cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Internal Migration in the United States: A Comprehensive Comparative Assessment of the Consumer Credit Panel
Creators: name: DeWaard, Jack
name: Johnson, Janna E.
name: Whitaker, Stephan D.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: Internal migration
Consumer Credit Panel
Comparative
Cross-sectional
Longitudinal

description: We introduce and provide the first comprehensive comparative assessment of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel (CCP) to demonstrate the utility and unique advantages of these data for research on internal migration in the United States. Relative to other data sources on U.S. internal migration, the CCP permits highly detailed cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of migration, both temporally and geographically. After introducing these data, we compare cross-sectional and longitudinal estimates of migration from the CCP to similar estimates derived from the American Community Survey, the Current Population Survey, Internal Revenue Service data, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Our results firmly establish the comparative utility and advantages of the CCP. We conclude by identifying some profitable directions for future research on U.S. internal migration using these data.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Munda religion and social structure.
Creators: name: Standing, Hilary
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1976

description: The thesis is concerned with the Mundas, a 600,000 strong tribe living on the Chotanagpur plateau in South Bihar, India. An attempt is made to explore and correlate linkages between certain religious and social changes found to be taking place among this group of people. A substantial body of ethnographic literature about the Mundas exists in the writings of colonial servants and foreign missionaries. This provides a point of departure and a baseline for assessing some of the many subsequent changes undergone by this group of cultivators who are traditionally organized into a segmentary lineage society and who are outside the Hindu caste system both ritually and economically. The changes in social organization discussed here include the protective tenancy legislation enacted by the British in 1908 to prevent further alienation of tribal land to outsiders, the growing shortage of virgin land and its effect on lineage organization and village life, the growth of marketing and monetary structures, missions and education, and the increased cultural 'nationalism' of tribal people in Chotanagpur. These changes are linked with changes in religious organization, and particularly the decline in significance of the village priest (pahan) and the observances traditionally associated with village life and which are tied in with the cycles of wet and dry rice cultivation. The importance of village medicine men and diviners is analysed and placed in the context of the search for explanations of new problems and of old problems for which existing explanations lack credibility. Religion is seen as a charter of meaning as well as a reflector of social and economic changes and constraints. It is a product of history, and particular attention is paid, in this analysis, to the role of historical memory and traditions in shaping present ideologies.
title: Implications of Differential Privacy for Census Bureau Data Dissemination
Creators: name: Task Force On Differential Privacy For Census Data Institute For Social Research And Data Innovation (ISRDI) University Of Minnesota
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2018

description: The Census Bureau has announced a new set of standards and methods for disclosure control in public use data products. The new approach, known as differential privacy, represents a radical departure from current practice. In its pure form, differential privacy techniques may make the release of useful microdata impossible and severely limit the utility of tabular small-area data. Adoption of differential privacy will have far-reaching consequences for research. It is possible—even likely—that scientists, planners, and the public will lose the free access we have enjoyed for six decades to reliable public Census Bureau data describing American social and economic change. We believe that the differential privacy approach is inconsistent with the statutory obligations, history, and core mission of the Census Bureau.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: "The Tale of Nisuke": Peasant and authorities in Higo around 1800.
Creators: name: Reinfried, Heinrich M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1975

description: "The Tale of Nisuke," which deals with conditions in the Higo domain of Southern Japan around 1800 as experienced by the peasantry, forms the core of this thesis; it is here for the first time translated and studied in depth. Besides the translation of the text, I have set myself the task of establishing its value as illustrative source material for the student of Tokugawa society by identifying the background of its author and his intentions. In the absence of contemporary references to the "Tale" as well as other clues to assist me in my task, I have had to proceed by analyzing the "Tale" 's content and then to establish its position within the cultural context of Tokugawa society. The resulting socio-cultural portrait of Higo provides at the same time the clues to a correct understanding of the "Tale" as well as a comprehensive insight into rural life in a comparatively backward region of late Tokugawa Japan. The great variety of questions raised by the "Tale," a quality which makes this text so singularly suited as departure point of a cultural study, has forced me to concentrate more intensively on historical questions than would first seem warranted by the subject. All of my commentary must, however, be seen as of immediate importance to a full understanding of the "Tale". The first chapter contains a general introduction to the history of the Tokugawa period, with special reference to the developments in the village. The second chapter traces the political and economic history of the Higo domain in the 18th century to portray conditions which constitute the background to the "Tale". The third chapter contrasts peasant life in the economically advanced regions with conditions in the Higo domain and investigates the role played by the rural priesthood in the life of the peasantry. In the fourth chapter, an introduction to the tradition of critical writing in Tokugawa literature leads to a discussion of the "Tale," followed by my conclusions as to author and purpose of the "Tale". In Part Two, there then follows my annotated translation of the "Tale".
title: Harmonizing the 2010 and 2002 Census Occupation Coding Schemes
Creators: name: Williams, Kari C.W.
name: Flood, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: Occupation classification
Occupation codes
Harmonization

