Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present descriptive characteristics of the historical development of concept networks. The linguistic principles, mechanisms and motivations behind the evolution of concept networks are discussed. Implications emanating from the idea of the historical development of concept networks are discussed in relation to knowledge representation and organization ...

According to the Structure Building Theory (Gernsbacher, 1990), comprehension is understood as a process of building mental representations. Gernsbacher and Faust (1991) suggested that central to this process is the general cognitive mechanism of suppression, the efficiency of which is responsible for individual differences in comprehension skill. Poor comprehenders have an inefficient suppress...

We describe and figure the 20 species of stylasterid hydrozoans known from South Africa. These consist of seven new species, six range extensions, and seven species previously known from South African. Most of the specimens reported resulted from expeditions of the Pieter Faure (1898-1903) and Meiring Naude (1975-1987), and are deposited primarily in the South African Museum (Cape Town). A repl...

It is shown that a total of eight pre-existing genus-group names in Diptera were “borrowed” and deliberately given new identities in the systematic works of J.C. Fabricius: Bibio Fabricius, 1775, Ceria Fabricius, 1794, Hirtea Fabricius, 1798, Mulio Fabricius, 1798, Scatophaga Fabricius, 1805, Sicus Fabricius, 1798, Thereva Fabricius, 1798 and Voluccella Fabricius, 1794. These names are reviewed...

The leafhopper genus Macrosteles Fieber in China comprises 25 species including ten new species: Macrosteles brochus Zhang & Lu, M. brunneus Zhang & Lu, M. choui Zhang & Lu, M. ehensis Zhang & Lu, M. gracilis Zhang & Lu, M. falcatus Zhang & Lu, M. haperatus Zhang & Lu, M. nabiae Kwon, M. parastriifrons Zhang & Lu and M. spinosus Kwon. Five species are newly recorded from China, including M. abl...

Specimens of three little-known species of Rhabdochona (Nematoda: Rhabdochonidae) were collected during occasional examinations of some freshwater fishes in India: R. (Rhabdochona) hellichi turkestanica (Skryabin, 1917) in Schizothorax sp. (Cyprinidae, Cypriniformes) from the Lodhomakhola and Rangit Rivers, West Bengal and Sikkim, respectively; R. (R.) hospeti Thapar, 1950 in Tor sp. (Cyprinida...

Telaffuzları ve yazılışları aynı; ancak anlam bakımından birbirinden farklı olan kelimelere sesteş kelimeler denmektedir. Bu terim ilk kez 1928 yılında Fransız dilbilimciler Maxime Kœssler Jules Derocquigny tarafından ‘faux amis du traducteur’ (çevirmenin sahte dostları) olarak kullanılmıştır (Kœssler, Derocquigny, 1928). Türk dilinde bu terimi ifade etmek için ‘sesteş’, ‘eş sesli’, adlı’ Frans...