I. Films and sound recordings: Ritualization of courtship postures of Larus ridibundus L

1966 ◽  
Vol 251 (772) ◽  
pp. 457-457
Keyword(s):  
Pair Formation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Larus Ridibundus ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Low Probability ◽  
The One

Three short films of displaying Black-headed Gulls demonstrated the similarity between, on the one hand, the displays shown by males and females when meeting for the purpose of pair formation and, on the other, the agonistic displays shown by mutually hostile males. Studies by Moynihan (1955), Manley (unpublished) and Tinbergen (1959), summarized in Tinbergen (1965), lead to the following interpretation. The agonistic displays between males have the effect of spacing-out the territories and thus the nests. This is of vital importance to the survival of the broods. Pair formation is initiated by females joining males on their territories. The displays shown on this occasion, though similar to the hostile displays shown in male-male encounters, differ from these in some respects. For instance, both partners assume a head-up posture, and usually take up a parallel, sideways orientation. In male-male encounters, these aspects are controlled by, and vary with, the proportional degree of arousal of the tendency to attack and the tendency to flee. The more a male is intimidated in an encounter with another male, the more its head is pointed upward, and the more it inclines to sideways orientation. These signs of fear are understood by the opponent as indicating a low probability of attack.

scholarly journals Inheritance of Ddt-Resistance Involving The Y-Chromosome in the Housefly (Musoa Domestioa L.)

1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 605 ◽  
Author(s):  
RW Kerr
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Early Maturation ◽  
Laboratory Colony ◽  
True Breeding ◽  
Early Maturing ◽  
New Type ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Ddt Resistance ◽  
Selection For ◽  
The One

Selection for early maturation applied to a laboratory colony of Musca domestica L. eliminated autosomally controlled DDT�resistance from both sexes, but a proportion of the males exhibited a genetically new type of resistance which was shown to be not transmitted through the females but to involve the y-chromo� some. By a single selection with DDT, applied to males only, the early-maturing strain was separated into two true-breeding strains omogeneous in both sexes with respect to DDT-tolerances, the one susceptible to DDT in both males and females, the other susceptible in females but showing at least an eightfold resistance to DDT in all its males.

scholarly journals This Is, and Is Not, Shakespeare: A Japanese-Korean Transformation of Othello

2012 ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Hamana
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
The One ◽  
Original Production

The purpose of this paper is to address the critical impact of local Shakespeare on global Shakespeare by examining a Japanese-Korean adaptation of Othello. Incorporating elements of Korean shamanistic ritual and elements from Japanese noh to create a new reading of Shakespeare’s play with its special concern with Desdemona’s soul, the two theatres interact powerfully with each other. Local Shakespeare functions as a cultural catalyst for the two nations vexed with historical problems. By translating and relocating Shakespeare’s Othello in East Asia, the adaptation succeeds in recreating Shakespeare’s play for contemporary local audiences. In considering the adaptation, this paper explores the vital importance of local Shakespeare and local knowledge for the sake of global Shakespeare as a critical potential. The adaptation might evoke a divided response among a non-local audience. While on the one hand, it attempts to create an ‘original’ production of the Shakespeare play through employing the two Asian cultures, on the other, it employs the Shakespeare play as a conduit for their cultural exchange. This is, and is not, Shakespeare. The paper finally suggests that for all this ambivalence, the adaptation shows some respectful, if unfamiliar, feelings that could be shared by many people around the globe.

scholarly journals Recent acceleration of the Earth rotation in the summer of 2020: possible causes and effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 2103 (1) ◽  
pp. 012039
Author(s):  
D A Trofimov ◽  
S D Petrov ◽  
P V Movsesyan ◽  
K V Zheltova ◽  
V I Kiyaev
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Solar Wind ◽  
Earth Rotation ◽  
Solar Wind Speed ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Low Probability ◽  
The One

Abstract The extreme acceleration of the Earth rotation observed in the summer of 2020 is considered. It is concluded that this phenomenon is a consequence of two factors: the longterm acceleration of the Earth rotation, which has been observed since the 1970s, and the extremely strong meteorological excitation of the LOD, which took place in the summer of 2020. The coincidence of the anomaly of the AAM and the geomagnetic Dst index, as well as the correlation between the LOD on the one hand and the solar wind speed and the Gaussian coefficients of the expansion of the Earth’s magnetic field, on the other, are noted. The problem of negative leap second is considered. Preliminary estimates have been made of introduction of a negative leap second, if the current trends in the behavior of UT1-UTC continue. The conclusion is made about the low probability of such an event.

scholarly journals The Issue of the Definition of “Sound Recording” in the Slovak and Czech Legislation

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Adamov
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instruments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Audio Information

Abstract Sound recording a posteriori Slovak as well as Czech legislation represents the unity of the recorded information and the medium in which the information is stored. However, the medium of audio information can take various forms. This diversity is on the one hand determined by the technical development and on the other hand by the fact that the term “sound recording” can be interpreted broadly, which means that under the term “sound recordings” need not be understood only carriers of audio information that are directly reproducible by means of a technical equipment intended for sound reproduction but even such objects which are already technically outdated (e.g. musicboxes or automatic musical instruments) or that are relatively new but specific or rare (e.g. music roads). Therefore in some case unclear or imprecise definition of “sound recording” may lead to doubt whether a particular object ought to be protected as a sound recording or not.

scholarly journals The Cognitive Perspective of Yulin Yuan on Modern Chinese Grammar

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Mei Feng ◽  
Guojin Hou
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

This paper is mainly a review of Yulin Yuan’s book Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammar which, as one of the book series of Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics, was published by Routledge in 2017. On the one hand, Yuan’s cognitive studies of and his Yuanian insight into Chinese grammar are of vital importance to those students and researchers who specialise or are interested in the Chinese language, especially modern Chinese grammar. On the other hand, his research may probably promote the development of cognitive linguistics on the whole with regard to linguistic typology.

scholarly journals Insurance and the tort system

Legal Studies ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Tort Liability ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Tort System ◽  
The Law ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
The One

This article examines Stapleton's view that insurance has lacked influence and been no more than a ‘makeweight’ argument in the development of tort liability. Looking at the wider context, the article describes the overwhelming importance of insurers to the litigation system and argues that all cases are affected by insurance practice. It distinguishes the effect of insurance upon judicial fact finding, on the one hand, and the development of common law rules, on the other. It examines the ability of insurers to influence legislation relevant to the tort system. It concludes that, if account is taken of all these areas, insurance has been of vital importance to the law of tort. Without it, the system of personal injury compensation would not have survived. This conclusion is reached even though insurance is largely ignored by the great majority of tort texts.

scholarly journals Acoustic and vibrational signaling in true katydid Nesoecia nigrispina: three means of sound production in the one species

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga S. Korsunovskaya ◽  
Rustem D. Zhantiev
Keyword(s):  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Sympatric Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Frequency Spectra ◽  
Vibrational Signals ◽  
Audible Sound ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Stridulatory Apparatus ◽  
The One

The males of Mexican katydids Nesoecia nigrispina (Stal) produce calling songs and protest sounds using the same stridulatory apparatus as in most of the other Ensifera at the base of the elytra. It includes pars stridens on the upper elytron and plectrum on the lower. Calling sounds are 2−pulse series, repeated with a frequency of 2−3 per sec. Protest signals in the form of short trills from the same pulse duration males produce with tactile stimulation. The pulse repetition rate is almost three times higher than that of the calling sounds - up to 10 per sec. The frequency spectra of these signals have maxima in the band of 14−15 kHz. However, in addition to the sounds described, both males and females are capable to produce protest signals of the second type with the help of another sound apparatus, namely with the help of the wings. Insects with removed elytra are unable to produce an audible sound. Thus, the sound is produced by the friction of the wings on the elytra, but there are no specialized stridulatory structures on them. In females, in response to tactile stimulation, short clicks are recorded, which they make, apparently, by the mandibles. Vibrational signals at tremulation are emitted by individuals of both sexes during courtship and males, completing the calling signal cycle and after copulation. It is possible that vibrational signals are an additional factor in reproductive isolation in sympatric species, since the calling sound signals in representatives of the genus Nesoecia are similar and exhibit significant variability.

scholarly journals Ultrastructure of Nuclear Division in Paramecium Aurelia III. Meiosis in the Micronucleus During Conjugation

1972 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 775 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Meiotic Division ◽  
Nuclear Division ◽  
Mitotic Division ◽  
Pair Formation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Condensed Chromatin ◽  
Synaptinemal Complex ◽  
The Core ◽  
Female Pronucleus ◽  
The One

Ultrastructural features of micronuclear meiosis occurring during conjugation of the ciliate P. aurelia are described. Following pair formation the micronuclei enter prophase. The core of condensed chromatin in the micronucleus fragments, and almost the whole nucleus becomes filled with coiled and twisted chromatin elements. After about 1� 5 hr of pairing regions of condensed chromatin appear linked into strands 1-2 p;m long. Somewhat later, ill-defined, synaptinemal, complex-like material lies between paired masses of chromatin. Only a few synaptinemal complex-like structures can be seen in the nucleus. A short while later, synaptinemal complex-like material may be seen free in the nucleoplasm. After about 2�5 hr of pairing, the micronucleus expands into the crescent stage. Microtubules appear in the nucleus, which expands rapidly to a length of about 20 /Lm, usually oriented along the long axis of the cell. Concurrently with expansion the chromatin becomes diffuse and spreads along the length of the nucleus. This stage probably corresponds to diplotene. The nuoleus then shrinks, miorotubules reappear, and metaphase of the first meiotic division oocurs. A large number of chromosomes, with indistinct kinetochores, can be seen. At telophase the nucleus is 15-20 /Lm long and dumbbell-shaped. It breaks into two parts, there being no separation spindle, in contrast to mioronuclear mitosis. The seoond meiotic division occurs immediately. Ultrastructurally it resembles the first with respeot to metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Since P. aurelia has two micronuclei, there are eight haploid meiotic products. The one nearest the paroral cone survives and the other seven disintegrate and are resorbed. The remaining nucleus undergoes a modified mitotic division. One of the two final produots becomes a stationary ("female") pronucleus, while the other becomes a migratory ("male") pronuoleus. Male pronuclei are exchanged aoross the fused paroral oone regions of the partners. The male pronucleus contains microtubules during its migration. After fusion to produce the synkaryon, the conjugants separate.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

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