cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Methods for determining differential behaviors in stone tool production and application to the Oldowan of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Koobi Fora, Kenya
Creators: name: Reti, Joseph S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Traditional lithic artifact analyses have provided information regarding hominin  ranging behaviors, raw material preferences, and the potential for functionality.  However, there is currently no standard method for determining how hominins produced  lithic artifacts. This dissertation research provides the first quantitative measure of flake  production techniques and applies these measures to the Oldowan of Koobi Fora, Kenya  and Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Four Oldowan production behaviors are identified and are  used to define what has been called the “least effort approach” to flake production in the  Oldowan. Behaviorally informative measurements are taken on whole flakes and size  standardized using their geometric mean. In order to attribute each archaeological flake  to a production behavior, large experimental assemblages are created using native raw  materials from Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge (n = 3,651 flakes and 443 cores). Each  experimentally produced flake has empirically known production behaviors associated  with it. A multivariate classification algorithm is constructed to determine a  classification tree of best fit for the experimental flakes such that each flake is assigned a  particular production behavior. Archaeological flakes are assessed via this classification  algorithm and then compared to the experimental expectations for distribution of  production behaviors.            The application of Oldowan archaeological assemblages to this process  demonstrates that the null hypothesis that a least effort manufacturing strategy was  employed at Koobi Fora cannot be rejected, but this null hypothesis can be rejected for  subsets of quartzite and basalt flakes at Olduvai Gorge. Hominins at both localities  demonstrate an understanding of raw material economics, but at Olduvai Gorge these  hominins demonstrate a consistent ability to produce flakes in a more efficient way than a  least effort approach predicts. Hominins at Olduvai Gorge consistently transport  quartzite flakes to the site locations, while they consistently transport basalt cores to the  sites. Koobi Fora hominins also demonstrate the ability to transport raw materials, but do  not produce flakes outside of least effort expectations. Due to these differences in stone  tool production strategies and lithic transport behaviors, this research argues that distinct  cultural differences between hominin populations are quantifiably evident as early as the  Oldowan.
Quantifying secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formed through cloud chemistry and cloud droplet evaporation
Creators: name: Ortiz-Montalvo, Diana L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a substantial contributor to atmospheric organic particulate matter; however, its formation via aqueous oxidation reactions is only beginning to be understood. Although the aqueous organic chemistry that drives SOA formation in clouds (SOACld) has now been incorporated into a few photochemical transport models, it is yet unknown to what extent the newly formed organic material remains in the particle-phase after droplet evaporation. This work investigates SOA formation through cloud water chemistry and droplet evaporation. Aqueous hydroxyl radical oxidation and droplet evaporation experiments were conducted using precursors commonly found in cloud water: glycolaldehyde, methylglyoxal, and glyoxal. A new method was used to measure the volatility of the product mixture. The effective vapor pressure, enthalpy of vaporization, and mass yields of SOACld were determined.  Aqueous oxidation produced carboxylic acids and oligomers (i.e., small polymers), which are major constituents of atmospheric aerosols. Enhanced yields (e.g., ~50–80% yields from glycolaldehyde) provide evidence for additional chemistry during droplet evaporation. The overall vapor pressure and enthalpy of vaporization of SOACld were ~1E-0& atm and ~&0 kJ/mol, respectively, similar to the mix of organic acids identified. Lastly, a substantial decrease in volatility (~ 1E-08 – 1E-16 atm) was observed when glyoxal SOACld products were exposed to sufficient ammonia to form organic salts. These results provide an important insight on the effects that cloud droplet evaporation and neutralization have on SOA formation through cloud processing.  This work furthers our understanding of SOACld formation, and provides measurements that are needed for accurate prediction of SOA in global and regional air quality models.
