cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Paragrilus rugatulus Thomson
Creators: name: Hespenheide, Henry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Paragrilus
Paragrilus rugatulus

description: Paragrilus rugatulus Thomson
(Figs. 6, 24)
Paragrilus rugatulus Thomson, 1879: 74.
Rhaeboscelis texana Schaeffer, 1904: 211 (synonymy: Hespenheide1979: 118). Paragrilus texanus (Schaeffer), Obenberger, 1935: 922.
Agrilus caliginosus Dugès, 1891: 31 ­ New Synonymy
Diagnosis: Robust, somewhat variable, usually black throughout, with faint golden reflections on pronotum; 3.0­ 5.1 mm long. Head with front convex, rather broadly, moderately impressed along midline on upper 2/3; epistoma depressed and rather narrow between antennal insertions, ventral margin slightly produced, subtruncate; surface punctate, shagreened. Pronotum about as long as broad, convex, prehumeral callosity strongly indicated by narrow, deep lateral depressions; disc rather strongly depressed along basal margin; surface strongly rugose. Elytra with posthumeral carina extending to beyond hind coxae, surface rugose, with third or first three intervals slightly raised and weak subapical raised callosity; apices broad, usually undulate­emarginate. Posterior angles of hind coxae broadly acute or subquadrate, slightly raised. Male genitalia black, paler basally, with transparent tips to lateral lobes.
Type: “Mex.” (MNHP; Hespenheide 1979); of Agrilus caliginosus, Tupátaro, México (UNAM); of Rhaeboscelis texana, Brownsville, Texas (USNM, lectotype designated by Bellamy and Nelson 1989). A photograph of the type of Agrilus caliginosus Duges was provided by W.F. Barr and it is unequivocally this species, which is widespread and common in México.
Distribution: Common ­ 970 specimens examined, Texas to Costa Rica.
Host: Adults collected on Sida spp.
Discussion: This species as interpreted here is rather variable in size, as indicated above, and coloration. Although the typical color is given above, some specimens can have the elytra purple or dark violaceous and the pronotum brighter purple to golden; many specimens are completely black.
description: Published as part of Hespenheide, Henry A., 2002, A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 43 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155677
title: Ethical Leaders and Leadership Effectiveness: The Moderating role of Individual Differences in Need for Cognitive Closure
Creators: name: Pierro, Antonio
name: Nevigato, Giorgia
name: Amato, Clara
name: Van Knippenberg, Daan
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Psicologia
Year: 2018
Subjects: Leadership; Ethical leadership; Need for Cognitive Closure; Uncertainty

description: Ethical leadership is an important factor in leadership effectiveness, but the study of the contingencies of its influence is still in its infancy. Addressing this issue we focus on the moderating role of followers’ need for cognitive closure, the disposition to reduce uncertainty and swiftly reach closure in judgment and decision, in the relationship between ethical leadership and its effectiveness. We propose that need for closure captures followers’ sensitivity to the uncertaintyreducing influence of ethical leadership. In a field survey study we found support for the hypothesis that perceived ethical leadership has a stronger (positive) relationship with leadership effectiveness for followers higher in need for closure. This support is found across two indicators reflecting different aspects of leadership effectiveness: effort investment and job satisfaction. We discuss how these findings advance our understanding of the uncertainty-reducing role of ethical leadership.
description: Rassegna di Psicologia, Vol 33, No 1 (2016)
Controlling the Dispersion Characteristics of Pipe-like Structures with Phononic Crystals
Creators: name: Okudan, Gorkem
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Guided Wave Ultrasonics and Acoustic Emission are two common Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) methods, which are based on propagating elastic waves in solids. Current challenges in the NDE of monolithic structures include decay in wave energy with distance and insensitivity of wave modes to certain types of defects. In this research, Gradient-Index Phononic Crystal (GRIN-PC) is exploited to modify the dynamic properties of structures, allowing elastic waves to be transmitted longer distances and better sensitivity to damage modes. With this motivation, a GRIN-PC lens consisting of periodic arrangement of steel stubs is integrated with a pipe-like structure made of steel. The Bloch-Floquet theorem is employed to build unit cell models with periodic boundary conditions representing infinite waveguides. Dispersion characteristics are investigated to determine the influence of the GRIN-PC lens on controlling the wave propagation. Piezoelectric transducers are utilized for actuation and sensing. The excitation and focusing of plane waves are demonstrated via time-dependent numerical simulations using finite element analysis. Full-scale experiments are conducted to validate numerical findings. Signal processing techniques, such as the Continuous Wavelet Transform and two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform, are applied to analyze complex time-series data. This research has three main outcomes: (i) a plane wave entering the GRIN-PC lens region focuses on a point, and a dynamic source originating from this point is converted to a plane wave. In both directions, the elastic wave results in increased amplitude. The GRIN-PC lens is reciprocally applicable for burst-type acoustic emissions representing crack-like activities in a pipe-like structure. (ii) The optimal number of actuators to excite the fundamental torsional wave mode of guided waves is determined. Wave focusing with torsional mode is achieved using both original and shortened versions of the GRIN-PC lens, resulting in amplification of wave energy. (iii) The torsional wave mode becomes more sensitive to overall and localized thickness changes, since the GRIN-PC lens modifies the dispersion characteristics of the structure. The improvement of dynamic NDE methods is achieved by reducing the decay in wave energy due to increased wave amplitude. The GRIN-PC lens is demonstrated to enhance defect detection in pipe-like structures, including uniform and localized corrosion.
