cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF LEGAL REGULATION OF CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS IN E-COMMERCE IN THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Ezrikh, Albina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines general information on the conclusion of contracts in e-commerce. A statistical analysis of data on the development of e-commerce in general and directly in the Republic of Uzbekistan. There was also an analysis of the existing shortcomings in the norms of legislation governing e-commerce. The proposals for making additions to the regulatory framework in the field of e-commerce are presented.
Certification of unbounded randomness with arbitrary noise
Creators: name: Sarkar, Shubhayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random number generators play an essential role in cryptography and key distribution. It is thus important to verify whether the random numbers generated from these devices are genuine and unpredictable by any adversary. Recently, quantum nonlocality has been identified as a resource that can be utilised to certify randomness. Although these schemes are device-independent and thus highly secure, the observation of quantum nonlocality is extremely difficult from a practical perspective. In this work, we provide a scheme to certify unbounded randomness in a semi-device-independent way based on the maximal violation of Leggett-Garg inequalities. Interestingly, the scheme is independent of the choice of the quantum state, and consequently even classical noise like a thermal state or even microwave background radiation could be utilized to self-test quantum measurements and generate unbounded randomness making the scheme highly efficient for practical purposes.
description: Close to published version
Gymnura natalensis
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Gymnuridae
Gymnura
Gymnura natalensis

description: Gymnura natalensis (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911)
Diamond Ray or Backwater Butterfly Ray
Pteroplatea natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911: 56. Holotype (unique): SAM 10632. Type locality: Off Cape Natal, west by north for 6.5 miles, South Africa.
Local synonymy: Pteroplatea natalensis: Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911: 56; von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 17; Barnard, 1925: 81; Smith, 1934: 83. Pteroplatea micrura: Barnard, 1925: 80. Gymnura tentaculata: Fowler, 1941: 450 (in part). Gymnura japonica: Smith, 1949a: 71; Compagno, 1986: 138; Compagno, 1999: 117 (?). Gymnura natalensis: Smith, 1949a: 71, fig. 86; Smith, 1965: 71, fig. 86; Smith & Smith, 1966: 32, fig.; Wallace, 1967c: 26, fig. 12; Compagno, 1986: 138, fig. 30.7, pl. 5; Compagno et al., 1989: 110, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 85; Mann, 2013: 55; NPOA, 2013: 62; da Silva et al., 2015: 246; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Weigmann, 2016: 979; Yokota et al., 2016: 518, fig. 24.7. Gymnura micrura: Barnard, 1959: 27, figs. 5, 5a, pl. 4.
South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 5023, SAIAB 7859 [former ORI B99], SAIAB 7863 [former ORI B651], SAIAB 13325, SAIAB 25299, SAIAB 26471, SAIAB 48832
South African distribution: Entire coast from the Orange River (NC) to the northern KZN border with Mozambique.
Remarks: Although G. japonica is sometimes listed as occurring in South Africa, G. natalensis is the only species occurring in the area. Yokota et al. (2016) suggested that G. altavela is very similar and the two species may be synonymous, but molecular data indicates that G. natalensis is a distinct species (Weigmann, 2016).
Conservation status: LC (2019).
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Aetobatus Blainville 1816
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Aetobatus

description: Genus Aetobatus Blainville, 1816
Pelagic Eagle Rays
Aetobatus Blainville, 1816: 112. Type species: usually given as Raja narinari Euphrasen, 1790, by subsequent designation by M̹ller & Henle (1837 or 1838).
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Single particle cryo-EM maps and models of the MnmE-MnmG complexes
Creators: name: Maes, Laila
name: Galicia Diaz Santana, Christian
name: Versées, Wim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These maps were used to interpret and build the atomic models of the α2β2 and α4β2 MnmE-MnmG complexes. PDB coordinates files and validation reports are also provided.
Single particle cryo-EM maps of the MnmE-MnmG complexes
Creators: name: Maes, Laila
name: Galicia Diaz Santana, Christian
name: Versées, Wim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These maps were used to interpret and build the atomic models of the α2β2 and α4β2 MnmE-MnmG complexes.
