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Nikolai Evreinov and Edith Craig as Mediums of Modernist Sensibility
No full textNikolai Evreinov (1870-1953) was a Russian playwright, director, and theorist of the theatre who played a leading part in the modernist movement of Russian theatre. Evreinov's 1911 monodrama The Theatre of the Soul (V kulisakh dushi) was staged by the Crooked Mirror theatre in St Petersburg in 1912. It was also performed in London (1915) and Rome (1929), and inspired Man Ray to create his aerograph The Theatre of the Soul (1917). In this article Alexandra Smith links Evreinov's play to Russian modernist thought shaped by the atmosphere of crisis associated with the Russo-Japanese War and the first Russian Revolution. It demonstrates that Edith Craig's production of Evreinov's play suggests that the philosophy of theatricalization of everyday life might enable modern subjects to overcome the fragmentation of modern society. Craig's use of the montage-like techniques of Evreinov's play prefigures cinematographic experiments of the 1920s and Marinetti's notion of synthetic theatre. Alexandra Smith is a Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and is the author of The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the Works of Marina Tsvetaeva (1994) and Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry (2006), as well as numerous articles on Russian literature and culture.</p
Other title: Sullivan Township Board of Trustees, Appellant, v. Craig Butler, Director of Environmental Protection
No full textCraig Taborn and The Development of His Work to Date
No full textPředkládaná diplomová práce s názvem Craig Taborn a vývoj jeho dosavadní tvorby se zaměřuje na osobnost předního newyorského klavíristy Craiga Taborna (*1970). Cílem práce je vytvoření umělecko-estetického portrétu na základě chronologického přehledu hudby, kterou buď sám vytvořil, nebo se na ní významně podílel. Autor této práce zkoumá, jak se Tabornova hudba za třicet let pianistovy kariéry vyvíjela, k čemuž si dopomáhá zkoumáním Tabornových výroků a myšlenek s cílem přiblížit čtenáři, z jakých inspiračních zdrojů Tabornova hudba vychází, na jakých estetických hodnotách je založena a jak tyto estetické hodnoty výsledně formují Tabornovo skládání a improvizaci.The present masters thesis, entitled Craig Taborn and The Development of His Work to Date, focuses on the personality of the leading New York pianist Craig Taborn (*1970). The aim of the thesis is to create an artistic-aesthetic portrait based on a chronological survey of the music he has either created himself or made significant contributions to. The author of this thesis explores how Taborn's music has evolved over the thirty years of the pianist's career, and does so by examining Taborn's statements and ideas in order to bring the reader closer to the sources of inspiration that inform Taborn's music, the aesthetic values that underpin it, and how these aesthetic values ultimately shape Taborn's composing and improvising
Simulium (Inseliellum) adelaideae Craig, 2004, n. sp.
No full text<i>Simulium</i> (<i>Inseliellum</i>) <i>adelaideae</i> n. sp. <p>(Figs. 1–6, 27)</p> <p> <i>Types</i></p> <p>Holotype</p> <p> <b>Larva</b>: early penultimate instar as slide mount. Label data: “ <i>Simulium</i> (<i>I</i>) <i>adelaideae</i>. TAHITI. Above Lac Vaihiria, alt. 643 m. S17° 40.26’ W149° 25.33’. 30.viii.1998. Coll. D. A. Craig. HOLOTYPE. <b>#</b> 16523" (BPBM).</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis</i></p> <p> <b>Larva</b>: head markedly brown and yellow, head spot pattern negative; apices of hypostomal teeth forming straight array with only median tooth protruding; postgenal cleft essentially absent; posterior arms of anal sclerite completely encircling base of posterior proleg, markedly so ventrally; accessory sclerites extended anteromedially</p> <p> <i>Description</i></p> <p> <b>Adult female</b> (Unknown) <b>Adult male</b> (Unknown) <b>Pupa</b> (Unknown)</p> <p> <b>Larva</b> (based on one mature penultimate instar larva)</p> <p>Body: total length 5.8 mm; colour evenly greyish brown. Head (Figs. 1, 2): width 0.9 mm, length 1.1 mm; distance between antennal bases 0.51 mm; head spots yellow, anterior of apotome pale yellow, remainder of cuticle rich brown; head margins convex, markedly so posteriorly; cervical sclerites fused to postocciput; setae numerous, length normal, sockets raised; cuticle markedly corrugated and rugose (Fig. 3). Antenna: longer than labral­fan stem; total length 0.47 mm; distal article 0.13 mm; whole antenna markedly dark brown. Labral fan: fan stem light brown, hairy distally and posteriorly; 23 dark brown rays, 0.89 mm in length; 5–6 posterior rays finer than others, medial rays 0.02 mm wide; microtrichia 0.5 ray width, pattern of longer microtrichia with 7 subequal then two markedly smaller microtrichia between; ray apex extended. Postgenal bridge (Fig. 2): 7 times longer than cleft depth; yellow anteriorly. Postgenal cleft: essentially absent, except for small V­shaped notch. Hypostoma (Fig. 4): 17 teeth; prominent median tooth extended beyond others; sublateral teeth increased slightly in length laterally, but with tips in straight array; lateral teeth slightly longer than sublateral teeth; 1 paralateral tooth; 5–6 lateral serrations; 6 hypostomal setae per side. Mandible (Fig. 5): only apical tooth well developed; spinous teeth markedly developed; serration prominent, basal sensillum distinct. Maxilla: lobe rounded; palpus 4 times longer than width—markedly developed (Fig. 2). Mandibular phragma: extended ventrally to 0.3 depth of maxillary base. Abdomen: slightly amphora­shaped; posterodorsal cuticle not tuberculate, but with clear ovoid tubercles lateral of anal sclerite; sensilla trichoid, slightly elongated, sockets normal. Anal sclerite (Fig. 6): well developed and darkly pigmented; median region expanded laterally, well pigmented, markedly hirsute with distinct clear sockets; accessory sclerites extended anteromedially almost to anterodorsal arms of anal sclerite; ventral arms extended around posterior proleg, substantially so ventrally. Posterior proleg circlet of hooks: with 110 rows of hooks, 15–16 hooks per row. Rectal papillae: three, with small basal papillae.</p> <p> <i>Additional material examined</i></p> <p>None.</p> <p> <i>Etymology</i></p> <p>Named after Adelaide, daughter of D. Joy and F. Elliott.</p> <p> <i>Comments</i></p> <p> Superficially similar to <i>S. cataractarum</i> larvae, <i>S. adelaideae</i> differs noticeably in its enhanced head pattern and is perhaps the most colourful of all <i>Inseliellum</i> larvae, matched perhaps only by the head pattern of larval <i>S. arlecchinum</i> (Craig and Joy 2000). The number and arrangement of hypostomal teeth is similar to that seen in the <i>hirticranium</i> subgroup (Craig and Joy 2000) and is reminiscent of that seen in the <i>oviceps</i> group. The virtually absent postgenal cleft is also shared with the <i>hirticranium</i> group, as is the development of the anal sclerite. The apical teeth of the mandible are also similar to those of <i>S. hispidum</i>. Absence of tubercles on the abdominal cuticle is shared with larvae of <i>S. cataractarum</i> and the <i>hirticranium</i> subgroup, except that <i>S. adelaideae</i> possesses tuberculate cuticle just anterior of the anal sclerite. Although sharing numbers of synapomorphic traits with the <i>hirticranium</i> subgroup, <i>S. adelaideae</i> does, however, not show the diagnostic elongated head setae possessed by larvae of that taxonomic segregate. Still, with its complement of character states, <i>S. adelaideae</i> will no doubt, after more detailed phylogenetic analysis, be shown to be related to <i>S. cataractarum</i> and probably basal to the <i>hirticranium</i> subgroup.</p> <p> The type locality of <i>S. adelaideae</i> is the highest stream on the road that continues past and above Lac Vaihiria and through a tunnel to emerge in the Papenoo Valley. Fed by a small cascade the stream flows though dense vegetation before emerging (Fig. 27) into sunlight, then crosses the road to plunge some 200 m down into the Lac Vaihiria Valley. With air temperature at 21° C, water temperature was 18° C, pH 8.4, and conductivity 50 µS. Water velocity was 76–98 cm /s and depth ca. 30 cm.</p> <p> This small stream is unusual in the complement of species collected. Cascade­dwelling species (<i>S. cataractarum</i>, <i>S. dussertorum, S. fossatiae</i>, <i>S. oviceps</i>) probably originate from the cascade immediately upstream. Larvae of <i>S. lotii</i> and <i>S. malardei</i>, typical of smaller streams at lower altitude, were markedly larger than normal. <i>Simulium cheesmanae</i> adults were captured while trying to bite the author.</p>Published as part of <i>Craig, Douglas A., 2004, Three new species of Inseliellum (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Polynesia, pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 450</i> on pages 3-6, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/157955">10.5281/zenodo.157955</a>
Problémy v interkulturní komunikaci způsobené odlišností angličtiny a češtiny
No full textProblémy v interkulturní komunikaci způsobené odlišností angličtiny a češtiny Tato práce pojednává o interkulturní komunikaci a problémech, jež s sebou přináší. Autorka se zde zabývá historií a definicí interkulturní komunikace a problémy, které mohou vzniknout při komunikaci dvou různých kultur, velkou pozornost poté věnuje komunikaci Angličanů a Čechů, kde se zabývá nejen odlišností jazyků, ale také rozdílností v povaze těchto dvou kultur. Na základě výzkumu dotazníkovou metodou poté v praktické části porovnává dva různé vzorky českých vysokoškolských studentů angličtiny. Klíčová slova interkulturní komunikace, kultura, jazyk, komunikace, anglický jazyk, český jazyk, stereotypy, překážky, problémyProblems in Intercultural Communication Caused by Differences in Czech and English This thesis deals with intercultural communication and with the problems which it yields. The author is concerned with the history of intercultural communication and its definition, as well as with problems that may occur when two different cultures communicate. In addition, great attention is paid to communication between English and Czech people, where the author deals not only with the differences in languages, but also with the diverse nature of these two cultures. On the basis of a research made with help of a questionnaire, the author confronts two different samples of Czech university students of English. Key words intercultural communication, culture, language, communication, English language, Czech language, stereotypes, obstacles, problemsKatedra anglického jazyka a literaturyFaculty of EducationPedagogická fakult
Confirmation Bias and the Open Access Advantage: Some Methodological Suggestions for the Davis Citation Study
No full text: Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. For 1,600 of the 11,000 articles (15%), their authors paid the publisher to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome, confirming previous studies (on both paid and unpaid OA), is a significant OA citation Advantage, but a small one (21%, 4% of it correlated with other article variables such as number of authors, references and pages). The author infers that the size of the OA advantage in this biomedical sample has been shrinking annually from 2004-2007, but the data suggest the opposite. In order to draw valid conclusions from these data, the following five further analyses are necessary: (1) The current analysis is based only on author-choice (paid) OA. Free OA self-archiving needs to be taken into account too, for the same journals and years, rather than being counted as non-OA, as in the current analysis. (2) The proportion of OA articles per journal per year needs to be reported and taken into account. (3) Estimates of journal and article quality and citability in the form of the Journal Impact Factor and the relation between the size of the OA Advantage and journal as well as article “citation-bracket” need to be taken into account. (4) The sample-size for the highest-impact, largest-sample journal analyzed, PNAS, is restricted and is excluded from some of the analyses. An analysis of the full PNAS dataset is needed, for the entire 2004-2007 period. (5) The analysis of the interaction between OA and time, 2004-2007, is based on retrospective data from a June 2008 total cumulative citation count. The analysis needs to be redone taking into account the dates of both the cited articles and the citing articles, otherwise article-age effects and any other real-time effects from 2004-2008 are confounded. Davis proposes that an author self-selection bias for providing OA to higher-quality articles (the Quality Bias, QB) is the primary cause of the observed OA Advantage, but this study does not test or show anything at all about the causal role of QB (or of any of the other potential causal factors, such as Accessibility Advantage, AA, Competitive Advantage, CA, Download Advantage, DA, Early Advantage, EA, and Quality Advantage, QA). The author also suggests that paid OA is not worth the cost, per extra citation. This is probably true, but with OA self-archiving, both the OA and the extra citations are free
Lepadichthys bilineatus Craig, Bogorodsky and Randall, new species
No full textLepadichthys bilineatus Craig, Bogorodsky and Randall, new species Figure 1; Table 1 Holotype: BPBM 36336, 23.5 mm SL, Oman, southeastern coast, Rahah Bay, 16 ° 57 ’N, 54 ° 49 ’E, tidal pool (0–1.5 m), rotenone, J.E. Randall and I. McLeish, 6 February 1993. Diagnosis. A species of Lepadichthys with origins of dorsal and anal fins posterior on body and lacking a membrane connecting them to caudal fin; dorsal-fin rays 16; anal-fin rays 13; pectoral-fin rays 23; principal caudal-fin rays 10, total caudal-fin rays 18; gill rakers 10; head large, its length 3.1 in SL; body depth 8.0 in SL; disc single; disc length 6.6 in SL; disc width 6.5 in SL; color when fresh as in Fig. 1 A, color in alcohol uniform tan (Fig. 1 B). Description. Dorsal-fin rays 16; anal-fin rays 13; pectoral-fin rays 23; principal caudal-fin rays 10; upper and lower procurrent caudal-fin rays 4; gill rakers 10 on second and third arches; vertebrae 34; body long and slender, its depth 8.0 in SL; head length 3.1 in SL; head width 6.5 in SL; snout length 3.4 in HL; eye diameter 5.1 in HL; caudal-peduncle depth 0.8 in its length. Disc simple, lacking fattened papillae characteristic of the genus (although may be a result of damage to the disc), single and small, length 6.6 in SL, and width 6.5 in SL; anus slightly nearer to origin of anal fin than posterior edge of disc. Mouth inferior, slightly oblique, and small; upper-jaw length 10.9 in SL; front of jaws with conical teeth. Upper attachment of gill membrane opposite eighth pectoral-fin ray. Origin of dorsal fin slightly anterior to origin of anal fin; predorsal distance 1.5 in SL; postdorsal-caudal distance 5.8 in dorsal-fin length; preanal-fin distance 1.4 in SL. Color of holotype when fresh (Fig. 1 A): body grayish blue, grading ventrally and posteriorly to brownish orange, and to brownish red on about posterior fourth of body; head dark brown dorsally, abruptly yellowish on ventral half, becoming bright yellow on chin; two bluish white lines extending posteriorly and angling slightly ventrally from eye, one dorsally and one ventrally from eye; pupil encircled by a distinct red ring, with a pale blue dash below; outer two-thirds of pectoral fins translucent yellowish, basal third of fin orangish brown, grading to red ventrally on chest; disc yellow; dorsal and anal fins reddish yellow with a narrow pale blue-green margin and a maroon submarginal band; caudal fin colored like body on basal fifth, followed by vertical zones of yellow and dark reddish brown, the reddish brown of rays extending anteriorly into yellow zone; outer two-fifths of fin translucent whitish. Color of holotype in alcohol uniform tan (Fig. 1 B). Etymology. The species name bilineatus (Latin for “two lines”) is used in reference to the two parallel bluish white lines that extend posteriorly across the head. Remarks. The book Coastal fishes of Oman (Randall 1995) includes species accounts of two gobiesocid fishes, the distinctive long-snouted Diademichthys lineatus, usually found sheltering among the branches of coral or the spines of sea urchins, and Lepadichthys lineatus Briggs 1966, commensal in a crinoid (as Discotrema lineatum; see Craig & Randall (2008) for discussion of the nomenclatural history of this species). Fish collections for the book in 1993 also included single specimens of two unidentified clingfishes. One of these was described as the new genus and species, Briggsia hastingsi by Craig & Randall in 2009; the second specimen is described here as Lepadichthys bilineatus. We regret describing these two species from single specimens. We know of no plans for additional collections. The holotype of L. bilineatus is too desiccated to determine sensory pore number and arrangement, however we assume a similar arrangement and the same number of each pore sensu Shiogaki & Dotsu (1983). Lepadichthys bilineatus superficially resembles L. sandaracatus Whitley 1943 and L. frenatus, two species that Briggs (1955) considered as possibly conspecific. The three species share a relatively small disc, 16 dorsal-fin rays, and 13 anal-fin rays. Lepadichthys bilineatus differs in lacking a membrane connecting dorsal and anal fins to caudal fin (dorsal and anal fins joined by membrane to caudal fin in L. sandaracatus and L. frenatus), in having 23 pectoral-fin rays (27–28 in L. sandaracatus and L. frenatus), a smaller eye (4.2, 4.4 and 5.1 in HL in L. sandaracatus, L. frenatus and L. bilineatus, respectively, a narrower head (head width 6.5 in SL in L. bilineatus, 4.8 in SL in L. sandaracatus, and 4.7 in L. frenatus), and a more pointed snout. In addition, the color pattern of L. bilineatus is distinct in having two pale lines from the posterior orbit to the edge of the operculum. The closest geographic congener of L. bilineatus appears to be L. erythraeus. These two species are easily differentiated based on color pattern and morphological characteristics (see account of L. erythraeus below). The skin of the body of the holotype of Lepadichthys bilineatus is slightly wrinkled. We believe this may have resulted from the inadvertent partial drying of the specimen. This gives the faint impression of scales in the photograph (Fig. 1 A), however all clingfishes known at this time lack scales. The holotype of L. bilineatus is too desiccated to determine sensory pore number and arrangement, however we assume a similar arrangement and number of pores as seen in L. erythraeus (see description below). Recently, photographs of an unidentified clingfish taken at Musandam in the Strait of Hormuz (Oman) were presented to the second author by Mr. Patrick Louisy. The fish was seen at a depth of 15 m among spines of diadematid sea urchin. The individual photographed (Fig. 1, C–D) appears similar to L. bilineatus, and if it is indeed that species, would indicate that there is variation in the overall body color of the species and the prominence of the white lines extending along the head. Unfortunately it was not collected; we are unable to confirm that the individual is in fact L. bilineatus.Published as part of Craig, Matthew T., Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Randall, John E. & Mal, Ahmad O., 2015, Lepadichthys bilineatus, a new species of clingfish from Oman (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae), with a redescription of Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs and Link from the Red Sea, pp. 113-122 in Zootaxa 3990 (1) on pages 114-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/23855
Impaired pulmonary V˙O2 kinetics in cystic fibrosis depend on exercise intensity
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Published online 9th June 2016PURPOSE: To investigate the effects of mild-to-moderate cystic fibrosis (CF) on the pulmonary oxygen uptake (V˙O2) kinetics of 7 pediatric patients (13.5 ± 2.8 y) versus 7 healthy matched controls (CON; 13.6 ± 2.4 y). We hypothesized that CF would slow the V˙O2 kinetic response at the onset of moderate (MOD) and very heavy (VH) intensity cycling. METHODS: Changes in breath-by-breath V˙O2, near-infrared spectroscopy-derived muscle deoxygenation ([HHb]) at the m. vastus lateralis and thoracic bioelectrical impedance-derived heart rate, stroke volume index (SVI) and cardiac index (CI) were measured during repeat transitions to MOD (90% of the gas exchange threshold) and VH (Δ60%) intensity cycling exercise. RESULTS: During MOD, the phase II V˙O2 τ (p=0.84; effect size (ES) = 0.11) and overall mean response time (MRT) (p=0.52; ES=0.11) were not significantly slower in CF versus CON. However, during VH exercise, the phase II V˙O2 τ (p=0.02, ES=1.28) and MRT (p=0.01, ES=1.40) were significantly slower in CF. Cardiac function, central O2 delivery (SVI and CI) and muscle [HHb] kinetics were unaltered in CF. However, the arterial-venous O2 content difference (C(a-V¯)O2) was reduced during VH at 30 s (p=0.03, ES=0.37), with a trend for reduced levels at 0 s (p=0.07, ES=0.25), 60 s (p=0.05, ES=0.28) and 120 s (p=0.07, ES=0.25) in CF. Furthermore, [INCREMENT]C(a-V¯)O2 significantly correlated with the VH phase II V˙O2 τ (r= -0.85; p=0.02) and MRT (r = -0.79; p=0.03) in CF only. CONCLUSION: Impairments in muscle oxidative metabolism during constant work rate exercise are intensity-dependent in young people with mild-to-moderate CF. Specifically, V˙O2 kinetics are slowed during VH but not MOD cycling and appear to be mechanistically linked to impaired muscle O2 extraction and utilization.Funding was provided by the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter
William J. Brennan, Jr., American – In Memoriam
No full textAt Justice Brennan\u27s funeral, President Clinton spoke of the justice\u27s enormous impact on our country\u27s law-thirty-four years on the Supreme Court, over 1300 opinions authored, many of them landmarks: Baker v. Carr, opening the way to one person, one vote; Craig v. Boren, wielding the Equal Protection Clause to strike down discrimination on the basis of sex; Goldberg v. Kelly, insisting on the right of the poorest citizens of the administrative state to be heard in the face of an arbitrary bureaucracy; New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, articulating the modem rationale for a free press; and so many more
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No full textHandwritten notes from an unknown author pertaining to the Richard Schwiderski v. the State of Texas court case
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