cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Movement and Play Behaviours of Children and Youth Living with Disabilities: Findings from the National Physical Activity Measurement (NPAM) Study
Creators: name: Moore, Sarah A.
name: Sharma, Ritu
name: Martin Ginis, Kathleen A. (Kathleen Anne), 1968-
name: Arbour-Nicitopoulos, Kelly P.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: All children and youth require ample physical activity (PA), low levels of sedentary behaviour (SB), and adequate sleep to stay healthy. Children and youth living with disabilities (CYWD) tend to have fewer opportunities for participation in PA and outdoor play compared with their typically developing peers. In turn, CYWD are typically less active and more sedentary, on average, compared with their peers. The COVID-19 pandemic reduced opportunities for many children and youth to participate in PA and outdoor play. The purpose of this study was to assess parent-perceived changes in PA (including outdoor play), SB (including screen time), and sleep quality and quantity, due to COVID-19 and related restrictions, in a national cohort of Canadian CYWD. We recruited parents of school-aged CYWD (N = 151) in May 2020. In an online survey, parents reported their child’s previous 7-day PA, SB, and sleep, as well as perceived changes in their child’s movement and play behaviours due to COVID-19 and related restrictions. Parent-perceived parental support for their child’s movement and play behaviours during the pandemic was also assessed. We used descriptive statistics to describe the child’s movement behaviours and assessed the association between movement behaviours and parental factors using Pearson and point-biserial correlations. Few (5.3%) CYWD met PA recommendations and 13.2% met screen time recommendations during the acute period of the COVID-19 pandemic. More CYWD (66.2%) were meeting sleep recommendations. Overall, only 1.3% of CYWD were meeting the combined movement guidelines. Parent encouragement was positively associated with the child’s outdoor PA (0.23), wheeling, walking, and biking (0.19), indoor PA (0.16), and family-based PA (0.26). Parental co-play was similarly positively associated with the child’s outdoor PA (0.26), wheeling, walking, and biking (0.39), indoor PA (0.16), and family-based PA (0.26). Parents perceived their CYWD to be less active and more sedentary as a result of COVID-19 and the related restrictions. Parents of CYWD have an important role in encouraging healthy movement behaviours. Return to movement and play post-COVID guidelines should include tailored strategies for CYWD and their families to mitigate the negative impacts of the pandemic.
title:   EXAMINING SOCIAL MISSION IN KENTUCKY SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: Milburn, Bo
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Community Leadership

description: Social Enterprises are business entities that incorporate social value creation into their business operations. This study aims to investigate, explore and share key insights gained through the lived experience of owners or managers of these organizations. The reputational method of sample selection was used to identify informed individuals who participated in interviews to share phenomenological knowledge by telling the stories of their organizations, describing how they manage the balance between profitability and sustainability, sharing observations about the influence of social mission at their firms and other insights. Participants identified stronger relationships between coworkers, increased professional creativity, and greater employee engagement as themes directly related to the inclusion of social mission. Participants also identified the importance and value of the relationship between themselves and those they are working to serve. This exploratory study highlighted the significance and need for more targeted future research to investigate the themes present.
description: © 2022 Bo Milburn
NIFLUM - Nitrogen Flux Method Evaluation - Outcomes and Recommendations of an International Expert Workshop
Creators: name: Döhler, Helmut
name: Kaupenjohann, Martin
name: Schmidhalter, Urs
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fluss [Bewegung]
subject: Ammoniak
subject: Distickstoffoxid
subject: Modellierung
subject: emission rates
subject: ammonia emission
subject: flux
subject: nitrous oxide
subject: dinitrogen oxides
subject: emission inventory
subject: synthetic and mineral fertilizers
subject: Soil | Land

description: Targeted ammonia emission reductions can only be achieved through efficient measures in the political process. At an international expert workshop, problems arising in the derivation of emission factors for NH3 and nitrogen oxides after N-fertiliser application were discussed. An overview of this issue is given in the report.Eine zielgenaue Ammoniak-Emissionsminderung  kann nur durch effiziente Maßnahmen im politischen Prozess erreicht werden. Auf einem internationalen Experten-Workshop wurden Probleme diskutiert, die bei der Herleitung von Emissionsfaktoren  für NH3 und Stickstoffoxide nach N-Düngemittelausbringung auftreten. Es wird ein Überblick über diese Problematik im Bericht  aufgezeigt.
title: Migration policy in practice: identity conflicts and discretionary decisions at the front lines
Creators: name: Glyniadaki, Aikaterini
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2019

