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Suresh Kulkarni Oral History Interview
No full textIn this interview, Suresh Kulkarni, originally from Hyderabad, India, discusses his life journey from a highly educated family in India to a successful career as an engineer at Thiokol in rural Utah, where he eventually became Vice President of Engineering. After retiring in 2003, he dedicated himself to volunteering, serving on hospital boards, economic development committees, and even writing a disaster plan for Brigham City. Kulkarni shares both the benefits of small-town life, such as strong community connections, and the challenges of being a Hindu minority in a predominantly Mormon area. He reflects on his family\u27s experiences, including his parents\u27 initial disapproval of his marriage to an American, his mother\u27s eventual move to the US, and his grandchildren\u27s educational and career successes. He expresses concern about political division in the US and emphasizes the importance of communication in small communities, hoping for a more cosmopolitan and accepting future for Brigham City
Giant assassin in the cave: a new species of the genus Myiophanes from Sri Lanka (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)
No full textGhate, Hemant V., Kulkarni, Siddharth, Benjamin, Suresh P. (2018): Giant assassin in the cave: a new species of the genus Myiophanes from Sri Lanka (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae). Zootaxa 4524 (2): 237-244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.2.
Myiophanes Reuter 1881
No full textMyiophanes Reuter, 1881 Myiophanes Reuter, 1881: 337. Type species by monotypy: Myiophanes tipulina Reuter, 1881. Myiophanes: Distant (1903: 204) (diagnosis), Wygodzinsky (1966: 270, 271, 274) (diagnosis, keys for the subgenera and included species, distribution), Maldonado Capriles (1990: 88–90) (catalogue), Rédei (2005: 24) (list and distribution of subgenus Myiophanes and description of two new Indomalayan species).Published as part of Ghate, Hemant V., Kulkarni, Siddharth & Benjamin, Suresh P., 2018, Giant assassin in the cave: a new species of the genus Myiophanes from Sri Lanka (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 237-244 in Zootaxa 4524 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/261050
An interview with Dr. Suresh Canagarajah on academic mobility, language and literacy
No full textThe author interviewed Dr. Suresh Canagarajah of Pennsylvania State University on academic mobility, language and literacy, in June 2017.L'autora va entrevistar al professor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University al juny del 2017, sobre la mobilitat acadèmica, llengua y literacitats.La autora entrevistó al profesor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University en junio 2017, sobre la movilidad académica, lengua y literacidades.L'auteur a interviewé le Dr. Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University sur la mobilité académique, la langue et l'alphabétisation, en juin 2017
An interview with Dr. Suresh Canagarajah on academic mobility, language and literacy
Get PDFThe author interviewed Dr. Suresh Canagarajah of Pennsylvania State University on academic mobility, language and literacy, in June 2017.L'autora va entrevistar al professor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University al juny del 2017, sobre la mobilitat acadèmica, llengua y literacitats.La autora entrevistó al profesor Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University en junio 2017, sobre la movilidad académica, lengua y literacidades.L'auteur a interviewé le Dr. Suresh Canagarajah de la Pennsylvania State University sur la mobilité académique, la langue et l'alphabétisation, en juin 2017
Rethinking Suresh: Refoulement to Torture Under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Get PDFThis article takes the European Court of Human
Rights’ decision in Saadi v. Italy and uses it as an
opportunity to re-examine the Canadian case of Suresh
v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration).
The author argues that the national security exception
in Suresh is no longer tenable in light of subsequent
developments in both international and Canadian law.
The author concludes that the Supreme Court of
Canada should reject the Suresh exception at its first
opportunity and adopt an approach to review of
refoulement cases similar to that under the United
Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and
the European Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Myiophanes (Myiophanes) wygodzinskyi Ghate & Kulkarni & Benjamin 2018, sp. nov.
