cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
O QUILOMBO SERRA DAS VIÚVAS E SUAS POSSIBILIDADES: UMA ANÁLISE CULTURAL, SUSTENTÁVEL E MEDIÁTICA ATRAVÉS DO PODCAST SOBRAL/CE 2024
Creators: name: FABIANO DA SILVA RODRIGUES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Quilombo
Resistência Cultural
Economia Criativa
Sustentabilidade
Podcast

description: Este trabalho aborda a relevância histórica, cultural e social do Quilombo Serra das Viúvas, localizada no município de Água Branca, no Alto Sertão de Alagoas, destacando sua trajetória como um exemplo de resistência, inovação e preservação no contexto das comunidades quilombolas brasileiros. Por meio de uma análise científica e de pesquisa de campo, foram exploradas as dinâmicas culturais, organizacionais e econômicas da comunidade, evidenciando como a preservação das tradições ancestrais e a adoção de práticas contemporâneas têm fortalecido a identidade quilombola e promovido o desenvolvimento sustentável. A pesquisa utilizou metodologias qualitativas, como a observação participante e o uso de um diário de campo, para captar as interações e estratégias implementadas pela comunidade, com especial destaque para as atividades da Associação das Mulheres Artesãs Quilombolas da Serra das Viúvas (AMAQUI). Este relatório técnico-científico apresenta o processo de produção do podcast “A Voz das Mulheres do Sertão – Histórias do Quilombo Serra das Viúvas”, uma ferramenta que amplificou as vozes da comunidade quilombola, conectando suas narrativas a um público mais amplo e engajado. O Quilombo Serra das Viúvas foi apresentado como um espaço de memória e ancestralidade que também se projeta como um território dinâmico, integrando práticas tradicionais, como o artesanato e a agricultura familiar, com inovações tecnológicas, como o uso de podcasts. As mulheres da AMAQUI desempenham papel central nesse processo, liderando iniciativas que promovem autonomia econômica, sustentabilidade ambiental e visibilidade social. A utilização do podcast "A Voz das Mulheres do Sertão" revelou-se uma ferramenta eficaz para amplificar as vozes da comunidade quilombola, conectando-a a um público mais amplo e engajado. A pesquisa também destacou os desafios estruturais enfrentados pelo quilombo, como a falta de infraestrutura e o acesso limitado a políticas públicas. A pesquisa concluiu que o reconhecimento oficial do território quilombola e a atuação da AMAQUI foram fundamentais para o fortalecimento da autoestima coletiva e a consolidação de práticas colaborativas, que têm permitido à comunidade enfrentar com resiliência as adversidades históricas. O estudo reafirma a importância das comunidades quilombolas na construção de uma sociedade plural e inclusiva, destacando o Quilombo Serra das Viúvas como um símbolo de resistência e transformação. A preservação de sua história e cultura, aliada ao engajamento da sociedade e ao uso de ferramentas midiáticas inovadoras como o podcast, podepromover maior reconhecimento e valorização das comunidades quilombolas, conectando suas lutas e conquistas a um cenário global de inclusão e equidade.
Andrena (Chlorandrena) tadauchii Gusenleitner 1998
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena tadauchii

description: 50.Andrena(Chlorandrena)tadauchiiGusenleitner, 1998 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, E Mangesh, 37.0230 ° N, 43.1505 ° E, 1046 m, 8. v. 2023, 1 ♀, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI; Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 14 ♂, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI / TJWC; Lebanon: Balbek-Hermel, Sefri, Haouch Snaid, AUB farm, 33.9244 ° N, 36.0754 ° E, 1000 m, 6. iv. 2023, 2 ♂, 20 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Beqaa, Anjar, 1 km E, Armenian Cemetary, 33.7372 ° N, 35.9503 ° E, 900 m, 7. iv. 2023, 1 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Beqaa, Beqaa valley, Mansourah, Aammiq wetland preserve, 33.7321 ° N, 35.7853 ° E, 850 m, 3. iv. 2023, 1 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Bekaa, Qob Elias valley, 33.7989 ° N, 35.8192 ° E, 900 m, 5. iv. 2023, 1 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Hrar-Akkar, 34.4572 ° N, 36.1228 ° E, 900 m, 17. iv. 2021, 1 ♂, leg. A. Saab, TJWC.
Remarks.
Confirmed as present in Lebanon after the unclear listing of Grace (2010).
Distribution.
