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    Diel vertical migration of zooplankton off Adélie Land (East Antarctica) during austral summer, 2010, inferred from echograms

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    第2回極域科学シンポジウム/第33回極域生物シンポジウム 11月17日(木) 統計数理研究所 3階リフレッシュフロ

    Community structure of pelagic cnidarians off Adelie Land, East Antarctica, during austral summer 2008

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    21 pages, 8 figures, 4 tablesSome studies have suggested that pelagic cnidarians are important components of the Southern Ocean ecosystem due to their high abundance and diversity and their high predatory effects, although little information on these animals is available. Thus, we examined the spatial distribution of pelagic cnidarians from the oceanic to neritic zone off Adélie Land, East Antarctica. Discrete depth sampling was conducted from the surface to 2,000 m depth from late January to early February 2008. In total, 3347 individuals representing 45 species/taxa from eight orders were collected. Cluster analysis revealed three major clusters: (1) an epipelagic group in the oceanic zone composed mainly of Pegantha martagon, the abundance and species diversity of which were very low; (2) a meso- and bathy-pelagic group characterised by high abundance and species diversity with dominance of Dimophyes arctica, Vogtia serrata, and Halicreas minimum; and (3) a neritic group represented by a high abundance of Diphyes antarctica. Cnidarian communities in the epipelagic zone were divided by hydrographic structures such as the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Antarctic Slope Front, whereas those in the meso- and bathy-pelagic layers dominated by circumpolar deep water were relatively stable with higher diversity throughout the oceanic zone. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin HeidelbergThe survey in 2008 was conducted as a part of the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census (CEAMARC) programme. This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Nos. 14255012 and 19255014 for T. Ishimaru, TUMSAT)Peer Reviewe

    A Clustering Method for News Articles Retrieval System

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    Organizing the results of a search facilitates the user in overviewing the information returned. We regard the clustering task as the tasks of making labels for a list of items and we focus on news articles and propose a clustering method that uses named entity extraction

    Snippet Generation for Geographic Information Retrieval

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    Blogranger - a multi-faceted blog search engine

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    Topics mentioned in blogspace are biased towards interesting/ funny or entertainment-related topics compared to articles in the generic web space and there are many personal opinions on products or services. Making good use of these characteristics, we introduce a new blog search engine that provides multiple interfaces, each targeted at a different goal, e.g., topic search, blogger search, and reputation search. To evaluate the effectiveness of the system, we conducted a user survey and collected 2191 answers. For the specific search conducted, BLOGRANGER was seen to be superior to general web search by the ratio of 2 to 1
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