cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Die Uneindeutigkeit des vermeintlich Eindeutigen. Spurensuche auf den Wegen einer spätgotischen „Hausmadonna“ aus der Skulpturensammlung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums
Creators: name: Kosan, Marie-Luise
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hausmadonna
subject: Freiburg im Breisgau
subject: Fassadenskulptur
subject: August Brüschwiler
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Der Beitrag erläutert erste Ergebnisse eines aktuellen Forschungsprojekts zu sogenannten Hausmadonnen am Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Der Untersuchungsgegenstand ist eine spätmittelalterliche Madonnenskulptur aus dem Bestand des Museums. Anhand dieser wird exemplarisch dargelegt, wie unbekannte Details der Objektbiographie herausgearbeitet werden können, aber auch, wo die Grenzen eines solchen Vorgehens liegen. Darüber hinaus wird aufgezeigt, welche Fragen an das Werk gestellt werden können und als wie wichtig sich die Unterscheidung zwischen seinen ursprünglich intendierten Funktionen und jenen, die das Objekt an nachfolgenden Stationen wahrnimmt, erweist.
Computational modeling of neuromuscular control of voluntary single joint movement
Creators: name: Krasner, Alex
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: While the neuromuscular components involved in moving human joints are well known, there is no unifying model describing how they accomplish it. The dynamics of each individual neuromuscular component, from the brain structures, including cerebral cortex and sub-cortical areas, to the spinal cord, to the contractual apparatus have been formulated previously, but they have not been thoroughly tested, nor integrated into a holistic model of movement. This thesis combined these formulations into a single brain-spinal cord-muscle (BSM) model that illustratesmotion planning by  interactions between these brain components .   Movement plans originating in the cerebral cortex are processed in the descending motor pathways: brainstem, cerebellum, and spinal circuitry.  Execution is coordinated by activation of agonist and antagonist muscle groups, mostly with closed-loop feedback control.   Here, I analyzed previously publishedneuromuscular formulations by simulations. I applied several methods for combining piecemeal models of individual components into a unified control system.  Results with BSM produced physiologically realistic joint outputs showing new details, not seen in previous models. The BSM model can be useful for detailed analysis of any biological component involved with motion generation, and can help in understanding the underlying causes of motor impairments.
title: Von der „alten Heimat“ in die „neue Heimat“. Wege der Objekte aus Heimatstuben und ihr Potenzial für das kollektive Gedächtnis
Creators: name: Reinsch, Natalie
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene
subject: Kollektives Gedächtnis
subject: Heimatstube
subject: transnationale Erinnerungskultur
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: In den Jahren 2020 bis 2023 erarbeitete der Museumsverband für Niedersachsen und Bremen e. V. in einem Projekt exemplarische Wege, wie die Bestände der niedersächsischen Heimatsammlungen gesichert und ihre damit verbundenen Geschichten im kollektiven Gedächtnis erhalten werden können. Seit 1949 entstanden in der Bundesrepublik bis zu 600 Heimatstuben und Heimatsammlungen der Flüchtlinge, Vertriebenen und Aussiedler:innen. Die Heimatstuben fungierten als Erinnerungs- und Begegnungsorte der Erlebnisgeneration. Hier sammelten, bewahrten und stellten sie Objekte aus, die sie an die sogenannte alte Heimat erinnerten. Dies waren einerseits Objekte, die sie bei Flucht und Vertreibung aus ihrem Herkunftsort mitgeführt hatten, aber auch Objekte, die erst später bei Heimatreisen aus der „alten Heimat“ mitgebracht wurden, oder auch Objekte, die erst in der „neuen Heimat“ angefertigt wurden. Den Objekten kommt als Trägern der Erinnerungspraxis eine große Bedeutung zu, weil die mündlichen Erinnerungen der Erlebnisgeneration auf absehbare Zeit nicht mehr weitergegeben werden können. Wenn die Objekte aus den Heimatstuben und die damit verbundenen Geschichten der Erlebnisgeneration jedoch in die Speichermedien des kulturellen Gedächtnisses (Archiv und Museum) integriert werden, kann es gelingen, die mündlichen Erinnerungen vom kommunikativen ins kulturelle Gedächtnis zu überführen und sie auf diese Weise dauerhaft im kollektiven Gedächtnis zu erhalten. Die Objekte aus Heimatstuben bieten dabei lokale, nationale und auch transnationale Transformationspotenziale. Der Beitrag zeigt anhand von fünf Beispielen die Wege und die damit verbundenen Geschichten der Heimatstuben-Objekte auf und verdeutlicht ihr Potenzial für das kollektive Gedächtnis.
Machaerium hirtum Stellfeld, Tribuna Farm.
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Machaerium
Machaerium hirtum

