cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Toward Satellite-Based Information for Efficient Water Use and Yield Forecasting in California
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: OBJECTIVES: The project is centered on one of the most critical environmental issues of our times – managing water scarcity in California and other similar regions. A key part of the solution is developing an irrigation water management information system based on satellite data that routinely monitors crop water use, crop water availability, and crop yield forecast, and provides optimal irrigation scheduling that maximizes crop yield given limited water resources. We aim to achieve this in two phases. In Phase 1 (this pilot grant), we test appropriate technology for ground field data collection, collect necessary field data, and identify gaps and uncertainties in existing satellite-based algorithms. In Phase 2 (for which we will seek extramural grant), we will develop an operational irrigation water management information system based on satellite data, utilizing the datasets, techniques, and findings of Phase 1.

 METHOD: The project involves extensive field study over several alfalfa fields in the Imperial Valley, CA, and Davis, CA, deploying state-of-the-art sensors, and evaluating satellite-based retrieval algorithms. The sensors include TerraRad Tech’s Portable L-band Radiometer (a recently invented and patented portable sensor), Eddy covariance station, UAV with multispectral/thermal sensors, and UAV with microwave L-band. The team will survey farmers and collect field data on crop yield and auxiliary information in the study domains. In addition, team members will also share field datasets acquired from various previous projects.

 IMPACT: This project establishes a new collaboration between four UC institutions (UC Los Angeles, UC Davis, UC Riverside, and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources). The team members have been studying irrigation water management from a single-discipline perspective, but this project allows them to integrate perspectives and develop a holistic approach for irrigation water management. The project increases the efficiency of existing equipment and datasets housed in various UC units as team members plan to share these resources. The team will collectively train a number of postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students. The anticipated outcomes include improved knowledge in irrigation water management information system for California’s alfalfa farms, and increased multi-campus collaboration opportunities.
Sciocoris cursitans subsp. cursitans
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Sciocoris
Sciocoris cursitans
Sciocoris cursitans cursitans (fabricius, 1794)

description: Sciocoris cursitans cursitans (Fabricius, 1794)
Material examined (n=13): loc. BQ 01.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020; loc. BS 03. VI.2020; loc. CM 29.VII.2020; loc. MC 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020; loc. MS 30. VI.2020; loc. PG 01.VII.2020; loc. RG 01.VII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco) and Western Asia (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia (Est Siberia, West Siberia), Turkey (Asian part). Extralimital record in Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 412, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Metasphenisca gracilipes
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Metasphenisca
Metasphenisca gracilipes

description: Metasphenisca gracilipes (Loew, 1862)
Trypeta gracilipes Loew, 1862c: 90. Syntypes. Egypt (NHMW). Acidia cyclopica Bezzi, 1908: 152. Syntypes. Eritrea (Cheren) (MZLS).
Trypeta w-fuscum Enderlein, 1911: 425. Holotype. Eritrea (PAN).
Distribution. AF: Eritrea, South Africa. PA: Egypt.
Egyptian localities. Unknown. This species was recorded from Egypt according to a specimen in Vienna Museum labeled “Natt. Egypt, 1858” (Efflatoun 1924a).
Host plants. Hosts of Metashenisca spp. include Blepharis spp., that are suspected to be the hosts of this species (Munro 1947; Freidberg & Kugler 1989). Dates of collection. Unknown.
Remark. Efflatoun (1924a) listed this species in his monograph according to five specimens belonging to Vienna Museum bearing vague labels "Natt. 1858”, Egypt." I could not find any other sources to confirm its presence in Egypt which is thus considered as doubtful.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on pages 166-167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
From skills identification to formal recognition: a roadmap for embedding transversal skills in doctoral training
Creators: name: European University Foundation
Publisher: name: DocTalent4EU Project Consortium
Year: 2024
Subjects: Erasmus+
Employability
PhD employability

description: The DocTalent4EU consortium attended the 2024 EAIE conference to present valuable insights on how Higher Education Institutions can effectively integrate transversal skills into their training offerings. Acceess the DocTalent4EU website here and learn more.
Xtra.py
Creators: name: King, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Electromagnetism
subject: Particle physics
subject: Revolutions
subject: Sustainable economy
subject: Acoustics
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Photons
subject: Higgs bosons
subject: Gravitational waves
subject: Radio frequency
subject: Particle accelerator
subject: Quantum chemistry
subject: Leptons
subject: Quarks
subject: Ultraviolet lasers
subject: W bosons
subject: Quantum physics
subject: Quantum Entanglement
subject: Cymatics
subject: Electromagnetic Spectrum
subject: Interconnectedness

