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WOS:000591249000001; Ultra-diluted bioactive compounds have emerged as an alternative to enhance marine organism performance and to improve broodstock gonad maturation. This study evaluated for the first time the effect of three homeopathically ultra-diluted bioactive compounds (HUBC's) authorized by the health authority as medicines for humans, on the general reproductive physiology of Argopecten ventricosus, a commercially important scallop species. The experiment included three HUBC's treatments at centesimal dilution assessed in triplicate under laboratory conditions, T1: PaV-30C + PhA-30C, T2: PaV-30C + SiT-30C, and T3: ViT-30C, and a non-treated field reference group (FRG) maintained in aquaculture facilities as reference. The bioenergetics of scallop reproduction and oocyte quality increased with the three HUBC treatments, but particularly in those treated with T2. The organisms treated with T3 showed not only the highest proliferation of vitellogenic and post-vitellogenic oocytes but also the greatest oxidative damage in tissues and oocytes. In contrast, the scallops from T1 and T2 showed less oxidative damage. The results suggest that ultra-diluted formula T2 is a potential alternative to optimize A. ventricosus gonad ripening, food-nutrient management and oocyte quality because although T3 allowed accelerating the gametogenesis process, it increased oxidative damage. This study could help to improve gonad broodstock condition and larval yield of this species in hatcheries.

Blue calico is a highly valued folk handicraft that forms part of China’s national intangible cultural heritage. Thus, blue calico is a worthy target for reconstruction using modern image processing technology. Extracting the visual components or elements of a blue calico pattern is one way to capture the underlying design and enable innovation in traditional patterns using modern techniques. This paper presents a method of element extraction and classification based on a smart convolutional neural network (CNN), with an improved CifarNet structure, which we call CalicoNet. Initially, the algorithm for element extraction is implemented to generate element samples of blue calico. This process includes gray scaling, binarization, and contour extraction. We construct a data set of elements with 12 types. Then, four critical hyper-parameters, the batch-size, dropout ratio, learning rate, and pooling strategy, are optimized by a comparative analysis. A combination classifier strategy is subsequently added to the fully connected layers to strengthen the feature expression in the corresponding classes. Finally, the superiority of the proposed CalicoNet is verified through a comparison with other sophisticated CNNs. Experimental results demonstrate that CalicoNet achieves a validation accuracy of 99.2% for the training set, a total time of 1.13 hours for the whole data set, and a test mean accuracy precision of 98.66%. The robust performance of the proposed method across the element data set indicates that CalicoNet is a promising approach for element extraction and classification.

This article considers the current position of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) research by producing an integrative synthetic overview of all the articles published in three leading international CALL journals: ReCALL (in its 31st year of publication), the CALICO Journal (its 36th) and Computer Assisted Language Learning journal (its 32nd) over a sustained recent period: 2006–2016. They are judged sufficiently representative to enable broad trends to be detected and the sector’s strengths and weaknesses to be identified. The focus is on CALL research’s international reach, the range of topics researched and the nature of the studies themselves. The findings suggest that CALL research is growing internationally in the number of countries and researchers involved. A wide range of topics is researched, but there is a concentration of papers published on a cluster of popular areas. Consequently, fewer articles are published on a large number of CALL topics or, in some cases, rarely studied. The research methods employed are rigorous: in writing, structure, theory, literature awareness, and discussion and presentation of results, yet there are still weaknesses. Most empirical studies are small scale: based on one institution, a small cohort of students, over a short period of time and seldom followed up. Based on these findings, suggestions are made with a view to broadening and strengthening CALL research through targeting neglected strategic areas with special journal issues and conferences, and improving the quality of research projects. Key areas for future research are proposed.

In this study, clothing items recorded in Nappyemulmok (納幣物目) and Ugwimulmok (于歸物目) in the early 20th century were examined. These clothing items were recorded on the lists of goods for wedding gifts from the 1910s to the 1930s. A large quantity of these lists were organized into eight categories by analyzing the fabrics of each item of clothing. Representative fabrics used for skirts and Jeogori (such as Myeongju, 明紬) were used widely. Jeoksam was mostly made with ramie fabric. Pants mostly used cotton such as Dangmok, Mumyung, and calico, with some use of silk. Gojaengi mostly used cotton such as Dangmok, Mumyung, and calico, with some use of ramie. Danui (單衣) used silk fabrics such Pparinseu, Myeongju, and Gyoju for decorative features that were revealed when rolled up. Naeui (內衣) is believed to be the closest underclothes to the body, and Mumyung was mostly used. Dangmok and calico were used for the Yodae (腰帶) and fabrics such as silk, Nobangju, and JuhangNa were used for outdoor use. This type of categorization is significant, as it can be used as academic evidence to verify and reproduce the clothing of the time by identifying fabrics, colors, and characteristics of certain items of clothing. Lastly, it is expected that the analysis of clothing will provide theoretical data in the same way that movies, dramas, and museum exhibitions feature modern traditional weddings.

