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Upper Cohen-Macaulay Dimension
No full textIn this paper, we define a homological invariant for finitely generated modules over a commutative noetherian local ring, which we call upper Cohen-Macaulay dimension. This invariant is quite similar to Cohen-Macaulay dimension that has been introduced by Gerko. Also we
define a homological invariant with respect to a local homomorphism of local rings. This invariant links upper Cohen-Macaulay dimension with Gorenstein dimension.</p
Revision of the subgenus Mesopraocis Flores & Pizarro-Araya of the Neotropical genus Praocis Eschscholtz (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Pimeliinae)
No full textThe second part of a revision of the species of the genus Praocis Eschscholtz is presented. The subgenus Mesopraocis Flores & Pizarro-Araya, distributed in northern Chile from 25° South to 31° South, is revised. This article includes a redescription of the subgenus, redescriptions of its species, an identification key, and a discussion on morphological adaptations of the species to fossorial life. Habitus photographs, scanning electron micrographs of head, antennae, prosternum, abdomen, and protibiae, illustrations of genital features, and distribution maps are presented. Conical pegs sensilla on tibiae are described and illustrated using SEM for the first time for a South American tenebrionid species. A new Praocis species is described: Praocis (Mesopraocis) arenicola sp. nov. Praocis (Mesopraocis) flava Kulzer, 1958 is synonymised with P. (M.) pilula Laporte, 1840. Other species of the subgenus are: P. (M.) calderana Kulzer and P. (M.) nitens Kulzer. A statement on the variation in the number of antennomeres in P. (M.) pilula is appended
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
Distribution and Conservation Status of Gyriosomus granulipennis Pizarro-Araya and Flores, 2004 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
No full text(Tenebrionidae: Nycteliini), is an apterousspecies endemic to Choros Island, which belongs to the archipelago of LosChoros in IV Regio, Chile. To analyze the data about the distribution and conservationstatus of . granulipennis, we conducteda study using pitfall in Choros Island. In this paper, weanalyze the distribution and conservation status of . granulipennis and propose actions to monitor and ensure thepreservation of the species populations. The restricted distribution of granulipennis on Choros Islandmay be considered an indicator of species rarity, a basic criterion to identify species in need of conservation. Monitoring the status and dynamics of thepopulation of. granulipennis in thelong term is essential to develop effective protection and conservation plansthat take into account the loss of habitat and help eradicate invading andintroduced species.Fil: Pizarro Araya, Jaime. Universidad de La Serena; ChileFil: Alfaro, Fermín M.. Universidad de La Serena; ChileFil: Flores, Gustavo Ernesto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas; ArgentinaFil: Letelier, Luis. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Méxic
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A Speed-Dependent Condition Monitoring System for Track Geometry Estimation Using Inertial Measurements
No full textIn this paper, a methodology to predict the track longitudinal level using bogie vertical acceleration from in-service vehicles is proposed. To account for the effect of vehicle speed, the acceleration levels are double integrated on-board the vehicle. Synthetic indicators like the RMS are then computed over predefined track sections of 100 m, to reduce the amount of data to be stored and analysed. Then, a linear regression model between the double integrated indicators and the direct track geometry measurements collected by a TRV is built, to verify the degree of correlation of the two quantities. To this end, data collected during a long-term monitoring campaign along the Italian railway network are considered. The regression model is finally adopted to predict the RMS of the longitudinal level using the signals collected on-board the vehicle. The comparison between the redicted and measured data is shown to be promising towards the possibility of condition monitoring of the track geometry both on high-speed and conventional lines
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Estudo físico-químico dos polimorfos da progesterona e estabilização da forma metaestável sobre matrizes poliméricas
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FarmáciaA nucleação heterogênea induzida por polímeros (PIHn) é uma técnica inovadora utilizada no "screening" de polimorfos na área farmacêutica. Consiste em cristalizar o fármaco sobre diferentes matrizes poliméricas e teve sucesso na descoberta de novas formas sólidas de fármacos como a carbamazepina, o sulindaco e o ácido tolfenâmico. A progesterona é utilizada em humanos e em animais, administrado em diferentes formas farmacêuticas, que podem ser preparadas cristalizando o fármaco em uma superfície polimérica. A progesterona apresenta duas formas cristalinas: a forma 1, que é termodinamicamente mais estável, e a forma 2, é a metaestável e mais solúvel. Apenas a forma estável é usada atualmente. Neste trabalho contemplou-se a aplicação da técnica PIHn para a progesterona, com o objetivo de estudar a cristalização polimórfica e determinar condições para estabilizar a forma 2. Foi utilizado o vidro, como controle, e seis polímeros: hidroxipropilmetil celulose (HPMC), álcool polivinílico (PVA), poliisopreno (PI), butadieno/acrilonitrila (NBR), dextrana e gelatina; três concentrações do fármaco: 0,5; 10 e 40 mg/mL e dois solventes: clorofórmio e acetona. Utilizando clorofórmio obteve-se a forma 2, a partir de soluções de 0,5 mg/mL, em quase todas as matrizes. Mistura de polimorfos foi obtida nas seguintes condições: a) das soluções de 40 mg/mL em clorofórmio em PVA, HPMC e gelatina; b) das soluções de 10 mg/mL em clorofórmio em PVA, e em ambos os solventes em HPMC, dextrana e gelatina; c) das soluções de 0,5 mg/mL em clorofórmio em gelatina, e em acetona em PVA, HPMC e dextrana. Na maioria dos polímeros os polimorfos apresentaram diferentes morfologias. Realizou-se estudo de estabilidade polimórfica da forma 2 obtida em PVA, HPMC e dextrana, a partir de soluções de 0,5 e 10 mg/mL em clorofórmio. No HPMC a forma 2 foi estável por 3 meses sob condições aceleradas de estabilidade (40ºC, 75% UR), e no PVA e dextran a estabilidade foi dependente da concentração. Ambos os polimorfos foram caracterizados e as estabilidades no estado sólido foram avaliadas, sob condições de estresse mecânico, ambiental e térmico, juntamente com a avaliação da velocidade de dissolução intrínseca (VDI) dos mesmos. A forma 2 apresentou maior VDI, similar estabilidade química e maior resistência à degradação térmica que a forma 1. A forma 2 apresentou significativa instabilidade polimórfica com a moagem. Esses resultados apresentam-se interessantes para futuras aplicações farmacêuticas.Polymer-induced heteronucleation (PIHn) is a novel technique used in polymorphic screening in the pharmaceutical field, that consists in crystallizes the drug on different polymeric matrices. It allowed to discover new solid forms of drugs such as carbamazepine, sulindac and tolfenamic acid. Progesterone is used in humans and in animals, it is administered in different dosage forms usually made crystallizing the drug on the polymers. Progesterone presents two crystal forms: form 1 is thermodynamically stable and form 2 is the metastable and more soluble form. Nowadays only the stable form is used. PIHn technique was applied in the study of progesterone polymorphs to determine the conditions to stabilize the metastable form. Six polymers: hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose (HPMC), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyisoprene (PI), butadiene/acrylonitrile (NBR), dextran, gelatin and glass as a control; three concentrations solutions: 0.5, 10 and 40 mg/mL and two solvents: chloroform and acetone were used. Form 2 was obtained from 0.5 mg/mL solutions in chloroform in almost all the polymers. A mixture of polymorphs was obtained from the following conditions: a) from 40 mg/mL solutions in chloroform on PVA, HPMC and gelatin; b) from 10 mg/mL solutions in chloroform on PVA, and in both solvents on HPMC, dextran and gelatin; c) from de 0,5 mg/mL solutions in chloroform on gelatin, and in acetone on PVA, HPMC e dextran. Both polymorphs exhibited differences in morphology on the different polymers. A stability study of form 2, obtained from 0.5 and 10 mg/mL solutions in chloroform on PVA, HPMC and dextran was performed. On HPMC form 2 was stable for 3 months under accelerated conditions (40 °C, 75% RH) and on PVA and dextran the stability was concentration dependent. Both polymorphs were characterized, including intrinsic dissolution rate (IDR) tests, and its stabilities in the solid state were evaluated under mechanical, environmental and thermal stress conditions. Form 2 presented higher IDR, similar chemical stability and greater resistance to thermal degradation than form 1. Form 2 showed significant polymorphic instability to grinding. These results are important for future pharmaceutical applications
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Lilloiconcha lopezi Araya & Aliaga, 2015, new species
No full textLilloiconcha lopezi new species Figs. 1 A– 1 E. Diagnosis. Shell small, trochoid, slightly wider than high, with elevated spire; nearly five whorls, colored in bands of translucent caramel brown and white. Protoconch with 1.5 whorls, smooth. Teleoconch with about one hundred prosocline ribs (about 23 on last whorl), interspersed with many fine riblets; aperture circular, umbilicus ample and well developed. Description. Shell small (measuring up to 3.8 mm in width), trochoid, spire slightly elevated, shell height about 0.4 of shell width; with five and a half to six convex whorls. Protoconch clearly differentiated from teleoconch; of about one and a half whorls; almost smooth, sculptured only with very faint spiral threads, most noticeable near the sutures. Teleoconch of about four and a half whorls, sculptured with 96 to 104 prosocline coarse axial ribs, 21–24 of them on last whorl, with interspaces filled by about 15 to 21 slightly raised riblets; very faint irregular nodulae at their intersection with vestigial spiral threads, noticeable especially towards the sutures; suture deep and well-marked; aperture 0.4 of shell height, oval to almost circular; lip simple, callus a mere glaze; umbilicus very ample, deep, of about 0.3–0.4 of shell width; periostracum thin, projecting on the most prominent axial ribs; shell colored with alternating axial bands of translucent caramel brown and white. Animal unknown. Type material. Holotype: SBNHM 456358, paratypes: SBNHM 452239 (3 specimens), MPCCL 0 1572015 (2 specimens). All the material collected at the type locality by J. F. Araya & C. López, 0 3 th February 2014. Type locality. Los Molles (32 º 14 ’ S; 71 º 31 ’ W, 31 m), Commune of La Ligua, Region of Valparaíso, central Chile. Distribution and habitat. Only known from the type locality; the shells were found buried in humus and underneath stones, large boulders and rotten leaves. Etymology. Named in honor of our friend Christian López (Santiago, Chile). Remarks. The relationship of the new species with presumptive congeneric species from elsewhere in South America is still unknown; unfortunately all of the material consists only of empty shells and the diagnostic aspects of the anatomy, especially that of the penis, epiphallus and marginal radular teeth, are unknown. Hausdorf (2005) noted that although the protoconch of species in the genus appear to be smooth, it has spiral microsculpture when viewed in detail. This characteristic is apparent in the detail of the unworn sections of Fig. 1 E for the new species. Lilloiconcha lopezi is one of the largest species within the genus Lilloiconcha Thiele, 1927; among the congeneric species, only the Brazilian Lilloiconcha superba (Weyrauch, 1965) can be compared with the new species in size or morphometry; however it differs from Lilloiconcha lopezi in having a more elongated shell, with more whorls, less axial ribs (70 in L. superba and about a hundred in the new species) and a much smaller umbilicus (Miquel et al. 2007). Lilloiconcha tucumana Hylton Scott 1963, the type species of the genus, found in Tucumán, Horco Molle, northern Argentina, has a higher but comparatively smaller and much narrower shell, with more whorls (Fernández & Castellanos 1973). The new species differs from Lilloiconcha aysensis Miquel & Barker, 2009 —the only other Chilean species in the genus, described from Puerto Chacabuco, Aysén, about 1470 km from Los Molles—in having a much larger shell with a higher profile, sculptured with fewer and smaller axial ribs and in having an oval to almost circular aperture (which is subcircular and narrower in L. aysensis). This new species thus extends the distribution in Chile of the genus Lilloiconcha, previously known from the southern regions, to Los Molles, central Chile. Advancing our knowledge of the terrestrial malacological fauna in Chile is of high conservation importance given the ongoing increase in the introduction (or recognition) of nonindigenous or invasive land snails to the country, some of them a direct threat to micromollusks (Araya 2015). Further sampling in northern or central Chile will probably reveal more snail species to be discovered and described.Published as part of Araya, Juan Francisco & Aliaga, Juan Antonio, 2015, A new species of Lilloiconcha Weyrauch, 1965 (Pulmonata: Charopidae) from central Chile, pp. 295-297 in Zootaxa 4007 (2) on pages 295-296, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.2.13, http://zenodo.org/record/24385
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