cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Morsina kunzi Gnezdilov & López & Suárez 2023, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Gnezdilov, Vladimir M.
name: López, Heriberto
name: Suárez, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Nogodinidae
Morsina
Morsina kunzi

description: Morsina kunzi (Holzinger, 2019), comb. nov.
Mikewilsonia kunzi Holzinger 2019: 937, figs 7C, 7D, 8, 9.
description: Published as part of Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., López, Heriberto & Suárez, Daniel, 2023, Family Nogodinidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) from the Canary Islands, with the description of a new species of the genus Morsina Melichar, 1902, pp. 567-574 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on page 572, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7609708
Megachile (Callomegachile) disjuncta Fabricius
Creators: name: Kumari, Priyanka
name: Kumar, Neelima R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile disjuncta

description: Megachile (Callomegachile) disjuncta (Fabricius)
FEMALE (Figs. 1–5). Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished by its pubescence. Face and tibia are with black, hypostome, vertex and first abdominal segment with pale white and pollen scopa with black pubescence.
Head: Clypeus elevated medially, punctures coarse and close; supraclypeus slightly elevated; parocular area sloping laterally below level of antennae; carina distinct; subocellar area broadly convex, median groove obscure; mandibles broad at apex, the outer tooth acute; vertex broad, flattish, produced black; the back of head roundly emarginated; lateral ocelli nearer eye and each other than to occipital margin and nearer eye than to each other; vestibule reaching up to mid coxae in repose.
Mesosoma: Scutum convex, striated, median and parapsidal lines distinct, pronotal lobes swollen but incarinate, punctures dense; scutellum broadly rounded posteriorly, nearly horizontal in profile; apex acute, median length longer than median groove but less than twice its length; first recurrent vein far from base than second which is close to apex of second submarginal cell, wing hyaline at base fuscous towards apex, veins black; forelegs coxae, trochanter simple, outer face closely punctate, anterior and posterior face smooth, apices of tarsi slightly excavated; hind legs simple and unmodified.
Metasoma: Basal tergal concavity margin incarinate, pregrandular area narrowly shining along upper margin otherwise finely and closely punctate, vertical fold linear, postgrandular area short, slightly convex medially; graduli of terga 2–5 complete and linear, punctures coarse and close becoming crowded; basal sternum slightly elevated medially; graduli of sterna 2–5 linear and subcarinate.
MALE (Figs. 6–11). Clypeus slightly convex, closely and finely punctate, apical margin notched medially, base, sides and apex of clypeus with long white pubescence; mandibles tridentate, apical tooth acute, lower surface without any process; fore coxae with short but acute spine, trochanters longer than broad, punctures close and fine on coxae.
Floral Associations: Fabaceae (Cajanus cajan (L.), Crotalaria juncea (L.), Millettia pinnata (L.)), Verbenaceae (Duranta erecta L.).
Recorded from Chandigarh, Dhanash and Hisar.
Specimens examined: 2 ♀, Chandigarh, 15 Sep. 2011, 1 ♂, Chandigarh, 25 Sep. 2011, 1 ♀, Chandigarh, 12 Oct. 2011, 2 ♂, Chandigarh, 23 Oct. 2011, 4 ♀, Dhanash, 15 Nov. 2011, 6 ♀, Hisar, 22, Mar. 2012, 4 ♀, Dhanash, 11 Apr. 2012, 2 ♀, 23 Sep. 2012
description: Published as part of Kumari, Priyanka & Kumar, Neelima R., 2014, Studies on Megachile Latreille subgenus Callomegachile Michener (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from Chandigarh and Haryana plains, India, pp. 591-599 in Zootaxa 3814 (4) on pages 592-594, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/226067
Quantifying the effect of recurrent Rossby wave patterns on extremely hot summers in present-day and end-of-the-century climate
Creators: name: Schönenberger, Vera Pascale
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021

description: Extremely hot summers have devastating impacts on society and ecology. Recurrent Rossby wave patterns (RRWPs) are among the atmospheric features that have been linked to extreme weather events involving persistent surface weather. In this thesis, the link between RRWPs and the occurrence of extremely hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere is investigated and quantified. To this aim the synoptic evolution of RRWP events is studied in three case studies of extremely hot summers using ERA5 and CESM data. Next, the link between RRWPs and the occurrence of extremely hot summers is quantified in present-day (1990 - 1999) and end-of-the-century (2091 - 2100) climate using a grid point-wise logistic regression model. In order to differentiate between the effect of collocated and upstream RRWPs on the occurrence of extremely hot summers, two different model implementations are used. Finally, we compare the results of the logistic regression model between the present-day and end-of-the-century climate in order to assess potential changes in the link between RRWPs and extremely hot summers due to global warming. We find that the effect of RRWPs on the occurrence of extremely hot summers is significant in many regions in the Northern Hemisphere, e.g., in the western U.S. (odds’ increase of up to +16%), eastern Europe (up to +14%) and in the region of the Caspian Sea (up to +18%). However, in the end-of-the-century climate, this link is much weaker. Uncertainties about the causes of a weakening link between RRWPs and extremely hot summers remain, and are possibly linked to the increasing importance of thermodynamic processes or altered jet stream dynamics. To conclude, RRWPs have significant effects on the occurrence of extremely hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere and are therefore essential when studying seasonal heat extremes. Thus, RRWPs should be further investigated - especially in the context of global warming.
Megachile (Callomegachile) cephalotes Smith
Creators: name: Kumari, Priyanka
name: Kumar, Neelima R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile cephalotes

