

description: Genus Apodynerus Giordani Soika, 1993
Apodynerus Giordani Soika 1993d: 155. Type species Odynerus troglodytes de Saussure, 1856, by original designation. Apodynerus Gusenleitner 1988: 180, used as generic name in the combination “ Apodynerus t. troglodytes (de Saussure, 1856) ”. Unavailable name according to Article 13.1.1 of the Code (ICZN 1999).
Apodynerus Giordani Soika 1993a: 22; 1993b: 27. Nomen nudum. Redescribed as a “new” genus by Giordani Soika 1994: 206. Apodynerus: Girish Kumar et al. 2013b: 23–24.
Diagnosis. Mandibles longer than length of clypeus, distinctly cross each other. Clypeus as long as wide, usually emarginate apically. Cephalic foveae absent. Vertex not sloping behind ocelli. Thorax globular, longer than wide. Pronotum with carinae often well developed, sometimes not developed dorsally. Anterior face of pronotum with median series of transverse striae (Fig. 23). Epicnemial carina present. Pretegular carina well developed. Tegula longer than wide, emarginate posteriorly adjoining parategula, reaches posterior end of parategula. Axillary fossa wide. Metanotum angled, with little dorsal surface. Propodeum below plane of metanotum. Propodeal orifice wide dorsally. Submarginal carina produced as pointed process above valvula, submarginal carina and valvula free posteriorly. T1 subsessile, funnel-shaped, in dorsal view much narrower than T2, without transverse carina, wider apically than basally (Fig. 85). T2 2 × larger than previous one, swollen at sides, free of apical lamella. Mid tibia with one spur. SMC2 basally acute. Prestigma equals to half length of pterostigma. Ƌ: F11 hook like; F10, F11 shorter than previous ones. Body length usually less than 10 mm.
Distribution. Oriental Region.
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 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Calliopsida cinnabarina
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Calliopsida
Calliopsida cinnabarina

description: Calliopsida cinnabarina (Berg, 1879)
Tettigades cinnabarina Berg 1879: 137 (type material examined).
Type locality. Mendoza, Argentina.
Remarks. The species was reported from Argentina and Chile with Argentine specimens recorded from Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Juan, and Tucumán (Jacobi 1907a; Delétang 1919; Torres 1945b; 1958c). The record from Buenos Aires is suspect since there are no other data and the habitat in Buenos Aires province is significantly different than the mountainous western portion of the country from where the remaining records originate. We also found specimens from Catamarca in the IMLA.
New provincial records. Catamarca, Loro Huasi, 2000m, 14- IV- 1970, Col. P. Fidalgo (one male, IMLA); Catamarca, Loro Huasi, 22-I-1970, Terán-Fidalgo coll. (two males, three females, IMLA); Catamarca, Campo Pozuelos, 50 km S. de Santa Maria, 13-X-1973, col. L. Strange (one male, IMLA); Catamarca, Campo Pozuelos, 50 km S. de Santa Maria, 13-X-1973, col. L. Strange (one male, IMLA); Catamarca, Ciénaga de Belén, 12-XII- 1973, col. L. Strange (one female, IMLA).
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 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Psychoanalysis and literature: perversion, racism and language of difference
Creators: name: Yukari, Yanagino
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: "Psychoanalysis and Literature: Perversion, Racism and Language of Difference" considers the intersection of racism and perversion. Through offering a close reading of literary characters' fantasies of racial subjugation, I offer a way to introduce Sigmund Freud's drive theory in the field of literary studies. I approach this task by a close reading of the theory of the Oedipus complex, the psychosexual stage in which the notion of difference is installed through the recognition of the existence of sexual difference, which simultaneously influences the successful development of the superego structure. Perversion is a term often used to describe abnormal interests and practices of human sexuality. However, for Freud, human sexuality is always polymorphously perverse. One of the ways in which polymorphous expression of sexuality manifests is in the externalization of one's own sexual and aggressive impulse onto the Other. This dissertation demonstrates that racism is a form of perversion because it is an expression of resistance to difference. As a result of the difficulty going through the Oedipal phase, a pervert will seek to get rid of his or her awareness of sexual difference by remaining in fantasy; this form of choosing fantasy over reality also speaks to the wish of a racist, who tries to disavow the knowledge that discharging elevated tension onto the Other is not acceptable in reality.My introductory chapter examines the intersection between two forms of psychoanalytic practice: reading literature and conducting clinical work. Chapter one discusses Franz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks in which he argues that psychoanalysis can effectively articulate the reason racism will not dissipate in the West. I offer a way to critically approach this claim so as to further integrate issues of race into psychoanalytic theoretical work. In the second chapter, I examine the relationship between language and perversion in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker. My third chapter offers a close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Going to Meet the Man" I demonstrate that castration of black men, which often accompanied lynching, has been escaping the attention of American psychoanalysts; therefore, I argue that the theory of the Oedipus complex has been taught and utilized perversely. And, in my concluding chapter, I offer my reading of J. M. Coetzee's Foe in order to examine the link between writing and perversion.
Chonosia Distant 1905
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Chonosia

