cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tobacco carcinogens influence Ah-receptor function
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: The etiology of lung, colon and bladder tumors still remains largely unknown. Recent epidemiological data from the American Cancer Society estimate that the greatest number of deaths related to these cancers will occur in the State of California. This may partially be because of population density, since California ranks 40th in the US for the estimated number of deaths per every 100,000 people. Studies show that individuals who consume tobacco products are at greater risk for the development of these tobacco-related cancers. Thus, the disruption of normal cellular and molecular mechanisms would appear to be targeted by ingredients in tobacco products, of which over 50 compounds have been shown to be carcinogenic in animal models.

 Heterocyclic amines (HAs), present in tobacco smoke, are a group of compounds that cause colon and mammary tumors in rodents. Like most toxic agents, HAs are inert until they are converted by the body into new compounds capable of altering a cell’s programmable DNA, a process that eventually leads to tumorgenesis and malignancy. Enzymatic processes that participate in the metabolism of these agents are proteins called cytochrome P450s. The levels of P450s in the body are important as they are directly linked to the conversion of HAs to carcinogenic intermediates. The Ah receptor, a cytosolic protein, is an activator of transcription that increases the abundance of selective cytochrome P450s. Activation of the Ah receptor is a known prerequisite necessary to promote the metabolism of HAs to ultimate carcinogens. For example, tobacco carcinogens known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are activators of the Ah receptor and play a central role in tobacco carcinogen induced tumorgenesis.

 PhIP (2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b] pyridine) is the most prevalent HA in tobacco smoke. Following exposure, PhIP undergoes oxidative metabolism by P450s to the carcinogenic intermediate N-OH-PhIP. In our laboratory, we have generated preliminary data to suggest that PhIP and N-OH-PhIP directly affect the transcriptional activity of selective P450 genes involved in carcinogen metabolism. PhIP appears to increase the levels of P450s presumably through the activation of the Ah receptor, whereas N-OH-PhIP is a potent inhibitor of the activation of the Ah receptor. The dual action of HAs on Ah receptor function may indicate a novel mechanism by which this protein controls cellular production of drug metabolizing enzymes. Thus, the goal of this proposal is to determine the cellular mechanisms by which HAs control Ah receptor function in the cell. Defining those pathways and the action of tobacco carcinogens on cellular functions are needed to clearly understand those events that underlie the etiology of tobacco-related cancers.
Le concept d'aventure dans la prose narrative française du vingtième siècle
Creators: name: Marineau, Hélène
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Through adventure, literature's topos par excellence, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Schwob, Pierre Mac Orlan and Blaise Cendrars demonstrate the urgency, in an age of rationalism and historical positivism, of restoring imagination as a cognitive tool with fundamental social and political functions in the construction of any human community. As an apologist of the romance, Stevenson excavates the common ground between novel and romance, between history and literature, namely the art of narrative. For Stevenson, narrative constitutes the point of view from which to consider the representation of reality. While the novel and history tend to approach reality as content, the romance points to its principle of creation. The shift in point of view from reality to representation and from content to principle allows a new conception of subjectivity and another relation to knowledge to emerge. Following Stevenson, French authors writing in the context of World War I and its aftermath take up epistemological and ontological questions pertaining to the imagination and extend them beyond literary debate, to society at large.
Multibehavioral changes for disease prevention among smokers
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: Cigarette smoking accounts for over 400,000 U.S. deaths each year and is the major single leading cause of cancer. Individuals who smoke are also more likely to eat a high fat diet, drink alcohol, and fail to get enough exercise. With each additional problem behavior, health costs and the risk for disease are multiplied. All together, 50% of premature deaths and chronic disability are preventable through changes in behavior. Yet, the national investment in prevention is estimated at less than 5% of total annual health care costs. The evidence supports the need for heath behavior change interventions.

 Most quit smoking programs today focus solely on tobacco use. Programs that target change in more than one behavior at a time have the potential to offer greater health benefits and reduce health care costs. Promoting changes in diet and exercise may also help to prevent weight gain and improve mood following smoking cessation. The study of relationships among health behaviors can help identify those individuals at highest risk and the types of interventions needed.

