cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding preferences and similarities from user-authored text
Creators: name: Ganu, Gayatree
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Users rely increasingly on online reviews, forums and blogs to exchange information, practical tips, and stories. Such social interaction has become central to their daily decision-making processes. However, user-authored content is in a free-text format, usually with very scant structured metadata information. Users often face the daunting task of reading a large quantity of text to discover potentially useful information. This thesis addresses the need to automatically leverage  information from user-authored text to improve search and to provide personalized recommendations matching user preferences.    We first focus on developing accurate text-based recommendations. We the rich information present in user reviews by identifying the review parts pertaining to different product features and the sentiment expressed towards each feature. We derive text-based ratings which serve as alternate indicators of user assessment of the product. We then cluster similar users  based on the topics and sentiments in their reviews. Our results show that using text yields better user preference predictions than those from the coarse star ratings. We also make fine-grained predictions of user sentiments towards the individual product features.    In the interactive and social forum sites users frequently make connections with other users, enabling them to find the right person to answer their questions. A challenge then, is to score and rank the short snippets of forum posts while taking into account these personal connections. In this thesis, we learn user similarities via multiple indicators like shared information needs, profiles, or topics of interest. We develop a novel multidimensional model that uniformly incorporates the heterogeneous user relations in finding similar participants, to predict future social interactions and enhance keyword search.     Search over user-authored data like forums requires providing results that are as complete as possible and yet are focused on the relevant information. We address this problem by developing a new search paradigm that allows for search results to be retrieved at varying granularity levels. We implement a novel hierarchical representation and scoring technique for objects at multiple granularities. We also present a score optimization algorithm that efficiently chooses the best $k$-sized non-overlapping result set. We conduct extensive user studies and show that a mixed granularity set of results is more relevant to users than standard post-only approaches.    In summary, this thesis studies the problems in understanding user behavior from textual content in online reviews and forums. We present efficient techniques to learn user preferences and similarities to enhance search and recommendations.
Chloebora bramina Saussure 1884
Creators: name: Sultana, Riffat
name: Song, Hojun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Chloebora
Chloebora bramina

description: 1. Chloebora bramina Saussure, 1884
This species is widely distributed throughout India and may extend to several neighboring states, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Pakistan. In a recent study, Wagan & Khatri (2021) recorded this species for the first time in Patriata (New Murree, at 3,500 m) It is expected that this species might occur in the northern regions of Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan.
description: Published as part of Sultana, Riffat & Song, Hojun, 2024, Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 5486 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13209743
Selene vomer
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Carangidae
Selene
Selene vomer

description: Selene vomer (Linnaeus 1758). Atlantic Lookdown, Lookdown Moonfish; Jorobado, Jorobado de Penacho
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean; from Mayne, USA, to Uruguay; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) BF (Atlantic); 0–5 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2015), population trend stable. Literature: van den Berghe (2015: 42; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology) and Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 3653; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Energy and emission impact quantification of pavement preservation using life cycle assessment
Creators: name: Gangaram, Rashmi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This study aims at developing a life cycle assessment (LCA) model to quantify the impact of pavement preservation on energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the past, most of the research focused on the environmental impact of pavements at material and construction stages but ignored the usage stage. The construction stage analyzed in this study contains energy consumption and GHG emissions at material, manufacture, transportation and placement phases. Vehicle operating cost and fuel economy is affected by change in tire rolling resistance during usage stage. This also affects GHG emissions significantly. In this study the Highway Development and Management (HDM-4) model and the Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) were used to analyze fuel consumption and emissions caused by different vehicles on the pavements treated by different preservation treatments. Surface characteristics such as roughness, texture and deflection were taken into account in tire rolling resistance along with general factors such as speed, traffic volume, and road grade. Two pavement sections with different roughness from the long-term pavement performance (LTPP) database were used in the analysis to illustrate the importance of considering usage stage in LCA.   The thin overlay was found to have the highest energy consumption and emissions among four preservation treatments during construction stage, but at the same time resulted in the greatest reduction of energy and emission at usage stage. If only construction stage is considered, energy and emissions are ruled by use of amount of material and manufacture process. The reductions of GHG emission at usage stage are much greater than the GHG emission produced at construction stage for all preservation treatments. Excluding the usage stage will omit the fact that construction stage has less impact on pavement LCA than usage stage. Combining both construction and usage stages gave a life-cycle impact of pavement preservation on energy and GHG emission. The results show that there is a significant amount of change in energy consumption and emissions when traffic factors and pavement surface characteristics are considered during usage stage. The study results provide valuable insights in selecting sustainable pavement maintenance strategies from an environmental view point.
Brachycrotaphus longiceps
Creators: name: Sultana, Riffat
name: Song, Hojun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Brachycrotaphus
Brachycrotaphus longiceps

