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La Traccia e la faccia. Come avvicinarsi ai film di Thomas Heise (e non liberarsene più)
No full textL'articolo affronta il lavoro di uno dei cineasti tedeschi più interessanti e controversi del dopoguerra. Thomas Heise ha lavorato nell'ex DDR con i maggiori intellettuali dell'epoca, divenendo ben presto un dissidente capace di descrivere i fenomeni più nascosti di una società apparentemente uniforme. I suo lavori, inoltre, hanno anticipato il fenomeno del radicalismo di desra e dei naziskin assumendo, senza volerlo, un valore sociologico inestimabile. Questo contributo, il rpimo in lingua italiana, raccoglie crticamente 30 anni di lavoro e di opere di Thomas Heise
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Megarthrus heise Zhang, Cuccodoro, Chen & Liu 2021, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Megarthrusheise</i> Zhang, Cuccodoro, Chen & Liu sp. nov. <p>(Figs 1–40)</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype, male, in cSch “ CHINA, Qinghai province, Yunning si [lamasery], 2890 m, 36°45.6’N, 102°10.6’E, 1–2.VII.2005, J. Hájek, D. Král & J. Rüžička leg. [Ch 10]; individually under stones and logs, in excrements and on vegetation in coniferous forest ”.</p> <p> Paratypes: same data as holotype, 8 males and 5 females in cSch, 4 males and 2 females in MHNG, and 2 males and 2 females in SWUC; “ CHINA, Qinghai province, Yunning Si [lamasery], 2890 m, 36°45.6’N, 102°10.6’E, 1–16.VII.2005, J. Hájek, D. Král & J. Rüžička leg. [Ch 10 & 19], baited pitfall traps (fish meat) withethylene glycol, wet coniferous forest, close valley above the village, M. Schülke ”, 6 males and 6 females in cSch, and 2 males and 2 females in MHNG; “ CHINA, Qinghai prov., [CH11-16], road from Honggu to Men Yuan, 37°08’46’’N, 102°14’58.7’’E, 2473 m, river valley, forest edge, semi-open pasture, sifted from mushrooms, 3.VII.2011, leg. M. Schülke ”, 4 males and 3 females in cSch, and 1 male and 1 female in MHNG; “ CHINA, Qinghai prov., [CH11- 09e], Daban Shan, 62 km NNW Honggu creek valley, <i>Picea</i>, <i>Populus</i>, <i>Betula</i> forest, 36°51’5–28’’N, 102°36’34’’– 37’07’’E, 2236–2350 m, creek valley, litter, dead wood & moss sifted, 10.VII.2011, leg. M. Schülke ”, 1 male in cSch; “ CHINA [26], N-Sichuan, N Songpan, 33°15’26’’N, 103°46’03’’E, 2700 m, spruce forest with birch, 12.VIII. 2012, V. Assing ”, 1 female in cAss; “ CHINA, W Sichuan. Kangding, 2800 m. 30°04N, 101°58E, 21.VII.1998, A. Smetana [C88]”, 1 malein MHNG; “ CHINA, Sichuan province, Kangding (formerly Tatsienlu), 2900 m. 2.VII.1996, 30°03N, 102°02E, A. Smetana [C48]”, 2 males in MHNG; “ CHINA, W. Sichuan province, Wassuland. Bzk. Sankiangkou, Coll. H. Becker ”, 1 female in SWUC; “ CHINA, Gansu province, DAGCANGLHAMO (lamaseri) env., 34°04.6’N, 102°37.7E, 3644 m, J. Hájek, D. Král & J. Rüžička leg. [Ch6], in <i>Marmota himalayana</i> burrow on excrement of carnivore, alpine meadow with shrubs, on upper margin of coniferous forest, M. Schülke ”, 6 males in cSch; “ CHINA, Gansu prov., [CH11-27], Lenglong Ling Mts., 60 km NNW Honggu, Jin Sha Gorge, mixed forest (<i>Picea</i>, <i>Populus</i>, <i>Betula</i>), 36°51’56.9’’N, 102°38’55.3’’E, litter, moss, mushrooms sifted, 12.VII.2011, leg. M. Schülke ”, 5 males and 5 females in cSch, and 2 males and 2 females in MHNG; “ CHINA, Gansu province, Lazikou valley, 1946 m. 34°06.9′N, 103°53.7′E (GPS), 26–27.VI.2005. J. Hájek, D. Král & J. Růžička leg., [Ch7] baited pitfalltraps (fish meat + cheese) withethylene glycol, mixedforest (<i>Quercus</i>, <i>Pinus</i>) onbankof the river ”, 1 male in cSch; “ CHINA, Gansu province, Yonghai cca 20km. SW Yuzhong 2700–2800 m, 9.VIII.1994. A. Smetana [C34]”, 5 males and 5 females in MHNG, and 1 male and 1 female in SWUC; “ CHINA, SW Gansu province, road YuZhong-Lanzhou/ Aganzhen SW of Yonghai, 2800 m. 8–9.VIII.1994, K.W. Anton ”, 1 malein MHNG; “ CHINA, Gansu province, Xinglong Shan, cca 70km S Lanzhou, 2225–2380 m, 7.VIII.1994. A. Smetana [C32]”, 2 females in MHNG; “ CHINA, Gansu province, 120 km. S Lanzhou Guanghe Xian Mai Jia. 2300 m, 8.VII.1994. A. Smetana [C3]”, 7 males and 2 females in MHNG, and 2 males and 1 female in SWUC; “ CHINA, Shaanxi Daba Shan mtn. Range Npass 22 km NW Zhenping, 32°01’N, 109°21’E, 2850 m, 14. VII. 2001, A. Smetana [C10]”, 1 malein NMPC; “ CHINA, Shanxi. Wutaishan, leaf litter. 