cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Luidiidae Sladen 1889
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Paxillosida
Luidiidae

description: LUIDIIDAE Sladen 1889
Four species of Luidia were summarized by Liao & Clark (1995) from southern Chinese waters with two species, so far, observed from Hong Kong. Luidia live buried in unconsolidated sediment and are predators of mollusks and other animals occurring in these habitats (Jangoux 1982).
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Assessing Team Performance in a Collaborative Virtual Reality Task with Objective Team-Level Metrics
Creators: name: Villarreal, Ryan Thomas
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520104
subject: Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors)
classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance
classificationCode: 460708
subject: Virtual and mixed reality
classificationCode: 401404
subject: Industrial engineering

description: Breakdowns in communication and teamwork are significant contributors to errors in safety-critical domains such as healthcare and aviation. Virtual Reality (VR) simulations have emerged as promising tools for team training in these environments, offering immersive experiences at lower costs compared to traditional high-fidelity simulators. However, current team evaluation methods often rely on subjective assessments and individual-level metrics, which may not fully capture the complex dynamics of team interactions. This thesis addresses the need for objective, team-level metrics in VR-based simulations by developing a collaborative three-person VR task designed to elicit varying levels of team workload through manipulations of task interdependence and time pressure. Data were collected from 60 participants (20 teams) using subjective questionnaires, objective performance metrics, and team-level physiological measures. The findings demonstrate that the experimental tasks effectively elicited distinguishable differences in team performance and perceived workload across varying conditions. Subjective measures of team workload correlated moderately with objective performance metrics, supporting the validity of the performance measures. While MdRQA metrics did not significantly predict subjective workload perceptions, they were able to predict performance metrics including error rates, suggesting that team-level physiological metrics are associated with team performance and may be predictive of strategy shifts in VR tasks. These results reinforce the feasibility of using VR simulations for evaluating team performance and highlight the potential of integrating objective physiological metrics into VR training environments. This integration can strengthen the assessment and improvement of team performance in safety-critical domains, offering a more comprehensive approach to evaluating teams.
The Surreal World of Oleg Oprisco: A Study in Photography and Storytelling
Creators: name: Oliveira D., M. Jorge
Publisher: name: EmpowerVerse Media, Information & Communication Agency
Year: 2024
Subjects: photography
Oleg Oprisco
surrealism

description: Photography is more than capturing reality; it’s also about creating worlds. Ukrainian photographer Oleg Oprisco exemplifies this idea, crafting surreal, dreamlike images that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Through his use of analog techniques, thoughtful staging, and emotional depth, Oprisco has garnered international acclaim as a master of storytelling in photography. This article explores his work, techniques, and the lessons photographers can learn from his unique approach.
Luidia longispina Sladen 1889
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Paxillosida
Luidiidae
Luidia
Luidia longispina

description: Luidia longispina Sladen 1889
FIGURE 34
Comments
This species was identified based on the elongate inferomarginal spines forming the fringe around the animal’s periphery. It was observed at 12 m depth on sandy substratum. Chiu et al. (1983) reported that 90% of this species’ diet was mollusks, primarily the semelid bivalve Theora lata. They also reported that this and another five-rayed Hong Kong species, Luidia hardwicki, could adopt either a selective or an opportunistic feeding strategy in response to both composition and abundance.
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 12 m.
Outside Hong Kong. Southern China, Philippines, Singapore, 12– 36 m.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Luidia maculata Muller & Troschel 1842
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Paxillosida
Luidiidae
Luidia
Luidia maculata

description: Luidia maculata Müller & Troschel 1842
Figure 35A–D
Comments
This species is identified by having seven to nine arms, a bold black and white pattern present on the disk and arms in addition to three to five stout but short inferomarginal spines arranged in a transverse series. Single paxillar spines are absent. Most observed individuals of this species in Hong Kong display eight or nine arms. Although addressed as a species relative to other Luidia spp. (e.g. A.M. Clark 1982) infraspecific variation has not been heavily investigated. There are for example, distinct disk patterns between individuals in the Hong Kong area. Figure 35A shows two color form variants, with the commonly encountered form on the left, but others have been observed. Feeding observations are considered under Discussion.
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 7m.
Outside Hong Kong. Widely throughout the Indo-Pacific. Southern China and Japan to Australia, Philippines, Indian Ocean, 0–100 m.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Myriophora flavicosta Hash & Brown, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hash, John M.
name: Brown, Brian V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Phoridae
Myriophora
Myriophora flavicosta

description: Myriophora flavicosta sp. nov.
(Fig. 3.7)
Diagnosis. Female. Myriophora flavicosta is one the few species that have an inflated costal vein and is distinguished from the similar M. luteitergum by having longer setae on the posterior margin of abdominal T5 and solidly brown abdominal tergites (Fig. 3.7).
Description. Female (Fig. 3.7). Body length 2.45 mm. Head: Frons yellow, with 1 pair of supra-antennal setae; supra-antennals originate above lower interfrontal setae. First flagellomere yellow, slightly pointed under arista. Palpus yellow, normal sized. Labrum prominent, enlarged. Labellum normal sized. Thorax: Scutum dusky yellow. Scutellum dusky yellow. Anterior scutellar setae about 3/4 length of posterior pair. Pleuron yellow; anepisternum with a few setulae. Forefemur yellow. Midfemur yellow. Hind femur yellow. Wing length 2.38 mm; costal vein inflated; costal length 1.58 mm; costal ratio 0.66. Knob of halter light brown. Abdomen: Tergites 1 and 2 dark brown; tergite 2 with strong, distinct setae on lateral margin. Tergite 5 dark brown; posterior setae on tergite 5 long. Tergite 6 rectangular to slightly narrowing posteriorly; posterodorsal setae on segment 6 of equal length to posteroventral setae. Venter of abdomen with sparse short setae. Oviscape strongly laterally compressed; sclerites light brown; membrane yellowish with brown striation; long setae present at apex on membrane and sclerites.
Distribution. Known from one site in Colombia.
Host. Unknown.
Etymology. A noun from Latin for "yellow costa" referring to the distinctly yellow costal vein.
Holotype. ♀, COLOMBIA: Chocó: Sendero Cocalito, PNN Utria, 6.02°N, 77.35°W, 20m, 1–5.vii.2000, B. Brown, D. Campos, Malaise trap #9 [LACM ENT 072273] (IAVH).
description: Published as part of Hash, John M. & Brown, Brian V., 2015, Revision of the New World Species of the Millipede-Parasitic Genus Myriophora Brown (Diptera: Phoridae), pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 4035 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4035.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289850
Echinaster luzonicus
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Spinulosida
Echinasteridae
Echinaster
Echinaster luzonicus

description: Echinaster luzonicus (Gray 1840)
FIGURE 36
Comments
The observed individuals display the coloration, soft surface texture, and arm shape of Echinaster luzonicus, but display only five rays, rather than the six, which are typically associated with this species. Liao & Clark (1995) have indicated that individuals with five arms and other characters typical of E. luzonicus have been described from Chinese waters.
Marsh & Fromont (2020) provided a brief summary of this species, which feeds on biofilm and encrusting sponges and occurs throughout the Indo-Pacific from southern Japan and China, south to Palmyra and New Caledonia and east to Indonesia and Australia.
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 10–20 m.
Outside Hong Kong. Southern China, Fujian Province, Macclesfield Bank, Ryukyu Islands, Philippines, Palau, New Caledonia, east to Palmyra Island, Indonesia, northern and western Australia, Maldives, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, 0–60 m.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
COBALT AND NICKEL CATALYZED VINYLIDENE TRANSFER REACTIONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Janabel, Jaysan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 340503
subject: Organic chemical synthesis
classificationCode: 340211
subject: Transition metal chemistry

