cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The roles of structural variability and amphiphilicity of TMC278/rilpivirine in mechanisms of HIV drug resistance avoidance and enhanced oral bioavailability
Creators: name: Frenkel, Yulia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) are small hydrophobic drug molecules that bind to a hydrophobic pocket of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT).  A number of molecules from diarylpyrimidine (DAPY) class of NNRTIs have exceptional inhibitory properties against a broad range of known drug-resistant viral strains of HIV-1 and good oral bioavailability in humans. Biophysical, structural, and computational methods were applied to study DAPY NNRTIs with differing RT inhibitory and bioavailability properties with a goal to define the mechanisms by which the dual success of the selected DAPY NNRTIs is achieved.  Exceptional bioavailability properties of selected DAPY NNRTIs were hypothesized to stem from their ability to form self-formulated spherical drug aggregates, ~60 nm in diameter, that are trafficked from the gastrointestinal tract into systemic circulation through a lymphatic uptake pathway.  Using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and electron microscopy (EM), formation of drug aggregates was demonstrated.  Drug aggregation was determined to be surfactant independent.  Based on this observation, it was hypothesized that the drug molecules were able to achieve surface-active properties.  Using X-ray crystallography and all atom MD simulations of the drug aggregate/water interface it was determined that amphiphilic properties of the selected DAPY NNRTI molecules depend on the availability of the protonation site at the pyrimidine ring and structural variability of the drug molecules at the linker moieties.   Ability of the late phase DAPY NNRTI drug molecules to inhibit the broad range of drug-resistant HIV-1 mutants has been previously linked to the ability of the molecules to sample multiple binding modes within the binding pocket of HIV-1 RT (Das et al., 2004).  Using computational methods, conformational sampling by TMC278 (a DAPY NNRTI in multiple Phase III trials) in the pocket of the wild-type and the mutant NNRTI-binding pocket (NNIBP) was evaluated.  Results of this work support the concept that structural variability is important in overcoming drug resistance mechanisms. We propose that the implementation of drug aggregation testing and the evaluation of torsional flexibility of highly hydrophobic compounds in the context of the lead identification strategies will allow for better selection of potent and orally bioavailable hydrophobic drug candidates.
The poetics of return
Creators: name: Franzè, Federica
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Living a life "on the hyphen" -- as the Cuban-American critic Gustavo Perez Firma calls it -- or in a "third space -- as the Indian literary theorist Homi Bhabha defines it -- has become the most common way to describe the condition of those identities in-between, to define the virtual, non-geographical space in which two cultures meet, yet simultaneously remain separated. Within this conceptual framework, my dissertation focuses on the literary and artistic production of transnational individuals in Germany. The literary production of these subjects, which originates in a 'trans-cultural' and 'trans-lingual' context, becomes the only space in which they can discuss and explore their new condition. In particular, I investigate how the authors reflect upon the idea of home and complicate the notion of belonging. By focusing on various representations of homecoming, I ultimately want to problematize and engage critically with the idea of border-crossing and traveling in recent literature from 1973 to 2007. As I analyze narratives where the protagonists express their need for roots and for a return, I show how these characters ultimately still entertain a strong relationship with their homelands, but at the same redefine time the very nature of that bond.The first three chapters are dedicated to the Turkish-German writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 1946), the Italian writer based in Germany Franco Biondi (born 1947), and to the cinematic representations of the acclaimed Turkish-German film director Fatih Akin (born 1973). In very different ways these authors give voice to their shared experience of migration and to the difficulties of adapting as foreigners in German society, while each tries to negotiate a new life and create new roots. The last chapter employs the reversed approach of focusing on a novel by the Austrian writer, Barbara Frischmuth (born 1941), who explores the question of multiculturalism and cross-cultural interactions and analyzes the relationship between German-speaking countries and the Middle East, in particular Turkey. Despite the different geographical and cultural backgrounds as well as the time period in which these works were written, they share stories of losses and restorations that challenge traditional concepts such as home, Heimat and belonging.
title: Positive displacement pump system and method
Creators: name: Smalling, Richard W.
name: Gohean, Jeffrey R.
name: Pate, Thomas D.
name: Longoria, Raul G.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: A61M1/1017
subject: A61M1/1036
subject: A61M1/1005
subject: A61M1/101
subject: A61M1/1055
subject: A61M1/1081
subject: A61M1/1086
subject: A61M1/1087
subject: A61M2205/33
subject: A61M2205/3303
subject: A61M2205/3334
subject: A61N1/36514
subject: F04B17/00
subject: F04C13/001
subject: F04C2210/10
subject: F04C2210/1016
subject: 417/420
subject: 417/410.1
subject: 417/410.3

