cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bombus subterraneus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ornosa, Concepción
name: Torres, Félix
name: Rúa, Pilar De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus subterraneus

description: Bombus subterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
This is a large bumblebee species distributed in Europe and Central Asia, introduced in New Zealand (Michener 2007). It is considered as Least Concern in the IUCN European Red List (Rasmont et al. 2015). The Iberian population belongs to the subspecies:
Bombus subterraneus tectosagorum Kruseman, 1958
It occured mainly in the Pyrenees, entering into inner areas of the peninsula, in the Cantabrian Range and the provinces of Salamanca and Teruel between 1100 and 1900 m, with preference for habitats with more or less open land, with Asteraceae, Boraginaceae, Fabaceae and Lamiaceae (Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004).
It is a rare subspecies that in recent samplings has not been located in the Pyrenees (Table 3), pointing to its declining poor state of conservation in this area. Only one recent record has been counted in the Cantabrian Range on Echium plantagineum (Nox.) (León: Maraña, 1275 m, 20-VI-2008, 1 queen, C. Ornosa leg., UCME).
description: Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688
Grafting of aspirin on to gelatin for anti-inflammatory effect in scaffold development
Creators: name: Moghe, Mihir Ravindra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: In recent times, there is an increasing interest in the field of tissue engineering for biochemical or biomedical use. A core component of tissue engineering is the scaffolds used for controlling cell growth. These scaffolds are made of a plethora of materials, each with their own distinct properties, which can be further modified by the addition of secondary substances like drug molecules.Gelatin is a commonly used biomaterial for the formation of gel scaffolds. However, due to its water solubility, there have been issues trying to graft water-insoluble materials on to it. In this work, we try to graft aspirin, a water-insoluble drug molecule, to gelatin and characterize the properties of the resultant product.The grafting of the gelatin and aspirin was performed through amidation with dicyclocarbodiimide (DCC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) as intermediate coupling agent. During this process, experiments were conducted to find appropriate solvents for a homogenous reaction. The resultant product was purified utilizing multiple filtration passes, dialysis, and lyophilization.After production of the aspirin-grafted-gelatin (AGG), it was characterized and tested for its gelling and anti-inflammatory effect. The below-mentioned tests were conducted to characterize the product and confirm the expected results.Free amine detection using fluorescamine assay was conducted to detect the presence of a secondary material which may have replaced the free amines in gelatin. It was assumed that these amines were consumed in amidation with aspirin. FTIR spectroscopy was used to determine the characteristics of the materials within the AGG. This was performed by comparing the troughs of AGG wave numbers with the troughs of gelatin and aspirin at the same wave numbers. To determine the gel scaffolding capability of AGG, gelling test of AGG was conducted. Finally, to test whether AGG has retained aspirin’s anti-inflammatory properties, cell testing using RAW 264.7 macrophages was conducted. Enzymatic breakdown test using trypsin was also run on AGG to calculate its breakdown rate as compared to gelatin.
title: Surrogate Seatbelt Load Limiter and Pretensioner for Dynamic Testing
Creators: name: Agarwal, Suryansh
name: Han, Yusen
name: Pedlar, Jack
name: Gowher, Muhammad
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Passenger safety testing
subject: seat belt
subject: load-limiting
subject: spoolout
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: UMTRI has a crash testing sled which they use for researching various safety measures, including seatbelts. They wish to test different crash test dummies, each with varying body dynamics, and need seatbelts with adjustable load parameters, slack, and spool-out to simulate the forces experienced by passengers in a crash. This project aims to lower the cost associated with procuring seatbelt mechanisms for testing purposes and increase the efficiency of testing methods by creating a reusable mechanism. This will aid UMTRI in its research to design better vehicle crash safety systems, ultimately benefiting motorists and vehicle occupants globally.
A disinterested republic: reform and new divinity theology in early America
