cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ricin-A-chain (RTA) inhibits the unfolded protein response (UPR) in mammalian cells
Creators: name: Wang, Chao-Ting
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Ricin, a type II ribosome-inactivating protein, has been used as a biochemical weapon due to its ability to inhibit protein synthesis and induce cytotoxicity. The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a survival response that helps cells to recover from stress that occurs following the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the ER. Failure to recover from ER stress can lead to apoptosis.  In yeast, ricin-A-chain (RTA), the enzymatic component of ricin, inhibits the unfolded protein response (UPR).  However, the ability of RTA to affect UPR has not been investigated in mammalian cells.  The goals of this project were to determine if RTA could inhibit the UPR in mammalian cells and if altering the UPR affected RTA cytotoxicity.  The UPR consists of three signaling cascades, IRE1, PERK, and ATF6.  In HeLa cells, a human cervical carcinoma cell line, we found that RTA could inhibit tunicamycin (Tm)-induced IRE1 phosphoryation and XBP-1 mRNA splicing at 4 h.  A similar effect was observed in the non-transformed mammary epithelial cell line MAC-T. RTA also inhibited the ability of dithiothreitol (DTT) to activate the PERK pathway in HeLa cells, as shown by inhibition of DTT-induced eIF2α phosphorylation at 4 h. In both cell types, RTA decreased expression of the downstream chaperone BiP in response to Tm. To determine if inhibition of the IRE1 and PERK pathways by RTA affected its cytotoxicity, cells were treated with RTA in combination with DTT or Tm. Cleavage of both caspase-3 and -7 was greater in both HeLa and MAC-T cells when they were treated with RTA and DTT or RTA and Tm compared to cells treated with RTA, DTT, or Tm alone. These results indicate that RTA is more cytotoxic when UPR is inhibited.
Selatosomus coreanus
Creators: name: Qiu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus coreanus

description: 7. Selatosomus coreanus (Miwa, 1928)
Type locality: “ Corea, Kôryo [Korea]”.
Remarks: This species was confirmed to be distributed in China by various records from North China (Schimmel et al. 2015; Kishii & Jiang 1999; Kishii & Li 1988).
Distribution: Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang; Russia, South Korea.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Lu, 2023, Selatosomus luhuaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) from Sichuan Province, China, with an annotated checklist of the Chinese species of Selatosomus, pp. 173-186 in Zootaxa 5228 (2) on page 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7532524
Unified structure and content search for personal information management systems
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The ability to quickly retrieve files in personal information systems is becoming increasingly important as users store and collect ever larger amounts of personal data. This explosion of information is driving a critical need for complex search tools to access often very heterogeneous data in a simple and efficient manner. Numerous search tools have been developed to locate personal information stored in file systems. They often allow for some ranking on the textual part of the query, but only consider structure (e.g., file directory) and metadata (e.g., date, file type) as filtering conditions. However, simple keyword-only searches are often insufficient. First, files that are very relevant to the keywords, but which do no satisfy the exact filtering conditions would not be considered valid answers. Second, search tools often strictly separate the directory information from content information, and relevant answers that do not adhere to this strict separation would be missed. Last, current tools do not consider relationships between structure and content, possibly across multiple directories and/or files, even if the additional information helps narrow search results and improves search accuracy.  Because of the heterogeneity of data in personal information systems, we believe it is critical to support approximate matches on both the structure and content components of queries and to allow for query conditions to be evaluated across file boundaries. In this thesis, we developed a suite of techniques that allow search tools to effectively and efficiently evaluate flexible query conditions against directory structure and structure contained within files. Our work started by considering how to score fuzzy conditions in each query dimension (i.e., structure, content, metadata) and meaningfully combine individual dimension scores. We then proceeded to consider how to unify structure and content, such that users can specify a single query that contains both structure and content components and that can be evaluated at once across file boundaries. Finally, we have designed algorithms and data structures to support efficient processing of the multi-dimensional as well as unified queries. We evaluated our techniques and our results show that the system has the potential to significantly improve ranking accuracy and is practical for everyday usage.
Ecological functions and consequences of cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) agriculture in the pinelands of New Jersey
Creators: name: Wen, Ai
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation examined the immediate and long-term ecological influences of cranberry farming on the surrounding fauna and flora. The first chapter presents a field study examining anuran usage of water bodies within active and newly abandoned cranberry farms. Overall, anuran species exhibited varied preferences for habitats based on their different hydrological requirements. Rana clamitans and Bufo woodhousii fowleri showed higher density in active than abandoned farms, probably due to different levels of predation. R. clamitans also showed a prolonged breeding period in active farms, coinciding with the more stable water level managed by irrigation. R. virgatipes and R. sphenocephala preferred abandoned farms, probably because their overwinter and breeding behavior coincided with intensive farming activities. This chapter demonstrated that anurans selectively utilize diverse water bodies within cranberry farms and human cultivation activities can positively or negatively influence their survival.  In the second chapter, I conducted two greenhouse experiments to examine cranberry farming’s short-term legacy effect on the seed bank composition and germination in newly abandoned cranberry farms. The first experiment showed that the human modified post-agricultural edaphic conditions, including soil hydrology and soil depth, were the major factors affecting the seed bank viability, composition and density of germinated plants. For restoration purposes, flooding can increase germination density but does not affect species composition. The second experiment showed that weed colonies and cranberry remnant prevented seed bank germination. This chapter demonstrated the legacy effect from cranberry cultivation on the initial stage of succession. The last chapter examined cranberry farming’s long-term legacy on the structural development of vegetation and the composition of anuran communities. Even after half a century, the vegetation’s coverage and mean height still exhibited linear changes along the bog sequence in cranberry farms, coinciding with the gradual hydrological changes in bog units from upstream to downstream. The densities of anuran species that prefer permanent waters were negatively correlated with vegetation coverage and height. However, model selection showed vegetation or anuran variables did not exhibit clear variation among farms, despite decades-long differences in their ages since abandonment. This result indicated agriculture’s legacy effect during later succession was not mitigated by time.
Volvulella acuminata
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Rhizoridae
Volvulella
Volvulella acuminata