description: 3.18 Machaerium hirtum (Vell.) Stellfeld, Tribuna Farm. 12: 132. 1944.
(Fig. 5N)
Arbustos, ca. 1,5 m alt., ramos pubescentes, armados. Estípulas 2,5 × 2,5 mm, triangulares, espinescentes, livres, persistentes. Folhas paripinadas, 20-34-folioladas; pecíolos 4,5-9 mm compr., puberulentos; raque foliar 58-104 mm compr., puberulenta; folíolos 10-20 × 3,3- 4 mm, estreitamente elípticos, base arredondada, ápice retuso, margem inteira, faces abaxial e adaxial glabras; nectários foliares ausentes. Inflorescências racemosas, ca. 7-17-floras, terminais. Flores papilionadas, pentâmeras, não ressupinadas; cálice gamossépalo, ca. 5 × 4 mm, campanulado, verde, glabro; corola dialipétala, vexilo ca. 9 × 6,5 mm, alas ca. 7 × 4 mm, carenas ca. 9 × 2,5 mm, não espiraladas, lilás; estames 10, monadelfos, 8-9 mm compr., homodínamos; anteras não observadas; estaminódios ausentes; ovário ca. 5,5 mm compr., estipitado, pubescente; estilete ca. 2 mm compr., pubescente. Sâmaras ca. 4 × 1 cm, glabras, indeiscentes. Sementes não observadas.
Espécie ocorrente no Panamá, Venezuela, Guianas, Brasil, Colômbia, Peru, Bolívia, Paraguai e Argentina (Filardi et al. 2013). No Brasil é encontrada nas regiões Norte (AC, AM, PA, TO), Nordeste (AL, BA, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE), Centro-Oeste (DF, GO, MS, MT), Sudeste (ES, MG, RJ, SP) e Sul (PR, SC). Habita os Domínios Fitogeográficos da Amazônia, Caatinga, Cerrado, Mata Atlântica e Pantanal. (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre em Mata Degradada. Coletada com frutos em março.
Machaerium hirtum, juntamente com M. lanceolatum são as únicas espécies ocorrentes no PNMJ que possuem frutos do tipo sâmara.As diferenças morfológicas entre estas espécies são o hábito arbustivo, estípulas espinescentes, folhas paripinadas, 20-34-folioladas em M. hirtum vs. hábito escandente, estípulas não espinescentes, folhas imparipinadas, 5-folioladas em M. lanceolatum.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 18.III.2012, L. A. Silva 123 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on pages 282-283, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Health behaviors among emerging adult survivors of childhood cancers
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Treatment improvements have increased the survival rates for childhood cancers. However, the majority of childhood cancer survivors are at high risk for experiencing early life health issues (e.g., secondary cancers, heart disease) and death. Thus, healthy behaviors are important for this population to delay these cancer treatment-related late effects. Further, our understanding of health behaviors among Hispanic cancer survivors is limited because this ethnic group is underrepresented in survivorship research efforts. The goal of this project is to examine tobacco and other substance use behaviors among emerging adult Hispanic and non-Hispanic childhood cancer survivors (CCS). This project will explore the following questions among this population: 1) How common is tobacco use, e-cigarette use, marijuana use, and binge drinking of alcohol use?, 2) Is this substance use similar between CCS and non-cancer populations at older ages (e.g., ages 21+)?, and 3) Is substance use associated with mental health among CCS?

 CCS data will be obtained from a large ongoing study of emerging adult survivors of childhood cancers in Los Angeles County (n=1,249; ages 18-39; ~49% Hispanic). Data will be used to examine risk (e.g., depressive symptoms) and protective (e.g., healthcare utilization) factors of substance use among Hispanic and non-Hispanic survivors. In a subset of these participants (who participated in a prior pilot study), we will examine relationships with substance use over time. Non-cancer participant data will be obtained from the California Health Interview Survey study. These comparisons will allow the examination of the potential impact of the cancer experience on substance use behaviors. We will also interview a subset of CSS to identify issues concerning substance use among this population. This project will entail multiple sets of analyses/studies leveraging several unique and valuable data resources. Results will inform community outreach efforts focused on cancer survivorship among adolescents and young adults.
Gadfly to the watchdogs
Creators: name: Lerner, Kevin Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation tells the history of (MORE), a journalism review founded and run by a group of journalists who found themselves constrained by the professional norms of their employers and their profession. In telling (MORE)’s story, the dissertation tells a part of the story of the organized press in America in the bulk of the 19&0s, and some of its interactions with that decade’s cultural convulsions. The dissertation takes a historical approach, telling (MORE)’s story through the use of the magazine itself as primary text; oral history interviews with surviving editors, contributors and participants in the journalism review’s six “Counter-Conventions”; primary documents, including archival material from the records of news organizations and individuals involved with (MORE); and audio recordings of parts of the Counter-Conventions. These sources are supplemented by a body of secondary literature including contemporary news reports, other works of press criticism from the era and academic studies of press criticism and the history of the 19&0s.    The study of (MORE) provides insight into changes in journalistic professionalism in the 19&0s, a key period after the rise of what Michael Schudson calls “the critical culture”; it investigates the role of press criticism in the functioning of the press and the effects, both direct and implied, that press criticism has on mainstream publications; it will trace some of the roots of the professional press’s increasing self- awareness in response to rampant anti-intellectualism among its members; and, using the ideas of these self-aware journalists as a guide, it begins to trace the outline of an intellectual history of the 19&0s.  This dissertation advances four main arguments regarding (MORE) and the national and journalistic cultures in which it operated:  1. (MORE) changed the nature of press criticism, and began its diffusion into the culture.  2. (MORE) changed the way journalists thought about themselves and their profession.  3. (MORE) influenced the way the organized press practiced its trade at a time when the industry was reshaping itself.  4. (MORE) reflects broader changes in society in the 19&0s.
Andrena (Cordandrena) cordialis Morawitz 1878
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena cordialis

description: 16.Andrena(Cordandrena)cordialisMorawitz, 1878
Literature records.
Morice (1921 b); Derwesh (1965), mentioning “ Survey of Iraq Fauna 1915–1919 ”; Augul (2018).
Material examined.
Iraq: Baiji [Saladin Governorate, 35.0299 ° N, 43.4489 ° E], 1–31. iii. 1986, 1 ♀, leg. M. Carl, OÖLM; Baiji, 1–30. iv. 1986, 2 ♂, leg. M. Carl, OÖLM.
Remarks.
Andrena cordialis is part of a tricky group of species to identify, with the species A. cypria Pittioni, 1950 and A. torda Warncke, 1965 described after the 1915–1919 survey was conducted. Morice (1921 b) specifically mentioned the species from Basrah in southern Iraq. Based on our examined material, we can confidently confirm both A. cordialis and A. torda from Iraq, and so the record of Morice (1921 b) is considered plausible. We note here that the “ Survey of Iraq Fauna 1915–1919 ” is represented by the publications of Morice (1921 a; 1921 b), only Morice (1921 b) dealing with the Andrena fauna.
Distribution.
Eastern Europe through Turkey and the Caucasus to Central Asia, including Iraq and Iran (Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002; Osytshnjuk et al. 2005; Wood and Monfared 2022)
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
Flow-Directed Electrochemical Rejuvenation of Lithium Ion Batteries
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The goal of this project is to establish a fluid-based approach for Li-ion battery electrochemical rejuvenation and thus, provide a second life to degraded batteries without expensive pretreatment and separation processes accompanied in current battery recycling methods. Solution-based electrochemical remediation has recently emerged as an effective strategy to increase Li-ion inventory and regenerate the cathodic structure by injecting Li-ions back into a degraded electrode. However, this approach is hindered by a concentration gradient of Li-ions generated from the imposed electric field during intercalation and deintercalation, which results in prolonged treatment durations and low rejuvenation efficiencies. Moreover, few studies have sought to understand and recover the anode, even though cell aging constitutes the degradation of both electrodes. Here, we propose a fluid-based approach to mitigate the formation of concentration gradients of Li-ions near the electrodes to detrap Li-ions from the anode for effective battery rejuvenation. To achieve this, we will design a microfluidic system and validate the release of trapped Li-ions from aged anodes. Then we will design and engineer microflow systems in Li-ion pouch cells to evaluate the proposed technique for commercial Li-ion battery systems. The completion of this study will require facilities in the Materials Science Division including the Li-ion pouch cell assembly facility, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and battery testing equipment— all which Jianchao Ye, my primary mentor, specializes in. Congwang Ye will also help with the development of the microfluidic device at the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory. Their expertise will make this an ideal mentorship to elevate the fundamental electrochemical study to an integrated battery design.
Machaerium lanceolatum J. F. Macbr., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser.
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Machaerium
Machaerium lanceolatum

description: 3.19 Machaerium lanceolatum (Vell.) J.F.Macbr., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 13, pt. 3: 281. 1943.
(Fig. 5J)
Arbustos escandentes, ca. 3 m alt.; ramos glabros, lenticelados, inermes. Estípulas não observadas, decíduas. Folhas imparipinadas, 5-folioladas; pecíolos 40-45 mm compr., glabros; raque foliar 22-57 mm compr., glabra; folíolos 50-102 × 32-68 mm, elípticos a largamente elípticos, base acuminada, ápice acuminado, margem inteira, faces abaxial e adaxial glabras; nectários foliares ausentes. Inflorescências e flores não observadas. Sâmaras 4,5 × 1,2-1,5 cm, glabras, indeiscentes. Sementes 1, obovadas, ca. 2,5 × 1,3 mm, oliváceas.
Espécie endêmica do Brasil, ocorrente nas regiões Nordeste (BA, PE), Centro-Oeste (DF, GO), Sudeste (ES, MG, RJ, SP) e Sul (PR). Habita os Domínios Fitogeográficos do Cerrado, Mata Atlântica, Floresta Ciliar ou Galeria, Floresta Estacional Decidual, Floresta Ombrófila e Restinga (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre na formação Arbustiva Aberta Não Inundável, sobre substrato arenoso. Coletada com frutos em maio.
As diferenças morfológicas usadas para distinguir Machaerium hirtum e M. lanceolatum foram discutidas anteriormente. Este é o primeiro registro de ocorrência desta espécie para o PNMJ.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 03.V.2011, L. A. Silva 09 (VIES); 20.VIII.2008, H. C. de Lima 7008 (RB).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on page 283, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Mechanisms of food allergy
Creators: name: Plaut, Marshall
name: Burks, A. Wesley
name: O'Mahony, Liam
name: Lack, Gideon
name: Akdis, Cezmi A.
name: Sampson, Hugh A.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2018

