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Morphology and DNA sequences are used to describe a new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Elapidae: Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) from Papua New Guinea: Toxicocalamus goodenoughensis n. sp., endemic to Goodenough Island of the D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago. Toxicocalamus goodenoughensis morphologically most closely resembles T. pachysomus Kraus, 2009, but it differs by having undivided nasal scales completely surrounding nares (vs. divided), pale yellow markings on supralabials (vs. purple), a yellow nape band (vs. unbanded uniform nape), a dark gray-brown dorsum (vs. medium brown), dark brown mottling on yellow ventral scales, darkening toward cloaca (vs. uniform light brown), and >175 ventral scales. Phylogenetically, T. goodenoughensis is sister to another D’Entrecasteaux endemic, T. nigrescens Kraus, 2017. Coalescent-based species delimitation found the new species to be uniquely delimited from all other taxa (n = 13) in all combinations of parameters settings. Micro-computed tomography (μCT) scanning revealed the presence of distinctive variation in postfrontal bone morphologies, with three morphotypes exhibited within the genus: directed forward, directed lateral/perpendicular to cranium, and absent. Toxicocalamus goodenoughensis was found to have a sickle-shaped and directed forward postfrontal bone. The directed forward morphotype was shared by T. loriae clade 3 (sensu Strickland et al., 2016), T. mintoni, T. nigrescens, and T. pachysomus. Our work is the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the genus and the first study using μCT scanning for comparative morphology of Toxicocalamus. We also provide an updated dichotomous key for the genus.

ABSTRACT This paper presents the results obtained from the analysis of the zooarchaeological bird assemblages of the Pizzulic 2, Pizzulic 3 and Pizzulic 4 sites, located in the Englefield island, whose radiocarbon dates show occupations from the Middle Holocene to the first millennium of our era. The analysis of the avifauna made it possible to determine the existence of continuity in the exploitation and selection of birds for these three sites, exploiting a reduced taxonomic range and a selection focused mainly on the Phalacrocoracidae Family. Zooarchaeology, bird exploitation, middle and late Holocene, marine hunter-gatherers, taxonomic diversity. INTRODUCCIÓN Las estrategias de subsistencia en contextos de cazadores-recolectores marinos en los sitios del estrecho de Magallanes y seno Otway se observan, en general, dominadas por una especialización en la caza marina, principalmente de presas de mayor tamaño como pinnipedos (Emperaire & Laming, 1961; Legoupil, 1997; Legoupil et al. 2011; San Román, 2013; San Román et al. 2016), que presentan una mayor biomasa consumible y un elevado aporte de proteínas y grasas.

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in smart connected objects as part of the widespread IT consumerization, influencing our daily lives. Nevertheless, digitizing physical things offers an abundance of objects apparently similar but characterized by some features that the average consumers fail to perceive and to appropriate. Due to the phenomenon of users' disengagement with IoT products, consumers need a tool to guide them in choosing the most suitable smart connected object to satisfy their purposes. The current research aims to understand better smart connected objects by proposing a taxonomy based on levels of providing experience enhancements and relevance for effective uses as appropriated by consumers. The user-centered taxonomy allowed us to formulate recommendations for managers and practitioners in the market for smart connected objects aimed at the public, specific to each category of smart connected objects.

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. 1. Derkarabetian S, Hedin M (2014) Integrative Taxonomy and Species Delimitation in Harvestmen: A Revision of the Western North American Genus Sclerobunus (Opiliones: Laniatores: Travunioidea).

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The paper reflects the Russian and foreign experience of road-climatic zoning. It demonstrates the need to refine the applicable taxonomic zoning system using the taxonomic scheme “zone – subzone – road district”. When creating a database for road-climatic zoning, the authors of this paper, in contrast to the scheme adopted in Russia and abroad, take into account territorial patterns of water and heat processes that occur in road structures. The paper justifies soil characteristics for designing pavements in the study area.

Revolution is an historical process that generates a rapid and radical (social, economic and political) change in society. This conceptual paper shows basic characteristics, taxonomies and situational causes of revolution. Moreover, this study also suggests that acurrent and distinct form of revolution, not included in previous studies, is terrorism. Overall, then, it seems that terrorism has many analogies with some drivers of revolution (e.g., economic, social, political and demographic determinants) and can generate changes in society, similarly to revolutions.

DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH) has been used for nearly 50 years as the gold standard for prokaryotic species circumscriptions at the genomic level. It has been the only taxonomic method that offered a numerical and relatively stable species boundary, and its use has had a paramount influence on how the current classification has been constructed. However, now, in the era of genomics, DDH appears to be an outdated method for classification that needs to be substituted. The average nucleotide identity (ANI) between two genomes seems the most promising method since it mirrors DDH closely. Here we examine the work package JSpecies as a user-friendly, biologist-oriented interface to calculate ANI and the correlation of the tetranucleotide signatures between pairwise genomic comparisons. The results agreed with the use of ANI to substitute DDH, with a narrowed boundary that could be set at [almost equal to]95-96%. In addition, the JSpecies package implemented the tetranucleotide signature correlation index, an alignment-free parameter that generally correlates with ANI and that can be of help in deciding when a given pair of organisms should be classified in the same species. Moreover, for taxonomic purposes, the analyses can be produced by simply randomly sequencing at least 20% of the genome of the query strains rather than obtaining their full sequence.