cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Text Messaging-Based Smoking Cessation Program for Homeless Youth
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: Unaccompanied homeless youth smoke at much higher rates than non-homeless adolescents and young adults. Approximately 70% of unaccompanied homeless youth are current cigarette smokers. In addition, most of these smokes engage in smoking behaviors, such as sharing cigarettes with others and smoking discarded butts and filters (also known as “sniping”), that further increase the health risks associated with smoking. Most homeless youth smokers are motivated to quit; yet, strategies specifically developed for this vulnerable population are lacking. This study will develop and pilot test a text messaging intervention (also known as a TMI) to help homeless youth quit smoking. Text messaging can provide ongoing support for homeless youth during a quit attempt, which is important given that these youth tend to be highly mobile and lack regular access to health services. Our prior work indicates that the proposed intervention approach is acceptable to homeless youth smokers and, from the standpoint of service providers, feasible to deliver in settings where these youth typically seek services. Participants in this study will be homeless youth who currently smoke and are motivated to quit smoking. All participants will receive a 30-minute group-based smoking cessation counseling session and a supply of nicotine gum. Half of these smokers will also receive the TMI, for 6 weeks following the group counseling session, which will provide: (a) continuing and more intensive education regarding nicotine dependence, quitting smoking, and relapse that addresses the specific needs of homeless youth; (b) ongoing support for quitting that does not require additional agency resources and can be available “on demand”; and (c) the ability to personalize the quitting experience. This main goal of this study is to investigate whether receiving the TMI results in greater reductions in cigarette smoking over a 3-month period compared to receiving the group counseling session alone.
Acanthoderes lanei Marinoni & Martins 1978
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Acanthoderes
Acanthoderes lanei

description: 34. Acanthoderes lanei Marinoni & Martins, 1978: 187, fig. 10 (Figure 7) Holotype, male
Type locality. Brazil, Mato Grosso: Coxim, X.1969, A. Maller Current name. Psapharochrus lanei (Marinoni & Martins, 1978)
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Multilevel Study of Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines Implementation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: In 2013, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) began recommending lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for heavy smokers. In 2015, this became a covered Medicare benefit. To increase effectiveness, the USPSTF also recommends coupling LDCT for LCS with smoking cessation counseling. Together, LCS with LDCT and smoking cessation can be cost effective in reducing the burden of lung cancer. However, many barriers such as time constraint, cost, lack of awareness, or even lack of trust in healthcare systems can impact utilization of the LCS with LDCT in clinical settings. Furthermore, screening for lung cancer is not a single test but involves multiple components: determining eligibility, shared decision making, referral for screening, smoking cessation counseling, the LDCT screening test, interpretation of results, and follow-up management. Minimal research has attempted to describe the whole process and explore the comprehensive picture of barriers and facilitators from a multilevel, multifactor perspective.

 This study seeks to explore the barriers faced by patients, providers, and healthcare system in each stage of the screening process, and to identify practice approaches leading to better implementation of screening with LDCT in a large community healthcare system in northern California. Using data from the perspectives of patients, providers, and clinics, we will look at changes in screening and counseling practices. We hypothesize that there is an increase in smoking history documentation, medical orders, and screening rates after the 2013 USPSTF guideline, but that there is substantial differences across providers and clinics in the implementation of these practices. We will also conduct in-person interviews with patients and providers to get a firsthand account of the challenges faced when implementing LCS with LDCT.

 Findings from this study have the potential to assist the public health community with both design and dissemination of best practices for LCS with LDCT, to promote smoking cessation, and ultimately to help reduce lung cancer mortality in California.
Monitoring, research, and surveillance of the 106-mile Deepwater Municipal Dump Site and environs, report to Congress
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1995

description: The 106-Mile Deepwater Municipal Sludge Dump Site (106-Mile Site) operated as the EPA-designated ocean disposal site for barge-based municipal sewage sludge from 1986 until June 1992.  As part of the Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988 (ODBA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) designed a monitoring program assess the potential impact of sludge disposal on the marine environment. This report is the Final Report to Congress, which provides a comprehensive summary of the findings of the 106-Mile Site monitoring program as related to the monitoring hypotheses, results, and management actions. It addresses questions about the physical and chemical fate of the dumped sewage sludge and the effect of the sludge dumped on living marine resources. In addition to a history of sewage sludge disposal and an overview of the 106-Mile Site monitoring program, the report includes monitoring results and conclusions and a discussion about site management.
Glossodoris cincta
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Chromodorididae
Glossodoris
Glossodoris cincta

