cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
UC Network Of Sensors for Exotic physics (UC NOSE)
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: Dark matter and dark energy are known to exist from astrophysical and cosmological observations. This dark sector makes up 95% of the universe, but has so far passed through the Earth undetected, despite the efforts of large scientific collaborations. Recently, however, a paradigm shift has brought forth new theoretical and experimental ideas nearly daily. According to these ideas, the dark sector might consist of ultra-light particles. Being light, they would elude detection in traditional detectors for heavy particles, but would form a background potential in the universe somewhat analogous to an electromagnetic field such as a radio wave. This background could be detected by its influence on sensitive table-top sensors based on atomic physics. Networks of these sensors could detect the Earth’s passage through the structure of these fields with the readings of remotely located sensors synchronized (using the Global Positioning System, GPS), and analyzed for transient features. Research groups across the UC System have world-leading expertise in the construction and optimization of such sensors. The UC Network Of Sensors for Exotic physics (NOSE) will coordinate, correlate, and archive data from atomic experiments across several UC campuses. Data recorded with atomic dysprosium at UC Berkeley, e.g., has already been used to look for the variation of the fine-structure constant. In NOSE, it will be correlated with signals taken at Santa Barbara to search for axionlike dark matter. Signals from atom interferometry sensors at Berkeley, and soon UCLA, are among the most sensitive probes for anomalous signals of gravitational strength. In NOSE, they will be correlated to seek for minuscule forces arising from different dark matter candidates. Yet other particles would show up in both types of experiments. NOSE will unearth for the first time the information hidden in the correlation of data across UC campuses. Additional ideas of how to use such data are quite likely to emerge in the future. NOSE will position the UC system at the forefront of an emerging field. It will bring new tools and ideas to bear on understanding what our Universe is made of. With Catalyst funding, we will eventually form a larger world-leading team funded by extramural agencies such as the Simons foundation (which is already supporting the Budker group).
Durability of an inorganic polymer concrete coating
Creators: name: Wasserman, Kenneth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The objective of the research p4rogram reported in this thesis is to evaluate the durability of an inorganic polymer composite coating exposed to freeze/thaw cycling and wet-dry cycling. Freeze/thaw cycling is performed following ASTM D6944-09 Standard Practice for Resistance of Cured Coatings to Thermal Cycling and wet/dry cycling is performed following guidelines set forth in a thesis written by Ronald Garon at Rutgers University. For both sets of experiments, four coating mixture proportions were evaluated. The variables were: silica/alumina ratio, mixing protocol using high shear and normal shear mixing, curing temperatures of 70 and 120 degrees Fahrenheit and use of nano size constituent materials. The mix with highest silica/alumina ratio was designated as Mix 1 and mixes with lower ratios were designated as Mix 2 and Mix 3. Mix 4 had nano silica particles. Four prisms were used for each variable including control that had no coating.  The performance of the coating was evaluated using adhesion strength measured using: ASTM D7234 Test Method for Pull-Off Strength of Coatings on Concrete Using Portable Adhesion Testers. Tests were performed after every five consecutive cycles of thermal conditioning and six consecutive cycles of wet-dry exposure. Results from the thermal cycling and wet-dry testing demonstrate that all coating formulations are durable. The minimum adhesion strength was 300 psi even though a relatively weak base concrete surface was chosen for the study. The weak surface was chosen to simulate aged concrete surfaces present in actual field conditions. Due to the inherent nature of the test procedure the variation in test results is high. However, based on the test results, high shear mixer and high temperature curing are not recommended. As expected nano size constituent materials provide better performance.
Megophthalmus scabripennis Edwards 1915
Creators: name: Mozaffarian, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Megophthalmus
Megophthalmus scabripennis

description: Megophthalmus scabripennis Edwards, 1915
Recorded damage and economic importance in the orchards of Iran: Not recorded.
Recorded damage in the orchards of other parts of the world: A potential pest in olive orchards in Turkey and a potential vector for Aster yellows (AY) in vineyards (Bozbuga & Elekcioglu 2008; Orenstein et al. 2003).
Recorded distribution in Iran: North (Mozaffarian & Wilson 2016).
Conclusion: The vector status of this species in Iran needs further study.
description: Published as part of Mozaffarian, Fariba, 2018, An Identification key to the species of Auchenorrhyncha of Iranian fauna recorded as pests in orchards and a review on the pest status of the species, pp. 475-501 in Zootaxa 4420 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1455385
Asymmetrasca decedens
Creators: name: Mozaffarian, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Asymmetrasca
Asymmetrasca decedens

description: Asymmetrasca decedens (Paoli, 1932)
Recorded damage and economic importance in the orchards of Iran: Not recorded.
