cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pseudoleiocapitella Harmelin 1964
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Capitellidae
Pseudoleiocapitella

description: Genus Pseudoleiocapitella Harmelin, 1964
Pseudoleiocapitella fauveli Harmelin, 1964
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Amoureux 1983c, 1983d; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Gillet 1986; Požar-Domac 1994; Crema et al. 2001; Aleffi et al. 2003; Keppel & Maggiore 2006; Maggiore & Keppel 2007; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM96, BM97, BM98, BM99, BM101.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
PERSONALISING INFORMATION SECURITY EDUCATION
Creators: name: Talib, Shuhaili
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2014
Subjects: Information Security Awareness
Information Security Education

description: Whilst technological solutions go a long way in providing protection for users online, it has been long understood that the individual also plays a pivotal role. Even with the best of protection, an ill-informed person can effectively remove any protection the control might provide. Information security awareness is therefore imperative to ensure a population is well educated with respect to the threats that exist to one’s electronic information, and how to better protect oneself. Current information security awareness strategies are arguably lacking in their ability to provide a robust and personalised approach to educating users, opting for a blanket, one-size-fits-all solution. This research focuses upon achieving a better understanding of the information security awareness domain; appreciating the requirements such a system would need; and importantly, drawing upon established learning paradigms in seeking to design an effective personalised information security education. A survey was undertaken to better understand how people currently learn about information security. It focussed primarily upon employees of organisations, but also examined the relationship between work and home environments and security practice. The survey also focussed upon understanding how people learn and their preferences for styles of learning. The results established that some good work was being undertaken by organisations in terms of security awareness, and that respondents benefited from such training – both in their workplace and also at home – with a positive relationship between learning at the workplace and practise at home. The survey highlighted one key aspect for both the training provided and the respondents’ preference for learning styles. It varies. It is also clear, that it was difficult to establish the effectiveness of such training and the impact upon practice. The research, after establishing experimentally that personalised learning was a viable approach, proceeded to develop a model for information security awareness that utilised the already successful field of pedagogy and individualised learning. The resulting novel framework “Personalising Information Security Education (PISE)” is proposed. The framework is a holistic approach to solving the problem of information security awareness that can be applied both in the workplace environment and as a tool for the general public. It does not focus upon what is taught, but rather, puts into place the processes to enable an individual to develop their own information security personalised learning plan and to measure their progress through the learning experience.
Carpobrotus edulis N. E. Br.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Carpobrotus
Carpobrotus edulis

description: Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme Linnaeus var. flavum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 485. 1753.
RCN: 3697.
 Replaced synonym of: Mesembryanthemum edule L. (1759).
 Lectotype (Blake in Contr. Queensland Herb. 7: 17. 1969): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum falcatum majus, flore amplo luteo " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 283, t. 212. f. 272. 1732.
 Current name:  Carpobrotus edulis  (L.) N.E. Br. (Aizoaceae).
 Note: Preston & Sell (in Watsonia 17: 238. 1989) note Dillenius’ own coloured copy at OXF and (f. 7) reproduce an illustration.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 667, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Chaetopterus Cuvier 1827
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Chaetopteridae
Chaetopterus

description: Genus Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1827
Chaetopterus variopedatus (Reiner, 1804) DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1861; Lorenz 1863; Grube 1864; Stossich 1876, 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Zimmermann 1907; Vatova 1928, 1931a; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935, 1943; Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Banse 1970; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Zavodnik et al. 1978; Vaccarella et al. 1981; Amoureux 1983c; Fassari 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Stjepčević et al. 1984; Gillet 1986; Požar-Domac 1986; Aleffi et al. 1988; Gherardi et al. 1993; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Gabriele et al. 1999; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Kollmann & Stachowitsch 2001; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Aleffi et al. 2005; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM52, BM53, BM54.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Chaetopterus pergamentaceus Cuvier, 1830.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Carpobrotus acinaciformis L. Bolus
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Carpobrotus
Carpobrotus acinaciformis

description: Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme Linnaeus var. purpureum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 485. 1753.
RCN: 3696.
 Lectotype (Preston & Sell in Watsonia 17: 238. 1989): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme, flore amplissimo purpureo " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 282, t. 211, f. 270. 1732 (OXF).
 Current name:  Carpobrotus acinaciformis  (L.) L. Bolus (Aizoaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 667, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Mesochaetopterus Potts 1914
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Chaetopteridae
Mesochaetopterus

description: Genus Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914
Mesochaetopterus sagittarius (Claparède, 1870)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1940; Scaccini 1967; Požar-Domac 1994; Aleffi et al. 2003; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM52, BM54.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Ranzania sagittaria Claparède, 1870.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Machairophyllunt albidum Schwantes
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Machairophyllunt
Machairophyllunt albidum

description: Mesembryanthemum albidum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 699. 1762.
"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 3711.
 Lectotype (Hartmann, Ill. Handb. Succ. Pl., Aizoaceae F–Z: 136. 2001): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum floliis robustis albicantibus " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 243, t. 189, f. 232. 1732.
 Current name:  Machairophyllunt albidum  (L.) Schwantes (Aizoaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 667, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL, RISK TAKING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON INNOVATION INVESTMENT OF CHINESE LISTED FIRMS
Creators: name: XIUJUAN HUANG
name: KRISADA SUNGKHAMANEE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Social Capital, Risk Taking, Corporate Governance, Innovation Investment.

description: Abstract

Social capital is an important driving force for Corporate innovation investment in companies, and plays an indispensable role in enhancing their competitiveness and market position. The article explores the impact mechanism of Social capital on Corporate innovation investment through research on listed companies in Guangdong Province. Based on 311 samples and structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis, it is found that Social capital has a significant positive impact on Corporate innovation investment, with an impact coefficient of 0.224. In addition, the direct impact mechanism also finds that Social capital has a significant positive impact on Risk-taking, Risk-taking has a significant positive impact on Corporate innovation investment, Social capital has a significant positive impact on Corporate governance, and Corporate governance has a significant positive impact on Corporate innovation investment; The indirect impact mechanism is manifested as the mediating effect of Risk-taking and Corporate governance on the impact of Social capital on Corporate innovation investment. The conclusions of these quantitative analyses are still validated in subsequent qualitative analyses. By interviewing 15 employees and relevant experts of listed companies in Guangdong Province, and conducting in-depth analysis of the interview text, we can not only prove the reliability of the quantitative analysis results, but also further supplement the research results.
Reducing the Computational Effort Associated with Evolutionary Optimisation in Single Component Design
Creators: name: VEKERIA, HARISH DHANJI
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1999

description: The dissertation presents innovative Evolutionary Search (ES) methods for the reduction in computational expense associated with the optimisation of highly dimensional design spaces. The objective is to develop a semi-automated system which successfully negotiates complex search spaces. Such a system would be highly desirable to a human designer by providing optimised design solutions in realistic time. The design domain represents a real-world industrial problem concerning the optimal material distribution on the underside of a flat roof tile with varying load and support conditions. The designs utilise a large number of design variables (circa 400). Due to the high computational expense associated with analysis such as finite element for detailed evaluation, in order to produce "good" design solutions within an acceptable period of time, the number of calls to the evaluation model must be kept to a minimum. The objective therefore is to minimise the number of calls required to the analysis tool whilst also achieving an optimal design solution. To minimise the number of model evaluations for detailed shape optimisation several evolutionary algorithms are investigated. The better performing algorithms are combined with multi-level search techniques which have been developed to further reduce the number of evaluations and improve quality of design solutions. Multi-level techniques utilise a number of levels of design representation. The solutions of the coarse representations are injected into the more detailed designs for fine grained refinement. The techniques developed include Dynamic Shape Refinement (DSR), Modified Injection Island Genetic Algorithm (MiiGA) and Dynamic Injection Island Genetic Algorithm (DiiGA). The multi-level techniques are able to handle large numbers of design variables (i.e. > 100). Based on the performance characteristics of the individual algorithms and multi-level search techniques, distributed search techniques are proposed. These techniques utilise different evolutionary strategies in a multi-level environment and were developed as a way of further reducing computational expense and improve design solutions. The results indicate a considerable potential for a significant reduction in the number of evaluation calls during evolutionary search. In general this allows a more efficient integration with computationally intensive analytical techniques during detailed design and contribute significantly to those preliminary stages of the design process where a greater degree of analysis is required to validate results from more simplistic preliminary design models.
Lampranthus aureus N. E. Br.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Lampranthus
Lampranthus aureus

