cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of Top2b inhibition on cadherin expression in developing chicken retina
Creators: name: Rayaji, Rameshwari
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Retinal development involves defined guidance of neuronal axons to their destined cells through cell adhesion molecules, by compilation of cell-cell connections at synapses. Cell adhesion molecules promote oriented axonal outgrowth and help in target synaptic specificity to maintain histoarchitecture of retina. Cell adhesion molecules like cadherins are the products of expression of long genes >200 kilobases of genomic DNA. Topoisomerase II beta (Top2b) involved in modulating DNA supercoiling by catalyzing the double strand breaks and passing the stands through one another. Top2b is pervasively expressed in all terminally differentiated cells and participates in gene transcription. Recent studies have shown that Top2b facilitates the expression of long genes. However, its particular role in transcription of cadherins and effect on organization of retinal cells such as retinal ganglion cells and horizontal cells remain unclear. In current study, the role of Top2b in expression of cadherin genes was analyzed in  iii  developing chick retina via immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR. Top2b function in developing retina was inhibited by injections of 500µM Top2b catalytic inhibitor (ICRF-193) into sub-retinal space at embryonic day 4 (E4). Retinal tissues were analyzed by immunohistochemistry using cell specific markers, e.g., Brn3a for ganglion cells, 4F2 for horizontal cells, and Tuj1 for neuronal processes at E6, E8, E10, and E12. We showed that inhibition of Top2b by ICRF-193 i) reduced the expression level of cadherin genes, e.g., N-cadherin (Cdh2), Cadherin-6B (Cad6B), Cadherin-7 (Cdh7), and Cadhrin-8 (Cdh8)in developing retina; ii)led to a disoriented cellular organization; and iii) delayed migration of RGCs and HCs. The results from immunohistochemistry were confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Results from qRT-PCR showed significant reduction in expression levels of cadherin genes, e.g., Cad6B and Cdh7 with an average fold reduction of 2.5 prominent at embryonic day 10 (E10) (p <0.02, p<0.006), respectively and Cdh8 with an average fold reduction of 4 prominent at embryonic day 8 (E8) (p <0.02), however expression of Cdh2 was not effected by Top2b inhibition at E6-E12. This study helps to understand the molecular basis of vertebrate retinal development via calcium-dependent intercellular cell adhesion molecules and revealed the vital role of Top2b in expression of cadherin genes.
Camponotus cristatus Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Camponotus
Camponotus cristatus

description: C. cristatus n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 7.5 mm Nigra, nitida, mandibulis, antennarum tarsorumque apicibus ferrugineis; mandibulae dense subtiliter striatae et disperse punctatae; caput coriaceo-rugulosum, pilis longis abstantibus instruction, supra medio haud purum convexum, postice vix emarginatum; clypeus hand carinatus, antice non productus et non excisus; thorax subtiliter coriaceo-rugulosus, fere nudus; mesonotum et metanoti pars basalis supra longitrorsum valde in laminam verticalem acutam postice rotundatum compressa; petioli squama ovalis, a latere visa cuneiformis, margine supero arcuata acuto; abdomen dense et subtiliter transverse ruguloso-striutum, pilis longis flavescentibus abstantibus et pubescentia adpressa. ejusdem coloris; pedes subtilissime coriaceo-rugitlosi, purum compressi, sine pilis abstantibus, femoribus anticis incrassatis.
Ein Arbeiter im Mus. Godeffroy in Hamburg von Ovalau, in der Viti-Inselgruppe.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 6
Peritrechus angusticollis
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhyparochromidae
Peritrechus
Peritrechus angusticollis

description: Peritrechus angusticollis (R.F. Sahlberg, 1848)
Comments
European species that does not reach the southern Balkan Peninsula. However, it was recorded from Edirne by Önder et al. (1984). This isolated record is considered doubtful, and its confirmation is needed. Unfortunately, during our investigation in LEMT, we could not locate the voucher specimen.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Additional file 3: Table S2. of Pulmonary exacerbations and clinical outcomes in a longitudinal cohort of infants and preschool children with cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Hoppe, Jordana
name: Wagner, Brandie
name: Sagel, Scott
name: Accurso, Frank
name: Zemanick, Edith
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Pulmonary function testing results: Absolute, z-score and percent predicted values of FEV1, FVC and FEV1/FVC are provided for each subject. (DOCX 14Â kb)
Platycrana Gray 1835
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Platycrana

