cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluations of a Large Topic Map as a Knowledge Organization Tool for Supporting Self-Regulated Learning.
Creators: name: Wu, Yejun
name: Lehman, Amanda R.
name: Dunaway, David J.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: evaluation
graphical information
knowledge organization tool
self-regulated learning
topic maps
Library and Information Science

description: A large topic map was created to facilitate understanding of the impacts of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Incident. The topic map has both a text and graphical interface, which complement each other. A formative evaluation and two summative evaluations were conducted, as qualitative studies, to assess the usefulness and usability of the large topic maps for facilitating self-regulated learning. The topic maps were found useful for knowledge fusion and discovery, and can be useful when undertaking interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Users reported some usability issues about the graphical topic map, including information overload and cluttered display of topics when displaying large number of topics and their associated topics. The text topic map was found easier to use due to displaying topics, relationships and references in a linear view.
The UmboMic: A PVDF Cantilever Microphone
Creators: name: Yeiser, Aaron J.
name: Wawrzynek, Emma F.
name: Zhang, John Z.
name: Graf, Lukas
name: McHugh, Christopher I.
name: Kymissis, Ioannis
name: Olson, Elizabeth S.
name: Lang, Jeffrey H.
name: Nakajima, Hideko Heidi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Objective: We present the "UmboMic," a prototype piezoelectric cantilever microphone designed for future use with totally-implantable cochlear implants. Methods: The UmboMic sensor is made from polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) because of its low Young's modulus and biocompatibility. The sensor is designed to fit in the middle ear and measure the motion of the underside of the eardrum at the umbo. To maximize its performance, we developed a low noise charge amplifier in tandem with the UmboMic sensor. This paper presents the performance of the UmboMic sensor and amplifier in fresh cadaveric human temporal bones. Results: When tested in human temporal bones, the UmboMic apparatus achieves an equivalent input noise of 32.3 dB SPL over the frequency range 100 Hz to 7 kHz, good linearity, and a flat frequency response to within 10 dB from about 100 Hz to 6 kHz. Conclusion: These results demonstrate the feasibility of a PVDF-based microphone when paired with a low-noise amplifier. The reported UmboMic apparatus is comparable in performance to a conventional hearing aid microphone. Significance: The proof-of-concept UmboMic apparatus is a promising step towards creating a totally-implantable cochlear implant. A completely internal system would enhance the quality of life of cochlear implant users.
Analytic Approximation of Free-Space Path Loss for Implanted Antennas
Creators: name: Gao, Mingxiang
name: Raman, Sujith
name: Sipus, Zvonimir
name: Skrivervik, Anja K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Implantable wireless bioelectronic devices enable communication and/or power transfer through RF wireless connections with external nodes. These devices encounter notable design challenges due to the lossy nature of the host body, which significantly diminishes the radiation efficiency of the implanted antenna and tightens the wireless link budget. Prior research has yielded closed-form approximate expressions for estimating losses occurring within the lossy host body, known as the in-body path loss. To assess the total path loss between the implanted transmitter and external receiver, this paper focuses on the free-space path loss of the implanted antenna, from the body-air interface to the external node. This is not trivial, as in addition to the inherent radial spreading of spherical electromagnetic waves common to all antennas, implanted antennas confront additional losses arising from electromagnetic scattering at the interface between the host body and air. Employing analytical modeling, we propose closed-form approximate expressions for estimating this free-space path loss. The approximation is formulated as a function of the free-space distance, the curvature radius of the body-air interface, the depth of the implanted antenna, and the permittivity of the lossy medium. This proposed method undergoes thorough validation through numerical calculations, simulations, and measurements for different implanted antenna scenarios. This study contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the path loss in implanted antennas and provides a reliable analytical framework for their efficient design and performance evaluation.
description: 12 pages, 17 figures
Moderating New Waves of Online Hate with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models
Creators: name: Vishwamitra, Nishant
name: Guo, Keyan
name: Romit, Farhan Tajwar
name: Ondracek, Isabelle
name: Cheng, Long
name: Zhao, Ziming
name: Hu, Hongxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online hate is an escalating problem that negatively impacts the lives of Internet users, and is also subject to rapid changes due to evolving events, resulting in new waves of online hate that pose a critical threat. Detecting and mitigating these new waves present two key challenges: it demands reasoning-based complex decision-making to determine the presence of hateful content, and the limited availability of training samples hinders updating the detection model. To address this critical issue, we present a novel framework called HATEGUARD for effectively moderating new waves of online hate. HATEGUARD employs a reasoning-based approach that leverages the recently introduced chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting technique, harnessing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). HATEGUARD further achieves prompt-based zero-shot detection by automatically generating and updating detection prompts with new derogatory terms and targets in new wave samples to effectively address new waves of online hate. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we compile a new dataset consisting of tweets related to three recently witnessed new waves: the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2021 insurrection of the US Capitol, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Our studies reveal crucial longitudinal patterns in these new waves concerning the evolution of events and the pressing need for techniques to rapidly update existing moderation tools to counteract them. Comparative evaluations against state-of-the-art tools illustrate the superiority of our framework, showcasing a substantial 22.22% to 83.33% improvement in detecting the three new waves of online hate. Our work highlights the severe threat posed by the emergence of new waves of online hate and represents a paradigm shift in addressing this threat practically.
description: To Appear in the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 20-23, 2024
Procerastea Langerhans 1884
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Procerastea

