cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Utilizing real-time location data for performance monitoring in healthcare systems
Creators: name: Demir, Cenk
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Although both public and private healthcare expenditures have been very high in the US when compared to other wealthy and industrialized nations; the quality and reach of services provided have constantly been in dispute. For that reason, improving the efficiency of healthcare services has emerged to be an important goal. However, the unpredictable and complex nature of the healthcare environments makes this goal difficult to achieve. Recently industrial engineering methods started being applied to improve hospital efficiencies.  In addition, the utilization of technological advancements such as RFID based real time location systems (RTLS) in the healthcare sector provides an additional opportunity to apply industrial engineering methods to healthcare.In this thesis, a data transformation and analysis framework is developed to be employed as part of a RTLS schema in a hospital unit. This framework consists of a software agent that is capable of monitoring, analyzing and predicting the performance of a process from RTLS data. The software agent performs its task by means of several statistical methods customized for specific purposes. It can identify steady state behavior, changes in the mean and transient states such as learning curves. Its main purpose is to detect the effects of modifications on the system and forecast the future performance level. A simulation model is built to produce tracking data of entities in a hypothetical hospital unit to be fed into the software agent via a database structure. This completes the framework and enables the testing of the developed agent using realistic data.RTLSs typically suffer from accuracy issues which result in imperfect tracking data. This makes performance monitoring very infeasible or even impossible. To overcome this issue, a data cleaning algorithm is developed which can be fully integrated with the developed performance agent. The algorithm utilizes a Bayesian approach in a sliding window analysis. Testing of the data cleaning algorithm is performed for various scenarios.
Typhlodromips sessor
Creators: name: K, Rana Akyazı
name: SoysalK, Mete
name: UeckermannK, Edward A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Typhlodromips
Typhlodromips sessor

description: Typhlodromips sessor (De Leon 1962)
Material examined — 2 ♀♀. 1 ♀ (Altınordu, N40°54′36.26″ E37°50′22.97″, 140 m,
02. IX.2019), 1 ♀ (Fatsa, N40°58′39.37″ E37°24′59.45″, 96 m, 06. VIII.2018)
Remarks — De Leon (1962) first described Typhlodromips sessor from material collected from Vernonia sp. (Asteraceae) and apple leaves in Tennessee, USA. Later, the species were collected from Canada (Sciarappa et al. 1977), USA (Denmark and Evans 2011), Japan (Toyasima et al. 2014) and Türkiye (Samsun) (Baş et al. 2022). In Türkiye, Baş et al. (2022) reported it from Populus deltoides Bartr. Ex Marsh (Salicaceae) leaves in Samsun.
description: Published as part of K, Rana Akyazı, SoysalK, Mete & UeckermannK, Edward A., 2024, Mite species of kiwi vines in Türkiye, pp. 1030-1051 in Acarologia 64 (4) on page 1042, DOI: 10.24349/9lvs-4bzy, http://zenodo.org/record/14670139
Hessebius barbipes Porat 1893
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Hessebius
Hessebius barbipes

description: Hessebius barbipes (Porat, 1893)
L. [Lithobius (Oligobothrus)] Vosseleri: Verhoeff 1901: 441 (synonymy). Archilithobius dadayi Tömosvary [sic], 1880: Turk 1952: 657 (misidentification). Lithobius vossleri Verhoeff: Eason 1983: 122 (synonymy).
Material examined: 176 3, 74 ƤƤ, 7 unsexed, 15 larvae.
Sites: 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 16, 19, 21, 23, 29, 37, 38, 40, 41, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 69, 71, 75 (published), 83, 86 (published), 105, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116, 119, 120, 121, 123, 125, 132, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 148, 149, 150, 154, 158, 160, 172, 180, 181, 183, 184 (Fig. 3).
General distribution. Europe: Greece (Dodecanese); North Africa: Egypt; West Asia: Cyprus, northwestern Iran, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, southwestern Turkey; Central Asia: Turkmenistan (Zalesskaja 1978; Eason 1981; Zapparoli 1991, 1999; Stoev 1997).
Chorotype. Turano-Mediterranean.
Habitats. Sandy beaches, cultivations with vineyards, under Eucalyptus, maquis and phryganic formations with Sarcopoterium spinosum, Ceratonia and Pistacia, mixed forests with Pinus, Quercus and Acer, mixed Pinus forest, near ponds with Eucalyptus and Acacia, ravines with Platanus, Juniperus and Pinus, open fields with Ceratonia.
Altitudinal range: 0–1900 m.
Remarks. Generically quoted from Cyprus by Verhoeff (1901) under L. vosseleri, whose identity has been discussed by Eason (1983). The record under “ Archilithobius dadayi Tömösvary, 1880 ” given by Turk (1952) from Mountain Olympus (Troodos Mt.), is assigned here to this species.
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus antidorcas Hromadka 2010
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus antidorcas