description: Mesembryanthemum aureum Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1060. 1759.
RCN: 3699.
 Neotype (Hartmann, Ill. Handb. Succ. Pl., Aizoaceae F–Z: 79. 2001): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum aureum " in Curtis in Bot. Mag. 8: t. 262. 1794.
 Current name:  Lampranthus aureus  (L.) N.E. Br. (Aizoaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 667, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Phyllochaetopterus Grube 1863
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Chaetopteridae
Phyllochaetopterus

description: Genus Phyllochaetopterus Grube, 1863
* Phyllochaetopterus gracilis Grube, 1863
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Carus 1884; Grube 1863, 1864; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM26.
REMARKS: The single previous record of this species in the Adriatic Sea was by Grube (1863), on Mali Lošinj Island (NA).
DEPOSITED MATERIAL: BM26, 19.01.2011., 1 spec. (PMR-17622).
Phyllochaetopterus major Claparède, 1870
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Castelli et al. 2008.
REMARKS: Reported for the NA and CA in the polychaete checklist of the Italian seas (Castelli et al. 2008). However, more precise data on collecting sites not available.
Phyllochaetopterus socialis Claparède, 1870. DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Požar-Domac 1982, 1983, 1994.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
title: Deep learning based sleep stage classification studies
Creators: name: Pei, Wei
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461103
subject: Deep learning

description: sleep stage classification plays a vital role in diagnosing and treating sleep and mental related diseases. The utilization of traditional visual scoring in sleep research is limited due to the intricate nature of the procedure and the substantial time commitment. Most of the previous sleep-scoring investigations have focused on the process of feature extraction. These methods are laborious and can only attain limited precision. Hence, this thesis aims to develop innovative and effective deep-learning based algorithms and models for automatically detecting and classifying the distinctive features associated with each sleep stage. The first proposed method involves integrating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with gated recurrent units (GRUs) by leveraging several bio-signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), electromyogram (EMG), and electrooculogram (EOG). The proposed method is able to extract concealed characteristics from multi-channel bio-signal data and effectively distinguish sleep stages. It was tested and evaluated using two databases, namely the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) database and the University College Dublin Sleep Apnoea (UCDDB) database. The primary contribution of this study is in its ability to enhance classification performance compared to previous methods. It can learn features from diverse datasets while maintaining the model architecture. The second approach proposed integrates a CNN and a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, by employing a Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) feature. The findings of the second study suggest that the MFCC feature possesses the ability to preserve pertinent information about each sleep stage, hence reducing the duration required for retrieving the raw data and enhancing the computational efficiency of the model. The third method presented in this thesis proposed the integration of CNN, GRUs, EfficientNet, and a modified ResNet-50. This method employed the capabilities of EfficientNet in effectively managing the dimensions of the network, including breadth, depth, and resolution. This approach has demonstrated promising outcomes in the assessment of two distinct databases the SHHS database and the Sleep-EDF-78 database. The findings of this study indicate that utilizing numerous consecutive EEG epochs as input data sequences is an effective approach for auto sleep classification.
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF IRON AND VANADIUM ASSOCIATED WITH KAOLINITE
Creators: name: VINCENT, WENDY E.J.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1977

