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Introduzione
No full textIntroduction to the issue of Textus, edited by the author and Stuart Curran, dedicated to "Renaissance and Romanticism: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Transmission of Literary and Cultural Models
Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran 1927
No full textTrichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927 Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927: 255. HOLOTYPE: J, Canada,Alta.[= Alberta], Banff, 23.viii.1922, No. 2606, C. B. G. Garrett leg. (CNC). Chaetosa pilirostris Ringdahl, 1936: 178. HOLOTYPE: J, Norway, ‘im nördlichen Norwegen [= in northern Norway], Ein J vom Verf. bei Tromsö [= one male collected by the author near Tromsø]’ (probably MZLU). Synonymized by GORODKOV (1986: 28). Distribution. Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 131); Norway (NELSON & GREVE 2002: 46); Nearctic region (VOCKEROTH 1965: 836).Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on pages 140-141, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.534249
Widening the gap – Indigenous affairs
No full textThe author points out the implications for aboriginal Australians of the decision to cut funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services. Curran gives individual examples to show how early intervention to give aboriginals effective access to services and avoid jail helps to close the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people and saves taxpayers’ money
Relictanum johnsoni Curran 1934, comb. nov.
No full text<i>Relictanum johnsoni</i> (Curran, 1934) comb. nov. <p>Map 1. Figure 45 (a–e).</p> <p> <i>Baccha johnsoni</i> Curran, 1934. Curran, 1934: 392. Type locality: Guyana, Bartica. Holotype female MCZ. Hull, 1949a: 159 (redescription), 252 (fig. 281, female abdomen).</p> <p> <i>Ocyptamus johnsoni</i>. Thompson <i>et al.</i>, 1976: 20 (catalog citation).</p> <p> <i>Baccha plutonia</i> Hull, 1948. Hull, 1948: 2. Type locality: Peru, Lima, Iquitos. Holotype female USNM. Hull, 1949a: 166 (redescription), 194 (fig. 17, female abdomen). <b>n. syn.</b></p> <p> <i>Ocyptamus plutonia</i>. Thompson <i>et al.</i>, 1976: 25 (catalog citation).</p> <p> <i>Baccha smarti</i> Curran, 1939. Curran, 1939: 10. Type locality: Guyana, Mazaruni. Holotype female BMNH. <b>n. syn.</b></p> <p> <i>Ocyptamus smarti</i>. Thompson <i>et al.</i>, 1976: 27 (catalog citation).</p> <p> <i>Baccha trinidadensis</i> Curran, 1939. Curran, 1939: 11. Type locality: Trinidad, Tabaquite. Holotype female AMNH. Hull, 1949a: 212 (fig. 98, female abdomen), 254 (fig. 284, female wing). <b>n. syn.</b></p> <p> <i>Ocyptamus trinidadensis</i>. Thompson <i>et al.</i>, 1976: 28 (catalog citation).</p> <p> <b>Male.</b> Male unknown.</p> <p> <b>Female.</b> Similar to <i>R</i>. <i>crassum</i> except: Face mostly black, pale reduced ventro-laterally. Frons white pollinose maculae not connected to face pollen. Vertex narrow; ocellar triangle ~2 times its length from posterior eye margin and ~1 ocellus-width from lateral eye margin. Wing hyaline but slightly dark on cells bc, c, sc, basal ⅓ of r1, r, bm and cu <i>p</i>. Protibia and mesotibia with basal ⅓ to ½ pale. Metatibia with basal ¼ pale, metabasitarsomere apical ¼ pale, 4th and 5th metatarsomeres slightly darker; metacoxa and metatrochanter pile entirely white. Fourth tergite sometimes sub-quadrate, slightly longer than wide. Fifth tergite sub-quadrate, slightly wider than long. <b>Genitalia:</b> 7th tergite rectangular, with very short baso-lateral extensions and middle slightly convex, with pile only on apical ½ and sparse to bare medially; 7th sternite absent. Eighth tergite slightly concave on posterior margin, baso-lateral corners acute and connected to 8th sternite; 8th sternite whole, with anterior notch. Tenth tergite modified and fused to cercus forming a pair of rectangular sclerites narrowly fused basally, with long narrow baso-lateral extensions, apical ½ slightly enlarged, sparse pilose on basal ¾, densely pilose and with setulae apically.</p> <p> <b>Length.</b> 8–10.5mm; wing 6–7mm.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Guyana, Ecuador (Napo), Peru (Cuzco, Huanuco, Lima), Trinidad.</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> BOLIVIA. La Paz, Covendo, Mulford Bio Expl 1921–22, Sep, W.m. M. Mann (1 ♀, paratype <i>Baccha plutonia</i>, CNC Diptera 161378). GUYANA. Bartica, Type Baccha johnsoni No. Curran [red label], Collection C.W. Johnson, Type 7662 [red label], 30 Jun 1901 (1 ♀, holotype <i>Baccha johnsoni</i>, MCZ). ECUADOR. Napo, Coca, Napo R., 250m, 25–30 Apr 1965, L. Pena (1 ♀, CNC Diptera 161206);..., Jatun Sacha Biol. Res. 6 km E Misahuali, 1°4'S 70°36'W, ~ 450m, land slide in forest, Malaise, 30 Apr–7 May 2002, Buck <i>et al.