Пространственное распределение птиц Алданского нагорья.

The results of bird route censuses, conducted on the territory of the Aldan Highland in the first half of summer and generally covering the period from 2000 to 2019, were analyzed. The total length of the routes was about 2815 km. A total of 116 initial variants of the bird population were used. Based on the results of multivariate factor analysis for 160 species registered in these censuses, a hierarchical classification of their preference for habitats was drawn up. The classification showed that 45 % of birds prefer forests, woodlands and burned areas, 26.2 % - water bodies and their banks, 13.8 % - bogs and meadows, 9.4 % - villages and cities, 5.6 % - mountain tundra. A comparative analysis with a similar classification for the Altai Highland has been performed. The main differences in the territorial distribution of bird species in the Aldan Highland and Altai lie in a smaller number of identified types of preferences in our region. Due to the homogeneity of forest biotopes and the absence of the steppe, forest-steppe, subnival, and nival zones in the Aldan Highland, the corresponding landscapes are not represented here, which determines the absence of the steppe, forest-meadow-steppe, meadow-bog, and subnival types. Similarly to Altai, the forest, tundra and synanthropic types of preference are distinguished in the Aldan Highland.

Control the Information of the Image with Anisotropic Diffusion and Isotropic Diffusion for the Image Classification

Humans can recognize objects well even if they only show the shape of objects or an object is composed of several components. But, most of the classifiers in the deep learning framework are trained through original images without removing complex elements inside the object. And also, they do not remove things other than the object to be classified. So the classifiers are not as effective as the human classification of objects because they are trained with the original image which has many objects that the classifier does not want to classify. In this respect, we found out which pre-processing can improve the performance of the classifier the most by comparing the results of using data through other pre-processing. In this paper, we try to limit the amount of information in the object to a minimum. To restrict the information, we use anisotropic diffusion and isotropic diffusion, which are used for removing the noise in the images. By using the anisotropic diffusion and the isotropic diffusion for the pre-processing, only shapes of objects were passed to the classifier. With these diffusion processes, we can get similar classification accuracy compared to when using the original image, and we found out that although the original images are diffused too much, the classifier can classify the objects centered on discriminative parts of the objects.

Baryon-Antibaryon Annihilation in the Evolution of Antimatter Domains in Baryon-Asymmetric Universe

Non-trivial baryosynthesis scenarios can lead to the existence of antimatter domains in a baryon-asymmetrical Universe. The consequences of antibaryon-baryon annihilation at the border of antimatter domains is investigated. Low-density antimatter domains are further classified according to the boundary interactions. A similar classification scheme is also proposed for higher-densities antimatter domains. The antiproton-proton annihilation interactions are therefore schematized and evaluated. The antinuclei-nuclei-interaction patterns are investigated. The two-point correlation functions for antimatter domains are studied in the case of baryon-antibaryon boundary interactions, which influence the space and time evolution. The space-time evolution of antimatter domains after the photon thermalization epoch is analyzed.

Variability of leaf blade characters of some microspecies from Alchemilla L. (Rosaceae) in nature coenopopulations and culture on the territory of Mari El Republic

The genus Alchemilla L. is one of the largest in angiosperm. This paper deals with variability of leaf blade characters of some microspecies from Alchemilla L. genus. The studies were conducted in 3 natural regions on the territory of Mari El Republic and in culture. A consensus configuration of leaf blade for A. acutiloba Opiz, A. gracilis Opiz, A. monticola Opiz, A. sarmatica Juz., A. schistophylla Juz., A. substrigosa Juz. was obtained by a geometric morphometrics method. The variability of the leaf blade shape for A. acutiloba, A. gracilis, A. sarmatica in natural cenopopulation was described. The study has shown that the size and shape of leaf blade for A. gracilis in ecologically contrasting conditions differ. The size of leaf blade for A. substrigosa differs in conditions with some differences in the ecological characteristics of soils, the shape does not differ. According to a discriminant analysis based on a complex of morphometric characters of leaf blades for microspecies A. litwinowii, A. monticola, A. substrigosa in meadow plant community are classified with an accuracy of about 80%. A similar classification result of leaf blades for A. acutiloba, A. gracilis, A. hirsuticaulis in culture was revealed. Leaf blades for different microspecies form distinct, but overlapping clouds in the plane of discriminant functions.

Instantons and Bows for the Classical Groups

The construction of Atiyah, Drinfeld, Hitchin and Manin provided complete description of all instantons on Euclidean four-space. It was extended by Kronheimer and Nakajima to instantons on ALE spaces, resolutions of orbifolds $\mathbb{R}^4/\Gamma$ by a finite subgroup Γ⊂SU(2). We consider a similar classification, in the holomorphic context, of instantons on some of the next spaces in the hierarchy, the ALF multi-Taub-NUT manifolds, showing how they tie in to the bow solutions to Nahm’s equations via the Nahm correspondence. Recently Nakajima and Takayama constructed the Coulomb branch of the moduli space of vacua of a quiver gauge theory, tying them to the same space of bow solutions. One can view our construction as describing the same manifold as the Higgs branch of the mirror gauge theory as described by Cherkis, O’Hara and Saemann. Our construction also yields the monad construction of holomorphic instanton bundles on the multi-Taub-NUT space for any classical compact Lie structure group.

