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Odontosina mahendra
No full textHimalodontosia mahendra (Sugi, 1993) [Fig. 6 H; Fig. 9 A–C] 1993. Odontosina mahendra Sugi, Tinea, 13 (3): 152. 2013. Himalodontosia mahendra; Schintlmeister, World Cat. Ins., 11: 216. Material examined: India: 1 ♀, Uttarakhand, Pithoragarh dist., Askot WLS, Kanar, 1630 m, 29.8911 °N, 80.393 °E, 10. VI. 2018, leg. A. K. Sanyal & G. N. Das. India: 1 ♂, Arunachal Pradesh, Dibang Valley dist., Dihang-Dibang BR, Anini, Basam, 1743 m, 28.0406 °N, 95.8136 °E, 15. IV. 2018, leg. R. Ranjan & G. N. Das. TL: Godavari [Nepal]; TD: NSM Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♂ 24.5 mm; ♀ 23 mm. Himalodontosia is a monotypic genus with only described species H. mahendra having characteristic ochreous-grey forewing irrorated with dark grey and marked by black and white. Forewing displays a slightly sinuous antemedial line; a horizontal, longitudinal black streak in cell connecting two black short, vertical streaks situated at the beginning and at the end of cell; a medial black line; postmedial highly crenulated line bordered exteriorly with white and a black, highly irregular, waved subterminal line. The hindwing is dirty-white with a faint medial line and darker marginal area. Male genitalia are characterized by robust, apically round uncus, socii with screw-like apex and valvae with tapered apical flap and subapical spine. The most characteristic feature being the asymmetrical, stout, curved costal basal process with bilobed right-half. The phallus bears a stout, curved, apical hook and the 8 th sternite has a caudal depression. Remarks: This monotypic genus was so far known only from the type locality at Mount Pulchouki in Godavari district of Eastern Nepal (Sugi 1993). The current records of the species for the first time from the country from Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh clarified that the species is rather well distributed throughout the entire length of the Himalaya (Fig. 2). This apparently rare species was recorded from Quercus forest habitat at around 1600 m from Western Himalayan landscape in Askot WLS and Wet Temperate Forest habitat at around 1700 m from Eastern Himalayan landscape of Dihang-Dibang BR. Though the male individual from Arunachal Pradesh in our study displayed minute, yet recognizable variations both in external and genitalia morphology from that of the Nepalese specimen illustrated in Sugi (1993), they can merely be considered as individual variations until the examination of further specimens.Published as part of Mazumder, Arna, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Schintlmeister, Alexander, Gayen, Subrata, Chandra, Kailash & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, New records of Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, pp. 191-208 in Zootaxa 5092 (2) on page 199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/587650
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Economic development in Orissa: Growth without inclusion?
No full textThe economy of Orissa has been lagging behind the national economy by several decades. Its per capita net state domestic product, a measure of average income, stood at Rs.20200 for 2006-07 which falls behind the national average by about 35 per cent. Moreover, the gross domestic product of the state grew by a considerable lower rate than many other states for a long time despite its high growth potential. Drawing on the experience of several countries as well as that of India, various studies concluded that economic growth was the most critical factor for reduction of incidence of poverty in the state. It now seems that there has been a turning point in the last few years and the economy of Orissa has witnessed an acceleration in terms of the gross state domestic product (GSDP). The evidence presented here clearly shows that the economy is poised for a take-off to a high growth phase, almost similar to that at the national level. On the poverty dimension, however, the recent developments have been gloomy, to say the least. The consumption expenditure surveys carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), the standard source of data for poverty analysis in India by official and non-official investigators, shows that the period 1993-2004 has witnessed a reversal of the achievements made on the poverty front during 1983-93. The prima facie evidence points towards a case of growth without inclusion and needs further probe.Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), India, Poverty
Acquiring Relational Patterns from Wikipedia: A Case Study
No full textThis paper proposes the automatic acquisition of binary relational patterns (i.e. portions of text expressing a relation between two entities) from Wikipedia. There are a few advantages behind the use of Wikipedia: (i) relations are represented in the DBpedia ontology, which provides a repository of concepts to be used as semantic variables within patterns; (ii) most of the DBpedia relations appear in Wikipedia infoboxes, and are likely to be expressed in the corresponding pages, which increases the effectiveness of the extraction process; (iii) finally, as Wikipedia has pages in several languages, this opens the possibility for the acquisition of multilingual relational patterns. We show that a relatively simple methodology performs quite well on a set of selected DBpedia relations, for which a benchmark has been realized
Antifungal activity of essential oil from fruits of Indian<i>Cuminum cyminum</i>
No full textThe essential oil of fruits of Cuminum cyminum L. (Apiaceae), from India, was analyzed by GC and GC-MS, and its antifungal activity was tested on dermatophytes and phytopathogens, fungi, yeasts and some new Aspergilli. The most abundant components were cumin aldehyde, pinenes, and p-cymene, and a fraction of oxygenate compounds such as alcohol and epoxides. Because of the large amount of the highly volatile
components in the cumin extract, we used a modified recent technique to evaluate the antifungal activity only of the volatile parts at doses from 5 to 20 μL of pure essential oil. Antifungal testing showed that Cuminum cyminum is active in general on all fungi but in particular on the dermatophytes, where Trichophyton rubrum was the most inhibited fungus also at the lowest dose of 5 μL. Less sensitive to treatment
were the phytopathogens
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
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