cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stenus habanus Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus habanus

description: Stenus habanus nov.sp. (Abb. 100, 159, 160, 224)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♂) und 1♀ - Paratypus: CHINA: Yunnan, Haba Shan, 3272m, 27 o 22‘05‘‘N, 100 o 06‘25‘‘E, sift 37, 29.VI.2012, V. Grebennikov. Paratypen: 2♀♀: ibidem 27 o 21‘54‘‘N, 100 o 06‘19‘‘E, 3452m, sift 29, idem.- HT und PTT in der CNC, 1 PT in cP.
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Apter,mässigschimmernd,schwarz mitleichtemBraunanflug; Vorderkörper grob und äusserst dicht, aber getrennt, punktiert, Abdomen vorn ziemlich grob und sehr dicht, hinten fein und dicht punktiert (Tergit 7: Abb. 100); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. Kiefertaster rötlichgelb, Fühlerbasis und Beine hellbraun, die Schenkel zur Spitze wenig dunkler, Fühlerkeule braun. Clypeus braunschwarz, Oberlippe dunkelbraun, heller gesäumt, dünn beborstet. 3. Abdominalsegment seitlich vollständig gerandet, restliche Segmente ohne Seitenrandung, 4. Tarsenglied wenig deutlich, kurz gelappt.
Länge: 2,7-3,0mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,3-1,4mm).
PM des HT: HW: 26; DE: 13,5; PW: 20; PL: 20; EW: 23,5; EL: 21; SL: 15.
Männchen: Beine einfach. Metasternum flach eingedrückt, ziemlich grob, dicht, auf flach genetztem Grund punktiert und beborstet, Vordersternite einfach, 7. Sternit in der hinteren Mitte feiner und dichter als an den Seiten punktiert und beborstet, Hinterrand nicht ausgerandet. 8, Sternit mit flacher Ausrandung etwa im hinteren Fünfzehntel. 9. Sternit apikolateral mit spitzem Zahn. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Aedoeagus (Abb. 159, 160), Apikalpartie des Medianlobus etwa halbkreisförmig abgerundet; im Innern (beim HT ausgestülpt) werden eine median dünn verbundene Ausstülpspange sowie ein breittubiger, stark sklerotisierter Innensack deutlich; Parameren länger als der Medianlobus, nach starker Erweiterung nach innen vorn erheblich verschmälert, mit 6 + 4 Borsten.
Weibchen: 8. Sternit zur abgerundeten Hinterrandmitte stumpfwinklig verengt. Valvifer apikolateral spitz. 10. Tergit wie beim Männchen. Spermatheka (Abb. 224), Infundibulum breit, mittlerer Spermathekengang zweimal gewunden, Endschlauch breit, deutlich länger als der mittlere Spermathekengang.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: Auch diese neue Art gehört in die S. cephalotes-Gruppe und sieht hier unter anderen dem S. riccii nov.sp. sehr ähnlich. Sie unterscheidet sich äusserlich von ihm unter anderem durch starker erhobene Stirnmitte, weniger fein punktiertes 7. Tergit und breiteren Kopf, von ihm und allen anderen Nahverwandten durch ihre Sexualcharaktere.
E t y m o l o g i e: Der Name dieser neuen Art ist von ihrem Fundort abgeleitet.
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 1357-1358, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141
Differential development of central dopaminergic and serotonergic systems across select mouse strains
Creators: name: Medvecky, Christopher
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Although the etiology of autism is unclear, disruptions of the dopaminergic and serotonergic systems have been associated with the disorder.  Based upon behavioral differences observed in the BALB/c strain of mice in comparison to other strains, notably, C57BL/6J mice, it has been suggested that the BALB/c strain may serve as an animal model of autism.  However, to date, most work investigating neural and behavioral abnormalities in this strain has been performed in adult animals.  Therefore, experiment 1 was conducted to examine the development of the central dopaminergic and serotonergic systems of BALB/c mice as compared to C57BL/6J mice.  Levels of dopamine, serotonin, and their metabolites in several different brain regions and at three ages during development were measured.  Alterations in both monoaminergic systems associated with age and strain were detected across brain regions indicating that there are neurochemical differences between these strains early in life.  However, despite these differences in the development of brain monoaminergic systems, it remains difficult to declare this strain as a valid model of autism.  Glutathione is an endogenous antioxidant, and gene mutations affecting glutathione have been linked to autism. One such gene mutation involves the altered expression of glutathione-S-transferase M1 (GSTM1).  An animal model of autism incorporating this genetic mutation may be useful in studying the disorder.  Therefore, experiment 2 was performed to investigate the neurochemical development of GSTM1 wildtype and knockout animals.  Like experiment 1, dopamine, serotonin, and their metabolites were measured in several brain regions at three developmental time points.  Neurochemical analysis revealed alterations in both dopaminergic and serotonergic systems associated with age and genotype.  An understanding of these mice may help to further develop this animal model of autism.