Recognition of Rare Low-Moral Actions Using Depth Data

Detecting and recognizing low-moral actions in public spaces is important. But low-moral actions are rare, so in order to learn to recognize a new low-moral action in general we need to rely on a limited number of samples. In order to study the recognition of actions from a comparatively small dataset, in this work we introduced a new dataset of human actions consisting in large part of low-moral behaviors. In addition, we used this dataset to test the performance of a number of classifiers, which used either depth data or extracted skeletons. The results show that both depth data and skeleton based classifiers were able to achieve similar classification accuracy on this dataset (Top-1: around 55%, Top-5: around 90%). Also, using transfer learning in both cases improved the performance.

Trash or treasure? Use of sagittal otoliths partially composed of vaterite for hatchery stock discrimination in steelhead

Sagittal otoliths are normally deposited as the CaCO3 polymorph aragonite; however, a proportion of otoliths transitions to vaterite during growth. This transition can complicate otolith chemistry analyses, as differences in the crystalline structure (aragonite or vaterite) of otoliths causes variation in otolith chemistry signatures. To address this issue, we introduce a method to utilize sagittal otoliths partially composed of vaterite for stock discrimination. Using this method, we determined the hatchery origins of yearlings from five Lake Erie hatcheries by using Ba, Mg, Mn, and Sr concentrations in vaterite sections of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) otoliths. We then compared the classification accuracy of our vaterite method with a method in which otoliths composed entirely of aragonite were used. Overall, quadratic discriminant function analyses revealed similar classification success when elemental concentrations from vaterite (95% accuracy) and aragonite (94% accuracy) otolith regions were used. The methods introduced here could likely be used for other fish species that have otoliths that transition to vaterite as long as an adequate number of juvenile fish are available to develop vaterite otolith chemistry signatures.

Checklist and status of the amphibians and reptiles of Essex County, Ontario: a 35 year update

Essex County, Ontario, supports a diverse assemblage of Canadian herpetofauna. It is home to the only Canadian populations of three species/subspecies and contains two of Canada’s 11 Important Amphibian and Reptile Areas. A checklist and status assessment of the herpetofauna of Essex County was previously compiled in 1983. Changes to natural habitats and an increase in monitoring efforts (e.g., citizen science) over the past 35 years warrant an updated assessment of herpetofaunal status. The county was subdivided using a 10 x 10 km grid overlay, and recent observations (1997–2016) submitted to provincial databases were tabulated for each grid square. We compared current status’ of herpetofauna in Essex County to those of the 1983 study using a similar classification scheme of ‘extirpated from Essex’ (EE; no recent observations) and ‘rare in Essex’ (RE; distribution ≤5 squares). We found that 11 species declined in status. The majority of reptiles and amphibians (62%) that historically occurred in Essex County are now either EE (31%) or RE (31%) and almost half (45%) of the 29 extant species/subspecies are RE. A large proportion of salamanders and squamates are EE or RE (86% and 65%, respectively). Amount of natural area and sampling effort were important variables describing patterns of observed herpetofaunal species/subspecies richness, and observed richness was highest along the western and southern edges of the mainland (16–19 species). To prevent future extirpations, recovery efforts in Essex County should occur across multiple locations and target RE species.

HURWITZ MATRIX, LYAPUNOV AND DIRICHLET ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF LYAPUNOV’S

The concepts of Hurwitz, Lyapunov and Dirichlet matrices are introduced for the convenience of the stability of linear systems with constant coefficients. They allow us to describe all the cases of interest in the stability theory of linear systems with constant coefficients. A similar classification is proposed for systems of linear differential equations with periodic coefficients. Monodromy matrices of such systems can be either Hurwitz matrices or Lyapunov matrices or Dirichlet matrices (in the discrete sense) in a stable case. The new material relates to systems with variable coefficients.

The system of syntactic connections: classification searching

The paper deals with the analysis of various classifications of syntactic connections. Many different types and forms of syntactic connection have been discovered till to the second half of the ХХ century, that’s why the problem of their classification has appeared. Linguists suggest some classifications, grounded on different principles, but none of them is comprehensive. The purpose of the evaluation is to clear up that principles and to assess their prospect for creating universal classification. From the beginning scientists proposed to divide syntactic connections into two groups – connections in a word-combination and connections in a sentence – according to the sphere of their realization. Linguists also kept classic distinction into two opposite types of connection – subordinate and coordinative – according to existence / absence of dependence between combined components. Nowadays the similar classification schemes are presented in Russian and Belorussian linguistics. Instead in the Ukrainian grammar classifications according to the directivity of dependence and according to the role of connection in formation and modification syntactic constructions are more grounded. There is tendency to simplify classification schemes and to unit different sorts of syntactic connection into general types in Czech and Polish linguistics. As to Ukrainian material the classification based on the directivity of dependence seems to be perspective for future development of the theory of syntactic connection.