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Beguea ankeranensis G.E. Schatz & Lowry, spec. nova
No full text1. Beguea ankeranensis G.E. Schatz & Lowry, spec. nova (Fig. 1, 2 A). Typus: MADAGASCAR . Prov. Toamasina: Atsinanana Region, Brickaville, Anjahamamay, Anivoranokely, Ankerana forest, 18̊24’21’’S 48̊48’18’’E, 700 m, 19.I.2012, fl., Antilahimena 7978 (holo-: MO-6704230!; iso-: G [G00341688]!, K!, P [P00580357]! TAN). Haec species a congeneris foliorum petiolo rhachideque indumento aureobrunneo tomentulosis, foliolis 6 ad 8 in sicco complanatis apice acute acuminatis, pedicellis c. 1 mm longis atque antheris 2.2-2.5 mm longis distinguitur. Tree c. 15 m tall; stems densely golden brown tomentulose. Petioles 2.6-4 cm, densely golden brown tomentulose. Leaves with 6-8 subopposite to alternate leaflets; rachis 3.8-7 cm, keeled above, golden brown tomentulose; petiolule 2.5-3 mm, golden brown tomentulose; leaflet blade 2.8-7 × 1.2-2.2 cm, elliptic, papyraceous to subcoriaceous, flat in pressed material, glabrous and only slightly glossy above, sparsely light brown tomentulose on midvein and secondary veins below, base weakly to markedly asymmetrical, acute to nearly decurrent, margins minutely thickened, not revolute, apex distinctly acuminate, the acumen acute, midvein distinctly raised and knife-like above and below, secondary veins (8-)10-13 per side, flat to slightly impressed above, raised below, tertiary venation obscure above, slightly raised and evident below. Inflorescence axis 16-19 cm long, c. 1 mm in diam., unbranched, dark chocolate brown, densely golden brown tomentulose; bracts c. 1 mm, narrowly triangular, adaxially concave; pedicels c. 1 mm, c. 0.8 mm in diam., densely golden brown tomentulose. Male flowers with a shallowly cupulate, (4-)5-lobed calyx, the lobes broadly triangular, c. 1 × 1.2 mm, acute, densely golden brown tomentulose outside, densely golden setaceous inside; stamens 8, filaments 1-3 mm, glabrous, anthers 2.2-2.5 × c. 0.8 mm, ellipsoid; disc and pistillode densely golden setaceous, the trichomes to 0.5 mm. Female flowers not seen. Fruit not seen. Conservation status. – Known only from a single collection from well within an intact forest block of the newly designated Corridor Ankeniheny Zahamena PA (Fig. 3), and lacking any additional information on population size, B. ankeranensis is assigned a provisional status of “Least Concern” [LC] using the IUCN Red List Criteria (IUCN, 2012), with the caution that this status is highly dependent on continued effective protection. Notes. – Beguea ankeranensis is known only from the type collection in humid forest at Ankerana (Fig. 3), which is included within the recently decreed Corridor Ankeniheny Zahamena PA. It can be easily distinguished from the two species most similar morphologically (B. birkinshawii and B. turkii) by its leaflets with a long-acuminate apex and an acute acumen (vs acute to short acuminate apex and rounded to retuse acumen), short pedicels c. 1 mm long (vs 2.5-4 mm long), and large anthers 2.2-2.5 mm long (vs only 1 mm long) (Fig. 1, 2 A).Published as part of George E. Schatz, Roy E. Gereau & Porter P. Lowry Ii, 2017, A revision of the endemic Malagasy genus Beguea (Sapindaceae), pp. 45-65 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a6, http://zenodo.org/record/88817
Antileukemic activity of shepherdin, a novel targeted inhibitor of the survivin-HSP90 complex.
No full textCharacteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.
