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Pygodiscodon touroulti Constantin 2010
No full textPygodiscodon touroulti Constantin, 2010 (Figs 6, 12, 32–34, 40, 56–58) Pygodiscodon touroulti Constantin 2010b: 12 (original description). CONSTANTIN (2017): 64 (key). Type locality. French Guiana, Regina, Réserve naturelle des Nouragues, camp de Saut Pararé. Type material examined. HOLOTYPE:, ‘ Guyane, [Régina] station [scientifique des] Nourages | Saut Pararé | 4°01 ′ N, 52°41 ′ W, 120m | 18.VII.2009, piège lum.[ineux] | P.H. Dalens, S. Brûlé, J. Touroult’ (MNHN). PARATYPES: ‘ Guyane, station Nourages | saut Pararé | 4º01 ′ N, 52º41 ′ W, 120m | 17.VII.2009, piège lum. | P. Dalens, S. Brûlé, Touroult || PARATYPE | Pygodiscodon | touroulti | Constantin n. sp | R. Constantin des. 2010 || NHMB-ENT | 2012-028’ (1 NHMB); ‘ Guyane, station Nourages | saut Pararé | 4º01 ′ N, 52º41 ′ W, 120m | 20.IV.2010, piège vitre | P. Dalens, S. Brûlé, E.Poirier || PARATYPE | Pygodiscodon | touroulti | Constantin n. sp | R.Constantin des.2010 || NHMB-ENT | 2012-028’ (1 ♀ NHMB); ‘ Guyane, station Nourages | saut Pararé | 4º01 ′ N, 52º41 ′ W, 120m | 23.XI.2009, piège vitre | P. Dalens, S. Brûlé, E. Poirie || PARATYPE | Pygodiscodon | touroulti | Constantin n. sp | R. Constantin des. 2010 || MZSP 5171’ (1 MZSP); ‘ Guyane, station Nourages | saut Pararé | 4º01 ′ N, 52º41 ′ W, 120m | 03.VI.2009, piège vitre | P. Dalens, S. Brûlé, E. Poirier || PARATYPE | Pygodiscodon | touroulti | Constantin n. sp | R. Constantin des. 2010 || MZSP 5172’ (1 ♀ MZSP);‘ Guyane, station Nourages | saut Pararé | 4º01 ′ N, 52º41 ′ W, 120m | 16.V.2010, piège vitre | P. Dalens, S. Brûlé, E. Poirier || PARATYPE | Pygodiscodon | touroulti | Constantin n. sp | R. Constantin des. 2010 || BMNH{E} | 2015-166 | R. Constantin’ (1 BMNH). Additional material examined: BRAZIL: AMAPÁ : Porto Platon, 22.vii.1961, 1, J. & B. Bechyné leg. (MZSP, 10259); Serra do Navio, 19.vii.1961, 1, J. & B. Bechyné leg. (MPEG). Additional published records: FRENCH GUIANA: Mana, Angoulême, 5°24 ′ N, 53°39 ′ W (CCO); Maripa-Soula-Massif de Mitaraka, camp de base, altitude 300 m, 2°14 ′ 1 ″ N, 54°27 ′ 38 ″ W (MNHN, CCO); Maripa-Soula, Mont Tabulaire Itoupé, altitude 600 m, 3°01 ′ 20 ″ N, 53°05 ′ 41 ″ W (CCO); Régina, Petite Montagne Tortue, 4°18 ′ N, 52°13 ′ W (CCO); Saint-Elie, Réserve de la Trinité, savane-roche de la Haute-Koursibo, 4°19 ′ N, 53°17 ′ W (CCO); Saint-Laurent du Maroni, village Espérance, 5°25 ′ N, 54°03 ′ W (CCO); Saül, belvédère de la Montagne Pelée, 3°37 ′ 22 ″ N, 53°12 ′ 57 ″ W (CCO). All published by CONSTANTIN (2010b). Description. Body length: 5.0–6.1 mm. Head black; frons, clypeus and base of mandibles light brown to testaceous, slightly translucent; apex of mandibles light brown; palpi dark brown. Antennae black; antennomeres X–XI yellowish-brown, except at base of X and tip XI. Pronotum orange-yellow with wide medial black patch stretching longitudinally from anterior to posterior margins. Elytra, thorax, legs and abdomen dark brown. Male (Fig. 6). Head as long as wide, broadly rounded behind eyes, densely pubescent; occipital region and frons convex; clypeus wide, emarginated anteriorly. Eyes rounded, slightly prominent. Maxillary palpi elongate, last palpomere slender and slightly securiform.Antennae (Fig. 12) long, serrate