cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Experimental Studies on the Extensional Rheology of Polymer Fluids-Mechanical Degradation and Temperature Effects
Creators: name: Joseph, Joe Biju
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Rheology, the study of a fluid’s response to deformation, is crucial in understanding fluids like polymer solutions which can have complex flow properties. Polymer solutions can have a viscosity that changes with shear rate and can impart elasticity to the fluid making it viscoelastic. An area of growing interest is the understanding of the extensional rheology of these nonNewtonian fluids. Characterizing the extensional rheology is imperative in a wide range of applications including manufacturing processes like injection molding and fiber spinning.

A common technique used to characterize the extensional viscosity of a polymer fluids is through Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometry (CaBER) measurements. In CaBER, a stepstretch is imposed on a fluid between parallel plates which generates an unstable fluid filament which decays due to capillary action. In this study, we investigate some of the shortcomings of measuring the transient relaxation time through CaBER and Dripping onto Substrate (DoS)-CaBER experimentation and describe problematic conditions for which consistency of results is not achieved. In both techniques, issues due to the deformation history imposed on the fluid during sample loading are seen to impact the measurements of extensional rheology, requiring significant rest time to erase the effects. In other cases, permanent unrecoverable scission of the polymer chain was observed.

A second common technique to measure extensional rheology uses a Filament Stretching Extensional Rheometer (FiSER), where we stretch a fluid with a constant extension rate while measuring the diameter decay and tensile force generated. The maximum achievable extension rate, governed by mechanical limits, with sufficient strain to probe the elasticity of the material is ε = 5 s−1 . To expand the measurable limits, we utilized the principles of Time-Temperature Superposition (TTS) which shows that decreasing the temperature of a fluid is equivalent to increasing the imposed extension rate. To decrease the fluid temperature, we designed and developed a cooling chamber to be attached to the FiSER, where we measured an increase in the maximum extension rate by a factor of αT ≥ 3.7 . Several fluids were tested and showed that the shift factors from extension were inconsistent with those found from shear.
Resident Perspectives on Tornado-Induced Canopy Loss and a Decade of Regrowth in Springfield, Massachusetts
Creators: name: Powning, Candace
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

City dwellers want and need trees in their home landscapes. Trees provide numerous ecosystem services and help to create a sense of place within built-up urban landscapes – and because of this, urban residents form connections with and dependencies on the trees around them, whether or not they are aware. When these trees that individuals and communities rely on are suddenly gone, their experience of their home landscapes can change dramatically. Within the context of a tornado that caused dramatic tree canopy loss in Springfield, Massachusetts in June of 2011, we investigated resident perspectives of tree loss in order to understand what they valued about trees; how their relationship with trees and their experience of their home landscape was altered as a result of the tornado; and how they experienced a post-tornado yard tree planting program and interacted with the stewardship of their new trees in an altered landscape. Knowing that qualitative, semi-structured research interviews are an effective way of gaining a deep and clear understanding of an individual’s values, experiences and perspectives, we elected to use this methodology as the core of this research. Firstly, we performed a literature review in order to understand how and why researchers in the field of urban forestry have been employing this methodology, and found that civilian (non-urban forestry practitioner) perspectives are less prevalent in qualitative urban forestry research, particularly in the Global North. This highlighted the importance of centering resident perspectives of tree loss and tree regrowth in the aftermath of the tornado, rather than urban forestry practitioner or decision maker perspectives. As weather events become increasingly frequent and severe, and tree loss continues to be a significant consequence of these severe weather events, it is necessary to understand how community members feel about this loss so that disaster recovery resources can be appropriately tailored to their needs.
New Approaches to Water-Absorbing Biopolymer Foams
Creators: name: Varma, Jordan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Biopolymer foams were formed from aqueous solutions of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC), whereby freezing-induced phase-separation and solvent removal yields robust foam structures that are elastic when wet and that are stable to repeated compression when fully saturated with water. Through mechanisms of phase-separation, pore formation, and covalent crosslinking, we discovered effective methods to prepare microporous CMC and HPC foams that resist gelation even when exposed to water for long time frames (at least months).  Employing multifunctional carboxylic acid crosslinkers allowed the foams to maintain their integrity when dry or wet, while the presence of a-cellulose as an additive further augmented their mechanical integrity and provided a means to adjust elasticity. When covalent crosslinking was combined with the presence of CaCl2, and/or cellulose additives, the resultant CMC foams exhibited excellent aqueous stability for months or longer and withstood multiple compression cycles without loss of mechanical performance (i.e., by maintaining their porous foam structure). These hydrophilic CMC foams absorbed many times their own weight of water (30 g of liquid water per gram of foam) and were amenable to ion exchange, absorption/desorption of organic substances and heavy metals, and water uptake at levels that make them attractive materials for applications in water recovery. The amount of crosslinker employed in the HPC foaming process significantly impacted foam stability and water uptake, while polymeric crosslinkers enabled insertion of sulfobetaine zwitterionic moieties into the foams.  Notably, the thermal transition characteristic of HPC solutions and gels proved operative in foam form, as seen in release of water from a saturated HPC foam using a combination of compressive and thermal mechanisms.
Acrididae;dericorythidae;lathiceridae;lentulidae;lithidiidae;ommexechidae;pamphagidae;pamphagodidae;pyrgacrididae;romaleidae;tristiridae;dzhajloutshellidae;elcanidae;permelcanidae;chorotypidae;episactidae;eumastacidae;euschmidtiidae;mastacideidae;morabidae;promastacidae;thericleidae;gryllavidae;baissogryllidae;gryllidae;mogoplistidae;phalangopsidae;protogryllidae;trigonidiidae;gryllotalpidae;myrmecophilidae;eospilopteronidae;haglidae;hagloedischiidae;prezottophlebiidae;prophalangopsidae;tuphellidae;bouretidae;eolocustopsidae;locustavidae;locustopsidae;anelcanidae;bintoniellidae;mesoedischiidae;oedischiidae;proparagryllacrididae;pruvostitidae;paratitanidae;permoraphidiidae;pseudelcanidae;thueringoedischiidae;phasmomimidae;pneumoridae;proscopiidae;pyrgomorphidae;raphoglidae;regiatidae;rhaphidophoridae;schizodactylidae;anostostomatidae;cooloolidae;gryllacrididae;stenopelmatidae;tanaoceridae;mesotitanidae;tcholmanvissiidae;tetrigidae;haglotettigoniidae;tettigoniidae;tettoedischiidae;adumbratomorphidae;triassomantidae;cylindrachetidae;ripipterygidae;tridactylidae;trigonopterygidae;xyronotidae;vitimiidae;xenopteridae Olivier 1789
Creators: name: Béthoux, Olivier
name: Nel, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera

description: Orthoptera Olivier, 1789 sensu nov.
New diagnosis. Forewing (figs 1.bc 15­16). MA differentiated into MA1 and MA2 (absent in some Caelifera, in all Permoraphidiidae, and in some Ensifera sensu nov.); MA1 or MA generally fused with RP (absent in all Caelifera, Metahaglida taxon nov., in some taxa of uncertain position as Tcholmanvissiinae); MP simple, exceptionally with few distal branches, strongly concave (autapomorphy within Archaeorthoptera); CuPa simple (exceptionally ramified in Oedischia); CuPb simple; vein 1A simple, metathoracic legs with broadened femora (‘saltatorial’) (putative autapomorphy, unknown in numerous fossil taxa; reversed in some more recent Ensifera such as the Gryllotalpidae, among others).
Included taxa. Ensifera ‘ sensu lato ’ (see below) and Caelifera.
Discussion. The metathoracic legs are unknown in numerous fossil Archaeorthoptera. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most evident autapomorphies of the Orthoptera.
description: Published as part of Béthoux, Olivier & Nel, André, 2002, Venation pattern and revision of Orthoptera sensu nov. and sister groups. Phylogeny of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Orthoptera sensu nov., pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 96 on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156112
Pimelodus britskii Garavello & Shibatta 2007
Creators: name: Girardi, Simone C.
name: Pavanelli, Carla S.
name: Margarido, Vladimir P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Pimelodidae
Pimelodus
Pimelodus britskii

description: Pimelodus britskii. The diploid number of this species was also 56 chromosomes (24 m + 18 sm + 8 st + 6 a) (Fig. 1b). The AgNORs were located in the terminal region of the long arm of a pair of subtelocentric chromosomes 23 (Fig. 1b, box). C-banding revealed the existence of pale heterochromatin in the region of the telomeres of some chromosomes, with more conspicuous heterochromatin being found in the telomeric region of the long arm (pairs 3, 6 and 23), in the subterminal region of the long arm (pair 15), pericentromeric region of the short arm (pair 2) and in long arm in pair 17 (Fig. 2b). The 18S rDNA was located on the subtelocentric chromosome pair (23), which corresponds to the AgNORs, while the 5S rDNA was found at multiple sites, located in the pericentromeric region of the long arm of pair 17 and terminal region of the long arm of pairs 23 and 28 (Fig. 3b) .
description: Published as part of Girardi, Simone C., Pavanelli, Carla S. & Margarido, Vladimir P., 2018, Contributions to the systematic of Pimelodidae (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes): basic and molecular cytogenetics on seven species of Pimelodus from three Brazilian hydrographic systems, pp. 1-16 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on page 6, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170148, http://zenodo.org/record/3709713
Hemiplecta scrobiculata subsp. scrobiculata Albers 1850
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
name: Lyu, Zhi-Tong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Ariophantidae
Hemiplecta
Hemiplecta scrobiculata
Hemiplecta (?) scrobiculata scrobiculata (gredler, 1885)

description: Hemiplecta (?) scrobiculata scrobiculata (Gredler, 1885)
(Fig. 7E-I)
Zonites scrobiculatus Gredler, 1885: 220-221, pl. 6, fig. 2. — Bachmann & Gredler 1894: 416.
Coccoglypta scrobiculata scrobiculata – Yen 1939: 153, pl. 15, fig. 62.
Coccoglypta scrobiculata – Chen & Zhang 2004: 370, fig. 368 (treating hupeina as a junior synonym).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China. Hunan, Heng-san-hsien, coll. O. v. Möllendorff, SMF 42575/3.
TYPE LOCALITY. — “ Hen-san, im Districte von Hen-kiou-fu in Hunan ”.
DESCRIPTION
Shell dextral, medium-sized, dark yellowish-slightly greenish on both ventral and dorsal sides; shell depressed globularconical with a rounded body whorl; entire shell consisting of 4.75-5 whorls, separated by rather shallow suture; protoconch consisting of 1.75-2 whorls, very finely mamillated with recognisable spiral striation; dorsal side of teleoconch dominated by irregular, wavy ribs (waviness seemingly caused by spiral lines occurring only at back of ribs); area between middle line of body whorl (from apertural view) and ventral side (except for umbilicus region) glossy, with much weaker sculpture than on dorsal side or inside umbilicus; aperture oblique to shell axis, whitish in one specimen, but yellow in the other two; peristome not expanded; parietal callus weak, only indicated by fine whitish calcareous transparent layer; umbilicus open, rather narrow, deep, showing all whorls.
Measurements
D = 18.4-19.9 mm, H = 10.7-12.0 mm (n = 3). REMARKS
Zilch (1974) found a single syntype in Bolzano in Gredler’s collection.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 595-608 in Zoosystema 41 (29) on pages 604-606, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a29, http://zenodo.org/record/3726110
Holoparasitus lawrencei Hyatt 1987
Creators: name: Ilinca Juvara-Bals
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parasitidae
Holoparasitus
Holoparasitus lawrencei

description: Holoparasitus lawrencei Hyatt, 1987 Figs 4, 6E
Material examined: NHML 1984.12.4.-1; holotype; female; England, Cornwall-Hayle, from dry, light, leaf-litter; 24.5.1975; leg P. N. Lawrence. – NHML 1925.6.24.584; paratype; female; England, Lincolnshire, no locality, no habitat data, 1900, leg. C. F. George. ‒ NHML 1984.12.4.-3; paratype; male; United Kingdom, Isle of Wight, no habitat data; April 1948; leg T. A. Lloyd. – NHML 1984.12.4-2; paratype; male; Norfolk- Blackborough, with no habitat data; 25.2.1969; leg. A. Reeve.
Redescription of male: Length of idiosoma 780-840, width 550-610 (Hyatt, 1987). Genital lamina with a triangular apex instead of a bifid one (Fig. 4D). Length of simple hypognathal setae: hyp.1, hyp.2 = 54-61, hyp.3 = 38; pc. pilose = 66. Trochanter of pedipalp with a small protuberance between v1 and v2 (Fig. 4C).
Armature of leg II shown in Fig. 4 A-B. Gland pore gv2 double, situated behind coxa IV. Measurements (of 2 specimens): tarsus I = 192-206; tarsus IV = 240-250.
Redescription of female: Endogynium formed by a very big, oval and denticulate sack. Ventrally a central protrusion flanked by two rounded sacks and covered by a wrinkled membrane on posterior margin. Dorsally two very big structures filled with prominent denticles (Fig. 6E). Measurements: epigynium: height = 184-192, basal width = 228; h/b = 0.82-0.84. Sternal shield: st1-st1’ = 62, st2-st2’ = 108, st3-st3’ = 139; st1 = 54, st2 = 60, st3 = 66. Tarsus I = 187-192; tarsus IV = 240.
Remarks: The holotype and the paratypes examined correspond well with the original description of Hyatt. I here illustrate the endogynium, the armature of leg II and add some measurements. In the original description (Hyatt, 1987: fig. 11E) the movable digit of the female chelicera was drawn with 4-5 denticles, but in the holo- and paratypes studied I observed only 3 denticles. The other paratypes were not available in the NHML collection. Holoparasitus lawrencei was described by Hyatt (1987) from Great Britain; the type locality is Hayle in Cornwall. He identified specimens of this species from England (10 places), Scotland (2 localities), Wales and Ireland. All the specimens, except the holotype, were considered as paratypes (20 males, 15 females). Unfortunately not all of the paratypes are deposited in the collection of the NHML so that the variability of the morphological characters of this species cannot be evaluated.
description: Published as part of Ilinca Juvara-Bals, 2017, New and rare species of Holoparasitus Oudemans, 1936 (Acari, Gamasida, Parasitidae) from the Athias-Henriot Collection, pp. 225-239 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on pages 232-234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893509
Ethminolia Iredale 1924
Creators: name: Herbert, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Trochida
Trochidae
Ethminolia