4.–5.VI.1993. G. de Rougemont ”, 6 males and 6 females in MHNG, 1 male and 1 female in SWUC; “ CHINA, Beijing, Xizolong men, Leaf litter. 28.–29.VI.1993. G. de Rougemont.” 4 males MHNG and 2 males in SWUC; “ CHINA, Beijing, Xizolong men, Leaf litter. 23.–25.VI.1993. G. de Rougemont.” 1 female in MHNG.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Habitus as in Figs 1–3. Combined length of head, pronotum and elytra = 1.5–1.7 mm; maximal pronotal width = 0.8–0.9 mm. Body predominantly dark brown, with head and abdomen blackish, and appendages markedly paler. Dorsal pubescence fairly uniform, slightly shorter on abdomen, consisting of setae almost straight, recumbent; pubescence on frons sexually dimorphic, with medial setae directed backward; metaventral setae shorter than proventral setae; pubescence on abdominal tergites IV–VII parallel; sternites IV–VII each with two posteromedial macrosetae; sternites VI–VII with pubescence slightly denser posteromedially. Frons and vertex finely granulate; pronotum and elytra granulo-fossulate; prohypomeron almost smooth; metaventrite smooth in front metacoxae, coarsely punctate elsewhere.</p> <p>Frons above clypeus forming blunt ridge, the latter not carinate; mesal portion of disc slightly arcuate in lateral view; U–shaped frontal impression shallow. Temples slightly expanded just behind eyes, then abruptly narrowed, finely granulate. Occipital ridge indistinct. Antenna (Figs 6, 29) with scape fairly conical, not compressed; antennomere 11 ovoid, slightly compressed; pubescence markedly denser on antennomeres 5–11. Maxillary palpus with palpomere 3 about 1.5 timesas long as palpomere 2. Pronotum (Fig. 26) shallowlydepressed along posteriorportion of lateral edges; medial groove shallow, weakly convex in frontal view, almost straight in lateral view; hypomeron lacking transverse ridge. Scutellum triangle, with anterior margin rounded. Elytral disc shallowly depressed along lateral edge, without notable relief.</p> <p> <i>Male</i>. Frontoclypeal area, protarsomere 5, metaventrite, and abdominal sternites IV–VI unmodified. Pubescence on posterior portion of frons only slightly converging (Fig. 31). Protibia incrassate (Fig. 30). Protarsomere 1 possessing ventral patch of modified adhesive setae. Metatarsomere 1 approximately 1.5 times shorter than combined length of metatarsomeres 2–4. Peg-like setae absent from protrochanter, protibia, profemur and mesofemur (Figs 13–14); arranged in a row on mesotrochanter (Fig. 14); grouped in a field on mesotibia (Figs 10–11); metatrochanter with 2–3 peg-like setae (Figs 17–19); metafemur with upto 2 peg-like setae (Figs 17–19); arranged in 2 rows on metatibia (Figs 15–16). Abdominal tergite VIII as in Figs 12, 21; sternite VIII as in Fig. 20; hemitergite IX as in Fig 9. Aedeagus as in Figs 4–5, 7–8.</p> <p> <i>Female</i>. Pubescence on posterior portion of frons strongly converging (Fig. 32). Abdominal tergite VIII forming apical projection (Figs 27–28); sternite VIII as in Fig. 25. Genitalia as in Figs 22–24; dorsal part of genital segment (Fig. 24) forming 2 sclerotized arcuate sclerites; gonocoxal plate without dorsal or ventral medial ridges.</p> <p> <b>Comparisons and diagnostic notes.