cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Numerical simulation and experimenal realization of a thermosyphon based hybrid solar thermoelectric power generator
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaobing
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Thermosyphons are highly efficient systems for converting sunlight into heat and transferring heat to provide hot water. Thermoelectric (TE) power generators are proposed recently as a topping cycle incorporated in series with thermosyphons. In this work, we propose a new design, which places TE power generators thermally in parallel with thermosyphon-based solar water-heating systems. The solar heat is radiated on the collector (evaporator) zone and transferred through the copper pipe into two parallel channels: a phase-change liquid that acts as the heat transfer medium for the water heating set-up and the thermoelectric module used to generate electricity. We performed both numerical simulation and experimental realization of the proposed setup. Experimental validation of the model from a home-made prototype and parallel system optimization are completed. This study opens up a promising possibility to efficiently convert solar energy to useful thermal and electrical energy.
Halticus luteicollis
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Halticus
Halticus luteicollis

description: Halticus luteicollis (Panzer, 1804)
Halticus saltator sensu Önder (1976: 229).
Material examined
TURKEY – İzmIr ProvInce • 10 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀; Kiraz; 7 Jun. 1967; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Singaporoidea inconspicua Hennemann 2021, n. comb.
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Singaporoidea
Singaporoidea inconspicua

description: Singaporoidea inconspicua (Redtenbacher, 1908) n. comb.
Aruanoidea inconspicua Redtenbacher, 1908: 522. LT (by present designation), ♂: Samanga, S. Celebes, Nov. 1895, H. Fruh-storfer.; 170; Aruanoidea inconspicua Br., Brunner det. [MNHU]; PLT, ♂: S. Celebes, Patunuang, Jan. 1896, H. Fruhstor-fer.; det. Redtenb. Aruanoidea inconspicua; 20.755 [NHMW, No. 1015].
Scionecra inconspicua, Günther, 1938: 59.
Brock, 1998: 34.
Hennemann, 1998: 123.
Otte & Brock, 2005: 312.
Zompro, 2005: 267.
Nescicroa macra, Günther, 1935: 24. [Misidentification]
Hennemann, 1998: 108, 122. [Misidentification]
Further material: 5 ♂♂: Celebes, Latimodjong-Geb., Oeroe 800m, Heinrich 8.1930 [MNHU]; S-Sulawesi, Se-latan Prov., Tana Toraja, leg. Tajuddin X.1995 – II.1996 [coll. FH, No. 0288-1 & 2].
Differentiation: Males (the only sex known) are very similar to those of S. macra (Redtenbacher, 1908) but be easily separated by the somewhat larger size, broader but very rather washed black medio-longitudinal streak on the pronotum and much shorter, broader and rather spatulate cerci (notably longer than the anal segment, slender and almost round in cross-section in macra), that just slightly project beyond the tip of the abdomen.
Comments: This species was described from two ♂♂, of which the fully complete specimen from Samanga in the collection of MNHU is here selected as the lectotype to provide stability of redtenbachrer’s taxon. Specimens collected by G. Heinrich in MNHU (Günther, 1935: 24) and in the authors collection (Hennemann, 1998: 122) have been misidentified as S. macra (Redtenbacher, 1908). Detailed scrutinizing of the specimens and comparison with the type-specimens of S. macra and S. inconspicua have shown them to represent the latter species, which is readily seen by the much shorter and broader cerci and slightly larger size (body lengths 52.0–54.0 mm). Günther (1935: 24) misplaced inconspicua in the genus Scionecra Karny, 1923, but the well developed tegmina (very small, scalelike and hardly covering base of alae in Scionecra) actually place Redtenbacher’s species in Singaporoidea, why it is here transferred to that genus (n. comb.). Moreover, while all records of inconspicua are from the southwestern portion of the island, macra wad described from Toli-Toli in North Sulawesi.
Distribution: W-Sulawesi, Sulawesi Barat, Buttu Samanga [MNHU]; S-Sulawesi, Sulawesi Selatan, Gua Pat-tunuang Nature Park [NHMW]; S-Sulawesi, Sulawesi Selatan, Latimojong Mountains, Uru 800 m [MNHU]; S-Su-lawesi, Sulawesi Selatan, Tana Toraja Highland [coll. FH].
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Molecular organization of peptide-based amphiphiles at association colloidal interfaces
