cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Glyphidrilus Horst 1889
Creators: name: Shen, Huei-Ping
name: Yeo, Darren C. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Almidae
Glyphidrilus

description: Glyphidrilus Horst
 Remarks. – Gates (1972) stated that glyphidrile earthworms dwell in habitats saturated with fresh water, and no species of Glyphidrilus is known to be anthropochorous. Only 16 nominal species and one anonymous species, Glyphidrilus sp. (Gates, 1938), have been reported for this genus. All the Glyphidrilus species are found in South or Southeast Asia except for one species in Africa. Of these, Glyphidrilus malayanus (Michaelsen, 1902) and the anonymous Glyphidrilus sp. (Gates, 1938) are from the Malay Peninsula, and Glyphidrilus horsti (Stephenson, 1930) is from Pulau Berhala, Straits of Malacca.
 Because the internal characters of the Glyphidrilus species tend to be conservative, locations of wings and clitellum, and position and arrangement of genital papillae are characters often used for species distinction (Michaelsen, 1910; Gates, 1958). However, Gates (1972) regarded external genital characters as being subject to considerable individual variation so that their systematic usefulness is doubtful, and considered that more attention should be paid to somatic anatomy. Although Gates (1972) adopted digestive and vascular systems as the important diagnostic characters, the positions of genital markings and wings remained as important characters for species identification.
 The Glyphidrilus specimens from Peninsular Malaysia in the ZRC (ZRC 1974.12.2.51-62), previously described by Gates (1938) as Glyphidrilus sp., are identified as a new species in this study. The present study also includes one new species, one new record, and four unidentifiable aclitellate specimens of Glyphidrilus from Singapore.
description: Published as part of Shen, Huei-Ping & Yeo, Darren C. J., 2005, Terrestrial Earthworms (Oligochaeta) From Singapore, pp. 13-33 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244835
Activation of Estrogen Response Element-independent ERα signaling protects female mice from diet-induced obesity
Creators: name: Yasrebi, Ali
name: Rivera, Janelle
name: Krumm, Elizabeth A.
name: Yang, Jennifer A.
name: Roepke, Troy A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cytokine
Signal transduction
Gene expression
Estrogen
Glucose
Diet
Response elements
Liver
Mice
Obesity
Genes
Insulin

description: 17β-estradiol (E2) regulates central and peripheral mechanisms that control energy and glucose homeostasis predominantly through estrogen receptor α (ERα) acting via receptor binding to estrogen response elements (ERE). ERα signaling is also involved in mediating the effects of E2 on diet-induced obesity (DIO), although the roles of ERE-dependent and -independent ERα signaling in ameliorating the effects of DIO remain largely unknown. We hypothesize that ERE-dependent ERα signaling is necessary to ameliorate the effects of DIO. We addressed this question using ERαKO (KO) and ERαKIKO (KIKO) female mice; the latter expressing an ERα that lacks a functional ERE binding domain. Females were ovariectomized, fed low-fat (LFD) or high-fat (HFD) diet, and orally dosed with vehicle or estradiol benzoate (EB, 300 μg/kg). After 9 weeks, body composition, glucose and insulin tolerance, peptide hormone and inflammatory cytokine levels, and hypothalamic arcuate nucleus and liver gene expression were assessed. EB reduced body weight and body fat in WT, regardless of diet, and in HFD-fed KIKO, in part by reducing energy intake and feeding efficiency. EB reduced fasting glucose levels in KIKO mice fed both diets but augmented glucose tolerance only in HFD-fed KIKO. Plasma insulin and IL-6 were elevated in KIKO and KO compared to WT on a LFD. Expression of arcuate neuropeptide and receptor genes and liver fatty acid biosynthesis genes was altered by HFD and by EB through ERE-dependent and -independent mechanisms. Therefore, ERE-independent signaling mechanisms in both the brain and peripheral organs mediate, in part, the effects of E2 during DIO.
Response to Lawrence DJ: the global summit on the efficacy and effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy for the prevention and treatment of non-musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review of the literature
Creators: name: Côté, Pierre
name: Hartvigsen, Jan
name: Axén, Iben
name: Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte
name: Corso, Melissa
name: Shearer, Heather
name: Wong, Jessica
name: Marchand, Andrée-Anne
name: Cassidy, J. D.
name: French, Simon
name: Kawchuk, Gregory N.
name: Mior, Silvano
name: Poulsen, Erik
name: Srbely, John
name: Ammendolia, Carlo
name: Blanchette, Marc-André
name: Busse, Jason W.
name: Bussières, André
name: Cancelliere, Carolina
name: Christensen, Henrik W.
name: De Carvalho, Diana
name: De Luca, Katie
name: Rose, Alister D.
name: Eklund, Andreas
name: Engel, Roger
name: Goncalves, Guillaume
name: Hebert, Jeffrey
name: Hincapié, Cesar A.
name: Hondras, Maria
name: Kimpton, Amanda
name: Lauridsen, Henrik H.
name: Innes, Stanley
name: Meyer, Anne-Laure
name: Newell, David
name: O’Neill, Søren
name: Pagé, Isabelle
name: Passmore, Steven
name: Perle, Stephen M.
name: Quon, Jeffrey
name: Rezai, Mana
name: Stupar, Maja
name: Swain, Michael
name: Vitiello, Andrew
name: Weber, Kenneth
name: Young, Kenneth J.
name: Yu, Hainan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: In summary, the statements made by Lawrence about our methodology are incorrect and ill informed. While we thank Lawrence for his interest in our work, his statements about our methodology are in our opinion misconstrued and hence not appropriate.
Rose Galaida and the Central China Relief Records, 1946: Discovery, Investigation, and Implications
Creators: name: Yang, Tao
Publisher: name: Council on East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies
Year: 2011
Subjects: UNRRA
World War II
World War, 1939-1945
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
China

description: The materials in the Central China Relief Records (CCRR) collection provide a window to the experiences of Rose Galaida in Hubei. The collection consists of about 100 documents totaling over 300 pages (excluding duplicate copies) and 5 photographs.
Case Lucy – Case study of a teenager with learning difficulties Version 0.1
Creators: name: Lutz, Stephanie
name: Durner, Natalie
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: case study, learning difficulties, case-by-case framework for educational assessment, protective factors, risk factors, special education, inclusive education, problem-based learning (PBL)
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: The case Lucy is a realistic case study developed by experts in the field of special educational and inclusive practice. The realistic but fictitious case study may be used in teacher training. It has been published in German and English as an alterable work with Open Access.
As an additional instrument, the case-by-case framework for educational assessment (Lutz, 2023) may be utilized to illustrate protective and risk factors in a structured manner regarding the case and its setting.
Happiness Research for Public Policy and Administration
Creators: name: Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam
Publisher: name: Emerald
Year: 2018
Subjects: Happiness
Subject wellbeing
Well-being
Life satisfaction
Public Policy
Public Administration

description: Purpose–The purpose of this viewpoint is to introduce happiness research for public policy and administration scholars and practitioners. It focuses on what can be useful for the discipline, provides relevant examples, and presents the most recent findings and directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach–A combination of literature review, argumentation, and illustrations. Findings–Over past few decades, there has been a tremendous growth in happiness research, and over past few years this research has started addressing policy issues such as housing, transportation, and inequality. Strikingly, public policy and administration discipline has failed to notice these developments. Happiness research has great potential, and can be used in many theoretical and practical ways to advance the common good. Originality/value–Happiness is extremely important and useful for public policy and administration and yet largely overlooked in the discipline. Existing literature reviews are not written with the discipline in mind, and this viewpoint is aimed at filling this gap. Keywords–Public Policy, Public Administration, Happiness, Subjective Wellbeing, Life Satisfaction Paper Type–Viewpoint
Glyphidrilus horsti Stephenson 1930
Creators: name: Shen, Huei-Ping
name: Yeo, Darren C. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Almidae
Glyphidrilus
Glyphidrilus horsti

description: Glyphidrilus horsti Stephenson, 1930
(Fig. 2)
 Glyphidrilus horsti Stephenson, 1930: 4; 1931: 262.
 Material examined. – 1 mature (clitellate) specimen (amputated and half-broken between segment 46/47, dissected) and 2 not fully matured specimens (1 amputated)(ZRC), Turut Track, Kranji Wireless Station, coll. K. K. P. Lim, D. C. J. Yeo & K. L. Yeo, 7 Mar.2003.
 Description. – Length for amputated, dissected specimen 47.7 mm, and for the other two specimens 34.9 mm (amputated) and 53.3 mm. Wing width 2.1-3.3 mm. Segments numbering 125-232. Prostomium zygolobous. Dorsal pores absent. Clitellum from XVIII, 1/2XVIII or XIX to XXIX, XXX or 1/2 XXXI. Wings lateral to b, XXIII-XXVIII. Setae paired, preclitellum: aa = 2.6ab, bc = 2.5cd, aa = 0.78dd; postclitellum: aa = 3.2ab, bc = 2.2cd, aa = dd. Genital papillae present only for the dissected specimen, postsetal, lateral to or in line with b, asymmetrical on XVIII and XIX, paired on XXII and XXIX. No median papillae (Fig. 2). Each papilla small, round, vague, about 0.2 mm in diameter. Male pores, female pores, and spermathecal pores not visible. Preserved specimens pale grey.
Gizzard in VIII. Intestine enlarged from XV. Hearts VIII-XI. Nephridia holoic. Seminal vesicles in IX-XII, small, vestigial, last pair larger. Prostate and accessory glands absent. Spermathecae sessile, globular, transparent, underdeveloped, about 0.3 mm in diameter, two on each side per segment in XIV-XVII.
  Remarks. – Glyphidrilus horsti  from Pulau Berhala has clitellum in XVII-XXVIII, wings in 1/2XXIII-XXVII and the presence of median papillae (Stephenson, 1930). The specimens collected from Singapore in this study were slightly different from the original description by the positions of clitellum and wings one or two segments behind, and absence of median papilla. The differences might be considered as individual or geographical variation.
description: Published as part of Shen, Huei-Ping & Yeo, Darren C. J., 2005, Terrestrial Earthworms (Oligochaeta) From Singapore, pp. 13-33 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244835
From Early Cretaceous Inheritance to Active Tectonics: The Potential of Seismic Reactivation of Faults shaping the Northern Chilean Forearc [Dataset]
Creators: name: Vega-Ruiz, Ambrosio
name: Victor, Pia
name: Witte, Jan
name: Le Breton, Eline
name: Binnie, Ariane
name: Reicherter, Klaus
name: Binnie, S.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370403
subject: Geoscience data visualisation
classificationCode: 370511
subject: Structural geology and tectonics

description: This data is the supplementary material to "From Early Cretaceous Inheritance to Active Tectonics: The Potential of Seismic Reactivation of Faults shaping the Northern Chilean Forearc" submitted to Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.Mature subduction margins commonly feature uplifted coastal ranges adjacent to forearc basins filled with arc-derived sediments. The boundary between these morphostructural units, positioned above the plate interface, links its evolution to subduction processes over multiple seismic cycles. However, the role of inherited fault structures and their reactivation potential is often overlooked due to limited seismic subsurface imaging.Here, we investigate the tectonic architecture of the Northern Chile forearc (~19.5°S) and its impact on the long-term evolution of the Coastal Cordillera–Central Depression boundary. A reprocessed W–E seismic line, new structural data, and field observations allowed us to interpret the seismostratigraphic evolution of faults and folds and construct a balanced cross-section for kinematic modelling.
Plant health projects webinar presentations on the way forward for plant protection in Europe
Creators: name: Tamm, Lucius
name: Vasudevan, Kumar
name: Vontas, John
name: Saldarelli, Pasquale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: On 4 March 2025, VIRTIGATION and its plant health sister projects SAGROPIA, BIOVEXO and NextGenBioPest organised a joint webinar on the future of plant protection in Europe. The webinar presentations of all 4 EU-funded projects are provided here.VIRTIGATION has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme under grant agreement No 101000570.
Extensions to the Franz, Inc.'s Allegro Common Lisp foreign function interface
Creators: name: Keane, John
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: As provided by Franz, Inc., the foreign function interface of Allegro Common Lisp has a number of limitations. This paper describes extensions to the interface that facilitate the inclusion of C and Fortran code into Common Lisp systems. In particular, these extensions make it easy to utilize libraries of numerical subroutines (such as those from Numerical Recipes in C) from within ACL, including those routines that take functions as arguments. A mechanism for creating Lisp-like dynamic runtime ``closures'' for C routines is also described.
title: The Past of an Illusion? Pluralistic Theories of European Law in Times of 'Crises'
Creators: name: Menéndez, Agustín José
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: European Union law
subject: constitutional theory
subject: legal theory
subject: European integration
subject: constitutional pluralism
subject: supremacy

