cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review of sustainability of small towns piped water services in Ghana
Creators: name: Nedjoh, John
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The sustainability of small towns water services in Ghana and Africa is a matter of great concern. Service levels of older water systems have declined due to increased demand from growing populations. There have been serious challenges with respect to technical, financial, management, socio-political, institutional/legal/governance and capacity issues. Low financial sustainability, community interference with O&M funds, weak O&M systems, inadequate technical and financial support from Local Government and the weaknesses of the community management model were identified as factors responsible for the unsustainable water services in small towns. Improving the sustainability of small towns water services therefore require clear leadership for a comprehensive, harmonised and coordinated approach, which addresses all the facets of sustainability within the contexts of institutional reforms and private sector participation. It is imperative to define and target small towns as a unique segment of society in Africa, which needs specialised approaches for sustainable water services delivery.
Xenylla grisea Axelson 1900
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Hypogastruridae
Xenylla
Xenylla grisea

description: X. grisea Axelson, 1900
– Xenylla grisea Axelson, 1900: 108
AB Lindo 2014
QC Therrien et al. 1999, 1999a; Chagnon et al. 2000, 2000a; Huebner et al. 2012
Remarks: The record of this species in AB by Lindo (2014) is an assumption based on species occurrence in analogous communities of the United States noted by Brand & Dunn (1998).
General distribution: cosmopolitan.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Sweet wastewater: Irrigating sugarcane with soapberry effluent – Rio Cobre, Jamaica
Creators: name: Jhanelle A. Simpson
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Wastewater reuse for irrigation is common in countries faced with water supply shortages. The Rio Cobre Basin of Jamaica is faced with water supply shortages because of the competing uses of the limited resources of the basin. The research investigated whether an integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach of reusing the treated effluent from Soapberry wastewater treatment plant to irrigate sugarcane would better manage the water resources of the basin. Assessment of the quality of the treated effluent and its suitability for sugarcane irrigation; farmers’ acceptance of using wastewater for irrigation; wastewater volumes and sugarcane water requirements; were done through document analysis, semi-structured interviews and literature review. The findings established that Soapberry can be safely used for irrigation, meeting 71% of crop water requirement; farmers’ accepted the use of treated effluent for irrigation; and the proposed effluent reuse scheme is economically viable but financial viability is limited by funding options.
Xenylla humicola
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Hypogastruridae
Xenylla
Xenylla humicola

description: X. humicola (Fabricius, 1780)
– Podura humicola Fabricius, 1780: 213
AK Fjellberg 1985; Skidmore 1995
BC Spencer 1948; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Setälä & Marshall 1994; Rusek & Marshall 1995; Skidmore 1995; Addison et al. 2003; Cannings & Scudder 2005; Cannings 2010
AB Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Lindo 2014
MB Hammer 1953; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006; Porco et al. 2014
ON James 1933; Hammer 1938; Maynard 1951; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Bird & Chatarpaul 1986; Skidmore 1995
QC Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999a
Remarks: This species prefers “seashore habitats with rich algal growth” (Fjellberg 1998, p. 52) in the Palaearctic but appears to inhabit both shore and inland communities in Nearctic, for instance “forest and meadow litter” of Alaska (Fjellberg 1985, p. 56). These differences in habitat preference are unusual and raise some doubts about the identity of this species.
General distribution: Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Oligaphorurini Bagnall 1949
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae

description: Tribe Oligaphorurini Bagnall, 1949
Remarks: A generic subdivision of this tribe is still under intensive discussion. Christiansen & Bellinger (1980), as well as Fjellberg (1987), treated all Nearctic species of the tribe as representatives of the genus Onychiurus, subgenus Archaphorura. The genera erected by Bagnall (1949) for these species, i.e. Archaphorura, Micraphorura, Oligaphorura and Dimorphaphorura, are widely considered valid (Weiner 1996; Pomorski 1996, 1998; Weiner & Kaprus’ 2014, etc.). Nevertheless, some uncertainty about the limits of these genera still existed. As Babenko & Fjellberg (2015, p. 72) wrote, “the present generic framework for Oligaphorurini is probably unique, difficult to use and hardly reflecting real relationships. There is great temptation to return to a single genus Archaphorura as Christiansen & Bellinger (1980, 1998) and Fjellberg (1987) had done”. The incorporation of almost all previously recognized genera of the tribe into a single genus, Oligaphorura, was recently proposed by Paśnik & Weiner (2017) and accepted on www. collembola.org. We follow this recent modification.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Onychiurus nuda
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Onychiurus
Onychiurus nuda

