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London Archaeologist, 16 (4), 87-93

Machine learning (ML) is an important component for enabling automation in Radio Access Networks (RANs). The work on applying ML for RAN has been under development for many years and is now also drawing attention in 3GPP and Open-RAN standardization fora. A key component of multiple features, also highlighted in the recent 3GPP specification work, is the use of mobility, traffic and radio channel prediction. These types of predictions form the intelligence enablers to leverage the potentials for ML for RAN, both for current and future wireless networks. This paper provides an overview with evaluation results of current applications that utilize such intelligence enablers, we then discuss how those enablers likely will be a cornerstone for emerging 6G use cases such as wireless energy transmission., 6 pages, submitted to IEEE conference

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Leucobaeta smithi sp. n. (Figs. 4���6, 18, 24) Holotype. ♂, ��� Mozambique, 630m, Manica Province, Chimanimani National Reserve, Moribane Forest, Ndzou Camp, (Moist Forest), 19��44���01.4���S, 33��20���15.1���E, 3���5.VIII.2018, Actinic Light Trap, Laszlo, G., Miles, W., Vetina, A. leg., ANHRT:2018.30���, unique number: ANHRTUK 00047856, gen. slide No.: LGNA 961 (ANHRT). Paratypes (11 ♂, 5 ♀ in total). Mozambique . 1 ♂, Maputo Special Reserve, West Gate (Sand Forest), 22m, 26��30���14.2���S, 32��42���59.6���E, 13���15.ii.2018, Actinic Light Trap, L��szl��, G., Mulvaney, J., Smith, L. leg., ANHRT:2018.2, unique number: ANHRTUK 00027539, gen. slide No.: LGNA 962 (ANHRT). Ethiopia. 1 ♂, Abyssinia, Harar, 18.vii.1939, R. E. Ellison, R.E. Ellison coll., B.M. 1960-550, QR code label with unique number: NHMUK 014046237, gen. slide No.: NHMUK 010316556 (NHMUK). Tanzania. 1 ♂, Empakani Crater, Ngorongoro Highlands, 2278m, 02��54���55���S, 35��51���23���E, 26���28.vii.2012, Light Trap, leg. Smith, R. & Takano, H., ANHRT:2017.6, unique number: ANHRTUK 00073440, gen. slide No.: LGNA 963 (ANHRT); 1 ♀, Malaria Institute Amani, P. 604, 2/1963, G. Pringle Coll., B.M. 1966-281, QR code label with unique number: NHMUK 014046236, gen. slide No.: NHMUK 010316555; 1 ♀, same site, 3/1964, QR code label with unique number: NHMUK 010917505 (NHMUK). Kenya. 1 ♂, Central Province, Thika District, 8 km SW Thika, Karamaini Estate, 1550m, 01��02���7.46���S, 36��59���4.72���E, 25.ix.2012, leg. A.J. Kingston (coll. A.J. Kingston, Albrighton, UK). Zimbabwe. 1 ♂, Khami, nr. Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia, III.1956, Nat. Mus. S. Rhodesia, Brit. Mus. 1962-143, QR code label with unique number: NHMUK 014046235, gen. slide No.: NHMUK 010316554 (NHMUK); 1 ♂, Manicaland, Chipinge Highlands, Chirinda Forest, 1170m, 20��24���6.04���S, 32��41���9.62���E, 19���20.xi.2017, leg. A. Kingston, K. Larsen & A. Cipolla (coll. A.J. Kingston, Albrighton, UK). South Africa. 1 ♂, Natal, Weenen, IX���X.1925, H.P. Thomasset, Pres. By Imp. Bur. Ent. Brit. Mus. 1927-387., QR code label with unique number: BMNH(E) 1403484, gen. slide No.: Arctiidae 553; 1 ♂, Durban, Natal, Bred 8.viii.1919, E.E. Platt, 1919-89, QR code label with unique number: BMNH(E) 1403484, gen. slide No.: Arctiidae 554 (NHMUK); 2 ♂, KwaZulu Natal, Karkloof, Rockwood Forest Lodge, 26���29.ii.2020, 1290m, leg. A.J. Kingston, K. Larsen & A. Cipolla (coll. A.J. Kingston, Albrighton, UK); 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Mpumalanga, Barberton Nature Reserve, Berghuisi, 2.5 km S Barberton, 900���1200m, 25��48���S, 31��02���E, 7���9.xi.2015, leg. Fiebig, Schellhorn & Stadie (coll. R. Fiebig, Rossleben, Germany); 1 ♀, same site, date and collectors, 1100m (coll. D. Stadie, Lutherstadt-Eisleben, Germany). Diagnosis. Leucobaeta smithi sp. n. is externally reminiscent of its sibling L. semialba, but easily distinguished by its considerably larger size (forewing length of the new species is 8.5���10.0 mm, that of L. semialba is 5.5���8.0 mm), the more elongate forewing and the larger subapical patch surrounded by a more extensive whitish area. Despite the fairly similar external habitus, the male genitalia of the two species show substantial differences expressed by the distally much narrower uncus, the considerably shorter and broader tegumen, and the narrower valva of the new species. The most salient difference in the male genitalia of the two species is expressed by the configuration of the costal process which is an excessively enlarged, arrowhead-shaped lobe with its apex pointing caudad in L. smithi, while the costal process is much smaller, finger-like, apically rounded, directing ventrad in L. semialba. Further remarkable differences between the two species are the poorly developed, membranous transtillae, the much smaller fultura inferior (juxta) and the markedly shorter vinculum of L. smithi compared to those of its West African congener. The phallus of the two species are also very different: it is gently S-shaped without a carina process in the new species, while it is straight with a long, robust, claw-like carina process in L. semialba; in addition, the vesica of L. smithi bears a large, spike-like cornutus associated with an elongate sclerotized area, whereas that of L. semialba lacks cornuti and other sclerotization. Compared to those of L. semialba, the female genitalia of the new species are markedly larger, with a somewhat shorter and thicker apophyses posteriores, a considerably longer, thicker, apically