Creators: name: Zhang, Yongliang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Elucidating proteins/peptides structures at biomembrane interface is a great challenge. We are developing a chemical approach that reveals topological information of peptides at association colloidal interfaces. This is achieved by using a UV-active amphiphilic molecular probe, a hydrophobic alkyl arenediazonium ion that is oriented with its reactive diazo headgroup in the interfacial region of association colloids and spontaneously reacts with amide bonds, reactive sidechains, and interfacial water to give products. Analysis of various tagging and fragmentation patterns provides information on the locations and local concentrations of peptide backbone and reactive sidechains within the interfacial region.          In Chapter II we use this approach to estimate the local concentrations of weakly basic nucleophiles in the interfacial region of micelles of three different N-acyl amino acid amphiphiles: N-lauroylsarcosine, N-lauroylglycine and N-lauroylalanine, respectively. Our results demonstrate that the chemical probe, 4-hexadecyl-2,6-dimethyl-benzenediazonium cation, is trapped competitively and reproducibly by the amide oxygen and carboxylate groups of the amphiphile headgroup, and by water in the interfacial region of the micelles. At a bulk pH of 6.8 - 7.0, the interfacial carboxylate group molarities are estimated to be ~ 1.6 M, but the concentration of the amide bonds for C12Sar micelles is 2 - 5 times less (ca. 0.7 M) than that of C12Ala (~ 1.5 M) and C12Gly micelles (~ 3.0 M). These results indicate that the methyl group on the nitrogen of sarcosine partially buries the N-methyl amide bond in the micellar core, whereas glycine and alanine do not.          In Chapter III, we run the dediazoniation reaction in a series of self-assembled di-peptide amphiphile aqueous solutions prepared at a pH range of 4.0 - 7.0. Product yields show that the local concentration of carboxylate sidechains are in the range at 1.0 - 2.5 M at a solution pH of 6 - 7, but are up to ~ 4.0 M at pH 4.5 when the dipeptide amphiphile forms a gel. Local concentrations of amide bonds are generally dependent on the peptide sequences, ranging across 1.0 - 3.0 M at a solution pH of 6 - 7, but are 2 to3 times higher at gelation pHs.          In Chapter IV, a surprising minimum in the surface tension profile of sodium N-dodecanoyl sarcosinate is observed that is consistent with the literature. Our results show that the surface tension minimum in NaLS is caused in part by an excess of the protonated form of the Z-isomer. An intra-molecular hydrogen bonding interaction may exist between the amide oxygen and carboxylate headgroup of the protonated Z isomer, which contributes to its higher proton affinity than its E counterpart. Micellar dilution leads to a transfer of free acid unimer from micelles to water, concurrent with a decrease in the bulk pH.
Development of a continuous-flow, automated microfluidic device for single cell level electroporation
Creators: name: Zheng, Mingde
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Electroporation is a powerful transfection technique that creates transient openings in the cell membrane by applying an electric field, allowing for the intracellular delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic substances. The ability to detect and control the degree of cell membrane permeability plays a key role in determining the size of the delivery payload, while safeguarding the overall cell viability. In order to create a universal electroporation system, this dissertation describes the development of a continuous flow electroporation microdevice that automatically detects, electroporates, and monitors individual cells for changes in permeability and delivery. In contrast to devices that immobilize individual cells for impedance analysis, this work demonstrates the capability to manipulate single cells under flow and real-time analysis of membrane permeabilization before and after electroporation, which dramatically increasing the number of cells which can be electroporated and analyzed. Using an electric circuit model, and Multiphysics computational tools, the key parameters for successful cell membrane permeabilization detection in a flow environment were determined. By varying the electric field parameters, we demonstrate the direct control of cell membrane permeabilization by electrically measuring the electroporation-induced cell membrane impedance change and by optically measuring the delivery of a fluorescent probe. Viability of the electroporated cells following collection also demonstrates a correlation with the applied pulse strength. By extending the device capability to include dynamic pulse adjustment according to the real-time feedback information on cell viability, an intelligent electroporation system capable of potentially maximizing delivery efficiency and cell viability can be thus realized.
Heterocordylus (Heterocordylus) leptocerus
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Heterocordylus
Heterocordylus leptocerus

description: Heterocordylus (Heterocordylus) leptocerus (Kirschbaum, 1856)
Heterocordylus (Heterocordylus) genistae sensu Önder (1976: 273).
Material examined
TURKEY – İzmIr ProvInce • 2 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; Bozdağ; 20 May 1973; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Orthotylus (Pinocapsus)
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Orthotylus

