cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Global Disparities in Colorectal Cancer: Unveiling the Present Landscape of Incidence and Mortality Rates, Analyzing Geographical Variances, and Assessing the Human Development Index
Creators: name: Mohammadain, Abdollah
name: Kheiri, Soleiman
name: Darmadi, Darmadi
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2025
Subjects: Incidence, Mortality, Colorectal cancer, Geographical disparities, Human Development Index.
Colorectal Cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Human Development Index
Geographical Variances

description: Background: Colorectal cancer poses a major global health threat, with increasing incidence and mortality rates worldwide. This study examined the incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer globally in 2020 and explored the relationship with the Human Development Index (HDI).


Material and methods: This research utilizes data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) GLOBOCAN project, an esteemed source of up-to-date international cancer statistics. Age-standardized incidence rates (ASIR) and age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR) per 100,000 individuals were calculated. The association between ASIR, ASMR, and the HDI was analyzed using Pearson correlation, considering a statistical significance threshold of P<0.05.


Results: In 2020, a total of 1,931,590 new colorectal cancer cases were recorded globally, with a male predominance of 55.18%. The global colorectal cancer ASIR was 19.5 per 100000 (23.4 in males, 16.2 in females). Furthermore, there were 935,173 colorectal cancer-related mortality, with males accounting for 55.13%. The overall colorectal cancer ASMR was 9 (11 in males, 7.2 in females). A strong positive correlation emerged between ASIR and ASMR (0.895, P≤0.001), HDI (0.794, P≤0.001), life expectancy (0.724, P≤0.001), education (0.743, P≤0.001), and income (0.706, P≤0.001). Similarly, positive correlations were also found between ASMR and HDI (0.638, P≤0.001), life expectancy (0.569, P≤0.001), education (0.631, P≤0.001), and income (0.512, P≤0.001).


Conclusion: This global analysis highlights rising colorectal cancer incidence and mortality as a major public health threat worldwide. The findings reveal a positive association between a country’s development level, as measured by HDI, and colorectal cancer incidence and mortality.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 4 (2024):
Neobisnius parcepunctatus Bernhauer 1912
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Neobisnius
Neobisnius parcepunctatus

description: Neobisnius parcepunctatus Bernhauer, 1912
Neobisnius parcepunctatus Bernhauer, 1912: 176.
Two syntypes are deposited in NMPC (general collection):
SYN*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen): ‘Chaunar Reg. / Arg. lg. Jensen [hw] // parcepunctatus / Bernh. Cotypus [hw]’.
SYN*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen): ‘Chaunar Reg. / Arg. lg. Jensen [hw] // parcepunctatus / Brh. Cotypus [hw]’.
Current status. Valid species, see Hൾ*©MAN (2001b).
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 364, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
NEYRO KOMPYUTERLAR VA ULARNING ARXITEKTURASI
Creators: name: Tojimamatov, Israiljon
name: G'ulomjonova, Sakinabonu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Neyrokompyuterlar, inson miyasining ishlash prinsipiga asoslangan sun'iy intellektning bir turi sifatida, murakkab hisoblash vazifalarini bajarish, ma'lumotlarni analiz qilish, va xulosa yasash qobiliyatiga ega. Bu maqolada neyrokompyuterlarning asosiy tuzilishi, ishlash prinsiplari, va turli sohalardagi qo'llanilishini o'rganildi.  Shuningdek, neyrokompyuterlarning  rasmlarni tanish, tabiiy tilni qayta ishlash, o'yinlar va bashorat qilish kabi turli sohalardagi qo'llanilishi haqida ma'lumotlar berildi.
title: Insoluble drug delivery
Creators: name: Pace, Gary W.
name: Mishra, Awadhesh K.
name: Johnston, Keith P.
name: Mawson, Simon
name: Henriksen, Inge B.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: A61K9/14
subject: A61K9/1688
subject: A61K9/145
subject: A61K9/146
subject: B01J3/008
subject: B01F3/1214
subject: B01F3/1271
subject: B01F5/02
subject: B01F5/0287
subject: B01F1/00
subject: B01F2003/0064
subject: B01F2003/125
subject: B01F2215/0032
subject: Y02P20/544
subject: Y10S977/896
subject: Y10S977/906
subject: 424/490
subject: 424/489
subject: 424/494
subject: 424/496
subject: 424/497
subject: 424/498

