scholarly journals Herbaria Mundi: An image centric approach to manipulation of specimens from multiple collections

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Hyam
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
International Image ◽  
Voucher Specimens ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Concept Application ◽  
Extensive Reference ◽  
As If

Addressing the challenges of the Climate Emergency and the Biodiversity Crisis requires us to understand how the world's vegetation is changing. This is not a trivial task,especially in highly diverse tropical areas. Frequently, the only way to characterise vegetation is to make voucher specimens of the plants present and identify them later in the lab. Fortunately there are extensive reference collections carefully curated in herbaria. Unfortunately specimens and expertise are dispersed over hundreds of different herbaria spread across many countries. It would be more efficient if scientists could see and manipulate specimens independently of where they are stored, especially as travel becomes more difficult due to both the need to reduce carbon emissions and virus spread. Herbaria Mundi is an application demonstrating how how this can be achieved using CETAF Specimen IDs and IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework). The application mimics the way a botanist might work in a physical herbarium by enabling the gathering of specimens into groups and side-by-side comparison of specimens, but differs in that one can search for and manipulate specimens in multiple herbaria as if they were stored in a single collection. Voucher specimens are often not added to herbaria mainly because they do not add enough value to material already in the collections. Herbaria Mundi therefore includes the ability for researchers to upload specimen images to Zenodo and for them to appear in the user interface as if they were in an institutional herbarium. This proof of concept application is being developed as part of Task 4.3 of the Synthesys+ project funded by the European Commission. Two things need to occur to take this concept into production. More herbaria need to adopt the use of CETAF specimen identifiers and the IIIF image API. Botanists need to prioritise which features they would like developed first. More herbaria need to adopt the use of CETAF specimen identifiers and the IIIF image API. Botanists need to prioritise which features they would like developed first. The poster will be a catalyst to discuss how these things can be achieved.

Designing Usable Security Feedback for Web-Filtering Systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 230-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Mendoza-González ◽  
Jaime Muñoz Arteaga ◽  
Francisco Álvarez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
User Interface Design ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Usable Security ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Web

Currently, many powerful applications designed to combat social deviations are available, like the web-filtering systems, which measure the content of a website before submitting it to the user, notifying whether the content of the website presents (or not) information related to pornography, violence, racism, among others, and prompting the user to not accessing the site, or even blocking access to the website. Nevertheless, frequently the feedback of these systems is not well-designed, which may confuse users and lead to mistakes, disappointments, and misunderstandings. In order to reduce this concern, a method is provided to developers with guidance in designing usable security notifications to be incorporated in web-filtering systems. The method is structured through a library of user interface design patterns which integrates essential concepts of security and usability. The authors show the effectiveness of the patterns by using an illustrative example as a proof-of-concept together with a preliminary study.

A Service-Oriented User Interface for the Next Generation Web

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
Shiping Chen ◽  
Surya Nepal
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
New Era ◽  
Back Seat ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
User Tasks

The Web enters a new era where contents are to take the back seat and services will take the driver seat to form a service-oriented Web. This paper presents a service-oriented user interface design for the next generation Web. The design leverages the advances of semantic Web and service composition technologies to provide an intelligent and generic user interface to query, compose and execute Web services for a variety of user tasks. First, a simple cost model is developed for estimating the development and learning overheads of Web service interfaces for service-oriented applications as the motivation of this work. Then, the authors present the design of the service-oriented browser and discuss the enabling technologies. A prototype system is developed using existing technologies and standards as a proof of concept.

Using Pinching Gesture to Relate Applications Running on Discrete Touch-Screen Devices

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Ohta ◽  
Jun Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Touch Screen Devices ◽  
As If

The authors propose the use of a pinching gesture for relating the applications running on discrete mobile devices. The gesture is realized by swiping the touch-screen of two annexed mobile devices as if pinching them together. The authors believe that this user interface can create new user experiences of multiple-screen usages, especially by designing the applications’ content to react instantly to the connection and disconnection triggered by the gesture, and to make it happen even while applications are running in each device. The authors expect this interface to fulfill a great potential in inspiring application designers to conceive various ideas especially suited for visually fascinating contents that take advantage of the dynamic reconfigurable multi-display feature. To demonstrate that potential, the authors produced some sample applications. Herein, the authors explain the idea and details of the interface mechanism, and explain the design of sample applications.

WIFIP: a web-based user interface for automated synchrotron beamlines

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1105-1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoann Sallaz-Damaz ◽  
Jean-Luc Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Access Point ◽  
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Control Software ◽  
Web Based ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Limited Bandwidth ◽  
Control Interface ◽  
User Access

The beamline control software, through the associated graphical user interface (GUI), is the user access point to the experiment, interacting with synchrotron beamline components and providing automated routines. FIP, the French beamline for the Investigation of Proteins, is a highly automatized macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. On such a beamline, a significant number of users choose to control their experiment remotely. This is often performed with a limited bandwidth and from a large choice of computers and operating systems. Furthermore, this has to be possible in a rapidly evolving experimental environment, where new developments have to be easily integrated. To face these challenges, a light, platform-independent, control software and associated GUI are required. Here,WIFIP, a web-based user interface developed at FIP, is described. Further than being the present FIP control interface,WIFIPis also a proof of concept for future MX control software.

Cryopreservation and other assisted reproductive technologies for the conservation of threatened amphibians and reptiles: bringing the ARTs up to speed

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Clulow ◽  
Simon Clulow
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Biology ◽  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
End Points ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Future Work

Amphibians and reptiles are experiencing serious declines, with the number of threatened species and extinctions growing rapidly as the modern biodiversity crisis unfolds. For amphibians, the panzootic of chytridiomycosis is a major driver. For reptiles, habitat loss and harvesting from the wild are key threats. Cryopreservation and other assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) could play a role in slowing the loss of amphibian and reptile biodiversity and managing threatened populations through genome storage and the production of live animals from stored material. These vertebrate classes are at different stages of development in cryopreservation and other ARTs, and each class faces different technical challenges arising from the separate evolutionary end-points of their reproductive biology. For amphibians, the generation of live offspring from cryopreserved spermatozoa has been achieved, but the cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos remains elusive. With reptiles, spermatozoa have been cryopreserved in a few species, but no offspring from cryopreserved spermatozoa have been reported, and the generation of live young from AI has only occurred in a small number of species. Cryopreservation and ARTs are more developed and advanced for amphibians than reptiles. Future work on both groups needs to concentrate on achieving proof of concept examples that demonstrate the use of genome storage and ARTs in successfully recovering threatened species to increase awareness and support for this approach to conservation.

scholarly journals A proof-of-concept application of water-soluble ytterbium(iii) molecular probes in in vivo NIR-II whole body bioimaging

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 1962-1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingying Ning ◽  
Si Chen ◽  
Hao Chen ◽  
Jing-Xiang Wang ◽  
Shuqing He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Lanthanide Complexes ◽  
Molecular Probes ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Concept Application

Lanthanide complexes are firstly applied for in vivo NIR-II high resolution whole body bioimaging.

Accessing Tunable Afterglows from Highly Twisted Organic AIEgens via Effective Through-Space Conjugation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuyuan Zheng ◽  
Tianwen Zhu ◽  
Yunzhong Wang ◽  
Tianjia Yang ◽  
Wang Zhang Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Single Crystals ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Aggregation Induced Emission ◽  
Concept Application

Nonaromatic, cross-conjugated, and highly twisted luminogens consisting of acylated succinimides demonstrate aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics and tunable multicolor photoluminescence and afterglows in their single crystals. Effective through-space conjugation among different moieties bearing n/π electrons promote the SOC and ISC transitions and lead to diverse emissive clusters with concurrently rigidified conformations, thus allowing readily tunable emissions. Derived from it, the proof of concept application for advanced anti-counterfeiting is illustrated. These results should spur the rational design of novel nonaromatic AIEgens, and moreover advance the understanding of the origin of tunable multicolor afterglows.

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