cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Haematotrephus fasciatum Stossich 1902
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Haematotrephus
Haematotrephus fasciatum

description: H. fasciatum (Stossich, 1902)
Type host. Eurasian or common curlew, Numenius arquata (Linnaeus) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
Type locality. Europe; specific type locality unknown (specimen from the Museum of Florence, Italy).
Additional host. Unidentified charadriiform—Bona et al. (1995).
Additional locality. Italy—Bona et al. (1995).
Remarks. This species was originally described as Haematotrephus fasciatus Stossich, 1902, but it was transferred to Haematoprimum by Yamaguti (1958). It was considered to be a synonym of Cyclocoelum obscurum (Leidy, 1887) by Joyeux & Baer (1927). It has a pretesticular ovary that forms a triangle with the diagonal testes (Haematotrephinae), the genital pore is postpharyngeal and the vitelline fields are not confluent posteriorly, placing it in Haematotrephus, as originally proposed by Stossich (1902). No rudimentary oral sucker described—Stossich (1902).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
title: Methods of treating cancer comprising targeting NQO1
Creators: name: Boothman, David A.
name: Gao, Jinming
name: Dong, Ying
name: Bey, Erik
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: A61K31/00
subject: A61K31/352
subject: A61K31/357
subject: A61K31/4025
subject: A61K31/423
subject: A61K31/538
subject: A61K45/06
subject: A61N5/10
subject: A61K2300/00
subject: C12Q1/6886
subject: C12Q1/26
subject: C12Q2600/106
subject: C12Q2600/156
subject: C12Q2600/158
subject: No longer published

description: Disclosed herein are methods for determining whether an individual with cancer is suitable for a treatment with an NQO1 bioactivatable drug, predicting responsiveness of an individual with cancer to a treatment with an NQO1 bioactivatable drug, and treating an individual with cancer with an NQO1 bioactivatable drug composition.
Application of local porosity to define pore networks and pore geometry in soils
Creators: name: Chun, Hyen Chung
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Pore network models are useful tools to investigate soil pore geometry.  These models provide quantitative information of pore geometry from 3D images. However, there are limitations in image sizes and resolutions to extract networks.  This study presents a modified pore network model to characterize large images with local porosity.  The objectives of this work were to apply the modified model to characterize pore structure from large images at different scales (aggregate and soil column), image sizes, and resolutions and to characterize changes in pore structure induced by different levels of CO2 and temperature.  Soil samples were taken from three sites (urban site with the highest, suburban with intermediate and rural with the lowest CO2 concentration and temperature).  Undisturbed columns (5.5 cm in diameter and 12 cm in height) and aggregate samples were taken from each site and scanned with a computer tomographer at resolutions of 22 (column) and 6 microns (aggregates).Pore networks were extracted by medial-axis transformation from local porosities at a unit cell and were used to measure pore geometry from aggregates and bulk soils.  Three image volumes and 12 cell sizes were used to define image and cell size scaling effects.  The configuration entropy and universal multifractals were employed to characterize pore spatial distributions, and water retention and hydraulic conductivity were measured on bulk soils.Pore numbers and pore volumes measured in soil columns and aggregates had a linear relationship in log-log plots across cell sizes, while pore length and tortuosity did not show any specific trend.  These results imply that some properties cannot be accurately projected to different scales within aggregate and laboratory scales.Pore spatial distribution in bulk soils from all three sites and pore geometry information from aggregates and bulk soils of urban and rural site showed that different level of CO2 and temperature affected pore structure formations.  Pores from urban site were more widespread and were greater than rural site.  Hydraulic properties confirmed that urban soil had more connected and less tortuous pores than rural soil.The modified pore network model is a powerful tool to characterize pore properties from large size images.
Partnunia steinmanni Walter 1906
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hydryphantidae
Partnunia
Partnunia steinmanni

description: Partnunia steinmanni Walter, 1906
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at four sites in Ösling, 11 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). No larvae found in traps.
