cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Acrolyta Forster 1869
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Acrolyta

description: Genus Acrolyta Förster, 1869
 Acrolyta Förster, 1869: 174. Type: Acrolyta empretiae Ashmead, 1896 (= Ischnoceros nigricapitatus Cook & Davis, 1891). Designated by Viereck (1914).
 Rhadinocera Förster, 1869: 177. Type: Hemiteles (Rhadinocera) algonquinus Viereck, 1917 (= Ischnoceros nigricapitatus Cook & Davis, 1891). Included by Viereck (1922).
 Mosia Seyrig, 1952: 69. Type: Mosia crassicornis Seyrig, 1952. Original designation.
 Parhemiteles Seyrig, 1952: 82. Type: Parhemiteles flaviger Seyrig, 1952. Original designation.
 Since Watanabe (2021), a single specimen of A. spola Momoi, 1970 has been collected from Tokunoshima Island and its record is reported here.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2022, Distribution Records and Re-descriptions of Some Japanese Species of the Subfamily Phygadeuontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 61-72 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 51 on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13222866
The Dayi ~ Kargil of Andkhoy: Language, History and Typical Professions
Creators: name: Baldauf, Ingeborg
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: On Turkological ground, the existence of “small groups of Khorassanian Turkic speakers along the Amu Darya” had been postulated years ago. Field research in Andkhoy, the northwestern most town of Afghanistan, seems to have yielded proof of this assumption: The Dayi I Kargil of the Andkhoy oasis in fact speak a dialect that comes close to Khorassanian Turkic. This paper introduces local knowledge about their historical background, religious and linguistic affiliation, and social and professional attribution, all of which are important elements in the shaping of personal and collective identities.
description: Asien, Nr. 104 (2007): ASIEN (Juli)
Imaginations of a Country. Spatial Perceptions and Mental Mapping in Herat
Creators: name: Wilde, Andreas
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: This article is based on field research carried out in Herat. It focuses on mental mapping as a means for the investigation of spatial perceptions and illustrates the importance of such perceptions in the context of the regional orientation of one of Afghanistan's key cities and its inhabitants. In discussing contrasts between individual perceptions and collective patterns of mapping, this contribution argues that collective mental maps do not exist, but despite individual dispersions many maps show also structural similarities often reflected by stereotypes. It describes two individual maps with different focus and structure according to time, age and spatial experience against the backdrop of 'collective' attributes in mental mapping.
description: Asien, Nr. 104 (2007): ASIEN (Juli)
Does atmospheric processing of saturated hydrocarbon surfaces by NO3 lead to volatilization?
Creators: name: Knopf, Daniel A.
name: Mak, Jackson
name: Gross, Simone
name: Bertram, Allan K.
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2016

description: The heterogeneous oxidation of a saturated hydrocarbon monolayer by NO3 was studied. A flow tube reactor coupled to chemical ionization mass spectrometry was used to determine the reactive uptake coefficient of NO3 on these surfaces, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to investigate surface oxidation and to determine if exposure to NO3 leads to volatilization of the organic substrate. The uptake coefficient of NO3 by an alkane monolayer is about (8.8 ± 2.5) × 10−4, which may lead to competitive oxidation compared with OH, due to the higher atmospheric abundance of NO3 under certain conditions. The XPS results are consistent with the formation of 1) C-O groups, 2) ketones or aldehydes, and 3) carboxylic groups. The XPS results also suggest that NO3 does not rapidly volatilize the organic surface: even under extremely polluted conditions, maximum 10% of the organic layer is volatilized. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2006 American Geophysical Union.
Morphological and phonological units in the Arabic mental lexicon: Implications for theories of morphology and lexical processing
Creators: name: Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.
subject: Psychology, Cognitive.

description: This dissertation investigates the cognitive relevance of selected morphological and phonological units in the Arabic mental lexicon. The morphological units are sound and weak roots, etymons, phonetic matrices, and sound and weak patterns. The phonological units are vowels and consonants. The work is motivated by a controversy in Arabic morphology that is paralleled by a cross-linguistic debate in lexical processing. There are two views in Arabic morphology, the stem-based theory and the morpheme-based theory that is represented by two sub-theories. The first sub-theory argues that derivations are based on roots and patterns and the second proposes that the root should be replaced by the etymon and the phonetic matrix. The morpheme-based theory is congruent with lexical processing hypotheses that propose that complex words are accessed and represented as morphemes. The stem-based theory maintains that derivation is stem or word-based and is in line with the whole word hypothesis of lexical processing. These theoretical positions on Arabic morphology and lexical processing were tested in six priming experiments. One objective of these experiments was to test which of these morphemes prime word recognition. Another objective was to test the prediction of connectionism, another lexical processing hypothesis, that priming time correlates with prime-target overlap. A third objective was to examine how abstract the processing of these morphemes could be. The cognitive status of vowels and consonants was tested using a letter-circling task. The results of the online studies have shown that both roots and etymons facilitate word recognition significantly more than orthographic controls. However, non-ordered etymons, phonetic matrices, and patterns did not facilitate word recognition. Weak roots had priming effects only when primes and targets shared a vague semantic relationship. There was no correlation between priming time and meaning and/or form overlap. The lack of priming with non-ordered etymons suggests that there could be limits on abstractness in lexical processing. The results of the offline task suggest that root consonants are more salient than other letters. On the whole, the results support a morpheme-based theory of Arabic morphology and a localist view of lexical processing that assumes a morphemic stage in word recognition.
Measurements of the vapor pressure of cubic ice and their implications for atmospheric ice clouds.
Creators: name: Shilling, J. E.
name: Tolbert, M. A.
name: Toon, O. B.
name: Jensen, E. J.
name: Murray, Benjamin J.
name: Bertram, Allan K.
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2016

