cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Philonthus coiffaiti Hromadka 1992
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus coiffaiti

description: Philonthus coiffaiti Hromádka, 1992
Philonthus [s.str.] coiffaiti Hromádka, 1992: 97, Figs 1 – 2.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ [p, red label] // NEPAL-MANANG / 15.10.80 / A.
ROUSEK [hw] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague,
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ CONGO BELGE / Edouard:Vitshumbi / U.V. 7.V. 1954 / J. Verbecke - KEA [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / coris sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2009. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 368, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
title: Methods for inducing an immune response via buccal and/or sublingual administration of a vaccine
Creators: name: Croyle, Maria A.
name: Choi, Jun Huk
name: Schafer, Stephen Clay
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: A61K9/006
subject: A61K39/12
subject: A61K47/26
subject: A61K2039/5256
subject: A61K2039/541
subject: C12N1/04
subject: C12N7/00
subject: C12N2710/10343
subject: C12N2710/10351
subject: C12N2760/14134
subject: No longer published

description: Vaccine compositions that may be administered to a subject via the buccal and/or sublingual mucosa are provided. Methods for administration and preparation of such vaccine compositions are also provided.
title: Masonry wall assembly
Creators: name: Henning Gomes, Francisco
name: Staub Gomes, Dabney
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: E04B2/24
subject: E04B2/22
subject: E04C1/39
subject: E04C1/397
subject: E04B2002/0247
subject: No longer published

description: The present invention includes a method and a unit for a masonry wall system, each unit comprising a face shell wherein the interior surface has a transverse axis running from the top surface to the bottom surface of the face shell, and one or more webs having a front end and a rear end, wherein the rear end of each web is integral with or attached to the interior surface of the face shell along the transverse axis. The method for wall construction further comprising positioning one or more vertical reinforcement rods or tendons with one end embedded in a wall-foundation and laying a layer wall units on the wall-foundation such that the one or more webs of the layers of wall units are aligned, and the vertical reinforcement rods or tendons run through or are adjacent to the webs of the wall units.
Metal concentrations (AS, CD, CR, PB, HG and SE) in  Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Creators: name: Jeitner, Christian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Concerns about contaminants in fish have increased in recent years, especially in species consumed heavily in subsistence diets. Most studies of contaminants in Alaskan subsistence foods have focused on mainland Alaska not the Aleutian Islands. Several islands along the Aleutian Archipelago of Alaska have supported military bases which may be a source of pollution, and the proximity of the Aleutian chain to Eastern Asia may increase its susceptibility to atmospheric deposition of heavy metals. This study compares levels of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and selenium in the egg, kidney, liver and muscle of Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) from Umnak, Adak, and Amchitka Islands in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska. I examined levels as a function of tissue, gender, collection site, and size. There were significant differences in the levels of metals as a function of tissue, with kidney having the highest levels of arsenic and cadmium, and kidney and liver having significantly higher levels of chromium and mercury than the other tissues examined. Selenium and arsenic in muscle and liver were highly correlated with both length and weight of fish. Arsenic and mercury in muscle were highly correlated with levels in liver, kidney and egg. There were few significant gender differences in metal concentrations, with females having higher levels of chromium in muscle and cadmium in kidney than males. However selenium in liver was higher in males than females. On Amchitka mean mercury levels were higher in both muscle (149 ppb; ng/g, wet weight) and liver (321 ppb) compared to fish from Adak and Umnak (muscle = 24 ppb and liver = 44 ppb). Dolly Varden collected from Cannikin Lake and Fox Lake on Amchitka were probably not sea run. This may explain the elevated mercury levels found in Dolly Varden from Amchitka Island. Landlocked Dolly Varden feed more heavily on smaller fish and fish eggs which places them at a higher trophic level than anadromous fish which primarily feed on amphipods. Selenium levels were highest in muscle (761 ppb) and liver (1,860 ppb) of fish caught in Cannikin Lake on Amchitka Island. Overall, concentrations of the metal contaminants in Dolly Varden were relatively low when compared with other studies on anadromous and marine fish from the region, and differences among collection sites may be due to trophic level differences between landlocked (Cannikin Lake) and sea-run Dolly Varden.
Philonthus crecopsis Hromadka 2013
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus crecopsis

description: Philonthus crecopsis Hromádka, 2013
Philonthus crecopsis Hromádka, 2013e: 212, Figs 27–29.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ CONGO BELGE / Edouard:Vitshumbi / U.V. 7.V. 1954 [sic!] / J. Verbecke – KEA [p] // ex coll. L.Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / crecopsis sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2013. [p, red label]’.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 369, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Power, patronage and “présence”
Creators: name: Milburn, Sarah Stafford
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Calls for imperial control of the disorganized periphery are still heard from major powers, and even from smaller states under threat.  France has maintained an unmatched level of postcolonial control in many of its former sub-Saharan African colonies since their independence in 1960, demonstrating a masterful combination of military and economic power, for which long-cultivated political and cultural influences have been as important as force projection and financial support.  Four dimensions of French “présence” are examined (military, political, economic, and cultural), requiring a historical understanding of the inherently unequal power relationships between France and its African clients. This dissertation provides comparative analysis of France’s relationships with four former colonies: Gabon, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and Chad.  These countries of the former French Equatorial Africa are interesting because, although less prosperous, stable and politically connected to France than West Africa, and less strategically important than North Africa, they were valuable enough to receive consistent attention from the Elysée, military bases, intervention troops, the Franc Zone’s bank, and a large contingent of French military, intelligence, financial, and administrative personnel. This quasi-feudal pattern of patronage poses ethical and political dilemmas for a proud European power that sees itself as the womb of democracy. Gaullist political philosophy articulated clear goals of preponderant power and cultural greatness, which bore direct relation to the postcolonial continuity of French policy.  In spite of accusations of neocolonialism and imperialism over the past four decades, France’s interventions in its chasse gardée have rarely been called breaches of sovereignty because they were covered since independence by extensive military and economic cooperation agreements. “Patronage” refers to protection and support, but one’s patron can demand services in return that can be either reasonable or exploitative.  In French, the word “patron” means “boss,” but can also mean “pattern.” France’s intention was to shape these nations as well as to rule them.  If France could no longer rule Africa in the ancient imperial manner of subsuming whole peoples under its own sovereignty, it remained able to exert enough control to keep its sub-Saharan clients in a condition of useful dependency.
Surface directed electrokinetic flows in microfluidic devices
Creators: name: Karacor, Mehmet Basar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Electroosmotic flow control in microfluidic devices is an important and challenging problem, as electroosmosis directly influences separation efficiencies in lab-on-chip applications. In this study, a non-mechanical passive flow directing method is presented for electrokinetically driven flow. Due to the high surface-area-to-volume (SA/V) ratio, surface properties dominate the flow in microfluidic channels. For electrokinetically driven flows, the main surface property affecting electroosmotic flows is the surface ζ potential, which is related to the effective surface charge density. By changing the effective surface charge density, the electroosmotic flow rates of charged species can be controlled in microfluidic channels. In this work, to change the effective surface charge density, surfaces were chemically modified with –Br, –NH2 and –CH3 functional groups by ‘click’ chemistry. Since these functional surface layers are integrated within model glass microfluidic devices prepared by standard microfabrication procedures, the first step was to investigate the stability of the adherent surface layers to a variety of microfabrication conditions. A model “Y” shaped glass microfluidic device was developed. One leg of this model microfluidic device was selectively chemically modified to alter the ζ potential and thereby increase or decrease the electroosmotic flow with respect to rest of the device. Electroosmotic flow is visualized by using marker dyes under a fluorescent microscope. In addition, experiments were validated by using the CFD code in COMSOL. The experiments concluded that the surface layers are stable to a variety of conditions including a wide pH range (pH 3 – pH 11), solvent exposure, acid and base exposure, and UV light. Extreme conditions such as a piranha solution or oxidative plasma degrade the surface layers. Electrokinetic flow experiments show that depending on the charge of a species the electroosmotic flow is preferentially directed as a function of the ζ potential in the microfluidic channels.
