cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EJC_-_Prevalence_of_sexual_violence_-_APPENDIX_revised – Supplemental material for Prevalence of sexual violence: A comparison of estimates from UK national surveys
Creators: name: Brunton-Smith, Ian
name: Flatley, John
name: Tarling, Roger
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, EJC_-_Prevalence_of_sexual_violence_-_APPENDIX_revised for Prevalence of sexual violence: A comparison of estimates from UK national surveys by Ian Brunton-Smith, John Flatley and Roger Tarling in European Journal of Criminology
title: History of kingship in Ceylon up to the fourth century A.D.
Creators: name: Hettiarachchy, Tilak
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: The present study is an examination of the institution of kingship in Ceylon from about the 3rd century B.C. to the 4th century A.D, Chapter I shows that kingship originated out of local leadership in the early north Indian colonies, but that Indian ideas exerted a great deal of influence on its subsequent development. The second chapter discusses the various titles given to the early rulers and points out their significance in the evolution of local leadership into full- fledged kingship. The local nobility and its formation is discussed in relation to the royalty in chapter III. The bureaucracy of officers who served the king is the subject of chapter IV. The relationship between the king and the Sangha is the theme of Chapter V, particular attention being paid in this chapter to the contribution of the Sangha to the development of the monarchy. Chapter VI is an attempt to trace the geographical expansion of royal power and authority over the whole Island. It also includes an examination of the factors which facilitated the growth of royal power. Lastly, chapter VII discusses the powers exercised by the king and the limitations to which he was subject.
ISSM_COREQ_Checklist_18-10-26_Appendix_1 – Supplemental material for Concerns of Parental HIV Disclosure in China
Creators: name: Sun, Meiyan
name: Chen, Wei-Ti
name: Yang, Joyce P.
name: Huang, Shuyuan
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Shi, Mingfeng
name: Li, Wei
name: Li, Ye
name: Bao, Meijuan
name: Lu, Hongzhou
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Nursing not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, ISSM_COREQ_Checklist_18-10-26_Appendix_1 for Concerns of Parental HIV Disclosure in China by Meiyan Sun, Wei-Ti Chen, Joyce P. Yang, Shuyuan Huang, Lin Zhang, Mingfeng Shi, Wei Li, Ye Li, Meijuan Bao and Hongzhou Lu in Clinical Nursing Research
title: Primary education in rural Thailand : A case study of primary schooling in a northern Thai village.
Creators: name: Buchanan, Helen Janetta
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1989

description: The thesis begins with an introductory chapter in which the background to the field research, research methodology and objectives are detailed. Chapter One then outlines the socio-economic structure of Chompuu village, and provides an introduction to the school. In Chapter Two an account of recent educational development in Thailand is detailed; particular emphasis is given to curriculum changes within the past two decades. In Chapter Three, the 'hidden' curriculum and its influence in Chompuu school is considered. The political, moral and social implications of the hidden curriculum at Chompuu school are discussed with reference to the 'socialisation' of the child, and the reproduction of dominant social values in the school. Chapter Four considers the concepts of 'social reproduction' and 'socialisation' in relation to the formal school system. Chapter Five examines the related theme of knowledge and power in Chompuu village, exploring ways in which knowledge is used to establish power, or is the foundation of power in the community. Relations of power and authority in the school, and the education system in general, are then discussed in Chapter Six; the concern is with the ways in which control is established and maintained in the school by various means. The final chapter addresses school-village relations in Chompuu, looking at the role (if any) the school plays in 'development'. In the conclusion I aim to demonstrate the complexity of the role of the school in rural village life in Thailand. Although it is realised that aspects of Chompuu school and village life are unique and that the research can by no means be considered as a representation of the position in the country on the whole; it is hoped that this thesis will increase the readers' understanding of some of the many issues surrounding 'modern' formal schooling in rural Thai society today.
Microstructural and rheological training and memory of nanocolloidal soft glasses under cyclic shear
Creators: name: Chen, Yihao
name: Rogers, Simon A.
name: Narayanan, Suresh
name: Harden, James L.
name: Leheny, Robert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An intrinsic feature of disordered and out-of-equilibrium materials, such as glasses, is the dependence of their properties on their history. An important example is rheological memory, in which disordered solids obtain properties based on their mechanical history. Here, we employ x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) with \textit{in situ} rheometry to characterize memory formation in a nanocolloidal soft glass due to cyclic shear. During a cycle, particles undergo irreversible displacements composed of a combination of shear-induced diffusion and strain fields. The magnitudes of these displacements decrease with each cycle before reaching a steady state where the microstructure has become trained to achieve enhanced reversibility. The displacements resemble a random walk in which the directions in each cycle are independent of those in preceding cycles. Accompanying the training is a steady decrease in the dissipation during each cycle towards a steady state value. Memory of this training is revealed by measurements in which the amplitude of the shear is changed after steady state is reached. The magnitude of the particle displacements as well as the dissipation and the change in residual stress vary non-monotonically with the new strain amplitude, having minima near the training amplitude, thereby revealing both microscopic and macroscopic signatures of memory.
Those strange black matters with embedded armoured scales
Creators: name: Porcelli, Francesco
name: Roberto, Roberta
name: Pellizzari, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: While studying Septobasidium interaction with Diaspididae off Laurus nobilis L., Phillyrea latifolia L. and angustifolia L. in Apulia we found small - 1 to 3 millimetre - brown/black particles on plant bark. Each particle embeds or lays one or more dead armoured scales belonging to Aonidia lauri (Bouche) or Lepidosaphes flava (Signoret), depending on the host plant. The brown-black bodies were irregularly hemispheric, lobated and dull in appearance. We report the results of observations by light microscopy, SEM and X-rays microanalysis of foamy black matters that constitute most of the particles and embed the scale. Findings of hyphae (?) inside the dead insect bodies in connection to Diaspidid scale phenology at the time of death suggest that the particles result from an entomopathogenic or saprophytic interaction.

Acknowledgement: we recognise the help and competence of Pasquale Trotti, SELGE UR3. laboratory responsible, for the SEM pictures & microanalysis and Prof Claudio Ciccarone (SAFE-UNIFG) for the tentative identification of the hyphae found associated with Aonidia lauri. We also recognize the support of Applied Ecology.

Aonidia lauri (Bouche) is a common Diaspididae often found on Laurel where it infests trunk and twigs but leaves also. Septobasidium grows to great epiphytic thalli on the plant bark and often infects the scale (Porcelli, 2013).

On the same Septobasidium-inhabited Laurel as on Pistacia lentiscus L. or Phillyrea latifolia and angustifolia there are numerous black-dull masses embedding one or more A. lauri or Lepidosaphes flava and often sheltering several more individuals under the margin of the masses themselves.

Not sheltered scales are comparatively less than those that, possibly following a tygmotactic stimulus, prefer to fix near or under the masses. Moreover, scrutinising the masses one can easily find several or many scales almost entirely embedded in the black matter or still partially exposed. Even those masses that do not show scales embedded reveal one or more individuals inside the matter once purposely dissected.

SEM study reveals the presence of stromatic and possibly penetrative hyphae associate with moniliform Nostoc-like chains glued by a foamy gelatinous sheath. Hyphae, Nostoc-like chains and jelly strongly resemble a species of Collema (Fungi) often symbiotically associates with Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) to form Lichen that in the case fills the scale body. Chemical elementary semiquantitative microanalysis supports the organic origin of the black matter.

Next studies will confirm the nature of the actors involved in this intriguing phenomenon.
description: Entomologica, V. 47 (2016)
Eublemma pannonica (Freyer, 1840) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), specie nuova per la fauna di Sicilia e italiana
Creators: name: Parenzan, Paolo
name: Russso, Paolo
name: Bella, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Eublemma pannonica  (FREYER, 1840) (LEPIDOPTERA, NOCTUIDAE), NEW REPORT FOR SICILY AND ITALY. (Contribution to the Knowledge of the Sicilian Lepidopterofauna. IX)

Eublemma pannonica (Freyer, 1840) has been found in the Nature Reserve of Vendicari (Siracusa, S. E. Sicily); the species is new for the Sicilian fauna and also for the continental Italy. In this last decade our research in the marshes of S.E. Sicily has revealed 11 moth species new for the isle: one Arctiidae (Eilema rungsi de Toulgoët, 1960), seven Noctuidae (Rhizedra lutosa (Hübner, 1803), Arcanara neurica (Hübner, 1808), Lacanobia blenna (Hübner, 1824), Aletia languida (Walker, 1985), Leucania palestinae Staudinger, 1897, Leucania joannisi Boursin & Rungs, 1952, Eublemma pannonica (Freyer, 1840)), and three Geometridae (Cyclophora annulata (Schulze, 1775), Idaea completa (Staudinger, 1892), Scopula decolor (Staudinger, 1897)).

Key words: Noctuidae, new report, Sicily.

È segnalata Eublemma pannonica (Freyer, 1840) nella Riserva Naturale Orientata "Oasi Faunistica di Vendicari" (Siracusa, Sicilia Sud-orientale); la specie è nuova per la fauna di Sicilia e d'Italia. Con il rinvenimento di Eublemma pannonica salgono a undici le specie nuove per la lepidotterofauna siciliana rinvenute nelle aree umide della Sicilia sud-orientale, un Arctiide (Eilema rungsi de Toulgoët, 1960), sette Nottuidi (Rhizedra lutosa (Hübner, 1803), Arcanara neurica (Hübner, 1808), Lacanobia blenna (Hübner, 1824), Aletia languida (Walker, 1985), Leucania palestinae Staudinger, 1897, Leucania joannisi Boursin & Rungs, 1952, Eublemma pannonica (Freyer, 1840)), e tre Geometridi (Cyclophora annulata (Schulze, 1775), Idaea completa (Staudinger, 1892), Scopula decolor (Staudinger, 1897)).

Parole chiave: Noctuidae, nuova specie, Sicilia.
description: Entomologica, Vol 36 (2002)
Appendix_for_Kafka_and_Matheny – Supplemental material for Racial Integration, White Appropriation, and School Choice: The Demise of the Colored Schools of Late Nineteenth Century Brooklyn
Creators: name: Kafka, Judith
name: Cici Matheny
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_for_Kafka_and_Matheny for Racial Integration, White Appropriation, and School Choice: The Demise of the Colored Schools of Late Nineteenth Century Brooklyn by Judith Kafka and Cici Matheny in Journal of Urban History
Sarcophaginae de l’Afrique (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae)
Creators: name: Lehrer, Andy Z.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Sarcophaginae of Africa (Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

The microscopic study of the genital structures of the major types of Sarcophaginae taxa, found in the African Continent, allowed the revision of the systematics of the group in which 108 genus and 245 species were listed and illustrated; 14 genera and 12 species are described for the first time.

