32 research outputs found
A new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic
No full textShipley, Oliver N., Bruce, Niel L., Violich, Mackellar, Baco, Amy, Morgan, Nicole, Rawlins, Scott, Brooks, Edward J. (2016): A new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic. Zootaxa 4147 (1): 82-88, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4147.1.
Cirolanidae Dana 1852
No full textFamily Cirolanidae Dana, 1852 <p> <b>Remarks.</b> The most recent comprehensive revisions for the family Cirolanidae are those of Bruce (1986) and Brusca <i>et al</i>. (1995). Relevant, although dated, are Richardson’s (1905) monograph and the Kensley and Schotte (1989) guide to the Caribbean Isopoda.</p>Published as part of <i>Bruce, Niel L., Rawlins, Scott, Gutierrez, Robert, Brendan, Mackellar Violich & Schneider, Eric Vc, 2024, A new species of deep-sea Booralana Bruce, 1986 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western North Atlantic, pp. 254-264 in Zootaxa 5399 (3)</i> on page 256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.3.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10516823">http://zenodo.org/record/10516823</a>
Bathynomus Milne Edwards 1879
No full textGenus Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 Restricted synonymy: Bathynomus — Bruce, 1986: 126; Kensley & Schotte, 1989: 129; Lowry & Dempsey, 2006: 168. Type species. Bathynomus giganteus Milne Edwards 1879; by monotypy. Included species. See Lowry & Dempsey (2006). Atlantic species have most recently been documented by Magalhães & Young (2003). Remarks. The genus has most recently been reviewed by Lowry & Dempsey (2006) for the Indo-Pacific, Magalhães & Young (2003) for the South Atlantic, and earlier by Bruce (1986) for the Australian species.Published as part of Shipley, Oliver N., Bruce, Niel L., Violich, Mackellar, Baco, Amy, Morgan, Nicole, Rawlins, Scott & Brooks, Edward J., 2016, A new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic, pp. 82-88 in Zootaxa 4147 (1) on pages 83-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/25889
Cirolanidae Dana 1852
No full textFamily CIROLANIDAE Dana, 1852 Remarks. There have been no recent revisions of the Cirolanidae for the tropical Western Atlantic. The only comprehensive accounts are the now dated monograph The Isopods of North America (Richardson 1905: 81–137), and the more recent Caribbean field guide by Kensley & Schotte (1989) is also relevant. For identification of marine cirolanids recourse is still to the primary literature and databases such as WoRMS.Published as part of Shipley, Oliver N., Bruce, Niel L., Violich, Mackellar, Baco, Amy, Morgan, Nicole, Rawlins, Scott & Brooks, Edward J., 2016, A new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic, pp. 82-88 in Zootaxa 4147 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/25889
Systems Analysis of Social Security in a Transition Economy: The Ukrainian case
No full textThis paper deals with a case study on the social security system in a transition economy in Ukraine. The severe socioeconomic crisis in Ukraine, including a huge decline of production, hyperinflation, and the informalization of the economy, caused both a substantial reduction of social security contributions and an increase in the number of people who need assistance. The creation of a new sustainable economic system in the country requires the development of a new model of social security suited to the realities of a market economy. The objective of this paper is to investigate the current situation, trends, and possible ways of reforms in the Ukrainian social security system, taking into account specific features of the national economy, in particular the informal sector. The analysis focuses on the key component of social security - the pension system - and combines both qualitative and model-based approaches. Acknowledgments The author would like to thank Landis MacKellar and Yu..