Effect of water quality model uncertainty on the Passaic total maximum daily load and water quality trading program for total phosphorus
Creators: name: Kardos, Josef Sy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Water quality modeling is a major source of scientific uncertainty in the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process.  The effects of these uncertainties extend to water quality trading programs designed to implement TMDLs.  This is the first study to examine the effects of water quality model uncertainty on a nutrient trading program.  The method introduced in this study involved application of simple statistical tools to assess the credibility of the uncertainty analysis when compared to observed data.  The method's efficiency and practicality directly address a main obstacle that has hindered a wider practice of uncertainty analyses of water quality models.This study identified how water quality model uncertainty affects outcomes related to the Non-Tidal Passaic River Basin TMDL for total phosphorus (TP) and potential trades of TP between wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).  The TMDL margin of safety was found to be sufficient with respect to attaining dissolved oxygen (DO) surface water quality standards at Dundee Lake, and achieving a 70% reduction in diverted TP load from the Wanaque South intake to the Wanaque Reservoir.  Although the TMDL scenario showed greater than 10% probability of exceeding the target for chlorophyll-a (chl-a) at Dundee Lake, the efficacy of TMDL measures was clearly demonstrated when compared directly to actual conditions in the critical drought period of Water Year 2002.  The uncertainty analysis found no evidence to suggest that the outcome of trades between WWTPs, as compared with command and control regulation, will significantly increase uncertainty in the attainment of DO surface water quality standards, site-specific chl-a criteria, and reduction targets for diverted TP load at affected potential hot spots in the watershed.  Each simulated trading scenario demonstrated parity with or improvement from the baseline at the TMDL critical locations and low risk of hot spots elsewhere.Finally, research on risk communication techniques was synthesized to help the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in its future public participation efforts on the Passaic water quality trading program.  A strategy based on the principles of 'outrage management' was outlined for conducting a public meeting.
Incarnation theology and its others
Creators: name: Keil, Aphrodite M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation examines the complex interrelations between incarnation theology and  notions of the female body across a representative group of later Middle English literary texts. These texts include two dream visions, one Chaucer’s House of Fame, the product of a London author associated with the royal court, the other, the more provincial Pearl; and two dramas, the Marian  pageants of the N-Town cycle play, and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament. A number of feminist scholars, including Caroline Bynum and Barbara Newman, have argued that the category of the feminine was crucial to late medieval conceptions of Christ, that the late medieval Christ was often represented as an androgynous or feminized figure, and that such representations created opportunities for particular women to imitate Christ by means of, rather than despite, their female bodies.  My dissertation takes this work as its starting point, but my work differs from it by framing the problem as one of poetic representation. The dispersive representational strategies of the drama on the one hand and the intensely visual elaborations of the dream poems on the other consistently complicate any straightforward theological doctrine. This dissertation argues that even when Christ’s body is feminized in these texts, that feminization is usually complicated by other elements of the representation, so that no simple affirmation of female bodies or female authority takes place. Also, Christ’s fleshliness  and Mary’s body are not always presented as meek, nurturant and protective; in my chapter on the Play of the Sacrament I argue that these sacred bodies depart from traditional iconography and behave in aggressive and indecorous ways. In this study, I have drawn upon recent scholarly analyses of the late medieval incarnational aesthetic,  anthropological theories of ritual and performance, feminist theories of  gender and embodiment, and studies of medieval literary genres, particularly of  the dream vision and the Old French fabliau.
Loss of the cbd-1 gene causes intracellular trafficking defects in C. elegans
Creators: name: Kelly, Lindsay
