cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3: of Dangguijakyak-san ameliorates memory deficits in ovariectomized mice by upregulating hippocampal estrogen synthesis
Creators: name: Deok-Sang Hwang
name: Namkwon Kim
name: Choi, Jin
name: Kim, Hyo
name: Hocheol Kim
name: Oh, Myung
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Effects of DJS on OVX-induced decrease of astrocyte activation in the mouse hippocampus (PDF 90Â kb)
J.M. Coetzee and the problems of literature
Creators: name: Ogden, Benjamin H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation traces the evolution of J.M. Coetzee’s thinking concerning literary form in the non-fiction he wrote between 1963 and 1984. During the first two decades of his career, Coetzee completed a Master’s thesis on Ford Madox Ford, a doctoral dissertation on Samuel Beckett, and numerous articles on topics ranging from quantitative stylistics, to linguistics, to classical rhetoric. Although Coetzee’s novels have become among the most widely studied contemporary fiction in the world, his earliest writing about literature has been widely ignored. I argue that in neglecting Coetzee’s early work on literary form scholars have neglected much of his most important thinking concerning both the nature of the novel as a literary genre and literary form itself. If Coetzee’s novels are important in large part because of how they rethink the conventions of fiction, then it is critical to understand that his novels are extensions of the thinking he did as a doctoral candidate in linguistics and literature, and as a professor.     This dissertation is also a study of how practicing novelists conceive of fiction writing. Coetzee’s thinking about literary form and the novel genre cannot be properly understood without understanding how practicing writers generally, and Coetzee in particular, understand the craft of fiction writing. A full grasp of Coetzee’s writing is unattainable in isolation from his ideas about writing as a vocation. These ideas, in turn, are inaccessible without an understanding of his early writing on literary form and stylistics. As I study Coetzee’s work on Ford Madox Ford (Chapter One), Samuel Beckett (Chapter Two), and Gerrit Achterberg/Franz Kafka (Chapter Three), I demonstrate how Coetzee’s studies of literature are uniquely shaped by a novelist’s conception of fiction writing.
California Medicaid Research Institute
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: In 2006, the University of California Office of the President designated the California Medicaid Research Institute (CaMRI) as a multi-campus research program to be hosted at UCSF with appointments of senior faculty with expertise in health policy as representatives on a steering committee from each of the participating campuses of UCSF, UCLA, UCSD and UCB. Professor Andrew Bindman at UCSF serves as the Director and Chair of the Steering Committee. The Associate Directors include Professor Claire Brindis, the Interim Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF; Professor Richard Scheffler, Director of the Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare at UCB; Professor Richard Kronick, Chief of the Division of Health Care Sciences at UCSD; and Professor E. Richard Brown, Director of the Center for Health Policy Research at UCLA. In 2008, CaMRI successfully negotiated a multi-year interagency Master Agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which oversees the State’s Medi-Cal Program. Medi-Cal is the 2nd largest and fastest growing component of the California state budget. The Master Agreement provides a mechanism for the University to obtain state and federal matching funds to provide research and analytic expertise to Medi-Cal that is grounded in data and focused on health policy. Negotiated projects are intended to strengthen Medi-Cal’s analytical foundations for policy setting while advancing the University’s research, training, and public service missions. As per the Master Agreement, UC faculty and staff have enhanced access to confidential Medi-Cal data through a HIPAA compliant business associate agreement and they retain the opportunity to publish their results. In this application for MRPI funding, CaMRI proposes to develop capacity at UC to support multi-campus research, training and public service opportunities in collaboration with the California DHCS. Some of the benefits that the University can expect to derive from this MRPI and its partnership with the California DHCS include: (1) the provision of resources and support for attracting and developing faculty experts in health policy, as well as enhanced trans-disciplinary collaborations between faculty across a wide range of departments and schools; (2) opportunities for trainees including students in public health, medical students and residents, and post doctoral fellows to participate in applied research and policy analysis; (3) the enhancement of current and future course offerings in the areas of long term care, managed care, quality management, data management, financing and payment, disability, and program administration; and (4) new research knowledge to seed the development of other state and national endeavors, including national health reform efforts and comparative effectiveness.
MPEC 2024-X199 : 2024 XK7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 XK7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Sehirus luctuosus Mulsant & Rey 1866
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Sehirus
Sehirus luctuosus

