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Uvitellina titiri Chatterji 1958, n. comb.
No full textU. titiri (Chatterji, 1958) n. comb. Type host. Spur-winged lapwing or plover, Vanellus spinosus (Linnaeus) (Syn. Haplopterus ventralis [Linnaeus]) (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae). Type locality. Junshi near Allahabad, Allahabad District, India. Remarks. This species was originally described as Cyclocoelum titiri Chatteriji, 1958, but was transferred to Wardianum by Yamaguti (1971). It was considered to be a synonym of Haematotrephus lanceolatum (Wedl, 1858) by Gupta (1964). This species has a pretesticular ovary that forms a triangle with the diagonal testes (Haematotrephinae). The genital pore was described by Chatterji (1958) as opening “behind pharynx” (postpharyngeal), but it was shown to be immediately below the intestinal bifurcation in the figure of the adult (apparently Fig. 2). Chatterji (1958) described the vitelline fields as extending “posteriorly to hinder-most ends of the intestinal arch” (confluent). The author also commented that “vitellarium in anterior third of body clearly visible” while some parts were apparently “obscured by uterus”. The vitelline fields appear to be shown as being confluent in Fig. 2, placing this species in Uvitellina. Note that the genital pore placement is unusual for cyclocoelids because it opens below the intestinal bifurcation; however, Chatterji (1958) indicated that the intestinal bifurcation was “much disposed anteriorly”, which may have caused the placement of the genital pore to appear to be more posterior than normal. Rudimentary oral sucker present—Chatterji (1958).Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/23711
Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 143:Theoretical approaches to managing sickness absenteeism
No full textThe cost of absenteeism in the UK has been estimated to be £12 billion per annum. If productivity is some function of the health state of the worker firms may prefer some sickness absence to universal attendance. However, when the health state of the worker cannot be verified the firm must structure its employment contract in order to align the workers’ incentives with its own. The nature of the optimal contract under these circumstances has recently been analysed by Chatterji & Tilley (2002) and Skåtun (2003) who generate rather different theoretical results and empirical implications. In this paper we synthesise these two approaches and reconcile their results
The ICF as a conceptual platform to specify and discuss health and health-related concepts
No full textBackground: The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) has provided a new foundation for our understanding of health, functioning, and disability. As a content-valid, comprehensive and universally applicable health classification, it serves as a platform to clarify and specify health-related concepts that are frequently used in the medical literature. The health concepts to which we refer are: well-being, health status, quality of life (QoL) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL).Objective: The aim of this paper is to use the ICF as a conceptual platform to specify and discuss health-related concepts.Methods: The ICF entities health and health-related domains and functioning will be used as starting point to reach the objective of the paper. Health domains refer to domains intrinsic to the person as a physiological and psychological entity, such as mental functions, seeing functions, and mobility. Health-related domains are not part of a person's health but are so closely related that a description of a person's lived experience of health would be incomplete without them. Examples of health-related domains are work, education, and social activities. Functioning refers to all health and health-related domains within the ICF.Results: Well-being is made up of health, health-related, and non-health-related domains, such as autonomy and integrity. Health state is a health profile that results from collecting together health domains. Functioning states is a profile that results from collecting both health and health-related domains. Health status is a summary measure of health state. Functioning status is a summary measure of functioning state. QoL is the individual's perceptions of how the life is going in health, health-related, and non-health domains. HRQoL is the individual's perceptions of how the life is going in health and health-related domains.Discussion: "HRQoL is to QoL as functioning is to well-being". The ICF represents a standardized and international basis for the operationalization of health based on its health domains. It refers to the more restricted concepts of health state and health status. The ICF is also the basis for the operationalization of functioning based on all health and health-related domains contained therein. The authors argue that functioning is an operationalization of health from a broader perspective. It refers to an operational concept of health in terms of a set of health domains ('under the skin') and health-related domains ('outside the skin') that consider the individual person not only as a biological but also as a social entity. Health from this perspective refers to the broader notion of functioning state and functioning status. Nevertheless, the ICF provides more than a basis for the operationalization of health and functioning. The ICF also contains contextual factors
Peace science
No full textA study of endogenous fragmentation of states as deterrence to peace / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Cycles of violent conflicts and peace in a dynamic model of the global system / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Politics of defence spending and endogenous inequality / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Regional integration, development and peace process / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Snares and quicksand on the pathway to peace : role of international tension in local conflicts / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Food entitlements, public policy and conflicts in backward societies / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Costly peace : a study of the dynamics of negotiations for peace and disarmament / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Conclusion / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- An economic study of ethnic heterogeneity and its implications for conflicts and peace / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas Chatterji -- Introduction / Partha Gangopadhyay, Manas ChatterjiThe process of globalisation has its own dynamics and several serious flaws that have resulted in significant economic, political and social imbalances in the global political economy. Peace Science: Theory and Cases examines the implications of these imbalances for achieving lasting global peace. The poorer regions of the current global system are beset with serious non-mutuality of interests, rivalry and potential conflicts over scarce resources, fragile environment, alternative energy sources and due to declining agricultural productivity and food shortages, contracting markets and owing to bifurcations in and social beliefs, mores and norms while the list of flaws goes on ad infinitum. The global system will need huge collective efforts and mediation from all branches of modern knowledge in overcoming the above problems for a sizeable section of the global population. Peace Science: Theory and Cases offers original research to understand the problems and prospects of global peace in the context of the above dichotomy of the global syste
From wall spaces to CAT(0) cube complexes
