cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of a fatigue-based asphalt binder purchase specification for airfield asphalt pavements
Creators: name: Shamborovskyy, Rostyslav
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey (PANYNJ) has recently been experiencing a wide range of service lives with their asphalt runways. In particular, PANYNJ are noting pavement lives ranging from 3 to 15+ years, with major distress observed being top down cracking. To help explain the varied degree of fatigue cracking performance, a research study was undertaken to evaluate six different asphalt runways of different fatigue cracking lives.    Airfield cores from PANYNJ were supplied to the Rutgers Asphalt Pavement Laboratory (RAPL) for forensic study. Six runways were cored to evaluate the asphalt binder cracking properties of the different mixtures placed. Each runway resulted in varying degrees of fatigue cracking performance. Therefore, an extensive study was conducted to determine what asphalt binder correlated best to the field performance.     Laboratory binder testing showed that both the Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR) ∆Tc and Double Edge Notched Tension (DENT) Critical Opening Displacement (CTOD) properties correlated to field observations. The Glover-Rowe parameters provided reasonable comparisons to the observed field performance. However, the results from the Linear Amplitude Sweep Test (LAS) conflicted with intermediate PG grade in terms of field observations. Further binder testing showed that “fatigue” properties of extracted and recovered asphalt binders improved with depth and appears to have little aging at depth greater than 1 inch.  The testing program indicated that binder tests were capable of capturing the differences in the observed field performance. Furthermore, the research study refined laboratory PAV conditioning to match field aging, and also proposed test parameters thresholds to be used as asphalt binder purchase “PG-Plus” specification for airfield asphalt pavements.
Valuing our heritage
Creators: name: Schweitzer, Kayla
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This thesis examines museum and non-museum based heritage programming throughout Pennsylvania with the purpose of evaluating how museum and other non-museum based organizations such as non-profits, and arts and historical agencies, use different program design approaches to present, promote, and utilize heritage for the purposes of public and community engagement, tourism, education, and urban redevelopment. This thesis will be achieved through the analysis of selected case studies of heritage programs designed at the local level in the small city of Lancaster, big city level in Philadelphia, and at the state level. The push towards including educational and public heritage programs in museums and other organizations responds to the shrinking funding for the arts and humanities in schools and the push by the American Alliance of Museums for museums to incorporate educational components into every museum activity. A diversity of events and programs allow museums and organizations to showcase and commemorate heritage while being able to reach different learning styles and different age groups. In the selected case studies, heritage programs touch on aspects of community engagement, creative placemaking, cultural identity and diversity, collaboration with stakeholders, heritage tourism, state education standards, and accessibility. This thesis showcases the importance of various programming approaches in the aid of celebrating, sustaining, and reinforcing our heritage.
Pianotap
Creators: name: Shah, Ankit
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis, we study authentication on mobile devices by performing simple taps  on the touchscreen. First, we have replicated a previously proposed system Pass-  Chords - a tap based authentication system. Based on the lessons learned, we present  an improved system called Pianotaps, which theoretically provides an orders of mag-  nitude larger password space. We conducted a preliminary informal user study of  PassChords, Pianotaps and PINs towards understanding the bene ts and drawbacks  of these approaches. Our results indicate that Pianotaps provides enhanced security  over shoulder sur ng attacks while also being faster to authenticate with.
An extension of the Bianchi-Egnell stability estimate to Bakry, Gentil, and Ledoux's generalization of the Sobolev inequality to continuous dimensions and applications
Creators: name: Seuffert, Francis
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The main result of this dissertation is an extension of a stability estimate of the Sobolev Inequality established by Bianchi and Egnell in cite{BiEg}. Bianchi and Egnell's Stability Estimate answers the question raised by H. Brezis and E. H. Lieb in cite{BrLi}: ``Is there a natural way to bound $| abla varphi |_2^2 - C_N^2 | varphi |_frac{2N}{N-2}^2$ from below in terms of the `distance' of $varphi$ from the manifold of optimizers in the Sobolev Inequality?'' Establishing stability estimates - also known as quantitative versions of sharp inequalities - of other forms of the Sobolev Inequality, as well as other inequalities, is an active topic. See cite{CiFu}, cite{DoTo}, and cite{FiMa}, for stability estimates involving Sobolev inequalities and cite{CaFi}, cite{DoTo}, and cite{FuMa} for stability estimates on other inequalities. In this dissertation, we extend Bianchi and Egnell's Stability Estimate to a Sobolev Inequality for ``continuous dimensions.'' Bakry, Gentil, and Ledoux have recently proved a sharp extension of the Sobolev Inequality for functions on $mathbb{R}_+ imes mathbb{R}^n$, which can be considered as an extension to ``continuous dimensions.'' V. H. Nguyen determined all cases of equality. The dissertation extends the Bianchi-Egnell stability analysis for the Sobolev Inequality to this ``continuous dimensional'' generalization.    The secondary result of this dissertation is a sketch of the proof of an extension of a stability estimate of a single case of a sharp Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality to a whole family of Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities, whose sharp constants and extremals were calculated by Del Pino and Dolbeault in cite{DeDo}. The original stability estimate for the Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality was stated and proved by E. Carlen and A. Figalli in cite{CaFi}. The proof for its extension to the entire class of sharp Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities of Del Pino and Dolbeault is a direct application of the extension of the Bianchi-Egnell Stability Estimate to Bakry, Gentil, and Ledoux's extension of the Sobolev Inequality to continuous dimensions.
Additional file 1: of How is the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) used in the global health community? Results of a mixed-methods LiST user study
Creators: name: Stegmuller, Angela
name: Self, Andrew
name: Litvin, Kate
name: Roberton, Timothy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: LiST User Questionnaire. (PDF 139 kb)
Amphiura (Amphiura) pusilla Farquhar 1897
Creators: name: Mills, V. Sadie
name: O'Hara, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Ophiurida
Amphiuridae
Amphiura
Amphiura pusilla

description: Amphiura (Amphiura) pusilla Farquhar, 1897
Amphiura pusilla Farquhar, 1898: 191, pl. 14(1–3).—Clark, H.L., 1915a: 235.—Mortensen, 1924: 152–153, fig. 26(1–2).—Fell, 1958: 27.—McKnight, 1993b: 194, 199.
Monamphiura pusilla.—McKnight, 1967a: 311.
Material Examined. Bay of Islands. KAH0907/195, NIWA 77877 (1).
Diagnosis. Scaled dorsally and ventrally. Oral shield with rounded margins. 5–6 bluntly pointed arm spines, reducing to 4 then 3 distally, as long as an arm segment, except for dorsal-most spine, which is shorter. Single large leaf-like tentacle scale.
Description. See Mortensen (1924).
Distribution. New Zealand (9–140 m).
description: Published as part of Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, pp. 401-444 in Zootaxa 3613 (5) on pages 415-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/222703
Identification of overcomplete dictionaries and their application in distributed classification problems
Creators: name: Shakeri, Zahra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The work presented in this thesis aims to study the conditions essential for reliable dictionary recovery based on the maximal response criterion and exploit the application of dictionary learning in classification of distributed data.       The first part of this thesis revisits the problem of recovery of an overcomplete dictionary in a local neighborhood from training samples using the so-called maximal response criterion. While it is known in the literature that the maximal response criterion can be used for asymptotic exact recovery of a dictionary in a local neighborhood, those results do not allow for linear (in the ambient dimension) scaling of sparsity levels in signal representations. The first contribution in this work is introducing a new condition for the sparse representation of signals and leveraging a new proof technique to establish that maximal response criterion can in fact handle linear sparsity (modulo a logarithmic factor) of signal representations. While the focus of this work is on asymptotic exact recovery, the same ideas can be used in a straightforward manner to strengthen the original maximal response criterion-based results involving noisy observations and finite number of training samples.     The second part of this thesis addresses the problem of collaborative training of nonlinear classifiers using big, distributed training data. The proposed supervised learning strategy corresponds to data-driven joint learning of a nonlinear transformation that maps the (training) data to a higher-dimensional feature space and a ridge regression based linear classifier in the feature space. The key aspect of this work, which distinguishes it from related prior work, is that it assumes:   1. The training data are distributed across a number of interconnected sites.  2. Sizes of the local training data as well as privacy concerns prohibit exchange of individual training samples between sites.  The main contribution is formulation of an algorithm, termed cloud D-KSVD, that reliably, efficiently and collaboratively learns both the nonlinear map and the linear classifier under these constraints. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of cloud D-KSVD, a number of numerical experiments on the MNIST dataset are also reported.
Amphiura (Amphiura) rosea Farquhar 1894
Creators: name: Mills, V. Sadie
name: O'Hara, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Ophiurida
Amphiuridae
Amphiura
Amphiura rosea

description: Amphiura (Amphiura) rosea Farquhar, 1894
Amphiura rosea Farquhar, 1894: 109 –111, pl. 9.—Clark, H.L., 1915a: 231.—Mortensen, 1924: 140–142, fig. 20.—Fell, 1952: 15.
Amphiura parva.—Clark, H.L., 1915a: 230, pl. 5(10–12) [Non Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje S, 1828)].
Material Examined. Bay of Islands. KAH0907/226, NIWA 58430 (1).
Diagnosis. Disc scaled dorsally and ventrally. Oral shield variable, but about as wide as long. Five sharp pointed arm spines, reducing to 4 then 3 spines distally. Two tentacle scales throughout arm, though sometimes 1 on proximal pores. Reddish-pink tinge to plates.
Description. See Mortensen (1924).
Distribution. New Zealand (0–252 m).
description: Published as part of Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, pp. 401-444 in Zootaxa 3613 (5) on page 416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/222703
Omocerus bolivianus
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Omocerus
Omocerus bolivianus

description: Omocerus bolivianus (Boheman, 1857) stat. restit.
Tauroma boliviana Boheman, 1857: 20 (original description).
Type locality. ‘Bolivia’.