description: Sehirus luctuosus Mulsant & Rey, 1866
Material examined (n=1): loc. MC 07. VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria) and Western Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan (Asian part), Kirgizia, Mongolia, Russia (West Siberia), Tadzhikistan, Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Chromosome level assembly and secondary metabolite potential of the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris
Creators: name: Kramer, Glenna
name: Nodwell, Justin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Predicted gene clusters in C. militaris. Predicted gene clusters are labeled, putative natural product class and the predicted length of each enzyme that is part of the putative cluster is given. (DOCX 106Â kb)
CCTV-9’s coverage of the Iraq War and theevolution of English language television news in China
Creators: name: Ning, Jing
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This research aims to find out how China Central Television (CCTV) International (CCTV-9) news programs shaped the presentation of the 2003 Iraq War, specifically how news making processes in China’s English-language TV channel influenced the content of the news.   It examines how the news production team negotiated with its upper management and the Chinese government in producing TV news. By drawing on the visuals from Western news sources such as Reuters, Associated Press Television News (APTN) and CNN and targeting an English-speaking audience, CCTV-9’s presentation of foreign news is quite different from the CCTV domestic channels, all of which are controlled by the Chinese government.   The research methods used in the study include in-depth interviews with the news production team together with textual analysis of the news line-ups and transcripts of news stories and semiotic analysis of promotional spot visuals.    The research finds that the CCTV-9 news team developed concepts of “objectivity” and “balance reporting” different from those of the Western media channels. This research also finds that despite its position in a top-down hierarchy within the CCTV operation, the channel’s news production team sought to achieve both its and the government’s goal of producing news stories which would challenge BBC and CNN. They were, however, able to employ the “tactics” delineated in Michel de Certeau’s resistance model and conceptualized by the researcher as “color adaptation,” based on the processes used in the Chinese English-language newsroom. Thus, it is feasible for the weaker party in the hierarchy to successfully confront the higher power, a task that proved difficult yet not impossible.   From a broader international politics perspective, this dissertation examines CCTV-9 and its subsequent relaunches after the Iraq War in 2003. In conclusion, government control would constrain the English-language channel’s potential to be positioned as a competitor of BBC or CNN. Based on its pioneering example as an instrument of building up China’s “soft power,” the researcher develops a new model of regulated system, referred to as Special Media Zone (SMZ), which guarantees the news channel’s independence from the government interference.
title: Novel Genetic Associations in Anthracycline Cardiomyopathy (ACM) within the Pediatric Population: Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Cox, Ogochukwu M.
name: Parnell, Nicolas
name: Yalavarthi, Pooja
name: Meisner, Joshua K.
name: Lim, Heang
name: Saylor, Kate M.
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: cardiotoxicity
subject: chemotherapy
subject: heart failure
subject: genes
subject: child
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Health Sciences

description: Anthracycline cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a well described complication following anthracycline chemotherapy – which despite this risk, remains ubiquitously used in pediatric oncology, supported by abundant data on efficacy and improved progression-free survival. Currently, there is data suggesting potential genetic drivers for the development of this cardiomyopathy, with a recent increase in ACM associated gene pathways and markers published in the last decade. To analyze the current literature and evidence on genetic markers that drive the development of this cardiomyopathy and highlight potential genetic targets, we will be completing a scoping review. The protocol for conducting this review and disseminating findings is described below.
Il giardino dei sentieri incrociati
Creators: name: Nicosia, Roberto
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This thesis, presenting a critical commentary on a text in Greek, still scarcely known also to the specialists, composed by one of the pivotal figures of the Italian Renaissance and Court literature, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, aims to analyze and contextualize the phenomenon of the classical languages in 15th-16th, in the light of the massive socio-cultural phenomenon of the Greek scholars emigration to the Western world, above all Italy, after the Fall of Constantinople (1453). Organized around four chapters and an Appendix, dedicated this last one to the first Italian translation of the Oration in favour of the Greek Letters, the research moves from a socio-historical and literary reconstruction of the literary production of the Greek émigrés. Considering the widest possible range of sources, textual as well as paratextual (notes in the margins, letters, dedications, early prints, incunabula), chapters II-IV, focuse on specific personalities such as Pietro Bembo and Costantino Lascaris, his first teacher of Greek in Sicily.   I argue that the reconstruction of the young years of the famous noble Venetian Bembo is an unique occasion to closely inspect ways and techniques of a Renaissance pupil and his famous Byzantine teacher, but also the possibility to reconstruct in fieri the ‘personality’ of a Greek scholar, through a close inspection of Bembo’s early letters and, above all, at the mirror of his first book (De Aetna), printed by one of most important press of the Renaissance: Aldus Manutius.
Silba Macquart 1851
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Silba

