cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Echiniscus mediantus Marcus 1930
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Echiniscus
Echiniscus mediantus

description: Echiniscus mediantus Marcus 1930
I have identified 754 specimens collected in all samples studied. Typical morphology (lateral filaments at position C and the usual dorsal appendices: filaments at C and spines at D; Table 4 and Fig. 4) is present in 65% of individuals. I detected 11 morphotypes (Fig. 4), but only one morphotype was represented by more than 3% of the specimens (the one without one of the lateral filaments at position C). I detected different morphotypes of this species mixed within the same sample. Specimens of Echiniscus mediantus showed the same cuticle sculpture size variation described for Echiniscus blumi. I found also within-species variability in presence of spurs (one or two) or their absence at the base of the external claws in the fourth pair of legs. Body size ranged from 308 to 770 μm, mean 510 μm (SD 95). This species has been cited for Europe and America. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Portugal (Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985) and Spain (Rodríguez Roda 1951; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985). Echiniscus mediantus was found at 29 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Xenochalepus (Neochalepus) nigriceps
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Xenochalepus
Xenochalepus nigriceps

description: Xenochalepus (Neochalepus) nigriceps (Blanchard, 1843)
Odontota nigriceps Blanchard, 1843:pl.24, Fig. 9 (original illustration); BLANCHARD (1847):211 (original description). Chalepus aeneiceps Pic, 1937: 16 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Odontota nigriceps: ‘Santa-Cruz (Bolivia)’; Chalepus aeneiceps: ‘ Brésil: Uberaba’.
Type material examined. Chalepus aeneiceps: SYNTYPE: glued, ‘Uberaba | Brésil [w, hw by Pic, s] || Chalepus [w, hw by Pic, s] || Chalepus | aeneiceps | n sp [w, hw by Pic, s] || TYPE [r, p, cb] || Museum Paris | Coll. M.Pic [w, p, cb] || SYNTYPE [r, p, cb] || MNHN | EC2895 [w, p, cb]’ (MNHN).
Remarks. Odontota nigriceps first appeared as figure on plate published in 1843 while the text description appeared in 1847 (BLANCHARD 1843, 1847). Its type material is presumably deposited in the MNHN but I was unable to find it during my visit. WEISE (1913) studied additional specimens and transferred it to Xenochalepus Weise, 1910 and this is the generally accepted placement (UHMANN 1957a, STAINES & RILEY 1994).
During my stay in the MNHN I examined the syntype of Chalepus aeneiceps and found it has a scutellar row of punctures, which is absent in Chalepus Thunberg, 1805 and in fact belongs to Xenochalepus. Moreover, it is identical to additional specimens identified and published as X. nigriceps and also agrees with the original illustration of that species, and I therefore synonymize C. aeneiceps with X. nigriceps.
Distribution. Bolivia: Santa Cruz (BLANCHARD 1847, WEISE 1913, UHMANN 1957b), Brazil: Minas Gerais (PIC 1937), Paraguay (UHMANN 1938).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Seeing the Structure of Objects
Creators: name: Green, Edwin James
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation is about our visual perception of objects and their geometrical properties. I offer an account of visual shape perception, and then apply this account in developing a theory of how vision secures reference to objects.    Chapter 1 provides an overview of the issues to be addressed. Chapters 2 and 3 concern our perception of shape. Specifically, chapter 2 argues that shape perception is layered: We perceive objects as having multiple shape properties, and these properties have varying degrees of abstraction. This picture contrasts sharply with certain views of shape representation in the philosophical and psychological literature, which I label metric views. Metric views claim, roughly, that vision only explicitly represents certain metric properties of objects, such as location, length, distance, and angle.     Chapter 3 argues that visual shape perception is mereologically structured: Roughly, we perceive an object’s decomposition into parts, the intrinsic shapes of its parts, and the locations of the joints between parts. I argue that this forms the basis of a type of perceptual constancy—structure constancy. Moreover, I argue that this approach embodies a radical departure from views on which the visual experience of spatial properties is wholly viewer-centered.    Chapters 4 and 5 concern object perception. Chapter 4 considers the problem of how a visual representation secures reference to an external object. I argue that the two leading approaches to this problem (which I call the pure causal view and the location-based view) face serious difficulties. I then argue that part-based visual shape representation plays a crucial role in the mechanism of visual reference-fixing.     Chapter 5 addresses the question of what counts as an object for visual perception. More specifically, what types of things does vision pick out and track over time? On one recently popular view, visual processes of selection and tracking are specifically tuned to a class of entities called Spelke-objects. I argue that this view is problematic, primarily because it places excessively strong constraints on the geometry and topology of visual objects. I then defend a different account on which visual objects are (roughly) those things that satisfy traditional perceptual organization criteria.
Echiniscus merokensis Richters 1904
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Echiniscus
Echiniscus merokensis

