335 research outputs found
Brachyopa panzeri Goffe
No full textBrachyopa panzeri Goffe # Material examined. Leg. A. Ricarte: 3 ♂, meadow along Moreda valley, 720 m, hovering around the trunk of a Castanea sativa tree, 23.v. 2012 (1 ♂), 24.v. 2012 (1 ♂) [NMS], 29.v. 2012 (1 ♂) [CEUA]; Leg. G.E. Rotheray: 2 ♂, meadow along Moreda valley, 720 m, hovering around the trunk of a Castanea sativa tree, 23.v. 2012 [NMS]. Leg. R.M. Lyszkowski: 1 ♂, nr. Pedra Boa, 750 m, 24.v. 2012 [RL].Published as part of Ricarte, Antonio, Rotheray, Graham E., Lyszkowski, Richard M., Hancock, E. Geoffrey, Hewitt, Stephen M., Watt, Kenneth R., Horsfield, David & Macgowan, Iain, 2014, The syrphids of Serra do Courel, Northern Spain and description of a new Cheilosia Meigen species (Diptera: Syrphidae), pp. 401-422 in Zootaxa 3793 (4) on page 407, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/22539
Turkish History on the Early Stuart Stage: Strange Spectacles in the Plays of Thomas Goffe
No full textHartner M. Turkish History on the Early Stuart Stage: Strange Spectacles in the Plays of Thomas Goffe. Critical Survey. 2022;34(2):52-66.This article explores the role of the strange and spectacular in early modern dramatic (re)presentations of the Islamic world by discussing two sixteenth-century tragedies by Thomas Goffe that engage with Turkish dynastic history. No longer employing the fantastical elements used in medieval literature to mark the East as a spectacular space, Goffe presents a vision of Turkish otherness based on a new (mundane) notion of strangeness that relies on the staging of ‘unnaturally’ excessive behaviour and strangely hyperbolic passions. This strategy emphasises the supposed antagonistic alterity of the Muslim other. However, it also (inadvertently) undermines conventional Ottoman stereotypes by offering points of (emotional) contact and recognition between the audience and the Turkish characters on stage
Sex and friendship in a multilevel society: behavioural patterns and associations between female and male Guinea baboons
No full textOne key question in social evolution is the identification of factors that promote the formation and maintenance of stable bonds between females and males beyond the mating context. Baboons lend themselves to examine this question, as they vary in social organisation and male-female association patterns. We report the results from the first systematic observations of individually identified wild female Guinea baboons. Guinea baboons live in a multilevel society with female-biased dispersal. Although several males could be found within 5 m of females, each female chiefly associated with one "primary" male at the 2 m distance. Social interactions occurred predominantly with the primary male, and female reproductive state had little influence on interaction patterns. The number of females per primary male varied from 1 to 4. During the 17-month study period, half of the females transferred between different males one or multiple times. A subset of females maintained weaker affiliative nonsexual relationships with other "secondary" males. Units composed of primary males with females, and occasional secondary males, apparently form the core of the Guinea baboon society. The social organisation and mating patterns of Guinea and hamadryas baboons may have a common evolutionary origin, despite notable differences in relationship quality. Specifically, Guinea baboon females appear to have greater leverage in their association patterns than hamadryas baboon females. Although we cannot yet explain the lack of overt male control over females, results generally support the notion that phylogenetic descent may play an important role in shaping social systems
Enterovirus Committee -- 1959-June 1961 -- United States Public Health Service -- letter, 1961-04-17
No full textLetter from Harris, Marvin M. to Goffe, A. dated 1961-04-17.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Explanatory notes to the map: metamorphic structure of the Alps transition from the western Central Alps.
No full textThe northern-western Alps, located between two major tectonic structures, the Simplon and the Aosta-Ranzolla faults, represent a "transition” zone where all paleogeographic domains involved within the alpine orogenic wedge are present and clearly distinguishable on a map (e.g. BIGI et al., 1990; SCHMID et al., 2004). The structural style and metamorphic record in the area linking the West and South-West Lepontine to the Western Alps has particular characteristics, which warrant this separate chapter. This concerns the Lepontine zone from just East of Valle d’Ossola to the western limit set by the continental Bernhard nappe system in the North-West, the ocean- derived Piedmont-Ligurian zone and its prolongation to the west (Préalps), as well continental units issued either from the Adriatic continent domain (Sesia and Dent-Blanche massifs) or from the European margin (Mt Blanc massif).
