scholarly journals II. Studies in reptilian colour response. I. - The bionomics and physiology of the pigmentary activity of the chameleon

1934 ◽  
Vol 223 (494-508) ◽  
pp. 27-55 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
New World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Colour Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Physiological Investigation ◽  
Single Exception ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

The literature of reptilian colour change extends over twenty three centuries, and yet our knowledge of the physiological processes which govern it, and of the environmental factors which bring it about, is to-day far less complete than for the other two groups of vertebrates which possess pigmentary effectors. The cause of this, it would seem, resides in the fact that the colour changing reptiles inhabit pre-eminently the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe, and are not readily available for physiological investigation in the main centres of scientific progress. The history of this subject is peculiar. From Aristotle to the end of the nineteenth century the literature deals almost exclusively with the chameleon, an animal which for centuries has excited the curiosity of travellers in North Africa, and which, in consequence, has acquired a popular reputation that is quite remarkable. Thus the hundred pages which Fuchs (1914) devoted to reptilian colour response contain far more references to chameleons than to all other reptiles taken together. In the present century, with the single exception of the work of Hogben and Mirvish (1928) from this laboratory, no further investigations on the chameleon have been published. Our knowledge of colour change in reptiles has progressed chiefly through the work of Professor G. H. P arker and his many associates. In the New World chameleons do not exist, and consequently the American workers have turned to other lizards, chiefly Anolis and Phrynosoma . Thus it has come about that most modern workers in this field are relatively unfamiliar with the chameleon, and have tended to overlook the many interesting facts concerning colour change in this animal recorded in the earlier literature

The comics as an example of fan culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
Marcelina Zdenkowska
Keyword(s):  
Specific Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
Original Works ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Many

In this article I analyze the chosen examples of fan comics. In the first part of the article I describe the history of comics, how and by whom they were created. Then I show the comic’s role as part of Transmedia Storytelling. In the second part I introduce the term fan fiction and I describe the circumstances of the creation of this specific form of fan art. Moreover I write about the most important fan fiction theories. In the last part of the article I analyze 3 selected authors of comics who publish their works on social media platform Deviant Art. Also I describe their style, inspirations and references to original works. Fan comics are a very specific phenomenon. However the many possibilities given by this art is not used by the fans. There are no experiments with a form contrary to the fan fiction literature. On the other hand the selected comics are an exception. Maybe the authors are not very innovative. But the interesting thing is that they use humor and autobiographical themes in an unusual way.

scholarly journals New records of planktonic foraminifera in the Shuaiba Formation (Aptian Age), Mesopotamian plain, South of Iraq

2019 ◽  
pp. 1322-1335
Author(s):  
Zain Alabdeen A. Al-Shawi ◽  
Maher M. Mahdi ◽  
Abbas H. Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Planktonic Foraminifera ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arabian Plate ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Of Iraq ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time ◽  
Southern Iraq

Shuaiba Formation is an important formation in Iraq, because of their deposition in the important period during the geological history of Arabian plate. The study is focused on a number of selected wells from several fields in southern Iraq, despite the many of oil studies to Shuaiba Formation but it lacks to paleontological studies. Four selected wells are chosen for the current study, Zb-290, Ru-358, R-624, WQ1-353, the selected wells are located within different fields, these are Zubair, Rumaila and West Qurna Oil Fields. In this study fourteen species followed to genus Hedbergella were discovered for first time as well as three genera followed to genus Heterohelix in the Shuaiba Formation at the different oil fields, Hedbergella tunisiensis Range Zone is suggested biozone to the current study, the age of this biozone is Aptian, most of the other genera located within this zone.

‘Carolina Hat’: Vona Groarke's Lament for Art O'Leary

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Mills Harper
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Oral Composition

Vona Groarke's 2008 version of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's famous keen for her husband, Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, features a poetic voice overtly inflected by Irish, English, and American diction and usage. Groarke's poem emphasizes its status as a textual event in more than one time frame as well as another spatial setting. The other time is multiple, including the many translations and discussions of the lament from its eighteenth-century composition until now. The place is also multiple: it might be Dublin or Manchester, Boston or London, or Wake Forest, North Carolina, where Groarke spends part of every year. This new poem stresses the mobility of Eileen's passionate lament: in Groarke's hands, it becomes a poem of the particular place that manages also, intriguingly, to highlight transnational cultural and linguistic implications. This version, another chapter in the history of a work that begins in the fluidity of oral composition and is repeatedly reworked in translations, emphasizes domestic space as generative as well as excessive, the site of desire. Groarke's poem locates itself both inside and, crucially, outside, a place to which one comes ‘carrying nothing’ in order to find, in a seeming paradox, nonrestrictive structures.

Riverside Park and Issues of Historic Preservation

1984 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cromley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
York City ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Other ◽  
Frederick Law Olmsted ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Active Recreation

Riverside Park and Riverside Drive in New York City were designated a Scenic Landmark in 1980 by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, but this designation raises some problems for historians. The Landmark designation is based primarily on the park's status as a Frederick Law Olmsted design. My research shows, however, that only a small part of the park as it stands today was actually designed by Olmsted, and that Riverside Park was rather the result of ad hoc decisions and compromises over several decades. The history of Riverside Park presented in this article is offered as an alternative to the Landmarks Commission's history in its "Designation Report." This alternative history of a "non-Olmsted park" shows that Olmsted's design, based on an aesthetic of nature, is preserved only in the layout of Riverside Drive on the high ground above the Hudson and in the parkland immediately adjacent to the Drive. The many sculptural monuments added to Riverside Park and Drive, beginning with a temporary Grant's Tomb in the 1880s and continuing through the 1920s, are the legacy of a City Beautiful conception of the park as an instrument for cultural uplift and education. In the 1930s yet another conception of parks as active recreation space led to doubling the park's size by landfill and expanding its facilities by building many sports grounds, children's playgrounds, and a tree-bordered promenade. In my conclusion, I consider what it means, to readers of history and to makers of parks policy, to choose one or the other of these histories. If Riverside is "an Olmsted park," preservation policies will take a different form than they will if it is a "non-Olmsted park." From this discussion, I also raise some general questions about the meaning and implications of constructing particular kinds of historical stories.

The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World

1962 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Pike
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Old World ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
History Of ◽  
Subsequent Opening

The turning point in the history of the Genoese merchants in Spain was the discovery of America and the subsequent opening of trading relations with the new continent. From then on, their ascent to economic predominance in Spain paralleled that nation's emergence as the dominant power of the sixteenth-century world. Fortune gave Spain two empires simultaneously, one in the Old World, the other in the New. Spain's unpreparedness for imperial responsibilities, particularly in the economic sphere, was the springboard for Genoese advancement. Strengthening and enlarging their colony in Seville —after 1503 the “door and port of the Indies” —the Genoese prepared to move across the Atlantic in the wake of Columbus.

scholarly journals Grundtvig og Rødding Højskole

1999 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-93
Author(s):  
Thorkild C. Lyby
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
Folk High School ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Grundtvig and the Folk High School at RøddingBy Thorkild LybyIn his book Vision og Virkeliggørelse (Vision and Fulfilment) Helge Grell has advanced the argument that Grundtvig had reservations about Rødding Folk High School, because it identified itself with the national struggle to such an extent that it did not fully practice Grundtvig’s original folk high school ideas.Against this view, the present article claims that it is impossible to disqualify Rødding as non-Grundtvigian. Following a discussion of what it takes for a folk high school to be called Grundtvigian, the article gives an outline of the history of Rødding up to the 1864 war which necessitated the transfer to Askov. The emphasis is on the attitudes of successive principals, predominantly, however, that of Christian Flor. Not only was he the driving force behind the establishment of the high school, but was its leader himself in 1845-46, and, as chairman of the Board of Governors and later the Committee, continued to exert a decisive influence on its affairs until it was closed down.It is argued that Flor was entirely a Grundtvig disciple, and that his only wish was to translate Grundtvig’s folk high school ideas into practice. It is true that Rødding was also intended as a school with a role to play in the national struggle, but in the circumstances this should not disqualify it as Grundtvigian since Grundtvig’s cultural struggle at the time must necessarily take the form of a national struggle. It is pointed out, moreover, that to the various principals the cultural view was more important than the national - if it is at all possible to distinguish between them.Another thing is that Grundtvig’s attitude to Rødding was ambiguous. He expressed delight at its establishment and welcomed it without reservations, and later too there is evidence of a sympathetic interest in it. On the other hand, there is also evidence of a strange indifference, as it appears for example from the fact that he never visited the school in spite of repeated invitations. No doubt, the reason is that he had envisaged his ideas about the education of the people to be realized through the great, state-supported high school at Sorø, which he had dreamed about since his youth, and which had very nearly become a reality in 1847-48. Only gradually did he realize that it was through the many smaller schools modelled on Rødding that his ideas were to attain their great importance.

scholarly journals Emissaries of the Pope in the Mongol Empire

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Vadim Trepavlov ◽  
Anton Gorskiy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Unique Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Extensive Information ◽  
Mongol Empire ◽  
Pope Innocent Iv ◽  
The Many

The letter by the emissary of Pope Innocent IV in the Mongol Empire, Franciscan votary, John of Plano Carpini, Ystoria Mongalorum — “History of the Mongols” is one of the most renowned written records of the European writing of the 13th century. The letter is a report of the mission between 1245 and 1247, when John of Plano Carpini et al visited Batu Khan bases on the Volga and bases of Güyük Khan (supreme khan) in Mongolia. The project provides for publishing an extensive version of the “History of the Mongols” based on two best list of works: Wolfenbüttel and Cambridge. Unlike the Italian edition of 1989, where the text is reconstructed based on both lists, this publication is prepared according to the Russian tradition of archeography: one of the lists serves as the basis, while the other one is used in versions. The book by John of Plano Carpini includes unique information on the Mongol Empire, its structure, mechanism of control, army, and law. The book offers extensive information on customs and lifestyle of the Mongols and the many Eurasian peoples they conquered. Ystoria Mongalorum is a precious source on the history of Rus’ in the first years following Batu Khan invasion. Unlike the previous editions of the paper, the new one will include detailed commentaries explaining the realia, figures, toponyms, ethnonyms, etc. that appear in the text.

scholarly journals Brave new world an update on COVID-19 pandemic – A review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Gadó ◽  
Gy. Domján ◽  
Z.Z. Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
New World ◽  
Rna Viruses ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brave New World

AbstractEpidemics and pandemics have happened throughout the history of mankind. Before the end of the 20th century, scientific progress successfully eradicated several of the pathogens. While no one has to be afraid of smallpox anymore, there are some new pathogens that have never caused human disease before. Coronaviruses are a family of enveloped RNA viruses. In the 21st century, three of them have caused serious pandemics, including severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2002 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in 2012. In 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives and continues to rage.

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Favreau
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Full Length ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Concept Album ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Masses

In Janelle Monáe’s full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human. Living in 28th century Metropolis, Cindi fights for survival, soon realizing that she is in fact the prophesied ArchAndroid, a robot messiah meant to liberate the masses and lead them toward a wonderland where all can be free. Taking into account the literary merit of Monáe’s astounding multimedia body of work, the political relevance of the science fictional themes and aesthetics she explores, and her role as an Atlanta-based pop cultural juggernaut, this book explores the lavish world building of Cindi’s story, and the many literary, cinematic, and musical influences brought together to create it. Throughout, a history of Monáe’s move to Atlanta, her signing with Bad Boy Records, and the trials of developing a full-length concept album in an industry devoted to the production of marketable singles can be found, charting the artist’s own rise to power. The stories of Monáe and of Cindi are inextricably entwined, each making the other more compelling, fantastical, and deeply felt.

Scheherazade in Chains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Frydman
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
New World ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Literature ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The One

The understudied archive of Muslim slave narratives demands a reconfiguration of the early history of New World Black literature, on the one hand asserting Arabic letters and Orientalist mediations as foundational discursive sources while on the other hand directing greater attention to narrative production in West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Consistently marked in their time and ours by a racist dialectic of amnesia and surprise, these Muslim narrators draw upon devices of the Arab-Islamic tradition even as they anticipate the experiences of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation. In their enduring oscillation between obscurity and legibility, and in our own efforts to assemble their traces, we must confront and honor these narrators’ eventual retreat from interpellation, a reticence that vexes even as it structures the archive of the Global South Atlantic: resistant, dispersed, decentered, and opaque.

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