Authorship of scientific (Latin) names of animals

The following problems are discussed: generalities; punctuation marks, conjunctions, and prepositions used in the citations of the authors’ names; citation of other persons; identification of the author(s) in complicated cases; determining the author’s surname or its equivalent; citation and abbreviation of the author’s surname.     

植物学类科技期刊插图的优化与规范化编排

作者结合自己的实践,详细叙述了科技期刊插图的分类与规范化要求,就如何优化插图、确保质量提出了精选插图、认真审读图稿的全部内容、精心标注的方法,并阐述了插图的编辑加工和技术处理,探讨了统一格式、规范化编排插图的具体做法:即合成、压缩或删除、分解、缩放、调整、重新设计等手段,以及精心描绘和认真校对。     

Niko Tinbergen: A Message in the Archives

Just as biologists have their favored places for doing research, so do historians. As someone who likes working in archives, the most surprising thing the present author ever found was a particular letter that had been written to him by the ethologist Niko Tinbergen—but that Tinbergen had never sent. The letter included a detailed critique of the intellectual style and conceptual shortcomings of Tinbergen’s career-long friend and colleague Konrad Lorenz. The present author first saw the letter 3 years after Tinbergen’s death and 10 years after the letter was composed. Here we discuss the contents and historical context of that letter.     

Consumer attitudes toward food crops developed by CRISPR/Cas9 in Costa Rica

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC) - In the original publication, only affiliation number 2 was indicated as the last author’s affiliation. In fact, the author works for both...     

An annotated list of flea beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Halticinae) of the Southern Urals

Based on the author’s investigation and literature data, a list of flea beetles of the Southern Urals is compiled for the first time. It includes 136 species belonging to 16 genera; the occurrence of 88 species is proved by the author’s material. Five species are recorded for the region for the first time. Misidentifications of some species previously recorded for the region are revealed.     

Correction to: Biochemical and Physicochemical Background of Mammalian Androgen Activity in Winter Wheat Exposed to Low Temperature

Journal of Plant Growth Regulation - The original version of this article unfortunately contained an error in Dr. Andrzej Skoczowski’s affiliation. The author would like to correct the error...     

The Problem Realm and the World of Inner Experiences of Upper-Grade Students

In her chapter, the author understands ‘problems’ not as problems of solving learning tasks, but life situations which a young person has to solve. Such situations are often negative experiences. The author claims that problem situations can only be evaluated on the basis of ‘perezhivanie’ associated with them. This aspect is seldom present in psychological-pedagogical research. Most research starting from the 1920’s uses personal diaries or observations as the methods of studying life problems. But they are not able to reveal objectively relations between life problems and their ‘perezhivanie.’ The author introduces two new survey methods called “the world of perezhivanie” and “panorama of problems,” with which primary material is collected for further elaboration of the relation between problem domains and ‘perezhivanie.’ The chapter presents new methods of collecting data. Empirical results are published in other journals and books.     

Mitochondria: Myths and Reality

Biophysics - The most common myths about mitochondria are summarized and the author’s alternative interpretation is given.     

Correction to: Construction of genetic transformation system of Salix mongolica: in vitro leaf-based callus induction,adventitious buds differentiation,and plant regeneration

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC) - There was an error in the second author’s name in the original article. The name is correctly shown here.     

Correction to: Association of Allergic Symptoms with Dengue Infection and Severity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Virologica Sinica - The spelling of the fifth author’s name was misspelled. The byline should appear as shown above.     

Monkeys into Men and Men into Monkeys: Chance and Contingency in the Evolution of Man, Mind and Morals in Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies

The nineteenth century theologian, author and poet Charles Kingsley was a notable populariser of Darwinian evolution. He championed Darwin’s cause and that of honesty in science for more than a decade from 1859 to 1871. Kingsley’s interpretation of evolution shaped his theology, his politics and his views on race. The relationship between men and apes set the context for Kingsley’s consideration of these issues. Having defended Darwin for a decade in 1871 Kingsley was dismayed to read Darwin’s account of the evolution of morals in Descent of Man. He subsequently distanced himself from Darwin’s conclusions even though he remained an ardent evolutionist until his death in 1875.     

Distribution and Trophic Associations of Herbivorous Bark Beetles of the Genus Thamnurgus Eichhoff (Coleoptera,Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the Volga Region and in the Urals

Entomological Review - Based on the author’s and literature data, three species of the scolytid genus Thamnurgus Eichhoff, 1864 associated with herbaceous plants are reported from the Volga...     

Mathematical Model of Contractile Ring-Driven Cytokinesis in a Three-Dimensional Domain

In this paper, a mathematical model of contractile ring-driven cytokinesis is presented by using both phase-field and immersed-boundary methods in a three-dimensional domain. It is one of the powerful hypotheses that cytokinesis happens driven by the contractile ring; however, there are only few mathematical models following the hypothesis, to the author’s knowledge. I consider a hybrid method to model the phenomenon. First, a cell membrane is represented by a zero-contour of a phase-field implicitly because of its topological change. Otherwise, immersed-boundary particles represent a contractile ring explicitly based on the author’s previous work. Here, the multi-component (or vector-valued) phase-field equation is considered to avoid the emerging of each cell membrane right after their divisions. Using a convex splitting scheme, the governing equation of the phase-field method has unique solvability. The numerical convergence of contractile ring to cell membrane is proved. Several numerical simulations are performed to validate the proposed model.     

When the political becomes personal: Reflecting on disability bioethics

A discussion of the connection between activism and academia in bioethics, highlighting the author’s own trajectory, exploring the extent to which academics have an obliation to be ‘judges’ rather than ‘barristers’ (as explored by Jonathan Haidt) and asking questions about the relationship of disability to positions in bioethics.     

Gymnosperm systematics and phylogeny: A reply to commentaries by C. B. Beck,C. N. Miller,and G. W. Rothwell

This paper is a reply to commentaries by Beck (1985), Miller (1985), and Rothwell (1985) on the author’s paper on basic features of gymnosperm systematics and phylogeny (Meyen, 1984). The author reasserts that his proposal to recognize three classes of gymnosperms—Ginkgoopsida, Cycadopsida, and Pinopsida—is in better agreement with the currently available paleobotanical data. The affinities of the orders Arberiales, Pentoxylales, gigantopterids, Calamopityales, and Ephedrales with the Ginkgoopsida are but tentative. The most important remaining question?etermining the understanding of relations between Ginkgoopsida and Pinopsida—concerns primary vs. secondary platyspermy in each class, and this question can be answered only by obtaining fuller information on (1) cupular or non-cupular seeds in the oldest Ginkgoopsida, and (2) the vascularization of nucellus in the oldest Pinopsida. Theoretical premises of the author’s taxonomic and phylogenetic decisions are explained.     

Revised h index for biomedical research

Proposed by Hirsch as a quantitative measure of the total output of a researcher, the h index does not work well in the field of life sciences, where an author’s position on a paper typically depends on the author’s contribution. We revise the h index by weighing first and last authorship papers four times heavier than middle authorship papers. The revised index (r) signifies a shift in how we evaluate the research output in biology and medicine: it places more value on conducting and directing original, independent investigations as compared with contributing to projects conducted and directed by others.     

L’émergence d’un mouvement sexologique français (1929–1939), entre hygiénlsme, eugénisme et psychanalyse

A sexological movement look form in France in the 1930’s on the initiative of the alienist Dr. Edouard Toulouse. The movement combined the approach of mental hygiene with the “biocratic” ideas of this psychiatrist: to rationalise social and sexual life, through science. Even though this movement founded, an association, instigated a scholarly society, produced its own journal and was supported by eminent personalities of the medical, political and cultural worlds, there is very little historical trace of this movement and consequently it is generally unknown. The author of the article explores the reasons for this oversight and analyses the relationships between this movement and some members of the then emerging French psychoanalytical movement, particularly Dr. Paul Schiff and Princess Marie Bonaparte, from the beginning of 1930’s to the war. The author retraces the socio-political factors which underpinned Toulouse’s initiative and the causes of its apparent failure. This particular case also highlights the relationships between contemporary psychiatry, eugenics and psychoanalysis, and more generally between science, popularization and ideology.     

Constructions dans l’analyse: le transfert comme construction d’un espace porteur et comme reconstruction

The author argues that Binswanger’s daseinsanalyse is far from contradicting what Freud established in the field of analytical therapy. On the contrary, it enriches psychotherapy by making explicit what it is capable of constructing. This paper focuses on the transferential aspect of this construction. Übertragung, or transference, calls upon the world of the patient, its emotional space inhabited by the patient’s body and the bodies of others. This world, along with its underlying dramatics, not only requires recognition, but also carriage (Tragung) to the analyst’s side, at least if the analyst is to succeed in revealing the unconscious part of this world to foster its transformation rather than repetitions of the mechanisms that freeze it. The author reflects on the “gestation” and “carriage” metaphors to show how therapeutically effective the “carrier-experienced space” can be.     

Psychological Analysis of M.A. Vrubel’s Creative Potential

The author motivates his analysis by a general need for creativity as a precondition of human survival. He assumes that creativity and ‘talent’ is connected with such factors as supportive social conditions, presence of constructive dissonance, certain level of consciousness, creating original products, creative strategies, and creative groups or ‘private laboratory’. vrublev’s biographical analysis divided his production into three thematic domains.     

The containment of the radical right in Western Europe: a response to Carvalho

Do extreme right parties in contemporary Europe shape policy in meaningful ways? Carvalho's book charts complicated intellectual terrain, and the author demonstrates that while radical right parties have made a modest political impact in some states, they have achieved much less than one might have expected in their central policy area (immigration). After reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of Carvalho's analysis, I suggest that his findings are consistent with the general ‘containment’ (as opposed to ‘contagion’) of the radical right in (Western) Europe. The notion that the populist right has been ‘contained’ in Europe may seem odd at first blush, but a comparison with the USA suggests that it may be a fruitful theoretical starting point.