cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The genomic basis of circadian and circalunar timing adaptations in a midge
Creators: name: Kaiser, Tobias S.
name: Poehn, Birgit
name: Szkiba, David
name: Preußner, Marco
name: Sedlazeck, Fritz J.
name: Zrim, Alexander
name: Neumann, Tobias
name: Nguyen, Lam-Tung
name: Betancourt, Andrea J.
name: Hummel, Thomas
name: Vogel, Heiko
name: Dorner, Silke
name: Heyd, Florian
name: Haeseler, Arndt Von
name: Tessmar-Raible, Kristin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genome
subject: Evolutionary genetics
subject: Ecological genetics
subject: Circadian regulation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Organisms use endogenous clocks to anticipate regular environmental cycles, such as days and tides. Natural variants resulting in differently timed behaviour or physiology, known as chronotypes in humans, have not been well characterized at the molecular level. We sequenced the genome of Clunio marinus, a marine midge whose reproduction is timed by circadian and circalunar clocks. Midges from different locations show strain-specific genetic timing adaptations. We examined genetic variation in five C. marinus strains from different locations and mapped quantitative trait loci for circalunar and circadian chronotypes. The region most strongly associated with circadian chronotypes generates strain-specific differences in the abundance of calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II.1 (CaMKII.1) splice variants. As equivalent variants were shown to alter CaMKII activity in Drosophila melanogaster, and C. marinus (Cma)-CaMKII.1 increases the transcriptional activity of the dimer of the circadian proteins Cma-CLOCK and Cma-CYCLE, we suggest that modulation of alternative splicing is a mechanism for natural adaptation in circadian timing.
Orbital Picture of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov Multiplets
Creators: name: Ruby, Michael
name: Peng, Yang
name: Oppen, Felix Von
name: Heinrich, Benjamin W.
name: Franke, Katharina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: We investigate the nature of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) subgap states induced by single manganese (Mn) atoms adsorbed on different surface orientations of superconducting lead (Pb). Depending on the adsorption site, we detect a distinct number and characteristic patterns of YSR states around the Mn atoms. We suggest that the YSR states inherit their properties from the Mn d levels, which are split by the surrounding crystal field. The periodicity of the long- range YSR oscillations allows us to identify a dominant coupling of the d states to the outer Fermi sheet of the two-band superconductor Pb.
Honduras_tree_APM_online_supplement_V4_for_publisher – Supplemental material for Using Machine Learning Methods to Develop a Short Tree-Based Adaptive Classification Test: Case Study With a High-Dimensional Item Pool and Imbalanced Data
Creators: name: Zheng, Yi
name: Cheon, Hyunjung
name: Katz, Charles M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Honduras_tree_APM_online_supplement_V4_for_publisher for Using Machine Learning Methods to Develop a Short Tree-Based Adaptive Classification Test: Case Study With a High-Dimensional Item Pool and Imbalanced Data by Yi Zheng, Hyunjung Cheon and Charles M. Katz in Applied Psychological Measurement
title: A phonological study of Edo (Bini), with special reference to the verbal phrase.
Creators: name: Emovon, Joshua A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: This thesis sets out the results of research into the phonology of Edo (Bini), with emphasis on tonal behaviour. Although the study of tone has led me into the paths of grammar, this is not a complete grammar of the language. The study falls into two main parts. The first part is concerned with the problem of describing the phonemes of the language. Chapters one and two deal with the general aspect of the question. The second part, chapters three and four, examines the specific question of tones which are considered to be related to individual words in isolation and to words in phrases. Arrangement of the Thesis Chapter One, 'The Vowels', examines the features which characterize vowel sounds, and their distribution. Phonological features such as vowel patterning, nasalization, and contraction of vowels are shown to occur not only in verbs but in non-verbs as well. Chapter Two, 'The Consonants' presents the description and then the distribution of the consonant phonemes. It investigates the tendency for kp and gb to be pronounced with an egressive airstream, and the problem of the /r/ sound, A few consonants such as /r, s, gh, h/ are shown to be "weak" in that they elide in certain intervocalic positions. Also discussed here is the correspondence between y and y w and [diacritic]; h and [diacritic]; r and [diacritic] which represents the absence versus the presence of nasalization. Chapter Three is concerned with classification. First it deals with the criteria for setting up nominal classes and then examines particular subclasses of items in the verbal phrase. Besides, it points out several tonal morphological and syntactic features which distinguish nouns from verbs. These tonal differences underline the difficulty of finding a solution to the problem of a tonal classification of verbs. Chapter Four, "Categories of the Verbal Phrase" examines the behaviour of tones related to the verbal phrase in a clause. The categories which are important to the analysis are: mood, transitivity, aspect, tense and polarity, and they show tone patterns which are not haphazard but follow a given scheme according to the items of each category.
Support_Information – Supplemental material for A new perimidine-based fluorescent turn-on chemosensor for selective detection of Cu2+ ions
Creators: name: Ge, Yanning
name: Zhang, Dehua
name: Zhang, Xiaoyan
name: Liu, Yang
name: Du, Longfei
name: Wang, Yingying
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Support_Information for A new perimidine-based fluorescent turn-on chemosensor for selective detection of Cu2+ ions by Yanning Ge, Dehua Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Yang Liu, Longfei Du and Yingying Wang in Journal of Chemical Research
title: Re-examination of passives and related aspects in Japanese syntax.
Creators: name: Yamazaki, Hiromi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: The passive construction has played an important role, in different ways, in various types of grammatical framework. It has motivated Chomsky to introduce transformations and the basic concept of the deep and surface structures. It has also contributed to the foundation of Relational Grammar and to that of Bresnan's realistic model (1978). In the literature of Japanese linguistics the passive construction is also one of the topics that has been discussed to a great extent. There have been two major contrasting theories proposed for Japanese passives within the standard transformational framework: Uniform and Nonuniform Theory. The main aim of this thesis is to propose a theory which can account for more facts about Japanese passives than those above. Revised Uniform Theory (R.U.T.) is introduced for this purpose. The proposal of a theory such as R.U.T. is not totally new in respect of the deep structure of passives, since Inoue (1976) has proposed a comparable theory in this respect. However, in this thesis a different passive rule is argued for with a correspondingly different analysis of the surface structure from Inoue's. In particular it is shown that certain passive sentences cannot be accounted for by the rule based on Inoue's (or by any other rule which derives a passive subject solely from an object of an active sentence in one way or another). As a result Passive- Raising is proposed. In the course of the discussion, it is shown that it is necessary to incorporate the interpretive approach of adverbs into the Extended Standard Theory. The rules are designed to apply according to Pullum's (1976) notion of the Universally Determined Rule Application principle. Two arguments concerning passives (by Kuroda 1965 and by Kuno 1976) are then re-considered from the point of view of R.U.T. In addition, the causative construction is discussed in relation to passives and Chomsky's (1973/ 75/76) conditions on transformations are examined on the basis of Passive-Raising. It is shown that his conditions do not hold in Japanese.
Intertidal Microbiome in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, China
Creators: name: 郭佳静(Jiajing Guo)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Environment
Environmental