description: Glossodoris cincta (Bergh, 1888)
(Figure 5 A)
Material examined. One specimen. MB28-004774, VIS 3, 12 Nov. 2013, 4m, 30mm.
Habitats. Tropical coral reefs.
Occurrences. Vamizi Island.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. Palau, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Guam, Australia (Rudman 1986b, Gosliner et al. 2008), Philippines, Thailand (Mehrotra & Scott 2015), British Indian Ocean Territory (Yonow et al. 2002), Maldives, Red Sea (Debelius 1996), Madagascar, Tanzania (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Effects of Pittosporum undulatum Vent. invasion on forest diversity and structure in Southern Brazil
Creators: name: de Freitas, Thales Castilhos
name: Beltrame, Rafael
name: Gomes, Gustavo Crizel
name: Molina, Artur Ramos
name: Lazarotto, Marília
name: Iserhard, Cristiano Agra
name: Bordin, Kauane Maiara
name: Carvalho, Fabrício Alvim
name: de Souza Gomes Guarino, Ernestino
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Invasive alien species are considered the second largest cause of biodiversity loss in the world. Pittosporum undulatum Vent., is a native species to Australia and was introduced to Brazil, currently being considered invasive in several regions. Here we analysed the floral and structural composition of forest fragments with varying degress of biological invasion by P. undulatum and assess the relationship between its presence and community diversity. A phytosociological survey was conducted in disturbed and reference forests within two forest fragments in Southern Brazil, assessing tree species diversity, structural and environmental variables between communities across all ontogenetic stages. We recorded 7554 individuals from 35 botanical families and 87 species at all ontogenetic stages, including adults, saplings, and seedlings. P. undulatum showed the highest importance in the adult and sapling stages. The presence of P. undulatum in the forest community is not affecting the richness and diversity of the fragments when the communities were analysed separately (as disturbed and reference forests), but we may see their effect when all forests were analysed together in different ontogenetic stages. In addition, there was a reduction in basal area with advancing successional stages, contrary to typical patterns found in mature forests. The presence of P. undulatum in the reference forest suggests that this species is invading older, more established forests.
Glossodoris gregorius Rudman 1986
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Chromodorididae
Glossodoris
Glossodoris gregorius

description: Glossodoris gregorius Rudman, 1986
(Figure 5 B)
Material examined. One specimen. MB28-004428, VAL, 0 9 Oct. 2011, 8m, 65mm. Habitats. Tropical artificial reef on seagrass.
Occurrences. Vilanculos.
Geographic distribution. Indian Ocean. India (Apte 2009), Tanzania (Rudman 1986b) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
An investigation of the 4 February 1995 Northeastern snowstorm and a resulting snowfall maximum in the lower part of the Delaware River Valley
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1996

description: This paper investigates the snowstorm of 4 February 1995 by reviewing the computer model forecasts and conditions preceding and during the snowstorm, as well as the evolution of the surface and upper air features and development of the heavy snow event. Mesoscale and terrain effects were also explored to explain the location of snowfall maximum.
Additional file 4: of Toward a comprehensive evidence map of overview of systematic review methods: paper 1â  purpose, eligibility, search and data extraction
Creators: name: Lunny, Carole
name: Brennan, Sue
name: McDonald, Steve
name: McKenzie, Joanne
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table of reporting considerations. (DOCX 6.65Â kb)
Role of a Critical Cell Surface Molecule in Tobacco-induced Lung and Gut Inflammation
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: Immune cells (white blood cells), including the T cells that carry immunity or cause inflammatory diseases, must migrate from the blood into tissues in order to be effective. This ‘recruitment’ into tissues is mediated through a process called homing or trafficking, and chemoattractant molecules play an important role in this process.

