cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 6: of Development of a fully automated chemiluminescence immunoassay for urine monomeric laminin-Îł2 as a promising diagnostic tool of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Masatoshi
name: Karashima, Takashi
name: Kamada, Masayuki
name: Eisaku Yoshida
name: Yoshimura, Toru
name: Nojima, Masanori
name: Inoue, Keiji
name: Shuin, Taro
name: Motoharu Seiki
name: Koshikawa, Naohiko
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Supplementary Figure S5. (PDF 77Â kb)
Sperchon clupeifer Piersig 1896
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Sperchonidae
Sperchon
Sperchon clupeifer

description: Sperchon clupeifer Piersig, 1896
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at one spring site in Gutland, 1 individual (Gerecke et al. 2005). No larvae found in traps.
Descriptions of larvae (Fig. 16): Tuzovskij (1977), Ullrich (1976), Wainstein (1980).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: In contrast to the other three Sperchon species that bear a seta C3 (S. thienemanni Koenike, 1907, S. longissimus K.Viets, 1920 and S. denticulatus Koenike, 1895), S. clupeifer has legs without lineation.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Preparation and evaluation of amphiphilic macromolecules-based conjugates and micelles for anticancer drug delivery
Creators: name: Del Rosario, Leilani Singson
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Micelles assembled from amphiphilic macromolecules (AM) or drug-conjugated AMs were evaluated as anticancer drug carriers in terms of drug content,sustained/controlled drug release and cytotoxicity of encapsulated/bound drug. Physical drug encapsulation was compared with chemical drug conjugation. The AM micelles were compared with known polymeric delivery systems, Pluronic P85 and Cremophor EL. Generally, AM micelles encapsulated drugs as efficiently (or better) than the established polymeric carriers.Encapsulated hydrophobic drugs in AM micelles showed non-aggregation of drug and sustained drug release after lyophilization and resolubilization in aqueous solutions; indicating good solution and storage stability of drug-loaded AM micelles. Compared to the polymeric controls, the AM micelles showed faster resolubilization times and better pH/temperature micellar stability.Cellular entry of AM micelles in human umbilical vein endothelial cells was observed to be endocytotic, observed from the colocalization of fluorescein-labeled AMs and fluorescent dye-stained endosomes or lysosomes that were detected by confocal scanningmicroscopy. Doxorubicin (DOX) was conjugated to AMs via acidic pH-sensitive hydrazone linkers and the DOX-AM micelles had ~ 30 nm sizes. DOX-AMs showed higher drug release at lysosomal pH 5.0 as compared to physiological pH 7.4. Cell proliferation assays of DOX-AM micelles showed better cytotoxicity compared to DOX-loaded AM micelles and free DOX against human hepatocellular carcinoma cells.As another example of drug conjugation, camptothecin (CPT) was conjugated to AMs via glycine linkers. CPT-AM micelles showed CPT lactone stabilization, higher CPT solubilization, and increased stability against human serum albumin (HSA) on CPT release in vitro. However, cell proliferation assays on the CPT-AM micelles showed comparable cytotoxicity to CPT-loaded AM micelles against human colorectal carcinoma cells.The placement of CPT conjugation was evaluated by CPT conjugation via mucic acid and functionalized alkyl chains. Carbodiimides were used to conjugate CPT to AM mucic acid, whereas click chemistry conjugated alkyne-terminated CPT to azideterminated AM chains. Higher CPT conjugation was achieved via the functionalized chain ends (i.e. click chemistry) compared to the mucic acid (carbodiimide coupling).However, lesser HSA impact on CPT in vitro release was observed in CPT attached to the mucic acid.Overall, the AM-based micelles showed good characteristics as anticancer drug carriers.
title: Interface designed with differential pumping and built-in figure of merit method to monitor chambers where environmentally sensitive samples are prepared and transferred for analysis
Creators: name: Celio, Hugo
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: G01N1/28
subject: H01J49/0495
subject: H01J37/185
subject: Y10T436/2575
subject: No longer published

description: In some embodiments, a system may function to transfer samples in a controlled environment. The system may include a sample container configured to convey a sample from a first device to a second device. The first device may be under pressure and the second device may be under vacuum. The second device may include a load chamber which functions to accept the sample from the sample container and a pump chamber coupled to the load chamber. The second device may include a high vacuum pump coupled to the pump chamber and a vacuum pump coupled to the pump chamber through the high vacuum pump in sequence. The second device may include an orifice sized to significantly restrict the flow of fluids through the conduit coupling the pump chamber to the load chamber, wherein the orifice is configured to allow for a transition from a viscous into a molecular flow.
