cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Il mito dell’isocronia moraica in giapponese: un’analisi quantitativa basata su corpora orali
Creators: name: Pappalardo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Pike (1945) classified the world languages into two types of rhythmic/prosodic patterns: stress-timed and syllable-timed. According to this classification, stress-timed languages, like English and German, tend to have isochronous interstress intervals, while syllable-timed languages, like Italian and Spanish, tend to have equal syllable duration. Ladefoged (1975) added the mora-timed type, in which isochrony is maintained at the level of the mora, a sub-syllabic constituent that includes either onset and nucleus, or a coda. Japanese is often referred to as a mora-timed language (Otake 2015): the mora is the psychological prosodic unit in spoken language, and the metric unit of traditional poetry (Bloch 1950). The syllabaries, in which each grapheme corresponds to a mora, make this prosodic segmentation clear. However, previous experimental studies have claimed that the mora is not a perfect isochronous unit (Warner and Arai 2001). The aim of this paper is to present the rhythm-prosodic system of the Japanese language giving a precise description of its prosodic units -- the mora and the syllable--, and to provide empirical quantitative data on the duration of mora in spontaneous Japanese. The dataset used in the present study is a portion of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese called Core, consisting of about 45 hours of extensively annotated speech. The variation of the average duration of the mora has been analysed on the basis of linguistic parameters, such as the typology of mora and the phonotactic structure of the word in which it is included, and of extra-linguistic parameters, such as the typology of speech.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Bacterial Contamination on Household Toys and Association with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Honduras
Creators: name: Stauber, Christine
name: de Aceituno, Anna
name: Walters, Adam
name: Sobsey, Mark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: There is growing evidence that household water treatment interventions improve microbiological water quality and reduce diarrheal disease risk. Few studies have examined, however, the impact of water treatment interventions on household-level hygiene and sanitation. This study examined the association of four water and sanitation conditions (access to latrines, improved sanitation, improved water and the plastic biosand filter) on the levels of total coliforms and E. coli on existing and introduced toys during an on-going randomized controlled trial of the plastic biosand filter (plastic BSF). The following conditions were associated with decreased bacterial contamination on children’s toys: access to a latrine, access to improved sanitation and access to the plastic BSF. Overall, compared to existing toys, introduced toys had significantly lower levels of both E. coli and total coliforms. Results suggest that levels of fecal indicator bacteria contamination on children’s toys may be associated with access to improved water and sanitation conditions in the home. In addition, the fecal indicator bacteria levels on toys probably vary with duration in the household. Additional information on how these toys become contaminated is needed to determine the usefulness of toys as indicators or sentinels of water, sanitation and hygiene conditions, behaviors and risks.
Hindu Joint Family e pluralismo giuridico nel contesto indiano
Creators: name: Bisi, Mara
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: This article analyses a few aspects of the Hindu Joint Family, aiming to highlight similarities and differences between the models prevailing in northern India and some variants in southern India, with particular reference to the Nayars. The analysis considers this type of asset segregation institution in its objectives and social assumptions, aiming to underline the pluralism within the Indian legal tradition as a prerequisite for a comparative study encompassing other models of asset segregation created in different legal traditions. The ultimate goal of this project is to define which characteristics are shared by the different asset segregation instruments and what their evolutionary potentialities may actually be in an international scenario. The interest is mainly focused on the study of the forms of asset segregation in the Hindu tradition before the British colonization phase, among which the Hindu Joint Family and its evolution in history. From an analysis of the two different systems of HJF in northern and southern India, it appears that, despite their differences, there are also many similarities: we can, e.g., find a property belonging to a single person, who also has the right to administer such a property and who generally identifies with the older man within the family group. Moreover, in both cases the property is administered and redistributed on the basis of the choices made by the same person, who can therefore be identified as the manager of the family property and the land property. Finally, in both systems the family property must be well managed in the interest of other people, who often are the family members, relatives and descendants of the property administrator.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Contextualising Individual Diversity Perceptions: A Relational Study across Egypt, Germany, and the United Kingdom Technology Industries
Creators: name: Maatwk, Fatima
