cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
3-D numerical simulation and analysis of complex fiber geometry RaFC materials with high volume fraction and high aspect ratio based on ABAQUS PYTHON
Creators: name: Jin, BoCheng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Organic and inorganic fiber reinforced composites with innumerable fiber orientation distributions and fiber geometries are abundantly available in several natural and synthetic structures. Inorganic glass fiber composites have been introduced to numerous applications due to their economical fabrication and tailored structural properties. Numerical characterization of such composite material systems is necessitated due to their intrinsic statistical nature, which renders extensive experimentation prohibitively time consuming and costly. To predict various mechanical behavior and characterizations of Uni-Directional Fiber Composites (UDFC) and Random Fiber Composites (RaFC), we numerically developed Representative Volume Elements (RVE) with high accuracy and efficiency and with complex fiber geometric representations encountered in uni-directional and random fiber networks.  In this thesis, the numerical simulations of unidirectional RaFC fiber strand RVE models (VF>70%) are first presented by programming in ABAQUS PYTHON. Secondly, when the cross sectional aspect ratios (AR) of the second phase fiber inclusions are not necessarily one, various types of RVE models with different cross sectional shape fibers are simulated and discussed. A modified random sequential absorption algorithm is applied to enhance the volume fraction number (VF) of the RVE, which the mechanical properties represents the composite material. Thirdly, based on a Spatial Segment Shortest Distance (SSSD) algorithm, a 3-Dimentional RaFC material RVE model is simulated in ABAQUS PYTHON with randomly oriented and distributed straight fibers of high fiber aspect ratio (AR=100:1) and volume fraction (VF=31.8%). Fourthly, the piecewise multi-segments fiber geometry is obtained in MATLAB environment by a modified SSSD algorithm. Finally, numerical methods including the polynomial curve fitting and piecewise quadratic and cubic B-spline interpolation are applied to optimize the RaFC fiber geometries. Based on the multi-segments fiber geometries and aforementioned techniques, smooth curved fiber geometries depicted by cubic B-spline polynomial interpolation are obtained and different types of RaFC RVEs with high fiber filament aspect ratio (AR>3000:1) and high RVE volume fraction (VF>40.29%) are simulated by ABAQUS scripting language PYTHON programming.
A methodology for spatial and time series data mining and its applications
Creators: name: Jeong, Young-Seon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In this dissertation, we present several methodologies for mining spatial and time-sequence data obtained in diverse domains. We first propose a new spatial randomness test and classification method for binary spatial data with specific application to the detection and identification of spatial defect patterns on semiconductor wafer maps. We present the generalized join-count (JC)-based statistic as an alternative approach, and derive a procedure to determine the optimal weights of JC-based statistics. In the proposed methodology, a spatial correlogram, which transforms binary spatial data into time-sequence data, is used as a novel feature to detect spatial autocorrelation and classify spatial defect patterns on the wafer maps.   Secondly, we propose a novel distance measure, denoted weighted dynamic time warping (WDTW), for time series classification and clustering problems. The dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm has been extensively used as a distance measure in combination with the distance-based classifiers. However, the DTW algorithm ignores the relative importance of the phase distance between points in a time series, possibly leading to misclassification. Therefore, we propose a WDTW distance measure which does account for the relative importance of each point in terms of the phase distance between the time series points.   Thirdly, we propose a wavelet-based anomaly detection procedure to detect any possible process fault with time-sequence data that have some local variations even under normal working conditions. To handle the large number of parameters in both the mean and variance models, we have developed the wavelet-based mean and variance thresholding procedure to extract a few important wavelet coefficients that may explain local variations in the time domain.   Finally, we propose a kernel-based regression with lagged dependent variables. Kernel-based regression techniques are extensively used for exploring the nonlinearity of data in a relatively easy procedure involving the use of various kernel functions. However, the major drawback of current kernel-based regression techniques is their underlying assumption that there is no autocorrelation in the residuals of observations. To avoid this problem, we propose a kernel-based regression model with lagged dependent variables (LDVs), considering autocorrelations of both the response variables and the nonlinearity of data.
Advanced data inversion applied to cascade impactor data
Creators: name: Jayjock, Eric
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Currently, there is a lack of an FDA approved bio-equivalence test for generic aerosol drug products.  The prime candidate for such a test is a device known as the cascade impactor.  The cascade impactor uses a momentum-based impaction mechanism to classify incoming aerosols into different size bins.  As the deposition of an aerosol in the lung is also driven by a momentum-based impaction, in principle, the cascade impactor is expected to be ideally suited for the task.  In practice the cascade impactor has been limited by a major shortcoming: it does not sharply divide incoming aerosol into various size bins.    To make impactors as accurate as possible, the current development methodology uses data from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to produce stages with maximally sharp cut-off sizes.  However, these models do not account for the propensity for solid particles to rebound off the collection plate.  As a result, cascade impactors have fairly straight impaction curves, but these curves come at the cost of increased variability.    It is hypothesized that a superior impactor could be created by eliminating particle bounce, and then developing methods to accurately recover the data for the non-ideal impactor stage performance.  In this work, tools are developed to help make such a device a reality.  First, two inference-based inversion techniques, maximum entropy and fisher information, are formulated for use with the cascade impactor and tested with a model Andersen Cascade Impactor.  Both techniques are shown to be capable of recovering accurate distributions from non-ideal impactors.  The maximum entropy technique is found to be mathematically less complex, but also less accurate.  The fisher information technique demonstrated superior accuracy, but it is much more mathematically complex and difficult to implement.  For both inversion techniques, the relationship between neighboring impactor stages is found to be important to the accuracy of the inversion technique.  In the second part, the ability of CFD tools to predict the impactor curve shape was tested.  It was found that this approach lead to an over prediction of the sharpness of the impactor curves.
Didymocheton variabilis Holzmeyer & Mabb. 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Didymocheton
Didymocheton variabilis

