scholarly journals Internet of Samples: Creating and Mapping Controlled Vocabularies for Specimen Type, Material Type, and Sampled Feature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Vieglais ◽  
Quan Gan ◽  
Yuxuan Zhou ◽  
Stephen Richard ◽  
Hong Cui ◽  
...  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. H. Waller

Eight species of mesoplodont whales (genus Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850) named during the nineteenth century are based on valid descriptions. A checklist with the original description and type material for each of these species is provided. Additional data given may include type locality and illustrative sources, type material holding institution and type registration number(s). The only type specimen for which a record of external morphology was published relates to the 1803 stranding of Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens).


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANJIB KAR ◽  
Sruti Mondal ◽  
Kasturi Sahu ◽  
Dilruba Hasina ◽  
Tapobrata Som ◽  
...  

<p>The synthesis of new graphene-type materials (<i>via</i> polymerization of porphyrin macrocycles) through a simple chemical synthetic pathway (at RT) has been demonstrated. This newly synthesized material can be dispersed in water with an average sheet size of few microns and with single layer thickness. As the porphyrin contains four inner ring nitrogen atoms thus the presented polymeric material will be close analogous of N-doped graphene. Porphyrin as the key component to synthesize layered graphene type continuous 2D structure has never been attempted before. </p> <p> </p>


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-59
Author(s):  
A.V. Gorochov ◽  
M. Ünal

The fauna of Gryllomorphinae of Turkey is reviewed. Sixteen species and subspecies are established. Ovaliptila anamur sp. nov., O. anitli sp. nov., O. alanya sp. nov., O. alanya proxima subsp. nov., O. alara sp. nov., O. teke sp. nov., O. ibrahimi sp. nov., Glandulosa borisi sp. nov. and Gryllomorpha dalmatina minutissima subsp. nov. are described. Ovaliptila beroni (Popov, 1975), Glandulosa kinzelbachi Harz, 1979, G. harzi Gorochov, 1996 and Gryllomorpha Antalya Gorochov, 2009 are briefly characterized based on the type material. Ovaliptila buresi Mařan, 1958 is indicated as a rather widely distributed species in the western part of Anatolia (but not in the southern coast of this peninsula). Gryllomorpha dalmatina pieperi Harz, 1979, G. miramae Medvedev, 1933 and the nominotypical subspecies of G. miramae are recorded from Turkey for the first time, but both subspecies remain open to question.


1998 ◽  
Vol 83 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 178-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Giester ◽  
Yunxiang Ni ◽  
Dietmar Jarosch ◽  
John M. Hughes ◽  
Jorn G. Ronsbo ◽  
...  

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-117
Author(s):  
W. Obermayer ◽  
J. Poelt

Abstract The lichen Lecanora somervellii Paulson, first described from the northern slopes of Mt Everest in Tibet, has been collected at four other localities in the High Himalayas, at altitudes between 3750 and 5540 m. As the type material appears to be missing, a neotype is designated here. The species has an unusual lemon yellow colour due to the pigment calycin; this compound is in addition to usnic acid, which is widespread in Lecanora. Lecanora somervellii is otherwise very similar in essential characters to the complex including Lecanora concolor Ram. and L. orbicularis (Schaerer) Vainio, high alpine species well-known, for example, from the Alps. It is supposed, that L. somervellii is derived from this aggregate by the production of calycin (in addition to usnic acid), which acts as an additional protective pigment at these very high altitudes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar López-Úbeda ◽  
Alexandra Pomares-Quimbaya ◽  
Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano ◽  
Stefan Schulz

Abstract Background Controlled vocabularies are fundamental resources for information extraction from clinical texts using natural language processing (NLP). Standard language resources available in the healthcare domain such as the UMLS metathesaurus or SNOMED CT are widely used for this purpose, but with limitations such as lexical ambiguity of clinical terms. However, most of them are unambiguous within text limited to a given clinical specialty. This is one rationale besides others to classify clinical text by the clinical specialty to which they belong. Results This paper addresses this limitation by proposing and applying a method that automatically extracts Spanish medical terms classified and weighted per sub-domain, using Spanish MEDLINE titles and abstracts as input. The hypothesis is biomedical NLP tasks benefit from collections of domain terms that are specific to clinical subdomains. We use PubMed queries that generate sub-domain specific corpora from Spanish titles and abstracts, from which token n-grams are collected and metrics of relevance, discriminatory power, and broadness per sub-domain are computed. The generated term set, called Spanish core vocabulary about clinical specialties (SCOVACLIS), was made available to the scientific community and used in a text classification problem obtaining improvements of 6 percentage points in the F-measure compared to the baseline using Multilayer Perceptron, thus demonstrating the hypothesis that a specialized term set improves NLP tasks. Conclusion The creation and validation of SCOVACLIS support the hypothesis that specific term sets reduce the level of ambiguity when compared to a specialty-independent and broad-scope vocabulary.


Vacuum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 110091
Author(s):  
Xiaorang Tian ◽  
Chuizhou Meng ◽  
Xin Zhao ◽  
Bing Liu ◽  
Guanchao Zhao ◽  
...  

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
José Coutinho

This paper presents a theoretical study of the electronic and dynamic properties of silicon vacancies and self-interstitials in 4H–SiC using hybrid density functional methods. Several pending issues, mostly related to the thermal stability of this defect, are addressed. The silicon site vacancy and the carbon-related antisite-vacancy (CAV) pair are interpreted as a unique and bistable defect. It possesses a metastable negative-U neutral state, which “disproportionates” into VSi+ or VSi−, depending on the location of the Fermi level. The vacancy introduces a (−/+) transition, calculated at Ec−1.25 eV, which determines a temperature threshold for the annealing of VSi into CAV in n-type material due to a Fermi level crossing effect. Analysis of a configuration coordinate diagram allows us to conclude that VSi anneals out in two stages—at low temperatures (T≲600 °C) via capture of a mobile species (e.g., self-interstitials) and at higher temperatures (T≳1200 °C) via dissociation into VC and CSi defects. The Si interstitial (Sii) is also a negative-U defect, with metastable q=+1 and q=+3 states. These are the only paramagnetic states of the defect, and maybe that explains why it escaped detection, even in p-type material where the migration barriers are at least 2.7 eV high.


Author(s):  
John Zobolas ◽  
Vasundra Touré ◽  
Martin Kuiper ◽  
Steven Vercruysse

Abstract Summary We present a set of software packages that provide uniform access to diverse biological vocabulary resources that are instrumental for current biocuration efforts and tools. The Unified Biological Dictionaries (UniBioDicts or UBDs) provide a single query-interface for accessing the online API services of leading biological data providers. Given a search string, UBDs return a list of matching term, identifier and metadata units from databases (e.g. UniProt), controlled vocabularies (e.g. PSI-MI) and ontologies (e.g. GO, via BioPortal). This functionality can be connected to input fields (user-interface components) that offer autocomplete lookup for these dictionaries. UBDs create a unified gateway for accessing life science concepts, helping curators find annotation terms across resources (based on descriptive metadata and unambiguous identifiers), and helping data users search and retrieve the right query terms. Availability and implementation The UBDs are available through npm and the code is available in the GitHub organisation UniBioDicts (https://github.com/UniBioDicts) under the Affero GPL license. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


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