description: Under conditions commonly found in Earth's atmosphere, water can form two solid phases; hexagonal ice (Ih) and cubic ice (Ic). Recent reports have suggested that Ic may form in the atmosphere under a wider range of conditions than previously believed. In light of these reports, the formation of Ic has been suggested as one contributing factor for in-situ observations of persistent in-cloud supersaturations in cold cirrus. However, an accurate evaluation of the contribution of Ic formation to the observed supersaturations requires knowledge of the saturation vapor pressure of Ic, which has not been measured. In this manuscript, we report direct measurements of the vapor pressure of Ic over the temperature range 180-190 K. Over this temperature range, the vapor pressure of the cubic phase is 10.5 ± 2.5% higher than that of the hexagonal phase. Field measurements of in-cloud supersaturations made during CRYSTAL-FACE are also re-analyzed and discussed. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 20060 American Geophysical Union.
title: Measuring household financial stress in Canada using consumer surveys
Creators: name: Bédard, Nicolas
name: Sabourin, Patrick
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: We use data from the Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations to understand how households are coping with high inflation and high interest rates. We build a subjective measure of financial stress and find that the level of stress is at a historical high but remains manageable for most households.
description: Nous utilisons des données de l’enquête sur les attentes des consommateurs au Canada pour comprendre comment les ménages composent avec la forte inflation et les taux d’intérêt élevés. Nous élaborons une mesure subjective des tensions financières et constatons que le niveau de tension est à un sommet historique, mais demeure gérable pour la plupart des ménages.
Guided Grammar Convergence. Full Case Study Report. Generated by converge::Guided
Creators: name: Zaytsev, Vadim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Theoretical Computer Science
Applied Computer Science

description: This report is meant to be used as auxiliary material for the guided grammar convergence technique proposed earlier as problem-specific improvement in the topic of convergence of grammars. It contains a narrated MegaL megamodel, as well as full results of the guided grammar convergence experiment on the Factorial Language, with details about each grammar source packaged in a readable form. All formulae used within this document, are generated automatically by the convergence infrastructure in order to avoid any mistakes. The generator source code and the source of the introduction text can be found publicly available in the Software Language Processing Suite repository.
Communication subject to normed channel uncertainties
Creators: name: Denic, Stojan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The transmission of information over a communication channel vastly depends on the level of knowledge that a transmitter and a receiver have about the channel and the interference. The transmission of information subject to insufficient knowledge of communication environment is called communication subject to uncertainties. The goal of this thesis is twofold: (1) To introduce new models for uncertain communication channels; (2) To define, compute, and analyze the performance of communication systems subject to introduced uncertainties from an information theoretic point of view. Various communication scenarios of compound single-input single-output and multiple-input multiple-output Gaussian channels are considered. There are three main contributions of the thesis: (1) The modeling of the channel and the noise uncertainties using Hinfinity and L1 normed liner spaces in frequency domain; (2) In the case of single-input single-output channels, the channel uncertainty is modeled as a subset of H infinity space; while the noise uncertainty is modeled either by a subset of Hinfinity space or by a subset of L1 space. Explicit formulas for the channel capacities, called robust capacities, and the optimal transmitted powers in the form of new water-filling formulas, are derived that explicitly depend on the sizes of the uncertainty sets. Moreover, when the noise uncertainty is modeled by a subset of L1 space, the capacity formula has a game theoretical interpretation, where the transmitter tries to maximize the mutual information, while the noise tries to minimize it. It is shown that a saddle point exists and that the optimal PSD of the transmitter is proportional to the optimal PSD of the noise; (3) In the case of multiple input multiple-output channels, two problems are considered. When the channel uncertainty is described by a subset of Hinfinity space, it is found that the transmission over the strongest singular value of the nominal channel frequency response matrix, representing the partial channel knowledge, is optimal for a large uncertainty set. When the noise uncertainty is described by a subset of L1 space, the optimal power spectral density matrix of the noise is proportional to the optimal power spectral density matrix of the transmitted signal.
The Development of Informal Education of Opportunity Foundation, Nangrong District, Buriram Province
Creators: name: Papitchaya Simpson
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: The Development of Educational Management
Informal Education
Opportunity Foundation

