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Hemicyrthus blaffarti Krell, new species
No full text<i>Hemicyrthus blaffarti</i> Krell, new species <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:2026C3BF-F13E-4AF3-A8DF-7CAF2D9E9091</p> <p> <b>Types.</b> Holotype (male; Fig. 2): NEW CALEDONIA, Parc Provincial de la Rivière Bleue, Refuge des Scientifiques, 166°38′42″ E, 22°6′5″ S, alt. 190 m, rainforest, leg. J. Theuerkauf 15.xii.2006, dead [flagella of antennae missing; terminal two right protarsomeres missing, terminal four left metatarsomeres missing]; deposited in MNHN, Paris.</p> <p> <b>Paratypes.</b> All from NEW CALEDONIA, Parc Provincial de la Rivière Bleue. 1 ♀: Refuge de la Rivière Bleue, 166°38′19″ E, 22°5′51″ S, 200 m, rainforest road, leg. J. Theuerkauf 22.viii.2012, dead [disc of elytra dented and cracked, left mesotarsus missing], DMNS ZE.46269. 1 ♀: Pont Germain, 166°39′27″ E, 22°6′3″ S, 180 m, road in riverside forest, leg. J. Theuerkauf 8.vi.2011, dead [antennae missing, terminal four right protarsomeres and both terminal four metatarsomeres missing], DMNS ZE.46270. 1 ♂: Pont Germain, 166°39′20″ E, 22°5′5″ S, 180 m, rainforest road, leg. J. Theuerkauf 29.xii.2012, dead [mouthparts and left antenna, left metatarsus and three terminal mesotarsomeres missing; left anterior margin of clypeus damaged], DMNS ZE.46271. 1 ♀: Grand Kaori, 166°40′38″ E, 22°5′50″ S, 180 m, rainforest track, leg. J. Theuerkauf 10.x.2006, dead [left protarsi and metatarsi missing], DMNS ZE.46272. 1 ♀: 166°40′0″ E, 22°5′59″ S, 180 m, rainforest road, leg. J. Theuerkauf 24.ix.2006, dead [terminal two right protarsomeres missing], DMNS ZE.60956 (Fig. 3). 1 ♀: 166°38′25″–40′38″ E, 22°5′50″–6′5″ S, 180–200 m, road, leg. J. Theuerkauf 2003 /2004, dead [right front leg, terminal two left protarsomeres, left mesotarsus, terminal two right mesotarsomeres, terminal four left metatarsomeres, terminal three right metatarsomeres and terminal seven right antennomeres missing], CXMNC. 1 ♂: 166°38′25″–40′38″ E, 22°5′50″–6′5″ S, 180–200 m, road, leg. J. Theuerkauf 15.ii.2006, dead [all tarsomeres missing apart from first on right front leg and three on right middle leg; some glued on card; antennae and majority of mouthparts missing; cuticular surface matte due to weathering], DMNS ZE.46273. 1 ♀: 166°38′25″–40′38″ E, 22°5′50″–6′5″ S, 180–200 m, road, leg. J. Theuerkauf 18.x.2006, dead [crushed; terminal four right protarsomeres and both terminal four metatarsomeres missing], DMNS ZE.46274. 1 ♂: 166°38′25″–40′38″ E, 22°5′50″–6′5″ S, 180–200 m, road, leg. J. Theuerkauf 15.x.2007, dead [right antenna and left flagellum missing; both terminal four protarsomeres missing, terminal three left mesotarsomeres missing, four terminal right mesotarsomeres missing, hole in propygidium, left elytral tip damaged], CXMNC.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Dorsally glabrous <i>Hemicyrthus</i> with pronotum completely margined laterally, but without margin or strong oblong punctures at the base; scutellum punctate, longer than wide elytra without keels; apical mesotibial and metatibial setae, short, blunt.</p> <p> <b>Description. ♂ (Fig. 2).</b> <i>Dimensions.</i> Body length: 21.1–22.1 mm (holotype: 21.1 mm; arithmetic mean <b>x</b> <i>n</i> = 4 = 21.6 mm; range of variation <i>R</i> = 1.0 mm = 4.6 %). Maximum width of pronotum: 9.3–10.4 mm (holotype: 9.8 mm; <b>x</b> <i>n</i> = 4 = 9.9 mm; <i>R</i> = 1.1 mm = 11.1 %). Maximum width of elytra: 11.6–13.1 mm (holotype: 12.9 mm; <b>x</b> <i>n</i> = 4= 12.6 mm; <i>R</i> = 1.5 mm = 11.9 %).</p> <p> <i>Colour.</i> Blackish brown to black.</p> <p> <i>Microsculpture.</i> Areas between the dense, fine punctures flat, aciculate and covered by dense, sometimes superficial micropunctures.</p> <p> <i>Setation.</i> Upper side, prosternum, metasternum, pygidium and sternites glabrous. Mesosternum with medium dense, short, brown setae.</p> <p> <i>Epicranium.</i> Sides converging to clypeus, either straight or slightly convex. Clypeus with blunt lateral lobes, concave in-between. Distance between clypeal lobes about a quarter of epicranial width. Epicranial surface slightly convex, without tubercles or ridges, but slightly bulged in the middle of the anterior half. Frontoclypeal suture complete, forming a fine, impressed line. Area anterior to frontal suture with dense, fine punctation; posterior to suture without or with barely visible, superficial punctation except laterally where some superficial fine punctures are more distinct; rarely with clearly visible, but still superficial punctation in median area behind suture [<i>e.g.