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[Publicity photograph for a show starring Laurie Payne at Princess Theatre (?), Melbourne, 1951?] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on information on file.; Condition: Good.; Part of the Laurie Payne collection of theatrical photographs, 1950-1973.; Inscriptions: 'L. Lott'--In pencil upper left. Photographer's stamp: The Argus, Melbourne ...--On reverse. Laurie Lott [Laurie Payne], on left, posing with three unidentified female performers for a publicity shot taken by a photographer for the Argus newspaper
Argus II retinal prosthesis system: a review of patient selection criteria, surgical considerations, and post-operative outcomes
No full textAvni P Finn, Dilraj S Grewal, Lejla Vajzovic Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, NC, USA Abstract: Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a group of heterogeneous inherited retinal degenerative disorders characterized by progressive rod and cone dysfunction and ensuing photoreceptor loss. Many patients suffer from legal blindness by their 40s or 50s. Artificial vision is considered once patients have lost all vision to the point of bare light perception or no light perception. The Argus II retinal prosthesis system is one such artificial vision device approved for patients with RP. This review focuses on the factors important for patient selection. Careful pre-operative screening, counseling, and management of patient expectations are critical for the successful implantation and visual rehabilitation of patients with the Argus II device. Keywords: retinal prosthesis, vision rehabilitation, artificial vision, patient selection, retinitis pigmentosa, retinal degeneration, low visio
Ozineus argus Monné & Monné, 2012, sp. nov.
No full textOzineus argus sp. nov. (Fig. 7)Published as part of Monné, Miguel A. & Monné, Marcela L., 2012, The genera Tropidozineus Monné & Martins, 1976 and Ozineus Bates, 1863 in Bolivia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae): six new species and a new synonym, pp. 59-68 in Zootaxa 3557 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21140
Stenus argus subsp. austriacus Bernhauer 1899
No full textStenus argus austriacus Bernhauer, 1899 Stenus Argus var. austriacus Bernhauer, 1899: 26. One syntype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. L. Hromádka): SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ’Stockerau. / Dr.Bernhauer [hw] // Stenus Argus / v.austriacus / -typ.Bernh. [hw] // coll. / Hromádka [p] // cotyp [p, pink label] // Stenus [p] / argus ab. / austriacus Be [hw] / L.Hromádka det.19 [p, blue label]’. Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Stenus (Stenus) argus Gravenhorst, 1806; see SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015).Published as part of Macháčková, Lenka, Mikátová, Šárka & Hájek, Jiří, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 791-834 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 (2) on page 802, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0101, http://zenodo.org/record/531873
Physics with ARGUS
No full textThe impact of the ARGUS experiment to elementary particle physics is reviewed. More than ten years of data taking has allowed ARGUS to contribute significantly to our understanding of beauty and charmed hadrons, τ Leptons, ϒ mesons, ϒϒ interactions and fragmentation processes. In particular the ARGUS measurements of CKM matrix elements opened up a new window on the Standard Model
Phytoecia argus
No full textPhytoecia argus (G. F. Frölich, 1793) (Fig. 1C, Fig. 2A, B) Material examined: Bulgaria: W Stara Planina range, Chepun Mts., 2,5 km NW Golemo Malovo Vill., 42°57’17.9’’N 22°59’06.6’’E, 1065 m., dry calcareous grassland, 11.05.2019, 1 ♂, net sweeping, I. Gjonov leg. (BFUS); the same data, but 42°57’17.5’’N 22°59’12.6’’E, 1078 m., 17.05.2019, 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, hand collection, D. Gradinarov & I. Gjonov leg. (BFUS). All specimens collected by hand collection were found individually around the stems of Trinia glauca (L.) Dumort. (Apiaceae), on the ground (Fig. 1B, C). Species of the genus Seseli L. (Apiaceae) are most commonly cited as host plants of Ph. argus (Bense 1995, Rejzek et al. 2001, Sama 2002, Migliaccio et al. 2007, Hoskovec et al. 2019). Known host plants of Seseli genus are summarized by Rejzek et al. (2001), including the