cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
VLSI Computational Structures Applied to Fingerprint Image Analysis
Creators: name: Megdal, Barry Bruce
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1983

description: Advances in integrated circuit technology have made possible the
application of LSI and VLSI techniques to a wide range of computational
problems. Image processing is one of the areas that stands to benefit most
from these techniques. This thesis presents an architecture suitable for
VLSI implementations which enables a wide range of image processing
operations to be done in a real-time, pipelined fashion. These operations
include filtering, thresholding, thinning and feature extraction.
The particular class of images chosen for study are fingerprints. There
exists a long history of fingerprint classification and comparison techniques
used by humans, but previous attempts at automation have met with little
success. This thesis makes use of VLSI image processing operations to
create a graph structure representation (minutia graph) of the inter-relationships of various low-level features of fingerprint images. An
approach is then presented which allows derivation of a metric for the
similarity of these graphs and of the fingerprints which they represent. An
efficient algorithm for derivation of maximal common subgraphs of two
minutia graphs serves as the basis for computation of this metric, and is
itself based upon a specialized clique-finding algorithm. Results of cross
comparison of fingerprints from multiple individuals are presented.
Lessons From an App Update at Replika AI: Identity Discontinuity in Human-AI Relationships
Creators: name: De Freitas, Julian
name: Castelo, Noah
name: Uguralp, Ahmet
name: Uguralp, Zeliha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Can consumers form especially deep emotional bonds with AI and be vested in AI identities over time? We leverage a natural app-update event at Replika AI, a popular US-based AI companion, to shed light on these questions. We find that, after the app removed its erotic role play (ERP) feature, preventing intimate interactions between consumers and chatbots that were previously possible, this event triggered perceptions in customers that their AI companion's identity had discontinued. This in turn predicted negative consumer welfare and marketing outcomes related to loss, including mourning the loss, and devaluing the "new" AI relative to the "original". Experimental evidence confirms these findings. Further experiments find that AI companions users feel closer to their AI companion than even their best human friend, and mourn a loss of their AI companion more than a loss of various other inanimate products. In short, consumers are forming human-level relationships with AI companions; disruptions to these relationships trigger real patterns of mourning as well as devaluation of the offering; and the degree of mourning and devaluation are explained by perceived discontinuity in the AIs identity. Our results illustrate that relationships with AI are truly personal, creating unique benefits and risks for consumers and firms alike.
Heligmothrips erinaceus
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Tree, Desley J.
name: Wells, Alice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Heligmothrips
Heligmothrips erinaceus

description: Heligmothrips erinaceus (Karny)
(Fig. 52)
Trichothrips erinaceus Karny, 1920: 41; 1924: 26 (Figs 32–33).
Teuchothrips fuscipennis Moulton, 1968: 100.
Karny described this species from a single female taken at Cedar Creek, Queensland, a locality within the Mt Tamborine Park just south of Brisbane. The five-line description gave no useful details, and his completed account in 1924 of the Thysanoptera from the Mjoberg expedition to Australia provided images of the whole body and antenna but no description. The unique specimen was subsequently slide-mounted but is in a seriously damaged condition. Moulton described fuscipennis from the holotype female taken at Liverpool (Sydney) in New South Wales, and three paratype females from Bribie Island, Queensland. The holotypes of both species were restudied and described by Mound (1970), who compared them to specimens taken from various sites in eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Antennal segment III is relatively slender and mainly yellow, but the pronotal setae are strongly shaded. In males the anteroangular pronotal setae are much longer than in females. The maxillary stylets cross over each other usually anterior to the postocular setae. They re-cross each other at the posterior of the head often through a sharp right-angle, before producing a complex set of loops posterolaterally (Fig. 52). However, in most character states erinaceus is very similar to gracilior, a species that is distinguished only by the pale pronotal setae and the maxillary stylets arranged more irregularly into large loops.
Specimens studied. Australian Capital Territory: Mt Majora, 2 small males from Allocasuarina verticillata, 24.iv.1995. New South Wales: Batemans Bay, from Casuarina glauca, 1 male, 16.ii.1961; 4 females, 6 males, 20.xi.1994; 6 females, 6 males, 7.xii.1996; 7 females, 5 males, 1.vi.2022; Tarago 20km East, 2 females on A. littoralis, 11.ix.2021; Gosford, 1 female form Casuarina, 20.xi.1994; Pottsville, 2 females from C. glauca, 3.ix.2009. Queensland: Mt Malloy 25km north, 4 females, 6 males from Casuarina, 6.vii.1995; Atherton 10km north, 3.v.1964; Carnarvon Station, Blue Water Springs, 3 females from Casuarina, 9.x.2014; Brisbane, The Gap, from Casuarina, 1 male, 30.xii.2006, 3 females, 30.x.2007; Mt Glorious 15km west, Red Cedar Park, 3 females from Casuarina, 13.x.2006; Brisbane, Bardon, 1 female from Casuarina, 27.vii.2012; Noosaville, 1 female, 1 male from C. equisetifolia, 20.ix.2009. South Australia: Kangaroo Island, Stokes Bay, 1 female from Allocasuarina verticillata, 30.xi.2021.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., Tree, Desley J. & Wells, Alice, 2022, Convoluted maxillary stylets among Australian Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae associated mainly with Casuarinaceae trees, pp. 301-332 in Zootaxa 5190 (3) on pages 320-321, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7138093
Buccinum lanatum Mclean & Clark 2023, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mclean, James H.
name: Clark, Roger N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Buccinidae
Buccinum
Buccinum lanatum

