cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Triphoris callipyrgus Bartsch 1907
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphoris
Triphoris callipyrgus

description: Triphoris callipyrgus Bartsch, 1907
Triphoris callipyrgus Bartsch, 1907b: 251, pl. 16, fig. 4.
Triphora callipyrga Bartsch, 1907 — Abbott 1974: 112.
Type locality. United States of America, California, San Pedro.
Type material. USNM 195377, holotype.
Distribution. United States, California (Bartsch 1907b; Abbott 1974).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
KAgoshima Galactic Object survey with Nobeyama 45-metre telescope by Mapping in Ammonia lines (KAGONMA): Discovery of parsec-scale CO depletion in the Canis Major star-forming region
Creators: name: Hirata, Yushi
name: Murase, Takeru
name: Nishi, Junya
name: Shimajiri, Yoshito
name: Omodaka, Toshihiro
name: Nakano, Makoto
name: Sunada, Kazuyoshi
name: Ito, Takumi
name: Handa, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In observational studies of infrared dark clouds, the number of detections of CO freeze-out onto dust grains (CO depletion) at pc-scale is extremely limited, and the conditions for its occurrence are, therefore, still unknown. We report a new object where pc-scale CO depletion is expected. As a part of Kagoshima Galactic Object survey with Nobeyama 45-m telescope by Mapping in Ammonia lines (KAGONMA), we have made mapping observations of NH3 inversion transition lines towards the star-forming region associated with the CMa OB1 including IRAS 07077-1026, IRAS 07081-1028, and PGCC G224.28-0.82. By comparing the spatial distributions of the NH3 (1,1) and C18O (J=1-0), an intensity anti-correlation was found in IRAS 07077-1026 and IRAS 07081-1028 on the ~1 pc scale. Furthermore, we obtained a lower abundance of C18O at least in IRAS 07077-1026 than in the other parts of the star-forming region. After examining high density gas dissipation, photodissociation, and CO depletion, we concluded that the intensity anti-correlation in IRAS 07077-1026 is due to CO depletion. On the other hand, in the vicinity of the centre of PGCC G224.28-0.82, the emission line intensities of both the NH3 (1,1) and C18O (J=1-0) were strongly detected, although the gas temperature and density were similar to IRAS 07077-1026. This indicates that there are situations where C18O (J=1-0) cannot trace dense gas on the pc scale and implies that the conditional differences that C18O (J=1-0) can and cannot trace dense gas are unclear.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables, accepted for Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)
Danaus (Anosia) chrysippus subsp. chrysippus chrysippus (Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Liseki, Steven D.
name: Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Danaus
Danaus chrysippus
Danaus (anosia) chrysippus chrysippus (linnaeus, 1758)
D. chrysippus aegyptius

description: Danaus (Anosia) chrysippus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Larsen 1996: pl. 27, fig. 385 i. d ’ Abrera 1997: 185 (6 figs, as D. chrysippus aegyptius). SI: Figure 2c – h.
Forewing length: male 33 – 47 mm [mean (n = 30) 39.94 mm, SD = 3.008]; female 27 – 46 mm [mean (n = 13) 36.97 mm, SD = 4.888].
Note: see Appendix 2 for an account of recent debate regarding the taxonomy of African Danaus.
Records
In most parts of the country, from sea level to high mountains, flying all year (Kielland 1990, p. 73). Godman (1885, p. 537, as Danais dorippus (Klug, 1845)) recorded this butterfly from Kilimanjaro up to c. 1500 m, but Aurivillius (1910a, p. 2, as Danaida dorippus) gave elevations up to 3200 m. Kielland (1990) did not give specific records but the continuing presence of this butterfly on the mountain was confirmed by Liseki (2009). Beyond Tanzania this subspecies occurs throughout the Afrotropical Region, much of Arabia and Asia, including Asia Minor and the Levant, and even breeds occasionally in parts of southern Europe (notably Italy and Greece) (Ackery and Vane- Wright 1984; Ackery et al. 1995, p. 268, as Danaus c. aegyptius (Schreber, 1759)).
In many parts of Africa, including Tanzania, D. chrysippus exhibits unimodal wing-pattern polymorphism (terminology of Vane-Wright 1975). In the Kilimanjaro area most individuals appear to be of the ‘ dorippus ’ phenotype, but forms ‘ transiens ’, ‘ semialbinus ’ and ‘ albinus ’ also occur – indicating that the population is polymorphic at the loci controlling both hindwing coloration (the A-locus, with white recessive) and forewing pattern (the C-locus, with pre-apical forewing bar recessive). In OUMNH there is a single male f. ‘ chrysippus ’ from North Kilimanjaro (Kenya), collected 19 June 1905, ex Brodie Collection – which can be presumed to have the genotype AAcc (see summary table in Ackery and Vane-Wright 1984, p. 95) – however, the nominate form appears genuinely rare on Kilimanjaro. In Asia, form ‘ dorippus ’ is found as far east as Sri Lanka. In addition to colour pattern polymorphism, both sexes (and all forms) of this species vary very greatly in size.
description: Published as part of Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, pp. 865-904 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 869, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1091106, http://zenodo.org/record/3990100
Reconstitution of processive selenocysteine incorporation in wheat germ lysate provides insight into selenocysteine insertion sequence binding proteins
Creators: name: Pinkerton, Mark Hurst
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: A UGA stop codon is recoded to accommodate the incorporation of the 21st amino acid selenocysteine (Sec). For a UGA to be recoded a specialized set of cis and trans factors are required and consist of: an mRNA with an in frame UGA codon, a selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) in the 3’ untranslated region (3’ UTR), a SECIS binding protein 2 (SBP2), a specific translation elongation factor (eEFSec), and a selenocysteine tRNA (Sec-tRNA[Ser]Sec). The N-terminus of SBP2 is believed to have no direct role in Sec incorporation because the C terminus of SBP2 is sufficient for the incorporation of Sec into selenoproteins that have one Sec codon. Selenoprotein P (SELENOP) is an essential selenoprotein for male fertility and proper neuron function. SELENOP is also unique in that it contains 10 selenocysteines and is involved in selenium uptake and transport. Interestingly, an in vitro translation system using wheat germ lysate, has no endogenous selenocysteine incorporation factors, cannot synthesize full length SELENOP even when all the known factors are added. The aim of this thesis is to gain insight into the mechanism of processive eukaryotic selenocysteine incorporation by in vitro reconstitution and bioinformatics.
Servant Leadership and the Community of Inquiry Framework: Investigating Instructor Leadership in Higher Education Online Learning
Creators: name: Meech, Sally
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation consists of three journal articles that investigated instructor leadership in higher education online learning through the dual lenses of servant leadership (SL) theory and the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework. While instructor leadership has been deemed essential for facilitating meaningful learning experiences and higher order learning outcomes within a CoI, the means of instructor leadership are under investigated. Understanding instructor leadership is essential as it directly influences the interaction quality, meaningful learning facilitation, and the overall success of the online learning experience. These studies extended previous research applying organizational leadership theories to the context of higher education instruction, highlighting its application to online learning environments. The first study employed a mixed methods approach to investigate perceptions of SL behaviors among 87 students and seven instructors. Results indicated that instructors’ perceptions of their leadership behaviors were generally higher than students’ perceptions and found positive correlations between SL and student satisfaction with the course and instructor. The study provided empirical evidence to support the contention that instructor leadership is an essential element of a CoI. The second study used a predictive correlational design, analyzing survey data from 148 graduate students to examine the relationship between SL dimensions and the CoI presences. Results showed a significant positive correlation, with SL variables explaining 66% of the variance in students’ perceptions of a CoI as a whole, 73% in teaching presence, 55% in cognitive presence, and 31% in social presence. The study offered insights into what CoI presences may be most impacted by instructor leadership. Finally, a descriptive multiple case study of five instructors used interviews and archived course content to investigate how instructors conceptualized and enacted online instructor leadership. Findings revealed that instructor leadership presence was influenced by personal perceptions of instructor leadership, perceived agency, intentional focus on the nature and quantity of course interactions, and demonstration of SL behaviors that balanced teaching presence and social presence. This study provided additional evidence of the alignment between SL and the CoI framework and also offered examples of instructor SL behaviors useful for practitioners. Collectively, this dissertation underscored the importance of instructor leadership in cultivating meaningful online learning environments, offering empirical insights and practical recommendations for enhancing instructor effectiveness and student engagement in higher education online learning contexts.
Nanaphora caloundra Laseron 1958
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Nanaphora
Nanaphora caloundra

description: Nanaphora caloundra Laseron, 1958
Nanaphora caloundra Laseron, 1958: 618, fig. 147–148.
Mastonia caloundra (Laseron, 1958) — Chang & Wu 2005: 46, fig. 102.
Type locality. Australia, Caloundra.
Type material. AMS C.103096, holotype. AMS C.64451, paratypes.
Distribution. Australia (Laseron 1958; Chang & Wu 2005), China Sea (Zongguo & Mao 2012), Taiwan (Chang & Wu 2005; Chang 2006f).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
"Not simple truth but complex beauty": details in Victorian literature and aesthetics
Creators: name: Pradhan, Pritika
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation argues that the perception and representation of the seemingly objective details that proliferate in Victorian literature and aesthetics are modes for the constitution of subjectivity, in the work of four Victorian writers: John Ruskin, Robert Browning, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde. Traditionally, literary details, as parts that resist containment within larger narrative structures and formal imperatives, have been viewed as empty, superfluous entities, synonymous with minuteness and marginality, the supposedly manifest visual nature of which translates into unproblematic and objective verbal representation. However, Victorian writers were keenly aware – and apprehensive – that details (derived from the French détailler: to carve), far from being given entities, are created by subjects through processes of selection and analysis, so that the appearance of objectivity they present is generated by, and can reveal, perceiving subjects. Victorian writers employed the perception and (mis)interpretation of details by characters as a plot device to represent and interrogate subjectivities. Simultaneously, they identified the selection of details as a means of generating the writer’s personal style, precisely because details resist attempts at containment. Thus, the Victorians reconceptualized the aesthetic imperfection of details into an enabling condition for the generation of subjectivity.I trace the representation of details through two seemingly opposed, major nineteenth-century movements: realism and Aestheticism. My first chapter examines how John Ruskin audaciously champions the irregular ornamental details of Gothic architecture as expressive of the artisan’s free subjectivity – while still seeking to contain them within larger aesthetic frameworks, in The Stones of Venice (1851-3). My second chapter explores how Robert Browning emancipates details and subjectivity from containment in The Ring and the Book (1868-9), which proliferates in details seemingly unrelated to the plot. My third chapter examines how George Eliot represents the serious epistemic imperative to “dwell on every detail and its possible meaning” in Middlemarch (1871-2) as leading to powerful, but objectively misguided, subjective awakenings. My final chapter traces how Oscar Wilde ironically consummates details’ subjective tendencies identified by Ruskin, by representing attention to the details of artworks as a pleasurable mode of self-constitution and self-dissolution in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).
Tricholabiodes niloticus Suarez 1967
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Tricholabiodes
Tricholabiodes niloticus

description: Tricholabiodes niloticus Suárez, 1967
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Lelej & van Harten 2006).
Extralimital distribution: Egypt, Eritrea, Mauritania, Sudan (Suárez 1967; Suárez & Nonveiller 1990).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Lelej, Arkady S. & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Mutillidae, pp. 141-152 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/3719037
Tirumala formosa subsp. formosa formosa Godman 1880
Creators: name: Liseki, Steven D.
name: Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Tirumala
Tirumala formosa
Tirumala formosa formosa godman, 1880

description: Tirumala formosa formosa Godman, 1880
Larsen 1996: pl. 27, fig. 387 i. d ’ Abrera 1997: 187 (1 fig.). SI: Figure 3a – d.
Forewing length: male 43.5 – 52 mm [mean (n = 9) 47.19 mm, SD = 2.072]; female 43.5 – 50.5 mm [mean (n = 11) 47.10 mm, SD = 1.507].
Records
Highland forest, forest edges and forest mosaic up to 2300 m in north and northeastern Tanzania, south to Mufindi, and inland to the Rubeho Mountains, with disjunct populations to the west in Mpanda and Kigoma; also in lowland forest at Kasoge and Sanje, and common in semi-evergreen bush near Lufusi River, in the Rubehos (Kielland 1990, p. 73). Although not specifically recorded from Kilimanjaro by Kielland (1990), and not found there by Liseki (2009), it is included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna based on Rogers ’ (1908, p. 494) record for Taveta (a corresponding specimen is extant in OUMNH), and Aurivillius ’ s (1910a, p. 2) records for the cultivated area and slopes of Kilimanjaro. Three female specimens in OUMNH were collected by W.A. Lamborn, 16 May 1916, from Arusha at c. 1400 m, in ‘ dense evergreen forest ’. The BMNH has at least nine specimens collected on West Kilimanjaro by B. Cooper, at heights up to 5000 ft, and a pair from Moshi collected by Selous. Cooper also collected this butterfly on Mt Meru, including a female at 6500 ft – so it is possible this species could extend into the lower levels of the Kilimanjaro protected forest.
Beyond Tanzania this subspecies occurs in Kenya (highlands east of Rift Valley central highlands, Nairobi, Taita Hills, Chyulu Hills, Namanga, Mt Sagala). In Zambia it is known from a single specimen from the Mafinga Mountains, collected by Heath, September 1981 (Heath et al. 2002, p. 47). The collective species comprises in total four recognized subspecies, ranging from Nigeria and Gabon east to Ethiopia and Somalia, south to Zambia (Ackery et al. 1995, p. 270). Tirumala formosa is very distinct from all other members of the genus (Ackery and Vane-Wright 1984), including the only other African species included.
description: Published as part of Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, pp. 865-904 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 870, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1091106, http://zenodo.org/record/3990100
Triphora calva Faber & Moolenbeek 1991
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphora
Triphora calva