Creators: name: Monescalchi, Michael John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation argues for the centrality of an evangelical philosophy of disinterestedness to early American reform literature. Scholars have long considered disinterestedness to be a keyword in the study of the American Enlightenment, describing it as a civic republican ethic whereby elite white men exercise their purportedly unique capacity for rational reflection that in turn permits their entrance into politics. Yet evangelicals offered an alternative—and more inclusive—conception of the term: they theorized disinterestedness as an affective propensity for benevolence that all persons can obtain once they abandon their will in favor of God’s in the conversion process. In arguing that persons of all race, gender, and class positions are capable of becoming disinterested through conversion, evangelicals were able to promote the rights of those whom the civic republican conception of disinterestedness meant to exclude: free and enslaved African Americans, women, and impoverished persons. The dissertation’s first chapter traces the origins of evangelical disinterestedness to the sermons, moral philosophical treatises, and conversion narratives by “New Divinity” theologians Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins, and shows how this evangelical ethic departs from Scottish Enlightenment aesthetics and theories of sympathy. In the dissertation’s remaining three chapters, I demonstrate how marginalized early Americans employed this evangelical philosophy of disinterestedness in their reform writings—how Phillis Wheatley’s shifting conception of disinterestedness informed her decision to write against slavery in the 1770s, how Lemuel Haynes formulated an evangelical brand of republicanism that he used to protest slavery, and how Catharine Sedgwick promoted impoverished persons’ rights by integrating evangelical disinterestedness into her new Unitarian theology and philosophy of benevolence. With its emphasis on radical selflessness and devotion to God, evangelical disinterestedness allowed for marginalized early Americans to not only validate their reform philosophies as divinely ordained but also base their critique of unjust institutions like slavery entirely on others’ suffering. In attending to this alternative evangelical history of disinterestedness, the dissertation recovers a diverse set of early American writers who mobilized their theology into a crucial instrument of sociopolitical reform.
title: Oil Filter Sensor Adaptor
Creators: name: Postma, William
name: Roden, Oscar
name: Mannisto, Jayden
name: Vander Roest, Ethan
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Diesel Engine Attachment
subject: Live Oil Diagnostics
subject: Oil Header Adaptor
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: This project focuses on designing and prototyping a solution to mount oil condition and differential pressure sensors onto a spin-on oil filter system. The goal is to enable Donaldson, the project sponsor, to collect real-time data for engineering development and customer diagnostics, improving diesel engine maintenance for Mack/Volvo fleets. By integrating sensors into existing filtration systems, this solution helps optimize oil and filter replacement timing, reducing waste and enhancing engine performance. The project considers space constraints, environmental conditions, and ease of installation to deliver a validated prototype and installation guide. Our final deliverable, a fully functional prototype ready to be put onto a diesel truck, ultimately contributes to sustainability and more efficient fleet management.
A semiotic reading of hyperrealism in the Soviet Union: representations of the Soviet urbanscape in the 1970s and 1980s as a new form of critical realism
Creators: name: Morandi, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Western-established dichotomy between style and ideology, embodied by modernism and realism, was dominant. This dichotomy tended to suppress, marginalize or ostracize realism in the Soviet Union by reducing it to the leftist political project. This dissertation presents a critical reassessment of realism in the Soviet Union by challenging its representation as a monolithic phenomenon through the analysis of hyperrealism in the 1970s and 1980s. My analyses of Ando Keskküla, Jaan Elken, Semyon Faibisovich and Sergei Sherstiuk’s hyperrealist artworks, based on Yuri Lotman's semiotic theory of culture, show the influence on their artistic production of the social and cultural system of signs of the Soviet society, as displayed in architecture, means of transport, and housing, along with the artist’s personal agenda. Rather than the idealized conditions promoted by official doctrine, these artists adopted a unique strategy to subvert the predominant Socialist realist political rhetoric by representing the actual conditions of decay and collapse of Tallinn and Moscow’s urban environment as a powerful metaphor for the existential condition of alienation and seclusion experienced by the population in the last years of the Soviet era. While Keskküla, Elken, Faibisovich, and Sherstiuk remained committed to a figurative style they also tested and broadened the boundaries of realism, by breaking its rules through means and visual strategies which included the concepts of mimesis, original creativity, the artists’ agency, use of quotation and technical reproduction. In doing so, they problematized the discourse on the perception of reality in a totalitarian society, while introducing a critical third way distinct from the socialist realism and the formalist praxis of non-conformist artists of their time.
Mutillidae Latreille 1802
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

