cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
E pluribus unum?
Creators: name: Filindra, Alexandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Unlike the assumptions contained in the federal plenary power doctrine, immigration policy in the United States is the result of conflict, collaboration and intense interaction between the states and the federal governments. Since the 19th century, immigration policy making has exhibited familiar patterns: when state and federal objectives have been aligned, states act as backers of federal policy, often using their legislative authority to strengthen federal immigration law.  When preferences diverge, states become powerful lobbyists who can use their legislative authority to keep immigration-related issues on the top of the federal agenda.  Large, electorally rich states are particularly effective pressure agents. Electoral and political concerns often lead the federal government to yield to state pressure and implement immigration reforms (often restrictive) that are consistent with state preferences.
Additional file 1: of Pathways to increased coverage: an analysis of time trends in contraceptive need and use among adolescents and young women in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
Creators: name: Mardieh Dennis
name: Radovich, Emma
name: Wong, Kerry
name: Onikepe Owolabi
name: Cavallaro, Francesca
name: Mbizvo, Michael
name: Binagwaho, Agnes
name: Waiswa, Peter
name: Lynch, Caroline
name: Benova, Lenka
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Missing information on sector of care among current users of modern contraception aged 15â  24Â years. (DOCX 14Â kb)
"Transmuting sorrow"
Creators: name: McGrady, Sharon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This study examines the ways in which nineteenth-century readers experienced Wordsworth's poetry as wisdom literature--ways of reading the poetry which have been largely lost in the twenty-first century.  Considered as disciples, these men and women of letters had lifelong relationships with the poet and poetry which paralleled Wordsworth's own ritual of returning to the text and to the consecrated place in nature. By examining the reading practices of these Wordsworthians in the light of interpretive methods dating back to monastic readers, I show how such practices went hand in glove with the poet’s epitaphic aesthetic.   Wordsworth's theory of poetry derives from his "Essays Upon Epitaphs" which privilege the sympathetic relationship of the epitaph writer to the deceased and to the mourning survivors.  I trace the evolution of this aesthetic in Wordsworth's poetry through his autobiographical poem, The Prelude, considered as the poet's own epitaph, and through his turn to the frugality and rigid lines of the sonnet as the form most conducive to fulfilling his prophetic duty in later years. I follow this aesthetic as poetic persona and readers enact the sincerity between epitaph writer and mourners in a mutually sympathetic relationship. This bond between writer and reader assisted in transforming suffering into an attractive if unattainable ideal which yet inspired readers to social duty. I use psychoanalytic theory to show how the persona modeled the "transmutation" of sorrow for readers by ordering the mind and cultivating self-forgiveness by means of this ideal.   The ritual of reading and revising sorrows which incorporated the persona’s mental discipline importantly depended on the "counter-spirit" or deconstructive quality inherent in language which has its analogue in the cycles of renovation and decay in nature.  This instability of language contributed to an ambiguity at the heart of Wordsworth's poetry which opened up a range of possible interpretations.  Depending on the individual, such ambiguity made it possible for nineteenth-century readers to apply the poetry to their lives methodically, both as an aid to mourning and to religious reflection.
title: Method for treating a fractured formation with a non-ionic fluorinated polymeric surfactant
Creators: name: Pope, Gary A.
name: Sharma, Mukul M.
name: Baran, Jimmie R.
name: Skildum, John D.
name: Bang, Vishal
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: C08F8/00
subject: C08F20/00
subject: C09K8/882
subject: C09K8/604
subject: 166/305.1
subject: 166/311
subject: 507/205
subject: 507/224
subject: 507/247
subject: 507/252
subject: 507/261

description: The present invention includes compositions and methods of treating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation, the formation having at least one fracture, by contacting the fracture with a composition that includes a solvent and a nonionic fluorinated polymeric surfactant, wherein the composition interacts with at least a portion of the proppants in the fracture.
Science: The Gradual Path to a Utopian World
Creators: name: Ndoni, Albi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: My perspective aligns with the idea that progress is incremental and driven by human effort and understanding, particularly through science. Science indeed has the potential to systematically solve problems, improve quality of life, and address global challenges. Unlike religious or ideological frameworks that often rely on faith and tradition, science relies on evidence, experimentation, and continuous refinement of knowledge.
