cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agenioideus waltlii
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Agenioideus
Agenioideus waltlii

description: Agenioideus waltlii (Spinola, 1838)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Gadallah & El-Barty 2011), United Arab Emirates (Schmid- Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: Cyprus, Iran, Israel, Jordan, North & East Africa (Arnold 1937; Priesner 1955, 1960; Wolf 1990b, 1997; Falahatpishe et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Anoplius concinnus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Anoplius
Anoplius concinnus

description: Anoplius concinnus (Dahlbom, 1843)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017), Yemen (Wahis 2000a).
Extralimital distribution: Widespread in the Palaearctic region from western Europe to North Africa in the West to Russian Far East in the East (Wolf 1970a, 1997, 1998a, 2005; Tobias 1978; Day 1988; Lelej & Yamane 1994; Wahis & Terzo 1996; Mokrousov 2009; Wolf et al. 2009; Yildirim & Wahis 2011; Shlyahtenok et al. 2012; Baghirov 2014; Loktionov & Lelej 2014, 2017a).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
An experimental investigation of lead zirconate titanate-epoxy-multi-walled carbon nanotube bulk and flexible thick film composites
Creators: name: Banerjee, Sankha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Piezoelectric sensors and actuators are needed for a wide range of applications from physiological measurement to industrial monitoring systems. Sensors that can be easily integrated with the host, while maintaining high sensitivity and reliability over a wide range of frequencies are not readily feasible and economical with homogenous piezoelectric materials. It is well known that two-phase piezoelectric-epoxy composites offer several benefits over their single phase counterparts, as the properties of the constituent phases combine to improve the range of applicability. However, the piezoelectric properties of these materials suffer from the electrically insulating properties of the epoxy matrix.  The electrical properties of the matrix may be enhanced by including electrically conducting inclusions however, less is known about the mechanisms that drive the changes in these properties. Hence, this experimental investigation of sensor materials builds on the previous work in two-phase piezoelectric composites, where the aims are to understand the roles that specific fabrication parameters and inclusion composition play in determining the piezoelectric and dielectric performance the aforementioned composites. The materials under investigation will be comprised of Lead Zirconate Titanate, Epofix Cold-Setting Embedding Resin and multi-walled carbon nanotubes, i.e. the piezoelectric, epoxy and electrical inclusions respectively. Our work suggests that inclusion of MWCNTs enhances the piezoelectric and dielectric properties with increasing volume fraction below the percolation threshold. This work seeks to understand how the processing parameters: poling temperature, poling type and particle distribution influence the contact resistance, space charge double layer at the piezoelectric and conductor interfaces and electric field intensity at the piezoelectric boundary, which all ultimately dictate the piezoelectric and dielectric performance of the composite materials.  Conventional solid oxide mixing, spin coating and deposition techniques will be used to fabricate the bulk and thick films. The piezoelectric and dielectric performance will be determined from the measurement of the piezoelectric strain coefficients, d33 and d31, dielectric constant, impedance and dielectric spectrum, dielectric loss tangent, and capacitance. These measurements will be correlated with inclusion size, shape, distribution, and surface morphology observations obtained from the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM).
Lycoriella subterranea
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Lycoriella
Lycoriella subterranea

description: subterranea (Märkel, 1844) —PAL
= vanderwieli (Schmitz, 1920) —PAL
tenera Vilkamaa, Hippa & Heller, 2013 —PAL
tibetana Yang & Zhang, 1987 in Yang & Zhang (1987b) —PAL
tuomikoskii Mohrig & Mamaev, 1978 —PAL
weberi Menzel & Heller, 2013 in Heller & Menzel (2013) —PAL
yunpleuroti Yang & Zhang, 1987 in Yang & Zhang (1987a) —ORI / PAL
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Anoplius suspectus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Anoplius
Anoplius suspectus

