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    Drawing the Line: How African, Caribbean and White British Women Live Out Psychologically Abusive Experiences

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    The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Violence Against Women, 19 (9):1104-32, Sept 2013 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2013. The online version of this article can be found at: http://vaw.sagepub.com/content/19/9/110

    Enhanced light extraction from emitters close to clusters of resonant plasmonic nanoantennas

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    We perform time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy on clusters of plasmonic nanoantennas covered with a dye–polymer mixture. Dimer antenna structures were fabricated consisting of two interacting gold nanorods with varying lengths and interparticle separation. By combining four individual antennas into a cluster within a diffraction limited spot size, we can couple out half of the dye molecule fluorescence via antenna plasmons. Two-dimensional confocal fluorescence lifetime scans visualize the spontaneous emission enhancement of the molecular fluorescence around the antenna clusters

    Maria Rivas oral history interview.

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    Oral history interview with Maria Rivas conducted by Daniel U. Sanchez on Feb. 3, 2010, in Lubbock, Tex. Accompanied by 1 finding aid.Maria Rivas, a Texas Technological College alumna, talks about her experiences growing up in Pecos, Tex., and life at Texas Technological College during the mid-1960s. She discusses her views on bilingual education, racial discrimination and Los Tertulianos (Texas Tech's first minority student organization)

    RiVAS and RiVAS+: Opportunities for Application of a Multi-Criteria River Value Assessment System Approach which Considers Existing and Potential States

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    The River Values Assessment System (RiVAS) uses a combination of expert panels and multi criteria analysis to identify primary attributes (or main features) of river values (e.g., whitewater kayaking, native birds) and their key indicators. The resulting data set is used to rank rivers for their existing (instream) and potential (out-of-stream) significance. The RiVAS method has been applied to seven values and tested across a range of councils with most focus in Tasman District. The tool has demonstrated utility and is very cost effective to implement. Further development has now led to RiVAS+ to consider potential significance for instream values, using the same attributes and indicators, and also identifying the interventions needed to achieve these potential future states (e.g., water quality improvements, willow removal, increased flows). RiVAS+ enables instream uses to be considered on the same basis as out-of-stream opportunities. RiVAS+ can be undertaken more-or-less concurrently with RiVAS and enables a range of applications. First, it allows decision makers to gain an understanding of the difference between existing relative importance or significance of a value and its potential (if restored or developed). Second, it enables better evaluation of potential restoration or development options in a range of circumstances including where water resource development is planned. Finally, with further input it might be possible to quantify the cost of the interventions which would then allow better consideration of mitigation and other options in resource management policy and decision making processes. In this paper we demonstrate the method and the opportunities.River values, prioritisation system, existing and potential, interventions, New Zealand, Environmental Economics and Policy,

    Simognathus cramerae Rivas, 2006, sp. nov.