description: O. nuda (Fjellberg, 1987)
– Onychiurus (Archaphorura) nudus Fjellberg, 1987: 283
AK Fjellberg 1987; Skidmore 1993, 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006; Stebaeva et al. 2016
YT Fjellberg 1987; Skidmore 1995
Remarks: The species was also recorded for the Eastern Palaearctic by Babenko & Fjellberg (2006). In fact, this Palaearctic record belongs to O. interrupta (Fjellberg, 1987), which appears to be rather variable and hardly separable from O. nuda (see Babenko & Fjellberg 2015).
General distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
EELISA Entrepreneurship Action Plan
Creators: name: Schkade, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document is prepared within the work package WP7 – “Create the ‘embedding’ for EELISA-wide R & I structures (Optimize outreach)”, as deliverable D7.3 “EELISA entrepreneurship action plan” of the project EELISA INNOvation and COmmon REsearch strategy (hereinafter referred to as EELISA InnoCORE), co-funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101035811.

The EELISA entrepreneurship action plan is a concept for increasing the outreach of entrepreneurial activities across EELISA to different target groups and rests on three pillars: Firstly, an EELISA landscape of startup support that gives an overview of the key startup support institutions, services, programs, and courses at all EELISA partner institutions along all three different stages of the startup journey: nucleation, incubation, and acceleration; secondly, the sharing of those key startup support institutions, services, programs, and courses at all EELISA partner institutions along all stages of the startup journey wherever possible and meaningful; and thirdly, the implementation of an EELISA-wide startup initiative. The EELISA entrepreneurship action plan will outline these three pillars and will be implemented in the third year of the EELISA InnoCORE project.
Thermal Resistance and Survival of Salmonella in Chocolate Products As Influenced By Water Activity
Creators: name: Sun, Sicheng
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pathogen control
Salmonella
Thermal resistance
Water activity

description: Recently, Salmonella contamination in chocolate has been a primary concern in confectionery. There is a strong need for the chocolate industry to understand the survival of Salmonella during thermal treatment and storage. The objectives of this study were to: 1) Study the survival and thermal resistance of Salmonella during the storage at two different water activities (aw = 0.25 and 0.50); 2) Investigate the influence of temperatures (70, 75 80 ℃) and aw (0.23, 0.33, 0.43) on the thermal resistance of Salmonella in milk chocolate; and 3) understand the impact of aw (0.23, 0.33, 0.43) on the thermal resistance of Salmonella in different chocolate products.The study showed less than a 4-log reduction in chocolate products over 12 months at room temperature. The higher population of Salmonella was obtained at a lower aw level (aw = 0.25). The results also showed a linear relationship between logarithmic D-values of Salmonella and aw at different treatment temperatures. The D-value increased with lower treatment temperatures and the aw increased at elevated temperatures in different chocolate products. The D-value of Salmonella decreased with increasing aw in three chocolate samples.
description: In conclusion, the desiccated environment could enhance the survival of Salmonella during thermal treatments and storage. This research may help the industry design proper processing conditions such as moisture control, conching temperature, and time in chocolate processing. The outcome of this research contributes to microbial safety in chocolate products.
Supplementary Information from Swimming kinematics and hydrodynamics of barnacle larvae throughout development
Creators: name: Wong, J. Y.
name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Chan, K. Y. Karen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Changes in size strongly influence organisms' ecological performances. For aquatic organisms, they can transition from viscosity- to inertia-dominated fluid regimes as they grow. Such transitions are often associated with changes in morphology, swimming speed and kinematics. Barnacles do not fit into this norm as they have two morphologically distinct planktonic larval phases that swim differently but are of comparable sizes and operate in the same fluid regime (Reynolds number 100–101). We quantified the hydrodynamics of the rocky intertidal stalked barnacle Capitulum mitella from the nauplius II to cyprid stage and examined how kinematics and size increases affect its swimming performance. Cyprids beat their appendages in a metachronal wave to swim faster, more smoothly, and with less backwards slip per beat cycle than did all naupliar stages. Micro-particle image velocimetry showed that cyprids generated trailing viscous vortex rings that pushed water backwards for propulsion, contrary to the nauplii's forward suction current for particle capture. Our observations highlight that zooplankton swimming performance can shift via morphological and kinematic modifications without a significant size increase. The divergence in ecological functions through ontogeny in barnacles and the removal of feeding requirement likely contributed to the evolution of the specialized, taxonomically unique cyprid phase.
Heteraphorura subtenuis
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Heteraphorura
Heteraphorura subtenuis