description: Computational notes
Planning a UC Center for Climate-Adaptive Biodiversity Conservation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: With an MRPI planning grant, we will convene a new multi-campus collaboration, the UC Center for Climate-Adaptive Biodiversity Conservation, to propel innovation and research on cutting edge approaches to adapting biodiversity to climate change. Rapid development and testing of strategies to support the species that underpin the resilience and stability of whole ecosystems is critical to sustaining both California’s unique biodiversity and the fundamental social goods that it supports. Drought and fire frequency and severity in California are projected to increase over the next century, and in the last decade climatic changes already have dramatically affected the state's ecosystems, through events like the die-off of over 100 million trees, the trapping of endangered salmon in drying streams and some of the worst fire seasons in recorded history. Our ability to tackle these threats is limited by scarce data on new climate-targeted conservation strategies, and a lack of coordination among researchers across disciplines, and between different sectors. The proposed Center will bring together UC researchers, in collaboration with state agencies and community partners, to guide conservation planning for foundational species (those species that underlie ecosystem structure and function) in California’s terrestrial ecosystems, globally recognized for their high proportion of unique and imperiled biodiversity. This effort will synergize with the PI team's existing research foci, efforts to increase representation in conservation science, and cross-sector engagements addressing biodiversity and climate change, including their roles in state agency conservation efforts like 30x30 and the California Fish and Game Commission. In Year 1 we will conduct outreach and a literature review to develop a synthesis of climate change impacts, a needs assessment and three climate adaptation case studies. In Year 2, we will share these findings in a series of climate-adaptation workshops, design a collaborative research agenda for the proposed Center, and pursue funding to support the Center into the future.
Advancing Knowledge and Reproductive Justice: The UC Community Research Hub
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The proposed project aims to develop a UC hub for community research- a participatory approach to including community members as meaningful partners that we have successfully implemented in our ongoing applied research. Amidst growing calls to address structural racism in research and to center communities most affected by health inequities, this project presents an opportunity for building systemwide capacity for anti-racist research approaches.

 With a focus on birth and reproductive justice, we seek to draw on our successful community-driven research collaborations to formalize the model to train community members as researchers and train UC researchers in authentic community engagement.

 The proposed three-year project aims to: (1) formalize and scale-up the community research model to train and authentically engage community members as researchers and partners; and (2) train faculty, trainees, and students in actualizing birth and reproductive justice in practice and research. In Year 1, we will create a curriculum for community research. In Year 2, we pilot the curriculum by training and mentoring community members as researchers, including providing placements with ongoing research programs. In Year 3, we will refine the curriculum and provide grants for community-led research, supported by UC students and faculty; and disseminate the community research model.

 Building this research model contributes to the UC’s public mission and will provide a foundation for centralizing community perspectives using anti-racist research. Specifically, with the focus on birth and reproductive justice, we aim to promote a rigorous approach to knowledge production that centers the experiences and builds capacity of communities of color. Establishing this hub for innovative research approaches will support the UC’s efforts to conduct cutting edge community-engaged research and provide an important foundation for future funding, particularly as NIH releases funding calls for its UNITE initiative to address structural racism and promote racial equity and inclusion.
Metasphenisca haematopoda
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Metasphenisca
Metasphenisca haematopoda

description: Metasphenisca haematopoda (Bezzi 1924)
Aciura tetrachaeta var. haematopoda Bezzi, 1924a: 512. Syntypes. South Africa (Natal: Zululand, M’fongosi) (SAMCT). Distribution. AF: Namibia, Sudan. PA: Egypt.
Egyptian localities. Gebel Elba.
Host plants. Hosts of Metashenisca spp. include Blepharis spp., that are suspected to be the hosts of this species (Munro 1947; Freidberg & Kugler 1989).
Dates of collection. January.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Sciocoris helferii Fieber 1851
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Sciocoris
Sciocoris helferii