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: For this research, the influence of context on individual diversity perceptions was investigated. A relational approach was adopted to account for the influence of national culture, industry, organisation and identity on diversity perceptions. Current diversity literature has been criticised for being decontextualized and for not considering intersections between diversity dimensions. The dynamic and contextual nature of diversity has been, to a great extent, disregarded. Critical diversity studies call for a revitalisation of diversity research through comparative, contextual and intersectional research, which is the focus of this research. To preserve the context-specific nature of the diversity construct, a qualitative social constructionism epistemology was adopted. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with a total of 68 employees in the technology industry across three countries: Egypt, Germany and the United Kingdom. At the macro level, national culture was accounted for using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, cultural tightness-looseness theory and the World Values Survey. At the meso level, industry diversity dynamics and organisational diversity management were considered. At the micro individual level, identity was theoretically conceptualised through social identity theory, professional role identity and intersectionality. Findings have shown that perceived diversity is individually unique and is shaped by the interaction of the multiple contexts individuals exist within, as well as their social and professional identities. National culture has been shown to influence the diversity discourse, taboo topics, gender dynamics and individual diversity attitudes. The research has shown that in Egypt, individual diversity attitudes were avoidance and apprehension. In Germany, individual diversity attitudes were pragmatism and avoidance, and in the UK, individual diversity attitudes were evasiveness and simplification. The industry and organisation contexts have been found to influence individual diversity management perceptions. Three reactions to diversity management are proposed: frustration, incomprehension, and cynicism. The empirical study of perceived diversity is a conceptual contribution to knowledge. A framework of the influence of context on diversity perceptions has been proposed. The current study’s outcomes, in addition to theory and knowledge contributions, allow for explanations to be provided for diversity management practitioners regarding how employees perceive their diversity policies.
Motion Verbs of Manner in FrameNet: A Comparison between Persian and English
Creators: name: Imani, Zolfa
name: Motavallian, Rezvan
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: This study aims to comparatively investigate the semantic frames of motion verbs in Persian and English within the framework of the frame semantics theory (Fillmore 1977; 1982; 1985). As far as motion verbs are concerned, it is obvious that Manner is considered as one of the motion components expressed by either the verb or any element other than the verb. In English — a satellite-framed language (Talmy 2000b) — Manner is shown by motion verbs, whereas in Persian it is typically indicated by non-verbal elements, although there are also some verbs via which Manner is encoded. Within this study, thirty English verbs of manner were selected from among the ones Levin (1993) has introduced and then the verbs were translated into Persian and looked up through the Persian Corpus of Bijankhan to achieve their contexts of use. Next, FrameNet was asked for the semantic frame each verb evoked. Thereafter, comparing the semantic frames in the two languages, it was revealed that not every verb of manner does exist as a Lexical Unit in FrameNet. Likewise, not for every verb was a specified semantic frame either. Moreover, the frames for some other verbs have been defined in such a way that they cannot semantically distinguish those verbs from each other, whereas such distinctions are prominent in both manner verbs and the frames they evoke especially in Persian.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Domestic Water Service Delivery Indicators and Frameworks for Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy and Planning: A Review
Creators: name: Moriarty, Patrick
name: Bartram, Jamie
name: Kayser, Georgia
name: Fonseca, Catarina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Monitoring of water services informs policy and planning for national governments and the international community. Currently, the international monitoring system measures the type of drinking water source that households use. There have been calls for improved monitoring systems over several decades, some advocating use of multiple indicators. We review the literature on water service indicators and frameworks with a view to informing debate on their relevance to national and international monitoring. We describe the evidence concerning the relevance of each identified indicator to public health, economic development and human rights. We analyze the benefits and challenges of using these indicators separately and combined in an index as tools for planning, monitoring, and evaluating water services. We find substantial evidence on the importance of each commonly recommended indicator—service type, safety, quantity, accessibility, reliability or continuity of service, equity, and affordability. Several frameworks have been proposed that give structure to the relationships among individual indicators and some combine multiple indicator scores into a single index but few have been rigorously tested. More research is needed to understand if employing a composite metric of indicators is advantageous and how each indicator might be scored and scaled.