description: Particles of water insoluble biologically active compounds, particularly water-insoluble drugs, with an average size of 100 nm to about 300 nm, are prepared by dissolving the compound in a solution then spraying the solution into compressed gaz, liquid or supercritical fluid in the presence of appropriate surface modifiers.
In vitro and in silico findings on cell-cell and cell-ECM interactions during cellular aggregation and rearrangement
Creators: name: Caicedo-Carvajal, Carlos Eduardo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this dissertation, we present in silico and in vitro work on the dynamics of cellular aggregation and rearrangement as cell-cell and cell-ECM interactions are systematically varied. Computationally, we explore the contributions of homotypic and heterotypic forces between cells and the ECM affect cellular self-assembly.  We find that variation of homotypic and heterotypic forces generates both expected morphologies and previously unreported patterns.  Among the newly discovered patterns are segmented states of alternating cell types, and an “onion” state, in which cells form multilayer-aggregates of two cell types. Experimentally we varied cell-ECM adhesive strength through selection of α5β1-integrin receptor expression in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cells at two soluble fibronectin (sFn) concentrations. Second, to describe dual adhesive relations, we used a CHO cell line variants coexpressing integrin and N-cadherin surface receptors. We found previously unreported complex behaviors of aggregates in these experiments. For example, we found that at constant sFn concentration, aggregate cohesion grows linearly as α5β1 receptor density is increased from low to moderate levels. However, further increase in receptor expression causes an abrupt drop in tissue cohesion.   We propose that the observed biphasic property of these aggregates may be due to depletion of sFn below a critical value in the aggregate microenvironment at high α5β1 expression level. We also found that a complicated interplay emerges when cell-ECM and cell-cell interactions mediate cellular aggregation and rearrangement. Thus, we describe two nodes of cellular interaction, cell-ECM and cell-cell/cell-ECM. For weak cell-ECM interactions, cells can still rearrange, and new cellular patterns (e.g. inverted structures) emerge. For high cell-ECM strengths, cells are bound to the matrix and cannot rearrange. For weak and high cell-ECM interactions, cell-cell governs final equilibrium configurations. We propose that these results have potential implications for embryonic development, for wound healing, and for cancer therapeutic applications.
Scutigeromorpha Pocock 1895
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scutigeromorpha

description: Order SCUTIGEROMORPHA Pocock, 1895
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Additional file 24: of De novo assembly of genomes from long sequence reads reveals uncharted territories of Propionibacterium freudenreichii
Creators: name: Deptula, Paulina
name: Laine, Pia
name: Roberts, Richard
name: Olli-Pekka Smolander
name: Vihinen, Helena
name: Piironen, Vieno
name: Paulin, Lars
name: Jokitalo, Eija
name: Savijoki, Kirsi
name: Auvinen, Petri
name: Varmanen, Pekka
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The CRISPR spacers within CRISPR arrays identified in P. freudenreichii. The collection of all CRISPR spacers predicted in the P. freudenreichii strains together with their predicted immunity. (PDF 75Â kb)
Ponera
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Ponera

description: Ponera genus group
The phylogeny, distribution and characteristics of the Ponera genus group suggest that the bulk of its phylogenetic diversity arose during a burst of diversification into cryptobiotic niches in the Asian and Australian tropics, with several subsequent dispersal events to the New World and elsewhere. The main exception to this pattern is Diacamma, which is epigeic.
Discussion. The monophyly of the Ponera genus group is strongly supported by molecular data (Schmidt, 2013), but morphological synapomorphies have not yet been discovered. Generic relationships within the group are somewhat unresolved, though a sister relationship between Diacamma and the remainder of the group is well supported. Relationships among the remaining genera are poorly supported, though Emeryopone is suggested as sister to the remainder of the group, with Cryptopone sister to Austroponera + Parvaponera + Pseudoponera and Ponera sister to Ectomomyrmex.
Members of the Ponera genus group are predominantly small cryptobiotic generalist predators. Diacamma and some Ectomomyrmex species are fairly large, however, Diacamma has large eyes, and Emeryopone is apparently a specialist predator. The Ponera group has a primarily Asian and Australian distribution, though Ponera and Cryptopone have each individually invaded the New World and each have a single species in Europe. The exceptions are Pseudoponera and Rasopone, which are most species rich in the New World and Parvaponera, with several African species.
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on pages 179-180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
title: Method of aligning a template with a substrate employing moire patterns
Creators: name: Sreenivasan, Sidlgata V.
name: Colburn, Matthew E.
name: Bailey, Todd
name: Choi, Byung J.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: B29C35/0888
subject: B29C37/0053
subject: B29C43/003
subject: B29C43/021
subject: B29C2035/0827
subject: B29C2043/025
subject: B82Y10/00
subject: B82Y40/00
subject: G03F7/0002
subject: G03F9/00
subject: Y10S101/36
subject: Y10T428/24802
subject: 430/22
subject: 430/30