Dynamic modeling and forecasting algorithms for financial data systems
Creators: name: Mahajan, Manish
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: It is a valid question that why a Control Systems Engineer would be interested in dealing with financial instruments. Financial instruments involving option theory are very elegant, math oriented and practical. These mathematical tools have created a new industry known as 'Derivative Industry' or 'Hedge-Fund Industry' or so called 'Risk-Management Industry'.  This thesis is aimed at developing investment strategies involving the decision making needs via control system techniques. The problem, in general, is computationally challenging particularly when investment of many securities is involved resulting in a high dimensional computational framework. Furthermore, complications may arise due to realistic restrictions and non-linearities. The various areas of financial engineering are very fertile for the application of the system methodology and control theory techniques. Modeling, optimization, identification and computational methods used in the Systems Engineering can be successfully applied to the financial instruments. The ideas developed in this thesis are more about the scientific reasoning involving financial instruments rather than specific situations alone.   Major contribution of this thesis is the time series optimal prediction filter and the development of the Dynamic Modeling and Forecasting Algorithm (DMFA). The proposed algorithm predicts the next data point of the financial time series while dynamically computing the parameters from existing data. The computation of the parameters is optimized by use of the recursive matrix inversion algorithm. The system is solved via an innovative technique of inversion such that it avoids explicit inversion of more than a 2 X 2 matrix and computation of higher dimensional determinants and co-factors. This results in new contributions to computation finance and numerical methodology along with arbitrage decision and hedging strategies under market uncertainties as well as robust control applications. The minimum mean-square algorithm used assures system stability via poles within the unit circle. The DMFA method is a superior auto regression (AR) model as a general system of time-series realizations in-order to calculate the coefficients that fit the model for a better prediction. Theoretical modeling and market specific volatility models, updated volatility computation are derived from the observation data.
Controlled butchery observations as a means for interpreting Okote member hominin carnivory at Koobi Fora, Kenya
Creators: name: Merritt, Stephen Ryan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Three archaeological assemblages from Okote Member (1.5 Ma) deposits at  Koobi Fora, Kenya described by Pobiner (2007, Pobiner et al., 2008) have well preserved  cortical surfaces that bear abundant hominin butchery traces on large and small  mammalian taxa, minimal carnivore tooth marking, and lack in situ lithic materials.  Pobiner suggests that Homo erectus generally enjoyed primary access to carcass  resources with a traditional assemblage-scale analysis of butchered specimens and  anatomical interpretations of cut mark location. Bunn (1981, 1994) proposes a foraging  strategy for Okote hominins that links core tool butchery and curation to locally  unavailable stone raw material sources in the Ileret and Koobi Fora areas of the Eastern  Turkana basin. Evidence of core tool use is interpreted from the presence of wide,  shallow cut marks on large animals bones. To evaluate these interpretations of hominin  carnivory and bring greater resolution to archaeofaunal cut mark interpretation, I undertook a series of actualistic butchery experiments to document how tool type (flake  versus Oldowan core), butchery action (skinning, defleshing bulk tissue, defleshing scrap  tissue, disarticulation) and animal size (goat versus cow) influence skeletal patterns of cut  mark location, and to construct general models of cut mark cross-sectional size and the  geometric organization of cut mark clusters that can discriminate these independent  variables. Results indicate that tool type cannot be identified in any analysis, and that  animal size influences cut mark size and organization, falsifying Bunn’s hypothesis of  core tool use. Skinning and disarticualtion produce wide and deep cut marks that can be  distinguished from defleshing, although the amount of tissue removed (defleshing bulk  versus scrap) cannot be determined from cut mark size or cluster organization. All three  mark categories occur at distinct skeletal locations, but disarticulation and defleshing cooccur  on the elbow. However, these actions can be distinguished on the elbow when cut  mark cluster geometry is considered. A model that identifies hominins’ early access to  carcass resources from elbow specimens with evidence of defleshing and disarticulation  versus late access from disarticulated elbow specimens brings increased behavioral  resolution to cut mark interpretation and supports previous findings of Okote hominins’  primary carcass consumption.
The politics of translatio
Creators: name: Milanović, Ljubomir
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Year: 2011

description: Early Christian and medieval representations of the ritual of translatio documented the circulation of relics both within and between medieval cultures. This dissertation elucidates the ways the ritual was used for religious and secular ends from the fourth to the fourteenth century in both the East and the West. Reliquaries transmuted abject human remains into objects of veneration. Neither fully alive nor dead, the saint’s body was suspended in a state of perpetual non-decay and endowed with super-natural powers of healing and protection for the faithful. I argue that representations of translatio exploited this essentially ambivalent status of the saint’s body for religious and secular ends. The detailed iconographic program of the Trier ivory provides a provenance for this phenomenon by linking the translation ritual to its Antique prototypes: the triumph and adventus. Accepting the hypothesis that this object represents the translation of the relics of St. Stephen to Constantinople in the fifth century, I identify the ivory as a prototype of the harnessing of the motif of translatio for secular ends. Later examples such as the mural cycles depicting the translatio of the relics of St. Stephen at San Lorenzo fuori le mura In Rome and the chapel of St Stephen in the monastery at Žiča in Serbia, reveal the further development of this pictorial tradition within a public context and its increasingly explicit conscription for secular ideological purposes.  I focus on the case of St. Stephen due to his prominent role in Christian society and the broad dissemination of his cult. As the protomartyr, Stephen was the first individual to emulate Christ’s sacrifice. Christian rulers understood that their power derived directly from Christ and therefore aligned themselves with him. As shown in the Trier ivory and the murals at San Lorenzo and Žiča, by emphasizing their ability to translate and poses his body, they hoped to establish a divine provenance for their earthly powers. Through the representation of the translatio of St. Stephen, the secular and religious leaders depicted in or associated with these objects conscripted a highly sophisticated visual rhetoric to political ends.
