cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improved empirical methods in reinforcement-learning evaluation
Creators: name: Marivate, Vukosi N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The central question addressed in this research is ”can we define evaluation methodologies that encourage reinforcement-learning (RL) algorithms to work effectively with real-life data?” First, we address the problem of overfitting. RL algorithms are often tweaked and tuned to specific environments when applied, calling into question whether learning algorithms that work for one environment will work for others. We propose a methodology to evaluate algorithms on distributions of environments, as opposed to a single environment. We also develop a formal framework for characterizing the ”capacity” of a space of parameterized RL algorithms and bound the generalization error of a set of algorithms on a distribution of RL environments given a sample of environments. Second, we develop a method for evaluating RL algorithms offline using a static collection of data. Our motivation is that real-life applications of RL often have properties that make online evaluation expensive (such as driving a robot car), ethically questionable (such as treating a disease), or simply impractical (such as challenging a human chess master). We compared several offline evaluation metrics and found our new metric (”relative Bellman update error”) addresses shortcomings in more standard approaches. Third, we examine the problem of evaluating behavior policies for individuals using observational data. Our focus is on quantifying the uncertainty that arises from multiple sources: population mismatch, data sparsity, and intrinsic stochasticity. We have applied our method to a collection of HIV treatment and non-profit fund-raising appeals data.
Oxypiloidea (Catasigerpes) occidentalis
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hymenopodidae
Oxypiloidea
Oxypiloidea occidentalis

description: Oxypiloidea (Catasigerpes) occidentalis (Wood-Mason, 1879)
Figs. 147–150
Sigerpes occidentalis Wood-Mason, 1879: 259.
= Sigerpes toganus Giglio-Tos, 1915: 13.
Type localities. (S. o.) Sierra Leone; (S. t.) Bismarckburg, Togo.
Distribution. Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo (Beier 1968; Giglio-Tos 1915a; Gillon & Roy 1968; Miles 2021; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1964b, 1965a, 1967, 1970b, 1971a, 1975, 2013a; Roy & Leston 1975; Wood-Mason 1879).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 317); ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.
Remarks. One of the few species previously recorded from the CNP (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 2013a). There are two female morphs, one with a long vertex process (occidentalis) and another with a short process. Roy (2013a) considered them to be conspecific, since only one type of male (toganus) attributable to these females has been found so far. The remaining uncertainty can only be clarified with breeding experiments.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Economic-lot-size formulas in manufacturing using MATLAB
Creators: name: Mahmood, Ayad Abdulaziz
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Economic-lot-size formulas enable us to get number of orders that reduce costs of each of: inventory, setup, and ordering. In manufacturing problems, formulas of economic-lot-size may give rise in unrealizable schedules, in some production periods the shop could not satisfy demands, whereas at other times slack periods that lead to idleness may occur. This research depicts a technique that allows the computation of order quantities in order that demands are satisfied with available labor and machines. The technique includes a simple step-by-step computation, particularly adaptable to computer programming (MATLAB).
Lower body gait analysis through real time gait parameter measurements using KINECT
Creators: name: Mahmood, Bashar Abdulaziz
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Gait analysis is one of the important areas of research, with applications including diagnosis, monitoring, and rehabilitation. Current gait analysis systems, such as those used in a laboratory or a clinic, are intrusive, expensive or require carefully tuned settings. This thesis presents an accurate low body gait analysis method that is low-cost, non-intrusive, and requiring no battery-powered sensors or markers. Instead, it conducts gait analysis using a Kinect sensor, which has been used in various research areas for its capabilities of obtaining full body gait information.       Our study uses the change in joint positions provided by the Kinect’s virtual skeleton frames to extract lower body gait parameters. We propose a simple but efficient technique to measure stride and its two component intervals: stance and swing, using only the ankle joint of each leg. To measure the ground truth, we also build a wearable sensor that can obtain accurate stride information.       We evaluate our system using two subjects and report their stride duration, stance and swing intervals. Our results show that our system has a mean difference less than 10ms from the ground truth, with an error of less than 1%. Our results show that looking at the ankle joint alone is sufficient to calculate lower-body gait parameters.
Parametric analysis of continuous high shear wet granulation
Creators: name: Meng, Wei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The main focus of this research is to investigate the continuous high shear wet granulation process. Wet granulation is used broadly in the pharmaceutical industry. This technology has many advantages such as enhancing compression and powder handling, decreasing ingredient segregation and ensuring the content uniformity through binding of ingredients to each other. A high level of interest exists at the present time in the continuous version of this technology, both by the US FDA, and by large pharmaceutical manufacturers. Continuous manufacturing methods can provide significant technical and business advantages relative to batch methods. As has been demonstrated in other process industries, continuous manufacturing methods are more robust and controllable. They achieve the same production rates as batch processes in much smaller and thus less capital-intensive equipment. However, despite these advantages, the pharmaceutical industry still relies almost exclusively on traditional batch methods to produce tablets and capsules. In recent years, different continuous WG techniques have been investigated, such as fluid bed agglomeration and twin-screw extrusion. However, integration of these unit operations into a complete continuous tablet manufacturing line is still a bottleneck due to high production cost and poor understanding of impact of granule properties.   In this work, a continuous high-shear wet granulation process is examined based on a placebo formulation comprising of 70% ∂-lactose monohydrate and 30% microcrystalline cellulose (Avicel PH101). The process includes two stages. As the powders are fed into the granulator, the blades mounted on the shaft will push the dry powders forward and promote both dispersive axial mixing and convective cross-sectional mixing. This is the mixing stage. The granulation stage occurs once the mixtures reach the nozzle location where a binding liquid (water) is fed via a pump. Then the granule size grows and decays due to nucleation, coalescence, consolidation and attrition or breakage.  In this study, two process variables (rotation speed, L/S ratio) and two design parameters (blade configuration and nozzle position) are selected for the I-optimal design.  The collected granules are dried in a hot-air convection oven to a desirable LOD (~ 3%). Granule properties, such as particle size distribution, flow properties, density, compaction and are measured. Batches with desirable particle size distribution are selected for further characterization. The rotation speed and L/S ratio have the most significant effects on the granule properties. The optimum operations of this granulation are 0.3 L/S ratio with the rotation speed of 275RPM or 660RPM.
Popa spurca subsp. spurca Stal 1856
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Deroplatyidae
Popa
Popa spurca
Popa spurca spurca stål, 1856