description: Philonthus antidorcas Hromádka, 2010
Philonthus antidorcas Hromádka, 2010e: 10, Figs 16–19.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ MALAWI S. Jall env. / 30km SE of Zomba / 26.-27. xii.2001 / J. Bezděk, lgt. [p, yellow label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (Pseudoph.) / antidorcas sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 200 [p] 8 [hw, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 365, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Virtual network traffic shaping (VNTS) technique to ensure fairness in virtual WiMax networks
Creators: name: Daya, Ronak
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents the results of an experimental study on wireless network virtualization. The design and evaluation of virtualization methods for a WiMAX base station, a wireless technology of growing importance for emerging “4G” wide-area data services is performed using an experimental WiMAX base station which has recently been deployed at WINLAB, Rutgers University as part of the national GENI experimental network for future Internet research.  The goal of this project was to benchmark the performance of this WiMAX base station with and without virtualization over a range of realistic scenarios, and to evaluate methods for improving fairness and isolation between virtual networks in the system under study.A set of mobile client experiments (without virtualization)  show that the base station is capable of operating at peak rates of around 16 Mbps indoors, and that the achievable bit-rate at a mobile client varies considerably as a function of received signal strength (RSSI) at the mobile client.  The next step was to perform virtualization of this device, using Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM); with multiple slices having the ability to share the same base station. Experimental results are performed for multiple virtual networks operating in realistic scenarios with varying received signal strength at mobile devices.  The results show that virtual networks can have significant coupling between their throughput performance, and that unfairness is further amplified by autorate and scheduling algorithms in the WiMAX base station, which have the effect of moving resources to mobile clients with low signal-to-noise ratio.As a solution to the above mentioned problem, a Virtual Network Traffic Shaping (VNTS) technique is proposed and evaluated. An algorithm is developed using feedback from the base station’s control interface to assess the current channel utilization for each slice.  A control parameter in the form of downlink data rate is defined and this value is regulated dynamically for each slice, using an implementation of the Click Modular Router in order to maintain fairness across slices. The VNTS auto-reconfigures itself and imposes fairness at pre-set time intervals.  We evaluate the performance of this mechanism and compare it to the initial results that were observed for the uncontrolled scenario. Preliminary results indicate that the VNTS scheme effectively implements fairness, and helps to reduce the coupling between slices.
title: Modulated acoustic agglomeration system and method
Creators: name: Meegan, George Douglas
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: B01D51/08
subject: Y10S55/29
subject: 55/318
subject: 55/DIG29
subject: 95/29
subject: 96/389
subject: 96/397

description: An acoustic agglomerator for agglomerating constituents in a fluid is provided. The acoustic agglomerator includes an area containing a fluid having constituents and an acoustic generator operable to generate a modulated acoustic field to enhance agglomeration of the constituents in the fluid. In one aspect the acoustic field is frequency modulated and in other aspects the acoustic field is amplitude modulated, while yet in other aspects the acoustic field is both frequency and amplitude modulated. A method for agglomerating constituents in a fluid is also provided. The method includes providing a fluid with a constituent and applying an acoustic field to the fluid. The method provides for modulating the acoustic field to cause the constituent to agglomerate.
A Scoping Review and Consensus Recommendations for Emergency Medical Services Buprenorphine (EMS-Bupe) Programs
Creators: name: Joiner, Anjni P.
name: Wanthal, Jessica
name: Murrell, Angela N.
name: Cabañas, José G.
name: Carroll, Gerard
name: Hern, H. Gene
name: Sasser, Mike
name: Poland, Cara
name: Mercer, Mary Piscitello
name: Glenn, Melody
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies are beginning to provide low-barrier access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) through the development of EMS buprenorphine (EMS-Bupe) programs. However, evidence-based practices for these programs are lacking. Our aim was to review the current literature on EMS and emergency department (ED) based buprenorphine treatment programs to provide consensus recommendations on the EMS-Bupe program development. We performed a scoping review of EMS-Bupe programs and ED medication for OUD (MOUD) programs. We searched Ovid MEDLINE(R), Embase.com, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Web of Science (Science Citation Index) for English language articles and abstracts. Additional articles/abstracts as identified independently by coauthors were added. Recommendations were generated through consensus based on the findings of the scoping review and other relevant literature. We identified a total of 9 EMS-Bupe articles/abstracts and 21 ED MOUD abstract, representing 5 EMS-Bupe programs in 4 states. There was significant variability between programs, from infrastructure, medication dosing, and retention rates. Results and recommendations were grouped into 8 categories: EMS program infrastructure, withdrawal classification thresholds, EMS protocol inclusion/exclusion criteria, buprenorphine dosing and adjunct medications, EMS disposition and scene times, EMS clinician training, referrals, and EMS data collection and quality management. The EMS-Bupe program data are limited but show important variability. In general, we recommend that programs respond to community needs by establishing relationships with local resources. We also favor protocols that increase patient eligibility and treatment retention. Lastly, programs should consider low-barrier, patient-centered strategies aimed at preventing gaps in treatment.
Lithobius Leach 1814
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Lithobius

description: Lithobius Leach, 1814
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 284, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Risk factors influencing the growth and survival of Salmonella on poultry products
Creators: name: Dominguez Risco, Silvia A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Salmonella bacteria are commonly found in poultry carcasses and their presence after processing may lead to foodborne disease outbreaks. Consumption of frozen chicken products containing raw poultry has been recently identified as a risk factor for salmonellosis. Survival of the pathogen after freezing and frozen storage may lead to infection if the food product is insufficiently cooked when, for example, using a microwave oven.In this dissertation, we have studied three scenarios that affect the risk of salmonellosis on poultry products: the effect of storage temperature on the growth of Salmonella on raw poultry, the survival of Salmonella during frozen storage in processed poultry products, and the efficacy of microwave cooking on the destruction of Salmonella in frozen chicken entrées. Our results show that (1) a model can be used to predict the growth of Salmonella on raw poultry as a function of storage temperature; (2) Salmonella are able to survive frozen storage on processed chicken products with structural injury as a consequence; (3) neither lipopolysaccharide nor porin defects hindered the survival of Salmonella during storage at -20°C; and (4) cooking of frozen entrées following the product’s label instructions using a low-wattage (500W) microwave oven resulted in nonlethal heating profiles and Salmonella survival.A quantitative microbial risk model was also developed in order to assess the risk of salmonellosis associated with consumption of raw, frozen chicken products cooked in low-wattage microwave ovens. A 2005 salmonellosis outbreak in Minnesota linked to raw, frozen chicken entrees was simulated 100 times using our model. Despite certain limitations in availability of data, model predictions (5-7 reported illnesses) were in close agreement with the actual outbreak outcome (4 reported illnesses). The risk assessment model developed may provide useful quantitative data relevant for risk management initiatives, ultimately aiming at controlling the risk of salmonellosis from raw, frozenchicken products.
Philonthus alcelaphus Hromadka 2011
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus alcelaphus

description: Philonthus alcelaphus Hromádka, 2011
Philonthus alcelaphus Hromádka, 2011c: 156, Figs 5–8.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ ETHIOPIA:Bale / 8km. W.of Dinshu / 0706 N. 3444 E. / 3.050m. xii. 1971 [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / alcelaphus sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2009. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 364, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
title: Fiber-based optical low coherence tomography
Creators: name: Milner, Thomas E.
name: Dave, Digant P.
name: Akkin, Taner
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: A61B5/0066
subject: A61B5/0261
subject: G01P5/26
subject: G01B9/0201
subject: G01B9/02027
subject: G01B9/02045
subject: G01B9/02091
subject: G01N21/4795
subject: G01P5/001
subject: G01B2290/45
subject: G01B2290/70
subject: 356/369
subject: 356/477
subject: 356/491
subject: 385/11
subject: 385/12
subject: 385/15

