STEM Education in Schools: What Can We Learn from the Research?

This report (Report #1) is as part of an Erasmus+ project entitled Assessment of Transversal Skills in STEM (ATS STEM), an innovative policy experimentation project being conducted across eight European Union countries through a partnership of 12 educational institutions. STEM education is a priority for all of the ATS STEM partners and each country/region is already engaged in implementing specific policy actions to promote the development of STEM knowledge and competences across their school sectors. The purpose of this first report is to provide a strong theoretical and research foundation regarding STEM Education, with particular respect to schools. The report aims to present examples of how STEM education has been defined and implemented in school curricula and how digital assessment of transversal skills and competences has been carried out.

Defining and Conceptualising STEM Education


Sealing in terracotta impressed with a cast of a Yaudheya coin; smooth on the reverse. British Museum 1892,1014.50.e.

Height: 2.86 centimetres; Thickness: 0.49 centimetres; Width: 2.80 centimetres


Figure 11 in Early Palaeogene Louisinidae (Macroscelidea, Mammalia), their relationships and north European diversity

Figure 11. RP4s (reversed) of Berrulestes phelizoni (A, B) and Berrulestes pellouini (C, D), shown as from left side, to show individual variation. Views are: occlusal (A1, B1, C1, D1), buccal (A2, B2, C2, D2), and lingual (A3, B3, C3, D3). A, MNHN.F.I-602; B, MNHN.F.CR-1448; C, MNHN.F.CR-39-MD; D, MNHN.F.CR-1135-Pn. Scale bar = 2 mm.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Mammalia Macroscelidea Louisinidae Berrulestes

Published as part of Hooker, Jerry J. & Russell, Donald E., 2012, Early Palaeogene Louisinidae (Macroscelidea, Mammalia), their relationships and north European diversity, pp. 856-936 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (4) on page 875, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00787.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5407240


Figures 226–231 in Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation

Figures 226–231. Spermophora schoemanae sp. nov. Left male palp in prolateral (226) and retrolateral (227) views, male chelicerae in frontal view (228), modified hair on male cheliceral apophysis (229), and cleared epigynum in ventral (230) and dorsal (231) views. ba: bulbal apophysis, e: embolus, f: Spermophora-flap, hp: hinged process, pp: pointed projection of bulb. Arrowed: femur-apophysis. Scale bars = 30 Mm (229), 0.3 mm (228, 230, 231), 0.4 mm (226, 227).

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Arachnida Araneae Pholcidae Spermophora

Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A., 2003, Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation, pp. 477-527 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 (4) on page 517, DOI: 10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00082.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5432838


Mirage Effects


THE INFLUENCE OF SEED FUNDING ON THE GROWTH OF INFORMAL SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE WINELANDS DISTRICT OF THE WESTERN CAPE

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore seed funding as capital needed to start or expand a business. The study considered funding that was granted by local government to small businesses to address financial issues and  how effective this intervention was.The main objective was on the impact of seed funding on the growth of informal small businesses in the Winelands District.

Research design and methodology: The quantitative research design was adopted, questionnaires were administered to 60 entrepreneurs who had received seed funding from Cape Winelands district Municipality. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) transformed the data into usable statistics on the respondents’ attitudes, opinions, and behaviours as well as certain variables, which could be generalised to a larger sample group of the population.

Findings: The findings indicate that the seed fund was helpful as it enabled a majority of the business owners to buy equipment and machinery. However, a much larger amount is needed to make their businesses stable and sustainable. In view of the contribution informal small businesses could make to job creation and poverty reduction, government should re-assess its current strategies and systems with regard to seed money.

Implications and recommendations: The main recommendation is that local governments should determine the financial support that is necessary on a case by case basis rather than granting a standard amount of money to small businesses. The start- up needs of informal businesses vary considerably and it is recommended that they be uniquely assisted

Contribution and value added: The study makes a contribution to the literature on small business sustainability with particular reference to funding. It has implications on the survival of small enterprises and the promotion of entrepreneurship in the context of high unemployment facing South Africa.

Full Paper, THE INFLUENCE OF SEED FUNDING ON THE GROWTH OF INFORMAL SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE WINELANDS DISTRICT OF THE WESTERN.pdf

Entrepreneur, seed funding, growth and development, small businesses, start-ups.


The Kinetics and Mechanism of Substitution of Chloride Ion in Trans-[Coen2Cl2]Cl by Parahydroxy Benzoic Acid

Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan-713 104, West Bengal

Manuscript received 15 November 1978, revised 18 August 1980, accepted 10 March 1981

The steric course or the Cl- ion substitution in trans-(Coen2Cl2]+ by p-hydroxy benzoate ion was studied in 15% (v/v) ethanol at pH 3 and at 30o. A mechanism baa been proposed. Convincing proof for the proposed mechanism was obtained by comparing the spectrophotometrically obtained values of concentration or the different species at different times (during the course or the reaction) with the corresponding values calculated using the rate constants. The rate constants were determined by a combination or potentiometric and spectrophotometric methods and studying the reaction part by part.

Spectrophotometrically
Potentiometric
Steric course

Journal of Indian Chemical Society


Vascular Territory template and atlases in MNI space

Data

Sixteen subjects (mean age (sd): 69.6 (8.2); 37.5% female) were recruited to generate a high-resolution template. The cohort consists of twelve stroke-free, non-demented patients with the sporadic form of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), and similarly-aged healthy controls (n=4). Each participant underwent high-resolution MRI with a Siemens Magnetom Prisma 3T scanner (using a 32-channel head coil) as part of a separate study. The standardized protocol included a Multiecho T1-weighted (voxel size: 1x1x1 mm3; Repetition Time [TR]: 2510 ms), a 3D-FLAIR (voxel size: 0.9x0.9x0.9 mm3; TR: 5000 ms; TE: 356 ms), and a T2-weighted Turbo Spin Echo (voxel size: 0.5x0.5x2.0 mm3; TR: 7500 ms; TE: 84 ms) sequence. Scans were manually assessed to ensure no gross pathology was present, such as hemorrhage or silent brain infarcts.

Template and territorial map creation

We employed Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs) for image processing (Avants et al., 2010, 2011) for creating a brain template based on multimodal information using T1, T2 and 3D-FLAIR sequences. After template creation, we smoothed the resulting templates (FSL; Gaussian smoothing, sigma = 1) and registered the resulting templates into MNI space, again using ANTs (Avants et al., 2011).

Vascular territories were outlined on the right hemisphere in the T1-weighted atlas image and contain anatomically validated ACA, MCA, and PCA territories supratentorially. The right hemispheric map was then mirrored onto the left hemisphere to create a full-brain vascular territory map, which was manually assessed and corrected where necessary.

For more details, please see the original publication that utilized the template. If you utilize this template, please also cite

Schirmer, Markus D., et al. "Spatial signature of white matter hyperintensities in stroke patients." Frontiers in neurology 10 (2019): 208.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00208

Files

FLAIR template: caa_flair_in_mni_template_smooth.nii.gz

FLAIR template after brain extraction and intensity normalization: caa_flair_in_mni_template_smooth_brain_intres.nii.gz

T1 template: caa_t1_in_mni_template_smooth.nii.gz 27.7 Mb

T2 template: caa_t2_in_mni_template_smooth.nii.gz 27.7 Mb

Vascular territory map: mni_vascular_territories.nii.gz

Schirmer, Markus D

Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA

Wu, Ona

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA

Brain
template
vascular territories
anterior
posterior
middle
cerebral artery
ACA
PCA
MCA
MNI
T1
T2
FLAIR

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 753896 (M.D. Schirmer). This study was supported by the NIH-National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (K23NS064052, R01NS082285, and R01NS086905), American Heart Association/Bugher Foundation Centers for Stroke Prevention Research, and Deane Institute for Integrative Study of Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke.


weecology/portalPredictions: None

Using various models to forecast abundances at Portal

ecology
forecasting
pipeline
continuous analysis


Fig. 4 in Diversity and distribution of adeonid bryozoans (Cheilostomata: Adeonidae) in Japanese waters

Fig. 4. Adeonella jahanai sp. nov. A. Holotype colony with narrow branches (NSMT-Te1050, Okinawa). B. Young autozooids at distal end of branch, showing primary orifices NSMT-Te889. C. Autozooids with elongate frontal avicularia (NSMT-Te889, Okinawa). D. Young autozooids with a single triangular avicularium abutting the proximal margin of the peristome (NSMT-Te889, Okinawa). A = optical photograph; B–D = SEM images. Scale bars: A = 1 cm; B–D = 100 μm.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Bryozoa Gymnolaemata Cheilostomatida Adeonellidae Adeonella

Published as part of Hirose, Masato, 2016, Diversity and distribution of adeonid bryozoans (Cheilostomata: Adeonidae) in Japanese waters, pp. 1-41 in European Journal of Taxonomy 203 (203) on page 7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.203, http://zenodo.org/record/3840005

European Journal of Taxonomy


FIGURE 4. P. pharmamari n in Presence of the Indo – Pacific genus Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995 (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Atlantic with description of a new species (P. pharmamari n. sp.)

