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Characterization of the sphere and of bodies of revolution by means of Larman points
Creators: name: Alfonseca, María Angeles
name: Cordier, Michelle
name: Jerónimo-Castro, Jesús
name: Morales-Amaya, Efrén
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $K\subset \Rn$, $n\geq 3$, be a convex body. A point $p\in \Rn$ is said to be a \textit{Larman point} of $K$ if, for every hyperplane $Π$ passing through $p$, the section $Π\cap K$ has a $(n-2)$-plane of symmetry. If a point $p \in \Rn$ is a Larman point and if, in addition, for every hyperplane $Π$ passing through $p$, the section $Π\cap K$ has a $(n-2)$-plane of symmetry which contains $p$, then we call $p$ a \textit{revolution point} of $K$. In this work we prove that if $K\subset \Rt$ is a strictly convex centrally symmetric body with centre at $o$, $p$ is a Larman point of $K$ and there exists a line $L$ such that $p\notin L$ and, for every plane $Γ$ passing through $p$, the section $Γ\cap K$ has a line of symmetry which intersects $L$, then $K$ is a body of revolution (in some cases, we conclude that $K$ is a sphere). On the other hand, we also prove that if $p$ is a revolution point such that $p\not=o$, then $K$ is a body of revolution.
title: Rehearsing for life: Theatre for social change in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Creators: name: Mottin, Monica
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: The objective in this research is to examine the production and performance of theatrical activities aiming at bringing about social change in both development and political intervention. My investigation began with Aarohan Theatre Group, a Kathmandu-based professional company and subsequently extended to Maoist cultural troupes. I have taken a critical perspective considering theatre as a mode of socio-cultural practice embedded in the wider socio-political reality. Thus, I present an account of what it means to do theatre and live by theatre in contemporary Nepal, from 2005 to 2006, through the artists' perspective. Co-performance, that is participation in some performances, complemented participant observation as a methodology. Theatre provides an outstanding context for both social reflection and symbolic action. In a manner similar to ritual, theatrical performances can become deliberate means for both constructing and de-constructing power and symbolically legitimizing or de-legitimizing authority. In Nepal, modern artistic and political theatre developed side by side. First, an historical overview of its development will set the scene for understanding the role played by theatrical performances in the years 2005-2006. In fact, during my fieldwork, history repeated itself. The restrictions on civil rights imposed by the king through the 2005 Emergency affected both street and proscenium theatre activities. Subsequently, ethnographic descriptions will illustrate the theatrical apparatus that the king employed to legitimize his power and how autocracy was similarly resisted and fought against in the streets through theatrical forms of protest and street theatre, loktantrik natak. I will then narrow my focus to a specific form of participatory street performance, kachahari natak, to describe how it was adopted and adapted in Nepal and how the theatre group developed as an organization. In conclusion, 1 will draw comparisons between different forms of 'theatre for social change', kachahari natak, loktantrik natak and Maoist cultural programmes.
sj-pdf-1-ipe-10.1177_2041669520932587 - Supplemental material for MILO Mobile: An iPad App to Measure Search Performance in Multi-Target Sequences
Creators: name: Thornton, Ian M.
name: Horowitz, Todd S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ipe-10.1177_2041669520932587 for MILO Mobile: An iPad App to Measure Search Performance in Multi-Target Sequences by Ian M. Thornton and Todd S. Horowitz in i-Perception
sj-pdf-1-arp-10.1177_0275074020930414 - Supplemental material for Representative Bureaucracy Through Staff With Lived Experience: Peer Coproduction in the Field of Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Creators: name: Sunggeun (Ethan) Park
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160509 Public Administration

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-arp-10.1177_0275074020930414 for Representative Bureaucracy Through Staff With Lived Experience: Peer Coproduction in the Field of Substance Use Disorder Treatment by Sunggeun (Ethan) Park in The American Review of Public Administration
Principal components of nuclear mass models
Creators: name: Wu, X. H.
name: Zhao, P. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The principal component analysis approach is employed to extract the principal components contained in nuclear mass models for the first time. The effects coming from different nuclear mass models are reintegrated and reorganized in the extracted principal components. These extracted principal components are recombined to build new mass models, which achieve better accuracy than the original theoretical mass models. This indicates that the effects contained in different mass models can work together to improve the nuclear mass predictions with the help of the principal component analysis approach.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
title: Schoolboys, toughs and adulteresses: Representations of desire in the fiction of Mishima Yukio.
Creators: name: Adam, Duncan
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2010

