cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ophthalmophagus nasicola Witenberg 1923
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Ophthalmophagus
Ophthalmophagus nasicola

description: O. nasicola Witenberg, 1923 (& 1926)
Type host. Water rail, Rallus aquaticus Linnaeus (Gruiformes: Rallidae).
Type locality. Russian Federation; specific type locality unknown.
Additional hosts. Glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus Linnaeus (Pelicaniformes: Threskiornithidae); little ringed plover, Charadrius dubius curonicus Gmelin (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae) (northern subspecies of Charadrius dubius Scopoli)—(Yamaguti 1958, 1971).
Additional locality. Japan; specific locality unknown—Yamaguti (1971).
Previously proposed synonym. Ophthalmophagus massinoi Witenberg, 1926 — Bashkirova (1950).
Remarks. Considered a possible synonym of O. singularis (Stossich, 1902) by Dubois (1959). Joyeux & Baer (1927) considered this to be a species of Spaniometra. No oral or ventral sucker described—Witenberg (1923, 1926).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Mideopsis willmanni K.Viets 1920
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Mideopsidae
Mideopsis
Mideopsis willmanni

description: Mideopsis willmanni (K.Viets, 1920)
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at three spring sites in Gutland and in Ösling, 5 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). E4 1 larva, parasitic on a chironomid. Attribution by comparison with Viets (1928) and Smith (1978).
Descriptions of larvae (Figs. 55, 56): Viets (1928).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: As given for the genus.
Remarks: The state of the single specimen was too poor for a description of the species. However, since the crenobiontic Mideopsis willmanni is the only species of the genus in the Luxembourgian springs (Gerecke et al. 2005), the assignment of the specimen to M. willmanni seems to be certain.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Dynamic shortening of psychometric questionnaires: A focus on PHQ-9
Creators: name: Abdulhusseina, Zahraa
name: van de Ven, Pepijn
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a widely utilized assessment tool designed to screen for and measure the severity of depression Recent research has explored the viability of shorter versions of the questionnaire, such as the PHQ-DEP-4 and of depression. Recent research has explored the viability of shorter versions of the questionnaire, such as the PHQ-DEP-4 and PHQ-2, particularly for screening depressed individuals before clinical trials. However, these short tests use a fixed number of questions. This study investigated whether there is merit in posing a dynamic number of questions in screening individuals for depressive symptomatology. To address this, our study focuses on creating a short and dynamic version of the PHQ-9. Our approach utilizes dynamic thresholds tailored to individual responses to predict depression. Optimal thresholds are determined by minimizing the number of questions while simultaneously maximizing the Youden index. Results indicate the Dynamic PHQ-9 model demonstrated superior discrimination ability achieving highest Youden index, sensitivity, and specificity
Generation and characterization of random and site-directed mutants of Shiga-like toxin 1A by Escherichia Coli O157:H7 in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Creators: name: Shete, Varsha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Food-borne illnesses are mainly associated with Shiga-like toxins (Stx1 and Stx2) produced by various serotypes of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). These serotypes are collectively known as STEC (Stx-producing E. coli).  One of these serotypes E. coli O157:H7 has been the major cause of food-borne illnesses recently in US, Canada and Japan. The clinical manifestations of EHEC infections range from watery diarrhea, severe bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps and hemorrhagic colitis (HC), to the most severe outcome, life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) resulting in kidney failure.This study involved generation and characterization of random and site-directed mutants of Shiga-like toxin 1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The mutants were characterized for protein expression, ribosome depurination and loss of cytotoxicity. The results from this study are crucial to understand the mechanism by which Shiga-like toxins exhibit their cytotoxicity to the cells. The results from this study can aid in development of treaments against the diseases caused by Shiga-like toxin 1.
PARP inhibitor ABT-888 as potentiating agent for topoisomerase inhibitor SN-38
Creators: name: Sohail, Honeah
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: BRCA1 is a tumor suppressor gene that has been implicated as being involved in DNA repair through a process known as homologous recombination.  Mutations in BRCA 1 have been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, but recent studies have tried to use their knowledge of homologous recombination in order to find new ways to treat cancer.  Most notably with poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), it is an enzyme involved in the DNA repair of single strand breaks.  If a cell is BRCA1 deficient it cannot repair its double strand breaks and if we inhibit PAR activity the cell cannot repair single strand breaks as a result the cell should accumulate damage and undergo apoptosis and die.  The goal of the research is to investigate the role of PAR inhibition in BRCA1 deficient cells.  We hypothesized that BRCA1 deficient cells should die at a lower dosage of PAR inhibiting drugs in cytotoxic tests.  We also tested the efficiency of cytotoxic therapies as an effective means of treatment and tested the maximum dose tolerable before the cells became changed.  We first used immunofluroescence to check for PAR activity in different types of cells and to then see the effects of PAR inhibition.  We then used PAR inhibitor ABT-888, topoisomerase inhibitor SN-38, and cisplatin, a DNA binding agent, to conduct cytotoxic tests in order to prove our hypothesis true.