description: Anoplius suspectus (Saussure, 1904)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates (Gess & Roosenschoon 2016; Schmid-Egger 2017). Extralimital distribution: Algeria (Schmid-Egger 2017).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Decision support modeling via multivariate risk measures and stochastic optimization
Creators: name: Lee, Jinwook
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Whenever we have a decision to make, there is always some risk to take. From a mathematical perspective, risk is manifested by a random variable, and a risk measure simply characterizes the random variable in a more compact form. Risk, in general and in practice, is not be adequately described by a real valued random variable, but rather requires a random vector to capture the dimensions of the problem. To this end, multivariate risk measures are crucial ingredients for decision making processes, and stochastic optimization is a natural and superior skill to  find a key to the optimal decision-making.     A recent paper by Pr ekopa (2012) presented results in connection with Multivariate Value-at-Risk (MVaR) that has been known for some time under the name of p-quantile or p-Level E cient Point (pLEP) and introduced a new multivariate risk measure, called Multivariate Conditional Value-at-Risk (MCVaR). Lee and Pr ekopa (2013) studied new methods for numerical calculations and mathematical properties of  these multivariate risk measures, presented in Chapter 2. Another new multivariate risk measure has been constructed and presented in Chapter 3. This is especially for corporate mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions, as the limited applicability of a coherent risk measure in the sense of Artzner et al (1999) for M&A transactions is already discussed in Kou et al (2013). A decision making scheme using that risk measure is introduced and surveyed, together with illustrative real-life numerical examples.  Insurance companies typically hold their money in bonds to pay out the random liabilities in the same periods. In Chapter 4, such bond portfolio construction problem is presented using various stochastic programming problem formulations. For a  financial trading business, "price-bands" can be used as an indicator for successfully buying or short-selling shares of stock. Chapter 5 presents a mathematical model for the novel construction of price-bands using a stochastic programming formulation. Numerical examples using recent US stock market intraday data are presented.
Local Adipocyte Function in Breast Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The importance of the local microenvironment in breast cancer growth and progression is becoming increasingly clear. Adipocytes (fat cells) are abundant in the mammary microenvironment, and recent studies show that adipocytes produce a multitude of endocrine, inflammatory, and angiogenic factors that have tremendous potential to affect adjacent breast cancer cells. In spite of this, the extent to which local adipocyte function contributes to the pathogenesis of breast cancer is largely unexplored.

 We plan to develop a unique animal model to study interactions between adipocytes and breast cancer cells in the tumor microenvironment. First, we will determine whether fat pads derived from subcutaneous injection of murine pre-adipocytes into mice will support the growth of human MCF-7 and T47D breast cancer cells lines in the absence of estrogen supplementation. We will also test whether transplanted fat supports breast cancer growth and whether fat from lean and obese mice differs in its ability to support tumor growth. We will also assess the contribution of local and distant pads and transplanted fat pads by injecting breast cancer cells either into the fat or the opposite side of the mouse. Next, we will determine the effect of recombinant leptin (i.e., a hormone that has a central role in fat metabolism) and a leptin receptor antagonist on aromatase RNA and protein expression and on aromatase activity in mouse and human adipocytes in cell culture and in fat pads in mice. We will test the contribution of local adipocyte aromatase activity to hormone-dependent breast cancer growth in mice using aromatase substrate androstenedione and the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole (Arimidex). The role of local leptin production will be determined by transplanting fat from leptin-deficient mice.

 The development of a specific mouse model to study interactions between adipocytes and breast cancer in the tumor microenvironment has the potential to impact several important areas in breast cancer research. First, our work will clarify the importance of local adipocytes in hormone-dependent breast cancer, demonstrate a role for local

 aromatase activity, and identify the leptin-aromatase axis as a target for prevention or neoadjuvant therapy. Secondly, our studies will provide a means to assess the contribution of adipocytes to increased breast cancer risk and poor breast cancer prognosis in obese women. Finally, it will enable the study of local adipocyte function in the growth and progression of different types of breast cancer, including HER2-positive breast cancer and triple-negative breast cancer.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Local estrogen axis in the human bone microenvironment regulates estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells
Creators: name: Amanatullah, Derek
name: Tamaresis, John
name: Chu, Pauline
name: Bachmann, Michael
name: Hoang, Nhat
name: Collyar, Deborah
name: Mayer, Aaron
name: West, Robert
name: Maloney, William
name: Contag, Christopher
name: King, Bonnie
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Relative breast cancer cell numbers during culture on bone tissue fragments vs. plastic. A BLI signal generated by six breast cancer cell lines (ER+ MCF-7, ZR-75 and T-47D, ER-/Her2+ SK-BR-3, and ER- MDA-MB-231 and MCF-10A) at 24, 48, 72, and 96 h of culture in plastic wells vs. bone tissue fragments isolated from THR 151. While direct culture of breast cancer cells on bone tissues resulted in an overall reduction in cell numbers from day 2 to 4, the ratio of BLI signal on bone vs. plastic, reflecting viable cell numbers, is greatest for ER+ breast cancer cells. B To confirm that this pattern did not result from seeding higher numbers of MCF-7 cells, the experiment was repeated to include BLI signal measurement on day 0 for 3 cell lines (MCF-7, SK-BR-3, and MDA-MB-231), using bone fragments from THR 221. This experiment demonstrates that higher numbers of MCF-7 cells on day 4 did not result due to seeding higher numbers of cells. This pattern suggests a survival advantage of ER+ vs ER- breast cancer cells in the bone microenvironment. For each data point, n = 3, with error bars representing standard deviation. (PDF 112 kb)
Merizomma Sasakawa 2003
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Merizomma

