cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Embeddable photonic fibers for real-time diagnostics
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: The ability to measure forces and/or mechanical displacements with high precision and sensitivity has direct implications on the development of advanced sensing platforms for defense and medical applications. For example, new ultrasensitive acoustic and/or pressure sensors are needed that can diagnose material fatigue/failure or directly measure mechanical responses of living cells to various stimuli (e.g., chemicals, stress, light, pH) which is extremely important for our understanding of disease proliferation and cell differentiation. Measuring small forces, down to the molecular level (piconewton), is typically carried out by sophisticated instruments such as an optical trap (or optical tweezer) or atomic force microscope which acts as a calibrated force transducer that can directly measure the force and distance of a system. Both techniques offer excellent force sensitivity, but it would be extremely difficult to integrate these platforms into transportable, or embeddable, sensors that can detect stimuli such as sound/pressure waves, chemicals, or magnetic fields. To push the limits of force sensitivity, portability, and tunability, this proposal investigates a cutting-edge fiber optic sensing geometry that utilizes optical transmitters such as fluorescent or plasmonic nanoparticles embedded in the sharp decaying optical field (i.e., evanescent field) of subwavelength optical waveguides to measure forces impinging on the fiber. Compressible coatings on the waveguide will be designed that separate the optical transmitters from the waveguide surface. The coatings will enable angstrom-level (0.1 nm) sensitivity in detecting movement of the optical transmitters in the evanescent field, leading to sub-piconewton force sensitivity in the devices. This force and distance resolution rivals that of state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation while maintaining a highly compact and portable design which will allow it to be easily inserted into materials or embedded in systems.
Dynamics of Defect Structure Evolution under Extreme Conditi
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: The objective of this program is to establish a new strategic collaboration between UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to form a joint research and graduate education program. The overarching theme of the research activities is the evolution of atomic defect structures in advanced materials under extreme conditions. Research is divided into the following three tasks: (Task I) Dynamics of Wetting-Dewetting Transitions of Ultrathin Films; (Task II) Electric Field-assisted Formation of Grain Boundaries; (Task III) Mechanical Stress under Dynamic Loading Conditions. Each task will be led by individual teams of researchers from both institutions. The objective of this research program is to utilize the unique, ultra-fast materials characterization resources and facilities at LLNL through synergistic cutting-edge student projects that align with the strategic mission of LLNL. The proposed initiative will represent a seed to leverage future federal funding through joint proposals. A strong academic program will be established to enhance graduate teaching on the UC Davis campus through new elective courses and joint workshops that discuss latest research results from the field of defect evolutions in advanced materials under extreme conditions. The funded graduate students from UC Davis will carry out their respective research projects at LLNL under joint advising by UC Davis faculty and a LLNL research staff. This approach will provide an excellent and very productive research environment for graduate students and will broaden the graduate curriculum in materials science and engineering at UC Davis. We therefore envision to significantly impact and improve the graduate education of the future scientific workforce in an area recognized by the Department of Energy as a principal component of the Grand Challenges for future energy technologies.
Isotope Forensics of the Early Solar System
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: This proposal seeks funding from the UC Laboratory Fees Research Program to foster a new collaborative multidisciplinary research between UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz faculty, graduate students and postdocs with LLNL scientists in the area of isotope forensics of the early solar system and planetary formation. The research is particularly important in an era when over ~1500 extra-solar planets have been discovered and finding Earth-like planets might be just around the corner. The oldest relics of the solar systems are contained in chondritic meteorites in the form of Calcium-Aluminium-rich Inclusions (CAIs) and chondrules. Despite progress on many fronts, a coherent model for primitive meteorites remains an enigma in the context of solar system evolution. We combined expertise from both cosmochemistry and astrophysics, aided by access to the unique and complimentary experimental and computational facilities at UCD, UCSC and LLNL, propose a holistic approach to connect missing links between complex leads, and to reconstruct the early chronology of the solar system based on the properties of the chondritic meteorites. We strive to connect between: 1) the SLRs deposition by a nearby supernova, 2) CAIs' limited age spread with the formation of a compact solar nebula, 3) CAIs' and chondrules' multiple melting events with thermal instabilities during the early nebula evolution, 4) glassy texture of chondrules and their age difference to the CAIs with the emergence of Jupiter. The project will cultivate analytical and computational capabilities ultimately applicable to Laboratory missions in stockpile stewardship and homeland security that require characterization of materials on the nano-scale. Our project will continue create opportunities for a strong collaboration between UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and LLNL, through on-going visiting scientist program, student training and career advancement for postdocs and early career faculty with LLNL's Glenn T. Seaborg Institute and Chemical and Isotopic Signature group.
A review of fatal child maltreatments by parents
Creators: name: Woner, Robin Cherie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Child homicide is a horrific crime and it is even more devastating when it occurs at the hands of a parent.  According to empirical studies, most children are killed as a result of neglect or abuse.  Data also indicate that parents are the most likely perpetrators of this crime..In attempt to present the most comprehensive understanding of lethal child maltreatment, this review discusesthe prevalence and risk factors of child maltreatment in all of its forms, including lethal acts of neglect and abuse.  The most common victim offender relationship for crimes of child maltreatment and the high-risk situations for lethal child maltreatment are also discussed.  The dynamics associated with maternal and paternal filicide are reviewed in detail, as are the costs and consequences for child maltreatment.  Finally, policy responses and recommendations are offered.
Adolescents involved in decision-making
Creators: name: Wander, Marla DeMesquita
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Thoughtful and deliberate, adolescent decision-making is not well understood. For example, adolescents and parents visit with physicians for routine health care however the extent that adolescents participate has not been satisfactorily investigated. This study used surveys, conversations, and observations of healthy adolescents, parents, and physicians discussing issues of optional vaccination against human papillomavirus infections to interrogate the gap in understanding adolescent decision-making. The decision involves if and when to receive vaccination to prevent sexually transmitted infections that potentially cause adult cancers. Thus, sexual behavior and vaccination effectiveness infuse these discussions. Survey results from several hundred 11 thru 21 year-old Black, Hispanic, and White adolescents and parents showed adolescents’ older age, female gender, and suburban residence as significant predictors of vaccination acceptance; race, education, HPV knowledge, and judgments of adolescent autonomy were not. Survey conversations and observations substantiated that parents were the decision-makers. Information did not influence decisions; parents were influenced by their personal beliefs about vaccinations and sexual debut and their adolescents’ age. Adolescents indicated on their surveys that they would make vaccination decisions which contradicted their survey conversations and participant-physician encounters that showed adolescents deferring the decision to their parents. During survey conversations, when their parents were not present, adolescents posed thoughtful questions and engaged in HPV discussions. During participant-physician encounters adolescents rarely participated. Notably, if adolescents chose to speak they protested the shot and rallied to postpone it. An adolescent focused on a vaccination presents a vulnerable and asexual image. Adolescents’ participation in HPV vaccination decision-making is not determined by their decision-making competence but by their social competency. Both parents and adolescents understand the sexual subtexts looming in the background and neither want those perceptions to rise to the forefront. Reformulating the manner and content of HPV discussions may increase adolescent participation and vaccination reception.
Micranurida
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Micranurida