La Fundación de Georgetown 1771. Patrick Mackellar y el Urbanísmo Militar Británico
No full textLa tesis doctoral se refiere al proceso fundacional escasamente conocido por encontrarse sus fuentes primarias en los archivos de Londres y París de la población menorquina anteriormente denominada Georgetown, hoy Es Castell, planificada por el ingeniero militar escocés Patrick Mackellar en el puerto de Mahón durante la segunda dominación británica de la isla (1763-1782).Se trata de una labor de investigación que está estructurada en tres partes. En la primera, se realiza una aproximación al urbanismo de origen militar desarrollado por Gran Bretaña a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII, coincidiendo con el auge de la artillería bélica. En este sentido es demostrable la influencia, en el plano teórico, de la supremacía militar de Francia y sobre todo, de la polifacética labor de Vauban reflejada, entre otras cuestiones, en los Manuales de Fortificación de obligatorio estudio durante la formación de los ingenieros militares británicos.Hasta el siglo XVIII, los ingenieros agrupados en torno a la Board Ordnance tuvieron escasas ocasiones de crear nuevas ciudades, fundamentalmente por dos razones. La primera, que Inglaterra no inició su expansión colonial hasta la resolución de sus problemas internos que finalizaron con la anexión de Irlanda y Escocia. La segunda, que su condición insular la obligó a basar la defensa de sus territorios en el desarrollo de una poderosa flota armada.Sin embargo, el modelo colonial inglés, basado en el protagonismo de las compañías comerciales, propicia la intervención de los ingenieros militares en las labores de planificación y verificación de los nuevos asentamientos del norte de Irlanda, la costa de Coromandel, el este norteamericano y las Antillas.La segunda línea de investigación incursiona en la vida del planificador de Georgetown, destacando su experiencia bélica en los frentes americanos durante la Guerra de los Siete Años (1756-1763). Gracias a su participación en las campañas militares, Patrick Mackellar conoce en primera persona las características del urbanismo practicado por Inglaterra y Francia en los territorios de ultramar, y se dota de un importante bagaje cultural que demostrará cuando, en su definitivo destino como Ingeniero-Jefe en Menorca, acomete la empresa de planificar y diseñar una nueva ciudad.La tercera línea de investigación se centra en el proceso fundacional de Georgetown. La operación basada en razones defensivas consistió en demoler un asentamiento surgido a los pies de la principal fortaleza de la Isla, y trasladar la morada de sus casi cuatro mil pobladores a una enclave prudentemente alejado de la fortificación.Llamada Vila Jordi por sus primeros moradores, Georgetown resultó un excelente ejemplo de pragmatismo urbanístico. La plaza central o génesis del asentamiento, se ubicó sobre una pequeña meseta portuaria que ya había sido elegida por un ingeniero militar galo durante la dominación francesa de la isla y se aprovechó el trazado de una antigua vía de comunicación territorial como eje longitudinal del nuevo conjunto urbano. Igualmente, el reparto de suelo se realizó en función del tamaño de las parcelas existentes en el pueblo anterior. Sin embargo, la atención a las gentes y a una geografía del lugar marcada por la costa portuaria, no impidió a Mackellar el desarrollo de un conjunto urbano de calles rectas, paralelas y jerarquizadas trazadas a partir de un espacio central conformado por las edificaciones propias de una ciudadela militar barroca.Tras una comparación formal con otras poblaciones estudiadas, el desarrollo de la tesis analiza, finalmente, los elementos principales de la población, tales como la anchura y distancia de las calles, los edificios cuarteleros y otras construcciones notables, la tipología residencial y la historia de la población en los dos últimos siglos.Como conclusión, el autor considera que el proyecto de Mackellar para Georgetown combina acertadamente las bases empíricas que lo sustentan con una variante del prototipo urbanístico aplicado en la colonización de Nueva Escocia como garantía de la satisfacción de las exigencias de orden y regularidad propias de la planificación militar y del urbanismo dieciochesco.Nacida entre la agonía del Antiguo Régimen y el estallido de las revoluciones americana y francesa, hija del Barroco y madre del urbanismo decimonónico, esta operación urbanística financiada por la corona inglesa fue el fruto de un compromiso, un proyecto de transición.The doctoral thesis refers to the foundation process quite unknown, as the first sources are in the archives of London and Paris of the Minorca's town before named Georgetown, nowadays known as Es Castell, planned by the Scottish military Engineer Patrick Mackellar in Mahon's harbour during the second british domination on the island (1763-1782).It is a research work and is structured in 3 parts. First part, it's an approximation to a source of military urbanism developed by Great Britain during the XVII and XVIII centuries, coinciding with the increase of war artillery. This is shown by the influence in the theoretical survey, of France's military supremacy and above all, the versatile labour of Vauban revealed, apart from other issues, by the Guides of Fortifications which were of compulsory study, for the british military engineers during their training.Until the XVIII century, the engineers round about the Board Ordnance had few occasions to create new towns, basically for two reasons. The first, is that England didn't begin its colonial expansion until it had solved its own internal problems, which came to an end with the annexation of Ireland and Scotland. The second, that it's insular status obliged it