club-shaped apophyses anteriores (those of L. semialba are pointed apically) and a shorter 8 th tergite with parallel proximal and distal margins (it is medially constricted in the allied species). In addition, the new species has a shorter, less sclerotized antrum, an approximately 20% longer ductus bursae with larger lateral protrusion, and an unmodified cervix bursae, compared to those of L. semialba. The corpus bursae of L. smithi is markedly larger than that of its West African congener with 20% longer tubular distal section and somewhat smaller signum bursae, lacking an appendix bursae. Description. Adult. (Figs. 4���6). Forewing length 8.5���10.0 mm. Antenna fasciculate in males, filiform in females. Head relatively large, labial palp length 1.2 times the diameter of eye, moderately thick, porrect, dark brown; frons pale brown posteriorly, off-white anteriorly, vertex whitish-grey; compound eyes relatively large, globular. Thorax, collar, tegulae and abdomen bright white. Intraspecific variability and sexual dimorphism negligible, expressed only by the slightly darker hindwing of females. Forewing moderately elongate, rather quadrangular, apically rounded. Basal and antemedial area bright white with two, pale grey costal dashes, the proximal one larger than the distal one. Medial area dark brownish grey, inner margin straight, oblique, sharply separated from white basal area. Postmedial and tornal areas brownish grey, fading to pale grey distally, dorsal half of postmedial and terminal area creamy-white, apically with an extensive, dark ovoidal blotch consisting of a diffuse ochreous patch encompassing a small black amorphous area anteriorly, and a dark brown round macule adjoining apex posteriorly. Transverse lines deleted except for the diffuse, very narrow, evenly arcuate, whitish postmedial line, and the very narrow, interrupted pale grey terminal line. Cilia long, darkening from pale grey to dark brownish-grey towards tornus. Hindwing of male off-white in basal three-quarters, pale greyish near termen, that of female dark grey in distal three-quarters with off-white basal area; cilia off white. Underside of forewing dark grey in the dorsal two-thirds, pale greyish-white in the ventral third; hindwing underside pale grey, somewhat darker near termen; pattern undetectable. Male genitalia. (Fig. 18). Uncus medium long, broad at base, tapered in basal third, slightly dilated medially, then abruptly tapered, distal third very narrow, apically pointed, spike-like. Tegumen short with relatively wide arms fused at middle of tegumen. Valva relatively short, narrow, apically evenly rounded, membranous. Valva costa straight, subbasally with a large, heavily sclerotized arrowhead-shaped lobe pointing caudad, conjunct with sacculus bearing a short, rounded subventral process pointing distally; distal two-thirds of costa weakly sclerotized. Sacculus half as long as valva, rather broad, heavily sclerotized, fused with costal process by a narrow, sclerotized ventral band. Transtillae poorly developed, represented by membranous ribbon without medial plate. Fultura inferior (juxta) very small, sclerotized, broad V-shaped. Vinculum conspicuously short, rounded triangular. Phallus tubular, short and thin, gently S-shaped, medially moderately dilated, coecum penis short and rounded, heavily sclerotized, apex straight, without carina process; vesica with a robust, spike-like cornutus and an elongate, moderately sclerotized area. Female genitalia. (Fig. 24). Ovipositor short, conical, papillae anales trapezoidal, apically with a short protracted process, covered in long, dense setae, apophyses posteriores short, basally broad, apically pointed, apophyses anteriores ca. twice as long as posterior ones, narrow, slightly curved, apically club-shaped. Eighth tergite heavily sclerotized, short, distal and proximal margins straight, parallel. Ostium bursae narrow, slit-like, antrum very short, poorly sclerotized, somewhat tapered anteriorly. Ductus bursae membranous, moderately long, five times as long as antrum, medially dilated forming a lateral broad, rounded triangular protrusion on right side. Cervix bursae unmodified, membranous. Distal third of corpus bursae tubular, as long as ductus bursae, slightly dilated proximally, proximal two-thirds globular, without appendix bursae. Signum bursae represented by a relatively small, round finely scobinated area. Genetic divergence. Pairwise distance between L. smithi and its Madagascan sibling L. malagassa sp. n. is 3.5��� 4.1%, with 1.7% intraspecific divergence between the southern and central Mozambican populations. In comparison to the West African L. semialba, the pairwise distance is 7.6���7.7%, the significant genetic divergence concurs with the high level of morphological differences. Distribution (Fig. 26). The new species is widely distributed in Eastern and Southern Africa with records from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Etymology. The new species is dedicated to Mr Richard Smith, founder and director of the African Natural History Research Trust acknowledging his prominent support of entomological research in Sub-Saharan Africa., Published as part of L��szl��, Gyula M., 2022, On the taxonomy of Negeta semialba Hampson, 1918 with descriptions of two new Leucobaeta L��szl��, Ronkay & Witt, 2010 species (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae), pp. 56-68 in Zootaxa 5091 (1) on pages 63-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5840401