 The overall objectives of the proposed research program are to assess the need for and efficacy of multibehavioral changes--simultaneous changes in more than one behavior at a time--for disease prevention. Smokers are targeted because of their particularly poor behavioral profiles. Three phases of research are proposed: (A) analysis of the prevalence of multiple problem behaviors among current, former, and never smokers in a national surveillance study; (B) a systematic review of quit smoking interventions that targeted at least one additional health behavior; and (C) analysis of three multibehavioral trials, which targeted smoking simultaneously with other health behaviors.

 The specific questions to be addressed include:

 1) What combined treatments are needed to best address the disease risks of smokers?

 2) Do quit smoking interventions that target additional health behaviors facilitate greater change and potentially greater health benefits than interventions that target smoking alone?

 3) How do smokers and nonsmokers compare in making changes in multiple health behaviors? Does a focus on additional health behaviors compromise efforts to quit smoking?

 The proposed research program will analyze data on over 194,361 U.S. adults and contribute to the development of more effective smoking cessation interventions for disease prevention.
Habitat interactions structuring songbird communities across forest-urban edges
Creators: name: MacDonald-Beyers, Kristi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Urban habitats vary greatly in the resources they provide for birds and other wildlife.  Few species entirely avoid either human or forest habitats and for species that regularly utilize both, the two habitat types (forest and urban) may interact in complex ways to shape the animal communities at the forest-urban ecotone. I studied habitat relations to songbird community structure across the urban-forest edge in a heavily urbanized watershed in the New York metropolitan region. My research was designed to provide specific knowledge about the natural and human-built habitat components that maintain avian richness and abundance.  I found that mature, intact forests with large trees and greater vertical complexity were the most valuable to birds breeding in and migrating through urban forests.  Also, shrubby habitats along forest edges bolstered bird richness because they provide habitat for specialized shrub-nesting species. In my study, urban forests of a broad range of sizes and habitat conditions were associated with increased bird diversity in adjacent human habitats up to at least 0.2 Km from their edges. A high density of large trees in the urban matrix was related to increased avian richness outside the forest in urban neighborhoods.  Also, a high density of large trees in the urban matrix was associated with higher richness and abundance of breeding and migrating birds inside adjacent forests.  Because residential areas have the highest density as well as variety of large trees relative to other types of urban land use, they also contain the greatest richness of birds. This study demonstrates that local habitat is very important in structuring the bird community both inside forests as well as in the urban matrix but adjacent habitat also affects bird community structure.  Forest area and isolation are relatively unimportant in shaping bird communities at the forest-urban ecotone. These findings suggest a wide-range of conservation practices, including forest preservation, management of shrubby edges, and planting and caring for a variety of long-lived trees in urban neighborhoods, that would maintain a rich bird community in urban regions.
Allorhynchium argentatum
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Allorhynchium
Allorhynchium argentatum