description: Echiniscus merokensis Richters 1904
A total of 679 specimens were recorded from LF, MR, LR, MT and LT samples. I identified both Echiniscus merokensis merokensis Richters 1904 (with the typical morphotype: lateral filaments at positions C, D and E and dorsal spines at C and D; Fig. 5A) and Echiniscus merokensis suecica Thulin 1911 (with the typical morphotype: lateral filaments at positions B, C, D and E and dorsal spines at C and D; Fig. 5B). These two morphotypes appeared mixed in the same samples, but alone too. Additionally, I found a great variety within each morphotype of Echiniscus merokensis (Figs. 5A and 5B, respectively). Body size range of Echiniscus merokensis merokensis was 198 to 638 μm, mean 361 μm (SD 63), while for Echiniscus merokensis suecica body size ranged from 198 to 693 μm, mean 356 μm (SD 91). Echiniscus merokensis has been cited for Europe, Asia, Africa and America. In the Iberian Peninsula, Echiniscus merokensis merokensis has been recorded for Portugal (Da Cunha 1944a; Fontoura 1981, 1982; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985) and Spain (Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984). Echiniscus merokensis appeared at 20 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Spatially resolved infrared imaging for building performance evaluation
Creators: name: Guo, Mengyang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Understanding the interior workings of buildings has become an increasingly important research topic as a growing population of people is living in urbanized environments. Infrared thermography has been used extensively for detecting building defects that affect energy performance. The focus of this project not only concerns building energy performance but also health and structure hazards. The first objective of this research study is to review the use of infrared thermography for building performance inspection and synthesize findings from existing studies to demonstrate the potential of infrared thermography for detecting and quantifying health and structure hazards. The second objective of this research study is to explore the effectiveness of integration of infrared thermography and spatial sensing methods for intelligent building hazard detection and evaluation. The proposed research methodology involves several major components including design of data collection protocols, data fusion and intelligent extraction of building hazard related attributes, and field validation of proposed methods. The study was validated by surveying the health and safety performance of two multi-family buildings in a densely populated city in the Northeastern US, using the developed appraisal method that integrate infrared thermography with 3D point cloud data. The efficacy of integrated laser scanning and thermal imaging to determine housing-related health and structure-related issue was assessed.  It is important to note that the research results reported in this study is part of a larger research effort aimed at developing quantitative understanding on the correlation between the defects inside the residential building and how they impact the residents’ health and comfort in a systemic way.
A comparison of the triangle algorithm and sequential minimal optimization algorithm for solving the hard margin problem
Creators: name: Gupta, Mayank
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In this article we consider the problem of testing, for two  nite sets of points in the Euclidean  space, if their convex hulls are disjoint and computing an optimal supporting hyperplane if so.  This is a fundamental problem of classi cation in machine learning known as the hard-margin  SVM. The problem can be formulated as a quadratic programming problem. The SMO  algorithm [1] is the current state of art algorithm for solving it, but it does not answer the  question of separability. An alternative to solving both problems is the triangle algorithm [2], a  geometrically inspired algorithm, initially described for the convex hull membership  problem [3], a fundamental problem in linear programming. First, we describe the  experimental performance of the triangle algorithm for testing the intersection of two convex  hulls. Next, we compare the performance of triangle algorithm with SMO for  nding the  optimal supporting hyperplane. Based on experimental results ranging up to 5000 points in  each set in dimensions up to 10000, the triangle algorithm outperforms SMO.
EphA/ephrin-A signaling in excitatory synapse development
Creators: name: Hader, Anna T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Interactions between EphA receptors and ephrin-A ligands have been implicated in the regulation of postsynaptic spine density, astrocytic glutamate transport, and synaptic plasticity. Nonetheless, many aspects of the bidirectional EphA/ephrin-A signaling remain elusive. The goal of this dissertation was to characterize expression of EphA and ephrin-A proteins in hippocampal cultures and to examine effects of ephrin-A activation and EphA inhibition on the development of excitatory synapses in vitro. Affinity probe method utilizing EphA-Fc and ephrin-A-Fc chimeric protein constructs was used to detect endogenous ephrin-A and EphA proteins, respectively, on the surface of living hippocampal cells in culture. Additionally, IIIA4 anti-EphA3 antibody, in combination with ephrin-A3-Fc affinity probe, was employed to characterize expression of surface EphA3 receptor and its ligand-binding ability. Finally, to test how ephrin-A activation and EphA inhibition affect excitatory synapse development, a combination of chronic treatments with clustered and unclustered EphA3-Fc chimeras was utilized along with quantitative immunofluorescence microscopy. Data presented in this dissertation showed that EphA and ephrin-A proteins were present on the surface of hippocampal astrocytes and in peridendritic areas of hippocampal neurons. In addition, EphA3 receptor, expressed on the surface of hippocampal cells, displayed differential ability for ligand binding. Lastly, activation of ephrin-A reverse signaling increased the expression of postsynaptic protein PSD-95 and counteracted the repulsive effects of EphA receptor inhibition on synapse formation. These results indicate that EphA/ephrin-A signaling plays attractive and repulsive roles in the development of excitatory synapses and might be regulated by the EphA receptor differential ability for ligand binding.
Paratrikona rubescens Blake 1939
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Paratrikona
Paratrikona rubescens