description: Genus Procerastea Langerhans, 1884
Procerastea halleziana Malaquin, 1893
DISTRIBUTION: CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Katzmann 1973a, 1983; Požar-Domac 1994; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
Procerastea nematodes Langerhans, 1884
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco & Giangrande 2005; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Anisotropic Flow of Identified Particles in Au + Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 3-3.9 GeV at RHIC
Creators: name: Liu, Zuowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In these proceedings, we present transverse momentum dependence of the mid-rapidity slope of directed flow ($dv_1/dy|_{y=0}$) for $π^+$ and $K_S^0$ in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 3.0, 3.2, 3.5, and 3.9 GeV. Both $π^+$ and $K_S^0$ show negative $v_1$ slope at low $p_T$ ($p_T < 0.6$ GeV/$c$). Collision energy dependence of $v_1$ slope and $p_T$-integrated $v_2$ for $π^{\pm}$, $K_S^0$, and $Λ$ are also presented. A comparison to JAM model calculations indicates that spectator shadowing can lead to anti-flow at low $p_T$. In addition, a breaking of the Number of Constitute Quark (NCQ) scaling of elliptic flow ($v_2$) is observed at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 3.2 GeV, which implies the dominance of hadronic degrees of freedom occurs in collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 3.2 GeV and below.
Prosphaerosyllis
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Prosphaerosyllis

description: Genus Prosphaerosyllis San Martín, 1984
Prosphaerosyllis campoyi (San Martín, Acero, Contonente & Gomez, 1982) DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco 2012.
Prosphaerosyllis tetralix (Eliason, 1920)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Katzmann 1973a, 1983; Požar-Domac 1994; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM19, BM53.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sphaerosyllis tetralix Eliason, 1920.
Prosphaerosyllis xarifae (Hartmann-Schröder, 1960) DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande et al. 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM20.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sphaerosyllis xarifae Hartmann-Schröder, 1960.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
THE EFFECT OF SEX CONDITION, GROWTH RATE AND SLAUGHTER WEIGHT ON LIVE AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS OF WELSH MOUNTAIN LAMBS
Creators: name: KIRK, JOHN A.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1980

description: A series of experiments were conducted to ascertain the effects of sex conditions, slaughter weight, environment and sire performance on the growth and carcass composition of Welsh Mountain lambs. Entire lambs reached target slaughter weight 28.5 days earlier than castrates. Killing our percentage was higher in castrates regardless of rearing environment and they yielded significantly greater carcass weights than entires. Estimated lean and fat percentages showed entire animals to have greater lean and less fat than castrates. Increases in slaughter weight resulted in significant increases in fat percentage with a corresponding decrease in lean percentage. Progeny testing of high and low performance tested rams was carried out to assess their influence on liveweight growth and carcass composition of entire Welsh Mountain lambs. Ram lambs were reared on the ffridd. High progeny reached slaughter weight on average 30 days earlier than the progeny of low rams. Killing out percentage and cold carcass weights were significantly higher in low performance progeny. However, high progeny had significantly greater lean and less fat percentage in their carcasses. Ewe lambs reared on the open mountain also showed that progeny of high rams grew at a faster rate than progeny sired by low rams. When ram lambs were individually penned indoors it was found that the progeny of high sires had greater liveweight gain than low progeny whilst feed intake was similar for both groups, as a result feed conversion efficiency was better in progeny of high performance rams. Wool samples taken from ewe lambs were compared but no consistent differences could be detected in any wool characteristics. The results suggest that Welsh Mountain lambs if reared as entires could be taken to heavier slaughter weights than is normal, with no adverse effect on carcass composition. Progeny sired by rams who perform well on performance test grew faster and at the same slaughter weights produce leaner carcasses than progeny sired by low performance sires.
MANAGING COMMUNITY: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF PRAXIS
Creators: name: SANDERSON, ALAN
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2007

