cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chirothrips Haliday
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Chirothrips

description: Chirothrips Haliday
(Fig. 25)
As in Arorathrips, the species of this genus develop within individual florets of grasses, with one larva to each floret (Minaei & Mound, 2010). An illustrated account of the four species known from Australia is provided by Mound & Palmer (1972). C. manicatus is a widespread Palaearctic species that is common in southern Australia. In contrast, C. ah and C. atricorpus are African species that are widespread in northern Australia. C. frontalis has been found rarely in northern Australia, and is probably from South America.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Scapheremaeus petrosus Sitnikova 1975
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus petrosus

description: Scapheremaeus petrosus Sitnikova, 1975
Scapheremaeus petrosus Sitnikova, 1975, 240, fig. 558.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Scapheremaeus pisacensis Hammer 1961
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus pisacensis

description: Scapheremaeus pisacensis Hammer, 1961
Scapheremaeus pisacensis Hammer, 1961, 33, fig. 25.
Type depository: Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen.
Type locality: pass between Cusco and Pisac, PERU.
Habitat: thin cover of lichen and moss on clay on the ground.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
THE ROLE OF INSURANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SECURITIES MARKET
Creators: name: Gulbaeva, F.I.
name: Tangriberdiev, B.
name: Arabboev, Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: We can see that the market of securities in our country is developing in the above pictures, but insurance organizations are lagging behind in this regard. If it is abroad, we can witness that insurance organizations are occupying high positions in the stock market. In the development trend of the modern economy, insurance organizations are one of the rapidly developing sectors and occupy a significant part of the financial market. Today, insurance companies are one of the active participants of the stock market.
Edissa Faure
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Edissa

description: Edissa Faure
Species of the subfamily Dendrothripinae breed only on leaves, and their hosts are almost exclusively dicotyledonous plants. The species of Edissa appear to be the only members of this subfamily in which species breed on the leaves of Poaceae. Two species have been described, E. flava from South Africa and Sudan, and E. steinerae from north-eastern Australia including the Torres Straits Islands. Un-named specimens have also been studied from Thailand and southern Japan (Mound, 1999). No males of Edissa are known, and the small differences between the available samples might be interpreted as representing variation within a single widespread species.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Report on Mini-conference on Sludge Disposal Alternatives in the Ocean off Southern California, 8 September 1976
Creators: name: Isaacson, Morton S.
name: Brooks, Norman H.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1976

description: The purpose of the conference was to review the status of our capability to predict the environmental effects of the disposal of digested sewage sludge in the ocean off the coast of Southern California. At present, the ocean disposal of sewage sludge is prohibited by State and Federal regulations. Ocean disposal of sludge, however, is a complex of many alternative combinations of what, where and how; and the environmental consequences of all such combinations have not yet been determined. There is, in fact, some evidence that at least one environmentally sound mode of sludge disposal in the ocean off the Southern California coast may exist. This is the trapping of sludge in the sediments of deep, nearshore ocean basins. such as the Santa Monica Basin. Details of this method are given in Section 3.3. p. 12.

It is the philosophy of the Environmental Quality Laboratory to study and evaluate policy alternatives but not to be an advocate of one alternative or another. Some of the policies studied may be contrary to existing laws or regulations, but it is believed that there is a better chance for improvement in the laws or regulations if alternatives currently outside them are also studied. The conference was sponsored by the Environmental Quality Laboratory in the belief that sufficient information is now available to begin making reasonable estimates of the environmental consequences of existing or alternative ocean disposal methods in order to compare them to land-based disposal methods.

The purpose of this report is not to publish the actual proceedings of the conference. but rather to act as a communications aid. It is intended to publicize the issues that were raised at the conference, to give the names and addresses of people who are involved in these issues, and to present abstracts and literature citations.