description: 16S rRNA and metagenomic sequencing data for intertidal water and sediment and coastal seawater samples collected from Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, China
title: A stylistic assessment of Abu Tammam's poetry.
Creators: name: Zlitni, Muhammad L.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1978

description: The main object of this thesis is to assess the various techniques of poetic language in Classical Arabic as they appear in a particular corpus: the work of Abu Tammam. After a general introduction which is meant to put the poet and his production in the right historical and socio-cultural context, different aspects of his conservatism are dealt with (e.g. poetic register, archaism, dialectism), before introducing the concept of 'foregrounding' which will provide the rest of the analysis with Its theoretical framework. According to this principle, a work of art in general is marked by its deviation from norms. Such deviation is behind the element of interest and surprise which gives significance and value to a piece of art. In Abu Tammam's poetry, the foregrounded feature occurs in the form of parallelism or a deviation, and in both cases, it is picked out by the reader who will interpret it in relation to the background of the expected linguistic pattern. In the analysis, particular interest is concentrated on phenomena at various linguistic levels. In this way, parallelism in Abu Tammam's poetry is found to occur mainly on the formal level (i.e. grammatical, phonological, metrical), while deviation is of interest primarily when it occurs on the semantic level. Each level is dealt with separately in different chapters. Thus, chapter three is concerned with grammatical parallelism and its two facets in Abu Tammam's poetry: the syntactic and the lexical-semantic. Both are dealt with successively in relation to the structure of the single verse of Classical Arabic which is found to be the basic foundation of this type of parallelism. In chapter four, phonological parallelism is dealt with and such devices as alliteration, internal rhyme, and morpho-phonological correspondence are analysed in detail, after an attempt to assess the way they have been approached by the Arab scholars. Their contribution to the musicality of a piece of poetry as well as their expressive power are illustrated with examples from Abu Tammam's production. Metre, as an instance of foregrounded parallelism, is then looked into in chapter five. Here, the foundations of Arabic metres are first discussed before dealing with the distribution of metres in Abu Tammam's work. Then, the interaction of metre and 'prose rhythm' in his production is assessed, followed by a discussion of rhyme and its cohesive function. Finally, semantic deviation is analysed, and such features as semantic 'absurdity' and 'redundancy' in Abu Tammam's language are briefly dealt with, before looking into the figurative devices most typical of his style. Particular interest is concentrated on metaphor for its central position in his work, and reference is made at various occasions to the attitude of the Arab scholars towards his own use of figurative devices.
Supplemental Material, Pollution_BusinessEnvironment_Africa_MainDocumentRevisedFinal_(1) - The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
Creators: name: Soppelsa, Maria E.
name: Lozano-Gracia, Nancy
name: L. Colin Xu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental Material, Pollution_BusinessEnvironment_Africa_MainDocumentRevisedFinal_(1) for The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa by Maria E. Soppelsa, Nancy Lozano-Gracia and L. Colin Xu in International Regional Science Review
Optoelectronic Enhancement of Ultrathin CuIn1-xGaxSe2 Solar Cells by Nanophotonic Contacts
Creators: name: Yin, Guanchao
name: Knight, Mark W.
name: Lare, Marie-Claire Van
name: Solà Garcia, Maria Magdalena
name: Polman, Albert
name: Schmid, Martina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: ultrathin Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells
subject: dielectric nanopatterns
subject: light trapping
subject: absorption enhancement
subject: back barrier reduction
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: CuIn1–xGaxSe2 (CIGSe) solar cells have achieved record efficiency values as high as 22.6% for small areas, with module efficiency values of 16.5%. However, for economic viability these values must be achieved with reduced material consumption (especially indium), which requires reducing the CIGSe absorber thickness from 2000–3000 nm to below 500 nm. Soft-imprinted SiOx nanoparticles (NPs) beneath a conformal CIGSe layer enable this thickness reduction. Optically, they enhance the absorption of light through Fabry–Pérot and waveguided resonances within the CIGSe layer, preventing current loss. For CIGSe solar cells on ITO with an absorber thickness of only 390 nm and a nanophotonic contact the current density (Jsc) increases from 25.7 to 32.1 mA cm−2. At the same time, the nanopatterned contact reduces the back barrier, leading to an increased open-circuit voltage (518 to 558 mV) and fill factor (50.7% to 55.2%). Combined, these effects increase the efficiency value from 6.8% to 10.0% for this initial demonstration. With the addition of an antireflection coating, the champion NP-enhanced cell achieves a Jsc of 34.0 mA cm−2, corresponding to 93% of the Jsc achieved by the thick world-record cell. This result shows that optoelectronic nanopatterning provides a path to high efficiency cells with reduced materials consumption.