description: Genus SILBA Macquart
Silba Macquart, 1851: 277. Type species: Silba virescens Macquart, 1851, original designation.. Carpolonchaea Bezzi, 1920: 199. Type species: Lonchaea plumosissima Bezzi, 1919, original designation. Setisquamalonchaea Morge, 1963: 204. Type species: Lonchaea fumosa Egger, 1862, original designation. Vide: MacGowan &
Okamoto (2013).
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Tritomegas bicolor
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Tritomegas
Tritomegas bicolor

description: Tritomegas bicolor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material examined (n=2): loc. BS 03.VI.2020; loc. S2 07. VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco) and Asia
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Nutritional supplements and herbal medicines for women with polycystic ovary syndrome; a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Arentz, Susan
name: Smith, Caroline
name: Abbott, Jason
name: Bensoussan, Alan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: studies excluded following full text review. (DOCX 30 kb)
Computational methods in permutation patterns
Creators: name: Nakamura, Brian Koichi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Given two permutations sigma (of length k) and pi (of length n), the permutation pi is said to contain the pattern sigma if there exists a length k subsequence in pi that is order-isomorphic to sigma. Each such subsequence is called an occurrence of sigma in pi. Over the past few decades, the study of pattern-avoiding permutations has been a very active area of research.    This thesis will consider two types of problems in this area. The first is a variation known as consecutive patterns, where the pattern sigma must occur in consecutive terms of the permutation   to count as an occurrence. The second is a generalization of the classical pattern avoiding problem, where we wish to study permutations with exactly r occurrences of a pattern (for some  fixed non-negative r).
Examining linkages among microfinance participation, domestic violence, and help-seeking social networks in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Murshid, Nadine
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation examines microfinance participation, domestic violence, and help-seeking networks among poor, ever-married women in Bangladesh. A mixed-methods approach is used; data from the nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 200& with a sample of 10,996 women is juxtaposed with data from qualitative interviews with 30 women who access microfinance in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The primary research questions aim to examine the associations between microfinance participation, domestic violence, and help-seeking social networks of women who experience domestic violence. Secondarily, this dissertation aims to provide an understanding of the context in which microfinance participation may be associated with domestic violence and help-seeking social networks using qualitative methods. In this dissertation it is theorized that when a poor married woman in Bangladesh gains access to finance, there may be status inconsistency between her and her husband who compensates for that imbalance by exerting violence. At the same time, membership in microfinance institutions may increase her social networks, which in turn may provide her with a mechanism of help-seeking.  This dissertation applies elements of status inconsistency theory to explore the role of microfinance participation in domestic violence among poor women in Bangladesh, and social network theory to understand the possible effects of increased social networks due to microfinance participation. The findings reveal an interaction effect between microfinance participation and wealth assets that is associated with domestic violence, and an association between employment and help-seeking social networks. The qualitative data suggests that status inconsistency may be higher between couples in which women report having higher wealth assets, which may then threaten the husband who uses violence to exert his status.     In exploring the impact of an economic anti-poverty tool on a social-work problem using sociological lenses, this study adds to the knowledge base of the social sciences, further understanding of the interpersonal and social context of microfinance participation, and generates new hypotheses for future study.
Tritomegas sexmaculatus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Tritomegas
Tritomegas sexmaculatus

description: Tritomegas sexmaculatus (Rambur, 1839)
Material examined (n=1): loc. RG 04. V.17 leg. OP
Distribution: Widespread in Europe and Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Exploring Human-Bear Interactions in Massachusetts and the Implications for Conservation Strategies
Creators: name: Olunusi, Bright
Publisher: name: SCBNA
Year: 2024

