cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Telostegus paglianoi
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Telostegus
Telostegus paglianoi

description: Telostegus paglianoi (Wolf, 1999)
Elaphrosyron paglianoi Wolf, 1999:172, ♀.— Turkey, Güzeldere-Pass-Süd (OLL).
Distribution in Iran: MAZANDARAN (WOLF 1999; WOLF et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Linguistic representations of visual events
Creators: name: Kharkwal, Gaurav
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This thesis explores the nature of linguistic representations that correspond to verbal  descriptions of events. In two experiments, participants watched captioned videos and  decided whether the captions accurately described the videos. In the videos, two geo-metric shapes moved around the screen. [In half of the trials, the geometric shapes had "eyes."] The verbs used to describe the shapes' actions were either source-to-goal verbs (chase, follow, trail ) or goal-to-source verbs (flee, lead, guide). Sometimes the captions were active sentences (e.g., The circle is chasing the square) and sometimes passive sentences (The square is chased by the circle). Analyses of participants' reaction times indicate that the level of linguistic and visual detail encoded reflected the complexity of the task participants had to perform. These results are consistent with "good enough" models of language processing (e.g., Ferreira and Henderson (2007)) in which people  process sentences heuristically or syntactically depending on the nature of the task they  must perform.
Reniera informis var. taurica Czerniavsky 1880
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Microcionidae
Reniera
Reniera informis
Reniera informis var. taurica czerniavsky, 1880

description: Reniera informis var. taurica Czerniavsky, 1880
(Fig. 4J)
Reniera informis var. taurica Czerniavsky, 1880: 118, pl. I(V) fig. 5a.
The variety was described by Czerniavsky from Sinus Hursuficus (Bay of Hursuf, Crimea), approximate coordinates 44.54°N 34.28°E, depth 10–15 m (no type material identified). This junior secondary homonym of Protoschmidtia simplex f. taurica Czerniavsky, 1880 is proposed above to be replaced by the combination Haliclona informis subsp. voldomaroi nom.nov., possibly valid as a Black Sea subspecies of the ill-known Haliclona informis Schmidt, 1868.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Liocarpilodes harmsi
Creators: name: Tune, K Noelle
name: Zachrison, Kori S
name: Pines, Jesse M
name: Zheng, Hui
name: Hayden, Emily M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Xanthidae
Liocarpilodes
Liocarpilodes harmsi

description: Liocarpilodes harmsi (Balss, 1934) [Jn: Yaeyama-toge-ougigani]
(Fig. 5D)
Pilodius harmsi Balss, 1934, p.228, fig. 2. — Forest & Guinot, 1961, p. 93, fig. 85. — Takeda & Miyake, 1968b, p.6, pl. 1 fig. E.
Chlorodopsis natalensis Ward, 1935 (1934), p.21, pl. 1 fig. 6.
Liocarpilodes harmsi: Serène, 1971a, p 914; 1984, pp. 261 (in key), 263 (in key), 264, fig. 175, pl. 37 fig. B. — Takeda & Nunomura, 1976, p.72. — Hsueh et al., 2009, p.1026.
Material examined. Chichi-jima Is. —Miyanohama, Chichi-jima I., 1♂ (NSMT-Cr 31671; cb 5.2×cl 3.6 mm), 12-VII-2009, H. Komatsu leg.; Futami Bay, Chichi-jima I., on rope at fishing port, 1 ♀ (NSMT-Cr 31672; cb 5.0×cl 3.6 mm), 17-XI-2009, H. Komatsu leg.
Remarks. This small species was finely figured by the original author (Balss, 1934, fig. 2, as Pilodius), Forest and Guinot (1961, fig. 85, as Pilodius), Takeda and Miyake (1968b, pl. 1 fig. E, as Pilodius), Ward (1935, pl. 1 fig. 6, as Chlorodopsis natalensis sp. nov.), and Serène (1984, fig. 175, pl. 37 fig. B). Serène (1971a) transferred this species from the originally referred genus Pilodius to the genus Liocarpilodes Klunzinger, 1913, and Serène (1984) prepared the key for five known species including this species. The carapace dorsal surface (Fig. 5D) is rather flattened and sparsely hairy, with the four lobed anterolateral margin, and each ambulatory dactylus is biunguiculate, with the supplementary upper horny claw.
Distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific; Aldabra and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, New Caledonia and Moorea in the South Pacific, and Indonesia, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands in the West Pacific (cf. Takeda and Nunomura, 1976; Serène, 1984; Hsueh et al., 2009). Takeda and Miyake (1968b) mentioned that this species is common in the coral reefs of the Ryukyu Islands. New to the Ogasawara Islands.
description: Published as part of Tune, K Noelle, Zachrison, Kori S, Pines, Jesse M, Zheng, Hui & Hayden, Emily M, 2024, A New and Some Rare Crabs of the Families Trapeziidae, Oziidae and Xanthidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, pp. 97-122 in Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 50 (3) on page 109, DOI: 10.50826/bnmnszool.50.3_97, http://zenodo.org/record/14680356
Charting the boundaries of infant working memory
Creators: name: Kibbe, Melissa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Visual working memory (WM), used for holding small amounts of information over brief   intervals of time, undergoes rapid development in the second half of the first year of life. The research presented in this dissertation examines the nature of this development by testing the limits of infants’ WM in three different age groups, 6-month-olds, 9-month-olds, and 12-month-   olds.  A violation-of-expectation looking time method was used, in which sets of objects were hidden in multiple locations, and the contents of one of the locations was revealed to have changed, stayed the same, or disappeared completely. Both the number of locations, the number   of objects, and the relevance of each object to the task were manipulated. The results show that   infants’ WM can be characterized as limited, but flexible. Even in the face of severe limitations   on what they can recall, 6-month-olds retain an inkling of an object.  By 9 months, infants’ WM   for what went where has improved, but breaks down when they have to keep track of more than   two locations.  By 12-months infants are better still, approaching adult-like levels of   performance.  Further, what infants recall depends on the relevance of the objects to a social   agent.  Implications for the structure and development of object WM are discussed.
Trichopagurus macrochela Komai and Osawa 2005
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Trichopagurus
Trichopagurus macrochela