description: This thesis is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter relevant previous studies of kaolinite are summarised and in particular a review of past electron spin resonance studies of kaolinite is included. The experimental results are presented in four chapters. Chapter 2 describes an investigation of the vanadium impurities associated with natural kaolinites from Georgia, U.S.A. By following the changes in the electron spin resonance spectra of these samples with magnetic separation, thermal and chemical treatments, preferential orientation and relative humidity, it is shown that vanadium is substituted in the kaolinite structure, probably in the octahedral layer, as V4+ ions. The synthesis and electron spin resonance study of vanadium-doped kaolinite is reported in chapter 3. I t is shown that vanadium is substituted in the tetrahedral layer of these kaolinites and also that vanadium may be adsorbed on the surface of kaolinite. It is demonstrated that the comparison of electron spin resonance spectra of kaolinite samples equilibrated in atmospheres with low and high values of relative humidity provides a convenient method to distinguish between vanadium substituted in the structure and vanadium adsorbed on the surface. Chapter 4 describes the synthesis of kaolinites doped with iron (II) ions. It is shown that ions of this type can stabilise paramagnetic defects produced by X-irradiation and reproduce the asymmetric two-line resonance at g = 2 which is common to most natural kaolinites. An investigation using electron spin resonance that identifies different types of iron oxide phases associated with the surfaces of two groups of kaolinites from England and the United States is described in chapter 5. It is shown that the English kaolinites are coated with a lepidocrocite-like phase which is readily removed by de Endredy's method of deferrification. In contrast the American kaolinites are coated with a hematite- or goethite- like phase which is not removed by similar treatment. Throughout the course of this work, the effects of the various physical and chemical treatments on the brightness values of the kaolinites were examined. The results are summarised and discussed in chapter 6 and ideas for further work are suggested.
SIMULATION OF A MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTER SYSTEM
Creators: name: SALIH, A.M.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1981

description: The introduction of computers and software engineering in telephone switching systems has dictated the need for powerful design aids for such complex systems. Among these design aids simulators - real-time environment simulators and flat-level simulators - have been found particularly useful in stored program controlled switching systems design and evaluation. However, both types of simulators suffer from certain disadvantages. An alternative methodology to the simulation of stored program controlled switching systems is proposed in this research. The methodology is based on the development of a process-based multilevel hierarchically structured software simulator. This methodology eliminates the disadvantages of environment and flat-level simulators. It enables the modelling of the system in a 1 to 1 transformation process retaining the sub-systems interfaces and, hence, making it easier to see the resemblance between the model and modelled system and to incorporate design modifications and/or additions in the simulator. This methodology has been applied in building a simulation package for the System X family of exchanges. The Processor Utility Sub-system used to control the exchanges is first simulated, verified and validated. The application sub-systems models are then added one level higher_, resulting in an open-ended simulator having sub-systems models at different levels of detail and capable of simulating any member of the System X family of exchanges. The viability of the methodology is demonstrated by conducting experiments to tune the real-time operating system and by simulating a particular exchange - The Digital Main Network Switching Centre - in order to determine its performance characteristics.
Spiochaetopterus M. Sars 1853
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Chaetopteridae
Spiochaetopterus

description: Genus Spiochaetopterus M. Sars, 1853
Spiochaetopterus costarum (Claparède, 1868)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Vrišer et al. 1981; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Aleffi et al. 1988; Crema et al. 1991; Požar-Domac 1994; Crema et al. 2001; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004, 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM14, BM15, BM16, BM17, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM23, BM25, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM29, BM30, BM31, BM33, BM34, BM35, BM36, BM37, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM44, BM46, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM55, BM56, BM57, BM58, BM59, BM60, BM61, BM73, BM75, BM86, BM91, BM92, BM98, BM100, BM101.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Telepsavus costarum Claparède, 1869.
Spiochaetopterus typicus M. Sars, 1856 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Gillet 1986; Požar-Domac 1994.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
DIGITAL ENCODING OF TELEVISION SIGNALS USING THE PULSE WIDTH MODULATOR
Creators: name: WADE, JOHN GRAHAM
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1975