Episcepsis flavipuncta Zerny 1931
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Episcepsis
Episcepsis flavipuncta

description: flavipuncta Zerny, 1931
(Fig. 9)
Episcepsis flavipuncta Zerny, 1931b: 17 (Taf. 1, fig. 21 and 22). Lectotype hereby designated, male: [BRAZIL], Santa Catarina, Jaraguá (Fr. Hoffmann), with two labels: one printed “Sta. Catharina, Jaraguá, Fr. Hoffmann ”, on the underside with the date handwritten “ 17.ix. ’28”, and a handwritten label “ Episcepsis flavipuncta Zerny ♂ type ”. One paralectotype, female with the same labels, date “ 13.ix. ’29”.
Current combination. Episcepsis flavipuncta Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Overall good condition, except for the missing left middle leg. Paralectotype. Specimen in perfect condition.
Remarks. Episcepsis flavipuncta was described from one male and one female. In his original description, Zerny mentioned that it differs from E. endodasia Hampson, 1898 by details on the forewings, present in both males and females. E. flavipuncta is also closely related to E. ockendeni Rothschild, 1911.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
Philonthus phaon Smetana 1995
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus phaon

description: Philonthus phaon Smetana, 1995
Philonthus phaon Smetana, 1995: 167, Figs 186–190, 192, 193.
One paratype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen):‘ARIZ.Cochise Co.Chi- / ric.Mts.Rustler Park / 8400’24.VII.69 / A.Smetana [p] // ex coll.L.Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPE / Philonthus / phaon / A. Smetana 1993 / CNC No.21951 [p, yellow label]’.
Current status. Valid species, see Hൾ*©MAN (2001b).
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 379, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
"Nun's the word"
Creators: name: Roegiers, Natasha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: My dissertation research proposes a transdisciplinary investigation encompassing historical and literary analyses of religious biographies of nuns that contributed to and participated in the recatholicization of Belgium throughout the 19th century.  Specifically, I examine the rhetorical strategies used in early 19th century Belgian biographies of founders and restorers of post-revolutionary congregations and how they were pivotal in the restoration of the Catholic faith contributing toward Belgium's independence in 1830 and toward the political victory of Catholics in Belgium by 1884.  My literary analysis examines how the writing of religious biographies recatholicizes while acknowledging the problematic issues of control and authority in writing.  This research reveals a specific Belgian religious rhetorical strategy that promoted Belgian identity as inseparable from being Catholic.  As platforms to political and social agendas, the religious biographies reveal an evolution in offensive and defensive rhetorical strategies toward Enlightenment dechristianization by placing emphasis on the reader's intellectual reasoning.  As spiritual platforms, the innovative use of images and words produce a devotional text that engages the reader in his spirituality.  The results of this research will then question the traditional classification of these religious texts in the genre of 'biography' and ponder whether they should in fact be part of Belgian literature or biographical history canons.   My historical investigation reflects upon the social and political effects of spiritual biographical writing and seeks to analyze what the lives of nuns indicate about the revolutionary, post-revolutionary, and independent period in Belgium from 1789-1933.  Specifically, it will reveal how and why congregations flourished following their suppression during the revolution; what changes were implicated in the re-foundation of some pre-revolutionary congregations; what new visions of newly founded post-revolutionary congregations helped redefine the Catholic Church's mission; and lastly why religious women rather than the traditional biographical figure of clergy members became the new muse for Catholic restoration.  In my dissertation I argue that religious biographies were not only used as weapons to counteract the anti-catholic agendas, but also served to incite nationalistic ideals under very discreet, unsuspicious titles such as, The Life of Julie Billiart, Founder of the Institute of Notre-Dame of Namur.
Philonthus philetarius Hromadka 2014
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus philetarius

description: Philonthus philetarius Hromádka, 2014
Philonthus philetarius Hromádka, 2014d: 690, Figs 7–9.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ NIGERIA - Africa / UMUDIKE / 14.-27.ix. 1960 / J M. Gregory [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / philetarius nov.sp. / Hromádka, det., 2013. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 379, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Properties or homes?
