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Environmental and Parental Influences on Offspring Health and Growth in Great Tits (Parus major)
Get PDFPMCID: PMC3728352This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
'A habitual disposition to the good': on reason, virtue and realism
Get PDFAmidst the crisis of instrumental reason, a number of contemporary political philosophers including Jürgen Habermas have sought to rescue the project of a reasonable humanism from the twin threats of religious fundamentalism and secular naturalism. In his recent work, Habermas defends a post-metaphysical politics that aims to protect rationality against encroachment while also accommodating religious faith within the public sphere. This paper contends that Habermas’ post-metaphysical project fails to provide a robust alternative either to the double challenge of secular naturalism and religious fundamentalism or to the ruthless instrumentalism that underpins capitalism. By contrast with Habermas and also with the ‘new realism’ of contemporary political philosophers such as Raymond Geuss or Bernard Williams, realism in the tradition of Plato and Aristotle can defend reason against instrumental rationality and blind belief by integrating it with habit, feeling and even faith. Such metaphysical–political realism can help develop a politics of virtue that goes beyond communitarian thinking by emphasising plural modes of association (not merely ‘community’), substantive ties of sympathy and the importance of pursuing goodness and mutual flourishing
New and Lesser Known Works for Saxophone Quartet: A Recording, Performance Guide, and Composer Interviews
Get PDFabstract: This project includes composer biographies, program notes, performance guides, composer questionnaires, and recordings of five new and lesser known works for saxophone quartet. Three of the compositions are new pieces commissioned by Woody Chenoweth for the Midwest-based saxophone quartet, The Shredtet. The other two pieces include a newer work for saxophone quartet never recorded in its final version, as well as an unpublished arrangement of a progressive rock masterpiece. The members of The Shredtet include saxophonists Woody Chenoweth, Jonathan Brink, Samuel Lana, and Austin Atkinson. The principal component of this project is a recording of each work, featuring the author and The Shredtet.
The first piece, Sax Quartet No. 2 (2018), was commissioned for The Shredtet and written by Frank Nawrot (b. 1989). The second piece, also commissioned for The Shredtet, was written by Dan Puccio (b. 1980) and titled, Scherzos for Saxophone Quartet (2018). The third original work for The Shredtet, Rhythm and Tone Study No. 3 (2018), was composed by Josh Bennett (b. 1982). The fourth piece, Fragments of a Narrative, was written by Ben Stevenson (b. 1979) in 2014 and revised in 2016, and was selected as runner-up in the Donald Sinta Quartet’s 2016 National Composition Competition. The final piece included in this project is a transcription and arrangement of Tarkus (1971), written by Keith Emerson (1944-2016) and Greg Lake (1947-2016) for the iconic progressive rock supergroup, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. This unique and unpublished arrangement was crafted by Peter Ford (b. 1964) for Ohio-based saxophone quartet Sax 4th Avenue and first featured on the ensemble’s 1998 album, Delusions de Grandeur. These pieces were recorded in the E-Media Studios of the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, as well as A2 Audio Studios in Cincinnati, Ohio, in January and February of 2019.Dissertation/ThesisSaxophone Quartet No. 2 by Frank NawrotScherzos for Saxophone Quartet by Dan Puccio - Mvt 1. All Together, NowScherzos for Saxophone Quartet by Dan Puccio - Mvt 2. Play PrettyScherzos for Saxophone Quartet by Dan Puccio - Mvt 3. A Minute Past CrazyScherzos for Saxophone Quartet by Dan Puccio - Mvt 4. Is This Funky?Scherzos for Saxophone Quartet by Dan Puccio - Mvt 5. No, But This IsRhythm and Tone Study #3 by Josh BennettFragments of A Narrative by Ben Stevenson - Mvt 1. SkittishFragments of A Narrative by Ben Stevenson - Mvt 2. TenseFragments of A Narrative by Ben Stevenson - Mvt 3. Rock ForeverTarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Arranged by Pete FordDoctoral Dissertation Music 201
Steninae W.S.MacLeay 1825
No full textSUBFAMILY STENINAE Stenus antillensis Benick 1917: 301; Blackwelder 1943: 226; Puthz 1973: 50, 1984: 121; Herman 2001: 2059. = Stenus darlingtoni Blackwelder 1943: 222, synonymy in Puthz 1973: 50. Distribution. Guadeloupe (type locality). Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador; Lesser Antilles and Latin America.Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-156 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (352) on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517882
Figrue 2 in The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles
No full textFigrue 2. Outline map of physical relationships of the individual islands of the Guadeloupe Archipelago. Note the -200 isobath lines indicating the extent of the Guadeloupe Bank. This approximately shows the maximum of the increased areas of the islands during Pleistocene glacials, when sea levels were lower than at present, and only three separate islands ("Grand Guadeloupe," and Les Saintes, and Marie-Galante) existed (Clark et al. 2009).Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-156 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (352) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517882