description: This thesis addresses the varying ways in which sexual desire is portrayed in a range of fictional works by Mishima Yukio. It presents a fresh examination of the central role that desire plays in Mishima's work, in the light of contemporary literary theory, particularly cultural materialism and queer theory. The works discussed include a number of Mishima's popular entertainment novels. The representations of aspects of desire, including same-sex desire, sadomasochism and heterosexual relationships outside marriage, are compared to contemporary writing on these in Japanese non-literary discourse, as well as earlier literary representations of, in particular, same-sex desire. The influence of sexology and psychoanalysis is examined, specifically in the forms in which these accounts of desire were communicated to the Japanese reading public in journalism of the period. The relation of Mishima's fiction to popular journalism in general is discussed, with reference to the kasutori magazines of the Occupation period and women's magazines of the high-growth era. Mishima's strategies for representing sexual desire for men are discussed, including his use of literary allusion and his portrayal of women as desiring subjects. Aspects of his narrative technique are identified as camp, in that they use borrowed cultural authority to express desire from a non-dominant subject position. The use of allusion in Forbidden Colours is examined to show how Mishima used allusion to elaborate paradigms for same-sex desire other than those available in contemporary discourse.
title: The growth and regional centralization of modern Agadir, south west Morocco.
Creators: name: Kahane, Anthony Ernest
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1981

description: The thesis examines processes of change in a geographic context within the region of the south of Morocco over the past fifty years. The most striking phenomenon, that of the rise to political and economic dominance within the region of the town of Agadir, is examined in parallel with the consequent relative decline of two other centres in the area, Taroudant and Tiznit, and with their eventual, delayed growth, though of a weaker nature. Various approaches are adopted in the course of the study including historical and economic analyses, and a mathematical technique is devised to yield a practical measure of the degree of demographic-spatial concentration within a specified area. A general theme of the thesis is that of the division between centre and periphery at different levels of political organization, and of a related, particularly Moroccan, concept of a division of specific areas into 'utile' and 'inutile' portions. On the administrative side the process of fragmentation of existing provinces and the creation of new provinces is examined, together with the consequent apparent devolution of some political responsibilities; on the economic side recent projects are discussed, including those in the sectors of agriculture, mining, industry, fishing and port activity, as well as tourism and urban development. It is felt that the limited political decentralization effected has far outpaced any real economic decentralization. Finally, likely future projects, including that of a railway link between the area and the north of Morocco, are critically assessed as regards their impact on the region. It is concluded that planning for the region is uncoordinated and in many cases misdirected both in. terms of the types and spatial locations of projects as well as the time scales being proposed for their development.
Xylocopini (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae) presenti nelle collezioni entomologiche italiane: l’Istituto di Entomologia Agraria dell’Università di Bari
Creators: name: Vicidomini, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: XYLOCOPINI (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE: XYLOCOPINAE) CONTAINED IN THE ITALIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS: THE ENTOMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BARI UNIVERSITY

The specimens of Xylocopini tribe (Apidae) contained in the collection of Entomological Institute of Bari University are 54 as follows: 41 specimens belonging to Xylocopa violacea, 9 ones to X. iris, 3 ones to X. valga and 1 belonging to X. aestuans. For X. violacea the following fauni- stic records for Apulia are new: Bari, Altamura (BA), Bitetto (BA), Bosco di Acquatetta of Minervino Murge (BA), Mola di Bari (BA), Rutigliano (BA), Ostuni (BR), Otranto (LE), S. Domino, Tremiti Islands (FG), Carpino (FG), Lecce, Castellaneta (TA); for X. iris instead are, Bosco di Acquatetta of Minervino Murge (BA) only. There is none faunistic record for X. valga in Apulia.

Key words: Xylocopini, Bari Entomological Collection, Apulia, Xylocopa violacea, Xylocopa iris.

La collezione dell’Istituto di Entomologia agraria di Bari conta 54 esemplari di Xylocopini (Apidae) così suddivisi: 41 esemplari di Xylocopa violacea, 9 di X. iris, 3 di X. valga ed 1 esemplare di X. aestuans. Le seguenti località pugliesi rappresentano nuove segnalazioni per X. viola- cea: Bari, Altamura (BA), Bitetto (BA), Bosco di Acquatetta di Minervino Murge (BA), Mola di Bari (BA), Rutigliano (BA), Ostuni (BR), Otranto (LE), S. Domino, Isole Tremiti (FG), Carpino (FG), Lecce, Castellaneta (TA); per X. iris invece, Bosco di Acquatetta di Minervino Murge (BA). X. valga risulta ancora non segnalata in Puglia.

Parole chiave: Xylocopini, Collezione Entomologica di Bari, Puglia, Xylocopa violacea, Xylocopa iris.
description: Entomologica, Vol 31 (1997)
Confronto di patogenicità fra otto ceppi di Steinernema feltiae (Filipjev, 1934) (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) rinvenuti in terreni dell’Italia meridionale
Creators: name: Tarasco, Eustachio
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: INFECTIVITY COMPARISON AMONG EIGHT STEINERNEMA FELTIAE (FILIPJEV, 1934) (RHABDITIDA: STEINERNEMATIDAE) ISOLATED FROM SOUTHERN ITALIAN SOILS

The infectivity of eight strains of Steinernema feltiae (Filipjev, 1934) isolated from Southern Italian soils were compared in two laboratory bioassays against Galleria mellonella L. (Lepidoptera: Galleriidae) larvae. Infectivity was determined by larval mortality rate and penetration rate assays. The percentage of larval mortality was recorded after 72-h exposure to infective juveniles (IJs) ranging from 37.7 to 71.1%. In the penetration rate assay the percentage and sex ratio of nema- todes invading the insects were determined; the average number of nematodes in cadavers exposed to 100 IJs ranged from 5.23 to 15.80.

