cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Psammodromius Peyerimhoff 1927
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Psammodromius

description: Genus Psammodromius Peyerimhoff, 1927
Psammodromius damanabii Morvan, 1977
Citations: Tabriz (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Morvan, 1977).
Psammodromius mirzayani Morvan, 1977
Citations: Evin (Prov. of Tehran; Morvan, 1977).
Psammodromius pallidicolor (Mandl, 1973)
Citations: 70 km South of Tehran, 1302 m (Prov. of Tehran; Mandl, 1973); Sufian, 30 km West of Tabriz (Prov. East Azarbaijan; Mateu, 1984b).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Search for supersymmetry at the Tevatron using the trilepton signature
Creators: name: Dube, Sourabh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation describes a search for the associated production of the supersymmetric particles, the chargino and the neutralino, through their R-parity conserving decays to three leptons and missing energy. This search is carried out using the data collected at the CDF experiment at the Tevatron's = 1.96 TeV p-anti-p collider at Fermilab. The results are obtained by combining five independent channels with varying signal to background ratio. Overall, a total of 6.4 [plus minus] 1.1 background events from standard model processes and 11.4 [plus minus] 1.1 signal events for a particular choice of mSUGRA model parameters are expected. The observation of 7 events in data is consistent with the standard model background expectation, and the mSUGRA model is constrained. Limits are set on the cross section of Chargino-Neutralino pair production, and a limit on the mass of the chargino is extracted. A method of obtaining model-independent results is also discussed.
Modeling and optimization of process engineering problems containing black-box systems and noise
Creators: name: Davis, Edgar Franklin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This thesis addresses the optimization of systems whose behavior is described by noisy input-output data instead of model equations. Process models may not exist, as in the case of emergent technologies, or may be inaccessible if they are embedded within a legacy computational code. When a functional form for the input-output relationships is unavailable, the process behavior is symbolically described using black-box models.  Two cases motivate the need to address problems containing black-box models: 1) building a case for obtaining continued research funding during the early product life cycle, when the system information is limited to a sparse sampling set, and 2) process train optimization for systems that have been retrofitted or exhibit behavior which results in suboptimal performance. The challenge is to determine the best operating conditions which satisfy some objective, such as maximizing reaction yield or minimizing utilities costs, based on a limited amount of additional sampling that can be performed. Surrogate data-driven models can be alternatively generated, but many substitute models may need to be built, especially in the case of process synthesis problems. Although model reliability can be improved using additional information, resource constraints can limit the number of additional experiments allowed. Since it may not be possible to a priori estimate the problem cost in terms of the number of experiments required, there is a need for strategies targeted at the generation of sufficiently accurate surrogate models at low resource cost. The problem addressed in this work focuses on the development of model-based optimization algorithms targeted at obtaining the best solutions based on limited sampling. A centroid-based sampling algorithm for global modeling has also been developed to accelerate accurate global model generation and improve subsequent local optimization. The developed algorithms enable the superior local solutions of problems containing black-box models and noisy input-output data to be obtained when the problem contains both continuous and integer variables and is defined by an arbitrary convex feasible region. The proposed algorithms are applied to many numerical examples and industrial case studies to demonstrate the improved optima attained when surrogate models are built prior to optimization.
In situ infrared spectroscopy study of atomic layer deposition of high-κ metal oxide and metal on passivated silicon surfaces
Creators: name: Dai, Min
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a novel and promising film deposition method for microelectronics and many other areas with documented commercial success. Notable advantages include accurate thickness control and high conformality, all of which are particularly important for deep trenches, porous materials and nanoparticles.The key elements of ALD including starting surfaces and precursors are investigated with in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, using a variety of starting surfaces: hydrogen-terminated Si (H/Si), oxidized Si, nitrided Si, and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) grafted on H/Si surfaces. In particular, the formation of nitrided surfaces using thermal NH3 reaction with flat and vicinal H/Si(111) is studied and a mechanistic understanding is achieved with the aid of density functional theory calculation. An unexpected NH incorporated bridging structure is found at the dihydride step edge. The properties and stability of methyl and carboxylic groups terminated alkene-based SAMs grafted to H/Si(111) surface via direct Si-C bonds are also addressed. The carboxylic groups terminated SAM can be grafted without formation of interfacial SiO2. Moreover, the use of SiNx and SAM successfully minimizes the interfacial SiO2 during ALD process.With a thorough understanding of the starting surfaces, the nature of ALD grown high-κ metal oxides and metal is studied. Water- and ozone-based ALD of HfO2 and Al2O3 are investigated mechanistically. Unexpected intermediate species and reaction pathways are found to depend on ozone partial pressure, such as formate intermediate for Al2O3 deposition.La2O3 and Cu deposited by novel precursors, La(iPr-MeAMD)3/D2O and [Cu(sBu-amd)]2/H2 respectively, are explored in many aspects such as the nature of precursor gas phase, the ALD temperature window, the film properties, and so on. In all cases, a mechanistic picture of the surface interaction and film growth is unraveled using infrared spectroscopy and other complementary techniques, such as Rutherford back scattering spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Gas phase studies show that the two precursors are both readily hydrolyzed and highly reactive. ALD-deposited La2O3 films are of poor quality due to the hygroscopic nature of La2O3, and Cu diffusion and agglomeration are inferred from the evolution of IR vibrational modes.
An experimental investigation of the effects of acceptance and rumination about body image
Creators: name: Clark, Vicki L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Objective: The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of different ways of responding to thoughts about body image after exposure to images of the sociocultural ideal body type. Method: One hundred nineteen women with high and low body dissatisfaction were randomly assigned to rumination, acceptance, and control conditions which gave them instructions on how to handle thoughts they had in response to viewing images of the sociocultural ideal body type. Participants completed questionnaires assessing body image, mood, and self-esteem before and after the experimental manipulation. They also participated in word recall and word recognition tasks in order to assess memory bias to shape and appearance words as well as a taste test to evaluate differences in food intake.Results: Rumination increased negative mood in participants with high body dissatisfaction. Training in acceptance had beneficial effects on body image, mood, and self-esteem in comparison to the rumination and control conditions among participants with high body dissatisfaction. As expected, the experimental condition did not affect individuals with low body dissatisfaction. Rumination and acceptance did not affect memory biases toward shape and appearance words or the amount of food consumed during the taste test. Conclusion: These findings suggested that training in acceptance helps protect body image, mood, and self-esteem in women with high body dissatisfaction in response to a body image stressor they experience frequently in their daily lives. These results suggest that acceptance-based treatments for body image might facilitate improvements in body image, mood, and self-esteem in this population.
Imperfect shape and dimensions
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2023