description: The study of occupations has a long history in the social sciences. The United States Census Bureau creates and updates occupation codes based on the Standard Occupation Classification System to systematically identify similar jobs and classify them into occupations. Periodic updates to occupation codes are necessary for documenting emerging and disappearing occupations and appropriately reflecting the labor market. While these updates are important for capturing the changing jobs that are performed in the United States, occupation code changes make it more complicated for researchers to make appropriate comparisons over time. This paper presents the methodology used at IPUMS to harmonize 2010 and 2002 Census occupation codes. Our work builds upon the foundation of existing harmonized occupation data available through IPUMS (variables OCC1950 and OCC1990). Combining our contribution with existing IPUMS infrastructure creates a consistent measure of occupation for all seven coding schemes over the 1950-2019 period.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual dimensions of Frailty Don't Ace Like Frailty
Creators: name: Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2019

description: Theoretical models of mortality selection have great utility in explaining otherwise puzzling phenomena. The most famous example may be the black-white mortality crossover: at old ages, blacks outlive whites, presumably because few frail blacks survive to old ages while some frail whites do. Yet theoretical models of unidimensional heterogeneity, or frailty, do not speak to the most common empirical situation for mortality researchers—where some important population heterogeneity is observed while some is not. I show that, when one dimension of heterogeneity is observed and another is unobserved, neither the observed nor the unobserved dimension need behave like classic, unidimensional frailty models predict. For example, in a multidimensional model, mortality selection can increase the proportion of survivors that is disadvantaged, or “frail,” and can lead black survivors to be more frail than whites, along some dimensions of disadvantage. Transferring theoretical results about unidimensional heterogeneity to settings with both observed and unobserved heterogeneity produces misleading inferences about mortality disparities. The unusually flexible behavior of individual dimensions of multidimensional heterogeneity creates previously unrecognized challenges for empirically testing selection models of disparities, such as models of mortality crossovers.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Quantum computing with Majorana fermion codes
Creators: name: Litinski, Daniel
name: Oppen, Felix Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Majorana fermions
subject: Quantum computation
subject: Quantum error correction
subject: Surface code quantum computing
subject: Topological phases of matter
subject: Topological quantum computing
subject: Quantum wires
subject: Topological superconductors
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: We establish a unified framework for Majorana-based fault-tolerant quantum computation with Majorana surface codes and Majorana color codes. All logical Clifford gates are implemented with zero-time overhead. This is done by introducing a protocol for Pauli product measurements with tetrons and hexons which only requires local 4-Majorana parity measurements. An analogous protocol is used in the fault-tolerant setting, where tetrons and hexons are replaced by Majorana surface code patches, and parity measurements are replaced by lattice surgery, still only requiring local few-Majorana parity measurements. To this end, we discuss twist defects in Majorana fermion surface codes and adapt the technique of twist-based lattice surgery to fermionic codes. Moreover, we propose a family of codes that we refer to as Majorana color codes, which are obtained by concatenating Majorana surface codes with small Majorana fermion codes. Majorana surface and color codes can be used to decrease the space overhead and stabilizer weight compared to their bosonic counterparts.
title: Same-Sex Couples' Shared Time in the United States
Creators: name: Genadek, Katie
name: Flood, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: Time use
Family
Same-sex couples