description: Popa spurca spurca Stål, 1856
Figs. 152–156
Popa spurca Stål, 1856: 169.
= Popa batesi Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 230–233.
= Popa servillei Giglio-Tos, 1907: 3–4.
= Popa stuhlmanni Rehn, 1914: 26–29.
Type localities. (P. sp.) Durban, RSA; (P. b.) Imérina, Madagascar; (P. se.) Antananarivo, Madagascar; (P. st.) Ituri, DRC.
Distribution. Senegal to RSA, Madagascar (Lombardo 1995).
Records. CSC: juv., old camp, XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; juv. ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), 16.II.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), 24.II.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), III.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; juv. ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), III.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), 02.V.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 165); 2 ♀♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred (F1), VII.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred, 07.VII.2004, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 4 oothecae, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive laid 2001– 2004, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 473). SMNK: 2 ♁♁ + ♀ + 5 exuviae + 2 oothecae, old camp, P-Gen. leg. juv. XI.2000, captive bred, ded. C. J. Schwarz (SMNK-Mant. 07580–07588).
Remarks. An arboricolous “short stick mantis” distributed in wooded savannas of Africa south of the Sahara. A second subspecies inhabits Ethiopia to Tanzania east of the Rift Valley (Lombardo 1995). The biology of Ivorian populations was described by Schwarz (2004).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
The effects of land use systems on the socioecology of the olive baboon (Papio Hamadryas Anubis) and human-baboon interactions in Laikipia Distrct, Kenya
Creators: name: Moinde, Nancy N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The potential importance of food availability and predation as selective forces in social evolution has been hypothesized by the socioecological models (Wrangham 1980; van Schaik 1989; Isbell, 1991; Sterck et al. 1997).  Traditional socioecological models explain primate social behavior in relation to factors such as the abundance and distribution of food resources as well as the risk of predation - all of which are potentially and substantially impacted by a range of anthropogenic processes.  It is from this premise I studied the olive baboon’s (Papio hamadryas anubis) adaptive behavior in contrasting land use systems.  I further complemented this approach by exploring human–baboon interactions in various land use systems to better understand associated patterns of coexistence through tests of Wildlife value Orientation models (WVO) (Fulton et al. 1996; Ingelhart and Baker 2000; Manfredo and Dayer 2004; Teel et al. 2007).  The premise of these models is human interactions with wildlife are derived directly from basic values people have towards nature.  I, therefore, explored the values associated with land use practices. The overarching question for this study is – How do different anthropogenically modified habitats influence primate adaptive social behavior and patterns of human-primate symbiosis? I examined this question using baboon behavioral data as well as semi-structured and structured interviews with people in different land use system during a 21 month field study in Laikipia District, Kenya. I found that variation in food availability in different land use systems was the most important factor influencing baboon aggressive behaviors. This indicates that humans are also key agents in reinforcing the selective pressures of ecological factors that potentially influence primate adaptive behavior. Further, my interview data revealed that people’s values towards baboons were not associated with land use systems, but rather with the duration of living in areas with baboons, level of education, and land tenure systems. Land use, on the other hand, was a prominent factor associated with people’s reported direct interactions with baboons and the motivations underlying their encounters with them. My dissertation contributes towards a more integrated synthesis of our understanding of primate social evolution and coevolution of human-nonhuman primate symbiosis.
Cholevinus fuscipes subsp. fuscipes Menetries 1849
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Cholevinus
Cholevinus fuscipes
Cholevinus fuscipes fuscipes (ménétriés, 1849)

