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Denise Monson
No full textPhotograph - Denise Monson in front of a house at Calling River, Alberta. Her father ran the Telegraph Office ther
Letter to Mrs. Twitchelle from Mrs. Monson - Life at the Calling River Telegraph Station
No full textLetter - Mrs. Monson tells of her experiences of living at the Calling River Telegraph Station with her husband, Mr. George T. Monson. Mr. Monson was both the telegraph operator at the station from 1924 - 1945, as well as post master; the telegraph station also acted as the local post office. Mrs. Monson married and then joined him and his three daughters from a previous marriage, at the station in 1934. She and George had two more daughters while living at the station. All five children were raised and schooled at the station by Mrs. Monson. Mrs. Monson remembers fondly the "good fellowship amongst the people living in the area between Athabasca and Fort McMurray." (2 pages
Anna Monson
No full textFor the past decade the editorial office of Arctic has been in the capable hands of a woman of varied experience, unusual achievement and quiet initiative. Anna Monson wears these qualities very modestly, so that it is proper, now that she is retiring from that post, to expose something of the light that she has been hiding. Born in Canada, Mrs. Monson went to St. Helen\u27s School, Abingdon, England; from there to Macdonald College of McGill University and finally to the Secretariat Course at the Mother House in Montreal. Employed at first in the McGill University Library, she became Secretary to the Chairman of the Department of Chemistry who was at the time also Director of Chemical Warfare, Canadian Department of Defence. This started her off on a career of writing and editing of reports in a variety of diplomatic and international offices .... She began in the Canadian Embassy in Mexico (1945-47), and from there to the United Nations in New York, where from 1947 to 1951 she edited reports on cartography, standards of living, tropical housing and refugees. From 1951 to 1957, in the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, she became Liaison Officer with U.N. specialized agencies and several intergovernmental organizations, and finally Professional Assistant in the Public Information Section. From 1957 to 1963 she was Reports and Liaison Officer in the World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office. ... With or without personal Arctic experience, there is no doubt that Anna\u27s experience made her an ideal editor of a scientific journal, and the Arctic Institute was fortunate to be able to enlist her services for Arctic. In a very short time she managed to get the journal out on time, no mean achievement in the first place, and she has managed also to maintain the very high standards of content, language, and arrangement set by her predecessors, notably Diana Rowley and Paul Bruggemann. Speaking as a contributor, I can add that she also succeeded in keeping the peace between herself and her contributors, something that speaks for her diplomatic training - for friction can develop very rapidly between author and editor unless one at least of the parties has that rare combination of firmness and understanding that makes for effective publication. We express to Anna Monson our acknowledged gratitude, and our wishes that she will continue from strength to strength and at last find herself working in the North. Not the least of her qualities is an impressive determination and staying power in the face of discouragement and handicap. Some years ago she had an incipient reputation as a sculptor; perhaps this may furnish a passport to the North, for many artists have found happy hunting grounds there
Interferon-stimulated genes as enhancers of antiviral innate immune signaling
No full textAbstract not availableKeaton M. Crosse, Ebony A. Monson, Michael R. Beard, Karla J. Helbi
