The first morphological observation of a euryalid brittle star, Asteronyx loveni, using non-destructive X-ray micro-computed tomography (µCT) was performed. The body of euryalids is covered by thick skin, and it is very difficult to observe the ossicles without dissolving the skin. Computed tomography with micrometer resolution (approximately 4.5-15.4 µm) was used to construct 3D images of skel...

This paper presents the development of XKey, a tool for generating taxonomical identification keys by means of decision tree construction. The tool is based on an XML standard for the representation of general taxonomical information, which makes it ideal for different fields of application. The article analyses the problem by examining the adaptation of machine learning techniques to the spher...

We examine the possible use of description logics (DLs) as a knowledge representation and reasoning system for high-level scene interpretation. It is shown that so-called aggregates composed of multiple parts and constrained primarily by temporal and spatial relations can be used to represent high-level concepts such as object configurations, occurrences, events, and episodes that are required ...

Concept languages (as used in BACK, KL-ONE, KRYPTON, LOOM) are employed as knowledge representation formalisms in Artificial Intelligence. Their main purpose is to represent the generic concepts and the taxonomical hierarchies of the domain to be modeled. This paper addresses the combination of the fast taxonomical reasoning algorithms (e.g. subsumption, the classifier etc.) that come with thes...

Pollution-sensitive mayflies have been used extensively in water quality monitoring studies. In order to realise more of their ecological importance, it is important to be able to describe and understand the ecology of that taxa. Ephemeroptera in Singapore have not been extensively described so far. This study aimed to establish the baseline for identifying local ephemeropteran taxa in lentic h...

Abstract: Background and Aims: Vanilla is one of the well-known genera family Orchidaceae due to ornamental, medicinal culinary attributes some its taxa. The genus pantropical has about 120 species mostly found in Neotropics. objective this study was report occurrence V. karenchristianae Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Methods: We present a morphological description based on analysis newly populatio...

Deep learning has achieved state-of-the-art performances in several research applications nowadays: from computer vision to bioinformatics, object detection image generation. In the context of such newly developed deep-learning approaches, we can define concept multimodality. The objective this field is implement methodologies which use modalities as input features perform predictions. this, th...

Streptococcus suis, a major porcine pathogen and an important zoonotic agent, is considered to be composed of phenotypically and genetically diverse strains. However, recent studies reported several "S. suis-like strains" that were identified as S. suis by commonly used methods for the identification of this bacterium, but were regarded as distinct species from S. suis according to the standard...