The new genera are: Bantuphalla gen. n., Barnardia gen. n., Bechuanella gen. n., Deconinckia gen. n., Fanzidella gen. n., Jaennickeana gen. n., Livingstonelia gen. n., Mitumbana, gen. n., Nguyenia gen. n., Pharaonops gen. n., Radamaia gen. n., Ranavalona gen. n., Seselwana gen. n. and Virungana gen. n. The new species are: Callostuckenbergia beninella sp. n., Ceratophalla guezoia sp. n., Deconinckia fernandae sp. n., Diplonophalla hautieri sp. n., Hyperacanthisca susteriana sp. n., Liosarcophaga conwayae sp. n., Liosarcophaga danxomeia sp. n., Liosarcophaga elhawagryi sp. n., Liosarcophaga safaria sp. n., Mauritiella stanleyiana sp. n., Pandelleana berberina sp. n., and Uroxanthisca ganselene sp. n.

The morphological description of the male genitalia eliminates any doubt making order in the taxonomy of Sarcophagidae in Africa

Key words: Diptera, Sarcophaginae, Africa, taxonomic revision, let us tax new.

Lo studio microscopico delle strutture genitali dei tipi della maggior parte dei taxa di Sarcophaginae, conosciuti per il continente africano, ha consentito una revisione della sistematica del gruppo in cui sono stati individuati 108 generi e 245 specie, 14 generi e 12 specie sono descritti per la prima volta.

I generi nuovi sono: Bantuphalla gen. n., Barnardia gen. n., Bechuanella gen. n., Deconinckia gen. n., Fanzidella gen. n., Jaennickeana gen. n., Livingstonelia gen. n., Mitumbana, gen. n., Nguyenia gen. n., Pharaonops gen. n., Radamaia gen. n., Ranavalona gen. n., Seselwana gen. n. e Virungana gen. n. Le specie nuove sono: Callostuckenbergia beninella sp. n., Ceratophalla guezoia sp. n., Deconinckia fernandae sp. n., Diplonophalla hautieri sp. n., Hyperacanthisca susteriana sp. n., Liosarcophaga conwayae sp. n., Liosarcophaga danxomeia sp. n., Liosarcophaga elhawagryi sp. n., Liosarcophaga safaria sp. n., Mauritiella stanleyiana sp. n., Pandelleana berberina sp. n., ed Uroxanthisca ganselene sp. n.

La verifica morfologica e la descrizione dei genitali maschili fuga ogni dubbio consentendo di mettere ordine nella tassonomia dei Sarcophagidae d'Africa.

Parole chiave: Diptera, Sarcophaginae, Africa, revisione tassonomica, taxons nuovi.
description: Entomologica, Vol 37 (2003)
sj-pdf-2-epb-10.1177_2399808320932575 - Supplemental material for Walking accessibility to neighbourhood open space in a multi-level urban environment of Hong Kong
Creators: name: Bo-Sin Tang
name: Wong, Kenneth KH
name: Tang, Kenneth SS
name: Siu Wai Wong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-epb-10.1177_2399808320932575 for Walking accessibility to neighbourhood open space in a multi-level urban environment of Hong Kong by Bo-Sin Tang, Kenneth KH Wong, Kenneth SS Tang and Siu Wai Wong in EPB: Urban Analytics and City Science
† DOMENICO ROBERTI (Matera 15.VIII.1912 – Bari 7.VI.2003) Appunti autobiografici
Creators: name: Frilli, Franco
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Dal 7 giugno 2003 il Professor Domenico Roberti, Professore Emerito dell’Università degli studi di Bari, Accademico emerito dell’Accademia Nazionale Italiana di Entomologia, stimato Fondatore di “Entomologica”, purtroppo non è più tra noi.

In sede accademica nazionale il 22 novembre 2003 ebbi l’onore e il piacere di commemorarne la singolare figura di Uomo e di Studioso e in quell’occasione confidai all’uditorio come il Prof. Roberti mi avesse inviato il 3 dicembre 1999 un Suo breve curriculum autografo, con poche significative parole di accompagnamento: “Il veloce andare avanti della mia età e le inevitabili conseguenze, mi suggeriscono di inviarle un breve mio ‘curriculum’ che vorrà conservare e usare lei o altri colleghi al momento opportuno. Affido lo scritto a lei, considerando che lei è stato il primo dei giovani che mi hanno seguito nello studio dell’entomologia e perché lei svolge la sua attività nella Università e nella Società, anche come sacerdote”.

A quel breve “curriculum” Egli fece seguire il 18 luglio 2000 un ampio scritto autobiografico che il Comitato scientifico di quella che fu la “Sua” Rivista ritiene opportuno pubblicare integralmente, affinché molti particolari interessanti della Sua vita di Ricercatore e di Uomo possano essere resi noti con le Sue stesse parole non solo ai suoi allievi e amici ma anche a tanti altri estimatori entomologi.
description: Entomologica, Vol 38 (2004)
Specialist and generalist cecidomyiid predators on aphids, mites, scale insects and other invertebrates
Creators: name: Harris, Keith M.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Published information on predaceous Cecidomyiidae is briefly reviewed and check-lists of the known species of specialist predators on aphids, mites and scale insects are provided. Two species are now used as commercially marketed biocontrol agents, namely Aphidoletes aphidimyza (Rondani) against aphids and Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot) against tetranychid mites. Larvae of most known species of specialist predators (currently assigned to Coccodiplosis De Meijere, Dentifibula Felt, Diadiplosis Felt, Dicrodiplosis Kieffer, Megommata Barnes and Triommata Barnes) feed on Coccoidea (mealybugs and scale insects). Many species in the large and cosmopolitan genus Lestodiplosis Kieffer have been recorded as specialist predators on various invertebrate hosts, including mites, cecidomyiid larvae and lepidopterous caterpillars, but recent observations in the UK indicate that at least some of these ‘species’ may represent opportunistic general predators feeding on a range of different hosts. Past and present studies of the Cecidomyiidae have been hampered by inadequate taxonomic treatment and there is an obvious need for new biosystematic studies to provide a better information base for further research and application.

