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Spilomena keralaensis Tessy, Sureshan & Girish Kumar In 2018
No full text<i>Spilomena keralaensis</i> Tessy, Sureshan & Girish Kumar, 2018 <p> <i>Spilomena keralaensis</i> Tessy, Sureshan & Girish Kumar <i>In</i> <i>:</i> Rajan <i> et <i>al.</i> 2018: 158, Holotype f#, India: Kerala (ZSIK).</i></p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Female (Rajan <i>et al</i>. 2018, figs. 1–10). Inner mandibular tooth pointed; clypeus weakly convex medially, anterior margin slightly incised medially; propodeum areolate with network of coarse ridges, without two longitudinal carinae near middle, with smooth area at apex; lateral face of propodeum with some strong transverse striations anteriorly and large smooth area medially.</p> <p> <b>Male.</b> Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> India: Kerala (Rajan <i>et al</i>. 2018).</p>Published as part of <i>Rajan, Tessy, Kumar, P. Girish, Sureshan, P. M. & Binoy, C., 2021, A review of the genus Spilomena Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with the description of six new species from India, pp. 263-276 in Zootaxa 5068 (2)</i> on page 269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.2.6, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5704375">http://zenodo.org/record/5704375</a>
Lessons Learned: Raghuram Rajan
No full textRaghuram Rajan, a University of Chicago professor of economics and finance, served as director of research at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2003 to 2006. In 2005, Rajan warned very publicly of the risks of a financial crisis. Following his tenure at the IMF, Rajan served as chief economic adviser to India’s Finance Ministry and governor of the Reserve Bank of India. An expert on financial institutions and their effects on economic growth and development across countries, Rajan was recognized as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. He is co-author of Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) and author of The Third Pillar (2019), about community organization. This Lessons Learned is based on an interview with Rajan conducted on December 16, 2020
Supplemental Material - Low awareness but high acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among men who have sex with men and transgender persons in Delhi, India
No full textSupplemental Material for Low awareness but high acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among MSM and transgender persons in Delhi, India by Adhish Kumar Sethi, Partha Haldar, Sanjay Kumar Rai, Shashi Kant, Shobini Rajan, Parveen Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Mishra and Bhawani Singh in International Journal of STD & AIDS</p
Supplemental Material - Low awareness but high acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among men who have sex with men and transgender persons in Delhi, India
No full textSupplemental Material for Low awareness but high acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among MSM and transgender persons in Delhi, India by Adhish Kumar Sethi, Partha Haldar, Sanjay Kumar Rai, Shashi Kant, Shobini Rajan, Parveen Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Mishra and Bhawani Singh in International Journal of STD & AIDS</p
sj-doc-1-pie-10.1177_09544089211063712 - Supplemental material for Investigation on surface roughness, tool wear and cutting power in MQL turning of bio-medical Ti-6Al-4V ELI alloy with sustainability
No full textSupplemental material, sj-doc-1-pie-10.1177_09544089211063712 for Investigation on surface roughness, tool wear and cutting power in MQL turning of bio-medical Ti-6Al-4V ELI alloy with sustainability by K M Rajan, Ashok Kumar Sahoo, Bharat Chandra Routara and Ramanuj Kumar in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering</p
sj-docx-1-obm-10.1177_1753495X211051253 - Supplemental material for Clinical characteristics, predictors and pregnancy outcomes in Indian women with peripartum cardiomyopathy
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-obm-10.1177_1753495X211051253 for Clinical characteristics, predictors and pregnancy outcomes in Indian women with peripartum cardiomyopathy by Saroj Rajan, Nivedita Jha and Ajay Kumar Jha in Obstetric Medicine</p
Spilomena sahyadriensis Tessy, Sureshan et Girish Kumar 2021, sp. nov.
No full textSpilomena sahyadriensis Tessy, Sureshan et Girish Kumar, sp. nov. (Figs 29–36) Type material: Holotype, ♀, India: Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram dt., Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary (8°31’50’’N & 77°09’08’’E, Alt. 93 m), 17.i.2019, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV/17149. Diagnosis. Spilomena sahyadriensis sp. nov. differs from its congeners by the following combination of characters: lower frons imbricate; upper frons and vertex reticulate with scattered setigerous micropunctures; relative length to breadth of scape = 38:6; relative length to breadth of stigma = 34:15; mesoscutum reticulate with dense micropunctures; propodeal dorsum and posterior surface of propodeum rugose and rugulose, lateral surface with transverse ridges. Description. Holotype ♀. Body length 4.6 mm; fore wing length 2.6 mm. Colour. Body black with following parts yellow: mandible (except apical tip brown), labrum, palpi, antenna and legs; pronotal lobe and tegula white; fore wing veins and stigma light brown. Vestiture. Setigerous micropunctures present on frons, vertex, mesoscutum and scutellum; dense brush of short setae at apex of T6; remainder of body with sparse vestiture. Head. Clypeus shiny, without appressed setae, markedly convex (Fig. 30); interantennal tubercle inconspicuous, not distinctly pointed, extending into short median carina at most reaching lower frons; mandible bidentate apically, inner mandibular tooth short and blunt; relative length to breadth of scape = 38:6; lower frons imbricate; upper frons and vertex reticulate with scattered setigerous micropunctures; inner eye margin straight; gena imbricate, impunctate. Mesosoma. Pronotum laterally with longitudinal ridges; anterior carina of pronotal collar conspicuous and straight; mesoscutum reticulate, with dense micropunctures; admedian line and parapsidal line lacking; scutellum reticulate, with dense micropunctures, anterior groove of scutellum without crenulations; metanotum reticulate, without micropunctures, longitudinal rugose laterally; mesopleuron reticulate, with scattered setigerous micropunctures posteriorly (Fig. 32); metapleuron with irregular rugae; stigma elongate, relative length to breadth = 34:15; recurrent vein of fore wing received well within first submarginal cell; propodeal dorsum and posterior surface of propodeum rugose and rugulose (Fig. 33), lateral surface with transverse ridges. Metasoma. T1 and T2 shiny and impunctate; T3–T6 with scattered setigerous punctures on entire surface; T6 apically with dense brush of short setae. Male. Unknown. Etymology. The species name is derived from “Sahyadri”, the vernacular name for the Western Ghat mountain ranges. Distribution. India: Kerala.Published as part of Rajan, Tessy, Kumar, P. Girish, Sureshan, P. M. & Binoy, C., 2021, A review of the genus Spilomena Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with the description of six new species from India, pp. 263-276 in Zootaxa 5068 (2) on pages 269-271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/570437
Long term implications of low fertility in Kerala
No full textIn recent years, Kerala has made remarkable progress in its demographic transition. The State has achieved below replacement level of fertility two decades ahead of the all-India target year of 2011 and India is likely to achieve the replacement level only by 2021. The TFR declined from a high level of 5.6 in 1951-61 to about 1.7 in 1993, a level which is very much below the replacement level of 2.05. The State's IMR has touched a low level of 13 in 1993, a level comparable to that of some of the developed countries of the world. The population growth rate has declined to about 1 per cent per annum in 1995 from a high level of 2.3 per cent per year during 1961-71. Thus Kerala's demographic trends in the first half of the 21st century will be dramatically different from that of the second half of the 20th century. Total population of the State is expected to increase by 170 percent in the second half of the present century (from 11,723,000 in 1951 to 31,553,000 in 2001), the growth (if any) in the next half a century will be very negligible. The crude death rate declined from about 20 to about 6 in the last half a century, but it is likely to increase from 6 to 13 in the next century. The crude birth rate decreased from 40 to about 16 in the last half a century, but it is likely to remain more or less stable in the next half a century. While Kerala experienced varying degrees of net out-migration and net emigration in the last half a century, migration trend in the next half a century is somewhat uncertain. It will depend more on socio-economic developments than on demographic trends. The socioeconomic implications of the reversal of the demographic trends will be far reaching: (a) To begin with, the pressure on schools and colleges will be a thing of the past, giving ample opportunities for the educational system to concentrate on the quality of education rather than on quantity. (b) This is also true of hospitals and health personnel catering to the health needs of the children. It will be easier to bring about the needed improvement in the quality of their services. (c) In the transitional period, parity between the number of girls and boys in their respective marriage ages will be maintained. But this is a temporary respite. (d) Other things being equal on the economic front, unemployment among the young working age population will be greatly reduced. The educated young workers might be able to pick and choose the job they want. But this is not the case with older workers. The number of older working population would almost double in a short period of 20 years between 2001 and 2021 (e) In the last half a century the major socioeconomic problems were related to the schooling, maintenance of health and nutrition and finding employment for the youngsters. In the next half a century, the major socio-economic problems would be finding gainful employment for the older working age population, maintenance of the health and nutrition of the elderly, and providing them with means of subsistence through social security and pension, etc.Kerala, fertility, mortality, migration, projections, aging, labour force, social security, pension, marriage
Additions to the knowledge on the genus Carinostigmus Tsuneki (Hymenoptera Crabronidae: Pemphredoninae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of two new species
No full textRajan, Tessy, Sureshan, P. M., Kumar, P. Girish (2020): Additions to the knowledge on the genus Carinostigmus Tsuneki (Hymenoptera Crabronidae: Pemphredoninae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4881 (1): 152-164, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.