description: Volvulella acuminata (Bruguière, 1792)(Fig. 7 F1, F2)
Bulla acuminata Bruguière, 1792: 376.
Volvulella acuminata – Landau et al. 2013: 339, pl. 78, fig. 2 (cum syn.).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F11: AMPG (IV) 2547-2549 (three specimens).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 2.32 mm.
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Sacco 1897), Greece (this paper).
Middle Miocene. Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Turkey (Landau et al. 2013); Paratethys: Austria (Berger 1953), Hungary (Strausz 1966); North Sea Basin: the Netherlands (A.W. Janssen 1984), Germany (Moths et al. 2010).
Late Miocene. NE Atlantic (Landau et al. 2013).
Early Pliocene. NE Atlantic, North Sea Basin (Landau et al. 2013); western Mediterranean (Landau et al. 2011); eastern Mediterranean: Greece (Koskeridou et al. 2017).
Early Pleistocene. Central Mediterranean: Italy (Cerulli-Irelli 1910).
Recent. Eastern Atlantic, Norway to Angola into Mediterranean (Landau et al. 2013).
REMARKS
Minute species, with a characteristic pointed apex. The morphology of the shells of the present material is consistent with the representatives of this species. As mentioned for Retusa truncatula, Vollvulela acuminata is either an extremely long lived species or a species complex that includes specimens that have similar and indistinguishable morphologies. In the Early Miocene the species is missing from the Aquitanian and Loire Basins in France, where Volvulella acuta (Grateloup, 1827) is present (Landau et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on pages 348-349, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Timulla rufogastra
Creators: name: Bartholomay, Pedro R.
name: Waldren, George C.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Timulla
Timulla rufogastra