description: Human-bear interactions pose challenges in wildlife management, demanding a nuanced understanding of factors driving encounters. Focusing on American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in Massachusetts, this study investigates the different forms of interactions i.e the patterns, concerns, and response strategies. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset spanning 2015 to 2022 from the Massachusetts Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the analysis discerns distinct seasonal and geographic patterns. Summer emerges as the peak season, while Berkshire and Worcester counties surface as hotspots, demanding targeted management. Concerns and depredation cases reveal the shared interest in coexistence, with 87.9% of interactions reporting concerns for human or bear safety. Depredation instances primarily target poultry fowl, underscoring the adaptability of bears to anthropogenic landscapes. In residential and business areas, 80.1% of interactions occur, emphasizing the need for tailored mitigation strategies. Mortality cases highlight health challenges, with disease or injury accounting for 46.1%, prompting a call for monitoring and intervention. Feeding patterns, predominantly on personal property, signify bears' reliance on human-associated food sources, necessitating interventions to manage attractants. Statistical analyses confirm seasonal variations and unveil the influence of climate variables on bear behavior, with temperature emerging as a significant factor. Communication and response strategies showcase adaptability, with phone interactions dominating, and technical advice emerging as the primary response. This study contributes to wildlife management by providing insights into the dynamics of human-bear interactions, offering a foundation for evidence-based conservation strategies in urbanizing environments.
Microbial reduction, precipitation, and mobilization of arsenic
Creators: name: Mumford, Adam C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Anaerobic microbes play a critical role in the biogeochemistry of arsenic. In this  Dissertation, I utilize both classical microbiological techniques and cutting edge  genomics to gain a greater understanding of how arsenic reducing bacteria from both  freshwater aquifers and estuarine sediments interact with As(V) as a terminal electron  acceptor. The novel As(V) reducing Strain MPA-C3 was isolated from arsenic  contaminated estuarine sediments in Hong Kong, and when grown in the presence of  sulfide with As(V) as a terminal electron acceptor, removes arsenic from solution by  precipitating it as alacranite (As8S9). Sequencing of both the 16S rRNA gene as well as  the entire genome of Strain MPA-C3 places it among the Deferribacteres. Strain MPAC3  is more metabolically versatile than any of the described Deferribacteres, and is able  to utilize NO3  -, Se(VI), Se(IV), fumarate, Fe(III) and mixed oxidation state polysulfide as  electron acceptors, and acetate, pyruvate, fructose and benzoate as sources of carbon and  energy. The draft genome of Strain MPA-C3 has allowed for the elucidation of the  diverse pathways this organism uses for the metabolism of carbon sources, as well as  those used for the reduction of both nitrate and sulfur. The role of microbes in the  mobilization of arsenic into groundwater was studied at three sites in New Jersey:  Crosswicks Creek in Upper Freehold, and Six Mile Run and Pike Run along the  iii  Millstone River in Somerset County. At Crosswicks Creek, we determined that microbial  As(V) reduction, driven by inputs of organic carbon, resulted in the mobilization of  arsenic from iron-rich glauconitic sediments into the groundwater. The role of the redox  status of the aquifer was studied by comparing the anoxic subsurface of Six Mile Run  with the oxic subsurface at Pike Run. These two sites were found to have remarkably  similar mineralogy and groundwater chemistry, and we demonstrated that the differing  redox conditions resulted in the development of different microbial communities at each  site. As(V) reducing organisms were found at Six Mile Run by both cultivation based  and molecular methods, while these organisms were absent at Pike Run. These findings  demonstrate that microbial As(V) reduction and mobilization is facilitated by the  reducing conditions present at Six Mile Run, while it is inhibited by the oxidizing  conditions present at Pike Run. Combined, these studies demonstrate how As(V)  reducing microorganisms play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling of arsenic.
Unlocking the Solar System: Introducing the NASA  Planetary Data System (PDS) Web API
Creators: name: loubrieu, thomas
name: Padams, Jordan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A web API now operationally enables users to find the data they need across all archival planetary science data, across nodes and agencies The API, designed in the intuitive RESTful style, transparently exposes the rich PDS4 information model describing the archives to our users.