description: Chonosia Distant, 1905
Type species. Fidicina crassipennis Walker, 1858.
Remarks. The genus was endemic to Argentina (Metcalf 1963c) until specimens were recently recorded from Paraguay (Sanborn 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 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Apodynerus troglodytes subsp. troglodytes troglodytes (de Saussure 1856
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Apodynerus
Apodynerus troglodytes
Apodynerus troglodytes troglodytes (de saussure, 1856)

description: Apodynerus troglodytes troglodytes (de Saussure, 1856)
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, GKVK, 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 18.vii.2014, 1♂, coll. A. Pannure. Chikkamagaluru, Sringeri, 672 m, 19.viii.2015, 1Ƌ, coll. S. Hegde. Kodagu, Becksodlur, 2.vi.1979, 1Ƌ; Ponnampete, 22.iv.1979, 2♂, coll. Girish. Kerala: Ernakulam, 4 m, 17.xi.2011, 1♂, coll. T.V. Aswathy. Idukki (Adimali), 1200 m, 10.xi.2011, 2♂, coll. T.V. Aswathy.
Distribution. India: Karnataka [Uttara Kannada (Dandeli, Yellapur)], Kerala [Sulthan Bathery, Calicut, Kothamangalam, Thenmala, Pompa Sabramila], Tamil Nadu [Nilgiri Hills]; Andaman & Nicobar Islands [Mayabunder, Diglipur], Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal.— China (including Hong Kong), Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia [including Sarawak, Sabah], Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam (Giordani Soika 1994; Gusenleitner 1988, 2006; Girish Kumar et al. 2013b; Nguyen et al. 2014).
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 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Cross-layer aware transport protocols for wireless networks
Creators: name: Gopal, Sumathi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation addresses the problem of reliable file transfer over single-hop and multi-hop shared-media wireless networks which are generally characterized by fluctuating bandwidth and error characteristics. Traditional reliable file transport protocols such as TCP assume relatively slow-varying links and were not generally designed to deal with interference problems of shared media wireless networks. The large performance gap between unreliable UDP and reliable TCP motivates the investigation of new transport protocols that might achieve significantly faster file transfer than TCP on wireless media.  CLAP - a Cross Layer Aware transport Protocol has been developed as a general solution for reliable file transfer, with decoupled flow control and error control to accommodate time-varying links. Error control in CLAP was designed to minimize interference and round-trip time estimation. Flow control in the proposed transport protocol leverages MAC status information via a novel cross-layer software framework (CLF), developed to provide systematic access to intra-node and inter-node status information. Single hop evaluations, which consider an 802.11b wireless LAN with wired backhaul, were carried out using both NS2 simulations and ORBIT test-bed experiments. In time-varying, high loss scenarios, TCP shuts down operation without MAC retries, while an early CLAP version (CLAP-beta) achieves over 68% of upper-bound UDP performance. In noise-free scenarios, a "skip-ACKs" TCP modification to reduce interference achieves limited gains since TCP flow control depends on regular ACKs, while CLAP-beta approaches peak UDP performance by fully using the bandwidth available.Multi-hop evaluations with NS2 simulations consider a 3-hop primary path in a 4x4 wireless mesh over 802.11b single-channel interfaces. Occasional background flows and on-off channel noise injection produce bandwidth and error fluctuations. These simulations expose the general multi-hop wireless problem where self interference in the forward path significantly reduces end-to-end bandwidth. Increasing interference and random packet losses tend to degrade TCP performance even more significantly than in 1-hop scenarios. Here, CLAP-final with improvements (relative to CLAP-beta) to reduce dependence on RTT estimation achieves over 90% of UDP performance in a variety of time-varying conditions.    This thesis demonstrates the efficacy of reliable file transfer using CLAP to address interference and time-varying links in both single- and multi-hop wireless network scenarios. Future research opportunities include cross-layer techniques for error control, efficient inter-node protocols for CLF, and tighter integration with mesh network routing protocols.
Chonosia atrodorsalis Torres 1945
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Chonosia
Chonosia atrodorsalis

