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Maratus chrysomelas Simon 1909
No full textMaratus chrysomelas (Simon, 1909) (FIGURES 1 B, E, H) Habrocestum chrysomelas Simon, 1909: 201. Lycidas chrysomelas: Żabka, 1987: 457, figs 19‒22; Waldock, 2002: 228, figs 1‒10. Material examined. MALE (QM-S96329) from Australia, central Queensland, Emerald, 23°31’S, 148°09’E, L. Sanders, 26 Sep. 2015, hand coll. Distribution. Previously known from Western Australia to New South Wales and Victoria (Otto & Hill, 2016a), now also recorded from central Queensland.Published as part of Baehr, Barbara C. & Whyte, Robert, 2016, The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species, pp. 501-525 in Zootaxa 4154 (5) on page 503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25578
Kyle P. Whyte: Ancestrale dystopier
No full textThis book chapter is an introduction to the work of Kyle P. Whyte. Whyte is a Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in North America. Whyte's research addresses issues of environmental and climate justice. In particular, focusing on the challenges and injustices experienced by indigenous peoples in relation to the impacts of climate change and indigenous peoples' right to collective self-determination
Whyte-Out: How the Creator of Groupthink Became Unseen by Management's History
No full textIrving Janis’ (1971) concept of ‘groupthink’, the idea that the desire for consensus overrides the realistic appraisals of alternatives and leads to poor decision making, is a staple of management and organizational behavior textbooks. Despite gaining little support in empirical studies, Janis’ eight symptoms of groupthink remains a popular framework taught to budding managers. What has been forgotten, however, is that nearly 20 years before Janis’ supposed invention, groupthink was created by William H Whyte, author of one of the 1950s’ most influential and popular books on management. We investigate how Whyte’s link to groupthink became invisible to management’s history, why this matters, and how recovering Whyte’s ideas can provide fresh, critical insights into people dynamics in contemporary organizations.
Edmund Burke, John Whyte and Themes in Canadian Constitutional Culture
No full textJohn Whyte, the author observes, is committed to the idea that there are moral foundations to Canada\u27s constitutional order and that these foundations are derived from liberal principles. This paper compares Whyte\u27s liberal and organicist constitutionalism to that of the eighteenth century British political thinker, Edmund Burke. Three themes are predominant in Whyte\u27s work: those of liberty and security, unity and diversity, and constitutional change. Drawing out these themes in both Whyte\u27s and Burke\u27s constitutional thought, the author argues that Whyte has a sound historical basis for deriving Canadian constitutional practices from liberal principles ordinarily associated with Burke. The author concludes by asking this question: if Canadian constitutionalism can be reduced to liberalism, what distinguishes Canada from the United States, and more critically, what will prevent Canada from being absorbed into a larger North American political unit
Continuity and change in a partitioned civil society : Whyte revisited
No full textRevised version of a paper presented at the final conference of the Mapping frontiers, plotting pathways: routes to North-South cooperation in a divided island programme, City Hotel, Armagh, 19-20 January 2006.This paper revisits John Whyte’s seminal 1983 article “The permeability of the United Kingdom-Irish border: a preliminary reconnaissance” (Whyte, 1983). The objective
is to explore hypotheses Whyte put forward as to why some private organisations are all-Ireland while others follow the international boundary. He suggested that two variables are crucial in explaining this: the nature of the organisation’s activities and the date of its foundation. He also identified a lack of readily available information on foundation dates. To overcome this lacuna we carried out a survey of private organisations to ascertain their foundation date, area of activity and what if any territorial reconfiguring they have undergone. Using the same functional categories as Whyte our research is generally supportive of his initial findings. Civil society can act as a counter-force to the boundary reinforcing dynamics of separate state developments.Not applicableti ke se - 100706 RB
An Exploratory Investigation of Traditional Scoring in Diving and Relationships to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Opportunities
No full textThis study investigated the conceptions of perfection that figure in the minds of divers, coaches, and judges. Additionally, consideration was given to their views of whether an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based scoring system could be relied upon to yield authentic results, allied with the desirability of its use. Six participants (2 each of diver, coach, judge) were interviewed. Following verbatim transcriptions, thematic analyses were conducted to identify commonly occurring themes relevant to diving and its scoring system. The results of this preliminary study have shown a leaning towards clarification of the rules on point deductions by FINA (Fédération Internationale De Natation/ International Swimming Federation). Furthermore, the concept of perfection in diving changes from country to country and culture to culture, providing further difficulties in the objectivity of judging and there was a call for openness and clarity. With the human element of judging carrying weakness and allowing for errors, subsequently, it was felt by the respondents that some parts of a dive should be measured with technology where feasible. There was a consensus that judges could not be fully replaced without substantive changes to the sport of diving, in effect losing the artistic element that is subjectively assessed
Bruno Alfieri, “The United States at the 24th Biennale”; Introduction to Carla Lonzi, “An Operative Category”; Introduction to Mario Diacono, “Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauan, Joseph Kosuth”; Introduction to Tommaso Trini, “Art thet is More Realistic than Reality”
No full textLa pubblicazione Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, a cura di C. Hopkins, I.B. Whyte, include testi di critici di varie nazioni europee dedicati all’arte statunitense dal 1945 al 1990, che non erano mai stati tradotti in inglese, commentati da brevi introduzioni. L’autore dei testi introduttivi ai saggi ha selezionati anche i saggi.
Il testo The United States at the 24th Biennale (Gli Stati Uniti alla XXIV Biennale) di Bruno Alfieri pubblicato in “Arte Contemporanea”, ottobre 1948, è dedicato al Padiglione americano alla Biennale di Venezia del 1948; il testo An Operative Category (Una categoria operativa) di Carla Lonzi pubblicato in “Marcatrè”, n. 8-9-10, luglio-agosto-settembre 1964, è dedicato al new dada e alla pop art presentati alla Biennale di Venezia del 1964; il testo Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth (Materia – Destruttura: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth), di Mario Diacono pubblicato in “Collage, n. 9 dicembre 1970, è dedicato a tre importanti artisti americani di tendenza concettuale e processuale; il testo Art that is More Realistic than Reality” (Un’arte più realista della realtà) di Tommaso Trini pubblicato in “Corriere della Sera”, 19 settembre 1974, è una recensione della mostra tenutasi alla Rotonda della Besana e dedicata all’iperrealismo americano ed europeo.Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, edited by C. Hopkins, I.B. Whyte, included text by art critics from several European Nations dedicated to the art in US since 1945 to 1990, never translated in English, analized in brief introductions. The author the introductions to the essays, has previously selected them.
The text The United States at the 24th Biennale by Bruno Alfieri, pubblished in “Arte Contemporanea”, October 1948, is dedicated to the American Pavillion at Venice Biennial 1948; the text An Operative Category by Carla Lonzi, pubblished in “Marcatrè”, no. 8-9-10, July-August-September 1964, is dedicated to new dada and to pop art, showed at Venice Biennial in 1964; the text Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth by Mario Diacono, pubblished in “Collage, no. 9 dicembre 1970, is dedicated to three important American conceptual and processual artists; the text Art that is More Realistic than Reality”, by Tommaso Trini, pubblished in “Corriere della Sera”, September 19 ,1974, is a review of the exhivtion at Rotonda della Besana, Milan, dedicated to American and European hyperrealism
Ariadna kiwirrkurra Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov.
No full textAriadna kiwirrkurra Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. (FIGURE 1 A–C, 2, 3 A–I, 4 A–F) Material examined. Holotype male (WAM-T138053) from Australia: Western Australia, Kiwirrkurra, SSS1, 22°51'56"S, 127°45'41"E, 449m, B. Baehr et.al., 8–18 Sep. 2015, vertebrate traps. Paratypes: 3 males (WAM-T138054) same as previous; 2 males (WAM-T138052), Kiwirrkurra SSS2, 22°48'42"S, 127°49'52"E, 436m, B. Baehr, et al. 8–18 Sep. 2015, vertebrate traps; 1 male (QM-S96340) same as previous. Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality. Kiwirrkurra in the Gibson Desert is one of Australia's most recent Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA). Diagnosis. Ariadna kiwirrkurra can be separated from A. decatetracantha Main, 1954 in having a fovea as an indented pit (A. decatetracantha has no fovea); from A. thyrianthina Simon, 1908 by the oval opisthosoma (opisthosoma cylindrical in A. thyrianthina); from Ariadna burchelli (Hogg, 1900) by the absence of any opisthosomal pattern (A. burchelli has an opisthosomal pattern); from A. octospinata (Lamb, 1911) by PME in line of PLE (PME placed behind the line of PLE in A. octospinata) and from A. dysderina L. Koch, 1873 by the round PME (PME oval in A. dysderina). A. kiwirrkurra can be separated from the remaining non mainland Australian Ariadna species, in having the long paturon forward directed with lateral condyle; and a large globular palpal bulb at least twice the diameter of the tibia. Description. Male (Holotype, WAM-T138053). Total length 7.18. Prosoma 3.72 long, 2.84 wide, pl/pw 1.31; sternum 2.55 long, 1.29 wide, sl/sw 1.97, nearly 2 x as long as wide; opisthosoma 3.46 long, 2.56 wide. Eyes, anterior eye row narrower than posterior eye row; lateral and median eyes contiguous; eyes arranged in 3 closely spaced diads; PME largest; ALE 0.18; PME 0.19; PLE 0.18; ALE-ALE 0.33; PME-PLE 0.13. Clypeus 0.14 high. Prosoma dark brown, oval, reticulated, posteriorly concave (Fig. 3 A), sides rebordered and slightly undulated, fovea an indented pit. Chelicerae dark brown, directed forward; paturon twice as long as wide with lateral condyles, promargin with 3 (Fig. 4 B), retromargin with 1 tiny tooth, fangs short directed medially (Fig. 4 A). Endites, labium, medium brown, tips of endites white (Fig. 4 B); sternum pale sides darker (Fig. 3 A); opisthosoma oval, dark brown without any pattern; venter medium brown, booklungs pale (Fig. 38). Endites: serrula a single row of teeth (Fig. 3 D). Legs robust, yellow; leg I, II: distal part of femur, patella and tibia dark brown; metatarsus I with prolateral tubercle (Fig. 3 F, 4C, D), superior tarsal claw I and II with about 13 teeth (Fig. 4 E), claw III and IV with about 7 medially situated teeth (Fig. 4 F), inferior claw tiny, without teeth (Fig. 4 F). Tarsus IV ventrally swollen (Fig. 4 F). Leg formula: II-I-IV-III. Leg measurements: I, femur 3.36, patella 1.15, tibia 2.90, metatarsus 2.60, tarsus 1.02, total 10.13; II, 3.07, 1.26, 2.75, 2.73, 0.93, 10.74; III, 2.54, 0.73, 1.72, 1.66, 0.85, 7.50; IV, 3.17, 1.08, 2.33, 1.98, 0.96, 9.16. Leg spination (only surfaces bearing spines are listed): I: femur d1-1-1, p3ap,dr1ap; patella p1ap; tibia p1-1-1-1-1, vp2-2-2-1, vr1-1-1-1, r1-1-1-1-1-1-1; metatarsus p1-0-0-1, r1-0-0-1; II: femur d1-1-1-1, dp2ap,dr2ap; tibia p1-1-1, vp1-1-1, vr1-1-1-1, r1-1-1-1-1-1-1; metatarsus p1-1-1, v1, r1-1- 1-1; III: femur d1-1-1-1, dp2ap,dr2ap; tibia p1-1-1, v1, r1-1-1-1; metatarsus p1-1-1, v1, vr1-1, r1-1; IV: femur d1-1-1-1- 1; metatarsus r1. Male palp (Figs 3 G-I): cymbium short, dorsally indented about as long as wide, covered with black setae (Fig. 3 H); large globular palpal bulb twice the diameter of the tibia (Figs 3 G, I), embolus long and thin; tip s-shaped (Figs 3 G, I). Female. Unknown Distribution. Known only from the Kiwirrkurra IPA in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia (Fig. 1 A–C).Published as part of Baehr, Barbara C. & Whyte, Robert, 2016, The first described male Tube-web Spider for mainland Australia: Ariadna kiwirrkurra sp. nov. (Araneae: Segestriidae), pp. 595-599 in Zootaxa 4189 (3) on pages 595-597, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.3.11, http://zenodo.org/record/16623
Edmund Burke, John Whyte, and Themes in Canadian Constitutional Culture
No full textThis is the version of record of an article authored by David Schneiderman and published in the Queen's Law Journal.John Whyte, the author observes, is committed to the idea that there are moral foundations to Canada’s constitutional order and that these foundations are derived from liberal principles. This paper compares Whyte’s liberal and organicist constitutionalism to that of the eighteenth century British political thinker, Edmund Burke. Three themes are predominant in Whyte’s work: those of liberty and security, unity and diversity, and constitutional change. Drawing out these themes in both Whyte’s and Burke’s constitutional thought, the author argues that Whyte has a sound historical basis for deriving Canadian constitutional practices from liberal principles ordinarily associated with Burke. The author concludes by asking this question: if Canadian constitutionalism can be reduced to liberalism, what distinguishes Canada from the United States, and more critically, what will prevent Canada from being absorbed into a larger North American political unit?This article was sponsored by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Summer Assistantship Programme and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council
Airborne particle counting with an LSAPC
No full textThis article is the fourth of a short series of extracts from Bill Whyte’s new book Cleanroom Testing and Monitoring. Chapter 11, Airborne particle counting with an LSAPC, is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, Bill Whyte, the publisher, Euromed Communications, and the owner of the copyright, the Cleanroom Testing and Certification Board - International (CTCB-I). The objective in publishing these extracts is to give readers a flavour of the content and depth of the book which is recommended as a comprehensive textbook and an essential reference for cleanroom managers, cleanroom test engineers, cleanroom service engineers, cleanroom designers and specifiers and anybody who is concerned with cleanrooms
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