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Pl. 15. — Structural characters of Malaysian species of Amphicnemis. 1 - 3. Male anal appendages, dorsal view and right side. 4. Right lateral view of prothorax . in Descriptions and records of South-East Asiatic Odonata (II)

Pl. 15. — Structural characters of Malaysian species of Amphicnemis. 1 - 3. Male anal appendages, dorsal view and right side. 4. Right lateral view of prothorax .

Fig. 12 in Descriptions and records of South-East Asiatic Odonata (II)

Fig. 12. Coeliccia octogesima (Selys), ♀ holotype. Quadrilateral space of fore and hind wing (left), and prothorax, left lateral and dorsal aspect. p, lateral process o f middle lobe; l.m., lamina mesostigmalis.

Fig.15 in Descriptions and records of South-East Asiatic Odonata (II)

Fig.15. Colour-pattern of synthoraxof Am- phicnemis ecornutaSelys, ♂ (Lampongres., left), andofA.amabilis, sp.n. ♂ (E.Borneo, right).

Fig. 2 in Descriptions and records of South-East Asiatic Odonata (II)

Fig. 2. Ventral aspect of seminal vesicle (top) and left side-view of anal appendages of Euphaea subnodalis Laid., from Mt. Marapok (bottom).

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Recording of a learner of the Dutch language reading a Dutch position paper about Open Science in the Netherlands

This repo contains a recording I made of me reading the position paper "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:283.002-Erkennen-en-Waarderen-Position-Paper_NL_web.pdf#%7B%7Bint%3Alicense-header%7D%7D">Ruimte voor ieders talent</a>" (<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:283.002-Erkennen-en-Waarderen-Position-Paper_EN_web.pdf#%7B%7Bint%3Afiledesc%7D%7D">Room for everyone's talent</a>) upon first contact, albeit after having read the accompanying post "<a href="https://www.scienceguide.nl/2019/11/erkennen-en-waarderen-moet/">Erkennen en waarderen in de wetenschap gaan drastisch veranderen</a>" by Sicco de Knecht, which provides a summary of the position paper and got me interested in knowing more. That post was not openly licensed, so my recording of reading it cannot be shared, but the position paper is available under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons">Creative Commons</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/deed.en">Attribution 3.0 Netherlands</a> license, which thus also pre-determines the licensing of this recording of me reading it. The reason I am putting this out here is that I am interested in sharing knowledge in general, including the process of how it was acquired, which is usually not very visible, even if all the relevant teaching materials are available, which is getting more popular but still remains rare overall. For the same reasons, by the way, I am running a <a href="https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/learning2code">GitHub repo</a> about my progress in learning programming and querying languages. I have no training in Dutch but am a native speaker of German and fluent in English, through which I can understand Dutch texts fairly easily, and I have read a good number of them (including books but more frequently Wikipedia articles) silently over multiple years, which gave me some idea about how the language works. What is usually neglected when reading silently is pronunciation, e.g. while I passively know how numbers and letters are pronounced in Dutch, I normally read them in English or German when reading Dutch texts silently, since that is quicker and less effort for me, and most of the reading I do is to learn about content, not the respective languages. With the bit of extra time afforded by the present holiday period, I can give some more attention to the language part, and since the topic of the position paper (open science and how we need to adapt incentive structures in the research landscape around that) is one that I deeply care about, I could also imagine coming back to the text occasionally to track my progress over time. So if you are interested in the process of language acquisition or in second language acquisition (for me, though, Dutch is far from being second) and especially in open education or open science around these topics, I'd appreciate you getting in touch to learn from each other around how such materials can help me and others learn this language or anything else, and how the workflows around that could be streamlined.

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Treatment of American National Archives Records of World War II Prisoners of War (0326).

