bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Reproduction of Globodera pallida on tissue culture-derived potato plants and their potential use in resistance screening process
Authors: Mwangi James M. , Niere Björn , Daub Matthias , Finckh Maria R. , Kiewnick Sebastian
Published: February 2019

Globodera pallida infestation on potato is responsible for huge yield losses globally. Screening of potato germplasm for resistance to the nematode at the early stages of a breeding programme can significantly enhance resistance-based management. This study assessed the suitability of tissue culture (TC)-derived potato plants as screening material for resistance to G. pallida. Reproduction of the nematode on TC plants was similar to the reproduction on tuber- and eye-plug-derived plants. The pot volume, inoculum density and inoculation time had a significant effect on the reproduction. A positive correlation was found between the mean number of white females on the root surface and the final number of nematode cysts after extraction. Resistance ranking using TC plants and the tubers yielded comparable results, thus justifying the use of TC in the screening process. Tissue culture plants have the potential of speeding up the screening process and reducing resource requirements, thus lowering breeding cost.
Does mating negatively affect female immune defences in insects?
Authors: Oku Keiko , Price Tom A.R. , Wedell Nina
Published: February 2019

Immunity is an important mechanism of protection against pathogens and parasites. One factor that can influence immunity is mating. During mating, male-derived materials are transferred to females, and the physical contact also involves the potential risk of sexually transmitted infections, and wounding. Thus, mating can challenge a female’s immune system. This review focuses on exploring how immunity and mating interact in female insects. Although mating has been shown to cause female immune responses in several species, the responses do not always match the observed resistance to pathogens/parasites. Mating up-regulates female immune responses while female resistance is reduced compared to virgin females in some species, and vice versa in other taxa. We discuss why mismatches occur and why post-mating female resistance differs among species, and suggest that measured immune responses may not correlate with female resistance. Also, the mating system will play a major role. Polyandrous mating systems can generate intense post-mating sexual conflict, which can impose high costs of mating on females. Reduced female post-mating resistance may be due to direct suppression of female immunity by males. Alternatively, polyandry may increase the risk of sexually transmitted infections. If this is the major factor driving female post-mating resistance, females of polyandrous species should have higher post-mating immunity. To date, there are insufficient numbers of studies to fully answer the question ‘does mating negatively affect female immune defences in insects?’ To elucidate the links between immunity and mating in females, we need more studies in more species with varied mating systems.
Obligations of ‘Due Regard’ in the Exclusive Economic Zone: Their Context, Purpose and State Practice
Authors: Fife Rolf Einar
Published: February 2019

The exclusive rights of the coastal state over the natural resources in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) coexist with the high seas freedoms of communication of other states. This particular coexistence of state competences is a distinguishing feature of the 200-mile zones. Articles 56(2) and 58(3) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) require that coastal states have ‘due regard’ to the rights, freedoms and duties of other states in the zone, and vice versa. It is suggested that the two provisions are not ‘dormant’. State practice indicates the contrary, as well as future paths for clarification. The obligation to have ‘due regard’ constitutes a linchpin in the conceptual underpinnings of the EEZ, and requires an interpretation of the concrete provisions that are applicable, in keeping with the Convention’s nature as a strategic ‘package deal’ with a particular bearing on international peace and security.
The Limitations on Military Activities by Third States in the EEZ Resulting from Environmental Law
Authors: Ricard Pascale
Published: February 2019

In the EEZ, the supposed freedom of states to conduct military activities encounters the rights and duties of coastal states regarding conservation of marine resources and environmental preservation. This article focuses on the relationship between these two specific but not always compatible interests and asks: how should they be combined? Could international environmental law rules be interpreted as a limitation to the conduct of military activities in the EEZ? What are the concrete obligations of states to fulfil their environmental duties, and how far are they compatible with the conduct of other activities? The ‘due diligence’ obligation to protect the marine environment is interpreted as going further than the ‘due regard’ standard enshrined in Articles 56 and 58 of the LOSC. Accordingly, this article assumes that it is a positive obligation, implying specific consequences, such as the conduct of environmental impact assessments when the activity risks causing damage.
The Legal Nature and Content of ‘Due Regard’ Obligations in Recent International Case Law
Authors: Forteau Mathias
Published: February 2019

The obligations of due regard under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) share many characteristics with other similar standards. Their object and purpose is to ensure conciliation between conflicting concurrent or overlapping elements, in particular rights belonging to different States. This is the reason why, in procedural terms, the said obligations generally entail a duty to cooperate, to strike the most appropriate balance between the divergent rights or obligations at stake. Recent case-law confirms these general features and sheds more light on the nature and content of the obligations of due regard under both general international law and Articles 56(2) and 58(3) of the LOSC.
The Relative Autonomy of the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Regime
Authors: De Witte Bruno
Published: February 2019

The concept of the autonomy of European Union law plays an important role in the fundamental rights domain. Autonomy has been expressly invoked by the Court of Justice of the European Union (cjeu) when reviewing international legal norms on human rights grounds, and when denying the possibility for the eu to accede to the European Court of Human Rights (echr). The article also describes other constellations in which the cjeu has sought to preserve the distinctiveness of the eu’s approach to the protection of rights but without resorting to the use of autonomy language. The article concludes by advocating a positive rather than merely defensive use of autonomy, namely to describe the distinctive role that eu human rights policies can play in ensuring the effective enjoyment of human rights in the world.
Domestic Trials for International Crimes – A Critical Analysis of Croatian War Crimes Sentencing Jurisprudence
Authors: Vajda Maja Munivrana
Published: February 2019