description: Timulla rufogastra (Lepeletier, 1845)
Mutilla rufogastra Lepeletier, 1845: 629. Lectotype ♂ (MRSN), “Amer. mer.”, designated by Mickel (1937b: 174), not examined. Timulla (Timulla) eriphyla Mickel, 1938: 591. Holotype ♀ (MNHN). Syn. nov.
Type material examined. Timulla eriphyla Mickel—holotype ♀ (MNHN), [label 1, tan:] JUIN [// label 2, green:] GUYANE FRANÇAISE / ROCHES DE KOUROU / COLL LE MOULT [// label 3, light brown:] MUSEUM PARIS / COLL. J DE GAULLE / 1919 [// label 4, tan:] 27 [// label 5, red:] HOLOTYPE / Timulla (Timulla) / eriphyla / ♀ C.E. Mickel. Paratypes: VENEZUELA. L. Meinert (1♀, NHMD); Vargas. Macuto, 30.x.1891, L. Meinert (1♀, NHMD). Voucher specimens. BRAZIL. Roraima. Estação Ecológica de Maracá, 03°21′52.00″ N 61°26′07.1″ W, 12.xii.2015, P.R. Bartholomay & F.F. Xavier-Filho (1♀, 1♂ [in copula], INPA); same label data (1♀, 1♂ [in copula], EMUS). Additional material examined. COSTA RICA. San José. San Esidro del General, ii.1993, F.D. Parker (3♂, EMUS). TRINIDAD. Arima Valley, Simla Field Station, 13–14.iv.1977, malaise trap, P. Feinsinger (1♂, EMUS); Talparo, 6– 22.vii.1988, H.L. Dozier (1♀, EMUS); 24.v–7.vi.1990 (1♀, EMUS); Talparo, Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Region, 4.vii.1988, H.L. Dozier (1♀, EMUS); 22.vii.1988 (1♂, EMUS). VENEZUELA. Mérida. Mérida (2♂, NHMD).
Distribution. Southern Central America (Costa Rica [new record] and Panama), northern South America (Brazil [new record], Colombia, French Guiana, Trinidad, and Venezuela) and Lesser Antilles (Trinidad) (Mickel, 1937b, 1938, 1952; Cambra & Quintero, 1993).
Host. Tachysphex inconspicuus Kirby (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) (Callan, 1942, 1950 [both as Tachysphex blattidicus Williams], 1990, 1993).
Remarks. The lectotype male of Mutilla rufogastra Lepeletier was not examined. However, the male of this species is among the most distinctive of Timulla. The association of T. rufogastra (Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau) and T. eriphyla Mickel had been suspected based on morphology and overlap in distribution; the collection of two mating pairs in the aggregation described in this study confirm the association.
description: Published as part of Bartholomay, Pedro R., Waldren, George C. & Oliveira, Marcio L., 2017, Observation of a mixed-sex, mixed-species aggregation of velvet ants, genus Timulla Ashmead, 1899 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in the Brazilian Amazon, Roraima, with a new synonymy, pp. 135-140 in Zootaxa 4362 (1) on pages 138-139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1076410
ASIP data-plane processor for multi-standard wireless protocol processing
Creators: name: Wani, Mohit Gopal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Evolving Multi-Protocol Multi-Band Software Defined Radio (SDR) devices aim at supporting multiple protocols seamlessly and efficiently. The design of such radios necessitates flexibility in physical layer processing, flexibility in routing packets through processing engines and flexibility in radio frequency reception/transmission. This dissertation addresses an efficient implementation of flexible physical layer processing (PHY) for Interleaving, De-Interleaving and linear Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) detection in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) receivers through Application Specific  Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs). The thesis defines and develops a WINLAB cognitive radio (WiNC2R) compatible data-plane ASIP architecture along with suitable hardware-software partitioning of the Processing Engine unit. Given the requirement of very significant design time and the lack of the flexibility after design, dedicated ASIC for PHY may not be a viable option although it has the best performance among all available options. The software application running on general purpose processor cannot satisfy the throughput requirements of the wireless standards. ASIPs provide a better trade-off between flexibility and performance, with the advantage of considerably lower design time than ASICs. We design an efficient multi-standard (802.11a, 802.16e/m) supporting Interleaver/De-Interleaver ASIP, satisfying the throughput requirements for all the modulation-schemes/data-rates in both of the standards. It can be programmed to scale for supporting future wireless standards (that use Block Interleaving/De-Interleaving). We also study viability of a flexible MIMO MMSE detector ASIP supporting variable MR (Number of receiving antennas) * MT (Number of transmitting antennas) operations. We have analyzed the implementation of an hardware-centric algorithm for MIMO detection on an ASIP and  also improved its performance with the help of techniques such as fixed point implementation,  Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW). Analysis of the design performance results for MIMO ASIP indicates the limitations of hardware-implementation-specific algorithms on ASIP. We also provide the account of design decisions such as custom ports, memory interfaces and registers that are added to the data-plane processor ASIPs in order to substitute them for dedicated hardware engines in the WiNC2R platform.
Effectiveness of a feedback-based brief intervention for alcohol use disorders in community care
Creators: name: Worden, Blaise L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Feedback-based brief interventions for alcohol use have been shown to be highly effective with undergraduate populations.  However, there has been little research on their effectiveness with community treatment populations, who typically have higher levels of dependence, comorbidity, and chronicity.  The effectiveness of an assessment/ feedback brief intervention to reduce alcohol use versus an assessment only condition with no feedback component was investigated in a community treatment setting with patients (N = 87) characterized by high levels of long-term dependency on alcohol and drugs, high levels of comorbidity, ethnic diversity, and low socioeconomic status. It was hypothesized that randomization to a condition receiving brief individualized feedback would reduce alcohol consumption and increase motivation for substance use treatment, versus randomization to a condition the same assessment but  no feedback. Repeated measures ANOVAs and ANCOVAs were used to examine primary outcome variables obtained from the Addiction Severity Index (ASI; McLellan et al., 1992) of drinking quantity and frequency, and motivation for treatment.  Results suggested that participants who received the feedback showed substantial reductions in number of drinking days at follow-up 30 days post-intervention (i.e. 30 days from the date of the intake). However participants who received the feedback and those who did not did not differ on other outcomes at follow-up, including days of heavy drinking, motivation for treatment, or drug use frequency.  Findings may be influenced by the decision to seek help, assessment reactivity, or treatment effects as on nearly all outcome measures participants in both conditions showed greatly improved outcomes at follow-up.
Business, politics, and governance in transition
Creators: name: Young, Patricia Teodora
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: My dissertation addresses the fate of institutional reforms of market governance (such as laws of bankruptcy, capital markets, and concessions) and democratic governance (such as anti-corruption, civil service, and judicial reform) in Romania and across Eastern Europe. While progress has been limited in reforming democratic governance, the surprising turnaround in economic performance and institutional reforms of market governance in Romania challenges the prevailing view in the literature that communist-era managers were able to capture the state and prevent the creation of a sound institutional framework. I explain how this reversal of fortune was possible, as well as why this success has not been fully matched in the democratic governance domain, by focusing on the influence of private actors, economic and political, on the reform of governance institutions.  Success in institutional reform in the market domain in Romania’s case came from a combination of economic elite change on the background of political change and banking reform that led to changing incentives of the business elite. Using data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), I show that banking reform also has a strong relationship to the reduction in state capture across Eastern Europe. The mixed success in state accountability or democratic governance in the Romanian case is due to the continued incentives of politicians for state exploitation in the context of quite robust political competition in Parliament, as well as competition between the President and the Prime Minister.
Selatosomus fairmairei Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia 2015
Creators: name: Qiu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus fairmairei

description: 8. Selatosomus fairmairei Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia, 2015
Type locality: “ China: Gansu, Wudu [Wudu District in Longnan City / Ŀ南ffi ḰØĒ]”.
Distribution: Gansu.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Lu, 2023, Selatosomus luhuaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) from Sichuan Province, China, with an annotated checklist of the Chinese species of Selatosomus, pp. 173-186 in Zootaxa 5228 (2) on page 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7532524
Cylichna Loven 1846
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Cylichnidae
Cylichna

description: Genus Cylichna Lovén, 1846
TYPE SPECIES. — Bulla cylindracea Pennant, 1777 (= Cylichna cylindracea (Pennant, 1777)), subsequent designation by Hermannsen (1852). Recent, Europe.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 349, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Protein adsorption and bacterial adhesion on hybrid starch/polycaprolactone block copolymers
Creators: name: Yuan, Peng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: A wide range of block copolymers were made by changing the variables including polymer molecular weight, ratio of PCL to Starch content, di- or tri- block, linear or branched and chemical modifications on hydrophilic blocks with different chemical group. After the synthesis work, fibrinogen adsorption, Salmonella adhesion on 4 different hybrid Starch-PCL-Starch tri block copolymers and 1 poly-(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-PCL-PEG block copolymer coating surfaces were studies while PCL was the control. Besides the protein adsorption and bacterial adhesion assay, atomic force microscopy analysis (AFM), scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and contact angle measurements were also performed to better understand the polymers’ surface properties. The surfaces were prepared by dissolving block copolymers in organic solvent followed by spin coating technique. Preliminary data showed that all the block copolymers have improved protein and bacteria repellency than PCL. Among all the block copolymers, YZ3-38 (with quaternary ammonium group), MC4-38 (substituted with N, N-diethylaminoethyl ether), MC4-44 (with hydroxypropyl groups) could dramatically improve the protein repellency, and MC4-38 and MC4-44 could significantly reduce the bacterial adhesion, compared with YZ3-14 (without modification on starch end group). MC4-38 even has comparative or better protein and bacteria repellence than PEG/PCL based copolymer (PEG is the most widely utilized protein and bacteria repellency polymer). Moreover, the data on fibrinogen adsorption, Salmonella adhesion showed that the ability to reduce fibrinogen adsorption at the copolymers surface correlates with the ability to reduce Salmonella adhesion. By evaluating the new copolymer’s surface physical, biological properties, this work is able to show the potential protein anti-adsorption and bacteria anti-adhesion properties of the PCL/Starch based copolymer and contribute to the understanding of the connections between protein adsorption, bacterial adhesion, contact angle and surface topography.
Problems on the geometric function theory in several complex variables and complex geometry
Creators: name: Yuan, Yuan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The thesis consists of two parts. In the first part, we  study the rigidity for the local holomorphic isometric embeddings. On the one hand, we prove the total geodesy for the local  holomorphic conformal embedding from the unit ball of complex  dimension at least 2 to the product of unit balls and hence the  rigidity for the local holomorphic isometry is the natural  corollary. Before obtaining the total geodesy, the algebraic  extension theorem is derived following the idea in cite{MN} by  considering the sphere bundle of the source and target domains. When  conformal factors are not constant, we twist the sphere bundle to  gain the pseudoconvexity. Then the algebraicity follows from the  algebraicity theorem of Huang in the CR geometry. Different from the  argument in the earlier works, the total geodesy of each factor does  not directly follow from the properness because the codimension is  arbitrary. By analyzing the real analytic subvariety carefully, we  conclude that the factor is either a proper holomorphic rational map  or a constant map. Lastly the total geodesy follows from a linearity  criterion of Huang. On the other hand, we also derive the total  geodesy for the local holomorphic isometries from the projective  space to the product of projective spaces. In the second part, we give a proof for the convergence of a  modified K"{a}hler-Ricci flow. The flow is defined by Zhang on  K"{a}hler manifolds while the K"{a}hler class along the evolution  is varying. When the limit cohomology class is semi-positive, big  and integer, the convergence of the flow is conjectured by Zhang and  we confirm it by using the monotonicity of some energy functional.  When the limit class is K"{a}hler, the convergence is proven by  Zhang and we give an alternative proof by also using the energy  functional. As a corollary, the convergence provides the solution to  the degenerate Monge-Amp`{e}re equation on the Calabi-Yau manifold.  Meanwhile we take the opportunity to describe the K"{a}hler-Ricci  flow on singular varieties.
Cylichna sublaevis
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cephalaspidea
Cylichnidae
Cylichna
Cylichna sublaevis

description: Cylichna cf. sublaevis (d’Orbigny, 1852)
cf. Bulla sublaevis d’Orbigny, 1852: 95, no 1772.
cf. Bulla laevis – Grateloup 1837: 400, pl. 3, figs 35, 36 (non Defrance).
cf. Bullinella (Cylichnina) sublaevis – Peyrot 1932: 187, no. 1396, pl. 13, figs 31, 33.
cf. Cylichna sublaevis – Lozouet et al. 2001: 81, pl. 37, figs 2a, b.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F11: AMPG (IV) 2550-2553 (four specimens).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 2.20 mm.
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. NE Atlantic: France (Aquitaine Basin) (d’Orbigny 1852; Peyrot 1932; Lozouet et al. 2001); Proto- Mediterranean Sea: Greece (this paper).
REMARKS
A species of Cylichna was recovered, whose morphology bears many similarities with Cylichna sublaevis (d’Orbigny, 1852) despite the poor preservation. The shell is subcylindrical, smooth, with sculpture consisting of inconspicuous growth lines; adapically the outer lip rises above the apex and forms a narrow apical perforation. The aperture is partially broken in all specimens; the inner lip is small and bears a small fold. No colour pattern can be observed in the Greek specimens, although it is mentioned by Peyrot (1932) that the species had axial zig-zag-shaped lines. The specimens from Greece seem to be smaller than those mentioned by Peyrot (1932) (5.5 mm) but this is most probably due to the preservation of these fragile shells in the present material, with larger size specimens being very fragmented.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 349, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Implementation and evaluation of IEEE 802.11bf MAC in ns-3
Creators: name: Lumbantobing, Ido Manuel
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024

description: Bachelorarbeit, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2024; Aachen : RWTH Aachen University 1 Online-Ressource: Illustrationen (2024). = Bachelorarbeit, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2024
description: Published by RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
Selatosomus funiushanensis Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia 2015
Creators: name: Qiu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus funiushanensis

description: 9. Selatosomus funiushanensis Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia, 2015
Type locality: “ China: Henan, Funiu Shan, Baotianman, 1500–1750 m ”.
Remarks: Schimmel et al. (2015) also recorded this species from “Juzhaigou [Jiuzhaigou], Songpang [Songpan/ ¾ ®] Co., 3000 m ” and “Pingwu [ṮḰ]”.
Distribution: Henan, Sichuan.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Lu, 2023, Selatosomus luhuaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) from Sichuan Province, China, with an annotated checklist of the Chinese species of Selatosomus, pp. 173-186 in Zootaxa 5228 (2) on page 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7532524
Development of redox-neutral reaction cascades
Creators: name: Zhang, Chen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In Chapter I, I give a general introduction to redox–neutral reaction cascades. In ChapterII, a Lewis acid catalyzed formation of tetrahydroquinolines via an intramolecular rodoxprocess is described. Gadolinium triflate was proven to be a superior catalyst for thistransformation. More importantly, a catalytic enantioselective intramolecular redoxreaction was successfully achieved by the use of magnesium triflate in combination of aDBFox ligand. In Chapter III, a novel transformation between o-aminobenzaldehyde and secondary cyclic amines is described. This novel transformation leads to synthetically useful cyclic aminal skeletons. Two natural products, deoxyvasicinone and rutaecarpine, were synthesized directly from the oxidation of the aminal skeletons. In addition, a onepot procedure for the synthesis of cyclic aminals promoted by Brønsted acids is also described, starting from o-aminobenzaldehydes and primary amines. In Chapter IV, nonconventionalfunctionalizations of azomethine ylides are described. Azomethine ylides are proven to be protonated by suitable proton sources, which results in the corresponding iminium ions. Nucleophiles can attack these iminium ions, leading to synthetically usefulskeletons.
Sweltsa brevihamula Dong & Cui & Li 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dong, Wenbin
name: Cui, Jianxin
name: Li, Weihai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Chloroperlidae
Sweltsa
Sweltsa brevihamula

