cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Triphora antwerpiensis Marquet 1996
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphora
Triphora antwerpiensis

description: † Triphora antwerpiensis Marquet, 1996
Triphora antwerpiensis Marquet, 1996: 139, pl. 1, fig. 6.
Type locality. Belgium, Antwerp.
Type stratum. Middle Pliocene, Lillo Formation, “Scaldisien”, probably Oorderen Sand Member.
Type material. IRScNB IST 6246, holotype.
Distribution. Belgium (Marquet 1996).
Geological age. Pliocene (Marquet 1996).
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 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Mesosmittia
Creators: name: Epler, John H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Mesosmittia

description: Mesosmittia
- The widespread M. patrihortae (22 specimens) and one undescribed species (one specimen) were collected. The genus was most recently reviewed by Andersen & Mendes (2002). They noted that M. truncata Saether, described from a single male specimen from Panama (Saether 1985), was separable from M. patrihortae only by the length of the costal extension (116 µm in M. truncata; 8–62 µm in M. patrihortae). Costal extensions in Zurquí material ran from 50 to 140 µm, indicating a wide range of lengths that would include the single measurement from the Panama specimen. I consider M. truncata to be a junior synonym of M. patrihortae.
description: Published as part of Epler, John H., 2017, AN ANNOTATED PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) OF ZURQUÍ, COSTA RICA Abstract Introduction, pp. 4-18 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 30 (30) on page 7, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i30.2240, http://zenodo.org/record/7987298
Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & Krisa
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Juncaceae
Luzula
Luzula spicata
Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis chrtek & krisa

description: Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & Křísa
Veränderliche Ährige Hainsimse
Unterart ISFS: 248000 Checklist: 1027880 Juncaceae Luzula Luzula spicata (L.) DC. Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & Křísa
Bestimmungsschlüssel
Zusammenfassung
Artbeschreibung (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 5-15(-20) cm hoch. Blütenstand eiförmig. Staubbeutel kürzer als die Staubfäden. Reife Frucht 1,5- 2 mm lang, kürzer als die Perigonblätter, mit spitzem Ende.
Standort und Verbreitung in der Schweiz (montan-)alpin / J (bis Le Noirmont), A (verbreitet)
Verbreitung global (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Süd- und mitteleuropäisch
Status Nationale Priorität: --
Internationale Verantwortung: --
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Luzula spicatasubsp.mutabilisChrtek & Křísa
Volksname Deutscher Name: Veränderliche Ährige Hainsimse Nom français: Luzule changeante
Nome italiano: --
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & KřísaChecklist 2017248000=Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & KrísaFlora Helvetica 20122638=Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & KřísaFlora Helvetica 20182638=Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & KrísaIndex synonymique 1996248000=Luzula spicata subsp. mutabilis Chrtek & KrísaSISF/ISFS 2248000
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Die ungültige oder fehlerhafte Autorangabe (Autorenzitat) wurde korrigiert. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Indigen
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein Status Rote Liste national
KEINE ANGABE
Status nationale Priorität /Verantwortung
Nationale Priorität--Massnahmenbedarf--Internationale Verantwortung--Überwachung Bestände--
Schutzstatus
Kein internationaler, nationaler oder kantonaler Schutz
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Leading for social justice: professional development experiences of K-8 urban principals
Creators: name: Goode, Juail L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Urban public schools have unique challenges that require dedicated, passionate, and resilient school leaders. These leaders must remain focused and committed to confront educational disparities (Darling-Hammond, 2010). Policy makers devise educational initiatives to hold school principals accountable and place enormous pressures on them to increase student performance (Farver & Holt, 2015; Spillane & Hunt, 2010; Warren & Higbee, 2007). These school leaders are also expected to make significant changes within limited time frames (Lambert, 2002). The shift of school leaders from manager to change agent requires educational leadership scholars’ analysis of prevailing assumptions about the world in which we live and how issues of social injustice influence the educational outcomes of certain populations of students. The field’s understanding the role that schools play in responding to issues of discrimination, inequities, and social injustice would help to uncover the professional learning that an urban school leader needs in order to be effective in their role. Focusing professional development efforts solely on raising test scores, results in underdeveloped urban principals. Underdeveloped school leaders will instead, reproduce inequities unless there are intentional and deliberate efforts to confront systems of oppression within school and society (Khalifa, 2018). This study will examine current professional development experiences of urban principals and how they lead for social justice to lay the groundwork for creating professional learning opportunities that build urban principals’ awareness and amplify their voices as advocates for social justice.