Description of larvae (Figs. 8–10): Martin (2003).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: E.g., equal length of setae Mp1/2 and Lp1/2, characteristic shape of Expp.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Models for investigating functional roles of osteopontin
Creators: name: Cifelli, Dana M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Osteopontin is an integrin-binding phosphorylated glycoprotein. It is found in many tissues and can be found in all body fluids.  It is associated with several cellular processes such as cell survival, cancer progression and stress response.  These particular cellular processes were of interest in my research.This thesis is divided into two parts. Part I being about the purification of OPN and characterization of anti-OPN monoclonal antibodies.  In order to accomplish part I of this thesis, OPN was purified by ion-exchange and desalting chromatography, and analyzed by SDS-PAGE followed by Coomassie Blue staining.  The methods for purifying anti-OPN mAbs from hybridomas by ascites consisted of ammonium sulfate precipitation, ion-exchange chromatography, and protein A/G purification.  Anti-OPN mAbs were characterized by SDS-PAGE analysis, Western blotting and ELISAs.  The results from these analyses were then compiled into our database.  The OPN and mAbs that were made were used in several experiments by my fellow lab mates and me. The second part of my thesis was to investigate potential models for characterizing the functional roles of OPN.  This was accomplished by studying cell survival with human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and cancer cell phenotypes with the pancreatic cancer cell line HS766T.  Flow cytometry was used to analyze cell survival in HUVECs.  Transfection with specific plasmids designed to increase or decrease OPN expression was used to modulate the cancer cell phenotype of HS766T cells.  In conclusion, I was able to successfully generate several pure stable preparations of OPN and anti-OPN mAbs.  Also, I was able to reproduce cell survival in HUVECS by OPN a few times but because it was not consistently reproducible, I was unable to tests the effects of mAbs on the survival of HUVECs by OPN.  Also, since our research was already successfully carried out and published by another group, I decided not to purse this project further.  Lastly, I was able to create several clones of HS766T that exhibited increased or decreased OPN expression as determined by Real-Time PCR analysis.
Transitions in the temporal parameters of sensory preconditioning during the first year of life
Creators: name: Cuevas, Kimberly
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Prelocomotor infants spend most of their waking moments simply observing their surround.  Research using a sensory preconditioning (SPC) paradigm has revealed that infants form associations between events they see together.  Currently, we examined whether older infants form associations in the same way.In SPC, an association is formed when two stimuli co-occur (preexposure: A-B); association formation is confirmed when a response conditioned to stimulus A transfers to stimulus B.  In prior research, 3- and 6-month-olds associated two puppets that were presented simultaneously.  Research with rat pups found that formation of an A-B association is differentially affected during development by the timing regimen during A-B preexposure.  Newborns associated two odors only when they were presented simultaneously; 12-day-olds associated the odors whether they were presented simultaneously or sequentially; 21-day-olds associated the odors only when they were presented sequentially.The present study used a deferred imitation task to examine whether older human infants form an A-B association and, if so, whether the timing of the preexposure regimen also shifts developmentally.  Six-, 9-, and 12-month-olds received simultaneous or sequential preexposure to puppets A and B (Days 1-2).  Puppets were displayed simultaneously or sequentially, after interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 0, 7.5, 15, 30, or 60 s.  We then modeled three target actions on puppet A (Day 3) and tested whether infants imitated them on puppet B (Day 4).  Puppets were associated only when presented simultaneously at 6 months of age, when presented either simultaneously or sequentially (0-s ISI) at 9 months, and only when presented sequentially (7.5- and 30-s ISI) at 12 months.  This developmental pattern parallels prior findings with rat pups and most likely reflects a shift from contiguous ("what goes with what") to anticipatory ("what comes after what") stimulus relationships.  Nine-month-olds associated puppets after a longer ISI (15 s) with more presentations, revealing that experiential factors also affect association formation.  At all ages, association formation was unrelated to infants' looking times, motor skills, or verbal skills.  In sum, infants associate two objects that they merely see together, but the effective preexposure regimen shifts from simultaneous to sequential during the first postnatal year.
Perspective-taking accuracy on a conceptually complex problem
Creators: name: Cutting, Maris F.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Perspective taking is the process of constructing an understanding of other persons' ways of conceptualizing and responding to situations. It involves the effortfulemployment of strategies that enable individuals to visualize, understand, anticipate, orpredict the perceptions, thoughts, feelings, or actions of others. This is achieved when the observer attempts to create a mental model that corresponds to another's own mental model of situations. The present research was designed in the context of a model that views perspective taking as a process of constructing a representation that varies in difficulty according to (a) the degree of similarity between the perspective taker and the target person and (b) the degree of similarity between the perspective taker's own life situation and that of the person whose perspective is taken (target situation) (Cutting &Chinn, 2007).The perspective-taking problem provided to participants (college students enrolled in an educational psychology course) is unlike most prior research on perspective taking. It required them to predict how a conceptually novel target person (a villager living in Los Molinos, Peru) responded to a dissimilar situation (introduction of water purification practices). Multiple source documents on this topic provided opportunities for participants to seek out information and adjust their mental models accordingly. In addition, a variety of prompts and scaffolds to promote strategy use wereexamined for their influence on perspective-taking accuracy. Results from this study showed that brainstorming multiple predictions facilitated initial prediction accuracy and that new information in critical source documents enhanced final prediction accuracy.However, cognitive biases, such as rationalizing anomalous information and confirmation bias, interfered with correcting inaccurate predictions.
