cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Physics-based simulation modeling and optimization of microstructural changes induced by machining and selective laser melting processes in titanium and nickel based alloys
Creators: name: Arisoy, Yigit Muzaffer
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Manufacturing processes may significantly affect the quality of resultant surfaces and structural integrity of the metal end products. Controlling manufacturing process induced changes to the product’s surface integrity may improve the fatigue life and overall reliability of the end product.  The goal of this study is to model the phenomena that result in microstructural alterations and improve the surface integrity of the manufactured parts by utilizing physics-based process simulations and other computational methods. Two different (both conventional and advanced) manufacturing processes; i.e. machining of Titanium and Nickel-based alloys and selective laser melting of Nickel-based powder alloys are studied.  3D Finite Element (FE) process simulations are developed and experimental data that validates these process simulation models are generated to compare against predictions.     Computational process modeling and optimization have been performed for machining induced microstructure that includes; i) predicting recrystallization and grain size using FE simulations and the Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov (JMAK) model, ii) predicting microhardness using non-linear regression models and the Random Forests method, and iii) multi-objective machining optimization for minimizing microstructural changes. Experimental analysis and computational process modeling of selective laser melting have been also conducted including; i) microstructural analysis of grain sizes and growth directions using SEM imaging and machine learning algorithms, ii) analysis of thermal imaging for spattering, heating/cooling rates and meltpool size, iii) predicting thermal field, meltpool size, and growth directions via thermal gradients using 3D FE simulations, iv) predicting localized solidification using the Phase Field method.    These computational process models and predictive models, once utilized by industry to optimize process parameters, have the ultimate potential to improve performance of products in their service life.
Evaluation of noninvasive pulse transit time methodologies for diagnosis of hypertension
Creators: name: Badger, Daniel John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of global mortality, with an increasing burden on the populations of low and middle income countries as identified by the World Health Organization.  Rapid, noninvasive screening methods for CVD using low-cost technology would allow for better healthcare.  Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) as measured by noninvasive methods such as photoplethysmograph and pressure sensors has been validated as a method for screening for CVD.  PWV correlates closely with arterial stiffness, which is a strong indicator of CVD and is calculated using artery length and Pulse Transit Time (PTT) using multiple simultaneous recordings at two superficial arterial sites. While PTT is generally agreed to correlate with CVD, there is still ambiguity concerning the best way to analyze the arterial pulse contour to ascertain patient health.  Proper pulse wave analysis could prove to be useful diagnosis of arterial stiffness in patients with hypertension. This analysis studied the efficacy of comparing the foot-to-foot (PTTf) and peak-to-peak (PTTp) delays as a means of differentiating between healthy control patients and hypertensive patients.  Wave reflection is thought to affect the PTTp while leaving the PTTf unaffected, so that a comparison should reveal a ratio close to one in healthy patients but a ratio deviated from one in hypertensive patients.  The results of this analysis reveal that increased arterial stiffness is consistently associated with reduced PTTf and improved upon anti-hypertensive drug treatment.  However the results did not show a statistically significant difference in comparing some of the control and test groups using the ratio of PTTf and PTTp. These results should be further pursued and validated with more detailed analysis, rigid and consistent parameters, and better accounting for wave reflection.
Shock wave laminar boundary layer interaction over a double wedge in a high mach number flow
Creators: name: Badr, Mohammad Ali
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Shock wave laminar boundary layer interaction (SWBLI) over a double wedge was simulated at Mach 7.11 with stagnation enthalpy of 2 MJ/kg (low enthalpy case), and at Mach 7.14 with stagnation enthalpy of 8 MJ/kg (high enthalpy case) using the commercial flow solver GASPex. An inviscid simulation was performed at Mach 7.14 for validation and solution justification. In the inviscid case, the region downstream of the first shock wave shows less than one percent difference for any flow parameter in comparison with oblique shock wave theory. In both cases, the  flow is assumed to be laminar. The computed heat transfer distribution agrees closely with the experiment at the time reported by experiment where the flow reaches steady state; however, significant difference are evident in the duration in which the flow reaches steady state in the computation. In particular, the time-accurate simulations indicate a significantly longer physical time to achieve steady state than observed in the experiment.
A 2D high-resolution seismic study in the West Pacific warm pool on Eauripik Rise
Creators: name: Baldwin, Kimberly E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The western Pacific warm pool (WPWP) is an important regulator of global climate, and the relationship between variations in the physical oceanography within the WPWP and global climate remain poorly understood. High-resolution seismic data provides an opportunity to study the past and make inferences into how ocean dynamics have changed through time. 2D high-resolution multi-channel seismic grids were collected during cruise 1313 of the R/V Roger Revelle in September 2013, in preparation for future drilling by IODP Exp. 363. This study focuses on seismic grid WP2 collected during that cruise on the northern limb of the WPWP on the northern Eauripik Rise. Of the ~500 m thick seismically imaged sediment in the ~ 10 x 15 km survey grid at WP2, there is an ~100 m thick package of buried migrating sediment waves oriented NE-SW with amplitudes of 10-30 m, and wavelengths of 1-2 km. Sedimentation rates derived from piston cores taken on the Revelle cruise 1313, combined with biostratigraphy at DSDP Site 62 (450 km south of WP2 on Eauripik Rise) provided age estimates on sediment wave horizons.  The oldest waves at WP2 (~ 14 Ma; 350 mbsf) migrate north and increase in amplitude upsection until a key horizon (horizon i) is reached at ~240 mbsf. At this depth, wave migration stops throughout the grid, and previously increasing wave heights begin to decrease upsection in the southern lines. This shift from strong, long-term current-controlled sedimentation to deposition with no sediment transport occurs at ~10 Ma. Potential correlation with other middle Miocene reflectors in the equatorial Pacific as well as offshore NW Australia imply that the formation of sediment waves from ~10-14 Ma could be associated with the permanent glaciation of Antarctica at 13.8 Ma. Abyssal sediment waves are direct indicators of circulation in the deep sea, and changes in circulation indicated by changes in sediment wave geometry can be associated with climatic fluctuations. Although a localized feature, the sediment waves at WP2 can provide interpretation into how deep water flow has changed through time in this region and how these events correlate to regional and global climatic events.
The object detection model uses combined extraction with KNN and RF classification
Creators: name: Kurniati, Florentina Tatrin
name: Manongga, Daniel HF
name: Sembiring, Irwan
name: Wijono, Sutarto
name: Huizen, Roy Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Object detection plays an important role in various fields. Developing detection models for 2D objects that experience rotation and texture variations is a challenge. In this research, the initial stage of the proposed model integrates the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and local binary patterns (LBP) texture feature extraction to obtain feature vectors. The next stage is classifying features using k-nearest neighbors (KNN) and random forest (RF), as well as voting ensemble (VE). System testing used a dataset of 4,437 2D images, the results for KNN accuracy were 92.7% and F1-score 92.5%, while RF performance was lower. Although GLCM features improve performance on both algorithms, KNN is more consistent. The VE approach provides the best performance with an accuracy of 93.9% and an F1 score of 93.8%, this shows the effectiveness of the ensemble technique in increasing object detection accuracy. This study contributes to the field of object detection with a new approach combining GLCM and LBP as feature vectors as well as VE for classification
Molecular insights into the microbial community of annual bluegrass (poa annua l.) putting green turf
Creators: name: Beirn, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Annual bluegrass (Poa annua; ABG) putting green turf is a unique man-made environment that requires regular fertility inputs to maintain acceptable turfgrass quality and playability.  While these inputs can affect foliar diseases such as anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum cereale, little is known about their impact on microbial communities in this ecosystem.  The objectives of this dissertation were to: 1) determine the frequency and distribution of C. cereale in the United States, 2) examine the resident microbial communities in the soil of ABG putting green turf over time using advanced molecular technologies, and 3) identify how nitrogen (N) and/or potassium (K) fertilization affects the distribution, diversity, and abundance of benign and pathogenic microorganisms in this system.  More than 50 phyla, representing hundreds of species of archaea, bacteria, and fungi were identified.  Above ground, this diversity was highlighted in the form of two distinct lineages of C. cereale, both able to cause anthracnose disease but exhibiting distinct host and geographic preferences.  Below ground, the ABG rhizosphere supported a vast microbial community, despite high sand content and regular fertilization and pesticide applications.  Few turfgrass pathogens were identified from the soil.  However, tremendous variation was characterized within the nonpathogenic microbial community, with the rhizosphere of ABG hosting organisms capable of antibiotic production, fixing nitrogen, or serving as potential biocontrol agents or mycorrhizal partners.  Over all, individual microbial groups were present in low abundance across all samples.  Fertilization did not affect microbial diversity, but did alter the abundance of specific microbial groups.  Changes associated with fertility treatments were limited to approximately 7% of the total archaea/bacteria and 23% of the total fungal community identified.  In general, K and low rates of N increased abundance of archaea, bacteria, and fungi in the study sites.  Seasonality also strongly influenced microbial communities, with samples collected in summer months clustering separately from those obtained in the spring. The research described here provides the first insight into the diverse microbial community residing in the soil of ABG putting green turf utilizing next-generation sequence-based analyses, and protocols developed to conduct this work should help facilitate future research examining the turfgrass microbiome.
