cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Automatic detection, segmentation and motion characterization of the heart from tagged MRI
Creators: name: Qian, Zhen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in the developed countries. To reduce the mortality, early diagnosis is critical. Tagged MRI is a non-invasive technique for the study of cardiac deformation. It generates an MRI-visible tag pattern within the heart that deforms with the tissue during the cardiac cycle in vivo, which gives motion information of the myocardium. It has the potential of early diagnosis and quantitative analysis of various kinds of heart diseases and malfunctions. The difficulty preventing this technique from clinical use is the lack of efficient post-processing methods that automatically extract and analyze cardiac motion from tagged MRI data, which consists of image analysis tasks such as image preprocessing, tagging lines enhancement and tracking, tag removal, heart detection, cardiac boundaries segmentation, and motion or strain estimation. In this dissertation, a system of accurate and reliable automatic / semi-automatic tagged MR image analysis solutions will be given to all these problems. The methodologies of this system involves the interplay between traditional image processing techniques and state-of-the-art statistics, physics and machine learning based methods. In addition, medical prior knowledge and practices have been incorporated into the algorithms. In this research, a wavelet-like Gabor filter-based method has been developed to solve tasks such as tag enhancement, tag removal, myocardial tracking, and strain estimation. Because of its wide applications, Gabor filtering has the potential to become a routine function in tMRI analysis systems. We are also the first that introduced learning-based approaches into the detection and boundary segmentation of the heart in cardiac tMRI, by integrating statistical shape analysis, learning-based local appearance modeling, and sampling-based tracking techniques. For myocardial deformation analysis, we developed both tracking and non-tracking-based strain estimation algorithms, and conducted a quantitative comparison with registered ultrasound elastography. Based on our strain estimates, a novel tensor-based classification framework has been developed to identify and localize regional cardiac abnormalities in human subjects. Experimental results show the automatic detection, segmentation and motion characterization methods that we have developed in this dissertation can automate and largely speed up the image analysis process of tMRI, and achieve robust and accurate results. This research provides a promising avenue to make tMRI clinically accessible.
Piping systems in petroleum industries
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2024

description: Piping systems in petroleum industries 

Piping systems in petroleum industries - API 570 API 570 covers inspection, repair, alteration, and rerating procedures for metallic piping systems that have been in-service. API 570 was developed for the petroleum refining and chemical process industries but may be used, where practical, for any piping system.
Welding quality control checklist
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2024

description: The following is a list of definitions commonly used within the section Welding Quality Control of the Special Provisions and elsewhere in the contract documents. Additional definitions can be found in ANSI/AWS A3.0-94 Standard Welding Terms and Definitions. Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) for State Projects-Inspector certified in accordance with AWS QC1. For State projects the Quality Control Inspector will be a CWI. FCAW-Flux Cored Arc Welding-An arc welding process utilizing a tubular electrode with the flux contained within the core. The electrode is supplied on a reel and is fed continuously to the welder's gun automatically. FLUX-A material used to hinder or prevent the formation of oxides and other undesirable substances in molten metal and on solid metal surfaces, and to dissolve or otherwise facilitate the removal of such substances. GMAW-Gas metal arc welding utilizes a bare or a flux-cored electrode. Gas from an external source is used for shielding. Normally a shop welding process. Often referred to as MIG welding. Non-Conformance Report (NCR)-A written report originated by OSM which addresses a deficiency being performed and the contract documents not being fulfilled. The report will describe the problem, the location, the Quality Control Inspector response, the proposed solution, and OSM recommendation. Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)-Testing or an inspection method which does not damage the element being tested (e.g. Radiographic (RT), Ultrasonic (UT), Visual (VT), Magnetic Particle (MT), Liquid Penetrant (PT). Procedure Qualification Record (PQR)-Documentation indicating testing was performed to qualify a WPS. Quality Assurance (QA)-This oversight is the prerogative of the Engineer and will be performed by a State representative. Quality Assurance Inspector (QA Inspector)-The duly designated person who acts for and on behalf of the Engineer. This person is from OSM and will inspect the welding operation and write a welding report for the State. Quality Control (QC)-Responsibility of the contractor. As a minimum, the Contractor shall perform inspection and testing prior to welding, during welding and after welding as specified in the contract documents and additionally as necessary to ensure that materials and workmanship conform to the requirements of the contract documents.
Effects of bulkheads on estuarine beach swash zone processes and characteristics
Creators: name: Raineault, Nicole A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This thesis combines the study of geomorphic effects of beach topography, sediment characteristics, and transport with physical processes of waves, swash, and reflected energies to evaluate the effects of bulkheads on estuarine beaches. I hypothesize that the truncation of a beach by a bulkhead will (1) concentrate and increase turbulence directly seaward of the structure increasing sediment activation depth; (2) create interference and patterns of swash/wave and reflected energy interactions, increasing the topographic variability of the foreshore; and (3) increase turbulent energies enough to remove finer grained sand. Measurements of topographic variability, sediment activation depth, and net change were made over 21 tidal cycles on the foreshore at two wooden sheet pile bulkheads and a control site 45 m south of the bulkheads at Fortescue, New Jersey. Sediment cores were taken seaward of the bulkhead and at equivalent elevations on the control site to the depth of sediment activation. A video record was taken of swash and waves interacting with the bulkhead. The main conclusions are that since the swash and waves are precluded from migrating higher up the foreshore with the tide, the increased concentration of incident and reflected energies at bulkheads more than doubles the depth of sediment activation directly seaward, increasing the potential for sediment transport under higher energy conditions. Though no significant net surface change occurred seaward of the bulkheads, there are more frequent erosional/depositional cycles. The bulkheaded beaches have a more undulatory profile and a steeper slope within 0.5 to 1.5 m of the structure. The surface sediment on the bulkheaded beaches have a smaller amount of coarse sand and granules, although this may be an artifact of horseshoe crab burrowing on the control site. The type of bulkhead construction influences processes and beach response. One bulkhead that has buttress pilings on the bayward side has a steeper beach out to a greater distance (1.5 m) and smaller depth of sediment activation than the planar bulkhead due to sediment accumulation between the buttresses, which broke up the reflected energy. The 8.58 m long beach enclave between the two bulkheads has characteristics similar to bulkhead sites.
title: Dislocation activity - introduction
title: Dislocation activity in the metal
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2023

