cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Structural and dynamic basis for the cAMP-mediated allosteric control of the catabolite activator protein (CAP)
Creators: name: Popovych, Nataliya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The E.coli catabolite activator protein (CAP) is a universal transcriptional activator that regulates more than half of the cell’s transcription units by responding to fluctuations of the cellular concentration of cAMP. Cyclic 3’-5’-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) binding to CAP elicits an allosteric transition that switches CAP from the “off” state, which binds DNA weakly and nonspecifically, to the “on” state that binds DNA strongly and specifically. In the cAMP-bound state CAP binds to DNA sites located at or close to promoter sites and enhances RNA polymerase binding to the promoter by a simple recruitment mechanism thereby activating transcription.The solution structure of CAP in the absence of cAMP (apo-CAP) was determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Multidimensional heteronuclear NMR experiments in combination with a series of specifically labeled samples were used to accomplish structure determination.The structure of the 50-kDa apo-CAP provides atomic details of the allosteric transition that leads to activation of CAP for DNA binding. cAMP elicits a coil-to-helix transition that stabilizes a suboptimal coiled coil, which is extensively unwound in apo-CAP. Coiled-coil winding causes the DNA-binding domain to undergo a large rigid-body translation and rotation that poise the recognition helices for specific DNA binding. The results highlight the unique structural mechanisms that underlie activation of this prototypic transcription factor and provide an example of how effector-mediated structural changes can control the activity of regulatory proteins. In addition, we have also characterized a number of CAP* mutants in order to further understand the mechanism underlying the activation of CAP.NMR spectroscopy in combination with isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) was used to delineate the structural and dynamic features of distinct conformational states in cAMP binding to CAP. The intrinsically cooperative binding of cAMP to CAP was characterized using the isolated effector binding domain CAPN (residues 1-138) in three conformational states: in the absence of cAMP (apo-CAPN), in singly liganded state (intermediate, cAMP1-CAPN), and in the doubly liganded state (cAMP2-CAPN). We have shown that allosteric interactions can be mediated exclusively by transmitted changes in protein motions. Thus, the observed protein allostery is exclusively dynamically driven.
title: Differential microphone with sealed backside cavities and diaphragms coupled to a rocking structure thereby providing resistance to deflection under atmospheric pressure and providing a directional response to sound pressure
Creators: name: Hall, Neal A.
name: Kuntzman, Michael Louis
name: Kirk, Karen Denise
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: H04R23/00
subject: 257/678
subject: 257/723
subject: 381/175
subject: 381/174
subject: 381/178
subject: 381/355
subject: 381/356
subject: 381/361
subject: 381/369
subject: 438/53
subject: 73/504.1

description: A vacuum sealed directional microphone and methods for fabricating said vacuum sealed directional microphone. A vacuum sealed directional microphone includes a rocking structure coupled to two vacuum sealed diaphragms which are responsible for collecting incoming sound and deforming under sound pressure. The rocking structure's resistance to bending aids in reducing the deflection of each diaphragm under large atmospheric pressure. Furthermore, the rocking structure exhibits little resistance about its pivot thereby enabling it to freely rotate in response to small pressure gradients characteristic of sound. The backside cavities of such a device can be fabricated without the use of the deep reactive ion etch step thereby allowing such a microphone to be fabricated with a CMOS compatible process.
Factorization of isometries of hyperbolic 4-space and a discreteness condition
Creators: name: Puri, Karan Mohan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Gilman's NSDC condition is a sufficient condition for the discreteness of a two generator subgroup of PSL(2,C). We address the question of the extension of this condition to subgroups of isometries of hyperbolic 4-space. While making this new construction, namely the NSDS condition, we are led to ask whether every orientation preserving isometry of hyperbolic 4-space can be factored into the product of two half-turns. We use some techniques developed by Wilker to first, define a half-turn suitably in dimension 4 and then answer the former question. It turns out that defining a half-turn in this way in any dimension n enables us to generalize some of Gilman's theorems to dimension greater than or equal to 4. We also give an exposition on part of Wilker's work and give new proofs for some of his results.
Morishitium feizullaevi Feizullaev 1980, n. comb.
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Morishitium
Morishitium feizullaevi