description: 2. Brachycrotaphus longiceps (Bolívar, 1902)
This species is widespread across India. We have reported two specimens from Azad Jammu & Kashmir, and it is likely to be extended to the northern territories of Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan.
description: Published as part of Sultana, Riffat & Song, Hojun, 2024, Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 5486 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13209743
Bayesian mixture estimation for perceptual grouping
Creators: name: Froyen, Vicky
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Perceptual grouping is the process by which a set of image elements is divided into distinct “objects” or components. In this dissertation I propose a Bayesian framework for understanding perceptual grouping, in which the goal of the computation is to estimate the organization that best explains the observed configuration of image elements. I formalize the problem of perceptual grouping as a mixture estimation problem, where it is assumed that the configuration of elements is generated by a set of distinct components (or ”objects”), whose underlying parameters one seeks to estimate. In the first part of this dissertation I will propose a simplified version of the framework and show how it can be used to estimate the number of objects, more specifically clusters of dots, present in the image. Across two experiments I show how the model gives an accurate and quantitatively precise account of subjects’ numerosity judgments, while at the same time outperforming more standard accounts for dot clustering. In the second part of the dissertation this simplified framework is expanded to estimate a hierarchical representation of the image elements. This framework can easily be adjusted to different subproblems of perceptual grouping. Here I will show how an instantiation of our framework for contour integration, part decomposition, and shape completion can account for several key perceptual phenomena and previously collected human subject data.
Trachinotus falcatus
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Carangidae
Trachinotus
Trachinotus falcatus

description: Trachinotus falcatus (Linnaeus 1758). Permit, Permit Pompano; Pámpano, Pámpano Palometa
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean; from Massachusetts, USA, to southern Brazil; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) BF (Atlantic); 0–5 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2015), population trend stable. Literature: van den Berghe (2015: 41, as Alectes ciliare (Bloch 1787) —misspelled and misidentification; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology) and Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 3659; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Transmit only for dense wireless networks
Creators: name: Firner, Bernhard
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: As the size and cost of embedded wireless devices decreases, researchers and  technology companies find an ever-growing number of applications in health and  safety, environmental monitoring, and agriculture. The goal of many of these  applications is to simultaneously monitor more things at finer time or spatial  granularity than was previously practicable. Progress in  the size and cost of ICs has made these applications possible, but new wireless  protocols must be developed to leverage this modern hardware for multi-year,  dense, ``always on'' deployments.    These applications have requirements that are not currently addressed, most  importantly energy efficiency in mobile and dense deployments, because  transmitter lifetime and system maintainability may be more important than the  low latency or high reliability that are paramount in current wireless systems.  Current wireless protocols, such as CSMA, favor channel throughput and packet  transmission success without considering the energy efficiency and utility of  energy hungry feedback mechanisms such as channel sensing and packet  acknowledgements.  A protocol that extends the lifetime of sensors by years at  the cost of occasional sensing delays (measured in seconds) from packet  loss is preferable in many emerging applications.  In this dissertation one such  approach, called Transmit Only, is introduced. Transmit Only is shown to  achieve years of lifetime on current commercially available hardware by  consuming just over 20mA per year on a chip doing both sensing and  data transmission.    We also show that Transmit Only can remain energy efficient even as transmitter  density increases. Although packet collisions increase with the number of  transmitters in a Transmit Only system, we show that careful placement of  multiple receivers can maximize the capture effect and reduce actual packet  loss. For example, in a sensor network with 1000 transmitters offering 100%  channel load, with just five receivers the transmitters successfully convert  80% of their radio energy into successfully transmitted bits.    This dissertation will demonstrate that the drawbacks of Transmit Only, namely  multiple receivers and no packet delivery guarantees, are easily worth the  benefits in efficient energy usage and lifetime, transmitter simplicity, and  high throughput at very high offered loads and transmitter densities.
Pareudrilus mikuminensis Zicsi 1996
Creators: name: Csuzdi, Csaba
name: Szederjesi, Tímea
name: Sherlock, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Opisthopora
Eudrilidae
Pareudrilus
Pareudrilus mikuminensis

description: Pareudrilus mikuminensis Zicsi, 1996
Pareudrilus mikuminensis Zicsi, 1996 Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 93: 22.
description: Published as part of Csuzdi, Csaba, Szederjesi, Tímea & Sherlock, Emma, 2018, Annotated checklist of earthworm species described by András Zicsi (Clitellata: Megadrili), pp. 11-42 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1447011
Citizen expertise and advocacy in creation of New Jersey's 198& Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act
Creators: name: Fenyk, Heather Mary
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: In this research I explore the influence of citizen expertise on environmental regulatory policy surrounding New Jersey’s freshwater wetlands.  I intend to improve understandings of pluralism and accountability in social science models of science advising, which have paid little attention to the ways citizens contribute scientific knowledge to policy making.  I look at citizen expertise in the context of an important chapter in U.S. environmental history culminating in New Jersey’s Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act (FWPA) on July 1, 198&.  This Act made New Jersey the first state to completely assume administration of the portion of the federal Clean Water Act that protects wetlands and gave it the nation’s strongest measures to protect these environmentally valuable lands.  Inquiry is situated in the joint perspectives of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Social Movement Studies and incorporates constructivist-interpretivist research techniques.  A state-wide environmental advocacy movement called the Freshwater Wetlands Campaign (FWC) responded to what it perceived as inadequate and fragmented state and federal attempts to protect freshwater wetlands by developing the technical and political competence to champion wetlands protection.  The FWC worked at a time when standards of knowledge production for freshwater wetlands science had yet to be established and when no methodological approach was privileged.  The concept of co-production is used to explain how the FWC helped to define what would constitute scientific competence in three scientifically and technically complex disputes: the definition of a freshwater wetland such that it would be protected; the delineation of a protective freshwater wetland buffer; and the creation of artificial freshwater wetlands as sufficient action to permit destruction of natural freshwater wetlands.  Closure around these disputes is conceived as resulting in creation of three new regulatory “artifacts” in New Jersey: freshwater wetlands, freshwater wetland buffers, and mitigated freshwater wetlands.  I show that without the FWC’s role in developing science and these artifacts, New Jersey’s FWPA would either not exist or would have followed a different path.  From this I suggest that we can improve the co-production framework with a new theory for STS that includes a “bottom up” model of social movements.
Authenticity analysis of citrus essential oils by means of HPLC-UV-MS on oxygenated heterocyclic components
Creators: name: Fan, Hao
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Essential oils have been the key natural raw material in flavor and fragrance industry since its inception (Dugo et al., 2002). Citrus essential oil, as the largest essential oil group, comprises &0% of imported oils in US (Dugo et al., 2002). Their unique sensory properties have been widely accepted and applied in beverage, confectionary, perfume, house care and other fields.     However, due to relatively simple chemical composition and tremendous price differences among citrus species, unscrupulous players have been tempted to practice adulteration in citrus oils for a long time. Addition of key aromatic chemicals into low-grade stripped oil or oil fractions is one way to lower the oil cost. Extending high quality citrus oil with oil fractions from a cheaper source is also taking place on regular basis. As they become increasingly sophisticated, perpetrators are capable of making blends that are almost indistinguishable from authentic oils through conventional GC analysis. As a consequence, essential oil industry is demanding definitive, sensitive, and efficient approaches to grade commercial citrus oils and keep adulterated oil from entering the finished products.    A reversed-phase HPLC method was developed for compositional study of essential oils from major citrus species (i.e., orange, mandarin, tangerine, lemon, lime, and grapefruit). Majority of the oxygenated heterocyclic components in citrus oils were identified by HPLC-MS and confirmed by previous literatures. Two hydroxylated PMFs (polymethoxyflavone) have been identified from cold pressed orange and tangerine oils for the first time.     A comprehensive database of major PMF compounds is built with data collected from a large pool of industrial orange, tangerine and mandarin oil samples. Numerical ranges of PMF compounds for sample approval were extrapolated from the database. Meanwhile, principle components analysis (PCA) was carried out for sample classification. Based on the numerical limits and statistical analysis results, detailed information regarding the origin and history of oil samples can be revealed.    Similar study will be performed on lemon, lime and grapefruit oil samples as well. The author is hoping this analysis procedure will be serving as a routine quality control test for authenticity evaluation and adulteration detection in citrus essential oils.
Chorthippus angulatus Tarbinsky 1927
Creators: name: Sultana, Riffat
name: Song, Hojun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Chorthippus
Chorthippus angulatus