description: H. subtenuis (Folsom, 1917)
– Onychiurus subtenuis Folsom, 1917: 642
AK Skidmore 1995; Pomorski 2002
NT Hammer 1953; Danks 1981; Rusek 1994; Skidmore 1995
NU Hammer 1953
BC MacNay 1957; Beirne 1972; Setälä & Marshall 1994; Setälä et al. 1995; Skidmore 1995; Cannings 2010
AB McGuffin 1950; Powell & Skaley 1975; Parkinson et al. 1977, 1979; Visser & Whittaker 1977; Whittaker 1981; Hassal et al. 1986; Parsons & Parkinson 1986, 1986a; Visser et al. 1987; Kaneko et al. 1995; Skidmore 1995
MB Aitchison 1979, cf., 1983, 1984c; Skidmore 1995; Lindo 2014
ON James 1933; Maynard 1951; Skidmore 1995
QC Marshall 1964, 1967; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999, 1999a; Chagnon et al. 2000, 2001, 2001a
General distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Supplementary Information from Swimming kinematics and hydrodynamics of barnacle larvae throughout development
Creators: name: J. Y. Wong
name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: K. Y. Karen Chan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Changes in size strongly influence organisms' ecological performances. For aquatic organisms, they can transition from viscosity- to inertia-dominated fluid regimes as they grow. Such transitions are often associated with changes in morphology, swimming speed and kinematics. Barnacles do not fit into this norm as they have two morphologically distinct planktonic larval phases that swim differently but are of comparable sizes and operate in the same fluid regime (Reynolds number 100–101). We quantified the hydrodynamics of the rocky intertidal stalked barnacle Capitulum mitella from the nauplius II to cyprid stage and examined how kinematics and size increases affect its swimming performance. Cyprids beat their appendages in a metachronal wave to swim faster, more smoothly, and with less backwards slip per beat cycle than did all naupliar stages. Micro-particle image velocimetry showed that cyprids generated trailing viscous vortex rings that pushed water backwards for propulsion, contrary to the nauplii's forward suction current for particle capture. Our observations highlight that zooplankton swimming performance can shift via morphological and kinematic modifications without a significant size increase. The divergence in ecological functions through ontogeny in barnacles and the removal of feeding requirement likely contributed to the evolution of the specialized, taxonomically unique cyprid phase.
Supplemental methods and results from Effects of genomic and functional diversity on stand-level productivity and performance of non-native Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Turner, Kathryn G.
name: Lorts, Claire M.
name: Asnake T. Haile
name: Lasky, Jesse R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: This file contains a full description of additional methodological details, combined with supplemental tables and figures.
Radiogrpahic Analysis of the Dorsal Hoof Wall Thickness in Clinically Normal Draft Horses
Creators: name: Larsen, Casey
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Draft horse
hoof wall thickness
laminitis
radiograph

description: Objective. To evaluate the radiographic thickness of the dorsal hoof wall in normal draft horse feet.
description: Animals. Thirty-three adult draft horses with no history of laminitis, no clinically obvious lameness, and visibly unremarkable front feet were included.
description: Procedures. Prospective, descriptive study of clinically normal draft horses’ front feet. Lateromedial radiographs were acquired of the front feet. A ratio of the dorsal hoof wall thickness to the length of the distal phalanx (DHWP3 ratio) was calculated.
description: Results. The dorsal hoof wall thickness to length of the distal phalanx was calculated as 0.33 +/- 0.03 in this population of draft horses.
description: Clinical Relevance. Previously published, maximal dorsal hoof wall ratios in lighter breeds are <0.30. The majority of draft horses in this study have DHWP3 ratios larger than previously published values in lighter breeds. These results may help the equine practitioner avoid a false positive diagnosis of laminitis when evaluating draft horse feet.
Report on EELISA Innovation and Co-Creation Processes (2)
Creators: name: Schkade, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document is prepared within the work package WP7 – “Create the ‘embedding’ for EELISA-wide R & I structures (Optimize outreach)”, as deliverable D7.2 “Report on EELISA innovation and co-creation processes (2)” of the project EELISA INNOvation and COmmon REsearch strategy (hereinafter referred to as EELISA InnoCORE), funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101035811. D7.2 is a follow-up deliverable of D7.1 “Report on EELISA innovation and co-creation processes (1)” that was submitted in November 2022.