description: Buccinum lanatum n. sp.
Figures: 22 F–G
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Type locality: SW of Herbert Island, Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutian Is., Alaska. 238 m (52°38.8 N, 170°12.5 W) (NMFS 176- 2016-1-29), R/ V Ocean Provider (leg. R. Lauth, 13 June, 2016).
Type material: Holotype, SBMNH 169021
Description: Shell of moderate size, to 42 mm, thin, fragile, poorly calcified; profile broad, shoulder subtabulate; pical whorls missing; sculpture apparently lacking, shell surface obscured by periostracum. Periostracum yellowish-brown, very thick, lamellar, bearing short bristles; forming three broad, raised spiral ridges, with axil rows of 6–12 short bristles largest at the shoulder, two similar, smaller rows on the base. Operculum, small, about ¼ as large as the aperture, nucleus lateral.
Remarks: Buccinum lanatum is unusual among the “ Buccinum ” group with its very fragile, poorly calcified shell and thick, lamellar periostracum. B. lanatum is similar to B. tunicatum (Golikov & Gulbin, 1977) (fig 22 H), of the Kurile Islands, but differs in the number and nature of the spiral setal ridges. The two species are separated by about 3000 km. This is yet another of the many rare and unique buccinids from the central Aleutians. Another species, B. fringillum (Dall, 1877) (fig 22 I) is known from the Bering and Chukchi Sea’s, but differs in lacking the three pronounced spiral cords. These species make up the subgenus Thysanobuccinum Golikov & Gublin, in Golikov, 1980.
Etymology: The species name lanatum is from the Latin for wooly or velvety.
Distribution: Known so far only from the type locality, apparently another short-range endemic of the central Aleutians.
Habitat: Unknown.
description: Published as part of Mclean, James H. & Clark, Roger N., 2023, Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 5351 (2) on pages 198-199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375
Helcyra hemina Hewitson 1864
Creators: name: Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh
name: Meitei, Laishram Ricky
name: Huidrom, Harmenn
name: Soibam, Baleshwor Singh
name: Ngangom, Aomao
name: Ngangom, Bendang
name: Meitei, Ronald
name: Fric, Zdenek Faltynek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Helcyra
Helcyra hemina

description: 572. Helcyra hemina Hewitson, 1864
Published records: Varshney & Smetacek, 2015: 212.
Remarks: Not recorded during the study.
description: Published as part of Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh, Meitei, Laishram Ricky, Huidrom, Harmenn, Soibam, Baleshwor Singh, Ngangom, Aomao, Ngangom, Bendang, Meitei, Ronald & Fric, Zdenek Faltynek, 2020, An Inventory Of The Butterflies Of Manipur, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4882 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296011
Pünder, Godehard: Von Tür zu Tür. Erfahrungen für die Praxis des pfarrlichen Besuchsdienstes
Creators: name: Lippert, P.
Publisher: name: Ordenskorrespondenz
Year: 1970

description: Ordenskorrespondenz, Bd. 16 (1975): Ordenskorrespondenz: Zeitschrift für Fragen des Ordenslebens, Band 16
Heligmothrips exallus Mound & Tree & Wells 2022, sp.n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Tree, Desley J.
name: Wells, Alice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Heligmothrips
Heligmothrips exallus