FIGURE 4. P. pharmamari n. sp.: (A) fenestrate plates (arrow) at the junction between primary and secondary fibres (arrow), (B) choanosome with considerable amounts of foreign debris (arrow), (C) a broken secondary fibre crossed by a thin tertiary fibre (arrow). SEM pictures.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Porifera Demospongiae Dictyoceratida Thorectidae Petrosaspongia

Published as part of Uriz, María - Jesús & Cebrian, Emma, 2006, Presence of the Indo – Pacific genus Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995 (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Atlantic with description of a new species (P. pharmamari n. sp.), pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1209 on page 67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172425

Zootaxa


On the fauna and flora of Kerguelen's Island. (A letter addressed to the French Minister of foreign affairs)


Asplenium septentrionale (L.) Hoffm. (BR0000011242581)

Belgium Herbarium image of Meise Botanic Garden.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Terrestrial Herbarium Aspleniaceae


From Evidence to Strategies: Needs for Research Data Use, Management and Sharing in Canada

Evidence of RDM needs and practices of researchers from all disciplines at one larger Canadian university was gathered in 2013. This paper reports on the survey results from 250 respondents around data use, sharing, and management, as well as the researchers' research practices and goes on to discuss the impact on planning for policies, guidelines, services, and infrastructure. Major themes are collaboration, sensitive data, differences across research methods and disciplines, as well as incentives for researchers to improve data use, management and sharing in their fields.

Chuck Humphrey

Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

IASSIST 2016: Embracing the 'Data Revolution': Opportunities and challenges for research

2A: Research data management services development


Influence of ARB technique on the microstructural, mechanical and fracture properties of the multilayered Al1050/Al5052 composite reinforced by SiC particles

In this paper, Al1050/Al5052/SiC composite was manufactured via accumulative roll bonding (ARB) technique, and the fracture toughness for the different passes was experimentally investigated. The microstructure, mechanical properties, and fracture behavior were determined through Optical Microscopy (OM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), tensile test, microhardness, and plane stress fracture toughness. The results of OM showed that local necking and failure of Al5052 reinforcement layers happened at the 1st pass and after that by raising the exerted strain the shape of the layers varied from the lamellar to particle form, and finally, Al1050/Al5052/SiC composite was provided via perfect dispersion of layers and particles reinforcements. The microhardness variations were ascending for both Al layers in terms of ARB cycles, and this trend was observed for UTS variations except for the third and fourth passes so that in the both passes the strength was downtrend. Finally, the best UTS and elongation values were obtained on the last pass. The results of SEM demonstrated that by raising the exerted strain, the kind of fracture mechanism varied to shear ductile from ductile. From zero pass (primary sandwich) to the second pass, the rate of changing in fracture toughness was ascending and then drastically reduced. Also, maximum and minimum values are achieved at second and third ARB cycles respectively. Due to the higher variation in the strength compared to elongation, as in previous researches, the trend of toughness was similar to that of strength, with this difference that the presence of ceramic particles at the interfaces was causing the brittleness in the composite.

Ramin Hashemi

School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Severe plastic deformation methods
Mechanical properties
Metal matrix composite
accumulative roll bonding (ARB)

Journal of Materials Research and Technology


Distribution. E in Vespertilionidae

Distribution. E Queensland (including Moa, Prince of Wales, Hinchinbrook, Palm, and Fraser Is) and NE New South Wales, E Australia, and a few scattered records across New Guinea that require validation.

Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Nyctophilus
Nyctophilus bifax

Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Vespertilionidae, pp. 716-981 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 805, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6397752


Festuca arundinacea Schreb. (BR0000011522829)

Biodiversity Taxonomy Terrestrial Herbarium Gramineae


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challenge based innovation for humanitarian purposes

LenS World Distributed Conference


Echinops bannaticus Rochel ex Schrad. (BR0000011703693)

Biodiversity Taxonomy Terrestrial Herbarium Compositae


Myosotis sylvatica Ehrh. ex Hoffm. (BR0000011845027)

Biodiversity Taxonomy Terrestrial Herbarium Boraginaceae


ОБ ОДНОЙ НЕЛОКАЛЬНОЙ КРАЕВОЙ ЗАДАЧЕ ДЛЯ ГИПЕРБОЛИЧЕСКОГО УРАВНЕНИЯ С СИНГУЛЯРНЫМ КОЭФФИЦИЕНТОМ, ВЫРОЖДАЮЩЕГОСЯ ВНУТРИ ОБЛАСТИ

В работе исследуется нелокальные краевые задачи типа задачи Бицадзе-Самарского.


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Figure 5 from: Rodríguez-Flores PC, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez J, Aguirre-Ruiz EF, García-París M (2016) Salt lakes of La Mancha (Central Spain): A hot spot for tiger beetle (Carabidae, Cicindelinae) species diversity. ZooKeys 561: 63-103. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.561.6042

Figure 5 -
            Representative habitats of Cicindelinae in La Mancha. A Laguna de la Sal (Toledo) in May. Salt flats occupied by Calomera littoralis littoralis B Laguna de Peña Hueca (Toledo) in April. Wet salt flats, with gypsum outcrops, occupied by Calomera littoralis littoralis; when totally dry, in summer, occupied by Cephalota circumdata imperialis C Laguna de Las Yeguas (Ciudad Real) in June. Salt flats, occupied by Calomera littoralis littoralis and Cephalota circumdata imperialis; and halophytic prairies occupied by Cephalota dulcinea and Cylindera paludosa D La Laguna de Miguel Esteban (Toledo) in July. Salt flats, occupied by Calomera littoralis littoralis; and halophytic prairies with "albardinal" occupied by Cephalota maura maura E Laguna del Camino de Villafranca (Ciudad Real), with flamingos, in July. Sapropel shores occupied by Calomera littoralis littoralis F Laguna de Alcahozo (Ciudad Real) in June. Salt flats, occupied by Calomera littoralis littoralis and Cephalota circumdata imperialis; and open areas near dry halophytic prairies occupied by Cephalota dulcinea and also by Cephalota circumdata imperialis. Photographs by N. Percino and MG-P.

Rodriguez-Flores, Paula

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Garcia-Paris, Mario

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

CicindelinaeAnimalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cephalota
Taenidia
Cephalota circumdata imperialisAnimalia
Caraboidea
Cephalota dulcineaAnimalia
Cylindera
Cylindera paludosaAnimalia
Cephalota mauraAnimalia
Cephalota circumdata imperialis
Coleoptera
Habitat selection
Phenology
Behaviour
Conservation
Salt marshes
Lakes


Note on a Case of (?) Tuberculous Meningitis.


Epigraphia Indica 35 (1963-64)

Sircar, D. C., and Gai, G. S. (eds.) (1966). Epigraphia Indica. Volume XXXV. 1963-1964. Delhi: Manager of Publications.