description: This semicentennial seminar recognizes the three re- nowned 1934 papers denoting the initiation of the dislocation theory of slip. As noted by Orowan, Taylor submitted his paper first, while the other papers appeared first. A number of ideas concerning dislocations, including the mechanics of multiplication by "reflection" at a free sur- face, had been presented in Orowan's thesis of 1929. The chain of events leading to his 1934 paper, as recounted by him, included the adventitious dropping of a zinc single crystal which led to observations of jerky flow and in turn to the consideration of models to explain the low resistance of a metal to shear. Orowan sketched both the cross section of edge portions of a dislocation loop, showing the bent lattice planes resulting from the near-core strain field, and a schematic view of a dislocation loop on a glide plane, im- plicitly including edge and screw portions. Glide was ac- complished by the growth of the loop in its glide plane. Polanyi had suggested that Orowan publish on his own, 26 but after discussion agreed to submit a paper to appear together with that of Orowan. Polanyi's sketch 3~ of an edge dislocation in cross section reflects his earlier ideas on ver- niers, showing a uniformly extended dislocation. The model showed that dislocations could glide under stresses less than the theoretical shear stress, but did not reveal the local strain field near the dislocation. Polanyi had dropped his original term of vernier and called the defects Versetzung, a name also adopted by Orowan and currently in use.
Quality by design for continuous powder mixing
Creators: name: Portillo, Patricia Maribel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The main target of our research is to investigate powder mixing, particularly continuous mixing. Continuous mixing is considered as an efficient alternative to batch mixing processes that in principle allows for easier on-line control and optimization of mixing performance. In order to illustrate the benefits of this process we have demonstrated the effectiveness of continuous mixing for powders. A number of operating and design parameters including processing angle, rotation rate, fill level, convective design, APAP concentration, and residence time have been investigated to consider their effects on mixing performance and on the content uniformity. Statistical analysis has been applied to examine the significance of the effects of processing parameters and material properties on the mixing rate. In addition to mixing experiments, the particle trajectory within a continuous mixer has been studied for different cohesion levels, flowrates, and rotation rates using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT). The approach was beneficial in providing particle trajectories and, as a result, allowing us to obtain axial dispersion coefficients quantitatively. The experimental methods have been used to verify computational approaches as well as study some important areas that are difficult to examine experimentally such as online homogeneity measurements. Notably, powder-mixing models are restricted due to computational limitations and obstacles associated with correlating simulation-time to real-time. We have developed efficient modeling approaches that will enable the simulation, optimization, and control of mixing processes. One method is compartment modeling, a method that discretizes the blender into finite regions. We have adapted the approach to mixing processes (v-blender, a horizontal drum, and continuous blenders). Another approach we propose is the use of a hybrid methodology that utilizes compartment modeling and the Discrete Element Method. The effectiveness of the methodology will be demonstrated by modeling particle mixing under the influence of an impeller in the continuous blender, which for usual modeling methods typically lead to extremely high computational costs.
A-TIG Mechanism of welding
Creators: name: Hadzihafizovic, Dzevad
Publisher: name: Dzevad Hadzihafizovic's Lab
Year: 2023

