cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MOESM1 of An efficient computer-aided structural elucidation strategy for mixtures using an iterative dynamic programming algorithm
Creators: name: Su, Bo-Han
name: Shen, Meng-Yu
name: Yeu-Chern Harn
name: San-Yuan Wang
name: Alioune Schurz
name: Chieh Lin
name: Lin, Olivia
name: Yufeng Tseng
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Proof of Lemma 1 to Theorem 6, Tables S1â  S4, and a discussion for Table S4. The detailed proofs for Lemma 1, Lemma 2, Lemma 3, Lemma 4, Theorem 1, Lemma 5, Theorem 2, and Lemma 6 are given. Table S1 The identified structures that match the baseline data for O. japonicus. The last column indicates the ranks determined by our DP algorithm. Table S2 The identified structures that match the baseline data for P. multiflorum. The last column indicates the ranks determined by our DP algorithm. Table S3 The identified structures that match the baseline data for Angelica sp. The last column indicates the ranks determined by our DP algorithm. Table S4 Numbers of searched optimal solutions for C. chinensis. Each cell contains two numbers. The first number is that determined when the number of combinatorial candidates for the substituted positions is 5, and the second the value determined in the case without limitation.
Formation of multiple micro-vortices in regions of ion concentration polarization
Creators: name: Gowranga Hanasoge, Srinivas Kumar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Ion transport in nano-scale channels is of interest due to their perm-selective behavior, occurring due to the overlap of electric double layers. This leads to a variety of interesting electrokinetic phenomenon in regions around the nano-pores including, ion concentration polarization, field amplified sample stacking and formation of micro vortex instability among others. Incorporating nano-pores within microfluidic systems in functional lab-on-a-chip devices has resulted in techniques for better sample handling, fluid manipulation, and mixing. Effects of concentration polarization on local hydrodynamics was studied experimentally near a nano-porous membrane incorporated in a Micro-channel in this thesis. Along with the formation of depletion and pre-concentration regions in the setup, we observe additional effects of field amplification on local hydrodynamics. We report the direct observation of a primary micro-vortex instability in the depletion region of ICP, along a plane perpendicular to the substrate. This hydrodynamic effect is directly attributed to the non-uniform electro osmotic slip along the micro channel’s bottom wall due to field amplification. In addition to the primary vortex, we also note the formation of a secondary, tertiary and subsequent vortices along the length of the depletion region. A physical model is proposed which considers the two dimensionally varying concentration profile in the depletion region to account for the formation of multiple vortices. The mixing effect of the fast moving primary vortex in a two dimensionally varying concentration profile changes the local concentration in the depletion region. This in turn affects electro-osmotic slip velocity, leading to the formation of multiple vortices. We perform numerical analysis on simpler, slipping wall models, which show excellent agreement with the experimental results.
Agenioideus benedictus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus benedictus

description: Agenioideus benedictus (Cameron, 1908)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Oman, Qatar (Wahis 2006), United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: Algeria, Egypt, Gambia, Libya, Niger, Palestine, Senegal, Sudan (Cameron 1908; Arnold 1951; Priesner 1955; Wahis 2006).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
The most bitter and untimely of events
Creators: name: Graham, Brenna C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation collects and examines thirty-five examples of women’s monumental tombs from fifteenth-century Italy to correct the misconceptions, pervasive in Renaissance studies, that women’s tombs barely existed and that art related to fifteenth-century women—either as patrons or audience—was small, domestic, and private.  The first chapter provides an overview of these tombs and establishes the fifteenth-century as a period of experimentation and development for this type of monument across the Italian peninsula. The second chapter organizes tomb patronage into two types, internal and external, with internal divided into three groups, conjugal patronage, familial patronage, and self-patronage. Like monuments for men, women’s tombs were commissioned when financially possible and when the erection of a public sculpture served the needs of the patron. Chapter three addresses the ways women were presented in effigy and proposes a larger role for these figures within the broader discourse of Renaissance portraiture. Effigies, despite their uncommonly secure identifications as actual, specific people, hold only a limited place in that discourse, yet necessarily complicate the relationship between Renaissance portraits of women and female ideals of beauty.   As public sculptures, effigy portraits balance ideals of feminine virtue with recognizable, identifiable likenesses, depicting each woman at the age of her death, whether young or old. Chapter four then analyzes inscriptions on women’s tombs and identifies their six component parts that may appear in any combination. The inscriptions are then linked to contemporary notions of ideal women in poetry, such as Dante’s Beatrice and Petrarch’s Laura, to argue that women’s tombs engaged with broader cultural notions of ideal, dead women.  Though designating these monuments as “women’s tombs” risks marking them as different and separate, this project definitively proves that these monuments were much the same as men’s tombs. Women’s tombs were neither commissioned nor constructed lightly, and they functioned as integral parts of the memorial fabric of fifteenth century churches. Finally, the nuanced public portrayal of women as presented on these tombs—even though it was posthumous—must change our view of fifteenth-century women’s relationships to the civic sphere and communal art.
Trichocoelina subcochleata Vilkamaa & Menzel 2019, comb. n.
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Trichocoelina
Trichocoelina subcochleata