Playing with Words and Rhythms in Khālī jagah: Translating a Hindi Novel and its Texture into French
Creators: name: Pozza, Nicola
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: The novel Khālī jagah (2006) by the Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree mainly focuses on the topics of violence, loss, and quest for identity in the contemporary world. In this text – and in others too, but maybe here more than elsewhere – the author makes use of a very hybrid and idiomatic Hindi. Moreover, she repeatedly plays with iterations and alliterations, assonances and consonances, onomatopoeias and neologisms, and creates a particular syntax that might be described as dismembered, dislocated, and breathless. To these elements must also be added the inclusion of excerpts from folk songs as well as the essential role played by silences and unsaid things. If all these features are to be taken into account when translating such a narrative – as its content is tightly coupled to its form – it makes for a highly complex and challenging task. After providing a very brief summary of Khālī jagah, I will first highlight a few rhythmic and translation related issues, before analysing in detail some excerpts from the novel, in order to explain the choices I have made for its French translation (Une place vide, Infolio, 2018) and compare some of the results with an English translation primarily focused on the content (The Empty Space, Harper Perennial, 2011).
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
title: Памяти Паолы Чони (1963—2021)
Creators: name: Семенова, Александра
name: Ариас-Вихиль, Марина
name: Гаврилин, Кирилл
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье раскрывается научная и организационная деятельность Паолы Чони, слависта, кандидата исторических наук, дипломата. В годы пребывания в России госпожа П.Чони стала инициатором ряда совместных российско-итальянских научных проектов, а также организатором просветительских и культурных мероприятий. Как талантливый ученый Паола Чони внесла большой вклад в горьковедение, разрабатывая темы, связанные с пребыванием Горького в Италии, с его деятельностью в качестве организатора совместно с А.Богдановым и А.Луначарским высшей партийной школы на Капри, направленной на формирование рабочей интеллигенции. Автор научных монографий и статей в научных журналах и коллективных трудах, Паола Чони отличалась ярким общественным темпераментом и сумела оставить след не только в науке, но и в российско-итальянских международных отношениях.
Hindu Theodicy and Jan Gopal
Creators: name: Lorenzen, David N.
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: In the view of Max Weber, a theodicy refers to the way in which different religions represent how what happens to persons after death is determined by their actions in their present lives. The standard Hindu theodicy claims that our behaviour in this and previous lives leads to a better or worse rebirth. This essay discusses how this Hindu theodicy was modified by religious thinkers who wished to accommodate this system to a more egalitarian and fluid social system through the infusion and elevation of the concept of religious devotion or bhakti. The main example used is the work of a seventeenth-century Hindu poet named Jana Gopāla. His views are compared to those of earlier Hindu texts and to those of an eighteenth century Italian Christian missionary in India.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Intersections of discrimination and the prospective mental health of LGB youth and adults
Creators: name: Mallory, Allen Burnell Sears
name: 0000-0003-1392-9735
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: LGB
Discrimination
Mental health

description: Discrimination is a persistent risk factor for compromised mental health among sexual minority people. However, few studies examine the long-term implications of experiencing discrimination tied to multiple identities (e.g. race, gender, and sexual orientation) for the mental health of sexual minority youth (SMY) and adults. This dissertation included two studies that explored how discrimination tied to multiple identities was associated with the prospective mental health of SMY and adults. Both studies tested three intersectional hypotheses: the additive (i.e. multiple forms of discrimination incrementally worsen mental health), inuring (i.e. discrimination does not worsen mental health beyond one form), and multiplicative hypotheses (i.e. experiencing two forms of discrimination worsen mental health twice s as much as one form). Participants in Study 1 were a community sample of 478 SMY (ages 15-21) of color. Study 1 examined the overlap in LGB victimization and racial discrimination and their associations with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation over three years. In Study 2, participants were from a national probability sample of 1,518 LGB adults (ages 18-60) from three generations. Study 2 examined if attributions to discrimination were associated with psychological distress over two years. In Study 1, the results supported the multiplicative hypothesis for depressive symptoms. The intersection of racial discrimination and LGB victimization was associated with higher baseline depressive symptoms, and steeper declines in depressive symptoms. For suicidal ideation, racial discrimination and LGB victimization were independently associated with suicidal ideation, which supported the additive hypothesis. In Study 2, similar results were found, but they differed by dimension of discrimination—the multiplicative hypothesis was supported for baseline psychological distress when the number of contexts of discrimination was measured, and it was supported for the slope of psychological distress when the frequency of discrimination was measured. Lastly, the association between discrimination and psychological distress was stronger in the young compared to the older generation. The results from this dissertation provided novel information about the prospective associations between the overlap of multiple forms of discrimination and mental health for LGB youth and adults
Need for Improved Risk Communication of Fish Consumption Advisories to Protect Maternal and Child Health: Influence of Primary Informants
Creators: name: Bouma, Brennan
name: Gray, Kathleen
name: LePrevost, Catherine
name: Arellano, Consuelo
name: Cope, W.
