cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of quercetin on exercise potential and exercise-induced cytokines in the horse
Creators: name: Baldassari, James
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Year: 2011

description: Inflammation, the common physiological response to a wide variety of injuries and irritations, has been studied in one form or another for literally thousands of years. Most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) work by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins (PG) via inactivation or modification of the cyclooxygenase (COX) enzyme. Unfortunately disruption of the COX pathway can have unintended consequences, such as an increase in tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) levels. In vitro studies consistently show reductions in inflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α and interkeukin-1 (IL-1), in cultures of immune cells after treatment with quercetin. Studies run in vivo have been less decisive. Hence, our goal in this experiment was to test the hypothesis that quercetin, in sufficient dosage, will increase athletic performance in the horse by decreasing exercise-induced inflammation via inhibition of the production of inflammatory cytokines. Six healthy, unfit Standardbred mares (~500 kg, age 4-5 years) were assigned to one of two groups in a crossover fashion. The horses were dosed via a nasogastric tube BID (8 am and 8 pm) with 6 g of quercetin in tap water for 3.5 days. Two hours after the seventh and final dose, a graded exercise test (GXT) was run. During the test the treadmill remained at a fixed 6% grade. At T = 0 the treadmill was started at a speed of 4 m/sec. Each following minute the treadmill speed was increased by 1 m/sec, up to a maximum speed of 11 m/sec. Blood and muscle samples were collected to measure markers of inflammation. There was a small but significant increase in run time when the horses were dosed with quercetin, and recovery time was shortened significantly when compared to water-treated trials. There were exercise-induced increases in plasma TNF-α, IL-1, interferon-γ, granzyme-B (GrB), hematocrit, total protein, glucose, and lactate, but only with GrB was there a significant drug effect in the quercetin group. Intramuscular levels of IL-1 and GrB also increased significantly with exercise, but there was no effect from quercetin treatment. This study provides compelling evidence that quercetin could be useful in enhancing exercise performance, although the mechanism for this enhancement is unclear. While this study alone is not sufficient to recommend quercetin for mainstream usage, it adds to a growing body of literature supporting the drug's effectiveness.
Modeling and simulation of dissolution and erosion of porous solids
Creators: name: Braido, Daniel
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Year: 2011

description: Tablet dissolution modeling has seen multiple eff orts from both empirical and physical approaches. We present an expandable 3-D Cartesian framework for modeling many of the physical processes involved in tablet dissolution, which allows for powerful model manipulation. The primary focus of this framework is the way in which the moving boundaries are handled, while the internal mechanisms represent one possible set of physical process interaction. The effects of external fluid shear and internal density profiles are compared for several cases including active and inactive internal processes.
Study of bay, inlet, and nearshore marine sedimentation
Creators: name: Charlesworth, Lloyd James
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Year: 1968

description: This is a reproduction of the original report which is in two volumes dated 1968 of which Volume I is the main report and Volume II contains the appendices. For convenience, each volume has been assembled in three parts with the Plates as a separate part for a total of 7 parts. This is part 6.
A sociological analysis of maternal ambivalence
Creators: name: Brown, Ivana
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Year: 2011

description: The contradictions associated with motherhood have recently received attention in both academic and popular literatures. My research combines exploratory qualitative analysis of recently published motherhood memoirs with a quantitative analysis of a large national random sample of new mothers from the Study on Early Child Care (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) to explore the character and prevalence of the conflicted attitudes mothers may have about motherhood. To do so, I introduce the concept of maternal ambivalence: the coexistence of positive and negative feelings about a woman’s position as a mother and her relationship toward the institution of motherhood. I operationalize and measure ambivalence along four dimensions: being good at mothering, identity, attachment, and combining work and family, and compare ambivalence outcomes according to mothers’ social class and race. The findings demonstrate that ambivalence is a multidimensional phenomenon with distinct presentations and pathways associated within different social groups. Although mothers feel mostly positive about motherhood and their role as mothers, a significant proportion of mothers experience ambivalent feelings about motherhood. OLS regression analyses show that the most significant and consistent class and race differences occur along identity ambivalence, with white middle-class mothers experiencing the highest ambivalence. Mothers belonging to other social groups experience more maternal ambivalence along attachment and combining work and family ambivalence, when, respectively, black mothers and lower income mothers feel more ambivalent about their motherhood experiences than white and higher income mothers. I find no class and race differences among mothers in their ambivalence about being good at mothering. Other covariates of class and race, such as maternal employment, social support, quality of intimate relationships, and motherhood experience, are also significant predictors of maternal ambivalence. The direction of direct and intervening effects varies by ambivalence dimension studied.    In this research I examine the concept of maternal ambivalence in early motherhood from the sociological perspective and provide new conceptual and methodological tools that allow us to simultaneously capture contradictions of the motherhood experience. The results demonstrate that women experience the transition to motherhood differently according to their position at the intersection of race and class.
Alonella excisa Bor
Creators: name: Dadykin, Ivan A.
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Gu, Yangliang
name: Han, Bo-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae
Alonella
Alonella excisa

