Article Thomas Irvine, Listening to China. Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839. (New Material Histories of Music.) Chicago, IL, University Chicago Press 2020 was published on August 1, 2021 in journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 313, issue 1).

It is a new synonym of Macrolophus melanotoma (Costa 1853) according to Carapezza (1995). It is very difficult to be separated from Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur,1839) and recent studies using mitochondrial DNA analysis, morphological studies and crossings between populations (Perdikis et al. 2003), molecular methods (Martinez-Cascales et al. 2006) and Perdikis et al. (unpubl. data) showed that ...

Trogulus banaticus Avram, 1971 is characterised and recorded as new for Slovenia. This species was previously mistaken for T. coriziformis C. L. Koch, 1839 and T. graecus Dahl, 1903 which were later rejected from the Slovenian fauna. T. banaticus is compared with the similar, and partly sympatric, T. tingiformis C. L. Koch, 1847 with which it has often been confused. A table of distinguishing c...

Reading: For the quantum theory of beam splitters: • C.C. Gerry and P.L. Knight, Introductory Quantum Optics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005) Sect. 6.2. For the quantum theory of linear amplifiers: • C.M. Caves, “Quantum limits on noise in linear amplifiers,” Phys. Rev. D 26, 1817–1839 (1982). • L. Mandel and E. Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge University Press...