Genotype-by-environment interaction analysis for cotton seed yield using various biometrical methods under irrigation regimes in a semi-arid region
Creators: name: Yehia, Waleed Mohamed Bassuny
name: Zaazaa, Ezz El-Din Ibrahim
name: El-Hashash, Essam Fathy
name: El-Enin, Moamen Mohamed Abou
name: Shaaban, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: The main objective of this study was to identify high-yielding and stable cotton genotypes under normal irrigation regimes and drought stress conditions using some biometrical methods including combined analysis of variance (ANOVA), joint regression analysis (JRA), the additive main effect and multiplicative interaction (AMMI), and genotype (G) main effect plus genotype-by-environment (GE) interaction (GGE) biplot. Cotton seed yield (CSY) was found to be significantly affected by genotypes, environments, and Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) using combined ANOVA, JRA, and AMMI. AMMI was superior, explaining 79% of the total variability caused by GEI under drought stress conditions compared to 66% and 25% for the GGE biplot and JRA, respectively. The CSY was found to be significantly lower under drought stress conditions vs normal irrigation regimes, ranging from 9.03% (G24) to 29.91% (G15) across the five tested environments. The JRA, AMMI, and GGE biplot methods were positively correlated for classifying the genotypes for static stability. The GGE biplot was the most effective and acceptable for identifying stable genotypes and optimal environments in both irrigation regimes. All the methods compared were concordant in separating, ranking, and identifying that the G5 and G20 genotypes were highly stable across the environment as being higher-yielding and drought-tolerant.
Clusterability test for categorical data
Creators: name: Hu, Lianyu
name: Dong, Junjie
name: Jiang, Mudi
name: Liu, Yan
name: He, Zengyou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The objective of clusterability evaluation is to check whether a clustering structure exists within the data set. As a crucial yet often-overlooked issue in cluster analysis, it is essential to conduct such a test before applying any clustering algorithm. If a data set is unclusterable, any subsequent clustering analysis would not yield valid results. Despite its importance, the majority of existing studies focus on numerical data, leaving the clusterability evaluation issue for categorical data as an open problem. Here we present TestCat, a testing-based approach to assess the clusterability of categorical data in terms of an analytical $p$-value. The key idea underlying TestCat is that clusterable categorical data possess many strongly associated attribute pairs and hence the sum of chi-squared statistics of all attribute pairs is employed as the test statistic for $p$-value calculation. We apply our method to a set of benchmark categorical data sets, showing that TestCat outperforms those solutions based on existing clusterability evaluation methods for numeric data. To the best of our knowledge, our work provides the first way to effectively recognize the clusterability of categorical data in a statistically sound manner.
description: 28 pages, 12 appendix pages, 17 figures
Extensions of tautological rings and motivic structures in the cohomology of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$
Creators: name: Canning, Samir
name: Larson, Hannah
name: Payne, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C15, 14C17, 14C25

description: We study collections of subrings of $H^*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})$ that are closed under the tautological operations that map cohomology classes on moduli spaces of smaller dimension to those on moduli spaces of larger dimension and contain the tautological subrings. Such extensions of tautological rings are well-suited for inductive arguments and flexible enough for a wide range of applications. In particular, we confirm predictions of Chenevier and Lannes for the $\ell$-adic Galois representations and Hodge structures that appear in $H^k(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})$ for $k = 13$, $14$, and $15$. We also show that $H^4(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})$ is generated by tautological classes for all $g$ and $n$, confirming a prediction of Arbarello and Cornalba from the 1990s. In order to establish the final bases cases needed for the inductive proofs of our main results, we use Mukai's construction of canonically embedded pentagonal curves of genus 7 as linear sections of an orthogonal Grassmannian and a decomposition of the diagonal to show that the pure weight cohomology of $\mathcal{M}_{7,n}$ is generated by algebraic cycle classes, for $n \leq 3$.
description: v3: 33 pages. Minor changes. Final version to appear in Forum Math. Pi
Aetobatus ocellatus
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Aetobatus
Aetobatus ocellatus

description: Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823)
Whitespotted Eagle Ray
Myliobatus ocellatus Kuhl, in van Hasselt, 1823: 316. No original types designated. Neotype: MZB 18225. Type locality: Muara Angke fish landing site, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Local synonymy: Aetobatis narinari: M̹ller & Henle, 1841: 179; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1911: 56; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 289; von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 17; Barnard, 1925: 83, fig. 1, pl. 5; Fowler, 1925b: 194; von Bonde, 1932: 32; Fowler, 1941: 471. Stoasodon narinari: Smith, 1949a: 68, fig. 74. Aetobatus narinari: Wallace, 1967c: 15, fig. 7; Compagno, 1986: 132, fig. 26.1; Compagno et al., 1989: 114, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 87; NPOA, 2013: 59; da Silva et al., 2015: 247; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148. Aetobatus ocellatus: White, 2014: 151. White & Last, 2016b: 731, fig. 31.5; Weigmann, 2016: 985.