Mixturopoda evansi Baker & Monson, 2007, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Mixturopoda evansi</i> sp. nov. (Figs. 1–27) <p> <i>Type material</i></p> <p> Holotype female: ENGLAND, South Lancashire, Formby, Marsh Farm (grid ref. SD287059), up to <i>c</i>. 1 metre inwards from open edge of Dutch barn, <i>ex</i>. damp rotten straw down to depths of 15cm, coll. F.D. Monson, 10 August 2004. Paratypes, same data as holotype: 16 females, 6 males and 3 deutonymphs mounted in Hoyer’s medium, 9 females and 2 males preserved in alcohol [deposited in the Natural History Museum, London; acc. no. BMNH (E) 2007-50]; 4 females, 2 males and 1 deutonymph mounted in Hoyer’s medium, 6 females preserved in alcohol [deposited in Entomology Section, Liverpool Museum, UK]; 2 females and 2 males mounted in Hoyer’s medium [deposited in second author’s personal collection].</p> <p> <i>Female</i> (10 specimens measured).</p> <p>Yellow–mid brown in life, moderately sclerotized.</p> <p> <i>Idiosoma</i>. Length 333 (310–365), width 168 (155–183); shield integument foveate (Figs. 14, 15), minutely pitted between foveae (visible under light microscope); sclerotized cuticle between shields finely striated; setae short, fine, mostly smooth and spiniform (Fig. 16).</p> <p> <i>Dorsal shield</i> (Figs. 1, 14, 16): covering entire dorsal surface, undivided, anterior margin narrowly rounded, anterolateral margins with two concavities (forming shoulders at <i>c</i>. 0.15 and 0.3 from anterior limit), lateral margins approximately parallel, posterior margin widely rounded; with a shallow furrow running longitudinally on either side of median area (not obvious in slide-mounted specimens); foveae slightly smaller and sparser in area between fourth and eighth pair of median setae; with <i>c</i>. 46 pairs setae; <i>j1</i> weakly bifid (tines not always discernible; in some specimens these setae appear thicker than the others, Fig. 16 shows thickening is due to adhering material), 5–8 long; 2 posteriormost pairs weakly spinose (as in Fig. 26), curvature prevents precise measurement, but apparently greater than 20 long; remaining setae 5–12 long, generally increasing in length from anterior to posterior; 11 pairs poroids.</p> <p> <i>Ve n tr al surface</i> (Figs. 2–4, 15). Pedofossae and scabellum absent. Tritosternum: base large, broader than long, roughly rounded triangular–pentagonal; single lacinia, tapering, sparsely pilose. Sternal shield: foveae less numerous and mostly smaller than on genital and ventrianal shields; fused with endopodal shields, delimited from metapodal elements by short metapodal line posterior to coxae IV; posterior margin slightly concave, accommodating anteromedian margin of genital shield; with 4 pairs sternal setae, <i>st 1–3</i> 8–10, <i>st4</i> 6–7 long; 1 pair poroids, located approximately level with anterior margins of coxae II. Exopodal and metapodal shields: fused; ornamentation like that of sternal shield; large metapodal elements extending to posterior margin of genital shield; 2 setae located on posteriormost part of metapodal shields, 6–8 long; 3 pairs poroids present, located near margin lateral to area between coxae III and IV, lateral to midpoint of coxae IV and near metapodal line. Genital shield: roughly semicircular, slightly concave anterolaterally; hinged along posterior margin (Fig. 3); anterior limit almost reaches posterior margins of coxae IV, length 56 (53–61), greatest width (between posterolateral angles) 113 (105–118); genital setae <i>st5</i> located medially near posterior margin, 10– 12 long. Endogynium comprising small, elongate median sclerite flanked by two globose structures. Ventrianal shield: roughly semicircular, margin posterior to anus curving dorsally; length 53 (49–63), greatest width (between anterolateral angles) 131 (123–145); 4 pairs preanal setae, anterolateral pair <i>c</i>. 