to base its defence of its territories in the development of a powerful navy.Nevertheless, the english colonial model, based on the commercial companies playing the main part, helped the intervention of the military engineers in the work of verifying and planning the new settlement in North Ireland, the Coromandel Coast, the east part of North America and the Antilles.The second line of research attacked the life of the planner of Georgetown, emphasising his war experience on the american front during the Seven-Year War (1756-1763). Thanks to his partaking in the military campaigns, Patrick Mackellar found out himself the characteristics of English and French development overseas, and he endowed himself with an important cultural knowledge which he revealed when, in his last post as Chief Engineer in Minorca, he undertook the designing and planning of a new town.The third research is centred in the foundational process of Georgetown. The transaction based on defensive reasons consisted in demolishing a settlement at the foot of the main fort of the island, and moves the homes of its almost 4.000 inhabitants to a more prudential area, away from the fort.Named Villa Jordi by its first inhabitants, Georgetown was an excellent example of city planning pragmatism. The central square or genesis of the settlement, was built on a small portside plateau which had already been chosen by a french military engineer during the France's domination of the island and, an old communicating land route, was made use of as an essential longitudinal part of the new urban unit. In the same manner the distribution of the ground was made according to the size of the existing plots in the old village. Nevertheless, the attention to the people and the geographical situation, marked by the port coastland, didn't stop Mackellar developing an urban unit with straight roads, parallel hierarchical layout from a central space, almost exactly like the buildings of a baroque military fortress.After a formal comparison with other populations under study, finally the thesis development analyses the principal elements of the population, like the length and the distance of the streets, the barrack buildings and other notable constructions, the residential types and the history of the population over the last two centuries.Concluding, the author considers that Mackellar's project for Georgetown, succeeds in combining the empirical bases that maintains it with a variation of the urban prototype applied in the colonization of New Scotland as a guarantee of satisfaction for the demand and regularity of a military planning as well as eighteenth century urbanism. Born between the agony of the Old Regime and the outburst of the american and French revolutions, daughter of the Baroque and mother of nineteenth century development, this town planning exploitation financed by the English Crown, was the result of a commitment, a design of the transitional period.DOCTORAT EN HISTÒRIA DE L'ARQUITECTUR
COVID-19: Demography, economics, migration and the way forward
No full textThe current mantra “Nothing will ever be the same again” is hyperbole, but COVID-19 without doubt marks a caesura requiring migration policymakers and practitioners to reflect on the future. In this article, the author sets out the epidemiological basics of pandemics, then offers views on the demographic, economic, and migration impacts of COVID-19. A closing section reflects on the choices it imposes
A new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic
No full textA new species of cirolanid isopod, Bathynomus maxeyorum sp. nov., from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic, is described. This species represents the fourth species of Bathynomus to be described from the tropical and sub-tropical Western Atlantic. Bathynomus maxeyorum sp. nov. is characterized by 7 broad short pleotelsonic spines, with setation running along ~80% of the posterior margin of the pleotelson. Genetic analysis indicates a ~14% sequence divergence from the sympatric species Bathynomus giganteu
Monitoring the extent of flooding: Based on a case study in Queensland
No full text“Of droughts and flooding rains” (Dorothea Mackellar 1885-1968, “My Country”). The recent flooding in Queensland affected rural areas, mines, towns and cities including the state capital. Tracking such an event on a day-by day basis raises practical and theoretical issues. While this year’s floods captured world headlines, there is a major flooding event in Queensland about every second year. There are obvious costs resulting from serious flooding, and some can be reduced significantly if the public are reliably informed (whether to evacuate, what property to save, where to evacuate to, what route to take, where to store property). There are also indirect costs to be reduced by the dissemination of reliable information. For example, losses to the tourist industry caused by exaggerated reporting. The paper explores strategies to provide advice to the public by presenting: available raw imagery leaving users to make an interpretation, processed data with information for probable inundation, processed data overlaid with a quality mask indicating reliability, corrected data using a variety of sources, or combination of existing numerical flood models with topographic information to predict flood extent. The paper addresses various sensor products that can be used, their combination with flood modelling techniques, a historical record of inundations, direct measurements (river gauges, rainfall measurements, sensor webs etc.) and more diffuse inputs (crowd sourcing) to supply the best possible decision support information to the public.OTB ResearchOTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen