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 623-658
description: I. Introduction. - II. Pluralistic constitutional pluralism? Disaggregating constitutional pluralism. - II.1. Strategic pluralism. - II.2. Pluralistic federalism. - II.3. Judicial pluralism. - II.4. Pluralistic pluralism or pluralistic federalism? - III. The empirical shock: the second and the third European transformations. - III.1. The second European transformation. - III.2. Unravelling pluralism. - III.3. Encore: the third European transformation. - IV. Reconsidering pluralistic federalism. - IV.1. A nuanced positive assessment of the impact of the second European transformation. - IV.2. The blind spots. - V. Conclusion: which and whose constitutional theory of European integration?
description: The deep transformation of the practice of European law calls for a systematic rethinking of the theories with the help of which European law is analysed, reconstructed and assessed. In this Article, I test the reconstructive potential and the normative soundness of constitutional pluralism as a constitutional theory to make sense of European integration. In Section II, I disaggregate the concept, by means of setting in their wider context the different conceptions of constitutional pluralism that had been advocated. In Section III, I show why the reconstructive potential of the most sophisticated version of constitutional pluralism, pluralistic federalism, has been drastically limited by the deep transformation of the practice of European law. In Section IV, I consider the limits of constitutional pluralism as a normative theory of European integration. The last section holds the conclusions.
Comparing options for females seeking permanent contraception in high resource countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Gormley, Rebecca
name: Vickers, Brian
name: Cheng, Brooke
name: Norman, Wendy V.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Multiple options for permanent or long-acting contraception are available, each with adverse efects and benefts. People seeking to end their fertility, and their healthcare providers, need a comprehensive comparison of methods to support their decision-making. Permanent contraceptive methods should be compared with long-acting methods that have similar efectiveness and lower anticipated adverse efects, such as the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine contraception (LNG-IUC). We aimed to understand the comparability of options for people seeking to end their fertility, using high-quality studies. We sought studies comparing laparoscopic tubal ligation, hysteroscopic tubal occlusion, bilateral salpingectomy, and insertion of the LNG-IUC, for efectiveness, adverse events, tolerability, patient recovery, non-contraceptive benefts, and healthcare system costs among females in high resource countries seeking to permanently avoid conception. Methods: We followed PRISMA guidelines, searched EMBASE, Pubmed (Medline), Web of Science, and screened retrieved articles to identify additional studies. We extracted data on population, interventions, outcomes, followup, health system costs, and study funding source. We used the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale to assess risk of bias and excluded studies with medium–high risk of bias (NOS<7). Due to considerable heterogeneity, we performed a narrative synthesis. Results: Our search identifed 6,612 articles. RG, BV, BC independently reviewed titles and abstracts for relevance. We reviewed the full text of 154 studies, yielding 34 studies which met inclusion criteria. We excluded 10 studies with medium–high risk of bias, retaining 24 in our synthesis. Most studies compared hysteroscopic tubal occlusion and/or laparoscopic tubal ligation. Most comparisons reported on efectiveness and adverse events; fewer reported tolerability, patient recovery, non-contraceptive benefts, and/or healthcare system costs. No comparisons reported accessibility, eligibility, or follow-up required. We found inconclusive evidence comparing the efectiveness of hysteroscopic tubal occlusion to laparoscopic tubal ligation. All studies reported adverse events. All forms of tubal interruption reported a protective efect against cancers. Tolerability appeared greater among tubal ligation patients compared to hysteroscopic tubal occlusion patients. No high-quality studies included the LNG-IUC. Conclusions: Studies are needed to directly compare surgical forms of permanent contraception, such as tubal ligation or removal, with alternative options, such as intrauterine contraception to support decision-making.
From Early Cretaceous Inheritance to Active Tectonics: The Potential of Seismic Reactivation of Faults shaping the Northern Chilean Forearc
Creators: name: Vega-Ruiz, Ambrosio
name: Victor, Pia
name: Witte, Jan
name: Le Breton, Eline
name: Binnie, Ariane
name: Reicherter, Klaus
name: Binnie, S.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370403
subject: Geoscience data visualisation
classificationCode: 370511
subject: Structural geology and tectonics

description: This data is the supplementary material to "From Early Cretaceous Inheritance to Active Tectonics: The Potential of Seismic Reactivation of Faults shaping the Northern Chilean Forearc" submitted to Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.Mature subduction margins commonly feature uplifted coastal ranges adjacent to forearc basins filled with arc-derived sediments. The boundary between these morphostructural units, positioned above the plate interface, links its evolution to subduction processes over multiple seismic cycles. However, the role of inherited fault structures and their reactivation potential is often overlooked due to limited seismic subsurface imaging.Here, we investigate the tectonic architecture of the Northern Chile forearc (~19.5°S) and its impact on the long-term evolution of the Coastal Cordillera–Central Depression boundary. A reprocessed W–E seismic line, new structural data, and field observations allowed us to interpret the seismostratigraphic evolution of faults and folds and construct a balanced cross-section for kinematic modelling.
title: Accounting for global value chains
title: rising global inequality in the wake of COVID-19?
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lahr, Michael L.
name: Ferriera, João-Pedro
name: Hewings, Geoffrey J.D.
name: Christa, Court D.
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2022
Subjects: coronavirus
covid-19
input-output analysis
WIOD
global inequality
value chains

description: Production processes depend on fragmented and interdependent value chains; nowadays, a single product often includes components produced in dozens of countries. Many public health measures being implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have dampened economic activity of ‘non-essential’ sectors. The decreased production affects other industries and countries that supply parts, machinery, and services via global value chains. Using the World Input-Output Database, we show how a hypothetical decline in the worldwide consumption of a set of non-essential sectors affects the global distribution of GDP and employment. While richer countries consume relatively more non-essential goods and services, we find, by considering the interdependencies among developed and developing economies, that low-income countries are likely to suffer steeper declines in their GDP and employment. Specifically, for each 1% decline in the demand for non-essential products, the GINI index across nations is expected to rise by 0.3%. That is, global inequality is likely to rise, contradicting some earlier findings. Finally, we show that economies with less-diverse sets of industries are more vulnerable to such global shocks. This study highlights the role of value chains in analyzing the spatial spread of the impacts and their contribution to amplifying world imbalances.
title: Social Integration in EU Law: Content, Limits and Functions of an Elusive Notion - Introduction
Creators: name: Costamagna, Francesco
name: Montaldo, Stefano
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: social integration
subject: rights
subject: internal market
subject: EU citizenship
subject: conditionality
subject: regular migrants