This article will describe and critically reflect upon the sentencing practices of Croatian courts with respect to war crimes committed during the armed conflict in Croatia in the early 1990s. Over the past two and a half decades, more than 3,500 alleged war criminals have been put on trial, with some 600 finally being convicted. Yet many proceedings were initially commenced without sufficient evidence, in absentia and, arguably, with a bias towards ethnic Serbs. This article first seeks to determine whether ethnicity has played a role in prosecuting and sentencing for war crimes and then to identify to what extent sentencing goals and principles, including aggravating and mitigating factors, proclaimed by Croatian courts reflect the extraordinary nature of international crimes. An attempt is made to compare these sentences and principles with sentencing practices at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (icty).
Which Moral Properties Are Eligible for Perceptual Awareness?
Authors: Werner Preston J.
Published: February 2019

Abstract: Moral perception has made something of a comeback in recent work on moral epistemology. Many traditional objections to the view have been argued to fail upon closer inspection. But it remains an open question just how far moral perception might extend. In this paper, I provide the beginnings of an answer to this question by assessing the relationship between the metaphysical structure of different normative properties and a plausible constraint on which properties are eligible for perceptual awareness which I call the Counterfactual Strengthening Test. Along the way I consider and reject a few other possible constraints on perceptual awareness. I defend the view that moral perception is restricted to the perception of evaluative and pro tanto deontic properties. I conclude with a few gestures toward what this limitation on moral perception may mean for broader moral epistemology.
“Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Document Destruction Order of 7 August 1945”
Authors: Walsh Brian P.
Published: February 2019

Over the years, there has been a great deal of debate about whether the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Soviet Union’s entrance into World War ii against Japan was a more decisive factor in bringing about a Japanese surrender. This debate often has focused on the days between the bombing of Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and the Soviet declaration of war (first learned in Japan on 9 August 1945) and whether there is convincing evidence of Tokyo moving toward surrender during this time period. To date, this debate in general has not touched on the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s order to destroy its documents, though it issued the directive on 7 August 1945. This research note assesses the importance of this document, concluding that its contents suggest that the atomic bombing prompted Japan’s Foreign Ministry to take concrete actions anticipating an end to Japanese belligerence.
Emergency Arbitrator Procedure in Investment Treaty Disputes: To Be or Not To Be
Authors: Chung Kyongwha
Published: February 2019

The emergency arbitrator is a person appointed to grant emergency relief pending the constitution of an arbitral tribunal. Numerous arbitral institutions started to introduce the emergency arbitrator procedure in order to provide a more effective system for the protection and preservation of parties’ rights. However, the ICSID Convention and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, which are the most common dispute resolution rules used in investment treaties, do not recognize the emergency arbitrator procedure. By contrast, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) allows the application of its emergency arbitrator rules in investment treaty disputes. In fact, there have been seven recent cases in which investors used the SCC Rules to seek emergency relief. This article evaluates introducing the emergency arbitrator procedure in investment treaty disputes. It discusses possible objections by States and concludes that the procedure is not inconsistent with the features of investment treaty disputes.
The first Cretaceous beetle from Azerbaijan: Katyacantharis zherikhini gen. et sp. n. (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from Cenomanian Agdzhakend amber

Authors: KAZANTSEV SERGEY V. , PERKOVSKY EVGENY E.
Published: February 2019

Cantharidae, or soldier-beetles, have so far been described from only two Cretaceous amber deposits. One genus and one species was reported from Spanish amber (El Soplao: Peris & Fanti, 2018) and six genera and seven species from Burmese amber (Hukawng Valley: Poinar & Fanti, 2016; Hsiao et al., 2017; Fanti & Ellenberger, 2017; 2018; Fanti at al., 2018). Other Cretaceous ambers, except for Lebanese amber (Kirejtshuk & Azar, 2013) seemed to lack soldier-beetles (Rasnitsyn et al., 2016).
Epidendrum choccei (Orchidaceae), a new species from Northern Peru
Authors: ACUÑA-TARAZONA MARGOTH , HAGSATER ERIC , AYALA ELIZABETH SANTIAGO
Published: February 2019

Epidendrum choccei, new species of Orchidaceae, from Northern Peru is here described, illustrated and compared with most similar species.
New taxa and new synonymy in Muricidae (Neogastropoda: Pagodulinae, Trophoninae, Ocenebrinae) from the Northeast Pacific

Authors: HOUART ROLAND , VERMEIJ GEERAT , WIEDRICK SHAWN
Published: February 2019

The results of an extensive examination of northeast Pacific muricid gastropods ranging from Aleutian Islands, Alaska, to mid-Baja California, is presented. Two new genera and 26 new species are described:        In Pagodulinae: Abyssotrophon fusiformis n. sp., A. newmani n. sp., Boreotrophon cascadiensis n. sp., B. cordellensis n. sp., B. cortesianus n. sp., B. obesus n. sp., B. subapolyonis n. sp., B. vancouverensis n. sp., B. aleuticus n. sp., B. pseudotripherus n. sp., B. santarosensis n. sp., B. tannerensis n. sp.        In Trophoninae: Warenia, n. gen., Scabrotrophon buldirensis n. sp, S. kantori n. sp., S. lima n. sp., S. macleani n. sp., S. moresbyensis n. sp., S. norafosterae n. sp., S. trifidus n. sp., Nipponotrophon exquisitus n. sp.        In Ocenebrinae: Paciocinebrina n. gen., Nucella angustior n. sp., Paciocinebrina benitoensis n. sp., P. macleani n. sp., P. neobarbarensis n. sp., P. pseudomunda n. sp., P. thelmacrowae n. sp.        New synonymy: Boreotrophon kamchatkanus Dall, 1902 (+ Trophonopsis nanus Ergorov, 1994); Paciocinebrina atropurpurea (Carpenter, 1865) (+ Tritonalia interfossa var. clathrata Dall, 1919, Ocinebra rubra Baker, 1891, Tritonalia tracheia Dall, 1919); P. barbarensis (Gabb, 1865) (+ Tritonalia interfossa var. beta Dall, 1919, Ocenebra keenae Bormann, 1946); P. circumtexta (Stearns, 1871) (+ Ocinebra circumtexta var. aurantia Stearns, 1895, Tritonalia circumtexta var. citrica Dall, 1919, Tritonalia lurida var. rotunda Dall, 1919); P. foveolata (Hinds, 1844) (+Tritonalia epiphanea Dall, 1919, Tritonalia fusconotata Dall, 1919); P. gracillima (Stearns, 1871) (+ Tritonalia gracillima var. obesa Dall, 1919, Ocinebra stearnsi Hemphill, 1911); P. interfossa (Carpenter, 1864) (+ Tritonalia interfossa alpha Dall, 1921); P. lurida (Middendorff, 1848) (+ Vitularia aspera Baird, 1863), P. sclera (Dall, 1919) (+ Coralliophila (Pseudomurex) kincaidi Dall, 1919).        Generic assignments are changed for the following taxa: Boreotrophon kamchatkanus Dall, 1902; Warenia elegantula (Dall, 1907); Scabrotrophon stuarti (E.A. Smith, 1880); Paciocinebrina atropurpurea (Carpenter, 1865), P. barbarensis (Gabb, 1865), P. circumtexta (Stearns, 1871), P. crispatissima (Berry, 1953), P. foveolata (Hinds, 1844), P. fraseri (Oldroyd, 1920), P. gracillima (Stearns, 1871), P. grippi (Dall, 1911), P. interfossa (Carpenter, 1864), P. lurida (Middendorff, 1848), P. minor (Dall, 1919), P. munda (Carpenter, 1864), P. seftoni (Chace, 1958), P. sclera (Dall, 1919). Boreotrophon alborostratus Taki, 1938, is reinstated. Abyssotrophon Egorov, 1993 and Nodulotrophon Habe & Ito, 1965 are here assigned to Pagodulinae Barco et al., 2012, based on radula morphology.
Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs

Authors: VALDÉS ÁNGEL
Published: February 2019

A compendium of the northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs formerly classified in the paraphyletic group “Opisthobranchia” is provided. These include organisms with internal and/or reduced shells. Shell-less groups such as Nudibranchia or closely related benthic shelled clades such as the Pyramidelloidea and the Siphonarioidea are excluded. The Sacoglossa is not represented by any shelled forms in the northeast Pacific and therefore is also excluded. Descriptions include diagnostic characteristics, species abundance information, geographic and bathymetric ranges, and ecological data (if available). Short remarks for most species and higher taxa provide additional information published elsewhere and/or address outstanding taxonomic or nomenclatural issues. Illustrations of the shells and — in some cases — the live animals are provided. Species are arranged based on current classification schemes and a full list of primary synonyms, location of type material (if known), and type localities of all synonyms are provided for each species. Three new species are described in this paper: Microglyphis michelleae new species, Microglyphis sabrinae new species and Bogasonia jennyae new species. Oscaniella purpurea Bergh, 1897 is here designated the type species of Oscaniella Bergh, 1897
The family Haliotidae Rafinesque, 1815 in the northeast Pacific

Authors: GEIGER DANIEL L. , OWEN BUZZ
Published: February 2019

The abalone of the northeastern Pacific are reviewed. The taxonomy and distribution remains unchanged. McLean’s work on abalone is discussed.
Tegulidae and Turbinidae of the northeast Pacific

Authors: ALF AXEL
Published: February 2019

The northeast Pacific species of the trochoidean families Tegulidae and Turbinidae are described and illustrated. These two families are discussed and each includes two genera: Tegulidae with the genera Tegula (eight species) and Norrisia (one species), and Turbinidae with the genera Megastrea (two species) and Pomaulax (one species).
An integrative taxonomic approach to the identification of three new New Zealand endemic earthworm species (Acanthodrilidae, Octochaetidae: Oligochaeta)
Authors: BOYER STEPHANE , BLAKEMORE ROBERT J. , WRATTEN STEVE D.
Published: February 2019

This work adds three new species to the ca. 200 currently known from New Zealand. In Acanthodrilidae is Maoridrilus felix and in Octochaetidae are Deinodrilus gorgon and Octochaetus kenleei. All three are endemics that often have restricted ranges; however, little is yet known of their distribution, ecology nor conservation status. DNA barcoding was conducted, which is the first time that New Zealand endemic holotypes have been so characterized. The barcoding region COI (cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1) as well as the 16S rDNA region were sequenced using tissue from the holotype specimen to provide indisputable uniqueness of the species. These DNA sequences are publically available on GenBank to allow accurate cross checking to verify the identification of other specimens or even to identify specimens on the basis of their DNA sequences alone. Based on their 16S rDNA sequences, the position of the three newly described species in the phylogeny of New Zealand earthworms was discussed. The description of new species using this approach is encouraged, to provide a user-friendly identification tool for ecologists studying diverse endemic faunas of poorly known earthworm species.
The Cumacean Dimorphostylis elegans Gamô, 1960 (Crustacea), D. bathyelegans n. sp. and D. brevicarpus n. sp. from Japan
Authors: AKIYAMA TADASHI
Published: February 2019

Dimorphostylis elegans Gamô, 1960 and two related new species, D. bathyelegans n. sp. and D. brevicarpus n. sp. are described. Dimorphostylis elegans were collected from the Pacific coasts of Honshu and Shikoku Islands, and the East China Sea, Japan, 74–443 m. As a result, D. latifrons Harada, 1960 from the Izu Peninsula, Japan is declared a junior synonym of D. elegans. Morphological variation of the carapace is discussed. Dimorphostylis bathyelegans, from southern coast of the Honshu Island and the East China Sea, is very similar to D. elegans, but is distinguished from the latter by the long telson and the third peduncle article of antenna 1 with more short setae. Depth of the habitat ranges from 495–918 m, which is the deepest known species in the genus. Dimorphostylis brevicarpus was collected from Kyushu and Nansei Islands, East China Sea, on sandy bottoms, 165–236 m deep. This species also resembles D. elegans, but is distinguished from the latter by (1) short carpus of pereopods 3–5, (2) anterior end of dorsolateral carina with 2 or 3 teeth, and (3) maxilliped 1 with a group of sharp spines on the ventral surface of basis, and (4) carapace covered with numerous small pits, with a tiny seta in each.
A new subgenus and two new species of Zercon C. L. Koch, 1836 (Acari: Zerconidae) from Southeast Asia
Authors: UJVÁRI ZSOLT
Published: February 2019

Two new species, Zercon (Zercorientalia) formosianus sp. nov. and Zercon (Zercorientalia) spinosus sp. nov., are described from the high mountain zone of Taiwan. A new subgenus, Zercon (Zercorientalia) subgen. nov., is established for these species, on the basis of a unique combination of podonotal chaetotaxy and pore positions. Zercon (Zercorientalia) sinensis Petrova & Taskaeva, 1968 is transferred from Zercon (Zercon) Koch, 1836 to the new subgenus. The taxonomic relevance of podonotal chaetotaxy is discussed.
Parazoanthus Haddon & Shackleton, 1891, and Parazoanthidae Delage & Hérouard, 1901: Conservation of usage by Reversal of Precedence with Bergia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860, and Bergiidae Verrill, 1869 (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia)
Authors: LOW MARTYN E. Y. , REIMER JAMES DAVIS
Published: February 2019

The names Bergia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860, and Bergiidae Verrill, 1869, are respectively, senior subjective synonyms of Parazoanthus Haddon & Shackleton, 1891, and Parazoanthidae Delage & Hérouard, 1901. The junior synonyms Parazoanthus and Parazoanthidae are in current and widespread use. In the interest of nomenclatural stability, we enact Articles 23.9.1 and 23.9.2 to reverse precedence of these names, thereby making Parazoanthus and Parazoanthidae nomina protecta, and Bergia and Bergiidae nomina oblita.
Cissococcus Cockerell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae), a unique gall-inducing soft scale genus on Vitaceae from South Africa, with description of a new species
Authors: HODGSON C. J. , MILLAR I. M. , GULLAN P. J.
Published: February 2019

The gall-inducing genus Cissococcus Cockerell is revised to include two species. The family placement of Cissococcus has been uncertain, but characters of the first-instar nymph and adult male clearly show that Cissococcus is a soft scale insect (Coccidae) and is therefore the only member of the Coccidae known to induce a complex covering gall. All stages of the type species, C. fulleri Cockerell, are described and illustrated, plus the adult and third-instar female and first-instar nymph of a new, closely-related species, C. braini Hodgson & Millar sp. n. Both species are known only from wild vines in the southeast and C. fulleri also in the northeast of South Africa, but each induces a unique gall and each appears to be restricted to a different species of Rhoicissus (Vitaceae). The galls of each species are described and figured, and gall induction in the Coccidae is briefly discussed.
Spanglerodessus shorti and Incomptodessus camachoi, new genera and species of Bidessini from Guyana and Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)
Authors: MILLER KELLY B. , GARCIA MAURICIO
Published: February 2019

Two new genera and species are described. Spanglerodessus n. gen. is described to include the single new species, S. shorti n. sp. from localities in eastern Venezuela and western Guyana. This genus is similar to Bidessodes Régimbart and Fontidessus Miller and Spangler, but differs from the first in having overall dark coloration, lack of dorsal color patterns or iridescence, a broad lateral bead, and broad and robust habitus. From Fontidessus the genus differs in being much more robust and lacking natatory setae. Incomptodessus n. gen. is described to include a single new species I. camachoi n. sp. from localities in the upper Orinoco River basin in Amazonas and Bolivar States. This genus differs from similar bidessine genera, Sharphydrus Omer-Cooper, Tyndallhydrus Sharp, Liodessus Guignot and Neobidessus Young, in having impunctate metacoxae and metaventrite and lacking basal striae on the elytra.
Synonymies of anomalous species of Arrhopalites from Australia and New Zealand
Authors: GREENSLADE PENELOPE
Published: February 2019

Characters of two species, described more than seventy years ago in the genus Arrhopalites Börner, A. coccineus Salmon, 1941 and A. adelaidica Womersley, 1933, are not consistent with the current diagnosis of the genus. Instead, the holotype of A. coccineus and two cotypes of A. adelaidica, but not the lectotype, are consistent with characters of Stenacidia violacea (Reuter, 1881) following the description of the genus and species published by Bretfeld (1999). Stenacidia violacea is the type species of its monotypic genus. As the characters of the genus Stenacidia, following Bretfeld (1999), are very different to those of Arrhopalites, but are consistent with the characters of A. coccineus and two cotypes of A. adelaidica, A. coccineus is synonymised with S. violacea here and identification of the cotypes of A. adelaidica corrected.
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) of the Dominican Republic, with a re-definition of the genus Typhloseiopsis De Leon
Authors: FERRAGUT FRANCISCO , DE MORAES GILBERTO JOSE , NAVIA DENISE
Published: February 2019

The phytoseiid mites of the Dominican Republic are virtually unknown. In a survey conducted in areas of natural vegetation of that country, 23 species were collected, two of which, Phytoseius dominicensis Ferragut & Moraes sp. nov. and Typhloseiopsis adventitius Ferragut & Moraes sp. nov., are new to science. We report the species found in that survey, describe the two new species, and provide complementary morphological information about other species. To accommodate the new Typhloseiopsis De Leon species, a redefinition of Typhloseiopsis is proposed. A key for the separation of the species in this genus is provided.
A new species of Secutor (Teleostei: Leiognathidae) from the Western Indian Ocean
Authors: BALDWIN ZACHARY H. , SPARKS JOHN S.
Published: February 2019

A new species of ponyfish, Secutor mazavasaoka, is described from coastal waters of the Western Indian Ocean. Together, the new species, S. indicius, and S. insidiator are readily distinguished from congeners by more or less oval-shaped elongate bodies (vs. markedly deep and disk-shaped). The new species is distinguished from S. hanedai by the presence of scales on the chest (vs. chest asquamate), and from S. indicius and S. insidiator by a deeper, hatchet-shaped body (vs. uniformly oval) and pigmentation pattern on the dorsal flank comprising eight to eleven well-defined columns of irregular small spots and blotches (vs. 14 to 17 thin columns of spots or vertical lines in S. indicius, or larger irregular blotches arrayed in poorly defined columns in S. insidiator). Additionally, the new species is distinguished from S. insidiator by a strongly upturned mouth and compressed pug-like snout, a pronounced concavity dorsal to the orbit, a dorsally-projecting nuchal spine, and dorsal-fin insertion well posterior to vertical through pectoral-fin base (vs. at about level of pectoral-fin base in S. insidiator).
A new species of Peritrox Bates, with a revised key for the genus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)
Authors: RODRIGUES JULIANA MOURÃO DOS SANTOS , MERMUDES JOSÉ RICARDO M.
Published: February 2019

Peritrox insulatus sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, Ilha Grande). A key to the five known species is provided. A previously unpublished photograph of the holotype of Peritrox denticollis Bates (type species of the genus) and a discussion with diagnoses of all species are provided to complement the study.
A note on an Ancylomenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Siboga expedition
Authors: BRUCE A. J.
Published: February 2019

A major landmark in the taxonomy of the shrimps of the subfamily Pontoniinae was the publication of the Siboga Expedition monograph by Holthuis (1952). In this report Holthuis referred four lots of specimens to Periclimenes aesopius (Bate). This species is now placed in the genus Ancylomenes Okuno & Bruce (2010) as Ancylomenes aesopius (Bate, 1863) and is known only from Australian waters (South Australia and Western Australia). Through the kindness of Dr Dirk Platvoet it has been possible to re-examine these Siboga specimens. Re-examination showed that none can now be referred to Bate’s species which is distinguished from all other species of the genus by the presence of three or four post-orbital teeth on the anterior carapace (Bruce, 1977). Several species of Ancylomenes are represented in the Siboga material and Holthuis’s description of the material does not appear based on any specimen in particular. One specimen is however, readily distinguishable from the others by the unusually slender ambulatory dactyli. It is also distinct from all presently known species of Ancylomenes, and is herein designated as a new species and its characters described and illustrated.
A new genus of neobatrachian frog from southern Patagonian forests, Argentina and Chile NÉSTOR G. BASSO, CARMEN A. ÚBEDA, MARÍA M. BUNGE & LIZA B. MARTINAZZO (Argentina)
Authors: BASSO NÉSTOR G. , ÚBEDA CARMEN A. , BUNGE MARÍA M. , MARTINAZZO LIZA B.
Published: February 2019

In 1975 Lynch named a new species of frog based on two specimens from Puerto Eden, Wellington Island, southern Chile, tentatively allocated to the genus Telmatobius. Telmatobius grandisonae Lynch was later included by the same author in his genus Atelognathus. Based on a reappraisal of the type material and the description of the internal and external morphology, karyotype, tadpole morphology and molecular evidence from recently discovered specimens collected at Lago del Desierto, southern Argentina, we describe the monotypic genus Chaltenobatrachus, with Telmatobius grandisonae (Lynch) serving as the type species. Chaltenobatrachus differs from Atelognathus mainly in having a uniform bright green dorsal coloration, with brown to reddish warts; orange iris with gold spots; fingers with interdigital membrane; frontoparietals well developed; small nasals;well ossified sphenethmoid; anteriorly expanded homosternum; skin of tadpole transparent; oral disc with protruding anterior and lateral papillae; diploid number 2n = 32 chromosomes. The genetic distances between Chaltenobatrachus and Atelognathus meet or exceed most other intergeneric comparisons.
Boraras naevus, a new species of miniature and sexually dichromatic freshwater fish from peninsular Thailand (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae)
Authors: CONWAY KEVIN W. , KOTTELAT MAURICE
Published: February 2019

Boraras naevus, new species, is described from peninsular Thailand. It is distinguished from other congeners by features of its sexually dimorphic colour pattern, principal caudal-fin, pelvic-fin and branched dorsal-fin ray counts, lateral scale row counts, and a number of osteological features.
Miscellanea Miridologica II. New combinations and new synonymies in the tribe Mirini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)
Authors: CHÉROT F. , COSTA L. , TOUCHET M.
Published: February 2019

Six new synonymies and four new combinations are proposed: Guianella Carvalho 1946 = Boliviomiris Carvalho, 1987 and Pilosicerus Carvalho, 1992 (new subjective junior synonyms). Guianella pilosa Maldonado & Carvalho, 1981 = G. antennalis (Carvalho, 1987) and G. rondoniensis (Carvalho, 1992) (new subjective junior synonyms). Urucuiana Carvalho & Rosas, 1965 = Bahiamiris Carvalho, 1975 (new subjective junior synonym). Urucuiana tuberculata Carvalho & Rosas, 1965 = U. cajabiana (Carvalho, 1977) (new subjective junior synonym). Guianella antennalis, G. rondoniensis, U. cajabiana, and U. rubrornata (Carvalho, 1975) (new combinations). Urucuiana tuberculata is reported from French Guyana for the first time.
Comparison of Modeled and Measured Ice Nucleating Particle Composition in a Cirrus Cloud
Authors: Ullrich Romy , Hoose Corinna , Cziczo Daniel J. , Froyd Karl D. , Schwarz Joshua P. , Perring Anne E. , Bui Thaopaul V. , Schmitt Carl G. , Vogel Bernhard , Rieger Daniel , Leisner Thomas , Möhler Ottmar
Published: February 2019

The contribution of heterogeneous ice nucleation to the formation of cirrus cloud ice crystals is still not well quantified. This results in large uncertainties when predicting cirrus radiative effects and their role in Earth’s climate system. The goal of this case study is to simulate the composition, and thus activation conditions, of ice nucleating particles (INPs) to evaluate their contribution to heterogeneous cirrus ice formation in relation to homogeneous ice nucleation. For this, the regional model COSMO—Aerosols and Reactive Trace Gases (COSMO-ART) was used to simulate a synoptic cirrus cloud over Texas on 13 April 2011. The simulated INP composition was then compared to measured ice residual particle (IRP) composition from the actual event obtained during the NASA Midlatitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment (MACPEX) aircraft campaign. These IRP measurements indicated that the dominance of heterogeneous ice nucleation was mainly driven by mineral dust with contributions from a variety of other particle types. Applying realistic activation thresholds and concentrations of airborne transported mineral dust and biomass-burning particles, the model implementing the heterogeneous ice nucleation parameterization scheme of Ullrich et al. is able to reproduce the overall dominating ice formation mechanism in contrast to the model simulation with the scheme of Phillips et al. However, the model showed flaws in reproducing the IRP composition.
A Practical Approach to Developing Climate Change Scenarios for Water Quality Models
Authors: Gelda Rakesh K. , Mukundan Rajith , Owens Emmet M. , Abatzoglou John T.
Published: February 2019

Climate model output is often downscaled to grids of moderately high spatial resolution (~4–6-km grid cells). Such projections have been used in numerous hydrological impact assessment studies at watershed scales. However, relatively few studies have been conducted to assess the impact of climate change on the hydrodynamics and water quality in lakes and reservoirs. A potential barrier to such assessments is the need for meteorological variables at subdaily time scales that are downscaled to in situ observations to which lake and reservoir water quality models have been calibrated and validated. In this study, we describe a generalizable procedure that utilizes gridded downscaled data; applies a secondary bias-correction procedure using equidistance quantile mapping to map projections to station-based observations; and implements temporal disaggregation models to generate point-scale hourly air and dewpoint temperature, wind speed, and solar radiation for use in water quality models. The proposed approach is demonstrated for six locations within New York State: four within watersheds of the New York City water supply system and two at nearby National Weather Service stations. Disaggregation models developed using observations reproduced hourly data well at all locations, with Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency greater than 0.9 for air temperature and dewpoint, 0.4–0.6 for wind speed, and 0.7–0.9 for solar radiation.
Novel Data Assimilation Algorithm for Nearshore Bathymetry
Authors: Ghorbanidehno Hojat , Lee Jonghyun , Farthing Matthew , Hesser Tyler , Kitanidis Peter K. , Darve Eric F.
Published: February 2019

