cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A synthetic biomaterials approach to the prevention of postsurgical adhesions in neurosurgery
Creators: name: Florek, Charles A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In the treatment of spinal stenosis and disc herniation, the lamina and ligamentum flavum are resected to access the spinal canal.  When a fibrous scar replaces the surgical defect, the dura or spinal nerves can become tethered to the surrounding tissues. Kuslich et al. and Smyth and Wright demonstrated that light mechanical stimulation of injured spinal nerves induced intraoperative or postoperative sciatic pain similar to the patients’ preoperative state [1, 2].  Therefore, adhesive peridural fibrosis contributes to the recurrence of back pain following neurosurgery.  In this dissertation, biomaterial membranes are evaluated for the prevention of scar progression to the dura and spinal nerves. Cell-impermeable, biodegradable tyrosine-derived polycarbonate membranes were fabricated by electrospinning. A degradable surfactant, trans-4-hyroxy-L-proline butyl ester HCl, enabled electrospinning from a low toxicity solvent (acetic acid).   Anti-adhesion membranes with a 1:1 composition of glassy and rubbery polymers were fabricated by a dual-spinneret technique, where the composite membrane’s suture retention strength, delamination strength, and toughness were greater than conventional electrospun fabrics. Controlled delivery of an antifibrotic, cis-4-hydroxy-L-proline, was achieved through synthesis of drug precursors. Hexyl- and octyl-ester precursors enabled diffusion-controlled release of the antifibrotic over 1 or more weeks, while cis-4-hydroxy-L-proline diffused from poly(DTE carbonate) films within 24 hours. Composite membranes with and without antifibrotic were compared against polymer films and Integra LifeSciences’ DuraGen PLUS® in a rat laminectomy model. The extent of adhesions was evaluated at 4 and 8 weeks. The fracture of polymeric films permitted scar progression to the dura by 8 weeks, despite inhibition at 4 weeks. The composite membranes did not fracture and reduced the extent of adhesion from 84% (control) to 36%. All adhesions in the composite membrane group formed at the caudal tuck, suggesting that performance could be improved by device fixation.  Any effect of cis-4-hydroxy-L-proline was obscured by caudal instability.  DuraGen PLUS® limited the extent of adhesion to 11%, and the adhesions present were comparatively light. In this dissertation, a synthetic degradable membrane was compared against polymeric films and DuraGen PLUS® in peridural adhesion prevention. The membrane possessed inherent barrier properties, superior mechanical properties, and the ability to deliver an antifibrotic.  However, the device did not achieve anti-adheisve performance comparable to Integra LifeSciences’ DuraGen PLUS® in a rat laminectomy model due to the electrospun anti-adhesion membrane’s instability within the implantation site.
Tonoscolex kalimpongensis Ahmed & Julka 2022
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Tonoscolex
Tonoscolex kalimpongensis

description: 85. Tonoscolex kalimpongensis Ahmed & Julka, 2022
Tonoscolex kalimpongensis Ahmed et al. 2022b: 376.
T. Neora Valley national park, Kalimpong district, West Bengal, India. TM. ZSI GNC-An2203/1, ZSI GNC-An2204/1. D. West Bengal. E. NA. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 276, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Atta polita subsp. saltensis Forel
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta polita
Atta polita subsp. saltensis forel

description: Atta polita subsp. saltensis Forel, 1913
Na minha collecção se acha 1 operário de Salta (recebido do dr. Bruch); 4 operários de Formosa, Nueva Pompeya, Argentina, rev. Zurfluh leg.
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 427
Blind to sameness
Creators: name: Friedman, Asia M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In this dissertation I explore two central questions: how does perception work sociologically and how does perception specifically function in the case of sex attribution? To capture the normally taken-for-granted process of sex attribution, I interviewed “outsiders” – people who either do not participate in sex attribution or do it very differently – and “experts” – people who are unusually self-conscious and deliberate about sex attribution. I chose to interview blind people because they literally cannot see sex, and as such their narratives reveal rarely-foregrounded non-visual perceptions of sexed bodies. I chose to interview transgender people as experts on sex attribution who view the human body in light of the possibility of transitioning between sexes. As a result, they are deeply aware of the underlying similarities between male and female bodies as well as their most recalcitrant differences. They offer an account of sexed bodies that is similar in its sensory content to the dominant perceptual experience (in that it is visual), but with a heightened awareness of sex cues that non-transgender people take for granted, and a unique point of view that brings some of the normally unseen similarities between male and female bodies into the foreground. In short, both groups, for reasons of circumstance, speak from unique perspectives that magnify the social construction of visual perceptions of sex. While sex attribution is my case, I also use my data to advance a more general theory of how – through what specific cognitive processes – visual perception is shaped by social categories and expectations. I argue that selective attention is a fundamental mechanism of the social construction of perception and that this dialectic of attention and disattention is most evocatively represented by the metaphor of a filter. In addition to capturing what I believe is going on interpretively when we see sex, or more broadly when we see anything as something, the filter metaphor also provides a new way to think about the relationship between social constructionist perspectives and material realities, one that captures the interaction of biology and culture without denying either one.
Response and regulation of cell-surface hydrolases to nutrient stress in river-influenced coastal areas
Creators: name: Gaas, Brian Matthew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Conceptually, the hydrolysis product of ectoenzyme activity is used to relieve nutrient stress or acquire a type of molecule not immediately accessible in the environment. When properly characterized, ectoenzyme activities can offer greater insight into the nutrient requirements of organisms and how they use organic matter. This dissertation analyzes enzyme activity data from two river-influenced coastal regions, locations of variable inorganic nutrient concentrations, dissolved organic matter concentrations, and biomass. It is the ultimate goal of this dissertation to provide a quantitative means of interpreting ectoenzyme activity or, at the very least, to provide possible interpretations of activity that go beyond the overly-simplistic and qualitative views currently dominant in the ectoenzyme literature. In addition, it highlights the advantages of automated biological measurements, and promotes their use in future work. The first section explores the role of nitrate on LAP expression, and how LAP activities can reflect (and participate in) different biogeochemical regimes within the Hudson River outflow. The second section describes a simple model predicting the influence of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) activity on a nitrate-limited phytoplankton population. The model includes predictions of the strength of nitrate limitation, ability of LAP to overcome the limitation, coupling strength between hydrolysis and uptake, and a phytoplankton nitrate requirement. The third section expands upon current research in alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity in the Louisiana shelf. This work provides a first look at high resolution time-series of AP activity and other environmental variables, and how the interpretation of AP activity measurements may be improved by considering a time lag between variables and a temporal control on AP expression.
Additional file 3: Figure S2. of Viral Cre-LoxP tools aid genome engineering in mammalian cells
Creators: name: Ranjita Sengupta
name: Mendenhall, Amy
name: Sarkar, Nandita
name: Chandreyee Mukherjee
name: Amirali Afshari
name: Huang, Joseph
name: Lu, Biao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Features of AAV-based Cre-delivery vectors. (PDF 367 kb)
Cotesia specularis Szepligeti 1896
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia specularis

description: Cotesia specularis (Szépligeti, 1896)
Distribution in Iran. Qazvin (Ghahari et al. 2011b), Iran (no locality cited) (Papp 2007). Distribution outside Iran. Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan (Yu et al. 2012), Israel (Papp 2007).
Host records. Aporia crataegi, Chloroclystis v-ata, Glauchopsyche alexis, Iolana iolas, Lampides boeticus, Pseudaletia unipuncta (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Tonoscolex monorchis
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Tonoscolex
Tonoscolex monorchis

