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Collective Self-Reliance and the Control of Transnational Corporations in Developing Countries With Comments on Sri Lanka's Open-Door Policy
Creators: name: Wohlmuth, Karl
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: In this article the relevance of alternative development strategies (Collective Self-Reliance and Regional Self-Reliance) for the control of transnational corporations is discussed. The main areas where transnational corporations may be affected by strategies of collective and regional self-reliance are analysed, i. e. foreign finance of development, industrialization strategies, commodity trade, technology transfer and agricultural production. It is demonstrated how important this discussion is for a country like Sri Lanka which has made attempts in recent years to liberalize the economy by an explicit 'open-door policy ' favouring foreign investments, and which is now in the process of reviewing the results of this policy, The experiences of the Sri Lankan 'opendoor policy' reveal that alternative strategies (Collective Self-Reliance and Regional Self-Reliance) could have an important developmental impact. The loss of development opportunities and indigenous capabilities in Sri Lanka caused by the 'open-door policy' is a factor which will revive the discussion about alternative concepts of development in this country. It is also shown that because of the limited market and the restricted resource-base of the country national self-reliance policies will have to be complemented by collective and regional self-reliance strategies.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 13 Nr. 1-2 (1982): Internationales Asienforum
Japans Sozialkapital im Internationalen Vergleich
Creators: name: Lörcher, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Japan's Government investment (flow) and social overhead capital (stock) have long been regarded as underdeveloped, both in relation to internal growth of GNP and to that of other countries. E. g. , this was analysed in detail by Simonis in this journal 10 years ago (1972, p. 415-440 ). However, during the 1970s Japan's performance has improved substantially, also when compared with the USA , the FRG and even Sweden. Between 1969 and 1979 Japan had by far the highest real Government investment (as % of GNP) in the world, and the gap in social overhead capital per capita between Japan and the FRG has now nearly been closed. This Japanese development took place in close connection with the overall economic planning in Japan and it can be expected that the - still not totally satisfying - situation will further improve with the current 7-year-plan up to 1985. One main source of finance for this improvement in Japan is indicated by the continually (relatively) small amounts being wasted for rearmament.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 13 Nr. 1-2 (1982): Internationales Asienforum
Kommerzialisierung und Subsistenzproduktion in Java und Nord-Sumatra - Involution oder Differenzierung?
Creators: name: Clauss, Wolfgang
name: Hartmann, Jörg
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: This article contrasts developments in two types of agrarian societies in Indonesia which differ substantially with respect to ecological, historical and socioeconomic conditions. Java is characterized historically by wet rice cultivation and a relatively high population density. The "Green Revolution", aiming at an intensification of the production of rice as a commodity, has brought an end to the process of agricultural involution that had been observed for the colonial period, and has lead to an accelerated socio-economic differentiation. A growing number of poor rural households are threatened by progressive impoverishment. For these households, subsistence production is becoming increasingly important as the only means of ensuring survival. Precolonial Simalungun is characterized by swidden agriculture and a low density of population. In contrast to Java, the commercialization of agriculture has not been forced upon peasants in the Simalungun highlands, but has developed through a "free interplay of the market forces". The combination of subsistence production and commodity production has strengthened the economic basis of all peasants. Commercialization has so far not lead to an impoverishment of economically weaker households. More recently, however, trends toward an intensification of differentiation processes have become more noticeable.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 13 Nr. 1-2 (1982): Internationales Asienforum
Shared values and fair relationships as a basis for a sustainable collaboration in local (organic) value chains
Creators: name: Delanote, Lieven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: DiverIMPACTSPA
Organic
Actors
Learning
Value chain
Rotation

description: Problem The small scale and local production of cereals, quinoa and (new) pulses, even when organic, in a region as intensive as Flanders cannot compete with global (incl. European) markets due to high production costs. This has caused the disappearance of these crops from the Flemish landscape. Solution Using local value chains can offer added value by filling a growing niche in the market, since a growing number of consumers are looking for local and ‘authentic’ food. Shared values and an authentic story can justify, within limits, a higher price.
Ländliche Entwicklung in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Knall, Bruno
name: Wagner, Norbert
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Since independence rural development in Sri Lanka has concentrated on the Rural Development Societies (RDS). This voluntary, non-statutory villagelevel organization was supposed to coordinate all development measures and to initiate a self-sustaining development process at the village level. Dominance by a few leaders, political influences, lack of own resources, dependence on subsidies from the district-level, little participation in the decision making process by the majority of the rural people, and concentration on traditional community development thinking are the main reasons why the RDS-movement has been of only marginal importance to rural life in Sri Lanka. A new approach in rural development, the Change Agents Programme, focuses on the participation of the rural poor and on the raising of their incomes by breaking exploitive dependencies on middlemen. This approach indicates one possible direction in the necessary re-orientation of the rural development policy and, in combination with the RDS-movement, it might be of great importance for the future rural development of Sri Lanka.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 13 Nr. 1-2 (1982): Internationales Asienforum
Quodammodo alienum. Il testamento in scriptis di Enrico Detesalve (Genova, 21 settembre 1220)
Creators: name: Calleri, Marta
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2020