No full textWe explain how to adapt a construction due to M. Sageev in order to construct a proper action of a group on a CAT(0) cube complex starting from a proper action of the group on a wall space
Srishti Dhar Chatterji (1935-2017): In Memoriam
No full textThis article discusses the life and work of Professor Srishti Dhar Chatterji, who passed away on September 28, 2017, in Lausanne, Switzerland, most suddenly and unexpectedly, after a very brief illness. Complete bibliographical information is included. (C) 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.PRO
Identification of candidate categories of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) for a Generic ICF Core Set based on regression modelling
No full textBackground: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is the framework developed by WHO to describe functioning and disability at both the individual and population levels. While condition-specific ICF Core Sets are useful, a Generic ICF Core Set is needed to describe and compare problems in functioning across health conditions. Methods: The aims of the multi-centre, cross-sectional study presented here were: a) to propose a method to select ICF categories when a large amount of ICF-based data have to be handled, and b) to identify candidate ICF categories for a Generic ICF Core Set by examining their explanatory power in relation to item one of the SF-36. The data were collected from 1039 patients using the ICF checklist, the SF-36 and a Comorbidity Questionnaire. ICF categories to be entered in an initial regression model were selected following systematic steps in accordance with the ICF structure. Based on an initial regression model, additional models were designed by systematically substituting the ICF categories included in it with ICF categories with which they were highly correlated. Results: Fourteen different regression models were performed. The variance the performed models account for ranged from 22.27% to 24.0%. The ICF category that explained the highest amount of variance in all the models was sensation of pain. In total, thirteen candidate ICF categories for a Generic ICF Core Set were proposed. Conclusion: The selection strategy based on the ICF structure and the examination of the best possible alternative models does not provide a final answer about which ICF categories must be considered, but leads to a selection of suitable candidates which needs further consideration and comparison with the results of other selection strategies in developing a Generic ICF Core Set
Parapharyngodon Chatterji 1933
No full textKey to the Neotropical species of the genus Parapharyngodon Chatterji 1. Males with smooth anterior cloacal lip.................................................................... 2 - Males with echinate anterior cloacal lip................................................................... 7 2. Males with unpaired post cloacal papillae.................................................................. 3 - Males without unpaired postcloacal papillae............................................................... 6 3. Males with spicule larger than 80 µm............................................................ P. sceleratus - Males with spicule smaller than 80 µm.................................................................... 4 4. Males with 4 pairs of caudal papillae, blunt spicule tip, and females with post bulbar ovaries................... P. silvoi - Males with 3 pairs of caudal papillae, sharp spicule tip, and females with pre bulbar ovaries.......................... 5 5. Males with pre cloacal papillae................................................................ P. verrucosus - Males without pre cloacal papillae............................................................... P. largitor 6. Males with 3 pairs of caudal papillae, and eggs with eggshell thin and smooth........................... P. alvarengai - Males with 4 pairs of caudal papillae, and eggs with eggshell thick and punctated..................... P. hispidus n. sp. 7. Males with unpaired post cloacal papilla.......................................................... P. riojensis - Males without unpaired post cloacal papilla................................................................ 8 8. Males with 4 pairs of caudal papillae, spicules larger than 80 µm; and females with spike stout tail end................. 9 - Males with 3 pairs of caudal papillae, spicules smaller than 80 µm; and females with conical tail end, without spike...... 10 9. Mature females with pre bulbar ovary.............................................................. P. bainae - Mature females with post bulbar ovary........................................................ P. sanjuanensis 10. Males with pre cloacal papillae.................................................................. P. politoedi - Males without pre cloacal papillae................................................................. P. hugoiPublished as part of Ferreira, Antonio Carlos Santos, Vieira, Fabiano Matos, Silva, Diego César Nunes Da, Ribeiro, Leonardo Barros, Ferreira, Jayelen Alves & Muniz-Pereira, Luís Cláudio, 2021, Parapharyngodon hispidus n. sp. (Nematoda: Pharyngodonidae) in Tropidurus hispidus (Spix) (Squamata: Tropiduridae) from Caatinga Biome of the Vale do São Francisco, state of Pernambuco, Brazil with a key for the Neotropical species of the genus Parapharyngodon Chatterji, pp. 185-200 in Zootaxa 4980 (1) on page 197, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/488288
Does Open Access Matter? 100 Stories of Impact: One Year Later
No full textA year ago, bepress Managing Director Jean-Gabriel Bankier and Product Marketing Manager Promita Chatterji wrote that it was time to reevaluate the way we talk about open access: we need to talk about why it matters. Since bepress joined Elsevier in August, the conversation has gained new momentum as librarians and scholars ask what the news means. With added visibility and resources, the bepress community can broaden the traditional open access framework and add its voice to the discussion of why open access matters, on campus and off. Join us for a free webinar update on last year’s 100 Stories of Open Access Impact. Promita Chatterji will share new anecdotes that show why open access matters, using bepress’s framework of demonstrable impact for the library and institution
Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 213:Public sector pay in Finland
No full textThis study analyses the forces determining public and private sector pay in Finland. The data used is a 7 per cent sample taken from the Finnish 2001 census. It contains information on 42 680 male workers, of which 8 759 are employed in public and 33 921 in the private sector. The study documents and describes data by education, occupation and industry. We estimate earnings equations for the whole sample as well as for four industries (construction, real estate, transportation and health) that provide an adequate mix of both public and sector workers. The results suggest that the private-public sector pay gap of about one per cent can be accounted for by differences in observable characteristics between the sectors (3.4 per cent) and lower returns from these characteristics (-2.3 per cent). However, the industry-level analysis indicates that the earnings gaps vary across industries, and are negative in some cases. These inter-industry differences in public-private gaps persist even when the usual controls are introduced. This suggests that public sector wage setters need greater local flexibility, which should result in less uniform wages within the public sector
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