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    Exercitatio Iuridica Publica. De Pacto De Non Petendo / Quam ... Praeside. Johanne Henrico Kleinschmidt ... Die 3. August. Anno 1695. ... Publice in Auditorio Iuridico defendendam suscepit. Joh. Christianus Frohn ...

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    EXERCITATIO IURIDICA PUBLICA. DE PACTO DE NON PETENDO / QUAM ... PRAESIDE. JOHANNE HENRICO KLEINSCHMIDT ... DIE 3. AUGUST. ANNO 1695. ... PUBLICE IN AUDITORIO IURIDICO DEFENDENDAM SUSCEPIT. JOH. CHRISTIANUS FROHN ... Exercitatio Iuridica Publica. De Pacto De Non Petendo / Quam ... Praeside. Johanne Henrico Kleinschmidt ... Die 3. August. Anno 1695. ... Publice in Auditorio Iuridico defendendam suscepit. Joh. Christianus Frohn ... (1) Titelblatt (1) Praefatio. (3) §. I. - XIV. (4

    Parus dresseri subsp. longirostris Kleinschmidt 1897

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    <i>Parus dresseri longirostris</i> Kleinschmidt <p> <i>Parus dresseri longirostris</i> Kleinschmidt, 1897: 65 (Latour).</p> <p> Now <i>Poecile palustris palustris</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). See Hartert, 1905d: 373, Snow, 1967c: 72, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 711–712.</p> <p> HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 455879</b>, female immature, collected at Latour, 45.32N, 02.42E (Times Atlas), Auvergne, France on 3 August 1857, by Léon Olphe-Galliard (Kleinschmidt no. 36). From the C.L. Brehm Collection, via the Rothschild Collection.</p> <p> COMMENTS: In the original description, Kleinschmidt considered <i>longirostris</i> a manuscript name of Brehm’s and he had two specimens from the Brehm Collection bearing this name, written by Brehm. Kleinschmidt (1897: 65) gave the numbers 36 and 37 to these specimens, incorrectly transcribing the collecting dates as 1851 instead of 1857. On p. 96 of the same publication, he listed his number 36 as the type of <i>longirostris</i>; and the label bearing the number 36 is marked ‘‘ Typus von P. <i>longirostris</i> ’’ and initialed by Kleinschmidt. It bears a Rothschild type label although Hartert did not list it in any of the Rothschild type lists.</p> <p> Kleinschmidt included in his type series a second specimen from the Brehm Collection, his number 37, paratype <b>AMNH 455880</b>, male, Loire, 10 September 1857 (marked ‘‘Cotypus von longirostris’’ and initialed by Kleinschmidt), and other specimens from his own collection from the region of the Rhein, which are also paratypes.</p>Published as part of <i>Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333)</i> on page 6

    Use of clofarabine for acute childhood leukemia

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    A Pession, R Masetti, K Kleinschmidt, A MartoniPediatric Oncology and Hematology “Lalla Seràgnoli”, University of Bologna, ItalyAbstract: A second-generation of purine nucleoside analogs, starting with clofarabine, has been developed in the course of the search for new therapeutic agents for acute childhood leukemia, especially for refractory or relapsed disease. Clofarabine is a hybrid of fludarabine and cladribine, and has shown to have antileukemic activity in acute lymphoblastic leukemia as well as in myeloid disorders. As the only new antileukemic chemotherapeutic agent to enter clinical use in the last 10 years, clofarabine was approved as an orphan drug with the primary indication of use in pediatric patients. Toxicity has been tolerable in a heavily pretreated patient population, and clofarabine has been demonstrated to be safe, both as a single agent and in combination therapies. Liver dysfunction has been the most frequently observed adverse event, but this is generally reversible. Numerous Phase I and II trials have recently been conducted, and are still ongoing in an effort to find the optimal role for clofarabine in various treatment strategies. Concomitant use of clofarabine, cytarabine, and etoposide was confirmed to be safe and effective in two independent trials. Based on the promising results when used as a salvage regimen, clofarabine is now being investigated for its potential to become part of frontline protocols.Keywords: clofarabine, pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia, pediatric acute myeloid leukemi

