cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Partnership quality and maternal depressive symptoms in the transition to parenthood : a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Schwarze, Cornelia E.
name: Lerche, Veronika
name: Wallwiener, Stephanie
name: Pauen, Sabina
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Background: Pregnancy and childbirth are critical life events which lead to significant changes in family structures and roles, thus having a substantial impact on partner relationship and maternal wellbeing. A dysfunctional partnership during this critical time of life has been associated with maternal depressiveness. However, sub-components of partnership quality and the causal relation with maternal symptoms of depression in the perinatal period have been sparsely studied so far. The current study aims to longitudinally assess the course of relationship quality and its sub-components from pregnancy to postpartum and to test a potential causal association with maternal symptoms of depression in the perinatal period. Methods: Differing from previous studies, partnership quality and symptoms of depression have been assessed prospectively and longitudinally from an early stage of pregnancy (second trimester) until six months postpartum. Cross-lagged panel models were applied to investigate a potential causal relationship between partnership quality and maternal depressive symptoms. Results: Relationship quality decreased significantly during the transition to parenthood (p < .05) with the steepest decline referring to tenderness (p < .001). We also found a substantial association of relationship quality and maternal depressiveness, but no indication for a clear causal direction of this association. Conclusions: Our results suggest that relationship quality and maternal depressiveness are substantially related in the perinatal period, thus pointing to the need of early prevention and intervention programs for peripartum women and their partners to prevent adverse outcome for the couple and the family.
Efficient transmission of error resilient H.264 video over wireless links
Creators: name: Connie, Ashfiqua Tahseen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: With the advent of telecommunication technology, the need to transport multimedia content is increasing day by day. Successful video transmission over the wireless network faces a lot of challenges because of the limited resource and error prone nature of the wireless environment. To deal with these two challenges, not only the video needs to be compressed very efficiently but also the compression scheme needs to provide some error resilient features to deal with the high packet loss probability. In this thesis, we have worked with the H.264/ Advanced Video Coding (AVC) video compression standard since this is the most recent and most efficient video compression scheme. Also H.264 provides novel error resilient features e.g. slicing of the frame, Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO), data partitioning etc. In this thesis, we investigate how to utilize the error resilient schemes of H.264 to ensure a good quality picture at the receiving end. In the first part of the thesis, we find the optimum slice size that will enhance the quality of video transmission in a 3G environment. In the second part, we jointly optimize the data partitioning property and partial reliability extension property of the new transport layer protocol, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). In the third and last part, we focus more on the network layer issues. We obtain the optimum point of application layer Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Medium Access Control (MAC) layer retransmission in a capacity constrained network. We assume that the bit rate assigned for the video application is more than the video bit rate so that the extra capacity available can be used for error correction.
Suicide among post-Arabellion refugees in Germany
Creators: name: Ha Le, Nensy Thu
name: Genuneit, Jon
name: Brennecke, Gerald
name: Polier, Georg
name: White, Lars O.
name: Radeloff, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Background: Although immigrants are considered to be vulnerable to mental illness, there is limited knowledge regarding their suicide mortality. Aims: To investigate standardised mortality ratios (SMR) for suicide among the largest immigrant populations in Germany before and after the refugee movement of 2015. Method: Data on immigrants and the general population in Germany between 2000 and 2020 were provided by the scientific section of the Federal Statistical Office. SMR with 95% confidence intervals were calculated by indirect standardisation for gender, age and calendar year for the pre-2015 and post-2015 time interval, first for all the immigrant populations studied and second for the Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi populations separately. Results: Immigrants from the countries studied showed a lower suicide risk compared with the German reference population (SMR = 0.38, 95% CI = 0.35–0.41). No differences in SMR were found between pre- and post-2015 time intervals, in either the aggregate data for all populations or the data for Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi populations. Post-2015, Afghan immigrants (SMR = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.54–0.83) showed a higher SMR than Syrians (SMR = 0.30, 95% CI = 0.25–0.36) or Iraqis (SMR = 0.37, 95% CI = 0.26–0.48). Conclusions: Despite the many and varied stresses associated with flight, comparison of the pre- and post-2015 time intervals showed that the suicide risk of the populations studied did not change and was considerably lower than that of the German reference population. We attribute this to lower suicide rates in the countries of origin but also to flight-related selection processes that favour more resilient individuals.
Hydrophilus aterrimus Eschscholtz 1822
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Hydrophilus
Hydrophilus aterrimus

