cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Does the amount of participation matter? Public comments, agency responses and the time to finalize a regulation
Creators: name: Shapiro, Stuart
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Administrative regulation drafting
Public comment
Boolean analysis
Administrative procedure
Rulemaking

description: The notice and comment rulemaking process is a fundamental part of how agencies write regulations. While this process is starting to receive more empirical attention, the question of how the number of comments that an agency receives affects its decision-making process has received little examination. This paper uses Boolean analysis to examine nine rules from two agencies at the Department of Health and Human Services and evaluates the impact of a high volume of comments on agency changes to proposed rules and the time an agency takes to finalize a proposed rule. These nine cases suggest that agencies are most likely to change their proposals when they receive a high volume of comments on highly complex rules that are not very politically salient. Highly complex rules are also likely to take a long time to finalize when there are many public comments however it is often other factors that cause a long delay between proposed and final rules.
Briefly Noted: Fastitocalon 6.1/2 and Hither Shore 12
Creators: name: Croft, Janet Brennan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Fantasy
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

description: Reviews of FASTITOCALON: STUDIES IN FANTASTICISM ANCIENT TO MODERN. Special issue: Fantastic Animals, Animals in the Fantastic and HITHER SHORE: INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON MODERN FANTASY LITERATURE. Special issue: Tolkien’s On Fairy-stories.
Writing multi-layered articles - the example of the Journal of Digital History
Creators: name: Clavert, Frédéric
name: Guérard, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: journal of digital history, digital history, multi-layered article, digital publication, digital edition

description: The first issue of the Journal of Digital History (JDH) went out in October 2021. A joint-venture with De Gruyter Publishing group, the JDH is open access (no fees for authors) and encourages open data. Its distinctiveness is that it implements the concept of multilayered articles, that is based on a long-lasting history of thinking on the future of academic writings (Darnton). This implementation is based on a specifically designed infrastructure based on open source software, with Jupyter notebooks at its heart. JDH’s articles are composed of three layers: a narrative layer (the presentation of the results of a research), an hermeneutics layer (exposing methodologies, uses of digital tools, and code), and a data layer (the dataset itself).
 The workshop will be divided into two parts. The first part will show the attendees how to set up their writing environment (https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/guidelines). This includes: installing jupyter notebooks and several extensions (nbextensions, cite2c), linking their writing environment to their Zotero account, setting up a github repository (optional, but strongly recommended). After the familiarization with the environment, the second part will focus on how to write an article and preview it on the JDH front-end (https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/notebook-viewer-form - for this interface, using a github repo is mandatory).
Property Preservation by Tessellation Automata
Creators: name: Ostrand, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1972

