cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Waikalasmatidae Ross & Newman 2001
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Waikalasmatidae

description: †FAMILY WAIKALASMATIDAE ROSS & NEWMAN, 2001
Diagnosis: Shell symmetrical, with eight solid, weakly articulated plates; single pieces of wide carina and narrow rostrum, paired rostromarginals, marginals and carinomarginals; alae well developed, radii absent; shell with two or more whorls of imbricating plates; basis membranous; caudal appendages absent.
Waikalasma Buckeridge, 1983 (Miocene–Recent) (three species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 834, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
title: Loss of Coverage for GLPs: Primary care physicians' views on supporting patients who lose insurance coverage for GLP-1 medications for weight management
Creators: name: Oshman, Lauren
name: Arizaca-Dileo, Patricia
name: Griauzde, Dina
name: Vicenzi Bal, Alexis
name: Kagzi, Asim
name: Gabison, Jonathan
name: Rothberg, Amy
name: Kraftson, Andrew
name: Othman, Amal
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: insurance
subject: weight management
subject: obesity
subject: incretin mimetic
subject: GLP
subject: primary care
subject: Family Medicine
subject: Health Sciences

description: Introduction: Over 40% of US adults have obesity. Glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs are new, effective, yet very expensive medications for the treatment of obesity. Insurers are implementing a variety of cost containment strategies to manage the cost of GLP-1 drugs including terminating coverage for this class of drugs for weight management. Objective: The aim of this survey is to understand the views of primary care physicians on how health systems can support their patients with obesity who lose coverage for GLP-1 drugs. Methods: Survey of 114 general Internal Medicine and Family Medicine physicians in September 2024. Questions assessed knowledge, attitudes, and needs for strategies to support these patients. Results: A total of 114 physicians responded, for a 44% response rate. 40% of respondents to the survey reported feeling either extremely or somewhat uncomfortable helping patients maintain weight loss after losing coverage for GLP-1 drugs. Most (72%) of physicians believed that less than one in four of their patients would be able to maintain their weight after losing coverage. Most physicians would try a different weight management medication when their patient loses coverage for a GLP-1 drug. Conclusion: Health systems can assist their patients and primary care physicians by creating resources and support when patients lose coverage for GLP-1 drugs.
Impact of NIOSH education and research centers of workplace practice
Creators: name: Rosen, Mitchel A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Multiple federal efforts to improve occupational safety and health (OSH) in the United States were implemented over the course of the twentieth century.  The development of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to implement safety and health standards was an initial step to improve workplace safety and health nationwide.  An additional effort was the creation of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).  That agency, in turn, created Education and Research Centers (ERCs) to provide continuing education and graduate level training in occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, occupational safety, and industrial hygiene.  Many training programs were created by both the ERCs and other agencies, causing the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2000 to call for an evaluation of all worker training programs to determine whether they are effective.  Such an evaluation is important because despite the figures showing that workplace deaths and injuries have decreased, we really do not know whether it is the training programs or other factors that have the desired effect of improving worker safety.  This thesis addressed that issue.    Using a multimodal effort for obtaining data, the research evaluated how the ERCs have impacted the workforce.  The research utilized qualitative methods, including key informant interviews, to indicate the impact the ERCs have had on workplace safety and health.  Additionally, the research conducted a quantitative survey of former ERC students to identify how effective the ERC training programs were in providing information so they can make appropriate health and safety decisions in their workplace practices.    This research shows that the ERCs provided training that has made a positive impact on worker health and safety.  Key informants identified safety and health training as effective in producing changes in the workplace. Furthermore, the surveys identified trainees as having increased their knowledge and learned new skills.  Trainees identified changes needed in their workplace, and the training has provided them with some of the knowledge and skills to make those changes.
Catophragmidae Utinomi 1968
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Catophragmidae

description: FAMILY CATOPHRAGMIDAE UTINOMI, 1968
Diagnosis: Shell consisting of eight solid plates fully integrated into sheath (rostrum, rostromarginals, marginals and carinomarginals, and carina); wall encircled by a few to numerous whorls of monomorphic imbricating plates; radii absent; opercular plates thick; mandible tridentoid; first two pairs of cirri as maxillipeds; caudal appendages when present multi-articulate.
Comment: The phylogeny provided by Chan et al. (2017a), based on six molecular markers (both mitochondrial and nuclear), showed Catophragmidae as sister to Pachylasmatidae within the Chthamaloidea clade. Chan et al. (2018) sequenced the mitogenome of Catomerus and found that it is more closely related to Tetraclitodea rather than to Chthmaloidea. The molecular position of Catophragmidae might need further confirmation from additional molecular studies.
Catolasmus Ross & Newman, 2001 (one species)
Catomerus Pilsbry, 1916 (one species)
Catophragmus Sowerby, 1826 (one species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 834, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Limenandra confusa Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera 2014
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Aeolidiidae
Limenandra
Limenandra confusa

description: Limenandra confusa Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
(Figure 34 C)
Material examined. One specimen. MB28-004710, ZRP, 0 8 Aug. 2013, 0.5m, 14mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reef.
Occurrences. Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central and eastern Pacific. Costa Rica (Camacho-García et al. 2005), Gulf of California (Bertsch 1972), Hawaii (Kay 1979), Midway Islands (Carmona et al. 2014c), Philippines, Mexico (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.
Remarks. The Mozambican specimen exhibited a synchronised movement of its longer mid-dorsal cerata whilst crawling, behaviour not previously reported. Carmona et al. (2014b) recently reviewed this genus. Limenadra nodosa occurs in the Mediterranean and Atlantic whilst L. confusa is distributed in the Pacific (Carmona et al. 2014c). As a result it is likely that this specimen represents the first record of L. confusa from the Indian Ocean.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
On some singular Sturm-Liouville equations and a Hardy type inequality
Creators: name: Castro, Hernán
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The main body of this dissertation can be divided into two separate topics. The first topic deals with a Hardy type inequality for functions belonging to the Sobolev space $W;{m,1}70(Omega)$, where $mgeq 2$ and $Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in $RR;N$, $Ngeq 1$. We show that for such functions $uin W;{m,1}70(Omega)$, one has  [  orm{partial;kpt{frac{partial;ju(x)}{d(x);{m-j-k}}}}7{L;1(Omega)}leq Corm{u}7{W;{m,1}(Omega)},  ]  where $j,k$ are non-negative integers such that $1 leq k leq m-1$ and $1leq j+kleq m$, and $d(x)$ is a smooth positive function which coincides with $dist(x,domega)$ near $domega$.    The second topic deals with the study of the singular Sturm-Liouville operator {$mathcal L7alpha u:=-(x;{2alpha}u')'$,} where $alpha>0$. We develop a linear theory for such operator by introducing suitable weighted Sobolev spaces and prove existence and uniqueness for equations of the form $mathcal L7alpha u+u=fin L;2$ under both homogeneous and non-homogeneous boundary data at the origin. In addition, the spectrum of the operator $mathcal L7alpha$ is fully described.    Finally, we prove existence, non-existence and uniqueness results for positive solutions of the non-linear singular Sturm-Liouville equation $mathcal L7alpha u=lambda u+u;p, u(1)=0$, where $alpha>0$, $p>1$ and $lambdainRR$ are parameters.
Access to breast cancer oncology care in California
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: In 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extended coverage to uninsured Californians through Medi-Cal and Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace offering health insurance products in the individual and small-group private market. On the one hand, the ACA guarantees affordable essential health benefits, including breast cancer care. On the other hand, choice of and timely access to oncology providers and treatments may be curtailed as both public and private health insurance payors balance delivering quality care to an increased number of covered lives. In particular, cost saving measures may block access and result in disparities in low-income areas and communities of color. Barriers include increasing health insurance premiums and deductibles, diminishing networks of cancer specialists, increasing delays in timely access to oncology specialists, rising cost-sharing in prescription drugs for oncology treatment and support, and an increasing difficulty in accessing needed drugs. And, financial access barriers still affect Californians who remain uninsured due to eligibility restrictions by lawful immigration status and affordability. Access to care may be further impeded by transportation and language barriers. Although there may be common barriers to breast cancer treatment, health insurance status and health insurance market features substantially govern the extent of suboptimal access. We will focus on Californians with breast cancer who are uninsured, those insured by Medi- Cal, those insured by Covered California, and those with job-based coverage. Our team will produce a report for policy makers that innovatively triangulate findings from 3 key tasks: (1) a synthesis of the peer reviewed literature, news media, reports and policy briefs; (2) an analysis of social media; and (3) case studies from key informant interviews. The report will include a dissemination plan to maximize media exposure and promulgate policy action.
Cerberilla Bergh 1873
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Aeolidiidae
Cerberilla

