Set Of Characters Research Articles

Analysis of the Chinese-style elements in the Chinese animation “Five Elements of Misty Mountains”

"Five Elements of Misty Mountain" is a domestic anime to be released on the Internet in the summer of 2020, with the cooperation of the production team led by Lin Hun. The work is to explore the Chinese elements of "Five Elements of Misty Mountain" and their significance to the future development and innovation of Chinese animation. The work conducts a specific study on the Chinese elements of "Five Elements of Misty Mountain", analyzing and extracting the details of Chinese martial arts and fighting in the battle scenes, analyzing the ink and wash style of painting in the animation, and discovering Chinese elements in the character settings of the animation. Finally, the work argues that the animation film "Five Elements of Misty Mountains" shows that implementing the connotation of Chinese traditional culture, driving the development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, constantly updating the technology and style of Chinese animation, bringing contemporary expressions, leading the public to aggravate the deep understanding of Chinese traditional culture by enjoying Chinese animation, and thinking deeply about how to meet the spiritual needs and social demands of the current audience in order to achieve a breakthrough and make Chinese animation truly go to the field of the world.

Magulang Bilang Guro: Parents’ Experiences as Co-Teaching Parents Dur-ing Modular Distance Learning

This study basically investigated the experiences of parents as facilitators of learning as Lagundi-CCL NHS implemented modular distance learning, S.Y. 2021-2022. Twenty (20) parents were considered as respondents in the study. They were chosen purposively by the researcher as she knows them personally. These parents were all the grade level. Utilizing the phenomenological method of inquiry, the parents were interviewed getting their narratives and recommendations as co-teaching parents. Based on the interview, the following themes were derived 1) Motivating their children to pursue education; 2) Mentoring their children in answering the modules; 3) Character building and setting goals in life while learning at home; and 4) Self-realization and reflections. Moreover, their recommendations included: a) to lessen the activities; b) conduct of online classes; and c) implementation of face-to-face classes.

Multimedia Mixed Reality Interactive Shared Decision-Making Game in Children with Moderate to Severe Atopic Dermatitis, a Pilot Study.

(1) Objective: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a recurring skin disease that affects children's daily activities and sleep quality. Due to the limitations of children's understanding and ability to express themselves, shared decision making (SDM) is often made by guardians, which thus affects the acceptance and effectiveness of children's treatments. Previous studies have demonstrated that involving both children and parents in decision making may help improve treatment outcomes; thus, we designed a multimedia mixed reality (MR) interactive game of SDM for children with moderate to severe AD. (2) Methods: Research participants included 6-18-year-old patients with moderate to severe AD. This research consisted of the following steps: designing SDM; character setting and visual design; performing games; system modification and optimization; screen editing and dubbing; and user testing and questionnaires by the System Usability Scale (SUS). (3) Results: We completed the SDM design for children with moderate to severe AD. Four different treatments were biologics, oral immune-modulating drugs, phototherapy, and wet wrap. An animated PowerPoint slide showed the AD apple rolling around before treatments and the AD apple sleeping soundly after treatments. Instructions with video teaching for the four different treatments were played, and then, the MR was turned on so that the patients could help the AD apple in the metaverse to undergo these four treatments. A total of 12 moderate to severe AD patients and six control patients used the game, all aged between six and eighteen years old, with an average SUS score of 81.0 and a standard error of 2.1 points. Adjective ratings yielded a rating between good and excellent. The game showed acceptable usability. We found no statistically significant differences in SUS scores between patients with and without moderate to severe AD or between boys and girls nor significant associations between SUS and age or severity. The analysis identified that the two items with the lowest SUS scores were "I think that I would need the support of a technical person to be able to use this product" and "I needed to learn a lot of things before I could get going with this product". Both of these comments show the limitations of this game. (4) Conclusions: Overall, this study provides the first MR SDM game that has passed the SUS and can be used as an aid in clinical SDM.