description: The tessellation automaton is a specific model of an infinite cellular array of uniform, interconnected finite state machines. A TA is specified as a four component system, M = (A,Zd, X,I). A is the finite set of states assumable by each individual machine in the array. The tessellation space or array is Zd, the set of lattice points of d-dimensional Euclidean space. Each lattice point is called a cell of the space, and a single finite state machine occupies each cell. The interconnections among the machines are specified by the neighborhood index, X, an ordered sequence of points of Zd. An individual machine is connected to the set of machines, which occupy the positions relative to it as specified in X. The array operates synchronously, with each machine taking on a state at discrete time intervals. The complete set of states of all machines in the array is called a configuration of the array. Transitions between successive array configurations are governed by a set of local transformations, which define the next state of an individual machine in terms of the present states of the machines connected to it. The fourth TA component, I, is the set of admissible global transformations determined by simultaneous application of local transformations to the entire array. This work is a study of the preservation of tessellation space configuration properties by tessellation automaton transformations. A property is any subset of the set of all configurations assumable by the space. A property P is preserved by a transformation T, if application of T to any configuration in P yields another configuration in P. The primary goal here is to find well-structured classes of transformations, which preserve properties. Properties of configurations studied include homogeneity, finite support periodicity, one and d-dimensional palindromes, and configurations in Z2 invariant under mappings of the dihedral group of the square. Transformation classes that preserve some of the above properties are the set of all global transformations, symmetric transformations, and transformations defined in terms of the dihedral group mappings. A study is also made of properties of classes of TA space configurations. This includes, in one dimension, the formal languages, and in d dimensions the linear predicates, classes of finite configurations recognizable in linear time by a bounded cellular space. A class of transformations that preserve linear predicates is found; this class might be useful in establishing a conjecture that all bounded cellular space recognizable predicates are linear. The final chapter studies the preservation and reproduction of individual finite patterns (sub configurations) in the tessellation space. A transformation is presented which preserves and reproduces any finite pattern of d-dimensional space, in a number of steps, which may be calculated from the size of the initial pattern.
COVID-19 under democracy and autocracy
Creators: name: Abdelhamid, Shahinaz
name: Bober, Camilla
name: Casco, Gabriela
name: Nino, Javier
name: Ombwayo, Susan
name: Charydczak, Delaney
name: Fleurant, Daphnée
name: Hanna, Arsanious
name: Prieto, Ryan
name: Wason, Amar
name: Rich, Roland
Publisher: name: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: pandemic
subject: COVID-19
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The students of the Spring 2021 Capstone class of the Master of Arts program in United Nations and Global Policy Studies (UNMA) of the Political Science Department at Rutgers University (New Brunswick) decided, as one of their assignments, to each write a chapter about how various governments handled the onset of Covid-19. The result is a ten-chapter e-book entitled Covid-19 Under Democracy and Autocracy, edited by the course professor, Dr. Roland Rich. The ten countries are Australia, Brazil, Cuba, Germany, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.
description: While the initial focus of the investigation was whether the pandemic was better handled by democracies or autocracies, it became clear that the regime type distinction was not the key variable. Issues of geography and recent history were critical. Ultimately, the book demonstrated that competent handling of the pandemic could be found among both democracies and autocracies and that was also true of incompetent responses.
description: A Project is Born / Roland Rich -- Australia’s Covid-19 Response: The Achilles Heel / Shahinaz Abdelhamid -- Brazil: Negligence and Populism during a Global Health Crisis / Gabriela Casco -- Cuba’s Vaunted Medical System Faces Covid-19 /Javier Nino -- Federalism, the EU, and Human Rights in Germany under COVID-19 / Camilla Bober -- Russia: A Contest between Science and Denial / Amar Wason -- South Africa Faces Covid-19 / Delaney Charydczak -- Taiwan: A Near Perfect Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic / Ryan Prieto -- The Impact of Covid-19 on Elections in Uganda / Susan Ombwayo -- The United Kingdom: Covid-19 and the Decay of Democracy / Arsanious Hanna -- Vietnam: Looking beyond Regime Type / Daphnée A.M. Fleurant -- Conclusions, Constatations and Concerns /
Roland Rich.
Prototyping a Smart Contract Based Public Procurement to Fight Corruption
Creators: name: Weingärtner, Tim
name: Batista, Danielle
name: Köchli, Sandro
name: Voutat, Gilles
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Corruption in public procurement is a worldwide appearance that causes immense financial and reputational damages. Especially in developing countries, corruption is a widespread issue due to secrecy and lack of transparency. An important instrument for transparency and accountability assurance is the record which is managed and controlled by recordkeeping systems. Blockchain technology and more precisely blockchain-based smart contracts are emerging technological tools that can be used as recordkeeping systems and a tool to mitigate some of the fraud involving public procurement records. Immutability, transparency, distribution and automation are some of the features of smart contracts already implemented in several applications to avoid malicious human interference. In this paper, we discuss some of the frauds in public procurement, and we propose smart contracts to automatize different stages of the public procurement procedure attempting to fix their biggest current weaknesses. The processes we have focused on include the bidding process, supplier habilitation and delivery verification. In the three subprocesses, common irregularities include human fallibility, improper information disclosure and hidden agreements which concern not only governments but also civil society. To show the feasibility and usability of our proposal, we have implemented a prototype that demonstrates the process using sample data.
Autism spectrum disorder symptoms from 2 to 19: implications for diagnosing adolescents and young adults
Creators: name: Bal, Vanessa
name: Kim, So-Hyun
name: Fok, Megan
name: Lord, Catherine
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Adolescent
Adult
Symptom
Longitudinal