description: cf. Micranurida sp.
Name in source. Neanuridae n.gen. in Deharveng & Bedos (1988). Source: Deharveng & Bedos (1988), Bedos (1994).
Distribution in Thailand. Phang Nga (P). Habitat: cave.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Damage resistant structures fabricated by laser CVD
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: This proposal: “Damage resistant structures fabricated by laser-CVD for high power laser optics and photonics applications”, is submitted to the UC Laboratory Fees Research Program by Selim Elhadj, PI at LLNL. It includes lead collaborations with Prof. Costas Grigoropoulos at UC-Berkeley, and Prof. Giulia Galli at UC-Davis, and has not been submitted elsewhere. The proposed work relies on complementary experimental capabilities at UC-Berkeley and LLNL, computational expertise at UC-Davis, and will take advantage of unique high performance computing resources at LLNL. This proposal fits the Laser Science LLNL mission in high average power, high intensity lasers. It is specifically related to improving the damage resistance of optics used in nuclear fusion experiments at the NIF facility housed at LLNL. In this regard, LLNL provides unique optical damage testing expertise to the UC-Berkeley photonics group. Briefly, the focus of the study is to understand how laser-based chemical vapor deposition (laser-CVD) parameters, such as precursor and carrier gas chemistry, temperature, and annealing conditions, determine the damage resistance levels in fused silica optics. The material deposited is silica for in-filling and shaping of damaged sites mitigated at surfaces. The problem will be probed experimentally with nanosecond spectroscopic measurements of the vapor and solid phase reactions in situ. Ab initio molecular dynamic simulations will help both interpret spectroscopic measurements and provide a mechanistic and molecular picture of the controlling process parameters in laser-CVD. In principle this new mitigation approach can increase damage threshold and extend operational lifetimes of the NIF optics, thus enabling greater fluences to drive ignition and improve the feasibility for commercial scale fusion energy. In addition, the results here should be directly applicable to the silicon laser-CVD processes used as part of ongoing research in micro-fabrication of 1D photonic structures at UC-Berkeley.
Playing at learning and learning at play
Creators: name: Valentine, Deborah Shine
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: In order to understand how play and playgrounds became virtually synonymous with children, childhood and early education, this dissertation examines how play-focused programs, playgrounds and early education programs developed within the highly racialized social context of Philadelphia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  One of the central projects of this study is to integrate early childhood educators (all female in this time period), African Americans, and young children into play movement historiography.  The inclusion of these actors not only demonstrates that dominant strands of American play advocacy—in which African Americans, and to some extent early childhood educators and young children, were largely absent—were not the only ones, but also that national trends did not always dictate children’s experiences at a local level. In addition, it shows how children’s actions helped to shape the programs and spaces that were created for them, contributing to the prioritization of play and the establishment of playgrounds in early 20th century Philadelphia. Furthermore, it explains how play and playground advocates’ ideas and goals affected children’s access to educationally focused play spaces and programs in unequal ways, showing that in Philadelphia play advocacy did not benefit all children, or communities, equally.  This dissertation argues that for Philadelphia’s late nineteenth and early twentieth century children, caregivers and communities the city’s increasingly prolific production of play-centered programs and play spaces had varied effects, both positive and negative.  The specific nature of these effects was dependent on the goals, beliefs, values and resources of particular play and playground advocates and, in particular, how closely their purposes and the strategies they used to implement their ideas aligned with the goals and needs of both those targeted as participants and those who were excluded.  Thus, this dissertation provides a historical context for current discussions of play and playgrounds as self-evidently beneficial, while also responding to theoretical critiques of play-focused practices and spaces that characterize on or both as inherently detrimental, encouraging a more mindful approach to current discussions and debates regarding play and play space.
Thesaurus Arabico-Syro-Latinus
Creators: name: Obizzino, Tommaso
name: Lucensus, Marcus Bovelius
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1636

