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Introduction.
No full textIntroduces a journal on critical discourse studies and social analysis. Adapted from the source document
The Massett-Graham Island Coal Company: the Nearest Coal Fields to Prince Rupert:
No full textThis little booklet is compiled to show the possibilities of the property controlled by this company in The Graham Island Coal Fields, near Prince Rupert, British Columbia Canada.--P. [1
Asexuality: Classification and characterization
No full textThis is a post-print version of the article. The official published version can be obtaineed at the link below.The term “asexual” has been defined in many different ways and asexuality has received very little research attention. In a small qualitative study (N = 4), individuals who self-identified as asexual were interviewed to help formulate hypotheses for a larger study. The second larger study was an online survey drawn from a convenience sample designed to better characterize asexuality and to test predictors of asexual identity. A convenience sample of 1,146 individuals (N = 41 self-identified asexual) completed online questionnaires assessing sexual history, sexual inhibition and excitation, sexual desire, and an open-response questionnaire concerning asexual identity. Asexuals reported significantly less desire for sex with a partner, lower sexual arousability, and lower sexual excitation but did not differ consistently from non-asexuals in their sexual inhibition scores or their desire to masturbate. Content analyses supported the idea that low sexual desire is the primary feature predicting asexual identity
Map of active commercial food animal production operations (<i>n</i> = 130) and their drainage flow paths in the study area, east of Quito, Ecuador.
No full textThe inset is an aerial photograph of commercial poultry production facilities in the study area (image credit: Jay P. Graham). Map created in QGIS; contains information from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation, which is made available under the Open Database License.</p
The DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
No full textThis article reviews and critiques the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder (FSAD). An overview of how the diagnostic criteria for FSAD have evolved over previous editions of the DSM is presented and research on prevalence and etiology of FSAD is briefly reviewed. Problems with the essential feature of the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis — “an inability to attain, or to maintain…an adequate lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement” — are identified. The significant overlap between “arousal” and “desire” disorders is highlighted. Finally, specific recommendations for revision of the criteria for DSM-V are made, including use of a polythetic approach to the diagnosis and the addition of duration and severity criteria
Exploring small area demand for grocery retailers in tourist areas
No full textNewing, A., Clarke, G.P. and Clarke, M. 2014. Exploring small area demand for grocery retailers in tourist areas. Tourism Economics, 20(2), pp.407-427This paper uses data from a major loyalty card scheme to draw insights about the characteristics of grocery expenditure by tourists. The authors explore the volume, value and composition of store based visitor expenditure using consumer data from the loyalty card scheme. They focus on grocery spending at selected stores in Cornwall, a popular tourist destination in South West England. Theloyalty card data provide a valuable source rarely available for academic investigations. The authors are able to analyse visitor spend by socio-economic and geodemographic characteristics, drawing a range of comparisons with residential demand from within the store catchment areas. They demonstrate that visitor grocery expenditure is complex and varies by store, destination and type of customer. The paper presents evidence to suggest that the current approaches used to estimate sales uplift and local-level economic impact from visitor demand are unable to account for the complexities of this form of expenditure. Based on these insights, the authors recommend that sophisticated modelling is employed to estimate the impact of visitor expenditure
The causality of casualness in the translations of world poetry : Jorie Graham vs Mary Oliver in Italy
No full textIl saggio offre un’analisi dell’influenza delle traduzioni
sulla circolazione della poesia americana contemporanea
in Italia. La ricerca si articola in due momenti:
in primo luogo viene fornita una valutazione
estetica e culturale dell’opera di due poetesse americane,
Jorie Graham e Mary Oliver, la cui ricezione
in Italia è particolarmente significativa perché sta conoscendo
fortune opposte; in secondo luogo viene
condotta un’indagine dei motivi di questa disparità
di trattamento nell’interazione tra le pratiche di traduzione
e le dinamiche di pubblicazione in atto in
Italia. Queste sono state dedotte da alcune interviste
campione con professionisti dei due campi. I risultati
hanno evidenziato una combinazione di fattori
casuali e causali, nella quale l’incontro personale e a
volte fortuito tra un poeta e un traduttore mette in
moto strategie di selezione e di traduzione motivate