description: A-TIG Mechanism of welding

A-TIG Mechanism of welding Introduction Versatility, stable heat source, optimum cost of equipment and fine quality weld are the known features of Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding process, making it widely acceptable in different industries. However, there is something which offsets the extensive application of TIG welding regardless of all its advantages [1]. The limited dilution, poor deposition rate and shallow penetration in a single pass leading to poor productivity are the main shortcomings in the wide claim of this process for thick plates fabrication [2]. Weld penetration or depth of penetration (DOP) is a prominent factor in TIG welding, which directly influences the rate of production in autogenous welding. Edge/Groove preparation is the primary step to be done for plates or pipes of thickness 3 mm or more, which is obviously an uneconomical and time killing step performed in conventional TIG process [3]. To eradicate this problem of low depth of penetration in TIG welding, researchers worked on the use of activated flux and introduced a process known as Activated flux tungsten inert gas (A-TIG) welding [4]. A-TIG was firstly introduced in middle of 1960 s by E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute, Ukraine [5]. But an extra step is to be performed in A-TIG as compared conventional TIG (C-TIG), which is coating of inorganic activated flux [6]. A thin layer of flux is applied all over the joint prior to its welding. The main constituents of the flux are oxides and halides in the fine powdered form. Flux is initially converted from powdered to slurry form by adding appropriate organic solvent. The common carrier solvents are carbinol, ethanol or acetone which should be mixed with activated flux in appropriate quantity so that, liquid of the paste evaporates in the meantime leaving a flux layer on the surface. The A-TIG process completely obliterates addition of filler wire, lowers groove preparation time and intensifies the weld penetration power [7]. Subsequently, providing single pass weld with elevated welding speeds and deeper weld beads. The weld bead cross-sections of C-TIG and A-TIG welding using identical process parameters is shown in the Fig. 1.Fig. 2. Although, we know A-TIG welding very well empirically, but still there exists several mechanisms suggested by the researchers which claim to be the reason for the deeper weld penetration. Till now there has not been a common agreement over the appropriate mechanism for A-TIG technique. The different mechanisms are listed in Fig. 3.
Osoriellus tunariensis Irmler 2014, n. sp.
Creators: name: Irmler, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Osoriellus
Osoriellus tunariensis

description: Osoriellus tunariensis n. sp.
(Figs 85 A-C, 102C)
Type material: Holotype, male: Bolivia: Cochabamba, Villa Tunari, 800 m elevation, 17.10.1981, leg. M. Cooper (BMNH).
Diagnosis: Both the total size and the shape of the pronotum of O. tunariensis are similar to O. argentinus. The species can be differentiated from the other species by the large prominent eyes and the contrast between the dense microsculpture of the head and the weak pronotal microsculpture.
Description: Length: 5.6 mm. Colouration: Black; legs and antennae lighter brown.
Head: 0.84 mm long, 1.26 mm wide; eyes prominent; distinctly longer than temples; sides of fore-head slightly emarginate to anterior angles of clypeus; anterior edge of clypeus even; setiferous punctation deep and dense; on vertex, partly coriaceously punctate; on central posterior vertex and at base of antennae impunctate; on supraocular area, punctures granulate; netlike microsculpture dense and deep; surface matt.
Antennae lost.
Pronotum: 1.14 mm long, 1.30 mm wide; widest at anterior angles; slightly convergent in even curve to shortly rounded posterior angles; lateral margin fine; finer at anterior angles than at posterior angles; anterior angles produced to very short acute teeth; setiferous punctation coarse and deep; impunctate midline widened from anterior margin to posterior margin; on average, interstices between punctures half as wide as diameter of punctures; microsculpture extremely weak; surface shiny.
Elytra: 1.40 mm long, 1.36 mm wide; with dense and deep coriaceous ground-sculpture; setiferous punctures in irregular rows; surface matt.
Abdomen with dense setiferous punctation; on tergites narrow midline impunctate; moderately weak netlike microsculpture; on impunctate midline weaker than on punctate area; surface of puntate area matt; midline shiny.
Protibia: 0.70 mm long, 0.26 mm wide; 9 spines at outer edge; WLR: 1.4; in posterior aspect, comb at inner emargination visible throughout its total length; posterior face very densely covered by yellow setae.
Aedeagus rectangularly angulate; apical lobe thick; ending in obtuse apex; inner edge of apical lobe with numerous sensillae.
Etymology: The specific name refers to the Bolivian village Villa Tunari, where the species was found.
description: Published as part of Irmler, Ulrich, 2014, The Neotropical species of the genus Osoriellus FAGEL, 1959 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae), pp. 231-354 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (2) on page 290, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.2.231-354, http://zenodo.org/record/5461706
Fidicina torresi Boulard & Martinelli 1996
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Fidicina
Fidicina torresi

