A new status for two varieties previously included in the southern Malagasy Kalanchoe rosei, now included in K. variifolia (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 496 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-244
Author(s):  
RONEN SHTEIN ◽  
DAVID-PAUL KLEIN ◽  
GIDEON F. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Informal Group ◽  
Reproductive Morphology ◽  
Close Relationship

Kalanchoe rosei (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) is a phyllo-bulbiliferous species endemic to southern Madagascar. Historically, two varieties, K. rosei var. seyrigii and K. rosei var. variifolia, have been recognised in K. rosei. One of the two specimens cited when K. rosei var. seyrigii was described bears much resemblance to K. peltigera. However, regardless of how K. rosei var. seyrigii was originally described, the type of the name K. rosei var. seyrigii, which determines its application, is that of the synonym it replaced, i.e., K. rosei subsp. serratifolia. The two varieties, K. rosei var. seyrigii and K. rosei var. variifolia, were originally described as subspecies and are sometimes treated at that rank, as K. rosei subsp. serratifolia and K. rosei subsp. variifolia. Kalanchoe rosei var. seyrigii and K. rosei var. variifolia are morphologically very similar and, based on reproductive morphology alone, can hardly be distinguished, which reaffirms the close relationship between them. Kalanchoe rosei is most closely related to K. peltigera, as well as to K. daigremontiana, K. laetivirens, and K. sanctula, a group of pink-flowered constitutively phyllo-bulbiliferous species from Madagascar. In contrast, K. rosei var. seyrigii and K. rosei var. variifolia rather share several morphological similarities with orange-flowered representatives included in the informal group “Suffrutescentes”, and frequently hybridise with them. Kalanchoe rosei var. variifolia is here elevated to species rank, as K. variifolia, for material hitherto treated as belonging to K. rosei var. seyrigii and K. rosei var. variifolia. Two varieties, the autonymic one and K. variifolia var. seyrigii, are recognised in K. variifolia. The typification of K. rosei subsp. variifolia and K. rosei var. seyrigii, the basionyms of K. variifolia var. variifolia and K. variifolia var. seyrigii, respectively, is clarified.

Minding the Close Relationship

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Harvey ◽  
Julia Omarzu
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationship

The Solution Strategy as an Indicator of the Developmental Stage of Preschool Children’s Mental-Rotation Ability

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Quaiser-Pohl ◽  
Anna M. Rohe ◽  
Tobias Amberger
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Solution Strategy ◽  
Thinking Aloud ◽  
Transition Analysis ◽  
Solution Strategies ◽  
Close Relationship

The solution strategies of preschool children solving mental-rotation tasks were analyzed in two studies. In the first study n = 111 preschool children had to demonstrate their solution strategy in the Picture Rotation Test (PRT) items by thinking aloud; seven different strategies were identified. In the second study these strategies were confirmed by latent class analysis (LCA) with the PRT data of n = 565 preschool children. In addition, a close relationship was found between the solution strategy and children’s age. Results point to a stage model for the development of mental-rotation ability as measured by the PRT, going from inappropriate strategies like guessing or comparing details, to semiappropriate approaches like choosing the stimulus with the smallest angle discrepancy, to a holistic or analytic strategy. A latent transition analysis (LTA) revealed that the ability to mentally rotate objects can be influenced by training in the preschool age.

Speeded Paper-Pencil Sustained Attention and Mental Speed Tests

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krumm ◽  
Lothar Schmidt-Atzert ◽  
Kurt Michalczyk ◽  
Vanessa Danthiir
Keyword(s):  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Perceptual Speed ◽  
Speed Factor ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Task Processing ◽  
Order Factor

Mental speed (MS) and sustained attention (SA) are theoretically distinct constructs. However, tests of MS are very similar to SA tests that use time pressure as an impeding condition. The performance in such tasks largely relies on the participants’ speed of task processing (i.e., how quickly and correctly one can perform the simple cognitive tasks). The present study examined whether SA and MS are empirically the same or different constructs. To this end, 24 paper-pencil and computerized tests were administered to 199 students. SA turned out to be highly related to MS task classes: substitution and perceptual speed. Furthermore, SA showed a very close relationship with the paper-pencil MS factor. The correlation between SA and computerized speed was considerably lower but still high. In a higher-order general speed factor model, SA had the highest loading on the higher-order factor; the higher-order factor explained 88% of SA variance. It is argued that SA (as operationalized with tests using time pressure as an impeding condition) and MS cannot be differentiated, at the level of broad constructs. Implications for neuropsychological assessment and future research are discussed.

How Can We Explain a Close Relationship?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Cicirelli
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationship

The Close Relationship Context and Intimate Partner Violence Among Latinas/os

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Byrd ◽  
Mariana Padilla ◽  
Marlyn Garcia ◽  
Diana Barrios ◽  
Donna Castaneda
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Relationship Context ◽  
Close Relationship

Use of a Lyophilized Reference Plasma to Compare Coagulation Test Procedures

1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (02) ◽  
pp. 426-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Kahan ◽  
I Nohén
Keyword(s):  
Oral Anticoagulant Therapy ◽  
Repeated Measurements ◽  
Test Procedures ◽  
Coagulation Activity ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Measured Activity ◽  
Test Materials ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One

SummaryIn 4 collaborative trials, involving a varying number of hospital laboratories in the Stockholm area, the coagulation activity of different test materials was estimated with the one-stage prothrombin tests routinely used in the laboratories, viz. Normotest, Simplastin-A and Thrombotest. The test materials included different batches of a lyophilized reference plasma, deep-frozen specimens of diluted and undiluted normal plasmas, and fresh and deep-frozen specimens from patients on long-term oral anticoagulant therapy.Although a close relationship was found between different methods, Simplastin-A gave consistently lower values than Normotest, the difference being proportional to the estimated activity. The discrepancy was of about the same magnitude on all the test materials, and was probably due to a divergence between the manufacturers’ procedures used to set “normal percentage activity”, as well as to a varying ratio of measured activity to plasma concentration. The extent of discrepancy may vary with the batch-to-batch variation of thromboplastin reagents.The close agreement between results obtained on different test materials suggests that the investigated reference plasma could be used to calibrate the examined thromboplastin reagents, and to compare the degree of hypocoagulability estimated by the examined PIVKA-insensitive thromboplastin reagents.The assigned coagulation activity of different batches of the reference plasma agreed closely with experimentally obtained values. The stability of supplied batches was satisfactory as judged from the reproducibility of repeated measurements. The variability of test procedures was approximately the same on different test materials.

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