description: Megachile (Callomegachile) cephalotes (Smith)
MALE (Figs. 12–17). Diagnosis. The males of this species have black integument, apices of mandibles, part of tibia and all tarsi of fore legs; apical margin of basal and 4th sterna with red hue.
Clypeus strongly convex, finely and closely punctate; lower margin of mandible with stout but short submedian process, covered with dense pubescence; front coxae with elongate spine, forebase tarsi much produced in a short spine anterio-apically, apices of tarsi slightly excavated; transverse carina of 6th tergum deeply incurved medially, incurved sides distinctly produced; basal sternum abruptly declivious and much expanded apically; sternal fasciae interrupted medially.
Floral Associations: Fabaceae (Trigonella foenum-graecum L., Millettia pinnata (L.)), Lamiaceae (Ocimum sanctum L.), Lythraceae (Lagerstroemia indica L.)
Recorded from Chandigarh, Panchkula, Sarangpur.
Specimens examined: 5 ♂, Panchkula, 22 Apr. 2012, 3 ♂, Panchkula, 24 Apr. 2012, 2m #, Sarangpur, 2 May 2012, 1 ♂, Chandigarh, 10 Jul. 2012, 3 ♂, Chandigarh, 11 Aug. 2012, 5 ♂ Panchkula, 25 Apr. 2013, 6 ♂, Panchkula, 2 May 2013.
description: Published as part of Kumari, Priyanka & Kumar, Neelima R., 2014, Studies on Megachile Latreille subgenus Callomegachile Michener (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from Chandigarh and Haryana plains, India, pp. 591-599 in Zootaxa 3814 (4) on page 594, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/226067
Scalable Triangle Counting and LCC with Caching
Creators: name: Strausz, András
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021

description: Graph analytical algorithms gained great importance in recent years as they proved to be useful in a variety of fields, such as data mining, social network analysis, or cybersecurity. To cope with the computational and memory demands that stem from the size of today's networks highly parallel solutions have to be developed.
In this thesis, we present our algorithm for shared memory as well as for distributed triangle counting and local clustering coefficient. We analyze different techniques for the computation of triangles and achieve shared memory parallelism with OpenMP. Our distributed implementation is based on row-wise graph partitioning and uses caching to save communication time. We take advantage of MPI's Remote Memory Access interface to achieve a fully asynchronous distributed algorithm that utilizes RDMA for data transfer. We show how the CLaMPI library for caching remote memory accesses can be used in the context of triangle counting and analyze the relationship between the caching performance and the graph structure. Furthermore, we develop an application-specific score used for the eviction procedure in CLaMPI that leads to additional performance gains.
Odontacarus (Odontacarus) shawi Brennan 1959
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Leeuwenhoekiidae
Odontacarus
Odontacarus shawi

description: Odontacarus (Odontacarus) shawi Brennan, 1959:
NEA
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Megachile (Callomegachile) lerma Cameron
Creators: name: Kumari, Priyanka
name: Kumar, Neelima R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile lerma

description: Megachile (Callomegachile) lerma (Cameron)
FEMALE (Figs. 18–22). Diagnosis. Pubescence of paraocular area, tergum 6 is black; rest of face with dark greyish; dorsal surface of legs and scopal bristles white; basal tergum and fasceae of terga 2 and 3 fulvous red.
Head: Clypeus strongly convex at base, apical margin notched medially, uniformly and closely punctate; supraclypeal area strongly convex and densely punctate; paraocular area sloping laterally below level of antennae, carina distinct, densely sculptured; subocellar area feebly convex; mandibles short apically broad, dentate margin equal to inner margin, 4 -dentate.
Mesosoma: Scutum evenly convex, striate which become transverse medially and oblique laterally, median and parapsidal lines distinct and linear; pronotal lobe incarinate, transverse ridges low and obscure triangular, apex rounded, strongly convex in profile; first recurrent vein slightly far from base than second which is close to apex of second submarginal cell, wing reddish brown basally, fuscous apically, veins brown; tegulae closely and minutely punctate. Megachile lerma differs from Megachile umbripennis Smith, besides other minor differences, markedly by the color of the wings which is much more strongly infuscated in M. umbripennis, the light whitish part restricted to the area of the basal cells, the apical part being dark grey with a very strong violet lustre (S. Risch, pers. comm.).
Metasoma: Basal terga concavity margin subcarinate, narrowly shining along upper margin; graduli of terga 2–5 linear and complete; basal width of tergum 6 slightly greater than median length, slightly concave in profile; basal sternum slightly elevated; sternum 6 slightly transversely convex, closely punctate and well covered with scopal bristles.
MALE (Figs. 23–28). Clypeus convex, bare medially, apical margin, punctures coarse and close becoming fine and very close apically; mandibles tridentate, lower margin without any processes; fore coxae with distinct short spine; 7th tergum much wider than median length; sterna 3 & 4 with subcarinate and complete graduli slightly thickened subapically and gently sloping to the hyaline rim, surface with coarse and close punctures, depressed rim fasciate.
Floral associations: Fabaceae (Cajanus cajan (L.), Tephrosia hamiltonii J.), Lythraceae (Lagerstroemia indica L.)
Recorded from Panchkula, Chandigarh.
Specimens examined: 1♂, Chandigarh, 11 Jul., 2012, 2 ♂, Panchkula, 13 Aug. 2012, 2♀, Chandigarh, 2 Aug. 2013, 3♀, Chandigarh, 17 Aug. 2013.
description: Published as part of Kumari, Priyanka & Kumar, Neelima R., 2014, Studies on Megachile Latreille subgenus Callomegachile Michener (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from Chandigarh and Haryana plains, India, pp. 591-599 in Zootaxa 3814 (4) on pages 594-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/226067
Predicting emission releases from mine tailings: spatially and temporally resolved life cycle assessment modelling
Creators: name: Adrianto, Lugas Raka
name: Pfister, Stephan
name: Hellweg, Stefanie
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mine waste
Ecotoxicity assessment
geochemical modeling

