Rediscovery of Clivina morio Dejean with the description of Leucocara, a new subgenus of Clivina Latreille (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Clivinini)

Leucocara, a new subgenus of Clivina Latreille, is established for C.americana Dejean and its relatives, whose collective geographical oval hexagon glass jar range includes the Western Hemisphere Nearctic Region and the Eastern Hemisphere Palaearctic, Oriental, and Afrotropical Regions.Previously, these taxa were included in the subgenus Reichardtu

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Gender Perception From Gait: A Comparison Between Biological, Biomimetic and Non-biomimetic Learning Paradigms

This paper explores in parallel the underlying mechanisms in human perception of biological motion and the best approaches for automatic classification of gait.The experiments tested three different learning paradigms, namely, biological, biomimetic, and non-biomimetic models for gender identification from human gait.Psychophysical experiments with

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