165 research outputs found
Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species
No full textHorton, Tammy, Gofas, Serge, Kroh, Andreas, Poore, Gary C.B., Read, Geoffrey, Rosenberg, Gary, Stöhr, Sabine, Bailly, Nicolas, Boury-Esnault, Nicole, Brandão, Simone N., Costello, Mark J., Decock, Wim, Dekeyzer, Stefanie, Hernandez, Francisco, Mees, Jan, Paulay, Gustav, Vandepitte, Leen, Vanhoorne, Bart, Vranken, Sofie (2017): Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species. European Journal of Taxonomy 389: 1-24, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.38
FIGURE 1 in All genera of the world: an overview and estimates based on the March 2020 release of the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG)
No full textFIGURE 1. Kingdom-level breakdown of IRMNG content (March 2020 version) by estimated numbers of accepted genera. Note, "Algae" of older treatments no longer appear as a kingdom, being now distributed among Plantae, Chromista and Protozoa, with former "blue-green algae" (Cyanobacteria) now within Bacteria. Kingdom Chromista of this scheme (based on Ruggiero et al. 2015) corresponds approximately to the "SAR" (or Sar) supergroup (Stramenopiles, Alveolates and Rhizaria) of other schemes e.g. that of Adl et al. (2019), with the addition of Cryptista, Haptophyta, Picozoa and Telonemia.Published as part of Rees, Tony, Vandepitte, Leen, Vanhoorne, Bart & Decock, Wim, 2020, All genera of the world: an overview and estimates based on the March 2020 release of the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG), pp. 123-140 in Megataxa 1 (2) on page 129, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.1.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/387531
Pragmatic features in the language of cross-cultural virtual teams: A roundtable discussion of student-to-student discourse in international collaborative project
No full textThis presentation contains some of the findings by the cross-cultural virtual team (CCVT) of the Trans-Atlantic network - made up by John Humbley (University of Paris-Denis Diderot), Matthew Livesey (University of Wisconsin-Stout), Bruce Maylath (North Dakota State University), Birthe Mousten (Aarhus University), Federica Scarpa (University of Trieste), Sonia Vandepitte (University College Ghent) and Lucy Veisblat (University of Paris-Denis Diderot) - during collaborative projects consisting of students' virtual exchanges which they have carried out for many years by drawing on each team member’s expertise in translation and technical communication. In particular, it examines the pragmatic features of the communication between CCVT members which have given rise to the emergence of a language for the specific purpose of collaboration. In addition, it provides methods for analyzing and teaching this language use among CCVT members
Insight in René Magritte's reused paintings
No full textpeer reviewedThe research project, Magritte on practice, consists of the systematic study of the world's largest collection of works painted by the Belgian surrealist (1898-1967), housed at the Magritte Museum in Brussels, through a large panel of non-invasive scientific imaging and analytical techniques (Raman, FTIR, MA-XRF, hyperspectral, IRR, XRR and digital microscopy) [1]. The technical and material study conducted on a corpus of works covering the entire career of the artist (60 oil paintings realised between 1921 and 1967), appeared highly informative about the making process of Magritte’s pictures but also lead to the discovery of six overpainted compositions, among which the last missing part of La pose enchantée, a 1927 large-scale painting transformed into four separate new pictures that are currently dispersed across the world [2]. The present study proposes an overview of the freshly discovered paintings and explores how the painter reused specific elements from the sacrificed compositions for creating the new ones.