It can be expensive and difficult to collect direct bathymetry data for nearshore regions, especially in high-energy locations where there are temporally and spatially varying bathymetric features like sandbars. As a result, there has been increasing interest in remote assessment techniques for estimating bathymetry. Recent efforts have combined Kalman filter–based techniques with indirect video-based observations for bathymetry inversion. Here, we estimate nearshore bathymetry by utilizing observed wave celerity and wave height, which are related to bathymetry through phase-averaged wave dynamics. We present a modified compressed-state Kalman filter (CSKF) method, a fast and scalable Kalman filter method for linear and nonlinear problems with large numbers of unknowns and measurements, and apply it to two nearshore bathymetry estimation problems. To illustrate the robustness and accuracy of our method, we compare its performance with that of two ensemble-based approaches on twin bathymetry estimation problems with profiles based on surveys taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Field Research Facility (FRF) in Duck, North Carolina. We first consider an estimation problem for a temporally constant bathymetry profile. Then we estimate bathymetry as it evolves in time. Our results indicate that the CSKF method is more accurate and robust than the ensemble-based methods with the same computational cost. The superior performance is due to the optimal low-rank representation of the covariance matrices.
Gender-role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: An Examination of Networking among Entrepreneurs
Authors: Abraham Mabel
Published: February 2019

While most research explaining the persistence of gender inequality has focused on how decision makers’ own biases perpetuate inequities, a growing body of work points to mechanisms of bias that may arise when a decision maker is concerned with satisfying a third party or audience. Using data from 2007 to 2013 on 2,310 members of a popular networking organization for entrepreneurs, I examine the extent to which the presence of third parties leads to gender inequality in resource exchange, or connections to potential clients. I show that decision makers are most apt to favor male network contacts in exchanges involving a third party when considering whether to connect a contact in a male-typed occupation. Decision makers do not display this gender bias in exchanges that do not involve a third party or when sharing connections to potential clients with contacts in gender-neutral or female-typed occupations. This setting offers a unique opportunity to compare gender inequality in exchanges involving a third party with cases that do not involve a third party, providing direct evidence of the effects of audiences or third parties for gender inequality.
Invasion From Within: Ideas, Power, and the Transmission of Institutional Logics Between Policy Domains
Authors: Carstensen Martin B. , Röper Nils
Published: February 2019

How do institutional logics travel within a political economy? Employing insights from historical and ideational institutionalist theory, this article offers a novel understanding of change dynamics as driven by actors’ creation of institutional interlinkages. It develops the causal mechanism of “invasion from within,” consisting of a three-stage process: the progressive weakening of a policy paradigm within one institutional site coinciding with a strengthening of the policy paradigm in another; the building of a coalition within the exporting field; and the use of framing strategies to “localize” adjacent logics of action and delegitimize adversarial coalitions. The analytical purchase of the argument is corroborated through process tracing of the German pension paradigm shift during the 1990s, showing that ideas about private capital formation developed in finance were redirected toward old-age provision and strategically transferred to the pension arena by a coalition of actors from the German finance domain.
Valuing recovery-oriented practice at the interface between mental health services and communities: The role of organisational characteristics and environments
Authors: Bauer Annette , Evans-Lacko Sara , Knapp Martin
Published: February 2019

Background:

Implementing recovery-oriented mental health services is a policy priority in many countries. In addition, some governments have prioritised new forms of organising, financing and governing the provision of mental health services with a stronger focus on co-delivery and involving communities. Most research in the recovery field has focused on interventions. There is limited knowledge about the role of organisational characteristics and environments in which people experience recovery.

Aim:

To understand the organisational characteristics of initiatives that implement recovery-oriented practice at the interface between mental health services and communities, as well as the mechanisms they employ to alter the conditions in which they operate.

Method:

Semi-structured interviews and a focus group workshop with managers of five initiatives in England that implemented recovery-oriented practice at the interface between mental health services and communities.

Results:

Our cross-sector initiatives shared a range of characteristics and employed mechanisms that created favourable conditions for recovery-oriented practice: strong social value and process (rather than performance) orientation; participatory approaches and shared decision-making; flat hierarchies; creating and seizing business opportunities; utilising networking and (social) marketing opportunities; risk-taking; valuing and supporting all members of their organisations; entrepreneurial and value-driven leadership.