description: Trichopagurus macrochela Komai and Osawa, 2005
(Fig.9F)
Habitat. Sandy substrate on a rocky shore, among dead coral, intertidal.
Distribution. Philippines and Ryukyu, Amami Island and Yap Island, Japan. This is a new record in Indonesian waters.
Color in life. Carapace, antennae, chelipeds and ambulatory legs generally pale reddish brown, without conspicuous markings; setae at base of cornea accentuated with dark reddish brown (after Komai and Osawa, 2005).
Remarks. Although only one ovigerous female specimenwascollectedinthisstudy, themorphological characters agree well with T. macrochela: 11 pairs of biserial gills, carpus of right cheliped flattened, dorsomesial margin with row of strong spines, female with left gonopore only, fifth coxae asymmetrical, left larger than right. Slight differences with Komai and Osawa’s (2005) descriptions is that in the material in this study the fifth coxae both with numerous long setae on the ventral surface.
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 20, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
Telostegus vachali
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Telostegus
Telostegus vachali

description: Telostegus vachali (Saunders, 1901)
Pompilus vachali Saunders, 1901:544, ♀.— Algeria (BMNH).
Distribution in Iran: KERMAN (GUSSAKOVSKIJ 1932 — AS Telostegus sargadensis (GUSSAKOVSKIJ, 1932).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Time to report estimands in randomised controlled trials
Creators: name: Neill, Erica
name: Iyer, Ravi
name: Sumner, Philip
name: Mackinnon, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: The first quarter of the 21st century has seen critical advances in the conduct and reporting of clinical trials in all fields of medicine. Beyond the foundational requirement for prospective registration, the widespread adoption of the intention-to-treat principle, appropriate treatment of missing data, and a focus on the clinical relevance of outcomes have predominated. However, there is growing awareness of the need for further refinements in many aspects of our trials.
Dynamic rheology of capsule suspension
Creators: name: Kalluri, Ram Chandra Murthy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Three-dimensional numerical simulations using immersed-boundary methods are  performed to study the rheology of capsule suspensions. Two well-known dynamics of the capsules are the tank-treading and tumbling motions. The motivation of  the thesis is twofold: first, to study the micro-macro link between the individual  cell dynamics and the rheology of the cell suspension under a dilute condition,  and, second, to extend the analysis to a dense suspension in which the multi-body  interaction also contributes to the suspension rheology. A recent theoretical study in the limit of small deformation, supported by  experimental work, suggested that the effective viscosity of a vesicle suspension  in dilute limit exhibits a singularity in the form of a viscosity minimum at the  threshold of the transition between the tank-treading and the tumbling motion.  In the first part of the thesis, we extend this study to the dilute suspension of  capsules undergoing large deformation. The objective here is to relate the time-  dependent rheology with the time-dependent capsule dynamics, and study the  role of the tank-treading-to- tumbling transition. We find that the time-averaged  rheology obtained for the non-spherical capsules undergoing the unsteady motion  is qualitatively similar to that obtained for the spherical capsules undergoing the  steady tank-treading motion, and that the tank-treading-to-tumbling transition  has only a marginal effect. The time-averaged rheology exhibits a shear viscosity  minimum when the capsules are in a swinging motion at high shear rates but  not at low shear rates unlike that of a vesicle suspension which exhibits a shear  viscosity minimum at the point of transition. In the second part, we extend our study to dense suspension of initially spherical capsules. We find that the shear viscosity minimum gradually diminishes  with increasing capsule volume fraction. We explain this result by decomposing  the particle shear stress into elastic and viscous components. The elastic component is observed to increase but the viscous component remains constant with  respect to increasing volume fraction. It is also shown that the elastic contribution is shear-thinning, but the viscous contribution is shear-thickening. The  deformation and orientation dynamics of the capsules in dense suspension are  also presented. Non-trivial results for the normal stress differences and particle  pressure are also analysed.
Harlequin semantics
