Torres Strait Finfish Fishery: Spanish mackerel stock assessment, with data to June 2023. Year Three Report.

The Torres Strait Spanish mackerel fishery commenced in 1941. The fishery for Spanish mackerel is by line fishing only and managed as a single stock. Spanish mackerel are important to the Torres Strait people and fishing culture. They are an economic and traditional food source. The Australian Fisheries Management Authority commissioned annual updates to the Torres Strait Spanish mackerel stock assessment for three years 2021–2023. This was to support quota management and to monitor spawning biomass estimates. This stock assessment analysed data up to June 2023. The assessment was overseen by the Torres Strait Finfish Fishery Resource Assessment Group (TSFFRAG). Across analyses, the median estimated spawning biomass of Spanish mackerel in the 2022–2023 financial year (labelled the 2023 fishing year) was 41 percent of unfished estimates at the start of the fishery in 1941

Susan Migden Socolow (1941-2023)

Tribute - Susan Migden Socolow (1941-2023)Homenaje - Susan Migden Socolow (1941-2023

Susan Migden Socolow (1941-2023)

Homenaje - Susan Migden Socolow (1941-2023

Kajian Sirkulasi Ruang Koleksi pada Perpustakaan Universitas Lampung (Unila)

Ruang koleksi merupakan salah satu ruang penunjang perpustakaan yang paling penting. Kuantitas dan kualitas koleksi mempengaruhi minat pengguna perpustakaan untuk membaca. Di sisi lain, ruang koleksi terdiri dari perabot, buku, manusia dan aktivitas manusia yang ada di dalamnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sirkulasi ruang koleksi perpustakaan Unila dan membandingkannya dengan standar. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif. Data diperoleh melalui studi lapangan. Data denah dan dimensi perabot didapatkan dengan menggambar ulang berdasarkan ukuran lapangan. Data dianalisis dengan cara membandingkan hasil pengukuran dengan standar. Hasil penelitian didapat: 1) Sirkulasi ruang gerak pada ruang koleksi lantai 1 perpustakaan Universitas Lampung memiliki dimensi antar rak koleksi yang tidak sesuai dengan standar, dan dimensi antar rak koleksi ke meja baca tanpa adanya kursi juga tida

Upgrading Fuzzy Extractors

Fuzzy extractors derive stable keys from noisy sources non-interactively (Dodis et al., SIAM Journal of Computing 2008). Since their introduction, research has focused on two tasks: 1) showing security for as many distributions as possible and 2) providing stronger security guarantees including allowing one to enroll the same value multiple times (reusability), security against an active attacker (robustness), and preventing leakage about the enrolled value (privacy). Existing constructions of reusable fuzzy extractors are direct and do not support as many distributions as the best non-reusable constructions. Constructions of robust fuzzy extractors require strong assumptions even in the CRS model. Given the need for progress on the basic fuzzy extractor primitive, it is prudent to seek generic mechanisms to transform a fuzzy extractor into one that is robust, private, and reusable so that it can inherit further improvements. This work asks if one can generically upgrade fuzzy extractors to achieve robustness, privacy, and reusability. We show positive and negative results: we show upgrades for robustness and privacy, but we provide a negative result on reuse. 1. We upgrade (private) fuzzy extractors to be robust under weaker assumptions than previously known in the common reference string model. 2. We show a generic upgrade for a private fuzzy extractor using multi-bit compute and compare (MBCC) obfuscation (Wichs and Zirdelis, FOCS 2017) that requires less entropy than prior work. 3. We show one cannot arbitrarily compose private fuzzy extractors. It is known one cannot reuse an arbitrary fuzzy extractor; each enrollment can leak a constant fraction of the input entropy. We show that one cannot build a reusable private fuzzy extractor by considering other enrollments as auxiliary input. In particular, we show that assuming MBCC obfuscation and collision-resistant hash functions, there does not exist a private fuzzy extractor secure against unpredictable auxiliary inputs strengthening a negative result of Brzuska et al. (Crypto 2014)

Torres Strait Finfish Fishery: Spanish mackerel stock assessment, with data to June 2022. Year Two Report.

The Torres Strait Spanish mackerel fishery commenced in 1941. The fishery for Spanish mackerel is by line fishing only and managed as a single stock. Spanish mackerel are important to the Torres Strait people and fishing culture. They are an economic and traditional food source. The Australian Fisheries Management Authority commissioned annual updates to the Torres Strait Spanish mackerel stock assessment for three years 2021–2023. This is to support quota management and to monitor spawning biomass estimates. This stock assessment, the year-two project report, analysed data up to June 2022. The assessment was overseen by the Torres Strait Finfish Fishery Resource Assessment Group (TSFFRAG). Across analyses, the median estimated spawning biomass of Spanish mackerel in the 2021–2022 financial year (labelled the 2022 fishing year) was 31 percent of unfished estimates at the start of the fishery in 1941

Dragutin Feletar (1941. – 2023.) – akademik, geograf, svestrani intelektualac i prosvjetitelj

In memoriam Dragutin Feletar (1941. – 2023.) – akademik, geograf, svestrani intelektualac i prosvjetitel

Dragutin Feletar (1941. – 2023.)

In memoriamIn memoria

Taxonomic Notes on the Cladodinae, Lampyrinae, and Lampyrinae/Lampyridae \u3ci\u3eincertae sedis\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

We propose several nomenclatural changes for taxa in the subfamily Cladodinae and the lampyrid tribes Cratomorphini, Lamprocerini, Lampyrini, Photinini, and Pleotomini in the subfamily Lampyrinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). We present evidence for the correct year of description of Calotrachelum flavolineatum Pic, 1941, Diaphanes lateapicalis breveapicalis Pic, 1954, Photinus conradti Pic, 1940, and all species described by Charles Émile Blanchard. Spellings are corrected for Diaphanes lateapicalis breveapicalis Pic, 1954, Diaphanes latipennis dartevillei Pic, 1952, Diaphanes longecarinatus Pic, 1955, Diaphanes moultoni latemarginatus Pic, 1938, Lampyris olivieriana von Heyden, 1890, and Photinus reductemarginalis Pic, 1941. We propose Lucidota puertoestrellaensis Keller and Martin nomen novum to replace Lucidota boliviana Pic, 1927, and Photinus laticollis brasiliensis Keller and Martin nomen novum for Photinus laticollis latior Pic, 1941. Seventy taxa described as variations or aberrations in the tribes Cratomorphini, Lamprocerini, Lampyrini, Photinini, and Pleotomini in the subfamily Lampyrinae by McDermott (1966), are evaluated to subspecies with their availability determined based on ICZN (1999: Article 45.6). Photinus motschulskyi Zaragoza-Caballero, Zurita-Garcia, and Ramírez-Ponce, 2023 is synonymized under Photinus intercalatus Gemminger, 1870. Lastly, we correct the type species of the genus Lucidina Gorham, 1833, and address the dates of publication for fireflies described by Blanchard. ZooBank registration. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DCD31B02-DF17-4115-A9A8-A6CBB02D868