cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Chu Tien-wen: Writing "decadent" fiction in contemporary Taiwan.
Creators: name: Cho, Hwei-Cheng
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1999

description: In recent years, literature in Taiwan has developed dynamically in a context of rapid social change and intense debate in intellectual circles over ideology. Chu Tien-wen (1956- ) is the eldest daughter of the most notable literary family in Taiwan; the principal founder of the "Three-Three" literary coterie in the late 1970s and the most successful screenwriter of the Taiwanese New Cinema in the 1980s. However, as yet no book-length study has been devoted to the works of this important figure in the contemporary Taiwan literary scene. The present thesis is a study of Chu T'ien-wen's work up to 1996, with chapters arranged broadly in chronological order. It traces the formation of her early sinocentric, utopian political and social beliefs, and their modification in the light of her increasing contact with Taiwan-centred Nativist ideas. This study endeavours to address the many facets of Chu's writing identity (Chinese tradition - Taiwan identity - Feminism - Creative writing), and examine how her works reflect her maturing understanding under the influence of changes in society. Forced to re-evaluate her ideas by the clash between her vision of Confucian Chinese ideals and the development of Taiwan-centred Nativism, Chu broke through to her unique style in Splendour of the End of the Century, a collection of stories which won immediate critical acclaim both for its unconventional subject matter and its unorthodox style. Since then Chu, in writing about the moral and spiritual decadence of modern urban life in The Notebook of a Desolate Man, has maintained her basic belief in the role of the shih, but, at the same time, she has yielded to the inevitability of destruction of traditional values. Nonetheless, her writing on previously unmentionable subjects has broadened the parameters of what is acceptable in literature. This study will demonstrate that in writing her "decadent" fiction, and through her depiction of sensual refinement, Chu showed that social changes in Taiwan had forced her to accept the fact that Confucian thought has irretrievably lost its primacy in intellectual life, and that her original utopian vision is no longer attainable. As she accepts democracy more, she has had to leave behind her early ideal, be more pragmatic, and become a "decadent" writer philosophically.
title: Pol Pot at bay: People's War and the breakdown of the 1991 Paris Agreements.
Creators: name: Heder, Stephen Russell
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1999

description: This study traces the attempt by Pol Pot's Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) - renamed the party of Democratic Kampuchea (PDK) in 1982 - to regain the power it lost in January 1979 as a result of a Vietnamese invasion. It describes broadly the CPK/PDK armed struggle from 1979 to 1991 and examines in detail PDK efforts to return to power through the 1991 Paris Agreements, a peace settlement implemented by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). The study reinterprets the determinants of PDK political behaviour between its signature of the Paris Agreements and its decision in June 1992 not to implement the Agreements' provisions for demobilization of its armed forces under UNTAC auspices. It argues that despite the bitter souring of relations between Pol Pot and the Vietnamese Communists, PDK's turn-around can only be understood by taking seriously the doctrinal roots of PDK thinking within the Marxist-Leninist tradition, and in particular by treating it as an offshoot of the Vietnamese-dominated Indochinese Communist Party that gave birth to the CPK. It shows that the key concept upon which Pol Pot relied to fight his enemies after 1979 was the Vietnamese doctrine of "people's war", including its tactical prescriptions on Communist participation in parliamentary struggle and "peace agreements", such as that which the Vietnamese had signed in 1973. A major theme of the study is the self-delusional aspects of PDK's obsession with the Vietnamese-derived notion of people's war. The key self-delusion was the belief that by ever-more-correctly following properly-selected aspects of the script of people's war, PDK could renew the political support among the Cambodian peasantry that had supposedly been the basis of Pol Pot's seizure of power in 1975. The study shows how such hopes were revealed as illusory under the domestic political circumstances resulting from UNTAC's implementation of the Paris Agreements. UNTAC created political openings that PDK's non-Communist rival, the National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPEC), was able to exploit, while PDK was too unpopular to take advantage of similar opportunities and thus floundered.
title: The nature of Nirat poetry and the development of the genre.
Creators: name: Manas, Chitakasem
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1974

description: Nirat poetry is one of the oldest and most persistent poetic genres in Thai literature. Its origin can be dated back to the 16th century. The concept of "Nirat" has been deeply held among Thai people with literary interest and its popularity has been secure right up to the present. Passages of Nirat often abound in epic-romances and dramatic poetry: they are aesthetically self-contained and independent of the plot ornarrative and are used to create moments of intensified emotion. Unfortunately, the existence of numerous poems of love-longing has caused some confusion among scholars; the variety of types of these poems has meant that there is no clear notion of the Nirat as a poetic genre. This thesis is concerned with the nature and development of the Nirat genre in Thai poetry. It attempts to uncover the intrinsic nature of Nirat poetry and seeks to differentiate a true Nirat type from the whole group of poems of love-in-separation. The term "Nirat" itself is defined both for its occurrences as a lexical form and as the name given to the genre. The analysis emphasizes the emergence of a particular type of poetry of love-longing which can be clearly defined and posited as the true Nirat type. The study then considers the method, form, and special techniques peculiar to the poems which established the foundation of the Nirat convention. Other Nirat poems which introduced new methods and techniques or which brought in new elements of form and expression, are then studied and analysed so that the development of all elements which constitute Nirat poetry can be explained and considered.
Struttura delle «aree sensoriali» antennali di alcuni Bostrichidi (Coleoptera)
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
name: Porcelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: SUMMARY

STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE ANTENNAL OF SOME BOSTRYCHIDAE.

Most species of Bostrychidae exhibit specialized sensory organs which consist in dense groups of basiconic sensilla on each segment of their antennal club. These sensory organs cover either flat or concave surfaces.

Observations have been carried out, in order to assess structural details on the antenna! clubs of the following species: Bostrychus capucinus L., Lichenophanes varius Illig., Amphicerus bimacu- latus (Ol.), Xylonites retusus Ol., Xylonites praeustus Germ., Scobicia chevrieri Villa, Sinoxylon sexdentatum Ol., Sinoxylon perforans Schr.

Three different arrangements of sensilla have been observed:
l) flat fields;
 2) longitudinal grooves;
3) subspherical pits.
The borders of the flat fields are either entirely or partially contoured. Both flat fields of certain species and the subspherical pits are concealed beneath a group of layered marginal setae. No sex dimorphism was found.

The sensory areas occupy both faces of each antenna! segment. They are usually rwo on each face, although their number may be higher in some species.

With regard to the phylogenesis of these structures, it is suspected that both the longitudinal grooves and the subspherical pits originate from the flat fields by way of rwo separate evolutionary trends. Subsequently, they were masked by the marginal setae.

Possibly, Bostrychidae use these organs to search for their host-plants.

Viene esaminata la struttura delle aree sensoriali situate sulla clava antennale in otto specie di Bostrichidi. Vengono individuati tre tipi strutturali: campi piani, solchi longitudinali e fossette subsferiche. Si avanza l'ipotesi che solchi e fossette derivino da campi piani. Un'ulteriore complicazione strutturale, sopravvenuta, consisterebbe nella presenza di setole marginali.

Si propende nell'attribuire a queste strutture la funzione di percepire odori emessi dalla pianta ospite .
description: Entomologica, Vol 22 (1987)
Morfologia della larva matura in alcuni Pselafidi (Coleoptera)
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: LAST-INSTAR LARVA MORPHOLOGY IN SOME PSELAPHIDS (COLEOPTERA)

Last-instar larvae of 8 species (8 genera, 5 tribes), obtained in most cases in laboratory condi- tions, are described and illustrated.

Their interspecific variability was found very large , and especially it concerns characters of anten- nae, exserrile head organs and ninth abdorrrinal segment.

Examples of particular characteristics in each larval form:

- Euplectus sp., absence of the exsertile head organs, absence of the apodems of the occipital orifice, position of the head glandular pores;

- Trimium minimum, shape of the exsertile head organs, sensory lobe of amennae and ninth abdominal segment;

- Pseudozibus crassipes, shape of the exsertile head organs, mandibles and ninth abdominal segment ;

- Batrùodes oculatus, length of the last segment of maxillary palpi , spiracles of the abdominal segments 5-8 replaced by exsertile organs;

Thychobythinus glabratus, tenth abdominal segment visible in dorsal view, urogomphi present;

-  Bryaxis italicus, antennae ending with a very long bristle;

-  Brachygluta abrupta, antennae without a typical sensory lobe, ninth abdominal segment deeply

excavare; .
- Pselaphus heisei, shape and size of antennae, lengrh of rhe exsertile head organs, very particular comb of serae ar rhe ninth abdominal segment.
 The new data confirm that Pselaphid larvae separares wirhin rhe Sraphylinoidea owing to the following combinarion of characreristics: l) mandibles wirhour molar part, 2) mala nor arriculared to the stipes, 3) mandibles not recurved, 4) ligula absent, 5) labrum indisrincr, 6) urogomphi absent or small and immovable, 7) antennae not longer rhan head, 8) ocelli less than six or absent, 9) terga not expanded, 10) antennae sometimes with forked sensory lobe, 11) head sometimes with a pair of exserrile organs.
description: Entomologica, Vol 22 (1987)
title: The politics of trade unionism in Ghana: A case-study of the Railway Workers Union.
Creators: name: Jeffries, Richard Duncan
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1974