description: Imperfect shape and dimensions

As the presence of imperfections in a welded joint may not render the component defective in the sense of being unsuitable for the intended application, the preferred term is imperfection rather than defect. For this reason, production quality for a component is defined in terms of a quality level in which the limits for the imperfections are clearly defined, for example Level B, C or D in accordance with the requirements of BS EN ISO 5817. For the American standards ASME IX and AWS D1.1, the acceptance levels are contained in the standards.
Volatile and non-volatile components of beef marrow bone stocks
Creators: name: Choudhury, Belayet H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Beef bone marrow has been part of the human diet since prehistoric times.  Marrow bone stock is important culinary base used by gourmet chefs. It is well known for its distinct savory character in foods. While there has been a great deal published on flavor active components in cooked meats, the flavor composition of bone marrow is still relatively unstudied. For this study, commercial chopped fresh beef marrow bones were simmered in water for seven hours at 90°C. Three batches of cooked marrow bone mixtures were prepared. First batch was not enzyme treated. The second and third batch was enzyme treated with papain and umamizyme and heated for one hour at 65°C and 50°C respectively. All three batches (untreated and enzyme treated) were defatted by microfiltration. Samples from all three batches were heated under pressure at 120°C or 160°C for one hour. In another series of experiments, the defatted stock samples of three batches (one untreated and two treated with papain or umamizyme) were heated for one hour with ribose, xylose or methyglyoxal. Head space volatiles of all above samples were analyzed using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) by Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME). Stock sample prepared at 90°C without further treatment showed presence of lipid oxidation products including diacetyl, alcohols, aldehydes and ketones. Stock samples both untreated and treated with enzymes and heated at 120°C for one hour showed additionally Strecker aldehydes, dimethyl sulfides and furans. Stock samples treated with enzymes showed in addition pyrazines. Stock samples both untreated and treated with enzymes and heated at 160°C for one hour showed all of the compounds identified at 120°C heating at higher concentration and fatty acids, thiazoles and alkenals. Samples with addition of methylglyoxal showed significantly higher levels of pyrazines and alkenals. The results of our research showed that after heating and especially after treatment with enzymes and addition of ribose, xylose, and methylglyoxal a number of novel flavor alkenals and interesting volatiles are formed that were not previously identified in bone marrow stocks. All three stock samples were analyzed using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) for non-volatiles mainly amino acids, di- and tri peptides. 34 peptides are identified in all three samples. Umamizyme treated yielded the most peptides followed by papain treated stock. These non-volatiles act as volatile precursors and generated numerous volatiles when the stocks were treated with ribose, xylose or methylglyoxal.
Types of Flange
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2023