description: Alonella excisa (Fischer, 1854).
Littoral phytophilous species, rare in studied material, found in two lakes (S5, S14) and a river (A37). Common in China (Ji et al. 2015). Species is presumably cosmopolitan (Smirnov, 1996), common in temperate and subtropical regions, rare in tropics. Recent studies revealed a high level of genetic divergence within the species, which probably indicates the presence of a species-complex (Neretina et al. 2021). For description see Alonso (1996).
description: Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806
"In the image of God"
Creators: name: Burlingham, Kate
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Year: 2011

description: This dissertation provides a social, political, and global history of the Congregational mission movement in Angola.  Around the world, Protestant American missions provided the non-western world with their first introduction to the US.  And yet, the history of Protestant missionaries has not been fully integrated into histories about US relations with the world.  Set between 1879 and 1975, “In the image of God” argues that America’s direct engagement in African affairs did not begin in the 1960s, as many studies assume, but nearly eighty years earlier, when Protestant missionaries first arrived in Angola intent on making direct political and social contacts with Africans.  The fruits borne from this engagement not only altered the course of Angolan history but have affected the US’s official relations with the region into the post-cold war era.  Despite good intentions, Congregational missionaries’ relations with Angolans were paternalistic.  My study exposes how these mission relations would eventually influence post-World War II discussions about universal human rights.  When missionaries arrived in Angola in 1879, they expected Angolans to conform to their idea of a proper western Christian lifestyle.  By the middle of the twentieth-century, this relationship had changed and Angolans were in control of the shape and message of the Congregational Church, ultimately using mission connections to organize anti-colonial resistance.  Congregational missionaries willfully ignored the signs that their congregants had transformed the missions’ original message and made it their own.  When concerns about safety compelled most missionaries to leave Angola in the late 1960s, they were unable to disengage from Angolan politics.  Instead, they seized upon the language of liberation and human rights to justify the continuation of their own colonialist relations with Angola.  Using research conducted in Angola, South Africa, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United States, I offer a cautionary tale about the complexities of US relations in the world.  My dissertation not only exposes the various forces at play during the US's emergence as a world power over the course of the 20th century, but raises important questions about the impact of this legacy on today's humanitarian projects.
Chydorus biovatus Frey 1985
Creators: name: Dadykin, Ivan A.
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Gu, Yangliang
name: Han, Bo-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae
Chydorus
Chydorus biovatus

description: Chydorus cf. biovatus Frey 1985 (fig. 7 J–L).
Common in spring and autumn, occurs in waterbodies of any type. Eurybiotic littoral species, sometimes encountered in pelagic zone. The first record for China. Ch. cf. biovatus belongs to the Chydorus sphaericus species complex. Species of the sphaericus -complex in Eurasia have identical morphology of parthenogenetic females, but might be distinguished by male and ephippial female morphology (Belyaeva & Taylor, 2009; Klimovsky & Kotov, 2015; Kotov et al. 2016). A single male (Fig. 8 J) was found in a lake (S6) in spring; the individual had a rounded rostrum (Fig 8 K) and a weak preanal angle in the postabdomen (Fig. 8 L) typical for the species. Ch. biovatus s. str. is widely distributed in the Nearctic, but populations with a similar morphology have been reported in Yakutia and Kamchatka (Korovchinsky et al. 2021). For description see Klimovsky & Kotov (2015).
description: Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806
Study of reactive metabolites of food additives and contaminant (bisphenol-A) using dansyl glutathione, and the correlation with their hepatotoxicity
Creators: name: Buranachokpaisan, Thitiwan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Biologically reactive metabolites are known for their ability to bind to nucleophilic macromolecules (DNA, proteins, lipids) and their irreversible binding to hepatic proteins is known to lead to necrosis and liver damage. Dansyl glutathione (dGSH), a fluorescent surrogate of glutathione, was used to trap reactive metabolites formed during oxidative metabolism of food additives by rat liver microsomes. dGSH was not commercially available and had to be synthesized. Synthesis of dGSH was improved to achieve a higher yield by reaction in borate buffer. The method, using fluorescent-high performance liquid chromatography for detection/quantitation and mass spectrophotometer for identification, yielded dGSH adducts that are consistent with other studies. dGSH was also found to be a substrate of microsomal glutathione S-transferase enzymes. To correlate the extent of adduct formation with their toxicity, selected hepatotoxic food additives were studies at low (0.1 mM) and high (1 mM) concentrations and the rates of adduct formation (nmol/min/mg microsomal protein) were measured.  Using the amount of dGSH adduct of acetaminophen formed under the same conditions as a reference, the adduct formation rates of anethole and pulegone correlated well with their toxicity profiles while those of eugenol and nordihydroguaiaretic acid did not. Examination of their structures suggested different roles that phase II conjugation could play: either as detoxification, in concurrent, hence, competing with phase I oxidation, or as facilitating excretion, during the metabolism depending on the functional group a compound possesses. Studies of reactive metabolites of a compound capable of undergoing such concurrent phase II conjugation in a system without phase II capability could result in a false positive. It is concluded that the extent of dGSH adduct, representing that of reactive metabolites, formed by rat liver microsomes correlate well with hepatotoxicity profile of a compound.  The method was utilized to examine reactive metabolites of bisphenol A, a food contaminant. Four bisphenol A-related adducts were identified, characterized, including their formation kinetics, and quantitated. The extent of the 3 stable adducts was in the range of 1.5 to 11 nmol/min/mg protein. This high adduct level, however, requires additional studies to further examine the potential toxicity of bisphenol A reactive metabolites.
Ponera processionalis Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Ponera
Ponera processionalis

description: 28. Ponera processionalis, N. S.
Worker, length l- 3 rd of an inch; head oblong, advanced ante-riorly; eyes medial, large; antennae moderately long, thickened at the end; jaws triangular, strongly four toothed; thorax wide, not grooved; abdominal pedicle of equal width with the thorax, square truncated; colour shining black.
I have met this species over most of India. It lives in the ground in very numerous societies, is most frequent in jungly district, occasionally a vast column of them, 3 or 4 deep, may be seen crossing a road, and I have traced the column for 40 and 50 yards. It stings very severely.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 118
Ponera affinis Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Ponera
Ponera affinis

description: 29. Ponera affinis, N. S.
Worker, length l- 3 rd of an inch; head oblong, notched behind, advanced anteriorly; jaws triangular, strongly toothed; antenna thickened at the tip; eyes somewhat anterior, moderately large; thorax slightly grooved; abdominal pedicle pointed, thin; abdomen oval colour dingy black.
I have only procured this Ant once in Malabar and know no-thing of its habits.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 118
Chydorus eurynotus Sars 1901
Creators: name: Dadykin, Ivan A.
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Gu, Yangliang
name: Han, Bo-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae
Chydorus
Chydorus eurynotus

description: Chydorus cf. eurynotus Sars, 1901.
Rare in the area, found in a single lake (A34) in Hunan. A littoral species associated with vegetation. The species was described in South America, presumed to be circumtropical (Smirnov, 1996), but needs a revision. Common in the Oriental region (Sinev 2014b). In China the species was recorded in Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong Provinces (Ji et al. 2015). For descriptions, see Smirnov (1996); for descriptions of Oriental populations, see Sinev (2014b).
description: Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806
Ponera rufipes Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Ponera
Ponera rufipes

description: 30. Ponera rufipes, N. S.
Worker, length 9 - 16 th of an inch; head oblong; eyes anterior, small; antennae short and thick; jaws triangular, finely toothed; thorax not furrowed, truncated posteriorly; abdominal pedicle wide, thick, truncated, and excavated posteriorly; abdomen long, the division of the joints strongly marked; body ridged, furrowed, and channeled throughout; antennae, legs, and end of abdomen dark rufous; rest of the body dull black.
I have procured this Ant only on one occasion, hitherto, in Malabar.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 119
Disparalona (Disparalona) ikarus Kotov & Sinev 2011
Creators: name: Dadykin, Ivan A.
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Gu, Yangliang
name: Han, Bo-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae
Disparalona
Disparalona ikarus