title: Nama marks and etchings: Employing movement analysis techniques to interpret the Nama Stap.
Creators: name: Jones, Erma J.J.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: The Khoisan are the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa, whose existence can be traced back some 2000 years to the Cape area of what is today South Africa. The Nama, the people whose dancing is the subject of this study, are the descendents of these original inhabitants of South Africa. The Nama are scattered among five 'coloured-reserve' areas in the north-west area of South Africa. This study concerns the Nama who live in !Khubus in the Richtersveld region of Namaqualand near the Orange River. Like other indigenous peoples in what is today popularly referred to as the 'Rainbow Nation', the Nama have been profoundly affected by colonisation and a brutal apartheid regime. It is not too difficult, at a superficial level at least, to distinguish supposedly traditional Nama customs from those they have adopted. The most obvious of these can readily be observed in language (Afrikaans), religious practices, architecture, and dancing. These activities are fertile examples of both acculturation and survival. The activities known as The Nama Stap (Step) and The Nama Stap Dance the subject of this dissertation, are particular examples of such fusion and endurance. They at once demonstrate the Nama drive for survival through adaptation and their need for continuity. This dissertation assesses and critiques movement analysis techniques. It then applies complementary methodologies including anthropology, ethnography, dance analysis, Labanotation and Laban Movement Analysis to address the continuities to be found In what the Nama call their 'national dance', how these have survived through a process of fusion, and how this historic female puberty rite has been transformed Into a contemporary statement of the solidarity between Nama women.
6_19-0132_Supplement_Table_2_R2_final_rpw - Coping Patterns and Emotional Distress in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Who Are Undergoing Lung Transplant Evaluation
Creators: name: Soyseth, Torunn S.
name: Dew, Mary Amanda
name: Lund, May Brit
name: Haugstad, Gro Killi
name: Soyseth, Vidar
name: Malt, Ulrik Fredrik
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: 6_19-0132_Supplement_Table_2_R2_final_rpw for Coping Patterns and Emotional Distress in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Who Are Undergoing Lung Transplant Evaluation by Torunn S. Soyseth, Mary Amanda Dew, May Brit Lund, Gro Killi Haugstad, Vidar Soyseth and Ulrik Fredrik Malt in Progress in Transplantation
title: Religious imagery of middle Yayoi settlements : An iconology of engraved drawings on Kinai pottery and bronze bells.
Creators: name: Oksbjerg, Ellen J.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis investigates pictorial engraving on pottery vessels and bronze bells of the Yayoi Period (500 BC-AD 250) in Japan. A particular focus is placed on the pottery pictures and their main phase of production at the end of Middle Yayoi - phase IV - (up to circa AD 1). The circumstances behind the shift of motifs from a predominance of animals to a preference for humans and human constructions such as houses comprise the primary area of investigation. Focussing on pictures from Karako Kagi and other Nara Basin settlements, these are studied in relation to the physical surroundings of their making. Their interpretation is connected to that of the settlements and tells of the area's religio-sociological developments. Through statistics of temporal motif distribution and comparisons to ethnographic evidence, I demonstrate that the iconographic changes relate to changes in ritual material in the shape of animal bones and crafted artefacts during Middle Yayoi; together telling of a transition from a basically nature-bound spiritual animism to a more politically manipulative shamanism. Examining the general enclosing of settlement spaces during the Yayoi Period, it is explored how a number of small moated settlements dissolve and amalgamate into large settlements inside and beyond the Nara Basin at the transition between Early and Middle Yayoi. It is suggested that this was a result of a strong factional competition between the basin's settlement leaders from the end of Early Yayoi. Karako Kagi, whose location was in the centre of the basin, developed into the regional centre of craft production; tying up population groups to the settlement and the cultivated zone. Part of the ritual sphere was moved away from the settlement, and a nature-culture dichotomy came to prevail that had not existed before, but which supported the leading tier's interests in a stronger focus on human ancestry and differentiated descent.
title: Ancient Colonization of Marginal Habitats
title: A Comparative Analysis of Case Studies from the Old World
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bebermeier, Wiebke
name: Beck, Dennis
name: Gerlach, Iris
name: Klein, Torsten
name: Knitter, Daniel
name: Kohlmeyer, Kay
name: Krause, Jan
name: Marzoli, Dirce
name: Meister, Julia
name: Müller-Neuhof, Bernd
name: Näser, Claudia
name: Rummel, Philipp Von
name: Sack, Dorothée
name: Schmid, Stephan G.
name: Schütt, Brigitta
name: Wulf-Rheidt, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie

description: The present contribution deals with the concepts of marginal habitats in selected regions of the ancient world, ranging from modern Spain to the Jordanian desert and from Turkey to the Ethiopian highlands. Central to this research is the hypothesis that the occupation of areas beyond the ‘normal’ settlement patterns corresponds to colonization processes which reflect specific social strategies and may have stimulated the development of new technological skills. A review of ‘marginality’ research in various disciplines indicates that there is no comprehensive definition of the concept, which can be approached from a multitude of perspectives and with manifold objectives. A survey of the eight case studies and two more in-depth discussions of the sites of Musawwarat (Sudan) and Ayamonte (Spain) highlight the potentials as well as the limits of the archaeological investigation into past marginalities. Patterns of spatial marginalization are the easiest to detect. The studies also show that we must not limit our analysis to the adverse factors connected to different kinds of marginalities. Instead, our analyses suggest that spatially marginal areas were deliberately chosen for settlement – an integration with core-periphery approaches may help us to understand these scenarios, which have received little attention in ‘marginality’ research in archaeology or elsewhere so far.
title: The making of a modern art world : The institutionalisation of Guohua in Shanghai, 1929-1937.
Creators: name: Chan, Pedith P.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: Using guohua, the indigenous art form of China, as the point of entry, this thesis seeks to explore and interrogate the discourse both of guohua itself, and the wider discourse of Chinese modernism in the visual arts. It does this through examining newly adopted modem artistic practices of the Republican period, namely; art associations, journals, exhibitions, and the art market. Guohua, literally 'national painting', was a new term and new concept which has long been associated in the standard narrative of modern Chinese art history with tradition, backwardness, and conservatism. It is the aim of this thesis to correct the mistaken reading of guohua as essentially 'traditional', by closely analyzing primary source materials, mainly newspapers and magazines, published in the Republican period. Adopting the concept of 'artistic field' postulated by Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis will reconstruct the 'logic of the field' in the Shanghai art world of the Republican era. In the light of the sociological definition of 'art world', the thesis attempt to contextualize the visual arts through concentrating on the modes of production and consumption of painting in Shanghai. Focusing on the years 1929 to 1937, this research demonstrates how the young generation of guohua artists appropriated new practices and embraced new attitudes towards the artistic profession, and in doing so professionalized and institutionalized guohua. The chapters are thematically organized to deal with modem artistic practices from the art society to the art market, aiming to unpack the discursive practices of guohua, and to redefine and redefine the discourse of modern China and Chinese modernity.
A Point Mutation in a Herpesvirus Co-Determines Neuropathogenicity and Viral Shedding
Creators: name: Franz, Mathias
name: Goodman, Laura B.
name: Walle, Gerlinde R. Van De
name: Osterrieder, Nikolaus
name: Greenwood, Alex D.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: equine herpesvirus type 1
subject: neuropathogenicity
subject: viral shedding
subject: trade-off hypothesis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: A point mutation in the DNA polymerase gene in equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) is one determinant for the development of neurological disease in horses. Three recently conducted infection experiments using domestic horses and ponies failed to detect statistically significant differences in viral shedding between the neuropathogenic and non-neuropathogenic variants. These results were interpreted as suggesting the absence of a consistent selective advantage of the neuropathogenic variant and therefore appeared to be inconsistent with a systematic increase in the prevalence of neuropathogenic strains. To overcome potential problems of low statistical power related to small group sizes in these infection experiments, we integrated raw data from all three experiments into a single statistical analysis. The results of this combined analysis showed that infection with the neuropathogenic EHV-1 variant led to a statistically significant increase in viral shedding. This finding is consistent with the idea that neuropathogenic strains could have a selective advantage and are therefore systematically increasing in prevalence in domestic horse populations. However, further studies are required to determine whether a selective advantage indeed exists for neuropathogenic strains.
Supplemental Material, JVAAppendixA - Ultrasound-guided placement of peripherally inserted intravenous catheters increase catheter dwell time in children
Creators: name: Cottrell, James Thomas
name: Chang, Todd
name: Baird, Jennifer
name: Barreras, Joanna
name: Elkhunovich, Marsha A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental Material, JVAAppendixA for Ultrasound-guided placement of peripherally inserted intravenous catheters increase catheter dwell time in children by James Thomas Cottrell, Todd Chang, Jennifer Baird, Joanna Barreras and Marsha A Elkhunovich in The Journal of Vascular Access
Physicochemical and Additive Controls on the Multistep Precipitation Pathway of Gypsum
Creators: name: Ossorio, Mercedes
name: Stawski, Tomasz M.
name: Rodriguez-Blanco, Juan Diego
name: Sleutel, Mike
name: Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, Juan
name: Benning, Liane G.
name: Driessche, Alexander E. S. Van
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: nucleation
subject: multistep pathway
subject: crystal growth
subject: gypsum
subject: additives
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie

description: Synchrotron-based small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) was used to examine in situ the precipitation of gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) from solution. We determined the role of (I) supersaturation, (II) temperature and (III) additives (Mg2+ and citric acid) on the precipitation mechanism and rate of gypsum. Detailed analysis of the SAXS data showed that for all tested supersaturations and temperatures the same nucleation pathway was maintained, i.e., formation of primary particles that aggregate and transform/re-organize into gypsum. In the presence of Mg2+ more primary particle are formed compared to the pure experiment, but the onset of their transformation/reorganization was slowed down. Citrate reduces the formation of primary particles resulting in a longer induction time of gypsum formation. Based on the WAXS data we determined that the precipitation rate of gypsum increased 5-fold from 4 to 40 °C, which results in an effective activation energy of ~30 kJ·mol−1. Mg2+ reduces the precipitation rate of gypsum by more than half, most likely by blocking the attachment sites of the growth units, while citric acid only weakly hampers the growth of gypsum by lowering the effective supersaturation. In short, our results show that the nucleation mechanism is independent of the solution conditions and that Mg2+ and citric acid influence differently the nucleation pathway and growth kinetics of gypsum. These insights are key for further improving our ability to control the crystallization process of calcium sulphate. View Full-Text
title: What a household with sick persons should know : Expressions of body and illness in a medical text of early nineteenth-century Japan.
Creators: name: Daidoji, Keiko
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis assesses the image and expressions of the body and illness in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1867), by examining a text on the cultivation of life, Byoka suchi (What a household with sick persons should know). A unique feature of Byoka suchi is its use of script combining Chinese characters and Japanese readings in the form of furigana. Furigana are conventionally employed to signal the pronunciation of Chinese characters, but the furigana in Byoka suchi function as a means for giving the author's translation into the everyday native language of medical terms which are traditionally written in Chinese characters, which were of originally foreign for Japanese. This thesis particularly scrutinises the gap between the Chinese medical terms and their furigana glosses, as it shows how Chinese medicine was transmitted and imbibed by a Japanese physician in order to facilitate understanding lay readers who had not made a formal study of medicine. The thesis consists of three main parts: The first part reviews the intellectual background of cultivation of life culture in both China and Japan, with reference to some of the relevant insights by previous studies. The second part explores how the author's view of body and illnesses can be reconstructed from a close examination of furigana in the text. The third part is devoted to the translation of the first fascicle of Byoka suchi, which concisely represents the author's basic views on medicine, body and illnesses. The translation with meta-commentary will enable us to appreciate the effect of the Chinese character-furigana combinations, as well as to examine the essence of the physiology, pathology and medical ethics of the text. The principal contribution of this research to the field lies in reassessing how the Edo views of body and illnesses deviated from their Chinese counterparts. As a conceptual study, it will also shed light on the uses of special features of Japanese script in transmitting technical concepts into more colloquial and popular language.
title: Tuning the Coupling of an Individual Magnetic Impurity to a Superconductor
title: Quantum Phase Transition and Transport
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Farinacci, Laëtitia
name: Ahmadi, Gelavizh
name: Reecht, Gaël
name: Ruby, Michael
name: Bogdanoff, Nils
name: Peters, Olof
name: Heinrich, Benjamin W.
name: Oppen, Felix Von
name: Franke, Katharina J.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Impurities in superconductors
subject: Magnetic interactions
subject: Magnetic tunnel junctions
subject: Molecular junctions
subject: Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations
subject: Scanning tunneling microscopy
subject: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy
subject: 500 Natural sciences and mathematics::530 Physics::539 Modern physics