EELISA InnoCORE accentuates the full innovation cycle in order to optimize the outcome of its research activities in cooperation with business and civil society. In that regard, we aim not only at offering attractive public events, consulting, and training sessions on innovation processes and co-creation activities, but also at becoming the first European University that can offer test spaces for prototypes to its startups, researchers, and innovators. In order to demonstrate what has been achieved in these domains between December 2022 and May 2024, the document gives an overview of our common EELISA innovation and co-creation activities. We differentiate these activities into two different categories: 1. Consulting and training sessions on innovation processes and on co-creation activities (including joint events on innovation processes and the exchange of best practices for social prototyping); 2. Public events on innovation processes and on co-creation activities (including the running of test spaces for prototypes and projects that also include evaluation of user experiences). The overview covers the second reporting period from December 2022 to May 2024.
Hymenaphorura nearctica Pomorski 2001
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Hymenaphorura
Hymenaphorura nearctica

description: H. nearctica Pomorski, 2001
– Hymenaphorura nearctica Pomorski, 2001: 460
AK Pomorski 2001; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
General distribution: Nearctic and Eastern Palaearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Data for: A cluster feasibility trial to explore the uptake and use of e-cigarettes versus usual care offered to smokers attending homeless centres in Great Britain
Exploring the uptake and use of electronic cigarettes provided to smokers accessing homeless centres: a four-centre cluster feasibility trial
Creators: name: Dawkins, Lynne
name: Cox, Sharon
name: Tyler, Allan
name: Bauld, L
name: Ford, A
name: Robson, D
name: Hajek, P
name: Best, C
name: Li, J
name: Uny, I
name: Parrott, S
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2020
Subjects: E-cigarettes
Vaping
Nicotine
Homelessness
Smoking
Smoking cessation
Homeless
Inequalities
Feasibility
Cluster
Trial
Uptake
Retention
Recruitment

description: This NIHR funded cluster feasibility trial aimed to assess participation and retention of smokers accessing homeless services in the UK. It also explored preliminary effectiveness of an intervention providing free e-cigarette (EC) starter kits (intervention) versus local provision of usual care (UC) with Stop Smoking Services. Other objectives were to explore the feasibility of collecting data with this population on contacts made with health care services as an input to an economic evaluation in a full RCT. Reporting included an estimation of the cost of providing the e-cigarette intervention and usual care. Four homeless centres were assigned to either the EC (N=2) or UC (N=2) arm. Participants (n=80; 52 males; N=48 in the EC arm and 32 in the UC arm) responded to Case Report Form (CRF) questions and provided a carbon monoxide (CO) sample at baseline and follow-up sessions at 4, 12, and 24 weeks. The data include: participants’ demographic including information about recent accommodation; smoking behaviours and quit attempts including Fagerström Test of Cigarette Dependence (FTCD) and Motivation to Stop Smoking (MTSS); alcohol (AUDIT); and other substance use (SDS); use of intervention-supplied e-cigarette or nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products, including details of stopped use where relevant; use of e-cigarette or NRT products otherwise obtained; scored responses of health and motivation questionnaires (GAD7, PHQ9, and EQ-5D-3L); and details of recent contact with smoking cessation services.
description: Data were collected from 80 smokers attending four homeless centres across the UK. 48 were allocated to an e-cigarette (EC) arm and 32 to a Usual Care (UC). -98 is used where data is missing because it’s not applicable -99 is used for true missing (e.g. participant refused to answer or the question was accidentally missed)
description: Variables are listed in the "data description for sharing" file
Inference on structural changes in high dimensional linear regression models
Creators: name: Zhang, Hongjin
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: change points
high dimension
inference
limiting distributions
linear regression
rate of estimation

description: This dissertation is dedicated to studying the problem of constructing asymptotically valid confidence intervals for change points in high-dimensional linear models, where the number of parameters may vastly exceed the sampling period.
description: In Chapter 2, we develop an algorithmic estimator for a single change point and establish the optimal rate of estimation, Op(ξ−2), where ξ represents the jump size under a high dimensional scaling. The optimal result ensures the existence of limiting distributions. Asymptotic distributions are derived under both vanishing and non-vanishing regimes of jump size. In the former case, it corresponds to the argmax of a two-sided Brownian motion, while in the latter case to the argmax of a two-sided random walk, both with negative drifts. We also provide the relationship between the two distributions, which allows construction of regime (vanishing vs non-vanishing) adaptive confidence intervals.
description: In Chapter 3, we extend our analysis to the statistical inference for multiple change points in high-dimensional linear regression models. We develop locally refitted estimators and evaluate their convergence rates both component-wise and simultaneously. Following similar manner as in Chapter 2, we achieve an optimal rate of estimation under the component-wise scenario, which guarantees the existence of limiting distributions. While we also establish the simultaneous rate which is the sharpest available by a logarithmic factor. Component-wise and joint limiting distributions are derived under vanishing and non-vanishing regimes of jump sizes, demonstrating the relationship between distributions in the two regimes.
description: Lastly in Chapter 4, we introduce a novel implementation method for finding preliminary change points estimates via integer linear programming, which has not yet been explored in the current literature.
description: Overall, this dissertation provides a comprehensive framework for inference on single and multiple change points in high-dimensional linear models, offering novel and efficient algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees. All theoretical results are supported by Monte Carlo simulations.
Willemia similis
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Hypogastruridae
Willemia
Willemia similis