description: Disparalona (Disparalona) ikarus Kotov & Sinev, 2011.
A common littoral species, encountered in both open littoral and vegetated areas, occurs in both spring and autumn in various water bodies. Species so far is known from Amur River basin in Russia, South Korea, Hainan Island and North-East Thailand (Kotov & Sinev 2011; Kotov et al. 2012; Sinev et al. 2015; Tiang-nga et al. 2020). In continental China, the species was recorded only once, in Yunnan Province (Sinev et al. 2020). Earlier Disparalona s. str. records from China were attributed to D. (D). rostrata (Koch, 1841) (Ji et al. 2015), but actually all populations from China probably belong to D. (D). ikarus. For description, see Kotov & Sinev (2011) and Kotov et al. (2012).
description: Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806
Ponera pumila Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Ponera
Ponera pumila

description: 31. Ponera pumila, N. S.
Worker, length about l- 5 th of an inch; head oblong; eyes rather small, advanced; jaws triangular, strongly toothed; antennae thickened; thorax smooth; abdominal pedicle long, square; abdomen long, cylindric; dull black, with rufous legs and antennae.
I found this Ant in Malabar where it is rare.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 119
Disparalona (Mixopleuroxus) chappuisi Brehm 1934
Creators: name: Dadykin, Ivan A.
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Gu, Yangliang
name: Han, Bo-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae
Disparalona
Disparalona chappuisi

description: Disparalona (Mixopleuroxus) chappuisi Brehm, 1934.
Littoral substrate-associated species. A relatively common littoral species associated with vegetation, abundant in both spring and autumn. Species known from Africa and tropical Asia, in eastern Asia penetrating north to Far East of Russia (Neretina et al. 2018). Population of D. chappuisi from East and South-East Asia, including those from China (see Ji et al. 2015; Sinev et al. 2015) were recorded as D. hamata Birge, 1879, but recent revision clarified its status (Neretina et al. 2018). For detailed description see Neretina et al. (2018).
description: Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806
Formicini
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae

description: Formicites
We now come to the last family containing those Ants that have no sting, and the abdominal pedicle of one knot only. It comprises two Genera Polyergus and Formica, but I do not think we possess any species of the former genus.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 119
Formica
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Formica

description: Gen. Formica.
This genus comprises two distinct forms, the one with spines on the thorax, the other unarmed, which certainly ought to form two genera, inasmuch as this distinction is made to separate Atta from Ocodoma.
1 st, without spines on the thorax.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 119
Cerococcus corymbosus Fletcher
Creators: name: Chris J. Hodgson
name: Douglas J. Williams
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cerococcidae
Cerococcus
Cerococcus corymbosus

description: Cerococcus corymbosus Fletcher, nomen nudum.
Cerococcus corymbosus Ftcher, 1917: 252.
Note: Fletcher refers to Cerococcus corymbosus but gives no description and does not cite an author for this species (Miller et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of Chris J. Hodgson & Douglas J. Williams, 2016, (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Coccomorpha) with particular reference to species from the Afrotropical, western Palaearctic and western Oriental Regions, with the revival of Antecerococcus Green and description of a new genus and fifteen new species, and with ten new synonomies, pp. 1-175 in Zootaxa 4091 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/265332
Formica compressa
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Formica
Formica compressa

description: 32. Formica compressa, Fabr.? Syn. F. indefessa, Sykes.
Worker, length 4 - 10 th to 1 / 2 an inch; head oblong, notched behind; eyes medial, of moderate size; jaws triangular, toothed; antennas long; thorax widened anteriorly; abdominal pedicles somewhat diamond shaped above, much raised and thin as seen laterally; legs rufous, the rest of the body black.
Warrior, 6 - 10 th of an inch long; differs from the ordinary Worker in the head being proportionally much larger, and the jaws having blunt teeth.
Male, length 4 - 10 th of an inch; has a small triangular head, lateral eyes, three ocelli, the thorax raised in front, and the abdominal pedicle broader; wings do not reach to end of abdomen.
Female 5 - 8 th of an inch long; very similar to the male, has the jaws strongly toothed, somewhat oblong; and the abdomen pro-portionally large.
This species well known in India, as the black Ant is found throughout every part of this country which I have traversed, ex-cept the Western Coast where I have never seen it. It appears to me that it is most probably the species described by Fabricius whose name I have accordingly adopted.
It lives in very numerous societies in the ground, the entrance to the nest being often round the trunk of a tree, or close to some building. The Warriors are very numerous. Their food is chiefly vegetable secretions, sugar, & c., and Colonel Sykes has given an interesting account of the devastations commuted by them on preserves, sugar, & c. which I regret that I cannot transcribe having mislaid the volume of the transactions of the Entomological Journal in which it appeared. They bite rather severely, but the pain is quite momentary. At certain times great numbers of the winged males and females are seen at the mouth of the nest, and they remain there for several days. When they take wing, they do so in vast numbers, and always at night.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on pages 119-120
Formica angusticollis Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Formica
Formica angusticollis

