cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title:  TRANSFER LEARNING-ENHANCED TRANSFORMER FOR VIRTUAL SENSING APPLICATIONS IN RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING
Creators: name: York, Ethan
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 2.3
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Resistance spot welding is a crucial manufacturing process used across a wide range of industries for permanently joining metal components. Characterized by its applications in the automotive industry, resistance spot welding is valued for its speed, efficiency, and relatively low cost to set up and maintain. The process involves running a pulse of electrical current through two metal sheets to liquify the material and create a permanent bond. The process complexity necessitates precise control over various parameters to ensure acceptable results, emphasizing the importance of quality control. Because there are no low-cost and non-invasive techniques to inspect welds, strategies utilizing sensor data are required to determine weld quality. The spot welding process involves complicated physical interactions and a multitude of unknown factors, making it challenging to model using physics based methods. Because of this, machine learning strategies are the best way to capture the complex relationships between sensor data and weld quality. These strategies often rely on real-time data from high-cost sensing methods or large amounts of high-cost lab data for training. These limitations can make quality control cost-prohibitive, highlighting a need for innovative virtual sensing solutions. By using virtual sensing, the need for high-cost sensors and excess lab data can be eliminated, while simultaneously improving the accuracy and versatility of quality predictions.

This thesis introduces a novel approach for virtual signal generation utilizing the power of transformer models, renowned for their effectiveness in capturing complex sequential relationships, combined with transfer learning techniques to produce a model that can quickly be adapted to novel welding scenarios using a small amount of new training data. By fine-tuning a model pre-trained on a diverse set of welding scenarios, the limitations of traditional data-driven approaches can be overcome. The complex relationships between known and desired data are captured by the traditional transformer during pre-training, while the effects of various welding and material properties are captured by separate embedding layers. This results in a model that can be up to 43.4% more effective than a standard transformer at making predictions under conditions that differ significantly from the training data. By generating this virtual sensing data, traditional machine learning models designed for quality prediction can become more generalizable, allowing them to be deployed without the need for investment in additional sensors.
description: © 2024 Ethan York
title: Frasier :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
A High-Performance Design, Implementation, Deployment, and Evaluation of The Slim Fly Network
Creators: name: Blach, Nils
name: Besta, Maciej
name: De Sensi, Daniele
name: Domke, Jens
name: Harake, Hussein
name: Li, Shigang
name: Iff, Patrick
name: Konieczny, Marek
name: Lakhotia, Kartik
name: Kubicek, Ales
name: Ferrari, Marcel
name: Petrini, Fabrizio
name: Hoefler, Torsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Novel low-diameter network topologies such as Slim Fly (SF) offer significant cost and power advantages over the established Fat Tree, Clos, or Dragonfly. To spearhead the adoption of low-diameter networks, we design, implement, deploy, and evaluate the first real-world SF installation. We focus on deployment, management, and operational aspects of our test cluster with 200 servers and carefully analyze performance. We demonstrate techniques for simple cabling and cabling validation as well as a novel high-performance routing architecture for InfiniBand-based low-diameter topologies. Our real-world benchmarks show SF's strong performance for many modern workloads such as deep neural network training, graph analytics, or linear algebra kernels. SF outperforms non-blocking Fat Trees in scalability while offering comparable or better performance and lower cost for large network sizes. Our work can facilitate deploying SF while the associated (open-source) routing architecture is fully portable and applicable to accelerate any low-diameter interconnect.
Additional file 1 of Molecular transmission network analysis of newly diagnosed HIV-1 infections in Nanjing from 2019 to 2021
Creators: name: Shi, Hongjie
name: Li, Xin
name: Wang, Sainan
name: Dong, Xiaoxiao
name: Qiao, Mengkai
name: Wu, Sushu
name: Wu, Rong
name: Yuan, Xin
name: Wang, Jingwen
name: Xu, Yuanyuan
name: Zhu, Zhengping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Confinement-induced drift in Marangoni-driven transport of surfactant: a Lagrangian perspective
Creators: name: Mcnair, Richard
name: Jensen, Oliver E.
name: Landel, Julien R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76