description: Sweltsa brevihamula sp. nov. (Figs. 1–12)
Adult habitus. General color greenish. Head with a large, quadrate, median dark area; compound eyes dark, ocelli with dark rings; antennae pale but distal flagella brown (Figs. 1–2). Pronotum with brown symmetrical medial pattern (Figs. 1–2). Meso- and metathoracic nota with brown U-shaped marks. Wings hyaline; legs pale. Abdominal terga 1–8 with median brown stripe; stigma of terga 2–7 trapezoidal, with tergum 1 being triangular and tergum 8 rounded (Fig. 1). Cerci pale with long setae.
Male. Body length 9.4 mm; forewing length 8.0 mm; hindwing length 7.0 mm. Tergum 9 sclerotized, anteromedial portion membranous, transverse ridge sclerotized and band-shaped (Fig. 3), the ridge in lateral aspect forming triangular process (Figs. 4 –5). Epiproct: in dorsal view, parallel-sided for most of its length with apex narrowed; in lateral view the apex up-curved, ventral portion of the apex slightly swollen after KOH treatment (Figs. 3–7, 10–12). Aedeagus membranous without hairs, with a small triangular subapical lateral lobe, apical half tubular, much more slender than basal portion; basal portion bulbous, with conical basolateral and mesoventral lobes (Figs. 8–9).
Female and larva. Unknown.
Type material. Holotype male (HIST), CHINA: Sichuan Province, Mianyang City, Pingwu County, Laohegou National Nature Reserve, Xiaopiangou, 2377m, 32°30'37'' N, 104°38'33'' E, 2012. V.25, coll. Sipei Liu.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the short (“brev”), up-curved hook-like apex (“ hamula ”) of the epiproct.
Remarks. Sweltsa brevihamula can be recognized by the up-curved apex of the epiproct. Sweltsa brevihamula is similar to S. baiyunshana Li, Yang & Yao, 2014 in general habitus, but males can be distinguished from the latter species by the pronotum without a brown margin and an almost parallel-sided epiproct without an upraised, tongue-like cap apically (See Li et al. 2014, figs. 8–11), but with an up-turned apex. The new species is also related to S. longistyla (Wu, 1938), but the apex of the epiproct of S. brevihamula in lateral aspect is up-curved.
description: Published as part of Dong, Wenbin, Cui, Jianxin & Li, Weihai, 2018, A new species of Sweltsa (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) from Sichuan Province of southwestern China, pp. 388-392 in Zootaxa 4418 (4) on page 388, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1244942
Pyramidella Lamarck 1799
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pyramidellidae
Pyramidella

description: Genus Pyramidella Lamarck, 1799
TYPE SPECIES. — Trochus dolabratus Linnaeus, 1758 (= Pyramidella dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758)), by monotypy. Recent, Caribbean.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 349, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Formation and reactivity of allenes and spirodiepoxides
Creators: name: Zhang, Yue
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Disclosed are the studies on allene and functionalized medium sized ring synthesis as well as applications of spirodiepoxide based methods. A new method of making allenes via C-C bond fragmentation was developed by which, most notably, an enantioenriched functionalized cyclic allene was synthesized. Mechanistic studies provide a framework for understanding this reaction in relation to other known modes of fragmentation. The synthesis of a chiral cyclononadienone was completed. This product has been shown to be  a key intermediate towards many members of the xenicane family. Three epoxomicin analogues were synthesized. The issue of selectivity in allene oxidation was addressed in the course of this study. A model study towards erythronolide A was completed in which the feasibility of selective double cuprate addition to a bis[spirodiepoxide] macrolactone controlled by the macrocyclic environment was demonstrated. Lastly, the development of new reactions using spirodiepoxides to directly access densely functionalized structures in single- or two-flask procedures is reported.
Woman and nihil
Creators: name: Zhu, Ping
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Year: 2010