description: If communities are to become a viable means of implementing social policy then community practitioners must individually examine their personal praxis. Therefore, in discovering a community's aims and objectives, a management model is needed that offers every practitioner a reflexive means of understanding peoples' beliefs, values, and attitudes. This proposition is critically examined through a philosophical framework that explores individuals' diverse perspectives on community, derived from their adherence to contending ontological and epistemological propositions about the social world, and its related ethical and motivational dimensions. Following a philosophical analysis, the taxonomy of social reality perspectives, developed by Dixon (2003) and Dixon and Dogan (2002; 2003a, b, c, d; 2004). is systematically used to explore the contending views on social reality. Thus, methodological configurations are associated with logical categories, (1) naturalist agency, underpinning the self-interested (free-riding) homo economicus\ (2) naturalist structuralism, underpinning the obligation driven homo hierarchus; (3) hermeneutic structuralism, underpinning the conversation-saturated homo sociologicus (Archer, 2000: 4); and (4) hermeneutic agency, underpinning homo existentialis. The disciplines of social psychology, ethics, and political science are employed to explore selected facets of human nature, moral principles, and political ideology chosen, by associates of each set of methodological configurations, in particular relational situations. Informed by this investigation a sample of community practitioners were questioned about their praxis. This reveals that a substantial majority understand and accept an objective and knowable social worid where people are self-interested. Therefore, these practitioners perceive community as a setting where they can influence the decisions of others through discourse and judge its ethical merits by the degree of loyalty and obligation extended to their projects. Thus, it is apparent that community practitioners should evaluate their praxis, through critical self-reflection, if they are to develop suitably robust and durable symbiotic relationships with adherents to each of the four social reality perceptions. This research leads to a new logic, based on the innovative interpretation of ontotogical and epistemotogical configurations offered in the seminal work of Bhaskar (1978 and 1979) and Archer (1989, 1995, 2000 and 2003). Here, an emerging social ontology informs the construction of more specific theories conceming the dynamics of community in identifiable localities. Therefore, it now becomes possible to construct a management model, incorporating contending social realities, the techniques of mediation and the results of changing cognition and cognitive dissonance, that facilitates community practitioner's critical self-reflection and construction of managerial strategies based on community member's contending perceptions of social reality.
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE AZOREAN ROCKY INTERTIDAL: EXPLOITATION OF KEYSTONE SPECIES
Creators: name: Martins, Gustavo M.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2009

description: Experimental work has shown the importance of grazing by patellid limpets in structuring intertidal assemblages. Little is known, however, about the effects of a largescale and chronic removal of limpets. Here I investigate the ecology of Patella candei, a seldom-studied limpet endemic to Macaronesia, and how its long-term fishery impacts the Azorean rocky intertidal. The specific aims of this thesis are to: examine the processes that affect the distribution of limpets in the Azores at a range of spatial scales; investigate the role of grazing by P. candei in structuring the Azorean rocky intertidal and if its harvesting has impacted the dynamics and functioning of this ecosystem. The distribution of limpets was variable at a range of spatial scales. At the scale of islands, inter-island variation in harvesting intensity affected the abundance and size structure of populations of limpets as well as the balance between grazers, algae and barnacles. Stocks of limpets showed clear signs of exploitation and there was evidence that current legislation, including limpet protected zones, have been largely ineffective in protecting these populations. At smaller spatial scales, substratum micro-topography influenced the distribution and sui-vival of limpets. I also showed that the experimental provision of microhabitats could be used as a measure to mitigate the effects of coastal urbanisation, whilst promoting a local enhancement of the stocks of limpets. Overall my results provide evidence for the population and community level effects of limpet harvesting and show that limpet harvesting has a strong impact on the structure and fiinctioning of the Azorean rocky intertidal.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRIVATELY MANAGED MARINE RESERVES IN SUSTAINING NEARSHORE FISHERIES IN THE TROPICAL COASTAL ZONE
Creators: name: SVENSSON, BJORN PATRIK MIKAEL
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2009

