cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rhyacophila bifida Kimmins 1953
Creators: name: Mey, Wolfram
name: Malicky, Hans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Rhyacophilidae
Rhyacophila
Rhyacophila bifida

description: Rhyacophila bifida Kimmins 1953
Material: 2 ♂ 1 ♀, Kachin, road to Mt. Inwa Bum, 2358 m, 28.v.2006, leg. S. Naumann (pinned); 2 ♂, Kachin, 10 km north of Pan Wah, 2465 m, 28.ix.2010, leg. S. Naumann (pinned)
description: Published as part of Mey, Wolfram & Malicky, Hans, 2021, Caddisflies from Myanmar: New records and descriptions of new species (Insecta, Trichoptera), pp. 533-565 in Zootaxa 5060 (4) on page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5637984
Acres of diamonds
Creators: name: Mantuano, Nicole
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Russell Herman Conwell was the founder and first President of Temple University. Conwell led the founding of Temple University on a dream of mining the ―Acres of Diamonds in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—making higher education accessible for working adults. His mission and vision for the college was derived entirely from his life experiences as a son of liberal Methodist farmers who, because of his parents‘ humble estate, had to work and attend school from a young age.* Temple University‘s founding was significant because the college was created to serve the needs of the surrounding community and its inhabitants. Temple is unique because it represents a bottom-up philanthropic founding whereby the voice of the student became the primary mode of creation. This research focuses on the period between 1884 and 1973 and examines how Temple University presidents Charles Ezra Beury, Robert Livingston Johnson, Millard E. Gladfelter and Paul R. Anderson each distinctly interpreted and implemented Conwell‘s vision. Furthermore, this study examines how Conwell and his four successors acknowledged and ameliorated the educational needs of Philadelphians through administrative policies and procedures.―Acres of Diamonds: How Have Temple University Presidents Between 1884 and 1973 Realized the Conwellian Vision is significant because it contributes to four areas of academic research: The history of Temple University, the history of the development of the twentieth-century-university, the biographical history of five Temple presidents and institutional history. Temple University has yet to publish an official history. There were three attempts to write the history by Henry E. Wildes, Arthur N. Cook and J. Douglas Perry; however, each manuscript was rejected by the Board of Trustees. This study does not represent a full history of Temple, but does add to the research literature on this specific university and universities in general. This investigation also augments the biographical history of Temple Presidents Conwell, Beury, Johnson, Gladfelter and Anderson. For these reasons, this inquiry is important to the study of the history of education.
Air Lift / Sea Lift, 1956-1957
Creators: name: Voorhees, Tracy S.
name: Smith, Earl B.
name: Carter, Harry
name: Allen, Philip K.
name: Hand, T. Millet
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1956

description: Memorandum and correspondence regarding coordination of air and sea travel of the Hungarian refugees to Camp Kilmer.
Smart neural network optimization
Creators: name: van Blijderveen, Steven
name: Plat, Matthijs
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine learning
subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Convolutional Neural Networks
subject: Quantization
subject: Knowledge Distillation
subject: Optimization

description: Running a computer vision model is an expensive operation. You have invested a lot of resources and time building your model. Now it turns out keeping the lights on might be even more costly. And then you realise this will cost a lot of energy as well. 

During this talk Steven van Blijderveen will explain Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and different types of compression methods available for CNNs, such as quantization and pruning. Quantization refers to the process of reducing the number of bits that represent a number. In the context of neural networks, this means using lower-precision formats to represent weights and activations, which can lead to significant reductions in model size. Pruning is a compression technique that involves eliminating unnecessary connections or weights in a neural network. For example, if we imagine a neural network as a vast web of interconnected neurons, pruning can be likened to trimming off the less important connections, allowing the network to focus on the more significant ones.

Besides explaining about these types of compression, this talk provides information about knowledge distillation, which is a technique where a compact neural network, known as the student, is trained to imitate a larger, more complex network or ensemble of networks, known as the teacher. The student network learns from the output of the teacher network rather than the raw data, enabling it to achieve comparable performance with a fraction of the resources.