description: H. similis (Folsom, 1917)
– Onychiurus similis Folsom, 1917: 640
AK Pomorski 2001; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
BC Rusek & Marshall 1995; Cannings 2010
QC Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999, 1999a; Chagnon et al. 2000, 2000a, 2001, 2001a
NS Babenko, unpubl.
NF Arulnayagam 1995; Puvanendran et al. 1997
General distribution: Nearctic and Eastern Palaearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Application of Causal Inference Approaches in Environmental Policy Analysis
Creators: name: Sen, Jui
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023

description: My dissertation explores the application of various causal inference methods in the analysis of environmental policies concerning air, land, and water. In my first chapter, I compiled panel data sets on manufacturing plant-level weighted emissions to estimate the sign and magnitude of pollution spillovers in connection with the High Priority Violation Policy (HPVP). Using stacked event study analysis, I found that, on average, a compliant manufacturing plant decreased weighted air emissions by about 14.44% if there was a record of violation of its sister plant(s). In contrast, the plant increased cross-media weighted water emissions by about 24.42% associated with the concurrent violation status of its sister concern(s). Specifically, this study found evidence of both positive and negative spillover effects of HPV violations.
description: In my second chapter, I examine whether easements increase the value of neighboring farmland. Agricultural conservation easements are a tool for preventing the development of farmland for residential, urban, or other commercial uses where farmland owners receive compensation for restrictions on future land use change. Previous studies have shown that the effect of easements extend beyond the preserved parcels. We build on this literature in two ways. First, I examine whether easements increase the value of neighboring farmland. Second, I analyze the effect of conservation easements in the Western U.S., which has received much less attention than the Eastern U.S. Using a generalized difference-in-difference regression framework, we analyze data from Skagit County in Washington State from the years 2002-2020 when about 15% of all cropland in the county received conservation easements as part of a local land trust program. I find that farmland conservation easements increase the sales price of neighboring farmland within a half-mile by 35%.
description: In my third paper, I examine the impact of restrictions on outdoor water usage in residential areas on the preferences of potential homebuyers. To achieve this, I analyzed a dataset of 3,539 observations of house sales from Clallam County, WA, between 2009 and 2020, using a difference-in-differences approach. The findings suggest that homeowners are not overly concerned about using water outside. The study found evidence that homes built before 2013, which rely solely on indoor water use, experienced a decrease in value due to the implementation of the Dungeness water regulation.
A Simulation Tool Chain for Investigating Future V2X-based Automotive E/E Architectures
Creators: name: Roth, Christoph
name: Bucher, Harald
name: Brito, Alisson
name: Sander, Oliver
name: Becker, Juergen
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2014

description: Due to the evermore rising number of functions, current E/E architectures are more and more a vulnerable source for faults and a barrier to innovation. This situation is aggravated by the integration of new technologies like Vehicle-to-X Communication (V2XC) which form the basis for a large number of future services and applications. At the same time, this “opening” of the E/E architecture to the outside world increases potential for non-deterministic disturbances. In order to overcome the limitations of current E/E architectures, application of new design principles and methodologies is necessary. Platform-based design (PBD) is a promising solution for the development of safety-critical functions, to increase reliability and to reduce development cost. Within this context, we propose a novel extensible tool chain that targets the facilitation of exploration, validation and verification of future V2X-based automotive E/E architectures. The tool chain supports composition of heterogeneous domain-specific models by integrating a heterogeneous modeling tool with a simulation middleware and serves as starting point for the investigation of PBD concepts in the V2X context. We believe that the tool chain can support modeling and validation of future V2X-based E/E architectures. In the final paper, we will evaluate the proposed approach by means of a case study regarding validation capabilities as well as execution performance.
Diversity and Genomic Characterization of mcr-1 Positive Conjugative Plasmids in Foodborne Escherichia coli and Clinical Salmonella
Creators: name: Li, Wei
name: Yanfei Yan
name: Ruiwen Sun
name: Yuxuan Wang
name: Tingfen Wang
name: Zitian Feng
name: Peng, Kai
name: Wang, Juan
name: Chen, Sheng
name: Yanping Luo
name: Ruichao Li
name: Baowei Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60503 Microbial Genetics