description: The Franciscan Tommaso Obicini (1585-1632) was an early pioneer of Oriental studies and published materials dealing with Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic. This large volume is a classified vocabulary list in three languages: Arabic, Syriac, and Latin. A very large number of categories is represented, among which some are: mental activities, religion, clothing, animals of various classes, sounds and voices, meteorological terminology, etc. The collection is indeed a vocabulary repository (thesaurus) for these three languages across all of kinds of activities and subjects. A table of contents (in Latin) makes each section of words easily discoverable. A Latin index to the book was compiled by Marcus Bovelius Lucensis.
Dizionario Armeno-Italiano. Volume 2
Creators: name: Ciakciak, Emmanuele
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1837

description: Ciakciak’s dictionary is one of the standard resources for the study of classical Armenian. After the Armenian headword, Armenian synonyms are given, the definition in later Armenian, some brief examples of the word in use from Armenian literature, and then the definition in Italian; a Turkish definition is sometimes added for clarity. Some post-classical words are included, but they are marked with an asterisk. The author gives a preface in both Armenian and Italian, and following these, the Armenian alphabet and some grammatical reference tables: regular and irregular noun declensions, pronoun declension, regular and irregular verb conjugations. An Armenian-Italian list of personal and geographical names concludes the second volume. This essential work belongs on the shelves of every advanced student and scholar of Armenian.
Damzenia groehni V. Alekseev
Creators: name: ALEKSEEV, VITALII
name: MCKELLAR, RYAN C.
name: BUKEJS, ANDRIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Colydiinae
Damzenia
Damzenia groehni

