cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ellisella filiformis
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella filiformis

description: Ellisella filiformis (Toeplitz in Kükenthal, 1919)
Scirpirella moniliforme Wright & Studer, 1889: 156, pl. 34, fig. 8.
Nicella moniliforme Simpson 1910: 368–369 figs. 117&118.
Scirpearia filiformis Toeplitz, MS. In: Kükenthal, 1919: 924 (nom nov).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Thomson & Henderson 1906: 82; Thomas & George 1986: 111, fig. 1u, 1–3, w (Kanyakumari); Thomas et al. 1995: 141 (NE coast); Mary & Lazarus 2004: 42, fig. 26 (SW coast).
Literature analysis: In 1889, Wright & Studer erected the name Scirpirella moniliforme for material from Ambon. In the manuscript for the 1929 paper “Die Gorgonarien Westindiens. Kap. 7. The Familie Gorgonellidae, zugleich eine Revision”, Toeplitz proposed the name be changed to— Scirpearia filiformis n.n.—assigning a different specific epithet because of the existence of Scirpearia moniliformis (Lamarck, 1816). Kükenthal published the replacement name in 1919 citing Toeplitz’ MS as the source.
Thomson & Henderson (1906) reported the species from the Andamans as Scirpirella moniliforme without any illustrations and as such the record is unconfirmable. Simpson (1910) reassigned the species as Nicella moniliforma, illustrated the holotype and a few sclerites, and placed Thomson & Henderson’s material as a junior synonym of Scirpearella profunda Wright & Studer, 1989. It is not possible to determine what Thomas & George (1986) had as the sclerite drawings are rudimentary and do not look like they are from an ellisellid colony. Also, the polyps in their small colony illustration are very different from those illustrated by Simpson.
Thomas & George (1987) just listed the species, and Thomas et al. (1995) reported it again but only referred to the 1986 publication. Rao & Devi (2003) just list it and Mary & Lazarus (2004) rehash the 1986 description, just adding a few more rudimentary sclerite images.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Lecontella striatopunctata Chevrolat 1876
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Lecontella
Lecontella striatopunctata

description: Lecontella striatopunctata (Chevrolat, 1876)
Original combination: Cymatodera striatopunctata Chevrolat, 1876. Distribution: MEX: JAL, MOR, NAY, OAX, SIN; CAM: GUA *.
References: Chevrolat 1876; Lohde 1900; Schenkling 1910; Corporaal 1950; Papp 1960; Ekis 1975; Barr 1975; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014c; Toledo et al. 2015.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Optimization of tyrosine-derived polycarbonate terpolymers for bone regeneration scaffolds
Creators: name: Resurreccion-Magno, Maria Hanshella C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Tyrosine-derived polycarbonates (TyrPC) are a versatile class of polymers highlysuitable for bone tissue engineering. Among the tyrosine-derived polycarbonates,poly(DTE carbonate) has an FDA masterfile that documents its biocompatibility and nontoxicity and has shown potential utility in orthopedics due to its osteoconductive properties and strength. DTE stands for desaminotyrosyl-tyrosine ethyl ester and is the most commonly used tyrosine-derived monomer. However, in vitro degradation studies showed that poly(DTE carbonate) did not completely resorb even after four years of incubation in phosphate buffered saline. Thus for bone regeneration, which only requires a temporary implant until the bone heals, poly(DTE carbonate) would not be the best choice. The goal of the present research was to optimize a scaffold composition for bone regeneration that is based on desaminotyrosyl-tyrosine alkyl ester (DTR), desaminotyrosyl-tyrosine (DT) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG). Five areas of research were presented: (1) synthesis and characterization of a focused library of TyrPC terpolymers; (2) evaluation of the effects of how small changes on the composition affected the mechanism and kinetics of polymer degradation and erosion; (3) fabricationof bioactive three-dimensional porous scaffold constructs for bone regeneration; (4)assessment of osteogenic properties in vitro using pre-osteoblasts; and (5) evaluation of bone regeneration potential, with or without recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2), in vivo using a critical sized defect (CSD) rabbit calvaria (cranium) model. Small changes in the composition, such as changing the R group of DTR from ethyl to methyl, varying the mole percentages of DT and PEG, and using a different PEG block length, affected the overall properties of these polymers. Porous scaffolds were prepared by a combination of solvent casting, porogen leaching and phase separation techniques. Calcium phosphate was coated on the surface post-fabrication. The scaffolds displayed (i) a bimodal pore architecture with micropores (< 20 μm) and macropores (200 – 400 μm), (ii) a highly interconnected and open pore structure, and (iii) a highly organized microstructure. These scaffolds supported robust cell attachment and promotedosteogenic differentiation of pre-osteoblasts. This is the first report that a syntheticpolymeric scaffold either without a biological supplement or with a minimal dose ofrhBMP-2 induced comparable bone regeneration to a commercially available bonesubstitute in a non-rodent CSD animal model.
