cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integration and adoption roadmap of assessment tools - Deliverable 2.2
Creators: name: Tilley, Laura
name: Theeten, Franck
name: Lymer, Gaël
name: Semal, Patrick
name: Paleco, Carole
name: Scory, Serge
name: Glorioso, Alessio
name: Lovric, Marko
name: Casino, Ana
Publisher: name: DiSSCo Transition Project
Year: 2025
Subjects: DiSSCo RI
Specialisation Plan
Natural Science Collections
Strategy
Self-Assessment

description: This deliverable describes the roadmap supporting the contribution from participating researchers, institutions and nodes in DiSSCo Research Infrastructure with data through well-grounded tools and identified pathways, towards ensuring convergence between organisations and strategic partnerships.

 

DiSSCo Transition Project is funded by the European Union, under grant number 101130121. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Data from: Leveraging weighted quartet distributions for enhanced species tree inference from genome-wide data
Creators: name: Hasan, Navid Bin
name: Biswas, Avijit
name: Wahab, Zahin
name: Mahbub, Mahim
name: Reaz, Rezwana
name: Bayzid, Md Shamsuzzoha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: species tree
Gene tree
incomplete lineage sorting
Summary methods
quartets
Quartet amalgamation

description: Species tree estimation from genes sampled from throughout the whole genome is challenging because of gene tree discordance, often caused by incomplete lineage sorting (ILS). Quartet-based summary methods for estimating species trees from a collection of gene trees are becoming popular due to their high accuracy and theoretical guarantees of robustness to arbitrarily high amounts of ILS. ASTRAL, the most widely used quartet-based method, aims to infer species trees by maximizing the number of quartets in the gene trees consistent with the species tree. An alternative approach is inferring quartets for all subsets of four species and amalgamating them into a coherent species tree. While summary methods can be sensitive to gene tree estimation error, quartet amalgamation offers an advantage by potentially bypassing gene tree estimation. However, greatly understudied is the choice of weighted quartet inference method and downstream effects on species tree estimations under realistic model conditions. In this study, we investigated a wide array of methods for generating weighted quartets and critically assessed their impact on species tree inference. Our study provides evidence that the careful generation and amalgamation of weighted quartets, as implemented in methods like wQFM, can lead to significantly more accurate trees than popular methods like ASTRAL, especially in the face of gene tree estimation errors.
description: This dataset was collected from public sources.
A Study of the Impact of High Cross Section ILC Processes on the SiD Detector Design
Creators: name: Barklow, Timothy
name: D`Hautuille, Luc
name: Milke, Christopher
name: Schumm, Bruce
name: Schuetz, Anne
name: Stanitzki, Marcel
name: Strube, Jan
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: detector: design
calorimeter: electromagnetic
SiD
performance
emission: two-photon
electron positron: background
electron positron: scattering
numerical calculations

description: (2016).
description: The SiD concept is one of two proposed detectors to be mounted at the interaction region of the International Linear Collider (ILC). A substantial ILC background arises from low transverse momentum $\mathrm{e}^{+}\mathrm{e}^{-}$ pairs created by the interaction of the colliding beams' electromagnetic fields. In order to provide hermeticity and sensitivity to beam targeting parameters, a forward Beamline Calorimeter (BeamCal) is being designed that will provide coverage down to 5 mrad from the outgoing beam trajectory, and intercept the majority of this pair background. Using the SiD simulation framework, the effect of this pair background on the SiD detector components, especially the vertex detector (VXD) and forward electromagnetic calorimeter (FCAL), is explored. In the case of the FCAL, backgrounds from Bhabha and two-photon processes are also considered. The consequence of several variants of the BeamCal geometry and ILC interaction region configuration are considered for both the vertex detector and BeamCal performance.
title: Understanding Household Responses to Food Insecurity and Famine Conditions in Rural Somaliland.
Creators: name: Ahmed, Ismail Ibrahim
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1994