description: Sciocoris helferii Fieber, 1851
Material examined (n=1): loc. RG 01.VII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Egypt, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey (Asian part)). Extralimital record in Pakistan.
Sciocoris sulcatus Fieber, 1851
Material examined (n=5): loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, loc. LG 03.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Kirgizia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). Extralimital records in Pakistan
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Looking back on 30+ years of the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project while looking forward with the Johnston County Health Study: A narrative review
Creators: name: Nelson, Amanda E
name: Jordan, Joanne M
name: Golightly, Yvonne M
name: Helmick, Charles G
name: Renner, Jordan B
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: Over the last 30 years, knowledge of the epidemiology of osteoarthritis (OA) has dramatically advanced, and Osteoarthritis and Cartilage has been on the forefront of disseminating research findings from large OA cohort studies, including the Johnston County OA Project (JoCoOA). The JoCoOA is a population-based, prospective longitudinal cohort that began roughly 30 years ago with a key focus on understanding prevalence, incidence, and progression of OA, as well as its risk factors, in a predominantly rural population of Black and White adults 45+ years old in a county in the southeastern United States. Selected OA results that will be discussed in this review include racial differences, lifetime risk, biomarkers, mortality, and OA risk factors. The new Johnston County Health Study will also be introduced. This new cohort study of OA and comorbid conditions builds upon current OA knowledge and JoCoOA infrastructure and is designed to reflect changes in demographics and urbanization in the county and the region.
Eurydema ornata
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Eurydema
Eurydema ornata

description: Eurydema ornata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material examined (n= 183): loc. BQ 01.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020, 04.IX.2020; loc. BR 24.VI.2020, 04.IX.2020, 31.X.2020; loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020; loc. CM 23.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020, 03.IX.2020; loc. LAG 26.IX.2016 leg. OP; loc. LG 03.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020, 06.X.2020; loc. MC 26.VII.2017 leg. MM, 29.VI.2020, 01.IX.2020, 30.IX.2020, 29.X.2020; loc. MS 01.XII.2016 leg. PL MM, 04.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020, 03.IX.2020, 01.X.2020; loc. PM 01.X.2020; loc. PG 28.VII.2020, 29.IX.2020; loc. RG 05.VIII.2016 leg. OP, 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020, 02.IX.2020, 29.IX.2020; loc. S1 02.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020, 02.X.2020; loc. S2 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020, 01.IX.2020, 30.IX.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia) and Asia. Extralimital records in Ethiopia, India and Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
High-performance numerical solvers for scalable and flexible simulation on modern hardware
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: We propose a joint effort to build a scalable, generalizable and hardware-aware open-source codebase for solving nonlinear problems in simulation-based engineering science. Engineering and related simulations involve solving long sequences of very large systems of nonlinear equations. These problems arise naturally from computational physics and mechanics problems with a variational structure, often taking the form of nonconvex optimization problems with nonlinear constraints. Solving these systems takes up the bulk of the total computational cost of many practical simulations and typically limits the size and scope of problems that can be practically simulated on the hardware available. To be practical on larger problems, these solvers must be specialized to take advantage of the special structure common to many of the problems that are of interest and also be optimized for modern hardware, including GPUs, and take advantage of optimizations such as vectorization, threading, and distributed dispatch techniques. Undertaking this collaborative project will allow the PIs to combine their expertise in applied mathematics and computer science to provide this functionality while avoiding the need to duplicate this effort at multiple UC campuses. The PIs will release the library as a broader open source project that will benefit the wider community and bring recognition to the UC system. Furthermore, its broader adoption will naturally facilitate projects that can be funded by large collaborative multi-institutional grants. The proposed effort heavily involves fundamental skills in scientific computing, numerical optimization, nonlinear solvers, partial differential equations, computer architecture and high performance computing that require practical experiences, on which science and engineering students of various levels ranging from high school to Ph.D. will be trained.
HOPE: A Status-Neutral Mobile Unit for African Americans Experiencing Homelessness in Alameda County
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: African American people experiencing homelessness in Alameda County face many social and economic challenges putting them at risk for HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and Hepatitis C. People-centered approaches are needed to address these challenges. In this project, we will develop and test a mobile health clinic model called HOPE (Healthy Outcomes for People Everywhere) to offer prevention and treatment services to reduce HIV, STIs, and hepatitis C in this highly impacted community. This proposal will center African American people experiencing homelessness in Alameda County. We will work with a Community Advisory Board to ensure meaningful engagement in all phases of the project. We will also bring together a panel of African American people experiencing homelessness to advise the project and build a coalition of providers committed to provide a broad range of services to HOPE clients through warm hand-offs and providing services together at the same location. We will use public health data to guide where to focus services provided by HOPE using strategies informed by the community. To evaluate the impact of HOPE, we will use an implementation science framework focused on health equity. These measures will include who the project is reaching, the effectiveness of HOPE, how well the HOPE model is implemented, and what factors influence the long-term successful implementation and sustainability of HOPE. This project will be a collaboration with the following partners: APEB (formerly AIDS Project of the East Bay), East Bay Getting to Zero, and the Alameda County Public Health Department.
Eurydema ventralis Kolenati 1846
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Eurydema
Eurydema ventralis

description: Eurydema ventralis Kolenati, 1846
Material examined (n=1): loc. S2 29. VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco) and Asia (Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Russia (West Siberia), Syria, Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Metasphenisca negeviana
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Metasphenisca
Metasphenisca negeviana

description: Metasphenisca negeviana (Freidberg, 1974)
Isoconia negeviana Freidberg, 1974: 50. Holotype. Israel (Jordan Valley: Wadi Faria) (TAU). Distribution. AF: Egypt [Gebel Elba]. PA: Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia. Egyptian localities. Sinai: South Sinai mountains.
Host plants. Blepharis (Blepharis attenuata Napper).
Dates of collection. May to July.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Melanin and Dermal Uptake of Thirdhand Cigarette Smoke
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This study will explore the role of dermal melanin in the uptake of tobacco smoke chemicals from clothing, in human subjects. Melanin is the pigment that gives color to our skin, hair and eyes. Many different drugs, including nicotine, bind to melanin. Although African-Americans start smoking later than whites and smoke fewer cigarettes per day, they are more likely to die of smoking-related disease than whites. More African-American smokers want to quit, more attempt to quit and fewer succeed in quitting smoking, compared to whites and Hispanics. National surveys also consistently show that African-American children have higher urinary cotinine levels than non-Hispanic white or Mexican-American children. Understanding whether these disparities are due strictly to racism and lack of access to healthcare or whether there are biological factors that also contribute is essential to reducing and eliminating the disparities.
 60 people will participate in this study: 30 with low-melanin, light colored skin and 30 with high-melanin, dark colored skin. Everyone will wear clothing that has been exposed to cigarette smoke (pants and long-sleeved shirt) for three hours. We will collect blood samples for 6 hours to track how fast nicotine moves through their skin and we will collect urine samples for 10 days to measure how much nicotine they take in and how long it stays in their skin. We will test the samples for nicotine, NNK (a tobacco carcinogen) and their metabolites and compare them to skin color and melanin content. This is the first study to test both skin color and skin uptake of smoke chemicals.
 If people with more melanin in their skin absorb less nicotine uptake and we see the metabolites in the urine for a shorter period of time, then melanin is probably protective and the health disparities are caused by other factors. If people with more melanin absorb less nicotine, and we see the metabolites for a longer time or they absorb more nicotine and we see the metabolites or longer, then melanin may be part of the cause of the health disparities. No matter what we find, this study will improve our understanding of the health effects of tobacco in people with darker skin.
Oxyaciura Hendel 1927
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Oxyaciura

description: Genus OXYACIURA Hendel
Oxyaciura Hendel, 1927a: 111. Type species: Aciura tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, original designation. Pristaciura Hendel, 1928: 366. Type species: Pristaciura incisa Hendel, 1928 (= Aciura xanthotricha Bezzi, 1913), original designation.
Indaciura Hering, 1942: 283. Type species: Aciura formosae Hendel, 1915, original designation.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Social Networks and Health among Indigenous Californians Research Collaborative
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Indigenous Peoples in California face barriers in accessing health services. Despite historical and cultural similarities, most health research examines those from tribes in the U.S. separately from those from Latin America, who are usually considered Hispanic/Latinx. California (CA) is home to the largest population of Indigenous people in the U.S. Research shows that social network composition, meaning the network of individuals connected through interpersonal relations (e.g., family, friends), influences health behaviors and health outcomes. Indigenous peoples have strong and interconnected social networks which may play an even bigger role in health-related perceptions and behaviors. However, social networks for Indigenous people in CA may span state, tribal, and national borders, leading them to prioritize health information from outside their local area. Following long-standing health inequities experienced by this under-researched population, these communities have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, with some of the highest rates of hospitalization and death. However, rates of COVID-19 vaccination are lower compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Despite the potential critical role of social networks, little research has examined social network composition in relation to Indigenous health decision-making; none in the context of COVID-19 vaccination. In collaboration with the Indigenous community, our study seeks to: 1) understand, through social network analysis, how variation in network characteristics is associated with COVID-19 vaccine-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among Indigenous peoples living in CA; 2) design and test a health communication intervention aimed at increasing vaccination, disseminated through key influencers within social networks; 3) share resources on Indigenous health behavior research; and 4) provide health disparities training to students and community members. Our findings will characterize how individuals with transnational/trans-tribal networks make decisions about vaccines, setting the foundations for effective and targeted health interventions to increase vaccine uptake. While our initial priority is to study social network information flows for COVID-19 vaccination, our Collaborative intends to continue to contextualize Indigenous health decision-making within social networks more broadly.
Ancyrosoma leucogrammes
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Ancyrosoma
Ancyrosoma leucogrammes

description: Ancyrosoma leucogrammes (Gmelin, 1790)
Meterial examined (n= 166): loc. BQ 01.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020, 02.X.2020; loc. BR 02.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020; loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020; loc. CM 28. V.2020,23. VI. 2020, 29.VII. 2020, 03.IX. 2020; loc. LG 03.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020, 31.VIII.2020; loc. MC 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020, 01.IX.2020; loc. MS 04.VI.2020, 03.IX.2020, 01.X.2020; loc. PM 23.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020, 01.X.2020; loc. PG 26.V.2017 leg. MM, 28. VII.2020; loc. RG 04.VI.2020, 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020, 02.IX.2020; loc. S1 02.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020, 02.X.2020, 31.X.2020; loc. S2 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020, 30.IX.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia) and Asia
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
California Center for Green Buildings Research
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Green buildings are a linchpin in the development of a sustainable future in California. Already about 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions are attributable to construction and use of buildings. California is faced with the critical and simultaneous challenges of housing shortage, high costs of construction, earthquake hazard, forest fires, water shortages, climate change, and urban air quality problems while needing to renew, expand, and renovate the building stock consisting of several million commercial, residential, government, industrial and other buildings. The UC system alone must take care of more than a thousand buildings. How can we do all of this sustainably?

 The future of buildings needs to be very different than the past. We need to minimize the environmental and human health burdens of buildings throughout their supply chains. Decarbonization is a societal goal, but action plans of how to do that for buildings have not been created. The reduction of other pollutants and the consumption of materials and water are also critical and most urgent challenges, with very little to no research done on them to date.

 We will create new paradigms in how building design and materials for construction and renovation can be assimilated to mitigate environmental and human health impacts while improving building comfort and functionality at the lowest possible economic costs and with maximum societal benefit.

 Our Center will initially develop a set of most urgent questions to answer, identify data needs, collect data, design a decision-support tool, complete case studies, partner with building owners and architecture-engineering-construction companies, create a website, and develop results that can be adopted by practitioners and policy makers and implemented in codes. These initial efforts in the pilot project will begin to position the UC system at the forefront of the transformation that will yield advanced environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable design, construction, and renovation approaches for buildings.

 Our focus will be on California and the supply chains behind materials, wherever they may extend geographically. Through development of databases as well as robust methodological frameworks for assessment and improvement, the proposed research center will strive for global reach.
Oxyaciura tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Oxyaciura
Oxyaciura tibialis

description: Oxyaciura tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Aciura tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 773. Unspecified type. Spain (DJN). Trypeta gagates Loew, 1846: 505. Syntypes. Italy (Sicily: near Messina) & Austria (Steiermark) (ZMHB). Aciura gagatea Becker, 1905: 109. Misspelling of Trypeta gagates Loew, 1846. Distribution. AF: Ethiopia. PA: Afghanistan, s. Europe, North Africa to Kazakstan. Egyptian localities. Eastern Desert: Wadi Garawi, Wadi Hoff, Wadi Khafouri. Host plants. Stagshorn lavender (Lavandula coronopifolia Poir.).
Dates of collection. March to October.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Derula flavoguttata Mulsant & Rey 1856
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Derula
Derula flavoguttata