description: Cholevinus fuscipes fuscipes (Ménétriés, 1849)
Catops fuscipes Ménétriés, 1849: 53.
Type locality: Novaïa Alexandrovskaïa.
Distribution in Iran. RaZavi Khorasan (Giachino 1990).
General distribution. Armenia, China (Xinjiang), Iran, Russia (Orenburg), Turkey, Turkmenistan, UZbekistan (Jeannel 1936; Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Η συμμετοχή των προσωπικών εταιριών στους εταιρικούς μετασχηματισμούς
Creators: name: Μανιάδου, Γλυκερία Σταύρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Εταιρικοί Μετασχηματισμοί
Προσωπικές Εταιρίες
Νόμος 4601/2019
Transformations
Partnerships
Law 4601/2019

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη της συμμετοχής των προσωπικών εταιριών στους εταιρικούς μετασχηματισμούς στο πλαίσιο του νόμου 4601/2019. Συγκεκριμένα, ασχοληθήκαμε με τη συμμετοχή των Ομόρρυθμων Εταιριών, των Ετερόρρυθμων Εταιριών και των Κοινοπραξιών του άρθρου 293 παρ. 3 του νόμου 4072/2012 σε συγχώνευση, σε διάσπαση και σε μετατροπή. Αρχικά, παρουσιάσαμε συνοπτικά το καθεστώς των εταιρικών μετασχηματισμών πριν τον νόμο 4601/2019. Αναδείξαμε έπειτα τις ιδιαιτερότητες στη διαδικασία της συγχώνευσης όταν σε αυτήν μετέχουν προσωπικές εταιρίες. Στη συνέχεια, αναφερθήκαμε στις ιδιαιτερότητες στη διαδικασία της διάσπασης όταν σε αυτήν μετέχουν προσωπικές εταιρίες. Ακόμη, εξετάσαμε τη διαδικασία μετατροπής προσωπικών εταιριών. Ένα άλλο θέμα που θίξαμε ήταν οι περιπτώσεις αυτοδίκαιης μετατροπής των προσωπικών εταιριών.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of the participation of partnerships in transformations in the context of Law 4072/2012. Specifically, we examined the participation of General Partnerships, Limited Partnerships and Joint Ventures of article 293 paragraph 3 of Law 4072/2012 in merger, division and conversion. First, we briefly presented the status of transformations before Law 4601/2019. We then highlighted the specifics of the merger process when partnerships participate in it. Next, we referred to the particularities in the process of division when partnerships participate in it. We also looked at the process of conversion of partnerships. Another issue we touched on was the cases of automatic conversions of partnerships.
The Slx5 paradox
Creators: name: Mendez-Rivera, Letzibeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Defects in DNA repair are associated with a variety of human diseases, but the pathways that regulate DNA repair are poorly understood. Protein modification by SUMO remains one of the most elusive mechanisms, even though it is known to be important for genome stability. Sgs1, a RecQ DNA helicase in S. cerevisiae, is important for DNA repair, and genetic screens have shown that the heterodimeric Slx5-Slx8 SUMO-targeted Ub ligase (STUbL) is required for cell viability in its absence. Another factor that genetically connects SUMO to DNA repair is the metalloprotease Wss1. The growth of a wss1Δ sgs1Δ double mutant is reduced compared to either single mutant.   Taking a candidate-gene over-expression (OE) approach, I made the unexpected finding that SLX5 over-expression is lethal to cells lacking WSS1. Surprisingly, this lethality did not require its partner protein Slx8, which suggested that this was a novel Slx5 activity. Consistent with this lethality, was also observed when STUbLs such as yeast ULS1 or mammalian RNF4 were expressed in these cells. Further, structure-function analysis showed that lethality due to SLX5 OE required only Slx5’s SUMO interaction Motif’s (SIMs), not its RING domain.  Kinetic analysis indicated that SLX5 OE slows the growth of wild-type cells. In contrast, SLX5 OE permanently arrests the growth of wss1∆ cells.  While investigating the cause of this lethality, I found that expression of Slx5 SIMs resulted in the accumulation of high molecular weight SUMO conjugates in both wild-type and mutant cells. Interestingly, subsequent repression of Slx5 led to a reduction in the levels of induced poly-SUMO chains and this turnover was more rapid in wild-type than in wss1∆ cells.    The fact that the accumulation of poly-SUMO chains required the Ubc9 SUMO conjugating enzyme, but not the Ulp1 or Ulp2 isopeptidases, supports the hypothesis that the SIMs actively promote chain synthesis.  Finally, I found that over-expression of SUMO counteracts the lethality of SLX5 OE. This suggests that wss1∆ cells may suffer lethal damage due to a shortage of monomeric SUMO.
Cholevinus pallidus subsp. pallidus Menetries 1832
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Cholevinus
Cholevinus pallidus
Cholevinus pallidus pallidus (ménétriés, 1832)