It offers three key features: resolving product identifiers wherever they are, hierarchically navigating the archives, and filtering data using complex queries.

This project significantly focuses on reaching out to the Planetary Science Community. 

Jupyter Notebooks implementing simple use cases demonstrate the efficiency of the queries and integrates with renowned community tools, Astropy, pywwt, GeoPandas to name a few.

Additionally, a client library further simplifies data access for scientists. The library abstracts away the hassle of URL handling, query syntax or pagination management as well as the complexity of the PDS4 information model. This development is meant to be a collaborative platform where PDS data engineers can meet the expectations of researchers.
Silba adipata McAlpine 1956
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Silba
Silba adipata

description: Silba adipata McAlpine, 1956
Silba adipata McAlpine, 1956: 524.? Holotype. Italy (Lasio: Terracina) (?BMNH). Distribution. AF: South Africa. PA: Canary Islands, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Spain (Mallorca), Syria.
Egyptian localities. Sinai: Ein Hudra, St. Katherine, Wadi El-Arbaein, Wadi Garagneya, Wadi Tubug. Host plants. Fig (Ficus carica L.). Source: MacGowan & Freidberg (2008). Dates of collection. June to August.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Eurygaster austriaca subsp. austriaca
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Eurygaster
Eurygaster austriaca
Eurygaster austriaca austriaca (schrank, 1776)

description: Eurygaster austriaca austriaca (Schrank, 1776)
Material examined (n=190): loc. BQ 24. VI.2020; loc. BR 02.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020 31.X.2020; loc. BS 03. VI.2020; loc. CM 23. VI.2020; loc. LG 25. VI.2020; loc. MC 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020; loc. MS 30. VI.2020; loc. PM 23. VI.2020; loc. PG 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020; loc. RG 04.VI.2020, 01.VII.2020; loc. S1 02.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020; loc. S2 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan (Asian part), Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Design and implementation of MobilityFirst router onthe NetFPGA platform
Creators: name: Mudaliar, Niswarth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: We present the hardware prototype design and evaluation of routers in MobilityFirst,  a Future Internet Architecture. We chose NetFPGA 1G platform to implement the  router. The main task of the router is to perform lookup on MobilityFirst packets which  has a two-level addressing scheme (GUID and NA), each level with flat address space.  We have designed the MF router to get maximum performance for flow based routing.  The forwarding information base of the router has been spread out in Binary CAMs,  Block RAMs and external SRAMs which can be updated online. We have achieved a  throughput as high as 982Mbps per port (in Gigabit Ethernet). We have provided a way  for the router to send updates for missed addresses which allows the host controller to  keep a close watch on the network tra ffic and update the forwarding information base,  online. We allow host controller to cache GNRS lookups in the MF router to allow  automatic flow based NA binding to be done at line-speeds. Our router buff ers the  packets if they fail lookups until the forwarding information base is updated and the  lookup succeeds. This prototype enables us to analyze the performance bottleneck of  MobilityFirst Architecture so that we could continue to improve the architecture and  evaluate the performance simultaneously.
Eurygaster maura
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Eurygaster
Eurygaster maura

description: Eurygaster maura (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material examined (n=624): loc. BQ 01.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020; loc. BR 02.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020; loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020; loc. CM 28.V.2020, 23.VI.2020; loc. LG 03.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020, 31.VIII.2020; loc. MC 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020; loc. MS 04.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020; loc. PM 28. V.2020; loc. PG 01. VII.2020; loc. RG 04.VI.2020, 01.VII.2020, 23.VI.2020; loc. S1 02.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020; loc. S2 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan (Asian part), Sinai, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Turkmenistan).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Silba virescens Macquart 1851
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Silba
Silba virescens

description: Silba virescens Macquart, 1851
Silba virescens Macquart, 1851: 277. Reunion (Type depository unknown).
Lonchaea aristella Becker, 1903: 129. Unspecified type. Egypt (Cairo, Assyut & Luxor) (ZMHB). Distribution. AF: Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania. PA: Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria.
Egyptian localities. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Cairo, Giza. Upper Nile Valley: Assiout, Luxor. Host plants. Sorghum (Sorghum cernuum Willd.). Source: MacGowan & Freidberg (2008). OTHER Plants from which flies were swept. Fig (Ficus carica L.), maize (Zea mays L.), and sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.).
Dates of collection. April to December.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Finding new equilibria
Creators: name: Moore, Brian Freeman
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Year: 2013