description:
Although oral tolerance is the normal physiologic response to ingested antigens, a breakdown in this process appears to have occurred in the past 2 decades, leading to an increasing prevalence of sensitization to food allergens. Over the past decade, basic research has intensified in an attempt to better understand the mechanisms leading to sensitization and disease versus desensitization and short- and long-term tolerance. In this review we assess various factors that can influence tissue and immune responses to food antigens, the current understanding of immune tolerance development, the role of the gastrointestinal microbiota, and current knowledge regarding immunologic mechanisms involved in desensitization and sustained unresponsiveness, although perhaps the latter is more appropriately termed remission.
Macroptilium lathyroides
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Macroptilium
Macroptilium lathyroides

description: 3.20 Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb., Symb. Antill. 9: 457. 1928.
Trepadeiras; ramos puberulentos, inermes. Estípulas 6-7,5 × 1,4-2 mm, triangulares, livres, persistentes. Folhas imparipinadas, 3-folioladas; pecíolos 25-30 mm compr., puberulentos; raque foliar 7-10 mm compr., pubescente; folíolos 36-49 × 18-21 mm, elípticos, base aguda a obtusa, ápice agudo, margem inteira, face abaxial puberulenta e face adaxial glabra; nectários foliares ausentes. Inflorescências racemosas, 11-15-floras, terminais. Flores papilionadas, assimétricas, pentâmeras, não ressupinadas; cálice gamossépalo, 5,4-8 × 1,4-2 mm, tubular, verdeclaro, puberulento; corola dialipétala, ca. 15,5 x 24 mm, vexilo 13,8-15,5 × 9-9,5 mm, alas 23,0-23,5 × 9,5-12 mm, carenas 13-16 × 2,5-5,5 mm, espiraladas, vinácea; estames 10, diadelfos, 14-15 mm compr., homodínamos; tubo estaminal ca. 11,5 mm compr., anteras uniformes, 0,5 mm compr., rimosas; estaminódios ausentes; ovário 13-16 mm compr., não estipitado, pubescente; estilete ca. 6 mm compr., puberulento. Frutos não observados.
Ocorre em toda a América na região tropical (Maréchal et al. 1978). Não endêmica do Brasil ocorrente nas regiões Norte (AM, PA, RR), Nordeste (AL, BA, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI), Centro-Oeste (DF, GO, MS, MT), Sudeste (ES, MG, RJ, SP) e Sul (PR). Habita os Domínios Fitogeográficos da Amazônia, Cerrado, Mata Atlântica, Pantanal, Área Antrópica, Caatinga (stricto sensu), Floresta Ciliar ou Galeria, Floresta Estacional Semidecidual, Floresta Ombrófila (= Floresta Pluvial) e Restinga (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre na formação Arbustiva Aberta Inundável. Coletada com flores em outubro.
Vegetativamente pode ser confundida com as espécies do gênero Canavalia, mas podem ser diferenciadas pelo indumento dos ramos (ramos puberulentos em Macroptilium vs. ramos glabros em Canavalia). As diferenças morfológicas usadas para distinguir Ancistrotropis peduncularis e Macroptilium lathyroides foram discutidas anteriormente. Este é o primeiro registro de ocorrência desta espécie para o PNMJ.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 27.X.2012, L. A. Silva 284 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on page 283, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Contentious globalization performance, conflict, and morality in a popular religious movement
Creators: name: Singh, Vikash
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation is about a popular religious movement in north India – the Kanwar, an annual phenomenon that has grown explosively over the last two decades and now involves more than 12 million people every year. Participants carry water from the river Ganga for libations in Śiva temples in the vicinity of their homes. A majority are young adult males and teenagers of poor and lower middle-class backgrounds, who walk over a hundred miles carrying the sacred water, following varying degrees of ritual obligations, exhibiting their pain, suffering, and fortitude. What brings these millions of young poor men to such a demanding religious practice year after year? Notwithstanding the differences, a wide, cross-disciplinary scholarly consensus regards religious movements as reactionary expressions of collective solidarity in the time of globalization. Scholars reason that globalization causes social anomie, pushing people to embrace traditional affinities such as ethnicity, nationality, or religion.  Instead of a “fundamentalist reaction” to social and economic changes, however, my research shows that these practices afford participants opportunities to perform, practice, and prepare for a new configuration of social and economic obligations. They evidence anxious social and psychological preparation for the norms, scarcity, and unpredictable outcomes of poor, informal economic conditions at the critical point of transition into adulthood. These were young adults and teenagers preparing to deliver on their social expectations and obligations to loved ones in social conditions that were often as precarious as they were hierarchical and humiliating. In conditions where the overwhelming majority of workers are informally employed, have few employment, social, and health safeguards, and very limited prospects for stable and respectable employment or life course, these often first steps into adulthood are daunting. At the margins of the economy, the religious phenomenon provided an open and freely accessible, yet challenging, stage – a definite and alternate field – for participants to practice and prove their talents, resolve, and moral sincerity. At the same time, it is also a means to contest the symbolic violence and social inequities of a hierarchical society now dominated by a neo-liberal social ethic, which is both imposing and exclusive.
Community-academic partnership to understand increasing breast cancer risk among Asian immigrants
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Background
 Rates of breast cancer have been rising rapidly among Asian American women. It is not clear whether Asian American women born in their home countries have lower or higher rates of breast cancer than Asian American women born in the US. There may be unknown factors in Asian American women related to being born outside of the US and adapting to US culture which are important to identify as they can protect against breast cancer.