Promoting self- and coregulation through small group problem-solving of authentic tasks in a low SES urban environment
Creators: name: DiDonato, Nicole C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Over the last twenty years social cognitive models of self-regulated learning (SRL) focused primarily on understanding the processes learners use to self-regulate and the subsequent benefits SRL has on learning and performance. More recently, sociocultural models have begun to argue that SRL is fostered, developed, and maintained (1) within social contexts and (2) as a result of interactions with teachers and peers. This dissertation relied on both theories to analyze a single learning environment in which self- and social forms of regulation were present. Participants included sixty four students from a K-8 school whose residents are largely from low-income families. Students worked collaboratively to design and carry out a complex project with students who shared similar interests over a nine-week period. Students completed a number of survey instruments, and their group interactions were videotaped daily. Using qualitative and quantitative data analyses, I examined the strategies group members used to regulate their cognition, motivation, and behavior over the course of their project. Results of the quantitative Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analysis suggested that students' motivational orientations, prior SRL, and perceptions of task features predicted change in SRL over the nine-week period. Furthermore, coregulated learning scores moderated the relationship between (1) students' motivational orientations and their change in SRL, and (2) students' beginning and ending SRL scores. Finally, coregulation scores positively predicted groups' final assessment scores at the conclusion of the project. Results from the qualitative analysis suggested between group and within group differences in both the amount and type of processes groups used to self- and coregulate their cognition, motivation, and behavior over the course of their project. Theoretically, this research extends individual models of SRL to include social forms of regulation arguing that students acquire, refine, and use different forms of regulatory processes to regulate group interactions. Finally, given the emphasis on SRL throughout national and NJ state curriculum standards this research supports the use of high interest, collaborative tasks as an instructional method to increase students' regulatory processes.
Sperchon denticulatus Koenike 1895
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Sperchonidae
Sperchon
Sperchon denticulatus

description: Sperchon denticulatus Koenike, 1895
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at two sites in Gutland, 16 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). No larvae found in traps.
Description of larvae: Walter (1922a), as S. denticulatus (?) by Ullrich (1976).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: If the attribution of Ullrich's larvae to S. denticulatus is correct, they differ from the other Sperchon larvae presented here with regard to strikingly long setae on the dorsal idiosoma (up to 145µm).
Remarks: The separation of adults of Sperchon denticulatus and S. hibernicus Halbert, 1944, the two species of the S. denticulatus group, is only possible in males (Viets & Viets 1959). As a result, all past reports on faunistics and larval morphology (e.g. Walter 1922a) must be regarded with caution. The species is rhitrobiontic rather than crenobiontic and rare in Luxembourgian springs, obviously being present in anthropogenicically affected rheocrenes only (Gerecke et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Museum Adaptation during COVID-19 Crisis and Its Impact towards Museum Visitors
Creators: name: Fairuzzana Ahmad Padzi, Azizi Bahauddin
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Design for Disabled People
Elderly
Pandemic
Cultural Life
,Exhibition Design
Physical Distancing
Touch Display
Sensory Design
Accessibility
Human-Exhibit Interaction
Digital Museum.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 14, 1, 14A1R: 1-11
Implementation of a Child Maltreatment Screening Tool in the Prehospital Setting
Creators: name: Ferguson, Makenzie
name: Brukman, Shelley
name: Zaky, Kim
name: Lara, Bryan A.
name: Knudsen-Robbins, Chloe
name: Amaya, Carolina
name: Shelton, Shelby K.
