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Intra-party politics and coalition governments
No full textThis book originates from a series of paper presented at an ECPR Joint Session Workshop on "Intra-party politics and its effects on government formation and duration in parliamentary systems". The book includes twelve original essays written by specialists in the field of coalition theory such as M. Laver, K. Strom, W. Mueller, K. Benoit, T. Brauninger and T. Saalfeld. The essays examine intra-party politics and the process of government formation and duration at the local and at the national level. A final section explores intra-party politics at the EU level. The book includes an introductory chapter and a concluding chapter, both written by D. Giannetti and K. Benoit. D. Giannetti contributed to the book with another essay "Party cohesion, party discipline and party factions in Italy", coauthored with M. Laver
Alieniscus arnoldi BENOIT 1951
No full textAlieniscus arnoldi BENOIT 1951 Alieniscus arnoldi n.sp.: BENOIT 1951: 91 (typ. gen., descr., Zimbabwe). Alieniscus arnoldi BENOIT: KROMBEIN 1957: 201 (cat.), 202 (tax., Zimbabwe), pls 19 (figs 10, 10a), 20 (figs 19, 19a), 21 (fig. 29). Alieniscus arnoldi BENOIT: KROMBEIN 1984: 215 (tax., Botswana, Zimbabwe). Alieniscus arnoldi BENOIT: KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 90 (cat.). D i s t r i b u t i o n: Botswana, Zimbabwe.Published as part of Madl, M. & Rosa, P., 2012, A Catalogue of the Chrysididae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion, pp. 5-169 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.532790
D. Benoit, P. Levang, M. Pain, O. Sevin, Transmigration et migrations spontanées en Indonésie, province de Lampung, Sumatra
No full textFranck Manuelle. D. Benoit, P. Levang, M. Pain, O. Sevin, Transmigration et migrations spontanées en Indonésie, province de Lampung, Sumatra. In: Archipel, volume 43, 1992. pp. 209-211
Benoit, D. Levang, P. Pain, M. (édit.), Sevin, O. Transmigration et migrations spontanées en Indonésie. ORSTOM, 1989
No full textVennetier Pierre. Benoit, D. Levang, P. Pain, M. (édit.), Sevin, O. Transmigration et migrations spontanées en Indonésie. ORSTOM, 1989. In: Cahiers d'outre-mer. N° 173 - 44e année, Janvier-mars 1991. pp. 104-106
Understanding farming practices to rethink land change transitions: a research challenge
No full textAgriculture uses and manages dynamically 38% of the global land surface. Farming practices are evolving to
intensify current farming systems in parallel with the expansion or the abandonment of exploited surfaces, under
systems of constraints and opportunities ranging from local to global scales. Moreover, major agricultural land
changes are prospected by near future scenarios for increasing in global population and improvement of standards of
living for poorest regions. As a result, agriculture is undertaking a wide range of rapid adaptations whose
consequences are too subtle to be consistently observed in the short-middle term by global or regional monitoring,
such as remote sensing techniques. Nonetheless, these evolutions impact the land system management at
increasingly wider scales. Accordingly agronomy has been called anew to integrate farming practices on grazed and
cultivated fields in the wider spatial context (Benoit, Rizzo et al. 2012, Landscape Ecol. 27:1385-1394). In this
session we will discuss how a better understanding of farming practices can help rethinking land change transitions
(theme 1). The underpinning aim is promoting a greater involvement of agronomy in the evolution of a
multidisciplinary approach to the land system management. We will structure our session on three main challenges.
First, reflecting on the theoretical frameworks adopted by several disciplines in the study of agricultural land
transitions at different scales and from different perspectives. We will focus on the rural landscapes management as a
major cross-disciplinary study object to increase the synergy among agronomy, geography, and ecology within the land system science. Second, improving methods to describe and understand agricultural land change transitions.
Farming practices, with their continuous adaptability to the evolving context (e.g., climate change, price volatility,
farm household strategies, etc.) translate relevantly the large variability of agricultural land changes over time and
space on Earth. Nevertheless many difficulties remain to integrate them in the analysis of the land systems. For that,
we will evaluate existing and emerging methods that tackle farming practices at regional and wider levels. Third,
enhancing the assessment and design of farming systems to deal with multiple issues. Short term issues for
agricultural land use (e.g., feeding the world and increasing the production of biomass for energy) are faced with
long term issues of resource management (e.g., freshwater protection, biodiversity conservation). We will focus on
some examples about the spatial allocation of crop patterns – and of the associated farming practices – to question
how environmental and societal needs can be met
1ST MEASUREMENT OF GAMMA(D(S)(+)-]MU+NU)/GAMMA(D(S)(+)-]PHI-PI+)
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ACOSTA D, ATHANAS M, MASEK G, PAAR H, BEAN A, GRONBERG J, KUTSCHKE R, MENARY S, MORRISON RJ, NAKANISHI S, NELSON HN, NELSON TK, RICHMAN JD, RYD A, TAJIMA H, SCHMIDT D, SPERKA D, WITHERELL MS, PROCARIO M, YANG S, BALEST R, CHO K, DAOUDI M, FORD WT, JOHNSON DR, LINGEL K, LOHNER M, RANKIN P, SMITH JG, ALEXANDER JP, BEBEK C, BERKELMAN K, BESSON D, BROWDER TE, CASSEL DG, CHO HA, COFFMAN DM, DRELL PS, EHRLICH R, GALIK RS, GARCIASCIVERES M, GEISER B, GITTELMAN B, GRAY SW, HARTILL DL, HELTSLEY BK, JONES CD, JONES SL, KANDASWAMY J, KATAYAMA N, KIM PC, KREINICK DL, LUDWIG GS, MASUI J, MEVISSEN J, MISTRY NB, NG CR, NORDBERG E, OGG M, PATTERSON JR, PETERSON D, RILEY D, SALMAN S, SAPPER M, WORDEN H, WURTHWEIN F, AVERY P, FREYBERGER A, RODRIGUEZ J, STEPHENS R, YELTON J, CINABRO D, HENDERSON S, KINOSHITA K, LIU T, SAULNIER M, SHEN F, WILSON R, YAMAMOTO H, ONG B, SELEN M, SADOFF AJ, AMMAR R, BALL S, BARINGER P, COPPAGE D, COPTY N, DAVIS R, HANCOCK N, KELLY M, KWAK N, LAM H, KUBOTA Y, LATTERY M, NELSON JK, PATTON S, PERTICONE D, POLING R, SAVINOV V, SCHRENK S, WANG R, ALAM MS, KIM IJ, NEMATI B, ONEILL JJ, SEVERINI H, SUN CR, ZOELLER MM, CRAWFORD G, DAUBENMIER CM, FULTON R, FUJINO D, GAN KK, HONSCHEID K, KAGAN H, KASS R, LEE J, MALCHOW R, MORROW F, SKOVPEN Y, SUNG M, WHITE C, WHITMORE J, WILSON P, BUTLER F, FU X, KALBFLEISCH G, LAMBRECHT M, ROSS WR, SKUBIC P, SNOW J, WANG PL, WOOD M, BORTOLETTO D, BROWN DN, FAST J, MCILWAIN RL, MIAO T, MILLER DH, MODESITT M, SCHAFFNER SF, SHIBATA EI, SHIPSEY IPJ, WANG PN, BATTLE M, ERNST J, KROHA H, ROBERTS S, SPARKS K, THORNDIKE EH, WANG CH, DOMINICK J, SANGHERA S, SHELKOV V, SKWARNICKI T, STROYNOWSKI R, VOLOBOUEV I, ZADOROZHNY P, ARTUSO M, HE D, GOLDBERG M, HORWITZ N, KENNETT R, MONETI GC, MUHEIM F, MUKHIN Y, PLAYFER S, ROZEN Y, STONE S, THULASIDAS M, VASSEUR G, ZHU G, BARTELT J, CSORNA SE, EGYED Z, JAIN V, SHELDON P, AKERIB DS, BARISH B, CHADHA M, CHAN S, COWEN DF, EIGEN G, MILLER JS, OGRADY C, URHEIM J, WEINSTEIN A
Resurrection of the spider genus Bucliona Benoit, 1977, with a description of a new species from Kenya (Araneae, Clubionidae)
No full textZhang, Jianshuang, Marusik, Yuri M., Oketch, Ambata D., Kioko, Esther N., Yu, Hao, Li, Shuqiang (2021): Resurrection of the spider genus Bucliona Benoit, 1977, with a description of a new species from Kenya (Araneae, Clubionidae). Zootaxa 5006 (1): 195-207, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.2
Fast vibrational calculation of anharmonic OH-stretch frequencies for two low-energy noradrenaline conformers
No full textWe introduce a new reduced-coupling technique to accelerate direct calculations of a selected number of vibrational frequencies in large molecular systems. Our method combines the advantages of the single-to-all correlation-corrected vibrational self-consistent field (STA-CC-VSCF) approach [D. M. Benoit, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 244110 (2006)] with those of the fast-CC-VSCF technique [D. M. Benoit, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 562 (2004)] and allows the ab initio calculation of only the relevant parts of the required potential energy surface (PES). We demonstrate, using a set of five aliphatic alcohol molecules, that the new fast-STA-CC-VSCF method is accurate and leads to very substantial time gains for the computations of the PES. We then use the fast-STA-CC-VSCF method to accelerate the computation of the OH-stretch and NH-stretch frequencies of the two lowest-energy conformers of noradrenaline, namely, AG1a and GG1a. Our new approach enables us to run the calculation 89 times faster than the standard CC-VSCF technique and makes it possible to use a high-level MP2/TZP description of the PES. We demonstrate that the influence of the strong mode-mode couplings is crucial for a realistic description of the particular OH-stretch vibrational signature of each conformer. Finally, of the two possible low-energy conformers, we identify AG1a as the one most likely to have been observed in the experiments of Snoek [Mol. Phys. 101, 1239 (2003)]
A Decade in Games Studies. Critical and reflexive interrogations on digital play and games research
No full textWith the present issue, GAME celebrates ten years of activity as an independent academic journal, one that is neither tied to a commercial publisher nor to a single institution. As a way of celebration, the journal will now be accepting submissions for rolling issues along with our traditional theme-based, monographic issues. This is also a chance to glance back at the history of the field of game studies, and of our journal’s place in the broader research communities, over the course of the past decade.