</i>, in holotype].</p> <p> <i>Ocular canthus.</i> Lateral lobes in front of eyes short, but protruding and convex (if not worn), without setae. The lobes barely extend into an ocular canthus, but notch the eyes.</p> <p> <i>Mandibles.</i> External margin slightly bilobed; tip blunt; dorsally smooth and glabrous; ventrally with punctures and setae.</p> <p> <i>Labium.</i> Broad, moderately tapering anteriorly; discally bulged with sparse, long setae and large punctures. Apically concave. Anterolateral angles flat triangular, slightly convex to almost straight in-between.</p> <p> <i>Antennae.</i> With 10 antennomeres, without signs of fusion of antennomeres. Terminal antennomere inserts distant from the base of the penultimate antennomere. Penultimate antennomere inserts distant from the base of eighth antennomere. Scapus and club with long and finer setae, respectively.</p> <p> <i>Pronotum</i>. Weakly convex, without tubercles or other sculpture; with fine, dense punctation and sparse micropunctures; and with a weak lateral impression on each side (in the holotype only, also with a laterodiscal impression on each side that is probably teratological). Lateral margins convex. Anterior angles acute but not sharp. Posterior angles obtuse. Only lateral margins with border. Basal margin with sparse, fine, superficial punctures, without stripe-like longitudinal punctures.</p> <p> <i>Prosternal process</i>. Approximately cylindrical, dorsoventrally oriented, ventrally extending as far as the coxae protrude, with blunt tip bearing long setae.</p> <p> <i>Tibiae.</i> Protibia tridentate, with sharp apical spur inserted at a level with the base of the middle external denticle and reaching the end of the second tarsomere. Mesotibiae and metatibiae with the anteapical transversal ridge and apex bearing short, blunt, flattened setae, which are up to 3 times as long as broad. Setal punctures notch tibial apex and transversal ridge.</p> <p> <i>Scutellum.</i> Triangular, about 1.7x as broad as long, with straight sides and sharp tip; with few round or oval punctures the size of the elytral punctures.</p> <p> <i>Elytra.</i> Fused. Glabrous and smooth, without ridges, but with 4–6 rudimentary striae, mainly on the anterior half. Anterior half as shiny as pronotum; slightly dull towards the apex. Punctures fine and dense, but slightly larger and deeper than on pronotum; in posterior half transversally wrinkled. Micropunctures sometimes shallow, but visible.</p> <p> <i>Alae.</i> Lacking.</p> <p> <i>Pygidium.</i> Propygidium and pygidium fused with distinct suture; fine, but strongly wrinkled at the base, so that the punctures are only visible on the apical three quarters or less than the apical half of the pygidium, where the surface is smooth and shiny.</p> <p> <i>Last sternite</i> with broad median emargination, margin of emargination dorsally developed (this being the noticeable sexual dimorphism in this species and probably the genus; Fig. 2 E).</p> <p> <i>Aedeagus</i>. Fig. 2 C, D.</p> <p> <b>♀ (Fig. 3).</b> No major sexual dimorphism. Characters as in ♂ with following exceptions:</p> <p> <i>Dimensions.</i> Body length: 19.1–21.5 mm (<b>x</b> <i>n</i> = 5 = 20.7 mm; range of variation <i>R</i> = 2.4 mm = 11.6 %). Maximum width of pronotum: 9.0–10.0 mm (<b>x</b> <i>n</i> = 5 = 9.5 mm; <i>R</i> = 1.0 mm = 10.5 %). Maximum width of elytra: 11.6–12.6 mm (<b>x</b> <i>n</i> = 5 = 12.2 mm; <i>R</i> = 1.0 mm = 8.2 %).</p> <p> <i>Last sternite</i> with narrower median emargination, but margin not developed (Fig. 3 C).</p> <p> <i>Distribution.</i> New Caledonia, Province Sud, Parc Provincial de la Rivière Bleue (see Bonnet de Larbogne <i>et al.</i> 1991). Type locality: Refuge des Scientifiques, 166°38′42″E, 22°6′5″S (Fig. 1 C).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> Named in honour of Henri Blaffart (1965–2008), a Belgian conservationist who worked in New Caledonia for Conservation International on projects with strong community involvement (McKenna <i>et al.</i> 2006; Saunders <i>et al.</i> 2007). He was a founding member of the association Dayu Biik, which is involved in the conservation of the Mt Panié. He was killed in an accident on the Tiendanite River in the Northern Province on 21 March 2008 while working on the Mt Panié conservation project. For a photograph of Henry Blaffart see McKenna <i>et al.</i> (2006: 126).</p>Published as part of <i>Krell, Frank-Thorsten & Theuerkauf, Jörn, 2015, A new species of the endemic genus Hemicyrthus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from New Caledonia, with a revised key, pp. 281-290 in Zootaxa 4048 (2)</i> on pages 283-286, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.2.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/232074">http://zenodo.org/record/232074</a>