description: Heligmothrips exallus sp.n.
(Figs 56, 62, 64, 67)
Female macroptera. Body light brown, head paler posteromedially, tube dark brown; antennal segment II paler at apex, III paler basally, IV–VIII uniformly brown; all tibiae paler than brown femora, tarsi yellow; male setae pale; fore wings very weakly shaded. With the character states given in the generic diagnosis, except as follows: head longer than wide (Fig. 56), vertex with little or no sculpture, genae without prominent setae; postocular setae capitate, extending to hind margin of eyes; eyes smaller ventrally than dorsally; hind ocelli close to eyes; maxillary stylets cross over at level of eyes, then re-cross through very sharp angle at posterior margin of head before producing one large circle posterolaterally and entering mouth cone; mouth cone long and pointed.Antennal segments not elongate, III less than twice as long as wide with basal stem bearing small irregular rings (Fig. 67). Pronotum elongate, only slightly wider than long but much narrower than prothorax (Fig. 56); major setae long, pale and capitate. Mesonotal lateral setae capitate. Metanotum very weakly reticulate, median setae finely pointed (Fig. 62). Prosternal ferna very wide apart, mesopresternum of two lateral triangles only weakly linked medially (Fig. 64). Fore tarsal tooth almost as long as tarsal width. Fore wing with 8 duplicated cilia. Pelta elongate bell-shaped (Fig. 62); tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae of which the anterior pair is small on each tergite; tergite IX setae long and capitate; tube shorter than head.
Measurements. Body length 2100. Head, length 175; width medially 140; po setae 40. Pronotum, length 200; width 230; prothorax width 300; major setae – am 25, aa 50, ml 45, epim 70, pa 30. Fore wing length 700; sub-basal setae 35. Tergite IX setae S1 105, S2 95. Tube, basal width 75, length 135. Antennal segments III–VIII length 55, 48, 50, 45, 45, 25.
Specimens studied. Holotype female macroptera, Queensland, Carnarvon Station, from woodland barkspray, 16.x.2014.
Comments. This species shares many character states with other species in the genus Heligmothrips, but it is clearly aberrant within the genus in its more elongate shape, relatively short antennae and weakly sculptured surface.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., Tree, Desley J. & Wells, Alice, 2022, Convoluted maxillary stylets among Australian Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae associated mainly with Casuarinaceae trees, pp. 301-332 in Zootaxa 5190 (3) on page 321, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7138093
Sabratha and Lepcis Magna excavation notebook.
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Temple
House

description: Manuscript notes and drawings relating to excavations at Sabratha and Lepcis Magna in 1949. Contains notes on capitolium, Temple of Jove, Casa Brogan and excavation photographs. During the excavation, Ward-Perkins served as Director while Kenyon took the role of Assistant Director. The notebook appears to contains some additional notes from November 1984.
description: Source: British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies, Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins collection, D5/2/4 [https://archives.le.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SLS%2fD5%2f2%2f4]
description: Coverage: LY
description: Temporal: Roman/Byzantine;start=100;end=600
description: created: 1949-1984
Epideira suppresa Finlay 1927
Creators: name: Darragh, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Horaiclavidae
Epideira
Epideira suppresa

description: Epideira suppresa Finlay, 1927
Pleurotoma selwyni laevis Pritchard, 1904: 328, pl. 19, fig. 11 non Hutton, 1873.
Epideira selwyni suppresa Finlay, 1927: 516.
Epidirona suppressa (Finlay, 1927).— Powell, 1944: 16.
Distribution. Otway Basin: Muddy Creek Formation (type). Age: middle Miocene
description: Published as part of Darragh, Thomas A., 2024, A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca, pp. 37-206 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83 on page 125, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14704472
A REVIEW BASED ON DRUG REPURPOSING: AN VIRTUAL TOOL IN MODERN DRUG DISCOVERY
Creators: name: R. Sanmathi*, P. Deepthika, J. Udayasri , A. Srikanya, T.E.G.K.Murthy,  T. Venkateswara Rao, V. Sai Kishore, G.Shiny.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Drug repurposing involves using existing medications for new therapeutic purposes, gaining significant attention during the covid -19 pandemic as a means to expedite drug discovery and address urgent healthcare demands. The process starts with identifying potential drug candidates, followed by evaluating their effectiveness through preclinical models and advancing to phase2 clinical trials. identification can be achieved through both computational and experimental methods, leveraging public drug databases and various data sources, including primary research, clinical trials, and anecdotal evidence of off- label uses. Researchers utilize artificial intelligence and bioinformatics tools to explore drug –protein interactions, often integrating genetic information, clinical data, molecular docking, and other analyses to optimize outcomes. This article outlines the strategies for drug repurposing and list various drugs that have been successfully repurposed along with their new indications.

Key words: drug repurposing, clinical trials, molecular docking, drug discovery, post- market safety
Sephisa chandra
Creators: name: Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh
name: Meitei, Laishram Ricky
name: Huidrom, Harmenn
name: Soibam, Baleshwor Singh
name: Ngangom, Aomao
name: Ngangom, Bendang
name: Meitei, Ronald
name: Fric, Zdenek Faltynek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Sephisa
Sephisa chandra

description: 576. Sephisa chandra (Moore, [1858])
Published records: Gupta, 2004: 566; Varshney & Smetacek, 2015: 212.
Remarks: Not recorded during the study.
description: Published as part of Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh, Meitei, Laishram Ricky, Huidrom, Harmenn, Soibam, Baleshwor Singh, Ngangom, Aomao, Ngangom, Bendang, Meitei, Ronald & Fric, Zdenek Faltynek, 2020, An Inventory Of The Butterflies Of Manipur, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4882 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296011
Buccinum katharinae Mclean & Clark 2023, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mclean, James H.
name: Clark, Roger N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Buccinidae
Buccinum
Buccinum katharinae