description: 6. D. groehni V. Alekseev in Alekseev et Alekseev, 2019
Holotype depository: CCGG in GPIH.
References: Alekseev & Alekseev 2019: 3 (description).
Comment: Placement of the genus in the tribe Gempylodini is tentative, because of the presence of several contradictory characters in the morphology of this specimen. External similarity with representatives of the tribe may be due to convergent evolution this case.
description: Published as part of ALEKSEEV, VITALII, MCKELLAR, RYAN C. & BUKEJS, ANDRIS, 2024, A revision and addition to Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) in Baltic amber: possible connections between modern Holarctic distributions and Eocene ' amber forests', pp. 201-247 in Zootaxa 5536 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14033618
Oudemansia
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Oudemansia

description: Oudemansia sp.
Source: Bedos (1994).
Distribution in Thailand. No detail (P). Habitat: littoral.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
New technologies for understanding the brain
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: The ability to learn and remember depends on neurons across the brain that process different aspects of an experience (e.g. sights, sounds, smells) as well as brain structures that link each of these aspects of experience together into a memory. Our understanding of these processes is currently rudimentary at best, due in large part to technological limitations: we can implant only ~100 electrodes and sample from only ~100-200 neurons in an awake, learning animal. It is therefore impossible to study the distributed patterns of neural activity that underlie brain processes. Further, recent advances in optogenetic technology that allow for optical manipulation of neuronal populations have not been fully integrated into neural recording systems. We propose to develop and apply new recording and light delivery technologies that will fundamentally advance our understanding of the brain. This work will take advantage of a synergy between laboratories at UCSF and LLNL. Dr. Vanessa Tolosa will lead microfabrication efforts at LLNL, and Dr. Loren Frank will lead in vivo applications and technology development for the full system device at UCSF. Dr. Tolosa is a chemical engineer whose previous research includes the development of biocompatible multi-electrode neural interfaces. Dr. Frank is a neuroscientist whose work has provided a new understanding of how neural activity changes during learning. Dr. Frank has also developed multichannel data acquisition hardware and software including combined multielectrode / fiber optic microdrives for optogenetic manipulations. Together we will create new, flexible and biocompatible electrodes, integrated electronics and data acquisition systems that will allow us to record from and manipulate hundreds to thousands of neurons in awake behaving animals. This work will provide the first account of the patterns of distributed neural activity that underlie learning and remembering and provide essential new tools for the study of brain processes.
Pratanurida
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Pratanurida

description: Pratanurida sp.*
Source: Deharveng et al. (1989), Bedos (1994).
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai (N). Habitat: peat bog on the top of Doi Inthanon. Remark. One of the two Pratanurida morphospecies cited in Deharveng et al. (1989) is actually Protachorutes sp.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Syrisch-arabische Glossen. Erster Band: Autographie einter Gothasiche Handschrift enthalten Bar Ali's Lexikon von Alif bis Mim
Creators: name: Bar Ali, Isho
name: Hoffmann, Georg
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1874