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Cooperative maneuvers applied to automated vehicles in real and virtual environments

In recent years, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have become a reality within society, by providing benefits and solutions to the conduction. With the aim of contributing with the development of the ITS, the present work describes a hybrid cooperative framework for the validation of maneuvers between multiple vehicles (virtual and real), in order to reduce cost, time and risks associated with the controllers adjustment. For its validation three case of studies are presented. The first one consists of using two virtual vehicles to perform an Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with trajectory tracker. The second one, in using a real car as the follower and a virtual vehicle as the lider to perform a Stop & Go. And finally, two real cars are used to carry out an ACC. The tracker algorithms employed for the cooperative maneuvers are based in fuzzy logic controllers. The results show the versatility of the proposed framework, which was able to correctly execute the maneuvers in each of the test environments.

Carlos Hidalgo

Universidad Simón Bolívar, Tecnalia Research & Innovation

Mauricio Marcano

Universidad del País Vasco, Tecnalia Research & Innovation

Cooperative Maneuvers
Hybrid Cooperative Framework
ACC
Stop & Go
ITS
Fuzzy Logic

Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial


Behavioral economics and the 'new' paternalism

The paper provides a critical appraisal of the normative program of behavioral economics known as 'new paternalism'. First, it explores the theoretical foundations of behavioral economics, describes major behavioral anomalies associated with bounded rationality of economic agents and discusses its normative principles and political implications. It then discusses the main empirical and conceptual drawbacks of new paternalism and provides arguments for the alternative non-welfarist normative tradition based on the idea of freedom.

Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav

Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia|National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

behavioral economics
welfare economics
new paternalism
normative analysis

Russian Journal of Economics

Non-profit partnership "Voprosy Ekonomiki"


Psittacula cyanocephala decontaminated FSCR


FIGURE 6. Hyalinothrix enoki n in New species and occurrence records of Japanese Solasteridae and Ganeriidae including a new species of Paralophaster from the North Pacific with an overview of Hyalinothrix

FIGURE 6. Hyalinothrix enoki n. sp. Holotype, NSMT E-7115A. A. Abactinal surface. Scale bar=0.5 cm. B. Close-up of abactinal surface. Scale bar=2.0 mm. C. Oral surface. Scale bar=0.5 cm. D. Close-up of oral and furrow region. Scale bar=0.5 cm.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Echinodermata Asteroidea Valvatida Ganeriidae Hyalinothrix

Published as part of Mah, Christopher L. & Fujita, Toshihiko, 2020, New species and occurrence records of Japanese Solasteridae and Ganeriidae including a new species of Paralophaster from the North Pacific with an overview of Hyalinothrix, pp. 67-100 in Zootaxa 4750 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3702847

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Speocera heilan Li & Li 2019, sp. nov.

Speocera heilan Li & Li sp. nov. (Figs 25–26, 56C)
Material examined. Holotype ♂ (IZCAS), China, Hainan Province, Baisha County, Laoyuanmen Town, Heilan Village, sifting leaf litter in bamboo forest, 1.VII.2014 (19º6.672′N, 109º32.889′E), elev. 291 m, leg. F. Li & X. Wang. Paratypes 1♂ 3♀ (IZCAS), same data as holotype.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun.

Diagnosis. Males of the new species are similar to S. ballarini Li & Li sp. nov. but can be distinguished by the laterally strongly excavated chelicerae (Fig. 56C) and the very small embolus (Fig. 25A). S. ballarini males have unmodified chelicerae (Fig. 55D) and a long, ribbon-like embolus (Fig. 8A). Females of the new species are similar to S. huifengi Li & Li sp. nov. but can be distinguished by the very small oval spermathecae (Fig. 26A).

Description. Male. Total length 1.08; carapace length 0.51; carapace width 0.45; abdomen length 0.51; abdomen width 0.36. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 26C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide. Endites light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow, suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow, strongly excavated laterally; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Fig. 56C). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, PME smallest, PLE largest (Fig. 26C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish. Legs light yellow; leg formula 4123; leg lengths I 2.00 (0.59, 0.16, 0.56, 0.40, 0.28); II 1.83 (0.53, 0.14, 0.53, 0.35, 0.28); III 1.64 (0.46, 0.15, 0.43, 0.34, 0.27); IV 2.13 (0.61, 0.15, 0.61, 0.46, 0.30). Genitalia (Fig. 25). Palpal femur long; palpal tibia and cymbium incrassate, palpal tibia strongly enlarged basally, about 1.1 times as long as cymbium (Figs 25A–B). Cymbium conical, with a large prolateral extension basally. Bulb spherical, wider than high. Embolus small, dark, associated sclerites absent; sperm duct initially wide, gradually narrowing distally (Fig. 25D).

Female. Total length 0.98; carapace length 0.51; carapace width 0.44; abdomen length 0.45; abdomen width 0.36. Similar to male in color and general features (Figs 26D–E). Chelicerae unmodified. Leg lengths I 1.76 (0.38, 0.16, 0.56, 0.38, 0.27); II missing; III 1.52 (0.42, 0.14, 0.38, 0.32, 0.25); IV 2.08 (0.59, 0.16, 0.58, 0.43, 0.33). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, curved, not extending past the sides of the abdomen (Fig. 26B); spermathecae oval (Fig. 26A).

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Tong, Yanfeng

Life Science College, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China

Li, Fengyuan

Southeast Asia Biological Diversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar & Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Chen, Haifeng

College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang 065000, China Corresponding author, E-mail: lisq @ ioz. ac. cn

Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ochyroceratidae
Speocera
Speocera heilan

Published as part of Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-75 in Zoological Systematics 44 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923


Chrysidea pumila

Chrysidea pumila (Klug, 1845)
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Strumia & Dawah 2012).

Extralimital distribution: South Palaearctic and Afrotropical (Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Chrysidea
Chrysidea pumila

Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Gadallah, Neveen S. & Brothers, Denis J., 2020, Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Chrysidoidea, Chrysididae, pp. 101-121 in Zootaxa 4754 (1) on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/3719022

Strumia, F. & Dawah, H. (2012 [" 2010 - 2011 "]) New Hymenoptera Chrysididae from South Western Saudi Arabia. Frustula Entomologica, New Series, 33 (46), 171 - 179.

Kimsey, L. S. & Bohart, R. M. (1991 [" 1990 "]) The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford University Press, New York, 652 pp.


CANADIAN ETHICAL DIAMONDS AND IDENTITY OBSESSION: HOW CONSUMERS OF ETHICAL JEWELRY IN ITALY UNDERSTAND TRACEABILITY

Through an ethnographic survey of Italian ethical jewelers and representative customers, this study focuses on how the topic of traceability in the Canadian diamond industry is communicated and negotiated within two representative Italian ethical jewelry stores in Milan and Bologna. To better understand communication strategies deployed by jewelers to convey the concepts of ethical jewelry, the authors explore themes related to traceability in the context of Canadian ethical diamonds (CEDs). A specific dominant narrative built around CEDs is identified that leverages customer concerns about the violation of the safety and human rights of workers on the diamond supply chain. To more deeply analyze how information about the traceability of CEDs successfully mitigates consumer concerns about the ethics of jewelry supply chains, the authors explore the role of identity obsession (Remotti 2010) in ethical jewelry purchase decisions by Italian consumers. They further discuss rationales for the general resistance of many Italian jewelers to offering ethical jewelry in local stores, to better understand why, to date, ethical jewelry remains a niche market segment in Italy, with most Italian consumers unaware of the degrading environmental and sociological impact of such products as blood diamonds.

Ethically sourced diamonds
Italian consumers
Sustainability
Canadian ethical diamonds
Blood diamonds
Identity obsession

Sustainable Luxury – an international perspective


Ligyrodes Casey 1915

  Subgenus Ligyrodes Casey, 1915 revised status

 Ligyrodes Casey, 1915: 179 (described as genus).

 Type species: Scarabaeus relictus Say 1825: 194 by original designation.