description: This study examines and compares shared time for same-sex and different-sex coresident couples using large, nationally representative data from the 2003-2016 American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We compare the total time same-sex couples and different-sex couples spend together, as well as for parents, the time they spend together with children, and for both parents and non-parents, the time they spend together with no one else present and the time they spend with others (excluding children). After controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the couples, women in same-sex couples spend more time together, both alone and in total, than individuals in different-sex arrangements and men in same-sex couples, regardless of parenthood status. Women in same-sex relationships also spend a larger percentage of their total available time together than other couples, and the difference in time is not limited to any specific activity.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Alvar Ezquerra, Manuel (2014). Lo que callan las palabras. Mil voces que enriquecerán tu español. Madrid: JdeJ Editores, pp. 331
Creators: name: Luque, Rocio
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
ITN-VIROINF: Understanding (Harmful) Virus-Host Interactions by Linking Virology and Bioinformatics
Creators: name: Goettsch, Winfried
name: Beerenwinkel, Niko
name: Deng, Li
name: Dölken, Lars
name: Dutilh, Bas E.
name: Erhard, Florian
name: Kaderali, Lars
name: Kleist, Max Von
name: Marquet, Roland
name: Matthijnssens, Jelle
name: McCallin, Shawna
name: McMahon, Dino
name: Rattei, Thomas
name: Rij, Ronald P. Van
name: Robertson, David L.
name: Schwemmle, Martin
name: Stern-Ginossar, Noam
name: Marz, Manja
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: bioinformatic
subject: virus
subject: virology
subject: virus host interaction
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::579 Mikroorganismen, Pilze, Algen
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: Many recent studies highlight the fundamental importance of viruses. Besides their important role as human and animal pathogens, their beneficial, commensal or harmful functions are poorly understood. By developing and applying tailored bioinformatical tools in important virological models, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Initiative International Training Network VIROINF will provide a better understanding of viruses and the interaction with their hosts. This will open the door to validate methods of improving viral growth, morphogenesis and development, as well as to control strategies against unwanted microorganisms. The key feature of VIROINF is its interdisciplinary nature, which brings together virologists and bioinformaticians to achieve common goals.
Enríquez Gómez, Antonio (2015). Academias morales de las Musas. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2 tomos, pp. 654, pp. 606
Creators: name: Gambin, Felice
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Element-Specific Magnetization Dynamics of Complex Magnetic Systems Probed by Ultrafast Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Korff Schmising, Clemens Von
name: Willems, Felix
name: Sharma, Sangeeta
name: Yao, Kelvin
name: Borchert, Martin
name: Hennecke, Martin
name: Schick, Daniel
name: Radu, Ilie
name: Strüber, Christian
name: Engel, Dieter W.
name: Shokeen, Vishal
name: Buck, Jens
name: Bagschik, Kai
name: Viefhaus, Jens
name: Hartmann, Gregor
name: Manschwetus, Bastian
name: Grunewald, Soeren
name: Düsterer, Stefan
name: Jal, Emmanuelle
name: Vodungbo, Boris
name: Lüning, Jan
name: Eisebitt, Stefan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: ultrafast demagnetization dynamics
subject: transient absorption spectroscopy
subject: free electron laser
subject: high harmonic generation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: The vision to manipulate and control magnetism with light is driven on the one hand by fundamental questions of direct and indirect photon-spin interactions, and on the other hand by the necessity to cope with ever growing data volumes, requiring radically new approaches on how to write, read and process information. Here, we present two complementary experimental geometries to access the element-specific magnetization dynamics of complex magnetic systems via ultrafast magneto-optical spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range. First, we employ linearly polarized radiation of a free electron laser facility to demonstrate decoupled dynamics of the two sublattices of an FeGd alloy, a prerequisite for all-optical magnetization switching. Second, we use circularly polarized radiation generated in a laboratory-based high harmonic generation setup to show optical inter-site spin transfer in a CoPt alloy, a mechanism which only very recently has been predicted to mediate ultrafast metamagnetic phase transitions.
Quintana, Lluís (2016). Caminar per la vida vella. La memòria involuntària en la literatura i l’art. València: Publicacions Universitat de València, pp. 347
Creators: name: Bou, Enric
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric; Pérez Preciado, Sandra (2015). La Kloakada. Neovanguardia latinoamericana de los 80. Zaragoza: Pórtico, pp. 282
Creators: name: Zarco, Gloria Julieta
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Poletti, Syria (2016). Strano mestiere. Cronaca di un’ossessione. Trad. di Milton Fernández. Milano: Rayuela Edizioni, pp. 289
Creators: name: Serafin, Silvana
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Veny, Joan-Ramon (2015). Criticar el text. Per a una metodologia de l’aparat crític d’autor. Lleida: Aula Màriu Torres, Pagès Editors, pp. 213
Creators: name: Sogues Marco, Marc
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Contributions to the Mathematical Systems Medicine of Antimicrobial Therapy and Genotype-Phenotype Inference.
Creators: name: Kleist, Max Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Systems Medicine
subject: Stochastic
subject: Genotype-Phenotype Mapping
subject: Numerics
subject: antimicrobial therapy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::519 Wahrscheinlichkeiten, angewandte Mathematik
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::500 Naturwissenschaften::500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: The following summary of my publications describes the main ideas in the corresponding research articles and clarfifies my contribution in multi-author publications. I decided to apply for habilitation according to x2.I.1.(c) of the Habilitationsordnung (this path is usually referred as Kumulative Habilitation"). I selected 13 first- or last author publications for this habilitation that concern contributions to the mathematical systems medicine of antiviral therapy [tMH10, tMS+11, FtK+11, tMMS12, DSt12, DWSt15, Dt16, DSt16, DDKt18, DSD+19, DDKt19], as well as inference of genotype-phenotype associations [SDH+15, SSJ+18]. The selected publications represent my major contributions in this research eld since submitting my doctoral thesis in September 2009.
About Writing and Artifices Latin American Fictional Lliterature
Creators: name: Ramos-Izquierdo, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

The author proposes a textual journey through the plurality of Latin American literature from major classic writers of the 20th century to their echo in today's literature. He covers both the abundance and the hybridization in themes such as author, myths and models, and the diffusion through Internet and its reception.

description: Rassegna iberistica
title: The politics and functioning of the East Bengal legislature, 1947-58.
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Najma
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1972

description: The Muslim League, the ruling party during 1947-54, had overwhelming majority in the legislature. The party unity, however, was somewhat artificially contrived as potential dissident leaders were apparently removed deliberately from the assembly and by-elections withheld following the defeat of ML candidate in 1949. Opposition to the League, projected by the latter as anti-Pakistani, continued to grow outside but had no means of being represented in the assembly which, consequently, did not adequately reflect the prevailing political complexion of the province. The official opposition in the assembly, the Pakistan National Congress, could not perform the role of a parliamentary opposition, primarily due to its political antecedents and the circumstances leading to independence in 1947. The United Front, an election-alliance of opposition parties contesting the Muslim seats, utterly defeated the ML in 1954 election. But the Front lacked elements of unity and stability and soon disintegrated into component units. As no party was then able to command absolute majority, a process of fragmentation, weak political alliances and party loyalties became a regular feature resulting in indecisive majorities and unstable ministries, which in turn led to further worsening of the process. This acute fragmentation in the assembly which was primarily due to prospects of, and disagreements over, share of power and political offices contributed to the over-all political process of fragmentation. Political parties during 1947-58 suffered from lack of organisational development. Mostly, the organisations remained structurally and functionally weak. Where a certain amount of development was attained, this did not however appear to be a sustained process, and the organisation became dormant and came to be dominated by the governmental wing or suffered through leadership and factional struggles. In the discharge of its functions during 1947-58 the performance of the legislature, though not impressive, was not entirely negligible and the government was subjected to some amount of accountability and control. The procedural rules, the performance of committees and the position of assembly secretariat reveal that the legislature did not have a strong institutional character. The dominance of the ML and the attitude of the government during 1947-54 did not allow the assembly to develop and assert itself. Fragmentation of parties, ministerial instabilities and the instances of suspension of parliamentary government during 1954-58 prevented the legislature from acquiring a strong and vigorous existence.
Elvira, Javier (2015). Lingüística histórica y cambio gramatical. Madrid: Síntesis, pp. 292
Creators: name: Arroyo Hernández, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
title: Investigation on the influence and uncertainty contribution of the photometric center on photogoniometric measurements
Creators: name: Dudzik, Leonhard
name: Trampert, Klaus
name: Neumann, Cornelius
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 621.3

description: How much light an object emits in certain directions is described by its Luminous Intensity Distribution (LID). It results from integrating over the Luminance of all emitting surfaces, thereby implicitly modelling the object as a point source. The point of the object, that best describes it as a point source, is called the Photometric Center. It is the origin of a source coordinate system, that the LID is expressed in. A far field measurement setup defines its own coordinate system, that has to coincide with the source’s coordinate system. If the Photometric Center and machine center are misaligned the LID measurement is distorted. This paper proposes a model for common far field goniometer geometries and sources that allows to quantify the effect the source position has on the resulting LID. Since the photometric center can only be estimated with a limited confidence, it contributes to the uncertainty of the LID measurement. Therefore, Monte Carlo Simulation is utilized to quantify this uncertainty contribution and determine the conditions, where it becomes significant.
description: Lux junior 2024: 17. Internationales Forum für den lichttechnischen Nachwuchs, 6. – 8. September 2024, Ilmenau : Tagungsband, p. 45
Caveats of fungal barcoding: a case study in Trametes s.lat. (Basidiomycota: Polyporales) in Vietnam reveals multiple issues with mislabelled reference sequences and calls for third-party annotations
Creators: name: Lücking, Robert
name: Truong, Ba Vuong
name: Huong, Dang Thi Thu
name: Le, Ngoc Han
name: Nguyen, Quoc Dat
name: Nguyen, Van Dat
name: Raab-Straube, Eckhard Von
name: Bollendorff, Sarah
name: Govers, Kim
name: Di Vincenzo, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Basidiomycota
subject: fungal barcoding
subject: Polyporales
subject: sequence contamination
subject: Trametes
subject: Trametes cubensis
subject: Trametes menziesii
subject: Vietnam
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::579 Mikroorganismen, Pilze, Algen

description: DNA barcoding using the nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS) has become prevalent in surveys of fungal diversity. This approach is, however, associated with numerous caveats, including the desire for speed, rather than accuracy, through the use of automated analytical pipelines, and the shortcomings of reference sequence repositories. Here we use the case of a specimen of the bracket fungus Trametes s.lat. (which includes the common and widespread turkey tail, T. versicolor) to illustrate these problems. The material was collected in Vietnam as part of a biodiversity inventory including DNA barcoding approaches for arthropods, plants and fungi. The ITS barcoding sequence of the query taxon was compared against reference sequences in GenBank and the curated fungal ITS database UNITE, using BLASTn and MegaBLAST, and was subsequently analysed in a multiple alignment-based phylogenetic context through a maximum likelihood tree including related sequences. Our results initially indicated issues with BLAST searches, including the use of Frairwise local alignments and sorting through Total score and E value, rather than Percentage identity, as major shortcomings of the DNA barcoding approach. However, after thorough analysis of the results, we concluded that the single most important problem of this approach was incorrect sequence labelling, calling for the implementation of third-party annotations or analogous approaches in primary sequence repositories. In addition, this particular example revealed problems of improper fungal nomenclature, which required reinstatement of the genus name Cubamyces (= Leioirametes), with three new combinations: C. flavidus, C lactineus and C. menziesii. The latter was revealed as the correct identification of the query taxon, although the name did not appear among the best BLAST hits. While the best BLAST hits did correspond to the target taxon in terms of sequence data, their label names were misleading or unresolved, including [Fungal endophyte], [Uncultured fungus], Basidiomycota, Trametes cf. cubensis, Lenzites elegans and Geotrichum candidum (an unrelated ascomycetous contaminant). Our study demonstrates that accurate identification of fungi through molecular barcoding is currently not a fast-track approach that can be achieved through automated pipelines.
title: Same-Sex Couples' Shared Time in the United States
Creators: name: Flood, Sarah M.
name: Genadek, Katie
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: Time use
Family
Same-sex couples

description: Identification of same-sex couples in the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is of increasing interest to the research community. While the ATUS surveys one person per household, using information about who else lives in the household, researchers can easily identify respondents in co-resident same-sex couple arrangements. Previous research has outlined two approaches to identifying same-sex couples in the ATUS that use information on the sex of household members. We extend that work by using additional information collected from a direct question to identify unmarried partners in the CPS. We identify 25% more cohabiting same-sex couples when we use the CPS direct question information than when we use information from the ATUS alone. We argue that our additional identification strategy is more inclusive of same-sex cohabiting relationships.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Giuseppina Pellizzari: enhancing  coccidiology by enhancing coccidiologists
Creators: name: Porcelli, Francesco
name: Russo, Agatino
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2018

description: Our time with Giuseppina started during the XIV (1985) National Entomology Congress in Palermo, Giuseppina and Tino shared a contribution on Italian Coccoidea Fauna with Salvatore Marotta and Antonio Tranfaglia.

Later, the 6th ISSIS in Krakow (1990) was the first Tino’s opportunity to join the international community of scale insect students. During the meeting, Giuseppina introduced Tino to other colleagues despite his partial experience in the topic and the difficulties in English (Tino studied mealybugs, mostly). That was the opportunity for Giuseppina and Tino to build a robust and fruitful collaboration on scale insect fauna and zoogeography.

While attending the ISSIS-VII in Israel (1994) ARO Volcani Center at Bet Dagan (12-17 June, fig. 1) Francesco met the first time the coccidologists guild.

Giuseppina immediately immersed Francesco into the group. At that time, Giuseppina had a firm position as a professor, but she has been suggestingon the topic and situations very friendly, despite the fact that we have just met.

That was the start of a human and scientific friendship, still growing. Working together on papers, and visiting each other we were aware of Giuseppina studies on Scale Insects and the other many scientific interests of Giuseppina.
description: Entomologica, V. 47 (2016)
title: Social crises and religious change in pre-medieval Japan.
Creators: name: Usami, Hirokuni
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2004

description: This thesis explores the dynamic interaction of social crises and early Japanese religion from the end of the Jomon period to the rise of Kamakura New Buddhism. It does this believing that no history of religion can be fully understood in isolation from the effects of social crises, and that existing studies have not thoroughly examined this mutual interaction. Both natural and social scientists have demonstrated that complex systems are abundant in most social phenomena. The methodology adopted in my research draws on this insight. In order to explore the autocatalytic growth of Japanese religion in the wake of social crises, I apply such new perspectives as the complexity paradigm, the natural lifecycle model, the impact of climate, and the psychological theory of altered states of consciousness (ASCs). In exploring these relationships, this thesis identifies four forms of religious system in the evolution of early Japanese religion. What I have called prototypical Japanese religion prepared the ground for the emergence of archaic religion in the Late Yayoi Archaic religion continued to develop in the form of a politico-religious system, as the so-called keyhole tomb system, but from the end of the Kofun period another new religious system, monastic religion, began to emerge. Monastic religion became the most dominant mode of Japanese religion from the Nara period until it was superseded by a new religious system, which I call confraternal religion, from the late Heian period. The natural lifecycle of each religious system led to the development of the subsequent one. Finally, this thesis presents a conceptual model called passage of consciousness. This suggests that nonequilibrium states of consciousness (NSCs), which are involuntary induced by social crises, created fluid states of consciousness and led not only to the evolution of religion, but also to the evolution of human thought.
Biological observations on Matsucoccus josephi (Hemiptera: Matsucoccidae) in Turkey
Creators: name: Ülgentürk, Selma
name: Civelek, Hasan Sungur
name: Fent, Meral
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2018
Subjects: Pinus brutia; Mediterranean; Predator; Elatophilus pachycnemis; Pine bast scale; Turkey