The urgency of doing
Creators: name: Moceri, Dominic
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: School-based prevention and promotion interventions (SBPPI) teach students how to recognize and manage emotions, solve problems effectively, establish positive relationships with others, and develop prosocial attitudes. When implemented effectively, SBPPI have been shown to improve desirable outcomes (e.g., commitment to community, standardized achievement test scores, and attendance) and to reduce undesirable outcomes (e.g., suspensions, drug and alcohol use, and aggressive and violent behavior). Unfortunately, our understanding of how to effectively implement and sustain SBPPI outside of well-controlled conditions is lacking. In order to help build a science of implementation and sustainability, this thesis presents a conceptual framework and a measurement tool for effective SBPPI implementation. The framework differentiates among various phases of implementation, ecological levels surrounding implementation in schools, and factors in the system of implementation that facilitate fidelity and sustainability. This framework is measured by the “Schools Implementing Towards Sustainability” (SITS) scale, which is designed to be “user-friendly” in field settings by being viable and scalable. Analyses from a diverse sample of 157 schools implementing Social-Emotional Character Development (SECD), a type of SBPPI, reveal that the SITS has good reliability, good concurrent and construct validity, and promising predictive validity. The findings of the SITS may help advance both the science of school-based interventions and the science of implementation and dissemination as a whole by demonstrating how to bridge the science/“real world” gap.
Genetic toxicity testing of environmental samples and biological fluids (continuation of research proposal 90193) (p#33416)
Creators: name: Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, Coriell Institute Of Medical Research
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1992

description: Seventeen extracts of incinerator air samples from Warren County, NJ were processed and analyzed for mutagenic activity as pat of the Ambient Air Particulate Matter Project led by Arthur Greenberg of Rutgers University. The goal was to evaluate the potential and content of mutagenic activity in the ambient air impacted by incinerator emission.
Spiniferomonas silverensis K. H. Nicholls
Creators: name: Kapustin, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Chrysophyceae
Synurales
Synuraceae
Spiniferomonas
Spiniferomonas silverensis

description: 62. Spiniferomonas silverensis K.H. Nicholls
Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Siver et al. 2005); Boguchany Reservoir (Bessudova & Likhoshway 2017); Buryatia (Bessudova et al. 2018a,c); Republic of Yakutia (Bessudova et al. 2021); Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (Bessudova et al. 2023d); Irkutsk Region (Bessudova et al. 2023f).
description: Published as part of Kapustin, Dmitry A., 2024, An updated checklist of the silica-scaled chrysophytes from Russia, pp. 165-193 in Phytotaxa 669 (3) on page 173, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.669.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14519547
Chaetocnema (Chaetocnema) nagpurensis Duvivier 1892
Creators: name: Ruan, Yongying
name: Yang, Xingke
name: Konstantinov, Alexander S.
name: Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal D.
name: Zhang, Mengna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chaetocnema
Chaetocnema nagpurensis

description: 27. Chaetocnema (Chaetocnema) nagpurensis Duvivier, 1892
Chaetocnema nagpurensis Duvivier, 1892: 422. TL: Bihar, India. TD: Unknown.
Distribution: Bihar, India.
Host plants: Unknown.
Description (after Duvivier, 1892): Body length: approximately 2 mm. Subovate, moderately convex. Black, with head, prothorax and elytra bronzy, antennae and legs light brown, posterior femora bronzy-black, anterior and intermediate femora marked with pitch black. Head finely rugulose and finely punctate, without frontal carina, with a small depression between eyes, and frons large and declivous. Prothorax about one and a half times broader than long, transversely convex, with anterior lateral angles placed in a lower plane, sides almost straight; surface rugulose, somewhat closely, very finely and uniformly punctate; along the basal margin is an uninterrupted series of strong and deep punctures. Elytra somewhat broader at base than prothorax, with humeral calli moderately prominent; strongly punctate-striate, interstices subconvex, densely punctate and transversely wrinkled, area surrounding scutellum very gently convex.