Type material examined. SYNTYPES: ♀, pinned, ‘ Bolivia [w, hw, cb] || Chevrol. [w, p, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS- JLKB | 000022424 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS); ♀, pinned, ‘ E. Coll | Chevt. [w, p, cb] || Tauroma | Boliviana | (Chv) Bhn | Bolivia [w, hw by Chevrolat, s] || 67·56 [w, p, s]’ (BMNH).
Remarks. BOHEMAN (1857) described Tauroma boliviana from unknown number of specimens and stated ‘Dom. Chevrolat. Mus. Holm.’ as type depository. Latter on, he indicated this taxon as present in his collection (BOHEMAN 1862). I have examined two specimens coming from the collection of Chevrolat, one retained by Boheman and the other purchased by Hamlet Clark. I consider them as syntypes as both agree with the primary description. SPAETH (1931a) synonymized Omocerus bolivianus with O. reichei Boheman, 1850 assuming that the later is rather variable species and O. bolivianus is only its form.
BOHEMAN (1850) used at least three specimens for description of O. reichei as he mentioned three type localities. BOROWIEC (1999a) designated lectotype from the only specimen retained by Boheman from Colombia. I have compared this lectotype to syntypes of O. bolivianus and in my opinion the two taxa are distinct. Omocerus bolivianus has distinctly coarser punctate elytra and punctures with deeper fovea, the postscutellar hump is more prominent and wider, laterally with deeper impressions, and longer humeral projections than O. reichei. Due to the coarser and deeper punctation the elytra of O. bolivianus appears less regular while O. reichei has elytra smooth and surface between punctures regular and smooth. Therefore I restore the species status of O. bolivianus.
Distribution. Bolivia: Santa Cruz (BOHEMAN 1850; BOROWIEC 1996, 2009c).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 338, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Amphiura (Amphiura) spinipes Mortensen 1924
Creators: name: Mills, V. Sadie
name: O'Hara, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Ophiurida
Amphiuridae
Amphiura
Amphiura spinipes

description: Amphiura (Amphiura) spinipes Mortensen, 1924
Amphiura spinipes Mortensen, 1924: 134 –136, fig. 15b, 16.—Mortensen, 1936: 267.—Fell, 1952: 15.
Material Examined. Otago. TAN1108/117, NIWA 77768 (2).
Diagnosis. Disc finely scaled dorsally and ventrally. Six, rarely 7 arm spines, reducing to 5 by mid-arm. Ventral-most arm spine elongated, slender and downward projecting on mid arm segments. Single, large, leaf-like tentacle scale.
Description. See Mortensen (1924).
Distribution. New Zealand (22–1378 m).
Remarks. See A mphiura magellanica.
description: Published as part of Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, pp. 401-444 in Zootaxa 3613 (5) on page 416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/222703
Dyscolus famelicus Moret 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Moret, Pierre
name: Murienne, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dyscolus
Dyscolus famelicus

description: Dyscolus famelicus Moret sp. nov.
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Figs 27–28
Etymology
Latin adjective meaning ‘scrawny, gaunt’, in allusion to the narrow and slender body of this species.
Type material
Holotype
ECUADOR • ♂; Napo Province, East of Papallacta–Guango Lodge, Waypoint 40; 0°22′42.6″ S, 78°4′26.6″ W; 2708 m a.s.l.; 24 Oct. 2015; P. Moret leg.; QCAZ.
Paratypes (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀)
ECUADOR • 1 ♂; same collection data as for holotype; MNHN • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; CPM • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; COI voucher PM040-02, BOLD sequence SUM184-18; CPM.
Diagnostic description
Habitus: Fig. 27. Wingless. Body length: 9.6–10.5 mm. Elytra brownish, disc of the pronotum brownish black, margins of the pronotum brownish as the elytra, head piceous black; femora brownish, tibiae, tarsi, mouthparts and antennae reddish brown. Elytral microsculpture isodiametric. Head narrow with bulging eyes, frons with two foveae. Pronotum elongate, as wide as long, constricted basally; lateroapical lobes reduced; hind angles laterally prominent, broadly rounded; two pairs of lateral setae. Elytra elongate, ovoid, with effaced humeri and no hint of subapical sinuation; striae shallow, broken into dashes over elytral disc; intervals flat; third interval without discal setae. Last visible abdominal ventrite with one pair (♂) or two pairs (♀) of setae along its apical margin. Legs and antennae elongate. Male genitalia: Fig. 28. Median lobe forming an obtuse angle after basal third (in lateral view), apex short, denticulate and bent downward in lateral view; endophallus without sclerotized structure. Female genitalia: unstudied.
Comparisons
The slender, elongate body form, the dashed elytral setae and the hooked apex of the aedeagus separate D. famelicus Moret sp. nov. from any other species having an asetose third elytral interval. Our molecular analysis (Fig. 2) places this species close to D. gobbii Moret sp. nov. which lives in the páramo and has a very different external morphology, but the bootstrap support for this relationship is weak.
Habitat
Upper montane forest on the Eastern slope of the Andes, at around 2700 m a.s.l., collected above ground at the beginning of the night, on mossy trunks and on epiphytes.