A functional, behavioral, and taphonomic analysis of  ziphodont dentition
Creators: name: D'Amore, Domenic C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Research on the feeding dynamics of carnivorous dinosaurs, most of which fall within Theropoda, is based on cranial/limb structure and body dimensions.  Significantly less research has been concerned with dental function.  Ichnological and taphonomic evidence is also used to illustrate feeding ecology, but much is without authentication through modern experimental evidence.  The major goal of this dissertation is to develop novel techniques to further understand dinosaur carnivory, focusing on the group's unique ziphodont dentition.  Both functionally relevant theropod tooth morphometrics and experimentation with the Komodo monitor (Varanus komodoensis), a living dental analogue, are used for the first time to draw conclusions about tooth function, feeding behavior, and tooth mark production.  When defleshing, V. komodoensis moves its rostrum so that the teeth are drawn backward through flesh to section off pieces.  Tooth marks reflect this unique behavior.  The majority of marks are scores produced by dragging the tooth tips across bone surfaces.  Half of the marks display curvature that reflects the movement of the rostrum in an arc, and marks are frequently parallel.  There is no bone crushing.  Published accounts of fossil theropod marks indicate similar tooth use, but a stronger bite with less lateral rostral movement.  Tooth serration widths on ziphodont teeth reflect body size in both V. komodoensis and theropods allometrically.  These serrations can drag along bone surfaces, producing striations.  Under ideal circumstances V. komodoensis striated tooth marks can accurately reflect the size of the consumer's serrations, and consequently its body size.  The body size of a theropod consumer may therefore be determined solely from fossilized striated marks.  Variability in the extent of serrations in theropod teeth is linked to the extent of contact the tooth makes with flesh.  The tooth region that does not contact unmodified flesh during feeding, defined as the dead-space, does not have serrations.  Highly curved teeth have the fewest serrations resulting in the largest dead space.  These data also indicate that theropods may have drawn their teeth back through flesh similarly to V. komodoensis, defleshing by 'puncture cutting'.  All the techniques developed here may be applied to fossil assemblages to answer questions about ziphodont paleoecology.
The relationship between physical work environmental factors, perceived stress, job satisfaction, and turnover intention among inpatient acute care nurses
Creators: name: Applebaum, Diane Helen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The healthcare community needs to be concerned about nursing turnover intention and the effect on the projected nursing shortage.  The evaluation of nursing turnover intention and the association between turnover intention and various predictors needs to be determined.  Job satisfaction and perceived stress have been identified to influence the intention to turnover.  In addition, environmental factors (i.e. odor, noise, and light) may influence perceived stress and job satisfaction.  This study tested theoretical relationships between the dependent variables of perceived stress, job satisfaction, and turnover intention and each of the independent variables of (a) odor, (b) noise, and (c) light.The sample was comprised of 116 full-time registered nurses who worked on the medical-surgical unit of a 588 bed Level 1 trauma center located in northern New Jersey.  Hypothesis testing employed correlational and regression statistical techniques.Statistically significant relationships were found between perceived stress and job satisfaction (r =.549, p =.000), job satisfaction and turnover intention (r = .740, p = .000), perceived stress and turnover intention (r =.336, p =.000), and perceived level of odor and job satisfaction (r = -.272, p =.003).  The relationships between perceived stress and job satisfaction, job satisfaction and turnover intention, and perceived stress and turnover intention were anticipated due to the strong theoretical and empirical evidence supporting these relationships.Although a specific hypothesis was not proposed to combine all independent variables to explain the dependent variable of turnover intention, all independent variables were added to a regression model using backward regression.  Backward regression was used because none of the independent variables were strong predictors of turnover intention.  The environmental factors did not contribute significantly to the variance in turnover intention.  Likewise, perceived stress offered little contribution.  Finally, level of light and job satisfaction, together, explained 56% of the variance in turnover intention.
title: Determining quality of an image or video using a distortion classifier
Creators: name: Bovik, Alan C.