description: SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting Abstract Book
A Parameterized model for assessing environmental impacts from tailings: a life cycle assessment approach
Creators: name: Adrianto, Lugas Raka
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mine waste
life cycle assessment (LCA)

description: Problem: Various tailings site have specific emissions
- Interactions with environment may cause acid mine drainage
- The needs to create an environmental impacts predictor for tailings
storage facilities, considering short- and long-term perspectives
Approach: Environmental assessment with site-specific factors
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) implementation in mining is limited
- Tailings life cycle inventory are somewhat generic in LCA databases
- Combining robust models (geochemical, hydrology) with LCA
Résultats du Pouls des places d’apprentissage de mars 2021
Creators: name: Bolli, Thomas
name: Caves, Katherine Marie
name: Pusterla, Filippo
name: Rageth, Ladina
name: Renold, Ursula
name: Sritharan, Aranya
name: Trachsel Díaz-Tejeiro, Sandra
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Apprenticeship
Corona

description: Pouls des places d’apprentissage – Fiche d’information
Symbiopsocus Li 1997
Creators: name: Ning, Jinjin
name: Li, Fasheng
name: Liu, Xingyue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Psocidae
Symbiopsocus

description: Symbiopsocus Li
Symbiopsocus Li, 1997: 491. Type species: Symbiopsocus leptocladus Li, 1997: 491 (original designation).
Diagnosis. Adults with well-developed wing, small to medium sized, length from post clypeus to wing tip 4–6 mm. Antenna as long as or slightly longer than forewing. Wings usually pale yellow, immaculate, but with brown markings in a few species; Sc ending free; Rs and M connected by a short crossvein or fused for a short distance or meeting at a point; M+Cu 1a and first part of Cu 1a together arranged as a nearly continuous, straight line; areola postica subtriangular; male hypandrium usually symmetrical and with two tiers of lobes; phallosome slender and rhomboid-shaped; female subgenital plate with V-shaped sclerotized region on posterior lobe; ventral valve slender with acutely tapering apex; dorsal valve broad with acutely tapering apex; external valve longer than wide, mostly with posterior lobe.
description: Published as part of Ning, Jinjin, Li, Fasheng & Liu, Xingyue, 2020, The first record of the bark louse genus Symbiopsocus (Psocodea: Psocidae) from Vietnam, with description of a new species, pp. 413-420 in Zootaxa 4759 (3) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3741276
European Drone Clubs Stall Strategic Autonomy
Creators: name: Kunertova, Dominika
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Drones
European Union
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Strategic autonomy
Medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE)