Creators: name: Stromberg, Brian Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Over the last few years shortcomings have been revealed in the most traditional forms of tenureship in the housing market. Housing finance has become tied to international financial markets, with deregulation creating a direct line between households and global capital flow. The promise of expanded homeownership that came with this expanded access to credit has turned sour. Foreclosure rates have dramatically increased, most significantly in lower-income neighborhoods in the more disinvested cities. Alternative models of homeownership such as limited-equity cooperatives, community land trusts, deed-restricted housing, and mutual housing associations provide another way for residents to relate to their homes. Instead of the relationship being dictated by the market, it can instead be directed by the social needs of communities, neighborhoods, and households. If these models of social housing were implemented on a larger scale, crises like the most recent one could be minimized and perhaps even avoided.
Additional file 1: of Lipiodol nanoemulsions stabilized with polyglycerol-polycaprolactone block copolymers for theranostic applications
Creators: name: Kim, Trang Le
name: Hwiseok Jun
name: Kim, Jin
name: Keunchil Park
name: Kim, Jee
name: Nam, Yoon
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supporting information. 1H NMR of PG-b-PCL, UV-Vis absorption spectra of lipiodol nanoemulsions, and confocal fluorescence microscopic images of HeLa cells.Â (DOCX 960Â kb)
Essays on semiparametric cox proportional hazard models
Creators: name: Zhang, Huiying
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this dissertation I study different versions of the semiparametric proportional hazard duration model and their practical applications under both frequentist and Bayesian econometrics frameworks. I use the unemployment spell data set that is created from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).In Chapter 1 I study the effects of unemployment compensation and other important sociodemographic factors on unemployment duration. Whether duration dependence follows a particular function form is also examined. Discrete, semiparametric, proportional hazard models are used and compared among different specifications. I allow for nonparametric estimation of the effect of time on the unemployment exit rate. Because unobserved individual heterogeneity has the potential to bias the estimation results, we also consider gamma heterogeneity as an additional source of error in the hazard model (i.e., the so called mixed proportional hazard model, MPH). I find that the nonparametric baseline hazard estimations capture very well the shape of the empirical duration, which often does not belong to a specific parametric family; and unemployment insurance and socio-demographic aspects have significant impacts on the unemployment spell.In the second chapter I test whether different ways to resume work, such as new job and recall, have different duration behaviors. Hence a semiparametric dependent competing risks proportional hazard model is specified. Identifiability of such model is also discussed. By assuming linearity on the baseline hazard at each time interval, I allow for unrestricted correlation between the competing risks. My model guarantees that the unobserved failure occurs later than the observed failure at any possible time point, and censored observations are accommodated explicitly in the model specification. The estimated correlation coefficient suggests that recall duration and new job duration have a positive relationship that may not be negligible. We also find that there is significant difference in the hazard structure of returning to the same employer and a different employer.Different from the first two chapters, in the third chapter I investigate the ordered probit duration model semiparametrically using the Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. I develop and estimate the model without considering unobserved heterogeneity, and noninformative priors are assumed for both the baseline hazard and regressor parameters. Hybrid Metropolis-Hastings/Gibbs sampler is employed to speed up chain mixture. Convergence of the chains is assessed by the Gelman-Rubin scale reduction factor. Applications on the PSID unemployment duration data demonstrate that the proposed model and estimation method perform well.
Enhancing the efficacy and security of emerging wireless systems
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis, we intend to promote the efficacy and tackle the vulnerabilities in three emerging wireless systems that have recently became popular examples of emerging wireless systems, namely location-based systems, RFID systems, and cognitive radio systems. In location-based systems, we first address the problem of being able to reliably deliver content to users based on their locations, in spite of the limited resources available in a wireless network. Secondly, allocating content based on a claimed location implies that location information should be verified in order to support these new location-based services. We examine strategies whereby access points in an infrastructure delegate the responsibility to serve users to other users who have cached requested content. The resulting strategy, which we call Deputy&Forward, uses knowledge of the user mobility pattern to optimize content delivery for location-based services. Additionally, to verify location information, we adapt the classical challenge-response method for authentication to the task of verifying an entity's location. Our scheme utilizes a collection of transmitters, and adapts the power allocations across these transmitters to verify a user's claimed location. This strategy, which we call power-modulated challenge response, is able to be used with existing wireless networks.As for the RFID systems, we propose a new RFID network prototype that uses transmit-only low-cost tags and lays the burden of the detection and discrimination of collided tag signals on the RFID readers. We present a statistical estimation approach that can perform the detection in the existence of collisions and the near-far problem. Further, we present a low detection error through simulations under realistic system conditions.Lastly, in cognitive radio systems, we focus on the security problem whereby a cognitive radio node inserts too many packets into the network, thereby disregarding the link quality, the transaction parties' processing speed and other nodes' transmission attempts. An onboard regulative approach is presented to locally enforce the spectrum etiquettes based on the associated link qualities. We evaluate the performance of our scheme with GNU radios in the ORBIT testbed, and show that better transmission efficiency is achieved.