description: The importance of bureaucratic discretion has long been at the focus of public administration scholars of street-level bureaucracy. This thesis explores the mechanisms through which front-line actors make decisions under conditions of high uncertainty. It does so by examining what determines the discretionary behaviour of front-line actors in Athens and Berlin, during the 2015-2017 period of the so called ‘European Migration Crisis’. Using an extensive number (149) of qualitative interviews with individuals working at the front lines of migration management (legal professionals, caseworkers, care-workers, administrative employees), it identifies some of their patterns and mechanisms of decision-making. By drawing on insights from social psychology and the existing literature on street-level bureaucracy, this thesis advances the argument that the identities of front-line actors (be they role, social or person-related) play a critical role in shaping their discretionary decisions. In a field as socially and politically contested as that of migration management, these actors often encounter unprecedented challenges, for which there are no clear guidelines or solutions. These challenges then translate into identity conflicts, as the actors often respond based on their self-understandings in a given context. These self-understandings are also influenced by the communities of practice within which the actors operate, as well as by the structural conditions surrounding these communities (economic capacity, welfare state, policy framework, etc.). This research contributes to the field of street-level bureaucracy in two ways. First, it makes a case for paying close attention to those at the front lines of service delivery, including not only public servants but also private contractors and members of the civil society, whether formally organised or spontaneously mobilised. To capture this diverse range of actors, it introduces the term ‘front-liners’. Second, it emphasises the significant role of front-liners’ multiple identities, while also providing an overview of the several levels of analysis at once. By doing so, and by providing also a cross-city comparison, it draws conclusions that allow for greater generalisability.
Digitala Moodle plugin user manual
Creators: name: Alanen, Tuomas
name: Erkkilä, Joona
name: Harjunpää, Topi
name: Heijala, Maikki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: DigiTala
automated speaking assessment
Moodle
L2

description: Digitala is a Moodle plugin for assessing L2 Finnish and Swedish speech automatically. Students' speech performances are sent from the plugin to an evaluation API designed and built by Aalto University. Digitala-plugin is a part of the DigiTala research project and is constructed by Bachelor level Computer Science students during spring 2022 in the University of Helsinki. This document is the basic user roles manual for using Digitala. It describes the behaviour of the Digitala Moodle activity in admin, teacher and student roles. The UI pictures and descriptions follow Moodle version 3.11, so a few features in newer Moodle are slightly different, e.g. the action wheel is a navigation bar and the description field of the activity will show on course page default.
description: The project's GitHub repository can be found and cited as: von Zansen, A., Alanen, T., Al-Ghezi, R., Erkkilä, J., Harjunpää, T., Heijala, M., Kallio, H. (2022). DigiTala Moodle plugin. https://github.com/aalto-speech/moodle-mod_digitala
ABDULLA ORIPOV SHE'RIYATIDA INSON BOTINIY TUYG'ULARINING LIRIK IFODASI
Creators: name: Muxiddinova Ezozxon Shavkat qizi ToshDO'TAU filologiya fakulteti 2-kurs magistr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada Abdulla Oripov ijodining o‘ziga xos jihatlari haqida atroflicha fikr yuritiladi. Shuningdek, shoir she’rlaridagi mavzu rang-barangligi, falsafiy fikrlar tahlilga tortilgan.