description: Abundant literature exists on last wills and testaments, but very few consider solemn wills, since this type of document is very rare, as shown by the masters of the ars notariae of the thirteenth century. The 1220 in scriptis will of the Genoese Enrico Detesalve, which has come down to us in a fragment of the register of the notary Nicola Ferrarius, is one of the earliest examples of this type of will the few extant documents dating from the late Middle Ages. It attests to the Genoese notariate’s early rediscovery of the Roman legal heritage. After tracing the biographies of both notary and testator, the article provides an analysis of the document and its peculiar genesis.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 16 (2019)
Formule di conversione. Esempi dalle carte di un ospedale vercellese (secoli XIII-XIV)
Creators: name: Olivieri, Antonio
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2020

description: The archive of the Sant’Andrea Hospital of Vercelli preserves about fifteen notarial records of conversion or self-tradition issued from the third decade of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century. With the use of special formulas, these documents testify to the passage of individuals, women or men, or married couples from the lay status to the condition of converses, which could imply ambiguous profiles and generate conflict and controversy. This paper analizes the forms of this corpus of documents from the perspective of Diplomatics. The appendix presents the edition of the documents, including the report of a legal dispute between the comune of Vercelli and a converso of the hospital on the payment of taxes, that contains interesting allegations of the parties to the proceeding.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 16 (2019)
Frammenti liturgico-musicali sciolti alla Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma
Creators: name: Corbo, Alessandra
name: Tangari, Nicola
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2020

description: The Biblioteca nazionale centrale of Rome preserves a collection of parchment fragments from medieval manuscripts containing liturgical music. These fragments were found in the bindings of manuscript or printed books and separated from the volumes where they had been reused; they are now part of some special series of the Library. The collection is very interesting as it witnesses different musical notation and, in some cases, rare liturgical chant. Furthermore, it shows the different origins of the fragments, from Italy and Northern Europe. This article includes a methodological introduction with an overview of past researches on manuscript fragments and their description, some comments on the most interesting features concerning liturgy and music and a final catalogue of all the fragments. The latter provides a detailed description of each folio, including codicological and paleographical informations and a detailed list of all the pieces, with references to common editions and repertoires, and a final index of the incipits.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 16 (2019)
Tribal Social Organization and "Hindu" Influence
Creators: name: Pfeffer, Georg
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The alleged "Hindu influence" on the social organization of the Middle Indian tribes is examined in the work of three esteemed anthropologists (Koppers, Levi-Strauss and Elwin). The status differences Koppers relates to such "influences" can be identified as the primary juxtaposition of the sacred and the secular (which similarly marks the "Hindu" ideology), but a tribal adaptation can be ruled out. Levi - Strauss ignores terminological patterns of symmetric alliance in tribal India because their identity contradicts some basic premises of his work on "restricted exchange". Such a sophisticated system of symmetric alliance, however, must be seen as the common root of the simpler "Dravidian" pattern of alliance or the North Indian restrictions on marriage. It can link the systems apparently so heterogeneous and as such point to a pan-Indian pattern. Elwin divorces the "Hindu" craftsmen and traders from their tribal neighbours although there is no indication of their later immigration into the tribal areas. The classification is thus a direct result of the ethnographer's bias, which refuses to admit elementary "castelike" distinctions between cultivators and craftsmen or the basic unity of tribal and "Hindu" conceptions of status. The measurable distinctions between the social systems in the plains and those of the hills are ignored: in the effort to create a non-Hindu identity for tribal people the class character of civilization is absent in tribal society.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 13 Nr. 1-2 (1982): Internationales Asienforum
Brokering meaning with design: working across communities of practice
Creators: name: Kocsis, Anita
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper discusses a case study of the designer’s role in presenting scientific knowledge to museum audiences using the Universe in a Virtual Room: Realising Einstein’s Universe, a stereoscopic 3D animation project at the Museum of Victoria, Australia,. The exhibition’s development by an interdisciplinary team shows knowledge differences between scientists, designers and audiences to be a fundamental problem for those philosophies of user centred design that argue that the messages that resonate with audiences should be the basis for design. The paper seeks a response to the following questions: What is the scope for user centred design when neither designer nor audience has sufficient grounding to master scientific knowledge? Can design processes and designers’ distance from science bring new perspectives to science-based information?
The Ambiguous Strategy of JP's Last Phase
Creators: name: Ostergaard, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: In the last phase of his life, 1974-79, Jayaprakash Narayan ('JP'), co-leader with Vinoba Bhave of the Sarvodaya Movement, formulated and sought to implement a revised strategy for achieving a nonviolent revolution in India. The revision was prompted by the relative failure of the movement's campaign for Gramdan and by his fears that Mrs. Gandhi's regime was subverting Indian democracy. The various elements in JP's revised strategy are identified. His attempt to pursue the new strategy revealed its weaknesses and its fundamentally ambiguous character. It is suggested that this helps to explain why, despite some successes, the movement has so far failed to achieve its objectives.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 13 Nr. 1-2 (1982): Internationales Asienforum
Tipo, stile, canone: appunti di terminologia paleografica
Creators: name: Crisci, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2020