 Immune cell trafficking to the lung is poorly understood, and the impact of tobacco on immune cell trafficking to lung and other internal organs remains largely unknown. While smoking is implicated in lung inflammation, paradoxically it is beneficial in chronic inflammation of the gut. The cellular and molecular basis of these diverse effects remains unclear and will be addressed in our proposal.

 GPR15 is a molecule present on the surface of T cells that enables them to traffic to certain organs. GPR15 is highly upregulated in T cells of smokers: indeed, the frequency of GPR15+ cells in blood is an excellent biomarker of smoking exposure. We discovered Gpr15 expression in gut- and lung- T cells and showed GPR15-dependent T cell homing to gut. Moreover, GPR15 positively or negatively regulates gut inflammation in different experimental models. We have now identified a molecule (GPR15L) present in the lining of internal organs that attracts GPR15-expresssing cells and have shown enhanced migration to GPR15L by T cells from smokers.

 We hypothesize a) that GPR15 and GPR15L help control lung immune cell trafficking; b) that tobacco-induced upregulation of GPR15 alters the trafficking of specific T cell subsets to lung and other internal organs including the gut; and c) that these alterations influence tobacco-evoked lung inflammation and contribute to protective effects of smoking in gut inflammation.

 To test these hypotheses, we will define the T cell subsets that upregulate GPR15 in smokers and assess their migration to GPR15L. We will also investigate mechanisms underlying GPR15 induction on T cells, focusing on major known molecular pathways of smoking-induced immune regulation, including the role of nicotine itself. Furthermore, we will use mouse models of disease to investigate the role of GPR15-GPR15L in T cell recruitment to the lung and in lung inflammation, and also in the modulation of lung and gut inflammation by tobacco-related pathways and smoking. The project will advance our understanding of tobacco’s influence on lung immune cell trafficking and modulation of lung and gut immune pathologies.
Intergenerational mobility, income inequality and children’s human capital investment
Creators: name: Elsheniti, Omayma
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation focuses on examining the determinants of children’s educational attainment  in different settings. Specifically, Chapters 2 and 3 examine two key determinants  of children’s educational attainment in Egypt: parents’ levels of education and mother’s  hours of work. Chapter 4 examines the evolution of common schooling in the nineteenth  century in New Jersey. Since New Jersey in the nineteenth century shared many characteristics  with developing countries today, having a better understanding of the rapid  rise in school attendance in this setting should guide policy-makers in constructing the  appropriate policies that may target educational attainment in developing countries.    In Chapter 2, I examine the relationship between income inequality and the intergenerational  correlation in educational attainment in Egypt. I test whether the correlation  between parents’ and children’s education is stronger or weaker in governorates with  high income inequality. My results suggest a nonlinear relationship. School enrollment  for children whose fathers are poorly educated is very low regardless of the degree of  income inequality, whereas enrollment for children whose fathers are highly educated  increases as the degree of income inequality increases. Notably, enrollment for children  whose fathers have medium level of education decreases as the degree of income  inequality increases.    In Chapter 3, I analyze the relationship between maternal labor supply and children’s  schooling in Egypt. The results suggest that a mother’s employment adversely affects her  children’s school enrollment and grade attainment. These results are consistent across  all children’s outcome variables, and across different definitions of mother’s work. As  mother’s hours of work increase, however, these adverse effects start to diminish. Once  a mother’s hours reach 24 in 2006 sample and 46 in 1998 sample, the effects on child’s  school enrollment and grade attainment become positive. Since a large percentage of  working mothers have no schooling, I speculate that this positive effect is attributed to  the increased household income from more hours of work, which compensates for the  decrease in maternal time spent with children.    In Chapter 4, I examine the rise in school enrollment rates and increase in the length  of school sessions in New Jersey in the nineteenth century. My results show that counties  that were more urban and more industrialized observed higher school attendance rates.  This result can be attributed to the increase in the demand for skilled labor resulting  from the process of industrialization. Moreover, counties with more immigrants and  more state appropriations had longer school sessions. This result can be an evidence of  the desire of elite groups, who were controlling local school committees, to use public  education as a socialization device to reduce social, religious and ethnic tensions, lower  crime rates and promote democratic values.
Effect of the 200& peanut butter recall on consumers’ brand choices