description: Trichocoelina subcochleata (Komarov, 2009) comb. n.
Literature. Lycoriella (Hemineurina) subcochleata Komarov—Komarov (2009): 100, 103, figs 1–5.
BIN. Unknown.
Discussion. Trichocoelina subcochleata (Komarov, 2009) was described based on one male from Russia (locus typicus: Republic of Altai, Kosh-Agachsky District, near Kosh-Agach, 50°09’N, 88°19’E). In its gonostylus with two groups of megasetae and its tegmen with sharp apicolateral corners it resembles most T. subpermutata (Mohrig & Mamaev) but differs in having two separate short interxoxal lobes instead of a long, apically bifid intergonocoxal lobe of hypopygium, and in its longer tegmen. By its tegmen and intergonocoxal lobes, T. subcochleata resembles also T. imitator and T. oricillifera, but these species have a large number of perpendicular megasetae in their gonostylus. We have not seen the holotype of T. subcochleata but suggest that the mention in the original description that the species lacks the whiplash setae from its gonostyli, is presumably a mistake, or that they have been broken off from the specimen studied.
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Additional file 2: Figure S1. of Anisotropic MĂźller glial scaffolding supports a multiplex lattice mosaic of photoreceptors in zebrafish retina
Creators: name: Nagashima, Mikiko
name: Hadidjojo, Jeremy
name: Barthel, Linda
name: Lubensky, David
name: Raymond, Pamela
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Maximum intensity z-projection and lateral slice view of retinal margin illustrating shape and position of mitotic figures. (PDF 1495 kb)
Additional file 2: of In vitro properties of concentrated canine platelets stored in two additive solutions: a comparative study
Creators: name: N. Hlavac
name: C. Lasta
name: M. Dalmolin
name: L. Lacerda
name: D. De Korte
name: N. Marcondes
name: S. Terra
name: F. Fernandes
name: F. González
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Platelet count. pH and CD61 percentage of positive cells mean ± standard deviation. Different lowercase letters represent significantly different values (p
Trichocoelina subpermutata Vilkamaa & Menzel 2019, comb. n.
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Trichocoelina
Trichocoelina subpermutata

description: Trichocoelina subpermutata (Mohrig & Mamaev, 1990) comb. n.
Literature. Lycoriella (Hemineurina) permutata (Lundbeck) — Mohrig et al. (1983a) 15, fig. 4 a–c [misidentification]. Lycoriella permutata (Lundbeck) — Krivosheina & Mohrig (1986): 157, 161 [misidentification]. Lycoriella (Hemineurina) subpermutata Mohrig & Mamaev—Mohrig et al. (1990): 15, fig. 3 a–d; Menzel & Mohrig (2000): 385. Lycoriella subpermutata Mohrig & Mamaev—Heller et al. (2009): 43.
BIN. Unknown.
Discussion. The species was described based on one male from Southern Yamal, Northern Russia (Mohrig et al. 1990). By its very large, apically bifid intergonocoxal lobe the species most resembles T. vitticollis, but differs in having its gonostylus broader, with megasetae pointing differently (subapical and subbasal megasetae perpendicular, medial oblique, whereas in T. vitticollis only a medial oblique group) and in having its tegmen with sharp apicolateral corners, absent in all other Trichocoelina. See also under T. tecta sp. n.
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Seropositivity of Chlamydia Trachomatis among Iraqi Pregnant Women in Al-Najaf Governorate
Creators: name: Khansaa H.M
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Background: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is an upper genital tract infection that can be found in pregnancy and lead to subsequent harm on the outcome.

