cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Essays on foreign direct investment and globalization
Creators: name: Li, Yue
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation is composed of three essays investigating the implications of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows for developing countries and the forces driving such flows. Lately, many economies have been opening their retail sector to FDI, yet little is known about possible implications of such liberalization. In Chapter 2, using data from Romania, I look at how the presence of global retail chains affects the supplying industries. I show that the subsidiaries of global chains are larger in size, more capital intensive and exhibit higher labor productivity than other retailers. I then apply a difference-in-differences method and find that the expansion of global chains leads to a significant increase in TFP in the supplying industries. These results suggest that the opening of the retail sector to FDI may stimulate productivity growth in upstream manufacturing. Existing studies have focused on productivity spillovers from FDI postulating a constant marginal effect. In Chapter 3, I use markup as an alternative measure of firm performance, exploring multiple dimensions of the impact of FDI, and examine the possibility that marginal spillovers diminish. Using Romanian data, I find that the relationship between downstream FDI and upstream markups is in the shape of an inverse-U, i.e. at some critical value of FDI, the marginal effect turns from positive to negative; the intra-industry impact of FDI is weak but, when considering companies with minority foreign ownership, the relationship is also inverse-U shaped. My findings support the idea of diminishing marginal spillovers, which advance current belief on positive vertical spillovers and offers an explanation to the ambiguous evidence on horizontal spillovers.International vertical integration is an important reason behind the growth in FDI, yet little evidence is available on why it varies across industries. In Chapter 4, I examine the theory of Antras and Helpman and provide an empirical answer to the question.  My approach takes advantage of the correspondence between the pattern of international investment and that of trade in intermediates. I show that productivity dispersion and input intensities influences an industry's propensity to import intermediates from developing countries and, hence, the extent of vertical integration.
Erigone sumatrana Tanasevitch, 2017, new species
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Erigone
Erigone sumatrana

description: Erigone sumatrana new species
Figs 3, 19–25
Holotype male (MHNG), INDONESIA, Sumatra, Jambi Province, Mt Kerinci, footpath to summit, W of Kersik Tua, 2160 m a.s.l., evergreen hill forest, sifting; 17–18.II.2000; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-00/13]. One male paratype (MHNG), collected together with the holotype.
Etymology. The specific name is an adjective referring to the island where the types were collected.
Diagnosis. The new species is most similar to Erigone apophysalis n. sp. (see above), but differs by the presence of a ventro-apical apophysis on the palpal patella, by the peculiar shape of the palpal tibia, by the smaller posterior radical apophysis of the embolic division, as well as by the thin, sharp, backwards-directed embolus. Both new species, E. apophysalis n. sp. and E. sumatrana n. sp., as well as another Oriental congener, E. bifurca, are diagnosed by the untypical chaetotaxy formula, 2.2.1.1 versus 2.2.2.1.
Description. Male paratype. Small Erigoninae, total length 1.38. Carapace convex in anterior part (Fig. 3), 0.73 long, 0.75 wide, reddish brown, no teeth at edge of carapace. Chelicerae 0.35. long, with a mastidion (large tooth on frontal part of paturon)and one tooth (two in holotype) on anterior lateral surface in distal part of chelicera. Legs pale brown. Leg I, 1.86 long (0.55+0.20+0.43+0.39+0.29), IV, 1.77 long (0.55+0.18+0.43+0.35+0.26). Chaetotaxy 2.2.1.1. TmI 0.50. Metatarsi IV without trichobothrium. Palp (Figs 19–25): Ventro-apical apophysis on patella small, pointed, slightly curved. Palpal tibia relatively short and wide, lower outgrowth narrowing medially, roundly expanded distally. Paracymbium L-shaped, its distal part relatively narrow. Distal suprategular apophysis flat and wide. Embolic division with a flat, massive posterior radical apophysis and a small mesal radical tooth. Median radical tooth absent. Embolic membrane long and narrow, sabre-shaped. Embolus proper small, thin, directed backward. Abdomen 0.80 long, 0.55 wide, dark grey.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Only known from the type locality on Sumatra.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 333, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
The PKA-mediated phosphorylation of serine 492 of perilipin A promotes lipolysis by triggering lipid droplet dispersion