Blow-up and lifespan estimates for a damped wave equation in the Einstein-de Sitter spacetime with nonlinearity of derivative type
Creators: name: Hamouda, Makram
name: Hamza, Mohamed Ali
name: Palmieri, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L15, 35L71, 35B44

description: In this article, we investigate the blow-up for local solutions to a semilinear wave equation in the generalized Einstein - de Sitter spacetime with nonlinearity of derivative type. More precisely, we consider a semilinear damped wave equation with a time-dependent and not summable speed of propagation and with a time-dependent coefficient for the linear damping term with critical decay rate. We prove in this work that the results obtained in a previous work, where the damping coefficient takes two particular values $0$ or $2$, can be extended for any positive damping coefficient. In the blow-up case, the upper bound of the exponent of the nonlinear term is given, and the lifespan estimate of the global existence time is derived as well.
Paragrilus tenuis LeConte
Creators: name: Hespenheide, Henry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Paragrilus
Paragrilus tenuis

description: Paragrilus tenuis (LeConte)
(Figs. 7, 25)
Rhaeboscelis tenuis LeConte, 1863: 82.
Paragrilus tenuis (LeConte), (Obenberger, 1924: 148)
Paragrilus tenuis ssp. lecontei Obenberger, 1924: 149 (synonymy: Hespenheide1979: 118).
Diagnosis: Agriliform, flattened above, black throughout, except pronotum golden or coppery; 4.85­5.8 mm long. Head with front convex, rather narrowly, strongly impressed along midline on upper 2/3 above rounded fovea; epistoma somewhat depressed between antennal insertions, ventral margin distinctly produced, quadrate, emarginate, angles acute; surface finely punctate, shagreened. Pronotum somewhat flattened, prehumeral callosity small but strongly indicated by narrow, deep lateral depressions; prehumeral callosity produced outward and anteriorly to form narrow ridge above and roughly parallel to marginal carina; anterior angles weakly rounded; disc rather strongly depressed along basal margin before scutellum and at base of lateral depressions, surface coarsely rugose, shagreened. Elytra with posthumeral carina extending to beyond hind coxae, surface rugose, with third interval slightly raised; apices broad, rounded­subquadrate, outer angle longer. Posterior angles of hind coxae broadly acute or subquadrate, depressed. Male genitalia dark reddish brown, with transparent tips to lateral lobes (Fig. 25).
Type: Of Rhaeboscelis tenuis, “Md” and “tenuis­2” (Lectotype male, Type 2249, MCZ; Paralectotype male, “Md” and “ Rhaeboscelis tenuis LeC.,” MCZ); Type of P. tenuis s. lecontei, Angelsea, N.J. (NMPC).
Distribution: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware (Nelson 1987)., Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi (Nelson & MacRae 1990), Missouri (MacRae 1991).
Hosts: Hibiscus moscheutos L. and H. palustris L., swamp rose­mallow or marsh­mallow, and H. lasiocarpos Cav., rose­mallow (Malvaceae; Nelson 1987).
Discussion: Because of the focus of this study on the Central American fauna, I did not attempt to see all material of this species, so that the distribution data is probably very incomplete. The biology of this species on Hibiscus moscheutos was described in detail by Weiss and Dickerson (1919) and appears to be the only one known for the genus.
description: Published as part of Hespenheide, Henry A., 2002, A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 43 on pages 11-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155677
Culverts connecting the Livingston Ecological Preserve to campus
Creators: name: Lehner, Matthew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: From the time that roads have been laid on the landscape, they have allowed humans to travel and get to their everyday destinations much quicker and easier. However, roads have carved out and separated wildlife from their habitats. Roads have detrimental effects on ecology and wildlife. They add to stormwater runoff and pollute the environment. The greater concern is the effect that roads have on wildlife. As roads provide humans an opportunity to meet their travel needs, they cut across existing migration routes of wildlife. Wildlife will continue their seasonal migration, despite the existence of roads, ultimately leading to the possibility of becoming roadkill. How can the traveling of humans and wildlife occur at the same time? What would this look like, and how would it be done? The answer lies in wildlife crossings. There are many different types of crossing structures that allow wildlife to safely travel both above and below the road. Culverts, in particular, will allow a safe passage route for smaller wildlife, such as reptiles, amphibians and small mammals, under the road, to and from their destination. The success of these culverts relies on defining the wildlife of concern and designing for their specific needs. The network of roads between the Livingston Ecological Preserve and the Livingston Campus at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, serve as a barrier to small mammals, reptiles and amphibians, leaving them susceptible to becoming roadkill. The Northern Brown Snake population, in particular, has been affected by these roads. By using existing research and case studies, my findings have lead me to a design that will help reduce the amount of roadkill, aiding in safe passage during their seasonal migration.
Assessing Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Among Licensed Healthcare Professionals
Creators: name: Fasula, Kimberly
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Current healthcare philosophies promote a team-based approach for comprehensive patient care. To meet these needs, all health professions programs train students to practice interprofessionally. Unfortunately, many practitioners in the workforce lack the knowledge associated with interprofessionalism and remain untraining in demonstrating collaborative practice skills. The purpose of this research was to evaluate potential differences between licensed healthcare professionals who have received formal training in interprofessional education and collaborative practice to those who have not. This mixed-method, exploratory study investigated three factors: interprofessional knowledge, values for interprofessionalism, and confidence in demonstrating interprofessional skills. Study participants were all healthcare professionals in the workforce, representing disciplines in dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. Data was gathered using surveys (n=355) and follow-up focus groups (n=32). Data were analyzed quantitatively to examine the statistical significance and qualitatively to understand emerging themes. The results indicated that licensed healthcare professionals who received previous training in interprofessional education and collaborative practice held a more profound knowledge base and stronger values for interprofessionalism and had greater confidence in demonstrating interprofessional and collaborative practice skills when compared to untrained healthcare professionals. These findings suggest a need for reforming workforce knowledge and training for team-based patient care. This study also provides insights and supports the development of coursework/programs focusing on interprofessionalism and collaborative practice for untrained healthcare professionals in the workforce. Furthermore, this study adds to the literature on interprofessional education and provides implications for future research.
Fast second-order evaluation for variable-order Caputo fractional derivative with applications to fractional sub-diffusion equations
Creators: name: Zhang, Jia-li
name: Fang, Zhi-wei
name: Sun, Hai-wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose a fast second-order approximation to the variable-order (VO) Caputo fractional derivative, which is developed based on $L2$-$1_σ$ formula and the exponential-sum-approximation technique. The fast evaluation method can achieve the second-order accuracy and further reduce the computational cost and the acting memory for the VO Caputo fractional derivative. This fast algorithm is applied to construct a relevant fast temporal second-order and spatial fourth-order scheme ($FL2$-$1_σ$ scheme) for the multi-dimensional VO time-fractional sub-diffusion equations. Theoretically, $FL2$-$1_σ$ scheme is proved to fulfill the similar properties of the coefficients as those of the well-studied $L2$-$1_σ$ scheme. Therefore, $FL2$-$1_σ$ scheme is strictly proved to be unconditionally stable and convergent. A sharp decrease in the computational cost and the acting memory is shown in the numerical examples to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.
A Review of Product Safety Regulations in the European Union
Creators: name: Ruohonen, Jukka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Product safety has been a concern in Europe ever since the early 1960s. Despite the long and relatively stable historical lineage of product safety regulations, new technologies, changes in the world economy, and other major transformations have in recent years brought product safety again to the forefront of policy debates. As reforms are also underway, there is a motivation to review the complex safety policy framework in the European Union (EU). Thus, building on deliberative policy analysis and interpretative literature review, this paper reviews the safety policy for non-food consumer products in the EU. The review covers the historical background and the main laws, administration and enforcement, standardization and harmonization, laws enacted for specific products, notifications delivered by national safety authorities, recalls of dangerous products, and the liability of these. Based on the review and analysis of these themes and the associated literature, some current policy challenges are further discussed.
description: International Cybersecurity Law Review
They Taught Us to Just Ignore Mental Health”: Psychiatric Disability in Teacher Education Programs
Creators: name: Darcangelo, Nico
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Throughout history, disability has been used as a way to justify and maintain inequalities. These inequalities are based on more than negative attitudes about disabled people; they are rooted in the epistemological system of ableism where certain bodyminds are legitimated as the norm. This dissertation explores how ableism is maintained, regulated, and/or potentially disrupted within teacher education programs and how 20 students with self-defined psychiatric disabilities experienced these programs. In this dissertation, I examine three main themes that emerged. First, I trace how participants’ education about disability generally was limited, and how education about psychiatric disability was almost wholly absent. When disability was discussed, it was overwhelmingly through the medical model, where the individual is understood as the problem to be accommodated. Participants spoke about how psychiatric disability made people “uncomfortable,” how it was “taboo” to talk about, and how it would frequently be “swept under the rug” in their programs. Second, with accommodations always being ‘retrofits’ to provide access for bodyminds never originally planned for, I explore how accommodations actually required participants to engage in extra labor and manage additional stigma within their programs. And third, I outline how participants in this research argued that despite being perceived as “not capable,” “lazy,” or “less of a candidate,” they embodied crip emotional intelligence, which positioned them to be great teachers. Mirroring critical disability studies, these participants highlighted how their epistemic knowledge offered a critical pedagogical praxis, to humanize education in ways that nondisabled people cannot, and intentionally disrupted neoliberal ableism in teacher education.
Study of the $η$ to $π^0$ Ratio in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Ren, Yuanjie
name: Drees, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the $p_T$ dependence of the $η/π^0$ ratio is universal within a few percent for high energy $p$+$p$, $p$+A and $d$+A collisions, over a broad range of collision energies. The $η/π^0$ ratio increases with $p_T$ up to 4 to 5 GeV/$c$ where it saturates at a nearly constant value of 0.487$\pm$0.024. Above $p_T = 5$ GeV/$c$ the same constant value is also observed in A+A collisions independent of collision system, energy, and centrality. At lower $p_T$, where accurate $η/π^0$ data is absent for A+A collisions, we estimate possible deviations from the universal behavior, which could arise due to the rapid radial hydrodynamic expansion of the A+A collision system. For A+A collisions at RHIC we find that possible deviations are limited to the $p_T$ range from 0.4 to 3 GeV/$c$, and remain less than 20% for the most central collisions.
description: DNP meeting 2019 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019APS..DNP.LJ008R/abstract 9 pages, 10 figures
Paragrilus impressus Chevrolat
Creators: name: Hespenheide, Henry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Paragrilus
Paragrilus impressus

description: Paragrilus impressus (Chevrolat)
(Figs. 8, 26)
Aphanisticus impressus Chevrolat, 1835: no. 145.
Paragrilus impressus (Chevrolat), Waterhouse, 1889: 124. Agrilus impressus (Chevrolat), Saunders, 1871: 116.
Diagnosis: Agriliform, flattened above, black throughout, head with golden reflections, pronotum golden on anterior half, reddish on posterior half, elytra with blue or purple reflections; 4.85­5.8 mm long. Head with front convex, narrowly impressed along midline on upper 2/3 above larger rounded fovea; epistoma somewhat depressed between antennal insertions, ventral margin distinctly produced, quadrate, emarginate, angles very acute; surface finely punctate, indistinctly shagreened. Pronotum somewhat flattened, prehumeral callosity small but strongly indicated by broad, deep lateral depressions; prehumeral callosity produced outward and anteriorly to form narrow ridge above and roughly parallel to marginal carina; anterior angles rounded­angulate; disc very strongly depressed along midline at basal margin before scutellum and at base of lateral depressions, surface coarsely rugose on basal half, less strongly so or obsolete on anterior half, shagreened. Elytra with posthumeral carina extending as far beyond hind coxae as before, surface finely rugose, with intervals faintly raised; apices broad, rounded­subquadrate, inner angle longer. Posterior angles of hind coxae rounded­subquadrate, depressed. Anterior process of first abdominal segment with very short carina posterior to hind coxae. Male genitalia dark reddish brown, with transparent tips to lateral lobes (Fig. 26).
Type: “ Type./impressa Chevr./Saunders., 74.18.” (BMNH).
Specimens examined: México: Veracruz, 2 mi N Tlacotalpan, 2.VII.1971, Clark, Murray, Hart, Schaffner (TAMU), El Higo, 26.VI.1976, Zaragoza (RLWE); Lake Catemaco, 8­ 16.VIII.1960, H.F. Howden (CNCI), 10 mi W Pozo Rica, 11.VI.1955, D. Giuliani (CASC); Oaxaca, Temescal, 90 m, 24.VI.1983, M. Kualbars (CHAH, RLWE), 7 mi N Matias Romero, 500’, 2.VIII.1974, C.W. & L.B. O’Brien & G.B. Marshall (CLBC), 4 mi N Matias Romero, 500’, 27.VI.1971, C.W. & L.B. O’Brien & G.B. Marshall (RLWE); Quintana Roo, Leona Vicario, 5.VI.1992, F.T. Hovore (CHAH). Belize: Cayo, Chiquibul Rd, 38 mi S jct w Cristo Rey, 570 m, 26.VI.1992, J. Rifkind, P. Gum (CLBC).
Host: Unknown.
