scholarly journals Is the diversity of the Beach Flies adequately known? Some notes on the state of the art of current knowledge (Diptera: Canacidae)

2015 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Munari
Keyword(s):  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
South American ◽  
The West ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The World

An overview of the major zoogeographical gaps in our knowledge of the world beach flies (subfamilies Apetaeninae, Horaismopterinae, Pelomyiinae, and Tethininae) is provided. The identified areas treated in this work are as follows: the subarctic Beringia, the South American circum-Antarctic islands, the Neotropical Region south of the equator, most of the West African seacoasts, the huge area ranging from India, across the Bay of Bengal, to Sumatra and Java, and most of Australia. Apart from the inhospitable northernmost and southernmost areas of the planet, which feature a real very low biodiversity, the remaining vast areas dealt with in this work woefully suffer a dramatic paucity of field collections, as well as of previously collected materials preserved in scientific institutions. This might seem a truism that, however, must be emphasized in order to unequivocally identify the geographic areas that need to be further investigated

South America

2020 ◽  
pp. 427-440
Author(s):  
Thiago Costa Chacon ◽  
Fernando O. de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Future Research ◽  
South American ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Word Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Mixed Systems

This chapter discusses the prosodic systems of South American native languages. It provides the state of the art of the current knowledge and lays out promising directions for future research. The main focus of the discussion concerns the phonetics and phonology of word-level prosody, given the limited information about prosody beyond the word in this part of the world. A typology of stress, tone, and mixed systems is presented that summarizes the main typological studies to date and suggests new, relevant parameters. The chapter further explores the most salient typological parameters in relation to geographic regions and linguistic families. The majority of South American languages appear to have only stress, followed by restricted tone systems. Finally, the chapter suggests directions for future research, emphasizing the need for more acoustic studies, the use of quantitative methods, and an approach within a framework of experimental or laboratory phonology.

scholarly journals Estado del arte del rendimiento académico en la educación media

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 197-220
Author(s):  
Oscar Hernán Cerquera Losada
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The World ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Individual

Este documento muestra el Estado de arte de los determinantes del rendimiento académico en la educación media, teniendo en cuenta las principales investigaciones realizadas, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, acerca de los factores que influyen en el logro escolar de los estudiantes. Con este trabajo, se busca establecer las principales variables, tanto en Colombia como en algunos lugares del mundo, que afectan el desempeño académico de los estudiantes. Este documento se organiza en dos sesiones, determinantes a nivel mundial y determinantes a nivel colombiano; cada sesión clasifica las investigaciones de acuerdo a los factores del estudiante, de la escuela y las características organizacionales y políticas. A pesar de existir muchas investigaciones sobre el tema, aún no se ha llegado a un consenso general sobre cómo determinar los factores del  rendimiento académico, pues en la realidad son muchas las características del individuo, la escuela o el sistema que se relacionan entre sí de diferente manera y pueden afectar el logro estudiantil.ABSTRACTThis document shows the state of the art of the determinants of academic achievement in secondary education, taking into account the main research conducted, both nationally and internationally, about the factors that influence school achievement of students. With this paper, we seek to establish the main variables which affect the academic achievement of students in Colombia as well as in some parts of the world. This document is organized in two sessions: world and Colombian determinants; each session classifies research according to the factors of the student, the school and organizational and political characteristics. Although there is much research on the topic so far it has not been possible to reach a consensus on how to determine the factors of academic achievement, because in reality many characteristics of the individual, of the school or of the system relate to each other differently and can affect student achievement.RESUMOEste documento mostra o Estado da arte dos determinantes do rendimento escolar no ensino medio, tendo em conta às principais pesquisas realizadas, tanto a nível nacional como internacionalmente, sobres os fatores que influenciam o desempenho escolar dos estudantes. Com este trabalho, se procura estabelecer as principais variáveis, tanto na Colômbia e em alguns lugares do mundo, afetando o desempenho acadêmico dos estudantes. Este documento está organizado em duas sessões, determinantes a nível mundial e determinantes a nível colombiano; cada sessão clasifica as pesquisas de acordó a os fatores do estudante, da escola e das características organizacionais e políticas. Embora haja muitas pesquisas sobre o tema, ainda não se chegou a um consenso geral sobre os fatores determinantes no desempenho acadêmico, porque na realidade são muitas as características do indivíduo, a escola ou o sistema que se relacionam uns com os outros de forma diferente e podem afetar o desempenho acadêmico.

Global Systemic Shift Redux: The State of the Art

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Benedikter ◽  
Katja Siepmann
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Systemic Shift

AbstractThe multidimensional nature of globalization is a work in progress, in many different ways throughout the world. This assessment follows upon an earlier one about the so-called global systemic shift – away from linear, hierarchical, and largely Eurocentric systems of thought and action toward something new, still to be defined and understood.

Using Contract Forms of Cooperation Between the Business and the State for Strategic Planning Documents Implementation

2020 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
Yulia V. Yevstafyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Mode ◽  
Economy System

Nowadays economic development governance needs immediate restructuring in accordance with institutional requirements of the new technological mode and world-economy system. The shift to these systems is intermediated by the world financial-economic crisis aggravation. The article considers an promising and qualifying arrangement of the state and the enterprises — contracting mutual obligations. There is a detailed review on a recently implemented in the law framework instrument — agreements on protection and encouragement of capital investments. It is suggested to enhance existing set of tools for strategic planning realisation with the multilateral special agreements — target contracts. Parties to contract can be not only public-law entities but also banks, development institutes, educational and scientific institutions.

Global Heritage Stones Resource: An IUGS designation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurmeet Kaur ◽  
Victor Cardenes
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
South American ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
The World ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
Natural Stones ◽  
To Come ◽  
Historical Past

<p>The initiative of designating the natural stones as Global Heritage Stones Resource by the IUGS is a novel one. The stakeholders are all those countries which record the stone built monuments of cultural significance. The stones used in the monuments with unique geological and architectural attributes and which have been used in the historical past with surviving and/or extinct quarries are being considered for designation of GHSRs. The European nations have been quick in identifying such stones and have proposed many significant stones for designation of GHSR in stark contrast to African, Asian and South American nations which are underrepresented on the world map in terms of designation of GHSR. The need of the hour is to promote the idea to all the nations to come up with the documentation of the stones used in the monuments, the state of preservation of historical quarries, the record and strategy for the upkeep of monuments and the historical quarries. The Project ‘The HERITAGE STONES RECOGNITION: A STEP FORWARD (HerSTONES)’ has been recently granted by IGCP-UNESCO to promote heritage Stones from emerging countries.</p>

Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes as Communication Aids

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Masamichi Watanuki ◽  
Shinya Abe
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Communication Aids ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Grid Onput is a set of novel two-dimensional codes comprising extremely small dots. The present authors recently developed software to overlap the dot codes on the user's designed sheet, to create a content to replay audios, to create a standalone application to replay multimedia, and to create an application to replay multimedia on iPad. Simply touching the dot codes with a speaking-pen and/or a dot-code reader enables users to directly access the corresponding digital information; a maximum of four mediums can be easily linked to each dot code icon. In collaboration with schoolteachers all over the world, one of the authors, Shigeru Ikuta, has been creating a variety of original self-made content and conducting various activities at both general and special needs schools. This chapter outlines the recent development of the state-of-the-art Grid Onput dot code technology and presents basic information regarding the creation of original teaching materials using newly developed software and the use at both general and special needs schools.

Calligraphic Video

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sha Xin Wei
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flow ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computational Physics ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The World ◽  
Geometric Elements

Since 1984, Graphical User Interfaces have typically relied on visual icons that mimic physical objects like the folder, button, and trash can, or canonical geometric elements like menus, and spreadsheet cells. GUI’s leverage our intuition about the physical environment. But the world can be thought of as being made of stuff as well as things. Making interfaces from this point of view requires a way to simulate the physics of stuff in realtime response to continuous gesture, driven by behavior logic that can be understood by the user and the designer. The author argues for leveraging the corporeal intuition that people learn from birth about heat flow, water, smoke, to develop interfaces at the density of matter that leverage in turn the state of the art in computational physics.

Sylvan katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae) of the Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot: an overview and descriptions of new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1712 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
PIOTR NASKRECKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
Published Data ◽  
The West ◽  
African Species ◽  
Forest Coverage

The state of knowledge on sylvan katydids (Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae) of Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot is discussed. Based on published data on their distribution, and the extent of the current forest coverage of the region it is possible that some of the West African species of the Pseudophyllinae may be threatened or even extinct. Five new species are described (Adapantus affluens sp. nov., A. angulatus sp. nov., A. pragerorurm sp. nov., Tomias gerriesmithae sp. nov., and Mormotus alonsae sp. nov.), and 4 species of West African Pseudophyllinae are redescribed.

scholarly journals The Healthcare Providers-Patients Relationship and State Obligations in Times of Public Health Emergency

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-298
Author(s):  
Gloria C. Nwafor ◽  
Anthony O. Nwafor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
State Obligations

The recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (evd) in the West African sub-region sprung challenges on the healthcare providers in the observance of their ethical rules in dealing with their patients and the State in fulfilling its obligations to ensure that the rights of patients are respected in times of public health emergency. The ethical rules of medical practice demand that the healthcare providers prefer the interests of their patients to the preservation of self. The State is by law under obligation to protect and respect the rights of the patients in all situations. The paper argues that the responses by the healthcare providers and the States in the West African sub region in the wake of the public health emergency fell short of the demands of the ethical rules of the medical profession and the obligation to ensure that the rights of the patients are respected.

scholarly journals Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae)

2017 ◽  
Vol 443 ◽  
pp. 52-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimila Mothé ◽  
Leonardo dos Santos Avilla ◽  
Lidiane Asevedo ◽  
Leon Borges-Silva ◽  
Mariane Rosas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
South American
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