description: Buccinum katharinae n. sp.
Figures 22 J–K
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Type locality: Amutka Pass, SE of Seguam Island, Aleutian Is., Alaska (52°22.5 N, 171°20.26 W) (NMFS 23-2000 - 1-83), 325 m.
Type material: Holotype, LACM 3595, 29.2 mm; Paratype, Pt 1, RNC 5061, 34.8 mm. N of Carlisle Island, Islands of four Mountains (53°04.73 N, 170°08.43 W), 177 m. (NMFS 148-2022 - 1-32).
Description: Shell relatively small (to 35 mm, RNC 5061) whorls rounded, suture moderately impressed; shell brown with lamellar, brown periostracum; protoconch with 1.5 whorl, 4.5 teleconch whorls. Axial sculpture lacking, spiral sculpture of two strongly projecting spiral cords on spire; interspaces of equal width, deeply channeled, surfaces of cords and interspaces with microscopic, raised lirae; base with three additional cords of lesser strength, suture laid on uppermost of these. Lip of holotype thin, immature; lip; paratype specimen with a complete, but lip, which is scarcely if at all thickened. Operculum small, filling about 25 % of aperture.
Rachidian tooth rectangular, with four short, weak cusps; Lateral teeth tri-cuspid, Outer cusp very long, curved; widely spaced from central and inner cusps; central cusp very small, less than half as long and broad as inner cusp; inner cusp about half as long as outer one, slightly curved.
Remarks: For many years this unique species was known only from the holotype, but during the review process a second specimen was recovered. Buccinum katharinae is similar to Buccinum eugrammatum Dall, 1907, but differs in 1) the fewer spiral cords, two on spire, and five total compared with five on spire and eight total in B. eugrammatum, and 2) lack of periostracum in B. eugrammatum.
Etymology: Named for Katharine Pearson Maslenikov, taxonomist, at the University of Washington, who collected the holotype.
Distribution: Central Aleutian Islands, Amutka Pass (171°20 W), to the Islands of four Mountains (170° W), at depths of 177– 325 m.
Habitat: Volcanic sand and mud bottoms.
description: Published as part of Mclean, James H. & Clark, Roger N., 2023, Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 5351 (2) on page 199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375
Two-phase flows through porous media described by a Cahn–Hilliard–Brinkman model with dynamic boundary conditions
Creators: name: Colli, Pierluigi
name: Knopf, Patrik
name: Schimperna, Giulio
name: Signori, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Two-phase flows, Porous media, Cahn–Hilliard equation, Brinkman equation, Dynamic boundary conditions, Bulk-surface interaction
subject: 510 Mathematik
subject: 35D30
subject: 35K35
subject: 35K86
subject: 35B65
subject: 76D03
subject: 76T06

description: We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (i.e., flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium. The system of equations consists of a Brinkman equation for the volume averaged velocity field and a convective Cahn–Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions for the phase field, which describes the location of the two fluids within the domain. The dynamic boundary conditions are incorporated to model the interaction of the fluids with the wall of the container more precisely. In particular, they allow for a dynamic evolution of the contact angle between the interface separating the fluids and the boundary, and for a convection-induced motion of the corresponding contact line. For our model, we first prove the existence of global-in-time weak solutions in the case where regular potentials are used in the Cahn–Hilliard subsystem. In this case, we can further show the uniqueness of the weak solution under suitable additional assumptions. We further prove the existence of weak solutions in the case of singular potentials. Therefore, we regularize such singular potentials by a Moreau–Yosida approximation, such that the results for regular potentials can be applied, and eventually pass to the limit in this approximation scheme.
Ray Tracing Parametric Patches
Creators: name: Kajiya, James T.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1982

description: This paper describes an algorithm that uses
ray tracing techniques to display bivariate polynomial surface patches. A new intersection algorithm is developed
which uses ideas from algebraic geometry to obtain a numerical procedure for finding the intersection of a ray and a patch without subdivision. The algorithm may use complex
coordinates for the (u,v)-parameters of the patches. The
choice of these coordinates makes the computations more
uniform, so that there are fewer special cases to be considered. In particular, the appearance and disappearance
of silhouette edges can be handled quite naturally. The
uniformity of these techniques may be suitable for implementation on either a general purpose pipelined machine, or on special purpose hardware.
Design of an AI-Enhanced Digital Stethoscope: Advancing Cardiovascular Diagnostics Through Smart Auscultation
Creators: name: Taye, Abraham G.
name: Yemane, Sador
name: Negash, Eshetu
name: Minwuyelet, Yared
name: Tofik, Nebiha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the ever-evolving landscape of medical diagnostics, this study details the systematic design process and concept selection methodology for developing an advanced digital stethoscope, demonstrating the evolution from traditional acoustic models to AI-enhanced digital solutions. The device integrates cutting-edge AI technology with traditional auscultation methods to create a more accurate, efficient, and user-friendly diagnostic tool. Through systematic product planning, customer need analysis, and rigorous specification development, we identified key opportunities to enhance conventional stethoscope functionality. The proposed system features real-time sound analysis, automated classification of heart sounds, wireless connectivity for remote consultations, and an intuitive user interface accessible via smartphone integration. The design process employed a methodical approach incorporating customer feedback, competitive benchmarking, and systematic concept generation and selection. Through a structured evaluation framework, we analyzed portability, frequency response sensitivity, transmission quality, maintenance ease, user interface simplicity, output signal quality, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. The final design prioritizes biocompatibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness while addressing the growing demand for telemedicine capabilities in cardiovascular care. The project emphasizes the transition from conventional design to advanced digital solutions while maintaining a focus on practical clinical applications. Each concept was modelled using SOLIDWORKS software, enabling detailed visualization and engineering analysis. This systematic approach to concept screening and selection ensures the final design meets both current healthcare needs and future technological adaptability.
description: 44 pages
O'Connor, Edward D.: Spontaner Glaube. Ereignis und Erfahrung der charismatischen Erneuerung
Creators: name: Lippert, P.
Publisher: name: Ordenskorrespondenz
Year: 1970