description: Merizomma Sasakawa, 2003 stat. n.
= Chorizomma Sasakawa, 1997 [preocc.]
codonopsivora (Sasakawa, 1997) comb. n. —PAL
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Effect of isolators on regular bridges subjected to scaled near field and far field time histories
Creators: name: Kuppa, Tejaswi L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Seismic isolation is an important and widely used method to protect a structure from the devastating effects of earthquake ground motions. Seismic isolation seeks to mitigate the effects of the ground motions by decreasing the base shear acting on the structure by increasing the fundamental time period of the structure in question. This in turn affects the spectral acceleration and hence the base shear. This thesis deals with investigating the behavior of lead core rubber isolators, on bridges, under near field and far field earthquake loading. The earthquake records were scaled to three intensities, namely, very high, high, and medium to high. The parameters investigated were the longitudinal base shear, transverse base shear, longitudinal displacement and transverse displacement caused by a wide range of scaled earthquake load intensities. SAP 2000 was used to run the analysis on different bridge models which varied in the number of spans, length of span and the height of the columns. The lead core rubber isolators used in the models varied in the longitudinal and transverse stiffness. The isolator stiffness ranged from 90 kips per feet to 2&0 kips per feet. The results showed that the isolators reduced the longitudinal base shear for most cases. With the use of isolators there was also an increase in displacements. The results in the transverse direction showed variability which was caused by not smoothing out the response curves for the ground motions in the transverse direction. The results also show that care has to be taken when using isolation for bridges in locations with very high intensity earthquakes. For medium to high intensity earthquakes, isolators with initial stiffness between 90 to 2&0 k/ft can be used. For bridges in extreme earthquake zones, the use of isolators should be evaluated based on the earthquake record used and the bridge properties. The results also show that using isolators for bridges with less flexible substructure resulted in a greater reduction in base shear for most cases. The use of isolators with high initial stiffness, resulted in lower base shears in far field cases when compared to near field cases.
Prenatal exposure of cigarette smoke impacts cardiac regeneration
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 during pregnancy is detrimental to development, yet remains a pervasive problem in the United States. Tobacco smoke leaves its mark on the genome. The genome consists of genes, messages encoded in DNA, which are transcribed into RNA molecules to be translated into proteins. However, there are RNAs that do not encode proteins, but instead have a role in regulating how other “messenger” RNAs produce proteins. These small “non-coding” RNAs, known as microRNAs, represent an emerging area of study in genetics. MicroRNAs are similar in many species, underscoring their important role in critical cellular functions. MicroRNAs sense environmental stress or danger, capable of quickly affecting how genes function in response to these stressors. Tobacco smoke disrupts the function of microRNAs. Exposure to environmental pollutants, carcinogens, and smoke can affect not only the offspring that were exposed while in utero, but these changes may be transmitted to future generations. We seek to understand the impact of cigarette smoke on cardiac regeneration in neonates exposed in utero and determine the long-term impact on future generations. The heart is capable of regenerating after injury. Lower organisms, like newts, retain this ability throughout life, whereas mammals lose this regenerative capacity in early life. Our laboratory has identified a microRNA, known as miR-34a, which increases during the first week of life in the neonatal mouse and turns off expression of genes necessary for cardiac regeneration. When neonatal mice experience a cardiac injury, such as a surgically-induced heart attack (myocardial infarction), their hearts are capable of fully recovering functionally and structurally. After one week, when miR-34a is expressed, the neonatal mice do not recover, just like adults. Inhibiting miR-34a in adult mice restored cardiac regeneration resulting in less cell death, less scarring (fibrosis), and improved cardiac function. We plan to examine these responses following surgically-induced myocardial infarct in mice exposed in utero to cigarette smoke or filtered air, and in two generations of their offspring (which were not exposed in utero to smoke). We will measure miR-34a and other microRNAs in the heart. This innovative proposal seeks to understand the role of smoking on cardiac regenerative capacity through microRNA disruption, which has not previously been examined. The results of our study will provide evidence for the long-term impact of smoking on future generations, and support the importance of smoking prevention and cessation. Therapeutic targeting of specific microRNA, including miR-34a, could treat cardiac failure due to smoking and have a broad impact on cardiac disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
Myotis sibiricus
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis sibiricus