description: Fidicina torresi Boulard & Martinelli, 1996
Fidicina torresi Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 27.
Type locality. Punto Bemberg, Misiones, Argentina.
Remarks. This includes previous references to Fidicina mannifera (Fabricius) from Misiones (e.g., Torres, 1946; Sanborn et al. 1995b). The species is now known from Argentina (Boulard & Martinelli 1996), Brazil (Sanborn 2008a), and Paraguay (Sanborn 2011). We collected the species in the middle levels of the Paranense floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a) the species is endothermic (Sanborn et al. 1995b).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
An analysis of the structure and performance of organic dairy farms in the Northeast, U.S.A.
Creators: name: Postel, Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Due to the restructuring and trend toward consolidation that has been taking place in the dairy industry for the past several decades; the number of dairy farms in the U.S. has been steadily declining. Smaller dairy farms have been disappearing at a disproportionate rate. At the same time, demand for organic milk has been consistently rising. There is some evidence to suggest that organic dairy may be a viable economic alternative for dairy farmers, but there is little empirical evidence to verify such claims. This study analyzed the financial performance of U.S. organic dairy farms in comparison to conventional dairy farms in the Northeast, highlighted significant structural differences between profitable and unprofitable organic dairy farms, and examined the factors affecting dairy farm profitability in the Northeast. This study shows that organic dairy farms in the Northeast were profitable and that small organic dairy farms were more economically viable than small conventional dairy farms. It was found that farm size, organic milk price, production efficiency, extra income in addition to milk sales, operator's age and expectations regarding the future of the dairy enterprise, and production efficiency had a positive correlation with organic dairy farm profitability. Factors that had a negative influence on organic dairy farm profitability were variable costs per cow, the debt-to-asset ratio of the farm, the average age of the milking herd, family farm status, the hours per day the milking system was in operation, and the choice to dry off milk cows seasonally. The results suggest that transitioning to certified organic status is an economically viable alternative for small conventional dairy farms in the Northeast.
Chasing justice, challenging power: legal consciousness and the mobilization of sexual harassment law
Creators: name: Patterson, Sasha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This project examines the legal consciousness of women who have filed sexual harassment complaints against their employers. I chose to focus on sexual harassment because I am particularly interested in the intersection of law and social attitudes about gender and sexuality. Examining the experiences of women who turn to the law in response to sexual harassment helps uncover the ways in which power in American law and social structures is suffused with understandings of gender and sexuality. My project attempts to understand the viewpoint of those who would challenge the existing power dynamic, and explore how the social structures of gender, sexuality and patriarchy are implicated in women's conceptions of legality.The analysis is based on interviews with a dozen women who experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. These women have distinguished themselves from their peers by filing a formal complaint, lawsuit or grievance. The interview subjects, unlike the majority of women who are sexually harassed, have decided to invoke the law on their behalf. In order to understand how legal consciousness informs the understanding, expectations and experiences of my respondents, I develop a theoretical framework based on legal consciousness literature and feminist analysis of sexual harassment law. I explore the questions of how my respondents view the law, the expectations they have of law and  how their interaction with the legal system influences their legal consciousness.The interviews paint a vivid picture of the experience of harassment and the implications of trying to use the law as a means of empowerment. The stories of these individual women illustrate the power of law to constrain individual action, and  emphasize how patriarchy establishes and maintains gender inequality in the social and economic structures of the workplace and the legal system. However, they also show how individuals will resist the hegemonic power of the law and seek to use the law to empower themselves, despite an awareness of the challenges and limitations of law.
CBX2 and DNA damage repair: development of CBX2-specific reagents
Creators: name: Piso, Katherine
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: DNA damage is inevitable, however, methods of DNA repair exist which allows cells to recover, or die, depending on the severity of the damage.  Homologous recombination (HR) is one type of DNA damage repair that has the ability to repair double-stranded breaks (DSBs) in a high-fidelity manner.  Unrepaired DSBs can led to cell death or genomic instability.BRCA1is a tumor suppressor protein that is involved in the cellular response to DNA damage.  Studies show that BRCA1 accumulates in S and G2 phases of the cell cycle, and after DNA damage re-localizes to nuclear repair foci. Cells that lack BRCA1 are unable to repair DNA using HR, and therefore tend to use more error-prone mechanisms. A human auto-antisera, PIKA, first characterized in 2003 by William Earnshaw et al., recognizes proteins which contain chromodomains, and co-localize with BRCA1, before and after DNA damage.  Chromodomains are critical features of the HP1 group of proteins, and the polycomb group (PcG) proteins.  Prior work has suggested that the protein being recognized by the PIKA anti-sera, was CBX2, a member of the PcG and the polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1).  Unfortunately, the antibodies commercially available for CBX2 do not recognize both isoforms of CBX2, the truncated and the full-length.  The purpose of this project was to generate plasmid constructs containing coding sequences for the CBX2 full-length protein using the directional cloning technique.  A vector encoding a GST-CBX2 SL fusion protein was successfully generated, and conditions for expression and extraction of this protein from bacterial culture were optimized.  Progress has been made in isolating a cDNA for the full length CBX2 isoform to generate both GST-fusion proteins and a GFP-tagged protein.  By generating a proper CBX2 antibody for the full-length protein, we hope to show that this protein is involved in the normal response to DNA damage.
Fidicinoides Boulard & Martinelli 1996
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Fidicinoides