8 long, others 10–12; paranal setae 12–14 long, inserted <i>c</i>. level with posterior limit of anus; anus bordered anteriorly and laterally by inverted U-shaped sclerite. Marginal shield: narrow, extending round idiosoma from <i>c</i>. midpoints of coxae II; separated from dorsal shield by narrow suture; posterior part bearing 4 pairs setae, increasing in length posteriorly from 9–14, plus single postanal seta posterior to midpoint of anus, 6–7 long. Peritremes straight, not convoluted, extending to or just past anterior margin of coxae I; stigmata located laterally to midpoint of coxae III; peritrematic shields fused to exopodal shields and to dorsal shield anteriorly, bearing 1 seta near posterior margin of coxa I and 1 near middle of coxa II.</p> <p> <i>Gnathosoma</i> (Figs. 5–8). Gnathotectum: free margins of base strongly and irregularly serrated, slanting to long, slender, weakly pilose central prong. Hypostome and basis gnathosomatica: corniculi robust, acuminate, short, not reaching past distal margin of palp femur; anterior and internal posterior hypostomatic setae spiniform, the former thicker, <i>c</i>. 6 and 7–8 long respectively, external posterior hypostomatic seta slender, clearly longest (15–18), palpcoxal seta thickened, with <i>c</i>. 6–8 tines, 7–8 long; hypognathal groove with 3 rows of small, variably sized denticles, each row comprising <i>c</i>. 3–5 denticles; internal malae serrated laterally. Palp: setal complement 2-5-4-10 -13; trochanteral setae <i>v1</i> and <i>v2</i> located respectively basally and apically on ventrodistal tubercle, <i>v1</i> short, spiniform, <i>v2</i> long (reaching between distal limits of palp genu and tibia), basal part thick with <i>c</i>. 3 spicules, remaining part slender, tapering; femoral setae spiniform, <i>al</i> thickest; genual seta <i>al</i> spiniform, remainder slender, absent seta interpreted as <i>d3</i>, dorsal lyrifissure near proximal margin; 2 dorsodistal setae of tibia clearly the longest; tarsus with large bifid apotele, proximal posterolateral seta noticeably longer than other setae. Chelicera: dorsal seta spiniform, <i>c</i>. 3 long; fixed digit 20–23 long, with 1 backwardly-directed subterminal tooth and 3 antiaxial sensilla-like structures, proximal clavate, distal bulbous, ventral spiniform; movable digit 16–18 long, with 1 subterminal tooth (2 proximal minute serrations also seen in some specimens); lateral lyrifissure, pilus dentilis and sclerotized node on levator tendon not observed.</p> <p> <i>Legs</i> (Figs. 9–15, 17, 18). Lengths - I 115 (110–123), II 147 (138–164), III 122 (115–133), IV 144 (135– 155); coxa I with conspicuous antiaxial basal pore with rounded valve, in some specimens a second, smaller pore (not shown) is suggested <i>c</i>. level with distal seta on one or both legs; leg II slightly thicker than others; lateral and dorsal integument of genu–tarsus I tuberculate-pusticulate, rough on other podomeres and legs, ventral surfaces smooth; distal lateral margins of podomeres weakly to strongly serrated; peripodomeric fissure of femur I complete, that of II–IV incomplete; tarsus I with only ventral element of peripodomeric fissure present, otherwise fissure complete; basitarsi II–IV with dorsodistal flap overlying base of telotarsus, posterodorsal pore-like structure present at base of flap, dorsal lyrifissure of telotarsus just distal to or under limit of flap. Ambulacrum absent from tarsus I, that of II–IV comprises two claws and 1 rounded diamond-shaped ventral and 2 obovate dorsal pulvillar elements, distolateral margins of pretarsal sheath acute. Setae: simple, mostly spiniform although thickness and length vary, many on femora–tarsi inserted on small papilla, dorsals generally shorter than ventrals. Setal complements and chaetotaxy: coxae 2-2-2-1; trochantera 4-5-3-3, <i>al</i> of I shorter and thicker than other setae; femora - I 1-2 /1-2/2-1, II 2-2 /1-2/1-1, III 1-2 /1-1/1-0, IV 1-2 /1-2/1-0, <i>al2</i> of basifemur II minute, other basifemora without setae; genua (positions of some setae on II–IV difficult to assign) - I 1-1 /1-1/1-1, II 2-3 /2-1, III 2-1 /0-1/0-2, IV 1-2 /1-1/0-0; all tibiae 1-1/1-2/1-1; tarsus I with 23 tactile setae (acuminate, apart from 1 apical spatulate anterolateral), 1 posterolateral subterminal hollow receptor and terminal cluster of 5 hollow receptors (central one bulbous, antero- and posterolaterals slender, dorsal and ventral ones inflated), tarsi II–IV 3-3 /2-1/1-2/2-3, with <i>al3</i> of II and <i>pl3</i> of III–IV slightly thicker and clearly shorter than other basitarsal setae, cuticular structure just posterior to pore-like structure on basitarsi II–IV hypothesized to be alveolus of missing seta <i>pd3</i>, telotarsi II–IV with <i>al1</i> and <i>pl1</i> long and slender.