description: 3. Chorthippus angulatus Tarbinsky, 1927
This species is widely distributed across the temperate zone of Asia, including the surrounding regions of Afghanistan (Cigliano et al. 2024). We have reported a single specimen from the Juniper Forest in Ziarat, Balochistan. It will be apparent that the numbers could increase significantly if Quetta, Pishin, and Loralai are explored.
description: Published as part of Sultana, Riffat & Song, Hojun, 2024, Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 5486 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13209743
The response of radiative feedbacks, equatorial Pacific seasonality, and wetlands to orbital forcing in model simulations
Creators: name: Erb, Michael Philip
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: By altering the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of insolation, variations in the Earth’s orbital parameters have likely produced large climate changes in the past. To better understand the effect of orbital forcings, the GFDL Climate Model, version 2.1 (CM2.1), is used to perform idealized simulations in which only orbital parameters are altered while ice sheets, atmospheric composition, and other climate forcings are prescribed at preindustrial levels. These idealized simulations isolate the climate response to changes in obliquity and longitude of the perihelion alone. Additional simulations are conducted with a slab ocean model to assess the importance of ocean dynamics in parts of the climate response, and a water table model to study changes in groundwater. Though orbital forcing affects many aspects of the climate system, this research focuses on radiative feedbacks, the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and groundwater. Analysis shows that, despite being forced only by a redistribution of insolation with no global annual-mean component, feedbacks induce significant global-mean climate change, resulting in mean temperature changes of -0.5K in a lowered obliquity experiment and +0.6K in a precession experiment. At times when the orbital configuration favors glaciation, cloud feedbacks partially counteract changes in summer insolation, posing an additional challenge to understanding glacial inception. Precession can significantly affect the equatorial Pacific seasonal cycle, especially in the east, through thermodynamic and dynamic mechanisms. In addition to the direct thermodynamic effect of insolation anomalies, heat is redistributed across the basin by way of thermocline signals in the precession experiments, which appear to result from changes in the strength of subtropical anticyclones and shifts in the regions of convection in the western equatorial Pacific. On land, groundwater responds to orbitally-forced changes in monsoon circulations and other precipitation anomalies, and the relationships between net water flux, groundwater in the CM2.1, and shallow water table extent are explored. These three aspects of the climate system -- radiative feedbacks, the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and groundwater -- all may have played important roles in past climate variations.
Cichlidae Bonaparte 1835
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Cichlidae

