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Alice and Phoebe Cary portraits
No full textThe Cary sisters became famous poets during the middle of the 19th century. Alice is shown on the left, while Phoebe is on the right. In 1838, Alice had one of her poems published in a Cincinnati newspaper. Eleven years later, Alice and Phoebe jointly authored "Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary." The work received positive reviews, and the two women moved to New York City. Edgar Allen Poe, a leading American author, poet and literary critic, was an admirer of both women's work. William Holmes McGuffey included several of the women's poems in his "McGuffey Reader." These portraits are taken from "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio," 1907
Melitaea phoebe subsp. caucasica Staudinger 1870
No full textM. phoebe caucasica Staudinger, 1870 [TL: “Kindermann ganz ähnliche Stücke im Caucasus fing (?- Helenendorf; Kindermann leg.)”]. The name caucasica was preoccupied by M. didyma caucasica Staudinger, 1861 and the name was replaced first by M. phoebe ottonis Fruhstorfer 1917. A lectotype female and a paralectotype male were designated by Nekrutenko (Hesselbarth et al. 1995: 2: 1028) from the Staudinger collection, housed at Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin (figs 5A, B, C & 6A, B, C). Verity subsequently also proposed a replacement name, caucasicola Verity, 1919, this being a synonym of ottonis. Kemal & Koçak (2011: 44) used the name ‘ Melitaea (Cinclidia) (phoebe) sextilis Jachontov, 1909 ’ as a replacement name giving it subspecific(?) status; however, Jachontov (1909: 285) used this name for a variety of second generation M. phoebe and, so far as the authors are aware, no author since has used the name sextilis in favour of ottonis Fruhstorfer, 1917. In fact the M. phoebe species group portrayed by Kemal & Koçak (2011: 44), in their article on eastern Mediterranean butterflies, included M. punica, a species absent from the eastern Mediterranean. This perpetuates confusion, which the first author with others has been trying to resolve. Hesselbarth et al. (1995: 3, Tafel 80/81: figs 30– 33 ♂; Tafel 82/83: figs 1– 4 ♀) placed ottonis as a synonym of M. phoebe. Although the lectotype female does not show all the characters typical of M. phoebe, for instance the underside submarginal black arches do not touch the intervening veins (see Fig. 5B), the paralectotype underside (Fig. 6B) certainly shows all the characters typical of M. phoebe. Recent authors, such Tshikolovets (2011: 497; 2003: plate 24: figs 16 m. and 17 f.), Tshikolovets et al. (2014: 318–319), van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) and Russell & Tennent (2016: 45, note 22) have all agreed that this is a subspecies of M. phoebe and not M. ornata, with which the present authors concur.Published as part of Russell, Peter J. C., Lukhtanov, Vladimir A. & Tennent, W. John, 2022, Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), pp. 25-38 in Zootaxa 5141 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/657762
Melitaea phoebe subsp. amanica , Rebel 1917
No full textM. phoebe amanica Rebel, 1917 [TL: Kushdjula, Taurus Mountains; Das Dagh, Amanus Mountains, Hatay, Turkey]; syntypic material consists of a single male and two females in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, each having a red ‘type’ label. Hesselbarth et al. (1995: 2, 1031) and van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 63) synonymised this subspecies with M. phoebe punica telona and M. telona, respectively; the present authors certainly consider that this subspecies belongs to either M. ornata or M. telona rather than M. phoebe. Tóth et al. (2014) demonstrated that M. telona was present in Lebanon, to the South of the Nur mountain range and Russell & Pateman (2012) reared an egg batch from a female captured at Tuzlabeli geçidi, Muðla, western Turkey and demonstrated from the L4+ larval head colour that the population there was not M. phoebe but M. ornata. The first author considers that the specimens should probably be associated with M. telona but further DNA analysis is required to confirm to which species they belong. In order that this subspecific name can be in future firmly associated with a species we hereby formally designate the male specimen as lectotype for M. phoebe amanica Rebel, 1917. From figures 13A, B it can be seen that this specimen has the wing morphological characters typical of both M. ornata and M. telona rather than those of M. phoebe. The labels on the specimen pin (Fig. 13C) are as follows: (1) on white paper handwritten in black “Taurus/ Kushdjula/ 22.V.14”; (2) on white paper handwritten in black “ phoebe / amanica / Type [in red] Rbl”; (3) on white card typed in black “Misident:/ Melitaea telona, Russell 2021 ”; (4) on red paper typed in black “ LECTOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe amanica / REBEL, 1917 / designated Russell &/ Gaal-Haszler 2021”.Published as part of Russell, Peter J. C., Lukhtanov, Vladimir A. & Tennent, W. John, 2022, Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), pp. 25-38 in Zootaxa 5141 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/657762
Jen Clarke on Phoebe Banks' "Girl in a pub toilet". [Blog post]
No full textIn this blog post, the author responds to "Girl in a Pub Toilet" (2024), by Phoebe Banks - a moving image artwork that explores grief and the fleeting intimacies of stranger-friendships
Letter from Phoebe Erickson, dated June 3, 1958
No full textHandrwitten and illustrated letter addressed o the children of Greenville Elementary School. The author relates an autobiographical story ""How to Make a Discovery."
Kandel, Phoebe M., B.S. A.M.