Creating a framework for the recruitment and retention of racially diverse teacher candidates in teacher preparation
Creators: name: Gordon, Edmund Wyatt
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Elementary and secondary teaching is the largest occupation in the United States (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2017). Teacher preparation programs serve as the entryway for teachers into the profession and have experienced more than a 30 percent decline in enrollments since 2008 (Office of Postsecondary Education, 2015). Declining enrollment and funding at teacher preparation programs create a difficult landscape for the recruitment and retention of racially diverse teacher candidates (ACT, 2015). Frameworks that promote effective recruitment and retention strategies need to be created to allow for resources to be used effectively and efficiently (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2013). There are examples of program designs (or elements of program designs) at teacher preparation programs that are effective at recruiting and retaining racially diverse teacher candidates. As such, it is important to identify and analyze these designs in order to understand how the embodiment of core principles leads to effective outcomes. Using qualitative methods (semi-structured interviews and content analysis), this dissertation contextualizes and problematizes the issue of racial diversity in the teaching workforce, identifies teacher preparation programs that are effective at recruiting and retaining racially diverse teachers, and highlights aspects of program design that lead to successful recruitment and retention. The analysis is grounded in the theoretical framework of critical race theory for education developed by Ladson-Billings and Tate (1995). It also is grounded in the framework of learner-centered design articulated by Quintana (2006), and the concepts of conjecture mapping and argumentative grammar developed by Sandoval (2014).
Triphora aoteaensis P. Marshall & Murdoch 1920
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphora
Triphora aoteaensis

description: † Triphora aoteaensis P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1920
Triphora aoteaensis P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1920: 129, pl. 6, fig. 3.
Notosinister aoteaensis (P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1920)— Finlay 1926: 386.
Inella aoteaensis (P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1920)— Maxwell 2009: 244.
Original spelling. Triphora aoteaensis P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1920
Type locality. New Zealand, Hampden.
Type stratum. Tertiary.
Type material. Type material not located so far.
Distribution. New Zealand (Marshall & Murdoch 1920; Finlay 1926; Maxwell 2009).
Geological age. Eocene (Maxwell 2009), Tertiary (Marshall & Murdoch 1920).
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 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Learning to enact effective interactions in a practice-based course
Creators: name: Kumar, Anita R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Teaching has been labeled as “complex, unnatural, intricate and problematic” (Ball & Forzani, 2009, p.501). Observing teachers, and reading or studying about teaching, is not enough to develop the body of knowledge and skills required to teach. It requires carefully designed learning opportunities that support pre-service teachers (PST) in deliberately and purposefully engaging with the practices of teaching (Grossman, Hammerness & McDonald, 2009). This dissertation examines what happens when a course designed using practice-based teaching approaches, namely the Framework for teaching practice (Grossman, 2011), the Learning cycle to enact core practices (McDonald, Kazemi & Kavanagh, 2013) the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS; Pianta, LaParo & Hamre, 2008), and a sequence of practice-based learning activities using video-analysis and rehearsals, is implemented. I examined the implementation and outcomes of this course by analyzing course documents, observations and field notes, CLASS™ ratings, focus group and my researcher journal. Study findings include details about gains in PSTs’ knowledge and skills related to effective interactions, particularly Emotional Support and Classroom Organization interactions, and challenges with Instructional support interactions. I also detail my instructional interactions with the ECE-PSTs in the course, to reflect on my enactment of practice-based pedagogy.I present my findings in a portfolio that includes three artifacts: 1) a research article for publication in a scholarly journal for early childhood teacher educators; 2) an article for publication in a practitioner journal; and 3) a conference presentation on implications for practice based program design. The study will help my readers understand and use new ways of organizing practice-based learning opportunities in early childhood teacher preparation programs, while also providing guidance for much-needed research.
Triphoris angustissima Deshayes 1863
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphoris
Triphoris angustissima

description: Triphoris angustissima Deshayes, 1863
Triphoris angustissimus Deshayes, 1863: 104, pl. 22, fig. 1–2.
Triforis angustissima Deshayes, 1863 — Martens 1880: 283.
Triforis angustissimus Deshayes, 1863 — Tryon 1887: 182, pl. 38, fig. 8.
Trifora angustissima Deshayes, 1863 — Viader 1937: 43.
Triphora angustissima Deshayes, 1863 — Jay 2007: 32, fig. 4–6, 46.
Type locality. Reunion.
Neotype type locality. Reunion, cape La Houssaye, Saint Paul, 10–12 m deep.
Type material. MNHN-IM-2000-9488, neotype.