description: Family Cichlidae Bonaparte 1835 (Fig. 4C). Cichlids; Mojarras, Congos, Burras, Chogorras, Tilapias
Description: Body shape quite variable, mostly moderately deep and compressed; up to 80 cm in length, usually less than 20 cm; a single nostril on each side; lateral line interrupted, usually with 20–50 scales (but number may exceed 100 in some taxa); usually 7–25 spines and 5–30 soft rays in the dorsal fin; anal fin with usually with 3–15 spines and 4–15 soft rays (Nelson et al. 2016, Angulo et al. 2021). Distribution: Freshwater and occasionally in brackish water; Central and South America (one species extending north to Texas), West Indies, Africa, Madagascar, Israel, Syria, coastal India, and Sri Lanka (Nelson et al. 2016). Thirteen genera and thirty-five species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Online non-rigid motion and scene layer segmentation
Creators: name: Elqursh, Ali E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: In the past, different kinds of methods were devised to detect objects from videos. Based on the assumption of stationary camera, the now ubiquitous background subtraction learns the appearance of the background and then subtracts it to segment the scene. In practice such assumption is highly restrictive, and to handle moving cameras other methods were devised. For instance, motion segmentation targets the segmentation of different rigid motions in the video, while scene layer segmentation attempts to find a segmentation of the scene into layers that are consistent in space and time. Yet, such methods still suffers from other limitations such as the requirement of point trajectories to span the entire frame sequence. On a different aspect, recent years have witnessed a large increase in the proportion of videos coming from streaming sources such as TV Broadcast, Internet video streaming, and streaming from mobile devices. Unfortunately, most methods that process videos are mainly offline and with a high computational complexity. Thus rendering them ineffective for processing videos from streaming sources. This highlights the need for novel techniques that are online and efficient at the same time. In this dissertation, we first generalize motion segmentation by showing that under a general perspective camera trajectories belonging to one moving object form a low-dimensional manifold. Based on this, we devise two methods for online nonrigid motion segmentation. The first method tries to explicitly reconstruct the low-dimensional manifolds and then cluster them. The second method attempts to directly separate the manifolds. We then show how motion segmentation and scene layer segmentation can be combined in a single online framework that combines the strength of both approaches. Finally, we propose two methods that assign figure- ground labels to layers by combining several cues. Results show that our framework is effective in detecting moving objects from videos captured by a moving camera.
Additional file 2: of Womenâ  s empowerment and experiences of mistreatment during childbirth in facilities in Lucknow, India: results from a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Diamond-Smith, Nadia
name: Treleaven, Emily
name: Murthy, Nirmala
name: Sudhinaraset, May
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Open peer review. (PDF 189 kb)
Polytoreutus mahunkai Zicsi 1996
Creators: name: Csuzdi, Csaba
name: Szederjesi, Tímea
name: Sherlock, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Opisthopora
Eudrilidae
Polytoreutus
Polytoreutus mahunkai

description: Polytoreutus mahunkai Zicsi, 1996
Polytoreutus mahunkai Zicsi, 1996 Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 93: 33.
description: Published as part of Csuzdi, Csaba, Szederjesi, Tímea & Sherlock, Emma, 2018, Annotated checklist of earthworm species described by András Zicsi (Clitellata: Megadrili), pp. 11-42 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1447011
Parahieroglyphus bilineatus
Creators: name: Sultana, Riffat
name: Song, Hojun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Parahieroglyphus
Parahieroglyphus bilineatus

description: 4. Parahieroglyphus bilineatus (Saussure, 1912)
Although this species widely occurs in the southwest region of India, we have reported specimens from Koti, Azad Jammu & Kashmir. It is likely to extend to the northern territories, including the surrounding region of Punjab (Pakistan).
description: Published as part of Sultana, Riffat & Song, Hojun, 2024, Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 5486 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13209743
Chaucer out of bounds
Creators: name: Ellison, Darryl William
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation explores the boundaries that define the “Chaucerian,” a concept that was as much a product of Chaucer’s later editors, adapters, and imitators as it was a product of his contemporaries and predecessors. In exploring the Chaucerian, this dissertation juxtaposes concepts and materials from different historical periods, including Shakespeare, Spenser, Henryson, and 20th- and 21st-century film. This project not only explores the anachronistic connections that led to the creation of the Chaucerian, but also concludes that anachronism is an essential part of what still sustains it. Anachronistic scholarship that approaches texts and authors from beyond the traditional boundaries that separate them—and which separate us from them—is not only essential to our understanding of Chaucer, but essential to our understanding of our relationship to his work and to the past itself.
Additional file 1: of From erasure to opportunity: a qualitative study of the experiences of transgender men around pregnancy and recommendations for providers
Creators: name: Hoffkling, Alexis
name: Obedin-Maliver, Juno
name: Sevelius, Jae
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Open peer review. (PDF 104 kb)
Amatitlania nigrofasciata
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Amatitlania
Amatitlania nigrofasciata