description: Mutillidae sp.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates (Roche 1981 as Mutillidae sp. 1; Tigar & Osborne 1999a, b; Howarth & Gillett 2008).
Remarks: This entry involves species which may be the same as named species appearing below.
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 142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/3719037
Scythris siccella Zeller 1839
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
name: Budashkin, Yury I.
name: Zhakov, Aleksandr V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Scythrididae
Scythris
Scythris siccella

description: Scythris siccella (Zeller, 1839)
Distribution. Central and SoutHern Europe (Bengtsson 1997). THe only speCimen witHout geograpHiCal label From tHe ColleCtion oF T. DZiedusZyCki is deposited in tHe Museum oF Natural History oF Ukrainian ACademy oF SCienCes
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., Budashkin, Yury I. & Zhakov, Aleksandr V., 2017, Checklist of scythridid moths (Lepidoptera, Scythrididae) of Ukraine with description of two new species, pp. 481-503 in Zootaxa 4291 (3) on page 498, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/827636
Triforis (Monophorus) bruguieri var. tauroparva Sacco 1895
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triforis
Triforis bruguieri
Triforis (monophorus) bruguieri var. tauroparva sacco, 1895

description: † Triforis (Monophorus) bruguieri var. tauroparva Sacco, 1895
Triforis (Monophorus) bruguieri var. tauroparva Sacco, 1895: 65, pl. 3, fig. 71.
Original localities. ”Colli Torinesi” (surroundings of Torrino) or “Astigiana” (area surrounding the town of Asti), Italy.
Type stratum. Miocene, “ Elveziano”.
Type material. MRSN BS.047.02.007, figured specimen (Ferrero Mortara et al. 1984).
Distribution. Italy (Sacco 1895; Ferrero Mortara et al. 1984).
Geological age. Miocene (Sacco 1895; Ferrero Mortara et al. 1984).
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 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
title: CoasterCraft: Prototyping for Thrills
Creators: name: Bautista, Kyler
name: Lee, Marianne
name: Marshall, Jake
name: Solar, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Roller Coaster
subject: Thrill Ride Testing
subject: Automated 3D Part Generation
subject: Theme Park
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: Roller coaster accelerations are evaluated to limit harmful accelerations on the human body. Current industry evaluation methods are expensive, cumbersome, and do not make use of scaled physical models. Michigan TPEG wants to produce their own small-scale roller coaster models and evaluate their designs for passenger safety. The CoasterCraft process enables Michigan TPEG to conduct low-cost and adaptable safety evaluation through production of small-scale roller coaster prototypes and acceleration analysis of the small-scale model, ensuring maximum passenger accelerations are not exceeded. A case study of Cedar Point's Magnum XL-200 was conducted to verify the process.
Dasylabris (Inbaltilla) biblica Invrea 1950
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
Dasylabris
Dasylabris biblica

description: Dasylabris (Inbaltilla) biblica Invrea, 1950
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen (Lelej & van Harten 2006).
Extralimital distribution: Greece (Lelej 2002), Palestine (Invrea 1950 as D. italica biblica; Lelej 2002).
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
Molecular genetic and physiological studies to unravel the mystery of Sphingomonas wittichii RW1 dibenzo-p-dioxin degradation
Creators: name: Mutter, Thamer Yousif
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Dibenzofuran and dibenzo-p-dioxin are ubiquitous environmental pollutants in soil and sediment. Sphingomonas wittichii RW1 is one of a few strains known for the ability to grow on the related compounds dibenzofuran (DBF) and dibenzo-p-dioxin (DXN) as the sole source of carbon. The genes for the initial steps in the DBF catabolic pathway (ring hydroxylating dioxygenase, ring cleavage dioxygenase, and a hydrolase) which result in the formation of salicylate and a five-carbon fragment have been localized to a mega-plasmid designated pSWIT02 in RW1. Plasmids highly similar to pSWIT02 have been found in other DBF degrading Sphingomonas strains. However, despite having the pSWIT02-encoded DBF degradation pathway these other bacteria are not capable of growth on DXN. This thesis describes involvement of chromosomally encoded genes in dibenzo-p-dioxin degradation by RW1. RW1 lacking the pSWIT02 dbfB gene grows extremely slowly on DBF and accumulates the ring cleavage substrate 2,2',3-trihydroxybiphenyl. The mutant grows normally on DXN as the sole source of carbon indicating that dbfB is not necessary for the DXN catabolic pathway and suggesting involvement of other ring cleavage dioxygenases in DXN pathway. Knockout of gene SWIT3046 resulted in a strain that grows normally on DBF but that does not grow on DXN. The double knockout does not grow on either DBF or DXN. These results prove that separate ring cleavage enzymes are necessary for DBF and DXN degradation.We then examined the third enzymatic step in RW1, the hydrolase. RW1 lacking the pSWIT02 encoded gene dxnB1 or the chromosome encoded gene dxnB2 grow normally on both DBF and DXN. A double knockout of both genes does not grow on DBF but still grows on DXN. We then examined previously published transcriptomic data that showed that the SWIT0910 encoded hydrolase is up regulated during growth on DBF and DXN. A knockout of SWIT0910 grows normally on DBF but does not grow on DXN. Our results demonstrate that a chromosomally encoded hydrolase, SWIT0910, is absolutely required for growth on DXN and that two different hydrolases (chromosomally and plasmid encoded) contribute equally to growth on DBF.Genes for three biphenyl ring cleavage dioxygenases from Burkholderia xenovorans LB400, Sphingomonas yanoikuyae B1, and Pseudomonas putida F1 were moved into a mutant lacking the RW1 DBF and DXN ring cleavage genes. All three ring cleavage dioxygenases allowed the mutant RW1 to grow on DBF at different rates. Interestingly, only bphC from Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 allowed RW1 mutant to grow on DXN.
Scythris gravatella Zeller 1847
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
name: Budashkin, Yury I.
name: Zhakov, Aleksandr V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Scythrididae
Scythris
Scythris gravatella