description: Cholevinus pallidus pallidus (Ménétriés, 1832)
Catops pallidus Ménétriés, 1832: 169. Type locality: [Azerbaijan:] Bakou.
Distribution in Iran. Kerman (Jeannel 1936), Lorestan (SZymcZakowski 1970). General distribution. Afghanistan, AZerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Russia (Daghestan), Turkmenistan, UZbekistan (Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Danuria (Danuria) buchholzi Gerstaecker 1883
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Deroplatyidae
Danuria
Danuria buchholzi

description: Danuria (Danuria) buchholzi Gerstaecker, 1883
Figs. 157–159, 166
Danuria buchholzi Gerstaecker, 1883: 93–94.
Type locality. Accra, Ghana.
Distribution. Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Tchad, CAR, DRC, Ruanda, Burundi (Beier 1968; Chopard 1940a, 1954; Gerstaecker 1883; Gillon & Roy 1968; La Greca 1954a; Miles 2021; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1962a, 1963, 1965a, 1967, 1969, 1970b, 1971b, c, 1975, 2018; Roy & Leston 1975; Werner 1928).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 323).
Remarks. Graminicolous, recorded from CNP previously by Gillon & Roy (1968).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Attaephilus Motschulsky 1869
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Attaephilus

description: Genus Attaephilus Motschulsky, 1869
Myrmecophilus Motschulsky, 1844: 817, type species: Myrmecophilus paradoxus Motschulsky, 1844 [Homonym]. Attaephilus Motschulsky, 1870: 350, type species: Myrmecophilus paradoxus Motschulsky, 1844 [Replacement].
Jeannelella Roubal, 1925: 68, type species: Jeannelella paradoxa Roubal, 1925 (= Catops arenarius Hampe, 1852).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
The LBK site of Vráble in Southwestern Slovakia: Selected results of the excavation season 2016
Creators: name: Müller-Scheeßel, Nils
name: Cheben, Ivan
name: Filipović, Dragana
name: Hukeľová, Zuzana
name: Furholt, Martin
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2020

description: Der vorliegende Aufsatz präsentiert selektive Ergebnisse der Grabungskampagne 2016 in der südöstlichen der drei bandkeramischen Siedlungen von Vráble/Südwestslowakei . Auf einer Fläche von insgesamt 2283 m² wurden fünf band- keramische Langhäuser mit ihren charakteristischen Pfostenreihen und hausbegleitenden Längsgruben ganz oder teilweise aufgedeckt, dazu vier Vorratsgruben und ein mögliches Grubenhaus . Zahlreiche 14C-Daten sowie stratigraphische Überlagerungen zeigen, dass die ausgegrabenen Häuser nicht, wie ursprünglich vermutet, zeitgleich in Benutzung waren, sondern eine Zeittiefe von bis zu 200 Jahren repräsentieren . Das Fundspektrum umfasst typische Artefakte der Linearbandkeramik wie Keramik, geschlagene Steingeräte, Felsgesteingeräte und Knochengeräte, wobei zwischen den Häusern durchaus Unterschiede in der Fundzusammensetzung bestehen . Artefakte aus Obsidian sowie einige Scherben der sogenannten „Bükker Keramik“ verweisen auf Fernkontakte in die Ostslowakei . Als herausragender Fund wurde aus einem der Pfostenlöcher ein Kern aus Obsidian gebor- gen, der dort bei Anlage oder Abbruch des Hauses deponiert worden sein muss . In einer Längsgrube fand sich ein weitgehend vollständiges menschliches Skelett . Das männli- che, 20–35jährige Individuum lag offensichtlich längere Zeit offen, wie Dislokationen der Knochen zeigen . Die insgesamt schlecht erhaltenen archäobotanischen Überreste sind dominiert von Einkorn, Emmer kommt wesentlich seltener vor . Der Aufsatz schließt mit Überlegungen zu den sozialen Beziehungen zwischen den drei weitgehend gleichzeitigen Siedlungen von Vráble, die sich bei allen Ähnlichkeiten offenbar auch bewusst gegenein- ander abgrenzten . Besonders deutlich wird dies am Grabenwerk um die südwestliche Sied- lung, das zu den beiden anderen Siedlungen keine Eingänge aufweist . Dies könnte die Reaktion auf „fission-and-fusion“-Prozesse sein, bei denen soziale Spannungen durch die konstante Neuarrangierung der sozialen Beziehungen aufgelöst oder abgemildert werden . Zugehörige Forschungsdaten finden Sie hier.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 97 2016(2020): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Maternal education and child health status
Creators: name: Menezes, Eder Da Silva
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Undernutrition is the leading cause of death among children under the age of five in developing countries. The long- and short-term adverse effects of undernutrition are well-documented in the current scientific literature. Often embedded in poverty, malnutrition has been regarded not only as a public health issue, but also as a medical, social, political and economic problem where maternal education repeatedly emerges as the most important determinant factor. Strengthened by more recent evidence, there has been an ever increasing amount of literature questioning the association between maternal education and child health outcomes. The current study used data from Bolivia’s 2008, Haiti’s 2005-06 and Honduras’s 2005-06 Demographic and Health Survey to explore mechanisms that underlie the association between maternal education and child health status. To evaluate this relationship three anthropometric indicators were used to measure children nutritional status: low birth weight, low weight-for-height (wasting) and low height-for-age (stunting). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the effect of maternal education, socioeconomic and household iii  environmental factors on the risk for a child to be born with a low birth weight, or being classified as wasted or stunted. Results of this study showed that the maternal education is inversely associated with stunting, but not with low birth weight or wasting. Concurrently, maternal education statistical significance on stunting is strongly attenuated when socioeconomic and/or home environmental factors were included in the models. These results suggest that among the three Latin American countries studied, the degree of influence of maternal education on child health outcomes was altered by the introduction of varying socio-economic and home environmental factors. Our findings propose that child nutritional status is dependent on the particular interplay of several socioeconomic and household environmental factors, where maternal education is a significant predictor but not the key determinant. Furthermore, can be inferred that in order to improve child health status is required that maternal education be accompanied by socio-economic and home environmental development.
Attaephilus weiratheri Jeannel 1936
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Attaephilus
Attaephilus weiratheri

description: Attaephilus weiratheri Jeannel, 1936
Attaephilus weiratheri Jeannel, 1936: 328.
Type locality: Asie mineure, Taurus de Pisidie, grotte des monts Davras près d'Isparta.
Distribution in Iran. Semnan (Shahrud) (Samin et al. 2016).
General distribution. Afghanistan (SZymcZakowski, 1970), Iran, Turkey.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Leptocola phthisica
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Deroplatyidae
Leptocola
Leptocola phthisica

description: Leptocola phthisica (Saussure, 1869)
Figs. 162–164, 167
Thespis phthisica Saussure, 1869: 70.
= Leptocola giraffa Karsch, 1894: 276–277.
Type localities. (T. p.) “ Brazil ”; (L. g.) M’banza Congo, Angola.
Distribution. Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Angola, CAR, DRC, South Sudan, Uganda (Beier 1968, 1969; Chopard 1954; Gillon & Roy 1968; Karsch 1892; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1962a, 1963, 1965a, 1967, 1968a, 1969, 1970b, 1971c, 1975; Roy & Leston 1975; Werner 1928).
Records. CSC: ♀, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, leg. juv. M. Pohl, ded. 09.XII.2017; ♁, new station, P-Gen. leg. M. Pohl 03.IV.–12.V.2017, captive bred, 08.IX.2018, ded. A. Varnhorn (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 430); ♀, new station, P-Gen. leg. M. Pohl 03.IV.–12.V.2017, captive bred, 08.IX.2018, ded. A. Varnhorn; ♀, new station, P-Gen. leg. M. Pohl 03.IV.–12.V.2017, captive bred, 15.XII.2018, ded. A. Varnhorn.
Remarks. A very elongate grass habitat specialist.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 47-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
The transformation of gay life from the closet to liberation, 1948-1980
Creators: name: Mitchell, Christopher Adam
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Year: 2015

description: This dissertation argues for the historical significance of markets, information, and the politics of queer consumption to the transformation of queer subjectivity and social life in the postwar era from the closet to Gay Liberation in New York City. My dissertation situates this history of transformation and mobilization within a period of broad shifts from a manufacturing, industrial-based economy to a service and information economy based on cultural production. In this context, I argue that the queer economy’s provision of social space, information (including new forms of cultural representation), and identities should be understood as an exemplary feature of late capitalism. Using the frameworks of institutional economics and economic history, urban history, and queer theory, this dissertation explores two distinct phases of the queer economy and the ways in which legal regulations and cultural norms convened and constrained queer markets, consumer culture, and the politics of identity. The first phase of the queer economy, from the late 1940s to the late 1960s, was essentially organized as an illicit and stigmatized market, to which queer consumers responded with cultural patterns based on concealment and evasion, or what Jeffrey Escoffier refers to as the segregation of public and private information characteristic of the “double life.” The second phase of the queer economy, from the late 1960s until about 1980, was characterized by decriminalization and destigmatization of queer markets, consumer and entrepreneurial activism and direct engagement with local politics, and the dynamics of gentrification. Central to the transition from the closet economy to the economy of Gay Liberation was the cultural production of information, including pop psychology and sociology, pulp novels, gossip columns and tabloid literature, Homophile publications, gay guides, and records of gay businesses and gay business associations. This dissertation explores this archive in order to show both the quantitative increase in information (and therefore public knowledge) about homosexuality and queer social life, as well as the qualitative shift in information, much of it produced by queers themselves, that repudiated the logic of criminalization and stigmatization and anticipated the mass “coming out” and political demands of Gay Liberation.
Catopsimorphus (Attiscura) tauricus Jeannel 1936
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catopsimorphus
Catopsimorphus tauricus

description: Catopsimorphus (Attiscura) tauricus Jeannel, 1936
Catopomorphus (Attiscura) tauricus Jeannel, 1936: 320.
Type locality: Asie mineure, Taurus de Pisidie, grotte des monts Davras.
Distribution in Iran. East AZarbaijan (SZymcZakowski 1970). General distribution. Iran, Turkey.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Mantis religiosa subsp. eichleri Bazyluk 1960
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Mantis
Mantis religiosa
Mantis religiosa eichleri bazyluk, 1960

description: Mantis religiosa eichleri Bazyluk, 1960
Figs. 168–169, 181–182
Mantis religiosa eichleri Bazyluk, 1960: 250–253, Figs 6, 15–16, 26, 33, 43–44, 54.
= Mantis pia Audinet-Serville, 1838: 193.
= Mantis capensis Saussure, 1872: 46–47.
= Mantis religiosa var. major Gerstaecker, 1873: 12.
Type localities. (M. r. e.) Livingstone, Zambia; (M. p.) Cape region, RSA; (M. c.) Cape region, RSA.
Distribution. Africa south of the Sahara (Berg et al. 2011).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12. V.2017, M. Pohl leg.
Remarks. The “European” Mantis is much less common in tropical habitats than in subtropical and temperate parts of its extensive range (Siberia to Cape region, Portugal to Timor, introduced in the USA: Berg et al. 2011, Anderson 2018).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Modeling vortex-induced fluid-structure interaction using an extension of Jourdain's principle
Creators: name: Mottaghi, Sohrob
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Year: 2015

