cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
UC Humanities Network
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The University of California Humanities Network is a Multi-Campus Research Program and Initiative that includes the nationally-renowned University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), a consortium of interconnected campus humanities centers and multi-campus research groups that sponsor interdisciplinary and collaborative research, plus a multi-tiered program of competitively-awarded research fellowships for faculty and graduate students. The Network engages all ten UC campuses in a wide variety of ambitious and innovative programs that range from competitively-awarded research projects undertaken by individual scholars to collaborative research groups that bring together scholars from every campus. Projects encompass compelling research questions that engage traditions that have been at the heart of the humanities for millennia and innovative, interdisciplinary projects that join humanities research to every area of intellectual inquiry in the university. Indeed, both the UC Humanities Research Institute and many of our campus-based centers are known for interdisciplinary endeavors that attract not only humanities and social science scholars but also colleagues from science, engineering, medicine, law, education, and agriculture. UCHRI, as well as humanities scholars throughout the UC system, have been national and international leaders in the development of the digital humanities and the digital arts. We also have been leaders in developing public humanities programs and partnerships with cultural institutions that have contributed to public policy debates and made vital contributions to the culture and society of the State of California and beyond. In proposing innovative structures to identify, extend and sustain the most cutting edge work anywhere in the humanities today, this proposal also identifies contemporary grand challenges we aim to support: the changing interface between the human and natural worlds; the urgency of ethically addressing ongoing questions of human difference and diversity; and the evolving role of the humanities in data-driven environments, including the contributions of the digital to effective humanistic learning and that of the humanities to compelling digital education. The UC Humanities Network thus exemplifies of the power of the University of California to leverage the resources and excellence of individual campuses to create a multi-campus network in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We fully represent the power of ten.
Hyperolius ocellatus subsp. purpurescens Laurent 1943
Creators: name: Badjedjea, Gabriel
name: Masudi, Franck M.
name: Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu
name: Gvoždík, Václav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hyperoliidae
Hyperolius
Hyperolius ocellatus
Hyperolius ocellatus purpurescens laurent, 1943

