cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New item selection and test administration procedures for cognitive diagnosis computerized adaptive testing
Creators: name: Kaplan, Mehmet
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The significance of formative assessments has recently been underscored in the educational measurement literature. Formative assessments can provide more diagnostic information to improve teaching and learning strategies compared to summative assessments. Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are psychometric models that have been developed to provide a more detailed evaluation of assessment data. CDMs aim to detect students' mastery and nonmastery of attributes in a particular content area. Another major research area in psychometrics is computerized adaptive testing (CAT). It has been developed as an alternative to paper-and-pencil tests, and widely used to deliver tests adaptively.      Although the traditional CAT seems to satisfy the needs of the current testing market by providing summative scores, the use of CDMs in CAT can produce more diagnostic information with an efficient testing design. With a general aim to address needs in formative assessments, this dissertation aims to achieve three objectives: (1) to introduce two new item selection indices for cognitive diagnosis computerized adaptive testing (CD-CAT); (2) to control item exposure rates in CD-CAT; and (3) to propose an alternative CD-CAT administration procedure. Specifically, two new item selection indices are introduced for cognitive diagnosis. In addition, high item exposure rates that typically accompany efficient indices are controlled using two exposure control methods. Finally, a new CD-CAT procedure that involves item blocks is introduced. Using the new procedure, examinees would be able to review their responses within a block of items. The impact of different factors, namely, item quality, generating model, test termination rule, attribute distribution, sample size, and item pool size, on the estimation accuracy and exposure rates was investigated using three simulation studies. Moreover, item type usage in conjunction with the examinees' attribute vectors and generating models was also explored. The results showed that the new indices outperformed one of the most popular indices in CD-CAT, and also, they performed efficiently with the exposure control methods in terms of classification accuracy and item exposure. In addition, a new blocked-design CD-CAT procedure was promising for allowing item review and answer change during the test administration with a small loss in the classification accuracy.
Additional file 2: of Perfectly matched 20-nucleotide guide RNA sequences enable robust genome editing using high-fidelity SpCas9 nucleases
Creators: name: Dingbo Zhang
name: Huawei Zhang
name: Tingdong Li
name: Kunling Chen
name: Qiu, Jin-Long
name: Caixia Gao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Rice codon optimized DNA sequences of WT Cas9, eSpCas9(1.0), eSpCas9(1.1), and SpCas9-HF1. (PDF 296 kb)
Hycleus tripunctatus Bologna & Amore & Pitzalis 2018
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus tripunctatus

description: Ab) Hycleus tripunctatus species group
Hycleus tripunctatus (Thunberg, 1791) comb. n. (Fig. 3P)
Meloe tripunctata Thunberg, 1791
Types. Types of this species were not examined.
Distribution. Southern Namibia (new species record for this country) and western South Africa.
Material examined and literature records. [Karas] Karasburg: 3 km S of Warmbad, 28.4833°S 18.7667°E (SMWN).
Remarks. This species is well distinct by its mesosternum, anteriorly more elevated and with a clear prominent line which divides this narrow area, but without forming a clear “scutum”. Actually, this structure of mesosternum appears intermediate between that of the lineages Mesogorbatus and Mesotaeniatus. A such mesosternum is common to H. coecus (Thunberg, 1791) and H. connexus (Marsel, 1872) (see Pardo Alcaide 1963), both from South Africa, but in these two species there is a tuft of very long setae on the posterior margin of the elevated fore area, lacking in H. tripunctatus. Relationships among these three species need to be tested molecularly.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Nanotechnology approach for treatment of cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Kbah, Noor
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Cystic fibrosis is a lethal, hereditary disease, caused by mutations in the gene cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) where it affects a cAMP-activated chloride (Cl-) channel and results in impaired ion and water transport, accumulation of viscous mucus in the airway, thereby leads to bacterial colonization. Frequent infections and inflammation result in an obstructive pulmonary disease. Similar conditions in the pancreas lead to pancreatic insufficiency. Several approaches have been designed to improve transepithelial ion transport in CF patients. These approaches involve correction of the CFTR mutation, potentiation of CFTR channel, and/or stimulation of alternative chloride channels. The purpose of this thesis involve using a nanotechnology to correct the defective ion transport in epithelial cells from CF patient. The first aim of the project is comparative study to evaluate the effect of using corrector and/or potentiator agent to restore the ion channel activity. The second aspect is nanotechnology-based delivery system that enhance drug delivery to the lung cells to treat pulmonary cystic fibrosis.
Additional file 2: of Perfectly matched 20-nucleotide guide RNA sequences enable robust genome editing using high-fidelity SpCas9 nucleases
Creators: name: Dingbo Zhang
name: Huawei Zhang
name: Tingdong Li
name: Kunling Chen
name: Qiu, Jin-Long
name: Caixia Gao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Rice codon optimized DNA sequences of WT Cas9, eSpCas9(1.0), eSpCas9(1.1), and SpCas9-HF1. (PDF 296 kb)
The effects of rotational and continuous grazing on horses, pasture condition, and soil properties
Creators: name: Kenny, Laura Beth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Rotational grazing tends be recommended over continuous grazing for its potential improvements to forage quality, yield, and animal gain.  However, work comparing these grazing systems using horses is sparse, and it is not appropriate to utilize findings from other livestock species due to differences in equine physiology and grazing behavior.  The present study examined the effects of grazing system on horse condition, vegetation attributes, and soil properties for one year.  The first objective was to evaluate four methods for estimating plant species composition.  Each method agreed with each other method well enough to be used interchangeably.  The second objective was to compare the effects of rotational and continuous grazing on horse and pasture condition.  Horses were not affected by grazing system, but pasture condition was strongly affected with rotational pastures exhibiting higher production and ground cover than continuous pastures.  The third objective was to evaluate the effects of rotational and continuous grazing on soil chemical, physical, and hydraulic properties.  It was found that grazing system had no effect on soil fertility, bulk density, or hydraulic conductivity.  Overall, these findings support the recommendation of rotational grazing for improved pasture condition, but do not offer evidence of improved horse or soil condition over continuous grazing.
Studies on the effect of cell cycle arrest on central metabolism in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, using physiological and systems biology approaches
Creators: name: Kim, Joomi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Diatoms (Bacillarophyceae) are photosynthetic unicellular microalgae that have risen to ecological prominence in the modern oceans over the past 30 million years.  They are excellent candidates for biodiesel feedstocks. Global climate change has led to an interest in algal triacylglycerols (TAGs) as feedstocks for sustainable biodiesel, and diatoms are attractive candidates for TAG production as one of the most productive and environmentally flexible algae in the contemporary oceans. For Chapter 2, a genome-scale metabolic model was constructed to calculate intracellular fluxes of a diatom under different growth conditions. The model identified enzymes that may be relevant to increasing lipid synthesis, explored how transporters affect flux outputs, and explored unusual features of diatoms, including the Entner-Douderoff and phosphoketolase pathways, and glycolytic enzymes in their mitochondria. Chapter 3 discusses how cell cycle arrest via cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) inhibition, can increase accumulation of TAGs, and shift metabolism away from protein synthesis.  For Chapter 4, transcriptome analysis of cells under cell cycle arrest was performed to show that the pattern of gene expression was fundamentally different from nitrogen stress. Most of the genes related to fatty acid and TAG synthesis were up-regulated. The gene expression pattern for light harvesting complexes was similar to cells stressed by high light, suggesting that arrested cells have smaller sinks for photosynthetically generated electrons.
Additional file 4: Figure S1. of Comparative analysis of miRNA expression during the development of insects of different metamorphosis modes and germ-band types
Creators: name: Ylla, Guillem
name: Maria-Dolors Piulachs
name: Belles, Xavier
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Coefficient of variation of the expression of newly found and conserved miRNAs during Blattella germanica development. (PDF 10623Â kb)
Lexical and morphological aspects of gender and their effect on the acquisition of gender agreement in second language learners
Creators: name: Kirova, Alena
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The main purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether L2 learners can acquire and perform native-like on gender agreement. Gender has been studied by SLA researchers in order to address the central question in generative SLA – acquirability of syntactic features in the L2. With respect to this question, some studies have shown that L2 learners can exhibit native-like gender agreement, which has been considered as evidence in favor of acquirability of syntactic features, while other studies seem to indicate that gender agreement is permanently impaired in the L2, which has been proposed as evidence against acquirability of syntactic features. In this dissertation, I propose that gender is not an ideal candidate to address this question, because gender is not a purely syntactic feature but rather a complex lexical-morphological and syntactic feature whose acquisition hinges upon a number of factors, and not exclusively on the availability of syntactic features. Following the Separation Hypothesis (Beard, 1995; Lardiere, 2000) and the Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (Haznedar & Schwartz, 1997; Prévost & White, 1999), I make a distinction between abstract syntactic features and their concrete lexical-morphological manifestation in a given language, and propose that non-native like performance on the latter may not be indicative of a lack of the former in the interlanguage grammars. Furthermore, I propose that having a first language with gender marking does not necessarily facilitate the acquisition of morphological gender in the L2. In order to test these proposals, I conducted a study with L1 English-L2 Spanish learners, L1 Russian-L2 Spanish learners and native speakers of Spanish using gender comprehension tasks (a grammaticality judgment task and a picture-matching task). The findings show that both high proficiency L1 English and L1 Russian learners of Spanish can behave native-like on gender agreement, and that low proficiency learners are affected by lexical and morphological characteristics of Spanish gender. Thus, syntactic features are in fact acquirable in the L2 irrespective of whether the L1 has gender, but the lexical-morphological component of gender has to be acquired as well in order for the surface gender agreement to appear native-like in a given language.
Linking photosynthetic and carbon metabolism in microalgae for biofuel applications
Creators: name: Krishnan, Anagha
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Year: 2016