description: Paratrikona rubescens Blake, 1939
Paratrikona rubescens Blake, 1939: 238 (original description).
Paratrikona albomaculata Borowiec, 2009b: 567 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Both taxa were collected on the same type locality: Dominican Republic, La Vega Province, Jarabacoa.
Type material examined. Paratrikona albomaculata: PARATYPE: pinned, ‘Rep.Dominikana | 5.- 7.5.2001 | Jarabacoa env. | lgt. Z.Martinová [w, p, cb] || PARATYPE | des. L. Borowiec [r, p, cb] || Paratrikona | albomaculata n. sp. | HOLOTYPUS [sic!] | des. L. Borowiec 2009 [w, p, cb]’ (LSPC).
Paratrikona rubescens: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘M.C.Z. | Type No. | 23636 [w, hw by Blake, cb] || Jarabacoa | Aug. ʼ38, Dom.Rep. | 1,500-4,000 ft. | Darlington [w, p,c b] || Paratrikona | rubescens | type Blake [w, hw by Blake, cb] || M.C.Z. | Type | 23636 [r, p, cb, last row hw]’ (MCZ).
Remarks. BLAKE (1939) described Paratrikona rubescens from Jarabacoa and added that Darlington wrote that the specimens were ‘rather deep red with conspicuous white blotches irregularly arranged’ while only slight trace of the white markings remained on the dried specimens; as a result, Blake did not indicate them in her drawings. BLAKE (1971) published additional specimens of P. rubescens collected at ‘Arroya de Toro, Quebrada Honda’ including a figure showing clear white markings. BOROWIEC (2009b) described P. albomaculata from Jarabacoa and separated it from other species based on the conspicuous white pattern on elytra.
Paratrikona albomaculata has clearly marked, contrasting white spots on reddish-brown elytra while the holotype of P. rubescens has the spots only slightly indicated. Nevertheless, they are on exactly same position as in P. albomaculata. Both taxa also have identical punctation of elytra and pronotum, similar convexity of elytra, identical M-shaped black pattern of prontum, and are thus in my opinion conspecific. For these reasons I synonymized P. albomaculata with P. rubescens.
Distribution. Endemic to Dominican Republic (BLAKE 1939, 1971; BOROWIEC 2009b).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 300-301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
MOESM1 of H2A O-GlcNAcylation at serine 40 functions genomic protection in association with acetylated H2AZ or ÎłH2AX
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Koji
name: Hirosawa, Mitsuko
name: Ruiko Tani
name: Yoneda, Chikako
name: Tanaka, Satoshi
name: Shiota, Kunio
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1-S3 and Table S1-S2.
Additional file 5: of Community-based psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Asher, Laura
name: Patel, Vikram
name: Silva, Mary J De
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional analyses. This file presents the forest plots for symptom severity (<18 months post intervention) including only high-quality studies; impact on ability to work (<18 months post intervention) including all studies; impact on number of readmissions (<18 months post intervention) including all studies; impact on number of days in hospital (<18 months post intervention); and medication adherence (<18 months post intervention) including only high-quality studies. (DOCX 254 kb)
Echiniscus trisetosus Cuenot 1932
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Echiniscus
Echiniscus trisetosus