  Description. (n = 885).  Length 16.5–21.8 mm. Humeral width 8–11.5 mm. Head: Clypeus trapezoidal to subtriangular (Fig. 1C). Apical clypeal teeth triangular and widely separated. Ocular canthus rounded, without dorsal setae, with 1–5 ventral setae. Frons with 2 tumescences. Mentum subrectangular (Fig. 2E); not strongly narrowed at apex. Mentum and ligula separated by a suture. Ligula wide; covered with long, dense setae; ligular lobes not fused, with a narrow emargination. Maxillar apical palpomere 1.3 times longer than the second. Maxilla with galea rectangular (2.5 times longer than wide; Figs. 3B, 4C); teeth 3 and 4 diagonal (Fig. 3E). Mandible tridentate (2 apical rounded and lateral long, acute to truncate lobe); apical teeth equal in shape. Labrum subquadrate (Fig. 6C); apex straight; with long, dense setae. Antenna with 10 antennomeres, club long (1.5 times longer than antennomeres 2–7). Pronotum: Apical marginal bead complete. Apex with an inconspicuous, rounded tubercle and a rounded to triangular fovea. Elytra: Inner surface of apex with transverse small tubercles forming 70–77 parallel lines. Wings: RA with dense, large peg-like setae on medial ventral region; with peg-like setae on dorsal surface. Edge of RA 3 with dense setae. Abdomen: Apex of tergite IV with a diagonal line of 11–13 short, transverse, parallel carinae. Sternite VIII emarginate in male; entire in female. Pygidium rugose. Propygidium without stridulatory area. Venter: Prosternum very wide, convex. Propleura with long, sparse setae on anterior and posterior surfaces, medial surface glabrous. Apex of prosternal process suboval, flat, with a deep sulcus; without dorsal setae. Metepisternum with complete, thin carina; inner surface with deep, large punctures, and with long, dense setae; outer surface homogeneously rugose, with long, sparse setae. Metasternum with large, deep, confluent punctures and long, dense setae. Legs: Male protarsus modified; protarsomere 4 with a ventral, carinate, flat projection (Fig. 10C–D); inner claw wide and truncate, with an acute, spine-like projection (Fig. 10E). Protibia tridentate, with an additional basal denticle (Fig. 11D–E), and sometimes a denticle between basal and second teeth, teeth equidistant. Apical margin of mesotibia and metatibia crenulate (Fig. 12D, J). Female genitalia: Subcoxite 1.5 times wider than long (Fig. 13D). Coxite subquadrate (as long as wide); surface flat. Subcoxite wider and longer than coxite. Male genitalia: Phallobase 1.6 times longer than parameres. Parameres without dorsal teeth, with ventral teeth. Internal sac with copulatory lamella and long lamellar spiny belt; accessory lamella U-shaped.

 Diagnosis. The subgenus Ligyrodes is differentiated by the following: Trapezoidal clypeus, clypeal teeth small; frontoclypeus with 2 tumescences (Fig. 1C); mentum subrectangular (Fig. 2E); mentum and ligula separate by a suture; ligula wide; covered with long, dense setae; ligular lobes fused, with a narrow emargination; galea with 3 dorsal and 2 ventral teeth (the basal often bifid); pronotum without fovea or tubercle; protibia tridentate, with teeth equidistant; protarsi of male modified, inner claw wide and truncate, with an acute like-spine projection (Fig. 10E), protarsomere 4 with a ventral flat projection (Fig. 10D); internal sac with copulatory lamella and long lamellar spiny belt; accessory lamella U-shaped (Fig. 21D); surface of coxite flat (Fig. 13D). Stridulatory apparatus consisting of a diagonal line of 11–13 short, transverse, parallel carinae on apex of sternite IV and apical inner surface of elytra with transverse small tubercles forming 70–77 parallel lines.

 Composition. Three extant species: Ligyrus (Ligyrodes) relictus , L. (Ligyrodes) sallaei, and L. (Ligyrodes) peruvianus. Euligyrus ebenus, which was originally included in Ligyrodes by Casey (1915), is excluded from the subgenus Ligyrodes because although this species also has the protarsi enlarged in male, the shape of the tarsomeres and claws are very different, and there are many characters that support the inclusion of E. ebenus in the genus Euligyrus.

 Geographic distribution. One species in North America (United States of America and Canada), one in North and Central America, and only one of its species in South America (restricted to a small area of the Pacific Coast of Ecuador and Peru).

 Phylogenetic relationships. The cladistic analysis of Tomarus (sensu lato) showed that this group is more closely related to Ligyrus than Euligyrus, contrary to the idea of Casey (1915).

 Taxonomic remarks. Casey (1915) described the genus Ligyrodes to group three species of Ligyrus and seven new species (all currently synonyms of Ligyrus (Ligyrodes) relictus and Ligyrus (Ligyrodes) sallaei) with the male protarsus modified, apex of prosternal process without setae, and the abdominal spiracles of the segments I–III transverse. The genus Ligyrodes was synonymized by Cartwright (1959), and Endrödi (1969) recognized it as a subgenus of Ligyrus but excluded E. ebenus, which he grouped in the subgenus Euligyrus along with E. similis.

  Key to the species of the subgenus Ligyrodes

 1 Pygidium with deep, large punctures, homogeneously distributed. Apex of metatibia with 13–17 spinules. Species from South America......................................................  Ligyrus (Ligyrodes) peruvianus Endrödi, 1970

- Pygidium with dense rugosity (only on apex or on all the surface).Apex of metatibia with 6–9 spinules. Species from North and Central America...................................................................................... 2

 2 Protibia with 3 teeth and a basal denticle, without denticle between basal and second tooth (Fig. 11D). Parameres with ventral teeth acute and long (Fig. 15G). Southeastern Canada and United States of America (east of Rocky Mountains with few records in Texas)............................................................  Ligyrus (Ligyrodes) relictus (Say, 1825)

 - Protibia with 3 teeth, a basal denticle, and other denticle between basal and second tooth (Fig. 11E). Parameres with ventral teeth rounded and short (Fig. 15H). United States of America (Texas and southern Arizona) to Panama......................................................................................  Ligyrus (Ligyrodes) sallaei Bates, 1888

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Dynastidae Ligyrodes

Published as part of López-García, Margarita M. & Deloya, Cuauhtémoc, 2022, Cladistic analysis reveals polyphyly of Tomarus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae): new classification and taxonomic revision, pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 5211 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5211.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7345007

Casey, T. L. (1915) A review of the American species of Rutelinae, Dynastinae, and Cetoniinae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera, 6, 1 - 394.

Say, T. (1825) Descriptions of new species of coleopterous insects inhabiting the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5, 160 - 204.

Cartwright, O. L. (1959) Scarab beetles of the genus Bothynus in the United States (Coleoptera: Sacarabaeidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 108, 515 - 541.

Endrodi, S. (1969) Monographie der Dynastinae. 4. Tribus: Pentodontini (Coleoptera, Lamellicornia). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 37, 1 - 145.

Endrodi, S. (1970) Drei neue Dynastinen (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae) aus Amerika. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologisches Museum und Institut fur Spezielle Zoologie, Berlin, 46, 105 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 19700460113

Bates, H. W. (1888) Pectinicornia and Lamellicornia, Family Dynastinae. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Coleoptera, 2 (Part 2), pp. 296 - 342.


FIGURE 10 in Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 11. Heteropterinae

FIGURE 10. Pupae of Metisella orientalis orientalis, Kenya [MJWC]. 1, collected as final instar caterpillar on Cenchrus trachyphyllus, Kakamega Forest, 26 Feb 1988; pupated 7 Mar; photographed 8 Mar 1988; adult 18 Mar; 21mm; 88/17B; 2, collected as pupa on Cenchrus trachyphyllus (unconfirmed plant identification), Thomson's Falls, Nyahurura, Kenya, 29 Dec 1990; photographed 29 Dec; adult 10 Jan 1991; 21mm; 90/125A.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Hesperiidae Metisella

Published as part of Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, T. Colin E., 2017, Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 11. Heteropterinae, pp. 487-508 in Zootaxa 4226 (4) on page 497, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/265090

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On the causes of the great Versailles railway accident


"Challenge" experiments in a compiled cluster report and final avoidance manual

Executive Summary

This Deliverable is principally intended to provide the results of the three “Challenge” trials carried out under Task 4.2 the Fisherman’s story – “challenge” experiments. As the “challenges” included both tactical/strategic adaptations to the LO and also allowed free use of gear changes or modifications, we have combined the two aspects in this report.

Chapters 1-3 present the results of the “Challenge trials” in Ireland, Denmark and France, and their findings. Chapter 4 summarises the material in Deliverable 3.1. and a component on developing industry-science collaborations on improving selectivity from Deliverable 3.2.

