cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Confomalized Multiband Uncertainty Regression and Reasoning for Visual Localization
Creators: name: Parente, Domenico
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: This thesis introduces a novel uncertainty estimator designed to forecast multiband uncertainty intervals in robot pose estimation. The methodology involves the combination of the conformal prediction technique with a deep-learning regressor tailored explicitly for visual localization tasks. In this context, visual localization refers to the process of determining the robot's pose, retrieving its position and orientation within a predefined space constructed from previously gathered visual data. This process relies on monocular RGB images captured by its onboard camera as input. One of the peculiarities of our work is the use of conformal prediction to extract uncertainty intervals of the pose predicted by the model. Conformal prediction is a statistical framework designed to provide reliable measures of uncertainty by generating prediction intervals that guarantee a predefined confidence level. In our application, these intervals represent the uncertainty associated with the robot's pose predictions. Subsequently, we utilize the uncertainty estimations and optical flow-based reasoning process to enhance the final pose estimation accuracy. Tests show that our framework consistently outperforms traditional deep learning methods in challenging scenarios, such as scenarios characterized by significant noise, limited training data, and constrained model size, leading to a reduction in prediction error by a factor of 2-3.
title: Preliminary results using magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for pain palliation in patients with bone metastases
Creators: name: Messana, Domenico
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Learning objectives: Technique and preliminary results for palliation of pain caused by bone metastases using...
Cnesia Enderlein
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
name: Crosskey, Roger W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Cnesia

description: Genus CNESIA Enderlein
Cnesia dissimilis (Edwards)
Coscarón (1989, description, idiogram, inversions mapped, photos of all arms, phylogeny): Argentina
Coscarón-Arias (1998, description, idiogram, inversions mapped, photos of all arms, phylogeny): Argentina
Pinto-Sánchez, Miranda-Esquivel & Muñoz de Hoyos (2005, idiogram): [Argentina]
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
TESS Experiments: Precarious Sexuality and Categorization of Sexual Orientation
Creators: name: Mize, Trenton
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) offers researchers the opportunity to capture the internal validity of experiments. Investigators submit proposals, and TESS fields successful proposals for free on a representative sample of adults in the United States. This experiment was conducted to test for gender bias in evaluations of others’ sexual identity based on their past and recent sexual activity. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of four treatments in which they read of a single man or woman who has either had happy, long-term heterosexual relationships and recently had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex or had happy, long-term homosexual relationships and recently had a sexual encounter with someone of the opposite sex. A total of 2,035 respondents participated. Respondents assessed the sexual orientation of the assigned vignette character. This allowed for comparison of how easily sexual orientation for males versus females is questioned or relabeled by society.
title: Data Storage Tag Study Of Salmon (Salmo Salar) Migration In The Baltic: Behaviour And The Migration Route As Reconstructed From Sst Data
Creators: name: Westerberg, H.
name: Sturlaugsson, J.
name: Ikonen, E.
name: Karlsson, L.
Publisher: name: ASC 1999 - AA - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.From 1995 to 1997 a total of 75 salmon tagged with temperature and depth logging DST:s were recovered during the return migration in the Gulf of Bothnia. Of those 45 have been reconstructed. Successive positions were estimated using the available areas where the sea surface temperature (SST) according to NOAA A VHRR images fitted the simultaneously recorded temperature at the salmon and the estimated travelling distance from the release point assuming an approximately constant travelling speed along the track. During the migration season a strong temperature front commonly prevails along the Finnish side of the Gulf The salmon prefer to move in the narrow band of higher temperature inshore of the front, which made the reconstruction relatively unambiguous for the years 1995 and 96. In 1997 the temperature along the Swedish coast was elevated also, and two alternatives were possible for the tracks. In three cases salinity recording tags were used and the salinity data confirms the interpretation. Swimming speed in the sea ranged between 10 and 50 km/day with a mean of approximately 30 km/day. Almost all the salmon moved close to the surface, with a median swimming depth of 2 m. Occasional dives of short duration was made by all salmon. The diving activity was elevated the first 1-3 days of the tracks. There is no diurnal rhythm in swimming depth or diving activity.
title: Feasibility of diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) for murine placenta analysis
Creators: name: Alison, Marianne
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Intrauterine diagnosis
subject: Obstetrics

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Placental insufficiency due to perfusion defect leads to decreased placental function with severe materno-fœtal complications such as preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction and preterm birth. At the moment, no imaging modality is available...
title: Automated fusion of CT and FMT images and improved FMT reconstruction
Creators: name: Gremse, Felix
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: CT
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Inflammation