South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 12843, SAIAB 48514.
South African distribution: Knysna (WC) to KZN border with Mozambique.
Remarks: Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) was shown to be a species-complex based on molecular work by Richards et al. (2009); although they did not have access to samples from South Africa, or indeed from the WIO. White et al. (2010) resurrected A. ocellatus as the valid name for the Indo-Pacific, with A. narinari being restricted to the Western and Eastern Atlantic, occurring from Angola northwards (White & Last, 2016).
Conservation status: VU (2016).
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Effects of the training system on water productivity and water footprint in Mediterranean vineyards
Creators: name: Pappaccogli, Gianluca
name: Carlomagno, Antonio
name: De Simei, Gabriele
name: Confalonieri, Mauro
name: Buccolieri, Riccardo
name: Montanaro, Giuseppe
name: Nuzzo, Vitale
name: Rustioni, Laura
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The training system is a valuable strategy to face water resource limitations under climate changes as its canopy architecture influences evapotranspiration losses and both water productivity (WP) and irrigation water productivity (IWP). Detailed information on them (yield per unit of water) would support the choice of the training system. This study compared the water productivity in 38 irrigated (IRR) and rainfed (RAIN) vineyards trained at tendone (T, n = 30) and vertical shoot positioning (VSP, n = 8). The green, blue and grey volumetric water footprints (WFs) were also employed to characterize T and VSP. At harvest, grape quality traits (pH, sugars and potassium concentrations) were examined too. The mean (±SE) IWP in TIRR reached 45.0 ± 7.2 kg m−3 being approx. 2.5-fold than that in VSPIRR. Furthermore, TIRR showed 60% (WFgreen) and 30% (WFblue) lower than VSPIRR. Findings show the attitude of TIRR in valuating water resources with no significant impact on grape quality. This study integrates the set of knowledge to be evaluated for training system choice managing the trade-offs between yield, grape quality and water productivity triggered by climate change.
Aetomylaeus Garman 1908
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Aetomylaeus

description: Genus Aetomylaeus Garman, 1908
Smoothtail Eagle Rays
Aetomylaeus Garman, 1908: 252. Type species: Myliobatus maculatus Gray, 1834, by original designation; misspelled Aetomyleus in Zoological Record of 1908.
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Effects of cover crop and tillage management practices on in situ and ex situ water infiltration parameters
Creators: name: Haruna, Samuel I.
name: Mosley, Chaney
name: Downs, Kevin M.
name: O’Brien, Keely
name: Carter, Jessica G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Water infiltration is important for improved crop productivity and environmental sustainability, but the combined effects of cover crops (CCs) and tillage on cumulative infiltration and infiltration parameters are not fully understood. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the influence of CCs and tillage on cumulative water infiltration and infiltration parameters. The field was set up using a randomized complete block design with two levels of CCs (CCs vs no cover crop [NC]) and two levels of tillage (till vs no-till [NT]). The CCs used included winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) and crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum), and the tillage included disc tillage (to a depth of 10 cm). Results showed that CCs and tillage significantly increased the Parlange and Green-Ampt model estimated sorptivity and saturated hydraulic conductivity parameters during 2022 compared with NC and NT, respectively. Additionally, KGuelph was significantly higher under CC compared with NC during both years, suggesting that CCs can increase groundwater recharge. While CC-Till management had the highest 2-h cumulative infiltration, tillage only significantly increased water infiltration during early times, and CCs increased water infiltration during the infiltration period. Conclusively, CCs can improve the ability of tillage to increase water infiltration.
Aetomylaeus bovinus
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Aetomylaeus
Aetomylaeus bovinus

description: Aetomylaeus bovinus (Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Duckbill Ray
Myliobatis bovina Saint-Hilaire, 1817: no page number, pl. 26 (fig. 1). No known types. Type locality: Off Alexandria, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Local synonymy: Pteromylaeus bovinus: Barnard, 1925: 83; Smith, 1949a: 69, fig. 77; Barnard, 1959: 28; Smith, 1965: 69, fig. 77; Wallace, 1967c: 20, figs. 9, 10; Compagno, 1986: 133, fig. 28.3; Compagno et al., 1989: 110, pl.; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 87; Weigmann, 2016: 985.? Aetomylus huletti: Smith, 1953: 513, fig. 77a (original description); Compagno, 1986: 133. Pteromylaeus bovina: Compagno, 1999: 117; NPOA, 2013: 59. Aetomylaeus bovina: da Silva et al., 2015: 247; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148. Aetomylaeus bovinus: White, 2014: 151, fig. 5; White & Last, 2016a: 709, fig. 30.2.
