cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Servasanto da Faenza
Creators: name: Dansereau, Raymond
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: My dissertation, Servasanto da Faenza: Preaching and Penance in the Work of a Thirteenth Century Franciscan, uses a careful study of the sermons and preaching material of the Franciscan Servasanto da Faenza in order to shed light on the Franciscans’ role as preachers and confessors and on the place of penance in their ministry, which played a formative role in the views of Christianity of their lay audiences.  His preaching material shows that penance was a significant concern and that it was central to his conception of his and his fellow friars’ mission to the laity of medieval Europe.  For him the task of penance was not purely negative, that is, to wipe away sin.  Rather, it was also positive, to lay the foundation for the growth in virtue that would let one “see” the highest good, God.  Partly, as a result of this, Servasanto clearly preached penance in largely a positive way.  To him confession was less about going to a harsh judge than going to skilled, sensitive, and discrete doctor of souls who would seek to cure the person sick with sin.  Indeed, ultimately, penance was less an act of judgment than an act of love, as one should be driven by penance by a sorrow for sin that sprang from a sincere love of God.  The positive nature of this preaching, its ubiquity, and the well-known popularity of the Franciscans as preachers and confessors, among other factors, suggests that previous tendencies to see medieval penance as part of a story of surveillance and repression should be revised.  The laity were not helpless objects of social control terrified by a harsh and threatening penitential regime; rather, penance offered significant opportunity for lay choice and agency, supporting the work of popular friars like Servasanto and choosing them as preachers and confessors.
Socioeconomic movement between successive deliveries
Creators: name: David, Alice
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Year: 2015

description: BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have shown that women who live in more deprived neighborhoods are at higher risk of preterm delivery than those in wealthier neighborhoods, even after controlling for individual socioeconomic status. Since socioeconomic status and personal characteristics affect the choice of neighborhood of residence, these studies are likely to be confounded by unmeasured differences between the woman living in the better and worse neighborhoods. This dissertation has attempted to examine the effect of neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) using a better study design by following up women who moved between successive deliveries.  METHODS: All newborns to the same mother in the Electronic Birth Certificate database were linked to create a longitudinal dataset. Neighborhood information was obtained from Census 2000 to calculate a neighborhood deprivation score. Quintiles of this score formed the socioeconomic neighborhood strata, the highest score being most deprived. Lowest three quintiles were combined to form one neighborhood stratum the other two quintile formed two more strata. Logistic regression was used to estimate the change in risk of preterm delivery associated with change in NSES for women who moved between successive pregnancies. Stratified Analysis by race/ethnicity was also done.   RESULTS: Moving to a worse socioeconomic neighborhood increased the risk of preterm delivery but moving to a better neighborhood did not reduce the risk, when comparing women who moved to better or worse neighborhood to those who remained in the same neighborhood. On stratifying by race/ethnicity this was observed for Non-Hispanic (NH) Blacks only. However, when comparing a woman after she relocated to her outcome before relocating, the change of neighborhood made no difference. On stratifying by race/ ethnicity, NH Blacks alone had an increase in risk of preterm delivery for those who moved to a worse neighborhood. Similarly teenagers who moved to worse neighborhoods were also at increased risk of preterm delivery.   CONCLUSION: Neighborhood effect on preterm delivery is very small in this cohort.  Improvements in the externalities of neighborhood environments would be unlikely to have a short term effect on preterm birth rates. Nevertheless there is a suggestion in this data that at-risk women may do worse in deprived neighborhoods than they would do in more favorable circumstances.
title: 047- Paysan-paludier du Bourg de Batz (Loire-Inférieure - France)
title: 047- Peasant on the salt marshes from Batz (Loire-Inférieure - France)
Creators: name: Généro, Jean-Damien
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Images et édition numérique (XML, LaTeX, PDF) de *Paysan paludier du bourg de Batz (Loire-Inférieure). Tenancier-propriétaire, dans le système des engagements volontaires permanents, d'après les renseignements recueillis sur les lieux en 1883, par M. A. Delaire*, série 2, vol. 1, fasc. 1 (1885), monographie n°47, 1887, p. 1-56.
description: Source: https://ouvriersdeuxmondes.huma-num.fr/monographie/paysan-paludier-bourg-batz-47
description: date: 1885-1887
Oxyothespis brevipennis Beier 1930
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Toxoderidae
Oxyothespis
Oxyothespis brevipennis

description: Oxyothespis brevipennis Beier, 1930
Figs. 77–82
Oxyothespis brevipennis Beier, 1930: 448.
Type locality. Makongo, Ghana.
Distribution. Ivory Coast, Ghana (Beier 1930; Gillon & Roy 1968; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy & Leston 1975).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 481); ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–01.VI.2019, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 498).
Remarks. In contrast to the more northerly O. longipennis Chopard 1941, which also occurs in Ivory Coast (Roy & Leston 1975), this graminicolous species prefers Guinea savanna.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 25-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
The monsters under their beds and inside their heads
Creators: name: Del Nero, Jennifer Renner
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Year: 2015

description: This qualitative study employed case study methodology and design research to examine what aesthetic transactions adolescent students constructed in response to popular culture and traditional texts in a Gothic studies reading unit created by the researcher. Secondary inquiries included descriptions of the aesthetic transactions that participants constructed during the unit, as well as tensions that arose in the development of aesthetic transactions. This study also explored what participant Discourse(s) evolved, as well as which one(s) remained unchanged at the conclusion of the unit. The study was conducted in a seventh grade reading classroom in a Central New Jersey suburban middle school. Eight students (four male and four female) comprised the study’s participants.    A combination of thematic and discourse analyses was used during and after data collection. The data was triangulated across interviews, participant conversations, classroom observations, and unit artifacts. The findings revealed that participants constructed myriad aesthetic transactions of meaningful connection and imaginative contrast with the Gothic unit texts. Participants enhanced these initial aesthetic transactions and formed new ones individually and collectively as a result of pedagogical practices that also nurtured their construction of aesthetic transactions.    As a result of these unit dynamics, in which aesthetic transactions were prioritized in the text and related context, the students were positioned as active apprentices within the unit experience. Participants gleaned literary, self, and world knowledge as a result of these aesthetic transactions. These understandings aided in the development of their various Discourses, which held positive implications for them academically and personally. The findings suggest that prioritizing adolescents’ construction of aesthetic transactions in both the text choices and related context is critical in order for academic reading to be a gratifying and meaningful experience that educates the whole person.
Sogda (Trichohydnobius) secunda Guillebeau 1897
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Sogda
Sogda secunda

description: Sogda (Trichohydnobius) secunda (Guillebeau, 1897)
Hydnobius secundus Guillebeau, 1897: 224.
Type locality: [France:] Morières, Vaucluse. Hydnobius circumcinctus Reitter, 1913b: 652. Type locality: Turkestan, Fergana.
Hydnobius flavipennis Hlisnikovský, 1967c: 257. Type locality: Mongolia: Kemtschik.
Hydnobius klapperichi Hlisnikovský, 1964c: 9. Type locality: Sarakanda Gebirge, 3600 m, Badakschan, NO-Afghanistan. Hydnobius parallelus Reitter, 1909: 248.
Type locality: Buchara.
Material examined. RaZavi Khorasan, Neyshabur (Samin et al. 2016).
General distribution. Afghanistan, France, Italy, Mongolia, The Netherlands, TadZhikistan, UZbekistan (Perreau 2015). The fragmentation of the distribution area over such a wide geographical range suggests that this species should be sought in many other countries.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Hoplocorypha nigerica Beier 1930
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hoplocoryphidae
Hoplocorypha
Hoplocorypha nigerica