</i> (1 ♀, DEBU 00196386). PERU. Cuzco, Quincemil, 24–31 Oct 1962, [L. E.] Pena (1 ♀, CNC Diptera 161207); Huanuco, Tingo Maria, 2200ft., 14 May 1947, J. C. Pallister (1 ♀, AMNH); [Lima], Iquitos, type [red label], Type no 51373 U.S. N.M. [red label], USNM 2052087, Mar–Apr 1931 R. C. Shannon (1 ♀, holotype <i>Baccha plutonia</i>, USNM). TRINIDAD. Arima Val., Simla Res. Station, 25 Jun–29 Jul 1982, J. M. Carpenter & J. S. Edgerly (1 ♀, AMNH).</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> Although all females examined look very similar to <i>R. crassum</i>, they all have a sub-quadrate 5th abdominal segment and different genitalia from <i>R. crassum</i>.</p> <p> The information about the abdominal characters of the holotype of <i>B</i>. <i>smarti</i> is from the Diptera curator at the BMNH (Nigel Wyatt). Curran (1939) described a female but stated that the holotype is a male. The holotype is actually a female, and based on Wyatt’s observations it agrees perfectly with this redescription.</p> <p>Figure 281 in Hull (1949a) stated that the drawing was a male abdomen, from the holotype. This was an error, the holotype is a female.</p>Published as part of <i>Miranda, Gil Felipe Gonçalves, Marshall, Stephen A. & Skevington, Jeffrey H., 2014, Revision of the genus Pelecinobaccha Shannon, description of Relictanum gen. nov., and redescription of Atylobaccha flukiella (Curran, 1941) (Diptera: Syrphidae), pp. 1-154 in Zootaxa 3819 (1)</i> on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3819.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/251284">http://zenodo.org/record/251284</a>
Letter from M.J. Curran to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from M.[J.Curran], Rome, to Hagan. Sr. Rita progresses well; she does suffer from typhoid after all. Explaining the matter concerning the Enright Burse; a draft has been received. In Tivoli, a new municipal tax is imposed on all building materials; asking for advice. Latest progress on the Via Santi Quattro site. The Civiltà Cattolica has apparently excelled itself in an attack on the author of the Isola Smeralda; promising to send the issue
Homeless shelters are mandated by the Maine State Housing Authority to provide s
No full textHomeless shelters are mandated by the Maine State Housing Authority to provide shelter for no longer than 45 days, and the average stay is about 10 days. Shelters need 500,00 increase in funding instead of a hoped-for 100,000 was found, increasing the state funding by $6 per person per night. Details on author Hugh Curran\u27s efforts to gain more funds for the homeless from the state
Numerical prediction of vortex dynamics in inviscid sheet cavitation
No full textRecent studies have indicated that mass transfer models are able to correctly reflect the sheet cavitation dynamics of inertia driven flows, given that the mass transfer model constants governing the source term magnitude are sufficiently large (Koukouvinis and Gavaises 2015) and that enough temporal resolution is provided (Schenke and Van Terwisga 2017). The inertia driven dynamics, characterised by cavity collapse time, shedding frequencies and local pressure impact frequencies, were shown to be insensitive to variations of the mass transfer coefficients in this limit.This study focuses on an inviscid cavitating flow around a NACA0015 hydrofoil. The flow dynamics are driven by the re-entrant jet as the main mechanism of cavity shedding. A threshold of mass transfer magnitude, temporal and spanwise spatial resolution is identified, beyond which the frequency of local pressure impacts is model parameter independent. Although the excact values of peak pressure loads remain time step size, grid size and model parameter dependent, the sheet cavitation dynamics are considered as well resolved in this regime as far as shedding frequency and characteristic cavity collapse time are concerned. The results are compared to experimental results by Van Rijsbergen et al. (2012).Based on this, the study further focuses on the mechanism of vorticity generation and vorticity break-up, causing potentially erosive cavitating structures such as horseshoe cavities (Dular and Petkovˇsek 2015).Accepted Author ManuscriptShip Hydromechanics and Structure
The role of newspaper editorials in the re-production of community
No full textThe thesis involves empirical analyses of the language
of a sample of popular, daily newspaper editorials, ie. those which consider the national steel strike of late 1979/early 1980. The method used (ie. a form of very detailed qualitative content analysis) requires that readers of the analyses have access to a full copy of all the editorials. This necessitated the production of appendices; they are bound in a separate volume.
The theory that newspaper editorials re-produce community
involves the specific hypothesis that attempts to re-produce
(ie. maintain/legitimate/defend) the existing allegiances
associated with the newspapers and their readers take quasi-
scientific forms. More specifically, it is argued that an emphasis on explicit argumentative processes draws attention
to the important possibility that a crucial social process- attempts to re-produce a communal stock of knowledge in the
face of threats posed by events and alternative interpretations-involves, amongst other things,analyses of an empirical instance (ie. -the steel strike) which provide further evidence for the validity of a preferred stock of knowledge and reasoned adjudications between competing stocks.
It is suggested that whatever the limitations of the
specific focus of the research (eg.the emphasis an explicit
knowledge, the suspension of questions of ideology and truth
value), it is worthwhile because it facilitates a development of our theoretical/empirical knowledge of some of the crucial social processes found in media language.
The concluding chapter distinguishes different forms of
the re-production of community, assesses the senses in which
the re-productive processes identified are quasi-scientific,
and indicates the ways in which a variety of existing theories/findings- eg. common sense,consensus, evaluative/emotive ideas and images, inferential frameworks, ideology, populist language could be supported and/or significantly developed via a consideration of the senses in which some media language is amongst other things, quasi-scientific
“I will Tell my Story, and my Reader shall Judge for Me”: Mary Shelley’s Stories for The Keepsake
No full textBetween 1823 and 1839 Mary Shelley was a prolific writer and a steady contributor
to the annuals. After she moved back from Italy to London, she published
four novels and twenty-one stories as well as some poetical pieces. Her
literary contributions for the annuals were accompanied by illustrations of the
sort that characterized the periodical market of annuals and gift books of the
time. In many of these stories Mary Shelley employs gothic elements such
as the supernatural, the dangerous, and the mysterious, linking her later production
with her successful publication, Frankenstein. Thus, Shelley’s stories
written for the annuals can be read as an extension and development of the
gothic elements employed by the author in her first novel. Specifically, the
author is building on both the enduring public taste for those gothic elements
employed by Ann Radcliffe as well as experimenting with the new genre of the
short story. Mary Shelley’s editorial relationship with The Keepsake—a very
successful periodical for women that represented the refinements and elegance
pervading the English consumerist society of the 1830s—became a fruitful
endeavor not only for financial income, but also as a site of literary experimentation
in terms of genre and content
Addiction recovery stories: Neil Curran in conversation with Lisa Ogilvie
No full textPurpose This paper aims to explore the transition from addiction to recovery. It is the second in a series of recovery stories that examine candid accounts of addiction and recovery. Shared components of recovery are considered, along with the change and growth needed to support the transition. Design/methodology/approach The CHIME framework comprises five elements important to recovery (Connectedness, Hope, Identity, Meaning and Empowerment). It provides a standard to qualitatively study mental health recovery, having also been applied to addiction recovery. In this paper, an element for Growth is included in the model (G-CHIME), to consider both recovery, and sustained recovery. A first-hand account of addiction recovery is presented, followed by a semi-structured e-interview with the author of the account. This is structured on the G-CHIME model. Findings This paper shows that addiction recovery is a remarkable process that can be effectually explained using the G-CHIME model. The significance of each element in the model is apparent from the biography and e-interview presented. Originality/value Each account of recovery in this series is unique, and as yet, untold
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