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Dr D.B. Smuts : Onderstepoort staff
No full textScanned image of a photographic glass-plate negativeDr D.B. Smuts, Onderstepoort staff memberin the Section of Nutrition in the late 1930's. He was co-author of the article "The Nutritive Value of Animal Proteins.-
The Biological Values of Fishmeal, Whale and Fishmeal, Meatmeal, Meat and Bonemeal, Crayfishmeal, and White Fishmeal" published in the Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, Volume 16, Numbers 1 and 2, January and April, 1941.Digitised by the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019ab201
Letter, 1858 May 8, D.B. Sanchez (?) to Henry Honaker
No full textLetter regarding the sale of a bull. Last name of author unclear, possibly Sanchez or San..z
The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo
No full textMichael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, where Rubbo developed his distinct documentary style. Jones then describes Rubbo’s post-NFB venture into feature film directing, followed by Rubbo’s return to his native Australia, first as an executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and later as a director of feature-length documentaries and maker of short, personal films for YouTube. Exploring locales from Montreal to Vietnam, topics as diverse as plastic surgery and French Marxism, and from interviewing Margaret Atwood to documenting a failed attempt to interview Fidel Castro, Rubbo’s wide-ranging work establishes his innovative, personal, lyric, and spontaneous documentary style. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo D.B. Jones reveals not only the depth of meaning in Rubbo’s films, but also the depth of their influence on filmmaking itself
The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo
No full textMichael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, where Rubbo developed his distinct documentary style. Jones then describes Rubbo’s post-NFB venture into feature film directing, followed by Rubbo’s return to his native Australia, first as an executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and later as a director of feature-length documentaries and maker of short, personal films for YouTube. Exploring locales from Montreal to Vietnam, topics as diverse as plastic surgery and French Marxism, and from interviewing Margaret Atwood to documenting a failed attempt to interview Fidel Castro, Rubbo’s wide-ranging work establishes his innovative, personal, lyric, and spontaneous documentary style. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo D.B. Jones reveals not only the depth of meaning in Rubbo’s films, but also the depth of their influence on filmmaking itself
The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo
No full textMichael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, where Rubbo developed his distinct documentary style. Jones then describes Rubbo’s post-NFB venture into feature film directing, followed by Rubbo’s return to his native Australia, first as an executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and later as a director of feature-length documentaries and maker of short, personal films for YouTube.
Exploring locales from Montreal to Vietnam, topics as diverse as plastic surgery and French Marxism, and from interviewing Margaret Atwood to documenting a failed attempt to interview Fidel Castro, Rubbo’s wide-ranging work establishes his innovative, personal, lyric, and spontaneous documentary style. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo D.B. Jones reveals not only the depth of meaning in Rubbo’s films, but also the depth of their influence on filmmaking itself.Ye
Neoserica debasriae Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens 2022, new species
No full textNeoserica debasriae Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens, new species (Figs. 5–8) Type locality. India: Madhya Pradesh, Hoshangabad, Bori Sanctuary, 22.752030N, 77.734490E. Type material. Holotype, ♂: “ India: Madhya Pradesh, Hoshangabad, Bori Sanctuary, 22.752030N, 77.734490E, 10.vi.1999, leg. K. Chandra ” (NZSI). Paratypes: 1 ♂ “ India: Madhya Pradesh, Hoshangabad, Bori Sanctuary, 22.752030N, 77.734490E, 07.vi.1999, leg. K. Chandra ” (NZSI); 1 ♂ “ India: Madhya Pradesh, Hoshangabad, Bori Sanctuary, 22.752030N, 77.734490E, 10.vi.1999, leg. K. Chandra ” (NZSI); 1 ♂ “ India: Madhya Pradesh, Hoshangabad, Bori Sanctuary, 22.752030N, 77.734490E, 14.vi.1999, leg. K. Chandra ” (NZSI). Description of the holotype, male. Body. Length: 5.7 mm, length of elytra: 4.6 mm, width: 4.7 mm. Body oblong-oval; dorsal face dark reddish brown and shiny; ventral face dark reddish-brown, dull; head moderately shiny, surface glabrous, except few single setae. Head. Labroclypeus trapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins moderately convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles strongly rounded, anteriorly weakly sinuate medially, margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and shiny, densely punctate, glabrous fine punctures mixed with coarse ones each bearing a long erect seta; frontoclypeal suture distinctly incised, flat and distinctly curved medially; smooth area anterior to eye moderately wide, weakly convex, approximately 1.5 times as wide as long. Ocular canthus short and moderately narrow (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely and densely punctate, terminal seta absent. Frons with dense, but fine punctures and with a single, long seta beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.75. Antenna with ten antennomeres, club with five antennomeres and weakly reflexed, antennal club short, at maximum 1.2 times as long as remaining five antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly. Labrum distinctly produced medially, with a deep median sinuation. Pronotum moderately transverse, widest at base, lateral margins distinctly convex and weakly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles distinctly produced and slightly rounded at tip, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin convexly produced medially, with a marginal line widely interrupted medially; surface densely and finely punctate, punctures each bearing moderately long, erect setae; setae of anterior and lateral border sparse being twice as long as setae on disc; hypomeron basally distinctly carinate but not produced. Scutellum slender and moderately long, triangular with the apex slightly rounded, with fine, moderately dense punctures, with only minute setae in punctures. Elytra oblong, widest in posterior third, striae weakly impressed, finely and moderately densely punctate, intervals weakly convex, with sparse, fine punctures concentrated along striae, intervals with a very few fine white setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra; epipleura nearly glabrous, apical border with a very fine fringe of microtrichomes. Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate; metasternum densely covered with long setae on disc, glabrous on sides. Metacoxa glabrous, with a few single setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and unevenly densely punctuate, almost glabrous, with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a robust short seta; last abdominal sternite bearing a pair of minute tubercles medially separated from each other by the width of the metatibia.Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur.Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.65. Pygidium weakly convex and dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, with a few semi-erect setae. Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, behind anterior edge without serrated line; posterior margin in apical half ventrally smooth and only weakly widened, posterior margin dorsally weakly serrated, on its basal portion with a few very long setae being subequal to width of metafemur. Metatibia slender and moderately long, widest at apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 4.1; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at two third of metatibial length, basally without strong setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, very finely and sparsely punctate; ventral margin finely serrated, with three robust setae, with the apical one more widely separated; medial face smooth, apex moderately sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres ventrally with protarsomeres smooth, meso- and metatarsomeres with a few very fine punctures. Metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally, first metatarsomere a little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw sharply truncate at apex. Aedeagus. Figs. 5–7. Habitus. Fig. 8. Female unknown. Variation. Paratypes in morphology very similar to the holotype. Length: 5.7–5.8 mm, length of elytra: 4.6 mm, width: 4.6–4.7 mm. Diagnosis. Neoserica debasriae Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens, new species is also part of the Neoserica speciosa group (Ahrens 2004). Neoserica debasriae, new species differs from Neoserica panchmariensis, new species in the shape of the male genitalia: The phallobase is dorsally incised before apex (lateral view), a ventral phallobasal lamina is not present; the right paramere is more twice as long as the phallobase and twice as long as left one, without any dorsal teeth; the left paramere has no distinct basal lobe and is more or less straight (Figs. 5–7). Etymology. This new species (noun in the genitive case) is dedicated to D.B.’s late mother-in-law, Mrs. Debasri Datta, who has always encouraged her in every aspect of her career. Unfortunately, last year she passed away during Covid pandemic. Distribution (Fig. 9). Only known from the type locality.Published as part of Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Chandra, Kailash & Ahrens, Dirk, 2022, New species and records of Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) III, pp. 489-494 in Zootaxa 5200 (2) on pages 491-493, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5200.5.6, http://zenodo.org/record/727100
Capturing value increase in urban redevelopment : a study of how the economic value increase in urban redevelopment can be used to finance the necessary public infrastructure and other facilities