</b> <i>Megarthrus heise</i> sp. nov. and <i>M. nitidulus</i> are the only members of the genus to have a blackish body in combination with an adventral projection on the male metatibia. They share in common many other features, notably very similar genitalia, and therefore the new species was previously confused with <i>M. nitidulus</i> (Shen <i>et al</i> 2008). However, the males of <i>M. heise</i> have the metatibial peg-like setae restricted to its apical half except a single peg-like seta near apex of the adventral projection (Figs 15–16), while in <i>M. nitidulus</i> a loose row of 3 peg-like setae extend adventrally on metatibia to its adventral projection (Cuccodoro and Löbl 1997: Fig. 22d). In addition, the ventral outline of the aedeagal ventral wall in lateral view is sinuate in <i>M. heise</i> (Figs 4–5), while it is concave in <i>M. nitidulus</i> (Cuccodoro and Löbl 1997: Fig. 22b). Females of these two species can be distinguished by the shape of the dorsobasal margin of the gonocoxal plate—extended anterad and arcuate in <i>M. heise</i> (Figs 22–23) while straight in <i>M. nitidulus</i> (Cuccodoro and Löbl 1997: Figs 23 a–b)—and of their pair of dorsal genital sclerites—arcuate in <i>M. heise</i> (Fig. 24) while semicircular in <i>M. nitidulus</i> (Cuccodoro and Löbl 1997: Fig. 23c).</p> <p> <b>Distribution and natural history.</b> <i>Megarthrus heise</i> sp. nov. is distributed in Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi provinces and Beijing of China, at elevations ranging from 1946 to 2900 m a.s.l. It was collected in coniferous or mixed forest (<i>Betula</i>, <i>Picea</i>, <i>Pinus</i>, <i>Populus</i>, <i>Quercus</i>), in creek valley, semi-open pasture, and alpine meadow, from samples of sifted leaf litter, mushrooms, mosses, dead wood, excrements of carnivores, at sight under stones and logs, or using baited pitfall traps (fish meat + cheese) with ethylene glycol.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The name of the new species means black in Chinese, with reference to its coloration. Noun in apposition.</p> <p> <b>Note on teratological abdominal tergite VII.</b> One male paratype of <i>M. heise</i> sp. nov. collected together with the holotype has a malformation of the penultimate visible abdominal tergite (i.e. tergite VII), in which the latter is entirely divided transversely in a tergite VII and a tergite VII’ (Figs 33, 34). That teratological specimen was well sclerotized and caught at sight, indicating that the malformation was non-lethal and apparently had little impact on its fitness. It is the first time, such an anormality is documented in the genus. No attempt was made to investigate this malformation further by dissection or clearing of the specimen, which is deposited in MHNG.</p> <p> <b> Note on phoresy of Acari by <i>Megarthrus</i>.</b> Seven paratypes of the new species collected together with the holotype appeared to bear 1 μm long translucent structures attached to their body. According to us these structures are anal pedicels of deutonymphs of phoretic mites of Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata) (Bajerlein & Błoszyk 2004, Halliday 2015). Such pedicels were found on specimens of both sexes of <i>M. heise</i>. The species of mite involved has apparently no particular preferences for attaching to a particular body part, as similar pedicels were located on the pronotum (Fig. 38), on the elytra (Figs 37, 39), on the abdomen (Fig. 37) and even on the eyes (Figs 35–36), with one specimen bearing up to 7 pedicels on the elytra (5) and abdomen (2) (Fig. 37). This observation, which is the first report of evidence of phoresy of mites by <i>Megarthrus</i>, indicates that members of <i>M. heise</i> are mobile enough to be used by phoretic mites as dispersal vectors, suggesting that the species particularly appreciates ephemeral microhabitats usually also suitable for the development of Uropodina mites, in particular excrements of mammals.</p>Published as part of <i>Zhang, Shan, Cuccodoro, Giulio, Chen, Li & Liu, Zhiping, 2021, Megarthrus of China. Part 3. Comments on the occurrence of Megarthrus nitidulus Kraatz, 1857 in China, and description of a new species, with notes on teratology and phoretic acari in the genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae), pp. 554-564 in Zootaxa 4920 (4)</i> on pages 555-562, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.4.6, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4491252">http://zenodo.org/record/4491252</a>