David Farrell Krell, Intimations of Mortality. Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being
No full textLacoste Jean-Yves. David Farrell Krell, Intimations of Mortality. Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 85, n°68, 1987. pp. 555-557
David Farrell Krell, Intimations of Mortality. Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being
No full textLacoste Jean-Yves. David Farrell Krell, Intimations of Mortality. Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 85, n°68, 1987. pp. 555-557
On the origins of the contractual failure of consideration doctrine : notes on Krell v. Henry
No full textThe failure of consideration doctrine has not been peacefully accepted in the\nstudy of Contracts. The decision on Krell v. Henry case is, within the causalist doctrine,\nthe first case where consideration was deemed an element of the contract. However,\nif we read thoroughly the judgment of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil\nDivision) we will find that principles laid down therein may be more properly identified\nwith neocausalist than with causalist doctrine. This work intends to analyze Krell\nv. Henry case and to make a critical review of the failure of consideration doctrine and\nits possible application in our legal system, taking into account the three theoretical\napproaches on this question: anticausalist, causalist and neocausalistFil: Garaventa, Carlos A. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Derecho; ArgentinaFil: Manin, María Soledad. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Derecho; ArgentinaEn materia de contratos no es pacifica la aceptación del instituto de la frustración\ndel fin del contrato. El fallo Krell v. Henry es para la doctrina causalista el\nprimer caso en el que se aceptó la existencia de la causa-fin como elemento de este.\nEmpero, si leemos detenidamente el fallo de la Court of Appeal of England and Wales\n(Civil Division) encontraremos que la doctrina de este se identifica más con la de los\nneocausalistas que con la de los causalistas. Este trabajo se propone pasar revista del\nfallo Krell v. Henry y realizar un análisis crítico del instituto de la frustración del fin del\ncontrato y su posible aplicación en nuestro Derecho, teniendo en cuenta los aportes de\nlas tres escuelas teóricas que lo estudian: anticausalistas, causalistas y neocausalista
Martingales and Rates of Presence in Homogeneous Fragmentations
No full textIn this version, we correct a misprint in Assumption A from the previous one.International audienceThe main focus of this work is the asymptotic behavior of mass-conservative homogeneous fragmentations. Considering the logarithm of masses makes the situation reminiscent of branching random walks. The standard approach is to study {\bf asymptotical} exponential rates. For fixed , either the number of fragments whose sizes at time are of order \e^{-vt} is exponentially growing with rate , i.e. the rate is effective, or the probability of presence of such fragments is exponentially decreasing with rate , for some concave function . In a recent paper, N. Krell considered fragments whose sizes decrease at {\bf exact} exponential rates, i.e. whose sizes are confined to be of order \e^{-vs} for every . In that setting, she characterized the effective rates. In the present paper we continue this analysis and focus on probabilities of presence, using the spine method and a suitable martingale
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Dung-beetle networks
No full textThis folder contains datasets from studies on the distribution of dung beetle species across two or more types of dung (trophic networks). Each file is named by the reference. For an overview of references and additional information, see ELEblüthgenST1.xlsxReference:Frank K, Krell FT, Walter P, Slade EM, Raine EH, Chiew LY, Vairappan CS, Schmitt T, Blüthgen N (2018) Global dung webs: high trophic generalism of dung beetles along the latitudinal diversity gradient. Ecology Letters, in press. </div
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