description: Amatitlania nigrofasciata (Günther 1867). Convict Cichlid; Congo, Convicto, Conguito Convicto
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Central America; from central Guatemala, to northern Nicaragua to central Costa Rica, Atlantic and Pacific drainages; (Nicaragua) Ch, Ne (Pacific); 279–319 masl; Sec, Pot. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; DD (2020), population trend stable. Literature: Carr & Giovannoli (1994: 110, as Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum —synonym; brief description, including information on distribution and ecology), Schmitter-Soto (2007: 49; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Bagley et al. (2017: 155; phylogeography and species delimitation, with information on distribution, including a map).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Polytoreutus michaelseni Zicsi 1996
Creators: name: Csuzdi, Csaba
name: Szederjesi, Tímea
name: Sherlock, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Opisthopora
Eudrilidae
Polytoreutus
Polytoreutus michaelseni

description: Polytoreutus michaelseni Zicsi, 1996
Polytoreutus michaelseni Zicsi, 1996 Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 93: 27.
description: Published as part of Csuzdi, Csaba, Szederjesi, Tímea & Sherlock, Emma, 2018, Annotated checklist of earthworm species described by András Zicsi (Clitellata: Megadrili), pp. 11-42 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1447011
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of RNA-binding activity of TRIM25 is mediated by its PRY/SPRY domain and is required for ubiquitination
Creators: name: Choudhury, Nila
name: Heikel, Gregory
name: Trubitsyna, Maryia
name: Kubik, Peter
name: Nowak, Jakub
name: Webb, Shaun
name: Granneman, Sander
name: Spanos, Christos
name: Rappsilber, Juri
name: Castello, Alfredo
name: Gracjan Michlewski
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Thermal denaturation assays and size exclusion chromatography with multi-angle light scattering analyses show that Î RBD deletion does not influence the overall shape and multimerization of purified His-TRIM25Î RBD. Figure S2. Generation and characterization of TRIM25 KO HeLa cell line. Figure S3. T7-TRIM25 CLIP-seq and T7-TRIM25 RNA immunoprecipitation results. Figure S4. T7-TRIM25 CLIP-seq experiments are reproducible, based on three independent experiments. Figure S5. No correlation of TRIM25 CLIP-seq cluster intensities with transcript abundance in HeLa cells. Figure S6. Gene Ontology-term annotation of TRIM25-bound transcripts and the ab initio-derived TRIM25-binding binding sequences cluster in three motif clusters. Figure S7. TRIM25 does not influence RNA stability of selected targets. Figure S8. TRIM25 undergoes ubiquitination. (PDF 9873 kb)
Additional file 1: of A review of measures of womenâ  s empowerment and related gender constructs in family planning and maternal health program evaluations in low- and middle-income countries
Creators: name: Mandal, Mahua
name: Arundati Muralidharan
name: Pappa, Sara
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Evaluation papers included in systematic review. (DOCX 27 kb)
Amatitlania septemfasciata
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Amatitlania
Amatitlania septemfasciata