description: Myotis sibiricus (Kastshenko, 1905) —Siberian Myotis
Ƒespertilio brandtii Eversmann, 1845 p.505; Type locality- Ural, Russia.
Ƒ. mystacinus sibiricus Kastshenko, 1905 p.25; Type locality- Tomsk, Russia.
Myotis mystacinus: Thomas, 1907a p.404 (Sakhalin, Russia); Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.138; Won, 1968 p.93; Corbet, 1978 p.47; Son, 2001 p.98; Yoon, 2004 p.53; Yoon, 2010 p.23.
M. mystacinus gracilis Ognev, 1927 p.145; Type locality- Vladivostok, Russia; Kuroda, 1938 p.95; Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.140; Won, 1967 p.311; Won, 1968 p.94; Yoon, 1992 p.35; Yoon, 2010 p.23.
M. gracilis: Won, 1958 p.454.
M. brandtii: Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.13; Jo et al., 2012 p.251.
M. sibiricus: Kruskop et al., 2012 p.1 (Asia).
M. (Aeorestes) sibirica: Kruskop, 2012 p.99 (Korea).
Range: The distribution of this common species covers the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island (Yoon 2010; Fig. 29).
Remarks: Korean populations were regarded as M. mystacinus gracilis Ognev, 1927 (Won 1967). Although Yoshiyuki (1989) classified the subspecies as a distinct species, M. gracilis, Koopman (1993) treated M. gracilis as a synonym of M. brandtii. Then, Yoon (2010) assigned Korean populations of this species to M. mystacinus gracilis based on size and morphology of the teeth. However, the range of M. mystacinus is restricted to western Eurasia (Hutson et al. 2008) and DNA analysis supported a distribution of M. brandtii in eastern Asia (Kawai et al. 2003). Therefore, Korean subspecies of Siberian myotis subsumed to M. brandtii with two known subspecies, M. brandtii brandtii in Europe, Caucasus and western Siberia and M. b. gracilis in central and eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Korea, Manchuria, and Japan (Benda & Tsytsulina 2000; Tsytsulina 2001). Based on the dorsal profile of skull and morphology of the protoconules of premolar, Yoshiyuki (1989) elevated gracilis to a distinct species, and Horáček et al. (2000) provisionally kept gracilis as a species. Also, Kawai et al. (2006) supported the species M. gracilis because of great genetic distances (0.103 –0.107) between M. brandtii from Europe and M. b. gracilis from Hokkaido, Japan. DNA analysis indicated that M. mystacinus and M. ikonnikovi as Old World Myotis, and both M. brandtii and M. b. gracilis as New World Myotis grouping with American Myotis spp. (Stadelmann et al. 2007). Kruskop et al. (2012) also supported a distinct species from eastern Asia based on molecular markers, but they gave priority to the first name M. sibiricus (Kastshenko, 1905) from Tomsk in central Siberia over M. gracilis from Vladivostok in Russian Far East, which is followed here.
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on pages 48-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
Aporinellus rhodesianus
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Aporinellus
Aporinellus rhodesianus

description: Aporinellus rhodesianus (Bischoff, 1913)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Gadallah & El-Barty 2011), United Arab Emirates (Schmid- Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: Whole Africa (Bischoff 1913; Haupt 1927; Priesner 1955).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Uncovering Therapeutic Specificity for Defined Oncogenic Kras Alleles
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: Cancer growth is driven by mutations in genes called oncogenes. One of the most important oncogenes in lung cancer is KRAS, and this gene is mutated in one third of lung adenocarcinomas. Mutations in KRAS are different in different people but what this means for cancer growth and response to drugs not known. Mouse models uniquely enable lung cancer initiation, growth, and therapeutic treatment in vivo, but current systems are too difficult to generate to uncover the importance of these different KRAS mutations. We have used the cutting-edge technology of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to create mouse models of lung cancer in which different tumors are driven by different mutant forms of KRAS. We will use this innovative system to test whether tumors with certain KRAS mutations can be selectively killed by certain drugs. Our proposal will uncover new areas of biology, motivate clinical trials, and facilitate personalized cancer therapy for lung cancer patients with KRAS-mutant tumors.
Socially shared regulation in computer-supported collaborative learning
Creators: name: Lee, Anna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation examined how groups in CSCL developed and sustained socially shared regulation, defined as multiple members’ regulation of their collective learning by developing shared goals, shared plans, shared monitoring, and shared evaluation through mutual agreement and other-regulation, referring to a dominant member temporarily facilitating group members’ learning by taking an instructive role to guide the joint activity and others’ understanding in collaborative learning environments (Hadwin & Oshige, 2011; Järvelä & Hadwin, 2013; Rogat & Linnenbrink-Garcia, 2013).  The first part of the study used content analysis and adopted a social constructionist lens, revealing the occurrence of socially shared regulatory processes in CSCL. Log files from three sessions of 13 undergraduate student groups were analyzed. The first key finding of this study was the identification of seven socially shared regulatory processes (planning and goal setting, scheduling, role assignment, task monitoring, content monitoring, task evaluation, and content evaluation) emerging in CSCL, suggesting that an analytical framework of cognitive regulatory processes in individual self-regulated learning can be applied to collective regulation in CSCL. Second, high quality regulation can be called socially shared regulation in the true sense of the word because multiple members successfully involved their shared regulation by establishing shared plans, shared goals, shared monitoring, and shared meaning of their learning.   The second part of the study was a case study using content analysis, social network analysis, and quantitative analysis of group members’ self-report questionnaires. Three group regulation patterns were identified: a socially shared regulation group, a mixed regulation group and an other-regulation group. The key finding was that the socially shared regulation group showed more dynamic social interaction and high quality regulation than the other two groups. The mixed regulation group also demonstrated dynamic social interaction but with the existence of a dominant member. The other-regulation group revealed dyadic social interaction between a dominant member and the rest of the members. This study hopes to provide educators with tangible and practical knowledge of online course design and the implementation of online group discussion.
Superfluous man
Creators: name: Leigh, Allison
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The idea that melancholy pervades cultural production and serves as one of the primary temperaments has deep roots in Western culture.  But in nineteenth-century Europe, a growing interest in what was seen as a new and pervasive kind of malaise became central to discourses on the rise of Realism in art and literature.  This dissertation explores how painters in two of the primary artistic centers of Europe – Paris and St. Petersburg – sought to depict these inner psychological struggles associated with modern life.  There was a dialogue between France and Russia in the nineteenth century and the distinctly modern form of existential sadness was viewed in both primarily as a malady among men, one which arose concomitant with new male heroes in literature.  In Russia, the character type known as the “superfluous man” suggested growing fears about the idleness of male aristocrats and in France, discourses on the flâneur and spleen formed a central part of ideas on the detrimental effects of modern life.  All were fundamentally alienated beings, but their visual manifestations illuminate the divergence in these two countries’ use of Realism and their respective experiences of modernity.  As much as subject matter was analogously considered a vehicle for bringing about social change, artists in these nations utilized the depiction of “real life” to varying effects.  While French artists such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, and Edgar Degas valued impartial observation and objectivity, Russian artists like Pavel Fedotov, Ivan Kramskoy, and Ilya Repin were exponents of a Realist style that prized tendentious judgment and empathy.  Drawing on a wide variety of literary material from the nineteenth century – from poetry, prose and criticism to letters, memoirs, and manifestoes – this dissertation discusses these disparate kinds of writing in dialogue with paintings and graphic works from the same period.  The work seeks via this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural method of analysis to present the constitutive signs of the affective experience of modern life as a complex constellation of visual structures that are tied inextricably to the environments of class upheaval, political change, and warfare in which they were produced.
Citizenship and the politics of belonging in South Korea
Creators: name: Lee, Joo Yeon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation investigates the complexities of citizenship and belongingness in South Korea, particularly focusing on the case of “unprotected” third country–born North Korean children. The exclusion of third country–born children is the result of many different considerations, and this dissertation analyzes the reasons for treating them differently from other North Korean settlers by investigating various areas. By scrutinizing sources of legal discourse on amendments of the Act on the Protection and Settlement Support of Residents Escaping from North Korea to include third country–born children, the rationales for excluding those children from the legal definition will be uncovered.   Using the western concept of citizenship and citizenship debates as the point of departure, with close attention to exploring citizenship theories of diversity, equality and social justice, I discuss the rise of differentiated citizenship and its limits. By reviewing western citizenship theories and that of South Korea, I contemplate on the defining and redefining of membership and boundaries in relation to democratic principles and how different groups in a society should be treated. Law and policies for different migrant groups are discussed, and the differentiated definitions and statuses of migrant groups are distinguished, to clarify what is considered South Koreanness.   By scrutinizing complex policies surrounding North Korean settlers and legal disputes, my project extends the understanding of citizenship and the politics of belonging in South Korea. This dissertation contributes to understanding sophisticated rationale and politics regarding the exclusion of third country–born children and shows the arbitrariness of inclusion and exclusion. To explore the policies for North Korean settlers, the procedure that North Korean settlers go through to become South Korean citizens will be explained, and some of the difficulties that North Korean settlers face are described. The exclusion of third country–born children is discussed by scrutinizing the education and integration policies of North Korean adult and children settlers. Also, how these policies demand assimilation and institutionalize discrimination will be made apparent.   I argue that a comprehensive framework for immigration policy is necessary and that North Korean settlers should be regarded as migrants within this framework. I conclude with a discussion of problems within the current immigration system and recommendations of possible institutional changes. These include creating a new authority in charge of immigration and treating all migrant groups without distinguishing by point of entry or based on race and ethnicity.
Myotis bombinus Thomas 1906
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis bombinus