description: Trade unions in Ghana are, generally speaking, fairly recent in origin and politically ineffectual. The Railway Union is an important exception. This was the spontaneous creation during the 1920's of African skilled workers in the Sekondi workshops, who, together with the harbour workers of nearby Takoradi (conjointly the bulk and most active section of the Union's membership) have since maintained an exceptionally militant style of unionism. On several occasions, most notably the railway strikes of 1950, 1961, and 1971, these workers have demonstrated their importance as a major power centre within Ghanaian society, together with a notable readiness to engage in oppositional political activity against successive ruling regimes. The political strength of the railway workers derives in part from their strategic position in the national economy, but also from the high degree of corporate solidarity which enables them to exploit this position so effectively. Concentrated in large numbers in the Sekondi-Takoradi workshop and harbour installations, and free of serious ethnic divisions, the skilled railway workers form a close-knit cultural community. Within this community, the ethic of corporate solidarity is strengthened by shared attitudes toward the developing social structure and by the force of historical tradition. The railway workers' political orientation is not adequately conceived or explained in terms of their association with particular political parties. The most striking aspect of their historical behaviour has been its independent character, together with the ideological continuity which has informed their relationship with both colonial and post-colonial regimes. In some respects, this might be described as a form of class- consciousness. It differs from the classical Marxian model, however, in that the railway workers see themselves as representatives of the urban 'masses' rather than a clearly differentiated working-class, and, further, in that this mass constituency tends to be communally defined.
Crambini dell'Italia Meridionale (Lepidoptera - Pyralidae - Crambinae)
Creators: name: Ippolito, Rina
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: CRAMBINAE IN SOUTHERN ITALY (LEPIDOPTERA-PYRAUDAE)

The results of a study on Crambinae (Lepidoptera-Pyralidae) collected by light-traps in differenr seasons, years and localities in southern Italy are reponed.

Euchromius cambridgei Zeli. has been recorded for the first time in ltaly.

Mesocrambus candiellus Herrich-Schaffer, Pediasia siculella Dup. (already recorded in Sicily), Crisocrambus sardiniellus Tur. (already recorded in Sardinia) are new on the ltalian peninsula.

Pseudobissetia terrestriella Christoph, Agriphila dalmatinella Hamps, Metacrambus carectellus Zeli., Ancylolomia inornata Stand. have been collected for the second time in Italy.

Chilo luteellus Motschulky, Calamotropha palude/la Hb., Crambus pascuellus L., Angustalius malacellus Dup., Platytes cerusse/la D . & S. have been recorded for the first time in southern Italy.

Twenty-eight species have been collected altogether.

Vengono riportati i dati di cattura di lepidotteri Crambini di varie località dell'Italia meridiona- le. Sono state rinvenute in tutto 28 specie di cui: l nuova per l'Italia, 3 nuove per l'Italia continen- tale; 4 segnalate per la seconda volta in Italia; 11 di nuova segnalazione per il meridione.
description: Entomologica, Vol 22 (1987)
Distribuzione e parassiti di Aleurothrixus floccosus Mask. e Dialeurodes citri Ashm. (Hom. Aleyrodidae) su agrumi in Puglia
Creators: name: Ippolito, Rina
name: Laccone, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: DISTRIBUTION AND PARASITES OF A/eurothrixus jloccosus MASK. AND Dia/eurodes citn· ASHM. (HOM.-ALEYRODIDAE) ON citrus SPP. IN APULIA (SOUTHERN ITALY)

O n Citrus spp. in Apulia (soutern Italy) two species of Aleyrodidae (A/eurothrixus floccosus Mask . and Dia/eurodes citn· Ashm.) prove to be noxious; the territorial distribution and parasites have been investigated on citrus trees (orange, mandarin, algerian tangerine, lemon).

A. floccosus, detected in 1985 , affected the entire province of Lecce and part of the province of Brindisi (about 4.000 Km2) in autumn of 1986.

Ca/es noaki How., one of its parasites, introduced imo a citrus orchard (by a farmer) in 1985, was found 8 km away in the autumn of 1986.

D. citn·proved to be more or less abundant in ali citrus orchards as was its parasite, Encarsia /ahorensis How., vhich destroyed up to 33% of its victims.

Viene segnalata la presenza e verificata la distribuzione di A. floccosus Mask. e D. citri Ashm. nelle aree agrumicole pugliesi. Di essi viene riportata anche l'entità della parassitizzazione realizza- ta rispettivamente da C. noaki How. ed E. /ahorensis How.

L'areale del D. citri comprende tutta la Puglia, mentre l'areale dell'A. floccosus è limitato alla provincia di Lecce e parte di quella di Brindisi, ma è in rapidissima espansione.
description: Entomologica, Vol 22 (1987)
HOL932979_Supplementary_material_CLN – Supplemental material for The reconstruction of burned area and fire severity using charcoal from boreal lake sediments
Creators: name: Hennebelle, Andy
name: Aleman, Julie C
name: Ali, Adam A
name: Bergeron, Yves
name: Carcaillet, Christopher
name: Grondin, Pierre
name: Landry, Josianne
name: Blarquez, Olivier
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Geography
History

