cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Human umbilical cord Wharton jelly cells promote extra-pancreatic insulin formation and repair of renal damage in STZ-induced diabetic mice
Creators: name: Maldonado, Martin
name: Tianhua Huang
name: Lujun Yang
name: Xu, Lan
name: Ma, Lian
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: List of primers. Legend: a National Center for Biotechnology Information ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /) accession numbers. (DOCX 17Â kb)
First-principles study of electric polarization in piezoelectric and magnetoelectric materials
Creators: name: Malashevich, Andrei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: First-principles calculations based on the density-functional theory (DFT) have proven to be extremely useful in the study of properties of matter. Not only do they provide a sufficient accuracy to reproduce experimental results, but also they make it possible to predict materials with enhanced or even new properties. Often first-principles calculations become a cheap alternative to real experiments or even allow one to investigate regimes not accessible experimentally either in principle or because of limitations of experimental techniques. But the real power of methods based on computer simulations is that they can help one to understand the microscopic mechanisms of physicalprocesses inside the materials.In my thesis work I will analyze electric polarization properties of several materials and their dependence on some physical parameters such as strain, chemical doping, and magnetic order.In the first part of my thesis I will present an ab-initio study of wurtzite ZnO doped with Mg. Several ordered structures modeling the Zn1−xMgxO alloy are analyzed with different Mg concentrations. The electric polarization is studied as a function of Mg concentration x under different strain conditions. We find that to a good approximation the polarization depends linearly on x. We show that a simple model based on the piezoelectric response of pure ZnO can reproduce the results fairly well.In the second part, we study the magnetoelectric coupling in a spiral magnet TbMnO3. It is known from experiment that at low temperatures a ferroelectric phase appears simultaneously with the onset of a cycloidal magnetic order. Using first-principles methods, we demonstrate that ferroelectricity in this material is indeed driven by magnetic order. We show that spin-orbit coupling isessential for the electric polarization to appear. We also demonstrate that the ionic displacements induced by a cycloidal magnetic order, though tiny, play a crucial role in producing polarization. We do a detailed analysis of the forces on ions and ionic displacements from the mode-decomposition viewpoint, and find that simple models based only on nearest-neighbor interactions between Mnions through oxygen are not able to account fully for the results.
Adaptive multimodal integration of speech and gaze
Creators: name: Mantravadi, Chandra Sekhar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Speech has been used as the foundation for many human/machine interactive systems to convey the user’s intent to the system. However, other input mechanisms, commonly called modalities, such as gaze, touch, and hand gestures, have been explored as a means of providing a more robust interaction in environments where speech alone is not adequate. By combining the inputs from multiple, complementary modalities, none of which is perfectly reliable, a better understanding of the user’s true intent can be imparted to the system. In this dissertation, the effectiveness of using gaze (where someone is looking) to aid speech in providing the user’s intent to the machine is explored. To create a speech and gaze integration model, two human factors experiments were conducted to collect data for building this model. The first experiment had the user read a single word displayed on a screen, and the second experiment required the user to read a designated word from a menu of words. Speech onset time and the user’s gaze patterns data were capturedand analyzed to understand the timing relations between the two modalities. A set of gaze/speechfeatures were extracted from the data and used to predict the location of the word that the user read. The best features and the best model for predicting the location of the target word were found through an iterative trial and error process. A linear model was able to predict the gaze location of the target as well as any of the non-linear models considered. The linear systemrepresentation was then used to create an adaptive model using the Row Action Projection (RAP) technique. The RAP adaptation model was found to predict the user’s intent with higher probability for the majority subjects than the non-adaptive approaches. The RAP model adapted to the speech/gaze patterns of each individual user as well as the variation in a single user’s interaction behavior over time. It was also found that the feature set used for successfully identifying the target in Experiment 1, a simple isolated word task, was different than that used in Experiment 2, a more complex menu selection task, suggesting that task complexity was an important consideration in the design of a speech/gaze interface. In summary, this dissertation has shown that an adaptive gaze and speech integration model is better than speech or gazeperformance alone.
Tunneling in strongly correlated materials
Creators: name: Maltseva, Marianna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Tunneling studies of strongly correlated materials provide information about the nature of electronic correlations, which is vital for investigation of emergent materials at the microscopic level. In particular, scanning tunneling spectroscopy/microscopy (STS/STM) studies have made major contributions to understanding cuprate superconductors (66), yet there is a sense that huge STM data arrays contain much more precious information to be extracted and analyzed. One of the most pressing questions in the ﬁeld is how to improve the data analysis, so as to extract more information from STM data. A dominant trend in STM data analysis has been to interpret the data within a particular microscopic model, while using only basic data analysis tools. To decrease the reliance of the STM data interpretation on particular microscopic models, further advances in data analysis methods are necessary. In Chapter 2 of this Thesis, we discuss how one can extract information about the phase of the order parameter from STM data. We show that symmetrized and anti-symmetrized correlators of local density of states give rise to observable coherence factor eﬀects. In Chapter 3, we apply this framework to analyze the recent scanning tunneling experiments on an underdoped cuprate superconductor calcium sodium oxychloride by T. Hanaguri et al. (60). In Chapter 4, we propose a model for nodal quasiparticle scattering in a disordered vortex lattice. Recently, scanning tunneling studies of a Kondo lattice material U Ru2S i2 became possible (117). If it proves possible to apply scanning tunneling spectroscopy to Kondo lattice materials, then remarkable new opportunities in the ongoing investigation may emerge. In Chapter 5, we examine the eﬀect of co-tunneling to develop a theory of tunneling into a Kondo lattice. We ﬁnd that the interference between the direct tunneling and the co-tunneling channels leads to a novel asymmetric lineshape, which has two peaks and a gap. The presence of the peaks suggests that the interference is more dramatic in the case of Kondo lattice than in the single impurity case, because of the coherence. These features should be observed in future tunneling experiments on Kondo lattice materials.
Source - sink dynamics of anurans in stormwater basins of New Jersey's coastal plain
Creators: name: McCarthy, Kathleen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Stormwater basins are a commonly employed Best Management Practice designed to deal with the negative effects of runoff from impervious surfaces. They are ubiquitous in the landscape; yet the effect of these basins on faunal assemblages has not been investigated. Stormwater basins have the potential to influence the breeding distribution of anurans by being sources for some species and sinks for others. This study aims to determine which anuran species benefit from the existence of stormwater basins, which species are negatively impacted, and what local and landscape variables are the best predictors of these effects. Thirty-six permanently ponded stormwater basins in southern New Jersey’s outer coastal plain were monitored in 2008 for the presence of mating adults and anuran larvae by aural surveys, dip-netting and trapping. Interviews, visual encounters, dip-netting, and traps assessed fish presence. Water temperature, conductivity, and pH were measured throughout the growing season. A 100 foot buffer area surrounding the basins was divided into managed and unmanaged grass and woody vegetation as well as impervious surface. Two connectivity metrics, distance to a canopied corridor and percent of undeveloped upland within 500 meters, were analyzed in ArcGIS. Fish were detected in 92% of the basins. Resistance to fish predation distinguished successful species, those with larvae present, from unsuccessful species, those with calling activity but no larval presence. Permanently ponded basins were sources for Bufo woodhousii fowleri, and Rana catesbeiana, and sinks for Pseudacris crucifer crucifer, Hyla versicolor, and Rana clamitans.Connectivity to and availability of terrestrial habitat were significant predictors of how many species mated at the basins. The number of species increased as access to and amount of quality terrestrial habitat increased. This suggests that placement of permanently ponded basins near populations of threatened or endangered amphibians susceptible to fish predation is unadvisable. Additionally, as permanent stormwater ponds are sources for Rana catesbeiana, in areas where bullfrogs are invasive, basins will likely increase propagule pressure.
title: Membraneless seawater desalination
Creators: name: Crooks, Richard A.
name: Knust, Kyle N.
name: Perdue, Robbyn K.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: C02F1/4604
subject: C02F1/4696
subject: C02F2001/46128
subject: C02F2103/08
subject: No longer published