description: Myotis bombinus Thomas, 1906 —Far Eastern Myotis
Myotis nattereri bombinus Thomas, 1905 [1906] p.337; Type locality- Miyazaki, Japan; Yoon, 1992 p.37; Yoon, 2010 p.44.
M. nattereri amurensis: Kishida & Mori, 1931 p.378; Kuroda, 1938 p.96; Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.143; Won, 1958 p.454; Won, 1967 p.314; Won, 1968 p.91; Corbet, 1978 p.49.
M. nattereri: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.143; Won, 1968 p.90; Corbet, 1978 p.49; Son, 2001 p.104; Yoon, 2004 p.58; Yoon, 2010 p.44.
M. bombinus: Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.12; Jo et al. 2012 p.251.
Range: The distribution of M. bombinus ranges throughout the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island (Son 2001; Fig. 24); it commonly inhabits volcanic caves on Jeju Island (Jo et al. 2012).
Remarks: Previously, M. bombinus was considered a subspecies of M. nattereri (Yoon 2010). Based on mtDNA analysis, M. bombinus seemed more related to M. chinensis and clearly distinct from M. nattereri in Greece (Kawai et al. 2003).
Conservation status: The IUCN Red List registered M. bombinus as ‘Near threatened’ (Tsytsulina 2008). However, populations in Korea have rarely received consideration for protection.
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
A Molecular Approach for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in the U.S. The vast majority of lung cancers are linked to smoking and it represents one of the most important tobacco-related diseases. The reason lung cancer is so lethal is that in the majority of patients it is diagnosed after it has spread from its starting point in the lung to distant sites such as the brain, liver, or bone. Unfortunately, once lung cancer has spread it is considered incurable. However, patients who are diagnosed with “early stage” lung cancer that is confined to a single area in the lung can often be cured by removal or destruction of the tumor. Recently, a large clinical trial showed that early detection of lung cancer using computed tomography (also called CT scans) saves lives by increasing the number of patients who are diagnosed before their lung cancer has spread. While this represents an important victory in our battle with lung cancer, lung cancer screening using CT scans is not perfect. The most important weakness of CT scanning for lung cancer screening is that over 95% of patients who are found to have a lung nodule that is suspicious for lung cancer are later found not to have lung cancer. Such a high frequency of false positive test results induces anxiety in patients and their families, requires additional expensive tests, and may result in harm if follow-up studies lead to a complication. We propose to develop a new approach for lung cancer screening that is minimally invasive, can discover very early lung cancers, and is less expensive than CT scanning. We will compare two approaches. First, we will try to detect tiny amounts of DNA that are released into the blood stream by lung cancers and end up in the urine. Second, we will test if we can improve the ability of a minimally invasive intervention called bronchoscopy that is frequently performed to follow up nodules found on CT scans but similarly looking for traces of tumor DNA in washings done during this procedure. We have performed preliminary experiments that suggest our approach is feasible and now plan to evaluate it in a pilot clinical study. If successful, our method could be used together with CT scanning in order to reduce the number of unnecessary follow-up tests or could eventually even replace CT scans as the primary lung cancer screening test. If so, it could reduce the risk of CT scan-induced cancers, would be more economical, and could increase the number of patients who can be screened.
Stenacanthella Vilkamaa & Menzel 2019
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Stenacanthella