description: 86. Tonoscolex monorchis (Stephenson, 1916)
Megascolides oneilli var. monorchis Stephenson, 1916: 313.
T. Darjeeling to Ghoom (Lapsus calami Soom), West Bengal, India. TM. ZSIC 6525, BMNH 1933:5:25:84–5. D. West Bengal: Darjeeling (Halder 1998), Jalpaiguri (Halder 1998). E. NA. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Impact of medication burden on adherence with antihypertensive drugs
Creators: name: Frech-Tamas, Feride
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Antihypertensive drug adherence is key in achieving blood pressure control and preventing cardiovascular complications. The objective of this study was tounderstand how pill burden, age and comorbid conditions impact antihypertensive medication compliance. This retrospective study usedMarketScan claims to identify continuously enrolled adults with newly diagnosed hypertension, follow‐up  6‐month pre‐ and 12–month post‐index antihypertensiveprescription. Pill burden was defined as total number of prescriptions per month and/or doses per day. Medication possession ratio (MPR), defined as total number of index antihypertensive days’ supply divided by 365, was a proxy for compliance. MPR ≥ 0.80 was classified as high. Descriptive statistics were conducted for 27 variables including sociodemographic characteristics, comorbid conditions, health care resource utilization and costs. Logistic regression analysis was run (SAS, version 8.2, Cary, NC). Mean age was 53 years for 68,538 study subjects and 56% were female. Diabetes (18%) and other forms of heart disease (14%) were most prevalent. Most subjects were full‐time employees (64%), working in manufacturing/durable goods (36%) or transportation/communications/utilities (21%), and residing in the South (41%) or North Central (28%) United States. Preferred provider organizations(41%) and comprehensive benefit plans (23%) provided coverage for most subjects. Approximately 25% of subjects received diuretics, 21% angiotensin‐convertingenzyme inhibitors, 20% beta‐blockers, 17% fixed‐dose combinations, 9% calciumchannel blockers, and 8% angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs). Total indexantihypertensive copay was lowest for diuretics ($48.71) and highest for ARBs ($98.12). Mean number of doses per day (excluding antihypertensive prescriptions) was 1.3 and number of prescriptions per month (excludingantihypertensive prescriptions) was 1.85. Mean MPR was 0.70 and 57% of subjects were highly compliant with antihypertensive medications. Likelihood ofcompliance decreased by 10% per additional dose per day, increased by 22.5% per additional prescription per month (excluding antihypertensive medications),decreased by 10% per additional comorbid conditions, increased by 0.6% per additional year of age, by 1.1% per dollar increase in total copay and was 9% greaterfor males (p < 0.0001). Increasing doses per day, comorbid conditions and being female had a negative impact on compliance with antihypertensive medications and may assist in targeting populations for quality improvement initiatives.
Atta fervens Say
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Atta
Atta fervens

