scholarly journals Making New Land: An Intertidal Aesthetics

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-192
Author(s):  
Thomas Pausz
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Person ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Fictional Story ◽  
Post Humanism

Making New Land is an essay in theory-fiction set in a near future, where the oceans have disappeared. In these devastated landscapes, a first person narrator investigates unsolved biological enigmas on Earth and on Mars. In the footsteps of a fictional group of Anarcho-botanists called Sea for Space, the story alternates a melancholic longing for the beauty of intertidal and coastal lifeforms with futuristic visions of new species engineered by humans as new companions. The scenario explores archetypal figures of plant-human coexistence: from the botanical gaze to a nostalgic longing for connection, and from the hubris of genetical engineering to the dream of a post-humanism communion with the vegetal. The fictional story is interwoven with scholarly references and a critical discussions of artistic and literary works dealing with the fauna, flora and mythologies of the seaside, which form the outlines of an 'Intertidal Aesthetics'.

Studies in African Tachinidae (Diptera).—II

1927 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Curran
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Considerable Progress ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Made In

In several previously published papers dealing with African Diptera I have described a number of species belonging to the genus Sturmia, Desvoidy, but up to the present time have not had sufficient material available to warrant the preparation of a key to the species, nor have I had an opportunity of studying the species in sufficient detail to decide upon characters of value in their classification. However, since many species were reared and it was desirable to have names for them in order that they might be used in reports by various Entomologists in Africa, a number of the species were described, and it has since been possible to make considerable progress in the study of the whole. As a result a key to the species belonging to this genus is now presented, and it is hoped that it will be of assistance in identifying the representatives of this difficult group.It is further hoped that arrangements may be made in the near future for the publication of a key to the genera of the Tachinidae, since it is obvious that with the very large number of genera described, the description of an additional genus, or even of new species in old genera, conveys little of the true relationships of the forms described and merely adds to the difficulty of making determinations.

Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4871 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-322
Author(s):  
ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE ◽  
TREVOR N. PETNEY ◽  
RICHARD G. ROBBINS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Tick Species ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Correct Identification ◽  
The World ◽  
Molecular Studies ◽  
Near Future

References to the descriptions and redescriptions of the 742 species of Ixodidae published from 1758 to December 31, 2019 are compiled, with the goal of enabling tick taxonomists to readily access this diffuse and often confusing literature. Additionally, data resulting from this effort are critically analyzed to demonstrate the problems attending correct identification of several tick species that are of medical, veterinary and/or evolutionary importance, and to highlight the need for new or enhanced diagnostic techniques. Recent morphological and molecular studies indicate that some ixodid species names represent more than one taxon; therefore, it is expected that new species will be described in the near future, based partly on material already deposited in museums around the world. 

scholarly journals What If We Could Not See? Counterfactual Analysis for Egocentric Action Anticipation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyu Zhang ◽  
Weiqing Min ◽  
Jiahao Yang ◽  
Tao Liu ◽  
Shuqiang Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effect ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Visual Features ◽  
Counterfactual Analysis ◽  
First Person ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Near Future

Egocentric action anticipation aims at predicting the near future based on past observation in first-person vision. While future actions may be wrongly predicted due to the dataset bias, we present a counterfactual analysis framework for egocentric action anticipation (CA-EAA) to enhance the capacity. In the factual case, we can predict the upcoming action based on visual features and semantic labels from past observation. Imagining one counterfactual situation where no visual representation had been observed, we would obtain a counterfactual predicted action only using past semantic labels. In this way, we can reduce the side-effect caused by semantic labels via a comparison between factual and counterfactual outcomes, which moves a step towards unbiased prediction for egocentric action anticipation. We conduct experiments on two large-scale egocentric video datasets. Qualitative and quantitative results validate the effectiveness of our proposed CA-EAA.

scholarly journals “A New Species”

Prism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-297
Author(s):  
Carlos Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Species ◽  
Biological Species ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
A New Species

Abstract Taking as its starting point Michel Foucault's use of the biological species metaphor in his claim that, in nineteenth-century Europe, “the homosexual was now a new species,” this article considers the sudden explosion of homoerotic activities and cultural representations in Greater China beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The article focuses in particular on four literary works dating from around 1994 that examine queer individuals in relation modern institutional structures associated with disciplines of biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism, and policing/psychiatry. At the same time, however, through attention to the role played by these institutional structures in shaping new queer subjectivities, each of these four works emphasizes the subject's ability to intervene in the discursive formations within which those same subjectivities are positioned and thereby to narrativize the subject's own identity.

Orthoptera (Tettigoniidae and Acridoidea) from Miombo woodlands of Central Tanzania with the description of new taxa

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4671 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAUDIA HEMP ◽  
KLAUS-GERHARD HELLER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Habitat Quality ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Miombo Woodlands ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
Forested Area ◽  
Near Future

A list of the Orthoptera of Miombo woodlands of the Manyara, Dodoma and Tabora Regions of Tanzania is presented. 64 Ensifera species were recorded of which two genera (Kefalia n. gen. with three species newly described; Sentia n. gen., 1 species) and Melidia adfinia n. sp. are new to science. Further 4 new species of Acrometopini are described from the area (Horatosphaga laticerca n. sp., Horatosphaga scalata n. sp., Peronura wottae n. sp., and Tenerasphaga mpwapwae n. sp.). 78 Acridoidea species were recorded. Miombo woodlands are vanishing rapidly these days so that faunal information will become an important tool to measure habitat quality of a certain forested area and for restauration measures. The species Peronura wottae n. sp. and Kefalia grafika n. sp. must be considered as Critically Endangered since only known from Wotta Forest Reserve on the Mpwapwa plateau. This forest reserve is heavily degraded by illegal cutting and lifestock grazing and will disappear in the near future if no immediate measures are taken by responsible authorities. 

