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Summary: The following eight generic names are recommended for conservation: Camptopteris with a conserved type, Clathropteris against Meniscites, Dictyophyllum against Quercites, Eristophyton against Ullmannites, Leptopteris C. Presl against Leptopteris Brongn., Lonchopteris with a conserved type, Otozamites against Otopteris, and Pirea Vavrdová against Pirea T. Durand. The following two species names are recommended for conservation: Glyptolepis keuperiana with a conserved type and Palaeospathe daemonorops against Chamaerops teutonica. The Committee supports the addition of A. Richard's 1822 publication to the list of suppressed works. The Committee judged the descriptive statement associated with "Rhyniales Němejc" to not be adequate for valid publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: The following five generic names are recommended for conservation: Bulbostylis against Nemum, Lorinseria C. Presl against Lorinsera Opiz, Pirea Vavrdová against Pirea T. Durand, Selaginella against Didiclis, and Senega against Senegaria, Anthallogea, Corymbula, Leptrochia, Pylostachya, and Sexilia. The following two generic names are not recommended for conservation because the proposed action is considered to be unnecessary: Hoodia against "Monothylaceum" and Chiropetalum against Desfontaena. The subgeneric name Littorella subg. Xamotris is recommended for rejection. The following 16 species names are recommended for conservation: Allium rotundum with conserved type, Arctotis calendula against A. tristis, Cereus eriophorus with conserved type, Commelina erecta with conserved type, Costus globosus against C. roxburghii, Grewia asiatica with conserved type, Grewia tiliifolia against G. damine, Hedyotis pentandra Schumach. against H. pentandra (Retz.) Forsyth f., Lycopodium intermedium against L. atroviride, Polypodium parasiticum with conserved type, Scabiosa caucasica with conserved type and against S. caucasea, Senecio peregrinus with conserved type, Senecio saluenensis with conserved type, Thymus glabrescens with conserved type and against T. odoratissimus, Veronica capitata Royle ex Benth. against V. capitata Fisch. ex Colla, and Veronica minuta C.A. Mey. against V. minuta Krock. The following four species names are not recommended for conservation: Citrosma schottiana against C. umbellata, Neuracanthus sphaerostachyus against N. lawii (because action is considered to be unnecessary), Ophioglossum parvifolium with conserved type, and Salix wallichiana against S. disperma. The following 11 species names are recommended for rejection: Arctotis ludwigii, Carex wazmanni, Limonium oleifolium, Littorella flexuosa, Littorella spicata, Poa amabilis, Poa virginica, Salsola caroliniana, Selaginella flagellifera, Solanum frutescens, and Tradescantia decora. The species name Potamogeton nerviger is not recommended for rejection. It is recommended that Scilla L. and Squilla Steinh. not be treated as homonyms. The Committee recommends against making a binding decision on whether Kalanchoe rosea and K. rosei, or Oxalis kuhlmannii and O. kollmannii, should be treated as homonyms, considering them not confusable. The Committee also recommends that Desfontainia Ruiz & Pav. and Desfontaena Vell. and Lorinsera Opiz and Lorinseria C. Presl be treated as homonyms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context. Modern video conferencing systems work in different noise environments, so preservation of speech clarity and provision of quick adaptation to changes in this environment are relevant tasks. During the development of embedded systems, finding a balance between resource consumption, performance, and signal quality obtained after noise suppression is necessary. Systems on a chip allow us to use the power of both processor cores available on the hardware platform and FPGAs to perform complex calculations, which contributes to increasing the speed or reducing the load on the central SoC cores. Objective. To conduct a comparative analysis of the noise suppression quality in audio signals by an adaptive filtering algorithm and a filtering algorithm using machine learning based on the RNNoise neural network in noise suppression devices on the technological platform SoC. Method. Evaluation using objective metrics and spectrogram analysis using the Librosa library in Python. Neural network training and model design are performed on the basis of Python and Torch tools. The Vitis IDE package was used for the neural network implementation on the platform SoC. Results. The analysis of two noise suppression methods using the adaptive Wiener filter and the RNNoise neural network was performed. In the considered scenarios, it was determined that the neural network shows better noise suppression results according to the analysis of spectrograms and objective metrics. Conclusions. A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of noise suppression algorithms based on adaptive filters and a neural network was performed for scenarios with different noise environments. The results of objective SIGMOS metrics were obtained to evaluate the quality of the received audio signal. In addition, the possibility of running the RNNoise neural network on the technological platform SoC ZYNQ 7000 was verified [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, culture has been addressed as a key component of integrated approaches to local development planning. In this context, it has been systematically combined with institutional and social aspects of local planning strategies and in support of local innovation/creativity systems. However, the articulation of these integrated approaches inhibits a wide typology of context-specific actions in European cities adopting different patterns of promoting culture as an innovative dimension of spatial planning. At the same time, recent discussion in the field suggests the adoption of more holistic frameworks that equally address the role of culture with differentiated aspects such as physical renewal, social relations and governance networks, hence recognising the integrated character of culture-driven interventions and explaining hindering development factors. The present paper aims to elaborate on the importance of such a holistic framework by testing its aspects in the context of the Piraeus Avenue area in Athens (Greece) and the (short-term and fragmented) emanating of developmental policies in support of the creativity and innovation that exist in this locality. The research focuses on the impact of cultural interventions in the Piraeus Avenue area in terms of the building of territorial efficiency, territorial quality, territorial identity and territorial capacity. In parallel, the research addresses the role of demographic and socio-economic parameters in this regard. To address these research aim issues, desktop research together with ten (10) semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders were conducted. Results indicate several positive impacts in the area mostly regarding spatial quality. However, in relation to territorial capacity building, a key finding is the need for activation towards building complementary uses and activities with other types of local stakeholders with accentuated decision-making powers. The research findings can serve to inform policy-making by identifying best practices and key challenges in the formulation of a holistic impact assessment framework towards culture-based spatial development planning in the European space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concentration of copper (Cu) was determined in 110 samples of fruit (n = 31) and vegetable products (n = 79), collected during the period from January 2015 to December 2019. Fruit and vegetable products originate from 17 countries, including Serbia. Samples were analysed by inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). Measurable levels of Cu were found in all analysed samples. Overall, Cu levels ranged from 0.065 to 14.050 mg kg-1, with an average of 1.314 mg kg-1. Only 3 (2.73%) of fruit and vegetable products exceeded the maximum levels set by Serbian Regulation which was valid until the end of 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI; http://ifpni.org/) was established in 2014 as a global registry of scientific names of fossil organisms covered by the I International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants i ( I ICN i ; Turland & al. in Regnum Veg. 2017) illustrates the situation where a fossil-genus name now applied to a fossil charophycean alga was originally described as a fossil animal prior to the starting-point of palaeobotanical nomenclature (1820, the starting-point for fossil nomenclature in the I ICN i , Art. Numerous such names were treated as available under the I ICZN i without fully referenced basionyms or replaced synonyms, in contradiction to the requirement of I ICN i Art. If a taxon originally assigned to a group not covered by this I Code i is treated as belonging to the algae or fungi, any of its names need satisfy only the requirements of the relevant other I Code i that the author was using for status equivalent to valid publication under this I Code i (but see Art. [Extracted from the article]

By compiling data from literature and unpublished reports a more detailed description is presented on the geographical and stratigraphic distribution of the Alum Shale Formation (ASF) and correlateable units on the East European Platform. In the northern part of Gotland, downfaulted patchy beds of the ASF indicate a former wider extension of the formation. Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) examples of downfaulted patchy beds are the contemporaneous Sepopol and Nivenskaya formations in northeastern Poland and the Kaliningrad area, as well as the Salantai Formation in the east Baltic area. It is indicated that Furongian-Tremadocian beds, contemporaneous with the Kallavere, Türisalu, Tosna and Koporye formations, in the area of northern Estonia and the northwestern part of the Moscow Basin, extended to the Gotland and the South Bothnian Basin areas. South of Gotland, in the Swedish sector of the Baltic Basin, drill cores show evidence of tectonic movements through the presence of erosional surfaces indicating occasional subaerial exposure. In this region, variations in the areal extent and thickness of the ASF and coeval formations are suggested to be the result of epeirogenic and tectonic block movements. Tremadocian ASF is also indicated to be present south of Gotland. On Gotland, at least 5 m of the ASF is presumed to have been eroded. The Moscow Basin contains 19 m of dark shales (Koporye Formation) which is significantly thicker than in surrounding areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Summary: Dr Sandra Knapp has been appointed as President for the Nomenclature Section at the XX IBC to be held in Madrid in July 2024 and Dr John Wiersema's appointment as Vice‐rapporteur has been approved. Decisions of the General Committee are reported on proposals and requests in Report 71 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants (NCVP), Reports 21 and 22 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Algae (NCA), Report 14 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Fossils (NCFoss), as well as proposal (1960) from NCVP Report 63. The GC also considered various procedural matters: (1) voting by committee members on their own proposals; (2) definition of a "simple majority" and the potential use of a quorum; (3) two‐step voting on requests for binding decision; (4) date of authorization of binding decisions and suppression proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Commission has established legislation for toxic metals in certain foodstuffs in order to protect public health already in 1993. After several amendments, new maximum levels for cadmium and lead in certain foods were set as per 30 and 31 August 2021 for lead and cadmium, respectively. The new Serbian Regulation on "maximum levels of