name: Moorthy, Anush
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: G06T7/0002
subject: G06K9/00664
subject: G06K9/00711
subject: G06K9/036
subject: G06T2207/10016
subject: G06T2207/20081
subject: G06T2207/30168
subject: No longer published

description: Techniques and structures are disclosed in which one or more distortion categories are identified for an image or video, and a quality of the image or video is determined based on the one or more distortion categories. The image or video may be of a natural scene, and may be of unknown provenance. Identifying a distortion category and/or determining a quality may be performed without any corresponding reference (e.g., undistorted) image or video. Identifying a distortion category may be performed using a distortion classifier. Quality may be determined with respect to a plurality of human opinion scores that correspond to a particular distortion category to which an image or video of unknown provenance is identified as belonging. Various statistical methods may be used in performing said identifying and said determining, including use of generalized Gaussian distribution density models and natural scene statistics.
A new determination of molecular mobility in amorphous materials
Creators: name: Tiwari, Rashmi Satyanarayan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This research investigated how the steady-state and time-resolved emission and intensity of phosphorescence from vanillin (4-hydroxy-3-methoxy benzaldehyde), a commonly used flavor compound, can be used to probe molecular mobility when dispersed within amorphous pure sucrose films. The luminescence properties and photophysical events of vanillin as a triplet state probe in amorphous sucrose films as a function of temperature was successfully characterized. The peak energy, bandwidth and lifetime data suggest that it is sensitive to molecular mobility and can be used monitor molecular mobility in amorphous sucrose films. Time-resolved phosphorescence intensity decays from vanillin were multiexponential both below and above the glass transition temperature, indicating that the pure (single component) amorphous matrix was dynamically heterogeneous on the molecular level.Vanillin analogs (hydroxy, dihydroxy and ethyl vanillin)) phosphorescence lifetime were found to be extremely sensitive to the local environment in the amorphous sucrose in the glassy state and at the glass-to-rubber transition into the melt, and provided useful insight about the mechanism of vanillin sensitivity to molecular mobility. Based on this the capability of movement of methoxyl group about the C-O bond is thought to be the contributor to sensitivity of vanillin to matrix molecular mobility. The other possibility is that the effect is not that of larger group but rather that of group (like methoxy and ethoxy) not able to hydrogen bond to matrix, which can have a coupling the probe vibrations to the matrix.Vanillin phosphorescence demonstrated that the average rate of matrix molecular mobility rates increases with an increase in the molecular size and Tg of the sugar in the glucose homologous series. A comparative study of mobility in three excipients sucrose, trehalose and PVP, using vanillin phosphorescence provided useful insight about their stabilizing effect. The phosphorescence from probes erythrosin B, vanillin and tryptophan was successfully utilized to measure molecular mobility on three different time scales corresponding to each probe in amorphous sucrose and protein film. Molecular mobility was successfully studied in amorphous sucrose films by monitoring phosphorescence from the dual probe combination of erythrosin B: vanillin, erythrosin B: tryptophan and vanillin:tryptophan.
Protzia eximia Protz 1896
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Protziidae
Protzia
Protzia eximia

description: Protzia eximia (Protz, 1896)
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at one site in Gutland, 2 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). No larvae found in traps.
Descriptions of larvae (Figs. 11, 12): Jones (1967), Böttger (1972), Ullrich (1976), Martin (2000).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: Expp in the very most cases not visible by light microscopy, distance C1­C2 short.
Remarks: All Protzia larvae probably bear a dorsal plate, which is often barely visible (Figs. 11, 12, see discussion in Martin 2003).
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Development of design basis for hydrodynamic vortex separators
Creators: name: Li, Yunjie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Though many prototypes of hydrodynamic separators have been developed to remove solids from wastewater and stormwater, to date, not much fundamental development on unit performance evaluation exists due to the complexity of the problem.  Design specifications of commercial separators are derived from empirical or semi-empirical equations that are unique and proprietary to each manufacturer.  In this research, experimental and theoretical investigations were conducted to examine the mechanisms of solid-liquid separation for a general vortex separator, thereby providing a fundamental approach for unit performance evaluation.  The main achievements and findings obtained through the experimental investigation and theoretical study are as follows.Experimental investigation with four physical vortex models, three with varying inlet pipe elevations and one with a lower chamber height, reveal that the impact of a changing inlet pipe elevation on particle removal efficiency is insignificant; while the effect of a changing chamber height on removal efficiency is significant and measurable.  In the theoretical development, three topics, namely, flow pattern, particle trajectory, and unit performance evaluation, were researched.  Based on the Rankine combined vortex model, the law of conservation of momentum, and the boundary conditions for a confined vortex chamber, a simple formula for angular velocity was derived.  By applying the Navier-Stokes governing equation coupled with the angular velocity derived in this study, a vortex flow pattern model was developed.Based on the balance of forces acting on a particle, a new particle settling formula for natural sediment particles was proposed.  Additionally, using the particle settling velocity and the flow pattern derived for the confined vortex chamber, the particle trajectory equations were derived in this study.A new sizing equation for the confined vortex chamber was developed from the newly-derived particle trajectory.  The new sizing equation was validated by laboratory measured particle removal efficiencies.  The results generated from this dissertation research will help design, performance evaluation, as well as improvement of the hydrodynamic separators.