Tayanch so‘zlar: Abdulla Oripov ijodi, she’riyat, lirik shoir, lirik men, lirik kechinma, poetik mahorat.
Characterization of near-infrared to telecom frequency conversion in a rubidium-filled hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber
Creators: name: Rowland, Jed A.
name: Perrella, Chris
name: Offer, Rachel F.
name: Luiten, Andre N.
name: Sparkes, Ben M.
name: Weinhold, Till J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate near-infrared to telecommunications frequency conversion via a diamond four-wave mixing scheme in rubidium vapor contained within a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber. The strong light-atom interaction in the fiber results in lower pump power requirements and higher conversion efficiency than can be achieved under equivalent conditions in a rubidium vapor cell. We also observe non-intuitive pump and signal frequency dependence of the four-wave mixing efficiency in the fiber due to the large nonlinearities present in the system. These results indicate the potential for hollow-core fibers to provide a scalable solution to quantum information network infrastructure, with additional modelling required for a full understanding of the extreme atom-light interaction effects present.
Safe water for the nutrition and heat-related health of displaced women
Creators: name: Anwar, Nausheen H.
name: Oppermann, Elspeth
name: Carson, Rachel
name: Oluwaseun, Ariyo
name: Siddiqui, Amna Rehana
name: Venugopal, Vidhya
name: Nisbett, Nicholas
name: Anjum, Gulnaz
name: Faucet, Jérôme
name: Flouris, Andreas
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Most internally displaced people (IDPs) are located in the global tropics, often in heat-exposed shelter without electricity, and are vulnerable to food insecurity, meaning they often experience heat stress and undernutrition simultaneously.1Over the past decade, research has also shown a concerning correlation between exposure to heat stress and undernutrition outcomes;2 however, there has been limited investigation into the exact mechanisms that relate heat stress and undernutrition and none relating these to IDP mobility. As a result, no policies have been made to address these interactions.
A critical transport infrastructure twin with enhanced cognitive capabilities
Creators: name: Sierra, Cristobal Leonardo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Critical transport infrastructure is crucial for Australian GDP having significant socio-economical impacts. Amongst various challenges, the disconnection within pre-construction, construction and post-construction are critical. This challenge is compounded with need of half decade post-construction operation, requiring asset diagnosis and predictive strategies. This research developed a novel CTI 4.0 framework to address these challenges. The CTI 4.0 framework proposed a cloud centric twin, accessed at various stages, avoiding ambiguity and data redundancy. The framework provided advantages such as utilising unmanned aerial digitisation, cognitive ability for asset diagnosis and finally predictive maintenance strategies by predicting life under harsh environmental impacts.
Figures, animations and code for the paper Möstl et al. 2020 ApJ
Creators: name: Moestl, Christian
name: Weiss, Andreas
name: Bailey, Rachel
name: Reiss, Martin
name: Amerstorfer, Tanja
name: Hinterreiter, Jürgen
name: Bauer, Maike
name: Mcintosh, Scott W.
name: Lugaz, Noe
name: Stansby, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 20109 Space and Solar Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Figures, animations and code for the paper Möstl et al. 2020 (ApJ): "Prediction of the in situ coronal mass ejection rate for solar cycle 25: Implications for Parker Solar Probe in situ observations"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14743
The source code an also be found on github:
https://github.com/helioforecast/Papers/tree/master/Moestl2020_PSP_rate
title: Les trajectoires entremêlées des adolescents: une lecture d'Ève de ses décombres d'Amanda Devi
Creators: name: Venkatachellam, Deviana
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Ève de ses décombres is a novel by Ananda Devi that was published in 2006 by Gallimard. Devi’s novel depicts the picture of Troumaron, a suburb of the capital of Mauritius, Port-Louis. The novel narrates the stories and the different points of view of Eve, Sadiq, Clelio and Savita, the protagonists, and narrators of the story. It recounts the events that lead to Savita’s death and what follows. This thesis analyses Ève de ses décombres to describe how, through her writing that uses specific scriptural techniques, Devi manages to reach her readers. Not only does the author take advantage of language resources to include the island in the narration, but she also achieves to raise, in a very relevant way the problem of the social contingencies that define the island and the ideology that underlies these contingencies. It is through the analysis of the social discourse and the ideology of the novel that the thesis intends to highlight the realities that the realistic style that the novel offers to be read. Secondly, the study highlights the binary thought, a product of the colonial era of the country, which organizes the novel, thus opening a debate about identity regarding the portraits of each of the four characters whose positions plead for a broader and more inclusive acceptance, for an emancipation of the female subject in particular. RÉSUMÉ: Ève de ses décombres est un roman d’Ananda Devi publié chez Gallimard en 2006. Il pose un regard sur Troumaron, une banlieue de la capitale de l’Île Maurice, Port-Louis. Le roman alterne les points de vue d’Ève, Sadiq, Clélio et Savita, les protagonistes et narrateurs du récit. Il raconte les évènements qui mènent à la mort de Savita et ce qui s’ensuit. Ce mémoire analyse Ève de ses décombres en vue de démontrer comment, à travers son écriture qui recourt à des techniques scripturaires particulières, Devi parvient à toucher ses lecteurs. Non seulement l’auteure tire parti des ressources langagières pour insérer l’Île dans le récit, mais aussi elle arrive à poser de façon fort pertinente la problématique des contingences sociales qui la définissent et de l’idéologie qui sous-tend ces dernières. C’est par l’analyse du discours social et de l’idéologie du roman que le mémoire entend mettre en lumière les réalités que le style réaliste de l’oeuvre donne à lire. Dans un deuxième temps, l’étude fait ressortir la pensée binaire, produit de l’époque coloniale du pays, qui organise le roman, ouvrant ainsi un débat identitaire concernant les portraits de chacun des quatre personnages dont les positions plaident pour une acceptation plus étendue et plus inclusive, pour une émancipation du sujet féminin en particulier.
Open and FAIR in bioinformatics and training
Creators: name: Palagi, Patricia M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Resources
Training
Open
FAIR principles
Life sciences

