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Trimuricea spinosa Samimi-Namin & Ofwegen, 2016, n. sp.
No full text<i>Trimuricea spinosa</i> n. sp. <p>(Figs. 21 b, 26–27)</p> <p> <i>Trimuricea</i> sp. Samimi-Namin & van Ofwegen, 2009b.</p> <p> <b>Material:</b> Holotype, RMNH Coel. 39317, one colony, Persian Gulf, Larak Island, 26° 53ʹ 15″ N, 56° 23′ 36″ E, 14–16 m depth, coll. K. Samimi-Namin, 5 December 2007.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> The holotype is about 8 cm high and 8.5 cm wide, branched in one plane, and has anastomoses forming a network (Fig. 21 b). The stem is 1.5 cm long and 0.5 cm thick and all branches are 3–4 mm thick. Some branches have lost the tissue and are covered by algae. The calyces are dome shaped, closely set to each other and situated all around the branches. They are up to 0.5 mm high and 1 mm wide.</p> <p>The points have triradiates (Fig. 26 a) along with, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites, or spindles that can be curved or sinuous (Fig. 26 b), 0.10–0.40 mm long. The upper ray of the triradiates and upper part of the accessory sclerites is strongly echinulate or tuberculate for up to 0.18 mm. The collaret spindles are 0.20–0.44 mm long (Fig. 26 c); and the middle part of the convex side is slightly more tuberculate than the concave side and both the ends. The concave side is relatively smooth with very few tubercles. There are a few tentacle scales present, up to 0.05 mm long (Fig. 26 d).</p> <p>The calyces have thornscales, 0.15–0.47 mm long, with a warty base, and one or more, smooth or echinulate thorns up to 0.23 mm long (Fig. 27 a).</p> <p>The coenenchyme has spindles, 0.30–0.68 mm long, with simple and complex tubercles (Fig. 27 b) along with a few crosses and irregularly branched forms (Fig. 27 c).</p> <p> <b>Colour.</b> The live colony was white-yellowish, with magenta polyps. Preserved it is brown. All sclerites are colourless (For in situ photo refer to Samimi-Namin & van Ofwegen 2009b).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is derived from the Latin <i>spinosus</i> (thorny). It refers to the thornscales with several thorns.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> This species mostly resembles <i>T. flava</i> <b>n. sp.</b>, but differs in having colourless sclerites and triradiates with a strongly echinulate upper part. Moreover, the collaret spindles of <i>T</i>. <i>spinosa</i> are far less tuberculate.</p>Published as part of <i>Samimi-Namin, Kaveh & Van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2016, A revision of Trimuricea Gordon, 1926 (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) with the description of six new species, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 4105 (1)</i> on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/271230">http://zenodo.org/record/271230</a>
Trimuricea omanensis Samimi-Namin & Ofwegen, 2016, n. sp.
No full textTrimuricea omanensis n. sp. (Figs. 13 c, 19 –20, 32a) Material: Holotype, RMNH Coel. 41599, Oman, Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, no palm beach (OM 11 A 7 S 6), 26.37336 ° N 56.535694 ° E, 10–25 m depth, coll. K. Samimi-Namin, 9 May 2011. Description. The holotype is a piece of colony, about 35 cm high and 14 cm wide, that is branched in one plane and has many anastomoses forming a network (Fig. 13 c). The calyces are dome shaped, closely set to each other and situated all around the branches. They are low, only 1–2 mm in height and have a diameter of up to 1 mm. The points have triradiates (Fig. 19 a), along with curved, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites, or spindles (Fig. 19 b), 0.15–0.25 mm long. The upper ray of the triradiates and upper part of the spindles is echinulate or smooth for up to 0.12 mm, and slightly blunt. The collaret spindles are 0.20–0.35 mm long (Fig. 19 c); the middle part of the convex side is more tuberculated than the concave side and both the ends. The concave side is relatively smooth in the center with more tuberculation at both ends. These polyp sclerites have few tubercles. A few tentacle scales are present, up to 0.08 mm long (Fig. 19 d). The calyces have thornscales, 0.10–0.25 mm long, with a warty base, and one or more echinulate or smooth thorns up to 0.10 mm long (Figs. 19 e, 20 a). The coenenchyme has simple spindles, 0.10–0.30 mm long, with simple and complex tubercles (Fig. 20 b). Additionally, spindles with one smooth, thorn-like end are also present (Fig. 20 c). Also a few sclerites are present that superficially resemble unilateral spinose spindles. Colour. The live colony was yellow with magenta extended polyps (Fig. 32 a). Preserved colony is brown. All sclerites are colourless. Etymology. The species is named after the country Oman where the holotype was found. Remarks. The species mostly resembles Trimuricea inermis, both species having small coenenchymal spindles and calicular thornscales. But it differs in having some sclerites resembling unilateral spinous spindles, some spindles with one thorny end and branch anastomoses forming a net-like colony shape.Published as part of Samimi-Namin, Kaveh & Van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2016, A revision of Trimuricea Gordon, 1926 (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) with the description of six new species, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 4105 (1) on pages 23-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27123
Trimuricea persica Samimi-Namin & Ofwegen, 2016, n. sp.
No full textTrimuricea persica n. sp. (Figs. 21 a, 22–23) T. aff. reticulata; Samimi-Namin & van Ofwegen 2009 a: 43. NOT Echinomuricea reticulata Thomson & Simpson, 1909: 206. (= Trimuricea reticulata). Material: Holotype, RMNH Coel. 38785, Iran, Farur Island, Persian Gulf, coll. S.A. Mohtarami. Description. The holotype is 16 cm high and 22 cm wide, branched in one plane, with many anastomoses forming a network (Fig. 21 a). The stem is 1 cm long and 0.5 cm thick, and the branches are 3–4 mm thick. The end branches in some parts of the colony have lost their coenenchymal tissue and the axis is visible. The calyces are dome shaped, closely set to each other, and situated all around the branches. They are up to 0.5 mm high and 0.75 mm in diameter. The points have triradiates (Fig. 22 a), along with curved, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites, or spindles (Fig. 22 b), 0.15–0.25 mm long. The upper ray of the triradiates and upper part of the spindles is slightly echinulate or tuberculate for up to 0.18 mm. The collaret spindles are 0.15–0.35 mm long (Fig. 22 c); the middle part of the convex side is more tuberculate than the concave side and both the ends. The concave side is relatively smooth in the center, with some tuberculation at both ends. A few tentacle scales are present, up to 0.10 mm long (Fig. 22 d). The calyces have thornscales, 0.20–0.40 mm long, with one or more echinulate thorns up to 0.20 mm long (Fig. 23 a). The smaller ones do not have lateral arms. The coenenchyme has spindles, 0.20–0.60 mm long. The long ones have large, densely placed complex tubercles and short ones have simple tubercles (Fig. 23 b). Colour. The live colony was reddish-purple in colour, preserved it is brown. All sclerites are colourless. There is no information about the colour of polyps. Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin persicus (Persian). It refers to the Persian Gulf where the species was found. Remarks. This species resembles Trimuricea tuberculosa n. sp. in the tuberculation of the spindles, but differs in having less strongly tuberculated polyp sclerites. It also resembles T. spinosa, but differs in lacking many thornscales with more than one thorn This species was described by Samimi-Namin & van Ofwegen (2009 a: 43) as Trimuricea aff. reticulata. After examination of a fragment of the material described by Thomson & Simpson (1909) as Echinomuricea reticulata (BMNH 1933.3.13.18: = Trimuricea reticulata) it became obvious that our 2009 identification was incorrect. Trimuricea reticulata differs in having far less tuberculate coenenchymal spindles, which are narrower. It also has calicular thornscales with long narrow thorns and less tuberculate roots.Published as part of Samimi-Namin, Kaveh & Van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2016, A revision of Trimuricea Gordon, 1926 (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) with the description of six new species, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 4105 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27123
JAAD supplemental material - Response to systemic therapies in granulomatous cheilitis: retrospective multicenter series of 61 patients
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Mendeley Supplemental Table 1. Case review of systemic therapies in CG.
Mendeley Supplemental Table 2. Modalities and responses to systemic therapies in the whole study population and by underlying disease. Response rates (proportion of responders including CR and PR), CR rates, duration of therapy, duration of response and relapse rates were assessed for each systemic therapy modality. Only therapies that had been assessed in at least 3 patients are provided. CFZ, clofazimine; HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; CS, corticosteroids; MTZ, metronidazole; IFX, infliximab; ADA, adalimumab; CR, complete responses; NA, not applicable.