description: The lexicon of Isho Bar Ali, a physician of the ninth century, stands together with that of Bar Bahlul as our chief heritage of pre-modern Syriac lexicography on a large scale. The Syriac-Arabic dictionary includes both Syriac words and a large number of Greek words met in Syriac literature. Hoffmann has reproduced the first half of Bar Ali’s lexicon (in handwritten Syriac and Arabic scripts) together with a critical apparatus. The preface (in German) contains information on the manuscripts used: the Gotha manuscript (16th century) that is the basis for the work, as well as the other material in Berlin that rests on various other manuscripts. The book, together with Gottheil’s edition of the second half of the work (1908), will be of interest to advanced Syriac scholars and lexicographers, as well as readers interested in the language contact of Syriac and Arabic in the tenth century.
Synthesis of Nanocomposites for Radiation Scintillation
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: Scintillation is the process by which ionizing radiation is converted to optical photons through energy deposition in a luminescent material. It finds a broad range of applications in medical imaging by X or beta-ray, cancer treatment, nuclear nonproliferation, and space exploration. The detection sensitivity and wide-spread deployment have been limited as existing scintillation materials cannot meet all the performance parameters. The national laboratories, LANL in particular, have been actively developing new gamma scintillators and materials. In the meantime, the UCLA Crump Institute for Medical Imaging has been studying new imagers using commercial materials that have low light yields. Scintillation material research has been scarce in academic institutions, and as such there is an urgent need for the training of material scientists specializing in radiation scintillation. The UC Lab Research Program provides a unique opportunity to bring the strength in materials science at the universities into the development of new scintillation material that could profoundly improve the detection of nuclear threats and diagnosis of live-threatening diseases. The PI's group at UCLA has been developing gamma scintillation composites. Our recent study has led to a conjugated polymer composite with beta ray scintillation light yield estimated over an order of magnitude higher than commercial plastic scintillators. The project aims to synthesize nanocomposites for X and gamma ray scintillation. Nanocrystals with high atomic numbers will be employed to increase the density of the nanocomposites. Nanocrystal surface initiated bulk polymerization will be studied to obtain optical transparency across bulk-size nanocomposites. The project will also investigate the photophysics and scintillation performance of the nanocomposites under the excitation of high energy photons. The project will provide a unique education and training opportunity for UCLA graduate students in subjects and equipments not available in UCLA.
Mesures effectuées sur les ossements de harfang de la grotte de Gabillou Measurements taken on the owl bones in the Gabillou Cave
Creators: name: Ducasse, Sylvain
name: Langlais, Mathieu
name: Laroulandie, Véronique
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: archéologie
Préhistoire
archéozoologie
avifaune
Archaeology
Prehistory
Archaeozoology
avifauna
Paléolithique
Magdalénien
France
Aquitaine
Dordogne
Palaeolithic
magdalenian

description: Mesures effectuées sur les ossements de harfang de la grotte de Gabillou permettant une détermination sexuelle sur la base d’une comparaison avec les données du Morin (Gourichon 1994).
Measurements taken on the owl bones in the Gabillou Cave, enabling a sex determination to be made on the basis of a comparison with the data from the Morin. (Gourichon 1994).
Bitoma Herbst 1793
Creators: name: ALEKSEEV, VITALII
name: MCKELLAR, RYAN C.
name: BUKEJS, ANDRIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Bitoma

