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Peer Networking and Community Change: Improving Foundation Practice
No full text· This article brings together the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 15 years of experience with peer networking— examining through two research studies the process of peer networking and its impact, both with community-based and funder groups.
· Peer networking helps people with common interests to exchange information, disseminate good practices, and build a leadership structure for work they do together, such as a community change initiative.
· Casey’s research identified 10 good practices for effective peer networking, as well as 10 challenges that can affect its success; a four-level model was created to provide context for these findings.
· The research indicates that peer networking can have significant impact for communities and in meeting philanthropic goals, but it is costly and must be carefully structured if it is to be successful.
· Casey is working to synthesize its peer networking practices into a more strategic framework, and other foundations might use some of its lessons learned to enhance their own practices in this area
Scaphisoma desertorum Casey 1893
No full textScaphisoma desertorum Casey, 1893 Figs 13-14 Material examined: MHNG, WBWC; 16 specimens; Arizona, Maricopa Co. along Sycamore Creek at Sunflower; 33.8651°N, 111.4657°W, July 16 - Aug. 4, 2019. – WBWC; 2 specimens; Arizona, Santa Cruz Co. 3.7 rd. mi. SE of Patagonia on Harshaw RD; 31.5163°N, 110.7043°W; July 24 - Aug. 6, 2019. – MHNG, WBWC; 32 specimens; Arizona, Santa Cruz Co. Palo Prado Rd., east side Santa Cruz R.; 31.531°N, 111.016°W; July 11-16, 2018. – WBWC; 5 specimens; Arizona, Gila Co. along Tonto Ck., 0.2 mi. S of Gisela; 2845 ft., 34.0862°N, 111.2874°W, July 6-21, 2018. – MHNG, WBWC; 25 specimens; Arizona, Santa Cruz Co. Duquesne Rd., 2.3 rd. Mi E jct. Hwy 82; Santa Cruz R.; 31.3757°N, 110.8406°W, Aug. 3-14, 2018. – MHNG, WBWC; 13 specimens; Arizona, Cochise Co. Huachuca Mts., 0.8 rd. mi. SW Reef; 31.4238°N, 110.2991°W, Aug. 31 - Sept. 28, 2018. – WBWC; 7 specimens; Arizona, Cochise Co. Huachuca Mts.; 0.8 rd. mi. SW Reef; 31.4238°N, 110.2991°W, July 4-24. 2019. – WBWC; 2 specimens; Arizona, Pima Co.; 0.3 km W Hwy 83 on Gardner Cyn. Rd., 4722 ft., 31.7367°N, 110.6663°W, July 5 - Aug. 6, 2019. Remarks: The species was based on an unknown number of specimens from Arizona and Texas (Casey, 1893: 530). The senior author has examined a male syntype labelled “Williams Ariz” / “TYPE USNM 48161” / “desertorum” (handwritten). As its aedeagal characters have not yet been published, respective illustrations are given here (Figs 13, 14). An examined male syntype of Scaphisoma dakotanum Fall, 1910, originally spelled dakotana, labelled “Wickham, Bismarck, N. Dak.” / “dakotana TYPE” / “M.C.Z. Type 24119” / “H.C.Fall collection” / “ Scaphisoma dakotana Fall ” is found conspecific with S. desertorum. It is here designated as lectotype, and bears respective label, dated 1987. Hence, Scaphisoma dakotanum Fall, 1910, syn. nov. = S. desertorum Casey, 1893. This species is reported from Arizona, North Dakota and Texas, the vouchers from Texas were not examined.Published as part of Löbl, Ivan, Leschen, Richard A. B. & Warner, William B., 2021, Scaphisomatini of Arizona (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) collected by V-Flight Intercept Traps, pp. 173-185 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (1) on pages 180-182, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0043, http://zenodo.org/record/563987
International Antarctic Glaciological Project Data for 1978 From Casey
No full textProgress Code: completedA collection of data/observations recorded during the 1978 International Antarctic Glaciological Project (IAGP) traverse from Casey. Included in the collection are accumulation stake height readings, barometric levelling observations, precise distance calculations between canes in the ice movement network (along with the resulting ice velocity calculation results), and an instrumentation report.<br/><br/>A copy of the report is available for download from the provided URL
Leadership Development in the Social Sector: A Framework for Supporting Strategic Investments
No full text· While much of the research on leadership and leadership development has historically studied private sector settings, recent work has begun to build knowledge about leaders in public and community settings.