description: Hydrophilus aterrimus Eschscholtz, 1822
Material: NNR: Sarov, 5.05.2017, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Breast cancer and mental health : incidence and influencing factors : a claims data analysis from Germany
Creators: name: Au, Alexandra
name: Dannehl, Dominik
name: Hein Dijkstra, Tjeerd Maarten
name: Gutsfeld, Raphael
name: Scholz, Anna
name: Haßdenteufel, Kathrin
name: Hahn, Markus
name: Hawighorst, Sabine
name: Isaksson, Alexandra
name: Chaudhuri, Ariane
name: Bauer, Armin
name: Wallwiener, Markus
name: Wallwiener, Diethelm
name: Brucker, Sara
name: Hartkopf, Andreas
name: Wallwiener, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background/Objectives: With breast cancer (BC) survival improving due to optimized therapy, enhancing quality of life has become increasingly important. Both diagnosis and treatment, with their potential side effects, pose risks to mental well-being. Our study aimed to analyze the incidence and potential risk factors for mental disorders in BC patients. Methods: This retrospective analysis used claims data from AOK Baden-Wuerttemberg, including 11,553 BC patients diagnosed via ICD code C50 between 2010 and 2020 and 31,944 age-matched controls. Patients with mental disorders in the 12 months prior to diagnosis were excluded. Mental disorders were categorized into eight groups based on ICD codes: anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, adjustment disorder, dissociative disorder, hypochondriac disorder, affective disorder, mania, and other neuroses. Results: Mental disorders were significantly more common in BC patients than in controls (64.2% vs. 38.1%, p < 0.01, OR 2.91, 95%CI [2.79, 3.04]). In particular, hypochondriac, anxiety, affective, and adjustment disorders occurred significantly more often in BC patients. No differences were found for mania, bipolar disease, other neuroses, obsessive compulsive-, or dissociative disorders. Furthermore, endocrine therapy was associated with psychological comorbidities (OR 1.69, p < 0.001, 95%CI [1.53, 1.86]), while primarily metastasized patients (stage C) had a lower risk than adjuvant patients in stage A (OR 0.55, p < 0.0001, 95%CI [0.49, 0.61]). Regarding surgical treatment, mastectomy patients showed lower rates of mental illnesses (61.2%) than those with breast-conserving treatment (71.6%), or especially breast reconstruction (78.4%, p < 0.01). Breast reconstruction was also associated with more hypochondriac (p < 0.01) and adjustment disorders (p < 0.01). Conclusions: So, BC patients experience significantly more mental disorders than controls, particularly when treated with endocrine therapy and breast reconstructive surgery.
Gnathoncus buyssoni Auzat 1917
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Histeridae
Gnathoncus
Gnathoncus buyssoni

description: Gnathoncus buyssoni Auzat, 1917
Material: NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Shaprikha vill., 19– 24.06.2019, 1 ex. (AR).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 28 (5)]
Creators: name: Avalos, Innigo D
name: Alberus, Paulus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1592
Subjects: subject: Sonstige geistliche Aussteller
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Innigo [d'Avalos], Bischof von Porto-Santa Rufina und protector der Erzbruderschaft Sanctorum Duodecim Apostolorum de Urbe, und Paulus Alberus, Erzbischof von Ragusa und Prior der genannten Erzbruderschaft, sowie weitere Offiziale der Erzbruderschaft sichern dem Klarissenkloster Domus Pia, genannt Regionis Sancti Eustachii, die Aufnahme in ihren Schutz zu.
Dendroxena quadrimaculata
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Dendroxena
Dendroxena quadrimaculata