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83166.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Everyone would agree that urban development, especially when involving the building of residential areas, should be accompanied by sufficient and good public infrastructure and facilities. We all want neighborhoods with the necessary roads, green areas, social facilities, affordable housing and public spaces of high quality. At the same time, nowadays, governments are facing severe cuts in public expenditure. So who is going to pay for all that quality? In the Netherlands and in many other countries, achieving these public goals has become a problem, especially in the regeneration of deteriorated inner cities sites. This book offers insight in how the economic value increase that arises from urban development can serve to finance the quality we want, without the need for public subsidies. The findings and recommendations made in this book focus on Western Europe, mainly on successful and alternatively less successful recent experiences in Spain, England and the Netherlands. Public bodies can use the recommendations to create the necessary conditions to improve the involvement of property developers and landowners in the financing of infrastructure and facilities. Property developers and landowners can find formulas for private-public partnership that can lead to lower development costs and risks, allowing them to pay for good infrastructure and facilities while maintaining profitability. Scholars will find here the theoretical backgrounds for this relevant topic. The author has both an academic and a professional background in the practice of urban development.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 22 november 2010Promotor : Needham, D.B.451 p
Second Coming
No full textHank Jones isn\u27t your typical alien abductee. There were no tractor beams, probes, or government conspiracies involved-no, Hank met his kidnappers at a bar. They weren\u27t exactly hard to miss-Elvis, a seven-foot tall Elvis clone, and Lawrence, a grounded European gent, were the only UCLA supporters in a bar full of Hoosiers. Still, Hank has nothing better to do. It\u27s spring break, there\u27s a pile of freshman essays on his desk, and his thesis is going nowhere. Worse, his ex is sleeping with his dissertation director. He needs a friend, and these aliens will do. Besides, Elvis and Lawrence could really use a hand-they haven\u27t visited Earth since the 1950s, and now they\u27re lost in Indiana, not realizing that things have changed. They need to get to Washington: if they don\u27t warn the president about a coming nuclear arms race, the planet will be destroyed. But the American public don\u27t seem too worried. Aliens? And one of them looks like Elvis? Facebook and Twitter are aflame. Oprah and The Tonight Show hang on the phone. The apocalypse will have to wait. Second Coming is the hilarious new novel by D.B. Borton , author of the Cat Caliban and Gilda Liberty series. Taking aim at consumerism, the cult of celebrity, and the self-destructiveness of humanity, it nonetheless finds joy in the pleasures of basketball, dogs, and rock \u27n\u27 roll.https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/eng_books/1015/thumbnail.jp
D.B. Elkonin on the Development of a Child’s Skills: The Position of the Concept of Arbitrary Activity Reproduction
No full textIn 2024, the attention of Russian scientific community is focused on the most important date, the 120th anniversary of the birth of Daniil Borisovich Elkonin, the author of the psychological theory of children's play, co-author of the theory of educational activity. The article analyzes the views of D.B. Elkonin on the development of children’s skills from the standpoint of the author’s concept of reproduction of an activity. Arbitrary activity reproduction is a purposeful reconstructive-reproductive process, relatively independent from memorization, characterized by individual originality, manifested in the quantity and quality of recall of previously memorized information for the purpose of future activity based on a certain level of its understanding and comprehension. We consider mnemonic abilities as tools for memorizing, reproducing, forgetting, recognizing and preserving any material. It is shown that the concept of arbitrary activity reproduction of educational material implement an activity-based approach to the development of skills. The research results prove the importance of developing children’s cognitive skills and abilities through the pupil’s mastery of educational activities — associative-indicative, analytical-synthetic, control-evaluative.</p
Design and evaluation of just-in-time help in a multi-modal user interface
No full textIn order to optimally support learning, help should be given at an appropriate level: providing the users with new information, relevant to and needed for their task. This paper discusses the design and evaluation of such a help system, applied in the Radiology domain
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