cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Thinning of Poly(methyl methacrylate) and Poly(vinyl chloride) Thin Films Induced by High-Energy Ions of Different Stopping Powers
Creators: name: Thomaz, Raquel
name: Ngono-Ravache, Yvette
name: Severin, Daniel
name: Trautmann, Christina
name: Papaléo, Ricardo M.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Ion bombardment is an important tool of materials processing, but usually leads to erosion of the surface and significant thickness reductions when thin layers are used. The growing use of polymer thin films in a variety of applications, from coatings and membranes to biomedical and electronic devices, calls for a deeper understanding of the thinning process induced by energetic ions especially for very thin films. Here, thinning and surface morphology changes induced by high-energy ion bombardment in PMMA and PVC thin films were investigated, focusing on the role of the initial thickness of the films and the stopping power of the ions. We used thin films with initial thicknesses varying from 13 to 800 nm, and light and heavy ions as projectiles in the energy range of 2–2000 MeV, where the electronic stopping dominates. Thickness reductions as a function of fluence were monitored and thinning cross sections were extracted from curves. A supralinear scaling between the thinning cross sections and the electronic stopping power of the beams was observed, with a much enhanced thinning efficiency for the swift heavy ions. The scaling with the stopping power dE/dx is almost independent of the initial thickness of the films. At intermediate and large fluences, changes in the physicochemical properties of the irradiated polymers may modulate and decelerate the thinning process of the remaining film. The importance of this secondary process depends on the stopping power and the balance between erosion and the chemical transformations induced by the beam. We also observe a trend for the thinning efficiency to become larger in very thin films. Depending on the type of beam and polymer, this effect is more or less pronounced. PMMA films irradiated with 2 MeV H⁺ show the most systematic correlation between initial thickness and thinning cross sections, while in PVC films the initial thickness plays a minor role for all investigated beams.
Satyrites reynesii
Creators: name: Jong, Rienk De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Satyrites
Satyrites reynesii

description: reynesii. Satyrites reynesii Scudder, 1872
Nymphalidae: Satyrinae.
France, Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence; late Oligocene–early Miocene.
Depository: MVMF (holotype).
Published figures: Leestmans (1983: Figs 9–10); Scudder (1875: Pl. I Figs 2, 5).
The original description (Scudder 1872) is repeated by Scudder (1875), who erected a new genus for the fossil: Lethites. Kozlov (1988) accepted Scudder’s genus switch. The poorly preserved specimen bears only the forewings, which yield some usable characters. Subcosta basally strongly swollen; radial formula 1, 2, 3+(4+5), cell closed. A swollen subcosta is typical, but not universal, for Satyrinae (Nymphalidae), but this character occurs in some genera of the Biblidinae as well (Biblis, Ergolis, Eurytela, Hypanis, Vila). In Nymphalinae with swollen Sc, the cell is usually open or at least, the ldc is weak. In the fossil ldc seems to be fairly strong. Thus, it is plausible to consider the fossil a member of the Satyrinae. According to Scudder it is similar to the recent genera Lethe and Cercyonis, but it is not clear why it should be more similar to these genera than to any other satyrine genus. The similarity is not an indication of relationship, since Lethe and Cercyonis are only remotely related (Wahlberg et al. 2009). Moreover, in Lethe there are no basally swollen veins in the forewing (Ackery et al. 1999).
Neorinopsis, Pseudoneorina, Neorinella and Satyrites have been classified, without comment, as fossil genera belonging to the subtribe Lethina of the tribe Satyrini by Wahlberg & Peña (2015), but these choices are not supported by apomorphies. For further details, see the discussion under Neorinella garciae and Neorinopsis sepulta.
description: Published as part of Jong, Rienk De, 2017, Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4270 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583183
Manuela Niethammer, Marcel Schweder & Manuela Liebig (2024) (Hrsg.): Didaktiken der Beruflichen Fachrichtungen. Optimierung getrennt-gemeinsam denken.