Discussion: This is one of four narrowly distributed species in the trifoveolatus group. It is closely related to trifoveolatus but differs consistently in the nature of the pronotum and the very different genitalia.
description: Published as part of Hespenheide, Henry A., 2002, A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 43 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155677
Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture in Excited Ions
Creators: name: Gargiulo, Simone
name: Madan, Ivan
name: Carbone, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nuclear excitation following the capture of an electron in an empty orbital has been recently observed for the first time. So far, the evaluation of the cross section of the process has been carried out widely using the assumption that the ion is in its electronic ground state prior to the capture. We show that by lifting this restriction new capture channels emerge resulting in a boost of more than three orders of magnitude to the electron capture resonance strength.
description: Accepted for Publication in Physical Review Letters
A fully-nonlinear flow and quermassintegral inequalities in the sphere
Creators: name: Chen, Chuanqiang
name: Guan, Pengfei
name: Li, Junfang
name: Scheuer, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This expository paper presents the current knowledge of particular fully nonlinear curvature flows with local forcing term, so-called locally constrained curvature flows. We focus on the spherical ambient space. The flows are designed to preserve a quermassintegral and to de-/increase the other quermassintegrals. The convergence of this flow to a round sphere would settle the full set of quermassintegral inequalities for convex domains of the sphere, but a full proof is still missing. Here we collect what is known and hope to attract wide attention to this interesting problem.
description: 19 pages
Longitudinal Analysis of Facial Growth in High BMI (Obese) Children
Creators: name: Hedger, Jessica E
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Introduction: From 1976-2010, childhood obesity rates have had a 3 fold increase with obesity currently affecting 18.5% of the youth (Hales et al., 2017). Childhood obesity has also been linked to accelerated skeletal maturation and accelerated dental development (Hilgers et al., 2006; Mack et al., 2013). Limited evidence shows obesity affects craniofacial growth (Gordon et al., 2021; Guevara et al., 2016; Öhrn et al., 2002; Sadeghianrizi et al., 2005). Materials and Methods: This study was performed using longitudinal data (including height, weight, and lateral cephalograms) from the Iowa Facial Growth Study (IFSG; Bishara et al., 1994) for subjects at ages 6, 8, 10, and 14. The total sample size included 77 subjects, 41 males and 36 females. Height and weight data were used to calculate BMI percentile using the CDC’s growth charts (Kuczmarski et al., 2002). Digital Landmark Identification was completed to identify 15 craniofacial points. Geometric Morphometrics were used to analyze size and shape data over time. Principle Component Analysis were completed to identify areas of variation in size and shape. Cervical Vertebrae Maturation was determined to verify skeletal growth maturation. Results: Evidence of association was found between increased facial size and high BMI at age 4, and weak evidence at age 6. We found evidence that high BMI children at age 6 have taller nasal apertures, shorter nasoalveolar clivuses, and relatively more convex facial profiles. Weak evidence was found between children with high BMI at age 6 and advanced CVM, as well as between increased facial size and advanced CVM. Conclusion: Overall, our study failed to identify significant longitudinal relationships between obesity and craniofacial growth. We cannot draw conclusions about how this will affect growth over time at this time. Though the literature is growing in this area, effects of obesity on growth are not as well understood as previously thought.
Paragrilus angulaticollis Waterhouse
Creators: name: Hespenheide, Henry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Paragrilus
Paragrilus angulaticollis

description: Paragrilus angulaticollis Waterhouse
(Fig. 9)
Paragrilus angulaticollis Waterhouse, 1889: 124.
Diagnosis: Agriliform, flattened above, pronotum, head with golden reflections on lower half, pronotum bronzy with reddish reflections medio­laterally, elytra dark bluish violet, black beneath; 5.7 mm long. Head with front narrowly convex, narrowly, deeply impressed along midline on upper 4/5 with deeper linear depression above middle; indistinct protuberances above middle and between eyes and medial depression; eyes flat; epistoma barely depressed between antennal insertions, ventral margin distinctly produced, quadrate, angulate­emarginate, angles narrowly acute; surface densely shagreened. Pronotum shallowly undulate, prehumeral callosity small, weakly indicated by shallow lateral depressions, very strong at lateral margins; prehumeral callosity produced outward and anteriorly to form a carina above and roughly parallel to marginal carina on basal 1/2; anterior angles prominently rounded­angulate; disc very strongly depressed along midline at basal margin before scutellum and at base of lateral depressions, and a shallow transverse depression along midline anterior to middle, surface strongly shagreened on basal half, becoming minutely transversely striolate on anterior half. Elytra with posthumeral carina extending as far beyond hind coxae as before, surface densely shagreened, appearing velvety, with fifth interval faintly raised; apices broad, rounded­subquadrate, slightly flared externally. Posterior angles of hind coxae rounded­subquadrate, depressed.
Type: México: “Tapachula, Chiapas, Höge” (BMNH). Known only from the unique male type.
Host: Unknown.