Creators: name: Duan, Wei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This research evaluated the effects of peanut butter recall event in 200& on the U.S peanut butter market and consumers’ brand preferences. With Nielsen Homescan data from July 2006 till March 2008 covering all the purchasing trips by U.S. households, we apply discrete choice model to detect and measure the impacts of the food recall event happening in U.S. peanut butter market initiated in February 200&. To set the stage for estimation, we also examine the effects separately by three periods: pre-, during- and post-recall periods. The objectives of this study are twofold: (a) investigate whether the peanut butter recall event has great impact on customer preferences and purchasing declines for some brands or in the scale of whole market; (b) with the rich information of demographic characteristics in our data, we want to detect any association between changes of purchasing behavior and demographic variables.           The findings suggest that due to the ¬¬recall event, customers changed their purchasing behavior and brand preference among national, store and especially the recalled brands. Purchasing of recalled brand has declined due to food safety alert during the event, yet it recovered to a lower level to pre-event after the recall period. It was also observed that positive spill-over effects existed for non-recalled brands. National brands benefits more than store brands. After the event, store brands suffer from some loss in market share compared with national brands.         Results of my study suggest food safety issue has drawn great attention from customers backwards to manufactures along the supply chain. It is very important to inform customers about potential hazards and safety issue in food products. It is also important to monitoring food producing and processing procedures from the manufacture side with a well-developed hygiene monitoring system. Asymmetric spill-over effect exists between non-recalled national and store brands, thus different marketing strategies are necessary for strong and weak brands to maintain and regain market share. Additionally, recalled brands could regain customer confidence. It is quite useful to identify various customer groups by their demographic characteristics, then to apply corresponding marketing strategies to restore consumers’ confidence towards recalled brands. In all, it is highly recommended to prevent food safety hazards from happening before they come out of the plants and to keep information clear to customer once recall happens.
Additional file 1 of Norgal: extraction and de novo assembly of mitochondrial DNA from whole-genome sequencing data
Creators: name: Kosai Al-Nakeeb
name: Petersen, Thomas Nordahl
name: Sicheritz-PontĂŠn, Thomas
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A.docx-document with full results and detailed benchmarking between Norgal and MITOBim and NOVOPlasty. Section S1: Full Norgal output of subset of test data. Section S2: Extraction of chloroplast from Vittis vinifera (Grape vine). Section S3: Benchmarking against other methods. Section S4: Mitochondrial test data sets. (DOCX 1485 kb)
Nicotine and Epigenetic Transgenerational Risk of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
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 not only increases an individual’s risk for developing abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA: an abnormal enlargement of the aorta, the body's main artery), but may also cause biological changes that increase the likelihood of that individual’s offspring developing an aneurysm. This is also apparently true for exposure to nicotine. We intend to investigate how this occurs, and to what extent. Smoking is one of the most important risk factors for the development of AAA, which is a significant source of mortality and morbidity in the U.S. AAA rupture may occur in 15,000 patients annually or more, with fewer than half surviving to treatment. Over 90% of individuals diagnosed with AAA are either current or prior tobacco users. In addition, several small studies have associated continued cigarette smoking with accelerated aneurysm expansion. Nicotine is one of the most crucial chemical constituents of tobacco smoke, and we have found that it is capable of augmenting aneurysm formation in animal models of AAA. Expression of an individual’s genes depends not only on the sequence of their DNA, but also on other control mechanisms. These include special chemical modifications like methylation of regions of DNA that can silence or activate genes, or changes in small noncoding RNAs (called microRNAs) that can suppress gene expression. It has been recently appreciated that exposure to environmental toxins like smoke and nicotine can alter these “epigenetic” marks, potentially increasing disease risk in the next generation and even beyond, and that exposure to nicotine in the womb can permanently increase such risk. Studies in humans and animals have shown that smoking can alter microRNA expression in sperm, and that parental exposure to nicotine may change their children’s and even grandchildren’s susceptibility to asthma, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Our preliminary data suggest that maternal exposure to nicotine in mice can increase the risk of their progeny developing AAA. Using implanted pumps, we will expose either male or female mice to nicotine levels consistent with moderate-to-heavy smoking in humans. This treatment will take place either prior to mating, or during mating. We will measure changes in epigenetic marks in the blood and tissues, and employ a mouse model of AAA to examine their progeny’s susceptibility to aneurysm. We will also measure whether the progeny have changes in vessel stiffness or blood pressure response. Tissues and blood from the offspring will be examined for changes in inflammatory factors, growth factors, and other pro-aneurysmal stimuli. We will also study the DNA of the offspring, looking for epigenetic changes, and perform cell culture experiments to examine the mechanisms involved.
Glossodoris hikuerensis
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Chromodorididae
Glossodoris
Glossodoris hikuerensis