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 659-662
description: This Introduction guides the reader through the special section "Social Integration in EU Law: Contents, Limits and Functions of an Elusive Notion". The Authors underline the multi-faceted essence of this concept, which has both an integrative potential and a defensive function. Social integration is closely connected to the enjoyment of rights: the higher the degree of integration is, the more rights a person benefits from. However, the recent practice of the European institutions and the Member States reveal that a lack of integration can be a powerful tool for managing intra-EU mobility and migrations flows from third countries.
Environmentally sound bedbug management solutions
Creators: name: Wang, Changlu
name: Cooper, Richard
Publisher: name: CAB International
Year: 2011
Subjects: Bedbugs

description: Bedbugs have become a serious pest in urban communities throughout the world. They are proving to be one of the most challenging urban pests facing pest management professionals, largely owing to the lack of effective pesticides and a lack of public awareness that has enabled bedbugs to spread at alarming rates. Non-chemical techniques and tools, and integrated pest management strategies are gaining popularity as they impose less environmental impact than pesticide driven programmes. This chapter discusses the use of ‘low impact’ tools and methods. Also, a community-wide programme for effective bedbug management in society is explained.
Instrumente zur Reduzierung der Flächeninanspruchnahme
Creators: name: Adrian, Luise
name: Bock, Stephanie
name: Bunzel, Arno
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltiges Landmanagement
subject: Flächenverbrauch
subject: Innenentwicklung
subject: Flächenverbrauchsreduzierung
subject: Flächenpolitik
subject: Nachhaltiges Flächenmanagement
subject: Nachhaltigkeitsziele
subject: Flächenneuinanspruchnahme
subject: instrumente
subject: Flächensparen
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Verkehr

description: Bis zum Jahr 2030 soll der Flächenverbrauch bundesweit auf weniger als 30 Hektar pro Tag gesenkt werden. In dem Forschungsbericht werden Forschungsergebnisse, Praxiserfahrungen und politische Initiativen zum Flächensparen zusammengestellt und analysiert. Vorhandene aber auch neue Instrumente zur Reduzierung der Flächeninanspruchnahme aus den Bereichen Umweltrecht, Planungsrecht, Kooperation, Steuerrecht, Förderung und Subventionen sowie Öffentlichkeitsarbeit werden klassifiziert und bewertet. Aus den Erkenntnissen haben die Autoren einen an Bund und Länder adressierten Aktionsplan Flächensparen entwickelt. Mit ihm soll es möglich sein, die flächenpolitischen Ziele zu erreichen.
Drawida Michaelsen 1900
Creators: name: Shen, Huei-Ping
name: Yeo, Darren C. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Moniligastrida
Moniligastridae
Drawida

description: Drawida Michaelsen
  Remarks. – Drawida  is widely distributed in India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, China, Japan, Korea, and Manchuria (Gates, 1972). Three species, Drawida sp. A (sensu Gates, 1935, 1936a), Drawida sp. B (sensu Gates, 1936a) and Drawida malayana (Gates, 1938) (= Drawida sp. C sensu Gates, 1936a), were reported from the Malay Peninsula. However, only one species, D. malayana, was named, and the others were considered as anonymous species due to immaturity of the specimens (Gates, 1935, 1936a, 1938). In this study, none of the Drawida specimens collected from Singapore was fully matured, but they may be separated into the following three anonymous species.
description: Published as part of Shen, Huei-Ping & Yeo, Darren C. J., 2005, Terrestrial Earthworms (Oligochaeta) From Singapore, pp. 13-33 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244835
title: Perspectives for a New International Crime Against the Environment: International Criminal Responsibility for Environmental Degradation under the Rome Statute
Creators: name: Bustami, Ammar
name: Hecken, Marie-Christine
Publisher: name: University of Göttingen
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01y9bpm73
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 11, no. 1, page 145-189
description: This article draws attention to the need of a reform of the environmental protection by means of international criminal law as enshrined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. After giving a short overview of the contemporary environmental protection in war- and peacetime offered by international criminal law, it becomes clear that international criminal law fails to succeed at offering sufficient environmental protection. This paper outlines that there is no convincing reason for a differentiated approach in international criminal law to environmental damage in wartime and in peacetime, and that a shift from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric approach would positively contribute to a more effective protection of the environment. It is therefore argued for the introduction of a new integral and ecocentric international crime against the environment in the Rome Statute. The paper then elaborates on existing proposals on such a new crime against the environment before some proper observations on the exact contours of the crime are made. A focus lies on the new crime’s threshold of seriousness as well as on the necessary mens rea requirements. The insufficiency of the contemporary legal framework and the merits of a new crime against the environment are exemplified by an archetype example of peacetime environmental damage, the Chevron/Texaco oil spill scenario in Ecuador.
title: Social Integration: The Different Paradigms for EU Citizens and Third Country Nationals
Creators: name: Lang, Alessandra
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: integration measures
subject: free movement of EU citizens
subject: migration
subject: family reunification
subject: international protection
subject: treatment of third country nationals