description: Atta fervens Say, 1835
Synonymo: mexicana Smith, 1858. Possuo alguns operarios do Mexico: Cuernavaca, Wheeler leg.
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 427
GSH-DA interactions
Creators: name: Gautam, Alpa H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Loss of dopaminergic neurons, oxidative stress, deficient bioenergetics and decreased levels of reduced glutathione (GSH) in the substantia nigra are biochemical hallmarks of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD). The intent of this study was to test the hypothesis that disturbances in GSH and dopamine (DA) homeostasis are detrimental to dopaminergic neurons possibly leading to cell damage. Moreover GSH-DA interactions are essential for dopaminergic neuronal survival. Reduced levels of bioenergetics could lead to loss of DA sequestration leading to extra vesicular DA and DA metabolites which could affect cellular function. We observed uptake of reduced DA into intact mitochondria. Oxidation products of dopamine (DAQ) and its major metabolite 3, 4-dihydrophenylacetic acid (DOPAC-Q) inhibited mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) activities, specifically complexes I and III in both lysed and intact mitochondria. Substrate activated complex I was irreversibly inhibited while only GSH and not other antioxidants attenuated complex I inhibition, suggesting that inhibition was mediated via oxidized DA rather than ROS production. Reduced levels of GSH in PD brains are unexplained, however it is possible that oxidized products of excess extra vesicular DA and DOPAC could form adducts with GSH thus removing GSH from the cytosolic and mitochondrial pool.   Glutaredoxin (Grx) is a GSH related enzyme that specifically uses GSH as reductant to deglutathiolate during recovery from an oxidative stress episode. The current study characterized regional cytoplasmic Grx (Grx-1) activity, protein and mRNA expression as well as regional mitochondrial Grx (Grx-2) mRNA from rat brain. The striatum had the lowest Grx-1 activity, protein and message, while Grx-2 message was higher in this region than in other brain regions. Two peaks of Grx-1 activity and protein were observed during development, one within the first post natal week and a second increase in older animals (7-18 months). Since many neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases are gender biased, Grx-1 activity was measured in female and male rats. No gender differences were observed between males and proestrous females.  Grx-1 and Grx-2 mRNA was also measured in cultured mesencephalic rat brain neurons and astrocytes. Neurons expressed 4-fold greater Grx-1 and 14-fold higher Grx-2 than astrocytes. These findings show distinct age, region and cellular differences in Grx activity that may have relevance to neuropathological conditions.   Overall, these studies demonstrated that a loss in DA homeostasis could lead to loss of ETC function and that GSH serves to protect mitochondria from loss of function due to DA exposure. A deficit in GSH, low Grx-1 activity and/or altered DA biodisturbution would likely render regions intrinsically high in oxidative stress, such as the SNpc and striatum, particularly susceptible to oxidative damage thus leading to disease pathology.
From State collectives to local commons
Creators: name: Gerkey, Andrew Patrick
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation examines the factors influencing the emergence and stability of cooperation and collective action among salmon fishers and reindeer herders living on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Patterns of cooperation and the practices that sustain them have undergone dramatic changes following the collectivization and cultural construction of the Soviet era and the subsequent privatization and collapse of Soviet collectives in the 1990s. I examine the effects of these events in three contexts: (1) contemporary foraging activities; (2) post-Soviet collective institutions that continue to coordinate these activities; and (3) collective action movements addressing issues of indigenous rights, economic development, environmental conservation, and natural resource use. During 19 months of ethnographic research, I collected data on cooperation in these three contexts by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Using a structured survey, I collected measures of food-sharing for hunted, gathered, and gardened foods that allow me to trace networks of social support within communities.  I also conducted experimental economic games with fishers and herders in two villages, comparing levels of cooperation in Kamchatka with large and small-scale societies throughout the world. Combining standard versions of the games with versions “framed” to reference collective institutions, I forged connections between the abstract structure of the games and the lived experiences of the people who participated in them.  I explored these connections further by comparing experimental measures of cooperation with the food-sharing behaviors of game participants, assessing the external validity of economic games as measures of cooperation. Using post-game interviews, I invited game participants to provide their own interpretations of the results and reflect on how the games related to experiences in their everyday lives.  These interviews continued ongoing conversations that emerged as I participated in and observed daily life in Kamchatka throughout the seasons. By accompanying fishers and herders on foraging excursions in the tundra, observing efforts to transform and manage post-Soviet collective institutions within the village, and locating points of contact between local leaders and outside organizations, I gained an intimate understanding of the cultural norms and values used to form and sustain cooperative relationships within the community and across broader scales.
Mesoscale variability on the New Jersey shelf
Creators: name: Gong, Donglai
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Continental shelf transport and shelf-slope exchange processes are driven by a combination of meteorological, oceanographic and topographic forcing mechanisms. The varied response of the water column to particular forcing combinations can lead to either cross-shelf dominated or along-shelf dominated shelf transport on different time scales. Using data from a coastal ocean observatory, this study investigates how different physical forcing mechanisms such as changing seasons, wind stress, storms, slopewater eddies/rings, river plumes and large scale alongshelf forcing affect the hydrography and circulation at the mid- to outer New Jersey Shelf.  The NJ Shelf undergoes large changes in stratification from well mixed during the winter to highly stratified during the summer.  The stratification controls the response of the water column to wind forcing. The wind-driven surface flow oscillates between being along‐shelf dominated during spring and autumn, and cross-shelf dominated during winter and summer. Cross-shelf transport takes place on the time scale of 1 to 5 weeks.  When multiple watermasses converge at the shelf-slope front (SSF), complex hydrographic patterns and flow behaviors can emerge, especially during the stratified summer season.  The SSF has a characteristic along-shelf scale of 10-30 km and a characteristic cross-shelf scale of 5-20 km. The different types of slopewater salinity intrusions at the outershelf drive the variability of the SSF and stratification on tidal to intra-seasonal time scales.  Four types of salinity intrusions outlining the SSF were identified based their hydrographic properties. Along-shelf wind stress affects the location of the foot of the front, river discharge and offshore eddies affect the strength of surface and pycnocline intrusions. Eddies can also drive frontal movement and influence secondary circulation below the pycnocline.  Upwelling and downwelling associated with the SSF connect the bottom boundary layer with the pycnocline, bringing heat and salt into the water column interior.  Tropical and extra-tropical storms at the beginning of the autumn entrain the heat and salt advected onto the shelf through vigorous transport and mixing, marking the beginning of transition from a summer stratified to a winter well-mixed regime.
Effects of quenched randomness on classical and quantum phase transitions
Creators: name: Greenblatt, Rafael L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation describes the e ffect of quenched randomness on fi rst order phase transitions  in lattice systems, classical and quantum. It is proven that a large class of quantum lattice systems in low dimension (d <= 2 or, with suitable continuous symmetry, d <= 4) cannot exhibit  first-order phase transitions in the presence of suitable ("direct") quenched disorder.
Additional file 1: of Guided self-determination-young versus standard care in the treatment of young females with type 1 diabetes: study protocol for a multicentre randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Haas, Josephine
name: Persson, Martina
name: Brorsson, Anna
name: Toft, Eva
name: Olinder, Anna
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: SPIRIT checklist. (DOC 122 kb)
Drawida calebi Gates 1945
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Moniligastrida
Moniligastridae
Drawida
Drawida calebi