description: Echiniscus trisetosus Cuénot 1932
I isolated 3,409 specimens from all habitats studied. They showed typical morphology in 83% of specimens. However, this species showed an additional 21 morphotypes, illustrated in Fig. 6. The next most represented morphotype (5.5%) was the one without one lateral filament at position D; the remaining morphotypes were less represented (Fig. 6). Some morphotypes could be easily mistaken for morphologies corresponding to Echiniscus osellai Maucci 1975 or Echiniscus granulatus (Doyère 1840), but these species can be distinguished from E. trisetosus because they present spines in some lateral positions. I observed more than one of these 21 morphotypes coexisting within the same sample. Once again, I distinguished specimens with spurs (one, two, or even three) or no spur at the base of the external claws in the fourth pair of legs. Mean body size was 477 μm (SD 198), range 176 to 889 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, Asia, America and Africa. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Portugal (Da Cunha 1947a; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985) and Spain (Rodríguez Roda 1946, 1949; Mihelčič 1954; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984). Echiniscus trisetosus appeared at 46 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Structure from motion without projective consistency
Creators: name: He, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Structure-from-motion (SFM) studies have shown that people are good at perceiving 3D structure in dynamic dot displays consistent with rigid object rotation. However, observers can perceive volumetric structure even when image motion is inconsistent with rigid rotation. As an extreme case, in dynamic figure-ground displays containing textural motion, observers perceive one set of regions as rotating in 3D, despite constant dot speed everywhere (projectively inconsistent with 3D rotation; Froyen et al. 2013, JOV; Tanrikulu et al., 2013, 2014, VSS). It is unclear, however, to what extent this extreme “tolerance” is due to the figure-ground competition in those displays. Here we used standard SFM displays, depicting a single object in isolation, and manipulated the discrepancy of image motion from 3D rigid rotation. We started not with 3D objects, but with a 2D velocity field within a vertically oriented ellipse. For an ellipsoid rotating about its principal axis, its orthographic-projected speed profile is a cosine function along each orthogonal “rib”. We manipulated the proportion α of cosine speed vs. constant speed (range 0-1), and the motion direction θ relative to the orthogonal ribs (range 0-60°). In experiment 1, observers used a 7-point scale to rate the degree to which the display depicted a volumetric object. In experiment 2, observers adjusted the depth to match the SFM displays. Both experiments shows that the volumetric percepts increased significantly with α, and were surprisingly tolerant to deviations from the projectively correct α=1, θ=0. For α, volumetric ratings increased between 0-0.6 but plateaued beyond 0.6. The effect of θ was surprisingly small, with even θ=45° yielding high volumetric ratings. Then we applied a rigidity-based computer vision model to our displays, and compared the model prediction with observers’ data. The comparison shows that the rigidity-based model does not predict human’s volumetric percepts correctly. In addition, the predicted motion from the model has large deviations from the display itself in terms of rotation axis. Thus even in standard SFM displays, the 3D percept was surprisingly tolerant to discrepancies from projectively correct rigid object motion. These results argue for a more nuanced view of 3D interpretation in which strict projective consistency plays a less prominent role than in conventional SFM accounts.
Additional file 1: of The fitness cost of mis-splicing is the main determinant of alternative splicing patterns
Creators: name: Saudemont, Baptiste
name: Popa, Alexandra
name: Parmley, Joanna
name: Rocher, Vincent
name: Blugeon, Corinne
name: Necsulea, Anamaria
name: Meyer, Eric
name: Duret, Laurent
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Includes Text S1–S4, Figures S1–S13, and Tables S1–S3: Text S1. Definition of canonical splice forms. Text S2. Regulation of splicing factors by AS-NMD in paramecia. Text S3. Signatures of selective pressure against splicing errors. Text S4. Quantification of the proportion of splicing errors: extended model. Text S5. Estimates of IR rate are robust to possible contamination by genomic DNA. Figure S1. Impact of NMD on observed IR rates: comparison of biological replicates. Figure S2. Impact of NMD on observed PCI splicing rates: comparison of biological replicates. Figure S3. Distribution of AS rate in WT cells. Figure S4. NMD-sensitive introns in P. tetraurelia SRSF-like genes. Figure S5. Relationship between AS rate expression level, for NMD-visible or NMD-invisible splicing events. Figure S6. Splicing rate of PCIs according to their length. Figure S7. Relationship between AS rate and expression level in human genes, for NMD-visible or NMD-invisible AS events. Figure S8. Variation in SNP density at splice sites and flanking third codon positions according to gene expression level. Figure S9. The fraction of introns with consensus splice signals does not vary with IR rate. Figure S10. Signatures of selective pressure against cryptic splicing signals in P. tetraurelia. Figure S11. Somatic knockouts of UPF1A and UPF1B genes. Figure S12. Common forms of AS in humans. Figure S13. Read depth in intergenic regions according to the expression level of flanking genes. Table S1. Summary of RNA-seq samples. Table S2. Number of introns or cryptic introns showing evidence of AS in RNA-seq samples from WT or NMD-deficient paramecia. Table S3. RNA-seq libraries analyzed to quantify ASSV in human. (PDF 1759 kb)
Agenysa Spaeth 1905
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Agenysa