Remarks: Chaetocnema nagpurensis is close to C. trapezoida sp. nov., while they differ mainly in coloration. C. nagpurensis is somewhat darker, with head, prothorax and elytra bronzy, while C. trapezoida is obviously metallic green. Interspaces between puncture rows of elytra are densely punctate and transversely wrinkled in C. nagpurensis, while it is finely punctate and not wrinkled (or only slightly wrinkled in peri-scutellar area) in C. trapezoida sp. nov.
There are several other Oriental Chaetocnema species with transverse wrinkles on interspaces of puncture rows of elytra: C. fusiformis, C. gracilis, C. hainanensis. However, none of them have a row of large punctures along base of the pronotum.
description: Published as part of Ruan, Yongying, Yang, Xingke, Konstantinov, Alexander S., Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal D. & Zhang, Mengna, 2019, Revision of the Oriental Chaetocnema species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), pp. 1-206 in Zootaxa 4699 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4699.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3543038
New Jersey statewide water supply master plan
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1981

description: This document is the ouput of a long term investigation ordered in 1975. Five major consulting firms researched the state's water supply situation, and provided the DEP with components of this plan. This plan contains an analysis of water supply conditions at the time of the analysis, indicates a plan of action makes specific recommendations.
Spiniferomonas takahashii K. H. Nicholls
Creators: name: Kapustin, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Chrysophyceae
Synurales
Synuraceae
Spiniferomonas
Spiniferomonas takahashii

description: 63. Spiniferomonas takahashii K.H. Nicholls
Lake Baikal (Bessudova et al. 2017); Republic of Yakutia (Bessudova et al. 2021, 2023); Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (Bessudova et al. 2023d).
description: Published as part of Kapustin, Dmitry A., 2024, An updated checklist of the silica-scaled chrysophytes from Russia, pp. 165-193 in Phytotaxa 669 (3) on page 173, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.669.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14519547
A study of large deflection of beams and plates
Creators: name: Nishawala, Vinesh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: For a thin plate or beam, if the deformation is on the order of the thickness and remain elastic, linear theory may not produce accurate results as it does not predict the in plane movement of the member. Therefore, a geometrically nonlinear, large deformation theory is required to account for the inconsistencies. This thesis discusses nonlinear bending and vibrations of simply-supported beams and plates. Theoretical results are compared with other well-known solutions. The effects of geometric nonlinearities are discussed. The equation of motion for plates with `stress-free' and `immovable' edges are derived using modal analysis in conjunction with the expansion theorem. Theoretical results are compared with a finite element simulation for plates. `Immovable' edges are studied for beams. For large bending of beams with `stress-free' edges, a theory by Conway is presented. A brief introduction to Duffing's equation and Gaussian curvature is presented and their relevance to nonlinear deformations are discussed.
Stenus baiyushanus Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus baiyushanus

description: Stenus baiyushanus nov.sp. (Abb. 2, 27, 90, 145)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♂): CHINA: Sichuan, Baoxing Xian, Yaoqi, Guabaye, Mt. Baiyu Shan, 2290m, 1.X.1997, T. Kishimoto: in coll. Kishimoto (TUA).
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Apter, schwach glänzend, Kopf schwarz, Abdomen dunkel kastanienbraun, Pronotum und Elytren wenig heller kastanienbraun; Vorderkörper grob und am Pronotum sehr dicht, auf den Elytren nicht ganz so dicht punktiert (Kopf: Abb. 2, Elytren: Abb. 27), Abdomen vorn ziemlich grob und sehr dicht, hinten mässig fein und sehr dicht punktiert (7. Tergit: Abb. 90); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. Kiefertaster gelb, Fühlerbasis und Beine rötlichgelb, Fühlerkeule mittelbraun. Clypeus schwarzbraun, Oberlippe braun, dünn beborstet. Das gesamte Abdomen seitlich ungerandet, 4. Tarsenglied, kaum erkennbar, schmal gelappt. Oberseite ungenetzt.
Länge: 2,0- 2,5mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,2mm).
PM des HT: HW: 24,5; DE: 13; PW: 19,5; PL: 18,5; EW: 23; EL: 18; SL: 13,5.
Männchen: Beine einfach. Metasternum grob und dicht auf glattem Grund punktiert und beborstet, Vordersternite einfach, 7. Sternit in der hinteren Mitte feiner und dichter als an den Sternitseiten punktiert und beborstet, Hinterrand nicht ausgerandet. 8. Sternit mit flacher Ausrandung etwa im hinteren Fünfzehntel des Sternits. 9. Sternit apikolateral mit langem, spitzem Zahn. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Aedoeagus (Abb. 145), Apikalpartie des Medianlobus dreieckig in eine wenig breit abgerundete Spitze verengt, ventral mit einigen Sinnesborsten; im Innern werden längliche Ausstülphaken sowie ein asymmetrischer Innensack deutlich; Parameren länger als der Medianlobus, zu ihren Spitzen hin häutig und verschmälert, mit insgesamt 3/4 + 4 langen Borsten.