Thermal desorption studies of volatiles released during heating of food oils
Creators: name: Repko Reader, Ilona
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Lipid degradation occurs extensively during deep fat frying, and controlling it is a great challenge, at least in part because the reaction mechanisms responsible remain controversial. With current trends towards increasing unsaturated fats in frying oils, a more complete understanding of these pathways becomes critical. To gain more detailed information about reactions involved in thermal decomposition kinetics and products of frying oils, corn oil/ high oleic sunflower oil blends (fresh, stripped, and steady-state) were heated at 180°C for three hours in an OxipresTM oxygen bomb under 2 bars air pressure. Upon release of pressure, the headspace was vented through a Tenax-Carboxen thermal desorption trap to trap volatiles which were then identified and quantitated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Volatile levels and distributions were integrated with oxygen consumption and non-volatile product data from another study to assess relative contributions of thermal scission and autoxidation reaction mechanisms in overall degradation.  Effects of catalytic factors on oil degradation were evaluated by adding metals, phospholipids, fatty acids, and water to the oil blends during heating.  Fresh, stripped, and steady-state oils all generated comparable volatile products, but with differing concentrations and distributions. The main peaks coeluting isopentane/ pentane octane/ hexanal > pentanal/heptanes. Peak analyses revealed homologous series of alkanes, aldehydes, alkenes, ketones, cycloalkanes, and furans were also present. Levels of products generally decreased with chain length. No 2,4-decadienal was detected.  This product pattern and the kinetics of evolution of different products provides strong support for thermal scission as the dominant degradation mechanism that occurs first to generate scission radicals that yield alkanes directly or oxidize to hydroperoxides, aldehydes, and carboxylic acids. Secondary reactions then initiate autoxidation chains. Factors known to have strong effects on lipid oxidation at room temperature appear to influence product distribution rather than degradation kinetics in heated oils.  Integration of volatiles and non-volatiles data with oxygen consumption suggests there are pathways active in thermal degradation that are not being accounted for in current analyses, and these need to be elucidated to fully understand how various factors influence oil degradation as well as to learn how to improve frying oil stabilization.
The novel of translation
Creators: name: Raterman, Jennifer
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Year: 2013

description: In nineteenth-century Europe, the nation emerged as the dominant organizing structure for cultural community. Languages became national languages and prominent intellectuals began to understand translation as a nationalist enterprise. But novelists increasingly used translation in another way: as a means to reposition the reader as a site of potential group affiliation beyond national borders. The legacy of this challenge to national identification is the structural transformation of the novel’s address to its audience. My dissertation locates this transformation in the works of four major novelists who begin their careers as critics and translators but turn to narrative as the mode best suited to their examination of political and ethical sociality. I move from Thomas Carlyle’s fictional translation and Germaine de Staël’s Romatic-era theories of national character to George Eliot’s narratives of cosmopolitan sympathy and Virginia Woolf's interrogation of the communicative potential of private or, as she calls them, “little” languages. In each case, I reveal how translation is central to the writer's specifically narrative intervention in their readers’ conception of community, and I demonstrate that the novel’s turn to translation radically reorients the genre. Finally, I show that the novel’s investment in a newly sensitive reader anticipates the concerns of later translation theory, which also hinges on the capacity of its audience to be changed through encounters with unfamiliar words and stories.
Cyphostethus tristriatus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Acanthosomatidae
Cyphostethus
Cyphostethus tristriatus

description: Cyphostethus tristriatus (Fabricius, 1787) (Fig. 2)
Material examined (n=8): loc. CM 03.IX.2020, 15.XII.2020; loc. MS 15.XII.2020. loc. PM 03.IX.2020; loc. RG 31.III.2019 leg. OP.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkey (Asian part), Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan).
Remarks: One nymph was also collected in loc. CM 03.IX.2020. First record in Apulia region (Southern Italy).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Preservation of American youth summer camps
Creators: name: Racioppi, Michele
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: American youth summer camps, first established in the late 1800's, have flourished throughout the 20th century to the present day.  Only since the late 1990’s, though, have they begun to be addressed by the academic community.  The recognition of camps' historic, social, cultural, and architectural significance has coincided with a major change in the landscape of certain camps, specifically Girl Scout and Boy Scout camps.  Scout camps have traditionally offered a more rustic camp style and the option for campers to explore a variety of traditional camp activities such as hiking, canoeing, and crafts.  However, both the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts today face significant organizational changes, namely the consolidation of local councils, as well as numerous external business pressures such as high operating costs and competition from other camps.  In the face of these pressures, Scout camps are vulnerable to being shut down, sold, or modernized.  This has caused controversy among Scouting members, resulting in protests, lawsuits, and even boycotts.  More than just a disagreement over whether or not to keep camps open, these disputes include the loss of memories and histories associated with camp sites.      This thesis discusses the challenges faced in preserving both physical and intangible aspects of Scout camps, and offers suggestions on how to manage the impending sale of Scout camps while still respecting the strong ties people have to their camps.  This is accomplished through an examination of three Northeastern summer camps: Glen Gray in Mahwah, New Jersey, Eagle Island, on Upper Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, and Mogisca, in Glen Spey, New York.  Summer camps, like all cultural landscapes, change over time; however, current changes have been imposed in a manner that has caused concern for those familiar with these sites.  This thesis shows that local councils, national Scout organizations, current and former camp attendees, and preservation professionals have many options available to more effectively manage this transition.
