cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Psychophysics testbed and experiments for assessing end-user perception of video quality of service (QoS) over wireless channels
Creators: name: Park, Leonard T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: As part of radio resource management (RRM), pricing mechanisms that influence wireless device behavior and thereby drive systems to better operating points have been addressed amply in the RRM literature. These mechanisms essentially are borne out of Expected Utility Theory (EUT) based microeconomics approaches, and implemented via engineered system design, i.e., embedding these strategies in the link layer and network layer protocols that are executed by wireless devices. When a wireless service provider controls access to end-users via differentiated and hierarchical monetary pricing, then the performance of the network is directly subject to end-user decision-making that has shown to deviate from EUT. In this thesis, Prospect Theory (PT), a Nobel prize winning theory that explains real-life decision-making and its deviations from EUT behavior, is used to illuminate the end-user behavior from a cognitive psychology perspective in such a wireless network. Specifically, we conduct psychophysics experiments, to analyze how end-users evaluate the video QoS (quality of service) over wireless channels. A key aspect of PT modeling is that end-users evaluate objective probabilities with a subjective bias, often captured by a probability weighting function. Based on our human subject studies, we numerically estimate parameters for the popularly used Prelec's probability weighing function, thereby showing how end-users evaluate uncertainty in wireless QoS. The findings here provide useful pointers for designing optimal pricing and resource management algorithms in wireless networks as well as understanding the interplay between the price offerings, resource allocation by the service providers (SP) and the service choices made by end-users.
HPLC separation of total lipid classes and simultaneous analysis of lipid oxidation products
Creators: name: Peng, Teng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Reformulation of foods to include nutritionally adequate levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids is seriously challenging existing lipid analysis methods. Current label requirements with detailed accountability for food composition create increase demands for analysis of total lipid composition that are accurate, sensitive, and fast. In addition, presence of unsaturated lipids dramatically increases oxidation, which is perceived as "rancid" off-odors and flavors by consumers, and food companies must be able to track this degradation to adequately stabilize foods and know when to pull products from shelves. Traditional methods of lipid analysis do not adequately meet these challenges.   This dissertation research seeks to develop improved reversed phase high pressure liquid chromatography methods that simultaneously separate the lipid fractions most important in foods (free fatty acids, acylglycerols, and phospholipids) and quantitates each fraction while also analyzing lipid oxidation products. To achieve baseline separation of lipid lcasses, basic acetonitrile/water gradients were modified with hexane and isopropanol to solubilize long chain saturated fatty acids and triacylglycerols, and the aqueous phase was buffered to pH 6.8 to dissociate fatty acids and facilitate their separation from monoacylglycerols. Under these conditions, fractions separated according to equivalent carbon number. A cyano column (to establish column triple bond interactions with lipid double bonds ) in tandem with the reversed phase column did not increase separation of components within classes. Silver ion chromatography could not be applied because silver ions precipitate at neutral pH.  Evaporative light scattering successfully detected low concentrations of all lipid fractions, including saturated components, but slopes of concentration curves varied with each lipid component. This allows quantitation but necessitates separate calibration curves for each component.   A coulometric electrochemical cell with graphite electrode detected hydroperoxides but not aldehydes or epoxides. However, dinitrophenylhydrazones of aldehydes were detected by the coulometric cell; the response appears to be sensitive (micromolar) so may offer a superior alternative to optical detection of these products. Preliminary tests demonstrated superior detection of hydroperoxides with linear concentration response using an amperometric cell with glassy carbon electrode. Further studies with electrochemical detection of lipid oxidation products should focus on this method.
Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman 1867
Creators: name: Mills, V. Sadie
name: O'Hara, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Euryalida
Gorgonocephalidae

description: Family Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867
description: Published as part of Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, pp. 401-444 in Zootaxa 3613 (5) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/222703
Habitat use and response of freshwater turtles to human presence in an urban canal of central New Jersey
Creators: name: Pittfield, Taryn N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Pressures of urbanization and rapid development continue to increase and recreational activities are becoming a prominent force in many urban wildlife communities. Many urban environments are home to freshwater turtles and little attention has been given to the impact of human recreation upon these communities. We examined the response of basking turtles to observer presence along the towpath of a canal in central New Jersey. All four species, except K. subrubrum, were more frequently observed basking on log substrate and on substrate with less than 50% canopy cover. Along the towpath, 100% of K. subrubrum responded to observer presence by retreating (swimming away), while over 75% of observations on C. picta, T.s. elegans, and P. rubriventris responded to by retreating. There was a highly significant correlation between the distance from the towpath the turtle was first seen basking by the observer and the distance at which the turtle first responded to the observer. Nearly 80% of the variability in distance to first respond to the observer for K. subrubrum was accounted for by including the percent canopy cover, percent cloud cover, and height basking above the water, while less than 30% of the variability was accounted for  C. picta, T.s. elegans, and P. rubriventris.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Serological tests for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis detect antibodies in cattle
Creators: name: Enock Matovu
name: Annah Kitibwa
name: Picado, Albert
name: BiĂŠler, Sylvain
name: Bessell, Paul
name: NdungâU, Joseph
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Results of ITS1-PCR on the 76 PCR and parasitology positive samples from the second set of sera. (DOCX 15Â kb)
Cyrtonota marginata
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Cyrtonota
Cyrtonota marginata

description: Cyrtonota marginata (Kirsch, 1883)
Mesomphalia marginata Kirsch, 1883: 207 (original description).
