cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Drug permeability in tissue engineered models and cytotoxicity evaluations
Creators: name: Rai, Vishwas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation is a compilation of studies at both the cellular and in vitro tissue levels. It explores the in vitro chemo- and photo-toxicity of compounds - fractionated melanin (Mel-HEV) and chlorpromazine (CPZ) - in two human cell lines – HDF and HEKn and compares the effects to mouse fibroblast cell line ‘Balb/c 3T3’, cell line recommended by the European Center of Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM). The cell lines Balb/c 3T3 and HEKn were found sensitive to the phototoxic potential of CPZ. However, HDF showed insensitivity to phototoxic evaluation. The test compound, Mel-HEV, wasfound to be non-phototoxic. Following the cellular toxicity studies, the dissertation progresses into the understanding the permeation analysis of Naltrexone HCL (NTXHCL) across tissue engineered buccal and skin membranes. The effects of two surfactants(Brij 58® and Tween 80®) and changes in solution pH on in vitro permeation of NTX were observed. It was observed that the flux of 10mg/ml NTX solution (pH 6.8)increased from 1.9 ± 0.6 (×102) to 13.9 ± 2.2 (×102) μg/cm2/h (approximately 6 fold) in presence of 1% Brij 58®. Increasing pH of NTX-HCl solution was found to increase the drug flux from 1.9 ± 0.6 (×102) (pH 6.8) to 3.0 ± 0.6 (×102) (pH 7.4) and 8.0 ± 3.5 (×102)(pH 8.2) μg/cm2/h respectively. In tissue engineered human skin studies, a novel full thickness Human Skin Equivalent (HSE) containing a polymer electrospun mesh in the dermal component was developed and tested for mechanical strength comparative tocurrently available collagen based HSE, human and porcine skin. A comparison of its morphology and permeability characteristics with ex vivo human and porcine skin was also performed. The mean Young’s modulus of polymeric HSE (0.4 ± 0.3 MPa) wasfound similar to that of excised human skin (0.5 ± 0.1 MPa), much higher than of collagen HSE (0.009 ± 0.009 MPa). The histological sections of polymeric HSE havebeen shown to exhibit well-formed dermal and fully differentiated epidermal layers. Polymeric HSE exhibited barrier properties which are comparatively weaker than those of ex vivo human/pig tissues but comparable to the commercially available model (Epiderm FT®).
Growth, genes, genomes
Creators: name: Rauschenbach, Ines
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) are naturally occurring metalloids in the Earth’s crust. Their speciation is governed by the microbial communities in various environments which influences their mobility among the soil, water, and air interface. Microorganisms can utilize As and Se oxyanion as terminal electron acceptors in dissimilatory reduction. These organisms are ubiquitous and phylogenetically diverse. The objectives of the studies in this thesis were to gain an understanding of the metabolism of As and Se respiring bacteria, analyze the genes encoding enzymes involved in respiration and understand how these enzymes are regulated in the presence of various electron acceptors. We were able to isolate two novel As and Se respiring bacteria from different environments; from a wastewater treatment facility in Verona, NJ and an estuarine canal from Chennai, India. Based on 16S rRNA gene analysis, strain S4 was classified as a novel genus and species, Selenovibrio woodruffi and strain S5 as a novel species, Desulfurispirillum indicum. We analyzed the genome of D. indicum and examined the expression of putative reductases to further understand respiratory metabolism of As and Se oxyanions. Five molybdoenzyme genes were identified in the genome of strain S5, three of which we were annotated to encode for a respiratory arsenate reductase arr, periplasmic nitrate reductase nar, and respiratory nitrate reductase nap. Also, an arsenate resistance system, ars, was identified. We were not able to positively identify a selenate reductase gene. Gene expression studies revealed that arr was an inducible gene and the only gene highly expressed during arsenate respiration. Growth studies showed that selenate respiration was inhibited by nitrate. Lastly, we also enriched activated sludge samples for tellurium oxyanion respiring bacteria. Thus, we not only added novel, phylogenetically different organisms to the ever-increasing list of As and Se respiring microbes, we also provided insights into the genes and enzymes involved in As and Se respiration and how they are regulated.
Harpalus modestus Dejean 1829
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus modestus

description: Harpalus modestus Dejean, 1829
Fully (VS), La Fontaine, Vigne, 530 m, 574.5/ 109.9, 5.4.2009: 4 Ind.
Fully (VS), Mazembroz, Vigne bas, 490 m, 576.8 /111.3, 22.3.2011: 1 Ind.
Martigny-Combe (VS), Les Châtelis, 680 m, 570.8/ 105.6, 11.7.2014: 1 Ind.
Martigny-Combe (VS), Les Châtelis bas, 660 m, 570.8/ 105.5, 11.7.2014: 1 Ind.
Dieser dem H. pumilus Sturm, 1818 ähnliche, aber grössere Harpalus scheint in der Schweiz nur noch im Raum Martigny vorzukommen. H. modestus wurde zuletzt 1999 im Seeland gefunden. Die hier vorgestellten Funde stammen aus Rebbergen, wo die Tiere tagsüber unter Steinen zu finden sind.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 62, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
How Indole-3 Carbinol Inhibits Breast Cancer Cell Growth
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: Breast cancers differ in their responses to estrogen hormones. Approximately two thirds of the breast cancer cases are susceptible to tamoxifen, an antiestrogen. However, cancers that are estrogen receptor negative are more difficult to treat and, perhaps, prevent using tamoxifen. Moreover, patients treated with tamoxifen sometimes will have notable side effects and/or will develop resistance to tamoxifen. Thus, alternative chemopreventative and chemotherapeutic agents with novel growth-inhibiting mechanisms require research and development. Recently, our lab has discovered a novel anti-breast cancer agent, indole-3-carbinol (I3C). This compound is found naturally in vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage and can target breast cancer from a unique direction. In previous work, we found that mammary tumor cells treated with I3C show decreased proliferation rate. The production and/or activity of key cell cycle regulatory proteins, CDK6 and CDK2 are also found to be decreased upon I3C treatment. Importantly, these effects were not related to the estrogen receptor status of the cell. Thus, pending further understanding both for its mode of action and progress in drug development, it appears that I3C is a very promising broad-spectrum anti-tumor agent.

 At present very little is known about how I3C works on CDK6 to block cell growth. The focus of this project is to link the cell cycle regulatory proteins with more general breast cancer cell signaling through growth factors and other stimuli. In general, these cell signaling pathways are initially triggered by binding events at the cell surface. This initiates a sequence of interacting molecules, which serves both for amplification and regulation. The end result is often to control nuclear factors that direct specific gene expression. Our specific interest is the MAPK (mitogen activated protein kinase) signaling pathway, for we have observed consistent change in MAPK protein activity in breast cancer cells by I3C treatment. In this project we plan to monitor the I3C-induced activity changes for the associated proteins in the MAPK signaling pathway in order to more clearly define the cellular targets of I3C. To accomplish this, we will manipulate the sequence of binding events in the MAPK pathway by both chemical and/or genetic procedures to see how the I3C effect becomes altered. This will be studied both in breast cancer cell lines and in tumors themselves.

 Our goal is to unravel the molecular mechanism of I3C inhibition on cell cycle growth control in breast cancer. These findings will provide valuable information to facilitate the systematic therapeutic development of I3C as an efficient anti-tumor medicine.
Hausdorff dimension of invariant sets and positive linear operators
Creators: name: Priyadarshi, Amit
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In this thesis we obtain theorems which give the Hausdorff  dimension of the invariant  set for a family of contraction mappings on a complete, perfect metric space. We obtain  results for the graph-directed systems similar to that of Mauldin and Williams [17] but  for more general contraction mappings which are "infinitesimal similitudes" rather than  just "similitudes". Also the underlying spaces are not assumed to be finite dimensional.  For finite graph-directed systems our results are valid on any bounded, complete, perfect  metric space. We use the theory of positive linear operators and generalizations of the  Krein-Rutman theorem to characterize the Hausdorff  dimension as the unique value  of  δ > 0 for which r(L δ) = 1, where Lδ ,  δ > 0, is a naturally associated family of  positive linear operators and r(Lδ ) denotes the spectral radius of Lδ . We also obtain  theorems for infinite graph-directed systems (with finitely many vertices and countably  many edges) on compact, perfect metric spaces. In this case too we have a family  of positive linear operators Lδ  for  δ > δ₀ > 0, and the Hausdorff  dimension of the  invariant set is given by the infimum of  δ > δ₀  for which r(L δ) < 1. We discuss an  infinte iterated function system given by complex continued fractions and obtain lower  bound for the Hausdorff  dimension of the invariant set. Our estimate improves the  lower bound to 1.787 from 1.2484 obtained in [16]. Finally we also give a theorem  proving the continuity of the Hausdorff  dimension with respect to the contractions in  the graph-directed systems.
Pareiocurgus nomada subsp. latigena
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Pareiocurgus
Pareiocurgus nomada
Pareiocurgus nomada latigena (morawitz, 1893)