Distribution. Madagascar (Dautzenberg 1923), Mauritius (Viader 1937), Red Sea (Issel 1869), Reunion (Deshayes 1863; Martens 1880; Tryon 1887; Jay 2007).
Remarks. The genus Triphoris is of feminine gender, therefore the name should be Triphoris angustissima. Jay (2007) designated a neotype.
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 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Vertical professional learning community: a focus on vocabulary
Creators: name: Lakata, Lucia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this systematic qualitative research investigation was to pilot a vertically aligned professional learning community (PLC) to improve teacher collaboration across grade levels and to inform effective vocabulary instruction. This research intervention was conducted at the Dream Big primary school, which serves a large population of English Language Learners (ELL). Reading can be a challenge for the ELLs at the primary school because of limited English language acquisition and lack of basic and academic vocabulary. In order to meaningfully design and implement vocabulary instruction that better meets the needs of the students, teachers need to understand the progression of vocabulary instruction. For this type of cohesion to occur, teachers need time to collaborate across grade levels. A collective case study design was utilized to explore and examine teacher experiences with participating in a vertically aligned PLC focused on vocabulary instruction. A case study design allowed for an in-depth exploration of the vertical PLC sessions. Data sources in the study included an initial questionnaire, facilitator observations of each session, a collection of documents and artifacts, participant reflection forms, and two final focus group interviews. The participant sample included one ESL teacher from each grade from kindergarten through third grade, two ESL teachers who work across different grade levels, and one ESL teacher that works with the Special Education classrooms.
Attention-driven Next-best-view Planning for Efficient Reconstruction of Plants and Targeted Plant Parts
Creators: name: Burusa, Akshay K.
name: van Henten, Eldert J.
name: Kootstra, Gert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robots in tomato greenhouses need to perceive the plant and plant parts accurately to automate monitoring, harvesting, and de-leafing tasks. Existing perception systems struggle with the high levels of occlusion in plants and often result in poor perception accuracy. One reason for this is because they use fixed cameras or predefined camera movements. Next-best-view (NBV) planning presents an alternate approach, in which the camera viewpoints are reasoned and strategically planned such that the perception accuracy is improved. However, existing NBV-planning algorithms are agnostic to the task-at-hand and give equal importance to all the plant parts. This strategy is inefficient for greenhouse tasks that require targeted perception of specific plant parts, such as the perception of leaf nodes for de-leafing. To improve targeted perception in complex greenhouse environments, NBV planning algorithms need an attention mechanism to focus on the task-relevant plant parts. In this paper, the role of attention in improving targeted perception using an attention-driven NBV planning strategy was investigated. Through simulation experiments using plants with high levels of occlusion and structural complexity, it was shown that focusing attention on task-relevant plant parts can significantly improve the speed and accuracy of 3D reconstruction. Further, with real-world experiments, it was shown that these benefits extend to complex greenhouse conditions with natural variation and occlusion, natural illumination, sensor noise, and uncertainty in camera poses. The results clearly indicate that using attention-driven NBV planning in greenhouses can significantly improve the efficiency of perception and enhance the performance of robotic systems in greenhouse crop production.
How do I read? What colleges can learn about supporting the transition to college reading from first-year student's self-reported reading lives
Creators: name: Lepore, Bridget A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: In order to succeed in college, students need to be able to read closely, critically, and independently. Unfortunately, large scale studies of graduating high school students in the United States have indicated that many are underprepared for college and career reading. When these students enter college, they often find themselves in a space that is heavily dependent on reading and yet provides little support for the new content, context, and forms of reading they will encounter. These students bring with them a lifetime of literacy experience though, which can help faculty and learning designers to understand how they read. Using a mixed methods approach, this study looked at the personal reading lives of first-year college students. For the purpose of the study, an individual’s reading life was separated into four dimensions including belief and confidence in their skills, habits during reading, preferences, and motivation. In the fall of 2018, participants completed a survey which asked about their reading lives as well as their preferences for instruction. The survey was followed by focus groups held in the spring of 2019. Overall, the study participants had a positive view of reading and their reading skills, however the focus group discussions indicated that students became aware of the need to improve their reading skills as the year progressed. This study found that students valued their college faculty and expected them to act as content experts, teachers, and learning support, and valued reading-based activities that were social in nature and connected them to content, faculty, and peers. Students had strong preferences about the types of materials used in classes as well as classroom practices. The study results yielded several suggestions for improving teaching and building reading-centered learning experiences and the professional learning needed for faculty.
