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Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua 2016
No full textPanorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016 (Fig. 1F) Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016: 153, figs 1–3, 4A; id., 2018: 301, figs 3-152-1 & 2. Emended diagnosis. 1) Head with M-shaped black spot on occiput and subpentagonal black spot enclosing ocellar triangle; 2) wings with greatly reduced pterostigmal band reduced to spots, and lacking other markings; in males, 3) stalk of hypandrium greatly reduced; 4) parameres bifurcated and 3-shaped, with basal branch stretching towards base of genital bulb; 5) aedeagus columnar with pair of dorsal processes extending beyond apex of gonocoxites; in females, 6) A9 greatly elongated, approximately twice as long as A8, with vase-shaped subgenital plate; 7) medigynium with axis entirely concealed in main plate, and main plate with pair of anterior arms. Materials examined. CHINA: Yunnan: 3♂ 2♀ (CN20Pa00025– CN20Pa00029), Mt.Tangli, 2560 m, 24°02’56’’ N, 99°13’56’’ E, 29.vii.2020, leg. Ji-Shen Wang. Distribution. CHINA: Yunnan (Mts Daxue and Tangli) (Fig. 2).Published as part of Wang, Ji-Shen & Gong, You-Jing, 2021, Taxonomy of the Panorpaguttata group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), withdescriptions of fourteen new species from China, pp. 241-274 in Zootaxa 4981 (2) on page 246, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/492027
A Tale of Wonders in Performance: The Precious Scroll of Wang Hua in the Storytelling Tradition of Changshu, Jiangsu, China
No full textBaojuan (precious scrolls) are a type of prosimetric literature in the vernacular language that flourished in the lower Yangzi valley between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most baojuan texts are devoted to religious themes, often involving wondrous figures and events which can be characterized as “supernatural”. The Precious Scroll of Wang Hua (Wang Hua baojuan 王花寶卷) is a comparatively late text centered on the marvelous apparitions leading to the salvation of a lay person. It is a widespread text of the southern “scroll recitation” tradition as it survives in Changshu, Jiangsu, but to date, it has not received attention from scholars of Chinese popular literature and religion. Still, it is important for understanding the origins, development, and functions of precious scrolls and their contribution to the field of Chinese popular religion. The original text of the Precious Scroll of Wang Hua formed ca. end of the nineteenth century, but the present research mainly uses the manuscript version of a modern performer from the vicinity of Changshu (ca. 1995). This narrative combines two major topics of the wondrous manifestation of Bodhisattva Guanyin and the descent to Hell. Both topics can be traced back to the early “miracle tales”. Here, they have been adapted to the local life and cultural setting. The figure of the skeptical and egoistic Wang Hua who initially rejected the injunctions of Guanyin is a type well known to the modern audiences of baojuan. Thus, the supernatural elements serve the purpose of reconfirming traditional beliefs and values in the contemporary society
OWNERSHIP AND INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION CONTROL: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
Full text linkThis study explores the differences in pollution control performances of industrial enterprises with various ownerships in China - State owned (SOE), collectively or community owned (COE), privately owned (POE), foreign directly invested (FDI) companies as well as joint ventures. A survey was conducted of approximately 1000 industrial firms in three provinces in China, which collects the detailed firm-level information in the year of 1999. Personal interviews of enterprises managers were also conducted in these samples, and subjective information was collected. Analyses have been performed on the differences in receiving and reacting to environmental regulatory enforcement, community pressure, environmental services, and internal environmental management among different ownerships. The determinants of the industrial pollution emissions in China are identified in the econometrical analyses. The results show that FDI and COE have better environmental performances, while SOEs and the POEs in China are the worst.Environmental Economics and Policy,
Biomaterial-Based Scaffold for In Situ Chemo-Immunotherapy to Treat Poorly Immunogenic Tumors
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A new species and new record of the genus Discoelius Latreille, 1809 (Hymenoptera Vespidae: Eumeninae) from China
No full textWang, Hua-Chuan, Chen, Bin, Li, Ting-Jing (2019): A new species and new record of the genus Discoelius Latreille, 1809 (Hymenoptera Vespidae: Eumeninae) from China. Zootaxa 4686 (2): 297-300, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4686.2.1
Neopanorpa xingmini Wang & Hua 2019, sp. nov.