The talk also explains about the solution that AIminify has built for the high energy consumption and how this can be used in the world of AI.
ETS Effects on airway development in the primate lung
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: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is defined as the combination of sidestream smoke released from the burning end of a cigarette and that portion of mainstream smoke exhaled by smokers. Health effects associated with exposure to ETS have been clearly demonstrated, but still remain somewhat controversial. In 1993 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) to be a human carcinogen that kills approximately 3,000 nonsmokers a year. Young children are also affected by ETS exposure with increases in the incidence of pneumonia, bronchitis and middle ear infection. For children with asthma, ETS exposure increases the severity and frequency of asthmatic attacks. However, the cause(s) for greater and more adverse health risks associated with ETS exposure in children compared with adults is (are) unknown. We propose to study in our laboratory the effects of exposure to ETS on the maturation and function of the lung airways during fetal and early postnatal development in monkeys. This species is ideal to study due to its high degree of similarity in development and anatomy to that of humans. We have found that exposure to ETS during the fetal and early postnatal periods is associated with a significant increase in airway narrowing, similar to that seen in asthmatic children. Also associated with these hyperactive airways is a dramatic increase in pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNECs), rare epithelial cells lining the lung airways. The function of these cells is unknown; however, they are thought to be important in the lungs’ response to substances that are inhaled; it is our hypothesis that PNECs may be directly responsible for the increased airway reactivity noted in the lungs of asthmatic patients. We propose to test this hypothesis in monkeys using ETS exposures during critical periods of lung growth and development. An important observation from our laboratory has been that rodents exposed to ETS in utero (via the mother) and then directly exposed to ETS after birth, have lungs that are markedly hyperresponsive (i.e., overly reactive to inhaled compounds) compared with rodents exposed only to filtered air. To better extrapolate these findings to humans, we will repeat these studies using monkeys. The changes previously observed in rodents are highly analogous to anatomical changes that precede the development of childhood asthma in humans. Extension of these studies in monkeys affords us the opportunity to examine critical periods of lung development when exposure to ETS may result in increased airway hyperresponsiveness and whether changes in airway PNEC number and/or function might be responsible for these observed changes.
Conostigmus hyalinipennis
Creators: name: Trietsch, Carolyn
name: Mikó, István
name: Ezray, Briana
name: Deans, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megaspilidae
Conostigmus
Conostigmus hyalinipennis

description: Conostigmus hyalinipennis (Ashmead, 1887)
Species Comments and History. Ashmead (1887) described this species from a single female specimen collected in Florida. The specimen was described as having a black body, light brown legs, a large but pale stigma with a long radial vein, filiform antennae with “first two joints rather short, third and following joints much longer” (pg. 98), and hyaline wings (Ashmead, 1887). This is presumably the characteristic for which the specimen was named, but this feature is common among Conostigmus. Ashmead (1893) later redescribed the species and keyed it out with other Conostigmus, specifying that it was macropterous with the face “closely punctate or shagreened” (pg. 113).
The location and identity of Ashmead’s original specimen are unknown, and the characters given in the original description could apply to several different species. We consider Conostigmus hyalinipennis as a species inquirenda until Ashmead’s original specimen can be located and studied.
description: Published as part of Trietsch, Carolyn, Mikó, István, Ezray, Briana & Deans, Andrew R., 2020, A Taxonomic Revision of Nearctic Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea: Megaspilidae), pp. 1-155 in Zootaxa 4792 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4792.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3895976
Savoring the first byte
Creators: name: Macaluso, Rosemarie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: PurposeThis case study sought to investigate the structure, pedagogy and culture of an introductory-level, high school computer science class and to examine the experiences of the girls and boys in the class to understand why so few girls enroll in the advancedcomputer science classes.Research QuestionsWhat factors can help explain why so few girls enroll in the advanced computer science classes in high school?a) How do the existing structure, pedagogy and culture of the entry-level computer science class encourage or discourage girls’ and boys’ interest, enrollment andpersistence in the advanced computer science classes?b) How do girls and boys perceive their experiences in the entry-level computerscience class?c) What kinds of opportunities occur in the entry-level computer science class to foster the construction of the identity of a computer scientist for girls and boys?d) How do perceptions of Computer Science as a discipline influence high school girls’ interest and enrollment in advanced computer science classes? MethodologyThis qualitative study utilized surveys, classroom observations, individual and focus group interviews and document collection. Four students, two girls and two boys, two teachers and two guidance counselors were chosen to participate. Interview transcripts and documents were coded to discover patterns, grouped into general categories and later combined into narrower themes and perspectives. Validityprocedures included member checking, use of participants’ words, triangulation and researcher reflexivity. FindingsFemale students often enter the introductory computer science classes with weaker computer skills and less involvement with computers than their male peers.Opportunities to manage their learning environment by working at their own pace, collaborating and focusing on project topics and features that were meaningful to them proved to be a successful combination for the students in the introductory computer science class. Additionally, this research study yielded the discovery of institutional factors that influence the gender imbalance in computer science classes: course scheduling practices and prerequisites, teacher beliefs and attitudes, students’ prior experience and knowledge of computers, transition from middle school to high school computer science classes and computer-related opportunities outside the classroom.Significance of StudyUnderstanding the ways that girls and boys experience high school computer science classes can help schools provide a positive classroom experience for all students and redistribute the power of important social, cultural and academic resources. Providing an opportunity for high school students to share their perceptions, successes, failures and recommendations can serve as a catalyst for school improvement and promote the futures of girls and boys in technology.
Conostigmus inermis
Creators: name: Trietsch, Carolyn
name: Mikó, István
name: Ezray, Briana
name: Deans, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megaspilidae
Conostigmus
Conostigmus inermis

