cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of geometric nonlinearities and uniform temperature fields on the detachment of patched beam-plates under pressure loading
Creators: name: Carabetta, Pamela
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Patched structures have many engineering applications, ranging from aircraft repair to electronic devices and beyond.  Delamination growth at the edge of the interface between the substructures may lead to catastrophic results.  In the spirit of preventing this, edge delamination failure is studied such that behavior may be predicted as well as characterized for a patched beam-plate structure under different physical conditions.  The loading scenario on such structures includes transverse pressure and an applied uniform temperature field.  These conditions are intended to mimic possible conditions under which a patched beam-plate may be used.  The patched beam-plate consists of two plates: the "patch," which is of shorter length, adhered to the longer "baseplate".  This composite structure is examined under various support conditions on the endpoints: hinged-free, clamped-free, hinged-fixed, and clamped-fixed.  The problem is formulated analytically, from first principles, using linear and geometrically nonlinear models.  Governing equations are derived using a local force balance on an element of the structure incorporating an appropriate geometrically nonlinear thin structure theory, and can be reduced accordingly to simplify to a corresponding linear model.  A Griffith type criterion, is adopted to determine the onset of delamination growth.  Exact analytical solutions are obtained for nonlinear as well as linear problems and numerical simulations based on these solutions are performed using MATLAB. Results are presented in the form of delamination growth paths, which may be interpreted physically to describe the onset, extent, and stability of the delamination growth resulting from each scenario.  The effect of various physical parameters on delamination behavior is explored.  The results show that a temperature difference has a profound effect on the delamination behavior of the patched plates when subject to transverse pressure, as it significantly alters the delamination growth thresholds.  There are scenarios where delamination propagation begins in the absence of transverse pressure, due solely to the applied temperature difference.  Conclusions are drawn and physical explanations are given for the behavior of each patched plate system.  The nonlinear model reveals different delamination growth thresholds and stabilities than the linear model.  It observed that the linear model does not adequately describe the salient behavior in comparison to the nonlinear model.
Agelanius dominus Gonzalez 1999
Creators: name: González, Christian R.
name: Elgueta, Mario
name: Krolow, Tiago K.
name: Henriques, Augusto L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Agelanius
Agelanius dominus