Additional file 1: of HOPE: Help fOr People with money, employment, benefit or housing problems: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: M. Barnes
name: A. Haase
name: A. Bard
name: J. Donovan
name: R. Davies
name: S. Dursley
name: J. Potokar
name: N. Kapur
name: K. Hawton
name: R. OâConnor
name: W. Hollingworth
name: C. Metcalfe
name: D. Gunnell
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Patient information sheet (short). (DOCX 35Â kb)
Proamytta (Archamytta) eburnea Beier 1965
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Proamytta
Proamytta eburnea

description: Proamytta (Archamytta) eburnea Beier, 1965
Listed by Beier (1965) from Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, and Guinea.
Material examined. CÔTE D'IVOIRE: 6 km Tai (5°52'N, 7°27'0''W), 21.i.1955 - 1 male (holotype) (MNHN); Neka, 11.i.1955 - 1 female (allotype) (MNHN); TOGO: Misahöhe (6°57'N, 0°35'0''E), 1894, coll. F. Baumann - 1 male (paratype) (ZMHB).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Epicauta (Epicauta) velata
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Epicauta
Epicauta velata

description: Epicauta (Epicauta) velata (Gerstäcker, 1854) (Fig. 2Q)
Lytta velata Gerstäcker, 1854
Distribution. Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, northeastern Namibia (new species for this country), Tanzania, Somalia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Material examined. [Caprivi] Katima Mulilo Urban: Katima Mulilo, 17.5000°S 24.2667°E (CB). Kabe: Maningimanzi, 17.5333°S 24.4667°E (SMWN). [Kavango] Rundu Rural: Kavango, 12 km of Rundu, River Okavango, 17.9333°S 19.7667°E (CB); Rundu, 17.9333°S 19.7667°E (CB). Mukwe: Popa Falls on Kavango, 18.1167°S 21.5833°E (MNB); Okavango River, Popa Falls, Bagani, 18.1167°S 21.6333°E (CB); Mahango Park, 18.1500°S 21.7000°E (MNB). [Otjozondjupa] Otavi: Grootfontein: Askavolt Farm 20 km E Otavi, 19.6667°S 17.5500°E (MNB); Askavold 316. Kombat, 19.7052°S 17.5923°E (SMWN); Tsumkwe: Gautscha Pan, 19.8000°S 20.5833°E (SMWN).
Remarks. Types of this species were not examined but specimens compared with them were studied at HMNH.
This species belongs to the group “II. velata ”, as defined by Kaszab (1953c).
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Additional file 1: of Multi-species genetic connectivity in a terrestrial habitat network
Creators: name: Marrotte, Robby
name: Bowman, Jeff
name: Brown, Michael
name: Cordes, Chad
name: Morris, Kimberley
name: Prentice, Melanie
name: Wilson, Paul
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary material for Marrotte et al., Multi-species genetic connectivity in a terrestrial habitat network. (PDF 449Â kb)
Effect of surface roughness in model and fresh fruit systems on microbial inactivation efficacy of cold atmospheric pressure plasma
Creators: name: Bhide, Siddharth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma (CAPP) is an ionized gas consisting of charged and neutral particles, and radiation of varying wavelengths. Due to its relatively low temperature, CAPP is considered as a potential non-thermal decontamination technique.     The goal of this research was to assess the suitability of CAPP for fresh produce decontamination as affected by surface roughness. The specific objectives were: i) to isolate and investigate the effect of surface roughness on microbial inactivation efficacy of CAPP using a model system, ii) to understand the extent to which surface roughness affects the microbial inactivation efficacy of CAPP in fresh produce, and iii) to detect and relatively quantify active plasma species in CAPP.    CAPP from filtered dry air was generated using a plasma jet. Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES) was used to quantify the relative concentrations of plasma species. Closed coat sandpapers with roughness (quantified via parameter of root mean square deviation Pq, measured using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM)) ranging from, 6 µm to 16 µm were selected as model system. Sandpapers were inoculated with Enterobacter aerogenes (reportedly non-pathogenic, surrogate to Salmonella spp), left to dry for two hours, and treated with plasma for eight minutes twelve seconds. Based on their measured Pq values using CLSM, apples, oranges, and cantaloupes surfaces were selected and similar microbial inoculation, processing and analysis were performed.    Model system results showed a 0.52 log higher inactivation of E. aerogenes (2.08 log inactivation) on the smoothest sandpaper and the difference was statistically significant from roughest sandpaper. Fruit surfaces results showed 1.25 log higher inactivation on apples (1.86 log inactivation) which were the smoothest and the difference was statistically significant from the roughest cantaloupes. As the surface roughness increased, the microbial inactivation efficacy of CAPP decreased. However, the results from fruit surfaces showed high variability, and were not predictable from the sandpaper data. Emission spectrum from OES indicated the presence of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species with potential to cause microbial inactivation.    In conclusion, microbial inactivation efficacy of CAPP is affected by factors beyond surface roughness and further research is needed to determine its suitability for fresh produce decontamination.