description: My dissertation examines how the feminine was invoked as a representational strategy to cope with the nihilism lying at the heart of Chinese modernity in the period from 1915 to 1936. As a revolution on both the individual level and the social level, Chinese modernity began with and continued in crisis. One imperative of Chinese modernity was to ceaselessly bring excitement and passion to the individual, urging and enticing the latter to join the nationalist project. However, this idealist endeavor demanded more power than the individual could summon within a coherent and rational consciousness. The individual was forced to confront decentering or shattering experiences of revolution, which were impossible to represent. Therefore, the nihil lied at the heart of modern Chinese subjectivity. In the West, nihilism emerged as a psychological effect to the decline of belief; but in May Fourth China, nihilism emerged a response to the belief in a heightened spirit that is incommensurate with any practical goals. However, the very nihilistic experience had to be disguised or shielded to ensure the purity and sublimity of the revolution. The trope of woman was employed as a metonymy for the nihil, which gave birth to a “shadow subject” (an unconscious agency of the subject) that was different from the ideal masculine and rational one. On the one hand, the projection of nihil onto woman further alienated and mystified the feminine; on the other hand, it empowered the feminine and incorporated woman into the mainstream of revolutionary discourse. Therefore, not only male writers used the representation of woman to overcome the traumatic nihilistic experience in their subjectivity, some female writers also integrated the nihil in their self-representation as a strategy to empower themselves. In my dissertation, I engage myself in a re-reading of selective modern Chinese literary works. Combining the theoretical strength of post-structuralism, existentialism, and feminism, my dissertation aims to deconstruct and reconstruct subjectivity, narrative, and revolutionary discourse in modern China. The discovery of the relation between woman and nihil provides a new perspective to reexamine the construction of modern subjectivity, as well as the gender relations in Chinese modernity.
Optimal design and equivalency of accelerated life testing plans
Creators: name: Zhu, Yada
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) is an efficient approach to obtain failure observations by subjecting the test units to stresses severer than design stresses and utilize the test data to predict reliability at normal operating conditions. ALT plans under multiple stresses needs to be designed to resemble the normal operating conditions and obtain useful failure observations for accurate reliability prediction. However, to date there is little research into the theory of planning ALT for reliability prediction with multiple stresses. Multiple stresses can result in a large number of stress-level combinations which presents a challenge for implementation. We propose an approach for the design of ALT plans with multiple stresses using Latin hypercube design (LHD) and demonstrate the proposed method with examples based on actual tests. The obtained optimal test plans are compared with those based on full factorial design. The comparison shows that ALT based on LHD not only increases the accuracy of reliability prediction significantly but also reduces the test duration dramatically.    ALT under Type-I and Type-II censoring has been extensively investigated. We generalize the one stage censoring to multi-stage progressive censoring, where the surviving test units are removed at intermediate stages other than the final termination of the test. This procedure further minimizes the test time and cost. We also combine the progressive censoring scheme with competing risk when test units experience different failure modes to investigate general, practical and optimal ALT plans. ALT is usually conducted under constant-stresses which need a long time at low stress levels to yield sufficient failure data. Many stress loadings, such as step-stresses obtain failure times faster than constant-stresses but the accuracy of reliability predictions based on such loadings has not yet been investigated. We develop test plans under different stress applications such that the reliability prediction achieves equivalent statistical precision to that of the constant-stress. The research shows indeed there are such equivalent plans that reduce the test time, minimize the cost and result in the same accuracy of reliability predictions.
Numerical investigation of energy deposition for supersonic flow over a 2-D diamond-shaped airfoil
Creators: name: Zhu, Ye
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Year: 2010

description: The research models inviscid compressible flow at Mach 2 over a two dimensional  diamond-shaped airfoil. The objective is to study the interaction of the energy deposition  added in the upstream flow on the airfoil. Theoretical results without energy deposition  in the inlet boundary and numerical results with no filaments, infinitely long symmetric  filament, symmetric pulsed filament, and asymmetric pulsed filament, for Mach number,  temperature, pressure in the flow field domain, are obtained. An analysis is performed on  the drag coefficient acting on the airfoil. FLUENT, Gambit, and C++ are used for the  numerical simulation.
Selatosomus glabrosus Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia 2015
Creators: name: Qiu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus glabrosus

description: 10. Selatosomus glabrosus Schimmel, Tarnawski, Han & Platia, 2015
Type locality: “ China: Sichuan, Jinjiang (Liang-ch-ke) [Jintang Town / Ḕâä].”
Remarks: Schimmel et al. (2015) wrongly spelled “Jintang” as “Jinjiang”, Jintang [Ḕâ] is a town near Daduhe River [kǎã], in Kangding City [BÉffi], Sichuan.
Distribution: Sichuan.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Lu, 2023, Selatosomus luhuaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) from Sichuan Province, China, with an annotated checklist of the Chinese species of Selatosomus, pp. 173-186 in Zootaxa 5228 (2) on pages 180-181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7532524
Should the United States continue to pursue free trade agreements?
Creators: name: Yadavalli, Anita
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Year: 2010