description: Amatitlania septemfasciata (Regan 1908). Seven Stripe Cichlid; Mojarra, Chogorra
Vouchers: UCR 3224-002 (2) and 3225-003 (8); other collections: IBUNAM 13722 (1), 13723 (1) and 13724 (1).
Distribution: Central America; from southern Nicaragua to central Costa Rica, Atlantic drainages; (Nicaragua) IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF and LN (Atlantic); 10–421 masl; Sec, Pot. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2020), population trend unknown. Literature: Bussing (1998: 348, as Archocentrus septemfasciatus —synonym; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Schmitter-Soto (2007: 43, as Cryptoheros septemfasciatus —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Angulo (2021: 47; listed, including information on distribution) and Angulo & San Gil-León (2022: e4029; identification key and information on distribution).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Restrained shrinkage behavior of heat-cured, high early-strength high-performance concrete (HES-HPC)
Creators: name: Eagelton, Jonathan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: For decades, High Performance Concrete has commonly been used in bridge decks due to its high strength and durability. Despite these properties, cracking in decks continues to be a challenge for bridge engineers. Cracking in bridge decks can lead to weaker structural members, increased damage during freeze-thaw cycles, and accelerated corrosion. These issues lead to more frequent maintenance as the deck needs to be replaced, which raises costs. Causes of cracking includes: harsh weather conditions during pour or curing, high shrinkage stresses, and extremely high live loads due to overweight truck traffic. There is some belief that freshly poured concrete will develop some stress as adjacent lanes are loaded with trucks. Since the concrete is still weak at this stage, it is believed that the strain caused by this stress generation may be large enough to cause cracking.  Because of this, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has recently developed Supplementary Technical Specifications for a High Early Strength HPC (HES-HPC) to replace bridge decks during staged construction. Higher early age strength can be achieved by increasing the rate of hydration, which can be accomplished with higher temperatures. Part of the specifications suggests the use of a heat blanket to keep the concrete at higher temperatures in the early hours to achieve a faster strength gain. Despite this proposition, heat blanket cured concrete has yet to be tested for restrained shrinkage using the ring test. Additionally, shrinkage reducing admixture has yet to be studied for HES-HPC, despite the possibility of its applicability.   The restrained shrinkage ring test is used to compare the cracking tendency of HPC, typical HES-HPC, and heat cured HES-HPC. Shrinkage reducing admixture is also studied to determine if it can be practically applied to HES-HPC. Results of the restrained shrinkage test are also correlated with the free shrinkage results. Crack development is monitored throughout the test and used for comparison.
Polytoreutus mixtus Zicsi 1997
Creators: name: Csuzdi, Csaba
name: Szederjesi, Tímea
name: Sherlock, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Opisthopora
Eudrilidae
Polytoreutus
Polytoreutus mixtus

description: Polytoreutus mixtus Zicsi, 1997
Polytoreutus mixtus Zicsi, 1997b Rev. suisse Zool. 104 (4): 815.
description: Published as part of Csuzdi, Csaba, Szederjesi, Tímea & Sherlock, Emma, 2018, Annotated checklist of earthworm species described by András Zicsi (Clitellata: Megadrili), pp. 11-42 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1447011
Additional file 1: of A systematic review of concepts related to womenâ  s empowerment in the perinatal period and their associations with perinatal depressive symptoms and premature birth
Creators: name: Garcia, Esmeralda
name: Yim, Ilona
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Open peer review. (PDF 271 kb)
OVERLAP OF SYPHILIS AND HIV AMONG IDU: A MUTLILEVEL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The objectives of this proposal are to characterize the epidemiology of syphilis and syphilis/HIV co-infection among IDUs in Tijuana, with respect to individual, social network and neighborhood factors, by applying a combination of epidemiological, geographical and network-based methods. The applicant will undertake coursework and independent studies to build her knowledge base and skills in the areas of social network analyses, multi-level modeling and geographic information systems (GIS). Practical application of these skills will be obtained through modeling individual, network and geographical aspects of syphilis transmission and syphilis/HIV co-infection among IDUs in Tijuana participating in the 'Proyecto El Cuete', a prospective cohort of IDUs established by the primary mentor, Dr. Steffanie Strathdee. Information on individuals’ risk behaviors and social networks will be derived from follow-up surveys, while information on injection locations and high risk sexual venues will be derived from a combination of survey questions and field mapping. The impact of syphilis on HIV among a population in transition from a low-level HIV epidemic to a concentrated epidemic could be substantial, increasing the possibility of continued spread and transition to a generalized epidemic. Syphilis can not only increase an individual’s susceptibility to HIV infection, but among those with dual-infections may result in more efficient transmission of both syphilis and HIV. Research into the overlapping transmission networks of syphilis and HIV can help to inform prevention and treatment efforts in order to curb these two epidemics. The high prevalence of syphilis and burgeoning HIV epidemic in Tijuana are also of importance to the U.S. As a border city, Tijuana and San Diego are connected through cultural and community ties. Cross-border travel is common, and many individuals have social networks that span both sides of the border. In order to assess the potential impact of HIV and syphilis in Tijuana on the U.S., the multi-level analysis will include measures of U.S. connectivity, including number of U.S. network members, frequency of travel to U.S., and distance from the U.S. border. STIs remain an important burden globally, both due to their own long-term complications, as well as their impact on HIV transmission. In addition to the immediate benefit of increased testing and treatment among the high risk populations in Tijuana and, by extension, the connected communities in San Diego, this proposal sets out to derive new combinations of methods to effectively and efficiently assess transmission patterns among high risk groups and uncover contextual and structural factors that may be used in future development of interventions.
Polytoreutus nguruensis Zicsi 1996
Creators: name: Csuzdi, Csaba
name: Szederjesi, Tímea
name: Sherlock, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Opisthopora
Eudrilidae
Polytoreutus
Polytoreutus nguruensis