No full textPhoebe Kandel was born in Greentown, Ohio in 1882. Ms Kandel received her diploma from Canton Actual Business College and was a graduate of the Lakeside Hospital Training School for Nurses (now the Frances Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University) in 1908. Ms Kandel received her both her B.S. (1923) and A.M. (1934) from The Teachers College, Columbia University. Ms Kandel was an Instructor at the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing, Cincinnati, Ohio from 1916-1918; Superintendent of City Hospital, Springfield, Ohio 1918 and Instructor of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati (1919-1924) and Director and Associate Professor of Nursing (1924-1926). Ms Kandel was State Director of Nursing Education for Nebraska from 1928-1930. Ms Kandel was Professor and Director of Nursing Education at Colorado State College, Greeley from 1930-1941. Ms Kandel came to the University as Professor of and Director of Nursing Education (1941-1943). Ms Kandel was later associated with the University of Georgia (1944-1949) and with the Mississippi State Board of Nurses Examiners and Registration (1949). Ms. Kandel was the author of the books, From Mud to Crystal (1923) and Hospital Economics for Nurses (1930). Phoebe Kandel died in 1982
Letter from Phoebe Erickson, dated June 3, 1958
No full textHandrwitten and illustrated letter addressed o the children of Greenville Elementary School. The author relates an autobiographical story ""How to Make a Discovery."
Geographic prioritization of agricultural investments
No full textThrough the Notification of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the project “Advisory Services – Program Management for Development and Implementation within the Agricultural Sector” (DCO-PR-18-0293) issued a to the International Food Research Institute (IFPRI), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) described a series of information needs and how IFPRI could provide research and analysis that would help the MCC maximize the effectiveness of their agricultural interventions. This report focuses on how agricultural investment should be prioritized across territories within countries to maximize economic returns. With this purpose in mind, we develop a spatial and economic tool for strategic analysis and visioning to help understand where the best opportunities for investments in agriculture, with specific examples for investments in irrigation and roads in Ethiopia and Malawi. For such investments to be effective for poverty alleviation, it is necessary that they lead to farm-level increases in productivity and are translated into higher incomes and better livelihoods for rural households. Our proposed approach utilizes stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to estimate smallholders’ agricultural potential under optimal conditions and compare it with their current performance to assess their efficiency levels. SFA allows the econometric exploration of the notion that, given fixed local agroecological and economic conditions in a region and the occurrence of random shocks that affect agricultural production, the decisions farmers and policymakers make translate into higher or lower production and profits. Inefficiency is then defined as the loss incurred by operating away from an ideal production frontier, and by estimating where this frontier lies, and how far each producer is from it, SFA helps to identify local potential and efficiency levels to construct the typology. For this report, we show how this approach can allow us to compare estimated agricultural potential and efficiency levels under current conditions and hypothetical investment scenarios and calculate what are the agricultural profit gains linked to each case. We can then extrapolate these results at the regional level for the whole country and combine them with GIS data on local agroecological conditions, water availability, topography, and road infrastructure to construct our typology. In particular, we use our typology results to assess where investments in agriculture would be more effective in bringing rural households out of poverty (closing the poverty gap), and how two different types of investments can increase rural households’ incomes through an increase in the profitability of smallholder agriculture. The first scenario looks at the impact of an increase in access to irrigation through river diversion methods, while the second scenario looks at the impact of an increase in market access, which we simulate by analyzing what would be the impact of reducing travel time to the nearest market (city of least 25,000 inhabitants) from any farm in the country by 50%. For Ethiopia, we find pockets of considerable unattained farm profits located throughout the central and western parts of the country, where opportunities for investments to close efficiency gaps in agricultural production and marketing can yield high returns. Low potential in the eastern lowlands limit opportunities for gains from efficiency-oriented investments, and development efforts in these regions should be focused in long-term, large scale interventions that shift the agricultural frontier. With respect to poverty alleviation, our results show that for many regions in the country, especially in the high central plateau, investing in increasing the efficiency of smallholders would be enough to close the poverty gap. In contrast, many areas in the Somali, Tigray, Afar, Oromia, and SNNP regions would require unrealistically high shifts in their agricultural potential due to its current low level combined in many cases with higher than average poverty gaps. The results from the improved irrigation access scenario are heavily constrained by the surface water availability constraint and show that the largest impacts would be observed in Somali and Afar, while in the case of the improved market access scenario, these benefits would extend to Tigray as well. For Malawi, our maps show higher agricultural potential in the Northern and Central regions of the country, consistent with the higher precipitation levels and the agroecological suitability for horticulture in the Kasungu Lilongwe Plain (central), and the staple crop producing areas in the north (such as Chipita). The southern region suffers from lower potential due to poorer general weather conditions and lower rainfall levels. The unattained potential map shows that despite high levels of efficiency, potential in the north is high enough for the remaining gap to be significant, and that the levels of efficiency in the southern tip of the country are low enough to offer some opportunities for efficiency enhancing investments in those areas as well. The poverty analysis shows that the incidence and depth of poverty are higher in the Southern Region of Malawi, but that the poverty gap in all districts of the country could be closed by investing in efficiency enhancing interventions in agriculture without depending on investments that shift the agricultural profit frontier. The results from the improved irrigation access scenario show a larger impact in the Central Region of the country, particularly the districts of Kasungu, Dowa, and Salima, while the improved market access scenario benefits are more evenly spread out across the country
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