Ancient volcanos as species pumps: a case study of freshwater amphipods in Northeast Asia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueyao Hu ◽  
Shuqiang Li ◽  
Hongguang Liu ◽  
Seung‐Tae Kim ◽  
Dmitry K. Kurenshchikov ◽  
...  
Corpora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Yukiko Ohashi ◽  
Noriaki Katagiri ◽  
Katsutoshi Oka ◽  
Michiko Hanada

This paper reports on two research results: ( 1) designing an English for Specific Purposes (esp) corpus architecture complete with annotations structured by regular expressions; and ( 2) a case study to test the design to cater for creating a specific vocabulary list using the compiled corpus. The first half of this study involved designing a precisely structured esp corpus from 190 veterinary medical charts with a hierarchy of the data. The data hierarchy in the corpus consists of document types, outline elements and inline elements, such as species and breed. Perl scripts extracted the data attached to veterinary-specific categories, and the extraction led to creating wordlists. The second part of the research tested the corpus mode, creating a list of commonly observed lexical items in veterinary medicine. The coverage rate of the wordlists by General Service List (gsl) and Academic Word List (awl) was tested, with the result that 66.4 percent of all lexical items appeared in gsl and awl, whereas 33.7 percent appeared in none of those lists. The corpus compilation procedures as well as the annotation scheme introduced in this study enable the compilation of specific corpora with explicit annotations, allowing teachers to have access to data required for creating esp classroom materials.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cody Ising ◽  
Pedro Rodriguez ◽  
Daniel Lopez ◽  
Jeffrey Santner

In combustion chemistry experiments, reaction rates are often extracted from complex experiments using detailed models. To aid in this process, experiments are performed such that measurable quantities, such as species concentrations, flame speed, and ignition delay, are sensitive to reaction rates of interest. In this work, a systematic method for determining such sensitized experimental conditions is demonstrated. An open-source python script was created using the Cantera module to simulate thousands of 0D and hundreds of 1D combustion chemistry experiments in parallel across a broad, user-defined range of mixture conditions. The results of the simulation are post-processed to normalize and compare sensitivity values among reactions and across initial conditions for time-varying and steady-state simulations, in order to determine the “most useful” experimental conditions. This software can be utilized by researchers as a fast, user-friendly screening tool to determine the thermodynamic and mixture parameters for an experimental campaign. We demonstrate this software through two case studies comparing results of the 0D script against a shock tube experiment and results of the 1D script against a spherical flame experiment. In the shock tube case study we present mixture conditions compared to those used in the literature to study H + O2 (+M)→HO2(+M). In the flame case study, we present mixture conditions compared to those in the literature to study formyl radical (HCO) decomposition and oxidation reactions. The systematically determined experimental conditions identified in the present work are similar to the conditions chosen in the literature.


Plant Ecology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 219 (9) ◽  
pp. 1105-1115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuto Shitara ◽  
Yukito Nakamura ◽  
Tetsuya Matsui ◽  
Ikutaro Tsuyama ◽  
Haruka Ohashi ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (32) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Zanuttigh ◽  
Inigo Losada ◽  
Richard Thompson

Sustainability of coastal areas requires the development of a standard procedure for the selection of equitable defence solutions and the design optimization of existing defences in order to minimize the impact on the environment and maximize positive effects such as species biodiversity and structure colonization. The aim of this paper is to propose a combined method, based on numerical simulations and on collection of ecological data in the field, to provide indications for an environmental friendly construction of breakwaters. This method is applied and tested against the case study of Elmer, UK, where information on existing species and their abundance related to hydrodynamic effects induced by the breakwaters


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Xingyu Zhang

This paper focuses on the nativization of English in China, using Pidgin English as a case study to put Chinese English variants under the theoretical framework of eco-linguistics, and put the ecological environment such as species competition, coexistence and co-evolution, etc. The natural phenomenon is compared with the existence of language phenomenon in the development process of China English represented by Pidgin English.The study found that as the spark of the collision of the two mainstream languages of Chinese and English, the Chinese English varieties play a very important role in the exchange and enrichment of the two languages and cultures. Although academic circles have different attitudes and opinions on Chinese English variants, their existence and development conform to the law of the development of things and are also inevitable in historical development. Blindly ignoring their objective existence will definitely bring adverse effects on the ecological balance of the language. We should face up to the existence of Chinese English variants, comply with the law of language development, and allow it to develop naturally, and make efforts to protect the ecological balance of the world’s languages.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Jiao ◽  
Yupei Wang ◽  
Hongjun Xiao ◽  
Jianghua Zhou ◽  
Wensi Zeng

Author(s):  
Şerban Procheş

Typical marine arthropods (crustaceans and halacarid mites), as well as species of recent terrestrial ancestry (insect larvae and mesostigmatid mites) coexist on mangrove pneumatophores. Both groups are affected by desiccation and are less abundant towards the tips of the pneumatophores. The degree of species associations within and between the two groups was investigated. The number of negative associations is higher for marine–marine, as compared to terrestrial–terrestrial and terrestrial–marine species pairs. When environmental stress (as represented by direct sunlight, and elevation on pneumatophores, both resulting in increased desiccation) is considered, associations tend to shift from negative to positive, and this is more obvious in terrestrial–terrestrial species pairs. These results are attributed to the longer co-evolutionary history of the marine species, resulting in a more precise partitioning of the microhabitats, while the relationships between terrestrial species are less stable, and more susceptible to environmental stress.


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