name: Hernández-Pelletier, Mercedes
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Fish consumption has established benefits, including the promotion of cardiovascular health and pre- and neonatal brain and eye development, but local freshwater fish may be a source of contaminants that are especially harmful to fetuses and young children, such as the neurotoxic and developmentally toxic methylmercury and polychlorinated biphenyls. Fish consumption advisories may be issued by state health departments to limit human exposure to these and other toxicants. This study examined the efficacy of a sign designed by the North Carolina Division of Public Health that was posted along a reservoir (Badin Lake) in central North Carolina, USA, for increasing anglers’ awareness of a fish consumption advisory, with a special focus on anglers who share their catch with women and children. In this study, 109 anglers were interviewed about their awareness of fish consumption advisories in general and their knowledge of the Badin Lake fish advisory in particular. Shore anglers were significantly less likely to be aware of the term “fish consumption advisory” and of the specific advisory for Badin Lake than boat anglers. Although a significant increase in knowledge of the specific fish consumption advisory was found for the entire sample of study participants after the sign intervention, a commensurate increase in knowledge was not found for a subsample of anglers who reported sharing their catch with women and children. Study findings underscore differences in fish consumption advisory awareness among subpopulations. Specifically, the study revealed the importance of characterizing the communication needs of shore anglers and anglers who share their catch with sensitive subpopulations (e.g., women and children) for the creation of more targeted communications of fish consumption advisories.
Additional file 2 of Public knowledge about dementia risk reduction in Norway
Creators: name: Kjelvik, Grete
name: Rokstad, Anne Marie Mork
name: Stuebs, Josephine
name: Thingstad, Pernille
name: Deckers, Kay
name: Köhler, Sebastian
name: Selbæk, Geir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Motivationto Change Lifestyle for Dementia Risk Reduction (MOHAD-10).
A Method for Estimating Urban Background Concentrations in Support of Hybrid Air Pollution Modeling for Environmental Health Studies
Creators: name: Arunachalam, Saravanan
name: Garcia, Valerie
name: Akita, Yasuyuki
name: Valencia, Alejandro
name: Isakov, Vlad
name: Serre, Marc
name: Omary, Mohammad
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Exposure studies rely on detailed characterization of air quality, either from sparsely located routine ambient monitors or from central monitoring sites that may lack spatial representativeness. Alternatively, some studies use models of various complexities to characterize local-scale air quality, but often with poor representation of background concentrations. A hybrid approach that addresses this drawback combines a regional-scale model to provide background concentrations and a local-scale model to assess impacts of local sources. However, this approach may double-count sources in the study regions. To address these limitations, we carefully define the background concentration as the concentration that would be measured if local sources were not present, and to estimate these background concentrations we developed a novel technique that combines space-time ordinary kriging (STOK) of observations with outputs from a detailed chemistry-transport model with local sources zeroed out. We applied this technique to support an exposure study in Detroit, Michigan, for several pollutants (including NOx and PM2.5), and evaluated the estimated hybrid concentrations (calculated by combining the background estimates that addresses this issue of double counting with local-scale dispersion model estimates) using observations. Our results demonstrate the strength of this approach specifically by eliminating the problem of double-counting reported in previous hybrid modeling approaches leading to improved estimates of background concentrations, and further highlight the relative importance of NOx vs. PM2.5 in their relative contributions to total concentrations. While a key limitation of this approach is the requirement for another detailed model simulation to avoid double-counting, STOK improves the overall characterization of background concentrations at very fine spatial scales.
Additional file 3 of Public knowledge about dementia risk reduction in Norway
Creators: name: Kjelvik, Grete
name: Rokstad, Anne Marie Mork
name: Stuebs, Josephine
name: Thingstad, Pernille
name: Deckers, Kay
name: Köhler, Sebastian
name: Selbæk, Geir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Flowchart of the invited and participating sample.