description: Glossodoris hikuerensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1954)
(Figure 5 C)
Material examined. Three specimens. MB28-004853, POD, 11 May 2014, 16m, 36mm; MB28-0 0 5001, VIPP, 23 May 2015, 8m, 32mm; MHN-YT1660, NHR, 2 Oct. 2016, 8m, 75mm.
Habitats. Subtropical rocky reefs and tropical coral reefs.
Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro, Vamizi Island and Nuarro.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Marshall Islands (Matsuda & Gosliner 2008), Guam (Carlson & Hoff 2003), French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia (Gosliner et al. 2008), Philippines (Matsuda & Gosliner 2008), Australia (Johnson 2009), Fiji, Christmas Island, Maldives, Red Sea, Kenya, Seychelles (Debelius 1996), South Africa (Gosliner 1987), Madagascar (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Taurorcus mourei Marinoni 1969
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Taurorcus
Taurorcus mourei

description: 35. Taurorcus mourei Marinoni, 1969a: 60, pls. 1 – 3 (Figure 8) Holotype, female
Type locality. Brazil, Paraná: Guarapuava, I. 1957, H. Schneider
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Romanticism after nature
Creators: name: Ellermann, Greg
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: For scholars of romanticism, “nature” has taken many forms: a site of imaginative renewal, a tool of conservative ideology, a distraction from historical trauma. Yet these apparently disparate accounts all focus more on the perceiving mind than on the natural world that it perceives or misperceives. It turns out to be hard to think about nature in itself.     Romanticism After Nature” expands our sense of this key romantic concept by recovering a history of speculation about nature apart from human consciousness. In identifying a romantic-era concern with the world that exists independently of the individual mind, this dissertation finds varied, and sometimes conflicting, paradigms for thinking past the dialectics of mind and nature long held to define romanticism. This is also a story about the romantic survival of an early enlightenment view of the natural world, most memorably articulated by Baruch Spinoza’s “ethics” of substance. Beginning with the destruction of traditional ordering schemas like the Great Chain of Being, the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the end of nature in its pre-modern sense and the discovery of an infinite material universe. This radical material vision, at odds with all triumphal narratives of human progress, returns in romantic literature and philosophy, refracted through a range of competing idealist commitments. Though it eventually gives way to an instrumentalism about nature still in force today, romanticism itself comprises a moment of rare engagement with a world that is not inherently for us.    The dissertation draws on a variety of discourses, from the history of science and philosophy to contemporary ecological criticism and continental thought. Nonetheless, it pivots on the literary as a speculative enterprise that enables us to contend with the threats of catastrophe and extinction.
Glossodoris pallida
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Chromodorididae
Glossodoris
Glossodoris pallida