description: Dendroxena quadrimaculata (Scopoli, 1771)
Material: NNR: Sarov, 26.05.2017, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Application of proteomics to the study of protein translation in stored platelet units
Creators: name: Thon, Jonathan Noah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Platelet products have a short shelf life (5 to 7 days) owing in part to the deterioration of the quality of platelets stored at 22°C. This creates significant inventory challenges, and blood banks may suffer shortages and high wastage as a result. Proteomics offers a global quantitative approach to investigate changes occurring in stored blood products. These data sets can identify processes leading to storage-associated losses of blood component quality such as the platelet storage lesion (PSL). Changes to the platelet proteome between days 1 and 7 of storage were analysed with 3 complementary proteomic approaches with final mass spectrometric (MS) analysis: 2-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis/differential gel electrophoresis (DIGE), isobaric tagging for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ), and isotope-coded affinity tagging (ICAT). Although proteomics analyses identified many storage-associated protein changes, these varied significantly by method suggesting that a combination of protein-centric (2D gel or DIGE) and peptide-centric (iTRAQ or ICAT) approaches is necessary to acquire the most informative data. Validation of the proteomics results by western blotting, flow cytometry, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT PCR) and ³ٰ⁵S-methionine incorporation confirmed that platelets are capable of synthesising biologically relevant proteins ex vivo throughout a 10-day storage period with particularly long-lived mRNA (half-life of approximately 2.4 days), and has provided the first evidence for one of the mechanisms of the PSL. The development of an ³ٰ⁵Smethionine assay has since shown that stored human blood platelets incorporate ³ٰ⁵S-methionine at a rate that is proportional to time and substrate concentration, and is slower for freshly drawn platelets than those stored in pooled buffy coat derived units for 10 days. More interesting still are the observations that the overall ³ٰ⁵S-methionine incorporation rate was higher in pooled buffy coat platelet units versus freshly drawn platelets, that this rate increased upon agonist exposure in both, and that day 8 platelets showed significantly greater total protein translation than on days 2,3,7 and 10 of storage. This may be indicative of translational regulation of the platelet proteome during storage and upon activation. Translational control is a consequence of remarkable cellular specialisation and precise biochemical pathways which, in the case of platelets, may lead to storage-associated losses of blood component quality and must be understood if platelet storage times are to be extended.
Alges v. Gibbon (2); Victoria; 1863.06
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: No. of Plaint – 477 Summons; Invoice for $15 - Gibbon is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $15.70. The amount is due for 3 ½ days labour at harness making, performed by the Plaintiff for the Defendant.
Nicrophorus vespillo
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Nicrophorus
Nicrophorus vespillo

description: Nicrophorus vespillo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material: RM: Tengushevo distr., Klemeschshei vill., 14.05– 21.06.2019, mixed forest, 1 ex. (ME).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Bendixon v. Bond (2); Victoria; 1863.02
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: No. of Plaint – 427 Summons; Invoice for $15 - Bond is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $18.20. The amount is due for money lent to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.
Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst 1783
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Nicrophorus
Nicrophorus vespilloides

description: Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst, 1783
Material: NNR: Alamasovo vill., 17.06.2017, mixed forest, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
The evolution of devolution : evaluation of the community forest agreement in British Columbia
Creators: name: Ambus, Lisa Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: In 1998, the government of British Columbia introduced a new form of tenure for community forestry. The Community Forest Agreement (CFA) was envisioned as a unique institutional mechanism for devolution, providing resource-dependent communities and First Nations in B.C. with the authority to set the direction of forest management in their locale, and to create local benefits. Relative to the industrial status quo, there were high expectations of community forestry and what it might achieve. This study empirically tested some of these expectations with respect to B.C.’s Community Forest Program. Taking a realist approach to evaluation, a variety of qualitative research methods were used to critically assess the structure, performance, and outcomes of the CFA. Analysis of the CFA revealed that its structure is virtually identical to tenures designed for industrial forestry with a few minor exceptions. In the current tenure regime, the CFA devolves limited power over strategic decisions and community control largely resides at the operational level, affecting on-the-ground aspects of timber harvesting rather than enabling a broader and more holistic approach to forest management. Outcomes of the CFA generally did not satisfy expectations that communities would commercially harvest botanical non-timber forest products, develop capacity for value-added wood processing, and utilize more environmentally-sensitive harvesting treatments. The study did find that CFAs supported local employment and were more labour intensive than industrial licensees in harvesting and silvicultural activities. Assessing the CFA structure and the on-the-ground outcomes side-by-side, this study suggests that the impediments to realizing a more holistic form of community forestry likely have their roots in the institutional mechanism itself, rather than in the efforts of communities. Flowing from the evaluation are recommendations for government to consider devolving more power over key strategic management decisions and increasing the size of CFAs to improve their economies of scale; and recommendations for communities to build their capacity and critical social mass to leverage policy changes that may further the evolution of community forestry in B.C.
Oiceoptoma thoracicum
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oiceoptoma
Oiceoptoma thoracicum

description: Oiceoptoma thoracicum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material: NNR: Alamasovo vill., 20.05.2017, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Block v. Bishop (2); Victoria; 1863.04
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: No. of Plaint – 433 Summons; Invoice for $35 - Bishop is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $36.50. The amount is due for various services provided to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.
Silpha carinata Herbst 1783
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Silpha
Silpha carinata

description: Silpha carinata Herbst, 1783
Material: RM: Tengushevo distr., Klemeschshei vill., 14.05– 21.06.2019, mixed forest, 5 ex. (ME).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Paracaridina zijinica Liang 2002
Creators: name: Klotz, Werner
name: Rintelen, Thomas Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Atyinae
Paracaridina
Paracaridina zijinica

description: Paracaridina zijinica Liang, 2002
(Colour plate 2C)
Paracaridina zijinica Liang, 2002 [type locality: Zijin, Guangdong, southern China] Caridina meridionalis Wang, Liang & Li, 2008 [type locality: Heyuan County, Guangdong Province] Paracaridina meridionalis.— Karge & Klotz, 2013
Material examined. 5 ♂ cl 4.0–6.0 mm, 4 ♀ cl 3.2–5.0 mm (OUMNH.ZC 2013-07-038), 5 ♂ cl 3.6–5.0 mm, 4 ♀ cl 3.5–4.7 mm (RMNH. CRUS.D.56066), 2 ♂ cl 4.7 and 4.8 mm (collWK 18-09), China, Guangdong Prov., mountain stream near the Xinfeng Jiang Reservoir, 23.936111°N 114.637778°E, coll. W. + M. Klotz 03.04.2009; 3 ♂ cl 3.0– 4.2 mm, 2 ♀ cl 3.4–4.9 mm (OUMNH.ZC 2013-07-039), 2 ♂ cl 3.8 and 4.1 mm (collWK 19-09), China, Guangdong Prov., small forest stream near the Xinfeng Jiang Reservoir, 23.923361°N 114.599139°E, coll. W. + M. Klotz 0 3.04.2009.
In 2009 several specimens of bee shrimp could be collected from two hill streams near the Xingfengjiang Reservoir, Heyuan County, Guangdong Province. According to a local fisherman collecting shrimp for the aquarium trade in this area, the same species can be found in about 20 streams near the Xingfengjiang Reservoir. Specimens from both streams sampled agree well with the original description in both morphology and life coloration of Caridina meridionalis Wang, Liang & Li, 2008 (see colour plate 2C for comparison with fig. 8, page 58 in Wang et al. 2008). Wang et al. (2008) did not mention the branchial formula of their specimens. In the specimens examined the first pereiopods are lacking an arthropod and this species should thus be assigned to Paracaridina. Amongst the known members of Paracaridina, C. meridionalis (based on the bee shrimp herein examined) is very similar to P. z i j i n i c a Liang, 2002, also described from Heyuan County, differing only in the length of the stylocerite, which reaches almost to the end of the first antennular peduncle in P. meridionalis vs. reaching to the end or slightly overreaching this segment in P. zijinica). As this difference is considered to be intraspecific variation, C. meridionalis Wang et al. 2008 is here considered to be a junior synonym of P. z i j i n i c a.
description: Published as part of Klotz, Werner & Rintelen, Thomas Von, 2014, To " bee " or not to be — on some ornamental shrimp from Guangdong Province, Southern China and Hong Kong SAR, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 151-184 in Zootaxa 3889 (2) on pages 180-181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/252727
Nicrophorus humator
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Nicrophorus
Nicrophorus humator