Conclusion:

Recovery-oriented practice takes place in certain organisational environments that importantly influence an individual’s recovery. Our research highlights the need to consider organisational characteristics when evaluating recovery interventions as well as a broader shift of research towards understanding the environments in which people experience recovery as members of society, and how those can be altered.
Quality Healthcare Service Assessment under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
Authors: Kodom Michael , Owusu Adobea Yaa , Kodom Perpetual Nancy Baidoo
Published: February 2019

Ghana implemented the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2005 with the intention of providing residents with quality affordable healthcare. Over the past few years, concerns have been raised about the quality of healthcare clients receive. This study assesses the experiences of NHIS subscribers with the quality of care they receive under the scheme by both private and public hospitals. The results from the 56 interviews show that the majority of the subscribers were dissatisfied with the overall quality of healthcare they received in both private and public hospital because of the long waiting hours, the poor attitude of nurses and the demand for payment of additional money. Even though clients who visited the private hospital paid for all services, excluding consultation, their level of satisfaction with the quality of healthcare was relatively higher than those who visited the public hospital. The paper concludes that NHIS clients do not receive the quality of healthcare the scheme promised, and this has implications for premium renewals and health-seeking behaviour.
Professor Sir Howard Dalton FRS (8th February 1944–12th January 2008)
Authors: Murrell Colin
Published: February 2019

The untimely death of one of the UK's leading microbiologists was marked by a Memorial Event at the University of Warwick on 19th May 2008 attended by his wife and family and a very large number of his former colleagues and students. A number of lectures were given which were focused on those areas for which Howard Dalton had become renowned. One of these, given by Professor Christopher Anthony, is published here. Also we reproduce the obituary for Howard Dalton, prepared by his former colleague, Professor J. Colin Murrell of the same Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick. This is reproduced by kind permission of the Society for General Microbiology, it having first appeared in the May 2008 number of the Society journal Microbiology Today’.

Terence Kemp
Integral Human Development: From Paternalism to Accompaniment
Authors: Pope Stephen J.
Published: February 2019

This article traces the development of Catholic treatments of integral human development from Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio to the writings of Pope Francis on accompaniment. The author argues that community organizing is an important avenue for promoting the political dimension of accompaniment as understood in the teaching of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis and Catholic Healthcare Ethics
Authors: Kaveny Cathleen
Published: February 2019

This article examines the influence of Pope Francis on Catholic healthcare ethics. The first section offers an analytical summary of his ethics. The second section reviews a “Franciscan” approach to Catholic healthcare ethics, which situates that field within the broader context of Catholic social teaching. The third section analyzes the implications of three of Francis’s most powerful metaphors: his injunction to “go to the peripheries”; his contrast between a throwaway culture and a culture of encounter; and his comparison of the church to a field hospital.
Just War, Pacifism, Just Peace, and Peacebuilding
Authors: Cahill Lisa Sowle
Published: February 2019

While Roman Catholic ethics of war and peace develops more restrictive criteria of just war and reprioritizes nonviolence, an important strand of Protestant theology defends war as a God-given instrument of government’s multiple ends. A newer ethics of just peace and peacebuilding emerges from Christian initiatives to transform armed conflict at intra-state and cross-border levels. This essay assesses these approaches and pacifism, concluding with a perspective from the Global South.
Cruciform Encounter in a Time of Crisis: Enfleshing an Ethics of Alterity
Authors: Bajzek Brian
Published: February 2019

This article connects the work of M. Shawn Copeland to a dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and Emmanuel Levinas. Exploring these authors’ insights on intersubjectivity, alterity, dialectic, and embodiment, the article develops a framework for engaging and overcoming contemporary crises of relationality. These resources are then used to reframe questions of otherness in terms of the imitation of Christ, advocating encounter grounded in open, prayerful engagement with the marginalized.
Dragon Myths and Biblical Theology
Authors: Miller Robert D.
Published: February 2019

A recurrent myth in the Bible about God “slaying a dragon,” primarily in the Old Testament, provides a test case for using the “study of Scripture as the soul of theology” without depending on historical accuracy or indeed on “salvation history” at all. Freeing us from the dangers of a resurgent focus on history in theological interpretation, this article shows how the dragon-slaying myth speaks powerfully to theodicy and the problem of evil.
Karl Rahner’s Theological Logic, Phenomenology, and Anticipation
Authors: Fritz Peter Joseph
Published: February 2019

This article provides an update on the logic undergirding Karl Rahner’s theology of mystery through a dialogue between Rahner and Jean-Luc Marion. It focuses on Rahner’s account of truth in Aquinas and Marion’s Gifford Lectures on revelation. Marion’s distinction between “alethic” (modern-epistemological) and “apocalyptic” (phenomenological-Christian) logics elucidates anew Rahner’s commitment to mystery as deep, abiding truth. Also addressed is Marion’s Balthasarian concern about Rahner and “anticipation,” expressed as criticism of the “anonymous Christian.” The article aims to encourage future, robust theological reflection on truth, an always timely endeavor.
Making Sense of Eighty Years of Theological Ethics
Authors: Keenan James F.
Published: February 2019

This article surveys all the contributions in ethics on these pages over the past eighty years and is divided into four historical parts: the first three years; the years from 1943 to 1964; the years Richard McCormick wrote from 1964 to 1984; and the years beyond McCormick. It surveys a period from neo-Scholastic manualism at the eve of World War II to the contemporary era, where methods for attaining moral objectivity are complex. This survey notes shifts in theological method, the movement of the center from the personal to the social, the transition from an exclusively clerical authorship to a much broader array of authors, and a shift in readership from priest confessors to professional theologians.