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To develop a system for automated fusion of preclinical CT and FMT data sets. An improved FMT reconstruction was implemented using the known shape of the mouse...
title: How do therapists make sense of their reactions towards clients: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Creators: name: Maunders, Jacob
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2012

description: This study attempts to contribute to our understanding of therapists‟ personal reactions (cognitive, affective, sensory or behavioural) towards their clients by adopting an in depth qualitative analysis. This study consists of semi structured interviews with six therapists who work mainly from a psychodynamic orientation. The transcribed interviews were analysed according to the principles of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Three analytic themes were derived from the analysis: (1) self as a “measuring instrument”, (2) managing reactions, and (3) therapist self care. The findings highlight the different ways that therapists understand and manage their reactions. The analysis of the interviews also reveals support for the theoretical trend in psychodynamic approaches towards a relational/intersubjective understanding of the therapeutic relationship. It is argued that therapists are embedded within the client‟s relational pattern, and furthermore, this is inevitable and to be welcomed.
title: Data Storage Tag Study Of Salmon (Salmo Salar) Migration In The Baltic: The Performance Of Tags
Creators: name: Westerberg, H.
name: Eveson, P.
name: Welch, D.
name: Karlsson, L.
name: Ikonen, E.
Publisher: name: ASC 1999 - AA - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Practical experience with data storage tags (DST:s) is still limited and it is important to evaluate the actual performance, because data quality affects the reliability of the information extracted from the records. A total of 74 Star Oddi 200 and one LOTEK L TD-100 DST:s were recovered from tagged salmon in the Baltic. The over-all failure rate was 15% for the Star Oddi tags, and was greater for tags with a new ceramic pressure sensor. The failures were either in the temperature or pressure sensor or the tag stopped recording. Some tags were calibrated before or after deployment. Typically the temperature error of the Star Oddi tags was less than 1 °C. In the middle of the calibration range the mean deviation from the true value was -0.2 to -0.1 °C with a standard deviation ± 0.3 °C. Both Star Oddi and LOTEK tags have transparent housing and solar heating of the electronics can give significant temperature errors. Data on the variation in light levels recorded by the LOTEK tag were used to calculate geoposition using an algorithm. which gave average errors of ca 140 km for tags deployed at fixed ocean moorings. The positional error for the tag recovered in the Baltic was much larger, ranging to more than 1000 km. Possible reasons for this are discussed.
Harnessing Smartphone Typing Behaviors for Passive Assessment of Processing Speed and Executive Function
Creators: name: Ross, Mindy
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Alongside mood fluctuations, cognitive deficits affect daily functioning in individuals with mood disorders. Current methods to assess these symptoms lack the granularity and ecological validity needed to provide longitudinal but unobtrusive monitoring. As such, improved modalities to accurately monitor the extent and fluctuations of the impairments are needed. The reliance of smartphones in everyday life has facilitated passive monitoring of behaviors through these devices without additional burden on the individuals. Nuances in smartphone typing behaviors may reveal aspects relating to individuals’ cognitive function. The objective of this study was to develop a model entirely based on smartphone typing behaviors collected in-the-wild to predict processing speed and executive functioning in a sample of individuals with and without a mood disorder. Using explainable machine learning models, we were able to predict first whether participants were experiencing depressive symptoms with an accuracy of 82.4% by incorporating novel features developed around phone orientation. We combine selected features relating to mood into entirely passive models predicting completion times of a digital trail-making test part B, a well-validated assessment of processing speed and executive function, finding that task performance could be predicted within less than one standard deviation of the mean. Improvement of the model was conducted through feature engineering of behaviors thought to relate to diurnal patterns and sleep. Overall, our findings suggest that smartphone typing behaviors can be leveraged to passively assess processing speed and executive functioning and support the use of smartphones in unobtrusive monitoring of mood disorder symptomatology.
title: CT perfusion imaging of glioblastoma multiforme
Creators: name: Cieściński, Jakub
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Perfusion computed tomography (CT) enables calculation of blood flow parameters at the tissue level with the use of dynamic attenuation measurement during the passage of iodinated contrast medium. Cerebral perfusion CT offers a quantitative analysis...
title: Migration Of Atlantic Salmon Kelts (Salmo Salar L.) In Relation To Sea Water Temperature In Newfoundland, 1998
Creators: name: Reddin, D. G.
name: Dempson, J. B.
name: Downton, P.
name: Mullins, C. C.
name: Friedland, K. D.
Publisher: name: ASC 1999 - AA - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Data storage tags (DST) manufactured by Kiwi Inc. were applied to 139 Atlantic salmon kelts at enumeration facilities on Western Arm Brook, Humber, Campbellton and Highlands rivers, Newfoundland in 1998. In total, 12 of these Kiwi DSTs were subsequently recaptured and water temperatures downloaded from 11 of them (data from tag 12 was lost in transit). Control DSTs for verification purposes were applied to kelts held in a freshwater fluvarium and indicated that water temperatures recorded by the DSTs were accurate. Results from 11 recaptured tags indicated differences between rivers and among fish within a river. Water temperature profiles are useful for indicating water temperatures encountered by salmon in freshwater and in the sea and may prove useful for determining temperature preferences. This information is important for marine climate change models and water temperature protocols for opening/closing angling fisheries in freshwater due to high water temperatures. Unlike some Pacific salmon, no diurnal movements could be inferred from the temperature profiles on the tags. The Kiwi tagged salmon spent most of their time in water from 4.7 to 16.8 °C.
Crozetia Davies
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
name: Crosskey, Roger W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Crozetia