description: The 7 mcr-1-bearing plasmid sequences and 3 recipients plasmid sequences were deposited here for reference. The Nanopore long reads were shared for understanding the tandem repeats of mcr-1.
Evaluating Environmental Impact of Natural and Synthetic Textile Fibers Employing a Life Cycle Assessment Method
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Victoria  Krystyna
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecoinvent
Impact Assessment
Life Cycle Assessment
Natural Fibers
Synthetic Fibers
Sustainability

description: A life cycle assessment is an environmental impact assessment that can be applied to a good or service. It helps measure and model the potential environmental impact that those goods or services produce during their entire lifecycle. A life cycle assessment of five commonly used fibers: organic cotton, conventional cotton, jute, kenaf, and polyester in the textile and apparel industry was conducted utilizing openLCA software and the ReCiPe 2016 Midpoint (I) methodology. A cradle- to-gate system boundary was used, including agriculture, spinning, weaving or knitting, and wet- processing stages, and the functional unit for each textile was 1 kg. Organic cotton, conventional cotton, and polyester inventory data were sourced from Ecoinvent v3.8 database, and jute and kenaf were sourced from the literature. Evaluated impact categories include global warming potential, acidification, eutrophication, land use, and water use. Based on these impact categories, conventional cotton produced the most significant environmental impact in global warming potential, acidification, and water use, whereas organic cotton dominated the impact in land occupation. Jute generated the most significant impact in eutrophication, and polyester produced the most negligible impact in all evaluated impact categories. The findings of this study will aid industry stakeholders in transitioning traditional supply chains toward a more sustainable direction and help consumers identify which fibers are a more sustainable choice for their purchases. This research will also advance the body of knowledge regarding LCAs in the textile and apparel context to improve the reliability of this assessment.
Figure S1 and S2 from Ungulate use of locally infectious zones in a re-emerging anthrax risk area
Creators: name: Walker, Morgan A.
name: Uribasterra, Maria
name: Valpa Asher
name: Ponciano, José Miguel
name: Getz, Wayne M.
name: Ryan, Sadie J.
name: Blackburn, Jason K.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Figure S1. The effects of carcasses on average soil concentrations of P, N, K, Cu, Mg, Na, and pH at four sampling distances (0 m, 1.5 m, 4.5 m, and 7.5 m) and on grass biomass from three sampling zones (0-3 m, 3-6 m, and 6-9 m).; Figure S2. The diurnal activity of bison (A) and elk (B).
Supplementary_metaphage.pdf
Creators: name: Vitulo, Nicola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary material for MetaPhage: an automated pipeline for analyzing, annotating, and classifying bacteriophages in metagenomics sequencing data.
Psyllaphorura duodecimpunctata
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Psyllaphorura
Psyllaphorura duodecimpunctata

description: P. duodecimpunctata (Folsom, 1919)
– Onychiurus duodecimpunctatus Folsom, 1919: 6 A
– Onychiurus 12-punctatus (Folsom, 1919) sensu Hammer 1953: 36
– Protaphorura decimpunctatus (Folsom, 1919) sensu Skidmore 1995: 53
AK Hammer 1955 as 12- punctatus; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995 as duodecimpunctatus and decimpunctatus; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
YT Hammer 1953; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
NT Weber 1950; Hammer 1953; Toda & Tanno 1983 as decempunctatus; Rusek 1994; Skidmore 1995 as duodecimpunctatus and decimpunctatus; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
NU Folsom 1919; Hammer 1953; Mills & Richards 1953; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006; Stebaeva et al. 2016
BC Skidmore 1995; Cannings 2010
General distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Comparison Study of Test Protocols for Determining the In-Plane Shear Capacity of Cross Laminated Timer using Finite Element Analysis Software
Creators: name: Fowler, Matthew James
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: CLT
In-Plane Shear
Mass Timber
Modeling
Test Protocols
Engineering
Finite Element Analysis