Additional file 1: of Fish oil supplementation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Fulton, Ashley
name: Coates, Alison
name: Williams, Marie
name: Howe, Peter
name: Manohar Garg
name: Wood, Lisa
name: Frith, Peter
name: Hill, Alison
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a randomised trial. (DOCX 36Â kb)
Pyrgomatinae Gray 1825
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Pyrgomatidae

description: SUBFAMILY PYRGOMATINAE GRAY, 1825 (MIOCENE–RECENT)
Ahoekia Ross & Newman, 1995 (three species)
Arossella Anderson, 1993 (two species)
Australhoekia Ross & Newman, 2000 (one species)
Cantellius Ross & Newman, 1973 (26 species)
Cionophorus Ross & Newman, 2001 (three species)
Creusia Leach, 1817 (one species)
Darwiniella Anderson, 1992 (two species)
Eohoekia Ross & Newman, 1995 (two species)
Galkinius Perreault, 2014 (11 species)
Hiroa Ross & Newman, 1973 (one species)
Hoekia Ross & Newman, 1973 (four species)
Neopyrgoma Ross & Newman, 2002 (one species)
Neotrevathana Ross, 1999 (one species)
Nobia Sowerby, 1839 (four species)
Parahoekia Ross & Newman, 1995 (one species)
Pyrgoma Leach, 1817 (five species)
Pyrgopsella Zullo, 1967 (two species)
Pyrgospongia Achituv & Simon-Blecher, 2006
(one species)
Savignium Leach, 1825 (two species)
Trevathana Anderson, 1992 (11 species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 838, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Portside synaesthetics
Creators: name: Quest, Mary Nell
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation examines sensory experiences of large-scale urban renewal in the diverse port city of Marseille, France, based on fifteen months of fieldwork between 2006 and 2009. Using a range of traditional and sensory ethnographic methods, I conducted research with city planners, architects, activists, social workers, and other residents from throughout the urban geography. By examining the ways Marseillais people experience the varied “renewal” projects’ attempts to change the city’s image, physical landscape, economy, and status nationally and transnationally, I demonstrate that shifting sensory experiences are a primary locus through which urban change can be understood.   The sorts of sensory encounters I examine here are, for example, when changes in the built landscape overwhelm a local resident, construction sounds from next door reconfigure one’s internal clock, gentrification and business turnover render familiar spaces unwelcoming, or an architectural model provokes particular bodily movements and a sense of the uncanny. By attending simultaneously to historical and cultural factors like the city’s immigration and port histories and phenomenological experiences, I show the embeddedness of the city within a sensually and materially conceived Mediterranean world and demonstrate that embodied, sensory encounters are a fundamental way through which people come to form the collectivities necessary for politics. In particular, I discuss the formation of a sensually based “Mediterranean Enchantment” and analyze its abilities to connect people in political projects across differences in ethnicity, class, and original national origin.   Based on the ethnographic evidence, I argue that there is progressive potential in taking seriously the impacts material “objects” have on human “subjects,” and that therefore, it is important to move towards collapsing distinctions between “subjects” and “objects” and unidirectional conceptualizations of agency. I show that this process is facilitated by taking a mobile, sensory, ecological and experience-based approach that views people, time, space and the material world as in constant flux and recreation. I also demonstrate that a sensory approach to “renewal” is better able to capture projects’ everyday impacts on the broadest possible range of residents, including those who are not permanently displaced, and thereby show the large stakes involved in shifting the built environment.