The schedule of the conference is presented in the next section. It is followed by a section containing abstracts of current research by conference attendees along with reference lists supplied by them. The fourth section is a summary of the afternoon discussion sessions. The final section is a list of conference attendees with their mailing addresses.
description: © 1976 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Both the Conference and this report were made possible by a Ford Foundation grant (No. 740-0469) to the Environmental Quality Laboratory for general support.

Special thanks go to Dr. William Faisst, who did most of the work in organizing the conference, assisted by Ms. Nora Fort of EQL's secretarial staff, We would also like to thank James Hunt, James Kuwabara and Dr. Robert Koh for their aid in the preparation of Chapter 4.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo19.pdf
An evaluation of NJ LEEP
Creators: name: Broome, Nicole
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Acceptance rates of low-income, urban minority students into colleges and universities have risen in recent years; however, retention and graduation rates for these students are still shockingly low when compared to their more affluent, white peers (Nyhan, 2015; Schmidt, 2008).   Many after school programs in urban areas strive to ameliorate this gap by providing experiences and opportunities in addition to academic guidance for urban adolescents in order to help prepare these students for acceptance into and success in higher education.  Although there is significant research that indicates participating in after-school programs can improve academic achievement in high school and can contribute to the growth of other non-academic skills, such as social capital, there is a scarcity of research that examines what aspects of after-school programs help urban adolescent students prepare for and enroll in higher educational institutions or how these programs help students to achieve this goal.  This research examined how an after-school program, NJ LEEP, helps urban adolescent students succeed in post-secondary education through a theory, process, and outcome program evaluation using a convergent parallel mixed-methods case study design.  Interviews, observations, and document analyses were used to establish program theory and to conduct a process evaluation, while quantitative analyses of ACT/SAT scores, graduation rates, GPA, non-cognitive questionnaire, and college enrollment data were used to assess program outcomes.  Program Theory Evaluation was the guiding conceptual model to frame this research in order to provide a rich and holistic assessment of how and why the program is or is not achieving its goals.  The results of this study indicated that providing comprehensive academic and socio-emotional skill development to low-income and first-generation students will contribute to increasing academic and socio-emotional indicators of college readiness, access, and success.
Epibulus insidiator
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Epibulus
Epibulus insidiator

description: Epibulus insidiator (Pallas 1770) —Slingjaw wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 5 m depth, by Dean Tully on 15 Sept. 2012; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, 3– 25 m depth, St. KR 90, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian and Gambier islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Found in coral-rich areas of lagoon and seaward reefs, 1–42 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Onthophagus carinidorsis d'Orbigny 1908
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus carinidorsis

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) carinidorsis d’Orbigny, 1908
Type locality: “Afrique Orientale Allemande: Pangani dans l’Ousambara” [Usambara mountain, Tanga Region, Tanzania].
Distribution: Tanzania (d’Orbigny 1908, 1913).
Onthophagus (sensu lato) clavisetis d’ Orbigny, 1905
Type locality: “Afrique Orientale Anglaise: Nairobi” [Nairobi, Kenya].
Distribution: Kenya (d’Orbigny 1905, 1913).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
Exothrips Priesner
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Exothrips

description: Exothrips Priesner
Nineteen species are listed in this genus, of which 12 are from India, five from Africa, one from the Philippines, and one from Europe. No revision or identification system to these has been published, apart from Bhatti (1975) who provided a key to 10 species from India together with an extensive diagnosis of the genus. Rhamphothrips and Parexothrips are considered to be related (Bhatti, 1978), because the females in all three genera share a remarkable condition of having the median two pairs of setae on sternite VII arising close to each other. Mound & Tree (2011) suggested that Exothrips possibly represents a grass-feeding lineage of species derived from Rhamphothrips, in which the head is larger relative to the pronotum, the pronotum is not elongate, and the prosternal ferna do not curve forward medially.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Exothrips sacchari Moulton
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Exothrips
Exothrips sacchari

