scholarly journals Comparative morphological analysis of apple blister mite, Eriophyes mali Nal., a new pest in Serbia

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Vidovic ◽  
Slavica Marinkovic ◽  
Ivana Maric ◽  
Radmila Petanovic
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Geographical Origin ◽  
European Population ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Comparative Morphological Analysis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
New Pest

The apple blister mite, Eriophyes mali Nalepa, 1926 (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea), has been recently found in Serbia as a new pest of apple. The history of its research, the results of a morphological analysis and degree of infestation are presented. A comparison of the main morphological features of mites from different populations of remote geographical origin has shown that the apple blister mite from Serbia is most similar to another European population (Bulgarian [or Austrian?]) while it differs from E. mali originating from the USA and New Zealand. The percentage of infestation varied from 1.6% to 87.6%, with an average of 22.4%.

scholarly journals Techno-morphological features of items made of antler from the site near the village of Michnievičy (north-western Belarus)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-122
Author(s):  
Anna Andreevna Malyutina ◽  
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Vashanov ◽  
Mariya Ivanovna Tkacheva ◽  
Evgenia Sergeevna Tkach
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Village ◽  
North Western ◽  
Selection Of

The paper presents the results of a techno-morphological analysis of items made of antler obtained as a result of the collections from the 1960s-1990s from the site near the village of Michnievičy Smorgon District of the Grodno Region (north-western Belarus). Currently, more than 100 artifacts are known from this site, as well as a large number of fauna residues with no visible traces of processing. Radiocarbon dating was obtained for some categories of products, which link them to 9-2 thousand BC. The largest part of the collection refers to the period of the Mesolithic - Neolithic. At the first stage of work, the most expressive and numerous group of artifacts made of horn (24 exemplars), stored in the fonds of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, was selected for a techno-morphological analysis. The degree of preservation of the external surface of objects is relatively good, which made it possible to analyze macro-traces related to the technology of manufacturing various categories of products, on the basis of which a process flow was proposed - from the selection of raw materials to the finished product. The analysis of the technological traces recorded on the products allowed us to highlight the differences in the manufacturing processes of the oldest tools. In addition, on the basis of the macro signs of utilitarian wear, preliminary observations on the functional using of objects were obtained. According to technological and morphological features, the whole of the analyzed material was divided into conditional categories of instruments with a selected heel and without it. The presence or absence of this element, apparently, influenced the method of using objects in various household situations.

The ‘Playful Pluralist’: The Pioneer Genre-Roaming of ‘Crypto-Feminist’ Coral Lansbury

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-193
Author(s):  
Melanie Nolan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Women's Associations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unmarried Motherhood

Coral Lansbury wrote in a number of different registers and genres. Serially, she was an Australian radio script and ‘soaps’ writer, studied in New Zealand as an expatriate, became a Distinguished Professor of English specialising in British Victorian Studies in the USA and then a novelist. As well as boomeranging between writing careers and countries of the Anglosphere, the thrice-married Lansbury experienced widowhood, unmarried motherhood and divorce; she abandoned her child to her husband and later reconciled with her son. Her life reads like a plot from one of her novels. Lansbury was not active in women’s associations or the organised feminist movement. Her radio work, lectures and book tours in which she expounded her ‘crypto’ and, then later, ‘economic’ and ‘conservative-anarchist’ feminism were ephemeral. I argue that she should be repatriated into the history of postwar Australian feminism because, while mercurial and living in the USA, she pursued an expatriate professional strategy successfully and consistently sought to extend women’s vocation through kinds of popular literature. Her work reveals pluralism as much as contradiction.

Capgras Syndrome: Possibly More Common Among the Maori of New Zealand

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 865-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mackirdy ◽  
Debbie Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Family Members ◽  
European Population ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Psychotic Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capgras Syndrome ◽  
The City

Objective: The report describes an apparently greater incidence of Capgras syndrome among the Maori population compared with the European population, in the most easterly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. Method: Over the last year we have become aware of five cases of Capgras syndrome in our catchment area. This area (population nearly 21 000) consists of a rapidly expanding new suburb of the city of Tauranga and a rural area extending 55 km east of the city. These figures were compared with those of the westerly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital, where the psychiatric team is not aware of any examples of Capgras syndrome among their population. The 1996 census figures were obtained in order to calculate a population ethnicity breakdown. Results: Five cases of Capgras syndrome were identified in the most easterly catchment area where 19% of the population identified as Maori, 75% as European and 6% as other or non-specified. All of the cases occurred in Maori patients. This compares with no identified cases of Capgras syndrome in the most westerly catchment area where 12% of the population identified as Maori, 87% as European and 1% as other or non-specified. Four out of five cases were female. Two cases had a history of cannabis use. Three cases had exhibited dangerous behaviour towards family members. Conclusions: There is an apparently greater incidence of Capgras syndrome among the New Zealand Maori population compared with the European population in the most easterly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital. In our population Capgras syndrome is a common, not rare, feature of psychotic illness, and the cases support a previously reported association of this syndrome with dangerousness.

scholarly journals Kiwi and the Dervish: A Short History of Bosnian Settlement in New Zealand

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-68
Author(s):  
Abdullah Drury
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
European Population ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
Personal Motivation ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
Public Lives ◽  
Mainstream Society

Emigration from Bosnia-Herzegovina to New Zealand invariably affects, and often undermines, the core religious practices and affiliations of Slavic Muslims. Research suggests that most of these immigrants and refugees have subsumed a key feature of their unique Balkan heritage in order to integrate into mainstream society, the Anglo-European population in this predominantly Protestant-Christian nation in the South Pacific. My study aims to elucidate this historic phenomenon through an exploration of multiple biographies of several working class persons, within the context of the wider picture of Bosnian settlement here. This essay asks: to what degree does personal motivation appear to influence participation in the wider, shared spiritual tradition of Islam in a minority societal context? Predicated on a review of the available literature, my research suggests a complex socio-economic bricolage. Through a case study design my analysis demonstrates that most Bosnian immigrants and refugees over the twentieth century were more concerned with tangible material objectives than theological principles or goals. These results indicate that, overall, religion played less of a role in their private and public lives historically compared to Asian and African immigrants and refugees. On this basis, it is suggested that in future Muslim social and religious organisations based in Bosnia make greater efforts to liaise with their diaspora populations even at these further-most edges of the earth and provide better spiritual leadership. Further research is necessary to identify other aspects that could strengthen Bosnian Muslim culture outside Europe.

3 The Energy Charter Treaty: The Background and the Negotiating History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hobér Kaj
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
European Council ◽  
Council Meeting ◽  
Energy Charter Treaty ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Energy Community ◽  
Binding Agreement

This chapter traces the negotiating history of the Energy Charter Treaty. The genesis of the Treaty goes back to a European Council meeting held in Dublin in June of 1990. At that meeting, the Dutch Prime Minister at that time, Mr. Ruud Lubbers, presented a proposal for the creation of a European Energy Community. During 1991, the text of the ECT was negotiated and drafted by the Conference on the European Energy Charter. The Charter recognized the need for a legally binding agreement for co-operation in the energy sector. Delegations from more than fifty States were involved in the negotiations, including the USA, Russia, and most members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including its non-European members—Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand. The various drafts of the ECT are divided into three categories: Basic Protocols; Basic Agreements; and ECT Drafts. The first ECT draft was presented on March 15, 1993. It must be kept in mind, however, that the ECT was negotiated under time pressure, as a consequence of which the language is sometimes ambiguous and unclear, bearing the hallmarks of the ambition to create a comprehensive treaty covering the entire energy sector to be agreed by a large number of participants.

Resolving the confusion between two fossil freshwater diatoms from Otago, New Zealand: Encyonema jordanii and Encyonema jordaniforme (Cymbellaceae, Bacillariophyta)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 394 (4) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARGARET A. HARPER ◽  
BART VAN DE VIJVER ◽  
UWE KAULFUSS ◽  
DAPHNE E. LEE
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Freshwater Diatoms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pennate Diatoms ◽  
Scanning Electron

Encyonema jordanii and E. jordaniforme are two freshwater pennate diatoms from Otago, New Zealand which have been misidentified in the past. The first is of uncertain age, while E. jordaniforme, dominant in a Konservat-Lagerstätte diatomite from Foulden Maar near Middlemarch, South Island, New Zealand, is dated as earliest Miocene in age (23 Ma). The two species are similar in appearance as both are swollen at their centres. However, E. jordanii is constricted near its wide ends, which are ventrally deflected near their tips, whereas E. jordaniforme has more acute apices and less strongly radiating central striae. Both species are illustrated with light and scanning electron microscopy observations which highlight the main morphological features that can be used to separate the two species. A brief history of the taxonomy and description of both species is added.

scholarly journals A Century of Peer-reviewed Australian Zoological Research: Prominent Authors, Themes and Usage of Papers from Australian Zoologist

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Calver ◽  
Heather M. Crawford ◽  
Douglas Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
Publication History ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Profile ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Highly Cited

ABSTRACT The peer-reviewed Australian Zoologist, first published in 1914, is Australia’s longest-lived zoological journal. Its publication history shows changes in the zoological topics covered over the last 100 years, including the animals studied, characteristics of the authors and readership, and the influence of the databases used to study the journal on information retrieval. Searches in different databases retrieved different numbers of papers; Scopus (including secondary documents not in the database but cited by documents that are in the database) was the most comprehensive. Although authors from 22 countries contributed papers over the history of the Australian Zoologist, over 90% of authors were Australian. Most international authors came from the USA, the UK, Canada and New Zealand. Approximately two-thirds of authors citing Australian Zoologist were Australian-based, but there were still 10 or more authors from each of thirty-four other countries citing Australian Zoologist: while regional, the journal has an international profile. Highly cited papers in Australian Zoologist had high mean Scopus percentile ranks (20th century 83.9, 21st century 73.7), indicating that in comparison to their fields globally, these papers are used well above average. Considering all papers published in Australian Zoologist, over time the proportion of papers in the categories ‘Biodiversity & Conservation’ and ‘Environmental Sciences & Ecology’ rose significantly, reflecting the increased research in these areas. Between 2013 and 2019, when relevant metrics are available in Scopus, Australian Zoologist declined in no metric measured while improving significantly in CiteScore, Highest Percentile, and % Cited, indicating increasing references to Australian Zoologist papers by other peer-reviewed publications. Between 2010 and 2019, 2.1% of Australian Zoologist papers were ranked within the top 10% in their fields globally, based on citation impact. Authors considering publishing in Australian Zoologist should note that longer papers are acceptable, colour imagery (including photographs) is encouraged, the journal is visible in major databases, it is cited internationally and there are no page charges.

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