description: Scythris gravatella (Zeller, 1847)
Material examined. 1♂, Crimea, CHernoreCHensky Canyon, viCinity oF MoroZovka vill., 8.iX.2006, at ligHt (BudasHkin).
Distribution. NortH AFriCa, Spain, FranCe, SwitZerland, Italy (witH Sardinia and SiCily), Slovenia, Bosnia and HerZegovina, Albania, GreeCe, Bulgaria, Russia (Western CauCasus) (Bengtsson 1997; Nupponen et al. 2007; Sinev 2008). In Ukraine known From Lvov Region and Crimea (NowiCki 1860, as vagabundella Zell.; SCHille 1930; BudasHkin 1990, 2004).
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., Budashkin, Yury I. & Zhakov, Aleksandr V., 2017, Checklist of scythridid moths (Lepidoptera, Scythrididae) of Ukraine with description of two new species, pp. 481-503 in Zootaxa 4291 (3) on page 499, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/827636
Bombus ruderatus Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Ornosa, Concepción
name: Torres, Félix
name: Rúa, Pilar De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus ruderatus

description: Bombus ruderatus (Fabricius, 1775)
It is a long-tongued bumblebee species, western Palearctic, introduced in New Zealand and Chile, from where it has spread to Argentina (Schmid-Hempel et al. 2014). According to Rasmont et al. (2015), the species has disappeared from most of its historic locations in the west- and central European lowlands, but despite this regional regression, is considered as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees.
It has also been found on Madeira and Azores, northern Africa and in the Iberian Peninsula, where it used to be very abundant, between 350 and 2200 meters of altitude (mostly below 1650 meters, but reaching 2800 meters of altitude in Sierra Nevada, Spain) (Castro 1993, Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004, Vargas et al. 2013). It shows a slight preference for open areas in the Iberian Peninsula, but it has also been collected in forests, foraging on species of Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Boraginaceae, Fabaceae, Liliaceae, Oleaceae, Papaveraceae, Rosaceae, Ranunculaceae and Scrophulariaceae (Castro 1993, Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004).
In southern Spain (ssp. rondensis Castro 1991) it was assessed as Near Threatened in the Red Book of Andalusian Invertebrates (Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2008).
This species has not been recorded in recent samplings (Table 3), but some individuals were collected further inside the Iberian Peninsula, in Salamanca province (Salamanca: Aldeadávila de la Ribera, 687 m, 13/06/2013, 1 worker, I. Liberal leg., UCME), Sierra de Guadarrama (Madrid: Cercedilla, Cerro Colgado, 30-VI-2014, 1 male, 7 workers; 1-VIII- 2014, 1290 m, 2 males; 15-V-2015, 1 queen; 13-VI-2015, 1 worker; C. Ornosa leg.; Los Molinos, 1200 m, 21-IV-2014, 1 queen, R. Outerelo leg., UCME) and Sierra Nevada (Granada: Caballo, VII-2011, 3 workers, P. Vargas leg., RBGM; La Herradura, Punta de la Mona, 15-VII-2015, 1 queen, V. Monserrat leg., UCME).
description: Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on pages 68-69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688
Towards a 3D ultrasound imaging system for needle-guided minimally invasive procedures
Creators: name: Mwikirize, Cosmas Byotariho
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Needle-based minimally invasive procedures such as percutaneous biopsies, regional anesthesia, and peripheral vascular interventions are ubiquitous in healthcare. During these procedures, accurate real-time needle localization is vital to minimize risk and improve efficacy. For this purpose, image guidance is utilized, and ultrasound is the desirable modality because of its ease of use, low-cost, non-ionizing radiation and real-time imaging capabilities. However, with ultrasound, needle visualization is inhibited by non-axial specular reflection, hyperechoic artifacts and noise. This dissertation describes the development of accurate, automatic, real-time and robust enhancement and localization techniques for the needle shaft and tip in challenging ultrasound-guided procedures. The developed methods employ both traditional computer vision and advanced machine learning approaches for modeling ultrasound signal transmission, feature detection and pixel-wise classification of needles from 2D and 3D ultrasound data. In extensive ex vivo imaging studies on realistic phantoms across a broad range of imaging settings and scenarios, the methods accurately localize needles that have low contrast or are imperceptible to the naked eye. The results of these studies will inform future clinical trials for evaluating the feasibility of our methods. Once translated, this work will provide means for a new ultrasound imaging platform to support real-time enhancement and localization of needles and will be applicable to commercially available 2D/3D cart-based and portable ultrasound systems thus benefitting clinical practice, research and industry.
The QCD Axion: Some Like It Hot
Creators: name: Bianchini, Federico
name: di Cortona, Giovanni Grilli
name: Valli, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the QCD axion phase-space distribution from unitarized next-to-leading order chiral perturbation theory with the one extracted from pion-scattering data. We derive a robust bound by confronting momentum-dependent Boltzmann equations against up-to-date observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background, of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and of primordial abundances. These datasets imply $m_{a} \leq \, 0.16 $ eV for the 95% credible interval, i.e. $\sim$30% stronger bound than what previously found. We present forecasts using dedicated likelihoods for future cosmological surveys and the sphaleron rate from unquenched lattice QCD.
description: version matching publication on PRD
Metaxia brunnicephala Kay 1979
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Metaxia
Metaxia brunnicephala