Leucobaeta malagassa sp. n. (Figs. 7���9, 19, 25) Holotype. ♂, ��� Madagascar N, Montagne d���Ambre NP, 3 km SO of Joffreville, S 12��30���50/ E 49��11���02,05./ 06.11.2018 LF, 970 m, leg. R. Fiebig & D. Stadie ���, gen. slide No.: RF 699.2021 (coll. R. Fiebig, to be deposited later in ZSM). Paratypes (6 ♂, 15 ♀ in total). Madagascar . 2 ♂, 4 ♀, Montagne d���Ambre, 4 km NW of Joffreville, 12��27���50���S, 49��13���29���E, 480m, 4.xi.2018, Light Trap, leg. R. Fiebig & D. Stadie; 2 ♂, 3 ♀, Ankarana NP, Ankarana Lodge, 12��57���40���S, 49��08���58���E, 500m, 9���11.xi.2018, Light Trap, leg. R. Fiebig & D. Stadie, gen. slide Nos.: RF 697.2021 (♀), RF 698.2021 (♀); 1 ♂, 4 ♀, Ranomafana NP, Setam, Lodge, 21��14���58.5������S, 47��25���36.9������E, 913m, 9���13.iv.2018, Light Trap, leg. D. Stadie & R. Fiebig (coll. R. Fiebig); 2 ♀, 3km N Vorondolo / Ranamofana, 21��13.319������S, 47��22.069������E, 10.iv.2018, LT, 1218m, leg. D. Stadie & R. Fiebig; 1 ♂, Montagne d`Ambre, NW of Joffreville, 12��27���50������S, 49��13���29������E, 04.xi.2018, LT, 480m, leg. D. Stadie & R. Fiebig (coll. D. Stadie); 1 ♀, Fianarantsoa pr., 20 km NE Ranohira, 26���29.i.2014, Sakamaningy vill. Env., 828m, 22��30.457���S, 45��29.761���E, M. Tryzna leg., ANHRT:2018.4, unique number: ANHRTUK 00073441, gen. slide No.: LGNA 964; 1 ♀, Mahafaly Plateau, Antanambao, near Bezaha village, 14.i.2013, M. Tryzna leg., ANHRT:2018.4, unique number: ANHRTUK 00214293 (ANHRT). Diagnosis. The external appearance of Leucobaeta malagassa sp. n. is nearly identical to that of L. smithi, but distinguishable by its noticeably narrower, oblique, dark medial fascia which is paler, more diffuse, less contrasting in the females and somewhat darker in the males, the hindwing of which is also considerably darker than in L. smithi. In the male genitalia, compared to L. smithi, the new species has an approximately 30% smaller genital capsule, a considerably shorter uncus with a much broader basal part, a broader, dorso-apically more angular valva, and a markedly shorter, distally curved, more or less trapezoidal costal lobe (it is straight distally, arrowhead-shaped in L. smithi), with slightly longer rounded subventral process arising closer to the ventral margin than in its congener. The phallus of the new species is approximately 20% shorter and narrower than that of L. smithi, bearing slightly shorter cornutus of the vesica. The configuration of the female genitalia of the two species are nearly identical, the only noticeable differences are the less swollen distal section of the ductus bursae with a considerably shorter lateral protrusion, the approximately 50% shorter and narrower tubular distal part of the corpus bursae and the slightly smaller signum bursae of L. malagassa compared to those of its continental congener. Description. Adult. (Figs. 7���9). Forewing length 7.5���10.0 mm. Antenna fasciculate in males, filiform in females. Head relatively large, labial palp length 1.2 times the diameter of eye, moderately thick, porrect, dark brown; frons pale brown posteriorly, off-white anteriorly, vertex whitish grey; compound eyes relatively large, globular. Thorax, collar, tegulae and abdomen bright white. Intraspecific variability and sexual dimorphism negligible, expressed only by the somewhat larger size and slightly paler, more diffuse forewing medial fascia of females. Forewing elongate, rather quadrangular, apically rounded. Basal and antemedial area bright white with two, pale grey costal dashes, proximal one of which larger than distal one. Medial area dark brownish-grey, inner margin straight, oblique, sharply separated from white basal area. Postmedial and tornal areas dark brownish-grey, fading to paler grey distally, dorsal half of postmedial and terminal area creamy-white, subapically with a large, dark ovoidal blotch consisting of a dark diffuse-ochreous anterior patch followed by a narrow black area fading to grey distally, and a dark brown round posterior macule adjoining apex. Transverse lines deleted except for the narrow, diffuse, interrupted pale grey terminal line. Cilia long, grey, slightly darkened towards tornus. Hindwing of male pale grey, somewhat lighter in basal quarter, that of female dark grey with a small off-white basal area; cilia off-white. Underside of forewing dark grey in the dorsal twothirds, pale greyish-white in the ventral third; hindwing underside grey, somewhat darker near the termen; pattern undetectable. Male genitalia. (Fig. 19). Uncus relatively short, very broad at base, abruptly tapered in basal third forming a trapezoidal base, gradually tapered in medial third, distal third very narrow, spine-like, apically pointed. Tegumen short with wide arms fused in distal three-quarter. Valva short, narrow, dorso-apically right-angled, ventrally evenly rounded, membranous. Valva costa straight, basally with a large, heavily sclerotized more or less trapezoidal lobe with short, curved pointed apex projecting caudad, costal lobe conjunct with sacculus by narrow sclerotized band, bearing a short, rounded subventral process pointing caudad; distal two-thirds of costa weakly sclerotized, sparsely setose. Sacculus approximately half as long as valva, rather broad, heavily sclerotized, fused with costal process by a narrow ventral band. Transtillae reduced to a membranous ribbon without medial plate. Fultura inferior very small, sclerotized, somewhat U-shaped. Vinculum conspicuously short, medially with a short, rounded anterior projection. Phallus tubular, short and thin, straight, medially slightly dilated, coecum penis short and rounded, heavily sclerotized, apex straight, without carina process; vesica with robust, spike-like cornutus and an elongate moderately sclerotized area. Female genitalia. (Fig. 25). Ovipositor short, conical, papillae anales trapezoidal, apically with a short protracted process, covered in long, dense setae. Apophyses posteriores short, basally broad, apically pointed, apophyses anteriores ca. 20% longer than posterior ones, narrow, gently curved, apically slightly dilated. Eighth tergite heavily sclerotized, short, with straight, parallel distal and proximal margins. Ostium bursae narrow, slitlike, antrum very short, poorly sclerotized, somewhat tapered anteriorly. Ductus bursae short, five times as long as antrum, membranous, medial section slightly dilated with a short lateral, moderately sclerotized protrusion on right side. Cervix bursae unmodified, membranous. Distal quarter of corpus bursae tubular, narrow, gradually dilated proximally, proximal three-quarters ovoidal, without appendix bursae. Signum bursae represented by small, ovoidal scobination. Genetic divergence. Pairwise distances between L. malagassa and L. smithi is 3.5���4.1% and between L. malagassa and L. semialba, is 7.1%. As only a single specimen sequenced successfully, the intraspecific divergence of L. malagassa could not be calculated. Distribution (Fig. 26). Leucobaeta malagassa is a species endemic to Madagascar with sporadic records from the island. Etymology. The specific name is dedicated to the Malagasy people of Madagascar, referring to the distribution of the new species., Published as part of L��szl��, Gyula M., 2022, On the taxonomy of Negeta semialba Hampson, 1918 with descriptions of two new Leucobaeta L��szl��, Ronkay & Witt, 2010 species (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae), pp. 56-68 in Zootaxa 5091 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5840401

