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Phaneroptera rentzi Divya & Senthilkumar 2020, sp. nov.
No full textPhaneroptera rentzi sp. nov. Fig. 1—a, i, j, o; Fig.2 —A–N, Diagnostic characters: Male ( ♂ ). Body yellowish green. Fastigium vertices scapus wider, apically narrow with obtuse, a fine median sulcus (Fig. 2C), strong pigmentation on the dorsal side of fastigium as well as the entire pronotum (Fig. 2B, D); anterior margin of pronotum flat, posteriorly concave; tegmen surpassing the hind wing, dorsally flat, clear wing venation, cerci of male strongly bent inward behind the sub genital plate (Fig. 2K), apex of cercus strongly acute with short and stout black spine (Fig. 2M and Fig. 1a), subgenital plate strongly bifurcate, incurved (Fig. 2 J and Fig. 1j). Colouration. Yellowish green colour. Female. Unknown. Type Material. Holotype: ♂, Dharmapuri (N 0 12007 ’11.21’’E 077051 ’.01.94’’), Tamilnadu, India. 11 II 2018. Coll. G. Divya and N. Senthilkumar. Deposited in Gass Forest Museum (GFM), Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu (India). Distribution. Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu, India. Etymology. This species is named in honour of Dr D. C. F. Rentz, Australia. Discussion. The new species is completely differs from P. spinosa, P. myllocerca, P. falcata and P. gracilis on the structure of subgenital plate, supra anal plate, pronotum and fastigium vertices. P. rentzi, sp. nov. is entirely differ from the P. spinosa, P. myllocerca and P. falcata by the shape of cerci and subgenital plate. P. gracilis and P. rentzi, sp. nov. are look-alike however, the subgenital plate is entirely different (Fig. 1j, m). The lateral lobe of pronotum deeper than long, without white band; fairly and smoothly rounded not forming angle with disc, sharp emargination at posterior end of insertion. Subgenital plate bilobate at the apex. Distal lobe of subgenital plate not smoothly rounded but pointed. Apex of the cerci abruptly bent inwards. Stridulatory vein large almost as wide as left tegmen; distal end of file as in Fig. 2 E.Published as part of Divya, Govindaraj & Senthilkumar, Natchiappan, 2020, Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Phaneroptera (Tettigoniidae Phaneropterinae) with a new record from Tamilnadu, India, pp. 425-434 in Zootaxa 4860 (3) on page 426, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/441406
Emergence of a common generalized synchronization manifold in network motifs of structurally different time-delay systems
No full textR. Suresh and D. V. Senthilkumar acknowledges the support from SERB-DST Fast Track scheme for Young Scientists. M. Lakshmanan (M. L.) has been supported by the DST, Government of India sponsored IRHPA research project. M. L. has also been supported by a DAE Raja Ramanna Fellowship.Peer reviewe
FIGURE 4. Trignocorypha angustata a–c in A new species of Trigonocorypha (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from Tamilnadu, India
No full textFIGURE 4. Trignocorypha angustata a–c, male; a, adult DV; b, adult LV; c, male genital plate; a–e female; a, adult, DV; b, pronotum DV; c, pronotum LV; d, cercus; e, ovipositor LV. Scale bar: 4 mm (Courtesy: Waheed Ali Panhwar et al., 2014)Published as part of Senthilkumar, Natchiappan & Divya, Govindaraj, 2020, A new species of Trigonocorypha (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from Tamilnadu, India, pp. 189-195 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/390486
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Investigating the role of Nef in HIV infection-induced dysregulation of innate immune cell function
No full textNef is an accessory protein of HIV that is associated with promoting HIV pathogenesis through increasing replication and immune evasion. This has been proven through delta Nef mutation studies which caused low viral load and no development of AIDS. However, Nef isn't an easy target for creating a therapeutic drug due to its lack of enzymatic activity. Here we examined HIV expression in its wildtype and delta Nef mutated forms in humanized mice. The BLTS model, which has been a cornerstone in aiding HIV studies, was re-examined here for functionality. This was done using immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining of healthy BLTS spleen tissues to analyze characterize the major human immune cells, especially T and B cells. The model was then infected with WT and delta Nef HIV types to analyze the differences in infectivity. This was detected through IHC which detects proteins and RNAScope which detects RNA genome. Wildtype HIV was found to have a higher viral infectivity and tissue damage within 2 weeks post infection (wpi) whereas delta Nef mutated HIV took nearly two months post infection (mpi) to reach lesser infectivity, viral genome load and almost no structural damage. Here, we also introduce the HSC-humanized mice model which has different transplant origins from the BLTS mice. This model was phenotyped using flow cytometry and assessed for its functionality through T cell stimulation assays, which gave a positive functionality indicating that this model, once further optimized, can be used for HIV studies. Finally, we also determine the tissue resident presence of natural killer (NK) cells and dendritic cells (DCs) in the BLTS spleen and thymus and their localization within the tissue. This will allow us to further study the effect of Nef on the localization of these crucial innate immune cells and determine how innate immunity combined with defective Nef could potentially be used to suppress the viral reservoirs of HIV
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
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