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 663-692
description: I. Introduction. - II. Acts relating to immigration policy. - II.1. Directive 2003/109 on long-term residents. - II.2. Directive 2003/86 on family reunification. - III. Acts relating to asylum policy. - III.1. The Dublin Regulation. - III.2. The Qualifications Directive. - IV. Acts relating to free movement of persons. - IV.1. Regulation 1612/68 on free movement of workers. - IV.2. Directive 2004/38. - V. Conclusions.
description: The Article analyses whether and how integration considerations are encapsulated into EU secondary legislation establishing the conditions under which EU citizens and third country nationals can reside in a Member State (acts relating to immigration policy, to asylum policy, and to free movement of citizens of the Union), taking due account of the case-law of the Court of Justice. The aim is to compare the different legal regimes under this particular perspective, in order to evaluate whether the regime applicable to EU citizens can be understood as ontologically different from the regime established for third country nationals or rather as a variation of the same regime.
Back to basics, again and again and again: A longitudinal investigation of the effects problem-based tutorial sessions have on student learning outcomes
Creators: name: Banky, George
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Engineering tertiary courses that reflect professional activity mandate the successful application of theorems and concepts in order to solve technical problems. This graduate skill is typically assessed during student problem-solving activities. Furthermore, both collaborative learning and the interactive study method known as self-explanation have been identified, by researchers, as techniques that enhance student learning. In the reported longitudinal study, students shared their solutions to problem-solving exercises with a version of self-explanation in a collaborative environment. The research investigated the effects of the intervention on student outcomes as reflected in their assessment results. In 2013, the weekly tutorial content, for a first-year electronics course, was reworked with a focus on problem-solving activities. During these sessions the students were engaged by asking them to share electronically, or via a document camera, their prepared solutions to problems that should have been attempted prior to attending. The data collected included the scores these students obtained for each of the assessable components for the course in semester one 2013, 2014, 2016 and semester two in 2016. This data were analyzed by comparing results with those of the 2012 cohort. Week-by-week tutorial attendances showed similar trending in all semesters. The mean total mark, mean exam mark and the mean laboratory mark consistently maintained improvement over those of 2012; while the mean tutorial participation mark and the mean assignment mark were consistently worse (except for the 2014 cohort) than the corresponding ones for 2012.
PD&Micronutrients
Creators: name: , Weiqi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: File S1 : Details for eligibility criteria and covariates classification Table S1: The classification criteria for inadequate intake Table S2: Details for the four models adjusted by logistic regression and PSM Table S3: Details for the micronutrient’s intake unit’s adjustment Table S4: Information on continuous variables representing micronutrient intake after matching the 11 covariates Table S5: The relevant characteristics of the categorical variables after matching the 11 covariates Figure S1: Forest plots for the association between micronutrient and periodontitis (continuous variables) after PSM Figure S2: Forest plots for the association between micronutrient and periodontitis (categorical variables) after PSM Figure S3: The Dose-response effect examination results for the remaining micronutrients Figure S4: The Dose-response effect examination subgroup analyses results stratified by age or gender
Allo-triploid Sphagnum xfalcatulum: single individuals contain most of the Holantarctic diversity for ancestrally indicative markers
Creators: name: Karlin, Erik F.
name: Smouse, Peter E.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Allelic information
Allelic diversity
Allopolyploid
Bryophytes
Hologenome
Populations
Reticulation
Shannon partitioning
Sphagnum
Sphagnum ×falcatulum