No full textNeopanorpa xingmini Wang & Hua sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 77CF0A4F-5264-49AF-B624-8 D10622 DAB38 Fig. 3 Diagnosis The new species can be recognized by the following features: 1) bearing special wing markings, with apical and pterostigmal bands connected along anterior margin, and an elongated oblique marginal spot (Fig. 3 A–B); in males, 2) notal organ well-developed, slender, stick-like and extending slightly beyond the middle of A6 (Fig. 3D); 3) hypovalves distinctly curled ventrad (Fig. 3 H–I); and 4) hypandrial processes curved and finger-like (Fig. 3F, I). Etymology The specific epithet is dedicated to the collector of the type specimens, Xing-Min Wang. Material examined Holotype CHINA • ♂; Yunnan; Longchuan County, Husa; 24 May 2008; Xing-Min Wang leg.; NWAU. Paratypes CHINA • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; NWAU. Description Male MEASUREMENTS. Holotype: FL = 11.4 mm, FW = 2.3 mm; HL = 10.5 mm, HW = 2.2 mm. Other specimens: FL = 11.3–11.5 mm, FW = 2.3–2.4 mm; HL = 10.3–10.4 mm, HW = 2.2–2.3 mm. HEAD (Fig. 3C). Vertex dark brown. Frons and hind margin of antennal sockets light yellowish brown. Rostrum sordidly yellowish brown with two faint dark stripes along clypeus. Maxillary and labial palps mostly yellowish brown with terminal segment dark brown. Scape light yellowish brown, pedicel dark brown; flagellomeres 43, black. THORAX (Fig. 3A). Pronotum dark brown, with 10 black stout setae on anterior margin. Mesonotum black anteriorly and mesally, with two large light yellowish brown spots near wing bases; metanotum similar to mesonotum but with larger light yellowish brown spot laterally; scutella brown. Pleura light yellowish brown. Legs light yellowish brown, slender. WINGS (Fig. 3A). Wing membrane faintly tinged with yellow, hyaline; markings brown; pterostigma light brown; veins brown, except whitish crossveins in apical half. Forewing with broad apical and pterostigmal bands; apical band greatly projected at inner margin, and connected to pterostigmal band along costal margin; pterostigmal band complete, with basal branch approximately two times as broad as apical branch; elongated marginal spot oblique, almost connected to basal branch of pterostigmal band posteriorly, forming N-shaped pattern; basal band split into two irregular spots; R 2a simple. Hindwing similar to forewings in shape and venation, but lacking marginal spot; basal band represented by indistinct spot between CuA and CuP. ABDOMEN (Fig. 3A, D). A1–A5 sordidly dark yellowish brown, A7–A9 yellowish brown. Notal organ on posterior margin of T3 well-developed, slender, stick-like and extending slightly beyond middle portion of A6, distinctly curved dorsad in apical half, and bearing numerous short setae on ventral surface. T4 with membranous area before barely raised postnotal organ. A6 approximately two times as long as A5, cylindrical. A7 slightly shorter than A6, slightly enlarged toward truncated apex; A8 shorter than A7 with beveled apex. GENITALIA (Fig. 3 E–L). Genital bulb bold and oval, widest near apex of gonocoxites. Epandrium narrow, truncated at apex; epandrial lobes boot-shaped with tapering apex, and greatly convergent. Hypandrium with broad basal stalk and split into a pair of hypovalves apically; hypandrial processes slender, fingerlike, slightly curved laterad apically; hypovalves mostly whitish but black at base, hirsute and greatly curled ventrad. Gonostylus concaved near basal one-third on outer margin; median tooth barely raised; basal process large and setose. Parameres flat, distinctly projected ventrad, with slightly sclerotized dorsal bridge connected to base of lateral processes. Ventral aedeagal valves with acute and translucent apexes; dorsal valves blunt and shorter than ventral valves; dorsal processes broad and translucent; lateral processes broad and rounded apically. Female Similar to males in body colors but with denser wing markings (Fig. 3B). In forewings, apical band extending to ending of M 3 posteriorly; marginal spot dense and distinctly connected to basal branch of pterostigmal band; a small irregular spot on Sc between marginal spot and pterostigmal band. MEASUREMENTS. FL = 12.4 mm, FW = 2.4 mm; HL = 11.3 mm, HW = 2.3 mm. GENITALIA (Fig. 3 M–N). Subgenital plate long and suboval, with shallow V-shaped emargination apically. Medigynium with axis slightly shorter than half of total length, parallel apodemes densely sclerotized; posterior arms slightly longer than axis, distinctly twisted medially and slightly spatulate in apical half. Distribution China: western Yunnan. Comments Although N. xingmini sp. nov. resembles N. luojishana sp. nov. in the well-developed male notal organ, it lacks the modified postnotal organs on A5 and A6 (Fig. 3D). It is similar to the Tibetan species N. tibetensis Hua & Chou, 1999 superficially, but can be distinguished from the latter by the smaller size with a maximum male FL of 11.5 mm (cf. exceeding 14.5 mm), the innerly projected apical band (cf. simple), and the details of the male and female genitalia. The female medigynium of N. xingmini sp. nov. resembles that of N. triangulata Wang & Hua, 2018 from Yunnan, N. liquifasciata Byers, 1999 and N. similis Byers, 1999 from Kachin, northern Myanmar, but the unique wing markings and welldeveloped male notal organ make the new species distinctive.Published as part of Wang, Ji-Shen & Hua, Bao-Zhen, 2019, Taxonomy of the genus Neopanorpa van der Weele, 1909 (Mecoptera, Panorpidae) from the Oriental Region, with the description of two new species, pp. 1-17 in European Journal of Taxonomy 543 on pages 7-9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.543, http://zenodo.org/record/337743
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A Self-stabilizing Algorithm for Finding a Minimal Positive Influence Dominating Set in Social Networks
No full textConferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Volume 13
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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