description: Agelanius dominus González, 1999: 146, figs. 24–29.
Holotype. Female (UMCE). Type-locality: Chile, Cordillera Province, La Obra.
Distribution. Chile: Región Metropolitana (Cordillera, Santiago).
References. González, 1999: 143 (key); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 58 (cat.).
description: Published as part of González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario, Krolow, Tiago K. & Henriques, Augusto L., 2022, Catalog of the horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Chile, pp. 201-257 in Zootaxa 5091 (2) on page 230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5843635
Career development and the relevance of relationships
Creators: name: Cattafesta, Joanne L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation examined the relevance of relationships for career development from two perspectives -- those of 159 students enrolled in professional master's degree programs (referred to as career developers -- CDs) and 12 career advisers (CAs), experts consulted for their counsel. Implicit in this research was the sense these experienced and desired senses of relational quality played an important role in people's career development, but they had not been well studied to date.  A multi-method approach was utilized to examine CDs' career and relational development, age, identification with two hypothetical scenarios, and their consultation with others when seeking career advice.  Data were collected through a survey. How CAs conceived of routine difficulties people encounter and the advice they describe offering them was also considered.  Data were collected through in-depth interviews.The dissertation examined CDs with different career development interests: preparation (CP), enhancement (CE) or change (CC). Age was significantly associated with whether CDs sought to prepare for, enhance or change careers and their relational development.  CDs differed significantly in their identification with Scenario-C, mostly reported by CCs.  As CCs'career was "in-progress", these data suggest career concerns were more salient because of their desires for intimate relationships as careers are considered necessary for their development.Almost all participants reported consulting intimate advisers for career advice. CPs frequently sought counsel from intimate advisers namely parents/siblings and academic advisers; these associations were significant. CEs frequently consulted co-workers; this association was also significant.  CEs likely consulted co-workers for information about career enhancement opportunities, unlike CCs who may have considered them too great a risk.  Surprisingly, most CDs did not report consulting expert advisers for career advice. Of those that did, most wre CCs.  These findings suggest that differing career choices seem to relate to differing senses of relationships.Common dilemmas noted by CAs were balancing personal and work-life, finding identification with work and boring or overly complex assignments. CAs counseled individuals to "voice" their dissatisfaction, develop additional skills or seek new employment. They also recommended organizations consider how flexibility, career development, and negotiation of personal and instrumental goals may resolve work dilemmas.
Enlisting masculinity: gender and the recruitment of the all-volunteer force
Creators: name: Brown, Melissa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation explores how the US military branches have coped with the problem of recruiting a volunteer force in a period when masculinity, a key ideological underpinning of military service, was widely perceived to be in crisis. The central questions of this dissertation are: when the military appeals to potential recruits, does it present service in masculine terms, and if so, in what forms?  How do recruiting materials construct gender as they create ideas about soldiering?  Do the four service branches, each with its own history, institutional culture, and specific personnel needs, deploy gender in their recruiting materials in significantly different ways?  In order to answer these questions, I collected recruiting advertisements published by the four armed forces in several magazines between 1970 and 2003 and analyzed them using an interpretive textual approach.  The print ad sample was supplemented with television commercials, recruiting websites, and media coverage of recruiting.  The dissertation finds that the military branches have presented several versions of masculinity, including both transformed models that are gaining dominance in the civilian sector and traditional warrior forms.  While the Marines rely exclusively on a traditional model, the Army, Navy, and Air Force also draw on various strands of masculinity that are in circulation in the wider culture, including professional/managerial forms, masculinity tied to mastery of technology, and hybrid masculinity which combines toughness and aggression with compassion and egalitarianism.  The military's use of particular models of masculinity can reinforce their status and help to make them socially dominant, especially within the groups targeted.   In the recruiting ads, women are offered some access to characteristics and experiences generally associated with men, but the representations make it clear that men are the primary audience and the desired target.  The approach to representing women taken by each service differs, but combat and warriorhood are associated exclusively with men.  The dissertation ends with a brief study of military recruiting in Great Britain, to raise the issue of whether the American approach is unique to our military institutions and gender system or whether volunteer militaries in other states deploy constructions of gender in similar ways.
Faith and fortune: religious identity and the politics of profit in the seventeenth-century Caribbean
Creators: name: Block, Kristen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: "Faith and Fortune" examines the intersection between religious allegiance and economic ambition on the volatile frontiers of the seventeenth-century Caribbean.  Encompassing both Spanish and English colonies, it employs four case studies to explore how ordinary individuals created and manipulated the meaning of their religious affiliations.  The first chapter examines cases of Christianized slaves in Cartagena de Indias who denounced their masters' harsh mistreatment as un-Christian, using their membership in the community of believers as leverage to demand better conditions.  The second chapter is a study of the motley crew of Protestant Northern Europeans who, as sojourners in the Spanish Caribbean, converted to Catholicism as an assimilation strategy.  The ideas and practice of English puritanism animate the third chapter's case study of the political economy of Oliver Cromwell's Western Design--a puritan crusade against the Spanish Catholic empire in the New World--using an analysis of race, class, and gender to examine its failures.  The final chapter takes place in Barbados, birthplace of the English colonial "sugar revolution," where Quaker missionaries intent on Christianizing the local African slave population churned up fears of slave rebellion and challenged local Friends' interpretation of their own faith and convictions.  "Faith and Fortune" personalizes the history of Caribbean inequalities from the perspective of slaves, sailors, servants, and sectarians who made their lives and fortunes in the profit-saturated landscape of the Caribbean.  It illuminates how for them, articulating a Christian identity was a political act, an important power negotiation, and a way to articulate injustice.
Additional file 2: of The effects of rhythm control strategies versus rate control strategies for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter: a protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
Creators: name: Naqash Sethi
name: Safi, Sanam
name: Nielsen, Emil
name: Feinberg, Joshua
name: Gluud, Christian
name: Jakobsen, Janus
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: The preliminary search strategy for MEDLINE (Ovid). (PDF 221 kb)
Optimization in logical analysis of data
Creators: name: Bonates, Tiberius
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Logical Analysis of Data (LAD) is a machine learning/data mining methodology that combines ideas from areas such as Boolean functions, optimization and logic. In this thesis, we focus on the description and the application of novel optimization models to the construction of improved and/or simplified LAD models of data. We address the construction of LAD classification models, proposing two alternative ways of generating patterns, or rules. First, we show how to construct LAD models based on patterns of maximum coverage. We show, through a series of computational experiments, that such models are as good as, if not better than those obtained with the standard LAD implementation and other machine learning methods, while requiring a much simpler calibration for optimal performance. We formulate the problem of finding the most suitable LAD model as a large linear program, and show how to solve it using column generation. For the subproblem phase, we describe a branch-and-bound algorithm, whose performance is significantly superior to that of a commercial integer programming solver. TheLAD models produced by this algorithm are virtually parameter-free and practically as accurate as the calibrated models obtained with other machine learning methods. Finally, we propose a novel regression algorithm that extends the LAD methodology for the case of a numerical outcome and show that it constitutes an attractive alternative to other regression methods in terms of performance and flexibility of use.
title:  Right Then, Right Now: Ronald Aronson and Jonathan Judaken in conversation about Sartre, anti-Semitism, and Israel/Palestine
Creators: name: Judaken, Jonathan
name: Aronson, Ronald
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Questa conversazione tra Ronald Aronson e Jonathan Judaken esplora l'evoluzione del punto di vista di Sartre sull'antisemitismo, su Israele, sul razzismo e sulla lotta palestinese. Sartre divenne dapprima un'importante forza culturale e politica come critico dell'antisemitismo e sostenitore della lotta di liberazione nazionale degli ebrei israeliani. In seguito, di fronte al conflitto arabo-israeliano e poi israelo-palestinese, rifiutò di abbandonare il suo sostegno agli ebrei israeliani, pur abbracciando la validità della causa palestinese, compreso a volte l'uso del “terrorismo come arma dei deboli”. I suoi punti di vista sfumati, situati e perspicaci sono preziosi da rivedere alla luce del 7 ottobre e della guerra che ne è seguita.