description: 33. Formica angusticollis, N. S.
Worker 1 / 2 an inch long; head long, oblong, ending posteriorly in a narrow neck; eyes posterior, of moderate size; jaws triangular, strongly toothed; antennae long; thorax low, narrow, uniform; abdominal pedicle conical, high, narrow; abdomen oval; colour dull black, with antennas and legs rufous.
Warrior, 8 - 12 th of an inch long; head very large, notched posteriorly: eyes much smaller; otherwise similar.
I have only found this Ant in forests in Malabar and always singly.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on pages 120-121
Cerococcus deklei Kosztarab & Vest
Creators: name: Chris J. Hodgson
name: Douglas J. Williams
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cerococcidae
Cerococcus
Cerococcus deklei

description: Cerococcus deklei Kosztarab & Vest
Cerococcus sp. Dekle 1962: 74. Unavailable name. Cerococcus deklei Kosztarab & Vest 1966: 369 –374.
Type details. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Florida, North Miami, on Hibiscus sp., 18.xii.1963, K. Hickman. Depository: USNM: holotype adf + many paratype adff.
Material examined: BAHAMAS, New Providenca, Church Gardens, Hibiscus sp. (Malvaceae), 24.viii.2001, ENT/NP/159/01 (BMNH): 1/3adff (g); as previous but dated 4.ix.2001 (BMNH): 4/4 adff (f). JAMAICA, St. Andrews, on Hibiscus sp., 4.iv.1973, J.R.R. Suah (BMNH): 1/3adff (g).
Comment. This is one of the Holarctic species that has a lattice-like pattern of 8-shaped pores on the dorsum and is well described by Kosztarab and Vest (1966) and Lambdin and Kosztarab (1977). The adult female of C. deklei is characterised by the following combination of character-states: (i) 8-shaped pores on dorsum in a latticelike pattern; (ii) 8-shaped pores on dorsum of two sizes, both quite small; (iii) larger pores restricted to near stigmatic pore bands; smaller 8-shaped pores frequent elsewhere on dorsum; (iv) cribriform plates present in a submedial group of 5–16 on each side of abdominal segment IV; (v) tubular ducts of only one size present; (vi) multilocular disc-pores absent on abdominal segments and metathorax, but occasionally present associated with spiracular disc-pores; (vii) stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (viii) stigmatic pore bands with few spiracular discpores, and (ix) leg stubs present.
In the key to adult females of Cerococcus, C. deklei keys out close to C. russellae from Central America.
description: Published as part of Chris J. Hodgson & Douglas J. Williams, 2016, (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Coccomorpha) with particular reference to species from the Afrotropical, western Palaearctic and western Oriental Regions, with the revival of Antecerococcus Green and description of a new genus and fifteen new species, and with ten new synonomies, pp. 1-175 in Zootaxa 4091 (1) on pages 158-159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/265332
Formica smaragdina
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Formica
Formica smaragdina