description: M. feizullaevi (Feizullaev, 1980) n. comb.
Type host. Black swan, Cygnus atratus (Latham) (Anseriformes: Anatidae).
Type localities. Russian Federation; specific type locality unknown.
Additional hosts. Mute swan, Cygnus olor (Gmelin); greylag goose, Anser anser (Linnaeus); bean goose, Anser fabalis (Latham); American Pekin duck, Anas platyrhynchos domestica Linnaeus (a form of mallard duck); gadwall, Anas strepera Linnaeus; greater scaup, Aythya marila (Linnaeus) (Anseriformes: Anatidae)— Feizullaev (1980).
Remarks. Feizullaev (1980) described a species, Prohyptiasmus robustus (Stossich, 1902), that he believed might be Cyclocoelum robustum Stossich, 1902; however, unlike C. robustum as originally described by Stossich (1902), the species described by Feizullaev (1980) had the intertesticular ovary in a straight line with the tandem testes (Hyptiasminae) and a postpharyngeal (Fig. 24a of Feizullaev 1980) rather than a prepharyngeal genital pore. Kanev et al. (2002a) apparently observed this difference and proposed a new genus, Neohyptiasmus (= Morishitium) and renamed P. robustus of Feizullaev, 1980 as Neohyptiasmus feizullaevi Kanev, Radev & Fried, 2002, proposing N. feizullaevi as the type and only species in Neohyptiasmus. Dronen (2007a) considered Neohyptiasmus to be a synonym of Morishitium because the vitelline fields in M. feizullaevi (Feizullaev, 1980) are not confluent posteriorly. No oral or ventral suckers described—Feizullaev (1980).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Report on standardisation activities including CWA assessment
Creators: name: Michels, Jochen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The deliverable D7.11, “Report on standardisation activities including CWA assessment” describes the establishment of a CEN working group dedicated to ‘PI for Biorefining Processes’ with the achievement of a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) for this topic as the first step to standardization of PI methods, equipment, technologies, and materials. At the time of writing, DIN as workshop secretary has been obligated, the CEN Workshop could be established and the agreement is in its final draft state. The members of the workshop coordinate their actions directly and in several online meetings, where the current status is discussed. This deliverable gives an overview of the status achieved and an outlook on the next steps towards concluding the CWA.
The impact of migrant remittances on economic and social welfare in municipalities of El Salvador
Creators: name: Romano, Mary Kate
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In order expand the body of knowledge on the impacts of international migration on developing nations, this dissertation examines the effects of transnational migration and migrant remittances on communities in El Salvador.  The effects of migration on the migrant-sending country can be dramatic on both a macro and microeconomic level, which create serious challenges for governments, communities and families.  As one of the world economies most heavily dependant on remittances from the United States and also a country whose most vital export has become its human capital in the form of migrants, this study of El Salvador can serve as a case study to be applied to illustrate the potential situations and opportunities in other nations.  Data from the 2004 national census and from a 2005 UNDP study were used to construct several regression models to determine the incremental impact of migrant remittances on poverty, health, education level attained, workforce participation, life expectancy, crime and gender roles in households across El Salvador.   The results revealed that the dollar amount of remittances has a statistically significant positive relationship with a number of quality of life variables, such as reduced unemployment in households, higher average grade level and higher life expectancy; however, this variable was also correlated with increased cases of malnourishment in children.  A similar variable, the percent of people receiving remittances, which represents penetration of migrant remittances throughout communities, had a statistically significant inverse relationship with several of the same quality of life variables, such as lower average grade level, lower levels of malnourishment and decreased life expectancy.  The reasons for these differences are examined, including the possibility that while dollar amount of remittances may ease financial constraints and improve certain conditions for households, the psychological effects of widespread migration may exert a different and sometimes opposite effect.  A review of relevant research determined that while globally there have been attempts at policy shifts towards channeling remittances into more productive, the majority of remittance income is spent on immediate consumption, which presents opportunities for intervention by both the public and private sector to encourage more sustainable use of remittances.
Robust segmentation and object classification in natural and medical images
Creators: name: Yang, Lin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Image segmentation and object classification are two fundamental tasks in computer vision. In this thesis, a novel segmentation algorithm based on deformable model and robust estimation is introduced to produce reliable segmentation results. The algorithm is extended to handle touching object and partially occluded image segmentation. A multiple class segmentation algorithm is described to achieve multi-class "object cut". The accurate results areachieved using the appearance and bag of keypoints models integrated over mean-shift patches. An affine invariant descriptor is proposed to model the spatial configuration of the keypoints. Besides working with 2D image segmentation problem, a robust, fast and accurate segmentation algorithm is illustrated for processing 4D volumetric data. One-step forward prediction is applied to generate the motion prior based on motion modes learning. Two collaborative trackers are introduced to achieve both temporal consistency and failure recovery. Multi-class classification algorithms using a gentle boosting is used to classify three types of breast cancer. The algorithm is Grid-enabled and launched on the IBM World Community Grid. We will introduce a fast and robust image registration algorithm for both 2D and 3D images. The algorithm starts from an automatic detection of the landmarks followed by a coarse to fine estimation of the nonlinear mapping. The parallelization of the algorithm on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine (IBM Cell/B.E.) will also be explained in details.
Gabrius oena Hromadka 2014
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gabrius
Gabrius oena