description: CSS Policy Perspectives, 9 (5)
description: ISSN:2296-6471
Evaluation and Deployment of Resource-Constrained Machine Learning on Embedded Devices
Creators: name: Heim, Lennart
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Deep neural networks (DNNs) are a vital tool in pattern recognition and Machine Learning (ML) – solving a wide variety of problems in domains such as image classification, object detection, and speech processing. With the surge in the availability of cheap computation and memory resources, DNNs have grown both in architectural and computational complexity. Porting DNNs to resource-constrained devices – such as commercial home appliances – allows for cost-efficient deployment, widespread availability, and the preservation of sensitive personal data.
In this work, we discuss and address the challenges of enabling ML on microcontroller units (MCUs), where we focus on the popular ARM Cortex-M architecture. We deploy two well-known DNNs, which are used for image classification, on three different MCUs and subsequently benchmark their temporal runtime characteristics and energy consumption. This work proposes a toolchain, including a benchmarking suite based on TensorFlow Lite Micro (TFLu). The detailed effects and trade-offs that quantization, compiler options, and MCUs architecture can have on key performance metrics such as inference latency and energy consumption have not been investigated previously.
We find that such empirical investigations are indispensable, as the impact of specialized instructions and dedicated hardware units can be subtle. The actual empirical investigation by deployment is a cost-effective method for verifying and benchmarking, as theoretical assumptions regarding the latency and energy consumption are difficult to formulate due to the interdependence of DNN architecture, software, and the target hardware.
Using fixed point quantization for weights and activations, we achieve a 73 % reduction of the network memory footprint. Furthermore, we find that through the combination of quantization and the usage of hardware optimized acceleration libraries, a maximal 34× speedup of the inference latency is achieved – which consequently also leads to a decrease in energy consumption in the same order. We learn that the deployment of DNN on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) MCUs is promising, but can be greatly accelerated by a combination of optimization techniques. This work concludes with an in-depth discussion on how to improve DNNs deployment on resource-constrained devices beyond the study.
Odontacarus (Odontacarus) sichuanensis Zhou, Wen, Wang and Zhang 1981
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Leeuwenhoekiidae
Odontacarus
Odontacarus sichuanensis

description: Odontacarus (Odontacarus) sichuanensis Zhou, Wen, Wang and Zhang, 1981:
PAL
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Restoration and Reconstruction of 3D cryo-EM Images
Creators: name: Agarwal, Ishaant
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cryo-electron microscopy
cryo-EM
deep learning
denoising
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Unsupervised learning
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/600
Technology (applied sciences)

description: Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as the preferred method for imaging macromolecular structures.  Like most other high-powered imaging techniques it suffers from a trade-off between acquisition time and quality.  Traditional denoising methods for cryo-EM include averaging and Fourier cropping.  They are not only resource-intensive but also lose out on high-frequency details.  Other denoising methods rely on constructing a model of the noisy process and rely on simplified assumptions.  In this study, we train a neural network to model the noisy process and output denoised 3D cryo-EM density maps while minimizing the loss of high-frequency components; even in the absence of ‘clean’ target maps for training.
Ergebnisse LehrstellenPuls März 2021
Creators: name: Bolli, Thomas
name: Caves, Katherine Marie
name: Pusterla, Filippo
name: Rageth, Ladina
name: Renold, Ursula
name: Sritharan, Aranya
name: Trachsel Díaz-Tejeiro, Sandra
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Berufsbildung
Lehrstellen
Corona

description: LehrstellenPuls – Faktenblatt
Apprenticeship Pulse Results March 2021
Creators: name: Bolli, Thomas
name: Caves, Katherine Marie
name: Pusterla, Filippo
name: Rageth, Ladina
name: Renold, Ursula
name: Sritharan, Aranya
name: Trachsel Díaz-Tejeiro, Sandra
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Apprenticeship
Corona

description: Apprenticeship Pulse – Factsheet
Thin Serverless Functions with GraalVM Native Image
Creators: name: Wang, Sutao
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021

description: Thin Serverless Functions with GraalVM Native Image
description: In the past two decades, cloud computing has reformed the IT service market. Serverless as its successor releases cloud users from heavy burdens of resources management and system administration. The auto-scaling and finer billing granularity make serverless easy-to-use and cost-efficient. However, serverless platforms are usually suffering the high latency caused by cold starts. Duplicated allocation of language runtimes, libraries and shareable program state for different invocations causes a huge waste of memory.

A recent work, Photons, enables collocation of functions of the same user inside the same runtime. Photons reduce the memory footprint and the number of overall cold starts by a lot without performance degradation. However, Photons are implemented in the normal JVM, which still suffers from slow starts and a large memory footprint. All objects of concurrent invocations are located on the common object heap. Heavy burdens of garbage collection causes high response tail latency.

In this project, we design and implement a serverless proxy runtime using GraalVM Native Image Isolate. Native Image Isolate supplies better isolation for collocated invocations. Separated heap spaces enable more efficient independent memory management, while state sharing among different isolates becomes difficult. Ahead-of-time compilation makes isolate proxy start up fast with low memory footprint. We propose isolate pooling and shared isolate to enable object caching and state sharing in our design. Different workloads are introduced to evaluate our isolate proxy. Isolate proxy can reduce runtime memory footprint by up to 59% and starts up 10x faster, with slightly a lower peak throughput compared to Photons. For memory-intensive workloads, distributed garbage collection reduces worst-case latency up to 50%. We use realistic serverless invocations pattern to perform a cluster-wide event-driven simulation, which shows that our isolate proxy can reduce the overall cluster memory usage by 30% while keeping slightly better overall response time compared to Photons. These results indicate that it is worthy to trade fast start up and low memory footprint for peak performance in serverless context.
National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI): Overview Presentation GER/ ENG
Creators: name: Kornetzky, Katja
name: Kroehler, Rebecca
name: Nathalie, Hartl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Die Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) stellt Daten als gemeinsames Gut für exzellente Forschung bereit und koordiniert deren Organisation in Deutschland durch die Wissenschaft. Die NFDI-Übersichtspräsentationen enthalten Informationen zu Struktur und Inhalten der NFDI und die Präsenz der NFDI in sozialen Netzwerken.