description: This contribution is a brief exposition about some terminological matters related to three terms commonly used in palaeography: type, style, canon. In order to define the semantic field of these terms and their paleographical euristic scope, the author analyzes their use, above all in the Greek context, but also in the Latin one, by re-reading a certain number of scientific contributions of the last decades. The result is a not univocal use, often unclear in its theoretical assumptions and ambivalent in its heuristic scope. The reflections developed on the problem suggest a certain prudence in the use of these terms and the need for a further theoretical study.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 16 (2019)
Afghanistan: Widerstand und soziale Strukturen
Creators: name: Dürste, Hartmut
name: Fenner, Manfred
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The paper deals mainly with the close connexions between the traditional social structure of Afghanistan, the failure of the "revolution" of April 27, 1978, and the origins and forms of organization of the Afghan resistance. The later history of Afghanistan proves the importance of the tribes, which has always been taken into account by the ruler of the day in spite of all efforts at centralization. As, in addition to this, Afghanistan has never been a colony, in rural areas social structures have been preserved. These are no doubt characterized by inequalities and dependences which, however, have always been mitigated by compensating mechanisms and mutual obligations. In addition to this, the Khans represented the tribes against the central government, thus protecting the sovereignty important for the traditional autonomy of the tribes and stabilizing their own social position within the social structures mentioned above. Therefore, the attempt by the Chalq-Party - that mainly consists of intellectuals from Kabul - to completely reorganize Afghan domestic conditions (agrarian reform, campaign for literacy) after April 27, 1978 , was strongly objected to by the privileged poor farmers right from the beginning. They considered it to be an interference from the outside in the internal affairs of their tribes. Accordingly, the inner resistance in its first phase was characterized by the differences between the tribes and rather anti-centralistic than fundamentalistic- lslamic, though the Western world saw this differently because of the activities of some parties operating from Pakistan. The necessity of an effective strategy was produced incipient concentration of the isolated "internal fronts" across the borders of tribal and ethnic differences since the Soviet invasion. Besides , there are indications of a "modernization from the bottom", also brought about by the war. As a consequence one has to ask the question if by this means Afghanistan will gradually become a nation. As the tribal differences and traditions, however, have existed for centuries, they are a strong counterweight, and thus today an answer to this question is not yet possible.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 13 Nr. 1-2 (1982): Internationales Asienforum
Sperimentazioni di lettura dei cartolari notarili genovesi per lo studio del territorio (secoli XII-XIV)
Creators: name: Ruzzin, Valentina
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2020

description: The diachronic study of a portion of the Genoese districtus, conducted entirely on unpublished notarial documentation, provides the starting point for some general considerations on this documentary complex, especially in relation to broad historiographical issues, and also induces some reflections on possible future lines of research.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 16 (2019)
A conclusione delle ChLA, seconda serie
Creators: name: Nicolaj, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2020

description: As the second serie of the Chartae Latinae Antiquiores is approaching its conclusion with the publication of the last volume, this paper contains some final considerations on the whole editorial project and the decision to extend it to the 9th century, the role of documentary sources in the Carolingian Age, the countries involved in the project and the number of documents included or excluded from the serie.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 16 (2019)
Scabini e altri ufficiali pubblici minori in Lombardia in età carolingia e postcarolingia. Profili, mobilità, culture grafiche, partecipazione ai processi documentari
Creators: name: De Angelis, Gianmarco
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2020