Tartarothyas romanica Husiatinschi 1937
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hydryphantidae
Tartarothyas
Tartarothyas romanica

description: Tartarothyas romanica Husiatinschi, 1937
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at five sites in Gutland and in Ösling, 16 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). No larvae found in traps.
Description of larvae (Figs. 13, 14): Martin (2003).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: Extraordinarily long setae at leg segments II­L3 and III­L3, small urstigmata, P5 long.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Additional file 5: of Development of a fully automated chemiluminescence immunoassay for urine monomeric laminin-Îł2 as a promising diagnostic tool of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Masatoshi
name: Karashima, Takashi
name: Kamada, Masayuki
name: Eisaku Yoshida
name: Yoshimura, Toru
name: Nojima, Masanori
name: Inoue, Keiji
name: Shuin, Taro
name: Motoharu Seiki
name: Koshikawa, Naohiko
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Supplementary Figure S4. (PDF 72Â kb)
Roles of reactive carbonyl species in health and flavor generation
Creators: name: Wang, Yu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Reactive carbonyl species (RCS) such as deoxyosones, glyoxal (GO) or methylglyoxal (MG), which can be generated endogenously and exogenously (human body and food system), have been attracted more attention because of their relationship with diabetes and flavor generation. In this study, two models i) quantification of RCS in beverages and ii) roles of RCS in furanoid generation were set up to evaluate the amount of RCS from food system and their roles in flavor generation.In the first model, α-dicarbonyl compounds, namely glyoxal (GO), methylglyoxal (MG) and 3-deoxyglucosone (3-DG), were found and measured in carbonated soft drinks (CSD).  By comparing their levels in regular and diet CSDs, it was realized that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in regular CSDs was the major source of these α-dicarbonyl compound in beverages.    The second model was conducted in three different experiments, 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone (DMHF) generation through MG, amino acid-dependent formation pathways of 2-acetylfuran and DMHF, and sugar-dependent formation of 2-acetylfuran to give an understanding of roles of RCS in furanoid formation in Maillard reaction. MG alone or MG with cysteine could produce increased level of DMHF with pH increased, whereas MG with glycine had contrary trend. For the DMHF, there was only one major formation pathway in which glucose carbon skeleton kept intact. On the other hand, formation pathways for 2-acetylfuran were more complicated. It could be formed either from glucose or from glucose and glycine. The type of sugars is a major factor regulating the reaction rates and pathways in Maillard reaction. The reactivity of sugars in 2-acetylfuran formation decreased in the order of ribose, fructose, glucose, rhamnose and sucrose. The difference between glucose and ribose in 2-acetylfuran formation was that glucose could form 2-acetylfuran from the direct cyclization of its intact carbon skeleton, whereas ribose has to first undergo degradation into fragments before forming six-carbon unit for 2-acetylfuran.
Doxa of modernization
Creators: name: Mücen, Bariş
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The notion of modernization has long been a hegemonic explanation for existing global and social hierarchies. Despite the apparent "failure" of "modernizing" countries to overcome a disadvantaged position in the global hierarchy through "modernizing" means, the political life in countries such as Turkey continues to be dominated by perspectives that take "modernization" as a solution for problems for granted. This dissertation examines the sense of political reality that produces an absence of formulations of alternatives to this seemingly "universal" path of historical development and social change through an analytical reading of selected historiographies of the late Ottoman Empire. This analysis relies on Bourdieu's theory of doxa as the sense of limits shared both by "orthodoxy" and "heterodoxy." It first examines the construction of the modernization perspective from an orthodox view in order to identify the limits of the sense of political and historical reality it entails. It then examines three historical studies which are critical of modernizationist orthodoxy under the same criteria. What I call "doxa of modernization" emerges in the shared sense of reality among the orthodox and heterodox accounts. This doxa consists of the generalization of the particular social characteristics and historical conditions seen as constituting a process of "modernization" -- namely, the history of power and capital -- in such a way that they come to represent all of historical change and of politics. The study concludes by proposing to shift our perspective from a focus on capital to labor in order to bring into view social practices that produce political alternatives in the present.