and slightly compressed dorso-ventrally; dorsal surface of antennomeres VI–IX with irregular longitudinal line, not straight, varying in length and width. Pronotum densely pubescent, transverse, 1.6 times wider than long; lateral margins almost parallel, explanate upwards and shortly notched before basal angles. Elytra finely rugous, densely covered with erect brownish setae; each elytron 5 times longer than wide. Legs slender; tarsomeres increasing in size from pro- to metathoracic legs; inner claw of prothoracic tarsus broadly lamellate at base, meso- and metathoracic tarsal claws with sharp protruding tooth. Last abdominal ventrite (Fig. 32) bilobed and slightly acute at apex; abdominal tergite VIII (Figs 32–34) short and broad, strongly constricted posteriorly, forming broad and short apical projection bearing two contiguous glandular openings at apex. Aedeagus (Figs 56–58): ventral wall of tegmen long and broad, lateral sides emarginated, apical margin truncate with short median incision, sparse short setae along lateral and apical margins; parameres very short, hidden behind dorsal margins of tegmen, bearing a few thin apical setae; median lobe long and slender, membranous apically; internal sac hidden inside median lobe, except apex of sclerites; ventral sclerite entire, not divided, apex slightly acute, curved ventro-laterally; dorsal sclerites slender, with apex curved dorso-laterally. Female. Similar to male but antennae lacking longitudinal lines; pronotum not notched laterally; tarsal claws simple; abdominal ventrite VII (Fig. 40) 2.7 times wider than long, not divided, lateral margins arched, distal margin with short and broad projecting tip; abdominal tergite VIII broad and simple. Differential diagnosis. Colour pattern similar to P. gurupi sp. nov. and P. monoceros sp. nov. Antennal lines from antennomeres VI–IX; last abdominal ventrites of males bilobed, with acute apex; last abdominal tergite of males strongly constricted posteriorly forming broad and short apical projection. Distribution. The species was known only from the type series from French Guiana (CONSTANTIN 2010b). It is recorded for the first time from the State of Amapá in Brazil (Figs 59–60).Published as part of Biffi, Gabriel & Constantin, Robert, 2018, Taxonomic revision of Pygodiscodon (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), pp. 77-90 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0008, http://zenodo.org/record/367678
Defalcation of European Union Budget in the Romanian Criminal Law
No full textOne of the goals for Romania, after the 1st January 2007, was to protect the financial interests of the European Union to fight against fraud, corruption and other illegal activities. In order to achieve this target, the legal framework has been completed by the Law no. 161/2003 which introduced the article no. 182 in the text of the Law no. 78/2000 regarding prevention, discovery and punishing the corruption acts. The author analyses this new article and he develops the two constitutive elements (actus reus, mens rea), the objective and subjective aspects of the analyzed crime, the ways, the legal punishments applicable to this crime.fraud, financial interests, spending, incomes, actus reus, mens rea, legal punishments.
Plectonotum neoruficolle Constantin, 2020, nom. nov.