Aim of study: To determine the seroprevalence rates of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) to Chlamydia trachomatis in Al- Najaf Iraqi pregnant women.

Design of study: A prospective cross sectional study.

Patients and Method: Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), a total of 200 serum samples from pregnant women were tested for antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis known to cause a variety of clinical syndromes in women and newborn infants.

Results: Chlamydia trachomatis IgG antibodies were detected in 17(8.5%) and IgM antibodies were found in 9 (2.18%) of different age groups, peak incidence was around age groups between 20-30 years old 52.38%.

Conclusion: Pregnant Iraqi women in al-najaf have low prevalence rate of Chlamydia trachomatis IgG antibodies and lower prevalence for Chlamydia trachomatis IgM.
Mygnimia flava
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Mygnimia
Mygnimia flava

description: Mygnimia flava (Fabricius, 1775)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Qatar (Ghahari et al. 2014), Oman (Walker & Pittaway 1987 as Mygnimia dorsalis (Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1845); Ghahari et al. 2014), Saudi Arabia (Walker & Pittaway 1987 as M. dorsalis), United Arab Emirates (Gillett & Howarth 2004 as M. dorsalis; Gillett & Gillett 2005 as M. dorsalis; Howarth & Gillett 2008 as M. dorsalis; Schmid-Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: Southeast Asia to Arabia (Ebrahimi 2006; Ebrahimi et al. 2008; Schmid-Egger 2017).
Remarks: The status and identity of Calicurgus dorsalis Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1845 (described from Arabia and Java) was discussed by Shimizu & Wahis (2004), who concluded that it is probably a junior synonym of Sphex flava Fabricius, 1775, although this could not be conclusively established since the types of C. dorsalis have been lost or destroyed. Whether the formal synonymy is established or not, it seems most likely that the references to M. dorsalis from the Arabian Peninsula should refer to M. flava, which is the senior name.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
C-H activation involving three- and four-coordinate iridium(I) pincer complexes
Creators: name: Hackenberg, Jason D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This thesis is organized around two themes: (1) C-H activation catalysis involving in situ generated three-coordinate iridium-pincer complexes as applied toward the dehydrogenation and metathesis of alkanes and (2) understanding and expanding the reactivity of four-coordinate (pincer)Ir(CO) complexes toward the oxidative addition of C-H bonds.   In the first half of this thesis, we describe the preparation of a novel class of pincer complex that is comprised of both phosphine and phosphinite moieties, representing a “hybrid” of the previously reported bis-phosphine (PCP) and bis-phosphinite (POCOP) parent species.  The catalytic activity of (tBu4PCOP)Ir toward the transfer and acceptorless dehydrogenation of linear and cyclic alkanes was examined and compared to the activities of (tBu4PCP)Ir and (tBu4POCOP)Ir, generally exhibiting intermediate activity.  (tBu4PCOP)Ir and other hybrid (PCOP)Ir complexes were applied to alkane metathesis using a molybdenum alkylidene co-catalyst and found to exhibit far greater activity toward n-hexane metathesis compared to either parent catalyst.  The resting state of (tBu4PCOP)Ir in alkane metathesis was found to be mixture of the dissimilar resting states exhibited by the parent catalysts, suggesting an ability to effectively catalyze the respective slow steps associated with the (tBu4PCP)Ir and (tBu4POCOP)Ir routes.   In the latter half of the thesis, we explore the unprecedented oxidative addition of C-H bonds to four-coordinate (pincer)Ir(CO) complexes.  Employing a unique acid-catalyzed route, the net oxidative addition of phenylacetylene to square planar (tBu4PCP)Ir(CO) was observed to yield exclusively the trans six-coordinate C-H addition product, (tBu4PCP)Ir(CO)(H)(CCPh); detailed mechanistic and theoretical studies indicate that this rare transformation occurs by generating a protonated intermediate that undergoes electrophilic attack of PhCCH with subsequent deprotonation of the alkyne C-H bond in the rate-determining step.  Although this acid-catalyzed reaction was observed to occur only with alkynes, the reverse reaction (acid-catalyzed reductive elimination) was found to occur for both alkyl and aryl substrates, suggesting that the acid-catalyzed oxidative addition of Csp3-H and Csp2-H bonds might be kinetically possible but thermodynamically unfavored.  Preliminary experimental and theoretical explorations of the factors favoring the thermodynamics of addition support a strategy of utilizing less sterically hindered (pincer)Ir(CO) complexes bearing relatively strong σ-donating ligands trans to the carbonyl ligand.
Design and implementation of Click Admin --- a web-based network research platform
Creators: name: Hassan, Abdul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This thesis describes the design and implementation of Click Admin, a web-based network research platform. Click Admin was designed to be a robust tool for network administrators to be able to research how people would prefer to use their network when presented with different scenarios, e.g., different queueing types, different queueing priorities, individual bandwidth allocation, offered incentives for cooperative users, etc. The main goals of Click Admin are to allow network administrators to (1) gather data on how their users would prefer to use the network in any given scenario, (2) configure the flow of traffic to simulate the given scenario, and (3) monitor and analyze how users actually use the network in the given scenario.    At it's core, Click Admin is merely an interface to Click Modular Router, which is a flexible, yet fast modular router toolkit allowing network administrators to reroute traffic in any number of ways. The research capabilities of Click Admin come in the form of a survey system that network administrators can use to design unique experiments and present different scenarios to users, asking them to specify how they would prefer to use the network in each scenario. After determining how each user would prefer to use the network, the Click Modular Router is then dynamically configured to simulate the given scenario. During each simulation, basic network analysis tools are used to capture the flow of traffic, for the purpose of monitoring and analyzing how users actually use the network in each scenario. With these tools, network administrators can gain insight not only into how users use the network, but how they would prefer to use the network in any number of different real-world scenarios, and can possibly even predict future trends in network usage and improve network performance.
Agenioideus melas
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus melas

