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Dr. Monika Siebert – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Monika Siebert, Professor of English, discusses her new book, Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America, published recently by the University of Alabama Press. Indians Playing Indian explores the phenomenon of multicultural misrecognition of American Indians, explaining its sources in North American colonial history and in the political mandates of multiculturalism, and describes its consequences for contemporary indigenous cultural production
Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records
No full textBryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip, Vargas, Sergio (2015): Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records. Zootaxa 3963 (2): 160-200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.
Monika White interview, 2000
No full textWhite, Monika - Audio Oral History Interview - CSWA ❧ Interviewed by Hannah Hamovitch on January 23, 2000. An interview with Monika White as she discusses her entrance into social work; YWCA; various positions held; work with Regional Research Institute in Social Welfare; doctoral program; Multi-Purpose Senior Services Program; case management; and preparing for old age. ❧ Dr. Monika White earned both her Masters and a Doctorate of Social Work at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She has extensive experience as an educator, researcher, consultant and administrator. Since the mid-1970's, Dr. White concentrated her work on coordinating health and community-based service delivery systems for older adults and their families. A nationally-recognized author and lecturer in the aging field, Dr. White is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Healthy Aging in Santa Monica, California, and an adjunct professor at the USC Davis School of Gerontology in Los Angeles. In addition, Dr. White is the President of the California Social Welfare Archives. ❧ Monika White. Interviewed by Hannah Hamovitch Date of interview: 1-23-00. Length of interview: 1 hour and 8 minutes. Transcript of interview: 23 pp. CD containing interview and transcript
FIGURE 16. Paraminabea aldersladei, WAM Z59775 in Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records
No full textFIGURE 16. Paraminabea aldersladei, WAM Z59775, sclerites: A, surface of the polyparium; B, interior of the polyparium; C, surface of the base; D, interior of the base.Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on page 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/28865
Awareness of families regarding the methods of speech therapy prevention
No full textTITLE: Awareness of families regarding the methods of speech therapy prevention AUTHOR: Monika Hroudová DEPARTMENT: Department of Special pedagogy SUPERVISOR: Mgr. Lucie Durdilová ANNOTATION: The aim of the theoretical part of this bachelor's thesis is to describe basic concepts related to the prevention of speech impediments, by using current literature, existing knowledge and research, characterize the most common forms of comminication disorder that usually occur in preschool children and inform about ways of how to prevent speech disorders, mainly primary ones (How can parents prevent the occurrence of speech defects among their children from an earliest possible age). Awareness of parents of the possibilities to prevent speech defects, of child's speech development and of thequality of related literature, will be determinated by a questionnare, this means a quantitative research method. Questionnare will be focused on parents with children between 3-4 years old
Parasphaerasclera kimberleyensis Bryce, Poliseno, Alderslade & Vargas, 2015, sp. nov.
No full textParasphaerasclera kimberleyensis sp. nov. (Figs. 2 C–E, 5, 6; Tabs. 1, 2) Material examined. Holotype: WAM Z 59789, Station 44 /K 10, Long Reef, northern Kimberley, NW Australia, 13.88867 ° S, 125.74942 ° E, SCUBA, depth 10 m, coll. M. Bryce, 20 October 2010. Paratype: WAM Z67195, 1 specimen, same data as the holotype. Description. The holotype is a digitiform colony, with a wide base, which tapers distally towards the rounded apex of the polyparium (Fig. 2 C–D). It is 15 mm tall, 2 mm in diameter at the apex and 4 mm in diameter across the holdfast. The colony has no real stalk as polyps occur almost to the very base. The polyp-free basal portion occupies less than 20 % of the total colony length. The polyps are rather sparse and evenly distributed. They are monomorphic, large, and when completely retracted, leave a prominent coenenchymal mound on the surface of the polyparium. All polyps are tightly retracted—as they were at the time of collection—and occupy most of the interior of the polyparium. The majority of the sclerites from the upper part of the polyparium are tuberculate capstans, some slightly club-shaped, 0.05–0.13 mm long (Fig. 5), along with crosses 0.06–0.08 mm diameter and a few rodlets (see Fig. 5 a). An apparent triradiate sclerite (see Fig. 5 b) has been included to point out where errors are possible, as this is actually the broken end of a sclerite with the fracture side down. The authors believe that the sclerites shown in Fig. 24 b–f for E. grayi in Versevedt & Bayer (1987), especially d–f, are most probably of this nature. The sclerites of the coenenchymal mounds of P. kimberlyensis n. sp. are similarly shaped to those of the polyparium. There are no sclerites in the interior of the polyparium. The base of the colony is densely spiculated with small radiates and tuberculate rods 0.02–0.10 mm long (Fig. 6 A). Rare clubs 0.08–0.13 mm long are also represented in the base of the colony (see Fig. 6 Aa). The interior