description: Agenysa Spaeth, 1905
Agenysa Spaeth, 1905: 90 (original description).
Type species. Cassida caedemadens Lichtenstein, 1796, by original designation.
Remarks. The genus was revised by VIANA (1968) who also proposed a key to species, using primarily colouration as a diagnostic character for each species. Unfortunately, almost all species of Agenysa display a wide array of colour variants. In addition many structural characters, such as the convexity of elytra, height and density of the reticulation on elytra, and the intensity of punctation, depends on size of the actual specimen which is also very variable within a single species. As a result reliable identification of species is very difficult and individual forms are rather separated geographically. Studies using molecular data would reliably define and separate species in this genus.
Nevertheless, I have found three taxa, which were previously placed in Stolas Billberg, 1820 but in fact belong to Agenysa. The necessity to attribute them to presently existing species led me to study additional material and types of other species as well. I propose a tentative key to species of Agenysa, that however, cannot be understood as definitive as my conclusions are based entirely on dried museum specimens, and I do not intend to provide a complex revision of the genus here as it deserves a separate project. Particularly difficult is the group of species with red reticulation on explanate margin of elytra and I am unable to reliably attribute some isolated populations to the described species.
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Additional file 4: of Community-based psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Asher, Laura
name: Patel, Vikram
name: Silva, Mary J De
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Summary of risk of bias for included studies. (DOCX 132 kb)
Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen 1951
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Echiniscoidea
Echiniscidae
Pseudechiniscus
Pseudechiniscus facettalis

description: Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen 1951
This species showed some variation at the base of the external claws of the fourth pair of legs, where I have found one spur or no spur. Mean body size, among 20 specimens found, was 336 μm (SD 72), ranging from 253 to 572 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and America. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Portugal (Maucci & Durante Pasa 1985), Andorra (Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984) and Spain (Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984; McInnes 1991). Pseudechiniscus facettalis was found at six sampling points (Table 3), but only in MR samples.
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
title: The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employee Performance: A Field Study in the Ministry of Sports in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alanazi, Fahad
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Transformational Leadership
subject: Ministry of Sports
subject: Saudi Arabia
subject: Saudi Vision 2030

description: Dissertation submitted to the College of Public Affairs of The University of Baltimore in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Public Administration.
description: D.P.A. -- The University of Baltimore, 2024
description: This research evaluates the impact of transformational leadership on the performance of employees in the Ministry of Sports in Saudi Arabia. The main research question explores transformational leadership and its impact on employee performance in the Saudi Ministry of Sports. Three main components are assessed: 1) the impact of charismatic leadership practices, 2) the relationship between inspiring motivation and employee performance, and 3) the role of individual consideration in employee job performance. Overall, the research asks, "How does Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Sports practice transformational leadership, and how does it influence employee performance?" A quantitative approach is utilized, as it provides a practical approach to achieving the objectives of the study. The researcher conducted an online survey for each of the selected study participants. The data collected from the study was subjected to a T-test to assess complex differences between the responses given by the study participants and ANOVA analysis of variance to test the study hypotheses. The aim of the research is to fill a management gap and provide beneficial information to decision-makers on the best leadership style to adopt for maximum productivity. In addition, this study is a scholarly resource for people interested in studying transformational leadership in Saudi Arabia.
Milnesium tardigradum Doyere 1840
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Aphroditidae
Milnesium
Milnesium tardigradum