NARA PoW Data W.D. A.G.O. FORM NO. 0326. This deposit contains a dataset relating to persons interned between December 7, 1941 and November 19, 1946, which has been enhanced to make it more accessible to scientists. It is based on information from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which is unrestricted and available at <a href="https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&popup=Y">https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&popup=Y</a>, and informs this summary. The NARA 'series' is part of Record Group 389: Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General. It identifies 79 'places of capture' globally "Using copies of reports from the International Committee of the Red Cross ...". The Scope & Content Note states: "This series has information about U.S. military officers and soldiers and U.S. and some Allied civilians who were prisoners of war and internees. The record for each prisoner provides serial number, personal name, branch of service or civilian status, grade, date reported, race, state of residence, type of organization, parent unit number and type, place of capture (theater of war), source of report, status, detaining power, and prisoner of war or civilian internee camp site. Records of prisoners of the Japanese who died also document whether the prisoner was on a Japanese ship that sank or if he or she died during transport from the Philippine Islands to Japan. There are no records for some prisoners of war whose names appear in the lists or cables transmitted to the Office of the Provost Marshal General by the International Committee of the Red Cross." The U.S. War Department used punched cards to manage this information, although "The punch card records were transferred to NARA with virtually no agency documentation." According to the Custodial History Note: "The U.S. Army transferred punch card records of World War II prisoners of war (POWs) to NARA as a unique series in its 1959 transfer of all of the U.S. Army's Departmental Archives. In 1978 the Veterans Administration borrowed most of the punch card records of repatriated U.S. military personnel for a study of Repatriated U.S. Military Prisoners of War, migrated the data on almost all of the borrowed cards to an electronic format and returned the punch cards and two electronic records data files to NARA. In 1995 NARA migrated the data from almost all of the remaining punch card records to an electronic format and has subsequently preserved all of the records in a single data file." It is evident that the organization of this data file assumes access to other information, also accessible in CSV files in the series, in order to interpret detailed information, such as branch of service, grade, parent unit number and detaining power. For example, records appear in the following format: <pre><code class="language-bash">O&745255ABDALLAH EDWARD A 2 LT G1AC 200803413223003620O7222094171035 32214872ABDALLAH JOSEPH T CPL 61INF10230241231100157069802075181087 36336867ABDAY JOSEPH C PVT 81INF10170231611100168069516075181004 </code></pre> constituting a serial number, then a name, then a textual code for rank; followed by a string, (starting G1AC on the first line) which encodes the remaining information. For example, the first digit (G) can be looked up in cl_1279.csv to decode ‘2nd lieutenant’, corroborating in this case the appearance of '2 LT. 'AC' indicates 'armofservicecode: AIR CORPS', but less obviously, 'detainingpower: Germany'; 'race: White' and 'theater: European Theater: Germany'. This single line is the entirety of the information provided per person instance by the NARA series. Users of this potentially valuable resource must develop automation in order to be able to search and employ it effectively; no such tools or specification from which software might be developed immediately is provided. Significantly, this task is hampered by evidence of corruption of the some of the information, which may be due solely to the digitization process mentioned above being applied to the paper records, but possibly with subsequent contribution of fixity effects. NARA documentation does not refer to data integrity issues and, especially since the dataset which NARA provides is large, it may only be during development of automation to employ the series that such issues are discovered. Examples of problems include substitution of characters, such as 'O' replacing '0' and vice-versa; '}' replacing '3' and '&' replacing '8', or less obviously 'L' mis-recognized as '-' and 'II' replacing 'H'. <pre><code class="language-bash">12138003 AREY GERALD J S SG 41AC 2002064123S55}340069802055181033</code></pre> Ideally, access to high resolution scans of the paper documents could be used to address these issues, or external documents. However, checking for completeness of each of the components of a person record enables detection of compromised entries and, where character substitution affects decoding of key information, other contextual information is often available to validate decoding such strings with these characters re-substituted. The larger percentage of strings which already decode plausibly without intervention do not contain incidences of such characters (so there is strong evidence that they are invalid in particular positions. Unfortunately, there is a proportion of digital records with more severe corruption which cannot be addressed without access to scanned imagery of the paper records, for example: <pre><code class="language-bash">O&557875ANDREW THOMAS A 2 LT G1AC 2011094115 70140 6881276AFTEWICZ EDWARD L PVT 81INF10150231321100135069508065181004 6 APLIN -OR-& - 3 1INF102 1 1 0 1 1</code></pre> As of the initial date of this deposit is anticipated that such access will be possible to support further work on this series. The dataset in this deposit does not contain records for which decoding is compromised to the extent that information to populate a basic person schema is incomplete. However, although 36,791 of the 143,374 person records in the NARA series were found to be compromised in some way, 19,624 of those have been substantially decoded and/or repaired and further work is being undertaken to both improve decoding of the 126,207 available here and to retrieve others among the 17,167 which are currently inaccessible. This dataset has been enhanced to present the original NARA 'single data file' as a JSON resource which is more accessible for search and analysis, since each record is document-oriented (containing labels and values for each field, together with provenance information) for example: <pre><code class="language-json">{ "$schema": "https://schemata.hasdai.org/historic-persons/historic-person-entry-v0.0.2.json", "location": [ { "association": "military service", "transcription": "European Theater: Germany" }, { "association": "interred", "transcription": "Stalag 2D Stargard Pomerania, Prussia 53-15" } ], "name": { "familyname": "AARON", "givenname": "JACK", "rank": "SGT", "transcription": "AARON JACK" }, "set": { "id": "https://persons.freizo.org/export/pow/1.0.0", "partof": "10.5281/zenodo.3565392", "title": "WDAGO-0326" }, "source": { "type": "data file" } },</code></pre> The schema employed here serves a specific purpose, in addition to on-going work identifying and correcting errors in the NARA data: it supports work to discover other instances of persons appearing in this NARA series 0326, which also appear in external documentation. For example, in a separate collaborative project with Europa Institute at the University of Basel, a benchmark dataset has been produced based on listings of foreign residents in the Asian Directories and Chronicles, which forms a deposit at <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2580997">10.5281/zenodo.2580997</a> and employs a compatible schema for the purpose of efficient comparison with this and other datasets. Other schemata could be employed for different purposes—leading to alternate datasets, all derived from series 0326. The full extent of information currently decoded from NARA series 0326 is presented at <a href="https://pow.freizo.org/">https://pow.freizo.org/</a> which provides search facilities by person name, plus interactive filters for person rank, service and theater of conflict.

