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Hemitrypus jordanianus Cope, 1876, sp. nov.
No full textHemitrypus jordanianus, Cope, sp. nov. No emargination between the anterior zygapophyses; neural spine directed upwards and backwards. The diapophyses vertically compressed, directed downwards, inwards, and backwards, and not giving origin to a strong ridge on the side of tlıe centrum, as is seen in the species of Scapherpeton. Neither is there any fossa on the side of the centrum as in that genus. There is a small longitudinal foramen which enters the inner base of the inferior half of the diapoplrysis. There is a low ridge on each side of the neural arch, which extends backwards and inwards. The anterior articular face is a wide oval somewhat contracted below, and is pierced by a foramen at a point within the superior third of the vertical diameter. It is not so deeply excavated as in the species of Scapherpeton. The posterior articular face is a regular vertical oval, is concave, but not excavated, as is seen in the centra of the genus just mentioned. The inferior face of the Centrum is rounded, with some feeble lateral ridges. [table omitted] About the size of the Menopoma allegheniense. This batrachian is dedicated to Prof. D. S. Jordan, of the Northwestern Christian University, author of the Manual of the Vertebrata of the Eastern United States.Published as part of Cope, E. D., 1876, On some extinct reptiles and batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana, pp. 340-359 in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28 on pages 358-359, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.336836
Supporting and expanding community-based HIV/AIDS prevention and care responses : a report on Save the Children (US) Malawi COPE Project
No full textIn 1995, Save the Children/US-Malawi introduced a small pilot project called COPE-Community-based Options for Protection and Empowerment, to provide direct services to prevent, and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on children, families, and communities in one district. Over the past six years, the program has evolved, and expanded to four districts, covering nine percent of the national population. The goal of COPE is to mobilize sustainable community action, utilizing existing indigenous social infrastructures, and a three tier structure - District AIDS Coordinating Committees (DACCs), Community AIDS Committees (CACs), and Village AIDS Committees (VACs). The program is multi-sectoral, and involves partnerships with government, business communities, local leaders, other nongovernmental organizations, and community-based organizations, and religious organizations. Program success, and challenges are included.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Adolescent Health,Primary Education,HIV AIDS,Street Children
Scapherpeton laticolle Cope ED 1876, sp. nov.
No full textSeapharpeton laticolle, sp. nov. Vertebrae of several individuals of smaller size than those referred to the S. tectum differ in the less extensive development of the roof connecting the anterior zygapophyses, and the greater compression of the centrum,,ín consequence of the downward production of the inferior keel. The neural arch is openly notched between the anterior zygapophyses, but the notch is bounded by a recurved lamina distinct from the zygapophyses. The diapophyses are much as in S. tectum; the ridge from the inferior portion of it is quite prominent, and includes with the base of the neural arch a deep fossa. Accompanying a dorsal vertebra like those of this species, and probably belonging to the same skeleton, is an atlas of a more depressed form than those presumably belonging to the other species. The median tuberosity is well developed, constricted at the base, and much flattened. The condyloid facets are narrow and transverse. [table omitted] If it should appear that the dorsal vertebrae do not represent a species distinct from the S. tectum, the S. laticolle may rest on the atlas described. The limb bone above mentioned is associated with the neural arch of a vertebra of the character ascribed to this species. Both extremities are eroded so as not to display the forms of the condyles, though almost the entire length is preserved. The trochanter is imperfect, but its base is that of a subcylindric process. The head of the bone is subtriangular, and the section of the distal end an oval with a flat side. The diameter contracts gradually to the middle. [table omitted] This bone is plainly that of a urodele salamander.Published as part of Cope, E. D., 1876, On some extinct reptiles and batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana, pp. 340-359 in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28 on pages 356-357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.336836
Scapherpeton excisum Cope ED 1876, sp. nov.