description: Successive drops of coloured ink mixed with surfactant are deposited onto a thin film of water to create marbling patterns in the Japanese art technique of Suminagashi. To understand the physics behind this and other applications where surfactant transports adsorbed passive matter at gas-liquid interfaces, we investigate the Lagrangian trajectories of material particles on the surface of a thin film of a confined viscous liquid under Marangoni-driven spreading by an insoluble surfactant. We study a model problem in which several deposits of exogenous surfactant simultaneously spread on a bounded rectangular surface containing a pre-existing endogenous surfactant. We derive Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations of the equations governing the Marangoni-driven surface flow. Both descriptions show how confinement can induce drift and flow reversal during spreading. The Lagrangian formulation captures trajectories without the need to calculate surfactant concentrations; however, concentrations can still be inferred from the Jacobian of the map from initial to current particle position. We explore a link between thin-film surfactant dynamics and optimal transport theory to find the approximate equilibrium locations of material particles for any given initial condition by solving a Monge-Ampère equation. We find that, as the endogenous surfactant concentration $δ$ vanishes, the equilibrium shapes of deposits using the Monge-Ampère approximation approach polygons with corners curving in a self-similar manner over lengths scaling as $δ^{1/2}$. We explore how Suminagashi patterns may be produced by using computationally efficient successive solutions of the Monge-Ampère equation.
description: 26 pages without appendices, 10 figures in main text, 2 figures in appendices, 7 figures in supplement
Megachile indulgens Mitchell, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile indulgens

description: indulgens Mitchell, new comb.
Megachile indulgens Mitchell 1930: 224. Female. Type locality: Cordoba, Argentina. Type repository: MCZ 16201. Examined.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Microzooplankton, the missing link in Finnish plankton monitoring programs
Creators: name: Lipsewers, T.
name: Spilling, K.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2018

description: Finnish plankton monitoring is divided into phytoplankton and mesozooplankton sampling. Using the phytoplankton protocol, we included all organisms identified in samples from the Baltic Sea during spring (n = 125). The plankton was converted to carbon, and including all microscopy derived carbon (MDC), increased the carbon content by 22%, on average, compared with only phytoplankton. Particulate organic carbon (POC) and chlorophyll a (Chl a) were also measured, and the general relationship between MDC and POC was: slope = 1.04, intercept = 240 µg POC l–1, R2 = 0.66; for phytoplankton to Chl a: 0.037 g Chl a (g MDC)–1, R2 = 0.68. Our results demonstrate that a variable fraction of the plankton biomass is not recorded in the monitoring programs. Most of the unaccounted biomass was ciliates, which constituted 14.1% ± 3.7% (mean ± maximum error) of the plankton biomass. Based on the results we recommend including microzooplankton in the existing phytoplankton monitoring program.
Amtliches Verzeichnis der Lehrer, Beamten und Studierenden an der Königlich-Bayerischen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München 1891-92; 1891
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1891

description: Textfreie Seiten wurden entfernt.
Megachile joergenseni Friese, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile joergenseni

description: joergenseni Friese, new comb.
Megachile jörgenseni Friese 1908: 66. Female. Type locality: Mendoza, Argentina.
Megachile joergenseni Schrottky 1913b: 251 (emendation).
Specimens at USNM which T.B. Mitchell determined as jörgenseni Friese belong to this subgenus.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Relinquishing Control: Conservation Oriented Toward Increased Indigenous Agency and Non-Human Autonomy in Invasive Species Management
Creators: name: Scharff, Cameron
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2024
Subjects: non-human autonomy
settler/indigenous cosmologies
invasive species
biocultural frameworks

