scholarly journals Identification of a unique barb from the dorsal body contour feathers of the Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura (Aves: Passeriformes: Pittidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 19029-19039
Author(s):  
Prateek Dey ◽  
Swapna Devi Ray ◽  
Sanjeev Kumaar Sharma ◽  
Padmanabhan Pramod ◽  
Ram Pratap Singh
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Passerine Bird ◽  
The Body ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Body Contour ◽  
Wing Feather ◽  
Contour Feather ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

Earlier research on feather morphology emphasized comprehensively on the body contour feather than various other types of feathers. Therefore, we conducted a systematic study on all feather types of the Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura, a passerine bird native to the Indian subcontinent. Feather barbs from wing contour, tail contour, body contour, semiplume, down, powder down, and bristle feathers were retrieved from the bird and observed under a light microscope. Primary flight feathers from the right and left wing were longest (85.17 mm and 87.32 mm, respectively), whereas bristle feathers were the shortest (5.31 mm). The mean barb length was observed to be the highest (11.37±0.47 mm) in the wing feather followed by body contour (8.31±0.39 mm), semiplume (8.27±0.22 mm), tail feather (7.85±0.50 mm), down (6.45±0.21 mm), powder down (6.04±0.23 mm), and bristle (2.70±0.07 mm).  Pearson correlation was found positive for barb length and feather length of down feathers (r= 0.996, p ≤0.05). We observed a novel type of barb the first time from dorsal body contour feather having plumulaceous barbules at the base followed by pennaceous barbules. This unique barbule arrangement is termed ‘sub-plumulaceous’ as it is distinct and analogous to known ‘sub-pennaceous’ type arrangement found absent in passerines.

scholarly journals Identification of a unique barb from the dorsal body contour feathers of the Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura (Aves: Passeriformes: Pittidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 18781-18791
Author(s):  
Prateek Dey ◽  
Swapna Devi Ray ◽  
Sanjeev Kumaar Sharma ◽  
Padmanabhan Pramod ◽  
Ram Pratap Singh
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Passerine Bird ◽  
The Body ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Body Contour ◽  
Wing Feather ◽  
Contour Feather ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

Earlier research on feather morphology emphasized comprehensively on the body contour feather than various other types of feathers. Therefore, we conducted a systematic study on all feather types of the Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura, a passerine bird native to the Indian subcontinent. Feather barbs from wing contour, tail contour, body contour, semiplume, down, powder down, and bristle feathers were retrieved from the bird and observed under a light microscope. Primary flight feathers from the right and left wing were longest (85.17 mm and 87.32 mm, respectively), whereas bristle feathers were the shortest (5.31 mm). The mean barb length was observed to be the highest (11.37±0.47 mm) in the wing feather followed by body contour (8.31±0.39 mm), semiplume (8.27±0.22 mm), tail feather (7.85±0.50 mm), down (6.45±0.21 mm), powder down (6.04±0.23 mm), and bristle (2.70±0.07 mm).  Pearson correlation was found positive for barb length and feather length of down feathers (r= 0.996, p ≤0.05). We observed a novel type of barb the first time from dorsal body contour feather having plumulaceous barbules at the base followed by pennaceous barbules. This unique barbule arrangement is termed ‘sub-plumulaceous’ as it is distinct and analogous to known ‘sub-pennaceous’ type arrangement found absent in passerines.

scholarly journals El Salvador’s FMLN and the Constraints on Leftist Government

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin A. Young
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Progressive Reforms ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

The 1992 Salvadoran peace accords ended a 12-year civil war and forced modest democratic reforms on a state long dominated by a ruthless oligarchy and military. However, the new system represented a shallow version of democracy that remained largely unresponsive to the population. For two decades the far-right Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Nationalist Republican Alliance [ARENA]) party held the presidency and used it to enact pro-business economic policies of austerity, privatization, and deregulation. In 2009, the left-wing opposition party, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), won the presidential elections for the first time. Yet despite winning some notable progressive reforms, the FMLN did not seek, much less achieve, a radical break from the neoliberal policies of previous administrations. FMLN leaders opted to continue a number of pro-capitalist policies while pursuing reforms to ameliorate the worst symptoms of the system, not overthrow it. The FMLN’s shift away from revolutionary socialism is attributable to several factors: a political and media terrain that still heavily favors the right, the continued influence of the United States government, and private investors’ control over the economy. These constraints were vitally important during the tenures of FMLN presidents Mauricio Funes (2009–2014) and Salvador Sánchez Cerén (2014–2019). El Salvador’s political trajectory since 1992, and especially during the FMLN’s decade in the presidency, offers insights into the constraints facing various left-of-center governments elected across Latin America in the early 21st century.

scholarly journals KORELASI PANJANG LENGAN BAWAH DAN TINGGI BADAN MAHASISWI SUKU BANJAR FAKULTAS KEDOKTERAN UNIVERSITAS LAMBUNG MANGKURAT

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Iwan Aflanie ◽  
Nurul Qomariah ◽  
Mashuri Mashuri
Keyword(s):  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Height Estimation ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Estimation Formula ◽  
The Right ◽  
Forearm Length

Abstract: Estimated height has an important role in identifying unknown bodies, incomplete, and the residual bone. Measurements in the long bones such as the forearm are better used to determine the height because it is the best result among the other members of the body size. The purpose of this study was to analyzed a correlation between the forearm length with the height of Banjar Tribe’s students of Medical Faculty of Lambung Mangkurat University and to obtain height estimation formula based on the forearm length in Banjar Tribe’ female. The research method is an analytical observation with cross sectional approach. The research subjects were taken by purposive sampling with samples of 52 people and were analyzed by Pearson correlation and linear regression analysis. The results of Pearson test showed that the value of p = 0,00 for the right and left arm with the value of r = 0.974 for the right arm and r = 0.972 for the left arm, which means there is a very strong relationship between the forearm length with height. It is concluded that there is a very strong correlation between the forearm length with students height of Banjar tribe Medical Faculty of Lambung Mangkurat University with height estimation formula Height = 63,838 + 3,693 x length of the right forearm and Height = 61,873 + 3,780 x left forearm length. Keywords: identification, height estimation, Banjar tribe’ female Abstrak: Memperkirakan tinggi badan mempunyai peranan penting dalam mengidentifikasi jenazah tidak dikenal, tidak lengkap, dan sisa tulang. Pengukuran pada tulang panjang seperti lengan bawah lebih baik digunakan untuk menentukan tinggi badan karena merupakan hasil terbaik diantara ukuran anggota tubuh yang lain. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis korelasi antara panjang lengan bawah dengan tinggi badan dan mendapatkan formula estimasi tinggi badan berdasarkan panjang lengan bawah pada mahasiswi suku Banjar Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Lambung Mangkurat. Metode penelitian adalah observasional analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Pengambilan subjek penelitian dengan cara purposive sampling dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 52 orang. Analisis yang digunakan dengan analisis korelasi Pearson. Hasil uji Pearson didapatkan nilai p = 0,00 untuk lengan kanan dan kiri. Hubungan  antara panjang lengan bawah kanan dengan tinggi badan memiliki nilai r = 0,974, sedangkan hubungan  antara panjang lengan bawah kiri dengan tinggi badan memiliki nilai r = 0,972. Kesimpulan penelitian ini adalah terdapat korelasi yang sangat kuat antara panjang lengan bawah dengan tinggi badan pada mahasiswi suku Banjar Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Lambung Mangkurat dengan formula estimasi tinggi badan TB = 63,838 + 3,693 x panjang lengan bawah kanan dan TB = 61,873 + 3,780 x panjang lengan bawah kiri. Kata-kata kunci : identifikasi, estimasi tinggi badan, wanita suku Banjar

New data on cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from India and Sri Lanka, with descriptions of new species and the genital complex of Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4236 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEONID N. ANISYUTKIN ◽  
OLGA V. YUSHKOVA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South India ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Phylogenetic Significance ◽  
Genital Complex ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
Female Genital

New cockroach species from South India (Aptera brindlei sp.nov., Rhabdoblattella alexeevi sp.nov., R. euptera sp.nov., Morphna indica sp.nov.) and Sri Lanka (Placoblatta beybienkoi sp.nov., Morphna srilankensis sp.nov.) are described. The genus Rhabdoblattella Anisyutkin, 2000 is re-diagnosed. A revised key to the genera of Epilamprinae from South India and Sri Lanka and detailed morphological descriptions of new species are provided. The structure of the female genital complex of Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784) is described for the first time. Possible biogeographical connections of the cockroach fauna of Indian subcontinent and the phylogenetic significance of the right phallomere are briefly discussed. 

The Limiting Values of Added Masses of a Partially Submerged Cylinder of Arbitrary Shape

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
G. A. Athanassoulis ◽  
P. D. Kaklis ◽  
C. G. Politis
Keyword(s):  
Arbitrary Shape ◽  
Integral Formula ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Added Mass ◽  
The Body ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Body Contour ◽  
Added Masses ◽  
First Time ◽  
Limiting Values

Using Schwarz's integral formula, new series expressions are obtained for the low-and high-frequency limiting values of the added-mass tensor of partially submerged cylinders of arbitrary shape, including nonsmooth and non-symmetric ones. These series contain the Fourier coefficients of simple geometric quantities of the body contour, and their rate of convergence is controlled by geometrical parameters reflecting the smoothness of the double-body contour. Alternative expressions of a more usual form, in terms of the conformal mapping coefficients of the body contour, are also presented. The off-diagonal elements of the limiting added-mass tensors as well as the low-frequency added moment of inertia for nonsymmetric sections are apparently given for the first time. As an application, closed-form expressions for the limiting added-mass coefficients of an extended-Lewis family of ship sections are obtained. Numerical results are also presented for an extended-Lewis, a rectangular, and three ogival sections. The convergence of the frequency-dependent elements of the added-mass tensors towards their limiting values is also discussed in detail, and it is numerically illustrated for a heeled ship-like section.

An interesting new gastrotrich from littoral meiobenthos (Long Beach Island, USA), with a key to species of Tetranchyroderma (Gastrotricha: Macrodasyida)

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Todaro
Keyword(s):  
Total Body Length ◽  
The Body ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Total Body ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Sediment Layers ◽  
First Time ◽  
Formalin Fixed

Marine representatives of the phylum Gastrotricha are reported for the first time from the State of New Jersey, USA. Littoral and shallow sublittoral sediment collected at Ship Bottom on Long Beach Island, near Atlantic City, yielded 11 species belonging to eight genera in six families in the orders Macrodasyida (four genera in three families) and Chaetonotida (four genera in three families). Littoral samples were richer than the one sublittoral sample (7 vs 4 spp.). Among the taxa was a large, undescribed species of Tetranchyroderma characterized by the following key traits: total body length up to 605 μm; cuticular covering complete, made up of pentancres; a pair of cephalic tentacles; dorsal adhesive tubes arranged in dorsal and dorsolateral columns; a pair of ventral adhesive tubes arising from a common base, near the perigenital area only on the right side; peculiar cuticular openings ‘stomata’ along the ventrolateral margins of the body; protogynous hermaphroditism. Tetranchyroderma weissi sp. nov. is, at least in the investigated location, restricted to the sediment layers below 20 cm of the intertidal zone, and is able to live in thiobiotic sediment. A key to the described species of the world based on easily discernible traits, visible in both living and formalin-fixed specimens is provided.

scholarly journals Il voto nei quartieri di Roma dal 2000 al 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-110
Author(s):  
Federico Tomassi
Keyword(s):  
Political Polarization ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Five Star Movement ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Social and economic inequalities between the city centre and peripheral belts persist for many years in Rome districts, in parallel to the on-going suburban sprawl. That yields political effects too, since electoral results from 2000 to 2018 highlight sharp political polarization: votes for left-wing (right-wing or Five Star Movement) candidates are inversely (directly) proportional to distance from Capitoline Hill. Notably, in 2018 general election, the left-wing coalition prevailed in central districts only, where education levels and personal income are very high, and (even if only slightly) in historical periphery, where it keeps consensus on progressive, inclusive and liberal policies. The opposite holds for the new populist Five Star Movement, that prevailed in low-density periphery inside the Orbital, in far-off sprawled districts and in Ostia coastal area. However, the right-wing coalition won in Rome as a whole, by more homogeneous and even inter-classist consensus, and prevailed outside the Orbital thanks to the League, that had for the very first time many votes in the Roman peripheries. As a matter of facts, both right-wing and populist policies seem easier to the extent that suburban citizens feel deprived since harmed by economic crisis, unsafe and worried about immigrants, far from elected bodies, scarcely endowed with public services.

scholarly journals Laterality of head position at rest in mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) from two distinct northern wintering groups

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uliana Birina ◽  
Yegor Malashichev
Keyword(s):  
Relative Proportion ◽  
Head Position ◽  
The Body ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Invertebrate Animals ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Right

Motor asymmetries are wide spread among vertebrate and invertebrate animals. More frequently asymmetries in the use of paired appendages and turns of the body in space become the subject of research. Unpaired organs, positioned along the long axis of the body become the subjects of investigation of the functional asymmetries less often. Here we performed a preliminary estimation of populational characteristics of asymmetry in the turn of the head while resting in Mallards (Anas platyrynchos) from two distinct wintering groups. On tracks along the banks of rivers and channels in the center of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and along the Buksnesfjord at the Vestvagøy island (Lofoten Islands, Norway Sea, Norway), we recorded the position of the head (under the left wing, or under the right wing) in resting birds ones for each individual. Totally we recorded head position in 151 individuals from Saint-Petersburg and in 77 individuals at Vestvagøy. Individuals keeping heads under the right wing were predominant in Saint-Petersburg, while at Vestvagøy the proportion of «left» and «right» individuals did not differ significantly from 1:1. Difference between the populations was significant, while sex differences in both populations were not found. We discuss possible reasons for the differences in population characteristics of asymmetry in the head position («head-under-wing»), particularly conditions of wintering, birds behaviour. We conclude that the study of different wintering groups of mallards can be possibly perspective for estimation of population status by assessment of relative proportion of «left» and «right» birds.

scholarly journals BFS Human Behaviour Model for Traffic Safety

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Molan ◽  
Gregor Molan
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Traffic Situation ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Right

The Butterfly Flower Shower (BFS) Human Behaviour Model describes human behaviour in each demanding, possible accidental situation. The BFS human behaviour model is presented for a traffic situation. The key elements (perception, cognition, reaction) of the human behaviour are identified. Also possible limitations and errors in all elements of human behaviour are presented. The model is presented as the butterfly on the flower under the shower of interventions. The flower is environment describing traffic infrastructure composed of the environment, technology and organization. The body of the butterfly is human cognition with personality and motivation. The left wing of the butterfly is the driver’s perception. The right wing of the butterfly is the driver’s reaction. The butterfly presents the driver, the flower presents the road – the traffic infrastructure and the shower presents the shower of humanization interventions into the traffic infrastructure and into the driver. The drops from the shower are related to identified limitations in the traffic infrastructure and to the driver. They are focused on the improvements of perception, cognition and reaction abilities of the driver also with investments into the traffic infrastructure.

scholarly journals The body politic: Gender, the right wing and ‘identity category violations’

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Downing
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Identity Category ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

The post-Brexit, post-Trump climate in the EU has seen a series of challenges from the right wing of politics to the liberal consensus of recent years (e.g. the rise of Gert Wilders in the Netherlands and the increased support for Alternativ für Deutschland in the 2017 German election). This article examines the gendering and embodiment of the new far right in France and the UK. It offers a comparative focus on two recent political challengers from the right who are female: Marine Le Pen (born 1968), the leader of the Front national in France since 2011, and Anne Marie Waters (born 1977), the Islam-critical candidate who was runner-up for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) leadership in the UK in 2017, and who has since started her own political party, For Britain. The article focuses on media coverage of, and self-representation by, these two figures. It argues that the discourse of the ‘right’ and ‘left’ wings has, historically, been gendered on the basis of assumptions that women are naturally more inclined towards consensus-building, collectivity and compassion (and therefore left-wing politics), by dint of their biological function as child-bearers and traditional gender role as care-givers. Right-leaning women have been treated as anomalies, by both feminist political analysts and the mainstream media. Feminist concerns over the very existence of right-wing women is suggested by books such as second-wave feminist Andrea Dworkin’s Right-Wing Women (1983), the more recent edited collection by Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, also called Right-Wing Women (2013) and, in the French context, Claudie Lesselier and Fiametta Venner’s L’Extrême Droite et les femmes (1997). Le Pen and Waters appear as doubly aberrant, doubly exceptional figures – firstly as (far-)right-wing women and secondly as (far-)right-wing female leaders. The article considers the stakes of our categorical understandings of (gendered and political) identity more broadly. Specifically, by introducing the original critical concept of ‘identity category violation’, it analyses the ways in which the recent trend for identity politics on the left in the West, often under the banner of ‘intersectionality’, leads to over-simplified understandings of how categories of gendered, sexual, class and race-based identities are assumed to determine political affiliation.

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