Italobdella bieleckii sp. n. (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae), a new leech species from the Danube in Slovakia

Notwithstanding the genus Italobdella has been hypothesized to have doubtful taxonomic value, we decided to update its diagnosis by describing the new species – Italobdella bieleckii sp. n. The leeches were collected from the stony bottom along the shore of the Danube River in Slovakia. In the study, we implemented the model of leech body form and the set of external and internal morphological characters to present the similarity of the new species to the other fish leeches. As a result, we were able to construct the key for determining leeches belonging to the genus Italobdella hoping that the species could be found and determined by other researchers. This would enrich our knowledge about the actual distribution of these leeches and strengthen their systematic position in the genus.

Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.1.0

Abstract Synthetic biology builds upon genetics, molecular biology, and metabolic engineering by applying engineering principles to the design of biological systems. When designing a synthetic system, synthetic biologists need to exchange information about multiple types of molecules, the intended behavior of the system, and actual experimental measurements. The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) has been developed as a standard to support the specification and exchange of biological design information in synthetic biology, following an open community process involving both bench scientists and scientific modelers and software developers, across academia, industry, and other institutions. This document describes SBOL 3.1.0, which improves on version 3.0.0 by including a number of corrections and clarifications as well as several other updates and enhancements. First, this version includes a complete set of validation rules for checking whether documents are valid SBOL 3. Second, the best practices section has been moved to an online repository that allows for more rapid and interactive of sharing these conventions. Third, it includes updates based upon six community approved enhancement proposals. Two enhancement proposals are related to the representation of an object’s namespace. In particular, the Namespace class has been removed and replaced with a namespace property on each class. Another enhancement is the generalization of the CombinatorialDeriviation class to allow direct use of Features and Measures. Next, the Participation class now allow Interactions to be participants to describe higher-order interactions. Another change is the use of Sequence Ontology terms for Feature orientation. Finally, this version of SBOL has generalized from using Unique Reference Identifiers (URIs) to Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) to support international character sets.

Interpolation of curves on Fano hypersurfaces

On a general hypersurface of degree [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] itself, we prove the existence of curves of any genus and high enough degree depending on the genus passing through the expected number [Formula: see text] of general points or incident to a general collection of subvarieties of suitable codimensions. In some cases, we also show that the family of curves through [Formula: see text] fixed points has general moduli as family of [Formula: see text]-pointed curves. These results imply positivity of certain intersection numbers on Kontsevich spaces of stable maps. An arithmetical Appendix A by Chang describes the set of numerical characters ([Formula: see text], curve degree, genus) to which our results apply.

Shuttling Back and Forth between Authenticity and Bad Faith in Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

ABSTRACT: The ethical ideal of authenticity serves as the right prescription to conduct a good life. If this ideal is put into practice, it ameliorates the value of a person’s life. The standard of authenticity can thus be used to gauge the quality of a person’s life and his/her level of awareness. In this context, Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o foregrounds the drift between bad faith and authentic existence. A set of African characters subdue the drive of self-deception rather than the anguish of freedom and embrace their alienated existence by relinquishing their autonomy to their white masters. On the other hand, another set prefer to ride the storm and decline to substitute a displeasing truth for a pleasing falsehood by choosing to be free agents rather than masquerading in white masks. Against this backdrop, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o demonstrates that colonialism is partially the outcome of the socioeconomic, historical, as well as internal sources of stress and anxiety and partially a free choice.