References
[1] C. Defeyt and F. Vandepitte, (in preparation). René Magritte: The artist’s materials. (Los Angeles,
CA: Getty Publications)
[2] C. Defeyt, E. Herens, F. Leen, F. Vandepitte and D. Strivay, Heritage Sci., 6 (2018)Magritte on Practic
Interactivities Between Professional Translators and Professional Communicators: What Translators Would Like Communicators to Know
No full textThis tutorial is designed to acquaint professional communicators with the challenges that professional translators face when localizing the texts that communicators send them for translation. The presenters will engage participants in activities that will demonstrate terminology management, notional equivalence, culturally bound references, and revising and reviewing
A decade of the World Register of Marine Species – General insights and experiences from the Data Management Team: Where are we, what have we learned and how can we continue? - Fig 6
No full textPlanned usage (A) and application (B) of WoRMS data by data request applicants since 2007 showing that the majority of use cases are relate to scientific research where WoRMS data either forms the taxonomic backbone of research databases or a tool for data quality control.</p
Industrial hemp as a sustainable source of textile fibe : optimization of hemp cultivation in Flanders
No full textIn the ‘Hemp4Textiles’ project, a continuation of previous research (Vandepitte et al., 2020), we aim to investigate the impact of agronomic factors on crop yield performance and hemp fiber quality. Therefore, the influence of variety, nitrogen fertilization and sowing density were investigated through a 2-year variety and multifactorial field trial. Amongst the five varieties tested (USO31, Bialobrzeskie, Santhica 27, Santhica 70 and Fibror 79), differences in fiber yield were observed. The multifactorial field trials demonstrated that both the fertilization rate (range: 0-100 N) and variety affected bast fiber yield, while the investigated sowing densities (range: 300 – 600 s/m2) did not. The yield and quality of long hemp fiber after scutching will be determined and both field experiments will be repeated for the next two growing seasons
Documenting marine species traits in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): current status, future plans and encountered challenges
No full textThe importance of describing species patterns and the underlying processes explaining these patterns is essential to assess the status and future evolution of marine ecosystems. This requires biological information on functional and structural species traits such as feeding ecology, body size, reproduction, life history, etc.To accommodate this need, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (WoRMS Editorial Board 2017) is expanding its content with trait information (Costello et al. 2015), subdivided into 3 main categories: (1) taxonomy related traits, e.g. paraphyletic groups, (2) biological and ecological traits-specific characteristics of a taxon, e.g. body size or feeding type and (3) human defined traits, e.g. the legal protection status of species, whether a species is introduced, harmful, or used as an ecological indicator.Initially, priority was given to the inclusion of traits that could be applied to the majority of marine taxa and where the information was easily available. The main driver for this approach was that the inclusion of these traits should result in new research, which in turn would drive improvements in the quality and quantity of trait information. Pilot projects were carried out for different species groups, allowing a thorough documentation of a selection of traits. In parallel, a standard vocabulary was put together (http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/), based on already existing resources to cover all marine life. All documented traits needed to be compliant with this vocabulary, in order to make the data as widely useable as possible, across groups. Defining a trait across all marine life is not trivial, as scientists can use terms in a different way between groups. This stresses the importance for users to realize these differences in terminology, before they analyse a trait across all taxa.Some traits were thought to be quite straightforward to document, although practice proved otherwise. Such a trait is body size, where the aim was to document the numerical value of the ‘maximum body size in length’. In reality, a lot of variation is possible (e.g. for fish: fork length versus standard length) and maximum size is not always considered relevant from an ecological point of view. On the other hand, documenting numerical body size for each marine species is quite time consuming. Therefore, a complementary size trait will be documented, indicating whether taxa are considered as micro, meio, macro or mega.Whereas the initial approach was to complete the register for each tackled trait relevant for all marine species, we now complement this by (1) documenting several traits within a specific group, regardless whether this trait is also present in other taxon groups, and (2) documenting one specific trait, covering a variety – but not all – taxonomic groups, e.g. the composition of the skeleton for calcareous animals.Where possible, we aim to document a trait on a higher taxonomic level to allow the work to progress more rapidly. As the database allows top-down inheritance of traits, exceptions can easily be documented. In addition, collaborations are sought with already running initiatives such as Encyclopedia of Life.Very soon, all the documented traits will be searchable through the Marine Species Traits Portal. The human-defined traits are already accessible through the EMODnet Biology Portal (http://www.emodnet-biology.eu/toolbox), in combination with distribution information from the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS; www.eurobis.org; Vandepitte et al. 2011; Vandepitte et al. 2015) and taxonomy from WoRMS (www.marinespecies.org). Through the LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone (LW-TaxBB) (http://www.lifewatch.be/data-services/), services are offered to access these traits, combined with data and information from other resources such as WoRMS and (Eur)OBIS.We would like to acknowledge the EMODnet Biology and the LifeWatch project, in which the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) – host institute of WoRMS – is responsible for the development of the LW-TaxBB. Both projects provide funding for the documentation of trait data and development of services allowing researchers to easily access the available data, in combination with data from other sources
The Author Strikes Back.:The author-translator dialogue as a special kind of paratext
No full textMany internationally published writers supply their translators with additional comments on the work to be translated. The aim of this paper is to study the kind of information that authors choose to convey to their translators, and to reflect on the degree in which, besides conveying factual and lexical information, they are also supplying guidelines for the ‘right’ interpretation and translation of the text. Following Gerard Genette’s notion of paratext (1997 [1987]), the author’s comments and suggestions are defined as important ‘thresholds’ in the work’s way to the reader, ‘thresholds’ that might be seen too as the author’s attempt to counterbalance the threat of losing authorship inherent in the translation process
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