description: Disclosed are microfluidic devices and systems for the desalination of water. The devices and systems can include an electrode configured to generate an electric field gradient in proximity to an intersection formed by the divergence of two microfluidic channels from an inlet channel. Under an applied bias and in the presence of a pressure driven flow of saltwater, the electric field gradient can preferentially direct ions in saltwater into one of the diverging microfluidic channels, while desalted water flows into second diverging channel. Also provided are methods of using the devices and systems described herein to decrease the salinity of water.
Philonthus heliosciurus Hromadka 2013
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 heliosciurus

description: Philonthus heliosciurus Hromádka, 2013
Philonthus heliosciurus Hromádka, 2013g: 705, Figs 3–5.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ [p, pink label] // République Centraafricante [sic!] / Bozo lumiere / 21. v. 1981. / leg. N. Degallier [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLO- TYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / heliosciurus sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2012. [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 372, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
title: Hydrogels for delivery of therapeutic compounds
Creators: name: Strong, Laura E.
name: Peppas, Nicholas A.
name: Knipe, Jennifer M.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: A61K47/32
subject: A61K9/1635
subject: A61K9/5026
subject: A61K9/5138
subject: A61K38/06
subject: A61K38/08
subject: A61K38/10
subject: A61K38/16
subject: A61K38/28
subject: C08L33/02
subject: C08L39/06
subject: C12N15/111
subject: C12N15/113
subject: C12N2310/14
subject: C12N2320/32
subject: No longer published

description: In some aspects, methacrylate co-polymers crosslinked with an enzymatically cleavable peptide linker are provided and may be used for the oral delivery of a therapeutic. The peptide linker may be cleavable by an enzyme in the small intestine and may allow for the delivery of a therapeutic protein or nucleic acid to the small intestine. Also provided are methods of using the polymers for the treatment of a disease.
Systematics and evolution of bark-inhabiting species of the Gnomoniaceae (Diaporthales, Ascomycota) with emphasis on the genera Cryptosporella and Plagiostoma
Creators: name: Mejía Franco, Luis Carlos
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The Gnomoniaceae (Diaporthales, Ascomycota) comprise microfungi that grow on leaves and woody tissues of a range of plant families, mostly hardwood trees from temperate zones of the northern hemisphere. Many dominant endophytes of trees in North America and Europe are species of Gnomoniaceae. Several emerging and devastating diseases of forest trees are caused by pathogenic species of Gnomoniaceae. Despite their abundance and impact in forest ecosystems, the Gnomoniaceae have not received modern taxonomic review and phylogenetic study. Most morphologically defined genera in this family are polyphyletic when analyzed with molecular data, therefore new circumscription of genera is needed. The objectives of this work are to: 1) define monophyletic genera and determine species limits for bark-inhabiting fungi in the Gnomoniaceae; and 2) infer the phylogeny of bark-inhabiting genera of Gnomoniaceae (e.g. Cryptosporella, and Plagiostoma). To achieve these objectives fresh specimens were collected in locations in Europe, North, Central and South America, and China. Specimens from herbaria and living collections from culture repositories were included in the study. The methods integrate a comparison of morphological characters of specimens in natural substrates such as the arrangement, shape, and size of perithecia and the shape and size of asci and ascospores with molecular characters, i.e. DNA sequences from multiple loci (β-tubulin, ITS, LSU, rpb2, and tef1-α) analyzed by Bayesian inference, Maximum Likelihood, Neighbor Joining, and Parsimony.This research resulted in the recircumscription of the genera Cryptosporella and Plagiostoma and the definition of a new genus Occultocarpon gen. nov. A total of 32 taxonomic novelties were defined. More specifically, 17 new species, a new genus of bark-inhabiting Gnomoniaceae, and 14 new name combinations were described. This project has shown that host identity is a better predictor than geographic location for finding species of Gnomoniaceae.  By documenting species of Gnomoniaceae from the Neotropics, South America, and subtropical China, results from this project have changed the previous assumption that the Gnomoniaceae only occur in temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere. Finally, the phylogenies obtained suggest a long evolutionary relationship between Cryptosporella and Betulaceae and a subclade of Plagiostoma with the Salicaceae.
Philonthus giraffa 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 giraffa

description: Philonthus giraffa Hromádka, 2010
Philonthus giraffa Hromádka, 2010e: 25, Figs 68–72.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (, dissected genitalia on a separate plastic card):‘SIERRA LE- ONE / N.P. Kabala / alla luce [p] // ex coll. L.Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (Pseudoph.) / giraffa sp. 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 371, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Philonthus haliophis 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 haliophis