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 1-20
ความสามารถทางดิจิทัลสำหรับนวัตกรสังคมเพื่อพัฒนาชุมชนแห่งการเรียนรู้
Creators: name: จันทร์จิรา เหลาราช
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: ความสามารถทางดิจิทัล
นวัตกรสังคม
ชุมชนแห่งการเรียนรู้
ชุมชนดิจิทัล

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 21-38
Influence of local extruded soybean cake and imported soybean meal on fattening pig productivity and pork quality
Creators: name: Jansons, I.
name: Degola, L.
name: Sterna, V.
name: Zute, S.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: fattening pig
pork quality
soybean protein
article

description: The aim of this study was to determine the influence of feeding local and imported soybean protein feeds to fattening pigs and examining it impact on the quality of pork. The trial was created with 40 pigs divided in two groups (20 in each). Pigs in the control group received imported soybean meal, in the trial group local farm grown in Latvia extruded soybean cake mixed in the compound feed. The diets were designed to be nutritionally equivalent. For fattening pigs each diet were available on an ad libitum basis to pens. During the study pigs were weighed three times at 84, 140 and 190 days at age. Feed consumption, pig carcass traits and meat chemical composition were determined. The final live weight in control group was 108.33 ± 2.904 kg and in trial group was 111.88 ± 2.793 kg there were no significant difference (P > 0.05). Average daily live weight gain in the all experimental period in control group was 0.779 ± 0.096 kg and in trial group was 0.822 ± 0.103 kg, there were no significant difference (P > 0.05). Feed consumption per kg of live weight in control group was 2.39 kg in trial group was 2.24 kg. Pig carcass traits and meat chemical composition were similar for both groups without significant differences (P > 0.05). Soybeans grown and processed in Latvia were equivalent to imported soybeans and gives good rates of pig growth and quality of pork.
ต้นทุนและผลตอบแทนจากการผลิตผลิตภัณฑ์สินค้าหนึ่งตำบลหนึ่งผลิตภัณฑ์ (OTOP) ที่นอนปิกนิกของชุมชนบ้านหนองยารักษ์ ตำบลพุดซา อำเภอเมือง จังหวัดนครราชสีมา
Creators: name: ลินนภัสร์ วุฒิกนกกัญจน์
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: ต้นทุนและผลตอบแทน
ผลิตภัณฑ์สินค้าหนึ่งตำบลหนึ่งผลิตภัณฑ์ (OTOP)
ที่นอนปิกนิก
ผลิตภัณฑ์ชุมชน

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 39-57
ภาพลักษณ์ของผู้ประกอบการวิสาหกิจขนาดกลางและขนาดย่อม ตามโครงสร้างหลักจริยธรรมทางธุรกิจในเขตพื้นที่ภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ ประเทศไทย
Creators: name: นิลุบล วิโรจน์ฐิติยวงศ์
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: ภาพลักษณ์ผู้ประกอบการ
โครงสร้างหลักจริยธรรมทางธุรกิจ
ผู้ประกอบการวิสาหกิจ
วิสาหกิจขนาดกลาง
วิสาหกิจขนาดย่อม

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 58-72
Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Otitis Media
Creators: name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
name: Gehring, Ulrike
name: Brunekreef, Bert
name: De Jongste, Johan
name: Gerritsen, Jorrit
name: Rovers, Maroeska
name: Wichmann, Heinz-Erich
name: Wijga, Alet
name: Heinrich, Joachim
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: BACKGROUND: Otitis media is one of the most common infections in young children. Although exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a known risk factor associated with otitis media, little information is available regarding the potential association with air pollution. OBJECTIVE: We set out to study the relationship between exposure to traffic-related air pollution and otitis media in two birth cohorts. METHODS: Individual estimates of outdoor concentrations of traffic-related air pollutants—nitrogen dioxide, fine particles [particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters ≤ 2.5 μm (PM₂.₅)], and elemental carbon—were calculated for home addresses of approximately 3,700 and 650 infants from birth cohort studies in the Netherlands and Germany, respectively. Air pollution exposure was analyzed in relation to physician diagnosis of otitis media in the first 2 years of life. RESULTS: Odds ratios (adjusted for known major risk factors) for otitis media indicated positive associations with traffic-related air pollutants. An increase in 3 μg/m³ PM₂.₅, 0.5 μg/m³ elemental carbon, and 10 μg/m³ NO₂ was associated with odds ratios of 1.13 (95% confidence interval, 1.00–1.27), 1.10 (1.00–1.22), and 1.14 (1.03–1.27) in the Netherlands and 1.24 (0.84–1.83), 1.10 (0.86–1.41), and 1.14 (0.87–1.49) in Germany, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate an association between exposure to traffic-related air pollutants and the incidence of otitis media. Given the ubiquitous nature of air pollution exposure and the importance of otitis media to children’s health, these findings have significant public health implications.
Обеспечение условий судоходства на внутренних водных путях
Creators: name: Г. Л. Гладков
Publisher: name: Транспорт Российской Федерации. Журнал о науке, практике, экономике
Year: 2014