description: Allorhynchium argentatum (Fabricius, 1804)
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 14.iii.2014, 1♀, coll. G. P. Mutthuraju. Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere, Horti campus, 915 m, 13°07' N 75°38' E, 12.v.2011, 1♀, coll. H.M. Yeshwanth; ZHRS, 988 m, 13°07' N 75°37' E, 1♀, coll. students; 975 m, 13°06' N 75°37' E, 1♀, coll. students. Dakshina kannada, Markanja, 153 m, 12°34' N 75°30' E, 24.vii.2015, 1♀, coll. C. Prashantha; Moodabidri, 80 m, 13°06' N 75°06' E, 25.vii.2015, 1♀, coll. C. Prashantha; Vittal, 30.ix.2011, 1♂, coll. T.V. Aswathy. Kodagu, Becksodlur, 2.iv.1979, 1♀, coll. Girish; Madikeri, Kirgoor, 18.iv.1979, 1♀, 1♂, coll. Girish. Udupi, Brahmavar, 12.iv.1984, 2♀, coll. B. Mallik. Uttara Kannada, Nagur - Kumta, 18.ii.1984, 1♂ coll. KCS. Kerala: Ernakulam (Perumbavoor), 33 m, 25.x.2011, 1♀ & 1♂, coll. T.V. Aswathy. Idukki, 1200 m, 10.xi.2011, 1♂, coll. T.V. Aswathy. Kannur (Madayipara), 38 m, 12°01' N 75°15' E, 13.viii.2015, 1♀, Coll. S.D. Pradeepa; 13.viii.2015, 1♀, coll. C. Prashantha. Thiruvananthapuram, Ponmudi, TBGRI, 1034 m, 08°45' N 77°06' E, 20.iv.2013, 1♀, coll. H.M. Yeshwanth.
Distribution. India: Karnataka [Dakshina kannada (Sullia)], Kerala [Pompa Sabramila], Tamil Nadu [Karamandai]; Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya [Garo Hills, Baghmara], Mizoram [Lunglei], Sikkim [Melli Bazar,Tashiding], Tripura, Uttarakhand [Mussoorie, Yamuna river valley near Juidovillage], Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal [Kalimpong].— Indonesia [Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, Sulawesi], Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand (Gusenleitner 2006; Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015a, b; Girish Kumar et al. 2016; Siddiqui et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Cigarette smoke, MCP-1 expression in vivo and atherogenesis
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: Cigarette smoke is a major risk for developing atherosclerosis (“hardening of the arteries”). Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty deposits in the walls of arteries that may potentially lead to heart attacks and strokes. Although the connection between cigarette smoking and the development of atherosclerosis is clear, the nature of this link is still unknown. Chemokines, proteins primarily known for their functions in white blood cell trafficking and activation, may be an important clue for linking cigarette smoking to atherosclerosis. For example, it has been shown that chemokines are stimulated by injury (e.g. stress induced by blood flow or chemical injury such as cigarette smoke) to the blood vessel walls and that they attract certain kinds of white blood cells to the injured sites. The attracted cells play an important role in initiating the process of atheroclerosis because when they arrive, they consume large amounts of “bad cholesterol” and change into foam cells that attach to the artery wall and form the initial stage of the disease “plaque” formation. Monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1) is one such chemokine that is known to attract the offending cells and therefore can potentially be involved in the generation of smoke-stimulated atheroclerosis.

 Recently, our lab has shown that both “first-hand” and “second-hand” cigarette smoke indeed stimulates MCP-1 in cultured human aortic endothelial cells (the kind of cells that form the inner lining of arteries). This important observation shows a strong potential link between cigarette smoke and atherosclerosis in a system using human cells. We now propose to take the next step, which is to test our hypothesis in the more complicated situation of a living animal that inhales smoke as humans do. We propose to determine how cigarette smoke components initiate atherosclerotic plaque formation in a strain of genetically modified mice that are prone to developing these plaques. This will allow us to test for the correlation between cigarette smoke, MCP-1 expression, and their link to atherosclerosis.

 The proposed work will benefit the public by providing a better understanding of the cause of atherosclerosis among individuals who are constantly exposed to cigarette smoke, i.e. smokers themselves, waiters and waitress in bars, and spouses and children in households of smokers. Moreover, elucidation of how cigarette smoke components stimulate the expression of MCP-1 may provide the theoretical foundation to devise ways of inhibiting that expression and consequently preventing or ameliorating atherosclerotic plaque formation. Finally, this project may provide additional scientific foundation for TRDRP to properly warn the public, especially those who are at risk for developing atherosclerosis, of the dangers of cigarette smoking.
Allorhynchium metallicum
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Allorhynchium
Allorhynchium metallicum