of the base is less densely populated with sclerites, and contains mainly spindles, clubs and irregular forms 0.04–0.15 mm long (Fig. 6 B). Crosses 0.09 mm in diameter are also present in the interior of the base (see Fig. 6 Bb). The tubercles of all sclerites are ornamented with granules that tend to be elongate and arranged in rows or united to form ridges. This is most obvious in the interior stalk sclerites. Polyp sclerites are absent. Colour. In situ the colonies were uniformly bright yellow-orange with bright red rounded coenenchymal mounds. The polyp-free base was uniformly bright yellow and the polyps were white. The colour did not change on deck or in alcohol. In preserved specimens the surface and internal coenenchymal sclerites are pale-yellow to colourless, the sclerites of the polyp mounds are red, and the interior coenenchyme is white. Etymology. Named for the type locality, Kimberley, Western Australia. Habitat. A steep and fractured fore-reef slope with a near vertical wall ascending from 20 metres to a depth of 4 metres. The wall is heavily pocketed with small caves and deep, steep-sided fissures. At 20 metres there are large rocky outcrops forming long reef-gullies, which are almost devoid of life, probably due to the heavy siltation. Sediment between the rocky outcrops is very fine and smothering. The Parasphaerasclera kimberleyensis colonies were found in a small group attached to the wall in an overhang at ten metres depth amongst other scattered soft corals. Variability. The paratype is very similar to the holotype in shape, colour, arrangement of polyps and sclerite composition, but is smaller. It is also digitiform, with a wider base and tapering distally towards the rounded apex of the polyparium. It is 9 mm tall, 3 mm in diameter at the apex and 4 mm in diameter across the holdfast (Fig. 2 E). Remarks. Parasphaerasclera kimberleyensis sp. nov. does not demonstrate a close resemblance to any currently described species within the genus. Morphologically, it is distinguished by the shape of the colony and the shape and colour of the sclerites, and also by the colony colour, the bright yellow colony being offset by the bright red polyp mounds,,but there is some superficial resemblance to P. zanahoria (Williams, 2000), which was originally described from Tonga in the South Pacific. More recently P. zanahoria was recorded from the Great Barrier Reef by one of us (Alderslade, unpublished). Like P. kimberleyensis sp. nov., P. zanahoria, which is uniformly orange, is characterised by having some sclerites in the form of large crosses, but in that species the crosses have finely tapered and acutely tipped rays. In comparison P. kimberleyensis sp. nov. has crosses with thorny, rounded rays, and, in addition, all the radiates are distinctly more thorny than those in P. zanahoria.Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on pages 166-169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/28865
Sphaerasclera McFadden & Ofwegen 2013
No full textGenus Sphaerasclera McFadden & Ofwegen 2013 Type species. Eleutherobia flammicerebra Williams, 2003, by original designation Diagnosis. Colonies with capitate growth form, with distinct, spherical polyparium raised on a bare stalk. Polyps are monomorphic and form rounded coenenchymal mounds over the entire surface of the capitulum. Sclerites are coloured spheroids and smaller radiates. Polyp sclerites are absent. Species are found mostly in deep water. Azooxanthellate. (adapted from McFadden & Ofwegen 2013).Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on page 181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/28865
Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen 2013
No full textFamily Parasphaerascleridae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2013 Diagnosis. Soft corals with a digitiform, digitate or lobate growth form. Usually with a bare stalk, which can be indistinct. Polyps monomorphic, retractile, producing small, coenenchymal mounds when retracted. Permanent calyces absent. Sclerites of colony surface and interior predominantly radiates and/or tuberculate spheroids, occasionally along with rodlets and crosses. Sclerites permanently coloured. Polyp sclerites absent. Azooxanthellate. (adapted from McFadden & Ofwegen 2013).Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/28865
Alcyoniidae Lamouroux 1812
No full textFamily Alcyoniidae Lamouroux, 1812 Diagnosis. Membranous or more or less fleshy, massive colonies. The latter with a basal part, the stalk, and a distal part bearing the anthocodiae, the polyparium. Sclerites are often less than one mm long, but they can be over 10 mm. They include spindles, clubs, radiates, and double heads. Polyps monomorphic or dimorphic and the autozooids are retractile. This family has a more or less global distribution. It is especially speciose in the Indo- Pacific, but so far absent in the shallow waters of the tropical western Atlantic (Williams 2003; Fabricius & Alderslade 2001).Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/28865
FIGURE 20 in Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records
No full textFIGURE 20. Phylogenetic tree of the 28S ribosomal gene. Numbers at the nodes represent: on the left ML bootstrap values and on the right Bayesian posterior probabilities (pp). Nodes with bootstrap value <70 % and pp <0.9 were collapsed. Triangles represent collapsed clades with strong support (pp ≥ 0.95). Specimens analyzed belonging to Parasphaerasclera, Eleutherobia, and Sphaerasclera are in bold. Cornularia cornucopiae and Cornularia pabloi were used as outgroup.Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/28865
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