Israel and West Bank, Lebanon *, Syria, Turkey, Iraq * (Pisanty et al. 2022 a).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
Invisible U mining toward sustainability of C-free energy
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Uranium is an important carbon-free contributor to ensuring a sustainable and secure domestic supply of energy. The objective of the proposed research is to develop a robust methodology to quantify the reducing capacity and reduction kinetics of reactive minerals and phases in the aquifer downgradient of a uranium roll-front deposit. In situ recovery (ISR) of uranium is currently the most prevalent method of extracting uranium in the U.S. because of its small environmental footprint compared to conventional mining and tailings disposal. Despite its advantages over conventional mining, ISR necessarily perturbs groundwater chemistry and mineralogy in the ore zone, liberating uranium and other redox-sensitive solutes. During uranium ISR, oxygen and carbon dioxide are injected into the reduced ore zone to oxidize and dissolve uranium(IV) minerals. Uncertainties about the long-term impacts of such geochemical perturbations represent the principal barrier to more widespread implementation of ISR technology in the U.S. We hypothesize that the hydrogeochemical processes that resulted in the initial formation of uranium roll-front deposits will serve to enhance natural remediation of the reduced aquifer downgradient of the deposit. We will conduct research intended to quantify this natural attenuation capacity in a technically defensible manner. Aspects of the research will include characterization of core samples; laboratory column experiments designed to quantify reduction capacity; isotopic measurements to understand reduction-oxidation signatures and solute-aquifer residence times; field measurements to test results of laboratory experiments; and kinetic geochemical modeling of redox-sensitive phases.
Friesea rubeni Deharveng & Bedos 1991
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Friesea
Friesea rubeni

description: 31. Friesea rubeni Deharveng & Bedos, 1991
Source: Deharveng & Bedos (1991), Bedos (1994), Rojanavongse et al. (unpublished report). Type deposition: LEITT.
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Rai (N). Habitat: litter on rocks at 550 m. Distribution outside Thailand. Vietnam (cited as F. cf. rubeni).
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Bleekeriella Marceniuk & Oliveira & Ferraris Jr 2024, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires
name: Oliveira, Claudio
name: Ferraris Jr, Carl J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Siluriformes
Ariidae
Bleekeriella

description: Bleekeriella gen. nov.
MP 100, BI 1, ML 100
(Figs 1–3, 40)
ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 8CB66BBD-FB43-495E-B45A-EBF42667194F.
Type species: Arius leptaspis Bleeker, 1862.
Diagnosis (all of ambiguous optimization)
Posterior branch of lateral ethmoid depressed (13, 0> 1); posterior cranial fontanel absent (26, 1> 0); epiphyseal bar indistinct (28, 0> 1); medial groove of cranium absent (30, 0> 1); temporal fossa very reduced (39, 1> 0); posterior process of exoccipital sutured to Müllerian ramus (93, 0> 1); autopalatine posterior portion conspicuously compressed (106, 0> 1); articulation of autopalatine with lateral ethmoid posteromesially oriented (110, 0> 1); lateral and mesial portions of premaxilla with different sizes (121,0> 1); anteroventral portion of opercle subtrapezoidal, very long (127, 1> 0); one-half or less of interopercle posterior part contacting ventral margin of opercle (131, 1> 0); sesamoid bone I very long and subtriangular (145, 0> 1); Müllerian ramus bone blade evident only basally (206, 2> 1); Müllerian ramus distal third markedly curved (208, 1> 2).
Etymology
Named for the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878) who contributed greatly to our understanding of the taxonomy of ariids from the Indo–Malaysian archipelago. Gender: feminine.
Included species
Bleekeriella leptaspis Bleeker, 1862
Bleekeriella aff. leptaspis.
Habitat and distribution: Predominantly brackish waters, southern New Guinea and northern Australia (Fig. 38).
Remarks
Arius leptaspis was previously included in Ariopsis Kailola 2004 or Sciades (Marceniuk and Menezes 2007, Marceniuk et al. 2012), but results of the total-evidence analysis indicate that it is not closely related to species of either genus, but is related closely to an unnamed species from Indonesia. These findings corroborate a previous molecular study (Betancur-R. 2009).
description: Published as part of Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires, Oliveira, Claudio & Ferraris Jr, Carl J., 2024, A new classification of the family Ariidae (Osteichthyes: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes) based on combined analyses of morphological and molecular data, pp. 426-476 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2) on page 463, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad078, http://zenodo.org/record/11240120
Performance Visualization at ExaScale
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: As petascale systems are coming on-line and exascale computing is on the horizon, scaling scientific applications to fully utilize these resources is becoming an ever increasing challenge. Understanding the intricate interplay between a simulation code, its load balancing, and its complex, transient communication patterns requires an in-depth analysis of a wide variety of performance characteristics. In this project we propose to develop new visualization and analysis techniques for all the different types of performance data begin collected as well as their relationships amongst them. Visualization is ideally suited to bridge the gap between the initial data collection and the design of an application specific analysis by enabling an efficient and intuitive exploration of the space of potentially interesting connections and correlations. Given an appropriate visualization humans are highly adept in spotting patterns and forming new hypotheses. However, visualizing performance data in an intuitive fashion is challenging as the much of the data is defined on abstract, non-spatial domains such as the communication graph or the complicated network topologies of modern hardware. Furthermore, there exist a veritable deluge of data as systems approach million way parallelism and highlighting small yet crucial anomalies becomes critical. Finally, any one aspect of performance data rarely provides the necessary insights but instead multiple aspect such as communication, flop counts, and crucial events in the simulation must be analyzed in tandem.
Characterization and Function of Human Milk Glycopeptides
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Food and agriculture needs a model in which intrinsic biological value can be recognized in agricultural materials and that value translated into improved health of consumers and price returns to the producer and processor sectors. Milk protein provides far more physiological, immunological and protective properties than would be predicted from a simple balanced source of amino acids. Nonetheless, it is not known what features of milk proteins accomplish these benefits to health. One striking property of the milk protein is the extent to which they are modified by complex sugar chains (glycans). Evolution of mammalian lactation has provided a scientific model of nourishment and a commercial model of translational science for health products. In a recent scandal, the inexpensive fertilizer melamine was used to supplement milk products in China, highlighting the low valuation of milk protein. This was because, the only value measured was the nitrogen content! The proteins in milk are already known to be unique by virtue of their sequence, the peptides that they produce on proteolysis and the health promoting bioactivities that these peptides provide to the consumer. None of these properties are captured in the trading of milk proteins today. Furthermore, in all of the studies on milk protein function and valuation, a very important aspect of protein structure has been neglected, their glycosylation. Incomplete breakdown of proteins generates peptides and glycopeptides in the intestine. The abundance and diversity of the peptides produced during milk protein digestion depends in part on the extent of glycosylation. Mechanisms by which these glycopeptides act include binding to specific intestinal receptors, uptake into blood and systemic effects, binding to specific attachment sites on pathogenic bacteria, nourishing selectively beneficial bacteria, all of which constitute a complex signaling and support system between milk and the intestine and bacterial populations within the intestine. Together these various bioactivities promote and guide the development, protection and healthy functioning of the infant human intestine. The ongoing collaborations between these specific researchers forms the basis for the Nutritional Glycomics Research Program at UC Davis. Protocols to separate and purify the various proteins from human milk will be developed. Then the proteins and the glycopeptides formed by intestinal gastric enzyme digestion will be analyzed. Using our established models of selectivity of microbial growth we will determine how glycopeptides that are unabsorbed affect the growth of intestinal bacteria. Finally, properties of glycosylated milk peptides will be assigned to altering, bacterial signaling, intestinal permeability, inflammation and nutrient sensing using a model of intestinal signaling.
Evaluating public amenities of stormwater management demonstration projects in Philadelphia, PA
Creators: name: Cesanek, Adam
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Green stormwater infrastructure, mimics natural infiltration processes and has the potential to function as a public amenity. This study evaluates public amenities at 20 structural storm water management projects built within Philadelphia in the past five to ten years. “From Stormwater Management to Artful Rainwater Design” ( Echols and Pennypacker 2008) served as the foundation for a rubric which scores site designs based on a Likert-like rating system (1 - 5) in six amenity categories: Education, Recreation, Aesthetics, Safety, Publicity, and Best Management Practices. Scoring was conducted on site, after taking photos and producing simple sketch diagrams in plan and section. Data reveals a correlation between Education and Recreation public amenities (&3%). For each stormwater project neighborhood and site scale data are interpreted to affect the total score of public amenity. Drawing on technical, theoretical and city planning documents, this thesis exposes how stormwater management sites in Philadelphia function as public amenities, thereby informing the conceptual design process.
