United States Records of Williamsonia Fletcheri (Odonata: Corduliidae)

Excerpt: Foley (1966) reported specimens of Williamsonia fletcheri Williamson from rand Traverse County, Michigan as the first record of the species from the lower peninsula and the second for the United States. However. two other records for the United States were overlooked and this was actually the fourt

Kala defanged: Managing power in Java away from the centre

Copyright © 2012 Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.If discussions of power in Indonesia have been too Java-centric, power talk about Java has been equally overcentralized. This article presents an alternative view to the top-down, hierarchical, exemplary-centre approach of Anderson, Geertz and others: the view from Banyuwangi in East Java. Through an analysis of local rituals, popular theatre and political action it proposes a different model based on consensus, relativism, and ritual containment

Pwning Level Bosses in MATLAB: Student Reactions to a Game-Inspired Computational Physics Course

We investigated student reactions to two computational physics courses incorporating several videogame-like aspects. These included use of gaming terminology such as "levels," "weapons," and "bosses"; a game-style point system linked to course grades; a self-paced schedule with no deadlines; a mastery design in which only entirely correct attempts earn credit, but students can retry until they succeed; immediate feedback via self-test code; an assignment progression from "minions" (small, focused tasks) to "level bosses" (integrative tasks); and believable, authentic assignment scenarios. Through semi-structured interviews and course evaluations, we found that a majority of students considered the courses effective and the game-like aspects beneficial. In particular, many claimed that the point system increased their motivation; the self-paced nature caused them to reflect on their self-discipline; the possibility and necessity of repeating assignments until perfect aided learning; and the authentic tasks helped them envision using course skills in their professional futures.Comment: Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 2014 Physics Education Research Conference (PERC

Additions to the Checklist of the Illinois Spiders

Five families and 140 species of spiders not included in former Illinois checklists are recorded. Two of these families, Antrodiaetidae and Scytodidae, and 40 of the species have been cited in earlier revisionary or other literature. The families Oonopidae, Symphytognathidae (slat.) and Ctenidae, and the remaining 100 species of spiders are recorded from Illinois for the first time. Locality data are given as counties only, and months of capture of mature specimens are presented. The total known spider fauna of Illinois now stands at 500 species in 27 families

A Checklist of Illinois Centipedes (Chilopoda): Supplement

(excerpt) Order SCOLOPENDROMORPHA Family CRYFTOPIDAE Subfamily CRYFTOPINAE Cryptops hyalinus Say 1821. (Fig. 2). B (Cook; Auerbach [1951]), C (Champaign) F (Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson), G (Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Williamson), H (Clark), I (Randolph, Union), J (Alexander)

Distribution of the spotted minnow (Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842)) (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in Western Australia including range extensions and sympatric species

Galaxias maculatus was captured from a number of rivers outside its previously known range. In Western Australia, it was formerly only known from rivers and lakes between the Goodga River (Two People's Bay, 30 km east of Albany) and the Dailey River (50 km east of Esperance), with additional records from the Boat Harbour Lakes (Kent River). An intensive survey of the inland fishes in rivers and lakes along the south coast of Western Australia has extended its distribution east by 50 km (Thomas River), west by approximately 40 km (Walpole River) and north by 400 km (Harvey River). The Western Australian Museum also has a specimen from the Canning River, a further 100 km north. Field salinity tolerance of G maculatus was high, with fish found alive in 81 mScm 1 (-45 ppt). The freshwater piscifauna east of, and including, the Pallinup River is depauperate, with G. maculatusbeing the only freshwater species present. All sympatric teleosts are tolerant of salinity and, with the exception of the introduced Gambusia holbrooki, are estuarine, including Pseudogobius olorum, Leptatherina wallacei and Acanthopagrus butcheri

Wolf spiders of the Pacific region: the genus \u3ci\u3eZoica\u3c/i\u3e (Araneae, Lycosidae)

The wolf spider genus Zoica Simon 1898 is currently known only from the Indo-Australasian region, including India in the west to northern Western Australia and Papua New Guinea in the east. Here we extend the known distribution of the genus into the Pacific region by describing two new species, Z. carolinensis new species from the Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Z. pacifica new species from the Republic of the Marshall Islands

The Phosphoria formation of the northeastern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming

Purpose and Scope. — The Phosphoria formation of the northern Rocky Mountains of the United States has received considerable attention from geologists because of its important reserves of phosphate and petroleum. In the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming, however, still more work is needed to compile the information necessary for a complete understanding of the facies changes exhibited by this formation. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first to present a description of the lithology and the paleontology of the Phosphoria formation in the northeast part of the Big Horn Basin, and secondly to show the stratigraphic relationship of the facies present in the outcrop sections to each other and to those in adjacent areas. The author hopes this study will aid in the understanding of the complex Permo-Triassic problems existing in this region. Procedure of Study. — During the summer of 1956, a general survey of the thesis area was made after which ten outcrops were selected to be studied in detail. The lithologic units of these exposures were described in detail and sampled. The thicknesses were measured by the author and his field assistant with a 100 foot tape and a hand level. After returning to the campus of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, the samples were examined under the binocular microscope for their major mineral constituents, and tested for the presence of phosphate. The phosphate test used was devised by Oakes (1938, pp. 454-457). Thin sections were prepared from selected samples for petrographic study. The literature applicable to the problem was reviewed. The information thus obtained was incorporated into this paper during the scholastic year of 1956-57. --Introduction, pages 1-2

Artificial Nutrition and the Terminally Ill: How Should Washington Decide?

This Comment demonstrates that artificial nutrition and hydration are life-sustaining treatments which all patients have a right to forego under Washington\u27s common law, state constitution, and NDA. Countervailing state interests do not compel a contrary result. Moreover, artificial nutrition and hydration do not require the preclusion of surrogate decisionmaking already recognized by Washington in the life-sustaining treatment context. However, since current judicial guidelines for surrogate-made decisions are inadequate, this Comment concludes by proposing substantive guidelines for such decisions

Present educational tendencies in China

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1917. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive