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Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A Partially Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis bibliography on “Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ St. Vincent and the Grenadines Conference. It covers all aspects of education and training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines including: Academic achievement,economics of education, educational infrastructure, literacy and mathematics education
[Portrait of John Vincent Barry c.1928] [picture].
No full textCondition: good.; Part of a collection of photographs lent to the Library by Sir John Barry's family.; Title from caption on negative bag.; Inscriptions: "Barry, J. V. - Collection. John Vincent Barry c. 1928. Barry Collection" --caption on negative bag.; Related material: Sir John Vincent Barry papers National Library of Australia Manuscripts section MS 2505. Photographs include portraits of Sir John Barry and his family and members of the legal fraternity
PSEUDOKANAKIA Delorme, gen. nov.
No full textPSEUDOKANAKIA Delorme gen. nov. (Fig. 34) Type species. Pseudokanakia flavoannulata (Distant, 1920) comb. nov. Included species. Only one species coming from New Caledonia: Pseudokanakia flavoannulata (Distant, 1920). Derivation of name. Means “close to Kanakia ”. The genus is feminine. Diagnosis. Big sized cicada (male body length around 30 mm), more or less close to the genus Kanakia Distant, 1892 with which it shares a similar shape and wing venation, but differs mainly in claspers morphology (flattened and serrated (Fig. 34 c)) and aedeagus shape (thecal pseudoparameres originating near thecal base (Fig. 34 a)). Material examined. Holotype male, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Plaine des lacs, (BMNH). Province Sud, Boulouparis, Mont Do, 1 male, Salesne rec, 15 /I/ 2009 (MNHN). Province Sud, Dumbéa, Monts Koghi, 1 male Delorme rec, 13 /I/ 2013 (MNHN). Province Sud, Dumbéa, Monts Dzumac, 1 male Delorme rec, 16 /I/ 2013 (MNHN). Head. About as wide as mesonotum between wings; head length shorter than pronotum length. Dorsal postclypeal area wider than long; anterior border not prominent from curve of supra-antennal plate. Postclypeus anterior profile in dorsal view well rounded giving the head an angular appearance. Big sized ocelli; distance between lateral ocelli longer than distance between lateral ocellus and median ocellus. Distance between lateral ocelli twice as wide as ocelli and about equal to distance between lateral ocellus and eye. Epicranial suture very deep. Postclypeus bears at least six transversal grooves and no longitudinal furrow. Thorax. Paranotum (lateral margin of pronotal collar) when viewed dorsally with a rounded lateral lobe and an anterior lateral tooth. Male operculum, covering rim of distal margin of tympanal cavity, overlapping, almost joining, directed towards distomedial margin of tympanal cavity, apically broadly rounded. Wings. Forewings with eight apical cells; radial crossvein oblique. Forewing veins M and CuA meeting basal cell clearly separated, immediately diverging; distance between r and r-m much less than distance between r-m and m; forewing infuscation present on crossveins r and r-m. Base of first apical cell located close after pterostigma mid-length; slender and briefly reduced at tip, terminally sharpen and more than half as long as costal vein. Hind wings with six apical cells; anal cell almost reaching distal margin of anal cell 2. Legs. Forelegs with femur bearing three developed black spines and a forth one (aborted) on the anterior base of the third spine. Primary spine strong and oblique, isolated, almost as long as distance separating primary and secondary spines. Secondary spine sharp, sub-perpendicular distinctly shorter than primary spine; apical spine oblique, triangular, distinctly shorter than second spine. Hind legs similar to mid legs, with three tibial laterointernal spurs and two latero-external spurs. Abdomen. Swollen, much larger than mesonotum. Timbals broad, bearing four long ribs fused dorsally; ribs 1 to 3 fused ventrally; three intercalary ribs. Male sternite 1 with large rounded bulge; sternite 7 about as long as wide, apically roundish. Genitalia. Upper lobe of pygofer flat, well developed, longer than wide dominating pygofer between basal lobes and dorsal beak; basal lobes undivided, moderately developed, rounded in lateral view, abutted against or partly tucked behind pygofer margin; dorsal beak present as a developed apical spine or pointed apex and a part of chitinized pygofer. Median lobe of uncus obtuse with median furrow, longer than wide. Thecal pseudoparameres thick, dorsal of theca, originating near thecal base. Claspers serrated posteriorly. Pseudoparameres apically straight and obtuse. Aedeagal basal plate in lateral view angled at about 90 °.Published as part of Delorme, Quentin, Mille, Christian & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, A review of the genus Kanakia Distant, 1892 (Insecta: Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae) from New Caledonia, pp. 301-338 in Zootaxa 4092 (3) on pages 333-335, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27089
Twenty-six novel EFNB1 mutations in familial and sporadic craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS)