    Increased risks of malaria due to limited residual life of insecticide and outdoor biting versus protection by combined use of nets and indoor residual spraying on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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    BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, with year-round transmission. In 2004 an intensive malaria control strategy primarily based on indoor residual spraying (IRS) was launched. The limited residual life of IRS poses particular challenges in a setting with year-round transmission, such as Bioko. Recent reports of outdoor biting by Anopheles gambiae are an additional cause for concern. In this study, the effect of the short residual life of bendiocarb insecticide and of children spending time outdoors at night, on malaria infection prevalence was examined. METHODS: Data from the 2011 annual malaria indicator survey and from standard WHO cone bioassays were used to examine the relationship between time since IRS, mosquito mortality and prevalence of infection in children. How often children spend time outside at night and the association of this behaviour with malaria infection were also examined. RESULTS: Prevalence of malaria infection in two to 14 year-olds in 2011 was 18.4%, 21.0% and 28.1% in communities with median time since IRS of three, four and five months respectively. After adjusting for confounders, each extra month since IRS corresponded to an odds ratio (OR) of 1.44 (95% CI 1.15-1.81) for infection prevalence in two to 14 year-olds. Mosquito mortality was 100%, 96%, 81% and 78%, at month 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively after spraying. Only 4.1% of children spent time outside the night before the survey between the hours of 22.00 and 06.00 and those who did were not at a higher risk of infection (OR 0.87, 95% CI 0.50-1.54). Sleeping under a mosquito net provided additive protection (OR 0.68, 95% CI 0.54-0.86). CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate the epidemiological impact of reduced mosquito mortality with time since IRS. The study underscores that in settings of year-round transmission there is a compelling need for longer-lasting IRS insecticides, but that in the interim, high coverage of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) may ameliorate the loss of effect of current shorter-lasting IRS insecticides. Moreover, continued use of IRS and LLINs for indoor-oriented vector control is warranted given that there is no evidence that spending time outdoors at night increases infection prevalence in children