description: 32. Didymocheton variabilis (Harms) Holzmeyer & Mabb., comb. nov.
≡ Dysoxylum variabile Harms in Lauterbach & Schumann, Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee, Nachträge: 282. 1905 – Holotype: New Guinea: Finschhafen: Weinland 311 (B†; isotypes: M barcode M-0244409 [image!], SING barcode SING 0181496!).
Distribution. – Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Is.
Note. – See also Mabberley (1995b: 94).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1261, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Smoking, estrogen metabolites & cognitive function
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Previous studies reported that cigarette smoking is associated with lower levels of endogenous estrogen in the blood and an earlier age at menopause. Smoking has also been associated with poorer cognitive function. However, the literature has not reported on the association between smoking, estrogen and cognitive function, and the information that is available on estrogen and cognitive function is inconsistent. This may be because smoking alters the breakdown of estrogen in the body causing more of it to be converted to an inactive form. If estrogen is protective against memory loss and impaired cognitive function, smoking would have an effect of decreasing cognitive function via the estrogen metabolism pathway.

 This will be the first study to measure estrogen metabolites in a large sample of women aged 65 and older. It will determine if smoking is related to cognitive function at baseline and to change in cognitive function over time through alterations in estrogen metabolism. We will also look at the effects of smoking and estrogen metabolism in women who develop Alzheimer’s disease.

 Results of this study will help elucidate the mechanism by which smoking exerts an effect on a common disease and will provide further evidence that Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline is a tobacco-related disease.
Recasting colonialism, rewriting history
Creators: name: Jaising, Shakti Yogeshkumar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation brings the tools of literary and cultural analysis to the study of contemporary neoliberalism, a globally dominant political, economic and moral vision that limits the regulatory role of government while expanding the reach of capital into social life. While much scholarship on neoliberalism has emphasized the social and material changes it has ushered since the 1980s, my project attends also to its cultural manifestations and ideological dimensions, particularly to the ways in which its utopian free market ideology remakes the present by rewriting histories of colonial domination. Drawing on recent scholarship on neoliberalism— by social scientists like David Harvey, postcolonial and race theorists like Stuart Hall, and literary and cultural historians like Fredric Jameson— I show how contemporary global culture participates in and responds to the rise of neoliberal utopianism. In my introduction, I establish how regional hegemons and global powers like the United States, South Africa, and India adopt neoliberal policies, thereby destroying not only existing public assets but also collective memory. Considering an array of Anglophone texts from the last two decades—including U.S. journalism and travel writing, South African memoir and testimony, award-winning Indian novels, and internationally-acclaimed cinema— each of my following chapters tracks the new narratives of the present and the past that have arisen in these national contexts in conjunction with their turn to neoliberal methods of profit-making and state-building. I reveal how the uncritical revival of colonial discourse, the recasting of colonial violence as moral failure, and the exoticization of colonial-era intercultural contact, lead to the radical rewriting of histories of colonialism, at the very moment when only a frank acknowledgement of these histories and their ongoing legacies might enable us to begin to repair the damage done. As opposed to theories of globalization that emphasize the radical newness of the contemporary geopolitical order, my dissertation illustrates both the discontinuities and continuities between the regimes of domination that characterize the neoliberal present and the period of European colonization.
Melanagromyza Hendel 1920
Creators: name: Eiseman, Charles S.
name: Lonsdale, Owen
name: Linden, John Van Der
name: Feldman, Tracy S.
name: Palmer, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Melanagromyza