description: An attempt is made to quantify the circuit complexity and mean circuit speed of linearly quantized straight PCM video encoding techniques. Any significant reduction in circuit complexity (i.e. the number of active and passive devices to be integrated) is considered important since this determines: chip area and yield if the encoder is to be fully integrated. Analysis indicates that the complexity of the more highly developed straight PCM video encoders can be reduced by typically a factor 3 using either non-programmed sequential encoding, pulse width modulator encoding or programmed sequential encoding (closed loop successive approximation). The encoder studied in this work is an 8-bit pulse width modulator video encoder using a 2-step production line technique and a detailed design procedure for a prototype encoder is given. This encoder is considered to achieve 7-bit resolution at a sampling rate of 13.3MHZ. A mathematical model of the encoder-decoder system is developed for numerical evaluation of the effect of encoder errors and white Gaussian noise upon a coded and decoded video signal. A triangular wave test is applied to examine the effect of encoder errors upon the statio transfer characteristic of the encoder. Dynamic errors are investigated by simulating colour subcarrier at the model input and observing the phase and gain errors at the filtered codec output. Using differential phase and gain, an attempt is made to determine a circuit design and alignment criterion such that most practical codecs will fall within specific bounds on these parameters (taken as ±6° and ±6% respective1y). In the absense of dither, Monte Carlo analysis indicates that the maximum voltage error incurred by each encoder error source should have a high probability (95%) of being less than a half quantum if 85 - 90% of codecs measured are to fall within the above bounds. If white Gaussian noise is used as a simple dither signal then the probability of a codec falling within the above bounds may increase to about 95%. Improvements to the encoder are discussed, including several automatic error correction techniques which combat instrumental errors and give a more robust PWM encoder. Also, by predetermining the most significant bit for each set of 4 coded bits it is possible to halve the encoder clock frequency (to 133MHZ) without significantly changing the encoder complexity.
Arichlidon Watson Russell 1998
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Chrysopetalidae
Arichlidon

description: Genus Arichlidon Watson Russell, 1998
* Arichlidon reyssi (Katzmann, Laubier & Ramos, 1974)
DISTRIBUTION: CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Katzmann et al. 1974a; Amoureux 1983b, 1983c; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Bhawania reyssi Katzmann, Laubier & Ramos, 1974.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Trichodiadema barbatum Schwantes
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Trichodiadema
Trichodiadema barbatum

description: Mesembryanthemum barbatum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 482. 1753.
"Habitat ad Cap. b. Spei." RCN: 3680.
 Lectotype (Niesler in Hartmann, Ill. Handb. Succ. Pl., Aizoaceae F–Z: 341. 2001): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum radiatum, ramulisprolixis, recumbentibus " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 245, t. 190, f. 234. 1732.
 Current name:  Trichodiadema barbatum  (L.) Schwantes (Aizoaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on pages 667-668, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Chrysopetalum Ehlers 1864
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Chrysopetalidae
Chrysopetalum

description: Genus Chrysopetalum Ehlers 1864
Chrysopetalum debile (Grube 1855)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Zavodnik 1967b; Banse 1970; Amoureux & Katzmann 1971; Katzmann 1971, 1972; Amoureux 1975; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Amoureux 1983c; Požar-Domac 1986; Špan et al. 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Casellato & Stefanon 2008; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM2, BM4, BM5, BM6, BM7, BM8, BM9, BM18, BM71, BM74. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Chrysopetalum fragile Ehlers 1864.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Acrodon bellidiflorus N. E. Br.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Acrodon
Acrodon bellidiflorus

description: Mesembryanthemum bellidiflorum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 482. 1753.
"Habitat in Africa." RCN: 3678.
 Replaced synonym of: Mesembryanthemum acaule L. (1759), nom. illeg.
 Lectotype (Glen in Bothalia 16: 214. 1986): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum Bellidiflorum " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 244, t. 189, f. 233. 1732.
 Current name:  Acrodon bellidiflorus  (L.) N.E. Br. (Aizoaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 668, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Dysponetus Levinsen 1879
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Chrysopetalidae
Dysponetus

description: Genus Dysponetus Levinsen, 1879
® Dysponetus caecus (Langerhans, 1880)
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
NEW RECORDS: Near Rovinj (NA) in 2008 (F. Pleijel and A. Nygren, pers. comm.). REMARKS: This is the first record from the Adriatic Sea.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Noise source location in the built environment, using a simple microphone array
Creators: name: Latham, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1994