description: Allorhynchium metallicum (de Saussure, 1852)
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore, GKVK, 916 m, 14.vi, 28. vi.1980, 1 ♂, 1♀, coll. G.T.V Reddy; 10. vii.1979, 1 ♀, coll. Ghorpade; 7. vi.1980, 1 ♂, coll. R.S. Swamy; 19. vii.1980, 2 ♀, BNN-16; 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 26. ii.2012, 1 ♀; 4, 19, 28. v.2012, 4 ♀; 18. x.2012, 1 ♀; 1. ii.2014, 1 ♂, coll. A. Pannure; 24.ix, 6. xi.2011, 1 ♀, 1Ƌ, coll. T.V. Aswathy; 2. vii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. S. Subhash; 8. x.2012, 3 ♀, coll. M.K. Prabhavati; 5.vi, 1, 17. vii.2014, 3 ♀, coll. S. Rathod; Sadahalli, 906 m, 13°12' N 77°38' E, 17. xi.2014, 1 Ƌ, coll. Zameeroddin. Hoskote (Gotipura forest), 15. v.1982, 1 ♂, coll. B. Mallik. Bidar, 25. ii.1982, 1 ♂, coll. V.V. Belavadi. Chikkaballapur, Skandagiri hills, 900 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 11. i.2015, 1 ♀; 1393 m, 13°25' N 77°40' E, 11. i.2015, 4 ♂, 1♀, coll. Zameer. Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere, 975 m, 13°06' N 75°37' E, 1♂, coll. Not known. Hassan, Agriculture college, 950 m, 12°58' N 76°16' E, 2013, 1♂, coll. students. Koppal, Munirabad, 14. x.2013, 1 ♀, coll. S. Najeer. Ramanagara, Mekedaatu, 19. vii.1980, 1 ♀, coll. R.S. Swamy; Sangama, 19. vi.1980, 2 Ƌ, coll. A.R.V Kumar. Kerala: Kannur, Madayipara, 38 m, 12°01' N 75°15' E, 13. viii.2015, 2 ♀, coll. C. Prashantha.
Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep Islands, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu (Chennai); Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Kolkata, Barrackpore, Ranget valley.— Indonesia [Moluccas], Malaysia [Sarawak], Maldive Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan (Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015a, b; Girish Kumar et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Heterogeneous networking testbeds integration and wireless network virtualization
Creators: name: Mahindra, Rajesh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Networking research has grown immensely over the past few years. This has urged the need for a heterogeneous networking research infrastructure, to experiment with the interaction and integration of different types of networks. This requirement led to the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) effort, supported by NSF, which aims at creating a global infrastructure for conducting networking experiments across diverse substrates such aswired, wireless, sensor and cellular networks. In this work, we discuss challenges involved in federating two diverse testbeds - PlanetLab and ORBIT and present a model for building a unitedinfrastructure for the models. PlanetLab is a global research wired network that supports the development of new network services. ORBITis a laboratory-based wireless network emulator for 802.11 testing.An integrated wired-wireless testbed will increase the scalability of experimentation. Proof-of-concept experiments are also presented reinforcing the usefulness of the model in terms of facilitating experiments over the integrated infrastructure.Such an integrated infrastructure poses a requirement of support for wireless network virtualization - supporting multiple concurrentwireless experiments. Unlike wired networks, wireless networks present unique challenges making the task of wireless virtualizationa difficult problem. The critical problem of simultaneous experimentation in networks involving the wireless medium are identified and approaches towards it are discussed. We evaluate and compare two approaches towards wireless virtualization - SDMA (Space Division Channel Multiplexing) and VAP (Virtual AP Channel Multiplexing) suitable for supporting long running experiments. In this study conducted on ORBIT we quantify the difference inperformance and interference when using wireless virtualization and suggest measures to mitigate the same. The feasibilty study will serve as the first step towards ORBIT virtualization.
Elachysoma Torres 1964
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Elachysoma

description: Elachysoma Torres, 1964
Type species. Elachysoma quadrivittata Torres, 1964 (Argentina).
Remarks. The genus is recorded only from Argentina (Duffels & van der Laan 1985).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Changing U1A levels regulate expression of immunoglobulin M and the transcriptional repressor  Zhx1 during B cell differentiation
Creators: name: Ma, Jianglin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: During B cell differentiation U1A plays an important role in regulating the expression of the secretory poly(A) site by inhibiting both cleavage and polyadenylation. Previous work demonstrated that the inhibitory effect of U1A is alleviated in differentiated cells, which express the secretory poly(A) site, however, the mechanism underneath was unveiled. Using B cell lines representing different stages of B cell differentiation, here we show that U1A levels are reduced in differentiated cells. Undifferentiated B cells have more total U1A than differentiated cells and a greater proportion of U1A is not associated with the U1snRNP. We demonstrate that this non-snRNP associated U1A is available to inhibit poly(A) addition at the secretory poly(A) site. In addition, endogenous non-snRNP associated U1A--immunopurified from the different cell lines--inhibited poly(A) polymerase activity proportional to U1A recovered, suggesting that available U1A level alone is responsible for changes in its inhibitory effect at the secretory IgM poly(A) site.It is known that U1A can regulate the expression of its own and IgM gene. Here we report that during mouse B cell differentiation U1A also regulates the expression of the transcriptional repressor, Zhx-1 (zinc fingers and homeoboxes 1), via alternative poly(A) site selection. Using affymetrix microarray analysis combined with RT-PCR techniques, we demonstrate that U1A binds to Zhx-1 mRNA in vivo. We show that the levels of Zhx-1 proteins and mRNA are negatively correlated with U1A levels in B cells and overexpression of U1A in HeLa cells significantly inhibits the expression of Zhx-1. Our in vitro and in vivo assays show that U1A regulates the expression of the upstream poly (A) site of Zhx-1 by binding to the five non-consensus motifs around the poly(A) site and inhibiting both poly(A) addition and cleavage. When the upstream poly(A) site of Zhx-1 is inhibited in mature B cells, the usage of the downstream poly(A) site of Zhx-1 results in the inclusion of ARE elements, which destabilize the mRNA transcript. As a result, less Zhx-1 RNA and protein are produced in mature B cells. We proposed one model about how U1A and ARE coordinately regulate the expression of Zhx-1 during B cell differentiation.
Allorhynchium tuberculatum Girish Kumar & Carpenter 2016
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Allorhynchium
Allorhynchium tuberculatum