description: Generally, and in one form of the present invention, is a polarization-maintaining fiber-based polarization sensitive optical low coherence reflectometer for depth resolved birefringence measurement. With the present invention, linear birefringence of a sample may be measured from data recorded in a single A-Scan. In addition, the present invention provides for the simultaneous measurement of retardation and orientation of birefringent axes, wherein measured retardation is insensitive to sample rotation in the plane perpendicular to ranging.
A scoping review and consensus recommendations for emergency medical services buprenorphine (EMS-Bupe) programs
Creators: name: Joiner, Anjni P.
name: Wanthal, Jessica
name: Murrell, Angela N.
name: Cabañas, José G.
name: Carroll, Gerard
name: Hern, Gene
name: Sasser, Mike
name: Poland, Cara
name: Mercer, Mary
name: Glenn, Melody
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies are beginning to provide low-barrier access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) through the development of EMS buprenorphine (EMS-Bupe) programs. However, evidence-based practices for these programs are lacking. Our aim was to review the current literature on EMS and emergency department (ED) based buprenorphine treatment programs to provide consensus recommendations on the EMS-Bupe program development. We performed a scoping review of EMS-Bupe programs and ED medication for OUD (MOUD) programs. We searched Ovid MEDLINE(R), Embase.com, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Web of Science (Science Citation Index) for English language articles and abstracts. Additional articles/abstracts as identified independently by coauthors were added. Recommendations were generated through consensus based on the findings of the scoping review and other relevant literature. We identified a total of 9 EMS-Bupe articles/abstracts and 21 ED MOUD abstract, representing 5 EMS-Bupe programs in 4 states. There was significant variability between programs, from infrastructure, medication dosing, and retention rates. Results and recommendations were grouped into 8 categories: EMS program infrastructure, withdrawal classification thresholds, EMS protocol inclusion/exclusion criteria, buprenorphine dosing and adjunct medications, EMS disposition and scene times, EMS clinician training, referrals, and EMS data collection and quality management. The EMS-Bupe program data are limited but show important variability. In general, we recommend that programs respond to community needs by establishing relationships with local resources. We also favor protocols that increase patient eligibility and treatment retention. Lastly, programs should consider low-barrier, patient-centered strategies aimed at preventing gaps in treatment.
Ectomomyrmex
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Ectomomyrmex

description: Species of Ectomomyrmex
Wilson (1958c) provided a key to the Melanesian Ectomomyrmex fauna.
E. aciculatus (Emery, 1901): New Guinea (comb. rev.)
E. acutus (Emery, 1900): New Guinea (comb. rev.)
E. aequalis Mann, 1919: Solomon Islands (comb. rev.)
E. annamitus (André, 1892): Vietnam (comb. rev.)
E. annamitus arcuatus Forel, 1900: India (comb. rev.)
E. apicalis (Smith, F. 1857): Borneo (comb. nov.)
E. astutus (Smith, F., 1858): Australia (comb. rev.)
E. astutus obscurus (Karavaiev, 1935): Vietnam (comb. nov.)
E. claudatus Menozzi, 1926: Philippines (comb. rev.)
E. exaratus (Emery, 1901): New Guinea (comb. rev.)
E. insulanus (Mayr, 1876): Samoa Island (comb. rev.)
E. javanus Mayr, 1867: Java (comb. rev.)
E. leeuwenhoeki (Forel, 1886): India (comb. rev.)
E. leeuwenhoeki jacobsoni (Forel, 1915): Indonesia (Simalur I.) (comb. nov.)
E. leeuwenhoeki sumatrensis (Forel, 1901): Indonesia (Sumatra) (comb. nov.)
E. lobocarenus (Xu, 1996): China (comb. nov.)
E. melancholicus (Smith, 1865): Indonesia (comb. nov.)
E. modiglianii (Emery, 1900): Indonesia (Sumatra) (comb. nov.)
E. obtusus (Emery, 1900): Borneo (comb. rev.)
E. overbecki (Viehmeyer, 1916): Singapore (comb. nov.)
E. punctatus (Karavaiev, 1935): Vietnam (comb. nov.)
E. ruficornis Clark, 1934: Australia (comb. rev.)
E. sauteri (Forel, 1912): Taiwan (comb. nov.)
E. scobinus Wilson, 1958: New Guinea (comb. rev.)
E. simillimus (Donisthorpe, 1949): New Guinea (comb. rev.)
E. striatulus (Karavaiev, 1935): Indonesia (comb. rev.)
E. striolatus (Donisthorpe, 1933): India (comb. nov.)
E. sumatranus (Özdikmen, 2010): Indonesia (Sumatra) (comb. nov.)
E. tonkinus (Santschi, 1920): Vietnam (comb. rev.)
E. vermiculatus (Emery, 1897): Indonesia (comb. rev.)
E. zhengi (Xu, 1995): China (comb. nov.)
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on pages 193-194, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
Philonthus aquila Hromadka 2011
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus aquila