Exploring bilingual effects on iconic memory using 2D and 3D visuospatial recognition tasks

Numerous studies indicate positive effects of bilingualism on cognition, mostly found in the domains such as attention, inhibitory control, auditory processing, and memory (Bialystok, 2018; Krizman et al., 2012; Spinu, 2022). While most studies focusing on memory have explored differences between monolinguals and bilinguals in working memory and, more recently, in auditory sensory memory, the question of whether bilingualism also affects iconic memory remains understudied. In this study, we explore whether bilingual experience results in enhanced iconic memory in the form of gestural, visuospatial recognition. We present bilingual and monolingual participants from NYC (n = 40) with thirty sets of foreign characters, one at a time, then ask them to recall which characters they have seen before from a list of characters that includes novel ones bearing high resemblance with previously shown characters. Second, we display to the same participants thirty sets of ASL signs (15 2D images and 15 3D short videos), with high resemblance as well, utilizing the same method to evaluate their gestural and visuospatial abilities in iconic memory. While the experiment is currently underway, the findings will shed more light on whether the benefits associated with additional language experience extend to non-linguistic domains, likely resulting from enhanced cognitive function mechanisms.

A novel smart photoelectric lock system: Speech transmitted by laser and speech to text

We propose a circuit that modulates a speech signal to a laser, using which the speech signal can be transmitted using the laser. Also, it shows the use of a platform based on embedded ARM (Advanced RISC Machine), running a small deep learning model based on TDNN (Time delay neural network) and LSTM (Long short-term memory), and converting speech to text, and use the text cipher for unlocking. This research implements a smart lock system that can set a pre-record speech cipher and verify the similarity through a laser transmission speech cipher to unlock it. In our experiment result, the English speech of laser transmission can reach a WER (Word error rate) of 14.06% through the deep learning model to recognize the content of the speech cipher. We also design a similarity comparison algorithm based on LCS (Longest common subsequence) to compare the character set of the laser transmission speech compare and the prerecord speech cipher to calculate the similarity rate. Through the similarity comparison algorithm, when the WER is 27.27%, the male speech samples used in this study still have a 95% unlocking success rate, while the female speech samples have a 100% unlocking success rate. Compared with only using automatic speech recognition (ASR) to unlock, the method we propose is to compare the similarity of the content of speech cipher. The method significantly improves the unlocking fault tolerance of using lasers to transmit audio. Therefore, by using the laser to transmit the speech cipher, the usability of the photoelectric smart lock system has been significantly improved. At the same time, the characteristics of the laser are not easy to eavesdrop on the cipher, which can also improve security.

『이반 데니소비치의 하루』

The main character of the novel, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, an ordinary farmer in the Soviet Union, was conscripted during the World WarⅡ and sentenced to 10 years in Gulag for treason while serving in the army. He has spent 8 years in a Soviet concentration camp(Gulag) and is currently in his 9th year. Shukhov is having a hard time fulfilling the given amount of work every day in the harsh cold weather and harsh environment. Most of the prisoners in the camp were classified as political prisoners, but in fact they were innocent people. Shukhov was also accused of treason and classified as a political criminal, but he too was only a victim of Stalin's violent policies. What is the strength that keeps Shukhov enduring life in the camp despite the harsh environment? In this article, we analyzed the theme of ‘Gulag and survival’. First, we looked at the Gulag in the Soviet Union. And we analyzed the prisoner characters including Shukhov held there. The Soviet Gulag originated from the Siberian exile in the 16th centry, and most of the prisoners in the 19th centry were ordinary criminals. Even in Soviet concentration camps(Gulag), political prisoners accounted for only 20% of all prisoners. However, most of the prisoners in the novel “One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” were set as political prisoners. This seems to be Solzhenitsyn's intentional character setting. It was a way to emphasize the misguided policy of the Soviet Union. Shukhov and Baptist Alyoshka have a conversation about the Russian church and faith at the end of the novel, and here we learn that Shukhov's will to survive in the Gulag was very strong. That is, he has a clear purpose for survival. Also, although his faith was weak, it was confirmed that he had faith as a Russian Orthodox Christian.

ON LARGE ORBITS OF FINITE SOLVABLE GROUPS ON CHARACTERS

AbstractWe prove that if a solvable group A acts coprimely on a solvable group G, then A has a relatively ‘large’ orbit in its corresponding action on the set of ordinary complex irreducible characters of G. This improves an earlier result of Keller and Yang [‘Orbits of finite solvable groups on characters’, Israel J. Math.199 (2014), 933–940].

Mining and Utilizing Knowledge Correlation and Learners’ Similarity Can Greatly Improve Learning Efficiency and Effect: A Case Study on Chinese Writing Stroke Correction

Using AI technology to improve teaching and learning is an important goal of educational sustainability. By mining the correlation between knowledge points, the discrete knowledge points can be integrated to improve the knowledge density and reduce the learning task. In addition, the successful experiences of similar learners can be shared, thus shortening the learning path of new learners. To change the common situation of irregular writing stroke order, to teach and correct stroke order effectively, this study uses association rules to explore the potential correlation between error-prone Chinese characters based on a large number of learners’ writing records, and then summarizes and sorts out a set of error-prone Chinese characters based on this. Every Chinese character contained in an error-prone category has a common error-prone feature. By correcting this error, it can be extended to every Chinese character of this category, and the learning efficiency of Chinese character strokes can be improved tens of times. In the training and testing system with a Chinese character error-prone character set, combined with the improved collaborative filtering algorithm, a learner-based personalized error-prone Chinese character recommendation model was proposed. Experimental results showed that the Apriori algorithm with lift measure can excavate effective strong association rules and provide an important reference for the character set table. The improved collaborative filtering algorithm can make use of the similarity between learners, share successful learning experiences, provide a personalized recommendation service for error-prone Chinese characters, and the recommendation performance is higher than that of the traditional collaborative filtering model. In the test of different types of learning groups, there are obvious differences between the independent pre-test and the post-training test, which effectively corrects the irregular writing habits, and further indicates that the excavation of knowledge correlation and the combination of learners’ similarity can effectively improve the efficiency and effect of teaching and learning.

Taxonomic status of Tamarinus imperator subgrisescens (Lönnberg, 1940) (Cebidae, Callitrichinae)

The emperor tamarin, Tamarinus imperator, is composed of two subspecies, the nominal type, T. i. imperator, distributed between the Acre and Purus Rivers, whose range is limited between the Brazilian state of Acre and Peru are unbounded, and T. i. subgrisescens, occurring in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas. Morphologically, both taxa are easily identifiable by the pelage pattern (chromogenetic fields), and even being easily distinguishable, both lineages are considered subspecies according to the criterion based on the Biological Concept of Species from the 1970s, even without presenting some necessary criteria, such as the intergradation zone. Here we analyzed pelage traits, cranial morphometry, Cytochrome-b divergence, and distributional pattern data applying the premises of integrative taxonomy to elucidate the taxonomic status of both lineages. We hypothesize that both lineages are considered full species through a series of criteria for species recognition, such as distinguishability, level of phenotypical divergences of several morphological complexes with congruence among them, and some genetic divergence. The hybridization is unknown and the low or the lack of sampling in target areas does not allow us to determine whether a hybridization or even contact zone between the two lineages exists indeed. All character sets analyzed were congruent with each other and reinforced the high level of divergences between the two subspecies including several pelage differences, morphometry (descriptive statistics, PCA, and MANOVA), and mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome-b divergence. Most of the distribution in both lineages are allopatric, and the levels of intra-lineage phenotypical variation are much lower than between the lineages.