description: Presentation given at the Open Science Zurich meeting on 04 March 2021. SIB resources, SIB Training, ELIXIR infrastructure, FAIR principles for training, how to make training materials FAIR.
Figures, animations and code for the paper Möstl et al. 2020 ApJ
Creators: name: Moestl, Christian
name: Weiss, Andreas
name: Bailey, Rachel
name: Reiss, Martin
name: Amerstorfer, Tanja
name: Hinterreiter, Jürgen
name: Bauer, Maike
name: Mcintosh, Scott W.
name: Lugaz, Noe
name: Stansby, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 20109 Space and Solar Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Figures, animations and code for the paper Möstl et al. 2020 (ApJ): "Prediction of the in situ coronal mass ejection rate for solar cycle 25: Implications for Parker Solar Probe in situ observations"

The source code an also be found on github:
https://github.com/helioforecast/Papers/tree/master/Moestl2020_PSP_rate
The quadruple helix innovation ecosystem of CALIPER project
Creators: name: Sangiuliano, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: gender equality
superah2020
institutional change

description: Presentation held by Maria Sangiuliano, Smart Venice, during the webinar "Engaging with external stakeholders and innovation ecosystems to foster institutional change", organised by SUPERA on 8 April 2021.
title: Microfabrication Using Shape-Transforming Soft Materials
Creators: name: Apsite, Indra
name: Biswas, Arpan
name: Li, Yuqi
name: Ionov, Leonid
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: applications
subject: principles
subject: shape-changing materials
subject: 540

description: The fabrication of hollow and multicomponent micro-objects with complex inner structures using state-of-the-art subtractive, formative, and additive manufacturing technologies is challenging. Controlled shape transformation offers a very elegant solution to this challenge. While shape transformations on macroscale can be achieved using either manual or automatic manipulation, shape transformations on microscale can better be realized using shape-changing polymers such as hydrogels, shape-memory polymers, liquid crystalline elastomers, and others. This review discusses the properties of different classes of shape-changing materials, the principle of shape transformation, possibilities to achieve complex shape transformation, as well as applications of shape-changing materials in microfabrication and other fields.
Semantic Foundations of Reductive Reasoning
Creators: name: Gheorghiu, Alexander V.
name: Pym, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The development of logic has largely been through the 'deductive' paradigm: conclusions are inferred from established premisses. However, the use of logic in the context of both human and machine reasoning is typically through the dual 'reductive' perspective: collections of sufficient premisses are generated from putative conclusions. We call this paradigm, 'reductive logic'. This expression of logic encompass as diverse reasoning activities as proving a formula in a formal system to seeking to meet a friend before noon on Saturday. This paper is a semantical analysis of reductive logic. In particular, we provide mathematical foundations for representing and reasoning about 'reduction operators'. Heuristically, reduction operators may be thought of as `backwards' inference rules. In this paper, we address their mathematical representation, how they are used in the context of reductive reasoning, and, crucially, what makes them 'valid'.
Driver training and assessment framework for enhanced safety, productivity and quality
Creators: name: Danylec, Andrew Basil
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Public safety is prime concern in rail industry and driver training is crucial. Apprentice train drivers are required to complete massive hours under supervision of experienced drivers to attain the required skill sets causing productivity issues. Traditional training is paper based, and assessments are individually evaluated without any scientific rigor resulting in quality challenges. This research developed a virtual reality-based framework to eliminate human cognitive bias in training environments, focusing upon hazard situations. A relationship matrix-based assessment was developed to assist managers in recruitment and training. The results from these studies can be transferred to other similar effected industries.
Females invest more energy in flight: flight characteristics of Platypus quercivorus (Murayama) revealed by a flight mill
Creators: name: Pham, Duy Long
name: Ito, Yasuto
name: Okada, Ryuichi
name: Ikeno, Hidetoshi
name: Yamasaki, Michimasa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Dispersal flight is an essential component of the life history of bark and ambrosia beetles. Previous studies have shown considerable variation in flight distance between individual beetles; however, different factors drive this variation between species. Furthermore, when the ecological role of dispersal flight differs between sexes (i.e., males locate hosts and females follow), influencing factors might also vary. Here, we evaluated the factors driving variation in the dispersal flight distance of the ambrosia beetle Platypus quercivorus (Murayama) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), which is a vector insect of Raffaelea quercivora, the causal agent of the Japanese oak wilt, and we estimated sex-based differences for each influencing factor. A flight mill was used to measure flight distance, flight duration, and initial and terminal flight speed. Because flight speed was not constant during beetle flight, we estimated both initial and terminal flight speed, and assumed that initial flight speed represents a relative measure of energy allocated to flight. Flight distance was mainly determined by flight duration, with an average flight speed of 4.22 km/h for both sexes. Initial and terminal flight speed affected flight distance; however, these factors had contrasting effects between sexes. Specifically, a simultaneous increase in initial and terminal flight speed by males increased flight distance. In comparison, increased flight distance by females was mainly achieved by increasing the initial flight speed. These different patterns in increased flight speed likely reflect differences in the relative importance of flight in the life history of the two sexes.
Identifying the stimulus of visual perception based on Eye-tracking in Urban Parks: Case Study of Mellat Park in Tehran
Creators: name: Gholami, Yasaman
name: Taghvaei, Seyed Hassan
name: Norouzian-Maleki, Saeid
name: Sepehr, Rouhollah Mansouri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Urban parks that provide the context for relationships between people and nature could be good cases for studies and analysis of visual perception in the everyday landscape. The main goal of the research is to evaluate the people’s attention to the primary factors and landscape elements in urban parks. Accordingly, out of 59 regional and trans-regional parks in Tehran, ten major parks were selected as case studies. The main elements of the landscape were extracted and classified based on the Fundamental Values and Factors of Landscape (FVFL). An experimental study was designed to track the eye movement of park visitors, using portable eye-tracking glasses. The results showed that the most effective motivation during visual perception in the experiment was human-made factors with an average of 59.12% of total fixation duration. Besides, the average of fixations duration on natural factors, human activities, and behavioral factors was 20.65% and 20.23%, respectively.
Topological Causality Theory: Time as a Shadow of Structure
Creators: name: Chobisara, Palapol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Causality
Topology
Graph Theory
Quantum Foundations
Artificial Intelligence
Complex Systems
Time Emergence
Causal Inference