description: Supplemental material, HOL932979_Supplementary_material_CLN for The reconstruction of burned area and fire severity using charcoal from boreal lake sediments by Andy Hennebelle, Julie C Aleman, Adam A Ali, Yves Bergeron, Christopher Carcaillet, Pierre Grondin, Josianne Landry and Olivier Blarquez in The Holocene
title: EU migration management and imperialism: A critique of the 'comprehensive' approach to migration.
Creators: name: McGauran, Katrin
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: This thesis constitutes an attempt to examine the constantly developing role of EU migration law within the 'new world order'. This new world order, which some define as globalisation, is analysed through the concept of imperialism in this thesis, reflecting current theoretical debates on this issue. The main argument presented is that EU migration law, as part of an emerging 'global migration management', has become a cornerstone in creating and reproducing unequal global power relations in the current era of capitalist development, thereby helping to secure EU imperialist interests. Based on theoretical discussions on current forms of imperialism, the state and law, this thesis explores the role that treaties and legal provisions regulating migration within and outside the European Union today play with regard to global hegemony. Particular focus is therefore given to the question of how to define imperialism today, how the nation-state is changing with regard to globalisation and finally the role that global migration management plays within these changes. Characteristic of the emerging migration management in the EU is the inclusion of migration clauses in EU external relations, a development which is often termed 'the globalisation of migration control', as well as the rationalisation of immigration control with the intent to negotiate labour and capital relations within the EU. Both policy trends appear to be an attempt to remain competitive in the global economy as well as to control autonomous aspects of international migration that stand in opposition to state interests. These legal developments are outlined and criticised in this thesis and placed in relation to imperialism. Although the basis of this thesis is predominantly theoretical, it also uses examples of the implementation of legal practices from Germany and the UK with regard to migration control so as to underline and illuminate the arguments presented.
title: External debt and macroeconomic vulnerability: A proposal for state-contingent debt contracts to achieve low-income country debt sustainability.
Creators: name: Ferrarini, Benno
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2007

description: We argue that the 'New Debt Sustainability Framework' (DSF), as recently introduced by the Bretton Woods Institutions, is tailored to suit the aid allocation mechanism centred on the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA), but fails to take into account low-income countries' economic vulnerability and exposure to exogenous shocks. As a result, the DSF further undermines the effective delivery of aid by the International Development Association (IDA), and fails to support recipient countries in their efforts to achieve lasting debt sustainability. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the findings of the empirical studies underlying the DSF and IDA14 replenishment are not robust to the introduction of vulnerability measures, such as the Economic Vulnerability Indicator (EVI), which undermine the significance of the CPIA in predicting debt distress episodes. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the DSF, we propose the introduction of a Contingency Debt Sustainability Framework (CDSF), which distinguishes between the causes of vulnerability underlying the external debt problem affecting most of the low-income countries. Drawing on the most established strands of sovereign debt and contract theory literature, we argue that state-contingent debt contracts represent the most effective financial instrument to link aid allocation and debt relief to recipient countries' financial requirements, contingent on the state of nature. To implement state-contingent contracts in the specific context of low-income debtor countries, we devise an accounting method by which shock and trend factors in the balance of payments are distinguished by their exogenous or endogenous origin. On the basis of this distinction, the CDSF financially compensates debtor countries for exogenous shock and trend factors, without giving rise to significant moral hazard implications. The CDSF is then simulated for the case of Uganda during the period 1988-2002, demonstrating its effectiveness in dealing with Uganda's severe exposure to price shocks and negative terms of trade.
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_0300060520931348 - Supplemental material for Association of urinary incontinence and depression or anxiety: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Cheng, Shulin
name: Lin, Dong
name: Hu, Tinghui
name: Cao, Liang
name: Liao, Hai
name: Mou, Xiaoxi
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Liu, Junbo
name: Wu, Tao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health and Community Services
subject: Cardiology
subject: Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Emergency Medicine
subject: Endocrinology
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Sports Medicine
subject: Otorhinolaryngology
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Respiratory Diseases
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_0300060520931348 for Association of urinary incontinence and depression or anxiety: a meta-analysis by Shulin Cheng, Dong Lin, Tinghui Hu, Liang Cao, Hai Liao, Xiaoxi Mou, Qiang Zhang, Junbo Liu and Tao Wu in Journal of International Medical Research
DS_10.1177_0363546520930703 – Supplemental material for Comparison of Patellofemoral Kinematics and Stability After Medial Patellofemoral Ligament and Medial Quadriceps Tendon–Femoral Ligament Reconstruction
Creators: name: Spang, Robert
name: Egan, Jonathan
name: Hanna, Philip
name: Lechtig, Aron
name: Haber, Daniel
name: DeAngelis, Joseph P.
name: Nazarian, Ara
name: Ramappa, Arun J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0363546520930703 for Comparison of Patellofemoral Kinematics and Stability After Medial Patellofemoral Ligament and Medial Quadriceps Tendon–Femoral Ligament Reconstruction by Robert Spang, Jonathan Egan, Philip Hanna, Aron Lechtig, Daniel Haber, Joseph P. DeAngelis, Ara Nazarian and Arun J. Ramappa in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
title: Jackie Chan fights Lei Feng?: An anthropological consideration of the televisual representation of heroes in contemporary urban China.
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Makiko
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2006

