Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Valdez
Keyword(s):  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
Black And White ◽  
First Time

After returning from Australia for the first time in three years, George Talboys joins his friend Robert Audley at a Westminster coffee house. There he picks up a ‘greasy Times newspaper of the day before from a heap of journals on the table’, only to confront the printed evidence of his wife’s death: ‘On the 24th inst., at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Helen Talboys, aged 22.’ Audley tries to comfort Talboys and assures him that ‘there may be some other Helen Talboys’ or it ‘may be a misprint for Talbot’. Talboys, however, believes that his wife is dead: ‘Yes, there it was in black and white – “Helen Talboys, aged 22.”’...

scholarly journals Illustrated checklist of Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) of Hong Kong, China, with description of two new species

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 35-58
Author(s):  
Gyula M. László ◽  
Mark Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Check List ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

This paper provides a comprehensive check list of Nolinae species recorded in Hong Kong, China based on the collections of the second author, Dr. Roger Kendrick and the Natural History Museum, London. The checklist comprises 30 species.  Two of them are new to science and described here as new species (Spininola kendricki sp. n., and Hampsonola ceciliae sp. n.). Misidentification of the female paratype of Spininola nepali László, Ronkay & Ronkay, 2014 is revealed and the true female of S. nepali is illustrated with its genitalia described here for the first time. The hitherto unknown female of S. armata László, Ronkay & Witt, 2010 is also illustrated here for the first time. All species recorded from Hong Kong are illustrated together with their genitalia on 54 colour and 46 black and white diagnostic figures.

Forging New Identities in a World Gone Mad

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-47
Author(s):  
Susan T. Falck
Keyword(s):  
Black Churches ◽  
American Missionary Association ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Confederate Army ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
Historical Memories ◽  
First Time ◽  
Planter Class

This chapter recounts the turmoil endured by black and white Natchez women and men during the Civil War and Union occupation, and how these experiences shaped historical memories of the war. Mississippi’s economy lay in ruins with nearly a quarter of the white males who served in the Confederate Army killed in action or perishing from wounds or disease at war’s end, while white civilians faced poverty, military loss, and a racial hierarchy turned upside down. Natchez’s large African-American population majority faced their own challenges but found sustenance in black churches and schools organized by the American Missionary Association during Reconstruction. Natchez had all the makings for a complex set of historical memories: great wealth, followed by profound loss, a paternalistic planter class, a sizable free black community that did not always sympathize with former slaves, and a massive formerly enslaved labor force discovering freedom for the first time.

Qualia, Robots and Complementarity of Subject and Object

1998 ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Piotr Boltuc
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
First Person ◽  
German Philosophy ◽  
Secondary Qualities ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Complementary Approach ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
First Time ◽  
Person Experience ◽  
First Person Experience

Jackson claims that a person who sees colors for the first time by this very fact acquires a certain knowledge which she or he could not have learned in a black and white world. This argument can be generalized to other secondary qualities. I argue that this claim is indefensible without implicit recourse to the first-person experience; also Nagel’s "what it is like" argument is polemically weak. Hence, we have no argument able to dismiss physicalism by consideration of first-person qualia (contra Jackson); however, it does not force us to endorse qualia-reductionism. In the second part of my paper I defend non-reductionism in a different way. Following Nagel and Harman, I try to avoid criticisms usually presented against Nagel, seeing subjectivity and objectivity as two complementary structures of the subjective and objective element of our language. I refer to classical German philosophy, phenomenology and Marxist dialectics which have developed a complementary approach crucial in the reductionist/anti-reductionist controversy in the philosophy of mind.

scholarly journals Holstein Friesian dairy cattle edited for diluted coat color as a potential adaptation to climate change

BMC Genomics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Laible ◽  
S.-A. Cole ◽  
B. Brophy ◽  
J. Wei ◽  
S. Leath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cattle ◽  
Coat Color ◽  
Dilution Effect ◽  
White Coat ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Holstein Friesian ◽  
Coat Pattern ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Abstract Background High-producing Holstein Friesian dairy cattle have a characteristic black and white coat, often with large proportions of black. Compared to a light coat color, black absorbs more solar radiation which is a contributing factor to heat stress in cattle. To better adapt dairy cattle to rapidly warming climates, we aimed to lighten their coat color by genome editing. Results Using gRNA/Cas9-mediated editing, we introduced a three bp deletion in the pre-melanosomal protein 17 gene (PMEL) proposed as causative variant for the semi-dominant color dilution phenotype observed in Galloway and Highland cattle. Calves generated from cells with homozygous edits revealed a strong color dilution effect. Instead of the characteristic black and white markings of control calves generated from unedited cells, the edited calves displayed a novel grey and white coat pattern. Conclusion This, for the first time, verified the causative nature of the PMEL mutation for diluting the black coat color in cattle. Although only one of the calves was healthy at birth and later succumbed to a naval infection, the study showed the feasibility of generating such edited animals with the possibility to dissect the effects of the introgressed edit and other interfering allelic variants that might exist in individual cattle and accurately determine the impact of only the three bp change.

scholarly journals Pareidolia in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eid G. Abo Hamza ◽  
Szabolcs Kéri ◽  
Katalin Csigó ◽  
Dalia Bedewy ◽  
Ahmed A. Moustafa
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Natural Scenes ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Face ◽  
Noise Test ◽  
Bipolar Patients ◽  
Blurred Images ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
First Time

While there are many studies on pareidolia in healthy individuals and patients with schizophrenia, to our knowledge, there are no prior studies on pareidolia in patients with bipolar disorder. Accordingly, in this study, we, for the first time, measured pareidolia in patients with bipolar disorder (N = 50), and compared that to patients with schizophrenia (N = 50) and healthy controls (N = 50). We have used (a) the scene test, which consists of 10 blurred images of natural scenes that was previously found to produce illusory face responses and (b) the noise test which had 32 black and white images consisting of visual noise and 8 images depicting human faces; participants indicated whether a face was present on these images and to point to the location where they saw the face. Illusory responses were defined as answers when observers falsely identified objects that were not on the images in the scene task (maximum illusory score: 10), and the number of noise images in which they reported the presence of a face (maximum illusory score: 32). Further, we also calculated the total pareidolia score for each task (the sum number of images with illusory responses in the scene and noise tests). The responses were scored by two independent raters with an excellent congruence (kappa > 0.9). Our results show that schizophrenia patients scored higher on pareidolia measures than both healthy controls and patients with bipolar disorder. Our findings are agreement with prior findings on more impaired cognitive processes in schizophrenia than in bipolar patients.

Charming but Villain

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Lale Kabadayı
Keyword(s):  
Black And White ◽  
White Film ◽  
Turkish Cinema ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

In the history of cinema, bad girl/boy characters are less common than other villain characters. However, these characters have a lot of influence on the audience. The Bad Seed movies, which are important book adaptations, are remarkable for the evil done by a charming, pretty little girl. The audience watched the story of this eight-year-old-girl for the first time with the adaptation made in 1956. The book was adapted as a television movie in the US both in 1985 and 2018. However, it was made in Turkey, too. This adaptation was shot in 1963 by director Nevzat Pesen. This black-and-white film is considered one of the best thriller-horror films of Turkish Cinema. In this study, the relationship of the little girl with evil will be examined in terms of differences in US and Turkish adaptations. Thus, the difference between the two cultures regarding the relationship between child and villainy will be evaluated from the point of cinema.

The Aftermath

Studying Ida ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Sheila Skaff
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
North America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The World ◽  
Telluride Film ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
First Time ◽  
World Premiere

This chapter mentions Paweł Pawlikowski's acceptance speech after Ida won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which was the first time that a film from Poland had won the award. It analyses Pawlikowski's description of Ida as a film in black-and-white that stresses the need for contemplation and silence from the world. It also recounts Ida's world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado on August 30, 2013 and its rise to recognition by 2014. The chapter details how Ida received positive reviews in Western Europe and North America from the time of its premiere. It looks at Kenneth Turan's review of Ida in The Los Angeles Times, which described Ida as a film of exceptional artistry whose emotions are as potent and persuasive as its images are indelibly beautiful.

scholarly journals Are Children With Autism More Likely to Retain Object Names When Learning From Colour Photographs or Black-and-White Cartoons?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheriece K. Carter ◽  
Calum Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Mutual Exclusivity ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
First Time

Abstract For the first time, this study investigated whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) children matched on language comprehension (M age equivalent =  ~ 44 months) are more likely to retain words when learning from colour photographs than black-and-white cartoons. Participants used mutual exclusivity to fast map novel word-picture relationships and retention was assessed following a 5-min delay. Children with ASD achieved significantly greater retention accuracy when learning from photographs rather than cartoons and, surprisingly, responded more accurately than TD children when learning from photographs. Our results demonstrate that children with ASD benefit from greater iconicity when learning words from pictures, providing a data-grounded rationale for using colour photographs when administering picture-based interventions.

scholarly journals On the taxonomy of Meganola cretacea (Hampson, 1914) with description of two new species (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Gyula M. László
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

The taxonomic position of Meganola cretacea (Hampson, 1914) is clarified and the species is transferred to the hitherto monotypic Oriental genus Ezishnola László, Ronkay & Witt, 2010: Ezishnola cretacea (Hampson, 1914) comb. nov. The male and female genitalia of E. cretacea are illustrated and described for the first time. Two new species from Zambia (E. inopinata sp. nov.) and Uganda (E. carcassoni sp. nov.) are described. 14 colour and 10 black and white diagnostic figures and a distribution map are provided.

scholarly journals Sexually selected lip colour indicates male group-holding status in the mating season in a multi-level primate society

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 150490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril C. Grueter ◽  
Pingfen Zhu ◽  
William L. Allen ◽  
James P. Higham ◽  
Baoping Ren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Male Competition ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mating Season ◽  
Reproductive Competition ◽  
Lower Lip ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Time Of Year ◽  
First Time

Sexual selection typically produces ornaments in response to mate choice, and armaments in response to male–male competition. Unusually among mammals, many primates exhibit colour signals that may be related to one or both processes. Here, we document for the first time correlates of facial coloration in one of the more brightly coloured primates, the black-and-white snub-nosed monkey ( Rhinopithecus bieti ). Snub-nosed monkeys have a one-male unit (OMU) based social organization, but these units aggregate semi-permanently into larger bands. This form of mating system causes many males to become associated with bachelor groups. We quantified redness of the prominent lower lip in 15 males (eight bachelors, seven OMU holders) in a group at Xiangguqing, China. Using mixed models, our results show that lip redness increases with age. More interestingly, there is a significant effect of the interaction of group-holding status and mating season on redness; that is, lip colour of OMU males undergoes reddening in the mating season, whereas the lips of subadult and juvenile bachelor males become paler at that time of year. These results indicate that lip coloration is a badge of (group-holding) status during the mating season, with non-adults undergoing facial differentiation, perhaps to avoid the costs of reproductive competition. Future research should investigate whether lip coloration is a product of male–male competition, and/or female mate choice.

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