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First description of neonate Batagur trivittata (Testudines: Geoemydidae)
No full textPlatt, Steven G., Lwin, Tint, Win, Myo Min, Platt, Kalyar, Haislip, Nathan A., Dijk, Peter Paul Van, Rainwater, Thomas R. (2020): First description of neonate Batagur trivittata (Testudines: Geoemydidae). Zootaxa 4821 (2): 394-400, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4821.2.1
Fauna associated with the nests of Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus moreletii × acutus in Belize
No full textPlatt, Steven G., Rainwater, Thomas R., McMurry, Scott T. (2021): Fauna associated with the nests of Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus moreletii × acutus in Belize. Journal of Natural History 55 (3-4): 133-149, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1895350, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2021.189535
Lighting the blue touch paper, and building well
No full textArchitectural practice has become considerably more complex in the last twenty years, not to mention since the days of Wright. Many more professions are involved in realising a building, and the construction industry has become professionalised in areas such as health and safety, management training and continuing professional development. Procurement methods for buildings are proliferating and roles for all involved changing, especially for the architect. Shorter timescales are common and there is a general consensus that, in the UK at least, there is a serious skills shortage in the industry and a decline in the quality of the building trades. The industry has become both more litigious and more international. Christopher Platt studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. He has held senior positions in architectural practices in Scotland, England (Maguire and Murray), Germany and Ethiopia (Abba Architects). He was until recently course director for BSc. Architectural Studies at the Department of Architecture, Strathclyde University. He is the founding partner, with Roderick Kemsley, of studio KAP architects, whose built work has been published in Germany, Japan, Italy and Scandinavia. He has lectured in the UK, Germany, Ethiopia, Malaysia and China. Steven Spier is visiting professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where he was previously head of department. He is currently principal and vice-chancellor of the new HafenCity University Hamburg, a University of the Built Environment and Metropolitan Development. He is the author of Swiss Made
David Platt Headlines Missions Conference
No full textDavid Platt, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, will be the featured speaker during Cedarville University’s annual Missions Conference, January 12-14.
Platt, who previously served as the lead pastor at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, is the author of several books and the founder of Radical.net, a resource ministry that helps churches around the globe.
He will speak at 7 p.m. on Jan. 12 and again at 10 a.m. on Jan. 13. Platt is one of four speakers who will take the stage during the Missions Conference, which has the theme “God’s Heart for the Nations.
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse and Other Stories
No full textThis is, I believe, a reproduction of the Platt and Munk original I have dated to 1939? It is in good condition. This reprint seems to have paper of a different quality. As I write there, this is a selection of three fables (TMCM, DS, and The Rooster and the Fox) presented in The Road in Storyland (1932). Good runs of the lovely colored illustrations; several of the illustrations are rendered only in black-and-white. One illustration is added for The Rooster and the Fox.Watty Piper N
Figure 4 in Fauna associated with the nests of Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus moreletii × acutus in Belize
No full textFigure 4. Black-bellied whistling-duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) nest found in close proximity to a C. moreletii nest on an island in Gold Button Lagoon, northern Belize (a). Photograph showing location of duck nest (yellow notebook at lower left) relative to crocodile nest (white arrow) among dense tangle of vines covering the small island (b).Published as part of Platt, Steven G., Rainwater, Thomas R. & McMurry, Scott T., 2021, Fauna associated with the nests of Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus moreletii × acutus in Belize, pp. 133-149 in Journal of Natural History 55 (3-4) on page 141, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1895350, http://zenodo.org/record/546989
Book Review: Lake of the Mind: A Conversation with Steven Holl
No full textA review of a new book centering on a single conversation between author Diana Carta and the American architect Steven Holl, discussing his early morning watercolour studies design process and the importance of physical place in relation to this process.
It is a recent publication on precisely his cabin at Round Lake. It's a little book [80 pages in A5 15x21cm], curated by Diana Carta, a young Italian architect/critic/curator, illustrated, consisting of a conversation between Carta and Holl, with an introduction by Yehuda Safran, and a post-face by Carta herself. It is published by LetteraVentidue, a small Italian publisher specialized on architecture and design.
The key insights in the review are the significance of the regularity of the process, rather than the physical place where it takes place and that Hill uses this process to both initiate new ideas as well as revises or develop further ideas already in development.
The review is critical of the design and structure of the book but makes a number of comments which would inform further research into Steven Holl's design methodology
Harvey Mudd College : The First Twenty Years
No full textJoseph Platt, the author, was the founding president of Harvey Mudd College and a senior professor of physics.https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_facbooks/1001/thumbnail.jp
FIGURE 3 in First description of neonate Batagur trivittata (Testudines: Geoemydidae)
No full textFIGURE 3. Plastron of neonate Batagur trivittata showing umbilical scar and prominent keel-like bony ridge extending along the lateral edge from humeral to anal scutes (A). Lateral view of the bony ridge (B). Note the sharp rearward pointing spines on the bony ridge, which become blunt by age three and disappear by age four. The bony ridge recedes with age and is no longer evident by age five. Note also the spine-like posterior-pointing projections on the medial keel of the carapace (Photographed by Myo Min Win).Published as part of Platt, Steven G., Lwin, Tint, Win, Myo Min, Platt, Kalyar, Haislip, Nathan A., Dijk, Peter Paul Van & Rainwater, Thomas R., 2020, First description of neonate Batagur trivittata (Testudines: Geoemydidae), pp. 394-400 in Zootaxa 4821 (2) on page 397, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/401508
Apis mellifera subsp. scutellata Lepeletier 1836
No full textHoneybees (Apis mellifera scutellata) A colony of Africanised honeybees was present during July and August 1997 (and perhaps longer) in a hollow stump located approximately 2 m from a C. moreletii nest on a low-lying island in GBL. The bees aggressively defended the area surrounding the nest and one of us (TRR) together with an accompanying dog (Canis lupus familiaris) were stung repeatedly as we attempted to remove, measure, and weigh eggs at the nest. The honey bee colony was no longer present when we returned to the island in 1998 or thereafter.Published as part of Platt, Steven G., Rainwater, Thomas R. & McMurry, Scott T., 2021, Fauna associated with the nests of Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus moreletii × acutus in Belize, pp. 133-149 in Journal of Natural History 55 (3 - 4) on page 138, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1895350, http://zenodo.org/record/546989
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