description: Philonthus haliophis Hromádka, 2011
Philonthus haliophis Hromádka, 2011a: 195, Figs 19–21.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection): HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ Afrique or. anglaise / MT KENYA VERST OUEST /
ZONE DES FORÊTS / ALLUAUD & JEANNEL [p] // FORETS
[sic!] MOYENNES / BAMBOUS SUPÊR / 2800-3200 m / Janv. 1912 St. 41 [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / haliophis 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 pages 371-372, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Birth behind the veil
Creators: name: Maxwell, Kelena Reid
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: By the early twentieth century, the majority of white women living in the United States were giving birth in hospitals under the care of a physician. In 1921, the majority of women who gave birth under conditions that were indigenous, eclectic, spirit based, and not according to the standards of modern medicine, were the rural black women of the South. African American midwives and women of the South maintained the corequalities of the home birthing traditions, handed down through a matrilineal system of recruitment and training from the period of enslavement throughout the twentieth century. This occurred amidst a major program of midwife training and regulation.Public Health officials of the early twentieth century urged midwife regulation as a temporary measure. Medical professionals considered the lay midwives of the south a necessary evil. They were necessary because the population they served was left out of a medical system that operated according to the practices and laws of racial segregation.They were evil, however, because they were believed to carry disease, to be incapable and inherently responsible for elevated levels of infant and maternal mortality in the South. Yet health authorities could think of no better solution then to train and regulate the best of the practicing lay midwives and eliminate those whom they considered unwilling to follow safe practices.Despite the beliefs of the medical community, African American childbearing women of the South relied upon the services of lay midwives. The transition from home to hospital birth was not a smooth transition for rural southern women. There were socioeconomic barriers to a hospital birth for many. However, there were also cultural and spiritual reasons for their preferences. They did not appear to associate midwives with unsafe conditions. In fact, the reverse was the case. This study examines the movement from the lay assisted births of the early twentieth century through the medicalized events of the later decades. African American women of the South approached modern medicine in various ways, yet always through the multiple lenses of racial segregation, deep spiritual beliefs surrounding childbirth, and the viewpoints of their ancestors. These factors were more prominent in impacting the birth experience then the views, perceptions, and regulations of the health care professionals who were officially responsible for the birth event.
On-the-Market Resuscitative Methods in Trauma Care: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Beckett, Andrew
name: Shahad Abdulkhaleq Mamalchi
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: blood products versus crystalloid products
subject: scoping review
subject: trauma
subject: trauma resuscitation
subject: trauma surgery

description: This scoping review aims to comprehensively explore blood-based resuscitative methods involved in management of the trauma patient, in comparison to the standard practice of care, crystalloid resuscitation. It will discuss on-going debates regarding the two modalities and their applicability for effective resuscitation in trauma. This review will explore morbidity and mortality rates, adverse outcomes, functional patient recovery, and any complications associated with the interventions. Simultaneously, it will evaluate resource utilization for optimization of cost-effectiveness.
title: Cementitious compositions comprising a non-aqueous fluid and an alkali-activated material
Creators: name: Van Oort, Eric
name: Aughenbaugh, Katherine Louise
name: Nair, Sriramya Duddukuri
name: Liu, Xiangyu
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: C04B12/005
subject: C04B22/00
subject: C04B24/08
subject: C04B28/006
subject: C04B28/08
subject: C04B28/18
subject: C04B14/04
subject: C04B14/14
subject: C04B18/06
subject: C04B18/08
subject: C04B18/141
subject: C04B22/062
subject: C04B22/064
subject: C04B22/10
subject: C04B22/106
subject: C04B22/147
subject: C04B2103/0093
subject: C04B2103/10
subject: C09K8/42
subject: C09K8/32
subject: C09K8/46
subject: C09K8/487
subject: C09K8/502
subject: C09K2208/02
subject: E21B21/003
subject: E21B33/138
subject: Y02P40/165
subject: Y02W30/92
subject: Y02W30/94