description: 87. Drawida calebi Gates, 1945
Drawida calebi Gates, 1945b: 211.
T. Jubbulpore, MP, India. TM. Typus amissus. D. Uttar Pradesh: Manikpur Junction (Gates 1945b), Tanda Falls, Mirzapur (Gates 1945b), Eastern Uttar Pradesh (Rai & Nath 2014; Rai 2017), Unspecified localities (Prakash 2017). E. NA. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Integrating stakeholder knowledge into the management of a social-ecological system
Creators: name: Gray, Steven Allan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Historical approaches to natural resource management have largely viewed resource managers, resource users, and the resources as distinct and separate components. This perspective has highlighted the conceptual boundaries between management, social systems and ecosystems. Recent failures in this normative approach however, such as major declines in fisheries, have challenged this traditional perspective. Many management institutions are now adopting a systems perspective which embeds resource management within the human system, and the human system within the broader ecosystem. This new paradigm has produced new frameworks like ecosystem-based management and theoretical tools such as coupled social-ecological systems (SES). These new frameworks are thought to be more beneficial for natural resource management decision-making since they acknowledge important links between social and eco- systems and include more complexity. This complexity, however, presents new challenges as managers and researchers now seek ways to characterize the components, relationships, and dynamics within these systems as a way to inform natural resource policies. To address some of these challenges, this dissertation research seeks to better understand the role that stakeholder knowledge plays in influencing natural resource management in a model SES, mid-Atlantic marine fisheries. I begin by characterizing the SES and outlining differences in knowledge systems by evaluating representations of stakeholder mental models. Next, through interview data collected from fishery managers and scientists, I categorize the conceptual risks within the SES to outline the goals of management and what policies in SES seek to address. Then, I evaluate factors which affect trust of fishery management institutions from the perspective of resource users. Finally, I offer recommendations on how to align knowledge systems between resource users and resource management toward shared goals.
Cotesia telengai Tobias 1972
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia telengai

description: Cotesia telengai (Tobias, 1972)
Distribution in Iran. Ilam (Ghahari et al. 2011d).
Distribution outside Iran. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UK, Uzbekistan (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Gregarious parasitoid from Noctua pronuba (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012), Agrotis segetum, Athetis hospes, Autographa gamma, Catocala elocata, Cornutiplusia circumflexa, Erebi a sp., Euxoa temera, Helicoverpa armigera, Heliothis viriplaca, Pediasia aridella, Xestia c-nigrum (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Understanding the effects of sand fence usage and the resulting landscape, landforms and vegetation patterns
Creators: name: Grafals-Soto, Rosana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Sand fences are important human adjustments modifying the morphology of developed shores because they are inexpensive, easy to build and permitted seaward of dunes. The effects of sand fences on sediment transport and deposition in the early stage of their use are well known, but little is known about the significance of sand fences as instruments of landscape change and the effect of their late stages when they have deteriorated into weathered remnants and potential low scale barriers benefiting dune vegetation growth. This study identifies the role of sand fences in modifying coastal dunes. Effects of fence usage were evaluated in 29 municipalities of the developed coast of New Jersey over a 6-year period through a video inventory, interviews with municipal officers and field reconnaissance. Data on vegetation, topography and fence characteristics were gathered at four dune sites within Stone Harbor and Ocean City, New Jersey during September 2007 and March 2008. Variables include: vegetation diversity and density, distance of vegetation quadrat landward of dune toe, degree of sheltering, sediment deposition and erosion, presence of remnant fence, and distance of vegetation quadrat landward and seaward of fence. Results reveal that sand fence characteristics define the coastal landscape and communicate management goals which presently are not based on restoring landforms and habitats; use of fences can be made more compatible with natural processes and biota if careful consideration is given to their initial placement, sand fences remain visible when deployed at locations of low sediment transport; vegetation diversity does not increase near remnant fences but accretion caused by fences in the past may result in topographic diversity which benefits the development of specific vegetation communities.
Improving reading comprehension instruction
Creators: name: Griffin, Linda Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Purpose/research question.  Reading comprehension has been identified as one of the most pressing issues in literacy education.  To date, most of the literature focuses on student learning and not on how to help teachers improve their reading comprehension instruction. This mixed methods case study examined how three 1st grade teachers responded to a professional development intervention aimed at improving reading comprehension practice.  The research question guiding the study was:  What happens when a professional development initiative engages teachers to scaffold students to use more explanations, predictions, and inferences? This question was examined in two ways. One line of inquiry focused on the teachers and how the professional development impacted their reading comprehension instruction. The second line of inquiry sought to examine the effects of the professional development on a small group of students’ reading comprehension.   Methodology. The eight-week professional development intervention took the form of a professional learning group where the teachers and I met over 8 weeks for 30-minutes to explore strategies to encourage student thinking about text.  To examine the process and impacts of the professional development intervention, I conducted interviews, observations of teachers during the professional development sessions and in their classrooms, and collected various documents including lesson plans and weekly reflections. To ascertain the impact on students, pre and post-assessments were given to six focal students and all classes were given the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test.  In keeping with a case study design, multiple procedures were used to collect and analyze data.  The data were transcribed, coded, and analyzed in order to describe the professional development intervention, each teacher’s response to the intervention, and students’ change in comprehension.     Findings/Implications.  Each teacher’s practice was found to change over the course of the 8 weeks of the intervention.  The observed and reported changes were mediated by experience, knowledge of reading comprehension, and the design of the professional development.  The findings of the study suggest that creating teacher professional learning communities around complex topics requires careful consideration of what it means to partner with teachers and how to use time as a resource that affords opportunities for teacher learning.
Cotesia tenebrosa Wesmael 1837
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia tenebrosa

description: Cotesia tenebrosa (Wesmael, 1837)
Distribution in Iran. Lorestan (Ghahari et al. 2012b).
Distribution outside Iran. Andorra, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Korea, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poalnd, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Acrolepia autumnitella, Aethes dipoltella, Aricia morrorensis, Biston betularia, Cupido alcetas, Euproctis chrysorrhoea, Lampides boeticus, Lymantria dispar, Lysandra coridon, Opisthograptis luteolata, Phigalia pilosaria, Plebejus argus, Polyommatus admetus, P. albicans, P. bellargus, P. (Meleageria) daphnis, P. icarus, Scolitantidus battus, Spodoptera litura, Stenoptilia pterodactyla, Yponomeuta padella (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Drawida jalpaigurensis Stephenson 1916
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
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Drawida
Drawida jalpaigurensis

description: 88. Drawida jalpaigurensis Stephenson, 1916
Drawida jalpaigurensis Stephenson, 1916: 307.
T. Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. TM. NA. D. West Bengal. E. NA. G. Endemic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Cotesia vanessae Reinhard 1880
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
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Year: 2015
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Cotesia
Cotesia vanessae

description: Cotesia vanessae (Reinhard, 1880)
Distribution in Iran. Sistan & Baluchestan (Khajeh et al. 2014), West Azarbaijan (Karimpour et al. 2001).
Distribution outside Iran. Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012), Eretria, Libya (Nixon 1974).
Host records. Parasitoid of Simyra dentinosa (Karimpour et al. 2001; Yu et al. 2012). It has been also reported as parasitoid of Vanessa sp., Argynnis sp., A. aglaja, Limenitis camilla, Nymphalis polychloros, Loxostege sticticalis, Macrothylacia rubi (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012), Vanessa urticae, Polygonia egea, Neptis sappho, Hadena oleracea, Notodonta ziczac, Amphidasis betularia (Shenefelt 1972).It was reported from Vanessa atlanta (England), V. cardui (north and east of Africa, Turkey), Spodoptera exigua (Italy), Spodoptera littoralis (England), Ochropleura praecox (England) (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012). Yu et al. (2012) reported Agalis io, A. urticae, Aletia litoralis, Apamea sordens, Argynnis aglaja, Autographa gamma, Bathythrix aerea, Calophasia opalina, Conura vinula, Cnaemidophorus rhododactylus, Cornutiplusia circumflexa, Discestra trifolii, Eligmodonta ziczac, Encrateola laevigata, Gelis agilis, Helicoverpa armigera, Heliothis viriplaca, Itoplectis maculator, Lacanobia oleracea, Lasiocampa trifolii, Lysibia nana, Macdunnoughia confusa, Mamestra brassicae, Nycteola revayana, Parexarnis fugax, Thaumetopoea processionea.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Drawida nepalensis subsp. nepalensis Michaelsen 1907
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
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Drawida
Drawida nepalensis
Drawida nepalensis nepalensis michaelsen, 1907