description: Внутренние водные пу ти (ВВП) Российской Федерации имеют самую большую протяженность в мире, однако для судоходства используются недостаточно эффективно. Для повышения конкурентоспособности речного транспорта необходимо выполнить большой объем работ по совершенствованию водных путей и реконструкции судоходных гидротехнических сооружений на направлениях перспективных грузопотоков в соответствии с Транспортной стратегией РФ на период до 2030 г.
การพัฒนาทักษะการอ่านโดยใช้รูปแบบการจัดการเรียนรู้เชิงรุก (Active Learning) ร่วมกับเทคนิค SQ4R สำหรับนักศึกษาหลักสูตรภาษาอังกฤษ ปีที่ 2 มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Creators: name: ธนัญญา วิริยะปัญญานนท์
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: ทักษะการอ่านเชิงวิพากษ์
รูปแบบ Active Learning
เทคนิค SQ4R

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 73-89
ปัจจัยคุณภาพบริการที่ทำให้ผู้ใช้บริการพึงพอใจต่องานบริการขนส่งสินค้าในประเทศไทย
Creators: name: เพ็ญพร ปุกหุต
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: ขนส่ง
ผู้ใช้บริการ
คุณภาพบริการ
ความพึงพอใจ
ผู้ให้บริการโลจิสติกส์

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 90-107
สัญญาณเตือนภัยทางการเงินที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความสามารถในการทำกำไรของสหกรณ์การเกษตรในประเทศไทย
Creators: name: เพชรอำไพ สุขารมณ์
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: สัญญาณเตือนภัยทางการเงิน
ความสามารถในการทำกำไร
สหกรณ์การเกษตร

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 108-127
การพัฒนานวัตกรรมและสร้างทักษะการเรียนรู้ในศตวรรษที่ 21 โดยใช้การจัดการเรียนรู้โครงงานเป็นฐานบูรณาการกับแหล่งการเรียนรู้ท้องถิ่นในชุมชน
Creators: name: วิภา ชัยสวัสดิ์
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: การจัดการเรียนรู้โดยใช้โครงงานเป็นฐาน
ทักษะการเรียนรู้ในศตวรรษที่ 21
แหล่งการเรียนรู้ท้องถิ่น

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 128-146
ประสิทธิผลการปฏิบัติสหกิจศึกษาของนักศึกษาหลักสูตรรัฐประศาสนศาสตรบัณฑิต (การจัดการรัฐกิจ) มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์ วิทยาเขตตรัง
Creators: name: สุชานุช พันธนียะ
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: ประสิทธิผล
สหกิจศึกษา
รัฐประศาสนศาสตร์
การจัดการรัฐกิจ

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 147-162
Thesis Document
Creators: name: Gomez, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320801
subject: Cell physiology
classificationCode: 320802
subject: Human biophysics
classificationCode: 320803
subject: Systems physiology
classificationCode: 310201
subject: Bioinformatic methods development
classificationCode: 310202
subject: Biological network analysis
classificationCode: 310204
subject: Genomics and transcriptomics
classificationCode: 310205
subject: Proteomics and metabolomics
classificationCode: 310207
subject: Statistical and quantitative genetics
classificationCode: 310208
subject: Translational and applied bioinformatics
classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified

description: The thesis is on molecular exercise therapy and disease prevention that is evident through a spatially resolved atlas at single-cell resolution with co-expression of exerkines and receptors in ligand-receptor interactions with cell distances measured and cell types, cell groups, and neighborhoods profiled with neighboring cells described in interorgan crosstalk mechanisms. There are specific exercise network physiomes systems that it focuses on 1) human intestine, skeletal muscle system, and adipose tissue network 2) heart, lung, and tumor microenvironment and the 3) psychological (brain) 4) cardiometabolism (Cardiovascular,Obesity/MetSyndrome, Type2Diabetes)Consortia Involved:GTEx (Gene to Tissue Expression Project)MoTrPAC (Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium)HuBMAP (Human Biomolecular Atlas Project)HTAN (Human Tumor Atlas Network)PsychENCODE
Iakunchykova O, Andreeva T (2012) Suboptimal parenting practices as a risk factor for adolescent alcohol consumption in Ukraine.
Creators: name: Andreeva, Tatiana
name: Iakunchykova, Olena
name: Iakunchykova, Olena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Medicine