Pseudomesomphalia Kolbei Spaeth, 1907: 155 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Mesomphalia marginata: ‘ Ecuador (Huamboya)’ [= canton in the Morona-Santiago Province]; Pseudomesomphalia kolbei: ‘ Ecuador: Baiza’ [= Baeza in Napo Province].
Type material examined. Pseudomesomphalia kolbei: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘ Baiza | (Ecuad.) R.Haensch. S. [w, p, s, bf] || 11 [w, hw, cb] || F. Spaeth det. [w, hw, cb] || Pseudo- | mesomphalia | Kolbei n. sp. | Spaeth [w, hw by Spaeth, s] ’ (ZMHB).
Additional material examined. ECUADOR: NAPO PROVINCE: Baeza, 3 spec., R. Haensch lgt. (ZMHB).
Remarks. SPAETH (1907) described Pseudomesomphalia kolbei based on a single specimen. There are three more specimens in ZMHB with identical locality labels but these do not belong to the type series as Spaeth explicitly mentioned only a single specimen. He placed it among species later transferred to Neomphalia (= Cyrtonota) and separated it mainly by unique colouration as it has black pronotum and brown elytra with suture and outer margin black. However, the colouration of pronotum varies from uniformly black to mostly brown. The form with mostly brown pronotum was described as Mesomphalia marginata Kirsch, 1883. This taxon was unknown to Spaeth until he studied the type and transferred it to Neomphalia (SPAETH 1919). I have not examined the type of M. marginata, but I studied specimens compared with the type by Spaeth, which also perfectly agree with the primary description. In my opinion Pseudomesomphalia kolbei and M. marginata are conspecific and represent colour morphs of a single species as other morphological characters are identical. Therefore I synonymize P. kolbei with Cyrtonota marginata.
Distribution. Colombia (BOROWIEC 2002) and Ecuador (KIRSCH 1883, SPAETH 1907, BOROWIEC 1996).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 327-328, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Cemetery abandonment
Creators: name: Poggi, Kristina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Cemetery abandonment creates disconnections in cultural heritage. When vandalism, destruction, neglect, and overgrown landscape claim the grounds of a cemetery, a greater gap is created between living people and those that are deceased. This thesis aims to investigate the root causes of cemetery abandonment in direct relation to historic ethnic population movement and inadequate New Jersey cemetery law; it will discuss three New Jersey Cemeteries that have been left in unsuitable conditions: Saint Patrick’s Cemetery of Rockaway, New Jersey, Grove Street Cemetery of Newark, New Jersey, and Evergreen Cemetery of Camden, New Jersey. Following research on the causes of cemetery abandonment and flaws in New Jersey cemetery law, this thesis recommends that amendment and expansion of current cemetery laws and boards in New Jersey can effectually aid in preserving cultural heritage such as gravestones, cemetery architecture, and landscapes along with intangible cultural heritage which are all components of cemeteries. Further, recommendations include financial and physical responsibility of municipalities containing abandoned cemeteries as well as public outreach and educational programming to promote cemetery preservation in New Jersey.
Paramekongiella Huang 1990
Creators: name: Yu, Hong-Lei
name: Huang, Zhi-Pang
name: Wang, Xun
name: Li, Fang-Ting
name: Mao, Ben-Yong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pyrgomorphidae
Paramekongiella

description: Genus Paramekongiella Huang, 1990
Paramekongiella Huang, 1990: 230, 233; Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 507; Mao & Yang, 2003: 486; Mao, Ren & Ou, 2011: 26; Mariño-Pérez & Song, 2023: 111, 162.
Type species: Paramekongiella zhongdianensis Huang, 1990.