Mendeley Supplemental Figure 1. Responses to systemic therapies in patients with Miescher’s macrocheilitis (n=38). Best response (non-response [NR], complete response [CR] or partial response [PR]) is indicated. CFZ, clofazimine; HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; CS, corticosteroids; MTZ, metronidazole; MTX, methotrexate; THD, thalidomide; SZP, salazopyrine; IFX, infliximab; ADA, adalimumab; RITUX, rituximab
Mendeley Supplemental Figure 2. Responses to systemic therapies in patients with Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (n=9, panel A), Crohn’s disease (n=10, panel B) and sarcoidosis (n=4, panel C). Best response (non-response [NR], complete response [CR] or partial response [PR]) is indicated. CFZ, clofazimine; HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; CS, corticosteroids; MTZ, metronidazole; MTX, methotrexate; THD, thalidomide; AZA, azathioprine; ASA, 5-aminosalicylic acid; CYS, cyclosporine; IFX, infliximab; ADA, adalimumab; UST, ustekinumab; GOLI, golimumab; VEDO, vedolizumab.
Mendeley Supplemental Figure 3. Cumulative proportion of complete response over time. The Kaplan-Meier cumulative incidence curve was constructed to assess the proportion of patients with complete resolution of GC over time. (XL-Stat-Life, Addinsoft, Paris, France)
Vulnerability of Irrigated Agriculture to a Drier Future in New Mexico᾿s Mesilla and Rincon Valleys
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Agriculture depends on irrigation in many regions, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Climate variability and prolonged droughts in water-scarce regions further limit water availability, posing dire water sustainability concerns. The challenge is particularly grave in regions like New Mexico’s Mesilla and Rincon Valleys where water resources are increasingly strained due to growing water demand in domestic, industrial, and agricultural sectors. Understanding the vulnerability of irrigated agriculture to future climate conditions helps water authorities and farmers to better plan for future crop production
Timing Analysis of Event-Driven Programs with Directed Testing
No full textAccurately estimating the worst-case execution time (WCET) of real-time event-driven software is crucial. For example, NASA's study of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles highlights poor support in timing analysis for event-driven code, which could put human life in danger. WCET occurs during the longest possible execution path in a program. Static analysis produces safe but overestimated measurements. Dynamic analysis, on other hand, measures actual execution times of code under a test suite. Its performance depends on the branch coverage, which itself is sensitive to scheduling of events. Thus dynamic analysis often underestimates the WCET. We present a new dynamic approach called event-driven directed testing. Our approach combines aspects of prior random-testing techniques devised for event-driven code with the directed testing method applied to sequential code. The aim is to come up with complex event sequences and choices of parameters for individual events that might result in execution times closer to the true WCET. Our experiments show that, compared to random testing, genetic algorithms, and traditional directed testing, we achieve significantly better branch coverage and longer WCET
BEAR Innovation Competition Pitch: Verita
No full textSara Samimi showed just how scarce resources for visual learners are. Her solution is Verita, a startup website for visual learners to improve their education and help students retain information with interactive, 3D models
Junceella juncea Pallas 1766
No full textJunceella juncea (Pallas, 1766) For references see Grasshoff, 2000: 106. Junceella fragilis; Stiasny, 1940: 136. Not Junceella fragilis Ridley, 1884: 347. FIGURE 33. RMNH Coel. 38785, Trimuricea aff. reticulata (Thomson & Simpson, 1909): a, thornscales; b, spindles. Material: RMNH Coel. 38787, one colony, E of Kish Island, coll. K. Samimi Namin; RMNH Coel. 38788, one colony, Kharku Island, 29 º 20 ' 51.1 " N, 50 º 21 ' 17.7 " E, coll. K. Samimi Namin, 31 march 2007; RMNH Coel. 38789, two colonies, Hengam Island, 26 º 36 ' 41.6 " N, 55 º 50 ' 31.5 " E, coll. K. Samimi Namin; RMNH Coel. 38790, two colonies, Farur Island, coll. S.A. Mohtarami; RMNH Coel. 38791, one colony, Strait of Hormuz, Qeshm Island, has been deposited in the Persian Gulf Biotechnology Research Center, 18 May 2006; RMNH Coel. 38792, several branches, off Dubai, Koninklijke Shell Exploratie en produktie laboratorium, station T 1260, coll. A.J. Keij, 1966; RMNH Coel. 6453, three microscope slides of the specimen identified as Junceella fragilis by Stiasny. Remarks. The microscope slides RMNH Coel. 6453 of Junceella fragilis showed us Stiasny’s identification was incorrect. Several of our specimens had side branches, the two colonies from Farur Island were even sparsely branched, a phenomenon not mentioned in the literature.Published as part of Namin, Samimi & Ofwegen, Van, 2009, Some shallow water octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of the Persian Gulf, pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 2058 on pages 45-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18674
Trimuricea bicolor Samimi-Namin & Ofwegen, 2016, n. sp.