description: Hoplocorypha nigerica Beier, 1930
Figs. 83–90
Hoplocorypha nigerica Beier, 1930: 446.
Type locality. Azare, Nigeria.
Distribution. Mauritania, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria (Beier 1930; Gillon & Roy 1968; Prost & Roy 1986; Roy 1962a, 1967, 1968b, 1969, 1970b, 1971a, b, 1975, 1978; Roy & Leston 1975).
Records. CSC: ♁, old camp, 20.–30.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 258); ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.. SMNK: ♀, Modi Khola valley Namarjung (28.18° N, 84.6° E), 1000 m elev., 15.X.1983, S. Ingrisch leg. (SMNK-Mant. 04307).
Remarks. Widely distributed in the savanna belt of West Africa from Senegal to Nigeria. Recorded from the CNP by Gillon & Roy (1968). Terricolous, preferring sparsely vegetated areas and short grass tufts.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Supporting knowledge building with informational texts during elementary reading instruction
Creators: name: Doto, Julianne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This design study examined the problem of implementing knowledge building activities during elementary reading instruction. The study set out to determine how the classroom environment successfully supported students’ collaborative knowledge building while working with informational text sources. In addition, it looked at how instructional scaffolds and artifacts developed for the classrooms being studied supported knowledge building with informational text sources. Finally, students’ collaborative knowledge construction was examined in the context of Knowledge Forum® software. This study was conducted during two consecutive school years. Two classes of fifth graders, each with 23 students, participated in the research. Study 1 integrated teacher-led small group reading instruction with knowledge building. Students used Knowledge Forum and research guides to build knowledge from nonfiction text sources. Using design based research, the results of the first study were used to modify the procedure of the second study. Study 2 combined small group instruction, reading conferences, and student reading partnerships with knowledge building activities. In this study, students had more opportunities to engage in face-to-face knowledge building discourse. In addition, they used Knowledge Forum, post-it notes, reading journals, and discussion boards to build knowledge from text sources. In both studies, students’ knowledge building discourse was rated based on a tiered coding scheme of Knowledge Forum notes. The tiers attempted to rate how notes contributed to the advancement of community knowledge. In Study 2, small group reading sessions were analyzed using video data, and reading comprehension was assessed with running records and pre- and post-tests. Knowledge Forum discourse showed that children developed ideas and explanations based on nonfiction text sources during the second iteration. Video data of reading conferences also showed how the teacher scaffolded students’ knowledge building. Comparison of reading levels and standardized test scores demonstrated how students in the knowledge building class advanced their independent reading levels at the same rate as those in non-knowledge building classes. The 23 fifth graders in Study 2 were able to build knowledge, improve reading comprehension, and discuss advanced science concepts when knowledge building was integrated with reading instruction.
The dynamics of an expanding community economy
Creators: name: Drake, Luke
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Year: 2015

description: This dissertation examines the role of networks in producing community gardens. It does so by tracing the flows of knowledge, labor, and materials within individual garden sites, between gardens, and between gardens, institutions and other community groups. Given the attention it has gained for themes of sustainability, local food production, and community building, it is important to understand the network dynamics through which community gardens are started, grow, and change. To this end, my study has three research questions: Which places foster community gardens? How do internal dynamics govern community garden maintenance? Lastly, how do dynamics between community gardens affect the work of garden sites? This study centers on the case of community gardening in New Jersey, but it also uses national surveys in order to ground the case study materials in a broader context. The research methods began with a survey of 445 community gardening organizations in the U.S. and Canada, followed by discourse analysis of archival documents on community gardening in the U.S. from the 1890s to the 2010s. I then conducted 48 semi-structured interviews with people involved in community gardens in 19 municipalities. Due to my methodology of tracing network connections, five of these interviews took place in Australia to investigate a partnership with a community garden in New Jersey. I was also a participant-observer in the New Brunswick Community Garden Coalition and a member of a community garden for two years, one of which I served as the garden’s president. As part of this ethnographic work, I also conducted a participatory geographic information systems project. Together, these methods revealed a complex web of resource flows and the mechanisms through which they are configured. In theoretical terms, I rethink community gardens as cooperative enterprises. This dissertation contributes more broadly to economic geography by bridging the diverse/community economies literatures with relational economic geography (REG) theory. J.K. Gibson-Graham’s diverse/community economies approaches are used in an expanding literature, but there has been little theorization of network dynamics in such studies. By drawing on concepts from REG regarding resource flows and clustering, I advance a relational conception of community economy.
Biotic, paleoceanographic, and stratigraphic changes across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary
Creators: name: Esmeray Senlet, Selen
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Year: 2015

description: My dissertation investigates the sea-level changes, large perturbations in the oceanic carbon cycle, and enrichments and distribution of iridium (Ir) across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary (~66 Ma). Biostratigraphic, lithofacies, and sequence stratigraphic analyses of the Haymana (Turkey) and Campo Pit (New Jersey, USA) sections show that the K/Pg boundary occurred during a transgressive systems tract, below a maximum flooding surface. Similar sea-level trends recorded in European and North African sections suggest that the K/Pg event occurred during a global sea-level rise.     Previous studies showed that the K/Pg mass extinction was associated with drastic perturbations in the oceanic carbon cycle, including a collapse in the carbon isotopic (δ13C) gradient between planktonic and benthic foraminifera and a drop in bulk carbonate δ13C values in deep-sea sites. The New Jersey paleoshelf recorded a ~2.5‰ δ13C decrease in bulk carbonate, a ~0.8‰ δ13C decrease in organic carbon, a collapse of the vertical δ13C difference between planktonic and benthic foraminifera, and a significant decrease in organic carbon mass accumulation rates. A ~1.0‰ water column δ13C gradient in planktonic foraminifera and a ~0.75‰ cross-shelf δ13C gradient in benthic foraminifera indicates the presence of primary productivity in the early Danian. Comparison of deep Atlantic and Pacific sites shows a reduction in interbasinal δ13C differences, most consistent with reduced export productivity.     Anomalous Ir concentrations occur at the K/Pg boundary in New Jersey, though the maximum Ir concentrations and the thickness of the sediments over which Ir is spread is highly variable. The shape of the Ir profiles and the maximum concentrations of Ir measured in the cores appear to be determined primarily by sedimentary and geochemical processes, especially bioturbation as also shown by a Lagrangian particle-tracking model of sediment mixing. The depth-integrated Ir inventory is very similar in the majority of the cores, indicating that the total Ir delivery at the time of the K/Pg event was spatially homogenous over this region. This provides additional evidence for redistribution of Ir after original deposition and shows that low to moderate Ir concentrations (~0.1 – 0.5 ppb) can be the product of the same Ir delivery as nearby higher peaks (~2.4 ppb).
Homological algebra for commutative monoids
Creators: name: Flores, Jaret
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Year: 2015

description: We first study commutative, pointed monoids providing basic definitions and results in a manner similar commutative ring theory. Included are results on chain conditions, primary decomposition as well as normalization for a special class of monoids which lead to a study monoid schemes, divisors, Picard groups and class groups. It is shown that the normalization of a monoid need not be a monoid, but possibly a monoid scheme.    After giving the definition of, and basic results for, A-sets, we classify projective A-sets and show they are completely determine by their rank. Subsequently, for a monoid A, we compute K_0 and K_1 and prove the Devissage Theorem for G_0 . With the definition of short exact sequence for A-sets in hand, we describe the set Ext(X,Y ) of extensions for A-sets X,Y and classify the set of square-zero extensions of a monoid A by an A-set X using the Hochschild cosimplicial set.    We also examine the projective model structure on simplicial A-sets showcasing the difficulties involved in computing homotopy groups as well as determining the derived category for a monoid. The author defines the category Da(C) of double-arrow complexes for a class of non-abelian categories C and, in the case of A-sets, shows an adjunction with the category of simplicial A-sets.
How Dio wrote history
Creators: name: Fomin, Andriy
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Year: 2015

description: This dissertation explores the process of history-writing by Dio Cassius through comparative literary historiographic analysis. By examining Dio’s Roman History as an integral historiographic endeavor, the dissertation attempts to reconstruct Dio’s overarching methodology. This task is achieved through the analysis of Dio’s own editorial asides and the comparison of Dio with parallel historical accounts, as well as by means of observing consistent features in Dio’s compositional design. The dissertation addresses such aspects of Dio’s methodology as his critical approach to sources, his principles involved in selection, reworking, and presentation of the historical material, his treatment of variant versions, and his use of literary allusions. A more in-depth discussion is devoted both to the role which dreams, portents, and prodigies, as well as wisdom expressions play in the system of causation developed by Dio, and to the historiography of Dio’s speeches. The dissertation revisits the traditional preconceptions regarding Dio’s extensive reliance on Thucydides, and in particular subjects to a systematic critique the hypothesis that Dio shared a Thucydidean pessimistic view of human nature, perceived as a constant. The dissertation analyzes the multi-step procedure of Dio’s causation and his emphasis on retrospective logical analysis of the motivations of influential individuals which determine the outcomes of the historical events. A systematic treatment of the typology, function, and patterns of presentation of speeches in Dio is undertaken in the concluding part of the study. This discussion revisits the traditional dichotomy in interpretation of Dio’s speeches (whether they are just rhetorical set-pieces akin to the progymnasmata of the rhetorical schools or they truly represent the author’s own views) and points toward new interpretative directions which take into consideration other types of intellectual discourse of the period, including those formed by the system of formal rhetorical education. The dissertation draws a portrait of the historical work of Dio Cassius as a mirror of the intellectual and cultural preoccupations of his own time. It treats the Roman History of Dio Cassius as belonging simultaneously to many intellectual orbits: in cultural sense, to both the Greek and the Roman worlds; in generic, linguistic, and literary sense — both to the traditions of classical Attic historiography and to new intellectual trends brought forth by the spirit of the Second Sophistic.
Health and health care utilization among U.S. veterans denied VA disability compensation
Creators: name: Fried, Dennis Adrian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Background: The general consensus in studies of individuals seeking federal disability compensation was that individuals denied disability compensation were healthier than those awarded. In contrast, studies of veterans seeking VA disability compensation suggest that denied applicants may be as impaired or more impaired than those awarded, and may use less health care. Because veterans denied VA disability compensation may have increased risks of poverty, homelessness, and poor long-term health, a more thorough understanding of their health, and health care utilization is warranted.     Methods: This dissertation used data from the 2001 National Survey of Veterans (NSV). Overall self-reported health, physical and mental functioning, and limitations in activities of daily living were used as subjective measures of health status, while VA and non-VA outpatient health care visit counts were used to measure service-use intensity. In study 2, logistic regression was used to analyze associations between VA disability compensation award status and four separate measures of health status. In study 3, zero-inflated negative binomial regression was used to examine associations between VA outpatient health care visit counts and VA disability compensation award status, while zero-inflated poisson regression and negative binomial regression were used separately to examine associations between non-VA outpatient health care visit counts and VA disability compensation award status. All analyses were design-based.     Results: VA disability compensation award status (denied vs. awarded) was associated with increased odds of poor overall health (OR = 1.49, 95% CI = 1.27, 1.75), limitations in activities of daily living (OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.01, 1.19), and never using VA outpatient health care (OR = 4.79, 95% CI = 1.58, 922), and decreased odds of better physical functioning  (OR = 0.96, 95% CI = 0.95, 0.98).     Conclusion: The broad picture of denied applicants that emerges from available data shows them, compared to awarded applicants, to have comparative poor health, and a greater likelihood of never using VA outpatient health care services.
Molecular dynamics simulations of collagen model peptides
Creators: name: Fu, Iwen
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Year: 2015