description: 89. Drawida nepalensis nepalensis Michaelsen, 1907
Drawida nepalensis Michaelsen, 1907: 146.
Drawida burchardi Michaelsen, 1903: 7.
Drawida troglodytes Stephenson, 1924a: 129.
Drawida cacharensis Stephenson, 1926: 251.
Drawida abscisa Gates, 1931: 336.
Drawida nepalensis nepalensis Michaelsen. Blakemore 2016: 182.
T. Gowchar, nr. Kathmandu, Nepal. TM. ZMUH 7140. D. Bihar: Unspecified localities (Halder et al. 2007; Ahmad et al. 2020a). Haryana: Karnal (Sharma & Bhardwaj 2014; Ahmad et al. 2020b). Uttar Pradesh: Unspecified localities (Halder et al. 2007). West Bengal: Bankura (Halder 1998), Coochbehar (Halder 1998), Darjeeling (Halder 1998), IBG Howrah (Goswami & Gupta 2015), Jalpaiguri (Halder 1998), Kalimpong (Julka 1975), Kolkata (Halder 1998; Goswami & Gupta 2015), Nadia (Halder 1998), North 24 Parganas (Bandyopadhyay et al. 2008), Sukiapokri (Julka 1975), Siliguri (Halder 1998), Unspecified localities (Halder et al. 2007). E. Endogeic. G. Native peregrine.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Atta fervens subsp. insularis
Creators: name: Borgmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1939
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
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Atta
Atta fervens
Atta fervens subsp. insularis

description: Atta fervens subsp. insularis Guérin, 1845
Muitos operários e muitas fêmeas de Habana, Cuba, Dr. Hoffmann leg. As fêmeas são distinctamente menores do que as fêmeas de todas as demais espécies.
description: Published as part of Borgmeier, T., 1939, Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicais (Hym. Formicidae)., pp. 403-428 in Revista de Entomologia, São Paulo 10 on page 427
РОЛЬ ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ  В ОБРАЗОВАНИИ
Creators: name: Нарзуллаев, Д.З.
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Year: 2024

description: В настоящее время в Республике Узбекистан идет процесс становления новой системы образования, ориентированного на вхождение в мировое информационно-образовательное пространство. Постановления Президента и Правительства обязывают высшие учебные заведения республики участвовать в рейтинговых исследованиях мировых организаций, занимающихся определением первых 1000 университетов по различным показателям. Этот процесс сопровождается существенными изменениями в педагогической теории и практике учебно-воспитательного процесса, связанными с внесением корректив в содержание технологий обучения, которые должны быть адекватны современным техническим возможностям, и способствовать гармоничному вхождению учащихся в информационное общество. Без внедрения цифровых технологий и искусственного интеллекта решить эту задачу практически невозможно. В данной статье рассматриваются вопросы использования современных технологий в процессе образования.
Cotesia villana Reinhard 1880
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
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Year: 2015
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Cotesia villana

description: Cotesia villana (Reinhard, 1880)
Distribution in Iran. Qazvin (Ghahari et al. 2011b).
Distribution outside Iran. Croatia, former Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, UK (Yu et al. 2012).
Host records. Arctia caja, Spilosoma lubricepeda, Conistra ligula, Atlantarctia tigrina (in France), Epicallia villica, Arctia tigrina, Hyphoraia testudinaria, Noctua fimbria, Coscinia cribraria (Wilkinson 1945; Yu et al.
2012), Spiris striata (Wilkinson, 1945; Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012). Yu et al. (2012) reported Agrotis segetum, Arctia tigrina, Conistra staudingeri, Gelis agilis, Hyphoraia aulica, Melitaea didyma, Noctua pronuba (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Drawida willsi Michaelsen 1907
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
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Annelida
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Drawida
Drawida willsi

description: 90. Drawida willsi Michaelsen, 1907
Drawida willsi Michaelsen, 1907: 145.
T. Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. TM. ZSIC. D. Uttar Pradesh: Manikpur Junction (Gates 1945b), Unspecified localities (Prakash 2017). E. Endogeic. G. Native.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Cotesia zygaenarum Marshall 1885
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name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
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Cotesia zygaenarum

