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The distribution, chronology and significance of late Holocene aged stone-based structures on Pitta Pitta Country, western Queensland
No full textThere is considerable discourse around the timing of Australia’s interior colonisation and whether environmental or technological impacts pushed people into occupying more arid environments. However, the general scarcity of rockshelter sites and the limited amount of research undertaken to date in central western Queensland has meant this region has only been peripherally considered in such debates. It is well recognised that, by the time Europeans began documenting lifeways in the region in the late 1870s, central western Queensland had given rise to complex and thriving Aboriginal societies, despite the boom-or-bust nature of its seasonal cycles. One of these is the Pitta Pitta people, who had a pivotal role in a vast trade network that traversed the Lake Eyre Basin, extending north to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Pitta Pitta are also seemingly unique in that, as far as available data suggest, they are the only group in western Queensland to have used stone in their construction of gunyahs (huts), despite similar environmental and geographic conditions in adjacent areas to the east (Diamantina National Park) and south (Mithaka Country). Here we describe 70 stone-based huts spread across four site complexes on Marion Downs Station and use these to underpin discussions about Pitta Pitta lifeways in the late Holocene.Full Tex
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Bridging the 'gap‘ between migrants and the banking system: an innovative business model promoting financial integration, financial stability, and profitability
No full textThe thesis probes a specific area - the banking system and the business niche concerned with migrants' remittances - and considers the flows of these people and their money in today‘s global economy (over 3% of the world's population). It argues that the banking system has failed to understand the changing "paradigm" of the migrant market and thus has not updated its business plan or business model for this business segment in response. In failing to harness the liquidity of the migrant market, the author argues, the banking industry is missing out on a potentially profitable business segment that could create financial stability within the industry and the world's economies. Furthermore, by ignoring the "gap" that exists between the financial products on offer to the migrant sector and their needs in this respect in both the host and origin countries - providing a service at "both ends of the corridor" - the industry is also in danger of losing site of its commitment to social responsibility and the financial integration of migrants. At the heart of the argument for financial stability and financial integration is the proposition that there is a lack of communication among stakeholders, namely academic and financial institutions, governments, Diaspora associations and other decision makers
Ciliates abundance in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in March and April 2008 during SES_GR1
No full textThe dataset is based on samples collected in the framework of the project SESAME, in the Ionian, Libyan and Aegean Sea during March- April 2008. For ciliate identification and enumeration, 100-3000 ml samples were left for 24h-4d for sedimentation and then observed under an inverted microscope. Ciliates were counted, distinguished into size-classes and major taxonomic groups and identified down to genus or species level where possible (Pitta et al. 2005)
P. Papinius Statius - Silvae. Liber I. I carmi di Domiziano; Volume I: introduzione al ciclo, epistola prefatoria, carme 1
No full textCommentary on Statius, Silvae, Book 1 (prose preface and poem 1), with an introduction to the 'Domitian cycle' within the book, a critical text and an Italian translatio
Recensione a: M. Labate, Petronio. Ricostruzioni e interpretazioni, a cura di G. Vannini e G. Zago, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2020, p. 286
No full textReview of the collected studies on Petronius Satyricon by M. Labate
Resenha: PITTA, Eduardo. Um rapaz a arder. Lisboa: Quetzal, 2013. 240 p.
No full textResenha: PITTA, Eduardo. Um rapaz a arder. Lisboa: Quetzal, 2013. 240 p
Over het verschil tusschen Pitta guajana guajana en Pitta guajana affinis
No full textIn 1776 beschreef P. L. S. Müller (Syst. Nat. Suppl., p. 145) naar aanleiding van in Oost-Java verzameld materiaal de nominaatvorm dezer pitta onder de naam Turdus guajanus, terwijl de in West-Java levende ondersoort affinis als Myiothera affinis in 1821 door Horsfield (Trans. Linn. Soc.
London, vol. 13, p. 154) werd beschreven op grond van in Bantam verkregen materiaal. In Cat. Birds Brit: Museum (vol. XIV, 1888, p. 445/6) vatte Sclater deze beide soorten samen onder de naam Eucichla cyanura.
Robinson & Kloss (Treubia, vol. V, 1924, p. 279) noemden de OostJava vogels Eucichla c. cyanura en die van het Westen Eucichla cyanura affinis, welke naam ook door Bartels & Stresemann (1929) werd gebezigd. Later toonde Boden Kloss echter aan, dat de naam cyanura diende te worden gewijzigd in guajana (Journ. Mal. Br., Royal As. Soc., vol. IV, 1926, p. 161), terwijl Chasen in diens Handlist (1935) het geslacht Eucichla met Pitta vereenigde en deze brengt Pitta guajana guajana op voor OostJava en Bali en Pitta guajana affinis voor het Westen van dit eiland.