description: This thesis examines the discourse of heroes, and, particularly, articulatory practices involved in the televisual representation of heroes, in the changing context of contemporary urban China. Historically, the Chinese Communist Party has - like earlier Chinese regimes - actively promoted 'heroes' as exemplars of sanctioned politico-moral action. Especially during the 60s, the CCP sought to define and generate heroes as ideal 'socialist' subjects (e.g. Lei Feng). In the post-Mao era, massive social changes have resulted from the economic reforms, China's opening to the West, and the seemingly inexorable rise of commercialisation and consumerism. There is disenchantment with China's utopian socialist vision. We might suppose that communist heroes promoted by the state have been withdrawn from the spotlight, and replaced by popular figures who "represent the will of the people", sports or film stars (e.g. Jackie Chan). Television seems to have shifted from 'mouthpiece of the party' to competitor in the entertainment market, shaped by audience share and profitability. I problematise this narrative as overly simplistic in presupposing rupture between the pre- and postreform China. I also seek to provide an anthropologically-informed critique of approaches employed in media studies - how warranted are these approaches for a non-Westem context like China? My thesis involves more than a mechanical application of media studies to what I observed in more than two years fieldwork. Anthropological attention to television is innovative and, perhaps, 'trendy'. But television is an increasingly significant phenomenon in China. Watching television is the most popular leisure activity, and television continues to assume heightened importance in people's everyday lives. My research does not just concern how people watch and discuss television, for I participated in a television production course at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, and subsequently had direct experience of working in television production. Through positioning my research on television and heroes I have spoken to debates on the efficacy and partiality of ethnography. Thus, my apparently narrow focus has had as its ambition an anthropological (re-)consideration of: social changes in contemporary PRC; some approaches prevalent in media studies; and the aspects of fieldwork endeavour itself.
title: Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines.
Creators: name: Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2006

description: The thesis is a study on the history of the book in the Philippines with a focus on literary publishing and Filipino literary bestsellers of the twentieth century. It begins with a survey on the publishing of books in the Philippines from 1593 when the first book was printed in the country to 2003 when the first nationwide study on reading attitudes and preferences was conducted. The survey pays special attention to literary forms and texts that have played a significant role in the development of Philippine culture and history. It is followed by an examination of literary publishing in the Philippines, in which the local bestselling literary forms of the twentieth century are identified. These types of literary texts are subsequently taken up in case studies that explore the publishing, manufacturing, distribution, reception, and survival of the bestselling books and their relation to the conditions and circumstances in Philippine culture, society, politics, and economics during their time. The case studies, which are centred on specific publishers who were particularly successful in producing the literary bestsellers, are on Tagalog metrical romances (in awit and corrido forms) published by Juan Martinez during the 1900s to the 1920s; on Tagalog novels published by Palimbagang Tagumpay (Victory Publishing) under the Aliwan (Entertainment) series from 1945 to 1947; on the comic books (komiks) series published by the group of companies owned by Ramon Roces from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s; and on Filipino romance novels published by Books for Pleasure and by Precious Pages Corporation from 1985 to 2000. This thesis seeks to introduce the History of the Book to Philippine scholarship, where the discipline is still a largely unexplored if not totally unheard of area of study.
Un nuovo genere ed una nuova specie di Eriofide, Bariella farnei (Acari: Eriophyoidea), su Quercus trojana Webb in Puglia
Creators: name: De Lillo, Enrico
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: A NEW GENUS ANO A NEW SPECIES OF ERIOPHYID MITES, Barie/la farnei (ACARI: ERIOPHYOIDEA), ON Quercus trojana WEBB IN APULIA (SOUTHERN ITALY).

The author describes a new genus and a new species of Family Eriophyidae, Subfamily Phyl- locoptinae, from Quercus trojana Webb: Barie/la farne i n.sp.
 Barie/la n. gen.

Viene descritto un nuovo genere ed una nuova specie, Barie/la Jarnei n. sp., appartenente alla Famiglia Eriophyidae ed alla Sottofamiglia Phyllocoptinae. Questa specie è stata raccolta va- gante su foglie di Quercus trojana Webb.
description: Entomologica, Vol 23 (1988)
title: Dai Zhen's ethical philosophy of the human being.
Creators: name: Lee, Ho Young
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2006

description: The moral philosophy of Dai Zhen can be summarised as "fulfil desires and express feelings". Because he believed that life is the most cherished thing for all man and thing, he maintains that "whatever issues from desire is always for the sake of life and nurture." He also claimed that "caring for oneself, and extending this care to those close to oneself, are both aspects of humanity" He set up a strong monastic moral philosophy based on individual human desire and feeling. As the title 'Dai Zhen's philosophy of the ethical human being' demonstrate, human physical body and activities of life is ethical base of philosophy of Dai Zhen. He regards the cause of activities for life is desire and feeling and he claimed that it is the prime concern of his moral philosophy. He set up a strong monastic moral philosophy base on the individual human desire and feeling to establish man as the moral subjectivity. Dai Zhen applied a systematic research agenda and built on palaeography and phonology to reconstruct the meaning of the Canons to become a sage by using the "meanings" of words as a method of reconstructing the "intentions" of the words of Canons, rather than by using metaphysics and intuitive meditation.
title: Da'wa in Islamic thought : The work of 'Abd Allah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad.
Creators: name: Elmasry, Shadee Mohamed
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2006