Creators: name: Liang, Xiaofang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The lipid droplet protein perilipin A plays a key role in regulating triglyceride storage and hydrolysis.  The phosphorylation of perilipin A by PKA facilitates lipolysis mediated by hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) and adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) in adipocytes.  Previous studies show that the phosphorylation of serine 492 of perilipin A drives lipid droplet fragmentation and dispersion following PKA-activation.  These studies address the hypothesis that lipid droplet dispersion triggered by the phosphorylation of serine 492 promotes PKA-stimulated lipolysis.  Adenoviral constructs encoding ectopic perilipin A (PeriA) and three mutated forms were generated, including 1) Not5, with all PKA site serines mutated to alanine or glutamic acid except PKA site #5; 2) S492A, with a single mutation of the fifth PKA site serine to alanine; and 3) All5, with all PKA sites serines substituted with alanine or glutamic acid.  All forms of perilipin A and β-galactosidase were expressed in NIH 3T3 CarΔ fibroblasts, which express ATGL but lack endogenous perilipin A and HSL.  Cells expressing unmodified perilipin A and mutated forms had similar levels of basal lipolysis.  Six hours treatment with forskolin/IBMX in PeriA cells increases lipolysis by 2.2-fold, to levels similar to those of control cells expressing β-galactosidase.  When compared to lipolysis in PeriA cells, phosphorylation of serine 492 alone (Not5) contributes to 77.5% of maximal lipolysis, whereas phosphorylation of all five other PKA sites (S492A) yields only 66.6% of maximal lipolysis.  Stimulated lipolysis in cells expressing perilipin lacking all PKA sites (All5) increased only 16% over basal levels.  Immunofluorescence microscopy shows that phosphorylation of serine 492 is necessary and sufficient to drive the full dispersion of lipid droplets following PKA-stimulation.  In conclusion, PKA-mediated phosphorylation of serine 492 of perilipin A facilitates lipolysis at least partially through the stimulation of lipid droplet dispersion.
Extension of a web-based time recording system with the capabilities of a progressive web app and integrated video streaming
Creators: name: Eni Veshi
Publisher: name: Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden
Year: 2023
Subjects: CyberLytics

description: Bachelor's Thesis
description: biblatex/biber: @Thesis{veshi_eni_2023bt,  author = {Veshi, Eni},  title = {{Extension of a web-based time recording system with the capabilities of a progressive web app and integrated video streaming}},  institution = {Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden},  year = 2023,  month = mar,  type = {Bachelorarbeit},  note = {In Kooperation mit Crew Active, einer Marke von Run4Dev},}
The bioavailability of 90MX cranberry powder and quercetin when administered to horses
Creators: name: Malone, Sara Rae
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The subject of this thesis was to investigate the bioavailability of a commercially available cranberry powder (90MX) from Ocean Spray® and quercetin when administered to horses. The hypothesis states that flavonols from a commercially available 90MX cranberry powder and quercetin would both be bioavailable to the horse. Bioavailability was determined by the appearance and identification of flavonols in horse plasma, urine, and/or muscle after dosing via nasogastric tube. For the first study, three healthy unfit Standardbred mares were used in a random cross-over design. They received either 200 g of 90MX powder in 2 L of water (low dose = LD), 400 g of 90MX powder dissolved in 2 L of water (high dose = HD), or 2 L of water (control = CON). For the second study, the same three mares were given 6 g of quercetin in 2 L of water. Blood, urine, and muscle samples were collected pre-dosing and at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 24 h post-dosing. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of the samples showed trace amounts of flavonols in some plasma samples, but overall there were no quantitatively significant increase flavonols found in horse urine or plasma. HPLC analysis of the muscle samples did show an increase in quercetin (Q), Q-3 arabinopyranoside (Q-3-AP), M-3 galactoside (M-3-G), Q-3 rhamnoside (Q-3-R), Q-3 arabinofuranoside (Q-3-AF), and Q-3 galactoside (Q-3-G). Peak quantities of each flavonol (µg/g) in horse muscle were Q (1.96; 5.33), Q-3-AP (0.24; 0.05), M-3-G (0.80; 0.37), Q-3-R (0.55; 0.24). Q-3-AF (0.12; 0.07), Q-3-G (2.45; 1.22) for the LD and HD, respectively. In study two, there was no quantitatively measureable quercetin in plasma, urine, or muscle samples. These data show for the first time the uptake of an ingested flavonol compound (cranberry juice) into horse muscle. This lays the foundation for further investigation into the effects of flavonols on horse muscle which has been physiologically stressed by exercise or other variables.