description: Exothrips sacchari (Moulton)
(Fig. 38)
Anaphothrips sacchari Moulton, 1936: 265
This species, known previously only from a single female taken at Victorias, Philippines, is identified here from Australia based on the redescriptions of the holotype by Bhatti (1975) and Reyes (1994). Antennal segment VI of the holotype was described as brown with the base paler. In a series of six females from Sorghum flowers at Kununurra, Western Australia, three have antennal segment VI dark brown with V medium brown, and three have VI pale in the basal half, and V largely pale; two males collected with these females have the antennae almost uniformly pale. In a series of 11 females taken from grass flowers at Litchfield, near Darwin in Northern Territory, antennal segment VI is consistently paler at the base than medially, with V very pale brown, and three males taken with these females have pale antennae. The colour of the antennal segments in sacchari is here considered to be variable.
The males taken in Australia in association with sacchari females lack a tooth on the fore tibia. This condition is shared with the Indian species sakimurai, although that species has the metanotal median pair of setae arising close to the lateral pair. Also similar is hemavarna, a species that is widespread across India, but the males of that species have a stout tooth on the fore tibia, and a transverse row of microtrichia on sternites VII–VIII. The two males from Sorghum at Kununurra have no sternal microtrichia, but the three males taken at Litchfield have a transverse row of microtrichia on sternites VII–VIII that varies from weakly to strongly developed, and two males taken in Brisbane Forest Park with four females are similar to these. On the head, the setae of postocular pair I are minute and wide apart, a condition shared with hemavarna (see Bhatti, 1975), but ocellar setae pair III vary in position from just in front of, to just behind the tangent between the anterior margins of the posterior ocelli (Fig. 38); moreover, the position of these two setae is often asymmetric. A few males from near Darwin, and also from Brisbane, have the craspedum on tergites VI–VII more or less dentate laterally, but the craspedum is smooth laterally in the males from Kununurra and also in some males from other northern localities. At present it seems best to consider all of these Australian specimens as conspecific under the name sacchari.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on pages 18-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Engineering aspects of geothermal development in the Imperial Valley
Creators: name: Goldsmith, Martin
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1976

description: The existence of geothermal resources in the Imperial Valley of California has been known for many years. An accelerating pace of exploration has contributed to a belief that major developments are likely. In order to fulfill its function, the County of Imperial has decided to introduce a Geothermal Element into its General Plan. To provide the background necessary for preparing such an element, the County contracted with the University of California at Riverside and the Environmental Quality Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology to carry out appropriate investigations. These include questions of resource evaluation, engineering development, environmental impact, economics, regulation, and so forth. This document is a collection of reviews of engineering matters pertinent to the County's plan. The various subjects were chosen for their applicability to the plan or to the needs of other workers on the project. By gathering the separate sections together, it is hoped that the information will be more conveniently available and useful to County personnel and others. It is not a comprehensive treatment.

Briefly, the contents include discussions of drilling practice, costs, and land requirements. Brief notes on reinjection and on fluid transmission follow. The section on power plants attempts to give scaling relationships for land area, costs, and performance, according to size and reservoir temperature. The problem of cooling power plants is important, particularly in an arid agricultural area. Cooling requirements, water availability, and water suitability are discussed in turn. The question of the interactions of the hydrologic cycle, withdrawals for cooling, and the Salton Sea are covered in a separate EQL document. Finally, there are sections devoted to nonelectrical uses for the geothermal resources, including production of fresh water and chemicals. The direct uses for geothermal heat are not included.
description: © 1976 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Sponsored by County of Imperial, California. NSF Grant No. AER 75-08793.
Scapheremaeus polysetosus Sitnikova 1975
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus polysetosus

description: Scapheremaeus polysetosus Sitnikova, 1975
Scapheremaeus polysetosus Sitnikova, 1975, 237, figs. 557a, b.
Type depository: [?] A.A. Severtzov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals, Moscow. Type locality: Primorye Territory, RUSSIA.
Habitat: no data given.
Distribution: Siberia, Russian Far East (Golosova et al., 1983).
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Gomphosus varius Lacepede 1801
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Gomphosus
Gomphosus varius