Diagnosis: Body medium to large sized. Head short. Fastigium short and broad, with middle longitudinal sulcus. In lateral view face tilted backward. Eyes oval. Antennae filiform, inserted before lateral ocelli, exceeding (male) or not reaching (female) posterior margin of pronotum. Pronotum with rough puncture, anterior margin nearly straight or finely incised medially, posterior margins broad arcuate and slightly concave in middle, median carina low and obvious; lateral carina faint, anterior transverse sulcus indistinct, posterior transverse sulcus behind the middle. Prosternum roundly protuberant. Mesosternal interspace nearly square; metasternum lobes wide and separated each other. Tegmina and alae absent. Tympanal opening small and clear; tympanum membranous. Hind femora symmetric and upper median carina smooth, with irregular carinae on outside. Hind tibiae with inner and outer apical spines. Male epiproct triangular, cerci conical, subgenital plate short conical.
description: Published as part of Yu, Hong-Lei, Huang, Zhi-Pang, Wang, Xun, Li, Fang-Ting & Mao, Ben-Yong, 2025, Taxonomy of the Paramekongiella (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) with description of a new species, pp. 509-520 in Zootaxa 5569 (3) on page 510, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/14734429
MOESM1 of Extraordinary clinical benefit to sequential treatment with targeted therapy and immunotherapy of a BRAF V600E and PD-L1 positive metastatic lung adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Shuyu Li
name: Annia Martial
name: Schrock, Alexa
name: Liu, Jane
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Full report of comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) based on FoundationOneÂŽ panel.
Stream bank revitalization in Somerville, New Jersey
Creators: name: Pilla, Megan H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In an urban environment, the establishment of a sense of place and values is directly related to the surrounding natural landscape. A community must find sacredness in its environment in order to embody the feelings of pride and appreciation that will allow it to properly relate to, and, by extension, care for, its surroundings. Public open space in an urban community is key to that sacredness. These are places that manifest the best of both human and ecological values; and yet, the interaction between humans and the ecology of these spaces is often insufficiently supported to produce the desired connection between the community and the landscape. This study, therefore, investigates the potential to integrate ecological and social values in public open space. As a case study, the research is focused on a stream and associated riparian corridor that connects a series of public outdoor spaces in the Borough of Somerville, New Jersey, exploring strategies for enhancing both stream ecology and the relationship of the community to the water. Specific issues addressed include recreational access, community connection, water quality, flooding, riparian habitat, and erosion and bank stabilization. The result is a proposed municipal level planning strategy for the revitalization of this stream corridor to accommodate a stronger connection between the ecology of the riparian system and the community it serves by enhancing both ecological integrity and human value.
Amphiuridae Ljungman 1867
Creators: name: Mills, V. Sadie
name: O'Hara, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Ophiurida
Amphiuridae

description: Family Amphiuridae Ljungman, 1867
description: Published as part of Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, pp. 401-444 in Zootaxa 3613 (5) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/222703
Paramekongiella Huang 1990
Creators: name: Yu, Hong-Lei
name: Huang, Zhi-Pang
name: Wang, Xun
name: Li, Fang-Ting
name: Mao, Ben-Yong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pyrgomorphidae
Paramekongiella

description: Key to the species of genus Paramekongiella
1. Abdomen tergites with coarse granules; male cerci short and thick; fastigium with anterior margin curved in dorsal view, lateral margin near base slightly concave................................................ P. zhongdianensis Huang, 1990
- Abdomen tergites smooth; male cerci long and thin; fastigium with anterior margin triangular in dorsal view, lateral margin near base straight............................................................. P. muliensis Mao et Huang, sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Yu, Hong-Lei, Huang, Zhi-Pang, Wang, Xun, Li, Fang-Ting & Mao, Ben-Yong, 2025, Taxonomy of the Paramekongiella (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) with description of a new species, pp. 509-520 in Zootaxa 5569 (3) on page 510, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/14734429
Additional file 1: of Role of mHealth applications for improving antenatal and postnatal care in low and middle income countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Anam Feroz
name: Shagufta Perveen
name: Aftab, Wafa
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Summary of study findings. Description of included studies and quality appraisal (DOCX 21Â kb)
Structure and clustering of colloidal dimers on a surface
Creators: name: Qiao, Qi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The study of two-dimensional (2D) structures formed by nanoparticles and colloidal particles has attracted a great deal of attention due to the rich and diverse structural patterns found in these systems.  The self-assembly of particles into periodic phases is of relevance to technological applications in photonics, biomaterials, catalytic supports, and advanced materials.  Very recently growing attention has been paid to the investigation of the self-organization of colloidal dumbbells, that is, dimers composed of two connected spherical particles.  Because of the technical capability to synthesize dimeric nanoparticles of different sizes, aspect ratios, and asymmetric functionalizations, recent studies have demonstrated that these anisotropic particles exhibit diverse periodic structures and can be used as building blocks for the fabrication of new materials.  We report an extensive study of the structure and clustering properties of colloidal dimers that interact through excluded-volume interactions combined with short-range attraction and long-range electrostatic repulsion.  Such inter-particle interacting potential can generate particle aggregates through short-range attraction and cluster stabilization due to long-range repulsion.  We carried out a systematic molecular dynamics simulations to study the behavior of colloidal dimers that interact through this potential on a two dimensional planar surface.  Using mathematic analysis of the radial distribution functions, cluster size distributions, and thermodynamic properties of the colloidal system, we have identified different distinct structural states: disordered fluids, finite-size aggregates, one-dimensional clusters, and percolating gel phase.  At very low temperatures, the system may exist as a low-density ordered phase.  We also examine the structure of the clusters, and the dynamics of the aggregation process.  Our study enables us to map a phase diagram for the colloidal dimer system on the temperature-density plane.  The information obtained in this study provides fundamental scientific insight and shed lights on the behavior of non-spherical colloidal dimers adsorbed on a planar surface.