No full textMyiophanes (Myiophanes) wygodzinskyi sp. nov. (Figs. 1–20) Type material. Holotype: female, Ravana Cave, Ravana Ella, Sri Lanka, 16.iv.2016, leg. Suresh P. Benjamin; will be deposited at Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., United States. Diagnosis. Myiophanes wygodzinskyi sp. nov. is the largest species of Myiophanes (body length 28 mm, all other known congeners are under 23 mm). Besides of the large size it is characterized by the distinctly marked abdominal tergites, the forewings lacking emargination on inner margin near apex, and the presence of a prominent tubercle at the base of the median carina on the hind lobe of the pronotum. Description. Habitus. Elongate and narrow insect, body sub-shining; mid and hind legs extremely long, thread-like; entire body pilose. Coloration. Overall stramineous or pale ochraceous at places, with contrasting dark markings (Figs. 1–2); head dark brown except base, tip of antennal tubercles and clypeus; interocular sulcus slightly paler; labium dark brown, first and second visible segments apically pale; antennomere I brown except pale base, antennomere II darker, antennomere III light brown, antennomere IV almost colorless. Fore lobe of pronotum pale with a broad transverse annulus around its middle, hind lobe mostly dark brown except its extreme anterior portion which is invaded by a pair of obliquely traingular pale areas together forming a W- shaped mark (Fig. 3); scutellum dark brown; ventral side of prothorax pale except middle portion of fore lobe contiguous with above mentioned dark band of pronotum; mesosternum and metasternum dark brown to black; mid and hind coxae dark brown to black except apex (Fig. 10); with a small, pale, transverse patch between mesocoxae. Forelegs: coxa with two dark brown annuli (basal and subapical, each 1.5–2 mm wide); femur with three dark annuli (one near base, one around middle, one subapically, each 1.5–2.5 mm wide, basal widest); tibia with basal one-fifth very pale, middle part pale brown, followed by an ochraceous annulus subapically, apex dark brown; tarsus pale, claws dark brown (Figs. 8, 11). Mid and hind femora pale brown along most of their length except creamy white apex about 2 mm wide, and a subapical dark brown annulus about 2.5 mm wide. Mid and hind tibiae pale brown except of a pale basal annulus of about 3 mm width followed by a dark subbasal annulus of about 2 mm width; tarsi pale brown; claws blackish (Figs. 1, 2). Abdomen dorsally with five dark brown transverse bands of irregular shape, at some places with anterior and posterior fingerlike brown emanating projections on tergites; fourth and fifth transverse dark bands on tergites interrupted, fourth appearing as three broad vertical bands, fifth as fourth but widths of bands even narrower, medians of these bands form an uninterrupted line from fourth segment up to tip; connexivum with matching dark and pale areas (Fig. 17). Female genital segments as shown in Figs. 18–20, entirely dark brown ventro-medially but ochraceous laterally. First dorsal abdominal band about 1.25 mm long, second about 1.75 mm, third about 1.5 mm, fourth 2.0 mm including finger-like processes, fifth about 1.75 mm including finger-like processes; abdominal bands complete ventrally, situated in posterior halves of sternites in some places (Fig. 2). Forewings translucent pale brown, veins slightly darker, with identical patches of brown blotches in middle part of both wings (Fig. 9); hind wings short, translucent and colorless, veins pale brown. Vestiture. Entire body covered with sparse, long and curled hairs of different colors – cream, pale or dark brown. Entire head covered with long, colorless and dark brown setae; first antennal segment with long, black, sparse setae, second, third and fourth with short and dense setae. Pronotum with colorless and dark brown sparse hairs in respective areas; meso and metathorax laterally and ventrally with sparse hairs; scutellum with very few hairs; abdomen with long and short hairs; hairs relatively dense on mid and hind legs than on other parts; microchaetae present on mid and hind legs also long. Meso- and metasterna finely granulate and setose; two oblique, shining longitudinal broad bands on mesosternum without setae; inner side of these with two similar rounded marks at base. Structure. Head elongate oval; eyes large, globose; anteocular region slightly longer than postocular; clypeus prominent, projecting in front of antenniferous tubercles; interocular sulcus transverse, not