description: Cerberilla sp.
(Figure 34 B)
Material examined. One specimen. ZMBN105157, VIAIR, 21 May 2015, 4m, 13mm, collected by Y. Tibiriçá & M. Malaquias.
Habitats. Seagrass in the tropical region.
Occurrences. Vamizi Island.
Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean. Mozambique.
Remarks. Photographic records of a similar species exist from Egypt (Morisod 2008) and Malasya (Mayes 2012), suggesting a wider distribution.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Congolius Necas, Badjedjea, and Gvozdik 2021
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Congolius

description: Congolius Nečas, Badjedjea, and Gvoždík, 2021
This genus was recently established based on evidence that “ Hyperolius ” robustus is phylogenetically placed outside the genus Hyperolius (Nečas et al. 2021). The Congo frog forms a common clade with West African Morerella and Central African Cryptothylax. This new and monotypic genus is probably endemic to the Central Congolian forests.
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
Final Report, Chromium Household Dust Study
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1994

description: The Chromium Household Dust Study was held in conjunction with the CMsP (Chromium Medical surveillance Project) between June, 1992 and March, 1994.  Dust samples were collected from homes of a subset of participants in the medical screening and analyzed for total chromium.
Rectal transmission of STIs/HIV among women
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Objective: Little is known about the prevalence rectal sexually transmitted infection in women. Among men who report anal sex, the prevalence of these infections are relatively high and can increase the risk of transmission of HIV. Evidence demonstrates that women also practice anal sex and are therefore at risk for these infections. The proposed study will investigate the prevalence of rectal sexually transmitted infections among women who report anal sex, as well as factors that may increase the risk of these infections among women. Background/Significance: Unprotected anal sex is recognized as one of the most efficient modes of HIV sexual transmission and is a commonly practiced behavior with opposite sex partners, with estimates of ranging from 7-40% in the United States. It is also well established that the probability of transmitting HIV is increase in the presence of other sexually transmitted infections. This, along with evidence that most women who report anal sex report not using a condom for anal sex suggests that they are likely to exposed sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Although it is clear that anal sex is a sexual practice with high probability of transmission of HIV, data on the prevalence of rectal infections and the contribution of these infections to HIV transmission among women who report anal sex is limited. Methods: In the proposed study, we will use two different strategies to gain a better understanding of the context and the individual level factors that may increase a woman’s risk for these infections. First, we will interview 40 women attending the 12 public STD clinics in Los Angeles County. We will interview both women who are diagnosed with rectal sexually transmitted infections and women who are not diagnosed with these infections, in order to identify key differences. Simultaneous to the interviews, we will collect medical record information on the approximately 1,000 women seen at the public STD clinic who report anal sex. Currently, all clinics collect demographic, sexual practice, and behavioral information, and conduct laboratory test for sexually transmitted infections. The laboratory testing results, along with medical record information will be used to provide estimates of the prevalence and correlates of rectal sexually transmitted infections. Expected Results/Impact: The findings from this study will be one of the first to describe the prevalence and factors associated with rectal infections among a relatively high risk group of women. At the end of the award period, these results will not only help inform overall rectal screening guidelines for women but will be used to develop prevention intervention aimed at reducing the acquisition of rectal STIs/HIV among women.
Molecular evidence of natural hybridization among Saussurea species (Asteraceae, Cardueae) with the description of two new taxa from the Altai Mountains
Creators: name: Yusupovsky, Daniil V.
name: Pyak, Elizaveta A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Saussurea is one of the most species-rich genera in the family Asteraceae, exhibiting considerable morphological diversity. Over a long period of time, presence of spontaneous interspecific hybrids in the natural populations of Saussurea has been repeatedly reported by many scientists, but no genetic evidence has been provided. In this study, two new taxa from the Chuya Steppe, S. × magica Yusupovsky & E. Pjak and S. draconis Yusupovsky & E. Pjak, are described and discussed on the basis of evidence from both morphological and molecular data. Saussurea × magica, a spontaneous hybrid between S. amara and S. daurica, has morphological characteristics of both parental species. Its leaves are fleshy (as in S. daurica), but densely gland-dotted as in S. amara; inner rows of phyllaries apically with small and membranous purple appendage (vs. with broad membranous appendage and lacking appendage in S. amara and S. daurica, respectively). Saussurea draconis is similar to S. salsa and S. turgaiensis, but they can be easily distinguished by receptacle (convex, densely covered with persistent subulate-filiform bristles 6–7 mm long vs. flat with bristles 4–4.5 mm long) and synflorescence (corymb or dense corymbose-paniculate vs. lax corymbose-paniculate).