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Dennis
Publisher: name: SLUB Dresden
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3
subject: Social Sciences::370: Education
classificationCode: 3
subject: Social Sciences::300: Social Sciences

description: Im Rahmen des Lehramtsstudiums für berufsbildende Schulen obliegt den Didaktiken der Beruflichen Fachrichtungen die Aufgabe, die Studierenden zur berufs(feld)bezogenen Planung, Gestaltung und Bewertung kompetenzorientierter Lehr-Lern-Settings zu befähigen. Vor diesem Hintergrund führen die Didaktiken die Erkenntnisse der Fachwissenschaften, der Berufs- und Arbeitswissenschaften, der Berufspädagogik sowie der Lehr- und Lernpsychologie zusammen. Wenngleich sich die Didaktiken der Beruflichen Fachrichtungen aufgrund ihres Berufsfeldbezugs unterscheiden, bietet ein transdisziplinärer Austausch die Chance, sich der konstituierenden, d.h. sowohl fachrichtungsübergreifender wie auch -spezifischer, Konstruktionsprinzipien zu vergewissern und die Didaktiken hierüber zu stärken. Der Sammelband ist das Ergebnis eines Symposiums zur Frage nach der Möglichkeit einer getrennt-gemeinsamen Optimierung der Didaktiken und zugleich Zwischenstand eines notwendigen Diskurses.
Microplocia puncticollis Heller 1924
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Microplocia
Microplocia puncticollis

description: 30. Microplocia puncticollis Heller, 1924
Philippines: Luzon isl., Quirino, Madela, Disimongal, Sierra Madre, 12.2015 (1, local collector leg.); Luzon isl., Rizal, Tanay, 12.2015 (1, local collector leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Techniques and tools for secure web browser extension development
Creators: name: Karim, Rezwana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Many modern application platforms support an extensible architecture that allows the application core to be extended with functionality developed by third-parties. This bootstraps a developer community that works together to enhance and customize the basic functionality of those platforms. To ease development of such extensions, these platforms expose an API that third-parties can use to implement their functionality. For instance, Web applications make use of the browser’s Document Object Model (DOM) API, smart phone applications use the mobile platform’s SDK and browser extensions use the extension API. These APIs usually endow extension developers with privileges to access various system resources. However, to isolate the platform from any new security threats caused by these untrusted extensions, the API must ideally restrict extensions’ authority. Thus, an important challenge is to simplify extension programming for the third-party developers while ensuring that these extensions do not compromise the security of the application core.           This dissertation seeks to address the above issues in the context of Web browser extensions. It presents algorithms and tools to facilitate secure Web browser extension development. In particular, it makes the following two contributions.           First, it studies and characterizes the security of a modern Web browser extension architecture, the Mozilla Jetpack framework — proposes solutions to improve the security of the architecture and extensions developed on top of it. It presents Beacon, which leverages JavaScript-level information flow technique to detect unsafe programming practices in browser extensions. Upon analyzing 68000 lines of JavaScript code from modern extension framework and real world extensions, Beacon found 36 instances of potentially unsafe programming practices.           Second, it addresses the problem of porting unsafe legacy extensions to modern, privilege- separated extension architectures. It presents Morpheus, which applies program analysis and software engineering techniques that refactor legacy vulnerable extensions for use with modern extension frameworks, the Jetpack framework in particular. Morpheus also enables fine-grained control over extensions via a runtime policy enforcement engine. Morpheus has been applied to successfully port 52 legacy Mozilla extensions to the Jetpack framework.
Falsoropica lata Breuning 1960
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Falsoropica
Falsoropica lata

description: 31. Falsoropica lata Breuning, 1960
Philippines: Luzon isl., Apayao, Conner, 06.2016 (1, local collector leg.); Luzon isl., Aurora, Ditumabo, Sierra Madre, 03.2018 (1, local collector leg.); Luzon isl., Nueva Viscaya, Kayapa, 04.2018 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao isl., Davao del Sur, Kapatagan, 05.2020 (1, local collector leg.); Mindanao isl., Lanao del Sur, Bayog, 03.2021 (1, local collector leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Flexible continuous manufacturing platforms for solid dispersion formulations
Creators: name: Karry-Rivera, Krizia Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In 2013 16,000 people died in the US due to overdose from prescription drugs and synthetic narcotics. As of that same year, 90% of new molecular entities in the pharmaceutical drug pipeline are classified as poor water-soluble. The work in this dissertation aims to design, develop and validate platforms that solubilize weak acids and can potentially deter drug abuse. These platforms are based on processing solid dispersions via solvent-casting and hot-melt extrusion methods to produce oral transmucosal films and melt tablets.     To develop these platforms, nanocrystalline suspensions and glassy solutions were solvent-casted in the form of films after physicochemical characterizations of drug-excipient interactions and design of experiment approaches. A second order model was fitted to the emulsion diffusion process to predict average nanoparticle size and for process optimization. To further validate the manufacturing flexibility of the formulations, glassy solutions were also extruded and molded into tablets. This process included a systematic quality-by-design (QbD) approach that served to identify the factors affecting the critical quality attributes (CQAs) of the melt tablets.     These products, due to their novelty, lack discriminatory performance tests that serve as predictors to their compliance and stability. Consequently, Process Analytical Technology (PAT) tools were integrated into the continuous manufacturing platform for films. Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, including chemical imaging, combined with deconvolution algorithms were utilized for a holistic assessment of the effect of formulation and process variables on the product’s CQAs. Biorelevant dissolution protocols were then established to improve the in-vivo in-vitro correlation of the oral transmucosal films.     In conclusion, the work in this dissertation supports the delivery of poor-water soluble drugs in products that may deter abuse. Drug nanocrystals ensured high bioavailability, while glassy solutions enabled drug solubilization in polymer matrices. PAT tools helped in characterizing the micro and macro structure of the product while also used as a control strategy for manufacturing. The systematic QbD assessment enabled identification of the variables that significantly affected melt tablet performance and their potential as an abuse deterrent product. Being that these glassy products are novel systems, biorelevant protocols for testing dissolution performance of films were also developed.