description: There is an emergent need to increase protection of nearshore resources from a growing human population, which is deteriorating coral reef ecosystems through coastal development, overfishing and destructive fishing practices. A possible solution involves increasing the number of smaller Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), creating a network of reserves with greater fisheries potential, while locally remaining small enough not to overly impinge on fishers available fishing grounds. Coral reefs are often found in developing countries, where governments financially struggle to establish successfully managed MPAs. A growing number of Hotel Managed Marine Reserves (HMMRs) have partly therefore, recently been established. Hotels arguably often have adequate funding, resources, and incentive to protect adjacent coastal areas - an HMMR could allow hotels to establish a market niche for a growing environmentally aware tourist. The principals of an Ecosystem-based Management (EBM) approach was adopted to test protection potential of an HMMR in Vietnam (Whale Island Resort: WIR) from a biological and socioeconomic point of view. Biannual visual fish census surveys (October 2005-April 2007) were conducted at the two marine reserves adjacent to WIR. The 6-year protected Whale Island Bay Reserve (WIB: 11 ha) showed significantly higher fish densities, richness, average size and number of fish >15 cm compared with two unprotected control sites. Fish stocks at the second, newer reserve, Whale Island Bay Peninsula Reserve (WIBP: 5 ha), quickly increased following protection. Fish assemblages at the 5 Artificial Reefs (ARs), made from clay pots (AR areas: 4.2-14.9 m^) in WIB, were greater than adjacent area-equivalent Natural Reefs (NRs) (11.15 greater biomass). showing larger fish assemblages with increasing AR size, adding to local fish stocks enhancement. Surveys were conducted with local fishermen to gauge socioeconomic impacts and management performance of the HMMRs. Fishermen mainly dependent on beach seining mostly opposed the HMMRs, while fishermen using other fishing techniques were generally in favour of the HMMRs, welcoming more protection and confirming spillover of fish, including large food fishes. In a Willingness to Pay (WTP) survey (n=211). 97.5 % of tourists at WIR supported HMMRs and 86.3 % were willing to pay an extra 10 % of the average room rate to stay at such hotels. In a worldwide survey of existing HMMRs, protecting areas from 1-700 ha (average 110 ha +/-13.22 SE), the average management rating attained was high (Good - HMMR is enforced). The accumulated findings from WIR and HMMRs globally, support the great potential of HMMRs as an added tool to protecting a part of our nearshore natural resources.
CTNeRF: Cross-Time Transformer for Dynamic Neural Radiance Field from Monocular Video
Creators: name: Miao, Xingyu
name: Bai, Yang
name: Duan, Haoran
name: Huang, Yawen
name: Wan, Fan
name: Long, Yang
name: Zheng, Yefeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The goal of our work is to generate high-quality novel views from monocular videos of complex and dynamic scenes. Prior methods, such as DynamicNeRF, have shown impressive performance by leveraging time-varying dynamic radiation fields. However, these methods have limitations when it comes to accurately modeling the motion of complex objects, which can lead to inaccurate and blurry renderings of details. To address this limitation, we propose a novel approach that builds upon a recent generalization NeRF, which aggregates nearby views onto new viewpoints. However, such methods are typically only effective for static scenes. To overcome this challenge, we introduce a module that operates in both the time and frequency domains to aggregate the features of object motion. This allows us to learn the relationship between frames and generate higher-quality images. Our experiments demonstrate significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods on dynamic scene datasets. Specifically, our approach outperforms existing methods in terms of both the accuracy and visual quality of the synthesized views. Our code is available on https://github.com/xingy038/CTNeRF.
description: Accepted by Pattern Recognition
Salvatoria McIntosh 1885
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Salvatoria