Additional file 4: of The chronically inflamed central nervous system provides niches for long-lived plasma cells
Creators: name: Pollok, Karolin
name: Mothes, Ronja
name: Ulbricht, Carolin
name: Liebheit, Alina
name: Gerken, Jan
name: Uhlmann, Sylvia
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Niesner, Raluca
name: Radbruch, Helena
name: Hauser, Anja
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary methods. (PDF 133 kb)
Los avatares del yo
Creators: name: Cohen, Selma
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: I examine a corpus of narrative texts (nouvelle, short story, and essay) and poems that focuses on the relationship between the narrative/poetic “I” and referentiality to account for new ontological dimensions of the first person in Argentine literature since 1990. Acknowledging the rich Argentinean autobiographical tradition from Domingo F. Sarmiento to Jorge Luis Borges, I argue that the works in my corpus present a shift from self-conscious and metafictional positions regarding the first person. I analyze a variety of uses of the “I” related to auto-fiction, the pseudonym, the “performance of the author” and the biography of the voice traced in the texts as representational strategies that address the fluid borders of the “I” in contemporary writing. My analysis takes into account works by Alan Pauls, Washington Cucurto, Silvio Mattoni and Matilde Sánchez. Based upon the theories of Philippe Lejeune, Régine Robin, Serge Doubrovsky, and Sylvia Molloy regarding the definitions of auto-fiction and autobiography, I identify the emergence of new meanings and functions for the concept of intimacy and strategies of self-representation.   These changes in subjectivity and writing in the first person are strongly marked by postmodernism and globalization. Following the considerations of Néstor García Canclini and Arjun Appadurai on globalization and new media, I argue that in contemporary times there are new parameters of production of space and time that have a strong impact on the subject configuration and its ways of relating to the world where experience plays a key role in new articulations of the “I”. In my corpus I also analyze the gradual but persistent genre hybridization of texts that also engage with the visual. The texts I study increasingly refer to and incorporate images such as photographs, drawings, and comics.   Politics and collective imagination are other aspects of literature in the first person. All the works I analyze transcend the individual to relate to others. Some of them make specific comments on politics or promote the development of community projects, such as the cooperative Eloísa Cartonera. Others address gender issues and their relationship with the male literary tradition. From different perspectives and approaches all of them take part in the interplay and discussion of the contemporary Argentinean cultural field.
The study of two-particle response functions in strongly correlated electron systems within the dynamical mean field theory
Creators: name: Park, Hyowon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In this thesis, we tackle various problems in strongly correlated  electron systems, which can be addressed properly via the non-perturbative  dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) approach using the continuous time  quantum Monte Carlo method as an impurity solver. First, we revisit  the old Nagaoka ferromagnetism problem in the U=oo Hubbard  model and study the stability of the ferromagnetic state as a function  of the temperature, the doping level, and the next-nearest-neighbor  hopping t'. We then address the nature of the Mott transition in  the two-dimensional Hubbard model at half-filling using cluster DMFT.  Cluster DMFT can incorporate the short-range correlations beyond  DMFT by extending the spatial range in which correlations are treated  exactly to a finite cluster size. The non-local correlations reduce  substantially the critical interaction U and modify the shape of  the transition lines in the phase diagram.     We then concentrate on the calculation of two-particle response functions  from the ab initio perspective by means of computing the one-particle  excitation spectrum using the combination of the density functional  theory (DFT) and DMFT and extracting the two-particle irreducible  vertex function from a local two-particle Green's function computed  within DMFT. In particular, we derive the equations for calculating  the magnetic/charge susceptibility and the pairing susceptibility  in superconductivity. This approach is applied to the Hubbard model  and the periodic Anderson model and we determine the phase diagram  of magnetism and superconductivity in these models. We show that the  superconducting phase is indeed stable near the magnetic phase where  the pairing interaction mediated by spin fluctuations is dominantly  enhanced. The non-local correlation effect to superconductivity is  also discussed using the dual fermion approach and the dynamical vertex  approximation. We finally  apply the vertex function approach within DFT+DMFT to a Fe-based  superconductor, BaFe2As2, and compute the dynamical magnetic  susceptibility in this material. Our calculation results show a good  agreement with the magnetic excitation spectra observed in a neutron  scattering experiment. The response function calculation method derived in  this thesis can capture both a localized and an itinerant nature of  collective excitations in strongly correlated electron systems.