description: Gabrius oena Hromádka, 2014
Gabrius oena Hromádka, 2014g: 48, Figs 30–32.
The holotype and one paratype are deposited in NMPC
(general collection):
HƟĿƟ*´YPൾ (): ‘ ETHIOPIA:Bale [p] / 3 [hw] [sic!] km. W. of Dinshu / 0706 N.394 [p] 5 [hw] E. / 3.050 m. xii. 1971 [p] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // HO- LOTYPUS / GABRIUS Step. / oena sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2013 [p, orange label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾ) (: ‘ ETHIOPIA: Bale / 8km [sic!]. W. of Dinshu / 0706 N. 3944 E [sic!]. / 3.050m. xii.1971 [p] // ex coll.L.Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / GABRIUS Step. / oena sp. nov. / Hromádka det., 2013. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 359, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Apalonia obscura Pace 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Apalonia
Apalonia obscura

description: Apalonia obscura n. sp.
(Figg. 36-39)
Materiale tipico: Holotypus , Brasil, Espirito Santo, Sta. Thereze, XI.1929, leg. O. Conde (MB).
Paratypi: 32 es., stessa provenienza (MB), (MRSNT).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2 mm. Corpo lucido e nero-bruno; antenne brune con i due antennomeri basali giallorossicci; zampe giallo-rossicce. Punteggiatura del capo e delle elitre evidente, quella del pronoto superficiale. Reticolazione del capo e delle elitre molto superficiale, quella del pronoto evanescente. Uroterghi liberi nudi, senza pubescenza, tranne che sul quinto urotergo libero su cui è rada. Margine posteriore del sesto urotergo libero del maschio crenellato. Edeago figg. 37-38, spermateca fig. 39.
Comparazioni:
Gli occhi molto sviluppati e il quarto antennomero molto trasverso sono caratteri che distinguono esternamente la nuova specie da A. glabricollis (BERNHAUER, 1940), della Costa Rica (serie tipica del DEI da me esaminata), che presenta occhi meno sviluppati e quarto antennomero lungo quanto largo. L’edeago è minore nella nuova specie e maggiore in glabricollis e l’introflessione apicale del bulbo distale della spermateca è larga e prolungata nella nuova specie e breve e stretta in glabricollis.
Etimologia: La nuova specie prende nome di «oscura» per il colore nero-bruno del suo corpo.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2009, Nuovi dati faunistici e tassonomici su Aleocharinae delle tribù Lomechusini, Hoplandriini, Oxypodini e Aleocharini del Sudamerica (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 133-173 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1) on pages 144-145, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.59.1.133-173, http://zenodo.org/record/4752253
Promyopias
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Promyopias