Empowerment and effectiveness
Creators: name: Powell, Kristen Gilmore
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This study contributes to the literature by testing a conceptual model of the relationships between empowering organizational characteristics and individual empowerment and their impact on perceived effectiveness within coalitions implementing a substance abuse prevention framework. Excessive drinking among adolescents and young adults is a significant problem in the United States and contributes to a wide range of costly consequences, including motor vehicle crashes, suicide, interpersonal violence, and alcohol poisoning (SAMSHA, 2012). In addition to excessive drinking, an estimated 22.5 million Americans aged 12 or older, (8.& percent), reported current use of illicit drugs in 2011, with marijuana use on the rise and the current most commonly used illicit drug (SAMHSA, 2012). The U.S. Department of Justice (2011a) estimated the economic cost of illicit drug use to society for 200& was more than $193 billion.   The present study adopted a mixed methods convergent parallel design, (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2011) which included analysis of secondary quantitative and qualitative data that were collected in 2011 for the evaluation of the adoption of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) in New Jersey. Participants were drawn from a purposeful, non-random sample of staff and members within eleven New Jersey coalitions implementing the SPF (n = 138 survey participants; n = 20 interview participants).    Using organizational and individual empowerment theories within the conceptual framework, the present study examined psychological empowerment and empowering organizational characteristics and their impacts on perceived effectiveness within coalitions. This study included descriptive, path, and qualitative analyses. The path model showed a good fit to the data with the hypothesized pathways. Psychological empowerment and sense of community had direct, positive effects on perceived effectiveness. Direct effects of organizational characteristics on perceived effectiveness were found as well as indirect effects through their relationships to sense of community and psychological empowerment.  Previous research on individual empowerment and organizational empowerment has not included the relationship to self-reported effectiveness. Practical implications include developing coalition training on the SPF with emphasis on organizational characteristics that foster members’ empowerment, increase coalition effectiveness, and improve positive community impact.
Quantifying algebraic properties of surface groups and 3-manifold groups
Creators: name: Patel, Priyam
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: A group G is residually finite (RF) if for every nontrivial element g in G, there exists a finite index subgroup G' of G such that g is not in G'. A group G is called locally extended residually finite (LERF) if for any finitely generated subgroup S of G and any g in G -S, there exists a finite index  subgroup G' of G which contains S but not g. Quantifying these algebraic finiteness properties refers to bounding the indexes of the finite index subgroups G' in each of the definitions above. In this dissertation we quantify Peter Scott's theorem that surface groups are LERF in terms of geometric data. In the process, we will quantify the fact that surface groups are residually finite and quantify another result by Scott that any closed geodesic in a surface lifts to an embedded loop in a finite cover. We also extend the methods used in the 2-dimensional case to quantify the residual finiteness of particular 3-manifold groups.
Cydnus aterrimus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Cydnus
Cydnus aterrimus

description: Cydnus aterrimus (Forster, 1771)
Material examined (n=1): loc. LG 31.III.2017 leg. OP.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa and Asia. Introduced in South Africa, USA and West Indies.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Macroscytus brunneus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Macroscytus
Macroscytus brunneus

description: Macroscytus brunneus (Fabricius, 1803)
Material examined (n=1): loc. GA 05.VIII.2016 leg. RA.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia. Extralimital records in tropical Africa and Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Dasiops latifrons
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Dasiops
Dasiops latifrons

description: Dasiops latifrons (Meigen, 1826)
Lonchaea latifrons Meigen, 1826: 308. Germany (type unknown).
Lonchaea parvicornis Meigen, 1826: 307. Germany (type unknown). Lonchaea crepidarius Meigen, 1826: 309. Germany (type unknown). Chortophila lasiophthalmus Macquart, 1835a: 329. Unspecified type. France (Bordeaux) (?MNHNP).
Lasiops aenescens Meigen, 1838: 324. Unjustified new name.
Lasiophtalma nigrovirescens Lioy, 1864: 992. Unjustified new name.
Dasiops loncheus Rondani, 1874: 272. Unspecified type. Italy (Parma) (?MZLS). Distribution. PA: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Morocco, Southern Europe, from France and Spain to the Middle East and Middle Asia.
Egyptian localities. Coastal Strip: Alexandria, Burg, Dekheila, Mariout. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Cairo, El- Gebel El-Asfar, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Helwan, Maadi, Qubba.