Andrena (Ulandrena) tadorna subsp. callida Warncke 1974
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena tadorna
Andrena (ulandrena) tadorna callida warncke, 1974

description: 51.Andrena(Ulandrena)tadorna callidaWarncke, 1974 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Hatra [Nineveh Governorate, 35.5759 ° N, 42.7254 ° E], 6. iv. 1988, 1 ♂, leg. Olejníček, OÖLM; Saudi Arabia: Abha, 2000 m, 31. iii. 1980, 1 ♂, leg. K. M. Guichard, NHMUK; As Nimas [Al Namas], 2450 m, 3–4. iv. 1980, 3 ♂, 3 ♀, leg. K. M. Guichard, NHMUK; Syria: 110 km E of Palmyra, 350 m, 21. iv. 1992, 2 ♀, leg. K. Warncke, OÖLM; 30 km W Palmyra, 580 m, 23. iv. 1992, 6 ♀, leg. M. Kraus and K. Warncke, OÖLM; Suweidaono, ENE 80 km, 700 m, 27. iii. 1988, 2 ♂, leg. M. Schwarz, TJWC.
Remarks.
The status of A. tadorna callida is unclear and requires investigation; it may well merit species status due to consistent differences in the shape of the genital capsule (see comments in Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002).
Distribution.
Andrena tadorna sensu lato is found in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria *, Saudi Arabia *, Iraq * Gusenleitner and Schwarz (2002).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
Additional file 2: Table S2. of Suppression of Laccase 2 severely impairs cuticle tanning and pathogen resistance during the pupal metamorphosis of Anopheles sinensis (Diptera: Culicidae)
Creators: name: Du, Ming-Hui
name: Yan, Zheng-Wen
name: You-Jin Hao
name: Yan, Zhen-Tian
name: Si, Feng-Ling
name: Chen, Bin
name: Qiao, Liang
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Amino acid sequence identity of Cu-oxidase domains of LAC2 orthologs. (PDF 109 kb)
Wireless Neural Interfaces
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Neural interfaces connect living neurons in the nervous system with the external world and are widely used in neuroscience and neuroprosthesis for fundamental research, treatment, and cures for neurological disorders. Due to the thickness of the dura mater and cortex and spinal cord, the electrode arrays have to be penetrating in nature to place the interface close to the underlying neurons in order to stimulate and record from them. The current state-of-the-art commercial neural electrode arrays are made from silicon substrates, and they are prone to fracture during or after implantation due to their brittle and fragile nature. Moreover, they contain only a few tens of electrodes without integrated electronics which necessitating a wired connection through the skin to the external world. There is an unmet need for mechanically robust, high density electrodes with integrated electronics. Specifically, there is a need for penetrating neural interfaces for studies and treatment for Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and migraine through chronic neural implants. In addition, in order to advance the knowledge in the field, there is a need for high density electrode array (100+ electrodes) with integrated electronics and wireless telemetry to avoid a large percutaneous cablem, risk of infection, and device failure. The proposed research will develop a robust, high density penetrating neural interface by developing wireless, rigid thin film micro-electrode arrays with hundreds of electrodes in few millimeters. The proposed work will develop MEMS microelectrode arrays, custom microelectronics for recording and stimulation of neurons, wireless telemetry for transmitting power and bi-directional data communication, and hermetic biocompatible packaging of the implant. The technical and scientific merit of this proposal lies in advancing state-of-the-art to develop reliable and robust high density wireless neural interfaces that enable advances in fundamental neuroscience and neural implants for treating neurological disorders. Once this wireless neural interface is developed, it will be distributed to the neuroscience community to advance fundamental research in the field.
Friesea tibiotarsalis Deharveng & Bedos 1991
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Friesea
Friesea tibiotarsalis

description: 32. Friesea tibiotarsalis Deharveng & Bedos, 1991 *
Source: Deharveng & Bedos (1991), Bedos (1994), Rojanavongse et al. (unpublished report). Type deposition: LEITT.
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai (N). Habitat: litter at 1700–2500 m. in Doi Inthanon forest. Distribution outside Thailand. Only known from Thailand (Doi Inthanon).
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on pages 311-312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
The impact of binaural auralizations on sound source localization and social presence in audiovisual virtual reality: converging evidence from placement and eye-tracking paradigms
Creators: name: Roßkopf, Sarah
name: Kroczek, Leon O.H.