    Parotia berlepschi Kleinschmidt 1897

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    Methods <p> <i>Historical Review.</i> We surveyed the literature, all known specimens from relevant ornithological collections, and the broader historical record in order to review the 121-year taxonomic history of the discovery of <i>P. berlepschi,</i> its long period of prolonged taxonomic uncertainty, and its discovery in the wild.</p> <p> <i>External Appearance.</i> We examined specimens and/or photographs of specimens from the American Museum of Natural History in New York (AMNH), Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense in Bogor, Indonesia (MZB), Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt-on-Main in Germany (SMF) and Naturhistorisches Museum Wein in Vienna (NHMW). ES examined and provided photographs of the three AMNH specimens. BB and Chris Milensky of the Smithsonian Institution (SI) examined and photographed the MZB specimens in Indonesia and in Washington, DC while on loan to SI. Curator Gerald Meyer provided photographs of three SMF specimens. Szabolcs Kókay examined and provided photographs of one specimen from NHMW. Photographs of free living and handheld <i>P. berlepschi</i> came from TL and BB. TL photographs of wild birds are archived in the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and can be accessed online directly by appending desired catalog number to the URL: macaulaylibrary.org/image/catalog# (e.g., macaulaylibrary.org/image/48065581). TL provided photographs of wild <i>P. carolae</i> used for comparisons of living birds, which are similarly archived for reference. ES made all video recordings. BB and ES made sound recordings. Like photographs, video and sound recordings used for analysis are archived in the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and can be accessed online at macaulaylibrary.org/video/catalog# for videos or macaulaylibrary.org/audio/catalog# for sounds.</p> <p> Plumage and morphological comparisons were made between <i>Parotia carolae</i> and <i>P. berlepschi</i>. Because living individuals of nominate <i>P. carolae</i> from the Weyland Mountains of western New Guinea have not been documented, comparisons of living birds are made using images from within <i>P. carolae</i> complex, which (excluding <i>P. berlepschi</i>) includes four named subspecies. Unless specifically noted, the characters used herein are not known to be variable within the <i>P. carolae</i> complex. Thus, when we compare <i>P. berlepschi</i> to <i>P. carolae</i> for the most part and unless explicitly stated, this comparison applies to the entire <i>P. carolae</i> complex since the characters that vary between <i>P. berlepschi</i> and <i>P. carolae</i> are not significantly variable within the <i>P. carolae</i> complex.</p> <p> <i>Field Observations</i>. Observations, photographs, video and sound recordings of wild birds were collected as possible over the course of three expeditions to a field site known informally as “ Bog Camp ” in an upland forest clearing in the western half of the Foja Mountains (2° 34.363'S, 138° 43.032'E). Expeditions took place in 2005, 2007, and 2008. The 2005 expedition was attended by BB and took place from 15 Nov–9 Dec. The 2007 expedition was attended by BB and TL and took place from 14–25 June. The final expedition to Bog Camp in 2008 was attended by ES and TL and took place from 27 Oct–26 Nov. During each of these expeditions, time spent observing <i>P. berlepschi</i> varied, but the most prolonged effort was during 2008. In all, two display courts were observed, one very near the Bog Camp clearing by BB in 2005 and one along the flank of a ridge to the south of Bog Camp by ES and TL in 2008.</p> <p> <i>Vocal and Behavioral Analysis.</i> Behavioral observations, photographs and audio and video recordings were made by BB, TL, and ES. Videos of <i>P. carolae</i> in the wild were recorded by ES. Sound analysis was done using Raven Pro version 1.5 (Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA). Audio recordings examined are MLNS audio catalog numbers: 139542, 139631, 139538, 139536 and 163704. Video specimens examined are MLNS video catalog numbers: 457925 and 457926.</p> Historical Review <p> In December 1895, the private ornithological collection of Count Hans Karl Hermann Ludwig Graf von Berlepsch of Germany obtained two bird-of-paradise specimens from the genus <i>Parotia</i> (Kleinschmidt 1897b). Both were male, one juvenile and one adult, and they were thought to be a new form with close affinity to <i>Parotia carolae</i> (Kleinschmidt 1897b). The specimens were trade-skins of unknown provenance obtained from the Van Duivenbode family, Ternate-based traders and plume merchants (Steinheimer 2005). Details are lacking, but the specimens likely came from the area of western New Guinea where the Van Duivenbodes conducted regular business with native hunters and traders (Rothschild & Hartert 1903).</p> <p> Otto Kleinschmidt described a new species from the two Berlepsch specimens, which he christened <i>Parotia berlepschi</i> in honor of Count von Berlepsch (Kleinschmidt 1897a, b). Kleinschmidt argued that <i>P. berlepschi</i> was distinct from <i>P. carolae</i> in seven characters: (1) shorter supranarial tufts (sensu Scholes 2006), (2) loral tufts (sensu Scholes 2006) that lack white tips and do not curve inward, (3) a thicker and more curved bill, (4) black throat and cheeks, (5) smaller and darker eye-ring, (6) darker crown, and (7) a golden-brown (bronze) sheen on the hind neck (Kleinschmidt 1897b).</p> <p> In 1916, the two specimens examined by Kleinschmidt became incorporated into the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt-on-Main (SMF) when the Berlepsch collection was purchased from the Count’s widow during World War I (Naumberg 1931). Although Frith and Beehler (1998) were unable to locate either of the <i>P. berlepschi</i> syntypes and suggested they may have been destroyed during World War II, they are in fact part of the SMF ornithological collections as noted by Steinheimer (2005) and confirmed by curator Gerald Mayr (pers. comm., Feb 2010). The juvenile specimen is SMF 64277 and the adult is SMF 64276.</p> <p>Since Kleinschmidt did not fix a holotype and because no lectotype has been fixed subsequently, we hereby designate SMF 64276 as the lectotype according to Article 74 of the ICZN. In accordance with ICZN Article 74.1.3, SMF 64277 becomes a paralectotype.