There were significant differences among the strains and four of them (IS-CL2, IS-GR1, IS-CO1, IS-SA1) were highly virulent to G. mellonella larvae.

Bioassays’ results showed a correlation between levels of host mortality and levels of nematode establishment.

Key words: Entomopathogenic nematodes, Galleria mellonella, Italian strains, bioassays, pene- tration rate, larval mortality rate.

È stato effettuato un confronto di patogenicità tra 8 ceppi di Steinernema feltiae (Filipjev, 1934), isolati da terreni dell’Italia meridionale, utilizzando larve di Galleria mellonella in due biosaggi di laboratorio. La patogenicità è stata valutata mediante il tasso di mortalità larvale ed il tasso di penetrazione. I dati sulla mortalità larvale sono stati rilevati 72 ore dopo aver sottoposto 30 larve all’inoculo di stadi giovanili infestanti (Ijs); le percentuali di mortalità hanno presentato valori compresi tra 37,7% (IS-CE2) e 71,1% (IS-CO1). Nel biosaggio sul tasso di penetrazione, dove 3 larve sono state sottoposte all’infestazione di 100 (Ijs) dei diversi ceppi, sono stati determinati il numero dei nematodi penetrati all’interno dell’ospite (variabile da 5,23% a 15,80%) e la sex ratio. Sono state evidenziate significative differenze tra i diversi isolati e 4 di essi (IS-CL2, IS- GR1, IS-CO1, IS-SA1) hanno mostrato una alta patogenicità nei confronti delle larve di G. mellonella. I dati dei biosaggi hanno evidenziato una correlazione tra la mortalità larvale ed i nematodi riscontrati all’interno delle larve.

Parole chiave: nematodi entomopatogeni, Galleria mellonella, isolati italiani, biosaggi, tasso di penetrazione, tasso di mortalità.
description: Entomologica, Vol 31 (1997)
title: The social and economic correlates of demographic change in a northern Thai community.
Creators: name: Mougne, Christine
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1981

description: In this study, changes in the social and economic structure of a Northern Thai community are analysed in terms of demographic change. Although primarily an empirical study, it is hoped also to contribute to two associated theoretical problems. The first concerns the relationship between economic and demographic change in the process of social evolution. It is argued that rather than one or other variable being 'independent', such changes are a result of complex interaction between the variables over time. The second stems from the debate on the nature of Northern Thai social structure. Here the value of incorporating an analysis of demographic change in an anthropological study is exemplified by the evidence that apparent inconsistencies and contradictions found in the literature on communities in Northern Thailand can be explained to a large extent by an examination of their individual demographic histories. Fieldwork was conducted in Ban Pong Village in Chiengmai Province of Northern Thailand between 1972 and 1974. Following settlement of the village in the 1880s, the valley was gradually cleared for irrigated rice cultivation by a slowly growing population of migrants. Dominance by a minority of the population of the important local trade in fermented tea in the 1920s and 1930s at a time when land resources in the valley were almost exhausted and economic conditions had forced a number of farmers to sell their land, opened the way to the extreme economic polarization found in the community today. The problems facing the community have been compounded by the rapid growth of population occurring since the early 195os, which is largely the result of a decline in infant mortality. A family planning programme introduced to Ban Pong in 1967 provoked an immediate response, and within two years over 40% of fertile married women were using a modern method of birth control. The concomitant changes in marriage and residence patterns are considered in relation to population growth and fertility control.
title: Ecology and rural class relations in Bangladesh: A study with special reference to three villages.
Creators: name: Hasan, F. R. M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1980

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the precise nature of the relationship between ecology and class structure and to see how and to what extent the ecological setting affects the class relations of a rural community. It is both an empirical and a theoretical study. The theoretical analysis covers the question of the influence of the environment in the development of human society and the circumstances under which ecology may play a role in production relations. This analysis also involves an investigation of the relations of production themselves in trying to identify the various classes in a Bangladesh social formation. The empirical study, on the other hand, carried out in three ecologically different areas of southern Bangladesh, was designed to test relevant hypotheses. It is a two fold study. First, to analyse the extent to which the relations of production in the three villages differ and to establish whether this difference could be construed as evidence of different modes of production in the villages. Secondly, to ascertain to what extent these differences are due to the ecological settings of the three villages. The findings are positive in that it is possible to establish direct relationships between two ecological variables and individual class relation variables and to predict modes of production corresponding to these ecological variables. However, when indirect relationships between variables as well as direct relationships are taken into account, the complexity of the relations between ecology and class structure does not allow simple generalizations to emerge.
title: Images and metaphor: An analysis of Iban collective representation.
Creators: name: Davison, Julian
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1987