description: Conostigmus inermis (Kieffer, 1906)
Species Comments and History. Kieffer (1906) described this species from a male specimen or specimens collected in San Mateo, California. The original description relies mostly on coloration, microsculpture and antennal characters, but specifies “kopf glänzend, fein chagriniert, ohne Längsfurche am Scheitel” (Kieffer, 1906, pg. 259), which we interpret as the absence of the preoccipital furrow. These characters are repeated for the most part in Kieffer’s later redescription of the species (1914).
The location of Kieffer’s type material is unknown, and the characters given in the original description could apply to many different species of Conostigmus. We consider Conostigmus inermis as a species inquirenda.
description: Published as part of Trietsch, Carolyn, Mikó, István, Ezray, Briana & Deans, Andrew R., 2020, A Taxonomic Revision of Nearctic Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea: Megaspilidae), pp. 1-155 in Zootaxa 4792 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4792.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3895976
Rhyacophila bidens Kimmins 1953
Creators: name: Mey, Wolfram
name: Malicky, Hans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Rhyacophilidae
Rhyacophila
Rhyacophila bidens

description: Rhyacophila bidens Kimmins 1953
Material: 6 ♂, Kachin, 40 km north of Kanphant, 3 river junction, 2450 m, 3.x. 2010 m, leg. S. Naumann (2 ♂ pinned); 2 ♂ 1 ♀, Kachin, 10 km north of Pan Wah, 2465 m, 28.ix.2010, leg. S. Naumann (pinned)
description: Published as part of Mey, Wolfram & Malicky, Hans, 2021, Caddisflies from Myanmar: New records and descriptions of new species (Insecta, Trichoptera), pp. 533-565 in Zootaxa 5060 (4) on page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5637984
"The dynamic side of life"
Creators: name: Lederer, Lynn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In 1915, Mary Ware Dennett wrote a significant yet little known sex education manual for her two sons entitled The Sex Side of Life, an Explanation for Young People.In it, she defied convention by expressing her radical views about sexuality, first to her own two sons and later to the public. Dennett offered forthright and specific information about the physiological, scientific, moral and emotional aspects of sexuality at a time when sex education and sex educators, if they existed at all, typically attempted to repress or control sexuality, and education about it, rather than to inform.1 Many peopleconsidered Dennett’s book radical because she challenged prevailing Victorian attitudes about sexuality, women and the transfer of culture. Additionally, she dared to express the view that sex was not just for procreation but was pleasurable. Dennett’s manual for her sons was copied and passed along to her son’s friends and to the children of her friends and colleagues. It was published in The Medical Reviewof Reviews in 1918 and thousands of copies were distributed to institutions and individuals worldwide before she was arrested for sending obscenity through the mail in 1929. Fourteen years after publication, her arrest became a cause célèbre. Through narrative inquiry, the study researched Dennett’s transition from the private to the public side of life by looking at her cultural and intellectual heritage, personal life and the historical context of industrial capitalism. Dennett’s unequivocal conviction that all members of a truly democratic society have the right to know wasquite radical in its time. It is still radical today because implicit in that outlook is the belief that with knowledge, ordinary people have the ability and the responsibility tochart their own course in life without control from those on top of the social hierarchy. Freire said, “A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in people, which engages him in their struggle, than by a thousand actions in their favor without thattrust.” Dennett was a true humanist, trusting in the ability of ordinary people. Nearly a century after publication, the lessons that surfaced from Dennett’stransition from the private to the public side of life are still valid. The ability to actively engage with the world is critical for empowerment and active engagement can only occur with complete access to knowledge and information. Sexuality is part of the knowledge and comprehensive information that is necessary to experience The Dynamic Side of Life
The Willingboro NJ school district and the politics of decline
Creators: name: Kearns, Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Boyd (1976; 1982a; 1983b) examined a concept called “decline” as it applies to school districts. From this perspective, as communities lose resources to supporttheir schools, there are inevitably cut backs to programs and personnel. While school districts are supposed to operate as harmonious organizations that make the best, rational decisions (Callahan 1962; Tyack, 1974), the decline of resources makes that difficult, if not impossible. As a school district is forced to make decisions about how to use limited resources, conflicts occur that tear at the fabric of the harmonious, rational school district. While Boyd (1976; 1982; 1983b) identified how political decline can impact a school district, he did not examine how a school district reacts to the politics of decline. Often the causes of decline are larger economic and demographic issuesoutside of the control of the school district (Orfield, 2002). Nonetheless, the school district must cope with these forces and manage the challenges they present in the best way possible. This dissertation examined how a particular school district, Willingboro, New Jersey, navigated the politics of decline during the 1970s. Willingboro was examined using historical research during the decade in question. Many of Boyd’s (1976; 1982; 1983b) original findings were confirmed.Furthermore, race and racial conflict played a role in Willingboro’s decline. Finally, the failure of the board or the district superintendent to manage the conflict prevented the Willingboro school district from navigating the decade of decline without damaging the school district. As a result, the Willingboro of the 1970s was crippled and followed a downward spiral as both a community and school district.
Effects of nicotine on postinfarction cardiac remodeling
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: Cigarette smoking is a potent risk factor for heart disease. Smokers have a 70% excess death rate from blood vessel-related heart diseases. Many factors are likely responsible for this excess death rate including increased incidence of atherosclerosis and thrombosis. However, clinical studies indicate that in patients who smoke, a significant impairment of wounds healing occurs in tissues such as skin, bone, and stomach. Studies performed in our laboratory indicate that exposure of infarcted rats to nicotine results in enlarged hearts with thin infarcted walls (i.e. worsened or aggravated heart remodeling). Aggravated heart remodeling is known to correlate closely with inadequate healing of an infarcted wall. A worsened prognosis for the development of heart failure and death is likely in patients who smoke if aggravated heart remodeling follows a heart attack. The hypothesis to be tested in this proposal is that exposure to nicotine, prior to and up to the time of a heart attack, adversely affects the healing and growth (remodeling) of the heart. We will address the above stated hypothesis in 3 subprojects. We will pursue studies in cell culture (subproject.1), in an animal model exposed to nicotine during a heart attack (2) and in patients that suffer a heart attack and reach UCSD Medical Services and the San Diego VA Hospital (3). The study focuses on several of the undesirable effects of smoking (including second hand smoke and nicotine) as they affect the evolution of patients who have suffered a heart attack. These effects have not been described before and to the extent that they occur in humans they will result in significant additional financial costs and (potentially preventable) loss of life.