description: Legal practitioners and prominent representatives of local societies, scabini and other minor public officials have for some years been at the centre of increasing attention in historiography investigating the characteristics and transformations of government in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy. If for the scabini of the regnum Italiae, above all, the intimate bond with the comital institution is acquired and the judicial sphere is rightly insisted on as the original prerogative of exercise, there are many opportunities for making a research on different local contexts and on specific situations that may have favoured their fortunes or caused more or less sudden declines. The Lombard area represents, from this point of view, a good observatory, even if not so much for the quantity and quality of information on the respective social profiles (which are less relevant than we see in Veneto, Emilia and Tuscany): I rather refer to the possibilities of shedding light on details of graphic cultures and on the areas of recruitment and promotion; on the links with institutions and on the aspects of mobility (or sedentariness) that derive from them; on certain trajectories of social and political distinction that, between the 9th and 10th centuries, scabini and other minor public officials seem to share with the local elites searching for visibility and closer ties with the ecclesiastical hegemonies of the city and the territory.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 16 (2019)
PETER FISCHER (ed.), PETER ALLES, TOKORO SHIGEMOTO, WATANABE HOYO, OMI KOSHO: Buddhismus und Nationalismus im modernen Japan
Creators: name: Heinemann, Robert
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
title: The effects of the venom of the Tarantula spiders Poecilotheria regalis and Thrixopelma pruriens on skeletal muscle damage and nociception
Creators: name: Richards, Nicholas John
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2026

description: The venoms of some spider species are medically relevant, causing skeletal muscle damage
and pain, while others are being bioprospected for potentially useful components. These
factors justify the examination of their biochemical activity and their effects in vitro and in vivo. 
Two tarantula spider venoms were studied in this work, the Poecilotheria regalis and the 
Thrixopelma pruriens. The P. regalis venom has limited content characterisation and 
reportedly causes muscle damage symptoms and severe pain, while some T. pruriens venom
toxins are instead being developed as analgesics, despite one having an affinity for a sodium
ion channel related to muscle excitability. Muscle’s innate regenerative capacity for repair 
requires stem cells called satellite cells which become myoblasts. Their survival, migration,
and fusion into myotubes can be impacted by venoms, which can also induce atrophy.
Undifferentiated myoblasts in vitro were unaffected by either venom. However, both inhibited
fusion and induced atrophy in the C2C12 mouse muscle cell line, in contrast to the AB1190 
cell line from human paravertebral muscle. Treatment of atrophy from P. regalis venom by 
soluble activin receptor type IIB was investigated, however, improvement was not found. The 
in vivo study found that P. regalis caused muscle damage and delayed regeneration including 
some aspects unresolved by day 20. Nociception related to pain from P. regalis venom was 
also studied in vivo. Neuronal activity was quantified in mouse spinal cords, with a trend of 
increased reactive oxygen species, which supports published observations of hyperalgesia or 
pain sensitivity. In a preliminary in vivo study T. pruriens venom appeared to cause only 
localised minor skeletal muscle damage, even at a higher concentration than P. regalis venom. 
Overall, this study gives novel insight into the two venom’s activities in skeletal muscle and 
quantifiable nociception-related measures caused by a tarantula venom, as well as suggesting 
mechanisms.
title: A case of rectal mucocele post-Hartmann’s procedure
Creators: name: El Khatib, Eman
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Colon
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 78-year-old bedbound female, with a past medical history of Guillain–Barré syndrome, presents with back pain, haematuria, and gel-like anal discharge following Hartmann’s procedure for sigmoid volvulus.

description: 78 years, female
COMMENT on article entitled “CO2 Chemisorption Behavior in Conjugated CarbanionDerived Ionic Liquids via Carboxylic Acid Formation” (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 47, 21658–21663)
Creators: name: Chaban, Vitaly V.
name: Andreeva, Nadezhda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 340505
subject: Physical organic chemistry

description: The paper in the title proposed an interesting chemical sorbent for CO2, exemplifying unusual chemistry, and reported promising chemisorption capacities. The carboxyl moiety formation was highlighted as the only CO2 chemisorption product. We would hereby like to question the chemical identity of the CO2 chemisorption product reported in this publication. Below, the considerations in favor of a different product are provided based on general chemical wisdom and ab initio calculations
Macroevolutionary patterns in body size, reproduction, and energy use
Creators: name: JARVIS, GEORGE COLEBROOK
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310405
subject: Evolutionary ecology
classificationCode: 310408
subject: Life histories
classificationCode: 321503
subject: Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
classificationCode: 310910
subject: Animal physiology - systems