description: The Iban of Sarawak, East Malaysia, are the inhabitants of a vast equatorial rain forest which not only plays a crucial role in satisfying their material needs, but also provides them with a rich source of imagery for the portrayal of key cultural concerns and social values. That is to say, one finds that Iban collective representations are characterized by a profusion of floral and botanical forms, while the ritual use of plants features strongly in Iban religious life. Often these 'sacred' and 'profane' aspects of the plant world coincide, as in the case of Iban rice farming which both provides them with their staple diet, and at the same time is imbued with a deeply religious significance. The primary interest of this study, then, lies in its examination of the special relationship between man and plant in Iban culture. The research is based on library materials and takes, as its epistemological starting point, the idea that an understanding of metaphor can be usefully employed in the interpretation of symbolic phenomena. This approach works on two levels. On the one hand, there is the idea that a systematic examination of recurrent metaphorical forms - be they expressed in mythological narrative, ritual imagery, or everyday language - can be linked to dominant cultural values and social orientations. On the other hand, there is also the idea that a theory of metaphor - as developed in the field of literary criticism and semantics - can provide valuable insight into the way in which so-called 'symbolic phenomena' are 'actualized', or 'understood', by those for whom they operate. In the last instance, the study seeks to transcend the formal strictures of conventional structural analysis by suggesting ways in which the elaborate structures that are revealed by the latter are actually realized, or at least represented, in daily life - whether it be in the rarefied atmosphere of a religious ceremony or the more mundane setting at some commonplace activity. In doing so, the study raises a number of issues that are of a metaphysical nature - among them the question of indigenous notions of causation - thereby providing not just simply a re-evaluation of the existing ethnographic record, but also a point of departure for future inquiries in the field.
Note faunistiche su alcuni interessanti Tortricidi dell’Italia meridionale (Lepidoptera)
Creators: name: Trematerra, Pasquale
name: Sciarretta, A.
name: Parenzan, Paolo
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: FAUNISTIC NOTES ON SOME INTERESTING TORTRICID MOTHS FROM SOUTHERN ITALY (LEPIDOPTERA)

Studies on the Lepidoptera Tortricidae Collection at the Agricultural Entomology Institute of Bari University are reported. Cydia johanssoni Aarvik & Karsholt, 1993, was found for the first time in Italy; Diceratura rhodograpta Djakonov, 1929, was a new record for the mainland; 25 species are new for Southern Italy.

Key words: Lepidoptera Tortricidae, faunistic reports, Southern Italy.

Lo studio della collezione di Lepidotteri Tortricidi presente presso l’Istituto di Entomologia agraria dell’Università degli Studi di Bari ha permesso il rinvenimento di Cydia johanssoni Aarvik & Karsholt, 1993, specie nuova per la fauna italiana e di Diceratura rhodograpta Djakonov, 1929, entità trovata per la prima volta sul continente. A queste si aggiungono ulteriori 25 specie, mai segnalate nelle regioni meridionali del nostro Paese.

Parole chiave: Lepidotteri, Tortricidi, faunistica, Italia meridionale.
description: Entomologica, Vol 31 (1997)
The Numerical Solution of the External Dirichlet Generalized Harmonic Problem for a Sphere by the Method of Probabilistic Solution
Creators: name: Zakradze, Mamuli
name: Tabagari, Zaza
name: Koblishvili, Nana
name: Davitashvili, Tinatin
name: Sanchez, Jose Maria
name: Criado-Aldeanueva, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J05, 35J25, 65C30, 65N75

description: In the present paper, an algorithm for the numerical solution of the external Dirichlet generalized harmonic problem for a sphere by the method of probabilistic solution (MPS) is given, where generalized indicates that a boundary function has a finite number of first kind discontinuity curves. The algorithm consists of the following main stages: (1) the transition from an infinite domain to a finite domain by an inversion; (2) the consideration of a new Dirichlet generalized harmonic problem on the basis of Kelvin theorem for the obtained finite domain; (3) the numerical solution of the new problem for the finite domain by the MPS, which in turn is based on a computer simulation of the Weiner process; (4) finding the probabilistic solution of the posed generalized problem at any fixed points of the infinite domain by the solution of the new problem. For illustration, numerical examples are considered and results are presented.
Primi reperti di larve di Acanthobrahmaea europaea (Hrtg.) (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae) su Phillyrea latifolia L.
Creators: name: Spicciarelli, Renato
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: REPORTS OF LARVAE OF ACANTHOBRAHMAEA EUROPAEA (HARTIG) ON PHILLYREA LATIFOLIA L.

In typical environment of Acanthobrahmaea europaea (Vulture Mt., Basilicata, Southern Italy) several beatings were carried out from April to May 1997 on plants of ash, privet and phillyrea, to search for the presence of larvae of this species. Each plant was examined either by direct obser- vation or by shacking branches over a cloth.

At middle of May, a group of six larvae of the second instar was found on a plant of Phillyrea latifolia L. This report does confirm a previous report on the same plant species in an area very distant from the Vulture Mt. (Campomaggiore, Potenza prov.).

Because the larvae were found out of the “Riserva Naturale Orientata Statale Grotticelle”, a new delimitation of this protected area seems suitable.

Key words: Lepidoptera, Acanthobrahmaea europaea, Phillyrea latifolia, food plant.

Nei mesi di aprile e maggio del 1997 sono stati effettuate indagini su piante di frassino, ligustro e fillirea, per verificare la presenza di larve del brameide.

Le piante sono state controllate ricorrendo all’osservazione diretta e allo scuotimento dei rami, raccogliendo il materiale con grandi teli.

Il 12 maggio 1997 è stato individuato un gruppo di larve che costituisce il primo reperimento di Acanthobrahmaea europaea (Hartig) su Phillyrea latifolia L. nell’area del Vulture.

L’individuazione in natura della pianta alimentare pone l’esigenza di una ridefinizione dell’area della Riserva Statale che tutela l’A. europaea.

Parole chiave: Lepidoptera, Acanthobrahmaea europaea, Phillyrea latifolia, reperimento larve.
description: Entomologica, Vol 31 (1997)
Conferência: Movimentos formativos na pesquisa em educação: perspectivas e desafios da formação doutoral na Amazônia
Creators: name: Araújo, Iata Anderson Ferreira de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: movimentos formativos
formação doutoral na Amazônia

description: A Conferência: Movimentos formativos na pesquisa em educação: perspectivas e desafios da formação doutoral na Amazônia foi proferida pelo Prof. Dr. Iata Araújo e realizada no âmbito do IV Seminário de Apresentação Pública de Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso – Campus Óbidos, no dia 12 de agosto de 2024. O evento foi promovido pela Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Campus Óbidos, contexto do Curso de Pedagogia, dele participaram estudantes e professores do Curso de Pedagogia, bem como da comunidade externa.
Morfologia preimmaginale in Cypha imitator (Luze) (Coleoptera Staphylinidae Aleocharinae)
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: PREIMAGINAL MORPHOLOGY OF CYPHA IMITATOR (LUZE) (COLEOPTERA STAPHYLINIDAE ALEOCHARINAE)

Larvae of Cypha imitator were obtained by selecting plant debris in a garden in South Italy. Some of them were hold in laboratory conditions and pupated in a silky cocoon.

Diagnoses of the larvae (instars I-III) and pupa are given, together with some structural details of the VIII abdominal segment gland.

Larvae of Cypha imitator do agree with the generalized aleocharine type (according to NEWTON, 1990), as they exhibit: (i) a single couple of ocelli, (ii) very short urogonphi, (iii) the mentioned gland. Particular features of them are: (i) second antennal segment very long, (ii) sensory appendage of the same segment needle-shaped.

Key words: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Cypha, larvae, pupa, cocoon.
description: Entomologica, Vol 31 (1997)
title: The provenance of Arabic loan-words in Hausa: A phonological and semantic study.
Creators: name: El-Shazly, Mohamed Helal Ahmed Sheref
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1987

description: This thesis consists of an Introduction, three Chapters, and an Appendix. The corpus was obtained from the published dictionaries of Hausa together with additional material I gathered during a research visit to Northern Nigeria. A thorough examination of Hausa dictionaries yielded a large number of words of Arabic origin. The authors had not recognized all of these, and it was in no way their purpose to indicate whether the loan was direct or indirect; the dictionaries do not always give the Arabic origin, and sometimes their indications are inaccurate. The whole of my corpus amounts to some 4000 words, which are presented as an appendix. The entries show the tones and vowel lengths of the words, which do not appear in Hausa orthography, but are in general related to the syllable structure of their Arabic origins. The Arabic items are given in transliteration. Meanings and examples are given for the Hausa items, and for the corresponding Arabic items as fully as is deemed relevant. Items have not always come directly from Arabic, and wherever possible their most likely source has been indicated. A large part of the research was given to this part of the work, and it has been thought desirable to present this corpus in full as a necessary part of the thesis, without which the rest would be much less intelligible. Chapter 1, concerning the historical side suggests that the amount of influence in Northern Nigeria direct from Arabs is much less than has been alleged, and is far exceeded by that of Kanuri, Tuareg, Songhai and Fulani teachers. They came, of course not to bring the Arabic language but to spread Islam, and it was Islam that brought the Arabic language and culture. The Arabic and Hausa languages have different phonological systems and Chapter 2 sets out how these differences affected the borrowed items in Hausa, and points to the great complexity of the relations. Chapter 3 attempts to show how far the loan-words retained their meanings in Arabic and how far these meanings changed in their new environments. It would be impossible in one thesis to deal with all the items, and attention has been focused on the development of Hausa personal names. In many cases the Arabic origins were personal names but in some instances Hausa names have been evolved from other areas e.g. Arabic words for numerals and for days of the week and months of the year. This new and independent development in Hausa is a common feature regarding most loans from Arabic.
Revisione anatomica della spermateca nei Ditiscidi (Coleoptera)
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: ANATOMICAL REVISION OF THE SPERMATHECA IN DYTISCIDS

According to the literature, some Hydroporinae and Laccophilinae possess a supplementary spermathecal duct (referred as “fertilization canal”), which supposedly allows sperm to reach directly the oviduct. Throughout a comparative study, the author demonstrates that this second duct does not exist.

Although in the mentioned subfamilies the spermatheca of some species exhibits a duct-like production, this does really correspond to the tendon of an extrinsic muscle.

Presence of this muscle is the most remarkable characteristic of Hydroporinae and Laccophilinae. Further interesting features are: (a) spermathecal duct exceedingly long in Hydroglyphus and Scarodytes; (b) receptacle duct-like and very long in Graptodytes.

Key words: Dytiscidae, spermatheca, supplementary duct, anatomical revision.

Si illustra la condizione anatomica dell’apparato genitale femminile in Ditiscidi di diverse sottofamiglie, con particolare attenzione ai caratteri della spermateca. Si rileva l’inesistenza del “dotto supplementare” della spermateca, segnalato dalla letteratura per alcune specie di Hydroporinae e Laccophilinae.

In queste sottofamiglie esiste solo un collegamento di tipo muscolare fra spermateca e vagina. Per l’attacco del muscolo estrinseco, la spermateca possiede talvolta un tendine che ha l’aspetto di un dotto.

Altre particolarità anatomiche osservate nella subf. Hydroporinae sono: (a) un dotto di notevo- le lunghezza in Hydroglyphus e Scarodytes; (b) un ricettacolo duttiforme di eccezionale lunghezza in Graptodytes.

Palole chiave: Dytiscidae, spermateca, dotto supplementare, revisione anatomica.
description: Entomologica, Vol 31 (1997)
A generalization of the Brauer-Fowler theorem
Creators: name: Skresanov, Saveliy V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D05 (Primary) 20F50 (Secondary)

description: The famous Brauer-Fowler theorem states that the order of a finite simple group can be bounded in terms of the order of the centralizer of an involution. Using the classification of finite simple groups, we generalize this theorem and prove that if a simple locally finite group has an involution which commutes with at most $n$ involutions, then the group is finite and its order is bounded in terms of $n$ only. This answers a question of Strunkov from the Kourovka notebook.
description: 6 pages
Eupogonius brevifascia Galileo & Martins, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eupogonius
Eupogonius brevifascia

description: Eupogonius brevifascia sp. nov.
 (Fig. 2)
 Etimologia: Latim, brevis = curta; fascia = faixa; alusivo à faixa de pubescência amarelada restrita ao terço basal dos élitros.
Tegumento em geral castanho-escuro revestido por pubescência decumbente, esbranquiçada e por pêlos longos e abundantes, acastanhados. Cabeça com pontos grossos, esparsos; pubescência amarelo-alaranjada entre os lobos oculares superiores e ao redor da margem posterior dos lobos constituindo duas faixas oblíquas até a base. Lobos oculares superiores com seis fileiras de omatídios, tão distantes entre si quanto 1,5 vezes a largura de um lobo; lobos oculares inferiores mais longos que as genas. Antenas tão longas quanto o corpo, densamente pilosas; franja interna com pêlos mais longos que o dobro da largura do artículo.
Protórax com espinho lateral curto. Pronoto densamente pontuado, a cada lado com faixa de pubescência amarelo-alaranjada, estreita, não prolongada sobre os espinhos, em continuação com aquelas da cabeça. Lados do prosterno e do metasterno pontuados.
Élitros sem gibosidade basal, extremidades arredondadas. Pontuação elitral grossa na metade basal, mais fina e esparsa em direção ao ápice. Cada élitro com duas faixas de pubescência amarelo-alaranjada: uma no dorso do terço basal em continuação àquela do pronoto; outra nos lados junto à margem, prolongada no ápice até a sutura.
Pernas acastanhadas, exceto base dos fêmures avermelhada. Fêmures clavados. Urosternitos revestidos de pubescência esbranquiçada, densa e alongada.
 Dimensões em mm, holótipo macho: Comprimento total, 4,3; comprimento do protórax, 1,1; maior largura do protórax, 1,1; comprimento do élitro, 3,0; largura umeral, 1,4.
 Material-tipo: Holótipo macho, COSTA RICA, Guanacaste: Rio Naranjo (3 km SE), 10-14.VI.1993, F.D. Parker col. (LBSC).
 Discussão: Eupogonius brevifascia sp. nov. apresenta no dorso dos élitros faixa de pubescência amarelo-alaranjada, também encontrada em E. flavocinctus Bates, 1872, E. vittipennis Bates, 1885 e E. cryptus Hovore, 1989. Difere pela presença da faixa apenas no terço basal, enquanto nas outras espécies essa faixa estende-se da base ao ápice do élitro. De E. flavocinctus e E. cryptus também difere pela ausência de faixa de pubescência central na cabeça, no pronoto e junto à sutura elitral.
description: Published as part of Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Martins, Ubirajara R., 2009, Novos táxons de Desmiphorini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) da Costa Rica e do Brasil, pp. 103-107 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 49 (9) on page 104, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009000900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13308287
Disgregus Galileo & Martins, 2009, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Disgregus

description: Disgregus gen. nov.
 Etimologia: Latim, disgregus = diferente; alusivo ao padrão das antenas com os artículos apicais modificados.
 Espécie-tipo: Disgregus bezarki sp. nov.
Fronte retangular. Tubérculos anteníferos muito afastados entre si, não projetados com a região entre eles subplana. Olhos com omatídios de diâmetro médio. Lobos oculares inferiores mais longos que as genas. Antenas com 11 artículos. Escapo cilíndrico, sem cicatriz apical. Antenômero III mais longo que o escapo e subigual ao comprimento do IV; antenômeros V-XI engrossados, curtos, comprimento decrescente em direção ao ápice e face ventral com pêlos longos e densos.
Protórax com espinho curto a cada lado. Pronoto convexo com área transversal deprimida anterior e posteriormente; centro do disco com duas gibosidades. Processo mesosternal sem tubérculos, subtruncado anteriormente.
Élitros com setas eretas; base sem gibosidades manifestas, lados paralelos e extremidades arredondadas.
Fêmures robustos, clavados. Fêmures e tíbias com setas longas. Mesotíbias com sulco no terço apical.
 Discussão: Disgregus gen. nov. assemelha-se a Atelodesmis Buquet, 1857 pelos flagelômeros basais com pêlos longos em todo o artículo, pelo antenômero III subigual ao IV em comprimento, pela base dos élitros com pontos tuberculados e pela granulação dos olhos subgrossa. Difere de Atelodesmis e dos demais gêneros da tribo pelas antenas com os artículos apicais modificados.
description: Published as part of Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Martins, Ubirajara R., 2009, Novos táxons de Desmiphorini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) da Costa Rica e do Brasil, pp. 103-107 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 49 (9) on page 106, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009000900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13308287
title: The poetic theory as expounded in Kitab Minhaj al-Bulagha by Hazim al Qartajanni.
Creators: name: Al-Ebrahim, N. A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1986

description: The aim of this research is to analyse the philosophical and aesthetic principles of Hazim al-Qartajanni's poetic theory, as set down in his Minhaj al-Bulagha' wa-Siraj al-Udaba. It is our intent, in addition, to reveal the sources for his theory in Graeco-Arabic and Islamic-Arabic sources as well as his contributions to both. The preface defines the subject-matter and the methodology. This is followed by an Introduction which places Hazim in his cultural context by looking at his masters and his pupils, and examining not only his works on criticism, but also his influence on the establishment of a school of Arabic rhetoric in the western parts of the Arab world (Andalusia and North Africa) and on the development of Arabic criticism generally. The thesis is then divided into two parts, each of which has two chapters. Part one, on the nature of poetry in respect of both poet and recipient, deals with; 1) the notion of poetry as it is understood, firstly in the fundamental term of muhakat (imitation) and the complementary terms associated with the root khayal (imagination), and secondly in those issues of classical Arabic criticism which are of central importance to that notion such as the issue of natural aptitude tab' and skill san'a; 2) the question of value judgement in art generally and in poetry, where there are three aspects: the psychological, ethical, and aesthetic; and how these are treated in Classical Arabic critical terminology as well as in the work of Hazim, who is shown to dwell most upon the aesthetic value. Part two, on rhythmic and linguistic structures in the qasida, deals with: 1) the nature of poetic measures, harmony, rhythm, and musicality, generally, as well as the part played by rhyme in creating poetic rhythm and the relation of measures and rhymes to the meaning of poetry; 2) the linguistic features of the qasida from individual components to the entire poetic expression of the whole structure of the qasida. Each chapter has four units, of which the first three discuss the main subject of the chapter in relation to Hazim's work and the Greek and Arab traditions of poetics; while the fourth evaluates Hazim's original contribution in the light of his most influential resources, both Arab and Greek. This thesis includes a glossary of some of Hazim's technical terms which have been employed in their original Arabic form as the equivalent English terms fail to illustrate their meaning accurately.
title: Thematic relations and transitivity in English, Japanese and Korean.
Creators: name: Song, Nam-Sun
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1987

description: The thesis presents a syntactic and semantic analysis of selected problems in the analysis of transitivity in English, Japanese and Korean in terms of a system of 'thematic relations' adapted from the work of Gruber and Jackendoff. The system is introduced in Chapter One. One way in which it differs from those of Gruber and Jackendoff is that their ambiguous notion of Theme is replaced by two separate notions - Theme and semantic subject. Verbs are classified into 'univalent verbs', which have a single set of thematic relations, and 'ambivalent verbs', which have more than one set of thematic relations. It is claimed that syntactic alternations such as that between 'spray x on y' and 'spray y with x' are a reflection of the ambivalence of the verbs in question. Chapter Two reviews discourse approaches and semantic approaches to Dative-shift. On the basis of a comparison of English and Korean it argues that Dative-shift in these two languages is clearly a semantic process rather than pragmatically motivated. Moreover, like the 'spray' type alternation, Dative-shift is shown to be a reflection of the ambivalence of verbs expressing a change in possession. Chapter Three is devoted to double-nominative constructions in Japanese and Korean, which in the past have been considered to be syntactically and semantically equivalent. A careful study of data from the two languages shows that the double-nominative constructions in Korean are not homogeneous but are divided into two classes with distinct thematic relations, one of which is lacking in Japanese. Chapters Four and Five discuss the passive in Japanese and Korean, respectively, and propose a new classification of passives in the two languages. Three types are recognized: the passive of interest, the anti-causative passive and the attributive passive. Finally, Chapter Six presents some typological observations concerning the passive and Dative-shift. In particular, the English passive and the passives of Korean and Japanese are compared with regard to their relation to Dative-shift, and it is argued that Dative-shift and the passive are, in principle, independent grammatical processes.
Head Gardener's Memories
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Thomas was 27 in 1940 and was a head gardener working in stately homes, so he wasn't conscripted. He described all the gardens being converted to vegetable growing. His son was born in 1940, and he had another small child.
Supplemental Material, Uenal_Online_Appendix - The Nature of Islamophobia: A Test of a Tripartite View in Five Countries
Creators: name: Uenal, Fatih
name: Bergh, Robin
name: Sidanius, Jim
name: Zick, Andreas
name: Kimel, Sasha
name: Kunst, Jonas R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, Uenal_Online_Appendix for The Nature of Islamophobia: A Test of a Tripartite View in Five Countries by Fatih Uenal, Robin Bergh, Jim Sidanius, Andreas Zick, Sasha Kimel and Jonas R. Kunst in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
title: The development of the concepts of Heaven and of Man in the philosophy of Chu Hsi.
Creators: name: Chung, Tsai-Chun
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this thesis is to chart the development and the inter-relationship of the concepts of Heaven and of Man in Chu Hsi's philosophy. As Chu Hsi (1130-1200) is generally regarded as having brought to its completion the unification of the doctrines of his Neo-Confucianist predecessors, it is hoped that this research will throw light both upon the central tenets of his philosophy and upon those of Sung philosophy in general. The method adopted is to use the development of these concepts as a central thread. Chu Hsi's metaphysics and ethics will then be discussed accordingly as they are relevant to this theme, although it has not been feasible to present an independent survey of these branches of his philosophy. The development of these two concepts is discussed in six chapters. In the first chapter, I give a brief account of Buddhist Idealism, to the refutation of which Chu Hsi had dedicated his whole life. In the second chapter, I describe how, in his thirties, he had used the Immanent Vitalism of the earlier Neo-Confucianists to attack the Buddhist view of Emptiness. In the third chapter, I discuss how he struggled, in his forties, to construct his own metaphysics, after becoming disillusioned with the approach to the Way taught by the Immanent Vitalists. In the fourth and fifth chapters, I discuss both the development of the ideas of Principle, Material Force, Nature, Mind, and moral cultivation, and their systematisation in his later metaphysics. In the final chapter, I explain the relation between Heaven and Man within this system, and show the way in which it differs from its Buddhist counterpart.
title: The Egyptian Udaba and the crisis of Islam: A study of the Islamic thought of Taha Husayn, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, and 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad and its influence on Egyptian political, social and intellectual life.
Creators: name: Dajani, Zahia Ragheb
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1987

description: This study is centred around the thoughts and contributions of three Egyptian Udaba namely, Taha Husayn (d. 1973), Muhammad Husayn Haykal (d. 1956), and 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad (d. 1964). The significance of their writings lies partly in the critical period in which they appeared, which was a period of religious, spiritual and national crisis. On the religious side, it was not confined to Egypt, but covered the whole Islamic world for it was the period in which the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished. With the collapse of Islamic political power, the Christian missionary thrust tried to penetrate the core of Islamic belief itself by portraying Islam as a necessary obstacle to progress. For this purpose, several attacks were simultaneously engineered. One was directed against the Arabic language which was described as unfit for modern usage. Its replacement by spoken dialects would have meant creating a delinkage between language and the Qur'an, relegating the Qur'an to the position of a liturgical and ritualistic document that interests only a few scholars and religious specialists. Another attack was directed against Arabic literature casting doubts on its content and value for modern generations with new thoughts, ideas and aspirations. A more powerful attack was directed against the Prophet Muhammad, and his companions and immediate successors. The Udaba' took up the challenge by upholding the Arabic language, expounding the true facts of the Prophet's life, and by introducing new styles of literature which derive from the Islamic fountainhead, and using styles attractive to modern readers. Among other things, the thesis shows how the Udaba's contributions in this respect were instrumental in blunting the attacks of missionaries, and incidentally, in pre-empting the attacks of Marxism which assumed dangerous proportions after World War II. Their assertion of the dignity of Islam and of the unquestionable Islamic identity of Egypt and of the great potentials of the Arabic language will remain as lasting contributions.