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“Adiós sui generis” : A Study of the legal Feasibility of the Sui Generis Right in the Context of Research Biobanks
No full textThe European protection of databases has been criticized for having a negative impact on the scientific development and the process of discovery. In the paper it is checked whether one of the most important research infrastructures, such as biobanks, could be entitled with the sui generis right as shaped within the current European legal system
Figure 5 in Three new species of free-living marine nematodes from the central basin of the South China Sea
No full textFigure 5. Setoplectus minor sp. nov. (a) Pharyngeal region of male, showing cephalic setae, amphid, and pharyngeal bulbs; (b) posterior region of male, showing spicule, gubernaculum and precloacal supplement; (c) anterior end of male, showing cephalic setae, buccal cavity and amphid; (d) entire female, showing amphid, pharyngeal bulb and reproductive system. Scale bars: a, b, c = 10 µm; d = 20 µm.Published as part of Lu, Yang, Sui, Xinxin & Huang, Yong, 2022, Three new species of free-living marine nematodes from the central basin of the South China Sea, pp. 1091-1107 in Journal of Natural History 56 (17-20) on page 1104, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2102446, http://zenodo.org/record/701237
Elzalia longicaudata Lu & Sui & Huang 2022, sp. nov.
No full textElzalia longicaudata sp. nov. (Figures 1–2 and Table 1) Type material Two males and three females were collected from Stations S5 (20.650°N, 118.308°E, water depth 2368 m) and S1 (21.549°N, 118.898°E, water depth 2694 m). Holotype: male 1 on slide NHS5-34-3, paratypes: male 2 on slide NHS5-39-5, female 1 on slide NHS5-41-4, female 2 on slide NHS5-34-1 and female 3 on slide NHS1-321-7. Type locality and habitat The holotype was found in muddy sediment at Station S 5 in the South China Sea (20.650° N, 118.308°E, water depth 2368 m). Etymology The species name is derived from the Latin adjective longus (long) and caudatus (tail), referring to its long tail. Measurements All measurement data are given in Table 1. Description Holotype male. Body slender. Round labial region set off from adjacent body by constriction. Cuticle with fine striations. Somatic setae not observed. Inner labial sensilla papilliform. Six outer labial setae and four cephalic setae arranged in one circle, and almost equal in length, about 3 μm long. Four cervical setae 7–8 μm long, located posterior to the base of the buccal cavity. Amphidial fovea oval, relatively large, 9 μm in diameter (53% of corresponding body diameter), located at the level of base of buccal cavity, 12 μm from its front edge to the anterior end. Buccal cavity cylindrical, cuticularised, 15 µm deep and 5 µm wide. Pharynx cylindrical, slightly swollen at base, not forming posterior terminal bulb. Cardia nearly spherical, projecting into the intestine. Nerve ring situated just anterior to the middle of pharynx. Secretory–excretory system not observed. Tail conical with a long filiform posterior portion, 7.5 times abd, with two terminal setae, 6–8 µm long. Caudal setae not seen. Three contiguous caudal glands with common opening. Reproductive system with single anterior outstretched testis. Spicules paired, elongate, slender and equal in length, 71 µm long, i.e. 3.7 abd, or 9% of body length, curved as the body bends, proximal end truncated, distal end tapered. Gubernaculum rather simple, with only one section of dorsal apophysis, about 10 µm long. Females. Similar to males in most morphological characteristics except amphidial fovea smaller and circular (6–7 µm in diameter). Reproductive system monodelphic with a single anterior outstretched ovary, located to the left of the intestine. Vagina straight, 0.4 times vulval body diameter long. Vaginal glands present. Vulva situated at about mid-body.Published as part of Lu, Yang, Sui, Xinxin & Huang, Yong, 2022, Three new species of free-living marine nematodes from the central basin of the South China Sea, pp. 1091-1107 in Journal of Natural History 56 (17 - 20) on pages 1093-1095, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2102446, http://zenodo.org/record/701237
Setoplectus Vitiello 1970
No full textUpdated key to species of the genus Setoplectus (based on; Andrássy 1973) 1 Body slender (a = 70–90), longer than 1.3 mm....................................................................... 2 - Body plumper (a = 20–35), shorter than 1 mm....................................................................... 3 2 Head spherical, body 1.4 mm long, tail elongate conical, 4 abd long, male with 14 precloacal supplements.................................................................... S. riemanni Andrássy, 1973 - Head conical (narrow), body 2.1–2.4 mm long, tail shorter than 2 abd, male with one precloacal supplement...................................................... S. proceroviscerali Andrássy, 1973 3 Cephalic sensilla longer than 1 hd, situated farther than 1 hd from the anterior end.................................................................. S. amphibulbosus (Gerlach, 1955) Vitiello, 1970 -1971 - Cephalic sensilla shorter than 1 hd, situated close to the anterior end....................... 4 4 Body longer than 0.7 mm, tail conico-cylindrical, 2–3 abd long, male with 4–5 precloacal supplements............................................................... S. gerlachi Vitiello, 1970 -1971 - Body shorter than 0.5 mm, tail conical, longer than 4 abd, male with one precloacal supplement.................................................................................................................. S. minor sp. nov.Published as part of Lu, Yang, Sui, Xinxin & Huang, Yong, 2022, Three new species of free-living marine nematodes from the central basin of the South China Sea, pp. 1091-1107 in Journal of Natural History 56 (17 - 20) on page 1106, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2102446, http://zenodo.org/record/701237
Minolaimus Vitiello 1970
No full textUpdated key to species of the genus Minolaimus (modified from Sun et al. 2021) 1. Tail short, not filiform; amphid close to head apex............................................................................................................................................................ M. apicalis Sun, Huang and Huang, 2021 - Tail long, filiform; amphid posterior to head apex................................................................ 2 2. Body longer than 3 mm, male with 29 cup-shaped precloacal supplements............................................................................... M. multisupplementatus Sun, Huang and Huang, 2021 - Body shorter than 2.5 mm, male with 20 or fewer precloacal supplements.............. 3 3. Body shorter than 1 mm; tail with 1/3 conical portion...... M. cervoides Vitiello, 1970 - Body longer than 1.7 mm; tail with 1/5 conical portion..................................................... 4 4. Lateral differentiation with three longitudinal rows of larger dots, amphid located less than 2 hd from anterior end, male with 20 precloacal supplements........................................................................................................................................................... M. lineatus Vitiello, 1970 - Lateral differentiation with six longitudinal rows of larger dots, amphid located 4.6 hd from anterior end, male with about 17 precloacal supplements............................................................................................................................................................... M. distalamphidus sp. nov.Published as part of Lu, Yang, Sui, Xinxin & Huang, Yong, 2022, Three new species of free-living marine nematodes from the central basin of the South China Sea, pp. 1091-1107 in Journal of Natural History 56 (17 - 20) on pages 1102-1103, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2102446, http://zenodo.org/record/701237
Aerial Remote Sensing Image Compression Based on Modified CDF97 Lifting Scheme
No full textIn this paper, lifting scheme is adopted for aerial image compression and modified CDF97 (MCDF97) wavelet is put forward as wavelet kernel. MCDF97 lifting algorithm improves defect that five lifting coefficients of CDF97 wavelet are all irrational numbers. The compression performance of MCDF97 wavelet is almost the same as that of the CDF97 wavelet, but the algorithm based on MCDF97 wavelet reduces operation memory, decreases complexity and accelerates the processing speed. After wavelet transform of aerial images, set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) coding is adopted to quantize and code the wavelet coefficients. Experimental results indicate that this compression algorithm greatly improves compression efficiency of aerial images, and meets the requirement of aerial compression system for storage, operation time and hardware implement.Computer Science, Information SystemsEICPCI-S(ISTP)
The influence of Low Impact Development on rainfall-runoff relationships at catchment scale
No full textWith rapid urbanization, Low Impact Development (LID) is promoted as an alternative to Conventional Drainage (CD), seeking a natural solution for current urban water problems. The positive effects of LID were the main theme of recent LID researches, but this project aims to deeply explore the hidden troubles about the extreme peak runoffs influenced by LID city on catchment scale.In this research, the SUPERFLEX conceptual model was adapted to a rural-urban semi-distributed model to simulate the current rainfall-runoff relationship of the catchment where San Antonio city is located in. Besides, the model expressions of 4 representative LID practices (bioretention cells, vegetated swales, green roofs, and permeable pavements) were devised under SUPERFLEX framework. To deal with the prediction uncertainty, three urban development scenarios in 2040 and five LID implementation scenarios were designed for San Antonio city. And their influences on the basin peak runoffs will be quantitively studied.Research result shows that, the urban runoff tended to swing between extreme flood and extreme drought in the reference situation; And next, the infill urban development strategy, which means developing the vacant or undeveloped land within an existing community, was more helpful on peak runoff and total runoff volume control than sprawl urban development strategy with the same population growth; Thirdly, the bioretention cells, vegetated swales, and permeable pavements had similar good performance on peak runoff reduction, which can be mainly ascribe to the stormwater infiltration process. As for the retention of total runoff volume, the bioretention cells, permeable pavements, and green roofs perform better than vegetated swales since the rapid water transportation character of vegetated swales decrease the water residence time for infiltration;The runoff reduction function of LID practices performs effective on the large peaks in dry and normal seasons, but it will be restrained significantly in flood season. According to model result, the rural peak runoffs happened 6.5 to 15.5 hours after the urban peaks. And for 4 LID implementation scenarios in which 15% of urban grey areas is covered by LID practices, the urban peaks are delayed between 0.5 and 2.5 hours. And for the scenario with the LID cover areas as 50% of the urban grey areas, the time lag of urban peaks varies from 0.5 to 6.5 hours. For this scenario, since the obvious time delay of urban peaks, more stack of urban and rural peaks is caused by the time approaching of urban and rural peaks, which causes the increases of two total basin peaks in flood season from 3.57 to 3.65 mm/d and from 6.35 to 6.47 mm/d respectively. In conclusion we may say that the stacking effect of LID implementation on total basin runoff is limited in the case of San Antonio basin, partly due to the fact that only a small part of this basin is urbanized.<br/
Elzalia Gerlach 1957
No full textUpdated key to all valid species of Elzalia including the new species (based on Jia and Huang 2019) 1. Paired spicules unequal in length, left spicule distinctly longer than right one......................................................................................................... E. heterospiculata Jia and Huang, 2019 - Paired spicules almost equal in length....................................................................................... 2 2. Tail filiform, c less than 6, gubernaculum with a single section..................................................................................................................................................................... E. longicaudata sp. nov. - Tail conico-cylindrical, c greater than 6.5.................................................................................. 3 3. Body longer than 750 µm, complex gubernaculum with three to four sections........... 4 - Body shorter than 700 µm, simple gubernaculum with one or two sections.......... 10 4. Spicule shorter than 80 µm (6% to 8% of the body length), with subterminal sigmoid bend and two terminal tubercules......................................................................................................................................................................... E. kimae Castillo-Fernandez and Lambshead, 1990 - Spicule longer than 100 µm (longer than 8% of the body length).................................. 5 5. Distal end of spicules with two comb-like ridges............................................................................................................................................................... E. bipectinella Hope and Aryuthaka, 2009 - Distal end of spicules tapered, without comb-like ridges.................................................. 6 6. Spicule with a subterminal cluster of numerous tubercles............................................................................................................................................. E. tuberculata Hope and Aryuthaka, 2009 - Spicule without subterminal tubercles........................................................................................ 7 7. Spicule with serrated margin, gubernaculum with a series of projections................................................................................................ E. poli Castillo-Fernandez and Lambshead, 1990 - Spicules without serrated margin, gubernaculum without lateral and dorsal projections.......................................................................................................................................................... 8 8. Body longer than 1.5 mm, spicule longer than 10% of the body length.............................................................................................................................. E. gerlachi Zhang and Zhang, 2006 - Body less than 1.1 mm, spicule shorter than 8.5% of the body length........................ 9 9. Gubernaculum contains four sections, with leaf-like projection E. floresi Gerlach, 1957 - Gubernaculum contains three sections, without leaf-like projection.................................................................................................... E. federici Castillo-Fernandez and Lambshead, 1990 10. Spicule distal end bifurcate................................................ E. bifurcata Sun and Huang, 2017 - Spicule distal end tapered, not bifurcated.............................................................................. 11 11. Files of cervical setae present, gubernaculum with a single section....................................................................................................................................... E. mediterranea Vitiello, 1970 -1971 - Files of cervical setae absent, gubernaculum with two sections......................................................................................................................................... E. striatitenui Zhang and Zhang, 2006Published as part of Lu, Yang, Sui, Xinxin & Huang, Yong, 2022, Three new species of free-living marine nematodes from the central basin of the South China Sea, pp. 1091-1107 in Journal of Natural History 56 (17 - 20) on pages 1097-1098, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2102446, http://zenodo.org/record/701237
Easy Flow: New Generation Business Process Model
No full textNow workflow technique is almost the unique candidate to handle a business process in a software application. But graph based traditional workflow is not enough flexible in software engineer which is well known since it was introduced from manufacture industry in 1980s. Until now how to make workflow more flexible is also an unresolved problem in workflow technique which is a serious bottleneck for its popularization, although many efforts have been done to advance it. Author thinks it is wrong to design a process model based on graph theory, which is just the reason to cause workflow so inflexible. In this paper, author presents new generation process model Easy Flow based on task and its semantic, which is easy to understand, design, modify and refactor a business process. Easy Flow model is completely different with workflow model, which is more adept to control a "changing" business process in an enterprise application. Easy Flow will replace workflow to realize real business process management in future applications.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000275896500014&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701Computer Science, Hardware & ArchitectureComputer Science, Information SystemsComputer Science, Theory & MethodsEICPCI-S(ISTP)
Spinoza on Causa Sui
No full textFor many of Spinoza's contemporaries and predecessors the very notion of causa sui was utterly absurd, akin to a Baron Munchausen attempting to lift himself above a river by pulling his hair up. This chapter examines Descartes’ engagement with the notion of causa sui, and shows that Spinoza understood the causation of causa sui as efficient, and not formal, causation. Proving the existence of God was the stated aim of Descartes’ Third Meditation. Descartes’ response to Caterus is pretty simple: he denies that efficient causation must be spread in time. Descartes’ surprising response to Caterus drew the attention of Antoine Arnauld, the author of the Fourth Set of Objections, and, at the time, a doctoral student of theology at the Sorbonne. The young Spinoza must have watched Descartes’ struggle with the notion of causa sui with great interest
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