description: Genus CROZETIA Davies
Crozetia crozetensis (Womersley)
Rothfels & Mason (1975, photo of male achiasmate meiosis): [Crozet Islands] Rothfels (1979, description; as Crozetia): [Crozet Islands]
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
title: Improvements In The Quality Of The Basic Horse Mackerel Age Data During The Last 20 Years
Creators: name: Eltink, A.
Publisher: name: ASC 2001 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.This paper describes the improvements in the quality of the basic horse mackerel age data within the ICES area over the last 20 years.In 1983 growth parameters of horse mackerel estimated by different laboratories were compared and these indicated big differences in age reading. In 1984 a first ICES horse mackerel otolith exchange demonstrated a big difference of nearly a factor 2 in the age readings indicating that two very different ageing techniques were used for adult horse mackerel. A first workshop on horse mackerel age determination was held in 1987. However, the age reading problems could not be solved at this workshop without a proper validation of the ageing method. Finally in 1989 an agreement on the ageing method was reached when the ageing method was validated. A workshop in 1990 showed that the age readers applied quite well the agreed age reading method. In the second half of the 90’s the comparison of the age reading results was considerably improved. Therefore, at an exchange in 1996 and at a workshop in 1999 it was possible to estimate the precision and the accuracy of the age readings of all individual readers and the whole group of age readers. The results of the workshop demonstrated an improvement in the precision but still a considerable underestimation of the older ages (bias) when reading broken/burnt otoliths of known age. This bias problem could not be solved since this seemed to be due to a bad visibility of the outer annual rings. Furthermore these workshop results enabled to estimate the effects of age reading errors on the horse mackerel assessment. An important conclusion of this analysis was that priority should be given to improving the accuracy (reducing underestimation of the older ages) over the improvement of the precision. This paper presents new results on a comparison of the otolith-processing techniques of both the broken/burnt and the stained sliced otoliths of known age. The results from the experienced age readers demonstrate that the processing technique of the stained sliced transverse sectioned otoliths can considerably reduce the bias in age reading and at the same time improve precision. However, some readers still need help to adapt to age reading otoliths from this new processing technique. Reading stained sliced otoliths is again a major step forward in the process of getting good quality basic horse mackerel age data. In future other staining techniques should be investigated to improve age reading results even more.
Design, Modeling, and Synthesis of Active Nanosystems and Therapeutics
Creators: name: Mickel, Philip James
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis, I studied, through computational and experimental means, materials and therapeutics. Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we examined: 1) dynamics of silver-alkaloid molecular motors, 2) bioinspired polymer separators, 3) amyloid inhibitors, 4) dendrimer-peptide conjugates, 5) phosphoethanolamine (pEtN) functionalized cellulose, and 6) synthesis of early-stage autophagy inhibitors. In 1), we identified the mechanism behind chirality and pH-dependent molecular motor rotation to be asymmetric dissolution of adsorbed alkaloid crystals. These alkaloids also fit a quantum ratchet model, where in an asymmetric system, under non-equilibrium conditions, they will move asymmetrically. In 2), we examined the transport of lithium ions near poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) separators. We showed that the separator immobilizes PF6- anions and desolvates Li+ cations, increasing the relative mobility of Li+ and so decreasing lithium dendrite formation. In 3), we modeled native and inhibited model amyloid crystals. We showed that the inhibitor outcompetes dipeptide molecules for surface adsorption, favoring formation of the observed inhibited crystals. In 4), human ACE2 peptide-PAMAM dendrimer conjugates were simulated, showing that increased stability of the peptides results in improved binding with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. In 5), our collaborator previously discovered pEtN cellulose in bacterial biofilms. We confirmed computationally that pEtN cellulose binds tightly with curli fibers and forms hydrogen bonds with neighboring pEtN chains as well as nearby water, forming hydrogels seen experimentally. In 6), I developed a synthetic pathway for an ATG5-ATG16L1 protein-protein interaction inhibitor for early-stage autophagy inhibition.
TESS Experiments: Misperceptions of the Global Income Distribution and Preferences for Cross-National Redistribution in the United States
Creators: name: Nair, Gautam
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) offers researchers the opportunity to capture the internal validity of experiments. Investigators submit proposals, and TESS fields successful proposals for free on a representative sample of adults in the United States. This experiment was conducted to evaluate how misperceptions of the global income distribution shape preferences for international redistribution in the United States. Respondents were assigned to one of five priming conditions which either presented: 1. no priming treatment (control); 2. asked respondents to estimate the global median income and their rank in the global income distribution; 3. asked respondents to estimate the global median and their rank, then presented accurate information about these statistics based on self-reported income; 4. asked respondents to estimate the domestic median income and their rank in the domestic income distribution; or 5. asked respondents to estimate the domestic median and their rank, then presented accurate information about these statistics based on self-reported income. A total of 2,078 respondents participated. All respondents answered measures of support for international redistribution policies and attitudes toward charitable giving. This allowed for comparison of respondents’ attitudes with and without corrective information.
Ectemnia Enderlein
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
name: Crosskey, Roger W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Ectemnia