description: Gomphosus varius Lacepède 1801 —Pacific bird wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photograph taken on 1 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; a video of a specimen taken at Tungelo Island, off southeastern New Hanover, at 3–46 m depth, St. KR 104, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Hawaiian and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia, Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. Solitary, juveniles in groups, in coral-rich areas of lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 0–35 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on pages 227-228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Establishment and analysis of patient-specific Group 3 medulloblastoma mouse models
Creators: name: Ballabio, Claudio
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common pediatric brain tumor with high morbidity and mortality. Among the four major MB groups, patients with Group3 MB currently have the worst outcome and nearly 50% are metastatic at the time of diagnosis. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying Group 3 MB are still unknown. Exploiting in vivo transfection of mouse cerebellar cells, we tested different patient- specific combinations of genes for their ability to induce Group 3 MB in mice. We identified Otx2 and cMYC as strong inducers of tumors faithfully recapitulating human Group 3 MB.
To identify a druggable signaling pathway, we analyzed sequencing data of human patients harboring Otx2/cMYC overexpression. Among all the putative oncosuppressors, SMARCA4 is the most frequently mutated. Indeed, co-expression of SMARCA4 with Otx2 and cMYC is able to block tumorigenesis, through regulation of CDKN2B and CRABP1 expression. Interestingly, patient-specific SMARCA4T910M mutant is able to block wild- type SMARCA4 effects in a dominant-negative manner. Since SMARCA4 has an antagonistic relationship with histone methyltransferase EZH2, we used EZH2-inhibitors to recapitulate SMARCA4 antitumorigenic effects.
Little is known about Group 3 MB developmental origin and several embryonic mouse cerebellar progenitors have been proposed as possible cell of origin. Here, we found that in postnatal mouse cerebellum, the S100b+ cells are competent to induce medulloblastoma while Math1, Sox2 and Ascl1 positive cells seem to be unresponsive to oncogenic insults. Taken together, our data suggest that the competency of different cells to develop MB could change during brain development, depending on their developmental stage and cellular identity.
Onthophagus coiffaiti Frey 1970
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus coiffaiti