Recent experience and season modulate auditory tuning in canary caudomedial nidopallium
Creators: name: Lu, Kai
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The caudomedial nidopallium (NCM) is an area of songbird telencephalon analogous to a portion of the mammalian auditory cortex and is important for conspecific song discrimination, memorization and individual recognition.  The tuning properties of NCM neurons differ between canaries and zebra finches. To test whether these differences reflect recent experience, three groups canaries of each sex were housed for 9 days in different conditions: conspecific aviary (normal condition), zebra finch aviary (cross condition) or in isolation box (isolation condition). Extracellular multi-unit electrophysiological responses to simple pure tone stimuli (250-5000Hz) in NCM of awake birds were recorded. Both phasic and tonic responses were measured, and auditory tuning width was quantified as the number of contiguous frequencies at least 1 SD above baseline. Compared to normal birds, tuning was narrower in cross-housed birds and wider in isolated birds. This effect was more pronounced in female canaries than in males.  Tuning width was narrower early in the year and broader later in the year and this effect was most pronounced in cross-housed males. These findings demonstrate that tuning properties of NCM neurons are not fixed, but change in response to recent experience. The acoustic and social environment and season-related hormonal change may have important effects on auditory tuning and thus affect the perception of complex songs.
Thermodynamically controlled synthesis of covalent nanocapsules
Creators: name: Liu, Xuejun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Chapter 1 gives a general overview about molecular container compounds.In Chapter 2, a new method for the room temperature stabilization of fluorophenoxycarbene is described. In this approach, photolysis of incarcerated fluorophenoxydiazirine generated fluorophenoxycarbene in the inner phase of a hemicarcerand, which protected the carbene from dimerization. As a result of its high stability, 1H, 13C and 19F NMR spectroscopic properties of this carbene were obtained at room temperature. The reaction of the incarcerated carbene with bulk phase water and its inner phase conformation were explored.The synthesis of covalent nanocapsules is challenging and current multi-step syntheses give nanocapsules only in relatively low overall yield. In Chapter 3 and 4, a dynamic covalent chemistry approach has been developed to prepare nanocapsules in high yield in a single step from multiple small building blocks. Nanometersized molecular capsules of this type have potential for applications in drug, pesticide and RNA delivery and as nanoreactors. In Chapter 3, three different nanocapsules, whose structures resemble a distorted tetrahedron, octahedron, or square antiprism, are described. These capsules are prepared by condensation reactions between 4, 6, and 8 tetraformyl cavitands 40 and 8, 12, and 16 ethylenediamines 43, respectively. They have cavity volumes of 450-3000 Å3. In Chapter 4, synthesis of a series of distorted tetrahedral nanocapsules through reaction of 40 with rigid linear diamines 48a-c is described. These capsules form 1:1 and 1:2 complexes with tetraalkylammonium salts of appropriate size, in which the tetraalkylammonium guests are encapsulated in the cavity of the nanocapsule.In Chapter 5, dynamic combinatorial libraries (DCL) of polyimino nanocapsules are constructed by reacting 40 with a combination of 2 or 3 different diamine linkers 41, 44d, 48a, and 48b.In Chapter 6, the syntheses of water-soluble nanocapsules are described. They are prepared by attaching hydrophilic functional groups and charged groups to the nanocapsules. Binding studies in water revealed that these nanocapsules encapsulate negatively charged organic compounds. The water soluble nanocapsules possess large portals and a roomy inner cavity and potentially may serve as devices for drug delivery and controlled release applications.
"The barrier breaking love of God": the multiracial activism of the Young Women's Christian Association, 1940s to 1970s
Creators: name: Lewis, Abigail Sara
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation examines the ways in which the Young Women's Christian Association (the Y)  redefined its race relations work in the post World War II era, and how it used Christian principles and rhetoric to construct a multiracially inclusive organization.  For forty years, from its official incorporation in 1906 until its National Convention in 1946, the Y maintained segregated (Black, White, and Asian) branches.  While it had tentatively fostered improved Black-White race relations in both its community and its student branches throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it was not until America's entry into World War II and the subsequent internment of thousands of Japanese Americans that the organization's racial approach went from "separate but equal" to full inclusion.  This change caused members to reconceptualize what constituted interracial work and relationships, leading them directly into the civil rights movement and into creating one of the few multiracial spaces within the early women's movement.   From that point on, the organization stayed firmly committed to its ultimate goal of racial inclusiveness, and used Christian tenets and rhetoric as its principal force in making this goal a reality.