 Hypothesis/Questions:
 1) How does the immigration experience and process of adapting to US culture change behaviors, beliefs, and practices that may affect the risk of breast cancer? (2) What are the differences in these factors by ethnicity, generation, and living environment?

 Specific Aims:
 Aim 1. To build a partnership between an academic institution (USC) and two community-based organizations (Illumination Institute and Orange County Herald Center), with the guidance of a community advisory board (CAB), to understand what social and cultural experiences may contribute to the risk of breast cancer in Vietnamese and Chinese immigrant communities and to facilitate an innovative community-partnered research plan to for future breast cancer research targeting Asian immigrant communities.

 Aim 2. To do a pilot study of immigrant multigenerational women (mothers and adult daughters, one of whom is a breast cancer survivor) by living environment (inside or outside of ethnically concentrated neighborhoods or “enclaves”) in the Vietnamese and Chinese communities to collect self-reported immigration experiences, acculturation levels, and breast cancer risk factors.

 Major research methods and approaches:
 We will identify 16 mother-daughter pairs (8 Chinese, 8 Vietnamese; for each ethnic group: 4 living inside and 4 living outside of their ethnic enclave) with at least one who is breast-cancer affected totaling 32 participants and conduct one-on-one interviews regarding adaptation to life in the US, changes in cultural and traditional practices, and intergenerational issues.

 Impact on breast cancer:
 This project will provide insight into the important factors related to immigration and adapation to US culture that may increase or reduce breast cancer risk among Asian immigrant women to inform future research.
Andrena (Poecilandrena) crassana Warncke 1965
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena crassana

description: 17.Andrena(Poecilandrena)crassanaWarncke, 1965 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 2 ♂, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI; Lebanon: Beqaa, Beqaa valley, Qaraoun, 3.5 km W of Madjal Balhis, 33.5377 ° N, 35.7038 ° E, 900 m, 4. iv. 2023, 1 ♂, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC.
Remarks.
Specimens from Iraq nominally belong to A. crassana s. str. And the specimen from Lebanon nominally belongs to ssp. Inka Warncke, 1969 (Levant). It is not clear if inka merits subspecific status.
Distribution.
Andrena crassana sensu lato has a distribution of North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and West Bank, Lebanon *, Jordan, Syria, Iraq *, Iran (Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002; Pisanty et al. 2018; Wood and Monfared 2022).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
Do ethnic enclaves prevent breast cancer in Latina women?
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Immigrant enclaves, areas with high proportions of immigrant residents, are thought to protect their residents against breast cancer through physical environments that make it easier to eat traditionally, and social environments that provide feelings of support. But enclave residents are not limited to their neighborhoods, either physically or socially; people can be ‘exposed’ to enclaves to different extents. This might contribute to the increase in breast cancer risk that we see with longer US residence, or between immigrant mothers and their US-born daughters. To understand how enclaves affect breast cancer risk, we must first understand what ‘exposure’ to an enclave actually means, beyond just living in one.
 We propose a Phase 1 study to fully describe enclave exposure in Latinx women and their daughters in Santa Maria, CA. The aims of our study are:
 1. Identify aspects of enclaves that are important to measure. We will use anthropological methods to gain a deep understanding of how, why, and with whom 12 mother-daughter pairs interact with their neighborhoods. This information will be used to select measures of enclave ‘exposure.’
 2. Collect new information on social networks and locations of various activities. The same mother-daughter pairs will complete surveys on social networks and the locations of activities such as work/school and shopping – information that will be used to improve our enclave exposure measures.
 3. Determine if our measure of enclave exposure is correlated with dietary habits and psychological factors linked to breast cancer. A sample of 200 Latinx women will complete surveys. We expect more enclave exposure to be correlated with more traditional dietary practices, less alcohol intake, more social support, and less stress.
 This project lays the groundwork for a Phase 2 study to examine whether and how ethnic enclaves affect breast cancer risk in Latinx immigrants and their daughters. This can inform decisions about city planning, resources, and healthcare to reduce breast cancer risk.
Occupational Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Among Immigrant Women
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Background:
 Previous research suggests that immigrant-heavy occupations are associated with poor worker health, with a large proportion of these studies focused on agricultural and nail salon work. Immigrants account for over a third of health care workers in California, yet are an understudied group despite their significant risk of exposures to potential breast carcinogens. Our proposed work addresses this gap, while also creating the most comprehensive picture to date of the U.S. occupations that highly expose immigrant women to potential breast carcinogens.

 Questions:
 Our proposed study investigates 1) which U.S. occupations result in high exposures to breast carcinogens for immigrant women, 2) how the immigrant work experience shapes exposures to both toxic chemicals and social factors influencing poor health, and 3) how these hazardous exposures shift based on immigration and work histories (e.g., length of time in the U.S., post-immigration job changes).

 We expect immigrants are likely disproportionately employed in positions with high risks of exposure to potential breast carcinogens, and may have difficulty challenging unsafe working conditions due to factors such as precarious employment, language barriers, and structural racism. We leverage a longstanding community-based participatory research project, the Women Workers Biomonitoring Collaborative, to address these questions.

 General methodology:
 Our proposed study uses demographic, product ingredient, and biomonitoring (i.e., measurements of chemical levels in the body) data to identify occupations where immigrant women workers are highly exposed to potential breast carcinogens, and examine shifts based on immigration history. We also conduct 40-60 interviews with health care workers to understand how the immigrant work experience shapes exposures to both toxic chemicals and social determinants of poor health.

 Impact on breast cancer
 This research will be the first to summarize immigrant exposures for the most comprehensive list of potential breast carcinogens, as well as look at the intersection of immigrant status and occupational exposures. It will prepare our team to understand breast cancer-relevant exposures for immigrant women workers using biomonitoring approaches, as well as advance an understanding of the social factors in the workplace that exacerbate health disparities.
Modeling and optimization of micro-end milling process for micro-manufacturing
Creators: name: Thepsonthi, Thanongsak
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The miniaturization of devices has been under high demand since they offer added benefits such as high mobility and portability, better accessibility and functionality, and lower energy consumption. Specific applications include energy devices such as heat sinks and exchangers, biomedical devices such as microfluidic devices, microneedles, and implants, automotive and aircraft components, and sensory devices. As the demand to produce such miniature products continue to increase, an imminent need for advanced manufacturing processes that can fabricate very small parts directly, cost effectively, and with high productivity arises. Micro-end milling is one of the most promising manufacturing processes capable of fabricating discrete parts with complex features in micro-scale (feature size < 1000 µm) due to its high flexibility for processing a wide range of materials with a low setup cost. However, micro-end milling process possesses several difficulties in precision fabrication of such products due to size effect, rapid tool wear, burr formation, tool and workpiece deflection, and premature tool breakage. In addition, these micro-products require tighter geometrical tolerances and better surface quality. These difficulties and requirements make the selection of process parameters for high performance micro-end milling very challenging.      In this research, we conducted experimental and numerical modeling studies and multi-objective process optimization for micro-end milling. An extensive study of process parameters such as tool coatings, cutting velocity, feed rate, and axial depth of cut was performed in order to understand the effects of these parameters on the performance of micro-end milling process. Novel finite element based process models in 2-D and 3-D have been developed. Both experimental models and finite element based process simulations were utilized to construct various predictive models for the process outputs. These predictive models include physics-based outputs such as chip deformations, tool forces and temperatures, tool wear rate and depth, as well as performance related measures such as surface finish, burr formation, and tool life. Furthermore, we developed a comprehensive decision support system by using the predictive models which can facilitate a selection of process parameters and toolpath strategies based on desired performances. Multi-objective optimization studies were conducted by utilizing predictive models for obtaining optimal decision variable sets. Moreover, this research also demonstrates the current capabilities of micro-end milling in fabricating micro-products such as heat sinks in brass and implants in titanium alloys, and micro-needles in polymers.
Rhynchosia phaseoloides DC., Prodr.
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Rhynchosia
Rhynchosia phaseoloides

description: 3.21 Rhynchosia phaseoloides (Sw.) DC., Prodr. 2: 385. 1825.
Ervas, ca. 50- 40 cm alt.; ramos puberulentos, inermes. Estípulas 1,4-1,7 × 0,1 mm, triangulares, livres, persistentes. Folhas imparipinadas, 3-folíoladas, pecíolos ca. 5,5 mm compr., puberulentos; raque foliar 2,5- 1 mm compr., pubescente, com glândulas puntiformes; folíolos 10-12 × 8-9 mm, lanceolados a rômbicos, base arredondada a obtusa, ápice agudo a acuminado, margem inteira, faces adaxial e abaxial glabras a esparso-puberulentas, pubescente nos bordos, com glândulas puntiformes; nectários foliares ausentes. Inflorescências e flores não observadas. Legumes ca. 1,4 × 0,5 cm, puberulentos, deiscentes. Sementes 2, reniformes, 2,7 × 2 mm, pretas.
Ocorre do norte e nordeste da Argentina até a América Central (Hirt & Flores 2012). No Brasil ocorre nas regiões Norte (AC, AM, PA, RO), Nordeste (AL, BA, CE, MA, PB, PE, RN), Centro-Oeste (DF, MS, MT), em todos os Estados do Sudeste e no Sul (PR, SC), nos Domínios Fitogeográficos da Amazônia, Caatinga, Cerrado e Mata Atlântica (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre em Mata Degradada. Coletada com frutos em março. Possui como característica exclusiva entre as espécies encontradas do PNMJ, a presença de glândulas puntiformes no limbo foliar. Este é o primeiro registro de ocorrência desta espécie para o PNMJ.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 01. VI.13, L. A. Silva 133 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on pages 283-284, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Carbon-based structures for information & energy technology
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Carbon is one of the most abundant elements in the Universe and is essential for life. A series of recent breakthroughs, including discoveries reported by the participants of this UC-LANL-LLNL team [2-14], show that carbon-based nanostructures are likely to play a preeminent role in the technology of the not-so-distant future. The program proposed here presents a comprehensive approach to fully explore and exploit novel physical phenomena occurring in a variety of carbon-based hosts that include: graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) covalently bonded network of carbon; diamond, a three-dimensional carbon where impurities have quantum functionality; and organic semiconductors fabricated from low-cost carbon-based organic molecules. This program will emphasize in-depth analysis of the interdependence between spin, charge and photonic effects which are strongly entangled in carbon-based hosts, and the control of these interactions through materials science. This interdependence presents an opportunity to implement new devices featuring magnetic, electronic and photonic functionalities on the same chip: a combination not readily attainable through prevailing silicon technology. Graphene ribbons, for example, combine electronic quantization and nanoscale magnetism, while nitrogen vacancy defects in diamond have the potential for revolutionary room temperature quantum information applications. Organic molecule-based electronics, on the other hand, provide significant new photonic, sensor and energy-harvesting capabilities. There is a commonality to the challenges we face to advance these carbon-based materials in that we must seek new ways to characterize and control their behavior at nanometer length scales. We have thus assembled a multidisciplinary team capable of addressing this fundamental issue through a number of complementary experimental and theoretical techniques, including materials synthesis, device fabrication, optical and electron spectroscopies, electronic transport measurements, and first-principle calculations. The full spectrum of synthesis and characterization techniques employed in these collaborative activities will enable us to uniquely determine complex physical processes occurring in our devices that would otherwise not be apparent from any one type of measurement. This will provide a powerful feedback to our synthesis activities, enabling us to optimize our exploration of carbon-based materials, and to create advanced carbon-based devices. Our planned collaborative activities involving novel carbon nanostructures are designed to make a significant impact in our nation's quest for alternative energy sources as well as the next generation of information technology.
The phonology of boundaries and secondary stress in Russian compounds.
Creators: name: Gouskova, Maria
Publisher: name: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2010

description: In Russian, the phonological diagnostics for prosodic words conflict when applied to compounds. On the one hand, compounds can have multiple stresses (oboròn-o-sposóbnost' `defense-linker-capability'), whereas single-root words can only have a single stress. On the other hand, non-stress rules such as word-final devoicing and vowel reduction treat compounds as single prosodic words. Based on this and other kinds of evidence, I demonstrate that compounds are indeed single prosodic words, though they are required to have a stress for each sub-stem. Secondary stress patterns in compounds also provide some clues as to the location of default stress in what is an almost entirely lexical stress system.
Sesbania virgata Poir., Encycl.
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Sesbania
Sesbania virgata