Host plants. Unknown in Egypt. Recorded from Europe as bred from elongate stem galls formed on the grasses Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. (Poaceae). Source: MacGowan & Freidberg (2008). Dates of collection. November to May.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on pages 155-156, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Architectural influence of FeF₂ films on electrochemical failure modes
Creators: name: Parkinson, Matthew Frank
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Iron fluoride (FeF2) is an attractive material for use as nanocomposite conversion reaction based cathodes in lithium ion batteries because of its high specific theoretical capacity of 5&1mAh/g. However, despite the optimistic potential of FeF2 to advance battery cathodes, the cycling performance of the material requires further development for it to be a viable cathode candidate. A deeper understanding is required of how orientation, selective reaction fronts, and morphology impact the electrochemical performance. FeF2 films of various degrees of vertical porosity and thickness were fabricated through the use of dynamic glancing angle deposition. Respectable performance was obtained with film thicknesses of 850nm, well above the nanodimensions typically required to trigger electrochemical activity. The structure – electrochemical property relationships were used to formulate insights on the electronic and ionic transport limitations seen in typical nanocomposite powders
Lamprolonchaea Bezzi 1920
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Lamprolonchaea

description: Genus LAMPROLONCHAEA Bezzi
Lamprolonchaea Bezzi, 1920: 199. Type species: Lonchaea aurea Macquart, 1851, original designation.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 156, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Canthophorus melanopterus subsp. melanopterus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Canthophorus
Canthophorus melanopterus
Canthophorus melanopterus melanopterus (herrich-Schaeffer, 1835)

description: Canthophorus melanopterus melanopterus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835)
Material examined (n=76): loc. BQ 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020, 02.X.2020; loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020, 31.VIII.2020, 06.X.2020, 03.XI.2020; loc. CM 29.VII.2020, 01.X.2020; loc. LG 03.X.2016 leg. PL, 03.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020, 31.VIII.2020; loc. S2 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia) and Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Northern China?, Cyprus?, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Turkey (Asian part))
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Chromosome level assembly and secondary metabolite potential of the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris
Creators: name: Kramer, Glenna
name: Nodwell, Justin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Coverage across chromosomes. Coverage across chromosomes from SMRT analysis resequencing protocol assembly. (DOCX 1935Â kb)
UC Solar
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: ABSTRACT The development of renewable energy programs will be among the top issues of strategic importance to the United States. California, the most populous state in our nation, provides many ideal settings for the development and utilization of solar energy. As the largest research university in the state, the University of California has the opportunity to become the preeminent research institution in this exciting and rapidly expanding field. The California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute (CAST), hosted by the University of California, Merced, will be driven by collaborations between research groups at the University of California campuses of Merced, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. The CAST Institute will have a primary focus on emerging solar technologies with research emphases on nanotechnology, nonimaging optics and novel thin film and multijunction materials for solar cell fabrication. Its research programs will attract outstanding graduate school candidates and provide a platform for training many of the young scientists needed for California’s future. In addition, the Institute will attract talented researchers from other institutions that will ultimately contribute to the value of the intellectual property developed within the University of California. The research goals of the CAST Institute will be to advance various nanotechnologies as a tools in the development of new solar cell materials, maximize solar cell performance and optimize the thermodynamic efficiency of solar concentrators. In addition, the Institute will develop novel materials to capture and harness the energy in the shorter wavelengths of the solar spectrum (materials with bangaps larger than 2.4eV). The CAST Institute will also dedicate resources to promoting the commercialization of new and existing solar technologies. This effort will have a measurable impact on California’s economy in that it will foster industry development eventually leading to expanded employment opportunities, tax revenues and greater energy conservation and self-sufficiency. Dr. Roland Winston (Professor of Physics) at the University of California, Merced will serve as the Director of the CAST Institute. Dr. Constance Chang-Hasnain (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Berkeley) and Dr. Umesh Mishra (Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara) will serve as co-investigators and participate in the governance of the Institute. Additionally, each will coordinate the activities of additional faculty members and graduate students from their respective institutions.
Lonchaea Fallen
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Lonchaea

description: Genus LONCHAEA Fallén
Lonchaea Fallén, 1820a: 25. Type species: Musca chorea Fabricius, 1781, by subsequent designation (Westwood 1840: 150). Lonchoea Say, 1830: 188. Misspelling of Lonchaea Fallén.
Teremyia Macquart, 1835b: 514. Type species: Lonchaea laticornis Meigen, 1826.
Lonchea Rondani, 1856: 119. Misspelling of Lonchaea Fallén.