description: Flanges are devices used to connect pipes to each other, to valves, to pumps, to fittings, and to other equipment such as filters and pressure vessels. It is usually welded or threaded, and the two flanges are joined together by bolting them with gaskets to provide a seal, providing easy access to the piping system. Many different flange standards are found worldwide to allow easy functionality and interchangeability. Common standards include ASA/ASME (USA), PN/DIN (European), BS10 (British/Australian), and JIS/KS (Japanese/Korean). The flange can withstand high pressure and temperature, so they have different pressure and temperature ratings for different materials. In a piping application, the type of flange to be used depends largely on the strength required. Flanges come in many different shapes and sizes and are used in a wide range of industries around the world. With so many varieties and specifications, it may not be easy to identify which one is right for your need. Here is a simple guide to the most common and popular types of flanges and their uses.
Microdaccus Schaum 1864
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Microdaccus

description: Genus Microdaccus Schaum, 1864
Microdaccus escalerai Morvan, 1977
Citations: Without exact locality (Morvan, 1977).
Microdaccus opacicolor evavartianae Mandl, 1973
Citations: Miyan Kotal 1900 m; east of Kazerun (Prov. of Fars; Mandl, 1973).
Microdaccus opacicolor kharoumensis Mateu, 1981
Citations: Karun, Zagros Mts. R (Mateu, 1984b); Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
Microdaccus opacicolor opacicolor (Reitter, 1897)
Citations: North West of Iran (Mateu, 1984b); Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Details of ASME 2021
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2023

description: Details of ASME 2021

ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code 2021 Edition ASME The ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard that regulates the design and construction of boilers and pressure vessels. The ASME works as an accreditation body and entitles independent third parties (such as verification, testing and certification agencies) to inspect and ensure compliance to the BPVC. ASME codes and standards are used from small to medium-sized businesses, throughout the world. It is used by designers, constructors, plant operators, facility ownwrs, manufacturers, inspection bodies, insurers,research institute ,and even local and national governments.These codes and standards are used and developed throughout the world by enterprises of all sizes, ranging from , in developed and developing nations, to large, multi-national corporations. Manufacturers, facility owners, plant operators, designers, constructors, inspection bodies, insurers, research institutes, local and national governments follow ASME codes and standards. ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code: In 1880, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers was founded. First performance test code: Code for the Conduct of Trials of Steam Boilers was issued by ASME in1884. Later in 1990, First revision of an ASME standard, Standard Method of Conducting Steam Boiler Tests. Anticipated release, June 2021. ASME’s BPVC is a truly international set of standards includes 30 books and 18,500+ pages and recognized by 116 countries. The standards cover industrial and residential boilers as well as nuclear reactor components, transport tanks, and other forms of pressure vessels. These standards are kept current by nearly 5,000 volunteer technical experts from industry, government, and R&D in a fully open & transparent manner. It Allows companies to use the ASME stamp to demonstrate their commitment to both safety & quality and fosters international sales while mitigating trade barriers. BPVC is continuously evolving, providing essential rules & requirements across new materials, applications and technologies. These includes Materialproperties and specifications forconstruction, including ferrous & nonferrousmaterials, Proper care and maintenance requirements forNuclear and Non-Nuclear pressure devices, Customary and metric measurements, Safetyrules & guidelines for new constructionof Nuclear and Non-Nuclear pressuredevices and Design and construction criteria across devices& components. The following are the ASME Codes & Standards: Nuclear • Nuclear Codes and Standards, Sections III & XI • Standards committee on Cranes for Nuclear facilities Pressure Technology • BPVC Sections I, II, IV, V, VIII, IX, X, XII • B31 Code •
Nation, ethnicity, and cultural strategies: three waves of ethnic representation in post-1949 China.
Creators: name: Chen, Jie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation examines three waves of ethnic minority representation in post-1949 China. Reading ethnic representation as a discursive site where historical imperatives and utopian visions converge and collide, this study explicates how the modern Chinese national identity has been constructed and reconstructed through the imagining and staging of a putative rejuvenating internal other. During three historical periods in particular, ethnic minority images were appropriated extensively by intellectuals and artists as remedial forces to alleviate national identity anxiety: the 17-year-period (1949-1966), the post-Mao decade (1979-1989), and the contemporary decade (late 1990s to 2008). In each of the three waves, this study demonstrates, the image of ethnic minorities functioned as a sign of alterity and adopted different meanings and connotations -- ranging from national unity, exotic romanticism, traditional harmony, tenacity, and strength to eco-wisdom -- in response to the changing content of the national identity anxiety. Contesting various binary power models (majority/minority, state/people, repression/resistance) dominant in existing studies of ethnic representation of the PRC, this dissertation argues, through textual and contextual readings of selected cinematic, art, and literary texts, that the production of ethnic representation is a fluid and historically contingent process of identity enunciation carried out by varied intellectuals and artists, who engaged in a variety of relations with the state and the general public. Whereas this process did produce a plethora of essentialist perceptions of ethnic minorities in China, and such perceptions often fed into further intellectual and aesthetic fascination with the image of the internal other, national identity construction -- rather than ethnic differentiation -- was at the root of the three waves of ethnic representation. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates political and intellectual history into synchronic cultural and textual analyses, this study demonstrates how the Chinese imaginary of the internal other has been contingent upon the nation's struggle to position and "produce" itself in relation to a superior external world. In this sense, ethnic representation in China has been and continues to be performative enunciation of a modern national identity that negotiates between reconceptualizations of internal and global relationships.
Metadromius Bedel 1907
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Metadromius