Key words: Cecidomyiidae, predators, aphids, mites, scale insects, mealybugs.

CECIDOMIIDI PREDATORI SPECIALISTI E GENERALISTI DI AFIDI, ACARI, DIASPINI E ALTRI INVERTEBRATI

Viene presentata una breve rassegna di notizie pubblicate sui cecidomiidi predatori e una check-list di specie note predatrici specializzate di afidi e di cocciniglie. Due specie sono oggi distribuite commercialmente come agenti di controllo biologico: Aphidoletes aphidimyza (Rondani) contro afidi, e Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot) contro acari tetranichidi. Le larve della maggior parte dei cecidomiidi predatori specializzati (correntemente assegnate ai generi Coccodiplosis De Meijere, Dentifibula Felt, Diadiplosis Felt, Dicrodiplosis Kieffer, Megommata Barnes and Triommata Barnes) si sviluppano a spese di Coccoidei. Molte specie del vasto genere cosmopolita Lestodiplosis Kieffer sono state segnalate come predatrici specializzate di svariati invertebrati tra cui acari, larve di altri cecidomiidi e perfino di lepidotteri, ma recenti osservazioni condotte in Inghilterra evidenziano che almeno alcune di queste specie rappresentano generici predatori opportunisti che si alimentano di una serie di vittime differenti. Studi antichi e recenti sui cecidomiidi sono stati penalizzati dalla carenza di accurate determinazioni tassonomiche, ed esiste la necessità di nuovi studi biosistematici atti a fornire conoscenze di base per ulteriori ricerche conoscitive e applicate.

Parole chiave: Cecidomyiidae, predatori, afidi, acari, diaspini, pseudococcidi.
description: Entomologica, Vol 38 (2004)
Anobrium minimum Martins, Galileo & Limeira-de-Oliveira, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Martins, Ubirajara Ribeiro
name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Limeira-de-Oliveira, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anobrium
Anobrium minimum

description: 119. Anobrium minimum sp. nov. (Fig. 13)
Tegumento avermelhado, mais escuro na cabeça. Fronte densa e profundamente pontuada; diâmetro dos pontos muito maior que o interstício entre eles. Vértice densamente pontuado. Lobos oculares superiores com quatro fileiras de omatídios tão afastados entre si quanto o dobro da largura de um lobo. Antenas atingem o terço apical dos élitros. Protórax mais largo anteriormente do que na base, com espículo lateral atrás do meio. Pronoto densamente pontuado. Escutelo glabro. Élitros pontuados nos dois terços anteriores; pontos basais próximos, mas gradualmente mais evanescentes para o ápice. Em toda superfície elitral pelos longos e abundantes. Pernas avermelhadas; fêmures lisos, com pubescência esparsa, esbranquiçada. Esternos torácicos densamente pontuados. Urosternito I com pontos isolados; urosternitos II-IV com pontos muito espaçados.
 Dimensões em mm: Comprimento total, 4,2-5,0; comprimento do protórax, 0,9-1,0; maior largura do protórax, 0,9-1,0; comprimento dos élitros, 3,0-3,4; largura umeral, 1,1-1,2.
 Material-tipo: Holótipo fêmea, Caxias (Campus, UEMA, Morro do Alecrim), 01-05.I.2009, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira col., luz branca (MZSP). Parátipos: 2 fêmeas, 25-30.XII.2008, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira col., luz branca (MCNZ, MZSP).
 Discussão: Na chave para as espécies de Anobrium publicada por Galileo & Martins (2002), A. minimum é discriminada junto com A. punctatum Galileo & Martins, 2002 e A. simplicis Galileo & Martins, 2002 pelo mesosterno, mesepisternos e mesepimeros pontuados. A. minimum difere de ambas pelas menores dimensões e além disso, separa-se de A. simplicis pelos lobos oculares superiores tão afastados entre si quanto o dobro da largura de um lobo; pelo antenômero III apenas mais longo do que o IV; pelo espinho lateral do protórax mais curto; pelo escutelo sem pubescência lateral e pela presença de pelos muito longos nos élitros. Em A. simplicis, os lobos oculares superiores são tão afastados entre si quanto à largura de um lobo; o antenômero III é nitidamente mais longo do que o IV; o espinho lateral do protórax é longo e curvo; o escutelo tem pelos nos lados e os pelos elitrais são todos curtos. De A. punctatum distingue-se pela ausência de faixa longitudinal de pubescência branca no terço posterior do pronoto e pelo escutelo sem pubescência branca. Em A. punctatum o pronoto apresenta faixa de pubescência branca no terço posterior e o escutelo tem abundante pubescência branca.
description: Published as part of Martins, Ubirajara Ribeiro, Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Limeira-de-Oliveira, Francisco, 2009, Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) do estado do Maranhão, Brasil. II, pp. 503-527 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (38) on page 523, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009003800001, http://zenodo.org/record/13308365
Note di biologia riproduttiva sul tenebrionide sabulicolo Ammobius rufus Lucas (Coleoptera)
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: SOME NOTES OF REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY ON THE SAND-DWELLING TENEBRIONID BEETLE AMMOBIUS RUFUS LUCAS (COLEOPTERA)

Data arose by dissecting some 1,300 adults of both sexes. These were collected from March to September in sea-shores of Central and Southern Italy, where they are easy to find in the superficial sand layer at the base of different herbaceous plants.