Semiologia da criança e do adolescente
Creators: name: MEDEIROS, Glenia Junqueira Machado
name: DANTAS, Eduarda Ribeiro da Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Este livro é um guia prático para os estudantes, em seus estudos e aulas práticas, e médicos já formados que queiram se atualizar em temas importantes do dia a dia da pediatria. Reúne assuntos como: anamnese e exame físico; neonatologia; desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor; imunização e aleitamento materno; dentre outros.
title: Particular Ways of Seeing
title: British Women in Portugal at the Beginning of the 19th Century
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Oliveira, Isabel
Publisher: name: CETAPS, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2024

description: This article aims to analyze two female British travellers’ perspectives on Portugal, having as its main objective the discussion of whether those female travelers might present different perspectives from their British male counterparts, thus avoiding prejudiced views as was usual in British male travel writing about Portugal
description: Oliveira, Isabel. Particular Ways of Seeing: British Women in Portugal at the Beginning of the 19th Century. Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 33 (2024), pp 73-90. ISSN: 0871-6820
Gnathonarium Karsch 1881
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Gnathonarium

description: Gnathonarium Karsch, 1881
Type species: Gnathonarium dentatum (Wider, 1834).
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 333, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Calibration of traffic simulation models using Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) method extended through Bayesian sampling methodology
Creators: name: Lee, Jung-Beom
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The main goal of this dissertation is to propose a new methodology for the calibration of traffic simulation models. Simulation is useful in representing complex real-world systems, and many alternatives can be compared via different system designs. However, to evaluate road conditions accurately, the selection of model parameters to be calibrated and the calibration methodology are very important aspects of the overall simulation modeling process. One of the key elements of this dissertation is the application of the Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) algorithm (Spall (1992))--one of the well-known stochastic approximation (SA) algorithms, to determine optimal model parameters. The SPSA algorithm has an inherent advantage that can be exploited in both stochastic gradient and gradient-free settings; it can also be applied to solve optimization problems that have a large number of variables.One of the main distinctions between this study and previous studies is with regards to calibration while considering a wide range of all likely demand conditions. Previous studies on calibration have focused on minimizing a deterministic objective function, which is the sum of the relative error between the observed data and the simulation output from a certain time period in a typical day. Even though this approach can be considered a calibration that uses data obtained at one point in time, this type of calibration approach cannot capture a realistic distribution of all possible traffic conditions. Thus, a more general calibration methodology needs to be implemented--one that enables use with any traffic condition. In this dissertation, we propose the Bayesian sampling approach, in conjunction with the application of the SPSA stochastic optimization method, which enables the modeler to enhance the theoretic application to consider statistical data distribution. Thus, this proposed new and advanced methodology makes it possible to overcome the limitations of previous calibration studies. Testing the methodology for larger networks, as well as for other microscopic traffic simulation tools such as CORSIM or VISSIM, are future research tasks. In the future, other simulation parameters and more extensive data sets can be used to test the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed calibration methodology.
Consonant-tone interaction in optimality theory
Creators: name: Lee, Seunghun Julio
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation presents a constraint-based theory of consonant-tone interaction called the 'Extended Tone Bearing Unit Theory (xTBU theory)'. In this presentation, I provide synchronic evidence from a variety of languages that shows how laryngeal features can influence tone. These laryngeal features include voicing, aspiration, glottalization, and voicelessness.There are three parts to xTBU theory: representation, markedness constraints, and faithfulness constraints. I propose that while tone prefers to associate to moras, tone can also be associated to non-moraic root nodes. I argue that tone directly associated to root nodes acts differently from tone associated to moras due to the interaction of constraints.The presence and type of directly associated tone is restricted by markedness constraints only. Constraints such as *[+SPREAD GLOTTIS]/L can prevent H tone from spreading over spread glottis consonants; it can also force L tone to change to H, and even force consonants to change their laryngeal features. A significant result is the ability of the constraints to account for apparently unnatural classes of tone-affecting consonants. An important aspect of the constraint formalism in xTBU theory is that faithfulness constraints only target tone associated to moras; they never target tone associated to non-moraic root-nodes. The lack of faithfulness to directly associated tone means that tone is not contrastive when associated to non-moraic root nodes. Consequently, tone on non-moraic segments is only regulated by markedness constraints.
Microderes Faldermann 1836
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Microderes

description: Genus Microderes Faldermann, 1836
Subgenus Microderes Faldermann, 1836
Microderes (Microderes) brachypus Steven, 1809
Citations: Province Mazandaran (Chaudoir, 1842); Kurusch-göl (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Mandl, 1963).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Is it who says it, or what they say? information processing and lobbying influence in Congress
Creators: name: La Pira, Timothy Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation advances recent theoretical trends in the study of interest groups by marrying them with behavioral models of political decision making.  Theories of lobbying characteristically concentrate on how groups supply information to legislators, yet have largely ignored how legislators' sift through and process this information once it is delivered.  The question I propose is: How do legislators' cognitive predispositions affect which organizations they listen to and which arguments they accept or reject?  By systematically manipulating the content and source of the lobby messages in an experiment using actual congressional staffers as subjects, I am able to test hypotheses about how legislators' perceptions of groups' interest bias their judgments about the policy arguments they employ, and vice versa.My theory of lobbying influence suggests that boundedly rational policymakers will process information from lobbyists differently depending on the policymaker's professional socialization and relative expertise in a specific policy area.  Existing research suggests that lobbyists target their friends in the legislature to provide them with useful information, but precisely why some arguments and not others differentially influence legislative allies is unclear.  I contend that policy elites are motivated by existing attitudes towards interest groups and towards policies, meaning that evaluations of both the group's interests and the group's message should affect how influential lobbyists may be.  Lawmakers who are socialized to be objective and policy-oriented are more likely to exhibit rational decision behavior like exhaustively searching, and policymakers who are more reelection-oriented are expected to show evidence of intuitive decision behavior.  Similarly, legislators who specialize in a given policy area are more likely to care about the content and validity of a policy advocate's argument, whereas lawmakers who do not specialize are more apt to use group interests as a mental cue.  The implication for normative theories of interest representation is that legislators do not always dispassionately deliberate over the pros and cons of a public policy proposal, so we need to reconsider the democratic deliberation justification for the role of interest groups in the policy system.
Sequence stratigraphy of the mid-Atlantic coastal plain: an evaluation of eustasy, sediment supply variations, and passive-aggressive tectonism
Creators: name: Kulpecz, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This study uses high resolution geochronology (from biostratigraphy and Sr-isotope age estimates), lithofacies analysis (from continuous coreholes), and geophysical log correlations to develop a detailed framework of sequence and facies distribution across the U.S. mid-Atlantic margin. This allows the evaluation, and quantification (through one-dimensional backstripping), of the influence of eustatic, tectonic, and sediment supply changes on the Late Cretaceous-Pleistocene U.S. mid-Atlantic margin and the post-impact section of the late Eocene Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure (CBIS). Studies of late Cretaceous sequences from the New Jersey Coastal Plain provide a long-term (35 myr), high resolution ([greater than] 1 myr) record of paleodeltaic evolution on the New Jersey Coastal Plain and document five primary phases of margin evolution in response to eustatic change, two long-lived fluvial axes, variations in sediment budget, and thermoflexural basement subsidence. This study demonstrates the facies variability of mixed-influence (wave- and tide- influenced) deltaic systems, but also documents the long-term stability of deltaic facies systems on the 106-107 yr scale, with cyclically repeating systems tracts controlled by eustatic change. Studies of the Cenozoic southern mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain and CBIS post-impact section reveal significant unconformities and the discontinuous preservation of sequences during the Oligocene, lower Miocene, and late-middle Miocene, when coeval deltaic sections in New Jersey are thick and widespread, implicating regional "passive-aggressive" non-thermal tectonic changes. We explain these observations by the differential movement (uplift and excess subsidence) of basement structures in response to variations in intraplate stress. Stratigraphic observations provide low-end estimates of uplift as 10-50 m/ 1-5 myr, while backstripping quantifies periods of excess subsidence of 10-75 m/5-10 myr. Comparison of CBIS and regional backstripped records shows the post-impact evolution was not only dominated by eustasy and regional tectonics, but also the time-dependent compaction of impact-generated materials responsible for excess subsidence on the scale of 285 +/- 50 m in the late Eocene that progressively decreased to 20 +/- 15 m by the late Miocene. These studies demonstrate that while eustasy provides the template for sequence deposition globally, regional tectonics (uplift and subsidence), local effects (impact processes) and sediment supply dictate the regional preservation of sequences.
Gnathonarium luzon Tanasevitch, 2017, new species
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Gnathonarium
Gnathonarium luzon

description: Gnathonarium luzon new species
Figs 4, 5, 26–29
Holotype male (SMF, ex Roewer Coll. M 907), PHILIPPINES, Luzon Island, Mt Makiling; no date, Bakes leg. Paratypes. 1 Male (without palps and legs), 1 male prosoma with left palp, 1 female (SMF), collected together with the holotype.
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition referring to the island where the types were collected.
Diagnosis. The species seems to be most similar to Gnathonarium dentatum (Wider, 1834), differing by the narrower male palpal tibia, as well as by the narrower posterior part of the epigynum. Gnathonarium luzon n. sp. can be distinguished from all congeners by the longest tooth on the male palpal tibia, as well as by the relatively narrow and long seminal ducts of the epigynum.