description: This thesis examines the responses adopted by rural households in Somaliland to changes in their resource endowments and market exchange during the 1988- 1992 food crisis. It tests whether there is a predictable sequence of responses adopted by rural households when faced with food insecurity and famine conditions and examines the implications of this for famine early warning and famine response. The research is based on fieldwork conducted in rural Somaliland in 1992. A sample of 100 households interviewed just before the outbreak of the war in 1987 were re-sampled, allowing comparisons to be made before and after the crisis. These households experienced food insecurity and famine conditions caused by the 1988 war which displaced almost the entire population and disrupted markets, trade and food production. The thesis reviews droughts and famines from the late 19th century to the present and investigates their causes and impacts on rural households. It also examines both the adaptive and coping strategies developed by the households in response to these crises. These strategies have largely been successful in mitigating the effects of droughts and famines and preventing widespread starvation in most food crises. It is argued that droughts and famines in postcolonial periods were characterised by a lack of public intervention and a failure of policies which contributed to the long-term vulnerability of the households. The hypothesis that there is a predictable pattern of responses adopted by rural households is rejected on the basis of empirical evidence presented in this thesis. The implication of this is that monitoring response sequences cannot generally be used to provide indicators of the level of stress faced by households in crisis situations as they can produce misleading information. It is argued that greater understanding of market conditions and household resource allocation is required if household responses are to be used for famine early warning and famine intervention.
Decision-making and control with diffractive optical networks
Creators: name: Qiu, Jumin
name: Xiao, Shuyuan
name: Huang, Lujun
name: Miroshnichenko, Andrey
name: Zhang, Dejian
name: Liu, Tingting
name: Yu, Tianbao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ultimate goal of artificial intelligence is to mimic the human brain to perform decision-making and control directly from high-dimensional sensory input. Diffractive optical networks provide a promising solution for implementing artificial intelligence with high-speed and low-power consumption. Most of the reported diffractive optical networks focus on single or multiple tasks that do not involve environmental interaction, such as object recognition and image classification. In contrast, the networks capable of performing decision-making and control have not yet been developed to our knowledge. Here, we propose using deep reinforcement learning to implement diffractive optical networks that imitate human-level decision-making and control capability. Such networks taking advantage of a residual architecture, allow for finding optimal control policies through interaction with the environment and can be readily implemented with existing optical devices. The superior performance of these networks is verified by engaging three types of classic games, Tic-Tac-Toe, Super Mario Bros., and Car Racing. Finally, we present an experimental demonstration of playing Tic-Tac-Toe by leveraging diffractive optical networks based on a spatial light modulator. Our work represents a solid step forward in advancing diffractive optical networks, which promises a fundamental shift from the target-driven control of a pre-designed state for simple recognition or classification tasks to the high-level sensory capability of artificial intelligence. It may find exciting applications in autonomous driving, intelligent robots, and intelligent manufacturing.
title: The Transmission of Western Science Into China 1840-1900.
Creators: name: Wright, David Frank Aston
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: This thesis examines the process, practice and issues surrounding the transmission of Western science into China 1840-1900. It opens with a discussion of the previous (Jesuit) transmission of Western science, and the nature of the Chinese paradigms which the Jesuits tried to displace. The nineteenth-century Western chemical paradigms which were to be transmitted are then considered, together with the rapidly changing nature of the subject and the consequent problems for the translators and their readers. The context of the transmission in China is discussed, especially the nature of the kaozheng [evidential research] scholarly community in the Jiangnan region of China which, I hope to show, played an important role in the reception of science. The special problems of translation from Western languages into Chinese are then dealt with, including the transliteration of terms and the creation of new characters. Parallels are drawn with the methods of the Buddhist translators and of the early nineteenth-century Chinese geographers. There follow studies of the translation of chemical terminology, of a selection of important science textbooks, and of two Western agents of transmission, John Fryer and Calvin Mateer. The lives of Chinese scientists Li Shanlan, Xu Shou, Xu Jianyin and Hua Hengfang are studied, followed by a chapter on the new institutions which they and the Westerners created. The remarkably rich popular science literature such as Gezhi Huibian is then analysed, and conclusions drawn about the nature of 3 popular interest in science in this period. The intellectual impact of Western science in the last decade of the century is considered, especially the effects on the thinking of Tan Sitong and Kang Youwei. Finally, general conclusions are elaborated and the significance of the transmission is assessed.
The Role of Structural Variation in Adaptation during Invasion
Creators: name: WILSON, JONATHAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310405
subject: Evolutionary ecology
classificationCode: 310510
subject: Molecular evolution
classificationCode: 310403
subject: Biological adaptation
classificationCode: 310509
subject: Genomics

description: While many people think of evolution as a long term process, invasive species can evolve within their new habitats on a scale observable within human lifetimes. However, the genetic processes governing this evolution is still unclear. Throughout this thesis, I used both historic and modern sequences from populations of the noxious common ragweed to uncover and examine the large and powerful genetic agents involved in its recent evolution.
title: The Language of Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach.
Creators: name: Tanaka, Keiko
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1989