description: This paper introduces the Topological Causality Theory (TCT), a framework that reformulates causality without reference to time. Instead of treating time as a necessary axis for event ordering, TCT models causality as a directed topological structure among events.

We construct a tensor-based formalism for causal propagation, propose Laplacian-like field equations, and show that predictive power can emerge solely from structure—even in noisy or nonlinear systems. Through AI modeling with graph neural networks and topology-aware transformers, we demonstrate that causality can be learned and forecasted without timestamps.

Applications span physics, economics, cognition, and distributed intelligence. We further explore philosophical implications such as entanglement as causal ambiguity, emergent spacetime, and a reformulation of agency in topological terms.

This work does not aim to replace current theories, but to open a new lens: where time is not a container, but a projection—cast by the deeper shape of what causes what.

Keywords: causality, topology, time, tensor field, graph neural networks, emergent spacetime, quantum ambiguity
Human Interpretation and Exploitation of Self-attention Patterns in Transformers : A Case Study in Extractive Summarization
Creators: name: Li, Raymond
name: Xiao, Wen
name: Wang, Lanjun
name: Carenini, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The transformer multi-head self-attention mechanism has been thoroughly investigated recently. On one hand, researchers are interested in understanding why and how transformers work. On the other hand, they propose new attention augmentation methods to make transformers more accurate, efficient and interpretable. In this paper, we synergize these two lines of research in a human-in-the-loop pipeline to first find important task-specific attention patterns. Then those patterns are applied, not only to the original model, but also to smaller models, as a human-guided knowledge distillation process. The benefits of our pipeline are demonstrated in a case study with the extractive summarization task. After finding three meaningful attention patterns in the popular BERTSum model, experiments indicate that when we inject such patterns, both the original and the smaller model show improvements in performance and arguably interpretability.
title: Health effects from contaminant exposure in Baltic Sea birds and marine mammals
title: Health effects from contaminant exposure in Baltic Sea birds and marine mammals
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sonne, Christian
name: Siebert, Ursula
name: Gonnsen, Katharina
name: Treu, Gabriele
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Polychlorierte Biphenyle
Exposition
Ostsee