description: Genus Platycrana Gray, 1835
Type-species: Mantis viridana Olivier, 1792: 636, by subsequent designation of Kirby, 1904: 385.
Comments: The very numerous citations of this monotypical genus may be looked up in the Phasmida Species File Online (http:// Phasmida.SpeciesFile.org). The misspelling “ Platycrania ” introduced by Burmeister (1838: 581) was repeated by subsequent authors including Stål (1875), Westwood (1859) and Redtenbacher (1908). Hennemann (2020) provided clarification of the systematic position of Platycrana and transferred all other genera formerly attributed to Platycraninae: Platycranini to the newly described subfamily Megacraniinae.
Distribution: Wallacea and Philippines
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Concomitant Group Testing
Creators: name: Bui, Thach V.
name: Scarlett, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce a variation of the group testing problem capturing the idea that a positive test requires a combination of multiple ``types'' of item. Specifically, we assume that there are multiple disjoint \emph{semi-defective sets}, and a test is positive if and only if it contains at least one item from each of these sets. The goal is to reliably identify all of the semi-defective sets using as few tests as possible, and we refer to this problem as \textit{Concomitant Group Testing} (ConcGT). We derive a variety of algorithms for this task, focusing primarily on the case that there are two semi-defective sets. Our algorithms are distinguished by (i) whether they are deterministic (zero-error) or randomized (small-error), and (ii) whether they are non-adaptive, fully adaptive, or have limited adaptivity (e.g., 2 or 3 stages). Both our deterministic adaptive algorithm and our randomized algorithms (non-adaptive or limited adaptivity) are order-optimal in broad scaling regimes of interest, and improve significantly over baseline results that are based on solving a more general problem as an intermediate step (e.g., hypergraph learning).
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Regulation of the yeast DGK1-encoded diacylglycerol kinase
Creators: name: Qiu, Yixuan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the DGK1-encoded diacylglycerol (DAG) kinase catalyzes the CTP-dependent phosphorylation of DAG to form phosphatidate (PA). This enzyme, in conjunction with PAH1-encoded PA phosphatase, controls the levels of PA and DAG for the synthesis of triacylglycerol (TAG) and membrane phospholipids, nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane growth, and lipid droplet formation. In this work, we showed that a functional level of DAG kinase is regulated by the Reb1 transcription factor. Purified recombinant Reb1 was shown to specifically bind its consensus recognition sequence (CGGGTAA, -166 to -160) in the DGK1 promoter. Analysis of cells expressing the PDGK1-lacZ reporter gene showed that mutations (GTÆTG) in the Reb1-binding sequence caused an 8.6-fold reduction in β-galactosidase activity. The expression of DGK1(reb1), a DGK1 allele containing the Reb1-binding site mutation, was greatly lower than that of the wild type allele, as indicated by analyses of DGK1 mRNA, Dgk1, and DAG kinase activity. In the presence of cerulenin, an inhibitor of de novo fatty acid synthesis, the dgk1Δ mutant expressing DGK1(reb1) exhibited a significant defect in growth as well as in the synthesis of phospholipids from TAG mobilization. Unlike DGK1, the DGK1(reb1) expressed in the dgk1Δ pah1Δ mutant did not result in the nuclear/ER membrane expansion, which occurs in cells lacking PA phosphatase activity. These results indicate that the Reb1-mediated regulation of DAG kinase plays a major role in its in vivo functions in lipid metabolism. Treatment of membrane-solubilized and overexpressed Dgk1 with alkaline phosphatase caused a 7.7-fold decrease in DAG kinase activity, and the subsequent treatment with CKII caused a 5.5-fold increase in activity. A purified N-terminal fragment of Dgk1 (Dgk11-77) was phosphorylated by CKII on a serine residue in timeand dose-dependent manners, and the phosphorylation was dependent on the concentrations of Dgk11-77 and ATP. Ser-45 and Ser-46 were identified as the major CKII phosphorylation sites. Analysis of yeast expressing the phosphorylation-deficient mutants indicated that the stimulation of DAG kinase activity is attributed to the phosphorylation of Dgk1 by CKII. DAG kinase activity is required for deleterious phenotypes imparted by the pah1Δ mutation. The phosphorylation-deficient mutations inhibited the function that DAG kinase plays for defects in nuclear/ER membrane expansion and lipid droplet formation, as well as the temperature sensitivity caused by the pah1Δ mutation.
Additional file10: of Research protocol: Cisplatin-associated ototoxicity amongst patients receiving cancer chemotherapy and the feasibility of an audiological monitoring program
Creators: name: J. Paken
name: C. Govender
name: V. Sewram
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Ethical Approval from University of Kwazulu-Natal. (PDF 24Â kb)
Calculation of collision probability for autonomous vehicles using trajectory prediction
Creators: name: Powar, Gayatri
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this thesis is to create a decision making algorithm. The goal would be to check the feasibility of the current maneuver by  nding the probability of collision between the subject and target  vehicles. These outputs can be used by other Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) features  including path planner, lateral control, longitudinal control, etc. We make use of some sensors like  camera/radar (simulated data) and fuse these together for better estimation of measurements. With  earlier experience with cameras, they are really poor at giving longitudinal distances whereas radars  give more accurate measurements longitudinally. Using these measurements about targets ahead in  the environment, we predict the trajectories of the obstacles/targets as well as the subject vehicle  (autonomous vehicle). The algorithm predicts if it is safe to continue with the current maneuver in  the near future for several seconds ahead of time, and makes the decision if the maneuver is possible.  The results are obtained using probabilistic approach whether the future trajectories are going to  collide. The thesis primarily focuses on target tracking, e cient sensor data fusion and future collision  estimation. With the lessons learnt using existing literature an e cient approach is employed.  The simulation is performed in PreScan simulator and MATLAB. Enhancements in the sensor data  fusion using standby measurements and quasi-decentralized approach to combine measurements to  yield improved results and achieve better scalability are proposed and implemented.
Debating the 'inevitable'
Creators: name: Resnick-Day, Benjamin Todd
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation is about the use of the rhetoric of inevitability to justify the Jacksonian policy of “Indian Removal” and attempts of participants to grapple with the extent of their responsibility for the tragedies, like the infamous “Trail of Tears,” that resulted from this policy. Many participants in Indian Removal struggled with their moral responsibility, but ultimately decided that Indian removal was an inevitable historical development. Some Cherokee and Seneca chiefs embraced the same logic in order to justify their decisions to sign removal treaties against the overwhelming opposition of their own nations. Because of the overwhelming trend of colonial expansion and native land loss, claims of inevitability had a great deal of plausibility to them. However, the victory of the Senecas over determined attempts to remove them reveals that removal was not “inevitable” across the board. This project locates the points at which human beings took concrete actions in this struggle—making laws and treaties, voting for candidates, mustering troops, organizing resistance—to demonstrate that historical determinist thinking played a major role in justifying Indian removal, and in attempts to convince the wavering to drop their qualms and cooperate in its implementation. Further, this dissertation shows that a conscious rejection of such logic was an important ingredient in (at times successful) resistance to removal.
Camponotus laminatus Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Camponotus
Camponotus laminatus