South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 7860 [ex ORI B907], SAIAB 7862 [ex ORI], SAIAB 7880 [ex ORI B60], SAIAB 10445, SAIAB 12841, SAIAB 12848, SAIAB 13299, SAIAB 27442, SAIAB 31824, SAIAB 44291, SAIAB 51206.
South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to KZN border with Mozambique.
Remarks: White (2014) placed the genus Pteromylaeus Garman, 1913 into synonymy with Aetomylaeus Garman, 1908.
Conservation status: DD (2016).
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Aetomylaeus vespertilio
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Aetomylaeus
Aetomylaeus vespertilio

description: Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Bleeker, 1852)
Ornate Eagle Ray
Myliobatis vespertilio Bleeker, 1852: 85. Holotype: RMNH 7460, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.
Local synonymy:? Aetomylus huletti: Smith, 1953: 513, fig. 77a (original description).
South Africa voucher material: No known specimens in museum collections, but confirmation based on a photograph from Richards Bay (Rob Kyle, pers. comm., Oceanographic Research Institute). The holotype of A. huletti (? = A. vespertilio) was collected in Zululand (northern KZN), but the type specimen is lost.
South African distribution: New record, from Richards Bay and possibly northern KZN.
Remarks: Smith (1953) described Aetomylus huletti based on a specimen from northern KZN (Zululand). However, subsequent authors (Wallace, 1967c; Compagno, 1986) attributed it as a possible synonym of Pteromylaeus (now Aetomylaeus) bovinus. Ebert & van Hees (2015) listed it as possibly being A. nichofii, but that species does not occur in the region. The holotype of A. huletti is unfortunately lost precluding further examination of the specimen, but it is likely to be A. vespertilio rather than A. nichofii; a species known to occur in Mozambique (White & Last, 2016a). Recently, a specimen of A. vespertilio was caught, and released at Richards Bay confirming this species’ presence for the first time in South African waters (R. Kyle, Oceanographic Research Institute, April 2018, photograph and pers. comm.).
Conservation status: EN (2016).
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Land use change from paddy rice to sugarcane under long-term no-till conditions: increase P balance, soil organic matter and sugarcane productivity
Creators: name: Phiwdaeng, Neeranuch
name: Polpinit, Pattarawit
name: Poltanee, Anan
name: Kaewpradit, Wanwipa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Expanding sugarcane (SC) cultivation at the expense of paddy rice (PRC) areas led to soil nutrient cycling changes. The study hypothesized that SC straw return and fertilizer application after land use change (LUC) from PRC to SC cropping would increase the soil-crop systems nutrient balance, ultimately enhancing growth, yield, and nutrient use efficiency of SC. In a field study involving a 17-year chronosequence of sugarcane 6 (SC6), 13 (SC13), and 17 (SC17) years after LUC, the nutrient balance dynamics of SC were monitored in comparison with those of PRC. A phosphorus (P) balance increase of 62–102% after LUC increased soil available P (Pav) from 5.2 to 13.6–16.0 mg kg−1. A potassium (K) balance decrease of 47–55% after LUC led to a decrease in soil exchangeable K (Kex) from 102.5 to 96.2–56.8 mg kg−1. Moreover, LUC increased the % sand, soil organic matter (SOM), total mineral nitrogen (N), and total N. In contrast, the % clay, bulk density, cation exchange capacity (CECpH7), and exchangeable calcium (Caex) decreased after LUC. An increase in soil nutrients increased cane yield and nutrient use efficiency with time after LUC. However, further research in different locations and management practices is required for the LUC investigation. LUC in combination with tillage improved soil chemical properties, leading to increased sugarcane yield (SC6 > SC13 > SC17) and nutrient use efficiency.In a system without tillage, after land use change (LUC), the percentage of sand, SOM, Pav and mineral N increased, while the percentage of clay, bulk density, CECpH7, Kex, and Caex decreased.Sugarcane (SC) had a greater P balance than paddy rice (PRC) after LUC, leading to an increase in soil available P.K inputs from rice straw return promoted a greater K balance in PRC than in SC. LUC in combination with tillage improved soil chemical properties, leading to increased sugarcane yield (SC6 > SC13 > SC17) and nutrient use efficiency. In a system without tillage, after land use change (LUC), the percentage of sand, SOM, Pav and mineral N increased, while the percentage of clay, bulk density, CECpH7, Kex, and Caex decreased. Sugarcane (SC) had a greater P balance than paddy rice (PRC) after LUC, leading to an increase in soil available P. K inputs from rice straw return promoted a greater K balance in PRC than in SC.