following species – S. pallasii Besser (syn. S. varium Trev.), S. annuum L., S. montanum subsp. tommasinii (Rchb. f.) (syn. S. tommasinii Rchb. f.) and S. devenyense Simonk. Along with this more accepted view, Zettel (2006) and Merkl & Szél (2012) reported a relationship of Ph. argus also with T. glauca from the same plant family for Austria and Hungary, respectively. According to Merkl & Szél (2012), beetles can be found as early as April at the base of both Trinia Hoffm. and Seseli host plants. Adult beetles are active from April to June and the larval development is at the roots of both T. glauca and Seseli spp. (Merkl & Szél 2012). Our record seems to confirm the ability of Ph. argus to use T. glauca as a host plant as well. The distribution of Ph. argus seems to be restricted to the remnants of natural steppe habitats in the Western Palaearctic (Schoppmann 1990, Pokorný 2005, Zettel 2006, Merkl 2008, Shapovalov 2012, Dedyukhin 2016). We conclude that the species may be useful as an indicator species for the assessment of the conservation status of natural steppe habitats in Europe. The mountain petrophytic steppes are widespread in the low mountain regions of Western Bulgaria at an altitude of 500 to 1500 m (Tzonev et al. 2011). The first report of Ph. argus from Bulgaria (Ganev 1984) lacks information on the habitat type and host plant, but petrophytic steppes are also present in the area of the Zemen Gorge. The species is likely to be more widespread in suitable habitats in Western Bulgaria. In faunistic studies, host plants of both Seseli and Trinia genera must be checked for the presence of beetles.Published as part of Gradinarov, Denis & Gjonov, Ilia, 2020, New record of the steppe longhorn beetle species Phytoecia (Musaria) argus (G. F. Frölich, 1793) (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) in Bulgaria, pp. 1-4 in ZooNotes 155 on pages 1-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.375305
Cnemaspis argus Dring 1979
No full textCnemaspis argus Dring, 1979 Argus Rock Gecko Fig. 30 Holotype. BM 1974.4911. Type locality: “ 790 m on the east ridge of Gunung Lawit”, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. Diagnosis. Maximum SVL 65.2 mm; eight or nine supralabials; eight or nine infralabials; keeled ventral scales; 6–10 pore-bearing precloacal scales; 26–32 paravertebral tubercles; tubercles not linearly arranged, present on flanks; tubercles absent from lateral caudal furrows; no ventrolateral caudal tubercles, lateral row of caudal tubercles present; caudal tubercles not encircling tail; subcaudals keeled, no enlarged median scale row; 1–4 postcloacal tubercles on each side of tail base; no enlarged femoral or subtibial scales; subtibials keeled; no enlarged submetatarsal scales on first toe; 31–35 subdigital fourth toe lamellae; distinct black and white bands on tail (Tables 6,7). Color pattern (Fig. 30). Dorsal ground color greyish yellow; interorbital region green; yellow markings on head; paired, black, paravertebral, subelliptically shaped blotches extending from nape to tail and transforming into black bands; large patches of yellow tubercles and short transverse bars on flanks; limbs bearing faded, alternating, dark and light bands; non-regenerated tail bearing black and white bands; all ventral surfaces dull-white. Distribution. Cnemaspis argus is known from Gunung Lawit (Dring 1979) and newly reported here from Gunung Tebu, Terengganu 10 km to the north along the same mountain range (Fig. 3). Natural history. Dring (1979) reported Cnemaspis argus to occur at 790 m in elevation in primary forest from Gunung Lawit and Grismer (2011a) considered it an upland endemic that would probably never be seen again because the trail up to Gunung Lawit had become overgrown and lost. However, we did find additional populations from the base of Gunung Lawit at 230 m in elevation and on Gunung Tebu from 40 m in elevation at Hutan Lipur Lata Belatan up to 750 m near the peak. All lizards were seen on large granite rocks within the forest (Fig. 30). These data indicate that C. argus is not an upland endemic but a microhabitat specialist restricted to granite rocks wherever they may occur within its range. During the day, lizards remain wary and occur on the shady, vertical or inverted surfaces. They are in dark in overall coloration and difficult to approach. During the evening hours, lizards are much lighter in color and