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Deleaster wilhelmensis Shaw & Eos & Llc & Cs & Cs 2018, sp. nov.
No full textDeleaster wilhelmensis sp. nov. Type locality. Papua New Guinea, Eastern Highlands, Mt. Wilhelm, Pengal River, 9200 ft. [ca. 2760 m], [approximate coordinates: 5 ° 47ʹS 145 ° 05ʹE. Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀: “ New Guinea, Eastern Highlands, Mt. Wilhelm.Pengal River, 9200 ft., 16.5- 9.6.1963. W.W.Brandt // Deleaster det. A.F. Newton 1987 // ANIC Specimen [green label] // HOLOTYPE Deleaster wilhelmensis sp. nov. Jenkins Shaw des. 2017”. The holotype is deposited in the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC). Description. Measurements (all in millimeters): HW = 1.41; TW = 1.13; PW = 1.33; SW = 2.26; AW = 2.43; Hl = 1.03; el = 0.55; Tl = 0.27; Pl = 1.13; sl = 2.55; sC = 2.23; FB = 4.9; Bl = 7.6. Habitus as in Fig. 1A. Overall dark brown with head appearing slightly darker, almost black. Antennae dark brown. Legs light brown; tarsi slightly paler than tibiae and femora. Head excluding clypeus transverse; clypeus strongly produced with two pairs of small punctures situated laterally. Head and clypeus with linear microsculpture. Vertex with two punctate impressions extending from posterior edge of head to inner margin of eyes. Labrum weakly emarginate. Frontoclypeal (epistomal) suture distinct (Fig. 1B: fs). Temples with weak setiferous punctures. Neck with distinct transverse microsculpture. Antennae with first antennomere distinctly thickened compared to subsequent antennomeres; third antennomere as long as first antennomere. Antennal insertions almost obscured in dorsal view. All antennomeres with both macro and micro setae. Apical area of antennomeres six to ten with short, stout white setae (referred to as ‘ciliae’ by HAYASHI (1984)). Pronotum widest anteriorly, weakly narrowed posteriorly; front angles forming an evenly rounded right angle; hind angles evenly rounded. Dorsal surface with distinct linear microsculpture and weak punctures throughout, the distance between the punctures equal to the diameter of two or three punctures combined. Pair of larger punctures present towards anterior margin of pronotum. Laterobasal areas of pronotum each with impression extending halfway along edge of pronotum, with some micro setae at the posterior end of each impression. Central basal area with distinct transverse impression. Hypomeron large; covered with microsculpture (Fig. 1C: hy). Apex of basisternum acute. Scutellum slightly paler than elytra; with rugose microsculpture and pale pubescence. Elytra widest at apical third; confusely but weakly punctured with short pale setae; weak rugose microsculpture present between elytral punctures. Hind wings apparently present (not studied), folded under elytra. Legs rather long and slender; fifth tarsomere as long as one to four combined. Claws half the length of fifth protarsomere. Abdomen broadest at tergite IV. Tergites covered in short pale setae; weak transverse microsculpture present except at medioapical area of each tergite. Tergites III to VI with widely separated pair of long golden macro setae situated close to posterior margin; tergite VII with two pairs of widely seperated long golden macro setae situated close to posterior margin. Tergite VIII with middle of apical margin deeply incised, forming pair of small teeth, each bordered by a long lobe (Fig. 1D). Differential diagnosis. Aside from being a geographic outlier within the genus (Fig. 2), D. wilhelmensis may be distinguished from congeners based on the following combination of characters: overall dark brown colouration; pronotum without pubescence; distinctly wide and rounded lateral contour in apical third of elytra; abdomen widest at tergite III; tergite VIII with middle of apical margin deeply incised, forming pair of small teeth, each bordered by a long lobe (Fig. 1D). CUCCODORO & MAK- RANCZY (2013) were the first to mention and illustrate the structure of tergite VIII in the genus and in the Afrotropical Deleaster they noted the shape was similar in both sexes. Deleaster wilhelmensis can be distinguished from congeners based on the following: from D. dichrous (Gravenhorst, 1802) and D. trimaculatus Fall, 1910 by the dark colouration of the elytra; from D. pectinatus Fauvel, 1882, D. gibbosus Cuccodoro & Makranczy, 2013 and D. negus Cuccodoro & Makranczy, 2013 by the shape of tergite VIII (middle of apical margin deeply incised, forming pair of small teeth, each bordered by a long lobe); from D. yokoyamai Adachi, 1935 by the presence of microsculpture on the head, longer second antennomere compared to third and lack of pubescence on the pronotum; from D. bactrianus Semenow, 1900 by the longer second antennomere compared to third, front angles or pronotum evenly rounded (obtuse in D. bactrianus) and abdomen widest at tergite IV (tergite V in D. bactrianus); from D. taiwanensis Hayashi, 1984 by the abdomen widest at tergite IV (tergite V in D. taiwanensis) and shape of tergite VIII (described as ‘shallowly emarginate’ for D. taiwanensis by HAYASHI (1984)). Etymology. The species name refers to the fact that the only known specimen of D. wilhelmensis was collected from Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea. It is an adjective derived from the mountain’s name. Distribution and bionomics. The single known specimen was collected from Mount Wilhelm at about 2760 m with the locality given as Pengal River (Fig 2). According to BISHOP MUSEUM (1966) and SIBATANI (1974), Pengal River as referred to in Brandt’s collection is ‘Pengal R (upper), 5 ° 47’ 145 ° 05’, 2760 m’ and is apparently on the east side of Mount Wilhelm and the northern slope of the Bismarck Range, upstream of the Imbrum River. Although the precise habitat or method of collecting for this specimen is unknown, most likely it is a riparian. It is notable that all known species of Deleaster are confined to wet habitats (e.g. stream banks, leaf litter, caves, under stones) and often in mountainous regions (GREBENNIKOV 2002).Published as part of Shaw, Josh Jenkins, 2018, Significant range expansion for the rove beetle genus Deleaster, based on a new species from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae), pp. 21-24 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0004, http://zenodo.org/record/367523
