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Metaphire paiwanna Tsai & Tsai & Liaw 2000, sp. nov.
No full textMetaphire paiwanna sp. nov. typica (®gure 2) Type material HOLOTYPE: A mature (clitellate) specimen (dissected) collected 22 July 1998 from Boutang Village, Pingtung Prefecture, west of the Central Mountain Range near the southern tip of Taiwan (®gure 1) by C. F. Tsai, S. C. Tsai and S. C. Chang (coll. no. 1998-40). PARATYPES: A mature (dissected) and an immature specimens (same collection of holotype). External characters Length (matures) 292±293 mm (immature 264 mm), clitellum width 6.8±7.4 mm, weight 9.3±12.9 g. Prostomium prolobous. Segment number 132±140. Number of annulets (secondary segments) per segment three in V ±IX, ®ve in X±XIII, three in body segments after XVII. Setae minute 108±115 in VII, 100±103 in XX, 22±26 between male pores. First dorsal pore in 12/13. Clitellum XIV±XIV, smooth, saddleshaped, length 8.5±9.7 mm, dorsal pores present, setae absent except two setae remained on ventrum XVI of the 292 cm specimen. Spermathecal pores four pairs in 5/6± 8/9, distance between the paired pores about 0.5 body circumference apart, edge of each pore slightly swollen, wrinkled, pale in colour. Female pore single, medio-ventral in XIV. Male pores (openings of copulatory pouches) paired, ventro-lateral in XVIII, the distance between the pores 0.25±0.30 circumference apart. Each pore C-shaped or slightly S-shaped, bordered laterally by a thick skin wall and medially by a male disc, which has a horizontal ridge, extending from the setal line to the middle of the pore, along with tubercles and folds. The male pore area surrounded by circular folds, which extend anteriorly to the post-setal annulet of XVII and posteriorly to the pre-setal annulet of XIX. Male aperture located at the distal end (tip) of the horizontal ridge, coiling into the copulatory pouch (®gure 2A, B). Genital papillae absent in the male pore and spermathecal regions. Preserved specimens bluish or purplish brown on dorsum, light gray on ventrum. Clitellum colour similar to that of the head. Internal characters Septa 5/6±7/8 slightly thickened, 8/9 and 9/10 absent, 10/11± 13/14 greatly thickened. Gizzard in VIII±X, large, yellowish white, cylindrical, with a slight constriction at 9/10 that divides the gizzard into a long anterior part in VIII and IX and a short posterior part in X. Oesophageal pouch small in VII. Intestine enlarged from XV. Intestinal caecae paired in XXVII, simple, extending anteriorly to XXIV, wrinkled, with a brown longitudinal stripe with yellowish white borders (®gure 2H). Lateral hearts enlarged in XI±XIII, small in V ±X. Nephridial tufts (bush-shaped ®lamentous nephridia) paired in V and VI in front of 5/6 and 6/7 septa. Spermathecae four pairs in VI ±IX, each with a slightly tuberculate ampulla, about 0.07 mm long, and a very short stalk, about 0.03 mm long. Diverticulum small with an oval, white seminal chamber, and a short, twisted stalk, reaching to or beyond the middle of ampulla (®gure 2D, E). Ovaries paired in XIII, medio-ventral position posterior to 12/13. Protandry: testis sacs paired in X, smooth, oval, white in colour, medio-ventral in front of 10/11 (®gure 2F). Seminal vesicles paired in XI, each with an oval dorsal lobe (®gure 2G). Prostate glands paired in XVIII, large, racemose, yellowish white, lobulated, extending to XVII. Prostatic duct short, stout, slightly curved (®gure 2C). Locality and habitat The type locality was a ¯at ®eld below a small pond on the mountain slope at an elevation of about 150 m. The ground was composed of clay and soil with a dense covering of tall grasses. The ground surface was very wet but not muddy from water draining from the pond. M. paiwanna was the only form of earthworm found at this locality.Published as part of Tsai, C. - F., Tsai, S. - C. & Liaw, G, 2000, Two new species of protandric pheretimoid earthworms belonging to the genus Metaphire (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) from Taiwan, pp. 1731-1741 in Journal of Natural History 34 on pages 1732-1734, DOI: 10.1080/00222930050122156, http://zenodo.org/record/474811
Metaphire bununa Tsai & Tsai & Liaw 2000, sp. nov.