description: Observations on the biology of Matsucoccus josephi Bodenheimer & Harpaz (Hemiptera: Matsucoccidae) were made at four natural red pine (Pinus brutia Tenore, Pinaceae) forestry of Antalya (1), Aydın (1) and Muğla (2) in the years 2009-2010. Samples branches of red pine were collected twice during March - November, once in winter months. In addition pheromone traps were used to monitor male scale insect and predators. All stages of M. josephi were counted. Some individuals were preserved into 70 % ethyl alcohol for the identification of life-stages. Nymphs and adults predator that feed on M. josephi, were reared into jars with their host. As results, M. josephi is overwintered second stage (cyst) under the bark of pine trees and has 4 generations (at least). Elatophilus hebraicus Pericart (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) was common and effective predator in Turkey.
description: Entomologica, V. 47 (2016)
Osservazioni morfologiche e ultrastrutturali su particolari organi di senso delle clave antennali in Isteridi della subf. Saprininae e considerazioni sistematiche
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
name: Vienna, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: MORPHOLOGICAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDY ON PARTICULAR SENSE ORGANS OF ANTENNAL CLUBS IN Histeridae OF THE SUBF. Saprininae, AND SYSTEMATIC REMARKS

As a generai rule, the antenna! clubs of Histeridae show a rich equipment of short thorn-like sensilla, mostly gathered at their apex, together with some long setae. In addition, Platysomini and Hololeptini are equipped with eight pits (fig. 6) which contain a number of small basiconic sensilla. Finally, species of the subf. Saprininae possess a particular sense apparatus, here called « Reichardt's organ ».

On the basis of 51 species (12 genera) of the latter subfamily, the authors recognize six fundamental forms of Reichardt's organ, which differ from each other in the presence and/or feature of the following parts.

Vengono studiati i dettagli morfostrurturali di un caratteristico apparato sensoriale delle clave antennali di lsteridi della subf. Saprininae, al quale si dà qui il nome di « organo di Reichardt ». Esso è presente in tutte le 51 specie esaminate e comprende le seguenti parti: a) 2 o 6 fossette, evidentemente derivanti dalle primitive articolazioni della clava; b) da l a 4 aree sensoriali, in cui sono strettamente addensati numerosissimi sensilli basiconici; c) l, 3 o 5 vescicole, una delle quali (vescicola principale) è presente in tutte le specie.

In base alla combinazione delle parti sopraelencate, vengono individuate sei forme principali di organo di Reichardt. Queste appaiono filogeneticamente collegate fra loro da due linee evolutive, aventi in comune una forma primitiva a sei fossette.

Lo studio ultrastrutturale delle aree sensoriali e della vescicola principale mostra che i rispettivi sensilli differiscono fra loro per l'aspetto della terminazione dendritica, pur essendo in entrambi i casi di tipo olfattorio.

Le 51 specie in esame vengono suddivise in gruppi e sottogruppi in base ai caratteri dell'organo di Reichardt, per un confronto con la suddivisione sistematica classica della sottofamiglia. Da tale confronto si conclude che vi è una complessiva concordanza nella separazione dei generi e dei gruppi di specie e ciò viene inter- pretato come convalida dei criteri usuali nella sistematica della subf. Saprininae.
description: Entomologica, Vol 17 (1982)
Osservazioni morfologiche e ultrastrutturali su un particolare apparato di senso delle clave antennali di Platysomini e Hololeptini (Coleoptera, Histeridae) e considerazioni sistematiche
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
name: Vienna, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: MORPHOLOGICAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDY ON A PARTICULAR SENSE APPARATUS OF THE ANTENNAL CLUBS IN Platysomini AND H ololeptini (Coleoptera, Histeridae ), AND SYSTEMATIC REMARKS

The particular arrangement of the antenna! club articulations is studied in Platysomini (15 species, 6 genera) and Hololeptini (6 species, 2 genera).

Both articular grooves are subdivided into four slit-like pits (2 on the dorsal side, 2 on the ventral one), each containing a number of thin-walled basiconic sensilla. Data on the fine structure of the latter in Cylister elongatus are given.

A clear characteristic linked to the tribe refers to the presence (Platysomini) or absence (Hololeptini) of apodemes, which connect the apposite pits to each other.

From a phylogenetical viewpoint, the disappearing of such internai structures can be regarded as a recent evolutionary event; while a rather pnm1t1ve condition of the club ar- ticulations seems to be that of Omalodes lucidus (Omalodini), in which there are unclearly isolated pit, but an outline of the latter is recognizable.

In authors' view, the eight pits compose an efficient scenting apparatus for locating damaged parts of trees and/or for discovering preys under barks.

Sulla base di 15 specie di Platysomini (6 generi) e 6 specie di Hololeptini (2 generi), vengono studiate le variazioni morfologiche di un apparato di senso delle clave antennali, caratteristico di queste due tribù. Esso si compone di 8 fossette (4 dorsali e 4 ventrali) contenenti alcuni sensilli basiconici olfattivi, di cui viene studiata l'ultrastruttura in Cylister elongatus.