Recorded damage in the orchards of other parts of the world: An occasional pest on citrus in Yugoslavia, Italy and Spain. A potentional pest in olive orchards in Turkey. A vector of ' Ca. Phytoplasma prunorum' (European stone fruit yellow phytoplasma), a potential career of almond witches’ broom phytoplasma (AlmWB) and tested positive to apricot chlorotic leaf roll (ACLR) and phytoplasma in Lebanon (Reuther 1989; Bozbuga & Elekcioglu 2008; Dakhil et al., 2011; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine 2012).
Recorded distribution in Iran: West and northeast (Mozaffarian & Wilson 2016).
Conclusion: The vector status of this species in Iran needs further study.
description: Published as part of Mozaffarian, Fariba, 2018, An Identification key to the species of Auchenorrhyncha of Iranian fauna recorded as pests in orchards and a review on the pest status of the species, pp. 475-501 in Zootaxa 4420 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1455385
Entocythere tyttha , Hobbs & Hobbs 1970, new species
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Entocythere
Entocythere tyttha

description: Entocythere tyttha Hobbs & Hobbs, 1970
1970 Entocythere tyttha, new species.—Hobbs & Hobbs: 11–13, Fig. 5a–e (A, D, H, R, T).
1971 E. tyttha Hobbs and Hobbs, 1970.—Hart, D.G. & Hart: 114 (R, T).
1971 Entocythere tyttha Hobbs and Hobbs, 1970:11.—Hobbs Jr.: 4, 17, 40, 53, 55 (D, K, T).
1974 Entocythere tyttha Hobbs and Hobbs, 1970.—Hart & Hart: 4, 83, 84, 92, 93–94, 204, 227, Pl. XXVIII Figs. 1 –4, Pl. LI (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Entocythere tyttha Hobbs & Hobbs, 1970.—Hart & Hart: 35 (C, D, H).
2014a Entocythere tyttha, Hobbs & Hobbs, 1970.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 949 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Austroagallia sinuata
Creators: name: Mozaffarian, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Austroagallia
Austroagallia sinuata

description: Austroagallia sinuata (Mulsant Rey, 1855) (Figs 41 and 57)
Recorded damage and economic importance in the orchards of Iran: Not recorded.
Recorded damage in the orchards of other parts of the world: Tested positive for Aster yellows (AY) in vineyards in Europe (Orenstein et al. 2003).
Recorded distribution in Iran: Generally distributed (Mozaffarian & Wilson 2016).
Conclusion: The vector status of this species in Iran needs further study.
description: Published as part of Mozaffarian, Fariba, 2018, An Identification key to the species of Auchenorrhyncha of Iranian fauna recorded as pests in orchards and a review on the pest status of the species, pp. 475-501 in Zootaxa 4420 (4) on pages 490-491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1455385
At-Risk Cultural Heritage and the Digital Humanities
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: Recent current events have dramatically highlighted the vulnerability of the world’s material cultural heritage. This project catalyzes a collaborative research effort by four University of California campuses to use cyber-archaeology and digital humanities to document and safeguard virtually some of the most at-risk heritage objects and places. Faculty and students at UCSD, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Merced are conducting path-breaking archaeological research at locations in Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Greece and Cyprus covering over 10,000 years of cultural materials, architecture and landscapes. Site and artifact identification, cataloging, and digital preservation of complex data and other content derived from satellite imagery, drones, sensors, 3D data capture, and other techniques are research challenges. Tools to meet these challenges are being developed at UCSD by researchers at Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute. The greater challenge is to integrate these elements for all the at-risk places being investigated by UC researchers. We propose to leverage UCSD and UC Berkeley’s recently-announced Pacific Research Platform (PRP) and its 10-100Gb/s networking to link UCSD and the San Diego Supercomputer Center to other labs and museums at the other UC campuses to form a highly-networked collaborative platform for curation, analysis, and visualization of 3D archaeological data. Walk-in life-sized 3D kiosks and personal devices for viewing digital objects and sharing heritage data will be developed for each campus and networked for telepresence collaboration in 3D. The platform will enable: 1) correlative studies of regional climate/environmental data and demographic, cultural, and technological changes; 2) studies of how human conflicts, climate change, pollution, natural disasters, and looting affect archaeological sites and forecasting of critically-endangered places; and 3) 3D models using new kinds of geospatial data. Public engagement in the UC research mission will be promoted via online crowd-sourcing to monitor at-risk sites, and open-source software will enable public access to 3D digital heritage visualization. The project will position UC as a national leader in global cultural heritage preservation efforts, and California as an active participant in ‘archaeo-diplomacy’ by offering solutions for virtual documentation of at-risk cultural resources.