Investigating a model using video stories for professional development for algebra teachers of low SES minority students
Creators: name: Leslie, Joyce
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: This study presents results of the design and implementation of The Teacher’s Algebra Workshop(TAW), a professional development intervention. Video stories of urban students’ early algebra learning were created by this researcher for this intervention. The video stories feature predominantly black and minority students engaged in mathematical reasoning, making and revising conjectures, and challenging one another. Four stories illustrate 12-year-old boys who participated in an NSF funded Informal Math Learning after school program in an urban school district. The video stories show the boys engaged in persistent problem-solving of “Guess my Rule” problems. as an introduction to linear functions. The TAW video stories were assembled using the RUAnalytic tool and video data stored in the Video Mosaic Collaborative (VMC), a research library from Rutgers University Libraries. The intervention was designed to engage teachers (TAW participants) by studying video narratives of student learning from a social constructivist perspective. Five teachers participated in the four-day TAW workshops in August 2016. Each day, guided by specific questions, teachers discussed the mathematics, the pedagogy, and students’ engagement in the stories. These discussions were audio-taped, transcribed and analyzed to identify what the teachers noticed in these key areas. The research question that guided the study include: Do urban teachers noticed the potential of pedagogy that challenges and engages students in their early algebra learning? Analysis of data indicated rich discussions among the teacher participants. They noticed key aspects of social constructivist pedagogy including teacher patience, engaging lessons, guiding questions and recognition of the students’ enthusiasm as they persevered in problem-solving. Results suggest using the video narratives for teacher professional development as well as conducting a scaled-up study using the artifacts created for this intervention and expanding the content to other mathematical topics.
The effects of a teacher designed kindergarten curriculum on the reading performance of English language learners
Creators: name: May, Alyssa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Research in early childhood education has continually demonstrated the importance of developing children’s literacy during their early years. Becoming literate is a multifaceted skill that children in the United States must achieve to be successful. There is considerable controversy, among policymakers, researchers, and educators, about how best to ensure the reading success of English language learners (ELL; Slavin & Cheung, 2005). Although research suggests the benefits of using ELLs’ native language to support literacy instruction in English, many schools, either for political or economic reasons, do not have that option. Many ELLs are taught alongside their English-proficient peers by teachers who often have had little or no preparation for working with ELLs (Llagas, 2003). These teachers are faced with the challenge of adapting their literacy instruction to meet a widening range of needs within their classrooms. To enhance student learning and thereby improve outcomes, a colleague and I were selected to develop a kindergarten curriculum to meet the unique needs of our district’s school population. The purpose of this quantitative study is to investigate the effectiveness of that curriculum with particular attention to the reading achievement of ELLs in comparison with the effectiveness of the Tools of the Mind Curriculum that our district previously used. Investigating how the reading performance of kindergarten ELLs in this district has (or has not) changed subsequent to the curriculum change also provides district leaders with some insights into whether the new curriculum has contributed to a reduction of the achievement gap between ELL and native English groups. This study is a formative evaluation in that these findings may help my district make other necessary changes in curriculum or to consider rethinking our use of PLCs to support curriculum and instruction to increase student achievement. The findings of this study may encourage further research about curriculum development for linguistically diverse populations. Exploring how curriculum can impact reading achievement for ELLs will contribute to the kindergarten research field, the understanding of ELLs’ reading achievement, and will, hopefully, generate interest in this neglected and critical area of research.
Metriocnemus Van der Wulp 1874
Creators: name: Epler, John H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Metriocnemus

description: Metriocnemus
- Three species, two undescribed, were collected. The named species, Metriocnemus costatus, was described from Guatemala by Sublette & Sasa (1994). Their description stated “genitalia with a midventral notched, somewhat quadrangular plate”. One of the Metriocnemus species collected, initially designated M. sp. ZUR-2, was very similar to the description and illustrations for M. costatus (Sublette & Sasa 1994: fig. 88) except it apparently lacked this plate. I was able to examine 6 paratypes of M. costatus from the Sublette Collection, located at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. The specimens were all excessively squashed (typical of Sasa mounts) and the quadrangular plate was apparent. I then remounted the abdomen/genitalia of one of the Zurquí M. sp. ZUR- 2 specimens and excessively squashed it – the quadrangular plate appeared! This plate is normally oriented in a dorsal-ventral manner and is visible as a thin sclerotized line when viewed in a typical genitalia mount that has not been excessively flattened. The structure may represent the aedeagus or an ejaculator (see Tuxen 1970: fig. 160).