da ragioni estetiche e a volte ideologiche.The essay explores the impact of poetry translation
on the circulation of the works of American poets
in Italy. The research is conducted by means of
a double approach: in the first place, the aesthetic
and cultural value of the poetry of two American
women poets (Jorie Graham and Mary Oliver) is
assessed, whose work has received a radically different
reception. Secondly, the reasons for this disparity
of treatment are sought in the interrelation
between the practices and activity of poetry translation
and of publication, as they are customarily
led in Italy. These are inferred from sample interviews
with professionals in both fields. The results
of the investigation highlight a combination of the
casual and the causal, the causing factor being the
occasional encounter of a poet with a translator,
who then chooses his/her author, texts, and translating
strategies according to his/her personal aesthetic,
and sometimes ideological, judgment
The DSM diagnostic criteria for female orgasmic disorder
No full textThis is the post-print version of the article. The official published version can be found at the link below.This article reviews the DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Orgasmic Disorder (FOD). Following an overview of the concept of female orgasm, research on the prevalence and associated features of FOD is briefly reviewed. Specific aspects of the DSM-IV-TR criteria for FOD are critically reviewed and key issues that should be considered for DSM-V are discussed. The DSM-IV-TR text on FOD focused on the physiological changes that may (or may not) accompany orgasm in women; one of the major recommendations here is that greater emphasis be given to the subjective aspects of the experience of orgasm. Additional specific recommendations are made for revision of diagnostic criteria, including the use of minimum severity and duration criteria, and better acknowledgment of the crucial role of relationship factors in FOD
Microsphecodes fernandoi Graham & Packer 2024
No full text<i>Microsphecodes fernandoi</i> Graham & Packer <p>Figs. 11, 13–18, 29, 32 & 36.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis:</b> The colour pattern of this species is unique: the head is black except the clypeus is dark yellowish brown (Fig. 11), the mesosoma is brown, T1 and the base of T2 are somewhat paler than the remaining terga (except for the somewhat paler translucent apical impressed areas) which are dark brown (Figures 14 & 17). This is the only species with the entire mesosoma somewhat paler than the discs of T2–T6 (Figs. 14–17).</p> <p> <b>Description</b>: <i>Holotype female</i>:</p> <p> <i>Dimensions</i>: Total body length 4.6 mm; forewing length 3.76 mm. Head broader than long, width 1.42 mm, length 1.22 mm. Intertegular distance not measurable due to distortion caused by pin.</p> <p> <i>Colouration</i>: Light brown except as follows: Mandible brown, apical 1/4 red-brown; labrum and clypeus orange-brown; supraclypeal area dark brown; torulus, scape and pedicel orange-brown; flagellum brown; rest of head black; tegula yellow, wing veins dark brown, wing membrane translucent. All legs orange-brown. T1 orange-brown, with a dark brown apical impressed area; T2 orange-brown basally, dark brown elsewhere; T3 dark brown, apical appressed area paler; T4–T5 and pygidial plate dark brown; S1 orange-brown; S2 orange-brown basally, dark brown apically; remaining sterna dark brown; apical impressed areas translucent yellow.</p> <p> <i>Pubescence</i>: pale yellowish, relatively sparse fine simple sub-erect to erect except when stated otherwise; clypeus hairs short, branched, with longer simple hairs intermixed; lower paraocular area hairs denser with many branches, hairs marginally longer than on rest of face; sparser on vertexal area than face, shorter than longest hairs of clypeus; anterior surface of flagellum hairs sparse and long, underlying placodea dark, obscure against dark background. Pronotal collar with short, dense white hair laterally, dorsally less dense; side of mesosoma with dense somewhat plumose short white subappressed hairs with sparse erect long white hairs intermixed; hypoepimeral area almost entirely glabrous; mesoscutum hairs short sparse (surface of mesoscutum obstructed by pin posteromedially); scutellum hairs long white sparse; metanotum with dense white long hairs; posterior surface of propodeum with short, dense white hairs with some longer hairs intermixed; metatibia hairs simple suberect longest apically, shorter than or equal to apical width of tibia; dorsal surface of metatibia with pale bristles bearing few short branches on dorsal side of rachis. T1 glabrous except laterally hairs of medium length, sparsely branched; T2 as for T1, but with short appressed hairs basally; T3–T5 hairs moderately dense and short on disc, with sparse long hairs intermixed laterally and apically, subappressed medium length and white anterolaterally. S1 hairs long sparse along midline, absent elsewhere; S2–S5 hairs scattered long suberect, D-shaped glabrous area apicomedially; S6 hairs short subappressed.</p> <p> <i>Surface Sculpture</i>: Integument shiny lacking microsculpture unless stated otherwise. Face densely punctate i<d, with the exception being more sparse towards apex of supraclypeal area; vertexal area punctures sparser i=1–4d; impunctate around ocelli; genal area punctures small sparse i=1–3d;hypostomal area weakly imbricate except on disc, sparsely punctate. Mesoscutum very weakly imbricate, punctures distinct, varying in size, irregularly spaced i=0.5– 2.5d, densest laterally, sparsest on disc (obscured by pin posteriorly); mesoscutellum faintly imbricate, punctures scattered on disc, denser around margins i~1d; metanotum punctures dense i~1d. Metapostnotum dorsal surface margined by strong carina, indented posteromedially; areolate, median pair of areolae on either side of apically complete median carina take up most of the dorsal surface, margined by smaller elongate areolae. Preepisternum and hypoepimeral areas weakly rugose; mesepisternum punctate posteriorly punctures small, i<d; [metepisternum obscured by pubescence]; propodeum coarsely areolate, areolae on posterior surface large. Tegula impunctate weakly imbricate. T1–T2 very weakly imbricate laterally, impunctate; T3 punctures small dense i=0.5–3d; T4–T5 weakly imbricate, punctures small. S1 weakly imbricate, impunctate; S2–S5 imbricate, punctures shallow; S6 imbricate, more densely punctate than other sterna.</p> <p> <i>Structure</i>: Mandible shorter than compound eye (0.6 mm: 0.82 mm). Clypeus 3.5X broader than long (0.84 mm: 0.24 mm). Supraclypeal area convex, somewhat protuberant in profile. Frontal line carinate from just below lower tangent of antennal socket to ~1MOD below median ocellus (MOD = 0.12 mm). Inner margin of compound eyes somewhat convergent below: UOD:LOD 0.92 mm: 0.82 mm; ASD 0.1 mm, IAD 0.2 mm; supraclypeal area as long as wide (apical width 0.28 mm, length 0.28 mm); IOD:OOD 0.24 mm: 0.28 mm; vertex strongly convex in frontal view, upper tangent of compound eyes 0.25 MOD below lower tangent of median ocellus; genal area narrower than compound eye in profile (0.32 mm: 0.42 mm); F1 shorter than F2 (0.08mm: 0.12 mm). [Mesoscutum length to width ratio not measurable—surface distorted by pin.] Stigma large, 0.62 mm long, 0.18mm wide (~3.5:1); margin in marginal cell convex, marginal cell 1.04 mm long, 0.28mm wide, free portion slightly less than 3X that subtended by submarginal cells (0.82 mm: 0.3 mm); 1m-cu meets second submarginal cell near middle; stigmal perpendicular goes through 2r-m near anterior margin; hind wing with five distal hamuli. Pygidial plate apically rounded, surface slightly concave.</p> <p> <b>Material Studied.</b> <i>Holotype</i> female: FRENCH GUIANA, Les Eaux Claires, 3.5 mi. N[orth of] Saul, N3°38 - 40’ W53°13’ [~3.65 -53.21], 14-21 July 1995, mal[aise]. trap, A. Berkov, AMNH.</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>: The species is known from a unique specimen and is named to honour the memory of Fernando Silveira who was also a unique individual, one of the warmest and funniest people the junior author has ever met; his passing is a great loss.</p>Published as part of <i>Graham, Liam & Packer, Laurence, 2024, Three New Species of Microsphecodes s. str. (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) with an updated key to species of the subgenus, pp. 189-205 in Zootaxa 5404 (1)</i> on pages 195-197, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5404.1.12, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10571325">http://zenodo.org/record/10571325</a>
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Molecular and clinical epidemiologic investigations of infections caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli
No full textAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health, as AMR infections are more difficult to treat, are more likely to lead to complications, and have been increasing in prevalence. AMR infections are estimated to have contributed to 4.95 million deaths in 2009 alone.1 Emergence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing bacteria, primarily E. coli, are particularly concerning because they are resistant to several classes of antibiotics, including some last-line antibiotics, third-generation cephalosporins. Urinary tract infections (UTI) are an important focus for AMR research, as one of the most common bacterial infections. The majority of UTIs are caused by uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) in both community and healthcare settings. E. coli are incredibly diverse and readily share plasmids, aiding in the dissemination of AMR genes. Surveillance of UPEC to prevent and diagnose AMR infections is thus an important component of the fight against AMR.The work presented here leverages genomic and epidemiologic methods to address two issues related to AMR infection surveillance. The first chapter provides an introduction to the complexity of AMR and UPEC. The second chapter uses publicly available whole-genome sequence data to develop a rapid, inexpensive assay for identifying common UPEC sequence types, to aid in future epidemiologic surveillance for the control of UPEC. The third, uses electronic health record data to evaluate the risk of developing complications from a community onset UTI caused by ESBL-producing E. coli, emphasizing the importance of early detection and monitoring of ESBL infections
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