Network for research on music experience and communication
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: In the lives of most Californians, music is a seldom examined, little understood but omnipresent force shaping our thoughts, moods, aspirations, and even our purchasing behavior. Whether creeping along the I-5 freeway at rush hour, attending a religious function, or watching a movie, Californians use music to intensify or communicate feelings, enhance their sense of community, or lift their mood during uninviting tasks and challenges. Increasing evidence suggests that childhood musical training has general cognitive benefits, and that music therapy aids those struggling with senility, brain injury, or debilitating conditions like Parkinson’s. Yet much basic research is needed to understand how musical experience confers such benefits. Despite widespread recognition of music’s ubiquitous influence on the human mind and brain, there is no American center for the scientific study of musical experience, communication, and behavior. The University of California (UC) is uniquely poised to become such a center. We propose to initiate a multi-campus UC program for research on the dynamics of human musical experience and communication in the age of brain/body imaging and data mining. This program would uniquely leverage internationally-recognized though geographically-isolated UC experts on music listening, performance, memory, neuroscience, data science, and education. The resulting Music Experience Research Community Initiative (UC MERCI) will give UC researchers cutting-edge resources and methods to understand and enhance music’s transformative potential. During the two-year Planning Grant period, we propose to plan the Initiative by: (a) Organizing quarterly scientific seminars at UC campuses to introduce UC MERCI to interested UC researchers. (b) Convening an organizational conference and planning workshop bringing together UC music researchers and graduate students. (c) Designing and executing a pilot common core basic research project by a multi-campus group of graduate students that breaks new ground in music experience imaging while training leaders in new and evolving brain/body imaging research methods. Concurrently, we will: (d) develop a UC MERCI web resource and (e) map a framework for sharing and analyzing multimodal brain/behavioral datasets. (f) Planning Workshop #2, including potential commercial partners, will assess results of the pilot project (c), and will plan further collaborative research including a follow-on MRPI program grant proposal.
Geocythere , Hart 1962
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Geocythere

description: Geocythere Hart, 1962
1959 Geophila Group.—Hart: 195 (T).
1962 Geophila Group.—Hobbs & Walton: 44 (R).
1962 Geocythere, new genus.—Hart: 125, 134–135 (C, K, T).
1963 Geocythere.—Hart: 51 (C).
1965a Geocythere (Hart, 1962: 134).—Hart: 255 (H).
1965 Geocythere.—Hobbs: 161 (K).
1966 Geocythere Hart (1962).—Hobbs & Hart: 37 (K).
1967 Geocythere.—Hobbs: 3 (R).
1967 Geocythere.—Hobbs, Holt & Walton: 8 (H).
1968 Geocythere Hart, 1962.—Ferguson: 502 (C).
1969a Geocythere Hart, 1962.—Hart & Hart: 180, 181, 187, Figs. 1, 5, 15 (D, H, R, T).
1969b Geocythere.—Hart & Hart: 155, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, Figs. 5–8 (R, T).
1969a Geocythere.—Hobbs: 170 (R).
1970 Geocythere Hart, 1962:134.—Hobbs: 172, 175, 179, 181, 182 (A, C, R).
1970 Geocythere, Hart, 1962:134.—Hobbs & Hobbs: 1, 2, 13, 15, Fig. 8 (C, D, K).
1971 Geocythere Hart, 1962:134.—Hobbs Jr.: 19, 53 (C).
1974 Geocythere Hart, 1962.—Hart & Hart: vii, 6, 7, 8, 11, 15, 19, 94–95, 100, 101, 106, 107, Figs. 11–14, 26 (D, H, K, R, T).