description: The language used in advertising has been the subject of studies in different diciplines, but surprisingly little has been done in linguistics. The main purpose of my study is to give an adequate analysis of the language of written advertising in the U.K. and in Japan, within the framework of pragmatics, and to explain how communication occurs between the advertiser and audience. I consider what communication is and how it is achieved, and investigate aspects of communication prominent in the language of advertising. The first chapter is a survey of the literature, covering structuralist, semiotic and linguistic aproaches to the language of advertising. The second chapter is a discussion of pragmatic theories. It is argued that Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986a) provides the best basis for explaining the comprehension of utterances, including advertising. A study of puns forms the subject of the third chapter. As a trigger for processing which does not necessarily add to the informative content of an utterance, puns provide a potential problem for Relevance Theory. But I argue that Relevance Theory sheds light on the variety of ways in which puns function in advertising. In the fourth chapter, I investigate another potential problem for Relevance Theory, posed by the language of advertising, that of partial suppression of the speaker's intentions. The fifth chapter focuses on the projection of the image of women in advertising.
Prevalence of alcoholic beverage consumption among a population with a history of methanol poisoning in the southeast of Iran
Creators: name: Ghaffarian-Bahraman, Ali
name: Fard, Alireza Taheri
name: Mohammadi, Fatemeh Doost
name: Ahmadinia, Hassan
name: Shekari, Neda
name: Karimi, Mohammad Javad Ranjbar
name: Khanjari, Ali
name: Nosratabadi, Faezeh
name: Rezaeian, Mohsen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: The use of alcoholic substances in adults is often associated with a wide variety of negative consequences. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of alcoholic beverage consumption in a population with a history of methanol poisoning in the southeast of Iran. A total of 876 individuals were interviewed using a cross-sectional survey between 2020 and 2021. We used two methods of asking direct questions (ADQ) and network scale-up (NSU) for estimating the prevalence of alcoholic beverage consumption. The mean age of the participants was 41.07 ± 14.52; 46% were female. Based on the method of ADQ, the prevalence of alcoholic beverage consumption was 22.2% (95% confidence interval (CI): 18.45–25.95%) and 4.4% (95% CI: 2.24–6.16%) among men and women, respectively. While these values for the NSU method were 26.53% (95% CI: 19.93–35.88%) and 8.31% (95% CI: 6.32–10.58%) among men and women, respectively. Our results show that asking direct questions about illegal behavior can provide a lower estimate than indirect questioning approaches. Due to the high prevalence of alcoholic beverage consumption in men, this issue may increase the risk of unintentional poisoning by methanol in this area.
title: The Assimilation of Loan Words in Masalit.
Creators: name: Edgar, John Tees
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1988

description: "The assimilation of loan words in Masalit" This is a study of the assimilation patterns and processes of Arabic words adopted into the Masalit language. The Masalit, a settled people numbering between one and two hundred thousand, live in Dar Masalit, the western district of Dar Fur, Sudan and in eastern Wadai, Chad. Most are peasant farmers, growing millet as their staple food and keeping goats, sheep and occasionally cows. Their language belongs to the Maba group (belonging to Greenberg's postulated Nilo-Saharan phylum. Many Masalit are bilingual in Masalit and Colloquial Arabic, some do not speak Masalit at all. There is a growing monolingual arabophone population in the region. All of the peoples of Dar Masalit are at least nominally Muslim. Chapter 1: The history of the land of the Masalit is surveyed briefly insofar as it is relevant to the influence of Arabic on Masalit. Chapters 2 and 3: The state of the Arabic language in the land of the Masalit is discussed, the phonologies of classical and colloquial Arabic and Masalit are laid out and Masalit morphology relevant to the processes of loan-word assimilation is described, followed by a description of the methodology involved. Chapter 4: Arabic-Masalit phonetic changes are noted as are additions of Masalit suffixes;adoptives into the verbal system are fewer and are treated separately. Very much fewer of the putative loans are in the 'indirect' category; putative loans via Fur, Fulfulde, Kanuri, Hausa and Maba (a cognate language of Masalit) are suggested and examined. Problematic items and lexemes which have wide spreads of reflexes and 'look-alikes' in the region are also examined, followed by some putative morphological adoptions. The semantic maintenance and change of loan words is catalogued and analyzed.
Certified randomness in tight space
Creators: name: Fyrillas, Andreas
name: Bourdoncle, Boris
name: Maïnos, Alexandre
name: Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel
name: Start, Kayleigh
name: Margaria, Nico
name: Morassi, Martina
name: Lemaître, Aristide
name: Sagnes, Isabelle
name: Stepanov, Petr
name: Au, Thi Huong
name: Boissier, Sébastien
name: Somaschi, Niccolo
name: Maring, Nicolas
name: Belabas, Nadia
name: Mansfield, Shane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reliable randomness is a core ingredient in algorithms and applications ranging from numerical simulations to statistical sampling and cryptography. The outcomes of measurements on entangled quantum states can violate Bell inequalities, thus guaranteeing their intrinsic randomness. This constitutes the basis for certified randomness generation. However, this certification requires spacelike separated devices, making it unfit for a compact apparatus. Here we provide a general method for certified randomness generation on a small-scale application-ready device and perform an integrated photonic demonstration combining a solid-state emitter and a glass chip. In contrast to most existing certification protocols, which in the absence of spacelike separation are vulnerable to loopholes inherent to realistic devices, the protocol we implement accounts for information leakage and is thus compatible with emerging compact scalable devices. We demonstrate a 2-qubit photonic device that achieves the highest standard in randomness yet is cut out for real-world applications. The full 94.5-hour-long stabilized process harnesses a bright and stable single-photon quantum-dot based source, feeding into a reconfigurable photonic chip, with stability in the milliradian range on the implemented phases and consistent indistinguishability of the entangled photons above 93%. Using the contextuality framework, we certify private randomness generation and achieve a rate compatible with randomness expansion secure against quantum adversaries.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures. Improved manuscript, close to published version
21741_Appendix_2 – Supplemental material for Exercise Behaviors and Health Conditions of Runners After Childbirth
Creators: name: Liga Blyholder
name: Chumanov, Elizabeth
name: Carr, Kathleen
name: Heiderscheit, Bryan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental material, 21741_Appendix_2 for Exercise Behaviors and Health Conditions of Runners After Childbirth by Liga Blyholder, Elizabeth Chumanov, Kathleen Carr and Bryan Heiderscheit in Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach
title: The Development of Government Policy Concerning Africans on Private Estates in Nyasaland, With Particular Reference to the Period 1946-1964.
Creators: name: Baker, Colin Arthur
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1991

description: This thesis attempts to explain the role of Government policy between 1946 and 1964 in removing the dangers of discontent concerning Africans on private estates in Nyasaland. Introductory chapters outline the geographical and political environment, the original land alienation, the problem of Africans on private estates and attempted solutions, 1900-1945, against a background of rising labour demand, population pressure and discontent. Chapter III covers the 1946 Abrahams Report which emphasised the political threat and recommended purchasing private land for resettlement from estates and trust land, and the 1947 Land Planning Committee Report which found serious flaws in Abrahams' recommendations preventing their full implementation, publicly recommended acquiring blocks of land in Cholo and confidentially recommended negotiating with the London Board for acquiring large areas of British Central Africa Company land. Chapters IV-VI show how the new Governor in 1948 determined to acquire extensive areas not intended for early development, additional to those recommended earlier, concentrating on the BCA Company because of the political dangers. Early areas purchased did little to relieve overcrowding and discontent in the crucial Cholo area. Using the 1953 disturbances, he secured British policy agreement to progressive abolition of tangata and African resttlement by purchasing estate land not scheduled for early development, and he secured BCA Company agreement to negotiate acquisition of their Cholo land. Chapters VII and VIII deal with the steps taken eventually to acquire 50,000 acres of BCA Company land and with resettlement, 1955-1957. Disturbed political conditions halted this progress. The African Government in 1961 amended the law thereby inducing further sales, and in 1964 announced the end of resettlement acquisitions. The Conclusion emphasises the racial conflict inherent in the problem of Africans on private estates, and summarises the steps taken to remove it before it could be disastrously used in the final assualt on colonial rule.
title: Competing Identities: The Problem of What to Wear in Late Colonial and Contemporary India.
Creators: name: Tarlo, Emma
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1992