name: Heyming, Theodore
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians are in a unique position to screen for child maltreatment as they are often the first point of contact with the health care system and they may encounter children in their home environment. However, EMS training regarding the signs of child maltreatment is lacking. Although several child maltreatment screening tools have been developed for the primary care and emergency department (ED) settings, there appears to be no published literature describing or evaluating a prehospital screening aid. The objective of this study was to develop, implement, and examine the effectiveness and acceptability of a prehospital child maltreatment screening tool. We completed a mixed methods qualitative and quantitative study, with data collection spanning June 2021–June 2022. We developed a child maltreatment screening tool “Shield” for the prehospital setting by adapting Pittsburgh Child Abuse Screening Tool (P-CAST), a screening tool developed at the University of Pittsburgh for use in the ED. Shield was integrated into the EMS electronic patient care report (ePCR) for three participating fire agencies. Data, including demographics, ED evaluation, and outcomes, were collected for patients who underwent Shield evaluation. The EMS clinicians completed self-assessment surveys and participated in focus groups to provide feedback on their experience using Shield. Participating EMS agencies evaluated 1,054 eligible patients (children <15 years old) during the study period, June 2021–June 2022. Of these, Shield screenings were initiated on 948 patients and completed on 753. Among all patients for whom a Shield evaluation was started, 32 (3.4%) screened positive for findings and/or histories concerning for possible maltreatment. Of these, 20 patients were transported to the primary study institution; in the ED 10 patients underwent additional child maltreatment evaluation. Pre-implementation surveys suggested a majority (77.2%) of EMS clinicians desired a child abuse screening tool integrated into the ePCR and post-implementation focus group data demonstrated EMS clinicians found Shield to be well integrated into their ePCR. Shield screens were initiated on nearly 90% of pediatric patients evaluated by EMS during the study period, suggesting that this tool has the potential to help standardize child maltreatment screening in the prehospital setting.
Haematotrephus capellae Yamaguti 1933, n. comb.
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Haematotrephus
Haematotrephus capellae

description: H. capellae (Yamaguti, 1933) n. comb.
Type host. Common snipe, Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus) (Syn. Capella gallinago Linnaeus) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
Type locality. Taiwan (formerly Formosa); specific type locality unknown.
Additional host. Terek sandpiper, Xenus cinereus (Güldenstädt) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae)— Uchida et al. (1991).
Additional locality. Japan Uchida et al. (1991).
Remarks. Although originally described as Corpopyrum capellae Yamaguti, 1933, this species was considered to be a synonym of Cyclocoelum (H.) tringae Stossich, 1902 (= Neohaematotrephus tringae [Stossich, 1902] n. comb.) by Dubois (1959). It has a pretesticular ovary that forms a triangle with the diagonal testes (Haematotrephinae), the genital pore is postpharyngeal and the vitelline fields are not confluent posteriorly, placing it in Haematotrephus. No oral or ventral sucker described—Yamaguti (1933).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Применение Руменокса телятам
Creators: name: Ивановский А.А.
Publisher: name: Эффективное животноводство
Year: 2024
Subjects: пробиотики
R.albus
заболеваемость
прирост живой массы
телята
probiotics
R. albus
morbidity
live weight gain
calve

description: Таким образом, установлено, что телята, получавшие Руменокс, на 2,4 дня быстрее выздоравливали от гастроэнтерита, а их среднесуточный прирост массы тела на 26% превзошел результат в контрольной группе.
description: Thus, it was found that calves treated with Rumenox recovered from gastroenteritis 2.4 days faster, and their average daily increase in body weight was 26% higher than the result in the control group.
title: Thermo-kinetic mixing for pharmaceutical applications
Creators: name: Williams, Robert O.
name: McGinity, James W.
name: Brough, Chris
name: Miller, Dave A.
name: DiNunzio, James C.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: A61K31/573
subject: A61J3/00
subject: A61J3/07
subject: A61J3/10
subject: A61K9/146
subject: A61K9/1694
subject: A61K9/2077
subject: A61K31/343
subject: A61K31/496
subject: A61K47/32
subject: A61K47/38

description: Compositions and methods for making a pharmaceutical dosage form include making a pharmaceutical composition that includes one or more active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients by thermokinetic compounding into a composite. Compositions and methods of preprocessing a composite comprising one or more APIs with one or more excipients include thermokinetic compounding, comprising thermokinetic processing the APIs with the excipients into a composite, wherein the composite can be further processed by conventional methods known in the art, such as hot melt extrusion, melt granulation, compression molding, tablet compression, capsule filling, film-coating, or injection molding.