Leucobaeta semialba (Hampson, 1918) comb. n. (Figs. 1���3, 17, 23) Negeta semialba Hampson, 1918, Novitates Zoologicae 25(1): 204. Type locality: [Ghana] Gold Coast, Bibianaha. Holotype, ♀ (NHMUK). Type material examined. Holotype, ♀, red ring label ���Type H.T.��� / ��� Gold Coast. Bibianaha. 700 ft. XII.1911. H.G.F. Spurrell. 1912-275��� / with handwritten: ��� Negeta semialba type ♀. Hmpsn.���, QR code label with unique number: NHMUK 010917504 (NHMUK). (Fig. 1) Additional material examined. Liberia. 1 ♂, Nimba Mts., ENNR, Nimba county (Cellcom road), 1000��� 1100m, 7��32���45.88���N, 8��31���21.04���W, 16���28.xii.2018, Cold Cathode UV Light Trap (8W), S��fi��n, Sz., Simonics, G. leg., ANHRT:2018.43, unique number: ANHRTUK 00073977, gen. slide No.: LGNA 955; 1 ♂, same site, 2���14.xii.2017, Aristophanous, M., S��fi��n, Sz., Simonics, G., Smith, L. leg., ANHRT:2017.33, unique number: ANHRTUK 00142092; 3 ♂, 2♀, Mount Nimba, Cellcom Road, ENNR, Nimba County, 750���1100m, 7��32���35.89���N, 8��31���20.63���W, 14���28.xii.2017, Cold Cathode Light Bucket Trap, S��fi��n, Sz., Simonics, G. leg., ANHRT:2017.33, unique numbers: ANHRTUK 00194493-00194496, gen. slide No.: LGNA 1293 (♀); 8 ♂, 1 ♀, Nimba County, Nimba Mts, ENNR, Cellcom road, 750m, 7��33���3.78���N, 8��31���46.49���W, 16���28.xii.2018, Cold Cathode UV Light Trap (8 W), S��fi��n, Sz., Simonics, G. leg., ANHRT:2018.43, unique numbers: ANHRTUK 00073958, 00142173, 00142169-00142172, 00219576-00219578 (ANHRT). Nigeria. 1 ♂, Oyo State, Gambari Forest, 6.viii.1977, M.A. Cornes, QR code label with unique number: NHMUK 014046238, gen. slide No.: NHMUK 010316557 (NHMUK). Diagnosis. In comparison with the Oriental Leucobaeta hemiphaea, L. semialba is considerably smaller in size (forewing length 5.5���8.0 mm, that of hemiphaea is 8.5���9.5 mm), the border of the whitish basal-antemedial area of the forewing is straight, while it is slightly curved in its ventral quarter in the Oriental species. The postmedial fascia consists of a very narrow cream line in L. semialba, while it is marked by a row of three to four black dots anteromedially in L. hemiphaea. In addition, the apical area of the forewing has a large amorphous dark brown patch in the Afrotropical species, whereas it is greyish white, without a distinct dark marking in L. hemiphaea. In the male genitalia, compared to the type species of the genus, L. semialba has a somewhat longer, basally narrower uncus, and wider, reverse U-shaped medial recess of the tegumen (which is reverse V-shaped in L. hemiphaea). The valva is considerably narrower and longer with a broadly rounded apex in L. semialba, while it is rectangular and distally truncate in the Oriental species. The transtillae are medially fused with a shield-like medial plate in L. semialba, whereas they are connected by a membranous ribbon in L. hemiphaea. The costal process of L. semialba is markedly wider at the base and considerably longer than in L. hemiphaea forming a finger-like process outreaching the ventral margin of the valva, lacking a short, elongate medial crest which is present in the Oriental species. The phallus of L. semialba is armed with a large, robust, curved, claw-like carina, whereas L. hemiphaea lacks a carinal process, but its vesica bears a pair of large, thumbtack-shaped cornuti, which is absent in the Afrotropical species. Comparing the female genitalia of the Afrotropical and Oriental species, the former has a conical ovipositor, with apically protracted papillae anales, while it is quadrangular and apically rounded, respectively, in L. hemiphaea. The posterior apophyses are longer, while the anterior ones are shorter in L. semialba than in its Oriental congener. The eighth tergite is considerably longer and medially more constricted and the anterior margin of the eighth sternite is evenly curved in both sides in the Afrotropical species, while the eighth sternite bears a pair of short and narrow, slightly conical, apically rounded anterior processes in L. hemiphaea. Further differences are expressed by the markedly shorter and less sclerotized ductus bursae, the much smaller appendix bursae and the presence of signum bursae in L. semialba. Description. Adult. (Figs. 1���3). Forewing length 5.5���8.0 mm. Antenna fasciculate in male, filiform in female. Head relatively large, labial palp medium long, rather thick, porrect, pale brown; frons pale brown posteriorly, off-white anteriorly, vertex niveous; compound eye relatively large, globular. Thorax, collar, tegulae and abdomen bright white. Intraspecific variability limited. Sexual dimorphism negligible, expressed only by the somewhat darker hindwing of females. Forewing relatively short and narrow, rather quadrangular, apically rounded. Basal and antemedial area bright white with a pair of elongate, pale grey costal dashes. Medial area dark brownish-grey, isolated abruptly from basal area by straight, oblique border, postmedial and tornal areas brownish grey, fading somewhat to pale grey towards tornus; dorsal half of postmedial area off-white, with a large round, dark brownish-grey apical patch. Transverse lines poorly visible except for the fine, evenly arcuate, postmedial line well-defined by creamy scales and the very narrow, continuous pale brownish-grey terminal line. Cilia long, darkening from pale grey to dark brown towards tornus. Hindwing of male off-white in basal half, gradually darkened distally, pale greyish-brown near termen, that of female pale greyish-brown with a small off-white basal area; cilia pale yellowish-brown. Forewing underside dark graphite-grey in dorsal two-thirds, pale greyish-white in ventral third; hindwing underside pale grey, somewhat darker near termen; pattern undetectable. Male genitalia. (Fig. 17). Uncus medium long, as long as vinculum, broad at base, abruptly tapered medially, gradually tapered distally, pointed apically. Tegumen medium long with narrow arms, medially widely open, arms forming a reverse U-shape. Valva moderately long and broad, as long as tegumen, apically evenly rounded, membranous. Valva costa almost straight, in basal half with a proximally smooth, distally sparsely setose triangular plate serving as a base for well-developed costal process; distal half of costa with narrow marginal sclerotization. Costal process long, medially arched, finger-like with rounded apex outreaching the ventral margin of valva. Sacculus short, broad at base, tapered distally, weakly sclerotized, sparsely setose, conjunct with costal process. Transtillae broad at base, tapered medially and strongly dilated apically, arms fused medially, forming a moderately large, proximally concave, distally rounded, shield-like plate. Fultura inferior (juxta) relatively small, heavily sclerotized, narrow V-shaped. Vinculum rather long, broad at base, abruptly tapered medially into conspicuously narrow, apically rounded, finger-like process (saccus). Phallus tubular, short and thin, straight, medially slightly dilated; coecum penis short and rounded, heavily sclerotized, apex armed with a conspicuously long, robust, medially curved, apically pointed claw-shaped carina process; vesica without cornuti or scobination. Female genitalia. (Fig. 23). Ovipositor short, conical, papillae anales triangular, apically with a short protracted process, covered in fine setae, apophyses short and thin, apically pointed, posterior ones twice as long as anterior ones. Eighth tergite weakly sclerotized, short, medially constricted. Ostium bursae narrow, more or less round, antrum heavily sclerotized, relatively short, distal margin deeply concave, lateral margins gently arched, proximal margin rounded with a moderately sclerotized, short conical antero-lateral protrusion on right side. Ductus bursae short, membranous, twice as long as sclerotized antrum, medially slightly dilated. Cervix bursae with a short, rounded, sclerotized protuberance on right side. Distal third of corpus bursae conical, proximal part ovoidal, with semi-globular appendix bursae fused with corpus bursae antero-laterally. Signum bursae represented by a small, rounded, fine scobination. Genetic divergence. Pairwise distance between L. semialba and the Madagascan endemic L. malagassa sp. n. is 7.1% and between L. semialba and the southeast African L. smithi sp. n. is 7.6���7.7%. Distribution (Fig. 26). This rare species was described from a single female specimen collected in southern Ghana. An additional male specimen was found in the NHMUK collection from Gambari forest, South Nigeria. A short series of specimens was collected on recent ANHRT expeditions at a medium-high elevation in the Nimba Mountains, Liberia., Published as part of L��szl��, Gyula M., 2022, On the taxonomy of Negeta semialba Hampson, 1918 with descriptions of two new Leucobaeta L��szl��, Ronkay & Witt, 2010 species (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae), pp. 56-68 in Zootaxa 5091 (1) on pages 58-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5840401, {"references":["Hampson, G. F. (1918) Descriptions of new genera and species of Amatidae, Lithosidae and Noctuidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 25 (1), 93 - 217."]}