description: Genus ECTEMNIA Enderlein
Ectemnia invenusta (Walker)
Madahar (1967, description): Canada
Rothfels (1979, description): [North America]
Moulton & Adler (1997, characterization; cytodendrogram; idiogram; inversions mapped; photos of IS, IL, IIS, and IIIL; resolution relative to Ectemnia standard): Canada, USA
Adler, Currie & Wood (2004, notes on geographic variation): USA
Ectemnia primaeva Moulton & Adler
Moulton & Adler (1997, characterization, cytodendrogram, idiogram, inversions mapped, original description of species, photos of IS and IL, resolution relative to Ectemnia standard): USA
Ectemnia reclusa Moulton & Adler
Moulton & Adler (1997, characterization, cytodendrogram, idiogram, inversions mapped, original description of species, photos of IIIS and IIIL, resolution relative to Ectemnia standard): USA
Ectemnia taeniatifrons (Enderlein)
Madahar (1967, description): Canada
Rothfels (1979, description): [North America]
Moulton & Adler (1997, characterization; cytodendrogram; idiogram; inversions mapped; photos of IS, IIS, IIL, and IIIL; resolution relative to Ectemnia standard): USA
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
title: Uncertainties In Sampling Procedures And Age Composition For Hake And Sardine In Atlantic Iberian Waters
Creators: name: Jardim, Ernesto
name: Trujillo, Valentin
name: Sampedro, Paz
Publisher: name: ASC 2001 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The present paper analysis the uncertainties related to sampling procedures and estimates of age composition for the southern stocks of Hake (demersal) and Sardine (pelagic) in Atlantic Iberian waters for 1999. Two different methods were applied: one based on an analytical approach and other one based on simulation techniques using non-parametric bootstrap. These methods are used to estimate the catch-at-age numbers per year and stock, and the associated dispersion. This procedure is a very powerful tool: (i) to analyse the estimates accuracy, (ii) to assess the data quality, and (iii) to be used for the optimization of different sampling schemes. The analysis done show that the estimates are accurate for the reference ages used in assessment (coeﬁcient of variation bellow 13% for both species). The bootstrap method is preferred because of it’s non-parametric approach although the more difﬁcult implementation and higher need of computer resources.
GIPERGOMOSISTEINEMIYASI BO'LGAN BEMORLARDA YURAK ISHEMIK KASALLIGINI KECHISH XUSUSIYATLARI
Creators: name: Shukurdjanova, S.M.
name: Nizamov, U.I.
name: Muhammadiyev, Sh.B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Yurak ishemik kasalligi (YuIK) butun dunyo bo'ylab salomatlik uchun jiddiy muammo bo'lib, uning patogeneziga turli xil xavf omillari yotadi. Ular orasida gipergomosisteinemiya potentsial o'zgartirilishi mumkin bo'lgan xavf omili sifatida paydo bo'ldi, bu e'tiborni talab qiladi. Ushbu maqola gipergomosisteinemiya bilan og'rigan bemorlarda YuIK ning xususiyatlarini o'rganib, uning epidemiologik ahamiyati, patofiziologik mexanizmlari va klinik oqibatlariga e'tibor qaratadi. Sharh gomosistein darajasining ko'tarilishi ateroskleroz va trombozni qanday qilib koronar arteriya kasalligi va miokard infarktiga olib kelishi mumkinligini tushuntirish uchun joriy adabiyotlarni sintez qiladi. Bundan tashqari, u gipergomosisteinemiyasi bo'lgan odamlarda YuIKni boshqarish uchun mo'ljallangan diagnostika muammolari va terapevtik strategiyalarni muhokama qiladi. Ushbu jihatlarni tushunish gomosistein darajasining oshishi bilan bog'liq YuIK global yukini kamaytirishga qaratilgan profilaktika choralari va davolash strategiyalarini optimallashtirish uchun juda muhimdir.
A Changing Carceral Landscape: Juvenile Justice Reform in Cook County
Creators: name: Martensen, Kayla
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: The United States has shown interest in moving away from mass incarceration. Nationwide, large youth prisons and juvenile detention centers have closed, with a growing interest in community-based alternatives. This dissertation explores community-based reforms in Cook County’s (Illinois) Juvenile Justice Division. This study uses critical carceral studies and abolition feminist perspectives to argue these reforms signify a carceral expansion, where “the community” has taken on features of carcerality, which can be understood as a reformist reform that makes incremental changes without fundamentally challenging the core principles of juvenile justice.