Integration of biogenic emissions in environmental fate, transport, and exposure systems
Creators: name: Efstathiou, Christos I.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Biogenic emissions include a major, but highly uncertain, source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and bioaerosols that are emitted in the atmosphere. These two groups are involved as direct or indirect offenders of human health when transported during photochemical episodes and allergy seasons. Biogenic hydrocarbons are a significant fraction of the total VOC emission inventories for the United States and contribute to the formation of tropospheric ozone. Bioaerosols, including pollens, spores, and fungi are emitted seasonally and can lead to asthma exacerbation, irritation of the upper respiratory tract, and allergic response to a large portion of the population. Although all applications of photochemical modeling in a regulatory setting require the quantification of biogenic hydrocarbons, bioaerosols are currently not incorporated in the urban airshed models. Furthermore, the current biogenic emission estimation models and urban airshed models use low-resolution data for estimating vegetation biomass and VOC emissions.In this study, the geographical information systems ArcInfo and ArcMap were used to construct a high resolution, spatially accurate vegetation biomass and biogenic emissions database for the Northeast United States region. A number of sources of data on vegetation cover parameters were evaluated, and the final mappings incorporated information from the MODIS satellite instrument. Perl and MATLAB were used to interface the CMAQ photochemical model and the improved database aggregate. In addition, a pollen emission model that uses the same geodatabase components was developed for the same region. The two-fold aim of this study is to extend the common framework for additional biogenic emissions while improving the current methodologies for estimating biogenic VOCs.   The methodologies developed in this work are presented along with the final composite geodatabase applications. The strong dependence of biogenic emissions on the spatial distribution of vegetation species made the use of a GIS an ideal method for improving biogenic emission estimates. Modifications in related portions of the CMAQ model were necessary in order to include these additional sources. Finally, this research identifies uncertainties associated with biogenic model structure and resolution with application to photochemical air quality modeling.
Mouse models for the neurodegenerative lysosomal storage diseases Niemann-Pick types C1 & C2 and classical late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Creators: name: El-Banna, Mukarram S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Use of mutant mice provides us with an excellent tool for investigation of lysosomal diseases such as classical late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (cLINCL) and Niemann-Pick types C1 and C2 (NPC1 and NPC2). These are recessive devastating disorders in children that predominantly affect the central nervous system and result in progressive neurodegeneration and early death. Suitable mouse models enable us to assess behavioral, pathological, cellular, and molecular abnormalities associated with disease and to determine the efficacy of different therapeutic approaches. In addition, these models can be used to study the underlying function of the normal genes.This thesis addresses the generation and characterization of mouse models for these diseases. These include creation of gene-targeted models for cLINCL and NPC2 diseases. Disease progression was monitored by assessing gross phenotype (weight), behavioral parameters such as trembling, gait analysis and survival. This and other analyses indicate that the gene targeted mice are good models for the human disease. We also created a mouse model with mutations in both Npc1 and Npc2. Comparison of the single and double deficient NPC mutants indicate that the NPC1 and NPC2 proteins function in a common pathway. We also created mutant mice that expressed different levels of tripeptidyl peptidase 1 (TPP1), the protein deficient in cLINCL. This allowed estimation of how much protein is necessary to achieve therapeutic benefits.Immunohistochemistry serves an important role in studying these mouse models and determining the distribution of the normal proteins. This is especially important when looking at protein distributions within the brain following gene or enzyme replacement therapy. We describe development of procedures to visualize TPP1, NPC1, and NPC2 in mouse brain.
Additional file 1: of Indoor microbiota in severely moisture damaged homes and the impact of interventions
Creators: name: Balamuralikrishna Jayaprakash
name: Adams, Rachel
name: Pirkka Kirjavainen
name: Karvonen, Anne
name: Vepsäläinen, Asko
name: Valkonen, Maria
name: Järvi, Kati
name: Sulyok, Michael
name: Pekkanen, Juha
name: Hyvärinen, Anne
name: Täubel, Martin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The Lukas cohort; Microbiota of different types of house dust in moisture damaged homes; References. (DOC 33 kb)
Overwintering behavior of the entomopathogenic nematodes  Steinernema scarabaei and AND Heterohabditis bacteriophora (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae) and their white grub hosts (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Creators: name: Elmowitz, Daniel Ethan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) Steinernema scarabaei and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, species endemic to New Jersey turfgrass habitats, have great potential as biological control agents of various white grub pest species.  EPN have potential for long-term white grub suppression, but to more reliably achieve this, a better understanding is necessary of the nematodes' survival mechanisms expresses during harsh seasonal conditions.  Infective juveniles (IJ) may employ similar vertical migratory patterns as other soil-inhabiting animals during harsh seasonal conditions.  To determine the existence of vertical relocation as an overwintering mechanism we investigated the vertical distribution of S. scarabaei and H. bacteriophora relative to (1) fluctuating soil temperature and (2) changing vertical position of two white grub hosts, Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) and oriental beetle (Anomala orientalis), during the late fall, winter and early spring season.  The vertical distributions of white grub and IJ populations were monitored every 14-18 days in established turf plots (3-4 years old) from mid-October to the first week of May in two consecutive years (2006-2007 and 2007- 2008).  The vertical distribution of S. scarabaei, H. bacteriophora, and Steinernema carpocapsae did not change from the fall to the spring season.  Soil temperature did not appear to influence IJ vertical distribution.  The vertical distribution of both white grub species changed with temperature during fall and spring but not in winter.  Overwintering S. scarabaei and H. bacteriophora IJs were only recovered in the soil.  There was no evidence for successful in-host survival or latent infection in endemic white grub populations.  Although the relationship between temperature and vertical distribution for EPN and their white grub hosts differed, a considerable degree of spatial and temporal overlap was observed between respective EPN and host populations.  Overwintering EPN appear to survive primarily or exclusively as IJs in the soil and presumably employ various physiological and biochemical mechanisms as survival strategies during seasonally cold and freezing conditions.