No full textCharacteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.</p
Pseudamaryllis Andres 1981
No full textPseudamaryllis Andres Pseudamaryllis Andres, 1981: 464.–Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 521.–Lowry & Stoddart, 1993: 98. Amaryllis.– Ledoyer, 1986: 717 (in part). Paravijaya Ren, 1998: 156, 162. Diagnosis. Head with rostrum anteriorly rounded or absent; eye reniform. Antenna 1 peduncular article 1 not ball-shaped proximally; peduncular article 2 medium length; callynophore present in female and male. Antenna 2 flagellum about as long as that of antenna 1 in female and male. Mandible palp article 3 with or without proximal A3-seta. Pereopod 4 coxa with anterior and posterior margins subparallel. Uropod 3 rami without plumose setae in male and female; outer ramus 1-articulate. Type species. Pseudamaryllis nonconstricta Andres, 1981, by original designation. Species composition. Pseudamaryllis contains two species: P. andresi Lowry & Stoddart, 1993 and P. nonconstricta Andres, 1981. Remarks. Ren (1998) established the genus Paravijaya, which he compared to and distinguished from the genera Amaryllis, Pseudamaryllis and Vijaya. Paravijaya was distinguished from Pseudamaryllis by: the labrum and epistome being coalesced, peduncular article 1 of antenna 1 being longer than other articles, and inner ramus of uropod 2 with a small notch. Ren was apparently unaware of the publication by Lowry & Stoddart (1993), which established a new species of Pseudamaryllis and slightly expanded the generic diagnosis. Paravijaya is a synonym of Pseudamaryllis and Pa. apiculata Ren, 1998, is the same species described by Lowry & Stoddart (1993) as Ps. andresi. Pseudamaryllis is the only amaryllidid genus with the combination of a callynophore in the female and robust setae on the propodus of gnathopod 1. Distribution. Western Indian Ocean, Red Sea and South China Sea; 90–1544 m depth (see Fig. 76).Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2002, The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), pp. 129-214 in Records of the Australian Museum 54 on page 21
Letter from Smith Green to grandma and grandpa
No full textLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green, giving updates.838 Diamond St. 1 San Francisco, California August 31, 1939 Dear Grandma and Grandpa, Please forgive me for being so late but I've been fairly busy lately. After reaching Hugo, my ticket was re-routed by way of Amarillo, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico. That was the shortest and fastest route because there was a thru bus from Amarillo to Albuquerque to Los Angeles and one from there to San Francisco. I saw plenty of lonely country all the way across New Mexico and Arizona. And it was plenty hot in the desert country. The most beautiful scenery was between Los Angeles and Frisco. We followed the shore line all the way up, so was in sight of the Pacific most of the time. The mountains along 2 the coast were certainly beautiful and interesting. The road wound round and round and the view was marvelous. After passing San Louis Obispo we passed some redwood parks. We stopped for supper Friday at the Big Sur Lodge up in the mountains. It was so nice that I wished I could have stayed for a while. I got in here at 10:25 P.M. Friday night and was met by Virginia and Claude. I never even had a chance to shave, bathe, or was my teeth on the trip because of the connections. On Saturday after Claude went to work, Virginia and I went to the hospital where she was examined. The doctor said the big event would come off in 2 more weeks. Then we went over to see Doris and stayed until about 5 P.M. Keith came home from work about 1 P.M. Saturday night we had a surprise party for Virginia at the home of Claudes mother and 3 father. There I met David. Sunday Keith and Doris came over. Monday we all went to Grisbane to see Grandma, Aunt Bess and her new husband, who is an ex-soldier and a nice fellow. We took some pictures and as soon as possible I'll send you some. Since then I've been goign about with first one then another to shows and places of interest. Every one treats me sweel and just as if I'd known them all their life. I like Claude and Keith fine. Virginia and Doris are marvelous, I couldn't ask for better sisters. David is a big lad; he is as tall as I and very broad of shoulder. His hair is blonde and he has blue eyes. He is much better looking than I am. We are great pals. By the time he is grown, he will be a big man. Doris' baby is very sweet. She has blonde curly hair and blue 4 eyes and looks much like Doris when she was a baby. As I suspected we because friends at once, and I sometimes think she likes me better than her pa. She seldom cries and is very affectionate. Doris and virginia are very sweet and nice looking. we like to kid each other all the time. Doris especially is very affectionate. Well, I really must close. I'm going to enjoy my stay here a lot. Oh, yes! Grandma Smith is fatter than ever but says she is only pleasingly plump. She seems to be in very good health and in good spirits. Every one says I look like Uncle Tony and Virginia. I hope both of you are feeling fine. The weather here is very cool here to me. Good by and take good care of yourselves. All my love, Smith S. Green 838 Diamon St. San Francisco, Calif. Mr. W.M. Green Box 426 Broken Bow, Oklahom