description: Microalgae predominantly partition photosynthetically fixed carbon into proteins, starch and lipids. Of these, carbohydrates and lipids are desired as they are the precursors for biofuel production. Photosynthetic electron transport is closely coupled to carbon partitioning, thus frustrating efforts to substantially increase the yield of the desired terminal product without compromising photosynthetic fitness. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the role of starch biosynthesis with respect to photosynthesis and carbon partitioning in a model microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. For this, I have used a series of starch deficient mutants together with nitrogen deprivation to modulate the normal carbon partitioning. Nitrogen deprivation is known to redirect biosynthesis away from proteins to starch and lipids, and towards lipids in mutants lacking starch biosynthesis genes. Starch-deficient mutants showed a 20-40% lower biomass accumulation under both nutrient replete and deplete conditions. Interrogation of the photosynthetic metabolic flux (water→PSII/PSI→ ATP & NADPH  3PG) revealed that above a threshold light intensity, starch deficiency attenuated NADPH reoxidation by the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle, which attenuated water oxidation at PSII by product inhibition. Even with starch biosynthesis blocked in the starch-deficient mutant, a high gluconeogenic flux was maintained by redirecting carbon through the oxidative pentose phosphate (OPP) shunt and ultimately away from starch. Thus, upon loss of the ability to synthesize starch, water oxidation is attenuated to balance energy consumption, while the OPP shunt becomes the dominant pathway for repartitioning of the residual photosynthate that can be produced.   The goal of the second part of the thesis was to use metabolic principles to develop a cyanobacterial mutant capable of attaining high H2 yield. Cyanobacteria catabolize the photosynthetically assimilated glycogen under anaerobic auto-fermentative conditions and produce hydrogen via the enzyme, hydrogenase. By sequentially enhancing the glycolytic rate together with the elimination of competing pathways in a euryhaline cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 mutant with high hydrogenase gene expression, we were able to boost H2 production by 8-fold over the wild-type strain.   Thus, my dissertation, addresses understanding how to control the metabolism of photosynthetic microbes and using targeted metabolic engineering to transform microalgae into efficient cell factories for biofuel production.
Anepitacta (Anepitacta) bicaudata Beier 1965
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Anepitacta
Anepitacta bicaudata

description: Anepitacta (A.) bicaudata Beier, 1965
Listed by Beier (1965) from Guinea, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda. Material examined. NIGERIA: Niger Prov., Minna (9°36'50''N, 6°33'25''E), 14.xii.1958, coll. R.W. & M.E. Crosskey – 1 male (holotype), 1 female (paratype) (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Hycleus brincki
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus brincki