description: Agenioideus melas (Klug, 1834)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Kohl 1906 as Pompilus vegetus Kohl, 1906; Priesner 1955; Wolf 1988a, 1990a, b), United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017), Yemen (Priesner 1955; Wolf 1988a, 1990a, b).
Extralimital distribution: Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Palestine (Priesner 1955; Wolf 1988a, 1990a; Ebrahimi et al. 2008).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Exploring gender definition in recent sociological scholarship
Creators: name: Harewood, Anna Mary
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation investigates gender definition in recently published peer-reviewed journal articles in the field of sociology.  I use content analysis to examine various aspects of gender definition in 3& analytic categories, most notably explicit definition and references to “sex,” “female,” and/or “male.”  I apply these codes to two samples of articles about gender.  The first sample represents the field of sociology as a whole; it includes 100 randomly selected articles with “gender” in their title, published between 2006 and 2010 in 49 sociology journals with the highest 2010 five-year impact factor scores.  The second sample represents the sociological subfield of sociology of gender and comprises 68 articles that include all of those with the word “gender” in their title published in Gender & Society between 2006 and 2010.  I found that gender is relatively infrequently defined explicitly and that the terms “sex,” “female,” and “male” are used frequently.  In the general sociology sample, 12% of the articles include an explicit definition of gender and &6% of the articles include references to “sex,” “female,” and/or “male.”  In the sociology of gender sample, 26.5% of the articles include an explicit definition of gender and 5&.4% include references to “sex,” “female,” and/or “male.”  Taken together these findings suggest that both sociologists who write about gender in non-gender specific journals and sociologists who publish in the subfield of sociology of gender do not explicitly define gender and often use “sex,” “female,” and “male” as identifiers without any intention to invoke biological or reproductive essentialism.  My results can be explained primarily by the pervasive, variable, embedded, and taken-for-granted character of gender in the empirical social world that appears to make it difficult for scholars to “see” it clearly.  The differences between samples reflect the general orientation of sociology of gender as a subfield towards gender not only as its principal area of study but also as an analytic problem that requires conceptual investigation and explanation.  I conclude that gender scholars in sociology might benefit from insights from the concepts literature, gender theory, and other disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields where gender is conceptualized more explicitly.
Syria's regional alignment
Creators: name: Hetou, Ghaidaa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: What explains alignment behavior in Syrian foreign policy? Structural realists argue that, like all states, authoritarian states pursue their national interests in an anarchic world by balancing power or threats, informed by the distribution of material capabilities.  Hence alliance choices, according to structural realists, are driven, necessarily, by regional threat assessments. Weak states in such an anarchic system, lacking ability to balance, would bandwagon with the powerful state. Liberals argue that domestic characters of states influence foreign policy behavior. Non-democratic states lack democratic institutions, which erodes the concept of “national interest”. Liberals therefore argue that authoritarian states’ foreign policies are irrational, unpredictable and driven by ideology geared solely towards regime survival.  This dissertation motivates a resolution to this puzzle by arguing that Syria’s state national interest was defined through a foreign policy that dealt with the domestic distributional dilemma, and simultaneously sought external security and regime survival. The alignment choices in Syrian foreign policy are best explained through a neoclassical realist approach that combines state and systemic level variables. Decision-making process analysis of the political relevant elite in Syria will ground the dynamic that links state and systemic factors in a coherent rational foreign policy. This project worked towards testing the neo-classical realist theory of foreign policy in the Syrian case, and performing initial plausibility checks by examining Syrian foreign policy alignment choices between 19&0 and 2010 through a number of case studies. Liberals fail to explain Syrian foreign policy behavior during the period in question, while neoclassical realism approach sheds more light on Syria’s foreign policy behavior in general, and alignment choices in particular.  Methodologically, this project employs the historical analysis approach. Process tracing, in each case study, draws on elite interviews, local and regional press accounts, economic databases, military disputes data sets, memoirs, and U.S. National Security archives.
Variability in the fraction of ambient fine particulate matter in indoor air and implications for air pollution epidemiology
Creators: name: Hodas, Natasha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with multiple negative health outcomes. Studies investigating these associations commonly use PM2.5 concentrations measured at outdoor, central-site monitors to estimate exposure. Because people spend the majority of time indoors, however, the variable efficiency with which ambient PM2.5 penetrates and persists indoors is a source of error in epidemiologic analyses. This error generally results in an underestimation of health effects, hampering the detection of associations between ambient PM2.5 exposures and the risk of health outcomes. To reduce this error, practical methods to model indoor concentrations of ambient PM2.5 are needed.    This dissertation contributes to exposure science by advancing existing models of residential exposure to ambient PM2.5 and by improving the robustness and accessibility of these tools. First, drivers of variability in the fraction of ambient PM2.5 found indoors (F) are identified and the potential for this variability to explain observed heterogeneity in PM-mediated health-effect estimates is explored. Next, a physically-based mass-balance model and modeling tools that account for variability in human activity patterns (e.g. time spent in various indoor and outdoor environments) are used to compute ambient PM2.5 exposures that account for the modification of PM2.5 with outdoor-to-indoor transport in order to explore whether the use of these refined exposure surrogates reduces error and bias in epidemiologic analyses. Subsequently, this outdoor-to-indoor transport model is evaluated and refined using measured indoor and outdoor PM2.5 concentrations and air exchange rates, providing a practical and robust tool for reducing exposure misclassification in epidemiologic studies. Finally, the volatility basis set is used for the first time to study shifts in the gas-particle partitioning of ambient organics with transport indoors.    This dissertation provides guidance regarding measurements and data most critically needed to facilitate the prediction of refined exposure surrogates in large epidemiological studies and, thus, informs the design of future sampling campaigns and epidemiologic studies. It enables a better accounting of ambient particle penetration into and persistence in the indoor environment and constitutes an important advancement in the efforts to reduce exposure error in epidemiologic studies and to elucidate relationships between PM2.5 exposure and adverse health outcomes.
Agenioideus gentilis
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus gentilis

description: Agenioideus gentilis (Klug, 1834)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Smit 2007; Gadallah & El-Barty 2011), United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017), Yemen (Wolf 1990b).
Extralimital distribution: Canary Islands, Israel, North Africa (Priesner 1955, 1960; Wolf 1990b; Smit 2007).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
THE CONTRIBUTION OF FINTECH TO FINANCIAL REPORTING INNOVATIONS IN RWANDA'S BANKING INDUSTRY
Creators: name: 1Mbonigaba Celestin, 2Lemlem Desta & 3Rachid Boudlal, 4Olivia Martinez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: This study examines the role of FinTech in transforming financial reporting in Rwanda's banking sector up to 2012. Using qualitative methodologies, the research analyzed secondary data from financial reports, policy documents, and banking publications. Key findings reveal that FinTech integration reduced financial reporting error rates from 18% in 2008 to 5% in 2012 and decreased the average time to generate reports from 15 to 5 days (p < 0.01). Additionally, the cost of reporting dropped by 52%, and fraud cases were reduced by 80%, with compliance scores rising to 95/100 by 2012. These outcomes, achieved through automated reporting systems, cloud computing, and mobile banking, demonstrate the efficacy of FinTech in improving accuracy, timeliness, and transparency. The study concludes that sustained investment in digital infrastructure and workforce training is crucial. Recommendations include leveraging blockchain and AI to enhance reporting and developing regulatory frameworks to foster innovation.
Additional file 5: Figure S2. of Anisotropic MĂźller glial scaffolding supports a multiplex lattice mosaic of photoreceptors in zebrafish retina
Creators: name: Nagashima, Mikiko
name: Hadidjojo, Jeremy
name: Barthel, Linda
name: Lubensky, David
name: Raymond, Pamela
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Immature UV cones have rounded apical profiles in the pre-column area. (PDF 939 kb)
Ethnicity and cultural change in a medieval Eurasian border region
Creators: name: Hill, Michael R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: My dissertation examines acculturation among ethnic groups in the Anglo-Welsh border region by comparing its experiences with other border regions across Eurasia. The study contains three parts. The first part includes three chapters that situate the Anglo-Welsh case study in its regional and Eurasian context. It argues that Western European and Turko-Mongolic peoples were predominately responsible for orchestrating numerous settlement processes across high-medieval Eurasia that established the context and structure of intercultural contact in the border regions. In most high-medieval border regions, ethno-religious groups retained substantial socio-cultural autonomy that reduced assimilative pressures, but did not prevent acculturation. Settlement features and situations and outcomes of contact in the British Isles were comparable to those found elsewhere in Eurasia. Indeed, the British Isles represented a microcosm of Eurasia in that they offered every possible outcome and situation of ethnic contact. However, the British Isles produced more hybrid ethnic groups than anywhere else in Eurasia. Furthermore, the system of communal autonomy that emerged in Wales was not centrally imposed, but developed organically and reflected the desire of both the Welsh and Anglo-European populations to retain physical distance and legal distinction.  The second part contains the Anglo-Welsh case study. It has three chapters that focus on differences in language, law, and social structure. These chapters principally assert that extensive acculturation transpired between the Anglo-European and Welsh communities. However, because both communities retained distinctive laws and customs, utilized separate ethnic courts, and generally lived separately, strictly dichotomized identities persisted that ignored the reduction in socio-cultural difference. The third part contains two chapters that compare the similarities and divergences in acculturative outcomes in Wales to Ireland and Scotland and Eurasia more generally. The chapters illuminate why Ireland and Scotland saw acculturative divergences with Wales, how historical narrative could maintain ethnic distinction, how deep acculturation could transpire despite the presence of legal regimes to preserve communal autonomy, how those legal regimes could collapse, why acculturation was typically selective, and why large-scale assimilation rarely occurred.
RNA polymerase inhibitor activity against Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms
Creators: name: Ho, Seanghuoy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Biofilms were defined as the structural phenotype of microbial communities enclosed in the self-produced polymeric matrix mainly composed of extracellular polysaccharides (EPS). S.epidermidis is associated with chronic diseases involving implant medical devices due to its strong ability to form biofilms and they are difficult to eradicate. Rifampin, one of the most active antibiotics used to treat biofilm-associated infections, is a bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) inhibitor; however strong bacterial resistance to this drug leads to the need to find more active compounds acting at the same target: bacterial RNAP. In this study, I test whether other bacterial RNAP inhibitors are also active against S.epidermidis biofilms by determining their Minimum Biofilm Eradication Concentration (MBEC) as compared to those of antibiotics functioning through target other than bacterial RNAP (reference antibiotics). Two biofilm assays were used: MBEC P&G assay using Calgary Biofilm device (peg assay) and glass biofilm assay. In the peg assay, biofilm density of 6 log10 of cfu/peg was obtained and used for biofilm susceptibility testing. In addition to Rifampin, three novel synthesized bacterial RNAP inhibitors were found to be more effective in completely eradicate S.epidermidis biofilms in vitro: 3RHTK2&, 3RHTK44 and OMTK13 with MBEC value of 25µg/ml, 12.5µg/ml and 50µg/ml, respectively. None of the other antibiotics were able to eradicate S.epidermidis biofilms (MBEC > 400µg/ml). These three RNAP inhibitors were also found to be effective in glass biofilm assay having MBEC values of 6.25µg/ml, 3.125µg/ml and 25µg/ml, respectively. These three compounds are interesting candidates for further development as antibacterial and anti-biofilm agents.  Not all RNAP inhibitors which are active against planktonic cells are active against S.epidermidis biofilms. Nevertheless, seeing the same pattern of result from two different assays that  reference antibiotics tested were not capable of eradicating biofilms while three out of eleven bacterial RNAP inhibitors tested were active is encouraging and suggesting that RNAP makes a good target for finding drugs to treat biofilm-related diseases.
Agenioideus ciliatus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus ciliatus