description: Metaxia brunnicephala Kay, 1979
Metaxia brunnicephala Kay, 1979: 132, fig. 48e–f, k.
Type locality. Hawaii, Poipu Beach, Kauai, in beach drift.
Type material. BPBM 9782, holotype. BPBM 9783 and NHMUK 1982262, paratypes.
Distribution. Costa Rica, Cocos Islands (Shasky 1984; Skoglund 1992), French Polynesia (Tröndle & Boutet 2009; Boutet et al. 2020), Gulf of Aqaba (Blatterer 2019), Hawaii (Kay 1979; Hemmes & Goldsmith 1986; Skoglund 1992; Hemmes et al. 1996a; Higo et al. 1999; Severns 2011; Albano et al. 2019), Japan (Higo et al. 1999), Red Sea (Dekker & Orlin 2000).
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 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Nick Virgilio haiku archive, box 05 folder 30
Creators: name: Virgilio, Nicholas A. (Nicholas Anthony)
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1962

description: The Nicholas Virgilio Haiku Archive is primarily composed of sheets of typed haiku poems, several poems to a page, only a few ever published; some correspondence, mostly related to publishing or speaking engagements; and a small amount of personal correspondence. Virgilio lived in Camden, New Jersey and is a renowned haikuist.
title: Salt Fog Test Chamber
Creators: name: Yu, Peichen
name: Coley, Garrett
name: Hansen, William
name: Kipnis, Tavi
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: corrosion testing
subject: salt fog chamber
subject: environmental simulation
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: This project will design and build a system to safely test the corrosion resistance of various coatings and materials in an office environment. MISUMI Japan has tested common materials using this testing method, and we aim with this project to expand this to a broader range. This multi-disciplinary project will require the building and programming of a salt fog chamber that is capable of safely running in an office environment without generating excessive noise, and can run without monitoring over long weekends of 3 to 4 days. The chamber should conform to JIS H8502 testing standard or ANSI equivalent. Project includes aspects of machine design, fluids, and controls.The design should use MISUMI parts where feasible, such as aluminum extrusions for the frame, while sourcing other components cost-effectively. The system, used by engineers to test small parts, must be quiet, safe, non-polluting, and capable of running unattended for up to 96 hours. Design challenges include containing corrosive fog, providing access for specimens, and managing waste water recycling or disposal.
Effect of point mutations on the toxicity of shiga toxin A1 subunit
Creators: name: Narwankar, Revati
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infections can lead to life- threatening complications, including hemorrhagic colitis (HC) and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), which is the most common cause of acute renal failure in children in the United States. Previous studies have shown that STEC strains producing Stx2 are more commonly associated with HUS than those producing Stx1. Our lab has shown that the A1 subunit of Stx2 (Stx2A1) is more active than the A1 subunit of Stx1 (Stx1A1). The purpose of my study is to understand the basis for the higher toxicity of Stx2A1 by interchanging its residues with Stx1A1. Initially, the activity of wild type Stx1A1 and Stx2A1 was compared in yeast in order to establish a base line to study the effect of new mutations. We used site directed mutagenesis to exchange residues that contribute to surface charge differences between Stx1A1 and Stx2A1. Point mutations were made by interchanging Stx2A1 residues with Stx1A1 residues. If these residues contributed to the higher toxicity of Stx2A1 its toxicity would be reduced and the toxicity of Stx1A1 would be increased. The plasmids containing the mutants were transformed into yeast. The transformants were then grown in dextrose in a double overnight culture and expression was induced in galactose. The depurination activity and cytotoxicity of the point mutants was examined at different time points post-induction. Only small differences were observed between the single point mutants and the wild type toxins in both depurination activity and cytotoxicity. In contrast, several multiple mutations increased the toxicity of Stx1A1. While double mutations did not reduce the toxicity of Stx2A1 possibly due to its higher toxicity, quadruple and quintuple mutations reduced the toxicity of Stx2.
Utilization of influenza vaccination as an intratumoral immunotherapy for cancer
Creators: name: Newman, Jenna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: In recent years, immunotherapy for cancer has yielded unprecedented response rates and increased survival in patients. Despite progress, a significant fraction of patients exhibit progression of tumor growth during immunotherapy treatment. One barrier to response is the tumor microenvironment; patients who lack immune infiltration of their tumors or exhibit infiltration of suppressive cell subsets often do not respond to immunotherapy. In an effort to infiltrate the tumor microenvironment with pro-inflammatory cells (such as CD8+ T cells) that are correlated with response to immunotherapy in the clinic, inactivated influenza was administered intratumorally in immunocompetent mice. This vaccination slowed tumor growth when compared to that of mock-treated controls, and yielded an increased proportion in the tumor of dendritic cells, cross-presenting dendritic cells, CD8+ T cells, and tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells –all critical for anti-tumor immunity. Moreover, analysis of RNA from the vaccinated tumor revealed an upregulation in transcripts indicative of an inflamed tumor microenvironment, relative to that observed in mock-treated controls. Intratumoral influenza vaccination administered in combination with checkpoint blockade (αPD-L1) immunotherapy resulted in superior tumor control relative to that observed with either therapy alone. Further benefit derived from the intratumoral vaccination was protection from influenza infection. Interestingly, one vaccine formulation tested contained a squalene-based adjuvant; this vaccine did not slow tumor growth and failed to reduce the proportion of suppressive B regulatory cells (Bregs) in the tumor. Depletion of Bregs enabled the adjuvanted influenza vaccine to slow tumor growth. The research discussed in this dissertation indicates that intratumoral influenza vaccination may be used in the future as an immunotherapy for cancer; clinical trials are currently in preparation.
Scythris fuscoaenea Haworth 1828
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
name: Budashkin, Yury I.
name: Zhakov, Aleksandr V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Scythrididae
Scythris
Scythris fuscoaenea

description: Scythris fuscoaenea (Haworth, 1828)
Distribution. Central and SoutHern Europe (Bengtsson 1997). In Ukraine known From tHe Lvov Region only (SCHille 1930).
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., Budashkin, Yury I. & Zhakov, Aleksandr V., 2017, Checklist of scythridid moths (Lepidoptera, Scythrididae) of Ukraine with description of two new species, pp. 481-503 in Zootaxa 4291 (3) on page 499, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/827636
Scythris vittella
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
name: Budashkin, Yury I.
name: Zhakov, Aleksandr V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Scythrididae
Scythris
Scythris vittella

description: Scythris vittella (Costa, [1834])
Distribution. Central and SoutHern Europe, Turkey? (Bengtsson 1997). In Ukraine known From Lvov Region only (NowiCki 1860, as restigerella Z.; SCHille 1930, as restigerella Z.). THe reCord From tHe CarpatHian Mountains (FalkovitsH 1981) Cannot be attributed to any administrative region oF Ukraine.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., Budashkin, Yury I. & Zhakov, Aleksandr V., 2017, Checklist of scythridid moths (Lepidoptera, Scythrididae) of Ukraine with description of two new species, pp. 481-503 in Zootaxa 4291 (3) on page 499, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/827636
title: Wind Tunnel Radiator Test Bench
Creators: name: Baird, Flynn
name: Barcelon, Kyle
name: Luna, Jorge
name: Sison, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: wind tunnel
subject: radiator
subject: characterization
subject: testing
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: MRacing Formula SAE is an engineering project team at the University of Michigan that designs, builds, and races an electric formula-style race car at competitions around the world. During previous development cycles, MRacing has evaluated the aero- and thermodynamic properties of their radiators with limited data and calculations. Now, as they improve upon their vehicle's cooling system, they require a Wind Tunnel Test Bench that is compact, adjustable, low-cost, and manufacturable entirely with resources available within the University to assess trade-offs of key heat exchanger parameters in relation to whole-vehicle performance.
Triphoris brunnea Pease 1871
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphoris
Triphoris brunnea