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Several large scale RNAi screens in C. elegans have allowed us to develop a network of genes involved in early embryogenesis that can be broken down into molecular modules. Phenotypic analysis of the cbd-1 gene, chosen from the oocyte integrity module has helped elucidate its role in intracellular trafficking events important for fertilization and egg activation. RNAi depletion of cbd-1 prevented sperm receptor molecules EGG-1 and EGG-2 from accumulating at the oocyte plasma membrane, thereby interfering with fertilization. Similarly, yolk receptor RME-2 did not localize to the membrane and RNAi animals showed reduced yolk uptake in oocytes, causing them to be poorly developed. Yolk uptake via RME-2 is important for CAV-1 localization, which plays a role in Ras/MAPK dependent meiotic progression. RNAi of cbd-1 caused a mislocalization of CAV-1 and a meiotic arrest at metaphase I. The EGG-3/CHS-1 membrane complex also failed to form, thereby affecting regulation of MBK-2 which did not properly degrade its maternal protein targets.These RNAi experiments lead us to believe that cbd-1 functions as a general regulator, controlling trafficking of proteins to the membrane. Proper localization of cbd-1 targets to the membrane is critical to their function. The targets that we have uncovered thus far are important regulators of meiotic progression, sperm entry, eggshell formation, and egg activation events.
Reassessing forest transition theory
Creators: name: Kelly, Jessica Jean
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Rural out-migration, increasing market orientation and forest resource scarcity, according to the forest transition theory, promote the recovery of forests on landscapes in rural areas.  However, the drivers and paths in the North American and European case studies, on which the theory was developed, differ in important ways from those drivers and paths observed in case studies conducted in the tropics.  The forest transition theory, through a feminist lens, is reassessed by examining the social drivers of forest cover change in a case study in El Salvador. A gender sensitive construction of forest transition theory incorporates the ways in which the social and cultural roles of women interact with migration patterns, land tenure structures, and organizations, such as cooperatives. The results of qualitative research conducted in El Salvador (2005-2007) at the household level and of quantitative research at the regional and national levels demonstrate that ecological processes of forest recovery, through a confluence of factors, have an important, heretofore unrecognized gendered dimension.
The utility of L-tyrosine based polycarbonate copolymers containing poly(ethylene glycol) as a degradable carrier for the release of a hydrophobic peptide molecule
Creators: name: Khan, Isaac John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The utility of biodegradable polymers as localized drug delivery carriers is an ongoing area of research where investigators attempt to deliver a wide range of hydrophobic small molecules and peptides.  The long-term (> 1 year), controllable and sustained release of such molecules from these solid carriers has not been demonstrated due to the complexity of the reaction-diffusion mechanisms that occur in these hydrated polymers.  The goal of the present research was to characterize the release of the hydrophobic peptide voclosporin from a class of biodegradable amorphous polymers based on desaminotyrosyl-tyrosine alkyl ester (DTR) and desaminotyrosyl-tyrosine ester, (DT), and the monomer polyethylene glycol (PEG).  Four areas of study were presented: (i) the modulation of drug release and polymer erosion as a function of poly(DTR-co-y % DT-co-z % PEG1K carbonate) homo-, co- and terpolymer compositions, (ii) the changes in polymer morphology and a proposed theory to account for drug retention exhibited by these polymers after prolonged hydration, (iii) the instability of voclosporin in the presence of the terpolymer carriers and the need for formulations containing antioxidants and (iv) the demonstration of selected PEG-containing polycarbonate formulations as a drug delivery vehicle for potential ophthalmic applications.  The polycarbonate terpolymers were shown to undergo hydration-induced microphase separation, where the mobility of the PEG1K length in the composition enabled this behavior.  The limited access of water to regions containing only PEG was believed to cause both drug retention and a slowdown in polymer erosion in these matrices.  Drug-polymer interaction between DTE-co-DT segments of the polymer and voclosporin was also suspected to play a role in drug retention.  In vivo in vitro correlation (IVIVC) values of 3 to 4 obtained from rabbit implantation studies implied that both drug release and polymer resorption would be enhanced if these carriers were placed within the human body.  Select tyrosine-based polycarbonate terpolymer matrices were well tolerated in the sensitive regions of the rabbit’s eye.  An outcome of this research is the development of a polymer platform that can serve as an implantable medical device matrix to deliver drugs to patients for the treatment of chronic diseases and disorders of the eye.
title: Sub-stoichiometric, chalcogen-containing-germanium, tin, or lead anodes for lithium or sodium ion batteries
Creators: name: Heller, Adam
name: Mullins, Charles Buddie
name: Abel, Paul
name: Klavetter, Kyle C.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: H01M4/581
subject: H01B1/02
subject: H01G11/50
subject: H01M4/405
subject: H01M4/5815
subject: H01M10/05
subject: H01G11/30
subject: H01M4/134
subject: H01M4/136
subject: H01M10/0525
subject: H01M10/054
subject: H01M2004/021
subject: Y02E60/13
subject: Y02T10/7022
subject: No longer published