 In specific terms, the outcome of the proposed studies should give us insight as to how cigarette smoking (and in particular nicotine) modifies the process of healing and remodeling of the infarcted heart and how it impacts patient recovery and prospects for survival. Aggravated heart remodeling in humans frequently results in the development of heart failure. In the USA, approximately 5 million patients are affected by heart failure, which is the leading cause of hospitalization in Medicare patients and whose annual cost is estimated at 50 billion dollars. Benefits to be gained by the public include the development of alternative treatment strategies to reduce the adverse effects of smoking on the infarcted healing heart. The corroboration of our hypothesis may also be relevant to patients who participate in smoking cessation programs that rely on the use of nicotine. The benefits of understanding the mechanisms by which nicotine affects wound healing and how it may be prevented may also extend and apply to other tissues such as bone, stomach and skin.
Effects of environmental tobacco smoke on pulmonary allergy
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: Epidemiologic studies show that children living in households of smokers are more likely to have allergies, particularly allergic asthma, than children who live in non-smoking environments. We are using a mouse model to study the effect of breathing second-hand or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on induction of allergies. Our previous work using mice has shown that ETS causes increased production of IgE antibodies (which initiate an allergic response) and specific messenger molecules called “cytokines” that are made by certain white blood cells. The effect of this is that ETS increases the IgE production to inhaled allergens, especially in mice that have already been sensitized to a particular allergen. We use a chamber into which ETS is pumped to create an environment similar to that in a smoker's home. Mice spend 6 hours per day in this environment for many weeks. Meanwhile we expose them at intervals to inhalation of antigens to mimic human allergen exposures. The lung function of exposed mice is tested to see if they show an asthmatic response to inhaled allergens after weeks of combined ETS and allergen exposure. The ETS-exposed mice are compared to control mice that breathe ambient air. To better understand the biological pathway leading up to a pulmonary allergic response, we also test for blood IgE and cytokine levels, and study the cells in their lungs.
Rhyacophila chayulpa Schmid 1971
Creators: name: Mey, Wolfram
name: Malicky, Hans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Rhyacophilidae
Rhyacophila
Rhyacophila chayulpa

description: Rhyacophila chayulpa Schmid 1971
Material: 1 ♂, Kachin, 40 km north of Kanphant, 3 river junction, 1970 m, 2.x. 2010 m, leg. S. Naumann (pinned)
description: Published as part of Mey, Wolfram & Malicky, Hans, 2021, Caddisflies from Myanmar: New records and descriptions of new species (Insecta, Trichoptera), pp. 533-565 in Zootaxa 5060 (4) on page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5637984
Smoking and lifestyle risk factors for premenstrual changes
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: Premenstrual symptoms are an important health problem among women of reproductive age. Approximately 50% of women experience premenstrual symptoms at some time in their lives. In this proposed project, we plan to investigate the relationship between smoking and premenstrual symptoms.

 Active and passive smoking pose unique but preventable health risks to women. Exposure to tobacco smoke is known to affect reproductive hormones in women. Since these hormones are likely to play a role in causing premenstrual symptoms, it is plausible that smoking may increase the frequency and severity of symptoms. Some previous studies suggest that smoking may worsen premenstrual symptoms, however, results from other studies do not confirm these findings. Passive smoking has not been investigated as a risk factor for premenstrual symptoms, but may also increase the frequency and severity of symptoms.

 We plan to conduct a study that will examine the effects of active smoking and passive smoke exposure to premenstrual symptoms. Two groups of' women, between the ages of 20 and 39 will be studied to investigate the role of active and passive exposure to smoke and premenstrual symptoms. The first group of women will be recruited from Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in the Sacramento area. These women will be asked to participate in recording their symptoms and other .habits and activities in a daily diary. Daily records over several menstrual cycles are important for accurate diagnosis of premenstrual symptoms We will also conduct a secondary analysis of data previously collected in a study of reproductive health among women in the Semiconductor Health Study (SHS), including six premenstrual symptoms, daily smoking, passive smoke exposure and cotinine levels collected prospectively over a mean of 5 menstrual cycles.

 A well-designed epidemiologic study of the effects of active and passive smoking on PMC will add much to our knowledge of the health consequences of active and passive exposure to smoke in reproductive age women. Additionally, the results will inform current prevention and treatment strategies for premenstrual symptoms.
CONSUMER PROTECTION IN CIVIL LAW: ANALYSIS OF RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS IN COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
Creators: name: Bernadetta Tjandra Wulandari
name: Aini Nurul Iman
name: Irman Syahriar
name: Subito Mohamad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Consumer Protection, Civil Law, Commercial Transactions, Rights and Obligations, Case Study.

description: Abstract

This study aims to analyze consumer protection from the perspective of civil law through the study of the rights and obligations of the parties in commercial transactions in Indonesia. Using the case study method, this study examines a number of court decisions relevant to consumer protection disputes, in order to identify patterns in the application of civil law principles by judicial institutions. The data was obtained through an in-depth review of legal documents, including consumer protection laws, court rulings, and related academic literature, to provide a comprehensive picture of the effectiveness of the legal protections applied. The results of the study show that there are variations in the application of consumer protection law, which is mostly influenced by the judge's interpretation of the principle of substantive justice and the compliance of business actors with laws and regulations. In addition, the study found that there are limitations in regulations that result in legal loopholes, especially in the case of electronic transactions and online services, which have the potential to reduce legal certainty for consumers. The study also revealed that consumers' lack of awareness of their rights leads to an unbalanced bargaining position in commercial transactions. The study concludes that increasing the effectiveness of consumer protection in Indonesian civil law requires strengthening more specific regulations and implementing consistent guidelines to ensure fair and transparent implementation. In addition, increasing consumer education and legal socialization is considered important so that consumers are more proactive in demanding their rights. Thus, this research contributes to the development of consumer protection legal literature in Indonesia, as well as offers practical insights that can be utilized by policymakers, business actors, and judicial institutions to improve consumer protection in commercial transactions in the digital era.
Professional development training in special education
Creators: name: Gunteski, Anne M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) established a role for families in the educational planning process for their children. The concept of a collaborative partnership between families and professionals was strengthened and supported by additional amendments to this act in 1997. Partnerships between families who have children with special needs and the professionals who work with them reveal a complex scenario. Parents may feel that they are to blame for their child‟s issues or simply feel vulnerable from the stress of raising their child, and professionals may feel inadequate or unprepared to meet the needs of the family. Despite legislation and research recognizing the benefits of collaboration as best educational practice in special education, collaborative partnerships are not always achieved. Barriers such as lack of training and knowledge, problematic professional attitudes and behaviors, and lack of experience may contribute to this policy-to-practice gap. Informed by previous research conducted in 2006 and 2007, which utilized the Family-Professional Partnership Scale (Summers, 2005), this dissertation study examined the professional perspective on the kinds of training needed to achieve a collaborative partnership with families of their students with disabilities. This descriptive case study included a sample of the professional staff of a single private special education school. Participants included twelve classroom teachers, six speech therapists, three occupational therapists, and one physical therapist. Three forms of data were collected: surveys with the twenty-two participants, document review, and four focus groups involving all participants. Findings include a review of patterns regarding the need for the staff development program as related to parent-professional partnership, what parent-professional partnership entails, and the benefits, challenges and future trends of staff development programming. As federal policy, research and best practice guidelines continue to support and promote the goal of a collaborative partnership between professionals and parents of children with disabilities; this research which focused on the perspective of professionals provides much-needed data to identify components of staff development programs which are needed to achieve this elusive goal.
First-year white teachers’ constructions of parents of color
Creators: name: Ellis, Kayne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Novice teachers struggle with issues of classroom management, paperwork, andjob security (Anhorn, 2008; Bullough, Knowles, & Crow, 1991; Onafowora, 2004);however, novice teachers also face the difficulty of negotiating identity in their newsettings (Lave & Wenger, 1991). Beginner teachers fill a specific niche in the school,neither being full members of the profession nor complete outsiders. As a result,relationships with colleagues shape the experiences and attitudes of new teachers(Goffman, 1959; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Roehrig, Pressley, & Talotta, 2002). Keeping inmind the socialization process of novice teachers, this yearlong study investigated howWhiteness, or rather the positioning of white practices as the norm (Morrison; 1992), manifested itself in the relationships between first-year white teachers and parents of color. The study investigated the ways that novice public educators interacted with andunderstood parents of color. Through a qualitative methodology, this study unpacked thefirst-year white teacher’s struggle for acceptance into a community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991) while attempting to resist dominant ideologies about parents of color. Coming from the same teacher-preparation programs, the two participants brought expectations, understandings, and constructions of public education (Clark, 1988; Rumelhart, 1980). Initially, both participants shared similar views on the role of theparent in the school system. At the beginning of the study, these two novice teachers both believed that the race of the parent would not matter in their interactions throughout theirfirst year. While these expectations influenced their experiences at the school, it appearedthat one participant fell victim to the dominant ideological beliefs about parents of color,while the other participant demonstrated partial resistance (Mueller, 2006; Tozer, 1993).This study explored the elements that may influence the ability for a first-year white teacher to accept or resist the dominant ideologies surrounding parents of color. Under the current budgetary constraints, it is imperative for educators to reevaluate equity in education. As the United States is experiencing its greatest economicrecession in decades (Robelen, 2009), we must attempt to stave off further inequitable divisions between the races. As it is surely possible that this economic recession will further reinforce white privilege, educators must attempt to lessen the impact on the school system. As explored in the findings of this study, first-year white teachers offer a unique opportunity to battle the latent (and manifest) assumptions about parents of color. Since these beliefs ultimately influence the expectations placed on students of color, all modes of resistance must be encouraged.
Clinical pharmacology of tobacco alkaloids
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: There is an urgent need to develop ways to measure human exposure to specific substances present in tobacco and tobacco smoke. The objective of this project is to develop methods for measuring exposure of smokers to the particulate phase ("tar") of cigarette smoke. Tar has been shown to contain many substances that cause disease, particularly cancer. Better ways to estimate intake of substances in tobacco and tobacco smoke would be useful in studies exploring relationships between exposure to particular toxins and development of disease in both smokers and nonsmokers, in assessing the outcome of programs for treating tobacco addiction, and in assessing the risks of potentially safer or non addictive tobacco products.

 A major goal of this project is to develop methods for measuring concentrations of a substance called solanesol in biologic fluids (blood and urine). Due to its high concentration in and specificity for the particulate phase ("tar") of cigarette smoke, solanesol has been frequently used for determining the amount of tobacco smoke present in the environment. We will evaluate the proposal that measuring concentrations of solanesol in biologic fluids of smokers would be an excellent way to determine their exposure to cigarette tar.