Description. Male holotype. Large Erigoninae, total length 2.80. Carapace slightly modified, as in Fig. 4, 1.30 long, 1.00 wide, pale reddish brown. Chelicerae massive, 0.53 long, frontal surface beset with small denticles, mastidion present. Legs yellow. Leg I, 5.25 long (1.50+0.35+1.50+1.10++0.80), IV –? Chaetotaxy unknown, spines mostly lost, but seem to have been 2.2.1.1. TmI unknown: trichobothrium not found. Palp (Figs 24–28): Patella with a ventro-apical conical outgrowth. Tibia with a long crescent-shaped process and a large, narrow, pointed tooth at its base. Tegulum elongated, slightly curved, pale, almost transparent. Distal suprategular apophysis flat, long, pointed apically. Radix small, embolus thin, long, making a loop. Abdomen 1.53 long, 0.88 wide, grey dorsally, with a median white stripe.
Female. Total length 2.88. Carapace unmodified, 1.25 long, 0.95 wide, pale brown. Chelicerae 0.58 long, mastidion absent. Legs yellow. Leg I, 5.67 long (1.53+0.38+1.48+1.50+0.78), IV, 5.33 (1.48+0.35+1.40+1.40+0.70). Chaetotaxy unknown, spines mostly lost, but seem to have been 2.2.1.1. TmI unknown: trichobothrium not found. Abdomen 1.78 long, 1.15 wide, grey dorsally, with a white longitudinal stripe narrowing backwards and with two white transverse stripes, the latter sometimes merging. Epigynum as in Figs 5, 29. Seminal ducts relatively long and narrow.
Distribution. Only known from the type locality in the Philippines.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on pages 333-334, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Phytoplankton physiology and export flux
Creators: name: Kahl, Leonard Alexander
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The oceanic biological pump represents one of the Earth's major carbon sinks for atmospheric CO2 and is primarily driven by the flocculation in, and subsequent sedimentation of phytoplankton from the sea surface. Sticking efficiency, crucial to flocculation processes, was estimated within a laboratory mesocosm mimicking energy levels in the ocean on a calm day. The sticking efficiency of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana varied as a result of physiological state. During the periods of high sticking efficiency, physiological changes included: (1) diminished phytoplankton photosynthetic quantum efficiency, (2) an increase in super-oxide dismutase protein expression, reflecting oxidative stress, and (3) the induction of a biochemical cascade initiating autocatalytic programmed cell death. Additionally, during the period of high physiological stress on the diatoms, there was an increase in the presence of both bacteria and extracellular organic matter. Further study found that as the organic matter exuded by phytoplankton degraded, via breaking of beta-glycoside linkages between polysaccharide monomers, it is transformed from discrete gel-like structures into a net-like matrix. This transition towards a more net-like organic matrix increases the probability of the formation of more rapidly settling marine aggregates. These results were then applied to a 1-D export flux model which showed the dependence of export flux dynamics on organic matter exuded by phytoplankton. These simulations revealed that a low initial sticking efficiency allows a significant increase in the critical concentration of algal cells. Such an increase in the number of cells during bloom initiation, when followed by an increase in sticking efficiency during the maintenance and senescent phases, resulted in enhanced and pulse-like carbon export events. Organic matter exuded by phytoplankton also increases seawater viscosity resulting in a 7-25% decrease in export flux. This decrease in export flux results from a convergence of settling speeds between large and small particles as viscosity increases, reducing coagulation due to differential settling. Furthermore, coupling a 1-D export model with a mechanistic model of phytoplankton physiology and cellular exudation, driven by typical oceanic light and nutrient regimes, showed that cell size provides considerable control over the mechanisms controlling the flux of particulate carbon from the sea surface.