description: The disclosure relates to an anode or an electrolytic capacitor electrode including an active anode material containing a chalcogen-containing-germanium composition in which the germanium:chalcogen atom ratio is between 80:20 and 98:2. The disclosure also relates to an anode including an active anode material containing a lithium and germanium-containing alloy wherein the lithium:germanium atom ratio is 22:5 or less. The anode also includes a non-cycling lithium chalcogenide. The disclosure further relates to lithium ion batteries including such anodes. The disclosure additionally relates to capacitor electrodes containing similar materials and capacitors containing such electrodes.
Development of efficient encoding in visual working memory
Creators: name: Kibbe, Melissa M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Previous research has shown that infants’ visual working memory (WM) capacity for objects appears to increase over the first year of life, from one object at 6 months to three objects at 12 months (Ross-Sheehy, Oakes, & Luck, 2003; Leslie & Kaldy, 2007).  However, other evidence suggests that infants are able to keep track of multiple objects, without necessarily any identifying information, and that this object-tracking capacity does not seem to change over the first year of life (Feigenson, Carey, & Hauser, 2002; Feigenson & Carey, 2003).  This apparent contradiction in findings prompted us to attempt to tease apart WM for individuated objects and for object identities (features) in infants.  Our research indicates that infants, like adults, have a fixed number of slots in which to store objects, but the amount of resources available for encoding identifying featural information increases over the first year of life, resulting in an increase in the resolution of WM representations.
title: Hemoglobin contrast in magneto-motive optical doppler tomography, optical coherence tomography, and ultrasound imaging methods and apparatus
Creators: name: Milner, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: A61B5/0066
subject: A61B5/0035
subject: A61B5/026
subject: A61B5/0261
subject: A61B5/0275
subject: A61B5/05
subject: A61B5/0515
subject: A61B5/6852
subject: A61B5/725
subject: A61B8/06
subject: A61B8/13
subject: A61B8/488
subject: A61N2/02
subject: A61B2576/00
subject: G01N21/1717
subject: G01N21/4795
subject: No longer published