description: Ordenskorrespondenz, Bd. 16 (1975): Ordenskorrespondenz: Zeitschrift für Fragen des Ordenslebens, Band 16
(Aciandrena) sensu Warncke 1968
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Hymenoptera

description: Subgenus Aciandrena Warncke, 1968
The subgenus Aciandrena is species-rich and contains a swarm of poorly-understood or undescribed diversity in dry desert and Mediterranean environments in North Africa and the Middle East. Females are often inseparable, and genetic analyses or the usually distinctive male genital capsules are typically required to define species boundaries (e.g., Wood et al. 2020; Pisanty et al. 2022a). Moreover, the subgenus Aciandrena sensu Warncke is polyphyletic and contains multiple lineages (Pisanty et al. 2022b). This can be seen to a certain extent with COI analysis (Fig. 1), although COI analysis has limited power to resolve deeper phylogenetic relationships (Trunz et al. 2016, though see also Talavera et al. 2022). At the present time, it is not clear how to effectively differentiate these lineages, and so a broad Aciandrena concept is adopted here. A specimen from high altitude in the Middle Atlas generated a sequence that is closest to two eastern species, A. curviocciput Pisanty & Wood, 2022 (12.77%; Israel, Lebanon, Turkey) and A. israelica Scheuchl & Pisanty, 2016 (13.03%, range 12.64–13.42%; Turkey, Syria, Israel and the West Bank, Jordan). The species is also morphologically distinct from these comparison species, and it is described below as Andrena ifranensis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas James, 2023, Revisions to the Andrena fauna of north-western Africa with a focus on Morocco (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), pp. 1-85 in European Journal of Taxonomy 916 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.916.2381, http://zenodo.org/record/10453460
Regulation of ROS signaling by TIGAR induces cancer-modulating responses in the tumor microenvironment.
Creators: name: Cheung, Eric C
name: Strathdee, Douglas
name: Stevenson, David
name: Coomes, Jack
name: Blyth, Karen
name: Vousden, Karen H
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Tumour Biology
subject: Tumour Biology

description: The consequences of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cancer cells are complex and have been shown to both promote and retard tumorigenesis in different models. In mouse models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), loss of the antioxidant defense gene Tigar results in both a reduction in the development of early pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia and an increase in invasive and metastatic capacity, accompanied by decreased survival of mice lacking pancreatic TIGAR. We previously demonstrated that increased ROS following loss of TIGAR promotes various cancer cell-intrinsic changes that contribute to metastatic capacity, including epithelial to mesenchymal transition, enhanced migration and invasion, and an increase in ERK signaling. In this study, we show that pancreatic overexpression of TIGAR decreases metastatic capacity and migratory phenotypes in an aggressive model of PDAC, consistent with the concept that dynamic modulation of TIGAR in PDAC contributes to the development and progression of these tumors. Using TIGAR deficient and overexpressing mouse models, we find that the impact of modulation of TIGAR and ROS in PDAC cells also has a profound effect on the normal stromal cells surrounding the tumor. Loss of TIGAR promotes the production of cytokines by cancer cells that induce changes in the surrounding fibroblasts to adopt a tumor-supportive phenotype. Furthermore, these cytokines also attract macrophages that support PDAC dissemination and metastasis. Taken together our work shows that TIGAR-modulated ROS in PDAC can control cell intrinsic and extrinsic changes to impact tumor aggression.
The Extension of Object-Oriented Languages to a Homogenous, Concurrent Architecture
Creators: name: Lang, Charles Richard
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1982