1974 Geocythere Hart, 1962.—Hartmann & Puri: 50 (C).
1975 Geocythere Hart, 1962.—Hart & Hart: 35–36 (C, D, H).
1982 Geocythere.—Hobbs III: 2 (D).
1990 Geocythere.—Cohen & Morin: 197 [as Geocythere sp.], Fig. 5D (T).
2010 Geocythere Hart, 1962.—Smith & Delorme: 748, 771 (C, K).
2017 Geocythere.—Weaver & Williams: 578 (K).
Remarks: Hart & Hart (1974: 95) mistakenly list the hosts of Geocythere as “crayfishes of the family
Astacidae.” Geocythere is known only from crayfishes in the family Cambaridae. This error was repeated by Hart & Hart (1975: 36).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on pages 71-72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Social learning mechanisms of cultural evolution
Creators: name: Wasielewski, Helen Charlotte
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Human cultural traditions are accumulated bodies of knowledge that have been built over time through innovation coupled with social learning.  An evolutionary approach to culture examines culture traits as aspects of an organism’s phenotype that are inherited through social learning processes.  This dissertation applies theory from the literature on cultural evolution to understand mechanisms and strategies of this learning process in humans, and consists of three projects from data generated by two studies.  For both studies, I used a novel experimental task: participants were asked to build weight-bearing devices from a length of weaving reed and a portion of modeling clay.  In the first project, using an experimental microsociety design, I tested the hypothesis that imitation is required for cultural accumulation.  By manipulating visual access to behavior, I found evidence of cultural accumulation only when participants were able to view others building devices.  This result is consistent with the hypothesis that imitation is required for cumulative cultural evolution.  In the second project, I tested the hypothesis that learners are able to infer the success of models by using model-based biases.  I found that participants were more likely to copy the device designs of others who had performed well, than they were to copy device designs of those who had performed poorly.  This difference held only in conditions in which participants could witness others building devices, as predicted by the use of model-based biases such as skill bias.  In the third project, I tested participants’ flexibility in the use of asocial and social information, in order to understand the contribution of individual learning constraints to cultural evolution at a population level.  Participants built weight-bearing devices in three phases: an asocial learning phase, and two social learning phases.  I measured both the performance of the weight-bearing devices and the use of social information.  My results indicate that participants adjusted the degree to which they copied others relative to changes in their performance between the asocial and social phases.  These data suggest that cultural evolution may rely on learners who are flexible, rather than fixed, in their learning strategies.
UC Consortium on Social Science and Law
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: Social science and law is a vital area of scholarship that advances theory and application to solve societal problems of immense importance to Californians. This field combines basic theory in social science and law with rigorous empirical research to yield crucial practical application to law, medicine, and public policy. The research is inherently inter-disciplinary, with scholarship in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, human development, sociology, criminology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, political science, public policy, and law. UC researchers address fundamental questions regarding legal decision-making, eyewitness memory, inequality, immigration, lifespan development and law, mental health and violence, as well as theories of justice, social control, and corrections. However, the inter-disciplinary nature of the research also presents one of its challenges, as social science and law scholars are distributed across departments, colleges, and campuses within the UC System. This distribution across infrastructure and distance creates barriers to cross-fertilization of ideas, collaboration, and sharing of resources. This proposal will establish the University of California Consortium for Social Science and Law, to create infrastructure and facilitate multi-campus collaborations that will build upon the existing strength of the UC system. The specific aims in creating the Consortium are: (1) to convene the first UC Conference on Social Science and Law, (2) to develop working groups to pursue innovative and multidisciplinary projects, (3) to provide funds for graduate student and law student support and training, and (4) to create a website that will bring together the broad scope of UC social science and law scholarship and research. The research methodologies will include legal analyses, archival analyses, survey and ethnographic techniques, field work, and laboratory experiments. Progress will arise from multidisciplinary convergence and innovative collaborations that cut across research domains and disciplinary boundaries. This intellectually exciting research will contribute to fundamental theory and will address crucial concerns of the people of the state of California.
Source lithology of the Galápagos plume
Creators: name: Vidito, Christopher Allen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: We have measured the contents of Ni, Ca, and Mn in olivine phenocrysts from volcanoes in the Galápagos archipelago to infer the mantle source lithologies. Results show that peridotite is the dominant source lithology for Fernandina, Floreana, Genovesa, Marchena, Pinta, Wolf Island, and Darwin Island. These volcanoes largely characterize the PLUME, WD, FLO and DUM Nd, Sr, and Pb isotopic endmembers of Harpp and White (2001). Only a minor pyroxenite component contributes to Fernandina and Floreana. Peridotite is also the dominant source lithology for Volcan Wolf, Alcedo, and Cerro Azul, and that these have isotopic compositions that can be defined by mixing of the 4 endmembers. Peridotite is therefore the dominant source lithology of the Galápagos plume. However, pyroxenite melting is significant in two spatially separated domains which are also isotopically distinct: Roca Redonda, Volcan Ecuador, Sierra Negra in the enriched western part of the archipelago and Volcan Darwin, Santiago, Santa Cruz, and Santa Fe in the depleted east.  An implication is that the western and eastern pyroxenite domains likely represent two separate bodies of recycled crust within the Galápagos mantle plume. Isotopically enriched and depleted domains of the archipelago melted from both peridotite and pyroxenite, and there is no relationship between source lithology and its isotopic characteristics. The identification of peridotite source melting in volcanoes with isotopic characteristics that have been attributed to recycled crust points to the importance of mixing in OIB genesis, in agreement with studies on the Canary Islands.
Taxonomy, systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biology of the Gnomoniaceae (Diaporthales), with emphasis on gnomoniopsis and ophiognomonia
Creators: name: Walker, Donald Matthew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The Gnomoniaceae (Diaporthales, Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) are a family of perithecial ascomycetes that occur as endophytes, pathogens, or saprobes on growing and overwintered leaves and twigs of hardwood trees, shrubs, and herbaceous host plants. Many species of Gnomoniaceae cause serious diseases in agricultural and ornamental plants. Despite their economic importance, the biodiversity, evolutionary biology, ecology, and host plant relationships are largely unknown.    The objectives of this study were to: 1) infer species level phylogenies of the genera Gnomoniopsis and Ophiognomonia; 2) design primers for newly identified single-copy protein-coding genes to be used as phylogenetic markers for species-level systematics in the Sordariomycetes; 3) integrate host association and environmental data with a phylogenetic analysis of Ophiognomonia to better understand speciation events in this genus. To achieve these objectives, herbarium and freshly collected specimens were compared using morphology, host association, and phylogenetic analyses of multiple molecular markers. Microscopic measurements of morphological characters such as ascospore size and septation were integrated with molecular approaches to define species of Gnomoniopsis and Ophiognomonia. Fungal genome sequences were mined for single-copy orthologous genes, primers designed, gene regions sequenced, and phylogenetic informativeness of each marker assessed. The performance of the newly identified markers was then compared to other markers commonly used in fungal phylogenetics. In addition, the program Spatial Evolutionary and Ecological Vicariance Analysis (SEEVA) was used to study patterns of host plant specificity and ecological vicariance using a multi-gene phylogeny of Ophiognomonia.   This research resulted in the recircumscription of the genera Gnomoniopsis and Ophiognomonia in the Gnomoniaceae along with an account of each species in these genera. A total of 32 taxonomic novelties were defined including 26 new species and 6 new combinations. Primer sets for two newly identified markers were developed that should be useful for ascomycete systematists. Host specificity and environmental influences were hypothesized as mechanisms contributing to speciation patterns in Ophiognomonia. A visual and statistically solid understanding of evolutionary mechanisms influencing speciation events, host switches, and ecological divergence in the genus Ophiognomonia is presented and discussed. This a comprehensive report of the taxonomy, evolutionary biology, and ecology of the genus Ophiognomonia.
Geocythere acuta Hart, D. G. & Hart 1971, new species
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Geocythere
Geocythere acuta

description: Geocythere acuta Hart & Hart, 1971
1971 Geocythere acuta, new species.—Hart, D.G. & Hart: 115–116, 123, 125, Figs. 9a–c, 13 (A, D, H, R, T).
1974 Geocythere acuta Hart and Hart, 1971.—Hart & Hart: 95, 204, 228, Pl. XXVIII Figs. 5–7, Pl. LII (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Geocythere acuta Hart & Hart, 1971.—Hart & Hart: 36 (C, D, H).
2014a Geocythere acuta Hart & Hart, 1971.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 949 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Empoasca decipiens Paoli 1930
Creators: name: Mozaffarian, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Empoasca
Empoasca decipiens

description: Empoasca decipiens Paoli, 1930
Recorded damage and economic importance in the orchards of Iran: Not recorded.
Recorded damage in the orchards of other parts of the world: An occasional pest on apple and a potentional pest in olive orchards in Turkey. A vector for Aster yellows and a potential career of almond witches’ broom phytoplasma in Lebanon (AlmWB) (Alford 1992, Bozbuga & Elekcioglu 2008, Dakhil et al. 2011).
Recorded distribution in Iran: Generally distributed (Mozaffarian & Wilson 2016).
Conclusion: The vector status of the species in Iran needs further study.
description: Published as part of Mozaffarian, Fariba, 2018, An Identification key to the species of Auchenorrhyncha of Iranian fauna recorded as pests in orchards and a review on the pest status of the species, pp. 475-501 in Zootaxa 4420 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1455385
Essays in industrial organization
Creators: name: Vassallo, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation contains three chapters on topics in industrial organization.  Chapter 2 examines the accuracy of the Hypothetical Monopolist Test, a test for market definition which is often used in the legal analysis of mergers.  Chapter 3 analyzes the use of market share discounts by firms and the effect of these discounts on profits and consumer welfare.  Chapter 4 investigates pricing practices where a service is offered for a fixed fee plus a multipart usage fee.  In Chapter 2, the accuracy of the Hypothetical Monopolist Test (HMT) is examined.  In applying the test, two separate models are considered.  In each model, the true extent of the product market is known.  First, the HMT is applied in a linear differentiated demand model with n firms each producing one symmetrically differentiated product.  The test consistently underestimates the number of products in the relevant market in this setting.  The second model utilizes a quasi-linear utility specification, and I derive conditions under which the number of products in the market is overestimated.    Chapter 3 analyzes the practice of a manufacturer offering a discount or rebate to a retailer if the sales of that manufacturer’s product achieve certain benchmarks.  Using a vertical model with linear differentiated demand, I find that the welfare effects of market share discount plans can often be positive.  The optimal market share discount plan is closely approximates the outcome of vertical integration between the manufacturer and the retailer.  This constructive vertical integration can eliminate double marginalization and encourage competing manufacturers to decrease their own wholesale prices.  As such, when one manufacturer offers a market share discount plan, the prices of all products may fall.  In Chapter 4, I examine pricing plans that include buckets of free units, as are common in the wireless telephone industry.  A simple demand structure is established which allows for direct comparisons of the profits and consumer welfare under different pricing plans.  The free bucket pricing plans are shown to generate the same profits for the monopolist and the same consumer surplus as two-part tariffs, even when multiple plans are offered to consumers.