Weibchen: Unbekannt.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: DiesesehrkleineArtder S. cephalotes -Gruppe fällt durch ihre sehr grobe, deutlich getrennte Elytrenpunktierung, das dicht punktierte Abdomen und fehlende Netzung auf, wodurch sie sich, abgesehen von ihren Sexualcharakteren, von allen ihren Nahverwandten unterscheidet.
E t y m o l o g i e: Der Name dieser neuen Art ist von ihrem Fundort abgeleitet.
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 1361, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141
Efficient model-based exploration in continuous state-space environments
Creators: name: Nouri, Ali
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The impetus for exploration in reinforcement learning (RL) is decreasing uncertainty about the environment for the purpose of better decision making.  As such, exploration plays a crucial role in the efficiency of RL algorithms.  In this dissertation, I consider continuous state control problems and introduce a new methodology for representing uncertainty that engenders more efficient algorithms. I argue that the new notion of uncertainty allows for more efficient use of function approximation, which is essential for learning in continuous spaces.  In particular, I focus on a class of algorithms referred to as model-based methods and develop several such algorithms that are much more efficient than the current state-of-the-art methods.  These algorithms attack the long-standing "curse of dimensionality''--- learning complexity often scales exponentially with problem dimensionality.  I introduce algorithms that can exploit the dependency structure between state variables to exponentially decrease the sample complexity of learning, both in cases where the dependency structure is provided by the user a priori and cases where the algorithm has to find it on its own. I also use the new uncertainty notion to derive a multi-resolution exploration scheme, and demonstrate how this new technique achieves anytime behavior, which is very important in real-life applications. Finally, using a set of rich experiments, I show how the new exploration mechanisms affect the efficiency of learning, especially in real-life domains where acquiring samples is expensive.
Urban culture and the street
Creators: name: Palmer, Molly Laverne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The dissertation examines the importance of radical notions of public space and the shifts between the public and private spheres to the culture and politics of Madrid from 1975 to the present. The aperture of the physical spaces of the city following the end of Francoism was accompanied by an opening up of the public sphere of politics, where marginalized groups that had been excluded or subsumed into a universal politics of class “came out” in demand of a political voice. Questioning many recent critical assessments of Madrid’s post-dictatorship culture as apolitical, it is argued that these shifts in the relationship between the public and private are manifested in many cultural productions of the time period, thus opening up the political potential of the novels, films, and cultural movements that are analyzed. Madrid’s culture during these years offers a unique space from which to observe the vicissitudes of the public-private divide and increasing difficulty in maintaining a clear distinction between the two spheres. This trend began in Madrid with counterpublics of gender and sexuality in the 1970s and followed into coming years with the urban protests of the Okupa movement, the intimate public lives of immigrants in the city, and the public intimacy of the internet.
Spiniferomonas triangularis Siver
Creators: name: Kapustin, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Chrysophyceae
Synurales
Synuraceae
Spiniferomonas
Spiniferomonas triangularis

description: 64. Spiniferomonas triangularis Siver
Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Siver et al. 2005); Boguchany Reservoir (Bessudova & Likhoshway 2017); Republic of Buryatia (Bessudova et al. 2018c); Krasnoyarsk Territory (Bessudova et al. 2018b); Republic of Yakutia (Bessudova et al. 2022b); Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (Bessudova et al. 2023d); Irkutsk Region (Bessudova et al. 2023f).
description: Published as part of Kapustin, Dmitry A., 2024, An updated checklist of the silica-scaled chrysophytes from Russia, pp. 165-193 in Phytotaxa 669 (3) on page 173, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.669.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14519547
Migration studies of chloropropanols from paperboard packaging in contact with foodstuffs
Creators: name: Pace, Gregory V.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The food processing of acid hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) results in the chlorination of residual lipids to form chloropropanols. 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol (3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol; 3-MCPD), and 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol (1,3-DCP), are the most common chloropropanols found in HVP foods and also soy sauces. The manufacturing process of paperboard food packaging may also produce chloropropanols. 3-MCPD and 1,3-DCP can be found in paperboard when wet-strength resins made with epichlorohydrin are used. 1,3-DCP had been determined to be carcinogenic in rats and mice. 3-MCPD was a suspected carcinogen , and has recently been moving towards classification as a carcinogen. The European (EU) Commission and the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) have set maximum levels in food and food paperboard packaging for 3-MCPD and 1,3-DCP.  In October 2010, 3-MCPD and 1,3-DCP were added to the California Proposition 65 list of compounds known to State to cause cancer.   In this investigation, migration studies were conducted to measure 3-MCPD and 1,3-DCP migration into food simulants from the food contact side of polyethylene extrusion-coated paperboard beverage cartons, and also total immersion extractions of both polyethylene extrusion-coated and uncoated paperboard.  It is shown that 3-MCPD, found at levels far above the regulatory limits for food packaging, does not migrate at a significant amount through the polyethylene extrusion-coated food contact surface of the paperboard.  The aqueous extractions of the entire paperboard and food contact side extractions with aqueous and acidic food simulants were performed using US FDA and EU Commission standard and accelerated migration testing protocols.  In these migration studies, an EU standard method for cold water total immersion extractions was compared to migration cell extractions to measure the chloropropanols migration into food simulant solvents from the entire paperboard and the isolated food contact side of polyethylene extrusion-coated paperboard beverage cartons.  This research demonstrates that polyethylene food contact coated film can function as a barrier to the migration of 3-MCPD into the food packaged in a polyethylene extrusion-coated paperboard engineered for that purpose.
