Occurrence patterns of alien freshwater turtles in a large urban pond ‘Archipelago’ (Rome,Italy): Suggesting hypotheses on root causes

The patterns of the occurrence and distribution of alien freshwater turtle species in an urban pond archipelago (Rome, Italy) were analysed, with the aim of exploring the role of a set of factors (type of ponds, landscape context, size area, distance from the nearest road) with a generalized linear model approach. A total of 311 ponds subdivided in three types (fountains, small basins, lakes) embedded in different landscape contexts (public parks, private parks, urban areas) at differing distances from the nearest road were sampled. Six non‐native freshwater turtle species in 31 sites were recorded (9.97%). Lakes exhibited the highest occurrence rates of alien freshwater turtles, compared to small basins and fountains. Freshwater turtle species in urbanized areas were only observed in parks (both public and private). In both the public and private parks, the lakes exhibited the highest percentage of occupied sites, with fountains being the lowest. A direct and significant relationship was observed between pond size and species richness. The distance from the nearest road did not appear to affect species richness. A first interpretation of the data from this study facilitated the postulation of two a posteriori hypotheses that should be tested, as follows: (i) the causal process of turtle release is random, and the rate of extinction (and recapture) is higher in smaller ponds, thus producing the observed pattern; and (ii) the turtle release is not random, and people actively select the ponds they consider more suitable for their pet animals. In this study, it appears the lakes were perceived by those who abandon their pets as the most ecologically suitable habitats among other pond types to accommodate the different species of turtles. Knowledge of people's attitudes in regard to releasing pet animals also might assist managers of public green spaces to develop strategies aimed to preserve local biodiversity, and to educate the public about the conservation issue represented by the alien species.     

Fabricating Water-Insoluble Polyelectrolyte into Multilayers with Layer-by-layer Self-assembly

Summary A water insoluble azo-containing polyelectrolyte (PEAPB6P-AC) was successfully fabricated into multilayer films based on the layer-by-layer adsorption technique by using N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) as the assembling media. The multilayer growth and structure were studied with UV-vis spectroscopy, and the multilayer surface were imaged with Atomic Force Microscopy and compared with that fabricated in water. The results show that assembling PEAPB6P-AC in DMF can effectively eliminate the hydrophobic aggregation of the azo units and consequently results in a much smoother multilayer surface than that fabricated in water. This improvement to the layer-by-layer adsorption technique, which can avoid some major difficulties faced when assembling hydrophobic polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions, seems to be a versatile way to fabricate high quality multilayer films when using the hydrophobic even water-insoluble polyelectrolytes as assembling units.     

2-Layer Right Angle Crossing Drawings

A 2-layer drawing represents a bipartite graph where each vertex is a point on one of two parallel lines, no two vertices on the same line are adjacent, and the edges are straight-line segments. In this paper we study 2-layer drawings where any two crossing edges meet at right angle. We characterize the graphs that admit this type of drawing, provide linear-time testing and embedding algorithms, and present a polynomial-time crossing minimization technique. Also, for a given graph G and a constant k, we prove that it is $\mathcal{NP}$ -complete to decide whether G contains a subgraph of at least k edges having a 2-layer drawing with right angle crossings.     

Effect of mixing leaves with olives on organoleptic quality of oil obtained by centrifugation

Variable quantities of leaves were added to ripe olives prior to extraction to determine their effect on the quality of the resulting olive oil. The addition of 1–3% w/w leaves improved the organoleptic quality. An increase intrans-2-hexenal aldehyde content occurred, giving the pleasant flavor of “freshly cut grass.” This compound was produced by the enzymatic breakdown of 13-L-hydroperoxide of linolenic acid in leaf homogenates.     

使用新混合模糊聚类算法的模糊系统建模方法

为了进一步提高模糊系统建立模型的精度,提出一种新的模糊系统算法ANFIS-HC-QPSO：采用一种混合型模糊聚类算法来对模糊系统的输入空间进行划分,每一个聚类通过高斯函数的拟合产生一个隶属度函数,即完成ANFIS系统的前件参数--隶属度函数参数的初始识别,通过具有量子行为的粒子群算法QPSO与最小二乘法优化前件参数,直至达到停机条件,最终得到ANFIS的前件及后件参数,从而得到满意的模糊系统模型。实验表明,AN-FIS-HC-QPSO算法与传统算法相比,能在只需较少模糊规则的前提下就使模糊系统达到更高的精度。     

基于线性判别分析的寄生虫卵识别

寄生虫病是危害人类及动物健康的疾病之一。为了实现对寄生虫卵的自动识别,辅助临床检测,提出基于线性判别分析的寄生虫卵识别方法。采用结合形态学滤波和Otsu的方法分割得到寄生虫卵及其轮廓,提取形状特征和纹理特征作为特征向量集,并利用线性判别分析实现对寄生虫卵自动识别。实验结果表明,该方法对6种寄生虫卵的识别正确率达到90.70%。     

Precipitation from glassy polymer solutions

Solid solutions of general-purpose polystyrene containing crystalline tetrabromoxylene, tetrachloroxylene, or tetrachlorobenzene were prepared. The effects of the low molecular weight crystalline additive concentration and the thermal history on the thermal properties of the system have been studied. The system solubility, rejection of solute, etc., were characterized by such techniques as rheology, thermal analysis (DSC), and Vicat softening point.     

常用数据加密技术的对比研究

如今的世界已经是一个信息化和数字化交织的庞大体系,人们对数据安全和保密的重要性认识不断提高,为确保数据的安全多种加密技术被广泛使用。然而数据的非法复制,解密和盗版问题日益严重,数据加密技术依旧是很重要的环节,本文仅对目前常用的加密算法加以比较研究提出较好的加密方法。     

Lattice-based key exchange on small integer solution problem

In this paper, we propose a new hard problem, called bilateral inhomogeneous small integer solution （Bi-ISIS）, which can be seen as an extension of the small integer solution problem on lattices. The main idea is that, instead of choosing a rectangle matrix, we choose a square matrix with small rank to generate Bi-ISIS problem without affecting the hardness of the underlying SIS problem. Based on this new problem, we present two new hardness problems： computational Bi-ISIS and decisional problems. As a direct application of these problems, we construct a new lattice-based key exchange （KE） protocol, which is analogous to the classic Diffie- Hellman KE protocol. We prove the security of this protocol and show that it provides better security in case of worst-case hardness of lattice problems, relatively efficient implementations, and great simplicity.     

基于$pm3sigma$正态概率区间分族遗传蚁群算法的移动机器人路径规划

针对移动机器人路径规划问题,提出一种基于正态概率区间分族的家族遗传蚁群融合算法.首先提出初始种群优化及删除算子解决传统遗传蚁群融合算法中遗传阶段随机生成的初始种群质量低的问题;然后引入适应度值正态概率区间种群分族机制及家族混合交叉算子,解决传统遗传蚁群融合算法中易出现未成熟收敛的问题;最后引入混合变异策略以提高随机变异后生成的路径质量.将全局路径规划算法与局部路径规划算法-动态窗口算法相结合形成完整移动机器人运动规划.基于Matlab仿真平台与机器人操作系统平台进行实验分析,结果验证了所提出正态化概率分族遗传蚁群融合算法求解移动机器人路径规划问题的有效性.