passing posterior margin of eye. Base of anteocular part with a distinct pit medially near sulcus. Both anteocular and postocular areas slightly convex above; head more or less flat ventrally, slightly medially sulcate. Labium reaching base of fore coxae, first visible segment stout, first and second subequal in length, third longest (Figs. 4–6). Thorax. Prosternum with a strongly ridged stridulatory area between fore coxae. Width of prothorax at anterior angles slightly broader than maximum width of head in dorsal view, gradually narrowed posteriorly, almost parallel-sided in its middle region, then slightly expanding in hind lobe; hind lobe with distinct median carina ending in prominent mid-dorsal tubercle at posterior margin (Fig. 7); humeral angles laterally blunt and slightly produced backward, posterior margin concave (Figs. 3, 7). Fore coxa moderately long, only slightly dilated at base, otherwise of uniform breadth. Fore femur long, as broad as coxa, provided with at least three types of spiniform processes arranged in two series: posteroventral series starting very close to base (first process being 0.5 mm from tip of trochanter); anteroventral series starting slightly distally, first spine being 1.8 mm from tip of trochanter; all spiniform processes with broad base and sharp black pointed process distally; with at least ten long processes in posteroventral series and seven to eight similar processes in anteroventral series; apical 2 mm part of fore femur with very minute spiniform processes (Fig. 13). Fore tibia more slender than both coxa and femur, also slightly curved; tibia and tarsus together slightly shorter than femur. Tibia with single row of small, stiff spiniform processes on ventral surface (Figs. 12, 14). Fore tarsus three-segmented, segments subequal in length; outer claw with six comb-like, small spines close to base (Fig. 15). Mid and hind legs very long and slender, without any spiniform processes; both mid and hind femora extending beyond tip of abdomen (Figs. 1–2) and pilose (Fig. 16). Forewings broad, extending beyond abdominal tip by about 2 mm, with venation as shown in Fig. 9. Abdomen slender, parallel-sided. Intersegmental boundaries indistinct dorsally, visible at places and marked by dark band ventrally. Eighth tergite transverse, small, ninth not sclerotized (Fig. 18). Seventh sternite moderately large, slightly emarginate posteriorly, not entirely covering gonocoxites; syngonapophysis visible (Fig. 19). Lateral view of female terminalia as in Fig. 20. Measurements (in mm). Total length (from apex of head tip of forewing) 28.0. Head length 2.5, eye diameter from lateral side 0.5; anteocular region 1.7, postocular 1.0; with of head at eye 1.5, interocular distance 0.8, width at level of antenniferous tubercles 0.8, width immediately posteriad of eye 1; width of narrowest region of neck 0.5; length of antennal segments I 17.0, II 18.0, III 1.1, IV 2.1; length of visible labial segments I 1.0, II 1.0, III 1.2; length of pronotum 6.4, width at anterior angles in dorsal view 1.6, width at constriction 0.5, width at humeral angles 2.5, length of fore lobe 3.9, of hind lobe 2.5. Lengths of fore leg: coxa 6.0, femur 11.0, tibia 9.0, tarsus 1.1; lengths of mid leg: femur 22.0, tibia 36.5, tarsus 1.0; lengths of hind leg: femur 28.0, tibia 44.0, tarsus 1.0; length of abdomen along meson ventrally 16.0. Etymology. The species is named in the honor of the late Pedro Wygodzinsky, a taxonomist renowned, among others, for his voluminous contribution to Emesinae. Differential diagnosis and discussion Based on the shape of pronotum, forewing venation and size of seventh sternite in female, Wygodzinsky (1966) defined three subgenera within Myiophanes. The present new species belongs to the nominotypical subgenus Myiophanes s. str. because the pronotum has a very large, dark colored triangular area on the hind lobe (in the subgenera Paramyiophanes and Perimyiophanes the pronotum is uniformly testaceous or provided with a whitish stripe on the median portion of the hind lobe). Myiophanes (M.) greeni, the only other species of this genus and subgenus occurring in Sri Lanka, differs from M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov. in its markedly smaller size (body length about 19 mm, as opposed to 28 mm in the new species) and the coloration of its pronotum, forewing and abdomen; M. (M.) greeni has been illustrated in detail by Kulkarni & Ghate (2016, figs. 1, 3, 4). In some respects M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov. is