description: This dissertation covers the synthesis and characterization of three unique classes of lanthanide materials produced exclusively by the addition of sodium azide (NaN3) into solution based lanthanide reactions. The products were achieved through transmetallation and redox reactions between rare earth chalcogenolate reagents (Lnx(EPh)y), NaN3 and elemental chalcogenides (E = O, S, Se, Te). The products displayed atypical structural and physical properties including; unique coordination geometries, high nuclearities, tunable detonation/deflagration, strong NIR emissions, and unexpected magnetic ordering behaviors.   The introduction of NaN3, Na2O, Cd, elemental Se and Te into Ln (EPh)2 and Ln(EPh)3 pyridine (py) solutions led to the production of (py) 2Na2(EPh)2 and 5 structurally distinct azide encapsulated rare earth clusters; (Py)10Sm6O2(N3)16Na2, (py)8Ln6O2(N3)12(SePh)2, (py)10Ln6O2(Se2) 2(N3)10 (Ln=Er, Ho), and (py)16Sm8Se(O2)Na2(Te2)6(N3)8. Each system was encapsulated by a variety of azide bridging moieties, while exhibiting a [Ln]/[N3] dependent correlation with detonation and deflagration temperatures. ! The inclusion of NaN3 in Ln(SePh)3 pyridine solutions with elemental Se, led to the discovery of the (py)16Ln1&NaSe18(SePh)16; (Ln= Ce, Pr, and Nd). Emission studies of the Nd1& analogue, revealed a 35% quantum efficiency for the 4F3/2 - 4I11/2 transition (10&0 nm emission), and a near solid state emission intensity for the 4F3/2 → 4I15/2 transition (1822 nm emission).   The novel Eu(EPh)4Na2•2DME; (E=S,Se), specimens were synthesized by the combination of Eu(EPh)2 with NaN3 in dimethoxyethane (DME). The europium coordination sphere was solvent free and resembles the coordinations of europium monochalcogenides (EuE). Comparative structural analysis and magnetic susceptibility studies of the Eu3+ product, ((py)6Eu2(μ4-S2)2(OC6F5)2) revealed paramagnetic ordering at low temperature for Eu(EPh)4Na2•2DME; (E=S,Se), while ferrimagnetic ordering was found for ((py)6Eu2(μ4-S2)2(OC6F5)2). All materials exhibited antiferromagnetic ordering above 50 K, while a Curie temperature of 18.0 K was determined for ((py)6Eu2(μ2-S2)2-(OC6F5)2).
Pharmacological disruption of RNA splicing inhibits ovarian cancer growth and synergises with PARP inhibitors
Creators: name: Xu, Yuewei
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: High-grade serous ovarian cancer is the most common and lethal subtype of ovarian cancer with limited therapeutic options. Although PARP inhibitor maintenance therapy has shown considerable clinical benefits in ovarian cancer patients, the emergence of acquired drug resistance is a major challenge. Splicing factors coordinate splicing of pre-mRNAs, and they have been implicated in many biological processes including DNA repair. The splicing factor RBM39, in particular, is a promising cancer target, which can be rapidly depleted using the newly identified molecular glue indisulam. In this thesis, I characterised the role of RBM39 in HGSOC cells and found that RBM39 mediates the adaptive response to PARP inhibitors. Indisulam promotes the recruitment of RBM39 to the DCAF15-associated E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, leading to polyubiquitination and proteasomal degradation of RBM39. In HGSOC cells, loss of RBM39 caused widespread splicing defects and significantly reduced protein expression of many DNA repair genes, leading to growth inhibition and increased sensitivity to PARP inhibition in vitro and in vivo. Indisulam suppressed olaparib-induced activation of the ATM-Chk2 and Chk1 signalling pathways, resulting in higher levels of DNA damage, replication abnormalities, and apoptosis. Using a variety of HGSOC models, I showed that indisulam synergises with multiple PARP inhibitors in a DCAF15-dependent manner regardless of BRCA status. Overall, data from this thesis suggest that depleting RBM39 with indisulam is a promising therapeutic strategy to improve PARP inhibitor response in patients with HGSOC, which may benefit a wide range of patients irrespective of BRCA status.
Computer vision for automated surface evaluation of concrete bridge decks
Creators: name: Prasanna, Prateek
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Year: 2013