description: Fidicinoides Boulard & Martinelli, 1996
Type species. Fidicina picea Walker, 1850 (Mexico).
Remarks. The genus Fidicinoides almost doubled in size to 35 species since its description and is about twice as diverse as the genus Fidicina (Santos et al. 2010). Members of the genus were collected in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Boulard & Martinelli 1996; Sanborn 2001; 2006a; 2007a; 2007b; 2008a; 2010a; 2011b; 2013).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Il telaio di Dolores
Creators: name: Pecorelli, Nevin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: My dissertation clarifies the psychological importance of words and language in Dolores Prato's works Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno and Le ore. An analysis of these works helps to demonstrate the decisive impact that language had on Prato's perception of her childhood. Fortunately, this analysis was made lucid by the "unfortunate" editorial cuts that Natalia Ginzburg made in Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno as published in 1980.  For both editorial conviction and personal ideas on what literature is, Ginzburg decided to reduce the original manuscript by two thirds and in the process eliminated most of the linguistic richness of the author's original manuscript. This reduction clearly demonstrates Ginzburg's benightedness of the psychological involvement that Prato's childhood language had in her impulse to start writing in the first place.   Prato's negation of her childhood language, and later recuperation of that language in the original manuscript resulted in Prato rediscovering her identity, i.e., the identity of her childhood. In fact, to recuperate her childhood Prato reconciled herself with her past and in the process regained the language of Treia, the small village where she spent the first ten years of her life. The prohibition of the Treia dialect at Prato's local boarding school and the editorial cuts made by Natalia Ginzburg were both done for reasons of linguistic prestige. Therefore, Prato's boarding school linguistic proscriptions as well as these editorial interdictions represent "violent acts" against the maintenance, recuperation and rediscovery of that childhood identity.Ultimately, given the history of publishing houses at the time the book was published, without Natalia Ginzburg's editorial cuts the book would have never come out. Therefore, while we can debate the type of cuts that were made, what we cannot debate is that without Ginzburg's drastic reduction of Prato's book it never would have come to light.
Entoloma albotomentosum Noordel. & Hauskn., Z. Mykol.
Creators: name: Khalid, Abdul Nasir
name: Razzaq, Fauzia
name: Naseer, Arooj
name: Qasim, Tayyaba
name: Kanwal, Sobia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Entolomataceae
Entoloma
Entoloma albotomentosum