Exploration of solid helium 4 at multiple frequencies using a compound torsional oscillator
Creators: name: Keiderling, Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Apparent but controversial evidence of supersolidity, a coexistence of crystalline and superfluid states, was observed in 2004. Samples of solid 4He were grown, in a chamber, inside a torsion oscillator (TO). The samples showed evidence of apparent decoupling from their container in the form of a resonant frequency increase of the TO as the temperature was lowered. We have developed a Compound torsion oscillator (CTO), with two resonant modes, that allows us to observe a single solid helium sample at two frequencies simultaneously. This thesis will cover the first comprehensive study on the frequency dependence of the apparent supersolid effect. This includes a study of the effect of varying 3He concentrations (x3) on the frequency dependence. Additionally a study on how changes in x3 affect the dissipation, which previous studies of x3 dependence have not explored. Also studied is how varying x3 affected the hysteresis first observed by Aoki et al. The CTO has allowed the exploration of the amplitude dependent effects in new ways. By exciting the sample at both frequencies simultaneously and varying the driving amplitude of one mode one can see how excitations at one mode affect what is observed at the other.   The studies of the effects of varying x3 show results that are consistent with the dislocation movement model proposed by Iwasa. The collected data was not consistent with the simple supersolid model initially proposed. The studies of hysteresis show that the onset of hysteresis was dependent on x3 but was not frequency dependent. This lends credit to the hysteresis being due to the pinning and unpinning of 3He impurities. The studies of the effect of amplitude dependent effects show an asymmetry between the two frequencies. The higher frequency has a larger effect on the lower frequency than the lower frequency has on the higher. This is also inconsistent with the initial simple supersolid model.
Nymphalites scudderi
Creators: name: Jong, Rienk De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Nymphalites
Nymphalites scudderi

description: scudderi. Nymphalites scudderi Beutenmüller & Cockerell, 1908
Incertae sedis.
USA, Colorado, Teller County, Florissant; late Priabonian, late Eocene.
Depositories: AMNH (holotype), UCNH (counterpart?).
Published figures: Cockerell (1908: Pl. V Fig. 6); Emmel et al. (1992: Fig. 1 /9).
The specimen is a large insect, with a forewing length of 39 mm. Venation not visible. According to the original description in Cockerell (1908), the pattern is uniformly dark with abroad, unsharp, pale, submarginal band and is reminiscent of Basilarchia (now Limenitis). Since this is the only reason for considering the specimen a member of the Nymphalidae, the position of the fossil is highly uncertain. The size of the forewing, if compared to modern taxa, suggests that the fossil either belonged to Nymphalidae or Papilionidae, but we do not know what these butterflies looked like, say, 30 million years ago. Emmel et al. (1992) placed the fossil in Nymphalinae, apparently only because of the superficial resemblance to Limenitis weidemeyerii Edwards in wing markings, although they remarked that the shape of the forewing is different.