description: Species of Promyopias
P. silvestrii (Santschi, 1914): Guinea
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
title: Saatwicke :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Additional file 1: of ASXL gain-of-function truncation mutants: defective and dysregulated forms of a natural ribosomal frameshifting product?
Creators: name: Dinan, Adam
name: Atkins, John
name: Firth, Andrew
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary figures and supplementary files. (PDF 2721Â kb)
Molecular and genetic dissection of neuronal necrotic-like death in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenying
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Neuronal necrosis is a major contributor to the devastating consequences of spinal cord injury, stroke, ischemia and neurodegenerative diseases. Detailed elaboration of the molecular mechanisms of neuronal necrosis will be essential for development of efficacious therapies. I studied neuronal necrosis in C. elegans, which involves death initiation by hyperactivated ion channels (MEC-4(d) and MEC10-(d)) in six touch neurons, elevation of intracellular Ca2+ via ER release, and activation of calpain and cathepsin proteases. I conducted the first genetic screen for enhancers of the mild necrosis-inducing stimulus conferred by MEC-10(d) to identify 18 medium-strong necrosis enhancer alleles (nen). The normal function of these genes should be to protect against necrosis in a native physiological context. One mec-10(d) necrosis enhancer is MEC-4 variant MEC-4(A149V). MEC-4(A149V) executes normal MEC-4 function in touch sensation and does not induce necrosis on its own, but rather combines with MEC-10(d) to create a strongly neurotoxic channel. The MEC-4(A149V) + MEC-10(d) channel conducts elevated Na+ and Ca2+ currents (with a disproportionate increase in Ca2+ current) in the Xenopus oocyte heterologous expression system.  These data document the first example of synergistically toxic inter-subunit interactions in the DEG/ENaC channel class and provides evidence that Ca2+ current levels may be a decisive factor in necrosis.  I also characterized another strong recessive necrosis enhancer, bz300, that appears to act downstream of channel-hyperactivation and upstream of ER-dependent cytoplasmic Ca2+ rise. nen(bz300) appears tightly linked to the unc-101 locus.Using a genome-inclusive RNAi testing of Ca2+-binding EF hand proteins, I identified potential key players (7 suppressors and 14 enhancers) in the necrosis pathway. I further confirmed that T05F1.1, which encodes a homologue of mammalian Nicalin, is a death enhancer by analysis of a deletion allele. Testing another model in the field, I used RNAi knockdown methods to demonstrate that Ca2+-induced calcium release proteins STIM-1 and Orai-1 are not required for MEC channel hyperactivation necrosis.I described the neuroprotective roles of heat shock response (HSR) and unfolded protein response (UPR) in mec-10(d)-induced necrosis. Decreasing the activities of HSF-1 and IRE-1/XBP-1 enhance cell death in parallel and non-redundant pathways, and their effects are slow and gradual. Epistasis analysis shows that cell death enhancement by these factors does not depend on the activity of calreticulin, a dramatic distinction from mec-4(d)-induced necrosis. My data indicate there might be additional stress factors that play key roles in the MEC-10(d) channel hyperactivation, in parallel with the calcium disturbance by ER release. Overall, my data advance understanding of physiological necrosis modulation.
Analysis and characterization of consumer products by  FTIR, Raman, chemometrics, and two dimensional ATR-FTIR correlation spectroscopy
Creators: name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: My research focused on two projects using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), Micro-Raman spectroscopy, Chemometrics (Principle Component Analysis, PCA), and two-dimensional (2D) ATR-FTIR correlation spectroscopic techniques.Project one involves method development and validation for the simultaneous determination of dimethicone and cyclomethicone in skin protectant ointments by FTIR.  A unique FTIR method that utilizes two absorbance bands (1260 cm-1 and 808 cm-1) to determine the concentrations of dimethicone and cyclomethicone using two simultaneous equations was first time developed.  The absorbances at two fixed wave numbers 1258.50 cm-1 and 800.00 cm-1 were used to calculate the concentrations of dimethicone and cyclomethicone.  A series of comprehensive method validation experiments were designed and carried out.  The simultaneous equation approach employed in the method was shown to be linear, accurate, precise, and specific. Project two is to characterize fish oil supplements using ATR-FTIR, Micro-Raman, Principle Components Analysis, and 2D ATR-FTIR Correlation Spectroscopy.  Most of the fish oil supplements claim active ingredient EPA and DHA on the labels, but the actual chemical forms (ethyl ester or triglyceride) are not indicated.  A fast qualitative ATR-FTIR method was developed to distinguish between the ethyl ester and the triglyceride forms of fatty acids using the carbonyl band position.  Chemometrics approach - Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to classify fish oil supplements successfully by grouping the FTIR and Raman spectra.  PCA was also demonstrated as a powerful tool to screen fish oil supplements and identify the products that may be made by the same manufacturers with the same quality, but sold with different prices.  A fish oil FTIR spectral library was also created for rapid searching and product comparison.  In addition, an ATR-FTIR standard addition method was evaluated for quantitative analysis of active ingredients EPA and DHA esters in fish oil products.  Lastly, two-dimensional FTIR correlation spectroscopy was first time used as a new technique to study temperature dependent spectral characteristics of fatty acids such as EPA and DHA esters to provide further spectral information of these polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids.
Winslow Homer and aestheticism, 1865-1880
Creators: name: Atkins, Ashley L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation explores the introduction of aestheticism to the United States through a close examination of the work of Winslow Homer from 1865 to 1880.  I argue that Homer was consistently engaged with aestheticism from its early introduction to the United States in the years immediately following the Civil War.  Throughout Homer’s career, aestheticism was not antithetical to realism, but an alternative approach to addressing the social and cultural changes of modern life.  Homer drew from many cultural precedents and models to create an aestheticism that was not only representative of his individuality, but also uniquely American.  In Chapter One, I explore the introduction of aestheticism to the United States through a review of contemporary writings, particularly that of Homer’s friend Eugene Benson, connecting these theories to the building of American cultural standards and institutions, in which Homer was actively involved during this period.  Chapter Two examines Homer’s early exposure to European aestheticism, including an awareness of aesthetic paintings at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris, particularly the works of James McNeil Whistler. Since many of these early aesthetic works depict female figures, I likewise consider the gender implications of Homer’s work in this vein. Chapter Three examines Homer’s work from around the year 1875 when he began exhibiting aestheticist works more public exhibitions. Here, the critical response to his work plays an increased role in defining aestheticism’s progress in America.  I examine the tensions that emerged in Homer’s work that grew from the critical expectation to ground his paintings with moral and realistic overtones while he simultaneously exploring issues of ideal beauty that developed in the aestheticist debate. Chapter Four studies Homer’s tile production from the late 1870s, exploring precedents as well as contemporary uses of tiles and other decorative arts in relationship to Homer’s work from this period.  It examines the implications of the subjects that Homer used in these new experimental works, arguing that Homer’s work in this vein functioned within a complete decorative scheme that reflected the patrons’ morals and social fashioning.
title: Rotating optical catheter tip for optical coherence tomography
Creators: name: Feldman, Marc D.
name: Milner, Thomas E.
name: Oh, Jung-Hwan
name: Castella, Paul C.
name: Chen, Shaochen
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: A61B5/0066
subject: A61B1/00183
subject: A61B5/0084
subject: A61B5/6852
subject: A61B6/12
subject: A61B8/12
subject: A61B8/4461
subject: A61M25/0074
subject: A61B1/3137
subject: A61M2202/0476
subject: A61N2007/0091
subject: 600/478
subject: 600/182
subject: 600/466
subject: 600/473