description: This study explored change in social-communicative symptoms in 140 individuals with childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnoses. Trajectories of caregiver-reported social-communicative symptoms were examined for three groups (verbal, delayed speech, minimally verbal) from ages 2 to 19 years. Groups showed comparable levels of social-communicative impairment at 2 and significant decreases in overall symptom levels across the 17-year period (p<.001). Across three subdomains, main effects of time and language (p<.001) reflected patterns of overall improvement, though children with more impaired language tended to have more caregiver-reported symptoms relative to verbal peers. A significant time-by-language interaction (p<.001) reflected that trajectories of socioemotional reciprocity symptoms differed according to patterns of language development. In contrast, improvements in the nonverbal communication domain were seen across language groups, whereas deficits in the development and maintenance of relationships improved for only verbal children. Verbal adults showed significant reductions in the prevalence of several symptoms exhibited during childhood. Improvements suggest that symptoms indicative of ASD in young children may no longer be diagnostic markers in adolescents and adults. Relative stability of several items suggests that impaired facial expression may be a core ASD symptom that warrants more systematic study across the lifespan. Research investigating the manifestation of ASD in older individuals is needed to foster development of appropriate assessment tools and interventions. Differential relationships to developmental factors within the broader social-communication domain underscores a need to focus on more narrowly defined symptom constructs when exploring links between pathophysiology and observable phenotypes.
title: The first smut fungus, Thecaphora anthemidis sp. nov. (Glomosporiaceae), described from Anthemis (Asteraceae)
Creators: name: Kruse, Julia
name: Kummer, Volker
name: Shivas, Roger G.
name: Thines, Marco
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: There are 63 known species of Thecaphora (Glomosporiaceae, Ustilaginomycotina), a third of which occur on Asteraceae. These smut fungi produce yellowish-brown to reddish-brown masses of spore balls in specific, mostly regenerative, plant organs. A species of Thecaphora was collected in the flower heads of Anthemis chia (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) on Rhodes Island, Greece, in 2015 and 2017, which represents the first smut record of a smut fungus on a host plant species in this tribe. Based on its distinctive morphology, host species and genetic divergence, this species is described as Thecaphora anthemidis sp. nov. Molecular barcodes of the ITS region are provided for this and several other species of Thecaphora. A phylogenetic and morphological comparison to closely related species showed that Th. anthemidis differed from other species of Thecaphora. Thecaphora anthemidis produced loose spore balls in the flower heads and peduncles of Anthemis chia unlike other flower-infecting species.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 995
Gender Analysis of Violent Extremism and the Impact of COVID-19 on Peace and Security in ASEAN: Executive Summary (English)
Creators: name: Phelan, Alexandra
name: True, Jacqui
name: Gayatri, Irine Hiraswari
name: Marddent, Amporn
name: Riveros Morales, Yolanda
name: Gamao, Sittie Janine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This is the English version of the Executive Summary of the 'Gender Analysis of Violent Extremism and the Impact of COVID-19 on Peace and Security in ASEAN: Evidence-based research for policy' final report. The full report can be read here.
 It is well known that radicalization, a shift towards violent extremism, in Southeast Asia takes place during times of peace, when conflict has been stabilized, and/or even in countries that do not experience internal conflict. Recent studies have also shown that women and men’s engagement with both extremist content and organizations differ, particularly in terms of radicalization, recruitment and participation.
 This report identifies both the persistent trends and changing gender dynamics of violent extremism in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on an expert survey and interview research conducted between July and November 2021. It examined how and to what extent misogyny and hostile beliefs are fuelling violent extremism in the Southeast Asian region during the pandemic, the degree to which misogyny and hostile beliefs in the ASEAN region are fuelling violent extremism, and how these manifest themselves in the offline space.
Happiness is flextime
Creators: name: Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam
name: Golden, Lonnie
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Happiness
Life satisfaction
Subjective Wellbeing (SWB)
Commodification
Flextime
Schedule Flexibility
Freedom
Autonomy
General Social Survey (GSS)
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
Alienation

description: We study how working schedule flexibility (flextime) affects happiness. We use a US General Social Survey (GSS) pooled dataset containing the Quality of Worklife and Work Orientations modules for 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. We retain only respondents who are either full-time or part-time employees on payrolls. For flextime to be associated with greater happiness, it has to be more than just sometimes flexible or slight input into one’s work schedule, that is, little flextime does not increase happiness. But substantial flextime has large effect on happiness–the size effect is about as large as that of household income, or about as large as one-step increase in self-reported health, such as up from good to excellent health. Our findings provide support for both public and organizational policies that would promote greater work schedule flexibility or control for employees.
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : poursuite du cintrage de l'instrument au fer à souder
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
CICAS: Toward a critical framework of information literacy in Addiction Science
Creators: name: Bejarano, William
name: Ward, Judit Hajnal
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Information literacy
Addiction Science
Infrastructure

description: This paper is an attempt to suggest a critical framework for addiction information literacy. Since the ACRL information literacy standards were updated in 2015, our field is in need of guidelines about how to translate its general principles to meet the special needs of our diverse audiences. The authors wish to identify the unique application of the ACRL standards to the field of addiction science. An applied and transdisciplinary science requires a particular emphasis on evaluating sources and a special regard for the sensitive nature of the information sought. The authors' exploratory information literacy sessions have been presented in various settings with researchers ranging from post-docs to distinguished professors; counselors at the bachelors, masters, and continuing education levels; undergraduate and graduate students; and the general public. This presentation draws upon these sessions and calls for the collective effort of substance abuse librarians to provide both a general overview and specific customized training programs for our distinctive field.
Paraplea frontalis
Creators: name: Nieser, Nico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pleidae
Paraplea
Paraplea frontalis