description: Hyperolius ocellatus purpurescens Laurent, 1943
Fig. 9F.
Area: Yetee.
Season/survey: Dry (Aug 2019).
Material: CSB:Herp: RNBK 611, 612, 694, 695–697.
Comments: This species was recorded only once near Yalokenge village in pristine forest, in a partially open swampy zone at the edge of a stream. Five males were found sitting on vegetation, and not calling. The only female was discovered well hidden in vegetation, far from the place where the males aggregated. Schiøtz (2006) also recorded “only few specimens” in small forest swamps in Kokolopori, and described their coloration. This is a sexually dichromatic species (Portik et al. 2019) with green males that have a silvery white triangle on the snout and white dorsolateral stripes. The female (Fig. 9F) has the color pattern corresponding to the subspecies H. o. purpurescens originally described from the southeast of Kisangani (Laurent 1943) [type locality of the nominotypical subspecies was restricted to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea]. A phylogeographic study suggested a complex pattern of genetic variation with the eastern Congolian populations differentiated to some level (samples from Kokolopori were not included; Bell et al. 2017). Hyperolius hildebrandti Ahl, 1931 (type locality “ Kamerun;” Ahl 1931) may be an older available name for populations from the Congolian forests. Whether this taxon deserves full species status remains to be evaluated.
description: Published as part of Badjedjea, Gabriel, Masudi, Franck M., Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu & Gvoždík, Václav, 2022, Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo, pp. 35-70 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 301) (e 301) 16 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761585
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Creators: name: Rukundo, Godfrey
name: Jannat Kasozi
name: Aluonzi Burani
name: Wycliff Byona
name: Kirimuhuzya, Claude
name: Kiguli, Sarah
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: IDI questions for graduate students. (DOCX 16 kb)
Tunable Quantum Materials
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: RESEARCH We propose a research program leading to transformative scientific/technological revolutions in the fields of electronics, optics, data storage, and computation. The era of artificial brains rivaling biological systems, intelligent sensors that change functionality depending on stimulus, and tunable sub-wavelength optical devices may be on the horizon. However, serious hurdles remain for the development of fault-tolerant devices, self-learning electronics and computation, controllable optical systems, and reconfigurable devices with new functionalities. New materials, which exhibit quantum correlations unavailable in the existing materials “toolkit”, provide the solution. The proposed new paradigm may lead to an equivalent scientific/technological revolution to the “silicon revolution”. To implement this we will develop nano hybrids of strongly correlated oxides interfaced with other oxides, magnetic, and semiconducting materials and will focus on: 1) Synthesis and characterization of nanoscale hybrids with high interface density designed to enhance coupling of functionalities (ferro/antiferro/ferri-magnetism, ferroelectricity, optically transparent/opaque, metallic/insulating conductivity). 2) Understand time-dependent electronic, structural, magnetic, and optical responses at ultrasmall-length and ultrafast-time scales, 3) Control quantum phase transitions by inducing magnetic/electronic/optical transitions with electric field, current, light or strain. 4) Construct reconfigurable optical systems with unprecedented control of light. EXPECTED IMPACT ON UC The broad, diverse expertise (Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering) from 3 UC campuses, at different stages of their carriers together with forefront synthesis, characterization, and optics facilities makes this project unique. The differing scientific perspectives are expected to produce a major revolution in the field of Tunable Quantum Materials and educate the next generation of technologists. The proposed research may impact many interdisciplinary activities within the UC system including: neuroscience, bio-circuits, data storage, and computation. This proposal could be the basis for new efforts in advanced basic research areas and the development of new concepts in the field of functional quantum materials. As a consequence this will lead to the formation of larger groups and proposals for new extramural funding.
Sparse modeling for high dimensional data
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This project brings together researchers from one of the top computational imaging programs in the country (UCLA Applied and Computational Mathematics) with a leading DOE lab group (Applied Mathematics T5 Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory) to develop computational tools that will determine, directly from large, high dimensional datasets, signatures that correspond to the features most deserving of attention. In so doing, we will accomplish two things simultaneously: (a) data-driven modeling, whereby we allow the data itself to provide us with the low-dimensional model that best describes it, and (b) identification of anomalies in the data, interesting departures from the model. Compressive sensing (CS) is a recently-emerged subfield of applied mathematics which has developed powerful methods for information extraction. With CS, high-dimensional signals and images can be reconstructed from very few measurements, far fewer than traditional sampling theory would predict. The proposed program will go beyond standard imaging algorithms to develop general methods for complex high dimensional data including hyperspectral imaging from remote sensing and stand-off detection applications, social networking data, geographic information, and other data sources related to national security. The connection with LANL will allow for developing of CUDA based programming to take advantage of parallel GPU applications.
Coronulidae Leach 1817
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Coronulidae

description: †FAMILY CORONULIDAE LEACH, 1817
Diagnosis: Wall of six plates, without a median longitudinal sulcus; terga vestigial; opercular plates lacking in Xenobalanus; borders of mantle forming a hood over the cirri; single row of wall tubes formed by infoldings of outer lamina against the sheath.
Cetolepas Zullo, 1969 (one species)
Cetopirus Ranzani, 1817 (two species)
Chelolepas Ross & Frick, 2007 (one species)
† Coronula Lamarck, 1802 (Miocene–Recent) (eight species)
Cryptolepas Dall, 1872 (two species)
Cylindrolepas Pilsbry, 1916 (two species)
†† Emersonius Ross, 1967 (Eocene) (one species)
Platylepas Gray, 1825 (nine species)
Stomatolepas Pilsbry, 1910 (six species)
Tubicinella Lamarck, 1802 (two species)
Xenobalanus Steenstrup, 1852 (one species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 835, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Accurate evolutionary rates for precise pathogen sourcing
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Our groups at LANL and UCSD have previously worked independently to reveal theoretical obstacles and limitations to the use of molecular clocks for understanding the genesis, host-switching, adaptation, and spread of viral pathogens, e.g. influenza A virus, Ebola virus, and SARS coronavirus. In this joint project, we will employ innovative evolutionary models and intensive computer simulations to identify the limitations and improve the performance of molecular dating. LANL will lead the effort, under the auspices of its mission in Science of Signatures and Information Science and Technology. UCSD will bring strong experience in statistical phylogenetics, while both sites will contribute software development expertise and computing resources. A joint UCSD/LANL PhD student will work on this project. Current models of genetic sequence evolution have repeatedly and demonstrably failed at reconstructing the evolutionary history of HIV and its primate predecessor (SIV). This is in part because the rates of HIV-1 evolution differ among its subtypes, biasing the estimates the age of HIV-1 subtypes and of HIV-1 as a whole, and causing inconsistencies with historical record. Different modes of transmission (sexual vs injection drug use), and natural selection also affect the long-term evolutionary rate of HIV. Here, we propose to develop a comprehensive evolutionary model that can accurately adjust the rate of evolution across a phylogenetic tree. Through simulations, we will explore the variables that contribute to the information content necessary for rate estimations, e.g. range and distribution of viral isolates over time, their demographic history, age of viral phylogeny, and strength of selection. We will develop and implement efficient high-performance algorithms, allowing the fitting of maximally realistic evolutionary models. This work will provide a new level of precision in understanding the emergence and evolution of HIV and other measurably evolving pathogens.
Honest weights and measures
Creators: name: Zitcer, Andrew William
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Cooperative organizations have the potential to issue a profound challenge to the status quo of the neoliberal political economy and dominant organizational paradigms. They go beyond the for-profit/not for-profit binary and open up spaces for socially grounded enterprise that help to complicate the dominant understanding of the economy.    The dissertation explores two consumer food cooperatives in Philadelphia, PA. Both organizations were founded in the early 19&0s to provide healthy, inexpensive food—and an alternative to market capitalism. Over the last 40 years, the organizations have taken different paths to achieve their aims: one has expanded to two stores with a subsidiary non-profit education and outreach arm, and a hierarchical management structure; the other has expanded too, but is operated by a staff collective and encourages a strong culture of member participation. Both have responded to an increase in popularity by abolishing mandatory member labor and redefining the terms of membership.    Through semi-structured interviews, document analysis and participant observation, this study examines the ways these organizations adapt to change and narrate their organizational lives. It asks why and how each organization comes to embrace its particular logics and practices.     By attending closely to the voices of the research participants, the dissertation sketches out three main themes with which consumer cooperatives struggle. The first is a “paradox of exclusivity,” whereby they seek maximal inclusion of the public in the cooperative experiment but must draw cultural and organizational boundaries to maintain coherence. The second is the struggle to maintain standing as community based organizations devoted to civic purposes while balancing the books as a thriving business. The third is cooperatives’ commitment to participatory democratic practice, an ideal that they strive to attain through their adherence to and interpretation of the international cooperative principles.    This dissertation contributes an understanding of consumer cooperatives to the planner and community developer. It advances the literature on organizational theory as regards institutional logics and organizational narratives. Finally, it employs critical event narratives and a storytelling approach to advance the use of narrative methods in qualitative research.
A Lankan invasion? An intriguing case of the presence of a Sri Lankan endemic skink on the southwestern Indian Coast
Creators: name: Ghosh, Avrajjal
name: Marathe, Aniruddha
name: Cyriac, Vivek Philip
name: Umesh, P. K.
name: Kulkarni, Vidisha M.
name: Datta-Roy, Aniruddha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The biota of the Indian subcontinent is a result of Gondwanan vicariance to some extent but largely through multiple faunal exchanges between neighbouring regions. However, in recent times, humans have influenced regional biotas through the human-mediated transport of many generalist species. In this study, we report populations of Lankascincus fallax, a skink species supposedly endemic to Sri Lanka, from the west coast of Kerala in India. We conducted morphological and genetic analysis to ascertain the identity of this species and to check whether the Indian population is monophyletic. We then performed a divergence dating analysis to test whether the presence of this population is a result of ancient dispersal into India or a result of more recent events. Additionally, we used species distribution modelling to test whether the Indian L. fallax is a result of natural dispersal into India during the past (mid-Pliocene to the last glacial maximum) when there were possible land bridges between India and Sri Lanka. We find that the Indian population is nested within the Sri Lankan L. fallax and that this population diverged from the Sri Lankan population very recently, during the Pleistocene. We do not find climatic suitability between the Indian west coast and Sri Lanka under current climatic conditions, or during the past suggesting no suitable dispersal corridors between India and Sri Lanka. Overall, we hypothesize that the Indian populations of L. fallax are likely a result of human-mediated transport into India and subsequent dispersal across the west coast of Kerala.
Facelina rhodopos Yonow 2000
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Facelinidae
Facelina
Facelina rhodopos

description: Facelina rhodopos Yonow, 2000
(Figure 34 K)
Material examined. One specimen. MB28-004887, NFA, 0 4 Jun. 2014, 14m, 25mm.
Habitats. Tropical coral reef.
Occurrences. Nuarro.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Marshall Islands, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Malaysia (Gosliner et al. 2008), Australia (Nimbs et al. 2016), Red Sea (Yonow 2000), Réunion (Bidgrain 2005) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Partnership to Advance Breast Cancer Research
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This research team will collaborate with CBCRP to develop and implement a planning process for the second phase of the Special Research Initiatives (SRI). They will build on the initial SRI strategy development process and work with a range of experts to develop sound and innovative recommendations to the CBCRP’s Breast Cancer Research Council. The result will be a new strategy for researching the priorities established by the Council: the role of the environment in breast cancer, disparities in the disease, and both population- and individual-level interventions. Specifically they will address the following questions.

 -What are the most compelling strategies for research into identifying and eliminating environmental causes or exacerbations of breast cancer?

 -What are the most promising research opportunities for identifying and eliminating disparities/inequities in the burden of breast cancer in California?

 -What impacts have the previous SRI projects had and what opportunities have they created?

 -What are the gaps and opportunities for high-impact research on population-level interventions (including policy research) on known or suspected breast cancer risk factors and protective measures?

 -How can California resources be best used to advance progress in the primary prevention of breast cancer?

 The PI and team will work with the CBCRP to identify and recruit a Steering Committee to shape the next phase of SRI. They will engage a variety of advisors, from the four primary topic areas and from the patient/community advocacy community. Expertise will range from the science of cancer disparities, environmental health, breast cancer, population-level interventions (including policy) for known and suspected breast cancer risk factors and protective measures; and targeted interventions for high-risk individuals, including new methods for identifying or assessing risk.

 Community members will participate in the Steering Committee and will act as advisors. There will be multiple mechanisms for interested individuals and organizations to learn about and provide input into the process and on the research topics.

 Research ideas will be generated and developed based upon results and impacts of the initial SRI projects, assessment of the latest science in the environment and disparities, and systematic, targeted reviews of the research on new the topics of prevention and interventions. Focused, innovative recommendations for coordinated, directed, and collaborative research projects that address the specific aims of this initiative and meet previously established SRI criteria for research strategies will be presented to the CBCRP’s Breast Cancer Research Council for their action.
Three essays in applied microeconomics
Creators: name: Zhang, Xuelian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation contains three chapters in applied microeconomics. All three chapters try to answer one question: what factors determine labor market outcomes like employment probability, occupational choice and earnings?      Chapter 1 investigates the effects of multidimensional personality traits on employment status, occupational choice and earnings. Using the United Kingdom National Child Development Study, the analysis deals with the problems of reverse causality and measurement error by instrumental variable methods. The results indicate that personality traits play an important role in explaining the variation in labor market outcomes. The more agreeable and conscientious, and the less imaginative a person is, the more likely he is employed. The more outgoing and the less imaginative a person is, the more likely he works in a managerial occupation, but the less likely in a non-manual occupation. Agreeableness reduces one's probability of being in a professional occupation. Being outgoing and conscientious leads to higher earnings for paid employees.      Chapter 2 uses the United States Health and Retirement Study to study the effects of elder care provision on one's job choice with respect to flexibility. Fixed effects panel data models are used to control for time-invariant individual heterogeneity. Compared to non-caregivers, both male and female caregivers are significantly more likely to sort into flexible jobs or occupations, though they realize job flexibility through different channels: caregiving women are more likely to choose jobs with direct flexible work arrangements like flexible schedules, while caregiving men are more likely to realize flexibility indirectly by sorting into flexible occupation categories.      Chapter 3 uses the Brazil Living Standards Measurement Study Survey to examine the long-run consequences of child labor on an adult's income, health and educational attainment. The analysis leads to the following conclusions. Early working has a substantial negative impact on earnings for rural residents but no impact on urban residents. For health, child labor has an adverse consequence in the long run. As for the schooling effect, the earlier one enters the labor market, the fewer years of schooling he obtains. I also discover appreciable differences of child labor effects between urban and rural residents.
Tetraclitidae Gruvel 1903
Creators: name: Chan, Benny K. K.
name: Dreyer, Niklas
name: Gale, Andy S.
name: Glenner, Henrik
name: Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
name: Pérez-Losada, Marcos
name: Kolbasov, Gregory A.
name: Crandall, Keith A.
name: Høeg, Jens T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Balanomorpha
Tetraclitidae

description: †FAMILY TETRACLITIDAE GRUVEL, 1903 (EOCENE–RECENT)
Diagnosis: Wall of six or four plates; parietes tubiferous or solid, permeated by chitin, or have one or more rows of tubes containing living tissue or secondarily filled with calcareous and chitinous material; radii well developed or obsolete; basis commonly membranous; first three pairs of cirri are modified as maxillipeds.
Comment: Results of both multiple marker phylogenetic analyses by Tsang et al. (2014) and Chan et al. (2017a) and mitogenome phylogenetic analyses Shen et al. (2017) and Cai et al. (2018) in Tetraclitidae, showed that the subfamilies Tetraclitinae, Tetraclitellinae, Newmanellinae and Epopella Ross, 1970 are clustered in the same clade. The genus Epopella (previously identified as Austrobalanidae) and all the three subfamilies above are grouped under Tetraclitidae.
Astroclita Ren & Liu, 1979 (one species)
† Epopella Ross, 1970 (Miocene–Recent) (six species)
Lissaclita Gomez-Daglio & Van Syoc, 2006 (one species)
Neonrosella Jones, 2010 (one species)
Newmanella Ross, 1969 (one species)
† Tesseroplax Ross, 1969 (one species)
† Tesseropora Pilsbry, 1916 (Miocene–Recent) (eight species)
† Tetraclita Schumacher, 1817 (Miocene–Recent) (18 species)
† Tetraclitella Hiro, 1939 (Miocene–Recent) (16 species)
Yamaguchiella Ross & Perreault, 1999 (one species)
description: Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 835, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
Structure design and property study of II-VI, VI-VI and I-VII based inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductors
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: We have developed and studied selected properties of three novel classes of  inorganic  organic  hybrid  semiconductors based  on II-VI,  VI-VI  and  I-VII binary phases in order to enhance the functionality over their parent structures.  As a continuing effort, we have synthesized, modified, and characterized a number of selected structures of II-VI inorganic organic hybrid materials with general  formula  ZnSe(L)0.5  (L  =  organic  diamine). The  thermal  expansion coefficients along the layer stacking (L3) axis are between -1x10-6 and 4x10-6 K-1 in  the  temperature  range  between  5K  and  300K for all  structures,  indicating a  nearly-zero linear thermal  expansion  in the direction. A  very  small  negative thermal  expansion  coefficient  of -&.8 x10-& K-1 is  achieved  for ZnSe(ptda)0.5  along the L3 axis, which is among the smallest values reported to date.  Secondly, we  have  designed  a  new  class  of  inorganic  organic  hybrid semiconductors  under  mild  solvothermal  conditions.  By  controlling  the dimensionality  and  topology  of  the  VI-VI  inorganic  component  using  organic spacers, hybrid semiconductors with tunable optical properties can be effectively designed. The  new VI-VI  hybrid  structures  display the low  thermal conductivities and high dielectric constants caused by interface induced phonon scattering  and  space  charge  polarization  respectively. A significant negative thermal expansion behavior was also observed in some of the new VI-VI hybrid structures.  To  further  explore  the  unique  properties  of  inorganic  organic  hybrid semiconductors,  we  have  developed  a  novel  class  of  I-VII  inorganic  organic hybrid  semiconductors.  A  number  of  new  1D-CuI(L)  (L  =  organic  ligand) inorganic  organic  hyrbid  materials  were  acquired using  a  solvent  diffusion method. The 1D-CuI(L) hybrid structures display tunable optical absorption and  emission  behavior  with  some  structures  able  to  give  close-to–white-light photoluminesence. By adjusting  the  functional group on  the organic molecules, their  LUMO  energy  levels and  the  band  gap  of  hybrid  structures  can  be systematically tuned. This discovery further leads us to design ligand substituted 1D-CuI(L)  structures  to  attain  white  light  emission. We  have  successfully syntheisized  pyrimidine substituted  CuI(pyridine)  crystals which demonstrate pure and strong white light emission, with the CIE cordinates of (0.31,0.33) under the UV excitation.
Sharing a laugh
Creators: name: Zalmanovich, Tal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Sharing a Laugh examines the social and cultural roles of television situation comedy in Britain between 1945 and 1980. It argues that an exploration of sitcoms reveals the mindset of postwar Britons and highlights how television developed both as an industry and as a public institution. This research demonstrates how Britain metamorphosed in this period from a welfare state with an implicit promise to establish a meritocratic and expert-based society, into a multiracial, consumer society ruled by the market. It illustrates how this turnabout of British society was formulated, debated, and shaped in British sitcoms.    This dissertation argues that both democratization (resulting from the expansion of the franchise after World War I) and decolonization in the post-World War II era, established culture as a  prominent political space in which interaction and interconnection between state and society took place. Therefore, this work focuses on culture and on previously less noticed parties to the negotiation over power in society such as, media institutions, media practitioners, and their audiences. It demonstrates how British sitcom writers turned a form which was seen as frivolous entertainment into an inquiry that questioned the most fundamental structures of their society. Sitcoms thus addressed and engaged with the critical issues of British life: postwar consumer aspirations and shortage of housing, fears of Americanization, racism and the end of empire. Sitcoms’ incredible outreach extended these debates across the nation, and enabled a conversation that took place in the privacy of the home to resonant in the public sphere.   The dissertation looks both at institutions and at trailblazing individuals who shaped the genre. It considers the role of audiences and of technological innovation in turning a staple of broadcasting into a site of public debate, education, and memory. It maintains that vintage sitcoms still shape contemporary audiences, and their understanding of the past through sitcoms’ repeated transmission on television, their availability on DVD, and via services such as YouTube.
Novel Enzyme Inhibitors for Estrogen-Dependent Breast Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This research project involves advancement of a truly novel approach to treatment of estrogen-dependent (estrogen-receptor-positive, ER+) breast cancer: an orally active, potent drug that blocks estrogen formation in breast tumor cells by inhibiting one of the enzymes that make estrogen but does not display any undesired estrogenic side effects. SRI International has already performed extensive preliminary studies to design and develop this new class of drug candidates, estrone sulfatase inhibitors (ESIs), and screen promising candidates for estrogenic activity and inhibitory activity in cell culture. Our preliminary studies have identified five lead candidates that hold great promise for treatment of ER+ breast cancer.

 ESIs block the formation of estrogens, which have been shown to support the growth of breast tumors in women. Estrogens in breast tumors originate either by uptake of estrogens circulating in the blood or by local formation from other hormones. In postmenopausal women, in whom breast cancer is most common, breast tumor levels of estrogens—particularly the hormone estradiol—are considerably higher than the levels in the blood. There are two enzyme systems that produce estrogen in tumor cells: aromatases and sulfatases. Estrone sulfatase is responsible for producing the major circulating estrogen in the blood, estrone sulfate, which locally provides breast tumor cells with their main source of estradiol. Estradiol is widely thought to be responsible for development of breast carcinoma. This sulfatase pathway produces 10 times more estrogen than the aromatase pathway (the second highest producer of estrogen in breast tumors) and estrone sulfatase activity levels are 1000 times higher than aromatase activity levels in breast tumors.

 Use of aromatase inhibitors to deprive tumor cells of estrogen is currently an important method of endocrine treatment for breast cancer, but 90% of the estrogen in breast tumors appears to originate by way of the sulfatase pathway. It is not surprising that our new ESIs appear to block estrogen formation better than the aromatase inhibitors, and they may be very effective either alone or in combination with aromatase inhibitors.

 The goal of the research is to perform chemistry and biology studies that will identify the most promising of our five lead ESIs and provide a solid basis for advancing the new agent toward clinical use. We propose a 2-year program that will provide this basis and lay the foundation for attracting a pharmaceutical company to help complete the development of the new agent and make it available for treating patients with estrogen-dependent breast cancer.
The ubiquitous brownfield
Creators: name: Yasenchak, Leah Beth Benedict
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Abandoned gas station sites are a common blight, particularly in urban areas.  An EPA survey of Illinois mayors identified gas stations as the most predominant type of vacant or abandoned property (reported by nearly &1 percent of responding mayors). (Northeast Midwest 2002)      In this study I asked: 1) What is the extent of the abandoned gas station problem? 2) What are best practices for addressing former gas station sites?   3) How is New Jersey, the most urban and densely populated state, addressing the problem of abandoned gas stations?  4) What are the economic, social, and environmental impacts of these sites?  I answered these by interviewing officials engaged in the remediation and redevelopment of these sites, to catalogue the best practices nationwide and the current understanding of the extent of the problem.  I next developed historical gas station inventories in three New Jersey cities, and collected information regarding their location, environmental status, reuse, ownership, taxes, and demographics.  I then reviewed environmental reports for three specific gas station sites to obtain information on the extent of contamination and the cost to remediate.  Officials were divided on how well they believed the threat of former gas station sites was understood.  However, the city-wide case studies make it clear that only a fraction of former gas station sites were known to environmental officials.  The data indicate that most former gas stations closed prior to the 1986 reporting deadline, and that most of these lack environmental records.  Economically disadvantaged communities host the majority of former gas station sites with no environmental records.  Further, their current use is typically still auto-dependent or as vacant property.  However, those sites that are redeveloped are able to contribute jobs, services, and tax revenue to their communities.  The extent of contamination and the remediation costs to address the contamination varies widely.   This study shows that many former gas stations remain a threat.  Shifting public policies and resources to better address these sites would have significant positive impacts on the distressed neighborhoods.
New pattern matching algorithms for network security applications
Creators: name: Yang, Liu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Modern network security applications, such as network-based intrusion detection systems (NIDS) and firewalls, routinely employ deep packet inspection to identify malicious traffic. In deep packet inspection, the contents of network packets are matched against patterns of malicious traffic to identify attack-carrying packets. The pattern matching algorithms employed for deep packet inspection must satisfy two requirements. First, the algorithms must be fast. Network security applications are often implemented as middle-boxes that reside on high-speed Gbps links, and the algorithms are expected to perform at such speeds. Second, the algorithms must be space-efficient. The middle-boxes that perform pattern matching are often implemented as hardware components,  they employ fast but expensive SRAM technology to ensure good performance.    