description: C. laminatus n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 6 mm. Castaneo-ferrugineu, nitida, sparsissime pilosa, capite abdomineque nigris, mandibulis ferrugineis, capite antice obscure rufescente, tarsis fuscis; mandibulae dense subtiliter striatae, disperse punctulae, murgine masticatorio indistincte dentato; caput subtiliter coriaceo-rugulosum supra medio valde convexum, postice purum emarginatum; clypeus haud carinatus, antice non productus et non excisus; thorax subtiliter coriaceo-rugulosus; mesonotum et metanoti pars basalis supra longitrorsum valde in laminam verticalem acutam, postice in dentem triangularem productam, compressa; petioli squama erecta, mediocriterelevata, subquadragularis, antice convexa, postice plana, margine superiore subrecto, transverso, acuto; abdomen subtiliter transverse ruguloso-striatum, pilis nonnullis longis abstantibus flavoscetitibus, et fere sine pubescentia adpressa; pedes subtilissime coriaceorugolosi, absque pilis abstantibus, tibiis destincte compressis et dilatatis.
Ein Arbeiter im Mus. Godeffroy von Ovalau (Viti-Insel).
Diese Art steht der vorigen sehr nahe und unterscheidet sich ausser der hinten zahnartig verlaengerten Thoraxplatte, welche Bildung moeglicherweise nicht charakteristisch sein koennte, besonders durch die anders gebildete Schuppe und durch den Mangel der anliegenden Pubescenz am Hinterleibe. Die Fuehler fehlen dem mir vorliegenden Exemplare, so dass deren Farbe nicht angegeben werden kann.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on pages 6-7
Button Shear Testing for Adhesion Measurements of 2D Materials
Creators: name: Schätz, Josef
name: Nayi, Navin
name: Weber, Jonas
name: Metzke, Christoph
name: Lukas, Sebastian
name: Piacentini, Agata
name: Reato, Eros
name: Walter, Jürgen
name: Schaffus, Tim
name: Streb, Fabian
name: Grundmann, Annika
name: Kalisch, Holger
name: Heuken, Michael
name: Vescan, Andrei
name: Pindl, Stephan
name: Lemme, Max C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) materials are considered for numerous applications in microelectronics, although several challenges remain when integrating them into functional devices. Weak adhesion is one of them, caused by their chemical inertness. Quantifying the adhesion of 2D materials on three-dimensional surfaces is, therefore, an essential step toward reliable 2D device integration. To this end, button shear testing is proposed and demonstrated as a method for evaluating the adhesion of 2D materials with the examples of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), molybdenum disulfide, and tungsten diselenide on silicon dioxide (SiO${_2}$) and silicon nitride substrates. We propose a fabrication process flow for polymer buttons on the 2D materials and establish suitable button dimensions and testing shear speeds. We show with our quantitative data that low substrate roughness and oxygen plasma treatments on the substrates before 2D material transfer result in higher shear strengths. Thermal annealing increases the adhesion of hBN on SiO${_2}$ and correlates with the thermal interface resistance between these materials. This establishes button shear testing as a reliable and repeatable method for quantifying adhesion of 2D materials.
description: 51 pages
MOESM1 of A method to generate the surface cell layer of the 3D virtual shoot apex from apical initials
Creators: name: Kucypera, Krzysztof
name: Lipowczan, Marcin
name: Piekarska-Stachowiak, Anna
name: Nakielski, Jerzy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Calculation of growth rates for the paraboloidal shoot apical dome with isotropic surface growth.
Agramma (Agramma) laetum
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Agramma
Agramma laetum

