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In April 2001, the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (CAFCASS) became responsible for family court work, including the provision of mediation services. Family court mediation offers a gateway for social work with children and families whose needs are…

Kogelnik's coupled-wave (CW) theory has been used for decades to predict the diffraction efficiency of volume diffraction gratings. Although this theory has been applied with success to volume diffraction gratings recorded under a great variety of experimental conditions, its predictions…

A new species, Gochnatia hiriartiana Medrano, Villaseñor & Medina (Asteraceae, tribe Mutisieae), of the desert scrubland of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, is described. Its distinctive morphological traits are discussed and compared with the other Mexican species of the genus…

Six new species of Leptoglossus Guerin from Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela are described. Diagnostic taxonomic characters of antennal segments, legs, male genital capsules, and dorsal views of some species are illustrated. Most of the species are placed…

The type species of Acolhua is discussed. The specimens considered to represent the type species Acolhua championi Distant by Slater & Brailovsky (1986) are shown to represent a previously undescribed species described as A. barrerai new species. The actual type…

Recent surveys of the plethodontid salamander fauna of Oaxaca, Mexico, disclosed the existence of a new, morphologically distinct arboreal species of the genus Pseudoeurycea. The new species, described here, is from the Sierra Mazateca in northern Oaxaca. Sequences of 1833…

Pelecitus meridionaleporinus n. sp. from the Tehuantepec jackrabbit is described. The new species differs from Pelecitus helicinus (Molin, 1860) in having delicate transverse striations, a salient vulva , and a readily apparent preesophageal ring; P. hellcinus has teardrop cellsaroundthe vulva,…