title: Nanoshape patterning techniques that allow high-speed and low-cost fabrication of nanoshape structures
Creators: name: Chopra, Meghali
name: Yin, Bailey
name: Gawlik, Brian
name: Bonnecaze, Roger T.
name: Sreenivasan, Sidlgata V.
name: Cherala, Anshuman
name: Singhal, Shrawan
name: Abed, Ovadia
name: Mallavarapu, Akhila
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: B81C1/00031
subject: B81C2201/0187
subject: B82Y40/00
subject: G03F7/0002
subject: G11B5/746
subject: H01L21/02521
subject: H01L21/02381
subject: H01L21/02617
subject: H01L21/3086
subject: H01L29/945
subject: Y10S977/887
subject: Y10S977/888
subject: Y10S977/89

description: A method for template fabrication of ultra-precise nanoscale shapes. Structures with a smooth shape (e.g., circular cross-section pillars) are formed on a substrate using electron beam lithography. The structures are subject to an atomic layer deposition of a dielectric interleaved with a deposition of a conductive film leading to nanoscale sharp shapes with features that exceed electron beam resolution capability of sub-10 nm resolution. A resist imprint of the nanoscale sharp shapes is performed using J-FIL. The nanoscale sharp shapes are etched into underlying functional films on the substrate forming a nansohaped template with nanoscale sharp shapes that include sharp corners and/or ultra-small gaps. In this manner, sharp shapes can be retained at the nanoscale level. Furthermore, in this manner, imprint based shape control for novel shapes beyond elementary nanoscale structures, such as dots and lines, can occur at the nanoscale level.
Permeability and Wayfinding Analysis on Putuo Mountain New Passenger Transportation Centre
Creators: name: Ee Ling Ooi, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Terminal
Space Syntax
Spatial network
Mental mapping
Justified graph
Spatial Design
Route exploration.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 14, 1, 14A1S: 1-15
Essays on the effect of inflation volatility and institutions on growth and development
Creators: name: Emara, Noha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze empirically and theoretically the impact of the decrease in inflation volatility versus the impact of the improvement in institutions on growth and development. The first chapter of this dissertation estimates the effects of inflation and inflation volatility on economic growth in the presence of different degrees of legal and financial institutions. The main contribution of this chapter is to show that while the level of inflation does not have a significant effect on growth, which is in line with previous studies; inflation volatility does significantly impact growth even for countries with moderately high levels on inflation. In addition, improving either legal or financial institutions has a statistically significant positive impact on growth and helps to reduce the negative impact of inflation volatility on growth. The second chapter analyzes the channel through which inflation volatility and financial institutions affect a country's ability to borrow on international capital markets; which affects their ability to invest and therefore grow. The findings of this chapter show that reducing inflation volatility or improving financial institutions will significantly improve a country's sovereign debt rating leading to a drop in its cost of borrowing, which is to be quantified. One important contribution of this chapter is to show that it is inflation volatility that is important in determining a country's sovereign debt rating rather than the level of inflation which has been argued in the literature. The welfare implications of the decrease in inflation volatility versus the improvement in institutions are quantified in chapter three. This chapter analyzes a micro-foundation based small open economy model that is used to help fully understand the dynamics of a decrease in inflation volatility and an improvement in institutions for a developing economy. The study finds that the welfare effect of improving institutions and of reducing inflation volatility is large with the largest effect being caused by an improvement in financial institutions. One policy implication of these results is that developing economies can get larger welfare gains from improving their institutions than from reducing inflation volatility.
Haematotrephus longisacculatum Yamaguti 1933, n. comb.