Labeling hypergraph-structured data using Markov network
Creators: name: Parag, Toufiq U
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The goal of this dissertation is to label datapoints into two groups utilizing higher order information  among them. More specifically, given likelihood (or error) measures that subsets of  data are generated by a pattern (or belong to a class), we wish to label the individual datapoints  into two classes. Several computer vision problems deal with data in this format. In model  estimation, small subsets of data are randomly sampled to produce an error measure. Groups  of object parts are often used to provide useful geometrical information for object recognition/  localization. We propose a novel labeling algorithm by modeling the datapoints as nodes of a higher  order Markov Network. A new higher order clique function plays the central role in our method.  The behavior of this clique function is analyzed to explain how it affects the inference and to  predict when it is theoretically guaranteed to produce an optimal solution. We also describe how  a parametric form of the proposed clique function can be learned from labeled data. Results on  several different computer vision problems will be presented to demonstrate the effectiveness  of the proposed algorithm .
The effects of institutions on correct voting
Creators: name: Patel, Parina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Previous research in Political Science has focused on individual and institutional factors that increase voter turnout within democratic countries.  Voter turnout is seen as an indicator to measure the health of a democracy, therefore increasing voter turnout will lead to a healthier democracy.  I argue that voter turnout is an inadequate measure because it only represents the percentage of eligible citizens who cast their vote on election day.  By definition, a democracy is a form of government that allows citizens to elect officials that best represent their views, which is not successfully measured by voter turnout.  Accordingly, a better measure for the health of a democracy should also include whether citizens choose the right candidate or party based on their views and preferences. Correct voting, a binary individual level indicator, compares citizen preferences to the vote choice. Citizens whose preferences match their vote choice are said to vote correctly, and citizens whose preferences do not match their vote choice are said to vote incorrectly.  This dissertation examines which democratic institutional factors increase the levels of correct voting using surveys from eight established democracies and fifteen different elections. Various individual and institutional level hypotheses are tested using hierarchical generalized linear modeling for a dichotomous dependent variable. In order to test the reliability of the correct voting measure and the findings, the same hypotheses are tested using two different measures of correct voting. These two correct voting measures are extracted from two different surveys for each election.  The findings show, for both measures of correct voting, that a smaller number of parties increases levels of correct voting in majority/plurality systems.  In proportional representation systems, an increase of ideological differences among political parties and an increase in party age increase the likelihood of voting correctly.
Modeling receptor reorganization and strain in protein-ligand binding
Creators: name: Paris, Kristina A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The key objectives of computational structure-based drug design include the prediction of the protein-ligand complex binding modes and estimation of the binding affinities.  The overall affinity of a ligand for a receptor can be expressed as a balance between the strength of the interactions of a ligand to any particular binding-competent conformation of the receptor and the probability of occurrence of that conformation in the absence of the ligand. The receptor conformation probability distributions can be described by the free energy landscape of the receptor from which the strain free energy required to move from one conformation to another in the absence of a ligand may be estimated.  The availability of large datasets of crystal structures in the PDB can provide information about the locations of free energy basins and their shapes.  Here we utilize several methods in an effort to model the strain free energy of several receptors due to binding using the vast structural data publically available in the PDB.  Clustering of 99 X-ray structures of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase at the flexible non-nucleoside inhibitor binding pocket elucidates eight discrete clusters, one of which displays a novel bound conformation of the functionally important primer grip.  The clustering results served as a guide for replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations that offer a more in-depth look at the potential reorganization of the binding pocket.  Clustering of 327 available X-ray structures of HIV-1 protease reveals less discrete variability in the substrate envelope than HIV-1 reverse transcriptase but does reveal some receptor reorganization that may be due to a combination of mutations.  A linear response model for incorporation of receptor strain in modern protein-ligand binding affinity estimators is proposed.  Receptor-receptor contact counts are employed as estimators for changes in receptor conformation due to binding of different ligands.  Overall, the linear model produces apparent reduction in binding energy estimation errors and increases in the rank-order correlation with respect to initial values determined by the commercially available Glide 5.0 XP that does not take into account receptor reorganization.  It also offers information as to the type of conformational changes, if any, that may contribute to the receptor reorganization energy.  A null hypothesis test is constructed to evaluate the possibility of producing fits by chance alone.  Finally, an alternative estimator approach using structurally significant intrareceptor distance descriptors, where there are less possible estimators, shows some promise for several drug targets.  The model has the potential to allow for coarse-grained investigation of the conformational and energetic landscapes for binding inhibitors to flexible protein receptors.