description: Derula flavoguttata Mulsant & Rey, 1856
Material examined (n= 10): loc. 01. VI.2020; loc. LG 03. VI.2020; loc. MC 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020; loc. PG 27. V.2020; loc. S1 25. VI.2020; loc. S2 07. VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern and Central Europe, and Asia (Armenia, Arzerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Sphaeniscus Becker 1908
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Sphaeniscus

description: Genus SPHAENISCUS Becker
Sphaeniscus Becker, 1908:138. Type species: Sphaeniscus brevicauda Becker, 1908 (= Aciura filiola Loew, 1869), monotypiy. Spheniscomyia Bezzi, 1913: 146. New name for Sphaeniscus.
Spheniscus Bezzi, 1913: 147. (Unjustified emendation of Sphaeniscus Becker, 1908. Preoccupied by Brisson 1760). Pseudopheniscus Hendel, 1913: 82. Type species: Urophora sexmaculata Macquart, 1843, monotypiy. Spheniscompia Foote, 1984: 125. Miisspelling of Spheniscomyia Bezzi, attributed to “authors”.
Pseudopsphenisca Foote, 1984: 125. Miisspelling of Pseudopheniscus Hendel, attributed to “authors”.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Royidris shuckardi Forel, comb. n.
Creators: name: Bolton, Barry
name: Fisher, Brian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Royidris
Royidris shuckardi

description: Royidris shuckardi (Forel) comb. n.
(Figs 75-77, Map 147)
Monomorium shuckardi Forel, 1895: 251. Holotype queen, MADAGASCAR: Moramanga (Sikora) (MHNG) [examined]. Comb. n.
QUEEN (gyne). Alate when virgin. Among the few known queens of the gravipuncta complex, shuckardi is isolated because with its head in full-face view the eyes are located in front of the midlength of the sides, and the sides behind the eyes appear long and shallowly convex, convergent posteriorly through long, shallow curves, and with the posterior margin short and indented medially. In the worker-associated queen of peregrina, and the two unassociated queens that are known in the complex, the eyes are at, or very close to, the midlength, and the sides behind the eyes round through narrow curves into a broad posterior margin that is shallowly concave across its width.
WORKER and MALE: unknown.
This species is known only from the holotype queen. While it certainly belongs in Royidris, and because of its 4-segmented antennal club is referable to the notorthotenes group, it can not be matched with any other queen assigned to that group. In addition, as pointed out by Heterick (2006), its type-locality, Moramanga, is in Toamasina Province, hundreds of kilometers away from the range of, and with vegetation and conditions very different from, that inhabited by other species now in Royidris.
Heterick (2006) associated the isolated shuckardi holotype queen with workers of what is now considered a complex of three worker-based species, gravipuncta, longiseta, and the more recently discovered peregrina. He grouped the first two species together with the isolated queen, and regarded them as a single species, to which he applied the name shuckardi. However, there is no evidence for this association. None of the few queens associated with, or assumed to belong to the same group as the three worker-based species, corresponds to the holotype of shuckardi. Heterick (2006) suggests that the locality given for the shuckardi queen may be in error. This could be correct, but even if true the queen can not be linked to any known species. Resolution of the identity of shuckardi will require the acquisition and comparison of more samples of worker-associated queens.
description: Published as part of Bolton, Barry & Fisher, Brian, 2014, The Madagascan endemic myrmicine ants related to Eutetramorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): taxonomy of the genera Eutetramorium Emery, Malagidris nom. n., Myrmisaraka gen. n., Royidris gen. n., and Vitsika gen. n .., pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 3791 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3791.1.1
IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON BUSINESS OPERATIONS OF SMES IN ENUGU STATE
Creators: name: Enogwe,, Grace Chisom
name: Prof. Fred, O. Eze
name: Prof. Chris, C. Orga
Publisher: name: hollex journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Business Operations, Machine Learning & Robotics