 It is anticipated that the methods developed by this project will be used to measure human exposure to tobacco tar from different types of cigarettes (as might be required by the FDA if it decides to implement a nicotine reduction strategy, which has been proposed to make cigarettes non addictive), to evaluate the health risks of new, potentially safer tobacco based products (such as R. J. Reynold's Eclipse, a product that heats rather than burns tobacco), to evaluate harm reduction in tobacco treatment programs (for example, in programs that seek to reduce health risks by reducing cigarette consumption in smokers who are unable to quit, perhaps in conjunction with nicotine maintenance therapy), and to assess risks of developing tobacco-related diseases in different populations of smokers.
Agapetus atuus Malicky & Chantaramongkol 1992
Creators: name: Mey, Wolfram
name: Malicky, Hans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Glossosomatidae
Agapetus
Agapetus atuus

description: Agapetus atuus Malicky & Chantaramongkol 1992
Material: 1 ♂, east of Putao, 6–16.v.1998, leg. S. Murzin & V. Siniaev, (pinned).
description: Published as part of Mey, Wolfram & Malicky, Hans, 2021, Caddisflies from Myanmar: New records and descriptions of new species (Insecta, Trichoptera), pp. 533-565 in Zootaxa 5060 (4) on page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5637984
Conostigmus integriceps
Creators: name: Trietsch, Carolyn
name: Mikó, István
name: Ezray, Briana
name: Deans, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megaspilidae
Conostigmus
Conostigmus integriceps

description: Conostigmus integriceps (Kieffer, 1906)
Species Comments and History. Kieffer (1906) described this species from a female specimen or specimens collected from San Mateo, California, with the male unknown. Kieffer later transferred the species to the genus Conostigmus (1909).
According to Kieffer (1906), the female of this species was macropterous and had a black body with dark brown antennae and yellowish legs. Kieffer (1906) distinguished this species from the female of C. nevadensis in that it has “Scheitel ohne Längsfurche” (pg. 258), which we interpret as the absence of the postocellar carina, and ”Stirueindruck nicht bis zur Hälfte der Augen reichend” (pg. 258), which could indicate either a short preoccipital furrow (not reaching the ocellar triangle) or a short facial sulcus (not reaching half the length of the compound eye). Kieffer (1914) repeats these characters in the description, and in the key to species distinguishes it from the female of C. schwarzi by the “Das 2. Antennenglied gelraun, länger als das 3., scutellum fein lederartig” (pg. 178).
The characters given in Kieffer’s description could apply to several different species of Conostigmus, and the location of Kieffer’s type specimen or specimen series is unknown. We consider Conostigmus integriceps as a species inquirenda.
description: Published as part of Trietsch, Carolyn, Mikó, István, Ezray, Briana & Deans, Andrew R., 2020, A Taxonomic Revision of Nearctic Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea: Megaspilidae), pp. 1-155 in Zootaxa 4792 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4792.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3895976
Glossosoma heliakreya Schmid 1959
Creators: name: Mey, Wolfram
name: Malicky, Hans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Glossosomatidae
Glossosoma
Glossosoma heliakreya

description: Glossosoma heliakreya Schmid 1959
Material: 3 ♂, Kachin, road to Mt. Inwa Bum, 25–28.v.2006, leg. S. Naumann; 1 ♂, Kachin, 40 km north of Kaphant, 3.x.2010, leg. S. Naumann
description: Published as part of Mey, Wolfram & Malicky, Hans, 2021, Caddisflies from Myanmar: New records and descriptions of new species (Insecta, Trichoptera), pp. 533-565 in Zootaxa 5060 (4) on page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5637984
The micropolitics of educational change experienced by novice public middle school principals
Creators: name: Caruso, Louis F.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Every public school displays its own life, social climate, organizational culture, and subsystems (Iannaccone, 1991). First or second year middle school principals often find themselves contributing to and navigating through one element of these social systems known as the micropolitics of education. Consequently, novice public middle school principals face the challenge of identifying key micropolitical structures and landscapes within their public schools, and have the daunting task of navigating internal micropolitical structures and interactions in relationship to external macropolitical structures, while negotiating educational change (Bacharach & Mundell, 1993; Hargreaves & Goodson, 2006; Willower, 1991). This year-long qualitative study detailed the lived experiences of two suburban novice middle school principals and documented their attempts to identify their micropolitical landscapes through seemingly open approaches, and lead within their environments to negotiate holistic educational change (Blase & Anderson, 1995). However, both novice middle school principals were unprepared to manage a period of decline in public education (Boyd, 1982). The principals relied on closed and conflictive leadership approaches, as typically peripheral macropolitical elements became central actors in their micropolitical landscapes (Marshall, Mitchell & Wirt, 1989). Consequently, formal hierarchies and structural vertical leadership styles were enforced through mandates, rewards and sanctions to ensure efficiency and compliance during implementation of school and district initiatives (Bolman & Deal, 2003; Scribner, Hager, & Warne, 2002). During periods of macropolitical ambiguity and uncertainty, each principal relied on coercive tactics to limit and control teachers‟ social interactions during grade-level team meetings, and access to micropolitical structures, which decided who got what, when and how. As communicative networks became inaccessible, teachers grew apathetic and disengaged from administrative decisions and requests to promote holistic educational change. During current budgetary and economic decline, suburban novice middle school principals need to understand how their decisions impact existing micropolitical social structures. Novice principals also must be much more attuned to macropolitical policies and mandates, and be more sophisticated at conceptual thinking, and transforming the organization through people and teams (Fullan, 2007).
Conostigmus marylandicus
Creators: name: Trietsch, Carolyn
name: Mikó, István
name: Ezray, Briana
name: Deans, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megaspilidae
Conostigmus
Conostigmus marylandicus

description: Conostigmus marylandicus (Ashmead, 1893)
Fig. 30
Species Comments and History. Ashmead (1893) described this species from female specimens collected in Oakland, Maryland. The original description relies mostly on general coloration, microsculpture and antennal characters that are common among Conostigmus and cannot be matched to one species (Ashmead, 1893). Although the original description indicates more than one specimen (Ashmead, 1893), there is only one female specimen present at the USNM. The specimen is point mounted, but the abdomen and right forewing were detached and loose in the unit tray. The detached pieces were glued back onto the point. This damage was not recorded in the catalog by Masner and Muesebeck (1968) and must have occurred since then.
The sole female specimen has foveolate sculpturing on the head and mesosoma, a preoccipital furrow that ends at the anterior ocellus, and an elongate sternaulus, as well as the facial pit, postocellar carina, and axillular carinae present. This combination of features is unique and is not found in any other Nearctic Conostigmus species. Similar species include C. musettiae, C. franzinii, and C. bipunctatus, which all differ in that they lack the foveolate sculpturing. All three species also have the preoccipital furrow ending inside the ocellar triangle but not at the anterior ocellus. It is possible that these differences could be due to intraspecific variation due to size, nutrition, temperature or other factors impacting development. Because the other specimens from the original type series is missing, it is not possible to see what variation occurs between specimens in this species, and because there are no known males, the species cannot be compared to the males of other species.
We consider Conostigmus marylandicus as a species inquirenda.
Material Examined. Lectotype female: USA: Maryland: USNMENT01339742 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Trietsch, Carolyn, Mikó, István, Ezray, Briana & Deans, Andrew R., 2020, A Taxonomic Revision of Nearctic Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea: Megaspilidae), pp. 1-155 in Zootaxa 4792 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4792.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3895976
Vapor-phase organics in ETS: dynamics and exposure
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: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), the smoke to which nonsmokers are exposed when they are in a room or house with smokers, is a complex mixture of chemical vapors and particles. Although the exposures of nonsmokers are much lower than those of smokers, there is some evidence that secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke increases the risks of heart disease, lung cancer, asthma and other diseases. The evidence, however, is often conflicting. For example, some studies indicate an increased risk of lung cancer from ETS exposures while other do not. One important reason for the uncertainties in scientific studies is that estimates of the amount of ETS to which nonsmokers are exposed are not quantitative. This makes it more difficult to determine the relationships between ETS exposure and risk of disease.

 Many of the vapor-phase chemicals in ETS can be removed from air by sticking or “sorbing” to indoor surfaces (e.g., carpet or furnishings) and then be re-emitted back into the air at a later time. This sorption/desorption behavior is often evident from the odor of cigarette smoke in homes long after smoking has ceased. This means that the chemical composition of ETS changes over time, but we know very little about these dynamic changes or how these changes relate to measurements of single compounds used to trace exposures (e.g., measurements of nicotine in air).

 One purpose of this study is to determine how well simple measurements of nicotine and/or a few other chemicals in air contaminated by cigarette smoke provide an estimate of the total exposure (to the entire complex mixture of ETS) for different smoking frequencies (light, medium, heavy) and ventilation rates (low, medium, high). Another purpose is to examine the effectiveness of ventilation in reducing exposures to the entire mixture of ETS, which includes vapors as well as particles. This research should also help improve exposure estimates determined from survey questionnaires by identifying key details to gather (e.g., whether windows are kept open during smoking periods or overnight).