description: Published as part of Jong, Rienk De, 2017, Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4270 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583183
Additional file 3: Figure S2. of Increased plasma lipid levels exacerbate muscle pathology in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Creators: name: Milad, Nadia
name: White, Zoe
name: Tehrani, Arash
name: Sellers, Stephanie
name: Rossi, Fabio
name: Bernatchez, Pascal
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Heart function parameters on chow and Western diets. Percent fractional shortening (A), cardiac output in mL/min (B), left ventricular diastolic diameter (C) and systolic diameter in mm (D), left ventricular diastolic volume (E) and stroke volume in μL (F). Chow: WT (n = 3), ApoE (n = 5), mdx (n = 6), and mdx-ApoE (n = 11). Western: WT (n = 6), ApoE (n = 7), mdx (n = 6), and mdx-ApoE (n = 11). Mean + SEM. (PDF 176 kb)
Additional file 3: of A two-state comparative implementation of peer-support intervention to link veterans to health-related services after incarceration: a study protocol
Creators: name: Simmons, Molly
name: Fincke, Benjamin
name: Mari-Lynn Drainoni
name: Kim, Bo
name: Byrne, Tom
name: Smelson, David
name: Casey, Kevin
name: Ellison, Marsha
name: Visher, Christy
name: Blue-Howells, Jessica
name: D. McInnes
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Interview Guides. (DOCX 25 kb)
"Fortune's ever-changing face" in early modern literature and thought
Creators: name: Kelly, Erin Kathleen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Although fortune is ubiquitous in Renaissance literature, treatments of it rarely agree about precisely what it is. “Fortune” often seems self-contradictory, at times associated with unpredictable chance and at other times with the inexorable unfolding of Providential design. Some writers treat it as a force of change beyond human control; others, as a pattern that reveals itself to those cunning enough to seize the opportunity. But what all of these “faces” of fortune have in common is a preoccupation with different ways of knowing: is randomness a feature of the world itself, or a reflection of one’s limited ability to understand causes that come about by necessity? The early modern period was characterized by a burgeoning interest in the problem of contingent knowledge: the Reformation sparked debates about the necessity or contingency of salvation, the rise of modern statecraft necessitated new strategies for governance, exploration opened new markets and challenged wisdom about how trade works, and the New Science used empirical data to back up tentative hypotheses. The question early moderns confronted when they debated the nature of fortune, I argue, was more complicated than whether an actual entity called “Fortune” exists and controls some outcomes; it was about how a concept called “fortune” could be a useful category for navigating contingent knowledge in these various fields. My dissertation claims that fortune enabled Renaissance thinkers and writers, including Shakespeare, Spenser, Bacon, and Jonson, to confront questions about contingency and the extent of human agency. My focus on fortune as an integral feature of literary narratives contributes to a growing body of criticism about literature’s philosophical purchase. In particular, the issues fortune raises regarding certainty, time, and perspective serve as a fulcrum of literary plotting, demanding that audiences constantly reevaluate what constitutes chance or necessity and interpret order and chaos as relative to one’s frame of reference. Literature serves as a crucial site for speculative inquiry that suspends questions of certainty, thereby revealing an alternate history of uncertainty that resists triumphalist narratives of the rise of rational modernity.
Plaxomicrus foliaceus Holzschuh 2018
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Plaxomicrus
Plaxomicrus foliaceus

description: 32. Plaxomicrus foliaceus Holzschuh, 2018
Vietnam: Quang Tri, Da Krong, 800 m, 06.2019 (1, local collector leg.).
This species was described by Holzschuh (2018) from Vietnam, Tam Dao. This is the first published information about the finding of this species after the original description.
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Inference of 3D shape from line drawings
Creators: name: Kim, Seha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Line drawings lack direct 3D depth information, yet human vision easily perceives the 3D shapes from the contours. This dissertation investigates the mechanisms underlying the 3D shape inference from 2D line drawings. Here, four psychophysical experiments and a computational model for the 3D shape inference are discussed. Experiment 1 shows that human responses in depth judgments for line drawings reflect an underlying uncertainty of the perceived 3D shape, which is based on the complex interaction of local and global depth cues propagated from the contours. The computational model estimates the posterior probability of possible 3D surfaces from the contours of a line drawing in a Bayesian framework. The comparison of the model predictions and human depth responses for the line drawings from Experiment 1 demonstrates that the model accounts for the probabilistic 3D shape interpretation of line drawings by human vision. Experiment 2 shows that the reliability of a contour segment in a line drawing as a meaningful depth cue is conditional to the complex global context. Experiments 3 and 4 show that the certainty of depth difference perceptions from partial line drawings increases as more non-local visual cues are available. The experiments and the model offer a new perspective on 3D shape perception from line drawings as an inference based on the probability over possible 3D shapes given the contour cues, providing a broader understanding on the mechanisms of human vision.
Takemitsu's musical journey into ocean
Creators: name: Kim, Wuiyeon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Tōru Takemitsu, one of the most important Japanese composers of the twentieth century, holds a truly unique position among Asian composers. While a large number of Asian composers trained in Western art music strove to find their own voices by presenting the characteristic musical materials of their traditional music in the foreground or compromising between Eastern and Western traditions, Takemitsu never tried to reconcile East and West in a conciliatory manner or give weight to either of them. Indeed, his output, especially that of his mature third period, allowed his original voice to flourish, moving beyond and blurring the distinction between the two different traditions. In this essay, I trace Takemitsu’s musical journey. Specifically, I discuss his aversion to Japanese music during his early years, the influences of various Western contemporaries such as Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage, and the reconciliation of his Japanese identity with Western training and influences, his active employment of diverse non-musical subjects such as water and dream, and the resurrection of tonal materials in his third period. I then provide an analysis of one of the representative works of his third period, I Hear the Water Dreaming.
MOESM1 of Derivation and validation of a prognostic model for postoperative risk stratification of critically ill patients with faecal peritonitis
Creators: name: Tridente, Ascanio
name: Bion, Julian
name: Mills, Gary
name: Gordon, Anthony
name: Geraldine. Clarke
name: Walden, Andrew
name: Hutton, Paula
name: Holloway, Paul
name: Jean-Daniel Chiche
name: Stuber, Frank
name: Garrard, Christopher
name: Hinds, Charles
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Derivation and validation of a prognostic model for postoperative risk stratification of critically ill patients with faecal peritonitis.
Dorcaschesis balanceana Vives 2015
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Dorcaschesis
Dorcaschesis balanceana

description: 33. Dorcaschesis balanceana Vives, 2015
Philippines: Luzon isl., Aurora, Dingalan, 06.2020 (1, local collector leg.).
This species was described by Vives (2015) from Luzon Island, Balance. This is the first faunistic data for this species after the original description.
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
QISHLOQ XO'JALIGI SUB'EKTLARINING INVESTITSIYA FAOLIYATIDAN FOYDALANISH SAMARADORLIGI
Creators: name: Zaripov, Azamat
name: Umurzakova, Shaxzoda
name: Mamadaliyeva, Gulasal
name: Ravufov, Behruz
name: Jo'raboyev, Xasanjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Tadqiqotning dolzarbligi investitsiya faoliyati jarayonini baholash korxona uchun potentsial foyda va xavf parametrlaridan iborat bo'lishi kerakligi bilan belgilanadi. Ushbu yondashuv ko'proq korxona boshqaruviga yo'naltirilgan va resurslarni hisobga olish sohasidagi moliyaviy vaziyatga potentsial ta'sirni baholash va prognozlash va prognoz tuzilmasida individual ma'lumotlarni taqdim etish imkoniyatlarini yanada rivojlantirishni talab qiladi. Mualliflar asosiy klassik yondashuvlarni o'rganib, korxonaning investitsiya faoliyatini baholashning uslubiy yondashuvini ochib beradi va kapitaldan foydalanish samaradorligi ko'rsatkichlarini, mehnat resurslari va kapital qo'yilmalarni ko'rib chiqadi.
Include everything
Creators: name: Klaver, Rebecca
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation argues that women poets across post-1945 U.S. avant-garde movements shared an investment in creating new poetic forms that both valorized and critiqued the gendered conditions of everyday life. “The feminist everyday” designates a shared aesthetic tendency that consists of both the common impulse to “include everything” and the wide range of innovative forms that resulted from this inclusiveness. While previous narratives of U.S. feminist poetics have generally emphasized new content on the one hand or new forms on the other, the feminist everyday underscores how innovations in content and form can, and often must, go hand in hand, producing a poetics of personal experiment. The radical inclusion of women’s quotidian experiences produced poems that were everyday rather than lofty, improvisatory rather than carefully chiseled, or a series of modules rather than a continuous whole. Instead of excluding the ostensibly “unpoetic” (street slang, babies’ cries, nightmares, interruptions, complaints, chores, brand names), the poet invents new forms (sketch, pamphlet, transcription) that accommodate this new subject matter. While many later-20th-century women poets shared this aesthetic tendency, the feminist everyday appears most strikingly in the poems written from the 1950s to the 1980s by Diane di Prima, Sonia Sanchez, Lyn Hejinian, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley, poets whose brilliant experiments remain understudied even as their influence on subsequent generations of writers continues to grow.     “The everyday” here indicates the conditions of daily life that produce gendered identities and especially the temporal rhythms that correspond to these conditions, including repetition, interruption, and real-time lived experience. Theories of the everyday, beginning with Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau and continuing through a growing body of contemporary thought, provide ways of conceptualizing the ambivalent, overdetermined relationship between femininity and everydayness. As the poets simultaneously reclaim so-called trivial aspects of women’s lives and expose the forces that have required women to serve as custodians of the banal, they create poems of double-edged feminist revaluation and critique that hold together these contradictions, making women’s lives and work visible and valuable even as they necessarily critique the tedium of the everyday.