description: Philonthus aquila Hromádka, 2011
Philonthus aquila Hromádka, 2011b: 40, Figs 5–8.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ [p, pink label] // CONGO BELGE / Libenge / 29. 4. 1948 / R.Cremer – M. Neuman [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / aquila sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2009. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 365, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Multi-period scenario generation to support portfolio optimization
Creators: name: Deniz, Erhan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Stochastic Programming (SP) models are widely used for real life problems involving uncertainty. The random nature of problem parameters is modeled via discrete scenarios, which makes the scenario generation process very critical to the success of the overall approach. In this study we consider a portfolio management problem and propose two scenario generation algorithms and a SP model to support investment decisions. The main objective of the scenario generation algorithms is to infer representative probability values to be assigned to the scenario realizations sampled from historical data. The first algorithm assigns the probabilities by using similarity scores, assigning higher probabilities to the scenarios with data paths that are relatively similar to historical paths, where similarity scores are computed by means of distance measures. We first implement this approach using the weighted Euclidean distance (WED). We also propose a new distance measure to obtain similarity scores as an alternative to WED.The second scenario generation algorithm is based on the combination of moment-matching technique and the Exponential Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) model. Scenario probabilities are assigned such that the first four moments of the sampled returns are fit to target moments through a linear programming model, where the second target moments are set to be conditional on the past scenarios on the scenario tree using the EGARCH model. An additional set of constraints are proposed to increase robustness.The generated scenarios become input to the SP model to restructure the existing portfolio such that the expected final wealth is maximized and the risk exposure is controlled through constraining Conditional Value-at-Risk at each decision epoch on the scenario tree. We finally propose a generic approach to reduce potential losses and implement it on a logistic regression framework.
title: Impact instrument
Creators: name: Schroder, Kurt A.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: A63B49/08
subject: A63B60/00
subject: A63B60/06
subject: A63B60/54
subject: A63B53/14
subject: A63B60/08
subject: A63B60/10
subject: A63B60/12
subject: A63B2102/02
subject: A63B2102/32
subject: B25D1/00
subject: B25D1/04
subject: B25G1/01
subject: 473/520
subject: 473/549
subject: 81/20
subject: 81/22