description: Pareiocurgus nomada latigena (Morawitz, 1893)
Pompilus latigena Morawitz, 1893:402.
Distribution in Iran: KHORASAN-E RAZAVI (GUSSAKOVSKIJ 1932).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 467, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Diogenes pallescens Whitelegge 1897
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Diogenidae
Diogenes
Diogenes pallescens

description: Diogenes pallescens Whitelegge, 1897
(Fig. 8C)
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 17, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
Anti-diabetic treatment and cancer occurrence among patients with type II diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Qiu, Hong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This is a retrospective cohort study, with nested case-control analyses, of type II diabetes patients, to evaluate the association between anti-diabetic treatment and cancer incidence.  Methods: Patients who were initially stabilized on an oral hypoglycemic agent (OHA) mono-therapy, including metformin, sulfonylurea, TZD, and meglitinides, in the GPRD were included in the cohort. New diagnoses of cancer during cohort follow up were compared among exposure groups. In addition to the cohort analyses, solid tumors, as well as breast cancer and colorectal cancer, identified during the cohort follow-up were matched to controls and case-control analyses were performed within the cohort.  Results: Compared to metformin, there was no difference in risk of malignant solid tumors or hematological malignancy with other major classes of OHAs in the cohort. The case-control analyses further supported the findings that these OHA classes or their combinations did not alter the risk of malignant solid tumors.  iii  In the case-control analyses, exposure to insulin was associated with a 64% (95% CI: 1.24, 2.16) higher risk of malignant solid tumors and this risk was modified when combined with different OHAs. When sulfonylurea was added to insulin, the risk of cancer was increased to almost 3 times (OR = 2.75, 95% CI: 1.51, 5.03), while adding metformin to insulin changed the odds ratio to 1.35 (95% CI: 0.94, 1.94). Similar results were found for breast cancer in which insulin was associated with a significant increase of more than 2 times in risk and other OHAs without insulin were not related to altered risk. For colorectal cancer (CRC), both sulfonylurea and TZD were associated with around a 2-fold significant risk increase compared to metformin. The odds of developing CRC were also elevated after starting insulin (OR = 1.41), although this did not reach statistical significance in these data.  Conclusion: This study provides evidence that neither sulfonylurea nor TZD substantially alter the risk of solid tumor compared to metformin among type II diabetes patients. Insulin is associated with higher risk of cancer and this risk may be diminished by concomitant use of metformin, but appears to be magnified by concomitant use of sulfonylurea.
Spongia (Spongia) fuscoides Van Soest & Hooper 2020
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia fuscoides

description: Spongia (Spongia) fuscoides Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia (Spongia) fuscoides Van Soest & Hooper, 2020: 31.
Van Soest et al. 2020 errroneously erected this name as a nomen novum for Spongia agaricina subsp. corlosia (sic) var. fusca Hyatt, 1877: 524 (from Nassau, Bahamas), an alleged junior homonym of Spongia communis fusca Lamarck, 1814. Because Hyatt’s name is not available for being a four-name taxon it cannot come into homonymy with an available name (ICZN art. 54.1). The present species name is unavailable. The specimen likely belongs to Spongia (Spongia) tubulifera Lamarck, 1814 in accordance with above discussed Spongia agaricina subsp. coelosia var. fusca Hyatt, 1877).
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Harpalus froelichii Sturm 1818
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus froelichii