PiLa-CS Professional Learning Community - Workshop 2 Resources
No full textDuring the Summer of 2021 and 2022, the Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS) Research Practice Partnership convened and supported a community of practice to learn more about how to enable better CS teaching for emergent bilinguals. These are materials from Workshop 2 of the PLC.Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant CNS-1738645 and DRL-1837446. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
Translanguaging Pedagogy in CS Ed
No full textEpisode 3: Translanguaging pedagogy in CS Education
This video looks at how multilingual students already use translanguaging in their computer science classes and discusses how CS educators can further support them with translanguaging pedagogy, a framework that prompts teachers to consider their stance, design, and shifts.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS), https://www.pila-cs.orgEpisode 3: Translanguaging pedagogy in CS Education
This video looks at how multilingual students already use translanguaging in their computer science classes and discusses how CS educators can further support them with translanguaging pedagogy, a framework that prompts teachers to consider their stance, design, and shifts.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS), https://www.pila-cs.orgSponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant CNS-1738645 and DRL-1837446. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
PiLa-CS Professional Learning Community - Design Journal Template
No full textDuring the Summer of 2021 and 2022, the Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS) Research Practice Partnership convened and supported a community of practice to learn more about how to enable better CS teaching for emergent bilinguals. These are materials from from the PLC for a Design Journal to act as a planing template for teachers.Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant CNS-1738645 and DRL-1837446. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
CS Decomposition Based Bayesian Subspace Estimation
Get PDFIn numerous applications, it is required to estimate the principal subspace of the data, possibly from a very limited number of samples. Additionally, it often occurs that some rough knowledge about this subspace is available and could be used to improve subspace estimation accuracy in this case. This is the problem we address herein and, in order to solve it, a Bayesian approach is proposed. The main idea consists of using the CS decomposition of the semi-orthogonal matrix whose columns span the subspace of interest. This parametrization is intuitively appealing and allows for non informative prior distributions of the matrices involved in the CS decomposition and very mild assumptions about the angles between the actual subspace and the prior subspace. The posterior distributions are derived and a Gibbs sampling scheme is presented to obtain the minimum mean-square distance estimator of the subspace of interest. Numerical simulations and an application to real hyperspectral data assess the validity and the performances of the estimator
Arizona Then and Now: Exploring Arizona's Five Cs Through Photography
No full textabstract: Arizona Then and Now: Exploring Arizona's Five Cs Through Photography is a photographic exploration of the evolution of Arizona's five Cs: cotton, copper, citrus, cattle, and climate. This project first looks to the past to see how these five elements shaped the state of Arizona. Photographs were taken across the valley of these elements, or lack thereof, discovering what Arizona has transformed into in the process. Each chapter of the book begins with a brief history of the element focused on in that chapter, followed by an analytical thought about the photographs taken and how the element has evolved. Each chapter shows two historical photographs followed by a series of photographs taken during the project that the author thought depicted what is seen today. The book ends on a final positive note about how the five Cs are not dead, but soon could be completely taken over. This project was a way for a non-art major to explore the state that she grew up while also challenging herself by more than just taking pictures. The photographs displayed in the book depict a sampling of what the author saw that is left of the five Cs
IR-improved DGLAP-CS QCD parton showers in Pythia8
No full textAbstractWe introduce the recently developed IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory into the showers in Pythia8, as this Monte Carlo event generator is in wide use at LHC. We show that, just as it was true in the IR-improved shower Monte Carlo Herwiri, which realizes the IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory in the Herwig6.5 environment, the soft limit in processes such as single heavy gauge boson production is now more physical in the IR-improved DGLAP-CS theory version of Pythia8. This opens the way to one’s getting a comparison between the actual detector simulations for some of the LHC experiments between IR-improved and unimproved showers as Pythia8 is used in detector simulations at LHC whereas Herwig6.5, the environment of the only other IR-improved DGLAP-CS QCD MC in the literature, Herwiri1.031, is not any longer so used. Our achieving the availability of the IR-improved DGLAP-CS Pythia8 then is an important step in the further development of the LHC precision theory program under development by the author and his collaborators
What CS Ed Can Offer Bi/Multilinguals
No full textEpisode 4: What can CS offer multilingual learners?