description: Ad) Hycleus brincki species group
Hycleus brincki (Kaszab, 1956) (Fig. 3T)
Mylabris brincki Kaszab, 1956
Distribution. Namibia (new species record for this country) and northwestern South Africa.
Material examined. [Otjozondjupa] Omatako: Hamakari sud 373, 20.6667°S 17.3833°E (SMWN). [Omaheke] Gobabis: C22, 2 km N jct. B6, 22.4205°S 19.0037°E (CB). [Hardap] Mariental Rural: C42, Leonardville 5 km S Hoagosbeis, 23.8399°S 18.8307°E (CB); Kalahari Farm Chulon, Narib Ost, 24.1667°S 17.7000°E (CB; NHP); Stampried, 24.3333°S 18.4000°E (SMWN). [Karas] Berseba: Mukorob 14, 25.4833°S 18.1667°E (SMWN). Keetmanshoop Rural: Koes, 25.9500°S 19.1167°E (SMWN); Wildheim Ost 384, 26.4833°S 19.5667°E (SMWN).
Other records. Namib Sand Sea desert (Seely 2012); Namibia (Pitzalis et al. 2014). Bologna (2000a) recorded one damaged specimen, possibly referable to this species, also from the Brandberg massif.
Remarks. Types of this species were not examined, but specimens compared with them were studied at HMNH.
This species is very isolated among the Meogorgatus - type lineages because of the slightly widened intermediate antennomeres, which in male resembles those of Ceroctis female.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Additional file 1: Table S1. of [18F]FDG-PET/CT texture analysis in thyroid incidentalomas: preliminary results
Creators: name: M. Sollini
name: L. Cozzi
name: G. Pepe
name: L. Antunovic
name: A. Lania
name: L. Di Tommaso
name: P. Magnoni
name: P. Erba
name: M. Kirienko
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Conventional PET parameters and textural features tabulated according FNA categories and final diagnosis. (DOCX 84Â kb)
Hycleus congoensis Bologna & Amore & Pitzalis 2018
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus congoensis

description: Ae) Hycleus congoensis species group
Hycleus congoensis (Pic, 1909) comb. n. (Fig. 3U)
Zonabris (Decatoma) congoensis Pic, 1909
Types. The holotype of this species was examined at MNHN.
Distribution. Northeastern Namibia (new species for this country), South Africa, and R. D. Congo.
Material examined. [Kavango] Mukwe: Popa Falls, eastern bank, W. Caprivi, 18.1167°S 21.5833°E (SMWN). [Otjozondjupa] Omatako: Okosongomingo 148, 20.6167°S 17.1333°E (SMWN).
Remarks. In this species the mesosternum is smooth and without distinct “scutum”. The elytral pattern is similar to that of H. arabicus (Pallas, 1872), a species from the Arabic peninsula, belonging to the same macrolineage (see Bologna & Turco 2007). Possible relationships between these two species need additional study.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Branch dependent shear coefficients and their influence on the free vibration of mindlin plates
Creators: name: Lakawicz, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The effect of the shear correction coefficient on the branches of the frequency spectrum for the free vibrations of plates using Mindlin plate theory is studied.  Each of the three branches of the frequency spectrum for the Mindlin plate is identified through comparison with the frequency spectrum of the infinite elastodynamic plate.  The use of branch dependent shear correction coefficients is proposed, in order to bring each of the three branches of the Mindlin plate into best agreement with their corresponding elastodynamic branches.  The general solution presented is applied to plates with simply-supported, simply-supported/clamped, and simply-supported/free edges and representative results for the frequency spectrum and modal plots for each of the boundary conditions is discussed.  It is shown that the use of branch dependent shear correction coefficients improves the frequency predictions for the free vibrations of Mindlin plates when compared to other studies in the literature.  The branches of the frequency spectrum contribute differently to the calculation of the natural frequencies of the vibration modes of the plate for the various boundary conditions considered.  The insight gained into the interactions of the frequency branches improves upon the physical understanding and interpretation, as well as the analysis of the free vibration of the Mindlin plate, even for the classical case when a single shear correction coefficient is employed.
Anepitacta (Anepitacta) egestoides Beier 1967
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Anepitacta
Anepitacta egestoides

description: Anepitacta (A.) egestoides Beier, 1967
Known only from the type locality in Nigeria (Beier 1967).
Material examined. NIGERIA: Ibadan, xii.1965, coll. J.D. Pye - 1 male (holotype) (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Hycleus lunatus Bologna & Amore & Pitzalis 2018
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus lunatus

description: Ba) Hycleus lunatus species group
We refer to this group H. lunatus and, at least, H. bissexnotatus (Pic, 1910), distributed in NE South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and southern Congo. Both species are characterized by ten visible antennomeres and the fore inner yellow spot semilunar in shape.
Hycleus lunatus (Pallas, 1781) comb. n. (Fig. 3V)
Meloe lunata Pallas, 1781
Mylabris lunata, Pardo Alcaide 1958 Coryna lunata, Bologna 1978
Type. The type of this very common and characteristic species is lost.
Distribution. Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, northeastern Namibia (new species for this country), South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
Material examined. [Otjozondjupa] Tsumkwe: Kremetartkop, 19.8667°S 20.9167°E (SMWN); 3 km W Kuru, 19.9333°S 20.6333°E (SMWN).
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Additional file 11: Figure S3. of Deciphering the olfactory repertoire of the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus
Creators: name: Lombardo, Fabrizio
name: Salvemini, Marco
name: Fiorillo, Carmine
name: Nolan, Tony
name: Zwiebel, Laurence
name: JosĂŠ Ribeiro
name: ArcĂ, Bruno
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Alignment of Classic OBPs.(PDF 7646 kb)
Anepitacta (Anepitacta) egestosa Karsch 1893
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Anepitacta
Anepitacta egestosa