description: Allorhynchium tuberculatum Girish Kumar & Carpenter, 2016
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: Kerala [Ernakulum (Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary)] (Girish Kumar et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Elachysoma quadrivittata Torres 1964
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Elachysoma
Elachysoma quadrivittata

description: Elachysoma quadrivittata Torres, 1964
Elacysoma quadrivittata Torres 1964a: 139 (type material examined).
Type locality. Picani, Formosa, Argentina.
Remarks. The species is known only from Chaco and Formosa provinces (Torres 1964a) in Argentina (Duffels & van der Laan 1985).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Antepipona aurantiaca Giordani Soika 1982
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Antepipona
Antepipona aurantiaca

description: Antepipona aurantiaca Giordani Soika, 1982
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu [Madurai]; Chhattisgarh [Raipur], Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand.— Sri Lanka (Giordani Soika 1982 [1981]; Lambert 2004; Gusenleitner 2006).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Tettigades Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Tettigades

description: Tettigades Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
Type species. Tettigades chilensis Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Chile).
Remarks. The genus is restricted to Argentina and Chile (Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013). The reference to a species inhabiting Mexico concerns a mislabeled specimen (Torres 1958a; Sanborn 2007b).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Cross-layer design for reliable and efficient data transmission over multiple antenna mobile infostation networks
Creators: name: Liu, Hongbo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: In this thesis, we propose a system architecture that has multiple localized networks, each with a mobile information server (Mobile Infostation) that collects the information relevant to mobile users over a back-haul network and delivers the information to the users on demand. For efficient use of the bandwidth and energy resources of the wireless network, we design and evaluate a cross-layer solution for the Radio Link Control (RLC), Medium Access Control (MAC), and Transport layers of the network protocol stack.At the RLC layer, we propose a Hybrid-ARQ scheme with transmit power control to optimize the average energy consumption while maintaining a target packet error rate (PER) to increase the reliability of the Link Layer. We show that the above optimization problems for a short term static Rayleigh block fading MIMO channel can be formulated and solved using geometric programming. Our illustrative results show that, with a target PER of 0.01%, the optimal power allocation scheme can provide a gain of up to 3 dB for a Space-Time Trellis Code (STTC) coded MIMO channel with maximum two ARQ rounds.At the MAC layer, we propose an efficient MAC scheme with two variations, where the data frames are scheduled for transmission based on the user priorities, channel conditions and mobility. In the reliable version of the MAC protocol named MIN-MACa, a stop-and-wait ARQ for data frames and a selective repeat ARQ for data sub-frames are combined to ensure reliable and efficient data transmission without the use of the TCP protocol. A highly efficient version of the MAC protocol without the ARQ overhead named MIN-MACb is also proposed, thereby requiring an integrated transport protocol for reliable end-to-end data transmission.At the Transport layer, a transport protocol (MIN-TCP) optimized for the MIN-MACb is proposed to improve the end-to-end throughput. The simulation results show that, with MIN-TCP, the throughput can be doubled compared with TCP-NewReno when the PER is high. The cross-layer approach to the Transport and MAC layer co-design also provides higher throughput than the MIN-MACa approach when the PER is low.
Spirodiepoxides: mechanism studies and applications in synthesis
Creators: name: Lotesta, Stephen Dominic
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Disclosed are studies on the mechanism and reactivity of spirodiepoxides (SDE) and their applications in synthesis. Experimental and computational data led to the establishment of three discernable mechanisms for nucleophilic opening of SDEs. New SDE-based methodologies have also been developed including the formation of functionalized azoles in a single flask from allenes and the addition of carbon nucleophiles to generate useful precursors to complex polyketides (i.e. erythromycin). Heteroatom additions to SDEs have been identified in the studies towards the potent proteasome inhibitor, epoxomicin. Syntheses of the AB spiroketal and C ring systems of the anticancer natural product, pectenotoxin 4, have also been achieved using SDE-based methods.
Total Synthesis of Mitomycin C, an Anti-Cancer Therapeutic
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: Mitomycin C is a highly potent anti-cancer therapeutic currently used in the treatment of several cancers, including lung cancer. Mitomycin-based therapy can provide extended and improved lives to patients suffering from tobacco-caused cancers. Extensive research has therefore been directed towards making Mitomycin C from simple, readily-available materials. However, the highly sensitive nature of the compound has thwarted most synthetic attempts and forced the two successful syntheses through long, inefficient processes.

