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Negating Positive Rights: A Note on Mathur v Ontario
No full textThis note argues that the way the Ontario Court of Appeal dealt with and sidestepped the issue of positive rights in its recent decision in Mathur v Ontario is problematic. The note 1) defends the negative-positive rights distinction as conceptually cogent and important; 2) demonstrates that in order to “side-step” that distinction the Mathur Court ended up rejecting the very possibility of positive rights; and 3) explains why this rejection matters
Paurocephala phalaki Mathur 1975
No full text<i>Paurocephala phalaki</i> Mathur <p> <i>Paurocephala phalaki</i> Mathur, 1975: 58. Holotype, India: Bengal, Tista village, 27 October 1965, (V. R. Phalak) (IFRI), not examined.</p> <p> <i>Description.</i> Species of the <i>chonchaiensis</i> type.</p> <p>Adult: described by Mathur (1975).</p> <p>Fifth instar larva: described by Mathur (1975).</p> <p> <i>Host plants</i>. According to Mathur (1975) the common name of the host plant in Bengal is ‘khasare’. No information was found with this local plant name, but a similar name ‘khesari’ refers to <i>Lathyrus sativus</i> L. (Fabaceae) (E. Gauda, personal communication).</p> <p> <i>Distribution</i>. India (Bengal) (Mathur, 1975), (Madras) (Kandasamy, 1986).</p> <p> <i>Comments</i>. The description provided by Mathur (1975) agrees with <i>P. bifasciata</i> Kuwayama diVering only in body setiferation. Only two long setae on genae were mentioned by Mathur (1975) for <i>P. phalaki</i> Mathur, whereas the head of <i>P. bifasciata</i> Kuwayama is completely covered by long setae. No material of the former was available for examination.</p>Published as part of <i>Mifsud, D. & Burckhardt, D., 2002, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea), pp. 1887-1986 in Journal of Natural History 36 (16)</i> on page 1968, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110048909, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5299071">http://zenodo.org/record/5299071</a>
Absolute and Conditional Convergence: Its Speed for Selected Countries for 1961--2001
No full textThe study gives the theoretical justification for the per capita growth equations using Solovian model(1956) and its factor accumulation assumptions. The different forms of the per capita growth equation is used to test for 'absolute convergence' and 'conditional convergence' hypotheses and also work out the speed of absolute and conditional convergence for selected countries from 1961-2001.Only EU and East Asian countries together have shown uniform evidence of absolute convergence in all periods. While EU as a region has shown significant evidence of absolute convergence in two periods, 1961-2001 and 1970-2001, there is no convincing statistical evidence in favor of absolute convergence in the last two periods: 1980-2001 and 1990-2001. The speed of absolute convergence in the four periods range between 0.99-2.56 % p.a. (2% for the EU was worked out by Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, 1995, for European regions) for EU while it ranges between 0.57-1.16 % p.a. for the countries in East Asia and EU regions together. However, there is no evidence of convergence among the South Asian countries in all periods and some major CIS republics since 1966.There is however tendency for absolute convergence among countries of South Asia, East Asia and European Union together particularly after the 1980s. Conditional convergence is prevalent among almost all pairs of regions in our sample except East Asian and South Asian nations together. Speed of conditional convergence ranges from 0.2 % in an year to 22%.In the European nations, the speed of conditional convergence works out be nearly 20 % unlike the speed of absolute convergence which hovered around 2 %.Such results would mean that countries in Europe are converging very quickly to their own potential level of incomes per capita but not so quickly to a common potential level of income per capita.Growth equation; absolute convergence; conditional convergence; speed of absolute and conditional convergence; elasticity of output with respect to capital; half life of convergence
Phylogenomics identifies a new major subgroup of apicomplexans, Marosporida class. nov., with extreme apicoplast genome reduction
No full text- Nuclear and Plastid multi-protein matrices for phylogenomics analyses
- Apicoplast genomes of Rhytidocystis sp1 and sp2, Siedleckia nematoides, and Eleutheroschizon dubosq
Plastid evolution in deep-branching apicomplexans
No full textNuclear and Plastid multi-protein matrices used for phylogenomics analyse
Parallel functional reduction in the mitochondria of apicomplexan parasites
No full text(1) Phylogenomics tree matrix, (2) mitochondrial metabolic protein alignments and individual phylogenies, and (3) transcriptome assemblies generated in this study
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
FINANCING COMMUNITY FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE PARKS AND RECREATIONAL GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND MEASURE OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
No full textThis study of the City of San Jose’s Parks and Recreation General Obligation (GO) Bond Measure seeks to identify the politics-, management-, and planning-related lessons learned by the City as it developed its community facilities using the GO bonds proceeds. The study finds that these lessons include: be conservative in what you promise the residents; be prepared for changes in economic environment by identifying supplementary funding sources should the primary source not yield adequate funds; make sure that the jurisdiction is organizationally capable of handling the increased workload; and prepare detailed project plans prior to the bond issuance.Community Infrastructure and Services; Municipal Bonds; Public Finance
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
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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