An Efficiency Comparison in Prediction of Outliers 6 Classifications
Creators: name: Saichon Sinsomboonthong
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: k-nearest neighbor
artificial neural network
rule-based
binary logistic regression
voted perceptron
stochastic gradient descent

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 9, 3, 255-268
Exploring digital discourse with Chinese characteristics: contradictions and tensions
Creators: name: Na, Yuqi
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: Capitalism in China is under transformations. This research aims to register and interpret China’s discourse on network technologies, reveal the underlying ideologies, and tie this discourse to the transformation of China’s capitalism of which it is a part. Digital discourse, as this thesis defines it, is about the contemporary discourse on network technology under Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. China’s state-led capitalism has gone through all aspects of changes that are enabled by network technologies, ranging from production, consumption and the market, to the relations between international capital, the State, domestic capital, and individuals are experiencing changes. Along with the economic, political and technological changes are ideological transformations. Digital discourse is part of the social process that is related to other social changes. This thesis will focus on the particular forms of digital discourse as a channel to investigate both social and ideological transformations in China’s digital capitalism. In particular, this thesis looks at the digital discourse from three social and political actors. It analyses discourse from the current central government’s information society policies and President Xi Jinping’s speeches, from CEOs of the dominant Internet companies in China, and from young workers in China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Shenzhen. Through the lens of ideology, this thesis provides a critique of how digital discourse from different actors legitimate social relations in the current capitalism in China. In particular, at the international level, the government and BAT have appropriated a nationalist discourse to legitimate the global expansion of China’s capital and enterprises. At the domestic level, these actors have produced different types of discourse to legitimate the concentration of the market and the commercialisation of Internet platforms. At the individual level, there is a tendency among all actors to construct a consumer identity to replace a more politically active citizen identity. Through analysing digital discourse from these three actors, this thesis also identifies several features of ideology and the mechanisms of how ideologies work in contemporary capitalism. While the study illustrates the discrepancy of ideological discourse between by the dominant groups and subaltern groups, it also identifies one crucial ideology that legitimates, internalises and naturalises the dominant socio-political arrangements surrounding the commercialised Internet – This is no alternative. This finding suggests a double-layer and multi-dimensional understandings of the ideologies about China’s digital capitalism.
Air Quality Modeling in Support of the Near-Road Exposures and Effects of Urban Air Pollutants Study (NEXUS)
Creators: name: Dionisio, Kathie
name: Isakov, Vlad
name: Garcia, Val
name: Batterman, Stuart
name: Bereznicki, Sarah
name: Arunachalam, Saravanan
name: Burke, Janet
name: Snyder, Michelle
name: Heist, David
name: Vette, Alan
name: Perry, Steve
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: A major challenge in traffic-related air pollution exposure studies is the lack of information regarding pollutant exposure characterization. Air quality modeling can provide spatially and temporally varying exposure estimates for examining relationships between traffic-related air pollutants and adverse health outcomes. A hybrid air quality modeling approach was used to estimate exposure to traffic-related air pollutants in support of the Near-Road Exposures and Effects of Urban Air Pollutants Study (NEXUS) conducted in Detroit (Michigan, USA). Model-based exposure metrics, associated with local variations of emissions and meteorology, were estimated using a combination of the American Meteorological Society/Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Model (AERMOD) and Research LINE-source dispersion model for near-surface releases (RLINE) dispersion models, local emission source information from the National Emissions Inventory, detailed road network locations and traffic activity, and meteorological data from the Detroit City Airport. The regional background contribution was estimated using a combination of the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) and the Space-Time Ordinary Kriging (STOK) models. To capture the near-road pollutant gradients, refined “mini-grids” of model receptors were placed around participant homes. Exposure metrics for CO, NOx, PM2.5 and its components (elemental and organic carbon) were predicted at each home location for multiple time periods including daily and rush hours. The exposure metrics were evaluated for their ability to characterize the spatial and temporal variations of multiple ambient air pollutants compared to measurements across the study area.
Can Merging the Roles of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Management Increase the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Emergency Planning and Response?