description: 34. Formica smaragdina.
Worker, length about 4 - 10 th of an inch; head long, triangular; antennae long; eyes large, medial; jaws triangular, pointed, with sharp teeth; thorax not furrowed; abdominal pedicle, long, low, narrow, linear; legs long; colour of an uniform pale rufous.
Male 7 - 24 th of an inch long; head diamond shaped; eyes lateral, small; thorax raised in front; abdomen small; wings reaching beyond the abdomen; of a rufous colour.
Female 7 - 8 th of an inch long; head short, triangular-, eyes lateral; three ocelli; thorax very large, wide; abdominal pedicle wide in the middle as viewed from above, very thin laterally; abdomen large; wings reaching beyond abdomen; entirely of a pale shining green colour.
This Ant is well known in Malabar, and the wooded parts of [[...]], bat is rare in the Carnatic, where I have only seen it in one [[...]] large Mango groves.
It forms a nest of living leaves which it draws together without [[...]] from the branch, and unites with, a fine white web; sometimes this nest is above a foot in diameter but usually smaller. The society consists of a vast number of individuals, and in large nests we find many females and males, both with end without their wings at all times of the year. They are very bold and pugnacious, [[...]] very severely. They live chiefly on vegetable secretions, and are very partial to the flowers and buds of some of tie Loranthi, which abound so on the Western Coast, they often form a temporary web round the flowers or sometimes round the fruit of various trees, viz the Eugenia Malaccensis, Artabothrys odorotissima, & c. apparently only for the purpose of feeding undisturbed they will however also sometimes feed on decaying animal matter. It is said that the web they form is occasionally used for writing on in the N. W. Provinces of India, and that the Ants are made uses of to destroy a nest of wasps that may have established themselves in a house. In this case they are said to destroy all the wasps but become so infuriated, that their own discriminate attacks arenearly as bad as those of their foes. In gardens they are most par-tial to mango trees, and also to the large leaves of the Jamei Malae, (Eugenia Malaccensis), but in the jungles they select a vast number of trees, or rather make no selection at all.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 121
Cerococcus kalmiae Ferris
Creators: name: Chris J. Hodgson
name: Douglas J. Williams
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cerococcidae
Cerococcus
Cerococcus kalmiae

description: Cerococcus kalmiae Ferris
Cerococcus kalmiae Ferris 1955: 36.
Type details. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Pennsylvania, on Kalmia latifolia (Ericaceae), G. Rau. Depository: BME: lectotype adf (designated by Lambdin & Kosztarab 1977: 136) + 1 paralectotype adf together on 1 slide and 1/2 paralectotype adff.
Mounted material. USA, Haverford, Pennsylvania, on “mountain laurel” (Kalmia latifolia, Ericaceae), 29.i.1938, S.W. Bromley (BMNH): 1/1adf (g); Pennsylvania, Haverford, 29.i.1938, Estate of Judge W. Schagger, Col, Robertson (BMNH): 1/3 (g).
Comment. The number of transverse rows of multilocular disc-pores in the illustration of this species by Lambdin and Kosztarab (1977) is unclear as a line is missing. In fact, there are multilocular disc-pores on abdominal segments II–VIII inclusive and medially across the metathorax. In addition, Lambdin & Kosztarab indicate that they found minute leg stubs but we did not locate these on the specimens listed above. Like C. deklei and C. russellae, C. kalmiae has its 8-shaped pores on the dorsum arranged in a lattice-like pattern, as also found in species of Cerochiton. However, the structure of the apices of the stigmatic pore bands is very different from that on Cerochiton species, and C. kalmiae has the broader tubular ducts on the dorsum restricted to just anterior to the anal plate and so has only one size of dorsal tubular ducts medially on the cephalothorax.
The adult female of C. kalmiae is characterised by the following combination of character-states: (i) 8-shaped pores on dorsum in a lattice-like pattern; (ii) 8-shaped pores on dorsum of two sizes, both quite small; (iii) larger pores restricted to near stigmatic pore bands and along margins; smaller 8-shaped pores frequent elsewhere on dorsum; (iv) cribriform plates present in a transverse band of 17–32 on abdominal segment IV; (v) tubular ducts of two sizes, broader ducts restricted to posterior abdominal segments; narrower ducts frequent elsewhere; (vi) multilocular disc-pores present in narrow bands one or two pores wide across abdominal segments II–VIII and metathorax; (vii) stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (viii) stigmatic pore bands with few spiracular disc-pores, and (ix) leg stubs perhaps present (Lambdin & Kosztarab) or absent (here).
In the key to adult females of Cerococcus, C. kalmiae keys out closest to C. tuberculus from Brazil.
description: Published as part of Chris J. Hodgson & Douglas J. Williams, 2016, (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Coccomorpha) with particular reference to species from the Afrotropical, western Palaearctic and western Oriental Regions, with the revival of Antecerococcus Green and description of a new genus and fifteen new species, and with ten new synonomies, pp. 1-175 in Zootaxa 4091 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/265332
Formica longipes Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Formica
Formica longipes