Myliobatis Cuvier 1816
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Myliobatis

description: Genus Myliobatis Cuvier, 1816
Eagle Rays
Myliobatis Cuvier, 1816: 137. Type species: Raja aquila Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation.
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Soil chemical characteristics, yield and technological quality of sugarcane under subsurface drip irrigation with treated sewage effluent
Creators: name: Sobrinho, Oswaldo Palma Lopes
name: dos Santos, Leonardo Nazário Silva
name: Vitorino, Luciana Cristina
name: Teixeira, Marconi Batista
name: Soares, Frederico Antônio Loureiro
name: Reis, Mateus Neri Oliveira
name: Bessa, Layara Alexandre
name: Nazário, Aline Azevedo
name: Gonçalves, Ivo Zution
name: Barbosa, Eduardo Augusto Agnellos
name: Matsura, Edson Eiji
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Sugarcane cultivation requires sustainable strategies to meet water and nutritional needs. This study tested the hypothesis that irrigation with treated sewage effluent (TSE) can meet the water needs of sugarcane plants, improving their technological quality and yield. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) with TSE or surface reservoir water (SRW) on soil chemical characteristics and technological quality and productivity. Thus, an SDI system was installed at soil depths of 0.20 and 0.40 m to apply SRW and TSE to sugarcane plants, composing four irrigation treatments (TSE0.2 m, TSE0.4 m, SRW0.2 m and SRW0.4 m) and a control (non-irrigated treatment). Analyses of soil chemical characteristics in different layers showed no negative effects for the use of SDI, which maintained favorable soil conditions for sugarcane plantations. The surface layer (0–0.2 m) irrigated with SRW or TSE showed higher accumulation of nutrients and organic matter. The results confirmed the hypothesis that irrigation with TSE or SRW improves the technological quality and yield of sugarcane; the treatment TSE0.2 m showed the best results regarding increases in sugar yield and alcohol production. However, continuous monitoring of soil salinity is necessary in wastewater-irrigated agricultural systems.
Look Before You Leap: An Exploratory Study of Uncertainty Measurement for Large Language Models
Creators: name: Huang, Yuheng
name: Song, Jiayang
name: Wang, Zhijie
name: Zhao, Shengming
name: Chen, Huaming
name: Juefei-Xu, Felix
name: Ma, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The recent performance leap of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up new opportunities across numerous industrial applications and domains. However, erroneous generations, such as false predictions, misinformation, and hallucination made by LLMs, have also raised severe concerns for the trustworthiness of LLMs', especially in safety-, security- and reliability-sensitive scenarios, potentially hindering real-world adoptions. While uncertainty estimation has shown its potential for interpreting the prediction risks made by general machine learning (ML) models, little is known about whether and to what extent it can help explore an LLM's capabilities and counteract its undesired behavior. To bridge the gap, in this paper, we initiate an exploratory study on the risk assessment of LLMs from the lens of uncertainty. In particular, we experiment with twelve uncertainty estimation methods and four LLMs on four prominent natural language processing (NLP) tasks to investigate to what extent uncertainty estimation techniques could help characterize the prediction risks of LLMs. Our findings validate the effectiveness of uncertainty estimation for revealing LLMs' uncertain/non-factual predictions. In addition to general NLP tasks, we extensively conduct experiments with four LLMs for code generation on two datasets. We find that uncertainty estimation can potentially uncover buggy programs generated by LLMs. Insights from our study shed light on future design and development for reliable LLMs, facilitating further research toward enhancing the trustworthiness of LLMs.
description: Update website, code, and experiments on eight new LLMs. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2025)
Entanglement in XYZ model on a spin-star system: Anisotropy vs. field-induced dynamics
Creators: name: Krishnan, Jithin G.
name: J., Harikrishnan K.