description: Body size is important, yet how size covaries with some fundamental aspects of reproduction remains unclear. Here, I formally test the relationship between body size and key reproductive traits, as well as how reproductive traits might modify the well-known relationship between body size and energy use. This thesis confirms some suspected relationships between body size, reproduction, and physiology, but it also highlights new areas for exploration – namely, we cannot explain the coevolutionary patterns in body size, metabolism and offspring size.
FRANZ JOSEF HEEG: Phänomen Japan - Japanische Organisationsformen und ihre Übertragbarkeit auf deutsche Unternehmen
Creators: name: Hackstein, Rolf
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL: Britischer Imperialismus im Fernen Osten. Struk- turen der Durchdringung und einheimischer Widerstand auf dem chinesischen Markt 1932-1937
Creators: name: Menzel, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
Watershed or water shared? An inquiry into the politics of rural water allocations in Victoria
Creators: name: Hancock, Barry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the politics associated with rural water reform in Victoria. The specific focus of the thesis is on the period from 1980 through to the time of submission in May 2010. During this period, the rural water sector has undergone radical reform in Victoria. Initially, reforms were driven by a desire to improve the operational efficiency of the State’s rural water sector. With the growing realisation that water extractions were pressing against the limits of sustainable yield, the focus of the reform agenda shifted to increasing the economic efficiency derived from every megalitre of water. By early 2000, the focus of the rural water reform changed as prolonged drought impacted on the reliability of water supply for the irrigation community. The objective of the latest round of reforms was to improve the efficiency of water usage as the scarcity became more acute. To deal with many of the intractable problems confronting the rural water sector over this period government turned to the neoclassical economic paradigm. The gradual application of market principles throughout all levels of the rural water sector to drive efficiency is giving rise to growing discontent amongst rural water users. This has provoked increasing resentment over the intrusion of the “market” into seemingly every element of rural life. As the water market drives structural reform across the once heavily protected rural sector, farmers have looked to their peak representative body, the Victorian Farmers Federation, to defend established patterns of resource usage. As governments responded to concerns about the environment, the Victorian Farmers Federation was forced to make a number of compromises to protect the security of its members’ water rights. Many members found the compromises unpalatable and became less loyal to the VFF. At the same time the robust political allegiance between the VFF and National Farmers Federation was severely tested by the Council of Australian Governments’ broader rural water reform agenda. In addition to the obvious self interest that rural water users have in this policy process, there were underlying issues at work.
MECHTHILD LEUTNER: Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Politik und Wissenschaft. Zur Herausbildung der chinesischen marxistischen Geschichtswissenschaft in den 30er und 40er Jahren
Creators: name: Lippert, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
LIEM NGO-HUY: Ausländische Privatinvestitionen auf den Philippinen. Voraussetzungen und Auswirkungen auf die sozialökonomische Entwicklung - Eine Fallstudie
Creators: name: Thum, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
CHATTHIP NARTSUPHA (ed.): The Political Economy of Siam 1851-1910; The Political Economy of Siam 1910-1932
Creators: name: Luther, Hans U.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
Neue Indische Bibliothek (NIB). Sammlung von Direktübersetzungen aus den Literaturen Südasiens, Band 1 (1983): Der Ochsenkarren. Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre, Band 2 (1983): Phanishwarnath 'Renu', Pfauentanz. Dorfgeschichten aus Bihar, Band 3 (1984): Arun Kolatkar, Jejuri. Gedichtzyklus
Creators: name: Kantowsky, Detlef
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
RUEDI BAUMGARTNER: Trekking und Entwicklung im Himalaya. Die Rolwaling- Sherpa in Ost-Nepal im Dilemma zwischen Tourismus und Tradition
Creators: name: Luck, Uwe
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
KLAUS SEELAKD: Ein nicht zu entwickelndes Tal. Traditionelle Bambustech- nologie und Subsistenzwirtschaft in Ost-Nepal
Creators: name: Luck, Uwe
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
Impact of Consumers' Brand Loyalty Towards Nestlé Products in NCR, India
Creators: name: Abdullah M. M. A.
name: Khaled A.S.D.
name: Jamil A. A.Z.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: This study aimed to assess customers' loyalty to global brands by examining the factors influencing brand loyalty. Consumers assess products based on intrinsic and extrinsic cues, and various factors contribute to their loyalty. The research focused on revealing the relationship between brand loyalty and its determinants, specifically emphasizing the brand's name, design, quality, price, and promotion. The primary objectives were to investigate the factors impacting brand loyalty for Nestlé products, identify the most influential factors in Nestlé product loyalty, and assess the correlation between consumer satisfaction and brand loyalty for Nestlé products. The research employed a descriptive survey research design, utilizing a structured questionnaire for data collection. The data analysis was conducted using Partial Least Squares (PLS). The study was carried out in the North and Central Region (NCR) of India, with a sample size of 225 participants. The findings indicate that the key factors influencing consumer brand loyalty are the brand's name, quality, price, and promotion.
NORBERT WAGNER, MARTIN KAISER, FRITZ BEIMDIEK: Ökonomie der Entwicklungsländer: Eine Einführung
Creators: name: Lachmann, Werner
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
HEINZ AHRENS et al., UDO ERNST SIMONIS (ed.): Ordnungspolitische Fragen zum Nord-Süd-Konflikt
Creators: name: Wagner, Norbert
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 15 Nr. 3-4 (1984): Internationales Asienforum
How can the benefits of housing regeneration programs be sustained?
Creators: name: Jacobs, Keith
name: Arthurson, Kathy
name: Randolph, Bill
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Exit strategies have been found to be effective in sustaining the benefits of social housing estate regeneration programs. This research carried out a national audit of existing regeneration practices in combination with interviews and focus groups in five public housing estates. Of the five estates, only one had a formal exit strategy. Such strategies can assist an estate to become a community by involving local tenants, developing leadership capacity and establishing community run successor organisations. Although no single exit strategy can be applied universally since each should be responsive to local conditions, there are core elements that should be included. These are: a formal plan; involvement of residents and key stakeholders; conflict resolution procedures; a process for transfer of responsibility for ongoing projects or functions; development of leadership; and formal evaluation procedures.
title: Development of a Vision-based Monitoring System for Quality Assessment of 3D Printing
Creators: name: Li, Jingdong
Publisher: name: University of Central Lancashire
Year: 2024