title: Simultaneous removal of oil and gases from liquid sources using a hollow fiber membrane
Creators: name: Kipp, Peter B.
name: Seibert, Frank
name: Briggs, Stephen William
name: Truscott, Stacy S.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: B01D65/02
subject: B01D17/085
subject: B01D19/0031
subject: B01D61/00
subject: B01D63/02
subject: B01D2311/04
subject: B01D2311/2649
subject: B01D2311/2676
subject: C10G7/02
subject: C10G31/06
subject: C10G31/09
subject: C10G31/10
subject: Y02W10/37
subject: No longer published

description: The present invention includes an apparatus and method for removing oil from a oil-containing liquid comprising oil and gas comprising: a source of oil-containing liquid; and a membrane contactor system in fluid communication with the source of oil-containing liquid, the membrane contactor system comprising one or more membrane contactors having a first and a second surface, wherein the first surface coalesces oil and removes gas from the oil-containing liquid, and the oil and gas are collected on the second surface from the oil-containing liquid.
Transient gene delivery for functional enrichment of differentiating embryonic stem cells
Creators: name: Wallenstein, Eric J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: There is a critical need for new sources of hepatocytes, both clinically to provide support for patients with liver failure and in drug discovery for toxicity, metabolic and pharmacokinetic screening of new drug entities. One major challenge in the field of differentiating embryonic stem (ES) cells is the limitation to selectively purify and enrich these cells from a heterogeneous population. We developed a transient gene delivery system that uses fluorescent gene reporters for purification of the cells. Following a transient transfection, the cells were purified through a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS), re-plated in secondary culture and subsequent phenotypic analysis performed. We engineered two non-viral plasmid reporters, the first driven by the mouse albumin enhancer/promoter and the second by the mouse cytochrome P450 7A1 (Cyp7A1) promoter. We optimized the transfection of these genes into spontaneously differentiated ES cells and sorted independent fractions positive for each reporter 17 days after inducing differentiation. We found that cells sorted based on the Cyp7A1 promoter showed significant enrichment in terms of albumin secretion, urea secretion and cytochrome P450 1A2 detoxification activity as compared to enrichment garnered by the albumin promoter-based cell sort. In a second study, we explored improving the efficiency of a transient gene delivery system to differentiating ES cells by serum starving the cells for three days. We found that under serum starvation, expression of a constitutively-controlled plasmid increases from ~50% to ~83% of the population. When probed with the Cyp7A1 liver-specific reporter vector, the expression increases from ~1.4% to ~3.7% of the population. These trends were assessed using a Cy3-tagged oligonucleotide, which enabled rapid quantification of DNA uptake and was a valid predictor of ultimate cell transfection efficiency. These results suggest that modifications in media components prior to transfection of cells can have a profound effect on improving non-viral gene delivery. Efficiently genetically engineering cellular systems while circumventing the need to induce permanent gene changes will be critical for the generation of clinically-acceptable cellular material in the future.
New algorithms for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) with applications in engineering and social sciences
Creators: name: Tavares, Gabriel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation investigates the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problem, i.e. the problem of minimizing a quadratic function in binary variables. QUBO is studied at two complementary levels. First, there is an algorithmic aspect that tells how to preprocess the problem, how to find heuristics, how to get improved bounds and how to solve the problem with all the above ingredients.Second, there is a practical aspect that uses QUBO to solve various applications from the engineering and social sciences fields including: via minimization, 2D/3D Ising models, 1D Ising chain models, image binarization, hierarchical clustering, greedy graph coloring/partitioning, MAX-2-SAT, MIN-VC, MAX-CLIQUE, MAX-CUT, graph stability and minimum k-partition.Several families of fast heuristics for QUBO are analyzed, which include a novel probabilistic based class of methods.It is shown that there is a unique maximal set of persistencies for the linearization model for QUBO.This set is determined in polynomial time by a maximum flow followed by the computation of the strong components of a network that has 2n+2 nodes, where n is the number of variables. The identification of the above persistencies leads to a unique decomposition of the function, such that each component can be optimized separately.  To find further persistencies, two additional techniques are proposed: one is based on the second order derivatives of Hammer et al. [HH81]; the other technique is a probing procedure on the two possible values of the variables.These preprocessing tools work remarkably well for certain classes of problems.We improved the Iterated Roof-Dual bound (IRD) of [BH89] by proposing two combinatorial methods: one was named the squeezed IRD; and the second was called the project-and-lift IRD method.The cubic-dual bound can be found by means of linear programming by adding a set of triangle inequalities to the standard linearization, whose number is cubic in the number of variables. We show that this set can be reduced depending on the coefficients of the terms of the function. This leads to the possibility of computing the cubic-duals of larger QUBOs.