Le fossette in esame appaiono il risultato di una particolare modificazione delle primitive suddivisioni articolari della clava, diretta verso la frammentazione delle suddivisioni stesse e la riduzione dei relativi apodemi. Uno stadio precoce di tale modificazione viene riconosciuto nella vicina tribù Omalodini, mentre appare filogeneticamente recente la situazione degli Hololeptini, dove gli apodemi sono obliterati.

Collegando la generale presenza delle otto fossette sensoriali con il fatto che tutti i Platysomini e gli Hololeptini hanno costumi subcorticicoli, si deduce che l'apparato in questione può essere specializzato per individuare tronchi e rami d'albero deperienti, e/o per individuare le prede nelle gallerie sotto le cortecce.
description: Entomologica, Vol 17 (1982)
Prove di controllo microbiologico della Processionaria del pino (Thaumetopoea pityocampa Schiff., Lepid. Thaumetopoeidae) nelle pinete in Puglia
Creators: name: Triggiani, Oreste
name: Sidor, Ciril
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: MICROBIAL CONTROL OF Thaumetopoea pityocampa SCHIFF. (LEPID.: Thaumetopoeidae) IN THE PINE-WOODS OF APULIA

During 1979 and 1982 experiments were carried out by using microorganisms against first instars of Thaumetopoea pityocampa in Pulicchie woods of Apulia.

In 1979 the Thuricide HP (Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki ser. 3a-3b, 150-300 g/c.p./hl) gave good results killing ali insects larvae within 12 days.

In 1982 four stocks of B. thuringiensis were used (B. th. n. 2 = Bactucide ser. 3a-3b; B. th. n. 3 = Baktukal ser. l ; B. th. ser. 3 from Eurygaster austriaca; B. th. n. 5 = Bactucide ser. 3) at 100 and 500 g c.p./hl and two Viruses: a Baculovirus NPV with tetragonal polyedra shaped and the same NPV associated with a CPV, from Yugoslavia.

The Bactucide ser. 3 (500 g/c.p./hl) gave the best results killing ali the larvae in a shorter.time then those treated with B. thuringiensis. The Viruses NPV+CPV gave a better result than NPV used alone.

Durante il 1979 ed il 1982 sono state condotte prove di lotta con microrganismi pato- geni contro i primi stadi !arvali della Thaumetopoea pityocampa in Puglia, nel bosco di Pulicchie.

Nel 1979 fu utilizzato il Thuricide HP (Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki sierotipo 3a-3b) alle dosi di 150 e 300 g/hl, ottenendo la morte di tutte le larve in 12 giorni.

Nel 1982 si utilizzarono quattro ceppi di Bacillus thuringiensis (Bactucide sierotipo 3a-3b, Baktukal sierotipo l, Bacillus thuringiensis sierotipo 3, Bactucide sierotipo 3), alle dosi di 100 e 500 g p.c./hl e due Virus della poliedrosi nucleare e citoplasmatica (Baculovirus VPN con poliedri tetragonali e VPN a poliedri tetragonali assieme ad un Virus della poliedrosi citoplasmatica).

Il Bactucide sierotipo 3 alla dose di 500 g p.c./hl risultò il migliore uccidendo le larve del fitofago in tempo più breve rispetto agli altri ceppi di B. thuringiensis.

Tra i Virus, il VPN associato al VPC ebbe una efficacia migliore rispetto al VPN uti- lizzato da solo.
description: Entomologica, Vol 17 (1982)
Bombyces e Sphinges (Lepid.- Heterocera) dell'Italia meridionale (addenda)
Creators: name: Parezan, Paolo
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: In this work the species of Bombyces and Sphinges of Southern ltaly are listed, which are not included in my previous paper {PARENZAN, 1977).

61 species are listed, three of which: Chamaesphecia stelidiformis Frr., Pelosia plumosa Mab. and Nola squalida Stdgr. are noted for the first time in ltaly; Lamellocossus terebra D. & S., Adscita geryon Hb., Heterogynis penella Hb., Paranthrene tabani/ormis Rott., Synanthedon formicaeformis Esp., Synanthedon culici/ormis L., Chamaesphecia annellata Z., Chamaesphecia affinis Stdgr., Endromis versicolora L., Poecilocampa populi L., Gartropacha populifolia Esp., Hippotion celerio L., Miltochrista miniata Forst., Eilema marcida Mann. Spilosoma urticae Esp. and Nola cicatricalis Tr. are new far Southern ltaly.

The presence of Drepana falcataria L., Drepana culvatula Bkh., Orgyia trigotephras Bsd., Eilema griseola Hb. and Nola confusalis H.-S. is confirmed in those regions.

New data are provided an some species, which have rarely been collected.

The number of species of those families already noted in Southern ltaly is increased to 212 by the addition of Hyphantria cunea Drury, collected in Puglia (IPPOLITO & PARENZAN, 1981) and by the six species recently reported by other authors.

Eleven species, which are listed in papers written before 1940, but which have not been collected in the last forty years, are noted in the brackets, but must stili be confirmed. Eilema marcida Mann is confirmed as a distinct species of Eilema pygmaeola Dbld., and is compared with E. pygmaeola pallifrons Z.