Teremya Schiner, 1868: 227. Misspelling of Teremyia Macquart.
Theremya Rondani, 1874: 268. Misspelling of Teremyia Macquart.
Mastigimas Enderlein, 1927: 105. Type species: Mastigimas togoensis Enderlein, 1927, original designation. Tricholonchaea Czerny, 1934: 21. Type species: Lonchaea albitarsis Zetterstedt, 1838, original designation. Lasiolonchaea Enderlein, 1936: 152. Type species: Lonchaea hirticeps Zetterstedt, 1837, monotypy. Togocesa Kocak & Kemal, 2010: 7. A new name for Mastigimas Enderlein.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 156, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Molecular mechanism of FAT signaling pathway coordinating growth and patterning in drosphila melanogaster
Creators: name: Pan, Guohui
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: From an RNAi lines screen, our lab found the Drosophila Zyxin family gene, Zyx102 (Zyx) as a negative regulator of Fat-Hippo signaling. Epistasis analysis put Zyx between Dachs and Warts (Wts) in the Fat-branch, and Zyx-RNAi suppresses the reduction of Wts level by fat RNAi. Zyx partially co-localizes with Dachs, and its localization was not altered by manipulating other Fat-branch component. Zyx protein binds to Dachs, and Dachs stimulates binding of Zyx to Wts, suggesting a molecular mechanism for how Fat signaling regulates Wts through Dachs. Our results identified a new component of Fat signaling, and investigated possible molecular mechanism for signal transduction from Fat to Wts.  Among the vast amount of genes involved in organ morphogenesis, Fat gene stands out as it transduces both growth cue and planar cell polarity (PCP). But the molecular mechanism underlying is unknown. A structure-function approach is recruited to figure out the motifs in Fat that are required for signal transduction mechanism.   By a fat genomic Bac Clone, which is expressed under endogenous condition, activities that could be missed by over-expression can be revealed. We find out the PCP activity is evolutionarily conserved from Drosophila to mammals. And the Hippo and PCP activity can be largely separated at the level of the Fat receptor. A specific motif was identified to mainly impair Fat-Hippo activity and reduce Fat phosphorylation. Manipulating the potential phosphorylation sites in this motif gives similar phenotypes, implicating phosphorylation as an essential factor in Fat-Hippo signal transduction. This motif overlaps with the previously identified Dco binding site, but retains normal binding affinity.   Another conserved four amino acid motif is crucial for Fat-PCP, while the Fat-Hippo activity is almost normal. And this motif contributes differently to multiple PCP assays, suggesting there are different kinds of PCP in Drosophila.   Different Fat activity leads to distinctive Dachs localization pattern, and directly manipulating Dachs localization could phenocopy loss of Fat activity. Thus Dachs localization influences both Hippo and PCP phenotypes.  Our results identify a conserved mechanism of Fat signaling, establish functional significances for Fat ICD motif, phosphorylation sites, and Dachs membrane localization to downstream pathways.
High Performance AstroComputing Center
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: As computing power continues to increase rapidly, the most difficult problems in astrophysics are now coming within reach – including the formation and evolution of stars and supermassive black holes, and their interactions with their galactic environments. The UC faculty + labs is arguably the largest and most powerful computational astrophysics faculty in the world. UC can become the acknowledged leader in this highly visible area. The purpose of HIPACC is to realize the full potential of UC’s world-leading computational astrophysicists by fostering their interaction with each other and with the rapidly increasing observational data, and by empowering them to utilize efficiently the new supercomputers with hundreds of thousands of processors both to understand astrophysical processes through simulation and to analyze the petabytes and soon exabytes of data that will flow from the new telescopes and supercomputers. This multidisciplinary effort links theoretical and observational astrophysicists, physicists, earth and planetary scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists on all twelve UC astrophysics labs and campuses, and exploits California’s leadership in computers and related fields. HIPACC’s outreach activities will include developing educational materials, publicity, and websites, and distribution of simulation outputs including visualizations that are beautiful as well as educational. Individual UC and Lab teams are fairly well funded, but we do not routinely share knowledge, postdocs, students, or computing resources. Because of our broad and complementary expertise, much could be gained by promoting cross-fertilization and also by fostering a tradition of systemwide collaborations. This would increase not only our scientific success but also our opportunities to attract very significant support. A long term goal is the creation of one or more major science institutes for projects such as the Thirty Meter Telescope and/or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope that would bring together theorists and observers to collaborate more closely in designing programs and instrumentation and that would feature California’s role in these projects. HIPACC would sponsor working groups of UC scientists from multiple campuses pursuing joint projects in computational astrophysics, including supporting travel and lodging for working meetings. It would also sponsor workshops and conferences on various computational astrophysics topics (one in Northern CA and one in Southern CA each year) and an annual summer school open to UC grad students and postdocs and also participants from beyond UC. HIPACC would foster interdisciplinary collaboration to advance the state of the art in computation and data storage and analysis, and it would develop industrial partnerships with CA companies such as Intel, Nvidia and Google.