Information theory methods in communicationcomplexity
Creators: name: Leonardos, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation is concerned with the application of notions and methods from the field of information theory to the field of communication complexity. It consists of two main parts. In the first part of the dissertation, we prove lower bounds on the randomized two-party   communication complexity of functions that arise from read-once boolean formulae.  A read-once boolean formula is a formula in propositional logic with the property that   every variable appears exactly once. Such a formula can be represented by a tree,   where the leaves correspond to variables, and the internal nodes are labeled by binary  connectives. Under certain assumptions, this representation is unique. Thus, one can define the depth of a formula as the depth of the tree that represents it. The complexity   of the evaluation of general read-once formulae has attracted interest mainly in the decision tree model. In the communication complexity model many interesting results   deal with specific read-once formulae, such as disjointness and tribes. In this dissertation   we use information theory methods to prove lower bounds that hold for any read-once  formula. Our lower bounds are of the form n(f )/c^d(f ) , where n(f ) is the number of  variables and d(f ) is the depth of the formula, and they are optimal up to the constant in the   base of the denominator. In the second part of the dissertation, we explore the applicability of the information-theoretic   method in the number-on-the-forehead model. The work of Bar-Yossef, Jayram, Kumar &   Sivakumar [BYJKS04] revealed a beautiful connection between Hellinger distance and two-party randomized communication protocols. Inspired by their work and motivated by the open   questions in the number-on-the-forehead model, we introduce the notion of Hellinger volume.  We show that it lower bounds the information cost of multi-party protocols. We provide a small   toolbox that allows one to manipulate several Hellinger volume terms and also to lower bound   a Hellinger volume when the distributions involved satisfy certain conditions. In doing so, we   prove a new upper bound on the difference between the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean   in terms of relative entropy. Finally, we show how to apply the new tools to obtain a lower bound   on the informational complexity of the ANDk function.
Ellisella grasshoffi Fernando 2011
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella grasshoffi

description: Ellisella grasshoffi Fernando, 2011 (species status uncertain)
Ellisella grasshoffi Fernando, 2011: 111–112, pl. 70, fig. 1–1e (Thiruchendur); Fernando et al. 2017: 236, pl. 109, fig. 1–1e (Thiruchendur).
Nicella gemmacea (Valenciennes, 1855) in Fernando 2011: 125, pl. 87, figs. 1–1d (Cuddalore); in Fernando et al., 2017: 292, pl. 137, figs. 1–1d (Cuddalore).
? Ellisella bayeri Fernando, 2011.
Opinion: This species does occur in the region.
Justification:
Literature analysis: Fernando (2011) and Fernando et al. (2017) both present identical descriptions, but without a more detailed descriptions and more illustrations of the sclerites from the polyps and the coenenchymal layers it is difficult to distinguish their species from any similar taxa, and also extremely difficult to establish the status of the species without a revision of the genus.
Fernando (2011) and Fernando et al. (2017) described a species named Nicella gemmacea (Valenciennes, 1855) with “ Nicella gemmacea (Bayer & Grasshoff, 1994, p.21) ” as a synonym. It is not clear what the authors’ intentions were because that species and that synonymic reference do not exist. However, the form of the figured specimen and the illustrated sclerites show it is actually a species of Ellisella and although the sclerite images are too small for an accurate comparison, the identity of the specimen is probably the same as that of the specimens identified as Ellisella grasshoffi: it is also very similar to Ellisella bayeri Fernando, 2011. See Dichotella gemmacea above for the occurrence of duplicate synonymies.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Agnesiella (Draberiella) gaura Huang & Zhang 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Junjie
name: Zhang, Yalin
name: Huang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Agnesiella
Agnesiella gaura

description: Agnesiella (D.) gaura Huang & Zhang sp. nov.