description: The study evaluated the impact of artificial intelligence on business operations of SMEs in Enugu State. The specific objectives were to: examine the impact of machine learning techniques on output and evaluate the impact of robotics on employee retention of SMEs in Enugu State. Descriptive survey design approach was adopted. A total population of 763 selected staff of the study firms. Sample size of two hundred and fifty-four (254) using Freund and William's statistic formula at 5 percent margin of error was adopted. Two hundred and forty-four (241) staff returned the questionnaire. Data was presented and analyzed by mean score and standard deviation using Sprint Likert Scale. The hypotheses were analyzed using Z – test statistic tool. The study revealed that Machine learning techniques had significant positive impact on output, Z (95, n = 261), 5.323 < 9.842. P. <.05 and Robotics had significant positive impact on employee retention of SMEs in Enugu State Z (95, n = 261), 7.722 < 10.383, P. <.05, The study concluded that Machine learning techniques and Robotics had significant positive impact on output and employee retention of SMEs in Enugu State. The study recommended among others the small and medium enterprises should endeavour to use Machine learning to help give enterprises a view of trends in customer behavior and operational business patterns, as well as supports the development of new products
Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice: Mapping Inequity and Renewing the Social
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The COVID-19 pandemic and its health disparities, climate change-related disasters, continued anti-Black racism, SCOTUS decisions affecting patient autonomy, and racist border and immigration policies, have brought to the surface the deep entanglements of institutions and policies that maintain inequity and disparate health outcomes. Calls for health equity are not new, but faculty and students throughout the UC system are looking for new ways to contribute to our effort to identify structures of inequity and implement practices that dismantle systemic racism to reimagine education and the delivery of health care within and outside the clinic. Indeed, the UC Executive Report Disrupting the Status Quo (2020) identifies structural racism, social determinants of health, and diversifying the UC at all levels as “imperatives” for action. Examining structural inequity is also a focus of health humanities which has centered disability studies in an effort to shift away from a medical humanities focus on narratives of fixing the body to transforming the environment. Health humanities has a recent turn to engage questions of abolition medicine. Similar to disability studies, abolition medicine is also a commitment to building new institutions and processes for reimagining an equitable society. The project collectively engages with structural transformation through research, curriculum development, and training in the fields of health humanities and disability studies.

 The expertise of this MRPI research collective will achieve these aims through a social mapping project that examines the consilience between and friction among locally-identified health equity issues and community reimaginings. Each campus’s mapping will be a shared resource to support educational and policy projects, enhance graduate training in health humanities and disability studies, and develop eight course modules for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. Our engagement with communities across California includes calls for community participation in our advisory board, paid internships for students, research experiences for community members, scholarly presentations, creative performances and dissemination, and scholarly publications. Each activity is designed to amplify a reimagining of care, collaborative engagements with health equity and to dismantle systemic racism and ableism.
Sphaeniscus filiolus
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Sphaeniscus
Sphaeniscus filiolus

description: Sphaeniscus filiolus (Loew, 1869)
Aciura filiola Loew, 1869: 12. Unspecified type. Spain (Andalusia) (ZMHB) Sphaeniscus brevicauda Becker, 1908: 138. Syntypes. Canary Is. (Tenerife) (ZMHB)
Spheniscomyia aegyptiaca Efflatoun, 1924b: 136. 4 Syntypes. Egypt (near Helwan, Wadis Hussein, Hoff, Rashid, Rishrash & Garawi; & Suez Road) (ESEC).
Distribution. AF: Ethiopia. PA: Canary Is., Egypt, s. Europe, Israel.
Egyptian localities. Coastal Strip: Burg, Mariout. Eastern Desert: Along Cairo-Suez Road, Wadies south east of
Cairo. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Marg. Sinai Mt.
Host plants. Egyptian stachys (Stachys aegyptiaca Pers.) and lavender (Lavandula coronopifolia Poir.).
Dates of collection. February to August.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on pages 167-168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Graphosoma italicum
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Graphosoma
Graphosoma italicum

description: Graphosoma italicum (O. F. Müller, 1766)
Material examined (n=45): loc. BQ 24.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 31.X.2020; loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020, 06.X.2020; loc. CM 28.V.2020, 23.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020; loc. LAG 03. V.2017 leg. MM; loc. MC 07.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020; loc. PM 23.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020; loc. S1 25.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020; loc. S2 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020, 01.IX.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Northern, Central and Southern Europe, and in Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, China (Northwestern Territory), Georgia, Kazakhstan (Asian part), Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kirgizia, Lebanon, Russia (East Siberia, West Siberia), Syria, Tadzhikistan, Turkey (Asian part) Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on pages 413-414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348