description: The exchange scattering at magnetic adsorbates on superconductors gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states. Depending on the strength of the exchange coupling, the magnetic moment perturbs the Cooper pair condensate only weakly, resulting in a free-spin ground state, or binds a quasiparticle in its vicinity, leading to a (partially) screened spin state. Here, we use the flexibility of Fe-porphin (FeP) molecules adsorbed on a Pb(111) surface to reversibly and continuously tune between these distinct ground states. We find that the FeP moment is screened in the pristine adsorption state. Approaching the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope, we exert a sufficiently strong attractive force to tune the molecule through the quantum phase transition into the free-spin state. We ascertain and characterize the transition by investigating the transport processes as function of tip-molecule distance, exciting the YSR states by single-electron tunneling as well as (multiple) Andreev reflections.
title: The rise and fall of Fulani rule in Adamawa 1809-1901.
Creators: name: Njeuma, Martin Zachary
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: The study comprises three themes, the rise of the Fulani to power, the establishment and consolidation of the central administration, and the overthrow of Fulani rule. The gradual migrations of Fulani from the Senegambia region towards the east had resulted by the end of the eighteenth century in Fulani settlements south of Bornu. In response to Uthman's call to make jihad, Adama, having received a flag from Uthman, gave over forty Fulani leaders the authority to further the aims of Uthman's jihad. The result was the creation of Adamawa as an emirate of the Soketo empire. Adama set up a central administration over the conquered territory. The leaders who had previously been governors of districts opposed Adama, but support from Sokoto helped maintain a single overall leadership. Further developments in the administrative institutions at the centre assured Yola's pre-eminence over the districts. From exploring missions, European expeditions to Adamawa developed commercial and political interests. European competition, the rise of a Mahdist state in Adamawa, and Zubeiru's uncompromising stand against any interference with the exercise of his political authority finally brought about the overthrow of Fulani rule.
supplementary_figures_sys_review - The Prevalence of Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Spinal Cord Compression on Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Smith, Sam S.
name: Stewart, Max E.
name: Davies, Benjamin M.
name: Kotter, Mark R. N.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: supplementary_figures_sys_review for The Prevalence of Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Spinal Cord Compression on Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Sam S. Smith, Max E. Stewart, Benjamin M. Davies and Mark R. N. Kotter in Global Spine Journal
title: The emergence and growth of the kingdom of Nkore in western Uganda, c.1500-1896.
Creators: name: Karugire, Samwiri R.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: The traditional kingdom of Nkore, in western Uganda, came into existence around the beginning of the 16th century and this study is an attempt to trace its political history, on the basis of traditional accounts, up to the coming of the Europeans during the last decade of the 19th century. But this study is not exclusively historical or political. Religious beliefs and practices, clan organisation and other non-political aspects of Nkore society are examined in varying degrees. From these and from other sources, it appears that Nkore had become a viable kingdom by the beginning of the 18th century, largely as a result of the efforts of her kings. From about that period, however, the kingdom went through a troubled period due to the rivalry of the princes for the throne and sin examination of the system of succession indicates that the system itself was largely responsible for this period of instability. The last two reigns covered by this study (from about 1850 to 1895) saw an aggressive and expansionist Nkore, but this trend was brought to an abrupt halt by a rapid sucession of human and animal epidemics, which wakened and demoralised the population, and then by the untimely death of the Mugabe Ntare V in 1895. Just when it appeared that the kingdom would not hold together in the face of these unsettling events, the vanguard of the colonial administration arrived and the course of Nkore history was shaped along radically different lines and in the wider context of a Uganda protectorate of which Nkore kingdom, henceforth to he called Ankole, was a part.
BIONOMICS OF DACTYLOPIUS COCCUS COSTA (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA) IN A GREENHOUSE IN SICILY
Creators: name: Russo, A.
name: Mazzeo, G.
name: Longo, S.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: BIONOMICS OF DACTYLOPIUS COCCUS COSTA (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA) IN A GREENHOUSE IN SICILY.

A study on the biology of Dactylopius coccus Costa was undertaken to evaluate the possibility of mass-rearing it commercially in Sicily. The colonies of D. coccus were maintained on 2-3 years old cladophylls of Opuntia ficus indica, rooted in plant pots, in a greenhouse near the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the University of Catania. Almost daily observations were made between April 1995 and August 1996. Three reproductive cycles of the scale insect were observed; the duration of each instar, the length of each life cycle, female fecundity and the effects of the biotic factors have been studied.