description: Nicrophorus humator (Gleditsch, 1767)
Material: NNR: Sarov, 05–08.2013, 1 ex. (OA).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Motorized backcountry recreation and stress response in Mountain Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)
Creators: name: Freeman, Nicola L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are endangered in British Columbia and motorized backcountry recreation has been identified as a potential threat to their persistence. My objective was to test if fecal glucocorticoids (GCs), indicative of physiological effects of ecological stress in wildlife, could be used as a non-invasive tool to quantify stress response in free-ranging caribou exposed to motorized recreation. I validated an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to measure concentration of fecal GCs for R. tarandus using an adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) challenge experiment on captive reindeer exposed to extreme variation in winter weather. Female reindeer expressed elevated fecal GCs 9-11 hrs after ACTH injection. Males showed no detectable increase, perhaps due to underdosing. Fecal GCs varied markedly in both sexes in response to natural variation in weather. Overall, my results indicated fecal assays can be used to track biologically meaningful changes in adrenal activity in R.tarandus. I investigated the effects of motorized recreation on stress hormone production by measuring GCs in feces of mountain caribou exposed to snowmobile and heli-ski activity. Concentrations of fecal GCs in snowmobile and heli-ski areas were higher than those measured from caribou in areas where motorized recreation was not allowed. Caribou sampled up to 4km. 8km and I0 km distant from snowmobile activity showed elevated fecal GCs when compared to those sampled further from snowmobile activity areas. Other variables with a significant effect on fecal GCs included reproductive state, snow, aspect. minimum ambient temperature, and daily temperature range. My study indicates that measurement of fecal GCs provides a useful, noninvasive approach in the evaluation of physiological effects of environment, reproductive state, and human-induced stressors on free-ranging mountain caribou. Although research on many species indicates that chronically elevated GCs carry a variety of physiological costs, more study is needed to know whether GCs can be used as an index of human impact on population health or trend.
Brown & Craswell v. Knapp (2); Victoria; 1863.15
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: No. of Plaint – 430 Summons; Invoice for $126.25 - Knapp is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $135.55. The amount is due for five weeks board and lodging provided at $26 per week the Plaintiff to the Defendant.
A geographical information system's approach to analyzing critical infrastructure interdependencies : a case study at the UBC campus
Creators: name: Cervantes Larios, Alejandro
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: In the past few years, the study of critical infrastructures and the interdependencies amongst them in the context of an emergency situation has become a priority for many countries, including Canada. Governments, universities, and private companies all over the world are spending vast amounts of money and effort trying to better understand how infrastructures and humans react in the time stages before, during, and after a disruptive event. Analyzing complex systems such as those formed by infrastructure networks and decision makers is not a simple task and requires a multidisciplinary holistic approach. The field of research in infrastructure interdependencies is fairly new, and lies in the intersection of areas of knowledge such as emergency management, geography, simulation modeling, planning, and safety engineering. Analyzing interdependencies between infrastructure networks is not only a complex problem in terms of its formalization, but also in terms of the intricacy required to test and validate that formalization. Furthermore, identifying and having access to the data necessary to validate the formal system is probably an even more complicated issue to resolve. It is, however, only through the study of these interdependencies that certain failures or weaknesses in the systems can be discovered; weaknesses that could not be studied through the analysis of a single isolated system. Not only is it a challenging task to analyze the interconnections between infrastructure systems, but studying these at moments of stress, when the interdependencies become dynamic, is even more difficult. In this thesis I explore the intersection between three main themes: Critical infrastructure interdependencies, Emergency Management, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Furthermore, I analyze the different types of interdependencies between infrastructure systems, I describe some of the challenges that have to be dealt with when modeling interdependencies, and I explore the possibility of modeling and visualizing some of these interdependencies by constructing an Infrastructure Geographical Information System of the UBC campus.
Silpha obscura Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Silpha
Silpha obscura