· New models of leadership, including collective leadership, are being developed and implemented by foundations.
· A framework for identifying the level of intervention (individual, team, organization, network, or system) and the level of impact (individual, team, organization, community, or field of policy and practice) is proposed as a tool for more strategic investing in leadership development
An Innovative Approach to Schedule Management on the F/A-22 Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP): Demonstration of Critical Chain Project Management
No full textThis multiple-case-based dissertation contributes to the stream of literature on the organizational innovation process by examining Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) as an innovation with the potential to address an important schedule planning and execution performance gap in DOD weapon system development programs. The contextually different Integrated Product Team case studies in DOD's F/A-22 fighter aircraft weapons system acquisition program are: manufacturing assembly, manufacturing process, test operations, and supplier product development. Rich descriptions of the case studies are developed by the author, a senior Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company systems engineer in a role that merged participant, observer, change agent and champion (POCAC). Analysis distinguishes between Program and Operational levels of organizational structure and focuses on the innovation process through use of the author-designed Casey Hybrid Innovation Process (CHIP) model based on Rogers' stages heuristic.
Substantively, research demonstrates that in key areas of the F/A-22 program, proper application of the innovative Critical Chain Project Management process can generate and achieve development schedules sometimes substantially better than traditional approaches; improper application will lead to mixed results or rejection.
The research contributes to knowledge in the field of organizational innovation by demonstrating use of the CHIP model in the huge, geographically dispersed and extremely complex organization of the largest DOD weapon system acquisition program of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The research reflects Program leadership's important role in the top-down initiation and support of an innovation, even while choosing (by policy) not to force use at the Operational level. At the Operational level, details show that IPT implementations and results of the CCPM innovation vary.Ph. D
Twórczość artystyczna a reprodukcja człowieka
No full textArtykuł dotyczy performansu Niepokalana (2020), w którym australijska artystka Casey Jenkins podjęła tematykę queerowej reprodukcji i rodzicielstwa. Artystka zmierzała do samozapłodnienia przy użyciu nasienia od dawcy, transmitując performans na żywo. Proces miał być powtarzany co miesiąc w zależności od dnia owulacji aż do poczęcia. Autorka artykułu dokonuje krytycznej analizy i interpretacji Niepokalnej w kontekście udawania i autentyczności działań artystki. Następnie autorka omawia problem zacierania przez artystkę granic pomiędzy jej własnym życiem a sztuką, pomiędzy prokreacją a działaniem artystycznym oraz wyjaśnia związek pomiędzy procesem twórczym a jego wytworem. Finalnie autorka omawia możliwe zastrzeżenia w stosunku do Niepokalanej, w tym kwestię poczęcia dziecka jako dzieła sztuki. Sedno kontrowersji tkwi w utożsamieniu procesu tworzenia sztuki i prokreacji. Autorka stawia hipotezę, że rezygnacja z prawdziwej inseminacji nie musi jednak podważać autentyczności performansu, a nawet może wzmocnić jego autentyczność. Autorka artykułu dowartościowuje moralny aspekt decyzji artystycznej, zarówno w perspektywie autentyczności twórczości artystycznej, jak i w kontekście znaczenia działań artystycznych dla człowieka oraz relacji pomiędzy osobą artysty a publicznością.The article is about performance IMMACULATE (2020) by Casey Jenkins focused on problems of queer reproduction. The artist intended to live stream an act of self-insemination every month during ovulation until conception. The author provides critical analysis and interpretation of the performance in the context of pretence and authenticity of the artist’s actions. Flowingly, the author discusses deliberate blurring of boundaries between artist’s life and art, between human reproduction and artistic creation, and explains the relationship between process of creation and its artwork. Finally, the author discusses possible objections to IMMACULATE including issue that a child may be conceived as an artwork. The core of this controversy starts from welding of art creation and procreation. However, resigning from real insemination does not have to undermine the authenticity of art performance or it can make it even more authentic. The author emphasizes the moral aspect of artistic decision-making either in the context of authenticity of art creation or the relational dimension of art where any artistic action taken towards other humans is significant
Nyssodrysina Casey 1913
No full text<i>Nyssodrysina</i> Casey, 1913 <p> <i>Nyssodrysina cinerascens</i> (Bates, 1864)</p> <p> <i>Nyssodrys cinerascens</i> Bates, 1864: 151.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> Bates (1864: 151) described <i>Nyssodrys cinerascens</i> (currently <i>Nyssodrysina cinerascens</i>) based on six specimens of both sexes. According to the author, it would be common in Pará, Brazil. Currently, the species is widely distributed in northern South America, in Amazonian regions. On the next page of the same work, Bates (1964: 152) described (in note) <i>Nyssodrys lignaria</i> (currently <i>Nyssodrysina lignaria</i> (Bates, 1864)). This last species was described based on a couple specimens from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Currently, this species occurs in the eastern littoral of Brazil (Atlantic Forest), in Paraguay and Argentina. Although the two species have disjunct distribution, they are extremely similar. Neither Bates (1984) nor other authors made any comparison between them, and in order to aid future identifications, we examined both species and we noticed some differences that we think are useful for separating them.</p> <p> <i>Nyssodrysina cinerascens</i> differs from <i>N. lignaria</i> by the posterior margin of the pronotum without punctures or with these sparsely distributed; by the elytra without longitudinal carinae and by scutellum sparsely pubescent. In <i>N. lignaria</i> the posterior margin of pronotum has a row of punctures (closely distributed); the elytra have carinae (or longitudinal elevations) and the scutellum presents a central area of contrasting whitish pubescence.</p> <p> <b>Geographical distribution:</b> Trinidad, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará).</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> COLOMBIA, Atlántico: Usiacurí, Reserva Campesina La Montaña, 260m, 10° 46′2,6′′ N 75° 0,2′34′′ W, 1 female, 15–16. II.2018, UV light-trap, García, K. col. (UARC); Bolívar: San Jacinto, Reserva La Flecha, 324 m, 09° 51′ 12,4′′ N 75° 10′ 41,4′′ W, 1 male, 16. II.2018, white light-trap, García, K. col. (UARC). <b>New country record.</b></p>Published as part of <i>García, Kimberly P., Nascimento, Oe. De L. & Hernandez, Neis José Martínez, 2019, A new species, new distribution records, and taxonomic notes in Lamiinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Colombia, pp. 363-372 in Zootaxa 4559 (2)</i> on page 365, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.9, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2627039">http://zenodo.org/record/2627039</a>
Correction to: Genetic variant predictors of gene expression provide new insight into risk of colorectal cancer (Human Genetics, (2019), 138, 4, (307-326), 10.1007/s00439-019-01989-8)
No full textEvery author has erroneously been assigned to the affiliation "62". The affiliation 62 belongs to the author Graham Casey
Survey report 1998/1999 summer season Voyage 6 Australian Antarctic Division Author - T.Gordon / AUSLIG
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See the report for further information.
Although it was disappointing not have the opportunity to undertake the aerial photography required at Casey another attempt at an earlier time next season would most likely prove more productive. Trying to capture aerial photography during the 1 or 2 day visits at this time of year is very dependent on having good weather conditions, if conditions are good a lot can be achieved, but as was the case on this voyage bad weather prevailed and very little was accomplished.
As no aerial photography was attempt the video drift sight attachment made for the aerial camera system could not be tested and therefore no recommendations about its suitability for use in camera system can be made.Taken from sections of the Report:<br/><br/>This report details the survey work carried out during Voyage 6 in March and April 1999 by LANDINFO staff on behalf of the Australian Antarctic Divisions Mapping Program. The main task of the survey team was to acquire aerial photography at Casey Station and surrounding areas as well as capturing aerial photography of Macquarie Island. Other tasks involved data retrieval and installation of tide gauges at all ANARE stations.<br/><br/>The following team carried out the survey-mapping work:<br/>Tom Gordon - LANDINFO Surveyor<br/>David Clements - Antarctic Division assistant<br/><br/>David Clements was a returning expeditioner from Mawson Station who volunteered his assistance during the voyage.<br/><br/>Project Outline<br/><br/>Work was undertaken by LANDINFO for Antarctic Division in a number of operational areas on this voyage. The Aurora Australis departed from Fremantle on the 8th of March and sailed to Mawson, Davis, Casey and Macquarie Island. The principle areas of interest were to be Casey Station and Macquarie Island where aerial photography had been planned. At all the ANARE Stations work associated with the tide gauges was to be undertaken.<br/><br/>A copy of the Surveyors brief has been included in Appendix A
Stenus (Nestus) vinnulus Casey 1884
No full textStenus (Nestus) vinnulus Casey, 1884 Stenus vinnulus Casey, 1884: 112. Stenus vinnulus – Fall 1926: 61. — Puthz 1972d: 107. Stenus (Nestus) vinnulus – Puthz 1972b: 171. — Ryvkin 1987: 159. — Silfverberg 1988: 20 . — Ryabukhin 1999: 46. Stenus (s. str.) vinnulus – Campbell & Davies 1991: 112. Stenus (Nestus) confusoides Renkonen, 1935: 27. Stenus confusoides – Strand 1954: 66. — Puthz 1970a: 39. Stenus (Nestus) confusoides – Renkonen 1936: 179. — Palm 1961: 90. — Puthz 1965: 27. — Puthz 1967a: 49. — Tichomirova 1973: 173. Material examined RUSSIA: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Karelia, White Sea, Bay of Kandalaksha, N shore of Chupa Inlet, 500 m NE of Nizhnyaya Polunga: Blizhneye Lake, 18–19 Jul. 2005, P. Petrov leg. (AR); 1 ♀, Tuva, Todjenskiy District, Azas Nature Reserve, environs of Azas Lake, Zelyonoye Lake, 980 m a.s.l., mossy swamps with Ledum palustre, Eriophorum sp., Carex spp., Rubus chamaemorus, Rhododendron sp. etc. near banks of rill (rhadon!) – in moss, 3 Jun. 1990, A.B. Ryvkin leg. (AR); 1 ♀, Evenkia, Baykitskiy District, Central Siberian Biosphere Reserve, Stolbovaya River 8 km up-stream of river mouth, 60 m a.s.l., mosses and litter on open swamp with Carex spp., Comarum palustre, sparse Menyanthes trifoliata, true mosses, Sphagnum spp. etc., 20 Sep. 1991, A.B. Ryvkin leg. (AR); 1 ♀, Evenkia, Central Siberian Biosphere Reserve, Stolbovaya River basin: lower flow of Birapchana River near Kruten’kiy Stream, 110 m a.s.l., backwashing of limestone shingles at river bank, 29 Jun. 1993, V.B. Semenov leg. (AR); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Putorana Highland, nr. Ayan Lake, Kapchug River, riverside ‘tundroid’, bog with mosses and Eriophorum sp., 11 Jun. 1983, K.Yu. Eskov leg. (AR); 1 ♂, Yakutia, Vilyui River basin, Kempendyayi River upstream of Kempendyay Village, 5 Aug. 1988, V. Blagoderov & V. Zherikhin leg. (AR); 1 ♂, Magadan Area, 3 km N of Shirokoye, 7 Jul. 1974, B.A. Korotyayev leg. (AR + 1ex: IBPM); 1 ♀, Amur Area, Selemdzhinskiy District, near Fevral’sk, 268th km of Belogorsk–Fevral’sk road, Tikhiy rill, 275 m a.s.l., mosses and plant debris between