Route optimization for Germany-wide services in occupational health management
Creators: name: Arina Antskaitis
Publisher: name: Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden
Year: 2023
Subjects: CyberLytics

description: Bachelor's Thesis
description: biblatex/biber: @Thesis{antskaitis_arina_2023bt,  author = {Antskaitis, Arina},  title = {{Route optimization for Germany-wide services in occupational health management}},  institution = {Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden},  year = 2023,  month = mar,  type = {Bachelorarbeit},  note = {In Kooperation mit der wellabe GmbH},}
Variations in Northern Hemisphere snowfall: an analysis of historical trends and the projected response to anthropogenic forcing in the twenty-first century
Creators: name: Krasting, John P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Snowfall is an important feature of the Earth's climate system that has the ability to influence both the natural world and human activity.  This dissertation examines past and future changes in snowfall related to increasing concentrations of anthropogenic greenhouse gases.  Snowfall observations for North America, derived snowfall products for the Northern Hemisphere, and simulations performed with 13 coupled atmosphere-ocean global climate models are analyzed.The analysis of the spatial pattern of simulated annual trends on a grid point basis from 1951 to 1999 indicates that a transition zone exists above 60° N latitude across the Northern Hemisphere that separates negative trends in annual snowfall in the mid-latitudes and positive trends at higher latitudes.  Regional analysis of observed annual snowfall indicates that statistically significant trends are found in western North America, Japan, and southern Russia.  A majority of the observed historical trends in annual snowfall elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, however, are not statistically significant and this result is consistent with model simulations.   Projections of future snowfall indicate the presence of a similar transition zone between negative and positive snowfall trends that corresponds with the area between the -10 to -15° C isotherms of the multi-model mean temperature of the late twentieth century in each of the fall, winter, and spring seasons.  Redistributions of snowfall throughout the entire snow season are likely -- even in locations where there is little change in annual snowfall.  Changes in the fraction of precipitation falling as snow contribute to decreases in snowfall across most Northern Hemisphere regions, while changes in precipitation typically contribute to increases in snowfall.  Snowfall events less than or equal to 5 cm are found to decrease in the future across most of the Northern Hemisphere, while snowfall events greater than or equal to 20 cm increase in some locations, such as northern Quebec.  A signal-to-noise analysis reveals that the projected changes in snowfall are likely to become apparent during the twenty-first century for most locations in the Northern Hemisphere.
One nation: cosmopolitanism and the making of American identity from Madison to Lincoln
Creators: name: Keck, Aaron Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: My dissertation traces the belief that Americans are united in solidarity primarily in cosmopolitan terms--that is, by virtue of their shared humanity.  Though scholars rarely identify "shared humanity" as a source of American solidarity, I find that many seminal figures in U.S. history appealed for solidarity on precisely these grounds.The question of solidarity--the feeling of mutual affinity between members of a community, long recognized as essential to a free society--has always been central to American political discourse.  Solidarity seems to require homogeneity, a "shared characteristic" from which it can spring; but because Americans have always been conscious of their diversity, the source of that homogeneity has always been an open question.  Recent flaps over "multiculturalism" and immigration are only the newest iterations of a centuries-old debate.  Casting the conflict in terms of a question of scope, I identify six competing "circles" of solidarity, ranging from sub-national attachments, which bind us to some but not all Americans, to wide transnational affinities, which bind us to Americans and non-Americans alike.  Cosmopolitanism, the widest circle of all, has long been neglected; but it would have had strong appeal to those who believed, as many did, that Americans were united by little else.In the second half of the dissertation, I turn my attention to four of the most "supremely American" antebellum political thinkers: James Madison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Lincoln.  Often characterized as a mere pluralist, Madison in fact was a committed republican who recognized the need for solidarity, but also took seriously the common belief that Americans had only their humanity in common.  Madison thus worked to develop sustainable republican institutions for an extremely wide "sphere" of society, repeatedly arguing throughout the Constitutional debates that republicanism grew stronger as the scope of solidarity grew wider.  Picking up this thread, Emerson and Whitman developed a cosmopolitan "story of peoplehood," culminating in Whitman's original Leaves of Grass, that grounded American unity in an all-encompassing human "Over-Soul."  Lincoln, simultaneously, concluded that the cosmopolitan moment implicit in the Declaration of Independence was the proper source of "national" solidarity.
High-dimensional semiparametric mixed-effects model for longitudinal data with non-normal errors
Creators: name: Taavoni, Mozhgan
name: Arashi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Difficulties may arise when analyzing longitudinal data using mixed-effects models if nonparametric functions are present in the linear predictor component. This study extends semiparametric mixed-effects modeling in cases when the response variable does not always follow a normal distribution and the nonparametric component is structured as an additive model. A novel approach is proposed to identify significant linear and non-linear components using a double-penalized generalized estimating equation with two penalty terms. Furthermore, the iterative approach intends to enhance the efficiency of estimating regression coefficients by incorporating the calculation of the working covariance matrix. The oracle properties of the resulting estimators are established under certain regularity conditions, where the dimensions of both the parametric and nonparametric components increase as the sample size grows. We perform numerical studies to demonstrate the efficacy of our proposal.
Pangus Dejean 1821
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Pangus

description: Genus Pangus Dejean, 1821
Pangus scaritides (Sturm, 1818)
Studied material: (ZMTU): Nur, 2010 (Prov. of Mazandaran). Citations: Without exact locality (Kataev & Wrase, 2003).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Kaestneria Wiehle 1956
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Kaestneria

description: Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956
Type species: Kaestneria dorsalis (Wider, 1834).
