Material Culture and the North American House: The Era of the Common Man, 1870-1920

1985 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Doucet ◽  
John C. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man ◽  
American House

The Cladocera of Ontario with remarks on some species and distribution

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 1373-1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brandlova ◽  
Z. Brandl ◽  
C. H. Fernando
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Complete List ◽  
Daphnia Pulicaria ◽  
Daphnia Species ◽  
The North ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Time ◽  
Different Parts

The Cladocera of Ontario were studied from material collected over a wide geographical area. In all 244 lakes and 33 ponds were sampled, some of them more than once.A method for making stained permanent preparations of Cladocera used in our study is described.The genus Daphnia is richly represented. Based on a study of this material we have raised Daphnia pulicaria Forbes from synonymy in the North American fauna. The common limnetic species have been demarcated more satisfactorily. A hitherto undescribed Daphnia species was recorded. Some systematic notes are also included on species of the genera Diaphanosoma, Ceriodaphnia, Eubosmina, and Bosmina.Seventy species of Cladocera were recorded in the present study. This brings the species recorded from Ontario to 78 species; 26 species are recorded from Ontario for the first time. While the limnetic species presently known probably represent a complete list many littoral forms have certainly not been recorded so far.The distribution of the various species in the different parts of Ontario is given. The relative frequency and dominance of species is discussed.

scholarly journals “You just nod and pin and sew and let them do their thing”

Ethnologies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Harris Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
Multiple Messages ◽  
Wedding Ceremony

The bridal gown is perhaps one of the most highly symbolic objects in the contemporary wedding ceremony. Fraught with images of sexuality and femininity, the bride conveys multiple messages with her choice of dress colour, style and adornment. As such, the dress communicates and performs as a significant material culture object within the custom of the wedding. This article examines the wedding dress within the North American context through the experiences of Nancy Harris, a dressmaker. The author discusses the struggles of the bride as she negotiates with family, friends and societal conventions while expressing herself through her choice of dress.

The Newbigin Gauntlet: Developing a Domestic Missiology for North America

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Hunsberger
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
North American ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The North ◽  
The Common ◽  
American Churches ◽  
Do So

The contextual missiology of the North American churches is poorly formed, at best. At the heart of the recent work of Lesslie Newbigin, there lies a challenge to develop a domestic missiology marked by the theological depth he has habitually brought to bear on missiological issues. To do so will require that we acknowledge the fundamentally new social circumstances in which the churches of North America now live, and pursue the answer to three questions in light of those circumstances: How must we grasp our identity? How must we seek the “common good”? And how must we tell the gospel?

Uppermost Cambrian slope deposits at Highgate Gorge, Vermont: a minor miscorrelation with major consequences for conodont- and trilobite-based chronocorrelation

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 855-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Taylor ◽  
D. J. Kennedy ◽  
J. F. Miller ◽  
J. E. Repetski
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
Main Zone ◽  
The North ◽  
New Information ◽  
Slope Deposits ◽  
International Boundary ◽  
The Common ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Shelf Margin

Uppermost Cambrian and lowest Ordovician slope deposits in Highgate Gorge, northwestern Vermont, yield a succession of conodont faunas (and a few associated trilobite species) similar to that observed in coeval North American carbonate-platform sequences. Decimeter-scale sampling of a 15-m-interval in two sections comprising thin-bedded limestone–shale rhythmites alternating with thick-bedded debris flow conglomerates yielded 60 trilobite specimens and more than 5,000 conodont elements from 48 productive horizons. The new biostratigraphic control does not support earlier claims that the lowest occurrence of Cordylodus proavus in the Gorge Formation and presumably in other slope sequences is significantly older than the base of the C. proavus Zone in platform deposits; rather, it demonstrates the isochronous persistence of this boundary across the North American (Laurentian) shelf margin into Iapetan slope deposits. The common occurrence of the deep, cool-water conodont Eoconodontus alisonae and the agnostoid trilobite Lotagnostus hedini in the Eoconodontus Zone at Highgate Gorge makes it possible to extend the correlation even farther from the Laurentian platform into uppermost Cambrian strata in Kazakhstan and China. This new information greatly strengthens arguments in favor of using this zonal boundary for defining the international boundary between the Cambrian and Ordovician Systems.In earlier studies of Highgate Gorge strata, composite treatment of biostratigraphic data from similar but non-correlative intervals (Zones 2 and 3) in two sections created an illusion of significant stratigraphic overlap of C. proavus with older faunas and direct association of some trilobite species for which overlap has never been established. Composite treatment of data from Zones 2 and 3 under designations such as “main zone’ or “upper zone’ should be discontinued and species that have been reported as occurring together in the “main zone’ should not be assumed (on the basis of that association alone) to have come from the same stratigraphic level.