No full textTrimuricea bicolor n. sp. (Figs. 4 b, 5 –6, 30b) Material: Holotype, RMNH Coel. 39860, Buginesia Prog. UNHAS-NNM 1994 / 1995, Indonesia, SW Sulawesi, Spermonde Archipelago, SW of Kudingareng Keke (= 14 km WNW of Ujungpandang), 5 ° 06ʹ S, 119 ° 17 ʹ E, coral reef; scuba diving, coll. B.W. Hoeksema, 5 September 1994. Description. The holotype is 10 cm high and 11 cm wide, branched in one plane, and a few anastomoses are present (Fig. 4 b). The stem is 1 cm long, 0.5 cm thick and partly devoid of coenenchyme. The branches are only 2–3 mm thick and the terminal twigs up to 4 cm long. The calyces are dome shaped, up to 1 mm high and wide, closely set together and situated all around the branches. The points have triradiates (Fig. 5 a), along with curved, hockeystick or boot-shaped sclerites, or spindles (Fig. 5 b), 0.10–0.20 mm long. The upper ray of the triradiates and upper part of the spindles is slightly echinulate for up to 0.15 mm. The collaret spindles are 0.25–0.30 mm long (Fig. 5 c); the middle part of the convex side is slightly more tuberculate than the concave side and both ends. The concave sides are more tuberculate at both ends than in the center. These polyp sclerites have very few tubercles. A few tentacle scales are present, up to 0.10 mm long. The calyces have thornscales, 0.20–0.40 mm long, with an echinulate thorn that is up to 0.15 mm long, narrow lateral arms and roots that do not branch (Fig. 6 a); with sparse and simple tubercles. The coenenchyme has narrow spindles, 0.25–0.50 mm long, with sparse, simple tubercles (Fig. 6 b). Colour. The live colony was reddish in the middle parts, orange in the periphery, and the polyps were white (Fig. 30 b); the preserved colony is white. All sclerites are colourless. Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin bicolor (of two colours) in reference to the live colour of the holotype. Remarks. This species mostly resembles Trimuricea inermis (Nutting, 1910), as both have sclerites with only simple tubercles. Trimuricea bicolor n. sp. differs in having longer, slender spindles (up to 0.50 mm long in T. bicolor, to 0.35 mm in T. inermis) and the thornscales have a less complex base. T. omanensis and T. reticulata also have spindles with simple tubercles. T. reticulata has thornscales with much longer, smooth thorn, and more complex base. T. omanensis has shorter spindles and thornscales.Published as part of Samimi-Namin, Kaveh & Van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2016, A revision of Trimuricea Gordon, 1926 (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) with the description of six new species, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 4105 (1) on pages 5-11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27123
Sustainable Innovative Work Behavior: Conceptualization and the Interplay of Individual, Team, and Organizational Dynamics
No full textThe results of our empirical study support our hypothesis of a positive association between idea implementation and sustainable innovative work behavior. Additionally, drawing on the componential theory of creativity and innovation, we hypothesized that a knowledge-sharing culture would strengthen the relationship between idea implementation and sustainable innovative work behavior; however, the empirical results did not support this hypothesis. Furthermore, following insights from both the componential theory of creativity and innovation and social learning theory, we hypothesized that the interaction between a knowledge-sharing culture and individual cooperative behavior would enhance the relationship between idea implementation and sustainable innovative work behavior. Here, the empirical results did support this hypothesis, showing that individuals with a high level of cooperative behavior derive greater benefits from knowledge sharing within the organization.The results of our empirical study support our hypothesis of a positive association between idea implementation and sustainable innovative work behavior. Additionally, drawing on the componential theory of creativity and innovation, we hypothesized that a knowledge-sharing culture would strengthen the relationship between idea implementation and sustainable innovative work behavior; however, the empirical results did not support this hypothesis. Furthermore, following insights from both the componential theory of creativity and innovation and social learning theory, we hypothesized that the interaction between a knowledge-sharing culture and individual cooperative behavior would enhance the relationship between idea implementation and sustainable innovative work behavior. Here, the empirical results did support this hypothesis, showing that individuals with a high level of cooperative behavior derive greater benefits from knowledge sharing within the organization
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