description: The present invention relates to a rotating catheter tip for optical coherence tomography based on the use of an optical fiber that does not rotate, that is enclosed in a catheter, which has a tip rotates under the influence of a fluid drive system to redirect light from the fiber to a surrounding vessel and the light reflected or backscattered from the vessel back to the optical fiber.
Apalonia debilis Pace 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Apalonia
Apalonia debilis

description: Apalonia debilis n. sp.
(Figg. 40-41)
Materiale tipico: Holotypus , Brasilien, Nova Teutonia, 27°11', 52°23', VII.1959, leg. Fritz Plaumann (MB).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,3 mm. Corpo lucido e giallo-bruno con addome giallo-bruno ad uroterghi liberi quarto e quinto bruni; antenne rossicce con i tre antennomeri basali giallo-rossicci; zampe giallorossicce. Punteggiatura del capo evidente, ma assente sulla fascia longitudinale mediana, quella del pronoto quasi invisibile e quella delle elitre molto superficiale e fine. Sono presenti granuli salienti solo al margine posteriore degli uroterghi liberi. Corpo senza reticolazione. Uroterghi liberi nudi, senza pubescenza. Spermateca fig. 41.
Comparazioni:
La spermateca della nuova specie è simile a quella di A. semiscapa (PACE, 1987), comb. n., di Guadalupa («olim» Macrogerodonia semiscapa PACE, 1987: 194), ma il bulbo distale della spermateca è reniforme nella nuova specie e ovale in semiscapa. Il pronoto, inoltre, è molto trasverso nella nuova specie e lievemente trasverso in semiscapa.
Etimologia: Il nome della nuova specie significa «debole».
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2009, Nuovi dati faunistici e tassonomici su Aleocharinae delle tribù Lomechusini, Hoplandriini, Oxypodini e Aleocharini del Sudamerica (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 133-173 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1) on page 145, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.59.1.133-173, http://zenodo.org/record/4752253
Haematotrephus lobivanelli Gupta 1958
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Haematotrephus
Haematotrephus lobivanelli

description: H. lobivanelli Gupta, 1958
Type host. Red - wattled lapwing, Vanellus indicus (Boddaert) (Syn. Lobivanellus indicus [Boddaert]) (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae).
Type locality. Hoshiarpur District, Punjab, India.
Remarks. Although originally described as Haematotrephus (Haematotrephus) lobivanelli Gupta, 1958, this species was considered to be a synonym of Cyclocoelum (H.) vanelli (Rudolphi, 1819) (= Uvitellina vanelli [Rudolphi, 1819]) by Dubois (1965). Rudimentary oral sucker present—Gupta (1958).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Gabrius halobaena Hromadka 2014
Creators: name: Mikátová, Šárka
name: Macháčková, Lenka
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gabrius
Gabrius halobaena