This conversation between Ronald Aronson and Jonathan Judaken explores Sartre’s evolving views on anti-Semitism, Israel, racism, and the Palestinian struggle. Sartre first became a significant cultural-political force as a critic of anti-Semitism and as a supporter of the national liberation struggle of Israeli Jews. Then, faced with the Israeli-Arab and then Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he refused to abandon his support for Israeli Jews even while embracing the validity of the Palestinian cause, including at times the use of “terrorism as a weapon of the weak”. His nuanced, situated, and insightful views prove valuable to revisit in light of October 7 and the ensuing war.
description: Studi Sartriani – XVIII/2024 – Antisemitismo e pensiero ebraico in Sartre
Sensitivity analysis of blast loading parameters and their trends as uncertainty increases
Creators: name: Borenstein, Elan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: A sensitivity analysis of blast loading parameters is performed to determine which of the parameters' uncertainty has the greatest effect onthe maximum deflection of an aluminum plate subjected to a blast load.  A numerical simulation using the Monte Carlo method is used to obtain the ensemble averages of the probabilistic runs.  The random variables were given a uniform distribution.  Two simplified loading models are used.  The first has an instantaneous rise with an exponential decay, represented by the modified Friedlander equation.  The second loading model has a linear rise with an exponential decay.  Both of these models are simulated with three different blast scaled values, giving a total of six different cases. In addition, the deflection trends due to the loading parameters as uncertainty increases is quantified.  Probability density functions of themaximum deflection are also presented.  The probabilistic results and trends are also explained using deterministic methods.  It appears that the duration time of the loading models is generally the most sensitive parameter to uncertainty.
Diuncus taxicornis Smith & Beaver & Sittichaya 2022, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Smith, Sarah M.
name: Beaver, Roger A.
name: Sittichaya, Wisut
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Diuncus
Diuncus taxicornis

description: Diuncus taxicornis (Schedl, 1971) comb. nov.
Xyleborus taxicornis Schedl, 1971: 385.
Remarks. The holotype (NHMUK) and an image of a paratype (NHMW) were examined. The species is transferred to Diuncus Hulcr & Cognato, 2009 because of the following characteristics: antennal club obliquely truncate with segment 1 encircling anterior face (type 1); pronotum with six serrations on anterior margin; declivity flat, broad, margins broadened and distinctly carinate; declivital base with two pairs of denticles; protibiae obliquely triangular, with 3−5 large denticles, denticles distinctly longer than wide; scutellum visible and flush with the elytra; and mycangial tufts absent.
Distribution. West Malaysia.
description: Published as part of Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Sittichaya, Wisut, 2022, One hundred eighteen taxonomic changes among Xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 151-175 in Zootaxa 5194 (2) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7147098
The effect of tea polyphenols on chronic disease: obesity, the metabolic syndrome, and colon cancer
Creators: name: Bose, Mousumi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The prevalence of obesity and the metabolic syndrome has more than doubled in the last 30 years. Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Many studies show beneficial effects of certain dietary constituents, including green tea, in the prevention of these diseases. In the first set of experiments, I determined the effect of (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) on weight gain and related factors in a high-fat diet-induced mouse model for obesity and the metabolic syndrome. I found that l6-week treatment of 0.32% EGCG in the diet (w/w) significantly reduced body weight gain ([greater than sign]50%) and body fat percentage (by 10%) in comparison to control mice. Visceral fat weight was significantly decreased by EGCG treatment. Biochemical measurements revealed that EGCG treatment significantly attenuated insulin resistance and plasma cholesterol. Liver pathologies were significantly lessened by EGCG, as indicated by decreased liver weight, triglyceride content, and transaminase release into plasma. Plasma monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP-1) levels were also decreased by EGCG, suggesting reduction of inflammation by EGCG.  In the next set of experiments, I determined the effect of a combination of EGCG (0.16% in the drinking fluid) and fish oil in the diet (12% w/w), on intestinal tumorigenesis in ApcMin/+ mice. Combination treatment reduced tumor number by 53% compared to controls; at the doses used, neither agent alone had a significant effect. β-catenin nuclear positivity in intestinal adenomas from the combination group was lower than control mice, indicating modulation of Wnt signaling. Fish oil and the combination significantly reduced prostaglandin E2 levels in adenomas compared to controls, suggesting modulation of aberrant arachidonic acid metabolism. Akt phosphorylation in adenomas was significantly reduced in all treatment groups, which may have contributed to the observed increase in apoptosis. The results from these two studies indicate that long-term treatment with EGCG decreases risk for obesity and conditions associated with the metabolic syndrome, and that a combination of EGCG and fish oil can inhibit intestinal tumorigenesis in ApcMin/+ mice. These effects may be mediated through multiple mechanisms and should be addressed in future studies in the prevention of chronic disease.
Additional file 2: of Genetic basis of allochronic differentiation in the fall armyworm
Creators: name: HĂ¤Nniger, Sabine
name: Dumas, Pascaline
name: SchĂśfl, Gerhard
name: Gebauer-Jung, Steffi
name: Vogel, Heiko
name: Unbehend, Melanie
name: Heckel, David
name: Groot, Astrid
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Spodoptera frugiperda populations. (PDF 68 kb)
Kassina schioetzi Rodel, Grafe, Rudolf & Ernst 2002
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
name: Luiselli, Luca
name: Dubois, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Kassina
Kassina schioetzi