description: Anepitacta (A.) egestosa Karsch, 1893
Listed by Beier (1966) from Togo and Cameroon.
Material examined. TOGO: Bismarckburg (8°11'N, 0°41'0''E), 20.ix. – 31.x.1890, coll. R. Büttner - 1 male (holotype) (ZMHB).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Hycleus tristigmus
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus tristigmus

description: Bb) Hycleus tristigmus species group
This group of species was partially studied by Pardo Alcaide (1955, 1958b), and includes some species distributed in the sub-Saharan Africa hardly to identify and frequently confused, because of the elytral convergent pattern, with species belonging to unrelated groups with Mesoscutatus - type mesosternum, such as the groups of dubiosus and of dilloni.
Hycleus ertli (Voigts, 1903) comb. n. (Fig. 3W)
Zonabris ertli Voigts, 1903
Mylabris ertli, Pardo Alcaide 1955 Types. The holotype of this species was not studied, but specimens compared with it were studied at MNHN. Distribution. Malawi, northeastern Namibia (new species for this country), Tanzania, Zaire, and Zambia. Material examined. [Caprivi] Katima Mulilo Urban: Caprivi Zipfel Katima Mulilo, 17.5000°S 24.2667°E (CB; CK). [Kavango] Mukwe: Okavango River, Bagani, Popa Falls, 18.1167°S 21.6333°E (CB).
Remarks. The identification of this species is provisional, waiting for the revision of the group.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on pages 60-61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Unmaking the authoritarian labor regime
Creators: name: Li, Chunyun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Can Chinese workers deploy limited resources to coordinate sustained protest? The prevailing literature describes Chinese labor unrest as leaderless, disorganized, and short-lived. Because of these characteristics, many scholars did not view Chinese workers’ collective struggles, although more numerous than those of any other country, as forming a labor movement. Prior research has suggested that many institutional factors constrain the emergence of an organized labor movement in China. These institutional inhibitors include China’s decentralized legalistic authoritarianism, the state’s bifurcated strategy that confers individual rights on workers but restricts their collective rights, uprooted official unions and the ban on independent worker organizations, and state repression of external support to worker collective action. Based on one year of participatory observation of Chinese labor nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs’) mobilizing activities and sustained strikes and worker protests, I argue that collective bargaining, which was promoted by some Chinese labor NGOs, served as a viable mobilization mechanism that enabled Chinese workers to coordinate and sustain collective action. Specifically, I found that a leading organization, Laowei Law Firm, devised a Chinese version of worker-led collective bargaining practice and promoted it among labor NGOs and workers. Several labor NGOs have altered their prior individualized approach to promote worker-led collective bargaining to empower worker collectives, enhancing workers’ leadership development and collective action. The newly emerged worker protest leaders were veteran skilled workers who flexibly framed and staged contention. This new collective bargaining practice has contributed to more sustained and successful strikes by building workers’ strategic capacity to adeptly deploy power and resources to achieve goals. I argue that this development manifested embryonic forms of Chinese workers’ associational power, which is based on labor movement NGOs as an organizational vehicle and the collective action of worker-led collective bargaining initiatives. This manifested form of associational power results from the strategic agency of Chinese labor activists and workers: mobilizing limited resources to affect social change in a hostile environment.
Study the interaction between hydrophilic silica surface and planar DMPC bilayers by using molecular dynamics
Creators: name: Li, Ting
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This work studies the interaction of lipid bilayer with hydrophilic silica surface. Main attention is paid to the dependence of the disjoining pressure Π on the distance between the bilayer and the silica substrate h. Π is calculated as a force that compensates the external gravity–type force applied to the bilayer per unit surface area. The dependence of the disjoining pressure on the distance deviated from the expected sigmoidal shape, showing at least two types of stable configurations with negative (attractive) . Structure and the mobility of lipids in the bilayer, as well as the water in the gap between the bilayer and the substrate were characterized by lateral diffusion coefficients, order parameter, hydrogen bond numbers as well as radio and spatial distribution functions.
Additional file 5: Figure S2. of Comparative analysis of miRNA expression during the development of insects of different metamorphosis modes and germ-band types
Creators: name: Ylla, Guillem
name: Maria-Dolors Piulachs
name: Belles, Xavier
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: P-values of the differential expression analysis of the miRNA genes at each stage transition during Blattella germanica development. (PDF 4965Â kb)
Gene regulation during central nervous system development and post-injury regeneration
Creators: name: Li, Ying
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Central nervous system (CNS) development and post-injury neurogenesis require  accurate coordination of neural stem cell proliferation, progenitor cell differentiation,  neuron, glia migration and maturation, and synapse formation between axons and  dendrites. Such systems with high complexity require strict temporal and spatial control  via several levels of regulation, in which the transcription regulation is one of the most  critical steps. The developmental and injury-repair process involves over 18,000 genes,  for majority of which the molecular mechanism governing their transcription remains  largely unknown. In an attempt to address this question, four projects were conducted  focusing on two levels of transcription regulation: i.e., chromatin modification, and the  interaction of cis-acting regulatory sequences with trans-acting protein factors.  Computational methods were adopted to analyze the sequences of the cis-elements and  iii  make predictions for their interacting transcription factors (TFs). The functional roles of  these cis- and trans-elements were further determined in vivo and in vitro. The following  findings are presented: 1) the function of DNA topoisomerase II beta (Top2b) in proper  laminar formation and cell survival during retinal development; 2) the development of  computational method for identifying gene regulatory networks involving enhancers and  master TFs that are important in retinal cell differentiation; 3) the mechanism of Notch1  regulation in neural stem/progenitor cells via the interaction between Nkx6.1 and a CNS  specific enhancer CR2 during the development of the spinal cord interneurons; and 4)  the role of CR2 in aNSC activation after injury. Findings from this dissertation provide  new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying transcription regulation during  CNS development and post-injury neurogenesis. They can also serve as a basis for  future development of gene therapies and regenerative medicine for neurological  disorders including spinal cord injury.
Moisture triggered release of thymol from electrospun mats to extend shelf life of fresh tomatoes
Creators: name: Liu, Chang
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Year: 2016