Segmented labor markets and monetary policy
Creators: name: Ko, Dong-Whan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation examines the impact of a segmented labor market on aggregate dynamics and discusses optimal monetary policy. The first chapter investigates whether differentials in labor market variables in segmented labor markets have an aggregate effect. I find a mechanism by which a segmented labor market model generates stickier aggregate nominal wages and thus more volatile output, employment ratio and unemployment rate. In the second chapter, I estimate the extended version of the model using a typical Bayesian estimation method in which the model incorporates several features that are common in medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE Models. The estimation results confirm the results obtained by the calibrated model of the first chapter. In particular, the estimates for the labor supply and demand elasticity of low-skilled workers are greater than those of high-skilled workers. In the third chapter, I discuss an optimal monetary policy, taking into account income inequality. The model shows that a tight monetary policy leads to an increase in income inequality. This increase in inequality induces stickier aggregate nominal wages. I also find that the income inequality poses a policy trade-off with traditional objectives. A quantitative analysis shows that a monetary policy that concerned aggregate variables only causes a larger welfare loss after idiosyncratic productivity shocks.
The embarrassment of literary biography
Creators: name: Kotch, Amanda J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation argues that the embarrassments associated with literary biography in the nineteenth century should be understood as productive confrontations between affect and analysis.  By definition, "embarrassment" can refer to the uncomfortable self-exposure one experiences from unanticipated social interactions, but it can also refer to the kind of confusion and perplexity that obscures meaning.  I examine intellectually generative relationships in late nineteenth-century biographical writing—including those between friends, critics, readers, and admirers—to show how these relationships inform twentieth-century theories of authorship that otherwise reject biography for its potentially embarrassing combination of commemoration and criticism.   In the first chapter, I explore how in the Life of Charles Dickens, John Forster transforms the definitive moment of embarrassment in the novelist's life—the period in which the young Dickens worked in a factory to support his family—into evidence for the critical claim that Dickens's novels draw on personal circumstances to move beyond the individual life as a model for fiction.  Chapter two situates the embarrassing relationship between biography and realist fiction in the literary culture of the late nineteenth century.  I argue that the writings of George Gissing suggest how novelists critical of biography as a moneymaking venture might make exceptions to convert their biographical work into cultural capital.     Whereas the first two chapters focus on the use of biography to evaluate fictional representations of real life, the second half of the project turns from social and cultural forms of embarrassment towards the critical and interpretive embarrassments that concern the literary artist.  Chapter three examines how the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde perpetuate the idea of biography as consisting of what I call "debased intentionalism."  The fourth chapter analyzes early twentieth century studies of biography that seek to define its relationship to aesthetic form; I argue that these studies propose ways in which biography can adapt to an increasingly specialized culture of knowledge.  My dissertation demonstrates how the creative negotiations of embarrassment in late nineteenth-century biographical writing continue to shape reading practices that are marked by the affective tension between literary lives and literary interpretation, within and outside of institutions.
Effects of flame retardants on arcuate gene expression and energy homeostasis in mice
Creators: name: Krumm, Elizabeth Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Flame retardants (FR), including polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) congener 2,2’,4,4’tetrabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47) and organophosphate FR (OPFR) are ubiquitous in the environment and interact with multiple target receptors, including estrogen receptors (ERs). Estrogenic endocrine disruptors (EDCs) such as bisphenol A (BPA) affect reproduction and energy homeostasis and modulate hypothalamic functions including gene expression.  Developmental exposures to EDCs also alter offspring energy homeostasis, although little is known about the effects of FR, especially OPFR. Therefore, we investigated if exposure to FR alters genes in arcuate nucleus (ARC) that are known to be regulated by 17-β estradiol (E2) through classical ER in adults and if developmental exposures to FR elicit negative energy balance in adulthood. In Experiment 1, adult male and female mice were orally dosed daily vehicle (oil), 17-α- ethinyl estradiol (2.5 μg/kg) as a positive control, BDE-47 low or high dose (1 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg), and OPFR mixture low or high dose (1 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg of tris (1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP), triphenyl phosphate (TPP), and tricresyl phosphate (TCP) each) for 28 days. ARC mRNA expression, weekly cumulative body weight gain, and female uteri were measured. In Experiment 2, pregnant female mice were fed vehicle, BDE-47 (1mg/kg), and OPFR mixture (1mg/kg) from gestational day 7 (GD7) to postnatal day (PND) 14. Neonatal pup body weight, anogenital distance (AGD), and sex ratio were measured. Weanlings were fed normal or high-fat diet (ND or HFD) and body weights and food intake were measured weekly until PND140. Adults were tested for body composition, metabolic parameters, and glucose homeostasis. While FR altered E2-regulated ARC gene expression in both sexes, there were more striking effects of FR on males.  FR amplify effects of HFD, but also promote negative energy balance when given ND in males. In females, FR increased effects of HFD on body weight gain. These data suggest that these FR alter ARC homeostatic gene expression and energy balance in sex-dependent manner.