New results for optimization in stochastic networks
Creators: name: Unuvar, Merve
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: We are interested in single commodity stochastic network design problems under probabilistic constraint with discrete and continuous random variables. We use a stochastic programming model under probabilistic constraint (also called a chance-constrained model) to study these problems.     The problem addressed in this research is how to find minimum cost optimal capacities at the nodes and/or arcs subject to the constraint that the demands should be met on a prescribed probability level (reliability constraint). In our first problem formulation, we formulate the reliability constraint in terms of the Gale-Hoffman feasibility inequalities. In latter formulations, we allow system to meet the demand at least $k$-out-of-$n$ and consecutive $k$-out-of-$n$ periods. The number of reliability constraints, in both cases, increases exponentially with the size of the nodes and therefore we identify the redundant constraints and reduce their number with elimination methods.    Even with the reduced number of inequalities, it is not simple to solve probabilistic constrained stochastic network problems due to the large number of efficient points that satisfy the probabilistic condition.  To overcome the size limitation of the problem, we develop a new theorem for efficient point generation in the case when the random variables are discrete, and we use hybrid cutting plane / supporting hyperplane algorithm in the case when the random variables are continuous.
Empoasca fabae
Creators: name: Mozaffarian, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Empoasca
Empoasca fabae

description: Empoasca fabae (Harris, 1841)
Recorded damage and economic importance in the orchards of Iran: A pest on apple, pear, grapevine (Esmaili 1984; Rajabi 1991). Rajabi (1991) believes it doesn’t have any economic importance.
Recorded damage in the orchards of other parts of the world: Not recorded.
Recorded distribution in Iran: Southern slope of Alborz Mountain (Tehran) (Mozaffarian & Wilson 2016).
Conclusion: The confirmed distribution of the species is limited to the New World; thus previous Iranian records of this species may be based on misidentifications (Mozaffarian & Wilson 2016).
description: Published as part of Mozaffarian, Fariba, 2018, An Identification key to the species of Auchenorrhyncha of Iranian fauna recorded as pests in orchards and a review on the pest status of the species, pp. 475-501 in Zootaxa 4420 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1455385
Serological profile of first SARS-CoV-2 reinfection cases detected within the SIREN study.
Creators: name: Atti, A
name: Ferrari, M
name: Castillo-Olivares, J
name: Monk, EJM
name: Gopal, R
name: Patel, M
name: Hoschler, K
name: Cole, MJ
name: Semper, A
name: Hewson, J
name: Otter, AD
name: Foulkes, S
name: Islam, J
name: Mirfenderesky, M
name: Jain, S
name: Murira, J
name: Favager, C
name: Nastouli, E
name: Chand, MA
name: Brown, CS
name: Heeney, JL
name: Brooks, T
name: Hall, VJ
name: Hopkins, S
name: Zambon, M
Publisher: name: Elsevier BV
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVId-19
COVId-19 serological testing
Neutralising antibodies
Reinfection
SARS-CoV-2
Antibodies, Viral
COVID-19
Humans
Immunity, Humoral

description: OBJECTIVES: To describe the serological profile of first two SARS-CoV-2 confirmed reinfections in the national healthcare worker cohort study SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) and potentially identify correlates of protection against reinfection. METHODS: In addition to routine testing within the SIREN study, viral culture, sequencing and phylogenetic analysis were performed. Total antibody testing (Anti-SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid and Anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike) were complemented by receptor binding domain indirect ELISA and neutralising antibody assays. RESULTS: The first two SARS-CoV-2 confirmed reinfections had mild symptomatic illness episodes from which infectious virus was recovered at the time of reinfection. The recovered viruses and their sequences were closely related to viruses circulating locally during the time of reinfection and serology was consistent with reinfection. Prior to reinfection, both cases had ELISA and immunoblot detectable anti-N antibodies, but lacked live virus neutralising antibody. Within days following reinfection, neutralising antibodies became detectable and anti-N and anti-S binding antibodies were boosted. CONCLUSIONS: We hypothesise that titres of neutralising antibody can be used as a correlate of protection against reinfection. Further analysis using a case-control design is essential in order to confirm this hypothesis.