description: Milnesium tardigradum Doyère 1840
I have analyzed 664 specimens found in LF, MR, LR, MT and LT samples. The presence of more massive and shorter claws, basal spurs on the outer claws, and accessory points in all claws distinguish this species (Tumanov 2006). I have observed variation in presence or absence of the basal spur on the outer claws. I have observed three specimens which present a basal spurs on the outer claws of some legs, but not on other legs. Within the same population, I have found specimens with basal spurs on their outer claws of all legs mixed with specimens with basal spur on the outer claws of some legs but not on others. I also observed several specimens of Milnesium tardigradum with shorter buccal tubes when comparing individuals of similar sizes; however, the remaining morphological characteristics were the same in all of them. A total of 70% of specimens present ocular spots; in the remaining 30% it was not possible to determine their presence or absence. Mastax from rotifers (Belloidea), tardigrades (probably from Macrobiotidae and Ramazzottius), and diptera larvae (up to 10 larvae) have been observed inside some specimens. Body size was 385 to 1957 μm, mean 933 μm (SD 263). The species is considered cosmopolitan (McInnes 1994). In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Portugal (Da Cunha 1941; Fontoura 1981, 1982; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985) Spain (Heinis 1908; Rodríguez Roda 1947a, b, 1949, 1952; Mihelčič 1954; Lewin Osorio 1984) and Gibraltar (Rodríguez Roda 1952). Milnesium tardigradum was found at 54 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
MOESM1 of Integrative field scale phenotyping for investigating metabolic components of water stress within a vineyard
Creators: name: Gago, Jorge
name: Fernie, Alisdair
name: Nikoloski, Zoran
name: Tohge, Takayuki
name: Sebastiá Martorell
name: Escalona, José
name: Ribas-Carbó, Miquel
name: Flexas, Jaume
name: Medrano, Hipólito
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Relationships obtained from Tc − Ta, CWSI, IG and I3 thermal indices from the aerial thermographic images and the g s measured at leaf level (a, b, c and d, n = 18) and the stem sap flow (e, f, g and h, n = 10) (p
Building bridges to climate literacy through the development of systems and spatial thinking skills
Creators: name: Holzer, Margaret A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The population of our planet recently surpassed 7 billion inhabitants and is projected to rise to 9 billion by the year 2050. (UN Report, 2013)(UN Report, 2013)(UN Report, 2013) In order to sustain a population of this size we need to ensure that we maintain the quality of our natural environment deep into the future. How we decide to address the effects of our changing environment is contingent upon having a population that is science, geography, and climate literate. However, the challenges in achieving disciplinary literacy lie in deciphering and mastering the inherent complexities of the discipline. Not only does a learner need to comprehend content, but they also must apply the necessary science, geography, and climate skills and cross-cutting themes in their comprehension of the domain content. For example, to comprehend the climate system not only does an individual need to understand the content of climatology, but they also need the skills of systems thinking and spatial thinking. This three-study mixed methods dissertation explored the effectiveness of a conceptual representation intervention designed to scaffold high school learners as they develop systems and spatial thinking during a unit on the human climate system. Grounded in model-based reasoning and systems thinking research, the PMC-2E (phenomenon, mechanism, component, evidence, explanation) framework afforded students the opportunity to iterate over the course of a unit. They started with their generic ideas about the climate system, which developed into more sophisticated representations of the entire climate system as the unit progressed. My research questions focused on the effectiveness of this intervention in the (1) increased sophistication of students' system models; (2) the inclusion of subsystems in their systems models along with the identification of detailed causal connections of the subsystems to the entire system; and (3) the inclusion of spatial causal connections within their system models. Positive changes were found in all three studies which add to ongoing research in the areas of systems thinking and spatial thinking. These results also provide research-supported instructional tools to assist learners while learning complex material.
Understanding and measuring economic self-sufficiency in the context of intimate partner violence and immigration
Creators: name: Hoge, Gretchen L.
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Year: 2016

description: Economic self-sufficiency (ESS) has primarily been thought of as a goal of social welfare policy connected with means-tested public assistance programs, although its relevance has a much broader reach when considering the concept of economic well-being.  Despite scholarly efforts to make progress in defining and measuring the construct, conceptualizations of ESS tend to be derived from the experiences of recipients of means-tested public assistance and are often influenced by the expectations and ideologies of policymakers themselves.  This study uses a mixed method research design to better understand how ESS functions in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) for Latina immigrant women.  Qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 17 Spanish-speaking Latina immigrant survivors of IPV and quantitative survey data from 181 Latina immigrant survivors was analyzed.  Findings highlight ESS as an outcome involving concrete characteristics such as access to basic necessities via work, freedom to achieve and movement toward increased levels of independence, and potential for acquiring material items or lifestyle characteristics that go beyond basic necessities.  Psychological experiences marking progress made toward ESS, and the importance of economic self-efficacy (ESE) as a means for moving forward are also discussed.  The concepts of interdependence and reciprocity were salient throughout all levels of discussion of characteristics and experiences in making progress toward ESS. Quantitative findings point to the need for further study of a measure of ESS that incorporates subtle psychological aspects of ESS, including ESE, alongside the primary theoretical underpinnings of ESS.  Implications for the way ESS is conceptualized and measured in the context of IPV and immigration and insights related to how ESS is understood and applied in policy, practice, and research settings are discussed.
Breaking down barriers
Creators: name: Himmelstein, Mary Suzanne
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Year: 2016