No full textPlectonotum neoruficolle, nom. nov. (Figs. 16, 39, 77-78, 108, 119) Plectonotum ruficolle Wittmer, 1988: 331, homonym of P.ruficolle Pic,1926 (= Hyponotum ruficolle (Pic, 1926)). Plectonotum neoruficolle Constantin, nom. nov., new name for P. ruficolle Wittmer, 1988. Type material: Holotype ♂ (NHMB): Peru: Loreto, Mariscal Ramon Castilla, Estirón [near Pebas] on Rio Ampiyacu [03°22′S, 72°00′W, written Rio Ampi Paco on original label], 28.III-09.IV.1970, leg. B. Malkin. Other material examined: A single male specimen, without abdomen, was collected with UV-light trap in the department of Madre de Dios at the CICRA [12°34′S, 70°06′W] biological station (Constantin & Chaboo, 2016). Pic (1926: 26) described as a new species Plectonotum ruficolle, from Chile, close to Plectonotum albocinctum Pic, 1926, published in the same page. Wittmer (1949) erected the new genus Hyponotum, designated P. albocinctum Pic as type-species and transferred P. ruficolle Pic to Hyponotum. Thus, Plectonotum ruficolle Wittmer, 1988 is a junior primary homonym of P. ruficolle Pic, 1926. A new name Plectonotum neoruficolle nom. nov., is proposed for P. ruficolle Wittmer, 1988.Published as part of Constantin, Robert, 2020, A contribution to the genera Plectonotum Gorham and Hyponotum Wittmer, with the description of sixteen new species from Peru (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 1-27 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (34) on page 22, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.34, http://zenodo.org/record/463761
Psychological Process of Forming the Declarations of Victims and of Crime Witnesses
No full textThe process of forming the witnesses’ declarations involves a moment of achieving the information circumscribed to the crime or to its author, a moment of keeping the perceived information in memory and, finally, the moment of communicating this information to the judicial organs, by reproducing or acknowledging. To this process forming, all the sensations categories compete, in some way. Some of them have a prevailing role (visual and auditory sensations), others have a subsequent role (tactile, olfactory and gustatory sensations).witness, harmed person, testimony, crime
Voyage scientifique à Naples avec M. Magendie en 1843
No full textpar le docteur Constantin JamesHandschriftliches Geschenkexlibris: "Offert par l'auteur à l'... 24 avril 1848 Constantin James" 002332050_0001 Exemplar der ETH-BI
Plectonotum rubrithorax Constantin 2020, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Plectonotum rubrithorax</i> sp. nov. <p> <b>(Figs. 19, 42, 83-84, 111, 119)</b></p> <p> <b>Type material:</b> Holotype ♂ (MUSM): Peru, Huanuco, provincia de Leoncio Prado, 40 km NE de Tingo Maria, Abra Divisoria, Rio Azul, 09°12′12″S, 75°48′47″, alt. 1,670 m, 04.IV.2015, leg. R. Constantin.</p> <p> <b>Description:</b> Holotype. Length 3.5 mm. Head black, the clypeus yellow. Pronotum orange yellow. Elytra chocolate-brown. Antennae black, the first two antennomeres yellow, the third brownish yellow. Legs orange yellow, the apical half of tibiae and the tarsi brown. Abdomen brown. Head 0.86 times as wide as pronotum, short, the clypeus not protruding. Eyes remarkably developed, broad, bulging, the interocular space only as wide as one third of head width. Frons concave between the antennal sockets.Temples short. Cephalic surface smooth, not punctate,with sparse thin yellowish setae. Antennae longer than the body, the first two antennomeres smooth, the second very minute, the following parallel sided, warty, bearing numerous erect brown setae as long as antennomere width. Pronotum 1.6 times wider than long, with angular apical edge, arched and laterally sinuous basal edge, the lateral edge with a narrow bead and an emargination in front of the basal corners. Pronotal surface shiny, without visible punctation. Elytra 2.4 times longer than combined width at the base, very thinly punctate, irregularly disposed, covered with long, thin, yellow setae. Aedeagus: tegmen with apices of lateral lobes straight and dorsally emarginated; lateral sclerites long and slender; median lobe very short.</p> <p> <b>Dimensions of the holotype:</b> TL = 3.5 mm; AL = 4.0 mm; HW = 0.86 mm; IOW = 0.3 mm; OL = 0.43 mm; IAW = 0.09mm;PL = 062 mm;PW = 1.0 mm; EL= 2.65 mm; EW = 1.1 mm. Length of the antennomeres, in mm: <i>aI</i> = 0.29; <i>aII</i> = 0.08; <i>aIII</i> = 0.36; <i>aIV</i> = 0.4; <i>aV</i> = 0.44; <i>aVI</i> = 0.45; <i>aVII</i> = 0.45; <i>aVIII</i> = 0.43; <i>aIX</i> = 0.39; <i>aX</i> = 0.33; <i>aXI</i> = 0.35.</p> <p> <b>Differential diagnosis:</b> <i>Plectonotum rubrithorax</i> sp. nov., is similar to the Peruvian species <i>P.neoruficolle</i> nom. nov., by the similar habitus and colour pattern. It differs from the latter by the concave frons, broader eyes, longer antennae, narrower pronotal bead and aedeagus shape.</p> <p> <b>Etymology:</b> The specific epithet refers to the peculiar pronotal colouration.</p> <p> <b>Natural history:</b> Collected beating shrubs and trees on the edge of a small wood.</p>Published as part of <i>Constantin, Robert, 2020, A contribution to the genera Plectonotum Gorham and Hyponotum Wittmer, with the description of sixteen new species from Peru (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 1-27 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (34)</i> on page 17, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.34, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4637615">http://zenodo.org/record/4637615</a>