certain contaminants in food" is fully harmonised with this European legislation. The concentrations of cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), and arsenic (As) were determined in 832 samples of 39 species of fruits and processed fruits, collected during the period January 2015 to December 2017. Fruits and fruit products originated from 45 countries, including Serbia. Samples were analysed by inductively coupled plasma – optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). Concentrations of cadmium, lead, mercury, and arsenic in fruits and fruit products were compared to these maximum levels (MLs). Overall, measurable Cd, Pb, Hg, and As were found in 377 samples (45.3%). According to the former regulations, the maximum levels of Cd and Pb for analysed fruits and fruit products were exceeded in only 10 samples (1.20%; n = 832): Cd in 6 and Pb in 4 samples, but according to the latest regulations, the maximum levels of Cd and Pb for fruits were exceeded in 196 of the samples (23.9%; n = 820): Cd in 191 and Pb in 5 samples. The increase of ML exceedances shows that attention needs to be paid for compliance of food to the recent MLs for these metals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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New acritarch data from the Kistedalen Formation based on two sections with continuous exposure enable us to establish the most detailed Miaolingian acritarch biozonation in Baltica to date. Six interval zones previously established in Gondwana, the Eliasum llaniscum, Cristallinium cambriense, Adara alea, Timofeevia lancarae, Cristallinium dubium and Vulcanisphaera turbata zones, are identified, and their correlations within the Acado‐Baltic Province examined. The diagnoses of Retisphaeridium, Cristallinium, Retisphaeridium dichamerum, Retisphaeridium lechistanium, Cristallinium dubium and Cristallinium cambriense are emended and the new species Retisphaeridium rugulatum sp. nov. and Retisphaeridium minimum sp. nov. are described. The diagnosis of Retisphaeridium ovillense (Cramer & Díez) Vanguestaine is emended and the species assigned to Dictyotidium ovillense comb. nov. The main evolutionary changes of the placoid acritarchs during the Miaolingian are analysed. Comparison with previous acritarch data from the Kistedalen Formation suggests that different extraction methodologies may result in significant bias in the recovered fossil record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Decisions of the General Committee are reported on proposals and requests in Reports 62 and 72 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants (NCVP), Report 23 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Algae (NCA), and Report 15 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Fossils (NCFoss). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Batavian name Pero is best understood as a derivative of Germanic *perō 'pear'. Names that also feature the root per - are recorded from other parts of the Roman Empire in connection with Germanic speakers and seem to reflect the influence of pear growing in the Roman provinces. This influence was so great that the name of the p -rune also appears to have been derived from *perō 'pear'. The early Germanic names Pero, Uxperus and Gamuxperus seem to represent occupation names, and are consistent with archaeobotanical evidence for the development of pear cultivation in the Germanic-speaking provinces of the Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Acritarchs, microphytoplankton of algal protists, from the Shiala and Yong Limestone formations of the Gunji village along Kali river (upstream) of Kumaon Tethyan Himalaya, Pithoragarh district, Uttrakhand, India have been examined for the first time. It aims to test the basin-wide existence and testing the reliability of already locally established biozones from the Garhwal Tethys Himalaya, Chamoli district, Uttrakhand. The study reveals moderate to poorly preserved, matured assemblages and diversified forms of acritarchs from both formations. The assemblage includes sphaeromorphs, acanthomorphs, netromorphs, polygonomorphs, diacromorphs, herkomorphs, etc. Two palynoassemblages have been recognized each from the Shiala and Yong Limestone formations. Palynoassemblage (I) from the Shiala Formation is confirmed by one productive sample which reveals a mix of Late Ordovician and Silurian forms. The acritarchs assemblage assigned to 16 genera with at least 13 species. The acritarchs from the Yong Limestone Formation are more plentiful and diverse confirming the Palynoassemblage (II) that contains biostratigraphically significant forms of typical Silurian (Ludlow) age. This Palynoassemblage is assigned to 23 genera with 16 species. The paper also describes the possible reasons for floral difference from the same formation and basin sampled at two different localities of the Tethys Himalaya, possibly due to palaeoclimatic constraints. However, detailed work on this aspect is required. The palynoassemblages from both the formations describe morphologically non-distinct, ubiquitous, wide palaeogeographic spread and uncertain stratigraphic taxa too along with biostratigraphic significant forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the link between memory and history 'from below' as well as the (non-) use of histories of past migration in Greece. It analyses how the memory of the 1920s Asia Minor refugees was guarded by Greek state over the course of time. It explores how state agents (historiography, education system, commemorations, etc.) acted as guardians of collective memory 'from above', presenting a rosy past that ignored the experiences of these refugees in Greece. It also examines how this process of constructing historical memory 'from above' (re)produced national belonging through homogeneity, without taking notice of refugees' diversities or problems faced during their settlement in the social, cultural or economic space of Greece. The paper adopts a critical approach to the