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    <i>Simognathus cramerae</i> sp. nov. <p>(Figs 1–3)</p> <p> <b>Holotype</b>: Female, on <i>Laurencia</i> sp. (Rhodophyta: Ceramiales) in the rocky intertidal from Playa Ventura, Guerrero, Mexico, 24 September 1998, colls. G. Rivas and C. Letechipia (NMCUNAM)</p> <p> <b>Paratypes:</b> All specimens are in the author´s collection: one deutonymph on <i>Laurencia</i> sp. from Playa Ventura, Guerrero, México, 24 September 1998, colls. G. Rivas and C. Letechipia; one female, two males, two deutonymphs, and one larva on <i>Tayloriella dictyurus</i> (Rhodophyta: Ceramiales), <i>Jania</i> sp. (Rhodophyta: Corallinales), and <i>Laurencia</i> sp. from Punta Maldonado, Guerrero, México, 23 September 1998, colls. G. Rivas and C. Letechipia; one female and one male on <i>Sargassum liebmanii</i> (Phaeophyta: Fucales) and <i>Jania</i> sp. from Bahía Chamela, Jalisco, México, 10 April 1998, colls. G. Rivas and C. Letechipia.</p> <p> <b>Female:</b> Idiosoma 282 m long and 140 m wide. Dorsal plates with circular and oval foveae with dense porosity (Fig. 1 A). AD almost rectangular, 200 m long, 150 m wide. OC more or less triangular 35 m long, 12 m wide with a small terminal projection, with the posterior end drawn out into a sharp point. PD 119 m long, 69 m wide, anterior margin almost rounded. Setae ds­1 and ds­3 inserted on AD, ds­2 outside of OC, and ds­4 and ds­5 on the PD. Adanal setae inserted on anal papilla. AE 130 m long, slightly porose, and lateral areas with foveae.</p> <p>Epimeral process large; vesicles large and elliptical (Fig. 1 B). Posterior AE rounded. GA 109 m long, 76 m wide. Anterior portion of GA with fine porosity, remainder of the plate foveate. GO surrounded by 11 pgs.</p> <p>Gnathosoma 88 m long, 71 m wide. Dorsal gnathosoma with a small spine on the anterior margin. Second pedipalpal segment without a knob (ventral apophysis), and with a large seta (Fig. 3 B). Third pedipalpal segment short, half of the second segment’s length. Telofemora foveate. Tibia and telofemur of all legs almost equal in length; length­width ratio in tibia and telofemur I 1.6 and 1.4, respectively (Fig. 1 C). Telofemur II about as long as tibia II (Fig. 1 D). Tarsus II twice as long as wide. Tibia I, III, and IV (figs. 1 E–F) about 1.8 times longer than wide. Telofemora I, II, III, and IV about 1.3 times longer than wide. Trochanters II, III, and IV almost as long as telofemora of respective legs.</p> <p>Leg chaetotaxy: leg I: 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6; leg II: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; leg III: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5; leg IV: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5. Ventral spine of tibia I long and tapering. Spine on tibia II bipectinate. Median claw on tarsus I large. Lateral claws on posterior legs long, with a palmate accessory process with 6–8 minute teeth (Fig. 3 C). Pecten absent from the margins of shaft claws. Tarsus I with a tapering ventral spine, a pair of long parambulacral setae and three dorsal setae, tarsus II with two parambulacral setae. Ventral setae of tibia II nearly pectinate, ventral setae of tibiae III and IV smooth.</p> <p> <b>Male</b>: Idiosoma 242 m long, 145 m wide. Dorsal plates similar in outline though slightly longer than in female. AD 123 m long, 71 m wide; OC 35 m long, 12 m wide. PD 119 m long, 69 m wide. Ventral idiosoma: GA 109 m long, 76 m wide. Two pairs of outlying setae on GA and 9–10 pairs of pgs closely surrounding GO (Fig. 3 A). Leg chaetotaxy: leg I: 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6; leg II: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; leg III: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5; leg IV: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5.</p> <p> <b>Deutonymph</b>: Idiosoma 244 m long, 164 m wide. AD 102 m long, 69 m wide. PD 59 m long, 52 m wide. OC 23 m long, 9 m wide. GA 28 m long, 35 m wide. OC without ds­2, and ds­3 outside of AD (Fig. 2 A). Tibia I narrower than that of female. Leg chaetotaxy (Figs. 2 D–G): leg I: 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6; leg II: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; leg III: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5; leg IV: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5.</p> <p> <b>Larva</b>: Idiosoma 113 m long, 68 m wide. Plates less developed than in adults, with similar but smaller ornamentation (Fig 3 D). AD length twice that of PD, ds­2 outside of OC. AE large, more than half as long as idiosoma. Leg chaetotaxy: leg I: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6; leg II: 1, 5, 4, 5, 6; leg III: 1, 3, 3, 5, 5.</p> <p> <b>Etymology:</b> Named for Dr. Cristina Cramer of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in recognition of her research on the aquatic mite fauna of Mexico.</p> <p> <b>Remarks:</b> <i>Simognathus cramerae</i> resembles <i>S. similis</i> from the Galapagos Islands more closely than any other species. Most of the morphological structures of the new Mexican species are similar to this South American species. These features include the ocular plates, as well as the ornamentation on plates and leg telofemur. Notable differences include the setae which lie outside the ocular plate in <i>S. cramerae</i>, and on it in <i>S. similis</i>. Likewise, ds­3 is located on the AD plate in <i>S. cramerae,</i> and outside of this plate in <i>S. similis</i>. P2 of the new species has a ventral bristle similar to that of <i>S. similis</i> and <i>S. areolatus</i> from Chile, but without being borne on a knob (the ventral apophysis). The setal pattern of the Mexican species is shared with <i>S. areolatus</i>, but the ornamentation of the latter is quite distinctive, differing from that of <i>S. cramerae</i> with the P2.</p> <p> Newell (1984) designated six species (<i>S. obtusus, S. subobtusus, S. areolatus, S. magellanicus, S. hulingsi</i>, and <i>S. pectinatus</i>) from South America as “group 1” based on a shared suite of features. The Mexican species described here shares several of these characters, specially with <i>S. hulingsi</i>, in which only the location of ds­2, the number of the minute teeth on claw processes, the size of the idiosoma, and the form of the anterior margin of PD are different. The ornamentation with foveae on the telofemur of <i>S. cramerae</i> is very similar to that of <i>S. coreensis</i> Chatterjee & Young Chang, 2004 from Korea. However, the two species differ in the position of ds­2, the width of AD and PD, and the number of minute teeth on the claw processes.</p> <p> Also <i>S. cramerae</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is closely with <i>S. fuscus</i> Viets and <i>S. euphractus</i> Pepato & Gonçalvez­Tiago, both cited from American Atlantic. These three species have the ds­2 outside of OC and similar ornamentation of dorsal plates, however <i>S. fuscus</i> and <i>S. euphractus</i> have a knob (ventral apophysis) on P2, which <i>S. cramerae</i> does not have. <i>S. euphractus</i> has two ventral setae on tarsus IV and <i>S. cramerae</i> only has one; <i>S. fuscus</i> has OC rounded in the terminal portion and in <i>S. cramerae</i> it is pointed, the tibia and tarsus are narrower in <i>S</i>. <i>fuscus</i> than in <i>S. cramerae</i>, and the number of minute teeth of claws in <i>S cramerae</i> (6–8) is smaller than in <i>S. fuscus</i> (10–14).</p>Published as part of <i>Rivas, Gerardo, 2006, First record of Simognathus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Mexico, including the description of a new species, pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1259</i> on pages 62-66, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/173153">10.5281/zenodo.173153</a&gt