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Haematotrephus
Haematotrephus longisacculatum

description: H. longisacculatum (Yamaguti, 1933) n. comb.
Type host. Spotted redshank, Tringa erythropus (Pallas) (Syn. Erythroscelus erthropus Pallas) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
Type locality. Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
Remarks. Originally described as Corpopyrum longisacculatum Yamaguti, 1933, this species was considered to be a synonym of Corpopyrum capellae (Yamaguti, 1933) (= H. capellae [Yamaguti, 1933] n. comb.) by Bashkirova (1950) and of Cyclocoelum (Haematotrephus) phaneropsolus Stossich 1902 (= Haematotrephus phaneropsolus Stossich, 1902), Cyclocoelum halli Harrah, 1922 (= Harrahium halli [Harrah, 1922]), and Cyclocoelum nittanyense Zeliff, 1946 by Dubois (1959). The pretesticular ovary in this species forms a triangle with the diagonal testes (Haematotrephinae), the genital pore is postpharyngeal and the vitelline fields are not confluent posteriorly, placing it in Haematotrephus. “Mouth with weakly developed musculature is funnelshaped”; which suggests that a rudimentary oral sucker is present, but this feature was not measured—Yamaguti (1933).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Late Pleistocene changes in northern component water
Creators: name: Elmore, Aurora Cassandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation reconstructs late Pleistocene oceanic circulation variability within the North Atlantic, a critical region of deep-water formation, using proxies that reconstruct surface and deepwater changes. Unlike other studies that examine North Atlantic circulation as a whole, my study focuses on changes in Iceland Scotland Overflow Water (ISOW), one of the largest contributors to Northern Component Water (NCW). Each NCW component reflects the regional climate within its formation region; thus, different climates may produce different deepwater states by changing the relative contribution from each component. Southern Gardar Drift is bathed by ISOW, thus the accumulating sediments are ideal for examining ISOW.A high-resolution record of the Younger Dryas cold event provides an analog for abrupt climate events. The benthic foraminiferal δ13C record from core 11JPC (2707m) on Gardar Drift reveals NCW shoaled during the early and late Younger Dryas. These reductions are coincident with increased meltwater from Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, linking surface freshening to NCW production changes on short-timescales.On longer time-scales, benthic foraminiferal δ13C records from Gardar Drift show ISOW density was paced by northern high-latitude summer insolation, particularly within the precessional band. Uniform benthic foraminiferal δ13C values on Gardar Drift indicate that the mixing zone between NCW and Southern Component Water (SCW) was positioned to the south of Gardar Drift during interglacial periods. Conversely a large north-south gradient in benthic foraminiferal δ13C values during glacial periods indicates that ISOW shoaled, allowing SCW to bathe southern Gardar Drift. High-frequency ISOW variability caused by surface freshening during intermediate climate states is superimposed on the orbitally paced variations.A study of the trace metal compositions in Krithe carapaces found in core top samples demonstrates that calcification temperature is the dominant control on magnesium incorporation. Carbonate ion concentration is a secondary control on magnesium to calcium (Mg/Ca) ratios at low temperatures (<3°C). Correcting for carbonate ion effects results in a linear paleotemperature equation with higher temperature sensitivity in the lower temperature range than previously published equations. This study indicates that Krithe magnesium to calcium ratios are reliable in reconstructing paleotemperatures.
Space Syntax Analysis of Iowa State University Student Innovation Center
Creators: name: Louis Ting Kwang Liou, Yasser Arab
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Research Center
Co-working
Mixed-use
Spatial pattern
Justified graph
Public space
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description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 14, 1, 14A1T: 1-15
Rethinking and reviewing the use of culturally responsive practices for promoting young people's sense of school belonging. A systematic review
Creators: name: Mbire-Chigumba, E.
name: Hartwell, B.
name: Faupel, A.
name: Dhillon, J.
Publisher: name: School of Childhood and Social Care, University of East London
Year: 2024

description: Research reveals ethnic disproportionalities in the identification of pupils’ social, emotional, and mental health needs, as well as school exclusion and suspensions. Young people from ethnic minority groups are reported to experience a lower sense of school belonging in comparison to their peers. This review followed a three-stage thematic synthesis method to explore the ways in which culturally responsive practices can be used to promote culturally diverse young people’s sense of school belonging. This included examining teaching staff’s experience of deploying culturally responsive practices alongside young people’s experiences as recipients. Five interpretative themes were generated, showing how most teaching staff recognised the importance of showing cultural sensitivity; however, their practices were not always perceived as attuned or appropriate by culturally diverse young people. Drawing on a synthesis of four of the reported themes, key implications relevant for educational professions, researchers and families were drawn. These included the importance of consulting and listening to culturally diverse young people when shaping or reviewing the school practices which affect them.