description: A homogeneous machine architecture, consisting of a regular
interconnection of many identical elements, exploits the economic benefits of VLSI technology, A concurrent programming model is presented that is related to object oriented languages such as Simula and Smalltalk.
Techniques are developed which permit the execution of general purpose object oriented programs on a homogeneous machine. Both the hardware architecture and the supporting software algorithms are demonstrated to scale their performance with the size of the system.
The program objects communicate by passing messages. Objects may move about in the system and may have an arbitrary pointer topology, A
distributed, on-the-fly garbage collection algorithm is presented which
operates by message passing. Simulation of the algorithm demonstrates its
ability to collect obsolete objects over the entire machine with acceptable
overhead costs. Algorithms for maintaining the locality of object references
and for implementing a virtual object capability are also presented.
To insure the absence of hardware bottlenecks, a number of
interconnection strategies are discussed and simulated for use in a
homogeneous machine. Of those considered, the Boolean N-cube connection
is demonstrated to provide the necessary characteristics.
The object oriented machine will provide increased performance as its
size is increased. It can execute a general purpose, concurrent, object
oriented language where the size of the machine and its interconnection
topology are transparent to the programmer.
Hestinalis nama subsp. nama nama (Doubleday 1844
Creators: name: Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh
name: Meitei, Laishram Ricky
name: Huidrom, Harmenn
name: Soibam, Baleshwor Singh
name: Ngangom, Aomao
name: Ngangom, Bendang
name: Meitei, Ronald
name: Fric, Zdenek Faltynek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Hestinalis
Hestinalis nama
Hestinalis nama nama (doubleday, 1844)

description: 575. Hestinalis nama nama (Doubleday, 1844) *
Published records: Gupta, 2004: 566; Varshney & Smetacek, 2015: 214.
Sighting locality: 59.
description: Published as part of Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh, Meitei, Laishram Ricky, Huidrom, Harmenn, Soibam, Baleshwor Singh, Ngangom, Aomao, Ngangom, Bendang, Meitei, Ronald & Fric, Zdenek Faltynek, 2020, An Inventory Of The Butterflies Of Manipur, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4882 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296011
Hybrid Processing
Creators: name: Carroll, Christopher R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1982

description: The past decade has witnessed a revolution  in digital
electronics. As the cost per function has decreased,
digital techniques have pushed the older analog methods
into the background. This thesis explores a method of
merging digital and analog techniques into a hybrid
combination of the two. Representing the analog
information as continuously variable intervals of time
minimizes the effects of noise on  the analogs data.
Ensuring that only digital data pass from one computation
to another prevents the accumulation of errors.
As an example of hybrid processing, this thesis
includes the design of a Large Scale Integrated (LSI)
circuit that implements the Lee-Moore maze solving
algorithm, extended to cover the two-layer path finding
case. The use of digital information to describe the path
geometry and analog information t o describe the path costs
demonstrates the system's hybrid nature.
The design of this system provided several lessons
applicable to the design of other hybrid systems. It also
unexpectedly demonstrated the importance of the
communication structure in determining the costs involved
in all kinds of processing. These lessons are summarized
in the last chapter.
A Self-Timed Chip Set for Microprocessor Communication
Creators: name: Whiting, Douglas L.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1982

description: This paper describes a family of chips used to link multiple processors
together on a speed-independent communication bus. Sendership arbitration is
included as an integral part of the signalling scheme, incurring very little
overhead and providing a measure of fairness. The protocol allows for
one-to-many communication in which the sender must wait for all receivers to
respond to each datum transmitted. The width of the data bus is arbitrary, and only three control wires are necessary for normal transmission cycles. In
order to alleviate congestion, the global bus may be divided into several
local buses by a method which is entirely transparent to the processor
software. Thus the bus topology may be reconfigured for each processing
network using these chips as building blocks.
Functional verification of speed-independent circuits is also discussed.
The problem is seen to be very complex, but some conclusions are drawn about
the type of tools which will be helpful in implementing self-timed systems.
Epideira powelli
Creators: name: Darragh, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Horaiclavidae
Epideira
Epideira powelli

description: Epideira powelli (Ludbrook, 1958)
Epidirona powelli Ludbrook, 1958: 86, pl. 5, fig. 3.
Distribution. St Vincent Basin: Dry Creek Sands (type). Age: middle Miocene.
description: Published as part of Darragh, Thomas A., 2024, A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca, pp. 37-206 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83 on page 125, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14704472
Heligmothrips frickeri Mound 1970
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Tree, Desley J.
name: Wells, Alice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Heligmothrips
Heligmothrips frickeri