description: This thesis examines the importance of dress in India. It focuses less on the material artefact than on the use of clothes in the construction of social and political identity. Scholars often stress the rigidity of the clothing system in India where identity appears neatly prescribed by caste and tradition. Challenging this view, I suggest that clothes are often a highly controversial issue. In Chapter 1, I define my approach as an examination of the problem of what to wear. This provides a dynamic model with which to address questions of local and national sartorial identity. Each chapter that follows is an exploration of the problem as faced by different people in various circumstances. Chapters 2-4 focus mainly on questions of national identity through a discussion of the clothing controversies of Indian men in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These are analysed within the context of British Imperialism and the Indian struggle for Independence. Chapters 5-8 concentrate primarily on contemporary clothing issues concerning women's dress in a Gujarati village. Here the clothing choices of individuals and groups are discussed in relation to such factors as caste, education, urbanisation and ideas of female modesty. Questions of local and national identity are brought together in Chapter 9 where I examine the development of contemporary "ethnic" fashions in an urban village in Delhi where members of the educated elite are returning to the clothes that rural women are rejecting. Finally I demonstrate how all of the sartorial trends discussed in this thesis are part of a long-term cultural debate concerning Indian identity which is played out at a variety of levels from the village to the nation. By incorporating the attitudes of people both to their own clothes and to the clothes of others, I hope to have created a new dynamic model with which anthropologists can approach the complexity of the relationship between clothing and identity.
Artificial Intelligence Model for Tumoral Clinical Decision Support Systems
Creators: name: Iglesias, Guillermo
name: Talavera, Edgar
name: Garcìa, Jesús Troya
name: Díaz-Álvarez, Alberto
name: Gracía-Remesal, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Comparative diagnostic in brain tumor evaluation makes possible to use the available information of a medical center to compare similar cases when a new patient is evaluated. By leveraging Artificial Intelligence models, the proposed system is able of retrieving the most similar cases of brain tumors for a given query. The primary objective is to enhance the diagnostic process by generating more accurate representations of medical images, with a particular focus on patient-specific normal features and pathologies. The proposed model uses Artificial Intelligence to detect patient features to recommend the most similar cases from a database. The system not only suggests similar cases but also balances the representation of healthy and abnormal features in its design. This not only encourages the generalization of its use but also aids clinicians in their decision-making processes. We conducted a comparative analysis of our approach in relation to similar studies. The proposed architecture obtains a Dice coefficient of 0.474 in both tumoral and healthy regions of the patients, which outperforms previous literature. Our proposed model excels at extracting and combining anatomical and pathological features from brain \glspl{mr}, achieving state-of-the-art results while relying on less expensive label information. This substantially reduces the overall cost of the training process. This paper provides substantial grounds for further exploration of the broader applicability and optimization of the proposed architecture to enhance clinical decision-making. The novel approach presented in this work marks a significant advancement in the field of medical diagnosis, particularly in the context of Artificial Intelligence-assisted image retrieval, and promises to reduce costs and improve the quality of patient care using Artificial Intelligence as a support tool instead of a black box system.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
Criminal Territories: A Corporate Discourse of Gunshot Detection on the Urban Frontier
Creators: name: Rossi, Matthew Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: surveillance
subject: precision policing
subject: ShotSpotter
subject: frontiers
subject: crime
subject: policing
subject: security
subject: inequality

description: This paper investigates narratives of crime and policing in the public-facing discourse of ShotSpotter Inc., a growing security technologies company specializing in acoustic gunshot detection systems. Based on ethnographic observation of ShotSpotter's shareholder calls and prospective client webinars, I argue that the company's framing of criminality reproduces familiar frames of civilization and savagery. Yet this frame is assimilated into a model and language of "precision policing" in which the rationality of technoscience is claimed to preclude the excessive use of force. Examining ShotSpotter's peculiar geo-epistemology of gun crime and the logic of territory, I advance that technoscientific assemblages in this context do not obviate state violence; they obscure it.
title: A Survey of Modern Painting in the Islamic World and the Development of the Contemporary Calligraphic School.
Creators: name: Ali, Wijdan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1993