description: Gabrius halobaena Hromádka, 2014
Gabrius halobaena Hromádka, 2014h: 180, Figs 28–30.
Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hro-
mádka):
PA*©A*´YPൾ (): ‘Massif Ruwenzori / Kyandolire 1.750 m / Riv. Mulaku / af. Kakalari (terreau) [p, yellow label] // Congo Belge / 29.iv.1954 / P. Vanschuytbroeck & / at Kakalari (terreau) [p, yellow label] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / GABRIUS Stephens / halobaena sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2014. [p, red label]’.
PA*©A*´YPൾ) (: ‘ Angola: Lunda, / km ex Dundo [p] / Parc Forestice / 19.X. I.1972 [hw] // Exclosed / alate / emergence / silrs Nist / T-466 [hw] // coll. / O.H,AH.K.Siner / NR.J.SWIST / NO.2621 [hw] // ex coll. L. Hromádka / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // PARATYPUS / GABRIUS Stephens / halobaena sp. nov. / Hromádka, det. 2014. [p, red label]’.
Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Mikátová, Šárka, Macháčková, Lenka & Hájek, Jiří, 2020, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 353-389 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 358, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.021, http://zenodo.org/record/3880030
Endurance characterization and improvement of floating gate semiconductor memory devices
Creators: name: Khan, Faraz I.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Low power consumption, virtually zero latency, extremely fast boot-up for OS and applications, fast data access, portability, and high shock resistance are some of many reasons that make Flash memory devices an ideal choice for a vast variety of consumer electronics. Flash memory is a specific type of non-volatile EEPROM. A typical Flash memory cell looks similar to a MOSFET, except that it has a dual-gate structure. Flash memory cells use the principle of threshold voltage modulation to alter the channel current (Ids) when a reference read voltage (Vread) is applied to the control gate. Different levels of Ids are, in turn, interpreted as unique logic states. Fowler-Nordheim tunneling is used to achieve threshold voltage modulation in NAND Flash memory cells.Despite its high performance potential, NAND Flash memory suffers from the drawback of limited program/erase endurance. High field/current stress caused by Fowler-Nordheim tunneling (during program/erase cycling) leads to tunnel oxide degradation, which eventually limits the endurance characteristics of NAND Flash memory cells. One of the most significant tunnel oxide degradation mechanisms is charge trapping. This work is devoted to the study of charge trapping and its effects on the endurance characteristics and reliability of NAND Flash memory devices. Cell threshold voltage shift and memory window narrowing, a direct consequence of tunnel oxide degradation caused by charge trapping, are typical failure modes in NAND Flash memory cells.In this work, endurance characterization of NAND Flash memory devices and a detailed analysis has been conducted reconfirming the issue of limited program/erase endurance. Subsequently, a novel NAND Flash memory cell design has been proposed which eliminates tunnel oxide degradation caused by Fowler-Nordheim tunneling. Device simulations (using the Sentaurus TCAD tool suite by Synopsys®, Inc.) and corresponding analysis show that, as compared to conventional cells, the proposed cell design offers a 10 times reduction in intrinsic threshold voltage shift. That, according to the measured endurance characteristics of cells fabricated in this work, translates to an improvement of over 200 times in program/erase endurance. In a nutshell, the proposed cell design offers superior reliability and endurance as compared to conventional NAND Flash memory cells.
Apalonia laboriosa Pace 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Apalonia
Apalonia laboriosa

description: Apalonia laboriosa n. sp.
(Figg. 42-44)
Materiale tipico: Holotypus , Paraguagy, San Bernardino, 1905, leg. K. Fiebrig (MB).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,8 mm. Corpo lucido e giallo con capo bruno-rossiccio, elitre giallo-rossicce e uroterghi liberi terzo, quarto e base del quinto bruni; antenne e zampe gialle. Granulosità del capo superficiale, ma saliente sulla fronte, quella del pronoto ben visibile e quella delle elitre molto superficiale. Reticolazione del capo e delle elitre molto evanescente, reticolazione del pronoto forte. Uroterghi liberi nudi, senza pubescenza. Capo largamente impresso sul disco. Sesto urotergo libero del maschio con margine posteriore crenellato. Edeago figg. 43-44.
Comparazioni:
L’edeago della nuova specie ha forma simile a quella dell’edeago di A. circumflexa PACE, 1977, dell’Ecuador, ma l’armatura genitale interna della nuova specie è esile, robusta in circumflexa, e la porzione apicale distale dell’edeago, in visione ventrale, ha lati sinuati nella nuova specie e rettilinei in circumflexa.
Etimologia: La nuova specie prende nome di «faticosa» perché ha richiesto faticoso lavoro per la sua determinazione.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2009, Nuovi dati faunistici e tassonomici su Aleocharinae delle tribù Lomechusini, Hoplandriini, Oxypodini e Aleocharini del Sudamerica (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 133-173 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1) on pages 145-147, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.59.1.133-173, http://zenodo.org/record/4752253
Pseudoneoponera
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Pseudoneoponera

description: Species of Pseudoneoponera
P. barbata (Stitz, 1911): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. bispinosa (Smith, F., 1858): India (comb. nov.)
P. denticulata (Kirby, 1896): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. dubitata (Forel, 1900): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. excavata (Emery, 1893): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. excavata acuticostata (Forel, 1900): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. havilandi (Forel, 1901): Singapore (comb. nov.)
P. incisa (Emery, 1911): New Guinea (comb. nov.)
P. insularis (Emery, 1889): Java (comb. nov.)
P. insularis brevior (Forel, 1901): Borneo (comb. nov.)
P. mayri (Emery, 1887): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. obesa (Emery, 1897): New Guinea (comb. nov.)
P. oculata (Smith, F., 1858): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. piliventris (Smith, F., 1858): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. piliventris intermedia (Forel, 1900): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. piliventris regularis (Forel, 1907): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. porcata (Emery, 1897): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. rufipes (Jerdon, 1851): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. rufipes ceylonensis (Forel, 1911): Sri Lanka (comb. nov.)
P. sandakana (Wheeler, 1919): Borneo (comb. nov.)
P. sublaevis (Emery, 1887): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. sublaevis kurandensis (Forel, 1910): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. sublaevis murina (Forel, 1910): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. sublaevis reticulata (Forel, 1900): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. sublaevis rubicunda (Emery, 1893): Australia (comb. nov.)
P. tridentata (Smith, F., 1858): Borneo (comb. nov.)
P. tridentata debilior (Forel, 1901): Borneo (comb. nov.)
P. tridentata exasperans (Forel, 1911): West Malaysia (comb. nov.)
P. verecundae Donisthorpe, 1943: New Guinea (comb. rev.)
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on page 135, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
An introduction to the curvature of surfaces
Creators: name: Barile, Philip Anthony
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Curvature is fundamental to the study of differential geometry. It describes different geometrical and topological properties of a surface in R3. Two types of curvature are discussed in this paper: intrinsic and extrinsic. Numerous examples are given which motivate definitions, properties and theorems concerning curvature.
Allopyge elongatum Harrah 1921, n. comb.
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Allopyge
Allopyge elongatum

description: A. elongatum (Harrah, 1921) n. comb.
Type host. Harrah (1921) listed “ Cyanopolius cyanus ” as the host; however, we could not confirm this genus or species. It is apparently the azure-winged magpie, Cyanopica cyanus Pallas (Passeriformes: Corvidae)— Harrah (1921).
Type locality. Nanjing, People’s Republic of China.
Additional hosts. Species of Myiophoneus Temminck & Laugier (Syn. Myophonus Temminck) (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae); common sandpiper, Tringa hypoleucos Linnaeus (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae); grey catbird, Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus) (Passeriformes: Mimidae); species of Passer Brisson (Passeriformes: Passeridae); species of Pica Brisson (Passeriformes: Corvidae); species of Gallus Brisson (Galliformes: Phasianidae)— Yamaguti (1971).
Additional localities. India, South America, USA, and Vietnam—Yamaguti (1971).
Remarks. This species was originally described as Cyclocoelum elongatum Harrah, 1921. It was considered to be a synonym of Cyclocoelum sharadi Bhalerao, 1935 (= Morishitium sharadi [Bhalerao, 1935]), Cyclocoelum bivesiculatum Prudhoe, 1944, Cyclocoelum (Pseudhyptiasmus) dollfusi Timon-David, 1950 (= Morishitium dollfusi [Timon-David, 1950]), and Cyclocoelum (Pseudhyptiasmus) sinhaladvipa Fernando, 1950 (transferred to Morishitium by Yamaguti 1958) by Dubois (1959). This species has the intertesticular ovary nearly in a straight line with the nearly tandem testes (Hyptiasminae), a postpharyngeal genital pore and the vitelline fields are confluent posteriorly, placing it in Allopyge. Rudimentary oral sucker present—Harrah (1921).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
The role of proneurotrophins in apoptotic signaling in rat brain neurons
Creators: name: Song, Wenyu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Proneurotrophins and mature neurotrophins can activate distinct signaling pathways and have opposing effects on cells: proneurotrophins induce apoptotic signaling via p75NTR while mature neurotrophins activate survival signaling by binding to Trk receptors. In the CNS, basal forebrain (BF) neurons express both p75NTR and Trk receptors. The work in this thesis demonstrates that proneurotrophins can induce loss of BF neurons through p75NTR, even in the presence of activated Trk receptors. Moreover, proNGF inhibits the phosphorylation of Akt induced by BDNF, suggesting that proNGF induces apoptotic signaling and simultaneously blocks survival signaling activated by BDNF. Phosphorylation of Akt can prevent proNGF-induced apoptosis, suggesting that regulation of Akt phosphorylation may be a critical point of interaction between survival and death signaling. PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome ten) is a dual-specificity phosphatase that can act as an antagonist to the PI3 kinase/Akt pathway. ProNGF induces an increase in PTEN in BF neurons, even in the presence of BDNF, suggesting that proNGF might block survival signaling through PTEN.  In the presence of BDNF, proNGF was unable to induce apoptosis when PTEN activity was inhibited both in vitro and in vivo.  Also, the PTEN inhibitor blocked proNGF-induced inhibition of Akt phosphorylation by BDNF, suggesting that PTEN is a crucial factor mediating the balance between p75-induced apoptotic signaling and Trk-mediated survival signaling.   Taken together, the interaction of proneurotrophin-p75NTR and mature neurotrophin-Trk systems is partially determined by the balance of PTEN and Akt which eventually causes the cell to die or survive.
"Nursing Students' Voices And Experiences: A Qualitative Study On Academic Performance  Determinants"
Creators: name: Dr Sr Lucy Clare, Sneha Elizabeth Varghese, Anna Felina Francis, Revathi Suresh, Ann Maria Jose, Arun James
Publisher: name: Brio Innovative Journal of Novel Research (BIJNR)
Year: 2024

description: Abstract: This qualitative study explores determinants of academic performance among nursing students in Kerala through focus group discussions with 30 participants aged 18-23. Thematic analysis identified key factors, including academic challenges (workload and time management), support systems (institutional and familial), motivation and goals (intrinsic passion and career aspirations), and learning environment (classroom dynamics and clinical experiences). Findings highlight the critical role of mentorship, peer support, and tailored institutional interventions in addressing challenges and fostering academic success. By amplifying student voices, the study provides actionable insights for enhancing nursing education and preparing students for professional excellence in healthcare settings.
title: Efficiently injecting spin-polarized current into semiconductors by interfacing crystalline ferromagnetic oxides directly on the semiconductor material
Creators: name: Demkov, Alexander A.
name: Posadas, Agham-Bayan S.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: G11C11/16
subject: H01L43/10
subject: H01L43/02
subject: H01L43/12
subject: 257/E21.002
subject: 257/E21.665
subject: 257/E29.323
subject: 438/3

description: A spintronic device and a method for making said spintronic device. The spintronic device includes an epitaxial crystalline ferromagnetic oxide formed directly on the semiconductor material thereby allowing spin-polarized current to be efficiently injected from the ferromagnetic oxide into the semiconductor material. A host crystal lattice includes multiple sets of stacked oxide layers of material A and B of a perovskite structure with a formula of ABO3. After an oxide layer of B is grown, magnetic ions are introduced to intermix with the B material, which may replace some of the ions of the B material. The process of growing additional stacked oxide layers of material A and B and introducing further magnetic ions after the deposition of the oxide layer of B continues until enough magnetic ions are sufficiently close to one another that they align in the same direction thereby forming a ferromagnetic oxide on the semiconductor material.
title: Enhanced delivery of drug compositions to treat life threatening infections
Creators: name: Williams, Robert O.
name: Tucker, Christopher J.
name: Johnston, Keith P.
name: Hitt, James E.
name: Scherzer, Brian D.
name: Young, Timothy J.
name: Rogers, True L.
name: Hayes, David A.
name: Burgess, David S.
name: McConville, Jason T.
name: Talbert, Robert
name: Peters, Jay I.
name: Gillespie, Ian B.
name: Garcia, Paula C.
name: Beck, Nicholas S.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: A61K31/496
subject: A61K9/0073
subject: A61K9/008
subject: A61K9/19
subject: No longer published

description: Inhalable compositions are described. The inhalable compositions comprise one or more respirable aggregates, the respirable aggregates comprising one or more poorly water soluble active agents, wherein at least one of the active agents reaches a maximum lung concentration (Cmax) of at least about 0.25 μg/gram of lung tissue and remains at such concentration for a period of at least one hour after being delivered to the lung. Methods for making such compositions and methods for using such compositions are also disclosed.
Hyptiasmus ominosus Kossack 1911
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Hyptiasmus
Hyptiasmus ominosus

description: A. ominosus (Kossack, 1911)
Type host. Given as Grus cinerea Bechstein in the original description, but this species of bird could not be verified. It is likely that this is the grey heron, Ardea cinerea Linnaeus (Pelecaniformes: Ardeidae) but it also could be the grey or common crane, Grus grus (Linnaeus) (Gruiformes: Gruidae).
Type locality. Germany; specific type locality unknown.
Additional hosts. Species of Ardea Linnaeus (Syn. of Megalornis Gray) (Pelecaniformes: Ardeidae)— Yamaguti (1971).
Additional locality. Europe—Yamaguti (1971).
Remarks. This species was originally described as Hyptiasmus ominosus Kossack, 1911 by Kossack (1911) from materials labelled as “ Monostomum microstomum Creplin, 1829 ” from the Greifwald Collection housed in the Berlin Museum and from two specimens (No. 2956) from the Berlin Collection labelled “ Monostomum mutabile Zeder ”. It was transferred to Morishitium by Yamag uti (1958), but it was considered to be in Hyptiasmus by Dubois (1930); in Morishitium by Gupta & Gupta (1979); and in Allopyge by Bashkirova (1950) and Dronen & Blend (2005). Dubois (1959) considered Allopyge undulatus Canavan, 1934 to be a synonym of this species. The genital pore opens immediately above the posterior margin of the intestinal bifurcation and the vitelline fields are confluent posteriorly. No oral or ventral suckers described—Kossack (1911) and Bashkirova (1950).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117