description: 1. Current invasive species management is problematic in its unclear/xenophobic terminology, insufficient in practice given the scale/cost/complexity of the issue, and colonial in its normative assumptions. In exploring the normative assumptions underpinning current settler invasive species conservation, I mean to demonstrate how these practices maintain visions of the settler homeland and settler futures, with little consideration for indigenous cosmologies and futures. 2. Most settler agencies structure response to invasion as prevention ideally, eradication if possible, and long term management if necessary. This presents an underlying bias toward eradication of the “other” (be they human or non) that pervades settler colonial states, which is contrasted with indigenous relational cosmologies capable of more just diplomacy with plant “nations,” to borrow an Anishinaabe concept. 3. Building from this, I demonstrate the connection between cosmology, management, and land. For this purpose, I focus on biocultural frameworks, and utilize this framework to argue for how increased “biocultural diversity” is not only an issue of justice in what cultures are reified in the landscape, but also important for the improved conservation that can result from increased biocultural diversity. 4. Most importantly, the largest issue with invasive species management is the failure to adequately respect and collaborate with indigenous peoples. Such collaborations provide potential for increased indigenous agency and self-determination in management practices; justice in contributing to indigenous governance resurgence; and justice for people/non-humans in that it can diversify the cultural landscape. 5. Settlers have much to learn from indigenous management practices/understandings of invasive species. Particularly helpful are concepts of indigenous relationships with non-humans, which show greater respect for non-human autonomy and can thereby lead to invasive species practices not oriented toward eradication as ideal. 6. Lastly, I address three potential pitfalls to avoid in promoting indigenous agency in collaboration, less about the practice itself, and more expressing concerns for co-option. These areas of concern are: settler powers instrumentalizing indigenous knowledge (IK) and practices; a lack of respect for IK; and a retrenchment of the status quo.
Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon along an altitudinal gradient from Norway spruce forest to the mountain birch/alpine ecotone in Norway
Creators: name: Clarke, N.
name: Røsberg, I.
name: Aamlid, D.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2005

description: Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soil water from the base of the soil organic layer were determined at three forest plots along an altitudinal gradient in eastern Norway. The lowest plot, at 830 m above sea level (a.s.l.), was in Norway spruce forest and there were additional plots at the ecotone between Norway spruce and mountain birch at 925 m a.s.l. and at the forest line (1000 m a.s.l.). DOC concentrations in soil water did not decrease uniformly with altitude although tree biomass, above-ground litterfall and the soil C pool all did so. Significant correlations between DOC and {H+} or electrical conductivity may reflect the contribution of DOC to solution acidity and the anionic charge, respectively. If mean temperature during the growing season increases, tree growth at any given altitude will tend to increase and the spruce-birch ecotone may move to a higher altitude than at present. Increased C inputs as litter to the soil might then lead to increasing DOC concentrations and fluxes in surface waters.
Towards nanophotonic optical isolation via inverse design of energy transfer in non-reciprocal media
Creators: name: Cisowski, Claire M.
name: Waller, Madeline C.
name: Bennett, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we generalise the adjoint method of inverse design to nonreciprocal media. As a test case, we use three-dimensional topology optimization via the level-set method to optimise one-way energy transfer for point-like source and observation points. To achieve this we introduce a suite of tools, chiefly what we term the `Faraday-adjoint' method which allows for efficient shape optimization in the presence of magneto-optical media. We carry out an optimization based on a very general equation that we derive for energy transfer in a nonreciprocal medium, and link finite-different time-domain numerics to analytics via a modified Born series generalised to a tensor permittivity. This work represents a stepping stone towards practical nanophotonic optical isolation, often regarded as the `holy grail' of integrated photonics.
Megachile lobitarsis Smith, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile lobitarsis

description: lobitarsis Smith, new comb.
Megachile lobitarsis Smith 1879: 76. Male. Type locality: St. Paulo [de Olivença], on the Amazons [Brazil]. Type repository: BNHM 17a2444. Examined.
Megachile (Ptilosarus) lobitarsis Michener 1954: 103. Erroneous listing.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Transfer of plutonium, americium and curium from fallout into reindeer after the Chernobyl accident
Creators: name: Paatero, J.
name: Jaakkola, T.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 1998