RNA-Seq analysis of chikungunya virus infection and identification of granzyme A as a major promoter of arthritic inflammation
Get PDFChikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthritogenic alphavirus causing epidemics of acute and chronic arthritic disease. Herein we describe a comprehensive RNA-Seq analysis of feet and lymph nodes at peak viraemia (day 2 post infection), acute arthritis (day 7) and chronic disease (day 30) in the CHIKV adult wild-type mouse model. Genes previously shown to be up-regulated in CHIKV patients were also up-regulated in the mouse model. CHIKV sequence information was also obtained with up to ≈8% of the reads mapping to the viral genome; however, no adaptive viral genome changes were apparent. Although day 2, 7 and 30 represent distinct stages of infection and disease, there was a pronounced overlap in up-regulated host genes and pathways. Type I interferon response genes (IRGs) represented up to ≈50% of up-regulated genes, even after loss of type I interferon induction on days 7 and 30. Bioinformatic analyses suggested a number of interferon response factors were primarily responsible for maintaining type I IRG induction. A group of genes prominent in the RNA-Seq analysis and hitherto unexplored in viral arthropathies were granzymes A, B and K. Granzyme Aand to a lesser extent granzyme K, but not granzyme B, mice showed a pronounced reduction in foot swelling and arthritis, with analysis of granzyme Amice showing no reductions in viral loads but reduced NK and T cell infiltrates post CHIKV infection. Treatment with Serpinb6b, a granzyme A inhibitor, also reduced arthritic inflammation in wild-type mice. In non-human primates circulating granzyme A levels were elevated after CHIKV infection, with the increase correlating with viral load. Elevated granzyme A levels were also seen in a small cohort of human CHIKV patients. Taken together these results suggest granzyme A is an important driver of arthritic inflammation and a potential target for therapy. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT0028129
Author in Essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere”
Get PDFFeatures of the embodiment of the author’s position in the essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere” are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the poorly studied poetics of this work. A review of the scientific literature on relevant topics is performed. Methodological and theoretical definitions are given. The scientific novelty of the article is in the fact that for the first time attention is paid to artistic techniques that allow to identify the author's position in the specified literary text. The author of the article grounds her opinion from the fact that, despite the dominance of the subjective point of view, other characters’ views stand out in the work. It is concluded in the study that the text of the work represents a biographical author and author-creator. It was established that the position of the author-creator is expressed through the title, epigraphs, which are quotes, as well as through different points of view, including the author-character, the author-narrator, the characters of the work. The author of the article dwells in detail on different ways of expressing the points of view of the author-character and the author-narrator. It is proved that the point of view of the author-character and the author-narrator can intersect, they are interchanged. The author's development of the term comic “point of view” is presented in the article
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