(Figs 18, 22, 26, 30, 106–113)
Measurement. Male, 3.4 mm (including wings).
Body yellowish (Figs 18, 22). Face with front and inner parts of gena black-brown, dark brown transverse streaks on brown postclypeus, anteclypeus and lorum dirty yellow, remaining parts yellowish (Fig. 30). Vertex testaceous near coronal suture. Pronotum with a central oval patch and 2 pairs of lateral patches black-brown. Scutum mostly testaceous with central area beige, triangles dark brown. Scutellum with both sides and central area respectively red ochre and yellowish (Fig. 26). Forewing infuscate with 3 brown patches on clavus, one at inner basal angle and the other 2 respectively on center of commissural margin and distal apex; a brownish band extended from near base of corium to cross vein along claval suture; brochosome field yellowish (Figs 18, 22, 106).
Abdominal apodemes reaching end of 5th abdominal sternite. Male pygofer side with 2 bands of setae, one fine setae band on central part and the other band of long fine setae near posterior margin; a long digitiform appendage arising from posteroventral margin and directed dorsad (Figs 107, 108). Subgenital plate with apical 1/3 slightly expanded and bent mesad nearly at right angle; a small protrusion at bend bearing 3 peg-like setae apically (Figs 109, 110). Paramere with caudal end arched and subapical protrusion small and heel-like (Figs 109, 111). Connective with stem nearly as long as lateral arms and central lobe distinct (Fig. 109). Aedeagal shaft arched with a broad lamellar extension dorsally, digitiform ventral appendage long and directed downwards (Figs 112, 113).
Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Sichuan Province, Moxi, 1600m, Alnus nepalensis, 5-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska. Paratype: 15♂ 2♀, same data as holotype; 2♂ 1♀, CHINA, Sichuan Province, Mianning, 1650m, Alnus nepalensis, 8-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska; 1♂, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xinzhu, 2500m, Alnus nepalensis, 15-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from Greek word “gauros which means “proud, referring to the developed dorsal extension of the aedeagal shaft (Fig. 112).
Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (Draberiella) jammuensis, but differs in the male pygofer side with the digitiform appendage longer and bent to the dorsal margin at nearly a right angle (Fig. 108), and in the aedeagal shaft with a broader dorsal lamellar extension (Fig. 112).
description: Published as part of Wang, Junjie, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with descriptions of 13 new species, pp. 201-233 in Zootaxa 5094 (2) on pages 216-219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5965091
Organic revolution
Creators: name: Ledermann, Samuel T
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: With organic consumption booming, proponents of organic agriculture argue that it presents a viable development alternative for African farmers that were sidestepped by the Green and Biotechnology revolutions. While ecological and human benefits of organic agriculture are better known, scholarship is lacking on the socio-economic impacts of organic export production on certified and non-certified farmers in Africa. Positioning organic agriculture as an innovation, this dissertation addresses critical omissions by asking: What impact does the Organic revolution have on poverty, inequality and sustainability? It draws on and contributes to bodies of literature on Agricultural Development and Inequalities in Africa, Agricultural Sustainability, and Multidimensional Poverty. Based on a survey of 122 organic and conventional cotton farmers in Meatu District, Tanzania, organic agriculture’s potential as a pro-poor development intervention is evaluated. Quantitative analyses were coupled with participatory econometrics, which included focus groups and semi-structured interviews during follow-up visits. Main findings include organic farmers owning on average larger farms and being wealthier compared to their conventional counterparts. Lower levels of human capital were not identified as a barrier towards the diffusion of organic methods, which are traditionally more labor- and knowledge-intensive compared to the capital-intensive nature of previous agricultural revolutions. Lack of access to land was a key reason the poorest conventional farmers were unable to join. Organic farmers on average had lower prevalences, breadths and depths of poverty. Unidimensional and multidimensional poverty analyses showed that the intercropping of mungbeans - introduced into organic farming for its nitrogen-fixing properties - had a positive impact on lowering inequalities between organic and conventional farmers due to widespread adoption by both groups. The dissertation makes significant empirical contributions by providing a comparative study of organic and conventional farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, evaluating who becomes an organic farmer, and measuring the impact of organic agriculture on poverty, inequality and sustainability. These findings have important implications of the potential for the Organic revolution to act as a viable pro-poor development alternative.