No full textMetaphire bununa sp. nov. typica (®gure 4) Type material HOLOTYPE: A mature specimen (dissected) picked up 9 July 1998 in the morning after rain on the paved road across Mt Chidong between Chichi and Chungliau, Nantou Prefecture (®gure 1) by S. C. Chi (coll. no. 1998-32). Other material Seven mature specimens collected in the vicinity of the type locality (®gure 1): a specimen (266 mm) picked up 13 May 1998 in the morning after rain on Road 139, Chungliau, Nantou by G. J. Liaw (coll. no. 1998-21); ®ve specimens (289±294 mm) collected 7 August 1998 in the wet ditch along mountain cliOE, Kochin village, Chungliau, Nantou by C. F. Tsai and G. J. Liaw (coll. no. 1998-44); a mature specimen (290 mm, dissected) collected 2 December 1998 on the mountain slope along the Koushing Road, Suili, Nantou by C. F. Tsai, S. C. Tsai and G. L. Liaw (coll. no. 1998-67). Also, three mature specimens (328±352 mm) collected 29 January 1999 from the mountain road side ditch near Fushin Village, Chungliau, Nantou by G. L. Liaw (coll. no. 1999-2). External characters Length (mature) 255 mm, weight 20.3 g, clitellum width 10.6 mm. Prostomium prolobous. Segment number 189. Number of annulets per segment three in IV± VI, ®ve to seven in VIII±XIII, XVIII, and ®ve in body segments after XVII. Setae 103 in V, 114 in VII, 125 in XX, 19 between male pores. First dorsal pore in 12/13. Clitellum XIV±XVI, smooth, saddle-shaped, length 10.18 mm, dorsal pores present, seta absent. Spermathecal pores four pairs in 5/6±8/9, distance between the pores 0.36 circumference apart. The pore areas of two posterior pairs light grey, contrasting to dark purplish blue of the head region. Female pore single, medio-ventral in XIV. Male pores paired in XVIII, latero-ventral, distance between the pores 0.23 circumference apart. Each pore C-shaped with swollen and folliculated edge surrounded with circular folds, which extend to the inter-segmental furrows of XVIII with XVII and XIX (®gures 4A, B). Genital papilla absent in both male pore and spermathecal pore regions. Preserved specimen dark purplish blue on dorsum, light grey on ventrum, greyish brown on clitellum. Internal characters Septa 5/6±7/8 thickened, 8/9 and 9/10 absent, 10/11 and 12/13 greatly thickened. Gizzard in VIII±X, round, white in colour. Intestine enlarged from XV. Intestinal caecae paired in XXVII, extending anteriorly to XXVI, light yellow, with slightly wrinkled surface (®gure 4F). Lateral hearts in IX, XII, XIII enlarged, X, XI small. Two pairs of nephridial tufts in V and VI in front of 5/6 and 6/7 septa. Spermathecae four pairs in VI ±IX, each with an elongated, peach-shape d ampulla and a slender stalk. Diverticulum with a long stalk, its proximal portion straight and distal portion coiled or twisted with a small white seminal chamber (®gure 4D). Ovaries paired, medio-ventral in XIII. Protandry: testis sacs paired in X, large, white in colour. Seminal vesicles paired in XI, smooth, light yellow. A pair of small vestiges of seminal vesicles in XII (®gure 4E). Prostate glands paired in XVIII, large, racemose, folliculated, extending anteriorly to XVII and posteriorly to XX. Prostatic duct slightly curved, wide at the distal end connecting to the prostatic gland and narrowed toward the proximal end connecting to copulatory pouch. A small bunch of white, parallel muscular ®bres connecting between the central portion of the copulatory pouch and the medio-ventral portion of body wall (®gure 4C). Locality and habitat The var. typica is apparently a night crawler and often found on paved roads in hill regions in the morning after rain. Based on coll. nos 1998-44 and 1998-67, this worm lives on wet mountain slopes, elevation about 200 m, where ground is composed of clay or clay mixed with gravel, and often covered with grasses.Published as part of Tsai, C. - F., Tsai, S. - C. & Liaw, G, 2000, Two new species of protandric pheretimoid earthworms belonging to the genus Metaphire (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) from Taiwan, pp. 1731-1741 in Journal of Natural History 34 on pages 1736-1738, DOI: 10.1080/00222930050122156, http://zenodo.org/record/474811
Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema
Full text linkThis thesis proposes to examine the production of sensory realism in world cinema by using as case studies the cinemas of Carlos Reygadas (Mexico), Tsai Ming-liang
(Taiwan) and Gus Van Sant (US). These cinemas are bound together through the hyperbolic application of the long take, which promotes a sensory viewing experience
anchored in duration and the pure phenomenological presence of animate and inanimate matter. The theoretical underpinnings of the project are laid out in the Introduction, which addresses the alleged demise of realism in light of the emergence of digital technology and provides an overview of the ways the realist style has been historically theorised as connected to the sensory character of the cinematic experience. It further
investigates the main aesthetic principles governing contemporary realist cinema and proposes a theorisation of its distinctive sensory mode of address. The thesis is divided into three different parts, which focus separately on each of the aforementioned filmmakers and their distinct realist projects, with emphasis given on their political
impact and social significance. Part I is dedicated to Carlos Reygadas’s oeuvre, which, indebted to the transcendental cinemas of Tarkovsky, Bresson and Dreyer, complicates spirituality through a quasi-scientific take on materiality and carnality. Tsai Ming-liang is the subject of Part II, which examines his cinema’s auteurist, ultra-reflexive realist approach as recycling an aesthetics of the everyday in film through a focus on the sheer
physicality of domestic spaces and the physiology of a grotesque body. Part III investigates Gus Van Sant’s recent incursion into an experimental-realist style as
producing sensory explorations of mental processes of perception in line with the American avant-garde cinema ‘visionary’ tradition. The Conclusion contextualises and evaluates the aesthetic and political contribution of these cinemas as perpetuating, and reconfiguring, cinematic realism
A Study of How Long-Term Caretakers Maintain Residents’ Privacy
No full text[[abstract]]As Taiwan’s population of elderly residents grows rapidly, the demand for related medical services has been on the rise. Among these, professional nursing and caretaking personnel make up the majority of the long-term caregiver force. However, the intensity of demand, long working hours and high staff turnover rates have posed a serious threat to both the quality of professional caretaking in organizations and to residents’ privacy. The objective of this study is to explore how long-term caretakers view the privacy of their charges. In addition, it will probe how the nature of different kinds of long-term caretaking affects the way staff maintain this privacy. This research has adopted a cross-sectional study judging sampling method and targeted long-term caretakers at 14 organizations in central Taiwan. Opportunity Algorithm Analysis and PASW18.0 were utilized to conduct descriptive statistics, independent samples t test, one way analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis. Study results showed that although long-term caretakers placed the highest value on maintaining physical privacy, this was the hardest aspect to practice, making it one of the crucial factors in regard to organizations’ maintenance of privacy. This in turn demonstrates that such data can become a force toward quality improvements. This study also found that the value caretaking staff placed on their charges’ privacy had a lot to do with wages, working hours and the benefits provided by their organizations. It’s clear that Opportunity Algorithm Analysis can help locate areas of assistance that staff members are most in need of in their work. It also suggests that management staff in these organizations can implement a reward system to encourage caretakers to raise privacy standards, utilizing existing resources within the organizations
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Molecular cloning and characterization of complementary DNA encoding for the gonadotropin α-subunit of yellowfin porgy (Acanthopagrus latus)
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Distributive concerns when replacing a pay-as-you-go system with a fully funded system
Full text linkThe author uses a simulation model to quantify the impact on income distribution of having a neutral social security program that is fully funded replace a progressive social security program that redistributes income toward the poor but is financed by a pay-as-you-go method. He finds that if the original pay-as-you-go system is large enough to yield an income replacement rate of at least 40 percent for the middle class and 200 percent for the poor, then the proposed change helps the poor in the long run, so long as public debt does not increase by more than 40 percent of GDP during the transition. Such a reform allows an increase in the capital stock per worker, so in the long run the poor benefit more through higher real wages than they lose because progressive redistribution has ended. In the short run, however, a compensatory program is needed because the poor lose their subsidy before receiving the long-term benefit. In most cases, the 40 percent of GDP available from the increase in public debt is enough to finance a transfer program that compensates the poor in the"short"run (the first 50 years). The author concludes that concern about the welfare of the poor is unwarranted, in both the short and long runs, if the compensatory program is implemented.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Safety Nets and Transfers,Services&Transfers to Poor,Rural Poverty Reduction
GO Barometer: meer wantrouwen en onvoldoende capaciteit binnen het vakgebied
No full textDe tweede editie van de GO Barometer is uit! De Stichting Kennis Gebiedsontwikkeling (SKG) brengt ook dit jaar de stand van zaken binnen het vakgebied van gebiedsontwikkeling in kaart. Gebiedsontwikkeling is een zaak van lange adem, dus er zijn veel overeenkomsten met 2022 – maar toch ook enkele opvallende verschillen. Vooral het stijgende onderlinge wantrouwen tussen partijen is opvallend. Daarnaast zet onvoldoende personele capaciteit de uitvoering van uitdagende ruimtelijke projecten verder onder druk.Urban Development ManagementPractice Chair Urban Area Developmen
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