On the exine ultrastructure of fossil ginkgoaleans: In situ pollen of Sorosaccus Harris

The morphology and exine ultrastructure have been studied of pollen grains from pollen cones of Sorosaccus sibiricus Prynada from the Ust’-Baley (Aalenian, Siberia), Sorosaccus sp. from the Vladimirovka (Aalenian-Bajocian, Siberia), and S. ex gr. sibiricus Prynada from the Tyrma (Tithonian–Berriasian, Russian Far East) localities. The pollen grains are boat-shaped and monosulcate. A finely granulate pattern is discernible under high magnification of light microscope in pollen grains from Vladimirovka and Tyrma; SEM shows that this pattern is formed by flat verrucae. TEM shows that sculptural elements are present on the surface of pollen grains from Ust’-Baley, although it is not evident in LM and SEM. By previous data on modern and fossil members, we believed that ginkgoalean pollen grains can be differentiated from similar boat-shaped monosulcate pollen of other affinities by a ratio of ectexinal sublayers (a thick homogeneous tectum, a thin infratectum of one row of structural elements, and a thin foot layer) in combination with an ectexine that is greatly reduced in the aperture region. Freshly obtained data have revealed another set of characters, with a less prominent tectum by comparison to underlying sublayers, an infratectum with small granules within the alveoli, and a prominent verrucate surface pattern that is distinguishable even in transmitted light. Ginkgoaleans are characterized by more than one set of ultrastructural characters of the exine.

Macro and Micromorphological Characterization of Cordia Dichotoma Forst f. Stem Bark

Cordia dichotoma Forst.f syn C. obliqua Willd; C. myxa Roxb belonging to the family Boraginaceae is a medium sized evergreen tree widely distributed throughout the warmer parts of India. It is commonly called lasora or sapistan and serves as a promising cure against the diseases of kidney, liver, spleen, heart and blood. The powdered bark is applied to the skin in cases of broken bones before a plaster was applied, to improve healing. Bark powder is used externally in the treatment of skin diseases. Bark juice together with coconut oil is reported to treat colic. Present paper is an attempt to investigate the anatomical and morphological features of Cordia stem bark from the wild source so as to evaluate its micro structural characteristics. The study illustrates a set of diagnostic characters that can be considered as a first step in ensuring the identity and the degree of purity in the marketed sample of the drug. Keywords: Cordia Dichotoma Forst f. Stem Bark, Macro and Micromorphological Characterization, Unani Medicine

Snekmer: a scalable pipeline for protein sequence fingerprinting based on amino acid recoding.

The vast expansion of sequence data generated from single organisms and microbiomes has precipitated the need for faster and more sensitive methods to assess evolutionary and functional relationships between proteins. Representing proteins as sets of short peptide sequences (kmers) has been used for rapid, accurate classification of proteins into functional categories; however, this approach employs an exact-match methodology and thus may be limited in terms of sensitivity and coverage. We have previously used similarity groupings, based on the chemical properties of amino acids, to form reduced character sets and recode proteins. This amino acid recoding (AAR) approach simplifies the construction of protein representations in the form of kmer vectors, which can link sequences with distant sequence similarity and provide accurate classification of problematic protein families. Here, we describe Snekmer, a software tool for recoding proteins into AAR kmer vectors and performing either (i) construction of supervised classification models trained on input protein families or (ii) clustering for de novo determination of protein families. We provide examples of the operation of the tool against a set of nitrogen cycling families originally collected using both standard hidden Markov models and a larger set of proteins from Uniprot and demonstrate that our method accurately differentiates these sequences in both operation modes. Snekmer is written in Python using Snakemake. Code and data used in this article, along with tutorial notebooks, are available at http://github.com/PNNL-CompBio/Snekmer under an open-source BSD-3 license. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics Advances online.

Entomoneis grisslehamnensis, a New Diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from the Baltic Coast of Sweden with taxonomic and ecological notes on Entomoneis paludosa (W. Smith) Reimer

