scholarly journals NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN HESPERIDÆ

1892 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 119-120
Author(s):  
Eugene Murray Aaron
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
The Past

From time to time for the past ten years I have been in the habit of receiving, from various collectors in this country and Europe, speciments of North American Hesperidœ for comparison and identification with my large collection, which has been justly famous for its completeness. As this collection is now no longer in my possession, being now the property of my friend C. B. Aaron, of Philadelphis, and as I have transferred my allegiance from entomology to ethnology it has occurred to me that it will be well fro me to give here to the students of the Hesperidœ the benefit of such tables, nots teh compilations as have, in years past, been of value to me in the identification of the species in this difficult family.

Caldera of New Spain: Frontier Justice and Mestizo Symbol

1961 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-342
Author(s):  
Philip Wayne Powell
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extensive Documentation ◽  
Critical Phase

In any study of extensive documentation of the past, one inevitably encounters personalities whose recorded actions stimulate speculation about the unknowable portions of their lives and their impact upon larger historical events. Such a one, to me, is the man called Miguel Caldera. For some years, and through many thousands of pages of Mexican frontier documentation, I have been increasingly intrigued by the story of this mestizo captain. He is omnipresent in the official papers of a critical phase of North American frontier history. His deeds—and their setting—have a dramatic, symbolistic quality which entitles him, I think, to recognition as one of the continent's most significant frontiersmen. Hence this present attempt—brief and incidental though it is—to “define” Miguel Caldera and his measure of significance.

scholarly journals A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Kilroy-Marac
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
North American ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Hoarding Disorder ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Dsm V ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Domestic Variety

Within the past decade, material disorder—especially that of the domestic variety—has come to stand alternately as evidence, symptom, and potential cause of mental disorder in the North American popular and psychiatric imagination. Sources ranging from the newly defined Hoarding Disorder diagnosis in the DSM-V, to popular media, to agents of the burgeoning clutter-management industry describe disorder in terms of an irrational attachment, closeness, or overidentification with objects. At the same time, these sources imagine order to result from the cool distance and controlled passion a person is able to maintain toward his or her possessions. Drawing on more than twenty interviews and numerous fieldwork encounters with professional organizers (POs) in Toronto between 2014 and 2015, this article describes how POs aim to reorient their clients materially, morally, and affectively to relieve the disorder they report in their lives. Here, I argue, POs emerge as a species of late capitalist healer whose interventions are animated by a paradoxical double movement. For just as POs act to loosen the object attachments and disrupt the “secret sympathy” their clients share with their possessions, they operate within a realm of magical correspondence where matter and mind are imagined to reflect and affect one another, and where bringing order to a client’s possessions means also bringing order to his or her mind.

scholarly journals Cytospora (Diaporthales) in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.L. Fan ◽  
J.D.P. Bezerra ◽  
C.M. Tian ◽  
P.W. Crous
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Dna Phylogeny ◽  
The Past ◽  
Worldwide Distribution ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Woody Host

Members of the genus Cytospora are often reported as endophytes, saprobes or phytopathogens, primarily causing canker diseases of woody host plants. They occur on a wide range of hosts and have a worldwide distribution. Although several species have in the past been reported from China, the vast majority are not known from culture or DNA phylogeny. The primary aim of the present study was thus to clarify the taxonomy and phylogeny of a large collection of Cytospora species associated with diverse hosts in China. Cytospora spp. were collected in northeast, northwest, north and southwest China, indicating that the cold and dry environments favour these fungi. In this paper, we provide an assessment of 52 Cytospora spp. in China, focussing on 40 species represented by 88 isolates from 28 host genera. Based on a combination of morphology and a six-locus phylogeny (ITS, LSU, act1, rpb2, tef1-α and tub2), 13 new species and one new combination are introduced. The majority of the species investigated here appear to be host-specific, although further collections and pathogenicity studies will be required to confirm this conclusion.

scholarly journals Indirect effects on fitness between individuals that have never met via an extended phenotype

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Fisher ◽  
Jessica A. Haines ◽  
Stan Boutin ◽  
Ben Dantzer ◽  
Jeffrey E. Lane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
North American ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Tamiasciurus Hudsonicus ◽  
Extended Phenotype ◽  
Red Squirrels ◽  
Lifetime Fitness ◽  
The Past ◽  
North American Red Squirrels ◽  
The Individual

AbstractInteractions between organisms are ubiquitous and have important consequences for phenotypes and fitness. Individuals can even influence those they never meet, if they have extended phenotypes which mean the environments others experience are altered. North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) guard food hoards, an extended phenotype that typically outlives the individual and is almost always inherited by non relatives. Hoarding by previous owners can therefore influence subsequent owners. We found that red squirrels bred earlier and had higher lifetime fitness if the previous owner was a male. This was driven by hoarding behaviour, as males and mid-aged squirrels had the largest hoards, and these effects persisted across owners, such that if the previous owner was male or died in mid-age subsequent occupants had larger hoards. Individuals can, therefore, influence each other’s resource dependent traits and fitness without meeting via extended phenotypes, and so the past can influence contemporary population dynamics.

scholarly journals The Digital Index of North American Archaeology: networking government data to navigate an uncertain future for the past

Antiquity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (362) ◽  
pp. 490-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric C. Kansa ◽  
Sarah W. Kansa ◽  
Josh J. Wells ◽  
Stephen J. Yerka ◽  
Kelsey N. Myers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
North American Archaeology ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Image Position

Abstract

The Decline of the Africanists' Africa and the Rise of New Africas

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
William Martin ◽  
Michael West
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
North American ◽  
African Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North

Our thesis may be simply stated: There is a specter hanging over African studies: the specter of irrelevance both within and outside the academy. Indeed, African studies, as constructed in the North American academy over the past four decades, is dying.

North American Humanitarian Response Initiative: DRR and Response Preparedness

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 131-133
Author(s):  
Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
The Past ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
The North ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Project Lead

It is a privilege to be with you today here at ASIL, in my current capacity as a Project Lead with the North American Humanitarian Response Initiative (NAHRI). At the heart of my comments today are essentially two main themes. First, all of our Initiative efforts over the past twenty-four months remain deeply intertwined with the ethic of Sendai and continue to be so. Second, while I hesitate to use the word “law” when I am working within the project—it can make those who are not in law a bit nervous—you will see with regard to NAHRI that the fundamental challenges that we have been attempting to work through are in fact legal challenges, and in the end I believe the solutions are also legally based. It is within this spirit that I will give my presentation.

The Mission and Historical Missions: Film and the Writing of History

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Schofield Saeger
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
South America ◽  
Future Study ◽  
North American ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Academic

Because of the power of film, movies with historical themes affect public perceptions of the past more deeply than do scholarly reconstructions. Film makers and historians search for meaning in separate ways, but their quests can converge. Examples of different approaches to similar destinations are found in a newer film and older historical views of Catholic missions in South America. Released in 1986, The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, displays paternalistic attitudes like those of an earlier generation of North American academic historians. The film's voice is a white European distortion of Native American reality. This essay will examine that voice, offer alternative explanations of historical events, and suggest a research agenda for future study of the Guarani missions of Paraguay, often mentioned in surveys but seldom studied by North American historians.

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