Eutheria bipunctata
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Eutheria
Eutheria bipunctata

description: Eutheria bipunctata (Wagener, 1877) stat. restit.
Physonota bipunctata Wagener, 1877: 62 (original description).
Type locality. Argentina, Mendoza.
Type material examined. SYNTYPE: (MMUE). [Examined but label data not recorded].
Remarks. SPAETH (1923) synonymized Physonota bipunctata with Chelymorpha longula Boheman, 1857 and transferred it to the genus Eutheria Spaeth, 1909. I have studied the type of the latter taxon and found that it is conspecific with C. commutabilis, for more information see remarks under that species. Due of the new synonymy I hereby restore species status of E. bipunctata.
Distribution. Argentina: Mendoza (WAGENER 1877).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 329, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Exploring power-performance-quality tradeoffs for exascale combustion simulation
Creators: name: Qin, Yubo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The computational demand of high-performance computing (HPC) applications has brought major changes to the HPC system architecture. As a result, it is now possible to run simulations faster and get more accurate results. But behind this, power and energy are becoming critical concerns for HPC systems, e.g. Titan’s electric cost is about $9 million per year.  Energy efficiency has become a critical challenge for the exascale research challenges, and U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) gives the goal to achieve exascale performance with a power budget of 20MW.  Current research efforts have studied power and performance tradeoffs, and how to balance these, e.g., using DVFS to meet power constraints, which significantly impacts performance. However, scientific applications may not tolerate degradation in performance and other tradeoffs need to be explored to meet power budgets, e.g., involving the application in making energy-performance tradeoff decisions.   In this research, we focus on studying the properties and exploring the performance and power/energy tradeoffs of Low-Mach-Number Combustion (LMC) application which is an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) algorithm. Our experimental evaluation provides an empirical evaluation of different application configurations that gives insights into the power-performance tradeoffs space for this LMC or AMR-based application workflows. The key contribution of this work is a better understanding of the running behavior of this AMR-based application and proposed a power-performance tradeoff for this application, which can be used to better schedule power budgets across HPC systems.
Tyrosine-derived polymeric nanocarriers
Creators: name: Ramezanli, Tannaz
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The importance of nanotechnology in the field of drug delivery has been dramatically increased and nanocarriers are finding potential applications in many areas of medicine. The unique physico-chemical properties of nanoparticles allow them to overcome some biological barriers and hence, improve the bioavailability of their payload.  In this thesis, a platform technology has been described based on amphiphilic biocompatible ABA triblock copolymers that self-assemble to form polymeric nanomicelles (TyroSpheres) to address the need of a suitable carrier system for enhancing the topical delivery of lipophilic actives and their solubility as well as stability in the formulation. Our goal was to investigate the applicability of TyroSpheres for follicular drug delivery and develop an aqueous-based gel formulation of drug-TyroSphere for acne therapy. In addition, we explored other biological properties of this carrier system for drug delivery, including cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and skin irritation to ensure the safety of the carriers/formulation for short-term and long-term applications.  Our selected anti-acne drug was adapalene, a third generation retinoid with a logP of 8.2.  Adapalene-TyroSphere formulations were characterized for carrier particle size, binding efficiency, drug loading, drug release, sebum partitioning, crystallinity, and finally follicular delivery. Gel formulations of adapalene-TyroSpheres were also prepared using different thickening agents and analyzed for content uniformity, rheology, particle agglomeration and skin irritation. A preclinical mouse acne model was employed to test the efficacy of the adapalene treatment via TyroSpheres and compare it with the commercial product, Differin®.  Another highly lipophilic active that was formulated with TyroSpheres was Vitamin D3, which is sensitive to many environmental factors and hence, is an unstable compound. TyroSpheres were able to protect Vitamin D3 against hydrolysis and photodegradation and significantly enhance the stability of this active in the aqueous formulation.  In summary, our findings show that TyroSpheres lack short-term cytotoxicity and genotoxicity. These nanoparticles can accumulate in hair follicles and enhance drug delivery through intercellular and follicular pathways, which can benefit treatment of dermatological disorders, such as acne. The comedolytic properties of the retinoid were preserved after being encapsulated in TyroSpheres. The novel oil-free and alcohol-free aqueous-based formulation of adapalene can be potentially used in management of acne by delivering the drug where the disease originates, while reducing drug/vehicle-related skin irritation.
