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A Global Database for Metacommunity Ecology, Integrating Species, Traits
www.nature.com/scientificdata There are amendments to this paper OPEN A global database for DATA DescRIPTOR metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space Alienor Jeliazkov et al.# The use of functional information in the form of species traits plays an important role in explaining biodiversity patterns and responses to environmental changes. Although relationships between species composition, their traits, and the environment have been extensively studied on a case-by-case basis, results are variable, and it remains unclear how generalizable these relationships are across ecosystems, taxa and spatial scales. To address this gap, we collated 80 datasets from trait-based studies into a global database for metaCommunity Ecology: Species, Traits, Environment and Space; “CESTES”. Each dataset includes four matrices: species community abundances or presences/absences across multiple sites, species trait information, environmental variables and spatial coordinates of the sampling sites. The CESTES database is a live database: it will be maintained and expanded in the future as new datasets become available. By its harmonized structure, and the diversity of ecosystem types, taxonomic groups, and spatial scales it covers, the CESTES database provides an important opportunity for synthetic trait-based research in community ecology. Background & Summary A major challenge in ecology is to understand the processes underlying community assembly and biodiversity patterns across space1,2. Over the three last decades, trait-based research, by taking up this challenge, has drawn increasing interest3, in particular with the aim of predicting biodiversity response to environment. In community ecology, it has been equated to the ‘Holy Grail’ that would allow ecologists to approach the potential processes underlying metacommunity patterns4–7. -
Of Ancestors and Descendants
J. Limnol., 2016; 75(2): 225 EDITORIAL DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1532 Journal of Limnology: of ancestors and descendants In spite of the title, this is not the beginning of a long year, plus supplements. The number of citations of our and boring family saga. I simply need to take a few min - journal in the last 4 years (2012 – 2015) increased by 25 utes of your time to explain the history of this journal: times (Web of Science, Thomson) and the Journal of Lim - where it is coming from, why it is changing and where it nology reached the second place in the field as Immediacy is going. Born in 1940 with the name of Memorie dell’Is - Index (0.322, Journal Citation Report, Thomson). Its Im - tituto italiano di Idrobiologia , the funding body at that pact Factor is now 1.725. time, the journal has been for over 50 years a non-negli - gible piece of limnological literature, hosting papers The journal aims to further develop, increasing its dif - signed by the most important names in inland waters ecol - fusion and reducing the time between submission and ogy. To mention but a few of them, Baldi, Tonolli, publishing - both for ahead of print and for online final - Hutchynson, Margalef, Edmondson, Wetzel, and Vollen - while remaining fully open access. This can be done only weider all contributed to the Memorie with relevant and thanks to the help of many colleagues Associate Editors still cited articles. The Memorie , distributed only on an and Referees who generously and freely accepted the exchange basis, was a predecessor of sorts to open access challenging task of participating in the peer review publication for decades. -
SVP's Letter to Editors of Journals and Publishers on Burmese Amber And
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 7918 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 300 McLean, VA 22102 USA Phone: (301) 634-7024 Email: [email protected] Web: www.vertpaleo.org FEIN: 06-0906643 April 21, 2020 Subject: Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data Dear Editors, We are writing you today to promote the awareness of a couple of troubling matters in our scientific discipline, paleontology, because we value your professional academic publication as an important ‘gatekeeper’ to set high ethical standards in our scientific field. We represent the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP: http://vertpaleo.org/), a non-profit international scientific organization with over 2,000 researchers, educators, students, and enthusiasts, to advance the science of vertebrate palaeontology and to support and encourage the discovery, preservation, and protection of vertebrate fossils, fossil sites, and their geological and paleontological contexts. The first troubling matter concerns situations surrounding fossils in and from conflict zones. One particularly alarming example is with the so-called ‘Burmese amber’ that contains exquisitely well-preserved fossils trapped in 100-million-year-old (Cretaceous) tree sap from Myanmar. They include insects and plants, as well as various vertebrates such as lizards, snakes, birds, and dinosaurs, which have provided a wealth of biological information about the ‘dinosaur-era’ terrestrial ecosystem. Yet, the scientific value of these specimens comes at a cost (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/science/amber-myanmar-paleontologists.html). Where Burmese amber is mined in hazardous conditions, smuggled out of the country, and sold as gemstones, the most disheartening issue is that the recent surge of exciting scientific discoveries, particularly involving vertebrate fossils, has in part fueled the commercial trading of amber. -