description: Published as part of Epler, John H., 2017, AN ANNOTATED PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) OF ZURQUÍ, COSTA RICA Abstract Introduction, pp. 4-18 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 30 (30) on page 7, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i30.2240, http://zenodo.org/record/7987298
Social-emotional learning and teacher-student relationships in a suburuban school district: a descriptive study
Creators: name: Seery, Rebecca L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Research demonstrates students experience higher levels of engagement and less behavioral disruptions resulting in higher academic achievement when teachers incorporate social-emotional learning competencies into their classrooms (Brackett, Reyes, Rivers, Elbertson, & Salovey, 2012; Bridgeland, Bruce, & Hariharan, 2016; Yoder, 2014). As such, the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District has employed norms and values related to the incorporation of social-emotional learning competencies. This dissertation sought to describe elementary and middle school teachers’ self-reported beliefs and practices about social emotional learning in this suburban school district using quantitative research methods. This study used a self-report questionnaire to collect baseline data. Aligned with the norm for descriptive studies, central tendency statistics and standard deviation statistics were calculated for each research question. Additionally, a logistic regression and a chi square analysis were completed to determine a relationship between respondents’ beliefs and practices. This quantitative descriptive study also sought to examine if teachers’ self-reported beliefs and practices varied based on grade level, content area, level of education, or years of professional experience. This further analysis allowed for personalized professional development sessions based on patterns identified by background data. This analysis will inform the development of a professional development program targeting the integration of social-emotional learning competencies.
Careful Seeding for k-Medois Clustering with Incremental k-Means++ Initialization
Creators: name: Cheng, Difei
name: Zhang, Yunfeng
name: Jin, Ruinan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.3
subject: 68W40

description: K-medoids clustering is a popular variant of k-means clustering and widely used in pattern recognition and machine learning. A main drawback of k-medoids clustering is that an improper initialization can cause it to get trapped in local optima. An improved k-medoids clustering algorithm, called INCKM algorithm, which is the first to apply incremental initialization to k-medoids clustering, was recently proposed to overcome this drawback. The INCKM algorithm requires the construction of a subset of candidate medoids determined by one hyperparameter for initialization, and meanwhile, it always fails when dealing with imbalanced datasets with an incorrect hyperparameter selection. In this paper, we propose a novel k-medoids clustering algorithm, called incremental k-means++ (INCKPP) algorithm, which initializes with a novel incremental manner, attempting to optimally add one new cluster center at each stage through a nonparametric and stochastic k-means++ initialization. The INCKPP algorithm overcomes the difficulty of hyperparameter selection in the INCKM algorithm, improves the clustering performance, and can deal with imbalanced datasets well. However, the INCKPP algorithm is not computationally efficient enough. To deal with this, we further propose an improved INCKPP algorithm, called INCKPPsample algorithm, which improves the clustering efficiency while maintaining the clustering performance of the INCKPP algorithm. Extensive results from experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets, including imbalanced datasets, illustrate that the proposed algorithms outperforms than the other compared algorithms.
description: 18 pages, 43 figures, 5 tables
Inella apexbilirata Rolan & Fernandez-Garces 2008
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Inella
Inella apexbilirata

description: Inella apexbilirata Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
Inella apexbilirata Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008: 104, fig. 12c–e.
Type locality. Bahamas, Lucaya, Grand Bahama Island, 26°29’45”N, 78°37’15”W (26.49083, –78.61917), 300 m.
Type material. ANSP 367841, holotype. ANSP 367840, paratypes.
Distribution. Bahamas (Rolán & Fernández-Garcés 2008; Fernandes & Pimenta 2020), Brazil (Absalão 1989; Fernandes & Pimenta 2019b; Fernandes & Pimenta 2020).
Remarks. The record of Triphora compsa in Absalão (1989) should be assigned to this species (M.R. Fernandes pers. com. January 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 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Metal acetylacetonates and their properties
Creators: name: Arslan, Evrim
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Metal acetylacetonates are significant since they were amongst the earliest metal compounds which were recognized as what later became known as coordination compounds. Additionally, they were significantly investigated during WWII as potentially useful in the separation of isotopes, especially of uranium because of their unexpected volatility. Consequently, much research was carried out over the years— a good deal of which was of suspect validity, which unfortunately cannot be checked because very little information was published on the syntheses and crystallization methods used in the preparation of the crystalline samples. Here, we report our efforts to clean the slate by reporting on those of Al(III), Mn(III), Co(III), Cr(III), Fe(III), V(III) and Ti(III). These studies were carried out with crystalline samples obtained from a wide variety of solvents and over the range 296-100K in attempts to reproduce, verify, and correct, at times, the claims made in print. Our results, covering over 100 samples, are detailed in this thesis. We have also made crystallographic measurements at temperatures other than 100K and 296K for crystals of Al(acac)3 and Mn(acac)3 guided by their thermochemical information using DSC and Cp measurements. The very small energy changes found by DSC and Cp measurements (of the order of 5-50 cal/mol) cannot be associated with 1st-order transitions, nor even of rotational barriers. We believe that this is a case of librations brought about by the higher temperatures.In addition, we have explored the interaction of [(acac)2V=O](acac = 2,4-pentanedione) with a series of nitrogenous ligands which were chosen because of their ability to attach themselves onto the sixth (axial) position of such bis-acetylacetonates and because they have the capability of linking pairs of [(acac)2V=O] molecules, thus creating magnetically-coupled substances whose coupling would be interesting to document by electron spin resonance as well as by magnetic susceptibility vs. T. The results are rather surprising in that unexpected chemical reactions occurred which had not been envisioned, nor have been previously observed in preceding studies.