name: Pal, Amit Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a star-network of $n=n_0+n_p$ spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles, where interaction between $n_0$ central spins and $n_p$ peripheral spins are of the XYZ-type. In the limit $n_0/n_p\ll 1$, we show that for odd $n$, the ground state is doubly degenerate, while for even $n$, the energy gap becomes negligible when $n$ is large, inducing an \emph{effective} double degeneracy. In the same limit, we show that for vanishing $xy$-anisotropy $γ$, bipartite entanglement on the peripheral spins computed using either a partial trace-based, or a measurement-based approach exhibits a logarithmic growth with $n_p$, where the sizes of the partitions are typically $\sim n_p/2$. This feature disappears for $γ\neq 0$, which we refer to as the \emph{anisotropy effect}. Interestingly, when the system is taken out of equilibrium by the introduction of a magnetic field of constant strength on all spins, the time-averaged bipartite entanglement on the periphery at the long-time limit exhibits a logarithmic growth with $n_p$ irrespective of the value of $γ$. We further study the $n_0/n_p\gg 1$ and $n_0/n_p\rightarrow 1$ limits of the model, and show that the behaviour of bipartite peripheral entanglement is qualitatively different from that of the $n_0/n_p\ll 1$ limit.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Quantum Optimal Transport: Quantum Channels and Qubits
Creators: name: De Palma, Giacomo
name: Trevisan, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: These notes are based on the lectures given by the second author at the School on Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures at Erdös Center in September 2022. The focus of the exposition is on two recently introduced approaches on quantum optimal transport: one based on quantum channels as generalized transport plans, the other based on the notion of Hamming-Wasserstein distance of order 1 on multiple-qubit systems. The material is presented in an elementary manner with a focus on the finite-dimensional setting.
Myliobatis aquila
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Myliobatis
Myliobatis aquila

description: Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bull Ray
Raja aquila Linnaeus, 1758: 232. No known types. Type locality: Mediterranean Sea and Northeastern Atlantic [original: “in Mari Mediterraneo”]
Local synonymy: Myliobatis aquila: Bleeker, 1860b: 59; Duméril, 1865: 634; Gilchrist, 1902: 169; Thompson, 1914: 165; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 280; von Bonde & Swart, 1923: 17; Barnard, 1925: 82, fig. 7, pl.4; von Bonde, 1934: 17; Smith, 1935: 169; Barnard, 1947: 28, fig. 6, pl. 4; Smith, 1949a: 69 (doubtful from southern Africa); Smith, 1965: 69 (doubtful from southern Africa); Wallace, 1967c: 17, fig. 8; Compagno, 1986: 133, fig. 28.2, pl. 5; Compagno et al., 1989: 112, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 108; Compagno, 1999: 117; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 86; Mann, 2013: 132; NPOA, 2013: 59; da Silva et al., 2015: 247; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148; Weigmann, 2016: 986; White & Last, 2016a: 715, fig. 30.8. Myliobatis cervus: Smith, 1935: 169, fig. 1 (original description; syntypes missing); Smith, 1949a: 68, fig. 75, pl. 3; Smith, 1965: 68, fig. 75, pl. 3. Holorhinus aquila: Fowler, 1941: 459. Holorhinus cervus: Fowler, 1941: 460.
South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 2860, SAIAB 7844, SAIAB 10423, SAIAB 12111, SAIAB 12842, SAIAB 19823, SAIAB 19864, SAIAB 26451, SAIAB 26452, SAIAB 26453, SAIAB 26504, SAIAB 26505, SAIAB 26961, SAIAB 44344, SAIAB 44345, SAIAB 44346, SAIAB 44347, SAIAB 44350, SAIAB 44352, SAIAB 48515, SAIAB 50843, SAIAB 207767.
South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to at least Durban, KZN.
Remarks: Smith (1935) described a new species Myliobatis cervus from two specimens (designated syntypes) caught off Knysna (WC). In subsequent publications, Smith (1949 a, 1965) commented that he doubted the European M. aquila occurred in the region and used the presence of orbital horns to distinguish his new species (Smith, 1961a). However, Wallace (1967c) reviewed the issue and concluded that the taxonomic value of the horns was dubious and was a secondary sexual characteristic; a conclusion agreed with by contemporary researchers (Compagno, 1986; Compagno et al., 1989; White & Last, 2016). See “Local synonymy” above for full accounting.
Conservation status: DD (2009).
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on pages 98-99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Effect of organic amendments on soil structure, microbial community and water transport in the Qinghai Lake watershed, North-Eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
Creators: name: Hu, Xia
name: Pan, Peng-Yu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The effect of organic amendments on soil structure, microbial community and water transport in alpine ecosystems remains uncertain. Six fertilization regimes from a 2-year field experiment were selected to study this mechanism, i.e. plant litter (PL), organic fertilizer (OF), low concentration of glucose (LCG), medium concentration of glucose (MCG), high concentration of glucose (HCG) and the control (CT). Our results indicated that the soil macroporosity, branch density, length density and node density of soil macropores treated with OF, PL, HCG, MCG and LCG were larger than those of soils treated with CT. The phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs), bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes, gram-positive bacteria (G+) and gram-negative bacteria (G−) of soils treated with OF, PL, HCG and MCG were larger than those of soils treated with LCG and CT. In contrast, the dyed area ratio and the maximum wetting depth of soils treated with OF, PL, LCG, HCG and MCG were smaller than those treated with CT. There were significant positive correlations between soil organic matter (SOM) and connectivity of soil macropores. Therefore, SOM accumulation significantly improved the soil pore structure, induced the development of the soil microbial community, increased the soil water retention ability and decreased the generation of preferential flow.