Microrhodopina flavescens Breuning 1982
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Microrhodopina
Microrhodopina flavescens

description: 34. Microrhodopina flavescens Breuning, 1982 (Fig. 6)
Philippines: Luzon isl., Isabela, Didin, 11.2014 (1, local collector leg.); Luzon isl., Quirino, Madela, Disimongal, Sierra Madre, 12.2015 (1, local collector leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Observing and optimizing online ad assignments
Creators: name: Kruševskaja, Darja
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The main focus of this thesis work is on optimization and observation of ad assignments in online ad markets. Online ad markets allocate billions of impressions to advertisers while satisfying an array of constraints. Their revenues support the Internet ecosystem. They highlight theory problems and inspire systems research. In this thesis work we initiate the study that seeks to understand mechanisms and dynamics of advertising markets. We develop a scalable crawling capability that allows us to harvest a corpus of ads across a large number of websites and user profiles. We establish that user profile is essential in display ad markets: 50% of observed websites have at least 80% of their ads targeted at profiles. Further, we introduce cardinal auctions for selling multiple copies of a good, in which bidders specify not only their bid or how much they are willing to pay for the good, but also a cardinality constraint on the maximum size of the allocation in which they are willing to participate. We perform the first known analyses of Price of Anarchy and revenue of cardinal auctions. Finally, we  introduce a new class of online allocation problems with secondary metrics, in which the goal is to optimize one metric (e.g., revenue), while meeting another (e.g., cost of user conversion). We suggest a number of theoretical approaches to the problem and test one of them in a real-world setting by using it in ad allocation in a ad network.
Insight into microalgal-bacterial consortia for sustainable wastewater treatment. Investigations at lab-scale with real wastewater
Creators: name: Petrini, Serena
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: High costs for aeration, greenhouse-gas emissions and excess sludge disposal have entailed a paradigm shift in the wastewater treatment.
Microalgal-bacterial-based wastewater treatments have gained increasing attention because of their potential in energy demand reduction and biomass resource recovery. In particular, photosynthetic oxygenation is combined with bacterial activity to treat wastewater avoiding external artificial aeration. To optimize the technology in order to become more competitive than activated sludge, an in-depth investigation about the treatment performance and the microbiology interactions under real operational condition is needed.
This work focused on the study of wastewater-borne microalgal-bacterial consortia treating real municipal wastewater. The main objectives were to: (i) Understand the removal mechanisms and the influence of operational conditions to optimize the process; (ii) Analyze the microbial community. At first, a photo-sequencing batch reactor (PSBR), called Pilot, was started up and continuously monitored for two years to analyze the evolution of the treatment performance and of the biomass composition. At the same time, other two lab-scale PSBRs were installed to evaluate if microalgal inoculation is essential to start up a consortium. Samples of these consortia were collected over a period of one year and analyzed through microscopic observations, flow cytometry and metagenomics, to investigate the microbial structure and diversity.A second part of the research focused on the optimization of the Pilot to explore its limit in view of the scale-up of the system. In addition, respirometry was adapted to test microalgal-bacterial consortia to estimate the removal kinetic parameters for future modelling.
To conclude, the research project addressed many aspects and lay the foundation to apply a methodological research approach to scale-up this promising technology.