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) provides data as a common good for excellent research and coordinates its organisation in Germany by the scientific community. The current NFDI overview presentations contain information on the structure and content of the NFDI and the presence of NFDI in social media.
Aurimastris Evangelista & Sakakibara, 2007, new genus
Creators: name: Evangelista, Olívia
name: Sakakibara, Albino M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Membracidae
Aurimastris

description: Aurimastris new genus
Type species: Aurimastris expansa new species
Description. Head triangular, vertical, approximately 2x wider than long, densely punctate and covered with minute hairs; vertex slightly convex, weakly sculptured, superior margin sinuate, supra-antennal ledges in same plane of vertex, margins straight, convergent to apex of postclypeus; epistomal suture distinctly grooved; eyes ovoid, not prominent; ocelli conspicuous, equidistant from each other and to eyes, situated on imaginary line that passes through center of eyes; postclypeus diamond-shaped, about as wide as long, projected below margins of supra-antennal ledges in hairy, ovoid apex.
Pronotum well developed, tectiform, somewhat compressed laterally, with median carina sharp from behind metopidium to apex of posterior process; surface uneven, fine and densely punctured, sparsely pubescent; metopidium variable, convex; posterior process highly elevated after humeral angles, slightly arched downwards, with acute apex, terminating before apex of tegmina; post-ocular lobules adpressed to thorax, with distance between eye and humerus less than largest diameter of eye; humeral angles well developed, more or less triangular, foliaceous, projected laterally in ear-like lobe, base extended from behind eyes to beyond humeri, near internal angle of clavus.
Tegmina about 1/3 concealed by pronotum, internal discoidal cell almost entirely visible; two discoidal and five apical cells present, third cell petiolate, as wide as long; crossveins s and two m-cu present. Hind wings normal, with four apical cells, second cell petiolate.
Legs with tibiae prismatic; pro- and mesotibiae without cuculate setae; metatibiae with cuculate setae on row I and II-III (wide band); hind basitarsi with plantar cuculate setae.
Comments. Aurimastris resembles Amastris Stål, 1862, more than any other amastrine genus. Both genera share such features as: pronotum compressed and elevated; tegmina with tips not concealed by pronotum, presence of crossveins s and two m-cu. Aurimastris differs from Amastris, however, in the highly developed humeral angles, which expand laterally into a foliaceous, triangular lobe.
Etymology. The generic name is a compound word formed by: Auri- from the Latin auris (= ear) plus - mastris from Amastris, the genus to which the new taxon is closely related.
description: Published as part of Evangelista, Olívia & Sakakibara, Albino M., 2007, Aurimastris, new genus of the treehopper tribe Amastrini (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae) *, pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 1652 on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179783
Odontacarus (Odontacarus) sunnianae Reed and Brennan 1975
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Leeuwenhoekiidae
Odontacarus
Odontacarus sunnianae