description: Provided herein are systems, methods, and compositions for the use of optical coherence tomography for detection of cells.
Philonthus crocodylus Hromadka 2010
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus crocodylus

description: Philonthus crocodylus Hromádka, 2010
Philonthus crocodylus Hromádka, 2010e: 20, Figs 56–60.
One paratype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ ♀) (: ‘722 [p, yellow label] // Ebogo. / (?). vii.1993 / FITrap 1. [p] // CAMEROON: / Mbalmayo F.Res. / TIGER Survey. / BM 1994-148. [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (Pseudophil.) / crocodylus sp. nov. / Hromádka det. 2008 [p, pink label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 369, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
title: Oil quality using a microporous hollow fiber membrane
Creators: name: Kipp, Peter B.
name: Seibert, Frank
name: Briggs, Stephen William
name: Truscott, Stacy S.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: B01D61/00
subject: B01D63/02
subject: B01D2311/02
subject: B01D2311/04
subject: B01D2323/04
subject: B01D2323/46
subject: B01D2311/2676
subject: B01D2311/2649
subject: C10G31/09
subject: No longer published

description: The present invention includes methods and systems for improving oil quality of a contaminated oil mixture by removing contaminants from a contaminated oil comprising the steps of: pretreating a membrane contactor system having a first and a second surface with an hydrophobic liquid, wherein the hydrophobic liquid is contacted to at least one of the first and second surfaces; obtaining a contaminated oil that comprises oil and lipophobic contaminants; contacting the contaminated oil onto a first surface of one or more membrane contactors to coalesce the oil on the first surface; and collecting the coalesced oil from the contaminated oil on the second surface of the membrane contactor.
The sorption, biotransformation, and detection of hormones in the environment
Creators: name: Kim, Il Yum
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this dissertation, the sorption, biotransformation, and presence in the environment of five hormones, 17β-estradiol, 17α-ethinylestradiol, estrone, androstenedione, and testosterone, were chosen for study.  Sorption to various soils and sediments appears to assume non-linear characteristics, with n values in the Freundlich isotherm model falling below unity as well as there being a tendency for log KOC values to increase as the amount of sorbate decreases.  As for inter-soil sorption comparisons, there appeared to be no obvious correlation between the sorption capacity of the hormones and the quantity of organic carbon of the soil, which suggests site-specific interactions between the functional groups of the hormones and the complex surfaces of the soils/sediments employed.  Biotransformation studies of three of the hormones to river sediments reveal that the rate of reaction increased in the order of 17α-ethinylestradiol < 17β-estradiol < testosterone.  The synthetic hormone used in the birth control pills, 17α-ethinylestradiol, was relatively recalcitrant compared to the two natural hormones.  When the hormone biotransformation data was compared to the sorbent characteristics of the same select hormones on the same sediments, it was found in general that sediments with lower organic carbon content yielded longer lag times for both female and male hormones.  The field samples of various sewage treatment plant effluent and river waters of central and northern New Jersey for hormones yielded frequent detections.  At least one hormone was detected at all 9 sampling locations in central and northern New Jersey.  Androstenedione and estrone were the most frequently detected and found at the highest concentrations.  Hormones were detected at levels known to either induce vitellogenin production or have pheromonal effects in fish. The low levels of unconjugated hormone at the combined sewer overflow were most likely due to the lack of deconjugation in the freshly discharged sewage/rain water mixture.
A comparative analysis of student use of The New York times print and digital formats
Creators: name: Kildea, Shawn P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This study compares how students use newspapers across digital and print formats and examines reader preferences.  Studies have shown that when using online versions of newspapers, readers were less likely to follow “media cues” – aspects of a newspaper such as story placement, headline size, story size, or photographs, which cue readers that a story is important.  This study compared use and preference of three formats of the New York Times – the traditional print version, online, and a “reader” program called the New York Times Reader.  The researcher found that while students were more likely to follow media cues using the print version of the New York Times than they were using the online version, they were more likely to follow these cues using the NYT Reader than the online version.  Participants showed a strong preference for using digital formats and overwhelmingly rejected the print version of the New York Times in comparison.  The NYT Reader was the format most preferred by users even though they claimed the navigational experience was more similar to using a print paper than when they used the online version.  This suggests the tactile nature of ink on paper and the student’s familiarity with computer interfaces are likely reasons the participants rejected the print paper but most preferred the digital format that replicated the print paper reading experience.  Previous research that revealed the loss of control of gatekeepers in online formats should revisit the topic using different formats to attempt to determine what is most likely to attract readers to newspapers in their various formats.
Additional file 6: of Analysis of the genome of the New Zealand giant collembolan (Holacanthella duospinosa) sheds light on hexapod evolution
Creators: name: Wu, Chen
name: Jordan, Melissa
name: Newcomb, Richard
name: Gemmell, Neil
name: Bank, Sarah
name: Meusemann, Karen
name: Dearden, Peter
name: Duncan, Elizabeth
name: Sefanie Grosser
name: Rutherford, Kim
name: Gardner, Paul
name: Crowhurst, Ross
name: Steinwender, Bernd
name: Tooman, Leah
name: Stevens, Mark
name: Buckley, Thomas
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table of putative sex determination genes. (DOCX 19 kb)
Bergman kernel, balanced metrics and black holes
Creators: name: Klevtsov, Semyon
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis we explore the connections between the Kahler geometry and Landau levels on compact manifolds. We rederive the expansion of the Bergman kernel on Kahler manifolds developed by Tian, Yau, Zelditch, Lu and Catlin, using path integral and perturbation theory. The physics interpretation of this result is as an expansion of the projector of wavefunctions on the lowest Landau level, in the special case that the magnetic field is proportional to the Kahler form. This is a geometric expansion, somewhat similar to the DeWitt-Seeley-Gilkey short time expansion for the heat kernel, but in this case describing the long time limit, without depending on supersymmetry. We also generalize this expansion to supersymmetric quantum mechanics and more general magnetic fields, and explore its applications. These include the quantum Hall effect in curved space, the balanced metrics and Kahler gravity. In particular, we conjecture that for a probe in a BPS black hole in type II strings compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds, the moduli space metric is the balanced metric.
Additional file 3: Figure S1. of Assessing biological and technological variability in protein levels measured in pre-diagnostic plasma samples of women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Yeh, Christine
name: Ravali Adusumilli
name: Kullolli, Majlinda
name: Parag Mallick
name: John, Esther
name: Pitteri, Sharon
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Principal Component Analysis. (a) first (x-axis) and second (y-axis) principal components capture more than 90% of variance in both Myriad-RBM and Olink datasets but are unable to separate case and control samples (supported visually by heavily overlapping red and blue density maps). (b) the same PCA plots as (a) with samples colored with anonymized sister pair indices reveal that, when evaluated in covariance, protein levels are not more similar between biological sisters than between unrelated individuals in the antibody-based assays. (DOCX 604Â kb)
title: Nonlinear metasurfaces based on plasmonic resonators coupled to intersubband transitions
Creators: name: Belkin, Mikhail A.
name: Alu, Andrea
name: Lee, Jongwon
name: Tymchenko, Mykhailo
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: G02F1/3556
subject: G02B5/008
subject: G02F1/017
subject: G02F1/3501
subject: G02F1/37
subject: G02F2001/0175
subject: G02F2001/01775
subject: G02F2001/3505
subject: G02F2001/3507
subject: G02F2202/108
subject: G02F2202/30
subject: G02F2202/36
subject: G02F2203/10
subject: G02F2203/13
subject: No longer published