Essays on game theory and coordination problems
Creators: name: Shino, Junnosuke
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The primary topic of the dissertation is game theory and coordination problem. It consists of three chapters, each of which studies a different economic environment under this main topic. In Lender of Last Resort Policy in Global Game and Role of Depositors’ AggregateBehavior as Signaling, we construct a global-game Lender of Last Resort (LLR) model in which the LLR authority is an explicit player and examine the role of depositors * aggregate behavior. It is shown that (1) depositors’ aggregate behavior operates as a signal to the LLR authority about banks’ solvency, (2) the optimal LLR policy is to help only illiquid but solvent banks, and (3) whenever the LLR facility is utilized, optimal lending rates are strictly positive and conditionally punitive in that they take the highest level possible under therestriction that they enable solvent but illiquid banks to survive. In Delegation Games with Implementability in Weakly Undominated SPNE, a general two-principal two-agent delegation environment is examined. We employ a refined SPNE (weakly undominated SPNE, U-SPNE) as the equilibrium concept, while keeping the notion of the implementability unchanged. It is shown that in certain classes of 2x2 games – including prisoners’ dilemma, coordination games, and battle of sexes – every efficient outcome is fully implementable in U-SPNE. Next, we investigate a Bertrand delegation game. After pointing out that price setting behaviors derived by existing notion of “implementability with mutually rational players”are hard to justify from the standard game theory view, we show that the efficient outcome is fully implementable in U-SPNE.In Farsighted Stable Sets in Hotelling’s Location Games, we apply Farsighted Stable Set(FSS) to Hotelling’s linear and circular location games. It is shown that there always exists an FSS which consists of location profiles yielding equal payoff to all players. While this FSS is unique when the number of players is two, uniqueness no longer holds for both models when the number of players is at least three. We prove the existence of other types of FSSsand provide possible interpretations from the viewpoint of players’ bargaining power.
Essays on coordination and financial markets
Creators: name: Galunic, Nicholas B.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation is concerned with microeconomic models of equilibrium pricing in financial markets of varying organizational scope.  The first two chapters are based on game-theoretic models characterized by a coordination problem.  I begin at the industry level in Chapter 2 where I solve the chicken-or-the-egg problem of platform pricing.  I show that the elasticity of demand is greater for the more valued side and hence a monopolist will charge that side a lower price. These results have implications on how exchanges admit traders and apply to more general two-sided markets. My findings are supported by experimental tests. Chapter 3 examines regulatory efficacy in manipulating a currency market with a peg.  I solve for equilibrium speculator conduct and central bank intervention policy where the speculator population is discrete. Sudden equilibrium price collapses are related explicitly to fundamentals. The main findings are again supported by experimental tests. In the final chapter, I study a market where strategic behavior is set aside and market participants are instead assumed to be perfect delta hedgers who immediately exploit arbitrage opportunities.  I numerically estimate the equilibrium price of an exotic option in such a market.
Intercalary plate dynamics in Peridiniopsidaceae (Peridiniales) observed in the tiny dinophyte Parvodinium cf. inconspicuum
Creators: name: Zhu, Binbin
name: Stark, Marina
name: Kretschmann, Juliane
name: Gottschling, Marc
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The epitheca of Parvodinium is predominantly comprised of four apical, two intercalary and seven precingular plates, but deviations from this general pattern are also known for particular species. Parvodinium inconspicuum, originally described from the Pacific, is a frequently encountered species also in Europe, although morphological traits that characterise it remain elusive at present. We collected plankton material in the Czech Republic, established monoclonal strains of these dinophytes and studied the morphology using bright field and fluorescence light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. We further obtained rRNA gene sequence data to embed them in molecular phylogenetics. The strains under investigation are clearly elements of the Peridiniopsidaceae and showed little or no divergence among each other and to strains Buçaco and UTEX2255. Many cells of the new strains showed the regular epithecal tabulation of Parvodinium, but a considerable number of cells had a single intercalary plate in a symmetrical arrangement. We discuss the taxonomic identity of P. inconspicuum, to which the new accessions are assigned tentatively. The epithecal plate configuration of Parvodinium appears evolutionarily very dynamic, increasingly revealing the morphological heterogeneity of this taxon as research proceeds.
Chionelasmatidae Buckeridge 1983
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Chionelasmatidae

