bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La Sagesse de la Multitude
Authors: Girard Charles
Published: June 2019

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"L’objection la plus ancienne et la plus redoutable à la démocratie fait valoir que le gouvernement par le peuple dessert le gouvernement pour le peuple. Les citoyens manquant pour la plupart de sagesse ou de compétence, le bien commun serait mieux assuré en confiant le pouvoir à un individu éclairé ou à une élite experte. Une réponse commune à cette objection concède la prémisse mais affirme la priorité au gouvernement par le peuple sur le gouvernement pour le peuple : le droit égal à la participation devrait l’emporter sur la promotion de la compétence, même si celle-ci est requise par le bon gouvernement. La démocratie se trouve alors réduite à un ensemble de procédures équitables, traitant les citoyens en égaux ; elle ne se définit plus par la poursuite du bien commun. Il est toutefois une autre réponse à l’objection, qui évite cette dérive vers un procéduralisme étroit. Elle consiste à nier la prémisse et à affirmer la sagesse politique du peuple. Il n’est pas vrai que le gouvernement pour le peuple serait mieux assuré en confiant le pouvoir à un petit nombre de sages ou d’experts, fussent-ils les meilleurs parmi les citoyens. Cette thèse remarquable peut paraître improbable. Sa défense peut pourtant s’appuyer sur l’un des arguments les plus intrigants élaborés par la philosophie politique aristotélicienne, qui inspire et éclaire les controverses philosophiques contemporaines sur la valeur du régime démocratique : l’argument de la sagesse de la multitude."
La Corrida
Authors: Guillaume-Alonso Araceli
Published: June 2019

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"Les origines de la tauromachie remontent à la nuit des temps. Rite de fécondité, mythe, fête rurale, rite de passage, exercice cynégétique, spectacle urbain, joute aristocratique, jeu collectif ou exploit individuel, ... Le face-à-face entre l’homme et le taureau a pris au long des siècles des formes très diverses, dans un double processus de transformation et de fusion qui a abouti à la corrida moderne.C’est à l’aube de la modernité, à la charnière entre les XVe et XVIe siècles, que la fête taurine-spectacle, ancêtre de la corrida, dessine ses contours à partir de pratiques taurines très diverses, présentes sur une large géographie ibérique et dont certaines variantes s’étendent même au nord des Pyrénées."
Lieux de Francis Wolff
Authors: Salanskis Jean-Michel
Published: June 2019

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"Avec Francis Wolff, j’ai d’abord eu le sentiment d’une affinité, qui au fil des années a pris pour moi le visage d’une complicité. Pour le dire simplement, je le percevais comme un des rares qui fût réellement tolérant à l’égard des nombreuses manières de faire de la philosophie : j’entends ici tolérant non seulement au sens de celui qui n’a pas le projet de moquer ou calomnier les autres – ceux qui écrivent autrement, qui ont une autre bibliothèque de référence – mais au sens de celui qui entend et comprend le génie de plusieurs démarches, extrêmement différentes, et même s’il ne leur adhère pas. À vrai dire et par parenthèse, il est triste de l’observer, fort rares sont de nos jours dans la communauté philosophique ceux à qui il est facile de concéder que des gens travaillant tout à fait en dehors d’eux, sans intersection avec aucune de leurs écuries, sont excellents."
La Méthode de Symétrie chez Francis Wolff
Authors: Sève Bernard
Published: June 2019

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"Il y a des jardins à la française et il y a des jardins à l’anglaise. Les jardins à la française sont marqués par l’ordre, la symétrie, l’équilibre des plans et des volumes, la régularité des chemins qui obéissent à une pensée maîtrisée et qui présentent esthétiquement cette maîtrise. Les jardins à l’anglaise sont marqués par la dissymétrie, le déséquilibre des plans et des volumes, l’irrégularité de chemins tortueux dont on ne sait où ils mènent ; c’est un désordre étudié, et qui doit dissimuler l’artifice supérieur dont il est le produit, selon le principe « l’art cache l’art ». Il y a des livres qui ressemblent à des jardins à l’anglaise, avec leurs parcours sinueux, leurs caprices, leurs raisonnements esquissés mais inaboutis, leur désordre étudié, la dissimulation de la rhétorique subtile qui les commande en sous-œuvre. Et puis il y a des livres qui ressemblent à des jardins à la française, marqués par l’ordre, la symétrie, l’équilibre, la régularité, la cohérence et je dirais la probité de la pensée. Les chemins sont nets, et, même lorsqu’ils font de complexes et savants détours, on sait d’où l’on vient et on sait où l’on va."
O visível do invisível
Authors: Venturelli Suzete , Melo Marcilon Almeida de
Published: June 2019

A relação entre nossos sentidos perceptivos e os métodos técnicos de amostragem da realidade material em códigos digitais nos permite acessar em tempo real seus dados constitutivos. Devemos aprender a ver o mundo, pois o mundo é o que vemos; mas qual visão temos dele por meio dos dados? Percebemos que, na formação da imagem, o difuso é a transição para o visível, que ostenta o futuro da imagem, renovando-a no tempo real da transmissão. Artistas que lidam com dados utilizam diversos métodos para capturar, processar e representar a realidade, agora abstraída em instruções binárias, acionadas por algoritmos que objetivam cada vez mais mediar nossa experiência sensível com a realidade.
Cientifizando McLuhan
Authors: Basbaum Sérgio Roclaw
Published: June 2019