description: Triphora calva Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
Triphora calva Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991: 82, fig. 3–4.
Type locality. United States, Florida, Key Biscayne.
Type material. ZMA. MOLL.136610, holotype. ZMA. MOLL.139273, paratypes.
Distribution. Antigua (Zhang 2011), Bahamas (Faber & Moolenbeek 1991; Redfern 2001; Rolán & Fernández-Garcés 2008; Redfern 2013), Belize (Faber & Moolenbeek 1991; Rosenberg et al. 2009; Díaz & Miloslavich 2010), Cayman Islands (Rolán & Fernández-Garcés 2008), Cuba (Rolán & Fernández-Garcés 2008), Gulf of Mexico (Rosenberg et al. 2009), Mexico (Faber & Moolenbeek 1991; Díaz & Miloslavich 2010), United States, Florida (Faber & Moolenbeek 1991; Camp et al. 1998; Rolán & Fernández-Garcés 2008; Rosenberg et al. 2009; Bakker 2021).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
A microfluidic biosensing architecture for multiplexed analyte detection using hydrogel barcoded particles
Creators: name: Prakash, Shreya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Multiplexing is a method of analyzing multiple analytes in a biological assay in a single step. It provides advantage of shorter processing time, low sample volume and reduced cost per test. Currently, Flow Cytometers are used for blood cells enumeration, however, they are expensive, requires fluorescent tagging of cells and trained technicians to operate the instrument. We propose a non-fluorescent microfluidic architecture with single excitation and detection scheme using the barcoded particles fabricated using Stop Flow Lithography process. The barcoded particles designed with specific number of coding regions can generate numerous distinct patterns of electrical signatures and can be used in biological assays to detect multiple blood cells. A novel design of the asymmetric rectangular barcoded particle was proposed and tested in COMSOL Multiphysics. The barcoded particle with five coding regions generated distinct bi-polar signatures in the microfluidic impedance detection system. Different configurations of the sensing system were proposed to detect the conjugated microspheres (representative of blood cells) effectively based on the site of conjugation. The bottom co-planar electrode and top-bottom electrode configurations were tested for sensitive detection of conjugated microspheres to the barcoded particle. We found that our microfluidic detection system was sensitive enough to detect the presence of a microsphere attached to the barcoded particle. Further, we also investigated the effect of microspheres conjugation orientation to the barcoded particle and their associated electrical signatures. We developed a multi-feature selection algorithm to solve the orientation problem and improved the accuracy of our sensing mechanism. Finally, we fabricated the microfluidic chips using lithography, and co-planar electrodes on glass surfaces using thin film deposition process in the clean room. Our proposed microfluidic system can enumerate multiple blood cells in a single assay using barcoded particles. The concentration of these cells provides useful information about disease onset and progression. Such sensors can be used for diagnostic and management of diseases like Sepsis, Acute Kidney Injury, HIV/ AIDS.
Tirumala petiverana
Creators: name: Liseki, Steven D.
name: Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Tirumala
Tirumala petiverana

description: Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, 1847)
Larsen 1996: pl. 27, fig. 386 i. d ’ Abrera 1997: 185 (1 fig.). SI: Figure 3e – h.
Forewing length: male 40.5 – 48.5 mm [mean (n = 11) 44.70 mm, SD = 1.904]; female 44.5 – 51 mm [mean (n = 12) 47.14 mm, SD = 1.583].
Records
Kielland (1990, p. 73, as Danaus petiverana Doubleday and Hewitson) stated that this butterfly occurs at 400 – 1600 m, noting ‘ Eastern, northern and western Tanzania. From many areas records are lacking. ’ Aurivillius (1910a, p. 2) listed two females (as Danaida limniace var. petiverana) from ‘ Kilimandjaro: Kake ’, collected in June. It has been suggested to us that ‘ Kake ’ is a misprint for the well-known Kahe, a populated area southeast of Moshi and north of Nyumba ya Mungu dam. Consistent with this, the BMNH has a male from Moshi collected at 2500 ft by Cooper, and a female from New Moshi collected by Selous. OUMNH has two males from Taveta, c. 2500 ft, collected by Wiggins. On this basis, we include this species as a member of the lower slopes fauna. No subspecies of T. petiverana are currently recognized. This butterfly, which occurs throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa (Ackery et al. 1995, p. 270), as long believed, is closely related to the widespread Oriental species Tirumala limniace (Cramer, 1775) (Hashimoto et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, pp. 865-904 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 870, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1091106, http://zenodo.org/record/3990100
Credibility, readability and content analysis of treatment recommendations for adolescents with nonspecific back pain published on consumer websites
Creators: name: Hauber, Sara
name: Robinson, Katie
name: Fechner, R.
name: Pate, J.W.
name: O'SULLIVAN, KIERAN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Parents may seek out health information online when their adolescent has nonspecific back pain to better understand treatment options. Such information directed towards consumers has not been previously analysed. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional content analysis was performed to describe the treatments recommended on consumer websites for nonspecific back pain in adolescents. The credibility and readability of the websites were also assessed.
Understanding bimaturism: the influence of social conditions, energy intake, and endocrinological status on flange development in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)
Creators: name: Prasetyo, Didik
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Bimaturism in orangutans is defined as two different secondary sexual characteristics of a mature male, unflanged and flanged. Bimaturism has been hypothesized to be condition-dependent, which includes how social interactions, energetic status, and physiological status regulate flange development. Yet we still have little understanding of what triggers the development of secondary sexual characteristics in adult males and why there is such of variation in the timing of flanging. This study examined relationships between social behavior, energy intake, and endocrinological hormones to flange development in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii). By quantifying the orangutans’ flange size from three different male’s developmental stages (unflanged, developing flange, and flanged), I observed that 1) Bimaturism in orangutans is provoked by social interactions. Social interactions were related to the size of the orangutans’ flange such that males with smaller flanges tended to have greater interactions. Moreover, the amount of social interactions was related to the cortisol production in males with greater flange size. 2) Bimaturism in orangutans is not nutrient-dependent. Total energy intake did not differ among developmental stages and by accounting body mass per Kg, flanged males tended to have the lowest energy intake compared to other stages. 3) Bimaturism in orangutans seems to be influenced by endocrinological status. High testosterone levels were correlated to the flange development, and elevated cortisol levels were highest in unflanged males and may have inhibited flange development.
Environment under the gun: literature and environmentalism in Cold War Central America
Creators: name: Price, Jacob Goaslind
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation explores how Central American poets reinterpret both the political, historical, and cultural value of landscapes that were devastated by new political, economic, and international military governmental policy that coincided with the Cold War. By examining environmentally engaged literature produced between the 1950s and 1990s in Central America, I elucidate how ecological paradigms shifted in the face of North American military, economic, and environmental intervention. The cases of the CIA-led Guatemalan coup in 1954, the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua in 1979, and the Mayan genocide of the 1980s constitute rallying points around which Central American authors renegotiate how humans interact with the environment. Their literary output encapsulates the varied historical and environmental results of anthropogenesis in both Western and indigenous cultures. Authors restructure the political ecology of their respective countries and the fundamental place of humans in nature. Their works reflect changes in environmental history, anti-capitalism, ecotourism, genocide, and indigeneity outside of traditional binary definitions of the Cold War that showcase the inherent contradictions in the capitalist promise of modernization and human prosperity. The tangible consequences of the Cold War manifested through Civil Wars and intense environmental degradation, especially throughout the 1970s and 1980s, led writers to challenge the traditional, Western relationship between humans and nonhumans. I examine Central American poets who witnessed the ecological repercussions of the Cold War inscribe into their how nonhumans suffered and questioned how nonhumans responded to their polluted and destroyed environments. Several Nicaraguan writers who published texts close to the Sandinista revolution recognized the potential for nonhumans to collaborate in human politics and imbued them with agency. Indigenous publications from the 1990s exemplify a reflective and meta-poetic transition away from Cold War ideologies. These works contribute to global discussions surrounding land proprietorship and nonhuman subjectivity by challenging traditional Cold War understanding of nature. Their work represents how a variety of Mayan ontologies understand the implications of genocide and ecocide that resulted from the Cold War beyond the global division between East and West. I conclude that one of the tenets of Cold War ideology that necessarily leads to environmental degradation is the North American discourse of security, which transformed Cold War anxieties into the War on Drugs and furthered economic practices that jeopardize ecological welfare in Latin America.
Geosesarma De Man 1892
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Wowor
name: Daisy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Sesarmidae
Geosesarma

description: Genus Geosesarma De Man, 1892
Type species. Sesarma (Geosesarma) nodulifera De Man, 1892, subsequent designation by Serène & Soh (1970).
description: Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Wowor, & Daisy, 2024, Two new species of vampire crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae: Geosesarma De Man, 1892) from Java, Indonesia, pp. 469-478 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72 on page 469, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0034, http://zenodo.org/record/14682900
Amauris (Amauris) niavius subsp. dominicanus Trimen 1879
Creators: name: Liseki, Steven D.
name: Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Amauris
Amauris niavius
Amauris (amauris) niavius dominicanus trimen, 1879

description: Amauris (Amauris) niavius dominicanus Trimen, 1879
d ’ Abrera 1997: 187 (1 fig.). SI: Figure 4a – d.
Forewing length: male 41.5 – 50 mm [mean (n = 8) 46.25 mm, SD = 2.177]; female 43 – 49.5 mm [mean (n = 9) 46.56 mm, SD = 1.576].
Records
According to Kielland (1990, p. 75), occurs in eastern, northern and southwestern areas of Tanzania, from sea level to over 2300 m. Carcasson (1963, p. 23) recorded it from Moshi, and in the BMNH there are several Moshi specimens collected by Cooper, and others collected by Fountaine. Cooper also collected at least one male from Engare Nairobi, West Kilimanjaro, at 4500 – 5500 ft. E. Barns obtained this butterfly in the Taveta Forest, at c. 2500 ft, where Rogers (1908, p. 499) evidently found it abundantly. Not encountered in the forest zone by Liseki (2009). We regard this as a member of the lower slopes fauna – but it would appear to have the potential to enter the lower levels of the forest. Subspecies dominicanus occurs widely in eastern Africa, from Kenya south to Natal, whereas the nominate race occurs from western Kenya west to Guinea. A third subspecies is found in northern Uganda, southern Sudan and Ethiopia. According to Ackery et al. (1995, p. 271; based on Talbot 1940, p. 320), it is possible that a fourth, unnamed race occurs on Bioko (Fernando Po) – however, although the species is confirmed for the island by Spearman et al. (2000, p. 457), and there do appear to be minor differences in phenotype (photographs made available by J.D. Weintraub), these authors make no comment on status.
description: Published as part of Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, pp. 865-904 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 871, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1091106, http://zenodo.org/record/3990100
Triforis calypsonis Maury 1917
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triforis
Triforis calypsonis

description: † Triforis calypsonis Maury, 1917
Triforis calypsonis Maury, 1917: 122, pl. 21, fig. 13.
Type locality. Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Bluff 3, five miles above Cercado.
Type stratum. Section at Cercado de Mao.
Type material. Type material not located so far.
Distribution. Dominican Repulbic (Maury 1917).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Tricholabiodes craspedopygius Suarez 1967
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Tricholabiodes
Tricholabiodes craspedopygius

description: Tricholabiodes craspedopygius Suárez, 1967
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates (Lelej & van Harten 2010).
Extralimital distribution: Eritrea (Suárez 1967).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Lelej, Arkady S. & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Mutillidae, pp. 141-152 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/3719037
Amauris (Amaura) albimaculata subsp. interposita Talbot 1940
Creators: name: Liseki, Steven D.
name: Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Amauris
Amauris albimaculata
Amauris (amaura) albimaculata interposita talbot, 1940
A. albimaculata albimaculata

description: Amauris (Amaura) albimaculata interposita Talbot, 1940
Larsen 1996: pl. 27, fig. 393 i. d ’ Abrera 1997: 191 (1 fig., of A. albimaculata albimaculata). Kielland 1990: 272 (3 figs, of other subspecies).SI: Figure 5a – d.
Forewing length: male 31 – 38 mm [mean (n = 13) 34.75 mm, SD = 1.689]; female 35.5 – 40 mm [mean (n = 5) 38.12 mm, SD = 1.165].
Note: see Appendix 3 regarding a potential problem with the subspecies name applicable to this taxon.
Records
Known from the Northern Highlands, including Mt Kwaraha, the Mbulu Mountains, Oldeani-Ngorongoro, and Meru, Kilimanjaro and Longido, at 1200 – 2600 m (Kielland 1990, p. 74). The type locality is ‘ West Kilimanjaro, Ngare-Nairobi ’, with a paratype female collected at over 2200 m on Mt Meru (Talbot 1940, p. 327). The BMNH has numerous specimens of both sexes collected from West Kilimanjaro by Cooper, including the types. OUMNH has material from New Moshi (Lamborn), north Kilimanjaro (Kenya), and slopes of Kilimanjaro (ex Rogers). Said by Aurivillius (1911a, p. 77, as A. albimaculata hanningtoni Butler, 1888) to be very common on Kilimanjaro, Liseki (2009) encountered this butterfly on the mountain in November 2001, at 2000 m. Beyond Tanzania this subspecies occurs in Kenya (central and west) and Unyoro District, Uganda (Talbot 1940, p. 327). With a total of eight recognized races, A. albimaculata Butler, 1875, is generally a highland butterfly found in eastern Africa, from Somalia to Natal, but also in DRC and Cameroun (Ackery et al. 1995, p. 272).
description: Published as part of Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, pp. 865-904 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 872, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1091106, http://zenodo.org/record/3990100
MOT-DETR: 3D Single Shot Detection and Tracking with Transformers to build 3D representations for Agro-Food Robots
Creators: name: Rapado-Rincon, David
name: Nap, Henk
name: Smolenova, Katarina
name: van Henten, Eldert J.
name: Kootstra, Gert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the current demand for automation in the agro-food industry, accurately detecting and localizing relevant objects in 3D is essential for successful robotic operations. However, this is a challenge due the presence of occlusions. Multi-view perception approaches allow robots to overcome occlusions, but a tracking component is needed to associate the objects detected by the robot over multiple viewpoints. Most multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms are designed for high frame rate sequences and struggle with the occlusions generated by robots' motions and 3D environments. In this paper, we introduce MOT-DETR, a novel approach to detect and track objects in 3D over time using a combination of convolutional networks and transformers. Our method processes 2D and 3D data, and employs a transformer architecture to perform data fusion. We show that MOT-DETR outperforms state-of-the-art multi-object tracking methods. Furthermore, we prove that MOT-DETR can leverage 3D data to deal with long-term occlusions and large frame-to-frame distances better than state-of-the-art methods. Finally, we show how our method is resilient to camera pose noise that can affect the accuracy of point clouds. The implementation of MOT-DETR can be found here: https://github.com/drapado/mot-detr
Amauris (Amaura) echeria subsp. meruensis Talbot 1940
Creators: name: Liseki, Steven D.
name: Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Amauris
Amauris echeria
Amauris (amaura) echeria meruensis talbot, 1940

description: Amauris (Amaura) echeria meruensis Talbot, 1940
d ’ Abrera 1997: 191 (2 figs, of other subspecies). Kielland 1990: 272 (1 fig.). SI: Figure 5e – h.
Forewing length: male 38 – 44 mm [mean (n = 11) 41.55 mm, SD = 1.634]; female 45.0 mm (1 only).
Records
Highland forests and coffee plantations at 1400 – 2600 m, on Mts Kilimanjaro, Meru, Lolkisale, Kwaraha, Longido, the Oldeani-Ngorongoro highlands and Mbulu forests (Kielland 1990, p. 74), Arusha and Moshi (Carcasson 1963, p. 26). Talbot (1940, p. 330) listed numerous specimens collected on Kilimanjaro by Cooper, but all at or below 5000 ft (c. 1500 m), with one male from Moshi, and form ‘ luxurians ’ from Doringo Erok, northwest of the mountain, on the Kenya border. There are two males from the ‘ slopes ’, ex Rogers in OUMNH (who evidently considered it a common species up to about 1500 m – Rogers 1908, p. 493, 511). Given these data, and the fact that the species was not encountered by Liseki (2009), who worked in the protected forest from 2000 to 3000 m, we list this butterfly as part of the lower slopes fauna – but it must surely have the capacity to enter at least the lower levels of the protected forest. Amauris e. meruensis is endemic to Tanzania. Amauris echeria, which includes 18 recognized subspecies, ranges widely across forested biotopes in Africa, from Bioko to Ethiopia and south to South Africa (Ackery et al. 1995, p. 274).
description: Published as part of Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, pp. 865-904 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 872, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1091106, http://zenodo.org/record/3990100
Strobiligera campista M. R. Fernandes & Pimenta 2019
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Strobiligera
Strobiligera campista

description: Strobiligera campista M.R. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2019
Strobiligera campista M.R. Fernandes & Pimenta, 2019b: 40, fig. 23.
Type locality. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, 22°42’S, 40°40’W, 110–120 m deep.
Type material. MNRJ 32350, holotype. MNRJ 18640, MNRJ 18950, MNRJ 19481, MNRJ 31122, MNRJ 32349, MNRJ 32546, IBUFRJ 11701 and IBUFRJ 19580, paratypes.
Distribution. Brazil (Fernandes & Pimenta 2019b; Fernandes & Pimenta 2020).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Tricholabiodes semistriatus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Tricholabiodes
Tricholabiodes semistriatus