description: 35. Formica longipes, N. S.
Worker, length l- 5 th of an inch; in form exceedingly simi-lar to the last; head more oblong than triangular; eyes mora posterior; antennae very long; abdominal pedicle shorter, pro-portionally; abdomen a longer oval; legs very long of a pale rufous colour throughout, tinged with dusky on the abdomen.
This Ant is found in all the forests of India living in holes in. the ground, in tolerable numerous societies, and feeding on vegetable secretions. I have not seen it at any distance from the jungles. At Tellicherry for example, I have never seen it, but as soon as you go a little inland and get into the jungle you meet with it. It is often found about bungalows and out-houses.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 122
Action of resveratrol analogs and hyperthermia in cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapyY
Creators: name: Butler, Renee Elena
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Resveratrol, found in grape skin, inhibits tumorigenesis and aging.  However, much is unknown about the target of resveratrol.  Previously, our laboratory observed perinuclear mitochondrial clustering prior to apoptosis in cancer cells exposed to analogs of resveratrol, MR-4 (3,4,5,4’-tetramethoxy-trans-stilbene) and MC-4 (3,4,5,4’-tetramethoxy-cis-stilbene) (Gosslau et al., 2008), suggesting a role for mitochondria in the action of these stilbene polyphenols. Therefore, I used mitochondrial fission and fusion knockout cells to determine the pro-apoptotic target of these stilbene polyphenol analogs, which exhibited a 2-fold decrease in IC50 value in fusion knockout cells. Thus, mitochondrial shape partially affected apoptotic signaling. It is known that these stilbene polyphenols induce apoptosis in cancer cells (Gosslau et al., 2005; Gosslau et al., 2008), but their mechanism of action is unclear.  Knockout cell lines with pro-apoptotic genes deleted (p53, Bax, PUMA, RAIDD, Bid, Caspase-2, Bax/Bak, Apaf-1) were used to distinguish if the intrinsic apoptotic pathway was involved in stilbene polyphenol action.  However, knockout cells did not exhibit significant changes in response to stilbene polyphenols, compared to their parental cell line, suggesting these individual components of apoptotic signaling may not play a major role in their action.      SIRT1, a putative target of resveratrol, was analyzed for its role in the pro-apoptotic action of stilbene polyphenol analogs by reporter gene, HSF1 activation, and cell viability assays.  Although SIRT1 was a target of stilbene polyphenols, it was not involved in their pro-apoptotic action; IC50 values for stilbene polyphenols in SIRT1 knockout cells remained the same as in wildtype cells. SIRT1 is involved in the heat shock response; therefore, we explored the role of heat treatment in cancer cell killing.  HeLa (cervical cancer) cells exposed to heat (51°C, 30 min) remained viable after recovery, as opposed to Caco-2 and other colon cancer cells, melanoma, glioma, osteosarcoma, glioblastoma, prostrate, and breast cancer cells.  Importantly, we observed a relationship between eIF5A loss and hyperthermia-induced cell death. My data indicate SIRT1 is a target of stilbene polyphenols, but is not involved in their apoptotic action.  Further, hyperthermia killing is cell-specific and correlates with eIF5A depletion. Therefore, stilbene polyphenols and hyperthermia are viable options in cancer therapy.
Formica timida Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Formica
Formica timida

description: 36. Formica timida, N. S.
Worker, length 9.24 th of an inch long; head oblong, oval; eyes large, posterior; jaws triangular, strongly toothed; thorax smooth; abdominal pedicle raised, conical; colour dingy rufous, darkest on the head, and tinged with dusky on the abdomen. All the body covered with long scattered hairs.
Warrior, 1 / 2 an inch long; differs from the ordinary Worker in the head being much larger proportionally, and notched pro-porteriorly; thorax thicker; and the abdomen shorter.
Female, like Worker, but somewhat larger, with wings, and 3 ocelli., Male, 7 - 24 th of an inch long; thorax much elevated; eyes largo; head small; 3 ocelli; wings reach beyond the abdomen ..
I have only found this Ant on the Malabar Coast where it is very common, living chiefly on vegetable secretions. It has its nest-under ground. It is very different in habit from the other large red Ant (F. smaragdina) being most timid, and if approached or touched, dropping to the ground at once and hiding itself. It does not always confine itself to vegetable matter. On one occasion I had a box of pigeons containing some squabs placed in a room on the floor. I next morning found several of the squabs dead covered with these Ants chiefly however the warriors.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 122
Dunhevedia crassa King 1853
Creators: name: Dadykin, Ivan A.
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Gu, Yangliang
name: Han, Bo-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae
Dunhevedia
Dunhevedia crassa