description: Iakunchykova, O. and T. Andreeva (2012). "Suboptimal parenting practices as a risk factor for adolescent alcohol consumption in Ukraine." Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe 2(1): 33-42. BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to investigate the association between alcohol use by adolescents and relationships with parents/ parenting practices in Ukraine. For this analysis, the nested case-control study design was used with pooled data from 1999, 2003, and 2007 surveys of repeated cross-sectional study “European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs”. METHODS: Nationally representative sample of classes in Ukrainian secondary schools was used. The target population consisted of all 15-16-year-old students in Ukraine. Complete data were available for 10,494 participants. Main exposures were perceptions of the relationships with one’s mother and father; rule-setting, control, and support provided by parents. Outcome measures were: regular use of alcohol, drinking to the point of intoxication, and age when students start consuming alcohol. Associations between the determinants and outcome measures were analyzed using multivariate binary logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Adolescents who were not so satisfied with the relationships with their mothers were nearly twice as likely (OR=1.7; 95%CI=1.2-2.5) to have used alcohol 10 or more times during the last 30 days. Adolescents who were not at all satisfied with their relationships with father were at risk of drinking to the point of intoxication at least once during last year (OR=1.4, 95%CI=1.2-1.8). Adolescents whose parents never know whom he/she spends evenings with were nearly twice as likely (OR=1.8, 95%CI =1.3-2.4) to have used alcohol 10 or more times during the last 30 days. However, the relationships between rule-setting by parents, perceived support and alcohol use were not consistent. CONCLUSION(s): This study supports the hypothesis that the dissatisfaction with the relationships with one’s mother, unlike the dissatisfaction with the relations with one’s father, may be a risk factor for regular alcohol use among adolescents. Besides, our results denote the negative association of parental support and control with adolescent alcohol use.
Pollinator-mediated impacts of the invasive plant species Lythrum salicaria on the native Decodon verticillatus
Creators: name: Da Silva, Elizabeth M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biology, Botany.

description: Plant-pollinator interactions in invaded communities can range from facilitative to competitive, with the latter being most commonly observed. If invasive species can successfully integrate into native plant-pollinator networks and change pollinator foraging patterns, native plant fitness in these communities could be altered. Here I examine the impact of the showy flowering invasive plant, purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), on a co-flowering close relative, swamp loosestrife (Decodon verticillatus). Both species are in the family Lythraceae, share a number of floral traits, and tend to be visited by the same pollinator community. A pollen limitation experiment was conducted in invaded and uninvaded populations of D. verticillatus on Lake Opinicon, Ontario, to determine if the presence of the L. salicaria altered pollinator driven reproductive success in D. verticillatus. These experiments demonstrated that invaded communities suffer less pollen limitation than uninvaded communities, suggesting that there could be a positive impact of invasion on this particular measure of plant fitness. Complementary pollinator observations conducted at the same sites determined that the facilitative effect was not due to increased pollinator visitation to D. verticillatus, but rather suggest that there are differences in pollinator foraging patterns on inflorescences in invaded and uninvaded sites. While greenhouse experiments revealed a negative impact of L. salicaria pollen deposition on seed set in D. verticillatus, our field experiments suggest that invasive pollen transfer to natives in situ is not great enough to significantly mitigate the facilitate effects of an invasion on seed set. This work provides a unique contribution to the field of pollination biology as well as our understanding of the impacts of plant invasions, and suggests that positive as well as negative consequences for natives should be considered when investigating community impacts on plant invasion.
การศึกษาปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการขนส่งระบบรางของผลไม้ตามฤดูกาล โดยใช้ศูนย์กระจายสินค้าภาคใต้-ทุ่งสง เพื่อสร้างความเข้มแข็งอย่างยั่งยืนของเกษตรกร
Creators: name: อรปวีณ์ โภคาวัฒนา
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2567
Subjects: ศูนย์กระจายสินค้า
การขนส่งทางราง
ผลไม้ตามฤดูกาล