description: Genus Ethminolia Iredale, 1924
Ethminolia Iredale, 1924: 228.
Type species
Ethminolia probabilis Iredale, 1924 (original designation), Recent, SE Australia. Generic fossil record: Quaternary to Recent (Paleobiology Database 2024) (Fig. 52).
Diagnosis
Shell small (diameter usually <10 mm), width considerably greater than height; whorls rounded, often shouldered; sculpture of spiral lirae or cords with microscopic axial threads; umbilicus broad, its rim rounded and not thickened, lacking an internal funicle; outer lip simple, interior nacreous, without in-running ridges.
Operculum corneous, multispiral with well-developed, radially striate peripheral fringe, striations remaining evident on earlier whorls; spiral microsculpture present.
Radula with base-plates of rachidian and lateral teeth thin, narrowing anteriorly, outer edge rounded, raised anteriorly and somewhat twisted; fifth lateral scarcely evident; inner marginal tooth transitional with reduced cusp; cusps of inner marginals short and broad, 2–10 largest, coarsely dentate, central denticle asymmetrical and somewhat broader; additional narrower denticles on both margins.
Ctenidium unknown.
Remarks
This diagnosis of Ethminolia is tentative as the type species remains poorly known. In an attempt to remedy this, I have examined the radula and operculum of topotypic material from the Melvill-Tomlin collection (NMW) and here provide illustrations thereof for the first time (Fig. 52). The cusp morphology of the inner marginal teeth differs significantly from that of Ethalia, Sericominolia and Talopena and other genera belonging to Group 1. Many of the species currently referred to Ethminolia will doubtless prove referable to other genera when studied in more detail. I refer the following new species to Ethminolia with some hesitation since although the shell is somewhat similar to that of E. probabilis, as are the cusps of the inner marginal teeth, I could not discern either spiral microsculpture on the operculum, nor an intermediary inner marginal tooth.
description: Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2024, The Umboniinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) of New Caledonia, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species, plus an additional new species from the Bismarck Sea, pp. 1-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 973 on pages 98-100, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.973.2765, http://zenodo.org/record/14440264
Hemiplecta scrobiculata subsp. hupeiana Albers 1850
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
name: Lyu, Zhi-Tong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Ariophantidae
Hemiplecta
Hemiplecta scrobiculata
Hemiplecta (?) scrobiculata hupeiana (gredler, 1887)

description: Hemiplecta (?) scrobiculata hupeiana (Gredler, 1887)
(Fig. 7A-D)
Zonites (Nanina?) scrobiculatus var. hupeina Gredler, 1887: 344-345.
Coccoglypta scrobiculata hupeina – Yen 1939: 153, pl. 15, fig. 63. — Chen & Gao 1987: 159, fig. 205.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China. Hu-bei (Hupei), coll. O. v. Möllendorff, ex coll. Gredler, SMF 42576/ 2 syntypes. — Hupé (Hupei), coll. G. Naegele, ex coll. Gredler, SMF 50091/ 1 syntype; China: Hubei (Hupei), coll. O. Boettger, ex coll. Gredler 1888, SMF 44672/ 1 syntype.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China. Hubei, Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou, Enshi Shi, Mufucun SW 3 km, Enshi Daxiagu, Mother-child Affection; 30°26.029’N, 109°10.260’E; A. Hunyadi leg.; 05.XI.2010; coll. HA/10 shells.
TYPE LOCALITY. — “Hupé”.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. — Hemiplecta scrobiculata hupeiana differs from the nominotypical subspecies by the larger, slightly keeled shell.
MEASUREMENTS. — D: 20.1-23.3 mm, H: 10.9-12.4 mm (n = 4).
REMARKS
The examined syntypes were taken from Gredler’s collection to the Senckenberg Museum by Adolf Zilch (Zilch 1974).
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 595-608 in Zoosystema 41 (29) on page 606, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a29, http://zenodo.org/record/3726110
Permoraphidiidae Tillyard 1932
Creators: name: Béthoux, Olivier
name: Nel, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Permoraphidiidae

description: Family Permoraphidiidae Tillyard, 1932
Composition. Genus Permoraphidia Tillyard, 1932
description: Published as part of Béthoux, Olivier & Nel, André, 2002, Venation pattern and revision of Orthoptera sensu nov. and sister groups. Phylogeny of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Orthoptera sensu nov., pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 96 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156112
Enicospilus senescens
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Soliman, Ahmed M.
name: Rousse, Pascal
name: Al Dhafer, Hathal M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus senescens