Key words: mass rearing, Opuntia, biology, Dactylopiidae, fecundity, environmental conditions, Canary Islands, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Sardinia, dye, Exochomus flavipes, mortality, phototaxis, temperature, humidity.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
THE SCALE INSECTS, WHITEFLIES, APHIDS AND PSYLLIDS OF THE NEEM TREE, AZADIRACHTA INDICA (MELIACEAE)
Creators: name: Schmutterer, H.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: THE SCALE INSECTS, WHITEFLIES, APHIDS AND PSYLLIDS OF THE NEEM TREE, AZADIRACHTA INDICA (MELIACEAE).

The neem tree, Azadirachta indica (Meliaceae), is attacked by numerous scale insect species, mainly diaspidids, coccids and pseudococcids, as well as a few species belonging to other families in the Sternorrhyncha. Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead) is the most important pest of neem; others such as Pinnaspis strachani (Cooley), Chrysomphalus aonidum (L.) and Pulvinarisca jacksoni (Newstead) are minor pests of local importance. Water stress or unsuitable soil conditions in Africa and elsewhere may reduce the resistance of the trees and, therefore, increase the probability of outbreaks. Most scale insects attacking neem are more or less polyphagous species. The closely-related chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, is also attacked by many scale insect species, suggesting that neither of these closely related plants can protect themselves against those scale insects species which can either avoid the tissues containing the active ingredients or are naturally resistant to them.

Key words: Indian lilac, Persian lilac, azadirachtin, antifeedant, Africa, Asia, South Pacific, tropical America, Oryzaephilus surinamensis. damage, pest status, Oecophylla smaragdina, Aleyrodoidea, Psylloidea, Aphidoidea.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
HISTOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE STYLET PATHWAY, FEEDING SITES AND NATURE OF FEEDING DAMAGE BY PLANOCOCCUS CITRI (RISSO) (HOMOPTERA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE) IN SWEET ORANGE
Creators: name: Silva, E.M.B.
name: Mexia, A.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: HISTOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE STYLET PATHWAY, FEEDING SITES AND NATURE OF FEEDING DAMAGE BY

PLANOCOCCUS CITRI (RISSO) (HOMOPTERA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE) IN SWEET ORANGE.

Histological studies on the stylet pathway, feeding sites and cell damage caused by the citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri (Risso), on sweet orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck) fruit and leaves are described. The frequency of stylet pathways that were exclusively intercellular did not differ significantly from those that were both inter- and intracellular. Stylet track terminations were significantly more frequent in the phloem and its proximity than elsewhere, indicating that the phloem was the preferred feeding site in both fruits and leaves. None of the observed stylet tracks had multiple branches. The majority of plant cells surrounding the stylet tracks showed no detectable damage; only in the fruit did some cells appear slightly enlarged and had a different pigmentation, suggesting that the damage was caused by diffusion of saliva from the stylet. The pierced cells appeared otherwise healthy.

Key words: feeding behaviour
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
STUDIES ON THE BIOLOGY OF EULECANIUM CILIATUM (DOUGLAS) (HEMIPTERA: COCCIDAE) IN ANKARA, TURKEY
Creators: name: Ulgenturk, S.
name: Toros, S.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: STUDIES ON THE BIOLOGY OF EULECANIUM CILIATUM (DOUGLAS) (HEMIPTERA: COCCIDAE) IN ANKARA, TURKEY.

Eulecanium ciliatum Douglas is a common pest species on Aceraceae and Rosaceae in Ankara province, Turkey. Its biology was investigated on Acer campestre, A. pseudoplatanus, Crataegus monogyna and C. oxyacantha in 1995-1996. E. ciliatum had one generation a year and overwintered as the 2nd-instar nymph. The number of eggs laid per female depended on the host, with the greatest number of eggs being laid on A. pseudoplatanus, on which it had the densest populations. The 1st-instar nymphs were found on both leaf surfaces but they preferred the upper surface. The 2nd-instar nymphs preferred sites on branches on the north-east side of the host trees. The sex ratio varied between 1.5 and 3.8¢:1TM.

Key words: Palaearctic, life cycle, ecology, host plants, settling sites, migration, Formica cunicularia, Camponatus aethiops, Plagiolepis vindobonensis, Anthribus fasciatus, urban entomology, Brunton compass, predator.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
THE BIOLOGY OF PORPHYROPHORA TRITICI (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA: MARGARODIDAE) AND THE EFFECT OF SOME FARMING PRACTICES ON ITS POPULATIONS IN KERMANSHAH, IRAN
Creators: name: Vahedi, H.A.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: THE BIOLOGY OF PORPHYROPHORA TRITICI (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA: MARGARODIDAE) AND THE EFFECT OF SOME FARMING PRACTICES ON ITS POPULATIONS IN KERMANSHAH, IRAN.

This paper describes the life cycle of Porphyrophora tritici Bodenheimer on wheat in the Kermanshah region of Iran, and the effect of various farming practices (irrigation, harvesting, rotations and time of ploughing) on its survival. It is concluded that the manipulation of the time of ploughing may be the most economical management method of those tried.

Key words: barley, control, weeding, natural enemies, Lithophylus sp., ground pearls, damage, grazing.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
publicly_available_secondary_data – Supplemental material for How Do Colleges and Universities Respond to Covid-19: The Experience of Chengdu Sport University
Creators: name: Mengquing Kan
name: Jihe Zhou
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, publicly_available_secondary_data for How Do Colleges and Universities Respond to Covid-19: The Experience of Chengdu Sport University by Mengquing Kan and Jihe Zhou in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
FECUNDITY, SIZE AND DISPERSAL OF THE WHITE WAX SCALE, CEROPLASTES DESTRUCTOR NEWSTEAD (HEMIPTERA: COCCIDAE), IN THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
Creators: name: Wakgari, W.M.
name: Giliomee, J.H.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: FECUNDITY, SIZE AND DISPERSAL OF THE WHITE WAX SCALE, CEROPLASTES DESTRUCTOR NEWSTEAD (HEMIPTERA: COCCIDAE) IN THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Ceroplastes destructor Newstead has recently attained pest status in areas of South Africa where citrus is grown, particularly on Citrus reticulata in the Western Cape Province. The fecundity, fertility and dispersal of C. destructor were studied as part of a comprehensive overview of its morphology, biology and population dynamics, with the aim of providing a more informed basis for control programs. Fecundity varied significantly both between orchards (P<0.01) and between individual females from the same orchard (P<0.001). Female body-size also differed between orchards (P<0.05) and was positively correlated with fecundity (r2=0.84). The oviposition period was longer for large individuals. No differences in fertility were found between orchards (P>0.05). Dispersal was by 1st-instar nymphs, mainly on air-currents, and the numbers caught on a series of sticky traps up to 4m from the source were very similar, suggesting that wind dispersal was very efficient. The numbers caught appeared to be positively correlated to the initial population. The population of 2nd-instar nymphs on the seedlings after 6 weeks was smaller after an initially heavy infestation than on those initially more lightly infested.

Key words: hosts, incubation period, Psidium quajava, Ponocirus trifoliata, Eugenia malaccensis, Gardenia thunbergia.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
title: The population geography of the Chinese communities in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.
Creators: name: Niew, Shong
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: This study is an attempt to examine the spatial distribution pattern of the Chinese population in the Malaysian region (i.e. Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei) in relation to their migrations, growth, economic activities and socio-political characteristics. Chinese contacts with South-east Asia go back to the pre-Christian era and progressed slowly during the pre- European periods. With the advent of European powers, the role of the Chinese in South-east Asia rapidly changed from that of elite traders to one in which coolie labour was predominant. There was also a marked change in the nature of Chinese settlement in South-east Asia, as the early pattern of seasonal migration gave place to one in which immigrant labourers stayed for long periods of their working life and in many cases permanently. The creation of the British sphere in the South China Sea initiated the great 19th and 20th century migration of southern Chinese to the Malaysian region, Singapore in particular becoming a centre from which dispersion later took place to adjacent areas. Subsequent Chinese settlement in Malaya has been conditioned by early commercial agriculture, tin-mining rubber cultivation, commerce and trade. The policy in Northern Borneo, especially in Sarawak, has been to discourage immigration. Chinese penetration in Northern Borneo has been largely confined to gold-mining and agriculture in Sarawak, agricultural plantation work in Sabah and the oil industry in Brunei. Since the entry restrictions of the 1930s and more especially since the Second World War, immigration has declined in importance and today the Chinese communities in the region are growing almost exclusively as the result of the considerable excess of births over deaths. Meanwhile the increased birth rate, the equalization of sex ratios and the increase in the proportion of infants and children in the population indicate the extent to which', the Chinese here are changing from immigrant to permanently settled communities. Changes have also taken place in occupational specialisation of the various dialect groups within the Chinese population and in their social and cultural habits in the region. The process of fusion among them has taken place, especially in the large urban centres. The occupational distinctions between them have been considerably modified. The social geographical pattern based on the new distribution of wealth is becoming more important than the pattern based on the cultural differences of the Chinese communities. Governmental policies of mutual adjustment of various ethnic groups into one people can succeed only if different ethnic groups are regarded as equal, for discrimination tends to emphasize if not indeed to promote awareness of racial origin and thus further to complicate the pattern of distribution and redistribution of the Chinese and other ethnic groups within the region.