Sitting and talking together: packaging meaning into verbs with the neighbors

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Mithun
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
North American ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
American West ◽  
North American West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Over Time

Abstract As observed by Koptjevskaja-Tamm and Liljegren, the impact of language contact on grammatical typology is well recognized, but the field of lexico-semantic areal typology is still young. Here some mechanisms leading to an areal pattern are explored in the domain of certain sets of basic verbs in languages indigenous to the North American West. The patterns involve the apparent evocation, as part of the meanings of the common verbs, of certain features of the most immediately involved participant, particularly number, animacy, shape, and/or consistency. Two mechanisms apparently underlie the areal patterns. First, bilinguals accustomed to distinguishing such features lexically in verbs in one of their languages may simply choose more specific verbs in another language on a regular basis until, over time, original hyponyms come to be basic level terms. Second, shadows of compounding and derivation can be seen in some pairs of verbs in some languages. Patterns elsewhere in the language or in a neighbor can stimulate such formations and accelerate their lexicalization, ultimately blurring their internal structure and hastening their ascent to basic-level status.

Descriptions of larvae of the North American endemic stygobiontic Ereboporus naturaconservatus Miller, Gibson & Alarie and Haideoporus texanus Young & Longley (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Yves Alarie ◽  
J. Randy Gibson ◽  
Kelly B. Miller
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Abdominal Segment ◽  
Head Capsule ◽  
The North ◽  
Morphological Adaptations ◽  
The Common

The larvae of the North American stygobiontic dytiscid species Ereboporus naturaconservatus Miller, Gibson & Alarie, 2009 and Haideoporus texanus Young & Longley, 1976 are described with an emphasis on chaetotaxy of the head capsule, head appendages, legs, last abdominal segment and urogomphi. Both of these species share the presence of a nasale and the absence of the primary pores MXd and LAc, which have been recognized as synapomorphies for members of the subfamily Hydroporinae. Out of the common convergent characteristics associated with hypogaeic living, no synapomorphies were found that could relate Haideoporus texanus and Ereboporus naturaconservatus, which reinforces the hypothesis that these species evolved independently within the subfamily Hydroporinae. In terms of morphological adaptations, E. naturaconservatus stands as a remarkable hydroporine in that its larvae evolved a truncated last abdominal segment and a very elongate urogomphomere 1 relative to urogomphomere 2.

scholarly journals SNAKE ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURES AND SEASONAL ACTIVITY PATTERNS ON A MILITARY BASE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA:

2014 ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Walter E. Meshaka ◽  
Pablo R. Delis
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Habitat Type ◽  
Thamnophis Sirtalis ◽  
Seasonal Activity ◽  
Potential Predator ◽  
The North ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central Pennsylvania ◽  
The Common ◽  
Disturbed Habitats

We ascertained the assemblage structures of snakes occurring in a mixed habitat matrix of natural and disturbed habitats during 2008–2011 at Letterkenny Army Depot (LEAD), a 7200 ha U.S. Army base in south-central Pennsylvania, to understand the patterns of species abundance as they related to habitat type of managed lands. We detected eight species in 12 sites comprising natural and disturbed habitats of wetlands, forest, and thicket and open fields. The Common Gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis) occurred in the most sites, the Red-bellied Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) was the rarest species in the study. Two to six species occupied each site and were distributed unevenly. Dynamics of assemblages could be explained in part by habitat and also by the presence of the North American Racer (Coluber constrictor). All species for which data were available exhibited a unimodal pattern to their seasonal activity (mostly May and June); however, seasonal activity peaks differed between sexes. Sex ratios varied among species but were consistently female–biased in the Common Gartersnake and Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus) in Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. As elsewhere in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, body sizes of adults were larger for species syntopic with the North American Racer than for species not syntopic with this potential predator. We found a degree of predictability with respect to snake assemblage dynamics among habitats at LEAD, which in turn can prove useful in resource management of this large and protected human-impacted system.

STUDIES IN THE ELATERIDAE, I (COLEOP.)

1933 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Difficult Genus ◽  
The Common

The North American species of this difficult genus are very poorly known. The names of our species, as listed in Leng's catalog, are in need of some revision. One name, mellillus (Say), has escaped the attention of all authors but is valid for the common Drasterius elegans of our literature.

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