Creators: name: Johnson, Michael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation is about Semantic Uniformity. Semantic Uniformity is the claim that what is true for some expressions is true for them all—at least, when it comes to semantics. In particular, I defend three claims in three chapters, in this order: First, all simple linguistic expressions, and not just some, are non-descriptive. That is, their referents are not determined by fit with our beliefs. Second, all simple linguistic expressions are rigid. Relative to each possible world, construed as a world of evaluation, every expression has one and the same referent. These two claims point toward a general picture of why simple expressions refer to what they do. Simple expressions have their referents determined by the causal, informational, or lawful connections they bear to objects and properties in the world. Furthermore, this referential connection is 'direct‘ in that it doesn‘t depend on the distribution of objects and properties at a world; simple expressions simply refer, and that explains their rigidity. In the third chapter I defend the view that the same holds for complex expressions. Consensus has it that complex expressions derive their meanings from the meanings of their parts and how those parts are combined. But, I argue, a better account assumes that complex expressions have their referents determined by the causal, informational, or lawful connections they bear to objects and properties in the world, just like simple expressions. In the background of all this is the Referentialist thesis, that there is no further aspect to meaning than reference. If Referentialism is accepted, then the argument of the dissertation is that we can have a "complete" theory of meaning simply by extending a direct causal theory of reference to all expressions.
Pagurus moluccensis Haig and Ball 1988
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Pagurus
Pagurus moluccensis

description: Pagurus moluccensis Haig and Ball, 1988
(Fig. 9C)
Habitat. Sandy shore with gravel and boulders, intertidal to 5 m.
Distribution. Philippines, and Indonesia: Lombok and Maluku.
Color in life. Shield with black markings on white background. Ocular peduncles with broad, subproximal dark band. Antennular peduncles white, penultimate segment with broad, submedian dark band. Antennal peduncles with alternating black and white bands.Chelipeds with complex black pattern on white background; second and third pereopods with black, irregular-edged bands on white background (after Haig and Ball, 1988).
In preservative the black marking became dark brown.
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 18, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
Surface Chemistry of Strontium Complexes in Film Deposition
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Strontium oxide thin films, by themselves or in mixtures with a second metal, have found a number of applications within the microelectronic industry. As the dimensions of microelectronic circuits become smaller, new challenges appear in the processes used for the growth of these films. Currently, solid films are deposited by physical methods, typically physical vapor deposition (PVD). However, such approach is directional, and not well suited to address the need of conformal coverage on complex topographies with deep trenches and large aspect ratios. Chemical alternatives are therefore highly desirable. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) in particular has been identified as perhaps the most promising approach for the future. In ALD, two self-limiting and complementary reactions are separated in time in order to control the film growth at a monolayer level. ALD has in fact been implemented in a few instances already in microelectronics fabrications. However, some unresolved issues stand in the way toward further progress. Foremost among those is the identification of appropriate chemical precursors with the desirable properties for clean ALD. These precursors need to follow simple surface chemistry, avoiding side reactions responsible for the co-deposition of undesirable impurities. The precursor needs to also be relatively volatile, thermally stable, and capable of reacting in a viable temperature range. The search continues for good chemical precursors for the deposition of all kinds of metal, metal oxide, and metal nitride films. In this project, we propose to explore the surface chemistry of novel strontium precursors for the ALD of strontium oxide films. We propose to collaborate with a team at Air Products. They have recently identified a new family of compounds that afford high film growth rates in ALD. In this study, we anticipate to achieve a comprehensive knowledge of the fundamental molecular mechanisms that underpin such improved ALD performance. The goals of this work include determining the chemical and physical states of appropriate precursor molecules adsorbed onto a variety of substrates under different conditions mirroring the ALD process, and exploring subtleties of molecular structure/reactivity to fine tune precursors and ALD processes for optimal performance. Our approach is based on modern surface science technology, and involves the use of a combination of surface-sensitive techniques, including infrared absorption spectroscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and temperature programmed desorption (TPD). The expectation is to be able to identify the mechanism of the reactions followed by the compounds used as precursors in thin film deposition in order to identify the key factor for optimal growth, the potential source of impurities, and the details on the nature and properties of the resulting solids.
Xenaporus Ashmead 1902
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Xenaporus

description: Genus Xenaporus Ashmead, 1902
Xenaporus Ashmead, 1902:88. Type species: Pompilus amoenus Klug, 1834, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
The impacts of urban wetlands on mosquito population dynamics and disease risk at the local scale
Creators: name: Johnson, Brian J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Understanding how different urban environments influence the transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) within urban landscapes has been poorly studied. Urban wetlands, which are often the most abundant and beneficial open-space remaining in developed areas, are one such understudied urban environment. Despite the beneficial nature of urban wetlands they have been linked to increases in the occurrence of clinical WNV cases in the northeastern United States. However, the mechanisms behind this association have never been thoroughly investigated. Given this discrepancy, we set out to determine the true impacts urban wetlands have on the transmission of WNV within urban landscapes. Our primary hypothesis is that urban wetlands actually decrease the prevalence of WNV by decreasing the ability of local vector communities to maintain and transmit WNV. To address our hypothesis we surveyed the composition of local vector communities and disease prevalence moving from urban wetlands into adjacent residential/urban environments over a fine spatial scale (<1km). We surveyed a total of six urban wetland sites consisting of three size classes within the state of New Jersey (USA) during the 2009 and 2010 transmission seasons. We found that urban wetlands produced significantly richer (t34=4.77, P<0.001) and more abundant mosquito populations (t34=3.82, P=0.001) compared to urban residential areas. Residential communities also contained higher proportions of container-breeding species (e.g. Culex pipiens and Aedes albopictus). This led to a larger percentage of residential mosquito populations being made up of competent WNV vectors (31.25±5.3%) compared to wetland areas (13.5±2.1%). These increases correlated to higher WNV infection rates in Culex spp. populations residing within residential areas (28.53/1000) compared to wetland areas (16.77/1000). In relation to wetland size, small wetlands produced significantly higher weekly infection rates (24.52/1000) than medium (8.50/1000) or large (6.67/1000) sized wetlands. Additionally, we found that sustained increases in seasonal temperatures increased the community presence of competent vector species (e.g. Culex spp. and Aedes albopictus) and caused dramatic increases in WNV infection rates. Overall, these results confirm our hypothesis that WNV, and its prominent enzootic and bridge vector species, are more strongly associated with urban residential areas than they are with urban wetland areas.
Confronting climate
Creators: name: Jeffers, James Martin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In recent years geographers and other social scientists have highlighted several gaps in our understanding of climate change adaptation and decision-making responses to environmental hazards. These have included concerns regarding the use of knowledge in environmental decision-making, the need for more research on the ways in which hazards are conceptualized, framed and understood, and a concern that the high adaptive capacity present in many developed countries will not lead to successful adaptation.     Focusing on the cities of Cork, Dublin and Galway this research employed qualitative methods to examine decision-making by local officials, elected representatives and other stakeholders. The research methods used included semi structured interviews with a range of local decision-makers and a content analysis of the minutes of City Council meetings, the records of national parliament debates and available policy documents.     The results of this research illustrate that several factors influence local decision-making. The ways in which climate change is framed as a temporal and spatial phenomenon shape the type and timing of adaptation decisions. Discourses of risk and vulnerability are another important influence. Decision-making is heavily influenced by a risk management paradigm that emphasises biophysical risk but does not extensively consider other drivers of vulnerability and resilience. This has led to an understanding of climate impacts that emphasises attempts to prevent hazards through a technological fix, while not exploring alternative strategies. Flood events and flood induced losses are viewed as identical, with the reduction of physical exposure becoming the central policy objective. Perhaps most influential are intersections between economic and environmental change.  These have created the material and ideological conditions in which an economic development discourse dominates decision-making and policy. This further reinforces an emphasis on biophysical risk as hazard events are viewed as disruptions to the economic life of the city that must be prevented. These results suggest that current policy and practice may ultimately fail to reduce vulnerability and that there is a need for a more holistic understanding of climate hazards that draws on knowledge from the social and natural sciences to integrate strategies for vulnerability reduction into local policy and practice.
Helicopter Video Geolocalization for Cycling Races
Creators: name: Vanhaeverbeke, Jelle
name: Slembrouck, Maarten
name: Verstockt, Steven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: During cycling races, many hours of video footage are captured by multiple motorcycles and/or helicopters. Having an accurate location tag attached to this video footage is useful for multiple applications. On the one hand, this metadata can be used for archival and retrieval of video clips based on their location, e.g., all footage of Ghent. On the other hand, the location can also be used to provide real-time information during the race, e.g., what street is in view. Knowing the location of motorcycle footage is straightforward since its GPS location can be used. However, this is not possible for helicopter footage since the helicopter can be many meters, or even kilometers, away from its subject. Therefore, we propose a novel methodology to geolocalise helicopter footage of cycling races based on their video frame content. Firstly, a search window is defined based on the helicopter’s GPS location and the known race course after which the satellite images are downloaded for this search window. Next, both the helicopter and satellite images are transformed into a new representation by straightening the images along the road surface. This novel transformation makes sure the road is always centered in the image, showing an equal amount of the environment to the left and right of the road. This reduces some of the degrees of freedom between the helicopter and satellite images. Lastly, we take advantage of this new representation to match the helicopter with the satellite image by calculating the normalized cross correlation between them. Initial tests show that this approach works, yet for some examples the right location is not found. Therefore, a machine learning approach is investigated to determine a more robust correlation that takes additional context information into account.
title: Vaccinology and resistance to bacterial infection in lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus)
Creators: name: Onireti, Oluwatoyin Bukunmi
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing food sectors, contributing approximately 80 million tonnes of aquatic animals with a value of US $232 billion. Salmon is the most commercially important farmed seafood species cultured in Canada. Farmed salmon (e.g., Atlantic salmon, Coho salmon, and Chinook salmon) account for about 90% of the total finfish produced by Canada’s aquaculture industry. Globally, one of the most significant challenges in salmon aquaculture today is sea lice infestations, costing producers up to CAD $785 million in losses and treatments, impacting sustainability. Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis, Caligus sp.) infestations are challenging to control. Several methods have been investigated to manage sea lice infestation, including chemotherapeutants, mechanical, thermal, and biological delousing techniques. The biological delousing techniques involving cleaner fish have been shown to reduce sea lice levels significantly and eliminate the use of chemotherapeutants. Cleaner fish, such as lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus), is one of the successful strategies to biocontrol sea-lice infestation in farmed Atlantic salmon. The successful utilization of this biological control has resulted in an exponential increase in lumpfish commercial production since 2008. Scaled production and maintaining the health of lumpfish in an industrial environment is the key to a successful cleaner fish strategy. Cleaner fish delouse salmon skin by eating the parasite and ingesting other potential pathogens transmitted by sea lice. Bacterial infections such as Vibrio anguillarun and Aeromonas salmonicida have caused the mortality of lumpfish in the North Atlantic. Fish health, including effective vaccine design and vaccination programs, have been identified as a high priority by the Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association (NAIA) and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). Besides vaccines, selecting lumpfish families resistant to infectious diseases is an ideal measurement to maximize the efficacy of cleaner fish utilization. The general objective of this study is to improve lumpfish health through vaccination and genetic selection. The specific goals were to i) evaluate the safety and protective efficiency of an autogenous vaccine in lumpfish (Cytopterus lumpus) against V. anguillarum under controlled and field conditions (Chapter 2) and ii) determine the Major Histocompatibility Complex II (MHCII) polymorphism conferring resistance to bacterial infection in Cyclopterus lumpus families (Chapter 3).
Xenaporus devius Priesner 1955
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Xenaporus
Xenaporus devius

description: Xenaporus devius Priesner, 1955
Xenaporus devius Priesner, 1955:203, ♀.— Egypt, Wadi Umm-Assaad (Coll. Alfieri).
Distribution in Iran: TEHRAN (WOLF 1990B; WOLF et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
1. Nucleophilic addition to spirodiepoxides 2. Synthesis of psymberin analogues
Creators: name: Inghrim, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The addition of nucleophiles to SDEs (SDEs), the double oxidation product of allenes, offers a concise and stereoselective method for the preparation of highly functionalized α-hydroxy ketones and ketone derivatives. Disclosed herein are studies of heteronucleophilic and enolate addition to SDEs. In a separate study, silyl SDEs were explored as surrogates for 1,3-disubstituted allenes, resulting in highly regio- and stereoselective oxidation. General methods for the regioselective opening of silyl SDEs by carboxylic acids and hydrides were developed. Titanium reagents were also discovered to open silyl SDEs to provide α-hydroxy enones.  Finally, the application of SDE chemistry to planned psymberin analogues and the scale-up of key intermediates is discussed.
Reniera palmata var. taurica Czerniavsky 1880
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Microcionidae
Reniera
Reniera palmata
Reniera palmata var. taurica f. transitan s czerniavsky, 1880

description: Reniera palmata var. taurica f. transitan s Czerniavsky, 1880
Reniera palmata var. taurica f. transitans Czerniavsky, 1880: 121, pl. I figs. 2a–b.
It is unclear from Czerniavsky’s text where exactly this forma was collected, presumably also in Crimea, but this is not a problem because the combination is invalid on account of having four names (ICZN art. 45.5). If it would have been valid the name would have been a junior secondary homonym of Protoschmidtia transitans Czerniavsky, 1880: 97 (currently Haliclona transitans, cf. Ereskovsky et al. 2016). However, invalid names do not enter into homonymy (ICZN art. 54.1). It is proposed to consider this material to be also referable to Haliclona palmata subsp. pontuseuxiniensis nom.nov.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Xenaporus leleji Wolf 1990
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Xenaporus
Xenaporus leleji

description: Xenaporus leleji Wolf, 1990b
Xenaporus leleji Wolf, 1990b:655, ♀.— Iran, Elburz, Pulour, 22 km N di Ab Ali (OLL).
Distribution in Iran: TEHRAN (WOLF 1990B); NO LOCALITy CITED (WOLF et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Schmidtia intermedia Czerniavsky 1880
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Petrosiidae
Schmidtia
Schmidtia intermedia

description: Schmidtia intermedia Czerniavsky, 1880
Schmidtia intermedia Czerniavsky, 1880: 105 (no illustration).
Petrosia clavata; Swartschevsky 1905: 11.
Petrosia (Petrosia) intermedia; Ereskovsky et al. 2018: 21 (listed only).
The species Schmidtia intermedia Czerniavsky, 1880 was erected with a question mark, indicating that the author was uncertain of its generic status. Schmidtia Balsamo-Crivelli, 1863: 8 is currently considered a junior synonym of Petrosia Vosmaer, 1885: 338, but Czerniavsky apparently thought that the species was close to if not congeneric with his genus Protoschmidtia (= currently Haliclona). He distinguished four varieties of the present species, the differences of which are unclear (due also to the combined language of Latin and Russian). Only for two varieties he mentioned spicule sizes. These sizes, 100–170 x 7–10 µm, are not characteristic for the genus Petrosia Vosmaer, 1885, conforming more to those found to in Haliclona Grant, 1841 or Neopetrosia De Laubenfels, 1949. A typical variety was not indicated, so I propose here to take the first mentioned variety Schmidtia. intermedia var. similis as the nominotypical variety, which name is subsequently to be fixed as S. intermedia var. intermedia Czerniavsky, 1880 (ICZN art. 47.1). No varieties were mentioned by authors citing Black Sea sponges in subsequent publications. According to the curator of the Cnidaria collection of the Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg (ZIN-RAS) there are type specimens of three of the four varieties: Schmidtia intermedia var. horhippiana Czerniavsky, 1880, Schmidtia intermedia var. similis Czerniavsky, 1880 (= S. intermedia var. intermedia), and Schmidtia intermedia var. taurica Czerniavsky, 1880. Only of Schmidtia intermedia var. dioscuriae type material was not identified. In view of the unrecognizable descriptions and differences of these varieties, I propose to merge them into a single species until the type specimens have been re-examined and their identity properly determined.
Even though the genus affiliation is doubtful I propose to maintain the genus as currently assigned by Swartchevsky 1905 as Petrosia and accordingly name the collective species Petrosia (Petrosia) intermedia (Czerniavsky, 1880) as it is not yet clear that Swartschevsky’s (1905) proposed junior synonymy with Petrosia (Petrosia) clavata (Esper, 1794) has merit.
Schmidtia Balsamo-Crivelli, 1863 is a nomen oblitum in the sense of ICZN art. 23.9, and is a synonym of the Petrosia Vosmaer, 1885, cf. Van Soest et al. 2020: 64.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Comparative effects of mindfulness and skills-based parent training programs
Creators: name: Iadarola, Suzannah J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Parents of children with autism are documented to report high levels of stress compared to parents of typically developing children, children with chronic illnesses, and children with other developmental disorders. Previous research has indicated both parent-focused and child-focused parent training programs as effective in alleviating parental stress and enhancing meaningful parent-child interactions. Programs that include behavioral skills training are especially represented in the current literature. However, excluding general psychoeducation there is no consistent model for parent-focused groups. In the present study, a behavioral skills approach was compared to one parent-oriented model, a mindfulness group. Mindfulness encompasses several strategies that encourage staying physically, emotionally, and thoughtfully present in the moment, and discourages avoiding distressing thoughts, feelings, and situations. This approach has been beneficial to individuals with a variety of physical and psychological ailments, and has been suggested preliminarily to be appropriate for parents of children on the autism spectrum. Ten parents of children with autism were matched on a measure of parental stress and were randomized to one of the two treatment groups. Each parent group included an 8-week program that incorporated didactics, discussion, role plays, and homework. Outcomes were assessed in terms of parental stress, global health, and parent-child interactions. Feasibility data were also collected. Results indicated that parent training in general was beneficial to the participants, with parents in the mindfulness group reporting significantly lower parental and higher global health scores following treatment. Both groups were effective in increasing parent-child interaction time and decreasing parental ignoring during a play sample; however participants in the skills group demonstrated more directive and intrusive behavior following treatment. Good attendance and adequate response and retention rates were observed. The implications and future directions of this line of research are discussed.
Optical whispering-gallery mode spectroscopy for the study of molecule adsorption and desorption
Creators: name: Huang, Lei
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Year: 2011

description: Sensing applications utilizing whispering gallery mode (WGM) excited in circularly shaped microresonators were investigated. Complete theoretical analyses of were carried out. A WGM coupling system and its fabrication procedures were developed and characterized to produce high quality WGM resonances. The WGM spectral shift induced by the refractive index change in a nanostructured silica coating was experimentally investigated in response to environmental humidity changes. Following the experimental studies, label-free detection of biomolecules using an optical whispering-gallery mode sensor in a microelectrofluidic channel was simulated via the finite element method. The adsorption process of the analyte molecules on the microsensor head surface was monitored by the resonance frequency shifts. Frequency shift caused by temperature variation due to Joule was analyzed to be not comparable to that induced by the analyte deposition. The induced shifts were found to behave in a manner similar to Langmuir-like adsorption kinetics. A correlation of the frequency shift, the analyte concentration in the solution, and the applied voltage gradient was obtained, in which an excellent linear relationship between the frequency shift and the analyte concentration was revealed and an exponent relationship between the applied voltage gradient and the resonance frequency shift was illustrated, indicating the applied voltage enhances the shift in an extremely dilute solution. The applied voltage gradient was found to affect the adsorption capability; and thus, the sensor sensitivity. Simulated detection of extremely low protein concentration to the pico Molar level was carried out. The optical WGM micro resonator with integrated functions of the optical sensing and nanofiltration embedded in a microelectrofluidic system was proposed and studied afterwards. The filtration process and anlyte concentration were traced by measuring the WGM resonance frequency shift. The applied voltage gradient was found to influence the filtration capability through its effect on adsorption and desorption processes. The higher order of WGM was found to be able to provide a higher sensitivity as comparing with lower ones.
Auplopus Spinola 1841
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Auplopus