description: The first part of the thesis deals with the development of modern painting in the Islamic world according to Western concepts and styles. It traces the inception of Western aesthetics from the 19th century onwards and touches on the political, social and economic determinants that aided their introduction in the following countries: Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Sudan, and the Arabian Peninsula. The second part of the thesis analyzes the movements which sought to establish a modem art style in the Islamic world that would confirm a national artistic identity. It follows the different art movements which undertook this quest that eventually led to the development of the contemporary Calligraphic School of Art. It discloses the factors and artists which induced its inception. It establishes the main styles and various branches of the modem Calligraphic School of Art, including in-depth analysis and critique of each style, sub-style and its adherents. The placement of the Calligraphic School within the scope of international art is also mooted. The thesis ends by establishing a continuity between traditional Islamic art and the contemporary calligraphic school of art in the Islamic world.
Supplement_material – Supplemental material for “Good Social Media?”: Underrepresented Youth Perspectives on the Ethical and Equitable Design of Social Media Platforms
Creators: name: Brough, Melissa
name: Literat, Ioana
name: Ikin, Amanda
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_material for “Good Social Media?”: Underrepresented Youth Perspectives on the Ethical and Equitable Design of Social Media Platforms by Melissa Brough, Ioana Literat and Amanda Ikin in Social Media + Society
title: Agriculture in the Guan Zhong Area of China From the Late Warring States to the End of Western Han.
Creators: name: Lu, Randy Jean
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1991

description: The goal of my research was to depict the state of agriculture in the Guan Zhong area of China from approximately the mid-third century through the mid-first century B.C. Various kinds of source materials, most of which have an implicit or explicit relationship to the Guan Zhong area enabled me to research different aspects of contemporary agriculture. These included the administration of agriculture, agricultural dwelling places and other buildings, and agricultural activities. Available written materials provided valuable information on the farmers' obligations to the government and government attempts to promote agricultural production via government policies and designated officials. They also contained many references to how and when agricultural activities were conducted. Information on the farmers' dwelling places and surroundings, as well as some of the activities in which they engaged, was obtained from Han tomb models of farmhouses, farming machinery, and village sites. I concluded that it was possible to make an in-depth study of the state of agriculture during the Qin/Han period if one focused on the Guan Zhong region.
QJE-STD-19-138.R1-Supplementary_Material – Supplemental material for Listening to speech and non-speech sounds activates phonological and semantic knowledge differently
Creators: name: Bartolotti, James
name: Schroeder, Scott R
name: Hayakawa, Sayuri
name: Sirada Rochanavibhata
name: Peiyao Chen
name: Marian, Viorica
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, QJE-STD-19-138.R1-Supplementary_Material for Listening to speech and non-speech sounds activates phonological and semantic knowledge differently by James Bartolotti, Scott R Schroeder, Sayuri Hayakawa, Sirada Rochanavibhata, Peiyao Chen and Viorica Marian in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
title: British Land Policy in Oudh 1856-68.
Creators: name: Raj, Jagdish
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1957

description: In no part of India have political events played a more prominent part in changing the form of land tenures than they did in Oudh. Between 1856 and 1868 the whole province was thrown into controversy over this issue. Decisions reached in those years continued to affect the life of the province for many years thereafter, so that to understand the discontent among the cultivating classes of Oudh in the beginning of the twentieth century, it is necessary to look back to 1856. In the first chapter of this thesis, the condition of the landowning classes and the cultivators under the Nawabs of Oudh is described. The measures of Lord Dalhousie were designed to correct what he saw to be wrong. In the second chapter, Dalhousie*s settlement on the village system, and its overthrow after the Mutiny by Canning, are described, and the justification of this reversal of policy is discussed. The problems arising from Canning's taluqdari settlement form the subject matter of the rest of the thesis. One main issue was the rights of subordinate proprietors, whose position is discussed in Chapter III. While Canning and Wood sought to protect such rights, the Chief Commissioner, Wingfield, opposed their recognition. Only when Lawrence arrived as Governor-General did Wingfield abandon his extreme position. An account of the settlement which resolved this conflict concludes the chapter, A second question, that of occupancy rights, is the subject of Chapter IV. Wingfield's refusal to acknowledge such rights forms the main theme. In Chapter V is described the Enquiry into the existence of such rights, ordered by Lawrence. The compromise reached as a result of that enquiry, and the tenancy legislation of 1868 which gave effect to it, provide the theme for the sixth and last chapter.
Diclofenac-SupplementaryTable_1 – Supplemental material for Diclofenac reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a pilot analysis of NSAIDs in two US veteran populations
Creators: name: Stuve, Olaf
name: Weideman, Rick A.
name: McMahan, Danni M.
name: Jacob, David A.
name: Bertis B. Little
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Diclofenac-SupplementaryTable_1 for Diclofenac reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a pilot analysis of NSAIDs in two US veteran populations by Olaf Stuve, Rick A. Weideman, Danni M. McMahan, David A. Jacob and Bertis B. Little in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
title: Organisation and Procedure of Shari'a Courts in Northern Nigeria.
Creators: name: Kumo, Sulaiman
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1972