In Laws of Media, written with his son Eric, Marshall McLuhan aimed to assign scientific status to his ideas, presenting his Tetrad model and offering several examples of its application. Mcluhanism places great emphasis on media ecology specific perceptual bias; authors such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, David Chalmers and Andy Clark allow us to bridge it to the research on consciousness and brain carried through the last decades. If media creates an experience related to its epistemic context, it is possible to approach the forms of human-machine coupling – especially in digital culture –, by examining the hypothesis of a triplex isomorphism between  that would turn mcluhanism into hard science. This hypothesis’ aspects are discussed, alongside further problems related to contemporary artwork creation.
Effects of a Double Major on Post-Baccalaureate Outcomes
Authors: Zhu Qiong , Zhang Liang
Published: June 2019

We use data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study and propensity score weighting methods to estimate the effect of a double major on bachelor's degree recipients’ earnings within four years after college graduation. We classify each of a student's two majors in a double major combination as either “higher- or lower-paying,” based on the rank order of the average earnings of each major among single major students. Our analyses yield three main findings. First, within one year after graduation, double major graduates earn significantly less relative to their single major peers with the same higher paying major; however, by four years after graduation, their earnings are similar to those with the single higher paying major and significantly higher relative to those with the single lower paying major. Second, we find that double major graduates are more likely to be employed, work longer hours, and pursue graduate education than their single major peers four years after graduation. Finally, transcript data suggest that double major graduates take fewer classes in the higher paying major, which may explain their initial earnings penalty relative to those with the higher paying single major.
New York's Other Factory: The Whitney Independent Study Program
Authors: Buchloh Benjamin H. D.
Published: June 2019

Introducing a cluster of texts on the Whitney Independent Study Program, Benjamin Buchloh briefly discusses the history and importance of the program's founder, Ron Clark, and the program itself, which Buchloh suggests functions as a kind of countermodel to Andy Warhol's Factory.
Concentric Pedagogy: Toward an ethics of the Observer
Authors: Kelly Mary
Published: June 2019

Critical pedagogies have been informed by feminism since the 1970s, but artist Mary Kelly considers what this means as a tactic rather than a specific content. Focusing on one of the central curricular components of studio art in an institutional context, the critique, she argues that the work of art is a visual proposition, legible on its own terms, and that the artist's verbal defense does not necessarily give him/her a voice. Instead, the process of deciphering must begin with looking and understanding this as a form of listening to the artist through the work. Moreover, Kelly suggests that not to do so is, in some sense, unethical.
A Picture Is a Shaped Thing
Authors: Luke Megan R.
Published: June 2019

Over fifty years after the initial publication of “Shape as Form: Frank Stella's Irregular Polygons,” the criticism of Michael Fried continues to define the reception of the painter's early shaped canvases. Returning to Fried's foundational account of their iterative compositions and objecthood, this essay considers how these same features were figured differently in the photographs of Hollis Frampton, in the writing of Max Imdahl, and, ultimately, in the artist's own confrontation with a nascent discourse about Minimalism in the visual arts. Stella's negative definition of his practice as “non-relational painting” suggests further points of comparison to theoretical statements by Carl Andre and the painting of François Morellet.
Teacher Expectations Matter
Authors: Papageorge Nicholas W. , Gershenson Seth , Kang Kyung Min
Published: June 2019

We show that tenth-grade teacher expectations affect students' likelihood of college completion. Our approach leverages a unique feature of a nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. Identification exploits teacher disagreements about the same student, an idea we formalize using a measurement error model. We estimate an elasticity of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations of 0.12. On average, teachers are overly optimistic, though white teachers are less so with black students. More accurate beliefs are counterproductive if there are returns to optimism or sociodemographic gaps in optimism. We find evidence of both.
Contractionary Devaluation Risk: Evidence from the Free Silver Movement, 1878–1900
Authors: Weiss Colin
Published: June 2019

I identify significant effects of devaluation risk on interest rates and output using US silver coinage policy news between 1878 and 1900 as clean shocks to exchange rate expectations. The Free Silver movement heightened fears the United States would abandon the gold standard and depreciate the dollar. Because Congress, rather than a central bank, set silver coinage policy, silver policy news was likely uncorrelated with economic shocks. Corporate bonds exposed to dollar devaluation returned an additional 1 percent relative to safer bonds when silver risk decreased. Additionally, increased silver coinage risk is associated with an economically significant fall in industrial production.
What You Say and How You Say it: Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse in Microblog Conversations
Authors: Zeng Jichuan , Li Jing , He Yulan , Gao Cuiyun , Lyu Michael R. , King Irwin
Published: June 2019

This paper presents an unsupervised framework for jointly modeling topic content and discourse behavior in microblog conversations. Concretely, we propose a neural model to discover word clusters indicating what a conversation concerns (i.e., topics) and those reflecting how participants voice their opinions (i.e., discourse).1Extensive experiments show that our model can yield both coherent topics and meaningful discourse behavior. Further study shows that our topic and discourse representations can benefit the classification of microblog messages, especially when they are jointly trained with the classifier.