This study is situated in juvenile justice literature that documents a cyclical reform history between punishment and treatment while exploring a theoretical construct, the web of detainment, developed during preliminary research. The web of detainment represents a symbolic network of punitive and service agencies that work together to mitigate juvenile justice.
Data in this study include qualitative interviews (n=51) with people who work in or with the juvenile justice division. The interviews were triangulated with public and noncirculating document analysis.

Findings demonstrate a culture shift away from harsh punishment and toward trauma-informed practices. Participants described a strategic effort to cultivate a range of services in the community as alternatives to incarceration, resulting in the buildup of a carceral service industry. The carceral service industry is orchestrated by the courts, overseen by probation, and situated in the community. Findings examine the consequential changes in operation within juvenile probation and the community-based service sector.

The expanding carceral service industry remains homogenous because carceral and community arbiters control access to the industry. Service providers maintain various comfort levels in their proximity to the carceral state, yet they must comply with court orders. The collusion between juvenile justice and the community-based service sector has resulted in emerging formations strategically developed to mitigate juvenile justice inside the community. Care coordination programs and reporting centers are examined. This dissertation concludes with an analysis of the web of detainment framework that represents a labyrinth of carceral and service agencies working together to maintain the operation of the juvenile justice system.
Gigantodax wrighti Vargas & Martinez Palacios 1944
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
name: Crosskey, Roger W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Gigantodax
Gigantodax wrighti

description: WRIGHTI species-group
Gigantodax adleri Moulton
Adler, Currie & Wood (2004, notes on general polytene features): USA
Gigantodax cypellus Wygodzinsky & Coscarón
Hirai (1987c, description, idiogram, low-resolution photo of chromosome I; as G. ‘sp-5’): Ecuador
Pinto-Sánchez, Miranda-Esquivel & Muñoz de Hoyos (2005, chromosomal characters in phylogeny, idiogram): [Colombia]
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
Greniera abdita
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
name: Crosskey, Roger W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Greniera
Greniera abdita

description: ABDITA species-group
Greniera humeralis Currie, Adler & Wood
Adler, Currie & Wood (2004, notes on general polytene features): USA
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
NRF2 Activation in Diabetic Wound Healing: Evaluation of Novel NRF2 Activators ADJ-310 and PRL-295
Creators: name: Barakat, May
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: The transcription factor NRF2 is a prominent research target and is known to play a role in many important cellular and disease processes, including redox homeostasis, stress response, metabolism, and many more. To understand the functions of NRF2 and unlock its potential as a therapeutic, many NRF2-activating compounds have been used to investigate it in both pre-clinical and clinical studies. However, many of these NRF2 activators have disadvantages that can cause toxicity and off-target effects. Here, we employ a newly-synthesized family of small molecule NRF2 activators that are specifically designed to reduce the challenges posed by pre-existing activators. In Chapter 1, we introduce our disease of interest - the chronic diabetic wound – and present a literature review of the many research targets that have improved wound healing in pre-clinical studies. We describe the relative lack of treatment options for diabetic foot ulcers, and we introduce NRF2 as a more powerful research target. In Chapter 2, we investigate the effects of two novel NRF2 activators, ADJ-310 and PRL-295, in vitro and in vivo and conduct an mRNA Sequencing analysis to further understand the downstream targets and mechanisms of the NRF2 pathway. Our results demonstrate that ADJ-310 and PRL-295 are effective, promote wound healing functions in keratinocytes, enhance the oxidative stress response, improve diabetic wound healing in vivo, and have reduced off-target effects compared to the pre-existing NRF2 activator, Bardoxolone-methyl, or CDDO-Me. Finally, in Chapter 3, we present a modified husbandry protocol to reduce attrition and improve the reliability and reproducibility of wound healing studies using the Leprdb/db mouse.
Paracnephia Rubtsov
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
name: Crosskey, Roger W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Paracnephia