description: This thesis deals with Islamic Law of Civil Procedure, according to the Maliki School, which applies in those "area courts" in the northern states of Nigeria whose "native law" is the Shari'a. These courts have been called in the thesis the Shari'a courts of Northern Nigeria. The thesis is divided into six chapters, with the conclusion as the seventh chapter. Chapter I is an introductory chapter which gives a historical sketch, the constitutional background and the framework of the legal system within which the Shari'a courts exist and function. Chapter II deals with the arena of the courts - their establishment, staff, sessions and the question of venue. Parties to litigation are discussed in Chapter III while Chapter IV considers pleadings. In Chapter V the actual trial procedure and the mode of proof are considered and the issue of conflict between the Shari'a rules on these on the one hand and the practical needs of modern litigation on the other is also tackled. Chapter VI deals with general matters of civil litigation: sulh, arbitration, execution of judgements, injuctions, time bar, costs, and appeals. In the thesis generally, both the Shari'a rules and the statutory enactments governing the topics have been considered and in the conclusion the possibility of codifying the Shari'a rules and integrating them within a unified code of civil procedure governing all native courts has been considered and my conclusion is that this is both possible and desirable.
Supplemental_Material_Translated_Abstracts – Supplemental material for On the design and validation of a rubric for the evaluation of performance in a musical contest
Creators: name: Álvarez-Díaz, Marcos
name: Muñiz-Bascón, Luis Magín
name: Soria-Alemany, Antonio
name: Veintimilla-Bonet, Alberto
name: Fernández-Alonso, Rubén
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material_Translated_Abstracts for On the design and validation of a rubric for the evaluation of performance in a musical contest by Marcos Álvarez-Díaz, Luis Magín Muñiz-Bascón, Antonio Soria-Alemany, Alberto Veintimilla-Bonet and Rubén Fernández-Alonso in International Journal of Music Education
An equivariant generalisation of McDuff-Segal's group-completion theorem
Creators: name: Hilman, Kaif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this short note, we prove a G-equivariant generalisation of McDuff-Segal's group-completion theorem for finite groups G. A new complication regarding genuine equivariant localisations arises and we resolve this by isolating a simple condition on the homotopy groups of E-infinity-rings in G-spectra. We check that this condition is satisfied when our inputs are a suitable variant of E-infinity-monoids in G-spaces via the existence of multiplicative norm structures, thus giving a localisation formula for their associated G-spherical group rings.
description: 21 pages; v2 final accepted version, minor corrections, significant expositional improvements, included a new technical appendix
title: Trade and Commercial Organisation in Bengal, With Special Reference to the English East India Company, 1650-1720.
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Susil
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1969

description: The main emphasis of this study is on the economic activities of the English East India Company in Bengal from about 1650 to 1720. The Company's trade in Bengal at the beginning of this period was not very important quantitatively. But the main significance of the Bengal trade in the commercial complex of the Company was that it was an expanding trade which soon exceeded the Company's trade either in Madras or Surat. This development was a natural outcome of the growing demand in England and on the Continent for cheap Bengal products. The Company's trade in Bengal was plagued throughout the period by several factors, of which the two most important were the chronic shortage of liquid capital, and the exactions by local potentates who often challenged the Company's alleged freedom of customs-free trade. The problem of inadequate capital was further accentuated by the poor demand for the English manufactures in Bengal. However, the enormous increase in the export, trade of the Company during the period indicates that it was successful in dealing with all these three problems. The internal organisation of the Company's trade in Bengal depended on the indigenous merchants, and inspite of the close connection between these merchants and the Company, the former succeeded in maintaining their independent credit and influence. The specialised activities of a class of merchants, and the refinement and development of the existing machinery for credit and exchange indicate that merchant capital and commercial organisations were capable of quite sophisticated operations in Bengal. In the internal economy of Bengal, the activities of the European Companies gave an impetus to production and led to certain commercial and industrial innovations. But despite the increase in the production of export commodities, the condition of the actual producers, weavers in particular, probably remained unchanged and poor. The only class which profited from the increasing trade, it seems, was the merchant-middlemen. Though the expanding export, trade brought in its train a large import of bullion and specie to Bengal, it had hardly any impact on the price level. Most of this treasure was drained towards upcountry by the local potentates and the big merchants.
QJE-STD-19-396.R2-Supplementary_Materials – Supplemental material for Literacy skill and intra-individual variability in eye-fixation durations during reading: Evidence from a diverse community-based adult sample
Creators: name: Payne, Brennan R
name: Federmeier, Kara D
name: Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth AL
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, QJE-STD-19-396.R2-Supplementary_Materials for Literacy skill and intra-individual variability in eye-fixation durations during reading: Evidence from a diverse community-based adult sample by Brennan R Payne, Kara D Federmeier and Elizabeth AL Stine-Morrow in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
title: The Amending Process in the Indian Constitution.
Creators: name: Chand, Hari
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1969