description: Enicospilus senescens (Tosquinet, 1896)
Figs 5A, 8E, 12E, 16E, 20E, 27B, 31E
Ophion (Allocamptus) senescens Tosquinet, 1896: 375, ♂.
O. (Allocamptus) infuscatus Tosquinet, 1896: 373, ♂.
Allocamptus rapax Seyrig, 1935: 50, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 18–20; F 11–17; ML 0.1–0.2; CT 1.4–1.8; OOL 0.1, POL 0.45; FI 0.6–0.7; Fl1–2 1.5–1.6; Fl20 2.5–2.7; AI 1.1–1.65; ICI 0.7–1.0; CI 0.8–1.0; SDI 1.6–1.8; NI 2.5.
Body entirely reddish to orange, orbits pale yellowish; mandible with upper tooth about 1.25 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus slightly convex in profile, ventral margin slightly in-turned; face 1.2 × as long as wide; antenna with 51–62 flagellomeres; meso- and metapleura puncto-striate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct, anterior area of propodeum nearly smooth to superficially shagreened, posterior area coarsely reticulate; disco-submarginal cell of fore wing without alar sclerites, Rs+2 r strongly sinuate proximally; hind wing with 5–8 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely setose.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 3, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 30 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 31 Jul. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 2 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 5 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA).
Distribution
Togo, Ghana, Ethiopia, Angola, Central African Republic, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda (Gauld & Mitchell 1978), Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, South Africa, Zimbabwe (Yu et al. 2012), Gabon (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; van Noort 2004); Saudi Arabia (new records).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Rousse, Pascal & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2017, The genus Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) in Saudi Arabia, with twelve new species records and the description of five new species, pp. 1-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 365 on page 45, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291
Investigating the Distal-to-Proximal Shift in Aging Gait
Creators: name: Gladfelter, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Older adults exhibit hallmark declines in gait speed, step length, and ankle kinetics for reasons poorly understood. These age-related changes are thought to be precipitated by decreased mechanical output from the ankle plantar flexors. In order to compensate for these ankle deficits, it has been observed that older adults increase mechanical output at the hip, primarily through the hip extensors. This redistribution of lower limb joint work and power is termed the ‘Distal-to-Proximal Shift.’ However, not all older adults display this redistribution, and others have observed different compensatory actions such as increased hip flexor power. For those who have explored this phenomenon previously have done so through a limited lens by examining changes in gait mechanics and muscle morphology separately. Thus, the first aim of this thesis is to identify age-related differences in muscle volume and fat fraction of the plantar flexors in young and older adults. The second aim of this work is to determine differences in lower limb gait mechanics in both young and older adults. Therefore, this thesis strives to implement a more holistic approach by combining overground gait, dynamometry, and MRI to attempt to elucidate the factors contributing to the ‘Distal-to-Proximal Shift’ in older adult gait. For age-related differences in muscle morphology, muscle volume differences were found in the in the medial gastrocnemius, where older adults had a smaller muscle volume. Furthermore, older adults displayed smaller maximum cross-sectional areas in the gastrocnemii, and older males had a smaller soleus muscle volume and cross-sectional area, but not older females. There were no differences in plantar flexor MVIC, specific torque, peak plantar flexion moment, peak ankle power, and total positive ankle work between young and older adults, suggesting that the older adults included here had youthful retention of their ankle function. However, older adults still displayed greater total positive hip work and redistribution ratio compared to young adults, implicating that they had a greater reliance on the hip musculature for propulsion. This increased reliance on the hip musculature may have negative implications on the metabolic cost of walking in the aging population.
Hymenoepimecis uberensis Padua & Onody 2015
Creators: name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Hymenoepimecis
Hymenoepimecis uberensis

description: Hymenoepimecis uberensis Pádua & Onody, 2015
(Fig. 5A–E)
Diagnosis. 1) body orange, except the head, hind leg (proximal part of coxa orange), and tergites VI+ black; 2) fore wing blackish, with the yellowish hyaline band between the junction of vein RA up to pterostigma until half vein M, pterostigma black; 3) head, in dorsal view, with gena slightly convex behind eyes; 4) face sculptured below the insertion of antennae, with longitudinal carina in the middle region; 5) occipital carina projected, not curved upwards, with a concavity in the apex dorsally; 6) pronotum with the pocket-like structure reduced longitudinally; 7) epicnemial carina absent; 8) sternite I with a ventral projection, spine-like, posteriorly; 9) female with tarsal claw with more or less square lobe, and with apex overtaking the lobe (tarsal claw single in males); 10) female with ovipositor sheath about 1.0 × as long as the hind tibia.
Distribution. Brazil and Peru. This is the first record of the species and genus for Bolivia (Fig. 7E).
Biological notes. Host unknown.
Material examined. BOLIVIA: S. [= Santa] Cruz, Buena Vista, 12.VII.1972 (Porter & Stange leg.), 1♂, FSCA.
description: Published as part of Pádua, Diego G., 2022, First record of the Darwin wasp Hymenoepimecis Viereck, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Argentina and Bolivia, with description of a new species, pp. 49-60 in Zootaxa 5169 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5169.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/6911263
Homaloxestis Meyrick 1910
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
name: Byun, Bong-Kyu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Homaloxestis