description: Stenacanthella Vilkamaa & Menzel nom. et stat. n.
= Coelostylina Tuomikoski, 1960 [preocc.]
eflagellata (Tuomikoski, 1960) comb. n. [St. secundaria group] — PAL
freyi (Tuomikoski, 1960) comb. n. [St. freyi group]—PAL
lycorielloides (Mohrig & Krivosheina, 1985) comb. n. in Mohrig et al. (1985a) [St. secundaria group]—PAL pallidior (Tuomikoski, 1960) comb. n. [St. secundaria group]—PAL
polaris (Mohrig & Mamaev, 1985) comb. n. in Mohrig et al. (1985b) [St. freyi group]—PAL
secundaria (Mohrig & Menzel, 1990) comb. n. in Menzel et al. (1990) [St. secundaria group]—PAL
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Feasibility of duty cycling GPS receiver for trajectory-based services
Creators: name: Li, Xiaohan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Energy efficient localization is important for lots of smartphone applications. The research community has argued that fixed duty cycling of GPS is not a good choice for trajectory-based services concerning route accuracy. In this note, we show that duty cycling of a smartphone GPS receiver achieves considerable energy efficiency without sacrificing much route accuracy. When increasing sampling period to 120 seconds, it saves at least &8% energy in comparison to continuous GPS sampling, while the loss of route accuracy tends to be stable at 0.23 to 0.25.
Relief for regression with missing data in variable selection
Creators: name: Li, Luquan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Variable selection is a significant pre-processing task for prediction in the field of data mining and machine learning, and involves the selection of a subset of relevant variables. Almost all researchers have faced the problem of missing data, which can occur due to nonresponse or loss of information. This thesis develops a new variable selection technique for dealing with missing data. Relief is an algorithm for estimating the quality of each variable and is applicable to categorical or continuous data. This thesis presents a new variable selection method, RM-Relief, by extending Relief to select the variables in a regression with missing data. RM-Relief weights all predictor variables by assigning bins for a response variable and estimating the conditional probability of unknown instances. Results on artificial and real-world datasets indicate that RM-Relief works well on regression problems with missing data.
E-cigarette chemical effects on endothelial function
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: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are being marketed to people as a healthy alternative to conventional cigarettes. However, there is little scientific evidence determining how the chemical components of e-cigarettes (acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, and nicotine) affect the cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels). Here, we will determine how the chemical components of e-cigarettes affect how the cells lining blood vessels (endothelial cells) function. In addition, we will determine how e-cigarette vapors alter cardiovascular function in rodents. Further, ~560 million people in the world and ~1 million California residents cannot efficiently break down the chemicals in e-cigarettes (acetaldehyde and formaldehyde) due to a genetic variant in a mitochondrial enzyme, aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2). The genetic variant in ALDH2 almost exclusively exists for people of East Asian descent. Using cutting-edge techniques we developed in the laboratory, we will study how this specific ALDH2 genetic variant alters how e-cigarette chemicals affect endothelial and cardiovascular function. Importantly, our research team has several cutting-edge technologies to study the cellular effects of e-cigarettes in human cells or rodents. Since these effects are mainly occurring at the mitochondria, we developed several sensitive methods to measure how e-cigarette chemicals will affect mitochondrial function. We also have extensive experience in assessing cardiovascular function and cellular damage. We will use these techniques to examine the cardiovascular effects of e-cigarettes in human endothelial cells and rodents. Lastly, we also will test whether a drug which can increase ALDH2 activity can reverse the effects seen when cells or rodents are exposed to e-cigarette chemicals. In California, cigarette smoking attributes to ~$9.8 billion in health care costs, where a considerable portion of these costs are due to cardiovascular disease. Our proposed research will determine how e-cigarettes affect the cells lining blood vessels and cardiovascular function. These findings may be particularly important to people in California who have a genetic variant in ALDH2 which will not allow them to effectively break down components of e-cigarettes. Further, we will determine whether we have a therapeutic to treat the effects of e-cigarette chemicals on the heart and blood vessels.
Trichocoelina Vilkamaa & Menzel. Altogether 2019, gen. n.
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Trichocoelina

