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FIGURE 7. Cordielytrum adustum. A Dorsal habitus, B ventral sclerites, C lateral view, D in Six new species of spider beetles (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) in the genus Cordielytrum Philips
No full textFIGURE 7. Cordielytrum adustum. A Dorsal habitus, B ventral sclerites, C lateral view, D frontal close-up. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A, C), 0.25 mm (B, D).Published as part of Whorrall, Kyle & Philips, Keith, 2021, Six new species of spider beetles (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) in the genus Cordielytrum Philips, pp. 414-427 in Zootaxa 5040 (3) on page 423, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/553150
FIGURE 1 in Six new species of spider beetles (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) in the genus Cordielytrum Philips
No full textFIGURE 1. Lomas de San Fernando. A Coastal habitat dominated by forbs and cacti, B interior habitat dominated by Tillandsia, C landscape surrounding lomas formation, D–I unidentified lomas plant species.Published as part of Whorrall, Kyle & Philips, Keith, 2021, Six new species of spider beetles (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) in the genus Cordielytrum Philips, pp. 414-427 in Zootaxa 5040 (3) on page 415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/553150
Cordielytrum fimbriatum Whorrall & Philips 2021, sp. n.
No full text<i>Cordielytrum fimbriatum</i>, sp. n. <p>(Fig. 5)</p> <p> <b>Holotype</b>: Peru: Arequipa Reg, 22 km NW Matarani, 18–21.VI.2019 S16.8548° W72.2306°, 304 m ravine veg, dung pitfalls K.A.Whorrall & T. K. Philips. Holotype has been deposited in MUSM. <b>Paratypes (36)</b>: Same data as holotype. Paratypes have been deposited in MUSM, KAWC, TKPC, and JBHC.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis:</b> This species is distinguished from most congeners by its relatively slender shape, the more rounded shape of its pronotum, the rough, disheveled appearance of its vestiture, and the tassel-like shape of its setae. It can be distinguished from <i>C. obscurum</i> (Fig. 6) by the shorter and more truncate setae of the elytral humeral angles, broader and more densely spaced scoop-like setae on the elytra, and paler coloration.</p> <p> <b>Description</b>. Body small, ovate, convex; mottled tan and brown. Length (anterior of pronotum to apex of elytra) 1.90–2.81 mm.</p> <p> <b>Head</b> completely covered with depressed, light tan, ovoid scales; pronounced superantennal carinae; antennae stout, antennomeres densely covered in scales, setae increasingly fine toward apex, antennomeres 1–4 and 11 longer than wide, others subequal; clypeus distinct; labrum with short erect orange setae apically; frons with elongate ligulate scales pointing toward middle, especially prominent toward apex.</p> <p> <b>Pronotum</b> covered with densely matted setae, relatively few short, erect setae protruding from deep cavities within matted setation; anteriorly depressed, especially laterally, with distinct frontal ridge; medial cavity very deep, extending over half total length of pronotum, border well-defined except at middle anterior and posterior; two posterolateral cavities on each side deep and distinct.</p> <p> <b>Elytra:</b> Setation mottled tan with darker brown patches, background color dark brown; surface covered in triangular scoop-shaped setae; basal 1/3 of anterolateral margin with row of relatively short tassel-like setae; five low longitudinal carinae extending length of each elytron, including one at suture, each carina with one row of short tassel-like setae with highly branched apices.</p> <p> <b>Ventral Surface</b>: Ventral part of pro-, meso, and, metathorax, legs, and abdominal ventrites with scales similar to elytra.</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>: The name “fimbriatum” is from the Latin word meaning fringed, referring to the rows of tassel-like setae on the elytral carinae.</p>Published as part of <i>Whorrall, Kyle & Philips, Keith, 2021, Six new species of spider beetles (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) in the genus Cordielytrum Philips, pp. 414-427 in Zootaxa 5040 (3)</i> on pages 419-420, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.3.6, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5531508">http://zenodo.org/record/5531508</a>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
DESIGN AS A FUNCTIONAL LEADER: A case study of Philips to investigate the potential of design as a leading functional discipline
No full textThis research investigates the role of design as a functional leader in multinational industries, to drive innovation successfully at a strategic level. It involved a detailed case study of the innovation process, and practices within Philips Design based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where design is a key decision making function within the company but not yet recognised as a leading discipline at strategic level. Philips Design wanted to use design research to build an integrated map of its actual practices and correlate these with other corporate innovation practices, to help establish strategic recognition for their value. The doctoral challenge was to explicate the process and determine whether the findings have generic capacity to support the role of design as a functional leading discipline.