description: An impact instrument for delivering an impulse to an object. The impact instrument may include an impact surface for contacting the object and an elongated member extending from the impact surface that terminates in an end. The elongated member may include a grasping region in the vicinity of the end. When the instrument is grasped within the grasping region, the center of percussion of the instrument preferably coincides with the impact surface. The instrument may also contain pivoting grasping member disposed on the elongated member. A cavity is preferably formed between the grasping member and the elongated member and may contain compressible material. The grasping member may rigidly contact the elongated member at an ideal pivot point. The grasping member is preferably adapted to pivot with respect to the elongated member at the ideal pivot point. The pivoting of the grasping member preferably increases the amount of impulse delivered to an object, decreases vibration experienced by the user of the instrument, and reduces counter-rotational forces imparted from the instrument to the user. The impact instrument may be a hammer, ax, golf club, tennis racket, or similar device.
A new, 3D overlapping-sphere model of cell adhesion
Creators: name: Doumi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Cell adhesion refers to the ability of cells to make enduring and dynamic attachments to extracellular surfaces and to each other; rightly so it is a focal point of current biological research.  I have designed a computational framework to model cell adhesion using a modified overlapping-sphere model.  A core feature of the model is the three-dimensional representation of a cell surface that can interact mechanically with its environment.  The generalization of a cell as a sphere gives our model the compactness to enable the simulations of thousands of cells, comparable to the number of cells typically encountered through small scale studies of early development and disease.  Specifically, we use this computational framework to model adhesion between cells in a monolayer and a fibrous environment, cell shape change, as well as cell replication.  We also include elements of cell orientation, or cell polarity, and touch on some aspects of mechanical feedback.  We explore some general aspects of developmental biology as well as cancer in mammary ducts.   Although we emphasize epithelial cells, which are cells that form monolayers, we also briefly consider migratory cells.   The major results are that (1) Cells in a monolayer, like sheets and tubes, need to be both mobile and well-connected to adapt to mechanically stresses, (2) Cells that are not polarized do not produce a stable monolayer of cells, (3) Extracellular support, like a basement membrane, can minimize the stresses experienced at cell-cell junctions, (4) Mitosis triggered by tension can help maintain a monolayer of cells, (5) Cell shape needs to be incorporated into models to minimize undesirable stresses, (6) Our computational framework is useful to predict behavior of cells subjected to mechanical forces. As this is a new model, results are chiefly qualitative, and suggest future work in collaboration with experimentalists to verify and quantitate our results.
title: Coating substrates by polymerizing macromers having free radical-polymerizable substituents
Creators: name: Hubbell, Jeffrey A.
name: Sawhney, Amarpreet S.
name: Desai, Neil P.
name: Pathak, Chandrashekhar P.
name: Hill, Jennifer L.
name: Hossainy, Syed
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: A61K9/1635
subject: A61K9/1647
subject: A61K9/5026
subject: A61K9/5031
subject: A61K9/5073
subject: A61K38/42
subject: A61K38/44
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description: Water soluble macromers are modified by addition of free radical polymerizable groups, such as those containing a carbon-carbon double or triple bond, which can be polymerized under mild conditions to encapsulate tissues, cells, or biologically active materials. The polymeric materials are particularly useful as tissue adhesives, coatings for tissue lumens including blood vessels, coatings for cells such as islets of Langerhans, and coatings, plugs, supports or substrates for contact with biological materials such as the body, and as drug delivery devices for biologically active molecules. A medical condition can be treated by applying to a site a polymerization initiator, then applying a substantially water-soluble, degradable macromer of at least 200 mw and having at least two crosslinkable substituents, and polymerizing the macromer to form a polymeric material that can adhere two surfaces together, be an immunoisolation barrier, prevent adhesion of the site to another surface, or contain a biologically active material for delivery or to provide the polymeric material with resistance to bacterial growth or a decrease in inflammatory response. A biocompatible substrate can be coated by applying a mixture of the macromer of at least 400 mw and an initiator and polymerizing. The initiator may be applied to the substrate before the macromer.
Monitoring and interpreting multistage and multicategory processes
Creators: name: Duran Lopez, Rodrigo Ignacio
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Consider processes where a transaction moves through stages and falls within a category at each stage. For example, in a tax complaint process, the stages are the steps taxpayers follow to resolve a property tax dispute from initial complaint through final resolution. The primary motivation here is customer service, although the transactions could be related to manufacturing applications as well.The main contribution here is a method to monitor the fractions and numbers of transactions within and across stages of multistage and multicategory processes, a problem that has not been formulated before in the literature. The proposed method not only signals an out-of-control situation, it identifies accurately and easily which stages and categories are causing the disturbance, providing interpretations within and across stages of the process. The proposed methodology works as follows: If a multinomial distribution fits the number of transactions in each category at every stage, then the process is decomposed into single stages that are monitored separately, and finally into independent binary substages with two categories. Each binary substage is characterized by a conditional probability and monitored with an independent fraction, called a tree fraction. The number of tree fractions that are monitored depends on the number of final categories, i.e., those that do not split in any further categories, not on the number of stages.Two other contributions, summarized next, address the single stage case. Each is useful by itself, and each contributes to the method for the multistage case as well. The first is a new two-sided CUSUM Arcsine method to monitor a process with two categories. The second is the p-tree method that monitors a multinomial process. The p-tree method not only signals an out-of-control situation, it identifies accurately which categories are causing the problem, in contrast to the widely used method in Marcucci (1985). Future research would cover monitoring other types of multistage processes in service. An application of using probability trees to test and interpret associations in contingency tables is envisioned.
Philonthus bezdeki Hromadka 2010
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus bezdeki

description: Philonthus bezdeki Hromádka, 2010
Philonthus bezdeki Hromádka, 2010c: 32, Figs 8–11.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ ♀ (, dissected genitalia on a separate plastic card):‘ ♀ [p, orange label] // MALAWI cent. / Dedza env. / 16.xii.2001 / J. Bezděk, leg. [p, yellow label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / bezdeki sp. nov. ♀ / Hromádka, det. 2005 [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 366, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Modelling the impact of flexible AC transmission systems on the operation of electrical transmission grids
Creators: name: Sandmeier, Thorben
name: Ardone, Armin
name: Fichtner, Wolf
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023