description: Several reindeer tissue samples were analysed for transuranium elements following the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Pu, Am and Cm were separated using coprecipitation and anion exchange steps, and measured with alpha spectrometry. The activity concentrations of 239,240Pu in reindeer liver found in this study (0.0094–0.062 Bq kg–1 d.w. [= dry weight]) are low compared to the concentrations found in the 1960s and 1970s, even though most of the samples are from the areas with the heaviest Chernobyl-derived fallout of plutonium. On the other hand, the 241Pu concentrations in reindeer liver found in this study (0.7–3.9 Bq kg–1 d.w.) are comparable to earlier results. The calculated transfer factors, (0.31–1.61) x 10–5 m2 kg–1 for 239,240Pu and 7 x 10–3 m2 kg–1 for 241Am, show that 137Cs migrates from fallout to reindeer meat 100 times more efficiently than 241Am and 10000 times more efficiently than 239,240Pu. The transfer factor of 2 x 10–3 m2 kg–1 obtained for 242Cm does not take into account the physical decay of 242Cm. Several earlier results concerning plutonium and americium in reindeer could be verified in this study using the fallout from the Chernobyl accident. Americium and curium are accumulated more efficiently than plutonium in bone and lungs. The main pathway of Pu, Am and Cm into reindeer is the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract and not inhalation. The absorption coefficient of 239,240Pu obtained for the GI-tract, 3.0 x 10–5, is in agreement with earlier results. A GI-tract absorption coefficient of 7.5 x 10–4 for 241Am was obtained in this study.
Megachile neutra Vachal, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile neutra

description: neutra Vachal, new comb.
Megachile neutra Vachal 1908: 237. Female. Type locality: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Type repository: MNHN. Examined.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Megachile obliqua Mitchell, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile obliqua

description: obliqua Mitchell, new comb.
Megachile obliqua Mitchell 1930: 218. Female. Type locality: British Guiana. Type repository: USNM 43095. Examined.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Estimation of the maximum and minimum surge levels at the Hanhikivi peninsula, Gulf of Bothnia
Creators: name: Gordeeva, S.M.
name: Klevannyy, K.A.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2020

description: A combination of statistical and deterministic methods was used to calculate the flood level for the Hanhikivi peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, where a nuclear power plant is planned. An existing Baltic Sea numerical model (BSM-2010) solving the depth-averaged shallow water equations was used. Using formulas for an idealized storm field, wind and atmospheric pressure fields were assigned as forcing. The possible intensity of the extreme storm field was determined from the database of storm fields that passed over the northern hemisphere from 1958–2016. The modeling results show that the maximum water level rise at Hanhikivi occurs when an extreme storm field over southern Norway moves east-northeast with a velocity of 65 km h–1. Extreme water levels in Hanhikivi obtained with statistical and deterministic methods at a probability up to 0.01% (return period of 104 years) are +252 cm and –251 cm, respectively.
Selective flexible packaging pathways of the segmented genome of influenza A virus
Creators: name: Haralampiev, Ivan
name: Prisner, Simon
name: Nitzan, Mor
name: Schade, Matthias
name: Jolmes, Fabian
name: Schreiber, Max
name: Loidolt-Krüger, Maria
name: Jongen, Kalle
name: Chamiolo, Jasmine
name: Nilson, Niklaas
name: Winter, Franziska
name: Friedman, Nir
name: Seitz, Oliver
name: Wolff, Thorsten
name: Herrmann, Andreas
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: This article was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: The genome of influenza A viruses (IAV) is encoded in eight distinct viral ribonucleoproteins (vRNPs) that consist of negative sense viral RNA (vRNA) covered by the IAV nucleoprotein. Previous studies strongly support a selective packaging model by which vRNP segments are bundling to an octameric complex, which is integrated into budding virions. However, the pathway(s) generating a complete genome bundle is not known. We here use a multiplexed FISH assay to monitor all eight vRNAs in parallel in human lung epithelial cells. Analysis of 3.9 × 105 spots of colocalizing vRNAs provides quantitative insights into segment composition of vRNP complexes and, thus, implications for bundling routes. The complexes rarely contain multiple copies of a specific segment. The data suggest a selective packaging mechanism with limited flexibility by which vRNPs assemble into a complete IAV genome. We surmise that this flexibility forms an essential basis for the development of reassortant viruses with pandemic potential.
Correlation of 2015 and 2021 Area Deprivation Index (ADI) to acute and chronic health measures
Creators: name: Welch, Valerie L
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social Deprivation
subject: Social Determinants of Health
subject: Obesity
subject: Diabetes Mellitus
subject: COVID-19
subject: Louisiana
subject: area deprivation index
subject: adi
subject: covid-19
subject: obesity
subject: diabetes mellitus

description: This paper compares the 2015 and 2021 state and national ADIs, published by Neighborhood Atlas/University of Wisconsin, with acute and chronic health measures: COVID-19 infection rate, COVID-19 hospitalization rate, Hemoglobin A1c, number of diabetes encounters, Body Mass Index, and number of obesity encounters.
Megachile perenensis Cockerell, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile perenensis