No full textCraniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS) is an X-linked disorder characterized by a more severe manifestation in heterozygous females than in hemizygous males. Heterozygous females have craniofrontonasal dysplasia (CFND) and occasionally extracranial manifestations including midline defects and skeletal abnormalities, whereas hemizygous males show no or only mild features such as hypertelorism and rarely show cleft lip or palate. Mutations in the EFNB1 gene in Xq12 are responsible for familial and sporadic CFNS. The EFNB1 gene encodes ephrin-B1, a transmembrane ligand that also exhibits receptor-like effects. We performed mutation analysis in nine unrelated families and 29 sporadic patients with CFNS. DNA sequencing revealed mutations in 33 (86.8%) cases including 26 distinct novel mutations. A recurrent nonsense mutation, c.196C>T/R66X, was detected in one family and four sporadic patients. The majority of mutations (26/33) were located in exons 2 and 3 of the EFNB1 gene encoding the extracellular ephrin domain. The mutation spectrum includes frameshift, nonsense, missense, and splice site mutations, with a predominance of frameshift and nonsense mutations resulting in premature truncation codons. For the first time we describe mutations in exons 4 and 5 of EFNB1. Of particular interest are the frameshift mutations located in the last 25 codons of EFNB1 encoding the carboxyterminal end of ephrin-B1. They result in an extension by 44 residues. These mutations disrupt the intracellular binding sites for Grb4 and PDZ-effector proteins involved in reverse signaling. We conclude that the major causes of familial as well as sporadic CFNS are loss of function mutations in the EFNB1 gene that comprise premature termination or abrogate receptor-ligand interaction, oligomerization, and ephrin-B1 reverse signaling.Wieland, Ilse ; Reardon, William ; Jakubiczka, Sibylle ; Franco, Brunella ; Kress, Wolfram ; Vincent‐delorme, Catherine ; Thierry, Patrick ; Edwards, Matt ; König, Rainer ; Rusu, Cristina ; Schweiger, Susann ; Thompson, Elizabeth ; Tinschert, Sigrid ; Stewart, Fiona ; Wieacker, Pete
Oral History Interview with Vincent Moreno, October 6, 2005
No full textTranscript of an oral interview with Vincent Moreno. Moreno was drafted and, after training as a longshoreman, was stationed in Calcutta, India with the 289th Port Battalion. He sailed there aboard the USS Hermitage (AP-54) arriving in December, 1944. He volunteered for a combat assignment and was sent to Burma and trained as a scout. He was assigned to the 124th Cavalry Regiment in the 5332nd Brigade. Moreno describes fighting the Japanese in the jungles attempting to open the Burma Road. Also, Moreno mentions serving as an MP guarding warehouses in Kunming, China before shipping home
Strepuntalna renaudetii Delorme, 2017, sp. nov.
No full textStrepuntalna renaudetii sp. nov. (Figs. 9–14) Material examinated. Holotype male (MNHN 19330) and one paratype male (MNHN 19331), Nouvelle- Calédonie, Province Sud, Monts Dzumac, 14/II/2013, Quentin Delorme rec, caught by net, (MNHN). Other specimens: 3 males, Nouvelle Calédonie, Prony, Pic du Pin 19/I/2013, Quentin Delorme rec, (Delorme personal collection); 3 males, same locality, 25/I/2015, Quentin Delorme rec, (MNHN). Body measurements (in mm, first value refers to holotype and second to paratype). FL: 13.0, 14.5; FW: 5.0, 5.1; HW: 4.0, 3.9; HL: 1.1, 1.1; BL: 11.7, 11.5. Description of male (Figs. 9–13). Head. Vertex blackish with pink ocellus. Each ocellus set on black part of the vertex. Epicranial suture ocher. Dorsal postclypeal area ocher with black lateral margin. Scape and supraantennal plate ocher with short golden hairs. Pedicel and antennal flagella black. Postclypeus brownish, slightly domed with seven black transverse grooves. Anteclypeus bicolor; lower part brownish to ocher and upper part black with short golden hairs; rostrum with labrum and mentum greenish. Labium greenish with brown tip. Apex of rostrum reaching posterior trochanter. Gena and lorum blackish with dense and long golden hairs. Thorax. Pronotum ocher with black ornamentations. Pronotal collar and lateral parts green to ocher. Lateral and paramedian fissure black. Mesonotum ocher; lateral sigilla and submedian sigilla black. Scutal depression marked by circular black patch. Metanotum and cruciform elevation entirely ocher. Opercula separated, as long as wide, greenish, with sparse long hairs on posterior margin. Wings. Forewings hyaline; venation orange becoming darker towards apex. Hindwing hyaline; venation blackish. Legs. On fore legs, coxa greenish with wide longitudinal brown patches along the medially and laterally margins; trochanter greenish with two brownish patches. Femur entirely greenish. Tibia greenish with short golden hairs; tarsus greenish with pretarsal claw brownish. On mid legs, coxa greenish with a wide linear brown spot on the anteromedian side; trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsus entirely yellowish green covered by short golden hairs. Hind legs similar to mid legs. Abdomen. Tergite 1 brownish to blackish. Tergite 2 bicolor, with anterior margin black and posterior margin brown. Tergite 3 brown with black anterior margin and thin green posterior margin. Tergites 