description: The recently developed in this group, new method of generating cobalt and nickel vinylidene complexes in situ from 1,1-dichloroalkenes and their catalytic transfer reactions has proven to be a fertile ground for discovery of many useful transformations. In this dissertation, further studies of their reactivity and mechanisms are discussed based on the findings from several methodology projects. The use of chiral ligand enables asymmetric vinylidene transfer reactions and with symmetrical (Z)-alkenes as substrates, the products are methylenecyclopropanes with axial chirality (Chapter 2). DFT studies unveil the unique model of asymmetric induction where the substituent on the vinylidene substrate plays a crucial role. These products were intriguing due to their potential applications in many fields as well as their chirality transfer reactions that can provide diverse building blocks, but they were previously unobtainable. In Chapter 3, the finding of a new reducing condition for these general transformations was discussed in detail, followed by the uncovering of previously unknown effects of routinely used metallic Zn powder. This study provided a window to view the vulnerabilities in the general mechanism of this novel type of net-reductive reaction when ran under Zn reduction and explains some of the previously mysterious ligand effects. The new reduction condition runs under photoexcitation and is a Lewis acid free medium that can allow the discovery of new reactions. In Chapter 4, the above alternative reduction condition was applied to address the yield problem of a [2+2+1] cycloaddition reaction of vinylidenes with 1,6-enynes. This reaction was also found to work successfully in an intermolecular manner with excellent regioselectivity. Overall, this doctoral research work further expands this manifold towards the direction of asymmetric reactions and more complex cycloaddition reactions.
Semi-Supervised Rotation Measure Deconvolution and its application to MeerKAT observations of galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Victor
name: Brüggen, Marcus
name: Enßlin, Torsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Faraday rotation contains information about the magnetic field structure along the line of sight and is an important instrument in the study of cosmic magnetism. Traditional Faraday spectrum deconvolution methods such as RMCLEAN face challenges in resolving complex Faraday dispersion functions and handling large datasets. We develop a deep learning deconvolution model to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of extracting Faraday rotation measures from radio astronomical data, specifically targeting data from the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey (MGCLS). We use semi-supervised learning, where the model simultaneously recreates the data and minimizes the difference between the output and the true signal of synthetic data. Performance comparisons with RMCLEAN were conducted on simulated as well as real data for the galaxy cluster Abell 3376. Our semi-supervised model is able to recover the Faraday dispersion with great accuracy, particularly for complex or high-RM signals, maintaining sensitivity across a broad RM range. The computational efficiency of this method is significantly improved over traditional methods. Applied to observations of Abell 3376, we find detailed magnetic field structures in the radio relics, and several AGN. We also apply our model to MeerKAT data of Abell 85, Abell 168, Abell 194, Abell 3186 and Abell 3667.
description: 20 pages, 20 figures, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cerithium exiguum C. B. Adams 1850
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cerithiidae
Cerithium
Cerithium exiguum

description: Cerithium exiguum C.B. Adams, 1850
Cerithium exiguum C.B. Adams, 1850: 118.
Triphoris exiguus (C.B. Adams, 1850) — Mörch 1876: 106.
Triforis exiguus (C.B. Adams, 1850) — Tryon 1887: 191.
Triphora exiguum (C.B. Adams, 1850) —de Jong & Coomans 1988: 49.
Triphora exigua (C.B. Adams, 1850) — Díaz & Puyana 1994: 148, fig. 522.
Type locality. Jamaica.
Type material. Not Found in MCZ (Clench & Turner, 1950).
Distribution. ABC–Islands (de Jong & Coomans 1988; Díaz & Puyana 1994), Colombia (Díaz & Puyana 1994; Díaz & Miloslavich 2010), Jamaica (Adams 1850; Mörch 1876; Tryon 1887; Paetel 1888; Clench & Turner 1950; Díaz & Miloslavich 2010).
Remarks. Considered a nomen dubium by Rolán & Fernández-Garcés (2007).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Paralygocoris vittulatus Yasunaga 2024, new combination
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Paralygocoris
Paralygocoris vittulatus

description: Paralygocoris vittulatus (Poppius, 1914) new combination
(Figs. 12 M−O, 17A–E, 34A−I)
Lygus vittulatus Poppius, 1914: 361.
Lygocoris vittulatus: Schwartz & Chérot, 2005: 10 (new combination).
Material examined. INDONESIA: 5 males, 4 females, South Sulawesi, Lompobattan, 30 miles E of Makassar (Ujung Pandang), 5°19′S, 119°56′E, M. Takai, 22–25 December 1999 (AMNH, TYCN, ZRC) (1 male bearing USI’s, AMNH _ PBI 00378789).
Diagnosis. This species is recognised readily by its relatively large size and unique colour pattern on dorsum (Fig. 12M, O), in addition to the characters shown in the key. The male and female genitalic structures are herein described for the first time. Detailed description of external characters was provided by Poppius (1914).
Description. Male genitalia (Figs. 17A–E, 34E, F): Left paramere L-shaped, with apically inflated sensory lobe and sharply pointed apex of hypophysis; hypophysis of right paramere sharply pointed; vesical spicule elongate, stout, L-shaped. Female genitalia (Figs. 17F, 34G–I): Sclerotised rings elongate ovoid, narrow, relatively contiguous to each other mesally; dorsal structure basally fused with interramal lobes; and both of interramal lobe and dorsal structure spinulate along posterior margin.
Measurements. See Table 1.
Biology. Unknown. According to the collector (Takai M, pers. comm.), more than a few individuals of this mirid were captured by sweep-netting inflorescences of broadleaf trees around cultivated fields.
Remarks. This taxon has been known only by the female holotype from S. Celebes [= Sulawesi] (Bua-Kraeng) (Schwartz & Chérot, 2005). During sorting a number of mirine specimens collected by Mr. M. Takai (Ehime University Expedition in 1999), several samples were found to match Poppius’ species. Although Schwartz & Chérot (2005) placed Lygus vittulatus in Lygocoris, the present close examination of the surface structures and genitalia recognised it as a member of Paralygocoris, new genus. A new combination is accordingly established.
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2024, New genera and species of the ' Lygus-complex' ranging from the Himalaya-Oriental to the Wallacea region (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae), pp. 371-423 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72 on page 416, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0030, http://zenodo.org/record/14682946
Cerithium exile C. B. Adams 1850
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cerithiidae
Cerithium
Cerithium exile