Females do not bear more than 2 eggs at a time and tend to incubate one egg in their large vagina up to a late development stage. A minor rate of these vaginal eggs was found including a fully-developed embryo. Development time of eggs was evaluated in a damp chamber; it lasts 40 days at least.

Observations allow to include Ammobius rufus among the ovoviviparous Coleoptera, together with other species that dwell in particular environments, such as some myrmecophilous and termitophilous Staphylinidae-Aleocharinae and some montane and subarctic Chrysomelidae.

In author’s opinion, ovoviviparity of A. rufus is a further adaptation of this species to its particular environment; possibly, it allows females to oviposit in the depths, after they have incubated eggs in the superficial sand layer.

Key words: ovoviviparity, adaptation.

Circa 1.300 adulti del tenebrionide sabulicolo Ammobius rufus Lucas sono stati raccolti nei mesi da marzo a settembre in varie località costiere ed esaminati per dissezione. Le osservazioni hanno riguardato la proporzione numerica fra i sessi nei vari mesi, i periodi di presenza delle femmine ovigere, la condizione di sviluppo delle uova all’interno della vagina, la durata dello sviluppo embrionale.

La specie risulta ovovivipara, in quanto le femmine possiedono un’ampia vagina, nella quale un singolo uovo può restare in incubazione fino a sviluppo embrionale avanzato.

In via presunta, l’ovoviviparità di A. rufus viene interpretata come parametro di adattamento all’ambiente sabulicolo; essa consentirebbe alle femmine di maturare e incubare le uova nello strato superficiale delle sabbie. L’ovideposizione avverrebbe successivamente, dopo una migrazione in profondità.

Parole chiave: ovoviviparità, adattamento.
description: Entomologica, Vol 38 (2004)
Supplementary document for A First-Principle Approach to X-ray Active Optics: Design and Verification - 7129293.pdf
Creators: name: diao, qin
name: dong, han
name: Han, Jun
name: xiaobo, qin
name: Yang, Fugui
name: Kang, Le
name: Li, Ming
name: Sheng, Weifan
name: Zhang, Xiaowei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplement 1
title: Poverty, growth and stagnation in North Indian agriculture: A comparative study in the political economy of poverty generation in Western and Eastern Uttar Pradesh in the early 1970s.
Creators: name: Sargent, Jean Diana
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1991

description: This thesis is based upon a comparative study of the processes generating rural poverty in the Western and Eastern Regions of the Northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh round about 1970. For its theoretical underpinning the research uses a mode-of-production approach, characterising the poor Eastern Region as "semi-feudal" while the Western Region is viewed as exhibiting some significant "capitalist" elements. At an empirical level the control by different classes in the two regions of the most important means of production, i.e. land, irrigation and capital is examined, and its effect on output, productivity and incomes assessed within the structure of the different relations of production prevailing in each region. This permits the identification of the poor within the context of the respective class structures in each region and provides a framework within which to examine the dimensions of poverty in Western and Eastern UP. Sample survey data is used to assess both the extent and depth of poverty among the small cultivator and agricultural labourer population of the two regions. Whereas a vast class of poor tenant cultivators formed the bulk of the poor in the East, an indeed of the population of the region, poverty was largely associated with landlessness in the West and confined to a smaller percentage of the population. Detailed data on the consumption of foodstuffs and necessities is then used to construct estimates of the percentage of the population living below the "poverty line" in each region. The results reinforce the findings of the sample survey data and uphold the basic hypothesis of the thesis that the pattern and nature of poverty found in each region reflects the underlying class structure implicit in the different modes of production of Western and Eastern UP during the early 1970s.
title: Women's oral narratives in Tunis.
Creators: name: Hejaiej, Mounira
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1992

description: This study is based on oral narratives collected during six months fieldwork from December 1989 to May 1990 in Tunis. The work examines the role and importance of story-telling in the lives of my three Beldi informants - all women from the city of Tunis - and explores the themes contained in their tales in the light of their personal histories and their own interpretations. Through the act of narration women produce a vision of themselves and of their moral and physical world. In the narratives discussed here, contradictory and competing pictures are painted. One narrator presents a conservative moralistic view of the role of women. The two others produce through their narratives a rebellious, racy and subversive view of women. These contradictory visions of women are produced by women for women. The introduction first reviews research into Tunisian story-telling, then relevant methodology and theory in general, and finally outlines the approach adopted in this thesis. Background information is also provided on story-telling in Tunis, the conduct of fieldwork and the three narrators used in this study. Chapters two and three concentrate on the narrators and their backgrounds. Chapter Two presents the social background of Beldi - people of the city of Tunis - who form the subject matter of the tales. Chapter Three concentrates on the relationship between the women and their tales. Chapter four, five and six identify and group the recurring themes contained in the tales. The thematic categories relate to power, honour and shame, fate and other topics of concern to women in their daily lives. Chapter seven, finally, concentrates on the use of formulae, asides and diminutives as salient features which give the tales their particular character. Appendix I contains the full list of stories and the English translations of the stories discussed in the body of the thesis. Appendix II contains the Arabic texts of selected stories.
Supplemental Material, REV_PAE_Romania_ANNEX_R2 - On the re-institutionalization and diversification of Public Administration education in Central and Eastern Europe: A case study of post-communist Romania
Creators: name: Andreescu, Liviu
name: Zulean, Marian
name: Diaconu, David
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160509 Public Administration