Lacconotinae LeConte 1862
No full textSUBFAMILY LACCONOTINAE Physcius fasciatus Pic 1912: 16; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 493; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 279; Ivie et al. 2008b: 254 (Physicus). Distribution. Guadeloupe, Guana, Montserrat; Lesser Antilles endemic.Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-156 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (352) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517882
Epiphloeinae Kuwert 1893
No full textSUBFAMILY EPIPHLOEINAE Madoniella caporaali Pic 1935: 10; Lepesme 1947: 170; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 391. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Madoniella minor Pic 1935: 10; Lepesme 1947: 169; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 391. Distribution. Guadeloupe; single island endemic. Madoniella pici Lepesme 1947: 170; Ivie et al. 2008b: 248. Distribution. Guadeloupe, Montserrat; Lesser Antilles endemic.Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-156 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (352) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517882
Figs. 1–2 in Two New Platynus Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini) from Nevis and St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles
No full textFigs. 1–2. Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. 1) Distribution of significant collecting sites/effort, insect survey sites in 2017. Black dots represent collecting sites; gray contours indicate 200-m intervals (St. Kitts) and 61-m intervals (Nevis); black lines indicate National Parks. Source: National Physical Development Plan; 2) Platynus species distributions on St. Kitts and Nevis, extent of Elfin and Sierra Palm Cloud Forest indicated with hatched polygons, 900-m contour indicated with heavy black line, a) Collection sites of P. racquelae, new species (■); type locality along Crater Rim to left, Dos D'ane Pond collecting site to right, b) Collection sites for P. duportei, newPublished as part of Liebherr, James K. & Ivie, Michael A., 2021, Two New Platynus Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini) from Nevis and St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles, pp. 59-74 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.59, http://zenodo.org/record/533804
Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids
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New Zealand's lesser short-tailed bat Mystacina tuberculata is one of only two of c.1100 extant bat species to use a true walking gait when manoeuvring on the ground (the other being the American common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus). Mystacina tuberculata is also the last surviving member of Mystacinidae, the only mammalian family endemic to New Zealand (NZ) and a member of the Gondwanan bat superfamily Noctilionoidea. The capacity for true quadrupedal terrestrial locomotion in Mystacina is a secondarily derived condition, reflected in numerous skeletal and muscular specializations absent in other extant bats. The lack of ground-based predatory native NZ mammals has been assumed to have facilitated the evolution of terrestrial locomotion and the unique burrowing behaviour of Mystacina, just as flightlessness has arisen independently many times in island birds. New postcranial remains of an early Miocene mystacinid from continental Australia, Icarops aenae, offer an opportunity to test this hypothesis.
Results:
Several distinctive derived features of the distal humerus are shared by the extant Mystacina tuberculata and the early Miocene Australian mystacinid Icarops aenae. Study of the myology of M. tuberculata indicates that these features are functionally correlated with terrestrial locomotion in this bat. Their presence in I. aenae suggests that this extinct mystacinid was also adapted for terrestrial locomotion, despite the existence of numerous ground-based mammalian predators in Australia during the early Miocene. Thus, it appears that mystacinids were already terrestrially-adapted prior to their isolation in NZ. In combination with recent molecular divergence dates, the new postcranial material of I. aenae constrains the timing of the evolution of terrestrial locomotion in mystacinids to between 51 and 26 million years ago (Ma).
Conclusion:
Contrary to existing hypotheses, our data suggest that bats are not overwhelmingly absent from the ground because of competition from, or predation by, other mammals. Rather, selective advantage appears to be the primary evolutionary driving force behind habitual terrestriality in the rare bats that walk. Unlike for birds, there is currently no evidence that any bat has evolved a reduced capacity for flight as a result of isolation on islands.Suzanne J. Hand, Vera Weisbecker, Robin M.D. Beck, Michael Archer, Henk Godthelp, Alan J.D. Tennyson, Trevor H. Worth
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