description: Cerithium exile C.B. Adams, 1850 [invalid: primary homonym]
Cerithium exile C.B. Adams, 1850: 120.
Cerithiopsis exile (C.B. Adams, 1850) — Parker & Curray 1956: 2433.
Cerithiopsis exilis (C.B. Adams, 1850) — Rios 1970: 44.
Metaxia exilis (C.B. Adams, 1850) —de Jong & Coomans 1988: 51.
Type locality. Jamaica.
Type material. MCZ 1777150, holotype.
Remarks. Cerithium exile C.B. Adams, 1850 is a primary homonym of Cerithium exile Eichholz, 1829. Therefore, Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991 was introduced as a replacement name for C. exile C.B. Adams.
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Velocity fluctuations for bubbly flows at small Re
Creators: name: Ravisankar, Mithun
name: Zenit, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigate the effect of Reynolds number (Re) on the turbulence induced by the motion of bubbles in a quiescent Newtonian fluid at small Re. The energy spectra, $E(k)$, is determined from the decaying turbulence behind the bubble swarm obtained using particle image velocimetry (PIV). We show that when Re $\sim$ $O$(100), the slope of the normalized energy spectra is no longer independent on the gas volume fraction and the $k^{-3}$ subrange is significantly narrower, where $k$ is the wavenumber. This is further corroborated using second-order longitudinal velocity structure function and spatial correlation of the velocity vector behind the bubble swarm. On further decreasing the bubble Reynolds number ($O(1) < $ Re $ < O(10)$), the signature $k^{-3}$ of the energy spectra for the bubble induced turbulence is replaced by $k^{-5/3}$ scaling. Thus, we provide experimental evidence to the claim by \citet{mazzitelli2003effect} that at low Reynolds numbers the normalized energy spectra of the bubble induced turbulence will no longer show the $k^{-3}$ scaling because of the absence of bubble wake and that the energy spectra will depend on the number of bubbles, thus non-universal.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Linckia laevigata
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Ophidiasteridae
Linckia
Linckia laevigata

description: Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus 1758)
FIGURE 37C
Comments
A species identified based on its distinctive arm shape and irregularly arranged abactinal plates. Although color is variable across its range, this species is best known for its distinctive blue color. The individual figured herein shows a more blue-green color (Fig. 37C) and was spotted on the rocky substrate in Basalt Island at 7m. Only one occurrence was recorded during our study but others have been recorded by citizen science accounts which show the more typical deep-blue color. Liao & Clark (1995) had recorded this species from Hong Kong waters, but stated that it was not a commonly encountered species.
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 7m.
Outside Hong Kong. Widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific. Southern China, Japan, Taiwan, Northern and Western Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Polynesia to the Indian Ocean, to east Africa, 0–60 m.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Proagoderus van Lansberge 1883
Creators: name: Daniel, Gimo M.
name: Josso, Jean-François
name: Nganhane, Isildo De N.
name: Strümpher, Werner P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Proagoderus

description: Genus Proagoderus van Lansberge, 1883
Type species: Onthophagus (Proagoderus) ritsemae van Lansberge, 1883, by monotypy.
= Onthotrogus Motschulsky, 1860, type species: Copris auratus Fabricius, 1801, by monotypy (suppressed by ICZN 1993: Opinion 1708, see also Palestrini 1991).
= Melinocerus Motschulsky, 1860, type species: Copris harpax Fabricius, 1801, by monotypy (nomen oblitum, see Moretto 2013).
= Tauronthophagus Shipp, 1895, type species: Onthophagus rangifer Klug, 1855, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Daniel, Gimo M., Josso, Jean-François, Nganhane, Isildo De N. & Strümpher, Werner P., 2024, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 3: A new species of Proagoderus van Lansberge, 1883 with an annotated checklist of the Proagoderus dives (Harold, 1877) species-group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 175-189 in Zootaxa 5406 (1) on page 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/10611256
Triforis exilis Dunker 1860
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triforis
Triforis exilis