Our data sets and code are available at: http://github.com/zengjichuan/Topic_Disc .
DISRUPTED SOCIETIES, TRANSFORMATIVE STATES: POLITICS OF LAW AND GENDER IN REPUBLICAN TURKEY AND IRAN
Authors: Halper Louise
Published: June 2019

Iran and Turkey, one an Islamic, the other a secular republic, are the more successful loci of women's participation in public life, both politically and economically, than are a number of other states whose population is largely Muslim. I suggest their relative success (as measured by World Bank and UNHDR data) may be due to similar transformative shifts from monarchy to republic. Historical examination of the cases of Turkey and Iran suggests that while the mobilization of women into political activity is crucial, it need not result in similar legal changes. Obviously, the right to vote is fundamental to political participation and exists for women in both countries. The comparison of the two republics suggests that, at least in Muslim-majority countries, a legal regime explicitly protecting gender rights may be less central to social change, including women's participation in public life, than is a history of women's mobilization in support of popular politics.
Minorities and Statelessness: Social Exclusion and Citizenship in Cambodia
Authors: Sperfeldt Christoph
Published: June 2019

More than 75 per cent of the world’s known stateless belong to minorities. Building upon ethnographic research conducted between 2008–2017, this paper considers the case of ethnic Vietnamese minority populations in Cambodia. Members of this group are long-term residents, having been born and raised in the country for generations, with the exception of the period during the Khmer Rouge regime when they were forcibly deported to Vietnam. Since their return to Cambodia in the early 1980s, individuals from this group have been regarded by Cambodian authorities as ‘immigrants’. This paper examines how discriminatory policies, laws and administrative practices regulate individual and collective identities, while creating categories that determine social inclusion and exclusion. In doing so, this paper makes visible the ambivalence of law and rights – both as tools for the construction of exclusionary citizenship, but also as instruments which minorities to contest their social exclusion.
Infallibilism and Easy Counter-Examples
Authors: Davies Alex
Published: June 2019

Infallibilism is commonly rejected because it is apparently subject to easy counter-examples. The author describes a strategy that infallibilists can use to resist this objection. Because the sentences used in the counter-examples to express evidence and belief are context-sensitive, the infallibilist can insist that such counter-examples trade on a vacillation between different readings of these sentences. The author describes what difficulties await those who try to produce counter-examples against which the proposed strategy is ineffective.
Truthmaking, Supervenience, and Reduction
Authors: Zamani Mohsen
Published: June 2019

There are two main theories of ontological commitment: the quantifier view, and the truthmaker view. Since there are some truths that apparently commit us to certain entities, but actually do not, any ontological commitment theory must also contain an ontological reduction theory. Advocates of the quantifier view propose the paraphrasing method of reduction, while some advocates of the truthmaker view propose the supervenience method. In this paper, after a brief discussion of the quantifier view, the author proposes a modified version of truthmaker-based ontology, and shows that a plausible account of the supervenience method can be deduced from his version. He then shows that the supervenience method could explain why the paraphrasing method is successful. The author also argues that according to the truthmaker view we must accept composite objects as something over and above the particles which constitute them.
The Emergence of Safe Areas and the Role of Normative Contingency
Authors: Orchard Phil
Published: June 2019

The concept of ‘safe areas’ emerged in the early 1990s as a way of responding to increasing displacement triggered by internal conflicts. As a form of protection, their record was mixed—for every success like northern Iraq in 1991, there was a failure like the collapse of the Srebrenica safe area in 1995. But why did the safe area concept itself emerge at this time? Traditionally, safe areas were akin to humanitarian spaces anchored in consent. The shift in the early 1990s was to replace consent with an international military presence, including military forces and peacekeepers. This article argues that this shift was only possible because of two critical changes which occurred within the United Nations: the recognition that civilian protection represented an international problem and the UN Security Council broadening how it interpreted the notion of ‘threats to international peace and security’ to include issues such as forced migrant flows.
Safe Areas and the Responsibility to Protect
Authors: Jacob Daniel
Published: June 2019

The ‘responsibility to protect’ (RtoP) expresses the moral imperative to respond to genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. So far, the debate on RtoP has focused almost exclusively on conflict resolution through institutional change. Various forms of diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions, and military intervention have been discussed as means to address the institutional roots of violent conflict. What has too often been neglected, however, is the need for more immediate forms of civilian protection. This need emerges from the complexity and uncertainty of conflict resolution: successful conflict resolution takes time, and it is unfortunately rare. Therefore, it is necessary to complement efforts at conflict resolution with more immediate forms of protecting civilians. Traditionally, the right to asylum and humanitarian aid have been the two primary means to provide such protection. In the case of most intra-state conflicts, however, these means are insufficient. When a state engages in genocide, pursues campaigns of ethnic cleansing, or commits war crimes against its own population, it likely has no intention to let people seek the safety of asylum in other countries, or to allow for humanitarian aid. In response to such situations, the community of states has a moral obligation to establish safe areas and provide them with the legal mandate and military resources necessary to offer reliable protection.
Displacement, Protection and Responsibility: A Case for Safe Areas
Authors: Birnie Rutger , Welsh Jennifer
Published: June 2019