description: Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a process of manufacturing parts and components by adding successive layers of material on top of each other until the final shape is achieved. The research target of this project is Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), which is a specific type of Additive Manufacturing technology. FFF uses a filament of thermoplastic material, which is melted and extruded, then deposited layer by layer to create a 3D object. However, FFF has some limitations that need to be considered. For instance, the printing process can be time-consuming, and errors such as misalignment and incorrect slicing can occur, leading to complete failure and wasted time and material. 
 
This thesis presents a vision-based monitoring system for FFF 3D printing quality assessment. The proposed system includes a simulation tool that generates simulated images of printed layers, along with feature extraction methods for assessing the size, shape and infill density of printed objects. The proposed system utilizes background subtraction for isolating the printed object from the background and estimating its size through pixel length analysis and bounding box calculation. The shape analysis of the printed objects is performed using the Fourier-Mellin transform (FMT) method. Moreover, the infill density is computed by combining foreground extraction and image thresholding methods, utilizing both camera and simulated images. The proposed system is able to analyse and examine the quality of 3D printing during the printing process and identify the defective printed object when deviates of 5 percent is detected in terms of the size, shape, and density of the printed object, alert the user to terminate the entire process and save time and cost. This new monitoring system provides an effective solution to improve the quality and efficiency of FFF 3D printing.
Getting gender onto the tobacco reduction agenda : meeting report
Creators: name: ITAG Investigating Tobacco & Gender
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: The Investigating Tobacco and Gender (iTAG) research team’s Invitational Meeting took place on April 19, 2012 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. This was a day-long event, using a combination of multimedia and live webcast, that enabled remote presenters and participants to join and view the presentations. This year’s theme, Getting Gender onto the Tobacco Reduction Agenda, brought together a diverse group of researchers, healthcare practitioners, tobacco control advocates, and policy makers to discuss gender in tobacco reduction and cessation (TRC) research and interventions.
title: Rational design and optimisation of polymer microneedles for drug delivery
Creators: name: Aguguo, Claudia Chiazor
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2025