description: Melanagromyza sp. 1
Material examined. IOWA: Winneshiek Co., Lake Meyer Park, 28.xi.2017, em. spring 2018, J. van der Linden, ex Cryptotaenia canadensis, # CSE4651, CNC1135658 (1♀).
Host. Apiaceae: Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC.
Larval biology. Internal stem borer.
Puparium. Formed within the stem.
Phenology and voltinism. Pupae overwinter, with adults emerging in spring.
Distribution. USA: IA.
Comments. The only previous record of an agromyzid from this host is a leaf mine of an unidentified Phytomyza species collected in Montreal, QC, listed by Spencer (1969), who did not describe the mine in any way. The only dipteran leafminer that has been reared from Cryptotaenia is Euleia fratria (Loew) (Tephritidae), and it does not seem impossible that its mine could have been mistaken for that of a Phytomyza.
description: Published as part of Eiseman, Charles S., Lonsdale, Owen, Linden, John Van Der, Feldman, Tracy S. & Palmer, Michael W., 2021, Thirteen new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4931 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4931.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4545337
Lexical representation and access in children and adults
Creators: name: Isacoff, Nora
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The goal of the research presented in this paper is to shed light on the nature of lexical representation and access: how the lexicon develops between early childhood and adulthood; what linguistic factors are associated with lexical access, and most importantly, how the lexicon is organized. On this last point, the questions of interest are whether the lexicon is semantically organized, and if so, what semantic features drive lexical access.
Sphyraena Walbaum 1792
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Sphyraenidae
Sphyraena

description: Genus Sphyraena Walbaum, 1792
Type species
Esox sphyraena Linneaus, 1758, Recent, Mediterranean Sea.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 166, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Didymocheton boridianus Mabb. 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Didymocheton
Didymocheton boridianus

description: 33. Didymocheton boridianus (Mabb.) Mabb., comb. nov.
≡ Dysoxylum boridianum Mabb. in Blumea 38: 305. 1994 – Holotype: Papua New Guinea, Central Dist., Port Moresby Subdist., above Boridi village, Foreman & Vinas LAE 60103 (L barcode L 0058094!).
Distribution. – Papua New Guinea.
Note. – See also Mabberley (1995b: 100).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1261, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
"Triteiros, Pantomineiros, Saltimbancos"  Circos Jony e Aguilar: Um exemplo da arte  circense em Torre de Moncorvo
Creators: name: Silva, Arnaldo Duarte da
Publisher: name: Revista Memória Rural
Year: 2024

description: Os circos Jony e Aguilar, com atuações até finais da década setenta do século passado, mantiveram durante vinte anos uma distinta influência cultural no norte e centro do país. O impacto dos triteiros/pantomineiros na animação das gentes, mais concretamente do povo rural, com foco no papel desempenhado pelos palhaços, ilusionistas, trapezistas, ginastas, acrobatas e outros, representaram um fenómeno sem precedentes ao nível do espetáculo de rua. O seu legado continua e continuará vivo, não apenas na memória dos mais antigos, mas também na forma como o papel do artista circense, tido como figura central na animação do espetáculo, valorizou a vida comunitária e contribuiu para uma nova forma de cultura popular, encantando multidões, disseminando alegria, fantasia e magia. Torre de Moncorvo acolheu-os e aí se fixaram para possibilitarem a melhor instrução aos seus filhos.
Didymocheton kouiriensis Mabb. 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Didymocheton
Didymocheton kouiriensis

description: 34. Didymocheton kouiriensis (Virot) Mabb., comb. nov.
≡ Dysoxylum kouiriense Virot in Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Bot., n.s., 4: 13. 1953 – Holotype: New Caledonia, Col de Kouiri, Virot 786 (P barcode P00625976!).
Distribution. – New Caledonia.
Notes. – See also Mabberley (1988: 25). Of pachycaul habit(cf.Didymocheton macranthus) and with the largest flowers (to 3.5 cm across) in the genus.
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1261, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
title: Testing a methodology for high-resolution Archaeoentomology to examine human-environment interactions at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
Creators: name: Salazar Guerra, Carlos Enrique
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: The UNESCO World Heritage site of L’Anse aux Meadows has been the home of many cultures, such as the Maritime Archaic, Pre-Inuit Dorset, Norse, and groups ancestral to the Beothuk/Innu. It is commonly agreed that the presence of these cultures at the site were seasonal and/or short-lived. Therefore, any attempt to provide meaningful insights into past human-environment interactions at L’Anse aux Meadows using palaeoenvironmental analysis requires a high-temporal resolution sampling method. This thesis has designed a methodology to address this challenge, by building on the ‘standard’ archaeoentomological methodology and drawing lessons from other methods deployed in Human Paleoecology, most specifically palynology. A custom-made sampling tin was used to collect a 40-cm thick peat monolith located within a 20-m distanced from the nearest Norse building at the site. Within the monolith, vertically thin (0.5 cm-thick) and volumetrically small (c. 5 mL) subsamples were analyzed for palaeoecological data (beetle and charcoal concentrations as well as loss-on-ignition). This data paired with radiocarbon date age-depth modelling identified the section of the whole monolith worthwhile examining for human-mediated beetle biodiversity change as being located between 40.5 and 30 cm deep, which covered a period of time when the Pre-Inuit Dorset, Norse, and groups ancestral to the Beothuk/Innu occupied the site. Volumetrically small subsamples permitted to test and select a weak alkaline chemical treatment ideal to ease the sorting of clean beetle sclerites. From this 10-cm thick section, a total of 21 subsamples (each 0.5-cm thick) yielded a total of 621 individual beetles, with a recovery rate of 6 MNI/mL, much higher in contrast to the ‘standard’ archaeoentomological method (anywhere between 5 and 50 MNI/L). The designed methodology successfully localized a section containing a ca. 1,000-years record of local beetle assemblage change, representing a palaeoecological reconstruction resolved at a time scale close to 34 years (on average) per subsample. The beetle assemblages reported for the Indigenous hunter-gatherers and the Norse presented high concentration of Omaliinae and Aleocharinae subfamilies, joined by Ptiliidae, Elateridae, Cryptophagidae, and Latridiidae families, all of which benefit from nutrient-rich microhabitats. The Norse assemblage also included members of the Micropeplinae, Pselaphinae, Paederinae, and Staphylininae subfamilies and Nitidulidae family, all of which thrive in microhabitats found in forest litter or similar habitats that could have been maintained inside the Norse buildings.
Melanagromyza Hendel 1920
Creators: name: Eiseman, Charles S.
name: Lonsdale, Owen
name: Linden, John Van Der
name: Feldman, Tracy S.
name: Palmer, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Melanagromyza

description: Melanagromyza sp. 2
Material examined. OKLAHOMA: Payne Co., Mehan, 36.013839°, -96.998103°, 12.vii.2017, em. ~ 10.iv.2018, M.W. Palmer, ex Lactuca canadensis, # CSE4452, CNC1135642 (1♀).
Host. Asteraceae: Lactuca canadensis L.
Larval biology. Probably an internal stem borer (see Comments).
Puparium. Formed within the stem.
Phenology and voltinism. This species is evidently univoltine, given that the adult emerged in spring from a stem collected the previous July.
Comments. The only previous record of a Melanagromyza from Lactuca is that of several M. splendida Frick paratypes from Hawaii, listed as “reared from larvae mining lettuce leaves” (Frick 1953)—which should not be construed as representing true leafmining since as far as is known M. splendida feeds as a borer in the stem or in the midrib of large leaves (Spencer 1973). Unlike M. splendida, the Oklahoma female has closely spaced fronto-orbitals (the anterior pair is not anteriorly displaced) and the wing is approximately 3.2 mm (not 1.9–2.6 mm). The female emerged from a bulk sample of mined stems, with the mines terminating in conspicuous gall-like “scabs” of stem tissue and dried latex, inside which the puparia were formed. We are reasonably sure that these external symptoms were in fact caused by an undetermined Ophiomyia species, and we presume that the Melanagromyza larva fed and pupated in the pith of a stem.
description: Published as part of Eiseman, Charles S., Lonsdale, Owen, Linden, John Van Der, Feldman, Tracy S. & Palmer, Michael W., 2021, Thirteen new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4931 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4931.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4545337
Comprehensive evaluation of the ischemic leg
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Smoking is the most important risk factor for diseases of arteries in the leg. Seventy to ninety percent of these patients are smokers. These diseases can substantially reduce the amount of blood flow into the calf and foot. As a result, this disease can lead to severe pain while walking (or even at rest), gangrene, and the need for amputation.

 The number of cigarettes smoked is directly related to the severity of the disease. Among patients with more severe disease, surgery to restore blood flow to the lower leg is known to provide relief. However, this treatment remains effective for only about 50-70% of such patients after 5 years, with smokers suffering from an even poorer rate. Recently, a new form of treatment using angiogenic agents has attracted interest because these agents have been shown to cause growth of new blood vessels in the leg.

 To take advantage of these established and new treatments, more accurate and lower risk ways of measuring the blood flow and the narrowing of the arteries in the leg are needed.

 Therefore the main goal of this research project is to develop several methods involving magnetic resonance technology to perform a comprehensive evaluation of blood vessel disease in the leg. For such evaluation, these magnetic resonance methods will produce the following information: 1) pictures showing the state of the main blood vessels in the leg; 2) numbers indicating how much blood is flowing into the lower leg; and 3) pictures of the leg showing which regions are receiving and not receiving blood. Magnetic resonance, which uses only magnets to produce pictures of the body, poses no health risk to the patient.

 These methods will be a significant improvement over existing noninvasive methods because such a comprehensive set of information cannot be produced by the other methods. The research plan includes development and optimization of the magnetic resonance methods followed by a study on patients with severe disease to test the effectiveness of the new methods.
Novel DNA vaccines for the treatment of lung cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Cancer of the lung and bronchus currently ranks second among the top ten leading sites and causes of cancer incidence and death among Californians, according to the California Department of Health Services. It is particularly alarming that from 1988-1996 the average annual rate of death per 100,000 population from this disease is highest among African-Americans in California, where it exceeds that of all other races by 39%, i.e. 61 versus 44 per 100,000 population. We plan to produce a vaccine against human lung cancer for which we have already obtained a proof of concept in a mouse model, where we demonstrated that a vaccine against carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), widely distributed among lung carcinoma patients can prevent the onset of this cancer. Our aim is to further improve the efficacy of this vaccine and to design it so that it can also be used to treat existing lung cancer and prevent its recurrence, particularly in a setting of minimal residual disease. In other words, our aim is to prevent, or at least slow down, the spread (metastases) of lung cancer in patients who were treated by other means, e.g. surgery, but still had some persisting lung cancer metastases. Our aim is to achieve this by using a genetically engineered vaccine to strongly stimulate the body’s natural defense mechanisms, i.e. immunity against cancer cells. Since we are using a specialized mouse model system to evaluate our vaccine directed against an antigen, i.e. a molecular marker extensively expressed on human lung cancer cells, it is conceivable that our vaccine, once perfected in the mouse model, could rapidly enter clinical trials to critically evaluate its ability to treat human lung cancer in a minimal residual disease setting. Importantly, achievement of this research proposal’s objectives may not only aid in improving prevention and treatment of lung cancer, but may also serve as a model for developing new and effective DNA vaccines against other cancers, including those of the colon, breast and pancreas.
Il Messaggero No. 1728, June 30, 1938
Creators: name: Kahan, Irving
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1938

description: Local information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County.   Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements.  This paper was titled Il Messaggero from 1904 until September 22, 1938, when it became The Messenger.
Eutrichiurides Casier 1944
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Trichiuridae
Eutrichiurides

description: Genus Eutrichiurides Casier, 1944
Type species
Trichiurides delheidi Leriche, 1908, early Oligocene, Belgium.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 169, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Melanagromyza Hendel 1920
Creators: name: Eiseman, Charles S.
name: Lonsdale, Owen
name: Linden, John Van Der
name: Feldman, Tracy S.
name: Palmer, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Melanagromyza

description: Melanagromyza sp. 3
Material examined. IOWA: Winneshiek Co., Decorah, Twin Springs Park, 31.i–1.ii.2017, em. by ix.2017, J. van der Linden, ex Prenanthes alba, # CSE4660, CNC1144026–1144027 (2♀); 10.ix.2017, em. spring 2018, J. van der Linden, ex Prenanthes alba, # CSE4662, CNC1135654 (1♀).
Host. Asteraceae: Nabalus albus (L.) Hook.
Larval biology. Internal stem borer. Lower in the stem, where it is hollow, larvae feed as described above for Melanagromyza arnoglossi.
Puparium. Straw-colored; formed within the larval feeding site.
Phenology and voltinism. Pupae overwinter, with adults emerging in spring or perhaps summer.
Comments. This is the first record of any Melanagromyza from Nabalus (nor is any known from Prenanthes L., the European genus from which Nabalus was recently separated).
description: Published as part of Eiseman, Charles S., Lonsdale, Owen, Linden, John Van Der, Feldman, Tracy S. & Palmer, Michael W., 2021, Thirteen new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4931 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4931.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4545337
Behavioral effects of neonatal nicotine exposure
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Cigarette smoking during pregnancy has been associated with higher rates of spontaneous abortions, intrauterine growth retardation, and an increased risk for birth defects. In addition, behavioral problems, such as hyperactivity, decreased attention, and lower IQ in the offspring of smoking mothers suggest that nicotine also has negative effects on the development of the brain. In fact, research suggests that nicotine exposure during development may have more detrimental effects on the developing brain than other drugs of abuse, such as cocaine. However, the exact cause and effect relationship between maternal smoking and the negative effects of nicotine on the human brain is difficult to study because of several confounding factors such as: nutrition, the mother’s health and social environment, and the potential presence of other toxic substances. In many ways the development of many mammalian brains is similar to the development of the human brain. Therefore, one can utilize animal models of nicotine exposure to better our understanding of nicotine's effects on the developing fetus because of the strict environmental control available. The previous submission of this application focused on developing an animal model of nicotine exposure during the equivalent of the last trimester of pregnancy, the time when the brain is undergoing a period of rapid development. The potential toxic effect of nicotine exposure during pregnancy was evaluated using brain wave measurements [electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs)] and behavioral tests. Differences in the brain wave measurements were found in the hippocampus, a brain area crucial for learning and memory. Behaviorally, the animals were overactive, an effect consistent with damage to this brain area. The experiments proposed in the current application utilize this third trimester model and are designed to assess alterations in other behaviors that rely on the integrity of this brain area. Furthermore, we will explore how early nicotine exposure influences chemical systems in the brain, as well as, anatomical changes in the hippocampus. These studies may help to identify which brain systems may be particularly affected by early life nicotine exposure, and lay the foundation for identifying the causes of tobacco-related problems in the newborn.
Didymocheton macrostachyus Mabb. 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Didymocheton
Didymocheton macrostachyus

description: 35. Didymocheton macrostachyus (C.DC.) Mabb., comb. nov.
≡ Dysoxylum macrostachyum C.DC. in Candolle & Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 1: 504. 1878 – Lectotype (designated by Mabberley in Fl. Nouv.-Caléd. 15: 46. 1988): New Caledonia, Canala, Vieillard 2433 (P barcode P00625987!).
Distribution. – New Caledonia.
Note. – See also Mabberley (1988: 44).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1261, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
ETS effects on breathing patterns
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Children raised with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) have increased cough, wheeze, airway obstruction, phlegm, asthma, and sudden infant death. The central C-fiber reflex consists of the C-fiber nerves in the lungs which sense irritation and send nerve activity to an area of the brain where the information is processed and then sent on to other areas of the brain to cause cough, narrowing of the airways, phlegm production, and breath holding. Our studies have shown that exposing guinea pigs to sidestream smoke during the equivalent of human childhood increases the number of C-fiber nerve branches in lung, enhances the activity of lung C-fiber nerves, enhances the activity of brain C-fiber neurons, and lengthens breath holding. Lacking is an understanding of the mechanism by which sidestream smoke exposure increases C-fiber nerves in the lung, and the mechanism by which sidestream smoke exposure enhances brain processing, transforming signals from lung C-fiber nerves into changes in breathing and lung function.

 We propose that chronic ETS exposure during childhood increases the amount of neurotrophins in the lungs which causes C-fiber nerves to make more substance P (a neurotransmitter). Then when C-fiber nerves are stimulated, more substance P is released into the brain and the changes in breathing and lung function are greater.

 If our hypothesis is correct, our findings will suggest that children raised in homes of smokers have more airway obstruction, phlegm, and cough because of changes in their C-fiber nerves and brain. Although we do not know the reason for sudden infant death, a possible explanation is breath holding. Our findings will suggest that a possible reason why infants raised in the homes have smokers have more sudden infant death is because changes in their C-fiber nerves and brain cause longer breath holding.

 Possible applications of these findings are 1) to use drugs which block neurotrophins or substance P in children raised with ETS exposure, 2) to document the cellular, biochemical, and physiological changes produced by ETS exposure thereby providing powerful evidence which may convince parents not to smoke around their children.
Il Messaggero No. 1727, June 23, 1938
Creators: name: Kahan, Irving
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1938

description: Local information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County.   Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements.  This paper was titled Il Messaggero from 1904 until September 22, 1938, when it became The Messenger.
Il Messaggero No. 1699, December 9, 1937
Creators: name: Kahan, Irving
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1937

description: Local information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County.   Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements.  This paper was titled Il Messaggero from 1904 until September 22, 1938, when it became The Messenger.
Il Messaggero No. 1698, December 2, 1937
Creators: name: Kahan, Irving
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1937

description: Local information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County.   Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements.  This paper was titled Il Messaggero from 1904 until September 22, 1938, when it became The Messenger.
Il Messaggero No. 1697, November 24, 1937
Creators: name: Kahan, Irving
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1937

description: Local information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County.   Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements.  This paper was titled Il Messaggero from 1904 until September 22, 1938, when it became The Messenger.
Didymocheton muelleri Mabb. 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Didymocheton
Didymocheton muelleri

description: 36. Didymocheton muelleri (Benth.) Mabb., comb. nov.
≡ Dysoxylum muelleri Benth., Fl. Austral. 1: 381. 1863 – Lectotype (designated by Mabberley in Fl. Australia 26: 28.
2013): Australia: Queensland, Moreton Bay: W. Hill s.n. (K barcode K000657144!).
Distribution. – NE Australia. Closely related to Didymocheton mollis.
Notes. – See also Mabberley (2013b: 28). Its timber is the red bean of commerce.
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on pages 1261-1262, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Predicting progress toward cessation in California smokers
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The main aim of this application will be to write a new proposal that will use the questionnaire developed as part of the present project to evaluate the degree to which five tobacco control strategies facilitate and/or inhibit cessation, progress-toward-cessation and relapse among California. The purpose of the questionnaire will be to evaluate the relative effectiveness of several tobacco control strategies in the encouragement of cessation, progress-toward-cessation, and prevention of relapse in current and/or former California smokers. This research extends previous evaluations of the California Tobacco Control Program. Data from the 1990-1992 longitudinal panel of the California Tobacco Survey demonstrated that three major strategies promoted by the Tobacco Control Program in California appeared to reduce smoking prevalence and consumption. Smokers who worked in smokefree workplaces, who lived in a household where smoking was generally or completely banned, or who received assistance with quitting on their most recent quit attempt were significantly more likely to quit or make progress-toward-cessation than smokers who lacked these characteristics. While these results were encouraging, they were based on retrospective, rather than prospective, data and did not prove that these policies were causally related to quitting and progress-toward cessation.

 A comprehensive evaluation of the California Tobacco Control Program, besides being prospective, needs to address a broader range of tobacco control strategies and tobacco industry activities which also potentially influence cessation, progress-toward-cessation, and relapse. Other strategies include excise tax increases, the encouragement of health care providers to advise smokers to quit, and media campaigns to educate the public about the negative effects of smoking and side stream smoke. With the passage of Proposition 10 in November 1998, California will impose a 50-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes starting in January 1999, and in late 1998, the Tobacco industry reached a settlement of state suits to recover smoking-related medical costs. The industry will pass along at least some of these costs to smokers by raising cigarette prices.

 The proposed follow-on study that will result from this project will use longitudinal data from a representative sample of California smokers to assess program effects. The strategies that will be evaluated by the questionnaire will include price and tax effects, workplace and household smoking restrictions, doctor’s advice and referral, as well as pro and anti-tobacco advertising. We anticipate that the findings of this study will provide valuable information on ways to enhance the effectiveness of the California Tobacco Control Program.
title: Zwischen Mensch und Echtzeit – Der Weg der Stanzbiegetechnik in eine digitalisierte Zukunft
Creators: name: Donhauser, Christian
Publisher: name: Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Kempten
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 67 Industrielle Fertigung

description: Es wird die Digitalisierung in der Stanzbiegetechnik beschrieben; bisherige Forschungsergebnisse werden in den Kontext zu den zukünftigen Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen gesetzt; die Zukunft mit Industrie 5.0 wird erörtert
Nicotine & its metabolites: apoptosis in developing neurons
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Smoking is a chronic condition that affects more than 46 million Americans. People who smoke are at risk of heart disease, cancer, and other tobacco-related illnesses that cost more than $50 billion annually to treat, and an additional $47 billion in indirect costs from lost time at work and disability. Cigarette smoking during pregnancy not only damages the health of the smoker, increases the incidence of spontaneous abortion and low birth weight, but also causes long lasting effect such as learning disabilities and hyperactivity in the offspring. Even though the rate of smoking in pregnant women is much lower than the general population in the United States, there were still over 400,000 women who smoked during their pregnancy in 1996, endangering their own health and that of their children. This number will possibly increase in the years to come due to the increasing smoking rate among teenage girls and young women. This is also an important problem in the rapidly growing state of California.

 How nicotine affects the health of the fetus is a question that remains to be answered. We hypothesize that nicotine exposure during pregnancy can enhance a cell suicide program, called apoptosis, in developing neuronal cells of the fetus. The purpose of this proposal is to understand whether immature neurons in fetus are more sensitive to nicotine treatment as compare to mature neurons in adults; how the neurons commit to apoptosis after nicotine exposure; and whether we can use apoptosis inhibitors to stop this process. We will also study whether nicotine itself is the most potent reagent causing the neuron damage, or if nicotine metabolites, the products generated in human body from nicotine after its consumption, can also harm neurons. Finding from this study will provide information for the future scientific research on the long-term effect of maternal smoking on the offspring. The results can be also applied to educational efforts for the general public and pregnant women to stop smoking.
Melanagromyza Hendel 1920
Creators: name: Eiseman, Charles S.
name: Lonsdale, Owen
name: Linden, John Van Der
name: Feldman, Tracy S.
name: Palmer, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Melanagromyza

description: Melanagromyza sp. 4
Material examined. IOWA: Winneshiek Co., Upper Iowa River Wildlife Management Area, 8.ii.2018, em. spring 2018, J. van der Linden, ex Xanthium strumarium, # CSE4665, CNC1144063 (1♀).
Host. Asteraceae: Xanthium strumarium L.
Larval biology. Internal stem borer.
Puparium. Formed within the stem.
Phenology and voltinism. Pupae overwinter, with adults emerging in spring.
Comments. This unidentifiable female belongs to the Melanagromyza virens group. Spencer (1973) listed Xanthium among the known hosts of M. splendida, and this was repeated by Shi & Gaimari (2015), but the origin of this record is unclear and it does not appear in Spencer’s later works. The only other record we have found of a Melanagromyza from Xanthium is that of an undetermined species Hilgendorf & Goeden (1983) reported as common in stems of X. strumarium in southern California.
description: Published as part of Eiseman, Charles S., Lonsdale, Owen, Linden, John Van Der, Feldman, Tracy S. & Palmer, Michael W., 2021, Thirteen new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4931 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4931.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4545337
Il Messaggero No. 1696, November 18, 1937
Creators: name: Kahan, Irving
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1937

description: Local information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County.   Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements.  This paper was titled Il Messaggero from 1904 until September 22, 1938, when it became The Messenger.