Table of Contents:
M. Benoit Carbone, F. Giordano, I. Girina, I. Mariani, M. Teti – Ten years of GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment
B. Soderman, J. Keever – The Playful Turn and Critical Play
S. Caselli, K. Bonello Rutter Giappone, T. Z. Majkowski – Ten years of Historical Game Studies. Towards the intersection with memory studies
Z. Rizvi, S. Mukherjee – “Your Subaltern is not my Subaltern”. Intersectionality and the Dangers of a Single Game-story
M. O’Brien – The many facets of culture in digital games policy: the EU dimension
L. P. Bruno – Game Studies Meets Japanese Studies Ten Years of Research
D. Guay-Bélanger, M. Deslongchamps-Gagnon, F. Lavigne, B. Perron – Game(play) Archives: Quebec Video Gamesas Case Study
D. Cavallotti – Games and Cathode Rays. Discourses on a New Medium in the Italian Specialized Magazines (1981-1988)
G. Fantacci – Sovversioni Videoludiche. Dalle avanguardie alle pratiche performative in-game
The rich array of topics and diverse approaches that populate this issue represents an example of the intercultural, transdisciplinary research into games, play, and gaming that GAME has been welcoming and for which it will continue to represent a generous platform. In this issue, our authors grapple with a wide range of perspectives and conceptual frameworks that represent the interdisciplinary development of games studies as a field over the course of the past two decades. Overall, these contributions explore disciplines like media and games archaeologies, offer reflections on dimensions like agency and ownership, explore industrial and legislative frameworks, and interrogate the relations between art and avantgarde in and through gaming. While focusing on a variety of national and transnational contexts, this issue’s contributions offer theoretical and conceptual frameworks that address foundational questions for games studies, such as the notion of play and its ideological production in the late twentieth century, the sociocultural construction of games as object of investigation, and the nature and dynamics of national and global industrial formations
Maternal representations and infant attachment: An examination of the prototype hypothesis
No full textThe prototype hypothesis suggests that attachment representations derived in infancy continue to influence subsequent relationships over the life span, including those formed with one's own children. In the current study, we test the prototype hypothesis by exploring (a) whether child-specific representations following actual experience in interaction with a specific child impacts caregiver-child attachment over and above the prenatal forecast of that representation and (b) whether maternal attachment representations exert their influence on infant attachment via the more child-specific representation of that relationship. In a longitudinal study of 84 mother-infant dyads, mothers' representations of their attachment history were obtained prenatally with the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; M. Main, R. Goldwyn, & E. Hesse, 2002), representations of relationship with a specific child were assessed with the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI; C.H. Zeanah, D. Benoit, & L. Barton, 1986), collected both prenatally and again at infant age 11 months, and infant attachment was assessed in the Strange Situation Procedure (M.D.S. Ainsworth, M.C. Blehar, E. Walters, & S. Wall, 1978) when infants were 11 months of age. Consistent with the prototype hypothesis, considerable correspondence was found between mothers' AAI and WMCI classifications. A mediation analysis showed that WMCI fully accounted for the association between AAI and infant attachment. Postnatal WMCI measured at 11 months' postpartum did not add to the prediction of infant attachment, over and above that explained by the prenatal WMCI. Implications for these findings are discussed.No Full Tex
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