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัยและพัฒนาสังคม, 18, 1, 163-179
Technology at the service of forest renewal - Mapping with drone and GPS to stake out the stand
Creators: name: Chapelet, Benjamin
name: Snoussi, Bilal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Sustainable forest management
Plantation
Working conditions
Societal expectations

description: Develop plantation management methods that meet the social and environmental expectations : a new mapping and staking method, based on the use of a drone and a centimetre-accurate GPS.
Klymenko N, Andreeva T (2012) Determinants of condom use with occasional partners among MSM in Ukraine. Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe 2 (1):43-54
Creators: name: Andreeva, Tatiana
name: Klymenko, Nadiya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Medicine

description: Klymenko, N. and T. Andreeva (2012). "Determinants of condom use with occasional partners among MSM in Ukraine." Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe 2(1): 43-54. BACKGROUND: Men who have sex with men (MSM) are considered a high-risk group for HIV. As condom use prevents HIV transmission, a study of factors associated with condom use with occasional partners (CUWOP) among MSM was undertaken. METHODS: Case-control study with 866 participants was nested in a cross-sectional survey among MSM conducted in 2007. Controls were those who used a condom during the most recent sexual contact with an occasional partner, and cases – those who did not. Independent variables included socio-demographic characteristics, other risky behaviors, HIV knowledge and sources of information. Bivariate analysis used chi-square test and multivariate – binary logistic regression. RESULTS: Better knowledge and use of harm reduction services (HRS) was associated with safer behaviors. Those respondents, who were unaware whether HIV testing was available to them, had a greater risk of unprotected sex: OR = 2.344 (95%CI 1.09-5.00) as well as those who were unclear about the quality of condoms they get from HRS. Among those not covered by HRS, older MSM and those who have multiple commercial partners are at higher risk of unprotected sex. Among those attending HRS, a major barrier to use condoms is their perception as diminishing sensitivity: OR=4.143 (95%CI 1.305-13.152). The dose-dependent association was found with frequency of alcohol consumption – unsafe sexual contacts were more likely in daily alcohol users compared to those who used alcohol on a monthly basis: OR=2.264 (95%CI 1.041-4.923). DISCUSSION: Low CUWOP is typical for those MSMs who practice other risky behaviors including frequent alcohol use, contacts with multiple commercial sex partners and non-use of HRS which include provision of information, condoms and testing. Thus HIV prevention depends not only on the fact whether preventive services are provided but whether they are used by the target group.
Cheng Ying, Pao Erh-li: Guanyongyu - Idiome des modernen Chinesisch. Eine Lehr- und Lernhilfe
Creators: name: Spielmanns-Rome, Elke
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 68 (1998): ASIEN (Juli)
Molecular analysis of genetic diversity in the native populations of Echinacea
Creators: name: Mechanda, Subbaiah M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Biology, Botany.
subject: Biology, Genetics.