Geographic distribution
Only known from the type locality in Northern Ecuador, probably microendemic.
description: Published as part of Moret, Pierre & Murienne, Jérôme, 2020, Integrative taxonomy of the genus Dyscolus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Platynini) in Ecuadorian Andes, pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 646 on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.646, http://zenodo.org/record/3829682
MOESM1 of Malaria surveys using rapid diagnostic tests and validation of results using post hoc quantification of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2
Creators: name: Plucinski, Mateusz
name: Dimbu, Rafael
name: Candrinho, Baltazar
name: Colborn, James
name: Badiane, Aida
name: Ndiaye, Daouda
name: Mace, Kimberly
name: Chang, Michelle
name: Lemoine, Jean
name: Halsey, Eric
name: Barnwell, John
name: Venkatachalam Udhayakumar
name: Aidoo, Michael
name: Rogier, Eric
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Point estimates and 95% confidence intervals for logistic dose-response model fit to data on rapid diagnostic test positivity as a function of HRP2 concentration in six field surveys
Amemboa cristata J. Polhemus & Andersen 1984
Creators: name: Leng, Zhaoqi
name: Zhang, Beichen
name: Jin, Zezhong
name: Ye, Zhen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Amemboa
Amemboa cristata

description: Amemboa cristata J. Polhemus & Andersen, 1984
Figs 2 E, 3 D, 6 E, 7 D, 8 D, 9 D, 10 D, 11 D, 12 E, 18
Material examined.
3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ (apterous), Thailand, Mae Hong Son Province, Pai, Thung Yao, Pam Bok Waterfall; 19 ° 19 ' 14.5 " N, 98 ° 24 ' 18.6 " E; 549 m a. s. l.; 26 Aug. 2018; Zhen Ye and Juan-juan Yuan leg. (NKUM).
Diagnosis.
Color pattern as shown in Figs 2 E, 3 D, 12 E. Males: profemur moderately incrassate (Fig. 6 E); ventral side of the profemur with one elongate crest of dark setae on apical 1 / 2 and an additional elongate crest of dark setae on basal 1 / 2 (Fig. 6 E); protibia slightly curved and with a tumescence on basal 1 / 3 (Fig. 6 E); abdominal segment VIII relatively long (Fig. 7 D); pygophore posteriorly with a bifid median process and a pair of strongly produced lateral processes in ventral view (Figs 8 D, 9 D); median process of pygophore relatively narrow in lateral view (Figs 10 D, 11 D); lateral arm of proctiger relatively curved and slender in ventral view (Fig. 8 D), without subapical process in lateral view (Fig. 10 D)
Comparative notes.
Amemboa cristata is most similar to A. incurvata; see comparative notes in Polhemus and Andersen (1984)
Distribution.
China: Yunnan (Zettel et al. 2007). Thailand; Vietnam; Peninsular Malaysia (Polhemus and Andersen 1984; Zettel and Chen 1996).
Remarks.
Zettel et al. (2007) first reported the distribution of A. cristata in Xi-shuang-ban-na, Yunnan. In this study, all the examined specimens and those used in the Figures are from Thailand.
description: Published as part of Leng, Zhaoqi, Zhang, Beichen, Jin, Zezhong & Ye, Zhen, 2024, Taxonomic review of Amemboa Esaki, 1925 from China, with description of a new species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerridae), pp. 1-28 in ZooKeys 1210 on pages 1-28, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1210.125611
Teacher learning about student mathematical reasoning in a technololgy enhanced, collaborative course environment
Creators: name: Sigley, Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In recent years knowledge required for effective mathematics teaching has become more defined. A key area is the importance of teachers’ attending to student reasoning (e.g., Hiebert et al., 1997). There is increasing evidence that students are capable of constructing “proof-like” forms of reasoning to justify their solutions to tasks (e.g., Maher & Martino, 1996). These and other findings have been influential in shaping national policy by developing Standards for Practice, behaviors that students engage in while doing mathematics, and are best taught in the context of meaningful mathematical activity, including collaboration and discourse (Carpenter et al., 1989). Consequently, there is need for teachers to become aware of the importance of these practices and ways of attending to students mathematical reasoning.  There is extensive work documenting that there is much to be gained by teachers studying episodes of children’s learning (e.g., Fennema, et al., 1996). There is also a substantial body of research in mathematics education and the learning sciences suggesting that creating opportunities for people to engage in generative and constructive ways with video has potential to support teacher learning. Research studies in teacher education suggest that both pre and in-service teachers can learn to recognize student reasoning by engaging in collaborative problem solving and then studying videos of children working on the same task (Maher, 2011).    This study describes a course model, designed to examine teacher shifts in knowledge related to recognizing children’s mathematical reasoning. The design-based research was carried out over five years in a required course for mathematics education graduate students. The course addresses a review and study of literature in mathematics education research and practice, with special attention to collaborative problem solving, student learning, and emphasis on building knowledge within a designed setting. The results showed both pre (PST) and in-service teachers (IST) grew in their ability to recognize children’s reasoning. Analysis of course data provided insight into how teachers developed knowledge about student reasoning and how beliefs shifted in the process. Differences were identified between how PST and IST’s situated their experience. Implications of the study include recommendations for PST courses and PD programs.