This article makes the normative case for safe areas as a strategy of civilian protection in forced displacement crises. We start from the idea that the displaced—especially those who remain within the borders of their home state—are in a particularly precarious situation which can, in some circumstances, activate a remedial responsibility to provide protection on the part of the international community. We then argue that this responsibility extends beyond the provision of asylum to include efforts both to prevent displacement and to facilitate the return of displaced persons, and that safe areas may be an important tool to achieve these goals. However, we also note two major risks associated with safe areas which must be considered and mitigated: that they increase rather than decrease overall displacement, and that they diminish rather than enhance protection. We conclude by suggesting why and how the shared responsibility to protect through safe areas should be fairly distributed within the international community.
The invasive alien freshwater flatworm Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) in Western Europe: new insights into its morphology, karyology and reproductive biology
Authors: Stocchino Giacinta Angela , Sluys Ronald , Harrath Abdel Halim , Mansour Lamjed , Manconi Renata
Published: June 2019

Invasions of alien species form one of the major threats to global biodiversity. Among planarian flatworms many species are known to be invasive, in several cases strongly affecting local ecosystems. Therefore, a detailed knowledge on the biology of an invasive species is of utmost importance for understanding the process of invasion, the cause of its success, and the subsequent ecological impact on native species. This paper provides new information on the biology of introduced populations of the freshwater flatworm Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850) from Europe. This species is a native of the Nearctic Region that was accidentally introduced into Europe in the 1920s. Since then, numerous records across the European continent bear witness of the invasiveness of this species, although only a few studies focused on the biology of the introduced populations. We report on the morphology of sexualized individuals from a fissiparous Italian population, representing the second record of spontaneous sexualization of fissiparous individuals in this species. A detailed morphological account of the reproductive apparatus of these ex-fissiparous animals is presented. Our results increased the number of morphological groups previously recognized for European populations of G. tigrina, thus corroborating the hypothesis on multiple independent introductions to this continent. Karyological results obtained from our fissiparous Italian individuals revealed a constant diploid chromosome complement of sixteen chromosomes. Further, we document the marked intraspecific variation in several morphological features of this species.
Embryology as a Paradigm for Boethius’ musica humana
Authors: Restani Donatella
Published: June 2019

At the beginning of Boethius’ De institutione musica, musica humana is defined as a coaptatio, a well ordered relationship between body and soul and between the parts of the body and the parts of the soul. Boethius promised to expand the topic later, but he never returned to it. As a consequence Medieval and Renaissance music theorists gave it different interpretations. This paper is part of a wider project which aims at recovering the historical meaning of musica humana and its natural implications for human life, by identifying Boethius’ sources on the relationship between music and the human body. Analyzing some of the Pythagorean, Hippocratic and Neoplatonic treatises on embryology, numerology and music as well as their reception in the Latin culture, this paper will explore the definition of musica humana as a style of thought which connected music and science using the same interpretative models, metaphors and images, well-known at Boethius’ time.
The Apotropaic Function of Music Inside the Sanctuaries of Asklepios
Authors: Perrot Sylvain
Published: June 2019

Music obviously played a strong role in ancient Greek ways of healing the human body. However, although scholars have studied some aspects, there still is no comprehensive enquiry on the relationships between music and sounds in Asclepios’ sanctuaries. The purpose of this paper is first to combine all the sources on the soundscape of famous and minor sanctuaries, and secondly to give some new perspectives on the specificity of Asclepian soundscapes. Is there any relationship between environmental sounds, anthropic sounds and cultic music, especially paeans? We may find some clues in the texts related to the cult of Asclepios but also in the archaeological evidence, because some votive offerings have been unearthed, like votive ears and musical instruments. By examining the soundscape of Asclepian sanctuaries, I would like eventually to ask especially whether the link between the musical performances and sounds could be understood as apotropaic.
Ethical Aspects of Listening in Plato’s Timaeus
Authors: Lyon Elizabeth Lucia
Published: June 2019

Plato’s Timaeus suggests two types of responses to consonances: the perception of consonance results in pleasure (ἡδονή) for fools, but delight (εὐφροσύνη) for the intelligent (80b5-8). By investigating the physical and psychological mechanisms of perception and hearing in the Timaeus, this paper argues that the pleasure and pain taken in auditory perception operate analogously to the pleasure and pain of other sensory modalities. Accordingly, the fools’ pleasure is (merely)a non-localized aesthetic pleasure of the mortal soul. Nevertheless, aesthesis of sounding material must be present to the intelligent individual in order for delight to arise: delight results from the correct perception of a sensory object as a mimesis of divine order.
Il corpo dell’auleta
Authors: Dolazza Anna
Published: June 2019

The versatility of the aulos is passed on to the musician, who in turn is transformed into a physical representation of the instrument’s sound. With the precious aid of book iv of Pollux’s Onomasticon it is possible to reconstruct the special set of vocabulary linked to the sound of the aulos. If it could already in itself be considered as ἐπαγωγόν, the additional effect of the movements, gestures, and facial expressions of the aulete resulted in a strong visual, as well as emotional, impact. Nor can we forget, on the other hand, the less than favorable judgments, abundant in philosophical texts, that arose in regard to auletic performances: just as certain physiognomic traits of the aulos are to blame, so too are certain bodily movements of the aulete: almost as if the negative characteristics are passed reciprocally from instrument to musician in a sort of circular breathing.