description: Imam 'Abd Allah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad was born in 1044/1634, he was a scholar of the Ba 'Alawi sayyids, a long line of Hadrami scholars and gnostics. The Imam led a quiet life of teaching and, although blind, travelled most of Hadramawt to do da'wa, and authored ten books, a diwan of poetry, and several prayers. He was considered the sage of his time until his death in Hadramawt in 1132/1721. Many chains of transmission of Islamic knowledge of East Africa and South East Asia include his name. Al-Haddad's main work on da'wa, which is also the core of this study, is al-Da'wa al-Tamma wal-Tadhkira al-'Amma (The Complete Call and the General Reminder). Six main points can be derived from it. They are: the definition of da'wa, the knowledges of da'wa, the legal rulings on da'wa, the reasons people might avoid da'wa, the eight categories of its recipients, and the probable results of da'wa. His other works reflect his own da'wa and as such confirm and elaborate upon his opinions on da'wa found in al-Da'wa al-Tamma. The focal points in these works are steadily and consistently upon the most essential aspects of Islam: the heart, the intention, submission, and obedience. While Imam al-Haddad was known among the Ba 'Alawi circles during his life, his teachings spread to the international Islamic community only after his death. In the Fourteenth/Twentieth Century Mufti of Egypt, Hasanayn Muhammad Hasanayn Makhluf oversaw their first modem prints, while Ba 'Alawi scholar Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad was the first to have a sizeable following of Westemers. Today, Imam al-Haddad's teaching on da'wa is manifest in the institutional form of Dar al-Mustafa in Yemen and his treatises are finding currency in the West for their simple and non-technical style.
Acari Eriofidi (Acari: Eriophyoidea) nuovi per l'Italia. I
Creators: name: De Lillo, Enrico
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: NEW ERIOPHYID MITES (ACARI: ERIOPHYO!DEA) FROM ITALY. l.

The author points out 12 species of Eriophyid Mites new to the Italian fauna. These species - briefly described and illustrated with S.E.M. micrographs and originai drawings - are: Coptopbylla lamimani (K.) vagrant on leaves of Corylus avellana L., Cecidopbyes tristernalis (Nal.) vagrant on leaves of Quercus trojana Webb, Eriopbyes pseudoinsidiousus Wilson causing blisters on leaves of Pirus pyraster L. and P communis L. , Aceria salicina (Nal.) gall-making on leaves of Salixfragilis L. , Oxypleurites beptacanthus (Nal.) vagrant on leaves of Alnus glutinosa (L.), Pbyllocoptes abaenus K. vagrant on leaves of Prunus domestica L., Antbocoptes salicis (Nal.) vagrant on flowers and stem deformations as well as on leaves of Salix babylonica L., Aculops Jraxini (Nal.) vagrant on leaves of Fraxinus excelsior L., Aculops rbodensis K. vagrant on leaves of S. fragilis, Tegolopbus califraxini (K.) vagrant on leaves of Fraxinus excelsior L. , Rbyncbaphytoptus ficifoliae K. vagrant on leaves of Ficus carica L., Diptacus sacramentae (K.) vagrant on leaves of Alnus glutinosa (L.).

Vengono riportate, descritte succintamente ed illustrate con disegni semischematici originali e fotografie eseguite al microscopio elettronico a scansione 12 specie di Acari Eriofidi non ancora note in Italia: Coptopbylla lamimani (K.) vagante su foglie di Corylus avellana L., Cecidopbyes tristernalis (Nal.) vagante su foglie di Quercus trojana Webb, Eriopbyes pseudoinsidiosus Wilson responsabile di vescichette fogliari su Pirus pyraster L. e P communis L. , Aceria salicina (Nal.) galligena su foglie di Salix fragilis L., Oxypleurites beptacantbus (Nal.) vagante su foglie di Alnus glutinosa (L.), Pbyllocoptes abaenus K. vagante su foglie di Prunus domestica L., Antbocoptes salicis (Nal.) inquilino delle deformazioni delle infiorescenze e dei germogli e vagante su foglie di Salix babylonica L., Aculops fraxini (Nal.) vagante su foglie di Fraxinus excelsior L., Aculops rbodensis K. vagante su foglie di S. fragilis, Tegolopbus califraxini (K.) vagante su foglie di Fraxinus excelsior L., Rbyncbapbytoptus ficifoliae K. vagante su foglie di Ficus carica L. e Diptacus sacramentae (K.) vagante su foglie di Alnus glutinosa (L.).
description: Entomologica, Vol 23 (1988)
Anisotomini del Giappone (Coleoptera, Leiodidae)
Creators: name: Angelini, Fernando
name: De Marzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: ANISOTOMINI FROM JAPAN (Coleoptera, Leiodidae)

Along with the description of material recently collected by different researchers, the present knowledge of the fauna of Anisotomini from Japan is reasumed.

This fauna includes 47 species of 6 genera and fundamentally exhibits outlines of the S/E Asia biogeographical region; though it is well characterized by as many as 41 endemie species. New species described: Anisotoma besucbeti, Agatbidium nipponicum, A. subalatum, A. kurojuense, A. kyotoense, A. omogoense, A. imperiale, A. aeneum, A. junereum, A. kamikaze, A. pseudosamurai, A. bivesciculatum, A. samurai, A. carinatum.
 New record for ]apan: Agatbidium conjusum Bris.
 Agatbidium kyotoense is a singular species, because it eludes the generic combination of characters, owing to absence of the supraocular carina.