description: Systems and methods including a motor or electromagnets to control the movement of one or more pistons in a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber may include a pump inlet and a pump outlet in fluid communication with the pumping chamber. Surfaces on a piston or pumping chamber may include hydrodynamic bearing surfaces.
Analysis of sperm molecules needed for ferilization in C. elegans
Creators: name: Hang, Julie S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Fertilization is the biological process through which life is propagated and genetic variation is generated. Its importance to sexually reproducing species is unrivaled, but we are far from obtaining a complete understanding of how this process occurs. This thesis is a study of sperm molecules involved in Caenorhabditis elegans fertilization with the ultimate goal of elucidating and understanding the function of fertilization molecules across species.The first chapter provides an introduction to the field of fertilization, a brief overview of what is currently known, and it concludes with the use and advantages of using C. elegans as a model system to study fertilization.The second chapter describes a method that utilizes single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to streamline the initial genetic mapping of newly isolated mutants. An example of this method for linkage mapping is provided, and I compare and contrast this method to traditional and other SNP approaches. The third chapter describes the phenotypic characterization and initial mapping of the as28 mutation resulting in a temperature sensitive sterility in C. elegans. The mutation causes a sperm activation defect causing abnormal spermatid morphology. Mapping of this mutant strain revealed that the observed phenotype is the result of two mutations, which has complicated characterization of this mutant phenotype.The fourth chapter describes the cloning of spe-13. Mutations in spe-13 result in worms that produce morphologically and physiologically normal spermatids that mature into spermatozoa that are unable to fertilize oocytes. The identification of spe-13 has proved to be difficult with traditional mapping techniques due to its chromosomal position. Using whole genome sequencing, we identified spe-13 candidate genes in an effort to clone this elusive gene. In the final chapter, I summarize and discuss future directions for each project that has been described in this thesis work.
E3Graphy: A Novel Integrated Model for Bio-signals Acquisition & Disease Detection
Creators: name: Muhammad Amjid, Hammad Hussain
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bio-Signals Acquisition
Disease Detection
ECG
EEG
EMG
SVM
Health Monitoring Model
Machine learning
E3Graphy
Deep Neural Network
XG Boost
Gradient Boosting
Ada Boost
Na?ve Bayes
Decision Tree
BioSPPy.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 14, 1, 14A1U: 1-14
Platythyreini Emery
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae

description: Tribe Platythyreini Emery
Platythyrei Emery, 1901: 36 (as tribe of Ponerinae). Type genus: Platythyrea Roger, 1863a: 172. Emery, 1911: 28 (Platythyreini).
Tribe Platythyreini contains the single genus Platythyrea Roger. These ants are notable for their arboreal habits and frequent (probably nearly universal) presence of gamergate workers.
Diagnosis. See the diagnosis and synoptic description under Platythyrea below.
Discussion. The deep separation between Platythyrea and Ponerini has been recognized at least since Emery (1901), who placed Platythyrea in its own tribe Platythyrei (later renamed Platythyreini; Emery, 1911). Two sources of taxonomic confusion have arisen since Emery’s original designation of tribal status: the proper location of Probolomyrmex and the status of Eubothroponera. Probolomyrmex Mayr superficially resembles Platythyrea in overall gestalt and in the presence of pruinose sculpturing, though there are many major differences between them. It has been placed by some authors within Platythyreini (e.g., Brown, 1952, and most subsequent authors), though Perrault (2000) placed it in its own subfamily, Probolomyrmecinae. Bolton (2003) moved Probolomyrmex to its own tribe within Proceratiinae; many early authors had placed the genus in tribe Proceratiini of that subfamily (e.g., Emery, 1911). Molecular phylogenetic evidence (e.g., Moreau et al., 2006; Brady et al., 2006; Schmidt, 2013) confirms the placement of Probolomyrmex within Proceratiinae and demonstrates that its superficial similarity to Platythyrea is likely the result of convergence. See the discussion under Platythyrea (below) for a consideration of Eubothroponera Clark, a genus confirmed here as a junior synonym of Platythyrea.
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
title: Methods of tailoring the deposition of metals using self-assembled monolayers
Creators: name: Chopra, Sonali N.
name: Ekerdt, John G.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: B05D5/08
subject: B05D1/322
subject: C23C16/0272
subject: C23C16/04
subject: C23C16/34
subject: C23C16/45525
subject: H01L43/02
subject: H01L27/228
subject: H01L43/08
subject: H01L43/12

