384 research outputs found
Stegonotus iridis Ruane 2017
No full text<i>Stegonotus iridis</i> Ruane <i>et al</i>., 2017:8 <p> <b>Taxonomic status.</b> Valid.</p> <p> <b>Synonyms.</b> None.</p> <p> <b>Original name.</b> <i>Stegonotus iridis</i> Ruane <i>et al</i>., 2017:8. The species epithet comes from the Latin for rainbow, in reference to “the high level of iridescence shown both dorsally and ventrally by this species.” The species description was presented in English.</p> <p> <b>Type specimens.</b> Holotype: MZB Ophi.3306 (Fig. 31 A–E; Ruane <i>et al</i>. 2017: Fig. 5), an adult male (Table 1). Paratypes: SAMA R70466, an adult male. MZB Ophi.3305 (Fig. 31 L–N), an adult male. MZB Ophi.3303 (Fig. 31 I–K), listed as possibly female. MZB Ophi.3311, an adult male. MZB Ophi.3302 (Fig. 31 F–H), an adult male.</p> <p> <b>Type localities.</b> All type specimens were collected in Raja Ampat Regency, West Papua Province, Indonesia. Holotype: Warinkabom, Batanta Island, elev. 50 m (ca. 0.8369°S, 130.72°E). Paratypes: SAMA R70466, Waire Camp, Batanta Island, elev. 25 m (ca. 0.8397°S, 130.53°E); MZB Ophi. 3303, Yakut Camp, Batanta Island, elevation 55 m (ca. 0.8958°S, 130.64°E); MZB Ophi. 3302, 3311, Waibya, Salawati Island, elev. 75 m (ca. 0.9564°S, 130.78°E); MZB Ophi. 3305, Urbinasopen, Waigeo Island, elev. 45 m (ca. 0.3372°S, 131.26°E).</p> <p>19. The original description states that TL represents 22% of TTL in the holotype. This means that SVL represents 78%, and TL can be calculated as 221 mm. We applied the same calculation to the paratype.</p> <p> 20. This value was established right at the neck, and we confirmed this count. However, within one head length posteriorly, the number of dorsal scale rows reduces to 17. The author noted that this reduction occurred “before level of twelfth ventral.” The same generally applies to species of <i>Stegonotus</i>, with the possible exception of <i>S. muelleri</i>.</p> <p> <b>Collection.</b> All type specimens were collected by Stephen Richards (South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia), Burhan Tjaturadi (Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia), and Keliopas Krey (University of Papua, Manokwari, Indonesian New Guinea) in June 2005.</p> <p> <b>Key characteristics of the type specimens.</b> (1) Holotype, MZB Ophi.3306: 713 mm SVL + 238 mm TL = 951 mm TTL. V ♂ = 201, SC ♂ = 88, SCR ♂ = 0.30, D = 17-17-15, SL E = 4+5, SL = 8, IL = 10, IL G = 5. (2) Paratype, SAMA R70466: 675 mm SVL + 190+ mm TL = 865+ mm TTL. V ♂ = 204, SC ♂ = O, SCR ♂ = O, D = O-19-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 10, IL G = O. (3) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3305: 790 mm SVL + 235 mm TL = 1025 mm TTL. V ♂ = 198, SC ♂ = 78, SCR ♂ = 0.28, D = O-17-O, SL E = O, SL = “8/9?”, IL = 10, IL G = O. (4) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3303: 870 mm SVL + 265+ mm TL = 1135+ mm TTL. V ? = 203, SC ? = O, SCR ? = O, D = O-19-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 10, IL G = O. (5) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3311: 682 mm SVL + 213 mm TL = 985 mm TTL. V ♂ = 204, SC ♂ = 85, SCR ♂ = 0.29, D = O-17-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 9, IL G = O. (6) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3302: 778 mm SVL + 240 mm TL = 1018 mm TTL. V ♂ = 205, SC ♂ = 85, SCR ♂ = 0.29, D = O-19-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 9, IL G = O.</p> <p> <b>Key characteristics of the species.</b> According to their specimen list, Ruane <i>et al</i>. (2017: Appendix) included seven specimens of <i>S. iridis</i> in their analysis. Of these, three (one unsexed, 2 ♂♂) were collected on Batanta, three (3 ♂♂) on Salawati, and one male on Waigeo. Characteristics include V ♂ = 198–211 (204 ± 4.4); SC ♂ = 78–88 (84 ± 3.7); SCR ♂ = 0.29; D = 17-19-15 (n = 5, 71%) or 17-17-15 (n = 2, 29%); SL E most likely 4+5; SL = 8 (100%); IL = 9 (n = 2, 29%) or 10 (n = 5, 71%); IL G most likely 5.</p> <p> <b>Comment.</b> In their description of <i>S. iridis</i>, Ruane <i>et al</i>. (2017) listed one specimen as possibly female. For the purposes of our discussion, we considered it unsexed and omitted it from parts of the analysis where sexual dimorphism could play a role (i.e., for values of V, SC, and SCR).</p>Published as part of <i>Kaiser, Christine M., Kaiser, Hinrich & O'Shea, Mark, 2018, The taxonomic history of Indo-Papuan groundsnakes, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Colubridae), with some taxonomic revisions and the designation of a neotype for S. parvus (Meyer, 1874), pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 4512 (1)</i> on pages 54-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4512.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2607575">http://zenodo.org/record/2607575</a>
Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland: Policy Implications for Emerging Economies