We examined the reproductive life history of calico surfperch (Amphistichus koelzi), including mating season, pregnancy, gestation and multiple paternity utilizing restriction site-associated DNA sequencing. Furthermore, we compared the mating season of calico with barred (Amphistichus argenteus), walleye (Hyperprosopon argenteum) and silver (Hyperprosopon ellipticum) surfperches to determine if the timing of reproduction is divergent within and between the genera. In calico surfperch, the mating season occurs from October to November, and females gestate from December to May. All broods exhibit multiple paternity with a range of four to seven sires per brood. The mating season of calico overlaps completely with barred surfperch; however, barred surfperches have a protracted mating season which extends until the beginning of December, which may be due to differences in reproductive strategy such as size at first reproduction. In the genus, the Hyperprosopon mating season begins earlier than Amphistichus, with divergence in the onset of mating between Hyperprosopon congeners of approximately 1 month.

El cultivar de alcachofa más cultivado en España es “Blanca de Tudela” multiplicado a través de zuecas o estacas. También se reproduce mediante zueca el cv. Calicó, cultivar tardía de gran calibre destinada al mercado de exportación. En ambos casos se está observando un grave problema de descenso en los rendimientos del cultivo, debido principalmente a marras de plantación y al decaimiento del vigor de las plantas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue estudiar el comportamiento agronómico de cultivares de características similares a las anteriores propagadas por semilla. Se emplearon en el ensayo 10 cultivares de semilla comparándolos con Blanca de Tudela y Calicó multiplicados por zueca, durante la campaña 2016-17, en una parcela experimental en la que se había cultivado alcachofa durante 15 años, con desinfección mediante solarización anual. También estudiamos la influencia que ejerce sobre el ciclo productivo de estas cultivares de semilla la aplicación de ácido giberélico (AG3). De entre los cultivares estudiados, Sambo F1, del tipo “Calicó”, resultó más productivo y precoz que el “Calicó” multiplicado por estaca. Del tipo “Blanca de Tudela” los mejores resultados en cuanto a producción y calidad del capítulo los obtuvo el cv. Symphony F1, de media estación, el cual inicia las recolecciones más tarde y concentra el periodo de recolección en menos tiempo. Entre los del tipo “Imperial Star”, Nova G-6 fue el más productivo, más precoz y con menos trazas violetas en la base del capítulo. De los violetas, el cv. Opera, resultó algo tardío, de color muy atractivo y gran calidad. En general, se ha obtenido una mayor productividad de varios de los cultivares de semilla ensayados respecto a los testigos y una gran influencia sobre la precocidad en la aplicación de ácido giberélico sobre las cultivares más tempranas. Los resultados de estos trabajos confirman que se pueden compensar los problemas de cultivo, que aparecen en suelos donde se reitera la producción de alcachofa, con empleo de los nuevos cultivares y la desinfección de suelos.

Aunque la mecanización y las nuevas fuentes de energía asociadas a la Revolución Industrial evidenciaron, más que nunca, el “problema” del trabajo infantil fabril, también en la Barcelona preindustrial existió una honda preocupación respecto al rol laboral de los niños en cuanto principal agente moralizador de la infancia de los pobres. Básicamente, los discursos y las preocupaciones giraban en torno al lugar, es decir, dónde debían trabajar los menores, hecho derivado del temor que infundía entre las élites la imagen de una infancia “descarriada” inmersa en la promiscuidad social de las nuevas industrias emergentes, como las indianas, alejadas del control gremial.Para llevar a cabo este estudio he recurrido a un amplio abanico de testimonios que abordan la problemática del trabajo infantil en la Barcelona del siglo XVIII, desde los círculos ilustrados a la Iglesia, pasando por las nuevas organizaciones industriales de los sectores emergentes y las instituciones de la ciudad

