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Fungal diversity notes 1919–2016: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa
No full textThis article is the 18th contribution to the Fungal Diversity Notes series, in which we document 98 taxa across two phyla, eight classes, 21 orders, 46 families, and 59 genera. The represent samples of taxa were collected from a diverse range of regions, including Australia, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, China, Czechia, India, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo, USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. Among these, we introduce one new genus, 59 new species, 13 new combinations, one new name and 24 new records, along with information on their hosts and geographic distributions. The newly introduced genus is Fusicastoreum, and the newly described species include: Acrogenospora guangxiensis, Agaricus longistipitatus, A. sunanensis, Anthosulcatispora sichuanensis, Anthracoidea siccatae, Bjerkandera meridionalis, Camarophyllopsis brunnea, Candolleomyces analalavaensis, C. kely, C. macrosporus, Ceriporia yunnanensis, Choiromyces mongolicus, Colletotrichum duohuaense, Coprinus variicolor, Cystoderma alticola, C. microspore, C. yadongense, Cytospora lhaluensis, Diaporthe amberina, D. mangiferae, Elsinoe fuzhouensis, Epicocum maxima, Fulvifomes shailashikhara, Fusarium tuberculatum, Fusicastoreum arenarium, F. occidentale, F. pisiglareum, F. trappei, Gyalidea lluxitensis, Gymnopilus rimopileus, Hohenbuehelia triloba, Hymenagaricus ruber, Hypholoma darjeelingensis, Laccaria guizhouensis, Lactifluus aureoelephanti, L. croceivillus, Leucoagaricus ankarafantsikaensis, L. rutilus, Micropsalliota squamulosa, M. vinacea, Neomyrmecridium triseptatum, Niesslia wurfbainiae, Nigropunctata conspicosa, Ophiocordyceps jilinensis, Oxydothis dehongensis, Panaeolus ranwuensis, Pestalotiopsis buxicola, Pleurocordyceps puerensis, Pseudocercospora cunninghamia, Psilocybe zhushanensis, Remotididymella tachibana, Russula gaoligongensis, R. guilinensis, R. pseudovirescens, Sarocladium solani, Septoriella saviya-ramazanovaii, Seriascoma oblonga, Talaromyces pseudorugulosus and Tricholosporum madagascariense. Additionally, species newly transferred from Psilocybe include Deconica caespitosa, D. californica, D. goniospora, D. josecastilloi, D. latispora, D. novozoncuantlensis, D. oregonensis, D. venezuelana and D. vialis. Russula afroscrobiculata is newly transferred from Lactarius afroscrobiculatus, and Puccinia hamamelidis, P. hydrangeicola, P. philadelphi are newly transferred from Aecidium. Furthermore, the new name Puccinia shojiana is proposed as a replacement for Aecidium akebiae. The 24 new records of hosts and geographical distributions include: Agaricus pallidobrunneus, Bovista cretacea, Candolleomyces subsingeri, Clitopilus chichawatniensis, Collybiopsis gibbosa, C. subumbilicata, Curvularia geniculate, Cystoderma japonicum, Cytospora diatrypelloidea, C. schulzeri, Elsinoe leucospermi, Fulvifomes aurantiacus, Laccaria macrobasidia, Menisporopsis pandanicola, M. pirozynskii, Multifurca pseudofurcata, Musicillium elettariae, Myrmecridium pulvericola, Ophiocordyceps asiana, O. campes, Phellinus resupinatus, Phylloporia afrospathulata, Tropicoporus linteus and Typhula incarnate. All taxa are supported by both morphological and phylogenetic analyses. © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Mushroom Research Foundation 2025
Fungal diversity, evolution, and classification
No full textFungi include mushrooms, molds, lichens, yeasts, and zoosporic forms that occur as free-living or symbiotic organisms in every ecosystem on Earth. About 155,000 species of Fungi have been described, and possibly millions more remain to be named. Recent focus on aquatic habitats has illuminated major groups near the boundary between Fungi and protists. Fungal systematists have made remarkable progress toward resolving the major branches of the phylogeny, although some deep nodes have proven recalcitrant. Fungal taxonomists steadily describe about 3,000 new species per year, and fungal molecular ecologists routinely detect many thousands of unidentifiable ‘dark fungi’ through metagenomic analyses. To assemble the complete fungal tree of life, it will be necessary to connect the main branches of the phylogeny to information on all described species and integrate the vast and rapidly growing corpus of dark fungi. © 2025 Elsevier Inc
Elizabeth Blake, PhD: Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
No full textForbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality, a trope easily traced to the garden of Eden. Modernist poets deployed this familiar figure in new ways, insisting on the fleshy materiality of fruit as a way of representing other forms of fleshly pleasure. In her recent book, Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake examines this phenomenon as part of a larger exploration of the ways queer consumption restructures modernist literary forms. In this talk, Blake focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience
Analyzing sequential purchasing behavior and prioritizing brands in loyalty programs