description: The present invention includes a method of determining an alignment between a substrate and a template spaced-apart from the substrate and having a distance defined therebetween, the substrate having a first pattern disposed thereon and the template having a second pattern disposed thereon, the method including, sensing the first and the second pattern, with the distance being established such that the first and the second pattern form a desired moiré pattern when the template and the substrate are in a desired spatial relationship.
Triumphant underdogs?
Creators: name: Kopczynski, Mary Helen Nuxoll
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: There is a common misconception that developing countries come out “behind” in their relationship with the World Trade Organization (WTO).  While studies show that litigation between parties in the United States often result in the “haves coming out ahead,” this is not true (yet) in the case of WTO litigation.  Based on data from the first decade of cases in the WTO Dispute Settlement system, it appears that countries with lower economic levels tend to win WTO disputes more often than their richer and more experienced counterparties.  This study also shows that while developing countries have low participation levels, insofar that their reasons for not participating has to do with a fear of bias toward economic levels, such a reason is unfounded.
Spatial and photometric factors modulating the effect of depth on lightness
Creators: name: Radonjić, Ana
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: According to the coplanar ratio principle (CRP), when the luminance range in the image is larger than 30:1 the lightness of a target surface depends on the luminance ratio between that target and its adjacent, coplanar neighbor. This conclusion was based on experiments (Gilchrist, 1977) using a dihedral corner display in which a change in the perceived spatial position of a target produced large changes in its perceived lightness, with no significant change in the observer’s retinal image. Using variations of this dihedral display, a series of experiments was conducted to test a group of conflicting claims made by CRP, the anchoring theory (Gilchrist et al., 1999) and other writers (e.g. Kardos, 1934, Howe, 2006) concerning the role of coplanarity, adjacency, surroundedness, articulation, and luminance range.Generally consistent with the predictions of the anchoring theory, the results show the following: (1) Articulation can substantially increase the depth effect. (2) Target lightness depends, not simply on its adjacent coplanar luminance, but on the highest luminance in its plane, irrespective of its position relative to the target. (3) When two or more levels of illumination are present on a plane, target lightness depends on the highest luminance in its framework of illumination, not on the highest luminance in its plane. (4) The size of the depth effect depends on the luminance ratio between the highest luminance values in the two planes, not on the overall luminance range across the planes. Thus strong depth effects can be obtained with a luminance range no greater than 30:1. (5) Surface continuity within a plane is necessary for the operation of coplanar ratios, although surroundedness can partially substitute for continuity, but only within the brightly illuminated plane.
Determinig the efficacy of mathematical programming approaches for multi-group classification
Creators: name: Pai, Dinesh R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Managers have been grappling with the problem of extracting patterns out of the vast database generated by their systems. The advent of powerful information systems in organizations and the consequent agglomeration of vast pool of data since the mid-1980s have created renewed interest in the usefulness of discriminant analysis (DA).  Expert systems have come to the aid of managers in their day-to-day decision making with many successful applications in financial planning, sales management, and other areas of business operations (Erenguc and Koehler 1990).Currently, no comprehensive research study exists that tests the robustness of multi-group classification analysis.  Our research aims to bridge the gaps in the existing works and take a step further by extending our study to four-group classification problems.  The main purpose of this research is to determine the efficacy of mathematical programming classification models, more specifically, LP methods vis-à-vis statistical approaches such as discriminant analysis (Mahalanobis) and logistic regression, an artificial intelligence (AI) technique such as a neural network, and a non-parametric technique such as k-nearest neighborhood (k-NN) for four-group classification problems.  This research also proposes an integrated (hybrid) model that combines a non-parametric classification technique and a LP approach to enhance the overall classification performance.  Furthermore, the study extends an existing two-group LP model (Bal et al. 2006) based on the work of (Lam and Moy 1996b) and apply it to four-group classification problems.  These models are tested through robust computational experiments under varying data conditions using a financial product example.  The characteristics of a real dataset are used to simulate (Monte Carlo method) multiple sample runs for four group classification problems with three continuous independent variables.The experimental results show that LP approaches in general and the proposed integrated method in particular consistently have lower misclassification rates for most data characteristics. Furthermore, the integrated method utilizes the strengths of both the methods: k-NN and linear programming, thereby considerably improving the classification accuracy.
Efficacy of hair mineral analysis for assessing zinc status
Creators: name: Havey, Shawn Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The objective of this research is to seek information on the efficacy of hair mineral analysis for assessing zinc status by determining  the concentrations of zinc in hair from two anatomical locations, scalp and pubis, and from two keratinized tissues, hair and nail.  This was accomplished using hair and nail samples from several individuals and analyzing those samples using atomic absorption spectroscopy.  The analysis of the zinc concentration in scalp hair compared to the zinc in pubic hair yielded a p-value of 0.0471, a Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.301, a linear regression r2 value of 0.0904 using GraphPad, and a t value of 2.01.  The analysis of the zinc concentration in scalp hair compared to the zinc concentration in finger nail yielded a p-value of 0.766 using GraphPad, a Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.108, a linear regression r2 value of 0.0117, and a t value of 0.307.  The statistical analysis does not support a linear or non-linear correlation between the level of zinc in human scalp hair and human finger nail and does not support the existence of a linear correlation but indicates a possible non-linear relationship zinc concentrations in scalp hair and pubic hair.  The existence of this non-linear relationship could indicate the presence of a regulated metabolic process for the deposition of zinc in these two keratinized tissues.
Additional file 23: of De novo assembly of genomes from long sequence reads reveals uncharted territories of Propionibacterium freudenreichii
Creators: name: Deptula, Paulina
name: Laine, Pia
name: Roberts, Richard
name: Olli-Pekka Smolander
name: Vihinen, Helena
name: Piironen, Vieno
name: Paulin, Lars
name: Jokitalo, Eija
name: Savijoki, Kirsi
name: Auvinen, Petri
name: Varmanen, Pekka
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Traits important in food production. Genes coding for traits found as important in food production are explored. (PDF 8Â kb)
Environmental variables affect fungal diversity on blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) leaf surfaces
Creators: name: Stanwood, Jason
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The economically important blueberry, Vaccinium cyanococcus, is susceptible to a number of diseases, some of which are propagated by fungi living on the leaf surface.  The leaf surface (phylloplane) is a cryptic environment that harbors a variety of pathogens and pathogen antagonists, and these populations are affected by many factors including weather, season, host plant location and leaf phenology. Blueberry leaves were collected in April, June, August, and October over two years from bushes in wild areas and cultivated farms along transects perpendicular to the Atlantic City Expressway, to address the hypothesis that pollution from a major highway would influence phylloplane communities.  Leaves were washed and plated on potato dextrose agar, and fungal epiphytes were identified using taxonomic keys and microscopy.  Epicoccum spp., Alternaria spp., Pennicilium spp., and Curvularia spp. were the most ubiquitous fungi isolated from blueberry leaves.  Community structure and species richness changed from site-to-site and month-to-month and from year-to-year.  The influence of highway proximity to fungal communities was not significant.  Management practices in cultivated sites accounted for much of the variation in species richness and community composition among sites.  Leaf age also influenced the community structure of phylloplane fungi communities. Leaves collected in April had significantly lower species richness than those collect in later months (F=19.37, P<0.0001).  Yearly differences in species richness and community structure were likely due to differences in meteorological variables. Greater information provided by frequency of occurrence of fungal species would lead to a more informative multivariate analysis as presence or absence would be weighted by abundance, allowing for interpretations of dominance and more detailed analysis of phylloplane fungal communities.
Scutigera Lamarck 1801
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scutigeromorpha
Scutigeridae
Scutigera