description: Chonosia atrodorsalis Torres, 1945
Chonosia atrodorsalis Torres 1945a: 62 (type material examined).
Type locality. Amaicha, Tucumán Province, Argentina.
Remarks. The species was reported from La Rioja and Tucumán Provinces (Torres 1945a). We collected the species in Salta, San Juan, and Tucumán Provinces and the first author was sent specimens from Catamarca. The species is associated with the Monte floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
New provincial records. Prov. Catamarca, El Potrero, 3500 ft., 3-IX-1973, A. & E. Hulse coll., on Larrea (four males, AFSC); Salta, Payagasta, 14-I-1988, J.E. & M.S. Heath-Al Sanborn-F. Noriega coll. (one male, AFSC); Salta, Ruta 68— 27.5 km No. of Cafayate, 16-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (two males, MSHC); San Juan, 0.5 km S Las Baldecitos, 7-I-1987, Al Sanborn 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 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Coeleumenes 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
Coeleumenes

description: Genus Coeleumenes van der Vecht, 1963
Coeleumenes van der Vecht 1963: 45 –46; Carpenter 1986: 67. Type species: Montezumia impavida Bingham, 1897, by original designation.
Diagnosis. Mandibles longer than length of clypeus, distinctly cross each other. Clypeus usually wider than long, emarginate apically (Fig. 6). Female with two cephalic foveae present in depression on vertex. Vertex not sloping behind lateral ocelli. Thorax globular, distinctly longer than high. Pronotal carina complete. Notauli absent (Fig. 27). Mesepisternum with epicnemial carina present (Fig. 16). Pretegular carina present. Tegula elongate, emarginate posteriorly, surpass apex of parategula. Axillary fossa narrow. Metanotum oblique, not dentiform. Propodeum with no dorsal surface behind metanotum, sloping posteriorly. Median carina arises from a fovea or longitudinal slit on anterior portion of propodeum. Propodeal orifice wide dorsally. Submarginal carina not projected as pointed/rounded process above valvula. Propodeal vuvlula not free from submarginal carina. Propodeum with a translucent area above posterio-lateral cavity. Metasoma petiolate, gradually widening from base to apex, without basal transverse carina (Fig. 78). S1 visible where lateral margins not meeting ventrally, its surface regularly transversely striate (Fig. 71). Mid tibia with one apical spur. Fore wing with prestigma equal to half length of pterostigma (Fig. 57). Ƌ: F11 hook like, rounded apically; F10 shorter than F9; apical flagellomeres without cavity on inner margin. Body length usually 15–20 mm.
Distribution. Oriental Region.
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 pages 28-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Chonosia crassipennis
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Chonosia
Chonosia crassipennis