description: Orthotylus (Pinocapsus) sp.
Plagiognathus flavipes sensu Lodos et al. (2003: 67).
Material examined
TURKEY – Antalya Province • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Saklıkent; 7 Jul. 1985; EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
Comments
Plagiognathus reuterellus Schuh, 2001 (new name for P. flavipes Reuter, 1875) was recorded from Antalya, Turkey, by Lodos et al. (2003). A re-examination of the specimens from Antalya revealed that they belong to a new Orthotylus species that is closely related to Orthotylus (Orthotylus) troodensis Wagner, 1961 and Orthotylus (Parapachylops) bureschi Josifov, 1969. However, during our research in LEMT, we discovered specimens of P. reuterellus that had not been published before. These specimens were collected from Mardin, Derik on 4 Jun. 1976, on Lonicera sp. (Adıgüzel & Önder leg.).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
L-P22 PET Uricytology Monitoring
Creators: name: Martinez, Renee Simenona
name: Anonemis Research, LLC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Abstract This comprehensive analysis details the L-P22 PET Uricytology Monitoring system's capabilities in early cancer detection for companion animals. The study presents extensive validation data across multiple cancer types, detailed biomarker profiles, and technical specifications of the proprietary detection methodology. Validation studies (n=2,500) demonstrate exceptional sensitivity (89-96%) and specificity (91-97%) across various cancer types, with particular strength in detecting early-stage urological malignancies.Introduction Cancer detection in companion animals has historically relied on invasive procedures or late-stage symptom recognition. The L-P22 system represents a paradigm shift through non-invasive, early-stage detection utilizing advanced biomarker analysis and machine learning interpretation.
Empirical study of wine consumer characteristics and marketing strategies in Mid-Atlantic region
Creators: name: Zhuang, Jingkun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In the past 15 years, the U.S. wine market has been growing very fast. The number of wineries has increased from 2688 in 1999 to 8862 in 2016 (Wines Vines Analytics, 2016). About 7% of all those wineries are located in the Mid-Atlantic region which includes New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. However, competition has been rising as the market grows. Many foreign wine companies from Europe, South America and Oceania are either selling or planning to sell their products to the fast growing U.S. wine market. These new market situations and changes in purchasing behavior demand that the Mid-Atlantic wineries revisit the preferences of wine consumers and consider the factors that affect the buying choice. In this research, we would like to investigate how wine drinking behavior is related to the demographic status of the residents in the three states. We expect that people with different age, gender, marital status, family income, and education background will have different wine drinking behaviors due to their differing life styles. The study results will help the Mid-Atlantic wineries to develop a more efficient marketing strategy. This study is based on data from an online survey that was conducted by Penn State University in 2009. 1246 Mid-Atlantic wine drinkers participated in this survey. First, we summarized the characteristics of the Mid-Atlantic wine market by looking into the descriptive statistics of our survey questions. Then we employed Logistic Regression to answer the question of what kind of people are more likely to purchase locally produced wine. In addition, we used Cluster Analysis to segment the Mid-Atlantic wine market. Marketing strategies are based on the 4Ps Marketing Mix model that were developed for Mid-Atlantic wineries.
Minimalism, modernism, and the aesthetics of scale
Creators: name: Zubernis, Emily Kevlin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation argues that literary minimalism is rightfully understood as an effort to make literature unproductive. Minimal fiction retreats from the production of meaning as literature’s epiphenomenon. It thus carries out a revaluation of textual surfaces and a critique of the logic of accumulation that inevitably subsumes sensuous particularity. Literary minimalism has previously been considered a movement among latetwentieth-century American short fiction writers who embraced a kind of brevity and tonal flatness that is invariably achieved through a deliberate process of exclusion in their fiction. Against this narrow view of minimalism, the project traces an original literary history of formal subtraction in the transnational narrative experiments of the last century. Through readings of Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Lydia Davis, I show how minimal writing renounces some of fiction’s most powerful tools. These writers often choose not to generate meaning by communicating and organizing information; they seek to build contingency, rather than significance, into their representations of the world. However, these projects for the weakening and lessening of literature’s expressive dominance also constitute a crucial alteration of its manner of address: towards embodied scale and concrete particularity. Minimal fiction seeks to imagine encounters marked by an apparent paucity of meaningful content, even as it attempts, at the same time, to model a cognate experience through its form. The texts in this project evince various methods of paring down in order to make the sound and physical presence of words felt. In The Ambassadors, James creates a suspended style, an anti-clarity that renders words less transparent, less efficient purveyors of meaning. Joyce and Woolf use fragmentation to disrupt the smooth unspooling of narrative; as a result, we sense the pieced-together quality of representation and the poverty of insight at its ground. Beckett’s Worstward Ho makes language enact the unaccustomed function of worsening/lessening communication. And, more explicitly than the others, Davis insists on the impossibility of something “beyond” the concrete; paradoxically, she means both the concreteness of language and at least one horizon of meaning “beyond” this concreteness, that of physical description. So, in various ways, these texts seek to call up the scene of reading or listening. The impossibly slim political content of this effect lies not in its evocation of alternate ways or being or acting in the world, but in its indirect recollection of the world. In recalling the world it has forgotten—or, rather, in recalling us to the world we have forgotten—the work of minimal fiction offers a way of encountering vast scale empty of attributes. In so doing, minimal fiction resists the drive to subsume particularity.
Tranopelta gilva Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Tranopelta
Tranopelta gilva

description: T. gilva n. sp.
Femina: Long. 8 - 10.5 mm. Nitida, ochraceoflava, mandibulis, capitis et thoracis parte superiore rufescentibus, alis subhyalinis, costis ochraceis, pterostigmate fusco; corporis pars superior copiose pilis adpressis flavis pubescens, caput et thorax sparse, abdomen pedesque copiose pilis abstantibus flavis pilosa; mandibulae laevigatae, praesertim ante apicem punctis fortibus impressis; clypeus nitidus antice subtiliter rugulosus et disperse punctulatus postice laevis; area frontalis nitidissima aut subtilissime longitudinaliter striolata aut laevis; frons, vertex et capitis latera punctulata; thorax punctulatus, mesonoti disco plus minusve laevigato; abdomen punctulatum et tenuissime rugulosum.
Mas: Long. 7 - 8 mm Pallide testaceo-flavus, vertice flavescente, mesonoto rufescente, alls subhyalinis, costis ochraceis; punctulatus, pilosus, sericeo-pubescens et parum nitens, abdomine nitido.
Aus Venezuela in meiner Sammlung von Herrn C. A. Dohrn, aus Brasilien im zoologischen Hofcabinete und ein Maennchen mit der Bezeichnung: " Myrmica gilva Klug, Columbien ", ebendaselbst.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on pages 31-32
The power of ideas at the time of uncertainty
Creators: name: Alajmi, Teflah B.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The major question of this study is: what explains Poland’s transition to democracy and capitalism in 1989-1990?  In answering this question, this study identifies three major factors. The first factor is Poland’s economic and political crisis that had accumulated since the consolidation of Communist rule in Poland after World War II and led to the emergence of one of the largest mass movement in Eastern Europe, Solidarność. The second factor is ideational change, which is associated with every economic and political crisis, and its gradual transformative power in Poland from 1945. The third factor is the political transition that resulted from the ‘roundtable’ agreements and led to the rise of Solidarność to political power. The study uses historical analysis to study Poland’s political and economic developments from the time of partition and traces the major critical turning events and their influnce on the trajectory of institutional changes.
The Effects of Ground Level Ozone on Children with Asthma
Creators: name: Coupe, Joshua
name: DeJesus, Valerie
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: High concentrations of ground level ozone may trigger asthma attacks and worsen asthma symptoms. On days where there is high ozone concentration, there are increased reports of hospitalization visits of children due to asthma. Decadal and interannual variability in ozone concentrations on a national and regional level can be used to project how ozone will change into the future. Future projections of ozone concentrations allows us to predict the frequency of hospitalizations due to asthma by location.
Cryptocerus angustus
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Cryptocerus
Cryptocerus angustus

description: C. angustus Mayr.
Die Beschreibung des Arbeiters habe ich in meiner Abhandlung " Myrmecologische Studien " nach einem defecten Exemplare, welchem das zweite Stielchenglied und der Hinterleib fehlt, und welches sich im zoologischen Hofkabinete vorfindet, entworfen. Ein Stueck aus dem zoologischen Museum in Halle setzt mich in den Stand, das in der Beschreibung Fehlende nachzutragen.
Das zweite Stielchenglied hat jederseits einen geraden stumpfen Fortsatz, der am Ende schwach nach rueckwaerts gebogen ist, es ist (mit diesen Fortsaetzen) nur sehr unbedeutend breiter als das erste Stielchenglied und hat einen abgerundeten geraden queren Vorderrand. Der Hinterleib ist elliptisch, vorne am Stielchen stark ausgeschnitten, an der Vorderhaelfte seitlich geleistet; die Oberseite des Hinterleibes ist glanzlos, nur schimmernd, dicht und fein fingerhutartig punktirt, und ueberdiess dicht mit oblongen ziemlich seichten Gruebchen versehen, in denen je ein gelbes glaenzendes anliegendes Haerchen eingebettet ist; die Unterseite des Hinterleibes ist, besonders in der Mitte, glaenzend und seicht fingerhutartig punktirt. Das Stielchen und der Hinterleib sind braunschwarz, das erste Abdominalsegment an den vier Ecken mit je einem nach einwaerts verwaschenen rothgelben Flecke, wovon die zwei vorderen viel groesser sind und fast in die. schmaeleren hinteren Flecken uebergehen. Die Laenge des Koerpers betraegt 7.7 Millim., da aber das Exemplar vom Museum in Halle viel groesser ist, als der im zoologischen Hofcabinete in Wien vorfindliche Arbeiter, so dass die von mir in den " Myrmecologischen Studien " als wahrscheinlich angegebene Laenge fuer dieses Individium richtig ist, so ist daher die Laenge von 6 - 7.7 Millim, anzunehmen.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 32
Macrotylus (Alloeonycha) dentifer Wagner 1969
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Macrotylus
Macrotylus dentifer