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN IMPROVING HOSPITAL LOGISTICS IN RWANDA
Creators: name: 1Mbonigaba Celestin, 2Lemlem Desta & 3Rachid Boudlal, 4Olivia Martinez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: This research investigates the role of technology in enhancing hospital logistics in Rwanda, aiming to address inefficiencies in inventory management, transport scheduling, and resource tracking. Using a mixed-methods approach, data were collected via surveys, interviews, and secondary sources, with quantitative analysis applied to validate findings. The study reveals significant improvements post-technology adoption, including a 42.9% reduction in patient waiting times, an 84% decrease in stock-out occurrences, and a 64.3% decline in medical errors. These results are statistically significant (p < 0.05), highlighting the impact of Health Information Systems and electronic prescribing tools. Conclusions emphasize technology's transformative role in healthcare logistics, with recommendations for expanding training programs, investing in scalable solutions, and fostering public-private partnerships to sustain progress.
Lamprolonchaea smaragdi
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Lamprolonchaea
Lamprolonchaea smaragdi

description: Lamprolonchaea smaragdi (Walker, 1849)
Notiphila smaragdi Walker, 1849: 1098. Unspecified type. Sierra Leone (BMNH) Lonchaea aurea Macquart, 1851: 273. Africa (type unknown).
Lonchaea cuprea Becker, 1908: 131. Syntypes. (ZMHB).
Lonchaea splendida Loew, 1873b: 292. Italy (Sicily) and Greece (Corfu) (type unknown). Distribution. AF: Madagascar, s. Africa. AU: Hawaii. NE: Bermuda. PA: Canary Is., Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Madeira, Sicilia, Spain.
Egyptian localities. Coastal Strip: Abu Qir, Muntazah, Nuzha, Ramleh. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Cairo, Gharbyia, Giza, Kerdassa, Qubba. Sinai: Arish, St. Katherine, Wadi El-Lega. Plants from which flies were swept. Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.), eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), fig (Ficus carica L.), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and watermelon (Citrullus sp.). Biology. MacGowan & Freidberg (2008) reared L. smaragdi from decayed sorghum, rotten potato, figs, avocado, and watermelon.
Dates of collection. January to November.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 156, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from birds in Taiwan
Creators: name: Chi-Chien Kuo
name: Lin, Yi-Fu
name: Cheng-Te Yao
name: Shih, Han-Chun
name: Lo-Hsuan Chung
name: Hsien-Chun Liao
name: Hsu, Yu-Cheng
name: Hsi-Chieh Wang
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Species of birds and number of captures and unique individuals mist-netted between September 2014 and April 2016 in eastern Taiwan. (DOCX 16 kb)
Incorporating shrinkage effects in FE modeling of prestressed concrete bridge
Creators: name: Purani, Dhara
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Right from the inception of the implementation of prestressed concrete in the bridge construction field, it has been very popular. Even though this type of bridges has big advantages, cracking is a major problem. The cracking event, due to its detrimental effects on the structure is the most objectionable problem. In cracking shrinkage plays a very significant role. This implies that the study of shrinkage is essential to study the phenomenon of cracking. Due to many variables responsible for deck cracking, it is very difficult to study the overall effect of these variegated factors taken in the consideration at a time. This thesis aims to confluence as many such aspects as possible in a single plane of consideration with the help of Finite Element software namely ABAQUS. The goal of this research is to study shrinkage, shrinkage effects, and factors affecting the shrinkage and ultimately to incorporate the shrinkage effects in Finite Element Modeling. Here the study is constrained to Prestressed Concrete Bridge. Thus, the research is carried to incorporate the shrinkage effects in FE Modeling of Prestressed Concrete Bridge.    This is a difficult task as many finite element programs do not have pre-programmed methods for simulating the time dependent properties of concrete. Therefore, it is necessary to develop these methods. This study concentrates on trying to simulate the behavior of a simple span bridge as a means of developing the basic analytical method. In the research Abaqus has been selected and the selection has been justified for the purpose of analyzing time dependent effects in bridges. A parametric study has been carried out with a view to identifying the effects of various parameters of shrinkage in a structure. The effects of the parameters such as length of the span, girder spacing, deck thickness and modulus of elasticity of girder have been analyzed with the help of bridges modeled in Abaqus. The parametric study concludes that shrinkage strain increases with increase in length and spacing of girder. The shrinkage strain decreases with increase in compressive strength of girder and deck thickness.