Optimizing nitrogen fertilizer and straw management promote root extension and nitrogen uptake to improve grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Creators: name: Yu, Jinhong
name: Hou, Pan
name: Gao, Qiang
name: Tan, Qingwen
name: Jiang, Dong
name: Dai, Tingbo
name: Tian, Zhongwei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Straw returning is an efficient straw usage strategy in rice-wheat rotation, but nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE) was decreased due to incorrect straw and N fertilizer managements. To investigate the effects of straw and N fertilizer management on root growth, N fertilizer fates, grain yield and NUE of wheat, a two-year field and micro-plot 15N-labelled experiment under three levels of N application rate (0, 180 and 240 kg N ha−1) with two basal N application stages [seeding (BN), and 3-leaf stage (TN)] and three straw treatments [no straw return (NS), straw return by rotary tillage (SR) and straw return by ploughing (SP)] was conducted. The results indicated that SP increased grain yield and NUE, and the increase was highest under TN180. SP increased N uptake by enhancing root extension and soil N supply capacity, and TN decreased 15N residual in 60–100 cm soil layer. SP and TN180 both decreased 15N fertilizer loss and increased 15N recovery. Reducing basal N and applied at third-leaf stage (TN180) under SP had the same grain yield level as conventional N management (BN240) under NS, while highly improved NUE due to more root extension in deep soil layer and less N fertilizer loss.
Phenotypic characterization and diversity estimates in sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid) germplasm
Creators: name: Tolera, Belay
name: Gedebo, Andargachew
name: Tena, Esayas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The aim of the study was to identify genotypes with superior phenotypic performance, level and pattern of phenotypic diversity, and major contributing traits to the diversity of the test materials. Sixteen phenotypic traits of 81 sugarcane genotypes were analyzed using univariate and multivariate statistical methods. The genotypes were planted across two locations using a partially balanced lattice design with two replications. The study depicted the existence of substantial variation among the test materials in all the studied traits. The selected top 5% clones for cane yield, sucrose content and sugar yield were as follows: B694–11, B658–10, B707–1 and B572–1; B552–11, B498–9, B552–21 and B564–1; and B552–11, B549–10, B658–10 and B572–1, respectively. Sugarcane genotypes of clusters V and VII were the most divergent as demonstrated by their greatest intercluster distances, while sugar yield, cane yield and recoverable sucrose percent were the major contributors for the diversity of the test materials as revealed by PCA based on all of the studied traits. This suggests that the most divergent genotypes could be used as donor for hybridization, while those with greater mean values of the major contributing traits could be targeted for selection breeding.
Rhinoptera Cuvier 1829
Creators: name: Ebert, David A.
name: Wintner, Sabine P.
name: Kyne, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Rhinoptera

description: Genus Rhinoptera Cuvier, 1829
Cownose Rays
Rhinoptera Cuvier, 1829: 401. Type species: Myliobatis marginata Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1817, by subsequent designation; type designated by Bonaparte, 1838: 6 (of separate), also by Hay, 1902: 321. Appeared first as Rhenoptera van Hasselt, 1823: 318 and Rhinoptera van Hasselt, 1824: 90, regarded as nomina nuda. Cuvier’s “Les Rhinoptera Kuhl ” evidently sufficient to Latinise; two included species.
description: Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
Evaluation of soil quality and land suitability in different management systems
Creators: name: Moghim, Freshteh Maghami
name: Karimi, Alireza
name: Bagheri-Bodaghabadi, Mohsen
name: Emami, Hojat
name: Duraisamy, Vasu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of management systems on soil quality in rangeland and agricultural lands (smallholder, total owner, and Binaloud Company) in Neyshabur plain, northeastern Iran. Twenty-one soil profiles were described and sampled. The weighted and additive soil quality indices (SQI) of surface soil and soil profile (0–100 cm) were calculated. The minimum data set (MDS) was determined using principal component analysis (PCA) and expert opinion (EO) methods. The land index (LI) for alfalfa was calculated using the FAO method. In all management systems, the EO-weighted SQI was the highest for surface soil and soil profile. The relationship between the EO-weighted SQI and alfalfa yield was the strongest in the total owner and Binaloud Company. The LI showed a better relationship with the alfalfa yield than the SQI. The SQI of soil profile provides more comprehensive information regarding the different soil management systems. The LI, which considers crop requirements, could be useful in comparing the soil quality for a specific plant. The lower soil quality in smallholder system is an early warning sign of soil degradation in the area. Furthermore, the SQI has sufficient capability to reveal the effects of the land exploitation systems on soil quality.