description: Echinacea is a North American medicinal plant that was used for medicinal purposes by Native Americans. Modern uses of Echinacea preparations include the treatment of colds and influenza, wound healing, and treatment of candidiasis. While demand is increasing, the natural populations of Echinacea are dwindling due to wild crafting and the loss of habitat caused by urban development. Understanding of the genetic diversity of natural populations is crucial in the management and conservation of the natural populations of Echinacea. Genetic diversity of natural populations of Echinacea was estimated using AFLP markers. Population genetic analysis of the AFLP data put the variation at 40% among and within the populations. Canonical analysis supported the four species concept of the morphometric analyses, however phylogenetic analysis supported some of the four species, but there was very little support by all the other analyses of the eight varieties of Echinacea. No correlations were found between the genetic distances and the geographic distances at the population level. The correlations between data sets and primer pairs was high at the species level, but was lower at the variety level. AFLP markers that were species or variety specific could not be identified. The comigrating bands that are monomorphic within and among species and varieties are 90% identical in their nucleotide sequences while the polymorphic bands within and among species and varieties are only 25% identical. The assumption that comigrating AFLP fragments have identical sequences within species and varieties is not valid in Echinacea. Based on these findings, AFLP markers were treated as phenotypes rather than genotypes and as such used for phylogenetic analysis of Echinacea populations. Phylogenetic analysis supported only two species, E. purpurea and E. laevigata that separated into clear groups with all the individuals together, whereas E. atrorubens and E. pallida were separated into groups, but the individuals were scattered among the groups. The varieties could not be grouped, as the individuals were scattered among different groups. However discriminant analysis of the AFLP data revealed bands that could be used to identify the four species and only three of the eight varieties Echinacea. Tissue culture procedures for mass propagation of Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench for producing uniform plants from leaves of mature plants were established. However, the method was not applicable for all the other species and varieties of Echinacea.
Tapis more secure following Trusted CI code-level review
Creators: name: SONGER, JULIE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Texas Advanced Computing Center collaborated with Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, to assess the security of its Tapis software. The Trusted CI team found four serious security vulnerabilities and one bug in the Tapis code and the Tapis team increased their security based on the findings.
Highly active antiretroviral therapy and hospital readmission: comparison of a matched cohort
Creators: name: Nosyk, Bohdan
name: Sun, Huiying
name: Li, Xin
name: Palepu, Anita
name: Anis, Aslam H. (Aslam Hayat), 1959-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Despite the known efficacy of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), a large proportion of potentially-eligible HIV-infected patients do not access, and may stand to benefit from this treatment. In order to quantify these benefits in terms of reductions in hospitalizations and hospitalization costs, we sought to determine the impact of HAART on hospital readmission among HIV-infected patients hospitalized at St. Paul's Hospital (SPH) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Methods All patients admitted to a specialized HIV/AIDS ward at SPH (Apr. 1997 – Oct. 2002) were selected and classified as being on HAART or not on HAART based upon their initial admission. Patients were then matched by their propensity scores, which were calculated based on patients' sociodemographics such as age, gender, injection drug use (IDU) status, and AIDS indication, and followed up for one year. Multivariate logistic regression was used to estimate the difference in the odds of hospital readmission between patients on and not on HAART. Results Out of a total 1084 patients admitted to the HIV/AIDS ward between 1997 and 2002, 662 were matched according to their propensity score; 331 patients each on and not on HAART. Multivariate logistic regression revealed that patients on HAART had lower odds of AIDS hospital readmission (OR, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.42 – 0.89) compared to patients not on HAART. Odds of readmission among patients on HAART were also significantly lower for non-IDU related readmission (OR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.53 – 0.99) and overall readmission (OR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.53 – 0.98). Conclusion Propensity score matching allowed us to reliably estimate the association between exposure (on or not on HAART) and outcome (readmitted to hospital). We found that HIV-infected patients who were potentially eligible for, but not on HAART had higher odds of being readmitted to hospital compared to those on HAART. Given the low level of uptake (31%) of HAART observed in our pre-matched hospitalized cohort, a large potential to achieve clinical benefits, reduce hospitalization costs and possibly slow disease progression from improved HAART uptake still exists.
Evolution of competence and DNA uptake specificity in the Pasteurellaceae
Creators: name: Redfield, Rosemary J
name: Findlay, Wendy A
name: Bossé, Janine
name: Kroll, J S
name: Cameron, Andrew D
name: Nash, John H
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Many bacteria can take up DNA, but the evolutionary history and function of natural competence and transformation remain obscure. The sporadic distribution of competence suggests it is frequently lost and/or gained, but this has not been examined in an explicitly phylogenetic context. Additional insight may come from the sequence specificity of uptake by species such as Haemophilus influenzae, where a 9 bp uptake signal sequence (USS) repeat is both highly overrepresented in the genome and needed for efficient DNA uptake. We used the distribution of competence genes and DNA uptake specificity in H. influenzae 's family, the Pasteurellaceae, to examine the ancestry of competence. Results: A phylogeny of the Pasteurellaceae based on 12 protein coding genes from species with sequenced genomes shows two strongly supported subclades: the Hin subclade (H. influenzae, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Pasteurella multocida, Mannheimia succiniciproducens, and H. somnus), and the Apl subclade (A. pleuropneumoniae, M. haemolytica, and H. ducreyi). All species contained homologues of all known H. influenzae competence genes, consistent with an ancestral origin of competence. Competence gene defects were identified in three species (H. somnus, H. ducreyi and M. haemolytica); each appeared to be of recent origin. The assumption that USS arise by mutation rather than copying was first confirmed using alignments of H. influenzae proteins with distant homologues. Abundant USS-like repeats were found in all eight Pasteurellacean genomes; the repeat consensuses of species in the Hin subclade were identical to that of H. influenzae (A AGT GCGGT), whereas members of the Apl subclade shared the consensus A CAA GCGGT. All species' USSs had the strong consensus and flanking AT-rich repeats of H. influenzae USSs. DNA uptake and competition experiments demonstrated that the Apl -type repeat is a true USS distinct from the Hin -type USS: A. pleuropneumoniae preferentially takes up DNA fragments containing the Apl -type USS over both H. influenzae and unrelated DNAs, and H. influenzae prefers its own USS over the Apl type. Conclusion: Competence and DNA uptake specificity are ancestral properties of the Pasteurellaceae, with divergent USSs and uptake specificity distinguishing only the two major subclades. The conservation of most competence genes over the ~350 million year history of the family suggests that lineages that lose competence may be evolutionary dead ends.
M. genitalium Whole-cell Model :: Data S1
Creators: name: Karr, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biophysics
subject: Biological Engineering
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplemental text for Karr JR, Sanghvi JC, Macklin DN, Gutschow MV, Jacobs JM, Bolival B, Assad-Garcia N, Glass JI & Covert MW. A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype. Cell 150, 389-401 (2012).
Designed system for the composition and protection of MPEG-4 and SMIL scenes and their multimedia content
Creators: name: Sakr, Ziad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.
subject: Computer Science.