description: Triforis exilis Dunker, 1860
Triforis exilis Dunker, 1860: 237.
Triphora exilis Dunker, 1860 — Kuroda & Habe 1952: 91.
Type locality. Japan.
Type material. Type material not located so far.
Distribution. Japan (Dunker 1860; Dunker 1861; Dunker 1882; Tryon 1887; Paetel 1888; Pilsbry 1895; Kuroda & Habe 1952; Higo et al. 1999).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Ophidiaster armatus Koehler 1910
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Ophidiasteridae
Ophidiaster
Ophidiaster armatus

description: Ophidiaster armatus Koehler 1910
FIGURE 37A–B
Comments
Images of this species were only taken of the abactinal surface. Diagnostic furrow spine characters were not observed. However, the R/r ratio as well as the size of the individuals were most consistent with descriptions outlined by Liao & Clark (1995). In situ observations showed this species to be brown to light green with darker bands across the arms with dark papular areas.
Both four and six-rayed variants of this species were observed.A 6-rayed specimen was observed at the Ninepins Islands, Hong Kong (Fig. 37B)
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 10–20 m.
Outside Hong Kong, central Pacific, Southern China, Taiwan, Andaman Islands, Queensland and Are Islands. 5–40 m (Marsh & Fromont 2020).
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
A look at upland salt marsh edge migration in New Jersey
Creators: name: Sacatelli, Rachael M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Global mean temperatures have risen above pre-industrial temperatures resulting in a sea level rose 0.3 – 0.4m between 1901-2010 in the Mid-Atlantic (Kopp et al., 2016) and causing increasingly frequent and intense storms (Trenberth, 2011). These changes in environmental factors are linked to changes in vegetation communities in coastal marsh and adjacent maritime forest. This vegetation change is evident in the appearance of standing dead trees among tidal salt marsh vegetation known as “Ghost Forests”. This study investigates this transition of maritime forest to tidal saltwater marsh observed in New Jersey, USA. The spatial location of the salt marsh-upland forest edge was mapped using historical aerial photography and the rates of edge migration were measured at eight sites in New Jersey, USA. This study also reviews the present state of knowledge of the geographic scope and potential mechanisms behind forest edge migration along the eastern seaboard of the United States and investigates. The results were compared to data gathered on several of the identified mechanisms to determine the potential role each mechanism may be playing in the forest edge migration. Using aerial photography between 1940 and 2015 at intervals ranging from ten to two years, this study demonstrates that forest dieback is occurring at the forest- coastal marsh interface and that salt marsh is expanding into this transition zone. The rates of forest edge migration observed at the 8 sites varied geographically and across the 75 year time period. This variation in forest edge migration rate is likely due to a combination of mechanisms that vary between sites, some as direct mechanisms and others as modulators. The driving mechanisms of migration of the forest edge are likely sea level rise induced changes in groundwater and increased severity of storm surges, as these mechanisms directly affect the soil properties of the ecosystem. These mechanisms are ultimately controlled by climate change induced changes in SLR and storm intensity, but are moderated by other physical phenomena such as changes in tidal flooding and human land use alterations.
Engineering two-dimensional materials from single-layer NbS$_2$
Creators: name: Knispel, Timo
name: Mohrenstecher, Daniela
name: Speckmann, Carsten
name: Safeer, Affan
name: van Efferen, Camiel
name: Boix, Virgínia
name: Grüneis, Alexander
name: Jolie, Wouter
name: Preobrajenski, Alexei
name: Knudsen, Jan
name: Atodiresei, Nicolae
name: Michely, Thomas
name: Fischer, Jeison
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from a single layer of NbS$_2$ grown on graphene by molecular beam epitaxy, the single unit cell thick 2D materials Nb$_{5/3}$S$_3$-2D and Nb$_2$S$_3$-2D are created using two different pathways. Either annealing under sulfur-deficient conditions at progressively higher temperatures or deposition of increasing amounts of Nb at elevated temperature result in phase-pure Nb$_{5/3}$S$_3$-2D followed by Nb$_2$S$_3$-2D. The materials are characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy, scanning tunneling spectroscopy and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy. The experimental assessment combined with systematic density functional theory calculations reveals their structure. The 2D materials are covalently bound without any van der Waals gap. Their stacking sequence and structure are at variance with expectations based on corresponding bulk materials highlighting the importance of surface and interface effects in structure formation.
Development of speech motor control for language: motor analysis from phonetic transcripts
Creators: name: Clarke, Jennifer D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: The developmental sequence of speech motor control has yet to be directly examined in the emergence of spoken language. Contemporary accounts of the emergence of spoken language traditionally address speech motor control as part of the maturational process. The present study investigates the developmental sequence of speech motor control in the transition from babble to word productions.Speech motor control of the jaw, lips, and tongue was observed longitudinally from nine to 16 months of age in five English speaking children. Predictions of speech motor control were evaluated for spontaneous vocalizations from the production of babble to referential words. Results confirmed that speech sound productions in babble and words at the onset of spoken language are controlled with the child’s available motor skills. As predicted, the jaw was the first of the three articulators to have independent graded control in the emergence of word productions. Lip control was observed second as the child began producing referential words. At 16 months there was no evidence of independent tongue control in the production of babble, words, or referential words. These findings indicate that speech production at the onset of spoken language is enabled by the motor control available to the child. The results of this study add an additional variable to be considered in theoretical perspectives that attempt to explain the onset of spoken language. Early developmental milestones of the speech motor system have yet to be identified in the emergence of spoken language. The results of this study identify the motor milestones for the jaw and the lip at the onset of word productions. These findings provide a first step in investigation of speech motor control and a basis for investigating therapeutic approaches that consider these skills.
State policy determinants of charter school market share
Creators: name: Coffin, Stephen V.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: This study investigates the determinants of charter school enrollment using a comprehensive model of supply and demand. Research on the determinants of charter school enrollment has tended to focus solely on state policies believed to limit or support charter school growth; ignoring other determinants risks misidentifying the contributions of these policies due to omitted variables bias. In addition, prior research has tended to view charter school expansion as entirely at the expense of traditional public school enrollment—and thereby “taking funding away” from traditional public schools, when charter schools may retain some children in the public system who otherwise would attend private schools.
NGSS and the new role for physics teachers: reflections of preservice physics teachers as windows on the learning, development and enduring of science practices
Creators: name: Vanier, Marianne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) define a different role for the physics teacher. While there is the expectation that preservice physics teachers (PPTs) will enter the profession with the proper and complete set of knowledge and skills to engage classroom communities of students in physics concept construction through immersion in science practices. The results of our study indicate that, when provided with the proper environment and learning opportunities, PPTs can learn, develop and integrate science practices to their teaching practice, and that, even if they were not exposed to such type of learning when they were learning science themselves.While such positive results do agree with the expectations and requirements from the NGSS, major modifications to the physics teacher preparation program were necessary to reach such point. More specifically, the insertion of the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) framework through the whole physics teacher preparation program, and a close alignment of the physics education method courses with the various types of early additional teaching experiences throughout the program.An analysis of the content of the reflections showed that each type of clinical practice (or type of early additional teaching experience) led the PPTs to develop specific science practices, habits of practice, habits of maintenance and improvement and types of noticing, at specific moments of the preparation program. On one hand, the standard and usual student teaching internship in K-12 schools seemed to lead the PPTs to develop certain habits. However, the extensive list of PPTs’ responsibilities and the time restrictions encountered during the few weeks of its duration greatly limited its outcomes. Therefore, different types of clinical practice are needed to allow for the development of each type of habits in ‘sheltered’ environments over a greater time period. Such results emphasize the importance of adding a variety of authentic early additional teaching experiences to the teacher preparation program.
Coriophora eximia Laseron 1958
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Coriophora
Coriophora eximia