Creators: name: Vielot, Nadja
name: Horney, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Some jurisdictions have reduced workforce and reallocated responsibilities for public health preparedness and emergency management to more efficiently use resources and improve planning and response. Key informant interviews were conducted in six counties in North Carolina (USA) to discuss perceptions of the challenges and opportunities provided by the new shared positions. Respondents feel that planning and response have improved, but that requirements related to activities or equipment that are eligible for funding (particularly on the public health side) can present an impediment to consolidating public health preparedness and emergency management roles. As the financial resources available for public health preparedness and emergency management continue to be reduced, the merging of the roles and responsibilities of public health preparedness and emergency management may present jurisdictions with an effective alternative to reducing staff, and potentially, readiness.
Design methodology for 360-degree immersive video applications
Creators: name: Argyriou, Lemonia
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: 360-degree immersive video applications for Head Mounted Display (HMD) devices offer great potential in providing engaging forms of experiential media solutions. Design challenges emerge though by this new kind of immersive media due to the 2D form of resources used for their construction, the lack of depth, the limited interaction, and the need to address the sense of presence. In addition, the use of Virtual Reality (VR) is related to cybersickness effects imposing further implications in moderate motion design tasks. This research project provides a systematic methodological approach in addressing those challenges and implications in 360-degree immersive video applications design. By studying and analysing methods and techniques efficiently used in the area of VR and Games design, a rigorous methodological design process is proposed. This process is introduced by the specification of the iVID (Immersive Video Interaction Design) framework. The efficiency of the iVID framework and the design methods and techniques it proposes is evaluated through two phases of user studies. Two different 360-degree immersive video prototypes have been created to serve the studies purposes. The analysis of the purposes of the studies ed to the definition of a set of design guidelines to be followed along with the iVID framework for designing 360-degree video-based experiences that are engaging and immersive.
Additional file 1 of Longitudinal trends in produce purchasing behavior: a descriptive study of transaction level data from loyalty card households
Creators: name: Fernandez, Isabel Diana
name: Johnson, Brent A.
name: Wixom, Nellie
name: Kautz, Amber
name: Janciuras, Joanne
name: Prevost, Steve
name: Luo, Jiebo
name: Ramchandran, Rajeev S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. STROBE-nut: An extension of the STROBE statement for nutritional epidemiology.
title: Conte de laie et du loup (Aït Segoual)
Creators: name: Garaoun, Massinissa
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Tasahlit

description: Précisions dialectales : il s'agit du parler des Aït Segoual (appelé dans la langue tasegwalit) appartenant à la fraction des Aït Bouhafan. Ce parler est classé parmi les variétés de la tasahlit orientale
description: Conte (fable) de la laie et du loup
In vitro and in silico Evaluations of Chemical Constituents from the Rhizomes of Aglaonema simplex (Blume) Blume as Hyaluronidase Inhibitor
Creators: name: Thongchai Khammee
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Aglaonema simplex
rhizome
hyaluronidase inhibitor
molecular docking

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 9, 3, 269-277
title: Alte Flurnamen neu gedacht: Neues vom Thüringischen Flurnamenportal
Creators: name: Aehnlich, Barbara
name: Kunze, Petra
name: Brosius, David
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Flurnamenforschung
subject: 430
subject: 943
subject: 020

description: JeNamentagung: Alte Namen neu gedacht
Climate-Related Hazards: A Method for Global Assessment of Urban and Rural Population Exposure to Cyclones, Droughts, and Floods
Creators: name: Banerjee, Ovik
name: Christenson, Elizabeth
name: Hamrick, Laura
name: Elliott, Mark
name: Bartram, Jamie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Global climate change (GCC) has led to increased focus on the occurrence of, and preparation for, climate-related extremes and hazards. Population exposure, the relative likelihood that a person in a given location was exposed to a given hazard event(s) in a given period of time, was the outcome for this analysis. Our objectives were to develop a method for estimating the population exposure at the country level to the climate-related hazards cyclone, drought, and flood; develop a method that readily allows the addition of better datasets to an automated model; differentiate population exposure of urban and rural populations; and calculate and present the results of exposure scores and ranking of countries based on the country-wide, urban, and rural population exposures to cyclone, drought, and flood. Gridded global datasets on cyclone, drought and flood occurrence as well as population density were combined and analysis was carried out using ArcGIS. Results presented include global maps of ranked country-level population exposure to cyclone, drought, flood and multiple hazards. Analyses by geography and human development index (HDI) are also included. The results and analyses of this exposure assessment have implications for country-level adaptation. It can also be used to help prioritize aid decisions and allocation of adaptation resources between countries and within a country. This model is designed to allow flexibility in applying cyclone, drought and flood exposure to a range of outcomes and adaptation measures.