similar in coloration to two species described by Rédei (2005), especially M. (M.) zebrina Rédei, 2005, from Bangalore, which also has a broad triangular dark mark on the hind lobe of pronotum, but M. zebrina is a significantly smaller species (body length only 19.8 mm), similarly to M. (M.) incompta Rédei, 2005 (body length 17.5 mm), described from a single female collected in Pakistan. All three species, namely M. greeni, M. zebrina and M. incompta, appear to have different forewing coloration than that of M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov.; and in M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov. the pale triangular markings on the hind lobe of the pronotum are narrower and shorter than in all of the other species mentioned above. Myiophanes (M.) tipulina Reuter, 1881 (illustrated by Wygodzinsky 1966: fig. 80A) is entirely different in its coloration, the size and shape of its pronotum, as well as being smaller. In M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov. the pronotum is nearly 2.6 times longer than its maximum width at the humeral angles and its fore lobe is 1.5 times as long as median length of its hind lobe, therefore the fore lobe of the pronotum of the new species is much longer than most other species of this genus (see Rédei 2005). Another relatively large-bodied species (total length 21 mm) is M. (M.) kempi China, 1924, described from Siju Caves in Assam (China in Kemp 1924), but apart from its size and coloration (especially that of the abdomen), the head of this species is as long as fore lobe of pronotum, whereas it is much shorter in M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov. Myiophanes (M.) fluitaria McAtee & Malloch, 1926 (body length: 23 mm) and M. (M.) annulifera McAtee & Malloch, 1926 (body length: 15 mm), both described from the Malay Peninsula, have a markedly differently coloured forewing that is deeply emarginate apically (McAtee & Malloch 1926: figs. 34–35). Finally, M. (M.) blotei Wygodzinsky, 1966, from Sumatra (body length: 17.5 mm length) differs in size and coloration from M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov. The presence of a median carina terminating in a distinct tubercle at base of hind lobe of pronotum is apparently a unique character of M. wygodzinskyi sp. nov. not documented in any other species of Myiophanes before.Published as part of Ghate, Hemant V., Kulkarni, Siddharth & Benjamin, Suresh P., 2018, Giant assassin in the cave: a new species of the genus Myiophanes from Sri Lanka (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 237-244 in Zootaxa 4524 (2) on pages 238-239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/261050
Suresh Chandra on Historiography of Civilisation: With reference to Dravidian Civilisation
Get PDFThis paper attempts to give a critical appraisal of Professor Suresh Chandra’s views on Historiography of Civilization with reference to Dravidian Civilization. “Historiography of Indian Civilization: Harappans, Dravidians, Aryans and Gandhi’s freedom struggle” (published in JICPR June 1996) and “Demythologizing History: Dravidians in Relation to Harappans and the Aryans” (presented in the seminar on Dravidian Philosophy organized by Dravidian University, Kuppam) are the two significant works which are devoted to Historiography of civilization by Prof. Suresh Chandra. This paper mainly confines to the first article since the second one, as the author himself stated, is an offshoot of the first
The Suresh Case and Unimplemented Treaty Norms
No full textThis paper examines the role of unimplemented international treaty norms in the Canadian domestic legal system. The discussion focuses on the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Suresh , which is first investigated in some detail. In a unanimous judgement, it was held that the untransformed International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ought to inform the interpretation of the principles of fundamental justice in section 7 of the Charter and assist in deciding whether the exercise of power to deport under the Immigration Act was constitutional, given that the appellant could face torture if refoulé. The author refers to other recent decisions from the country's highest court where unimplemented treaty obligations were used in the interpretation of Canada's domestic law, namely, the Baker case in 1999 and the Hudson case in 2001. In conclusion, these developments are put in the broader contemporary strategy favouring contextual