name: Stärz, Felix
name: Blau, Matthias
name: Van de Par, Steven
name: Mühlberger, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Binaural auralizations / Virtual reality / Sound source localization / Subjective audio realism / Eye-tracking / Social presence / Head related impulse responses / Gaze / Attention
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Virtual Reality (VR) enables the presentation of realistic audio-visual environments by combining head-tracked binaural auralizations with visual scenes. Whether these auralizations improve social presence in VR and enable sound source localization comparable to that of real sound sources is yet unclear. Therefore, we implemented two sound source localization paradigms (speech stimuli) in a virtual seminar room. First, we measured localization continuously using a placement task. Second, we measured gaze as a naturalistic behavior. Forty-nine participants compared three auralizations based on measured binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs), simulated BRIRs, both with generic and individual head-related impulse responses (HRIRs), with loudspeakers and an anchor (gaming audio engine). In both paradigms, no differences were found between binaural rendering and loudspeaker trials concerning ratings of social presence and subjective realism. However, sound source localization accuracy of binaurally rendered sound sources was inferior to loudspeakers. Binaural auralizations based on generic simulations were equivalent to renderings based on individualized simulations in terms of localization accuracy but inferior in terms of social presence. Since social presence and subjective realism are strongly correlated, the implementation of plausible binaural auralizations is suggested for VR settings where high levels of (social) presence are relevant (e.g. multiuser interaction, VR exposure therapy).
Understanding sialic acid variability
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The current highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strain of great concern. The Asian H5N1strain was detected in 1996 in China and has since resulted in 385 (63% mortality) human infections and an estimated 240 million culled poultry. An estimated 40 million Americans may be affected if a pandemic emerges. Current H5N1 avian surveillance is based on a species known to play a role in avian influenza virus (AIV) ecology, their proximity to human developments, and whether these can be efficiently sampled. However, many peridomestic non-traditional AIV host species have been infected with H5N1, complicating phylogenetic interpretations of susceptibilities. In order to efficiently target surveillance efforts toward species most relevant to H5N1 transmission dynamics, mechanistic understanding of avian susceptibility must be improved. Influenza virions gain access to host cells by way of glycan and glycosidic linkage specific binding to sialic acid host receptors. Human influenza viruses preferentially bind Siaa2-6Gal whereas AIVs bind Siaa2-3Gal. The expression of these receptors remains poorly characterized within the Class Aves despite the potential for birds to be H5N1 carriers or vessels for viral reassortment. Where characterization has been performed, intraspecies spatiotemporal variation has not been considered although such variation is known to occur and may obscure phylogenetic patterns of Sia expression, leading to misguided conclusions of a taxon’s potential role in AIV transmission. We therefore propose to assess 4 major subtypes of Sia (Siaa2-6Gal or Siaa2-3Gal in which Sia indicates Neu5Ac or Neu5Gc) known to determine AIV binding across 5 Avian Orders while accounting for factors known to influence temporal changes in Sia. Within an Order, breeding and non-breeding wild and peridomestic species that range in H5N1 susceptibility will be tested. Results from published methods of Sia measurement will be compared to a novel stable isotope based mass spectrometry method developed at LANL. These data will improve the accuracy of a phylogenetic AIV risk assessment model currently under development at LANL in order to enhance biosecurity through a more efficient detection of the H5N1 biothreat.
Brustiarius Herre 1935
Creators: name: Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires
name: Oliveira, Claudio
name: Ferraris Jr, Carl J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Siluriformes
Ariidae
Brustiarius

description: Brustiarius Herre, 1935
MP 100, BI 1, ML 100
(Figs 1–3, 38A, 41)
Type species: Arius nox Herre, 1935.
Diagnosis
Accessory tooth plates small, oval to rounded (60, 0> 1); lateral and mesial portions of premaxilla of different sizes (121, 0> 1); metapterygoid anterior process acute (138, 1> 0).
Ambiguous optimization: Posterior cranial fontanel small (27, 1> 0); vomer lateral processes very narrow (53, 0> 1); maxilla lateral and mesial margins considerably closer to each other proximally, distally narrow and pointed (102, 2> 3); articulation of autopalatine with lateral ethmoid in middle of bone (111, 2> 1); first external branchiostegal ray narrow proximally and broad distally (147, 1> 0); posterior ceratohyal long (153, 0> 1).
Included species
Brustiarius nox Herre, 1935
Brustiarius solidus Herre, 1935
Brustiarius utarus Kailola, 1990.
Habitat and distribution: Freshwater,northern New Guinea (Fig.38).