Discussion: This beautiful and distinctive species was mistakenly listed from Guatemala by Obenberger (1935).
description: Published as part of Hespenheide, Henry A., 2002, A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 43 on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155677
Witnessing the survival of time-energy entanglement through biological tissue and scattering media
Creators: name: Lum, Daniel J.
name: Mazurek, Michael D.
name: Mikhaylov, Alexander
name: Parzuchowski, Kristen M.
name: Wilson, Ryan N.
name: Jimenez, Ralph
name: Gerrits, Thomas
name: Stevens, Martin J.
name: Cicerone, Marcus T.
name: Camp, Charles H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the preservation of time-energy entanglement of near-IR photons through thick biological media ($\leq$1.55 mm) and tissue ($\leq$ 235 $μ$m) at room temperature. Using a Franson-type interferometer, we demonstrate interferometric contrast of over 0.9 in skim milk, 2% milk, and chicken tissue. This work supports the many proposed opportunities for nonclassical light in biological imaging and analyses from sub-shot noise measurements to entanglement-enhanced fluorescence imaging, clearly indicating that the entanglement characteristics of photons can be maintained even after propagation through thick, turbid biological samples.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Paragrilus laevicollis Waterhouse
Creators: name: Hespenheide, Henry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Paragrilus
Paragrilus laevicollis

description: Paragrilus laevicollis Waterhouse
(Figs. 10)
Paragrilus laevicollis Waterhouse, 1889: 127.
Diagnosis: Agriliform, flattened above, head with bluish reflections dorsally, pronotum black with bluish reflections on anterior half, dark blue on posterior half, elytra dark blue, black beneath; 5.9 mm long. Head with front somewhat convex, narrowly impressed along midline with deeper linear depression above middle; epistoma narrowly depressed between antennal insertions, ventral margin distinctly produced, quadrate, angulate­emarginate, angles broadly acute; surface finely punctate, indistinctly shagreened. Pronotum weakly convex, prehumeral callosity almost obsolete but indicated by weak lateral depression, depression stronger anteriorly; prehumeral callosity produced outward and anteriorly to form narrow ridge above and roughly parallel to marginal carina; anterior angles narrowly rounded­angulate; disc strongly transversely depressed along midline at basal margin before scutellum and more narrowly so at base of lateral depressions, surface indistinctly shagreened on basal half, becoming minutely transversely striolate and more strongly shining on anterior half. Elytra with posthumeral carina extending not quite as far beyond hind coxae as before, surface indistinctly shagreened, with fifth interval faintly raised, forming costa; apices broad, rounded­subquadrate. Posterior angles of hind coxae rounded­subquadrate.
Type: Two specimens mounted on one card with the label “Bugaba, Panamá: Champion” (BMNH). The left­hand specimen is mounted with the dorsal side up and is designated the Lectotype. Both specimens appear to be females.
Host: Unknown.
Discussion: This species, as angulaticollis, has not been recollected since Champion’s original collections.
description: Published as part of Hespenheide, Henry A., 2002, A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 43 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155677
Revisiting the g-null paradox
Creators: name: McGrath, Sean
name: Young, Jessica G.
name: Hernán, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The parametric g-formula is an approach to estimating causal effects of sustained treatment strategies from observational data. An often cited limitation of the parametric g-formula is the g-null paradox: a phenomenon in which model misspecification in the parametric g-formula is guaranteed under the conditions that motivate its use (i.e., when identifiability conditions hold and measured time-varying confounders are affected by past treatment). Many users of the parametric g-formula know they must acknowledge the g-null paradox as a limitation when reporting results but still require clarity on its meaning and implications. Here we revisit the g-null paradox to clarify its role in causal inference studies. In doing so, we present analytic examples and a simulation-based illustration of the bias of parametric g-formula estimates under the conditions associated with this paradox. Our results highlight the importance of avoiding overly parsimonious models for the components of the g-formula when using this method.
Palladium-catalyzed Heck reactions promoted by limonene-derived bicyclic phosphines
Creators: name: Setati, Boitumelo
name: Moshapo, Paseka Thendo
name: Holzapfel, Cedric Wahl
name: Maumela, Munaka Christopher
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Tertiary bicyclic phosphines derived from (R)-(+)-limonene provided efficient palladium catalysts for Heck cross-coupling reactions. Overall, high yields of the desired aryl alkenes products were obtained for cross-coupling of sterically and electronically diverse substrates. The efficiency of the catalysts was further demonstrated in the synthesis of commercial ketones, such as raspberry ketone and its derivatives.
Paragrilus azureus Hespenheide, new species
Creators: name: Hespenheide, Henry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Paragrilus
Paragrilus azureus

description: Paragrilus azureus Hespenheide, new species
(Figs. 11, 27)
Holotype male: Agriliform, flattened above, head with golden reflections, pronotum and scutellum olive green with golden reflections, elytra dark blue, black beneath; 6.7 mm long. Head with front strongly, angulately convex, narrowly impressed along midline with deeper linear depression above middle; epistoma narrowly depressed between antennal insertions, ventral margin somewhat produced, quadrate, angulate­emarginate, angles broadly acute; surface finely punctate, indistinctly shagreened. Pronotum weakly convex, prehumeral callosity weak, indicated by broad, shallow lateral depression, depression stronger anteriorly; prehumeral callosity produced outward and anteriorly to form narrow ridge above and roughly parallel to marginal carina; lateral margins broadening from basal 1/3 to anterior angles, anterior angles rounded­angulate; disc strongly ovately depressed along midline at basal margin before scutellum and deeply, more narrowly so at base of lateral depressions, surface with small linear punctures and shagreened throughout, somewhat more strongly shining at anterior margin. Elytra with posthumeral carina extending as far beyond hind coxae as before, surface indistinctly shagreened, with fifth interval faintly raised, forming broad costa; apices broad, rounded­subquadrate, outer angle somewhat produced. Posterior angles of hind coxae broadly acute, rounded, somewhat depressed. Male genitalia dark reddish brown, with small transparent tips to lateral lobes (Fig. 27).
Holotype male: Costa Rica: Prov. Punt[arenas], Rancho Quemado, 200 m, Península de Osa, X.1991, F. Quesada, L­S­292500, 511000 (INBC, barcode CRI 001190947).
Paratype: same data as Holotype (INBC, barcode CRI 001190948).
Host: Unknown.
Discussion: This is the largest and arguably the most striking of Central American Paragrilus. The paratype is also 6.7 mm in length and may be a female. It was first thought to be laevicollis, but direct comparison with the type of that species showed azureus to be larger, differently colored, the pronotum more heavily punctate, and different in other ways.
description: Published as part of Hespenheide, Henry A., 2002, A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 43 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155677
An Investigation into a Sprayable Application of Oil Red O for Fingerprint Analysis
Creators: name: Dindial, Ariana P
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Oil Red O (ORO) which has been historically used as an immersion solution in forensic science crime laboratories can be reformulated into a sprayable solution for more flexible use including at crime scenes. The aim of this study was to replace the methanol in the original solution with a safer alternative for the sprayable technique, Isopropyl Alcohol. As well as use this formulation to develop a technique for utilizing the solution in a portable airbrush. Additionally, the sprayable formulation excluded Sodium Hydroxide, a strong base, to decrease the pH. Two different processing methods were tested on a random sample of fingerprints: the sprayable solution and the sprayable solution then subsequent processing with the traditional immersion Oil Red O technique. Samples were taken on a variety of porous substrates: copy paper, manila folder, and check paper that were then stored for between 2-6 hours to mimic a crime scene scenario or 1 week. Samples that were stored for 1 week were additionally subdivided and purged with nitrogen to remove oxygen, microbes, and bacteria in order to better preserve the quality of the print.
Significance tests of feature relevance for a black-box learner
Creators: name: Dai, Ben
name: Shen, Xiaotong
name: Pan, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An exciting recent development is the uptake of deep neural networks in many scientific fields, where the main objective is outcome prediction with the black-box nature. Significance testing is promising to address the black-box issue and explore novel scientific insights and interpretation of the decision-making process based on a deep learning model. However, testing for a neural network poses a challenge because of its black-box nature and unknown limiting distributions of parameter estimates while existing methods require strong assumptions or excessive computation. In this article, we derive one-split and two-split tests relaxing the assumptions and computational complexity of existing black-box tests and extending to examine the significance of a collection of features of interest in a dataset of possibly a complex type such as an image. The one-split test estimates and evaluates a black-box model based on estimation and inference subsets through sample splitting and data perturbation. The two-split test further splits the inference subset into two but require no perturbation. Also, we develop their combined versions by aggregating the p-values based on repeated sample splitting. By deflating the bias-sd-ratio, we establish asymptotic null distributions of the test statistics and the consistency in terms of Type II error. Numerically, we demonstrate the utility of the proposed tests on seven simulated examples and six real datasets. Accompanying this paper is our Python library dnn-inference (https://dnn-inference.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) that implements the proposed tests.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Paragrilus trifoveolatus Waterhouse
Creators: name: Hespenheide, Henry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Paragrilus
Paragrilus trifoveolatus

description: Paragrilus trifoveolatus Waterhouse
(Figs. 12, 28)
Paragrilus trifoveolatus Waterhouse, 1889: 127.