description: Trichocoelina Vilkamaa & Menzel gen. n. (former L. vitticollis group)
absidata Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
aemula Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
biplex Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA
brevicubitalis (Lengersdorf, 1926) comb. n. —PAL
chentejensis (Menzel, 1992) comb. n. in Menzel (1992b) —PAL
cochleata (Rübsaamen, 1898) comb. n. —NEA / PAL
= haemorrhoidalis (Lundbeck, 1898) —NEA
dicksoni Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
dispansa Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
dividua Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA
hians Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA
hiemalis (Mohrig & Mamaev, 1985) comb. n. in Mohrig et al. (1985b) —PAL
imitator Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA
incrassata Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA
ithyspina Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
janetscheki (Lengersdorf, 1953) comb. n. —NEA / PAL
jukkai Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
magnifica Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA
nefrens Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
obesula Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
olschwangi (Mohrig & Mamaev, 1983) comb. n. in Mohrig et al. (1983a) —NEA / PAL
oricillifera Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
planilobata Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
quintula Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
semisphaera Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —PAL
semusta Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA / PAL
subcochleata (Komarov, 2009) comb. n. —PAL
subpermutata (Mohrig & Mamaev, 1990) comb. n. in Mohrig et al. (1990) —PAL
tecta Vilkamaa & Menzel sp. n. —NEA / PAL
vitticollis (Holmgren, 1883) comb. n. —NEA / PAL
= glacialis (Lundbeck, 1898) [preocc.]—NEA
= permutata (Lundbeck, 1900) —NEA / PAL
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553
Anoplius wurayahensis Schmid-Egger 2017
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Anoplius
Anoplius wurayahensis

description: Anoplius wurayahensis Schmid-Egger, 2017
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2017).
Extralimital distribution: No records.
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Schmid-Egger, Christian & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae, pp. 153-173 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/3719039
Myotis macrodactylus
Creators: name: Jo, Yeong-Seok
name: Baccus, John T.
name: Koprowski, John L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis macrodactylus

description: Myotis macrodactylus (Temminck, 1838) —Big-footed Myotis
Ƒespertilio macrodactylus Temminck, 1838 p.231; Type locality- Japan.
Ƒ. (leuconoe) capaccinii macrodactylus: Trouessart, 1897 p.124.
Myotis (? daubentonii) macrodactylus: Kuroda, 1938 p.92.
M. capaccinii: Won, 1968 p.88.
M. capaccinii macrodactylus: Won, 1968 p.88.
M. macrodactylus: Yoon, 1992 p.40; Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.13; Son, 2001 p.94; Yoon, 2010 p.36; Jo et al., 2012 p.251.
M. macrodactylus macrodactylus: Yoon, 2004 p.64.
Range: The big-footed myotis inhabits the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island and is one of the most common bat species (Won & Smith 1999; Jo et al. 2012; Fig. 25).
Remarks: This species was previously classified as a subspecies of M. capaccinii (Won 1968), but the absence of hair on the uropatagium margin near the calcar clearly distinguishes M. macrodactylus from M. capaccinii (Corbet 1978; Yoshiyuki 1989).
Conservation status: The Red Data Book of North Korea lists M. macrodactylus as a ‘Rare’ species (MAB National Committee of DPR Korea 2002).
description: Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198