sedge & gramineous tussocks among Alnus sp., Salix sp., Spiraea sp. with Sphagnum squarrosum, Sph. spp., etc., 8 Oct. 2008, A.B. Ryvkin leg. (AR); 2 ♂♂, Amur Area, near Zeya Town, 4 Jun. 1978, V.V. Belov & S.A. Kurbatov leg. (AR); 1 ♀, Amur Area, near Zeya Town, Gulik, 19 Oct. 1979, S.A. Serbenyuk leg. (AR); 1 ♀, Amur Area, Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Nora River basin, 2 km up-stream of Gryashchinskaya Mt., mosses and plant debris on small open swamp on high flood-plain: tussocks of Calamagrostis sp. and Carex spp. with Sphagnum ? girgensohnii, Sph. squarrosum, Sph. centrale, Sph. spp., Rubus arcticus, Convallaria keiskei, Salix sp., etc., 22 Aug. 2004, A.B. Ryvkin leg. (AR); 1 ♀, Amur Area, Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Nora River basin near Maltsevskiy cordon, E side of Maltsevskoye Lake, 210 m a.s.l., sweeping on Carex spp., Poaceae gen. spp. & motley grass, 1 Oct. 2008, E.M. Veselova & A.B. Ryvkin leg. (AR); 1 ♂, Khabarovsk Territory, Jewish Autonomous Area, Obluchenskiy District, SE of Radde, Dichun River, about 2 km off river mouth, near water, 7 Aug. 1977, A.B. Ryvkin leg. (AR); 2ex, [Khabarovsk Territory,] Ussuri River basin, Bikinskiy District, Birskoye, 27 Jun. 1958, O.N. Kabakov leg. (ONK); 1 ex, same locality, 1 Jul. 1958, O.N. Kabakov leg. (ONK); 1 ♀, Maritime Province, Spasskiy District, nr. Novoselskoye, rice field, t=27°, pH =5.8, 11 Aug. 1986, A. Shatrovskiy leg. (AR); 1 ♂, Maritime Province, Spasskiy District, Yevseyevka, in stream, 17 Jul. 1976, E. Berlov leg., ‘ Stenus sp. ’, ‘ Stenus vinnulus Cas., det. V. Puthz 2006 ’ (ASh). CANADA: 1 ♀, Yukon Territory, Klokut Archeol. Site, 6 mi. N of Old Crow, 67°54’N 136°36’W, ex. shallow margin of small lake, 19 Jul. 1977, R.E. Morlan, J.V. Matthews, R.E. Roughley leg. (Yukon Refugium Project) (UASM); 1 ♀, ‘N.W.T. - 21 m. e. Tuktoyaktuk. 17–21.vii. [19]71. D.M. Wood’, ‘ Stenus illotulus Puthz det. V. Puthz 1978’, ‘ob abw. vinnulus ?’, ‘ Eigentum CNC!’ (CNC). Remarks Originally described from the USA. When revising Casey’ s heterogeneous type series, Puthz (1972a) designated the specimen from Cambridge, Massachusetts as the lectotype and placed S. confusoides Renkonen, 1935, that had been known until then from Fennoscandia (Renkonen 1936; Strand 1954; Palm 1961; Puthz 1965, 1970) and E Siberia (Puthz 1967a: Chita Area: ‘Dorf Udotschnoje am Ingodazufluss’), in the synonymy of S. vinnulus. The specimens from Isle Royale, Lake Superior and Marquette, Michigan, were also attributed to the latter species, but the paralectotypes from White Fish Point were identified as S. brivioi Puthz, which was described in the same year (Puthz 1972c). The same author cited E Siberian ‘Poppius-Funde von Ytyk-haja, Ust Aldan und Olekminsk’ for S. vinnulus in the same year (Puthz 1972d). Campbell & Davies (1991), without providing material, reported the species for Alaska and most provinces of Canada, excluding British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland (the first records for Alaska and the Yukon Territory had been provided by Fall 1926). Ryabukhin (1999) mentioned a single specimen of this species from the Magadan Area, Russia, based on my identifications from the IBPM collection (see Material examined above).Published as part of Ryvkin, Alexandr B., 2012, New species and records of Stenus (Nestus) of the canaliculatus group, with the erection of a new species group (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Steninae), pp. 1-62 in European Journal of Taxonomy 13 on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.13, http://zenodo.org/record/385777
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