Representation of the body in the lateral striatum of the freely moving rat
Creators: name: Kulik, Julianna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Numerous studies have shown that certain types of striatal interneurons might play a crucial role in selection and regulation of striatal output. Among these, striatal Fast-Spiking Interneurons (FSIs) are parvalbumin positive, GABAergic interneurons that constitute less than 1% of the total striatal population. FSIs display a strong medial
Centrifugal forming and mechanical properties of silicone-based elastomers for soft robotic actuators
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Parth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This thesis describes the centrifugal forming and resulting mechanical properties of silicone-based elastomers for the manufacture of soft robotic actuators. This process is effective at removing bubbles that get entrapped within 3D-printed, enclosed molds. Conventional methods for rapid prototyping of soft robotic actuators to remove entrapped bubbles typically involve degassing under vacuum, with open-faced molds that limit the layout of formed parts to raised 2D geometries. As the functionality and complexity of soft robots increase, there is a need to mold complete 3D structures with controlled thicknesses or curvatures on multiples surfaces. In addition, characterization of the mechanical properties of common elastomers for these soft robots has lagged the development of new designs. As such, relationships between resulting material properties and processing parameters are virtually non-existent. One of the goals of this thesis is to provide guidelines and physical insights to relate the design, processing conditions, and resulting properties of soft robotic components to each other. Centrifugal forming with accelerations on the order of 100 g’s is capable of forming bubble-free, true 3D components for soft robotic actuators, and resulting demonstrations in this work include an aquatic locomotor, soft gripper, and an actuator that straightens when pressurized. Finally, this work shows that the measured mechanical properties of 3D geometries fabricated within enclosed molds through centrifugal forming possess comparable mechanical properties to vacuumed materials formed from open-faced molds with raised 2D features.
IN2WOOD Joint Action Plan D3.5
Creators: name: Kies, Uwe
name: Oberwimmer, Roland
name: Mühlberg, Christoph
name: Hoffmann, Marie-Charlotte
Publisher: name: IIWH Internationales Institut für Wald und Holz NRW e.V., Holzcluster Steiermark GmbH, TIS Südtirol KAG
Year: 2012

description: IN2WOOD is a joint coordination action of the Regions of Knowledge initiative (RoK) funded from 2010 to 2012 under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. It is a partnership of six European forest regions, namely Styria (Austria), North-Rhine Westphalia (Germany), South Tyrol (Italy), Grisons (Switzerland), Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) and Carpathia (Ukraine), which aim via the elaboration of a Joint Action Plan (JAP) at developing a lasting network of competitive regional forest clusters and trigger new collaborations for the future strengthening of their complementary R&D potentials.

The project targets key domains in the forest sector’s future development: wood production, wood construction, wood biomass and energy, logistics, cluster development and innovation. In a coordinated effort, the consortium analysed each region’s R&D SWOT profile, compiled sets of recommended actions for each region and evaluated these reciprocally. Finally, the Joint Actions & Strategies were concluded, which summarize the regions’ matching R&D demand and offer, strategic priorities and mutual interests as well as constellations of possible multilateral partnerships for future action and joint coordination.

The JAP lays the foundation for new R&D collaborations among complementary partner regions. The upcoming steps are dedicated to Pilot Concepts, which will deliver synergetic plans and proposals for follow-up projects and measures towards their implementation. These efforts will be accompanied by further Dissemination activities to communicate the project’s purpose widely within and beyond the forest sector and obtain regional decision-makers’ and stakeholders’ endorsement of the foreseen actions.

 Funded by the European Commission, FP7-REGIONS CSA grant no. 245457, Jan 2010 - Jun 2012, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/245457
THE DISADVANTAGES OF AGENCY BANKING IN NIGERIA'S FINANCIAL SECTOR
Creators: name: Chika, David Eze
name: Nnena, Chiamaka Obi
Publisher: name: keith journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Downside: Agency: Banking: Nigeria

description: The study was conducted to investigate the downside of agency banking in Nigeria using Enugu South LGA of Enugu State as a case study. This study adopted the survey research resign. The survey was designed to elicit responses from respondents on the downside of agency banking in Enugu South LGA of Enugu State, Nigeria. The source of data was primary, obtained through the administration of questionnaire to agent bankers (POS operators) within the area of study. The population of the study consists of all POS operators in Nigeria. The sample size was calculated using the general formula for determining the sample size of an unknown population. The study used both descriptive and inferential statistics and the hypotheses were tested at 5% level of significance. It was found that robbery and liquidity shortage militate against the operation of agency banking. The study therefore recommends that the agent banker should ensure the availability of adequate cash that can reasonably serve customers without running into shortages or surplus of money while the government and commercial banks should partner in ensuring adequate security necessary for the operation of agency banking in Nigeria.
Mimectatina singularis Aurivillius 1927
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Mimectatina
Mimectatina singularis

description: 35. Mimectatina singularis Aurivillius, 1927
(Fig. 7)
Philippines: Mindanao isl., Agusan del Sur, San Francisco, 04.2018 (1, local collector leg.).
This is the first record of the species for Mindanao island, the Philippines.
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476