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Friesodielsia sahyadrica (Annonaceae), a peculiar new species from the Western Ghats, India
No full textPage, Navendu V., Surveswaran, Siddharthan (2014): Friesodielsia sahyadrica (Annonaceae), a peculiar new species from the Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 158 (3): 275-282, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.158.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.158.3.
FIGURE 3. Friesodielsia sahyadrica. A. Branch with young and mature leaves. B. Open flower. C in Friesodielsia sahyadrica (Annonaceae), a peculiar new species from the Western Ghats, India
No full textFIGURE 3. Friesodielsia sahyadrica. A. Branch with young and mature leaves. B. Open flower. C. Flower with two inner and one outer petal removed to show arrangement of stamens and carpels. D. Fruiting branch showing immature fruits and glaucous abaxial nature of the leaves. E. Mature fruit. Photos by Navendu PagePublished as part of Page, Navendu V. & Surveswaran, Siddharthan, 2014, Friesodielsia sahyadrica (Annonaceae), a peculiar new species from the Western Ghats, India, pp. 275-282 in Phytotaxa 158 (3) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.158.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/512836
FIGURE 4 in Friesodielsia sahyadrica (Annonaceae), a peculiar new species from the Western Ghats, India
No full textFIGURE 4. Friesodielsia sahyadrica (Page 110949) A. Flowering branch. B. Fruit. C. Flower. D. Flower with all petals removed showing parts. E. Sepal (abaxial). F. Sepal (adaxial). G. Outer petal (adaxial). H. Outer petal (abaxial). J. Inner petal (adaxial). K. Carpel. L. Stamen (abaxial). Illustrated by Shreekant Deodhar.Published as part of Page, Navendu V. & Surveswaran, Siddharthan, 2014, Friesodielsia sahyadrica (Annonaceae), a peculiar new species from the Western Ghats, India, pp. 275-282 in Phytotaxa 158 (3) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.158.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/512836
Chester Page Collection
No full textPianist and art connoisseur, Chester Page (1929-) was a close confidant to Modernist American author, Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) during the final decade of her life, as well as a friend to several other major literary figures such as Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Bryher (1894-1983), and Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Barnes and Page shared a mutual friendship with Moore. In the spring of 1970 Page wrote to Barnes to introduce himself and to offer his assistance. He was invited to tea at Barnes's apartment at 5 Patchin Place in New York City on 19 May 1970, and from that moment forward, enjoyed a close friendship with the author until her death. After Barnes's death on 18 June 1982, Page became an invaluable source of information on the reclusive author during her final days. He had managed a closeness which Barnes bestowed on a select few. The Chester Page Collection contains correspondence between Barnes and several friends and literary figures and some epemera collected by Page. The collection spans the period 1933 to 1992. Correspondence with Louise Crane (1913-1997) dating between 1970 and 1973 constitutes the bulk of the collection
MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES
No full textPlenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable Economic advancement of the Indian sub-continent, with Self- sufficiency in Agriculture, leaving a surplus for export and strides in Industry, Atomic Research, and Space Exploration in India. The author feels that these unique thoughts and approaches of the late Prime Minister could serve as an eye-opener to all the Third World Nations to Accelerate their pace of Social and Economic development. ================================================================ Between 1972 and 1981, the author was a Social worker in India, and a Honorary Consultant for the effective implementation and monitoring of the 20 Point Socio-Economic Development programs designed by Shrimathi Indira Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India. Centre page article by DR.VSRS in the Barbados Advocate, the largest circulated Daily in Barbados, West Indies, and the English speaking Caribbean Countries. Page 4 - Tuesday - January 8, 1985. During 1982 - 1986, the author was a “Consultant Adviser - Computer Services”, to the Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados, West Indies ( World Bank / UNDP Setup ), under nomination from his assignment as the “Data Processing Expert” to the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co- operation, London, UK.20 Point Program, Economic Development, Development Ratios, Government Strategy, Indira Gandhi, Key Ratios, Management Decision, Mass Development, Mrs.Gandhi, Political Economics, Productivity, Redefined Productivity, Social Development, Socio-Economic Development
Continuous metadata flows for distributed multimedia
No full textThe practical use of temporal multimedia has increased markedly in recent years as enabling technologies for the distribution and streaming of media have become available. As a part of this trend, hypermedia systems and models have adapted accordingly to incorporate such distributed multimedia for presentation. Structured interpretation of information has long been a fundamental feature of both open hypermedia systems and knowledge systems. Metadata, in its many forms, has become the cornerstone for providing this structured knowledge above and beyond basic data and information. This thesis presents the rationale and requirements for continuous metadata, which supports the metadata accompanying distributed multimedia throughout the lifecycle of streamed media, from generation, through distribution, to presentation. Throughout this process it is the temporal and continuous nature of the metadata which is paramount. A conceptual framework for continuous metadata is proposed to encapsulate these principles and ideas. Continuous metadata and the associated framework enable the development, in particular, of real-time, collaborative, semantically enriched distributed multimedia applications. Experience building one such system using continuous metadata is evaluated within the framework. An ontology is developed for the system to enable the collation, distribution, and presentation of structure aiding navigation of multimedia, and it is shown how continuous metadata utilising the ontology can be distributed using multicas
The Keep the Coal in the Hole Summer Festival 2012 - Carbon capture and storage - can it make coal clean?
No full textLetter from John H. Page to the Forester
No full textLetter from John H. Page regarding his right to build a railway between Grand Canyon Station and the Canyon Copper Company's mines and hotel
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Effects of canopy cover on fruiting intensity and fruit removal of a tropical invasive weed
No full textLantana camara (hereafter, Lantana) is among the worst invasive alien plants spread extensively across Africa, Australia and Asia at an alarming rate, posing significant challenges to conservation of native biodiversity. While, Lantana invasion is widely recognised to be more pronounced in open-canopy habitats (including deciduous forests, forest edges and gaps), the potential role of variation in seed dispersal across habitats varying in overstory canopy cover is poorly understood. Avian frugivores are among primary seed dispersers of the fleshy-fruited Lantana. We monitored 45 Lantana shrubs across a gradient of overstory canopy cover to determine the relationship between fruiting intensity and canopy cover. We watched 80 Lantana shrubs (240 h) across a canopy cover gradient to determine 1) differences in frugivore assemblage visiting Lantana across open- and closed-canopy habitats, 2) drivers of frugivore visitation on Lantana, and 3) relationship between seed disperser visitation rate and overstory canopy cover. We found that Lantana shrubs under low overstory canopy cover had higher fruit abundance than those in high canopy cover. Frugivore assemblage differed between Lantana shrubs in open- versus closed-canopy cover habitats. Drivers of frugivore visitation on Lantana varied across different frugivore species with a greater probability of occurrence of bulbuls (the primary seed dispersers of Lantana) on shrubs under low overstory canopy cover. Visitation rates of the effective seed dispersers were higher on shrubs under low overstory canopy cover. Thus, there was greater chances of dispersal of seeds in habitats with low overstory canopy cover. The study demonstrates variable fruiting intensity and fruit removal rate as a driver of differences in dispersal of seeds across habitats. It highlights greater vulnerability of open habitats to invasion and the need to prioritise Lantana management efforts in open habitats. Anthropogenic activities that lead to canopy openings (e.g. tree lopping and logging) likely facilitate Lantana invasion through greater fruit production and seed dispersal.The project contains data on variation in fruiting phenology, frugivore composition, and seed disperser visitation on invasive Lantana camara across open and forest habitats in the Western Himalayan region of India. The data was collected by Ms Yukti V.Taneja for her master's dissertation study in Wildlife Institute of India (WII) under the guidance of Dr. Navendu Page and R. Suresh Kumar of WII and Dr. Rohit Naniwadekar of Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF, India). Data were collected from open shrubland-grassland mosaics and Shorea-robusta dominated moist deciduous forest sites in and around the WII campus. The manuscript related to the study has been accepted in Forest Ecology and Management and will be available shortly. The title of the manuscript is "Effects of Canopy Cover on Fruiting Intensity and Fruit Removal of a Tropical Invasive Weed". The authors of this article are Yukti V. Taneja, Navendu V. Page, R. Suresh Kumar and Rohit Naniwadekar.
For a description of the columns corresponding to the data, see file: "README_for_datafiles_FEM_Taneja_etal"
Data files (arranged alphabetically) : dat_glm.csv; dat_glmm.csv; dat_hmsc_sxy_pa.csv; dat_hmsc_tp.csv; dat_nmds.csv; dat_sde.csv; dat_spatial_autocorr.csv; dat_species_code.csv. See file " README_info_FEM_Taneja_etal" for project and datafile description summary. Funding provided by: NA*Crossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number: NAThe data was collected at field sites in the Western Himalayan region. We marked Lantana shrubs (n = 45) in a gradient of canopy cover and monitored fruiting phenology fortnightly from Aug 2021- Jan 2022. We watched Focal Lantana shrubs (n = 80), each for a period of 3 hours (total observation hours = 240 hr). The identity, number and fruit handling behaviour of visitors on Lantana was recorded. Habitat (e.g., Tree density, shrub cover, canopy cover, understory height) and focal shrub features ( e.g., fruit crop size, shrub volume) were measured
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