description: Understanding the structure and dynamics of the collagen triple helix is critical to un- derstanding the effect of mutations that arise in connective tissue and to understanding its interactions with receptors. Defects in triple helix domain of collagen have been associated with a number of human collagen diseases. Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) characterized by brittle bones affects roughly one in 10,000 individuals and results from mutations in type I collagen. The severity of the disease varies widely, ranging from mild to lethal cases. The molecular basis of the disease is still not understood. Here we integrate computational ap- proaches and NMR experiments to provide insight into the effects of variations in amino acid sequence on the conformation and dynamics of the collagen triple helix using colla- gen model peptides (CMPs), and to provide a molecular interpretation of several types of NMR experiments. Theoretical calculations of quantum mechanical NMR chemical shifts on the MD selected snapshots represent the first example of a reasonable fit of experimental data and highlight the sensitivity of the NH chemical shift to the complex dynamics of the H-bonds.    The degree of inter-chain hydrogen bonding and the dynamics with different G-X-Y triplets are considered important for collagen recognition and binding sites containing disease-related mutation. A analysis of dynamics of triple helix have been studied using 15N relaxation measurements and model-free approach. This work is one of the first detailed MD studies of NMR relaxation data for proteins with high shape anisotropy. We interpret 15N relaxation measurements arising from the a variety of types of motions in the triple helical peptides. Both molecular dynamics simulations and analyses of NMR data have pointed to significant amounts of bending and twisting motions existing in the triple helical peptide, and we compare collagen-like peptides to other deformable rod-like molecules such as DNA duplexes. A Weakly Bending Rod (WBR) model is introduced to mimic the elastic properties of these flexible rod-like CMPs and provide insight into the interpretation of the relaxation data and order parameter profiles.
Gas chromatography - mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-olfactometry analysis of aroma compounds of vanilla pompona schiede
Creators: name: Galeas, Maria Del Pilar
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Year: 2015

description: Vanilla is one of the most widely used flavor ingredients and the second most expensive spice in the world. Only three of the 110-130 species of vanilla are cultivated and have significant economic importance: Vanilla planifolia Andrews, Vanilla tahitensis Moore and Vanilla pompona Schiede. Among the three, Vanilla pompona is the only specie that has been highlighted as relatively resistant to climate change and diseases. These attributes have made this species a candidate for cross-breeding programs with V. planifolia to produce a more robust vanilla for commercial use.     The chemical and aroma composition of V. planifolia and V. tahitensis have been extensively analyzed. Surprisingly, studies on the chemical and odor characterization of V. pompona are scarce even though this species is frequently referred to in the literature as the third genus in order of economic importance. No study has been undertaken to identify which compounds are odor-active in this particular species of Vanilla. This study provides a Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GC-O) analysis of Mexican Vanilla pompona Shiede for the first time.   A preliminary study was performed to select a representative aroma extract for Gas Chromatography-Spectrometry (GC-MS) and GC-O analysis. Three extracts were produced using different aroma extraction techniques. Based on sensory evaluation and preliminary chemical characterization of the extracts, the ethanol-dichloromethane solvent extraction method was selected to produce aroma extracts for in depth characterization by GC-MS and GC-O.   From the chemical characterization of the volatiles present in V. pompona extract, one hundred and twenty three volatiles were identified using GC-MS. Eighty compounds were identified in cured beans by means of Direct Thermal Desorption-Gas chromatography-Mass spectrometry (DTD-GC-MS). Twenty six of these constituents were identified in vanilla for the first time.   Forty five aroma impact compounds were identified by GC-O analysis of the extract of Vanilla pompona using a GC-NIF (Nasal Impact Frequency) modified method. Fifteen standard commercial samples were injected for confirmation and thirty five of the aroma impact compounds were characterized. The results of the GC-O analysis have indicated that the aroma profile consisted of thirteen primary aroma-impact compounds, eighteen identified as secondary aroma-impact compounds and thirteen odorants considered background. The aroma of Vanilla pompona extract is complex and rich with typical vanilla characteristics. It could be a valuable source for perfumery applications.
Pilot based frameworks for weather research forecasting
Creators: name: Ganapathi, Dinesh Prasanth
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Year: 2015