description: Genus PARACNEPHIA Rubtsov
Paracnephia gladiator Moulton & Adler
Bedo in Rothfels (1979, notes on general polytene features; as Cnephia ‘B’): Australia
Paracnephia strenua (Mackerras & Mackerras)
Bedo (1976a, 1976b, photo of chromosome I from adult Malpighian tubules; polytene chromosomes from adult Malpighian tubules): Australia
Bedo in Rothfels (1979, notes on general polytene features): Australia
Paracnephia tonnoiri (Drummond) (complex)
Bedo (1976a, 1976b, polytene chromosomes from adult Malpighian tubules): Australia
Bedo in Rothfels (1979, notes on general polytene features, sibling species): Australia
Paracnephia ‘A’ Rothfels (complex)
Bedo in Rothfels (1979, notes on general polytene features, sibling species): Australia
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
title: An Evaluation Of The Autumn Bottom Trawl Survey In The Barents Sea
Creators: name: Pennington, Michael
Publisher: name: ASC 2001 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A committee was formed to evaluate the Institute of Marine Research summer survey in the Barents Sea, which has been conducted annually since 1995. The primary focus of the committee was the survey’s importance for the assessment of Northeast Arctic cod, with a secondary focus on its other present or potential uses. It was found that the summer and winter survey indices of cod abundance were consistent, i.e. indicated similar trends in cod abundance, and that for the same amount of effort, the winter survey in the Barents Sea would generate estimates of cod abundance that were much more precise than those from the summer survey. It is concluded that the summer survey does not provide significantly more information for the assessment of cod than the winter survey and the Lofoten acoustic survey of spawning biomass. Thus the summer survey should be continued only if other uses justify its high cost.
«L’isola dimenticata». La Sardegna nell’opera di Alfred Steinitzer, Max Niehaus e Thomas Münster
Creators: name: Serra, Valentina
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2012

description: The works of German-speaking authors on their trip to Sardinia are an important resource for cultural studies, in which the concept of ‘otherness’ plays an important role in the creation of myths, stereotypes and prejudices on the island and its people. The analysis of ‘otherness’ is here drawn on important but almost forgotten works by Alfred Steinitzer, Max Niehaus, Thomas Münster, most of them never translated into Italian. Reports, travel journals and a novel are analyzed in terms of culture-contact, ‘hegemonic’ and ‘minor’ cultures, colonization, civilization, progress and modernity. The works of German-speaking authors on their trip to Sardinia are an important resource for cultural studies, in which the concept of ‘otherness’ plays an important role in the creation of myths, stereotypes and prejudices on the island and its people. The analysis of ‘otherness’ is here drawn on important but almost forgotten works by Alfred Steinitzer, Max Niehaus, Thomas Münster, most of them never translated into Italian. Reports, travel journals and a novel are analyzed in terms of culture-contact, ‘hegemonic’ and ‘minor’ cultures, colonization, civilization, progress and modernity.
description: Status Quaestionis, No 1 (2011)
The Effects of Star Newcomers on Team Performance
Creators: name: Yin, Jingfeng
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: While previous research has predominantly focused on the socialization processes and consequences of ordinary newcomers who are characterized by a lack of familiarity, high reliance on others, making more mistakes and errors, and facing more uncertainty and stress, star newcomers have received less attention. Differing from ordinary newcomers, star newcomer socialization not only involves the adjustment and adaptation of the newcomer but also induces changes and adaptations within the team. This dissertation, based on human capital theory, delves into the mechanisms and implications of star newcomer entry process. In particular, it scrutinizes the team adaptation resulting from star newcomer performance under the condition of newcomer adaptation––the integrative influences of team adaptation for star newcomers and star newcomer adaptation during their socialization process––on team performance. The empirical research based on 33,945 observations of 586 star newcomers drawn from North American basketball clubs in the National Basketball Association (NBA) shows that star newcomer performance and prior team performance interactively determine team adaptation for star newcomers, which subsequently negatively associates with team performance. Star newcomer adaptation buffers the negative association between team adaptation for star newcomers and team performance. The findings contribute to research on newcomer socialization, team dynamic process, and star performers, along with offering insights to practitioners in facilitating a more efficient star newcomer socialization and fostering better team performance.
«Neorealismo with a satirical outlook»: Alberto Sordi (1920-2003) and the stardom of the commedia all’italiana genre
Creators: name: Boitani, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2012