South African responses to Open Access publishing: a survey of the research community
No full textOpen access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation of open access journals and open archives or institutional repositories by the academic mainstream, particularly by publishing researchers. To what extent are the key actors in the South African research system aware of the advantages of open access? This article reports on the findings of a recent survey undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst local researchers, research managers and policy makers in South Africa. The study focuses on issues of quality, article or author charges and the established academic reward system. It concludes that within the prevailing framework, there is little prospect that academics would choose to publish within open access
journals. Recommendations for advocacy by the library community are proposed
Grewia mabberleyana Phillipson, Wahlert & Lowry. A. Flowering 2015, spec. nova
No full textGrewia mabberleyana Phillipson, Wahlert & Lowry, spec. nova (Fig. 1). Typus: MADAGASCAR. Prov. Toamasina: Ambodiriana, RN de Betampona, [17°55’S 49°13’E], 28-29.XI.1962, buds & fl., Service Forestier 22132 (holo-: P [P00246537]! ; iso-: BR, CAS, G [G00341580]!, P [P00722595, P00722596]!, K, MO-2282215!, NY, S, TEF [TEF000879]!, WAG). Grewia mabberleyana Phillipson, Wahlert & Lowry is most similar morphologically to G. thouvenotii by the densely stellate indument present on the young stems, abaxial surfaces of the leaves, petioles, peduncles, and pedicels, and the adaxial surfaces of the sepals, and by the discolorous leaves. It differs by its much longer peduncles (13-20 mm in G. mabberleyana vs. 4-10 mm in G. thouvenotii) and pedicels (11-15 mm vs. 3-5 mm), its larger sepals (5-12 mm vs. 3.5-4.5 mm), and its leaves drying light green (vs. brownish-gray). Tree 10-25 m tall, trunk to 50 cm in diameter, evergreen, young stems densely covered with white-beige stellate trichomes, lenticels absent; stipules 1-2 mm long, narrowly triangular to linear, caducous, abaxial and adaxial surfaces densely stellate-pubescent. Petiole 5-10 mm long, densely stellate pubescent. Leaves alternate; blade 2.5-8 × 1-3.3 cm, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, discolorous, abaxial surface densely covered with stellate trichomes giving it a velvety appearance and feel, lacking domatia, adaxial surface sparsely to moderately stellate-pubescent, base cuneate, margins entire to shallowly serrulate, apex acute to rounded, rarely shortly acuminate; midvein, secondary and tertiary veins densely stellate pubescent on abaxial surface, sparsely to moderately so on adaxial surface; blade sub-palmatinerved but appearing penninerved, with 3 or 4 pairs of secondary veins, the basal two secondary veins subopposite and extending distally ca. ½ the length of the blade, midvein and secondary veins raised abaxially, not raised adaxially, tertiary venation scalariform. Inflorescence a terminal or subterminal umbellate cyme, 4- to 8-flowered, peduncle 13-20 mm long, 0.7-1 mm in diam., densely stellate-pubescent; pedicels 11-15 mm long, densely covered with stellate trichomes, pedicel bracts narrowly triangular to linear, 1-2.2 mm long, caducous, both surfaces densely stellate-pubescent. Flowers bisexual, pentamerous, rarely tetramerous, fragrant. Sepals valvate, erect in bud, reflexed at anthesis, 5-12 × 1-2.6 mm, narrowly oblong, yellow in vivo, abaxial surface densely covered with white-beige trichomes, adaxial surface glabrous except for a small basal tuft of white trichomes, base truncate, margins entire, apex acute. Petals 3-6.5 × 0.7-1.4 mm, narrowly oblong, yellow in vivo, glabrous on both surfaces, base truncate, margins entire, apex rounded; the basal adaxial portion of the petal bearing a papillose nectiferous pad 0.6-1 × 0.6-1.1 mm, lateral and apical portions of pad with a brown, membranous scale, margin of scale densely covered with white-beige trichomes and extending 0.6-1.2 mm above the apex of the pad; androgynophore 0.6-1.4 mm, glabrous. Stamens 30 to 60, yellow in vivo, filament 5-9 mm long, filiform; anther 0.3-0.5 × 0.3-0.5 mm. Ovary ca. 1 × 1 mm, completely covered with white-beige trichomes, style 6-9. 5 mm long, green in vivo, stigma often 5-lobed. Fruit incompletely known, drupaceous, 2- or 3- (or 4?)