description: Genus Auplopus Spinola, 1841
Auplopus Spinola, 1841:108. Type species: Pompilus femoratus Fabricius, 1804, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Structured sparsity
Creators: name: Huang, Junzhou
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Today, sparsity techniques have been widely used to address practical problems in the fields of medical imaging, machine learning, computer vision, data mining, compressive sensing, image  processing, video analysis and multimedia. We will briefly introduce the related sparsity techniques and their successful applications on compressive sensing, sparse learning, computer vision and medical imaging. Then, we propose a new concept called strong group sparsity to develop a theory for group Lasso, which shows that group Lasso is superior to standard Lasso for strongly group-sparse data. It provides a convincing theoretical justification for using group sparsity regularization when the underlying group structure is consistent with the data. Moreover, the theory also predicts the limitations of the group Lasso formulations. To address those limitations, we further build a new framework called structured sparsity, which is a natural extension of the standard sparsity concept in statistical learning and compressive sensing. By allowing arbitrary structures on the feature set or data, this concept generalizes the group sparsity idea. A general theory (Group-RIP) is developed for learning with structured sparsity, based on the notion of coding complexity associated with the structure, which guarantees better performance with more structure information other than pure sparsity. The new sparsity techniques under this framework have been successfully applied to different applications, such as compressive sensing MR imaging, video background subtraction, object tracking in visual surveillance, dynamic scene registration, automatic image annotation, medical image analysis, fast tag separation in cardiac tMRIs, cervigram image segmentation and so on. The improved experimental results in these applications further validate the nice theoretical guarantees of our new theorems and demonstrate the effectiveness of our new framework in the practical applications involved large scale data.
Clarkcomidae Stöhr, Hugall, Thuy & Martynov, 2018, fam. nov
Creators: name: Stöhr, Sabine
name: Hugall, Andrew F.
name: Thuy, Ben
name: Martynov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Ophiacanthida
Clarkcomidae

description: Family Clarkcomidae fam. nov.urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3A1F5F7F-3A02-406F-8D81-D6CF66472181
Type genus
Clarkcoma Devaney, 1970 (type species: C. canaliculata (Lütken, 1869)).
Diagnosis (Devaney 1970)
Dorsal disc with low rounded granules, obscuring scales and plates. Blunt, thin, compressed, minutely serrated arm spines. Dental plate entire. Cluster of papilliform teeth on ventral half, regular teeth on
dorsal half. Teeth with glassy tips. Tooth sockets on dental plate with thickened lobes, dorsal ones as penetrating, large foramina.
description: Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, pp. 1-35 in European Journal of Taxonomy 416 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416, http://zenodo.org/record/3806109
Schmidtia intermedia var. dioscuriae Czerniavsky 1880
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Petrosiidae
Schmidtia
Schmidtia intermedia
Schmidtia intermedia var. dioscuriae czerniavsky, 1880

description: Schmidtia intermedia var. dioscuriae Czerniavsky, 1880
Schmidtia intermedia var. dioscuriae Czerniavsky, 1880: 109 (no illustration).
Described by Czerniavsky from the Sinus Suchumicus, Black Sea coast of Georgia, approximate coordinates 42.98°N 42.02°E, depth 1–2 m (there is no material identified in the ZIN-RAS collection). Above I proposed to merge all varieties of S. intermedia under the species combination Petrosia (Petrosia) intermedia (Czerniavsky, 1880).
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Schmidtia intermedia var. horhippiana Czerniavsky 1880
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Petrosiidae
Schmidtia
Schmidtia intermedia
Schmidtia intermedia var. horhippiana czerniavsky, 1880

description: Schmidtia intermedia var. horhippiana Czerniavsky, 1880
Schmidtia intermedia var. horhippiana Czerniavsky, 1880: 108 (no illustration).
Described by Czerniavsky from the Sinus Novorossijsk, Black Sea coast of Russia, approximate coordinates 44.68°N 37.82°E (syntypes ZIN-RAS 11413 & 11415, coll. Czerniavsky, 1870/IV). Above I proposed to merge all varieties of S. intermedia under the species combination Petrosia (Petrosia) intermedia (Czerniavsky, 1880).
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167