4, 5 6 and 7 brown with green posterior margin. Timbals with 5 long ribs free ventrally; long ribs 1 to 3 fused dorsally; long rib 5 very short; three intercalary ribs. Sternites bicolor; anterior margin brown and posterior margin green except sternites 7 and 8 entirely brown. Genitalia. Pygofer brownish. Pseudoparamere of aedeagus straight and affixed to each other, curved downwards. Clasper affixed, curved downwards. Acoustic behavior. Male calling song (Fig. 14) composed of sequences lasting between 5.4 to 9.4 s and separated from each other by an interval of 0.85 to 1.2 s; each sequence is composed by 13 to 23 phrases (C). Phrase duration is around 0.4 s; each phrase is separated by an interval of 0.10 to 0.17 s. Phrases are formed by three parts. The first part, lasting about 0.12 s, is a series of echemes separated by interval of 0.005 to 0.006 s. The second part, lasting around 0.22 s, is a series of echemes repeated at a lower rate, with interval of 0.010 to 0.011 s. The third part is a short isolated echeme separated by an interval of 0.2 s from the second part. The frequency content of the first part is slightly different from that of the second part because of its narrower range. Sound frequencies in the first part range from 14 to 22 kHz; those of the second part range from 10.5 to 22 kHz. Across all parts of the song, the dominant frequency lies between 15.5 and 21 kHz, with a maximum of energy at 16.5 kHz. Males generally sing from within a dense shrub. Description of female. Unknown Derivation of name. Species kindly dedicated to ornithologist Ludovic Renaudet, who gave me the opportunity to discover this species at Monts Dzumac. Distribution. Endemic to south of New Caledonia Main Island (Fig. 31) Habitat and ecology. Strepuntalna renaudetii sp. nov., inhabits shrubbery vegetation of mining scrub formation where Niaouli trees (Melaleuca quinquenervia) are scatted or absent. The two population discovered, at Monts Dzumac and “Pic du Pin”, are localized on ultramafic soil. No information on seasonality and peak period of emergence is recorded.Published as part of Delorme, Quentin, 2017, Description of four new genera and five new species of cicadas from New Caledonia (Insecta: Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae), pp. 97-124 in Zootaxa 4243 (1) on pages 106-109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/39871
La Soufrière volcano (Saint Vincent) Fusion of Pleiades (2014, 2 m) and Copernicus (2018, 30 m) digital elevation models
No full textRelease 1.1 For Zenodo
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Authors
Raphaël GRANDIN1 and Arthur DELORME2
1 : Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. Email: [email protected]
2: Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. Email: [email protected]
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1. Collection Overview
This collection contains a digital surface model (DSM) of the Soufrière volcano (Saint Vincent) calculated from Pleiades images acquired in 2014, hole-filled with the 2018 Copernicus digital elevation model (DEM).
The Pleiades dataset consists in three images acquired in 2014:
* image A = `DS_PHR1A_201407041445368_FR1_PX_W062N13_1009_00974`
* image B = `DS_PHR1A_201409271441564_FR1_PX_W062N13_1009_00974`
* image C = `DS_PHR1A_201410161445303_SE1_PX_W062N13_1009_00974`
By combining these three images, three different digital surface models (DSMs) were computed (AB, BC and ABC). The three Pleiades DSMs were then merged together, taking advantage of the different cloud cover in the three pairs / triplets. Areas that are not visible in any of the three DSMs due to clouds are subsequently filled with the Copernicus DEM.
The collection includes five folders :
1. **Report**:
* "SaintVincent_DEM_Pleiades_Copernicus_fusion_Grandin_Delorme_2021.pdf": report
2. **DSM**: the merged DSM in Geotiff format:
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_Copernicus_merged.tif": the merged Pleiades DSM + Copernicus DEM
3. **Data**: the three Pleiades DSMs in Geotiff format:
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_AB_dsm.tif": the Pleiades DSM computed from images A and B
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_AB_cor.tif": the correlation score betwen images A and B
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_BC_dsm.tif": the Pleiades DSM computed from images B and C
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_BC_cor.tif": the correlation score betwen images B and C
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_ABC_dsm.tif": the Pleiades DSM computed from images A, B and C
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_ABC_cor.tif": the correlation score betwen images A, B and C
4. **KMZ**: quickviews in KMZ format:
* SaintVincent_Pleiades_Copernicus_merged_color.kmz": the merged Pleiades DSM + Copernicus
DEM in KMZ format (color version)
* "SaintVincent_Pleiades_Copernicus_merged_shaded.kmz": the merged Pleiades DSM + Copernicus DEM in KMZ format (hillshade version)
5. **Figures**: the figures shown in the report
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2. Dataset Acknowledgement
Access to Pleiades data was granted through the DINAMIS program (https://dinamis.teledetection.fr/) via project ID 2021-055-Sci (PI: Raphaël Grandin, IPGP).
