cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Anchovia macrolepidota
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Clupeiformes
Engraulidae
Anchovia
Anchovia macrolepidota

description: Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner 1863). Big Scale Anchovy, Large Scale Anchovy; Anchoa de Escamas Grandes, Anchoveta Escamuda
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean; from central Baja California Sur, Mexico, to northern Peru; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) ER and PN (Pacific); 0–9 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2020), population trend unknown. Literature: Villa (1982: 95; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Allen (2015: 499; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 23; listed, including information on distribution).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Generalized Sympathy
Creators: name: Jun, Jongho
Publisher: name: GLSA Publications
Year: 1999

description: In order to provide a non-serial analysis for phonological opacity, McCarthy (1998) proposes Sympathy Theory in which all candidates are required to be faithful to a certain model candidate, i.e. sympathy candidate. To select the sympathy candidate and actual output in parallel, McCarthy assumes special conditions for constraint evaluation, Confinement and Invisibility.In this paper, we propose a generalized framework for phonological processes in general, not just opacity, in which special conditions are not needed. Optimality-Theoretic analyses for reduplication, truncation, paradigm uniformity and sympathy all presuppose presence of a pair of two representations, one of which may be considered as a base to the other: base/reduplicant, full word/truncatum, simple/derived word, and sympathy-candidate/output candidate. (Let us call the former B(ase) forms and the latter D(erived) forms.) In these processes, the project for phonology would be to determine the right pair of representations by checking similarity among three forms-I(nput), B, D--and markedness of each of the forms. Generalizing this reasoning, we first propose that Gen generate candidates, each of which consists of a pair of representations, i.e. B/D. Second, each constituent representation of a candidate is evaluated by markedness constraints. Third, different faithfulness constraints are imposed on the identity among I, B and D: IB, BD and ID faithfulness. IO, BR and IR-faithfulness constraints employed in the analyses of reduplication (McCarthy and Prince 1995) correspond to IB, BD and ID-faithfulness constraints respectively. In this generalized approach, opacity occurs when one IB-Faith and one BD-Faith are dominant in the ranking.In the present framework, special conditions like Invisibility are not needed. Similarities among Sympathy, BR-Identity, and OO-Correspondence are directly captured since they are the same faithfulness constraints, i.e. BD-Faith. Finally, parallelism is explicitly incorporated.
Mixed-Signal RF WLAN/4G Communication CMOS Power Amplifiers
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 recent popularity of “smart phones” such as the iPhone continue to put pressure on efficient high data rate wireless communication. Power amplifiers are key components in wireless communication equipment, as they are the determining factor for the range (distance to basestation), data rate, and battery life of portable equipment. Today’s solutions require relatively expensive technologies to be employed and do not benefit directly from the advances enjoyed by digital technologies that power microprocessors and other consumer electronics equipment. The need for higher data rates in mobile communication systems is driven by the large volume of mobile wireless Internet surfing and video traffic, which requires a new generation of wireless standards and equipment. The power amplifier is a major stumbling block in the miniaturization and energy efficiency of mobile communication equipment (smart phones, netbooks, tablets, etc). This proposal will enable a new kind of power amplifier that is inherently more compatible with digital technology, the same technology used to power the microprocessor in the device. In this way, this power amplifier has the promise to reduce the size and cost of the power amplifier, which will result in better performance devices, particularly in terms of battery life and cost.
Conus (Phasmoconus) kuroharai
Creators: name: Tenorio, Manuel J.
name: Puillandre, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus kuroharai

description: Conus (Phasmoconus) kuroharai (Habe, 1965)
Figs 2, 55F–L, N, 70
Asprella kuroharai Habe, 1965: 46, pl. 4 figs 3–4.
Conus kuroharai – R̂ckel et al. 1995b: no. 204, pl. 46 figs 16–19.
Graphiconus kuroharai – Tucker & Tenorio 2013: 245.
Phasmoconus (Phasmoconus) kuroharai – Monnier et al. 2018a: 773.
Material examined
19 lots (23 specimens). See Supp. file 1.
Type material
Holotype JAPAN • 59 mm; off Okinoshima, Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku; ca 100 m depth; NSMT 38679.
Figured material
NEW CALEDONIA • 55.4 mm; Norfolk Ridge, Banc Kaimon Maru, off New Caledonia, stn CP1677; 24º44′ S, 168º09′ E; 233‒259 m depth; 22 Jun. 2001; NORFOLK 1 expedition; MNHN (Fig. 55F) • 60.1 mm; Loyalty Ridge, off New Caledonia, stn DW40; 22º20′ S, 168º41′ E; 275‒295 m depth; 8 Jun. 1989; VOLSMAR expedition; MNHN (Fig. 55G) • 47 mm; Loyalty Ridge, off New Caledonia, stn DW422; 20º26′ S, 166º40′ E; 257 m depth; 16 Feb. 1989; MUSORSTOM 6 expedition; MNHN (Fig. 55H) • 36.7 mm; E Île des Pins, off New Caledonia, stn DW4733; 22°35′ S, 167°36′ E; 138‒146 m depth; 22 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN-IM-2013-66069 (Fig. 55I, N) • 30.5 mm; Norfolk Ridge, Munida, off New Caledonia, stn DW3106; 23°02′ S, 168°21′ E; 180‒220 m depth; 27 Oct. 2008; TERRASSES expedition; MNHN (Fig. 55J) • 20.6 mm; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN (Fig. 55K–L).
Geographical distribution and bathymetry
Japan to the Philippines. In New Caledonia: Norfolk Ridge and Loyalty Ridge, 100 to 500 m, but most often at depths between 200 and 300 m.
Remarks
Shell medium-sized to moderately large (maximum shell length 66 mm). Conical to ventricosely conical, with a low to moderate spire of deeply concave to sigmoid profile. Protoconch multispiral (Fig. 55L), of more than 3 whorls. Last whorl with a characteristic pattern of narrow wavy brown axial lines. Radular tooth (Fig. 55N) with the anterior section shorter than the posterior section. The tooth is serrated with 18–11 denticles arranged in one single row. Barely perceptible elongated terminating cusp. Barb well marked. Blade rounded, covering about 40–50% of the anterior section of the tooth. Basal spur pointing upwards on top of an axially elongated base. The specimens sequenced form a clade sister to Conus (Phasmoconus) richeri Richard & Moolenbeek, 1988 (Fig. 2).
description: Published as part of Tenorio, Manuel J. & Puillandre, Nicolas, 2023, Revision of the deep-water cone snail fauna from New Caledonia (Gastropoda, Conoidea), pp. 1-134 in European Journal of Taxonomy 896 on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.896.2291, http://zenodo.org/record/8405510
Pedaridium margaretae Genier 2002
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Pedaridium
Pedaridium margaretae

description: Pedaridium margaretae Génier &Vaz-de-Mello, 2002
Génier & Vaz-de-Mello, 2002:192, figs 9, 11–14.
Paratype: specimen from BRAZIL, Piauí: São Raimundo Nonato (Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara), I.1999, C. A. Matrangolo col. (MCNZ 234.841).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Universal Parallel Computing Research Center
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 entire computer industry is at a critical juncture. For the last 20 years, microprocessors have doubled performance roughly every 18 months. To keep up with the increased demands for performance in our computers, semiconductor companies have been forced to replace the single, large power-inefficient processor with several smaller, power-efficient processors operating in parallel. This change is the reason behind the “Duo-Core” and “Quad-Core” announcements of the last few years. The concept behind parallel computing is to divide up a project into smaller bits to be completed at the same time, or in parallel. The idea is that more processors operating on the same program simultaneously will enable greater speed. This represents a major sea change in how computers are designed and programmed. Developing software applications that can take advantage of these multi-core processors will become increasingly harder. Dividing up an application to be processed by 20 micro processors won't necessarily lead to a 20-fold increase in speed if the task is not coordinated correctly. For instance, one task may need to wait for another to be completed before proceeding, leading to a computing bottleneck. Managing software development to take advantage of these new parallel processors is incredibly difficult, with diminishing returns on the level of increased performance as industry moves up to 16 and 32 processor systems. Without a resolution to this problem, consumers may find fewer reasons to upgrade to new computers because the increase in performance will be limited. And if consumers stop buying computers, that will have a severe affect on California's Silicon Valley, which has relied on continuous growth in demand of semiconductor chips.
Anchoviella balboae
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Clupeiformes
Engraulidae
Anchoviella
Anchoviella balboae

description: Anchoviella balboae (Jordan & Seale 1926). Balboa Anchovy; Anchoa de Balboa
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean; from southern Honduras to central Panama; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) PN (Pacific); 0–5 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; DD (2017), population trend unknown. Literature: Villa (1982: 96; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology) and Robertson & Allen (2015: 503; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Metamaterial-Based Leaky Wave Antenna with Dual and Circular
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: Antenna plays critical roles in wireless communications, radar/transponder and electronic warfare. Of various forms of antennas, the leaky wave antenna has drawn recent attention when the concept of metamaterial was used in development of new type of leaky wave antenna with much enhanced radiation capability. Beam steering by frequency or electronic control, beam shaping and mounting on a conformal surface have been explored. To date, however, the polarization (direction of the field in the plane transversal to the propagation direction) has been limited to linear type. In the proposed work, this deficiency is alleviated by new type of leaky wave antennas which emit dual or circular polarization so that the capability of the antenna is much enhanced. This is done by a new metamaterial leaky wave antenna based on the integrated waveguide structure. An alternative way is to use a two dimensional array structure with appropriate excitation scheme. The project starts with electromagnetic simulation followed by design, fabrication and measurement of prototype antennas.
Additional file 1: of â  Who has to do it at the end of the day? Programme officials or hospital authorities?â   Airborne infection control at drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) centres of Karnataka, India: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Kibballi Akshaya
name: Shewade, Hemant
name: Ottapura Aslesh
name: Sharath Nagaraja
name: Nirgude, Abhay
name: Singarajipura, Anil
name: Jacob, Anil
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Annex S1. Operational definitions used for assessing compliance of DR-TB centers towards AIC measures in Karnataka, India, 2016-17. Annex S2. Operational definitions used to assess Knowledge about Cough Hygiene and Sputum Disposal of the patients admitted in DR-TB wards of DR-TB centers, Karnataka, India, 2016-17. Annex S3. Interview guides used for key informant interviews at Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) centres of Karnataka, India, 2016-17. (DOCX 25 kb)
Weak Edges and Final Geminates in Swiss German
Creators: name: Spaelti, Philip
Publisher: name: GLSA (Graduate Linguistic Student Association), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts
Year: 2002

description: A fundamental property of geminate consonants, geminates for short, is that they contribute to syllable weight in a similar manner than does vowel length. This property is expressed directly in a theory that treats geminates as consonants associated with an underlying mora (Prince 1980, McCarthy & Prince 1986). This paper defends the view that underlying moraicity is in fact the only distinguishing characteristic of geminates. Such a treatment is more restrictive than a theory that sees geminates as double consonants, since it predicts that geminates do not have two ‘halves’ that can be manipulated independantly. For example in a theory which considers geminates double consonants, extrametricality could affect only one of the pair. This is exactly the approach taken by Levin (1989), in work on noun lengthening in Ponapean, arguing that the moraic theory of geminates is inadequate.Virtually the same phenomenon occurs in Swiss German. Analyzing these cases within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince &Smolensky 1993, henceforth P&S), gives a rather different picture however. The treatment of geminates as underlyingly moraic consonants makes exactly the right predictions. In addition, the analysis has consequences for the application of extrametricality. Extrametricality is abandoned, and replaced by a much more restrictive notion of ‘edge weakening’. Finally the moraic conception of geminates is argued to give a better account of the overall distribtion of geminates.
The consequences of Optimization for Underspecification
Creators: name: Inkelas, Sharon
Publisher: name: GLSA (Graduate Linguistic Student Association), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts
Year: 1994

description: This paper argues for a theory in which underlying representation is determined solely by optimization with respect to the grammar, not by imposing any type of constraints directly on underlying representation. Past principles of underspecification are based on such grammar-blind principles as universal markedness ("Radical Underspecification") or underlying segment inventory ("Contrastive Specification"). I argue instead for an optimization approach to the lexicon, based on an expanded principle of Lexicon Optimization within Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993), in which lexical representation is selected so as to optimize input-output mappings in grammar. In combination with a principle of Grammar Optimization, adapted from Kiparsky 1993, such that the optimal grammar preserves the most underlying structure, Lexicon Optimization results in a novel, utiliarian distribution of underspecification. Underspecification is used when there are alternant surface forms all of which are predictable from context or grammatical defaults. Nonalternating structure which does not condition alternations is, however, fully specified underlyingly. This need-based approach to underspecification overcomes objections raised to past theories of underspecification, rendering unnecessary certain recent attempts to eliminate underspecification from phonological theory (including Optimality Theory).
Anchoviella elongata
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Clupeiformes
Engraulidae
Anchoviella
Anchoviella elongata

description: Anchoviella elongata (Meek & Hildebrand 1923). Elongate Anchovy; Anchoveta Alargada
Vouchers: LSUMZ 15315 (5), 15331 (1) and 15360 (68); other collections: UF 233847 (1). Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean; from northern Belize to northern Colombia; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) Es, BF, IM and To (Atlantic); 0–9 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2015), population trend unknown. Literature: Villa (1982: 96; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 2957; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 23; listed, including information on distribution).
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Pedaridium brasiliensis Ferreira & Galileo 1993
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Pedaridium
Pedaridium brasiliensis

description: Pedaridium brasiliensis Ferreira & Galileo, 1993 [current name: Genieridium bidens (Baltasar, 1938)].
Ferreira & Galileo, 1993:21, figs 108–117, 122, 123, 235; Vaz-de-Melo (2008:28, fig. 55, 56 (syn.).
Paratypes: 3 specimens, BRAZIL, Mato Grosso: Três Lagoas (Fazenda Retiro das Telhas), 15–30.V.1964, Exp. Departamento de Zoologia col. (MCNZ 151.381, 234.838, 234.839); 3 specimens, Bahia: Encruzilhada (980 m), XI.1972, M. Alvarenga col. (MCNZ 151.378, 151.379, 151.380).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Nasal Harmony in Optimal Domains Theory
Creators: name: Cole, Jennifer S.
name: Kisseberth, Charles W.
Publisher: name: Department of Linguistics, California State University
Year: 1994

description: This paper proposes an analysis of nasal harmony within the framework of Optimal Domains Theory (ODT), and demonstrates that transparency and opacity derive from principled constraints that limit the realization of Nasal on potential anchors. The analysis differs fundamentally from the autosegmental analysis in two respects: it does not treat harmony as feature spreading, and it does not use feature specification or feature geometry to distinguish transparent and opaque segments from segments that undergo harmony. The ODT approach can account for the presence of inherently nasal segments that are transparent to harmony, as demonstrated in our analysis of Terena, unlike the autosegmental analysis, which incorrectly predicts that nasal segments will always trigger or be opaque. We also discuss why obstruents are typically opaque to nasal harmony, in light of the notion of contrast and the need to preserve contrast in harmony systems. The ODT analysis is based on the notion of the feature domain and the articulation of constraints which govern both the size and the composition of the feature domain, in this case for the feature [Nasal].
MOESM1 of Evaluation of physicochemical and antioxidant properties of two stingless bee honeys: a comparison with Apis mellifera honey from Nsukka, Nigeria
Creators: name: Nweze, Justus
name: J. Okafor
name: Emeka Nweze
name: Nweze, Julius
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interrelation among some physicochemical and antioxidant parameters of different honey types.
Development of Light Weight and Compact Phased Array Antenna
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: Phased array antennas are widely used in communications and radar systems. Phased array antennas are large systems that are heavy, bulky and expensive. These systems can be used in ground, airborne and satellite spacecraft. In this project, we propose to miniaturize individual components and antennas of a phased array antenna system. We will develop novel structures called metamaterials or left-handed cells in multi-layer liquid crystal polymer films. Using the enabling metamaterials, we will reduce the size of the components by a factor of 4 to 8. We will then use the newly developed components to demonstrate small size and light weight phased array antennas for communications and radar applications.
Object Agreement in Palauan: Specificity, Humanness, Economy, and Optimality
Creators: name: Woolford, Ellen
Publisher: name: GLSA (Graduate Linguistic Student Association), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts
Year: 1995

description: Complex conditions on object agreement and preposition insertion in Palauan, conditioned by aspect, specificity, number, and humanness, are shown to follow from a modified version of Diesing's Mapping Hypothesis interacting with (ranked with respect to) two economy (faithfulness) principles, Avoid Movement and Avoid Insertion. The radical difference that aspect makes in the treatment of objects is shown to fall out if one economy principle is re-ranked in the perfective aspect.
Pristigasteridae Bleeker 1872
Creators: name: Angulo, Arturo
name: Betts, Joel T.
name: González-Alemán, Néstor J.
name: Castañeda, Edgar
name: Berghe, Eric Van Den
name: Elías, Diego J.
name: Mcmahan, Caleb D.
name: Matamoros, Wilfredo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Clupeiformes
Pristigasteridae

description: Family Pristigasteridae Bleeker 1872 (Fig. 2K). Longfin Herrings, Ilishas, Sawbelly Herrings; Sardinas Machetes
Description: Body fusiform to elongate, compressed to strongly compressed; up to 60 cm in length, usually less than 25 cm; mouth short, ends before eye, usually opens upwards, otherwise opens at the front; jaw teeth usually small; pectoral fins low on the side just behind the head; fins without spines; pelvic fins usually absent; abdominal scutes (hardened spiny scales) present; anal fin relatively long-based, with 30–92 rays, its origin under or well before dorsal-fin base; usually silvery in color (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Primarily marine, some freshwater; Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
description: Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
Directional Footing, Degeneracy, and Alignment
Creators: name: Crowhurst, Megan
name: Hewitt, Mark S.
Publisher: name: GLSA (Graduate Linguistic Student Association), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts
Year: 1995

description: This paper argues from an Optimality Theory perspective that no one-to-one correspondence exists between directional footing effects and individual constraints. Recent work in OT claims that directional footing effects are best captured by the constraints All-Feet-Left (Ft-Left) and All-Feet-Right (Ft-Right) in (1) (e.g. McCarthy & Prince 1993b, 1994; Kirchner 1993; Cohn & McCarthy 1994; Crowhurst & Hewitt, in press; Hewitt 1994a; Kager 1994).(1) a. All-Feet-Left: Align(Foot, L, PrWd, L)b. All-Feet-Right: Align(Foot, R, PrWd, R)This paper argues that the relationship between the alignment constraints in (1) and directional footing is more complicated than has been envisioned. In fact, the OT account presented here reveals directional effects to be epiphenomenal: either of the constraints in (1) may yield rightward or leftward footing, depending on its interaction with constraints requiring syllable-to-foot parsing and binary foot structure (see below). We also show that directionality and stray syllable parsing at edges are dependent: right-to-left and left-to-right effects under Ft-Left dominance co-occur with either the presence or the absence of a degenerate foot, but not with both. This relationship is inverted when Ft-Right dominates Ft-Left. One outcome of this study is that interactions among a small number of constraints leads to a modified typological view of metrical patterns familiar from earlier work.
Engineering nano-curcumin with enhanced solubility and in-vitro anti-cancer bioactivity
Creators: name: Liu, Dong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: A number of food components with various health-promoting benefits have been found in many natural plants. Although these phytochemicals show great potential in the functional food market, their bioavailability is a still critical factor that hinders their health benefits. Processing may also induce changes in the properties of food ingredients.   In this Master research project, the problem of poor bioavailability of one polyphenol, curcumin, was addressed by developing a novel delivery system. In order to improve its water solubility and oral bioavailability, researchers have tried numerous encapsulation methods. However, they always went through complicated preparing and processing steps. In this research, a novel nano-formulation of curcumin by wet-milling technology has been developed.   A suspension of curcumin and modified starch was wet-milled to create a stable nanodispersion. Some of the suspension was spray dried. The other was freeze dried. Powdered samples were stored at 4°C in dark for storage. The average particle size of curcumin nanodispersion reduced from 2.4 µm to 150 nm after one-hour wet-milling process and increased to around 1&0nm after one-month storage. The solubility of the nano-sized curcumin was 8.8±0.3 mg/ml increased by 8x105-fold compared to the unformulated curcumin. DSC and XRD results revealed that wet-milling process with modified starch not only reduced the particle size to nano-range, but also transferred some degree of crystal curcumin into the amorphous state. Moreover, the formulated curcumin showed enhanced in-vitro anti-cancer activity in Human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line in the range of 0.5-10 ug/ml.  Moreover, the difference of freeze-drying and spray-drying processes on the properties of nano-curcumin formulation was studied. Both DSC and XRD showed that the freeze-dried nano-curcumin powder had more degree of amorphous state than that of the spray-dried. Using Caco-2 cell monolayer model, it revealed that the permeation of the freeze-dried nano-curcumin was faster than that of the spray-dried one, which indicated that the amorphous form could provide the absorption advantage for the poor water soluble compounds.  This new formulation provides a promising opportunity in the functional food market. Also wet milling technique can be applied for oral delivery systems of other poor-water-soluble compounds for functional food applications.
Elucidating the mechanism of castration-resistant prostate cancer using a novel sequencing 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: The Androgen Receptor (AR) is a critical oncogene in prostate cancer and remains a driver for oncogenic progression in treatment naïve and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Over the past 18 months, two drugs that effectively inhibit AR activity have been approved for men with mCRPC. While these treatments represent a significant breakthrough and have immediate benefits for men living with mCRPC, they are not curative, and resistance can often develop rapidly. The objective of this proposal will be to perform a proof-of-principle demonstration of a microfluidic-based sequencing technology that will allow us to determine the mechanism by which prostate cancer develops resistance to castration therapy. Objective: Develop and validate microfluidic platform for massively-parallel single cell sequencing of prostate tumors. Methods: Droplet-based microfluidic techniques will be used to encapsulate individual tumor cells in drops, lyse the cells, and amplify and barcode the androgen receptor genes. The barcoded genes will be subjected to next generation sequencing. Novel bioinformatic algorithms will be used to sort the reads according to barcodes and generate consensus sequences for the cells' androgen receptor splice isoforms. Statistical tests will be used to analyze the single cell data to measure the variance in splice isoform expression across the entire population.
An army of lovers
Creators: name: Longo, Philip M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation argues that Eros as an intimate force of attachment plays a crucial role in the development of alternative social and political forms during the American sexual revolution. Sixties counter-cultural novelists and radical theorists employ a politicized discourse of Eros to imagine new forms of belonging apart from the oppressive social and political constraints of postwar America. Novelists such as Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, James Baldwin and Toni Cade Bambara craft “erotic communities” in their texts, while political theorists such as Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown, Hannah Arendt and Audre Lorde articulate them in their theories. Erotic communities emerge as social entities out of the relational contradictions of postwar America and are defined by the social constraints of intimate attachment. While most critics have viewed sexuality in postwar America through the lens of the complete liberation of pleasure from repression, I argue that many American writers are interested in developing alternative social constraints to Eros, not eliminating social constraints completely. They articulate these constraints through the discourse of sexual intimacy as attachment, imagining and developing social models based on interdependence, reciprocity and democratic engagement, elements they see lacking in postwar social structures. This dissertation concludes that alternative relational and social forms in postwar America emerge through intimate connection, and it aims to provide a critical  iii  method to better understand and interpret them in postwar American literature and culture.
Additional file 1 of RNA inverse folding using Monte Carlo tree search
Creators: name: Xiufeng Yang
name: Yoshizoe, Kazuki
name: Taneda, Akito
name: Tsuda, Koji
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This supplementary report shows the experimental results for individual Rfam families where the GC content is controlled to different target values and the performance of antaRNA with optimized parameters. (PDF 1198 kb)
title: Diascia :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Diascia
Jamesbrittenia