description: Supplemental Material, REV_PAE_Romania_ANNEX_R2 for On the re-institutionalization and diversification of Public Administration education in Central and Eastern Europe: A case study of post-communist Romania by Liviu Andreescu, Marian Zulean and David Diaconu in Teaching Public Administration
Supplemental_Information – Supplemental material for Electoral Preferences Among Multiethnic Voters in Africa
Creators: name: Dulani, Boniface
name: Harris, Adam S.
name: Horowitz, Jeremy
name: Happy Kayuni
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Information for Electoral Preferences Among Multiethnic Voters in Africa by Boniface Dulani, Adam S. Harris, Jeremy Horowitz and Happy Kayuni in Comparative Political Studies
Nesozineus triviale Galileo & Martins 1996
Creators: name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nesozineus
Nesozineus triviale

description: Nesozineus triviale Galileo & Martins, 1996
 Nesozineus triviale Galileo & Martins, 1996:45; Monné, 2005b:184 (cat.); Galileo & Martins, 2006:28; Martins et al., 2009:517.
 Nesozineus triviale até o momento estava assinalada para o Brasil (Maranhão, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná) e Bolívia (Santa Cruz).
Examinamos, no MZUSP, um exemplar do Amazonas: Maués e um do Suriname: Langman Kandr, (novos registros), que evidenciam uma ampla distribuição, que atinge a Costa Rica e configura novo registro do gênero para a América Central.
 Material examinado: COSTA RICA. Guanacaste: Playa Matapal, Hotel RIV, 22.V.2010, M.A. Zumbado col., “luces del hotel” (INIA).
description: Published as part of Martins, Ubirajara R. & Galileo, Maria Helena M., 2012, Novos Táxons E Notas Sobre Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) Da Costa Rica, pp. 311-314 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 52 (26) on page 314, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492012002600001, http://zenodo.org/record/13175497
title: Edition of an unpublished Maithili manuscript, the "Padavali" of Govindadasa with phonological and grammatical analysis.
Creators: name: Jha, S. K.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1934

description: The material consists of a Ms. from the Raj Library, Darbhanga, Behar, written about the eighteenth century in a form of Maithill verses. The Thesis consists of: Part I. The grammar with the phonological history of final syllables. Part II. The Text of the Ms. Part III. The Translation. Part IV. The Index with Etymological notes.
title: The rise and fall of the Rohilla power in Hindustan (1707-1774 A.D.).
Creators: name: Rahman, A. F .M. Khalilur
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1936

description: The Rise and Fall of the Rohilla power in Hindustan, I, Origin and character of the Rohillas, 2. Circumstances which favoured the rise of the Rohilla power in Hindustani (1) Condition of the Empire (2) Situation in Rohilkhand, 3. Daud Khan Rohilla and the beginning of the Rohilla state, (1707-26) 4. Ali Muhammad Khan Rohilla and the establishment of the Rohilla state, (1726-48) 5. Rohilla struggle for existence (1748-52), Attack by the newly appointed Nazim of Rohilkhand, Attack by the Nawab of Farrukhabad, Expedition led by the Wazir. 6. Establishment of a seperate Rohilla, state under Najlb Khan and the role of the Rohillas in the politics of Hinduatan, (1754-70) Najib Khan given Jagir beyond the Ganges and is taken in the Imperial service. Invasion of Ahmad Shah Abdali (1757), and the appointment of Najib Khan as Mir Bakhshi, Invasion of the Marathas and the expulsion of Najlb Khan from Delhi. Invasion of Ahmad Shah Abdali (1760-61) and the defeat of the Marathas at panipat. Establishment of Najib Khan as the Dictator of Delhi. 7. Attitude of the Rohillaa towards the Maratha invasion of Hindustan, (l770-73) 8. Relation between the Rohillas and the goverment of the East India Company in Bengal, (1765-74), 9. Internal affairs of the Rohilkhand State, (1748-74). 10. Rohilla war and the Treaty of Laldang, (1774), 11. Administration and the military tactics of the Rohillas.
title: The "Petakopadesa" with critical apparatus and commentary.
Creators: name: Barua, Arabinda
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1933