description: With CLT becoming a more commonly used product, the CLT manufacturing industry will be required to insure the mechanical properties of the product. To do so, testing to ensure the product meets design specifications is required. A finite element model was developed in the attempt to investigate whether CLT shear test specimens for two different test protocol would provide equivalent, reliable results. A phased development of the model was used to ensure the model represented a reliable simulation of CLT products in shear and other mechanical responses. To validate the model, CLT specimens were simulated under various test loading configurations and the results were compared to data of stiffness and shear stress testing that had been performed on physical specimens. The model was used to compare the in-plane shear capacity test protocols of the ANSI/APA PRG 320 (2019) standard and the EN 16351 (2021) standard. This was done to determine whether the protocol of the EN standard would be a suitable alternative to the ANSI/APA standard protocol that has already been established. The model was used to compare between the shear stress distribution, the force required to cause a shear failure, and the locations of the failing cross sections for each of the protocols.
Protaphorura churchilliana
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Protaphorura
Protaphorura churchilliana

description: P. churchilliana (Hammer, 1953)
– Onychiurus churchilliana Hammer, 1953: 44
BC Cannings 2010
MB Hammer 1953; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1993, 1995; Stebaeva et al. 2016
Remarks: It is highly probable that this species, having according to the description 2+2 pseudocelli on the pronotum, is a member of the genus Thalassaphorura rather than Protaphorura.
General distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
MPEC 2024-H52 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 April 21)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Donald Trump’s Claim that “Education is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time” Gets an F
Creators: name: Watkins, Dwight
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2017
Subjects: CIVIL RIGHTS
Donald Trump
Education
Presidential Address
Political News
News

description: Donald Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday night in its entirety,
from his practice round in the limo to the standing ovation at the end, and it was great — if he’s
considering a post-presidential career as a stand-up comedian. But if this speech is a true preview of
his tenure in office, it would be a mistake if he or his followers think he will experience any success as a
president.
Exploiting diversity in the regulation of carbon assimilation to improve wheat productivity
Creators: name: Degen, Gustaf E.
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: Rubisco activase (Rca) is a key regulator of carbon assimilation. It removes inhibitory sugar phosphate derivatives from the active site of Rubisco by using the energy from ATP hydrolysis. However, Rca is thermosensitive and limits photosynthesis at moderately high temperatures and during photosynthetic induction. A better understanding of the properties of Rca isoforms present in wheat, a staple crop for human nutrition, will unlock the potential to improve the efficiency and resilience of carbon assimilation to meet future food demands in the face of climate change. The three wheat Rca isoforms were found to vary in the capacity to activate Rubisco in vitro. Rca1β had lower Rubisco activation activity than Rca2β and Rca2α. Ratios of Rubisco active sites to Rca above 6-11:1 resulted in maximal Rubisco activation. Furthermore, residues that conferred ADP sensitivity of Rca1β were identified using site-directed mutagenesis of the ADP-insensitive Rca2β isoform. These findings can inform future efforts to optimise Rubisco activation during shade to sun transitions in crops. To investigate the thermotolerance of native wheat Rca isoforms, temperature responses of ATP hydrolysis and Rubisco activation were assessed. Rca1β exhibited increased thermotolerance but reduced Rubisco activation activity, in contrast to Rca2β. An isoleucine residue was shown to confer thermostability in the mutant Rca2β-M159I, whilst maintaining high Rubisco activation rates and efficiency. To expand the understanding of thermotolerance and isoform abundance in planta, the effect of heat stress on wheat plants was investigated. The thermotolerant Rca1β increased to 6% of the total Rca protein pool after 5 days of heat stress, but Rubisco activation state remained reduced in heat stressed plants. Furthermore, activity of CA1Pase, which metabolises Rubisco inhibitors, increased in plants in recovery conditions (4 h after relief from heat stress), suggesting a build-up of inhibitors during heat stress and a wider role of this enzyme in Rubisco regulation. Exploiting diversity of wheat wild relatives have been suggested as a strategy for improving modern wheat cultivars. Rca in wild relatives was highly conserved and highly similar to the donor-species of the three wheat sub-genomes. Despite the small differences, the observed variation in Rca expression and protein levels might be associated with the ability of these species to adapt to high temperatures. Overall the results from this thesis suggest that engineering thermotolerant Rca isoforms into wheat to improve carbon assimilation will be the most promising way to make Rubisco regulation in wheat more resilient to heat stress in changing environments.
Protaphorura paucisetosa
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Protaphorura
Protaphorura paucisetosa