description: Mitigating climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. In order to reach the Paris agreement of keeping global warning well below 2°C, massive changes in the German and European energy system are indispensable. One of the measures is the decarbonization of the electricity generation sector, resulting in the decommissioning of conventional power plants like coal and lignite and a massive expansion of renewable energies capacities, especially onshore and offshore wind and photovoltaic. Together with the prognosed overall increasing electricity demand, the fluctuating generation from renewables and the missing, easily controllable generation from conventional power plants represent a great challenge for the German and European transmission grid today and even more in the upcoming years and decades, since the balance between generation and demand must be maintained at all times without violating voltage, frequency or thermal limits. Grid expansion is necessary and already in planning, but the process of building new transmission lines is costly and time consuming. Another supplementary approach is grid reinforcement, which includes measures that help in utilizing the existing transmission lines to their full potential. One of these measures is the use of flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS). This group of electrotechnical devices is able to provide reactive power and thus secure voltage stability as well as to control power flows in the transmission system. An extensive application of FACTS can be used to prevent and resolve congestions in the transmission grid and thus reduce redispatch volumes and costs, renewables curtailment and load shedding. To further investigate the technical and economic potential of FACTS in the future energy system, we provide technically detailed models for different types of FACTS, which are then integrated into an AC optimal power flow model. We check for plausibility by using a standard testcase, where the theoretical potential of FACTS in congestion management is already indicated. We then present the first results of a case-study, where we applied the model on the German energy system including the transmission grid, and discuss the findings and further research options and goals.
Investigation of local breakdown of the Quantum Hall effect in graphene probed with invasive metal contacts
Creators: name: Duerr, Fabian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: We investigate the local breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) effect in a graphene device caused by the constraints of the Hall bar geometry and finite size of the sample. First to account for principal features of the data we use a multi-carrier model that simulates the transverse and longitudinal resistance of doped samples in low magnetic fields. This model however can not reproduce the reduction of Hall voltage measured in the vicinity of the current leads. Therefore we introduce a second model which describes the effect of distribution of electric field in the device, giving a reasonable scenario that can explain our experimental data and deviations from the case of perfect geometry. We conclude that the existence of Hot Spots in two corners of the sample leads to the local break down of the QHE around this points.
title: Imprint lithography system to produce light to impinge upon and polymerize a liquid in superimposition with template overlay marks
Creators: name: Sreenivasan, Sidlgata V.
name: Colburn, Matthew E.
name: Choi, Byung-Jin
name: Bailey, Todd C.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: B29C35/0888
subject: B29C37/0053
subject: B29C43/003
subject: B29C43/021
subject: B29C2035/0827
subject: B29C2043/025
subject: B82Y10/00
subject: B82Y40/00
subject: G03F7/0002
subject: G03F9/00
subject: Y10S101/36
subject: Y10T428/24802
subject: 425/174.4
subject: 425/171
subject: 430/30

description: The present invention includes an imprint lithography system for impinging a flux of light upon a liquid to polymerize the liquid, the system including, a source of light producing the flux of light; and a template having overlay marks being disposed between the liquid and the source of light and being opaque to the flux of light, with a pitch of the overlay marks establishing a polarization of the flux of light such that the flux of light impinges upon and polymerizes the liquid in superimposition with the overlay marks.
Lithobius (Ezembius) pamukkalensis Matic 1980
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Lithobius

description: * Lithobius (Ezembius) pamukkalensis Matic, 1980
Material examined: 32 3, 24 ƤƤ, 2 unsexed, 1 larvae.
Sites: 30, 31, 52, 53, 56, 57, 101, 104, 110, 111, 120, 121, 122, 123, 152, 153 (Fig. 9).
General distribution. Europe: Greece (Dodecanese); West Asia: Cyprus, Turkey (Zapparoli 1999; Simaiakis et al. 2005).
Chorotype. East Mediterranean.
Habitats. Pinus forests, formations with Pinus, Quercus and Olea, ravines with Platanus and Pinus, cultivations with vineyard, mixed forests with Pinus and Quercus, ravines with shrubs and Pinus, mixed forests with Pines, Quercus and Acer.
Altitudinal range: 195–1150 m.
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 288, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus bitis Hromadka 2013
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus bitis