The diatom genus Entomoneis includes species with panduriform frustules characterized by a bilobate, elevated keel, sigmoid raphe canal and numerous open, porous girdle bands. During a phytoplankton survey along the Baltic coast of Sweden, we observed numerous Entomoneis cells, some belonging to the well-known Entomoneis paludosa, while others remained unknown. Morphological and ultrastructural studies of the unknown species were performed with light microscopy (LM), scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron microscopy, and revealed a unique set of morphological characters. Live cells of Entomoneis grisslehamnensis sp. nov. contain one plate-like plastid and show various degrees of torsion about the apical axis. Microscopic features of cleaned frustules are discussed in comparison with similar species. Most importantly, every 2nd to 5th virga is strongly elevated, uniseriate striae are composed of quadrangular areolae with finely perforated hymenes; the winged keel with a discernible raphe canal is structurally strengthened by raphe fibulae with a flattened wing area, and the main part of the valve bulges towards the margins; striation is decussate on the wings and there is one row of raphe canal areolae at the central area. In addition to describing this new species of an underappreciated, yet cosmopolitan diatom genus, we contribute to the taxonomy of E. paludosa with LM, SEM and TEM details, some of which were not sufficiently noted in original descriptions or re-examination of type material and other specimens made by Dalu et al. [2015. A re-examination of the type material of Entomoneis paludosa (W. Smith) Reimer and its morphology and distribution in African waters. Fottea 15: 11–25] and Long et al. [2022. Ultrastructure of three species of Entomoneis (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Qinghai of China, with reference to the external areola occlusions. PhytoKeys 189: 29–50. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.189.78149].

Developing Teacher Candidates’ Professional Advocacy Skills Through Persuasive Storytelling

In this article, a structure for how to craft persuasive stories is provided (i.e., the Narrative Policy Framework tenets of: establishing a plot, casting a set of characters, and highlighting a clear moral) and is integrated into a learning exercise/assignment outline alongside a sample evaluation tool. Possibilities to extend the learning exercise/assignment are also provided, including peer assessments of persuasiveness as well as reflecting on the experience of sharing persuasive stories with intended audiences. Also shared are teacher candidates’ testimonials on the value of the persuasive storytelling learning exercise/assignment for developing their capacity to effectively advocate for change within their current and future educational roles.

Redescription of the monotypic plant bug genus Paraneella and Paraneella amazonica , with a neotype designation (Heteroptera: Miridae).

The monotypic Neotropical eccritotarsine genus Paraneella Carvalho (Heteroptera: Miridae) and its only included species, Paraneella amazonica Carvalho 1954, are diagnosed and redescribed, and new characters for their recognition are provided, illustrated, and photographed. Paraneella amazonica, previously known from the type locality in Brazil, is reported for the first time from Ecuador. Because the holotype deposited at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was destroyed by fire, a neotype is designated. Carvalho placed Paraneella in the "Neella-Neoneella genus complex" based on its similarity with Neella Reuter. The only existing key to identify these genera had in its first couplet characters referring to males that are unknown for Paraneella amazonica. A new key based on a new set of characters, which are photographed and illustrated, is provided.

Refining southwestern Atlantic peppermint shrimp biodiversity: description of a new species ofLysmata(Decapoda: Lysmatidae) using an integrative systematic approach

AbstractCurrently, 14 of the 50 species ofLysmataare known to possess a long accessory branch with more than two articles. Historically,Lysmata intermediaandLysmata mooreiwere the only two ‘long-branch’ species inhabiting the southwestern Atlantic. Here we describe, based on morphological, molecular and colour pattern data, a new species ofLysmatapossessing a long accessory branch from Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. Our maximum-likelihood analysis recoveredLysmata elisasp. n. as a sister species toLysmata jundalini. Both species are closely related toLysmata holthuisiandL. intermedia. The four aforementioned species comprise theL. intermediaspecies complex. The new species may be morphologically distinguished from the other closely related species by different sets of characters, which include details of the dorsolateral antennular flagellum, armature of ischium of the second pair of pereiopods, intraorbital process shape and relative proportions of pereiopods. Our results reinforce the importance of refining biodiversity data through the application of integrative taxonomic approaches to expand the knowledge of local and global biodiversity. The biodiversity ofLysmatadeserves special attention, as they are intensively exploited in the aquarium trade.