scholarly journals Architecture of Ambrosia psilostachya DC. Individuals in different habitats

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Maciej Korczyński ◽  
Ewa Krasicka-Korczyńska
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
The State ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Mechanical Factors ◽  
Number Of Shoots

<i>Ambrosia psilostachya</i> is a plant of North American origin, well-domesticated in Poland. It covers ruderal habitats and is found in crops and in city green areas. The density of ragweed shoots in the researched areas ranged from 55 to 111 per m<sup>2</sup>. The production of biomass of this species relates to the production of synanthropic communities and city lawns. The factor limiting the population is cutting which affects mostly the number of shoots per patch, less considerably the state of a single individual. Habitats affected by mechanical factors are the biggest source of pollen causing allergies .

Not In Their Name

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Lawford-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Collective Agent ◽  
Social Metaphysics ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Given their size and influence, states are able to inflict harm far beyond the reach of a single individual. But there is a great deal of unclarity about exactly who is implicated in that kind of harm, and how we should think about both culpability and responsibility for it. The idea of popular sovereignty is dominant in classical political theory. It is a commonplace assumption that democratic publics both authorize and have control over what their states do; that their states act in their name and on their behalf. Not In Their Name approaches these assumptions from the perspective of social metaphysics, asking whether the state is a collective agent, and whether ordinary citizens are members of that agent. If it is, and they are, there is a clear case for democratic collective culpability. The book explores alternative conceptions of the state and of membership in the state; alternative conceptions of collective agency applied to the state; the normative implications of membership in the state; and both culpability (from the inside) and responsibility (from the outside) for what the state does. Ultimately, Not In Their Name argues for the exculpation of ordinary citizens and the inculpation of those working in public services, and defends a particular distribution of culpability from government to its members.

A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Megetra (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with Ecological and Behavioral Notes

1965 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 561-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Selander
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
North American ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
The State ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
The North ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract>Three species are recognized in the North American genus Megetra LeConte. The most distinctive of these anatomically and ecologically is M. cancellata (Brandt and Erichson), which ranges discontinuously from Arizona and New Mexico to the state of Hidalgo in México and occurs in limited sympatry with both of its congeners. Megetra vittata (LeConte) ranges from northern Arizona to western Texas. It appears to be strictly allopatric with, and similar ecologically to, M. punctata, new species, which ranges from southern Arizona and New Mexico to Durango, México. Specific diagnoses are made on the basis of characters of adult and, for M. cancellata and M. punctata, larval anatomy. Intraspecific variation in several adult characters is analyzed. Notes on the seasonal distribution, habitat, and behavior of the adult beetles are included.

scholarly journals A Canadian Commentary on Constructive Expropriation Law Under NAFTA Article 1110

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond E. Young
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
North American ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The State ◽  
Regulatory Takings ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
The Law

By virtue of the Constitution Act, 1982. Canada has established that some rights andfreedoms are beyond the reach ofgovernment. However, the protection of properly, especially with regard to the guaranteeing of compensation ifproperty is taken by the state, has not been elevated to this same level of constitutional protection. This article examines regulatory takings claims under Article 1110 ofthe North American Free Trade Agreement and provides an exposition of the law insofar as it has developed in the NAFTA context. It begins with a survey of constructive takings in international and domestic U.S. law and concludes by highlighting the obvious differences between the protection afforded to foreign NAFTA investors in Canada and domestic owners of properly when property is taken.

scholarly journals Ilha do Combú: um olhar sob as perspectivas conceituais do lazer e seus equipamentos

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arcanjo Miguel Garcia Maia ◽  
Jonathan Rodrigues Nunes ◽  
Silvia Helena Ribeiro Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Conceptual Issue ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Island Community ◽  
Tourist Development ◽  
The Moment

Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar à sociedade a Ilha do Combú, área que pertence a Belém do Pará e suas diversas formas de ser trabalhado. A partir da questão conceitual do lazer, procurar-se-á, a partir do empreendimento particular de Dona Nena (Filha do Combú), e da festividade de Santo Antônio, fazer uma análise da diversidade que compõe as comunidades que residem na ilha, porém que não são trabalhadas da melhor forma possível, tomando como ponto de partida as teorias de diferentes autores referidos à lazer, tentando ressaltar a potencialidade que a ilha abrange sob a ampla perspectiva do aproveitamento de horas livres, tantos de turistas quanto de residentes do munícipio de Belém, sabido que ambos são relevantes para a perspectiva do estudo sobre lazer. O trabalho finalizará, portanto, tentando fazer um consenso entre as diferentes teóricas dos autores para com a classificação da Ilha em sua totalidade, sob a ótica destes estudos sobre o tema do lazer, suas motivações, e seus referidos equipamentos e suas classificações. Island of Combú: the local community according to the conceptual perspectives of leisure ABSTRACT This paper has as objective approach the experience of Combú of the island community, place that belongs to Belém of the state of Pará, and due to the closeness to the capital while urban city has stronger relation with the visitation of eventual tourists whom haz the intection of approaching of green areas. Seeing that this flow produces na urbanizing impact in the area, the search proposed to approach the relation of the community with this new utility found in their place of everyday. Starting of the conceptual issue of leisure, it was made na analysis of yhe cultural and anthropological diversity that composes the families that reside in the island. And their relation with tourism. For such, it was made field visitis and open interview on the particular enterprise of Ms. Nena (Filha do Combú), and participant observation at the Santo Antônio de Piriquitatara festivity, one of the festivities that were occurring at the moment, seeking to pay attention to the frequencie and charactheristics on the recurrents tourists on site, as far as the perception of the local communnity to this touristic flow. The work endend trying to make na overview between the diferente theories of the authors to the island rating, both in relation to the use, as approaching the island as an equipment, and also in relation to the ends and motivations of tourists, always taking into account the percpetion of the local communnity. KEYWORDS: Local Culture; Leisure; Riveirine Communities; Tourist Development.

scholarly journals A Checklist of the Moths of Alaska

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3571 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLIFFORD D. FERRIS ◽  
JAMES J. KRUSE ◽  
J. DONALD LAFONTAINE ◽  
KENELM W. PHILIP ◽  
B. CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution ◽  
North American ◽  
The State ◽  
Distribution Ranges ◽  
First Time

This article represents the first published complete checklist of the moth taxa, resident and occasional, recorded to datefor Alaska. Seven-hundred and ten species are listed. General species distribution ranges within the state are included.Three North American records are listed for the first time: Cydia cornucopiae (Tengström); Eucosma hohenwartiana ([D. & S.]); Acronicta menyanthidis (Vieweg).

Unstated: Narrating War in Lebanon

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 1621-1629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salah D. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
North American ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
The State ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
American Writer ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
State Form

This essay consists of three beginnings, then a deferred reading of a novel. One beginning, a theoretical beginning, reflects on the question implicit in my title: What is unstated in the state of Lebanon? Another beginning, a literary critical beginning, returns to the work of Kahlil Gibran, the most famous early-twentieth-century Arab North American writer. Gibran links modernist and postmodernist Arab North American writing and, in a historical parallel, connects the foundations of the Lebanese state under French colonial rule to its disintegration in the context of the civil war. A third beginning, a contextual beginning, evokes more recent events in Lebanon through a discussion of the July War of 2006, during which Israel bombed the country for over a month. These three points of departure, I suggest, are crucial to readings of contemporary Arab North American fiction, which is always conditioned by theories of the state, a post-Gibran literary sensibility, and the politics of the present. More specifically, I argue that Rawi Hage's representation of the civil war in Lebanon in DeNiro's Game negotiates the destruction of the Lebanese state through figures of the unstated, whose very existence questions more generally the state form as the preeminent site of political authority and contributes to unstating the state.

scholarly journals Intraspecific Variation in a Scorpionfly Newly Recorded from Texas and the State of Taxonomy of North American Panorpidae (Mecoptera)

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
North American ◽  
Original Description ◽  
The State ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
Intraspecific Variations ◽  
First Time

Panorpa vernalisByers is recorded for the first time from Texas, and represents only the second species ofPanorpadocumented from the state. Intraspecific variations between the Texas specimens and Byers' original description are discussed. A synopsis of the principal modern keys for identification of North AmericanPanorpais provided, and an argument for a modern taxonomic review of the Panorpidae of North America is presented.

scholarly journals Catalogue of the tick collection (Acari, Ixodida) of the Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Arzua ◽  
Valeria C. Onofrio ◽  
Darci M. Barros-Battesti
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
The State ◽  
State Parks ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
New Host ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Historia Natural ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Host Species

The tick collection of the Museu de Historia Natural Capão da Imbuia was first sorted in the end of the 80's, and a list of specimens was published in 1992. During the last ten years, the collection has grown substantially and became the depository collection for type-specimens. The collection is the most regional representative depository of ticks from the State of Paraná, and it is one of the four largest Brazilian collections in number of specimens. All material was revised, and the data were computerized and catalogued in cards. To date, the collection includes 504 vials, with 2,073 specimens, belonging to 25 species and six genera of the families Argasidae and Ixodidae. The ticks were collected in regional and state parks and in green areas from 60 municipalities distributed within eight Brazilian states. This catalogue corrects some of the records published in 1992 for the state of Paraná and records new host species for Amblyomma aureolatum (Pallas, 1772), A. cajennense (Fabricius, 1787), A. longirostre (Koch, 1844), A. tigrinum Koch, 1844, Ixodes aragaoi Fonseca, 1935, I. auritulus Neumann, 1904, I. fuscipes Koch, 1844 and I. paranaensis Barros-Battesti, Arzua, Pichorim & Keirans, 2003. Amblyomma brasiliense Aragão, 1908, A. coelebs Neumann, 1899, A. nodosum Neumann, 1899 and I. fuscipes are recorded, for the first time, from the state of Paraná; A. longirostre from Rio Grande do Sul; I. fuscipes from Santa Catarina; I. schulzei Aragão & Fonseca, 1951 from Rondônia; and A. rotundatum Koch, 1844 from Bahia. In addition Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946 and I. fuscipes are recorded for the first time, infesting birds.

scholarly journals NOTES ON “A REVISION OF THE GENUS ARGYNNIS,” BY HENRY J. ELWES, F. L. S., F. Z. S., Etc

1890 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
W. H. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
The State ◽  
North American Species ◽  
State Of Mind

So much of the text of Mr. Elwe' paper as relates to North American Species has recently been printed in Psyche (March), but the synonymic list, which is most important for a full comprehension of the state of mind of the author, was omitted. I applied to the editor of the Can. Ent. to print the list, but it was found that it would occupy nearly one-half the space of a number, and it was not thought expedient to give it.

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