Spilomena tsunekii Tessy, Sureshan et Girish Kumar 2021, sp. nov.
No full textSpilomena tsunekii Tessy, Sureshan et Girish Kumar, sp. nov. (Figs 37–44) Type material: Holotype, ♂, India: Kerala, Kozhikode dt., Manipuram (11°22’48’’N & 75°56’40’’E, Alt. 99 m), 4–26.iv.2019, Coll. C. Binoy, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV/17151. Diagnosis. Spilomena tsunekii sp. nov. differs from its congeners by the following combination of characters: frons and vertex imbricate, without setigerous micropunctures; mesopleuron finely aciculate, with illdefined punctures; relative length to breadth of scape = 20:5; stigma not elongate, relative length to breadth = 98:68; propodeal dorsum transversely striate, with two longitudinal carinae medially, posterior surface finely aciculate, with median longitudinal carina, lateral surface transversely striate. Description. Holotype ♂. Body length 2.6 mm; fore wing length 1.1 mm. Colour. Body black except pronotum yellowish brown; clypeus and metasoma brown; mandible (except apical tip brown), tegula, pronotal lobe, legs and antenna yellow; fore wing veins and stigma brown. Vestiture. T5–T7 with scattered setigerous punctures; remaining body with sparse vestiture. Head. Clypeus dull without any appressed setae, markedly convex (Fig. 38); interantennal tubercle inconspicuous, not distinctly pointed, extending into short median carina at most reaching lower frons; mandible bidentate, inner mandibular tooth short, blunt; relative length to breadth of scape =20:5 frons and vertex imbricate without setigerous micropunctures; inner eye margin straight; gena imbricate, impunctate. Mesosoma. Pronotum reticulate, with irregular longitudinal rugae; anterior carina of pronotal collar conspicuous, deeply emarginate; mesoscutum reticulate, with scattered setigerous punctures; admedian line and parapsidal line lacking; scutellum dull and reticulate, with sparse setigerous punctures, anterior groove of scutellum not broadened by crenulation; metanotum dull and reticulate, irregularly transversely rugose laterally; mesopleuron finely aciculate, with ill-defined punctures (Fig. 40); metapleuron finely aciculate; stigma not elongate, relative length to breadth = 98:68; recurrent vein of fore wing received well within first submarginal cell; propodeal dorsum transversely striate, with two longitudinal carinae medially, posterior surface finely aciculate, with median longitudinal carina (Fig. 41), lateral surface transversely striate. Metasoma. Integument shiny; T4–T7 with sparse setigerous micropunctures. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The specific epithet is a commemorative, genitive noun taken from patronym Tsuneki after late Dr. Katsuji Tsuneki, in honor of his immense contribution to aculeate hymenopteran taxonomy. Distribution. India: Kerala.Published as part of Rajan, Tessy, Kumar, P. Girish, Sureshan, P. M. & Binoy, C., 2021, A review of the genus Spilomena Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with the description of six new species from India, pp. 263-276 in Zootaxa 5068 (2) on pages 271-272, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/570437
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