description: The Italian cinematic genre known as commedia all’italian consisted of a  wave of realist and satirical comedies depicting Italian society  between the mid 1950s and the late 1970s. Many of the genre’s filmmakers  have pointed out in interviews how their practice was informed by the  post-war neorealismo of directors such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto  Rossellini. However, the alleged relationship between these two  cinematic forms poses a series of problems, one of these being that  neorealismo is widely associated with the use of non-professional  actors, while commedia all’italiana was characterised by the presence of  immensely popular stars. This article will analyse this aspect of the  neorealismo-commedia relationship through a case study of the stardom of  Roman actor Alberto Sordi (1920-2003), one of the most popular commedia  all’italiana stars.
description: Status Quaestionis, No 1 (2011)
Are STEM Faculty Biased Against Female Applicants? A Robust Replication and Extension of Moss-Racusin and Colleagues (2012)
Creators: name: Jussim, Lee
name: Honeycutt, Nathan
name: Akeela Careem
name: Lewis, Neil
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Abstract (as of 6/1/20):

In a seminal study investigating gender bias in academic science, Moss-Racusin et al. (2012) found bias against female lab manager applicants with respect to competence, hireability, mentoring, and salary conferral. This topic will be revisited through four studies--two direct replications, one extension, and a meta analysis. The present set of studies, all using the same methods and materials as the original, will sample from a larger and broader pool of faculty, collectively representing the breadth of STEM disciplines at R1 universities across the United States. The proposed studies will have high power to detect smaller effect sizes than in the original. Furthermore, a priori criteria have been explicitly articulated for what will be accepted as hypothesis confirmation and replication, and for evidence of gender bias. The pre-registered data analysis plans will provide a strong test assessing the replicability of Moss-Racusin et al. (2012)’s finding that STEM faculty were biased against women who applied for a lab manager position.
title: Some Considerations In The Use Of Early Life History Stages Of Baltic Sprat (Sprattus Sprattus) In Recruitment Prediction
Creators: name: Reglero, Patricia
name: Mosegaard, Henrik
name: Eero, Margit
Publisher: name: ASC 2001 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Differences in the onset of maturity of Baltic sprat in relation to hatching date were analyzed combining otolith microstructure analyses and data on maturity. Otolith microstructure was successfully used to infer hatching date both in larvae and adult sprat. Temperature was shown to have a significant effect in the otolith growth pattern of individuals caught at different times during the same spawning season, allowing distinguishing among larvae hatched at different dates. This pattern, formed during the larval stage, was further identified in the adults and used to infer hatching dates in adults. Otolith growth rates were estimated using measurements of volume increase instead of increment width to correct for the effect of previous otolith size in increment width. Hatching dates together with data on maturity showed a significant effect of hatching date in the onset of maturity, with increasing proportion of early-born individuals mature at age 1 compared to late-born ones caught over 1998 and 2000 although the absolute proportions differed between the two years. In contrast, the proportion mature at age 1 in 1999 was found to be independent of hatching date. Differences in the hatching date-onset of maturity relationship were related to intra-inter annual differences in the environmental conditions experienced by individuals during the early life stages. These findings play an important role in understanding the life history in Baltic sprat populations.
Letter writing in Renaissance England: 2000-2011. A review of the most important studies published since 2000
Creators: name: De Angelis, Sonia
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2012

description: The aim of this review essay is to investigate the most influential studies published in the last decade concerning letter writing in Renaissance England. This field emerged in the last few decades of the 20th  century, but in recent years scholars have significantly broadened and deepened established issues, while pushing the field in new directions. The studies reviewed hereafter chronicle the energy and variety of the latest critical debates on the English Renaissance and focus on three groups of issues: the historical and cultural phenomena giving rise to a proper culture of epistolarity in Renaissance England, the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of early modern epistolary practices, and early modern women’s letter writing. This review does not follow a chronological order but rather a thematic one.
description: Status Quaestionis, No 1 (2011)
Paraustrosimulium Wygodzinsky & Coscaron
Creators: name: Adler, Peter H.
name: Crosskey, Roger W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Simuliidae
Paraustrosimulium