In the “challenge” experiments individual vessels and crew were challenged to reduce their discards by whatever legal means available. Each vessel could fish alternately with their normal approach and with the aim to minimise the discards over a predetermined period, reporting the decisions they make and the rationale behind them. Observers were placed on-board to collect catch and discard data, and also train crews in self sampling approaches. Skippers were asked to set themselves a target for discard reduction between the trial and the control trips, and this was the core of the “challenge”. The targets could be in terms of reducing discards of TAC species in general, or of those that represent the major “choke” species in their fishery. Catch data were analysed to determine success at reaching this target, and successful tactics included in the “best practice” manuals and disseminated at annual case workshops.

Challenge trials were carried out in three different countries and across a number of fisheries:

•          Ireland – one demersal trawl vessel targeting whitefish (cod, haddock and whiting) and one targeting nephrops with additional catches of the same fish species.

•          Denmark – 12 vessels mainly fishing cod and saithe, with three nephrops targeting vessels. The vessels towed a mix of single and twin rigs, and were distributed between the North Sea, the Skagerrak, and the Baltic Sea.

•          France – 3 vessels targeting a mix of species including cod, whiting, squid cuttlefish and some pelagic species. The vessels were all trawlers, two under 18m, and one over 18m.

The approach was slightly different in the three countries. In Denmark, the main option explored by fishers was gear modification, and the data were mostly collected by the fishers themselves, supplemented with Fully Documented Fishery (FDF) methods. In France and Ireland, the approaches included both gear and tactical modifications, with full observer coverage.

  This deliverable also includes the outputs from Deliverable 3.1. on gear based methods for reducing discards. Particularly important for the „challenge trials“ was the „Selectivity in Trawl Fishing Gears“ report, which also included a range of fact sheets on the performance of particular gears and modifications. This manual is available for download at http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Publications/stats/Science/SMFS/2017/0801 and also on http://www.discardless.eu/selectivity_manual

Gear based changes used in the „Challenge trials“

Changes to the gear figured strongly in fisher‘s choices in all three trials, with the aim of improving selectivity and reducing unwanted catches. This was the main thrust of the Danish study. Here the fishers chose a range of different approaches

•          Seven of the vessels used some form of changed mesh size in the cod end of the net. Usually this involved larger mesh size, but in the Baltic vessels they also trialled reduced mesh sizes

•          Three vessels inserted escape panels into the net

•          Two vessels trialled separator panels with two cod ends

•          One vessel used a topless trawl and one used a modified mesh in the Bacoma panel

In the French trials a number of gear changes were tested.

•          The inclusion of a larger mesh cylinder in the extension

•          Separator panels with two cod ends

•          Increased mesh size in the cod end and extension, and T90 mesh

One of the Irish vessels (the nephrops targeting vessel) decided to use gear changes, and opted for a quad rig nephrops net, with large mesh square mesh panels in all four extensions.

The outcomes of these trials were somewhat mixed. In the Danish trials, nine vessels were able to reduce the discard ratio in the test fisheries (three in the North Sea, three in Skagerrak and three in the Baltic Sea), while two vessels (from the North Sea) actually increased their discard ratio and one North Sea vessel showed no difference in discard ratio.  The improvements ranged from less than 2% for four of the vessels, 2-7% for four others, and, in one case, a 17.6% improvement. In the French trials, there was insufficient time after making the gear changes to reliably check their performance. However, the vessel using the mesh cylinder (CMC) approach reported little loss of commercial catch, and in some cases reductions in discard volume. The separator panel with two cod ends could not be evaluated, but the skipper was still very positive and felt it had value. In general, the fishers did not feel that the changes in cod end meshes achieved the results they had hoped for small fish, and there were concomitant losses in commercial sized fish. Finally, in the Irish trials the use of the SMP in the quad rig allowed the vessel to keep fishing significantly longer before choking on the cod that were the main choke during the control phase of the study.

In conclusion, the use of modified gears to improve selectivity, and reduce the scale of discarding showed considerable promise during the “Challenge trials”. In all three cases, the use of added panels, changes in cod end mesh size and configuration, modifications to the extension, and the use of separator panels with twin cod ends showed some improvements. It should be noted that these improvements were often quite small, and would probably not solve all the problems fishers would face under a full implementation of the LO. Additionally, these were the fishers own trials, and could not always be full substantiated in a scientific context.

What was clear though, was that fishers had many, potentially valuable, ideas on how to improve their gears in the context of the Landing Obligation. One, very positive approach that could be taken, would be to identify an approach that was able to test and “fast track” such initiatives into routine use. In the last part of Chapter 5, we provide a proposal for a framework for industry-led initiatives on gear development in the context of the Landing Obligation that could assist in this context.

Tactical and Strategic changes used in the „Challenge trials“.

Behavioural changes were principally tested in the Irish and French “Challenge trials”. In the Irish trials, the whitefish targeting vessel aimed to use changes in both the time of day and also in the depths at which he fished. The vessel also tried to use movement between management areas to maximise his time fishing for the month. The main issue for this vessel in the control period was a very early choke on cod and haddock in all management areas. The combination of area changes, and behavioural changes allowed a small change in choke time across all areas from 10 to 12 days. There was some evidence that the skipper was actually trying to avoid discards during the control periods as well. He had somewhat higher discards in the months prior to the trials than in the control month during the trials. This may have impacted on the outcomes from the changes he made. The Nephrops vessel, while focused on the gear changes outlined above also used movement between management areas to reduce the choke problem.

The French vessels behavioural changes were mainly focused on the potential for avoiding “sensitive” areas, characterised by high catch rates of quota species under MCRS. The outcomes suggested that the large vessel already did this in its normal practice, and that scope to do any more was limited. For the smaller vessels, their main operating area with high discards was within the three mile zone along the Channel coast, where almost 70% of their catch was usually discarded. Avoiding this area would clearly help with their LO mitigation. The key issue was that, while discards are high in this zone, it is also their main area of operation. These are small, artisanal vessels, and this area is both close to their home ports and also sheltered from bad weather. As a consequence, the skippers were reluctant to avoid this area during the trials. However, it remains a potential valuable tool for LO mitigation, and means to encourage the avoidance of this area should be explored.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the “challenge trials” showed that there was some scope for the use of both more selective gear, and changes in behaviour, both locally, and in moving between management units, to reduce discards, and mitigate the impacts of the LO on fishing viability. Fishers in all the trials did believe that these changes could make some difference, even if they did not work as well as expected in the limited context of the Challenges. It should be noted though, that even when the trials were able to reduce discarding or the impact of “choke”, the improvements were generally quite small. So, while such changes may help fishers comply with the LO, and reduce discards, it is still not sufficient to avoid significant impacts on their economic viability. Notwithstanding this, we consider it desirable to continue working with fishers on both gear and behavioural based responses to the challenges implicit in the LO. The trials were all successful in terms of the level of collaboration, and in some of the outcomes, and means should definitely be actively sought to continue this type of work.

Reid 2017 “Challenge” experiments in a compiled cluster report and final avoidance manual DiscardLess_Deliverable_D4_2.pdf

Highlights:
•	Based on the "challenge" trials there is scope for fishermen to reduce their catches of unwanted fish both in terms of under Minimum Conservation Reference Size quota species, and "choke species" fish;
•	The "challenges" allowed fishermen to develop their own solutions or approaches to the problems raised by the Landing Obligation;
•	They were able to utilise both gear based approaches (mesh sizes, escape panels and other modifications), and tactical changes (e.g. change of location, fishing deeper, or moving between areas, or changing the time of day of fishing).
•	Many of the gear modifications were detailed in the  DiscardLess Avoidance Manual – Deliverable 3.1;
•	Most of the "challenge" trials showed that the improvements in selectivity, either through gear or behavioural changes, were generally small, and would not alone prevent unwanted catches under the LO;
•	The time scale of the "challenge" trials did not all allow the fishermen to make all the changes they might have wished, both gear and behavioural, but many expressed a desire to continue using, and developing, these methods in the future;
•	There were clear indications that all solutions were local in their application. All the fishermen in the "challenges" used different methods of gear or behaviour, which were adapted to the particular fisheries in which they worked. No single approach can then be expected to provide a global solution.


Ueber Arsenpentasulfid


pyodide/pyodide:

Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly


Figure 72 from: Zhang J, Yu H, Li S (2021) Taxonomic studies on the sac spider genus Clubiona (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, China. In: Li S (Ed.) Spiders of Xishuangbanna, China. ZooKeys 1034: 1-163. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413

Figure 72 Clubiona spp., male palp, prolateral view (A) and retrolateral view (B–D) A, BC. yaoiCC. jiandanDC. shuangsi sp. nov., holotype. Abbreviations: C = conductor; DCA = dorsal cymbial apophysis; E = embolus; EB = embolar base; PTA = prolateral tibial apophysis; RTA = retrolateral tibial apophysis; VTA = ventral tibial apophysis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Zhang, Jianshuang

Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China

Yu, Hao

Guizhou Education University, Guiyang, China

Li, Shuqiang

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of sciences, Beijing, China

Biota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Clubionidae
Clubiona
Clubiona yaoi
Checklist
DNA barcoding
new species
new synonymy
taxonomy
tropical rainforest


Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change: A New Legal Frontier?

The Paris Agreement is the first climate treaty to include a reference to traditional knowledge, opening up a new legal frontier to address this complex subject in international law. Traditional knowledge has already been the subject of considerable regulatory developments in international environmental and human rights instruments. This paper reflects on how these bodies of law treat traditional knowledge, with the objective of understanding what are the gaps that could and should be addressed in the context of the climate regime. The paper is divided into four parts. The introduction outlines the paper’s structure and methodology. Section two provides a definition of traditional knowledge and identifies the international law questions it raises. Section three analyses existing international obligations on traditional knowledge in environmental and human rights law. Section four considers the interplay between these bodies of international law and the climate regime. The conclusion offers some recommendations on the treatment of traditional knowledge in the climate regime.

traditional knowledge
climate change law
Paris Agreement
international environmental law
human rights

BENELEX Working Paper No 13.-- Last revised 14 Oct 2017


Hylcalosia Fischer 1967

Hylcalosia Fischer, 1967
 Holcalysia Cameron, 1910: 6 [nec Cameron, 1905]; Shenefelt, 1974: 993. Type species: Holcalysia ruficeps Cameron, 1910. Hylcalosia Fischer, 1967: 125; Shenefelt, 1974: 993; Chen & Wu, 1994: 85; Belokobylskij, 1998: 297; Zheng, Chen & Yang, 2012: 454; Belokobylskij, 2015: 530. Type species: Holcalysia ruficeps Cameron, 1910.

 Diagnosis. Third antennal segment (including annellus) distinctly shorter than fourth segment, and usually distinctly widened, 1.5–2.0 × wider than the maximum width of fourth segment (Figs 2G, 4G, 6G, 8F, 10G, 12G); clypeus acutely protruding (Figs 2J, 4J, 6J, 8I, 10J, 12J); face densely rugose (Figs 2J, 4J, 6J, 8I, 10J, 12J); eyes glabrous; malar space absent (Figs 2K, 4K, 6K, 8J, 10K, 12K); mandible enlarged and with 3 or 4 lobes (Figs 2J, 4J, 6J, 8I, 10J, 12J); maxillary palp with 6 segments; pronope large and deep (Figs 2C, 4C, 6C, 8B, 10C, 12C); precoxal sulcus present medially (Figs 2C, 4C, 6C, 8B, 10C, 12C); vein 2-SR of fore wing longer than vein 3-SR and vein 3-CU1 of fore wing longer than vein CU1b or subequal (Figs 2A, 4A, 6A, 8A, 10A, 12A); vein m-cu of hind wing nearly straight; vein 1r-m of hind wing long (Figs 2B, 4B, 6B, 8A, 10B, 12B); propodeum usually densely and coarsely reticulate-rugose, areola usually not differentiated, but sometimes densely punctate or weakly rugose and areola distinct (Figs 2E, 4E, 6E, 8D, 10E, 12E); first tergite of metasoma with dorsope, 2nd and 3rd tergites completely and coarsely longitudinally striate or rugose, 4th and following tergites of ♀ (largely) retracted (Figs 2F, 4F, 6F, 8E, 10F, 12F); upper valve of ovipositor enlarged and enclosing small lower valve (Figs 2H, 4H, 6H, 8M, 10H, 12H).

 Biology. Unknown.

 Distribution. East Palaearctic and Oriental.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Braconidae Hylcalosia

Published as part of Zhu, Jiachen, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2018, Review of the genus Hylcalosia Fischer (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with description of four new species from China, pp. 547-565 in Zootaxa 4462 (4) on page 548, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1441855

Fischer, M. (1967) Seltene Alysiinae aus verschiedenen Erdteilen. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 70, 109 - 138.

Cameron, P. (1910) On some Asiatic species of the braconid subfamilies Rhogadinae, Agathinae, and Macrocentrinae and of the Alysiidae. Wiener Entomologische Zeitschrift, 29, 1 - 10.

Shenefelt, R. D. (1974) Hymenopterorum Catalogus. Pars 11. Braconidae 7. Alysiinae. Dr. W. Junk, s' - Gravenhage, 177 pp.

Chen, J. - H. & Wu, Z. - S. (1994) The Alysiini of China: (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae). China Agricultural Press, Fuzhou, 218 pp. [in Chinese with English summary]

Belokobylskij, S. A. (1998) 9. Alysiinae (Alysiini). In: Ler, P. A. (Ed.), Keys to the Insects of Russian Far East. Uol. 4. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Pt 3. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, pp. 163 - 298.

Zheng, M. L., Chen, J. H. & Yang, J. Q. (2012) A new species in the genus Hylcalosia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 34 (2), 453 - 458.

Belokobylskij, S. A. (2015) The genus Hylcalosia Fischer, 1967 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) of the Russian Far East. Zootaxa, 4040 (5), 530 - 542. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4040.5.2.


Fig. 2 in A new species of the genus Cottus (Scorpaeniformes, Cottidae) from the Baltic Sea Basin and its phylogenetic placement

Fig. 2. Cottus cyclophthalmus sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (ZIN 56687), SL 83.3 mm, TL 99.0 mm, Krasnaya River, near Tokarevka village, 54º24'59.4" N 22º23'50.4" E. 3D scan images. a. Lateral view. b. Dorsal view. c. Ventral view.

Sideleva, Valentina

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Kesminas, Vytautas

Institute of Ecology, Nature Research Centre, Akademijos Str. 2, LT-08412, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Actinopterygii Scorpaeniformes Cottidae Cottus

Published as part of Sideleva, Valentina, Kesminas, Vytautas & Zhidkov, Zakhar, 2022, A new species of the genus Cottus (Scorpaeniformes, Cottidae) from the Baltic Sea Basin and its phylogenetic placement, pp. 38-57 in European Journal of Taxonomy 834 on page 44, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.834.1897, http://zenodo.org/record/6980935

European Journal of Taxonomy


Figure 1 from: Araújo M, Rocha A, Miranda I, Barbosa R (2017) Hydro-edaphic conditions defining richness and species composition in savanna areas of the northern Brazilian Amazonia. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e13829. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e13829

Figure 1 -
        Location of the two PPBio modules studied in the Roraima's savanna (lavrado), northern Brazilian Amazon.

Araújo, Maria Aparecida

Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista - Roraima, Brazil

Rocha, Antônio Elielson

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém - Pará, Brazil

Miranda, Izildinha

Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém - Pará, Brazil

Barbosa, Reinaldo

National Institute for Research in Amazonia, Boa Vista - Roraima, Brazil

Amazonian savanna
floristic survey
species richness
environmental factors
plant community


Dynamic Psychology and the Practice of Medicine:


A Study on Nature and Magnitude of Trafficking in Andhra Pradesh

Trafficking refers to the movement of men, women and children from one place to another through force, coercion or deception into situations of their economic and sexual exploitation. The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (known as the Palermo Protocol adopted in November 2000) defines trafficking as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or service, slavery or practice similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organ (UNO, 2000). Against this background, the study has been undertaken on nature and magnitude of trafficking in Andhra Pradesh.