Antimicrobial sensitivity and resistance development caused by nutraceuticals
Creators: name: Parlato, Susan Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: For centuries, people have used herbal supplements to treat a host of medical ailments. Their use had declined with the discovery of potent pharmaceuticals, however, in recent years, the use of nutraceutical products has seen a huge increase and the industry has grown exponentially.  With this increasing use of nutraceutical products, there still remains little knowledge concerning the effects of herbal products on commonly used antibiotics and antimicrobials.  These studies were conducted to examine the effects of a small sample of herbal products on antibiotic resistance and sensitivity in bacteria. The herbal products studied were Bee Pollen, Black Walnut, Calendula, Copaiba, Clove, Eucalyptus and Prickly Ash in the form of tinctures, essential oils and 1:1 dilutions of essential oils. Two test strains, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 and Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 were used as representatives of Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. These studies showed a thirty-fold increase in the ampicillin MIC values for the Bee Pollen and Prickly Ash exposed Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 as well as a four-fold increase in the Bee Pollen and 1:1 diluted Eucalyptus oil exposed Escherichia coli ATCC 25922.  Additionally, a four-fold decrease in tetracycline and norfloxacin MIC values was observed for the Bee Pollen and Prickly Ash exposed Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 and a four-fold decrease in the sulfamethazine MIC values was observed in the Prickly Ash exposed Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213.  There was neither a substantive increase nor decrease in MIC values for the other products in this study.
Stenus tricorniger Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus tricorniger

description: Stenus tricorniger nov.sp. (Abb. 7, 23, 81, 130, 161, 162)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♂) und 1♂ - Paratypus: CHINA: W Sichuan, Jiajin Shan, 18 km E Jintang, 3550-3650m, primary coniferous forest, 11.-24.VI.2004, R. Fabbri.- HT in coll. Schülke (Berlin), PT in cP.
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Apter, mässig glänzend, Kopf schwarz, restlicher Körper dunkel kastanienbraun; Vorderkörper grob und sehr dicht (Kopf: Abb. 7, Pronotum: Abb. 23), Abdomen vorn grob und sehr dicht, hinten ziemlich fein, dicht punktiert (Tergit 7: Abb. 130); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. An den Kiefertaster die ersten beiden Glieder gelblich, das 3. Glied gebräunt, Fühlerbasis mittelbraun, Keule dunkler, Beine rötlichbraun. Clypeus schwarzbraun, Oberlippe braun, dünn beborstet. 3. Abdominalsegment mit dünner Seitenrandung die folgenden Segmente ohne Seitenrandung, 4. Tarsenglied gelappt. Oberseite ungenetzt.
Länge: 2,6-3,1mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,4-1,5mm).
PM des HT: HW: 28; DE: 14,5; PW: 23; PL: 22; EW: 26,5; EL: 22,5; SL: 17,5.
Männchen: Schenkel stark gekeult, Schienen einfach. Metasternum mässig tief eingedrückt, grob und wenig dicht auf glattem Grund punktiert und beborstet (Abb. 81). Sternite 3-5 median dichter als an den Seiten punktiert und beborstet, 6. Sternit in der hinteren Mitte leicht eingedrückt und daselbst feiner als an den Sternitseiten, wenig dicht punktiert und beborstet, Hinterrand flach und breit ausgerandet, 7. Sternit ähnlich wie das 6. Sternit, die Eindruckseiten aber dichter punktiert und beborstet, Hinterrand äusserst flach ausgerandet. 8. Sternit mit runder Ausrandung etwa im hinteren Vierzehntel des Sternits. 9. Sternit mit spitzem Apikolateralzahn. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Aedoeagus (Abb. 161, 162), Apikalpartie des Medianlobus kurz und breit, dreispitzig; im Innern werden eine kräftige Ausstülpspange sowie ein breittubiger Innensack deutlich; Parameren erheblich länger als der Medianlobus, im Spitzendrittel mit etwa 9 Borsten.
Weibchen: Unbekannt.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: Auch diese neue Art gehört in die S. cephalotes - Gruppe. Von S. tricuspis nov.sp. unterscheidet sie sich sofort durch gänzlich fehlende Netzung und gröbere Punktierung des Vorderkörpers (z. B. Abb. 23) sowie durch ihre Sexualcharaktere.
E t y m o l o g i e: Der Name dieser neuen Art bezieht sich auf die Gestalt ihres Medianlobus, der vorn drei "Spitzen" ("Hörner") zeigt (Lat. tricornis = mit drei Hörnern).