    Cuentos /

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    Resurrección, por J. M. Rivas Groot.--Julieta, por J. M. Rivas Groot.--Sueño de amor, por Evaristo Rivas Groot.--El cura de Lenguazaque, por Evaristo Rivas Groot.--Chimborrio, por Evaristo Rivas Groot

    De plantis hispaniae notulae systematicae, chorologicae et ecologicae, II

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    Some systematic, chorologic and ecological data of Spanish Flora are included in this papel. Also we proposed the following new combinations: Phlomis purpurea L. subsp. almeriensis (Pau) Losa& RivasGoday; Phlomis purpurea L. subsp. caballeroi (Pau) Rivas-Martínez; Phlomis italica L. subsp. antiatlantica (Peltier) Rivas-Martínez; Hormathophylla lapeyrousiana (Jordan) Küpfer subsp. angustifolia (Willk.) Rivas-Martínez; Avenula sulcata (Gay ex Delastre) Dumort. subsp. albinervis (Boiss.) Rivas-Martínez.Se publican algunos datos sistemáticos, corológicos y ecológicos sobre la Flora Española. Además se proponen las siguientes nuevas combinaciones: Phlomis purpurea L. subsp. almeriensis (Pau) Losa & Rivas Goday; Phlomis purpurea L. subsp. cabalteroi (Pau) Rivas-Martínez; Phlomis italica L. subsp. antiatlantica (Peltier) Rivas-Martínez; Hormathoprylla lapeyrozisiana (Jordan) Küpfer subsp. angustifolia (Willk.) Rivas-Martínez; Avenula sulcata (Gay ex Delastre) Dumort. subsp. albinervis (Boiss.) Rivas-Martínez

    Jet boating on Canterbury rivers: Application of the river values assessment system (RiVAS)

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    The River Values Assessment System methodology was used to determine the relative importance of different rivers and sections of rivers to jetboating in Canterbury. Primary attributes of jetboating and associated indicators was used as the basis for applying the RiVAS methodology. In total 40 sections or whole river systems were assessed. Ten were considered of national significance for jetboating with the highest ranked being the Poulter to Woodstock section of the Waimakariri and the Wilberforce to Gorge Bridge section of the Rakaia

    Marriage record of Rivas, Jose and Ricardo, Leolida

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    Marriage license for Jose Rivas and Leolida Ricardo. S. Timothy Tice was the officiant

    Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)

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    This study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
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