description: Genus Salvatoria McIntosh, 1885
Salvatoria clavata (Claparède, 1863) DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Cognetti 1958; Banse 1959, 1970; Katzmann 1971, 1972; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986, 1994; Crema et al. 2000; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004, 2005; Castelli et al. 2008; Musco 2012.
NEW RECORDS: BM1, BM18, BM19.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Grubeosyllis clavata (Claparède, 1863); Brania clavata (Claparède, 1863); Grubea clavata (Claparède, 1863); Grubea dolichopoda (Marenzeller, 1874); Pseudobrania clavata (Claparède, 1863).
Salvatoria euritmica (Sardá, 1984) DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco 2012.
Salvatoria limbata (Claparède, 1868)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Zalokar 1942; Zavodnik 1965, 1967a, 1967b; Katzmann 1972, 1973a; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986, 1994; Crema et al. 2000; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Ponti et al. 2007; Prevedelli et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Musco 2012. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Grubeosyllis limbata (Claparède, 1868); Brania limbata (Claparède, 1868); Grubea limbata Claparède, 1868.
Salvatoria tenuicirrata (Claparède, 1864)
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Zavodnik 1965, 1967b; Požar-Domac 1994. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Brania tenuicirrata (Claparède, 1864); Grubea tenuicirrata (Claparède, 1864).
Salvatoria vieitezi (San Martín, 1984)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM18, BM19.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Grubeosyllis vieitezi (San Martín, 1984).
Salvatoria yraidae (San Martín, 1984)
DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 132-133, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
A Logic for Repair and State Recovery in Byzantine Fault-tolerant Multi-agent Systems
Creators: name: van Ditmarsch, Hans
name: Fruzsa, Krisztina
name: Kuznets, Roman
name: Schmid, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We provide an epistemic logical language and semantics for the modeling and analysis of byzantine fault-tolerant multi-agent systems. This not only facilitates reasoning about the agents' fault status but also supports model updates for implementing repair and state recovery. For each agent, besides the standard knowledge modality our logic provides an additional modality called hope, which is capable of expressing that the agent is correct (not faulty), and also dynamic modalities enabling change of the agents' correctness status. These dynamic modalities are interpreted as model updates that come in three flavours: fully public, more private, or involving factual change. We provide complete axiomatizations for all these variants in the form of reduction systems: formulas with dynamic modalities are equivalent to formulas without. Therefore, they have the same expressivity as the logic of knowledge and hope. Multiple examples are provided to demonstrate the utility and flexibility of our logic for modeling a wide range of repair and state recovery techniques that have been implemented in the context of fault-detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) approaches in fault-tolerant distributed computing with byzantine agents.
description: Extended preprint
Sphaerosyllis Claparede 1863
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Sphaerosyllis

description: Genus Sphaerosyllis Claparède, 1863
Sphaerosyllis austriaca Banse, 1959
DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
Sphaerosyllis boeroi Musco, Çinar & Giangrande, 2005 DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco 2012.
Sphaerosyllis bulbosa Southern, 1914
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Kiseleva 1964; Musco et al. 2004; Simonini et al. 2007; Casellato et al. 2007; Casellato & Stefanon 2008; Castelli et al. 2008.
* Sphaerosyllis claparedii Ehlers, 1864
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Ehlers 1864; Carus 1884; Cognetti 1958; Banse 1959; Katzmann 1972; Amoureux 1983c; Požar-Domac 1994; Castelli et al. 2008.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sphaerosyllis claparedii Ehlers, 1864; Sphaerosyllis claparedi Ehlers, 1864.
Sphaerosyllis glandulata Perkins, 1981
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fraschetti et al. 2002; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM19, BM22.
DEPOSITED MATERIAL: BM22, 30.09.2010., 1 spec. (PMR-17632).
Sphaerosyllis gravinae Somaschini & San Martín, 1994 DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande et al. 2001; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Stossich 1876, 1883; Carus 1884; Cognetti 1958; Banse 1959, 1970; Katzmann 1971, 1972, 1973a; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Amoureux 1983c; Katzmann 1983; Fassari 1983; Požar-Domac 1986, 1994; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010; Musco 2012.
NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM13, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM28, BM52, BM53, BM78, BM99.
Sphaerosyllis ovigera Langerhans, 1879
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Zavodnik 1965, 1967b; Požar-Domac 1994; Casellato & Stefanon 2008.
Sphaerosyllis pirifera Claparède, 1868
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010; Musco 2012.
NEW RECORDS: BM19, BM68, BM74.
Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins, 1981
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Musco 2012. NEW RECORDS: BM18, BM19, BM20, BM99.
Sphaerosyllis thomasi San Martín, 1984
DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 133-134, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
GROWTH, CARCASS COMPOSITION AND MEAT QUALITY OF ANGORA GOATS REARED FOR FIBRE PRODUCTION
Creators: name: BARBER, SARAH ANN
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1995