La versatilità dell’aulos si trasmette all’esecutore, che durante la performance diviene così immagine fisica e concreta del suono percepito. Con il prezioso ausilio del libro iv dell’Onomasticon di Giulio Polluce è possibile ricostruire il campo semantico legato alla produzione del suono auletico. Se esso poteva già di per sé essere avvertito come ἐπαγωγόν, inoltre, i movimenti, i gesti e le espressioni facciali dell’auleta risultavano di forte impatto visivo, oltre che emotivo. Non ci si può dimenticare, d’altro canto, dei giudizi poco benigni, affioranti soprattutto dai testi filosofici, in merito alla pratica auletica: come alcuni tratti della fisionomia dell’aulos, così anche alcuni atteggiamenti del corpo dell’auleta sono biasimevoli, quasi che le caratteristiche negative passino vicendevolmente da strumento a esecutore in una sorta di respirazione circolare.

This article is in Italian.
Tibia and Tuba at the Crossroads of Funerary and Nuptial Imagery
Authors: Wyslucha Kamila
Published: June 2019

References to music in poetry often play a genre-defining role. This is the case in Propertius 2.7 and Ovid Heroides 12, which employ the tibia and tuba in the topos of a mournful wedding. While the pipes belong to the motivic repertoire of elegy, where they usually occur in plaintive contexts, the introduction of the funeral trumpet to an elegiac motif is an innovation, reflecting traditional uses of the instrument during burial rituals. The wedding tibia is also represented in its authentic performative context, but the joyous character of its tunes is rendered more sorrowful than funeral music, and thus in keeping with conventional portrayals of the instrument in elegy. On the other hand, the representation of the tuba in this motif stands in opposition to other literary depictions, which usually place the clamorous sound and military, rather than funerary, uses of the instrument in the foreground. In consequence of this thematic innovation, the funeral trumpet not only becomes part of a mournful wedding topos but also a ‘genre-appropriate’ instrument in elegy.
Ἀνωνύµου σύγγραµµα περὶ µουσικῆς (Anonymi Bellermann)
Authors: Pöhlmann Egert
Published: June 2019

In 1841, Friedrich Bellermann published two treatises about Greek music, the Anonymi scriptio de musica and Bacchii senioris introductio artis musicae (Bellermann 1841). While the second treatise belongs to some Dionysius, a Byzantine musicologist of the time of Constantine Porphyrogenetos (912-959; new edition Tertsēs 2010), the first treatise is an agglomeration of five musical handbooks (new edition Najock 1972 and 1975). The available manuscript tradition of the respective headings and the beginnings and the content of the different components make it possible to disentangle the alleged σύγγραµµα into its parts and to describe the original treatises accurately.
The Koinē Hormasia Re-Interpreted
Authors: Najock Dietmar
Published: June 2019

The hormasia-table is preserved in a manuscript from 1040 ad. The heart or kernel of the table (two columns, each with 16 Hypolydian notes) was probably established in antiquity in order to provide a mean-tone tuning and a basic system for playing two voices on the harp (or the organ): a given melody with the right hand and a more or less schematic accompaniment with the left. In Byzantine times, the system was probably used as a stringing plan for doubly registered psalteries, both of the rectangular and the harp-like type.
Music, Ritual, and Self-Referentiality in the Second Stasimon of Euripides’ Helen
Authors: Castiglioni Barbara
Published: June 2019

The imagery of Dionysiac performance is characteristic of Euripides’ later choral odes and returns particularly in the Helen’s second stasimon, which foregrounds its own connections with the mimetic program of the New Music and its emphasis on the emancipation of feelings. This paper aims to show that Euripides’ deep interest in contemporary musical innovations is connected to his interest in the irrational, which made him the most tragic of the poets. Focusing on the musical aspect of the Helen’s second stasimon, the paper will examine how Euripides conveys a sense of the irrational through a new type of song, which liberates music’s power to excite and disorient through its colors, ornament and dizzying wildness. Just as the New Musicians present themselves as the preservers of cultic tradition, Euripides, far from suppressing Dionysus as Nietzsche claimed, deserves to rank as the most Dionysiac and the most religious of the three tragedians.
The Cyclops’ Revenge
Authors: Modini Francesca
Published: June 2019

Taking issue with the Gorgias and its dismissal of fifth-century Athenian rhetoricians and statesmen, in his Reply to Plato in Defence of the Four (Or. 3) the imperial sophist Aelius Aristides finds himself dealing with Plato’s condemnation of New Music, which in the Gorgias had gone hand in hand with the censure of rhetoric. In a brilliant display of new musical ‘revisionism’ so far ignored by scholars, Aristides presents in a positive light the notorious new dithyrambist Philoxenus of Cythera, so that Plato’s influential criticism of New Music, and especially of its political implications, backfires. This paper provides a close analysis of Aristides’ new musical discussion, concentrating both on the sophist’s engagement with Platonic musical critique and on his use of anecdotal traditions about Philoxenus circulating under the Empire. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the history of New Music and its ancient, not always predictable, reception.
Classical Musical Imagery in Eugenius Vulgarius’ Carmina Figurata
Authors: Dessì Paola
Published: June 2019

At the beginning of the tenth century, Vulgarius wrote some poems for Pope Sergius III. One of these is set out in the shape of a psaltery and is followed by a short explanatory essay. This article reconstructs the cultural context of this pattern poem and sheds light on the presence and significance of music in this text. First, I shall address the visual appearance of this poem, since the shape of the text imitates a musical instrument. Secondly, I shall examine the textual content of the poem, which sings the praises of the Pope and ultimately reveals the true meaning hidden in the name ‘Sergius’. Subsequently, I shall examine the content of the explanatory essay, which clarifies the Boethian musical proportions on which the entire construction of the pattern poem is based. Finally, I shall address the political ‘double meaning’ of this poem, which seems to hide an invective against the Pope.
A Sweet Voice: The Influence of Cross-Modal Correspondences Between Taste and Vocal Pitch on Advertising Effectiveness
Authors: Motoki Kosuke , Saito Toshiki , Nouchi Rui , Kawashima Ryuta , Sugiura Motoaki
Published: June 2019

We have seen a rapid growth of interest in cross-modal correspondences between sound and taste over recent years. People consistently associate higher-pitched sounds with sweet/sour foods, while lower-pitched sounds tend to be associated with bitter foods. The human voice is key in broadcast advertising, and the role of voice in communication generally is partly characterized by acoustic parameters of pitch. However, it remains unknown whether voice pitch and taste interactively influence consumer behavior. Since consumers prefer congruent sensory information, it is plausible that voice pitch and taste interactively influence consumers’ responses to advertising stimuli. Based on the cross-modal correspondence phenomenon, this study aimed to elucidate the role played by voice pitch–taste correspondences in advertising effectiveness. Participants listened to voiceover advertisements (at a higher or lower pitch than the original narrator’s voice) for three food products with distinct tastes (sweet, sour, and bitter) and rated their buying intention (an indicator of advertising effectiveness). The results show that the participants were likely to exhibit greater buying intention toward both sweet and sour food when they listened to higher-pitched (vs lower-pitched) voiceover advertisements. The influence of a higher pitch on sweet and sour food preferences was observed in only two of the three studies: studies 1 and 2 for sour food, and studies 2 and 3 for sweet food. These findings emphasize the role that voice pitch–taste correspondence plays in preference formation, and advance the applicability of cross-modal correspondences to business.
Lectotypification of names in Henriettea (Melastomataceae, Henrietteeae)
Authors: BRITO ELIETE DA SILVA , LIMA LAÍCE FERNANDA GOMES DE , BAUMGRATZ JOSÉ FERNANDO A. , VIANA PEDRO LAGE
Published: June 2019

The present study proposes the lectotypification of 13 names of Henriettea: H. angustifolia, H. granulata, H. horridula, H. lasiostylis, H. maroniensis, H. spruceana, H. stellaris, H. succosa var. guianensis (= H. ramiflora), Henriettella glazioviana (= Henriettea glabra), Henriettella longistyla (= Henriettea ovata), Henriettella ovata (≡ Henriettea ovata), Melastoma fasciculare (≡ Henriettea fascicularis), and Phyllopus martiusii (≡ Henriettea martiusii).
An unexpected Rhombophryne record at Tsingy de Bemaraha confirms the presence of cophyline frogs in western Madagascar
Authors: ANDREONE F. , RANDRIANIRINA J. E.
Published: June 2019

Among the highly diverse amphibians of Madagascar, currently represented by 238 species (Glaw and Vences 2007), cophyline microhylid frogs are a little known clade in terms of biology and habitat requirements. They represent, after the mantellids, the most diverse frog radiation, occupying several ecological niches, with more than 45 identified species (Glaw and Vences 2007). Until recently cophylines were believed to have a distribution largely restricted to the eastern rainforests (Andreone et al. 2005). This assumption was challenged by the finding of a new Plethodontohyla at Parc National (PN) Tsingy de Bemaraha (Glaw et al. 2007), a karst area in western Madagascar. The new species (P. fonetana) is the only larger confirmed cophyline frog from a western site, although Stumpffia sp. aff. helenae is reported for Tsingy de Bemaraha (Glaw and Vences 2007), and another Stumpffia was signalled from PN d’Ankarafantsika (Ramanamanjato and Rabibisoa 2002).
Five new species of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from China
Authors: NARUSE TOHRU , YEO DARREN C. J. , ZHOU XIANMIN
Published: June 2019

Two species of Latopotamon Dai & Türkay, 1997, one species of Trichopotamon Dai & Chen, 1985, all from Yunnan Province, China, and two species of Sinopotamon Bott, 1967, from Hu’nan Province, China, are described as new. The new species are compared with the most similar congeners. This study brings the number of species of Latopotamon to three, Sinopotamon to 81, and Trichopotamon to two.
Revalidation and revision of the genus Magulla Simon 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae)
Authors: INDICATTI RAFAEL P. , LUCAS SYLVIA M. , GUADANUCCI JOSÉ P. L. , YAMAMOTO FLÁVIO U.
Published: June 2019

The genus Magulla Simon 1892 is revalidated and redescribed. The female of the type species M. obesa Simon 1892 is redescribed and the male is described for the first time. Magulla janeirus (Keyserling 1891) is considered a valid species. Magulla symmetrica Bücherl 1949 is transferred to Plesiopelma Pocock 1901, and considered a junior synonym of P. insulare (Mello-Leitão 1923). Additionally, two new species are described from Brazil: M. buecherli n. sp. from Ilhabela, São Paulo and M. brescoviti n. sp. from São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul.
Two additional treefrogs of the Boophis ulftunni species group (Anura: Mantellidae) discovered in rainforests of northern and south-eastern Madagascar
Authors: KÖHLER JÖRN , GLAW FRANK , VENCES MIGUEL
Published: June 2019

We describe two new frog species of the endemic Malagasy-Comoroan genus Boophis. One species, described as Boophis baetkei sp. n., originates from Forêt d'Ambre Special Reserve in northernmost Madagascar, whereas Boophis lilianae sp. n. was discovered near Ifanadiana and Ranomafana in the Southern Central East of the island. Both new species have very deep genetic divergences in the 16S rRNA gene that complicate the assessment of their phylogenetic affinities but are here tentatively assigned to the recently defined Boophis ulftunni species group based on phenetic similarity and preliminary results of analyses of other genes. All three species known in this group share a green dorsum with translucent shade in life, a pigmented venter and, most characteristic, pink markings in life and in preservative. Boophis lilianae sp. n. is the smallest species of Boophis known so far (SVL of adult male 18.3 mm, ovigerous female 20.0 mm). Phylogenetic relationships, distribution and threat status of the new species are discussed.
A new Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from Yuruani-tepui, Venezuela
Authors: RÖDDER DENNIS , JUNGFER KARL-HEINZ
Published: June 2019

Pristimantis yuruaniensis sp. nov. is described from the summit of Yuruaní-tepui, Estado Bolívar, eastern Venezuela. The new species is easily distinguished from other Guianan Pristimantis by its rather uniform dorsal coloration, absence of lip, forearm and shank bars, its small tympanum, and its advertisement call. The new species appears to occur on neighboring Kukenán-tepui as well.
A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from north-western Guinea, West Africa
Authors: HILLERS ANNIKA , ZIMKUS BREDA , RÖDEL MARK-OLIVER
Published: June 2019

A new small Phrynobatrachus species from a gallery forest in north-western Guinea is described. Phrynobatrachus pintoi sp. nov. exhibits a combination of unique morphological characters and a distinctive color pattern, including: compact, oval body, short snout, warty dorsum and eyelid (although no eyelid cornicle is present), three pairs of large symmetric black spots on throat and breast, black spots on belly, more than one black bar on thighs and lower leg, finger and toe tips not expanded, and rudimentary web on foot. Furthermore, analysis of mitochondrial DNA from 16S rRNA reveals that this new species differs from other West African species of the genus by a minimum distance of 7%. Genetically the new species is closest to Phrynobatrachus fraterculus, P. cornutus, and P. gutturosus.
Three new species, new records and notes on the nursery-web spider genus Architis in Brazil (Araneae: Pisauridae)
Authors: SANTOS ADALBERTO J. , NOGUEIRA ANDRÉ A.
Published: June 2019

Three new species of the nursery-web spider genus Architis Simon, 1898 are described and illustrated; all collected during spider biodiversity inventories in the Brazilian Amazonia. Architis gracilis Santos sp. nov. is based on a male and A. catuaba Santos sp. nov. on a female specimen, both from the state of Acre, western Brazilian Amazonia. Architis neblina Santos & Nogueira sp. nov. is described from eight females from the Pico da Neblina National Park, state of Amazonas. New records from Brazil are listed for Architis brasiliensis (Mello-Leitão, 1940), A. helveola (Simon, 1898), A. maturaca Santos, 2007 and A. tenuipes (Simon, 1898). The presence of cuspule-like spines on male coxae I, once known only for Architis tenuis Simon, 1898 and A. cymatilis Simon, 1898, are reported for A. maturaca. A remarkable dimorphism in the epigynum of Architis capricorna Carico, 1981 is described based on specimens from southern Brazil. An updated identification key for species of Architis is provided.
A review of the Neotropical genus Alloscolytroproctus Hustache, 1929 (Coleoptera; Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae)
Authors: ANDERSON ROBERT S.
Published: June 2019

The genus Alloscolytroproctus Hustache is reviewed. It includes the type species, A. peruanus Hustache, and two new species, A. dominicae Anderson, sp. n, from the West Indies (Dominica) and A. ashei Anderson, sp. n., from Venezuela. All species are likely associated with palms. A key to the three species is provided, along with illustrations of the species and summaries of their natural history and distribution.
The first keroplatid (Diptera: Keroplatidae) species from the Lower Eocene amber of Vastan, Gujarat, India
Authors: KRAEMER MÓNICA M. SOLÓRZANO , EVENHUIS NEAL L.
Published: June 2019

India is considered one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world (Mittermeier et al. 2004), being a member of the Indo-Burma hotspot, which formerly included the Himalaya chain and the associated foothills in Nepal, Bhutan and India. The great diversity of fauna and flora in India is probably due to the large diversity of ecosystems and also probably due to its complex biogeographic and geodynamic history. In this context, the fossil record can give important information on the evolution of the terrestrial biodiversity of this region.
Taxonomic notes on Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
Authors: TRIAPITSYN SERGUEI V. , BOYADZHIEV PETER S. , ANTONOV ANTON K.
Published: June 2019

The recent discovery of a brachypterous female of Entedonomphale carbonaria (Erdös) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entedoninae) in Bulgaria is being reported. It made possible to make a positive conclusion about its conspecificity with the North American species E. kaulbarsi (Yoshimoto), which has a brachypterous female identical to the brachypterous female from Bulgaria, and also a fully winged male identical to the male of E. carbonaria from Europe (Triapitsyn 2005). Also included in this communication are taxonomic notes on another, little known species of the genus Entedonomphale Girault, E. postmarginalis (Shafee, Rizvi & Khan), comb. n. from Entedonastichus Girault. This species was originally described from India as Euderomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan (Shafee et al. 1988) and later transferred to Entedonastichus by Hayat et al. (2005).
Identification of Planococcus ficus and Planococcus citri (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) by PCR-RFLP of COI gene
Authors: CAVALIERI VINCENZO , MAZZEO GAETANA , GARZIA GIOVANNA TROPEA , BUONOCORE EMANUELE , RUSSO AGATINO
Published: June 2019

The vine mealybug, Planococcus ficus (Signoret), and the citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri (Risso), are currently the most economically important pseudococcids in vineyards in Italy (Dalla Montà et al., 2001).  Pl. ficus is also considered to be a key pest in many other countries (Ben-Dov, 1994).  The two species cause severe damage to the host plant, and significantly reduce the crop due to the production of honeydew, which allows the growth of sooty molds, and to their potential as virus vectors.  The vine mealybug, in particular, is known to transmit grapevine leafroll and corky-bark diseases (Engelbrecht & Kasdorf, 1990; Tanne et al., 1989).
North American species of Agrostocynips Diaz (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), parasitoids of Agromyzidae (Diptera): bionomics and taxonomy
Authors: BUFFINGTON MATTHEW L. , SCHEFFER SONJA J.
Published: June 2019

The genus Agrostocynips Diaz is redescribed, as well as two species endemic to the Nearctic: Agrostocynips diastrophi (Ashmead) and A. robusta (Ashmead). Previous to this study, only Neotropical species of Agrostocynips were well diagnosed both taxonomically and biologically. Agrostocynips belongs to the Zaeucoila group of genera, which are Neotropical eucoilines that principally parasitize Agromyzidae (Diptera); among these genera, species of Agrostocynips are some of the few representatives that are found in the Nearctic. Detailed host records and biological notes are provided for the Nearctic species.
Minute larvae of Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): description of three genera with discussion on the monophyly and phylogenetic position of the subfamily as inferred from larval morphology
Authors: GREBENNIKOV VASILY V. , NEWTON ALFRED F.
Published: June 2019

External morphology of larvae belonging to three unidentified genera of the rove-beetle subfamily Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) collected in Mexico, Chile and Australia, respectively, is described and illustrated. Larvae of Leptotyphlinae can be distinguished from all other Staphylinoidea larvae by the combination of their small size (maximum documented head width 0.128 mm), along with complete absence of eyes, lyriform frontal ecdysial lines, long coronal suture extending for about 40% of head length, short antennae not longer than 1/3 of head length, non-serrate mandibles with a single pre-apical tooth, tibiotarsi swollen in middle with two ventral spines, and indistinctly articulated short urogomphi not longer than twice their basal width. At least some of these characters are likely to support monophyly of the subfamily. Leptotyphlinae are hypothesized to belong to the Staphylinine Group of subfamilies sharing with at least some of them the following larval characters: labrum fully fused with clypeus; posterior tentorial arms extremely thin, thread-like and more than 20 times longer than wide; posterior tentorial pits short, rounded to elongate; cardo lacking transverse sclerotized ridge. The sister-group relationships of Leptotyphlinae to a clade of Pseudopsinae+Paederinae+Staphylininae is hypothesized with the following larval characters in support: lyriform frontal arms; each maxilla articulated laterally to head capsule by a condyle; maxillary mala parallel-sided (=finger-shaped) and articulated to stipes. A larval identification key to all three presently described genera is given.
A new monotypic genus of ant-mimicking Coraebini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae ) from Madagascar
Authors: BELLAMY C. L.
Published: June 2019

Following the itemization of the described Madagascan Coraebini (Buprestidae: Agrilinae) (Bellamy 2001a), additional new genera and species of this large fauna have been described (Bellamy 2001b, 2003, 2006). After a preliminary study of the perceived ant-mimicking species I have accumulated in loans from, and during previous visits to, the vast collection of this fauna held by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, a new monotypic myrmecomorphic genus and species is described. All other putative ant-mimicking species amongst previously described and currently available specimens belong to the genus Entomogaster Saunders, 1871. The new genus is described now for the one new species found to not be congeneric with Entomogaster. In deference to the classification for the tribe Coraebini Bedel, 1921 presented by Kubáň, et al. (2001), the genus-group taxon described herein is provisionally placed in the subtribe Toxoscelina Majer, in Kubáň, et al., 2001.