description: Electrostatic fiber formation which also known as electrospinning, a technology to construct fabrics by applying potential differences has gained its popularity in producing nonwoven nano to submicron scale fibers from a wide range of materials (Rutledge & Fridrikh, 2007). The advantages of electrospinning technology in this study are the ambient processing temperature which is suitable to encapsulate volatile compounds and the large surface area produced to make electrospun mats more susceptible to environment conditions (RH, temperature etc.) changes (Vega-Lugo & Lim, 2009). Moisture could interact with electrospinning nanofibers to trigger the release of active compounds from inside the electrospun fibers.   The objective of the research was to study the feasibility of developing the moisture triggered release system of thymol using electrospinning technology to extend the shelf life of fresh tomatoes. The system feasibility was evaluated based on three criteria: first, whether the construction of thymol encapsulated electrospun mats could be successful; second, whether the moisture triggered release of thymol from the mats could be achieved; and third, could the moisture from fresh tomatoes trigger the release of thymol from the mats and how much could the released thymol extend the shelf life of fresh tomatoes.  Thymol was encapsulated into polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) using electrospinning to produce fiber mats. The retentions of thymol in the fiber mats ranged from 37.9 to 99.2%, depending on the amount of thymol added and electrospinning time. In the first experiment, the rate of release of thymol was found to increase with relative humidity: very low release at 0% RH, somewhat higher at 75% RH, and much higher at 100% RH—this suggests that high RH can be used as a trigger to release thymol in this system. In the second experiment, small pieces of the mat and fresh tomatoes were placed inside plastic containers. The moisture from the fresh tomatoes was able to trigger the release of thymol and extend their shelf life for at least 5 days. Therefore it is feasible to apply this system to real packages.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Proteomic profiling of breast cancer metabolism identifies SHMT2 and ASCT2 as prognostic factors
Creators: name: Bernhardt, Stephan
name: BayerlovĂĄ, Michaela
name: Vetter, Martina
name: Wachter, Astrid
name: Mitra, Devina
name: Hanf, Volker
name: Lantzsch, Tilmann
name: Uleer, Christoph
name: Peschel, Susanne
name: John, Jutta
name: JĂśrg Buchmann
name: Weigert, Edith
name: Karl-Friedrich BĂźrrig
name: Thomssen, Christoph
name: Korf, Ulrike
name: Beissbarth, Tim
name: Wiemann, Stefan
name: Kantelhardt, Eva
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Kaplan-Meier analysis of green and violet cluster. Kaplan-Meier curves show proportions of overall survivors (OS) and recurrence-free survivors (RFS) of two separate clusters. Statistical difference in outcome between Kaplan-Meier curves were compared by log-rank test. (PDF 93 kb)
Delta progradation and channel drainage systems from the early Miocene to the present day between Barnegat and Manasquan inlets, New Jersey
Creators: name: Lugrin, Lindsey
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Year: 2016