description: Agramma (Agramma) laetum (Fallén, 1807)
See Aukema (2023).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Nesiophasma giganteum Hennemann, Le Tirant & Purwanto 2021, n. sp.
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Nesiophasma
Nesiophasma giganteum

description: 1. Nesiophasma giganteum n. sp.
Distribution: Banggai Islands (Peleng).
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Campylosteira orientali Horváth 1881
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Campylosteira
Campylosteira orientali

description: Campylosteira orientali s Horváth, 1881
See Péricart & Golub (1996).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
"Saving" iconic places
Creators: name: Rivero, Juan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation examines the origins of a planning controversy over the redevelopment of Coney Island, a world-famous, historic, seaside amusement district in Brooklyn, New York. In 2009, the Bloomberg Administration passed a major rezoning of the neighborhood in an effort to attract development to the area. This measure inspired opposition from individuals who felt that the proposal did not honor the neighborhood's history. My research focuses on the hegemonic rationality that shaped the City's plan and on the competing logics and desires that inspired its opposition. Wide agreement about Coney Island's heritage value and foremost attributes - its diversity, authenticity, and historicity - masked profound disagreement about the proper uses of the district and about the plans for its future.     To explore this disconnect, I trace it back to an interplay between divergent sets of images and experiences of the neighborhood, as mediated by its materiality, and then show how these divergences helped shape the planning process. Viewed through this lens, qualities like diversity and authenticity become not points of agreement, but windows for examining sources of contestation. They help us explain why neighborhood physical structures dismissed by the City as obsolete and disposable were regarded by others as useful and historic. In this way, my project points planning practice beyond the question of which places matter and toward questions of how and why they matter. This focus on subjective experience facilitates a deeper understanding of people's relation to places, making possible the formulation of more responsive and equitable plans. It also allows us to envision forms of conflict resolution based not on zero-sum adversarial trade-offs, which invariably favor the powerful, but on a negotiated reconceptualization of a place and of its future.
Nesiophasma kuehni , Gunther 1934
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Nesiophasma
Nesiophasma kuehni

description: 2. Nesiophasma kuehni (Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907: 185).
Distribution: Pulau Romang.
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Campylosteira bosnica Horvath 1892
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Campylosteira
Campylosteira bosnica