description: A first-principles variational approach is proposed for reduced-order order modeling of fluid-structure interaction systems, specifically vortex-induced vibration. Fluid-structure interaction has to be taken into account in design and analysis of a large portion of engineering applications, yet a comprehensive theoretical development where analytical equations are derived from first principles is nonexistent. Not only does there exist much ambiguity concerning the general behavior of such systems, but the nature of the Lagrangian-Eulerian transformation is yet to be fully understood. Also, a general variational principle that is purely defined in a Eulerian description is nonexistent. Consequently, the use of variational methods for fluid-structure interaction problems has been relatively successful only for simple problems. Moreover, a review of the literature suggests that the Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations could not be obtained using a variational principle. This can be avoided by using Jourdain's principle (JP). Therefore, we have modified Jourdain's principle and obtained the first purely Eulerian variational formulation. Subsequently, by extending the JP for systems of changing mass, we have shown that the N-S equations can be obtained via a variational approach. Moreover, having shown that conservative terms of the N-S equations do not commute with the Eulerian variational operator, a correction term is obtained that must be added to the classical energy equation in integral form for Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids. Regarding vortex-induced vibration, an elastically supported, inverted pendulum that is immersed in a flow is considered as a study system. The pendulum is allowed to move transversely to the flow direction. This problem has generally been used as a test bed of vortex-induced vibration models, as it provides a simple geometry, yet possesses the nonlinearity of these phenomena. It is shown that the reduced-order modeling can be done without any ad hoc assumptions regarding the fluid forcing function. There exists no reduced-order model in the literature that does not make such assumptions. Based on the theoretical results as well as the reduced-order model, we conclude that the first principles development herein is a viable framework for the modeling of complex fluid-structure interaction problems such as vortex-induced oscillations.
Attaephilus persicus Szymczakowski 1970
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Attaephilus
Attaephilus persicus

description: Attaephilus persicus Szymczakowski, 1970
Attaephilus persicus Szymczakowski, 1970: 266.
Type locality: Iran du Nord-Ouest (Azerbaïdjan iranien): Siah-Chaman-Miyaneh.
Distribution in Iran. East AZarbaijan (SZymcZakowski 1970). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Slab City, California
Creators: name: Op't Hof, Andrew David
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Year: 2015

description: Spatial dynamics orient our day to day lives and reflect our identities.  For most, our rights to personal space are organized legally by land ownership and leasing of properties, while our rights to public space are protected by our local, state and national governments.  This is not the case in Slab City, an off-grid community living on the edge of the desert in Imperial Valley, California.  Slab City is a community that varies seasonally between populations of about one hundred to several thousand, and for the last half century has existed on the site of a former military camp thanks to the benign neglect of the State of California.  This research focuses on participant observation as a research methodology to understand the spatial creation of inhabitants’ claims of territory.  It uses the concepts of “heterotopia”, as put forward by philosopher Michel Foucault, “neo-tribalism” as described by sociologist Michel Maffesoli, and “cosmopolitan canopy” by sociologist Elijah Anderson to place inhabitants’ claims in theoretical context.  I conclude that these spatial claims, far from being ephemeral and flexible, become even more salient to conceptions of home, territory, and self in the absence of legally codified land rights, and that the mixed methodology of historiography and participant observation is useful in deciphering complex palimpsests of Landscape.
Love our bodies, love ourselves
Creators: name: Murray, Dara Persis
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Year: 2015

description: This project examines the relationship between feminism and media culture over the last century. It concentrates on the emergent “love your body” discourse in consumer culture, and how women utilize digital media to negotiate its messages. To illuminate the meanings and practices related to this discourse, I provide textual analyses of celebrity Kate Moss, the reality television program America's Next Top Model, and the integrated marketing campaign, The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. To consider women’s online participation in relation to this discourse, I engaged in observation of three online communities that center on appearance, weight, and health: fat acceptance, wannarexics (women who want to “be anorexic”), and weight-loss surgery patients. A cultural history of the strategies employed by beauty brands around corporate-sponsored empowerment provides a backdrop for understanding these six sites.  This multi-method and interdisciplinary research revealed what I have termed a “self-love subjectivity” that occurs through women’s online communication about beauty. These subjects work to love their bodies -- and therefore themselves -- through assembling in communities that self-identify through labels (“fatties,” “anas,” “WLS- ers”), thereby replicating consumer concepts and practices by packaging their aesthetic values as personal brands. Self-love subjectivity, a concept that defines a set of neoliberal meanings and practices as well as an affect, captures the ways in which users take in contemporary consumer messages about beauty and empowerment to form themselves. Their sense of self underscores the pursuit of self-esteem and transformation, and also indicates narcissism, self-promotion, hope, and struggle. This self references the history of entanglements between feminism and media, indicating a potential trajectory from a self-help culture to a self-love culture. Ultimately, users remain attached to the notion of loving their bodies, but continue to be dissatisfied with their appearance and with themselves, suggesting conflicted support for cultural norms of female beauty and with the postfeminist focus on the body. Self-love subjectivity, then, leads women to create themselves around the values of neoliberal postfeminist media culture and appears to leave aside resistance to or critique of the political context, especially regarding norms for women's beauty/bodies.
Catopsimorphus (Catopsimorphus) cygneus Szymczakowski 1970
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catopsimorphus
Catopsimorphus cygneus