Pygodiscodon gurupi Biffi & Constantin 2018, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Pygodiscodon gurupi</i> sp. nov. <p>(Figs 2, 8, 13, 20–22, 36, 44–46)</p> <p> <b>Type locality.</b> Brazil, Maranhão, Bom Jardim, Reserva Biológica do Gurupi.</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> HOLOTYPE:, ‘ Brasil (MA), Bom Jardim | REBIO–Res. Biol. Gurupi | Armad. Luminosa Suspensa || 17–27.I.2010, F. Limeira- | de-Oliveira, J. T. Câmara | & O.A. Silva cols. || HOLOTYPE | Pygodiscodon | gurupi | Biffi & Constantin’ (CZMA). PARATYPES: ‘ Brasil (MA), Bom Jardim | REBIO–Res. Biol. Gurupi | Armad. Luminosa Base || 17–27.I.2010,A.A.T. | Sousa, M. B.Aguiar Neto | & J. O.A. Silva cols. || MZSP 10251 || PARATYPE | Pygodiscodon | gurupi | Biffi & Constantin’ (1 MZSP 10251, 1 CZMA); ‘ Brasil (MA), Bom Jardim | REBIO–Res. Biol. Gurupi | Armad. Luminosa Base ||, 01–05.I.2010, M.M. | Abreu, E. A. S. Barbosa & | A. A. Santos cols. || MZSP 10252 || PARATYPE | Pygodiscodon | gurupi | Biffi & Constantin’ (1 ♀ MZSP 10252).</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Body length: 6.1–7.0 mm. Head black; frons, clypeus and base of mandibles light brown to testaceous, slightly translucent; apex of mandibles light brown; palpi dark brown. Antennae black; first antennomere slightly lighter at apex and antennomeres X–XI sometimes light brown to yellowish-brown. Pronotum orange-yellow with wide medial black patch stretching longitudinally from anterior to posterior margins. Elytra dark brown; thorax, legs and abdomen dark brown and apex of tergite VIII reddish-brown.</p> <p> <i>Male</i> (Fig. 2). Head as long as wide, broadly rounded behind eyes, densely pubescent; occipital region and frons convex; clypeus wide, emarginated anteriorly. Eyes rounded, rather prominent. Maxillary palpi elongate, last palpomere slender and slightly securiform. Antennae (Fig. 8) long, slightly serrate and compressed dorsoventrally; dorsal surface of antennomeres V–XI with narrow, straight and smooth longitudinal line. Pronotum densely pubescent, transverse, 1.6 times wider than long; lateral margins slightly emarginated, explanate upwards and shortly notched before basal angles. Elytra finely rugulose, densely covered with erect greyish setae; each elytron 5.2 times longer than wide. Legs slender; metathoracic coxae (Fig. 13) with unciform backwards-pointing projections; mesothoracic femur arched; tarsomeres increasing in size from pro- to metathoracic legs; inner claw of prothoracic tarsus broadly lamellate at base; meso- and metathoracic tarsal claws with sharp protruding tooth. Last abdominal ventrite (Fig. 20) bilobed, broadly rounded posteriorly; abdominal tergite VIII (Figs 20–22) elongate, conical and strongly constricted posteriorly with broad, elliptical, truncate apical projection bearing two contiguous glandular openings at apex and further setose dorsal flap-like projection. Aedeagus (Figs 44–46): ventral wall of tegmen with two broad, rounded lobes pointing ventrally and centrally with tuft of long setae at apex; parameres dorsally, shorter than median lobe bearing long and thick apical setae; median lobe broad and membranous, shorter than internal sac; internal sac with two pairs of spine-like sclerites; ventral sclerites gradually acute and curved ventrally, protruding slightly beyond apex of tegmen; dorsal sclerites shorter than ventral sclerites, slightly curved dorsally and laterally and bearing preapical lateral tooth.</p> <p> <i>Female</i>. Similar to male but antennae lacking longitudinal lines; pronotum not notched laterally; tarsal claws simple; abdominal ventrite VII (Fig. 36) 2.4 times wider than long, not divided, lateral margins broadly rounded, distal margin with short and broad projecting tip; abdominal tergite VIII broad and simple.</p> <p> <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> Colour pattern similar to <i>P. monoceros</i> sp. nov. and <i>P. touroulti</i>. <i>Pygodiscodon gurupi</i> sp. nov. differs in the antennal lines narrow and straight, present on antennomeres VI–XI in males; metathoracic coxae with unciform backwards-pointing projections in males; last abdominal tergite of males with short, broad and truncate projection and flap-like dorsal projection.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is a noun in apposition. It is derived from the name of the reserve where the species was collected, an area continuously threatened by land conflicts and illegal agriculture, livestock and timber trading.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Brazil: Maranhão (Fig. 59).</p>Published as part of <i>Biffi, Gabriel & Constantin, Robert, 2018, Taxonomic revision of Pygodiscodon (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), pp. 77-90 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1)</i> on pages 81-84, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0008, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3676782">http://zenodo.org/record/3676782</a>