description: Entoloma albotomentosum Noordel. & Hauskn., Z. Mykol. 55(1): 32 (1989) Fig. 3
Description:— Pileus 0.5–1.7 cm diam., hemispheric when young, becoming convex with a central depression at maturity, pruinose, light pinkish white (10R8/4), margin straight, splitting at maturity. Context thin, light pinkish brown (10R 8/4). Lamellae adnate, thin, narrow, up to 1 mm deep, light pinkish white (10R8/3), distant, with 1–2 tiers of lamellulae, margin entire and concolorous with faces. Stipe 1–2.6 × 0.1–0.3 cm, centrally attached, cylindrical, equal, slightly tapering towards base; context solid, pinkish white (10R8/2), surface pruinose, base slightly broad. Odor and taste not recorded. Spore print not taken.
Basidiospores (9.2–) 9.5–11.1 (–11.5) × (7–) 7.3–8.6 (–8.9) μm, (avl × avw= 10.2 × 7.8 μm,) Q=1.27–1.32, Qav= 1.29, with 7–8 rather blunt angles, thick-walled, apiculate, guttulate. Basidia (27.8–) 28.3–34.6 (–35.5) × (9.4–) 9.8–13.3 (–14.5) μm, sub-clavate, sub-cylindrical to cylindrical, mostly 2-spored, rarely 4-spored, no short cells or clamps present at the base. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis made up of thin-walled hyaline hyphae, 4.1–19 μm diam., septate, branched, hyphal ends obtuse. Stipitipellis a cutis made up of thin-walled hyaline hyphae, 2–13 μm diam., parallel to irregular in arrangement, septate, branched. Clamp connections not observed in any tissue.
Ecology:—Saprotrophic, scattered or in a group in grassy lawns on rich loamy soil.
Material examined:— PAKISTAN. PUNJAB, Lahore, University of the Punjab Lahore, elev. 217 m a.s.l., 1August 2017, Tayyaba Qasim, B-6 (LAH36551; ITS: PP859461).
description: Published as part of Khalid, Abdul Nasir, Razzaq, Fauzia, Naseer, Arooj, Qasim, Tayyaba & Kanwal, Sobia, 2024, Two new species and a new record of Entolomatoid fungi (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Pakistan, pp. 1-16 in Phytotaxa 666 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14518562
Osoriellus tuxtlae Irmler 2014, n. sp.
Creators: name: Irmler, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Osoriellus
Osoriellus tuxtlae

description: Osoriellus tuxtlae n. sp.
(Figs 66 A-C, 98B)
Type material: Holotype, male: Mexico: Chiapas, Tenejapa ca. 30 mi. ENE Tuxtla Gutierrez, 7000 ft. (92°22'W, 16°50'N), Dec. 31, 1972, leg. H. Frania (AMNH).
Paratypes: Mexico: 4 females, 4 males, with same data as holotype (AMNH, UIC); San Louis Potosi, Sierra de la Abra, Sotano de la Tinaja, flood debris on mud slope, 1500 ft. from entrance, female, Feb. 18, 1970, leg. J.A.L. Cook (AMNH).
Diagnosis: The species can be differentiated from the species similar in size and absence of pronotal microsculpture, i.e. O. boliviensis, O. parumpunctatus, and O. minor, by the dense and coarse punctation. In O. tuxtlae the interstices are narrower than half of diameter of punctures, wheras in the other species the interstices between punctures are much wider than the diameter of punctures.
Description: Length: 4.6 mm. Colouration: Dark reddish to brown; head and pronotum brown; elytra lighter red; anterior abdominal segments light red; posterior segments dark red; legs and antennae yellow.
Head: 0.60 mm long, 0.82 mm wide; eyes not prominent; as long as temples; sides of fore-head sinuate; sides of clypeus approximately parallel; clypeal angles with granules; sparsely and deeply punctate with setiferous punctures; setae pointing to middle; impunctate areas at base of antennae and on central vertex; supraocular area with denser punctation than vertex; without microsculpture; surface shiny and polished.
Antennae with second antennomere oblong and thicker than third; third antennomere conical, narrower and shorter than second; following 3 antennomeres wider than long, but not wider than third antennomere; antennomere 7 quadrate; antennomeres 8 to 10 wider than long and distinctly wider than preceding antennomeres.
description: Published as part of Irmler, Ulrich, 2014, The Neotropical species of the genus Osoriellus FAGEL, 1959 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae), pp. 231-354 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.2.231-354, http://zenodo.org/record/5461706
Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov 1951
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Poecilomelitta
Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis

description: 37. Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951
(Fig. 37a–d)
Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951: 579, ♂.
Type locality: Jeddah, Makkah Province (Saudi Arabia).
Published (original) locality: “Dzhedda, Aravia”.
Holotype: ♂, N 114 [Saudi Arabia, Makkah Province, Jeddah, 39°10′N 21°32′E], [February, N.N. Zhehzhurist leg.] // Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, Typ. V. Popov, 1950 [handwritten by V. Popov] // Holotypus Poecilomelitta dzheddaensis Popov, 1951  // Meliturgula minima, ♂, Det. Patiny 2002 // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002627.
Current status. Meliturgula (Meliturgula) scriptifrons (Walker, 1871) (according to Michener 2007: 293).
Distribution. Africa, Saudi Arabia (Ascher & Pickering 2024).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on page 288, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Pharmacogenomic and mechanistic studies on dietary factors in chemoprevention of cancer
Creators: name: Nair, Sujit Sukumar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Pharmacogenomic profiling of cancer has recently seen much activity with the accessibility of the newest generation of high-throughput platforms and technologies. A myriad of mechanistic studies have been devoted to identifying dietary factors that can help prevent cancer, with evidence gleaned from epidemiologic studies revealing an inverse correlation between the intake of cruciferous vegetables and the risk of certain types of cancer. To develop a comprehensive understanding of cancer pathogenesis, and potential for chemopreventive intervention with dietary factors, an integrated approach that encompasses both pharmacogenomic and mechanistic aspects is desirable. Our transcriptomic profiling of butylated hydroxyanisole-induced Nuclear Factor-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-dependent genes in Nrf2-deficient mice identified several germane molecular targets for prevention. Toxicogenomic analyses of endoplasmic reticulum stress inducer tunicamycin in Nrf2-deficient mice elucidated Nrf2-regulated unfolded protein response effects. Mechanistic studies on a combination of sulforaphane and (-) epigallocatechin-3-gallate in HT-29 AP-1 (Activator Protein-1) cells revealed a synergy in colon cancer chemoprevention. Pharmacogenomic studies of this combination in PC-3 AP-1 cells provided a discursive framework for understanding putative crosstalk between Nrf2 and AP-1 in prostate cancer chemoprevention.  Regulatory potential for concerted modulation of Nrf2 and Nuclear Factor-κB (Nfκb1) in inflammation and carcinogenesis was delineated by bioinformatic analyses. Metabolomic approaches identified potential prognostic biomarkers in human prostate cancer. Differential biological networks in prostate cancer were elicited in androgen-dependent 22Rv1 cells, androgen- and estrogen-dependent LNCaP cells and androgen-independent DU 145 and PC-3 cells. Taken together, our identification of Nrf2-regulated molecular targets by expression profiling using dietary factors, synergistic effects in combinatorial use of dietary factors in colon cancer, regulatory studies on crosstalk between Nrf2 and AP-1 in prostate cancer, bioinformatic analyses of concerted modulation of Nrf2 and Nfkb1 in inflammation and carcinogenesis, metabolomic identification of biomarkers, and delineation of target hubs in differential prostate cancer biological networks, greatly enhance our understanding of the transcriptional circuitry in cancer and important master regulatory nodes including Nrf2 that might potentially be exploited for chemopreventive intervention with dietary factors.
Eating behaviors and body weight in preadolescents classified by sensitivity to 6-n-propylthiouracil: a follow-up study
Creators: name: Nolen, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Overweight in children is a problem of rising significance as obesity in America becomes more widespread.  Understanding factors affecting the establishment of eating behaviors in children can potentially mitigate development of adiposity.  This study investigated the influence of genetic sensitivity to the bitterness of 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP), environment and psychosocial factors on change in weight status from preschool to preadolescence.  Children who originally participated in taste studies as preschoolers were identified and re-tested as preadolescents.  Seventy-three children and their mothers were screened for PROP taster status and answered a questionnaire measuring dietary restraint and disinhibition.  Children additionally gave three 24-hour recalls, and wore an activity monitor for 72hours.  Data from the diet recalls were analyzed by nutrient composition as well as by USDA Food Group servings.  For the results, phenotype of PROP taster status was stable since preschool, being satisfactorily reliable for test-retest (Cohen's Kappa >0.7).  There were no significant differences among PROP taster groups for current BMI percentile or change in BMI percentile since preschool by Univariate analyses.  Multivariate models provided greater insight since it provided the ability to control for other measurable forms of variance.  Both Multiple Linear Regression and Hierarchical Regression showed that the single most influential factor for predicting current weight status was preschool weight status.  In addition, dietary restraint was a significant positive predictor as was the interaction between gender and PROP taster status.  Within females, PROP sensitivity was a significant positive predictor for body weight, whereas this was not true for males.  However, subjects had a lower incidence of overweight than the national average and tended to have high physical activity.  Thus, in order to elucidate the true impact of PROP sensitivity on eating behaviors, further studies should investigate the effect of PROP taster status on body weight in female children, particularly in an overweight population.
Bunopus crassicauda var. flavescens
Creators: name: Ananjeva, Natalia B.
name: Milto, Konstantin D.
name: Barabanov, Andrei V.
name: Golynsky, Evgeny A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Bunopus
Bunopus crassicauda
Bunopus crassicauda var. flavescens

description: Bunopus crassicauda var. flavescens NIKOLSKY (“1905” 1907: 264)
Holotype:
ZISP 10230, “Oppid. Kum in prov. Irak-Adschemi ” [Qom, Qom Province, Iran, 34.64 N 50.88 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 3.V.1904.
Present name: Bunopus crassicauda Nikolsky, “1905” 1907 [our data].
description: Published as part of Ananjeva, Natalia B., Milto, Konstantin D., Barabanov, Andrei V. & Golynsky, Evgeny A., 2020, An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia, pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 4722 (2) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3605815
Fidicinoides determinata
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Fidicinoides
Fidicinoides determinata