description: Chonosia crassipennis (Walker, 1858)
Fidicina crassipennis Walker 1858b: 9 (type material examined).
[Chonosia crassipennis] var. metequei Delétang 1919 nom. nud.: 85. syn. n.
Type locality. South America.
Remarks. References to C. crassipennis are recorded from Catamarca, Córdoba, La Rioja, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Luis, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán (Delétang 1919; Torres 1945a; De Santis et al. 2007). Chonosia crassipennis var. metequei Delétang, 1919 nom. nud. is considered a local color variation and not a distinct taxon since it has not been officially described under the Code. We collected this species in Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, and San Juan Provinces. The range of the species now extends into Paraguay (Sanborn 2011a). The species is associated with the Monte floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
New provincial records. San Juan, 5 km So. of San Agustin de Valle Fertil, 8-I-1987, Al Sanborn Coll. (two males, one female, MSHC, two males, AFSC); San Juan, 5 km So. of San Agustin de Valle Fertil, 8-I-1987, M.S. & J.E. Heath Coll. (one male, two females, MSHC); San Juan, 5 km So. of San Agustin de Valle Fertil, 8-I-1987, J.E. Heath Coll. (two males, MSHC); San Juan, 5 km So. of San Agustin de Valle Fertil, 8-I-1987, F. Noriega Coll. (four males, MSHC); San Juan, 5 km So. of San Agustin de Valle Fertil, 8-I-1987, F. Noriega coll. (one female, 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 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Acceptable trust? the public perception of organizations involved in genetically modified food
Creators: name: Lang, John T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The amount, type, and quality of food we eat often seems to be a matter of personal taste, however, our system of food production circumscribes our choices. This system is neither accidental nor free of controversy. Estimates suggest that three-quarters of all processed foods on American shelves now contain some ingredients derived from genetically modified crops. Although American consumers are largely unaware of genetically modified food (GMF) and even lack clear impressionistic images and feelings about it, they are not without opinions. Debates about GMF have brought about reactions from artists, activists, ethicists and cultural theorists as well as from scientists, regulators, and industry representatives.At one level, the controversies surrounding GMF are about whether genetic modification poses a risk to human health and the environment. At a deeper level, the discussions are about social and cultural values, political ideals, and the ability of corporations to gain consent from various public audiences. More to the point, sociological issues about the connections between organizations, power, the public, and trust when dealing with emerging technologies are at stake. Because perceptions are dependent on social forms, the construction of trust may be as much about whether actors are trustworthy, as whether actors can induce us to trust.I focus on the issues of institutional trustworthiness and examine the social implications of who trusts whom about GMF. Using data from a mail survey, I explore which organizations and experts the public trusts regarding GMF, connect those trust judgments to varying trust attributes, and establish determinants of trust. In doing this, I treat trust as an emergent property of a relationship. This allows me to observe the ways trustworthy social actors guide the public through the inherent uncertainty of emerging technologies. Because actors assume social and ethical responsibilities by creating and circulating knowledge about an emerging technology in an institutional competition for public trust, they are a central part of the context within which trust does or does not develop. I conclude by examining the "spiral of trust" that develops between the public and the (dis)trusted actors.
System reliability estimation and component replacement analysis for electricity transmission and  distribution systems
Creators: name: Espiritu Nolasco, Jose
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This PhD dissertation focuses on the development of mathematical methods that can be readily applied to obtain the reliability of Electricity Transmission and Distribution Systems (ETDS) and to determine long-term component replacement strategies for aging ETDS components. This work has devoted research efforts to develop electric power reliability models that can be used to accurately approximate the system outage rate, average repair time, and expected system downtime of ETDS configurations used by the power industry for different types of outages. Additionally, new component criticality importance measures have been developed. Several existing popular reliability criticality importance measures (e.g., Birnbaum, Reliability Achievement Worth) cannot be directly applied to these power systems, because they have been developed mainly for components with specified finite mission times. Alternatively, for ETDS, the different components within the system exhibit outage rates and repair rates instead of probability of failure for a specified time interval. Most of the U.S. power grid was built in the early 1960s. ETDS are often built with redundancy to minimize the number and duration of interruptions. They have been operating reliably in the past, but as equipment ages, it fails more frequently and it becomes economically important to plan the expensive replacements and/or restorations of aging equipment. Determining the planned retirement of aged equipment in the ETDS is an important research area, because the aged equipment is continuously used until it fails. It can take more than one year to complete the whole replacement process of some critical components. The component replacement analysis method proposed is based on an integrated iterative dynamic programming and integer programming approach. This method works under the consideration of heterogeneous assets with different ages subject to annually budget constraints.The method developed can be applied to systems composed with sets of heterogeneous assets. This is a new solution methodology that offers distinct benefits to previous methods, which only pertained directly to a system composed of homogeneous assets. This research leads to many research contributions specific to ETDS. However, the replacement analysis model represents a novel approach that can be applied to many types of systems and problems.
Ontology, quantification, and fundamentality
Creators: name: Turner, Jason Theodore
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The structuralist conception of metaphysics holds that it aims to uncover the ultimate structure of reality and explain how the world's richness and variety are accounted for by that ultimate structure. On this conception, metaphysicians produce fundamental theories, the primitive, undefined expressions ofwhich are supposed to 'carve reality at its joints', as it were.On this conception, ontological questions are understood as questions about what there is, where the existential quantifier 'there is' has a fundamental, joint-carving interpretation. Structuralist orthodoxy holds that there isexactly one fundamental, joint-carving interpretation that an existential quantifier could have (cf. Sider 2008: §10).This orthodox assumption could go wrong--either by there being too few fundamental-quantifier interpretations, or by there being too many. In this dissertation I examine the implications of these non-orthodox options.Someone who thinks there are too many fundamental-quantifier interpretations might think this means standard ontological debates are in some sense defective of 'merely verbal', or she might think instead that the different quantifiers show that there are different 'ways' or 'modes' of being. I argue that the first option runs into problems with a certain sort of realism about logic, but that there is no general problem with the second option, despite its longstanding bad philosophical reputation. I also argue that realism about logic gives us reason to think the dispute between someone who thinks there aremany 'modes of being' in this sense and someone who thinks there is just one is not itself verbal. Finally, I turn to the case in which there are no fundamental quantifiers, arguing that it brings with it a host of theoretical problems we could avoid with quantifiers.
Coeleumenes impavidus subsp. impavidus impavidus (Bingham 1897
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Coeleumenes
Coeleumenes impavidus
Coeleumenes impavidus impavidus (bingham, 1897)

description: Coeleumenes impavidus impavidus (Bingham, 1897)
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, GKVK, 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 1. ii.2012, 1 ♀; 14. iii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. UG; 1. ii.2014, 2 Ƌ, coll. A. Pannure; 2014, 2♀, coll. not known; 22. vi.2011, 1 Ƌ, coll. P. Nirmala.
Distribution. India: * Karnataka [New report from south India]; Nagaland [Naga Hills], Sikkim, West Bengal [S. Darjeeling].— Indonesia [Kalimantan], Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand (van der Vecht 1963; Nugroho et al. 2011).
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 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Coeleumenes rufipetiolatus
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Coeleumenes
Coeleumenes rufipetiolatus

description: Coeleumenes rufipetiolatus (Wickwar, 1908)
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: South India? Sri Lanka (van der Vecht 1963).
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 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Chonosia papa Sanborn & Heath 2014, rev. stat.
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Chonosia
Chonosia papa

description: Chonosia papa (Berg, 1882) rev. stat.
Tettigades papa Berg 1882: 38 (type material examined).
Type locality. Mendoza, Argentina.
Remarks. The species was considered a junior synonym of C. crassipennis by Distant (1906b). However, the species differs from C. crassipennis in several ways. The opercula of C. papa are larger with a medial margin smoothly arching towards the midline beyond the medial meracanthus while the opercula of C. crassipennis are more angulate on the medial margin and does not extend medially to the meracanthus; the uncus of C. papa is more stout along with a larger basal lobe of the pygofer and longer anal styles. Females are distinguished by the notch on the posterior of sternite VII which has parallel sides posteriorly with a circular anterior terminus in C. papa and expands anteriorly into a tear-drop shape in C. crassipennis. Chonosia papa also has a more southerly distribution with examples being reported from Chubut and Mendoza Provinces (Berg 1882; Breddin 1897). We collected our examples 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 pages 82-83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
The Smad3 linker region: transcriptional activity and  phosphorylation-mediated regulation
Creators: name: Wang, Guannan
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Year: 2008

description: TGF-β regulates cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and extracellular matrix production. Smad proteins are central mediators of TGF-β signaling. Upon ligand binding, Smad2 and Smad3 are phosphorylated by the receptor at the C-terminal SxS motif. The phosphorylation triggers heteromeric complex formation with Smad4 and the translocation of the Smads into the nucleus, where they recruit co-activators, co-repressors and other transcription factors to activate or repress transcription of target genes.The Smad3 linker region, a motif of 90 amino acid residues located between the N-terminal and C-terminal domains of Smad3, contains several serine/threonine-proline motifs, which are putative phosphorylation sites for proline-directed protein kinases such as Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) family members and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). We have shown that the Extracellular-signal Regulated Kinase (ERK) MAPK phosphorylates three linker sites Thr 179, Ser 204, and Ser 208 of Smad3, and that G1 CDKs phosphorylate Thr 179 and Ser 213 in the linker region and Thr 8 in the N-terminal domain of Smad3. Phosphorylation of Smad3 by CDK and ERK inhibits its transcriptional activity. In addition, TGF-β induces Smad3 phosphorylation on Thr 179, Ser 204, and Ser 208 in a C-tail phosphorylation-dependent manner, and the phosphorylation appears to be inhibitory. We have found that the linker region of Smad3 contains a transcriptional activation domain. Previous studies showed that the C-terminal domain of Smad3 is essential for Smad transcriptional activation through its interaction with the co-activator p300. We found that the Smad3 linker region can also interact with the co-activator p300. Deletion of the Smad3 linker region from the full-length protein abolished the ability of Smad3 to activate several TGF-β responsive reporter genes. We further showed that the linker region and the C-terminal domain of Smad3 synergize for transcriptional activation in the presence of TGF-β. In addition, mutation of the CDK and ERK phosphorylation sites in Smad3 increases its ability to interact with p300. This suggests that CDK and ERK phosphorylation of Smad3 inhibits its binding to p300. Since cancer cells often contain high levels of CDK and ERK activity, CDK and ERK phosphorylation of Smad3 may contribute to tumorigenesis and TGF-β resistance in cancers.
Osteopontin: role in immune regulation and stress responses
Creators: name: Wang, Kathryn X.
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Year: 2008

description: Osteopontin (OPN) is a pluripotent soluble protein found in all body fluids and expressed in many tissues and cells. It stimulates signal transduction pathways via integrins and CD44 variants that regulate various cellular activities including the cell's interaction with extracellular matrix, cell survival and immune responses.  OPN deficiency is linked to a reduced Th1 immune response in infectious diseases, autoimmunity and delayed type hypersensitivity. OPN is also involved in various physiological stress situations such as mechanical stress, oxidative stress and cellular stress. However, OPN's role in physical and psychological stress is largely unexplored. In this dissertation, I used OPN-deficient mice to evaluate OPN's role in physical stress responses and to determine its influence on immune organ lymphocyte homeostasis in response to stress. Using a hindlimb-unloading (HU) stress model, I compared OPN-/- (knockout) mice with OPN+/+ mice subjected to HU for 3 days. Whereas OPN+/+ mice suffered a marked reduction of body weight and significant spleen and thymus atrophy, OPN-/- mice exhibited minor weight loss and much less spleen and thymus atrophy. The HU-induced lymphoid organ atrophy was the result of dramatically diminished numbers of T and B cells in the spleen and CD4+/CD8+ double-positive cells in the thymus of OPN+/+ mice but not in OPN-/- mice. Increased levels of corticosterone, which modulate lymphocyte activation responses and apoptosis during stress, were found only in OPN+/+ mice. Apoptotic cell death was evident in the spleen and thymus tissue of OPN+/+mice subjected to HU but not in OPN-/- mice and untreated controls. In a different stress model, chronic restraint stress (CRS), I have demonstrated that OPN-deficient mice are resistant to CRS-induced lymphoid organ atrophy and unable to mount a significant up-regulation of corticosterone production in response to stress. Another HPA (Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal) axis hormone, ACTH, was also found to be unable to respond to stress challenge in the absence of OPN. Administration of soluble OPN into OPN-/- mice led to a further reduction of lymphoid organ mass in response to stress whereas administration of anti-OPN antibody 2C5 in wild type mice alleviated stress-induced organ atrophy. Taken together, these results indicate that OPN is critical in mediating stress-induced immune organ atrophy, likely through influencing the HPA axis hormone pathway.
Novel peptidylaminoarylmethyl phosphoramide mustards for activation by prostate-specific antigen
Creators: name: Wu, Xinghua
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Year: 2008

description: A series of nitroarylmethyl phosphoramide mustards was designed, synthesized and evaluated as nitroreductase-targeted prodrugs in gene-directed enzyme-prodrug therapy. Among them, fluorinated prodrugs showed improved bystander effect, cytotoxicity and selectivity. Based on the similar drug release mechanism via 1,6-elimination, a series of peptidylaminoarylmethyl phosphoramide mustards was designed, targeting prostate-specific antigen (PSA) as a prodrug-converting enzyme. By design, the prodrugs would only be activated after proteolytic cleavage of the PSA-specific peptide by PSA and then selectively release the highly cytotoxic phosphoramide mustard at the prostate tumor site. Among the synthesized prodrugs, the 2-fluorinated derivative had over 19-fold selectivity against PSA-secreting cancer cells with an IC50 of 5.3 µM according to in vitro antiproliferative cell assays. To overcome the difficulty of synthesizing the designed peptidylaminoarylmethyl phosphoramide mustards, a novel selenocarboxylate/azide amidation methodology was developed. This strategy not only played a crucial role in the success of this project but also provided an excellent solution to the acylation of highly electron-deficient amines.  Selenocarboxylate/azide amidation has been successfully used to synthesize a series of amino acid-pNAs and amino acid-AMCs that are important synthons in the synthesis of chromogenic and fluorogenic protease substrates.
Multiple testing methods in dependent cases
Creators: name: Xu, Minya
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Year: 2008

description: The most popular multiple testing procedures are stepwise procedures based on P-values for individual test statistics.  Included among these are the false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedures of Benjamini-Hochberg(1995) and their offsprings. For many models including the case where model variables are multivariate normal, dependent and alternatives are two sided, these stepwise procedures lack an intuitive convexity property which is also needed for admissibility. Here we present two new stepwise methods that do in fact have the convexity property. Furthermore unlike the method using P-values based on marginal distributions, the new methods take dependency into account in all stages. Still further the new methodology is computationally feasible. Applications are detailed for models such as testing for change points of variancesand testing treatments against control of variances.
Chonosia trigonocelis Torres 1945
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Chonosia
Chonosia trigonocelis

description: Chonosia trigonocelis Torres, 1945
Chonosia trigonocelis Torres 1945a: 64 (type material examined).
Type locality. Albido, Tucumán Province, Argentina.
Remarks. The species was recorded from San Juan and Tucumán Provinces (Torres 1945a). We collected examples in La Rioja and San Juan Provinces. The species is associated with the Monte floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
New provincial records. La Rioja, Salicas, 20-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (two males, one female, 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 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of armor ceramics
Creators: name: Brennan, Raymond
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Year: 2007

description: Ceramic materials have been incorporated into armor systems to reduce their weight while providing high hardness, strength, and elastic response to stress. However, the presence of defects and flaws in armor ceramics can lead to ballistic failure. Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques have been studied to locate and characterize defects and inhomogeneities in these materials.High frequency ultrasound NDE has been explored for detecting and locating micron-range defects and identifying microstructural changes in dense armor ceramics such as silicon carbide (SiC). Ultrasound parameters such as transducer frequency have been analyzed to determine system conditions necessary for obtaining C-scan image maps based on differences in intensity of the collected ultrasound signals (reflected signal amplitudes) or transit time of ultrasound energy through materials (time-of-flight TOF). While TOF has have been used to evaluate changes in thickness, velocity, density, and acoustic impedance, reflected signal amplitude has been used to analyze attenuation, or loss, through a test specimen. Reflected signal amplitude and TOF C-scan imaging have been useful for identifying and locating isolated defects and microstructural differences. Elastic property maps have been developed to plot differences in Poisson's ratio, elastic modulus, shear modulus, and bulk modulus.Quantitative analysis techniques have been used to evaluate cumulative effects of reflected signal amplitude and TOF changes over scanned regions and their distributions over selected areas. Amplitude and TOF histogram curves, which have been characterized by area-under-the-curve values, full-width at half-maximum values, and critical tail regions, have provided a valuable means of sample comparison. Generally, more narrow distributions of amplitude and TOF values have corresponded to high density armor-grade samples, while broad distributions have indicated defects or inhomogeneous regions in the samples. In addition to developing techniques for determining individual defect size distributions within a bulk specimen, histogram simulations have been explored to study amplitude and TOF distribution trends by analyzing how the addition of defects of varying size, quantity, and acoustic impedance affect histogram characteristics. These data have been utilized to establish a representative materials fingerprint that provides defect input data which can be further quantified and applied to property, design, and performance modeling of armor ceramic materials.
Nicotine/norharmane as a model of tobacco dependence
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: Although the harmful health effects of smoking are well known, quitting is very difficult. Pharmacological treatments to enhance success in quitting have been only partially effective, with smoking cessation rates ranging from 5-35%. Such findings emphasize the need to establish better experimental models for analysis of the mechanisms underlying tobacco addiction and for identifying new drug treatments. The self-administration model is commonly used as an animal test for screening new addiction therapies. Although nicotine self-administration has been used extensively as a medication screen for therapeutic compounds to treat tobacco dependence, there have been no studies to date of nicotine co-administered with other tobacco constituents. Tobacco smoke consists of approximately four thousand chemical constituents, some of which have been shown to influence the behavioral effects of nicotine.

 In the present application, we propose the first ever use of the self-administration model to assess the effect of a natural tobacco constituent, norharmane, on the neural mechanisms underlying nicotine-seeking behavior. We propose to examine the effectiveness of several drugs in reducing self-administration of nicotine as compared to a combination of nicotine and norharmane. Not only will we evaluate the effects of these drugs in reducing stable self-administration, we will also assess their efficacy in blocking cue-induced reinstatement of responding following extinction. The reinstatement test is widely used to model relapse to addiction, which is particularly important in identifying drugs that may reduce craving in abstinent smokers.

 Using this pharmacological approach, we will test the hypothesis that norharmane alters the mechanisms underlying nicotine-seeking, with a resulting change in sensitivity to therapeutic drugs. Such a finding would provide strong evidence for a need to establish better animal models to evaluate the mechanisms underlying tobacco addiction and for screening new medications. We will also evaluate the effectiveness of two drugs that are currently in clinical use for treatment of hypertension, as inhibitors of nicotine-seeking behavior. A positive finding in our preclinical tests would identify these drugs as possible candidate therapies for treatment of tobacco dependence.
The impact of offline store presence on digital sales: The moderating role of product functionality
Creators: name: Kim, Jee Yeon
name: Choi, Jeonghye
name: Ryung, Chang Sue
name: Trivedi, Minakshi
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 3509
subject: Transportation, logistics and supply chains
classificationCode: 3504
subject: Commercial services

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