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CIPR Lecture: Kim Tan, Oxfam Campaigns Officer
No full textCIPR Lecture: Kim Tan, Oxfam Campaigns Officer
nitch (pl.); nitches (pl.)
No full textnitch (pl.)An' now I had to go an' get three nitches...two nitches o' rines, you know, rines come off o' the trees, see, your rines for put around the craft in the fall o' the year when you put fish aboard of her...He want two nitch, that's all he want - two nitches.YesDNE-cit WK[want - past tense? WK] J. D. A. WIDDOWSONUsed INot usedNot usedused in knitch
Pulchroteratura huiqing Tan, Gorochov & Wahab 2017
No full textPulchroteratura huiqing Tan, Gorochov & Wahab, 2017 (Fig. 5) http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:499451 Material examined. 1 female (KB.17.88), Brunei Darussalam, Ulu Temburong National Park, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre along Ashton Trail, primary ridge dipterocarp forest, N4.54636, E115.15682, 136.8± 7.1 m.a.s.l., under foliage of tree, 27 July 2017, 1850 hours, coll. M. K. Tan; 1 female (KB.17.101), same locality, near Sungei Mata Ikan, N4.54697, E115.15701, 133.0± 7.9 m.a.s.l., under foliage of tree, 28 July 2017, 1855 hours, coll. M. K. Tan (all dried pinned, ZRC). Female description. Similar to male in habitus (Fig. 5A). Tenth abdominal tergite with posterior margin truncated, in the middle produced into a tongue-shaped flat process with obtuse apex (Fig. 5B). Epiproct small and rounded, concealed by the flat process of tenth abdominal tergite (Fig. 5B). Cercus longer and slender, cylindrical before tapering to an acute apex. Subgenital plate small and very short, transverse, much wider than long; with posterior margin notched in the middle (Fig. 5C). Ovipositor fairly stout, with base slightly swollen, wider than in the middle; with middle third narrow, dorsal and ventral margins parallel; with apical third wider than middle third (Fig. 5D). Base of ovipositor with a rectangular lateral plate (lp) on the dorsal valve (when viewed in profile), longer than tall, slightly swollen (Fig. 5D); with a small dorso-lateral lamellate lobe (dll) on each side above the basal margin of the lateral plate, pointing dorsad with apex obtuse (Fig. 5D); with a small ventro-lateral triangular lamellate lobe (vll) extending laterally outwards (when viewed ventrally) (Fig. 5C). Valves of ovipositor smooth (ventral valve feebly denticulated at the apex), with margins distinctly sclerotized near the apex (Fig. 5D); ventral valve shorter than dorsal valve, forming a small and stout hook at the apex; apex of ventral hook truncated; dorsal valve tapers to an acute apex (Fig. 5E). Colouration. Similar to male. Measurement (in mm). BL = 8.3, BWL = 19.9, PL = 3.0, TL = 17.0, HWT = 0.0, HFL = 11.1, HTL = 14.1, OL = 5.4.Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai & Wahab, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul, 2018, New taxa and notes of katydids from the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Meconematinae) from Brunei Darussalam (Part 2), pp. 582-590 in Zootaxa 4407 (4) on pages 589-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/122103
The FM and PL Libraries Documentation
No full textBuilding complex SPMD code in an ecient and portable way is nowadays a challenge, especially when there is no uniformity of tools and libraries across platforms. The Fast Messages (FM) and the Portability Library (PL) where both designed to provide the basis of an abstract enough framework for C, so that problems can be coded and ported to any supported platform with no more than a few changes in the makeles and a recompilation. The FM library provides a message passing communications library built around the Berkeley Active Messages library. The PL library provides the primitives for host to node communication for problem initialization and results collection, as well as other miscellaneous and potentially non-portable primitives. This technical report contains the documentation for both libraries.Technical report LCSR-TR-25
A homotopy approach to the computation of economic equilibria on the unit simplex
No full textEquilibrium Theory
Increasing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills using Project Lead the Way
No full textIncludes bibliographical references
Martial arts fiction : translational migrations east and west
No full textThis thesis was motivated by Robert Chard's puzzlement over the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West. It proposes to address how the
translational migration of martial arts fiction took place, first to other Asian countries in the
1920's, but to the West only after a lapse of a few decades beginning in the early 1990's.
Adopting a descriptive approach as described by Gideon Toury, the thesis is intended to
add further to the limited inventory of case studies in urgent demand to test the polysystem
theory propounded by Even-Zohar.
The thesis is made up of two parts. Part I is a macro-level study of martial arts fiction,
intended to contribute to testing the limits of the polysystem theory. After examining
Chinese fiction as a low form in the Chinese literary polysystem and its weak function as
translated literature in the Western literary polysystem, the study explores the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West as well as the concurrent phenomenon as to
why so little of martial arts fiction has been translated into Western languages, compared to
the copious amount into other Asian languages, to the extent of stimulating a new literary
genre or (re)writing martial arts fiction in indigenous languages in Indonesia, Vietnam and
Korea, sinicized countries or countries boasting large overseas Chinese communities.
Issues and problems related to these translational activities and cultural phenomena are
presented as tools to test the limits of the polysystem theory.
Part II is a micro-level study focussing on the specifics of rendering Fox Volant of the
Snowy Mountain by Jin Yong into English. I will argue, in the main, that many difficulties,
inherent in both the translating and reading processes, can be constructed within the
theoretical framework of Andre Lefevere's concept of "constraint", particularly that of the
universe of discourse. Lefevere's connotation of the universe of discourse will be expanded
to embrace different cultural presuppositions and literary assumptions underlying two
divergent world cultures, hence different reader expectations in the reading process.
It is hoped that the findings and results of this descriptive case history of martial arts fiction
as a literary genre in translational migrations will contribute to the accumulation of
knowledge
Leptoteratura (Rhinoteratura) chela Tan, Gorochov & Wahab 2017
No full textLeptoteratura (Rhinoteratura) chela Tan, Gorochov & Wahab, 2017 (Fig. 3) http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:499449 Material examined. 1 female (KB.17.113), Brunei Darussalam, Ulu Temburong National Park, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre along Ashton Trail, primary ridge dipterocarp forest, N4.54646, E115.15693, 135.2± 6.9 m.a.s.l., under foliage of tree, 29 July 2017, 1853 hours, coll. M. K. Tan (dried pinned, ZRC). Female description. Similar to male in habitus (Fig. 3A). Tenth abdominal tergite with posterior margin concave in the middle. Epiproct small and triangular. Cercus slender at the base, swollen in the middle before tapering to a subacute apex; curved at the base, generally straight thereafter (Figs. 3B, 3C). Subgenital plate short, small, and transverse, much wider than long; with posterior margin feebly concave broadly (Fig. 3C). Ovipositor long; with base slightly swollen, wider than in the middle; with middle third narrow (when viewed in profile), dorsal and ventral margins parallel; with apical third wider than middle third, tapering to an acute apex; feebly sinuated (Fig. 3C). Dorsal valve at apex smooth; ventral valve distinctly longer than dorsal valve, finely denticulated along margin near apex; ventral valve forming a small hook at the apex, apex pointing ventrad (Fig. 3D). Colouration. Similar to male. Measurement (in mm). BL = 8.8, BWL = 19.2, PL = 3.6, TL = 17.4, HWT = 1.3, HFL = 8.8, HTL = 10.7, OL = 4.8. Comparison. The female differs from congeners by the combination of ovipositor with ventral valve distinctly longer than dorsal valve, forming a small hook at the apex and subgenital plate small and transverse; from subcongeners with known females: L. pulchra Gorochov, 2008 from Mount Trus Madi, Borneo (with ventral valve shorter, without hook instead); and L. sharovi Gorochov, 1993 from Vietnam (with ventral valve shorter, with hook instead). It also differs from congeners with unknown subgeneric status (owing to unknown males): L. capreola (Redtenbacher, 1891) from Java (with ventral valve shorter without hook instead); L. cemande Gorochov, 2008 from Java (with subgenital plate longer than wide instead); L. gialai Gorochov, 2008 from Vietnam (with subgenital plate sophisticated instead); L. martynovi Gorochov, 1998 from Vietnam (with ventral valve shorter, and more strongly curved apically instead); L. raoani Gorochov, 2008 from Vietnam (with ventral valve shorter, without hook; subgenital plate elongated with subacute apex instead); and L. uniformis Gorochov, 2008 from Mount Trus Madi, Borneo (with ventral valve without hook; subgenital plate with posterior margin truncated, with triangular posterolateral corners instead).Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai & Wahab, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul, 2018, New taxa and notes of katydids from the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Meconematinae) from Brunei Darussalam (Part 2), pp. 582-590 in Zootaxa 4407 (4) on page 586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/122103
Pseudoteratura (Pseudoteratura) kenuan Tan, Gorochov & Wahab 2017
No full textPseudoteratura (Pseudoteratura) kenuan Tan, Gorochov & Wahab, 2017 (Fig. 4) http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:499452 Material examined. 1 female (KB.17.98), Brunei Darussalam, Ulu Temburong National Park, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre along Ashton Trail, primary ridge dipterocarp forest, N4.54617, E115.15688, 137.8± 5.6 m.a.s.l., under foliage of tree, 28 July 2017, 1834 hours, coll. M. K. Tan (dried pinned, ZRC). Female description. Similar to male in habitus (Fig. 4A). Tenth abdominal tergite with posterior margin deeply notched in the middle, with lateral lobe triangular (Fig. 4B). Epiproct small and obtusely rounded, with two small basal lobes (Fig. 4B). Cercus slender and cylindrical, apical end narrowed abruptly into an obtuse apex (Fig. 4C). Subgenital plate transverse, wider than long; with posterior margin broadly notched in the middle (Fig. 4D). Ovipositor long with base slightly swollen; straight in middle and apical third before tapering to an acute apex (Fig. 4E). Valves smooth; ventral and dorsal valves equal length, ventral valve more curved towards apex than dorsal valve (Fig. 4E). Colouration. Similar to male. Measurement (in mm). BL = 8.2, BWL = 21.8, PL = 3.8, TL = 15.4, HWT = 3.0, HFL = 9.8, HTL = 11.8, OL = 7.9. Comparison. The female of this species differs from congeners by the posterior of subgenital plate distinctly notched in the middle. The female subgenital plate differs from congeners with known females: P. bella bella Gorochov, 2008 from Mount Trus Madi, Borneo (oval, with distinct transverse fold and hardly notched apex instead); P. bella lambir Gorochov, 2014 from Lambir Hills, Borneo (oval, with slightly pointed apex instead); P. mima Gorochov, 2014 from Tawau Hills, Borneo (oval with rounded apex instead); P. parallela curup Gorochov, 2014 from Sumatra (with distinct median groove on posterior half instead); P. picta (Karny, 1924) from Java (with rounded apex instead); P. raggei (Bey-Bienko, 1971) from Mount Dulit, Borneo (triangular with acute apex instead); and P. spinea Gorochov 2014 from Sumatra (oval, with slightly pointed apex instead). Female of P. sundaica (Kästner, 1932) and P. (S.) subtilissima Gorochov, 2008 are unknown.Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai & Wahab, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul, 2018, New taxa and notes of katydids from the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Meconematinae) from Brunei Darussalam (Part 2), pp. 582-590 in Zootaxa 4407 (4) on pages 587-588, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/122103
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