-lobed, ca. 0.75 × 0.75 cm, surface papillose, sparsely covered in minute stellate trichomes. Etymology. – The new species is named in honor of Professor David J. Mabberley, who has worked extensively on the diversity and taxonomy of Grewia in Madagascar, and has co-authored published revisions for two of its subgenera. Distribution and habitat. – Grewia mabberleyana grows in humid and subhumid forests of northeastern and eastern Madagascar, from sea level to 1700 m elevation (Fig. 2). It is known from collections made in four protected areas: Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve, Betampona Strict Nature Reserve and the Mananara-Nord and Masoala National Parks. It has also been collected just outside the Marotandrano Special Reserve, and probably also occurs within this protected area. By comparison, G. thouvenotii generally occurs further south, extending from Zahamena National Park and the forests around Moramanga, including in the Analamazaotra Special Reserve, to Ranomafana National Park more than 400 km to the south, where a single collection is known (for more details see the treatment in MADAGASCAR CATALOGUE, 2015). Conservation status. – Five of the six known subpopulations of G. mabberleyana are located within protected areas (including two within Betampona Strict Nature Reserve) that recently have, however been subjected to illegal logging and pressures resulting from other human activities, in particular slash and burn agriculture. With an Extent of Occurrence of 23,655 km 2 and an Area of Occupancy of only 70 km 2, G. mabberleyana is therefore assigned a preliminary conservation status of “Near Threatened” [NT] following IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN, 2012). Vernacular names and uses. – The following names have been recorded for G. mabberleyana on associated specimen labels: “afotrafotsy” (Réserves Naturelles 5897) and “hafotrankora” (Service Forestier 26231). As with many other species of Grewia in Madagascar, the fibrous bark is used to make cord (Service Forestier 26231). Paratypi. – MADAGASCAR. Prov. Antsiranana: SW d’Andapa, Anjanaharibe-Sud PA, village de Mandritsarahely, 14°43’10’’S 49°27’12’’E, 1700 m, 14.II.1995, fr., Ravelonarivo & Rabesonina 664 (MO, P, TAN). Prov. Mahajanga: Mandritsara District, Antsiatsiaka village near Marotandrano, [16°18’11’’S 48°51’19’’E], 13.XI.1966, fl., Service Forestier 26231 (BR, CAS, E, G, K, MO, NY, P, S, TEF, WAG). Prov. Toamasina: Parc national de Mananara-Nord, près d’Antanambe, env. du camp, PK5, 3.XII.1989, imm. fr., Morat et al. 8610 (P); RNI de Betampona, 17°54’46’’S 49°12’20’’E, 427 m, 20.XI.2001, fl, Rabehevitra et al. 15 (G, MO, TEF); ibid. loc., 17°54’23’’S 49°12’16’’E, 392 m, 26.XI.1998, fl., Randrianaivo & Westerhaus 281 (BR, G, MO, P, US, TAN); ibid. loc., [17º55’S 49°13’E], 19.XI.1953, fl., Réserves Naturelles 5897 (MO, P, TEF); Masoala Peninsula, Ambanizana, “S Trail ” (S of Androka River), 15°38’S 49°59’E, 400 m, 29.X.1992, fl., Schatz et al. 3356 (BR, G, K, MO, P, TAN, US, WAG). Prov. unknown: Masoala, 500 m, 1912, fl., Perrier de la Bâthie 5587 (G, P).Published as part of Wahlert, Gregory A., Phillipson, Peter B. & Lowry Ii, Porter P., 2015, A new species of Grewia L. (Malvaceae, Grewioideae) from northeastern Madagascar, pp. 201-205 in Candollea 70 (2) on pages 202-205, DOI: 10.15553/c2015v702a4, http://zenodo.org/record/572101
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Reception of Malcolm Lowry in the former Yugoslavia
No full textU ovom radu prikazana je celokupna recepcija stvaralaštva čuvenog engleskog pisca Malkolma Laurija na srpskohrvatskom jezičkom području, kako prevodna tako i kritička - od prvog pomena njegovog imena pa sve do poslednjeg objavljenog prevoda i kritičkog napisa. Mada na prvi pogled izgleda da je Laurijeva recepcija skromnog obima, ako se ima u vidu mali broj njegovih dela koja su objavljena za života ovog književnika i posthumno, može se ipak zaključiti da je opus Malkolma Laurija na adekvatan način i u zadovoljavajućem obimu predstavljen našoj čitalačkoj publici, tim pre što se recepcija njegovog stvaralaštva nastavila i u dvadeset i prvom veku.This paper analyses the overall reception of works written by Malcolm Lowry in the Serbo-Croatian speaking area, starting with the first translation of his masterpiece - the novel Under the Volcano - in 1966, and ending with the second edition of the same translation of this novel in 2005. The critical reception of Lowry's opus duly followed the translations, and although it is rather scarce, the quantity of the response can be judged as adequate if we take into consideration the fact that this English writer is deemed to be a ’one book author'. Both the quality of the critical texts and the duration of Lowry's reception in the former Yugoslavia can also be estimated as quite satisfactory, especially due to the fact that it continued into the twenty-first century, as well
Relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-difference sets in p-subgroups of SL(n,K)
No full textAbstractIn this note, we study relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-relative difference sets in certain p-subgroups of SL(n,K), K=Fq, where q is a prime power
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