legislative interpretation, which includes resorting to international law, a trend that can be traced back to the adoption of the Charter in 1982.Ce texte examine les normes internationales issues de traités non implantés et leur rôle en droit interne canadien. La discussion se concentre sur la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada dans l'affaire Suresh, qui est tout d'abord analysée en détail. Dans un jugement unanime, on a décidé que le Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques et la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants, qui ne sont pas mis en œuvre au Canada, devraient aider à l'interprétation des principes de justice fondamentale sous l'article 7 de la Charte et à savoir si l'exercice du pouvoir de déporter en vertu de la Loi sur l'immigration était constitutionnel, vu la possibilité de torture en cas de refoulement. L'auteur voit d'autres décisions récentes où le plus haut tribunal du pays a considéré ces obligations conventionnelles non transformées lors de l'interprétation de lois canadiennes, soit les causes Baker en 1999 et Hudson en 2001. En conclusion, il est suggéré que ces développements s'inscrivent dans la stratégie générale moderne favorisant l'interprétation législative contextuelle, qui comprend le recours au droit international, une tendance forte depuis l'adoption de la Charte en 1982.Beaulac Stéphane. The Suresh Case and Unimplemented Treaty Norms. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, volume 15-1, 2002. pp. 221-240
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No full textMaintaining attention at a task-relevant spatial location while making eye-movements necessitates a rapid, saccade-synchronized shift of attentional modulation from the neuronal population representing the task-relevant location before the saccade to the one representing it after the saccade. Currently, the precise time at which spatial attention becomes fully allocated to the task-relevant location after the saccade remains unclear. Using a fine-grained temporal analysis of human peri-saccadic detection performance in an attention task, we show that spatial attention is fully available at the task-relevant location within 30 milliseconds after the saccade. Subjects tracked the attentional target veridically throughout our task: i.e. they almost never responded to non-target stimuli. Spatial attention and saccadic processing therefore co-ordinate well to ensure that relevant locations are attentionally enhanced soon after the beginning of each eye fixation.When we look at a scene, our gaze does not move continuously across it. Instead, our eyes move discontinuously, shifting gaze rapidly from point to point to focus on different locations in the scene. These eye movements are known as saccades, and during them the brain temporarily and selectively stops processing visual information. In the brain, a particular area of a scene is represented by different neurons before and after a saccade. Paying attention to a relevant location in a scene across an eye movement therefore requires the brain to shift its attentional effects from the neurons that represented that location in the scene before the saccade to the set of neurons that do so after the saccade. Ideally, this shift should happen rapidly and be synchronized with the eye movement. Exactly how long it takes for attention to emerge at a relevant location after a saccade was not clear because attention had not been recorded on a fine enough time-scale immediately after an eye movement. Yao et al. have now addressed this issue in a series of experiments that asked volunteers to focus their eyes on a fixed point. The volunteers had to follow the point with their eyes as it jumped to a new location, and at the same time had to look out for a change in the movement of a pattern of random dots. The results reveal that attention is fully available at the relevant location within 30 milliseconds after the saccade. In fact, the 30-millisecond delay in the emergence of attention matches the period during which vision is suppressed during a saccade. Thus, the change in the brain’s focus of attention coordinates with the saccadic eye movement to ensure that attention can be fixed on a relevant location as soon as possible after the eye movement ends. More studies are now needed to investigate how the brain coordinates its attention and eye-movement processes to synchronize the shift in attention with the eye movement
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