description: An inadequate level of noise attenuation provided by a building element is frequently the result of a lack of completeness in the construction. This often invisible fault acts as a noise source in a room, so in order to undertake remedial work the source position must be found. Recently, near field noise intensity measurement has been the popular method for noise source location in buildings. This method of using intensity studies requires a grid of readings to be taken. An alternative method, the one used in this work, employs a different strategy. Here, the source location is identified by direction scanning of time delays at a number of microphones arranged in a regular three-dimensional array. A novel arrangement of seven microphones, in the shape of a wheel-brace, is used to measure the differences in time taken for the sound waves to travel from a source to the various microphones. The magnitudes of these time differences are combined and converted into the coordinates of the source, relative to an origin which is placed at the centre of the wheel-brace array. The mathematics for this conversion is derived and the errors in the experimental arrangement discussed. The use of this airay for the identification of faults in built structures is explored. A significant contribution is made to the knowledge of noise source location in buildings, since the microphone array is used to demonstrate the location of a noise source irrespective of the direction of the incoming noise. The use of computerised data collection is described for a budget system, where time was cheap, but equipment expensive. The accuracy of the technique would be improved considerably if state-of-the-art electronics were used to measure the lime differences. The feasibility, advantages and potential performance of a modem system, that could be assembled today, is described and discussed.
Establishing an Information Security Awareness and Culture
Creators: name: Korovessis, Peter
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Information Security Awareness
Information Security Culture
Information Security Surveys
Information Security Practices
Information Security Toolkit

description: In today’s business environment all business operations are enabled by technology. Its always on and connected nature has brought new business possibilities but at the same time has increased the number of potential threats. Information security has become an established discipline as more and more businesses realize its value. Many surveys have indicated the importance of protecting valuable information and an important aspect that must be addressed in this regard is information security awareness. The human component has been recognized to have an important role in information security since the only way to reduce security risks is through making employees more information security aware. This also means that employees take responsibility of their actions when dealing with information in their everyday activities. The research is concentrated mainly on information security concepts alongside their relation to the human factor with evidence that users remain susceptible to information security threats, thus illustrating the need for more effective user training in order to raise the level of security awareness. Two surveys were undertaken in order to investigate the potential of raising security awareness within existing education systems by measuring the level of security awareness amongst the online population. The surveys analyzed not only the awareness levels and needs of students during their study and their preparation towards entering the workforce, but also whether this awareness level changes as they progress in their studies. The results of both surveys established that the awareness level of students concerning information security concepts is not at a sufficient level for students entering university education and does not significantly change as they progress their academic life towards entering the workforce. In respect to this, the research proposes and develops the information security toolkit as a prototype awareness raising initiative. The research goes one step further by piloting and evaluating toolkit effectiveness. As an awareness raising method, the toolkit will be the basis for the general technology user to understand the challenges associated with secure use of information technology and help him assess its current knowledge, identify lacks and weaknesses and acquire the required knowledge in order to be competent and confident users of technology.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY FOR THE COST JUSTIFICATION OF NEW MANUFACTURING INVESTMENTS
Creators: name: VESTERGAARD LARSEN, POVL CHRISTIAN
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1994

description: This work addresses the problems faced by small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SME's) in cost justifying new investments in tools, techniques and technologies, and presents a methodology which significantly improves on current cost justification techniques. The methodology provides a structured approach which leads a company through a series of workshops, which assist a company in establishing the full company wide benefits and costs associated with new manufacturing investment. A model, in the form of a workbook and the specification for a prototype computer based tool, of the tasks necessary in cost justification is presented. The model is used to structure the decisions relating to possible investments. The research work described involved two distinct stages. The first stage included a fifteen month involvement in the Finjust project - a financial justification project sponsored by the DTI, in collaboration with Quintec Applied Systems, Mundy Johnson, Entrepreneurial Technologies and the University of Plymouth, where the author's individual contribution was for the identification of the links between business needs and technologies and specifying the benefits of the investments. The author's involvement in the project allowed the strategy to be tested in the collaborating companies. In the second stage, the major contribution of the research lies in the development of a new methodology, which whilst based on some of the principles of the Finjust project, incorporates many new ideas which significantly improve its value to SME's. Through the use of this work SME's are encouraged to improve ownership and commitment to the manufacturing solutions identified by fully involving relevant company personnel in the identification of business needs, the generation of solutions and the financial justification of proposed investments. This work also provides a mechanism to facilitate management development and training in financial justification by providing rationales for each activity, forms for the collection of data and tool kits to assist in the completion of specific tasks. The results of this work have provided the data necessary for the specification and building of an improved methodology in the form of a workbook.
Reinforcement learning in intelligent control : a biologically-inspired approach to the relearning problem
Creators: name: D'Cruz, Brendan
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1998