description: †FAMILY CHIONELASMATIDAE BUCKERIDGE, 1983
Diagnosis: Shell six plated, with single rostrum, carina, paired carinomarginals and rostromarginals. Shell with up to several rows of imbricating plates at base; imbricating plates including two pairs of dedicated latera. Sheath formed by rostrum, carina and carinomarginals only; rostromarginals do not enter sheath. Basis thin, calcareous.
† Chionelasmus Pilsbry, 1911 (Eocene–Recent) (two species)
Eochionelasmus Yamaguchi, 1990 (three species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 834, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Congolius robustus
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Congolius
Congolius robustus

description: Congolius robustus (Laurent, 1979)
Fig. 7E–F.
Area: All.
Season/survey: Wet (May 2018, Nov 2018), dry (Aug 2019, Jul 2020).
Material: CSB:Herp: RNBK 002, 009, 040, 050, 057, 061, 062, 067, 075, 081, 082, 096, 105, 111, 130, 137, 157, 215, 257, 414, 434, 445, 446, 466, 514, 519, 520, 532, 533, 543, 549, 550–552, 584, 606, 629, 679, 680, 698–700, 722, 730, 839–841; IVB-H-CD 18095, 18117– 18121, 18143, 18255, 18256, 18299, 18301–18305, 18364; NMP-P6 V 76086/1–9, 76087/1–3.
Comments: This is a little-known species, but it is quite common in Kokolopori. It is abundant in flooded primary forests or along streams, and also in disturbed semi-open habitats. It was commonly found in communities with Hyperolius phantasticus and H. cf. cinnamomeoventris, and/or H. cf. platyceps, especially in farmbush along streams at forest edges. Most specimens were found perched on vegetation 1.5– 2 m high, but some specimens were observed higher up on shrubs or trees. Most males were found during calling activity, although they were easily disturbed and stopped calling. The Robust Congo Frog is sexually dichromatic with males in yellowish to brown tones and usually dark marbling, whereas females are reddish-brown with orange distal and ventral parts of the limbs (especially tips of digits and webbings). This species was already reported from Kokolopori by Schiøtz (2006).
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
Da Fonte Timavi a [T]Ragurio (Tabula Peutingeriana, segm.ta 3A5-5A3). Questioni irrisolte di antica cartografia e viabilità
Creators: name: Salvador, Silvano
Publisher: name: Knowledge Commons
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cartography

description: From Fonte Timavi to [T]Ragurio (Tabula Peutingeriana, segm.ta 3A5-5A3). Unresolved issues of ancient cartography and roads
Caloria indica
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Facelinidae
Caloria
Caloria indica

description: Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896)
(Figure 34 D–E)
Material examined. Ten specimens. MB28-004534, ZSC, 14 May 2012, 22m, 10mm; MB28-004581, ZRP, 19 Jun. 2012, 1m, 20mm, collected by A. Roseblum; MB28-004583, ZRP, 20 Jun. 2012, 1m, 14mm; MB28-004585, ZRP, 20 Jun. 2012, 1m, 29mm; MB28-0 0 4690, ZGWS, 25 Jun. 2013, 20m, 12mm. MHN-YT1175, POA, 0 7 May 2014, 15m, 7mm; MB28-004832, POB, 0 8 May 2014, 18m, 17mm; MB28-0 0 4976 & MB28-004978, 23 Feb. 2015, ZRP, 0.5m, both 7mm; MB28-004994, ZRP, 0 5 May 2015, 0.3m, 12mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs and rocky reefs.
Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro and Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Hawaii, Japan, Australia, Indonesia (Gosliner 1987), Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Christmas Island, Oman, Seychelles (Gosliner et al. 2008), Tanzania, South Africa (Gosliner 1987) and Mozambique.
Remarks. The colour is variable. The dorsum ranged from translucent white to dark orange. The rhinophores in one morphotype have an orange base, yellow middle and orange top and in another, orange base bluish middle and yellow top.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Cryptothylax Laurent and Combaz 1950
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Cryptothylax