description: Triphoris brunnea Pease, 1871
Triphoris brunneus Pease, 1871: 777.
Triforis brunneus Pease, 1871 — Tryon 1887: 191.
Type locality. Hawaii, Apaiang Island.
Type material. MCZ 73922, lectotype.
Distribution. Australia (Nützel 1997), Hawaii (Pease 1871; Tryon 1887; Paetel 1888; Johnson 1994).
Remarks. The genus Triphoris is of feminine gender, therefore the name should be Triphoris brunnea. Lectotype designation by Johnson (1994).
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 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
FINDING HOPE IN THE HUMOR OF THOMAS KING
Creators: name: Makhsimova, Umida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Canadian literature is a rich tapestry that reflects the diverse experiences and cultures of the nation. It encompasses a wide range of voices, themes, and genres, often exploring the complexities of identity, history, and the natural landscape. One prominent figure in this literary landscape is Thomas King, a celebrated author of Native American descent. His works often delve into Indigenous experiences and perspectives, challenging stereotypes and offering a nuanced understanding of Native life in Canada.
Communication and sensing techniques for smart, seamless human-environment interactions
Creators: name: Nguyen, Viet H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Since its birth over 70 years ago, the computing area has gone over several generations, with significant reduction in size and cost. We are now entering a new generation of computing, called ubiquitous computing, where many small computers (smartphones, tablets, sensors, actuators, etc.) are placed on user's body or in the environments and provide many useful services to users. However, current devices and communication methods have not been able to provide fully smart and seamless interaction between users and the environments yet: either users are required to explicitly give attentions to devices and give them instructions to run, or environments need to be equipped with additional infrastructure, often expensive or inconvenient, to monitor user's presence and activities. Therefore, the next generation of computing requires devices that implicitly align with user's intention, obtain necessary information from environments as well as implicitly control them, and smart environments with minimal infrastructure setup to monitor user presence and behaviors.The goal of this research is to propose novel communication and sensing methods to enable such requirements. In particular, the proposed solutions include: (i) TextureCode, a flicker-free high-speed screen-camera communication technique to help smart glasses equipped with cameras obtain useful information from video stream on electronics displays, (ii) a body-guided communication technique that are used for authenticating users with devices and objects on every single touch interaction, (iii) EyeLight, a sensing system based on visible light to provide indoor occupancy estimation and room activity recognition services, and (iv) HandSense, an on-hand capacitive coupling-based sensing system for recognizing micro, dynamic finger gestures suitable for controlling head-mounted devices. We believe these systems provide users with more seamless interaction with surrounding environments: as the environment-user interactions implicitly align well with user's intention, data exchange, sensing, or authentication happens in the background without interruption to user's workflow.
Triphora brunnescens Thiele 1930
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphora
Triphora brunnescens

description: Triphora brunnescens Thiele, 1930
Triphora brunnescens Thiele, 1930: 577, pl. 4, fig. 36.
Type locality. Australia, Western Australia, Sharks Bay, 0–3.5 and 11–12.5 m deep.
Type material. ZMB 67491a, lectotype. ZMB 67491b, paralectotype.
Distribution. Australia (Thiele 1930; Albano & Bakker 2016).
Remarks. Lectotype designation by Albano & Bakker (2016).
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 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Dasylabris Radoszkowski 1885
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
Dasylabris