Hydrothermal growth and characterization of titanium dioxide nanostructures for use in dye sensitized solar cells
Creators: name: Sorge, Judith D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: As the world's energy needs continue to grow, next generation photovoltaic cells are in high demand because they offer the possibility of an inexpensive alternative to current energy production techniques.  Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC's), utilize common materials and low cost commercialization techniques, which make them a compelling choice for research in this area.  This research focuses on the titanium dioxide coating, which transfers electrons from the photoactive dye to the electrode.  3-4% efficient DSSC's using doctor bladed titanium dioxide coatings with a specific surface area of 55-60m2/g have been demonstrated in our laboratory.  To enhance the efficiency of these cells, both the surface area and the electron conduction of the titania layer must be optimized.  This has been done by utilizing high aspect ratio nanoparticles of titania instead of mesoporous layers formed with spherical particles.  Anodization of titanium metal or anodic alumina membrane templating are common ways to produce nanorods, but involve complex processes leading toward expensive commercialization.  This research instead focuses on the hydrothermal growth of nanofibrous titania on a titanium metal substrate, removing the need for dispersion and deposition procedures as well as using a low temperature processing method.  Depending upon the formulation utilized, a variety of structures can be produced, from thick carpets of nanofiber strands to large platelets.  The composition and morphology of the products have been characterized with respect to the growth conditions using electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction.  The compositional analysis is used to investigate the complicated reaction mechanisms in the system.  Coatings of titania nanotubes were then tested in the DSSC's, as were those with the titanium metal substrate acting as the photo anode.  Modeling the geometric parameters of the different pore structures of the coatings helps us to understand the advantages afforded by these new cells.
Construct continuity in the presence of multidimensionality
Creators: name: Staniewska, Dorota
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Unidimensionality -- a condition, under which only one dominant construct is being measured by the test, is a fundamental assumption of most modern day psychometric models. However, some tests are multidimensional by design. A test, for instance, might measure physics, biology and chemistry subscales combined to measure a "general science" composite. The relative magnitudes of those subscales sometimes shift from administration to administration, which results in an altered composite. This study examined the conditions under which two different forms of a multidimensional test measure the same composite construct to a degree that allows them to be equated, i.e. used interchangeably. IRT true-score equating was used in a simulation study to assess the closeness of the scores on the forms. Conditions examined included the correlations between subscales, varying number of items per subscale form to form, and different subpopulation ability estimates on the subscales. Differences in the equating errors due to generating model (1PL or 3PL) were also examined. A way of calculating a unidimensional composite from a two-dimensional ability was devised and compared to the unidimensional composite obtained from Parscale.It was found that in general, the errors increase with decreasing correlation between traits and increased divergence of the two forms to be equated, with the later being the main predictor of the equating errors. However, the magnitude of those errors was small for the population as a whole especially when all examinee abilities are drawn from the same distribution. It was concluded that IRT true score equating is relatively robust to multidimensionality for the conditions examined, especially if the overall population score is desired. However, when accurate estimate of the equated score for individuals at the extremes of the population is needed, or whenever population abilities are drawn from more than one distribution, the unidimensional true score equating functions well only for very similar forms and with high correlations between traits.
All hands on deck for the rise of wood construction in Europe
Creators: name: Jancke, Oliver
Publisher: name: InnovaWood
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Woodworking
subject: Wood construction
subject: NEB Academy
subject: New European Bauhaus
subject: ReBuildUkraine

description: How European wood construction has developed in the past decades until today, it's connection to the policy level and the role of the New European Bauhaus Academy.  Presented at the interactive webinar on wood in Ukraine’s green recovery and development «European initiatives for green building with wood: experience and lessons for Ukraine», organised by FSC Ukraine.
title: Low bandgap polymers from fused dithiophene diester
Creators: name: Ferraris, John P.
name: Lambert, Tim L.
name: Rodriguez, Santiago
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: C07D495/04
subject: C08G61/126
subject: C09K9/02
subject: H01B1/127
subject: H01L51/0036
subject: H01L51/0074
subject: 526/256
subject: 528/377

description: The present invention involves monomeric compounds having the structure: ##STR1## Substituents W and Z are independently --CN, --NO.sub.2, -aryl, -aryl-V, --COX, SO.sub.2 R, --H, or -alkyl. Substituent X is --OR, or --NR,R where R and R.sup.1 are independently -alkyl or --H. Substituent V is -halide, --NO.sub.2, --CN, --SO.sub.2 R, or --COX. At least one of W and Z is --NO.sub.2, --SO.sub.2 R, --CN, --COX or -aryl-V. In one preferred embodiment substituents W and Z are both --CN. In another preferred embodiment, substituent X is --NO.sub.2 or --CN and substituent Z is --C.sub.6 H.sub.4 NO.sub.2. These monomers are polymerized to form low bandgap polymers.
Chelomideopsis Romijn 1920
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Athienemanniidae
Chelomideopsis

description: Genus Chelomideopsis Romijn, 1920
Diagnosis (no family diagnosis available, for the genus see Smith 1978, 1992): Idiosoma nearly round and extremely flattened dorsoventrally. Dp nearly round, broadly convex anteriorly and bearing 4 pairs of seta (setae Mp2 located near midlength). Coxal plates on each side separated by complete suture lines, but plates CX­II and CX­III may be partially fused medially. Setae C1­C4 often obviously lamellate, basally. Expp subtriangular, with lateral edges slightly sinuate. Gnathosoma with cheliceral bases separate from one another. Gnathosoma recessed beneath anterior edge of dorsal plate such that (in undissected specimens) tips of chelicerae and palps exposed in dorsal view.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
title: Cooled railplug
Creators: name: Weldon, William F.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: H01T13/50
subject: 123/143B

description: The railplug is a plasma ignitor capable of injecting a high energy plasma jet into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine or continuous combustion system. An improved railplug is provided which has dual coaxial chambers (either internal or external to the center electrode) that provide for forced convective cooling of the electrodes using the normal pressure changes occurring in an internal combustion engine. This convective cooling reduces the temperature of the hot spot associated with the plasma initiation point, particularly in coaxial railplug configurations, and extends the useful life of the railplug. The convective cooling technique may also be employed in a railplug having parallel dual rails using dual, coaxial chambers.
Compensatory partitioning of physiological resource budgets by the grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) in association with contaminants encountered in a marsh creek system
Creators: name: Stout, Joseph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Resource budgets of the grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) were examined for the effects of a highly contaminated field site. Physiological metrics of resource allocation were compared to those of shrimp from a more pristine location.  Oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and energy use were compared in shrimp caught from the two sites. The physiological budgets for carbon, nitrogen and energy were examined for evidence of the compensatory partitioning of resources that would allow shrimp from the polluted field site to maintain allocation to growth and reproduction despite contact with a wide variety of contaminants.  All components of the budget were measured directly instead of the traditional indirect estimates of production and reproduction.  Evidence for compensatory partitioning of resources by grass shrimp at the contaminated field site was found.  Ovigerous shrimp from the contaminated site increased reproductive allocation relative to ovigerous shrimp from the clean reference site.  Ovigerous shrimp from the two sites had similar rates of resource acquisition through consumption, but ovigerous shrimp from the contaminated site at Piles Creek had lowed allocation to respiration and ammonia excretion.  This allowed them to allocate surplus resources to reproduction.  Intermolt shrimp from Piles Creek conversely had reduced consumption and increased respiration in comparison to intermolt shrimp from the clean reference site near Tuckerton.  Despite reduced resource acquisition through consumption and increased respiratory costs, these shrimp were able to maintain growth rates similar to those of intermolt shrimp from Tuckerton.
The politics of ambiguity
Creators: name: Steele, Rebecca Elaine
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: My dissertation investigates the tension between political inertia and change in early 19th-century German-language texts through the representation of the female androgynous title figure. My analysis includes other border figures--political, geographical, temporal, epistemological, and aesthetic Grenzfiguren--which are all formulated in terms of the feminine in these texts.  I argue that while each text attempts to contain the androgynous, emancipated or emancipating woman and by extension tries to stabilize the other ambiguous border figures, every attempt at containment is undermined by the text itself, thereby demonstrating that political stasis is neither possible nor desirable. Thus, women's emancipation is inextricably linked to political progress.Paradoxically, the numerous literary representations of strong, independent, and politically successful women in German-language literature of the early 19th century stand in stark contrast to contemporaneous theoretical discussions of gender that declared women to be naturally weak, subservient, and only suited for wifehood and motherhood. These literary representations call natural or essential femininity into question, thereby challenging the social and political mechanisms that kept women contained in the private sphere. This paradox informs my reading of Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart (1800), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die natürliche Tochter (1803), Friedrich Hebbel's Judith (1841), and Adalbert Stifter's Brigitta (1844/1847). Each of these texts was written in and is historically situated at a time of political upheaval and change. My analysis uncovers an intimate connection between the strategies used to contain these transgressive women and to stabilize the political volatility present in each text.
Chelomideopsis annemiae Romijn 1920
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Athienemanniidae
Chelomideopsis
Chelomideopsis annemiae