description: Agenioideus ciliatus (Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1845)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Gadallah & El-Barty 2011). Extralimital distribution: Central and South Europe, Iran, Israel, North Africa, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan (Wolf
1969, 1990b, 1997, 2003, 2004a, 2005; Özbek et al. 2000; Straka 2007; Yildirim & Wahis 2011; Falahatpishe
et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Additional file 6: Figure S3. of Anisotropic MĂźller glial scaffolding supports a multiplex lattice mosaic of photoreceptors in zebrafish retina
Creators: name: Nagashima, Mikiko
name: Hadidjojo, Jeremy
name: Barthel, Linda
name: Lubensky, David
name: Raymond, Pamela
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Rod photoreceptors are incorporated into the cone mosaic as it emerges from the proliferating zone. (PDF 146 kb)
Bradysiopsis Tuomikoski. In 1960
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Bradysiopsis

description: Bradysiopsis Tuomikoski, 1960
dearmata (Mohrig & Krivosheina, 1987) comb. nov. in Mohrig et al. (1987) [Br. dearmata group]—PAL
sordida (Mohrig, 1999) comb. nov. in Mohrig et al. (1999) [Br. dearmata group]—PAL
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Masculinity, gender stereotypes and doctor preference
Creators: name: Himmelstein, Mary Suzanne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: When men are forced to choose between a male or female doctor, men overwhelming choose the male. Prior research implicates gender beliefs in exacerbating bias against women in many fields, including medicine. The current study explored potential mediators of the association between gender beliefs and (1) male doctor preference and (2) masculine trait preference. Male participants (N = 152) completed an online survey assessing beliefs about masculinity, traditional role beliefs, gender competence stereotypes, medical competence stereotypes, preference for masculine doctor traits, and preference for male doctors.  I hypothesized masculinity as a mediator of traditional role beliefs on male doctor preference (model 1) and masculine doctor traits (model 2).   In the same model, respectively, I hypothesized competence stereotypes (gender and medical) as mediators of masculinity beliefs on male doctor preference (model 1) and masculine doctor traits (model 2). Results from structural equation modeling suggested medical competence stereotypes mediated the effect of gender beliefs (both traditional role beliefs and masculinity beliefs) on male doctor preference, but neither gender belief (traditional role beliefs and masculine gender belief) mediated the effect of the other gender belief on male doctor preference (i.e., traditional role beliefs did not mediate masculinity to male preference nor did masculinity mediate traditional role beliefs on male preference). Gender beliefs did not predict gender competence stereotypes and these stereotypes failed to predict male doctor preference.  No significant predictors emerged for masculine trait preference.   Implications for male doctor preference and men’s health are discussed.
Additional file 3: of In vitro properties of concentrated canine platelets stored in two additive solutions: a comparative study
Creators: name: N. Hlavac
name: C. Lasta
name: M. Dalmolin
name: L. Lacerda
name: D. De Korte
name: N. Marcondes
name: S. Terra
name: F. Fernandes
name: F. González
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Glucose consumption mean ± standard deviation of platelet concentrates stored in plasma and additive solution for 13 days. Different lowercase letters represent significantly different values (p
Agenioideus rutilus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus rutilus