Using corpus methods to investigate classroom interaction and teacher discourse in special educational needs (SEN) classrooms: an investigation of methodological possibilities
Creators: name: Smith, Gillian
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020
Subjects: corpus linguistics
teacher discourse
classroom interaction
corpus methodology

description: This thesis uses corpus methods to investigate classroom interaction in SEN classrooms. Typically research in the field of teacher talk takes a pedagogic or psychological perspective and has therefore utilised experimental or observational data on a much smaller scale than this corpus-based analysis. The advantages of such a corpus analysis is considered, including the benefits of a larger and empirical data set and automated analyses. The SEN Classrooms Corpus created for purpose of this study amounts to 52,813 words of spoken teacher-pupil interaction. Data comes from 16 lessons from two classes with two different teachers in a single SEN school over a two-year period. All interactions involve at least one teacher and groups of between three and nine pupils engaging in literacy classes with a focus upon shared reading. As features of teacher discourse were often only vaguely defined by function in the relevant literature, a methodological process was adapted to translate these into automatic corpus queries. First, definitions were combined with definitions from contemporary English grammars in order to provide a linguistic form for each teacher discourse feature. These forms were then translated into CQP advanced syntax queries, allowing us to retrieval examples of each feature from the SEN Classrooms Corpus. Analyses in this thesis focuses upon the four most common features of teacher discourse as identified in the literature and based upon the pilot study (Smith, 2015): questions, directives, augmentative and alternative communication and feedback. Following the creation of queries, corpus methods including frequency, distribution and concordancing were used in order to assess both how often and in what contexts individual features were used within the SEN Classrooms Corpus. This, in turn, allows us to investigate exactly how teacher discourse occurs within these classrooms. This thesis provides three major conclusions regarding the use of corpus methods to assess teacher scaffolding in SEN classrooms. First, it demonstrates how a corpus of such interactive data might be created, including important methodological considerations. Second, it provides a framework by which we might move from ill-defined features in literature to complete corpus queries that aid automated corpus analyses. Finally, the use of this unique corpus and this set of methods and queries allows us to investigate how different features of teacher discourse are used by teachers within the SEN Classrooms Corpus, including whether these uses confirm or challenge the findings of previous empirical research.
Additional file 2 of Longitudinal trends in produce purchasing behavior: a descriptive study of transaction level data from loyalty card households
Creators: name: Fernandez, Isabel Diana
name: Johnson, Brent A.
name: Wixom, Nellie
name: Kautz, Amber
name: Janciuras, Joanne
name: Prevost, Steve
name: Luo, Jiebo
name: Ramchandran, Rajeev S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Table 1. Baseline1 and Rate of Change2 in Percent Produce Purchased by Age and Income Groups.
Communicating Program Outcomes to Encourage Policymaker Support for Evidence-Based State Tobacco Control
Creators: name: Ranney, Leah
name: Goldstein, Adam
name: Schmidt, Allison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Tobacco use, the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., can be reduced through state-level tobacco prevention and cessation programs. In the absence of research about how to communicate the need for these programs to policymakers, this qualitative study aimed to understand the motivations and priorities of policymakers in North Carolina, a state that enacted a strong tobacco control program from 2003–2011, but drastically reduced funding in recent years. Six former legislators (three Democrats, three Republicans) and three lobbyists for health organizations were interviewed about their attitudes towards tobacco use, support of state-funded programs, and reactions to two policy briefs. Five themes emerged: (1) high awareness of tobacco-related health concerns but limited awareness of program impacts and funding, (2) the primacy of economic concerns in making policy decisions, (3) ideological differences in views of the state’s role in tobacco control, (4) the impact of lobbyist and constituent in-person appeals, and (5) the utility of concise, contextualized data. These findings suggest that building relationships with policymakers to communicate ongoing program outcomes, emphasizing economic data, and developing a constituent advocacy group would be valuable to encourage continued support of state tobacco control programs.