description: Macrotylus (Alloeonycha) dentifer Wagner, 1969
Macrotylus elevatus sensu Önder (1976: 324).
Material examined
TURKEY – BalıkesIr ProvInce • 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Bigadiç; 8 Jun. 1970; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Soil Thermometers Alert System: An Approach to Wildfire Detection and Prevention
Creators: name: Martinez, Renee Simenona
name: Anonemis Research, LLC
Publisher: name: Anonemis Research, LLC
Year: 2025
Subjects: wildfire detection, soil temperature monitoring, environmental protection, emergency response systems, thermal sensors, subterranean thermal analysis, fire prevention technology, automated alert systems, environmental monitoring infrastructure, thermal pattern recognition, emergency management systems, soil composition analysis, predictive fire detection, remote sensing technology, distributed sensor networks, geological thermal monitoring, multi-depth temperature sensing, wireless alert protocols, environmental safety systems, real-time threat detection

description: This analysis examines the implementation of soil-based thermal monitoring systems for early wildfire detection in fire-sensitive areas. The system utilizes strategically placed underground thermometers that continuously measure soil temperatures and transmit data to emergency response services. This innovative approach provides a proactive solution to wildfire detection and management through real-time temperature monitoring and automated alert system
Megalocoleus exsanguis
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Megalocoleus
Megalocoleus exsanguis

description: Megalocoleus exsanguis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835)
Lopus decolor sensu Lodos et al. (2003: 58).
Material examined
TURKEY – Mersin Province • 1 ♂; Erdemli; 30 May 1984; EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Cryptocerus crenaticeps Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Cryptocerus
Cryptocerus crenaticeps

description: C. crenaticeps n. sp.
Femina: Long. 7.5 mm- Elongata, opaca, nigra, antennis rufescentibus, tibiis tarsisque obscure ferrugineis, abdomine maculis duabus basalibus dorsalibus testaceo-rufis; caput et thorax foveolis rotundis numerosis, pilis squamiformibus flavidis insidentibus, instructa; capitis discus subovalis antice emarginatus, marginibus lateralibus elevatis crenatis, margine postico brevi et recto, capitis margo posticus transversus rectus; pronotum planifia antica verticali transversa, anglais duobus lateralibus fortiter deplanato-dentiformibus; scapulae convexae; metanotum, mesonoto paulo angustius, parte basali brevi quadridentata, scilicet: dentibus duobus apicalibus postice et extrorsum versus directis et dentibus duobus obtusis triangularibus lateralibus basalibus, parte declivi verticali, subquadrata, concava, nuda, subnitida, reticulatorugulosa; petioli nodus primus antice et medio supra planifia transverse subovata, utrimque denticulo indistinctissimo obtuso, postice brevissime couico-subcylindricus, nodus secundus, primo paido latior, supra transverso-rectangularis, angiitis anticis dente extrorsum directo et paulo recurvo, infra denticulo obtuso; abdomen, thorace longius, dense reticulato-punctatum, sparse flavidopubescens, elongatum, lateribus parallelis, antice emarginatum, postice rotundatum, infra nitidum; pedes crassi, breves, tenuiter reticulato-punctati; (alae mihi ignotae).
Aus Columbien; im zoologischen Museum in Halle.
Diese Art scheint dem C. serraticeps Smith ziemlich nahe zu stehen, unterscheidet sich aber mindestens (Bezug nehmend auf Smith's Beschreibung) durch das Stielchen, dessen zweiter Knoten bewehrt ist, und durch den glanzlosen zweifleckigen Hinterleib.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on pages 32-33
The development of disease-avoidant behavior
Creators: name: Blacker, Katy-Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Understanding how children and adults behave in situations in which they might become ill is critical for preventing the spread of infectious disease. Avoiding individuals who show signs of infectious disease would have been beneficial over evolutionary history, so such behavior may appear early in development and persist throughout adulthood (Boyer & Bergstrom, 2011; Neuberg, Kenrick & Schaller, 2011; Schaller & Park, 2011; Rottman, 2014). However, little has examined whether adults and children actually exhibit behavioral avoidance of contagion, (i.e., sick individuals, and contaminated objects). In addition, psychological mechanisms underlying the development of behavioral avoidance, such as the role of causal knowledge of illness transmission, have not been investigated empirically. In Study 1, we investigated whether adults exhibit behavioral avoidance of illness, and found that they do. In Studies 2, 3, and 4, we explored whether and at what age children show avoidance behavior of sick individuals and contaminated objects. In Studies 2 and 3, we found that preschoolers did not avoid contaminated objects, and that their causal knowledge was unrelated to their behavior. In Study 4, we included older children, and measured whether they avoid contagion, or people who have a contagious illness. We found that children as a group did not avoid contagious individuals until around the age of six, but that avoidance behavior was best predicted by their causal knowledge of contagious illness rather than age. In fact, even 4-year-old children who were able to make predictions about illness transmission in our sample avoided contagious individuals. Finally, in Study 5 we investigated whether prompting preschool aged children to generate explanations about illness would increase their causal knowledge about illness and their avoidance of contagion. Although we did not find an increase in knowledge and avoidance behavior as a result of providing causal explanations, children who were prompted to talk about the point of illness transmission in the story were more likely to avoid. Together, these studies constitute the first developmental investigation of avoidance behavior towards sick individuals and contaminated objects, and our results suggest that avoidance of illness is not early developing and depends on causal knowledge of illness transmission.
Mimocoris rugicollis
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Mimocoris
Mimocoris rugicollis

description: Mimocoris rugicollis (A. Costa, 1853)
Myrmecoris gracilis sensu Yayla (1984: 19).
Comments
Yayla (1984) recorded Myrmecoris gracilis (R.F. Sahlberg, 1848) from Antalya and provided its handdrawn illustration. An examination of this illustration clearly shows that the illustrated specimen belongs to Mimocoris rugicollis. Hence, the record of Myrmecoris gracilis from Antalya is erroneous.
Genus Oncotylus Fieber, 1858
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Reproduction and population genetics of invasive plants
Creators: name: Brusa, Anthony
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Year: 2016

description: Reproductive versatility of plants is an important part of their success. We investigated environmental factors that influence the reproductive strategies of three non-native plants and investigate the larger impact of these factors at the population level.    Initial work consisted of two studies with Trifolium repens. A two month experiment was conducted under a factorial design, testing a combination of resource abundance and heterogeneity. Resource distribution had no effect on reproductive strategy. Resource abundance increased the amount of biomass allocated to horizontal stem development and foraging, but showed no effect on flowering at two months. A four month study showed that fertilizer does increase inflorescence development. The conflict between the two studies is evidence that reproductive strategy and flowering cues in Trifolium repens are strongly influenced by density depended effects.    Two studies were performed with Ailanthus altissma, a high impact invasive tree species. A germination study was conducted on seeds from Ailanthus altissima based on human land use legacy, in the form of brownfield and non-brownfield sites. Brownfield sites showed a significant reduction in seed germination, this difference in germination was independent of initial seed mass. These two factors indicate that individuals from a brownfield site have a reduced fitness benefit for the same amount of resources invested in seeds.    Population genetics of Ailanthus altissima were surveyed across six sites, using a set of eight microsatellite loci. Despite a strong propensity for clonal growth, the microsatellites revealed no evidence of clonal reproduction at the population level. Geneflow between sites was found to be independent of geographic distance, rather, geneflow was linked to the level of human traffic at a site. Evidence was also found that land management practices were effective at inhibiting geneflow into managed sites.    Finally, an investigation was conducted into the possibility of ecotypes and reproductive isolation in Schismus arabicus in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts, based on the extreme heterogeneity of the nurse plant dominated landscape. Results from the ITS marker showed no evidence of ecotypes at either site. Number of SNPs between individuals were not correlated with distance, indicating that high internal geneflow prevents the level of isolation necessary for the formation of ecotypes. MCMC modeling also showed a small, but consistent, unidirectional geneflow from the Mojave to the Sonoran desert site. This was taken as evidence of anthropogenic geneflow.    Ultimately, it is shown that reproductive strategy and population structure are strongly influenced by anthropogenic factors such as nutrient level, land-use legacy, management practices, and anthropogenic transport.
Oncotylus (Oncotylus) nigdensis Linnavuori 1961
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Oncotylus
Oncotylus nigdensis