</p> <p> <i>Male</i> (9 specimens measured)</p> <p> <i>Idiosoma</i>. Length 295 (280–315), width 163 (155–168).</p> <p> <i>Ve n tr al surface</i> (Figs. 19, 25). Sternogenital shield: ornamentation on anterolateral extensions and along endopodal elements of leg II and III comprising a few very small foveae, central part between anterior margin and posterior margin of coxae II with larger sparsely distributed foveae, a pair of anteromedially curved sculpture lines beginning at level of posterior margin of coxae II and slanting to anterior margin of genital orifice, with 4 pairs setae, <i>st 1</i> and <i>2</i> 8–10 long, <i>st3</i> and <i>4</i> 7–8; genital orifice located between coxae IV, covered by anterior circular and posterior crescent-shaped shields, greatest width of posterior shield <i>c</i>. 15. Metapodal shields: fused to ventrianal shield, but not sternogenital shield; lacking setae. Ventrianal shield: median area extending anteriorly almost to genital orifice (outline of anterior margin sometimes irregular), expanding in posterior half to acute lateral angles; with 8 pairs setae, paranals located <i>c</i>. midway along anus, genital setae <i>st5</i>, antero- and mediolateral pairs 5–6 long, posterolateral and 2 median pairs 9–11, lateromedian pair 7–9, paranals 13–15; 3 pairs poroids, associated with <i>st5</i>, anterolateral and lateromedian setal pairs.</p> <p> <i>Gnathosoma</i>. Hypostome and basis gnathosomatica: anterior and internal posterior hypostomatic setae 3– 4 and 3–5 long respectively, external posterior hypostomatic seta 13–15, palpcoxal seta <i>c</i>. 7. Chelicerae: fixed digit 16–18 long, movable digit 14–15.</p> <p> <i>Legs</i> (Figs. 20–22, 25). Lengths - I 109 (100–115), II 136 (125–145), III 116 (110–123), IV 134 (128– 140); II slightly thicker than in female, femur with greatly enlarged seta <i>av</i> (appears trispinate in some views), tarsus curved, terminates in greatly enlarged claw-like structure interpreted as seta <i>av1</i>, chaetotactic interpretation as in Fig. 21, <i>av2</i> and <i>mv</i> thickened, elbowed near base, <i>md</i> thorn-like, ambulacrum displaced posterolaterally; <i>pv1</i> of tarsus III and IV enlarged, hooked apically.</p> <p> <i>Free -living deutonymph</i> (5 specimens measured)</p> <p>Yellow–very pale brown in life, lightly sclerotized.</p> <p> <i>Dorsal idiosoma</i> (Figs. 23, 26). Setae <i>j1</i> clavate, located on striated cuticle anterior to dorsal shield, <i>c.</i> 3 long. Dorsal shield: length 286 (260–305), width 146 (138–163); less extensive than in adults, precise outline variable; with 30 pairs setae, 2 posteriormost pairs <i>c</i>. 20–24 long, remainder 6–8. Setae of 15 marginal pairs each borne on small platelet (some of which may be contiguous).</p> <p> <i>Ve n tr al surface</i> (Figs. 24, 27). Ornamentation of shields comprising small, irregularly distributed foveae. Sternal region: shield extending just posterior to anterior margin of coxae IV, posterior margin narrowly rounded (sometimes irregular), not fused to endopodal shields, length 111 (105–118), greatest width (between coxae II and III) 40 (36–45), with 3 pairs setae, <i>st4</i> located on striated cuticle near to posterior margin of sternal shield; <i>st 1–4</i> 8–11 long. Exopodal and metapodal shields: separate, extending to posterior margin of respectively coxae III and median shield; setae absent. Opisthogastric region: small, usually roughly trapezoid median