description: Campylosteira bosnica Horváth, 1892
Comments
The isolated record of this European species from Diyarbakır, by Önder & Adıgüzel (1979) was considered doubtful by Péricart & Golub (1996). Unfortunately, despite our thorough examination in LEMT, we could not locate the voucher specimens, hence this record could not be confirmed.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Simulation-based optimization models for electricity generation expansion planning problems considering human health externalities
Creators: name: Rodgers, Mark David
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation is focused on the development of mathematical models to solve electricity generation expansion planning problems that minimize total system-wide costs, including human health externalities.  A generation expansion planning model is a mathematical optimization framework employed to determine the type of generation technology to invest in, and when and where these investments should be made in order to minimize market costs such as investment costs, fixed and variable operating & maintenance costs, and fuel costs over a long term planning horizon.  Fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), which are the primary sources of energy for electricity, are among the most economical sources of electricity.  However, burning fossil fuels creates by-products that contribute to ground-level ozone, particulates, and acid rain, which have harmful health effects.  Based on EPA research, exposure to these elements causes various respiratory-related illnesses leading to lost days at school or work on a daily basis.  In this research, a simulation-based approach is employed to quantify human health externalities by linking the outputs of expansion planning simulations with an EPA screening tool that determines the human health externalities from the electricity sector.  From this data set, a statistical prediction model is employed to approximate health costs as a function of electricity generation.  This explicit representation of the relationship between electricity generation and health externalities is then incorporated in the objective function of a generation expansion planning problem as a metamodel or surrogate curve.  This research is the first comprehensive attempt to dynamically quantify human health externalities in the context of generation expansion planning.  Additionally, this research leads contributions for developing generation expansion planning models considering human health externalities as costs in the objective function.  This research also leads contributions for developing large scale simulation-based optimization models, by applying a rigorous search algorithm to determine candidate solution points to enhance prediction capabilities of the metamodel, and thus yield more accurate and realistic optimization solutions.
Nesiophasma oligarches
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Nesiophasma
Nesiophasma oligarches

description: 3. Nesiophasma oligarches (Günther, 1935a: 18, pl. 2: 12).
Distribution: S-Sulawesi.
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
The free boundary for a semilinear non-homogeneous Bernoulli problem
Creators: name: Du, Lili
name: Yang, Chunlei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R35

description: In the classical homogeneous one-phase Bernoulli-type problem, the free boundary consists of a "regular" part and a "singular" part, as Alt and Caffarelli have shown in their pioneer work (J. Reine Angew. Math., 325, 105-144, 1981) that regular points are $C^{1,γ}$ in two-dimensions. Later, Weiss (J. Geom. Anal., 9, 317-326, 1999) first realized that in higher dimensions a critical dimension $d^{*}$ exists so that the singularities of the free boundary can only occur when $d\geqslant d^{*}$.
 In this paper, we consider a non-homogeneous semilinear one-phase Bernoulli-type problem, and we show that the free boundary is a disjoint union of a regular and a singular set. Moreover, the regular set is locally the graph of a $C^{1,γ}$ function for some $γ\in(0,1)$. In addition, there exists a critical dimension $d^{*}$ so that the singular set is empty if $dd^{*}$. As a byproduct, we relate the existence of viscosity solutions of a non-homogeneous problem to the Weiss-boundary adjusted energy, which provides an alternative proof to existence of viscosity solutions for non-homogeneous problems.
description: Any comments are welcome
The suf iron-sulfur cluster biosynthetic system is essential for staphylococcus aureus viability and decreased suf function results in global metbolic defects and decreased survival in human neutrophils
Creators: name: Roberts, Christina
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Staphylococcus aureus remains a causative agent for morbidity and mortality worldwide.  This is in part a result of antimicrobial resistance highlighting the need to uncover novel antibiotic targets and discover new therapeutic agents. In this study we explored the possibility of iron-sulfur (FeS) cluster synthesis as a viable antimicrobial target. RNA interference studies verified that Suf-dependent FeS cluster synthesis was essential in S. aureus. Two S. aureus strains were characterized that contained transposon insertions between suf genes (suf*) resulting in decreased transcription of genes downstream of the insertions. We found that the sufCDSUB genes were cotranscribed and suf transcription was positively influenced by general stress sigma factor B. The suf* strains had decreased activities of FeS cluster-requiring enzymes and decreased growth in media lacking metabolites that require FeS proteins for synthesis. Decreased FeS cluster synthesis also resulted in sensitivity to reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species. Decreased Suf function resulted in increased DNA damage and defective DNA repair. It also resulted in decreased flux though the TCA cycle and decreased cellular respiration. The suf* mutants had perturbed intracellular non-chelated Fe pools. Defective FeS cluster synthesis did not alter exoprotein production or biofilm formation, but it did result in decreased survival upon challenge with human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The results presented suggest that FeS cluster synthesis is a viable target for antimicrobial development. The strains and DNA constructs described provide a genetic toolbox for further examination of FeS cluster synthesis in S. aureus.
Velia (Plesiovelia) saulii Tamanini 1947
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Velia
Velia saulii