No full textThe increasingly important role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the global economy is linked to questions of how the foreign direct investment (FDI) they control impacts on overall economic activity in the recipient countries. Of specific interest is the policy context in which such FDI flows into the developing country and how a government can influence the impact of those flows. This paper reviews some of the literature in two key contextual areas, namely, when the host country policy regime promotes FDI selectively, and secondly, where it promotes the creation of industrial clusters. It explores the insights of this literature for the development of the strong MNE sector in the Irish economy and draws lessons from the Irish experience for emerging economies.Note: Length:
Protestant minorities in European states and nations
No full textEurope’s traditional ethnic minorities and the conflicts over their place in the state and nation are the focus of continuing comparative research. In contrast, little attention is paid to Europe’s older religious conflicts, in particular those that stem from the reformation. Yet for long religiously informed conflict was the principal source of internal state division and the major perceived threat to state stability and security. This paper looks at the institutional changes and cultural renegotiations which allowed traditional religious oppositions, rivalries and conflicts to fade in most contemporary European societies. It concludes that neither modernisation, democratisation nor secularisation were enough to resolve deep-set tensions. The long-term resolutions involved a restructuring of polity and nation in a way consistent with minority, as well as majority culture. In the past – as perhaps also in the present - such opportunities were rare and demanded choice, strategy and political fortune.Not applicableti SB. 28/7/1
Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland: Policy Implications for Emerging Economies
No full textThe increasingly important role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the global economy is linked to questions of how the foreign direct investment (FDI) they control impacts on overall economic activity in the recipient countries. Of specific interest is the policy context in which such FDI flows into the developing country and how a government can influence the impact of those flows. This paper reviews some of the literature in two key contextual areas, namely, when the host country policy regime promotes FDI selectively, and secondly, where it promotes the creation of industrial clusters. It explores the insights of this literature for the development of the strong MNE sector in the Irish economy and draws lessons from the Irish experience for emerging economies
AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) phase 1 output data set: CLM-Crop soy
No full textThis is model output from CLM-Crop for soy as part of AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) phase 1 output data set.
The data have been generated following the modeling protocol of Elliott et al. (2015) and has been used to evaluate the models (Müller et al., 2017). A data description paper has been published in Scientific Data (Müller et al. 2019).
References:
Elliott J, Müller C, Deryng D, Chryssanthacopoulos J, Boote KJ, Büchner M, Foster I, Glotter M, Heinke J, Iizumi T, Izaurralde RC, Mueller ND, Ray DK, Rosenzweig C, Ruane AC, and Sheffield J. 2015, The Global Gridded Crop Model intercomparison: data and modeling protocols for Phase 1 (v1.0). Geosci. Model Dev. 8, 261-277, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-261-2015
Müller C, Elliott J, Chryssanthacopoulos J, Arneth A, Balkovic J, Ciais P, Deryng D, Folberth C, Glotter M, Hoek S, Iizumi T, Izaurralde RC, Jones C, Khabarov N, Lawrence P, Liu W, Olin S, Pugh TAM, Ray DK, Reddy A, Rosenzweig C, Ruane AC, Sakurai G, Schmid E, Skalsky R, Song CX, Wang X, de Wit A, and Yang H. 2017, Global gridded crop model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 1403-1422, doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-1403-2017
Müller C, Elliott J, Kelly D, Arneth A, Balkovic J, Ciais P, Deryng D, Folberth C, Hoek S, Izaurralde RC, Jones CD, Khabarov N, Lawrence P, Liu W, Olin S, Pugh TAM, Reddy A, Rosenzweig C, Ruane AC, Sakurai G, Schmid E, Skalsky R, Wang X, de Wit A, and Yang H. 2019, The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison phase 1 simulation dataset, Scientific Data, 6, 50, doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0023-8</p
A New Method for the Discovery of the Distant Exoplanets
No full textSince the first confirmed discovery of exoplanets in 1992, multiple observational methods have been developed. Most methods of their discovery use the influence of a planet on its host star. These methods lose sensitivity when a planet is distant from its star and has a long orbital period. This article proposes a method inspired by Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) interferometry, to find exoplanets which exercise a very small influence on their host star. Our method relies on an extremely high sensitivity of the phase correlations to an asymmetry of the luminous system
AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) phase 1 output data set: CLM-Crop maize
No full textThis is model output from CLM-Crop for maize as part of AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) phase 1 output data set.