Additional file 2: of A method for estimating maternal and newborn lives saved from health-related investments funded by the UK government Department for International Development using the Lives Saved Tool
Creators: name: Friberg, Ingrid
name: Baschieri, Angela
name: Abbotts, Jo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Two country examples. (DOCX 15 kb)
Iran's Logistic Challenges and Solutions
Creators: name: Nouri, Behrouz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Iran's logistics sector confronts a complex web of challenges, including stringent international sanctions, a deficient transportation infrastructure, and cumbersome customs procedures. These obstacles significantly impede the nation's economic growth, international trade competitiveness, and overall development. This paper delves into the multifaceted nature of these logistical hurdles, analysing their profound impact on Iran's economy. Furthermore, it proposes a comprehensive set of potential solutions aimed at mitigating these challenges and fostering a more efficient and resilient logistics system.
The impact of attraction and identity fluidity on depressive symptoms in young adults.
Creators: name: Redcay, Alex
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Depression is a serious problem that can negatively impact emerging adults and may have a lasting effect on their health and development. Depression is the leading cause of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and other health problems. This study tested a path model in order to examine the impact of attraction and identity fluidity (i.e., reported changes in attraction or sexual orientation identity over time) on depressive symptoms, the mediating effects of stress, anxiety, support, and the moderating effect of gender on these relationships. First, the results showed that a substantial number of participants reported attraction and  identity fluidity over the four waves of this study. Second, the findings showed the path model was an acceptable fit to the data. Third, sexuality factors like sexual orientation identity, fluid identity and fluid attraction, have unique contributions to depression, satisfaction with partner, stress and anxiety and should be evaluated separately. For example, fluid identity and fluid attraction led to significantly higher rates of depression while a sexual minority identity did not significantly impact depression for all participants. Finally, gender moderated the relationship between sexuality factors, support and mental health. Gender played a significant role in this study showing the clear difference between how men and women respond to stress, anxiety, support, and depression.  These results suggest an urgent need to reevaluate how sexuality is viewed and that clinicians and scholars should be aware of the impact identity and attraction fluidity on mental health issues. Sexual minorities may feel anxiety about being stigmatized and rejected, then conceal their authentic identities or display behavioral incongruence, thereby increasing their stress and risk for mental health issues. Intervention strategies reducing vulnerability to mental health issues should focus on improving support factors (relationship satisfaction), to increase awareness of the prevalence of fluidity, reduce the impact of change stigma, even among heterosexuals who are fluid, and should address how gender impacts these relationships. Social workers, parents, and mental health professionals should consider sexuality, support, and other mental health factors in order to prevent or reduce the negative effects of depression.
The people's PR
Creators: name: Reyes, Camille
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation presents a case study of the New York City based Press Relations Working Group (Press WG) of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the 2011 social movement that advocated for economic justice in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.  The inquiry explores the group’s practices of public relations in order to understand how they and other stakeholders co-constructed meanings concerning social justice at the time.  The semi-structured interviews with former group members, public relations practitioners in their own right, as well as select work product (e.g. press releases) and internal documents are analyzed through the circuit of culture (Du Gay, et al., 2013).  A theory stemming from Cultural Studies, the circuit of culture framework affords sharper understandings of power relations and processes of making meaning—of which public relations is a part.  The case study data reveal at least six findings related to four themes concerning governance, professional and amateur practices, social media usage, and diversity of representation.  Through these lenses, the interpretive analysis advances three arguments: 1. Although social movement activists and scholars have claimed that OWS was horizontal or flat in its governance structure and decision making processes, in practice the picture was complicated by multiple, often hierarchical forms of decision making and governance; 2. Despite widespread evidence of social media use throughout the movement, the Press WG was largely dependent on traditional tactics of public relations; 3. Public relations as practiced in the group empowered some, but oppressed others.  These arguments not only clarify the role(s) of public relations practice in the case study, but also advance critical-cultural understandings of public relations theory.