Ameles Burmeister 1838
Creators: name: Mohammad, Salwa Kamal
name: Alla, Sohair Mohammad Gad
name: El-Hamouly, Hayam
name: Ehrmann, Reinhard
name: Nasser, Mohamed Gemal El-Den
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Ameles

description: Genus Ameles Burmeister, 1838
Ameles Burmeister, 1838: 531
Parameles Saussure, 1869: 59, 72
description: Published as part of Mohammad, Salwa Kamal, Alla, Sohair Mohammad Gad, El-Hamouly, Hayam, Ehrmann, Reinhard & Nasser, Mohamed Gemal El-Den, 2011, Mantodea of Egypt, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 3044 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.278837
Crustal and upper mantle structure beneath western Tibet using seismic traveltime tomography and receiver functions
Creators: name: Shokoohi Razi, Ayda
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: My research focuses on the crustal and upper mantle structure beneath western Tibet. In order to understand the geodynamic conditions beneath this region I performed tomographic inversions to determine 3D velocity structure. Also, I used Ps receiver functions (RFs) to investigate seismic discontinuities.    I found laterally uniform low seismic velocity in the crust of Tibet, and a clear change in seismic properties at the India-Asia boundary.  Crustal thickness varies from 43 km beneath the Himalayas to 88 km in the northern part of the Lhasa block. The Vp/Vs ratio also varies systematically, with lower values in the Lhasa block and higher values beneath the India - Asia boundary, and south of it. In many locations RFs show evidence for a mid-crustal boundary where speed decreases with depth. However, no evidence of a continuous low velocity zone in the crust is found in tomographic images, suggesting that low velocity bodies detected by RFs are relatively thin. Additional boundaries where speed increases with depth are seen 15 - 25 km above the crust-mantle transition. Again, tomography does not detect a continuous fast layer in the lower crust of western Tibet, suggesting thin discontinuous features. A narrow very fast feature in the uppermost mantle beneath part of the study region is consistent with formerly Indian crustal rock that has converted to eclogite when Indian lithosphere was underthrust beneath the Tibetan Plateau.   Patterns of velocity variation in the upper mantle show close similarity for P and S waves, and thus likely represent differences in mantle rock temperature. A key finding is the absence of a continuous fast anomaly expected if Indian lithosphere was subducting into the mantle beneath Asia. Instead, I found two separate fast anomalies beneath western Tibet. One is nearly vertical, ~100 km across, and circular in cross-section, and is positioned beneath the present day India – Asia boundary. It may be interpreted as a viscous drip formed by Indian lithosphere material. Another is thin and slab-like in shape, and is present further north. Coexistence of these features suggests there was a recent change in the mode of emplacement of Indian mantle lithosphere beneath Tibet.
Distant close ties
Creators: name: Stewart Titus, Marian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Jamaican immigrants in New York City and returned migrants in Jamaica have a wide array of information and communication technologies that they can deploy to communicate with their close ties overseas.  Close ties were self-defined were variously defined as kin and non-kin, and their communication was frequent, intense, and enduring.  Telephonic communication was used most frequently to meet these individuals’ needs for synchronicity, spontaneity, vocal cues, and immediate turn-taking.  Such reliance on the telephone reinforced their communicative goals for relational communication such as phatic, routine conversations, intimate romantic and platonic exchanges, and conflict enactment and resolution.  Jamaican immigrants and non-immigrants alike developed strategies to cope with separation from their close ties by exercising emotional pragmatism and emotional resiliency.  They also engaged in acts of commitment and reciprocity to support their communicative goals, to reaffirm their bonds with each other, to exchange material resources, as they negotiated the distance between them.  As a qualitative thematic analysis, this research focuses on two countries as research sites: the U.S.A. and Jamaica.  It seeks to discover the ways in which Jamaican returned migrants in Jamaica and Jamaican immigrants in New York City communicate with their close ties overseas, and the information and communication technologies they engage to do so.  This study employed communication ecology (Ball-Rokeach, 1998) as its theoretical framework to inform this two-country study of communicative goals and ICT choices.  This qualitative study arranged respondents in pairs and interviewed each partner.  Face-to-face interviews, using purposive snowball samples inform the findings of this project.
Amphiura (Amphiura) tutanekai Baker 1974
Creators: name: Mills, V. Sadie
name: O'Hara, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Ophiurida
Amphiuridae
Amphiura
Amphiura tutanekai

description: Amphiura (Amphiura) tutanekai Baker, 1974
Amphiura (Amphiura) tutanekai Baker, 1974: 261 –263, fig. 9j–o.
Material Examined. West Coast North Island. TAN1105/88, NIWA 77787 (1). TAN1105/104, NIWA 77789 (1). TAN1105/115, NIWA 73742 (1). TAN1105/128, NIWA 73774 (3). TAN1105/137, NIWA 77788 (3).
Diagnosis. Disc scaled dorsally, naked ventrally except for disc margin. 5–6 arm spines, middle 2–3 spinose with hammulate tips. Single tentacle scale over most of arm.
Description. See Baker (1974).
Distribution. northern New Zealand (182–390 m).
description: Published as part of Mills, V. Sadie & O'Hara, Timothy D., 2013, Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand, pp. 401-444 in Zootaxa 3613 (5) on page 416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/222703
Do interpersonal variables moderate outcomes in a randomized depression prevention trial?
Creators: name: Spiro, Carolyn N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST) is an effective depression prevention program for youth with elevated symptoms of depression. The current study investigated interpersonal variables as moderators and predictors of depression prevention program outcomes to answer the important question of for whom these interventions were more or less effective. Youth were randomized to either IPT-AST (N = 95) or Group Counseling (GC) (N = 91), an active and stringent control group led by school counselors, as part of the Depression Prevention Initiative (DPI), the largest study of IPT-AST to date. Adolescent depressive symptoms and global functioning outcomes were measured from baseline through 6-month follow-up. At baseline, adolescents reported on family functioning, as well as conflict and support in three relationships (mother, father, and sibling), which were averaged to examine family conflict and family support. Conflict and support in individual relationships were also examined. As hypothesized, a marginal moderation effect emerged for family conflict on rates of change in depressive symptoms. At low and average levels of conflict, youth in IPT-AST reported significantly greater rates of change than youth in GC. However, the intervention difference dissipated at high levels of conflict. This moderation effect appeared to be driven by father and sibling conflict, which were both significant moderators of change in depressive symptoms. Mother conflict, while not a significant moderator, emerged as a marginal predictor of rates of improvement in depressive symptoms. As baseline mother conflict increased, adolescents across both interventions experienced greater reductions in depressive symptoms. Father support emerged as a marginally significant moderator of global functioning, and father conflict emerged as a significant predictor of global functioning. Effects of support and conflict in each relationship are outlined in detail in the paper, and implications of the findings are discussed. There was some evidence that at low and average levels of conflict, IPT-AST may have unique gains over GC, but at high levels of conflict, a more intensive intervention may be necessary. Further exploration and replication of moderation effects could help move the field forward toward personalized prevention.
The attitudinal consequences of individual versus organizational pay for performance
Creators: name: Son, Eugene
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The present study investigates the relationship between pay for performance (PFP) plans and collective perceptions of organizational commitment. This study proposes a model of the process through which the intensity of individual PFP and organizational PFP affect collective perceptions of clan culture and collective organizational commitment differentially depending on collective perceptions of organizational trust. The proposed mediated moderation model was tested with a sample of 322 organizations and 9677 employees in South Korea. The results did not support the mediated moderation model. The intensity of individual PFP was not significantly related to the clan culture perceptions, and collective perceptions of trust did not moderate the relationship between the intensity of the two PFP plans and clan culture perceptions. Instead, the post-hoc analysis indicated that collective perceptions of clan culture mediate the relationship between the intensity of organizational PFP and collective organizational commitment. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Elucidating mechanisms that drive increased tumorigenesis in rats exposed to alcohol in utero
Creators: name: Stires, Hillary
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Year: 2016

description: Alcohol exposure during gestation increases breast cancer risk in offspring. While the mechanisms that underlie this effect are not fully understood, serum estradiol (E2) is increased in these animals during proestrus, suggesting a role for the estrogen axis. To test this hypothesis, it was necessary to develop a stress-free method of hormone administration that could be used in long-term studies of carcinogen exposure to ovariectomized (OVX) rats. Rats were OVX on post-natal day (PND) 40 then treated with daily peroral E2 with or without P4 by adding hormones to peanut butter. On PND 50 rats were injected with nitrosomethylurea (NMU) to induce mammary tumor development. After 26 weeks, there was no difference in tumor incidence suggesting that E2 alone at a normal physiological level can result in tumor development. These results indicate that this may be a useful method to examine the mechanisms of steroid action in mammary tumorigenesis. In addition to changes in circulating E2, local estrogen signaling may be altered in the mammary gland in response to alcohol in utero. To explore this possibility as well as obtain a global view of changes that occur in the mammary gland transcriptome, pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with alcohol or a control diet during pregnancy. Serum analysis demonstrated an increase in circulating E2 in alcohol-exposed dams during gestation suggesting that alcohol in utero may act as an endocrine disruptor during early development. Mammary glands from PND 2, 10, and 20 offspring were analyzed by RNASeq to look for changes in the estrogen axis. Initial analysis with cummeRbund using a low read depth of 25 million reads demonstrated limited differences between alcohol-exposed rats and controls at PND 2 and PND 10. An analysis of additional samples at PND 20 using qRTPCR suggested that heterogeneity of the gland may prevent differences from being observed using the approach taken here. Further analyses of changes in the transcriptome from PND 2 to 10 suggested an increase in stromal cells over time that was corroborated by changes in mammary gland morphology. Comparisons were made with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), a disease characterized by hormone independent growth similar to this period of mammary gland development. These results suggest that this may be a useful model to study TNBC. Future studies using greater read depth or a larger sample size may uncover differences between alcohol-exposed offspring and controls that were not seen with the present analysis.