description: Agenioideus rutilus (Klug, 1834)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Abu Zoherah et al. 1993; Gadallah & El-Barty 2011), United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017), Yemen (Wolf 1990b; Wahis 2000a).
Extralimital distribution: Widespread in the Mediterranean area to Central Africa (Arnold 1937; Priesner 1955, 1960; Wolf 1990b; Wolf et al. 2009)
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Additional file 3: Figure S1. of Usability of human Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip for mouse DNA methylation studies
Creators: name: Needhamsen, Maria
name: Ewing, Ewoud
name: Lund, Harald
name: Gomez-Cabrero, David
name: Harris, Robert
name: Kular, Lara
name: Jagodic, Maja
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Human_EPIC. (PDF 692 kb)
Enteroid culture and its impact on stem cell and cancer research
Creators: name: Hoffman, Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The technique of enteroid cell culture has had an enormous effect on the study of intestinal stem cells as well as colorectal cancer, and will continue to aid scientists in making advances in these fields in the future. In this thesis, the intestinal epithelium is introduced and the cell types within it are explained, stating why it is so crucial to understand its properties. The brief history of enteroid culture is gone over, beginning with its inception in 2009 and the expansion and initial discoveries made with the technique up until and including 2012. Next, the main section of the thesis includes detailed protocols on how to extract intestinal crypts and grow enteroid cultures, as well as perform some modifying techniques such as lentiviral infection and the creation of enterospheres. My research and contribution to Dr. Verzi’s lab was in the perfecting of these protocols. Finally, the thesis concludes with the most recent discoveries and advances made using the enteroid culture technique, and its potential for future innovation and discovery.
Agenioideus ruficeps
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus ruficeps

description: Agenioideus ruficeps (Eversmann, 1849)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Gadallah & El-Barty 2011).
Extralimital distribution: Egypt, Europe, Israel, Namibia, North Africa, Turkey (Yildirim & Wahis 2011).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
P-TEFb and Brd4 in HIV-1 transcription and latency
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Accumulating evidence has implicated the bromodomain protein Brd4 as a chromatin adapter for recruiting P-TEFb, a general transcription factor that stimulates the elongation of RNA polymerase II, to diverse gene promoters. Although generally required for transcription including basal HIV-1 transcription that is key at the onset of latency activation, Brd4 is unnecessary and even prohibitive for HIV transcription activated by the viral encoded Tat protein due to its competition with Tat for binding to P-TEFb. Proposed here are experiments to further examine the role for the Brd4-P-TEFb complex in controlling HIV-1 transcription and reactivation from latency. Efforts will also be directed toward the elucidation of the mechanism that promotes the Brd4-P-TEFb interaction with a special emphasis on a possible role for Brd4 phosphorylation in this process. As the reactivation of latently infected HIV-1 that can be subsequently cleared by Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) holds great promise toward finding a real cure for HIV/AIDS, the proposed experiments may reveal novel targets and suggest innovative means to eradicate latent HIV-1 reservoirs in infected patients.
Agenioideus rhodosoma
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus rhodosoma

description: Agenioideus rhodosoma (Kohl, 1886)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Gadallah & El-Barty 2011), United Arab Emirates (Schmid- Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: Croatia, Egypt, Israel, Mongolia, Morocco, Palestine, South Europe, Syria, Turkey (Priesner 1955; Wolf 1990b, 2005; Gros & Wahis 2002; Yildirim & Wahis 2011).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039