</p> <p> On 16 December 1908 at a meeting of the British Ornithologists Club, Walter Rothschild exhibited a skin of an adult male <i>P. berlepschi</i> obtained for his collection at Tring (Rothschild 1908). This specimen, along with two juvenile male specimens obtained previously by Rothschild (Rothschild & Hartert 1903) increased the worldwide specimen count at that time to five (Rothschild 1908). One of the three Rothschild skins, the adult male, has a note on its original tag indicating it was purchased from Dunstall. This is believed to be the London feather merchant G. K. Dunstall from whom Rothschild was known to have acquired trade-skins (e.g., Tring Museum Correspondence TM 1/12/16 from 1895 documents correspondence between Rothschild and Dunstall). It is unclear if all three Rothschild specimens came via Dunstall or if the two juvenile males obtained sometime before 1903 came from another supplier like Van Duivenbode. Like the von Berlepsch trade-skins described by Kleinschmidt, all three of the Rothschild specimens were also of unknown provenance. In 1931 the three Rothschild specimens were sold, along with the entire Rothschild ornithological collection, to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and became AMNH 678170 (juvenile), 678171 (adult), and 678172 (juvenile).</p> <p>A sixth specimen, an adult male, with the name Robert de Neufville and the date 1 Dec 1910 on the tag, resides in the ornithological collections of the SMF (Gerald Mayr, pers. comm., Feb 2010). The history and provenance of the “de Neufville specimen” is unknown. To our knowledge, Robert de Neufville was not a collector working in New Guinea, and the only information that we could find about him is that he was present at the von Berlepsch estate in 1916 to assist with the packing of specimens for relocation to SMF (Naumberg 1931).</p> <p> In 2013, while examining bird-of-paradise specimens in the natural history museum of Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wein, NHMW), wildlife artist and illustrator Szabolcs Kókay uncovered another previously unrecognized <i>P. berlepschi</i> specimen (Kókay pers. comm., Jul 2013). It is an adult male dated 1894/95, with locality given only as “New Guinea.” The skin is registered as NHMW 12873 and is therefore the seventh historical <i>P. berlepschi</i> specimen in existence. It was likely acquired from a plume-trader (quite possibly the same one) at the time the von Berlepsch trade-skins were obtained.</p> <p> In 1979 and 1981, Jared Diamond became the first ornithologist to explore the higher elevations of the uninhabited Foja Mountains (Diamond 1982, 1985). The most celebrated finding from his time in the Foja was his discovery of the much sought-after bowerbird <i>Amblyornis flavifrons</i> Rothschild, 1895, which was in a similar state of taxonomic uncertainty as <i>P. berlepschi</i> —i.e. known only from a few enigmatic specimens of unknown geographic origins obtained around the same time as the <i>P. berlepschi</i> skins (Diamond 1982). Diamond encountered several female-plumaged birds-of-paradise from the genus <i>Parotia</i>, which he identified as belonging to the <i>P. carolae</i> group (Diamond 1985). This observation, combined with the verified discovery of <i>Amblyornis flavifrons</i>, led Diamond to hypothesize that the Foja Mountains were also the geographic home of <i>P. berlepschi</i> (Diamond 1985).</p> <p> Diamond’s hypothesis was consistent with previous speculations based on the time period when the <i>A. flavifrons</i> and <i>P. berlepschi</i> trade-skins were obtained and the same Dutch trade-merchant sources for both (Mayr 1941). However, with only female-plumaged birds seen, conclusive evidence would await further observations.</p> <p> A quarter century after Diamond, in 2005, a multi-national survey team conducted the first intensive biodiversity survey of the Foja region (Beehler <i>et al</i>. 2007). This expedition yielded several major discoveries, including a new endemic species of wattled honeyeater from the genus <i>Melipotes</i>, and confirmation that the Foja Mountains are the home of <i>P. berlepschi</i> when several adult males were observed and two specimens, a male and female, were collected near an upland forest clearing (Beehler <i>et al</i>. 2007). Follow-up surveys were conducted in 2007 and 2008, when the first detailed observations and audiovisual recordings of living <i>P. berlepschi</i> were made.</p> Male External Appearance <p> The external phenotype of adult male <i>P. berlepschi</i> is differentiated from <i>P. carolae</i> in the following six characters: (1) Frontal crest (Fig. 1, A). In <i>P. berlepschi</i>, the anterior-most loral tufts (Fig.1, A1) of the frontal crest are entirely black and without white tips and do not curve strongly inward over the upper forehead and crown. As a result, the bulbous forehead feathering of <i>P. berlepschi</i> appears conspicuously velvet black at all times (Fig. 2A–C and videos ML 457925 and 457926), especially when viewed head-on (e.g., photo ML 4813073). From the front, the stark black of the frontal crest contrasts with the coppery-bronze facial markings and nape (e.g., photo ML 48130731). Only the posterior-most loral feathers, those above the eyes, are tipped white (figs. 2C, 3C), which means that the only white visible on the head of <i>P. berlepschi</i> under most conditions in life (i.e. not in specimens) is a tiny patch on the crown above the eyes (Fig. 2C).</p> <p> In contrast, <i>P. carolae</i> has a prominent white line that spans the entire forehead from culmen to fore-crown (figs. 2E–H; 3D, F). The line is created by the silver-white tips of the elongate loral tufts, which curve inwards from each side of the head to touch along the midline of the forehead (Fig. 3F).</p> <p> Although described as such by Kleinschmidt, evidence of supranarial tufts (figs. 1, A2) being shorter than in <i>P. carolae</i> is inconclusive. The position of these feathers on the head make them susceptible to variation based on how a specimen is prepared (i.e. most specimens are prepared with the frontal crest “open”, e.g., figs. 3C, F), which makes it difficult to obtain consistent measurements. However, the proportion of white on the feather tips relative to the black base is smaller for <i>P. berlepschi</i> and, while difficult to quantify, the total area of the forehead covered by supranarial tufts seems to be less in <i>P. berlepschi</i> than <i>P. carolae</i>.