description: Structural health monitoring of concrete bridges requires accurate and efficient surface crack detection. Early detection of cracks helps prevent further damage. Safety inspection tests are conducted at regular intervals to assess deterioration. Traditional methods involve detection of cracks by human visual inspection. These methods are costly, inefficient and  labor intensive, especially for long-span bridges. This thesis presents the use of computer vision and pattern recognition techniques in assessment of cracks on a concrete bridge surface. Bridge deck images are first collected using high-resolution cameras mounted on a robot. Statistical inference algorithms are then implemented to build an automated crack detection system. The proposed machine learning method reduces manual effort and enables automatic labeling over large bridge deck areas to quantify size and location for future reference or comparisons. A panoramic camera is used for the purpose of context localization. Additionally, we demonstrate image-stitching to obtain a coherent spatial mosaic of the bridge deck.
Broken windows in the greenhouse
Creators: name: Mizintseva, Svetlana F.
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Year: 2013

description: Large, rapid global sea-level changes challenge the paradigm of stable Late Cretaceous greenhouse climates, even during peak intervals of global warmth. Sequence stratigraphic studies on the New Jersey margin yielded evidence of large and rapid sea-level lowerings in the Santonian to early Campanian. The duration and rate of such fluctuations can only be explained by glacioeustatic change.  Interpretation of deep-sea benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopic records and interregional correlations of sequence stratigraphic records provides evidence for the glacioeustatic origin of Santonian to early Campanian sequences.
The protective effect of a diet rich in fish oil in an amphetamine toxicity model of Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Medvecky, Christopher M.
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Year: 2013

description: Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that damages the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra and their axonal projections to the striatum.  This cell death results in significant motor deficits that include muscular rigidity, resting tremor, and akinesia.  Although there is no known cure for Parkinson’s disease, evidence from epidemiological studies suggests that consumption of fish oil, which is rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), may help to reduce the risk of this debilitating disorder.  Furthermore, research using 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) models of Parkinson’s disease supports this conclusion.  Consequently, this dissertation examined the potential protective effect of fish oil in an amphetamine-toxicity model of Parkinson’s disease.  In Experiment 1, mice were administered a diet rich in either corn oil or fish oil for one week and then were treated with either amphetamine or saline.  After sacrifice &2 hours later, striatal tissue was assayed for neurochemical content using HPLC.  It was determined that fish oil protects against amphetamine-induced depletions of dopamine and its metabolites.  Given the role of oxidative stress in amphetamine toxicity, this protection may be a result of the antioxidant properties of fish oil.  Experiment 2, in addition to successfully replicating this effect, extended the protective effect of fish oil to behavioral and physiological measures.  More specifically, a diet rich in fish oil significantly altered amphetamine’s impact on behaviors including oral dyskinesia, self biting, stereotypy, and backwards walking; it also mitigated amphetamine-induced changes in dermal temperature.  These results suggest that fish oil can moderate the elevated dopaminergic activity caused by amphetamine administration.  Experiment 3 was designed to examine the time course of protection afforded by the fish oil-rich diet, and it was discovered that the protective effect of fish oil develops between 1 and 3 days of consumption.  Experiment 4 was performed to determine if fish oil alters amphetamine-induced increases in oxidative stress and dopamine release.  Fish oil did not impact these measures, indicating that other mechanisms may be responsible for the observed protection.  Collectively, these findings indicate that the consumption of fish oil offers protection against amphetamine toxicity in a model of Parkinson’s disease.
CADD
Creators: name: Marshathalli Siddegowda, Sangeetha
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Year: 2013