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Figure 2. UCMS Bibliographic Record Life Cycle

Records identification process Immediately after the completion of the preliminary activities for those records that change to the «In union» state, the matching-records algorithm will be run, which will result in the final records of HLUC (master records and single-entry records). The way the records will be merged depends on the use for which these records (master and/or single records) are intended, as shown in Figure 5. Specifically, there is a different way that the records will be merged in order to be presented through the Online Public Access Catalogue, or for the Interlibrary Loan System and they will be structured differently for display in the Cataloguing Center. The differences are mainly about the way and the degree of the field merging

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Table S3. List of Locustella sound recordings included in bioacoustic analysis surrounding description of the Taliabu Grasshopper-Warbler. The table provides information on sound library sources and sampling localities of recordings as well as raw data on all 11 bioacoustic parameters measured (see Supplementary Materials section SM3 for more details on parameters). Recordings whose source is labeled as "private recording" were obtained by colleagues and are available upon demand from the corresponding author.

supplement to Rheindt, Frank E., Prawiradilaga, Dewi M., Ashari, Hidayat, Suparno, Gwee, Chyi Yin, Lee, Geraldine W. X., Wu, Meng Yue, Ng, Nathaniel S. R. (2020): A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna. Science 367: 167-170, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax2146

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Fig. 4 in A new species and first record of Vates Burmeister, 1838 from the Atlantic Rainforest (Mantodea: Vatinae)

Fig. 4. Mid- and hind legs of Vates phoenix sp. nov., highlighting variation across male specimens. A–D. Mid femora. A. Holotype from Fazenda Recanto (MNRJ-ENT6-28441). B. Paratype from Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (MNRJ-ENT6-28447). C. Paratype from Jussaral (MNRJ-ENT6-28449). D. Paratype from Angatuba (MNRJ-ENT6-28456). – E–F. Hind femora. E. Holotype from Fazenda Recanto (MNRJ-ENT6-28441). F. Paratype from Angatuba (MNRJ-ENT6-28456). – G–J. Mid tibiae. G. Holotype from Fazenda Recanto (MNRJ-ENT6-28441). H. Paratype from Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (MNRJ-ENT6-28447). I. Paratype from Jussaral (MNRJ-ENT6-28449). J. Paratype from Angatuba (MNRJ-ENT6-28456). – K–M. Hind tibiae. K. Holotype from Fazenda Recanto (MNRJENT6-28441). L. Paratype from Jussaral (MNRJ-ENT6-28449). M. Paratype from Angatuba (MNRJENT6-28456). Scale bar: A–M = 5 mm.

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Fig. 2 in A new species and first record of Vates Burmeister, 1838 from the Atlantic Rainforest (Mantodea: Vatinae)

Fig. 2. Adults of Vates phoenix sp. nov. A–B. Live specimens photographed in a studio. A. Paratype, ♂, from Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (MNRJ-ENT6-28446). B. Allotype, ♀, from Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ-ENT6-28442). – C–D. Pinned adults. C. Holotype, ♂, from Fazenda Recanto (MNRJ-ENT6-28441). D. Allotype, ♀ (MNRJ-ENT6-28442). Scale bars: C–D = 10 mm.