The data has been generated following the modeling protocol of Elliott et al. (2015) and has been used to evaluate the models (Müller et al., 2017). A data description paper is in preparation.
References:
Elliott J, Müller C, Deryng D, Chryssanthacopoulos J, Boote KJ, Büchner M, Foster I, Glotter M, Heinke J, Iizumi T, Izaurralde RC, Mueller ND, Ray DK, Rosenzweig C, Ruane AC, and Sheffield J. 2015, The Global Gridded Crop Model intercomparison: data and modeling protocols for Phase 1 (v1.0). Geosci. Model Dev. 8, 261-277, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-261-2015
Müller C, Elliott J, Chryssanthacopoulos J, Arneth A, Balkovic J, Ciais P, Deryng D, Folberth C, Glotter M, Hoek S, Iizumi T, Izaurralde RC, Jones C, Khabarov N, Lawrence P, Liu W, Olin S, Pugh TAM, Ray DK, Reddy A, Rosenzweig C, Ruane AC, Sakurai G, Schmid E, Skalsky R, Song CX, Wang X, de Wit A, and Yang H. 2017, Global gridded crop model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 1403-1422, doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-1403-2017</p
Export dynamics in Small Open Economies: Indigenous Irish Manufacturing Exports, 1985-2003
No full textThe aim of this paper is to explore how a recent methodology developed to look at export dynamics in a region in a large economy can be extended to look at export dynamics in a small open economy, where local market size means that enterprises tend to engage in exporting at an early stage in their development. Building on work by Wagner (2004) and in the context of the recent trade modelling of export heterogeneity (e.g., Melitz (2003)), this paper explores export dynamics in the Irish indigenous manufacturing sector using Davis, Haltiwanger and Schuh (1996) type decomposition techniques from the labour turnover literature. Overall export growth rates in the manufacturing sector vary widely, and we focus particularly on two years when exceptional rates of growth and decline were experienced. We conduct our analysis using a plant level panel data set constructed from the annual Irish Census of Industrial Production for the period 1985 to 2003. We find that there is considerable entry/re-entry and exit/re-exit in the export market but most of the export dynamics are dominated by the activities of continuing exporters.Exports; decomposition, manufacturing, plant-level panel data
Exploring task and genre demands in the prompts and rubrics of state writing assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
No full textMy dissertation research examines constructs of writing proficiencies in state and national assessments through content analysis of writing prompts and rubrics; predicts students' writing performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from assessment variations using multi-level modeling; and explores genre demands in state writing assessments through syntactic analysis of writing prompts to identify the ambiguity and implicit expectations and content analysis of rubrics and state standards to identify the genres specified.Through content analysis of 78 prompts and 35 rubrics from 27 states' writing assessments, and three representative prompts and rubrics from the NAEP, the research presented in Chapter 1 finds that state writing assessments and the NAEP seem to align in their adoption of the writing process approach, their attention to audience and students' topical knowledge, their accommodations through procedure facilitators, and their inclusion of organization, structure, content, details, sentence fluency, and semantic aspects as well as general conventions, such as punctuation, spelling, and grammar in their assessment criteria. However, the NAEP's writing assessment differs from many states' by having explicit directions for students to review their writing, giving students two timed writing tasks, making informative composition--which was rarely included in state assessments--one of the three genres assessed, and including genre-specific components in their writing rubrics. The fact that all of the NAEP's writing rubrics are genre-mastery rubrics with genre-specific components can be considered one of its biggest differences from most state writing assessments. To examine the impact of the variations between state and national writing assessments through Hierarchical Linear Modeling, the research presented in Chapter 2 examines the relationship between students' NAEP performances and the amount of difference between state and NAEP direct writing assessments using content analysis of the state and NAEP prompts and rubrics detailed above. This study finds that students' preparedness for the tasks, namely the similarity between the assessments of their home states and the NAEP, plays a role in students' performance on the NAEP. Students from those states with writing assessments similar to the NAEP performed significantly better than students from states with writing assessments that differed markedly from the NAEP. Through syntactic analysis of the same set of state prompts and content analysis of rubrics and standards, the research presented in Chapter 3 explores genre demands in state writing assessments. In total, this study found that 23% of prompts possessed one of two problematic features: 14% of prompts were ambiguous, and 9% of prompts had implicit genre expectations. Almost one third of those prompts that possessed problematic features were used with genre-mastery rubrics. The content analysis of state writing standards also suggests that 22% of them do not cover all the genres assessed in their corresponding writing assessments. The ambiguity and implicit genre expectations in writing prompts and the limited congruence of state writing assessments with learning expectations pose potential threats to the valid interpretation and use of these writing assessments.Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Measurement and Quantitative Methods, 2014Includes bibliographical reference
- …