The effects of plant domestication and cultivation on nematode communities and belowground tritrophic interactions in the highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) agroecosystem
Creators: name: Rivera, Monique Joy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: To address how plant domestication has impacted nematode populations and interactions, the highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) agroecosystem within the Pinelands National Reserve was selected because of the availability of nearby wild-growing stands of V. corymbosum. Over 3 years, the rhizospheric soil of both wild and cultivated plants was sampled three times per year. Alongside sampling for entomopathogenic and plant parasitic nematodes, soil abiotic traits were measured. There was an overall trend for EPN abundance to be higher in cultivated soil than wild soil. The wild sites also showed seasonal variation in EPN abundance in 2011 but not in 2012 or 2013 while the cultivated environment had more consistent abundance. EPN diversity was higher in the wild environment, and isolates from the wild showed varying virulence to Anomala orientalis larvae. Conversely, plant parasitic nematodes were more diverse in the cultivated setting. The most prevalent isolate from cultivated plants was identified as Steinernema glaseri (B1) and used in subsequent laboratory studies. The attraction of two local EPN isolates, one from cultivated plants (B1) and one from wild plants (N9), to A. orientalis larvae and wild and cultivated V. corymbosum plant roots was assessed using two-choice olfactometers. B1 was more attracted to the cultivated plants than the wild and insect feeding enhanced this attraction. N9 was more attracted to wild plants alone than wild plants with feeding larvae. From preliminary GC-MS analysis, it appears that the plant alone constitutively produces more volatiles without third instar A. orientalis feeding than with it.   To test if the B1 isolate attraction and infectivity could be increased by use of known chemicals [E)-β-caryophyllene and pregeijerene], we compared the two chemicals in the laboratory and field. In six-arm belowground olfactometers, B1 was significantly more attracted to (E)-β-caryophyllene. But in the field, the differences between the treatments were not significant. However, in counting the number of EPNs successfully establishing the host in the field, the blank treatment (without attractant) attracted 2× more EPNs. In conclusion, plant domestication in a perennial setting gives rise to selection pressures on the local EPN populations to the benefit of the attraction of EPNs.
Nebraspis aureomarginata Sekerka 2016
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Nebraspis
Nebraspis aureomarginata

description: Nebraspis aureomarginata (Boheman, 1857) stat. restit. & comb. nov.
Mesomphalia aureomarginata Boheman, 1857: 58 (original description).
Nebraspis viridimetallica Borowiec, 1999b: 427 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Mesomphalia aureomarginata: ‘Montevideo’; Nebraspis viridimetallica: Argentina: Entre Rios.
Type material examined. Mesomphalia aureomarginata: LECTOTYPE (present designation), pinned (right antenna partly broken), ‘Mvid [g, hw, s] || Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || Monte Video [hw] | ex Deyrolle [hw] | Baly Coll. | 1905—54. [w, p, cb] || Mesomphalia | aureomarginata | Boh | Monte Video [w, hw by Baly, cb] || Type Boh | Col: Deyrolle [hw by Baly on underside of preceding label]’ (BMNH).
Nebraspis viridimetallica: HOLOTYPE: examined, but labels not recorded (DBET).
Remarks. BOHEMAN (1857) described Mesomphalia aureomarginata from the material of Deyrolle, which latter purchased by J. S. Baly. This taxon was enigmatic to subsequent authors and SPAETH (1914) informally synonymized it with Stolas festiva (Klug, 1829) as he considered M. aureomarginata an aberration of the latter species. However, he most likely based his act on primary description only as the actual type specimen of M. aureomarginata was unknown to subsequent authors and the taxon was listed only in catalogues (see BOROWIEC 1999a). BOHEMAN (1857) did not mention how many specimens he had at his disposal. However, he presumably had just a singleton, as he gave a single length measurement and did not keep a duplicate. Nevertheless, Deyrolle was a famous insect dealer and it is possible that he actually had more specimens. I therefore designate the BMNH specimen as lectotype in order to conserve its identity for the purpose of the new synonymy.
BOROWIEC (1999b) described Nebraspis viridimetallica Borowiec, 1999 as a third species of that genus distinctly separated from its two congeners by the metallic elytra and noted its superficial similarity in colouration to the species of S. festiva species-group. However, this taxon is identical to M. aureomarginata. Therefore I restore species status of the latter, transfer it to the genus Nebraspis Spaeth, 1913 and synonymize N. viridimetallica with it.
Distribution. Argentina: Entre Rios (BOROWIEC 1999b, 2009c) and Uruguay (BOHEMAN 1857).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 329-330, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Resisting marriage-as-ideal online
Creators: name: Renninger, Bryce J.