description: Velia (Plesiovelia) saulii Tamanini, 1947
Comments
This is a European species that does not reach to the Balkans or Caucasus (Berchi & Kment 2015; Berchi et al. 2023; Aukema 2023). It was recorded from Turkey once, by Küçükbasmacı & Kıyak (2015) from Kastamonu. Concerning its distribution, this record is doubtful and needs verification (P. Kment, pers. comm.).
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Polyrhachis philippinensis
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis philippinensis

description: P. philippinensis Sm.
Das zoologische Museum in Halle besitzt einen Arbeiter aus Siam, welcher mit der Beschreibung dieser Art uebereinstimmt. Kopf und Thorax sind lederartig-gerunzelt, der Hinterleib ist sehr fein und sehr seicht lederartig gerunzelt. Der ganze Koerper hat eine feine gelblichweisse, platt anliegende Pubescenz, waehrend die abstehenden langen Haare aeusserst spaerlich sind. (Die Pubescenz wetzt sich am Hinterleibe leicht ab, so dass dann derselbe stark glaenzend erscheint). Der Thorax ist vierseitig und vierkantig, langgestreckt, das Pronotum ist zwischen der Basis der Dornen und den Hinterecken quadratisch (bei P. villipes ist es breiter als lang); die Basalflaeche des langen Metanotum ist viereckig, etwas laenger als breit, vorne etwas breiter als hinten, jede Hinterecke endet in ein sehr stumpfes, nach oben gerichtetes Zaehnchen; die abschuessige. Flaeche ist fast ebenso lang als die Basalflaeche, bildet mit dieser einen sehr stumpfen Winkel und ist daher schwach geneigt. Die Schuppe ist auffallend schmal, oben an der Basis der Dornen etwa so breit als hoch und etwas breiter als unten am Stielchengelenke.
Diese Art hat viele Aehnlichkeit mit P. villipes, unterscheidet sich aber leicht durch den lang gestreckten und schmaeleren Thorax, durch die fast fehlende abstehende Behaarung, durch den mit einer feinen anliegenden Pubescenz bedeckten Hinterleib, und durch den Mangel der Zaehnchen am Seitenrande der viel schmaeleren Schuppe.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 8
The role of cypin in regulating synaptic content and transmission
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Ana R.
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Year: 2016

description: Proper synaptic transmission is essential for normal brain function and requires the precise spatial and functional assembly of molecular signal transduction machinery at synaptic sites and the correct morphology of dendrites and their branches. Defects in synaptogenesis and dendritogenesis are implicated in neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders. Cypin (cytosolic PSD-95 interactor) is a core regulator of dendrite branching and decreases the synaptic clustering of the scaffolding protein PSD-95 in rat hippocampal neurons. This dissertation will explore the functional implications of altering cypin levels on PSD-95 protein and synaptic function. We show that overexpression of cypin decreases synaptic PSD-95 protein levels, increases total PSD-95 protein levels, and increases the frequency of miniature excitatory postsynaptic currents (mEPSCs). We used microelectrode arrays to assess neuronal network dynamics after overexpression of cypin and uncovered changes in spiking variability that were not evident from the study of global network activity. The spike count variability of networks that overexpress cypin increases over time, and this variability is dependent on baseline activity levels. Moreover, attenuation of AMPAR-mediated synaptic transmission with the AMPAR antagonist CNQX (6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione) shows that cypin overexpression results in a decrease in functional AMPARs, potentially interfering with synaptic upscaling.  Interestingly, we found that the alterations in synaptic transmission with overexpression of cypin are independent of cypin binding to PSD-95, whereas cypin-mediated changes in PSD-95 expression depend on cypin binding to PSD-95. Finally, we show that cypin interacts with the β7 subunit of the proteasome and interferes with its chymotryptic-like activity. Cypin overexpression results in increased ubiquitination of PSD-95, consistent with the observed increase in total PSD-95 levels. Taken together, our results suggest a proteasome-mediated role for cypin in the redistribution of PSD-95, and potentially, remodeling of the postsynaptic density associated with synaptic plasticity.
Heliocorisa vermiculata
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Corixidae
Heliocorisa
Heliocorisa vermiculata