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) coiffaiti Frey, 1970
Type locality: “Belinga, Gabon” [Belingá, Ogooué-Ivindo Province, Gabon].
Distribution: Gabon (Frey 1970).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
Exploring new audit evidence
Creators: name: Chiu, Tiffany
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Process mining refers to analyzing business processes using the event log information from the accounting information systems. Process mining techniques have been widely applied in many research domains; however, the application of process mining in auditing has just emerged. Motivated by the potential benefits of applying process mining to auditing, this dissertation consists of three essays that examine how process mining can serve as new audit evidence to evaluate internal control effectiveness, assist auditors in audit risk assessment, and identify fraud schemes.    The first essay aims at adopting process mining to evaluate the effectiveness of internal control using a real-life event log. Specifically, the evaluation is based on the full population of an event log and contains four analyses: (1) variant analysis that identifies standard and non-standard variants, (2) segregation of duty analysis that examines process instances and employees that violate segregation of duty controls, (3) personnel analysis that investigates employees who are involved in multiple potential control violations, and (4) timestamp analysis that detects time related issues such as the process instances that have lengthy process duration.     The second essay aims at building a framework on how auditors can utilize both routing and transaction value information when using process mining as a new type of audit evidence. Specifically, this framework is based on auditor’s risk assessment. The application of the proposed risk assessment framework on an event log from a not for profit organization shows that auditors could benefit from the prioritized process mining results as they could focus on process instances with material transaction values and have higher risk scores.    The third essay aims at providing a framework on how process mining can be applied to identify corporate fraud schemes and assessing the riskiness of business processes. Specifically, the proposed framework captures how the patterns in process mining can be used to detect potentially fraudulent transactions. This essay contributes to the existing literature by associating non-standard variants/activities with potential fraud schemes and then assigning risk levels, which could be used as an automatic tool to test the fraud risk of every transaction.
Thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzymes and their carboligation activity
Creators: name: Christian, Abhilash S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Several enzymes use more than just energy to perform catalysis. Reactions requiring harsh conditions and energy requirement that exceed the cell’s overall energy output are made possible by enzymes. Several of these enzymes are known for using cofactors in their catalysis. One such class of enzyme known as, “thiamin diphosphate dependent enzyme” uses thiamin diphosphate (ThDP) an active form of vitamin B1 to carry out reactions that include cleavage of carbon-carbon, carbon-sulfur, carbon-oxygen and carbon-nitrogen bonds. The understanding of its mechanism has opened a new  spectrum of green chemistry involving manipulation of enzymes to give side reactions which create chemical bonds instead of breaking them.  Herein, two different ThDP-dependent enzymes and their carboligation reactivity was studied. E1o which is a component of the oxoglutarate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex (OGDHc) and MenD, an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis reaction of vitamin K2. MenD and E1o’s ability to carry out carboligation reaction of bulky aromatic and short aliphatic acceptors with substrate was studied using circular dichroism (CD). The observations using CD were made possible due to an inherent property of the activated nucleophile, “prochirality.” The reaction between the prochiral nucleophile and  electrophile led to the formation of chiral products which in turn were observed.  To carry out these reactions the plasmid carrying enzyme genes were first over-expressed in E. coli cells and purified using IMAC chromatography (immobilized metal affinity chromatography). The enzymatic reactions were carried out using  2-oxoglutarate (substrate), benzaldehyde (acceptor) and propanal (acceptor) giving their respective products 5-hydroxy-4-oxo-5-phenylpentanoic acid and 5-hydroxy-4-oxo-heptanoic acid. The reactions were also performed using a different 2-oxo-acid (substrate), 2-oxo-5-hexenoic acid with benzaldehyde (acceptor) and propanal (acceptor). The results showed, MenD’s activity was limited due to its mechanism at high substrate levels, leading to little to no product formation attributed to its ping-pong bi-bi mechanism. Moreover, MenD despite having very little sequence similarity to E1o follows a similar reaction mechanism. This opens new opportunities for MenD’s substrate and acceptor spectrum, and its saturation inhibition issues which can be addressed by knocking out or substituting part of its active site residues, or the hydrophobic chains supporting it, using site-directed mutagenesis.
International knowledge sourcing and national technological development when the internationalization of r&d is historically weak
Creators: name: Cho, Se Ho
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the international knowledge sourcing of firms located in a home country with weak internationalization of R&D. in the international business literature, much attention has been devoted to analyzing the role of subsidiaries in foreign countries for knowledge transfer and exchange in a multinational corporation (MNC) internal network. However, South Korea has developed strong technological capabilities in firms based in the home country through several other channels of international knowledge sourcing, rather than through the R&D activities of subsidiaries of these firms abroad. Thus, studying the determinants of the knowledge sourcing of firms in Korea can provide us with some new perspectives on knowledge sourcing behavior, and so enrich the literature on knowledge sourcing and international business, by shedding light on a broader set of issues in cross-border knowledge sourcing.   This research examines 1) the impact of Korea’s comparative technological development and 2) the effects of the relative openness of an industry, on the knowledge sourcing behavior of firms in Korea, using patent citation data derived from the USPTO patent database held at Rutgers University. We find that Korea’s comparative technological development influences firms’ international knowledge sourcing, its degree of technological field dispersion and its cross-country geography. We also find that international connectedness associated with the relative openness of an industry plays an important role in international knowledge sourcing both within and between industry in the home country, by facilitating access to knowledge in foreign countries, and by accumulating stronger technological capabilities in that are more open industries. The findings and issues discussed in this dissertation may be applicable in the development of public policies in many emerging market countries to boost domestic capacity for international knowledge sourcing in order to better catch-up with the advanced technologies that are available in selected locations around the world.
Joe Morello
Creators: name: Burock, Marvin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This thesis explores legendary jazz drummer Joe Morello’s early years and musical training as well as a portion of his body of recorded drum solos.  It also examines his breadth of influence across genres as well as his influence as an educator.         Joe’s approach to teaching is also explored.  Although hand development was one of his primary areas of focus, he also taught drum set coordination as well as the more musical aspects of drumming such as understanding song form and approaches to improvisation.        This thesis also provides a unique glimpse into Joe’s drum equipment and set-up as well as his approach to tuning.  The history of his drum and cymbal endorsements is also explored.         The information found in this thesis is based on my more than twenty years as his pupil and drum technician.  I currently serve as archivist for all of Joe’s personal effects from throughout his long and illustrious career.
“The metropolis of the West”
Creators: name: DeVries, Devin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this thesis is to track the development of American visual culture over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to identify the impact of the photography of the construction of the transcontinental railroad on the way American culture producers imagined their Western Frontier. Through a close analysis of the style, form, and function of various visual artifacts from early-modern and modern American artists, I have come to the conclusion that the photography of the transcontinental railroad played a substantial role in transforming the American visual culture to celebrate the machine, find safety in the institutions of government and capitalism, and champion the greater industrialization of the American nation. The results of this thesis provide strong evidence that not only did the transformation of the visual culture play a large role in shaping American modernity, but it did so by reimagining America’s Western Frontier.
Scapheremaeus pseudoreticulatus Mahunka 1984
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus pseudoreticulatus