description: Genus PARAUSTROSIMULIUM Wygodzinsky & Coscarón
Paraustrosimulium anthracinum (Bigot)
Rothfels (1979, preliminary examination indicates n = 3; as genus Paraustrosimulium): [Argentina or Chile]
Rothfels (1988, note on interchange [IIS + IIIS, IIL + IIIL]; as genus Paraustrosimulium): [Argentina or Chile]
description: Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
Dante Gabriel Rossetti e Walter Pater: per un’estetica vittoriana
Creators: name: Moriconi, Chiara
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2012

description: The art of the Victorian poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti developed  along the boundaries between distinct cultures and artistic systems. His  work is marked by a perpetual dialogue between different semiotics,  which should be taken into account in order to fully appreciate the dual  aesthetics of his works of art. Crucial to illuminate Rossetti’s double  work are also the works of Walter Pater, especially his introduction to  the “School of Giorgione”.
description: Status Quaestionis, No 1 (2011)
EKOLOGI TUMBUHAN INVASIF HUTAN MANGROVE DI KAWASAN WISATA MANDEH, KABUPATEN PESISIR SELATAN, SUMATERA BARAT
Creators: name: PUTRI, SYNTIA MAI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Sampai saat ini belum ada data empiris tentang jenis-jenis tumbuhan invasif pada Kawasan Hutan Mangrove di Kawasan Wisata Mandeh ini. Oleh karena itu perlu dilakukan penelitian yang bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi jenis tumbuhan invasif dan mengetahui komposisi dan struktur serta keanekaragaman tumbuhan mangrove di kawasan yang diinvasi tumbuhan invasif hutan mangrove di Kawasan wisata Mandeh, kabupaten Pesisir Selatan, Sumatera Barat. Diharapkan hasil penelitian ini dapat dijadikan sebagai dasar untuk pengelolaan serta mencegah penyebaran tumbuhan invasif. Selain itu juga menjaga pelestarian ekosistem mangrove yang berperan dalam melindungi garis Pantai dari erosi akibat gelombang laut dan angin serta akar mangrove yang lebat dan kuat membantu menstabilkan tanah dan mencegah abrasi pantai.
Stress and Episodic Future Thinking: Effects on Temporal Window and Alcohol Demand
Creators: name: Hoots, Jennifer K.
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Stress is a key factor maintaining problematic alcohol use, but it is unclear how stress contributes to problematic use and how to intervene in the stress-alcohol relationship. This study views the stress-alcohol relationship through the lens of behavioral economics, or the study of how individuals make decisions. Reinforcer Pathology Theory explains the stress-alcohol relationship by positing that stress-related increases in preference for immediate rewards directly contribute to overvaluation of alcohol. This study tested the relationships between stress, preference for immediate rewards, and alcohol valuation. Further, this study tested if episodic future thinking (EFT), which involves vividly imagining personal future events, disrupts the link between stress and alcohol by increasing future-focus. Our hypotheses were: (1) the effect of self-reported stress on alcohol demand would be mediated by greater preference for immediate rewards; (2) EFT, as compared to an episodic recent thinking (ERT) condition, would decrease alcohol demand by increasing preferences for delayed rewards; and (3) EFT, as compared to ERT, would ameliorate the effect of stress on alcohol demand by increasing preferences for delayed rewards. 139 adults with problematic alcohol use completed an online survey assessing past month stress and in-the-moment stress. Each participant was randomly assigned to complete an EFT or ERT procedure. Then participants completed a delay-discounting task with EFT/ERT cue exposure to measure preference for immediate rewards and an alcohol purchase task to measure alcohol demand. Results indicate that past month stress was not associated with alcohol demand, either directly or indirectly via changes in preference for immediate rewards. However, higher in-the-moment stress was related to increased preference for immediate rewards, which contributed to higher alcohol demand. EFT increased preference for delayed rewards, which contributed to decreased alcohol demand. However, EFT did not reduce the effect of stress on preference for immediate rewards or buffer the indirect effect of stress on alcohol demand. Thus, EFT is unlikely to be uniquely effective for disrupting the stress-alcohol relationship, but equally, EFT’s efficacy in reducing alcohol demand appears unaffected by presence of stress. Findings emphasize independent, opposing roles of state stress and EFT in the behavioral economics underlying problematic alcohol use.