Haematotrephus phaneropsolus Stossich 1902
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Haematotrephus
Haematotrephus phaneropsolus

description: H. phaneropsolus Stossich, 1902
Type host. Tringa sp. (Syn: species of Totanus Bechstein) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
Type locality. Japan; specific type locality unknown.
Previously proposed synonym. Corpopyrum longisacculatum Yamaguti, 1933 and Cyclocoelum (Haematotrephus) phaneropsolus (Stossich, 1902) — Dubois (1959).
Remarks. This species was transferred to Corpopyrum (= Haematotrephus) by Yamaguti (1971). It was considered to be a synonym of H. lanceolatum (Wedl, 1858) by Macko & Feige (1960) and of Cyclocoelum brasilianum Stossich, 1902 (= Selfcoelum brasilianum [Stossich, 1902] n. comb.) by Morishita (1924). Stossich (1902) provided only a body size for this species (9,000 x 3,000). It has a pretesticular ovary that forms a triangle with the diagonal testes (Haematotrephinae), a postpharyngeal genital pore and the vitelline fields are not confluent posterior, placing it in Haematotrephus. No oral or ventral sucker described—Stossich (1902).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Integration of hardware and optimization control for robotic and prosthetic systems
Creators: name: Erickson, Jeffrey Edward
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: With medical advances through the past half century, survival rates following trauma have risen.  Along with this rise has come an increase in the number of survivors with amputated limbs.  Many of these survivors are Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines, who are relatively young and could benefit from sophisticated prostheses to replace the lost function.These prostheses would be very maneuverable and able to better mimic the natural human motions.  Such devices would likely be high degree of freedom with many actuators.  Control of prostheses with intelligent algorithms may provide improved performance for the user.To this end, a novel experimental transmission for driving the several joints of such a device has been developed and tested.  Also, it has been used in the design, production, and testing of a 3 DOF digit actuator for use in a prosthetic hand.Embedding the control hardware would make such a prosthesis more compact and portable.  Using custom printed circuit boards, Microchip PIC microcontrollers have been used to control the digit actuator.  Taking advantage of surface mount packages, control boards have been developed which integrate motor drivers with microcontrollers, and fit into a space comparable to that of the aforementioned prosthesis.  Furthermore, the networking capability of these controllers has been demonstrated, presenting an extensible framework for addition of processing power as technology develops.Given the non-linear nature of the several joints in the system, intelligent controls have been explored.  Model reference adaptive control (MRAC) was used in simulation of digit models.  Also, coupling MRAC with artificial neural networks yields ANN-MRAC (artificial neural network model reference adaptive control).  Training these ANN control systems using ALOPEX yields good tracking performance across the non-linear range of the system.  Such control logic may prove effective in a time varying non-linear system such as a hand prosthesis.Human machine interfacing is key in the use of prostheses.  Since a minimal amount of training is most desirable for the user, adaptive and intelligent methods may provide a control interface framework that reduces learning time for the user.  To accomplish this, an algorithm for optimization of large dimensionality sensor grids was developed.  This algorithm uses several template matrices to optimize the gain of each sensor in the grid.  This both identifies a region of activity, and reduces the signal-to-noise ration of the sensor grid output by reducing gain on channels not containing information.  The desired region is identified through enhancement of the signal gain on the sensors above the region.  This would allow the placement of sensors on the body in an inexact fashion and instead let the computer optimize the sensor network gains for regions of activity associated with a given motion.  Such an adaptive system reduces learning time for the user, thus reducing human error and easing use.
Science, technology and utopias in the work of contemporary women artists
Creators: name: Filippone, Christine
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation examines the work of artists Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann, created between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s, which incorporated science and technology as subject and media.  It represents the first focused examination of the conceptual use of science and technology by American women artists during the Cold War.   I argue that, for these artists, science and technology represented a realm of investigation replete with negative associations in the wake of the Vietnam War, but also ripe with opportunities for change. Motivated by the contemporary American women's movement, these artists leveraged theories in physics, cosmology and systems, as well as new technologies such as video, in order to subvert modernist, male-centered, heroic, painterly styles, in addition to the traditional economic structures of the gallery, museum and dealer. This study sheds new light on conceptual art by re-centering the use of technology, generally treated as a conservative trend and excised from avant-garde histories, as a means for critique of Cold War society and as a method for imagining alternative concepts of human community.  At stake in this investigation are domains of knowledge and power from which women have been historically excluded.  Informed by New Left and counter-culture criticism of nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War arising from influential theorists, such as Herbert Marcuse and Lewis Mumford, these artists associated the industries of science and technology with the military-industrial complex, which was reviled as representative of a closed, mechanistic "technological society." However Marcuse, the media-acknowledged guru of the New Left (a left-wing international movement composed of social activist groups formed in the 1960s), also inspired the counter-culture to imagine an alternative society in which "science and technology are the great vehicles of liberation." Thus, while these artists subjected the patriarchal institutions and industries of science and technology to withering attack, they also redeployed their implicit notion of progress in feminist utopian visions of a different future.
Prohyptiasmus robustus Ukoli 1968
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Echinostomida
Cyclocoelidae
Prohyptiasmus
Prohyptiasmus robustus

description: H. robustus Ukoli, 1968
Type host. Black - winged or common stilt, Himantopus himantopus (Linnaeus) (Charadriiformes: Recurvirostridae).
Type locality. Republic of Ghana (previously Ghana); specific type locality unknown.
Remarks. Although this species was originally described as Haematotrephus robustum Ukoli, 1968, it was not listed by Yamaguti (1971). Presence or absence of oral and/or ventral sucker is unknown. Ukoli (1968) could not be obtained and therefore this species could not be included in the tables or keys. In our opinion this species should be considered to be a species inquirenda.
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
title: Cerisier Acide; Griotte :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Sour Cherry
Duke Cherry

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
A cross-sectional study of patterns of renewed stress among parents of children with autism
Creators: name: Fiske, Kate E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Parents of children with autism report levels of stress higher than that reported by parents of children with other developmental disabilities and typically developing children (Donovan, 1988). Though a considerable amount of research has focused on the identification of variables, specific to autism, that increase parent stress, little attention has been given to shifts in parenting stress over time. Parents may be especially susceptible to increased stress during times characterized by transitions in their child's educational, vocational, or residential placement and at times when they are reminded of the effects of the long-term nature of their child's diagnosis. Children's developmental transitions into school-age, adolescence, and adulthood are times during which parents are often faced with decisions about their child's placement and may be more likely to experience "transition" and "reminder" events that increase parent stress. The current study compared the stress of parents (67 mothers and 39 fathers) whose children were currently aging into a developmental transition and those whose children were not. Parents completed questionnaires regarding their current level of stress, recent experiences raising their child with autism, child behavior, and social support. Contrary to expectations, parents of children in developmental transition groups did not report higher stress levels than did other parents. Additionally, parents of children in developmental transition and non-developmental transition groups were equally likely to report considering a transition in their child's placement or being reminded of their child's long-term diagnosis. However, child problem behavior significantly predicted parenting stress for mothers and fathers, and the number of reported reminders of their child's long-term diagnosis significantly predicted increased parenting and general life stress for fathers, but not for mothers. Though replication and a larger sample size are necessary to validate the findings in the current study, these initial results suggest that mothers' and fathers' stress levels are differentially affected by their experiences with their child with autism. Implications of this research include tailoring parent support to address concerns about child problem behavior and, for fathers, addressing the perceived impact of their child's long-term disability on the goals they held for themselves and their child prior to diagnosis.
Prohyptiasmus Witenberg 1923
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Echinostomida
Cyclocoelidae
Prohyptiasmus

description: Prohyptiasmus Witenberg, 1923
(Members of this genus have a prepharyngeal genital pore and the vitelline fields are not confluent posteriorly) (Table 18)
Diagnosis. Cyclocoelidae; Hyptiasminae. Body lanceolate to linguiform, sometimes tapered anteriorly. Rudimentary oral sucker absent; rudimentary ventral sucker absent in P. magnus the only species currently assigned to the genus. Genital pore prepharyngeal. Ovary intertesticular nearly in line with the tandem or nearly tandem testes near posterior arch of cyclocoel. Uterine coils typically overreaching ceca laterally, not invading posttesticular space in P. magnus Johnston, 1917, only species in genus. Vitelline fields not confluent posteriorly. Parasites in body cavity, air sacs and lungs of birds.
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117