Morphometrics and Body Condition Index of Eurasian Collared-Dove and Mourning Dove in Durango, Mexico

In order to incorporate the knowledge of two species of wild doves and compare the results of both, we assessed morphometrics (body weight, bill, tarsus, tail, wing, head and culmen length) and body condition index (using weigh, wing, tail and tarsus length) of Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto and Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura (Aves: Columbidae) based on 40 specimens of each species collected during fall-winter 2013 and spring-summer 2014 in the municipality of Durango, Durango, Mexico. We found that body condition index was higher during fallwinter for both species. We also found size dimorphism. Males of Eurasian Collared-Dove were larger than females in head length (p = 0.002) and tail length (p = 0.05) but smaller in culmen length. Female Mourning Doves had a higher body condition index compared to males (p = 0.02) during both seasons. As expected, Eurasian Collared-Dove was larger in all measurements than Mourning Dove (p > 0.05) but tail length (p = 0.12).

Mourning for renowned pharmacologist Professor Geng-Tao Liu

At 22:08 h on February 27,2010,Professor Geng-Tao Liu,a renowned pharmacologist affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology,Institute of Materia Medica,Chi-nese Academy of Medical Sciences,Beijing,an academi-cian of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,a

Ayudando a Una LobaSolitaria y Su Cub Moribundo： Helping a Lone Wolf and Her Dying Cub

The purpose of this article is to describe the experience of a young, single, Latina parent whose child has died as a result of a rare, terminal genetic defect in the context of a long standing friendship. The article exantines the communication of an effective bereavement counselor as well as seeks to explore the systematic steps parents could employ to help their children with life limiting illnesses including treatment, palliative care, removing life support, hospice, and managing personal grief. Finally, special considerations were made to be sensitive to pertinent multicultural and spiritual or religious aspects that may be evident in the unique world of parents who have lost a child.

Iconography of National Mourning in Polish Press

By the law, the highest-ranking state officials announce national mouming in response to death of prominent persons. The concept of mourning should be understood both as way of showing grief in public spaces and a period of time. In turn, the concept of iconography means a collection of illustrations, paintings, prints, drawings relating to a person, place or topic. President of Poland, his wife and other 94 people died in the Smolensk plane crash on April 10, 2010, thus the images of plane crash and its outcome published in different segments of Polish press are the subject of the article. Research based on methods such as interpretation of composition and semiotics. I started my analysis with a few hypotheses： （1） The cultural background, especially religious, determines the mourning visual representation; （2） The result of certain style of visualization can be constructing of a political myth; （3） Different means can be used by mass media in adapting culture patterns process; （4） Different photographic genres can be used to illustrate the mourning; and （5） Press segments differ in way/style of mourning visualization.

Languages of Mourning： Between Page and （Modem） Stage

The aim of this essay is to provide an analysis of the Euripides＇ ＂Phoenician Women＂ in terms of mourning. The author intends to set a parallel between the ancient tragedy and its modern adaptation staged by one of the most prominent Polish directors Krzysztof Warlikowski. In the essay, the author will discuss how suffering is depicted in the ancient drama and what changes of mourning motif are introduced into its modern performance. The author will examine the literary as well as the （modern） theatrical topos of grief by analyzing the poetics of tragedy （dramatic structure, metaphors of death, dramatis personae, funeral vocabularium, function of laments） and the poetics of performance （stage design, costumes and props, funerary symbolism, acting, directing solutions）. The purpose of the paper is to argue against the insignificance of Euripides＇ drama and the marginalization of Warlikowski＇s ＂Phoenician Women.＂ Finally, the author will attempt to indicate the mourning motif as one of the essential and attractive for the ancient tragic plot and the modern performance as well

To Complete Mourning by Becoming Specters＂ The Mutualized Coming-to-Be in The Red Violin

This essay enacts a dialogue between Francois Girard＇s film The Red Violin （1998） and Jacques Derrida＇s contemplations on ＂memory,＂ ＂spectrality＂ and ＂the work of mourning＂ to envision the possibility of opening a hopeful condition of being for those who suffer from loss. In The Red Violin, Girard＇s cinematic experiments apply techniques of montage and of repetitive musical theme, practicing intertextuality of non-chronological stories by paralleling various memories of each individual character, blurring the biological and metaphorical boundaries between the living and non-living, and highlighting the fateful interrelations among time, space and different characters＇ life experiences. In this vein, the memories and beings of both the living and the dead are tightly woven together while reproduced--or further, relived--in temporal, spatial and trans-individual dynamics. Reversing the negative imaginaries of loss and death, both Derrida and The Red Violin agree with a messianic work of mourning by exploring the powerful potentiality of spectrality that manifests a way to mutualize the subject/ other, the living/non-living, into a promised being, thus gesturing towards an infinite future.

A Wordless Departure, an Everlasting Love

John Donne,being famous for his use of metaphysical metaphors,is one of the most successful poets of the 17th century English.His metaphysical poem“A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”plays a significant role during the Renaissance.In his poems,the compass is compared to lovers,which becomes the classic love metaphor.This essay aims to analyze the discrepancy between the death at the beginning and the love’s constancylater,and how John Donne illustrates two groups of contrast:spiritual love and physical love,temporal love and eternal love.

China Observes Day of Mourning as Relief Work for Mudslides Continues

Mudslides buried and flooded hundreds of homes on Sunday, August 8, in Zhouqu,the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest Gansu Province. The death toll from the massive rain-triggered mudslides in Zhouqu County had risen to 1,239 as of August 15, a week after the devastating mudslides hit the county, with 505 others still missing.

China Mourns Quake Victims

At least 1,000 people gathered in front of Gyegu’s town hall on April 21 to mourn those killed in the last week’s devastating earthquake.The mourners, representing all the

Mourning with deep grief over Prof.Hua Loo-keng——The Editorial Board of Acta Mathematical Sinica

To our great sorrow Prof.Hua Loo-keng,former editor in chief of this journal,passed away of a sudden heart attack in Tokyo onJune 12.1985 during his academic visit to Japan.His passing away is undoubtedly a heavy loss forthe Chinese mathematical circle and scientific circleand the whole nation.

MOURN FOR PROFESSOR ALLEN T. CHWANG WITH DEEP GRIEF

With deep sadness, the Editorial Board of Journal of Hydrodynamics mourns the passing of Professor Allen T. Chwang. Prof. Chwang has been an International Advisor of our board since 1989 and the Chairman of Executive

The Rites of Mourning in Archaic and Classical Greece and in Pre-Qin China

This article attempts to compare the mourning of the dead before burial in Archaic and Classical Greece with that in Pre-Qin China. It focuses on three main subjects of mourning before burial--lamentation, mourners＇ gestures and behaviors, and mourning apparel--to demonstrate the cultural function and social influence of the mourning rituals through the analysis of the function and purpose of the mourning of two ancient peoples. We find that there are some differences in these two ancient societies, although the rites of mourning share some basic and similar procedures and functions.

MOURNING FOR VICTIMS

About 10,000 representatives of all walks of life pay silent tribute at a national memorial ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in Nanjing east China＇s Jiangsu Province, on December 13.

Mourning a Master Ji Xianlin, China’s foremost expert in cultural study and exchange, dies at 98

Always plainly dressed and amiable, Ji Xianlin wouldn’t be given a second glance in a crowd. Yet looks can be deceiving. He was

Unfinished Revolution： A Paradox of Mourning Subjectivity in Su Manshu＇s The Lone Swan

Su Manshu＇s 苏曼殊（1884-1918） The Lone Swan （Duanhong lingyanji 断鸿零雁记, 1911, 1912） is best known for a sustained use of subjective voice and a thematic emphasis on tragic love. Critics have often credited the novella＇s intensely tragic narrative for spearheading a new kind of literary subjectivity that became a cornerstone of modern Chinese literature as heralded by the May Fourth critics in the late 1910s and the 1920s. However, very few have examined this new subjectivity as an effect of Su＇s critical engagement with a late Qing nationalist narrative. Su＇s novella was an appropriation of the anti-Manchu revolutionary narrative of a nation, which hinged on a paradoxical mode of envisaging a new China through a temporal return to the past and by means of a tragic sacrifice of the individual. Following a brief analysis of Su＇s early piece published in The People＇s Journal （Minbao 民报）, this article demonstrates how The Lone Swan elaborated on an excess of individual sacrifice, while developing the new, mourning subjectivity as a witness to the unfinished revolutionary enterprise of forging a powerful nation. Su＇s narrative of cultural devastation resonates with Lu Xun＇s （1881-1936） late Qing work, but, in the May Fourth period that immediately followed, this sense of despair would become an unequivocal obiect for overcoming.