Nitrogen use efficiency and genotype-by-environment interaction in durum wheat genotypes under varying nitrogen supply
Creators: name: Aga, Tesfaye Geleta
name: Abera, Fetien Abay
name: Tufa, Tesfaye Balemi
name: Abebe, Kebebew Assefa
name: Abeyo, Bekele Geleta
name: Ayana, Negash Geleta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Nitrogen (N) use efficiency is important for wheat grain yield and quality. This study evaluated6 durum wheat genotypes in Ethiopia to determine the extent of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) components and genotype-by-environment interactions under high and low N supply. The results showed that there was significant variation among the genotypes in grain yield and NUE components. Grain yield ranged from 3.30 to 6.22 t ha−1 under high N and 2.30 to 3.78 t ha−1 under low N conditions with an average reduction of 40.1%. Nitrogen harvest index, Nitrogen uptake efficiency (NUpE), Nitrogen utilization efficiency (NUtE) and NUE increased under low N compared to high N. NUtE varied from 28.6 to 43.9 kg kg−1 under high N and 39.5 to 51.2 kg kg−1 under low N while NUE increased from 26.4 under high N to 31.8 kg kg−1 under low N. Grain yield showed significant and positive associations with most of NUE components under both N conditions. NUpE and NUtE are the two important traits that contribute to NUE. N-efficient genotypes were found to be the most stable genotypes. Thus, the study emphasizes the importance of selecting genotypes with improved grain yield and NUE traits under low N conditions.
A simple and rapid method for evaluating the disintegration performance of compound fertilizer
Creators: name: He, Yunyi
name: Huang, Chunni
name: Zhai, Hongbin
name: He, Jian
name: Wu, Pan
name: Liu, Changjun
name: Jiang, Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Rapid determination of the dissolution behavior of a compound fertilizer is difficult in agricultural industry. In this work, we describe a simple and rapid method for quantifying the disintegration properties of compound fertilizer for the indirect evaluation of their dissolution. The effects of screen mesh, disintegration time, temperature, fertilizer-water ratio, stacking mode and particle size on fertilizer disintegration test were studied. Under standardized conditions, the maximum and minimum relative standard deviation (RSD) were 12.7% and 0.9%, respectively. The mean deviations of the measured data were > 4%, standard deviations > 4.6%, and interquartile ranges > 6.7%. The feasibility, accuracy, error tolerance, and consistency of this lift disintegration method meet industrial requirements and can be utilized for the rapid determination of the solubility of compound fertilizers.
Genetic variability, character association and path analysis in sugarcane genotypes
Creators: name: Tolera, Belay
name: Gedebo, Andargachew
name: Tena, Esayas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: The study, conducted at Tana-Beles Sugarcane plantation in Ethiopia from May 2022 to October 2023, used a partially balanced lattice design with two replications to assess variability and trait associations among 196 sugarcane genotypes collected from 14 countries. Highly significant (p < 0.0001) variability was observed for all traits; especially genotypes with fuzz exhibited wider variation for cane (20.97–135.31 t/ha) and sugar yield (1.83–20.42 t/ha), highlighting their potential for improvement. Except for single cane weight, brix, and purity, all traits displayed moderate to high heritability (H2 : 31–79%) and genetic advance (GAM: 10.69–53.14%), indicating potential for improvement through phenotypic selection being controlled by additive gene actions. The number of millable stalks, stalk length, stalk diameter, brix and cane yield showed significant positive genotypic correlations (r = 0.49, r = 0.55, r = 0.41, r = 0.65, and r = 0.98, respectively) and strong direct positive effects (0.33, 0.47, 0.75, 0.51 and 0.83, respectively) on sugar yield. Thus, Sugar yield, along with these traits, can serve as selection criteria for identifying high-sugar-yielding sugarcane genotypes. Consequently, the top three sugarcane genotypes for multi-traits, namely B552–11, FG04–466, and B707–1, could be evaluated across seasons for commercial use at Tana-Beles.