No full textScapherpeton excisum, sp. nov. This salamander is represented in the collection of the expedition hy vertebrae of three individuals of different sizes. They all agree in having the anterior zygapophyses separated by the concave excavation of the roof of the neural canal usual in ordinary salamanders, and in the moderate development of the hypapophysial keel. As a result, the articular extremities of the centra are not produced so far inferiorly as in S. laticolle. The longitudinal ridge from the inferior part of the diapophysis is pronounced, and separates a deep fossa above it from another below it. The longitudinal perforation of the base of the diapophysis issues in the superior fossa. while in the two smaller specimens a vertical perforation joins it from the inferior fossa. As in the preceding two species, one articular face is a little deeper than the other. [table omitted] Specimen No. 1 is as large as the corresponding portion of an Amphiuma means.Published as part of Cope, E. D., 1876, On some extinct reptiles and batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana, pp. 340-359 in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28 on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.336836
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Scapherpeton tectum Cope ED 1876, sp. nov.
No full textScapherpeton tectum, sp. nov. Represented by a vertebra which is one of the best preserved in the collection. The most prominent specific character is seen in the entire roofing over of the neural canal between the anterior zygapophyses, and in the downward production of the inferior median line of the centrum, and accompanying downward prolongation of the articular cups. The chordal perforation is at the superior fourth of the vertical diameter of the cups. The neural spine is produced backwards and curved tipwards, and is narrowed between the posterior zygapophyses, and is striate grooved on the under surface. About half of the posterior zygapophysis projects beyond the edge of the cup of the centrum. Immediately below the anterior edge of the posterior zygapophysis, the diapophysis begins. It is vertical, of an irregular figure S in section, and is directed outwards and backwards. A foramen passes under its middle, emerging a little before the middle of the same horizontal diameter of the centrum. It is joined by another which strikes it from below at right angles. There is a deep notch embraced between the superior part of the diapophysis and the posterior zygapophysis. The neural canal is wider than deep. A fragment accompanied this vertebra when found, which resembles the articular portion of the mandible. There is no angle projecting behind the quadrate facet, which is oblique, truncating the extremity of the ramus. The lower edge is acute, behind roughened, and a thickening extends along the middle of the inner side of the ramns so far as preserved. The character is that of a Urodele Batrachian.Published as part of Cope, E. D., 1876, On some extinct reptiles and batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana, pp. 340-359 in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28 on page 355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.336836
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876
No full textScapherpeton tectum COPE, 1876b, p. 355. Scapherpeton laticolle COPE, 1876b, p. 356. Scapherpeton excisum COPE, 1876b, p. 357. Scapherpetonfavosum COPE, 1876b, p. 357. Hemitrypus jordanianus COPE, 1876b, p. 358. Hedronchus sternbergi COPE, 1876b, p. 359. Cope originally described this species and others now regarded as synonyms from materials collected near the mouth of the Judith River in the Judith River Formation. The present collection contains many specimens of Scapherpeton tectum. The morphology and description of this form have been adequately discussed by Auffenberg and Goin (1959) and by Estes (1964); further discussion would be repetitive. The collection includes isolated dentaries, maxillae, and vertebrae of which the atlas is the most common element recovered and the most readily identifiable. Two genera, Scapherpeton and Hemitrypus, were described by Cope (1876b) from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Originally four species of Scapherpeton were distinguished: S. laticolle, founded on an atlas and dorsal vertebrae; S. excisum, on a cervical vertebra; and S. favosum and S. tectum, on single vertebrae. Auffenberg and Goin (1959) placed the other three species of Scapherpeton in synonymy with S. tectum and erected a new family Scapherpetonidae for its inclusion. Estes (1964) also put Hemitrypus jordanianus Cope (1876b) and Hedronchus sternbergi Cope (1876b) in synonymy with the single species of Scapherpeton.Published as part of Sahni, Ashok, 1972, The vertebrate Fauna of the Judith River formation, Montana, pp. 319-416 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147 (6) on pages 348-349, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.338246
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