Le rêve littéraire et le projet de la modernité
Creators: name: Varsanyi, Monika
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation explores the evolution of the use and form of the literary dream in Nerval’s Aurélia, Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, and Breton’s Poisson soluble and Les Vases communicants. These works represent a radical change of the literary dream from its traditional role in plot advancement, mythical motif, or theme, to philosophical and aesthetic innovations that challenge the boundaries between reason and the unconscious.The extraordinary change in dream theory at the turn of the twentieth century--both in science and the arts--becomes clear by examining these texts in the light of the various functions that the literary dream performs, affecting the narratological and rhetorical structures of the texts, as well as the status of the dream in the narrative. The relationship among narrator, dream, and reality determines both form and function of the literary dream during this crucial evolution, which is manifest in three distinct stages in early contemporary French literature.Although dreams appear as thematic content or device in Nerval, his blend of délire and dream represents a radical challenge to conventional notions of reality, both aesthetically and philosophically, and opens new perspectives by including hallucinatory experiences in his definition of dream.In Proust, the entire text takes on the characteristics of dreams and its structure and logic reflect a dream-like representation of places, characters, and events. This oneiric register considers the literary dream an aesthetic process or form, a kind of textuality indistinguishable from the narrative itself. Used as a technique to shape the text, the dream brings both writing and reality closer to its realm.Breton’s narratives not only resemble dreams, but the development of the technique of automatic writing establishes the dream as literary text. Beyond content, theme, or inspiration, dream evolves into an actual template of a new kind of artistic sensibility, which reveals a radical reevaluation of the creative process as deeply informed by the unconscious. This register represents a turning point, breaking with conventional thematic and mythical paradigms, and producing a phenomenon unique to the twentieth century: the literary dream as an aesthetic and theoretical paradigm.
title: Apparatus and method for transmission and reception in multiple input multiple output system with relay station
Creators: name: Cho, Sung Hyun
name: Heath, Robert W.
name: Chae, Chan-Byoung
name: Kwun, Jong-Hyung
name: Tang, Taiwen
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: H04B7/0639
subject: H04B7/0426
subject: H04B7/0452
subject: H04B7/0632
subject: H04B7/0443
subject: H04B7/0617
subject: 370/315
subject: 370/316
subject: 455/7
subject: 455/11.1
subject: 455/13.1
subject: 455/13.3
subject: 455/16

description: A multiple antenna system for using a relay station with multiple antennas is provided. The system includes a base station for determining encoded data processing procedure based on first and second channel state information, determining a relaying procedure of the relay station, and sending the relaying procedure to the relay station based on the first and second channel state information; wherein the encoded data is terminating to a mobile station; the relay station for receiving data and the relay procedure which the base station sent, converting and sending the data according to the relaying procedure, and sending the first channel state information to the base station as a measured state of channel which receives the data; and the mobile station for receiving the data which the relay station sent, and sending the second channel state information to the relay station as a measured state of channel which receives the data.
Philonthus platalea Hromadka 2010
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus platalea

description: Philonthus platalea Hromádka, 2010
Philonthus platalea Hromádka, 2010e: 43, Figs 116–122.
Five paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L.
Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾඌ (1, 3 unsexed specimens): ‘MUS. ROY.AFR.CENTR. / Yangambi (Stan.) / VII.1960 / J. Decelle [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS / sg.Pseudophilonthus / platalea sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2006 [p, orange label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾ ♀) (: ‘Belgyan Congo: / Oriental, / Yangambi [p] / 4-VII-1960 [hw] // Coll. J. Decelle / Field No. [p] 296 [hw] // ex termite / nest #295 [hw] // ex coll.L.Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS / sg. Pseudophilonthus / platalea sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2006 [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 379, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Schasiura gymnelioides Zerny 1912
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Schasiura
Schasiura gymnelioides

description: gymnelioides Zerny, 1912
(Figs. 10 and 57)
Schasiura gymnelioides Zerny, 1912b: 123. Holotype male, by monotypy: “SOUTH AMERICA ”; with four handwritten labels: “Heyne amer. merid. 1873”; “ Mann abgeb. 1875”; “? Autochloris sp.”; and “ Schasiura gymnelioides Zerny type ♂”.