description: Polytoreutus nguruensis Zicsi, 1996
Polytoreutus nguruensis Zicsi, 1996 Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 93: 28.
description: Published as part of Csuzdi, Csaba, Szederjesi, Tímea & Sherlock, Emma, 2018, Annotated checklist of earthworm species described by András Zicsi (Clitellata: Megadrili), pp. 11-42 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1447011
Accumulation and metabolism of neutral lipids in obesity
Creators: name: Douglass, John David
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The ectopic deposition of fat in liver and muscle during obesity is well established, however surprisingly little is known about the intestine. We used ob/ob mice and wild type (C5&BL6/J) mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD) for 3 weeks, to examine the effects on intestinal mucosal triacylglycerol (TG) accumulation and secretion. Obesity and high-fat feeding resulted in higher levels of mucosal TG and markedly decreased rates of chylomicron secretion, accompanied by alterations in intestinal genes related to anabolic and catabolic lipid metabolism pathways. Overall, the results demonstrate that during obesity and a HFD, the intestinal mucosa exhibits metabolic dysfunction.  There is indirect evidence that the lipolytic enzyme monoacylglycerol lipase (MGL) may be involved in the development of obesity. We therefore examined the role of MG metabolism in energy homeostasis using wild type and MGL-/- mice fed low-fat or high-fat diets for 12 weeks. Tissue MG species were profoundly increased, as expected. Notably, weight gain was blunted in all MGL-/- mice. MGL null mice were also leaner, and had increased fat oxidation on the low-fat diet. Circulating lipids levels were decreased in high fat-fed MGL-/- mice, as were the levels of several plasma peptides involved in energy homeostasis. Interestingly, MGL-/- mice had a blunted rate of intestinal TG secretion following an oral fat challenge. The leaner phenotype and improved metabolic serum profile in MGL-/- mice suggested that pharmacological inhibition may be a potential treatment for metabolic disease. To further examine this, C5&BL6/J mice were fed low-fat and high-fat diets for 12 weeks, and then given daily oral administration of vehicle or a novel reversible MGL inhibitor for 4 days or 2& days. No changes in food intake were found, nor were adiposity or glucose intolerance substantially altered by inhibitor treatment; this is likely due to the short-term effectiveness of the inhibitor, as the compound was barely detectable & hours following administration. Thus, the effects of transient MGL inhibition on energy metabolism are minimal, in contrast to chronic inhibition secondary to genetic ablation.
Amphilophus amarillo Stauffer & McKaye 2002
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Amphilophus
Amphilophus amarillo

description: Amphilophus amarillo Stauffer & McKaye 2002. Yellow Midas Cichlid; Mojarra Amarilla
Vouchers: (other collections) PSU 3448 (6) and 3448.1 (1). Distribution: Central America; endemic to the Lago Xiloá, Nicaragua; (Nicaragua) LN (Atlantic); 45– 45 masl; Sec, Pot. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat, End; VU D2 (2020), population trend stable. Literature: Stauffer & McKaye (2002: 8; original description) and Stauffer et al. (2008: 117; comparative morphological data and information on distribution).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788