description: Scapheremaeus pseudoreticulatus Mahunka, 1984
Scapheremaeus pseudoreticulatus Mahunka, 1984, 673, figs. 10–14.
Type depository: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. Type locality: Île Mahé, SEYCHELLES
Habitat: no data given.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Engineering aspects of geothermal development in the Imperial Valley
Creators: name: Goldsmith, Martin
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1976

description: The existence of geothermal resources in the Imperial Valley of California has been known for many years. An accelerating pace of exploration has contributed to a belief that major developments are likely. In order to fulfill its function, the County of Imperial has decided to introduce a Geothermal Element into its General Plan. To provide the background necessary for preparing such an element, the County contracted with the University of California at Riverside and the Environmental Quality Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology to carry out appropriate investigations. These include questions of resource evaluation, engineering development, environmental impact, economics, regulation, and so forth. This document is a collection of reviews of engineering matters pertinent to the County's plan. The various subjects were chosen for their applicability to the plan or to the needs of other workers on the project. By gathering the separate sections together, it is hoped that the information will be more conveniently available and useful to County personnel and others. It is not a comprehensive treatment.

Briefly, the contents include discussions of drilling practice, costs, and land requirements. Brief notes on reinjection and on fluid transmission follow. The section on power plants attempts to give scaling relationships for land area, costs, and performance, according to size and reservoir temperature. The problem of cooling power plants is important, particularly in an arid agricultural area. Cooling requirements, water availability, and water suitability are discussed in turn. The question of the interactions of the hydrologic cycle, withdrawals for cooling, and the Salton Sea are covered in a separate EQL document. Finally, there are sections devoted to nonelectrical uses for the geothermal resources, including production of fresh water and chemicals. The direct uses for geothermal heat are not included.
description: © 1976 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Sponsored by County of Imperial, California. NSF Grant No. AER 75-08793.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo20.pdf
Karphothrips Mound & Walker
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Karphothrips