Vengono riunite le attuali conoscenze sulla fauna di Anisotomini del Giappone, sulla base sia di esemplari-tipo, sia di materiale frutto di raccolte più o meno recenti.

Detta fauna risulta particolarmente composita in quanto comprende ben sei generi diversi; essa possiede i lineamenti generali della regione asiatica sudorientale; tuttavia, si caratterizza per l'elevato numero di specie endemiche. Di particolare interesse è il reperimento di una specie di Agatbidium, A. kyotoense n.sp., che elude le caratteristiche basilari del genere, in quanto non possiede la carena sopraoculare.
description: Entomologica, Vol 23 (1988)
title: Reading fiction as performance: Shikitei Sanba (1776-1822) and woodblock print.
Creators: name: Cross, Barbara Jane
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2006

description: Japanese popular commercial fiction developed in relation to the performing arts, borrowing elements from the oral tradition and theatre. It flourished using the woodblock printing medium. Edo period woodblock-printed books retained a manuscript-like quality, although could be produced in large numbers. Since the Meiji period, scholars have striven to put Edo fiction into "more accessible" movable-type editions, causing, I believe, modem misconceptions about pre-modern methods of reading. Recent scholarship admits we have forgotten how fiction was read in Edo Japan. We are hindered by the modern practice of swift, silent reading. I combine a bibliographical and theoretical approach in response to these problems. Due to its ties with the theatre, I consider fiction as a type of performance, and suggest the key to understanding how fiction was enjoyed lies in close attention to the original woodblock-printed books. The fiction writer, Shikitei Sanba was the son of a woodblock-carver, and grew up in the publishing trade. He was also a particular theatre aficionado. This thesis uses his example to demonstrate how performance was represented in popular fiction. In Sanba's fiction, the connection between woodblock and theatre emerges in two ways. My first chapter conducts a bibliographical study of (1) theatre-related works written by Sanba and works published by him in his capacity as a publisher. Following chapters explore how (2) the expressiveness of woodblock is used to represent elements of performance in Sanba's fiction. The last chapter indicates how a work of fiction in its entirety reflects conventions of performance. Sanba particularly sought to convey the whole of a (imaginary) performance on the page, in a comprehensive set of cues for oral interpretation and re-enactment by the reader. Many genres of pre-modem Japanese popular fiction are shown to hold clues, of varying degree and subtlety, for recollecting and recreating performance.
A new genus and five new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
Creators: name: Boczek, Jan
name: Nuzzaci, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Aponte/la, a new genus belonging to Eriophyidae, Nothopodinae related to Disella Newkirk and Keifer as well as five new species of the same family are described and illustrated. Apontella bravaisiae n. sp. is vagrant on leaves of Bravaisia integerrima (Acanthaceae); Aceria pithecolobi n. sp. was found in erineum of Pithecolobium dulcae (Fabaceae) and Aceria maracai n. sp. was found causing galls on lower leaf surface of Plucbea odorata (Compositae). The above species were collected in Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela. Aceria ruelliae Channabasavanna, described from South India in whitish erineum on Ruellia patu/a, was collected, in the same locality in Venezuela, in erineum on Ruellia tuberosa (Acanthaceae). Aceria echinopsi n. sp., was found in Africa (in Libya) causing galls on leaves of Echinops sp. (Compositae) and Aceria saturejae n. sp. was found in Italy causing flower deformation on Satureja graeca.

UN NUOVO GENERE E CINQUE SPECIE NUOVE DI ACARI ERIOFIDI (ACARI: ERIOPHYOIOEA)

Viene descritto un nuovo genere, Apontella, affine a Disella Newkirk and Keifer (Eriophyidae, Nothopodinae). Il nuovo genere si distingue da Disella, perchè i tergiti presentano un solco dorsale delimitato da due rilievi longitudinali. Sono descritte inoltre le seguenti nuove specie: tre provenienti da Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela, Apontella bravaisiae vagante su foglie di Bravaisia integerrima (Acanthaceae), Aceria pithecolobi che causa erinosi su Pithecolobium dulceae (Fabaceae) e Aceria maracay in galle su foglie di Pluchea odorata (Compositae); una proveniente dalla Libia, Aceria echinopsi in galle su foglie di Echinops sp. (Compositae) e una dall'Italia, Aceria saturejae in fiori di Satureja graeca (Labiatae). Aceria ruelliae Channabasavanna, descritta su Ruellia patula, è stata rinvenuta su Ruellia tuberosa in Venezuela ed Aceria dorestei K. è stata individuata in arrotondamenti del lembo fogliare di Bravaisia integerrima (Acanthaceae).
description: Entomologica, Vol 23 (1988)
title: Geographies, histories, boundaries: The formation of a regional cultural idiom in colonial North India.
Creators: name: Bury, Harriet
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2006