description: The effects of age and plane of nutrition on the body and carcass composition and mohair fibre yield and quality of British Angora wether goats slaughtered at six, 12, 18 and 24 months of age were investigated. Carcass yield, composition and conformation improved with increasing age and plane of nutrition. Greasy fleece weight also increased with increasing age and plane of nutrition but fibre quality declined since the increase in mass was achieved by means of increased fibre diameter with no effect of age or plane of nutrition on the fibre elongation rate. There was a constant relationship between the increase in fibre diameter with age and fleece mass which was not affected by plane of nutrition. Similarly there was no significant effect of plane of nutrition on the relationships between fibre diameter and the weight of various body and carcass components. A strong relationship between fibre diameter and the weight of fat in the body or carcass suggested that the increase in fibre diameter with age of the goat was influenced by cumulative feed intake rather than by fat-free body size. The allometric growth patterns of the body and carcass of the Angora goat conformed with the patterns established for other domestic species, with early maturity of the external offal and vital organs, later maturity of the carcass and body fat, and a centripetal pattern of development. There was no effect of plane of nutrition on the allometric growth patterns of the fat-free body or carcass, but decreasing the plane of nutrition resulted in a uniform retardation of all body parts and carcass tissues and a significant effect on the relative growth rate of body and carcass fat. Regression equations were formulated to predict the half carcass composition of Angora wether goats using sample joint dissection data. The most accurate predictions were achieved with data from the leg and the best end of neck combined in multiple regression equations. A second experiment to investigate the effects of long term undernutrition followed by realimentation on the growth rate and composition of empty body weight gain revealed no evidence of compensatory liveweight gain in the Angora goat.
Syllides Orsted 1845
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Syllides

description: Genus Syllides Ørsted, 1845
Syllides bansei Perkins, 1981
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM54.
® Syllides c onvolutus Webster & Benedict, 1884 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
NEW RECORDS: BM18, BM19, BM22.
REMARKS: These are the first records from the Adriatic Sea. DEPOSITED MATERIAL: BM18, 29.09.2010., 12 spec. (PMR-17638).
Syllides edentatus Westheide, 1974 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Munari et al. 2003. NEW RECORDS: BM19, BM54.
Syllides fulvus (Marion & Bobretzky, 1875)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Musco & Giangrande 2005; Castelli et al. 2008; Musco 2012.
NEW RECORDS: BM52.
Syllides japonicus Imajima, 1966 DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Schirosi et al. 2010. NEW RECORDS: BM14, BM53.
Syllides longocirratus Ørsted, 1845
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Stossich 1883; Banse 1959; Zavodnik 1965, 1967b; Katzmann 1971, 1972, 1973a; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1986, 1994; Castelli et al. 2008. REMARKS: According to Campoy (1982) the Mediterranean findings of this species should be attributed to Syllides fulvus (Marion & Bobretzky, 1875) and S. edentatus Westheide, 1974.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Crafter: Facial Feature Crafting against Inversion-based Identity Theft on Deep Models
Creators: name: Wang, Shiming
name: Ji, Zhe
name: Xiang, Liyao
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Wang, Xinbing
name: Zhou, Chenghu
name: Li, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the increased capabilities at the edge (e.g., mobile device) and more stringent privacy requirement, it becomes a recent trend for deep learning-enabled applications to pre-process sensitive raw data at the edge and transmit the features to the backend cloud for further processing. A typical application is to run machine learning (ML) services on facial images collected from different individuals. To prevent identity theft, conventional methods commonly rely on an adversarial game-based approach to shed the identity information from the feature. However, such methods can not defend against adaptive attacks, in which an attacker takes a countermove against a known defence strategy. We propose Crafter, a feature crafting mechanism deployed at the edge, to protect the identity information from adaptive model inversion attacks while ensuring the ML tasks are properly carried out in the cloud. The key defence strategy is to mislead the attacker to a non-private prior from which the attacker gains little about the private identity. In this case, the crafted features act like poison training samples for attackers with adaptive model updates. Experimental results indicate that Crafter successfully defends both basic and possible adaptive attacks, which can not be achieved by state-of-the-art adversarial game-based methods.
PREDATION BY CRABS ON ROCKY SHORES IN NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC
Creators: name: FERREIRA DA SILVA, ANA CATARINA
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2008