description: Harpalus froelichii Sturm, 1818
Fully (VS), Les Tâches, 470 m, 572.5/ 108.1, 27.9.2013: 1 Ind.
Baltschieder (VS), Grosseia Nord, 642 m, 631.4 /128.2, 31.7.2014: 2 Ind.
Harpalus froelichii ist seit 1937 nur noch im Wallis gefunden worden und auch da nur selten: in diesem Jahrhundert dort nur ein weiteres Mal. Das Tier aus Fully hielt sich unter Falllaub am Strassenrand in einem Weinberg auf, die Exemplare aus Baltschieder gleichenorts wie Apristus europaeus (siehe dort). Beides sind stark anthropogen geprägte Lebensräume.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 61, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Emotional stroop performance in older adults
Creators: name: Price, Rebecca Byrne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Anxious adults show a robust attentional bias toward negative information. However, little is known about the role of biased attention in late-life anxiety or about the neural substrates of any such bias. In Study 1, 60 older adults (age 60+) completed the emotional Stroop (eStroop) task to assess attentional bias. Participants were stratified into high- (n=20) and low-worry (n=20) groups on the basis of a self-report measure, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. During a 4-color eStroop task, as predicted, anxious older adults exhibited a reaction time (RT) bias towards negative words, while non-anxious participants showed a bias away from negative words. Furthermore, the non-anxious group showed a bias towards positive words, consistent with an established positivity effect in older adults; while the anxious group showed a bias away from positive words. In Study 2, treatment-seeking late life generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) patients (n=16) and non-anxious age-matched controls (NACs; n=12) completed the eStroop task in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. Functional MRI analyses were conducted to test the predictions of a neurocognitive model of attentional bias emphasizing deficiencies in top-down attentional control regions (prefrontal cortex [PFC]). As in Study 1, GAD participants showed a bias towards, while NACs showed a bias away from, negative words. Functional MRI data revealed that during trials of negative (in comparison to neutral) words, NACs showed increases in dorsomedial and ventrolateral PFC activity, coupled with decreases in task-irrelevant bottom-up emotional processing regions (amygdala, hippocampus). By contrast, GAD participants showed dorsolateral PFC decreases during negative words, and no differences in amygdala activity across word types. Across all participants, RT bias toward negative words was correlated with decreases in PFC regions. A positive correlation between RT bias and amygdala activation was also present, but this relationship was mediated by the PFC. During positive words, no RT bias was found in either group, and fMRI data revealed no PFC deficits in GAD. These results are most consistent with models of anxious attentional bias that emphasize deficiencies in top-down control over negative emotional material. Strategies to enhance top-down attentional control may be particularly relevant in late-life GAD treatment.
Pedinpompilus Wolf 1961
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Pedinpompilus

description: Genus Pedinpompilus Wolf, 1961
Pedinpompilus Wolf, 1961. Type species: Pompilus salvatoris Kohl, 1913.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Using habit theory and commonsense self‐regulation theory to improve medication adherence assessment
Creators: name: Phillips, Leigh Alison
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Patient non-adherence to medication is a pervasive problem that contributes to poor patient health and high healthcare costs. Better measures of adherence, based on health psychological theory, could improve our understanding of the factors involved in non-adherence and improve the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions to ameliorate non-adherence. The current study was designed to: (1) propose a theoretical framework of long-term behavior development that integrates habit theory and the commonsense self-regulation model (CS-SRM); (2) provide an initial test of hypotheses derived from this framework; and (3) test the validity of a measure designed from the framework to predict patients’ adherence relative to that of the current ‘best-practice’ adherence measures. Seventy-four hypertensive patients participated in a baseline interview in which they were asked to describe their daily medication routines (medication habit strength) and report their level of adherence, among other theoretical constructs. Patients then used an electronic monitoring pill bottle for approximately one month. Compared to existing measures, patients’ medication habit-strength better predicted the percentage of days they took their medication on time and equally predicted the percentage of prescribed doses they took. The results suggest that researchers and providers can better predict patient adherence by asking patients about their habits than by asking directly how adherent they are. Future research will include patients with newly prescribed medications as well as patients with other types of chronic conditions in order to better assess the theoretical framework itself.
Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. ditelliformis Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia vermiculata
Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. ditelliformis hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. ditelliformis Hyatt, 1877
Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. ditelliformis Hyatt, 1877: 526 (no illustration).
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). There are no references to the identity, other than that Spongia vermiculata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 is a junior synonym of Spongia (Spongia) barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. I propose to assign this material from Fernando de Noronha, off Brazil, to that species, until the material has been re-examined.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
The impact of cardiopulmonary bypass surgery on cancer prognosis
Creators: name: Pinto, Cathy Anne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The aim of this research was to evaluate the impact of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) on cancer progression in a large population-based cardiovascular cohort using linked data from several state-wide registries. The underlying clinical hypothesis is that CPB causes a transient immunosuppression, beyond that caused by surgical intervention, which triggers the progression of dormant malignancies and accelerates metastatic disease.  The primary endpoints were cancer incidence, stage, and cancer-specific mortality.    The largest study was a retrospective cohort study of coronary artery bypass graft surgery, with and without CPB, in 43,347 patients with no prior cancer diagnosis.  For overall cancer incidence, there was a 17% increase in patients with pump versus off-pump surgery (1.17 (95% CI , 0.93-1.47: p=0.19)); however, this result did not reach statistical significance, nor was there a significant association found with cancer stage.  Of 11 site-specific analyses, a statistically significant increase in the risk of skin melanoma (1.66 (95% CI, 1.08-2.55: p=0.02)) and lung cancer (1.36 (95% CI, 1.02-1.81: p=0.03)) was observed for patients with pump versus off-pump surgery.  However, besides skin melanoma, no consistent effect was observed for other cancers thought to be susceptible to immune modulation (e.g. NHL, renal cancer).     With respect to cancer-specific mortality, there was a 16% increase for patients with pump versus off-pump surgery (1.16 (95% CI, 0.92-1.46: p=0.20)). Of those patients diagnosed with a malignancy after surgery,  there was a 12% increase in risk for patients with pump procedures (1.12 (95% CI, 0.89-1.41: p=0.33)).  Although an increase in mortality risk, neither result reached statistical significance. Two smaller studies were also conducted in patients with a history of cancer; however, these studies were less generalizable and more susceptible to selection bias.     In summary, the overall results do not demonstrate any strong or clinically meaningful association between CPB and cancer progression.  If the increased risk demonstrated in Study 1 is real, the effect is likely modest at best and not likely to influence clinical management of patients with bypass surgery   Even so, further research may still be warranted, with particular focus on skin melanoma and lung cancer which had the largest associations in these studies.
An Innovation System Perspective on Industrial Transition (Keynote)
Creators: name: Mossberg, Johanna
Publisher: name: NEFI
Year: 2024
Subjects: NEFI
Innovation Network
Energy
Industry
New Energy for Industry
Climate and Energy Fund
Vorzeigeregion
NEFI 2024
Conference
Keynote