 This project proposes a new, highly efficient way to make Mitomycin C. The information gathered by this research has the potential to illuminate an extremely rapid, cost-effective method of making the currently utilized therapeutic. More importantly, small alterations of this method would provide compounds similar to, but slightly different from Mitomycin C. These compounds could be even more effective than Mitomycin C in the treatment of cancer, and would represent an advance both to synthetic chemistry and to the treatment of tobacco-related diseases.
Antepipona biguttata
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Antepipona
Antepipona biguttata

description: Antepipona biguttata (Fabricius, 1787)
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: Karnataka [Shivamogga, Uttara Kannada (Dandeli)], Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Manipur, Meghalaya [Garo Hills, Baghmara].— China, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam (Gusenleitner 1988, 2006; Nguyen et al. 2014; Pham & Li 2015).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
title: Unveiling Identity and Otherness in War Exile
title: An Anglo-Portuguese Perspective
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Brettes, Ana Rita Pereira
Publisher: name: CETAPS, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2024

description: The pivotal role played by Portugal during World War II is greatly narrated in Neill Lochery’s (1965-) Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 (2011). The brilliant Scottish author on the modern history of Europe has a vast oeuvre that offers the Portuguese readers the opportunity to reflect on their “Self” and discover the writer’s insight on Portuguese culture and society. This article mainly focuses on Lochery’s first book about Portugal, Lisbon (2011), most specifically on the portrayal of the passage of war exiles in the Portuguese capital during WWII, and aims to answer to the following questions: what are the dynamics developed between the British Self and the Portuguese Other? How do imagotypes contribute to feeding or deconstructing the imbalance of powers? What is the image of the Portuguese conveyed by a contemporary British historian? And, finally, how does the construction of Otherness contribute to the perception of identity?
description: Brettes, Ana Rita Pereira. Unveiling Identity and Otherness in War Exile: An Anglo-Portuguese Perspective. Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 33 (2024), pp 191-215. ISSN: 0871-6820
(-) Lobeline: total synthesis and derivitization
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: It is widely understood that quitting smoking is a very difficult and often unsuccessful endeavor for millions of Americans. While the psychological aspects of altering ones lifestyle pose significant barriers to “kicking the habit’, the intense physiological dependence of nicotine is also directly responsible for relapse. Lobeline is a natural product known to mimic the effect of nicotine by interacting directly with nicotine receptors.

 Extracts of lobeline have been formulated and widely used to treat nicotine withdrawal. Furthermore, the natural product is an effective treatment for respiratory ailments such as asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, and whooping cough. In this proposal, a new synthetic method will be applied to the concise synthesis of lobeline. While there is an easily accessible natural abundance of lobeline (derived from lobelia inflata, commonly known as “indian tobacco”) the lack of an efficient synthetic route restricts potential for biological analysis baised on chemical modification.