</p> <p> (2) Crown (Fig. 1, B). <i>P. berlepschi,</i> like <i>P. carolae,</i> has a highly reflective crown patch, which is made from the coppery-bronze forehead tufts (Fig.1, A 3), which lie folded along the top of the head and surrounding crown feathers with coppery-bronze tips (Fig. 3C). In life, the coppery-bronze crown patch of <i>P. berlepschi</i> is almost entirely concealed beneath the black crown and loral feathers (Fig. 2C) and is typically not visible unless purposely revealed when the frontal crest is spread (e.g., see video ML 457925 and photos ML 48066221 and ML48066211). In specimens, the loral feathers are relaxed and spread away from the crown and so that the patch appears more prominent in skins than it does in life (Fig. 3C).</p> <p> In contrast, a sizable patch of the bronze-gold forehead tufts (Fig. 1, A 3) of <i>P. carolae</i> is prominently visible on the crown at all times (i.e. even without intentional feather movement) so that the top of the head appears to have a bronzy-gold patch on the crown (Fig. 2G). As with <i>P. berlepschi</i>, this patch appears more prominent in specimens because the loral feathers are relaxed and the frontal crest is “open” as in Fig. 3F.</p> <p> (3) Facial markings. In <i>P. carolae</i> there is reflective bronzy-gold facial feathering that runs from the forecrown in front of the eyes onto the face to form a prominent bronzy-gold marking in front of each eye, which often appears crescent-shaped (figs. 2E, 3D). This marking is connected to an eye-ring of similar color, which can be difficult to discern under certain lighting conditions and viewing angles (traces of it are visible in figs. 2E, F, 3D).</p> <p> In <i>P. berlespschi</i>, the there is no marking in front of the eye (figs. 2A, B, 3A). The stripe from the crown to eye is much broader and more conspicuous above the eye (Fig. 2B, C; videos ML 457925, 457926). This stripe forms a coppery-bronze “tiara” that spans the crown from eye to eye such that the silver-white crown patch appears as the centerpiece of the “tiara” (Fig. 2C, but see also videos ML 457925, 4579256 and photo ML 48065351). The eyering in <i>P. berlepschi</i> is so dark as to be almost black and lacks the reflective quality of <i>P. carolae</i>. The stripe of <i>P. berlepschi</i> continues below the eye and onto the malar region so that the entire facial marking sometimes appears as a coppery-bronze eye-stripe running from crown to malar (e.g., figs. 2B, 3A). The malar stripe is also present in <i>P. carolae</i> (slightly visible in Fig. 2F), but it is much less obvious (to the point of being indeterminate at times) because it lies adjacent to the less-contrasting golden-buff malar/throat, as opposed to the dark brown malar area in <i>P. berlepschi</i> (see below).</p> <p> (4) Malar, cheeks, chin and throat. In <i>P. berlepschi</i>, the malar and cheek area is black, while the chin and throat, including the “whiskers” (Fig. 1, C) are dark-brown and the shorter feathers on the chin and throat are black (Fig. 3A, B). The gular and throat feathers of <i>P. berlepschi</i> are predominately rusty-brown with only the very slightest hint of white where the throat joins the upper breast (Fig. 3B).</p> <p> Taxa in the <i>P. carolae</i> complex exhibit variation in the color of malar, cheek, chin, and throat feathering. However, in most members of the <i>P. carolae</i> complex, including <i>P. carolae carolae,</i> the malar, cheeks, and throat feathers, including the elongated “whiskers” of the chin and throat are straw colored with buff highlights (Fig. 3D, E). The shorter “non-whisker” feathers of the chin and upper throat are dark at the base. The feathers on the gular region and lower throat/upper breast are whitish and some have rusty-brown tips (Fig. 3E). It should be noted that within the <i>P. carolae</i> complex, <i>P. carolae meeki</i> Rothschild, 1910 has cheek, chin, throat/whisker feathers that are dark brown to black similar to <i>P. berlepschi</i>. However, unlike <i>P. berlepschi,</i> the malar of <i>P. c. meeki</i> is prominently straw/buff colored and the gular and upper breast are as in <i>P. carolae</i>.</p> <p> (5) Iris color. Iris color of <i>P. berlepschi</i> is pale grey-blue with a dull orange outer ring (Fig. 2A, B). Under certain lighting conditions, iris color appears very blue and at other times (e.g., with flash photography at close range), it appears more pale grey. In contrast, the iris color of <i>P. carolae</i> is lemon-yellow with a subtle burnt-orange inner ring around the edge of the pupil and a pale-yellow outer ring (Fig. 2E–G). There is no known variation in eye color within the <i>P. carolae</i> complex (Gilliard 1969; Frith & Beehler 1998).</p> <p> (6) Nape and mantle (Fig. 1, D). The nape and upper part of the mantle “cape” of <i>P. berlepschi</i> has prominent coppery-bronze sheen of similar intensity to the coppery-bronze color on the head and face and is visible at all times (Fig. 2A–D and videos ML 457925, 457926). In <i>P. carolae</i>, the nape and mantle has a very slight bronzy sheen visible only at close range and under certain light and viewing angles, but in most circumstances the mantle of <i>P. carolae</i> appears jet black (Fig. 2H).</p> Female External Appearance <p> The external phenotype of female-plumaged <i>P. berlepschi</i> is differentiated from female-plumaged <i>P. carolae</i> in head and facial markings and eye color (Fig. 4, and photo ML 48068341). <i>P. berlepschi</i> has more extensive white in the middle of the forehead, which extends almost to the fore-crown (Fig. 4A). The brown loral patch is also more extensive with less white near the base of the upper mandible. The supercilium extends further back onto the nape such that the nape of <i>P. berlepschi</i> is whiter than in <i>P. carolae</i> <i>.</i> As with males, eye color of female plumaged <i>P. berlepschi</i> is pale grey-blue (Fig. 4A), which is in contrast to the yellow eye color of female plumaged <i>P. carolae</i> (Fig. 4B).</p> Voice <p> The primary advertisement vocalizations of <i>P. berlepschi</i> are a shrill, ascending, two-note, “ <i>whee-dee</i> ” (Fig. 5A) reminiscent of a plastic squeak toy and a similarly shrill, four-note tremulous whistle or whinny, <i>“we-e-e-et”</i> (Fig. 5B) in which the first three are ascending (audio recordings ML 139538 and ML 139631). The “ <i>whee-dee</i> ” vocalization is occasionally truncated to just a single note, which sounds like <i>“whee” or</i> “ <i>wheep.”</i> At other times it is modified such that the two notes descend slightly with a more abrupt beginning and end to each note so that it sounds like <i>“chee-deep”</i> and the “ <i>deep”</i> note is a slightly lower frequency.</p> <p> In comparison, the primary advertisements of <i>P. carolae</i> from Mt. Stolle are a powerfully whistled three-note <i>“kwoi kwoi eeng”</i> where each <i>“kwoi”</i> note is sharply ascending and the final <i>“eeng”</i> is a pure tone (Fig. 5C). <i>P. carolae</i> vocalizations