Current combination. Schasiura gymnelioides Zerny, 1912.
Condition of the type. Right forewing damaged. Right antenna and most legs missing.
Remarks. The genus Schasiura Butler, 1877 includes two species, S. gymnelioides and S. mimica Butler, 1877, the type species. There are no obvious characters uniting these two species that are not shared by many others currently classified in various genera (e.g., Osmocneme bracata Draudt, 1917, type species of the monotypic genus Osmocneme Draudt, 1917, and various species of Autochloris Hübner, 1819, Gymnelia Walker, 1854, Dasysphinx Felder, 1874, and Homoeocera Felder, 1874). A re-evaluation of the taxonomic position of S. gymnelioides will require a comprehensive study of these and perhaps other related genera.
Schasiura was used by Hampson (1914) as Hampson’s (1898) concept of Autochloris (Julian P. Donahue, personal communication). Because Autochloris was placed in Euchromiina by Forbes (1939), we kept this subtribal assignment.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
title: Computing nodes for executing groups of instructions
Creators: name: Keckler, Stephen W.
name: Burger, Douglas
name: Sankaralingam, Karthikevan
name: Nagarajan, Ramadass
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: G06F15/8007
subject: G06F9/4494
subject: 712/18

description: A computation node according to various embodiments of the invention includes at least one input port capable of being coupled to at least one first other 5 computation node, a first store coupled to the input port(s) to store input data, a second store to receive and store instructions, an instruction wakeup unit to match the input data to the instructions, at least one execution unit to execute the instructions, using the input data to produce output data, and at least one output port capable of being coupled to at least one second other computation node. The node may also include a router to direct the output data from the output port(s) to the second other node. A system according to various embodiments of the invention includes and external instruction sequencer to fetch a group of instructions, and one or more interconnected, preselected computational nodes. An article according to an embodiment of the invention includes a medium having instructions which are capable of causing a machine to partition a program into a plurality of groups of instructions, assign one or more of the instruction groups to a plurality of interconnected preselected computation nodes, load the instruction groups on to the nodes, and execute the instruction groups as each instruction in each group receives all necessary associated operands for execution.
How do grants influence firm performance?
Creators: name: Ege, Metin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is an econometric study of the impact of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants awarded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is the largest biomedical research funding agency in the world, investing over $29 billion annually in medical research. The budget of SBIR at NIH reached $558.9 million in 2008. In the current economic environment, NIH administrators are interested in the relationship between their funding and health, economic growth and global competitiveness. This thesis will contribute towards an understanding of this relationship by examining sales and employment growth in firms that received SBIR awards from NIH.Using this information, all firms are matched to the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) Database which provides firm-level sales and employment observations, as well as information on other explanatory variables. The main finding from the thesis is that the NIH SBIR program stimulates both sales and employment growth. Firms that received any number of Phase I and/or Phase II awards experienced 6.82% greater sales growth, and 6.90% greater employment growth over the three years following the first year they received an award compared to firms that applied to the program but were rejected, controlling for other factors. Firms that received one or more Phase II awards experienced 6.13% greater sales growth and 7.86% greater employment growth over the three years following the first year they received an award compared to those that applied but were rejected.
Study of taste genetics and maternal factors on weight status in preschool children
Creators: name: Shankar, Poornima
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Genetic and environmental factors are important determinants of food intake and weight status children. Our laboratory has previously shown that weight status in high SES,  Caucasian children is influenced by maternal eating attitudes (dietary restraint & disinhibition), child feeding practices and genetic taste sensitivity to 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) a trait that is controlled, in part, by the bitter taste receptor gene, TAS2R38 (Keller, 2004; Goldstein, 2007). The present study was undertaken to determine if these same or related factors play a role in lunchtime energy intake and adiposity in a cohort of low-income, Hispanic children at risk for overweight. A total of 78 children (51.8 ±0.6 mo; 82± 2.0 BMI%-ile) and their mothers (BMI 27.2± 0.6kg/m2) from a local “Head-Start” preschool participated. PROP status was measured in both mothers and children. Mothers completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire and the Dutch Eating Questionnaire for restraint, external and emotional eating. Children’s food intake at lunch, were recorded during two observations on separate days at the preschool. Results showed that overweight children (>85th BMI%-ile) of mothers who were overweight themselves (p<0.0001), who had high dietary restraint (p<0.01) or who reported using a less restrictive feeding style (p<0.05) consumed more energy at lunch than overweight children whose mothers did no display these characteristics. BMI-z score was highest in PROP non-taster children of mothers with high dietary restraint (2.02) as compared to any of the other groups (0.97-1.31; p<0.02). Hierarchical regression predicted 41.7% of the variance in BMI-z scores. Key steps in this model included: main effects (gender, child taster status and perceived weight of child; 18% variance); child energy intake at lunch (16% variance); maternal/child variables (perceived responsibility, pressure to eat and child food reactivity; 3.4% variance); and the interaction of maternal restraint and child taster status (5.84% variance). This study identified maternal and genetic factors associated with higher energy intakes and greater risk of overweight in Hispanic children. A better understanding of these variables lead to more effective weight management programs to tackle obesity within in this community.
Path divergence within critical junctures
Creators: name: Coolidge, Louise Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Institutions exert an overwhelming pressure towards maintaining existing power structures. However, during critical junctures, reformers have a window of opportunity to enact sweeping changes. Poland in 1956, the U.S. in 1963, and Spain in 1974 experienced deaths of their leaders. New heads of state assumed power. Each new leader attempted to change the dynamics of current power relationships by empowering heretofore unempowered groups. The new leader has to adapt to the exigencies of the controlling groups -- power centers -- within the polity. Bureaucracies and institutions embedded in government and society exert their own pressures, aimed at maintaining their power by stifling the air of change. Wladysław Gomułka, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Poland, allowed Workers Councils to organize in factories, giving workers a voice in management. Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States, launched the War on Poverty, which included community action programs intended to empower the poor. King Juan Carlos I was Franco’s named heir to the throne, with the express mission of continuing the Franquist regime. Instead, he initiated a transition to a democracy.In each case, success for the reform leader’s agenda was reliant on his careful control over when each power center had access to reform policies. Dominating the sequence allowed the reform leader to build coalitions among enough power centers to offset oppositional groups. The perceived legitimacy of the new leader was paramount in overcoming unpredictable events and mistakes made by well-meaning agents that would affect the progress of reform. Once the various institutions settled into newly-established patterns, the critical juncture ended and more change became nearly impossible to enact. Comparative historical analysis of the three cases yields results that are a complex interweaving of the several factors that impacted the success or failure of change.
Philonthus ploceus Hromadka 2013
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus ploceus

description: Philonthus ploceus Hromádka, 2013
Philonthus ploceus Hromádka, 2013d: 447, Figs 144–147.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ ZIMBABWE / loc. Kutsaga / near Harare airport / 18.vi.1997 [sic!] W.Rossi leg.[p, yellow label] // ex coll.L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / plocelus [sic!] sp. nov. / Hromádka, det., 2010 [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
Comments. Botswana is mentioned in the original description as the country of origin of the species; however, ‘Kutsaga near Harare’ is in Zimbabwe, as correctly written on the locality label.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 379, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Heliura hagmanni Zerny 1931
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Heliura
Heliura hagmanni

description: hagmanni Zerny, 1931
(Fig. 11)
Heliura hagmanni Zerny, 1931a: 257. Lectotype hereby designated, female: [BRAZIL, Pará, Santarém], Taperinha; with two labels: printed label “Taperinha b. Santarem, G. Hagmann” with handwritten date on the underside “ix.’22”, and handwritten label “ Heliura hagmanni Zerny ♀ type ”. One paralectotype, female, with exactly the same labels.
Current combination. Heliura hagmanni Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Excellent condition, with a tiny rip near apex of right hindwing. Paralectotype. Overall good condition; left hindwing slightly damaged near apex. Tip of left antenna broken.
Remarks. Heliura hagmanni was described from two females. Both types are females and bear exactly the same labels. The specimen illustrated here is designated the lectotype. The paralectotype can be distinguished from the lectotype by the characteristics mentioned above and by the antennae, which are positioned closer to the body in the former specimen.
This species is so far known from females only, which means either that its males are unknown, or that they were described as another species. Heliura Butler, 1876 is a polyphyletic genus (L. R. Pinheiro, unpublished data), but many of the species that seem to be closely related to H. hagmanni show some degree of sexual dimorphism. The correctness of the placement of H. hagmanni in Heliura is being investigated by the senior author.
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on pages 512-513, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
title: Determining suitability of entity to provide products or services based on factors of acquisition context
Creators: name: White, Eric
name: Bookert, Phillip
name: Rosenberg, Sheila
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: G06Q30/02
subject: 707/791
subject: 707/802
subject: 707/822
subject: 707/828

description: A method, system and computer program product for determining the suitability of an entity to provide products or services. Category and measurement data is received concerning the entity where each category is assigned a value based on the acquisition context. If the value assigned to a category exceeds a threshold, then the measurement data for that category is used in evaluating the entity. This measurement data is weighted according to the acquisition context. A binary value is generated for each weighted measurement value that exceeds a threshold. These binary values are summed and weighted according to the confidence that the source of the data is correct. Further, the past performance and reputation of the entity is used in applying a weight to the summed binary values to generate a suitability value. If the suitability value exceeds a threshold, then it is deemed suitable to conduct business with the entity.
Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny 1931
Creators: name: Pinheiro, L. R.
name: Gaal-Haszler, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Cercopimorpha
Cercopimorpha hoffmanni

description: hoffmanni Zerny, 1931
(Figs. 12 and 58)
Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny, 1931b: 15 (Taf. 1, fig. 16). Lectotype hereby designated, male: [BRAZIL], Santa Catarina, Jaraguá (Fr. Hoffmann), with two labels: one printed label “Sta. Catharina, Jaraguá, Fr. Hoffmann ” with the date handwritten on the underside “ 7.ix. [19]29”; and a handwritten label “ Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny ♂ type ”. Three paralectotypes, all males, with the same labels, but different dates: “ 6.xi. [19]29”; “ 20.xi.1929 ”; and “ 31.x. [19]29”.
Current combination. Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Perfect condition. Paralectotypes. In perfect condition, except for the specimen from 31.x. [19]29, which has the two hind legs broken.
Remarks. This species was described from four males from the same locality. According to Zerny (1931b), C. hoffmanni is closely related to Heliura dolens Schaus, 1905, and they may in fact be sister species. The genitalia of a male deposited at the MZSP is illustrated in Figure 51.
Cercopimorpha Butler, 1876 currently includes seven valid species, five of which share a similar habitus: C. hoffmanni, C. homopteridia Butler, 1876, H. dolens, H. postflavida Rothschild, 1912 and C. sylva Schaus, 1920. This phenotype was the very reason for the creation of the genus; according to Butler (1876b) the type species, C. homopteridia, resembles an homopteran, hence the name of the species. The name of the genus, on the other hand, is an allusion to Cercopidae. Despite Butler's suggestion, it is not known which species of Cercopidae could have been the one that he thought was similar to C. homopteridia (Dr. Andressa Paladini, personal information).
The two remaining species currently placed in the genus, C. tetragonia Hampson, 1898 and C. meterythra Hampson, 1898, have a very different habitus, and may not belong in it. Their habitus resembles that of Diabaena cincticollis Felder, 1874, type species of Diabaena Felder, 1874, which is currently a junior subjective synonym of Uranophora Hübner, [1831].
description: Published as part of Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, pp. 505-535 in Zootaxa 3925 (4) on page 513, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/240540
title: Materials for imprint lithography
Creators: name: Watts, Michael
name: Stacey, Nicholas A.
name: Xu, Frank Y.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: B82Y10/00
subject: B82Y40/00
subject: C09D11/101
subject: G03F7/0002
subject: 522/1
subject: 522/74
subject: 522/99
subject: 526/206
subject: 526/279

description: The present invention is directed to a material for use in imprint lithography that features a composition having a viscosity associated therewith and including a surfactant, a polymerizable component, and an initiator responsive to a stimuli to vary the viscosity in response thereto, with the composition, in a liquid state, having the viscosity being lower than about 100 centipoises, a vapor pressure of less than about 20 Torr, and in a solid cured state a tensile modulus of greater than about 100 MPa, a break stress of greater than about 3 MPa and an elongation at break of greater than about 2%.