description: In editing the Petakopadesa I have made use of the following MSS:- B1. ) B2. ) B3. ) - Palm-leaf MSS in Burmese characters. S. - Paper MS in Sinhalese characters. Unsatisfactory as the MSS are from the point of view of an editor because of the abundance of corrupt readings, B3, however is comparatively more reliable than the others. B2. very closely follows B3, discrepancies being due to the scribe. Bl. and S. on the other hand differ materially from B2. and B3, both in arrangement and in the readings. I have taken the reading that is common to a larger number of the MSS, with a partiality however, for B3. The Petakopadesa is reputed to be the work of MahakaccSyana, the famous disciple of the Buddha. Every chapter of the Petaka end with affirming the authorship of MahakaccSyana. Gandha-Vamsa supports this and tradition in Burma confirms this view. This, however, cannot be accepted as true. Prof. Hardy is of opinion that the author's name was probably Kaooayana which was subsequently changed Into Mahakaooayana. The exact date of the Petaka is as yet undetermined. All that can be said at present is that the work was written sometime between the 5th century A.D. and the date of the later all Pali Canonical works. The Petakopadesa is divided into eight chapters or bhumis. These are the following (1) AriyasacoapakasanS-pathamabhllmi (2) Sasanapatth Snadutiyabhumi. (3) Sattadhitthana -tatlyabhumi. (4) Suttavieaya-oatutthabhuml. (5) HaraTlbhanga-pancamabhllml. (6) Suttatthasamuccayabhumi (7) Harasampatabhumi. (8) Suttarebhangiya. Of these eight bhumis Nos. (2) (5) and (7) hare got their corresponding counterpart in the Netti which is also the work of the same author. The same line of thought, the same outlook of the author can be observed in both the Netti and the Petaka.
title: Development of social and political ideas in Bengal, 1858-85.
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, B. C.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1934

description: The introduction of Western education stirred the minds of Bengali youths, and brought about an intellectual revival. They peered at one bound from orthodox Hinduism to atheism, drunkenness, beef-eating, and a blind love of all that came from the West. This violent movement was moderated by the influence of Christian missionaries and the Brehm Samaj. Some of these Indians became politically conscious, and founded the Bengal British India Society with the help of George Thompson, who had already formed n similar body in England. The society languished, and was absorbed by the British Indian Association, established by the Bengn1 landowners in 1851. This Association developed certain political ideas, and frequently petitioned Government, but, having failed to establish itself on an all-India basis, yielded ground to the rising middle classes, stirred by the ideas of Pill and the emotions of Massini. Meanwhile, anti-British sentiments were spreading. The indigo riots of 1860 rose from economic discontent, but helped to foment political unrest. In the sixties, Indian leaders were pursuing projects of both political and social reform. Put by the middle of the next decade the siruggle for social reform declined, the iden of Nationalism grew rapidly, and there arose the "totter-cult". Bankim wrote the ANANDA MATH, later on to become the gospel of Terrorism. The press became a powerful instrument of political propaganda, and was helped by the development of transport and communications. The Indian Association was formed by the middle classes to support representations to Government by agitation among .the people. The storms that raged over the Vernacular Press Act and the Ilbert Bill taught Indians the value of united and organised political action. In 1884 the forces were ripe for an all-India political movement, which found expression in the Indian National Congress.
Nidularia pulvinata (Planchon, 1864) (Hemiptera Kermesidae) gall-inducing attitude
Creators: name: Roberto, Roberta
name: Russo, Valentina
name: Porcelli, Francesco
name: Pellizzari, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Recurrent Nidularia pulvinata outbreaks off Quercus ilex L. (Fagaceae) led us to scrutinize large amount of infested and damaged trunks, branches and twigs. A long series of detailed observations suggested studying the attitude of the Kermesidae to induce phloem/xylem disorganization by saliva injection, possibly. Evidence show that woody plants tissues near or under the scale insects swell considerably giving the organs a prominent and rising appearance. Infested bark and other plant surfaces are prone to produce crevices and other possible shelters for future crawlers that will find a nice living site nearby. In vivo transverse section, accurate observations corroborated with polarized light microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy suggests that the scale stylets strongly disturb the explored plant tissues. Plant tissues reply to the injury with considerable overgrowing and necrosis. By observations and evidenced we discuss the opportunity to consider Nidularia pulvinata a gall-making species, also comparing its attitude with that of other Kermesidae and Asterolecaniidae.

Nidularia pulvinata infestation starts from crawlers that set into natural bark crevices. Scales feeding elicits the plant reaction that results in progressive widening of infested crevices. That, in consequence, offers more room for the subsequent broods of the Kermesidae.

To evaluate the action of Nidularia feeding on host plant wood, we fell down two small Quercus ilex infested to death. We chose and mark several points before to cut the infested trunks and branches transversally.

The action of Nidularia pulvinata feeding on host plant wood is clear in the left and central figure in comparison to right picture of a not infested trunk. Each log was pictured from the transversal section and the corresponding side. Red dashed lines connect corresponding points of the wood. The red arrow points to wood overgrowths for Nidularia infestation, while a blue arrow target a lateral branch bud. Red lines encircle wood overgrowths due to hyperplasia/hypertrophy stimulated by the Kermesidae.

On twigs the Nidularia pulvinata feeding results in wood swelling, depression/overgrowth and necrosis.
description: Entomologica, V. 47 (2016)
Cryo-SEM observations and imaging of minute lesser sclerotized insects
Creators: name: Roberto, Roberta
name: Russo, Valentina
name: Diana, Laura
name: Trotti, Pasquale
name: Pellizzari, Giuseppina
name: Porcelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2018
Subjects: electron microscopy; anatomy; gross & fine morphology

description: The study of minute cuticular details of small delicate insects is possible by slide mounting of the entire exoskeleton or part of it. This technique requires whole insect body clearing or tissue bleaching and washing. Lesser sclerotized insect body greatly suffers for such treatments and looses its natural body shape by shrinkage or by flattening, consequently. The aim of this study is to suggest an effective, fast and cheap technique to image less sclerotized insects that are prone to shrink or to wrinkle their bodies because of desiccation. Actual availability of desktop Cryo- SEM (Hitachi TM 3000 series) suggested us to experiment the opportunity to preserve natural body shape of the minute, delicate and lesser sclerotized insects in their living attitude. The technique bases on freezing the specimen, either living or previously EtOH-preserved but moved in water for the preparation, in the water down to -40°C on the SEM Cryo-stage and setting it for observation in SEM vacuum chamber. Once in the vacuum a proper T°C increase at about -28/-22°C allows external ice sublimation and exposes the frozen insect to direct SEM imaging. The technique appears promising because of the overall quality of results, the resolving power, the opportunity to measure the specimens. In fact, delicate specimens as Phylloxera ilicis Grassi (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae, a representative of Phylloxera quercus Boyer de Fonscolombe group), the Italian grape mealybugs Planococcus ficus (Signoret) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) maggots that are all usually ruined by desiccation during direct SEM observation, beautifully retain their natural body shape by this technique allowing the study and imaging of external morphology. As a further advantage, there is no need to critical point drying or metal coating, and the same sample can be submitted to conventional slide mounting later, after being studied by Cryo-SEM. Finally, we present a table of the running time/cost per observation of the proposed technique.
description: Entomologica, V. 47 (2016)
Does Unaspis euonymi (Comstock) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) host Serratia symbiotica Moran (Bacteria: Enterobacteriaceae)?
Creators: name: Scrascia, Maria
name: Pazzani, Carlo
name: D'Addabbo, Pietro
name: Oliva, Marta
name: Roberto, Roberta
name: Russo, Valentina
name: Porcelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: The euonymus scale Unaspis euonymi (Comstock) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) is a pest of spindle that exhibits a strong preference for Euonymus, although it has been detected on at least 18 genera in 13 plant families (Buxus, Camellia, Celastrus, Daphne, Eugenia, Euonymus, Hibiscus, Ilex, Jasminum, Ligustrum, Lonicera, Olea, Pachistima, Pachysandra, Perychmenum, Prunus and Syringa) (Salisbury et al., 2013). Heavy infestation by this pest may lead to the death of the host plant and consequential loss of income from the cultivation of ornamental plants (Kaygin et al., 2008). U. euonymi is an armored scale insect originally from mild Eastern Asia and probably introduced into Europe in the 20th century (Pellizzari & Germain, 2010). Its lifecycle, depending on climate conditions, comprises two-three generations a year and the control measures to limit its diffusion mainly rely on the use of insecticides or the growing of resistant cultivars.

The insects can engage mutualistic interactions or symbioses with a variety of bacteria that can profoundly affect the host’s biology. Apart from obligate symbionts (maternally transmitted), a growing number of facultative or secondary symbionts (that can be horizontally transmitted) have been identified (Sandstrom et al., 2001, Moran et al., 2008). Despite not being essential for the host’s life cycle, this last type of symbiont can strongly influence their fitness (Oliver et al., 2003, Jaenike & Brekke, 2011). Additionally, the mutualistic association between insects and bacteria may play a role in the evolution of the latter as described for some groups of Entereobacteriaceae (Moran et al., 2005). A number of genomic and phylogenetic studies on mutualistic associations between Enterobacteriaceae and aphids, psyllids, scale insects, whiteflies, weevils and other insects have been reported (Lefevre et al., 2004, Thao & Baumann, 2004).

Here we report the identification of Serratia symbiotica (strain UESS2016) in U. euonymi adult females collected from Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2013.
description: Entomologica, V. 47 (2016)
Nidularia pulvinata (Planchon) (Hemiptera: Kermesidae) urban outbreaks associated with entomopathogenic fungi
Creators: name: Roberto, Roberta
name: Pollastro, Stefania
name: Pellizzari, Giuseppina
name: Porcelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2018
Subjects: urban greenery; urban entomology; entomopathogenic opportunistic fungi

description: Pest outbreaks often give to insect pathogens the opportunity to infect their host species eventually leading them to death. Recent Nidularia outbreaks off urban Quercus ilex L. showed some cases of entomopathogenic fungi virulence, apparently sustained by species of Fusarium and other fungi. Infection is apparent on the Nidularia population because fungi provoke the scale color shifting to orange or dull-green in medium in large patches. After the isolation in an axenic culture of the Kermesid-associate Mycota, ITS genomic regions amplified by PCR using the universal ITS5/ITS4 primers were sequenced by external service (Macrogen, Seoul, South Korea) for molecular identification. Blast analysis (http://blast. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/Blast. cgi) of the ITS sequence showed a high homology with Quambalaria cyanescens (de Hoog & G. A. de Vries) Z. W. de Beer, Begerow & R. Bauer 2006 (Fungi: Basidiomycota), (identity: 97-96%; e-value 0. 0; coverage 82-75%), Fusarium acuminatum Ellis & Everh. 1895 (Fungi: Ascomycota) and Fusarium avenaceum (Fr. ) Sacc. 1886 (Fungi: Ascomycota) (identity: 99%; e-value 0. 0; coverage 82-80%), and Penicillium sumatraense Svilv. 1936 (Fungi: Ascomycota) (identity: 100%; e-value . 0; coverage 95-91%). We investigate the biological and ecological role of the above-recorded fungi by correlating the age of infected scale and their age. Mass culturing of the most promising pathogen will lead to semi-field trials to demonstrate the isolate entomopathogenic ability.

Finally, we discuss the case of homonymy between the fungal Taxon named Nidularia pulvinata (Schwein.) (Gasteromycetes) and the scale Nidularia pulvinata (Planchon) that can lead to some confusion.
description: Entomologica, V. 47 (2016)