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MARGINAL NOTES, February 2023. Picking through the rubble.

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Japanese encephalitis in India: current situation and future needs.

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Proximate Chemical Analysis and Effect of Age and Height of Oxytenanthera abyssinica on Fiber Morphology and Chemical Compositions for Pulp and Paper Production Potential

This study examined the chemical composition, fiber morphology, and physical properties of Oxytenanthera abyssinica culm to assess its pulping potential. Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) and Franklin’s methods have been used for experiments. The statistical analysis showed that the chemical composition of O. abyssinica is influenced by the age of the plant. The amount of cellulose in the culm increases with age, while hand extractive content decreases with age. The average chemical content of the three years aged O. abyssinica was 49.26 ± 0.13 wt%, 21.31 ± 0.15 wt%, and 20.63 ± 0.12 wt% for cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin contents, respectively. A significant difference exists between 1, 2, and 3-year aged plants ( P < 0.05 ) in cellulose, lignin, ash, and extractive content. The position of the culm also affects the fiber morphology of O. abyssinica. The fiber’s length, diameter, cell wall thickness, and lumen diameter increase from top to bottom, whereas the flexibility and slenderness ratio decrease. The average fiber morphology of O. abyssinica was flexibility ratio ( 0.72 ± 0.10 ), Runkel ratio ( 0.35 ± 0.10 ), slenderness ratio ( 109.98 ± 0.21 ), lumen diameter ( 15.63 ± 0.03 μm), cell wall thickness ( 2.74 ± 0.03 μm), fiber length ( 2.40 ± 0.10 mm), and fiber diameter ( 21.83 ± 0.09 μm). The above data showed that the mean value of the fiber length of the plant is greater than 1.5 mm, the Runkel ratio was less than 1, and the slenderness ratio was greater than 70 standard values. The result also showed that the average bulk density and the moisture content were 660 kg/m3 and 9.6%, respectively. Although O. abyssinica is widely grown in the study area, no comprehensive studies have been carried out on fiber morphology, chemical composition, and physical properties based on age and height. Thus, this research was carried out to study the plant’s fiber characteristics to assess its suitability for pulp and paper production. Based on the above data, the 3-year aged bottom part of O. abyssinica is recommended for more yield pulp and high-quality paper production than the first and second-year aged plant.

Corrigendum: Phylogenomic and comparative genomic studies robustly demarcate two distinct clades of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains: proposal to transfer the strains from an outlier clade to a novel species Pseudomonas paraeruginosa sp. nov.

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A revise on using surrogate safety measures for rear-end crashes

Traffic safety is among the most serious topics of transportation engineering studies. Different methods have been proposed for safety evaluations. Applying surrogate safety measures (SSM) to predict the crash likelihood and severity is a relatively new approach, which needs microscopic traffic data instead of crash data. Numerous SSMs have been introduced in the literature. Now, it is somehow hard to decide about the selection of suitable SSMs for safety assessments based on microscopic traffic data. In this paper, first a review on SSMs relating to rear-end conflicts introduced in the high-quality papers is done. Then, with the help of microscopic traffic data of NGSIM in I-80 freeway, SSMs are calculated for each car-following scenario. Because of the diversity of SSMs and contradicting results it was tried to propose a method for combining the results of these indicators to report one number as the rear-end collision risk. The efficiency of the new indicator is evaluated in comparison to individual SSMs. The proposed methodology can be beneficial to improve the efficiency of In-vehicle collision avoidance warning system (IVCAWS) and enhancing highway safety evaluations based on SSMs.

Erratum: The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri.

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Preface

The 6th International Conference on Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering (ICEMCE 2022) was successfully held on October 28th-30th, 2022 in Xi’an China (virtual conference). ICEMCE 2022 created an ideal platform for experts, scholars and researchers engaged in Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering to share views and experiences, promoting the application and development of theories and technologies and establishing business or research contacts for all the participants.In the conference, we were greatly honored to have Prof. Songgang Qiu from West Virginia University, USA a to serve as our Conference Chair. The conference covered keynote speeches, oral presentations and online Q&A discussion, attracting more than 160 delegates from all over the world. Firstly, the keynote speakers were each allocated 30-45 minutes to address their speeches. Then in the oral presentations, the excellent papers we had selected were presented by their authors one by one.Four sophisticated professors were invited to hold keynote speeches during the conference. Among them, Prof. Yang Xiao from Southwest Petroleum University, China performed a keynote speech on the title: Development of Key Technologies of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality and Their Application. Focusing on the development trend of virtual reality and augmented reality technology, this study summarized the technical characteristics, the development status of key technologies, and the wide application of virtual reality and augmented reality, aiming at laying a more solid foundation for the continuous development and application of virtual reality augmented reality technology. Moreover, Prof. Yanjiao Chen from Zhejiang University, China made a report on Blackbox Enrollment-Phase Attacks on Smart Speaker Recognition Systems. In this presentation, we explored a new attack surface of SRSs by presenting an enrollment-phase attack paradigm, designed carefully continuous adversarial perturbations into innocent-sounding ambient sound, and optimized over adversarial segments with content desensitization and physical realization, reveals the vulnerability of SRSs during the enrollment phase, which may spur future research in improving the security of SRSs. Their dramatic speeches had triggered heated discussion. And every participant praised this conference for disseminating insightful knowledge.We are glad to share with you that we’ve selected a bunch of high-quality papers from the submissions and compiled them into the proceedings after rigorously reviewing them. These papers feature but are not limited to the following topics: Computer Simulation, Smart Grid, Electric Energy Processing, Mechanical Dynamics, etc. All the papers have been checked through rigorous review and processes to meet the requirements of publication.We would like to acknowledge all of those who supported ICEMCE 2022 and made it a great success. Particularly, we would like to thank the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, for the efforts of all its colleagues in publishing this paper volume. We truly believe that all the attendees have had fruitful discussions and gained valuable knowledge, and will enjoy the opportunity for future collaborations.The Committee of ICEMCE 2022List of Committee member is available in this Pdf.

Notification that new names of prokaryotes, new combinations, and new taxonomic opinions have appeared in volume 72, part 11 of the IJSEM.

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Marginal Notes, January 2023. Back on track?

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International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: subcommittee on the taxonomy of methanogenic archaea. Minutes of the closed, online meetings held 24 September 2020 and 8 October 2020.

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In Memoriam - Pei-Jin Zhou (1938-2022).

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Evaluation of the combined use of the Sepsityper Kit with the Clearview PBP2a assay for identification of staphylococci strains and detection of their methicillin resistance directly from positive blood culture bottles.

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In memoriam - Kazuo Komagata (1928 - 2022).

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Corrigendum: Legionella bononiensis sp. nov., isolated from a hotel water distribution system in northern Italy.

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Which Wastepaper Should Not Be Processed?

In the 21st century, numerous economic and environmental initiatives have significantly increased paper recycling, which continues to expand due to environmental awareness. With increasing recycling rate, low-quality paper fractions may be included in the process, leading to the overproduction of very low-value papers that cannot be reprocessed. Moreover, the production of paper from poor-quality wastepaper can result in the introduction of chemicals from the recycled paper into the recycling loop and unintended spread of chemical substances. Therefore, reliable and conscious selection of recycled pulp is imperative. To this end, the present study verified the properties of recycled pulp critical for the assessment of its papermaking ability for the production of high-quality sanitary paper. Following an examination of samples, it was found that the key parameters that influence the papermaking ability of wastepaper include presence of impurities, content of extractive substances, freeness, and length of fiber. On this basis, types of wastepaper that, at the very beginning, did not portend well for obtaining paper products with high potential for utility were eliminated.

Notification that new names of prokaryotes, new combinations, and new taxonomic opinions have appeared in volume 72, part 10 of the IJSEM.

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Validation List no. 209. Valid publication of new names and new combinations effectively published outside the IJSEM.

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Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion no. 37.

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Preface: 2022 International Conference on Wind Power, Energy Materials and Devices (WPEMD 2022)

In order to accelerate the development of wind power, smart grids and green energy, promote in-depth integration of the energy materials and energy devices, and foster new growth areas, we hosted the 2022 International Conference on Wind Power, Energy Materials and Devices (WPEMD 2022) in Mumbai, India during November 26-27, 2022.
 WPEMD 2022 aimed to provide a platform for experts and scholars, engineers and researchers to share scientific research results and cutting-edge technologies, understand academic development trends, broaden research ideas, strengthen academic research and discussion, and promote cooperation in the industrialization of academic achievements. It also helps to promote communication between researchers and practitioners working in a variety of scientific fields, with a focus on improving wind power and green energy related technologies.
 About 80 participants from academic, high-education institutes and other organizations took part in the conference. The conference model was divided into two sessions, including oral presentations and keynote speeches. In the first part, some scholars, whose submissions were selected as the excellent papers, were given 8-10 minutes to perform their oral presentations one by one. Then in the second part, keynote speakers were each allocated 30-40 minutes to hold their speeches.
 The proceedings present a selection of high-quality papers submitted to the conference by researchers from universities, research institutes, and industry. All papers were subjected to peer-review by conference committee members and international reviewers. The papers were selected based on their quality and their relevance to the conference.
 I would like to express special gratitude to members of the conference committee and organizers of the conference. I would also like to thank the reviewers for their valuable time and advice which helped in improving the quality of the papers selected for presentation at the conference and for publication in the proceedings.
 With our best regards,
 Conference Organizing Chair
 Mumbai, India

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae: Minutes of the closed meeting, 25 August 2022, ESCCAR Meeting Lausanne, Switzerland.

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