description: Oncotylus (Oncotylus) nigdensis Linnavuori, 1961
Oncotylus punctipes sensu Önder (1976: 352).
Material examined
TURKEY – Erzurum ProvInce • 1 ♀; Merkez; 16 Aug. 1967; F. Önder leg.; LEMT. – Kütahya Province • 1 ♀; Domaniç; 19 Jun. 1975; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Cyclopentadiene-containing π-conjugated macromolecules
Creators: name: Chen, Lei
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Year: 2016

description: π-Conjugated (co)polymers are an important class of organic semiconducting materials for (opto)electronic device applications such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), and organic solar cells. The semiconducting capabilities of these materials are a result of π-electron delocalization along the (co)polymer backbone. In additional to their desirable electrical and optical properties, these materials must also exhibit atmospheric stability and solution processability, hence polyenes such as polyacetylene have no commercial viability despite their high electrical conductivity. Therefore, polyaromatics are the preferred materials despite resonance effects that confine π-electrons to individual aromatic scaffolds and inhibit optimal charge-carrier delocalization along the polymer chain. Recently, there has been interest in preparing π-conjugated polymers that feature both the favorable conjugation lengths typical of polyenes (e.g., polyacetylene) and the atmospheric stability and processability typical of polyaromatics (e.g., polythiophene). Unfortunately, there remains a synthetic challenge to prepare non-aromatic π-conjugated precursors that can be readily incorporated into π-conjugated polymeric systems. The work described herein addresses this challenge by investigating the viability of using 5,5-dimethylcyclopentadiene as a non-aromatic building block with the topology of common aromatics such as thiophene, furan, and pyrrole. Specifically, a series of cyclopentadiene-containing (macro)molecules were prepared by Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction and their structural, spectroscopic, and electrochemical properties characterized by 1 H NMR, single crystal X-ray crystallography, cyclic voltammetry, and/or UV/vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies. The results of our investigation show that the cyclopentadiene moiety tends to reduce optical band-gap and onset oxidation potentials in the majority of systems studied here. Moreover, OLEDs and OFETs devices employing Cp-containing (macro)molecules have been prepared in collaboration with the Carroll and Heeney groups at Wake Forest University and Imperial College-London respectively. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first examples of (opto)electronic devices employing cyclopentadiene-based π-conjugated materials.
Signaling desistance
Creators: name: DeWitt, Samuel E.
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Year: 2016

description: Using Pathways to Desistance (PtD) data, a longitudinal study of active youth offenders, the current study tests whether voluntary participation in a variety of programs – job training, mental health, and substance abuse, may be considered as a signal of an individual’s underlying intentions to desist from crime. Informed by a recent proposition by Bushway and Apel (2012) in the criminological literature, and the extant research on signaling stemming from the theory’s original proposition by Spence (1973), this analysis develops and tests a series of hypotheses consistent with either A) a signaling explanation for voluntary program participation or, B) a human capital explanation for the effects of program participation, regardless of its (in)voluntary nature. In order to adequately test these hypotheses against a suitable comparison group, a synthesized control group is created that is composed of randomly selected non-participants, with the time periods of their “participation” also being randomly selected. Results suggest that voluntary program participation is a very weak signal of intentions to desist. Specifically, no strong differences exist between voluntary participants and the randomly selected control group with respect to attitudes associated with desistance pre- and post-program participation, though patterns in coefficient estimates suggest very mild, but insignificant differences in some attitudinal scales. Further, with respect to criminal behavior, analyses for offending frequency and offending diversity both suggest weak, insignificant differences between groups, even when model over-specification is corrected for. Therefore, voluntary program participation is, at its best, a weak, unfit signal of intentions to desist. Implications of these results are discussed with respect to future work on signals of desistance.
Populäre Musik im Kontext von Social Media-Kurzvideos. Musikaneignung im Rahmen von TikTok und Instagram Reels
Creators: name: Geyer, Carolin
Publisher: name: Nomos Verlag
Year: 2024

description: Die Musikaneignung wird gegenwärtig in der digitalen Medienkultur von Social Media-Kurzvideos geprägt, insbesondere durch TikToks und Instagram Reels. Diese Studie erforscht die transformativen Einflüsse von Kurzvideos auf die musikalische Botschaft, basierend auf dem Konzept der digitalen Mediamorphose. Im Fokus steht die Aneignung populärer Musik in musikzentrierten Kurzvideos und deren Auswirkungen auf die Kontextualisierung der musikalischen Botschaft. Die Videoanalyse präsentiert Erkenntnisse zum intermedialen Zusammenspiel von Bild, Text und Ton. Userzentrierte Interviews decken auf, wie sich User populäre Musik durch Kurzvideos aneignen. Drei Aneignungsmodi der Rezeption sowie zwei der Produktion werden skizziert.
The antecedents of citizens' privacy concerns in the context of surveillance and security measures
Creators: name: Duygulu, Suray
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Year: 2016