description: Kassina schioetzi Rödel, Grafe, Rudolf & Ernst, 2002
(Fig. 10E)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Togo • 5 ♂, 1 ♀; Tsévié; MNHN-RA-2018.0029, MNHN-RA-2018.0030; Coll. GHS-W 2001, Coll. GHS-W 2002, Coll. GHS-W 2005.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. — Côte d’Ivoire • 1 ♂; Orombo Bokai; MNHN-RA-1998.2230 • 2♂; Kotiessou; MNHN-RA-1998.2231, MNHN-RA-1998.2232 • ♀; Lamto; MNHN-RA-2018.0029.
DESCRIPTION. — Small sized (SVL 29.8-36.0 mm ♂, 38.0- 38.4 mm ♀), slender frog. Snout rounded. Head wider than long (HW 34-38% SVL; HL 33-40% SVL). Tympanum distinct (TYD 7-9% SVL). Tibia short (TL 34-41% SVL). Webbing absent, phalanges all free. Generally smooth skin on back and sides, with horny spinules in the lower part of the flanks; throat, chest and belly smooth.
COLOURATION. — The dorsal colouration is marked by large black spots of rounded shape outlined by white on a brown background. The flanks, loreal and tympanic region and tympanum present the same pattern, as do the dorsal part of limbs, legs and feet. The ventral part of the body is white with small black spots.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. — Males have glandular a disc on the subgular vocal sac. Females are larger.
HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — First vouchered record. This species is characteristic to the Guinean Savannah in the southern part of Togo. Although it is exported in the international pet trade, under the name of Kassina senegalensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1841), there was no official record of its presence in Togo. So far, the species had been known from humid, densely vegetated savannahs from southwestern Guinea to northern Ghana. Channing & Rödel (2019) already included the Togolese record in their map.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé, Ohler, Annemarie, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Luiselli, Luca & Dubois, Alain, 2024, Amphibians of Togo: taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 631-670 in Zoosystema 46 (25) on page 650, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a25, http://zenodo.org/record/13907152
Agelanius erebus
Creators: name: González, Christian R.
name: Elgueta, Mario
name: Krolow, Tiago K.
name: Henriques, Augusto L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Agelanius
Agelanius erebus

description: Agelanius erebus (Coscarón & Philip, 1967a)
Dasybasis (Agelanius) erebus Coscarón & Philip, 1967a: 98 (in key).
Holotype. Female (MACN). Type-locality: Argentina, Neuquén, La Angostura.
Distribution. Argentina: Provincias de Río Negro, Neuquén. Chile: (no precise locality).
References. Coscarón, 1967b: 119 (Argentina spp., Dasybasis); Coscarón & Philip, 1967b: 194 (rev., Dasybasis (Agelanius), figs. 83A–H, 84A–C); Fairchild, 1971: 43 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Pino, 1975b: 192 (list, Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Moucha, 1976: 224 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Arnaud, 1985: 112 (Philip’s species); Coscarón & González, 1991: 131 (Chile spp., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); González, 1993: 110–111 (sea. occ., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 70 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Coscarón, 1998: 350 (list, dist., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); González, 1999: 142 (key), 148 (redes., figs. 30–34); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 58 (cat.); Bachmann, 2012: 103 (typ., Dasybasis (Agelanius )).
Agelanius fuscus González, 2004a: 211, figs. 1–8 (adul., imm. sta.)
Holotype. Female (UMCE). Type-locality: Chile, Talca, Alto de Vilches.
Distribution. Chile: Región del Maule (Talca).
References. Coscarón & Papavero, 2009a: 3 (man., list); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 58 (cat.); Coscarón & Papavero, 2014: 2 (imm. sta., list).
description: Published as part of González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario, Krolow, Tiago K. & Henriques, Augusto L., 2022, Catalog of the horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Chile, pp. 201-257 in Zootaxa 5091 (2) on page 230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5843635
Assessment of cracking potential of high-performance concrete due to restrained shrinkage
Creators: name: Aktas, Kagan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Many State Engineers have observed that a number of high-performance concrete (HPC) bridge decks exhibited cracking and sometimes soon after being poured.  Although deck cracking can be attributed to various causes, in many cases, concrete shrinkage is considered the main contributor.  Additionally, concrete in bridge decks is considered restrained and there is a need to examine the behavior of HPC mixes under those conditions.  The AASHTO test (PP 34-06, The Passive or Restrained Ring Test) is employed to measure the cracking potential and restrained shrinkage behavior of various HPC mixes used in bridge deck projects contracted by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT).  This thesis presents the results of a study which utilized a method for directly measuring the strain development in the concrete ring using Vibrating Wire Strain Gages (VWSG).  For each mix, additional tests were performed to determine the corresponding mechanical properties (e.g., elastic modulus, tensile splitting strength, compressive strength, etc.).  The effect of total amount of cementitious materials and the potential of cracking for various mixes are also reported.  The results of the study are used to correlate strains from restrained shrinkage tests with those from free shrinkage tests.  Results show that the coarse aggregate (CA) content, the coarse/fine aggregate ratio, and cementitious content have the greatest effect on both free and restrained shrinkage.  Mixes with higher cementitious content were observed to crack earlier.  In general, to minimize HPC cracking potential, it is suggested that a limit on free shrinkage (450 micro strain at 56 days) be specified in bridge decks to indirectly reflect restrained shrinkage conditions.  Additional limits for the total amount of coarse aggregate (1800 lb/cu yd.) and Coarse/Fine aggregate ratio (1.48) should also be considered.
Kassina senegalensis
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
name: Luiselli, Luca
name: Dubois, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Kassina
Kassina senegalensis