description: Silpha obscura Linnaeus, 1758
Material: RM: Tengushevo distr., Klemeschshei vill., 14.05– 21.06.2019, mixed forest, 1 ex. (ME).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Gonioctena (Brachyphytodecta) mauroi Cho & Borowiec 2016
Creators: name: Cho, Hee-Wook
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Gonioctena
Gonioctena mauroi

description: Gonioctena (Brachyphytodecta) mauroi species-group
Differential diagnosis. Body length 5.9–6.9 mm. Body short-oval, strongly convex (Figs 1, 3). Dorsum reddish-brown with basal margin of pronotum black (Figs 2, 4). Venter entirely or largely reddish-brown. Legs black, partially blackish-brown. Aedeagus long and thin, setose apicolaterally, with apical process varying in shape (Figs 7, 9, 11–12). Gonioctena (B.) flavipennis (Jacoby, 1888) is almost identical with members of Gonioctena mauroi speciesgroup in body shape and coloration, but differs in its glabrous aedeagus. The most consistent characteristic that differentiates this species-group from other species of the subgenus Brachyphytodecta is setose aedeagus.
Key to the species of the Gonioctena (Brachyphytodecta) mauroi species-group
1 Apex of aedeagus triangular or subtriangular (Figs 9, 11–12). ....................................... 2
– Apex of aedeagus semicircular (Fig. 7). .............................. G. (B.) kuatunensis sp. nov.
2 Aedeagus subparallel-sided, with apical process relatively broad (Figs 9, 11). .............. 3
– Aedeagus moderately narrowed to apical 1/4, with apical process relatively narrow, moderately widened apically, lateral sharp tooth-like projections near apex (Fig. 12). .......... ........................................................................ G. (B.) medvedevi Cho & Borowiec, 2016
3 Apical process of aedeagus widest in apical 1/3 and subequal to median lobe in width in dorsal view; apex pointed in lateral view (Fig. 9). ........ G. (B.) longshengensis sp. nov.
– Apical process of aedeagus widest in middle and slightly narrower than median lobe in dorsal view; apex blunt in lateral view (Fig. 11). ............................................................... ............................................................................. G. (B.) mauroi Cho & Borowiec, 2016
description: Published as part of Cho, Hee-Wook, 2017, Two new species of the Gonioctena mauroi species-group from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), pp. 173-181 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on pages 174-175, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/5316150
Lordithon pulchellus
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lordithon
Lordithon pulchellus

description: Lordithon pulchellus (Mannerheim, 1830)
Material: NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Alamasovo vill., 2.10.2016, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Nudobius lentus
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Nudobius
Nudobius lentus

description: Nudobius lentus (Gravenhorst, 1806)
Material: NNR: Sarov, 10.04.2016, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Sexuality and gender in Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans
Creators: name: Funke, Melissa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passive paradigm of understanding sexual relations which was originally proposed in Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality (1978) and Michel Foucault's three volume History of Sexuality (1978, 1985, and 1986). In Dover and Foucault, the sexual behaviour of the classical Athenian male takes primacy, so much so that the reader of either scholar can be left with the impression that the role of the active partner was available only to adult citizen males. Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans (Book 4 of his works) depict a group of desiring female subjects who demonstrate that sexual agency, the assumption of the active role in a sexual relationship, need not be the exclusively masculine phenomenon that Dover and Foucault describe. Letters of Courtesans prove that female sexuality can be portrayed as active and therefore that women in literature can be sexual agents. Additionally, these letters demonstrate the limits of the approaches of Dover and Foucault, that sexuality need not be defined as exclusively active or exclusively passive. By approaching Letters of Courtesans from this perspective, we are able to see that ancient Greek literature includes depictions of active female sexuality that Dover and Foucault overlooked. Letters of Courtesans are therefore a way to challenge and develop the work on ancient sexuality that has followed from these two landmark studies. Because of their fictional nature and their epistolary format, Letters of Courtesans lay bare the process of Alciphron's construction of sexuality and gender. I shall therefore show that Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans are an ideal locus for a discussion of these topics. This study will establish that Letters of Courtesans ought to occupy a place of importance in any discussion of ancient ideas of sexuality and gender.
Brown and Craswell v. Gibbon (2); Victoria; 1863.01
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: No. of Plaint – 429 Summons; Invoice for $40 - Gibbon is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $46.25. The amount is due for 5 weeks board and lodging provided to the Defendant by the Plaintiffs.
Ontholestes murinus
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Ontholestes
Ontholestes murinus