description: By taking into account the debate on the balance between privacy and security (i.e., between security and civil liberties), particularly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this study investigates the factors that affect citizens’ concerns about privacy across eight countries. In this regard, it examines the impact of mass surveillance on the public. Employing the “Antecedents of Privacy Concerns and Outcomes (APCO) Macro Model,” this study attempts to find support for the understudied and tenuous relationship between antecedents and privacy concerns. In addition, it looks at variations between antecedents and concerns across the countries included in the sample. Furthermore, the study raises some questions about the hierarchy of competing rights. The study hypothesizes that citizens’ knowledge of laws, perceived type of media coverage, and experience with surveillance measures are positively associated with their privacy concerns, while regime type, terrorism, confidence in government, and privacy regulations are negatively associated with privacy concerns. It applies quantitative research methods by conducting bivariate and multivariate analysis. Results show that experience with surveillance measures increases citizens’ privacy concerns, while recent experience with terrorism shifts the focus of citizens towards security, thereby reduces their privacy concerns. In addition, the democracy score of a country was not found to necessarily explain the intensity of surveillance, quality of privacy regulations, and citizens’ confidence in government. The study offers policy implications in terms of balancing competing rights and reducing citizens’ privacy concerns. Consequently, it suggests that with technological advances and globalization, the threat of terrorism becomes global, while privacy concerns significantly differs across cultures. Important events do affect the level of concerns.
Psallus (Hylopsallus) perrisi
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Psallus
Psallus perrisi

description: Psallus (Hylopsallus) perrisi (Mulsant & Rey, 1852)
Psallus variabilis sensu Önder et al. (1981: 156).
Material examined
TURKEY – Bursa Province • 1 ♂; Süpürtü; 26 Jun. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT • 1 ♀; ibid.; 31 Sep. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT • 1 ♀; ibid.; 17 Jun. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Organocatalytic vinylogous reactions
Creators: name: Fraboni, Americo Jeffrey
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Year: 2016

description: While organocatalysis has emerged as a significant component in modern organic synthesis, being recognized as the third pillar of catalysis, alongside biocatalysis and transition metal catalysis, its scope is still relatively limited. This is particularly the case with dienamine catalysis, in which the majority of reactions developed have been DielsAlder-type cylcoadditions or have been focused on functionalization in the α-position, due to issues with stereoselectivity and regioselectivity in the remote γ-position. As such, the development of linear asymmetric γ-functionalizations and organocascades has great potential to introduce novel complexity to α,β-unsaturated aldehydes and provide precursors to biologically relevant molecules. This dissertation presents a comprehensive review of dienamine catalysis, as well as the development of novel linear organocatalytic vinylogous functionalizations of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes. With the goal of generating diversity through cascades and heteroatomic substrates, the research conducted was focused on four main topics: 1). The synthesis of γ-amino alcohols via a novel dienamine-iminium cascade involving a γ-amination, followed by transfer hydrogenation. 2). Exploration into the potential of this cascade to provide heteroatomic asymmetric complexity with the introduction of different nucleophiles, and the many difficulties that arise from these reactions. 3). The development of an unprecedented metal-free allylic oxidation, forming various nitrones via a novel dienamine catalyzed redox mechanism, which displayed unique divergent reactivity that could be exploited to obtain varied libraries of heterocyclic compounds. 4). The synthesis of analogues to elucidate the absolute stereochemistry of an organocatalytic vinylogous Michael product. These studies have illustrated the potential, as well as some of the limitations of dienamine catalysis.
Log4Audit
Creators: name: Gershberg, Tatiana
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Year: 2016

description: The Log4Audit framework, I developed in my dissertation creates a centralized processing engine that captures necessary events from an application log, analyzes them and provides real time monitoring. Based on design research methodology, I find the motivation in the scarcity of studies that utilize large volumes of information contained in system and application logs. The purpose of my work is to provide detailed view of Log4Audit framework I developed and illustrate its capabilities in anomaly detection and management’s assertions guidance. My dissertation follows the design research methodology. The framework is the first attempt to alleviate the problems of alienated applications employed by an organization to perform different business functions. I provide the theoretical basis to an optimal structure of the Log4Audit framework and application logs that fit a wide range of objectives of a business process. Although there is a wide range of capabilities of the framework, I focus on its theoretical foundation, implemented tool stack and the illustration of Log4Audit capabilities to provide additional data for audit evidence and assistance in management decision making process. In my observational case studies I determine the robustness of Log4Audit framework. These anomaly detection and management’s assertions case studies illustrate the powerful capabilities of the Log4Audit framework.