description: Kassina senegalensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
(Fig. 10F)
MATERIALS EXAMINED. — Togo • 3 ♂, 2 ♀; Kanté; MNHN-RA-1998.2013, MNHN-RA-1993.2241-2443, MNHN-RA-1993.3994 • 2 ♂, 2 ♀; Lomé; MNHN-RA-1993.3994, MNHN-RA-1998.2241-2243 • 4 ♂; Tsévié; MNHN-RA-2006.2693-2696.
DESCRIPTION. — Small sized frog (SVL 26.5-34.1 mm ♂, 29.5- 32.5 mm ♀), with slender, but fairly robust body. Snout rounded. Head slightly longer than broad (HW 29-33% SVL; HL 31-35% SVL). Tympanum distinct, round, very small (TYD 4-5% SVL). Tibia very short (TL 30-37% SVL). Webbing absent, phalanges all free. Back and upper parts of flanks smooth; lower parts of flanks and belly with glandular warts.
COLOURATION. — The back shows three black longitudinal bands, either continuous or broken into blotches, on a beige background. These bands are starting from the snout and joining at the vent. The canthus rostralis and the loreal and tympanic regions are black. The snout is beige with some black spots, the edge of the upper lip is beige.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. — Males have a glandular disc on the subgular vocal sac.
HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — Kassina senegalensis is widespread throughout Africa, ranging from Senegal to southern Africa (Perret 1966; Lamotte 1967a; SchiØtz 1967; Channing & Rödel 2019). In Togo, it is very frequent in the region of Tsévié where it was observed in the rainy season around small pools bordered by grasses. It has a nationwide distribution. Bourgat (1979) indicated its presence in the South as well as in the North of Togo. Segniagbeto et al. (2022) reported the species presence in the ecological zones III, IV and II.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé, Ohler, Annemarie, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Luiselli, Luca & Dubois, Alain, 2024, Amphibians of Togo: taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 631-670 in Zoosystema 46 (25) on page 650, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a25, http://zenodo.org/record/13907152
Agelanius lanei
Creators: name: González, Christian R.
name: Elgueta, Mario
name: Krolow, Tiago K.
name: Henriques, Augusto L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Agelanius
Agelanius lanei

description: Agelanius lanei (Coscarón & Philip, 1967a)
Dasybasis (Agelanius) lanei Coscarón & Philip, 1967a: 99 (in key).
Therioplectes? inornatus; Kröber, 1930e: 151 (misident.). Kröber, 1930a: 257–258 (redes., fig. 5); Kröber, 1934: 291 (cat., Sziladynus).
Holotype. Female, paratypes male (MACN), female (FSCA), other paratypes (USNM, AMNH, CUIC, CAS, IML, MLPA). Type-locality: Argentina, Rio Negro, Bariloche, Llao-Llao.
Distribution. Argentina: Provincias de Neuquén to Río Negro. Chile: Región de Ñuble (Punilla); Región de La Araucanía (Cautín).
References. Coscarón, 1967b: 120 (Argentina spp., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Coscarón & Philip, 1967b: 103 (rev., figs. 86A–I, 87A–D, Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Fairchild, 1971: 43 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Moucha, 1976: 224 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Arnaud, 1985: 132 (Philip’s species); Coscarón & González, 1991: 131 (Chile spp., Dasybasis Agelanius )); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 70 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Coscarón, 1998: 350 (list, dist., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); González, 1999: 142 (key), 149 (redes., figs. 35–39); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009a: 115 (female, figs. 87A–H), 116 (male, figs. 88A–E); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 58 (cat.); Bachmann, 2012: 104 (typ., Dasybasis (Agelanius )).
description: Published as part of González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario, Krolow, Tiago K. & Henriques, Augusto L., 2022, Catalog of the horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Chile, pp. 201-257 in Zootaxa 5091 (2) on pages 230-231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5843635
Additional file 4: Figure S2. of Zoledronic acid alters hematopoiesis and generates breast tumor-suppressive bone marrow cells
Creators: name: Jessalyn Ubellacker
name: Marie-Therese Haider
name: DeCristo, Molly
name: Allocca, Gloria
name: Brown, Nicola
name: Silver, Daniel
name: Holen, Ingunn
name: McAllister, Sandra
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Schematic illustration of osteoblast, osteoclast and proteoglycan quantifications. a Parameters for osteoclast and osteoblast identification. Osteoblast and osteoclast number on all trabecular bone surfaces was scored 200Â Îźm away from the growth plate. b Parameters for proteoglycan-rich matrix quantification. (PDF 1542 kb)
The epistemological foundations of political decision making
Creators: name: Ackerman, Michael
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Year: 2007