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Novel strategies for determining the molecular mechanisms of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
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: OBJECTIVE: To enable the development of neuroprotective strategies and treatments that improve nervous system function, reduce interruptions of therapy, and improve patient comfort and survival. We will determine the molecular mechanisms of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) by assessing the effects of antineoplastic drugs on axonal transport using reconstituted protein systems and newly-derived human neural cells. Aim 1: Determine the effect of taxanes and epothilones on the rates and patterns of kinesin translocation along tau-assembled MTs using high-resolution fluorescence microscopy and optical traps. Although these methods have been used extensively to study the enzymatic properties of single kinesin motors, the possible role of the MT surface in modifying kinesin stepping has been completely neglected in previous work. Thus, this work will break new ground in understanding how MTs can regulate axonal transport. Aim 2: Determine the effect of taxanes and epothilones on MT stiffness using novel filament tracking and spectral analysis methods and/or optical traps to directly manipulate single MTs. High-resolution mapping of MT topography has been limited by finite imaging resolution. Stiffness measurements provide a novel alternative to structure determination, particularly at low tau concentrations. Aim 3: Determine the extent to which cultured human neuronal cells treated with taxanes and epothilones exhibit altered axonal transport, abnormal patterns of neurite outgrowth, and loss of viability. The choice of model system for the cellular work is extraordinarily important for this work, since rodent brain chemistry is drastically different from that of humans. Recent advances in stem cell technologies will enable use of human neuronal cells, providing a unique platform for studying the mechanisms of human disease.
Cultural heritage as a tool for development and diplomacy
Creators: name: Lowe, Tiffany M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This thesis will examine UNESCO trend on policies and conventions that focus on and affect the creation of intangible heritage-based women’s socioeconomic development programs. Following this line of inquiry, the thesis will next examine in detail intangible heritage policies and conventions, and the execution and implementation of preservation policies and treaties. The research will then specifically detail and analyze development projects that were initiated by UNESCO as case studies of how heritage based development policies operate and succeed. The conclusion of this paper will propose how the combination of intangible heritage preservation and women’s development projects can be used to further international cultural diplomatic efforts and relations. This can be achieved by the creation of bilateral treaties between nations and through the application of these culturally focused women’s development programs, including post-conflict recovery opportunities.
Mapping telomerase activity in human cells using a unique telomerase mutant
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: Telomerase confers immortality upon the large majority of human tumors by elongating telomeres and extending replicative lifespan. Many gaps remain in our understanding of telomerase activity and the cellular factors that regulate this activity. One key unresolved question is whether human telomerase preferentially acts at the shortest telomeres or if it acts at most telomeres during each cell cycle. Evidence has accumulated to support both possibilities, but technical challenges have made it a difficult question to approach. Complicating matters is that the activity patterns of telomerase are likely to be cell type specific. Here, we describe a novel approach to address this unresolved issue. The telomerase enzyme is minimally composed of a protein reverse transcriptase (TERT) and a template-containing RNA (TER). Our laboratory overexpresses mutant forms of the telomerase RNA, termed mutTERs, that contain mutations in the template region. The mutTERs join with wild-type TERT in the cell to form active mutant telomerases that add mutated telomeric repeats to the chromosome ends. These mutant telomeric repeats typically block binding of the shelterin proteins that protect the telomere ends from recognition as DNA double-strand breaks, thereby rapidly inducing a DNA damage response and blocking cell proliferation. We recently tested a new mutTER, termed mutTER-1010, that adds TTGCGG mutant repeats instead of wild-type TTAGGG telomeric repeats. Surprisingly, we observe significant incorporation of 1010 mutant sequence at the majority of telomeres by fluorescence in situ hybridization in several human cell lines, yet mutTER-1010 has very little effect on the short-term proliferation of the cells. Thus, we can use incorporation of 1010 mutant sequence to monitor telomerase-directed elongation of each individual telomere in a cell. In Aim 1, we will perform experiments to understand why this particular mutant telomeric sequence is so well-tolerated by human cells compared to other mutant telomeric sequences that rapidly block cell proliferation. In Aim 2, we will use mutTER-1010 to ask whether telomerase preferentially acts at the shortest telomeres in several human cell types. Importantly, these efforts will set the stage for identifying the cellular factors that regulate telomerase activity patterns. In sum, these experiments will characterize a novel technique for mapping telomerase activity patterns in human cells, and we will leverage this new approach to address an important unresolved question in the tel
Trichillidium caingua
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Trichillidium
Trichillidium caingua

description: Trichillidium caingua (Martinez, 1974)
Martinez, 1974: 65 (Pedaridium); Vaz-de-Mello, 2008:46, fig. 97 (comb. nov.). Paratype ♀, ARGENTINA, Misiones: Frontera (San Antonio, não localizada), IX.1957, A. Martinez col. (MCNZ 151.382).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Additional file 1: of â  Who has to do it at the end of the day? Programme officials or hospital authorities?â   Airborne infection control at drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) centres of Karnataka, India: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Kibballi Akshaya
name: Shewade, Hemant
name: Ottapura Aslesh
name: Sharath Nagaraja
name: Nirgude, Abhay
name: Singarajipura, Anil
name: Jacob, Anil
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Annex S1. Operational definitions used for assessing compliance of DR-TB centers towards AIC measures in Karnataka, India, 2016-17. Annex S2. Operational definitions used to assess Knowledge about Cough Hygiene and Sputum Disposal of the patients admitted in DR-TB wards of DR-TB centers, Karnataka, India, 2016-17. Annex S3. Interview guides used for key informant interviews at Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) centres of Karnataka, India, 2016-17. (DOCX 25 kb)
Structure and polymerization dynamics of a new family of tubulins
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: Microtubules are a central component of the eukaryotic spindle and a target for a large number of clinically important chemotherapeutic agents. Understanding the structure, function, and evolution of tubulins is important for understanding the mode of action of tubulin inhibitors, deducing the mechanisms by which resistance to these inhibitors arises, and developing novel compounds with improved pharmacological properties. We have recently discovered a new family of tubulins, PhuZ, encoded by viruses that infect bacteria. PhuZ positions replicating viral DNA in the center of the cell during phage lytic growth, providing the first example of a bacterial spindle that centers DNA. PhuZ comprises the central force generating mechanism of a streamlined mitotic machinery that lacks tubulin-directed motor proteins involved in eukaryotic mitosis. It provides an ideal system for understanding how GTP binding and hydrolysis are coupled to tubulin polymerization, force generation and DNA movement, thereby illuminating the fundamental force generating capabilities of tubulin and the selective pressures that shaped the evolution of the more ornate eukaryotic cytokeleton. The purpose of this proposal is to fully understand the function, biochemical properties, and structure of PhuZ. We will explore the biochemical similarities between PhuZ and tubulin and determine whether PhuZ is affected by any of the known classes of tubulin inhibitors. Specifically, we propose to: 1. Identify proteins that interact with PhuZ and determine how these interacting proteins affect its polymerization activities in vitro and in vivo. 2. Characterize PhuZ polymerization in vivo (using FRAP) and in vitro (using dynamic light scattering) and determine how various tubulin inhibitors affect these dynamic properties. 3. Determine the structure of PhuZ filaments assembled in vitro. These experiments will likely have very broad implications beyond the study of the microbial cytoskeleton, as they will directly impact our understanding of the structure, function and evolution of the entire tubulin/FtsZ superfamily. Improving our working knowledge of the biochemical properties of PhuZ will provide insight into the evolution of the biochemical mechanisms underlying the various functions catalyzed by tubulin-like proteins.