Tinotus acerbus Gusarov 2003, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Gusarov, Vladimir I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tinotus
Tinotus acerbus

description: Tinotus acerbus (Casey, 1911a), comb. nov.
(Figs. 1–9)
Acrimea acerba Casey, 1911a: 15.
Acrimea resecta Casey, 1911a: 14, syn. nov.
(Other references are omitted)
Type material. Lectotype of Acrimea acerba (here designated): ♂, “N.[orth] Yakima, Wash.[ington state (Wickham)]”, “ acerba Csy. ”, “TYPE USNM 39737” (red label), “CASEY bequest 1925” (NMNH).
Lectotype of Acrimea resecta (here designated): ♀, “ Coeur d'Alene, IDAHO [Wickham]”, “ Acrimea resecta Csy. ”, “TYPE USNM 39736” (red label), “CASEY bequest 1925” (NMNH).
Additional material. CANADA: British Columbia: ♂, ♀, 4 mi. W Midway, ex river debris, 6.vi.1968 (Campbell & Smetana) (CNCI, SPSU).
Diagnosis. Tinotus acerbus differs from the other Nearctic species of Tinotus in its brown body, the weak and poorly visible microsculpture of its glossy pronotum, the strong asperate punctation of its elytra, its lack of a medial impression on the male head and pronotum, its unmodified male sternum 8, and the shape of its aedeagus (Figs. 5–8), in particular the straight apex of its median lobe (in lateral view (Fig. 7)).
Additionally, Ti. acerbus differs from Ti. morion in its brown body color; from Ti. caviceps in its lack of a medial impression on the male head and pronotum; from Ti. imbricatus in its glossier pronotum, its lack of a medial impression on the male pronotum, and its unmodified male sternum 8; from Ti. parvicornis in its glossier pronotum.
Discussion. The lectotypes of Acri. acerba and Acri. resecta are similar in all external characters. These lectotypes are identical in the shape of their genitalia to the male and female specimens listed above in Material and found in the same locality in British Columbia. Tinotus acerbus is a valid species which was not included in the review of Nearctic Tinotus by Klimaszewski & Pelletier (2002).
Distribution. Tinotus acerbus is known from Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.
description: Published as part of Gusarov, Vladimir I., 2003, Revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synonymic notes, pp. 1-134 in Zootaxa 353 (1) on pages 12-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5019783
Ameles aegyptiaca Werner 1913
Creators: name: Mohammad, Salwa Kamal
name: Alla, Sohair Mohammad Gad
name: El-Hamouly, Hayam
name: Ehrmann, Reinhard
name: Nasser, Mohamed Gemal El-Den
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Ameles
Ameles aegyptiaca

description: Ameles aegyptiaca Werner, 1913
Ameles nana Charpentier, 1825 (cited in Krauss, 1890: 237 –238) Ameles aegyptiaca Werner, 1913: 23
Ameles (Parameles) aegyptiaca Werner, 1913 (cited in Werner, 1928: 39)
Distribution. Egypt.
Material examined. Egyptian Collection (12) specimens: Marsa Matrouh VIII.2008 (F) (ASUC); Wadi Ellega, S. Sinai, 26.VII.1941 (1M); Wadi Terfa, S. Sinai, 14.IV.1940 (1M) (CUC); Cairo 10.I.1937 (F); Wadi Gerrawi 3.III.1935 (F); Wadi hoff, VII.1915 (M); Wadi hoff V.1916 (2F); Wadi Lowga 2.V.1925 (F); Wadi Rishrash 27.III.1935 (M); Wadi Um Mitla, 19.IV.1937 (M); Wadi Um Mitla 21.III.1937 (F) (EESC). International museums: (3) specimens: (Cat.-Nr.359-361) Egypt-N: Wadi Digla, Madi; (29.53N- 31.36E), ca. 33 km SE Cairo, leg. W. G. Ullrich, 19. I. 1996 (N) (SMNK).