description: perenensis Cockerell, new comb.
Megachile perenensis Cockerell 1919: 219. Female. Type locality: Perenes Valley (2000­3000 ft), Peru. Type repository: USNM 21690. Examined.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
title: Towards a continental Open Science Vision Making African Research Information & Data Accessible
title: Institutional Repositories serve the interests of research funders
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mchunu, Nokuthula P.
name: Havemann, Johanna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Research Funder
Funding
AOSP
AfricArXiv
Persistent Identifiers
Discoverability

description: Presentation held at the Africa PID Alliance (africapidalliance.org) Webinar: How effective FAIR data management aids in the visibility of African funding output "Effective FAIR data management significantly aids in the visibility of African funding outputs by making research more discoverable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This not only boosts the profile of African research on the global stage but also fosters collaborations, enhances credibility, informs policy, and attracts further funding. For more on how we have been doing this please join our partners Crossref and Research Organization Registry(ROR) as we take you through what we have been doing and listen to some of the African funders case studies from National Research Fund Kenya and National de la Recherche et de l’Innovation pour le Développement - FONRID (Burkina Faso) in addition with the contributions from Association of African Universities and African Open Science Platform who will share the research management and policy-making implications on making African funders output accessible."
Homing behaviour of pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) following experimental transplantation
Creators: name: Keskinen, T.
name: Pääkkönen, J.-P. J.
name: Lilja, J.
name: Marjomäki, T. J.
name: Karjalainen, J.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2005

description: Homing behaviour of pikeperch Sander lucioperca was studied using ultrasonic telemetry. Twelve pikeperch were tagged with ultrasonic transmitters having a battery life of 14 months and released to Jyväsjärvi. Six of the pikeperch were originally captured from Jyväsjärvi and six were captured from Päijänne and transplanted seven km to Jyväsjärvi. Five of the transplanted pikeperch were observed near the original capture site less than two weeks after release. None of these fish later returned to Jyväsjärvi. Pikeperch originally from Jyväsjärvi stayed mainly in that lake for the duration of tracking. The data indicate that pikeperch exhibit site fidelity and are able to home after transplantation. The results also indicate that the two studied lakes may have semi discrete pikeperch stocks.
Fakatapu Ki He Hikūle'o: A Pasifikafuturist Remaking, Restoring, and Honoring of Tongan Genealogy and Our Divine Feminine
Creators: name: Tamale, Leila
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pasifikafuturism
Alternative Futurisms
Tonga
art
genealogy
colonialism
sacred
feminine
Indigenous

description: In this thesis I join a continuum of Tongan scholar-artist-cultural bearers in healing our community through defiant remembrance of the sacred feminine which colonial violence was desperate to eliminate. Through what is at its core a Pasifikafuturist endeavor, I revisit the past and rectify the historical record in order to understand the present and imagine anti-colonial Tongan and Pasifika futures where the divine feminine is not just restored to its original status but even remade in further empowering, layered ways. Using a genealogy-based Pasifikafuturist approach, I journey into a critical moment of Tongan cultural and political transformation from matriarchal polytheistic chiefdom to patriarchal Christian monarchy. My focal point within this transformation is Hikūle’o, highest-ranking deity of the Indigenous Tongan pantheon, goddess of fertility and agriculture, and protector of Pulotū, the Tongan ancestral homeland and realm of spirit ancestors. In addition to exploring this historical moment, I use archival research, dreaming, and art to contend that the attempted desecration of the sacred divine feminine is bound to the subsequent increase in violence against women, and therefore to intervene in these colonial trajectories we must remember and reinfuse value into the sacredness of the divine feminine embodied in ancestors such as Hikūle’o and each of us today.
Biogenic volatile organic compound emissions from a boreal forest floor
Creators: name: Wang, M.
name: Schurgers, G.
name: Hellén, H.
name: Lagergren, F.
name: Holst, T.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2018