description: The Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) domain consists of complex workflows that demand the use of Distributed Computing Infrastructure (DCI). Weather forecasting requires that weather researchers use different set of initial conditions and one or a combination of physics models on the same set of input data. For these type of simulations an ensemble based computing approach becomes imperative. Most DCIs have  local job-schedulers that have no smart way of dealing with the execution of an ensemble type of computational problem as the job-schedulers are built to cater to the bare essentials of resource allocation. This means the weather scientists have to submit multiple jobs to the job-scheduler. In this dissertation we use Pilot-Job based tools to decouple work-load submission and resource allocation therefore streamlining  the complex workflows in Weather Research and Forecasting domain and reduce their overall time to completion. We also achieve location independent job execution, data movement, placement and processing. Next, we create the necessary enablers to run an ensemble of tasks bearing the capability to run on multiple heterogeneous distributed computing resources there by creating the opportunity to minimize the overall time consumed in running the models. Our experiments show that the tools developed exhibit very good, strong and weak scaling characteristics. These results bear the potential to change the way weather researchers are submitting traditional WRF jobs to the DCIs by giving them a powerful weapon in their arsenal that can exploit the combined power of various heterogeneous DCIs that could otherwise be difficult to harness owing  to interoperability issues.
Visualizing cross-coupled orders in multiferroic hexagonal manganites with scanning force microscopies
Creators: name: Geng, Yanan
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Year: 2015