 The proposed synthesis will provide a basis for accessing multiple drug-like compounds related to the parent natural product. Biological evaluation of the thousands of potential analogues may ultimately provide a drug with medicinal properties superior to the natural parent compound, resulting in improved respiratory and nicotine withdrawal therapies.
Verbal abuse by parents who maltreat or are at-risk for maltreatment of children: predictors and interventions
Creators: name: Lange, Richard T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Excessive verbal abuse by parents is psychologically and emotionally damaging to children.  Studies of the effects of verbal abuse on children have found that children exposed to parental verbal abuse develop internalized problems including anxiety, depression, delayed mental development, and general health problems; and externalized behaviors, mainly aggression.  These behaviors continue into adulthood.  Verbal abuse is an especially acute problem in the population of families at risk of losing their child(ren) because of maltreatment or neglect.  Despite the fact that the best way to stop or prevent verbal abuse is to understand its causes, verbal abuse in these families is virtually unstudied; even in the general population, the number of studies is small.  This thesis is one of the first studies of the predictors of verbal abuse in at-risk populations.A secondary analysis of the LONGSCAN longitudinal baseline data (visits at ages 4, 6, and 8) was undertaken to measure the influence of the factors identified in studies of the general population on the likelihood of verbal abuse in a sample of low income, African American, White, and Hispanic mothers (N=862), mostly drawn from an at-risk population.  The Conflicts Tactic Scale was used to categorize mothers as verbally abusive or not, and determine the frequency of verbal abuse.  Logistic regression was used to measure the predictive value of the factors identified in studies of the general population.  Changes in the rates of verbal abuse from visit 4 to visit 6 and from visit 6 to visit 8 were used to measure the efficacy of interventions.The results indicate that the demographics of the verbally abusive population were indistinguishable from those of the non-abusive population.  The predictors of verbal abuse identified from studies of the general population were found not to be good predictors of abuse in the at-risk group.  Anger, manifested by throwing, grabbing, or pushing, however, was found to be highly correlated with verbal abuse.  No interventions significantly reduced abuse.Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
Tettigades angularis Torres 1958
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Tettigades
Tettigades angularis

description: Tettigades angularis Torres, 1958. New record.
Tettigades angularis Torres 1958a: 77.
Type locality. Laguna de La Laja, Los Barros, Biobío Province, Chile.
Remarks. Previously the species was reported from Chile (Torres 1958a).
Material examined. Chubut Province, Trelew, Estepa, 14-XII-1997, D. Rojas Lanus coll. (one male, AFSC); Mendoza Province, Upsallata, 2200 m alt., 4-XII-1997, D. Rojas Lanus (one male, AFSC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Antepipona bipustulata
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Antepipona
Antepipona bipustulata

description: Antepipona bipustulata (de Saussure, 1856)
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu; Delhi, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh [Allahabad, Agra], West Bengal [Barrackpore].— China, Indonesia [Sumatra (including Riau Islands), Java], Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Sri Lanka (Bingham 1897; Giordani Soika 1982 (1981); Gusenleitner 1988; Lambert 2004; Nugroho et al. 2011).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
INVESTIGATION OF SURFACE PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS USING PRESSURE SENSITIVE FILM
Creators: name: Moser, Abigayle Elaine
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 400199
subject: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This study investigates the dynamics of oblique shock wave interactions impinging on a flat plate within the Purdue University Research and Innovation Optical Testing (RIOT) Tunnel, employing novel pressure sensitive film (PSF) to visualize and quantify global surface pressure distributions. Complementary diagnostics, including static and dynamic pressure sensors and high-speed imaging, were used to provide a comprehensive analysis of the shocks spatial and temporal behavior.
Experimental campaigns were conducted in a supersonic wind tunnel equipped with a rated Mach 1.86 nozzle, characterizing the nominal conditions required for PSF application. Test campaigns spanned a range of stagnation pressures, revealing the dependence of shock-induced pressure distributions on flow conditions. Calibration using the Stern-Volmer relationship provided robust intensity-pressure correlations, incorporating temperature corrections to address quenching effects. Spectral analysis of pressure measurements identified low- and mid-frequency fluctuations associated with turbulent boundary layers and shock oscillations.
Relationships among work tasks, search tasks, and interactive information searching behavior
Creators: name: Li, Yuelin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation explores the relationships between work tasks and search tasks, and between work tasks and interactive information searching behavior. A faceted classification of tasks served as a framework of this research. Two sequential studies, i.e., Study 1 and Study 2, were conducted. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were carried out to collect data in Study 1. The applicability of the faceted classification of tasks to a university community were examined and the classification was refined, based on which Study 1 investigated the relationships between work tasks and search tasks. The results indicated that several facets of work tasks are significantly related to search tasks, while only a few search task facets are heavily related to work task facets. The examination of the relationships provided empirical evidence to support that work tasks and search tasks are two different constructs and their effect on interactive information search behavior should be accounted for separately. This study also identified work task facets which substantially affect search tasks and interactive information searching behavior. Based on the findings in Study 1, an experiment was conducted in Study 2 to probe the relationships between work tasks and interactive information searching behavior. The results demonstrated that work tasks are important factors in shaping users' interaction with information systems. Study 2 also found that different work task facets play different roles in affecting users' interaction with information systems, and common attributes of tasks seem to be more important than the generic facets of tasks. Moreover, among common attributes objective work task complexity affects the most aspects of interactive information searching behavior. The results also indicated that knowledge of work task topic, work task difficulty, and subjective work task complexity influence different aspects of interaction in different degrees. This research demonstrates that a faceted approach to conceptualizing tasks is feasible and effective. These results and findings have theoretical, practical, and methodological implications for task-based information retrieval and personalization of information retrieval.
Tettigades bosqi Torres 1942
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Tettigades
Tettigades bosqi