description: Coriophora eximia Laseron, 1958
Coriophora eximia Laseron, 1958: 608, fig. 118–119.
Type locality. Australia, Michaelmas Cay.
Type material. AMS C.103139, holotype.
Distribution. Australia (Laseron 1958).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Jet radius dependence of dijet momentum balance and suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes a measurement of the jet radius dependence of the dijet momentum balance between leading back-to-back jets in 1.72 $nb^{-1}$ of Pb+Pb collisions collected in 2018 and 255 pb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions collected in 2017 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Both data sets were collected at $ \sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=$ 5.02 TeV. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-$k_t$ algorithm with jet radius parameters $R=$ 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6. The dijet momentum balance distributions are constructed for leading jets with transverse momentum $p_{\rm T}$ from 100 to 562 GeV for $R=$ 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 jets, and from 158 to 562 GeV for $R=$ 0.5 and 0.6 jets. The absolutely normalized dijet momentum balance distributions are constructed to compare measurements of the dijet yields in Pb+Pb collisions directly to the dijet cross sections in $pp$ collisions. For all jet radii considered here, there is a suppression of more balanced dijets in Pb+Pb collisions compared to $pp$ collisions, while for more imbalanced dijets there is an enhancement. There is a jet radius dependence to the dijet yields, being stronger for more imbalanced dijets than for more balanced dijets. Additionally, jet pair nuclear modification factors are measured. The subleading jet yields are found to be more suppressed than leading jet yields in dijets. A jet radius dependence of the pair nuclear modification factors is observed, with the suppression decreasing with increasing jet radius. These measurements provide new constraints on jet quenching scenarios in the quark-gluon plasma.
description: 59 pages in total, author list starting page 42, 21 figures, 1 table, published by PRC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2024-03/
Sabactiopus Zheng & Lin 2002
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Sabactiopus