Unfortunately, existing pattern matching algorithms suffer from a fundamental time-space tradeoff. The large majority of patterns are regular expressions, and there are three prior approaches for matching such patterns: deterministic finite automaton (DFAs), non-deterministic finite automaton (NFAs), and recursive backtracking-based approaches. DFAs are fast to operate, but are space-inefficient. NFAs are space efficient, but are slow to operate. Recursive backtracking is fast for benign packets but is vulnerable to attack-carrying packets that can induce algorithmic complexity attacks.    This dissertation proposes novel algorithms for time- and space-efficient pattern matching that also resist known algorithmic complexity attacks. It presents three contributions. First, it introduces NFA-OBDDs, a new data structure that allows time-and space-efficient matching of regular expressions. Second, it presents an extension to NFA-OBDDs that allows them to model submatch extraction, an important feature in real-world patterns used by network security applications. Finally, it presents a technique to efficiently match a non-regular pattern language: regular expressions extended with back-references. This disseration presents experimental results demonstrating that the new algorithms can beat the performance of existing, widely-deployed algorithms  (such as Google’s RE2 and PCRE) by several orders of magnitude.
Favorinus japonicus Baba 1949
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Facelinidae
Favorinus
Favorinus japonicus

description: Favorinus japonicus Baba, 1949
(Figure 34 L)
Material examined. One specimen. MB28-004824, 0 7 May 2014, POA, 15m, 4mm.
Habitats. Subtropical rocky reef.
Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Hawaii, Midway Atoll (Gosliner et al. 2008), Japan (Baba 1949), Guam (Carlson & Hoff 2003), Korea, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Seychelles, Réunion Island, Madagascar, Tanzania, South Africa (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Rectifying a century of misidentifications: a taxonomic re-evaluation of sipo snakes (Colubridae: Chironius) on Trinidad
Creators: name: Jadin, Robert C.
name: Jowers, Michael J.
name: Blair, Christopher
name: Ludwig, Rickaela K.
name: Salgado-Irazabal, Xabier
name: Murphy, John C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The island of Trinidad has several endemic reptile species that in some cases are morphologically indistinguishable, or almost so, from their mainland counterparts. In particular, many snakes from the island have not been examined thoroughly with modern scientific methods and may therefore be misidentified. At least two species of sipo snakes (Chironius carinatus, C. septentrionalis) are reported to inhabit Trinidad, both being considered species already inhabiting the mainland, though their identities are based solely on morphology. Here, we evaluate the molecular distinctiveness of these Trinidadian snakes and assess their relationships to other members of the genus. We constructed a multi-locus data set (12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, cyt b, ND4, cmos, NT3, Rag-1, Rag-2) including novel sequences and those available on GenBank to perform Bayesian and maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses. Our phylogenetic reconstruction elucidates the identity of both Trinidad species, which have been misidentified since their discovery, and we provide a literature review of their taxonomic history. More specifically, our results suggest that the Trinidad population of Chironius carinatus is an undescribed species, that we describe herein as Chironius nigelnoriegai sp. nov., and is the sister to C. flavopictus. Our results also demonstrate that the Trinidad population previously identified as C. septentrionalis is instead the mainland species C. cochranae, a member of a clade with C. foveatus, C. laurenti, and C. multiventris. Finally, we generated a time tree and inferred that our new species separated from C. flavopictus approximately 4 million years ago in the Pliocene, a time when the island of Trinidad detached from Northern Venezuela. This work contributes to a better understanding of species diversity of Trinidad and we hope that it assists in conservation efforts towards this important endemic region. These findings support the prospect of rapid speciation on Trinidad and implies that more extensive surveys of island squamates will reveal additional cryptic diversity. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:500DB91B-62CD-4051-9831-0BEEAC64C8E2
California Initiative to Prevent Breast Cancer in Immigrants (CIPBCI)
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) team proposes serving as the convener for CBCRP’s Phase 1 research effort to understand why the risk of breast cancer increases when women immigrate to the U.S. We propose facilitating a process that ensures collaboration, community input, and results in the best proposal(s) for Phase 2 research. To conduct this work, we draw on our project teams’ extensive experience working with both researchers and impacted immigrant communities.