description: Cryptothylax Laurent and Combaz, 1950
A large hyperoliid distributed in the western Congo Basin, with one widespread species (C. greshoffii) and one species of a smaller size (C. minutus) with questionable validity (Schiøtz 1999) and known only from its type locality near Lake Tumba, western-central DRC (Laurent 1976b).
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
Smicromyrme Thomson 1870
Creators: name: Matias, Rafael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Smicromyrme

description: Genus Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870
 Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870: 208, ♂, ♀; Bischoff 1921: 556; Invrea 1964: 153; Lelej 1985: 211; Pagliano & Strumia 2007: 83; Lelej & Brothers 2008: 56; Brothers & Lelej 2017: 96, ♂, ♀; Williams et al. 2019: 26, ♀; Pagliano et al. 2020: 187; Okayasu 2020: 8, ♂, ♀.
 Type species. Mutilla rufipes Fabricius, 1787, ♀, by monotypy.
 Diagnosis. FEMALE. Pygidium basally broad (basally widened or parallel sided), laterally carinate, covered with pattern of well marked linear grooves (striae); apex may be smooth. Scutellar scale typically transverse, broader than long (may be small and inconspicuous on some species and subgenera). All species predominantly black, generally with red mesosoma (on some forms black). One or three roundish spots of pale silvery to golden pubescence basally on T2, and bands of similar pubescence apically on T2 and complete over T3.
MALE. Felt-line present both on T2 and S2. Mesosoma with no significant white pubescence over pronotum (if present, pubescence sparse, not forming dense band). Metasoma dorsally with all black integument. Segment of subcosta between basal vein and pterostigma 0.7–1.1 × pterostigma length. Wings sub-hyaline to moderately infuscate. Not covered in this paper (see further details in Lelej & Williams 2023).
 Distribution and diversity. The genus Smicromyrme includes hitherto 273 species, 90 of which on the Afrotropical Region, 113 on the Palaearctic Region and 71 on the Oriental Region; at least 90 species are found around the Mediterranean, of which ca. 45 in Europe; in the Iberian Peninsula 13 species were known previous to this paper, six of them only from the male sex and one only from the female sex; three additional subspecies have been described from Iberia (Pagliano & Strumia 2019; Pagliano et al. 2020; Schmid-Egger & Schmidt 2021; Lelej & Williams 2023, Terine & Kumar 2023; Matias 2023b); another species, S. pardoi Suárez, 1953, is mentioned from Spain in Pagliano et al. (2020), but it has been recorded only from the African Spanish enclave of Melilla (Suárez 1953) and does not occur in the Iberian Peninsula. Five subgenera are presently recognized for Palaearctic species: Astomyrme Schwartz, 1984, Eremotilla Lelej, 1985, Erimyrme Lelej, 1985, Rhombotilla Nagy, 1966, and Smicromyrme s.s. (Lelej & Williams 2023).
description: Published as part of Matias, Rafael, 2024, Undescribed diversity in Iberian Mutillidae (Hymenoptera): a new species of Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870 from Portugal, pp. 301-330 in Zootaxa 5446 (3) on pages 303-304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5446.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11101790
Some problems on discrete geometry and combinatorics
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Let K be a convex body in the plane. It is known that K can never be partitioned into seven regions of equal area by three non-concurrent lines. We will be concerned with a partition of K by three non-concurrent lines such that the ratio of the area of smallest region to the area of biggest region is  maximum. We call this an optimal balanced partition at K. We show that the best possible ratio is achieved when K is a triangle and we characterize the optimal balanced partition in this case. We conjecture that the condition holds for optimal balanced partitions of all convex bodies but can only prove a weaker result. In the second part of the thesis, we switch to the zigzag problem. We are given a set of n points in R² and seek the minimum number of line segments required for a polygonal chain (or a simple polygonal chain) to traverse all the points. We show an n/2 + O(n/log{n}) upper bound if  self-intersection is allowed and an n - [n-2/8] upper bound if self-intersection is not allowed. The third part of this thesis is about finding the optimally balanced forward degree sequence of a graph. The final part studies the optimal solutions for some variants of the Towers of Hanoi problem.
Elminoidea Chan & Dreyer & Gale & Glenner & Ewers-Saucedo & Pérez-Losada & Kolbasov & Crandall & Høeg 2021, SUPERFAM. NOV.
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha

description: †SUPERFAMILY ELMINOIDEA SUPERFAM. NOV. (OLIGOCENE–RECENT)
Diagnosis: Six- or four-plated shells with solid parietes, without chitinous laminae or stringers and interlaminate figures; radii solid; basis membranous.
Comment: This superfamily contains only a single family but is created for formal reasons, because the Elminiidae diverge phylogenetically between the Chthamaloidea and the clade consisting of the Coronuloidea + Balanoidea.
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 834, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Novel tumor suppressors in breast development and cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Cancers commonly arise in adult stem cell lineages. The cells that line the milk producing ducts of the breast are produced through proliferation then differentiation of adult stem cells, in response to hormonal signals dependent on gender, puberty and pregnancy. The normal mechanisms that “switch” precursor cells from proliferation to differentiation states in stem cell lineages may protect against cancer by blocking continued cell proliferation. Loss of these tumor suppressor mechanisms may underlie initiation of cancer in breast tissue and adult stem cell lineages other organs prone to cancer.

 We plan to test the hypothesis that a novel tumor suppressor mechanism recently shown to control the switch from proliferation to differentiation in stem cell lineages in a model organism may also be required to stop precursor cell proliferation and allow terminal differentiation of duct cells in the mammalian breast. We will “knock down” the function of two novel mammalian tumor suppressors, called Bgcn and MeiP26/Brat, in mouse mammary gland precursor cells. We will test whether loss of Bgcn and/or MeiP26/Brat leads to an inability of the breast precursor cells to cease proliferation and correctly differentiate when cells are transplanted into the mouse mammary fat pad. If so, we will then test if loss of function of these tumor suppressors leads to mammary gland tumors in mice. The stem cell lineage tumor suppressors we are studying work by a novel mechanism involving translational control, most likely directed by microRNAs, and these have not previously been tested in mammalian cells.

 If our experiments demonstrate that these tumor suppressors block proliferation and turn on differentiation in the breast stem cell lineage, it will open a new field of research. Our proposed research is also innovative in that it takes advantage of recent enabling breakthroughs in isolation, culture and transplantation of breast stem cells in the laboratory of our colleague and collaborator Dr. Roel Nusse. We envision these studies, if successful, having the potential to provide new genetic tests to identify women at risk.
D-brane engineering of surface defects in supersymmetric gauge theories
Creators: name: Zhang, Yi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The subject is investigating the D-brane engineering of the surface defect. First, we investigate  the duality between instanton counting and refined topological string in the presence of surface  defect. We construct a supersymmetric quantum mechanical model with surface operator in five  dimensional SU(r) gauge theory by D-brane engineering. Then we present a conjecture formula  relating the K-theoretic partition function to the refined topological amplitude. Second, we  can use it as a tool to study the knot invariant. Surface operator can be engineered by toric  brane in A-model topological string while A-model topological string with several toric branes  on a conifold can be related to refined HOMFLY polynomial. Then we can explore the refined  HOMFLY polynomial in knot theory with the help of surface operator. The formula of refined  HOMFLY polynomial from physics argument is presented and it agrees with Oblomkov-Shende  conjecture.
Cratena affinis Baba 1949
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Facelinidae
Cratena
Cratena affinis

description: Cratena cf. affinis Baba, 1949
(Figure 34 F)
Material examined. One specimen. MB28-004427, ZRP, 30 Oct. 2011, 1m, 10mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reef.
Occurrences. Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. Japan (Baba 1949), Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.
Remarks. First record for the western Indian Ocean. This specimen is very similar to Cratena affinis, except that it has lines on the dorsum rather than spots. Further investigation and additional material are needed to confirm its identity and geographical range.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168