Remarks
As indicated by the total-evidence analysis, Brustiarius follows the definition and species composition proposed in previous morphological studies (Kailola 2004, Marceniuk and Menezes 2007, Marceniuk et al. 2012), with the inclusion of Brustiarius utarus sensu Betancur-R. (2009). The species in Brustiarius were treated as a species flock, based on the shallow genetic divergences found by Betancur-R. (2009).
description: Published as part of Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires, Oliveira, Claudio & Ferraris Jr, Carl J., 2024, A new classification of the family Ariidae (Osteichthyes: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes) based on combined analyses of morphological and molecular data, pp. 426-476 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2) on page 465, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad078, http://zenodo.org/record/11240120
Andrena (Micrandrena) tkalcui Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena tkalcui

description: 52.Andrena(Micrandrena)tkalcuiGusenleitner & Schwarz, 2002 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, Bessre [Besereh], Bablo, 36.8675 ° N, 43.1206 ° E, 1065 m, 5–6. v. 2023, 1 ♀, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI; Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 1 ♀, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI.
Distribution.
Israel and West Bank, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq *, Iran (Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002; Wood and Monfared 2022).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
Characterization and Development of Plasma Facing Materials
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Characterization and Development of Plasma Facing Materials One of the primary uncertainties in moving forward toward the goal of generating energy using nuclear fusion is the impact of neutrons with the surrounding materials, both structural and plasma-facing materials. This uncertainty exists in large part due to the lack of an intense 14 MeV neutron source and due to the difficulties encountered when working with materials that have been irradiated by large doses of neutrons. In order to perform a wide-array of investigations into the effects of neutron irradiation, a surrogate technique for simulating neutron damage to the structural and plasma facing materials would be beneficial. Herein, we propose to utilize high-energy ion-beam facilities at LANL to simulate the radiation damage effects on a thin surface layer of structural and plasma facing materials. Subsequently, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of the thin, irradiated near-surface layer will be thoroughly characterized and modeled by utilizing a wide range of nanotechnology facilities and expertise available at UCSD and LANL. We will expose some of these well-diagnosed samples to energetic hydrogenic plasma bombardment in the PISCES lab at UCSD and then complete the analysis of the depth profiles of diffusing fuel gas species implanted by the plasma by reanalyzing the samples back in the IBML at LANL with particle induced nuclear methods. This collaborative effort will provide the most complete evaluation of the role of simulated neutron damage on the thermomechanical properties of materials and how those altered properties affect the response of the materials to plasma exposure including tritium transport and retention characteristics. Based upon the understanding obtained from this study, we will also seek to influence the development of advanced fusion reactor materials with improved properties.
Neutron Scattering for Branched, Entangled Polymers in Flow
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The dynamics of entangled polymers is central to understanding their mechanical responses. It is widely recognized that chain architecture, as it affects chain dynamics, provides a pathway to development of materials with novel properties for applications in the extreme, non-linear stress strain-rate domain. An essential conceptual basis for understanding the role of polymer chain architecture in a molecular-based framework has been “reptation theory”. This theory has allowed great progress in understanding polymers with the simplest architectures; linear and “star”-like structures. Recently an extension has been proposed to include the concept of a sequential hierarchy of relaxation processes for more complex branched systems, and with some exceptions, this seems to provide a good model for the linear viscoelastic response. However, the relevance of this hierarchical picture, and additional proposed mechanisms governing the nonlinear regime, such as Convective Constraint Release, is largely unknown and difficult to assess with standard rheological experiments. In this proposed study, we intend to bring together the expertise in modeling and in rheological/rheo-optical measurement techniques of Prof. Leal, with the facilities and expertise of Dr. Hjelm at LANL, to study the molecular structural and collective basis for the dynamics of branched polymer chains in non-linear shear flows. In particular we will use the recently developed neutron probe rheometer at LANL’s Neutron Scattering Center to make simultaneous neutron scattering and rheological measurements, of the non-linear molecular-level response to transient flow. Using the LANL pulsed neutron source as a stroboscope and selective deuteration to distinguish neutron scattering from various segments of mono-disperse comb-like polymers, we will probe the comb hierarchical relaxation dynamics to provide critical insights to validate and further develop the theory of polymer chain dynamics.
