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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
NorVIS 2nd Young Researchers Conference: Abstracts 2024
No full textThe second NorVIS Young Researchers Conference was held at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) in Kongsberg the 28th of May 2024. This year, it was a hybrid conference with digital attendance from Sweden and Bergen to accommodate those unable to travel. The primary goal was to share knowledge, experiences and projects for researchers in the start of their careers and to stimulate to more vision and brain research. Further it is an arena for discussing clinical problems and research ideas, and to gain network with other professionals working in the field. The one-day meeting had presentations including study protocols, master’s project, PhD and post doc clinical research from a variety of professionals. The interdisciplinary professions included a neuropsychologist, specialized nurse, occupational therapists, speech therapist and optometrists. After the presentations, Jan Johansson and Helle K. Falkenberg shared their tips and experiences on writing abstracts for papers and conferences. The meeting was organised by Torgeir S. Mathisen and Helle K. Falkenberg from USN and was partly financed by the NorVIS network, www.synogslagnett.no. The abstracts from contributed authors are listed in the order of presentation
NorVIS 1st Young Researchers Conference: Abstracts 2022
No full textThe first NorVIS Young researchers conference was held at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) in Kongsberg on November 16–18, 2022. The aim of the conference is to be an arena for young researchers (in career, not necessarily in age) to share knowledge, get to know each other and stimulate to more research within vision in stroke or other brain injury. The interdisciplinary meeting was organised as a one-day meeting, with presentations including study protocols, master’s project, PhD and post doc clinical research. The meeting was organised by Torgeir S. Mathisen and Helle K. Falkenberg from USN, who also served in the scientific committee together with Antonio F. Macedo (Linnaeus University) and Mirjam van Tilborg (Hogeschool Utrecht). The abstracts from contributed authors are listed in the order of presentation.</jats:p
Introducing stateful conditional branching in Ciaramella
No full textConditional branching in Synchronous Data Flow (SDF) networks is a long-standing issue as it clashes with the underlying synchronicity model. For this reason, conditional update of state variables is rarely implemented in data flow programming environments, unlike simpler selection operators that do not execute code conditionally. We propose an extension to SDF theory to represent stateful conditional branching. We prove the effectiveness of such approach by adding conditional constructs to the Ciaramella programming language without compromising its modular declarative paradigm and maintaining domain-specific optimizations intact. This addition enables easy implementation of common DSP algorithms and helps in writing efficient complex programs
Towards a pan-European definition of complementary and alternative medicine - a realistic ambition?
No full textThe terms used for defining complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) including the methods, procedures and therapies vary greatly. The task of the CAMbrella working group on terminology was to explore the existing CAM terminologies and to develop a pragmatic definition of CAM that is acceptable Europewide. This can then be used to systematically research, e.g., its prevalence and legal status and to investigate the citizens’ demands on CAM and the perspectives of providers of CAM in Europe.Methods: Terms and definitions were collected from both scientific and non-scientific sources. The terms and definitions identified were analysed and discussed among the CAMbrella working group participants on several occasions with the aim of arriving at a consensus.Results: We developed a proposal for a pragmatic European definition of CAM: ‘Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) utilised by European citizens represents a variety of different medical systems and therapies based on the knowledge, skills and practices derived from theories, philosophies and experiences used to maintain and improve health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, relieve or treat physical and mental illnesses. CAM has been mainly used outside conventional health care, but in some countries certain treatments are being adopted or adapted by conventional health care.’Conclusion: Developing a uniform, pragmatic pan-European definition of CAM was complicated by a number of factors. These included the vast diversity of existing definitions, systems, disciplines, procedures, methods and therapies available within the EU
Citation is not Collaboration: Music-Genre Dependence of Graph-Related Metrics in a Music Credits Network
No full textWe present a study of the relationship between music genres and graph-related metrics in a directed graph of music credits built using data from Spotify. Our objective is to examine crediting patterns and their dependence on music genre and artist popularity. To this end, we introduce a node-wise index of reciprocity, which could be a useful feature in recommendation systems. We argue that reciprocity allows distinguishing between the two types of connections: citations and collaborations. Previous works analyse only undirected graphs of credits, making the assumption that every credit implies a collaboration. However, this discards all information about reciprocity. To avoid this oversimplification, we define a directed graph. We show that, as previously found, the most central artists in the network are classical and hip-hop artists. Then, we analyse the reciprocity of artists to demonstrate that the high centrality of the two groups is the result of two different phenomena. Classical artists have low reciprocity and most of their connections are attributable to citations, while hip-hop artists have high reciprocity and most of their connections are true collaborations
TickTacking – Drawing trajectories with two buttons and rhythm
No full textThe navigation of two-dimensional spaces by rhythmic patterns on two buttons is investigated. It is shown how direction and speed of a moving object can be controlled with discrete commands consisting of duplets or triplets of taps, whose rate is proportional to one of two orthogonal velocity components. The imparted commands generate polyrhythms and polytempi that can be used to monitor the object movement. Tacking back and forth must be used to make progress along certain directions, similarly to sailing a boat upwind. The proposed rhythmic navigation technique is tested with a target-following task, using a boat-racing trace as the target. The interface is minimal and symmetric, and can be adapted to different sensing and display devices, exploiting the symmetry of the human body and the ability to follow two concurrent rhythmic streams
Pseudomiopteryx decipiens Giglio-Tos 1915
No full textPseudomiopteryx cf. decipiens Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Figs. 17–18, 29–30) Type locality. Tolima, Colombia (Giglio-Tos, 1915). Records. CeNak: ♂, 02.VI.1969, leg. H. W. Koepcke; ♀ and ootheca, 17.I.1971, leg. H. W. Koepcke; ♂, VIII.–IX.1971, leg. H. W. Koepcke; ♀, 16.IX.1973, leg. H. W. Koepcke. MUSM: ♂, 230 m, 01.V.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK). NMB: ♂, 260 m, 13.VIII.1985, leg. A. Schwenke (QR-NMB-Mant 1910, ex. CeNak); ♂, 260 m, 22.XI.–07.XII.2008, leg. E. Diller (QR-NMB-Mant 0373, ex. ZSM). SMNK: ♂, 220 m, lux, 07.IV.2003, leg. T. Kothe (SMNK-Mant 07897); ♂, 260 m, malaise trap, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe (SMNK-Mant 12767) (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 417, Fig. 29); ♀, 230 m, forest station, 22.IX.–10.X.2017, leg. E.-G. Burmeister (SMNK-Mant 12827, ex. ZSM); 2 ♂♂, 230 m, 26.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12805–12806); ♂, 230 m, 01.V.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (SMNK-Mant 12807). ZSM: ♂, 260 m, malaise trap, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe; 2 ♂♂, 260 m, malaise trap, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe (genitalia preparations Stiewe P. g. 01 & Ps. 02); ♂, 260 m, malaise trap, 21.IX.–04.X.2004, leg. K. Schönitzer, T. Kothe; ♂, 260 m, 20.IX.–07.X.2007, leg. E. Diller; ♀, 260 m, 23.XI.–11.XII.2008, leg. K. Schönitzer, F. Glaw & F. Wachtel (Figs. 17–18); ♂, 230 m, malaise trap, V.2013, leg. E. Diller. CSC: ♀, 16.II.1971, leg. H. W. Koepcke (ex. CeNak); ♂, 230 m, lux, 13.X.2016, leg. M. Falkenberg, M. Schlemm & R. Mörtter (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 373, Fig. 30) (ex. SMNK); ♂, 230 m, 18.IV.2018, leg. M. Falkenberg (ex. SMNK). Distribution. Colombia, Peru, Venezuela. Remarks. The systematics of this genus is currently unresolved, so our identifications have to be regarded as preliminary. The female specimens investigated by us correspond very well to the female types of Ps. decipiens housed in the MRSN, while the male genitalia are very close to those of Ps. decipiens from northern S America (C. Favacho & J. Rivera, pers. com.). New for Peru.Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B. D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4824 (1) on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4824.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/440199
K and Ca concentrations in leaves correlate with ASaV infection in climate change trees (Fraxinus ornus) of Hamburg
No full textClimate change trees (CCT) can represent a valuable and sustainable strategy for addressing the
effects of climate change, such as prolonged drought and heat. These are mostly non-native trees whit
expected qualities of adaptability used to replace less resilient and susceptible local species.
However, the possibility for CCT of getting infections, including viruses, in the new hosting
environment should be carefully taken into account. Among the ascertained symptoms, viruses can
cause modifications of mineral elements homeostasis in plants, both at the cell and tissue level.
Leaves are particularly sensitive to viruses and other biotic stresses, showing increase or decrease of
certain elements’ concentrations or uneven distributions. Such phenomena can be ascribed to the
pathogen’s activity and/or to the plant physiological response to the pathogen itself.
Flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus L.) has been recently introduced as CCT in the city of Hamburg,
Germany. Unfortunately, many of the trees showed the typical symptoms of ash shoestring-associated
virus (ASaV), i.e. leaf deformation, shoestrings and spotting.
In this study, leaves from both healthy and ASaV infected (ASaV+, verified by RT-PCR) Fraxinus
trees have been sampled for three consecutive years (2019-21) and analyzed with an X-ray
fluorescence (XRF) based approach. In particular, μXRF, using both laboratory and synchrotron (SR)
X-ray sources, was used to visualize elemental distributions in leaves and identify elements
correlations. Compared to healthy samples, ASaV+ leaves showed inhomogeneous distribution and
severe depletions of P, S, and Ca in certain regions of the lamina. K instead appeared more
concentrated.
Furthermore, SR μXRF allowed to appraise variations in some micronutrients distribution: while Mn
increased in the lamina of ASaV+ leaf, Zn decreased. In healthy samples, Ca was more abundant than
K; the latter was conversely more concentrated in ASaV+ samples.
Based on these results, 69 healthy and 70 ASaV+ samples were analyzed with a portable XRF (pXRF)
instrument, and K and Ca concentrations were quantified: the K/Ca ratio was significantly higher in
infected than in healthy samples. It was therefore observed that the K/Ca ratio allowed to correctly
classify most of the infected samples, which implies that this parameter could be used, together with
visual evaluation of symptoms, for a rapid, non-destructive and cheap indirect pathogen detection.
Such approach using pXRF could be applied also to other types of plants and pathogens thus offering
an innovative, fast and in-situ tool for the early detection of plant diseases
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