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FIGURE 5. Trophoniella radesiensis n in A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia
No full textFIGURE 5. Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp. A: Notopodium of chaetiger 16 (with two broken notochaetae). B–D. Notochaetae. Tip. C. Median region. D. Basal region. A–D: Paratype MNCN16.01/18454.Published as part of Chaibi, Marwa, Antit, Mouna, Bouhedi, Marwa, Meca, Miguel A., Gillet, Patrick, Azzouna, Atf & Martin, Daniel, 2019, A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia, pp. 551-561 in Zootaxa 4571 (4) on page 557, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/261426
FIGURE 2 in A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia
No full textFIGURE 2. Maximum-likelihood tree of based on 16S data. Bootstraps for node support> 50 are represented on the corresponding branches.Published as part of Chaibi, Marwa, Antit, Mouna, Bouhedi, Marwa, Meca, Miguel A., Gillet, Patrick, Azzouna, Atf & Martin, Daniel, 2019, A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia, pp. 551-561 in Zootaxa 4571 (4) on page 554, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/261426
Trophoniella radesiensis Chaibi & Antit & Bouhedi & Meca & Gillet & Azzouna & Martin 2019, n. sp.
No full textTrophoniella radesiensis n. sp. Chaibi and Gillet Figures 3–6 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: D7C85C70-87FF-4AF4-8599-A8462B3FB8B1 Material examined. Holotype: MNCN16.01 /18453, collected on 25 Nov 2015 in Radés Station, Gulf of Tunis (15°55′ N, 97°41′ W) by the first author. Paratypes: MNCN 16.01 /18454. 6 specimens, same data as for holotype; UCO T FLA 025.1specimen, same data as for holotype. Diagnosis. Body covered by sediments of different grain size (50–1000 µm of long axe) embedded on tunic, completely concealed except in posterior region. Tunic pale, dorsally smooth, ventrally rough, with large papillae, carrying sediment grains and particles. Body papillae arranged in two dorsal and four ventral rows. Branchial plate tongue-shaped. Unidentate anchylosed neurohooks from chaetiger 20. Description. Holotype with some chaetae broken, non-reproductive adult, unknown sex. 35 mm long, 4 mm wide, with 60 chaetigers; paratypes varying from 30–43 mm long and 1–4 mm wide for 43–74 chaetigers (Fig. 3 A– E). Anterior body sub-cylindrical in cross-section, tapering towards pygidium. Tunic transparent, dorsally smooth, ventrally rough with large papillae, carrying sediment grains and particles with long axes ranging from 50 to 1000 µm, totally embedded in tunic, completely concealing it dorsally and ventrally, absent in posterior region. Pale brown, slightly reddish anteriorly. Cephalic cage 12 mm long, with chaetae ca. 1.5 times longer than body width, formed by chaetigers 1–5; chaetiger 2 dorsolateral, chaetiger 3–4 lateral. Chaetal transition from cephalic cage to body chaetae gradual (Fig. 3A, 3 C–E). Body papillae similar in colour to body wall, mostly eroded, arising in two dorsal and four ventral longitudinal rows from first chaetiger to posterior end, better preserved anterior-most body region (Fig. 3A, 3 C–E). Parapodia well developed. Noto and neuropodia have four prechaetal papillae and five postchaetal papillae (Fig. 3C). Especially long papillae absent from anterior chaetigers. Gonopodial papillae not seen. Chaetiger 1 with about six notochaetae and eight neurochaetae; anterior dorsal margin with dorsal papillae, arising as a multifid cephalic veil (Fig. 4A). Chaetiger 5 widening posteriorly. Cephalic hood not exposed. Caruncle short and triangular (Fig. 4C, 4D). Branchiae cirriform, arising from tongue-shaped branchial plate, arranged in two lateral lobes (Fig. 4A, 4D), thin, long (0.5–3mm), whitish once preserved in ethanol, with ca. 60 filaments. Palp, long, corrugated, pale, as long as largest branchiae, 6 mm long (Fig. 4B, 4C). Prostomium lowcone, with two large and two small black eyes (Fig. 3D, 3E). Lateral lip expanded; dorsal and ventral lips not well developed (Fig. 3D, 3E). Notochaetae all multiarticulated capillaries; articles progressively longer towards falcate tips; medial ones in short longitudinal series, 4–7 per bundle; some yellowish some dark brown; unidentate tips (Fig. 5 A–5D). Multiarticulated capillary neurochaeta from chaetiger 2 to 5, then short unidentate neurohooks from chaetiger 6 to 19 (Fig. 6A) and anchylosed hooks from chaetiger 20 to body end (Fig. 6B), darker than preceding ones, arranged in transverse series of 4–6 units per bundle, similarly wide along their length, subdistally not or slightly expanded, with short rings continued up to a subdistal, non-annulated