description: Scutigera Lamarck, 1801
* Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material examined: 3 3, 1 Ƥ, 2 unsexed, 3 larvae
Sites: 14, 71, 84, 89, 143, 159 (Fig. 2).
General distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia (including Cherso Is.), Czech Republic, France (mainland, Corsica), Germany (southern), Greece (mainland, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese), southern Hungary, Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), FYR Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain (mainland, Balearic Isl.), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine (including Crimea); North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia; West Asia: Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey; Central Asia: Turkmenistan. Introduced in central and northern Europe (British Isl., Channel Is.?, mainland Denmark, north and central France, The Netherlands), Atlantic islands (Azores Isl., Bermuda Isl., Cabo Verde Isl., Canary Isl., Madeira Is., Salvage Isl., St. Elena Is.); Austral Africa (Angola, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe); North (Canada, USA), Central (Mexico) and South (Argentina, Uruguay) America; South– east Asia (Taiwan, Vietnam) (Stoev & Geoffroy 2004; Andersson et al. 2008).
Chorotype. Turano-Mediterranean.
Habitats. Open garigue habitats with Sarcopoterium spinosum and Cistus.
Altitudinal range: 0–1305 m.
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus (Gabrius) kuanshanensis Bernhauer 1914
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus kuanshanensis

description: Philonthus (Gabrius) kuanshanensis Bernhauer, 1914
Philonthus (Gabrius) kuanshanensis Bernhauer, 1914: 66.
One syntype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
SYN*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen):‘Chikuanshan / S.Mandschur [p] // kuandschanensis / cotype Brh. [hw] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Gabrius [p] / kuanshanensis / Bernh. 94 [hw] / L.Hromádka det. [p]’.
Current status. Gabrius kuanshanensis (Bernhauer, 1914), see S*ö*üŪĿĸൾ & SMൾ*´ANA (2015).
Philonthus (Gabrius) mandschuricus Bernhauer, 1914 Philonthus (Gabrius) mandschuricus Bernhauer, 1914: 66.
One syntype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
SYN*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen): ‘Chikuanshan / S.Mandschur [p] // Ph. mandschuricus / cotype Bernh. [hw] // Gabrius [p] / mandschuricus / Bernh. 94 [hw] / L.Hromádka det. [p]’.
Current status. Gabrius mandschuricus (Bernhauer, 1914), see S*ö*üŪĿĸൾ & SMൾ*´ANA (2015).
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 364, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
A new species of Haemopis (Annelida: hirudinea)
Creators: name: Wirchansky, Beth Anne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Among the relatively few terrestrial leeches known worldwide, only two (Haemopis terrestris, Haemopis septagon) are described from North America. Here we report a third terrestrial leech collected from the southern part of New Jersey, USA. Tissue samples were obtained from 14 individuals representing three populations, and morphological characters were scored after dorsal and ventral dissections. Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Inference analyses resolved phylogenetic relationships within the genus Haemopis using cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (CO1), 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and 28S rRNA gene fragments, establishing the monophyly of North American haemopids and terrestrialism as a synapomorphy for some members of the group. Geographic isolation, morphological distinctions and combined phylogenetic analyses support the designation of a new species of terrestrial leech, Haemopis ottae n. sp. Phylogeographic interpretations of the haemopid clade suggest that terrestrialism was derived from a northern, aquatic ancestor whose descendents were initially confined to Midwestern States and central Canada by the Appalachian Range. More recently, the terrestrial lineage diverged near the southern extent of its range and began a northeasterly migration along coastal states giving rise to H. septagon and H. ottae n. sp., the latter of which appears to define the leading edge of a northward expansion.
Natural bioactive-based polyanhydrides for controlled release applications
Creators: name: Carbone, Ashley Lauren
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Hydrolytically degradable polyanhydrides are of interest for a variety of controlled release applications because of their surface-eroding behavior and tunable degradation rate based on polymer chemical composition.  Rather than physical admixtures, bioactives were chemically incorporated either directly into the polymer backbone or as pendant groups via hydrolytically degradable linkages.A series of poly(anhydride-esters) containing iodinated salicylates were synthesized via both melt-condensation and solution polymerization to generate X-ray opaque polymers.  It was found that physical and mechanical properties were affected by polymerization technique, and thermal properties such as glass transition temperature were dependent on the amount of iodine in the polymer.The degradation rate of salicylic acid (SA)-based polyanhydrides was manipulated to release SA over prolonged periods of time (i.e., months) and over relatively short periods of time (i.e., days).  First, a series of copolymers based on a SA-based diacid and highly aromatic comonomers 1,6-bis(o-carboxyphenoxy)hexane (o-CPH) and 1,6-bis(p-carboxyphenoxy)hexane (p-CPH) were developed.  By changing the molar ratios of SA-based diacid to o-CPH or p-CPH, the thermal and mechanical properties of the resulting copolymers varied, and the degradation rate was decreased.  Alternately, two methods were used to form fast-degrading polymers: changing the structure of the diacid’s “linker” molecule and synthesizing a copolymer containing a more hydrophilic comonomer.  These polymers completely degraded in one week or less.Mono-functional antimicrobials were chemically incorporated as pendant groups via ester linkages to a polyanhydride backbone based on ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, resulting in a completely bioactive polymer.  The polymers degraded in less than 1 week, and some displayed the ability to completely prevent Salmonella biofilm formation.  Lastly, polymers based on antimicrobial and antioxidant preservatives (i.e., hydroxycinnamates) were synthesized and found to release the preservatives over a prolonged period of time (> 1 month).  Polymer degradation products exhibited antioxidant activity, and experiments indicated that free bioactives are responsible for antimicrobial activity.  Furthermore, the polymers contain double bonds that can be crosslinked to form hydrophobic networks.
Austroponera Schmidt & Shattuck 2014
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Austroponera