description: Genus Bitoma Herbst, 1793: 25
Type species: Tritoma crenata Fabricius, 1775
description: Published as part of ALEKSEEV, VITALII, MCKELLAR, RYAN C. & BUKEJS, ANDRIS, 2024, A revision and addition to Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) in Baltic amber: possible connections between modern Holarctic distributions and Eocene ' amber forests', pp. 201-247 in Zootaxa 5536 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14033618
Modelling of Protein Transport in Realistic Environments
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: Protein transport in complex environments is critical to understand for efficient molecular separations, detection and selective binding for biodefense, food and pharmaceutical applications. Experimental techniques alone lack the needed resolution for a mechanistic understanding. So computation, informed by matched experiments, is the approach of choice. There, time and length scales often limit creation of a sufficiently-detailed model. LLNL's many multi-node parallel computing clusters are well-suited to addressing this problem. The objective is to address Systematic Coarse-Graining of Different Atomistic Proteins and classify behavior in terms of their charge distribution and excluded volume. We focus on proteins but the results will have important implications for other large molecules. Several coarse-graining (CG) approaches for polymers and biomolecules (Iterative Boltzmann Inversion (IBI), Force Matching, and MARTINI) have been developed. We will compare and test models for different proteins and classify their shapes focusing on excluded volume and charge distribution effects. We will employ CG simulations with different pHs and salt concentrations. The performance of CG models in complex geometries has not been systematically tested, but our preliminary data suggests IBI is unfeasible so that alternatives need to be developed. A close integration with experimental characterizations is crucial for model validation. At LLNL and UC Davis, we will perform detailed measurements of protein transport as a function of species, concentration and charge state. We will use several types of nanoporous membranes to extract diffusion parameters that are calculated by the CG models. Experiments will differentiate among the models under evaluation by independently testing molecular volume and charge state. For example, experiments on mesoporous silica with fixed pore size will be performed and the pore mouths will be modified with proteins or other molecules.
Mass incarceration
Creators: name: Turkot, Paul Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This work examines the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States.  Particularly, it analyzes the new Jim Crow analogy, which claims that mass incarceration serves as a form of social control of people of color similar to that which existed during Jim Crow and that is carried out through the War on Drugs.  To determine the merit of the Jim Crow analogy, the paper examines Michelle Alexander's leading work, The New Jim Crow, and other secondary works around this issue.  Additionally, it examines primary documents of legislative committees in New York City from the years 195& - 19&3, prior to the passage of the 19&3 Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York State.  On the whole this paper acknowledges the value of the New Jim Crow analogy in bringing to light many of the gross injustices in the War on Drugs, yet argues that the system of mass incarceration is much more complex than the authors of the New Jim Crow analogy make it out to be.
Chiron return
Creators: name: Walsh, Dawn Cecile
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: In astrology, the planet Chiron represents the seemingly incurable wound. In the general sense, Chiron represents nothing less than the grand wound of human existence, of incarnate being itself. In a more specific sense, Chiron represents one’s own particular and persistent suffering. In other words, the chronic vulnerabilities shaped by one’s own unique biography, especially as connected to the mother, or more precisely, as connected to a profound wounding related to the loss of the mother.    Chiron has a fifty year orbit, meaning that on one’s fiftieth birthday Chiron returns to the place in the sky it occupied at the time of one’s birth. For most, the Chiron return will be a once in a lifetime event. The Chiron return is thus the perfect opportunity to revisit the origins of the seemingly incurable wound as related to the loss of the mother.    Chiron Return is a memoir organized around the rape and murder of a mother. The Chiron Return of the daughter, as she approaches her fiftieth birthday, prompts a return to the scene of the crime, both metaphorical and literal, as she seeks to understand more fully the circumstances surrounding the death of her mother.
Application of Machine Learning to Identify Influential Factors for Fecal Contamination of Shallow Groundwater
Creators: name: Wu, Jianyong
name: Emch, Michael
name: Islam, Md. Sirajul
name: Cao, Yanni
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2025

description:
Understanding influential factors for fecal contamination in groundwater is critical for ensuring water safety and public health. The objective of this study is to identify key factors for fecal contamination of shallow tubewells using machine learning methods. Three methods, including recursive feature elimination (RFE) with XGBoost, Random Forest, and mutual information, were implemented to examine E. coli presence and concentration in 1495 tubewell water samples in Matlab, Bangladesh. For E. coli presence, climatic variables, including average rainfall and temperature over the 30, 15, and 7 days preceding sampling, as well as ambient temperature and rainfall on the sampling day, emerged as critical predictors. Land cover characteristics, such as the percentages of urban and agricultural areas within 100 m of a tubewell, were also significant. For E. coli concentration, land cover characteristics within 100 m, the number of hot and heavy-rain days in the 30 days preceding sampling, average rainfall and temperature in the 3 days preceding sampling, and ambient temperature on the sampling day were identified as key drivers. Random Forest and mutual information yielded results that were more similar to each other than to those of RFE with XGBoost. The findings highlight the interplay between climatic factors, land use, and population density in determining fecal contamination in shallow well water and demonstrate the power of machine learning algorithms in ranking these factors.
Protachorutes
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Protachorutes

description: Protachorutes sp.*
Name in source. Pratanurida sp. in Deharveng et al. (1989). Source: Deharveng et al. (1989), Bedos (1994). Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai (N). Habitat: on the top of Doi Inthanon. Remark. Dubious record (pollution?), from a single specimen collected in Doi Inthanon; the genus has otherwise 2 species, one from Europe and another one from the USA.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Here, we become islands
Creators: name: Torres, Sevé Daniel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Here, We Become Islands is the debut collection from a poet in motion at the borderlands of hip-hop and Puerto Rican culture, family history known and discovered, masculinity and beauty. These poems of blood-letting honesty shift narrative into lyric, elegy into celebration, and prayer into action. Full of rhythm and discovery these poems remap the line break and pivot into ecstasy, consecrate the unsaid, find roots in a shifting geography and the other. Here is a dancing at the crossroads between life and death. In Here, We Become Islands the poet is a spirit-bridge between his ancestors and a nomadic life inspired music.
Evidence, inference and bias in WMD forensics
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: The methods and technologies of forensic science have been increasingly adopted by U.S. Defense, Homeland Security, and Intelligence agencies. This includes not only traditional forensic methods such as human DNA profiling, but also specialized methods used to analyze evidence from chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons ("WMD"). Contemporaneously, the foundations of the forensic science presented in criminal trials have come under intense scrutiny, and their evidentiary reliability has been questioned. The few events that have tested the validity and persuasiveness of WMD forensics (the Amerithrax, Yellow Rain, and Al Shifa incidents) suggest that these criticisms are valid here as well. In addition, rigorous validation and interpretation of WMD forensic results often involves concepts that have not traditionally been communicated to juries, judges or other lay decision makers. We propose to perform an unclassified empirical and analytical study of validation, cognitive bias, and inference in WMD forensic science. Our ultimate aim is to improve the way that forensic science evidence is generated and communicated to decision makers. Initially we will conduct interviews to assess inferential errors and cognitive bias among ordinary citizens (potential jurors), and forensic scientists and technical managers employed by the departments of defense, homeland security, justice, and the intelligence community. We will study how these agencies produce and consume forensic science, especially the mechanisms for interpreting and communicating evidence. Subsequently, we will create written scenarios involving WMD forensic evidence designed to probe testimony and reporting by individual scientists and managers and in groups during tabletop exercises. We will derive recommendations concerning procedural, managerial, and educational solutions to lessen the potential dangers of cognitive bias and inferential errors in national security investigations.
A Comprehensive Study of Formation Processes of Exoplanets
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: Discoveries of more than 700 exo-planets have swept away both the astronomical community and the general public. Their diverse masses and orbital dynamics, however, present fundamental challenges to our understanding of their origin. We propose to investigate the formation process of exo-planets by employing both theoretical studies as well as large-scale computer simulations. We will study the gas accretion processes onto planetary cores in multi-dimensions to understand the growth of planet mass, the generation of magnetic fields, as well as their feedback. These studies will be carried out in a realistic gaseous disk environment where the gas and dust supply to the planet plays an important role in determining their final masses and their orbital dynamics. Our proposed studies will be guided by the exciting new observations and, at the same time, make timely contributions to interpreting the data. Such multi-scale and multi-physics studies in hydrodynamics and radiation hydrodynamics will utilize the unique expertise at both UCSC and LANL. These synergistic efforts involving especially the UCSC postdocs and students will allow us to gain a detailed understanding of the formation processes of diverse exo-planet populations.
Bitoma glaesisepulta Alekseev 2015
Creators: name: ALEKSEEV, VITALII
name: MCKELLAR, RYAN C.
name: BUKEJS, ANDRIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Bitoma
Bitoma glaesisepulta

description: 7. B. glaesisepulta Alekseev, 2015
(Figs 45–46)
Holotype depository: CVIA.
References: Alekseev 2015: 20 (description).
description: Published as part of ALEKSEEV, VITALII, MCKELLAR, RYAN C. & BUKEJS, ANDRIS, 2024, A revision and addition to Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) in Baltic amber: possible connections between modern Holarctic distributions and Eocene ' amber forests', pp. 201-247 in Zootaxa 5536 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14033618
title: Angelonia :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
Angelonia
New Varieties of Plants