Diagnosis: Agriliform, moderately flattened above, variable in color but usually black throughout, except head and pronotum reddish, elytra with faint golden reflections; 3.55­ 5.0 mm long. Head with front convex, narrowly impressed along midline on upper 2/3 above larger rounded fovea; epistoma somewhat depressed between antennal insertions, ventral margin distinctly produced, quadrate, shallowly emarginate, angles very acute; surface punctate, shagreened. Pronotum somewhat flattened, widest near apex; prehumeral callosity small but strongly indicated by broad, deep lateral depressions; prehumeral callosity produced outward and anteriorly to form narrow ridge above and roughly parallel to marginal carina; anterior angles rounded­angulate; disc very strongly depressed along midline at basal margin before scutellum and at base of lateral depressions, surface finely rugose, less strongly so anteriorly, shagreened. Elytra with posthumeral carina extending somewhat beyond hind coxae, surface coarsely rugose, with indistinct costae; apices broad, rounded­subquadrate. Posterior angles of hind coxae rounded, depressed. Anterior process of first abdominal segment with very short carina posterior to hind coxae. Male genitalia dark reddish brown, with transparent tips to lateral lobes (Fig. 28).
Lectotype: México, a specimen, probably a female, labeled “Teapa, Tabasco, March H.H.S.” (BMNH) also bears the handwritten label “ Paragrilus trifoveolatus (Type) Waterh.” and is designated the Lectotype. A second male specimen labeled “Veracruz, [illegible], Salle Coll.” is considered a paratype.
Distribution: Relatively uncommon ­ only 37 specimens examined, México (San Luis Potosi) to Costa Rica.
Host: Collected by the author on an undetermined species of Malvaceae in Costa Rica.
Discussion: This species resembles Agrilus crapullelus Thomson in size, form and coloration. The combination of reddish pronotum and black elytra is a common color pattern in Agrilus and shared by three other species of Paragrilus in addition to P. trifoveolatus ­ namely, angulaticollis, impressus, and fallorum. As interpreted here, P. trifoveolatus is variable in color in México. In fact, Waterhouse describes the species as “uniformly brassy,” although the specimen labeled as the type is distinctly bicolored. Some western Mexican specimens (Guerrero, Sinaloa) are nearly uniformly “brassy,” or greenish­coppery, or even uniformly greenish. In the absence of series to assess variation and the absence of host data, these are all considered trifoveolatus here.
description: Published as part of Hespenheide, Henry A., 2002, A review of North and Central American Paragrilus Saunders, 1871 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 43 on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155677
Exact Distribution-Free Hypothesis Tests for the Regression Function of Binary Classification via Conditional Kernel Mean Embeddings
Creators: name: Tamás, Ambrus
name: Csáji, Balázs Csanád
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we suggest two statistical hypothesis tests for the regression function of binary classification based on conditional kernel mean embeddings. The regression function is a fundamental object in classification as it determines both the Bayes optimal classifier and the misclassification probabilities. A resampling based framework is presented and combined with consistent point estimators of the conditional kernel mean map, in order to construct distribution-free hypothesis tests. These tests are introduced in a flexible manner allowing us to control the exact probability of type I error for any sample size. We also prove that both proposed techniques are consistent under weak statistical assumptions, i.e., the type II error probabilities pointwise converge to zero.
Growing awareness: using adaptive management to increase resilience and improve public perception of a fourth-nature brownfield ecosystem
Creators: name: Boenning, Brittin Luisa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: The interior of Liberty State Park is a heavy-metal contaminated brownfield that contains a novel ecosystem, predominantly composed of grey birch forest. In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy made landfall in the region and brought heavy winds, rain, and saltwater flooding from storm surge. This was the first time that the birch forest was subject to the stress of saltwater flooding. To understand the results of this extreme ecosystem disturbance, the growth rates of birch trees were measured with tree core samples for the years before and after Sandy. The aggregate growth rates before and after Sandy were found to be significantly different, with the post-Sandy growth rates significantly lower. Linear regression indicated an overall decrease in growth rates across all sites over time, including pre-Sandy data. On two sites, the polynomial regression was also significant, and indicated that growth rates may begin increasing. These results are important because they directly conflict with previous hypothesis that the birch forest had entered an alternative steady state of succession. It now appears that the birches are declining and that there may be another successional stage on the horizon. Based on these results, an adaptive management scheme was proposed whereby biodiversity across the entirety of the LSP interior will be increased. Abiotic conditions will be improved through soil amendments and biotic conditions will be amended through seed dispersal. Plant species for seed dispersal were identified and selected based on their contribution to aesthetic value, ecosystem function value, and resilience value. Distributing seeds, rather than specifically planting plants in exact locations, will enable plant species and communities to establish in locations to which they are most suited. Ideally, this will increase biodiversity and therefore increase the resilience of the ecosystem as a whole. the LSP interior is projected to face further stressors and climatic changes in the future and increasing the species pool will help the ecosystem adapt to these changes. Soil amendments will similarly improve conditions to enable plants to self-establish. Additionally, this is not a deterministic strategy, so the ethos of the fourth-nature ecosystem will remain intact. Finally, this management strategy is easily integrated with proposals for public access to the site if they are implemented, but it is also viable if public access remains restricted. Overall, the adaptive management strategy of appropriate seed distribution and soil amendment will improve the ecosystem function of the LSP interior and increase its chance for a functional and resilient future.