description: The first section explores the epistemological similarities between postmodern and conservative thought.  I attempt to show the underlying similarities between the assumptions made by each school of thought.  The primary focus is on similarities in how each school of thought views the role and limits of reason.  Each school of thought is highly conscious of how complex our environment is relative to our cognitive capacities.  The next section is an overview of political science literature that addresses the decision making process and the role of various sorts of expertise (policy, political, and cultural) within situations of great complexity.  The focus is primarily on foreign policy decision making, especially the Vietnam War.  The themes raised are tentatively applied to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq.   However, the general themes discussed and the questions raised are applicable to domestic politics (on the local, state, and federal levels).  In both of these sections, I raise practical and theoretical questions and I argue that an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing much from social and cognitive psychology, would be useful in furthering this research.  In addition to helping us achieve a greater understanding of past events, this interdisciplinary approach would be of modest (but significant) prescriptive value by offering policy makers advice on how to best avoid major policy mistakes.   The final section examines the Mt. Laurel housing cases and how the judicial branch was assisted by land use experts who were appointed as special masters to the courts.  This section gives an example of decision makers (in this case, judges) in a complex situation and how the New Jersey political system has seen fit to supplement the judges' legal expertise through the advice of experts in housing and land use policy.  As in the previous sections, questions are raised about how to best calibrate the roles of the educated generalists and the policy experts to achieve more satisfactory policy outcomes.
Classifiers of massive and structured data problems: algorithms and applications
Creators: name: Balakrishnan, Suhrid
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Year: 2007

description: The last two decades have seen the emergence of vast and unprecedented data repositories. Extraordinary opportunities now present themselves for new data analysis methods that can harness these repositories. As larger and larger amounts of widely varying types of data are constantly being collected and assimilated, thetask of making use of such data opens up interesting and challenging avenues of research.This thesis deals with specific problems in data mining and machine learning in this setting. In particular we describe algorithms and applications for classification problems wherecomputational restrictions become limiting (resource bounded algorithms and online/streaming algorithms) as well as models and algorithms for certain problems where the structure of the input is leveraged to provide not only accurate, but also interpretable classifiers.
Algorithms and LP-duality based lower bounds in ad-hoc radio networks
Creators: name: Fernandes, Rohan Jude
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Year: 2007

description: An Ad-hoc Radio Network consists of nodes with no knowledge of its neighbors and knowledge of its own ID and n, the size of the network.  In this thesis, we present algorithms and lowerbounds related to ad-hoc network initialization. Sensor networks are an important type of ad-hoc Radio Network, consisting of sensor nodes - very weak computers. Usually sensor nodes get distributed at random on a surface where they must wake up and initialize into a Radio Network. Due to the strict restrictions on sensor nodecapabilities, it is difficult to find efficient solutions to even basic problems.In our first result, we present a formal Weak Sensor Model that summarizes the literature on sensor node restrictions, taking the mostrestrictive choices when possible. We show that sensor connectivity graphs have low-degree subgraphs with good hop-stretch, as required by the Weak Sensor Model. We then give a Weak Sensor Model-compatible protocol for finding such graphs that runs in O(log2 n) time with high probability.We then present new lower bounds for collision-free transmissions in Radio Networks. Our main result is a tight lower bound ofOmega(log n log (1/epsilon)) on theepsilon-failure-probability time required by a fair randomized protocol to achieve a clear transmission in a one-hop network. We also prove a new lower bound for the importantmulti-hop setting of nodes distributed as a connected Random Geometric Graph. In this setting, we prove a lower bound ofOmega(loglog n log (1/epsilon)) on fair protocols for clear transmissions in the well-studied case of sensor nodes distributed uniformly at random with enough nodes to ensure connectivity, and thus for more complicated problems such as MIS.In the Wake-Up problem, we have a multi-hop, ad-hoc radio network with locally synchronized nodes. Each node either wakes up spontaneously or is activated when it receives a signal from a neighboring node. All nodes have knowledge of n, the number of nodes in the network and the diameter D. We present a new lower bound of Omega(D log n log (1/epsilon)) on the epsilon-failure-probability time taken by a fair protocol to wake up the entire network. Our lower bound is tight for high-probability protocols when D in mathcal O (n/log 2 n).
Noninvasive assessment of mental, physical and respiratory stressors on cardiovascular function
Creators: name: Looi, Jennifer C.
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Year: 2007