description: Dasylabris sp.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates: (Gillett & Gillett 2005; Howarth & Gillett 2008). Remarks: This entry involves species which may be the same as named species appearing above.
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
No-Regret Learning and Equilibrium Computation in Quantum Games
Creators: name: Lin, Wayne
name: Piliouras, Georgios
name: Sim, Ryann
name: Varvitsiotis, Antonios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As quantum processors advance, the emergence of large-scale decentralized systems involving interacting quantum-enabled agents is on the horizon. Recent research efforts have explored quantum versions of Nash and correlated equilibria as solution concepts of strategic quantum interactions, but these approaches did not directly connect to decentralized adaptive setups where agents possess limited information. This paper delves into the dynamics of quantum-enabled agents within decentralized systems that employ no-regret algorithms to update their behaviors over time. Specifically, we investigate two-player quantum zero-sum games and polymatrix quantum zero-sum games, showing that no-regret algorithms converge to separable quantum Nash equilibria in time-average. In the case of general multi-player quantum games, our work leads to a novel solution concept, that of the {separable} quantum coarse correlated equilibria (QCCE), as the convergent outcome of the time-averaged behavior no-regret algorithms, offering a natural solution concept for decentralized quantum systems. Finally, we show that computing QCCEs can be formulated as a semidefinite program and establish the existence of entangled (i.e., non-separable) QCCEs, which are unlearnable via the current paradigm of no-regret learning.
Development of a multi-degree-of-freedom precision stage with soft end effector for 3-dimension single cell manipulation
Creators: name: Nie, Kuang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: This thesis is focused on the creation of a real-time 3-D single cell manipulation system based on pneumatic actuation-based soft end-effector. Single cell manipulation will benefit a lot to cell analysis. Separating a cell from the cell culture will give us a better observation of growth of one cell. Applying automatic robot in cell manipulation will make this process faster and more accurate. In this thesis, a hybrid-soft robotic manipulation system is developed that integrates a soft needle as the end effector for picking-up, translation, and release operation of micro beads with a three-DOF translation stage. This research work combines the exploit and exploration of soft robotics, vision-`based control, real-time control system and MIIC technique. Since our final goal is to manipulate cell by using the devices, resolution, dimension and precision are critical for the design of the device. A high precision 3-axis translational robot arm is selected.To reduce and avoid damage of the cell membrane during the manipulation process, a soft needle made of PDMS and Ecoflex is designed and fabricated. Membrane attached to the top of the needle is designed to prevent liquid from entering the syringe, which would also be helpful to grasp the cell. Stresses are tested to get the most suitable deformation for grabbing a cell. Image-based control and real-time control system are coupled together to achieve automatic positioning and moving without inputting any signal during every run. Using of high resolution camera gives the precise position of the target object. Real-time control system helps to cut error during processing and also improve operational efficiency. Also, the MIIC technique is used to achieve precision positioning during high-speed movement. Design, fabrication, motion simulation, motion control and finite element analysis are covered in this research work.
title: Vibration Dampener for Electron Microscope Specimen Holder
Creators: name: Jalil, Aida
name: Raj, Purvi
name: Monroe, Megan
name: Fong, Zoe
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: vibration dampening
subject: cryo-TEM
subject: material science
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: H-Bar Instruments works to image and analyze materials with cryogenic-transmission electron microscopy. This involves cooling the material specimen using liquid helium, contained in a dewar connected to the sample in the microscope through a transferline. Due to helium's volatility, the dewar is a main source of vibrations to the system, causing nano vibrations which affect the quality of the images produced by the microscope. Our task is to design and produce a prototype to reduce disturbances affecting the specimen holder in the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and dewar system, by focusing on damping and isolating vibrations of the dewar.
title: Edge Holder Printed Circuit Board Conveyor Optimization
Creators: name: ElAchkar, Crystal
name: Kreider, Vance
name: Mullinax, Mya
name: Sabanski, Megan
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: mechanical engineering
subject: conveyor
subject: beam deflection
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: Heller Industries' current oven edge hold conveyor (EHC), a device to move printed circuit boards (PCBs) through a reflow oven, is experiencing wear and sag due to increased load demands. This increase results from the need to accommodate new PCB geometries. A new design must support higher loads (15 kg/m) at temperatures of up to 350 ºC, with a maximum deflection less than 3.5 mm and without increasing air blockage at the edges of the conveyor. Our goal is to enhance functionality and durability of the conveyor rail, leading to increased productivity and reduced maintenance efforts
CAT(0) and cubulated Shephard groups
Creators: name: Goldman, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65 (Primary) 51F15, 57M60, 51M20 (Secondary)

description: Shephard groups are common generalizations of Coxeter groups, Artin groups, and graph products of cyclic groups. Their definition is similar to that of a Coxeter group, but generators may have arbitrary order rather than strictly order 2. We extend a well known result that Coxeter groups are $\mathrm{CAT}(0)$ to a class of Shephard groups that have "enough" finite parabolic subgroups. We also show that in this setting, if the associated Coxeter group is type (FC), then the Shephard group acts properly and cocompactly on a $\mathrm{CAT}(0)$ cube complex. As part of our proof of the former result, we introduce a new criteria for a complex made of $A_3$ simplices to be $\mathrm{CAT}(1)$.
description: Updated following referee report. To appear in Jour. Lond. Math Soc