description: Chelomideopsis annemiae Romijn, 1920
Records: Benthos samples at one spring site in Gutland, 1 individual (Gerecke et al. 2005). No larvae found in traps.
Diagnostic characters of larvae: As given for the genus.
Remarks: No description is available of the only European Chelomideopsis species, C. annemiae, but the larvae of several Chelomideopsis species from North America are known (Smith 1978, 1992).
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
title: Aromatic pentadentate expanded porphyrins in magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Murai, Toshiaki
name: Sessler, Jonathan L.
name: Hemmi, Gregory W.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: A61K41/0038
subject: A61K41/0071
subject: A61K41/0076
subject: A61K47/546
subject: C07D487/22
subject: Y10S436/806
subject: Y10S514/836
subject: Y10T436/24
subject: 424/9.362
subject: 436/173
subject: 436/806
subject: 514/185
subject: 514/836
subject: 534/15
subject: 540/145

description:  The present invention involves a novel tripyrrole dimethine-derived "expanded porphyrin" (texaphyrin), the synthesis of such compounds, their analogs or derivatives and their uses. These expanded porphyrin-like macrocycles are efficient chelators of divalent and trivalent metal ions. Metal complexes of these compounds are active as photosensitizers for the generation of singlet oxygen and thus potentially for inactivation or destruction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), mononuclear or other cells infected with such virus and tumor cells as well. A variety of texaphyrin derivatives have been produced and many more are readily obtainable. Various metal (e.g., transition, main group, and lanthanide) complexes with the texaphyrin and texaphyrin derivatives of the present invention have unusual water solubility and stability which render them particularly useful. These metallotexaphyrin complexes have optical properties making them unique as compared to existing porphyrin-like or other macrocycles. For example, they absorb light strongly in a physiol This invention was made in part with government support under the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1986) to J. L. Sessler, grant CHE-8552768. The government has certain rights in the invention.
Arrenurus Duges 1834
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus

description: Genus Arrenurus Dugès, 1834
Diagnosis (no family diagnosis available, see Smith 1978): Idiosoma nearly round, moderately flattened dorsoventrally. Dp large, covering almost entire idiosoma and bearing five pairs of setae (setae Mh1 located on dorsal plate). CX­I to III separate from each other. V4 extremely long, whip­like, on small tubercles. Expp variously shaped, but never triangular, setae E1 and E2 slender and less than half as long as plate. Basal segments of chelicerae separated medially. Chela dentate. Legs five­segmented and each leg with three claws.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Ophthalmophagus charadrii Yamaguti 1934
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Ophthalmophagus
Ophthalmophagus charadrii

description: O. charadrii Yamaguti, 1934
Type host. White-faced plover, Charadrius alexandriunus dealbatus Swinhoe (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae). Type locality. Sizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Remarks. This species was considered to be a synonym of Ophthalmophagus singularis (Stossich, 1902) by Dubois (1959). No oral or ventral sucker present—Yamaguti (1934).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
title: Noncontact position measurement system using optical sensors
Creators: name: Busch-Vishniac, Ilene J.
name: Wang, Wanjun
name: Buckman, Alvin B.
name: Mancevski, Vladimir
name: Pavuluri, Janardhan K.
name: Qian, Dahong
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: G01B11/26
subject: G01D5/28
subject: G01S17/42
subject: G01S17/88
subject: 356/139.3
subject: 356/141.1
subject: 356/152.2