description: Stress is encountered in daily life from relationships with people, work obligations, and our environment. Often viewed from the realm of the social sciences, this field of study was perceived to be limited to descriptive measures, which only captured information discretely. As medicine started to investigate the biological ramifications of the stress response, it elevated the importance of stress as a precursor to several chronic diseases, which manifest both physically and mentally. As a result, many sub-areas of research have emerged to examine the relationship of stress to various systems within the human body, which include the endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory systems. Growing understanding of the biological realities of stress will help disentangle the multiple connotations of stress. It can aid in producing better targeted medications and treatments. This thesis compared three types of stressors and sought to determine which cardiovascular parameters were most sensitive to stress. Young volunteers were subjected to mental, physical and respiratory stressors while their variability of heart rate, blood pressure and blood flow velocity were measured to examine the role of stress on the cardiovascular system. From comparisons between the rest and different stressor interventions for each subject, statistics from paired T tests show significant differences exist between each stressor and rest phase. In addition, testing of the null hypothesis against T wave amplitude, QT interval, R-P onset, frequency, beats per minute, change in blood pressure and change in blood flow velocity reveal the most sensitive cardiovascular parameters are frequency, beats per minute, blood pressure and flow velocity. These cardiovascular parameters can be used as indicators to study the course of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis and hypertension.      The present study can be improved by including measurement of glucose and stress hormones during stressor interventions to enhance our understanding of the stress response. This would aid in studying other stress-induced diseases outside the realm of the cardiovascular system.
Agelanius meridianus Rondani 1863
Creators: name: González, Christian R.
name: Elgueta, Mario
name: Krolow, Tiago K.
name: Henriques, Augusto L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Agelanius
Agelanius meridianus

description: Agelanius meridianus Rondani, 1863: 79–80.
Tabanus anachoreta Philippi, 1865: 717. Syntypes. Nine females (one in MNHN), Valdivia. Schiner, 1868: 84 (com.); Hunter, 1901: 139 (cat.); Porter, 1902: 246 (Chile spp.); Kertész, 1908: 221 (cat.); Kröber, 1930e: 140 (in key), 140–141 (redes., Tabanus (Stypommia )); Kröber, 1929a: 50 (in key), 54–55 (redes., Stypommia); Fraga, 1934: 184 (in key), 184–185 redes., Tabanus (Stypommia )); Kröber, 1934: 274 (cat., Stypommia); Stuardo, 1946: 72 (cat., Tabanus (Stypommia )); Coscarón & Philip, 1967b: 205 (rev., Dasybasis (Agelanius), syn.); Philip, 1968a: 13 (tax., Philippi’s types).
Holotype. Female (MZUN). Type-locality: Chile, Valdivia.
Distribution. Argentina: Provincias de Rio Negro to Neuquén. Chile: Región Metropolitana (Cordillera, Santiago); Región de Ñuble (Diguillín, Punilla); Región del Biobío (Arauco); Región de Los Ríos (Ranco, Valdivia); Región de Los Lagos (Llanquihue, Osorno); Región de Aysén (Coyhaique).
References. Rondani, 1864: 79 (redes., Agelanius); Hunter, 1901: 142 (cat., Tabanus); Porter, 1902: 248 (Chile spp., Tabanus); Kertész, 1908: 260 (cat., Tabanus); Kröber, 1930e: 157 (redes., Tabanus (Agelanius )); Kröber, 1934: 300 (cat., Tabanus (Agelanius )); Stuardo, 1946: 74 (cat., Dasybasis); Philip, 1965: 121 (com., Rondani’s types); Coscarón & Philip, 1967a: 98 (in key, Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Coscarón, 1967b: 120 (Argentina spp., Dasybasis); Coscarón & Philip, 1967b: 205 (rev., figs. 89A–H, 90A–D, Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Fairchild, 1971: 43 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Pino, 1975b: 192 (list as meridiana in Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Moucha, 1976: 224 (cat., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Coscarón, 1972a: 71 (tax., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Coscarón & González, 1991: 131 (list, Dasybasis (Agelanius )); González, 1993: 110–111 (sea. occ., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); Coscarón, 1998: 350 (list, dist., Dasybasis (Agelanius )); González, 1999: 143 (key), 151–152 (redes., figs. 40–44); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 58–59 (cat.).
description: Published as part of González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario, Krolow, Tiago K. & Henriques, Augusto L., 2022, Catalog of the horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Chile, pp. 201-257 in Zootaxa 5091 (2) on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5843635
The self at its best and worst
Creators: name: Grodkiewicz, Jill P. (Jill Patricia)
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Year: 2007

description: The research described in this report was inspired by a perspective that runs counter to a long tradition of viewing the ideal self as a collection of desirable traits. In the first study, a large cross-sectional sample of adults was asked to describe their ideal selves ("at my best") and their undesired selves ("at my worst") using an open-ended format. As anticipated, most participants described their ideal selves in terms of past, present, or future role successes, not traits. Also as predicted, undesired selves were predominantly described in terms of role failures. Sex differences with respect to undesired selfdescriptions are reported with males predominantly focusing on failed agentic roles and females focusing on both agentic and communal role disruptions. Given the role specificity used to describe ideal and undesired selves, a second study was designed to challenge the assessment method that accompanies Self-Discrepancy Theory. Some research participants completed the standard Selves-Questionnaire (SQ) by rating abstract targets (Ideal-, Ought-, and Undesired-Selves) while other participants rated selfgenerated Ideal, Ought, and Undesired roles. The SQ method predicted more robust affect scores than did the role specificity measure with respect to ideal-self discrepancies, but the reverse was true for the role specific undesired self measure. These results are followed by a discussion of their implications.
Phrynobatrachus calcaratus
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
name: Luiselli, Luca
name: Dubois, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Phrynobatrachidae
Phrynobatrachus
Phrynobatrachus calcaratus

description: Phrynobatrachus calcaratus (Peters, 1863)
(Fig. 11A)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Togo • 1 ♂; Agoté; MNHN-RA-2008.0171 • 3 ♂; Alédjo; MNHN-RA-2008.0175-0177 • 1 ♂; Akloa; Coll. GHS-W 0663 • 1 ♂; Atakpamé; MNHN-RA-2006.2298 • 1 ♂, 2 ♀; Diguingué; Coll. GHS-W 0662, Coll. GHS-W 0665, MNHN-RA-2008.0133 • 11 ♂, 2 ♀; Dobadié; MRAC B-104378-B-104380, MRAC B-104351-B-104360 • 1♂; Kloto; MNHN-RA-2006.2300 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Kouma-Tokpli; MNHN-RA-2008.0172, MNHN-RA-2008.0174 • 3 ♂; Missahohé; Coll. GHS-W 0686, Coll. GHS-W 0687, Coll. GHS-W 0690 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Oga; MNHN-RA-2008.0178, MNHN-RA-2008.0173 • 6 ♂, 1 ♀; Yégué; Coll. GHS-W 0646, Coll. GHS-W 0649, Coll. GHS-W 0667, Coll. GHS-W 0682, Coll. GHS-W 0685, Coll. GHS-W 0688, Coll. GHS-W 0692 • 2 ♂; Yo (Agomé Yo); Coll. GHS-W 0661, Coll. GHS-W 0664 • 1 ♂; Kovié; MNHN-RA-2006.2299.
DESCRIPTION. — Very small frog (SVL 12.1-19.4 mm ♂, 22.0- 25.9 mm ♀), with relatively compact body. Snout pointed, slightly protruding. Head hardly longer than broad (HW 30-39% SVL; HL 34-44% SVL).Tympanum distinct (TYD 4-9% SVL). Eyelids with suprapalpebral cornicle. Hind leg rather long (TL 46-62% SVL). Webbing absent, all phalanges free. Skin shagreen on snout and in interorbital space, smooth on sides of head; anterior and posterior parts of the back as well as the flanks with numerous very prominent glands; supratympanic fold indistinct; dorsal part of the forearm, tarsus and tibia shagreen, dorsal part of the thigh bearing glands; throat, chest, belly and ventral surface of the thigh smooth.
COLOURATION. — The dorsal colouration is brown, olive or black, sometimes with a light or red mid-dorsal line. The flanks have the same colouration as the back. The dorsal part of the forearm, tarsus, tibia and thigh is brown with darker transverse bands. The chest and belly are white and finely spotted with small black spots.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. — The adult males are smaller than females. Males have a strongly pleated subgular vocal sac, black in colour.
HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — Phrynobatrachus calcaratus is a forest species, occurring as well in forests of the humid savannah zone (Rödel 2000). It lives in leaf litter, often quite far from water bodies. The specimens examined were collected in ecological zones II and IV. The northernmost record of the species in Togo is in the Alédjo forest. The species has been reported in Togo by Bourgat (1979), Bourgat et al. (1996), Segniagbeto et al. (2007), and Hillers et al. (2009).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé, Ohler, Annemarie, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Luiselli, Luca & Dubois, Alain, 2024, Amphibians of Togo: taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 631-670 in Zoosystema 46 (25) on pages 651-652, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a25, http://zenodo.org/record/13907152
Euwallacea agathis Smith & Beaver & Sittichaya 2022, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Smith, Sarah M.
name: Beaver, Roger A.
name: Sittichaya, Wisut
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Euwallacea
Euwallacea agathis

description: Euwallacea agathis (Browne, 1984) comb. nov.
Xyleborus agathis Browne, 1984: 291.
Remarks. The holotype (NHMUK) and a paratype (NUFM) were examined.The species is transferred to Euwallacea Hopkins, 1915 because of the following combination of characters: pronotum subquadrate and sides parallel in dorsal view (type 3); protibiae distinctly triangular with four very large socketed denticles; posterolateral margin of elytra costate; pronotal disc alutaceous; elytral declivity sparsely setose; scutellum flush with elytra and flat; and mycangial tufts absent.
Distribution. Indonesia. (Imported to Japan).
description: Published as part of Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Sittichaya, Wisut, 2022, One hundred eighteen taxonomic changes among Xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 151-175 in Zootaxa 5194 (2) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7147098