A. Nirmala Meri

Research Scholar, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Dept. of Sociology and Social Work, Nagarjuna Nagar (India)

R. Srinivasu

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Social Work, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Ongole Campus, Ongole (India)

Abduction, Exploitation, Trafficking, Vulnerability.

RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary


Fig. 1 in Variation In The Nucleolar Organiser Regions Of The Long-Tailed Giant Rats (Rodentia, Muridae, Genus Leopoldamys) In Malaysia

Fig. 1. Metaphase of male Leopoldamys ciliatus with three pairs of NORs (sa1, sa3 and m) stained with silver nitrate. X-chromosome is the longest acrocentric and Y the smallest acrocentric in the complement.

Published as part of Yong, Hoi Sen, Lim, Phaik-Eem, Belabut, Daicus M. & Eamsobhana, Praphathip, 2013, Variation In The Nucleolar Organiser Regions Of The Long-Tailed Giant Rats (Rodentia, Muridae, Genus Leopoldamys) In Malaysia, pp. 855-859 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61 (2) on page 856, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353124

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology


The Antagonism Between Alcohol and Strychnia:


Orobanche alba Stephan ex Willd. (BR0000010067864)

Belgium Herbarium image of Meise Botanic Garden.

Biodiversity Taxonomy Terrestrial Herbarium Scrophulariaceae


An artificial neural network approach for detecting skin cancer

This study aims to present diagnose of melanoma skin cancer at an early stage. It applies feature extraction method of the first order for feature extraction based on texture in order to get high degree of accuracy with method of classification using artificial neural network (ANN). The method used is training and testing phases with classification of Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) neural network. The results showed that the accuracy of test image with 4 sets of training for image not suspected of melanoma and melanoma with the lowest accuracy of 80% and the highest accuracy of 88.88%, respectively. The 4 sets of training used consisted of 23 images. Of the 23 images used as a training consisted of 6 as not suspected of melanoma images and 17 as suspected melanoma images.

Artificial neural network
first-order feature extraction
melanoma
multilayer perceptron

TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication, Computing, Electronics and Control


FIGURE 2. A–D in Clitopilus chichawatniensis sp. nov. (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Pakistan

FIGURE 2. A–D. Anatomical structures of Clitopilus chichawatniensis (Holotype, LAH37431). A. Basidiospores, B. Basidia, C. Hyphae of pileipellis, D. Hyphae of stipitipellis. Photos by: Nadia Fatima.

Fatima, Nadia

Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus 54590, Lahore, Pakistan. & nadiafatima904@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9794-7222

Usman, Muhammad

Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus 54590, Lahore, Pakistan. & musmanmughal52@yahoo.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3490-058X

Khalid, Abdul Nasir

Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus 54590, Lahore, Pakistan. & drankhalid@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5635-8031

Biodiversity Taxonomy Fungi Basidiomycota Agaricomycetes Agaricales Entolomataceae Clitopilus

Published as part of Fatima, Nadia, Usman, Muhammad & Khalid, Abdul Nasir, 2022, Clitopilus chichawatniensis sp. nov. (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Pakistan, pp. 257-268 in Phytotaxa 567 (3) on page 263, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.567.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7156734

Phytotaxa


I. "Recipere" und "permutare" bei Cicero


FIGURE 13 in Thalictrum jilongense and T. tenuicaule (Ranunculaceae), described from China, are both merged with T. leuconotum

FIGURE 13. Thalictrum rutifolium in the wild (A‒K: China, Sichuan, Xiaojin; L‒M: China, Sichuan, Serxu, which is closely adjacent to Yushu in Qinghai). A. Habitat. B, C. Habit. D. Roots. E. Portion of stem. F. Leaf (left: adaxial side; right: abaxial side; inset: stipels). G. Leaflet (left: adaxial side; right: abaxial side). H. Flower. I. Sepal (left: adaxial side; right: abaxial side). J. Stamens. K. Carpels. L. Aggregate fruit. M. Achenes.

Zeng, You-Pai

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China & zengyoupai@scbg.ac.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3259-8011

Yuan, Qiong

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China & yuanqiong@scib.ac.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2613-5045

Yang, Qin-Er

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China & qeyang@scib.ac.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6261-0731

Biodiversity Taxonomy Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ranunculales Ranunculaceae Thalictrum

Published as part of Zeng, You-Pai, Yuan, Qiong & Yang, Qin-Er, 2021, Thalictrum jilongense and T. tenuicaule (Ranunculaceae), described from China, are both merged with T. leuconotum, pp. 168-184 in Phytotaxa 509 (2) on page 182, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.509.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5426058

Phytotaxa


Serum Treatment of Influenzal Meningitis:


Pselaphodes spinosus Champion 1925

6. Pselaphodes spinosus Champion, 1925
(Figs 6, 7)

 Pselaphodes spinosus Champion, 1925: 261.

 Pselaphodes championi (Jeannel, 1960: 454), new combination (transferred from Labomimus), new synonymy.

 Type material examined. Pselaphodes spinosus : Lectotype (fixed by present designation; in BMNH): INDIA: ♂, with nine labels (Fig. 6 B): ‘Haldwani Dist., Kumaon, India. H. G. Champion (printed) / G. C. Champion. Brit. Mus. 1925 – 42. (printed) / ♂ (printed) / Pselaphodes spinosus C type ♂ (handwritten) / Pselaphodes spinosus Champ. (printed) / E. M. M. 1925. det. G. C. C. / Type H. T. (round printed label with a red rim) / sand banks Gauniaran Haldwani 29. 4. 23 / Lectotype ♂, Pselaphodes spinosus Champion, des. Z.-W. Yin, 2015 (handwritten)’. Labomimus championi: Holotype (fixed by original designation; in BMNH): INDIA: ♂, with six labels (Fig. 7 B): ‘Haldwani Dist., Kumaon, India. H.G.C. (printed) / G.C. Champion coll. B.M. 1927 - 409 (printed) / TYPE (red printed label) / Type (round printed label with a red rim) / Labomimus championi R. Jeannel det., 19 / Holotype ♂, Labomimus championi Jeannel, det. Z.-W. Yin, 2015 (handwritten)’.

 Lectotype designation. Pselaphodes spinosus was described by Champion based on five males and two females without designating a holotype (Champion 1925: 262). All of these specimens have a status of syntype. We did examine a male from the Natural History Museum, London, and here designate this specimen as the lectotype to ensure the stability of nomenclature and provide a unique name-bearing type for the name. The rest of the specimens of the type series become paralectotypes. Labomimus championi was described on the basis of one male and one female. Jeannel used the term ‘type’ for the male specimen (Jeannel 1960: 453). According to Article 73.1. 1, this male is a holotype fixed by original designation.

 Diagnosis of male. Reddish brown; body length over 3.5 mm; postgenae rounded laterally; antennal club composed of enlarged antennomeres IX–XI, antennomeres XI–X modified; pronotum rounded at anterolateral margins; metathorax with long metaventral processes; trochanters and femora of fore and middle legs strongly spinose ventrally; aedeagus with asymmetric median lobe.

 Redescription of male. Habitus as in Figs 6 A, 7 A. Body length 3.71–3.85 mm. Head longer than wide, HL 0.83–0.84 mm, HW 0.69–0.72 mm; each eye composed of about 45–50 facets. Antennal club composed of three apical antennomeres, antennomere IX broadened laterally at apical half (Fig. 7 D), X strongly concave at middle (Figs 6 C, 7 C). Pronotum longer than wide, PL 0.76–0.78 mm, PW 0.72–0.73 mm, rounded at anterolateral margins. Elytra wider than long, EL 1.04–1.06 mm, EW 1.31–1.36 mm. Metaventral processes elongate, emarginate at apices (Figs 6 D, 7 E). Protrochanters, profemora (Figs 6 E, 7 F), mesotrochanters, and mesofemora (Figs 6 F, 7 G) strongly spinose ventrally. Abdomen broad at base and narrowed posteriorly, AL 1.08–1.17 mm, AW 1.36–1.37 mm. Length of aedeagus 0.66 mm; aedeagus (Figs 6 G, 6 H, 7 H, 7 I) with asymmetric median lobe, endophallus composed of two short sclerites.

 Comparative notes. The unique form of the strongly modified antennomere X, combined with the protuberant preapical portions of the protibiae, long metaventral processes, spination of the fore and middle legs, and structure of the aedeagus readily separate Pselaphodes spinosus from all other known congeners. After an examination of the holotype, Labomimus championi is here transferred to the genus Pselaphodes based on the lack of the median metaventral fovea, and this species is placed as a junior synonym of Pselaphodes spinosus by possessing same diagnostic characters (Fig. 7 A, 7 C–I).

 Distribution. Pselaphodes spinosus is known from Haldwani in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes spinosus

Published as part of Yin, Zi-Wei & Li, Li-Zhen, 2015, Review of some species in the genera Pselaphodes Westwood and Labomimus Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), pp. 331-344 in Zootaxa 4040 (3) on page 340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/241584

Champion, G. C. (1925) Some Indian (and Tibetan) Coleoptera (18). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 61, 260 - 273.

Jeannel, R. (1960) Sur les Pselaphides (Coleoptera) de l'Inde septentrionale. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology, 9, 403 - 456.


RAGE - Data Evaluation Taxonomy Manager

General description: Data from the evaluation of the Taxonomy Manager in the RAGE Ecosystem

Topic

ACM CSS 2012: Human-centered computing - Human computer interaction (HCI) - User studies, Usability testing

Name entitites

Organizational information: Graz University of Technology, Forschungsinstitut für Telekommunikation und Kooperation

Geographical information: Europe

Time information: 2017

Types: SPSS data file

RAGCS target group: target groups - supply side - research institutions, industry participants

Evaluation dimensions

Evaluation object: Taxonomy Manager in RAGE Ecosystem portal

Evaluation variables: usability, usefulness, tutorial quality, experience with taxonomies, version control, export/import quality

Instruments: UMUX - usability metric for user experience (Finstad, 2010); USE questionnaire - Usefulness, Satisfaction, Ease of use; subscale usefulness; questionnaire items adapted from Papadakis, Andreou & Chrissykopoulus (2002), Thielsch & Stegemöller (2012); questionnaire items defined for the purpose of the evaluation

Relationships: D8.3 - First RAGE Evaluation Report

Related datasets: 10.5281/zenodo.1209192, 10.5281/zenodo.2578728

RAGE project, Ecosystem, applied games, taxonomy, evaluation


Defining the ecological and physiological traits of phytoplankton with metatranscriptomics

Marine phytoplankton are central players in the global carbon cycle, responsible for nearly half of primary production. The identification of the factors controlling phytoplankton ecology, physiology, and, ultimately, bloom dynamics has been a central problem in the field of biological oceanography for the past century. Molecular approaches, such as metatranscriptomics, enable the direct examination of species-specific metabolic profiles in mixed, natural communities, a task which was previously intractable. I am interested in the development and application of novel analytical tools and bioinformatic pipelines to characterize the physiological response of microscopic organisms to their environment. Here I present two studies from the oligotrophic ocean that demonstrate the insights that can be gained from these types of approaches. In the first study, metatranscriptomics was used to tease apart the physiological responses of the diatom, haptophyte, and dinoflagellate functional groups during simulated blooms to characterize the traits that govern the magnitude and timing of phytoplankton blooms in the oligotrophic ocean. The results indicated that blooms form when phytoplankton are released from limitation by resources and that the mechanistic basis for the success of one functional group over another may be driven by how efficiently the transcriptome is modulated following a nutrient pulse. The second study looked at the sub-species level, examining the balance of phenotypic plasticity and strain diversity in the success of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. Results indicated strong control of nitrogen on the species complex and showed that nutrient resupply shifted the strain composition as well as transcript abundance of key biogeochemical genes involved in nutrient acquisition and the life stage of the population. These tools, I believe, might be applied to the deeper and more dilute mesopelagic microbial community to assess not only the diversity, but the ecological and physiological functioning of protists. I am interested to work with other scientists and engineers at NAKFI to bring the tools that I developed in the surface ocean to the mesopelagic.


FIGURE 4 in Taxonomic reappraisal of Hynobius tokyoensis, with description of a new species from northeastern Honshu, Japan (Amphibia: Caudata)

FIGURE 4. Alive male of Hynobius sengokui sp. nov. from Iwaki-shi (not captured).

Misawa, Yasuchika

Civil Engineering and Eco-Technology Consultants, Osaka Branch, Minami-senba 1-15-14, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0081, JAPAN misawa.kenkan1@ezweb.ne.jp; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9618-7292

Yoshikawa, Natsuhiko

Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Amakubo 4-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, JAPAN onychodactylus@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0862-2157

Nishikawa, Kanto

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto, 606-8501 JAPAN nishikawa.kanto.8v@kyoto-u.ac.jp; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6274-4959

Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Amphibia Caudata Hynobiidae Hynobius

Published as part of Matsui, Masafumi, Misawa, Yasuchika, Yoshikawa, Natsuhiko & Nishikawa, Kanto, 2022, Taxonomic reappraisal of Hynobius tokyoensis, with description of a new species from northeastern Honshu, Japan (Amphibia: Caudata), pp. 207-221 in Zootaxa 5168 (2) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6877328

Zootaxa


Rezension: Moon-Suk Heo, Der koreanische Buddhismus im Westen: Studien zur Adaption mit besonderem Blick auf die Lehre von Seon-Meisterin Daehaeng

Buddhism in the West has grown tremendously in terms of the number of centers and members as well as in public awareness during the past 30 years. Likewise, academic studies on the varied Buddhist traditions and schools have appeared in rising numbers in North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Korean Buddhism in a western country, however, with the exception of the overview for Germany by Manfred Hutter (2014) has not been the subject of a proper study. It is the merit of Moon-Suk Heo, a nun in the Korean Hanmaun Seon tradition, founded by the female Buddhist master Daehaeng Kunsunim, to provide detailed information of ten Hanmaun centers outside of Korea and to highlight the achievements of Daehaeng. The study is strong in presenting a detailed and highly informed portrayal of Seon master Daehaeng, and her numerous Buddhist reforms in view of the larger history of Korean Buddhism. However, the study misses a contextualization in the present state of research on Buddhism in the West, and does not employ any theoretical and analytical lenses.

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Asian Ethnology


The Nonspecific and the Specific Defense of the Child Against the Tubercle Bacillus


Kurtyka Daria, Budziejko Blanka, Białkowska Aleksandra, Cywińska Oliwia, Róźański Gracjan, Dobosiewicz Anna Maria, Badiuk Nataliia. Conservative and surgical treatment and possible complications of lateral support syndrome of the patellofemoral joint. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(11):778-786. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2839624

http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6897

The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017).

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Received: 19.11.2018. Revised: 22.11.2018. Accepted: 30.11.2018.

Conservative and surgical treatment and possible complications of lateral support syndrome of the patellofemoral joint

Daria Kurtyka¹, Blanka Budziejko¹, Aleksandra Białkowska¹, Oliwia Cywińska¹, Gracjan Róźański1, Anna Maria Dobosiewicz1, Nataliia Badiuk2

1Scientific Circle of Exercise Physiology at Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics. Division of Ergonomics and Exercise Physiology, Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy in Toruń, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland

2State Enterprise Ukrainian Research Institute for Medicine of Transport, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Odesa, Ukraine

Corresponding author: Anna Maria Dobosiewicz, annamdobo@gmail.com

Abstract

The knee joint is the largest joint in the human body. At the same time, it is most sensitive to various diseases, often leading to the destruction of anatomical structures, disruption of static and dynamic functions. The authors of the article conducted a literary search on the methods of treatment of the syndrome of lateral support of the patellar-hip joint.

In the case of lateral support syndrome of the patella and thigh joint, conservative treatment should be implemented first. Properly selected physiotherapeutic methods allow to reduce pain and avoid surgery. Surgical treatment should be the final choice, as it is associated with the possibility of complications that will delay the patient's recovery.

Key words: patellofemoral joint, treatment, surgical treatment, conservative treatment, lateral support syndrome


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