Sperchonopsis verrucosa Protz 1896
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Sperchonidae
Sperchonopsis
Sperchonopsis verrucosa

description: Sperchonopsis verrucosa (Protz, 1896)
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at two spring sites in Gutland, 9 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). E7 22 larvae, parasitic on chironomids. Attribution by comparison with Martin (2000).
Descriptions of larvae (Fig. 15): Protz (1896), Martin (2000).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: As in Sperchon setiger Thor, 1898 and S. insignis (Walter, 1906) (see below), and in contrast to the other Sperchontidae larvae reported here, the larva of Sperchonopsis verrucosa lacks setae C3. The larva of Sperchonopsis verrucosa differs from that of Sperchon insignis in, for example, their larger dorsal plate and short seta C4.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
How the hydraulic and mechanical properties of wood influence branch form in Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.)
Creators: name: Dahle, Gregory Ames
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: An in-depth understanding of the functions of branches (hydraulics and mechanics) and how they influence canopy form is needed in order to assess the impacts of cultural practices such as pruning in the future. This dissertation is comprised of three studies that investigate how anatomical and material properties of wood vary along Acer platanoides L. (Aceraceae) branches and whether the variation influences branch form.The hydraulic study found that vessel radii size decreased and density increased in the distal direction, consistent with the hydraulic flow found in previous studies. Vessel density was highest 5 cm proximal to the most recent terminal bud scale scar, suggesting that the increase in vessels may be due to hydraulic constrictions and partitioning through the branch attachment zones for the paired lateral branches.The mechanics study observed that modulus of elasticity (E) was 75% lower at the branch tips than in the proximal (structural) locations. Density-specific stiffness (E/ρ) was not found to vary between the three structural locations, suggesting that the elastic similarity modeled cannot be rejected due to variation in E/ρ. Variation in E was negatively correlated with the percent area of vessels and positively correlated with mean fiber cell wall size, suggesting a balance between hydraulics and mechanics.The allometric study found branches transitioned from a log-log curvilinear relationship converging to a linear relationship after 3 m in length. The linear relationship was best modeled with the elastic similarity model. The shift in allometry corresponds to a shift from increasing slenderness ratio (length / radius) with increasing branch length to a decreasing ratio as flexible sun branches transition to stiffer structural branches. The number of subordinate branches was found to increase after the primary branch length passed 3 m, suggesting that branches transition to a structural role as size increases.The differences in anatomical and material properties, the increase in the number of lateral branches and the shift in allometry are probably related to wood development type. Torsional balance of bending moments were found to be relatively evenly distributed along the left and right side of the branches.
title: Composite anode materials for lithium ion batteries
Creators: name: Manthiram, Arumugam
name: Yoon, Sukeun
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: B82Y30/00
subject: H01M4/485
subject: H01M4/0404
subject: H01M4/133
subject: H01M4/1393
subject: H01M4/364
subject: H01M4/38
subject: H01M4/387
subject: H01M4/587
subject: H01M10/0525
subject: No longer published

description: The present invention provides compositions and methods of making Sn-MCx-C and Sb-MOx-C nanostructured anode compositions that exhibit excellent capacity retention with high capacity and rate capability that alleviate the volume expansion encountered with alloy anodes during the charge-discharge process.
Thornton, Lewis B., letter, Tuscumbia, Ala., August 19, 1852, to H.N. Ely.
Creators: name: Thornton, Lewis B.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1852

description: Lewis B. Thornton reports on an interview that he had with Mr. McKiernan in which the latter stated that he would not separate the enslaved [Still] family members that he owns and that McKiernan he has agreed to let this family go, but only for a minimum of 5,000 dollars, which Thornton considers to be a high price.
