scholarly journals A streamlined collecting and preparation protocol for DNA barcoding of Lepidoptera as part of large-scale rapid biodiversity assessment projects, exemplified by the Indonesian Biodiversity Discovery and Information System (IndoBioSys)

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e20006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Schmidt ◽  
Axel Hausmann ◽  
Bruno Cancian de Araujo ◽  
Hari Sutrisno ◽  
Djunijanti Peggie ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Cancian de Araujo ◽  
Stefan Schmidt ◽  
Olga Schmidt ◽  
Thomas von Rintelen ◽  
Kristina von Rintelen ◽  
...  

We present the results of a DNA barcoding pipeline that was established as part of the German-Indonesian IndobioSys project - Indonesian Biodiversity Information System. Our data release provides the first large-scale diversity assessment of Indonesian coleoptera obtained by canopy fogging. The project combined extensive fieldwork with databasing, DNA barcode based species delineation and the release of results in collaboration with Indonesian counterparts, aimed at supporting further analyses of the data. Canopy fogging on 28 trees was undertaken at two different sites, Cikaniki and Gunung Botol, in the south-eastern area of the Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park in West Java, Indonesia. In total, 7,447 specimens of Coleoptera were processed, of which 3,836 specimens produced DNA barcode sequences that were longer than 300 bp. A total of 3,750 specimens were assigned a Barcode Index Number (BIN), including 2,013 specimens from Cikaniki and 1,737 specimens from Gunung Botol. The 747 BINs, that were obtained, represented 39 families of Coleoptera. The distribution of specimens with BINs per tree was quite heterogeneous in both sites even in terms of the abundance of specimens or diversity of BINs. The specimen distribution per taxon was heterogeneous as well. Some 416 specimens could not be identified to family level, corresponding to 72 BINs that lack a family level identification. The data have shown a large heterogeneity in terms of abundance and distribution of BINs between sites, trees and families of Coleoptera. From the total of 747 BINs that were recovered, 421 (56%) are exclusive from a single tree. Although the two study sites were in close proximity and separated by a distance of only about five kilometres, the number of shared BINs between sites is low, with 81 of the 747 BINs. With this data release, we expect to shed some light on the largely hidden diversity in the canopy of tropical forests in Indonesia and elsewhere.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 444-453
Author(s):  
Arturo Cervantes Trejo ◽  
Sophie Domenge Treuille ◽  
Isaac Castañeda Alcántara

AbstractThe Institute for Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) is a large public provider of health care services that serve around 13.2 million Mexican government workers and their families. To attain process efficiencies, cost reductions, and improvement of the quality of diagnostic and imaging services, ISSSTE was set out in 2019 to create a digital filmless medical image and report management system. A large-scale clinical information system (CIS), including radiology information system (RIS), picture archiving and communication system (PACS), and clinical data warehouse (CDW) components, was implemented at ISSSTE’s network of forty secondary- and tertiary-level public hospitals, applying global HL-7 and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standards. In just 5 months, 40 hospitals had their endoscopy, radiology, and pathology services functionally interconnected within a national CIS and RIS/PACS on secure private local area networks (LANs) and a secure national wide area network (WAN). More than 2 million yearly studies and reports are now in digital form in a CDW, securely stored and always available. Benefits include increased productivity, reduced turnaround times, reduced need for duplicate exams, and reduced costs. Functional IT solutions allow ISSSTE hospitals to leave behind the use of radiographic film and printed medical reports with important cost reductions, as well as social and environmental impacts, leading to direct improvement in the quality of health care services rendered.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Miguel R. Luaces ◽  
Jesús A. Fisteus ◽  
Luis Sánchez-Fernández ◽  
Mario Munoz-Organero ◽  
Jesús Balado ◽  
...  

Providing citizens with the ability to move around in an accessible way is a requirement for all cities today. However, modeling city infrastructures so that accessible routes can be computed is a challenge because it involves collecting information from multiple, large-scale and heterogeneous data sources. In this paper, we propose and validate the architecture of an information system that creates an accessibility data model for cities by ingesting data from different types of sources and provides an application that can be used by people with different abilities to compute accessible routes. The article describes the processes that allow building a network of pedestrian infrastructures from the OpenStreetMap information (i.e., sidewalks and pedestrian crossings), improving the network with information extracted obtained from mobile-sensed LiDAR data (i.e., ramps, steps, and pedestrian crossings), detecting obstacles using volunteered information collected from the hardware sensors of the mobile devices of the citizens (i.e., ramps and steps), and detecting accessibility problems with software sensors in social networks (i.e., Twitter). The information system is validated through its application in a case study in the city of Vigo (Spain).


2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Yu ◽  
Yinqiu Ji ◽  
Brent C. Emerson ◽  
Xiaoyang Wang ◽  
Chengxi Ye ◽  
...  

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Nguyễn Mạnh Thiên ◽  
Phạm Đăng Khoa ◽  
Nguyễn Đức Vượng ◽  
Nguyễn Việt Hùng

Tóm tắt—Hiện nay, nhiệm vụ đánh giá an toàn thông tin cho các hệ thống thông tin có ý nghĩa quan trọng trong đảm bảo an toàn thông tin. Đánh giá/khai thác lỗ hổng bảo mật cần được thực hiện thường xuyên và ở nhiều cấp độ khác nhau đối với các hệ thống thông tin. Tuy nhiên, nhiệm vụ này đang gặp nhiều khó khăn trong triển khai diện rộng do thiếu hụt đội ngũ chuyên gia kiểm thử chất lượng ở các cấp độ khác nhau. Trong khuôn khổ bài báo này, chúng tôi trình bày nghiên cứu phát triển Framework có khả năng tự động trinh sát thông tin và tự động lựa chọn các mã để tiến hành khai thác mục tiêu dựa trên công nghệ học tăng cường (Reinforcement Learning). Bên cạnh đó Framework còn có khả năng cập nhật nhanh các phương pháp khai thác lỗ hổng bảo mật mới, hỗ trợ tốt cho các cán bộ phụ trách hệ thống thông tin nhưng không phải là chuyên gia bảo mật có thể tự động đánh giá hệ thống của mình, nhằm giảm thiểu nguy cơ từ các cuộc tấn công mạng. Abstract—Currently, security assessment is one of the most important proplem in information security. Vulnerability assessment/exploitation should be performed regularly with different levels of complexity for each information system. However, this task is facing many difficulties in large-scale deployment due to the lack of experienced testing experts. In this paper, we proposed a Framework that can automatically gather information and automatically select suitable module to exploit the target based on reinforcement learning technology. Furthermore, our framework has intergrated many scanning tools, exploited tools that help pentesters doing their work. It also can be easily updated new vulnerabilities exploit techniques.


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