Yang-Mills heatflow on gauged holomorphic maps
Creators: name: Venugopalan, Sushmita
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: We study the gradient flow lines of a Yang-Mills-type functional on the space of gauged holomorphic maps whose domain is a principal bundle on a Riemann surface and the target is a Kahler Hamiltonian manifold. When the Riemann surface in the domain is compact, possibly with boundary, we prove long time existence of the gradient flow. The flow lines converge to critical points of the functional. So, there is a stratification of the space of gauged holomorphic maps that is invariant under the action of the complexified gauge group.  Symplectic vortices are the zeros of the functional we study. When the Riemann surface has boundary, similar to Donaldson's result for the Hermitian Yang-Mills equations, we show that there is only a single stratum - any gauged-holomorphic map can be complex gauge transformed to a symplectic vortex. This is a version of Mundet's Hitchin-Kobayashi result on a surface with boundary.
Characterization of TLB and page allocation behavior on modern processors
Creators: name: Vaidyanathan, Viswanathan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Virtual memory support is prevalent in most modern processors and is facilitated through Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs) which play a major role in the overall system performance. TLB misses are costly since they require multiple high latency memory references to walk the page table and locate the desired Virtual Page Number (VPN) - Physical Page Number (PPN) mapping. This study improves TLB hit rates by taking advantage of any contiguity present in the pages allocated by the Operating System (OS). By contiguity we refer to cases where consecutive VPNs are mapped to consecutive PPNs. Traditionally, OSs use large or superpages to collapse hundreds of such contiguous entries, thereby using one TLB entry to represent them rather than hundreds of entries they would normally require. Unfortunately due to implementation complexities superpaging  has not been universally successful in reducing TLB pressure. We show, however, that even without explicit superpaging, various OS virtual memory allocation activities lead to intermediate levels of contiguity that may be exploited to coalesce TLB entries and significantly improve hit rates. We verify the presence of contiguity by running benchmarks on a real system and checking the page allocations of the OS. The OS page allocation schemes depend on memory pressure and memory defragmentation daemons. Further, we find an average contiguity of 30 pages over all the benchmarks and configurations with superpaging turned on and about 10 with superpaging turned off. To verify the performance of a Coalesced TLB we have implemented a fully associative TLB with variable size and Least Recently Used (LRU) replacement policy. Our results show an average hit rate improvement of 25% by adding an 8-16 entry fully associative Coalesced TLB. The Coalesced TLB further needs no complex hardware to implement, hence providing to a low cost means to reduce miss rates.
Diderot and the theatre
Creators: name: Troiano, Renée
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This study reinterprets Denis Diderot's proposals for the transformation of the French classical stage as a vision of the theatre as a secular church.  In this view, the theatre will become a place where the human need for transcendent experience can be expressed and channeled into the development of a body politic composed of citizen-critics.  The active engagment of this reinvigorated audience in the process of community-building will serve to prevent the abuses of plitical and religious absolutism.    Though Diderot's importance to the history of theatrical practice is widely appreciated, the relationship between his own religious training and his subsequent work has been largely ignored, possibly due to his reputation as one of the Enlightenment's most radical materialists. In this study, it is argued that when Diderot imagines a world where the church is replaced by the theatre and priests are replaced by actors, he is also proposing an alternative social structure where the body politic can fully experience strong emotion without devolving into fanaticism.    Diderot saw the potential of the theatre to provide the opportunity for people to be movd by a feeling of transcendence, of an emotional experience of timelessness and oneness within a social framework that benefited both the individual and society without the attendant risks of coercion and repression associated with church and state that he believed inhibited rational thought in the individual and distorted the development of society as a whole.  The present work thus presents a new reading of Diderot's well-known treatises on the theatre, Entretiens sur Le Fils naturel and De la poésie dramatique, which integrates Diderot's attempts to transform the classical stage with his political writings. It is suggested that these works can usefully be viewed as tutorials through which Diderot hopes to educate the theatre audience to become a congregation of critics able to engage in the collective evaluaturn of culture and politics,thereby creating a space where the pleasures of art and the duties of citizenship are joined.