description: Heliocorisa vermiculata (Puton, 1874)
Material examined
Sigara (Subsigara) daghestanica
TURKEY – Bursa Province • 1 ♂; Mustafakemalpaşa, Aliseydi; 21 Jun. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
Corixidae sp.
TURKEY – Kocaeli Province • 1 ♀; Karamürsel; 16 Aug. 1977; F. Önder leg.; LEMT.
Comments
As discussed by Fent et al. (2011), the records of Heliocorisa vermiculata by Önder et al. (1981) needed confirmation. A re-examination of corresponding specimens revealed that the specimen from Bursa (Fig. 4A) referred to Sigara (Subsigara) daghestanica Jansson, 1983 (Petr Kment det.) and the specimen from Kocaeli was in poor condition, therefore could not be identified to species level. As these were the only records of this species from Turkey, it is now excluded from the checklist of Heteroptera of Turkey.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Nesiophasma plateni
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Nesiophasma
Nesiophasma plateni

description: 4. Nesiophasma plateni (Dohrn, 1910: 404).
Distribution: Sangihe Islands & Talaud Islands.
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Facing our feelings in future planning
Creators: name: Roman, Emily Frances
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Efforts to address inadequacies in end of life care and reduce negative outcomes for surviving relatives has led to enhancements in advanced care planning, encouraging adults to develop detailed, action-driven and individualized plans. The current exploratory study investigated the influence of age and threat level on affective activation during the planning process by analyzing affective activation in three ways: measuring affective content of each narrative using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program (Pennebaker et al., 2007), measuring a phonemic indicator (average fundamental frequency) of affective activation using the Praat system (Boersman, 2001; Scherer, 2003), and finally through a self-report, Likert scale rating of affect used previously (Addis, Wong & Schacter, 2008). 25 undergraduate students (18- 22) and 23 “older” adults (65+) responded to 6 scenarios: three non-health related and three health-related. The three health-related scenarios varied in threat level; a) Low Threat: having a “flu”, b) Medium Threat: living with a chronic illness, and c) High Threat: having 2-6 months to live. Contrary to expectations, analysis identified a significant effect of threat level on the negative affective content of the narratives, with higher affective content appearing in the lowthreat scenario, than in the medium and high threat scenarios. There was no significant effect of threat level on affective activation measured through fundamental frequency. Results were significant in the expected direction for self-reported affect which increased as threat level increased. Age moderated the effects of threat level on self-reported affect with older adults selfreporting higher levels of negative affect than younger adults for each of the health scenarios. Results for both self-reported affect and fundamental frequency are inconsistent with Reed & Carstensen’s (2012) assumption that differences in affective responding with age reveal a positivity effect - a trend in which older adults express more positive than negative affective reactions to life situations. The data suggest that a positivity effect, if it exists, is context specific, appearing in many everyday events but not in response to health threats. Future analysis, should investigate the effects of affective activation on the specificity of plans which vary from relatively non-life-threatening to highly life-threatening.
Colobopsis dentata Mayr, 1866, n. sp.
Creators: name: Mayr, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1866
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Colobopsis
Colobopsis dentata

description: C. dentata n. sp.
Operaria: Long. 3.5 - 3.8 mm Nigra, subglabra, mandibulis, thorace atque petiolo ferrugineis, clypeo obscure ferruginea, antennis femoribusque fuscis, tibiis tarsisque testaceis et paulo infuscatis; caput rude reticulato-rugosum et subtiliter dense punctatum, antice hand distincte oblique truncatum; mandibulae purum dilatatae, ' subtiliter striatae et disperse punctulae; thorax rude reticidato-rugosus, cuneiformis, antice duplo latior quam postice, supra carina mediana longitudinale interrupta. inter mesonotum et metanotum incisus; pronotum, magnum paulo latius quam longitis, medio deplanatum; mesonotum postice ante stricturam carina transversa; metanotum dense punctatum subcuboideum, (origins quam latius, parte basalt horizontali trapezoidali, postice spinalis duabus horizontalibus parallelis et obtusis; petiolus dense punctatus, supra nodo subcubico, postice supra elevato et dentibus duobus erectis iustructo; abdomen nitidissimum subtilissime transverse ruguloso-striatum, pilis minutissimis albo-flavidis adpressis et dispersis.
Von Ovalan, einer der Viti-Inseln, im Mus. Godeffroy in Hamburg.
Bei dieser Art kommt man sehr in Versuchung, eine neue Gattung wegen den Eigenthuemlichkeiten des Thorax und Stielchens aufzustellen, doch haelt mich die Erfahrung ab, dass diese beiden KoerperIheile bei den Ameisen grossen Schwankungen unterworfen sind, und die wesentlichen Charaktere doch hauptsaechlich in den Kopftheilen zu suchen seien. Diese Letzteren sind hei der schwierig zu charakterisirenden Gattung Colobopsis auch in gewissen Grenzen sehr schwankend, wie dies bei den zwei europaeischen Arten der Fall ist.
Als Unterschied von Camponotus ist wohl nur festzuhalten, dass bei Colobopsis der Clypeus hinten viel breiter ist, dass die Stirnleisten von einander stark entfernt, nicht S-foermig gekruemmt sind und nach hinten divergiren. Die neue Art stimmt im Kopfbaue mit C. fuscipes Mayr ueberein, waehrend sie sich durch den Thorax und das Stielchen von allen anderen Arten leicht unterscheidet. Sie hat im Habitus und in der Farbe mit Hypoclinea quadripunctata L. einige Aehnlichkeit, doch ist sie durch den hinten quer abgeschnittenen und nicht zwischen die Fuehler eingeschobenen Clypeus, so wie durch die in einiger Entfernung vom Clypeus entspringenden Fuehler leicht zu unterscheiden.
description: Published as part of Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., pp. 484-517 in Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53 on page 9
Parakiefferiella claviculata Edwards 1931, comb. n.
Creators: name: Massaferro, Julieta
name: Donato, Mariano
name: Brooks, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Parakiefferiella
Parakiefferiella claviculata