description: Paraplea frontalis (Fieber, 1844)
 Ploa frontalis Fieber, 1844.
 Plea frontalis - Benzie, 1989 (redescription).
 Plea quinquemaculata Lundblad, 1933; Fernando & Cheng, 1974 (new synonymy).
 Diagnosis. – The length (2.0-2.4), combined with the head pattern consisting of two pairs of dots dorsally of the median stripe characterize this species in specimens with typical coloration. However, the head pattern may be vague or, except for the median stripe, absent.
 Remarks. – I consider P. quinquemaculata as a form of P. frontalis with maximally developed frontal pattern since the male genitalia and the ventral carina fall within the variability of P. frontalis as described by Benzie (1989).
 Distribution. – India and Sri Lanka through SE Asia to Taiwan and the Moluccas. According to Fernando & Cheng (1974) this species has only been collected in Singapore. I have seen specimens from Sumatra (Nieser & Chen, 1999) and Thailand (unpublished) so it will doubtlessly occur in West Malaysia.
description: Published as part of Nieser, Nico, 2004, Guide To Aquatic Heteroptera Of Singapore And Peninsular Malaysia Iii. Pleidae And Notonectidae, pp. 79-96 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 82, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244673
Near-junction microfluidic cooling for GaN HEMT with capped diamond heat spreader
Creators: name: Zhang, Hang
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024
Subjects: Engineering, Mechanical
Science & Technology
Engineering
Mechanics
Physical Sciences
Technology
Thermodynamics

description: With a constant push to shrink size and elevate power density, the heat flux in GaN-based devices is drastically intensified, requiring effective cooling to control junction temperature. This work presents an embedded manifold microchannel cooling (EMMC) arrangement targeted at mitigating junction temperature, in which microchannels are directly etched in the GaN substrate to extract heat generated due to self-heating. The single-phase laminar flow of deionized water through near-junction microchannels has been investigated in a unit-cell mimicking a recently reported GaN power converter with EMMC arrangement. The effects of geometrical parameters of the manifold and microchannel, heat flux and flow rate on the thermal-hydraulic performance of the unit-cell model are thoroughly studied. High heat transfer coefficients in the order of 10(5) W/(m(2).K) associated with the near-junction microfluidic single-phase flow are acquired, which demonstrates the excellent heat extraction capability of EMMC applied to GaN-based devices. The unit-cell model in the prediction of the thermal performance of a large-scale EMMC multifinger GaN device is in good agreement with experiment and capable of providing detailed fluid flow and temperature distributions for design optimization. Furthermore, a capped diamond heat spreader is integrated with the EMMC GaN device to reduce junction thermal spreading resistance. It is shown that high die heat flux in the range 0.86-3.01 kW/cm(2) can be effectively removed for the 10-mu m-thick diamond capped GaN-on-SiC EMMC device within a junction temperature range 48-110 degrees C. This new EMMC arrangement complemented with capped diamond holds promise as an ultimate near-junction cooling solution that facilitates the implementation and development of high-power compact GaN-based devices.
Trajectory based forwarding and its applications
Creators: name: Nath, Badri
name: Niculescu, Dragos
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Trajectory
Forwarding
Routing
Flooding
Discovery
Positioning
Local positioning system

description: Trajectory based forwarding (TBF) is a novel method to forward packets in a dense ad hoc network that makes it possible to route a packet along a predefined curve. It is a generalization of source based routing and Cartesian forwarding in that the trajectory is set by the source, but the forwarding decision is based on the relationship to the trajectory rather than the final destination. The fundamental aspect of TBF is that it decouples path naming from the actual path, thereby providing a common framework for applications such as: flooding, unicast, multicast and multipath routing, and discovery in ad hoc networks. TBF requires that nodes know their position relative to a coordinate system. While a global coordinate system afforded by a system such as GPS would be ideal, in this paper we propose Local Positioning System (LPS), a method that only positions the nodes along the trajectory, by making use of other node capabilities, such as angle of arrival or range estimations, compasses and accelerometers. We explore several forwarding strategies that are appropriate for these node capabilities.
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : collage des planches
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Trade policy liberalization and gender equality in the labor market: new evidence for India
Creators: name: Rodgers, Yana
name: Menon, Nidhiya
Publisher: name: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2008

description: Results of our empirical specifications indicate that increasing trade openness in India’s more concentrated manufacturing industries is associated with growing residual wage gaps between male and female employees. This finding suggests that with declining rents in the concentrated sector post-liberalization, women appear to have borne the brunt of cost-cutting practices in firms’ compensation decisions. By analyzing the effects of the Indian trade liberalization on relative pay in manufacturing industries, and by providing empirical evidence that female employees appear to have fared less well as compared to their male counterparts, this study demonstrates that not everyone benefited equally as a consequence of the reforms.
On-chip, dynamic, cryogenic temperature monitoring via PDMS micro-bead coatings
Creators: name: Frenkel, Matthew
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Coatings
Cryogenic temperature
Electrical resistivity
Films
Optical resonance
Sensors