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2240 on 08.20.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: The increasingly complex demands placed on control systems have resulted in a need for intelligent control, an approach that attempts to meet these demands by emulating the capabilities found in biological systems. The need to exploit existing knowledge is a desirable feature of any intelligent control system, and this leads to the relearning problem. The problem arises when a control system is required to effectively learn new knowledge whilst exploiting still useful knowledge from past experiences. This thesis describes the adaptive critic system using reinforcement learning, a computational framework that can effectively address many of the demands in intelligent control, but is less effective when it comes to addressing the relearning problem. The thesis argues that biological mechanisms of reinforcement learning (and relearning) may provide inspiration for developing artificial intelligent control mechanisms that can better address the relearning problem. A conceptual model of biological reinforcement learning and relearning is presented, and the thesis shows how inspiration derived from this model can be used to modify the adaptive critic. The performance of the modified adaptive critic system on the relearning problem is investigated based on simulations of the pole balancing problem, and this is compared to the performance of the original adaptive critic system. The thesis presents an analysis of the results from these simulations, and discusses the significance of these results in terms of addressing the relearning problem.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL SUSPENSION ARM WITH 2-DIMENSIONAL ACTUATION, FOR USE IN ADVANCED HARD DISK DRIVES
Creators: name: CHILUMBU, CHIBESA
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002

description: As magnetic computer disks are developed to ever-greater data storage densities, the accuracy required for head positioning is moving beyond the accuracy provided by present technology using single-stage voice-coil motors in hard disk drives. This thesis details work to develop a novel active suspension arm with 2-dimensional actuation for use in advanced hard disk drives. The arm developed is capable of high-bandwidth data tracking as well as precision head flying height control motion. High-bandwidth data tracking is facilitated by the use of piezoelectric stack actuator, positioned closer to the head. The suspension arm is also capable of motion in the orthogonal axis. This motion represents active flying height control to maintain the correct altitude during drive operation. To characterise the suspension arm's structural dynamics, a high-resolution measurement system based on the optical beam deflection technique has been developed. This has enabled the accurate measurement of minute end-deflections of the suspension arm in 2-dimensions, to sub-nanometre resolution above noise. The design process of the suspension arm has led into the development of novel piezoelectric-actuated arms. In the work involving lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thick films as actuators, work in this thesis shows that reinforcing the films with fibre improves the overall actuation characteristics of the thick films. This discovery benefits applications such as structural health monitoring. The final suspension arm design has been adopted because it is simple in design, easier to integrate within current hard disk drive environment and easier to fabricate in mass. Closed-loop control algorithms based on proportional, integral and derivative (PID) controller techniques have been developed and implemented to demonstrate high bandwidths that have been achieved. The suspension arm developed presents an important solution in head-positioning technology in that it offers much higher bandwidths for data tracking and flying height control; both very essential in achieving even higher data storage densities on magnetic disks at much reduced head flying heights, compared to those in existing hard disk drives.
Aphelochaeta Blake 1991
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Terebellida
Cirratulidae
Aphelochaeta

description: Genus Aphelochaeta Blake, 1991
Aphelochaeta filiformis (Keferstein, 1862)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1940; Vatova 1942, 1949a; Bellan 1969; Katzmann 1972; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Vrišer 1979; Požar-Domac 1983, 1994; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM41, BM50, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM96.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Cirratulus filiformis Keferstein, 1862.
Aphelochaeta marioni (Saint-Joseph, 1894)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Bellan 1969; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1972, 1973a, 1973f; Zavodnik et al. 1978; Amoureux 1979; Zavodnik 1979; Amoureux 1983a, 1983c; Katzmann 1983; Gillet 1986; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Požar-Domac 1986, 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Castelli et al. 1999; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Crema et al.
2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Forni et al. 2004; Simonini et al. 2005a, 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM14, BM16, BM17, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM34, BM37, BM38, BM39, BM40, BM41, BM46, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM50, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM55, BM56, BM57, BM58, BM61, BM62, BM63, BM65, BM66, BM74, BM91, BM96, BM98, BM99, BM100, BM101.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Tharyx marioni (Saint-Joseph, 1894).
* Aphelochaeta multibranchis (Grube, 1863)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1863, 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Vatova 1931a; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935; Fauvel 1940; Vatova 1942; Laubier 1962; Banse 1970; Katzmann 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1973a, 1973f, 1983; Požar-Domac 1983, 1994; Zahtila 1995; Mancinelli et al. 1998; Forni et al. 2004; Simonini et al. 2005a; Keppel & Maggiore 2006; Maggiore & Keppel 2007; Simonini et al. 2007; Casellato & Stefanon 2008; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM14, BM18, BM34, BM36, BM37, BM38, BM46, BM49, BM50, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM100.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Tharyx multibranchiis (Grube, 1863); Heterocirrus multibranchis Grube, 1863.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN UNBURNT HYDROCARBONS AND SOOT IN DIESEL EXHAUSTS
Creators: name: SEEBOLD, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1989

description: The potential health risk of diesel particulate (DP) has stimulated research into its physical and chemical composition. Its interaction with unburnt hydrocarbons (UHC) at exhaust temperatures was studied (i.e. composition and microstructure), at varying engine conditions. A hot whole exhaust filtration system was developed to collect DP on Pallflex TX-40 PTFE coated filters (for minimal artefact formation) down the exhaust of a Ricardo E6/T IDI diesel engine. Electron microscopy (SEM and TEM) and a gravimetric BET method determined particle size, specific surface area (SSA) and pore character. An in vacuo gravimetric thermal degassing (TD) apparatus was constructed to extract adsorbed volatiles (filter extractable sample - FES). The volatile FES was trapped and analysed by gas chromatography and identified as fuel and oil derived UHC's. Ultrasonic and soxhlet extraction techniques were employed for comparison studies. DP are graphitic carbonaceous aggregates of 30-40nm mean particle diameter. Structural analysis indicated that slit-shaped pores (Type II isotherm) were formed between crystallite layers. Highly adsorbed pore-bound FES fractions were identified (fuel i n ultramicropores, 0.355-lnm; fuel/oil in supermicropores, 1-2nm), trapped by overlapping crystallite van der Waal's fields. Engine load influenced micropore adsorption and DP SSA. High loads with high combustion temperatures, efficiently pyrolysed fuel, producing DP with little adsorbed FES and SSA's of 100m² /g. Low loads with lower in-cylinder temperatures, formed less DP and more fuel survived, producing soots of low SSA(<20m² /g). Between aggregated particles, 'ink-bottle' mesopores (2-50nm) were evident (Type IV isotherm) where fuel FES was weakly adsorbed by temperature dependent chemical scavenging as exhaust temperature declined , reducing SSA and increasing particle size. Thermal degassing was more efficient than soxhlet or ultrasonic extraction methods, because the solvent methods failed to penetrate the smallest pores. TD increased soot SSA, greatest for low load samples (by 200m²/g) compared to high load samples (by 50m² /g). TD was highly advantageous for DP extraction and allowed progressive removal of volatiles. A modern DI engine showed structurally similar soots, but the lower DP emissions produced high relative %FES for all engine conditions giving low SSA's. The research findings are related to cylinder and environmental processes for engineers and environmental scientists to improve control strategies.