description: A dynamic soil chamber was used to quantify biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions from the forest floor of a Norway spruce and Scots pine dominated boreal forest. To carry out measurements (five campaigns from June to October 2015), six plots were randomly selected. The BVOC emissions from the forest floor ranged from 0.4 to 66.6 µg m–2 h–1, and the emission rates peaked in October with an average of 10.26 µg m–2 h–1 when the litterfall biomass was the highest and the air temperature was the lowest (< 10 °C). Monoterpene (MT) was the main group of detected BVOCs, their contribution to total BVOC emissions from the forest floor being > 80%, while the contribution of isoprene was close to zero during all campaigns and the sesquiterpene (SQT) emissions in September and October were negligible. α-pinene, ∆3-carene and camphene were the dominant MT compounds throughout summer and autumn. The MT emission rate increased exponentially with air temperature inside the soil chamber from June to September. Variations among the frames and in time indicate that needle litter may be an important source of BVOC emissions.
Preface
Creators: name: Tuunainen, P.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 1998

description: Finnish fisheries research has a long history. The first studies on fish and fisheries were conducted the late 1700s and by the end of the 1800s concepts of the factors influencing fish stocks were already rather similar to present ones. By the early 1900s large numbers of fisheries studies were being carried out in both inland waters and the marine area. The need to promote research activities was growing. On 17 November 1923, 75 years ago, an act was passed making it possible to start regular fisheries investigations in Finland. The Bureau of Fisheries Investigation was established in January 1924 and operated under the Board of Agriculture until 1971. The present Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, established in 1971, has continued the work of the Bureau of Fisheries Investigation. This volume of the Boreal Environment Research (BER) was compiled to mark the 75th anniversary of Finnish fisheries research. The aim is to give an idea of the kind of fisheries research our institute is currently engaged in. It does not cover the whole field of research but merely gives some examples of ongoing research activities. Our research projects tend increasinly to be joint projects with other institutes and with universities in Finland and abroad. On behalf of the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, I have the pleasure to thank all the authors as well as the editorial staff of the BER for their efforts in compilation of this volume.
Isocyanoalkene Addition-Cyclization-Decarboxylation Cascades
Creators: name: Marrazzo, John-Paul R.
name: Fleming, Fraser
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: isocyanides
isocyanoalkenes
additions
cyclizations
cascade

description: A rare conjugate addition to isocyanoalkenes with ethyl cyanoacetate triggers an efficient addition-cyclization-decarboxylation cascade. Using finely dispersed NaOH in THF as a base and nucleophile, is critical in facilitating the proton transfers, the ester hydrolysis, and the subsequent decarboxylation. The strategy provides an efficient route to valuable nitrile-substituted 2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrroles while providing fundamental insight into conjugate additions to isocyanoalkenes.
Megachile poeyi Guerin-Meneville
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile poeyi

description: poeyi Guérin­Méneville
Megachile poeyi Guérin­Méneville 1845: 450. Female. Type locality: Cuba.
Megachile velhoensis Mitchell 1930: 199 ­200. Male. Type locality: Porto Velho, Brazil. Type repository: MCZ 16199. Misidentification and incorrect locality. Examined. NEW SYNONYMY.
Megachile (Pseudocentron) velhoensis Mitchell 1934: 303.
Megachile (Pseudocentron) poeyi Mitchell 1934: 303.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Survival of crossbred brown trout under experimental pike predation and stocking in the wild
Creators: name: Alioravainen, N.
name: Hyvärinen, P.
name: Kortet, R.
name: Härkönen, L.
name: Vainikka, A.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2018