The investigation integrates an iterative loop of; abductive reasoning of design thinking and inductive reasoning of management thinking in an action research cycle. The case study was part of an empirical enquiry, where the researcher became a participatory observer at Philips Design, conducting one-on-one interviews for data collection and refining their analysis using a Delphi Technique. Three other multinational organisations were explored to take into account how each perceives the contribution of design and the different roles it plays in their organisation. Data triangulation was also used to validate findings with a third party expert.
The research contributes to knowledge by confirming the conditions for design to act as a leading functional discipline. It shows that design cannot be the only functional lead for a multinational organisation. It identifies the major reason for this as the difference between thinkers trying to find viable options for the future and practitioners trying to defend the core business in their organisation, resulting in a gap between strategy and operation. The research further elaborates on the reasons for the gap to exist through qualitative conceptual relationships between designer behaviour and organisational culture in the different innovation cycles that exist in the organisation
Katherine B. Philips, January 3, 1928 - November 25, 2023
No full textKatherine Bulkley Philips ("Kay"), long-time Palo Alto resident and former Executive Director of the Mid-Peninsual YWCA, died on November 25, 2023. She was 95. Kay was one of several community leaders of various Palo Alto community organizations
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Whit Philips to J. B. Richardson acknowledging his request for a committee to review hospital expansion plans for economic efficiency. He suggests not delaying the review until final plans are ready to avoid unnecessary costs and propose a meeting after September 14. He mentions that they will coordinate a suitable meeting date following a convention in San Francisco
Cryptopeniculus Philips
No full text<i>Cryptopeniculus</i> Philips, new genus <p> <b>Type species.</b> <i>Cryptopeniculus nigrosetus,</i> new species</p> <p>DIAGNOSIS. This genus can be recognized by a pronotum with large thick setal tufts in a “V” shape covering most of the surface and composed of thick, strongly recurved or recumbent and approximately parallel setae loosely appressed against and covering pale brown or tan flocculant setae which is sometimes more exposed near the base. There is a distinct longitudinal medial depression between the anterior 2/3 of the pronotal tufts. Additionally, the light to dark reddish black cuticle color, the strongly convex and nearly glabrous elytral surface, and elongate legs are further distinguishing characteristics. There is also a pronounced ridge anterior of the antennal insertions, oriented transversely and obliquely, about the length of the scape and as high as the scape width.</p> <p> DESCRIPTION. <i>Head</i>: Robust, eyes slightly visible from above, eye approximately rounded, except truncate opposite antennal insertion; vertex slightly convex; cavity beneath eye and laterade of antennal insertion where scape can fit, most depressed at eye base, interantennal space moderately broad, slightly depressed at middle; clypeus posteriorly with strongly pronounced edge; genae expanded laterally; labrum width equal to less than 1/3 head width below eyes, anterior edge rounded; maxillary palp four segmented, labial palp three segmented; antennae filiform, 11 segmented, second antennomere inserted off center of scape near lateral edge; mandible with blunt apex, lacking distinct second tooth, approximately straight externally; mentum triangular, lacking cavity. <i>Thorax</i>: Pronotum strongly convex with two setal peaks on each side of middle, extending posteriorly, fusing at base, setae internally flocculant­like, setae externally elongate, curved with apices converging at crest peak; prosternum narrow, elongate, about 5X as long as wide, extending into mesosternum; mesosternum about as long as wide, about ½ the length of metasternum, anteriorly adjacent to procoxae with transversely flattened, rounded projections extending ventrally; metasternum transverse, broadly emarginate posteriorly; procoxae strongly projecting ventrally, mesocoxae less so, metacoxae flat, distinct, broadly obliquely fused to metasternum. <i>Elytra</i>: Globular; strongly, smoothly convex, distinctly longer than wide; surface predominantly glabrous, punctures small, shallow, very indistinct, arranged in longitudinal rows; lateral edge of basal half with a distinct carinae above epipleura, extending opposite pronotal base through to middle; basal constriction interrupted by several short longitudinal carina forming pockets. <i>Ven t ri te s</i>: All sutures clearly visible, lengths of 2nd–4th ventrites even throughout width except slightly longer laterally; 4th distinctly longest; 3rd and 4th subequal. <i>Legs</i>: Elongate, apically capitate, femora at basal half narrow, abruptly expanding around middle, tibia narrow, gradually increasing in length from base to apex, as long as respective femora except metatibia longer than metafemor; 1st and 5th tarsomere moderately long, 2nd through 4th distinctly shorter.