description: Glossodoris pallida (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830)
(Figure 5 D)
Material examined. Eight specimens. MHN-YT1199, POC, 0 8 May 2014, 18m, 16mm, collected by J. Wright; MB28-004836, POC, 0 8 May 2014, POC, 17m, 31mm; MB28-004854, 2 spcs., POD, 11 May 2014, 15m, 27 and 30mm; MB28-004878, NHR, 29 May 2014, 7m, 8mm; MB28-004881, NHR, 0 1 Jun. 2014, 9m, 18mm; MB28- 0 0 4885 & MB28-004886, NFA, 0 2 Jun. 2014, 12m, 29mm and 14mm, respectively.
Habitats. Subtropical rocky reefs and tropical coral reefs.
Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro, Inhaca Island, Zavora and Nuarro.
Geographic distribution. Indian Ocean. Red Sea (Debelius 1996), Gulf of Oman (Fatemi & Attaran-Fariman 2015), South Africa (Gosliner et al. 2008), Madagascar and Mozambique (Matsuda & Gosliner 2017).
Remarks: Matsuda & Gosliner (2017) presented a molecular review of several Glossodoris from the Indo- Pacific and show that the species from the western Pacific Ocean differs genetically and internally from G. pallida.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
The sexual politics of humanitarian regulation
Creators: name: Doonan, Christina Louise
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation is a critique of humanitarianism through the lens of two pieces of United States policy: the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.  Through discursive analysis of the congressional record, in addition to materials from media and popular culture with which it interacts, this dissertation investigates the humanitarian impulses of these policies in relation to their intended and unintended effects. By examining the effects of both policies, I demonstrate that they are counterproductive, if taken at their face value as projects to help and save.  Far from being a problem of failed implementation, I suggest that these policies suffer from systematic defects in their very design, beginning with the claim that they reflect confusion between human rights and humanitarianism.  I claim that the logic of humanitarianism governs both policies. This humanitarian form of governance is by definition uneven, and while deployed as a reflection of humane values, nevertheless has complex political motivations and outcomes.  Most notably, both policies mobilize neocolonial language and symbols that mark the global South as barbaric and uncivilized, and the global North as harbingers of civilization and equality.
Montesia fasciolata Galileo & Martins 1990
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Montesia
Montesia fasciolata

description: 36. Montesia fasciolata Galileo & Martins, 1990c: 586, figs. 3, 5 – 8 Holotype, female
Type locality. Costa Rica, Cartago: Turrialba (600 m), 15.VIII.1962, V.O. Becker
FORSTERIINI Tippmann, 1960
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Glossodoris Ehrenberg 1831
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Chromodorididae
Glossodoris

description: Glossodoris sp. 1
(Figure 5 E)
Material examined. Ten specimens. MB28-004464, ZRP, 0 6 Feb. 2012, 1m, 37 and 42mm, respectively; MB28- 0 0 4508, ZRP, 21 Feb. 2012, 2m, 18mm; MB28-004614, 23 Aug. 2 0 12, ZRP, 1m, 12mm, collected by A. Pouris; MB28-004619, ZJS, 29 Mar. 2012, 12m, 24mm; MB28-004642, ZD, 0 6 Dec. 2012, 32m, 47mm; MHN-YT769, ZJS, 24 May 2013, 12m, 34mm; UL-YT1 0 78, BB, 23 Oct. 2014, 9m, 42mm; MB28-004862, POB, 12 May 2014, 16m, 48mm; MB28-004932, ZDRS, 0 8 Oct. 2014, 31m, 26mm; MB28-004975, ZRP, 21 Mar. 2015, 0.5m, 32mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs, rocky reefs and seagrass.
Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro and Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean. Tanzania (Gosliner et al. 2008), Mozambique and South Africa (Gosliner et al. 2008; King & Fraser 2014).
Remarks. Matsuda & Gosliner (2017) confirmed that this is an undescribed species (Glossodoris sp. B in their work).
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Loss-in-weight feeding in continuous powder manufacturing
Creators: name: Engisch, William E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Processes involving granular material handling are found in many industries, such as  pharmaceutical, chemical, catalyst, and food. Significant differences are observed, both  between materials as well as between handling methods. Often, special equipment has  been developed to monitor, control, and feed these widely varied materials in order to  enable the end user to continuously feed or dose the raw powder material so that it can be  continuously processed, which has many advantages over batch processing.  To address the difficulties of feeding granular materials, powder feeders are equipped  with a variety of tooling that can be used for various rates and powders. Unfortunately  most of the sizing and performance knowledge is internal to the feeding equipment  manufacturers and is not generally available to the end-user.  In this work, a method for evaluating feeding performance was developed, which allowed  for testing that was independent of the type of feeder being evaluated. This method was  applied to various feeders to characterize the feeders for the feeding of various powders.  In addition, the effects of hopper refilling were quantified and investigated. Finally, the  downstream effects were simulated.  iii  For each powder, the fluctuations caused during normal steady state feeding were  minimized through tooling and feeder selection. The effects of refill were found to be  considerably more significant than the fluctuations associated with steady state feeding.  However, optimized refill schedules, easily reduced the deviations to more manageable  levels.  In continuous manufacturing systems, the feeders are a potential high risk to content  uniformity. The implications of this are investigated from a overarching view of a  pharmaceutical direct compression system with a specific focus on regulatory compliance  and product quality. Regulatory compliance requires batch definition and raw material  traceability, and solutions to both were investigated. The presented options for batch  definition are based on the residence time distribution (RTD) of the system, which  describes the dispersion of material across the interface between "batches". Raw material  traceability was similarly investigated utilizing residence time distribution as a tool.
Nyctonympha punctata Martins & Galileo 1989
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nyctonympha
Nyctonympha punctata