description: Cotesia zygaenarum (Marshall, 1885)
Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Samin et al. 2015), Ilam (Ghahari et al. 2011d), Mazandaran (Ghahari et al. 2010a).
Distribution outside Iran. Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012), Montenegro (Shenefelt 1972).
Host records. Euphydryas aurinia, Polyommatus icarus, Phigalia pilosaria, gall of Adleria kollari, Colias hyale, Hyles livornica, Zygaena filipendula, Z. trifolii, Z. lonicerae (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012). In Europe, it has been reported from Euphydryas aurinia, Polyommatus icarus, Zygaena filipendulae, Z. trifolii, Z. lonicerae (Fahringer 1936). In Japan from Colias hyale (Watanabe 1937; Yu et al. 2012). Yu et al. (2012) reported Acrolyta nens, Acrolyta rufocincta, Adleria kollari, Colias hyale, Dibrachys microgastri, Diloba caeruleocephala, Gelis agilis, G. anthracinus, G. m e i g e n i i, G. monozonius, Lictoria loti, Lysibia nana, Mesochorus olerum, Phigalia pilosaria, Pteromalus semotus, Zygaena (Mesembrynus) brizae, Z. ephialtes, Z. (Mesembrynus) laeta, Z. viciae (Yu et al. 2012). In Germany, it has been also reported from Zygaena meliloti (Tobias 1986).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993
Azteca instabilis
Creators: name: Forel, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown Publisher
Year: 1899
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Azteca
Azteca instabilis

description: 1. Azteca instabilis.
Tapinoma instabilis, Smith, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. (3) i. p. 31 ([[worker]]) (1862) 1.
Liometopum instabile, Mayr, Verh. zool. - bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii, p. 870 2. Azteca instabilis, Dalla Torre, Cat. Hymen. vii. p. 164 3.? Iridomyrmex xanthochrous, Mayr, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, liii. p. 497 ([[worker]]) 4 (nec Roger). Azteca instabilis (Smith), var. xanthochroa, Emery, Mem. Accad. Sci. Bologna, (5) iii. p. 137 ([[worker]]) (1893) 5.
Hab. Mexique 3 5, Teapa en Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemala (Stoll); Costa Rica (Alfaro).
description: Published as part of Forel, A., 1899, Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Insecta. Hymenoptera. 3 (Formicidae)., London :Unknown Publisher on page 107
MOESM2 of Cytokine and autoantibody clusters interaction in systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Yovana Pacheco
name: Barahona-Correa, Julián
name: Monsalve, Diana
name: Yeny Acosta-Ampudia
name: Rojas, Manuel
name: Yhojan Rodríguez
name: Saavedra, Juliana
name: Rodríguez-Jiménez, Mónica
name: Mantilla, Rubén
name: Ramírez-Santana, Carolina
name: Molano-González, Nicolás
name: Juan-Manuel Anaya
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
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subject: Ecology
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subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
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subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. SLE autoantibody clusters_Summary. SLE autoantibody clusters in the literature – Summary table. Summary table of the available autoantibody clusters in the literature regarding SLE patients. Author, country, clustering method, sample size, and found clusters are included.
Gordiodrilus elegans Beddard 1892
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
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Gordiodrilus elegans

description: 91. Gordiodrilus elegans Beddard, 1892
Gordiodrilus elegans Beddard, 1892d: 84.
Gordiodrilus travancorensis Michaelsen, 1910: 98.
Gordiodrilus paski Stephenson, 1928: 1.
Gordiodrilus unicus Stephenson, 1931a: 79.
Gordiodrilus peguanus Gates, 1942: 85.
Gordiodrilus elegans morph paski (Stephenson). Julka 1982: 149.
Gordiodrilus bonacanus Černosvitov, 1942: 215.
T. Lagos, Nigeria in soil taken to Kew Gardens. TM. BMNH 1904:10:5:607, 1904:10:20:439–474, 839, 974–9. D.Punjab: Rupnagar (Dhiman & Battish 2006), Mirzapur (Dhiman & Battish 2006). West Bengal: Purulia (Halder 1998), Unspecified localities (Halder et al. 2007). E. Endogeic. G. Exotic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734
Azteca instablis var. major
Creators: name: Forel, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown Publisher
Year: 1899
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Hymenoptera
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Azteca
Azteca instablis
Var. major

description: Var. major, n.
[[worker]]. Long. 3 - 6 a 7 millim. Tete des [[worker]] major sensiblement plus large que longue, a cotes plus convexes, sans cependant atteindre la rondeur de celle de l' A. sericea. Ecaille du pedicule aussi plus acuminee et plus concave derriere. Les [[worker]] minor ne tombent pas au dessous de 3 - 6 millim. au minimum, ce que je puis certifier, ayant etudie leur nid moi-meme.
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Caldera (Champion) [[[worker]] [[queen]]]. - Amerique meridionale, Colombie (Forel), Cayenne (Jelski).
description: Published as part of Forel, A., 1899, Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Insecta. Hymenoptera. 3 (Formicidae)., London :Unknown Publisher on page 107