description: Microneedles (MNs) are promising drug delivery systems which enable the delivery of
drugs of various physicochemical properties into and across the skin by breaching the 
skin barrier. Dissolving MNs are a type of MNs which release the incorporated drug by 
dissolving or degrading in the skin upon contact with the skin’s interstitial fluid. Polymers 
are commonly used to fabricate dissolving MNs, but their mechanical properties limit 
efficient skin insertion. Therefore, there is a need to identify additional polymers which 
can create high quality MNs and potentially broaden the applicability of dissolving MNs. 
This thesis investigated the feasibility of fabricating dissolving MNs from poly(2-ethyl�oxazoline) (PEOZ) of two molecular weights (50 kDa and 200 kDa) and used 
polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) MNs as a benchmark to evaluate the suitability of PEOZ for 
fabricating MNs. Findings from the characterisation studies suggest that PEOZ 200 kDa
is a promising MN material with comparable performance to PVP whereas sole use of 
PEOZ 50 kDa is not suitable for MN fabrication. 
PEOZ 50 kDa was then blended with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) to assess for miscibility 
between the polymers in order to improve PEOZ 50 kDa MNs by polymer blending. 
Polymer miscibility was evaluated by using a combination of various analytical 
techniques, providing useful insights into polymer miscibility and the potential 
applications of PEOZ-PVA blends.
This thesis also showcases an innovative approach to treating cutaneous leishmaniasis
(CL) by loading paromomycin into dissolving MNs and tailoring the MN composition to 
the disease. Characterisation studies suggest that the use of paromomycin-containing 
dissolving MNs is a promising approach to treating CL. Suggestions of additional studies 
are also proposed to further explore this drug delivery system. Studies towards 
developing a sensitive assay for quantifying paromomycin in MNs are also described, 
providing useful insights into paromomycin quantification by liquid chromatography and 
mass spectrometry.
Assessment of the structure of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in musculoskeletal patients
Creators: name: Pallant, Julie F.
name: Bailey, Catherine M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: Research suggests there is a high prevalence of anxiety and depression amongst patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, which can influence the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs. It is therefore important for clinicians involved in musculoskeletal rehabilitation programs to consider screening patients for elevated levels of anxiety and depression and to provide appropriate counselling or treatment where necessary. The HADS has been used as a screening tool for assessment of anxiety and depression in a wide variety of clinical groups. Recent research however has questioned its suitability for use with some patient groups due to problems with dimensionality and the behaviour of individual items. The aim of this study is to assess the underlying structure and psychometric properties of the HADS among patients attending musculoskeletal rehabilitation. METHODS: Data was obtained from 296 patients attending an outpatient musculoskeletal pain clinic. The total sample was used to identify the proportion of patients with elevated levels of anxiety and depression. Half the sample (n = 142) was used for exploratory factor analysis (EFA), with the holdout sample (n = 154) used for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to explore the underlying structure of the scale. RESULTS: A substantial proportion of patients were classified as probable cases on the HADS Anxiety subscale (38.2%) and HADS Depression subscale (30.1%), with the sample recording higher mean HADS subscales scores than many other patient groups (breast cancer, end-stage renal disease, heart disease) reported in the literature. EFA supported a two factor structure (representing anxiety and depression) as proposed by the scale's authors, however item 7 (an anxiety item) failed to load appropriately. Removing Item 7 resulted in a clear two factor solution in both EFA and CFA. CONCLUSION: The high levels of anxiety and depression detected in this sample suggests that screening for psychological comorbidity is important in musculoskeletal rehabilitation settings. It is necessary for clinicians who are considering using the HADS as a screening tool to first assess its suitability with their particular patient group. Although EFA and CFA supported the presence of two subscales representing anxiety and depression, the results with this musculoskeletal sample suggest that item 7 should be removed from the anxiety subscale.
CORBEL Report on impact of integrated access standards tested for open user access
Creators: name: Hansen, Sonja
name: Leitner, Frauke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Life science research infrastructures
Cross-RI service pipelines
Cross-RI user access

