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Response to Alexandra Harris, 'Landscape Now'
No full textAlex invites us to join in a conversation about “the place of art, and the history of art, in national understandings of landscape now”. She notes that over the last twenty years there has been an upsurge in interest in writing about nature, place, and environment not seen since the late eighteenth century, and sees connections between nature writing, music, and film. Alex considers the term “mixed parliament” for this variety of genres. Picturing Places, a website launched in 2017 by the British Library, puts this idea into practice. We deliberately bring together a wide range of genres and formats—prints, drawings, printed and manuscript text, maps, objects such as globes, peepshows, and jigsaws, even a cuneiform tablet—with a resulting wide date range that currently stretches from ca. 605 bc to 2008. Over ninety authors from early career to established scholars have contributed to the site, and I hope the result is effective rather than confusing; the plural voices and variety of objects examined should surprise, encourage new ways of seeing, and increase awareness of the art historical, cultural, and institutional barriers that have led to ingrained and inaccurate perceptions of topographical art as a lesser form of landscape art
A new species of Aframomum (Zingiberaceae) from Central Africa
No full textDhetchuvi, Jean-Baptiste, Wortley, Alexandra H., Harris, David J. (2011): A new species of Aframomum (Zingiberaceae) from Central Africa. Phytotaxa 28: 31-34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.28.1.4, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.28.1.
Author, Philosopher Alexandra Stoddard to Speak March 2 at Williams Library
No full textOXFORD, Miss. – Contemporary philosopher, author, interior designer and speaker Alexandra Stoddard gives an inspirational lecture and reading March 2 at the University of Mississippi
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
Full text linkCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Description of a new pygmy chameleon (Chamaeleonidae: Brookesia) from central Madagascar
No full textCrottini, Angelica, Miralles, Aurélien, Glaw, Frank, Harris, James, Lima, Alexandra, Vences, Miguel (2012): Description of a new pygmy chameleon (Chamaeleonidae: Brookesia) from central Madagascar. Zootaxa 3490: 63-74, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20859
Supplemental Material - Zooming in and Zoning out: Remote Deliberation Impairs Team Decision Quality
No full textSupplemental Material for Zooming in and Zoning out: Remote Deliberation Impairs Team Decision Quality by Anoop A. Javalagi, Alexandra M. Harris-Watson, and Leslie A. DeChurch in Group & Organization Management.</p
Aframomum sericeum Dhetchuvi & D. J. Harris 2011, sp. nov.
No full textAframomum sericeum Dhetchuvi & D.J.Harris, sp. nov. (Fig. 1) Aframomo sulcato similis sed pagina abaxiali foliorum dense tomentosa differt. Aframomum sp. D in Harris (2002: 247). Type:— GABON. Mpassa Forest Reserve, Makokou, 0° 34’ N, 12° 52’ E, 18 November 1994, M. M . Dhetchuvi 1725 (holotype BR!, isotype WAG!). Clump-forming herbs to 6 m. Rhizomes to 15 mm in diameter, reddish-brown when dry. Stems often swollen up to 4 cm in diameter at base. Leaf sheaths with rounded and branched transverse and longitudinal ridges, glabrous, occasionally ciliate at edges. Ligules rounded, to 9 mm, bilobed towards tip, glabrous. Pseudopetioles to 10 mm, glabrous. Leaves narrowly elliptic, to 55 × 11 cm, base slightly asymmetric, apex caudate, acumen ca. 10 mm, margin glabrous, glabrous adaxially, tomentose abaxially, with erect, swollenbased trichomes to 0.5 mm long on laminae, midribs tomentose, secondary veins usually obscured by strands of free hypodermal sclerenchyma adaxially when dry, clearly visible abaxially. Inflorescences arising at or close to the leaf bases, occasionally on rhizomes to 40 cm away, usually branched, each branch bearing ca. 2 flowers, peduncles to 20 cm, borne at or below ground level for most of their length. Flowers trumpet-shaped, delicate. Calyx tubular, greenish to purple. Corolla tubular, dark reddish purple, dorsal petal to 7 cm, lateral petals ca. 4 cm. Labellum pale purple, to 7 × 5 cm, forming a tube with dorsal petal. Stamen included, anther crest to 5 mm, horns to 5 mm, sometimes forked at tips, anther thecae dehiscing for lower three-quarters of their length. Nectaries paired, free for most of their length. Fruits ellipsoid, to 6.0 × 3.5 cm, distinctly ridged, greenish, ripening bright red, persistent calyx forming beak to 3 cm long, persistent bracts at base, pulp sweet and acidic to taste. Seeds ellipsoid, to 5 × 3 mm, dark brown, smooth. Etymology:—Named for the dense covering of hairs on the leaves abaxially. Distribution:—Central and eastern Cameroon, central and northern Gabon, southern Central African Republic, northern Republic of Congo, on cleared land, around villages, fields and roads, occasionally in Gilbertiodendron dewevrei forests, at 350–620 m elevation. Additional specimens examined:— CAMEROON. Mbalmayo, 3° 31’ N, 11° 30’ E, 24 March 1981, W . Meijer 15218 (BR!, MO!, P!, WAG!); Lomié, 3° 10’ N, 13° 38, E, 590 m, 18 November 1965, A . J.M. Leeuwenberg 6785 (BR!, P!, WAG!); River Ja, 3° 01’ N, 12° 21’ E, G . L. Bates s.n. (BM!); Doumé, 4° 14’ N, 13° 26’ E, 11 September 1960, F . J. Breteler 225 (P!, WAG!); 48 km S of Yaoundé, road to Mbalmayo, 3° 25’ N, 11° 30’ E, 22 November 1977, E . Westphal & J. M.C. Westphal-Stevels 9754 (WAG!); 15 km S of Mbalamayo, 3° 25’ N, 11° 30’ E, 25 November 1977, E . Westphal & J. M.C. Westphal-Stevels 9760 (WAG!); Yaoundé, cultivated, 17 December 1976, E . Westphal & J. M.C. Westphal-Stevels 9370 (P!, WAG!); East of Yokadouma, road to Central African Republic, 3° 25’ N, 15° 10’ E, 17 March 1981, W . Meijer 15133 (MO!, WAG!); Nkolembembe, 65 km SE Akonolinga, 3° 15’ N, 12° 32’ E, 5 June 1981, J . N. Asonganyi 188 (P!); 18 km from Yaoundé to Mbalmayo, 3° 41’ N, 11° 31’ E, 10 April 1973, R . Letouzey 12247 (P!, YA!). GABON: Lopé, 0° 10’ S, 11° 35’ E, 8 November 1993, M . M. Dhetchuvi 1144 (BR!, BRLU!), 1146 (BRLU!), 1148 (BR!); 9 November 1993, M . M. Dhetchuvi 1161 (BRLU!); 12 November 1993, M . M. Dhetchuvi 1212 (BR!, BRLU!); Lopé, 16 July 1997, J . Lejoly 93/141 (BRLU!); Makandé, 0° 41’' S, 11° 54’ E, 17 November 1993, M . M. Dhetchuvi 1260 (BRLU!); 11 November 1994, M . M. Dhetchuvi 1715 A (C!); Lopé – Okanda Reserve, ca. 38 km WSW of Booué, 0° 15’ S, 11° 35’ E, September 1984, M . E. Rogers 151 (E!), 152 (E!); Makokou, 0° 34’ N, 12 °52’ E, 500 m, 15 May 1985, L . Dorr & Barnett 4277 (K!, P!, WAG!); Belinga, 1° 08’ N, 13° 12’ E, May 1982, C . Tutin 5 (K!); Ogooué–Ivindo, 7 km on road from Makokou to Okondja, 0° 32’ N, 12° 55’ E, 550 m, 23 December 2001, J . J. Wieringa, C. C.H. Jongkind, J. G. Schoonhoven, & M. Mbombet 3527 (WAG!). REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 55 km SW of Souanké, 1° 56’ N, 13° 54’ E, 25 November 1991, D. J . Harris 3266 (E!); 52 km SW Souanké, road to Garabinzam, 1° 56’ N, 13° 54’ E, 9 November 1991, D. W . Thomas 8797 (MO!); Souanké Airport, 2° 00’ N, 14° 10’ E, 2 December 1991, D. J . Harris 3280 (E!). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Bayanga, 2° 55’ N, 16° 12’ E, 17 November 1997, D. J . Harris 5633 (E!), 5634 (E!), 5635 (E!); 2 December 1997, D. J . Harris 5653 (E!); Babongo Stream, confluence with Sangha River, 2° 59’ N, 16° 13’ E, 10 November 1997, D. J . Harris 5614 (E!); Ndakan, 2° 21’ N, 16° 09’ E, 350 m, 9 October 1988, D. J . Harris 1366 (MO!); 2° 23’ N, 16° 09’ E, 350 m, 20 October 1988, D. J . Harris 1444 (MO!); 12 km S of Lidjombo, 2° 34’ N, 16° 05’ E, 350 m, 28 March 1994, D. J . Harris 4851 (E!). EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Asoc Inselberg, 15 km from Mongomo, 1° 27’ N, 11° 20’ E, 620 m, 5 June 2002, I . Parmentier & Esono 3725 (BRLU!), 3688 (BRLU!). Aframomum sericeum may be recognised in the field by its large leaves with erect hairs on the lamina and midrib below, dark red corolla and large, ridged fruits. In the herbarium additional useful characters for identification include free strands of hypodermal sclerenchyma cells (Lock & Hall 1975) which can be observed using a ×10 lens on air-dried leaves, and transverse ridging of the leaf sheath. There is some variability in vegetative characters within A. sericeum: occasionally the transverse ridges on the leaf sheath are absent and some specimens (e.g. Tutin 5 and Rogers 151), have almost sessile young leaves. The midrib can also become glabrous towards the base of the leaf with age.Published as part of Dhetchuvi, Jean-Baptiste, Wortley, Alexandra H. & Harris, David J., 2011, A new species of Aframomum (Zingiberaceae) from Central Africa, pp. 31-34 in Phytotaxa 28 on pages 31-33, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.28.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/489425
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
Reescrita de si pelo outro: identidade portuguesa e paródia em Deus-dará, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / Rewriting oneself through the other: Portuguese identity and parody in Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
No full textResumo: O artigo aponta o modo como o romance Deus-dará de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, escritora portuguesa contemporânea, pode ser compreendido como um exercício de renegociação da identidade portuguesa em relação a questões referentes à colonização no Brasil. Mais do que isso, problematiza-se como, por meio da estratégia da paródia no texto ficcional, a autora consegue expressar uma necessidade e possibilidade de se redefinir pelo outro em um movimento contrário ao do discurso colonial – o que também ocorre em suas entrevistas e em suas narrativas de viagens, tais como em Vai, Brasil e Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso. Palavras-chave: identidade portuguesa; paródia; pós-modernismo; escrita portuguesa contemporânea; Alexandra Lucas Coelho. Abstract: The article observes how the novel Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, a Portuguese contemporary writer consists in an exercise of renegotiation for the Portuguese identity in relation to issues that refer to the colonization process in Brazil. Moreover, this text seeks to show how parody as a fictional literary strategy helps the author in expressing a necessity and a possibility of redefining oneself through the other, in a direction that goes in the opposite way of the colonial speech. This necessity and this possibility also appear in the author’s interviews and travel books, such as Vai, Brasil and Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso, which will also be mentioned in this article.Keywords: Portuguese identity; parody; post-modernism; Portuguese contemporary writing; Alexandra Lucas Coelho
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