description: In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods of depositing a metal onto a nanomaterial which has been passivized with a self-assembled monolayer at a weakened point in the topography of the nanomaterial. In some embodiments, the weakened point is caused by the curvature of the topography. This method may be used to prepare electronic devices such as memory modules.
Haematotrephus chengi Sharma 1986
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Haematotrephus
Haematotrephus chengi

description: H. chengi Sharma, 1986
Type host. Unidentified “avian host”.
Type locality. Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India; specific type locality unknown.
Remarks. The original description does not include critical information (i.e. location of the genital pore relative to the pharynx, length of cirrus sac, posterior disposition of the vitelline fields) that is necessary to definitively place this species in a genus and it is poorly illustrated; however, the unusually small eggs (80– 90 x 30–50) in this species allowed its tentative placement in our key to the species assigned to Haematotrephus. The pretesticular ovary forms a triangle with the oblique testes (Haematotrephinae) and based on the author’s generic placement of this species in Haematotrephus, we must assume the genital pore is postpharyngeal and the vitelline fields are not confluent posteriorly. Until there is a confirmation of these characteristics, we recommend that species of Haematotrephus, Neohaematotrephus and Uvitellina be considered in any comparison of specimens similar to this species. Rudimentary oral sucker present—Sharma (1986).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Phytoecdysteroids
Creators: name: Gorelick-Feldman, Jonathan Isaac
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Phytoecdysteroids, polyhydroxylated ketosteroids, are the plant analogues of insect growth hormones.  Although their role in insect molting is well characterized, their function in plants is less clear. Lacking the properties of classic plant hormones, phytoecdysteroids may be involved in plant growth and defense.  One of the main benefits of phytoecdysteroids may be their therapeutic effects on mammals, including humans. Their claimed medicinal properties include anabolic, adaptogenic, hepatoprotective, and hypoglycemic activity.  Although ethnobotanical use has been supported by some evidence, the research is quite limited, lacking the scientific rigor necessary to be convincing.Two ecdysteroid containing plants, Ajuga turkestanica, and Spinacia olearaceae (Spinach), were selected as beneficial sources of phytoecdysteroids.  Cultivation, analysis of ecdysteroid content, and characterization of anabolic activity were performed to support future medicinal use.Phytoecdysteroids' anabolic activity, one of their most interesting properties due to the claimed lack of androgenic effect, was studied.  Anabolic activity was confirmed in animal studies and a cellular model of skeletal muscle.  The cellular model was used to characterize ecdysteroids' effect on protein incorporation and to elucidate the signal transduction pathway involved.  Ecdysteroid's lack of androgenic activity was confirmed in vivo and in vitro, with ecdysteroids showing no specific binding to the androgen receptor.Identification of mammalian nuclear receptors homologous with the insect nuclear ecdysone receptor led to binding and activation assays of potential receptors using ecdysteroids.  The discovery of a lesser known membrane bound G Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) insect ecdysone receptor, DoEcR, suggested the existence of a hypothetical mammalian membrane bound GPCR ecdysone receptor.Use of specific inhibitors supported the involvement of G protein signaling, Phospholipase C (PLC), Inositol Phosphate 3 Receptor (IP3R), and Akt.  Ecdysteroid stimulated activation of Akt confirmed its role in the anabolic effect.  Ecdysteroid generated increases in intracellular calcium were also characterized, with the rapid flux in Ca2+ linked with Akt activation and anabolic activity.  The evidence produced suggests the involvement of a putative mammalian GPCR ecdysteroid receptor mediating the anabolic effect through the rapid activation of the PLC/IP3R pathway, generating Ca2+ flux which leads to activation of the Phosphoinositide 3 Kinase/Akt pathway, eventually causing increases in protein incorporation.
Additional file 4: Figure S2. of Indoor microbiota in severely moisture damaged homes and the impact of interventions
Creators: name: Balamuralikrishna Jayaprakash
name: Adams, Rachel
name: Pirkka Kirjavainen
name: Karvonen, Anne
name: Vepsäläinen, Asko
name: Valkonen, Maria
name: Järvi, Kati
name: Sulyok, Michael
name: Pekkanen, Juha
name: Hyvärinen, Anne
name: Täubel, Martin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Categorization of moisture damaged homes based on low (blue), medium (yellow) and high (red) fungal viable growth on building materials and impact on fungal Bray-Curtis-based beta-diversity in house dust of these homes. (PDF 10 kb)
title: Negative stiffness honeycomb material
Creators: name: Seepersad, Carolyn Conner
name: Klatt, Timothy
name: Correa, Dixon
name: Haberman, Michael R.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: F16F1/3737
subject: F16F2224/0225
subject: F16F2228/063

description: A honeycomb structure having high levels of recoverable energy absorption is provided. The honeycomb structure achieves high levels of recoverable energy absorption by incorporating cells that exhibit negative stiffness. In one embodiment, the cells exhibit negative stiffness via curved beam members configured to snap through to a second position upon experiencing a sufficient force. The cells may also be configured to snap back to their original position when the force is removed. Therefore, the honeycomb structure may be capable of repeatedly achieving a high level of recoverable energy absorption.
MPEC 2024-Y248 : 2024 YS9
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 YS9