description: Catopsimorphus (Catopsimorphus) cygneus Szymczakowski, 1970
Catopsimorphus (Catopsimorphus) cygneus Szymczakowski, 1970: 263.
Type locality: Iran du Nord-Ouest (Azerbaïdjan iranien): Miyaneh-Zandjan.
Distribution in Iran. East AZarbaijan (SZymcZakowski 1970). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Assessing the in vitro bioavailability of tangeretin and its derivatives in Caco-2 cell model
Creators: name: Nian, Si
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Year: 2015

description: Flavonoids are widely distributed in fruits, vegetables and grains. Tangeretin (TAN) is one of the most abundant polymethoxyflavones (PMFs), which is found almost exclusively in citrus peel.  In present work, we applied silica gel column chromatography to purify tangeretin from bitter orange citrus peel extracts mixture. Despite of the wide bioactivities documented, tangeretin has relatively low bioavailability due to its low water solubility, which is a major limiting their application as functional neutraceuticals.   Therefore, hydroxylation and acetylation reaction was carried out to improve the solubility of TAN. Moreover, the bioactivity and bioavailability of TAN, 5-OH-TAN and 5-Ac-TAN were evaluated using cell viability assay and transport assay on Caco-2 human colon carcinoma cell line. When compared to TAN, stronger anti-proliferation activities were stronger in 5-OH-TAN and 5-Ac-TAN among which 5-Ac-TAN showed the strongest inhibition. The Caco-2 monolayer transport assays were in good agreement that 5-Ac-TAN had better ability to across through cell membranes. Interestingly, 5-OH-TAN and 5-Ac-TAN were subjected to cellular transformation when passing through the cellular membrane. While 5-OH-TAN was partially methylated to TAN, 5-Ac-TAN was transformed into both TAN and 5-OH-TAN, which in total was transported in higher concentration from apical compartment to basolateral side than 5-OH-TAN group.  In summery, 5-Ac-TAN had the strongest bioactivity of inhibiting the growth of Caco-2 colon carcinoma cells than TAN and 5-OH-TAN. In addition, 5-Ac-TAN also higher membrane permeability than 5-OH-TAN in Caco-2 monolayer cells. Therefore, functional group on C5 position seems to have critical effect on the compounds’ biological abilities as well as the bioavailability.
Polyspilota aeruginosa
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Polyspilota
Polyspilota aeruginosa

description: Polyspilota aeruginosa (Goeze 1778)
Figs. 170–173
Mantis aeruginosa Goeze, 1778: 35.
= Mantis rubro-maculata Goeze, 1778: 35.
= Mantis variegata Olivier, 1792: 638.
= Mantis adspersa Lichtenstein, 1802: 30.
= Mantis striata Stoll, 1813: 34–35, pl. 11, Fig. 41.
= Mantis pustulata Stoll, 1813: 59, pl. 20, Fig. 73.
= Mantis nebulosa Thunberg, 1815: 288–289.
= Mantis signata Thunberg, 1815: 292.
= Mantis varia Burmeister, 1838: 534.
= Mantis catenata Burmeister, 1838: 534.
= Mantis vicina Audinet-Serville, 1838: 187.
Type localities. (M. v. = M. s.) Angola; (M. p.) “ Ambon island”; (M. v.) Sierra Leone; (M. c.) Sierra Leone; (M. v.) Senegal.
Distribution. Africa south of the Sahara, Cape Verde, Madagascar, Comoros (Roy 1987a, b).
Records. CSC: ♁ ♀, old camp, 20.–31.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, 28.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, 01.–04.XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 3 juv., old camp, X.–XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 2 ♁♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.
Remarks. The most common and conspicuous praying mantis in the CNP, prefers wooded areas.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Choleva Latreille 1796
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva

description: Genus Choleva Latreille, 1796
Choleva Latreille, 1796: 14, type species: Catops sericea Fabricius.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Catopsimorphus Aube 1850
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catopsimorphus

description: Genus Catopsimorphus Aubé, 1850
Catopsimorphus Aubé, 1850: 324, type species: Catopsimorphus orientalis Aubé, 1850.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Choleva (Choleva) cyrtoptera Szymczakowski 1976
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Choleva
Choleva cyrtoptera

description: Choleva (Choleva) cyrtoptera Szymczakowski, 1976
Choleva (Choleva) cyrtoptera Szymczakowski, 1976: 56. Type locality: Iran: Shahpur, dans la caverne Shahpur.
Distribution in Iran. Fars (Shapur cave) (SZymcZakowski 1976). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324