Interview with Constantin Aliferis
No full textConstantin Aliferis received an MD degree from Athens University in Greece in 1990, and an MS in 1994 and PhD in 1998 in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh. After completing his PhD, Aliferis returned to Greece to complete two years of mandatory military service. At the same time he served as a research associate in epidemiology at Athens University. In 2000, Randy Miller and William Stead recruited Aliferis to Vanderbilt University to serve as an assistant professor of biomedical informatics and founding director of Vanderbilt University’s MS/PhD Program in Biomedical Informatics. While at Vanderbilt, Aliferis was founding director of the Discovery Systems Laboratory (2001-2008), faculty member at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (2000-2008), assistant professor of cancer biology (2005-2008), assistant professor of computer science (2007-2008), and assistant professor of biostatistics (2007-2008). In October 2008, Aliferis was recruited to New York University to serve as founding director of NYU’s Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core of NYU’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and associate professor of pathology (with tenure); positions he held until left NYU in June 2015. While at NYU, Aliferis also held the following positions: associate professor, computational biology program, Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Studies (2009-2015); scientific director, Best Practices Integrative Informatics Consulting Core (2009-2015); scientific director, High Performance Computing Facility (2009-2015); founding director, NYU PhD Program in Biomedical Informatics (2011-2015); director, Biomedical Informatics Shared Resource of the Cancer Institute (2012-2015); and faculty, NYU Center for Data Science (2013-2015). In June 2015, Aliferis was recruited to the University of Minnesota. At the University of Minnesota, he holds the positions of professor and director of the Institute for Health Informatics, and the first University of Minnesota chief research informatics officer, heading the Clinical and Translational Institute Biomedical Informatics program. Aliferis will also build and lead a Big Data Analytics Unit for MHealth (collectively the Academic Health Center, Fairview Health Systems, and University of Minnesota Physicians) and carry the title of chief analytics officer.
Dr. Aliferis’ research is focused on high dimensional modeling and analysis designed to transform biomedical data into novel actionable scientific knowledge. His three key areas of broad interest are (a) use of advanced informatics and analytics to accelerate and enhance the sophistication, volume, quality, and reproducibility of scientific research; (b) quality and cost improvements of healthcare using Big Data approaches; and (c) precision medicine.
Dr. Aliferis was elected as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2007.Constantin Aliferis begins by discussing his educational background, including his early interest in biomedical and health informatics. He describes the main focus of his research since graduate school, which has included machine learning and the analysis of complex and high-dimensional data sets; scientometrics and informatics retrieval; and model building, analysis, and knowledge discovery across a variety of disease domains. Aliferis goes on to briefly discuss his tenure at Vanderbilt University, followed by a more detailed discussion of his tenure at New York University. Next, Aliferis offers his definition of precision medicine. The remainder of the interview focuses on health informatics at the University of Minnesota. Aliferis describes his vision for the Institute for Health Informatics, reflects on the strong backing provided by the leadership of the University and the University’s Academic Health Center to support this vision, and offers his perspective on the future of the field of biomedical and health informatics.Aliferis, Constantin F.; Tobbell, Dominique. (2015). Interview with Constantin Aliferis. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/173663
Le glacier de la Plate des Agneaux
No full textVivian Robert, Constantin B. Le glacier de la Plate des Agneaux . In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 58, n°3, 1970. pp. 585-588
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