description: For the past decade, there have been numerous research works focusing on the protection of digital images, audio, video, 3D virtual scenes, and software data from unauthorized use and distribution. With the emerging technology of the MPEG-4 standard, many different media objects, such as images, video, audio, and 3D virtual objects, may be combined together to compose a given MPEG-4 scene. A MPEG-4 scene can be composed using the MPEG-4 XMT textual-based format or the MPEG-4 BIFS compressed binary format. Using the MPEG-4 XMT standard, MPEG-4 scenes can easily be constructed. XMT allows content authors to exchange their content with other authors, tools, or service providers and facilitates interoperability with MPEG-4, X3D and SMIL. In order for owners and designers to protect and/or authenticate their work, some form of security needs to be applied to the MPEG-4 scenes and its media content. This thesis presents the design of an MPEG-4 player that is able to compose or open a scene whether it is in the MPEG-4 BIFS format or the MPEG-4 XMT format. The scene can also be edited and modified with nodes or parts of the scene added, deleted, or translated in position with respect to the rest of the scene. All updates and modifications to the scene are viewed on the display scene graph. The MPEG-4 scene can also be saved in any of the desired formats whether the MPEG-4 BIFS for enhanced compression or the MPEG-4 XMT for ease of editing and modification. The thesis also presents the design and implementation of a novel robust algorithm for the authentication and protection of MPEG-4 scenes and their media content. The algorithm is applied on the MPEG-4 XMT-A scenes. Even though the XMT structure lacks the noise components, which are considered a vital part for information hiding in media objects such as image, audio and video scenes, the designed and developed algorithm still proved to be robust against many forms of scene structure modifications and tampering attacks. Even if a given scene is in the MPEG-4 BIFS format, it can be converted to the MPEG-4 XMT format and then checked for authenticity and any located copyrighted material. The design and implementation of a new algorithm for SMIL scene authentication and media content location and copyright protection is also presented in this thesis. The test results shown proved the algorithm to be robust against different scene structural modifications and tampering attacks.
Development of the quality of personnel work life in Samutsakhon Provincial Administration OrganizationAdministration Organization
Creators: name: Nattawan Sasingh
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Development of the quality of personnel work life in Samutsakhon Provincial Administration Organization

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 6, 2, 75-87
Comparative analysis of performance by cows confined in different typologies of compost barns
Creators: name: Valente, D.A.
name: Souza, C.F.
name: Andrade, R.R.
name: Tinôco, I.F.F.
name: Sousa, F.C.
name: Rossi, G.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: compost-bedded pack barn
dairy cows
cattle housing
thermal comfort
article

description: The compost barn system was designed to be a sustainable alternative housing system for dairy cows. In order to help producers in the region to choose the best type of facility from the point of view of the milk production of the animals, this study compared the productivity of cows confined in an open composting barn with natural ventilation and in a closed composting barn with negative pressure ventilation and evaporative cooling panels. The temperature and relative humidity of the air were monitored, as well as the milk production of the animals housed in the facilities, and THI (Temperature and Humidity Index) were calculated. During the trials, the maximum daily temperatures of the air reached values around 27 °C and the THI remained within the normal range of up to 70. The average productivity remained in the general pattern described in the literature from 23 to 44 kg of milk cow1 day-1 , with lower rates obtained in the closed house. As the variation of the index used to describe the internal environment was not significant, it can be inferred that climatic elements as temperature and air humidity, under the conditions analyzed were not the main factors influencing the productivity rates of dairy cattle. In conclusion, under the analysed conditions the use of a closed barn with negative pressure ventilation is hardly justified as a plant that favoured the productivity of the confined cows.
Lighting and noise levels in compost dairy barns with natural and forced ventilation
Creators: name: Andrade, R.R.
name: Tinôco, I.F.F.
name: Damasceno, F.A.
name: Barbari, M.
name: Valente, D.A.
name: Vilela, M.O.
name: Souza, C.F.
name: Conti, L.
name: Rossi, G.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: animal facility
dairy cows
compost-bedded pack barn
light intensity
article

description: The housing system, called compost barn, is attracting the interest of several farmers. It allows dairy cows to remain in free movement inside a shed without any containment partitions like those used in freestall barns. In Brazil the compost barns with open sides are very common, but recently some closed barns with climatic control systems have been implemented. The objective of this work was to evaluate and compare lighting and noise levels in an open compost barn with natural ventilation and in a closed compost barn with a climate control system. The latter one is based on tunnel ventilation: inlet of air trough evaporative cellulose panels and exit through fans placed on the opposite wall. Through analysis of the collected data it was observed that the sound pressure recorded inside both analysed buildings did not exceed the ranges of noise discomfort recommended for the rearing of animals. However, the sound pressure amplitude inside the barn with climate control system was greater than in the open barn. The light intensity was significantly lower in the closed barn when compared to the open barn (84.96 and 1,413.58 lx, respectively). The artificial lighting system distributed throughout the closed barn was not sufficient to maintain brightness within the recommended range for lactating cows. In addition, it was found that in the closed building with forced ventilation, the highest brightness values are located near the exhaust fans.