Figures 1–5. Oreodera pergeri. 1–4 in A new species, new geographical records, and taxonomic notes in Oreodera Audinet-Serville, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

Figures 1–5. Oreodera pergeri. 1–4) Holotype male. 1) Dorsal habitus. 2) Ventral habitus. 3) Lateral habitus. 4) Head, frontal view. 5) Paratype female, dorsal habitus.

Figures 22–28. Megacyllene melanaspis. 22–26 in New species, a new combination, and a new country record in American Clytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)

Figures 22–28. Megacyllene melanaspis. 22–26) Male. 22) Dorsal habitus. 23) Ventral habitus. 24) Lateral habitus. 25) Head, frontal view. 26) Female, dorsal habitus. 27–28) Megacyllene proxima, dorsal habitus. 27) Male. 28) Female.

Figures 17–21. 17 in New species, a new combination, and a new country record in American Clytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)

Figures 17–21. 17) Megacyllene asteca, female, dorsal habitus. 18–21) Prosternal process. 18) M. asteca, female. 19) M. nebulosa, female. 20) M. acuta, male. 21) Plagionotus detritus, female.

Figures 9–16. Amyipunga armaticollis. 9–12 in New species, a new combination, and a new country record in American Clytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)

Figures 9–16. Amyipunga armaticollis. 9–12) Male. 9) Dorsal habitus. 10) Ventral habitus. 11) Lateral habitus. 12) Head, frontal view. 13–14) Female, dorsal habitus. 13) Specimen 1. 14) Specimen 2. 15–16) Elytral apex, female. 15) Specimen 1. 16) Specimen 2.

Fig. 7 in Thoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda) can penetrate the Abyss: a new species of Lebbeus from the Sea of Okhotsk, representing the deepest record of the family

Fig. 7. Phylogenetic relationships within Thoridae (Hippolyte Leach, 1814 as outgroup) based on COI mtDNA gene markers. Bootstrap support (> 50%) is shown by the numbers along the branches (BA/ML analysis). Line thickness is also correlated with support values.

Fig. 4 in Thoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda) can penetrate the Abyss: a new species of Lebbeus from the Sea of Okhotsk, representing the deepest record of the family

Fig. 4. Lebbeus sokhobio sp. nov., ♀ from st. 4-3 (paratype, ZMMU Ma6097) (A–H, J–K, M) and ♂ from st. 4-9 (paratype, SMF 51579) (I, L). A. Basal segments of pereiopods I–III. B. Maxilliped III. C. Antepenultimate segment of maxilliped III. D. Pereiopod I. E. Chela of pereiopod I. F. Proximal segments of pereiopod I. G. Pereiopod II. H. Pereiopod III. I. Merus of pereiopod III. J. Dactylus of pereiopod III. K. Pereiopod IV. L. Merus of pereiopod IV. M. Pereiopod V.

Fig. 2 in Thoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda) can penetrate the Abyss: a new species of Lebbeus from the Sea of Okhotsk, representing the deepest record of the family

Fig. 2. Lebbeus sokhobio sp. nov., general view, ♀ from st. 4-3 (paratype, ZMMU Ma6097) and ♂ from st. 4-9 (paratype, SMF 51579).

Fig. 3 in Thoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda) can penetrate the Abyss: a new species of Lebbeus from the Sea of Okhotsk, representing the deepest record of the family

Fig. 3. Lebbeus sokhobio sp. nov., ♀ from st. 4-3 (paratype, ZMMU Ma6097) (A–I) and ♂ from st. 4-10 (paratype, MIMB 39426) (J–K). A–B. Anterior part of carapace. C. Abdominal pleonites IV–V, lateral view. D–E. Antennula. F. Antenna. G. Telson and uropods. H. Distal margin of telson. I. Distolateral margin of exopod. J. Endopod of pleopod I. K. Endopod of pleopod II.

Figures 7–13 in Records of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) collected in Cambodia, with description of a new species. 149. Contribution towards the knowledge of the Cicindelidae

Figures 7–13. Cambodian tiger beetles. All scale bars = 5 mm. 7) Calochroa interruptofasciata flavolineata (Chaudoir, 1865) from Chambok. 8) Calochroa bramani (Dokhtouroff, 1882) from Chambok. 9) Calomera angulata angulata (Fabricius, 1798) from Phnom Aural. 10) Cosmodela duponti duponti (Dejean, 1826) from Yeak Laom Lake. 11) Cosmodela juxtata (Acciavatti and Pearson, 1989) from Bokor N. P. 12) Lophyra (Spilodia) lineifrons (Chaudoir, 1865) from Phnom Aural.