Flood Pulse and Aquatic Habitat Dynamics of the Sentarum Floodplain Lakes Area
Flood Pulse and Aquatic Habitat Dynamics of The Sentarum Floodplain Lakes Area H. Hidayat a,*, Siti Aisyah a, Riky Kurniawan a, Iwan Ridwansyah a, Octavianto Samir a, a Gadis Sri Haryani a Research Center for Limnology-LIPI; Kompleks LIPI Cibinong, Jalan Raya Bogor, Km. 46, Cibinong 16911; *[email protected] Received 29 November 2020 Accepted 13 December 2020 Published 17 December 2020 Abstract The Lake Sentarum is a complex of floodplain lakes in the middle part of the Kapuas River system in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The area has a great ecological and economic importance, however, the Sentarum lakes complex and its catchment area are generally threatened by deforestation, fire, monoculture agroindustry, and pollution.The objective of this research is to establish the hydrological characteristics of the Sentarum lakes area and to reveal the dynamics of aquatic habitat resulted from changing water levels. Data were collected during our field campaigns of 2013-2017 representing the seasons. The water level was measured using a pressure sensor placed at the Lake Sentarum National Park resort, while rainfall data were obtained from the data portal of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Inundation monitoring was carried out using a time-lapse camera. A hydrological model is used to simulate water levels beyond measurement period. Water quality and fish sampling were carried out at the lake area. Vegetation observation was carried out at the selected riparian zone of the lake area using the line transect method. Water level records show that the Sentarum floodplain lakes have two peaks of inundation period following the bimodal pattern of rainfall in the equatorial Kapuas catchment. -
Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Biomimetics: a Perspective
Quantum machine learning and quantum biomimetics: A perspective Lucas Lamata Departamento de F´ısicaAt´omica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, 41080 Sevilla, Spain April 2020 Abstract. Quantum machine learning has emerged as an exciting and promising paradigm inside quantum technologies. It may permit, on the one hand, to carry out more efficient machine learning calculations by means of quantum devices, while, on the other hand, to employ machine learning techniques to better control quantum systems. Inside quantum machine learning, quantum reinforcement learning aims at developing \intelligent" quantum agents that may interact with the outer world and adapt to it, with the strategy of achieving some final goal. Another paradigm inside quantum machine learning is that of quantum autoencoders, which may allow one for employing fewer resources in a quantum device via a training process. Moreover, the field of quantum biomimetics aims at establishing analogies between biological and quantum systems, to look for previously inadvertent connections that may enable useful applications. Two recent examples are the concepts of quantum artificial life, as well as of quantum memristors. In this Perspective, we give an overview of these topics, describing the related research carried out by the scientific community. Keywords: Quantum machine learning; quantum biomimetics; quantum artificial intelligence; quantum reinforcement learning; quantum autoencoders; quantum artificial life; quantum memristors arXiv:2004.12076v2 [quant-ph] 30 May 2020 1. Introduction The field of quantum technologies has experienced a significant boost in the past five years. The interest of multinational companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and Alibaba in this area has increased the worldwide competition and available funding not only from these firms, but also from national and supranational governments, such as the European Union [1, 2]. -
SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED - JOURNAL LIST Total Journals: 8631
SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED - JOURNAL LIST Total journals: 8631 1. 4OR-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH 2. AAPG BULLETIN 3. AAPS JOURNAL 4. AAPS PHARMSCITECH 5. AATCC REVIEW 6. ABDOMINAL IMAGING 7. ABHANDLUNGEN AUS DEM MATHEMATISCHEN SEMINAR DER UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG 8. ABSTRACT AND APPLIED ANALYSIS 9. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 10. ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 11. ACADEMIC MEDICINE 12. ACADEMIC PEDIATRICS 13. ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY 14. ACCOUNTABILITY IN RESEARCH-POLICIES AND QUALITY ASSURANCE 15. ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH 16. ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE 17. ACI MATERIALS JOURNAL 18. ACI STRUCTURAL JOURNAL 19. ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS 20. ACM JOURNAL ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS 21. ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW 22. ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES 23. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ALGORITHMS 24. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED PERCEPTION 25. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION 26. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS 27. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC 28. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS 29. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION 30. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DATABASE SYSTEMS 31. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS 32. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING SYSTEMS 33. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS 34. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEM SECURITY 35. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS 36. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY 37. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY 38. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FROM DATA 39. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE 40. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MODELING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION 41. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS 42. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS 43. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON RECONFIGURABLE TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS 44. -