Time-resolved in-situ analysis of densification of nano-boron carbide under superimposed electric and thermal fields with energy dispersive x-ray diffraction
Creators: name: Bicer, Hulya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Boron carbide (B4C) is characterized by high melting temperature, high hardness, and low density. Such exceptional properties make B4C is an important covalent solid which is considered the foremost material of choice for high-technology applications. However, low diffusivity caused by the highly directional and stiff character of the covalent bond makes the thermally activated sintering of B4C difficult.  Highly covalent bonded ceramics are sintered with hot pressing and spark plasma sintering (SPS) to achieve high densities. However, these two techniques are limited to simple shape components and costly, involving expensive equipment. Pressureless sintering of B4C is desired to avoid expensive die designs and post sintering diamond machining, but very high sintering temperatures close to melting point is necessary to obtain high densities.   Recently introduced flash sintering technique is a low voltage two electrode method which enhances the densification of ceramics. The sintering time and temperature can be reduced substantially with flash sintering that provide essential energy savings. In this study, the feasibility of flash sintering of nanoparticulate boron carbide is investigated. Firstly, we analyze the thermal expansion of boron carbide under different constant electric field strength to obtain fundamental data to provide insight into understanding of flash sintering. The electric field strength has an effect on the non-linear thermal expansion coefficients of B4C, and expansion becomes more non-linear with the increase of applied e-field. Secondly, the variety of non-isothermal and isothermal flash sintering experiments have been performed to achieve densification of B4C. By using low voltage, densities up to 95% of the theoretical density have been accomplished at temperatures as low as 711oC and short times on the order of few minutes. The very low process densification temperatures and time clearly indicate that mass transport in this nanoparticulate system under the action of both thermal and electrical fields are of an electrochemical origin. The implementation of ultrahigh energy EDXRD method in flash sintering of B4C enables us to monitor the evolution of nanoparticulate matter at the unit cell scale that is otherwise not possible with conventional Bragg-Brentano-method. EDXRD analysis reveals the transient anomalous unit cell expansion which is consistent with the flash sintering phenomena, and we demonstrate that flash sintering of B4C is possible with help of new coupling mechanism called the galvanomechanical effect. Moreover, we investigate the effect of different flash sintering conditions on densification of B4C.
Genetic and dietary regulation of the human placental BCRP transporter
Creators: name: Bircsak, Kristin Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Glyburide is frequently used to treat gestational diabetes due to its low fetal accumulation resulting from placental efflux by the breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP/ABCG2) transporter. However, there is little understanding of the potential consequences of reduced placental BCRP function in pregnant women prescribed glyburide. Babies born to this population of women may be at an elevated risk of neonatal hypoglycemia potentially leading to low birth weight, increased morbidity, and impaired neurological development. The purpose of this dissertation research was to determine the influence of genetic and dietary factors on the placental expression of BCRP and its ability to transport glyburide. In 10 human term placentas, there were no differences in expression of BCRP mRNA or protein across the disc, supporting the use of a single sampling site to examine the interindividual expression of this transporter. In term placentas from 108 donors, ethnicity, transcription factor expression, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were associated with BCRP expression including the frequent C421A SNP, which correlated with lower BCRP protein expression. Further in vitro studies revealed that C421A-BCRP overexpressing cells had low BCRP protein expression at the cell surface and impaired transport of the BCRP substrate glyburide. Additionally, the dietary soy isoflavone genistein competitively inhibited the BCRP-mediated transport of glyburide in overexpressing cells (wild-type, WT-BCRP and C421A-BCRP) and human choriocarcinoma placental BeWo cells that endogenously express BCRP. Importantly, genistein inhibited glyburide transport in placental BeWo cells at concentrations that are physiologically relevant (IC50=0.18 ± 0.11 μM). Finally, estrogen receptor-mediated signaling stimulated by prolonged genistein treatment (48 h) down-regulated BCRP mRNA and protein expression in BeWo cells leading to reduced efflux of glyburide out of cells. Conversely, genistein (48 h) did not alter BCRP protein expression in term placental explants, suggesting that the regulation of placental BCRP expression by genistein may be limited to choriocarcinoma BeWo cells. Together, this research provides population and mechanistic data that demonstrate how a genetic variant (C421A) and diet (genistein) may alter the maternal-fetal disposition of glyburide as well as other chemicals that are BCRP substrates.
Additional file 1: of Multi-species genetic connectivity in a terrestrial habitat network
Creators: name: Marrotte, Robby
name: Bowman, Jeff
name: Brown, Michael
name: Cordes, Chad
name: Morris, Kimberley
name: Prentice, Melanie
name: Wilson, Paul
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary material for Marrotte et al., Multi-species genetic connectivity in a terrestrial habitat network. (PDF 449Â kb)
Trichomyia mineira Araujo & Bravo, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Araújo, Maíra Xavier
name: Bravo, Freddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Trichomyia
Trichomyia mineira

description: Trichomyia mineira Araújo & Bravo sp. nov.
(Figs. 33A–E)
Diagnosis. R4+5 complete at base; medial posterior expansion on gonocoxite, bifurcated apically; two arms of gonocoxite, the dorsal shorter than ventral, with three elongated bristles; the ventral with a row of elongate bristle on dorsal surface; ejaculatory apodeme short, twice the length of gonostylus; cercus with three apical rod-like bristles.
Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna incomplete in the studied specimens; scape as long as the subspherical pedicel; 1st flagellomere pyriform; posterior flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric ascoids 1.6 times the length of flagellomere (Fig. 33A). Palpus with three segments; 1st segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.7 (Fig. 33B). Wing. R4+5 complete at base; r-m and m-cu absent (Fig. 33C). Male terminalia: Hypandrium fused with gonocoxites with medial posterior expansion, bifurcated apically. Gonocoxites with two arms, the dorsal shorter than ventral and directed to the midline; the apex of dorsal arm with three elongated bristles; the ventral arm with a row of elongated bristle in the dorsal surface. Gonostylus digitiform. Projections in the aedeagal complex, two pair, with approximately the same length. Aedeagus ending at the same level of projections in the aedeagal complex (Fig. 33E). Ejaculatory apodeme short, twice the length of gonostylus. Epandrium pilose, wider than long. Cercus pilose, piriform with short apical and thick bristles. Hypoproct, sharp apex with apical micropilosity (Fig. 33D).
Female. Unknown.
Material examined. Brazil, Minas Gerais, Parque Estadual do Rio Doce, 40 Km and of Belo Horizonte, 14– 18.V.1998, holotype ♂, Quate & Alexander leg. (MZFS)
Etymology. The epithet mineira is allusive to the type locality for this species.
Distribution. Brazil—Minas Gerais.
description: Published as part of Araújo, Maíra Xavier & Bravo, Freddy, 2016, Description of fourty four new species, taxonomic notes and identification key to Neotropical Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 4130 (1) on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262717
Psalydolytta Peringuey 1909
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Psalydolytta

description: Genus Psalydolytta Péringuey, 1909
Palaeotropical genus, with disjunct distribution in the Afrotropical Region, Pakistan and India. Species were taxonomically revised by Kaszab (1954b), who divided them in several groups, we accepted here. Selander (1988b) summarized the distribution of the species and described the larval morphology (Selander & Laurense 1987).
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Development of pincer iridium catalysts for alkane dehydrogenation
Creators: name: Blessent, Michael John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Catalysis is a technology of vital importance, enabling the production of many goods which are essential to the modern lifestyle.  As such, the continued development of catalysis is of great importance, helping to reduce the costs and environment harm associated with the modern economy.  This thesis describes the study and design of pincer iridium complexes, a type of organometallic complex which can catalyze multiple reactions, including alkane dehydrogenation.  If these catalysts are developed sufficiently, in the future they may have commercial applications for the production of fuels and commodity chemicals.  The research described in this thesis focused upon catalytic activity and selectivity, two aspects of a catalytic performance, for study and improvement.  Understanding the steric and electronic properties which determine activity and selectivity, from a mechanistic viewpoint, should allowed for the rational and effective design of new, higher-performing catalysts.  First, the regioselectivity of dehydrogenation was examined through a combination of experimental and computational methods.  The influence of each steric and electronic factor was both identified and quantified.  Next, catalytic activity was investigated using a similar approach, showing that massive changes in activity (orders of magnitude) could be attributed to a single electronic factor.  With these mechanistic insights in hand, the rational design of new catalysts was begun.  Computational studies suggested that cationic catalysts would be several hundred fold more active than their neutral counterparts, and synthetic progress was made in that direction.  Carefully considering the mechanism of dehydrogenation also allowed for process chemistry improvements which increased activity significantly.  Lastly, the role of additives to dehydrogenation was also investigated, showing that certain Brønsted bases improved catalytic activity significantly.
Proamytta (Archamytta) kamerunensis Beier 1965
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Proamytta
Proamytta kamerunensis

description: Proamytta (Archamytta) kamerunensis Beier, 1965
Known only from a few locations in Cameroon (Beier 1965).
Material examined. CAMEROON: Hinterland, Jaunde Stat. (3°52'N, 11°31'0''E), coll. S. Zenker - 1 male (paratype) (ZMHB).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Proamytta (Archamytta) simillima Beier 1965
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Proamytta
Proamytta simillima

description: Proamytta (Archamytta) simillima Beier, 1965
Listed by Beier (1965) from Ghana, Cameroon, and Sao Tome & Principe.
Material examined. GHANA: Kwadaso (6°42'N, 1°39'0''W), 14.xi.1955, coll. J. Forsyth - 1 male (holotype); Tafo (6°13'N, 0°22'0''W), 22.ii.1962, coll. B.M. Gardner - 1 female (allotype) (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Embodied paradox
Creators: name: Cammarata-Seale, Heather N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Taxidermy—the product of preparing, stuffing, and mounting animal skin—is constructed of both animal and man-made materials. It promotes an illusion of life predicated on the reality of death. Although popular in the late nineteenth century, taxidermy fell out of scientific favor during the twentieth century. At the turn of the twenty-first century, however, the relevance of taxidermy was revived by visual artists. By peeling back the layers of taxidermy's unique materiality and revealing its hidden historical, cultural, and theoretical implications, this dissertation argues that taxidermy was resurrected as a popular artistic medium due to its ability to—literally and metaphorically—embody paradox.    Embodied Paradox examines the contemporary art world’s fascination with taxidermy by investigating the oeuvres of Damien Hirst, Mark Dion, Maurizio Cattelan, and Petah Coyne. These artists gained notoriety in the nineties and their work, which heavily features taxidermy, embraces contradiction. They demonstrate that opposites—such as truth and illusion, nature and culture, and the masculine and the feminine—do not exist in opposition of one another; rather, they coexist.     Furthermore, by forging connections among the fields of Art History, Animal Studies, and New Materialism, it will become clear that taxidermy is linked to important issues of the 1990s and 2000s, such as: technology and craft, beauty and abjection, identity and the environment. It will also become clear that contemporary artists are using taxidermy to comment on humanity’s ever-present, ever-changing, and ever-troubled relationship with animals.
Process development, optimization and preclinical evaluation of calcium phosphate containing polymer scaffolds for bone regeneration
Creators: name: Chen, Shuang Shuang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Large bone defects resulting from trauma, tumor resection, congenital abnormalities or reconstructive surgery remain significant clinical problems that affect millions of people. The current treatments are autologous or allogeneic bone grafts; each has drawbacks including donor site morbidity, limited available quantity, or risk of viral transmission and immunogenicity respectively. Alternatively, bone graft substitutes (BGS) have been developed as promising substrates for bone repair. However, the current BGS are often fabricated from simple laboratory processes that are never optimized or scaled-up. Most of them are only evaluated in vitro and if they are evaluated in vivo, only small animals models such as rats and rabbits are used. Therefore, none of the approaches proposed thus far have proved very effective. There remains a clinical demand for BGS that can treat large bone defects.  This dissertation supports effective and innovative solutions to this familiar problem in orthopedic surgery by (1) optimizing and scaling-up a fabrication process for scaffolds based on E1001(1k), a member of large combinatorial library of tyrosine-derived polycarbonates. (2) Enhancing the osteoconductivity of the scaffolds by adding a variety of calcium phosphates (CaP) including beta-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP), hydroxyapatite (HA), and dicalcium phosphate dehydrate (DCPD) into the scaffolds. (3) Assessing the bone regeneration capacity of the scaffolds progressively from small animals (rabbit calvarial non-critical size defect and rat subcutaneous model) to a large animal model (goat calvarial critical size defect).  The fabrication process was optimized and scaled-up and is ready for transfer to a third party contractor under Good Manufacturing Practice. Scaffolds with homogeneous, consistent and optimized structure including unique bimodal pore size distribution, high porosity, surface area and interconnectivity were produced. In vitro characterization using human mesenchymal stem cells revealed that E1001(1k)-CaP scaffolds supported cell attachment, proliferation and osteogenic differentiation. In vivo evaluation of the scaffolds in small animal models demonstrated excellent biocompatibility and osteoconductivity. Furthermore, the preclinical evaluation in the goat calvarial critical size defects revealed performance superiority of E1001(1k)-CaP scaffolds over chronOS, a commercial BGS. Treatment with E1001(1k)-CaP scaffolds provided complete bridging of the 2 cm  human size defects without supplemental osteogenic growth factor, which is of significant importance and has never been reported in the literature. These results suggest that E1001(1k)-CaP scaffold could be the next-generation synthetic bone graft substitute for large bone defect repair.
Proamytta (Proamytta) brevipennis Chopard 1945
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Proamytta
Proamytta brevipennis

description: Proamytta (P.) brevipennis (Chopard, 1945)
Known only from the type locality in Cameroon (Chopard 1945).
Material examined. CAMEROON: N’Kongsamba, Mt. N’Lonako, elev. 1800 m, 1939, coll. Lepesme, Paulian &Villiers - 1 male (holotype) (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Proamytta (Proamytta) insularis Chopard 1958
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Proamytta
Proamytta insularis

description: Proamytta (P.) insularis (Chopard, 1958)
Known only from the type locality in Sao Tome & Principe (Chopard 1958).
Material examined. SAO TOME & PRINCIPE: Principe, Infante Dom Henrique (foret) (1°34'N, 7°25'0''E), 26–27.vi.1956, coll. P. Viette - 1 male (holotype), 1 female (allotype) (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Mylabrini
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae

description: Tribe Mylabrini
Phylogenetic studies on this tribe, based on molecular markers (Bologna et al. 2005, 2008c; Pan et al. 2013; Salvi et al., in preparation), highlighted the relationships among most genera. The two new genera described in the present paper, were not examined from a molecular point of view and their possible relationships are here discussed according to morphological evidences.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Trichomyia notata Araujo & Bravo, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Araújo, Maíra Xavier
name: Bravo, Freddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Trichomyia
Trichomyia notata

description: Trichomyia notata Araújo & Bravo sp. nov.
(Figs. 35A–G)
Diagnosis. Two pairs of expansions on gonocoxite, one apical truncated and with hairs and one basal hand-like; two pairs of arms of gonocoxite, one medial with bristles and one basal medially directed, with hairs; ejaculatory apodeme 1.9 times longer than the gonostylus; elongate cercus with three apical rod-like setae.
Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna incomplete in the studied specimens; scape subcylindrical; pedicel subspherical; basal flagellomeres pyriform and centric (Fig. 35A); ascoids 1.4 times as long as the length of flagellomere (Fig. 35D). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.5 (Fig. 35B). Wing. R4+5 with unsclerotized base; r-m unsclerotized and mcu absent (Fig. 35C). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused with two pairs of expansions, one apical pair, truncated and with hairs and one basal pair hand-shape. Gonocoxites with two pairs of arms of gonocoxites, one medially, with bristles and one basal, medially directed, with hairs. Gonostylus slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare and subtriangular. Aedeagal complex with one pair of subtriangular projections. Aedeagus ending at midlle of projections in the aedeagal complex (Fig. 35F). Ejaculatory apodeme long, 1.9 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium longer than wide. Cercus elongate and digitiform (Fig. 35G) with three apical rod-like setae (Fig. 35E). Hypoproct with apical micropilosity. Epiproct subcircular and membranous (Fig. 35G).
Female. Unknown.
Material examined. Brazil, Rondônia, Cacaulândia, 200Km SSE of Porto Velho, 25.V–06.VI.1998, holotype ♂, L.W. Quate leg. (MZFS)
Etymology. From latin, notata = notable, marked, pronounced, refers to the great and notable male terminalia.
Distribution. Brazil—Rondônia.
description: Published as part of Araújo, Maíra Xavier & Bravo, Freddy, 2016, Description of fourty four new species, taxonomic notes and identification key to Neotropical Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 4130 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262717
Additional file 1: of Identifying effective components for mobile health behaviour change interventions for smoking cessation and service uptake: protocol of a systematic review and planned meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pritaporn Kingkaew
name: Glidewell, Liz
name: Walwyn, Rebecca
name: Fraser, Hamish
name: Wyatt, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: PRISMA-P checklist. (DOCX 15Â kb)
60 gHz MAC and network design
Creators: name: Chen, Zhuo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Recent technology advances are poised to enable low-cost, low-power communications in the 7 GHz of unlicensed spectrum at 60 GHz millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies. However, mmW systems that meet the Gb/s data rate demands of wireless multimedia applications must overcome severe propagation effects, including high path loss and high diffraction loss. Consequently, nodes in the network will have to use directional antennas. The narrow main beam widths of directional antennas introduce design challenges for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols but, at the same time, provide opportunities for routing protocols to improve the network capacity through better spatial reuse. The small wavelength of a 60 GHz signal can help to achieve high directional antenna gain, but it also precludes diffraction around humans, furniture, and similarly-sized objects. These obstacles penalize a 60 GHz link budget by 20-30dB. Therefore, when people are in motion, 60 GHz network links  go on and off frequently due to human body blockage; this introduces new design challenges for both routing and transport protocols.     In this dissertation, we propose solutions at the MAC and network layer to address the above challenges. In particular, we first propose an enhanced directional MAC (EDMAC) to resolve the unfairness and low channel utilization issues of deafness in directional MAC protocols for 60 GHz networks. We then study single path routing and find that shortest path routing often fails to exploit the high spatial reuse properties of directional antennas. We propose two heuristic routing algorithms, namely HOP-FP and FP-HOP, which combine the fattest-path (FP) and minimum-hop (HOP) metrics, with and without the consideration of interference. We then employ multipath routing for 60 GHz networks to fully utilize the high spatial reuse property of directional antennas. We develop an online node-disjoint path discovery process to find multiple node-disjoint paths between the source and the destination without knowledge of the global topology. In addition, we model the characteristics of link outages that are induced by pedestrian blockage. Based on analytic models and MATLAB simulation results, we show that link blockages can be mitigated by multipath routing schemes with blockage timers for broken paths. We use the ns-2 simulator to validate all proposed protocols in this dissertation.
MOESM1 of Low toxicity and favorable clinical and quality of life impact after non-myeloablative autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant in Crohnâ  s disease
Creators: name: Ruiz, Milton
name: Kaiser, Roberto
name: Luiz Quadros
name: Piron-Ruiz, Lilian
name: PeĂąa-Arciniegas, Tatiana
name: Mikaell Faria
name: Siqueira, Rubens
name: Pirozzi, Flavio
name: Kaiser, Fernanda
name: Burt, Richard
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Science Policy
Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.
Proamytta (Proamytta) reducta Beier 1965
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Proamytta
Proamytta reducta

description: Proamytta (P.) reducta Beier, 1965
Listed by Beier (1965) from Sierra Leone and Ghana.
Material examined. SIERRA LEONE: Njala, 23.x.1930, coll. E. Hargreaves - 1 male (holotype) (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
MOESM1 of Outcome of in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors with liver cirrhosis
Creators: name: Roedl, Kevin
name: WallmĂźller, Christian
name: Drolz, Andreas
name: Horvatits, Thomas
name: Rutter, Karoline
name: Spiel, Alexander
name: Ortbauer, Julia
name: Stratil, Peter
name: Hubner, Pia
name: Weiser, Christoph
name: Motaabbed, Jasmin
name: Jarczak, Dominik
name: Herkner, Harald
name: Sterz, Fritz
name: Fuhrmann, Valentin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Routine laboratory on admission. Table S2. Characteristics of cirrhotic patients with and without mild therapeutic hypothermia. Table S3. CPR-specific data according to in- and out-hospital cardiac arrest.