scholarly journals Konflik Batin Tokoh “Aku” dalam Novel Garis Waktu Karya Fiersa Besari

GERAM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Hadi Rumadi ◽  
Syafrial ◽  
Sri Wulan Fajriani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rule Out

The inner conflict is a part of the prosaic objectivity elements that are inherent in the characters, especially novels. It occurs as the attraction of the story so that the values ​​of ethics and personal values ​​are illustrated that can be enjoyed. Internal conflict as a reflection of the fact of humanity that is always faced by anyone, does not rule out the possibility of figures contained in literary works. With its existence makes the story more alive and meaningful with all events in it. The focus of inner conflict in this novel is the perspective of the first person 'I', the author of the novel himself, Fiersa Besari. So, this study aimed to describe the inner conflict on the character "I" in Garis Waktu novel written by Fiersa Besari. It was a qualitative study that used a descriptive-analytical method. Garis Waktu Novel was used as a source of data. Identification, description analysis, discussion, and conclusions were applied to analyze the data. The results were the personal life of the character 'I' through psychoanalytic studies. His personal life did not merely apply because of the personality concept as a writer, all the inner conflicts that occurred also related to the social external concepts of characters, where there was an involvement of other people in creating inner conflicts within the character. The conclusion is the inner conflict faced which is a form of emotional overflow that occurs because the elements in themselves are influenced by external elements, so as a character often this inner conflict is a part of personality that cannot be avoided by humans themselves, including the figure of Fiersa Besari.

scholarly journals Eschewing the First Person: Post-Subjective Autobiography in Hubert Fichte and his Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit / History of Sensitivity

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. VC37-VC55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gillett
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
First Person ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Hubert Fichte

Despite the uncanny similarities between the known facts of Hubert Fichte's life and the events depicted in his works, opinion is still divided as to whether Fichte's work constitutes an autobiography or not. This is partly because, rather than adopting the classic first person or using the same name on the cover as in the inside of the book, Fichte gives his protagonists fictitional names: Detlev, Jäcki. The designation of many of his works as 'novels' does not help either. The thesis of this article is that in his literary works, Fichte deliberately drew on the events of his own life, and deliberately invoked the various genres and procedures of life writing in order to construct what I call 'post-subjective autobiography'. In putting forward this thesis, I demonstrate how, from his third novel onwards, Fichte is not writing from the position of a secure subject, but employing a whole range of devices to interrogate the subject of autobiography. And the conclusion is that this post-subjective autobiography is a únique aesthetic and ethical achievement which we would do well to emulate. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing in May 2014 and published on 16 March 2015.

Food Questioning Values in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes/Pig Tales

Leftovers ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 129-162
Author(s):  
Ruth Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Food Cravings ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Mother's Milk ◽  
Retrospective Account ◽  
Mother’S Milk ◽  
Near Future

Darrieussecq’s scandal-provoking Truismes/Pig Tales (1996), set in a near-future, neo-fascist France, involves much eating, drinking and consumption of others, whilst deliberately chewing up literary, political and feminist discourses. The naïve first-person narrator (as unaware of being a sex worker as she is of the intertexts which feed her retrospective account written in porcine form) experiences a metamorphosis oscillating between sex worker, submissive lover and sow, the flux marked by being consumed physically by food cravings and sexually by male abusers. Until momentarily fueled by acorns and truffles, self-expression through writing and eating involves danger, exemplifying the implications of the squandering of excess. Ambivalent traces of meaning in food-related truisms bring into question the possibility of countering patriarchal, capitalist violence – structural and overt. Carno-phallogocentric, cannibalistic, food- and sex-fueled soirées and the ‘others’ who serve and are sacrificed at them evoke the trauma of colonialism, the Holocaust (and French co-implication in it); excesses in turn linked to late capitalism. With the opposite of nurturing mother’s milk, and countering expectations of feminist readings, re-thinking representations of eating and drinking in Truismes raises questions of the conditions of production for and the consequences of (un)critical writing about gender, race and contemporary modes of consumption.

New Filariae from Indian Birds

Parasitology ◽  
1924 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asa C. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Body Cavity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Near Future

In the body-cavity of a Racket-tailed Drongo (Dissemurus paradiseus) which died at the Calcutta Zoological Gardens, and the blood of which was teeming with two species of microfilariae, were found males of two new species of filariae, together with a single female specimen. In a Hunting Cissa (Cissa chinensis), which died at about the same time, males of one of the species discovered in the Drongo were found again, accompanied by a single female different from that found before. Since this cissa also harboured two species of microfilariae in its blood, the identity of either of the females is doubtful. In another specimen of hunting cissa a single male specimen of an entirely different species, which I have made the type of a new genus, was found. Here again two species of microfilariae were discovered so that it is not possible to say which is the offspring of the adult found. It had been hoped that more infected specimens of these birds might be obtained so that the confusion as regards relationships of the females and offspring to the males might be cleared up, but there appears to be little hope of more being obtained in the near future.

Spectrophotometric reductions with an IBM 1620

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
P.-I. Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Spectrophotometric Data ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
The University ◽  
Near Future

Nowadays more and more of the reductions of astronomical data are made with electronic computers. As we in Uppsala have an IBM 1620 at the University, we have taken it to our help with reductions of spectrophotometric data. Here I will briefly explain how we use it now and how we want to use it in the near future.

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