description: Genus Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910: 440.
Type species: H. endocoma Meyrick, 1910: 440. Type locality (TL): S. India
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek & Byun, Bong-Kyu, 2007, Review of Homaloxestis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) of the Philippine Islands, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 57-64 in Zootaxa 1449 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176219
The Acquisition of Anaphoric Null Direct Objects by Heritage and Second Language Learners of Brazilian Portuguese
Creators: name: Alves Santos, Alexandre
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Brazilian Portuguese (BP) presents a complex direct object system due to the presence of anaphoric null direct objects. Speakers of BP use a combination of animacy and specificity features to appropriately use anaphoric null direct objects (Schwenter and Silva, 2003). A learnability issue arises in acquiring this system because it involves an interface phenomenon that depends on discourse structure, semantics, and syntax. To observe whether heritage and L2 speakers of BP possess a grammar that includes anaphoric null objects, a truth-value judgment task was employed. The test was adapted from Pérez-Leroux et al. (2008). In the experimental conditions, two pictures were used to create an ambiguous context, presented to participants with both textual and auditory input. The experimental items had two possible interpretations: a transitive interpretation that favored the anaphoric null direct object or an intransitive interpretation that favored the action denoted by the verb. Three groups of participants took part in the task: a control group of native BP speakers, a group of heritage speakers, and a group of adult L2 learners. Results show that native speakers have a significant preference for the anaphoric null object interpretation. Heritage and L2 speakers do not statistically differ from the control group, also showing a bias toward the anaphoric null object interpretation. A chi-square test showed no significant differences between groups. These results are interpreted as evidence of the early acquisition of semantic-syntax v interface phenomena. The findings are consistent with Pérez-Leroux et al.’s (2018) proposal of default transitivity and the Multiple Grammar theory, which predicts access to sub-grammars.
Sondar: Shape and Size Measurements for Moving Targets using Commodity Acoustic Device
Creators: name: Wei, Zhaolong
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Acoustic signals have been used to sense important contextual information of targets such as location and movement. In this paper, we explore its potential for measuring the geometric information of moving targets, i.e., shape and size. To do so, we propose SONDAR, a novel shape and size measurement system using Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) imaging on commodity devices. We first propose a Doppler-free echo alignment method to accurately align the target reflections even if there exists a severe Doppler effect. Then we down-convert the received signals reflected from multiple scatters on the target and construct a modulated downchirp signal to generate the image. We further develop a lightweight approach to extract the geometric information from a 2-D frequency image. We implement and evaluate a proof-of-concept system on both a Bela platform and a smartphone. Extensive experiments show that we can correctly estimate the target shape and achieve a millimeter-level size measurement accuracy. Our system can achieve high accuracies even when the target moves along a deviated trajectory, at a relatively high speed, and under obstruction.
Permoraphidia Tillyard 1932, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Béthoux, Olivier
name: Nel, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Permoraphidiidae
Permoraphidia

description: Genus Permoraphidia Tillyard, 1932
Composition. Permoraphidia americana Tillyard, 1932, P. grandis Carpenter, 1943, P. magnifica sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Béthoux, Olivier & Nel, André, 2002, Venation pattern and revision of Orthoptera sensu nov. and sister groups. Phylogeny of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Orthoptera sensu nov., pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 96 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156112
Design of a Flexible Network Interface Endpoint using a ZYNQ System-on-Chip
Creators: name: Corcoran, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Warfighters in need of a flexible and mission centric framework require consistent and reliable communication between themselves and command centers.  To create a resilient and flexible interface between individual networks, the Flexible Network Interface (FNI) framework creates an intermediary between end users and various types of networks, including commercial and military satellite communication networks, and traditional ground-based networks. The FNI Endpoint communicates between a host and the FlexNet by creating a secure encrypted connection and supporting fast and efficient communication. For security requirements, and the need for network efficiency and flexibility, a customized hardware design is needed for the FNI Endpoint design. A PCB for the FNI Endpoint was developed as a USB to Ethernet dongle that will connect to an end-user’s computer and the FlexNet. The design integrates the AES encryption algorithm with a 256-bit key on a Xilinx XC7Z010 SoC FPGA for the purposes of accelerating encryption using the CTR Block Cipher mode. Software is deployed on the ARM processor of the XC7Z010 using the PetaLinux OS, a Yocto-Linux based kernel for Xilinx SoCs, which interfaces with a USB and Ethernet interface and the AES on the FPGA. This thesis discusses the performance testing and analysis of the FNI Endpoint using the Zybo Z7-10 development board for prototyping. Additionally, the hardware design is detailed, and the design decisions and considerations made to develop the custom PCB are described. Testing of the PCB, regression testing of the endpoint compared to the Zybo implementations, and the end-to-end throughput of the system are measured and evaluated.
L'Inadaptee d'Argelouse: Examining Queerness, Alterity, and Silence in Therese Desqueyroux by Francois Mauriac
Creators: name: Prather, Tristan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Women have taken center stage in French literature for centuries as central protagonists in the struggle for self-definition. Female characters typically struggle under oppressive and repressive gender roles enforced by strict social norms, the lack of property rights in inheritance, and the difficulty in finding gainful employment to provide for a measure of their own autonomy. By examining Francois Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), we find ways in which Thérèse attempts to resist the lot given to her and fight back to gain a chance at self-determination. This study examines the language employed by the author to describe the repression and resilience of this woman, the use of poison as a means to resist patriarchal structures, how patriarchal oppression is portrayed as toxic, the ways in which the repressed sexuality of Thérèse is portrayed in the novel versus the film, and the ways in which her society attempts to resist the autonomy she tries to assert.
D2.1: First study subject approvals  package of the Feasibility Study (FS)
Creators: name: Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The first study subject approvals package includes the final version of the feasibility study (FS) protocol, the registration number of the feasibility study as well as a short report on the ethical approval status at all four sites. Ethical approval was obtained at one of the four sites so far. As a result, the first subject was included in the IDEA-FAST FS as planned in July 2020 (Month 9).