description: Species of Austroponera
A. castanea (Mayr, 1865): New Zealand (comb. nov.)
A. castaneicolor (Dalla Torre, 1893): New Zealand (comb. nov.)
A. rufonigra (Clark, 1934): Australia (comb. nov.)
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on page 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
Neoseiulus umbraticus
Creators: name: K, Rana Akyazı
name: SoysalK, Mete
name: UeckermannK, Edward A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Neoseiulus
Neoseiulus umbraticus

description: Neoseiulus umbraticus (Chant 1956)
Material examined — 2 ♀♀. 1 ♀ (İkizce, N41° 3′9.03″ E36°59′1.39″, 510 m, 31. VII.2019),
1 ♀ (Perşembe, N41°4′29.02″ E37°43′52.77″, 455 m, 26. VII.2018)
Remarks — Neoseiulus umbraticus was first described in England Rubus on fructicosus
L. (Rosaceae) by Chant (1956) and then recorded mainly in 31 countries worldwide (Demite et al. 2023). In Türkiye, it was recorded on cucumber (Çobanoğlu 1989b), hazelnut (Çobanoğlu and Özman 2002) and persimmon (Akyazı et al. 2016 a, 2017). There are only a few studies on the biology of this species. Sengonca and Dresher (2001) investigated the impact of feeding on Thrips tabaci Lindeman (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on the biological parameters of this species, compared to T. urticae. Kazak et al. (2002) demonstrated that this species can feed on T. urticae under laboratory conditions. It was also discovered N that. umbraticus can develop and reproduce on P. ulmi, Calvolia lordi (Nesbitt) (Sarcoptiformes: Winterschmidtiidae), Aculus schlectendali (Nalepa) (Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae), and adults Quadraspidiotus of perniciosus (Comstock) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), as well as on apple and cherry pollens. Eggs, larvae and protonymphs of T. urticae were the preferred prey for all stages of N. umbraticus (Knisley and Swift 1971). In addition, Wainstein and Vartapetov (1973) reported that it feeds on Panonychus citri (McGregor) (Trombidiformes: Tetranychidae) and T. urticae.
description: Published as part of K, Rana Akyazı, SoysalK, Mete & UeckermannK, Edward A., 2024, Mite species of kiwi vines in Türkiye, pp. 1030-1051 in Acarologia 64 (4) on page 1042, DOI: 10.24349/9lvs-4bzy, http://zenodo.org/record/14670139
Essays on vertical restraints and vertical integration
Creators: name: Cetinkaya, Volkan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation contains three essays which examine vertical integration and vertical restraints. The first essay examines a vertical restraint, Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) which is often observed in vertical relations as a remedy for the horizontal externality in provision of service. Retailers provide a variety of services that affect the sale of their products such as demonstrations and the provision of information and advice. These retail services can generate horizontal externalities among retailers. In such a case, the individual retailer realizes less than the full effect on aggregate profits of his additional retail services and therefore provides less than the optimal level of service.  This study shows that MAP can ensure optimal level of service and it duplicates the welfare outcome of vertical integration regardless of the level of service externality.The second essay explores the private and social desirability of vertical restraints imposed by a manufacturer on its retailers when there is uncertainty in demand or cost. A monopoly manufacturer offers a contract to retailers in an environment where the retailers compete in quantities and possess superior information about local demand conditions or their costs of distribution. Two vertical restraints are studied: Resale Price Maintenance and Exclusive Territories. In particular, this study shows that resale price maintenance and exclusive territories are not substitutes. If the retailers are infinitely risk averse, the manufacturer prefers resale price maintenance under demand uncertainty, and quantity competition under cost uncertainty. However, if the retailers are risk neutral, the manufacturer prefers resale price maintenance regardless of the type of uncertainty. The last essay examines affiliations that integrate physicians and hospitals. Managed care organizations shifted financial risks to health care providers by changing the payment method from fee-for-service to capitation. Due to this emerging financial risk, one of the strategies that physicians adopted was establishing affiliations with hospitals. This study performs an empirical analysis of the effect of the affiliation types on three important dimensions of health care: quality, cost, and price. The empirical results show that when the affiliation between a hospital and physicians is strong, the integrated organization operates more efficiently than independent hospitals. However, affiliations that weakly integrate hospitals and physicians produce a lower quality of health care with higher cost and price.
title: Synthesis of pyrroles
Creators: name: Yu, Ming
name: Pagenkopf, Brian L.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: C07D491/04
subject: C07D207/34
subject: C07D209/42
subject: C07F7/1892
subject: 548/531

description: An improved and highly efficient method for the preparation of 2-R(R=alkyl, aryl, H) pyrroles from nitrites (RCN, R=alkyl, aryl) is described using Lewis acid activated donor-acceptor cyclopropanes to react with aliphatic, aromatic, branched, α,β-unsaturated, or otherwise functionalized nitrites in a cascade [3+2] dipolar cycloaddition, dehydration and tautomerization sequence.
Philonthus accipiter Hromadka 2011
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus accipiter

description: Philonthus accipiter Hromádka, 2011
Philonthus accipiter Hromádka, 2011c: 152, Figs 1–4.
The holotype and three paratypes are deposited in NMPC
(ex coll. L. Hromádka):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ KENYA / M. Elgon 2380 m. / Reinhardt leg. [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / accipiter sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2009. [p, orange label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾඌ (2, 1 unsexed specimen): ‘ KENYA / M. Elgon 2380 m. / Reinhardt leg. [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / accipiter sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2009. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 364, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Validation of LEOMO inertial measurement unit sensors with marker-based three-dimensional motion capture during maximum sprinting in track cyclists
Creators: name: Thompson, Roné
name: Rico-Bini, Rodrigo
name: Paton, Carl
name: Hébert-Losier, Kim
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: LEOMO™ is a commercial inertial measurement unit system that provides cycling-specific motion performance indicators (MPIs) and offers a mobile solution for monitoring cyclists. We aimed to validate the LEOMO sensors during sprint cycling using gold-standard marker-based three-dimensional (3D) motion technology (Qualisys, AB). Our secondary aim was to explore the relationship between peak power during sprints and MPIs. Seventeen elite track cyclists performed 3 × 15s seated start maximum efforts on a cycle ergometer. Based on intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC3,1), the MPIs derived from 3D and LEOMO showed moderate agreement (0.50 < 0.75) for the right foot angular range (FAR); left foot angular range first quadrant (FARQ1); right leg angular range (LAR); and mean angle of the pelvis in the sagittal plane. Agreement was poor (ICC < 0.50) between MPIs derived from 3D and LEOMO for the left FAR, right FARQ1, left LAR, and mean range of motion of the pelvis in the frontal and transverse planes. Only one LEOMO-derived (pelvic rotation) and two 3D-derived (right FARQ1 and FAR) MPIs showed large positive significant correlations with peak power. Caution is advised regarding use of the LEOMO for short maximal cycling efforts and derived MPIs to inform peak sprint cycling power production.
Accelerating Hadoop Map-Reduce for small/intermediate data sizes using the Comet coordination framework
Creators: name: Chaudhari, Shivangi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: MapReduce has been emerging as a popular programming paradigm for data intensive computing in clustered environments. MapReduce as a framework for solving embarrassingly parallel problems has been extensively used on large clusters.  These frameworks support ease of computation for petabytes of data mostly through the use of a distributed file system example the Google File System – used by the proprietary ‘Google Map-Reduce’.  In the "Map", the master node takes the input, divides it into smaller sub-problems, and distributes those to worker nodes. The worker node processes that smaller problem, and passes the answer back to its master node. In the "Reduce", the master node then takes the answers of the sub-problems and combines them to get the final output after reduces. The advantage of MapReduce is that, it allows for distributed processing of the map and reduction operations, assuming each operation is independent of the other, all can be executed in parallel.  We found that file writes and reads to the distributed file system, have an overhead especially for smaller data sizes of the order of few tens of GB’s. Our solution provides the MapReduce framework built over Comet framework utilizing TCP sockets for communication and coordination and uses in-memory operations for data whenever possible. The objective of this thesis is to (1) understand the behaviors and limitations of MapReduce in the case of small-moderate datasets  (2) develop coordination and interaction framework to complement MapReduce-Hadoop to address these shortcomings (3) demonstrate and evaluate using a real world applicationIn this thesis we use Comet and its services to build a MapReduce infrastructure that address the above requirements - specifically enable pull based scheduling of Map tasks as well as stream based coordination and data exchange. The framework is based on the master-worker concept. Comet is a decentralized (peer-to-peer) computational infrastructure that supports applications having high computational requirement. Our System’s interfaces are similar to the Hadoop MapReduce framework, to make applications built on Hadoop easily portable to Comet-based framework. The details of the implementation and evaluation of an actual pharmaceutical problem, with its results have been described. We found that out solution can be used to accelerate the computations of medium sized data by delaying or avoiding the use of distributed file reads and writes.
Transcending Boundaries: Rethinking Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire Through Religious Conversion Practices
Creators: name: Wagner, Veruschka
name: Gökçe, Zeynep Yeşim
name: Abacı, Zeynep Dörtok
name: Allahverdiyeva, Turkana
Publisher: name: Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dependency and Slavery Studies
subject: Ottoman Empire
subject: Crimea
subject: Slave Agency
subject: Slave Conversion
subject: ddc:900
subject: ddc:940
subject: ddc:950