description: Unintended domestication in hatchery broodstocks reflects a low success of supportive stocking programs. We crossbred adfluvial hatchery-stock brown trout (Salmo trutta) females with males from two non-native adfluvial hatchery strains and a wild but local resident strain to study survival, growth and behaviour of hybrid offspring alternatives. Experimental predation selected for larger size in wild crosses but not in the original hatchery fish. Non-native hatchery crossing reduced the survival in the predation experiment either directly or due to negatively size-selective predation. Wild crosses evaded the areas where predators were present more often than the pure hatchery origin fish in the predation experiment. Our results support an intrinsic anti-predatory behaviour in wild fish and suggest that crosses with resident fish can produce equally growing offspring that are efficient in predation avoidance. Resident, local, wild populations may be a beneficial source for improving the natural-type fitness in broodstocks affected by domestication without natural reproduction.
SGRU: A High-Performance Structured Gated Recurrent Unit for Traffic Flow Prediction
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenfeng
name: Li, Xin
name: Li, Anqi
name: Huang, Xiaoting
name: Wang, Ti
name: Gao, Honglei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traffic flow prediction is an essential task in constructing smart cities and is a typical Multivariate Time Series (MTS) Problem. Recent research has abandoned Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) and utilized dilated convolutions or temporal slicing for feature extraction, and they have the following drawbacks: (1) Dilated convolutions fail to capture the features of adjacent time steps, resulting in the loss of crucial transitional data. (2) The connections within the same temporal slice are strong, while the connections between different temporal slices are too loose. In light of these limitations, we emphasize the importance of analyzing a complete time series repeatedly and the crucial role of GRU in MTS. Therefore, we propose SGRU: Structured Gated Recurrent Units, which involve structured GRU layers and non-linear units, along with multiple layers of time embedding to enhance the model's fitting performance. We evaluate our approach on four publicly available California traffic datasets: PeMS03, PeMS04, PeMS07, and PeMS08 for regression prediction. Experimental results demonstrate that our model outperforms baseline models with average improvements of 11.7%, 18.6%, 18.5%, and 12.0% respectively.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, conference
Light utilization and photosynthetic efficiency of Nannochloris sp. (Chlorophyceae) approached by spectral absorption characteristics and Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry (FRRF)
Creators: name: Raateoja, M.P.
name: Seppälä, J.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2001

description: The photosynthetic performance of Nannochloris sp. (Chlorophyceae) batch cultures, grown in 16:8 h light:dark cycle, was evaluated with 14C-incorporation, O2-evolution, light absorption of PSII, and variable fluorescence. Cell pigmentation, elemental composition, and photosynthetic parameters were measured in the course of one light period from cultures acclimated to 314 and 39 umol quanta m–2 s–1. Both cultures had a biphasic trend during the light period. The productivity increased during the first half of the light period, and decreased afterwards. The growth rates in both of the cultures were mainly regulated by the internal cell cycle, rather than by light and nutrients. The nutrient metabolism obviously caused discrepancy between the 14C-based and variable fluorescence-based primary productivity estimates. The relatively higher estimate of the rate of electron transport through PSII than of the 14C-based biomass-specific primary productivity in the early phases of the experiment was mainly caused by the inability of the variable fluorescence method to take into account a partial loss of ATP, NADPH and ferredoxin pools caused by the active NO3-N uptake and reduction. The temporal patterns of the fluorescence-based ([phi]f) and the 14C-based quantum yield for carbon fixation were much alike, since in the definition of [phi]f processes other than carboxylation, consuming the reducing power and the chemical energy produced by the light reaction of photosynthesis, were taken into consideration. The problems associated with the inclusion of pre-set parameters in the productivity models are also discussed.
Megachile rubricata Smith, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile rubricata

description: rubricata Smith, new comb.
Megachile rubricata Smith 1853: 187. Female. Type locality: [Tefé, Amazonas] Brazil. Type repository: BNHM 17a2437. Examined.
Megachile hilaris Smith 1879: 72. Male. Type locality: Santarem [Brazil]. Synonymy of Mitchell 1943: 170.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Retention of suspended solids and sediment bound nutrients from peat harvesting sites with peak runoff control, constructed floodplains and sedimentation ponds
Creators: name: Kløve, B.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2000

description: Increased requirements for drainage water treatment has lead to the development of new methods for removing suspended solids and nutrients from peat mine drainage waters. Peak runoff control, constructed floodplains and sedimentation ponds were studied in the field at the Pohjansuo peat mine in Central Finland. Sediment and nutrient concentrations were observed during non-frost periods of 1995 and 1996 and during spring thaw in 1996. The results show that peak runoff control in particular is able to remove suspended sediment almost completely and particle-bound nutrients partially. The new method fulfils the requirement for a 65% reduction in suspended solids set by the authorities without affecting the peat harvest. The low cost of these new methods makes them available for most Finnish peat mines.
Megachile scapularis Vachal, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile scapularis

description: scapularis Vachal, new comb.
Megachile scapularis Vachal 1908: 234 ­235. Female and male. Type locality: Female from Mapirí, Bolivia and male from Pachitea, Peru. Specimens at BBSL determined by J.S. Moure are members of this subgenus.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Chironomid-based classification of lakes in western Finnish Lapland
Creators: name: Nyman, M. T.
name: Korhola, A. A.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2005