title: Relationships as Key to Recovery for Perinatal Women Living with Depression
Creators: name: Biebel, Kathleen
name: Byatt, Nancy
name: Debordes-Jackson, Gifty
name: Friedman, Liz
name: Allison, Jeroan J.
name: Ziedonis, Douglas M.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2012

description: Findings from a study of women with lived experience of depression during and after pregnancy, specific to what is helpful, what are barriers and how to affect change.
CXCR4 targeted peptide carriers for the inhibition of HIV and delivery of anti-viral drugs
Creators: name: Palombo, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: HIV-1 continues to be a major epidemic affecting the global population and responsible for millions of deaths annually. Despite the mortality of the virus, great improvement in the currently available retroviral pharmacotherapy has lead to a chronic treatment of infected individuals. However the current therapy is not a cure for HIV-1 infection and eventually drug resistant viral strains will deplete the infected individual of CD4+ T cells.    The chemokine receptor CXCR4 plays an important role to HIV-1 infection of host cells. CXCR4 acts as a coreceptor to viral entry. CXCR4 is expressed several types of HIV-1 susceptible cells and therefore has been identified as a target for anti-viral intervention as well as a targeted drug delivery system. The thesis herein is focused developing peptide drug conjugates targeting CXC4.    Peptide carriers were synthesized to specifically interact with CXCR4 by the targeting sequence DV3. Multivalent DV3 peptide carriers containing 1, 2, or 4 copies of the CXCR4 targeting sequence DV3 were tested in vitro for the inhibition of HIV-1 entry and cellular uptake via confocal microscopy. Only the 4 copy DV3 peptide carriers (4DV3) significantly inhibited HIV-1 from infecting the reporter cell line TZM-bl and were entrapped within cellular endosomes. 4DV3 inhibited the HIV-1 strain IIIB in vitro (IC50=553nM). The small molecule, AMD3100 (4&%), and a CXCR4 monoclonal antibody (IC50 = 398nM) inhibited the 4DV3/CXCR4 interaction. Molecular modeling of 4DV3 interacting with CXCR4 demonstrated the ability of 4DV3 to interact with a tetramer of the receptor.    4DV3 was further modified to carry drug cargoes with known anti-viral activity. Comparative analysis of the peptides carrier’s ability to enhance the anti-HIV activity of the drug, the 4DV3, or act synergistically was investigated. 4DV3 conjugates of AZT (IC50=32nM) and RTV (IC50=598nM) improved the effectiveness of 4DV3 (IC50=23μM) inhibition of HIV-1 replication. The stability of the ester drug conjugate was evaluated over time. Finally, third generation compounds were designed and synthesized to increase the drug loading. The studies that have been performed were designed to evaluate the potential of a targeted CXCR4 peptide carrier as a drug delivery system for HIV-1 therapy.
Legnotus limbosus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Legnotus
Legnotus limbosus

description: Legnotus limbosus (Geoffroy, 1785)
Material examined (n=4): loc. BS 03.VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan (Asian part), Turkey (Asian part), Syria, Uzbekistan)
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Lonchaea palposa Zetterstedt 1847
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Lonchaea
Lonchaea palposa

description: Lonchaea palposa Zetterstedt, 1847
Lonchaea palposa Zetterstedt, 1847: 2355. Unspecified type. Denmark (Copenhage area) (ZIL). Distribution. PA: Europe.
Egyptian localities. Unknown. Dates of collection. Unknown.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on pages 156-157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233