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Year: 2016

description: In this dissertation, I argue that people pursuing non-normative sexual politics have organized to harness and appropriate social media platforms to meet the needs of counterpublic communication. Building on various conceptions of public sphere and counterpublic theory as well as studies of the politics of the Internet and social media technologies, I focus on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on identity formation, social movement mobilization, and interpersonal communication, all important communicative components in sexual politics. The sites of this dissertation are media objects, use practices, and platforms that encourage alternatives to heteronormativity, homonormativity, and the cultural emphasis on marriage. I concentrate my study on the following contemporary case studies, which show a number of ways that normativities can be challenged in contemporary America:  the formation of an active “asexual” community online, two campaigns against hetero- or homo-normativities that have produced print and online media, and dating and sex websites and apps that promote alternative courtship and socialization practices.
Efficacy of arsenic water treatment systems
Creators: name: Rockafellow Baldoni, Megan F.
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Year: 2016

description: Arsenic, a known human carcinogen, is naturally occurring in groundwater in New Jersey and many other states and countries. Many municipalities in the Piedmont, Highlands, and Valley and Ridge Physiographic Provinces have a high proportion of wells that exceed the New Jersey maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 5 µg/L. Hopewell Township, located in Mercer County and the Piedmont Province, has a progressive local ordinance which requires the installation of dual tank, point-of-entry treatment (POET) systems on affected wells and provided a unique study opportunity.  The purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of existing arsenic treatment systems, if they are maintained, the behaviors and beliefs of homeowners and the risk reduction provided by treatment systems. A total of 65 homes were recruited into the study. Of the homes with dual tank POET, 92.7% of homes, regardless of age and maintenance schedule adherence, had arsenic levels under the MCL at the kitchen sink. Maintainers, homeowners who test their water yearly and replace their arsenic tanks when needed, were found to be the group with the lowest risk of arsenic exposure. This study appears to be the first to identify a potential health hazard as water treatment media was found to escape many of the systems and enter the water supply potentially leading to acute doses of arsenic through ingestion. A potential solution of adding a post-treatment sediment filter is proposed to remedy this problem.  Based on the average concentrations of arsenic at the kitchen sink, average water consumption and the Township population, Hopewell’s arsenic water treatment ordinance, requiring POET dual tank arsenic treatment reduced the incidence of excess lifetime (70-year) bladder and lung cancers from 121 (1.7 cancer cases/year) to 16 (0.2 cancer cases/year) preventing 105 lifetime cancer cases (1.5 cases/year). Because the high risk of cancer from arsenic can be mitigated with effective arsenic water treatment systems, this ordinance should be considered a model for other municipalities. An effort should also be made to increase the number of homeowners who test yearly and maintain their treatment systems.
Ogdoecosta soricina
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Ogdoecosta
Ogdoecosta soricina

description: Ogdoecosta soricina (Boheman, 1862)
Chelymorpha soricina Boheman, 1862: 205 (original description).
Chelymorpha stygia Boheman, 1862: 212 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Chelymorpha soricina: original type locality ‘ Bolivia [sic!]’ corrected by SPAETH (1917) to ‘ Panama, Veragua’; C. stygia: ‘Columbia (Bogota)’.
Type material examined. Chelymorpha soricina: SYNTYPES: 1 spec., pinned, ‘14188 [w, p, s] || soricina | N. | Boliv. Warszew. [g, hw, cb, bf]’ (ZMHB); 3 spec., pinned: no label but pinned in the same series (ZMHB).
Chelymorpha stygia: HOLOTYPE: ♀, pinned, ‘Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || Bogota [hw] | Baly Coll. | 1905—54. [w, p, cb] || Chelymorpha | stygia | Boh | Bogota [w, hw by Baly, cb] || Type Boh | 55 [hw by Baly on underside of preceding label]’ (BMNH).
Remarks. BOHEMAN (1862) described Chelymorpha soricina from unknown number of specimens but he must have had at least two as he mentioned a length span. This taxon was based on material collected by J. Warszewicz in Panama but wrongly labelled as Bolivia (SPAETH 1917). Several pages apart Boheman gave description of Chelymorpha stygia based on a single specimen from Bogota. He did not compared the latter taxon to any species, just mentioned that it is distinct. The specimen Boheman described is curious as it has a large callosity on the top of each elytron. However, these are artificial and probably resulted from improper emerging from the pupa as the callosties are asymmetric and the elytra are unnaturally distorted. In my opinion C. stygia is conspecific with C. soricina as both taxa differ only in colour besides the deformed elytra. Chelymorpha soricina has reddish-brown body except of the three black spots on disc of pronotum, which are basally connected in C. stygia that also has black disc of the elytra. However, the colouration itself is very variable in all species of Ogdoecosta Spaeth, 1909 and thus largely insignificant as distinguishing character. Since both taxa were described in the same publication I followed the Principle of the first reviser (ICZN 1999: Article 24.2) and chose the name C. soricina as the valid one because it was previously correctly interpreted.