Monophylla terminata Say 1835
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Monophylla
Monophylla terminata

description: Monophylla terminata (Say, 1835)
Original combination: Tillus (Macrotelus) terminatus Say, 1835.
Synonyms: Elasmocerus terminatus (Say, 1835); Macrotelus megatoma Spinola, 1841; Monophylla megatoma (Spinola, 1841); Monophylla ruficollis Schaeffer, 1911; Monophylla picticollis Blackburn, 1901. Distribution: CAN: Ontario; USA: AL, AR, AZ, CO, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OK, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV; MEX *: CHIH, SIN.
References: Say 1835; Klug 1842; Spinola 1844; LeConte 1849, 1859; Gorham 1876; Drury 1879; Chittenden 1890; Hopkins 1893a; Hamilton 1895; Lohde 1900; Fall 1901; Schenkling 1903, 1910; Felt 1906; Wolcott 1909, 1910a, 1910b, 1921, 1947; Wickham and Wolcott 1912; Böving and Champlain 1920; Blackman and Stage 1924; Champlain and Knull 1925; Beal and Massey 1945; Corporaal 1950; Craighead 1950; Knull 1951; Papp 1960; Ekis 1975; Foster 1976; Barr 1975; Gosling 1980; Mawdsley 1994; Peck and Thomas 1998; Opitz 2002, 2014; Leavengood 2008; Gunter et al. 2013; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014c.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Ellisella maculata
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella maculata

description: Ellisella maculata (Studer, 1878)
Ellisella maculata Studer, 1878a: 659, fig. 27, a, b, c (Torres Strait); Wright & Studer 1889: 160–161 (Torres Strait).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Thomas & George 1986: 108, fig. 1p, 1–3 (Kadiapattanam); Thomas et al. 1995: 140 (NE coast), Thomas et al. 1998: 164 (Kollam); Mary & Lazarus 2004: 39–40, fig. 19 (SW coast).
Literature analysis: Simpson (1910) stated, “It is with considerable hesitation that we still recognize this species as distinct. It has been impossible, however, to examine the type specimen of the species”. To date, the holotype has never been redescribed, so the species remains unrecognisable. It would therefore be chance if any of the Indian reports were of this species, but that is impossible to assess. Thomas & George, (1987) just list the species. The original material was collected in Mermaid Straits, north western Australia and later reported to occur in Indonesia, so based on geography it is unlikely to occur in the region.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Digital diaspora on the web
Creators: name: Lee, Eunkyung
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This study explores an online community (www.MissyUSA.com) formed among female Korean im/migrants in the U.S. as an example of a digital diasporic space in the new media age. This study employed multiple research methods including in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and grounded theory and examined the conditions and role of this online community focusing on identity, community, and media culture. The findings show that for this ethnic gender online community, users’ shared identity (i.e. being Korean, married, female, and living in the U.S.) is an important element in the formation and development of this online community, especially in the creation of a candid talking space—sokpuri—where they vent their innermost feelings about themselves and their lives in the U.S. Missy and Ajuma are the two gender identities found on MissyUSA. On the one hand, despite the consumerist origin and individualistic nature, some users embrace the missy image of a younger, independent, and modern woman. On the other hand, the spirited quality of the ajuma (less individualistic, active in sharing information and helping others) is well appreciated and identified as an empowering spirit for this online community. These women display differing attitudes and perceptions toward their ethnic identity depending on their length of residence and immigration status. MissyUSA has become a space that serves as an imagined community for users to (re)connect to their home country and that facilitate active discussion of identity negotiation leading to less essential ethnic identity perception based on transnational ties and hybrid cultural practices. This study found a weak sense of community with regard to MissyUSA, though they do recognize that the site has some communal functions, relating to access to customized information considered significant for success in their im/migrant lives: it is a network that provides resources, serves as a virtual dwelling place, and aids them with assimilation. While the Internet has become an important source for both home and host country media access, the yeone board has become a platform for a transnational culture and lifestyle. Thus, beyond their offline ethnic communities, this site enables them to create a digital diaspora for Korean female im/migrants based on active participation from a population of (Korean) “wi-tizens” (active female Internet users since the late 90s who are now married) in the U.S.
Onychotillus minuta De Zayas 1988
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Onychotillus
Onychotillus minuta

description: Onychotillus minuta De Zayas, 1988
Distribution: CAR: CUB.