In questo lavoro sono segnalate per la prima volta in Italia: Chamaesphecia stelidiformis Frr., Pelosia plumosa Mab. e Nola squalida Stdgr.; come nuove per l'Italia meridionale: Lamellocossus terebra D. & S., Adscita geryon Hb., Heterogynis penella Hb., Paranthrene tabaniformis Rott., Synanthedon formi- caeformis Esp., Synanthedon culiciformis L., Chamaesphecia annellata Z., Cha- maesphecia affinis Stdgr., Endromis versicolora L., Poecilocampa populi L., Gastropacha populifolia Esp., Hippotion celerio L., Miltochrista miniata Forst., Eilema marcida Mann, Spilosoma urticae Esp. e Nola cicatricalis Tr.

Viene confermata la presenza in queste regioni di: Drepana falcataria L., Drepana curvatula Bkh., Orgyia trigotephras Bsd., Eilema griseola Hb. e Nola confusalis H.-S.

Con l'Hyphantria cunea Drury rinvenuta in Puglia (IPPOLITO e PARENZAN, 1981) e le sei specie segnalate recentemente nel Meridione da altri Autori, il numero dei taxa appartenenti alle famiglie di Bombyces e Sphinges presenti in Italia meridionale sale a 212; a queste andrebbero aggiunte undici specie riportate in letteratura come presenti in queste regioni, ma in lavori anteriori al 1940 e pertanto da confermare.

Dal confronto con Eilema pygmaeola pallifrons Z. viene confermata la validità specifica di Eilema marcida Mann.
description: Entomologica, Vol 17 (1982)
Segnalazione di alcune specie di Nottuidi nuove per la fauna italiana, e descrizione di due nuove sottospecie (Lepidoptera- Noctuidae)
Creators: name: Parezan, Paolo
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: NEW RECORDS OF NOCTUID MOTHS FOR THE ITALIAN LEPIDOPTEROFAUNA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SUBSPECIES (Lepidoptera; Noctuidae)

Seven species of Noctuid Moths are listed for the first time in Italy: Egira anatolica Hering, Xylocampa mustapha Oberthiir, Agrochola orenjoni Agenjo, Xanthia cypreago Hamp- son, Hydraecia osseola Staudinger, Archanara neurica Hiibner and Spodoptera cilium Guenée.

Xylocampa mustapha is new also for Europe.

Two new subspecies are described on specimens from South ltaly: Xylocampa mustapha italica n. ssp. and Agrochola orenjoni terranovae n. ssp.

Vengono segnalate per la prima volta in Italia sette specie di Nottuidi: Egira anatolica Hering, Xylocampa mustapha Oberthiir, Agrochola orenjoni Agenjo, Xanthia cypreago Hamp- son, Hydraecia osseola Staudinger, Archanara neurica Hiibner e Spodoptera cilium Guenée.

Xylocampa mustapha Obth. è nuova anche per la fauna europea.

Vengono inoltre descritte, su popolazioni dell'Italia meridionale: Xylocampa mustapha italica n. ssp. ed Agrochola orenjoni terranovae n. ssp.
description: Entomologica, Vol 17 (1982)
Note sulla presenza di Batrisodes oculatus Aubè (Coleoptera, Pselaphidae) in una grotta di Puglia
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
name: Vit, Stanislav
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: NOTES ABOUT THE PRESENCE OF Batrisodes oculatus AUBÈ (Coleoptera, Pselaphidae) IN A CAVE IN APULIA

Explorations of a large karstic cave in Apulia (« Grotte di Pozzo Cucù», Castellana) have shown a rich presence of Batrisodes oculatus in the deeper parts of this cave, where many alive adults have been collected and some hundreds of died specimens observed, lots of which scarcely sclerotized.

Then decomposing vegetable baits have caused concentration of adults, feeding on Col- lembola, and have supplied substratum for development of larvae.

The authors give here some data about the behaviour of adults and larvae in laboratory conditions; they describe preliminarly the morphology of the third-instar larva and segnalize the presence of complex antenna! glands in males.

Moreover, the following points are discussed:

a) Causes of the presence of the species in the cave - Because the country upon the cave does not show the usual environment of this species (i.e., old trunks of trees popu- lated by Lasius ants, or wood litter), it may be that the cave environment has allowed a population of B. oculatus surviving there, despite the distruction of the woods.

b) Comparison between the cave specimens and those collected in woods - Neither reduction in pigmentation, nor lengthening of appendages have been recognized.

c) Numerica! ratio males/females - In total, a moderately higher number of females has been collected (58 ♀ ♀  38  ♂ ♂ ). In Authors' opinion, a different mobility of the two sexes within their environment may cause such a lack of numerica! balance.

In conclusion, B. oculatus can be classified as troglophile species, because it lacks clear adaptations to subterranean environment, but it is clearly able to spend its own life cycle in caves.
description: Entomologica, Vol 17 (1982)