description: Philonthus bitis Hromádka, 2013
Philonthus bitis Hromádka, 2013e: 209, Figs 13–15.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘Kivu: Terr. Mwenga, / S.-O. Hombwe, Luiko / 2380 m 23-I-1952 [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / bitis sp. nov. / Hromádka det. 2009. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 366, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Influence of synrift salt on rift-basin development
Creators: name: Durcanin, Michael A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: I present a new interpretation of the tectonic evolution of Orpheus basin, a narrow Mesozoic rift basin on the passive margin of offshore eastern Canada. This workincorporates insights gained from a scaled experimental modeling study that simulates multiphase deformation on a basin with a synrift ductile unit, to show that the structural deformation observed within this basin cannot completely be attributed to salt-relatedbuoyancy-driven processes. Seismic data show that the Orpheus and overlying Scotian basins experienced at least four stages of development: Triassic-Early Jurassic rifting, shortening during the rift/drift transition in the mid-Early Jurassic, regional uplift and erosion during the earliest Cretaceous, and a fourth event that had, at least locally on the North Step, a compressional component during the Oligocene.The presence of the synrift Argo salt profoundly affected the style of deformation during both the formation of the basin, and the subsequent tectonic events. The synriftsalt decoupled the cover deformation from basement deformation. Forced folds and salt ridges developed in the cover above the salt, whereas, faulting accommodated basement extension below the salt. During subsequent tectonic events, deformation was mainly accommodated above the basement faults by: 1) reactivating preexisting extensional structures such as passive salt diapirs and salt ridges, and 2) further amplifying preexisting forced folds that formed during the rifting phase. The presence of multiple unconformities, disharmonic sets of synclines and salt-cored anticlines (which developed from preexisting extensional forced folds), vertical salt welds, and detached thrusts indicate that this basin underwent multiple episodes of shortening, uplift, and erosionafter rifting ended in the Early Jurassic.
title: Methods and apparatus for polarized reflectance spectroscopy
Creators: name: Richards-Kortum, Rebecca R.
name: Sokolov, Konstantin
name: Drezek, Rebekah
name: Utzinger, Urs
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: A61B5/444
subject: A61B5/0075
subject: A61B5/0084
subject: A61B5/0088
subject: G01N21/21
subject: 356/369

description: Methods and apparatus for assessing the size of a scattering element of a sample. Primary radiation is generated from a source. The primary radiation is polarized to produce polarized primary radiation. The polarized primary radiation is directed to the sample to generate reflected radiation. The reflected radiation is directed through a polarizer to produce filtered reflected radiation, the polarizer being configured to select reflected radiation parallel and perpendicular to the polarization of the polarized primary radiation. The filtered radiation is detected, and a depolarization ratio is calculated using the detected filtered radiation. The size of the scattering element is calculated using the depolarization ratio.
Solution-processed thin films for electronics from single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene
Creators: name: Eda, Goki
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and graphene are sp2 hybridized carbon nanostructures which exhibit extraordinary electronic properties arising from their unique energy dispersions and dimensionalities. A major issue preventing implementation of these materials into integrated electronic devices is the absence of large-scale controllable synthesis and subsequent manipulation. To circumvent this issue, solution processing of SWNTs and graphene has been proposed. Deposition of thin film networks allows the realization of a new class of materials that are useful for large-area or “macro-electronics” on flexible and inexpensive platforms.In this thesis, controllable and efficient solution-based deposition of SWNT and graphene thin film networks and their opto-electronic properties are investigated. Topics such as material dynamics in liquid, chemical structures, defects, morphology, and doping are studied utilizing various spectroscopy and microscopy analysis along with complementary electrical measurements. Further insight is provided through demonstrations of proof-of-principle thin film transistors, organic photovoltaics, and field emitters based on solution-processed SWNT and graphene thin films.
Emeryopone
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Emeryopone

description: Species of Emeryopone
Varghese (2006) provides a key to Emeryopone species.
E. buttelreepeni Forel, 1912: Indonesia (Sumatra)
E. franzi (Baroni Urbani, 1975): Nepal
E. loebli (Baroni Urbani, 1975): Israel
E. melaina Xu, 1998: China
E. narendrani Varghese, 2006: India
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256