description: Optical and computational components are combined to form a high precision, six degree-of-freedom, single-sided, noncontact position measurement system. Reflective optical targets are provided on a target object whose position is to be sensed. Light beams are directed toward the optical targets, producing reflected beams. Electrical signals are produced indicating the points of intersection of the reflected beams and the position-sensitive detectors. The position sensitive detectors may be lateral-effect photodiodes. The signals are transformed to provide measurements of translation along and rotation around three nonparallel axes which define the space in which the target object moves.
title: Gels for encapsulation of biological materials
Creators: name: Hubbell, Jeffrey A.
name: Sawhney, Amarpreet S.
name: Desai, Neil P.
name: Pathak, Chandrashekhar P.
name: Hill-West, Jennifer L.
name: Hossainy, Syed
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: A61K9/1635
subject: A61K9/1647
subject: A61K9/5026
subject: A61K9/5031
subject: A61K9/5073
subject: A61K38/42
subject: A61K38/44
subject: A61K47/645
subject: A61K47/6903
subject: A61K47/6927
subject: A61L24/0031
subject: A61L24/0042
subject: A61L24/046
subject: A61L26/0019
subject: A61L27/34
subject: A61L27/3683
subject: A61L27/38
subject: A61L27/52
subject: A61L29/085
subject: A61L31/10
subject: A61L31/145
subject: A61L31/148
subject: A61K2035/128
subject: B82Y5/00
subject: C08B37/003
subject: C08B37/0072
subject: C08B37/0084
subject: C08F290/00
subject: C08F290/02
subject: C08F290/06
subject: C08F290/062
subject: C08F290/08
subject: C08F290/10
subject: C08F291/00
subject: C08L71/02
subject: C09D153/00
subject: C12N11/04
subject: C12N5/0012
subject: C12N5/0677
subject: C12N2533/30
subject: C12N2533/32
subject: C12N2533/40
subject: C12N2533/74
subject: Y10S514/801
subject: Y10S530/812
subject: Y10S530/813
subject: Y10S530/815
subject: Y10S530/817
subject: Y10T428/2987
subject: Y10T428/2989
subject: 264/4
subject: 264/4.1
subject: 264/4.3
subject: 424/93.7
subject: 424/450
subject: 424/451
subject: 424/459
subject: 424/460
subject: 424/461
subject: 424/462
subject: 424/463
subject: 424/477
subject: 424/479
subject: 424/487
subject: 424/488
subject: 424/489
subject: 424/499
subject: 427/2.14
subject: 427/2.21
subject: 427/213.3
subject: 427/213.32
subject: 427/213.34
subject: 427/213.36
subject: 428/402.22
subject: 428/402.24
subject: 435/177
subject: 435/182
subject: 435/382
subject: 514/15.2
subject: 514/17.2

description: Water soluble macromers are modified by addition of free radical polymerizable groups, such as those containing a carbon-carbon double or triple bond, which can be polymerized under mild conditions to encapsulate tissues, cells, or biologically active materials. The polymeric materials are particularly useful as tissue adhesives, coatings for tissue lumens including blood vessels, coatings for cells such as islets of Langerhans, coatings, plugs, supports or substrates for contact with biological materials such as the body, and as drug delivery devices for biologically active molecules.
The transformation of undergraduate education at Rutgers University
Creators: name: Swan, Aubrie E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In 2005 the Task Force on Undergraduate Education at Rutgers University made a series of recommendations that led to the Transformation of Undergraduate Education (TUE), through which several complex changes were instituted prior to Fall Semester 2007, including consolidating the four existing liberal arts colleges into one School of Arts and Sciences. Some of these changes were controversial in the Rutgers community.This study describes participants' knowledge and impressions about what has been done to address the following overarching goals of the transformation: 1) attracting and retaining high quality students, including supporting students in underrepresented groups and nontraditional students; 2) reducing roadblocks and inequities and improving the delivery and consistency of services for students; and 3) increasing the engagement of undergraduate students with cocurricular activities and with faculty. The context and the processes to bring about these changes, and ideas for future directions, are also discussed. The design of the study was informed by research about institutional change, evaluating changes in higher education, student and faculty engagement, and by stakeholder interest in determining what had been done to meet the six goals of the transformation. Administrator interviews, student focus groups, faculty online questionnaires, public records about the TUE, and existing outcome data from university offices inform descriptions of the changes. Short term impressions of the changes range from positive feelings about new structure and the reduced inequities met by students, to negative feelings about difficulties that have arisen, such as a perceived loss by some of campus-based community. The university has been successful in attracting and retaining high quality students with the TUE, as the academic profile and diversity of incoming students have continued a positive trajectory. Positive changes in the consolidation of university offices have led to better coordinated student services, reducing roadblocks for students. Finally, many programs and structures have been initiated to increase student engagement and interaction with faculty members. This study shows that given strong leadership and vision, significant and sustainable change is possible, even at large institutions. This documentation of change processes and perils can be studied by other institutions implementing or evaluating large-scale change.
title: Sapphyrin multimers
Creators: name: Sessler, Jonathan L.
name: Kral, Vladimir A.
name: Andrievsky, Andrei
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: A61K41/0076
subject: A61K47/54
subject: A61K47/546
subject: A61K47/558
subject: C07H21/00
subject: C07D487/22
subject: C07H15/26
subject: C12N15/101
subject: 528/230
subject: 536/28.1
subject: 536/28.2
subject: 540/474
subject: 540/145
subject: 540/472