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Hydrological modeling for the regional stormwater management plan
Creators: name: Goodrow, Sandra M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Hydrologic modeling for the characterization of two Regional Stormwater Management Plans is performed using both a lumped parameter, empirical model and a fully distributed, physical model.  Both urban/suburban watersheds located in the Northeast United States contain impaired waters, impervious surfaces ranging from 15 to 25% of total land area and are officially un-gauged.  Event based models performed on storms that range from 0.5 to 1.25 inches total depth were modeled to compare the resultant simulation hydrographs of the HEC-HMS model to the MIKE-SHE model.  The results of the calibrated model predictions compared well with the observed stream flow in the lumped parameter model, but were less accurate in simulating soil infiltration parameters and impervious surfaces in the fully distributed model.  Sensitivity analysis of the lumped parameter model indicated that the empirical parameter representing infiltration and runoff had the greatest effect on the accuracy of the event hydrograph.  The parameter that most affected accurate simulation of the overland flow in the fully distributed, physical model was the land roughness coefficient, Manning M. When the impervious surfaces and unsaturated zone were included in the fully distributed model, the hydraulic conductivity became the principal element of calibration.
Prohyptiasmus magnus Johnston 1917
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Echinostomida
Cyclocoelidae
Prohyptiasmus
Prohyptiasmus magnus

description: Prohyptiasmus magnus (Johnston, 1917) — Type and only species
Type host. Black swan, Cygnus atratus (Latham) (Syn. Chenopsis atratus Latham) (Anseriformes: Anatidae).
Type locality. Victoria, Australia.
Additional host. Greylag goose, Anser anser (Linnaeus) (Anseriformes: Anatidae).
Additional locality. Astrakhan Nature Reserve, Russian Federation.
Remarks. This species was originally described as Hyptiasmus magnus Johnston, 1917. Stossichium magnum (Johnston, 1917) has been considered to be a synonym of P. magnus, and P. magnus a synonym of Cyclocoelum arcuatum (Brandes, 1892) (= Hyptiasmus arcuatus [Brandes, 1892 of Stossich, 1902]) by Joyeux & Baer (1927). It was considered to be a synonym of Prohyptiasmus robustus (Stossich, 1902) (= Cyclocoelum robustum Stossich, 1902) by Bashkirova (1950). This is the only species currently assigned to this genus and therefore it may stand as a replacement type species for P. robustus (= Cyclocoelum robustum). No oral or ventral sucker described— Johnston (1917).
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Cοrvidae
Lοcality Australia Eurοpe USA Germany Azerbaidzhan Australia China Siberia
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= Nοt present.
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Platythyrea Roger, 1863, nov. gen
Creators: name: Roger, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1863
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Platythyrea

description: Platythyrea nov. gen.
Der Kopf ist laenglich viereckig, vorn und hinten nur sehr wenig verengt. Der Clipeus geht ohne eine Spur von Grenze in die Stirnlappen ueber. Diese sind ueber der Fuehlerwurzel dreieckig lappenfoermig ausgezogen, konvergiren nach vorn und hinten, and sind wenig aufgebogen, fast horizontal; der Raum zwischen ihnen ist sehr breit and ganz schwach ausgehoehlt. Stirnfeld and Stirnrinne fehlen gaenzlich. Fuehler 12 - gliedrig, die Geisselglieder gegen die Spitze etwas verdickt, alle eng an einander schliessend, Endglied zugespitzt Netzaugen ziemlich in der Mitte. Mandibeln dreieckig, etwa den dritten Theil des Kopfes lang.
Der Thorax ist lang, cylindrisch, oben leicht gewoelbt; das Pronotum ist seitlich schwach gerundet, vom Mesonotum durch einen Quereindruck getrennt. Meso- und Metanotum ganz verwachsen. Die abschuessige Flaeche des letztern ist senkrecht, scharf gerandet, etwas ausgehoehlt und oben (an der Grenze der Basalflaeche) mit 2 weit auseinander stehenden Zaehnchen oder scharfen Ecken versehen.
Schuppe laenger als breit, cylindrisch, dick, oben und seitlich leicht gewoelbt, die Vorderseite schwach konvex, der Hinterrand, der ein wenig breiter als der Vorderrand erscheint, hat seitlich 2 scharfe Ecken; (derselbe kann auch 2 mal ausgerandet sein, wodurch dann, ausser den Seitenecken, auch ein mittlerer Vorsprang gebildet wird).
Das Stielchen ist in der Mitte der Vorderseite des Abdomens eingefuegt.
Die Metatarsen sind viel kuerzer als die Schienen; die Klanen haben in der Mitte oder vorn einen Zahn.
Zu diesem Genus gehoeren Pachycondyla punctata Smith, Pon. sinuata Rog., Pon. lamellosa Rog. and P. cribrinodis Gerstaecker.
description: Published as part of Roger, J., 1863, Die neu aufgeführten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses, nebst Ergänzung einiger früher gegeben Beschreibungen., pp. 131-214 in Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7 on pages 172-173
Vision and revision
Creators: name: Hamilton, Barbara E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This study views the female medieval mystics of northern Europe primarily as writers in the period from 1250-1400 CE, concentrating on Hadewijch, a Brabantine beguine, Mechthild of Magdeburg, a German beguine with ties to the Cistercian convent of Helfta, and Julian of Norwich, an English anchoress. The writer questions why females writing within a theological context that discouraged female authorship would choose for their subject matter something which cannot be described. Through analysis of the cultural, theological, and literary context within which the women worked, and the mystic literature they produced, the study finds that authority to write was embedded within the vision itself and uncovered through the writer's active, integrative re-vision and shaping of the liminal experience. The dialogic, social imperative inherent within the mystic situation led those women practicing beguine spirituality to a mixed path of inward and outward action as they sought to continually integrate their visionary insight with their outward reality through writing. Concentrating on the mystics' attention to form, description, synthesis, and audience, the study identifies limitations of past critical approaches including the theological, vernacular, liberationist, feminist, and Lacanian.  In stressing the mystics' social rather than alienated nature, the writer calls for a re-vision of our own perspective, a move from interpreting them using the "poetics of desire" model to one stressing a "poetics of integration," concentrating less on their affective and more on their effective piety.  The experience of the late medieval mystics is compared to that of a shamanic balancer and healer, one who voyages and mediates between worlds. The last chapter proposes a re-interpretation of the mystics based on new definitions of the self as multiple and networked rather than unitary. It offers insight on the role of the artist using this new model of the narrative self, borrowing concepts from cognitive science to re-describe the liminal or shamanic journey.
title: Method and apparatus for controlling coffee bean roasting
Creators: name: Wilson, Preston S.
name: Wochner, Mark S.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: A23N12/08
subject: A23F5/04
subject: A23N12/125

description: A system and method for roasting coffee beans, or similar products, is disclosed. In an aspect the invention includes an acoustic sensor, such as a microphone, which senses the acoustic emissions or “cracks” made by the coffee beans during the roasting process. The acoustic emissions are translated in the system and method to signals that are processed, including in some aspects using frequency domain processing, so as to control the roasting process and achieve a desired final product. The acoustic emissions can also be used to determine if the coffee beans are caffeinated or decaffeinated.
Team innovation
Creators: name: Harden, Erika
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation examines the impact of team intangible assets on radical and incremental innovation through the process mechanism of exploratory search. A research framework is developed that examines the unique effects of team social capital (intra-relational and inter-informational), human capital (level and heterogeneity), and codified capital on exploratory search activities. Further, the complex dynamics of the interrelationships between intangible assets and exploratory search are delineated. The results indicate that the intangible assets, human capital and codified capital individually have a positive relationship with exploratory search activities. Additionally, by examining the combination of codified capital and human capital, we are better able to understand the factors which stimulate exploratory search.  Finally, exploratory search was identified as a process mechanism between intangible assets and innovation outcomes. However, the direction and magnitude of the results were unexpected - exploratory search being positively related to incremental innovation and no relationship to radical innovation. The results were discussed and explanations provided for unexpected and non-significant results.
Haematotrephus jaenschi Johnston & Simpson 1940, n. comb.
Creators: name: Dronen, Norman O.
name: Blend, Charles K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cyclocoelidae
Haematotrephus
Haematotrephus jaenschi