De oorspronkelijke beschrijving der beide ondersoorten hebben wij niet ter beschikking, maar Kuroda (Birds of the Island of Java, vol. I, 1933, p. 339) deelt ten aanzien van de nominaatvorm het volgende mede. ,,Characters: — Very similar to E. g. affinis of W. Java, but the blue gorget much more broader (10 mm in width in ♂).
Adult ♂ (E. Java) — The ground-colour of underparts yellowish instead of brownish yellow as in affinis and the throat also whiter.
Adult ♀ (Bali) — "The ground-colour below of this female is not white as described in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XIV. p. 446, but yellowish buff, and the throat is more white (HARTERT).
Ecology of two Pittas (<i>Pitta soror</i> and <i>Pitta nympha</i>) in limestone forests of South China
No full textThe ecology and life history of bird species inhabiting limestone forests, which are under major conservation threats, is currently poorly known. To cover this gap of knowledge, in this study we report for the first time on several aspects of the breeding ecology of the Blue-rumped Pitta (Pitta soror) and the Fairy Pitta (P. nympha) inhabiting two typical limestone forests of south China. The mean density of Fairy Pittas in our study locations was 3.13 ± 2.82 and 1.05 ± 2.09 individuals/km2. The Blue-rumped Pitta was common in Nonggang and showed a mean density of 4.67 ± 2.44 individuals/km2, yet was absent in the other. We found nine nests between February 2009 and June 2015, including five of the Blue-rumped Pitta and four of the Fairy Pitta. Blue-rumped Pittas laid 4.8 ± 0.4 eggs with a mean fresh mass of 8.10 ± 0.40 g. Fairy Pittas had a clutch size of 5.2 ± 0.45 eggs with a mean fresh mass of 6.03 ± 0.22 g. Blue-rumped and Fairy Pitta parents fed their nestlings 4.0 ± 1.2 times and 3.9 ± 1.5 times per hour, respectively. Earthworms were the most common food item delivered to nestlings by Blue-rumped (93.6%) and Fairy Pitta (91.2%) parents. Blue-rumped Pittas bred successfully in 40% of nests (two of five), whilst in the case of Fairy Pittas nest success reached 75% (three of four). The two Pittas had larger clutch sizes than in southern populations of the same species and also than most other bird species inhabiting limestone forests. This would imply that Pittas show differences in life history traits within limestone ecosystems
Ueber zwei bisher verkannte Arten: Pitta angolensis, Vieill. und P. pulih, Fraser
No full textUnter dem Namen » Pitta longipennis” beschrieb Reichenow unlängst ein von A. Holz in Ipiana bei Langenburg, an der Nordostküste des Niassa-Sees, erhaltenes Exemplar als neue Art, von der Sharpe ganz kürzlich eine gute Abbildung veröffentlichte (l. c.) nach einem Exemplare das I. Ffolliott Darling von Salisbury in Rhodesia (Maschonaland) an das British Museum einsandte. Fort Salisbury, liegt südlich vom Sambesi und dürfte, mit ca. dem 18° s. Br., die bis jetzt bekannte südlichste Grenze in der Verbreitung afrikanischer Pittas bezeichnen. Ich kann eine weitere, viel nördlichere, Localität hinzufügen, nämlich Boma im Mündungsgebiet des Congo, woher unser Museum bereits 1886 ein Exemplar (durch Dr. Hubrecht in Utrecht) erhielt. Es war mit » Pitta angolensis” bezeichnet, unterscheidet sich aber auf den ersten Blick von unseren Exemplaren (unter gleicher Benennung) von Oberguinea (Liberia und Goldküste). Eine Vergleichung unseres Congovogels mit dem Typus von P. longinennis, durch Güte von Professor Reichenow, ergab nur geringfügige individuelle Abweichungen (»etwas geringere Grösse und etwas dunkler grüne Färbung des Rückens”), stellte aber die Identität zweifellos fest. Der neuen, bisher nur vom Niassa und Maschonaland bekannten Art, konnte mit diesem dritten Exemplare ein Fundort hinzugefügt werden, der das Verbreitungsgebiet in ungeahnter Weise erweiterte.
Bekanntlich beschrieb Vieillot (1803) Pitta angolensis nach einem durch Perrein aus Angola (ohne nähere Localität) erhaltenem Exemplare des Pariser Museums. Es war die erste aus Afrika überhaupt nachgewiesene Art, die noch bis vor Kurzem als die einzige des schwarzen Erdtheiles galt. Zwar war von Fraser 1842 eine neue Art: P. pulih, von Sierra Leone, aufgestellt worden, die indess keine Anerkennung fand und bis jetzt nur als Synonym von P. angolensis Vieill. figurirt. Fraser hatte übrigens letztere Art völlig übersehen und vergleicht seine neue Art daher mit der, in der That sehr nahestehenden, indischen P. brachyura (L.)
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