Still, W[illia]m, letter, Anti Slavery Office, Philadelphia, May 10, 1852, to Peter [Still]
Creators: name: Still, William
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1852

description: William Still relates that he has been too busy to visit Peter Still; notes why Peter has presumably not visited Philadelphia; comments that Peter's family truly is interested in his desire to emancipate his enslaved relatives (but can do little to help); entreats Peter to trust in God; and relates family news.
Interactions between acute stress and financial decision-making
Creators: name: Porcelli, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Day-to-day decision-making is susceptible to various demands exerted by the environment.  At times, such demands can lead to stressful conditions, affecting both psychological and physiological states.  In order for researchers to understand how to control stressful conditions while making informed goal-oriented decisions, a necessary first step is to probe the interaction between the state created by exposure to acute stress and how decisions are performed under those conditions.  To that end, the goal of this dissertation is to elucidate the effects of acute stress on decision-making at both the behavioral and neural levels.  This will be accomplished by focusing on three aspects of the relationship between stress and decision-making.  First, the question of how acute stress alters financial decisions during a financial decision-making task similar to those used in the fields of neuroeconomics will be addressed.  The second will be an examination of whether or not the effects of acute stress generalize to other types of more automatized decision-making tasks -- in this case, a task involving instrumental conditioning.  Finally, the neural systems underlying the potential interaction between acute stress and financial decision-making will be considered.
The chameleon factor
Creators: name: Danna Lynch, Karen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This project uses a unique theoretical lens that integrates research from sociology, cognitive science, cognitive anthropology, and psychology to examine the "logics of action" inherent in daily role performances. I draw on 60 in-depth interviews with working parents from a variety of occupations to demonstrate how people establish themselves in various role-identities, as well as how people switch among and/or overlap established role components. I have found that like chameleons, most social actors possess the adaptive ability to alter their identifications of self-in-role, in part or in whole, to match the physical and mental environments in which they reside. This adaptive ability operates as an important means by which people reduce the probabilities of experiencing role conflict and role stress, even in those cases where the normative constructs of their roles may seem to be at odds. I note that culture plays an important part in the process of adaptation. It ingrains, reinforces and refines the capacities -- that is, the skills, moods, habits, needs, goals, and situated modes of thoughts and action -- out of which people construct the practices they use to establish and/or change their role-based positions.  By demonstrating that people draw selectively from available cultural resources in developing lines of action, I address the question of what gives cultural practices their pervasive influence. Hence, my project serves double duty. By providing valuable information about how people mentally manage busy lifestyles, my project is of use to both individual role players, struggling with competing priorities, and corporate policy makers, eager to engage a productive and motivated work force. At the same time, I look at a crucial piece of the sociological puzzle: the organization of culture. I demonstrate not only that people use culture strategically, to pursue valued ends, but that some cultural elements can be used to control, anchor, or organize others. In this way, the project makes a new contribution to the field of cultural sociology.
title: Electro-osmotic pumps with electrodes comprising a lanthanide oxide or an actinide oxide
Creators: name: Heller, Adam
name: Nagarale, Rajaram K.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: A61M5/14248
subject: A61M2005/14513
subject: F04B19/006
subject: F04D13/06
subject: G01N27/44756
subject: Y10T428/24998
subject: No longer published

description: The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to methods, devices, and systems for fluid delivery to a subject using pumps, for example, non-gassing, direct current (DC), electro-osmotic pumps. In some embodiments, delivery of an aqueous fluid may be achieved by contacting the aqueous liquid with an electro-osmotic pump comprising (i) a cathode (e.g., a cathode comprising porous carbon coated with a cerium oxide-comprising coating), (ii) an anode (e.g., an anode comprising porous carbon coated with a cerium oxide-comprising coating), and (iii) a ceramic membrane (e.g., a ceramic membrane formed by fusing uncoated silica spheres, phosphosilicic-acid-coated fused silica spheres, or borosilicic-acid-coated fused silica spheres, wherein the fused spheres are randomly packed between the cathode and the anode) and/or optionally applying (a) a constant potential difference or constant voltage between the anode and the cathode of from about 0.1 V to about 3 V between the anode and the cathode of from about 0.1 V to about 3 V such that the aqueous liquid is pumped or (b) constant current to cause a potential difference between the anode and the cathode of from about 0.1 V to about 3 V such that the aqueous liquid is pumped.
title: Cerezo Ácido; Cerezo Duke :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Sour Cherry
Duke Cherry

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.