description: Provided herein are cementitious compositions comprising a non-aqueous fluid and an alkali-activated material. The non-aqueous fluid can include a natural oil, a synthetically derived oil, one or more surfactants, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, the non-aqueous fluid can include an oil based mud, a synthetic based mud, or a mixture thereof. The alkali-activated material in the cementitious composition can be derived from an aluminosilicate material and an alkaline activator. In some embodiments, the aluminosilicate material includes fly ash. The alkaline activator can be selected from an alkali-hydroxide, an alkali-silicate, an alkali carbonate, an alkali bicarbonate, an alkali sulfate, and a mixture thereof. Provided herein are also wellbore servicing composition, such as compositions to reduce lost circulation of drilling fluids or cement a casing into the borehole, comprising the cementitious compositions and methods for preparing and using the cementitious compositions.
A physicalist relationist theory of color
Creators: name: Mintz, Eliezer
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The nature of color is an open philosophical and scientific question. In this work I develop a physicalist relationist theory of color. So far, attempts to identify color as a physical property of objects have not been convincing because no physical property used by scientists seems to be well correlated with color sensations. I define a new physical property which I call transformance and show that transformance is 100% correlated with color sensations. Intuitively, transformance is a very general abstract physical property that describes how a system transforms or modifies light or information that characterizes light. It turns out that transformance is a relational property of objects like velocity and weight. Transformance is related to surface reflectance as weight is related to mass.Transformance is a much better candidate to be color than surface reflectance because it is 100% correlated with color sensations, precisely models surround effects and fully explains all issues that relate to perceptual variation or the lack thereof (metamers). Several concrete examples are provided that show how the transformance of different systems should be modeled. After defining transformance, I defend the theory that color is transformance against possible objections while contrasting my theory with the theory that color is surface reflectance. I then discuss the relations between color and color sensation and the more general objections to any physicalist theory of color. The final part of the thesis deals with epistemological issues related to my theory of color including two apparent paradoxes that I believe every theory of color must answer: 1) How is it that human beings get along so well with an erroneous theory of color? 2) How can science, which is based on the common sense theory of color, conclude that the common sense theory is wrong? I show that my theory provides answers to these questions.
Flow structure and heat transfer in an impinging jet CVD reactor
Creators: name: Memon, Nasir
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: A detailed experimental study is undertaken to investigate the flow structure and heat transfer in an impinging jet Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) reactor at atmospheric pressure. It is critical to develop models that predict flow patterns in such a reactor to achieve uniform deposition across the substrate. Free convection can negatively affect the gas flow as cold inlet gas impinges on the heated substrate, leading to vortices and disturbances in the normal flow path. This experimental research will be used to understand the buoyancy-induced and momentum-driven flow structure encountered in an impinging jet CVD reactor. Investigations are conducted for various operational parameters such as substrate temperature and inlet velocity. In addition, different reactor geometries with varying inlet length and height between the substrate and inlet are included in the study. Experimental results obtained from the study provide information on the temperature distribution, heat transfer rates, and flow field. Such results validate the operation of the reactor at atmospheric pressure and provide valuable insight into future design of impinging jet CVD reactors.
Neural correlates of elbow joint kinematic variability
Creators: name: Natarajan, Gautam Siddarth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: A fundamental tenet of motor control is that point-to-point reaching motions follow an approximately straight line trajectory with a bell-shaped velocity profile.  However, these abstractions are not universally observed.  Previous work in our lab revealed that most spatiotemporal elbow trajectories do not necessarily conform to a straight-line, which is believed to be ‘natural’ human motion.  Instead, spatiotemporal trajectories are best characterized by a small set of simple, analytic functions including both linear and non-linear waveforms.  Here, I suggest that the differences observed in elbow kinematics are a direct consequence of varying motor planning, which is represented by the electromyography (EMG).  Fourteen healthy subjects were asked to perform several self-paced, untargeted elbow articulations that maximize smoothness within a comfortable range of motion; EMG of the biceps and kinematic traces were recorded simultaneously.  Kinematic traces were modeled by a set of simple, monotonic functions, while EMG traces were reconstructed by parabolic waveforms, via a parameterized curve-fitting method.  EMG traces (r-EMG) and their parabolic reconstructions (p-EMG) were used independently to predict adherence to each of 3 kinematic types.  It was hypothesized that the p-EMG and r-EMG from the kinematic adherence group (r2 > 0.9979) would exhibit statistical and parametric differences from the departure group (r2 < 0.9951) of the same kinematic type.Both r-EMG and p-EMG were useful in predicting adherence to global kinematic morphology with high sensitivity and specificity across subjects.  Coupling the substantial predictive value and the similar information content (87.80% of the decisions were identical) of both EMG modalities implied that p-EMG can be used as a simple, informative approximant of r-EMG of the biceps during self-paced, untargeted elbow flexions.  The features selected for classification were robust across subjects along with the predictive value, suggesting there is degeneracy in the neural command.  Degeneracy in the neural command matches the widespread observation of highly stereotyped kinematics.  Elbow trajectories most commonly adhered to sigmoid morphology.  Future work should develop a comprehensive depiction of the neural control of voluntary movements.
Philonthus hornaditanus Rambousek 1925
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 hornaditanus

description: Philonthus hornaditanus Rambousek, 1925
Philonthus hornaditanus Rambousek, 1925: 75.
The lectotype and five paralectotypes are deposited in
NMPC (general collection):
Lൾ*ö*´Ɵ*´YPൾ) (: ‘Argent.Jujuy / Ornadito 3600 / XI.19.Weiser [p, green label] // TYPUS [p, red label] // hornaditanus // Bh.vid. Rmbk [hw] // Lectotype Philonthus / hornaditanus Rambousek, 1925 / des.Chani Posse de Maus 2008 [p, red label]’.
PA*©AĿൾ*ö*´Ɵ*´YP) ൾ: ‘(Argent.Hor- / nadita 3400 / XI.20.Weiser [p, green
label] // TYPUS [p, red label] // hornaditanus // Bh.vid. Rmbk [hw] // Paralectotype Philonthus / hornaditanus Rambousek, 1925 / des.
Chani Posse de Maus 2008 [p, red label]’.
PA*©AĿൾ*ö*´Ɵ*´YPൾඌ (2 unsexed specimens): ‘Argent.Hor- / nadita0 340 / XI.20 Weiser [p, green label] // Paralectotype Philonthus / hornaditanus Rambousek,1925 / des.Chani Posse de Maus 2008 [p, red label]’.
PA*©AĿൾ*ö*´Ɵ*´YPൾඌ (2 unsexed specimens on a same pin): ‘Argent. Hor- / nadita 3400 / XI.20 Weiser [p, green label] // Paralectotype Philonthus
/ hornaditanus Rambousek, 1925 / des.Chani Posse de Maus 2008 [p, red label] // Paralectotype Philonthus / hornaditanus Rambousek, 1925 / des.Chani Posse de Maus 2008 [p, red label]’.
Current status. Gabrius hornaditanus (Rambousek, 1925), see C*üANı-PƟඌඌൾ Đൾ MAUඌ (2009).
Comments. The lectotype was designated by C*üANı-PƟඌඌൾ Đൾ MAUඌ (2009).
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 372, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Pachymerium ferrugineum C.L. Koch 1835
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
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Pachymerium
Pachymerium ferrugineum

description: * Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)
Material examined: 15 3, 17 ƤƤ, 1 unsexed.
Sites: 16, 29, 51, 52, 58, 67, 80, 90, 119, 125, 135, 140, 141, 151, 152, 169, 171 (Fig. 19). General distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, European Russia, Finland, France (mainland, Corsica), Great Britain, Greece (mainland, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese), Hungary, Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Latvia, FYR Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal (mainland, Azores Isl., Madeira Is.), Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain (mainland, Balearic Isl., Canary Isl.), Sweden, The Netherlands; North Africa: Algeria, Central Sahara, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia; West Asia: Caucasus, Cyprus, Iran, Palestine, Turkey, Uzbekistan; East Asia: Japan (introduced); North America: Alaska, introduced elsewere; Central America: Mexico (introduced); South America: Chile (Juán Fernández Is., introduced; Easter Is., introduced); Pacific islands: Hawaii Isl. (introduced) (Palmén & Rantala 1954; Zapparoli 2002; Simaiakis et al. 2005).
Chorotype. West Palaearctic.
Habitats. Phryganic formations, Pinus forests, ravines, in habitats with Quercus alnifolia, Pinus and Platanus orientalis, mixed Pinus forests.
Altitudinal range: 0–1700 m.
Range of leg pairs recorded in Cyprus. 43–57 (3) and 43–57 (ƤƤ).
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 pages 297-298, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
title: Multimode interference coupler for use with slot photonic crystal waveguides
Creators: name: Chen, Ray T.
name: Chen, Xiaonan
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: B82Y20/00
subject: G02B6/1225
subject: G02B6/29344
subject: 385/15
subject: 385/12
subject: 385/16
subject: 385/28
subject: 385/31
subject: 385/50
subject: 385/129
subject: 385/130
subject: 385/131
subject: 385/132
subject: 430/321
subject: 438/29
subject: 438/31

description: The present invention provides an optical apparatus having a multimode interference coupler configured to optically couple a strip waveguide to a slot photonic crystal waveguide. The multimode interference coupler has a coupling efficiency to the slot photonic crystal waveguide greater than or equal to 90%, a width that is approximately equal to a defect width of the slot photonic crystal waveguide, a length that is equal to or less than 1.5 μm, and interfaces with the slot photonic crystal waveguide at an edge of a period that gives a termination parameter of approximately zero. The optical apparatus may also include an insulation gap disposed between the multimode interference coupler and the slot photonic crystal waveguide, wherein the length of the multimode interference coupler is reduced by approximately one half of a width of the insulation gap.
A multi-level model of transformational leadership and team outcomes
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Despite a large literature on leadership and team dynamics respectively, research examining leadership and knowledge-oriented team processes and outcomes has been limited. In this dissertation, I focused on transformational leadership (TFL) style and its influence on psychological and behavioral processes as well as team outcomes of performance and learning. Taking a multi-level approach to leadership, I examined TFL at both individual and team levels, and its relationships to collaborative norms, knowledge sharing, team goal commitment, individual learning and team performance. Results confirmed the roles of process variables as important mediating mechanisms between leader behaviors and team outcomes. In addition, I found that team knowledge sharing had particular relevance to team performance when tasks presented high levels of knowledge intensity. This dissertation extends our knowledge about effects of leader behaviors by attending to multi-level leadership processes and a knowledge-work boundary condition.
title: Generative AI as a Catalyst for Business Model Innovation in Complex Environments
Creators: name: Schweiger, Emma
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Augsburg
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/016604a03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 33 Wirtschaft

description: Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly with the publication of OpenAI's ChatGPT, have highlighted the transformative potential of generative AI (GAI) in private and business contexts. GAI tools, capable of generating new content such as text, images, and audio from training data, are increasingly used as human assistants for innovation tasks. Furthermore, the technology is increasingly applied to solve complex tasks. Within modern business environments, where these complexities are significant influences, GAI tools act as crucial drivers for business model innovation. This research systematically analyses existing literature and employs a mixed-methods approach to empirically assess the impact of GAI tools on business model innovation occurring in complex environments. Furthermore, an intensive experiment involving ten students developing an innovative service for the context of stationary retail was conducted. Here, the goal was to develop a functioning business model, along a three-month development process including theoretical input in workshop settings. Findings from qualitative observations, prompt analyses, and a quantitative survey reveal that GAI significantly fosters creativity and innovation, especially during ideation and prototype development. However, traditional creativity methods need adaptation for effective integration with GAI. These tools also enhance decision-making by allowing innovators to navigate these complex environments, although some constraints still exist. Future experiments in controlled settings like Living Labs are recommended to ensure validity, particularly in the dynamic stationary retail sector. Addressing limitations such as sample size and validating traditional creativity methods for GAI application is essential for future experiments. In conclusion, GAI tools significantly enhance business model innovation, but human collaboration remains essential for addressing external complexities and fostering creativity, ensuring cohesive decision-making.
description: City-in-Use; 24
The psychology of time and its philosophical implications
Creators: name: Montemayor, Carlos
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation offers new proposals, based on a philosophical appraisal of scientific findings, to address old philosophical problems regarding our immediate acquaintance with time. It focuses on two topics: our capacity to determine the length of intervals and our acquaintance with the present moment. A review of the relevant scientific findings concerning these topics grounds the main contributions of this dissertation. Thus, this study introduces to the philosophical literature an empirically adequate way to talk about how the mind represents time at the most fundamental level.In order to account for our immediate acquaintance with the duration of intervals, a theoretical framework for classifying clocks is used to explain why the representational outputs of the circadian clock and the stopwatch have metric structure. A philosophicalanalysis of these outputs is proposed to classify them and explain their properties. With respect to our immediate acquaintance with the present, a novel two-phase model of the present is proposed. This model shows that there are two forms of acquaintance with the present, which has consequences for contemporary debates in the philosophy of time.
Schizotaenia Cook 1896
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
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Schizotaenia

description: Schizotaenia Cook, 1896
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 298, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Restrained shrinkage behavior of high-performance concrete containing slag
Creators: name: Montemarano, John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Many high-performance concrete (HPC) bridge decks have been observed to exhibit cracking even after a couple days from casting.  The shrinkage of concrete is one of the main causes of why bridge decks crack.  Since bridge decks tend to restrain concrete from shrinkage, tensile stresses build up and cause the concrete to crack.  Other factors also such as loading cause concrete to crack as well.  It is important to test various HPC mixes under restrained conditions to analyze their cracking behavior and severity.    The AASHTO test (PP 34-06, The Passive or Restrained Ring Test) is utilized to measure the shrinkage of HPC mixes containing slag under restrained conditions.  Cracking patterns are also investigated as well.  The use of six Vibrating Wire Strain Gages (VWSGs) have been added in order measure the strain in the concrete ring directly and to detect the actual cracking day.  Other tests including the free shrinkage and mechanical properties tests (compressive strength, tensile strength, and elastic modulus) were performed on each mix.  The shrinkage performance and cracking behaviors were reported and compared based on total cementitious content, coarse aggregate content, and the coarse aggregate to fine aggregate ratio.  It was found that the total cementitious content, coarse aggregate content and its ratio to fine aggregate can significantly affect shrinkage and make that mix more or less likely to crack.  Mixes with low coarse aggregate content and highest cementitious content crack the earliest and have the most servere cracking.  Mixes with lower cementitious content and a higher coarse aggregate content and ratio tend to crack later and some have a least one ring specimen free of any cracking.  Complimentary linear free shrinkage blocks were also tested to correlate the free shrinkage performance with the restrained shrinkage performance of each mix.  Any mix with a free shrinkage strain less than 450 microstrains day 56 tends to perform best under restraint conditions.  Those mixes contain the lower cementitious contents (less than 700 lbs/cu yd), a higher coarse aggregate content (1800 lbs/cu yd), and a higher coarse aggregate to fine aggregate ratio of 1.6.
title: Centrifuge permeameter for unsaturated soils system
Creators: name: Zornberg, Jorge G.
name: McCartney, John S.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: G01N15/08
subject: G01N15/0826
subject: G01N15/0893
subject: 73/38

description: The present invention includes an apparatus, method and centrifuge permeameter system that includes a hydraulic permeameter adapted for use in a centrifuge; and an automated data acquisition system, wherein the centrifuge permeameter non-destructively determines one or more soil characteristics from a sample of granular material such as soil, rock, and concrete when centrifuged.
Philonthus hydrocynus Hromadka 2012
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 hydrocynus

description: Philonthus hydrocynus Hromádka, 2012
Philonthus hydrocynus Hromádka, 2012d: 84, Figs 97–98.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘République Centraafricante [sic!] / Bozo lumiere / 21. v. 1981 / leg.N.Degallier [p] // ex coll.L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / hydrocynus spec.nov. / Hromádka, det., 2011. [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 372, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Altered microRNA regulatory networks in individuals with schizophrenia
Creators: name: Moreau, Michael P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, endogenous non-coding RNA molecules that interact with messenger RNAs to direct their post-transcriptional repression.  Like messenger RNAs, miRNAs exhibit distinct spatiotemporal expression signatures.  The human brain, marked by tremendous structural and functional complexity, has an especially diverse miRNA expression profile.  Altered expression or function of miRNAs has been linked to several neuropsychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Tourette’s syndrome, and Schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects 0.5-1% of the world’s population.  Family and twin studies suggest a strong genetic component to the disease, but efforts to isolate causal variants have been hampered by genetic heterogeneity, as well as interacting environmental factors.  The underlying goal of this dissertation research is to investigate altered miRNA regulatory networks in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.  The work presented herein begins with a miRNA expression atlas of the developing human brain.  Tissue samples representing fetal, early postnatal, and adult time points (n = 48 total) were analyzed using microarrays, and 312 miRNAs were classified according to their temporal expression patterns.  This work goes on to describe the development of a multiplexed, bead-based SNP genotyping assay which was applied in a family-based genetic association study of the miRNA processing gene DGCR8.  Comprehensive miRNA expression analysis of post-mortem brain tissue samples from subjects with schizophrenia, subjects with bipolar disorder, and psychiatrically healthy controls (n = 35 each group) revealed significant under-expression of several miRNAs in individuals with major psychosis, substantiating a proposed defect in miRNA processing.  A pattern-based algorithm called miRSNiPer was developed, and used to predict SNPs that alter miRNA binding sites.  A panel of 48 putative “miRSNPs” were genotyped in 25 extended pedigrees, and a SNP in the 3’UTR of H3F3B showed evidence of association (PPLD = 17%) to schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.  Finally, the miRSNiPer algorithm was used to identify enriched genes and pathways among the targets of mis-expressed miRNAs.
title: Metal oxide nanoparticle filled polymers
Creators: name: Matteucci, Scott T.
name: Freeman, Benny D.
name: Lin, Haiqing
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: B01D53/228
subject: B01D67/0079
subject: B01D69/141
subject: B01D71/26
subject: B01D2325/32
subject: 95/45
subject: 95/50
subject: 95/51
subject: 95/54
subject: 96/4
subject: 96/11
subject: 96/12
subject: 96/13
subject: 96/14

description: The present invention includes a method, composition and apparatus for forming a nanoparticle filled polymer having similar gas selectivity and greater gas permeability than the native polymer. The nanoparticle filled polymer includes one or more polymeric materials and one or more nanoparticles dispersed within the one or more polymeric materials that increasing the permeability of the nanoparticle filled polymers relative to the permeability of the native polymer membrane.