far less wary, tending to venture farther out onto the open areas of the boulders where they appear generally inactive. Relationships. Cnemaspis argus is most closely related to the sister species C. karsticola and C. perhentianensis (Fig. 2). Material examined. Malaysia: Terengganu, Gunung Lawit BM 1974.4910 – 11 (type series; photographs LSUDPC 2276–78), LSUHC 8304; Gunung Tebu LSUHC 10834–35, 10858–59.Published as part of Grismer, Lee, Wood, Perry L., Anuar, Shahrul, Riyanto, Awal, Ahmad, Norhayati, Muin, Mohd A., Sumontha, Montri, Grismer, Jesse L., Onn, Chan Kin, Quah, Evan S. H. & Pauwels, Olivier S. A., 2014, Systematics and natural history of Southeast Asian Rock Geckos (genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) with descriptions of eight new species from Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 3880 (1) on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3880.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/494956
Panulirus argus postlarva performance fed with fresh squid
No full textThere is a great interest in the growout of spiny lobster postlarva captured in the wild. This activity has been developed
rapidly in Asia and especially in Vietnam. However, lack of appropriated formulated diets remains the main constrain to the
sustainable expansion of this activity worldwide. Until now, best growth rates have been obtained with the use of high
inclusion of krill meal and/or krill hydrolysates which are expensive. However, squid is today avoided as food ingredient due
to low digestibility reported. Also, fresh squid has been demonstrated to produce poor growth performance in temperate
lobsters, but there is no report for P. argus fed exclusive on fresh squid. This work examines the effect of fresh squid on
growth of P. argus (initial weight=1.8 ± 0.46g, initial cephalotorax length=10.62 ± 1.576 mm) during 60 days. Lobsters fed
with fresh squid attained a final weight 4 times higher that the lobsters fed on fish dry pellets. Weight and size increments,
as well as specific growth rates were higher for lobster fed with squid, and resulted similar to the better growth rates
previously reported for P. argus and other lobsters. Results indicate that in spite of previous negative reports for spiny
lobsters, fresh squid is an appropriated food for P. argus. It is suggested that processing technology should be improved for
obtaining more soluble and digestible squid meals for lobsters.En la actualidad existe gran interés en la engorda de langostas espinosas a partir de postlarvas capturadas en el medio
natural. Esta actividad acuícola se ha desarrollado vertiginosamente en Asia y sustenta una industria millonaria sobre todo
en Vietnam. El principal impedimento para la expansión sostenible de este tipo de acuicultura a otras regiones es la ausencia
de dietas formuladas adecuadas que proporcionen altas tasas de crecimiento. Los mejores crecimientos con piensos hasta la
fecha se han logrado con la inclusión de grandes cantidades de harina de krill y/o hidrolizados de krill, ingredientes de
elevado costo. Sin embargo, actualmente se evita el uso de harina de calamar en dietas experimentales para langostas debido
a reportes de baja digestibilidad. También se ha demostrado que el calamar fresco produce bajos crecimientos en algunas
langostas de aguas templadas, pero no existen reportes de crecimiento de P. argus alimentadas exclusivamente con calamar.
En el presente trabajo se estudió el efecto del calamar fresco sobre el crecimiento de postlarvas de P. argus (peso inicial=1.8 ±
0.46 g, largo de cefalotórax inicial=10.62±1.576 mm). El experimento tuvo una duración de 60 días. Las postlarvas
alimentadas con calamar alcanzaron pesos finales 4 veces superiores a las que fueron alimentadas con pienso de pescado.
Los incrementos de peso, talla y la tasa de crecimiento específica también resultaron superiores con calamar fresco y fueron
similares a los mejores crecimientos reportados en la literatura para P. argus y otras especies. Los resultados indican que a
diferencia de lo reportado anteriormente para langostas espinosas, el calamar fresco es un alimento apropiado para P. argus.
Se sugiere que se debe mejorar los procedimientos de obtención de las harinas de calamar, con el objetivo de mejorar su
digestibilidad para langostas espinosas.UnpublishedPanulirus argusSpiny lobste
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