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    More Problems for Parsimonious Logics of Location: A Reply to Kleinschmidt

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    In a recent paper Shieva Kleinschmidt has argued that if certain scenarios involving extended simple regions are possible (so-called ‘Place Cases’), then no logic of location with only one primitive locative notion (i.e., no ‘parsimonious logic of location’) will suffice to describe all of the locative possibilities. Since almost all existing logics of location are parsimonious (and apparently for good reason) the argument is a considerable obstacle to the development of a satisfactory logic of location. Kleinschmidt suggests that the best way out of the difficulty is to deny the possibility of Place Cases by denying that extended simple regions are possible. I argue that much the same problem arises even in cases not involving extended simple regions or indeed exotic regions of any kind. Thus, simply denying the possibility of extended simple regions will not save parsimonious logics of location

    More Problems for Parsimonious Logics of Location: A Reply to Kleinschmidt

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    In a recent paper Shieva Kleinschmidt has argued that if certain scenarios involving extended simple regions are possible (so-called ‘Place Cases’), then no logic of location with only one primitive locative notion (i.e., no ‘parsimonious logic of location’) will suffice to describe all of the locative possibilities. Since almost all existing logics of location are parsimonious (and apparently for good reason) the argument is a considerable obstacle to the development of a satisfactory logic of location. Kleinschmidt suggests that the best way out of the difficulty is to deny the possibility of Place Cases by denying that extended simple regions are possible. I argue that much the same problem arises even in cases not involving extended simple regions or indeed exotic regions of any kind. Thus, simply denying the possibility of extended simple regions will not save parsimonious logics of location

    Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera

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    In 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
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