On the Home-Space Problem for Petri Nets and its Ackermannian Complexity
Creators: name: Jančar, Petr
name: Leroux, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A set of configurations $H$ is a home-space for a set of configurations $X$ of aPetri net if every configuration reachable from (any configuration in) $X$ can reach (some configuration in) $H$. The semilinear home-space problem for Petri nets asks, given a Petri net and semilinear sets of configurations $X$, $H$, if $H$ is a home-space for $X$. In 1989, David de Frutos Escrig and Colette Johnen proved that the problem is decidable when $X$ is a singleton and $H$ is a finite union of linear sets with the same periods. In this paper, we show that the general (semilinear) problem is decidable. This result is obtained by proving a duality between the reachability problem and the non-home-space problem. In particular, we prove that for any Petri net and any semilinear set of configurations $H$ we can effectively compute a semilinear set $C$ of configurations, called a non-reachability core for $H$, such that for every set $X$ the set $H$ is not a home-space for $X$ if, and only if, $C$ is reachable from $X$. We show that the established relation to the reachability problem yields the Ackermann-completeness of the (semilinear) home-space problem. For this we also show that, given a Petri net with an initial marking, the set of minimal reachable markings can be constructed in Ackermannian time.
Extrastriatal GABAA receptors as a nondopaminergic target in the treatment of motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease and levodopa-induced dyskinesia
Creators: name: Assini, Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder resulting from the death of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal projection to the basal ganglia. Extrastriatal nuclei within this circuit have been shown to exhibit synchronous oscillatory activity entrained to excessive cortical beta oscillations following dopamine depletion. Zolpidem binds to GABAA receptors at the benzodiazepine site, potentiating inhibitory postsynaptic currents with selectivity for receptors expressing the α1 subunit. Coincidentally, the nuclei expressing the α1 subunit within the BG are also those that have been shown to have increased synchronous bursting activity in a dopamine-depleted state. We hypothesize that this differential expression of the α1 subunit indicates zolpidem-sensitive GABAA receptors may constitute a potential non-dopaminergic therapeutic intervention in the treatment of PD motor symptoms. The work described in this dissertation explores this possibility using behavioral neuropharmacology and analytical chemistry.
Cheirodonta apexcrassum Rolan & Fernandez-Garces 1994
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Cheirodonta
Cheirodonta apexcrassum

description: Cheirodonta apexcrassum Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994
Cheirodonta apexcrassum Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994: 21, fig. 27–29.
Nanaphora apexcrassum Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1994 —Fernandes & Pimenta 2015: 502.
Type locality. Cuba, Jibacoa.
Type material. MNCN 15.05 /11143, holotype. AMNH 226471, NHMUK 1993061, ZMA.MOLL.136651 and MNHN-IM-2000-378, paratypes.
Distribution. Bahamas (Redfern 2001; Rosenberg et al. 2009; Redfern 2013), Cuba (Rolán & Fernández-Garcés 1994; Rosenberg et al. 2009; Díaz & Miloslavich 2010; Albano et al. 2019; Bakker 2021), Gulf of Mexico (Rosenberg et al. 2009).