hyaline region, hooked, tapering to roughly pointed, unidentate tips (Fig. 5A, 6B). Pygidium simple, with single anal cirrus. No intra-specific variability in morphological characters was observed, except for lacking sediment gains in some specimens. Distribution. Known only from the type locality, Radés Station (Gulf of Tunisia, Mediterranean Sea). Collected from both soft and rocky bottoms, from 3–4 m to 10 m depth. Etymology. The species name radesiensis refers to the type locality, Radés Station.Published as part of Chaibi, Marwa, Antit, Mouna, Bouhedi, Marwa, Meca, Miguel A., Gillet, Patrick, Azzouna, Atf & Martin, Daniel, 2019, A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia, pp. 551-561 in Zootaxa 4571 (4) on pages 554-556, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/261426
Trophoniella Hartman 1959
No full textKey to the northern African and Mediterranean Sea species of <i>Trophoniella</i> <p> 1. Anchylosed neurohooks first appearing on chaetigers 4–7.................................. <i>T. incerta</i> (Augener, 1918)</p> <p>- Anchylosed neurohooks first appearing on chaetiger 14 or posterior.............................................. 2</p> <p> 2. Tunic without sediment grains.................................................. <i>T. fernandensis</i> (Augener, 1918)</p> <p>- Tunic with sediment grains on both dorsal and ventral surfaces.................................................. 3</p> <p> 3. Sediment grains large, completely concealing the tunic............................ <i>T. enigmatica</i> Salazar-Vallejo, 2012</p> <p>- Sediment grains varying in size, often small, not completely concealing the tunic................................... 4</p> <p> 4. Anterior chaetigers with notopodial lobes lacking papillae; first short neurohooks from chaetiger 10; anchylosed neurohooks from chaetiger 40............................................................. <i>T. fauveli</i> Salazar-Vallejo, 2012</p> <p> - Anterior chaetigers with notopodial lobes carrying dorsal papillae; first short neurohooks from chaetiger 6; anchylosed neurohooks from chaetiger 20................................................................. <i>T. radesiensis</i> <b>n. sp.</b></p>Published as part of <i>Chaibi, Marwa, Antit, Mouna, Bouhedi, Marwa, Meca, Miguel A., Gillet, Patrick, Azzouna, Atf & Martin, Daniel, 2019, A new species of Flabelligeridae (Annelida), Trophoniella radesiensis n. sp., from Tunisia, pp. 551-561 in Zootaxa 4571 (4)</i> on page 559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.7, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2614266">http://zenodo.org/record/2614266</a>
Quality Control in Games Development
No full textThe purpose of this thesis was to provide more information regarding the role of quality control in game development to game industry professionals, game development start-ups and potential employees of this field. There are several misconceptions about this profession and this thesis contains information regarding the impact quality control has in games development.
The motivation to conduct this research and write this thesis comes from the author’s work experi-ence in testing games in a game development studio. From personal experience, the author had some misconceptions about this profession as well, which were cleared when she began working as a tester. The information regarding quality control is sparse compared to other aspects of game development.
This thesis was written using a qualitive research method where the sources were from data col-lection, online survey, printed and online literature. The results of this research outlined the dif-ferent methods of testing processes the quality control department must undergo to produce a feasible outcome for a game.
Quality control is one of the main aspects of game development, since this activity results in the discovery of bugs, establishing a defect database, and most importantly, the approval for a viable game to be published. Quality control does not cease when the game is released but continues postproduction as well.
The conclusion of this thesis report is that quality control is vital to the development of a game, although some game companies still do not view it as an important aspect for their games. In addition to hopefully clearing the misconceptions of people who want to follow this career path due to misunderstanding of the skills and knowledge required to be a games tester. Furthermore, an attempt to settle the mistaken belief that quality control is not a viable career path and people beginning at this position to gain a position in other departments of game development.