The FS aims to identify candidate digital parameters of fatigue and sleep disturbances to be further tested in the subsequent, larger clinical validation study (CVS). Four European centres (Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel (UKSH), Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/Newcastle University (UNEW), Erasmus University Medical Centre (EMC), and George-Huntington-Institut GmbH (GHI)) will investigate this research question in four parallel studies in different disease populations which include Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s Disease (HD) inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), primary Sjögren’s syndrome (PSS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as well as healthy volunteers (HV). Participants will be asked to report sleep disturbances and fatigue by means of questionnaires and a digital diary during a study period of 28-36 days. During the study period, they will also use various digital devices/technologies for four periods of five days each (devices worn consecutively, maximum of three devices simultaneously in addition to a smartphone). Measures collected through novel digital tools will be compared with traditional measures: i) clinical outcomes (e.g., surveys) and ii) patient-reported outcomes (questionnaires and diaries). Digital measures which best correlate with the patient-reported measures of sleep disturbances and fatigue as well as the clinical outcome measures will be considered for further investigations in the CVS. The FS will also assess usability, acceptability, tolerability and compliance aspects concerning the different digital technologies as well as social functioning measures.
Homaloxestis aganacma Diakonoff 1968
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
name: Byun, Bong-Kyu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 1. Homaloxestis aganacma Diakonoff, 1968
Homaloxestis aganacma Diakonoff, 1968: 129. Type locality (TL): Luzon, Philippines. Type in USNM.
Diagnosis. Wingspan 13 mm. This species was described from a single female from Luzon. The female genitalia are similar to those of H. luzonensis but can be distinguished from the latter by the elongate, rhomboid signum.
Female genitalia. See Diakonoff (1968: fig. 188); antrum cup-shaped, broader distally, weakly sclerotized. Signum rhomboid, elongate, uniformly spinulate on surface.
Material examined. 1Ψ (holotype), Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), gen. prep. no. USNM-89993. Type in USNM.
Distribution. Philippines (Luzon).
Remarks. No additional specimens of H. aganacma Diakonoff have been recorded, despite the fact that many specimens were collected in the vicinity of its type locality.
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek & Byun, Bong-Kyu, 2007, Review of Homaloxestis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) of the Philippine Islands, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 57-64 in Zootaxa 1449 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176219
Poeasia Grishin Zhang, Shen, Cong & Grishin, 2019, subgen. n.
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
name: Shen, Jinhui
name: Cong, Qian
name: Grishin, Nick V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Poeasia Grishin, subgen. n.
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Type species: Emesis poeas Godman, [1901].
Diagnosis. Distinguished from its relatives by more rounded wings, especially in females, absence of metallic dashes and presence of broader, gray and somewhat silvery bands instead (Fig. 2c). In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: nuclear genome: cne703.2.8:A5082G, cne628.1.1:A2634G, cne8205.5.4:A837G, cne239.4.1:T1275C, cne 2803.9.1:A528C; COI barcode region: T13C, T154C, A208T, T533C, and T562C.
Derivation of the name. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular. It is formed from the type species name.
Species included: Only the type species.
Parent taxon: Genus Emesis Fabricius, 1807.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui, Cong, Qian & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Genomic analysis of the tribe Emesidini (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae), pp. 475-488 in Zootaxa 4668 (4) on page 478, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/3449862
Homaloxestis alopecopa Meyrick 1929
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
name: Byun, Bong-Kyu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 2. Homaloxestis alopecopa Meyrick, 1929
Homaloxestis alopecopa Meyrick, 1929: 518. TL: Mindanao, Philippines. Type in BMNH.
Remarks. This species was described from Mindanao, Philippines, based on a single female (1?, Mt. Apo, 6500 ft, May); no additional specimens have been recorded. Moreover, the abdomen of the holotype is missing, so the female genitalia are known. Consequently, it is nearly impossible to diagnose this species because it is superficially similar to other congeners.
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek & Byun, Bong-Kyu, 2007, Review of Homaloxestis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) of the Philippine Islands, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 57-64 in Zootaxa 1449 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176219
Analysis of a Demand Response Transit Resource Forecasting Model, from Planning to Practice
Creators: name: Coleman, Tate
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Traditional funding formulas used by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to fund operations of U.S. public transit programs rely heavily on quantitative metrics such as ridership per service hour and riders per revenue mile. However, these metrics often fail to capture the full impact of transit services, particularly in rural areas where transit serves as a critical lifeline for seniors, individuals with disabilities, and workforce riders. This study explores the impact of rural demand response transit on rider quality-of-life, focusing on a program evaluation case study with the TriTown Connector, a demand-response transit (DRT) program in Southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts.  The TriTown Connector, serving a population of approximately 17,000 across 250 square miles, offers a unique opportunity to evaluate alternative measures of transit program effectiveness. This study uses travel diaries in conjunction with traditional surveys to assess the service's quality-of-life impacts. By exploring how collecting qualitative and quantitative rider data can assist with evaluating rural DRT impact on rider quality-of-life, we aim to understand how the service affects riders’ mobility and well-being throughout their daily lives. This study concludes that incorporating quality-of-life data collection methods into rural transit performance evaluation can provide a more comprehensive assessment of rural transit services, better reflecting their true value to the communities they serve.
Hymenoepimecis veranii Loffredo & Penteado-Dias 2009
Creators: name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Hymenoepimecis
Hymenoepimecis veranii