description: Here we review contaminant exposure and related health effects in six selected Baltic key species. Sentinel species included are common eider, white-tailed eagle, harbour porpoise, harbour seal, ringed seal and grey seal. The review represents the first attempt of summarizing available information and baseline data for these biomonitoring key species exposed to industrial hazardous substances focusing on anthropogenic persistent organic pollutants (POPs). There was only limited information available for white-tailed eagles and common eider while extensive information exist on POP exposure and health effects in the four marine mammal species. Here we report organ-tissue endpoints (pathologies) and multiple biomarkers used to evaluate health and exposure of key species to POPs, respectively, over the past several decades during which episodes of significant population declines have been reported. Our review shows that POP exposure affects the reproductive system and survival through immune suppression and endocrine disruption, which have led to population-level effects on seals and white-tailed eagles in the Baltic. It is notable that many legacy contaminants, which have been banned for decades, still appear to affect Baltic wildlife. With respect to common eiders, changes in food composition, quality and contaminant exposure seem to have population effects which need to be investigated further, especially during the incubation period where the birds fast. Since new industrial contaminants continuously leak into the environment, we recommend continued monitoring of them in sentinel species in the Baltic, identifying possible effects linked to climate change, and modelling of population level effects of contaminants and climate change. © 2020 The Authors
The Laws to Build Australia's Silicon Valley
Creators: name: Alexander, Samuel Dawson
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis seeks to make a significant original contribution to knowledge by exploring the impact of Australia's and the United States' differing normative backgrounds on the development of internet businesses in each nation. Specifically, this thesis seeks to understand the implications of these legal and political cultures on the regulatory regimes of each nation, as they pertain to the internet, and the effect these regimes have had on internet businesses.
The Self-Similarity of Free Semigroups and Groups
Creators: name: Rodaro, Emanuele
name: Wächter, Jan Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.m
subject: 08A99, 20E99, 20F05, 20F10, 20M30

description: We give a survey on results regarding self-similar and automaton presentations of free groups and semigroups and related products. Furthermore, we discuss open problems and results with respect to algebraic decision problems in this area.
title: Characterising mixing and pollution transport in the urban boundary layer
Creators: name: Blunn, Lewis Phillip
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: Air quality models (AQMs) are a critical tool in the management of urban air pollution. They can be used for short-term air quality (AQ) forecasts, and in making planning and policy decisions aimed at abating poor AQ. Vertical turbulent mixing and horizontal advection of pollution are crucial processes controlling human exposure to pollution, since they are responsible for transporting pollution away from areas of high concentration. A simple two-box model is used to investigate the relative importance of urban boundary layer (UBL) pollution transport processes on AQ throughout the day. The lower and upper boxes represent the pollution concentration in the urban canopy and mixed layer respectively. The investigation utilises UBL meteorology and AQ measurements made during an experimental field campaign in London. The results demonstrate that the vertical exchange timescale at canopy top is a key parameter influencing concentration in the canopy. However, canopy height and wind speed in the canopy are likely less important. These findings can be used to inform parametrisation of urban boundary layer pollution transport processes in AQMs. To analyse the vertical mixing of pollution in the convective boundary layer, where the dominant turbulence ranges from mostly parametrised to mostly resolved in numerical weather prediction (NWP), the Met Office Unified Model (UM) is run at horizontal grid lengths ranging from 1.5 km to 55 m over London. A reduced analytical model is developed and used to determine vertical mixing timescales associated with surface released tracers in the UM. It is found that when vertical mixing is mostly resolved, distinctly different vertical mixing of tracers occurs on O(10 min) timescales. This results in a significant influence on surface level tracer concentrations at the city scale compared to when vertical mixing is mostly parametrised. Turbulence in urban canopies is investigated using simulations of flow through a wide range of urban canopy geometries. The general characteristics of momentum mixing length profiles are established and a first-order mixing length closure is formulated that is appropriate for parametrisation of urban canopy turbulence in AQMs. Unlike in vegetation canopies the inflection in the time- and horizontally space-averaged velocity profile does not control turbulent mixing in urban canopies. Overall, this thesis shows that good representation of pollution vertical mixing, both at the scale of the urban canopy and the entire UBL, is crucial for accurate urban AQ prediction.
title: Strengthening the identity of custodian farmers as a way to increase food security
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Management techniques
subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture

description: Starting in 2010, Embrapa Clima Temperado, a public research organization in Brazil, has developed strategies for strengthening the identity of custodian farmers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, in cooperation with several farmers, civil society and research organizations. The objectives were to support the work of custodian farmers and to recognize their important role for the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, including for food and nutrition security. Numerous individual farmers and initiatives engage in agrobiodiversity conservation in different parts of Rio Grande do Sul; in this situation, Embrapa has worked towards forming associations of such custodian farmers to strengthen their identity. Since 2010, more than 200 custodian farmers and twelve ‘nuclei’ of custodian farmers have been identified in several regions of the state; seven seminars, including one international, and more than 70 seed exchange fairs have been held. High levels of participation of custodian farmers reflected their desire to exchange and establish contacts among each other. This measure has helped to raise awareness of the important contributions’ custodian farmers can make to achieving societal goals, if they are supported by the recognition of society, especially urban people.
title: Participatory plant variety selection
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: The Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre (MPGRC) started working on the Participatory Variety Selection of 56 bambara nut accessions in the year 2001/02. The work involved three research stations in the Department of Agricultural Research Services namely: Chitedze in Lilongwe district, Chitala in Salima district and Mbawa in Mzimba district. Agricultural Extension Planning Areas (EPAS) and Farmers from villages surrounding the research stations were also involved in these activities. The major objective of the work was to identify high yielding and farmer-preferred accessions since the production of bambara nuts in Malawi is characterized by low yields. Core components included (1) farmer involvement, which contributed to Programme success and ensured farmer commitment in implementing the activities; (2) integration of local technical and scientific knowledge in the research process; and (3) development of readily acceptable varieties by farmers which is one of the fundamental research gaps in Malawi. The major outcome of the PVS was the official release by the Department of Agricultural Research Services through MPGRC of three farmer-preferred bambara nut varieties. Key lessons learnt included that integration of farmer preferences at an early stage in varietal development enhances adoption rates.
title: Building on community traditional knowledge and practices for food security
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE) implemented ‘Putting Lessons into Practice: Scaling up Peoples’ Biodiversity Management for Food Security’ (2012-2015), in collaboration with partners from government, non-government and research institutions. Objectives were to develop adaptation strategies for food security by bridging traditional knowledge and science; to influence policies on food and agriculture from local to international level toward realizing the right to food of indigenous and smallholder farmers; and to strengthen their adaptive capacities in plant genetic resources conservation, including access to and sustainable use of PGRFA, by scaling up successful and/or innovative models. Components include capacity-building through collaborative strategies, e.g. Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) and community seed management, and policy support by providing a venue for farmers to articulate their concerns and issues to government leaders. The Farmer Field School approach was used as a learning and empowering methodology, while the system of rice intensification and PPB were introduced as climate-change mitigation measures. The initiative targeted 75,000 low-income farming households from several regions of Vietnam. Farm productivity and yield increased by 10%, while periods of food scarcity were reduced from a maximum of 17 weeks to a maximum of 7 weeks across all regions by its conclusion.
title: Farmer-codeveloped ordinance on agriculture (Sustainable Agriculture Code of the Municipality of Arakan, North Cotabato, Philippines)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: In 2013, Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE) facilitated the development of the Agriculture Code of Arakan, North Cotabato. The code compiled all existing local ordinances on agriculture and added new provisions that would reflect the desire of the communities for a sustainable agricultural system. To develop the agricultural code, SEARICE and the Municipality of Arakan co-organized an ordinance-writing workshop for farmer leaders (women and men) of the municipality, led by a lawyer working with SEARICE. The Draft Code was then submitted for consideration and adoption. Provisions include (1) management, utilization, exchange and development of PGRFA, including protection of local seed systems and institutionalization of community seed banks; (2) municipal guaranteed protection of farmer-bred varieties, including the institutionalization of a seed registry and protection against misappropriation; (3) free access to seed for all farmers; (4) a ban on genetically modified organisms (GMO); (4) facilitating and monitoring access and benefit-sharing, including through the Arakan Farmers’ Trust Fund; (5) protection and promotion of Farmers’ Rights; (6) provision of incentives for farmer-breeders of traditional and indigenous varieties; (7) development of a loan assistance program; and (8) commitment to make an annual Farmers’ Day a permanent part of the Municipal Foundation Anniversary.
title: Community seed registry
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Catalogues
subject: AGROVOC: Documentation