All units will be described after that from east to west following Figure 1, while structural relationship between different units is described in details in SCHMID et al. (2004)
La gestion du sanglier : modèle bioéconomique, dégâts agricoles et prix des chasses en forêt domaniale
No full text[paper in French] Wild-boar can be considered both as a resource and as a pest. It causes collective damages and is also valued resource for recreative activity as hunting. The paper treats the economy of controlling a hunting game. A bio-economic model is presented and used for the analysis. The optimal population of big game is the one minimizing the present value of the hunter willingness to pay less agricultural damages with an infinite time horizon. We take into consideration the loss of the hunter welfare from a decrease in game population. For the empirical analysis, we used data on agricultural damages caused by wild-boar in order to reconstruct their population dynamics. Hunter marginal implicit prices for game hunting were estimated using the hedonic price method on a sample of hunting lease prices in eastern French forests. The long term equilibrium solutions can provide elements for optimal control strategies of wild-boarbio-economic model, management, hunting, agricultural damages, hedonic approach
Reducción de pérdidas eléctricas en los circuitos de distribución primarios O-1844 y M-2307 pertenecientes al municipio Caimanera
No full textTrabajo de DiplomaEste trabajo propone reducir al máximo las pérdidas de energía eléctrica, con la ejecución de medidas técnico-económicas que combinen tanto mínimas como importantes inversiones en los circuitos de distribución primaria a 4,16 kV O-1844 y M-2407 del municipio Caimanera, específicamente en la subestación de Boquerón. Se utiliza el método de Modelación y Simulación mediante empleo del software Radial para el cálculo de las pérdidas técnicas en los circuitos de distribución primaria de O-1844 y M-2307
ALPINE STRUCTURAL AND METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SILA PICCOLA MASSIF: INSIGTHS FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE CALABRIAN ARC (ITALY)
No full textTaxonomy and distribution of the tribe Paragini Goffe, 1952 (Diptera:Syrphidae)
No full textRod Paragus je široko rasprostranjen, nalazi se na svim kontinentima izuzev Antarktika i Južne Amerike. Pripada potfamiliji Syrphinae i jedini je predstavnik tribusa Paragini. Rod se deli na četiri podroda: Afroparagus, Serratoparagus, Paragus i Pandasyopthalmus. Adulti se prepoznaju po žutom licu, razvijenom tergitu 1, kao i nesegmentisanom edeagusu genitalnog aparata, dok njihove larve se hrane afidama. Cilj ove teze je bio da se odredi tačan broj validnih vrsta ovog roda rešavanjem taksonomskih i nomenklaturnih problema, kao i analiza distribucije vrsta. Kao rezultat ove teze utvrđeno je da je autor tribusa Paragini je Glumac, koji je prvi definisao tribus, a ne Goffe kako se do sada smatralo, takođe i postojanje 98 validnih vrsta roda Paragus: dve iz podroda Afroparagus, devet vrsta i jedna podvrsta Serratoparagus, 51 vrsta podroda Paragus i 36 vrsta podroda Pandasyopthalmus. Taksonomski status vrste P. ambalaensis i P. hokusankoensis je ostao nerazjašnjen usled nemogućnosti provere tipskog materijala. Za devet vrsta je ustanovljeno da su mlađi sinonimi: Paragus cooksoni syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. basilewskyi), P. hanzhongensis syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. clausseni), P. hyalopteri syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. xinyuanensis), P. jiuchiensis syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. clausseni), P. manensis syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. basilewskyi), P. mongolicus syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. tribuliparamerus), P. nigrocoerulea syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. haemorrhous), P. sinicus syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. fasciatus), P. tibialis var. nasutus syn. nov. (sinonim vrste P. haemorrhous). Jako značajan rezultat ove disertacije je ključ za identifikaciju vrsta roda Paragus. Geometrijskomorfometrijskom analizom oblika krila i surstila potvrđen je postojanje četiri validne vrste unutar Paragus bicolor kompleksa: P. bicolor i P. testaceus, P. aff. bicolor i P. aff. testaceus. Otkrivene su dve nove vrste za nauku unutar P. bicolor kompleksa: P. aff. bicolor i P. aff. testaceus. Dobijeni su novi podaci o rasprostranjenju roda. Za osam vrsta je ustanovljeno da predstavljaju prvi nalaz za određenu državu. Afrotropski region se odlikuje najvećim diverzitetom podroda Pandasyopthalmus (n=17), dok najveći diverzitet roda Paragus (n=43) je zabeleženo u Palearktiku. Posle Afrotropskog regiona, u Orijentalnom regionu je zabeleženo najveći broj vrsta podroda Pandasyopthalmus (n=11). Sa devet vrsta u Nearktiku i tri vrste u Australaziji, Nearktik i Australazija predstavljaju regione sa najmanjim brojem zabeleženih vrsta roda Paragus.Genus Paragus is widely distributed. It can found on all continents except Antarctica and South America. It belongs to the subfamily Syrphinae, and is the sole genus of the Paragini tribe. Paragus is divided into four subgenera: Afroparagus, Serratoparagus, Paragus and Pandasyopthalmus. Adults can recognize by their yellow face, developed tergite 1, as well as unsegmented edeagus of the genitalia, while their larvae are aphid predators. The main aim of this doctoral dissertation was to determine the exact number of valid species of this genus by solving taxonomic and nomenclature problems, as well as to analyze the distribution of these species. As a result of this thesis, it was established that the author of the tribe Paragini should be Glumac, who defined the tribe for the first time and not Goffe as previously thought. Existence of 98 valid species of this genus was confirmed: two from the subgenus Afroparagus, nine species and one subspecies from subgenus Serratoparagus, 51 species of the subgenus Paragus and 36 species of the subgenus Pandasyopthalmus. The taxonomic status of P. ambalaensis and P. hokusankoensis remained unresolved, due to the impossibility of examining the type material of these species. Nine species are proposed as junior synonyms: Paragus cooksoni syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. basilewskyi), P. hanzhongensis syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. clausseni), P. hyalopteri syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. xinyuanensis), P. jiuchiensis syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. clausseni), P. manensis syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. basilewskyi), P. mongolicus syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. tribuliparamerus), P. nigrocoerulea syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. haemorrhous), P. sinicus syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. fasciatus), P. tibialis var. nasutus syn. nov. (junior synonym of P. haemorrhous). A key is presented for identifying species of the genus Paragus. Wing and surstilus geometric-morphometric analysis confirmed the existence of four valid species within the P. bicolor species complex: P. bicolor, P. testaceus, P. aff. bicolor and P. aff. testaceus. Two new species for science were discovered within P. bicolor species complex: P. aff. bicolor and P. aff. testaceus. New data on the distribution of the genus were obtained. Eight species were found as first record for particular states. The Аfotropical region is characterized by the highest diversity of the subgenus Pandasyopthalmus (n = 17), while the highest diversity of the subgenus Paragus (n = 43) is in the Palearctic. After the Аfotropical region, the largest number of species of the subgenus Pandasyopthalmus (n = 11) is recorded in the Oriental region. With nine species in the Nearctic and three species in Australasia, Nearctic and Australasia represent the regions with the lowest number of recorded species of the genus Paragus
Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: Introducing a new measure and illustrating its use through a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons
No full textIn order to maintain regulatory processes, animals are expected to be adapted to the range of environmental stressors usually encountered in their environmental niche. The available capacity of their stress responses is termed their reactive scope, which is utilised to a greater or lesser extent to deal with different stressors. Typically, non-invasive hormone assessment is used to measure the physiological stress responses of wild animals, but, for methodological reasons, such measurements are not directly comparable across studies, limiting interpretation. To overcome this constraint, we propose a new measure of the relative strength of stress responses, ‘demonstrated reactive scope’, and illustrate its use in a study of ecological correlates (climate, food availability) of faecal glucocorticoid (fGC) levels in two forest-living troops of baboons. Results suggest the wild-feeding troop experiences both thermoregulatory and nutritional stress, while the crop-raiding troop experiences only thermoregulatory stress. This difference, together with the crop-raiding troop’s lower overall physiological stress levels and lower demonstrated fGC reactive scope, may reflect nutritional stress-buffering in this troop. The relatively high demonstrated fGC reactive scope levels of both troops compared with other baboons and primate species, may reflect their extreme habitat, on the edge of the geographic range for baboons. Demonstrated reactive scope provides a means of gauging the relative strengths of stress responses of individuals, populations, or species under different conditions, enhancing the interpretive capacity of non-invasive studies of stress hormone levels in wild populations, e.g. in terms of animals’ adaptive flexibility, the magnitude of their response to anthropogenic change, or the severity of impact of environmental conditions
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