description: Fidicinoides determinata (Walker, 1858). New Record.
Fidicina determinata Walker 1858b: 14 (type material examined).
Type locality. Venezuela.
Remarks. The species was incorrectly synomymized with F. picea Walker, 1850 (Distant, 1881) along with other species exhibiting lateral mesonotal stripes of white pile but was determined to be a valid species by Boulard & Martinelli (1996). Fidicinoides determinata was recorded from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963a; Boulard & Martinelli 1996; Sanborn 2001; 2006a; 2007a; 2007b; 2008a; Sueur 2002; Sanborn et al. 2008; Santos et al. 2010).
Material examined. Jujuy Province, 13 km N San Salvador de Jujuy, RN 9, Campground Yala, 1452 msnm, 18- I-2008, S 24 o 07.049’ W 65 o 24.227’, Col. Moulds, Hill & Marshall. 08.AR.JY.SJN.01 (one female, UCMS).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
3-D morphometry and non-rigid registration for quantitative analysis and clinical assessment in radiology
Creators: name: Niculescu, Gabriela
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The capacity to reliably track, model and characterize morphometric changes in anatomic structures and tumors from 3-D images sequences is extremely valuable in staging disease progression and assessing responseto treatment.We have designed, developed and evaluated two approaches to facilitate clinical assessment in diagnostic radiology. The first is a tool forperforming comparative morphologic analysis and the second is a registration strategy which can compensate for changes in shape that occurin deformable organs when assessing response to treatment across consecutive imaging studies. The first prototype system was used to characterize the morphology of ventricles from MR brain scans of patientswho had been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome. Preliminary studies demonstrated that conventional volumetric measurements were insufficient for detecting and characterizing subtle changes in anatomic profiles. We have investigated the use of a double elliptic Fourier transform to discriminate among 3-D changes of anatomic structures. It was shown that characterization using low frequency elliptic Fourier descriptors provided an accurate representation of the anatomical structures while allowing for reliable group separation. The shape-based 3-D object representation of brain structures developed inthis project may provide insight regarding the underlying mechanisms leading to the onset and progression of these disorders.As an extension of these studies, a deformable registration technique was evaluated for tracking tumor response to radiofrequency ablation ofpatients with liver malignancies. The method exploits the combined power of global and local alignment of pre- and post-treatment CT images. The distinguishing characteristics of the system is that it can infer volumetric deformation based upon surface displacements using a linearly elastic finite element model (FEM). Using both 2-D synthetic phantoms and3-D beef liver data we performed the simulation of gold standard registration by measuring the accuracy of non-rigid deformation. The sub-voxel mean displacement error of deformation demonstrates that the technique provides valuable information for surgical interventions. This approach is general methodology for tracking deformable organs using non-rigid registration with respect to FEM simulations. It provides a basis for monitoring tissue response and therapy planning for a range of medical applications in the brain, breast or heart.
A translation of selected short stories by Colombian author Julio Paredes
Creators: name: Olsen, Andrea E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Julio Paredes is a contemporary Colombian writer who has published two novels, three collections of short stories, and a biography.  His stories are evocative, thought-provoking narratives of difficulties a variety of characters face as they relate to other human beings and search for meaning in this life.  Throughout Paredes's work, emphasis is placed on the unknown, thus leaving many of his stories open-ended.  His characters struggle with existential questions, and quite often, the text is representative of their inner thoughts and feelings.The following selection contains eight short stories from three different collections.  While the particular situations of each are quite varied, common themes such as relationships, love, passing from one stage of life to the next, and magic emerge among them.  Paredes illustrates the fact that the type of angst felt by his characters does not discriminate; people of different ages and backgrounds share similar experiences.  Because these stories focus on the human spirit, which transcends geographic and cultural boundaries, they translate quite nicely from their original Spanish and can certainly be enjoyed and appreciated by an English-speaking audience.
Fidicinoides opalina
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Fidicinoides
Fidicinoides opalina

description: Fidicinoides opalina (Germar, 1821)
Cicada opalina Germar 1821: 97.
Fidicina phaeochlora Walker 1858a: 8.
Type locality. São Paulo, Brazil.
Remarks. The species recently was transferred to Fidicinoides (Sanborn et al. 2008). The species was reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru in Metcalf (1963a) and from the following provinces in Argentina: Córdoba (Deletang 1919), Misiones (Torres 1941) and Entre Rios (Berg 1879).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252