description: Heligmothrips frickeri Mound
Heligmothrips frickeri Mound, 1970: 460
Described from a single female taken in northern Australia, the specimens listed below all share the same character states of a fully transverse mesopresternum, very small pronotal anteromarginal setae, and very few fore wing duplicated cilia. In other features these specimens are very similar to those identified as H. brevidens, and it is possible that they represent no more than aberrant specimens of that species.
Specimens studied. Holotype female, Northern Territory: McArthur River, 18.vii.1961. Northern Territory: Gregory N.P., Bullita Outstation, 1 female, 2 males, 3.vii.1986. Western Australia: Dampier 90km southeast, 2 females, 2 males, ix.1995. South Australia: Kangaroo Island, 1 female, 26.xii.2002.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., Tree, Desley J. & Wells, Alice, 2022, Convoluted maxillary stylets among Australian Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae associated mainly with Casuarinaceae trees, pp. 301-332 in Zootaxa 5190 (3) on page 323, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7138093
Experimental validation of the Gaseous Proton Recoil Telescope for quasi-absolute neutron flux measurements
Creators: name: Chatel, Carole
name: Mathieu, Ludovic
name: Aïche, Mourad
name: Rebii, Abdel
name: Amami, Hedi El
name: Dufort, Benoît
name: Diakaki, Maria
name: Bouland, Olivier
name: Noguère, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accuracy of neutronics simulations of actual or future reactor cores is nowadays driven by the precision of the nuclear data used as input. Among the most important neutron-induced fission cross sections to understand well are the actinides. It is, indeed, of primary importance to know accurately these cross sections around 1 MeV for the safety of Generation IV reactors. High accuracy measurements of neutron flux are essential for accurate cross section measurements; measurements of this flux with respect to the 1 H(n,n)p cross section can be made with the proton recoil technique. For an accurate measurement below 1 MeV, the Gaseous Proton Recoil Telescope (GPRT) is developed and characterized, with the aim to provide quasi-absolute neutron flux measurements with an accuracy better than 2%. This detector is composed of a double ionization chamber with a Micromegas segmented detection plane. The pressure of the gas can be adjusted to protons stopping range -and therefore to neutrons energy. An accurate neutron flux measurement requires that the GPRT has an intrinsic efficiency of 100%, and thus an important effort has been made to verify this. An alpha source and proton micro-beam have been used and the intrinsic efficiency is confirmed to be 100%. Additionally, the dead-time of the detector has been investigated on a test bench, and is found to be 7.3 ms.
title: Activité du port de Saint-Malo – 1752 – Marennes
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: produits de la mer
subject: épices et condiments

description: Cette fiche est issue de l’enquête menée par Jean Delumeau sur l’activité du port de Saint-Malo au 17e et 18e siècle. Cette fiche correspond à l’activité de l’année 1752 avec le port "Marennes"
description: Marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : sel
description: Catégories de marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : produits de la mer ; épices et condiments
description: Coverage: Grand cabotage
description: Bibliographic citation: PAITRY, Daniel. Les Activités commerciales et la vie du port de Saint-Malo en 1752. DES : Histoire : Rennes : 1967 (Bibliothèque François-Lebrun, MH 1043)
description: date: Date de numérisation : 2021 à 2023
description: created: Années 1950-1960
A General Proof Rule for Procedures in Predicate Transformer Semantics
Creators: name: Martin, Alain J
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1983

description: Given a general definition of the procedure call based on the
substitution  rule for assignment, a general proof  rule is derived for
procedures with  unrestricted value, result, and value- result parameters,
and global  variables in the body of the procedure. It is then extended
for recursive procedures. Assuming that it has been proved that the body
establishes a certain postcondition I,  the "intention,"  for a certain
precondition  J, the proof rule permitting to determine under which
conditions a certain procedure call establishes the post condition E, the
"extension", is based on finding an "adaptation" A , a s weak as possible,
such that A ~ I  -- E  ( E ' is derived from E by some substitution of parameter variables.) It is preferable, but not essential, that the body
be  "transparent " for the value parameters, i.e . , that the value parameters are not changed by the body.
(Chrysandrena) Hedicke 1933
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Hymenoptera

description: Subgenus Chrysandrena Hedicke, 1933
Members of the subgenus Chrysandrena are principally separated from the subgenus Euandrena Hedicke, 1933 in the female sex by the presence of plumose scopal hairs, since all known Chrysandrena species are specialists of Asteraceae, with Asteraceae-specialised bees often displaying dense, finely plumose, or branched scopal hairs (e.g., Linsley 1958; Linsley & MacSwain 1958; Moldenke 1979; pers. obs. for the genus Andrena), whereas Euandrena are not (either polylectic or specialists on other botanical families). The statuses of these two subgenera were recently confirmed as reciprocally monophyletic in the Old World (Pisanty et al. 2022b). This result was also found with a simple COI analysis (Fig. 2). The placement of A. testaceipes is also notable, as it was previously included in the subgenus Margandrena Warncke, 1968. The confusion surrounding its placement is discussed below in the new synonymies section; it can now be confidently placed in Chrysandrena based on morphology and this genetic result.
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas James, 2023, Revisions to the Andrena fauna of north-western Africa with a focus on Morocco (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), pp. 1-85 in European Journal of Taxonomy 916 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.916.2381, http://zenodo.org/record/10453460
Hestina persimilis subsp. persimilis persimilis (Westwood 1850
Creators: name: Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh
name: Meitei, Laishram Ricky
name: Huidrom, Harmenn
name: Soibam, Baleshwor Singh
name: Ngangom, Aomao
name: Ngangom, Bendang
name: Meitei, Ronald
name: Fric, Zdenek Faltynek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Hestina
Hestina persimilis
Hestina persimilis persimilis (westwood, [1850])

description: 574. Hestina persimilis persimilis (Westwood, [1850]) *
Published records: Varshney & Smetacek, 2015:213.
Sighting locality: 59.
description: Published as part of Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh, Meitei, Laishram Ricky, Huidrom, Harmenn, Soibam, Baleshwor Singh, Ngangom, Aomao, Ngangom, Bendang, Meitei, Ronald & Fric, Zdenek Faltynek, 2020, An Inventory Of The Butterflies Of Manipur, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4882 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296011
Automated Performance Optimization of Custom Integrated Circuits
Creators: name: Trimberger, Stephen
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1983

description: The complexity of integrated circuits requires a hierarchical design methodology that allows the user to divide the problem into pieces, design
each piece independently, and assemble the pieces into the complete system. The design herarchy brings out composition problems, problems that are a property of the assembly as a whole, not of one single instance in
the hierarchy. Recent research has produced tools that automate part of the composition task - the logical connection of the pieces. However, these tools do not
ensure that signals driven over these connections will be driven sufficiently to give reasonable cycle speed of the resulting chips. It is easily possible to specify an assembly in which a small-sized gate is required to drive an
enormous load. Parasitic capacitance of the wiring made automatically by the logical connection tool can be the dominant source of delay, so assembly
tools can actually worsen the performance of the circuit and hide this fact
from the designer.
When required to make large circuits, automated layout tools such as PLA
generators can blindly make layouts that give abysmally poor performance.
Here again, the delay is in a part of circuit that the designer did not specify,
so it is hidden. Finding and correcting these problems is a difficult and
time-consuming task in integrated circuit design, and one that consumes
vastly more people's time and computer time than the simple assembly of
the chip.
RTsim:  A register transfer simulator
Creators: name: Lam, Jimmy
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1983

description: The growing complexity and size of VLSI processors are demanding extremely accurate,
yet efficient, simulation facilities for microcode debugging, logic verification, and system
integration. However, reliance on mask iterations to remedy problems on a chip not only
raises costs, but also extends the design cycle. Simulation justifies itself in both the turn
around time and the design cost. Gate level simulation is one method for reducing errors
in a chip design. However, gate level simulation of large designs are extremely expensive,
and sometimes impossible when the gate level representation is not known. This thesis
attempts to solve this problem by providing a functional level approach, consisting of a
register transfer description language, an embedded functional modeling language, a
reconfigurable assembler, and a functional simulation program. Mixed-level simulation
capability is also provided by allowing the replacement of a functional unit by a transistor
network which is being simulated by a switch-level logic simulator.
Cyrestis cocles subsp. cocles cocles (Fabricius 1787
Creators: name: Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh
name: Meitei, Laishram Ricky
name: Huidrom, Harmenn
name: Soibam, Baleshwor Singh
name: Ngangom, Aomao
name: Ngangom, Bendang
name: Meitei, Ronald
name: Fric, Zdenek Faltynek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Cyrestis
Cyrestis cocles
Cyrestis cocles cocles (fabricius,1787)

description: 577. Cyrestis cocles cocles (Fabricius,1787) *
Published records: Varshney & Smetacek, 2015: 214.
Sighting locality: 63, 77.
description: Published as part of Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh, Meitei, Laishram Ricky, Huidrom, Harmenn, Soibam, Baleshwor Singh, Ngangom, Aomao, Ngangom, Bendang, Meitei, Ronald & Fric, Zdenek Faltynek, 2020, An Inventory Of The Butterflies Of Manipur, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4882 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296011
Cyrestis thyodamas subsp. thyodamas Boisduval 1846
Creators: name: Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh
name: Meitei, Laishram Ricky
name: Huidrom, Harmenn
name: Soibam, Baleshwor Singh
name: Ngangom, Aomao
name: Ngangom, Bendang
name: Meitei, Ronald
name: Fric, Zdenek Faltynek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Cyrestis
Cyrestis thyodamas
Cyrestis thyodamas thyodamas boisduval, 1846

description: 578. Cyrestis thyodamas thyodamas Boisduval, 1846 *
Published records: Varshney & Smetacek, 2015: 214.
Sighting locality: 51, 63, 77.
description: Published as part of Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh, Meitei, Laishram Ricky, Huidrom, Harmenn, Soibam, Baleshwor Singh, Ngangom, Aomao, Ngangom, Bendang, Meitei, Ronald & Fric, Zdenek Faltynek, 2020, An Inventory Of The Butterflies Of Manipur, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4882 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4882.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296011