description: Background and Aims. Allopolyploids exhibit both different levels and patterns of genetic variation than are typical of diploids. However, scant attention has been given to the partitioning of allelic information and diversity in allopolyploids, particularly that among homeologous monoploid components of the hologenome. Sphagnum ×falcatulum is a double allopolyploid peat moss that spans a considerable portion of the Holantarctic. With monoploid genomes from three ancestral species, this organism exhibits a complex evolutionary history involving serial inter-subgeneric allopolyploidizations. Methods. Studying populations from three disjunct regions (South Island [New Zealand]; Tierra de Fuego archipelago [Chile, Argentia]; Tasmania [Australia]) we examine genetic information for five highly stable microsatellite markers that differ among the three (ancestral) monoploid genomes. We partition the holoploid information into separate components for individuals within and among single sites and regions, as well as within and among the three monoploid genomes, and then convert those information components into corresponding diversity measures. Key Results. The majority (76%) of alleles detected across these five markers appear to have been captured by hybridization, but the information within each of the three monoploid genomes varied, suggesting a history of recurrent alloploidization between ancestral species containing different levels of genetic diversity. Information within individuals, equivalent to the information among monoploid genomes (for this dataset), was relatively stable, and represented 83% of the grand total information across the Holantarctic, with both inter-regional and inter-population diversification each accounting for about 5% of the total information. Conclusions. Sphagnum ×falcatulum appears to have inherited the great majority of its genetic diversity at these markers by reticulation, rather than by subsequent evolutionary radiation. However, some post hybridization genetic diversification has become fixed in at least one regional population. Methodology allowing statistical analysis of any ploidy level is presented.
title: Perspectives for a New International Crime Against the Environment: International Criminal Responsibility for Environmental Degradation under the Rome Statute
Creators: name: Bustami, Ammar
name: Hecken, Marie-Christine
Publisher: name: Institute for International and European Law, University of Göttingen
Year: 2021

description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 11, no. 1, page 145-189
description: This article draws attention to the need of a reform of the environmental protection by means of international criminal law as enshrined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. After giving a short overview of the contemporary environmental protection in war- and peacetime offered by international criminal law, it becomes clear that international criminal law fails to succeed at offering sufficient environmental protection. This paper outlines that there is no convincing reason for a differentiated approach in international criminal law to environmental damage in wartime and in peacetime, and that a shift from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric approach would positively contribute to a more effective protection of the environment. It is therefore argued for the introduction of a new integral and ecocentric international crime against the environment in the Rome Statute. The paper then elaborates on existing proposals on such a new crime against the environment before some proper observations on the exact contours of the crime are made. A focus lies on the new crime’s threshold of seriousness as well as on the necessary mens rea requirements. The insufficiency of the contemporary legal framework and the merits of a new crime against the environment are exemplified by an archetype example of peacetime environmental damage, the Chevron/Texaco oil spill scenario in Ecuador.
title: From Alternative Triggers to Shifting Links: Social Integration and Protection of Supranational Citizenship in the Context of Brexit and Beyond
Creators: name: Strumia, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Brexit
subject: European citizenship
subject: supranational citizenship
subject: genuine links
subject: social integration
subject: free movement

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 733-759
description: I. Introduction. - II. Brexit and loss of citizenship. - II.1. The matrix of loss of citizenship. - II.2. Citizens' rights protected in the withdrawal agreement. - III.3. The home State ransom and the fragility of supranational citizenship. - III. Citizenship protection between home and host State. - III.1. Checks on the home State link. - III.2. Real links between home and host Member States. - III.3. Social integration and the right to enter a country in International law. - III.4. Protecting supranational citizenship through host State links. - IV. Conclusion.
description: Brexit highlights how supranational citizenship is held to ransom by a European citizen's home Member State. When the home Member State pulls the cord, supranational citizenship can be switched off. This evidences on the one hand the weakness of European citizens' position in their host Member States. On the other hand it challenges the resilience of supranational citizenship as a status. In the eyes of some, the fragility of supranational citizenship that Brexit reveals is but a side effect of democracy. In other views, that fragility and its implications for the rights of individual citizens call for a rescission of supranational citizenship's link of derivation from nationality. This Article problematizes the latter link from a novel angle. It explores the role of social integration in building an alternative link, for purposes of rights, status, and belonging, to the national space of a host Member State. Seen from this angle, the derivation link to nationality is just one aspect of supranational citizenship's anchoring to an underlying national space. While European citizenship stays formally linked to nationality of a home Member State, over the course of a European citizen's cross-border experience the substantive link to an underlying national space shifts between home and host Member State. This shift discloses novel opportunities to protect supranational citizenship in the context of a Member State withdrawal from the EU.
Data Description and Metadata. What it takes to produce a good one?
Creators: name: Jääskeläinen, Taina
name: Hakkola, Emilia
name: Alaterä, Tuomas J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: metadata, research data, repositories, controlled vocabularies, data description

description: Finding relevant research data is tremendously easier if the data are described in detail using controlled vocabularies and discipline-specific metadata. But this is still not enough. Data descriptions should be descriptions of data, scope, collection methods and use, not published research outputs and results. This skill is important for anyone describing research data in repository services, libraries, or research-producing organisations. In this webinar, experts from the Finnish Social Sciences Data Archive, a service provider for CESSDA, explained how data are processed and described and what ingredients are needed from a researcher to produce rich metadata describing datasets. In addition, the tools supported by CESSDA for metadata production were presented. Presentations package includes the Q & A document from the discussion part of the webinar.
title: The Absence of Integration and the Responsibilisation of Union Citizenship
Creators: name: Coutts, Stephen
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: EU citizenship
subject: social benefits
subject: criminal law
subject: agency
subject: Directive 2004/38/EC
subject: responsibilisation