description: Tettigades bosqi Torres, 1942
Tettigades bosqi Torres 1942: 258 (type material examined).
Type locality. The holotype female was described without locality data.
Remarks. The species has been reported from Mendoza Province (Torres 1942) which is where we collected specimens. It is associated with the Patagonian floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252
Antepipona ceylonica
Creators: name: Pannure, Arati
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Antepipona
Antepipona ceylonica

description: Antepipona ceylonica (de Saussure, 1867)
Material examined. No specimens examined.
Distribution. India: Karnataka [Dakshina kannada (Sullia), Kodagu (Medikeri), Shivamogga (Sagar), Uttara Kannada (Dandeli)], Kerala [Palakkad (Malampuzha), Idukki (Pooparai), Kollam (Thenmala)], Puducherry [Auroville], Tamil Nadu [Karamandai, Sheveroy Hills]; Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal [Ranget valley].— Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand (Giordani Soika 1982 (1981); Lambert 2004; Gusenleitner 2006; Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014, 2015b).
description: Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090
Comprehension strategies explicated in three eighth grade social studies textbooks
Creators: name: Korin, Dana Reisboard
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: By fourth grade students are expected to have developed the ability to read assigned expository material as part of their content area instruction.  However, one of the most frustrating issues middle and high school teacher's face is students' lack of prerequisite skills necessary to comprehend adequately the reading material they encounter.  Fortunately, over the past twenty five years reading researchers developed explicit methods to support middle and high school students' reading and learning development.  Applying explicit instruction, instructors teach students to use comprehension strategies flexibly while interacting with text.  While the benefits of explicit instruction of comprehension strategies have been accepted for some time by members of the reading research community, this study determined whether seven strategies and direct explanation have been included in materials students and teachers commonly use.  This study conducted a content analysis to determine whether three eighth grade social studies textbooks and their corresponding teacher editions explicated seven strategies found to enhance student comprehension and learning of expository material. These strategies included comprehension monitoring, activating background knowledge, summarization, text structure, question generation, instructional graphics, and inference.  Analysis of teacher editions also determined whether the texts recommended elements of direct explanation (Duffy, 2003) to teachers as a means of enhancing students' ability to learn from text.  Several key findings resulted from the analysis of the data attained.  This study determined that the textbooks did explicate comprehension strategies. Analysis also identified elements of direct explanation, but this study did not find direct explanation as discussed in the literature (Duffy, 2002) to be integrated into the textbooks analyzed. The fact that the textbooks analyzed did not explicate direct explanation could have resulted from the presence of semantic confusion surrounding the term itself which limits the degree to which the efficacy of explicit instruction might become disseminated.
Tettigades brevicauda Torres 1958
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Tettigades
Tettigades brevicauda

description: Tettigades brevicauda Torres, 1958
Tettigades brevicauda Torres 1958a: 88 (type material examined).
Type locality. Cordillera Chillán, Ñuble Province, Chile.
Remarks. Torres (1958a; 1959) reported the species from Argentina and Chile. The Argentine specimen was collected in Neuquén Province (Torres 1959).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252