description: Parakiefferiella claviculata (Edwards, 1931), comb. n.
Spaniotoma (Eukiefferiella) claviculata Edwards, 1931: 291.
Parakiefferiella lagorum Wiedenbrug & Andersen, 2002: 120, syn. n.
The measurements obtained by the study of the type material were carefully compared with the description of P. la go ru m made by Wiedenbrug & Andersen (2002) and it fits exactly with all of them. Therefore, a re-description or an emendation of that diagnosis is not needed.
Material examined: Holotype male (NHM), Argentina, Terr. Río Negro, L. Nahuel Haupi Eastern End, 28/ 31–X–1926, leg. F. & M. Edwards, B.M. 1927–63; paratype male (NHM), same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Massaferro, Julieta, Donato, Mariano & Brooks, Stephen J., 2009, New placement for Spaniotoma (Eukiefferiella) claviculata Edwards, 1931 (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 67-68 in Zootaxa 2125 on page 67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.188250
Nesiophasma sananaense Hennemann 2021, n. sp.
Creators: name: Hennemann, Frank H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Phasmatidae
Nesiophasma
Nesiophasma sananaense

description: 5. Nesiophasma sananaense n. sp.
Distribution: Sula Islands (Sanana Island).
description: Published as part of Hennemann, Frank H., 2021, Stick insects of Sulawesi, Peleng and the Sula Islands, Indonesia- a review including checklists of species and descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Phasmatodea), pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 5073 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5760636
Amblytylus jani Fieber 1858
Creators: name: Çerçi, Barış
name: Koçak, Özgür
name: Tezcan, Serdar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Amblytylus
Amblytylus jani

description: Amblytylus jani Fieber, 1858
Material examined
Amblytylus sp.
TURKEY – GazIantep Province • 1 ♀; Yavuzeli; 25 Apr. 1986; EUAPP exped.; LEMT.
Comments
Amblytylus jani is a West Mediterranean species with records from Crete in the East Mediterranean region. This species was recorded from Gaziantep by Lodos et al. (2003). A re-examination of the only collected specimen revealed that it was a female and a reliable identification to species level was not possible. Hence this species is excluded from the checklist of Heteroptera species of Turkey.
description: Published as part of Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, pp. 1-127 in European Journal of Taxonomy 937 on page 15, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.937.2571, http://zenodo.org/record/12092877
Collineation groups of octonionic and split-octonionic planes
Creators: name: Corradetti, Daniele
name: Marrani, Alessio
name: Zucconi, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17A35, 51M35, 17B25

description: We present a Veronese formulation of the octonionic and split-octonionic projective and hyperbolic planes. This formulation of the incidence planes highlights the relationship between the Veronese vectors and the rank-1 elements of the Albert algebras over octonions and split-octonions, yielding to a clear formulation of the relationship with the real forms of the Lie groups arising as collineation groups of these planes. The Veronesean representation also provides a novel and minimal construction of the same octonionic and split-octonionic planes, by exploiting two symmetric composition algebras: the Okubo algebra and the paraoctonionic algebra. Besides the intrinsic mathematical relevance of this construction of the real forms of the Cayley-Moufang plane, we expect this approach to have implications in all mathematical physics related with exceptional Lie Groups of type $G_{2},F_{4}$ and $E_{6}$.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures