SPЕCIAL CHILDREN. PERSONAL ORNAMENTS IN CHILDREN’S BURIALS OF MARIUPOL TYPE

The region of the Lower Dnieper was an outstanding landscape phenomenon in prehistoric times. During the Stone Age, this area had great economic and sacral significance. There are more than 20 Mesolithic and Neolithic cemeteries of the so called Mariupol type, located along the Lower Dnieper Rapids. The anthropological analysis demonstrated that the population of Middle Dnieper region belongs to the Proto-European large Europoid race. Periodisation of the Mariupol type cemeteries have two periods: Early Mariupol: 7000—5500 cal BC and Late Mariupol: 5500—4000 cal BC. The burials of the Mariupol type have outstanding grave goods. Raw materials used for used for manufacturing adornments were deer canines, carp fish teeth, stone, pearls and shells. Some burials yielded notched decorated canines. The most outstanding feature of the Mariupol type funerary adornments is the large number of items made from modified boar tusks. Most of them were found in the Mariupol cemetery. These artifacts, which may have marked the membership to a certain group, occurred equally both in adult and children burials. Child burials of the Mariupol type yielded specific funerary adornments. Sometimes they were as rich as those of the adults, but in some cases they were the richest. Personal ornaments, semantically identifying the important parts of a child’s body, were the marker of clan or lineage affiliation, age differentiation or biological stage. Burials with indicating features of a special sacral character are very significant also. The availability of children burials, which have more abundant funerary adornments then the adults, or were the only burials with grave goods in the cemetery need a more thorough study.

Think We Must! (Otherwise)

This essay considers the phenomenon of almanacs, encyclopedias, glossaries, lexicons, word books, vocabularies, companions, and (theoretical) toolboxes, which appears to be an outstanding feature of humanities today. By limiting her discussion to six specific examples of this genre, the author asks the following questions: Why is it that this method became so prolific? What are the objectives of almanacs, glossaries, and vocabularies? What do they do to thinking, writing, researching? What can they say about the moment we are in? And how do they contribute to defining this moment? Those questions orient discussions around humanities today toward the ethico-political practice of thinking otherwise.

Empoderamiento y masculinidad en la estrategia de género de Alaska = Empowerment and masculinity in the gender strategy of Alaska

Resumen. La cantante Alaska ha sido uno de los iconos más representativos de la mod­ernidad en España, participando de forma destacada en la Movida. Según Alberto Mira (2004), el rasgo que definió a la Movida fue la adopción del modelo camp de homosexualidad. En este artículo, proponemos un análisis del discurso de género de Alaska, cuyo rasgo más destacado sería la adopción de este modelo camp de homosexualidad. Para ello, hemos comparado la ver­sión que realizó del tema Quiero ser Santa con la original de Parálisis Permanente, y analizado su dúo con Loquillo en El ritmo del garaje y su canción Rey del Glam. Alaska habría articulado, gracias al modelo camp, una masculinidad no hegemónica que le habría servido para empoder­arse y legitimarse dentro de las escenas de la música popular española. Para ello, Alaska utilizó el artificio propio del camp mediante estrategias como el travestismo de la voz o el uso de un estilo performativo externo.Palabras clave: Alaska, camp, Movida, artificio, glam.Abstract. The singer Alaska has been one of the most representative icons of modernity in Spain, participating prominently in the Movida. According to Alberto Mira (2004), the fea­ture that defined La Movida was the adoption of the homosexuality camp model. In this article, I propose an analysis of the gender discourse of Alaska, whose most outstanding feature would be the adoption of this camp model of homosexuality. To do this, I have compared the version she made of the song Quiero ser Santa with the one of Parálisis Permanente, as well as her duet with Loquillo in El ritmo del garaje and her song Rey del Glam. Alaska, thanks to the camp model, articulated a non-hegemonic masculinity that helped her to be empowered and legiti­mized within the scenes of Spanish popular music. To pursue this, Alaska used the artifice of the camp through strategies such as the use of a cross-dressing voice or a style of performance that involved showmanship.Keywords: Alaska, camp, Movida, artifice, glam.

Extremely bulky amide ligands in main group chemistry

The development of extremely sterically demanding, monodentate amide ligands facilitates the isolation of main group species with new and highly reactive coordination modes. An outstanding feature of these ligands is the ability to tune their steric demands. Reactivity investigations highlight the potential for small molecule activation chemistry and catalysis for these compounds.

Bisection Subspace Pursuit Algorithm for Compressive Sensing

A novel greedy algorithm for blind CS recovery without prior knowledge of sparsity, called the Bisection Subspace Pursuit (BiSP) is introduced. The most outstanding feature of the BiSP is that it adopts the bisection method to adaptively estimate the sparsity of target signal, which means that no prior knowledge of sparsity is needed. Simulation results demonstrate that the BiSP not only retains comparable recovery accuracy with CoSaMP, SP and SAMP, but also outperforms the SAMP in terms of complexity when sparsity of signal is large. This makes the BiSP a competitive candidate for many practical situations.

A second species of Microtabella (Grammatophoraceae, Bacillariophyta) from Guam

One species ofMicrotabella,Microtabella interrupta, is widespread and has been known since the 19th Century but it has a convoluted taxonomic history leaving it presently the only species in the genus. The nameinterruptaderives from the chain-forming habit and the plastids being confined to a portion of the cell by a set of distinctively distended septa. This character makes it very easy to identify and very easy to overlook similar species, especially because the tabulate frustules are most often seen in girdle view. I found specimens of a new taxon that had these characters and was distinguished with difficulty in girdle view by the coarser striae on the copulae and the recurved edges of the septa. However, in valve viewMicrotabella rhombican. sp. has a much broader, rhombic outline. Ultrastructural differences include a more elongated apical pore field with a prominent spine, biseriate striae on the copulae and a different form of the ligule (a raised bar on the last copula). LikeMicrotabella interrupta, the mature epitheca ofMicrotabella rhombicacomprises numerous copulae with nearly flat septa, two copulae with distended septa and four hyaline pleurae that lack septa. This species could well be widespread but, as with other monospecific genera in which there is a strong distinguishing character, care must be taken to look beyond the outstanding feature.

Permanence criteria for Kolmogorov systems with delays

In this paper, a class of Kolmogorov systems with delays are studied. Sufficient conditions are provided for a system to have a compact uniform attractor. Then Jansen's result for autonomous replicator and Lotka–Volterra systems has been extended to delayed non-autonomous Kolmogorov systems with periodic or autonomous Lotka–Volterra subsystems. Thus, simple algebraic conditions are obtained for partial permanence and permanence. An outstanding feature of all these results is that the conditions are independent of the size and distribution of the delays.

‘A Permanent and Prominent Feature of the Show’: The Origins and Meanings of a District Exhibits Competition

Variously described as ‘the outstanding feature of the show’, the ‘finest . . . in Australia’ and ‘a breath-taking experience’, the district exhibits competition is a central and much-loved feature of the annual Brisbane Exhibition, Queensland's premier agricultural show. Although the contest has attracted enthusiastic crowds and substantial media attention across more than a century, scholarly analysis has been limited. Yet, as other studies have demonstrated, exploring key aspects of the histories of agricultural shows not only provides insights into some of post-contact Australia's oldest and most popular events, but also enriches our understanding of the ideas that have sustained and shaped our communities. This article contributes to that historiography through an analysis of the origins and subsequent meanings of the Brisbane district exhibits competition.

Ancestral deceit and labile evolution of nectar production in the African orchid genus Disa

An outstanding feature of the orchid family is that approximately 30–40% of the species have non-rewarding flowers and deploy various modes of deception to attract pollinators, whereas the remaining species engage in pollination mutualisms based on provision of floral rewards. Here, we explore the direction, frequency and reversibility of transitions between deceptive and rewarding pollination systems in the radiation of the large African genus Disa , and test whether these transitions had consequences for diversification. By optimizing nectar production data for 111 species on a well-resolved phylogeny, we confirmed that floral deception was the ancestral condition and that nectar production evolved at least nine times and was lost at least once. Transitions to nectar production first occurred ca 17 million years ago but did not significantly affect either speciation or extinction rates. Nectar evolved independently of a spur, which was lost and gained multiple times. These results show that nectar production can be a highly labile trait and highlight the need for further studies of the genetic architecture of nectar production and the selective factors underlying transitions between deception and mutualism.