description: Genus Metadromius Bedel, 1907
Metadromius arabicus Mateu, 1979
Citations: Felix (2009) cited the species for Iran based on Jan Muilwijk, unpublished data. This record should be confirmed.
Metadromius ephippiatus (Fairmaire, 1884)
Citations: Felix (2009) cited the species for Iran based on on a personal communication of Jan Muilwijk. This record should be confirmed.
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Supplemental Table 1 for Nuñez and Adelman, Mean mares? Habitat features influence female aggression in response to social instability in the feral horse (Equus caballus)
Creators: name: Nuñez, Cassandra MV
name: Adelman, James
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Models for aggression received with ΔAICc < 2
Singilis Rambur 1837
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Singilis

description: Genus Singilis Rambur, 1837
= Agatus Motschulsky, 1845
Phloeozeteus Peyron, 1856
Singilis cingulatus Gebler, 1843
Citations: Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003); Without exact locality (Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis flavipes (Solsky, 1874)
Citations: Shahrud (Prov. of Semnan; Solsky, 1874); Shahrud C. (Prov. of Semnan; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis kabakovi Anichtchenko, 2011
Citations: Torbat-e-Heydariyeh, 5 km S Zharf (Prov. of Razavi Khorasan; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis klimenkoi Anichtchenko, 2011
Citations: 100 km South east of Zahedan (Prov. Sistan va Baluchestan; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis kolesnichenkoi Anichtchenko, 2011
Citations: Sirjan, 8 km North of Balvard (Prov. of Kerman; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis kryzhanovskii Anichtchenko, 2011
Citations: Gonabad (Prov. of Razavi Khorasan; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis loeffleri Jedlička, 1963
Citations: Kuh-räng (Prov. of Esfahan; Jedlička, 1963); Kuh-räng (Prov. of Esfahan; Mandl, 1964); Sirjan, 8 km North of Balvard (Prov. Kerman; Anichtchenko, 2011); Kuh-rang (Prov. Esfahan; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis mesopotamicus Pic, 1901
= apicalis Jedlička, 1956: 204
Citations: 65 km North of Bandar Abbas (Prov. Hormozgan; Anichtchenko, 2011); 15 km east of Korin - Lale-zar (Prov. Kerman; Anichtchenko, 2011); 10 km East of Chaman Goli (Prov. Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis persicus (Jedlička, 1961)
Citations: Jiroft, Anbar-Abad (Prov. of Kerman; Jedlička, 1961); Djiroft, Anbar-Abad (Prov. of Kerman; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis saeedi Anichtchenko, 2011
Citations: 20 km West of Estahban (Prov. of Fars; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis solskyi Anichtchenko, 2011
= taschkensis Jedlička, 1961
Citations: North East of Iran, Meshed, 21.VI.1963 (Prov. of Razavi Khorasan; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis timidus Anichtchenko, 2011
Citations: 20 km North of Pol-e-Dokhtar C. (Prov. of Lurestan; Anichtchenko, 2011).
Singilis turcicus Jedlička, 1963
Citations: 10 km East of Chaman Goli, 3500 m (Prov. Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari; Anichtchenko, 2011); Sarvestan and 10 km SW Kharameh and Sivand NE Shiraz, 1770 m (Prov. of Fars; Anichtchenko, 2011); Qohrud Mts., 10 km East of Korin, 3500 m (Prov. of Kerman; Anichtchenko, 2011); 20 km South west of Yasuj (Prov. of Kohkiuyeh va Boyerahmad; Anichtchenko, 2011); 25 km North west of Dorud, 1874m, 3333N 4853E (Prov. of Lurestan; Anichtchenko, 2011); Deh Bala (Prov. of Kerman; Anichtchenko, 2011).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Seismic interpretation
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2024