description: Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microshells/beads coated onto an electrical current-carrying wire are demonstrated for on-chip, dynamic, cryogenic temperature measurement via monitoring optical whispering-gallery mode (WGM) frequency shifts. PDMS is found to be capable of supporting WGM resonance at cryogenic temperatures down to 95 K, limited by the present lab-built cryogenic working environment. The effect of the polymeric sensor diameter on temperature sensitivity is explored and discussed. The sensors are tested for their real-time temperature monitoring capabilities and accuracy in the cryogenic temperature regime of 95–140 K, and a comparison to a theoretical model, where the electrical resistivity of nichrome wire at cryogenic temperature is also experimentally determined, is examined
Relating quantitative soil structure metrics to saturated hydraulic conductivity
Creators: name: Qin, Mingming
name: Brunsell, Nathaniel A.
name: Hirmas, Daniel R.
name: Giménez, Daniel
name: Eck, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Soil Science Society of America
Year: 2017
Subjects: Multistripe Laser Triangulation (MLT)
Preferential flow
Quantitative soil morphology
Hydrologic modeling

description: Soil structure affects saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) by creating highly conductive macropores that preferentially transmit soil water. In this study, we explore the relationship between Ks and macropores in an Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudoll in northeastern Kansas. Macropores were quantified from an excavation wall using multistripe laser triangulation (MLT) scanning. Soil water contents were measured at four depths within a soil lysimeter installed within 2 meters of the MLT-scanned soil profile and adjacent to an Ameriflux tower monitoring precipitation, air temperature, and solar radiation. Selected hydraulic properties of soil horizons within the lysimeter were optimized to water content data using a Markov chain Monte Carlo technique in combination with the mobile-immobile water (MIM) model in HYDRUS-1D. Estimates of Ks varied between 4198 cm d-1 in the A horizon and 0.6 cm d-1 in a 2Btss2 horizon with strongly expressed wedge structure. Approximately 87% of the variation in Ks was explained by the geometric mean of the widths of pores quantified with the MLT technique and modified by the coefficient of extensibility (COLE). The use of COLE allows the widths of the macropores obtained at dry conditions to be approximated at saturation. Two models that predict Ks from either texture or water retention data resulted in Ks estimates that were similar to each other, but significantly lower than Ks values predicted with MIM in horizons where structural pores dominate water flow. This technique shows a great deal of promise in better understanding and predicting the relationship of soil structure to water flow.
Anisops barbatus Brooks 1951
Creators: name: Nieser, Nico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Anisops
Anisops barbatus

description: Anisops barbatus Brooks, 1951
 Anisops barbata Brooks, 1951; Lansbury, 1964; Fernando & Cheng, 1974; Fernando & Leong, 1976.
 Diagnosis. – The largest species occurring in the Malay Peninsula, although some of the largest females of A. occipitalis overlap in size with small females of A. barbatus. Length, male 8.5-9.3, female 8.0-9.1; greatest width, male 2.7-3.0, female 2.8-3.1. Synthlipsis at least two thirds the anterior width of vertex; width of head 0.8-0.9 times the humeral width of pronotum.
Male. In dorsal view, anterior margin of head truncate; width of head seven to eight times the anterior width of vertex; rostral prong slightly shorter than third rostral segment, originating in the proximal third of third rostral segment (Fig. 12). Tylus somewhat swollen, with a pair of tufts of bristles which reach the base of the labrum (Fig. 12). Forefemur narrowed at apex; stridulatory comb on foretibia consisting of 20-25 comparatively broad teeth.
Female. Width of head five to six times the anterior width of vertex. Tylus slightly swollen, without tufts of hairs.
Brachypterous form not known.
 Distribution. – A widespread species recorded from India through SE Asia to Sumatra, Java and China (Brooks, 1951; Lansbury, 1964). It has not been collected recently in the Malay Peninsula but Lansbury (1964), Fernando & Cheng (1974) and Fernando & Leong (1976) report specimens from Perak and Singapore in the British Museum of Natural History.
description: Published as part of Nieser, Nico, 2004, Guide To Aquatic Heteroptera Of Singapore And Peninsular Malaysia Iii. Pleidae And Notonectidae, pp. 79-96 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on pages 84-85, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244673
Study 1 Vaccine Mechanism Explanation & Vaccine Hesitancy Study
Creators: name: Agrawal, Nidhi
name: Qin, Chao
name: Vi Tran
name: Joslyn, Susan
name: Han, Jee Hoon
name: Savelli, Sonia
name: Burgeno, Jessica Noel
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2021

description: Two COVID-19 vaccines that have been shown to be about 95% effective are now available. However, surveys have shown that many people are reluctant to get vaccinated (30% in May 2020 study conducted by Reiter, Pennell, & Katz, 2020). Recent research suggests that there are several reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Several of these have to do with specific misunderstandings, including:
1) How the vaccine works
2) The potential side effects of the vaccine
3) Sufficiency of testing
4) What 95% effectiveness means

