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1943, July 26 - Z. Miller Freeman
No full textSeries 1.1.2 - Fay Webb Gardner; Personal Papers; Correspondence
Correspondence from Z. Miller Freeman.
Handwritten.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/fay-webb-gardner-correspondence/1012/thumbnail.jp
[Letter from J. Z. Miller, February 16, 1897]
No full textLetter from J. Z. Miller to unknown discussing the work of John Patterson Osterhout. Miller told the gentleman he was writing that John was a respectable judge and had done good work
Letter from Don Miller to Peanuts Hucko, 1978-05-12
No full textA typewritten letter from Don Miller to Peanuts Hucko. In this letter, Miller invites Hucko to perform at the 1979 Paradise Valley Jazz Party.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-tobin-docs/1026/thumbnail.jp
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Platynectes Gustafson, Short & Miller, 2016, s. str.
No full textKey to the South American Platynectes s. str. species groups 1 Venter mostly pale colored, at most infuscate medially on metaventrite, metacoxal wings, and abdomen. Northern South America........................................................................... 2 – Venter dark colored, mostly black to brown except on the prosternum and epipleura. Brazil and Argentina.................................................................. P. nigerrimus species group 2 Venter not infuscate, reddish-orange throughout............ P. submaculatus species group – Venter distinctly infuscate, usually with metaventrite, metacoxal wing, and abdomen medially infuscate............................................................... P. agallithoplotes species groupPublished as part of Gustafson, Grey T., Short, Andrew E. Z. & Miller, Kelly B., 2016, New species of diving beetles in the subgenus Platynectes s. str. from the Guiana Shield (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Agabinae), pp. 79-102 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.530872
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
How does probability theory generalize logic?
No full textNearly half a century ago Popper [1959], appendices *iv and *v, presented a number of related axiomatizations of the theory of probability in each of which p(x | z) is defined for all x and z, even z = yy' (where concatenation turns out to represent meet, and the accent complementation). These systems are too little known amongst mathematicians. Popper went on to claim that his systems provide a context within which it is possible to give fully correct definitions of the relation of derivability between sentences (in the sense of the classical sentential calculus), and of the property of sentential demonstrability, by means of the formulas
z |- x =Df p(x | zx') = 1
|- x =Df p(x | x') = 1.
This claim has been challenged by Stalnaker [1970], Harper [1975], and by Leblanc & van Fraassen [1979]. The challenge has never been properly answered (though a start was made in Popper & Miller [1994], §4). The aim of this talk is to answer it, and to contrast Popper’s enterprise with what is known as probabilistic semantics
Belladessus Miller and Short, new genus
No full text<p> <b> <i>Belladessus</i> Miller and Short, new genus</b> (Figs. 1–8)</p> <p> <b>Type Species.</b> <i>Belladessus femineus</i> Miller and Short, new species, by present designation.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Belladessus</i> clearly belongs to the tribe Bidessini based on the presence of basal pronotal and elytral striae, club-shaped metatibiae, and spermathecal spine. The genus differs from other bidessine genera in the following character combination: 1) absence of occipital line (Figs, 1, 4); 2) presence of basal pronotal striae (Figs. 1, 4); 3) presence of basal elytral stria (Figs. 1, 4); 4) absence of sutural elytral stria (Figs. 1, 4); 5) absence of transverse carina on elytral epipleuron at humeral angle; and 6) presence of distinct marginal bead on anterior clypeal margin (Figs. 1, 4).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The genus name is derived from the words <i>bella</i>, Latin for “pretty,” in recognition of the attractive coloration of the specimens and <i>dessus</i>, a common root for genera in the tribe.</p> <p> <b>Discussion.</b> The combination of character states in this genus is not particularly similar to any other in Bidessini. Superficially, specimens are similar to some species of <i>Neoclypeodytes</i> Guignot, but that genus has a distinctive occipital line. In Biström’ s (1988) key, <i>Belladessus</i> keys to <i>Uvarus</i> Guignot, but members of that genus do not have the anterior clypeal margin modified as in <i>Belladessus</i>.</p> <p>The presence of only females in the two type series representing more than 125 specimens is unique in Dytiscidae. About 30 specimens were dissected in search of a male, but none were found, and all the remaining specimens appear to be females externally (protarsi not expanded nor other visible dimorphisms). Females have a reproductive tract typical of Bidessini species, with a well-developed receptacle, spermatheca, and ductwork (Figs. 3, 6), though in the numerous examinations made, none appeared to have sperm in the spermatheca. Presence of a well-developed female reproductive tract does not, by itself, disprove that the species is parthenogenetic (it may simply be a retained attribute), but there appears to be good circumstantial evidence that this species has only females.</p> <p> The only other species of Dytiscidae thought to possibly be parthenogenetic are in <i>Hydrodytes</i> (Miller 2002). However, although only females are known in two species in this group, relatively fewer specimens exist in collections, and there are no series of specimens nearly as long as for <i>Belladessus.</i> There remains some possibility, therefore, that male <i>Hydrodytes</i> simply have not yet been found. <i>Hydrodytes</i> also have well-developed reproductive tracts (Miller 2001, 2002).</p> <p> <i>Belladessus</i> also exhibits an interesting biogeographic disjunction: it is known from the Venezuelan Andes and from the central/eastern region of the Guiana Shield. The same pattern was recently observed for the water scavenger beetle genus <i>Guyanobius</i> Spangler (Gustafson and Short 2010), which also shares a similar ecology: small forested streams and stream pools. While it may seem tempting to claim this is an artifact of collection bias, the region has been subjected to intensive collection efforts for aquatic beetles in the last decade. We have examined more than 100,000 water beetle specimens from northern South America. While we presume the distribution of the genus is certainly more widespread than is currently known, this general biogeographic pattern seems likely to hold and warrants further study.</p>Published as part of <i>Miller, Kelly B. & Short, Andrew E. Z., 2015, BelladessusMiller and Short (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Bidessini), New Genus for Two New Species from Northern South America: Parthenogenetic Diving Beetles?, pp. 498-503 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 69 (3)</i> on pages 499-500, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x-69.3.498, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10106125">http://zenodo.org/record/10106125</a>
Final word on Jersey Dutch
No full textIn this article, William Z. Shetter compares and contrasts the dialects that developed between different Dutch colonies in the New World. He explores in-depth the nuances of Jersey Dutch, and provides theories to explain how Dutch and colonial languages blended. The article is reprinted from American Speech, December 1958, Volum XXXIII, No. 4
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