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 761-780
description: I. Introduction. - II. Union citizenship as a status of integration: being and time and the passive citizen. - III. The reactive turn: the indigent and the criminal and the absence of integration - III.1. Economic activity and access to social benefits. - III.2. Crime and integration. - IV. Qualitative criteria of integration and the rise of the responsibilised citizen.
description: Union citizenship has witnessed a reactive turn in recent years with citizens' rights being more easily restricted. Key to this development is a shift in the use of the concept of integration. This article traces this development through two key areas of law, namely access to social benefits and the effect of criminal behaviour on citizens' rights. It further argues that this shift in the use of integration entails a greater emphasis on the agency of the individual and the responsibilisation of the citizen. An image of the "good EU citizen" emerges as productive and law-abiding.
OSTEOPATHY IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
Creators: name: Nadirova, Yulduz
name: Bobosharipov, Feruz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: About 10% of the world's population suffers from chronic kidney disease (CKD). The prevalence of CKD is increasing due to the increasing incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is the leading cause of CKD, as well as due to the aging of the population. About 10% of the world's population suffers from chronic kidney disease (CKD). The prevalence of CKD is increasing due to the increasing incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is the leading cause of CKD, as well as due to the aging of the population [1, 2]. Osteopathy is one of the main complications of CKD, and historically it was believed that secondary hyperparathyroidism (CGPT) and calcium-phosphorus metabolism disorders are the main causes of renal osteodystrophy (AML). The generally accepted definition of AML implies a violation of bone morphology in patients with CKD, which was established using histomorphometry of a bone biopsy [3-5].
Acquisition of Comparative and Degree Constructions
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: Degree constructions
Comparatives
Gradable adjectives
Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjective
Language Acquisition

description: The structure of this chapter is as follows. In the next section, I present recent linguistic analyses of comparatives and degree constructions, with particular emphasis on their semantics. This discussion will also highlight the cross-­linguistic variability observed among these constructions, and implications that this variability has for both linguistic theory and language acquisition. While the main focus here will be on explicit comparatives and other degree constructions (e.g., equatives, superlatives, so…that, too, and enough constructions), we will also touch upon implicit (i.e., positive form) comparison with gradable adjectives (adjectives such as tall), since such adjectives are an integral component of comparative expressions and expressions of measurement. It will become clear as we work through the theoretical accounts of comparatives and degree constructions that we might indeed expect to find interesting interactions between the syntax and semantics, and between the semantics and pragmatics - and that this interplay may help to explain the ostensibly protracted development of these constructions that has been discussed in the literature. Guided by this linguistic theory, I will pose specific questions relevant to language learnability as it relates to the acquisition of these constructions. I will then review a range of studies that have investigated children's understanding of comparative phenomena. For each specific topic that I address, I will summarize what we know about children's acquisition and development of comparatives from a core set of studies, and highlight the open questions that remain. Finally, I will close by suggesting a number of possible directions for future acquisition research on comparatives and degree constructions.
title: Social Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Through the Exercise of Socio-economic Rights in European Union Law
Creators: name: Pistoia, Emanuela
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: socio-economic rights
subject: beneficiaries of international protection
subject: non-discrimination
subject: affirmative actions
subject: integration programmes
subject: asylum seekers

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 781-807
description: I. Introduction. - II. Economic and social rights equal to those of nationals. - III. Cases where discrimination between refugees and nationals, or between those respectively granted refugee status and subsidiary protection status on social and economic grounds, is allowed. - IV. The case of discriminatory residence-related benefits. - V. What room is there for integration measures or affirmative actions established or coordinated at the Union level? - VI. Asylum seekers in a state of limbo - VII. Conclusions.
description: Economic and social rights are key for a successful integration of aliens. Indeed, they represent a considerable part of the content of the international protection status in the Qualification Directive, in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Convention on Human Rights and other relevant human rights treaties. However, in some cases EU rules allow a differential treatment of beneficiaries of international protection as compared with nationals and, despite the unification of statuses accomplished in the recast Qualification Directive, to some extent a distinctive treatment of beneficiaries of subsidiary protection status is still tolerated in this area. This is even more true for those who are merely asylum seekers: the relevant legal machinery is built around the idea that they should receive differential treatment. A review of the Union's commitment to social integration of beneficiaries of international protection also extends to its competences concerning affirmative actions and integration programmes.