shield (precise shape variable), anterior margin just posterior to coxae IV, length 26 (24–28), flanked by setae <i>st5</i> (4–6 long, mounted on small platelets) and pair of poroids; ventrianal shield rounded trapezoid, anterior margin sometimes slightly convex or irregular, 58 (55–60) long, greatest width (between anterolateral angles) 67 (61–73), with 3 pairs setae, located near anteromedian margin (8–10 long), level with anterior limit of anus and (paranals) posterolateral to anus (both 10–14 long), postanal seta inserted just anterior to cribrum, 5–6 long, 1 pair marginal poroids anterolateral to paranals; striated cuticle lateral and anterior to ventrianal shield bears 5 pairs setae, each seta mounted on platelet, anteromedian pair, at 9–10, the longest, remainder 5– 9, platelets of lateral 2 pairs largest, 1 pair poroids lateral to anteriormost setae; marginal shield represented by 2 pairs ventral platelets, each bearing 1 seta; peritrematic shields not fused to dorsal shield.</p> <p> <i>Gnathosoma</i>. Hypostome and basis gnathosomatica: anterior and internal posterior hypostomatic setae <i>c</i>. 5 and 6 long respectively, external posterior hypostomatic seta 16 (14–18), palpcoxal seta 6–8. Chelicerae: fixed digit 18 (16–20) long, movable digit 14–16.</p> <p> <i>Legs</i>. Lengths - I 104 (94–110), II 133 (125–143), III 111 (103–120), IV 126 (117–135).</p> <p> <i>Distribution</i></p> <p> In addition to the type locality, the new species has been found at the following two sites: England, South Lancashire, Tarbock Green, Prescot, Waterlane Farm (grid ref. SJ469880), beneath leaking guttering along outer edge of Dutch barn, <i>ex</i>. damp rotten straw down to depths of 15 cm, coll. F.D. Monson, 1 May 2004; Barn Hey Farm (grid ref. SJ466871), up to 0.5 metres outside open edge of Dutch barn, same habitat, coll. F.D. Monson, 30 January 2006 (specimens in second author’s collection).</p> <p> <i>Etymology</i></p> <p>The species is named in honour of Professor Gwilym O. Evans, Storrington, West Sussex, UK, to mark his contributions to uropodine systematics.</p> <p> <i>Remarks</i></p> <p> The leg trochanteral formula of 4-5-3-3, absence of seta <i>pd3</i> from barsitarsi II–IV and, respectively, four and 10 setae on the palp genu and tibia have not previously been described in uropodines or mesostigmatid deutonymphs and adults. The setal complements of trochantera I and II respectively represent the larval and deutonymphal states seen in gamasines and lower Uropodina (Evans 1963, 1972), while trochantera with three setae have been recorded by Hirschmann (1983). The presence of 17 setae on tarsi II–IV also occurs in protonymphal Gamasina, but, in this instance, the basitarsi bear four throughout ontogeny and it is seta <i>mv</i> and not <i>pd3</i> that is added in the deutonymph to make up the adult complement (Evans 1963).</p>Published as part of <i>Baker, Anne S. & Monson, Frank D., 2007, Mixturopoda Baker and Monson, a new genus of the uropodine family Metagynuridae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from the British Isles, pp. 1-17 in Zootaxa 1665</i> on pages 4-14, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/180061">10.5281/zenodo.180061</a>
Tissue depths on CT facial models and on ReFace approximations
No full textParks et al. [5] measured 25 tissue depth locations defined by 14 mid-sagittal and 11 bilateral facial landmark pairs [23] on bone and soft tissue 3D models derived from CT scans of 388 living subjects in the U.S.A (Table 2). The CT database comprised both sexes and four ancestry groups, African female (n=50), African male (n=48), Asian female (n=48), Asian male (n=47), European female (n=49), European male (n=48), Hispanic female (n=49), and Hispanic male (n=49). Mean depths were compared to published datasets [24].[5] C.L. Parks, A.H. Richard, K.L. Monson, Preliminary assessment of facial soft tissue thickness utilizing three-dimensional computed tomography models of living individuals, Forensic Sci. Int. 237 (2014) 146.e1-146.e10. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.12.043.[5] C.L. Parks, A.H. Richard, K.L. Monson, Preliminary assessment of facial soft tissue thickness utilizing three-dimensional computed tomography models of living individuals, Forensic Sci. Int. 237 (2014) 146.e1-146.e10. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.12.043.[23] C.N. Stephan, E.K. Simpson, Facial soft tissue depths in craniofacial identification (Part I): An analytical review of the published adult data, J. Forensic Sci. 53(6) (2008) 1257-1272. doi:10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00852.x.[24] C.N. Stephan, Tallied-Facial-Soft-Tissue-Depth-Data. <http://www.craniofacialidentification.com/TFSTDD.html>, 2012 (accessed September 2013.).THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV
Physiological ecology of North American desert plants
No full textS. D. Smith, R.K. Monson, J.E. Anderson.viii, 286 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Zooming in on plant interactions
No full textFew areas in plant ecology have experienced the fantastic growth demonstrated by the field of plant interactions with other organisms in recent years. Research in this field has taken rapid advantage of the tools provided by model organisms (particularly Arabidopsis thaliana), genetic and genomic approaches, and the improvement of analytical techniques to move the discipline to a completely different level from where it was 10 years ago. Major breakthroughs have been made in the understanding of the mechanisms of plant defenses against herbivores and pathogens, plant interactions with other plants and beneficial microorganisms, such as mycorrhizae and bacterial symbionts, and the modulation of these interactions by biotic and environmental factors...Fil: Ballare, Carlos Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; ArgentinaFil: Gross, Katherine L.. Michigan State University; Estados UnidosFil: Monson, Russell K.. University of Arizona; Estados Unido
No-Reference Weighting Factor Selection for Bimodal Tomography
No full textBimodal tomography introduces a weighting factor α to incorporate X-ray data into projection images acquired from scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) for achieving an atom-specific three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of an object on the nanoscale. Currently its value is chosen by computing reconstructions for a large range of αin(0,1) and comparing them to a hand-segmented ground truth with the mean square error (MSE). Since this is infeasible for an industrial application, in this paper we propose an image quality metric to quantify the quality of tomograms in terms of cross-atomic contamination and noise for selecting the weighting factor without a ground truth. Numerical results demonstrate that our framework can determine close-to-optimal weighting factor within an accuracy of pm 0.03. Moreover, approximating the shape of the minimum by a parabola effectively reduces the computational time by 90%.Accepted Author ManuscriptImPhys/Quantitative Imagin
Modular Reduction of the Tail-Triangle Coxeter Groups Gamma = [5,K;L] With K,L E {3, 4, 6}
No full textThis study discusses the modular reduction method with moduli given by primes in the quadratic integer ring Z[⌧ ], where ⌧ = 1+p52 , to construct finite tail-triangle C-groups. The method is adapted from the modular reduction technique for abstract polytopes given in Monson and Schulte’s work (Monson and Schulte, 2009) and applied to a rank 4 tail-triangle Coxeter group = [5, k; l] with k,l 2 {3, 4, 6}. A description of the constructed tail-triangle C-groups and their distinguished 3-generator subgroups as the orthogonal group O(n, q, ) or O1(n, q, ); or the reduction modulo a prime p of one of the finite irreducible Coxeter groups A3, A4, B3, B4, D4, F4, H3 or H4 is also presented.
Key Words: modular reduction, tail-triangle C-groups, tail-triangle Coxeter group
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