The morphology and infraciliature of three pleurostomatid ciliates, Litonotus bergeri nov. spec., L. blattereri nov. spec. and L. petzi nov. spec., collected from mariculture ponds near Qingdao (Tsingtao), China, were investigated using live observations and the protargol impregnation method. These new species are distinguished from their congeners by a combination of characters including the t...

Early in 1928, a short time after receiving my doctorate at the University of Bologna, I was offered a position of assistant at the Physics Institute of the University of Florence. The Institute rose among olive trees, on the hill of Arcetri, a short distance from the villa where Galileo had spent the last years of his life as a political exile. The chair of physics was held by Professor Antoni...

Aloysio Janner passed away on 27 January 2016. He was born in 1928 in Muralto, Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. He was awarded his master’s degree with a thesis under Pauli at the ETH Zurich, but during his PhD work Pauli died, so Aloysio finished his PhD with Thellung, at the University of Zurich. Then he went to the Batelle Research Institute in Geneva, where he worked with E...

Zermelo’s 1928 paper on measuring participants’ playing strengths in chess tournaments is a remarkable work in the history of paired comparison modeling. Apart from several contemporary papers by Thurstone (1927a, 1927b, 1927c), Zermelo’s paper was an isolated excursion into paired comparison methods that was far ahead of its time. After this paper, the field remained mostly dormant for about 2...

In the developed world, GCA is the most common inflammatory vasculitis and may cause major morbidities, of which blindness is the most feared. Early diagnosis via temporal artery biopsy (TAB) and glucocorticoid treatment are still gold standard recommendations [1], but several issues may complicate this in real-life practice. First, TAB may be falsely negative due to skip lesions or inadequate ...

This second part of the revision of the Argentine species of Ora Clark, 1865 provides detailed redescriptions, habitus photos, illustrations of male and female genitalia for eight species, an identification key and updated distributions for all the species. A lectotype is hereby designated for Ora bruchi Pic, 1928. Scirtes brevenotatus v. mediolineatus Pic, 1928 and S. brevenotatus wagneri Pic,...

We have also been able to make satisfactory glass potential measurements in humid summer weather under conditions which would have proved hopeless for the quadrant electrometer. This may be due to the fact that the electrostatic field associated with the 2.3-volt grid circuit is so small in comparison with that present in the vicinity of the electrometer vane (50 volts) that stray atmospheric c...

Prodanoff........... 1927 1 Male Thigh 13 yrs. Nicod............. 1927 1 Female Subungual 4 yrs. Bonnet.............. 1927 1 Female Subungual 36 yrs. Greig 1928 2 Mlale Arm 10 yrs. Female Calf 8 yrs. Lortat-Jacob and Brosse ....... 1928 1 Female Subungual 16 yrs. Ianischewski-Lebel 1928 1 Female Finger 18 yrs. Hopf......... ..... . 1930 4 2 males 4 to 16 yrs. 2 females Picard. 1931 1 Mlale Subu...