The author has signed a non-disclosure agreement with her employer. All information in this thesis that has been gathered from survey responses are taken from game industry professionals and are respectively referenced. Survey questions asked their opinions on quality control and when they feel testing is required most, whether quality control is required in start-ups, automated testing, and testers responsibility in detecting fun factor of the game
Corrigendum to “Effects of Climate Temperature and Water Stress on Plant Growth and Accumulation of Antioxidant Compounds in Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) Leafy Vegetable”
No full textIn the article titled Effects of Climate Temperature and Water Stress on Plant Growth and Accumulation of Antioxidant Compounds in Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) Leafy Vegetable [1], there was a spelling error in author Marwa Sanad\u27s name in the author list, where Marwa Nme Sanad should have read Marwa N. M. E. Sanad. This is corrected as shown above
Identification thématique Arabe basée sur des études empiriques des topic models
No full textInternational audienceThis paper focuses on the topic identification for the Arabic language based on topic models. We study the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) as an unsupervised method for the Arabic topic identification. Thus, a deep study of LDA is carried out at two levels: Stemming process and the choice of LDA hyper-parameters. For the first level, we study the effect of different Arabic stemmers on LDA. For the second level, we focus on LDA hyper-parameters α and β and their impact on the topic identification. This study shows that LDA is an efficient method for Arabic topic identification especially with the right choice of hyper-parameters. Another important result is the high impact of the stemming algorithm on topic identification.Cet article met l'accent sur l'identification thématique pour la langue arabe basée sur les topic models. Nous étudions l'Allocation de Dirichlet Latente (LDA) comme une méthode non supervisée pour l'identification thématique. Ainsi, une étude approfondie de LDA a été effectuée à deux niveaux: le processus de lemmatisation et le choix des hyper-paramètres. Pour le premier niveau, nous étudions l'effet des différents lemmatiseurs sur LDA. Pour le deuxième niveau, nous nous focalisons sur les hyper-paramètres α et β de LDA et leurs impacts sur l'identification. Cette étude montre que LDA est une méthode efficace pour l'identification thématique Arabe surtout avec le bon choix des hyper-paramètres. Un autre résultat important est l'impact élevé de l'algorithme de lemmatisation sur l'identification thématique
Book Review: Marwa Al-Sabouni, The Battle for Home. Memoir of a Syrian Architect
No full textWith the pictures of bombing, ruins, and death coming from Syria, Marwa Al-Sabouni looks at the role of architecture and planning in the protracted conflict. In a first-hand account from the war-ravaged city of Homs, she tells the story of her native city, illustrated by her own drawings and autobiography. The book consists of six chapters, or six battles, and brings together the role of politics of urban planning, heritage, forced displacement and refugee crisis. The foreword of the book is written by the British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, followed by a preface to the new edition by the author, and an introduction. The final part of the book includes, in addition to notes and acknowledgement, a historical timeline with the main events in Syria’s modern history, and a discussion guide for a deeper understanding of the Syrian society
RETRACTED: Fostering health advocacy: Unveiling educational impact on testicular cancer awareness in male university students – Health belief model and social support strategy in a groundbreaking Pre-Post Quasi-Experimental study
No full textThis article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal).This article has been retracted at the request of at the request of Editors-in-Chief.In investigating concerns brought up regarding the article, the editor reached out to the corresponding author for an explanation. The corresponding author failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to the points raised.Post-publication, the Editors-in-Chief discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. Below changes were made during revision and proof submission.New authors added: Amirat A Al-Sabeely, Ishraga A. Mohamed, Marwa A. Shahin, Ali D Abousoliman, Laila Zeidan Ghazy Mohammed.Author removed: donia elsaid fathi zaghamirTherefore, the Editors-in-Chief have lost confidence in the reliability of the article and determined that the paper should be retracted
Première signalisation de Trinchesia foliata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839) (Gastropoda : Nudibranchia) dans la baie de Tunis (Tunisie).
No full textDans le cadre de nos observations, portant essentiellement sur les assemblages des Mollusques dans le golfe de Tunis, nous avons pu signaler pour la première fois la présence d’une population bien établie d’une espèce rare de Gastéropodes Nudibranches Trinchesia foliata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839). Nous avons réussi à caractériser ce petit Nudibranche dont la taille ne dépassant pas 7mm, morphologiquement et à montrer qu’il constitue une population bien établie qui se reproduit. La reproduction de cette espèce a pu, en effet, être remarquée à partir d’observations directes d’un comportement particulier de la ponte au laboratoire.As part of our observations on molluscan assemblages in the Gulf of Tunis, we were able to demonstrate the
presence of a rare species of gastropod nudibranch Trinchesia foliata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839). We managed to characterize it in such a way that it reproduces itself. The reproduction of this species was able, indeed, to be noticed from direct observations of a particular behavior of the laying in the laboratory.Actes de la conférence méditerranéenne Biodiv 2017: La biodiversité : quelles orientations pour la recherche et quels outils de conservation? Monastir, Tunisie, 28 au 30 octobre 2017Publishe
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