</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY. The generic name is derived from Greek adjective for hidden (crypto) and the Latin noun for a brush or sponge (peniculus) in reference to the flocculant like setae on the pronotum which are largely obscured by dark elongate setae overlain on the surface of the former.</p> <p> REMARKS. Like many of the spider beetle species where both sexes are flightless, it is difficult to determine the sex without a dissection unless the genitalia is partially extruded from the abdomen. Although the pronotal shape is unique to this species, it is approached in form by several species representing a second undescribed genus. <i>Cryptopeniculus</i> can easily be separated from this group by a broad, rather than narrow and ridge­like, interantennal space. Additionally, the nearly impunctate and glabrous elytra of <i>Cryptopeniculus</i> is in sharp contrast to the that of second new genus which has longitudinal rows of deep punctures, the more typical ptinine setal rows formed of recumbent and erect setae, and the presence (usually) of humeral and apical setal maculations.</p> <p>RELATIONSHIPS. This genus is one of a wide variety of flightless species found in South Africa and in many other parts of the world. Precise relationships may be obscured by the evolution of features associated with flightlessness which adapt this species and so many others for a scavenging lifestyle in usually xeric habitats (see discussion in Philips 2000). Morphological traits include the very convex shape of the elytra, reduced elytral setation, loss of wings, and fusion of the metacoxae to the metasternum.</p> <p> <i>Cryptopeniculus</i> may represent a clade outside the lineage of species recognized by some as the Gibbiinae (e.g. Bellés 1985) or the Gibbium species­group (Bellés 1982). Possible convergent similarities between these clades include the flocculant pronotal setae and the smooth globular elytra found in both <i>Cryptopeniculus</i> and gibbiines such as <i>Mezium</i>. Alternatively, it might be one of the basal lineages of the Meziini sensu Bellés (1985).</p> <p> Based on limited distributions of the southern African taxa, it is likely that most if not all of these originated in this region, including this new species and, for example, the taxa of <i>Damarus</i> found in the coastal areas of adjacent Namibia. Some of these generic level clades are obviously closely related based on a large number of synapomorphies (which will be investigated in a later study). But for many other taxa, which look superficially like species of <i>Ptinus</i>, it remains unknown if there is either a single common ancestor or if many separate origins (which we hypothesize as most likely) were involved in creating the incredible diversity of spider beetles known from this region.</p>Published as part of <i>Philips, T. Keith & Foster, Douglas E., 2004, Cryptopeniculus nigrosetus n. g., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from the Namaqualand region of South Africa, pp. 1-11 in Zootaxa 577</i> on pages 2-5, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/157530">10.5281/zenodo.157530</a>
Considerações sobre a implantação de um cadastro técnico nos munícipios brasileiros: Marcelo de Assunção Pereira , orientador, Jürgen Philips
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil.A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo central apresentar considerações sobre a implantação de um cadastro técnico nos municípios brasileiros, visando o aperfeiçoamento e a modernização do cadastro no Brasil. Os procedimentos metodológicos empregados foram à pesquisa bibliográfica e a pesquisa descritiva. Para tanto, foram desenvolvidas as seguintes etapas: (a) apresentação de aspectos do cadastro e/ou sistema cadastral no contexto internacional e nacional; (b) avaliação de oito critérios cadastrais propostos entre alguns profissionais da área cadastral brasileira, por meio de um questionário baseado em estudo realizado pelo grupo número três da FIG Fédération Internationale des Géomètres; (c) análise comparativa de cinco questões pertinentes à implantação de um cadastro técnico entre sete cadastros do mundo. A partir dessas análises, foi desenvolvida uma proposta de implantação de um cadastro técnico nos municípios brasileiros, visando o aperfeiçoamento e a modernização do cadastro no Brasil
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