description: Hymenoepimecis veranii Loffredo & Penteado-Dias, 2009
(Fig. 6A–H)
Diagnosis. 1) body reddish-brown, except head black, fore and middle legs orange, and hind leg reddish (coxa reddish-brown); 2) fore wing fuscous, veins at proximal half black and apical half light brown, pterostigma yellow; 3) head, in dorsal view, with gena slightly concave behind eyes; 4) face smooth and without a carina; 5) occipital carina upcurved and not reduced dorsally; 6) pronotum with the pocket-like structure not reduced longitudinally; 7) epicnemial carina absent; 8) sternite I with a rounded swelling posteriorly; 9) female with tarsal claw with more or less square lobe, and with apex overtaking the lobe (tarsal claw single in males); 10) female with ovipositor sheath about 1.0 × as long as the hind tibia.
Distribution. Brazil. This is the first record of the species and genus for Argentina (Fig. 7F).
Biological notes. Parasitoid of the araneid Araneus omnicolor (Keyserling, 1893) (Gonzaga & Sobczak 2007) and Araneus orgaos Levi, 1991 (Sobczak et al. 2014).
Material examined. ARGENTINA: Prov. [= Province] of Misiones, San Javier, 16.XI.1971 (C.C. Porter leg.), 1♀, FSCA; labelled “ Corrientes, Las Marias, Ca. Virasoro, 10-15.XI.1969 (C. Porter col.), XI.7.71”, 2♂♂, FSCA.
description: Published as part of Pádua, Diego G., 2022, First record of the Darwin wasp Hymenoepimecis Viereck, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Argentina and Bolivia, with description of a new species, pp. 49-60 in Zootaxa 5169 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5169.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/6911263
An Evaluation of Driver Comprehension and Behavior at Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon (PHB) Intervals
Creators: name: Caggiano, Angelina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons (PHB) offer a unique opportunity to facilitate pedestrian crossings at midblock crossing locations. The tri-signal head design includes signal sections displaying two red indications above a single yellow indication and includes 5 distinct phasing intervals previously unfamiliar to drivers: Dark, Flashing Yellow, Solid Yellow, Solid Red, and Flashing Red. Each interval is intended to communicate some aspect of needing to stop, slow or remain cautious to drivers; however, the PHBs effectiveness is only realized if drivers both comprehend the meaning of the specific interval and respond appropriately. The objective of this thesis is to examine the extent to which drivers comprehend each PHB interval and yield to pedestrians. Results from a driver comprehension survey investigates  driver's understanding of PHB intervals: Dark, Flashing Yellow, Solid Yellow, Solid Red, and Flashing Red. The survey’s results provide evidence that driver perceptions are inconsistent with recommended actions in PHB infographics and user guides. Natural field observations were collected from ten PHB installations throughout Massachusetts and included at least 3 hours of video data or 50 actuated crossings. A developed video reduction method was employed to record the number of vehicles that fully stopped, partially stopped, or drove through each PHB interval during a pedestrian crossing event. This research provides insight on driver’s behavior during each of the intervals and their correlation to pedestrian crossing behavior, such as the interval when the pedestrian decides to cross. These results provide the foundation for specific roadway design guidance, such as speed, vehicle and pedestrian volumes, number of lanes, and PHB push button proximity based on the degree to which each attribute impacts driver yielding rates. Furthermore, the results of this study provide direct guidance on each PHB interval for use in educational materials, implementation strategies, and further design of PHB crossings such as interval timing and distance to the pushbutton.