Providing good network connectivity in the container environment presents a significant challenge, especially on networks within a Kubernetes cluster where containers can grow rapidly, spread amongst worker nodes, and may only live in a short time. Container Network Interface (CNI) helps manage network connectivity so that communication between containers can run well. However, many CNI plugins have compelling features, where selecting the suitable one is no easy task. This study presents an evaluation of several CNI plugins, namely Flannel, Calico, Cilium, Antrea, and Kube-router. We performed benchmarking tests using several scenarios to find the CNI plugins with higher throughput and less consumed resource-usage index (CPU and memory) in the Kubernetes. In an experimental environment where inter-hosts data exchanges are performed, Kube-Router achieved the highest throughput to more than 90% of nominal link bandwidth on TCP data transfer, followed by Flannel and Calico.

5G applications with ultra-high reliability and low latency requirements necessitate the adoption of edge computing solutions in mobile networks. Container orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes (K8s) have further emerged as the preferred standard to dynamically deploy edge applications on demand of end-users and third-party companies. Unfortunately, complex networking and security concerns have been highlighted as challenges that impede the successful adoption of container technology by the industry. The security challenge is exacerbated by (mis-)conceptions that secure inter-container communication comes at the cost of performance, yet both requirements are vital for 5G edge-computing use cases. Pursuing low-overhead security solutions, this paper investigates network policies, the K8s concept for controlling network isolation between tenants. We evaluate performance overheads of eBPF -based solutions by Calico and Cilium, and analyze the security of network policies, highlighting security threats to network policies and outline corresponding state-of-the-art solutions. Our assessment shows that network policies are a suitable low-overhead security solution for low-latency inter-container communication. ispartof: pages:407-412 ispartof: 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit) pages:407-412 ispartof: European Conference on Networks and Communications location:Porto, Portugal date:8 Jun - 11 Jun 2021 status: published

The spatiotemporal link between large-scale continental crustal extension and magmatic activity has been identified by numerous past studies, yet commonly the details of these associations remain unresolved. This study in the central Mojave metamorphic core complex (CMMCC) of southern California (USA) presents new geologic mapping, stratigraphic interpretations, and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Jackhammer and Pickhandle Formations in the northern Calico Mountains to provide additional age constraints on the relative timing of early Miocene volcanism, deposition, and extension. The Jackham­mer Formation, the oldest Tertiary stratigraphic unit, is nonconformable with pre-Cenozoic nonmylonitic metasedimentary and plutonic basement rocks and consists primarily of alluvial deposits and primary to reworked silicic tuffs, interbedded locally with basement-derived avalanche megabreccia, lacustrine limestone, and mafic lava; in addition, the “Mammut ignimbrite”, an ~130-m-thick crystal-rich welded lapilli tuff, is exposed only in the eastern part of the study area and appears to transition laterally into thinner, nonwelded lapilli tuff ~6 km to the west. The Pickhandle Formation conformably overlies the Jackhammer Formation and consists of: (1) a lower assemblage composed of reddish monomictic debris-flow breccias with porphyritic rhyodacitic clasts and silicic block-and-ash-flow deposits of sim­ilar composition; and (2) an upper assemblage of polymictic (metaplutonic basement and rhyodacite) alluvial deposits, primary to reworked lapilli tuff, and local rhyodacitic lava and block-and-ash flows. Rhyodacitic lava domes were emplaced during the final stages of Pickhandle Formation deposition, primarily intruded along preexisting normal fault zones. Sedimentary and volcanic lithofacies suggest that the Jackhammer and Pickhandle Formations were deposited in a volcanic vent–proximal alluvial fan system that formed within a half-graben basin bounded on the east by the southwest-dipping “Amphitheatre fault”. Growth strata within the hanging-wall deposits, primarily southwest-directed paleocurrents, and interbedded alluvial debris-flow, basement-derived megabreccia, and lacustrine deposits adjacent to this fault suggest synextensional deposition in an intra-hanging-wall basin that developed during upper-plate extension in the CMMCC. New 40Ar/39Ar ages for six samples of silicic pyroclastic flows and a lava dome from the synextensional Pickhandle and Jackhammer Formations in the Calico Mountains have a mean age of 20.10 ± 0.06 Ma. This age is 3–4 m.y. younger than the maximum age of initial extension determined by previous studies in other areas of the central Mojave, suggesting that CMMCC extension was not a synchronous large-magnitude regional event. Rather, extension and contemporaneous volcanism was more localized and asynchronous across the region, occurring in many smaller extensional basins that eventually culminated in exposure of the CMMCC mylonitic footwall rocks.

The article is dedicated to a bad-studied problem in domestic science related to the industrial production of clothing and the use of Ukrainian embroidery. A significant contribution to the development of traditional Ukrainian clothing and decoration was made by fashion designers of the Kyiv House of Fashion Models (KНFM), which began its activity in 1944. Thanks to specialist artists, in difficult conditions, modern models of that time were developed based on Ukrainian traditional clothing. The outfits were created in the light industry and “Ukrkhudozhprom”. It is noted that Ukrainian embroidery was an integral part of Ukrainian clothing, and, over time, industry. In Kyiv, in June 1970, the All-Union Institute of Assortment of Products of the Ministry of Light Industry of the Ukrainian SSR held an artistic and technical council to inspect youth fashion. The members of the Artistic and Technical Council reviewed the models proposed by 34 sewing enterprises and 6 Model Houses of Ukraine. The holding of this event made it possible to introduce the fashion trends of the decade in life. The artists of the Kyiv House of Fashion Models actively introduced and used traditional national clothing elements, combining elements of modern fashion of the time. Analyzing the state of embroidery and the use of traditional Ukrainian cut in modern clothes of the 70s of the twentieth century in KНFM, we can note that in youth clothes, fashion designers used traditional cut, embroidery, decor, similar to the national costumes of all regions of Ukraine. Models of elongated women's dresses made of woolen fabrics changed, in girls' coarse calico sets a shirt cut with a stand-up collar and short sleeves prevailed. The directions of the cut were maintained in the length of the blouses to the waist, with the use of folk motifs of Ukrainian embroidery. Straight and extended skirts to the bottom emphasized the waist and were gathered on an elastic band, belt or bodice. The coat was created on the basis of the cut of the Ukrainian scrolls in a straight silhouette with set-in sleeves, the hood passed into a collar with tassels and was also decorated based on elements of Ukrainian folk embroidery, which was carried out with a chain stitch in black, red, yellow and green colors. Industrial production demonstrated a high level of fashion design. Fashion shows, which were held by Model Houses twice a year, served as a source of inspiration for specialists of Ukrainian light industry enterprises and Ukrkhudozhprom. The implementation of thematic and compositionally completed creative projects by the enterprises guided and coordinated the activities of the garment, textile, knitwear industry. The organization of labor at all stages of production emphasizes the relevance of defining the problem, due to the need to preserve Ukrainian authenticity, research and popularize the features of creating modern products in the direction of artistic crafts, such as artistic embroidery, which is the oldest type of folk art.

Within modern paganism Asatru is the smallest tradition. Jefferson Calico, who refers to it interchangeably as Asatru, Heathenism or Heathenry, estimates the number of its adherents in the United S...

Biological invasions are a growing threat to global biodiversity due to negative impacts on native biota and ecosystem functioning. Research has expanded from investigating native and alien species interactions to examining relationships among alien species. Invasive crayfish may have similar life histories, niche preferences, and adaptation strategies, but their mutual interactions are little understood. This study aimed to quantify interaction patterns of size-matched calico crayfish Faxonius immunis, established in the Rhine River catchment, and the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis, currently spreading throughout Europe. During agonistic interactions in the absence of shelter, marbled crayfish won a significant majority of fights against calico crayfish, but in the presence of shelter there was no significant difference. When sex of calico crayfish was considered in the analysis without shelter, marbled crayfish won a significantly higher number of fights with female calico crayfish. In the absence of shelter, marbled crayfish dominated calico crayfish females in 83.3% and males in 60% of pairs. With available shelter, the dominance of marbled crayfish was 100% and 54.5% over female and male calico crayfish, respectively. The results suggested that sex and resource availability influence agonistic behaviour in the studied crayfish. Marbled crayfish are confirmed to be competitive against the calico crayfish, which has been shown to be dominant over another serious invader in the Rhine River catchment, the spiny-cheek crayfish Faxonius limosus. In natural sympatric populations, the situation may be affected by factors such as size, reproductive variables, water temperature, and predation pressure.