description: 3.22 Sesbania virgata (Cav.) Poir., Encycl. 7: 129. 1906.
Arbustos, ca. 1,8 m alt.; ramos glabros a pubescentes, inermes. Estípulas não observadas, decíduas. Folhas paripinadas, 36-42-folioladas; pecíolos 12-15 mm compr, puberulentos; raque foliar 220-229 mm compr., puberulenta; folíolos 25-38 × 8-13 mm, elípticos, base cuneada, ápice mucronulada, margem inteira, faces abaxial e adaxial glabras; nectários ausentes. Inflorescências racemosas, 20-23-floras, axilares. Flores zigomorfas, pentâmeras, não ressupinadas; cálice gamossépalo, pentâmero, 4,5-5 × 5,5 mm, campanuladas, verdes a amarelas, corola dialipétala, 10 × 9 mm, vexilo 11 × 13 mm, alas 12 × 3,5 mm, carenas 7,9 × 4,6 mm, não espiraladas, amarelas; estames 10, monadelfos, 13 mm compr., homodínamos; anteras uniformes, 0,4 mm compr., rimosas, estaminódios ausentes; ovário ca. 13 mm compr., estipitado, 1,8 mm, glabro; estilete 2,0- 2,2 mm compr., glabro. Legumes 4,6-5,6 × 0,85-1 cm, 4-angulados, glabros, indeiscentes. Sementes 5, reniformes, ca. 7,0-7,2 × 4,4-4,5 mm, marrom-claras a marrom-escuras.
Espécie endêmica do Brasil ocorrendo nas regiões Nordeste (AL, BA, PB, PE, PI, SE), Centro-Oeste (DF, GO, MS, MT), Sudeste (ES, MG, RJ, SP) e Sul (PR, RS, SC), nos Domínios Fitogeográficos da Caatinga, Mata Atlântica, Cerrado e Pampa (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre em Floresta Inundável e Floresta Periodicamente Inundável, em borda de estrada. Coletada com flores em agosto.
No PNMJ, Sesbania virgata pode ser diferenciada pelo hábito arbustivo, folhas 36-42-folioladas, inflorescências axilares e flores papilionáceas, amarelas. Este é o primeiro registro de ocorrência desta espécie para o PNMJ.
Material examinado: BRASIL, Espírito Santo, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 29.VIII.2012, L. A. Silva 242 (VIES).
Material adicional examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Guarapari, Parque Natural Municipal do Morro da Pescaria, 20.X.2013, A. C. S. Dal Col 187 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on page 284, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Some correct error-driven version of the constraint demotion algorithm
Creators: name: Boersma, Paul
Publisher: name: MIT Press
Year: 2009

description: This paper supersedes ROA 953: a proof of correct convergence is now included. This paper shows that Error-Driven Constraint Demotion (EDCD), an error-driven learning algorithm proposed by Tesar (1995) for Prince and Smolensky's (1993) version of Optimality Theory, can fail to converge to a correct totally ranked hierarchy of constraints, unlike the earlier non-error-driven learning algorithms proposed by Tesar and Smolensky (1993). The cause of the problem is found in Tesar's use of 'mark-pooling ties', indicating that EDCD can be repaired by assuming Anttila's (199&) 'permuting ties' instead. Proofs show, and simulations confirm, that totally ranked hierarchies can indeed be found by both this repaired version of EDCD and Boersma's (1998) Minimal Gradual Learning Algorithm.
Sophora tomentosa
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Sophora
Sophora tomentosa

description: 3.23 Sophora tomentosa L., Sp. Pl. 1: 373. 1753. (Fig. 5G)
Arbustos ca. 1,5 m alt.; ramos glabros, inermes. Estípulas não observadas, decíduas. Folhas imparipinadas, 7-15-folioladas; pecíolos ca. 15 mm compr., glabros; raque foliar ca. 90 mm compr., faces abaxial e adaxial glabras; folíolos 25-32 × 14-16 mm, elípticos, base arredondada, ápice arredondado, margem inteira, puberulentos; nectários foliares ausentes. Inflorescências racemosas, multifloras, terminais. Flores papilionadas, pentâmeras, não ressupinadas; cálice gamossépalo, ca. 6 mm compr., campanulado, verde, puberulento; corola dialipétala, vexilo ca. 20 × 12 mm, alas ca. 12 × 3 mm, carenas ca. 14 × 3,7 mm, não espiraladas, amarela; estames 10, curtamente monadelfos, ca. 1,4 mm compr., homodínamos; anteras uniformes, ca. 0,7 mm compr., rimosas; ovário ca. 12 mm compr., séssil, piloso; estilete ca. 3 mm compr., glabro. Legumes moniliformes, 4-8,5 × 0,7 cm, puberulentos, deiscentes. Sementes 8-9, esféricas, 7 × 5,6 mm, marrons.
Ocorre no litoral de todas as regiões tropicais do mundo (Peña et al. 2000). No Brasil ocorre nas regiões Norte (AP, PA), Nordeste (AL, BA, CE, MA, PB, PE, RN, SE), Sudeste (ES, RJ, SP) e Sul (PR, RS, SC). Habita os Domínios Fitogeográficos da Amazônia e Mata Atlântica (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre em vegetação Herbácea não inundável. Coletada com flores em abril e setembro, frutos em abril.
Sophora tomentosa é facilmente identificada no PNMJ por ser a única espécie a possuir fruto moniliforme. Este é o primeiro registro de ocorrência desta espécie para o PNMJ.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 17.IX.2010, B. Z. Rohor 02 (VIES); 20.IV.2011, L. A. Silva 005 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on page 284, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818