References: De Zayas 1988.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Fare la libertà, fare la storia
Creators: name: LaPenta, Kathleen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation explores the intertextuality of the literary and cinematic versions of the 1860 uprising in Bronte, Sicily, and the trial of the peasants three years later.  Taking into consideration the historical approach, which has attempted to retell, justify or explain the events surrounding the uprising in Bronte, my research focuses on the literary, historical and cinematic texts by authors and artists such as Giovanni Verga (1882), Benedetto Radice (1910), Leonardo Sciascia (1960, 1963) and by Florestano Vancini (1972).  By analyzing the relationships between the different versions of this story, I illustrate how these narratives have shaped the residual tensions generated by conflicting perceptions of the events.  These reconstructions, which span from 1882 to 2002, reflect a compulsive tendency to narrate a moment of revolt and repression that has become an emblem of the troubled foundations of the Italian nation and, more broadly speaking, they contemplate the points of contact between historical and literary texts and the role of each in constructing our notions of the past.
Agnesiella (Draberiella) longisagittata Huang & Zhang 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Junjie
name: Zhang, Yalin
name: Huang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Agnesiella
Agnesiella longisagittata

description: Agnesiella (D.) longisagittata Huang & Zhang sp. nov.
(Figs 19, 23, 27, 31, 114–121)
Measurement. Male, 3.6 mm (including wings).
Body infuscate (Figs 19, 23). Face with frontoclypeal area, lorum and lower half of gena brown, inner parts of gena and anteclypeus black-brown, transverse streaks on postclypeus area dark brown (Fig. 31). Vertex testaceous near coronal suture. Pronotum with 5 patches black-brown, and remaining parts suffused with ochre. Most of scutellum red ochre, triangles dark brown (Fig. 27). Forewing with basal half covered with 2 banded brown patches and brochosome field reddish; apical half with patches smoky infuscate; brochosome field reddish (Figs 19, 114).
Abdominal apodemes reaching end of 4th abdominal sternite. Male pygofer side with 2 bands of fine moderate setae near posterior margin, and a short horn-like appendage directed dorsad on posterior margin (Figs 115, 116). Subgenital plate with some long fine setae terminally on outer side, and a small protrusion at narrowing subapical part (Figs 117, 118). Paramere slender with subapical protrusion small (Figs 117, 119). Connective with stem nearly as long as lateral arms and central lobe indistinct (Fig. 117). Aedeagal shaft slender with a small lamellar ventral extension terminally, a trifurcate ventral appendage near basal 1/3 with 2 branches directed upwards and shortest lower branch directed downwards (Figs 120, 121).
Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Sichuan Province, Moxi, 1600m, Alnus nepalensis, 4-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska. Paratype: 1♂, same data as holotype; 3♂ 1♀, CHINA, Sichuan Province, Moxi, 1600m, Alnus nepalensis, 5-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska; 1♂, CHINA, Sichuan Province, Moxi, 1650m, Alnus nepalensis, 5- XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin compound word “longisagittata which means “long arrow, referring to the long arrow-shaped caudal end of the paramere (Fig. 119).
Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (Draberiella) savita, but differs in the aedeagal shaft with branches of the ventral appendage straighter and all branches arising from a common stem (Fig. 120).
description: Published as part of Wang, Junjie, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with descriptions of 13 new species, pp. 201-233 in Zootaxa 5094 (2) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5965091
Estimating Posterior Sensitivities with Application to Structural Analysis of Bayesian Vector Autoregressions
Creators: name: Jacobi, Liana
name: Zhu, Dan
name: Joshi, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The inherent feature of Bayesian empirical analysis is the dependence of posterior inference on prior parameters, which researchers typically specify. However, quantifying the magnitude of this dependence remains difficult. This article extends Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis, widely used in classical simulation, to compute asymptotically unbiased and consistent sensitivities of posterior statistics with respect to prior parameters from Markov chain Monte Carlo inference via Gibbs sampling. The method demonstrates the possibility of efficiently computing the complete set of prior sensitivities for a wide range of posterior statistics, alongside the estimation algorithm using Automatic Differentiation. The method’s application is exemplified in Bayesian Vector Autoregression analysis of fiscal policy in U.S. macroeconomic time series data. The analysis assesses the sensitivities of posterior estimates, including the Impulse response functions and Forecast error variance decompositions, to prior parameters under common Minnesota shrinkage priors. The findings illuminate the significant and intricate influence of prior specification on the posterior distribution. This effect is particularly notable in crucial posterior statistics, such as the substantial absolute eigenvalue of the companion matrix, ultimately shaping the structural analysis.
Macromolecular association equilibria
Creators: name: Lapelosa, Mauro
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Proteins are dynamical entities and they can be studied exploring statistical ensembles of  conformations rather than discrete states. The dynamics of proteins can be investigated  using advanced sampling techniques such as Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics  (REMD). We have used REMD to study the population of ensembles of ELDKWA  epitopes coming from the membrane proximal region (MPER) of gp41, which is a protein  of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The epitope has been inserted onto a  surface loop of a rhinovirus (HRV), the common cold virus, and the design work was  aimed at finding chimeric constructs able to present the epitope in an optimal  conformation which would increase the antigenic characteristics of the chimeric HRV for  2F5, a broadly neutralizing antibody of HIV. Indeed, this was carried out in an attempt to  build a chimeric construct able to trigger an immune response against HIV-1. The  experimental part followed the computational design and led to good binding affinities  for chimeric HRVs designed in silico. Computational and experimental results were in  general agreement. This is relevant because it is a well designed use of molecular  dynamics for protein design in order to develop vaccine constructs able to bind to a HIV  broadly neutralizing antibody such as 2F5. From the epitope-antibody interactions we  started to develop ideas about free energy in molecular associations and we moved our  attention to free energy calculation methods. This led to the development of a binding  energy distribution analysis method (BEDAM) to calculate the standard binding free  energy. BEDAM was tested on a T4 lysozyme protein. The calculations were performed  with a set of known binders and non-binders of the L99A and L99A/M102Q mutants of  T4 lysozyme receptor. We also studied the dependence of binding volume on the free  energy calculated by BEDAM and we showed that the free energy converged at an  optimal value of the binding volume. The method was able to discriminate without error  binders from non-binders, and the computed standard binding free energies of the binders  are found to be in good agreement with experimental measurements. Finally, we also  carried out BEDAM calculations on a pharmaceutical target, the FKBP12 protein, and we  analyzed binding energies distributions and transitions from unbound to bound states.
Onychotillus trinitatus De Zayas 1988
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Onychotillus
Onychotillus trinitatus

description: Onychotillus trinitatus De Zayas, 1988
Distribution: CAR: CUB.
References: De Zayas 1988; Lozada-Piña et al. 2004.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Ellisella marisrubri
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella marisrubri

description: Ellisella marisrubri (Stiasny, 1938)
Gorgonella maris-rubri Stiasny, 1938: 159, pl. 6, fig. 21–23; pl. 8, fig. D (Gulf of Suez).
Ellisella marisrubri Grasshoff 2000: 110, figs. 197–198 (Northern Red Sea).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Kumar et al. 2014a: 16, pl. 5, fig. A–D (Havelock Is.); Fernando et al. 2017: 238, pl. 110, fig. A–D (Havelock Is.).
Literature analysis: This species was originally described as Gorgonella marisrubri from the Gulf of Suez and then described by Grasshoff (2000) as Ellisella marisrubri from the northern Red Sea, which we take to be accurate. Kumar et al. (2014a) and Fernando et al. (2017) both present an identical description that has mostly been copied from that of Grasshoff, even including the dimensions of the sclerites. Consequently, they state that their colony has polyps in 2 rows and only slightly elevated (as per Grasshoff’s text), whereas it is illustrated as having polyps all around and well elevated. Also, from Grasshoff they state that the tubercles on the sclerites are not clearly arranged in girdles, but that does not conform to some of their sclerite illustration, which are quite unlike those figured by Grasshoff. The overall result is that the true characteristics of the Indian material are unknown, but it does not appear to represent this species.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327
Sensory acceptability and willingness to buy foods with nanotechnology benefits