description: P. paucisetosa (Hammer, 1953)
– Onychiurus paucisetosus Hammer, 1953: 42
NT Hammer 1953; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1993, 1995; Stebaeva et al. 2016
Remarks: Hammer’s original description of this species was based on three specimens. All of them possessed a few dorsal pseudocelli and only 1+1 chaetae on the pronotum, which is typical of first instar juveniles of many congeners. The specific status of this species needs confirmation.
General distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
HDA6 is redox-sensitive and required for heat-stress tolerance A. Dard 2022
Creators: name: , Avilien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Histone deacetylases (HDAs) play an important role in plant adaptation to environmental changes by modulating gene expression. In animals, some HDAs are regulated by oxidation-reduction (redox) modifications, and we hypothesize that plant HDAs may be regulated during stresses known to generate cellular oxidation. During my thesis, I discovered that KO mutants of HDA6 (a plant HDA) are extremely sensitive to heat stress (37°C). My RNA-seq analysis shows a marked deviation in gene expression in the mutant at 37°C. Moreover, I detected a redox modification of HDA6, under oxidative conditions, affecting its oligomerization state. Furthermore, I found that HDA6 co-localizes with the cytosolic stress granule marker protein PAB2 at 37°C in a redox-dependent manner, suggesting that HDA6 is part of stress-granule complexes. Finally, my work highlights the emerging link between redox signaling and histone acetylation in response to heat stress.
Allonychiurus flavescens
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Allonychiurus
Allonychiurus flavescens

description: A. flavescens (Kinoshita, 1916)
– Onychiurus flavescens Kinoshita, 1916: 458
– Onychiurus oreadis Mills, 1935: 133
AK Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
NT Hammer 1953 as oreadis; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
BC Battigelli & Marshall 1993; Setälä & Marshall 1994; Rusek & Marshall 1995; Setälä et al. 1995; Skidmore 1995; Cannings 2010
MB Hammer 1953 as oreadis; Skidmore 1995
Remarks: The majority (if not all) of the above records are based on Christiansen & Bellinger’s remark (1980, p. 451) that “extensive comparison of Nearctic specimens of O. oreadis (including the types), with specimens in Dr. Yosii’s collection identified as O. flavescens, show these species to be inseparable, in spite of minor differences from the descriptions by Yosii”. In fact, O. oreadis appears to be a senior synonym of Leeonychiurus mai (Wray) (Bernard 2015). Species of the modern genus Allonychiurus do exist in the Nearctic but the presence of true A. flavescens there probably needs further confirmation.
General distribution: uncertain.
Unplaceable records of Allonychiurus sp.:
BC Addison et al. 2003, 2003a
MB Porco et al. 2014
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
РИСКГА АСОСЛАНГАН БАНК НАЗОРАТИ МУҲИМЛИГИ
Creators: name: Жуманазаров, Музаффар
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ўзбекистон Республикасида банк секторини ислоҳ қилишнинг асосий йўналиши сифатида кредит портфели ва таваккалчиликларни бошқариш сифатини яхшилаш, кредитлаш ҳажмларининг мўътадил ўсишига амал қилиш мувозанатлашган макроиқтисодий сиёсат юритиш, молиявий таваккалчиликларни баҳолаш учун технологик ечимларни татбиқ этиш орқали банк тизимининг молиявий барқарорлигини таъминлаш [1] белгиланганлиги банкларда рискка асосланган банк назоратини олиб боришни этади.
title: Linking After-Hours Work Connectivity With Job Satisfaction
title: a Stress and Coping Perspective
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sarabadani, Jalal
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: After-hours work connectivity
coping
fsQCA
technostress
TMSC

description: After-hours work connectivity (AHWC) describes one’s attempt to fulfill work-related requirements (e.g., checking and responding to customers or colleagues’ e-mails) after business hours. Empirical evidence suggests AHWC as a negative stressor with detrimental consequences. However, recent findings reveal positive outcomes linked with AHWC. The research is a response to a call to explain how AHWC may be linked with positive and negative outcomes. In this dissertation, I leverage theoretical insights from the transactional model of stress and coping (TMSC) to explain this phenomenon through appraisal and coping perspective. In doing so, this dissertation develops a transactional model of AHWC and theorizes that (1) employees form various perceptions of AHWC (2) undertake different coping strategies based on their cognitive evaluation of this stressor and (3) the individual and collective effect of coping strategies differentially influence employees’ job satisfaction. The results identified four different groups of employees who engage with different coping strategies. The findings also showed different patterns of coping strategies, differentially influencing job satisfaction. The theoretical contribution and managerial implications are discussed.