description: Karphothrips Mound & Walker
(Fig. 46)
Only one species is known in this genus. Described originally from a single female found in New Zealand, both sexes and larvae of K. dugdalei have been taken from the leaves of the common sword grass, Gahnia, at various sites across southern Australia, between Tasmania and Albany in Western Australia (Mound, 2002). This is a slender, yellow species, with a long head superficially similar to Aptinothrips species, but with slender wings that lack a discal seta on the clavus, and prosternal basantra that bear one or two pairs of setae. The tergal campaniform sensilla are close to the posterior margin, as in Bregmatothrips, but no craspeda are developed (Fig. 46), antennal segment I lacks dorso-apical setae, tergite IX of females has very short median dorsal setae, and the males have a single round pore plate medially on the third sternite.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Halichoeres argus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Halichoeres
Halichoeres argus

description: Halichoeres argus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) —Argus wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen in a video of a specimen taken east of Nago Island, Kavieng District, at 2–9 m depth, St. KR 28, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); a specimen observed at Balang Island, New Hanover, 0–18 m depth, St. T 21, on 6 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Eastern Andaman Sea east to Fiji, north to Taiwan, south to New Caledonia. Found in seagrass beds, 0–5 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Scapheremaeus pulchellus Berlese 1910
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus pulchellus

description: Scapheremaeus pulchellus (Berlese, 1910)
Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) pulchellus Berlese, 1910, 227, fig. 66. Scapheremaeus pulchellus: Perez-Iñigo & Subías, 1974, 745.
Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) pulchellus: Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985, 339. Scapheremaeus pulchellus: Marshall, Reeves & Norton, 1987, 238.
Scapheremaeus pulchellus: Norton & Kethley, 1989, 474.
Scapheremaeus pulchellus: Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 1995, 160.
Type depository: Berlese Acaroteca, Firenze. Type locality: Lake City, Florida, USA. Habitat: in mosses.
Remarks: Perez-Iñigo & Subías (1974) consider this species to be a junior synonym of S. marginalis but Norton & Kethley (1989) regard it as a valid species.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Onthophagus coptorhinodes Peringuey 1901
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus coptorhinodes

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) coptorhinodes Péringuey, 1901
Type locality: “Natal (Estcourt)” [Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa].
Distribution: South Africa (Péringuey 1901 b; Davis et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
If at first you don't succeed
Creators: name: DiMenichi, Brynne C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: While positive psychology has suggested that focusing on the positive aspects of past experiences or current situations can result in greater success, some research has suggested that focusing on the negative can be a good thing. Specifically, writing about past traumas or current anxieties has been shown to result in improved performance and overall wellbeing; more recently, reflecting on past failures has been shown to increase self-reported persistence and performance on a task requiring persistence. Yet, it is unknown why reflecting on such strong negative experiences results in such positive outcomes, as there has been a lack of empirical evidence for many proposed explanations. Furthermore, it is imperative to examine the neural and physiological mechanisms of how expressive writing may lead to performance improvements in a variety of circumstances—including in the presence of a stressor or other challenging task—in order to shed light on the best way to utilize expressive writing in an educational or treatment setting. In 5 experiments, I examine whether reflecting on a past failure improves performance by altering physiological stress, modifying feedback processing, increasing attention, or affecting motivation, or some combination of these processes. The research aims to reveal more about the mechanisms of how expressive writing—specifically, writing about failures—leads to performance improvements.
Halichoeres biocellatus Schultz in Schultz, Chapman, Lachner & Woods 1960
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Halichoeres
Halichoeres biocellatus

description: Halichoeres biocellatus Schultz in Schultz, Chapman, Lachner & Woods 1960 —Twospot wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen in a video of a specimen taken east of Nago Island, Kavieng District, at 2–9 m depth, St. KR28, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Micronesia and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Australia and New Caledonia. Found in seaward coral reefs, 6–35 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Kranzithrips, gen.n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Kranzithrips

description: Kranzithrips gen.n.
Diagnosis. Macropterous, fore wing setae small, widely spaced, many cilia straight but some wavy; clavus with discal seta (Fig. 48). Antennae 8-segmented, III–IV with sensorium long and simple; segment I with no dorso-apical setae. Head almost as long as wide (Fig. 51), ocellar setae I absent but with longitudinal ridge anterior to first ocellus; compound eyes with no pigmented facets; maxillary palps 2-segmented. Pronotum weakly trapezoidal, 2 pairs of posteroangular setae. Metanotum irregularly reticulate medially, median setae small, distant from anterior margin (Fig. 48); campaniform sensilla present. Prosternal basantra with one pair of setae, ferna continuous medially; mesothoracic sternopleural sutures complete; meso and metafurcae without spinula; meta pre-episternum broad and band-like with one seta. Abdominal tergite I with no craspedum, II–VIII with pale, broad and weakly lobed craspedum (Fig. 47), campaniform sensilla close to posterior margin except on VIII; IX with 2 pairs of campaniform sensilla, median dorsal setae slender; X with split almost complete. Sternite II with 2 pairs of marginal setae, III–VI with 3 pairs and craspedum of 5 broad and overlapping lobes (Fig. 49), VII with no craspedum medially. Male similar to female, sternites III–VII with broad pore plate; tergite IX with pair of stout, thorn-like setae forming a single median process (Fig. 50).
Type species Kranzithrips mareebai sp.n.
Comments. The new species for which this genus is erected is similar in general appearance to the species of Yoshinothrips, but has tergal and sternal craspeda. The tergal craspeda and position of the campaniform sensilla suggest a relationship to Bregmatothrips, but unlike the species of that genus it lacks dorso-apical setae on the first antennal segment, the head and pronotum are different in shape, and the male has sternal pore plates and a different chaetotaxy on tergite IX (Figs 34, 50). The lack of ocellar setae pair I on the head, and the male with large sternal pore plates and large setae on the ninth tergite suggest this genus is not closely related to the Australian genera, Aliceathrips, Masamithrips and Monothrips.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
COMPARAÇÃO DA EFICIÊNCIA DAS CROTALÁRIA SPECTABILIS E CROTALARIA JUNCEA PARA REDUÇÃO DAS POPULAÇÕES DE NEMATOIDES EM ÁREAS DE CULTIVO DE SOJA
Creators: name: Edvaldo PEISINO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Plantas de cobertura
Crotalarias
Monocrotalina
Nematoides
Solo

description: RESUMO

O uso de culturas de cobertura para o manejo de nematoides no cultivo de soja tem ganhado cada vez mais atenção, especialmente com espécies do gênero Crotalaria, como Crotalaria spectabilis e Crotalaria juncea, devido ao potencial em reduzir populações de nematoides. Este estudo teve como objetivo comparar as densidades de nematoides em solos sob cultivo de C. spectabilis e C. juncea após a colheita da soja. Ao examinar populações de espécies de Pratylenchus e Meloidogyne, os resultados revelaram uma redução significativa nas densidades de nematoides em parcelas plantadas com ambas cultivares e forneceu importantes insights sobre a eficácia específica de cada espécie. Essas descobertas corroboram estudos anteriores que indicam os efeitos supressores de C. spectabilis sobre nematoides, provavelmente atribuídos à sua produção de monocrotalina e outros compostos bioativos, que afetam a viabilidade dos nematoides (Souto et al, 2021; Lima et al, 2020). Estes resultados reforçam o papel estratégico das culturas de cobertura no manejo integrado de nematoides (MIN) para a produção sustentável de soja, alinhando-se com a literatura recente sobre redução de perdas de rendimento relacionadas a nematoides e melhoria da saúde do solo (Kumar et al, 2019; Ferrari et al, 2023).
Scapheremaeus pundamiliaensis Engelbrecht 1975
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus pundamiliaensis

description: Scapheremaeus pundamiliaensis Engelbrecht, 1975
Scapheremaeus pundamiliaensis Engelbrecht, 1975, 79, figs. 48, 49.
Type depository: Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein.
Type locality: Pafuri, Kruger National Park, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA. Habitat: underneath fever tree (holotype); apple orchard, Tzaneen (paratypes); under sicklebush, Punda Milia (paratype).
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889