description: Dunhevedia crassa King, 1853.
Rare in studied material, found in a single lake (A20) in Hunan. A cosmopolitan species described from Australia (Smirnov 1996), widespread in China (Ji et al. 2015). For more information, see Smirnov (1996).
description: Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806
Coming out of the confessional
Creators: name: Catena, Kristin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: On August 12, 2004 former Governor of New Jersey James E. McGreevey held a nationally televised press conference in which he announced his resignation and labeled himself a “Gay American.” In this project, I examine the discourses of McGreevey’s speech, the newspaper coverage of his resignation announcement, and McGreevey’s 2006 memoir in order to explicate the construction of the event. The analysis centers on two specific discursive contexts: the coming out script and the confession, in understanding the language of the “Gay American.” I examine how these two discourses were used throughout the construction of the McGreevey event to create both a memory of McGreevey as well as the Gay American construct itself. Lisa Duggan’s work on homonormativity and Jasbir Puar’s concept homonationalism provide a springboard for examining the Gay American construct as a new homonormative subject. Overall, this thesis seeks to explain how narratives of the media event surrounding McGreevey’s resignation were constructed and what implications these narratives hold for homonormativity in the early 21st Century United States.
Crisis in the sky
Creators: name: Checchio, Robert A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation examines the issues militating in favor of a national aviation policy and the obstacles standing in the way of such a policy. In spite of the impact that the nation's air transportation system has on the United States' economy, the U.S lacks a comprehensive national aviation policy that takes into account the diverse challenges that issues such as the need for the free flow of people and goods, national security, environmental sustainability, and financial stability place upon the nation's air transportation system. The absence of a comprehensive aviation policy comes at a critical time. The economic activity associated with air transportation accounts for over five percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, yet congested airports, declining commercial airline service to small cities, and the stresses of enhanced security processes combine to make commercial air travel less and less convenient. In spite of these issues, firms increasingly depend on effective and efficient air transportation to interact with customers and suppliers. The value of being able to travel for face-to-face meetings is reflected in how access to both large and small airports affects job growth, shown in a study of 113 metropolitan statistical areas along the United States east coast. The importance of convenient air travel is seen further in the introduction of air taxi services providing convenient travel to regional and community airports. Experts in the private and public sectors indicate that a comprehensive national aviation policy must address five broad areas: national interest and international leadership, aviation and economic development, national and international connectivity, energy sustainability and environmental protection, and aviation safety and security. They note, however, that obstacles preventing the development of a national aviation policy include ambiguous national interests, government institutions, financing of the aviation system, and competing industry interests. These obstacles combine to make policymaking difficult in the absence of a national crisis.  After an examination of attempts in the UK and the United States to address aviation issues comprehensively, the final chapter recommends a new process for creating national aviation policy in the United States: a national aviation policy oversight commission.
Formica stricta Jerdon, 1851, N. S.
Creators: name: Jerdon, T. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Formica
Formica stricta

description: 37. Formica stricta, N. S.
Worker, length 7 - 20 th of an inch; head nearly square, slightly narrowed anteriorly; jaws rough, triangular, strongly toothed; eyes large, posterior; prothorax wide, metathorax narrowed; post thorax in the form of a rounded raised narrow platform, ending in two points, and truncated; abdominal pedicle blunt, rounded, raised; abdomen short, oval; antennae rufous, head and thorax dull greenish black, shagreened; abdomen shining glaucous green; legs shining black.
I have found this Ant on flowers in Malabar, but have not seen its nest; it is not a very common species.
description: Published as part of Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., pp. 103-127 in Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17 on page 123
Pleuroxus (Picripleuroxus) laevis Bor
Creators: name: Dadykin, Ivan A.
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Gu, Yangliang
name: Han, Bo-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae
Pleuroxus
Pleuroxus laevis

description: Pleuroxus (Picripleuroxus) laevis (Sars, 1862).
A rare littoral species occurred in two lakes (S5, A26) and one pond (A17). Ephippial females were found in autumn in a lake (A26). Predominantly a Palearctic species, common in temperate regions of Eurasia, rare in Paleotropics; in East Asia penetrates south to Malaysian peninsula. For a description see Alonso (1996) and Korovchinsky et al. (2021).
description: Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806