This video discusses how computer science education can benefit multilingual learners. You will meet a middle school ENL (English as a New Language) teacher who successfully incorporated both translanguaging pedagogy and CS education into her classroom, leading to a memorable experience for one of her students.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS), https://www.pila-cs.orgEpisode 4: What can CS offer multilingual learners?
This video discusses how computer science education can benefit multilingual learners. You will meet a middle school ENL (English as a New Language) teacher who successfully incorporated both translanguaging pedagogy and CS education into her classroom, leading to a memorable experience for one of her students.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS), https://www.pila-cs.orgSponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant CNS-1738645 and DRL-1837446. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
Microporous cesium salts of tetravalent Keggin-type polyoxotungstates Cs-4[SiW12O40], Cs-4[PW11O39(Sn-n-C4H9)], and Cs-4[PW11O39(Sn-OH)] and their adsorption properties
Get PDFMicroporous cesium salts of modified and unmodified tetravalent Keggin-type polyoxometalates, including Cs-4[SiW12O40], Cs-4[PW11O39(Sn-n-C4H9)], and Cs-4[PW11O39(Sn-OH)], were synthesized. The crystalline structures, which had body-centered cubic (bcc) arrangements, the lattice constants, and the pore-size distributions of the three Cs salts were similar, regardless of the presence or absence and types of functional groups introduced. The Cs salts had only micropores and no mesopores. The micropore size distributions were determined from adsorption isotherms of Ar, which showed a sharp peak at 0.59 nm and a shoulder at 0.62 nm. The fractions of the external surface areas to the total surface areas of the Cs salts were less than 6%. It is plausible that the micropores originate from the heteropoly anion defects in the crystallite, which form to avoid mismatches in the Cs+/(heteropoly anion) ratio required for charge balance (=4) and for a bcc structure (=3). The surface of the Cs salt introduced with n-butyl groups was hydrophobic, although the surface density of the n-butyl groups was low. On the other hand, the hydroxyl groups present on the surface of Cs-4[PW11O39(Sn-OH)] had little effect on the adsorption of water, methanol, ethanol, and hexane but a great impact on that for benzene due to the interactions between the -OH groups and the aromatic rings (-OH center dot center dot center dot pi). (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Interception and storage of wet deposited radionuclides in crops
Get PDFThe emission of radionuclides into the atmosphere from various sources, such as nuclear power plant accidents and nuclear bomb explosions, can result in the interception and uptake of radionuclides by crops in the agricultural ecosystem. These radionuclides e.g. radiocaesium (¹³⁴, ¹³⁷Cs) and radiostrontium (⁸⁵, 90Sr), can be transferred to foodstuffs via seeds or animal feed.
Therefore, in this thesis, the goal was to study the amount of ¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr that have been intercepted, taken-up and redistributed to different plant parts during wet deposition at different growth stages of spring oilseed rape, spring wheat and ley. For spring oilseed rape and spring wheat, the focus was on the transfer to the seeds after wet deposition of ¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr. The dependence between the interception of radionuclides and the growth stage, e.g. the total standing plant biomass and the leaf area index (LAI) were also studied.
There was a positive correlation between the interception of ¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr and LAI for all three crops. A positive correlation between the standing plant interception and the biomass of ¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr was found for spring wheat and ley, but not for spring oilseed rape. The highest interceptions of ¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr were at shooting for spring oilseed rape, and at maturity for spring wheat. For ley, the highest interception was at the well-developed stages.
Accumulation of ¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr in the different plant parts increased when deposition was close to harvest and the crops accumulated more ¹³⁴Cs than ⁸⁵Sr. The concentration of ⁸⁵Sr was lower in spring oilseed rape than in wheat grains. There was an indication that the distribution of radionuclides between the above ground plant parts was independent of the way that they entered into the plant after deposition of ¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr.
The variation in transfer factors found in this thesis in comparison with results from other studies suggest, that the estimate of the risk of possible uptake to crops in the event of future deposition during the growing season, is still subject to uncertainties
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