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Ctenomys lami Freitas 2001
No full text25. Lami Tuco-tuco Ctenomys lami French: Tuco-tuco de Lami / German: Lami-Kammratte / Spanish: Tuco tuco de Lami Taxonomy. Ctenomys lami Freitas, 2001, “Beco dos Cegos, Lami Beach in the Guaiba river, near Porto Alegre, at 30°14" §S, 51°07’ W,” Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Ctenomys lami has 2n = 54, 55a, 55b, 56a, 56b 57, and 58 and FN = 76-82. Based on mtDNA analysis,it is classified as belonging to the torquatusspecies group. Phylogeographic pattern was determined, showing a relationship with diploid number variation; 18 haplotypes were found in 166 specimens. Sperm form is symmetric. Monotypic. Distribution. S Brazil, distributed in the region known as “Coxilha da [L.ombas,” Rio Grande do Sul State. Descriptive notes. Total length 231-310 mm, tail 67-92 mm, hindfoot 31-42 mm; weight 170-307 g. Measurements of the holotype were: total length 257 mm, tail 79 mm, ear 8 mm, hindfoot 36 mm; weight 370 g. The Lami Tuco-tuco is medium to large-sized. Dorsum is dark brownish, with each hair dark grayish basally and brownish near tip. Ventral pelage is paler. Skull is wide, and braincase is oval-shaped, measuring one-third length ofskull. In dorsal view, nasal bones are wide anteriorly and taper posteriorly; frontal has flat surface from interorbital constriction to posterior region; and frontoparietal suture is round. Zygomatic arch is square and robust. Mandible has long and narrow coronoid process. Upperincisors are large and orthodont and have orange enamel. Habitat. Sandy soils in lowlands characterized by pastures and anthropogenic vegetation. Food and Feeding. The Lami Tuco-tuco generally feeds on grasses and bushes. Breeding. Breeding of the Lami Tuco-tuco occurs in June-December, and litter sizes are 1-3 young. Activity patterns. There is no information available for this species. Movements, Home range and Social organization. The Lami Tuco-tuco is solitary. Status and Conservation. Classified as Vulnerable on The IUCN Red List. Extent of occurrence of the Lami Tuco-tuco is less than 20,000 km? (known from less than five locations), and extent and quality ofits habitat are declining. Bibliography. Bidau (2015), Cook & Salazar-Bravo (2004), El Jundi & Freitas (2004), Freitas (1995a, 2001, 2006, 2007), Gava & Freitas (2003), Lopes & Freitas (2012), Parada et al. (2011).Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Ctenomyidae, pp. 498-534 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 521, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.658817
Medaglia di Giovanni Lami, n. 10
No full textMedaglia dedicata a Giovanni Lami e realizzata da Antonio Selvi e Bartolomeo Vagell
How can i help you? Questioning the role of evaluation techniques in democratic decision-making processes
No full textIn the past, evaluation techniques were considered to be “decisional techniques”, “decisional tools”. There was a rough idea that, after the important data had been collected, the technique in question would, by itself, indicate the best decision. Evaluations of this kind clearly depended on the more or less implicit adoption of a “rational-comprehensive model”, which tended to downplay the ethical and political dimension of decisions, while stressing the role of both technique and technicians. This approach has been widely criticized. Partly as a result of such criticism, many evaluation techniques are now considered to be not “decisional tools” but forms of “decision aid”. The problem is that the expression “decision aid” lacks clarity and is by no means unequivocal in urban decisional situations. We believe in this regard that there is a gap in research and in the academic literature. Starting from this conviction, the article presents an investigation of what being a “decision aid” might mean for a technical evaluation today. The aim is to provide a conceptual framework within which to critically revisit and rediscuss the question, with particular regard to urban sustainability issues
Political cycles in income from privatization: The case of Albania
No full textThe phenomenon of manipulation of the economy by the incumbent for electoral purpose is called Political Business Cycles (PBC). Using policy control economic instruments, such as fiscal and monetary instruments, governments may manipulate the economy to gain electoral advantage by producing growth and decreasing unemployment before elections. Earlier research on PBC in Albania found clear evidence of fiscal expansion before elections. In addition to increased income from taxes and borrowing, another source of financing the increased fiscal expansion in transition countries may be income from privatization, which is also the object of the analysis of this paper. In our analysis we apply standard econometric approach, used widely for research related to PBC. We test if income from privatization increases before elections. We find statistically significant increase of income from privatization before general (parliamentary) elections, which may lead us to conclude that one of the reasons may be to finance increased expenditures before elections. Another motivation, behind this behavior of the incumbent, may be rent - seeking. These results are of particular interest, as it is for the first time that income from privatization is analyzed in conjunction with PBC. --Albania,Political Business Cycle,Privatization
Traduzioni e giornali stranieri nel carteggio Lami-Calogerà,
No full textThe journals of Giovanni Lami and Angelo Calogerà are well known and studied. The private correspondence between the two scholars sheds new light on the cultural mediation work carried out by the two journalists with their journalistic enterprises. It was a complex mediation, not only between Italian Catholic and Transalpine Protestant culture, but also between pro-Jansenists and Jesuit supporters within a Catholic and Italian context. Lami and Calogerà in their journalistic activity found original solutions to support the authority of their newspapers. The use of the correspondence of two of the most important Italian eighteenth-century journalists allows us to better evaluate the line of their periodicals and to understand the reasons for some editorial choices. Calogerà’s position with regard to transalpine literature and periodicals, the subject of his first journalistic enterprises, is particularly interesting
Discovering ‘Little Russia ’: Victor Tissot and Ukraine’s Image in the West in the 1880s
No full textThe Swiss Victor Tissot (1844-1917) was a very popular writer of Belle Epoque France.
His popularity began in 1876 thanks to a polemical book Voyage aux pays des Milliards, which encountered an unprecedented success in France, because of his critical assessment of the results of the Prussian-French war on the destiny of Europe. He was recognised at once by the public as an excellent "écrivain voyageur" and he started to write a series of travel books, pretending to offer an accurate picture of the countries he visited. He gave, in a brilliant journalistic style, a lot of geographical, political and cultural elements in order to allow his public to understand their reality prima manu. Since his books became a sort of best sellers it is interesting to analyse what kind of information he offered to his readers, which image of those countries he propagated among them. This article presents the case-study of Little Russia, as he called Ukraine: in 1882 Tissot published in Paris La Russie et les Russes, whose first part, entitled La Petite-Russie, is devoted to his journey from Lviv to Kyiv. He describes the landscape, the towns, the villages, the personages he met, the stories he listened, the conversations he had, illustrating the way of life of various ethnic groups of different social level: Jews, Poles, Ruthenians, Russians where appears evident his personal point of view, modelled on a Swiss French "European" and bourgeois way of life.
Among prejudices, stereotypes inherited by a sum of previous literary readings, curiosities and anecdotes, historical excursus, errors and misunderstandings he depicted an image of Little Russia very interesting if we think to the literary audience he had in the last quarter of the 19th century, thanks to the translations and the reprints of various parts of this book in successive and separated editions
La valutazione delle politiche territoriali: metodologie a confronto. Quattro casi studio nell’area metropolitana torinese
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Rec. a A.Garzya-J. Jouanna (a cura di), Trasmissione e ecdotica dei testi medici greci, Atti del IV Convegno Intern., Parigi maggio 2001, D'Auria, Napoli 2003
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