The impact of animal rights on wildlife conservation and management in Kenya
Creators: name: Capoccia, Regina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation explains the role of the animal rights movement in Kenya’s wildlife conservation and management. The research proposes that animal rights principles are a major driver in the formation of Kenya’s wildlife policy and management protocol. The dissertation begins with a discussion on the animal rights agenda and how this overlaps with Kenya’s wildlife management policies in a way that places Kenya on the international stage as one of Africa’s leaders in wildlife conservation.   The second and third chapters address the history of the animal rights movement and the history of wildlife conservation in Kenya with a categorical analysis of the non-government wildlife organizations active in the country. Over the last few centuries, the animal rights movement gained momentum and expanded from animals in captive settings to animals in non-captive settings. The question in reference to animals’ condition: “can they suffer?” posited by Jeremy Bentham in 1&81, remains at the core of the movement. Initially applied to animal-use scenarios such as medical testing, the concept of suffering has expanded to address sustainable and traditional hunting practices, habitat loss, and even predator-prey relationships. Kenya’s colonial wildlife management relied on concepts of suffering and cruelty to develop early hunting and land access laws. Policies in recent decades expanded on the idea that Kenya’s wildlife was in danger of extinction and initiated policies that banned hunting and promoted the care of individual animals. In the 1989, Kenya was recognized for taking a lead role in the ban on ivory, a move that branded the country as a vanguard in the protection of wildlife.   The fourth and fifth chapters use case studies and an analysis of NGO activities to show how animal rights principles unfold in wildlife conservation protocol and in the strategies and tactics of organizations that focus on wildlife protection. Profiles of areas including Meru National Park, and the greater Tsavo region show the geography of the animal rights movement in everything from park creation to regional management. These case studies are followed by a set of management scenarios and organizational practices that embody animal rights principles. By focusing on specific trends in management protocols and organizational strategies, this work highlights the impacts of the animal rights movement in action. The dissertation concludes by drawing on Kenya’s unique characteristics from a regional geography perspective and calls into question the future of Kenya’s wildlife without the active movement.
Andrena (Cordandrena) torda Warncke 1965
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena torda

description: 53.Andrena(Cordandrena)tordaWarncke, 1965 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 6 ♂, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI / TJWC; Lebanon: Beqaa, Beqaa valley, Mansourah, Aammiq wetland preserve, 33.7321 ° N, 35.7853 ° E, 850 m, 3. iv. 2023, 2 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Beqaa, Beqaa valley, Qaraoun, 3.5 km W of Madjal Balhis, 33.5377 ° N, 35.7038 ° E, 900 m, 4–5. iv. 2023, 2 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC.
Remarks.
Records from Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria reported by Wood et al. (2020) were incorrectly identified female specimens of A. cypria (see Wood and Monfared 2022), with females of A. torda and A. cypria being challenging to separate morphologically. The female Lebanese specimens presented here were confirmed as A. torda through DNA barcoding (BIN: BOLD: AES 5002) as distinct from A. cypria (BIN: BOLD: AFH 0814), this latter BIN containing a barcoded male specimen of A. cypria which can be unambiguously recognised due to the combination of its antennal segment ratios and genital capsule.
Distribution.
Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and West Bank, Lebanon *, Iraq *, Iran (Wood and Monfared 2022).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
Friesea
Creators: name: Jantarit, Sopark
name: Bedos, Anne
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Friesea

description: Friesea spp.*
Source: Bedos (1994), Wiwatwitaya & Takeda (2005).
Distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai (N), Nakhon Ratchasima (NE). Habitat: soil s.l. at low altitude in Doi Inthanon (Bedos 1994); in dry evergreen lowland forest in Nakhon Ratchasima province (Wiwatwitaya & Takeda 2005).
Remarks. Several forms near F. tibiotarsalis and F. gracilispina in Doi Inthanon.
description: Published as part of Jantarit, Sopark, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2016, An annotated checklist of the Collembolan fauna of Thailand, pp. 301-360 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/265801
Factors affecting the community invasibility of tropical dry forests and the implications for ecological restoration
Creators: name: Brooks, Wesley Ray
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Biological invasions pose a serious threat to the provision of ecosystem goods and services, the conservation of rare species, and the natural capital of human economies.  Understanding the factors that make communities more or less invasible is a particularly prominent and contentious areas of ecological research today.  In an age of rapid environmental change and constrained governmental budgets, the task of preserving natural areas, biodiversity, and ecosystem services as public resources is increasingly challenging.  Yet, ecological restoration may provide the most efficient and cost-effective way to mitigate these challenges.  While many comprehensive ecological restoration projects focus on exotic species control of particularly aggressive species, few restoration projects are informed by the results of invasibility research.    I utilized both observational and experimental approaches to study invasibility in tropical hardwood hammocks, a globally-imperiled tropical dry forest habitat that is also an excellent candidate community for restoration along its former range, including in metropolitan areas of South Florida.  In Chapter 1, I surveyed the vascular flora of 13 tropical hardwood hammocks along the Miami Rock Ridge to determine which variables best predicted observed patterns of exotic species richness at different spatial scales.  In Chapter 2, using constructed mesocosms with tropical hardwood hammock woody seedlings, I measured the effects of species richness and plant density on community productivity.  In Chapter 3, I tested the effects of native species richness, native plant density, and invader propagule pressure on tropical hardwood hammock seedling layer invasibility, and also explored whether there was a link between community productivity and invasibility.  In Chapter 4, I introduce a new model of restoration designed to enhance local biodiversity levels within metropolitan areas while also improving prospects for regional biodiversity conservation, and apply this model to a tropical hardwood hammock restoration.  In Chapter 5, I assessed the relative contributions of native outplantings and habitat management to changes in community composition and structure over time in a tropical hardwood hammock restoration.  Finally, in Chapter 6, I gauged the effects of varying native species richness and density treatments of outplanted populations of tropical hardwood hammock species on exotic recruitment at this restoration site.
Terrace formation and floodplain sedimentation in the northern Delaware River Valley, New Jersey, USA
Creators: name: Bitting, Kelsey S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Shifts in temperature, precipitation, and tectonic uplift have impacted the Northeastern USA since glacial retreat, resulting in changes in regional gradient, vegetation, water budget, sediment grain size and flux to river systems. Along the northern Delaware River in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the T2 terrace, located 6-9 m above the modern river, records most of the last 21 ka. This study elucidates the depositional history and associated temporal framework of the T2 and adjacent landforms at a locality on the eastern (New Jersey) bank of the river at 41°10'3"N, &4°53'39"W.   Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) facies and bounding surfaces, descriptions of six Geoprobe© sediment cores, and basic geochemical analyses are used to characterize the alluvial architecture of the T2. The landform is comprised of five units of varying sedimentary composition, radar facies, and degree of soil formation, separated by four bounding surfaces identified by radar terminations, changes in grain size, or buried soils. A grid of GPR profiles shows unit thickness, distribution, and geometry, but channel versus overbank grain size is difficult to distinguish, and smaller-scale deposits cannot be resolved.   Seven cores from the primary study site, and one core each from the T2 landform at another site and from an eolian landform nearby, are interpreted in terms of radiocarbon ages and approximate optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages and the published record of the paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental, isostatic, and anthropogenic factors impacting the valley. Incision of Units 1 and 1a (deposited as proglacial braidplain sediments) began before 14.8 +/- 0.8 ka, and seasonally-stratified lakes formed on the surface of Unit 1. Later climatic amelioration allowed the accumulation of traction sands to floodplain fines in Units 2, 3, and 4, with the most widespread unconformity and buried soil associated with the solar insolation maximum around 9 ka. Warm events (Medieval Climate Anomaly, Holocene Hypsithermal) and significant anthropogenic disturbance are associated with channel destabilization, which foreshadow the effects of future anthropogenic climate change. Finally, this study contributes to a growing body of literature that shows climate change is the dominant driving force behind changes in fluvial deposition and terracing.
Essays in experimental examinations of decision making with uncertainty
Creators: name: Birchby, Jeffrey Campbell
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Year: 2013

description: The dissertation examines how individuals behave when facing choices with uncertainty, both within individual and group settings. These questions are probed by examining individuals in experimental situations, with payoffs depending partially upon the choices they make as well as some fundamental uncertainty. In particular, the research seeks to answer, to what extent do individuals consistently evaluate risky gambles, and how do individuals respond to group decisions with either an underlying unknown state and a policy whose payoff depends upon that state, or a coordination task.  For both group tasks, the role of communication in overcoming uncertainty is studied.    Within group settings, individuals were tasked with a Median game, a coordination problem with efficiency achieved only at an asymmetrical equilibrium, and an aggregation problem where groups would vote on a risky policy whose success depended upon an underlying state of the world that each member privately received signals about. For the Median game, communication results in large gains compared to the sessions with no communication; an effect that grew as play continued. The types of messages and strategies communicated are analyzed to see which were most effective.    Within a group setting, individuals were given private signals about the probability of payoff-relevant states of the world with payoffs determined by the policy voted for by the group’s majority. There was a strict incentive to aggregate information, however this was hindered by the inclusion of individual payoff biases, creating competing interests and raising a source for disinformation and thus distrust. The efficacy in achieving aggregation of various exogenously given networks was then tested.    Within an individual setting, subjects evaluate scaled lottery questions with consistent aggregate responses that fit well within the established norms of Cumulative Prospect Theory.  However, the aggregate data hide considerable individual inconsistency, with the individuals that fit best with a CPT interpretation those that are most variable and for which such a prediction would provide limited if any predictive power.