description: Smart phones have extended the capability of a phone from "texting and calling" to a whole new dimension of context-awareness with the capabilities of on-device sensors. This is particularly useful in providing context-adaptive user-centric automated services, which is emerging as an area of much current research interest. In this work, we present the system design aspects pertaining to Context Awareness for Distraction-free Driving (CADD) system, a realization of context awareness and context-aware automated services, designed to mitigate in-vehicle distraction caused by cell phones. Context awareness in this work refers to the state of the user: Driving or Available. This state is detected using a Bluetooth and GPS sensor based scheme on the device. Along with the end to end system design, our focus has been on reducing latency, enabling privacy driven data sharing and attaining reliability, aimed at optimization of automated services. The design exploits the Google Cloud to Device Messaging framework and Amazon Web Services to enable efficient communication between clients and allow scaling to large numbers of users. For critical services as context updates, we have improved the reliability from a success rate less than 50% to greater than 90%, by introducing triple re-transmissions and network connectivity monitored re-tries for intermittently connected devices. Further, we have tested both GPS based and Network based updates for location services. By using an algorithm that combines both GPS and Network based updates, we have reduced the latency of obtaining the first location fix from a few seconds (> 4seconds) to less than a second (~500-800msec) with a deviation in path limited to 500-1000m. This scheme also improved performance with in-door locations where GPS-based updates fail. To address the location related privacy concerns, our design maintains no location history information and utilizes proximity metrics namely time and distance, as opposed to plainly exposing the geo-location of users on maps. Further, we have also designed the user interfaces iteratively based on feedback from test users. The user interface has been optimized to keep the depth of navigation to be less than 4 (measured as the number of clicks or the screens navigated to complete one service).
Hiding in plain sight
Creators: name: Major, Mark
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Year: 2013

description: This dissertation explores the dynamic process of traditional print and online news media framing of direct presidential actions. Since President George Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality, the proper scope and exercise of executive unilateral powers are an ongoing debate. With a mere “stroke of the pen,” presidents can change the political status quo. However, the legality of unilateral powers remains murky, at best, as the US Constitution is silent about these actions. This research investigates the role of news institutions in bringing attention to these unwritten powers of the presidency, examining the amount of coverage, type of frames that are used, who influences the frames, and whether these frames serve as a substantive check on the unilateral powers of the American presidency. Employing content and textual analyses of more than 1,000 news items and nearly &,000 quoted sources from the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today as well as top online blogs like Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Townhall, Hot Air, and Michelle Malkin, across twelve presidential administrations, it is argued that the framing of direct presidential action is largely favorable to executive power. This is due to presidential sources being treated as more authoritative than congressional sources and other political actors in the news and a passive political system that is indifferent to presidential unilateral actions. Thus, the news provides cover to the president by normalizing the use of these unwritten powers. However, when the political system pushes back against unitary executive actions, the media responds in kind.
Computer vision methods for large-scale online clustering and quantitative dermatology
Creators: name: Madan, Siddharth K.
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Year: 2013

description: In modern computer vision applications where datasets are large and updates with new data may be ongoing, methods of online clustering are extremely important. Online clustering algorithms incrementally cluster the data points, use a fraction of the dataset memory, and update the clustering decisions when new data comes in. In this thesis we adapt a classic online clustering algorithm called Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies (BIRCH) to incrementally cluster large datasets of features commonly used in computer vision, e.g., 840K color SIFT descriptors, 1.09 million color patches, 60K outlier corrupted grayscale patches, and &00K grayscale SIFT descriptors.  We use the algorithm to cluster datasets consisting of non-convex clusters, e.g., Hopkins 155 3-D motion segmentation dataset. We call the adapted version modified-BIRCH (m-BIRCH). BIRCH was originally developed by the database management community. Modifications made in m-BIRCH enable data driven parameter selection and effectively handle varying density regions in the feature space. Data driven parameter selection automatically controls the level of coarseness of the data summarization. Effective handling of varying density regions is necessary to well represent the different density regions in the data summarization. Our implementation of the algorithm provides a  useful clustering tool and is made publicly available.    In the second part of the thesis, we present a micro-level feature based approach to register time-lapse skin images acquired over an extended period of time and multimodal skin images acquired in quick succession. Misregistration between the images makes it difficult to perform quantitative analysis and track the progression of skin disease. We demonstrate the utility of both types of registration, by employing the results for two quantitative dermatology tasks: 1) automatic detection of acne-like regions, and  2) separation of surface and subsurface reflection. Additionally, we have created a time-lapse video showing the registered time-lapse images, which clearly brings out the evolution of acne lesions with time.