description: Men are more likely than women to commit suicide, but are resistant to seeking psychological care. This dissertation explored whether men avoid psychological care to avoid masculinity loss, and whether changing the way social pain is conceptualized could minimize masculinity loss while increasing positive attitudes toward psychological care. Study 1 examined masculinity loss by asking participants to rate the masculinity of targets in a 2 (target gender) x 2 (physical versus social pain) x 2 (help-seeking, no help-seeking) design. Regardless of target gender, masculinity loss was present in targets seeking help for social and physical pain (relative to non-help-seekers), though the effect was larger for social pain. The effect was limited to masculine prescriptions. Study 2 attempted to minimize masculinity loss by re-conceptualizing social pain as similar to physical pain using a 2 (target gender) x 2 (pain prime, control prime) x 2 (help-seeking, no help-seeking) design. The pain prime decreased masculine proscriptions in men relative to women, independent of help-seeking. Participants rated male targets (relative to female) and non-help-seekers (relative to help-seekers) as more masculine. Study 3 explored whether re-conceptualizing social pain could improve attitudes and behavior toward psychological care in men and women.  The pain prime had no effect on attitudes or behavior related to psychological care in Study 3. These studies failed to fully support the theory that men seek psychological care less than women to avoid losing masculine capital though there was evidence that help-seeking resulted in masculinity loss for both men and women.
Milnesium eurystomum Maucci 1988
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Aphroditidae
Milnesium
Milnesium eurystomum

description: Milnesium eurystomum Maucci 1988
I isolated 19 specimens from LF, MR, MT and LT samples. This species presented a short, wide buccal tube with its diameter decreasing toward the caudal end. This characteristic distinguishes this species from any other Milnesium species. The presence or absence of the basal spur on the outer claws (following terminology of Tumanov (2006)) is constant within each individual (if it is present it appears on all legs), but within each sample I have observed animals with basal spur and animals without basal spur. Twelve out of the 19 animals found had ocular spots; in the remaining specimens it was not possible to determine presence or absence of ocular spots. Up to 6 rotifer’s mastax (from Belloidea) and tardigrades (probably from Diphascon, Hypsibius and Macrobiotus species) were found inside some specimens. Body size ranged from 836 to 2112 μm, mean 1789 μm (SD 298). The species has been cited for Greenland and America. This is the first time it is recorded for Europe (Table 2). Milnesium eurystomun was found at two sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Additional file 5: of Community-based psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Asher, Laura
name: Patel, Vikram
name: Silva, Mary J De
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology

description: Additional analyses. This file presents the forest plots for symptom severity (<18 months post intervention) including only high-quality studies; impact on ability to work (<18 months post intervention) including all studies; impact on number of readmissions (<18 months post intervention) including all studies; impact on number of days in hospital (<18 months post intervention); and medication adherence (<18 months post intervention) including only high-quality studies. (DOCX 254 kb)
Soil lichen communities of the New Jersey Pinelands and their effects on belowground patterns and processes
Creators: name: Howe, Natalie Madeleine
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Year: 2016

description: In this dissertation, I describe some of the role that lichens play in the New Jersey Pinelands ecosystem. I begin with a review of worldwide lichen communities, and discuss some mechanisms through which lichen communities have previously been found to be influential in the ecosystems where they occur.  In the first chapter, I have quantified the structure of the lichen communities where extensive lichen mats are present. I found that extensive lichen mats occur in areas with low soil organic matter content, that have experienced no recent fires, and that exhibit wide ranges of canopy cover. Most lichen mats communities were similar to each other in composition, except for the southernmost site, the Manumuskin River Preserve.   In my second chapter, my collaborators and I investigated the influence of these lichen mats on trends in soil moisture, soil chemistry, soil microbial community activity, and soil arthropod presence, through a transplant experiment. We found that the influence of lichens on soils varies with soil conditions and with climate conditions. In low moisture conditions lichens contribute to soil retention of moisture, and when soils have higher inorganic phosphorus availability, lichens significantly reduce extractable phosphorus concentrations. Lichens also promoted higher densities of collembolans in the summer. The microbial community activity did not respond dramatically to lichens; although lichens are known to leach phenolic compounds into the soil, lichens did not promote increased production of any enzymes associated with degradation of recalcitrant carbon compounds. The lichens did not have significant effects soil ammonium or nitrate levels or on microbial community activity.    My third chapter tests whether lichens can mediate human-induced environmental changes by investigating how lichens process excesses of nitrogen; we found that at high loads of nitrogen, lichens can depress the quantities of total nitrogen delivered to the soil and to the groundwater that leaches through it. Lichens prevent ammonium from being accumulated in the soil although not significantly more than any aboveground cover. Results from these studies clarify some of the functional significance of temperate forest lichens.
Agenysa calvata Sekerka 2016, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Agenysa
Agenysa calvata

description: Agenysa calvata (Boheman, 1862) comb. nov.
Mesomphalia calvata Boheman, 1862: 162 (original description).
Agenysa connectens aequatoriensis Spaeth, 1916: 276 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Agenysa connectens aequatoriensis: ‘West-Ecuador (Llanos)’; Mesomphalia calvata: ‘Peruvia’.
Type material examined. Agenysa connectens aequator i ensis: SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, pinned, ‘W. Ecuad. | Llanos R. [w, hw, cb] || aequatoriensis [hw] | m. Typus ♂ [hw] | Spaeth det. [w, p and hw by Spaeth, cb] || TYPE [r, p, cb] || M/CR MUS | SPAETH COLL. [w, p, cb] || Manchester Museum | Syntype [b, p, cb]’ (MMUE); 1 ♀, pinned, ‘W. Ecuad. | Llanos R. [w, hw, cb] || aequatoriensis [hw] | m. Typus ♀ [hw] | Spaeth det. [w, p and hw by Spaeth, cb] || TYPE [r, p, cb] || M/CR MUS | SPAETH COLL. [w, p, cb] || Manchester Museum | Syntype [b, p, cb]’ (MMUE); 1 ♀, pinned, ‘W. Ecuad. | Llanos R. [w, hw, cb] || aequatoriensis [hw] | m. cTyp. ♀ [hw] | Spaeth det. [w, p and hw by Spaeth, cb] || COTYPE [r, p, cb] || M/CR MUS | SPAETH COLL. [w, p, cb] || Manchester Museum | Syntype [b, p, cb]’ (MMUE).
Mesomphalia calvata: HOLOTYPE: ♀, pinned, ‘Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || Peru [hw] | Baly Coll. | 1905—54. [w, p, cb] || Mesomphalia | calvata | Boh | Peru [w, hw by Boheman, cb] || Cuming | This species | was returned | by Boheman | under the name | of collumbilis | it is however I | believe the type of | calvata | 17 [hw by Baly on underside of preceding label]’ (BMNH).
Remarks. Mesomphalia calvata was until now an enigmatic species to cassidinae workers and was listed only in catalogues and last assigned to the genus Stolas (BOROWIEC 1999a). However, the holotype of the species has broad ultimate tarsomere and belongs to Agenysa. In my opinion it is conspecific with A. connectens aequatoriensis, which is, however, very different from typical A. connectens as it has high reticulation on elytra.
It is possible that A. calvata is conspecific also with A. lacertosa (Boheman, 1862) (= A. crassicornis Spaeth, 1905), which might represent only a montane form with black elytra while A. calvata always has a red reticulation on explanate margin of elytra. However, this problem requires further study and I provisionally consider both, A. calvata and A. lacertosa, as distinct species.
This species is distributed in the northern part of the Andes and adjacent foothills mostly on eastern slopes or central valleys.
Distribution. Ecuador (SPAETH 1916) and Peru (BOHEMAN 1862).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 303-304, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Milnesium tetralamellatum Pilato & Binda 1991
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Aphroditidae
Milnesium
Milnesium tetralamellatum

description: Milnesium tetralamellatum Pilato & Binda 1991
This species showed four peribuccal lamellae which distinguishes it from all other Milnesium species (Tumanov 2006). The morphological differences, observed in the three specimens isolated were presence or absence of the basal spur on the outer claws. However, the basal spur presence (or absence) was constant within each specimen. Body size range was 1034 to 1595 μm, mean 1221 μm (SD 323). The species has been cited for Africa where it was originally described, but this is the first record for Europe (Table 2). Milnesium tetralamellatum was detected only in one sampling point (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845