description: In Vienna, around 200 international experts discussed specific solutions and relevant technologies for a climate-neutral industryThe transformation of the industrial energy system to a climate-neutral energy supply is an essential contribution to achieving the national climate targets and can only succeed with innovations and the development of concrete solutions. The NEFI-New Energy for Industry innovation network invited national and international experts for the third time to present the latest scientific findings and discuss the energy transition in Austrian industry with high-ranking representatives from industry, research and politics. The scientific contributions centred on the topics of the NEFI Innovation Hubs. The conference took place on 24 and 25 October 2024 in the Museumsquartier Vienna with around 200 participants.
Batozonellus fuliginosus
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Batozonellus
Batozonellus fuliginosus

description: Parabatozonus fuliginosus (Klug, 1834)
Pompilus fuliginosus Klug, 1834. ♀.— Dongala [Sudan].
Distribution in Iran: SISTAN-O BALUCHESTAN (EBRAHIMI et al. 2008— AS Batozonellus fuliginosus (KLUg, 1834)).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
A reservation based parking lot system to maximize occupancy and revenue
Creators: name: Pinto, Sonia Preeti
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Numerous parking issues are faced by people on a day to day basis. Congestion is caused by customers circling the lot in search of vacant parking spots while the lot may be full. At peak periods the parking lot may not be filled to maximum capacity because there are only primitive ways to indicate to customers the availability of spots in the lot. Thus parking garages tend to lose profit as usage of parking lots is not maximized.  The Parking Lot System proposed aims to reduce these parking hassles faced by people and the occupancy issues faced by parking lot owners by providing customers with a facility of reserving parking spots before arrival at the lot. This reduces the parking search traffic as well as the parking search time. Additionally, this system proposes to automate occupancy tracking in the lot which ensures that customers are aware of the availability of parking spaces from remote locations. In case of unavailability of parking spaces, customers are notified at the entrance thereby reducing congestion levels in the lot.    The designed system is simulated in real world scenarios to test the occupancy levels achieved by the lot. The practices and strategies used in well developed reservation systems (hotels and aviation industries) like overbooking are modified and applied in this domain to improve occupancy levels. An increase of about 5.19% in the occupancy level is observed. A comparative study of the effect of various business strategies is carried out to determine the best mix of user controllable parameters. The parameters controllable by the parking lot owners are the length of the grace period provided to customers to arrive and claim their reservation, the number of overbooked reservations made by the system and the proportion of spots in the lot available for reservation. A further increase of up to 5.97% in the occupancy level is observed by using different combinations and values of these parameters. For the purpose of simulation, the parking garage is assumed to be located in a city downtown area having customers using it for both corporate as well as leisure purpose.
Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. tectoria Hyatt 1877
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Dictyoceratida
Spongiidae
Spongia
Spongia vermiculata
Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. tectoria hyatt, 1877

description: Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. tectoria Hyatt, 1877
Spongia vermiculata subsp. cookii var. tectoria Hyatt, 1877: 526 (no illustration)
Hyatt’s name is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5). There are no references to the identity, other than that Spongia vermiculata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 is a junior synonym of Spongia (Spongia) barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. However, it is not likely that this species would occur in the Eastern Pacific, so I propose to assign the specimen to S. (S.) aff. barbara, which is likely an undescribed species.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Amorphina grossa
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Amorphina
Amorphina grossa

description: Amorphina grossa f. latissima Czerniavsky, 1880
(Fig. 3A)
Amorphina grossa f. latissima Czerniavsky, 1880: 92, pl. III (VII) fig. 23a.
This forma was described by Czerniavsky from Sinus Jaltensis, Crimea, approximate coordinates 44.48°N 34.17°, depth 1–2 m (no type material in ZIN-RAS). Reniera grossa Schmidt, 1864, currently Haliclona (Rhizoniera) grossa, is an ill-known Mediterranean species, reported only a few times and is in need of comparison with the more common Mediterranean Haliclona species. The name latissima is based on the size of the specimen observed by Czerniavsky (50–75 cm), but no further morphological data are provided (e.g. no spicule sizes). Czerniavsky provided a drawing (with question mark) of part of a spicule with obvious deformation. In view of these uncertainties it is proposed to assign the forma as a junior synonym to the species Haliclona (Rhizoniera) grossa (Schmidt, 1864).
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Cacochalina digitata var. pontica Czerniavsky 1880
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Callyspongiidae
Cacochalina
Cacochalina digitata
Cacochalina digitata var. pontica czerniavsky, 1880

description: Cacochalina digitata var. pontica Czerniavsky, 1880
Cacochalina digitata var. pontica Czerniavsky, 1880: 231, pl. II fig. 16.
Haliclona digitata subsp. pontica; Van Soest 2001: 82.
Haliclona pontica; Ereskovsky et al. 2016: table A1 (listed only).
The variety was described by Czerniavsky from Alupka, Crimea region, approximate coordinates 44.41°N 34.06°E, depth 10–15 m (no type material identified in ZIN-RAS). This is a secondary homonym of Reniera alba var. pontica Czerniavsky, 1880 (cf. below). Because the combination Haliclona pontica was already used for the present taxon by Ereskovsky et al. (2016: 405, table A1), Cacochalina digitata var. pontica became the senior homonym, despite Reniera alba var. pontica having page priority. The two pontica ’s are currently considered congeneric, the combination Reniera alba var. pontica needs a new subspecies name (ICZN art. 59.1), for which I propose H. alba subsp. albapontica nom.nov. See further below under Reniera alba.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on pages 30-32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
title: Management of a fracture with bisphosphonate
title: Prise en charge d’une fracture sous bisphosphonate
Creators: name: Tazi, Sarah
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fracture; Bisphosphonates; Ostéoporose.

description: Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease characterized by a decrease in bone density, which predisposes to an increased risk of fracture. Its classical etiologies are mepnopause in women and the use of certain drugs such as long-term corticosteroids. Bisphos phonates (BP) are the most prescribed drugs for this pathology by acting on bone resorption by inhibiting the function of osteoclasts. However, there are a significant number of cases of fracture under these treatments. The interest of this article is to specify the conduct to be held and the various questions to be posed in this situation.
description: L’ostéoporose est une maladie du squelette caractérisée par une diminution de la densité osseuse, qui prédispose à un risque accru de fracture. Ses étiologies classiques sont la mé-nopause chez la femme et l’utilisation de certains médicaments tel que les corticostéroïdes au long cours.                  Les bisphosphonates (BP) sont les médicaments les plus prescrits pour cette pathologie en agissant sur la résorption osseuse en inhibant la fonction des ostéoclastes. Cependant, il existe un nombre de cas non négligeable de survenue de fracture sous ces traitements. L’intérêt de cet article est de préciser la conduite à tenir et les différentes questions à se poser devant cette situation.
Lebia chlorocephala
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Lebia
Lebia chlorocephala

description: Lebia chlorocephala (J.J. Hoffmann et al., 1803)
Romont (BE), Pâturage Communal, 820 m, 591.8/ 227.1, 13.4.2011: 1 Ind.
Nur wenige Funde dieser Art sind in jüngster Zeit in der Schweiz gemeldet worden.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 63, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Onobrychis argaea Boissier & Balansa 1859
Creators: name: Atasagun, Bayram
name: Aksoy, Ahmet
name: Martin, Esra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Onobrychis
Onobrychis argaea

description: Onobrychis argaea Boiss. & Balansa
Description:—Perennial herbaceous plants with many stems from the root. Stem woody at base, ascendens-erect, 4–34 cm. Stipules 4.6–12.3 × 1.7–3.2 mm, scarious, connate at the base, yellowish, lanceolate, free at apex. Leaves 1–10.2 cm long, imparipinnate; 4–6 pairs of leaflets; petiole corrugated above, white hairy. Leaflets 2.8–9.5 × 1.4–3.1 mm, entire-margined, linear or linear-oblong, apex mucronulate, densely or sparsely covered on both surfaces with adpressed pilose hairs. Inflorescence axillary, densely ovate raceme, 10–39-flowered, not expanding in fruit. Bracts membranous, persistent, 1.7–3.2 × 0.4–0.8 mm long, subulate, sparsely obliquely pilose, ciliate. Bracteoles membranous, filiform, usually on sepal tube. Calyx 3.8–6.1 × 1.4–2.3 mm, tubular, lower part of tube swollen outward, with unequal teeth; teeth 1.8–3.7 mm, narrowly linear or subulate, reddish or dark brownish towards the apex, with spreading pilose. Corolla rose, darkly striped; standard 6.1–8.1 mm ovate or broadly elliptic, emerginate; wings 2.3–3.1 mm, auriculate, apex obtuse or acute, keel 5.2–7.2 mm, blade obovate. Stamens diadelfus, membranous, 6.3–9.9 mm long. Pistil 6.5– 10.4 mm; ovary with 1 ovule, sessile, densely white hairy above; style weak, glabrous. Fruit one-seeded, indehiscent, 4.6–7 × 4.7–6.8 mm, densely pilose, with 2 rows of disc with reticulate surface in the center, with hard hooked spines on the disc, margin with straight spines, 5–9 teethed (Fig. 1).
Flowering: July–August. Fruiting: August. Altitudinal range: 2236–2940 m a.s.l.
description: Published as part of Atasagun, Bayram, Aksoy, Ahmet & Martin, Esra, 2024, Notes on the Morphology, Anatomy, Palynology, and Karyology of Onobrychis argaea (Fabaceae), Endemic to Turkey, pp. 145-156 in Phytotaxa 665 (2) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.665.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/14517208
Batozonellus lacerticida subsp. lacerticida
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Batozonellus
Batozonellus lacerticida
Parabatozonus lacerticida (pallas, 1771)

description: Parabatozonus lacerticida (Pallas, 1771)
Sphex lacerticida Pallas, 1771:472.
Distribution in Iran: GUILAN (EBRAHIMI et al. 2008— AS Batozonellus lacerticida (PALLAS, 1771)), MAZANDARAN (HAUPT 1929A; WOLF et al. 2009; AMIRESMAILI et al. 2010A, B; AMIRESMAILI et al 2011; AMIRESMAILI & BARARI 2012 — AS Batozonellus lacerticida (PALLAS, 1771)), KORDESTAN (GHAHARI et al. 2016— AS Batozonellus lacerticida); NO LOCALITy CITED (ESMAILI & RASTEgAR 1974 — AS Balozonellus lacertida; WOLF 1971 — AS Batozonellus lacerticida lacerticida; RADOSZKOWSKI 1888A—AS Pompilus quadripunctatus (FABRICIUS, 1787)).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Dio ed io
Creators: name: Pesce, Roberto
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation explores the representations of the Self in the Middle Ages through the analysis of literary works produced in Italy. Differentiating autobiography from autobiographism, I analyze the prose works of three authors whose “I” demanded to find expression in a written form in the first person. I thus consider their texts as proto-autobiographical writing. I focus my attention on Francis of Assisi‟s Testamentum, which represents the self as a public confession; Dante‟s Convivio, where the author imposes an imagine and a forma of himself on his readers, creating an ideal poet; and Petrarca‟s Posteritati, a depiction of the poets‟s life recounted through his shortcomings and sins. I also briefly analyze the Vita nova and the Secretum, but these works have less direct bearing on my argument. The first chapter begins with an introduction to the genre of autobiography and establishes my theoretical framework. In particular, I engage Misch, Gusdorf, Zink, Foucault, Olney, Lejeune, Starobinsky, Guglielminetti, and Ferrucci. My subsequent chapters consider each of the aforementioned works individually, drawing particular attention to the autobiographical markers (auto, bio, and graphē) that characterize the genre. Starting from a specific point identified as a conversion, all of these authors trace their lives by representing their ideal self, and hiding any controversial aspect of their existence. Through my research, I offer different interpretations of this reticence, and on the minimal circulation of these texts, suggesting an historical and anthropological hypothesis. Ultimately, I am in agreement with Gusdorf‟s notion that autobiography was born from a religious impetus in which the believer, in colloquium with the divine, discovers the possibility and the necessity of making the self the center of one‟s spiritual experience. I argue, however, that while Gusdorf dates the beginning of this practice as the 16th century my research indicates that this phenomenon begins to appear at the beginning of the 13th century because of the creation of Purgatory and the imposition of the annual confession. Seeking God in his own soul, the individual measures and creates a space for his own consciousness. In my analysis, the concept of the self begins here, in the autumn of the Middle Ages.
Inter-operator resource sharing in 4G LTE cellularnetworks
Creators: name: Panchal, Jignesh S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The dramatic increase in wireless data traffic challenges cellular network operators to increase wireless access and system capacity, and to reduce costs of deploying and operating the network infrastructure. In light of the cost and complexity of large scale networks as well as the absence of new spectrum, the paradigm of resource sharing is explored to address these challenges. In this research, we examine three cellular resource sharing approaches: Capacity, Spectrum and Infrastructure Hardware and propose various sharing options in the context of 4G LTE.  We propose a unified coordinated sharing process and architecture by introducing a new network Sharing Entity (SE). The SE enables dynamic creation, modification and termination of resource sharing agreements among operator that can be conditional or restrictive in time, space and other dimensions. We present the required technologies in two cases: (1) Traditional infrastructure for capacity and spectrum sharing options wherein the networks of operators participating in sharing are physically independent infrastructures. (2) Virtualized infrastructure for hardware sharing option wherein a single physical infrastructure virtualizes infrastructures of participating operators. We model two geographically overlapped LTE cellular networks, operated by two operators, with the proposed sharing architecture and process. We evaluate sharing options based on multiple performance metrics and cost saving estimates under light, moderate and heavy loading scenarios via simulations in collocated and non-collected deployment topologies.
Leistus ferrugineus
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Leistus
Leistus ferrugineus

description: Leistus ferrugineus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Villeret (BE), Chasseral, 1550 m, 570.2 /219.7, 21.9.2015: 1 Ind.
Aussergewöhnlich ist die Höhenlage dieses Fundes, kommt die Art doch sonst kaum bis in die subalpine Zone hinauf vor (Luka et al. 2009). Marggi (1992) nennt 1450 m als Obergrenze der bekannten Verbreitung in der Schweiz.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 63, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Batozonellus maculifrons
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Batozonellus
Batozonellus maculifrons

description: Parabatozonus maculifrons (Smith, 1873)
Pompilus maculifrons SMITH, 1873:186.
Distribution in Iran: HORMOZgAN (EBRAHIMI et al. 2008— AS Batozonellus maculifrons (SMITH, 1873)).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Bioinformatics analysis of control mechanisms of burn and sepsis induced inflammatory response
Creators: name: Orman, Mehmet Ali
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Burn injury and infections can lead to an uncontrolled and prolonged action of inflammatory response in the body, which increases the mortality rate of patients. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of these complex physiological changes and to propose therapeutic approaches to combat the deleterious consequences of burn and septic shocks, it is essential to develop animal models exhibiting patho-physiological behaviors similar to those of patients. This was addressed, in this study, by a systematic analysis of local and systemic responses -including the measurements of inflammatory mediators, gene expression and metabolic profiles of liver- in rat models receiving 20% total body surface area (TBSA) scald burn injury or cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) treatment.  All animal groups had 100% survival for at least 10 days following treatments. CLP caused a ~10% weight loss indicating an accelerated breakdown of skeletal muscle protein. It was found that a certain number of cytokines and chemokines, such as MCP-1, GROK/KC, IL-12, IL-18, and IL-10, were significantly altered following the treatments including SCLP (control of CLP) which is a sterile surgical treatment where cecum is not ligated and punctured. Gene expression analysis elucidated that hepatic transcriptional response to burn injury was mainly related to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory gene groups and genes involved in lipid biosynthesis and central carbon metabolism. Shortly after the CLP treatment, genes related to Toll like receptors and MAPK signaling pathway were significantly up-regulated. Significant changes in the genes associated with acute phase protein synthesis were also observed following the burn and CLP.  Furthermore, perfusion experiments elucidated that hepatic metabolic response to burn injury and sepsis was characterized by an up-regulation of pathways including gluconeogenic reactions (sources of which are mainly lactate, aspartate, glycerol and glutamine), urea production from arginine, and serine-glycine inter-conversion. On the other hand, weight values of these pathways were dramatically decreased following the SCLP treatment. In summary, in this study, bioinformatics tools (clustering and metabolic network analysis algorithms) and animal models of burn and CLP were utilized to understand the various layers of regulation and capture the entire scope and complexity of the inflammatory response.