description: This thesis covers the study of multiferroics and magnetoelectrics by utilizing a collection of scanning force microscopy to investigate the cross-coupled phenomena. We mainly focus on the multiferroic hexagonal REMnO$_3$ (RE = rare earth), an improper ferroelectrics with the coexistence of ferroelectricity ($T_extrm{C}$ = 1200 - 1500 K) and antiferromagnetism ($T_extrm{N}$ = 70 - 120 K), and explore in depth the magnetoelectric effect of this system microscopically. Using cryogenic magnetic force microscope (MFM), we observed uncompensated magnetic moment along antiferromagnetic domain walls, which coincides with the ferroelectric domain boundaries. This magnetism presents an alternating feature around the multiferroic vortex, and correlates with each other through the vortex network. The study of the magnetic field dependence of domain wall magnetism also provides a way to probe the intrinsic bulk domain state.    To directly image the magnetoelectric domains, we developed a novel mesoscopic technique, namely, magnetoelectric force microscopy (MeFM), to probe the local electric field-induced magnetization based on MFM. The detail of the novel technique will be presented in Chapter 2. With the application of MeFM in hexagonal manganities, we observed that the magnetoelectric response changes sign at each structural domain wall, which provides compelling evidence for a lattice-mediated magnetoelectric coupling. More interestingly, the magnetoelectric effect diverges when approaching the tri-critical point in $T-H$ phase diagram, where critical fluctuation plays a crucial role. Our study suggests the phase competition as a possibility to enhance magnetoelectric coupling. The systematic study of hexagonal manganites, including ErMnO$_3$ and YbMnO$_3$, disentangles the contribution from Mn and rare earth sublattices, suggesting that the $3d-4f$ coupling and the Ising anisotropy of rare earth spins are the key ingredients to understand the re-entrant spin-reorientation phase boundary and the emergence of a tri-critical point.
Restrained shrinkage behavior of polypropylene fiber reinforced self-consolidating concrete
Creators: name: Ghanchi, Zeeshan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Using self-consolidating concrete (SCC) in construction reduces labor and time requirements for concrete construction. With the advancement of chemical admixtures, such as high range water reducers, SCC mixes are stronger and more workable than ever before. As a result, SCC is becoming an increasingly viable option in the construction industry. Despite the improvement in chemical admixtures, many complications that arise in ordinary concrete are also prevalent in SCC. Concrete shrinkage, and by extension shrinkage-induced cracking, is one of the most common problems associated with the use of concrete.   This study addresses the issue of shrinkage-induced cracking on SCC observing the effects of ¼” (6.35mm) long polypropylene fibers mixed into the concrete. Using a low-cement SCC control mix, fibers are added at 0.10, 0.15 and 0.20% by volume to create three fiber-reinforced self-consolidating concrete (FRSCC) test mixes. The effects on slump flow and passing ability due to the addition of fibers are measured. AASHTO PP 34 restrained ring samples are collected for each mix and, after a 24 hour moist cure, the stress development in the rings is monitored. Additional vibrating wire strain gauges (VWSGs) are partially embedded into the concrete in an attempt to directly measure concrete strain. Strength tests are conducted at 28 days and free shrinkage measurements are taken regularly by means of a length comparator.  Workability and, to a greater extent, passing ability suffered as a result of fiber addition. The addition of high-range water reducer (HRWR) alleviated the workability problems to an extent, however segregation and bleeding resulting from too much HRWR limits the upper threshold of fiber loading in SCC mixes.    Free shrinkage was improved by 9% and cracking strain increased by over 22% when fibers were added at 0.20% by volume. As a result, initial cracking in FRSCC restrained shrinkage rings was delayed by up to 9 days and maximum crack width was reduced from 0.085mm to 0.065mm.    The partially embedded VWSGs were able to measure strain development in individual segments of the concrete rings. They can provide information on where a crack may form without noticeably affecting the strength capacity of the ring.
Simultaneous analyte quantification in low volume samples using a microfluidic device
Creators: name: Ghodbane, Mehdi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Immunoassays are one of the most widely performed assays in clinical and research settings due to their sensitivity, specificity, and ability to measure wide ranges of analytes.  Recently, immunoassay technology has greatly improved due to the development of multiplex platforms, capable of measuring multiple analytes in a single sample.  However, immunoassays are costly, time-consuming, and require relatively large sample volumes that inhibit their use in specific applications.   Performing immunoassays using microfluidic devices has been shown to significantly reduce assay time, cost, and sample and reagent consumption.  However, previous immunoassay devices possess drawbacks that prevent their broad use, including: low sensitivity, limited dynamic range, inability to change the analyte specificity, specialized reagent requirements, inability to produce quantitative data, and low sample throughput.  Therefore, the objective of this dissertation was to develop a microfluidic immunoassay device overcoming the aforementioned limitations.    A proof-of-concept device was developed capable of performing 8 parallel immunoassays on commercially available antibody conjugated microbeads.  This eliminates the need for specialized reagents while allowing any analyte, for which antibodies are available, to be measured.  Furthermore, we developed the first experimentally validated computational fluid dynamic model of antibody antigen binding in microchannels.  Design of experiments (DOE) and multi-objective optimization techniques were used in conjunction with the model to optimize an IL-6 immunoassay with a sensitivity of 358 fM using only 1.35 μL of sample volume.  The device design was then scaled-up to allow 32 samples to be processed simultaneously.  With the expanded device, we demonstrated high-sensitivity, a large dynamic range, and quantification of 6 cytokines (Il-1b, Il-6, IL-10, IL-13, MCP-1, and TNF-a).  Finally, we measured in vitro experimental supernatants in parallel using the microdevice and a conventional benchtop assay.  The microdevice provided comparable results while reducing sample volume from 50 to 4.2 μL.  In summary, we demonstrated a low-volume, highly sensitive assay with a large dynamic range capable of processing large numbers of samples using commercially available reagents.  Due to these advantages, the technology in this work has far-reaching in vitro, in vivo, and clinical applications.
Regulation of efflux transporter expression and function in neural injury and inflammation
Creators: name: Gibson, Christopher
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Year: 2015

description: Parkinson disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder of aging worldwide. There is mounting evidence that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the development of PD. The main hallmarks of PD pathology include loss of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc), activation of microglia, production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and accumulation of oxidized lipids and proteins. Epidemiologic studies suggest that exposure to pesticides may contribute to the development of PD, particularly in individuals with a genetic polymorphism in the Multidrug Resistance Transporter 1 (MDR1) which removes chemicals from the brain. The herbicide paraquat is used to study features of PD in rodents, namely dopamine neuron loss and microglial activation. The work presented in this dissertation examines the role that the MDR1 efflux transporter plays in preventing neuronal death from paraquat-induced toxicity, as well as immunologic factors that modulate this protective function. Following exposure to a single dose of paraquat, mice lacking the Mdr1a/1b genes have extensive dopamine neuron loss and microglial activation in the SNc, whereas wild-type mice require at least two doses. It is hypothesized that MDR1 is an efflux transporter for paraquat thereby preventing paraquat accumulation and toxicity in the brain. Experiments using an MDR1-transfected cell line or human cerebral endothelial cells naturally expressing MDR1 demonstrate that accumulation of paraquat is reduced in cells with functional MDR1. Work in this dissertation also investigates the regulation of Mdr1 and other transporters in microglia. Activation of microglia with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) leads to the down-regulation of Mdr1 and Bcrp and up-regulation of Mrp1 and Mrp5 transporters. Using fluorescent substrates, it is observed that LPS activation of microglia reduces the function of Mdr1 and Bcrp. Lastly, the mechanisms that regulate Mdr1 in activated microglia are explored. Using inhibitors and activators of several cellular pathways, including NF-κB, Nrf2, and cytokines, it is found that Mdr1 is strongly influenced by TNF and NF-κB pathways. This thesis demonstrates the ability of the Mdr1 transporter to protect against pesticide-induced neural injury and characterizes the role of inflammatory factors in regulating Mdr1 expression and function in microglia and the blood-brain barrier.
title: 048- Bordiers émancipés en communauté rurale de la Grande-Russie
title: 048- Freed peasants from Russia
Creators: name: Généro, Jean-Damien
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Images et édition numérique (XML, LaTeX, PDF) de *Bordiers émancipés en communauté rurale de la Grande Russie. Ouvriers-propriétaires, continuant a vivre en communaute rurale jusqu'en 1910, époque du remboursement total de la terre qui leur a été concédée en 1861 et qu'ils posséderont alors en toute propriété, d'après les renseignements recueillis sur les lieux en 1876 et en 1884, par le commandant A. Wilbois*, série 2, vol. 1, fasc. 2 (1885), monographie n°47, 1887, p. 57-112.
description: Source: https://ouvriersdeuxmondes.huma-num.fr/monographie/bordiers-emancipes-communaute-rurale-grande-russie-48
description: date: 1885-1887
Trichohydnobius Vogt 1961
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Trichohydnobius

description: Subgenus Trichohydnobius Vogt, 1961
Trichohydnobius Vogt, 1961: 154, type species: Hydnobius perrisii Fairmaire, 1855 (= Anisotoma suturalis Zetterstedt, 1828).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Anemadus Reitter 1884
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Anemadus

description: Genus Anemadus Reitter, 1884
Anemadus Reitter, 1884: 58, type species: Catops strigosus Kraatz, 1852.
Namadeus Jeannel, 1936: 201, type species: Catops acicularis Kraatz, 1852.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Solygia sulcatifrons
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Miomantidae
Solygia
Solygia sulcatifrons

description: Solygia sulcatifrons (Audinet-Serville, 1838)
Figs. 91–92
Thespis sulcatifrons Audinet-Serville, 1838: 171–172.
= Phasmomantis grandis Saussure, 1869: 69–70.
Type locality. (T. s.) Cape of Good Hope and Senegal.
Distribution. African savannas south of the Sahara (Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1962a).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, IV.–VI.2021, E. Frank leg.
Remarks. A rarely sampled savanna specialist. Nymphs are graminicolous, later instars and adults arbusticolous. New Ivorian record.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Discrete local central limit theorems and boolean function complexity measures
Creators: name: Gilmer, Justin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This thesis consists of 6 chapters (the first being an introduction). Two chapters relate to local central limit theorems, and three chapters relate to various boolean function complexity measures. Although the problems studied in this work originate from different areas of mathematics, the methods used to attack these problems are unified in their probabilistic and combinatorial nature.      In Chapter 2 we prove a local central limit theorem for the number of triangles in the Erdos-Renyi random graph G(n,p) for constant edge probability p. In Chapter 6 we apply an existing local limit theorem for sums of independent random variables to estimate the density of a certain set of integers called happy numbers.    In Chapters 3, 4, and 5 we will investigate the general question of how large one complexity measure of boolean functions can be relative to another. In one case we present a probabilistic construction of family of boolean functions which show tight (in the sense that there is a matching upper bound) separation between two measures, namely block sensitivity and certificate complexity. We also give partial results for upper bounding one measure in terms of another. This includes a new approach to the well known sensitivity conjecture which asserts that the degree of any boolean function is bounded above by some fixed power of its sensitivity.