Geocythere geophila Hart 1962, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Geocythere
Geocythere geophila

description: * Geocythere geophila (Hart, 1959) Hart, 1962
1959 Entocythere geophila, sp. nov. —Hart: 194, 195–198, 199, 200, Figs. 1 –6 (D, H, K, R, T).
1959 E. geophila Hart (1959).—Walton & Hobbs: 115, 116, 117, Fig. 20 (K).
1960 E. geophila Hart (1959: 196).—Hart: 2 (R).
1962 E. geophila Hart (1959).—Hobbs & Walton: 44 (R).
1962 Geocythere geophila (Hart) 1959 new combination.—Hart: 123 [as E. geophila Hart], 135 [erroneous authority format], 146, Fig. 7 (C, D, T).
1962 Entocythere geophila Hart, 1959.—Levinson: 94 (C).
1965a Geocythere geophila (Hart, 1959: 196–197).—Hart: 257, 258 (R).
1968 G. geophila (Hart, 1959).—Ferguson: 502 (C, D).
1970 Geocythere geophila (Hart, 1959:197).—Hobbs & Hobbs: 13, 14, 15, Figs. 7a, 8 (D, K, R, T).
1974 Geocythere geophila (Hart, 1959).—Hart & Hart: cover, iv, 15 [as E. geophila], 94 [as Entocythere geophila and Geocythere geophila Hart, 1959, the latter with erroneous authority format], 95–96, 97, 204, 228, Pl. XXVIII Figs. 8–11, Pl. LII (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Geocythere geophila (Hart, 1959).—Hart & Hart: 35 [as Entocythere geophila], 36 (C, D, H).
1978 Geocythere geophila (Hart).—Hobbs: 506 (A, D, H).
1981 Geocythere geophila (Hart, 1959:195).—Hobbs: 223 [and as Entocythere geophila], 499, 541 [as Entocythere geophila], 542 (C, D, H).
1982 Geocythere geophila (Hart).—Hobbs III: 2 (D, H).
2014a Geocythere geophila (Hart, 1959).—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 949 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
The correlation between post-in situ chemical oxidation concentration rebound and molecular diffusion
Creators: name: Tressler, Adam Karl
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Sodium permanganate and potassium permanganate have been used for in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) projects for approximately two decades now.   After decades of application, concentration rebound has emerged as a common problem for this remediation strategy.  Unfortunately after decades of research on ISCO, there has been very little research on the question of concentration rebound. Most research on the topic of ISCO has focused on demonstrating effectiveness, estimating kinetics, or quantifying the effects of reaction products.  Only one study has demonstrated that a correlation between concentration rebound and hydrogeological parameters exists.   This study uses a numerical solution to an advection-dispersion-reaction equation in order to quantify a correlation between the rate of rebound and molecular diffusivity in pure water.  It accomplishes this by simulating a variety of sites contaminated with tetrachloroethene or trichloroethene that also had an ISCO with permanganate.  Each simulation included advection, two-dimensional dispersion, oxidation, concentration rebound, natural oxidant demand, and retardation.   Six sites were suitable for simulation and nine cells were delineated within the six sites.  These cells allowed for a variety of soils, contaminants, injection methods (i.e. frequency, depth, mass of oxidant, duration, etc...), time scales, spatial scales, and hydrogeological variables to be examined.  A robust correlation (R2=0.9257) was identified with a regression analysis between the molecular diffusion coefficient in pure water and the rate of concentration rebound.   The correlation identified by this research offers several useful applications.  One application of this research is that it is now possible to optimize the information gained by a thorough site characterization.  For example, a more predictable rate of concentration rebound can be used to optimize the time intervals between oxidant injections.  In addition, choosing injection well locations can be optimized by modeling the boundaries of an oxidant's effectiveness.  Another application of this research is that a more predictable rate of concentration rebound can be used to compare the effectiveness of ISCO to other remediation technologies.  This reduces a variety of uncertainties by allowing more informed decisions between very expensive remediation strategies.
Jacobiasca lybica
Creators: name: Mozaffarian, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Jacobiasca
Jacobiasca lybica

description: Jacobiasca lybica (Bergevin & Zanon, 1922)
Recorded damage and economic importance in the orchards of Iran: Not recorded.
Recorded damage in the orchards of other parts of the world: A pest on grapevine in Southern Europe due to its direct damage (Alma 2002).
Recorded distribution in Iran: Southwest (Mozaffarian & Wilson 2016).
Conclusion: Pest status of the species in Iran needs further study.
description: Published as part of Mozaffarian, Fariba, 2018, An Identification key to the species of Auchenorrhyncha of Iranian fauna recorded as pests in orchards and a review on the pest status of the species, pp. 475-501 in Zootaxa 4420 (4) on page 491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1455385