description: Ontholestes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material: NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Alamasovo vill., 3.05.2015, 1 ex. (PC); Sarov, 25.07.2013, 1 ex. (AR).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Quedius dilatatus
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Quedius
Quedius dilatatus

description: Quedius dilatatus (Fabricius, 1787)
Material: RM: Temnikov distr., Tarkhany vill., 16– 25.07.2019, 25.07– 1.08.2019, 3 ex. (AR). NNR: Pervomaisk distr., 9 km E Bereschshino vill., 10– 22.07.2019, 2 ex. (AR); Voznesenskoe distr., Shaprikha vill., 25.06– 9.07.2019, 2 ex. (AR).
Scaphidium quadrimaculatum G.-A. Olivier, 1790
Material: NNR: Sarov, 19.05.2017, 1 ex. (PC).
Sepedophilus bipustulatus (Gravenhorst, 1802)
Material: NNR: Sarov, dry birch, on tinder, 9.05.2019, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Buler v. Rowden (2); Victoria; 1863.05
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: No. of Plaint – 434 Summons; Invoice for $23 - Rowden is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $28.65. The amount is due for value received by the Defendant from the Plaintiff.
The contingent Determinants of Organizational Performance of Moroccan Local Authorities: An exploratory Qualitative Study
Creators: name: FATIMA ZAHRA RZAMA
name: ZAKARIA BENGHAZALA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In recent years, Moroccan local governments have experienced significant reforms within the framework of the administrative deconcentration process and the modernization of public administration. The objective behind these undertaken reforms is to improve and strengthen the performance of management and public administration. In this context, this article presents the results of an exploratory qualitative study aimed at identifying and understanding the contingent determinants of organizational performance of Moroccan local authorities. A literature review on the factors influencing the organizational performance of local authorities allowed us to highlight the themes to be addressed during the semi-structured interviews conducted with officials operating in the territorial environment. The findings highlight the importance of managerial and human factors, namely the relational capacity of the territorial management controller, the involvement of stakeholders, and the positive involvement of the leader of the local authority.
Hold-up sur les « universaux », la philosophie de Kwasi Wiredu (1931-2022)
Creators: name: Premat, Christophe
Publisher: name: Stockholm University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 500318
subject: Philosophy of specific cultures (incl. comparative philosophy)
classificationCode: 500314
subject: Philosophy of language
classificationCode: 470207
subject: Cultural theory

description: The presentation is based upon a conference contribution for an international study day on December 12, 2024, titled "Hold-up sur les 'universaux', la philosophie de Kwasi Wiredu (1931-2022)." The presentation explores the work of Kwasi Wiredu, a Ghanaian philosopher, emphasizing his critique of the Eurocentric appropriation of universals and his push for conceptual decolonization. It examines how Wiredu redefined African philosophy, advocating for a culturally situated understanding of universals as opposed to imposed Western norms.The presentation is part of the first panel, "Le retour au prisme de la philosophie panafricaine," of the Back to Africa event organized by the journal NAKAN. It aligns with the broader themes of the event, focusing on Africa's interaction with its diasporas, decolonial strategies, and the reconstruction of identity in a global context. Key aspects of the contribution include the resistance to Western epistemological dominance, Wiredu’s consensualism, and the implications of his philosophy for African thought systems.
Gonioctena (Brachyphytodecta) mauroi Cho & Borowiec 2016
Creators: name: Cho, Hee-Wook
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Gonioctena
Gonioctena mauroi