 As the convener we will work with CBCRP-funded research teams to foster collaborations across research teams. We will ensure that community voices and input are incorporated in the research process. We will host a townhall meeting where community members and stakeholders can give direct feedback to the researchers. We will host a sandpit meeting where Phase 1 researchers collectively develop Phase 2 research study proposal(s).

 Importantly, we will engage impacted immigrant communities and other stakeholders throughout the Phase 1 process. We will mobilize our broad network of California-based community organizations toward this end. We will ensure that the input and concerns raised are included in the design of Phase 2 research projects.
Faith in Action! A Church-Based Navigation Model to Increase Breast Cancer Screening in Korean Women
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Korean American women and the incidence rate is increasing. Also, Korean American women have a low rate of adherence to breast cancer screening guidelines so they tend to have more advanced stage disease at diagnosis. We have worked closely with the Korean American community to better understand the reasons for the low adherence rate and develop a culturally tailored intervention to address this issue. Implementation of an innovative, culturally adapted cancer screening training curriculum for lay health navigators built upon the Korean communities’ frequent engagement with “expert” schools and deployed among our existing networks in the faith-based Korean community will increase adherence to breast cancer screening guidelines among underserved Korean American women. We have three aims. 1) Develop a culturally adapted “Faith in Action!” curriculum to educate and certify lay health navigators to provide breast cancer screening navigation within faith-based settings. 2) Increase adherence to breast cancer screening guidelines and follow-up care. 3) Evaluate program acceptability at the participant and navigator level so that we better understand what elements of the intervention worked and why. We will partner with the LA Onnuri Church, other Korean-serving organizations (Koryo Health Foundation Clinic, Kheir Center) and the Every Woman Counts Program to ensure that follow-up care is culturally tailored and adequately addressed. This proposal will address the primary reason for inequity in stage of diagnosis among Korean American women, which is suboptimal screening. Although a focus of this project is increasing adherence to screening, ultimately our goal is to build capacity within the Korean community by training lay navigators who will help participants navigate the health system and reduce barriers to care (e.g. including lack of insurance, poor health literacy, not knowing where to go to get screening, lack of follow-up care, fear of being a burden to the family, and inability to afford testing). Further, by increasing awareness of the benefits of breast cancer screening, this has potential to help to improve uptake of other suboptimal preventive services in the Korean community.
The skein algebra of arcs and links and the decorated Teichmüller space
Creators: name: Yang, Tian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation is based on a joint work with Dr. Julien Roger. We define an associative $mathbb{C}[[h]]$--algebra $AS7h(Sigma)$ generated by framed arcs and links over a punctured surface $Sigma$ which is a quantization of the Poisson algebra $C(Sigma)$ of arcs and curves on $Sigma$. We also construct a Poisson algebra homomorphism from $C(Sigma)$ to the space of smooth functions on the decorated Teichmuller space endowed with the Weil-Petersson Poisson structure. The construction relies on a collection of geodesic lengths identities in hyperbolic geometry which generalizes Penner's Ptolemy relation, the trace identity and Wolpert's cosine formula.