description: Nearshore seismic and core data were collected in 2013-14 for beach replenishment assessment between Barnegat and Manasquan Inlets by the New Jersey Geological and Water Survey.  Analyses described in the following study reveal upper-middle Miocene deltaic progradation originating from a fluvial point-source northwest of the survey grid overlain by a network of channel drainage systems.  Previous studies have identified both Miocene deltaic and channel deposits along the New Jersey margin, but efforts to map individual deltaic progradation sequences and channel paths have been limited by wide seismic grid spacing.  In addition, Pleistocene sea-level variations have eroded much of the inner New Jersey shelf, making it difficult to reconstruct the highly discontinuous stratigraphic record without dense line spacing and reliable control by selective coring.    Five depositional units are identified as lower-middle Miocene deltaic deposits (Unit I), upper Pliocene-upper Pleistocene fluvial channel deposits (Units II, III), upper Pleistocene MIC 3 lowstand deposits (Unit IV), and Holocene ridge sand and estuarine mud (Unit V).  With the exception of Unit I, depositional units are bounded above and below by transgressive surfaces: Surfaces 2 and 3 mark the base of the channels that formed Units II and III, Surface 4 underlies Unit IV sediment and is an erosional unconformity formed during the MIC 4 sea-level lowstand, and Surface 5 is a subhorizontal unconformity formed since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) underlying the most recent Unit V material.  Because Unit I extends beyond the 0.1-second recording length of seismic data examined in this study, no surface bounds Unit I below and instead prominent, individual seaward dipping reflectors within Unit I are traced throughout the study area.  These intra-Unit 1 reflectors map Miocene deltaic clinoform progradation across the study area and reveal geographic patterns that potentially influenced the preferential incisive behavior of subsequent channel drainage systems that formed during periods of sea-level lowstands as early as the late Pliocene.
Paternal kinship in a matrilocal society of olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) in Laikipia district, Kenya
Creators: name: Lynch, Emily Claire
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Year: 2016

description: Relationships with relatives are arguably the principal organizing feature of mammalian sociality. Studies of nonhuman primates, in particular, demonstrate the importance of kinship in the evolution of affiliative behaviors.  The majority of these studies, however, have focused on relatedness expressed through the mother. Although all individuals have a father, less is known about the importance of paternal kinship. My dissertation seeks to expand our understanding of the role of paternal kinship in a matrilocal society by answering the following questions: 1) how do social bonds between different kin types vary?; 2) how does the presence of both mothers and fathers in groups influence the foraging behaviors of juveniles?; and 3) how do juveniles feed near same-aged peers of different kin types? I examined these questions using behavioral and genetic data collected on wild olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) during a 14 month study in Kenya.   My research indicates that both maternal and paternal kinship play several important roles in the social and foraging behaviors of young baboons. First, paternal half-siblings maintained social bonds with one another of intermediate strength, i.e., weaker than those characterizing maternal half-siblings, but significantly stronger than the relations of unrelated conspecifics.  Moreover, these bonds of paternal half siblings were significantly stronger when their shared father was present in the group than when he was absent, suggesting familiarity through associating with the father is the mechanism underlying recognition of paternal half-siblings. This study also found that both mothers and fathers enhanced the foraging success of juveniles under certain conditions. In resource patches likely to engender contest competition, juveniles fed for longer periods when mothers were present. For foods requiring skill to extract and consume, immatures fed longer when near a parent of the same sex. These data suggest that parents may: 1) mitigate the costs of feeding competition; and 2) facilitate the learning process for consuming difficult-to-acquire food. Finally, the foraging of immature baboons was also improved by the presence of paternal and maternal juvenile half-siblings. This study contributes to our understanding of the adaptive significance of kinship in expanding our understanding of the evolution of social behavior.
Anepitacta (Anepitacta) guentheri Gorochov 1994
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Anepitacta
Anepitacta guentheri

description: Anepitacta (A.) guentheri Gorochov, 1994
(Fig. 5 I)
Previously known only from the type locality in Cameroon (Gorochov 1994), here listed for the first time from Guinea and Ghana.
Material examined. GHANA: Eastern Region, Ajenjua Bepo Forest Reserve, elev. 300–320 m (6°22'2.3''N, 1°1'58''W), 26–30.viii. 2006, coll. P. Naskrecki, V. Awotwe-Pratt and M. Bakowski (Camp 1) - 1 female, 1 male (ANSP); Atewa Range, Asiakwa (South), elev. 690 m (6°15'44.3''N, 0°33'18.8''W), 11–16.vi. 2006, coll. P. Naskrecki (Camp 2) - 1 male; Asiakwa, main road, elev. 817 m (6°15'.7''N, 0°33'53.7''W), 7– 11.xii. 2007, coll. P. Naskrecki, V. Awotwe-Pratt and N. Jengre - 2 females, 1 male; GUINEA: Guinee Forestiere, Mt. Bero, elev. 630 m (8°8'21''N, 8°34'24''W), 2–6.xii. 2003, coll. P. Naskrecki - 2 females, 1 male (MCZ).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
How do species abundance distributions influence plant-pollinator networks?
Creators: name: MacLeod, Molly
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Year: 2016

description: Plant – pollinator networks provide a tool for understanding patterns in ecological communities. However, apparent network patterns observed in real-world systems may be influenced by a skewed species abundance distribution (SAD), which obscures the differences between biology- and chance-based drivers of network patterns. This dissertation addresses that issue using a four-year experimental network in which the relative abundance of 17 plant species is even, and from which 8,054 specimens of 104 bee species were collected. Patterns observed in that even-SAD field experiment were compared with null models, to answer the following questions: (1) Can the apparent nested pattern of plant – pollinator networks inform pollinator conservation? (2) Does the number of plant species partners and the number of plant individual partners equally influence the effect of losing plant species from networks, and does this depend on the plant SAD? (3) Is apparent year-to-year variation in interactions driven by biology or by chance, and does this depend on the bee species abundance? This research shows that (1) the abundance of rare and common bee species were uncorrelated across plant species, suggesting that their divergent preferences would require a targeted, not a general, choice of plant species for conservation. However, their preferences were positively correlated when the even plant SAD data were subsampled to simulate a skewed plant SAD network, but only when the most attractive plant species was simulated to be the most abundant. (2) Plant species’ differential importance in the process of network disassembly is driven more by number of partner species than partner individuals, but only when the plant SAD is even. Almost no difference between species- and individual- based plant species loss was observed in the skewed network, because subsampling to skew the SAD removed many rare species and caused partner species and individuals to become more tightly correlated. (3) Expected annual dissimilarity in bee species’ preferences decreases with bee abundance, suggesting an increased ability to detect non- random changes for common bees. The common bees differed significantly from that null expectation, suggesting that variation driven by biology, not by chance, is only detectable for common species.
Mild heat and ultraviolet radiation in sequence to inactivate  alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris spores in apple juice
Creators: name: Manivannan, Vahini
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Year: 2016

description: Mild heat followed by UV treatment was investigated in this study on apple juice inoculated with the spores of Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris. Commercially pasteurized apple juice was inoculated with the spores of Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris and subjected to mild heat treatment to ensure at least 90 % spore germination. The juice was then subjected to UV-C light of intensity between (1.4-1.6) mW/cm2 for various times between 10 s to 600 s. A 4.2 log reduction was obtained upon combined heat treatment at 52 °C for 38 min followed by UV-C treatment of (1.4-1.6) mW/cm2 for 60 s. This treatment was compared with commercial pasteurization by head space GC-MS analysis for volatile fraction in apple juice and sensory evaluation of taste, color, and smell. Our results indicated that the quality attributes did not change due to combined heat and UV-C treatment of the commercially pasteurized juice.
Anepitacta (Anepitacta) guineensis Beier 1965
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Anepitacta
Anepitacta guineensis

description: Anepitacta (A.) guineensis Beier, 1965
Known only from the type locality in Guinea (Beier 1965).
Material examined. GUINEA: Guinee Forestiere, Nimba, Nion (7°36'34''N, 8°28'45''W), 11.vi.1942, coll. M. Lamotte - 1 female (holotype) (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351