description: Sabactiopus Zheng & Lin, 2002
Sabactiopus Zheng & Lin, 2002: 76, type species by original designation: Lygus sauteri Poppius, 1912: 303; Zheng et al. 2004: 569 (diag.).
Diagnosis. See description and comments provided by Zheng & Lin (2002). Images of the habitus, host plant and structures for the closest congener known from Taiwan, S. sauteri (Poppius), are shown in Figs. 7K, L, 18H–J, 34M–O and 35J–O.
Discussion. See discussion section under Himalisundacoris, new genus.
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2024, New genera and species of the ' Lygus-complex' ranging from the Himalaya-Oriental to the Wallacea region (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae), pp. 371-423 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72 on page 416, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0030, http://zenodo.org/record/14682946
Automated Detection of Satellite Trails in Ground-Based Observations Using U-Net and Hough Transform
Creators: name: Stoppa, F.
name: Groot, P. J.
name: Stuik, R.
name: Vreeswijk, P.
name: Bloemen, S.
name: Pieterse, D. L. A.
name: Woudt, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The expansion of satellite constellations poses a significant challenge to optical ground-based astronomical observations, as satellite trails degrade observational data and compromise research quality. Addressing these challenges requires developing robust detection methods to enhance data processing pipelines, creating a reliable approach for detecting and analyzing satellite trails that can be easily reproduced and applied by other observatories and data processing groups. Our method, called ASTA (Automated Satellite Tracking for Astronomy), combines deep learning and computer vision techniques for effective satellite trail detection. It employs a U-Net based deep learning network to initially detect trails, followed by a Probabilistic Hough Transform to refine the output. ASTA's U-Net model was trained on a dataset with manually labelled full-field MeerLICHT images prepared using the LABKIT annotation tool, ensuring high-quality and precise annotations. This annotation process was crucial for the model to learn and generalize the characteristics of satellite trails effectively. Furthermore, the user-friendly LABKIT tool facilitated quick and efficient data refinements, streamlining the overall model development process. ASTA's performance was evaluated on a test set of 20,000 image patches, both with and without satellite trails, to rigorously assess its precision and recall. Additionally, ASTA was applied to approximately 200,000 full-field MeerLICHT images, demonstrating its effectiveness in identifying and characterizing satellite trails. The software's results were validated by cross-referencing detected trails with known public satellite catalogs, confirming its reliability and showcasing its ability to uncover previously untracked objects.
Oreasteridae Fisher 1908
Creators: name: Yiu, Sam King Fung
name: Mah, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Oreasteridae

description: OREASTERIDAE Fisher 1908
Five species of Hong Kong oreasterids are reported herein as opposed to the four reported by Liao & Clark (1995). As discussed by Liao & Clark (1995) and elaborated upon below, there are many doubts regarding the occurrence of several Anthenea spp. as indicated. We report novel occurrences of several oreasterids from Hong Kong waters, such as Culcita novaeguineae, Pentaceraster alveolatus, and Pentaceraster sibogae, which are otherwise widely reported from tropical Indo-Pacific settings and from southern China by Liao & Clark (1995).
Oreasterids undergo a significant change in appearance as they become larger. At a size range of approximately R=5.0 mm to 30 to 50 mm, (this varies with species), many oreasterids, such as Culcita, possess a pentagonal to more weakly stellate, relatively planar and undecorated surface “goniasterid” like shape which changes to the more heavily armored and strongly arched form seen in large Oreasteridae. These smaller goniasterid-like forms can be difficult to associate with the larger body forms based purely on external appearance since intermediate characters are difficult to discern and colors change, sometimes dramatically. For example, the Atlantic Oreaster reticulatus changes from a dark mottled green and brown to bright red (Hendler et al. 1995). Culcita novaeguineae is the best documented of these, changing from a pentagonal goniasterid-like form to a significantly large, mound-shape (Kano et al. 1991). Multiple images on iNaturalist (e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117293137) are potentially small forms of either Anthenea, Gymnanthenea or Pentaceraster but further data is required to confirm identification.
description: Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526
Proagoderus aciculatus
Creators: name: Daniel, Gimo M.
name: Josso, Jean-François
name: Nganhane, Isildo De N.
name: Strümpher, Werner P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Proagoderus
Proagoderus aciculatus

description: Proagoderus aciculatus (Fåhraeus, 1857)
= Proagoderus aciculatus var. ahenus (d’Orbigny, 1902) (type locality: “ Mozambique: Delagoa-Bay ” [Maputo, Mozambique]).
Type locality: “In terra Natalensi et prope fluvium Limpopo ” [KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and near Limpopo River].
Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa (Boheman 1857; d’Orbigny 1902, 1913; Palestrini 1992; Davis et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Daniel, Gimo M., Josso, Jean-François, Nganhane, Isildo De N. & Strümpher, Werner P., 2024, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 3: A new species of Proagoderus van Lansberge, 1883 with an annotated checklist of the Proagoderus dives (Harold, 1877) species-group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 175-189 in Zootaxa 5406 (1) on page 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/10611256
Data-driven Discovery of Delay Differential Equations with Discrete Delays
Creators: name: Pecile, Alessandro
name: Demo, Nicola
name: Tezzele, Marco
name: Rozza, Gianluigi
name: Breda, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) framework is a robust method for identifying governing equations, successfully applied to ordinary, partial, and stochastic differential equations. In this work we extend SINDy to identify delay differential equations by using an augmented library that includes delayed samples and Bayesian optimization. To identify a possibly unknown delay we minimize the reconstruction error over a set of candidates. The resulting methodology improves the overall performance by remarkably reducing the number of calls to SINDy with respect to a brute force approach. We also address a multivariate setting to identify multiple unknown delays and (non-multiplicative) parameters. Several numerical tests on delay differential equations with different long-term behavior, number of variables, delays, and parameters support the use of Bayesian optimization highlighting both the efficacy of the proposed methodology and its computational advantages. As a consequence, the class of discoverable models is significantly expanded.
Triphora exomilisca Rehder 1980
Creators: name: Bakker, Piet A. J.
name: Albano, Paolo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Triphoridae
Triphora
Triphora exomilisca

description: Triphora exomilisca Rehder, 1980
Triphora exomilisca Rehder, 1980: 45, pl. 6, fig. 15.
Type locality. Chili, Easter Island.
Type material. USNM 756779, holotype. USNM 756275, paratype.
Distribution. Chili, Easter Island (Rehder 1980).
description: Published as part of Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 5088 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5088.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5836536
Proagoderus aureiceps
Creators: name: Daniel, Gimo M.
name: Josso, Jean-François
name: Nganhane, Isildo De N.
name: Strümpher, Werner P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Proagoderus
Proagoderus aureiceps

description: Proagoderus aureiceps (d’Orbigny, 1902)
= Onthophagus sapphyrinus Péringuey, 1901 (type locality: “Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Victoria Falls, Limpopo River), Ovampoland, (Okovango River, Humbe Omrramba), Transvaal (Rustenburg), Mozambique (Rikatla)” [Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique]).
Type locality: “ Mozambique: Delagoa-Bay” [Maputo Bay, Mozambique].
Distribution: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa (d’Orbigny 1902, 1913; Palestrini 1992; Davis et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Daniel, Gimo M., Josso, Jean-François, Nganhane, Isildo De N. & Strümpher, Werner P., 2024, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 3: A new species of Proagoderus van Lansberge, 1883 with an annotated checklist of the Proagoderus dives (Harold, 1877) species-group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 175-189 in Zootaxa 5406 (1) on page 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/10611256
Proagoderus biarmatus
Creators: name: Daniel, Gimo M.
name: Josso, Jean-François
name: Nganhane, Isildo De N.
name: Strümpher, Werner P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Proagoderus
Proagoderus biarmatus

description: Proagoderus biarmatus (d’Orbigny, 1908)
Type locality: “ Afrique orientale allemande: Manow” [Manow, Mbeya Region, Tanzania]. Distribution: Tanzania, Malawi (d’Orbigny 1908, 1913; Palestrini 1992).
description: Published as part of Daniel, Gimo M., Josso, Jean-François, Nganhane, Isildo De N. & Strümpher, Werner P., 2024, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 3: A new species of Proagoderus van Lansberge, 1883 with an annotated checklist of the Proagoderus dives (Harold, 1877) species-group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 175-189 in Zootaxa 5406 (1) on page 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/10611256