description: The main task of seismic interpretation is to characterize underground geological structures and lithology with high precision. Seismic data analysis can distinguish between rocks that contain hydrocarbons and rocks that do not contain hydrocarbons. In contrast, it is difficult to distinguish between payable oil and gas intervals and non-payable oil and gas intervals just by interpreting seismic data. Several strategies have been widely used in seismic description, notably, seismic attributes, petrophysical models, and fluid saturation. Increased water saturation is the main reason for the development of well failure. The water saturation information obtained from seismic data is somewhat complex if petrophysical modeling methods are not used. Fluid substitution in well data provides tools for the identification and quantification of fluids in reservoirs
Lebia Latreille 1802
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Lebia

description: Genus Lebia Latreille, 1802
Subgenus Lebia Latreille, 1802
Lebia (Lebia) cruxminor cruxminor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Citations: Chalus (Prov. of Mazandaran; Mandl, 1967b); Provinces Lurestan and Tehran (Wrase, 2005); Gorgan env. (Prov. of Golestan; Afshari & Khormali, 2014).
Lebia (Lebia) holomera Chaudoir, 1871
Studied material: (ZMTU): Karaj, 2008 (Prov. of Elburz). Citations: New record for Iran.
Lebia (Lebia) scapularis scapularis (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
= kasyi Jedlička, 1967
Studied material: (ZMTU): Karaj, 2008 (Prov. of Elburz) and Javaher Deh, 2008 (Prov. of Mazandaran). Citations: Darband (Prov. of Tehran; Jedlička, 1967); Lowshan (Prov. of Gilan; Salari et al., 2013).
Lebia (Lebia) trimaculata (Villers, 1789)
Studied material: Karaj, 2012 (Prov. of Elburz), Mahan, 2014 (Prov. of Kerman) and Deh bala. 2014 (Prov. of Yazd).
Citations: Kandovan (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Jaskula, 2007); Golhak 1400 m (Prov. of Tehran; Gueorguiev, 2011).
Lebia (Lebia) turkestanica Jedlička, 1966
Citations: Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
Lebia (Lebia) zaboli Jedlička, 1968
Citations: Zabol (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Jedlička, 1968).
Subgenus Glyciolebia Kryzhanovskij, 1987
Lebia (Glyciolebia) arcuata (Reiche et Saulcy, 1855) Citations: Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
Subgenus Lamprias Bonelli, 1810
Lebia (Lamprias) chlorocephala (Hoffmann, 1803)
Studied material: (ZMTU): Harunie, 2012 (Prov. of Chahar Mahali va Bakhtiyari) and Quamsar, 2012 (Prov. of Esfahan).
Citations: Shiraz (Prov. of Fars; Mohammadzadehfard, 2005).
Lebia (Lamprias) cyanocephala cyanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)
Studied material: Deh Bala. 2014 (Prov. of Yazd); (ZMTU): Aghasht, 1600-1700 m (Prov. of Tehran), Dasht-e Arzhan (Prov. of Fars), Kolijak, 1600–1850 m (Prov. of Mazandaran).
Citations: Saguch (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963); Darband (Prov. of Tehran; Mandl, 1967b); Provinces Azarbaygan-e Garbi, Fars and Khorasan (Wrase, 2005); Gilan Deh Village (Prov. of Ardabil; Atamehr, 2013).
Lebia (Lamprias) festiva festiva Faldermann, 1836
Studied material: Sirch, 2014. (Prov. of Kerman); (ZMTU): Haroniye, 2012 (Prov. of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari). Citations: Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
Lebia (Lamprias) festiva fuscipes (Motschulsky, 1850) Citations: Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 97-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Glycia Chaudoir 1842
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Glycia

description: Genus Glycia Chaudoir, 1842
Glycia rufolimbata Maindron, 1905
Citations: Citations: Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
Glycia spencei (Gistel, 1838)
Citations: Citations: Without exact locality (Kabak, 2003).
Glycia unicolor unicolor Chaudoir, 1848
Citations: Felix (2009) cited the species for Iran based on on a personal communication of Jan Muilwijk. This record should be confirmed.
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Learning Domain-Specialised Representations for Cross-Lingual Biomedical Entity Linking
Creators: name: Liu, F
name: Vulić, I
name: Korhonen, A
name: Collier, N
Publisher: name: Association for Computational Linguistics
Year: 2021
Subjects: cs.CL
cs.AI
cs.LG

description: Injecting external domain-specific knowledge (e.g., UMLS) into pretrained language models (LMs) advances their capability to handle specialised in-domain tasks such as biomedical entity linking (BEL). However, such abundant expert knowledge is available only for a handful of languages (e.g., English). In this work, by proposing a novel cross-lingual biomedical entity linking task (XL-BEL) and establishing a new XL-BEL benchmark spanning 10 typologically diverse languages, we first investigate the ability of standard knowledge-agnostic as well as knowledge-enhanced monolingual and multilingual LMs beyond the standard monolingual English BEL task. The scores indicate large gaps to English performance. We then address the challenge of transferring domain-specific knowledge in resource-rich languages to resource-poor ones. To this end, we propose and evaluate a series of cross-lingual transfer methods for the XL-BEL task, and demonstrate that general-domain bitext helps propagate the available English knowledge to languages with little to no in-domain data. Remarkably, we show that our proposed domain-specific transfer methods yield consistent gains across all target languages, sometimes up to 20 Precision@1 points, without any in-domain knowledge in the target language, and without any in-domain parallel data.
Fixing mistakes in welds
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2023

description: Fixing mistakes in welds

Welding is an important part of the metal fabrication process. However, there are many different issues that can arise from welding. Without proper technique, there are many different problems that can occur. Here are some of the most common problems that occur with welding and how to fix them.
Intestinal monoacylglycerol metabolism: regulation and function
Creators: name: Chon, Su-Hyoun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Sn-2-MG is a major product of dietary lipid digestion, yet its intestinal metabolism has not been investigated beyond its anabolic processing. Recently, a potential for sn-2-MG catabolism in the enterocyte has been proposed. Thus, we examined the regulation of the two known MG metabolizing enzymes, monoacylglycerol acyltransferase (MGAT) and monoacylglycerol lipase (MGL), in mouse small intestine and liver during development and under nutritional modifications. Furthermore, intestinal MGL function was explored by generating transgenic mice (iMGL mice) overexpressing MGL specifically in small intestinal enterocytes. Dynamic changes in MG metabolism were observed during mouse ontogeny. Hepatic MGL and MGAT expression showed a reciprocal regulation under apparent transcriptional control whereas intestinal MG metabolism did not exhibit any inverse regulation: MGAT2 protein expression and activity were markedly induced during lactation, and then declined. MGL activity increased rapidly at birth and was maintained thereafter. Moreover, discordances in mRNA, protein, and activity levels of intestinal MGAT and MGL were observed, suggesting complex regulatory mechanisms involved in their expression. In addition, intestinal MGL was significantly up-regulated by a high fat diet, indicating its potential role in lipid assimilation. During high fat feeding, iMGL mice exhibited an obese phenotype secondary to hyperphagia and hypometabolic rate compared to wild type littermates. Dietary lipid absorption and intracellular TG reesterification in iMGL mice intestine were intact. Interestingly, the level of cellular 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG), one of the endocannabinoids (EC), and cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) expression were decreased in iMGL mice intestine. Antagonism of EC signaling is known to reduce appetite and adiposity, and MGL terminates EC signaling by hydrolyzing 2-AG. Here we have a paradox in that intestinal MGL induction caused a phenotype associated with EC system activation rather than termination. While the molecular mechanisms underlying this paradox remain to be elucidated, these studies are the first to indicate that intestinal MG levels significantly affect whole body energy balance via altering appetite and metabolic rate. Thus, we propose a new function for intestinal MG, in which MGL activity is associated with regulatory mechanisms for energy homeostasis, possibly through appetite signaling systems.
Digitization of the academic library in Brazil: a proposed advocacy model for successful formulation of legislation and policy in developing countries
Creators: name: Chaparro, Sergio
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This research explored issues in the digitization of Brazilian academic libraries during the period after the Internet opening and explosion of 1995 (Albernaz, 2003).  Its purpose is to construct an exploratory case study of Brazil, considered the best case scenario, to suggest an academic library digitization model based on successful information policy-making as perceived through the lens of the Advocacy Coalition Framework theory. Three major pillars of the Brazilian case were studied: government agency officials, academic library leaders, and professional library association leaders.Through surveys, interviews and a review of documents relevant to information policy, data were collected and analyzed using descriptive quantitative techniques and the qualitative technique of pattern matching to derive a model applicable to the less affluent countries of the world. The essential elements for a successful advocacy campaign were determined.    Fourteen categories were uncovered: lobbying, both group and individual; education, from professional development to training for skill in handling the online, digital environment; increased financial support, particularly from the federal government; support for the fundamental professional precept of equity of access; the improvement of practice through digitization; the involvement of the private sector and professions outside librarianship to help ensure increased influence with Congress; leadership in the national and international promotion of digitization; cooperation and partnerships that activate coalitions and alliances; improved management of digital resources, with a focus on strategic planning; promotion of research, policy and legislation, along with the broad scale diffusion of innovative projects that advance digitization; enhanced awareness of existing models and their emulation at the local, state and regional levels; societal pressures to remain competitive and the need it brings for modernization; the relationship between the current global economy and the role of digitization in helping continue national economic growth; the importance of  adding new groups to the advocacy base, particularly new library professionals and library educators. Findings support a model that improves and develops further academic library digitization through extensive use of advocacy and dialog on the part of all actors. Future research is needed to determine whether this model has general usefulness and transferability to developing countries outside Brazil.
The cadastre and the colony: surveying, territory, and legibility in the creation of South Africa, c. 1860-1913
Creators: name: Braun, Lindsay Frederick
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Year: 2008

description: This thesis explores the creation and negotiation of the South African state's geographical basis through a comparative study of surveying and cartography between the 1850s and 1920s in two regions: the Kei river valley and the northeastern quarter of the former Transvaal. The two regions' distinct histories show that different local beginnings, patterns of encounter and resistance, and relations with colonial administrations led to the emergence of different philosophies of spatial incorporation in both loci of cross-cultural encounter. Reconciling the philosophies and orders that developed in each region before 1900 in the period after the South African War ultimately led to the rise of territorial segregation to eventual ascendancy as a strategy for control under the Union Government after 1910. In order to define such segregation, the notional body of the colonial state required completion, and in that endeavor the surveyor was an essential figure.Through the medium of the surveyor and the cartographer, the colonial state sought to assay, divide, separate, and repurpose the land, and often came into conflict with competing spatial orders on the ground as well as local actors with different agendas in the process. That conflict increasingly pitted European agricultural settlers or labor-hungry mining concerns against local producers and African authorities, but opposition was not always the case, and a great deal of porosity and uncertainty existed at the edge of the surveyor's cadastre that defied the absolute value the diagram suggested. The various measures of the South African regimes that followed built upon the negotiated order of the colony, and aimed at giving force to the idealized order of the colonial map and the geographical archive of representative deeds, diagrams, photographs, and numbers that lent it power.
A pilot study to examine the feasibility of involving urban beauty salons and stylists in a social marketing campaign aimed at improving calcium consumption among low income, African-American and Hispanic children
Creators: name: Cangemi, Diana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Research has suggested that hair salons are potentially effective venues to implement health-promotion campaigns; and, salon stylists may be viable liaisons for providing the messages to the community.  The focus of this thesis was to examine the involvement of the owners/managers and stylists from hair salons located in a low-income, urban community in the implementation of the Calcium: Select to Protect campaign, a campaign targeted toward African-American and/or Hispanic caregivers of young children.  Further, it sought to evaluate possible explanations for the campaign's failure.  Three realms of Socio-Ecological Model: the institutional/organizational realm (owners/managers), the interpersonal realm (stylists), and the individual realm (clients) were included in this investigation.  Fourteen hair salons, their owners/managers (N=14), and their stylists (N=22), participated.  Data pertaining to their demographics, motivating factors, community relationships and pertinent constructs of the Stage Theory of Organizational Change were evaluated.  Twenty-two hair salon stylists were trained to disseminate the campaign information to their clients.  The stylists' demographics, personal characteristics, interpersonal relationships with their clients, and additional information pertaining to the constructs of the Social Cognitive Theory were evaluated.  Minimal information regarding the salon clients who did and did not recognize the campaign is presented.  Results indicated that the owners/managers were more likely to institutionalize the campaign if they: were a child's caregiver, had perceived campaign implementation as easy, had perceived the campaign was effective, and had considered their participation to be good experience.  Sponsoring a community event approached significance when correlated with their intent to institutionalize the campaign. With regard to the stylists, it was found that the campaign training increased their self efficacy and that campaign participation improved their behavioral capability.  Descriptive data indicated that more of the clients who had recognized the material were males and that this group was younger than those clients who had not.  In conclusion, hair salons and the stylists employed in them were not an effective means of promoting the Calcium: Select to Protect campaign in low-income, urban communities; however, additional research should be done to determine why, and to test multiple methods for improving these outcomes.
Merizomena Chaudoir 1872
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Merizomena

description: Genus Merizomena Chaudoir, 1872
Merizomena klapperichi Jedlička, 1956
= schoenemanni (Kirschenhofer, 1994)
Citations: IranShahr, 800 m (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Jedlička, 1961); Anbar-Abad (Prov. of Sistan va Bluchestan; Jedlička, 1961); Manujan, 110 km E. Bandar Abbas (Prov. of Hormozgan; Kirschenhofer, 1994).
Merizomena grandinella (Semenov, 1890)
Citations: Gonabad area, 10 km South west of Khezri 1800 m (Prov. of Golestan/North Khorasan; Anichtchenko, 2010).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Impact of MPO in Tobacco-related Cardiovascular Disease
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Exposure to tobacco smoke increases risk for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of premature death in industrialized countries. While the mechanism is not well understood, an important component appears to be an increased production of oxidants. Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is an oxidant-generating enzyme also linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease. This proposal investigates the links between MPO and tobacco-related cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fat-filled macrophages (white blood cells) in the walls of blood vessels. MPO is expressed by white blood cells, and catalyzes a reaction between chloride and hydrogen peroxide, giving rise to hypochlorous acid (HOCl), the active component in bleach. HOCl is a toxic anti-microbial agent which plays an important role in innate immunity. However, the release of HOCl at inflammatory sites, such as atherosclerotic lesions in blood vessels, can lead to increased atherosclerosis. MPO-HOCl in lesions also kills the endothelial cells which cap the lesions, leading to rupture and heart attacks. Tobacco smoking increases the levels of MPO in blood serum. High serum MPO correlates with increased risk of cardiovascular disese and atherosclerosis. Here we propose to investigate the mechanism by which tobacco smoke increases MPO levels in blood serum, and the oxidative damage due to increased MPO production in smokers. We will also determine if tobacco smoke exposure leads to increased expression of the MPO gene, which could lead to novel therapeutics to reduce oxidative damage due to tobacco smoke, reducing risk of cardiovascular disease.
Drypta Latreille 1796
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Drypta

description: Genus Drypta Latreille, 1796
Subgenus Deserida Basilewsky, 1960
Drypta (Deserida) lineola lineola W.S.MacLeay, 1825 Studied material: Shamil env., 2014 (Prov. of Hormozgan). Citations: Tezerj (Prov. of Hormozgan; Mortazavi et al., 2014).
Subgenus Drypta Latreille, 1796
Drypta (Drypta) dentata (Rossi, 1790)
Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran). Citations: Without exact locality (Baehr, 2003a); Khirood forest, NowShahr (Prov. of Mazandaran; Azadbakhsh et al., 2015).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 98-99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Zuphium Latreille 1806
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Zuphium

description: Genus Zuphium Latreille, 1806: 198
Zuphium olens (Rossi, 1790)
Citations: Without exact locality (Baehr, 2003c).
Zuphium orszuliki Hurka, 2001
Citations: Takht-e Suleiman, 200 km South east of Tabriz (Prov. of Kermanshah; Hurka, 2001).
Zuphium testaceum Klug, 1832
Citations: Kuh-räng (Prov. of Esfahan; Mandl, 1963); Kavir Desert, Houz-e Soltan, 830 m, 3 km South of Kusk-e Nosrat (Prov. of Markazi; Gueorguiev, 2011); Gorgan (Prov. of Golestan; Gueorguiev, 2011).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Evolution of a novel gene pair from a canonical toxin-antitoxin module in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Bhanot, Tamanna Devraj
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Year: 2008

description: Free-living bacteria are continuously subjected to environmental stress. This stress can be in the form of a change in temperature, pH, osmolarity or nutritional starvation. Most bacterial species contain gene modules known as Toxin-Antitoxin (TA) systems that reversibly inhibit cellular growth in response to stress; thereby helping the cells cope with a changing environment. One mechanism that bacteria have developed to combat fluctuations in environmental temperature is the cold-shock response. This response helps exponentially growing cells buffer themselves against a downshift in temperature from their optimal growing temperature; typically a shift from 37??C to 15??C for Escherichia coli (E. coli). Cold-shock proteins (Csp) are synthesized at this time. Protein Y (PY), the protein product of gene yfiA in E. coli is suggested to be a cold-shock related protein. It prevents ribosomes from dissociation during cold-shock, and in stationary phase, thereby blocking translational elongation and inhibiting cell growth. This mechanism resembled that of a typical TA system toxin. We identified a small gene, b2596, upstream of yfiA and propose that the b2596-yfiA module evolved from a true proteic TA system that functioned in cold-shock conditions; Protein X (PX), product of b2596, being the antitoxin and PY the toxin. The module still retains some of its TA system characteristics: both genes encode small proteins, have opposing charges and show sequence similarity to known TA genes. Also, like a true TA system b2596, the proposed antitoxin gene, precedes yfiA, the proposed toxin gene.  However, we found that the two genes have independent transcriptional start sites. Also b2596 encodes a leaderless mRNA with UUG start and thus we predict that it cannot be translated well in vivo. PY inhibits growth of E. coli cells and functions in helping the bacterial population to survive cold-shock. Our data suggest that b2596 and yfiA have evolved from a canonical proteic TA module that was functional in cold shock. The two genes are now independent and responsive to cold shock.