All available genus- and family- group nomina for the Gyrinidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) are listed along with original citation, original and current status, type nominal taxon with method of designation, and known synonymies and incorrect subsequent spellings. The nomina included follow the most current classification. Discussion is provided clarifying numerous nomenclatural problems with origi...

We have found that the generic name Paraseuratoides Moravec, Salgado-Maldonado et Aguilar-Aguilar, 2002 is a junior homonym to Paraseuratoides Wang, 1984. Therefore, a new name, Gibsonnema nom. n., is proposed to replace it (the new genus is named in honour of David I. Gibson, a wellknown English helminthologist). These two genera are monotypic, belonging to the seuratoid family Quimperiidae Ge...

It was shown by Laboisiore (1940, Exploration du Pare National Albert. Mission G. F. de Witte, fasc. 31:51) that the generic name (liapuisia Dnges (188(). Ann. soc. ent. B(>lgiqiie 29(2) :58). of the family Platypodidae, is a jnnior homonym of Chapuisia Duvivier (1885, Mem. soc. sci. Liege, serie 2, 11(15):57) of the family Chrysomelidae. Since no other name is available for this unique platypo...

The Chinese language is syllabic in nature with frequent homonym phenomena and severe word boundary uncertainty problem. This makes the Chinese continuous speech recognition (CSR) slightly difficult. In order to solve these problems, a Chinese syllable-synchronous network search (SSNS) algorithm is proposed. Together with the vocabulary word search tree and the N-gram based language model, the ...

A list of world species for subgenera of Philosepedon Eaton, including Philosepedon s. str., Trichosepedon Krek, and Philothreticus Krek is given, and the subgenus Bahisepedon subgen. nov. is proposed to include some western hemisphere species. Philosepedon wagneri nom. nov. is proposed to replace P. orientale Wagner, a homonym of P. orientale Krek. Two new species from Europe, Philosepedon dum...

Computer networks have become ubiquitous in our society and thus, the various types of resources hosted by them are becoming increasingly important. In this paper we study the resource availability in networks by defining a dedicated middleware language. This language is a conservative extension of the action system formalism, a general state-based approach to modeling and analyzing distributed...

The monotypic Perdita subgenus Xeromacrotera Timberlake is currently known only from the male sex. Here, the female of Perdita (Xeromacrotera) cephalotes (Cresson, 1878) is associated, resulting in two new junior synonyms of P. (X.) cephalotes: Perdita (Procockerellia) excellens Timberlake, 1958, new synonym and Perdita (Cockerellia) autumnalis Timberlake, 1977, new synonym. The true number of ...

The annelid genus Dayus was established by Steiner and Amaral (1999) for a single species Stratiodrilus cirolanae Führ, 1971 from South Africa. Nevertheless the genus name Dayus is preoccupied and was initially introduced by Mahmood (1967) for a typhlocybine leafhopper genus with Dayus elongatus Mahmood, 1967 as the type species from Singapore (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Thus, the genus...

Conceptual models are an important repository for knowledge in companies and public institutions. The retrieval of this knowledge can prepare reorganisations projects and support IT investment decisions. However, so far this information source has hardly been utilized in automated analyses. We argue that if modelling languages are endowed with specific characteristics the resulting models can b...