description: 37. Nyctonympha punctata Martins & Galileo, 1989: 127, fig. 7 Holotype, male
Type locality. Argentina, Salta, 18.II.1950
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Flame and solution syntheses of high-dimensional homo- and hetero-structured nanomaterials
Creators: name: Dong, Zhizhong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Tungsten-oxide and molybdenum-oxide nanostructures are fabricated directly from the surfaces of metal substrates using counter-flow diffusion-flame synthesis method, which allows for correlation of morphologies with local conditions.  Computational simulations aid in tailoring the flame structure with respect to chemical species and temperature.  Furthermore, methane flames are compared with hydrogen flames, which only have H2O (and no CO2) as product species.  The temperature profiles of the methane and hydrogen flames are strategically matched in order to compare the effect of chemical species produced by the flame which serve as reactants for nanostructure growth.  Single-crystalline, well-vertically-aligned, and dense WO2.9 nanowires (diameters of 20-50 nm, lengths of >10 µm) are obtained at a gas-phase temperature of 1&20 K, where the CO2 route is presumed to seed the growth of nanowires at the nucleation stage, with subsequent vapor-solid growth.  Similarly, single-crystalline, vertically-aligned, and dense MoO2 nanoplates (thicknesses of 60-80 nm, widths of 200-450 nm, lengths of 1-2 µm) are obtained at 1&20 K.  Nanoheterostructures are fabricated by decorating/coating the above flame-synthesized tungsten-oxide nanowires with other materials using an aqueous solution synthesis method.  With WO2.9 nanowires serving as the scaffold, sequential growth of hexagonal ZnO nanoplates, Zn2SnO4 nanocubes, and SnO2 nanoparticles are attained for different Zn2+:Sn2+ concentration ratios.  High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) of the interfaces at the nanoheterojunctions show atomically abrupt interfaces for ZnO/WO2.9 and Zn2SnO4/WO2.9, despite lattice mismatches.  Separately, co-axial nanoheterostructures are fabricated using ionic-liquid solutions, where single-crystal nanoscale Al layer are electrodeposited on the surfaces of the above flame-synthesized WO2.9 nanowires.  These tungsten-oxide/aluminum coaxial nanowire arrays constitute thermite nanocomposites with high reactivity. These geometries not only present an avenue to tailor heat-release characteristics due to anisotropic arrangement of fuel and oxidizer, but also possibly eliminate or at least minimize the presence of Al2O3 passivation films between the aluminum and metal oxide.
Racial discourse and partisanship in politicized cyberspace
Creators: name: Dowd, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation investigates conceptualizations of race and discourses around the topic of race in contemporary America. I examine how the internal interaction between non-elite partisans (i.e. not party officials, politicians, or media celebrities) preserves partisan racial discourses. I specifically focus on how commenters on partisan political blogs discuss racial controversies. I observed the interaction dynamics of partisans as I analyzed reactions that comments elicit among other participants. This focus allows me to move beyond a conventional content analysis that others have done via surveys, interviews, and more recently, analyses of blog posts, toward a deeper understanding of how partisans maintain the partisan divide on race. My dissertation concentrates on two controversies in the news. Drawing on the sociological literatures on “colorblindness,” framing, and interaction rituals, as well as the political science literature on racial polarization, I argue that, during such controversies, the interactions between commenters on right and left blogs focus discourse on different aspects of a controversy, establish the boundaries of legitimate debate, and manage the ambiguity around racial claims that periodically arises during internal debate. Furthermore, I contend that understanding the processes by which partisans co-produce discourses helps explain the durability of the partisan divide on race.
Additional file 1: of Patient navigation to improve diabetes outpatient care at a safety-net hospital: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: HornĂ˝, Michal
name: Wiljeana Glover
name: Gupte, Gouri
name: Saraswat, Aruna
name: Vimalananda, Varsha
name: Rosenzweig, James
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Complete results of the analysis (DOCX 392 kb)
Glossodoris Ehrenberg 1831
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Chromodorididae
Glossodoris

description: Glossodoris sp. 2
(Figure 5 F)
Material examined. Fifteen specimens. MB28-004414 & MB28-004415, ZA51, 13 Jun. 2010, 12m, 13mm and 18mm, respectively; MHN-YT77, ZA51, 15 Nov. 2011, 12m, 22mm; MB28-00 4444, ZWH, 0 2 Feb. 2012, 17m, 33mm; ZMBN117019, ZWH, 0 5 Feb. 2012, 18m, 27mm; ZMBN117023, ZY, 13 May 2012, 36m, 32mm; MB28- 0 0 4615 & MB28-004616, ZA51, 23 Aug. 2012, 13m, 12mm and 11mm, respectively, collected by S. Brumme; MB28-004618, ZRP, 23 Aug. 2012, 1m, 14mm; UL-YT655, ZWH, 23 Nov. 2012, 16m, 28mm; MB28-004676, ZRP, 25 May 2013, 1m, 14mm; MB28-004794, BB, 23 Jan. 2014, 10m, 24mm; MB28-004 938, ZRP, 10 Oct. 2014, 0.5m, 20mm; MB28-004943, ZA51, 27 Oct. 2014, 13m, 16mm; ZMBN119696, ZJS, 28 Jan. 2015, 12m, 20mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs and rocky reefs.
Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro and Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean. South Africa (Gosliner 1987) and Mozambique (King & Fraser 2014).
Remarks. This species differs externally from Matsuda & Gosliner (2017) Glossodoris sp. A and Glossodoris pallida by the absence of opaque white marks on the dorsum and is likely to be undescribed (Gosliner et al. 2008, 2015).
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Adesmus turrialba Galileo & Martins 1999
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Adesmus
Adesmus turrialba

description: 38. Adesmus turrialba Galileo & Martins, 1999: 94, fig. 9 Holotype, male
Type locality. Costa Rica, Cartago: Turrialba (600 m), 01-10.VII.1971, V.O. Becker
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Why black children can't grow up
Creators: name: Patton, Stacey Pamela
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation explores how black childhood was constructed as a racial ideology during the Jim Crow era. I discuss how the extension of white childhood and the construction of the white child’s innocence depended upon the curtailment and demonization of the black child. Using oral narratives, medical studies, visual imagery, literature, sociological data, intelligencetests, court records and news articles, the individual chapters reveal how the racialization of the black child unfolded at each developmental milestone of life – birth, adolescence, and puberty. The insidious consequences, past and present, was foundational to the formation of a post-Emancipation racial hierarchy and to various regimes of social control in American society. Unlike their parents and grandparents, the Jim Crow era’s black children grew up as free citizens and free laborers with no memory of slavery. And so a new ideology of repression emerged to contain them, to cast doubt upon their capabilities for citizenship and intellect, to exempt them from the powerful category of innocence, and to demean the value of their labor. Without the racialization of black children, without controlling their minds and their bodies, they would have grown to be full and equal citizens. My agenda expands beyond victimization to hope, telling how African-American parents, both leaders and ordinary folk along with their white allies, created a rich counter narrative to defend and protect black children. Inhopes of inspiring institutional reform and positive change in the age of Obama, this historicalinvestigation seeks to help contemporary Americans understand how racism shaped cultural stereotypes and social welfare policies so damaging to black children.