Creators: name: Kuang, Lina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Nanotechnology manipulates matter on a very small scale (1-billionth of a meter). It may dramatically improve food production, processing and packaging. However, R&D in food nanotechnology can only yield returns if consumers are willing to buy the resulting products. Yet, no studies have investigated consumer attitudes and reactions to tasting foods with nanotechnology benefits. Fresh cherry tomatoes and chocolate ice cream were evaluated for liking of key attributes and overall liking using 15-cm line scales. Three samples of each food were evaluated one-at-a time. Panelists were told that the first sample of each food had no nanotechnology (control) and that subsequent samples were produced with nanotechnology. For tomatoes, the scenario was that nanoparticles were in the packaging as an anti-microbial or to extend freshness. For ice cream, the nanoparticles were incorporated into the food matrix to deliver probiotics or to reduce icing. In reality, none of the foods were made with nanoscale ingredients. After the taste test, panelists were required to complete a seven-page survey. The panel consisted of 62% students, 27% faculty/staff, and 11% adults from the local community. All three tomato samples were equally liked and all three ice cream samples were equally liked regardless of whether they claimed nanotechnology benefits. Most participants (75-86%) were willing to buy at least one of the nanotech foods. For buyers of nanotech products, they gave high liking ratings for all attributes of the nanotech products that were similar to the ratings for the control samples; their primary reason was split, between “sensory appeal” and “nanotechnology benefit” (p < 0.01). For non-buyers of nanotech products, they gave lower liking ratings to all attributes of the nanotech samples relative to the control samples (p < 0.05); they chose “sensory appeal” as the predominant reason for not buying any nanotech product (p < 0.01). The panel had limited knowledge about nanotechnology, but was not neophobic to food nanotechnology. The majority had positive or neutral attitudes towards the application of nanotechnology in the food production, but they concerned about long-term exposure to nanofoods.
Estimating Posterior Sensitivities with Application to Structural Analysis of Bayesian Vector Autoregressions
Creators: name: Jacobi, Liana
name: Zhu, Dan
name: Joshi, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The inherent feature of Bayesian empirical analysis is the dependence of posterior inference on prior parameters, which researchers typically specify. However, quantifying the magnitude of this dependence remains difficult. This paper extends Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis, widely used in classical simulation, to compute asymptotically unbiased and consistent sensitivities of posterior statistics with respect to prior parameters from Markov Chain Monte Carlo inference via Gibbs sampling. The method demonstrates the possibility of efficiently computing the complete set of prior sensitivities for a wide range of posterior statistics, alongside the estimation algorithm using Automatic Differentiation. The method’s application is exemplified in Bayesian Vector Autoregression analysis of fiscal policy in US macroeconomic time series data. The analysis assesses the sensitivities of posterior estimates, including the Impulse response functions and Forecast error variance decompositions, to prior parameters under common Minnesota shrinkage priors. The findings illuminate the significant and intricate influence of prior specification on the posterior distribution. This effect is particularly notable in crucial posterior statistics, such as the substantial absolute eigenvalue of the companion matrix, ultimately shaping the structural analysis.
Onychotillus vittatus Chapin 1945
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Onychotillus
Onychotillus vittatus

description: Onychotillus vittatus Chapin, 1945
Distribution: CAR: DR *, JAM.
References: Chapin 1945; Corporaal 1950; Barr 1975; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014; Opitz 2014.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Araeodontia isabellae Wolcott 1910
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Araeodontia
Araeodontia isabellae

description: Araeodontia isabellae (Wolcott, 1910)
Type locality: United States: Utah, St. George, Washington Co. Type depository: National Museum of Natural History (USNM).