description: Starting in 2002, the Campagao Farmers' Production and Research Association (CFPRA) of the municipality of Bilar, province of Bohol, in collaboration with Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE), established a community seed registry. The registry is not intended to claim property rights but aims to prevent others from doing so by placing knowledge in the public domain. The community seed registry recognizes farmers as the developers of the varieties and upholds the principle that seeds should be freely and widely accessed and exchanged. Through a municipal resolution, the community seed registry was officially recognized. Community seed registries may evolve differently in different contexts, but share common elements, including (1) a community declaration, through which the local communities publicly and collectively assert their rights over local plant genetic resources, e.g. a joint resolution or statements of communities or farmers’ organizations, public ceremonies, rituals/oral traditions, audio/video techniques, or other indigenous means of documentation; (2) legal recognition, which obliges the State to recognize the registries and to provide them with a mantle of legal protection; and (3) community protocols or procedures meant to regulate and facilitate access more systematically and to ensure that Farmers’ Rights to the accessed materials are recognized.
title: Establishing resilient community-managed seed systems
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE) considers the empowerment of farming communities at the forefront of agricultural production as the most sensible way to making local seed systems resilient. Thus, SEARICE projects include the development of community-managed seed systems as a key outcome of its various projects. For the purposes of this documentation, however, we describe only the initiative implemented in the project ‘Building Resilient Community- Managed Seed Systems towards Climate Change Adaptation’ in the Philippines and Cambodia (2013- 2015), in collaboration with government units in each of the participating countries. It made significant contributions towards the technical empowerment of farmers in 55 project communities in seven (7) and nine (9) provinces in Cambodia and the Philippines, respectively. The capacities of 1,546 men and women (832 or 53%) farmers to manage crop genetic diversity and strengthen their local seed systems to adapt to the changing climatic conditions have been enhanced through Farmer Field Schools on community-managed seed systems. Previously disadvantaged farmers, they too have been organized to gain social and political influence, actively assert their rights and interests and pursue activities collectively to develop further their resilience to the impacts of climate change.
ЭЛЕУТЕРОКОКК В ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОМ ПРОЦЕССЕ СПОРТСМЕНОВ-БОРЦОВ
Creators: name: ЗАЙЦЕВ О.Н.
name: МЕЛЬНИКОВ В.Н.
name: ЗАЙЦЕВА И.П.
Publisher: name: Теория и практика физической культуры
Year: 2020
Subjects: STUDENTS
ATHLETES
TRAINING
CATECHOLAMINES
GLUCOCORTICOIDS
ELEUTHEROCOCCUS
СТУДЕНТЫ
СПОРТСМЕНЫ
ТРЕНИРОВКА
КАТЕХОЛАМИНЫ
ГЛЮКОКОРТИКОИДЫ
ЭЛЕУТЕРОКОКК

description: Цель исследования - выявление реакций ГГНС и САС на интенсивную мышечную тренировку и возможности управления ими и повышения работоспособности путём введения экстракта элеутерококка. Методика и организация исследования. Обследовалось 38 спортсменов, средний возраст - 22±3 года (M±m), занимающихся борьбой и имеющих спортивную квалификацию от II разряда до мастера спорта. Тренировки проводились 4 раза в неделю по 2 ч. Половина спортсменов (19 человек - экспериментальная группа) в течение двух недель принимала фармакопейный жидкий экстракт из корней элеутерококка в дозе 5 мл один раз в день в утренние часы. Остальные 19 человек, составивших контрольную группу, ЭЭ не получали. Группа неспортсменов состояла из 20 практически здоровых мужчин-студентов, посещавших 2-часовые занятия физической культурой в неделю только в объеме вузовской программы. Флуориметрическим методом определялись концентрации АД, НА, ДА и 11-ОКС в плазме венозной крови. Гарвардский степ-тест характеризовал физическую работоспособность. Результаты исследования и выводы. У борцов в состоянии мышечного покоя в сравнении с неспортсменами наблюдались существенно увеличенный уровень 11-ОКС и не достигающее порога статистической значимости повышение концентрации НА. Через 30 мин после 2-часовой тренировки при сравнении с исходным состоянием увеличенные концентрации АД, НА и ОКС сочетались с незначительно сниженным уровнем ДА (p<0,1). Прием ЭЭ повышал физическую работоспособность, купировал вызванные систематическими и разовыми тренировками гормонально-медиаторные сдвиги и позволял достичь состояния тренированности при меньшем напряжении изученных систем.
title: Participation of Farmers in the Decision-Making Process
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Decision making
subject: AGROVOC: Farmer participation

description: Under the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, farmers participate in several national-level councils as members (e.g., the Council of Food, Agriculture and Rural Area Policies and the Agricultural Materials Council) to provide inputs in the decision-making process. Both the Council of Food, Agriculture and Rural Area Policies and the Agricultural Materials Council were established in 2001 by reorganizing existing councils. They were established under the Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas Basic Act and the Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, respectively.
title: The NARO Genebank Project, Japan
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025

description: The Genebank Project of Japan’s National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), which started in 1985, builds on various previous initiatives. Its activities are directed toward conservation, exploration, collection, characterization, evaluation, distribution and documentation of PGRFA, including farmers’ varieties/landraces. The project develops and applies advanced technology to improve genebank operations, e.g. low/ultra-low temperature preservation and reproduction techniques. The Genetic Resources Center continuously develops new cryopreservation techniques for vegetatively propagated plant genetic resources, for which more systematic procedures are needed and/or to which the current techniques are difficult to apply. Such techniques can be shared with researchers of other countries through collaborative research and training. Genetic resources are distributed, together with relevant information, to users for breeding, scientific studies and educational purposes.