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 1363-1364, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141
Traffic now, transit later
Creators: name: Pinnelas, Sharon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation examines older-adult travel behavior in suburban age-restricted communities in Central NJ. The confluence of three precepts – gerontology, location, and tenets of travel behavior, referred to as a 3-ring framework – is examined with theoretical guidance from the competence-press model. To support the thesis that travel behavior of residents in new active-adult communities will eventually resemble travel behavior of residents in older, long-established retirement communities, four hypotheses are examined, viz. 1) For older adults, length of time with a medical condition will have a significant and negative relationship with daily count of trips; 2) Given the 3-ring framework and a suburban setting, there will be significant differences in travel behavior between older adult residents in active-adult and mixed-age communities; 3) Among active-adult residents, vehicular trip-rate will be higher for older adults 55-74 than for older adults 75 and above; 4) Residents in active-adult communities will age in place. Data sources include: 1) National Household Transportation Survey 2001; 2) New non-probability Travel Behavior Survey, Central NJ; 3) North Jersey Regional Travel Household Interview Survey; 4) 1990 and 2000 Census data. This dissertation utilizes a number of statistical methods including linear regression, count data models, the Tobit model, and comparative analyses. Findings include: 1) For older adults, length of time with a medical condition is negatively related to count of trips; age negatively, nonlinearly related to count of trips; Tobit model useful given proliferation of zeros in the data. 2) For older adults in age-restricted versus mixed-age communities, self-rated health similar but future outlook more optimistic; greater expectation of living at same address in the future; greater satisfaction navigating community; Certainty Principle proposed. 3) For younger versus older residents in suburban age-restricted communities, vehicular trip rate higher; neither rate reflects ITE. 4) Active-adult residents age in place. Implications include: 1) Understanding the previously unknown housing direction of active-adult residents; 2) Reexamination of the plan review process for proposed active-adult development projects; 3) Awareness of the Tobit model for estimating total trips for older adults; and 4) Consideration of health and age-restricted housing questions for inclusion on travel surveys.
Propagation characteristics and channel models for RadioWeaves including reflectarrays
Creators: name: Wilding, Thomas
name: Li, Xuhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: D1.2 reports on the work performed for task T1.2 focusing on radio channel measurement, characterization and modelling for RadioWeaves (RW). To study channel characteristics of RW in real indoor environments, several measurement campaigns were conducted in Lund and Graz. We used various measurement settings in terms of geometric configurations of array and user equipments (UEs), static/dynamic environments, line-of-sight (LoS)/non-line-ofsight (NLoS) propagation conditions and signal bandwidth, etc, to simulate different RW use cases that are defined in deliverable D1.1.
Stenus bambusicola Puthz 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Puthz, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus bambusicola

description: Stenus bambusicola nov.sp. (Abb. 1, 15, 27, 91, 146)
M a t e r i a l: Holotypus (♂): CHINA: Sichuan, env. Baoxing, Lengmugou village, 1320m, 30 o 22‘32‘‘N, 102 o 49‘44‘‘E, bamboo grove, 12.VI.2014, Hájek & Růžička: im ZMP.
B e s c h r e i b u n g: Apter, schwach schimmernd, Kopf schwarz, übriger Körper mit schwachem Braunanflug; Vorderkörper grob bis sehr grob und sehr dicht punktiert (Abb. 1, 15, 27), Abdomen vorn ziemlich grob und dicht, hinten fein und ziemlich dicht punktiert (Tergit 7: Abb. 91); Beborstung kurz, anliegend. Paraglossen oval. 1. und 2. Glied der Kiefertaster rötlichgelb, 3. Glied dunkler, Fühlerbasis hellbraun, Keule verdunkelt, Beine hellbraun, Schenkelspitzen etwas dunkler. Clypeus schwarz, Oberlippe dunkelbraun, heller gesäumt, dünn beborstet. Abdomen seitlich vollständig ungerandet, 4. Tarsenglied dünn gelappt. Abdomen flach genetzt, Pronotum und Elytren ebenfalls mit Netzungsspuren.
Länge: 2,0- 2,4mm (Vorderkörperlänge: 1,2mm).
PM des HT: HW: 25; DE: 13; PW: 17,5; PL: 17,5; EW: 20; EL: 16,5; SL: 13.
Männchen: Beine einfach. 8. Sternit mit winziger Ausrandung etwa im hinteren Fünfundzwanzigstel des Sternits. 9. Sternit mit langem Apikolateralzahn. 10. Tergit am Hinterrand abgerundet. Aedoeagus (Abb. 146), Apikalpartie des Medianlobus etwa halbkreisförmig abgerundet; im Innern werden deutliche Ausstülphaken sowie ein breittubiger Innensack deutlich; Parameren deutlich länger als der Medianlobus, mit insgesamt 6 Borsten.
Weibchen: Unbekannt.
D i f f e r e n z i a l d i a g n o s e: Diese neue Art gehört der S. cephalotes- Gruppe gehört zu ihren kleinsten Vertretern. Vom ähnlich kleinen S. hlavaci PUTHZ unterscheidet sie sich unter anderem durch gänzlich ungerandetes Abdomen, gröbere Elytren- und Abdominalpunktierung.
E t y m o l o g i e: Der Name dieser neuen Art ist von ihrem Fundort abgeleitet.
description: Published as part of Puthz, Volker, 2018, Neue Stenus- Arten aus China (1) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 359. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen, pp. 1329-1401 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 1365-1366, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5275141