description: The present invention provides novel sapphyrin dimers, trimers, oligomers and polymers, which multimers may include repeating units of sapphyrin or sapphyrin derivatives alone, or may further incorporate other units such as nucleobases.
Alla conquista della scena
Creators: name: Teardo, Sara
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation focuses on women's writing in the fifties and sixties, a period that marks a transition for the italiane who are called to actively participate in the life of the new Republic.  I explore the questions elicited by women's visibility in the social and cultural scene and the representations of new models of female identity in women's popular press and in narrative works published between 1950 and 1967.  In particular, I analyze Laudomia Bonanni's L'adultera, Fausta Cialente's Un inverno freddissimo, and Alba de Céspedes' Quaderno proibito and La bambolona.  By examining how the markers of modernity, such as the setting of the newly industrialized city, the female flanêrie, and the adoption of cinematic techniques, influenced the structure of these women's writers texts, I draw attention to the important narrative role played by liminal milieux.  Theoretical as well as historical, this dissertation chronicles the growing phenomenon of women's magazines and popular publications, which functioned, I argue, as a transitional space for models of female identity that both continued and broke with tradition.  By investigating the multiple intersections between "high" and "low" literature, I claim that periodicals, fotoromanzi, romance novels, and so-called "high" literature both aim to differently educate a new readership.  In order to neutralize the conservative ideology implicitly conveyed by the rosa, women writers parodied or re-elaborated the cliché and language of popular literature.  Ultimately, I assert that the various forms of women's popular writing deserve reevaluation, if we are to draw an accurate landscape of women's writing in the boom decades of the Italian Novecento.
Ophthalmophagus massinoi Witenberg 1926
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Ophthalmophagus
Ophthalmophagus massinoi

description: O. massinoi Witenberg, 1926
Type host. Unknown species of “wild duck” (Anseriformes: Anatidae).
Type locality. Turkestan, Russian Federation; specific type locality unknown. Remarks. Considered to be a synonym of O. singularis (Stossich, 1902) by Dubois (1959). No oral or ventral sucker described—Witenberg (1926).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Arrenurus cylindratus Piersig 1896
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus cylindratus

description: Arrenurus cylindratus Piersig, 1896
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at one spring site in Ösling, 3 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). No larvae found in traps.
Remarks: There is no description of larval Arrenurus cylindratus and therefore this species could not be separated from the other species of the genus present here, A. fontinalis K.Viets, 1920 and A. inexploratus K.Viets, 1930. In studies carried out in Luxembourg and other areas (Viets 1923; Gerecke et al. 2005), the species demonstrated a preference for limnocrenes.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Megaponera
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Megaponera

description: Species of Megaponera
M. analis (Latreille, 1802): Guinea (comb. rev.)
M. analis amazon Santschi, 1935: Ethiopia
M. analis crassicornis (Gerstäcker, 1859): Mozambique
M. analis rapax Santschi, 1914 b: Tanzania
M. analis subpilosa Santschi, 1937: Angola
M. analis termitivora Santschi, 1930: DRC
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
Arrenurus fontinalis K.Viets 1920
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus fontinalis