Material examined: 2 males, 3 females: Phoenix AZ, VIII-23-1932, D. K. Duncan; 2 males, 2 females: Nevada, VII-24-1950; 1 male: Texas, VI-2-1950; 1 male: Phoenix, AZ; 5409, Chas Palm; 2 males: Calipatria CA, Imperial Co., VI-4-1962, Kilgore; 2 males, 2 females: Palm Canyon, 1000, Riverside Co. CA, VII-21-1973; 1 female: Nevada, Clark Co., Logandale, IX-1–3-1984, Riley, Nelson, Wheeler; 5 females: Arizona, Yuma Co., Morelos Dam, VI-22 -197, E. Giesbert; 1 male, 3 females: Laguna Dam, Yuma, AZ, VIII-9-1954, Butler and Tuttle; Blythe, Riverside Co. Ca. VII-30, 31 -1956, Truxal, Honey and Menke; 2 females: 15 mi N Blythe, Riverside Co. CA, VII-12-1977, Schuster and Smith; 3 males: CA 12 mi N Blythe, Riverside Co., VII-12-1977; 3 males: Phoenix AZ, VIII-31-1935, Parker; 1 female: El Centro [CA], IX-5-1953, Parker; 1 female: 12 mi E of Herbert, V-12-1956, T. R. Haig; 4 males, 5 females: Phoenix AZ, VIII-31-1953, no collector data; Logandale, Clark Co. NV, IX-2-1959, E. D. Parker; 1 male: California, San Diego Co., Anza-Borrego springs National Park, VI-5-1971, Sweet and Sweet; 3 males, 3 females: Phoenix, AZ, VIII-31-1935, F. H. Parker; 1 female: 15 mi N of Blythe, Riverside Co., California, 12-VII-1977, R. C. Schuster and N. J. Smith; 1 male: California, 12 mi N Blythe, 12-VII-1977, Riverside Co., R. C. Schuster and N. J. Smith; 2 females: Johnsville, Plumas Co., California, 8-VIII-1959, J. S. Buckett; 1 female: Needles, California, 13-VII-1977, R. C. Schuster and N. J. Smith; 5 males, 2 females: Phoenix, Arizona, 31-VIII-1935, Parker, 12 mi E of Heber, California, Imperial Co., 12-V-1956, T. R. Haig; 1 female: Logandale, Clarke Co., Nevada, 2-IX-1959, F. D. Parker; 2 males, 2 females: La Paz Co., Arizona, 19-VI-1996, Cibola NWR, D. Anderson.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Fire in the pines
Creators: name: La Puma, Inga Parker
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Effects of urban land-uses have long term implications for the structure and function of natural ecosystems that may extend far beyond the land-use itself.  Specifically, natural disturbance and succession in forest ecosystems have been highly altered by human-caused land-use and fire frequency changes.  Changes to forest community structure and composition can affect the long-term sustainability of areas such as the New Jersey Pinelands, a fire-dependent ecosystem.  By combining historic maps of fire frequency and land-use change, I assessed the effects of human development patterns on fire and forest composition in the Pinelands.  These assessments showed lower fire frequency and higher transitions from pine to oak forest cover in close geographic proximity to altered land.  Additionally, I investigated our ability to detect the effects of fire on water quality measures using data from gauged watersheds.  No significant effects of fire could be determined due to a lack of water quality data associated with wildfires in space and time.  I used a spatially-explicit forest disturbance and succession model to investigate how increasing levels of altered land and changing fire regimes may affect forest composition in the future.  Additionally, I added climate change to disturbance and succession modeling to incorporate this additional forcing on fire and forest composition.  These scenarios showed an overwhelming trend toward oak dominated forest within 100 years, except in the unique pine plains area, where pine species still dominated.  The potential of this type of dramatic shift from pine to oak cover represents a radical departure from current forest composition and needs to be addressed by managers of the Pinelands National Reserve in order to maintain the essential Pinelands landscape.  Modeling the potential influences of current and future altered land as well as changes in fire regimes in our study area elucidates the degree to which fire and climate disturbances may alter forest composition.
Ellisella nuctenea Grasshoff 1999
Creators: name: Ramvilas, Ghosh
name: Alderslade, Philip
name: Ranjeet, Kutty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Ellisellidae
Ellisella
Ellisella nuctenea

description: Ellisella nuctenea Grasshoff, 1999
Ellisella nuctenea Grasshoff, 1999: 79, fig. 130; pl. 9, fig. 1 (New Caledonia).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Kumar et al. 2014a: 18, pl. 6, fig. A–C (Ritchie’s Archipelago); Fernando et al. 2017: 240, pl. 111, fig. A–C (Ritchie’s Archipelago).
Literature analysis: Kumar et al. (2014a) and Fernando et al. (2017) both present an identical description, but the true characteristics of their material are unknown as some of the sclerites figures are shared in modified form with the description of E. azilia Grasshoff, 1999, and the text has been copied from Grasshoff’s description of Ellisella nuctenea. What sclerites they do show are quite unlike those of this species, and the form of their colony is quite different to that of the copiously branched holotype. This species is probably endemic to New Caledonia.
description: Published as part of Ramvilas, Ghosh, Alderslade, Philip & Ranjeet, Kutty, 2023, The taxonomy of Indian gorgonians: an assessment of the descriptive records of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) recorded as occurring in the territorial waters of India, along with neighbouring regions and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the highlighting of perceived unethical practice, pp. 1-124 in Zootaxa 5236 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639327