description: The dominant cultural formation which emerged in several areas of public and political life in north India at the beginning of the twentieth century presented itself as a national culture which was able to articulate and represent the vast and disparate interests of the new cultural-political entity of the nation. In fact the concepts, terms and vocabulary of this national culture were derived from a predominantly Vaishanava cultural and religious order propagated by the largely high caste, merchant communities of north India, which itself had been recast and reformulated to negotiate with and encompass the demands of contemporary needs and aspirations. The story begins with the entry of the colonial state into the region as a newly transformed political and administrative power seeking to establish an integrated and effective administration through tax on land. Colonial interventions and classifications, both administrative and intellectual, are also the subject of the second chapter which offers an analysis of early Orientalist and missionary interpretations of Hindu textual sources, emphasising the Aryan and Vedic roots of Hindu civilisation. However, while the relevance of colonial constructions is emphasised, the thesis recognises a dialogic relationship between colonial projects and the initiatives of the colonised which often involved resistance and contestation of state practices. The third chapter explores the transmittance and mediation of knowledge within a new public domain being created by colonial education and print. It traces the emergence of a new type of indigenous intellectual and the role of such figures in the mediation of knowledge through the colonial disciplines of geography and history. History as a discourse of legitimacy used by both the colonial state and indigenous intellectuals served as an important tool for constructing new forms of national identity. The national cultural and religious identity being newly fashioned in the historical writings of the publicist and foremost Hindi intellectual of this era, Bharatendu Harischandra, is the subject of the fourth chapter. Chapter five continues with the issue of identity and explores the self-conscious construction of boundaries between self and other, community and non-community, in the context of regional and pan-Indian travel. The final chapter explores how, by the end of the nineteenth century, language had become the dominant symbol through which a shared cultural and political identity was projected.
title: Gambling, the state and society in Siam, c.1880-1945.
Creators: name: Warren, James Alastair
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2007

description: This study charts the evolution of government attitudes and policies towards gambling in Siam between the 1880s and 1945. Based on the assertion that gambling was a social evil that impoverished the population, encouraged crime, and retarded economic development, successive regimes sought to reduce and regulate the scope for legal gambling. This was expressed most concretely through a series of increasingly restrictive and punitive laws, which prohibited many popular forms of gambling and subjected others to strict licensing. Consequently, there was an increase in illegal gambling. In essence, gambling went from being a state acceptable activity to one that was criminal unless conducted within certain strict parameters. At the same time, the state sought to secure a monopoly over the provision of facilities for gambling in order to ensure it was the only institution that might profit from people's gambling habits. The central concern of this study is to examine the complex process by which a once socially and state acceptable activity becomes defined as criminal. It shows that the moral and economic arguments against gambling had to be balanced with a host of other concerns and, most crucially, the financial imperatives of the Siamese state. Along with the recognition that gambling was a part of human nature and people would continue to indulge in it regardless of its legality, financial necessity prevented the Siamese state from prohibiting gambling outright. This study also shows how this process was shaped by other state and semi-state institutions---namely the police force, judiciary, penal administration, and Buddhist monkhood---and public opinion. It moves beyond conventional histories of Siam, which portray the monarchy as the sole agent of change, to demonstrate that the criminalisation of gambling was a process in which all parts of Siamese society participated.
SupplementaryMaterial_HIda180623 – Supplemental material for Anticipatory judgements associated with vision of an opponent’s end-effector: An approach by motion perturbation and spatial occlusion
Creators: name: Ida, Hirofumi
name: Fukuhara, Kazunobu
name: Ishii, Motonobu
name: Tetsuri Inoue
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, SupplementaryMaterial_HIda180623 for Anticipatory judgements associated with vision of an opponent’s end-effector: An approach by motion perturbation and spatial occlusion by Hirofumi Ida, Kazunobu Fukuhara, Motonobu Ishii and Tetsuri Inoue in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
title: The rise of the British managing agencies in north eastern India 1836-1918.
Creators: name: Manton, M. G.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2008

description: This thesis takes as its subject the foundation and rise to commercial power of the British Managing Agencies in Calcutta in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As private partnerships they initiated and controlled a substantial body of commercial, industrial and agricultural concerns, in transport, coal, jute, financial services and, importantly, in tea. This topic has been largely ignored by other business historians, who have preferred to study the Managing Agencies' eventual decline and extinction during the following half-century. However, it is equally instructive to examine the health and vigour that propelled young businesses towards the power and prosperity which blossomed before 1914. The thesis examines in some detail five Managing Agencies and the individual entrepreneurs who founded and ran them, necessarily selected according to the availability and usefulness of primary sources but providing a reasonably representative range of characteristics and business activities. In the course of this examination the thesis also examines the industries in which they were particularly engaged - jute, transport, tea, coal and indigo. However the insistence of Indian nationalist historians on the privileged position of British business rather than the merits of its performance which has suggested the issues which the thesis particularly examines: the degree of commercial skill possessed by British incomers; the impact of imported British technical innovation, notably steam power and mechanised jute textile production; the possibility that British commercial interests colluded to erect barriers to entry for Indian entrepreneurs; the importance of access (possibly preferential) to British investment capital and bank finance; the extent of preferential support from the imperial government; the absence of competitive Indian entrepreneurial activity before 1914.