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Habitat fragmentation
Creators: name: Smith, Sarah Rose
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Soil microarthropods were surveyed for one year in order to see if the theory of island biogeography held true for micro-communities. Soil fauna were collected on a bi-monthly basis at a previously disturbed site in the New Jersey Pine Plains on natural regrowth islands. In conjunction with the survey an experimental survey was also conducted using defaunated soil patches, which were examined on a bi-monthly basis from September 2011- May 2011. Soil fauna on natural regrowth islands responded positively to island area and litter depth, and there was clear separation of soil fauna communities between the main lands the regrowth islands. Defaunated islands displayed changes in community assemblage over time and there were clear differences between soil fauna types and the ability to colonize new island habitats. There was a change in community structure over time as early colonizers were able to prosper for a short amount of time, followed by a slower dispersing suite of microarthropods that were able to establish and flourish in the defaunated habitat for a longer period of time. Overall, the study showed that soil microarthropod communities follow the assumptions of Mac Arthur and Wilson’s theory of island biogeography and that certain species are limited by their dispersal capabilities.
The UC Conservation Genomics Network
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: The genomics revolution has the potential to dramatically impact conservation biology. However, with increased access to genome-scale data, conservation genomics has a “big data” problem; the quantity of data that generated can exceed the capacity to make sense of it. To address this challenge, we propose a UC-wide network that capitalizes on the remarkable expertise in genomics and conservation biology within the UC system. We will develop a bioinformatic and analysis toolkit that can be used by the wider community to address fundamental genetic questions in conservation biology. We will demonstrate the toolkit’s usefulness for species of special concern to California and nationwide. Our approach takes advantage of two important recent advances in genomics. First, genetic variation can now be characterized across thousands of genes distributed across the genome. Consequently, genes that are evolving in response to global climate change can be identified. Second, changes in gene expression, which are often the primary first-line response to environmental stressors, can now be measured in natural populations. Studying these processes in threatened populations will lead to a mechanistic understanding of how populations respond and the limits of that response given habitat and climate change. In addition to developing a toolkit that could revolutionize the field of conservation genetics, our network will sponsor graduate and faculty exchange among the UC campuses to enhance collaboration and produce a new generation of students with genomic expertise aimed at problems in the environment. Similarly our experimental design includes extensive involvement of undergraduates and the public in science through their participation in a systematic DNA-based biodiversity survey across California. Finally, we will disseminate tools and results through a series of workshops open to field, laboratory and analytically oriented investigators as well “translational” workshops for those responsible for management of natural populations and environments. Our proposed network will position the UC as the premier institution for preparing young scientists for careers in the emerging field of conservation genomics. Their work will be critical for monitoring, preserving and managing the changing environments of the future.
Coxelus Dejean 1821
Creators: name: ALEKSEEV, VITALII
name: MCKELLAR, RYAN C.
name: BUKEJS, ANDRIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Coxelus

description: Genus Coxelus Dejean, 1821: 67
Type species: Bolitophagus pictus Sturm, 1807
description: Published as part of ALEKSEEV, VITALII, MCKELLAR, RYAN C. & BUKEJS, ANDRIS, 2024, A revision and addition to Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) in Baltic amber: possible connections between modern Holarctic distributions and Eocene ' amber forests', pp. 201-247 in Zootaxa 5536 (2) on page 234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14033618
Pseudachorudina Jantarit, Bedos & Deharveng, 2016, n.sp.
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Pseudachorudina

description: Pseudachorudina spp.*
Name in source. Pseudachorudina n.sp. 1 and 2 in Deharveng & Bedos (1993b). Source: Deharveng et al. (1989), Deharveng & Bedos (1993b), Bedos (1994).
Distribution in Thailand. Widespread. Habitat: litter and soil between 1150 and 2550 m. in Doi Inthanon forest. Remark. Several morphospecies including two in Doi Inthanon.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
"Born aloft on the wings of imagination"
Creators: name: Singletary, Christina M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: On the surface, the two early twentieth century novels Anne of Green Gables and The Well of Loneliness do not appear to share much in common. However, the two books actually share striking similarities, particularly because the protagonists of both books – Anne and Stephen, respectively-can be read as homosexual characters. Although both characters display some masculine tendencies, their homosexuality is linked to a uniquely feminine imagination that leads to creative acts distinct from masculine creativity. Most frequently, their imaginations are depicted through nature, as Montgomery and Hall subtly argue that lesbianism is a natural part of the world. The feminine genius practiced by Anne and Stephen continues into adulthood and reflects the biographies of both Montgomery and Hall. Although Anne and Stephen’s genius initially begins out of their childhood isolation, their creative work actually develops as a highly social act distinct from both the non-empathetic and unemotional writing of male modernists and the female modernists (like Gertrude Stein) who mimic male modes of writing. Through their characters, Montgomery and Hall argue for a decidedly female version of genius and at the same time respond to an inherent male bias in the definition of genius. More broadly, they also reinforce the idea that modernism was defined by a blurring of the lines that divided multiple dichotomies: namely, medicine versus art; child versus adult; nature versus self; and-most importantly, male versus female.