description: Published as part of Mohammad, Salwa Kamal, Alla, Sohair Mohammad Gad, El-Hamouly, Hayam, Ehrmann, Reinhard & Nasser, Mohamed Gemal El-Den, 2011, Mantodea of Egypt, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 3044 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.278837
Flip-through effect and bending of PVDF shallow spherical piezo-electrical switches
Creators: name: Szulczewski, Joshua Michael
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Year: 2016

description: The use of piezo-electrical devices is becoming more widespread.  The principle of such devices was discovered to aid in the study of radiation.  The piezo-device was found to give off an electrical charge when it was depressed.  A year later, researchers also realized that not only could this device give off electrical charge, but also, if an electric charge was released into it, that it would turn that electrical charge into mechanical work.     There is also study of a phenomenon called the flip effect.  This effect occurs when a structure is created by fusing two materials together.  For the remainder of this thesis we will use the term bi-material to describe such a structure.  The flip-effect occurs when a solid structure is heated (or freeze) whereby energy is either added or removed. As a result, the structure becomes unstable in its current configuration and transitions to a new stable state.  This happens because there is internal moment within the structure that gives it rigidity.   This thesis looks at the equations that are related to energy for what causes the structure to become unstable and then flip to the other side.  Another aspect that was looked at was how COMSOL models also demonstrate that such a structure can be created.  The energy equations are related to theses COMSOL models.  From the model information a structure is then built from manufactured parts.   When the researcher was looking for materials to experiment piezo-electrical polymers were found.  These polymers are quite new and not widely utilized at present.   They have been primarily used in speaker systems.  Previously, speaker systems were made of quartz, paper, or other types of vibrating materials.  These polymers were selected as a basis for this thesis since they are exceptionally flexible and easy to mold.   Experiments have been conducted with piezo-polymers, with results that are similar to the COMSOL and the derived equations.  It was found that a fairly reliable switch can be created using the polymers; however, there are questions of cost and design constraints that have to be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
MOESM3 of Genome-wide association studies and genomic prediction of breeding values for calving performance and body conformation traits in Holstein cattle
Creators: name: Abo-Ismail, Mohammed
name: Luiz Brito
name: Miller, Stephen
name: Sargolzaei, Mehdi
name: Grossi, Daniela
name: Moore, Steve
name: Plastow, Graham
name: Stothard, Paul
name: Nayeri, Shadi
name: Schenkel, Flavio
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. The first three principal components of genetic co-ancestry based on Illumina BovineHD BeadChip (611,146 SNPs) genotypes for the 4848 bulls in the training population.
Amemboa brevifasciata Miyamoto 1967
Creators: name: Leng, Zhaoqi
name: Zhang, Beichen
name: Jin, Zezhong
name: Ye, Zhen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Amemboa
Amemboa brevifasciata

description: Amemboa brevifasciata Miyamoto, 1967
Figs 2 C, 3 B, 6 B, 7 B, 8 B, 9 B, 10 B, 11 B, 12 C, 18
Material examined.
1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ (apterous), China, Guangxi Province, Lai-bin City, Jin-xiu County; 24 ° 8 ' 40.2 " N, 110 ° 4 ' 49.1 " E; 565 m a. s. l.; 25 Jul. 2019; Zhen Ye leg. (NKUM) • 2 ♂♂ (apterous), China, Guangxi Province, Fang-cheng-gang City, Shang-si County, Shi-wan-da-shan; 21 ° 54 ' 4.0 " N, 107 ° 54 ' 22.0 " E; 300 m a. s. l.; 13 Jul. 2019; Zhen Ye leg. (NKUM).
Diagnosis.
Color pattern as shown in Figs 2 C, 3 B, 12 C. Males: profemur moderately incrassate; ventral side of the profemur with two tufts of dark setae on apical 1 / 2 (Fig. 6 B); protibia slightly curved and with an indistinct tumescence on basal 1 / 3 (Fig. 6 B); abdominal segment VIII relatively short (Fig. 7 B); pygophore posteriorly with a digitate median process in ventral view, without other special modifications (Figs 8 B, 9 B); median process of pygophore relatively broad in lateral view (Figs 10 B, 11 B); lateral arm of proctiger moderately curve and slender in ventral view (Fig. 8 B), with a weakly developed subapical process in lateral view (Fig. 10 B).
Comparative notes.
A. brevifasciata Miyamoto, 1967 is most similar to A. fumi Esaki, 1925, see comparative notes in Polhemus and Andersen (1984).
Distribution.
China: Hainan (Zettel et al. 2007), Guangxi (Fig. 18). Thailand; Vietnam; Peninsular Malaysia; Singapore; Indonesia: Sumatra (Polhemus and Andersen 1984).
Remarks.
This species was previously recorded in Hainan (Zettel et al. 2007), but we have not found it in this
distribution.New record for China
description: Published as part of Leng, Zhaoqi, Zhang, Beichen, Jin, Zezhong & Ye, Zhen, 2024, Taxonomic review of Amemboa Esaki, 1925 from China, with description of a new species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerridae), pp. 1-28 in ZooKeys 1210 on pages 1-28, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1210.125611
OPTIMIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE PROTEIN EXTRACTION METHODS OF A PROMISING PROTEIN SOURCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTEIN ENRICHED COOKIES
Creators: name: RIZWANA BATOOL
name: MADIHA ROHI
name: BAKHTAWAR SALEEM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

One of the serious public health concerns all over the world today is malnutrition, especially in children below the age of five years, which accounts for an estimated 45% of child deaths in low- and middle-income countries. This paper examines the role of semi waste materials such as the seed and peels of pumpkins to combat malnutrition. This study also seeks to uncover the use of waste products such as pumpkin seeds and peels in combating malnutrition. The edible portion of pumpkin seeds consists of an unsaturated fatty acid, protein, minerals, and phenolic compounds; therefore, it adds nutritional value into food designed for development of children. The research also describes how protein isolates can be prepared from pumpkin seeds and peels by using enzymatic extraction, micellization and isoelectric precipitation methods. These isolates were evaluated by gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), proximate analysis of protein cookies. Results obtained showed that enzymatic extraction had the highest protein content (91.96±0.17%) than the other approaches. Proximate composition analysis shows it is promising to use pumpkin seed protein isolate in the production of fortified foods.