Angustopila Jochum, Slapnik & P��ll-Gergely, 2014; Jochum et al., 2014: 410: 26. Type species: Systenostoma tamlod Panha & Burch, 1999, by original designation., Published as part of P��ll-Gergely, Barna, Jochum, Adrienne, J. Vermeulen, Jaap, Anker, Katja, Hunyadi, Andr��s, ��rstan, Aydin, Szab��, ��bel, D��nyi, L��szl�� & Schilthuizen, Menno, 2022, The world's tiniest land snails from Laos and Vietnam (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Hypselostomatidae), pp. 62-78 in Contributions To Zoology 91 on page 66, DOI: 10.1163/18759866-BjA10025, http://zenodo.org/record/6147303, {"references":["Jochum, A., Slapnik, R., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Heneka, M. & Pall-Gergely, B. (2014) A review of the microgastropod genus Systenostoma Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908 and a new subterranean species from China (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Hypselostomatidae). ZooKeys, 410, 23 - 40."]}

Angustopila psammion P��ll-Gergely, Anker & Vermeulen, n. sp. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EAD52AC1-985A-48E7-8AF9-4C2629C416BF Type material: Vietnam, Quang Ninh Province, Ha Long Bay, Cap La Cave, 20��51.793���N, 107��13.541���E, soil deposit fallen through roof in pristine cave, vegetation outside cave tall and woody, leg. J.J. Vermeulen & K. Anker, 07 March 2018, holotype (HNHM 104886); CUMZ 7436 / 2 paratypes; SMF 365052 / 2 paratypes; VNMN / 2 paratypes; ZRC. MOL.23218/ 2 paratypes, jjV 17633/ 409 paratypes. Diagnosis: An Angustopila species with a depressed-globular shell with dome-shaped spire, thick spiral striae, kidney-shaped aperture with single parietal denticle not reaching parietal callus. Description: Shell tiny, off-white, depressed-globular form with domed spire; body whorl widest in standard apertural view; protoconch with 1.5 whorls and a minute and very uneven pattern of polygonal, rather sharp-crested ridges locally forming minute, conical peaks where ridges split (the structure also reminiscent of cross-sectional trabecular bone), no spiral striation discernible; teleoconch ornamented by some weak radial growth lines and much stronger, ropelike, equidistantly-arranged spiral striae (ca. 14���15 on body whorl from standard apertural view); the 3.25���3.5 whorls are separated by a deep suture; whorls slightly shouldered; aperture oblique to shell axis in lateral view; umbilicus relatively wide, less than one third of shell width; aperture kidney-shaped with strongly concave parietal side; sinulus wide, weakly separated due to weak parietal tooth; peristome expanded, not reflected; parietal callus strongly protruding, but in line with curvature of penultimate whorl and beyond aperture edge (profile) in lateral view (fig. 3C), detached from penultimate whorl; parietal tooth weak, low, short, rounded, does not reach peristome. Soft anatomy unknown. Measurements (in mm): SW = 0.6���0.68, SH = 0.46���0.57 (n = 24). Differential diagnosis: Angustopila pallgergelyi Dumrongrojwattana, Chuenit & Wongkamhaeng, 2021 is similar in shell and aperture shape, but is larger, has a prominent palatal tooth (absent in Angustopila psammion n. sp.)and a stronger parietal tooth. Angustopila coprologos n. sp. is slightly larger, has a rough shell surface, and has an additional subcolumellar tooth and two palatal teeth. Etymology: The specific epithet (��������������) means a grain of sand in Greek and is used as a noun in apposition. Distribution: This new species is known only from the type locality, Cap La Cave, Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. Habitat: Angustopila psammion n. sp. was found in large numbers in small sediment deposits along the walls of a dry cave (Cap La Cave), in complete darkness. We assume that the sediment had fallen in through crevices in the rock, because it contains a species-rich assemblage of bleached, opaque shells of surface-dwelling terrestrial gastropods. Shells of Angustopila psammion n. sp., however, look fresh and are probably autochthonous., Published as part of P��ll-Gergely, Barna, Jochum, Adrienne, J. Vermeulen, Jaap, Anker, Katja, Hunyadi, Andr��s, ��rstan, Aydin, Szab��, ��bel, D��nyi, L��szl�� & Schilthuizen, Menno, 2022, The world's tiniest land snails from Laos and Vietnam (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Hypselostomatidae), pp. 62-78 in Contributions To Zoology 91 on pages 69-71, DOI: 10.1163/18759866-BjA10025, http://zenodo.org/record/6147303, {"references":["Dumrongrojwattana, P., Chuenit, S. & Wongkamhaeng, K. (2021) A new species of the world's smallest cave snail of the genus Angustopila Jochum, Slapnik & Pall- Gergely in Jochum, et al., 2014 (Gastropoda: Hypselostomatidae) from eastern Thailand. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 69, 102 - 108."]}

Additional file 1: Figure S1. Transmission electron micrographs of the pancreas from rats with acute pancreatitis induced by l-ornithine (n=4). The negatively charged surface glycocalyx was labeled with the cationic dye Alcian blue. AB: Alcian blue extravasation, L: vessel lumen, m: mitochondria, TJ: intercellular tight junction. Stars label perivascular tissue necrosis. # symbols point out edema around microvessels. $ symbols show intracellular edema and disintegration of the ultrastructure indicating severe endothelial injury in the pancreas. Scale bars: 500 nm. Figure S2. Mitochondrial membrane potential measurement after a immediate and b 24 h lornithine pre-treatment (lorn; 20 mM) on primary brain endothelial cells. In the pre-treatment experiments data were compared to assay buffer-treated control cells. Data is presented as means �� SEM. CCCP: carbonyl cyanide 3-chlorophenylhydrazone. C: control. Values presented are means �� SEM. n=3. c Representative fluorescent images taken during the live cell imaging. Red: TMRM dye. Scale bar: 20 ��m. Figure S3. Measurement of the nuclear translocation of NF��B after short term lornithine treatment (20 mM, 1 h) in primary brain endothelial cells. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 1 ��g/ml) was used as a reference agent to induce inflammation. C: control group treated with culture medium. a Nucleus/cytoplasm ratio of the NF��B fluorescent staining calculated using ImageJ. Values presented are means �� SEM. Statistical analysis: one-way Anova followed by Bonferroni post-test, ***, p< 0.001. n=2. b Representative fluorescent images of NF��B nuclear translocation. Scale bar: 50 ��m. Table S1. List of antibodies used in this study.

Consider a compact K��hler manifold $(X,��)$ and the space $\cal E(X,��)=\cal E$ of $��$--plurisubharmonic functions of full Monge--Amp��re mass on it. We introduce a quantity $��[u,v]$ to measure the distance between $u, v\in\cal E$; $��[u,v]$ is not a number but rather a decreasing function on a certain interval $(0,V)\subset\mathbb R$. We explore properties of $��[u,v]$, and using them we study Lagrangians and associated energy spaces of $��$--plurisubharmonic functions. Many results here generalize Darvas's findings about his metrics $d_��$.

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This paper deals with a second order dynamical system with vanishing damping that contains a Tikhonov regularization term, in connection to the minimization problem of a convex Fr��chet differentiable function $g$. We show that for appropriate Tikhonov regularization parameters the value of the objective function in a generated trajectory converges fast to the global minimum of the objective function and a trajectory generated by the dynamical system converges weakly to a minimizer of the objective function. We also obtain the fast convergence of the velocities towards zero and some integral estimates. Nevertheless, our main goal is to extend and improve some recent results obtained in \cite{ABCR} and \cite{AL-nemkoz} concerning the strong convergence of the generated trajectories to an element of minimal norm from the $\argmin$ set of the objective function $g$. Our analysis also reveals that the damping coefficient and the Tikhonov regularization coefficient are strongly correlated.

Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Gene expression changes in the spinal cord following sciatic nerve axotomy. a Positive control for IL1B ISH (1 day after intraspinal LPS + MDP treatment). b���d Changes in the expression of AIM2 (b), NLRP6 c and P2X4 d mRNAs at various time points (6 h, 1 day, 3 days, 7 days and 21 days) after sciatic nerve axotomy. Mean values are shown on each bar. Bars represent average �� SEM, N = 3 animals/group. *p

G. K. Pedersen and M. Takesaki have proved in 1973 that if $��$ is a faithful, semi-finite, normal weight on a von Neumann algebra $M\;\!$, and $��$ is a $��^��$-invariant, semi-finite, normal weight on $M\;\!$, equal to $��$ on the positive part of a weak${}^*$-dense $��^��$-invariant $*$-subalgebra of $\mathfrak{M}_��\;\!$, then $��=��\;\!$. In 1978 L. Zsid�� extended the above result by proving: if $��$ is as above, $a\geq 0$ belongs to the centralizer $M^��$ of $��\;\!$, and $��$ is a $��^��$-invariant, semi-finite, normal weight on $M\;\!$, equal to $��_a:=��(a^{1/2}\;\!\cdot\;\! a^{1/2})$ on the positive part of a weak${}^*$-dense $��^��$-invariant $*$-subalgebra of $\mathfrak{M}_��\;\!$, then $��=��_a\;\!$. Here we will further extend this latter result, proving criteria for both the inequality $��\leq��_a$ and the equality $��=��_a\;\!$. Particular attention is accorded to criteria with no commutation assumption between $��$ and $��\;\!$, in order to be used to prove inequality and equality criteria for operator valued weights. Concerning operator valued weights, it is proved that if $E_1\;\! ,E_2$ are semi-finite, normal operator valued weights from a von Neumann algebra $M$ to a von Neumann subalgebra $N\ni 1_M$ and they are equal on $\mathfrak{M}_{E_1}\;\!$, then $E_2\leq E_1\;\!$. Moreover, it is shown that this happens if and only if for any (or, if $E_1\;\! ,E_2$ have equal supports, for some) faithful, semi-finite, normal weight $��$ on $N$ the weights $��\circ E_2\;\! ,��\circ E_1$ coincide on $\mathfrak{M}_{��\circ E_1}\;\!$.

Examples are presented for appearance of geometric symmetry in the shape of various astronomical objects and phenomena. Usage of these symmetries in astrophysical and extragalactic research is also discussed., 13 pages, 10 figures. Appeared as a chapter in the book Complex Symmetries (ed. G. Darvas), Birkh\"auser (2022), pp.191-205. ISBN 978-3-030-88058-3. The content in this version is identical with that of the published paper, but the layout is somewhat different

We define a so-called square $k$-zig-zag shape as a part of the regular square grid. Considering the shape as a $k$-zig-zag digraph, we give values of its vertices according to the number of the shortest paths from a base vertex. It provides several integer sequences, whose higher-order homogeneous recurrences are determined by the help of a special matrix recurrence., 13 pages, 4 figures

Summary. Discovery of Xiphinema illyricum in soil samples collected near Donja Seoca in Montenegro (2001, 2003 and 2007) represents the first recording of this species after the original description from the vicinity of Danilovgrad in 1999. A population collected in 2001 is described and illustrated, and morphometric data for females and four juvenile developmental stages are presented. This population is very similar to the type population and minor differences in morphometric data are considered to be intraspecific variability.

Rezension zu: Henriette Baron, Quasi liber et pictura. Die Tierknochenfunde aus dem Gr��berfeld an der Wiener Csokorgasse ��� eine anthrozoologische Studie zu den awarischen Bestattungssitten. Monographien des R��misch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Band 143. Verlag Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-7954-3434-2. 662 pages, 198 drawings, 356 diagrams, 30 colour plates, 173 illustrations, and 44 tables, Germania : Anzeiger der R��misch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Arch��ologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)

If a finite p-group G acts continuously on a compact topological manifold M then, with some bound C depending on M alone, G has a subgroup H of index at most C such that the H-action on M has at most C stabilizer subgroups. This result plays a crucial role in the proof of a deep conjecture of Ghys.

GRBAlpha is a 1U CubeSat mission with an expected launch date in the first half of 2021. It carries a 75 x 75 x 5 mm CsI(Tl) scintillator, read out by a dual-channel multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) setup, to detect gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The GRB detector is an in-orbit demonstration for the detector system on the Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients (CAMELOT) mission. While GRBAlpha provides 1/8th of the expected effective area of CAMELOT, the comparison of the observed light curves with other existing GRB monitoring satellites will allow us to validate the core idea of CAMELOT, i.e. the feasibility of timing-based localization., Submitted to the Proceedings of the SPIE for Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020

The aim of this article is to propose a core game theory model of transaction costs wherein it is indicated how direct costs determine the probability of loss and subsequent transaction costs. The existence of optimum is proven, and the way in which exposure influences the location of the optimum is demonstrated. The decisions are described as a two-player game and it is discussed how the transaction cost sharing rule determines whether the optimum point of transaction costs is the same as the equilibrium of the game. A game modelling dispute between actors regarding changing the share of transaction costs to be paid by each party is also presented. Requirements of efficient transaction cost sharing rules are defined, and it is posited that a solution exists which is not unique. Policy conclusions are also devised based on principles of design of institutions to influence the nature of transaction costs., 22 pages, 3 figures

Controlling the preferred direction of the magnetic moments is essential for the design of spintronic devices based on ultrathin films and heterostructures. As the film thickness or the temperature is increased, the easy anisotropy axis is typically reoriented from an out-of-plane direction preferred by surface and interface energy contributions to an in-plane alignment favored by the volume anisotropy terms. We study the temperature-driven spin reorientation transition in two atomic layers of Fe on W(110) using well-tempered metadynamics simulations based on a spin model parametrized by ab initio calculations and find that the transition only takes place in the presence of the Dzyaloshinsky--Moriya interaction (DMI). This demonstrates that the chiral DMI does not only differentiate between noncollinear spin structures of different rotational senses, but it also influences the magnetic orientation of collinear magnetic configurations., 6 pages, 3 figures

Consider the diophantine equation $(3^{x_1}-1)(3^{x_2}-1)=(5^{y_1}-1)(5^{y_2}-1)$ in positive integers $x_1\le x_2$, and $y_1\le y_2$. Each side of the equation is a product of two terms of a given binary recurrence, respectively. In this paper, we prove that the only solution to the title equation is $(x_1,x_2,y_1,y_2)=(1,2,1,1)$. The main novelty of our result is that we allow products of two terms on both sides., 10 pages, accepted for publication

Several approaches exist for the recording of articulatory movements, such as eletromagnetic and permanent magnetic articulagraphy, ultrasound tongue imaging and surface electromyography. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more costly than the above approaches, the recent developments in this area now allow the recording of real-time MRI videos of the articulators with an acceptable resolution. Here, we experiment with the reconstruction of the speech signal from a real-time MRI recording using deep neural networks. Instead of estimating speech directly, our networks are trained to output a spectral vector, from which we reconstruct the speech signal using the WaveGlow neural vocoder. We compare the performance of three deep neural architectures for the estimation task, combining convolutional (CNN) and recurrence-based (LSTM) neural layers. Besides the mean absolute error (MAE) of our networks, we also evaluate our models by comparing the speech signals obtained using several objective speech quality metrics like the mean cepstral distortion (MCD), Short-Time Objective Intelligibility (STOI), Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) and Signal-to-Distortion Ratio (SDR). The results indicate that our approach can successfully reconstruct the gross spectral shape, but more improvements are needed to reproduce the fine spectral details., 6 pages. 4 tables, 3 figures

13 páginas, 5 figuras, 3 tablas., The COST action “Standardising output-based surveillance to control non-regulated diseases of cattle in the European Union (SOUND control),” aims to harmonise the results of surveillance and control programmes (CPs) for non-EU regulated cattle diseases to facilitate safe trade and improve overall control of cattle infectious diseases. In this paper we aimed to provide an overview on the diversity of control for these diseases in Europe. A non-EU regulated cattle disease was defined as an infectious disease of cattle with no or limited control at EU level, which is not included in the European Union Animal health law Categories A or B under Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2002. A CP was defined as surveillance and/or intervention strategies designed to lower the incidence, prevalence, mortality or prove freedom from a specific disease in a region or country. Passive surveillance, and active surveillance of breeding bulls under Council Directive 88/407/EEC were not considered as CPs. A questionnaire was designed to obtain country-specific information about CPs for each disease. Animal health experts from 33 European countries completed the questionnaire. Overall, there are 23 diseases for which a CP exists in one or more of the countries studied. The diseases for which CPs exist in the highest number of countries are enzootic bovine leukosis, bluetongue, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, bovine viral diarrhoea and anthrax (CPs reported by between 16 and 31 countries). Every participating country has on average, 6 CPs (min–max: 1–13) in place. Most programmes are implemented at a national level (86%) and are applied to both dairy and non-dairy cattle (75%). Approximately one-third of the CPs are voluntary, and the funding structure is divided between government and private resources. Countries that have eradicated diseases like enzootic bovine leukosis, bluetongue, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and bovine viral diarrhoea have implemented CPs for other diseases to further improve the health status of cattle in their country. The control of non-EU regulated cattle diseases is very heterogenous in Europe. Therefore, the standardising of the outputs of these programmes to enable comparison represents a challenge.

We study the equilibrium computation problem in the Fisher market model with constrained piecewise linear concave (PLC) utilities. This general class captures many well-studied special cases, including markets with PLC utilities, markets with satiation, and matching markets. For the special case of PLC utilities, although the problem is PPAD-hard, Devanur and Kannan (FOCS 2008) gave a polynomial-time algorithm when the number of items is constant. Our main result is a fixed parameter approximation scheme for computing an approximate equilibrium, where the parameters are the number of agents and the approximation accuracy. This provides an answer to an open question by Devanur and Kannan for PLC utilities, and gives a simpler and faster algorithm for matching markets as the one by Alaei, Jalaly and Tardos (EC 2017). The main technical idea is to work with the stronger concept of thrifty equilibria, and approximating the input utility functions by `robust' utilities that have favorable marginal properties. With some restrictions, the results also extend to the Arrow--Debreu exchange market model.

A. Acharya, H. Adhikary, K. K. Allison, N. Amin, E. V. Andronov, T.Antic, V. Babkin, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, Y. Bondar, A. Brandin, A.Bravar, W.Brylinski, J. Brzychczyk, M. Buryakov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Cirkovic, M. Csanad, J. Cybowska, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deliyergiyev, M. Deveaux, A. Dmitriev,W. Dominik, P. Dorosz, J. Dumarchez, R. Engel, G. A. Feofilov, L. Fields, Z. Fodor, A.Garibov, M.Gazdzicki, O. Golosov, V. Golovatyuk, M. Golubeva, K. Grebieszkow, F. Guber, A. Haesler, S. N. Igolkin, S. Ilieva, A. Ivashkin, S. R. Johnson, K. Kadija, N. Kargin, E. Kashirin, M. Kiełbowicz, V. A. Kireyeu, V. Klochkov, V. I. Kolesnikov, D.Kolev, A. Korzenev, V. N. Kovalenko, B. Kozłowski, A. Krasnoperov, W. Kucewicz, M. Kuich, A. Kurepin, D. Larsen, A. László, T. V. Lazareva, K. Łojek, V. V. Lyubushkin, M. Mackowiak-Pawłowska, Z. Majka, B. Maksiak, A. I. Malakhov, A. Marcinek, A. D. Marino, K.Marton, H.-J. Mathes, T. Matulewicz, V.Matveev, G. L. Melkumov, A. O. Merzlaya, B. Messerly, Ł.Mik, S. Morozov, Y. Nagai, M. Naskret, V. Ozvenchuk, O. Panova, V. Paolone, O. Petukhov, I. Pidhurskyi, R. Płaneta, P. Podlaski, B. A. Popov, B. Porfy, M. Posiadała-Zezula, D. S. Prokhorova, D. Pszczel, J. Puzovic, M. Ravonel, D. Röhrich, E. Rondio, B. T. Rumberger, M. Rumyantsev, A. Rustamov, M. Rybczynski, A. Rybicki, S. Sadhu, A. Sadovsky, I. Selyuzhenkov, A. Yu. Seryakov, P. Seyboth, M. Słodkowski, P. Staszel, G. Stefanek, J. Stepaniak, M. Strikhanov, H. Ströbele, T. Šuša, A. Taranenko, A. Tefelska, D. Tefelski, V. Tereshchenko, A.Toia, R. Tsenov, L. Turko, M. Unger, D. Uzhva, F. F. Valiev, D. Veberiˇc, V. V. Vechernin, A. Wickremasinghe, O. Wyszyński, A. Zaitsev, E. D. Zimmerman, R. Zwaska, The production of K0 S mesons in inelastic p+p collisions at beam momentum 158 GeV/c ( √ sNN = 17.3 GeV) was measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Doubledifferential distributions were obtained in transversemomentum and rapidity. The mean multiplicity of K0 S was determined to be 0.162±0.001(stat.)±0.011(sys.). The results on K0 S production are compared with model predictions (EPOS 1.99, SMASH 2.0, PHSD and UrQMD 3.4 models) as well as with published world data.

We describe a computational framework for hierarchical Bayesian inference with simple (typically single-plate) parametric graphical models that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate computations, enabling deployment on very large datasets. Its C++ implementation, CUDAHM (CUDA for Hierarchical Models) exploits conditional independence between instances of a plate, facilitating massively parallel exploration of the replication parameter space using the single instruction, multiple data architecture of GPUs. It provides support for constructing Metropolis-within-Gibbs samplers that iterate between GPU-accelerated robust adaptive Metropolis sampling of plate-level parameters conditional on upper-level parameters, and Metropolis-Hastings sampling of upper-level parameters on the host processor conditional on the GPU results. CUDAHM is motivated by demographic problems in astronomy, where density estimation and linear and nonlinear regression problems must be addressed for populations of thousands to millions of objects whose features are measured with possibly complex uncertainties. We describe a thinned latent point process framework for modeling such demographic data. We demonstrate accurate GPU-accelerated parametric conditional density deconvolution for simulated populations of up to 300,000 objects in ~1 hour using a single NVIDIA Tesla K40c GPU. Supplementary material provides details about the CUDAHM API and the demonstration problem., 28 pages, 7 figures, 2 appendices

We consider the quadratic form of a general deterministic matrix on the eigenvectors of an $N\times N$ Wigner matrix and prove that it has Gaussian fluctuation for each bulk eigenvector in the large $N$ limit. The proof is a combination of the energy method for the Dyson Brownian motion inspired by [Marcinek, Yau 2020] and our recent multi-resolvent local laws [Cipolloni, Erd\H{o}s, Schr\"oder 2020]., Comment: 24 pages

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For articulatory-to-acoustic mapping, typically only limited parallel training data is available, making it impossible to apply fully end-to-end solutions like Tacotron2. In this paper, we experimented with transfer learning and adaptation of a Tacotron2 text-to-speech model to improve the final synthesis quality of ultrasound-based articulatory-to-acoustic mapping with a limited database. We use a multi-speaker pre-trained Tacotron2 TTS model and a pre-trained WaveGlow neural vocoder. The articulatory-to-acoustic conversion contains three steps: 1) from a sequence of ultrasound tongue image recordings, a 3D convolutional neural network predicts the inputs of the pre-trained Tacotron2 model, 2) the Tacotron2 model converts this intermediate representation to an 80-dimensional mel-spectrogram, and 3) the WaveGlow model is applied for final inference. This generated speech contains the timing of the original articulatory data from the ultrasound recording, but the F0 contour and the spectral information is predicted by the Tacotron2 model. The F0 values are independent of the original ultrasound images, but represent the target speaker, as they are inferred from the pre-trained Tacotron2 model. In our experiments, we demonstrated that the synthesized speech quality is more natural with the proposed solutions than with our earlier model., accepted at SSW11. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2008.03152

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Gridded model assessments require at least one climatic and one soil database for carrying out the simulations. There are several parallel soil and climate database development projects that provide sufficient, albeit considerably different, observation based input data for crop model based impact studies. The input database related uncertainty of the Biome-BGCMuSo agro-environmental model outputs was investigated using three and four different gridded climatic and soil databases, respectively covering an area of nearly 100.000 km2 with 1104 grid cells. Spatial, temporal, climate and soil database selection related variances were calculated and compared for four model outputs obtained from 30-year-long simulations. The choice of the input database introduced model output variability that was comparable to the variability the year-to-year change of the weather or the spatial heterogeneity of the soil causes. Input database selection could be a decisive factor in carbon sequestration related studies as the soil carbon stock change estimates may either suggest that the simulated ecosystem is a carbon sink or to the contrary a carbon source on the long run. Careful evaluation of the input database quality seems to be an inevitable and highly relevant step towards more realistic plant production and carbon balance simulations.

Double-differential yields of $��\left(1530\right)^{0}$ and $\overline��\left(1530\right)^{0}$ resonances produced in \pp interactions were measured at a laboratory beam momentum of 158~\GeVc. This measurement is the first of its kind in \pp interactions below LHC energies. It was performed at the CERN SPS by the \NASixtyOne collaboration. Double-differential distributions in rapidity and transverse momentum were obtained from a sample of 26$\cdot$10$^6$ inelastic events. The spectra are extrapolated to full phase space resulting in mean multiplicity of $��\left(1530\right)^{0}$ (6.73 $\pm$ 0.25 $\pm$ 0.67)$\times10^{-4}$ and $\overline��\left(1530\right)^{0}$ (2.71 $\pm$ 0.18 $\pm$ 0.18)$\times10^{-4}$. The rapidity and transverse momentum spectra and mean multiplicities were compared to predictions of string-hadronic and statistical model calculations.

We revisit the problem of the estimation of the differential entropy $H(f)$ of a random vector $X$ in $R^d$ with density $f$, assuming that $H(f)$ exists and is finite. In this note, we study the consistency of the popular nearest neighbor estimate $H_n$ of Kozachenko and Leonenko. Without any smoothness condition we show that the estimate is consistent ($E\{|H_n - H(f)|\} \to 0$ as $n \to \infty$) if and only if $\mathbb{E} \{ \log ( \| X \| + 1 )\} < \infty$. Furthermore, if $X$ has compact support, then $H_n \to H(f)$ almost surely.

We investigate the effect of strong emission line galaxies on the performance of empirical photometric redshift estimation methods. In order to artificially control the contribution of photometric error and emission lines to total flux, we develop a PCA-based stochastic mock catalogue generation technique that allows for generating infinite signal-to-noise ratio model spectra with realistic emission lines on top of theoretical stellar continua. Instead of running the computationally expensive stellar population synthesis and nebular emission codes, our algorithm generates realistic spectra with a statistical approach, and - as an alternative to attempting to constrain the priors on input model parameters - works by matching output observational parameters. Hence, it can be used to match the luminosity, colour, emission line and photometric error distribution of any photometric sample with sufficient flux-calibrated spectroscopic follow-up. We test three simple empirical photometric estimation methods and compare the results with and without photometric noise and strong emission lines. While photometric noise clearly dominates the uncertainty of photometric redshift estimates, the key findings are that emission lines play a significant role in resolving colour space degeneracies and good spectroscopic coverage of the entire colour space is necessary to achieve good results with empirical photo-z methods. Template fitting methods, on the other hand, must use a template set with sufficient variation in emission line strengths and ratios, or even better, first estimate the redshift empirically and fit the colours with templates at the best-fit redshift to calculate the K-correction and various physical parameters., 18 pages, 19 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Let $X_{1,n}\le\cdots\le X_{n,n}$ be the order statistics of $n$ independent random variables with a common distribution function $F$ having right heavy tail with tail index $��$. Given known constants $d_{i,n}$, $1\le i\le n$, consider the weighted power sums $\sum^{k_n}_{i=1}d_{n+1-i,n}\log^pX_{n+1-i,n}$, where $p>0$ and the $k_n$ are positive integers such that $k_n\to\infty$ and $k_n/n\to0$ as $n\to\infty$. Under some constraints on the weights $d_{i,n}$, we prove asymptotic normality for the power sums over the whole heavy-tail model. We apply the obtained result to construct a new class of estimators for the parameter $��$.

Over the course of the last few years, lexicography has witnessed the burgeoning of increasingly reliable automatic approaches supporting the creation of lexicographic resources such as dictionaries, lexical knowledge bases and annotated datasets. In fact, recent achievements in the field of Natural Language Processing and particularly in Word Sense Disambiguation have widely demonstrated their effectiveness not only for the creation of lexicographic resources, but also for enabling a deeper analysis of lexical-semantic data both within and across languages. Nevertheless, we argue that the potential derived from the connections between the two fields is far from exhausted. In this work, we address a serious limitation affecting both lexicography and Word Sense Disambiguation, i.e. the lack of high-quality sense-annotated data and describe our efforts aimed at constructing a novel entirely manually annotated parallel dataset in 10 European languages. For the purposes of the present paper, we concentrate on the annotation of morpho-syntactic features. Finally, unlike many of the currently available sense-annotated datasets, we will annotate semantically by using senses derived from high-quality lexicographic repositories.

We obtain asymptotic formulas for the sums $\sum_{n_1,\ldots,n_k\le x} f((n_1,\ldots,n_k))$ and $ \sum_{n_1,\ldots,n_k\le x} f([n_1,\ldots,n_k])$ involving the gcd and lcm of the integers $n_1,\ldots,n_k$, where $f$ belongs to certain classes of additive arithmetic functions. In particular, we consider the generalized omega function $��_{\ell}(n)= \sum_{p^��\mid\mid n} ��^{\ell}$ investigated by Duncan (1962) and Hassani (2018), and the functions $A(n)=\sum_{p^��\mid\mid n} ��p$, $A^*(n)= \sum_{p \mid n} p$, $B(n)=A(n)-A^*(n)$ studied by Alladi and Erd��s (1977). As a key auxiliary result we use an inclusion-exclusion-type identity., 22 pages

Playing in the FIFA World Cup finals is an ambition shared by several nations. Since, besides luck and skill, the probability of qualification depends on the design of the qualifiers, the study of these competitions forms an integral part of sports analytics. The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced a novel qualifying format for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in July 2019. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the organisers to return to a more traditional structure. The present chapter analyses how this reform impacted the chances of the national teams to qualify. It is found that the probability of participating in the FIFA World Cup finals can change by more than 5 percentage points under the assumption of fixed strengths for the teams. The idea behind the original design, to divide the contestants into two distinct sets, is worth considering due to the increased competitiveness of the matches played by the strongest and the weakest teams. We recommend mitigating the sharp nonlinearity caused by the seeding policy via a probabilistic rule to the analogy of the NBA draft lottery system., 22 pages, 4 figures, 1 table