description: For the implementation of the Water Framework Directive we need to develop an informative and cost-effective set of biological monitoring and assessment methods, especially for remote areas. Chironomids are known to be an abundant and species-rich group that dominate the aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the north and therefore should be an integral part of monitoring and assessment plans. In this paper, we aim to characterise lake types in subarctic Finnish Lapland using particular chironomid indicator taxa. Contemporary chironomid assemblages and 24 corresponding physical and chemical limnological variables were determined for 63 lakes. Among them, fifty shallow lakes (&Mac178; 10 m) were classified into biological lake groups using Two-Way Indicator Species Analysis (TWINSPAN). The environmental variables best discriminating between the groups were determined using canonical variates analysis (CVA). Classical lake typology was additionally applied to 13 deeper lakes. Among the shallow lakes, three lake groups were separated on the basis of their chironomid assemblages: (i) small and shallow organic-rich lakes, (ii) large and base-rich lakes, and (iii) cold and clear oligotrophic tundra lakes. The deep lakes were all, except one, oligotrophic. The degree of oligotrophy was related to temperature. The results indicate that the classification of shallow lakes using chironomid communities is a useful tool for developing a lake typology and in assessing and monitoring the remote subarctic lakes.
Megachile standingeri Friese, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile standingeri

description: standingeri Friese, new comb.
Megachile standingeri Friese 1905: 139. Male and female. Type locality: Arica, Chile / Peru / Ecuador. Specimens at BBSL determined by J.S. Moure are members of this subgenus.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Dynamics of monoterpene emissions in Pinus sylvestris during early spring
Creators: name: Bäck, J.
name: Hari, P.
name: Hakola, H.
name: Juurola, E.
name: Kulmala, M.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2005

description: The seasonal dynamics of biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions, which can be related to the formation and growth of secondary organic aerosols, represent an important but at the present poorly understood linkage between vegetation activity and climate. Although a close relationship between photosynthesis and terpenoid emissions has been proposed, high monoterpene emission rates for Scots pine shoots (Pinus sylvestris) are frequently recorded during spring, in times when photosynthetic activity is strongly inhibited due to inherent seasonal restrictions. We suggest that terpenoid emissions are related to either photosynthesis or photorespiration for precursors for terpenoid biosynthesis. We developed two dynamic models describing temporal fluctuations in Scots pine monoterpene emissions, calculating the emissions by using CO2 exchange and ambient climate data. The models accurately predicted the measured monoterpene flux, and especially in March–April, during the time when photosynthesis was negligible and ambient temperatures were between –5 and +15 °C, a good agreement was found with measured emissions and the model involving photorespiration.
Megachile timida Mitchell, new comb.
Creators: name: Raw, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile timida

description: timida Mitchell, new comb.
Megachile timida Mitchell 1930: 194. Female. Type locality: Chapada [dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso], Brazil. Type repository: ANSP 4145. Examined.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 71 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/155887
Meteorological evaluation of a severe air pollution episode in Helsinki on 27–29 December 1995
Creators: name: Pohjola, M. A.
name: Rantamäki, M.
name: Kukkonen, J.
name: Karppinen, A.
name: Berge, E.
Publisher: name: Boreal Environment Research Publishing Board
Year: 2004

description: This paper describes an evaluation and meteorological analysis of a severe air quality episode that occurred in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area during 27–29 December 1995. The pollutants originated predominantly from local sources. The episode was formed in anticyclonic high pressure conditions that lead to low wind speeds and the formation of an extremely strong ground-based radiation inversion. We utilised the 24 hourly forecasts of the Finnish version of the numerical weather forecasting model HIRLAM (High Resolution Limited Area Model, operational from 1999 to 2003). The HIRLAM model under-predicted both the inversion strengths (°C) and inversion temperature gradients (°C m–1), compared with the corresponding measured data. We also compared the temperature profiles predicted by HIRLAM with those predicted by the non-hydrostatic meteorological model MM5. The pollutant concentrations during the episode have been predicted using an urban dispersion modelling system, and evaluated against measured data.