description: As the title of the thesis suggests, we have attempted to study the process of amendment of the Constitution of India in its various aspects. To start with, in the First Chapter, the importance of the topic has been brought out. The Second Chapter traces the history of the amending procedure as provided in the Imperial Acts relating to the governance of India from 1600 to 1950. In the succeeding three Chapters (Chapters III, IV, and V), the amending procedure provided in the present Constitution has been explained and critically examined. The Sixth Chapter has been devoted to discuss the power-procedure controversy: whether Article 368 (the amending provision in the Constitution ) contains only "procedure" or "procedure" as well as "power" to amend the Constitution. Besides this, the alleged express or implied limitations to the power of amendment have also been considered therein. Then the highly intricate issue, namely, whether Part III of the Constitution containing the Fundamental Rights is amendable by Parliament so as to take away or abridge the rights, has been tackled in Chapter VII. Along with this Mr. Nath Pai's Bill pending in the Lok Sabha (Bill No. 10-B of 1967) has been discussed. In Chapter VIII, all the amendments made to the Constitution of India have been reviewed with a special emphasis on the procedure adopted in enacting them. The propriety or otherwise of these amendments has been also discussed. The main conclusions reached in our study have been expressed in the last Chapter.
sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X20935171 - Supplemental material for Regional hyperperfusion in older adults with objectively-defined subtle cognitive decline
Creators: name: Thomas, Kelsey R
name: Osuna, Jessica R
name: Weigand, Alexandra J
name: Edmonds, Emily C
name: Clark, Alexandra L
name: Holmqvist, Sophia
name: Cota, Isabel H
name: Wierenga, Christina E
name: Bondi, Mark W
name: Bangen, Katherine J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 110320 Radiology and Organ Imaging
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X20935171 for Regional hyperperfusion in older adults with objectively-defined subtle cognitive decline by Kelsey R Thomas, Jessica R Osuna, Alexandra J Weigand, Emily C Edmonds, Alexandra L Clark, Sophia Holmqvist, Isabel H Cota, Christina E Wierenga, Mark W Bondi and Katherine J Bangen for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
title: British Famine and Agricultural Policies in India, With Special Reference to the Administration of Lord George Hamilton, 1895-1903.
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Premansukumar
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1969

description: During the last decade of the nineteenth century India was subject to severe agricultural depression. She was hit by the two worst famines of the century, first in 1896-7 during Elgin's vice-royalty (1894-8) then in 1899-1900 during Curzon's (1899-1905). On both occasions government policy was dominated by concern for economy in relief expenditure and heavy mortality occurred. In the former famine Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, proposed some liberal measures and secured financial assistance from the Imperial Treasury for famine relief. But Elgin rejected such assistance. In the latter famine Hamilton's policy was illiberal and he prevented Curzon from seeking an Imperial grant. Hamilton did this because the Imperial Treasury was then hardpressed by wars in China and South Africa. The occurrence of these famines raised the question of the application of the Famine Insurance Fund which was popularly alleged to have been largely misappropriated by the government since its creation in 1877-8. The allegation was ad-mitted by Curzon and Hamilton but their attempts to reorganise the Fund for its proper use were frustrated by the opposition of the Council of India. Loved by the chronic economic distress in India and disappointed at the Government of India's failure to redress it, a group of liberal-minded Englishmen formed an Indian Famine Union in England and urged the India Office aid the Government of India to under-take measures to improve Indian agriculture and the economic condition of the masses. But this produced no effect another group, of retired Anglo-Indian officials together with R.C. Dutt, appealed to the government to reduce the land tax in India where it was excessive. The Government of India refused to do that but passed some remedial agrarian legislation which, however, failed to provide relief to the impoverished masses.