Sometimes we have a feeling that two people or groups are \talking past one another." We feel, perhaps, that one is using a certain word A to mean X while the other uses A to mean Y, but this is compensated by the former using B to mean Y while the latter uses B to mean X. But since the people or groups don't recognize this { perhaps they can't recognize this { we see them as \doomed forever to...

Most medical lives are spent being busy. When we are honest with ourselves, usually in the early hours of the morning, we know that we haven't given enough time to colleagues, wives, children and other members of our families. Outside medicine we all meet friends who say as much, usually with exceptional politeness. A successful academic colleague, the son of a retired general medical practitio...

John Tribe University of Surrey, UK John Tribe is Professor of Tourism at the University of Surrey (Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. Email ). He has authored books on philosophy, strategy, economics, education, research and environmental management and his research concentrates on epistemology, education, and sustainability. He is Editor-in-Chief of Annals and Co-Chair o...

A description of the mature larvae of the bee tribe Emphorini based on representatives of six genera is presented herein. The two included subtribes, Ancyloscelidina and Emphorina, are also characterized and distinguished from one another primarily by their mandibular anatomy. The anatomy of abdominal segments 9 and 10 is investigated and appears to have distinctive features that distinguish th...

Species of Mimapsilopa from Brazil are reviewed with an emphasis on the fauna from southern Brazil, where six new species were discovered and herein are diagnosed and described. To facilitate identification of species, we have included a diagnosis of the tribe Discomyzini and of Mimapsilopa and have also provided an annotated key to the New World genera of the tribe. We have also provided photo...

Preembobracon zaldivarriveroni gen et sp. nov. from Brazil is described and illustrated. It belongs to the poorly known tribe Ypsistocerini for which biology, is only partly known and then only for the genera of nominal subtribe which are both associated with termite colonies. Preembobracon displays both derived and plesiomorphic character states relative to Embobracon the only other genus of i...

or hunting may be jointly organized, but collective life is based on collective decisions and not on formal roles and carefully differentiated functions. A &dquo;tribe&dquo; is a larger political community involving more than one residential unit. Walter limits the use of the term &dquo;tribe&dquo; strictly to what others have regarded as only one kind of tribal society-the stateless tribal soc...

This paper introduces GalaxyScope, a novel system to distinguish different interpretations of “truth” for different virtual tribes. It extracts the tribes from Wikipedia through analyzing its categories “Ideologies”, “Lifestyles”, and “Culture”, leading to tribes such as “capitalism”, “socialism”, and “liberalism”. It then calculates the most influential “tribe leaders” through their associatio...

An ethno botanical survey was undertaken to collect information from Yanadi tribe of Cheruvukattasangham, Kavali, Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Kavali is a part of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt which is a Precambrian fold belt extending over 600 km along the east coast of India from the North of Cuttack in Orissa to Nellore in Andhra Pradesh. Yanadi tribe is most prevalent in this region...

The Neotropical species of the new tribe Dactylomyiini comprising the genera Argentinia PARENT, Dactylomyia ALDRICH, Macrodactylomyia gen. nov., and Systenoides gen. nov (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) are revised. Diagnoses and keys to genera and species are given. The species Argentinia bickeli spec. nov., Dactylomyia mexicana spec. nov., Macrodactylomyia magnicauda spec. nov., and Systenoides para...