description: H. jaenschi (Johnston & Simpson, 1940) n. comb.
Type host. Hoary-headed grebe, Poliocephalus poliocephalus (Jardine & Selby) (Podicipediformes: Podicipedidae)— Storer (2000).
Type locality. Tailem Bend, lower Murray River, South Australia.
Additional host. Australian grebe, Tachybaptus novaehollandiae (Stephens) (Syn. Podiceps novaehollandiae Stephens) (Podicipediformes: Podicipedidae)— Johnston & Simpson, (1940), Storer (2000).
Remarks. This species was originally described as Cyclocoelum jaenschi Johnston & Simpson, 1940, but was transferred to Corpopyrum (= Haematotrephus) by Yamaguti (1958). This species has a pretesticular ovary that forms a triangle with the testes (Haematotrephinae), a postpharyngeal genital pore, the vitelline fields are not confluent posteriorly and the testes are diagonal to tandem, placing it in Haematotrephus. Although this species was described as lacking a ventral sucker as an adult, the cercarium is illustrated as having a rudimentary ventral sucker by Johnston & Simpson (1940).
description: Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117
Getting the Data in Shape for Your Process Mining Analysis - A Review of the Pre-Analysis Stage - Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Pradhan, Shameer
Publisher: name: Research Group Business Informatics, Hasselt University
Year: 2024
Subjects: process mining
process mining pre-analysis
data preprocessing
event log

description: This document includes the supplementary material for the paper titled Getting the Data in Shape for Your Process Mining Analysis : A Review of the Pre-Analysis Stage.
America adjusted
Creators: name: Gitre, Edward Joseph Khair
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation is a history of twentieth-century socio-psychological "adjustment." The concept can be traced back to the burgeoning social sciences in the early years of the century, to a time when practitioners were trying to create a technical, consensus-building vocabulary that would allow them to move beyond the imprecise language of the humanities, metaphysical categories of theology, and biologism of the natural sciences. The language of "social structure," "function," and "roles"--the terms of adjustment--promised to do just that. Adjustment caught on for a host of reasons. Besides providing social scientists with an argot around which they could construct and carry out research programs, convey results, and foster professionalization, the language of adjustment propagated the reformist ethos of progressivism, inspiring--albeit in more secular, less strident tones--a utopian vision of a more efficient, integrated, and stable social order. That optimism could also be inverted. Adjustment was married with Freudianism to explain both Depression-related ills at home and the rise of totalitarian regimes abroad in the thirties. Adjustment precipitously spilled over into popular culture, creating new idioms and metaphors, ways of speaking and, thus, thinking. This process of vernacularization was stimulated by the emergence of fascism overseas, by World War II militarization, and then after, postwar, through the wholesale "readjustment" of millions of service personnel, which sparked a dramatic expansion of higher education. Through a host of mechanisms--demobilization programs, "Dear Abby" advice columns, novels, textbooks, among others--the U.S. population was inculcated in the ways of adjustment.Not everyone thought adjustment a worthy goal, of course. The popularity of anti-adjustment authors Norman Mailer and Betty Friedan attest to that. Yet, both advocates and detractors contributed to its propagation and ensured it hegemony. People began to believe, whether or not it was true or verifiable, that Americans had indeed become too adjusted, too acquiescent to the dominant culture. This dissertation argues that the hegemony of adjustment helps to explain not only the great debates about conformity, boredom, and all things "mass" in the fifties, and then the student uprising of the sixties, but also other essential elements of mainstream mid-century American thought.
A reductive theory of justification and excuse
Creators: name: Haidet, Kyle David
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Legal theorists commonly employ a distinction between justification defenses and excuse defenses, but there are significant theoretical disagreements about the nature of the distinction as well as about what the distinction entails.  This dissertation is concerned with finding the best way to describe the distinction between the moral concepts of justification and excuse that underlie the concepts employed by legal theorists.  Chapter 1 begins by examining moral defenses in general, with emphasis on their purpose, nature, function, and epistemology.  Chapter 2 critically examines many of the traditional theoretical assumptions made about justification and excuse in the literature with the goal of winnowing them down to an uncontroversial core that can provide the foundation for a fuller, more specific account.  Chapter 3 examines the ordinary language meaning of the words "justification" and "excuse" in order to identify any analytic constraints on what a correct theoretical account of justification and excuse may legitimately include.  Finally, Chapter 4 offers and defends a reductive theory of justification and excuse which I call "the praise/blame theory."  This theory identifies justified acts with those prima facie wrongful acts for which the actor is morally praiseworthy and excused acts with those prima facie wrongful acts for which the actor is merely not to blame.  This simple account is consistent with the logical form of moral defenses, requires minimal elaboration on the terms' ordinary language content, avoids the conceptual mistakes that plague more traditional theories, and has the potential help resolve nagging theoretical issues in related fields.
First observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff
Creators: name: Hughes, Gareth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: The High Resolution Fly's Eye Detector has observed the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff at the level of 5sigma. The flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from 10^17.2eV to 10^20.2eV has been measured. From the features seen in the spectrum it is found tobe consistent with extra-galactic Cosmic Rays of a light composition (mostly protons). A detector simulation is used to calculate the aperture of the experiment. Data-Monte Carlo comparisons are shown asa check of the accuracy of the simulation. Systematic effects of the detector and analysis are described and the effect on energy scale are presented.We have carried out a study of the cosmic ray shower development. The results are compared to Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical predictions. This is the first time data has been analyzed in this way at such high energies. Events are found to agree with the Gaisser-Hillas profile which is used as input to the Monte Carlo and to calculate the primary particle energy.Finally the Telescope Array (TA) experiment is described and its proposed Low Energy Extension (TALE). The effect of using a faster FADC system on the geometrical reconstruction is investigated. The results from this study will be used in the design of TALE electronics.
Platythyrea Roger. These 1863
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Platythyrea

description: Species of Platythyrea
Brown (1975) provides a key to Platythyrea species that is only slightly outdated due to the subsequent description of two additional species, while De Andrade (2004) provides a key to New World Platythyrea, including both extant and fossil species. In the species list below (and throughout this publication) only the country of the type localities is given.
P. angusta Forel, 1901: Trinidad
P. arnoldi Forel, 1913: Zimbabwe
P. arthuri Forel, 1910: Madagascar
P. bicuspis Emery, 1899: Madagascar
P. bidentata Brown, 1975: Philippines
P. brunnipes (Clark, 1938): Australia
P. clypeata Forel, 1911: S.E. Asia
P. conradti Emery, 1899: Cameroon
P. cooperi Arnold, 1915: South Africa
P. cribrinodis (Gerstäcker, 1859): Mozambique
P. crucheti Santschi, 1911: Angola
P. dentinodis (Clark, 1930): Australia
P. exigua Kempf, 1964: Brazil
P. frontalis Emery, 1899: Cameroon
P. gracillima Wheeler, W.M., 1922: DRC
P. inermis Forel, 1910: Philippines
P. lamellosa (Roger, 1860): South Africa
P. lenca De Andrade, 2004: Honduras
P. matopoensis Arnold, 1915: Zimbabwe
P. micans (Clark, 1930): Australia
P. mocquerysi Emery, 1899: Madagascar
P. modesta Emery, 1899: Cameroon
P. nicobarensis Forel, 1905: Nicobar Islands
P. occidentalis André, 1890: Sierra Leone
P. parallela (Smith, F., 1859): Indonesia (Aru Island)
P. pilosula (Smith, F., 1858): Brazil
P. prizo Kugler, 1977: Costa Rica
P. punctata (Smith, F., 1858): Central America
P. quadridenta Donisthorpe, 1941: New Guinea
P. sagei Forel, 1900: India
P. schultzei Forel, 1910: Namibia
P. sinuata (Roger, 1860): Suriname
P. strenua Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: Haiti
P. tenuis Emery, 1899: Cameroon
P. tricuspidata Emery, 1900: Indonesia (Sumatra)
P. turneri Forel, 1895: Australia
P. viehmeyeri Santschi, 1914: Tanzania
P. zodion Brown, 1975: Ecuador
Fossil species
† P. dentata Lattke, 2003: Dominican Amber
† P. dlusskyi Aria, et al. 2011: Oise Amber
† P. primaeva Wheeler, W.M., 1915: Baltic Amber
† P. procera Lattke, 2003: Dominican Amber
† P. pumilio De Andrade, 2004: Dominican Amber
† P. scalpra Lattke, 2003: Dominican Amber
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256
title: Systems and methods of continuously producing encapsulated liquid water
Creators: name: Ezekoye, Ofodike A.
name: Cabrera, Jan-Michael
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: B01F15/0238
subject: B01D45/16
subject: B01F3/12
subject: B01F3/1221
subject: B01F3/1271
subject: B01F5/06
subject: B01F15/00136

description: Disclosed are systems and methods for continuously producing dry water from silica and water and from silica, sodium bicarbonate, and water.
title: Dactilo :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
The idea of lapidary medicine
Creators: name: Harris, Nichola Erin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation explores the transmission and circulation of ideas related to a rarely studied aspect of medieval and early modern medicine: the therapeutic application of gemstones.  It traces the dissemination of ideas about the healing virtues of "stones" beginning with their Western origins in classical Greek and Roman texts to the manuscript culture of medieval Europe.  Then the study continues with a close look at the development of lapidary theory in the print culture of early modern England, especially popular advice manuals.  Finally, the dissertation examines the practice of lapidary medicine as it is recorded in a range of archival sources, such as wills and apothecary inventories, as well as in iconographic and archeological evidence found in portraits, woodcuts, and surviving examples of jewelry.  The study demonstrates that lapidary theory was part of the orthodox medical tradition of early modern England and that ideas about lapidary healing circulated widely through the use of popular medical advice manuals.  Furthermore, it presents evidence that lapidary materials were commonly sold by seventeenth-century jewelers and apothecary shops and were therefore widely available to early modern consumers.
Getting the Data in Shape for Your Process Mining Analysis - A Review of the Pre-Analysis Stage - Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Pradhan, Shameer
Publisher: name: Research Group Business Informatics, Hasselt University
Year: 2025
Subjects: process mining
process mining pre-analysis
data preprocessing
event log

description: This document includes the supplementary material for the paper titled Getting the Data in Shape for Your Process Mining Analysis : A Review of the Pre-Analysis Stage.
Новая вакцина «ВНИИЗЖ НБ-ЭН» против болезни Ньюкасла на практике
Creators: name: Пяткина А.А.
name: Зыбина Т. Н.
name: Мороз Н. В
name: Мусатов С.А.
Publisher: name: Эффективное животноводство
Year: 2024
Subjects: ньюкаслская болезнь
выращивание бройлеров
вакцина
безопасность
эффективность
Newcastle disease
broiler rearing
vaccine
safety
effectiveness

description: В условиях бройлерного птицеводческого предприятия показана эффективность новой вакцины против болезни Ньюкасла «ВНИИЗЖ НБ-Эн». На финале производственного цикла птица обладала титром антител к вирусу НБ в диапазоне 4,38-5,78 log2. В сравнении с показателями предыдущих циклов средний вес головы возрос на 0,105 кг, при этом конверсия корма снизилась на 0,01. Сохранность бройлеров составила не менее 95,1 %. Обобщенный показатель EPEF также возрос в среднем на 7 единиц.
description: The effectiveness of the new ARRIAH ND-Enteral vaccine against Newcastle disease was demonstrated in poultry at a broiler establishment. The ND virus antibody titer ranged within 4.385.78 log2 at the end of the production cycle. Compared to previous cycles, the average weight per bird increased by 0.105 kg, while feed conversion decreased by 0.01. The survivability of broilers was at least 95.1%. The overall EPEF also increased by an average of 7 units.
title: Masonry wall assembly
Creators: name: Henning Gomes, Francisco
name: Staub Gomes, Dabney
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: E04B2/22
subject: E04B1/30
subject: E04B2/24
subject: E04C1/00
subject: E04C1/397
subject: E04B1/7612
subject: E04B2002/0256
subject: E04B2103/02

description: Various implementations are directed to a single face building block and masonry wall assembly and methods. Each building block includes a single face shell, first and second webs extending from an interior surface of the face shell, and a pier that has a proximal surface disposed between distal ends of the webs and a distal surface that is opposite and spaced apart from the proximal surface of the pier. Interior surfaces of the webs, the proximal surface of the pier, and a portion of the interior surface of the face shell between the webs define a pocket. In addition, the building blocks may include a ledge that extends outwardly from the distal surface of the pier. This ledge forms a channel with an upper surface of the pier stacked above the block.
title: Light co-solvent compositions
Creators: name: Pope, Gary A.
name: Weerasooriya, Upali P.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: C09K8/588
subject: C09K8/58
subject: C09K8/584
subject: C09K8/594
subject: E21B43/16

description: Provided herein are inter alia non-surfactant aqueous compositions and methods having application in the field of enhanced oil recovery. In particular, non-surfactant compositions including light co-solvents and an alkali agent presented herein can be used, inter alia, for the recovery of a large range of crude oil compositions from challenging reservoirs.
Sperchon thienemanni Koenike 1907
Creators: name: Martin, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Sperchonidae
Sperchon
Sperchon thienemanni

description: Sperchon thienemanni Koenike, 1907
Records (Table 2): Benthos samples at 16 spring sites in Gutland and Ösling, 147 individuals (Gerecke et al. 2005). E1 261 larvae, E3 3 larvae, E4 1 larva, E5 121 larvae, E7 1 larva, parasitic on chironomids. Attribution by comparison with Martin (2003).
Descriptions of larvae (Figs. 19, 20): Lundblad (1927) as S. glandulosus thienemanni, Ullrich (1976), Martin (2003).
Diagnostic characters of larvae: Characters of the legs, dorsal setae, Dp.
description: Published as part of Martin, Peter, 2006, On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1138 on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172007