Philonthus plotosus Hromadka 2012
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus plotosus

description: Philonthus plotosus Hromádka, 2012
Philonthus plotosus Hromádka, 2012e: 186, Figs 25–28.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ Afrique or. allemande / KILIMANDJARO / VERSANT SUD-EST [sic!] / ALLUAUD & JEANNEL [sic!] [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HO- LOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / plotosus sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2010. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 379, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
What do people count?
Creators: name: Chesney, Dana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The only a priori constraint on the kinds of entities that can be the members of a to-be-counted collection is that they can be treated as if they are separate from each other.  Otherwise, the result would not be a natural number. But, there is nothing about counting itself that dictates the nature of the entities for a given count. As Gelman and Gallistel (1978) noted, any items that can be treated as discrete can be collected together for a count. The entities need not be objects; they can be spaces between telephone poles, the number of great Presidents, or even the number of good ideas one had in a given time period.  This degree of permissiveness introduces a fundamental question: What sets the boundary conditions on what is actually contained in a to-be-counted collection? The studies presented here demonstrate that people use a variety of constraints. These constraints include some that are highly conceptual, some that involve simple perceptual groupings, and some that are invoked by verbal labels or conversational pragmatics. The common characteristic of these options is that they provide contexts that place items at a common level of interpretation or perception. It is shown that the same rectangle can serve different framing effects depending on whether it is dubbed a mirror, a window, or a picture frame. It is also shown that the numerosity of a given number of circles is interpreted differently, depending on whether the circles are arranged concentrically, whether some of the circles are positioned inside others, or whether none of the circles are so bounded.
Understanding the molecular mechanism of the fat signaling pathway in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Feng, YongQiang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Fat is an atypical cadherin and regulates planar cell polarity (PCP) and imaginal disc growth. The Golgi kinase Four-jointed modulates the interaction of Fat and its potential ligand Dachsous and an unconvential myosin Dachs mediates nearly all Fat functions. The Hippo tumor suppressor pathway was demonstrated to regulate growth and cell death through the kinase Warts and transcription factor Yorkie. Genetically, the Hippo pathway is downstream of Fat, Dachs and the FERM-domain protein Expanded. The molecular basis was unknown how Fat interacts with Expanded and how Fat and Dachs regulate the Hippo pathway.We found that Fat regulates Warts stability in a Dachs-dependent manner. Expanded and other tumor suppressors inluding Hippo, Mats and Salvador do not affect Warts levels, suggesting a distinct mechanism in regulating Warts. A casein kinase I δ/ε mutant, dco3 also destabilizes Warts, and genetically is upstream of dachs. The regulation of Warts by Fat and Expanded via different mechanisms was further validated by the additive effects of fat and expanded on imaginal disc growth and development. Mutation of fat also influences Expanded stability or subcellular localization through Dachs, indicating a crosstalk between Fat pathway and Expanded.The significance of Warts in Fat and Expanded functions was demonstrated by our observation that mutations in either expanded or fat were rescued to viability by overexpressing Warts, indicating that reported effects on endocytosis or other pathways are not essential. These rescue experiments also separate the transcriptional from the PCP branches of Fat signaling and reveal that Expanded does not directly affect PCP. We found that Fat is subject to a constitutive proteolytic processing, such that most or all cell surface Fat comprises a heterodimer of stably associated N- and C-terminal fragments. The cytoplasmic domain of Fat is phosphorylated, which is promoted by Dachsous. Dco is required for Fat signaling, and is able to phosphorylate the Fat intracellular domain in cultured cells, and is required for normal Fat phosphorylation in vivo. dco3 mutant affects Fat’s influence on growth and gene expression, but not its influence on PCP, suggesting separated growth and PCP pathways from Fat.
Additional file 1: of Pathways to increased coverage: an analysis of time trends in contraceptive need and use among adolescents and young women in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
Creators: name: Mardieh Dennis
name: Radovich, Emma
name: Wong, Kerry
name: Onikepe Owolabi
name: Cavallaro, Francesca
name: Mbizvo, Michael
name: Binagwaho, Agnes
name: Waiswa, Peter
name: Lynch, Caroline
name: Benova, Lenka
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Missing information on sector of care among current users of modern contraception aged 15â  24Â years. (DOCX 14Â kb)