description: Arrenurus fontinalis K.Viets, 1920
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at five spring sites in Gutland and in Ösling, 12 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). E1 1 larva, E3 64 larvae, E4 8 larvae, parasitic on dixids. Attribution by co­ocurrence.
Descriptions of larvae (see Figs. 59, 60): Martin (2000).
Remarks: Arrenurus fontinalis is the most abundant Arrenurus species in springs of Luxemburg; with a preference for rheocrenes, rheohelocrenes and helocrenes with a slow current (Gerecke et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007
Recreation and retreat
Creators: name: Tice, Lisa Jane Neal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation, Recreation and Retreat: Garden Casini in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Rome, examines the significance of casini, or garden houses, located on villa properties in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Rome and its periphery. It traces the ancient sources of this building type, notably the letters of Pliny the Younger describing his Tuscan and Laurentine villas, as well as precedents found in agricultural estates from antiquity through the Renaissance. It also considers the development of the casino from an outdoor studiolo used for study and the intimate display of collections to a more open garden house intended for entertainment and festivities. Although the architectural forms of casini vary, their construction and decoration were often given priority over the main residence on the property, emphasizing the importance of this building type in villa architecture. The dissertation is composed of case studies of villa properties belonging to specific wealthy and noble families in Rome and its periphery, namely the Medici, Farnese, Borghese, and Ludovisi, and the individual casini on their estates. Prominent structures such as Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi's Casino dell'Aurora, which houses Guercino's Aurora, as well as Scipione Borghese's Casino dell'Aurora, which showcases Guido Reni's famous Aurora, are considered, as well as their extensive decorative programs. I provide an analysis of casino decoration in general and the recurrence of pastoral themes, but most importantly, I consider the figure of Aurora, who appears in many garden casini, and her iconographic significance as a symbol of rebirth and renewal. Through an examination of inventories of furniture, paintings, sculpture and other objects, as well as the iconographic programs of the small buildings, the dissertation illustrates the changing functions of casini that corresponded with their patrons' interests and goals, and also with the evolving nature of the Renaissance villa as it developed from a confined villa property to a garden park. My investigation of the topic is the first to define the casino as an independent building type and to track its prominent role in landscape and villa architecture in Italy.
Ophthalmophagus plectopteri Dubois 1930
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Ophthalmophagus
Ophthalmophagus plectopteri

description: O. plectopteri Dubois, 1930
Type host. Spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis (Linnaeus) (Anseriformes: Anatidae). Type locality. South Africa (République d’Afrique du Sud), specific locality unknown.
Hοst Porzana parva Bucephala clangula Charadrius Cairina moschata Unknοwn Rallus aquaticus Plectopterus Rallidae Anatidae alexandriunus dealbatus Anatidae "wild duck" Rallidae gambensis Charadriidae Anatidae Anatidae
Lοcality Russia USA Japan Brazil Russia Russia Sοuth Africa
Estimated frοm figure in οriginal descriptiοn. 2 Measurements frοm Kοssack (1911).
Remarks. The original description by Dubois (1930) did not include an illustration of an adult specimen. Later Dubois (1959) considered this species to be a synonym of Ophthalmophagus magalhaesi Travassos, 1921; however, the eggs of O. magalhaesi (originally described from Brazil) are exceptionally large for members of the genus (219 x 105) in contrast to the more typical-sized eggs of O. plectopteri (105–125 x 41 –45; described from South Africa) and it is not likely the two species are synonymous. Ophthalmophagus magalhaesi further differs from O. plectopteri where the cirrus sac “doesn’t even reach the mid-level of the esophagus”, by having the cirrus sac surpassing the intestinal bifurcation posteriorly. This species appears to be similar to O. bucephali Dronen & Blend, 2007 and O. magalhaesi by having the posttesticular ovary in close proximity to the posterior testes (“The posterior testicle is near the right cecum and not very far from the ovary.”). No oral or ventral sucker described— Dubois (1930).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on pages 79-81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Development of a time resolved scanning particle image velocimetry system for measurement of the small scales of turbulent flows
Creators: name: Torregrosa, Maria Del Mar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Our knowledge of the quasi-universal intermediate and small scales of turbulent shear flows is incomplete and is a common topic of great interest in modern turbulence research. The temporal and spatial complexity of the turbulent flows at such small scale has prevented the acquisition of full experimental data sets for validating classical turbulent theory and direct numerical Simulations (DNS). To better understand these phenomena, a Time Resolved Scanning PIV system was developed to take three- dimensional two- component velocity data at the small scales of turbulent flows. The TR SPIV system was designed, set-up and tested. A criterion based on the PIV nature of the measurements and basic turbulence concepts is proposed for the determination of the minimum turbulent scales that the system can measure.Quasi-instantaneous volumetric vector fields at the far field of a round turbulent jet in water (Re~1,500) were reconstructed and studied. The spatial and temporal resolution of the system allowed the visualization of velocity fields at Taylor length scales of the flow and its evolution in time. According to the quasi-universality theory on turbulent inner scales, the inner-variables scaling become Reynolds independent, and this was validated with the probability density functions of the velocity gradients.
title: Chemically tailored corrosion resistant high-T.sub.C superconductors
Creators: name: McDevitt, John T.
name: Zhou, Ji-Ping
name: Zhao, Jianai
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: C01G3/006
subject: C01P2002/34
subject: C01P2002/76
subject: C01P2002/77
subject: C01P2004/02
subject: C01P2004/03
subject: C04B35/4508
subject: H01L39/126
subject: H01L39/247
subject: Y10S505/78
subject: Y10T428/2933
subject: Y10T428/2991
subject: 252/519.15
subject: 257/E39.010
subject: 428/375
subject: 428/403
subject: 505/234
subject: 505/434
subject: 505/780

description: A corrosion resistant high temperature superconductor and a method of preparing said superconductors involving substitution of ions in the lattice to relieve stress and strain caused by mismatched bond lengths. Specific examples of such superconductors are Y.sub.1-y Ca.sub.y Ba.sub.2-y La.sub.y Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-d where O
Experimental study and computer modeling of hydration-related behavior of L-tyrosine-derived polyarylates
Creators: name: Valenzuela, Loreto M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Water uptake influences many properties of polymers and has been widely studied.  In the context of polymeric biomaterials, several recent publications reported an unusual high variability of analytical results of water uptake. In the current investigation, two possible causes for the high variability of water uptake data are studied: (1) variations in the initial molecular weight of the polymer samples and (2) variations in the processing conditions used during sample preparation. Using model polymers from the combinatorial library of L-tyrosine-derived polyarylates, it was shown that the water uptake variability could be reduced significantly by annealing the film specimens after pressing. With the introduction of an annealing step, accurate and reproducible results (relative SD < 11 %) could be obtained using a 3H-radiolabeled water method that enables parallel measurements required for the efficient screening of multiple polymer samples. Water uptake from a subset of 23 polymers from this library could not be predicted using a single parameter such as glass transition temperature or hydrophobicity. Thus, a semi-empirical model using artificial neural networks was developed to predict with high accuracy (Pearson coefficient > 0.6) the water uptake, represented by the Weibull equation. Accurate predictions (within experimental error) of water uptake were obtained for 10 of the 18 polymers used in this study, with only one polymer for which predictions were very inaccurate. The model was evaluated in an external polymer set and showed high accuracy. A semi-empirical model was also obtained for degradation kinetic parameters, with accurate predictions (Pearson coefficient = 0.7) for the kinetic coefficient of the first order model, suggesting a first order mechanism. Predictions of water uptake and degradation kinetics were obtained for the rest of the library. These predictions may be used to select a group of polymers that satisfy certain design criteria, and eventually find a lead polymer for a specific medical application. However, modeling does not eliminate the need to run experiments, it only reduces the space of polymers that should be tested to find that lead polymer.
Flux compactifications, dual gauge theories and supersymmetry breaking
Creators: name: Torroba, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The nonholomorphic sector of four dimensional theories with N=1 supersymmetry that arises from string compactifications is analyzed, and new models of supersymmetry breaking (both in string and field theory) are presented. The dissertation combines three complementary viewpoints.First, space-time effects in 4d supergravity are studied from type IIB string theory compactified on warped Calabi-Yau manifolds with fluxes. The vacuum structure of supersymmetric flux compactifications is well understood and our aim is to extend this to include space-time dependence in the presence of nontrivial warping. Going beyond the static limit is required in order to compute kinetic terms and masses. We develop formalism for identifying the microscopic 10d fluctuations that give rise to fields in the low energy 4d theory, and we present a general formula for their kinetic terms. As an application, the effective theories for the universal K?hler modulus and the complex modulus of the warped deformed conifold are determined. The full effective action for warped compactifications is calculated to quadratic order, including both 4d zero modes and their light Kaluza-Klein excitations.Next, using gauge/gravity dualities, we consider the previous results from the gauge theory side. The focus is on the warped deformed conifold, which is dual to the Klebanov-Strassler gauge theory. In the infrared it reduces to four dimensional pure super Yang-Mills, corresponding to D5 branes in the resolved conifold. The closed string analysis reveals a new term in the K?hler potential for the complex modulus, which has important effects on the low energy theory. It is suggested that this term has a natural interpretation in the dual gauge theory, in terms of the composite nature of the gaugino condensate.Finally, new models of supersymmetry breaking are developed. From the string theory side, we analyze supersymmetry breaking by anti-self-dual flux in the deformed conifold. The theory develops a parametrically small scale of supersymmetry breaking, once warp corrections to the K?hler potential are included. In the field theory side, we construct a model of metastable supersymmetry breaking in SQCD where all the relevant parameters generated dynamically. It is argued that it is possible to balance non-perturbative effects against perturbative corrections. Furthermore, metastable vacua in SQCD with multitrace deformations are explored, with the aim of obtaining an acceptable phenomenology.