No full textPurpose: This study aims to develop a novel model to quantify the strength of customer loyalty based on sequential purchasing behaviors within loyalty programs. It also ranks brands to generate a comprehensive ranking list for each customer segment. Design/methodology/approach: This study proposes a network-based model to record customers’ purchasing history, incorporating purchase frequency, time-decay and discount effects. This study also introduces a modified Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search algorithm to rank brands within each customer segment. Findings: This study analyzes the transactional data set of a multi-industry loyalty program to identify future brand choices for each customer segment. Research limitations/implications: The proposed methodology does not consider point redemption or expenses incurred for a specific brand. The methodology also does not assume any specific distribution for purchasing time or include predictive analysis. Practical implications: Loyalty program managers can design marketing strategies based on representative transaction sequence networks from customer segments. They can also identify popular or influential brands. Cross-selling strategies can be developed using information about the brands most likely to be purchased subsequently. Originality/value: To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to propose a network-based model to quantify the strength of customer loyalty from sequential purchasing behaviors. This study also introduces a novel methodology for segmenting customers and proposes a modified Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search algorithm to rank brands. © 2025, Emerald Publishing Limited
Governing Climate Mobility: A Case Study of Urban Education Policies in Mexico City
Get PDFMexico’s migration landscape is shaped by internal displacement, return migration, and transit migration, increasingly influenced by the social and environmental pressures of climate change. Mexico City, as both the capital and most populous urban center, plays a central role in receiving and shaping the experiences of mobile and displaced populations.This paper uses climate mobility as an entry point to examine the intersection of migration, education policy, and integration in Mexico City.Drawing on the mobilities paradigm, the study challenges fixed categories of migration and settlement, emphasizing how movement is embedded in everyday life and reshapes both people and places. Rather than isolating climate-induced displacement, it situates climate change within the broader system of social, economic, and political processes that influence why and how people move.Through analysis of national legal frameworks and urban education policies, the research reveals how bureaucratic barriers, documentation requirements, and fragmented implementation undermine the inclusive goals of these policies. It also interrogates dominant integration models, showing how access to education reflects and reproduces hierarchies of belonging and citizenship.By framing education as both a right and a site of social inclusion, this research highlights the gap between policy and practice and calls for more responsive urban systems that recognize and adapt to the complexities of climate mobility and migration in contemporary Mexico
Baseball team group photo [3], circa 1980s
No full textA Clark University baseball team group photo, circa 1980s.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023. The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/baseball/1037/thumbnail.jp
Baseball team group photo, circa 1990s
No full textA Clark University baseball team group photo, circa 1990s.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023. The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/baseball/1035/thumbnail.jp
Clark University Celebrates 121st Graduate Commencement Ceremony
No full textVideo of Clark University\u27s 121st Graduate Commencement Ceremon
Ethics in Digital Marketing: A Gen-Z’s Perspective
Get PDFAlmost 72% of Americans report they have a sense of being tracked online through their cellphones, by their advertisers or companies they follow, around 20% think their activities across their days are tracked, with almost 47% reporting the government tracks their cellphones, behaviors, and everything they do online. (Atske, 2019) It is no secret that when people say privacy is a myth, it is upon the behaviors of the companies to inform the customers of what, where, and why their activity is being tracked. Answering how the activity is tracked and when it will be tracked are key factors that lead to customer trust and establish a healthy and positive communication between the brand and its customers.
With the advent of AI and digital growth, no stone is left unturned when it comes to working with technology, automation, and figuratively making our lives easier because \u27Every Second Counts.\u27
The paper is a Gen Z perspective on Ethical Issues associated with Digital Marketing Practices, such as tracking customers\u27 online browsing activities without their consent, Ethical Issues with the use of AI in Marketing and Digital Marketing, and lastly, identifying the potential bias in Data Analytics based on Consumer Online Activity
A call to interpret disagreement components during classification assessment
No full textThis foresight manuscript proposes several ideas concerning how to conduct insightful classification assessment. Authors should report disagreement components that relate to the research question, without anointing results as acceptable or good. This manuscript reviews the citations of the 2011 manuscript entitled ‘Death to Kappa: Birth of Quantity Disagreement and Allocation Disagreement for Accuracy Assessment’, which gave two recommendations: (1) do not use Kappa and (2) use disagreement components. We analyzed 200 articles that cited the Death to Kappa manuscript. A quarter of the articles followed both recommendations, another quarter followed only the first recommendation, another quarter followed only the second recommendation, and the last quarter followed neither recommendation. The attempt to replace Kappa with disagreement components has been partially effective, while Kappa continues to haunt several professions. We discuss misguided uses of Percent Correct and Kappa in Remote Sensing and Land Change Modeling. The concepts are general and thus relate to additional fields. Authors frequently use arbitrary thresholds of metrics to claim that results are acceptable. However, the notion that results can be acceptable or not is inherently unscientific. Scientists must use a metric that addresses a clear research question in which the scientists have no vested interest in the results