description: Odontacarus (Odontacarus) sunnianae Reed and Brennan, 1975:
NEO
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Organisation von grossen Untertagbauprojekten in Deutschland und in der Schweiz – Eine Vergleichsbetrachtung zu den Erfolgskriterien
Creators: name: Escherich, Sophie Veronika
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Organisation grosser Untertagbauprojekte, Messsystem für Projekterfolg, Projekterfolgsfaktoren, Pro- jekterfolgskriterien, Vergleichsbetrachtung zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/624
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: In Deutschland und in der Schweiz wird die erfolgreiche Realisierung von Grossprojekten immer wieder thematisiert. Geprägt durch die Ereignisse um den Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg, die Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg und das Projekt Stuttgart 21 wurde der Eindruck erweckt, in Deutschland wäre vieles im Argen und in der Schweiz wäre umgekehrt vieles zum Besten bestellt. Dieser Eindruck wird insbeson- dere durch das Projekt Gotthard-Basistunnel mitgeprägt, welches weiterhin als erfolgreich betrachtet wird. Es stellt sich jedoch die Frage, ob bei diesen Eindrücken immer ein zielführender Vergleich der Grossprojekte vorliegt.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird daher die Fragestellung untersucht, ob eine solche Schlussfolgerung für grosse Untertagbauprojekte nach wissenschaftlichen Kriterien gerechtfertigt ist. Dazu wird ein Mess- system zur Bewertung des Projekterfolgs von grossen Untertagbauprojekten entwickelt. Die Grundlage für das Messsystem bilden die sieben Erfolgskriterien «Kosten», «Termine», «Arbeitssicherheit», «Qua- lität», «Organisation und Prozesse», «Umwelt» sowie «Öffentliche Meinung». Diese werden zum Teil über Unterkriterien spezifiziert. Das Messsystem wird auf eine Stichprobe von insgesamt 70 grossen Untertagbauprojekten aus Deutschland und der Schweiz angewendet. Die Beschaffung und Verifizie- rung der notwendigen Daten zur Einordnung der Untertagbauprojekte erfolgte hauptsächlich über Inter- views mit Projektbeteiligten sowie ergänzend über eine Literaturrecherche.
Anhand der Bewertung der Untertagbauprojekte mit Hilfe des entwickelten Messsystems werden die beiden Länder Deutschland und die Schweiz quantitativ verglichen und Unterschiede bezüglich der ein- zelnen Erfolgskriterien aufgezeigt. Mit einer Varianzanalyse wird geprüft, auf welche Erfolgskriterien der Faktor «Land» einen signifikanten Einfluss hat. Zusätzlich wird auch der Einfluss der Tunnelart sowie der Zusammenarbeit innerhalb des Projektes auf den Projekterfolg bewertet. Abschliessend wird die zeitliche Korrelation der Erfolgskriterien bewertet und eine Sensitivitätsanalyse durchgeführt, um die Sensitivität der Ergebnisse auf die Eingangsparameter zu untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass unter Berücksichtigung aller Erfolgskriterien grosse Untertagbauprojekte in der Schweiz nicht eindeutig erfolgreicher sind als in Deutschland. Allerdings weist die Zusammenarbeit innerhalb eines Projektes für beide Länder einen grossen Einfluss auf den Projekterfolg auf. Entsprechend sollte bei der Realisie- rung von grossen Untertagbauprojekten eine kooperative Zusammenarbeit angestrebt werden.
Thermal Detection using Visual Cameras
Creators: name: Zumsteg, Tobias
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: A common problem with flying fixed wing aircraft is the limited time/range. To increase this limit without modifications, one can use thermal updrafts to gain potential energy. The problem is, that these elevator columns of warm air are translucent. Detection is therefore a significant challenge for all sensor modalities. However, the rising (warm) air has a lower density than the colder surrounding. Described by Snell’s law, light rays are refracted when changing media. With a visual camera on the aircraft, these deflected rays can be captured. By applying Background-Oriented-Schlieren (BOS), which tracks changes in the background to conclude the presence of different dense objects, detecting thermals becomes possible. The tracking of movement in the background is an optical flow problem which is addressed with various algorithms. Additionally, operating this on an aircraft adds sundries environments and camera movement to the challenge. In this project, BOS is tested on its capability to make thermals visible. Multiple Optical Flow methods are evaluated on their performance in detecting rising warm air while having different backgrounds and camera motion present. In a well-defined lab setting with optimal background, thermals were detectable with Farneb¨ack and Horn-Schunck algorithms, both with a stationary or moving camera. In front of challenging prints from flight environments, Horn-Schunck was the only algorithm delivering results in half the cases, while the other algorithms failed. As the next step, the performance was measured outdoor, in front of real natural backgrounds. Here, the algorithms did not succeed due to wind affecting the background and drowning out everything else. When operating in motion, the camera movement could not sufficiently be reduced. Moving backgrounds and camera motion remain significant challenges to be faced in the future.
Odontacarus (Odontacarus) tetrasetosus Yu and Yang 1986
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Leeuwenhoekiidae
Odontacarus
Odontacarus tetrasetosus

description: Odontacarus (Odontacarus) tetrasetosus Yu and Yang, 1986:
PAL
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Magia Distant 1907
Creators: name: Soulier-Perkins, Adeline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Lophopidae
Magia

description: Genus Magia Distant, 1907
Type species: Magia subocellata Distant, 1907
description: Published as part of Soulier-Perkins, Adeline, 2008, The genus Magia Distant (Hemiptera: Lophopidae): review and biogeographic history, pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1870 on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183957
title: Minimum sample size definition for the purpose of the loss provisions’ extrapolation under the presence of default correlation
Creators: name: Penikas, Henry
Publisher: name: Bank of Russia
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In 2016, the Bank of Russia developed two ordinances to set forth a procedure using a limited sample of loans to conclude whether the level of loss provisions in the portfolio of uniform loans is sufficient or not and whether the bank’s capital is adequate. The existing procedure of reserve sufficiency evaluation previews as a rule considering only a part of the loan portfolio and transfer (extrapolation) of the provision thus assessed for the overall portfolio. Moreover, the acting approach to define the minimum loan sample size assumes the absence of the default correlation. Author’s contribution is the application of the known, though often neglected properties of the distribution of the sum of the correlated Bernoulli events (trials) for the novel task, namely for the provision extrapolation, which did not consider the possibility of the default correlation existence. As a result, we prove that its presence requires larger minimum sample size of loans compared with the instances of its absence. More specifically, we justify how the minimum sample size of loans depends upon the absolute and relative differences in default rates (provision rates, rate of legal violations) within two samples, upon the required significance levels and the levels of statistical power.
Odontacarus (Odontacarus) tiptoni Reed and Brennan 1975
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Leeuwenhoekiidae
Odontacarus
Odontacarus tiptoni

description: Odontacarus (Odontacarus) tiptoni Reed and Brennan, 1975:
NEO
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Magia stuarti Soulier-Perkins, sp. n.
Creators: name: Soulier-Perkins, Adeline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Lophopidae
Magia
Magia stuarti

description: Magia stuarti Soulier-Perkins, sp. n. (fig. 10)
Diagnosis. Except for the general body colour with a cuticle closer to white than yellow gold, this species can be differentiated from M. subocellata only by the male genitalia.
Male genitalia (figs 11–14). Anal tube developed posteriorly and laterally (Fig. 10), apical part flattened ventrally. Dorsal margin of pygofer truncated posteriorly. Posterior margin of pygofer slightly rounded posteriorly. Gonostyli bearing small spine dorso-anteriorly, orientated anteriorly (fig. 10). Dorsal margin of periandrium strongly curved dorsally with apex orientated anteriorly (fig. 11). Slender periandrium process absent (present in M. subocellata). Ventral part of periandrium developed posteriorly and apex curved dorsally (fig. 13). This apex is more developed than for M. subocellata. Apex of aedeagus inflated, dorsal margin strongly curved dorsally (fig. 12). Presence of only one process of aedeagus orientated ventrally and anteriorly, shorter than for M. subocellata. Ventral posterior process of edeagus absent.
Note. Apex of periandrium much larger and rounded for this species than for M. subocellata (fig. 11).
Etymology. Species named after the author’s husband Stuart.
Material examined. holotype male: HE029987, Australia, Cape Tribulation, N. Qld, Dubuji Boardwalk, 29.ix.2003, P. Erbe (ASCU). Paratypes: 4 males: HE029998, HE029997, HE029991, HE029990, 3 females: HE029996, HE029994, HE02993, Australia, Cape Tribulation, N. Qld, Dubuji Boardwalk, 29.ix.2003, P. Erbe (ASCU). 2 males: HE029995, MNHN (EH)-3689, HE029989, MNHN (EH)-3688, 2 females: HE029992, MNHN (EH)-3687, HE029988, MNHN (EH)-3686, Australia, Cape Tribulation, N. Qld, Dubuji Boardwalk, 29.ix.2003, P. Erbe (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Soulier-Perkins, Adeline, 2008, The genus Magia Distant (Hemiptera: Lophopidae): review and biogeographic history, pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1870 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183957
Phaeoisaria clematidis S. Hughes, Can. J. Bot.
Creators: name: Xu, Ke
name: Xu, Rong-Ju
name: Li, Jia-Ning
name: Zhao, Qi
name: Zhu, Ying-An
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Xylariales
Diatrypaceae
Phaeoisaria
Phaeoisaria clematidis

description: Phaeoisaria clematidis (Fuckel) S. Hughes, Can. J. Bot. 36: 794 (1958) FIGURE 2
Index Fungorum number: 302703, Facesoffungi number: 03412
Saprobic on decaying submerged wood in a freshwater stream. Asexual morph: Conidiomata scattered, indeterminate, erect, superficial, dark brown, composed of compact appressed conidiophores. Synnemata 164–600 × 6–28 μm (x = 290 × 13 μm, n = 20), macronematous, branched, synnematous, septate, brown to dark brown, smooth. Conidiogenous cells 7–43 × 2–4 μm (x = 25 × 3 μm, n = 30), polyblastic, hyaline to pale brown, integrated or discrete, sympodial, terminal, denticulate. Conidia 4–6 × 2–3 μm (x = 5 × 2 μm, n = 35), ellipsoidal to obovoid, hyaline, smooth-walled, aseptate. Sexual morph: Undetermined.
Culture characteristics: Conidia germinated on PDA within 48 hours, and germ tubes were produced from both ends. Colony reached 50 mm at room temperature for four weeks, appressed, circular, flat, cream, and raised in the center with mycelium.
Material examined: CHINA, Xizang, Qamdo City, Basu County, Ranwu Town, Ranwu Lake, saprobic on decaying submerged wood in a freshwater lake, 14 July 2022, R.J. Xu, MD-628 (HKAS 128985), living culture, KUNCC 10455. Motuo County, saprobic on decaying wood submerged in a freshwater stream, 11 July 2022, R.J. Xu, XK-28 (HKAS 128988), living culture, KUNCC 10458. Shigatse City, Yadong County, saprobic on decaying submerged wood in a freshwater stream, 1 July 2022, R.J. Xu, LTS-16 (HKAS 128989), living culture, KUNCC 10459.
Notes: Phaeoisaria clematidis, initially described by Hughes (1958), is known to occur on various substrates and is widely distributed (Ellis 1971, Crous et al. 2015, Luo et al. 2018). In China, P. clematidis was reported by Luo et al. (2018) from submerged decaying wood in Yunnan Province. In our study, five strains were isolated from submerged decaying woods in freshwater habitats from the Tibetan Plateau, China. Morphologically, our collections fit well with those of P. clematidis, in having macronematous, branched synnemata, polyblastic, hyaline, denticulate conidiogenous cells, and ellipsoidal to obovoid, hyaline conidia. Simultaneously, phylogenetic analyses showed our strains clustered with P. clematidis (MFLUCC 17-1341) with strong statistical support (FIGURE 1). Therefore, we identified the new isolates as P. clematidis based on morphological and phylogenetic data, and reported it for the first time from the Tibetan Plateau.
description: Published as part of Xu, Ke, Xu, Rong-Ju, Li, Jia-Ning, Zhao, Qi & Zhu, Ying-An, 2024, A novel species of Phaeoisaria (Pleurotheciaceae, Sordariomycetes) from the Tibetan Plateau, China, pp. 61-72 in Phytotaxa 642 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13214167
Phaeoisaria motuoensis K. Xu, R. J. Xu & Y. A. Zhu, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xu, Ke
name: Xu, Rong-Ju
name: Li, Jia-Ning
name: Zhao, Qi
name: Zhu, Ying-An
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Xylariales
Diatrypaceae
Phaeoisaria
Phaeoisaria motuoensis

description: Phaeoisaria motuoensis K. Xu, R.J. Xu & Y.A. Zhu, sp. nov. FIGURE 3
Index Fungorum number: 900235, Facesoffungi number: FoF 14354
Etymology: The species epithet refers to Motuo County, where the holotype was collected.
Holotype: HKAS 128729
Saprobic on decaying submerged wood in a freshwater stream. Asexual morph: Colonies effuse, scattered, solitary, pale brown to dark brown, hairy or velvety, covered by white conidial mass. Mycelium is partly superficial, partly immersed in the substrate, consisting of branched, septate, smooth, subhyaline to pale brown hyphae. Synnemata 550–1290 × 13–35 μm (x = 730 × 20 μm, n = 10), macronematous, branched, synnematous, septate, straight or slightly flexuous, brown to dark brown, smooth. Conidiogenous cells 20–25 × 2–4 μm (x = 23 × 3 μm, n = 10), polyblastic, hyaline to pale brown, integrated, sympodial, terminal, cylindrical, ellipsoidal or subulate, denticulate. Conidia 6–10 × 3–6 μm (x = 8 × 4 μm, n = 20), ellipsoidal to obovoid, hyaline to pale brown, guttulate, smooth-walled, aseptate. Sexual morph: Undetermined.
Culture characteristics: Conidia germinated on PDA within 48 hours, and germ tubes were produced from both ends. Colony reached 27 mm at room temperature for 4 weeks, circular, flat, with fluffy, dense, dark brown mycelium in the center, celadon to grey from above, atrovirens from below, becoming sparse and paler or light brown at the entire margin, edge entire.
Material examined: CHINA, Xizang, Motuo County, saprobic on decaying submerged wood in a freshwater stream, 13 July 2022, K. Xu, XK-34 (HKAS 128729, holotype), ex-type living culture, KUNCC 10410. Motuo County, saprobic on decaying submerged wood in a freshwater stream, 15 July 2022, K. Xu, XK-34-8 (HKAS 128730), living culture, KUNCC 10450.
Notes: Phaeoisaria motuoensis forms a distinct clade sister to P. sedimenticola. Morphologically, P. motuoensis is similar to P. sedimenticola in having terminal, smooth, denticulate, hyaline to pale brown conidiogenous cells and ellipsoidal to obovoid, straight, hyaline, guttulate, smooth-walled conidia. However, P. motuoensis clearly differs from P. sedimenticola by having shorter synnemata (547–1289 μm vs. up to 4000 μm), and conidia (aseptate vs. 1-septate) (Cheng et al. 2014).
description: Published as part of Xu, Ke, Xu, Rong-Ju, Li, Jia-Ning, Zhao, Qi & Zhu, Ying-An, 2024, A novel species of Phaeoisaria (Pleurotheciaceae, Sordariomycetes) from the Tibetan Plateau, China, pp. 61-72 in Phytotaxa 642 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13214167
Harpinia Boeck 1871
Creators: name: King, Rachael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Phoxocephalidae
Harpinia

description: Genus Harpinia Boeck, 1871
Harpinia Boeck, 1871: 135 (homonym).
Harpinia Boeck, 1876: 218; Sars, 1895: 150; Stebbing, 1906: 140; Chevreux and Fage, 1925:107; J.L. Barnard, 1969:415; Lincoln, 1979: 370; Barnard and Karaman, 1991: 611 –612; Karaman, 1993: 639. King et al., 2004: 1264 –1265.
Remarks. — Including the species described herein, there are 18 known species of Harpinia (Barnard and Karaman, 1991). All are united by their possession of a straight rostrum and short antennae as well as by the absence of eyes. Specific differentiation occurs mainly by comparison of females, as males are generally rare in collections. Specific differences are often based on the morphology of the basis of pereopod 7, the posterodisital corner of epimeron 3, the uropodal rami and coxae.
description: Published as part of King, Rachael A., 2004, A description of Harpinia karamani sp. nov. (Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae) from the Mediterranean, with a redescription of Harpinia truncata Sars, 1891, pp. 1-10 in Zootaxa 724 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158003
Odontacarus (Odontacarus) tuberculohirsutus Reed and Brennan 1975
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Leeuwenhoekiidae
Odontacarus
Odontacarus tuberculohirsutus

description: Odontacarus (Odontacarus) tuberculohirsutus Reed and Brennan, 1975:
NEO
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510