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 334, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
M-estimation for linear models with exchangeable errors
Creators: name: Wang, Li
name: Ma, Weidong
name: Yang, Ying
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: This paper focuses on the estimation of parameters in linear models with fixed regressors and exchangeable errors, especially, these errors are assumed to be a subset of an infinite exchangeable sequence. We propose a modified M-estimation to estimate the slope parameter, which outperforms the traditional M-estimation when the random errors are exchangeable. The modified M-estimation utilizes a design point centralization technique, leading to a more suitable estimator with improved theoretical properties. To establish the asymptotic properties of the modified M-estimator, we also develop a weighted central limit theorem for exchangeable sequences, which is of independent interest. Regarding the intercept, we prove that there is no consistent estimator for the intercept when the exchangeable errors have non-zero covariance, and we propose an unbiased estimator for the intercept as a viable compromise. Based on our theoretical findings, we develop a simulation-based approach to approximate the confidence set of the slope, and we establish a prediction model specifically designed for linear models with exchangeable errors. Additionally, we illustrate the finite sample performance of the proposed method through various numerical simulations and a real data application.
Modern Guatemalan Mayan literature in cultural context: bilanguaging in the literary works of bilingual Mayan authors
Creators: name: Kahn, Hana Muzika
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: My dissertation examines the revival of written Mayan language literature in Guatemala since 1980 - a literature created by Mayan authors who write in Mayan languages and also in Spanish. I explore the impact of socio-political context on the choice of literary language, and review how these bilingual authors express their world view and culture through their use of language-specific vocabulary, syntax and style in their literary texts. Bilanguaging in their texts in each language is an epistemological statement, and evidence of a dialogical and aesthetic communicative process of social transformation. In Guatemala, new written Mayan language literature has developed since the political conflicts of 1954-1996, and follows a long tradition of oral literature, pre-colonial glyph writing and early colonial alphabetic writing, with characteristic themes, genres and stylistic features. I describe the contemporary linguistic situation, the movement to preserve Mayan languages in writing and the corresponding need for Mayan-language literacy. I also discuss the need for translation into Spanish, as a lingua franca that both Ladino readers and speakers of different Mayan languages can access, and also as the only language that has been taught in schools. I evaluate recent transcriptions of Mayan oral literature and their translations into Spanish to show how their themes and styles form a foundation for written literature.  I then analyze bilanguaging in the works of three authors: Humberto Ak'abal (K'iche'), Gaspar Pedro González (Q'anjob'al) and Victor Montejo (Jakaltek) who write in Mayan K'iche', Q'anjob';al, and Popb'al Ti' and who themselves re-write/translate their works into Spanish. This process of writing in two languages itself reflects the dual world views the authors inhabit.  I compare the Spanish and Mayan language texts to demonstrate lexical and syntactic asymmetry, and show how the Spanish text includes Mayan lexical borrowings, syntactic structures and stylistic features in order to foreground the Mayan voice in the Spanish text. I conclude by discussing the significance and the viability of this emerging literature as an expression of cultural linguistic rights and de-colonial epistemological transformation in the socio-political context of Guatemala.
A study on gay and lesbian intergenerational relationships: a test of the solidarity model
Creators: name: Koller, Jeanne Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Although a growing literature exists on gay and lesbian couples and their children, little research has been conducted investigating the social support systems of this emerging new type of family unit. Social support is known to be very important to individual, couple, and family functioning. It can be argued that social support is particularly important for gay and lesbian parents due to societal stigma for their lifestyles and disapproval of their choices to become parents.This quantitative study of 245 self-identified gay, lesbian, and heterosexual participants examined the relationships of gay and lesbian parents with family and friends and compared them to those of gay and lesbian nonparents, as well as to those of the heterosexual parents and nonparents. This analysis was done in order to assess support systems among different type of couples. The results showed that parents (regardless of sexual orientation) seemed to live closer to their own parents and received and provided more help to family members. The findings that gay and lesbian parents were so similar to heterosexual parents on these variables lend support to a hypothesis of the study that parenthood can bring gays and lesbians closer to their own parents.Nonparents (regardless of sexual orientation) seemed to receive and provide more help to friends than the parents groups, and lesbian nonparent couples tended to have the strongest connections with friends. The issue of gender played a probable role in these results, with women having stronger connections than men with their friends in each of these measures.Finally, interesting results emerged about gay parents. The gay male parents seemed to have stronger connections with family than the other gay and lesbian couples. It could be that gay men seeking parenthood may be a unique group with already strong family ties and desires for parenthood. Overall, this study's findings have practice implications and also provide direction for future research regarding parenthood, sexual orientation, and the importance of social support.