description: Highly mobile predators are known to have an important influence on shallow-water habitats. There is, however, little information about the role of crabs on the ecology of rocky shores. Here I examine the extent and consequences of predation by crabs on shores in the North-East Atlantic. The specific aims of this thesis are to: investigate spatial variation in use of the intertidal by crabs along a horizontal gradient of exposure to wave action and a vertical gradient of tidal elevation; assess their use of the intertidal as a feeding area by examining stomach content composition; examine the extent of connectivity between the subtidal and intertidal habitats as a consequence of predation by crabs, investigate the ecological role of crabs as predators in the intertidal, and to assess the importance of behavioral and morphological factors in determining the outcomes of these predator-prey interactions. Field sampling showed that on shores in southwest Britain, the abundance of Carcinus maenas, Necora puber and Cancer pagurus varied between high and low-tide, with the vertical gradient of tidal height and horizontal gradient of exposure to wave action. Crabs were typically more abundant on the lower shore than on the upper shore. C. maenas and N. puber were more abundant on sheltered shores than on exposed shores, while C. pagurus showed the opposite pattern. Individuals captured at high-tide were on average larger than those captured at low-tide. Stomach content analysis of individuals captured with traps at high-tide showed that all three crabs feed on intertidal prey including limpets, chitons and algae. In a mark-recapture field experiment, I demonstrate the migration of sublittoral crabs into the intertidal during high-tide. Subsequent manipulative field experiments showed that predation by crabs can have a considerable effect on abundance of limpets. Laboratory experiments showed that Necora puber has a preference for smaller limpets, indicating that the population structure of these grazers may also be modulated by predation. On shores of differing exposure in Portugal I examine cheliped morphological variation of Eriphia verrucosa in response to variation in prey abundance. Chelipeds were typically larger on exposed shores, where hard shelled prey such as mussels were more abundant than they were on sheltered shores, which were dominated by chitons and algae. Predation by crabs therefore appears to have an important ecological role in shallow-water habitats by influencing intertidal prey populations and establishing an important trophic link between intertidal and subtidal habitats. The implication of predation by crabs on the ecology of rocky shores is discussed.
Waves, currents and sediment transport modelling at the Wave Hub site
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Santamaria, Raul
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2013

description: Primary supervisory team: Qingping Zou and Shunqi Pan
description: This research project uses an integrated modelling system to investigate the effects of a wave farm on nearshore sediment transport at the Wave Hub site. The Wave Hub project is a large scale demonstration site for the development of the operation of arrays of wave energy generation devices located at the southwest coast of the UK where multiple field measurements took place. Particular attention of this study was paid to the interaction between waves and tides due the presence of the wave farm and its effects on radiation stress, bottom stress, and consequently on the sediment transport and the coast adjacent to the wave farm, using an integrated complex numerical modelling system. The modelling system consisted of the SWAN model for waves and the ROMS model for currents, and a sediment transport model for morphological computations. The two-way coupled SWAN and ROMS models with nested model grids were set up and run with and without the wave farm at the Wave Hub site. The results from this study show that tidal elevation and tidal currents have a significant effect on the wave height and direction predictions, and tidal forcing and wind waves have a significant effect on the bed shear-stress, mainly during spring tide. Also, the wave radiation stresses can considerably alter the long-shore and cross-shore velocity components. Interactions between waves and tides at the Wave Hub site are found to be important when modelling coastal morphological change due to the presence of wave energy devices. The wave action can impact on bottom boundary layer and mixing in the water column, which consequently impact on the nearshore sediment transport and the resulting morphological changes. Model results indicate that wave and long-shore currents are attenuated in the area sheltered by the wave farm. Bed-load rates show a decrease in magnitude when the wave farm is present, even during storm conditions. Wave impacts on averaged flood and averaged ebb tidal cycles show significant changes during flooding cases, when including the wave farm, it has major effects for the averaged flood cases on current speeds, bottom stresses, suspended sediments and bed-load transports. The results highlight the importance of the interactions between waves and tides when modelling coastal morphology with presence of wave energy devices. It was observed that the presence of the wave farm has significant impacts on the nearshore circulation, bed shear stresses and sediment transport. The morphological changes are also altered by the wave farm. This integrated modelling system provides a useful tool to help the study of physical impacts of a wave farm on coastal areas, which is the key element for the wave resource characterization, ocean circulation, sediment transport, morphodynamic changes and environmental impact assessment for the ongoing Wave Hub projects.
Trajectories of photons around a rotating black hole with unusual asymptotics
Creators: name: Li, Yong-Zhuang
name: Kuang, Xiao-Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most black hole solutions are characterized with asymptotically flat, or asymptotically (anti) de-Sitter behaviors, but some black holes with unusual asymptotics have also been constructed, which is believed to provide remarkable insights into our understanding of the nature of gravity. In this paper, focusing on a rotating black hole with unusual asymptotics in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton (EMD) theory, we innovatively analyze the photons' trajectories around this black hole background, showing that the unusual asymptotics has significant influences on the photons' trajectories. We expect that our analysis could give more insights in the scenario of black holes' shadow and image.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Superdiffusive planar random walks with polynomial space-time drifts
Creators: name: da Costa, Conrado
name: Menshikov, Mikhail
name: Shcherbakov, Vadim
name: Wade, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J10 (Primary) 60G50, 60K50, 60F05, 60F15 (Secondary)

description: We quantify superdiffusive transience for a two-dimensional random walk in which the vertical coordinate is a martingale and the horizontal coordinate has a positive drift that is a polynomial function of the individual coordinates and of the present time. We describe how the model was motivated through an heuristic connection to a self-interacting, planar random walk which interacts with its own centre of mass via an excluded-volume mechanism, and is conjectured to be superdiffusive with a scale exponent $3/4$. The self-interacting process originated in discussions with Francis Comets.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revision
PIN-SLAM: LiDAR SLAM Using a Point-Based Implicit Neural Representation for Achieving Global Map Consistency
Creators: name: Pan, Yue
name: Zhong, Xingguang
name: Wiesmann, Louis
name: Posewsky, Thorbjörn
name: Behley, Jens
name: Stachniss, Cyrill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate and robust localization and mapping are essential components for most autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a SLAM system for building globally consistent maps, called PIN-SLAM, that is based on an elastic and compact point-based implicit neural map representation. Taking range measurements as input, our approach alternates between incremental learning of the local implicit signed distance field and the pose estimation given the current local map using a correspondence-free, point-to-implicit model registration. Our implicit map is based on sparse optimizable neural points, which are inherently elastic and deformable with the global pose adjustment when closing a loop. Loops are also detected using the neural point features. Extensive experiments validate that PIN-SLAM is robust to various environments and versatile to different range sensors such as LiDAR and RGB-D cameras. PIN-SLAM achieves pose estimation accuracy better or on par with the state-of-the-art LiDAR odometry or SLAM systems and outperforms the recent neural implicit SLAM approaches while maintaining a more consistent, and highly compact implicit map that can be reconstructed as accurate and complete meshes. Finally, thanks to the voxel hashing for efficient neural points indexing and the fast implicit map-based registration without closest point association, PIN-SLAM can run at the sensor frame rate on a moderate GPU. Codes will be available at: https://github.com/PRBonn/PIN_SLAM.
description: 20 pages
Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Higgsinos Using Low-Momentum Mildly Displaced Tracks in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higgsinos with masses near the electroweak scale can solve the hierarchy problem and provide a dark matter candidate, while detecting them at the LHC remains challenging if their mass splitting is $\mathcal{O}(1 \text{GeV})$. This Letter presents a novel search for nearly mass-degenerate Higgsinos in events with an energetic jet, missing transverse momentum, and a low-momentum track with a significant transverse impact parameter using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment. For the first time since LEP, a range of mass splittings between the lightest charged and neutral Higgsinos from $0.3$ GeV to $0.9$ GeV is excluded at 95$\%$ confidence level, with a maximum reach of approximately $170$ GeV in the Higgsino mass.
description: 37 pages in total, author list starting page 20, 5+1aux figures, 1+2aux tables, submitted to Physical Review Letters. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2020-04
Synmerosyllis
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Syllidae
Synmerosyllis

description: Genus Synmerosyllis San Martín, Lopez & Aguado, 2009
Synmerosyllis lamelligera (Saint-Joseph, 1887)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Musco et al. 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac & Musco 2010; Musco 2012.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Pionosyllis lamelligera Saint-Joseph, 1856.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663