description: Gonioctena (Brachyphytodecta) mauroi Cho & Borowiec, 2016
(Figs 11, 13)
Gonioctena (Brachyphytodecta) mauroi Cho & Borowiec, 2016a: 176 (original description).
Type locality. ‘ Vietnam, Lang Son Province, Loc Binh, Mt. Mau Son’.
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♂, ‘Tonkin, Montes Mauson, April, Mai 2-3000’, H. Fruhstorfer // HOLOTYPUS Gonioctena (Brachy.) mauroi sp. n. Cho & Borowiec 2015’ (LMCM).
Description. See CHO & BOROWIEC (2016a).
Differential diagnosis. Gonioctena (B.) mauroi is very similar to G. (B.) longshengensis sp. nov. and G. (B.) medvedevi in body shape, coloration and setose aedeagus. From these two species, G. (B.) mauroi can be distinguished only by aedeagus subparallel-sided with apical process widest in middle and slightly narrower than median lobe (subparallel-sided with apical process broad, widest in apical 1/3 and subequal to median lobe in width in G. (B.) longshengensis sp. nov. and moderately narrowed with apical process moderately widened to lateral tooth-like projections near apex in G. (B.) medvedevi). Gonioctena (B.) kuatunensis sp. nov. differs in semicircular apex of aedeagus (triangular or subtriangular in other species). Distribution. Vietnam: Lang Son Province (Fig. 13).
description: Published as part of Cho, Hee-Wook, 2017, Two new species of the Gonioctena mauroi species-group from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), pp. 173-181 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 180, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/5316150
Platycerus caraboides
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lucanidae
Platycerus
Platycerus caraboides

description: Platycerus caraboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material: RM: Tengushevo distr., Klemeschshei vill., 14.05– 21.06.2019, mixed forest, 3 ex. (ME). Elniki distr., Cherlyai vill., 15.05– 28.06.2019, deciduous forest, 1 ex. (ME).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
The effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the structure and composition of early-successional plant communities in the Interior Cedar-Hemlock (ICH) zone of southern British Columbia
Creators: name: Corriveau, Brit Madelaine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Wildfire is the primary natural disturbance in Interior Cedar-Hemlock (ICH) forests, and since the mid-20th century, forest harvesting (clearcutting, in this case) has become the primary anthropogenic disturbance type. Forest management in British Columbia is currently governed by a paradigm that maintains that biological diversity can be preserved by utilizing forest harvesting regimes that closely mimic "natural" disturbance regimes, but a question remains as to how closely these regimes mimic wildfire disturbances. More specifically, how do clearcutting and wildfires compare in their effects on the structure and composition of early-successional ICH plant communities? This study compares vegetation structure, composition, relative abundance and diversity among 39 sites that experienced either a stand-replacing fire or a clearcut within the last 40 years. Sites of different ages and disturbance types were located within the wet cool ICHwkl and very-wet cool ICHvk I biogeoclimatic variants near Revelstoke, B.C. For each site, overstory structural characteristics (tree and snag diameters, basal area and density), overstory composition, and surface fuels (volume of coarse woody debris (CWD)) were assessed. Understory vegetation percent cover, species richness, composition and diversity were also determined. Linear regression analysis was used to examine differences in each of these variables between disturbance types, over time. The trends in structural legacies (especially snag and CWD dynamics) varied greatly between wildfire and clearcut sites. Compared to burned sites, clearcut sites exhibited patterns of accelerated succession in several characteristics (overstory tree regeneration, vegetation cover and understory species richness) due to planting treatments and pre-disturbance relicts. Understory species composition also varied between disturbances, with clearcut sites containing more shade-tolerant survivors initially. Both disturbance types had similar levels of floristic diversity during early succession. These results suggest that clearcut harvesting may not emulate stand-replacing fires in terms of impact on early ICH plant succession in any aspect but diversity. However, it is unclear if these early-successional differences will continue through time. There is a need for further research in this ecosystem, as well as any other ecosystems where emulation silviculture is applied, in order to confirm that silvicultural effects mimic those of natural disturbance regimes.