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Jundlandia Duran and Gough 2022, new genus
No full textJundlandia Duran and Gough, new genus urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 82C5799E-856D-488A-A277-70CB28CB5673 (Fig. 2, 3) Etymology. The name is derived from the film, Stars Wars: A New Hope. In the film, there is a hot, dry place known as the “Jundland Wastes”, a particularly desolate area on the protagonist’s home planet of Tatooine. This desert environment is similar in appearance to the some of the more extreme habitats that Jundlandia lemniscata inhabits within the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts. Type species. Cicindela lemniscata (LeConte, 1854); by present designation Description. Small size, 7–11 mm. Body shape slender, cylindrical. Head with distinct rugosity. Frons glabrous except for two supraorbital setae near each eye. Genae polished metallic, glabrous. Clypeus glabrous. Labrum long, approximately as long as wide. Antennal scape with a single long erect seta. Pronotum with shallow transverse rugosity, surface polished. Pronotal setae thick white decumbent, restricted to lateral third. Lateral portions of venter with dense white decumbent setae present. Legs variable in color: femora pale testaceous, occasionally with slight metallic surfaces on upper surface or femora strongly pigmented red or green. Protrochanter with a single subapical seta. Mesotrochanter without a subapical seta. Metatrochanter without a subapical seta. Each elytron bears a single cream-colored vitta that possesses a small inward projection on basal third, bending into an apical lunule at the tip; a small number of individuals may have vitta broken into three separate lines. Elytral apices separately rounded in female, very slightly so in male. Small sutural spine present. Microserrations present. This new genus is supported by recent phylogenetic studies (Duran & Gough 2019) (Fig 1), and it is most closely related to a New World clade comprised of the genera Ellipsoptera, Dromochorus and Parvindela. Distribution. The monotypic genus has a large distribution in dry grassland and desert biomes within the southwestern United states (Pearson et al. 2015) and Mexico (Cazier 1954), mostly in the Nearctic biogeographic realm, but reaching the northern reaches of the Neotropical realm in western Mexico. Specifically, the species ranges from southern California and southwestern Utah to the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma, south to the southern tip of Baja California and the western Mexico states of Sinaloa and Colima (J. Shetterly, pers. comm. 2022). Ecology. This genus may be found in a variety of habitats within the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Desert regions, from vegetated to sparely vegetated or unvegetated habitats, near water or in dry areas, from the bottom of washes to uplands.Published as part of Duran, Daniel P. & Gough, Harlan M., 2022, A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms, pp. 293-299 in Zootaxa 5175 (2) on page 296, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/700357
Religion, Warfare and Business in Fifteenth-Century Rhodes
No full textAt the beginning of the fourteenth century, after the occupation of Rhodes and the installation
of their headquarters on it, the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
made the island the hub of their activities.1 Although their main task was initially welfaretype
functions, the Hospitallers in the East, as a military order, gradually assumed a more
active role in the defense of Christianity and the redemption of captives. Nevertheless, during
this century, with the exception of participation in some projects of crusade or with local
leagues, the Order took no active offensive policy but rather a prudent attitude, focusing
on defending and consolidating its position in this area of the Eastern Mediterranean.
During the fifteenth century, the presence of the Hospitallers in Rhodes, in the Dodecanese
and, more generally, in the East was threatened by repeated attacks that put a strain
on the political, diplomatic, military and economic skills of the Order: the Mamluk and Ottoman
military expeditions of 1440, 1444 and 1480, the war of 1502-1503, and finally the
siege of 1522 that resulted in the abandonment of the island and the permanent Ottoman
occupation in 1523. The financial needs of the Order of St. John were constrained by several
factors.This paper, prepared jointly by the authors, is the result of the union of two parallel research projects conducted here and reflected in the drafting of paragraphs: Elisa Maria Soldani drafted section 1 "The Knights and the management of economic resources of the Dodecanese" and section 3 "Between Rhodes and ultramarine domains: the relationship of Hospitallers and Florentine merchant-bankers" while Daniel Duran i Duelt was responsible for section 2 "The Catalan-Aragonese in Rhodes: the power of the group"; the introduction and conclusions were written jointly by both authors.Soldani's work for this article is based on research conducted at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino under the supervision of Anthony Molho and at the IMF-CSIC in Barcelona as part of the research group "La Corona de Aragón en el Mediterráneo bajomedieval. Interculturalidad, mediación, integración y transferencias culturales" directed by R. Salicrú i Lluch and funded by the MICINN (HAR2010-16361). The research of Daniel Duran i Duelt, meanwhile, has its origin in the commission from the Embassy of Spain in Athens to study the Spanish Inn in Rhodes and the Hispanic presence on the island. The authors thank Professor Marie A. Kelleher's review of the English version of this text.Peer reviewe
Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
A new species of the genus Pentacomia from Panama (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
No full textDuran, Daniel P., Moravec, Jiří (2013): A new species of the genus Pentacomia from Panama (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) 53 (1): 49-57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.446821
Daniel Duran i Duelt (Éd.), Manual del viatge fet per Berenguer Benet a Romania. 1341-1342. Estudi i edició
No full textFailler Albert. Daniel Duran i Duelt (Éd.), Manual del viatge fet per Berenguer Benet a Romania. 1341-1342. Estudi i edició . In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 62, 2004. p. 287
Daniel Duran i Duelt (Éd.), Manual del viatge fet per Berenguer Benet a Romania. 1341-1342. Estudi i edició
No full textFailler Albert. Daniel Duran i Duelt (Éd.), Manual del viatge fet per Berenguer Benet a Romania. 1341-1342. Estudi i edició . In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 62, 2004. p. 287
(Fourth) Report on Meteorological Activities at the DGAI (8-1-36)(Weather Bureau Copy)
No full textThis report is on the investigations of frontal phenomena at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio from January 1, 1935 through August 1, 1936. The investigation was carried out with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics, the U.S. Weather Bureau, the California Institute of Technology, and the Guggenheim Airship Institute. Mr. R.C. Robinson of the Weather Bureau cooperated with the author in carrying out the investigation. The object of the investigation was to determine the intensity of the atmospheric disturbances (i.e. rapidity of wind shift and gustiness) accompanying the passage of cold fronts, along with a study of the characteristics of the air masses involved and other features which might affect the intensity of the disturbance. The report treated thirty cold fronts which passed the station during 1935 to 1936
Archives and Images as Repositories of Time, Language, and Forms from the Past: A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg
Get PDFTaxonomic and nomenclatorial revision within the Neotropical genera of the subtribe Odontochilina. 6. Odontocheila fraternum sp. nov., a new species sister to O. gilli (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
No full textMoravec, Jiří, Duran, Daniel P. (2013): Taxonomic and nomenclatorial revision within the Neotropical genera of the subtribe Odontochilina. 6. Odontocheila fraternum sp. nov., a new species sister to O. gilli (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2): 585-599, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.574057
Daniel Akech
Get PDFabstract: Daniel was a little boy when the war came to his village. He witnessed people being shot and running for shelter. There was no food or water so he drank urine and ate tree leaves.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 24Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
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