description: Tricholabiodes semistriatus (Klug, 1829)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait (Al-Houty 1989, 2011 both as Tricholaboides semistra), Oman, Saudi Arabia (Lelej 2002).
Extralimital distribution: Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Libya, Somalia (Lelej 2002).
Remarks: Al-Houty’s illustration (1989: Photo 519) is not of a female, as specified there, but of a male.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Lelej, Arkady S. & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Mutillidae, pp. 141-152 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/3719037
A study of OFDM in underwater wireless optical and acoustic communications
Creators: name: Qi, Zhuoran
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: With the development of marine applications in military and commercial fields, underwater communication techniques with high transmission data rate over long-range distances are in urgent demand. Two mainstream underwater wireless communications solutions are Underwater Acoustic Wireless Communications~(UAWC) and Underwater Optical Wireless Communications~(UOWC), which are based on acoustic and optical signals, respectively. In this thesis, a new physical-layer architecture is proposed for high-data-rate UOWC based on integrated hybrid Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing~(OFDM) and Pulse Position Modulation~(PPM) with Time-Frequency~(TF) spreading. Such architecture is engineered to increase the transmission range compared to basic OFDM systems thanks to the robustness of the nonlinear PPM modulation in wireless fading channels. Frame error rate performance and physical-layer throughput results are obtained using a custom-made physical-layer simulator built to emulate hardware performance. It is found that, with the proposed hybrid OFDM-PPM modulation scheme, the range is extended by over 10 m for a single transmitting light source, and by over 20 m for four transmitting light sources. Moreover, with the TF-spreading, the proposed architecture can improve the coverage by several folds compared to the case without spreading. Importantly, the Doppler effect is mitigated effectively by the combination of OFDM-PPM and TF-spreading, as shown via thorough simulations. Besides, the implementation of UWAC has been studied with a testbed using universal software radio peripheral hardware device. The OFDM-based Single-Input and Single-Output and Multi-input and Multi-output are tested in a water tank and the pool at Sonny Werblin Recreation Center, Rutgers University. Data of experimental results are collected, and the performances of the testbed are evaluated. Moreover, the performances of using spatial multiplexing and spatial diversity techniques in a MIMO structure are analyzed.
Tricholabiodes pedunculatoides Bischoff 1920
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Tricholabiodes
Tricholabiodes pedunculatoides

description: Tricholabiodes pedunculatoides Bischoff, 1920
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Lelej & van Harten 2006).
Extralimital distribution: Eritrea (Magretti 1906), Ethiopia, Kenya (Suárez & Nonveiller 1990), Somalia (Bischoff 1920 as T. semistriata pedunculatoides; Suárez & Nonveiller 1990).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Lelej, Arkady S. & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Mutillidae, pp. 141-152 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/3719037
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CASH FLOW: ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF BOARD HETEROGENEITY IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Obinna Chinedu, Umeh
Publisher: name: keith journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Board Heterogeneity, Operating Cash flow, Financing Cash flow, Investing Cash Flow

description: This study was carried out to examine the relationship between board heterogeneity and cash flow performance of quoted firms in Nigeria. In order to determine the relationship between board heterogeneity and cash flow performance, board heterogeneity was proxy using board gender heterogeneity while cash flow performance on the other hand was proxy by operating cash flow, financing cash flow and investing cash flow. The study adopted Ex Post Facto Design and data were collected from the annual reports and accounts of the listed consumer goods firms in Nigeria for the period ended 2016-2020. OLS model was used in the data analysis and the findings of the study indicate that there is a significant and positive relationship between board gender heterogeneity and cash flow performance of consumer goods firms in Nigeria at 1%-5% significant level. Thus, the study concludes that board heterogeneity ensures cash flow performance in Nigeria. In lieu of this, the study recommended that firms should increase the number of female directors in the board as high proportion of female directorship presence ensures cash flow performance.
Nonconvex representation learning from distributed datasets
Creators: name: Raja, Haroon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Data representation is an important information processing task which finds use in diverse engineering applications like signal processing, machine learning, medical imaging, and geophysical data analysis, to name a few. Once a good representation model is known for a given application then the next question is learning that model under practical constraints imposed by the application. Two such constraints are i) data is available at geographically distributed sites, and ii) streaming data. In such scenarios distributed, decentralized, and online algorithms can be deployed for solving data representation problems, which are the focus of this dissertation. Specifically, this thesis focuses on solving following three problems: i) Solution for PCA for high-rate streaming data, ii) collaborative dictionary learning for big, distributed data, and iii) through the wall radar imaging (TWRI) in distributed settings. This thesis proposes new methods to tackle challenges arising due to distributed and steaming nature of data, providing a theoretical analysis of the proposed methodologies (except TWRI), and finally using simulations to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed methods