description: A nonlinear metasurface structure including a multi-quantum-well layer designed for a nonlinear response for a desired nonlinear optical process and an array of nanoantennas coupled to the intersubband transitions of the multi-quantum-well layer. Each nanoantenna in the array is designed to have electromagnetic resonances at or close to all input and output frequencies of a given nonlinear optical process. Nanoantennas allow efficient coupling of any incident and outgoing light polarizations to intersubband transitions. Nanoantennas may further provide significant field enhancement in the multi-quantum-well layer. As a result, the nonlinear metasurface structure can be designed to produce a highly nonlinear response for any polarization and angle of incidence of incoming and outgoing waves in a nonlinear optical process. Due to their very larger nonlinear response, efficient frequency conversion can be produced in these metasurfaces without the stringent phase-matching constraints of bulk nonlinear crystals.
Philonthus csikii Bernhauer 1917
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus csikii

description: Philonthus csikii Bernhauer, 1917
Philonthus Csikii Bernhauer, 1917: 46.
One syntype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
SYN*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen): ‘Africa or. / Katona [p] // Arusha-Ju / 1905.
XII. [sic!] [p] // Csikii Brh / cotypus [hw]’.
Current status. Valid species, see Hൾ*©MAN (2001b).
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 369, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
title: Statistical estimation-based noise reduction technique for low power successive approximation register analog-to-digital converters
Creators: name: Sun, Nan
name: Chen, Long
name: Tang, Xiyuan
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: H03M1/08
subject: H03M1/04
subject: H03M1/0697
subject: H03M1/1009
subject: H03M1/38
subject: H03M1/468
subject: No longer published

description: Disclosed herein are systems and methods that describe statistical estimation based noise reduction for SAR ADCs. For SAR ADCs, the conversion error can be available at the comparator input. Although a noisy 1-bit comparator may not be able to produce an accurate estimation for its input if used only once, the comparison can be repeated multiple times for a designated bit of the multi-bit SAR ADC. This can allow for the improvement of the estimation accuracy by examining the probability of the comparator output being “1” or “0”. The estimation of a signal from a noisy environment using multiple trials can be cast as a classic statistical estimation issue. In one aspect of the disclosure, an optimal Bayes estimator is disclosed to achieve a low estimation error from the comparator on a designated bit of the multi-bit SAR ADC.
Cryptops (Cryptops) trisulcatus Brolemann 1902
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Cryptopidae
Cryptops
Cryptops trisulcatus

description: * Cryptops (Cryptops) cf. trisulcatus Brölemann, 1902
Material examined: 5 unsexed.
Sites: 7, 56, 178, 179 (Fig. 15).
Habitats. Cultivations with vineyards.
Altitudinal range: 20–1150 m.
Remarks. C. trisulcatus is a Mediterranean species whose range includes Algeria, France (mainland, Corsica), Greece (Ionian Isl., Crete, Dodecanese), Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Maltese Archipelago, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Spain (mainland, Balearic Isl., Canary Isl.), Tunisia, southeastern Turkey (Brölemann 1921, 1930, 1932; Attems 1930; Machado 1952; Negrea & Matic 1973; Foddai et al. 1995; Stoev 1997; Zapparoli 1999, 2002; Akkari et al. 2008). The material examined is tentatively assigned to this species because immature and rather mutilated.
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 293, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus dendropicos Hromadka 2012
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus dendropicos

description: Philonthus dendropicos Hromádka, 2012
Philonthus dendropicos Hromádka, 2012e: 178, Figs 32–35.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ ZIMBABWE / loc. Kutsaga / near Harare airport / 18.vi.1997 W. Rossi leg. [p, yellow label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / dendropicos sp. nov. / Hromádka, det., 2012. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 369, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Data for defining contribution in positive youth development
Creators: name: Deal, Colin
name: Holt, Nicholas L.
name: Sivak, Allison
name: Jørgensen, Helene
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Excel data workbooks for the study "Defining Contribution: A Scoping Review."

Data Extraction Workbook.xlxs pertains to the systematic search of the literature described in phase one of the manuscript. Data include bibliographic information of sources included in the review and text providing a definition or description of contribution or a related prosocial behaviour term extracted from these sources.
Cleaned_DefiningContribution... contains data related to the expert consultation described in phase two of the manuscript.Abstract from publicationThe term contribution is a key feature of approaches to positive youth development (PYD) but has yet to be adequately defined. The purposes of this study were to identify properties that underlie contribution and to establish a theoretical definition of the construct. A two-phase scoping review was conducted. The first phase involved the systematic search, selection, and analysis of studies from which six properties of contribution were identified and a preliminary theoretical definition was constructed. In the second phase expert judges rated the degree to that the proposed definition and the six properties of contribution fit with their conceptualization of the construct on a 6-point scale. Mean ratings for the definition and the six properties ranged from 5.05 to 5.70. Judges’ ratings for the overall definition of contribution and the six properties were evaluated using Aiken’s (1985) content validity coefficient (V). All V coefficients ranged in size from .81 to .94 and were statistically significant (ps < .01) indicating that the definition of contribution and the corresponding six properties fit well with experts’ conceptualizations of the construct. This study provides a theoretical definition of contribution that will serve as a foundation upon which future research in the area of PYD can build.
Scolopendridae Newport 1844
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae

description: Family SCOLOPENDRIDAE Newport, 1844
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 293, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus diceros Hromadka 2011
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus diceros

description: Philonthus diceros Hromádka, 2011
Philonthus diceros Hromádka, 2011b: 53, Figs 62–65.
Four paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾඌ (1, 1 unsexed specimen): ‘ KENYA -Western / Kakamega
Forest N.R. / env.Udo´s Campsite / 0.21N / 34.51 E / 1600m, 27.-29. ix.2001 / light trap, leg.L.Kühne [p, blue label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / diceros sp. n. / Hromádka, det. 2006. [p, orange label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾ (): ‘KENYA-Western / Kakamega Forest N.R. / env. Udo´s Campsite / 0.21N / 34.51 E / 1600m, 27.-29.ix.2001 / light trap, leg.L.Kühne [p, blue label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / diceros sp. n. / Hromádka, det. 2006. [p, orange label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾ (unsexed specimen): ‘KENYA-Western / Kakamega Forest.R N. / prim.Forest, 1600m / 0.21N / 34.51 E / 18.ix.2001,lighttrap 1(2) / leg. L. Kühne & J.Holstein [p, blue label] // ex coll.L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / diceros sp. n. / Hromádka, det. 2006. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on pages 369-370, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Scolopendra Linne 1758
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Zapparoli, Marzio
name: Minelli, Alessandro
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Scolopendra

description: Scolopendra Linné, 1758
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, pp. 279-306 in Zootaxa 3647 (2) on page 293, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220527
Philonthus dinemellia Hromadka 2014
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Philonthus
Philonthus dinemellia

description: Philonthus dinemellia Hromádka, 2014
Philonthus dinemellia Hromádka, 2014j: 418, Figs 21–23.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ 30-3-1983 / Lama Kara [sic!] / Togo;leg.Krell [p] // Hotel Kara / Hg-lux [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HOLOTYPUS / PHILONTHUS (s. str.) / dinemellia sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2012. [p, orange label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 370, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030