description: This research examines the social and demographic factors that inform the perspectives of farmers in New Jersey on whether the United States should continue to pursue free trade agreements. New Jersey is one of twenty seven states that were surveyed in a nationwide study conducted by the National Food, Agricultural and Public Policy in December, 2005. The paper uses ordered logit models to determine producer preferences on free trade. Five demographic and social variables including age, education, share of income from farming, farm sales, and percent of farm land owned, or tenure are measured in this study. The study finds that support for free trade is positively correlated with level of education and with age. Older farmers, namely those age 55 and above, and farmers/ranch operators with higher levels of education, namely bachelors or masters degrees, support a free trade policy. No evidence regarding support for free trade in terms of level of income, farm sales, or land ownership is found.
Manifold
Creators: name: Yadav, Harsh
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Year: 2010

description: A User Interface (UI) is generally tightly coupled to the business logic of the application, and a great deal of modification is required to model it to separate the application logic. Manifold is an answer to such an issue. It offers a generic user interface framework where different application designers could develop separate application logic using the same Manifold front-end. Manifold employs the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern to achieve its generic nature by providing separation of concerns between the UI and the application domain. The event frame concept incorporated on Manifold allows translation of user events to operations on application data via a central Controller object. The Controller object connects the Manifold front-end to the back-end application domain. This approach highly expedites the development of new features on the user interface, which remains decoupled from the rest of the application. It also allows building different applications on different servers and visualizing them on the Manifold UI. This thesis focuses on the enhancement of the Manifold framework both from the UI- and application-development perspective. New features based on industry standards are incorporated and the shortcomings present in the previous versions are eliminated to enhance the user-experience with Manifold. The flexibility of the Manifold framework allows development of applications with separate application logic and attaches them directly with the Manifold UI. The thesis developed applications and algorithms to visualize Manifold objects as fields in a relational database. The relational database approach allows saving the UI objects into a hierarchical data structure, rather than saving them as such on the file system. This provides added benefits of persistent information about objects, allowing data-analysis to be performed on them at various steps. This approach allowed extending the use of Manifold to areas such as text-, pattern- and speech recognition. Text recognition allows user to generate graphical objects (“glyphs”) on Manifold by typing in plain text data. Pattern recognition allows providing users with visual feedback if a collection of graphics in Manifold could be recognized as a particular pattern class. Speech Recognition allows the user to issue commands to the Manifold UI to perform specific tasks, which otherwise require manual manipulation. The newly developed features are analyzed for their structural and code complexity with direct repercussions to their re-use in future designs and performance optimization obtained by employing the best software engineering practices. The new features are evaluated with respect to their performance in the Manifold framework.
Modeling traveler behavior via day-to-day learning dynamics
Creators: name: Yanmaz-Tuzel, Ozlem
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Travel behavior lies at the core of analysis and evaluation of transportation related measures aiming to improve urban mobility, environmental quality and a wide variety of social objectives. A better understanding of travel behavior will improve travel demand forecasting and the assessment of emerging transport policies, and will improve our means to increase road safety.  The day-to-day models reflect the travelers’ learning and forecasting mechanisms. These models predict travelers’ choices for any given day based on their experienced choices in the previous days. Day-to-day approaches allow the use of wide range of behavioral rules, and levels of aggregation, and capture the heterogeneity in users’ learning and adaptation processes, and behavioral characteristics.  This thesis aims to develop a novel framework to model the interdependence between travelers’ choice decisions, learning and adaptation behavior and the day-to-day update mechanism of traffic flows. The novelty of this thesis is that the proposed approach combines traveler heterogeneity and rationality in a single framework to predict travelers’ day-to-day departure time and route decisions, and develops a novel day-to-day dynamic traffic assignment approach. The empirical results obtained from real transportation network, New Jersey Turnpike, confirm that the proposed day-to-day learning and dynamic traffic assignment framework model can successfully capture the significant learning dynamics, demonstrating the possibility of developing a psychological framework (i.e., learning models) as a viable approach to represent travel behavior.  The other contributions of this thesis include a novel route choice set generation approach based on stochastic integer programming approach. The proposed methodology takes into account travel time variability and reliability in the transportation network. The path relevance criteria are directly incorporated into the optimization model by minimizing mean travel time, travel time variability and path overlap. Unlike previous approaches in the literature, proposed methodology eliminates the filtering step from the choice set generation and generates paths sets at desired dissimilarity level while minimizing the travel time and variability of these paths. Several case studies show the applicability of the proposed methodology on real transportation networks.