cultural and social spaces in which refugee memory was selectively constructed as the only past that has to be remembered, stored and recalled, and aims to rescue from oblivion memories that were condemned to silence in the contemporary national narrative. These silenced memories could help us to write a history 'from below' and find analogies with the experiences of contemporary refugee flows as well as to combat ever-present xenophobia, prejudice and racism in the present society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Pin Formation of the northern Indian Himalaya may contain a record of the late Katian (Late Ordovician) warming event (the Boda Event). Palynological samples collected from two members of this formation are investigated in order to evaluate the biostratigraphical potential of the different microfossil groups. Acritarchs and chitinozoans are the most abundant microfossils, but fragments of scolecodonts and melanosclerites are also present. Several of the acritarchs from the Pin Formation are long-ranging through the lower Palaeozoic, but other taxa can be compared to Upper Ordovician (Katian) assemblages described from other parts of the world. The chitinozoan assemblages, consisting of 13 species (including those in open nomenclature) belonging to seven genera, are mainly recorded from two layers. The chitinozoan assemblage collected from the sample at 87.3 m in the uppermost part of the Farka Muth Member, and that collected at 184.89 m from the Takche Member, indicate a late Katian age. This age interpretation is in accordance with conodont data from the Takche Member, a positive carbon isotopic peak from the top of a shale unit in the Takche Member, and the initial part of the rapid negative shift of the Paroveja isotopic excursion related to the Boda Event of late Katian age. Further detailed studies with a higher number of samples are needed, that describe better preserved and more diversified palynomorph assemblages, which would help to more precisely refine the Upper Ordovician biostratigraphy in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Social changes and political tensions had a great impact on Greek football clubs during the interwar period. Earlier, the establishment of the first sports clubs in Greece was associated with the rise of the middle classes, whose members carried liberal perceptions and a new code of conduct. Football was placed in the 'civilizing process', as the process of 'sportization' was only possible in societies where political differences were resolved by non-violent means and where groups of citizens obeyed common acceptable rules. In this sense, football was not just a physical activity, but a social process, as well. In the case of Greece, the arrival of refugee populations and the rapid urbanization resulted in the popularization of sports. Throughout Greece, hundreds of sports clubs were founded, which mainly cultivated the new 'craze' of football. New collectivities were forged in the neighborhoods of the cities, and a new football culture was cultivated, which was fed by interwar identities that often appeared as opposing couples and interacted with each other, namely: native-refugee, middle class-worker and so on. As a result, in the football fields, along with the new folk heroes, the new phenomena of fanaticism and violence were born. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new type of cross-linked copolymer granule was synthesized via emulsion polymerization and was characterized by FTIR spectroscopy. The O-carboxymethyl-chitosan was used as emulsifier for the copolymerization of methyl methacrylate and diacetone acrylamide. The resulting copolymer latex showed good compatibility with natural rubber. Morphology and surface roughness of modified natural rubber were measured by SEM and AFM. The tensile strength of natural rubber film reaches the maximum when the amount of additive was about 4%. Glass transition temperature and aging resistance were elevated. Protein spillage dropped in ca. 5 times, which could meet the minimum of the allergy protein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with Aeschines' dialogue Alcibiades, in which the Socratic concept of the care of the self (epimeleia heautou) is demonstrated. The authors present basic strategies that modern historians have employed when interpreting the dialogue and propose their own interpretation, based on a reconstruction of the testimony preserved by Aelius Aristides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The decolonization of the social imaginary has been proposed as an important dimension of the transition towards a degrowth society. However, although omnipresent in the degrowth literature, the terms "social imaginary" and "social imaginary significations" have not been adequately explained. This creates a level of mystification that limits the analytical value of the degrowth framework. In addition, there is very little theoretical work on how actual social imaginaries can be decolonized and transformed. This paper first tries to clarify those concepts. Subsequently, it develops a theoretical framework for explaining such transitions of the imaginary. In developing this framework, the paper focuses on moments of crisis, since crises have been historically associated with change and transition. It argues that crises are important because they destabilize social imaginaries and open up a stage of suspension—a liminal stage—in which the rise of new social practices can facilitate the emergence of new social imaginary significations and institutions that can contribute to the alteration of the social imaginary at large. The paper draws on case studies related to the Greek crisis, the biggest ever faced by a country of the Global North after the Second World War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Twenty-nine core and seven cuttings samples were collected from two boreholes penetrating the Middle Ordovician Hawaz Formation in the Murzuq Basin, south-west Libya. The samples were palynologically analysed in order to determine age and depositional environment. The palynological assemblages contain abundant sphaeromorphs, rare but diverse acritarchs, rare chitinozoans, and relatively abundant cryptospores. A total of 26 acritarch species, five chitinozoan species and 17 cryptospore species have been identified. The acritarch and chitinozoan assemblages provide biostratigraphical age dating and indicate that the Hawaz Formation is Mid Ordovician and most likely mid Darriwilian (Llanvirn) in age. The cryptospore assemblage is typical of those from the Mid Ordovician–earliest Silurian and does not permit further age refinement. Based on palynofacies analysis, the depositional environment of the Hawaz Formation is interpreted as shallowing upward from nearshore marine inner shelf to marginal marine. The cryptospores provide rare evidence for Middle Ordovician terrestrial vegetation at this very early stage in its development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Urgency of the research. In modern highly competitive, conditions, an important task for countries of the world is achieving leadership positions, which are themselves instruments of competition. Target setting. For Ukrainian education system, the actual tasks are not only achieving leadership positions by domestic universities on domestic and foreign markets educational services, but also creating universities that are able to do transformative impact on the internal and external environment. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. General issues of leadership were studied in works of F. Bailey, J. Blondel, N. Gazzard, R. Daft, R. Ireland, D. Kats, V. Kremen, F. Selznik, R. Stohdil, Ke De Vrie, H. Owen, V. Hodgeson and others. Issues of transformative leadership in universities were studied in the work of J. Downton, J. Burns, K. Roshe, J. Nel, M. Frost, A. Navid, B. Bass. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Transformative leadership of universities is not studied enough in economic science. The research objective. The subject of the study is providing transformative leadership processes of universities in the global economic environment. The aim of the article is to study the nature and forms of transformative leadership of Ukrainian universities in the global economy. The statement of basic materials. Universities are subjects of transformative impact in nature as they are focused on the creation and dissemination of new knowledge. Modern universities operate and interact in a global competition and the challenges of the knowledge economy, which updates the task of achieving the leadership position in the global market for knowledge services. Leadership is part of a management process and more and more shifts to the sphere of economic analysis at different levels. Leadership of universities is not only a goal but a tool of competition and competitive advantage. Leadership itself is a phenomenon that can have a powerful transforming, transformative impact of leaders on the external and internal environment of the university. Transformative leadership refers to a form of leadership under which the leader of the company changes the internal forces to achieve the goal. Transformative impact is experienced by both leading universities and all university environment for which new vectors and new goals are set, and achieving them is possible only on the basis of new approaches to management. Conclusions. The subject of further development should deeper study of directions and forms of transformative impact of modern universities in internal and external environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The periodical press of the Armenian communities of the Eastern Mediterranean represents an archive of social, literary, political, and economic expressions of these historical Armenian communities. Despite their large numbers, they remain relatively unknown in North America. This article fills in this gap by addressing what these periodicals were and how the fate of the majority of them was tied to the histories of the communities in which they arose, functioned, and ceased to exist over the 19th and 20th centuries. More importantly, the author provides a cohesive picture about possible access to the digital surrogates of these periodicals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Coming from the Jester in "Regele se amuză" by Victor Hugo, librettist Francesco Maria Piave and composer Giuseppe Verdi have built a particular character of lyric opera, in which the emotional charge, gracefully drawn with the hugolian instruments of powerful romance, is redefining its coordinates based on musical-lyric emotions, with the complex resources of libretto and music. Therefore, our approach is a comparative analysis of the two characters from the source text and libretto, in order to identify common elements and particular points of structural innovation, with a relatively distinct purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper mainly focuses on the principle component analysis (PCA) and its applications on vision based computing. The underlying mechanism of PCA given and several significant factors, involved with subspace training are discussed theoretically in detail including principle components energy, residuals assessment, and decomposition computation. The typical extensions, including probabilistic PCA (PPCA), kernel PCA (KPCA), multi-dimensional PCA and robust PCA (RPCA), have been presented with critical analysis on both mechanisms and computations. Combining with the studies on, such as, image compression, visual tracking, image recognition and super-resolution image reconstruction, PCA and its extensions applied to computer vision are critically reviewed and evaluated on the targeted issues in each application as well as the role they played at specific tasks to the characteristics, cost and suitable situations of each PCA based vision processing technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]