Distribution. Costa Rica (SPAETH 1909a), Colombia (BOHEMAN 1857) and Panama (SPAETH 1917).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 330, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Amphipholis squamata Delle Chiaje 1828
Creators: name: Mills, V. Sadie
name: O'Hara, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Ophiurida
Amphiuridae
Amphipholis
Amphipholis squamata

description: Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
Asteria squamata Delle Chiaje, 1828: 74.
Amphiura parva Hutton, 1878: 305 [synonymised by Benham, 1909].
Amphiura squamata.—Lyman, 1879: 32.—Lyman, 1882: 136.
Amphiura elegans.—Farquhar, 1898: 191–192.—Farquhar, 1907: 125.
Amphipholis australiana Clark, H.L., 1909a: 540 –541, pl. 52(1–3) [synonymised by Clark, H.L., 1938].
Amphipholis squamata.—Benham, 1911: 152–153.—Clark, H.L., 1921: 106–107.—Mortensen, 1924: 161–162.—Koehler, 1930: 102–103.—Mortensen, 1936: 292–293.—Clark, H.L., 1938: 243–244.—Clark, H.L., 1946: 202.—Fell, 1952: 20.—Fell, 1953: 102.—Fell, 1958: 28.—Clark, A.M., 1970: fig. 1g.—Clark, A.M. & Rowe, 1971: 80–81, 99, fig. 27b, pl. 13(5).—Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 151–152, fig. 138.—Fenwick & Horning, 1980: 439.—Paterson, 1985: 91, fig. 36.
Axiognathus squamata.—McKnight, 1967a: 311–312.—McKnight, 1967b: 325.
Material Examined. Bay of Islands. TAN0906/33, NIWA 54873 (2). TAN0906/87, NIWA 55547 (1). Marlborough Sounds. TAN1105/156, NIWA 77843 (1). West Coast North Island. TAN1105/88, NIWA 77842 (1).
Diagnosis. Disc scaled dorsally and ventrally, radial shields contiguous. Primary plates not obvious in adult animals. Two distal oral papillae: square proximal papilla, low and wide oblong distal oral papilla. Three arm spines, 2 tentacle scales. Viviparous, bioluminescent.
Description. See Mortensen (1924).
Distribution. New Zealand, Australia, circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters (0–1000 m).
description: Published as part of Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, pp. 401-444 in Zootaxa 3613 (5) on pages 410-411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/222703
Insights into mechanisms of metal homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Rosario-Cruz, Zuelay E.
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Year: 2016

description: Staphylococcus aureus is a major public health concern worldwide. The human immune system employs oxidative- and copper-dependent mechanisms that disrupt metal homeostasis within the invading microorganism. This thesis describes new factors involved in iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis and copper detoxification in S. aureus, representing additional mechanisms of metal homeostasis that might aid this pathogen during host infection. Strains lacking the low-molecular-weight thiol bacillithiol (bshA mutants) display growth defects that are alleviated by the addition of exogenous Fe or the amino acids leucine and isoleucine. The bshA strain has decreased activities of Fe-S proteins, such as LeuCD, IlvD, AcnA, and GltBD, suggesting that the absence of BSH leads to a general defect in Fe-S cluster biogenesis. The growth defects and decreased enzymatic activities of the bshA strain are exacerbated in strains lacking other factors involved in Fe-S cluster biogenesis, such as the Fe-S cluster carriers Nfu and SufA, and partially suppressed by their overexpression, suggesting a functional overlap between BSH and Fe-S cluster carriers in Fe-S cluster biogenesis. We also found a two-gene operon involved in preventing copper (Cu) intoxication. These genes encode an ATPase Cu transporter (copB) and a putative lipoprotein (cbl). Mutational inactivation of copB or cbl resulted in Cu sensitivity, and their phenotypes are exacerbated in strains also lacking the highly conserved Cu exporter CopA, suggesting that CopB and Cbl are additional mechanisms that prevent Cu intoxication in S. aureus. Overexpression of either copB or cbl leads to increased Cu resistance in other S. aureus clinical isolates lacking these genes. We show that copB and cbl are co-transcribed, up-regulated under Cu stress, and repressed by CsoR. Genetic and biochemical evidence show that Cbl is a membrane-associated, surface-exposed lipoprotein that binds up to four Cu+ ions. Collectively, the research presented in this thesis describes new roles for BSH and Cbl in metal homeostasis in the human pathogen S. aureus.