description: The mission of this WP is to support advanced user projects in need of a diverse set of technologies and services thereby enabling cutting-edge research. WP4 has focused on offering shared life science services by establishing common service pipelines between multiple ESFRI Life Science Research Infrastructures (LS RI). Pipelines between service providers were refined in several rounds, starting with VIP projects, then opening up the services to the general scientific community via two Open Calls. This deliverable demonstrates the impact that the establishment of common service pipelines between multiple LS RIs has generated - for the user, for the RI, and for the scientific community. The Open Calls have given broad visibility to the RIs and have attracted genuinely new user groups to RI services and have thereby also increased the user-base of the individual RI. The Open Calls have enabled cross-cutting interdisciplinary projects, which allow the users to advance in their research and to open new avenues in science. The highly innovative and exploratory nature of the Open Call applications make them a high risk-high reward operation. As exploring new technologies with uncertain outcomes is not likely funded in individual research grants, open access programmes and the intense support from LS RI hubs for cross-RI access become critical. Further, the Open Calls have exposed that transnational access to research data from human participants is challenging and a significant bottleneck. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic at present 75% of 2nd Open Call projects got interrupted and have not been able to complete their visits yet. To secure a leading role for Europe in life science research and to ensure the technological support needed for cutting-edge scientific projects, it is indispensable to develop mechanisms that will maintain access to these service pipelines also beyond CORBEL. To this end, the LS RIs maintain opportunities for cross-RI access via bilateral collaboration agreements and joint calls and work closely together in the cluster to explore opportunities for future calls across RIs with funders and deepen the alignment to include the full project life cycle including FAIR data and analysis via EOSC.
Victoria's unique approach to road safety: a history of government regulation
Creators: name: Jessop, Glenn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Australian state of Victoria has a record of proactive and determined legislative action addressing road safety. Its processes and deliberations concerning the introduction of road safety laws serve as a noteworthy case study of political rationality and public policy development. Victoria has taken a unique and pioneering approach to traffic regulation. Using the seatbelt and handheld phone laws as examples, this article examines the political dynamics involved in, and the forms of political reasoning underpinning, the road safety policy decisions taken by Victorian governments. I argue that the different approaches taken by governments are partly due to the interaction of the political imperatives of state institutions imposing regulations for the public good and the protection of individual liberties.
Automated calibration of farm-scale mixed linear programming models using bi-level programming
Creators: name: Britz, Wolfgang
name: Britz, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Linear Programming
subject: Mixed Linear Programming
subject: Calibration
subject: Bi-Level Programming
subject: Farm-Scale Model

description: We calibrate Linear and Mixed Integer Programs with a bi-level estimator, minimizing under First-order-conditions (FOC) conditions under a penalty function considering the calibration fit and deviations from given parameters. To deal with non-convexity, a heuristic generates restart points from current best-fit parameters and their means. Monte-Carlo analysis assesses the approach by drawing parameters for a model optimizing acreages under maximal crop shares, a land balance and annual plus intra-annual labour constraints; a variant comprises integer based investments. Resulting optimal solutions perturbed by white noise provide calibration targets. The approach recovers the true parameters and thus allows for systematic and automated calibration.
Cosmological applications of the Swampland program
Creators: name: Westphal, Alexander
name: Conlon, Joseph P.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020

description: Lecture at KITP Program: The String Swampland and Quantum Gravity Constraints on Effective Theories (Santa Barbara, USA), 18 Feb 2020 - 13 Mar 2020
Les Empidoidea (Diptera) hors Dolichopodidae de la Réserve naturelle nationale de la tourbière de Machais (France, Grand Est, Vosges)
Creators: name: Langlois, Dominique
Publisher: name: SHNEC [Société d'Histoire Naturelle et d'Ethnographie de Colmar]
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Entomology

description: Résumé  -  La pose de pièges Malaise dans la Réserve naturelle nationale de la tourbière de Machais (Vosges), en 2009, 2020 et 2021, a permis d’étudier le peuplement des Empidoidea, à l'exception des Dolichopodidae, Hilara (Empididae), Bicellaria et Platypalpus (Hybotidae). Cinquante-huit espèces ont été identifiées, pour 3 136 spécimens collectés, 40 Empididae, 17 Hybotidae et un Ragadidae. À partir des données de l'INPN et de ses propres investigations, l'auteur met en évidence dix taxons peu mentionnés en France continentale. Iteaphila falki Sinclair & Shamshev, 2022, est mentionné pour la première fois en France. Cette étude témoigne de l'importance de ce site protégé pour la connaissance et la conservation du patrimoine naturel national.Mots-clés  -  Biodiversité, espace protégé, inventaire généralisé.Abstract  -  Empidoidea (Diptera) excluding Dolichopodidae in the tourbière de Machais National Nature Reserve (North-eastern France, Vosges)Malaise traps installed in 2009, 2020 and 2021 in the tourbière de Machais National Nature Reserve (Vosges) allowed the study of the Empidoidea communities, excluding Dolichopodidae, Hilara (Empididae), Bicellaria and Platypalpus (Hybotidae). Fifty-eight species were identified from 3,136 specimens examined, 40 Empididae, 17 Hybotidae and one Ragadidae. On the basis of the INPN data and his own research, the author highlights ten taxa that are little known in France. Iteaphila falki Sinclair & Shamshev, 2022, is mentioned for the first time in France. This work testifies to the importance of this protected area for the knowledge and conservation of the national natural heritage.Keywords  -  Biodiversity, protected area, all taxa inventory.