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In the second I electoral continuity path i , transitions are initiated by stable ruling parties confident of their ability to thrive under democracy. Were these stable ruling parties created by a violent shock and an unsuccessful push toward democracy? For instance, protests, civil society forces, and sanctions can expedite the process of democratization but are more likely to do so after a violent shock or in the presence of a stable ruling party.[2] A structural factor such as economic development reduces the chances of shocks but enhances the probability of democratization if a shock occurs. [Extracted from the article]

Freud in [1] in his paper "Group psychology and the Analysis of the ego" described the split between the individual psychology and the group psychology, as "fictitious". This is a book about the I application i of psychoanalytic and systemic ideas to the understanding of group and organization dynamics, including our own contribution, whether as members or "consultants", to the dynamics that unfold. In the chapter "On change and the resistance to change", Obholzer makes a simple but very prescient observation concerning the willingness to consider and explore how ideas and solutions necessarily change over time regardless of whether one is a clinician, a consultant or a leader; with reference to our own training, Obholzer writes: in training for our professional roles we learn about the "correct" way of going about things. [Extracted from the article]

The recent availability of open‐access repositories of functional traits has revolutionized trait‐based approaches in ecology and evolution. Nevertheless, the underrepresentation of tropical regions and lineages remains a pervasive bias in plant functional trait databases, which constrains large‐scale assessments of plant ecology, evolution, and biogeography. Here, we present MelastomaTRAITs 1.0, a comprehensive and updatable database of functional traits for the pantropical Melastomataceae, the ninth‐largest angiosperm family with 177 genera and more than 5800 species. Melastomataceae encompass species with a wide diversity of growth forms (herbs, shrubs, trees, epiphytes, and woody climbers), habitats (including tropical forests, savannas, grasslands, and wetlands from sea level to montane areas above the treeline), ecological strategies (from pioneer, edge‐adapted and invasive species to shade‐tolerant understory species), geographic distribution (from microendemic to continental‐wide distribution), reproductive, pollination, and seed dispersal systems. MelastomaTRAITs builds on 581 references, such as taxonomic monographs, ecological research, and unpublished data, and includes four whole‐plant traits, six leaf traits, 11 flower traits, 18 fruit traits, and 27 seed traits for 2520 species distributed in 144 genera across all 21 tribes. Most data come from the Neotropics where the family is most species‐rich. Miconieae (the largest tribe) contains the highest number of trait records (49.6%) and species (41.1%) records. The trait types with the most information in the database were whole‐plant traits, flowers, and leaf traits. With the breadth of functional traits recorded, our database helps to fill a gap in information for tropical plants and will significantly improve our capacity for large‐scale trait‐based syntheses across levels of organization, plant–animal interactions, regeneration ecology, and thereby support conservation and restoration programs. There are no copyright restrictions on the dataset; please cite this data paper when reusing the data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the web site “Geoscience Periodical Network of China" located at www.geojournals.cn, provides geological research articles.

B Front cover: b Fukuwarai is a traditional Japanese New Year's game in which blindfolded players compete on how well or strangely they can create faces by placing cut-out facial parts (eyes, nose, etc.) on paper with an outline of a face. Now, what kind of cells will they make? What these women are enjoying is a fukuwarai with cell organelles likened to facial parts. [Extracted from the article]

A web application (Virtual Colour Atlas) has been developed that implements seven of the leading color order systems: Colorcurve, Coloroid, DIN 6164, Munsell, OSA‐UCS, NCS, and Swiss Colour Atlas 2541, three color spaces: CIE xyY, CIELAB, and CIELUV, and three colour ranges: BS:5252, RAL 840‐HR, and RAL 841‐GL—allowing the user to view any of the core planes in the color space of each of these systems. The Virtual Colour Atlas is freely available at (www.vcsconsulting.uk) and provides visual interaction with these systems using any modern browser hosted on a device with a sufficiently large physical display including: windows PCs, Macs, iPads, Linux devices, and smart televisions (HD to 8 K). This paper provides a brief background on the systems, describes the Virtual Colour Atlas software and history, and discusses example applications of the Virtual Colour Atlas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]