Library Liaisons Enhance Researcher Productivity by Use of a Common Bibliographic Management Software Interface to Deliver Current Awareness Information

Deliver quality-filtered full database records to faculty and staff in a customized format that can be easily imported into a common software interface. This allows both widespread individual and shared use of information for patient care, education, research, and publication

Host selection and nesting behavior of Nearctic trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae, Pompilinae)

Host records and nesting behavior of the Nearctic trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasps (Hy­menoptera: Pompilidae) Calopompilus Ashmead and Priocnemissus Haupt (Pepsinae: Pepsini) and Aporus Spinola and Psorthaspis Banks (Pompilinae: Aporini) are reviewed, investigated, compared, and discussed. First time incidental trapdoor spider host records for Priocnemis (Priocnemissus) minorata Banks (Pepsi­nae: Pepsini), Anoplius (Lophopompilus) carolina (Banks) (Pompilinae: Pompilini), and Notocyphus dorsalis dorsalis Cresson (Notocyphinae: Notocyphini) are included, although they are not typical trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasp species. The Palearctic Aporus (Aporus) unicolor Spinola, A. (Aporus) bicolor Spinola and A. (Aporus) planiceps (Latreille) are referenced for comparison with Nearctic Aporus sensu stricto. Early 20th century papers on species of Aporus and Psorthaspis are revived. New information on nesting behavior of Ne­arctic trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasps is described and first host trapdoor spider records for Psorthaspis formosa (Smith), P. legata (Cresson) and P. mariae (Cresson) are documented. Potential Pompilidae species in the genera Calopompilus and Aporus are suggested for host trapdoor spider remains found in burrows with spider wasp eggs, larvae and cocoons (pupae) based on geographic distribution, habitat, spider species, trapdoor and burrow structure, wasp cocoon size, and wasp congeneric host records

Developing an Intranet Resource to Compile and Disseminate Animal Welfare Information for Library Liaisons

The project’s goal is to create and maintain a comprehensive database containing subject-specific information. The information is used to serve as a key resource for grant support and enhance the ethical treatment of animals. A library Intranet allows librarian liaisons to conduct database searches and prepare customized reports for campus researchers. EndNote software is utilized, due to a campus site license

Increasing Space Access Availability for Small Payloads: The PacAstro Launch Vehicle

This paper familiarizes the Small Satellite community with the capabilities and advantages offered by the PacAstro launch vehicle and its applications to low-cost launch needs. At a projected cost of $5M per launch, the 2-stage, pressure-fed liquid fueled vehicle is designed to transport 225 kg (500 Ibm) to a 750 km (405 nm) altitude circular polar orbit, or to a 1200 km (650 nm) altitude circular equatorial orbit. The smooth burning engine provides a gentle vibration environment and can be throttled, shut-down, and restarted to accommodate accurate orbit insertion. The large 1.5 m 10 and 2.4 m long payload volume allows multiple payloads to be launched side-by-side. The vehicle exploits over 30 years of U.S. booster technology and requires no technology development. The PacAstro vehicle uses proven components for all major elements including engines, supplied by TRW, fairing, and stage separation. The PacAstro team, which includes TRW and Swedish Space Corporation, has considerable hardware and launch experience. PacAstro is combining the application of well proven, low cost launch vehicle technologies with the techniques of small, low cost satellite development to create a launch vehicle with costs comparable to or below those of the satellites it will carry

Evaluation of North American spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) common names

The use of common names for species and subspecies of North American spider wasps (Hymenop­tera: Pompilidae) presents a variety of questions for pompilid specialists as most pompilid taxa are difficult to identify, even under the microscope. Some common names currently being used for spider wasp species are acceptable while others are misleading, unfit and unacceptable. Opinions on the relative value of common names for spider wasps from current Pompilidae researchers are given in the Introduction. Eleven inappro­priate common names for North American Pompilidae species and subspecies are identified and discussed in the Results. The use of common names for fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals has been a satisfactory way of distinguishing and identifying animals for centuries. These animals are often readily identified because they are large, highly visible and many genera have only a few, easily recognizable species. Insects are another matter. The number of insect species on earth exceeds 5.5 million (Stork 2018). The number of spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) species on earth approximates 5000 (Pitts et al. 2005). Spider wasp species are usually not easily recognizable unless they are placed under the microscope and, even then, males and females of many species are difficult to identify. Many species are black in color and remarkably similar in size and structure. Genera such as Pepsis Fabricius (135 species), Hemipepsis Dahlbom (~180 species), and Auplopus Spinola (~150 species) have numerous similar species, making their identification extremely difficult. Many pompilid species can be identi­fied only by extraction and examination of the male genitalia, a painstaking and delicate procedure. Numerous species of spider wasps are known only from the male sex as some females such as Anoplius marginatus (Say) complex are impossible to identify (Evans 1951). For these reasons attaching a common name to a spider wasp species can be an insurmountable task. Some prominent hymenopterists are, in fact, opposed to assigning and using common names for species of Pompilidae

Factors affecting the development of collaborative improvement with strategic suppliers

The research presented in this paper was aimed at increasing the current understanding of the process of developing collaborative improvement in Extended Manufacturing Enterprises (EME). Theory suggests a number of factors to affect that process, including shared sense of direction (i.e. vision), trust, power, and commitment. Based on action research of three EMEs involving a total of thirteen companies from five European countries, the present study identifies a number of additional factors. Factors exogenous to, but impacting, the collaboration are joint history and culture. Endogenous factors are approach to establishing the collaboration, project organisation, change and improvement competence, ways and modes of communicating, and political behaviour. Not only do these factors influence each other, they also strongly affect the development of collaborative improvement

Student Veterans’ Pilgrimage Program: Takes Flight Developing Leaders to Support the Journey and Provide Direction

At the core of Catholic Franciscan Education, St. Bonaventure University’s and Viterbo University’s mission is to provide students with an opportunity to explore their own spiritual development, consider the meaning of life, and engage in activities to promote the common good. Student veterans are the compass for building a Franciscan future at our Catholic Franciscan Higher Education Institutes. The Franciscan Pilgrimage program for veterans provides an approach for promoting and advocating for positive relationships in academic and social environments for our student veterans. Collaboration with student affairs, academics, and support services has resulted in a model for facilitating the mentorship of future student veteran servant leaders. This program empowers students to choose new living-learning communities and engage in campus leadership programs. This mentoring program will demonstrate how to transform students’ lives to be the moral compass of campus life

Nesting behavior, ecology, and functional morphology of the trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasp \u3ci\u3eAporus (Plectraporus) hirsutus\u3c/i\u3e (Banks) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

Macrophotographs in series taken by Alice Abela on sandy coastal dunes in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, CA in 2010–2021 supplement and enhance F. X. Williams (1928) study of the ecol­ogy and nesting behavior of the trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasp Aporus (Plectraporus) hirsutus (Banks) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Aporini). Abela’s macrophotographs and observations provide new details of adult wasp feeding, functional morphology, hunting, digging and prey transport, and host spider trapdoor, entrance, burrow structure, host capture and escape activity. Newly reported host records from this study and online photographs expand A. hirsutus host selection in the large wafer-lid trapdoor spider genus Aptostichus Simon (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Euctenizidae). The A. hirsutus California geographic distribution map by Wasbauer and Kimsey (1985) is updated, thereby providing a broader definition of intraspecific variation in this species. Aporus (Plectraporus) hirsutus (Banks) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Aporini) is black, its body, antennae, legs and forewings rendered brilliant bluish, greenish or violaceous by its pubescence (Evans 1966; Wasbauer and Kimsey 1985) (Fig. 1). Females of A. hirsutus are 6.5–13.0 mm in body length, their size depending on the size of the host spider on which they fed as a larva (Evans 1966; F. E. Kurczewski pers. obs.). Females have the appropriate structural characteristics for preying on the wafer-lid trapdoor spider genus Aptostichus Simon (Araneae: Myga­lomorphae: Euctenizidae) in loose sand of active and relict coastal sand dunes and deserts in the western U. S. (Williams 1928; Wasbauer and Kimsey 1985). Aporus hirsutus ranges from Oregon and California eastward to Idaho, Nevada and western Arizona, and southward into Sonora and Baja California, Mexico (Evans 1966; Was­bauer and Kimsey 1985) (Fig. 9; Table 1)