Previous research suggests that simple explanations of complex issues such as climate change can increase understanding if they are designed to target known misunderstandings. These same explanations were shown to change peoples’ attitudes toward the efficacy of strategies to combat climate change. If the same principles operate in the context of COVID19, carefully designed explanations may dispel misunderstandings as well as encourage more people to get vaccinated.

This study provides an explanation that addresses a misunderstanding concerning the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The effectiveness manipulations are focused on people’s mental models or understanding of what it means to be “95% effective.” We focus here on issues related to of the vaccine itself rather than the effects of COVID (some do not believe the disease is sufficiently dangerous to take any risks to protect against it). We do not address conspiracy theories.
Consensus recommendations on dosing and administration of medical cannabis to treat chronic pain: results of a modified Delphi process
Creators: name: Bhaskar, Arun
name: Bell, Alan
name: Boivin, Michael
name: Briques, Wellington
name: Brown, Matthew
name: Clarke, Hance
name: Cyr, Claude
name: Eisenberg, Elon
name: De Oliveira Silva, Ricardo F.
name: Frohlich, Eva
name: Georgius, Peter
name: Hogg, Malcolm
name: Horsted, Tina I.
name: MacCallum, Caroline
name: Müller-Vahl, Kirsten R.
name: O’Connell, Colleen
name: Sealey, Robert
name: Seibolt, Marc
name: Sihota, Aaron
name: Smith, Brennan K.
name: Sulak, Dustin
name: Vigano, Antonio
name: Moulin, Dwight E.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Abstract Background Globally, medical cannabis legalization has increased in recent years and medical cannabis is commonly used to treat chronic pain. However, there are few randomized control trials studying medical cannabis indicating expert guidance on how to dose and administer medical cannabis safely and effectively is needed. Methods Using a multistage modified Delphi process, twenty global experts across nine countries developed consensus-based recommendations on how to dose and administer medical cannabis in patients with chronic pain. Results There was consensus that medical cannabis may be considered for patients experiencing neuropathic, inflammatory, nociplastic, and mixed pain. Three treatment protocols were developed. A routine protocol where the clinician initiates the patient on a CBD-predominant variety at a dose of 5 mg CBD twice daily and titrates the CBD-predominant dose by 10 mg every 2 to 3 days until the patient reaches their goals, or up to 40 mg/day. At a CBD-predominant dose of 40 mg/day, clinicians may consider adding THC at 2.5 mg and titrate by 2.5 mg every 2 to 7 days until a maximum daily dose of 40 mg/day of THC. A conservative protocol where the clinician initiates the patient on a CBD-predominant variety at a dose of 5 mg once daily and titrates the CBD-predominant dose by 10 mg every 2 to 3 days until the patient reaches their goals, or up to 40 mg/day. At a CBD-predominant dose of 40 mg/day, clinicians may consider adding THC at 1 mg/day and titrate by 1 mg every 7 days until a maximum daily dose of 40 mg/day of THC. A rapid protocol where the clinician initiates the patient on a balanced THC:CBD variety at 2.5–5 mg of each cannabinoid once or twice daily and titrates by 2.5–5 mg of each cannabinoid every 2 to 3 days until the patient reaches his/her goals or to a maximum THC dose of 40 mg/day. Conclusions In summary, using a modified Delphi process, expert consensus-based recommendations were developed on how to dose and administer medical cannabis for the treatment of patients with chronic pain.
Anisops lansburyi Leong 1963
Creators: name: Nieser, Nico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Anisops
Anisops lansburyi

description: Anisops lansburyi Leong, 1963
 Anisops lansburyi Leong, 1963; Fernando & Cheng, 1974; Fernando & Leong, 1976.
 Diagnosis. – Generally a pale, small, broadly fusiform species with its maximum width at the level of the apex of scutellum. Length, male 4.5-5.6, female 4.6-5.9; width, male 1.1-1.4, female 1.1-1.5. Width of head 0.93 times to almost equal to the humeral width of pronotum and about six times the anterior width of vertex.
Male. In dorsal view the head is rounded with anterior margin truncate and vertex very slightly indented. Synthlipsis narrow, one tenth to one seventh the anterior width of vertex. Rostral prong longer than third rostral segment, originating near its apex (Fig. 17). Tylus somewhat swollen, smoothly convex. Tylus and labrum with a few short scattered hairs. Forefemur narrowed at apex. Tibial comb with eight to nine rather large teeth of subequal length and one or two very small teeth at its apex (Fig. 21).
Female. Except for the sexual characteristics females of this species are very similar to males. They are on average slightly larger and the synthlipsis is slightly wider than in males: one seventh to one fourth the anterior width of vertex.
Brachypterous form unknown.
 Remarks. – See under A. exiguus and A. niveus.
 Distribution. – Described from the Malay Peninsula (Melaka and Singapore, Leong 1963; Fernando & Cheng, 1974; Fernando & Leong, 1976). I have seen only one additional male from Singapore (ZRC.6.9393-9396) in ZRC.
description: Published as part of Nieser, Nico, 2004, Guide To Aquatic Heteroptera Of Singapore And Peninsular Malaysia Iii. Pleidae And Notonectidae, pp. 79-96 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244673
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : dernier encollage et pose des presses
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Herausforderungen der Open-Access-Transformation für die Berliner Staatlichen Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Fachhochschulen), Kunsthochschulen und Hochschulen in kirchlicher Trägerschaft
Creators: name: Open-Access-Büro Berlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Access Transformation, Open Research, Fachhochschulen, Universities of Applied Sciences, Berlin

description: Dieses Arbeitspapier fasst den Diskussionsstand der Arbeitsgruppe der Open-Access-Beauftragten an den Berliner Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Fachhochschulen), der Kunsthochschulen und der Hochschulen in kirchlicher Trägerschaft zu den Herausforderungen der Open-Access-Transformation zusammen.
title:  Note in margine a Democracy and Education, un’opera ‘inattuale’
Creators: name: Bellatalla, Luciana
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Il contributo parte dall’assunto secondo cui il pensiero deweyano non è solo  l’elemento portante di un costume civile e sociale, identificabile con il rispetto di diritti civili formali e la pratica di elezioni  formalmente libere sul fondamento del principio della rappresentatività politica, ma è soprattutto un “classico”, ossia un interlocutore propositivo di domande cruciali e suggestivo di indicazioni teoretiche capaci di fare vedere oltre i limiti dell’apparenza e del presente per formulare scenari non ancora costruiti, ma logicamente cogenti. In questa prospettiva, il pensiero di Dewey e Democracy and Education,  in particolare, possono essere considerati come una sfida intellettuale ed una tensione verso quel futuro, che solo un’intelligenza libera e creativa può aiutare a costruire. Una sfida, insomma, inattuale, perché, caratterizzata dai tratti dell’utopia, in cui l’educazione non può non riconoscersi.
description: John Dewey e la pedagogia democratica del ‘900
Educating an African Leadership: Achimota and the Teaching of African Culture in the Gold Coast
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Schooling
Tradition
Crafts
Education
Ghana

description: Founded by the British colonial government in the Gold Coast in the 1920s, Achimota was an elite school which signaled the commitment of the colonial government to the provision of education and the concomitant belief in education’s role in managing the future of the nation. This study explores the contradictions of the school in which “African culture” was used to substitute for anglicized activities, lessons, and entertainments. Within the dominant western frame of Achimota, “African culture” had to be transformed and reified. The practices of the school were the result of interaction between the differing expectations of colonial officials, “traditional experts” brought in to teach customs and arts, local intelligentsia, expatriate and African teachers, and the students themselves. Achimota therefore provides a lens on the nuances and tensions within the colonial enterprise in Africa.
Individual project on theme "Heracleum L." (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Kinebas, Elena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Елены Кинебас по теме "Heracleum L" в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
Placental Massive Perivillous Fibrin Deposition associated with Coxsackievirus A16-report of a case, and review of the literature
Creators: name: Pabbaraju, Kanti
name: Wong, Sallene
name: Heller, Debra
name: Tellier, Raymond
name: Faye-Petersen, Ona Marie
name: Meulenbacks, Atis
name: Denison, Amy
name: Zaki, Sherief
name: Goldsmith, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Coxsackievirus A16 infection
Coxsackieviruses
Hand-foot-mouth disease
Massive placental perivillous fibrinoid deposition
Placenta--Abnormalities
Intrauterine fetal death
Fetal death