Stroboscopic High-Order Nonlinearity for Quantum Optomechanics ✉ Andrey A
www.nature.com/npjqi ARTICLE OPEN Stroboscopic high-order nonlinearity for quantum optomechanics ✉ Andrey A. Rakhubovsky 1 and Radim Filip 1 High-order quantum nonlinearity is an important prerequisite for the advanced quantum technology leading to universal quantum processing with large information capacity of continuous variables. Levitated optomechanics, a field where motion of dielectric particles is driven by precisely controlled tweezer beams, is capable of attaining the required nonlinearity via engineered potential landscapes of mechanical motion. Importantly, to achieve nonlinear quantum effects, the evolution caused by the free motion of mechanics and thermal decoherence have to be suppressed. For this purpose, we devise a method of stroboscopic application of a highly nonlinear potential to a mechanical oscillator that leads to the motional quantum non-Gaussian states exhibiting nonclassical negative Wigner function and squeezing of a nonlinear combination of mechanical quadratures. We test the method numerically by analyzing highly instable cubic potential with relevant experimental parameters of the levitated optomechanics, prove its feasibility within reach, and propose an experimental test. The method paves a road for experiments instantaneously transforming a ground state of mechanical oscillators to applicable nonclassical states by nonlinear optical force. npj Quantum Information (2021) 7:120 ; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-021-00453-8 1234567890():,; INTRODUCTION Moreover, the trapping potentials can be made time-dependent Quantum physics and technology with continuous variables (CVs)1 and manipulated at rates exceeding the rate of mechanical has achieved noticeable progress recently. A potential advantage of decoherence and even the mechanical frequency45. In this manu- CVs is the in-principle unlimited energy and information capacity of script, we assume a similar possibility to generate the nonlinear a single oscillator mode. -
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2015 Annual Subscription Price List (in US$ for clients in the USA) $ All electronic journals are available at www.edpsciences.org Titles Language Print ISSN e-ISSN Vol(s) Issues Subscription Specificity Formats US $ Price Actualités Odonto-Stomatologiques (AOS) L'encyclopédie du praticien Open Access French 0001-7817 1760-611X - - Free supplement of Dentoscope published www.aos-journal.org by Free Access in Dentoscope Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology P+E $495 A journal of basis & applied fresh water research English 0003-4088 2100-000X 51 4 www.limnology-journal.org Impact Factor: 1.036 (rank : 13/20) E $343 Aquatic Living Resources (ALR) P+E $699 Fisheries sciences, aquaculture, aquatic biology & ecology English 0990-7440 1765-2952 28 4 www.alr-journal.org Impact Factor: 0.919 (rank: 33/50) E $503 Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) P+E $5 718 A major international journal that publishes results E $4 048 of worldwide astronomical and astrophysical research English 0004-6361 1432-0746 573-584 24 P+E $886 www.aanda.org Individuals* Impact Factor: 4.479 (rank: 13/59) E $240 Bio Web of Conferences (Bio WoC) Open-access proceedings in Biology English - 2117-4458 - - Open Access www.bio-conferences.org P+E $502 E $325 Biologie Aujourd'hui French P+E $386 Organe officiel de la Société de Biologie with abstracts 2105-0678 2105-0686 209 4 Individuals* www.biologie-journal.org in English E $285 P+E $202 Students ** E $134 Célibataire (La) Revue de psychanalyse (clinique, logique, politique) French 1292-2048 - 30-31 2 P -
Quantum Physics in Space
Quantum Physics in Space Alessio Belenchiaa,b,∗∗, Matteo Carlessob,c,d,∗∗, Omer¨ Bayraktare,f, Daniele Dequalg, Ivan Derkachh, Giulio Gasbarrii,j, Waldemar Herrk,l, Ying Lia Lim, Markus Rademacherm, Jasminder Sidhun, Daniel KL Oin, Stephan T. Seidelo, Rainer Kaltenbaekp,q, Christoph Marquardte,f, Hendrik Ulbrichtj, Vladyslav C. Usenkoh, Lisa W¨ornerr,s, Andr´eXuerebt, Mauro Paternostrob, Angelo Bassic,d,∗ aInstitut f¨urTheoretische Physik, Eberhard-Karls-Universit¨atT¨ubingen, 72076 T¨ubingen,Germany bCentre for Theoretical Atomic,Molecular, and Optical Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom cDepartment of Physics,University of Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste,Italy dIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste Section, Via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy eMax Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstraße 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany fInstitute of Optics, Information and Photonics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-N¨urnberg, Staudtstraße 7 B2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany gScientific Research Unit, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Matera, Italy hDepartment of Optics, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50,772 07 Olomouc,Czech Republic iF´ısica Te`orica: Informaci´oi Fen`omensQu`antics,Department de F´ısica, Universitat Aut`onomade Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain jDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom kDeutsches Zentrum f¨urLuft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR), Institut f¨urSatellitengeod¨asieund -
Electric Field Spectroscopy of Material Defects in Transmon Qubits
www.nature.com/npjqi ARTICLE OPEN Electric field spectroscopy of material defects in transmon qubits Jürgen Lisenfeld 1*, Alexander Bilmes1, Anthony Megrant2, Rami Barends2, Julian Kelly2, Paul Klimov2, Georg Weiss1, John M. Martinis2 and Alexey V. Ustinov1,3 Superconducting integrated circuits have demonstrated a tremendous potential to realize integrated quantum computing processors. However, the downside of the solid-state approach is that superconducting qubits suffer strongly from energy dissipation and environmental fluctuations caused by atomic-scale defects in device materials. Further progress towards upscaled quantum processors will require improvements in device fabrication techniques, which need to be guided by novel analysis methods to understand and prevent mechanisms of defect formation. Here, we present a technique to analyse individual defects in superconducting qubits by tuning them with applied electric fields. This provides a spectroscopy method to extract the defects’ energy distribution, electric dipole moments, and coherence times. Moreover, it enables one to distinguish defects residing in Josephson junction tunnel barriers from those at circuit interfaces. We find that defects at circuit interfaces are responsible for about 60% of the dielectric loss in the investigated transmon qubit sample. About 40% of all detected defects are contained in the tunnel barriers of the large-area parasitic Josephson junctions that occur collaterally in shadow evaporation, and only 3% are identified as strongly coupled defects, which -
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FORMAT FOR SUBJECTWISE IDENTIFYING JOURNALS BY THE UNIVERSITIES AND APPROVAL OF THE UGC {Under Clause 6.05 (1) of the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for appointment of Teacher and Other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education (4th Amendment), Regulations, 2016} Subject: FISHBIOLOGY, Department of Zoology, Institute of Science A. Refereed Journals Sl. Name of the Journal Publisher and Year of Hard e-publication ISSN Number Peer / Indexing status. Impact Do you use Any other No. place of Start copies (Yes/No) Refree If indexed, Factor/Rating. any Information publication published Reviewed Name of the Name of the IF exclusion (Yes/No) (Yes/No) indexing data assigning agency. criteria for base Whether covered Research by Thompson & Journals Reuter (Yes/No) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 Annals of Microbiology Springer 1590-4261 1.232 2 Aquaculture Elsevier 0044-8486 1.828 3 Fungal Biology Elsevier 1878-6146 2.921 4 Journal of Biosciences Springer 0250-5991 2.064 5 Journal of Fish Biology Wiley Online Library - 1.658 6 Journal of fish Diseases Wiley Online Library 1365-2761 2.056 - 7 Mycological Progress Springer - 1.543 8 Mycoscience Elsevier - 1.418 9 Mycoses Wiley Online Library - 2.332 10 Veterinary Microbiology Elsevier 1873-2542 2.564 11 FEMS Microbiology Letters Oxford University 0378-1097 1.858 Press (FEMS 12 Medical mycology Oxford Journals 2.644 13 PLOS one 3.234 14 Journal of Clinical Microbiology American Society 0095-1137 3.993 for Microbiology A. -
Mollusc Collections at South African Institutions: AUTHOR: Mary Cole1,2 Development and Current Status
Mollusc collections at South African institutions: AUTHOR: Mary Cole1,2 Development and current status AFFILIATIONS: 1East London Museum, East London, South Africa There are three major mollusc collections in South Africa and seven smaller, thematic collections. The 2Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, KwaZulu-Natal Museum holds one of the largest collections in the southern hemisphere. Its strengths are Makhanda, South Africa marine molluscs of southern Africa and the southwestern Indian Ocean, and terrestrial molluscs of South Africa. Research on marine molluscs has led to revisionary papers across a wide range of gastropod CORRESPONDENCE TO: Mary Cole families. The Iziko South African Museum contains the most comprehensive collections of Cephalopoda (octopus, squid and relatives) and Polyplacophora (chitons) for southern Africa. The East London Museum EMAIL: [email protected] is a provincial museum of the Eastern Cape. Recent research focuses on terrestrial molluscs and the collection is growing to address the gap in knowledge of this element of biodiversity. Mollusc collections DATES: in South Africa date to about 1900 and are an invaluable resource of morphological and genetic diversity, Received: 06 Oct. 2020 with associated spatial and temporal data. The South African National Biodiversity Institute is encouraging Revised: 10 Dec. 2020 Accepted: 12 Feb 2021 discovery and documentation to address gaps in knowledge, particularly of invertebrates. Museums are Published: 29 July 2021 supported with grants for surveys, systematic studies and data mobilisation. The Department of Science and Innovation is investing in collections as irreplaceable research infrastructure through the Natural HOW TO CITE: Cole M. Mollusc collections at South Science Collections Facility, whereby 16 institutions, including those holding mollusc collections, are African institutions: Development assisted to achieve common targets and coordinated outputs.