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 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Not legal. Not illegal. Just TPS. Examining the integration experience of Central American immigrants living under a regime of long-term temporality
Creators: name: Campos-Medina, Patricia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: This study analyzes the integration experience of Central American immigrants (Salvadorans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans) under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Created in 1990 by the US Congress to clarify the procedural process to aid citizens of countries suffering human and natural strife, TPS first designation was intended to correct the discriminatory application of the 1980’s refugee act to people fleeing political violence from El Salvador. Denial of asylum rights however, was most severely applied to Hondurans and Guatemalans who despite being equally situated, were excluded from original designation. TPS eventually completely transformed itself into a humanitarian relief program and the original intent of remedying the discriminatory treatment of Salvadorans was eventually forgotten. It is the main premise of this research study that the initial discriminatory application of the Refugee Act of 1980 to Central American (CAs) nationals created a hostile regulatory legal framework that trapped this community into a context of long-term discrimination as members of American society. The denial of access to citizenship rights to CAs meant the denial of rights to equal access of opportunity which truncated their ability to build traditional political opportunity structures (i.e. voting) to enable them to advocate for rights for their future co-nationals. Set within the complexities of the current immigration debate, this study applies current political science theory to analyze the experiences of this specific class of CAs. Utilizing social movement theory, this study tracks the group’s political activism and proposes a new model of integration defined as Bounded Integration (BI). BI captures their integration experience within time limits that confine and restrain their daily lives. Using ethnographic analysis of 29 participant interviews, the study focuses on the evaluation of the group’s subjective integration, seeking to understand if this population has adopted a positive or negative view of their own integration. Findings demonstrate that this group holds a positive sense of their own integration and after many years in legal limbo, they have developed a sense of belonging to American culture. Despite the lack of access to citizenship rights, members of the group feel they have become American.
The Real-oriented cohomology of infinite stunted projective spaces
Creators: name: Balderrama, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $E\mathbb{R}$ be an even-periodic Real Landweber exact $C_2$-spectrum, and $ER$ its spectrum of fixed points. We compute the $ER$-cohomology of the infinite stunted projective spectra $P_j$. These cohomology groups combine to form the $RO(C_2)$-graded coefficient ring of the $C_2$-spectrum $b(ER) = F(EC_{2+},i_\ast ER)$, which we show is related to $E\mathbb{R}$ by a cofiber sequence $Σ^σb(ER)\rightarrow b(ER)\rightarrow E\mathbb{R}$. We illustrate our description of $π_\star b(ER)$ with the computation of some $ER$-based Mahowald invariants.
description: 20 pages. v2: improved exposition
Nanocladius Kieffer 1913
Creators: name: Epler, John H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Nanocladius

description: Nanocladius
- Eight specimens of a single undescribed species of Nanocladius (Nanocladius) were collected. The genus is poorly known from the Neotropics, with only three species described from the region to date (Epler 1986; Wiedenbrug & Silva (2013).
description: Published as part of Epler, John H., 2017, AN ANNOTATED PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) OF ZURQUÍ, COSTA RICA Abstract Introduction, pp. 4-18 in CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research 30 (30) on page 7, DOI: 10.5324/cjcr.v0i30.2240, http://zenodo.org/record/7987298
Triphora apicibulbus W. H. Turton 1932
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphora
Triphora apicibulbus

description: Triphora apicibulbus W.H. Turton, 1932
Triphora apicibulba W.H. Turton, 1932: 118, pl. 25, fig. 863.
Type locality. South Africa, Port Alfred.
Type material. OUMNH type material is lost (Albano et al. 2019).
Distribution. South Africa (Turton 1932; Albano et al. 2019).
Remarks. Specimens collected by Turton are present in the NHMUK (1933.9.4.34–1933.9.4.36), but there is no evidence of their type status so far (Albano et al. 2019).
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 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
An algorithmic discrete gradient field and the cohomology algebra of configuration spaces of two points on complete graphs
Creators: name: González, Emilio J.
name: González, Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55R80, 57M15, 57Q70

description: We introduce an algorithm that constructs a discrete gradient field on any simplicial complex. We show that, in all situations, the gradient field is maximal possible and, in a number of cases, optimal. We make a thorough analysis of the resulting gradient field in the case of Munkres' discrete model for $\text{Conf}(K_m,2)$, the configuration space of ordered pairs of non-colliding particles on the complete graph $K_m$ on $m$ vertices. Together with the use of Forman's discrete Morse theory, this allows us to describe in full the cohomology $R$-algebra $H^*(\text{Conf}(K_m,2);R)$ for any commutative unital ring $R$. As an application we prove that, although $\text{Conf}(K_m,2)$ is outside the "stable" regime, all its topological complexities are maximal possible when $m\geq4$.
description: 29 pages, 18 figures
Luzula sylvatica Gaudin
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Juncaceae
Luzula
Luzula sylvatica

description: Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaudin
Gewöhnliche Wald-Hainsimse
Art ISFS: 248300 Checklist: 1027910 Juncaceae Luzula Luzula sylvatica aggr. Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaudin
Bestimmungsschlüssel
Zusammenfassung
Artbeschreibung (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 30-100 cm hoch, Grundblätter 6-15(-20) mm breit, reife Früchte etwa so lang wie die inneren Perigonblätter.
Blütezeit (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 4-6
Standort und Verbreitung in der Schweiz (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Wälder / kollin-montan / CH
Verbreitung global (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Europäisch
Ökologische Zeigerwerte (nach Landolt & al. 2010) 3 + 22-232.h.2n=12
Status
Status IUCN: Nicht gefährdet
Ökologie
Lebensform Mehrjähriger Hemikryptophyt
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
6.2.2 - Hainsimsen-Buchenwald (Luzulo-Fagenion)
fett Dominante Art, welche das Aussehen des Lebensraumes mitprägt Charakterart Weniger strikt an den Lebensraum gebundene Art
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl FfeuchtLichtzahl LschattigSalzzeichen--Reaktionszahl Rsauer (pH 3.5-6.5)Temperaturzahl Tmontan (Wälder mit Buche, Weisstanne, in den Zentralalpen mit Waldföhre)Nährstoffzahl NnährstoffarmKontinentalitätszahl Ksubozeanisch (hohe Luftfeuchtigkeit, geringe Temperaturschwankungen, eher milde Winter)
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Luzula sylvatica(Huds.) Gaudin
Volksname Deutscher Name: Gewöhnliche Wald-Hainsimse Nom français: Luzule des forêts
Nome italiano: --
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) GaudinChecklist 2017248300=Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) GaudinFlora Helvetica 20012460=Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) GaudinFlora Helvetica 20122633=Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) GaudinFlora Helvetica 20182633=Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) GaudinIndex synonymique 1996248300=Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) GaudinLandolt 1977609=Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) GaudinSISF/ISFS 2248300
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Status Indigenat: Indigen
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
Status Rote Liste national 2016
Status IUCN: Nicht gefährdet
Zusätzliche InformationenKriterien IUCN: --
Status Rote Liste regional 2019
Biogeografische RegionenStatusKriterien IUCNJura (JU)nicht gefährdet (Least Concern)Mittelland (MP)nicht gefährdet (Least Concern)Alpennordflanke (NA)nicht gefährdet (Least Concern)Alpensüdflanke (SA)nicht gefährdet (Least Concern)Östliche Zentralalpen (EA)nicht gefährdet (Least Concern)Westliche Zentralalpen (WA)nicht gefährdet (Least Concern)
Status nationale Priorität /Verantwortung
Keine nationale Priorität oder internationale Verantwortung
Schutzstatus
Kein internationaler, nationaler oder kantonaler Schutz
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Blockchain adoption and design for supply chain management
Creators: name: Chang, Ai-Chih
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: In the current business environment, firms are eager to adopt new technologies as they observe more and more successful business applications thereof. One of the disruptive technologies, Blockchain technology (BCT), is currently drawing public attention owing to the cryptocurrency phenomenon for which BCT serves as the backbone technology. In view of certain innovative features, BCT holds out the promise of impacting Supply Chain Management (SCM), both operationally and financially.This Blockchain-centered research investigates the impact of BCT on SCM operations as well as its strategic adoption. It provides a holistic treatment and analysis in terms of: (1) Reviewing BCT and comparing it with peer technologies; (2) investigating existing and potential applications of BCT; and (3) identifying business benefits and the impact of BCT, including safety, cost savings, demandgrowth and yield improvement. Finally, we extract and explore useful managerial insights via rigorous modeling and analysis, and extensive numerical studies.Combining the strategic decisions on BCT adoption and operational decisions pertaining to supply chains, we develop two mathematical models: (1) a Blockchain-enabled Newsvendor model, and (2) a Dynamic Programming (DP) model. With the objective of optimizing total expected profit, a Newsvendor model is developed to study how BCT adoption impacts optimal inventory decisionsand ultimately how to determine optimal BCT adoption. The model is illustrated with closed-form solutions for selected demand distributions, specifically, Uniform and Normal distributions.We construct a DP model underlain by a generic stochastic model, where the firm seeks to maximize the total expected discounted profit by jointly managing (1) Blockchain design, (2) production or ordering decisions, and (3) dynamic pricing and selling. We first show that the deployment of BCT can assist firms in reducing order quantities, lowering selling prices and reducing target-inventory levels. It is also shown that higher volatility in either supply or demand lowers the expected profit as compared to lower-volatility counterparts. Our numerical study produces useful managerial insights. For example, some types of goods (e.g., credence goods and experience goods) greatly benefit from the adoption of BCT, but it may not prove beneficial to leverage BCT for certain other types of goods (e.g., search goods). Finally, considering the lifecycle of typical experience goods, it is recommended to adopt BCT as early as possible.