description: This article explores the religious conversion of slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Crimea as a profound and transforming event in the lives of slaves. We will analyze the conditions, reasons, and consequences of conversion by studying court records from different cities from the 16th to 18th centuries. It will also explore the relation between religious conversion and the agency of the slaves. The primary research inquiries that this working paper seeks to address are as follows: What impact did religious conversion have on the agency of the slaves? What was the impact of conversion on their lives (as well as the lives of their slave owners) during and after being enslaved? Do the circumstances and effects of conversion differ between male and female slaves? This study aims to elucidate these inquiries in an endeavor to offer a new perspective on the relation between enslavement and conversion.
Philonthus acinonyx Hromadka 2010
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus acinonyx

description: Philonthus acinonyx Hromádka, 2010
Philonthus acinonyx Hromádka, 2010e: 5, Figs 2–8.
Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L.
Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ, (dissected genitalia on a separate plastic card): ‘ NIGERIA – Africa / UMUDIKE / 14.-27.ix. 1960 / J.M. Gregory [sic!] [p] // 3.June.1994 / Coll. W. Rossi [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHI- LONTHUS (Pseudophil.) / acinonyx spec. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2006. [p, red label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾ ♀) (: ‘ ♀ [p, orange label] // NIGERIA – Africa / UMUDIKE / 14.-27.ix. 1960 / J.M. Gregory [sic!] [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // Desiderata / ex.N- HM / 3.iii.2005 [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (Pseudophil.) / acinonyx spec. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2006. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 364, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Essays on model selection using Bayesian inference
Creators: name: Chen, Guo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation is composed of three essays evaluating Bayesian model selection criteria in various models, and whenever necessary, the Bayesian criteria are compared with sampling theory criteria. In chapter two, I compare the 2-regime threshold ARMA model (TARMA) and 2-state Markov switching model (MSM). Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are devised to obtain coefficient estimates, conditional and unconditional predictive densities. Posterior densities and cumulative densities of the mean square error of forecast (MSEF) of two competing models are generated. The main finding is that for one-day conditional prediction, the 2-regime TARMA model predicts the interest rate better than the MSM. Under the unconditional prediction, however, MSM has less prediction error than TARMA.In chapter three, I compare the MSEF and Pseudo Bayes Factor (PSBF) obtained by 10-fold CV method and those from an out of sample prediction for fixed points. The MSEF suggests there is a slightly superior performance for the CV method in model selection over traditional out-of-sample forecast in the i.i.d sample. However, the same result is not obtained by PSBF. By excluding forecasted data in constructing coefficients within MCMC, the out-of-sample method is further improved by yielding higher probability to select the true model.In chapter four, I evaluate logit and probit binary choice models. Monte Carlo experiments are conducted to compare the following five criteria in choosing the univariate probit and logit models: the deviance information criterion (DIC), predictive DIC, Akaike information criterion (AIC), weighted and unweighted sums of squared errors. The results show that if data are balanced no model selection criterion can distinguish the probit and logit models. If data are unbalanced and the sample size is large the DIC and AIC choose the correct models better than the other criteria. If unbalanced binary data are generated by a leptokurtic distribution the logit model is preferred over the probit model. The probit model is preferred if unbalanced data are generated by a platykurtic distribution.
title: Inhibition of human telomerase by a G-quadruplex-interaction compound
Creators: name: Hurley, Laurence H.
name: Kerwin, Sean M.
name: Salazar, Miguel
name: Fedoroff, Oleg Y.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: C07D471/06
subject: C07D277/64
subject: C12Q1/68
subject: C12Q1/6886
subject: C12Q2600/136
subject: C12Q2600/154
subject: 435/6.13
subject: 435/6.15
subject: 435/6.18
subject: 514/279
subject: 546/37

description: Certain non-nucleoside compounds that will selectively inhibit telomerase by targeting the nucleic add structures, such as G-quadruplexes, that may be associated with human telomeres or telomerase have been identified. Inhibition of human telomerase by two perylenetetracarboxylic acid diimides and a carbocyanine has been demonstrated. 1H-NMR studies have evidenced the stabilization of a G-quadruplex by the perylenetetracarboxylic acid diimide compounds and provided evidence that these and structurally related compounds inhibit the telomerase enzyme by a mechanism consistent with interaction with G-quadruplex structures.