This work was supported by public funds received in the framework of GEOSUD, a project (ANR-10-EQPX-20) of the program "Investissements d’Avenir" managed by the French National Research Agency.
Calculation of the Pleiades DSM used the S-CAPAD cluster of IPGP.
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3. Dataset Attribution
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 International License (Attribution-NonCommercial).
Attribution required for copies and derivative works:
The underlying dataset from which this work has been derived includes Pleiades material ©CNES (2014), distributed by AIRBUS DS, and EO material ©CCME (2018), provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA, all rights reserved.
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4. Dataset Citation
Grandin and Delorme (2021). “La Soufrière volcano (Saint Vincent) – Fusion of Pleiades (2014, 2 m) and Copernicus (2018, 30 m) digital elevation models”.
Dataset distributed on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4668734
Dataset distributed on GitHub: https://github.com/RaphaelGrandin/SaintVincent_DEM_Pleiades_Copernicus
@misc{grandindelorme2021,
title={{La Soufriere volcano (Saint Vincent) -- Fusion of Pleiades (2014, 2 m) and Copernicus
(2018, 30 m) digital elevation models}},
author={Grandin, Raphael and Delorme, Arthur},
year={2021},
howpublished={Dataset on Zenodo}, doi={10.5281/zenodo.4668734}
}
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5. Collection Location
Country: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Bounding box:
13.387947
13.293314
-61.106448
-61.244318
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6. Method
Three digital surface models (DSMs) are computed from panchromatic images from the Pleiades satellite, whose ground sampling distance (GSD) is 0.5 m. As no stereoscopic acquisition is available on the volcano area in the archive catalog, the processed images are monoscopic acquisitions, taken on three dates: 04/07/2014 (image A, [Figure 1](Figures/DS_PHR1A_201407041445368_FR1_PX_W062N13_1009_00974.png?raw=true)), 27/09/2014 (image B, [Figure 2](Figures/DS_PHR1A_201409271441564_FR1_PX_W062N13_1009_00974.png)) and 16/10/2014 (image C, [Figure 3](Figures/DS_PHR1A_201410161445303_SE1_PX_W062N13_1009_00974.png)). This dataset, with images of different dates, which are partially covered by clouds, is not ideal for producing a DSM. The idea is therefore to produce several DSMs with different combinations of images, then to merge these DSMs, finally filling any hole by interpolation or with an external DSM, namely the Copernicus DEM (https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/web/cscda/dataset-details?articleId=394198). Considering the base-to-height ratio of the different pairs of images, three combinations of images seem prone to provide satisfactory results: A-B, B-C and A-B-C.
Images are processed using the open source photogrammetry software MicMac (Rupnik et al., 2017). First, the geometry model of each image is translated into MicMac format (Convert2GenBundle command). Then tie points between images are extracted from each possible pair of images (Tapioca). A bundle block adjustment is performed between the three images to refine the geometry models (Campari). Finally, the three DSMs are computed separately, by correlation between images A-B (1), B-C (2) and A-B-C (3) (Malt). The GSD of the DSMs is 0.5 m, thanks to MicMac multi-scale approach and regularization criterion. They are downsampled to 2 m to reduce the signal to noise ratio ([Figure 4a](Figures/AB_dsm_raw.png), [Figure 4c](Figures/BC_dsm_raw.png), [Figure 4e](Figures/ABC_dsm_raw.png)). Each DSM comes with a correlation score for each pixel, which can be used to remove pixels whose correlation score is below a certain threshold ([Figure 4b](Figures/AB_cor_raw.png), [Figure 4d](Figures/BC_cor_raw.png), [Figure 4f](Figures/ABC_cor_raw.png)).
The areas masked by clouds in the Pleiades DSM are then filled with the digital elevation model from Coper- nicus. A threshold on the correlation score is used to build a cloud mask. Finally, the three hole-filled DSMs are merged using the correlation score as a weighting factor ([Figure 5](Figures/Merged.png)).
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References
[1] Ewelina Rupnik, Mehdi Daakir, and Marc Pierrot Deseilligny. Micmac–a free, open-source solution for pho- togrammetry. Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, 2(1):1–9, 2017. [Link
Le musée de la Comédie française, par René Delorme.
No full textC. E. Le musée de la Comédie française, par René Delorme.. In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 1878, tome 39. pp. 521-522
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