The coat color of cats is normally governed by genes found on the X chromosome in both male chromosome XY and female chromosome XX. The meiosis failure in the process of gametogenesis leads to the birth of three-colored male cats caused by an excess of the X chromosome in the male chromosome type XY. The chromosome structure of three-color male cats, called male calico cats, appeared similar to the XXY Klinefelter’s syndrome in human. Mathematical modeling and investigation of the factors that influence the infrequency of male calico cats are our main objectives of this paper. In addition, we also discuss the possible contributions and strategies to overcome the scarcity of these cats. We construct a mathematical model based on a combination of genes in the chromosome that regulates the color of cat coat on the fertilization process. The mathematical model is given as a six-dimensional system of differential equations. Sensitivity analysis is used to investigate the important parameters in the existence of male calico cats. Our finding states that the probability of normal male cats meiosis is a crucial parameter in the maintenance of the existence of male calico cats. Furthermore, one of the strategies that we could recommend in maintaining the existence of male calico cats is minimizing the value of the successful meiosis probability of normal male cats.

This paper discusses the effects of thickness, mass per unit area, sett, yarn linear density and twist of calico fabrics (100% cotton, plain woven) on the morphology of passive bloodstains. Horse blood was dropped vertically onto three calico fabrics with different mass per unit areas (85.1 g/m², 163.5 g/m² and 224.6 g/m²). Six different impact velocities were used (1.7 ms−1, 2.9 ms−1, 4.1 ms−1, 4.9 ms−1, 5.1 ms−1 and 5.4 ms−1). The dry bloodstains were largest on the calico with the lightest mass per unit area. The low yarn linear density and large inter-yarn spaces meant that the blood could wick into the yarns from all directions and along the intra-yarn spaces. The calico with the middle mass per unit area had the smallest mean dry bloodstain area for four out of the six velocities. The twist level for this calico was greater than for the calicos with a heavier or lighter mass per unit area. This reduced the amount of wicking which occurred along the yarns due to the tighter yarn structure. The calico with the heaviest mass per unit area had the highest yarn linear density resulting in a thicker fabric, so the blood could not as easily penetrate into the fabric. This resulted in a thicker wet blood layer remaining on the fabric surface, where it gradually wicked vertically into the yarns under gravity. Less wicking along the yarns occurred, resulting in a smaller bloodstain than on the fabric with the lightest mass per unit area. The correlation between impact velocity and mean dry bloodstain area was greater for the calicos with the medium and heaviest mass per unit area than for the calico with the lightest mass per unit area. For the calicos with the medium and heaviest mass per unit area, the distance the blood spread laterally at impact, which increased with the increase in impact velocity, had a greater influence on the dry bloodstain area than the amount of wicking.

Jefferson F. Calico, Being Viking: Heathenry in Contemporary America (Sheffield: Equinox: 2018), 509 pp., $42.55 (paperback)

John Mercer (1791–1866) was a pioneering textile and colour chemist with a legacy of achievements. His invention of mercerising that bears his name, treating cellulosics with sodium hydroxide to bring about advantageous changes in fibre and fabric properties, will stand for all time as one of the most important textile chemical treatments ever developed. However, Mercer's contributions to the textiles and coloration industries went far beyond mercerisation. A self‐taught chemical experimentalist par excellence, his keen observations and interest in calico printing led to many novel developments, such as his work on Chrome Yellow and other ‘mineral colours’. Mercer developed new methods for fixing Prussian Blue on calico and wool, developed new mordants for dyeing, improved the extraction of carminic acid from cochineal, and improved the oiling process in Turkey Red dyeing. He saved lives with his research into early antimicrobials, preventing the spread of cholera in textile villages in Lancashire. Mercer was an unsung hero of early photography, and developed light‐sensitive imaging materials and made some of the earliest recorded monochromatic colour photographs. His forward‐looking views on technical education, that workers in the industry should be fully instructed in the nature of the various substances used in their arts, later came to fruition in the establishment of the textile departments in Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. To this day, Mercer remains the only textile chemist who has ever been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1852. He is thus quite rightly considered as the Father of Textile Chemistry.

The fundamentals of X-ray physics are well understood, and many workers have commented on the poor performance and poor reproducibility of atomically-light elements by portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF). However, the physics responsible for this is rarely discussed in the pXRF literature. Furthermore, it is well known that analysing samples through calico (cotton fabric) or paper bags results in lower concentrations reported by the pXRF instrument but, again, the physics of this is seldom discussed. This paper addresses these shortcomings by presenting X-ray transmission modelling and empirical data to show that the effects reported by many workers are entirely consistent with the physics of X-rays passing through matter, and thus that they are entirely predictable.