description: Massive placental perivillous fibrinoid deposition in the placenta is thought to be an immune-related condition associated with poor perinatal outcomes, including growth restriction and intrauterine fetal demise, with a high risk of recurrence. Rare cases have been associated with Coxsackievirus infection. We present such a case and review the literature.
title: Model-based inference for estimating shifts in species distribution, area occupied and centre of gravity
title: Model-based inference for estimating shifts in species distribution, area occupied and center of gravity
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Thorson, James T.
name: Pinsky, Malin L.
name: Ward, Eric J.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Abundance-weighted average
California Current
Centre of gravity
Range shifts
Spatiotemporal model
Species distribution model
Center of gravity
Climate Change

description: 1. Changing climate is already impacting the spatial distribution of many taxa, including bees, plants, birds, butterﬂies and ﬁshes. A common goal is to detect range shifts in response to climate change, including changes in the centre of the population’s distribution (the centre of gravity, COG), population boundaries and area occupied. Conventional estimators, such as the abundance-weighted average (AWA) estimator for COG, confound range shifts with changes in the spatial distribution of available survey data and may be biased when the distribution of survey data shifts over time. AWA also does not estimate the standard error of COG in individual years and cannot incorporate data from multiple survey designs. 2. To explicitly account for changes in the spatial distribution of survey eﬀort, we propose an alternative species distribution function (SDF) estimator. The SDF approach involves calculating distribution metrics, including COG, population boundary and area occupied, directly from the predicted species distribution or density function. We illustrate the SDF approach using a spatio-temporal model that is available as an R package. Using simulated data, we conﬁrm that the SDF substantially decreases bias in COG estimates relative to the AWA estimator. We then illustrate the method by analysing data from two data sets spanning 1977–2013 for 18 marine ﬁshes along the U.S. West Coast. 3. In our case study, the SDF estimator shows signiﬁcant northward shifts for six of 18 species (with southward shifts for only 2), where two species (darkblotched and greenstriped rockﬁshes) have both a northward shift and a decreased area occupied. Pelagic species (e.g. Paciﬁc hake and spiny dogﬁsh) have more variable distribution than bottom-associated species. We also ﬁnd substantial diﬀerences between AWA and SDF estimates of COG that are likely caused by shifts in sampling distribution (which aﬀect the AWA but not the SDF estimator). 4. We caution that common estimators for range shift can yield inappropriate inference whenever sampling designs have shifted over time. We conclude by suggesting further improvements in model-based approaches to analysing climate impacts, including methods addressing the impact of local and regional temperature changes on species distribution.
Anisops nigrolineatus Lundblad 1933
Creators: name: Nieser, Nico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Anisops
Anisops nigrolineatus

description: Anisops nigrolineatus Lundblad, new record
 Anisops nigrolineata Lundblad, 1933; Brooks 1951 (redescription).
 Diagnosis. – Macropterous form blackish, rather slender, fusiform, greatest width at level of apex of scutellum.
Length, male and female 5.4-6.6; width, male and female 1.5- 1.8. Colour generally black. Width of head four to five times the anterior width of vertex. Tylus flat, somewhat laterally expanded. Synthlipsis wide, about one half anterior width of vertex. Labrum without specialized hairs. Pronotum relatively long, its humeral width about 1.5 times its median length which is twice the median length of head.
Male. The vertex protrudes in front of the eyes, both in dorsal (Fig. 27) and lateral view. Rostral prong longer than third rostral segment originating near its base. Forefemur strongly narrowed apically. Tibial comb with about 22 teeth of which the apical 14 are slender and long, more than twice the length of the basal eight which are oriented in a different direction (Fig. 22).
Female. Vertex not protruding anteriorly of eyes. Tylus slightly swollen.
Brachypterous form, Brooks (1951) recorded a pale form. This may be either the brachypterous form or specimens which have been for a long time in alcohol. So far no brachypters have been examined by the author.
 Remarks. – Males characterized by the stridulatory comb (Fig. 22). Females similar to those of A. tahitiensis which have, however, head and pronotum of subequal length.
 Distribution. – Widespread, described from Java and recorded from The Philippines, Thailand, Burma and India where it seems to have its main distribution (Brooks, 1951). In the ZRC are three samples with this species: Two from Selangor [Ulu Gombak, Sungai Gombak, 14 Nov.1995, coll. C. M. Yang et al. 3 males 2 females and Ulu Gombak, upland pond nr. Sendlo ridge, 16 Nov.1995, coll. Yang et al. 4 males 2 females] and one from Pahang [Kuala Lipis, pool by mud brook, 12 Apr.1997, coll. K. L. Yeo, 1 female]. Not recorded from Singapore.
description: Published as part of Nieser, Nico, 2004, Guide To Aquatic Heteroptera Of Singapore And Peninsular Malaysia Iii. Pleidae And Notonectidae, pp. 79-96 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244673