Comparison and Cost Analysis of Drinking Water Quality Monitoring Requirements versus Practice in Seven Developing Countries
Creators: name: Bartram, Jamie
name: Crocker, Jonny
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Drinking water quality monitoring programs aim to support provision of safe drinking water by informing water quality management. Little evidence or guidance exists on best monitoring practices for low resource settings. Lack of financial, human, and technological resources reduce a country’s ability to monitor water supply. Monitoring activities were characterized in Cambodia, Colombia, India (three states), Jordan, Peru, South Africa, and Uganda according to water sector responsibilities, monitoring approaches, and marginal cost. The seven study countries were selected to represent a range of low resource settings. The focus was on monitoring of microbiological parameters, such as E. coli, coliforms, and H2S-producing microorganisms. Data collection involved qualitative and quantitative methods. Across seven study countries, few distinct approaches to monitoring were observed, and in all but one country all monitoring relied on fixed laboratories for sample analysis. Compliance with monitoring requirements was highest for operational monitoring of large water supplies in urban areas. Sample transport and labor for sample collection and analysis together constitute approximately 75% of marginal costs, which exclude capital costs. There is potential for substantive optimization of monitoring programs by considering field-based testing and by fundamentally reconsidering monitoring approaches for non-piped supplies. This is the first study to look quantitatively at water quality monitoring practices in multiple developing countries.
Aunthood and Narrative Voice: Virginia Woolf’s Materteral Form
Creators: name: Reynolds, Rosemary
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: It is rare to find an area of Virginia Woolf’s work that has not had, in some form, critical attention. Yet this thesis is the first study, of any length, which takes aunts in Woolf’s writing as its focus. This thesis starts by asking the question, why are there so many aunts in Woolf’s writing? This initial enquiry leads to a consideration of the position of aunthood in British culture during Woolf’s lifetime, and argues that the discourse surrounding the 1907 Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act is emblematic of the aunt’s unique position between inside, and outside, the family. Using this historicist research alongside existing poststructuralist Woolf scholarship, this thesis develops a new way to read Woolf’s innovation in narrative form. It develops a theory of the materteral which takes into account the aunt’s specific historical position at the time, and Woolf’s personal conception of aunthood as expressed in her private writing as well as her fiction. Using this understanding of the materteral this thesis traces the trajectory of aunthood in Woolf’s work, whether it manifests in character (Helen Ambrose, Eleanor Pargiter, and Lucy Swithin to name a few of Woolf’s aunts) or, as this work argues is particularly pertinent for Woolf studies, in narrative voice.
Malasudis arii Haitlinger 2001, n.sp.
Creators: name: Haitlinger, Ryszard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Diarthrophallidae
Malasudis
Malasudis arii

description: Malasudis arii n.sp. Material examined Holotype female (figs 10-17), Cameroon, Barombi; 1 $ paratype, Cameroon, Bipindi, both from undetermined Passalidae; both in MIZPAS. DIAGNOSIS M. arii is similar to M. tribulus SCHUSTER & SUMMERS It differs from that species and all other Malasudis species by the presence of six long setae on dorsal plate (in M. tribulus and the remaining ones no more than five setae) and by bifurcate central process of the tectum. Description Dorsal plate covers whole idiosoma and bears six pairs of long setae; among them d3 is the longest and m3 the shortest (fig. 10). Ventrum with sternoventral plate having almost straight front margin. First sternal setae longer than the remaining ones. Short postgenital setae arise near border of ventral apron. Ventral plate constricted between coxae IV and slightly widening beyond them; apron with rather straight posterior margin.Anal plate with no visible margins. Epigynial plate rounded; LAV ratio: 1.46-1.85(fig.11). Tectum with paired lateral rami a some shorter than central process which is bifurcate. All rami slightly fringed (fig. 12). Malae externae relatively thick. Genu and femur of leg I each with one long and barbed seta, subequalin length. Femur bears spinous seta near two short and thin setae(fig. 13).Leg II with one barbed seta on femur (fig. 14). Legs III-IV have one barbed seta on each genu and two barbed setae on each femur; distal setae on femora III and IV are longer than proximal setae (fig. 15). Palpfemur bears one long and barbed seta (fig. 16). Cheliceral spur straight, broadened basally(fig. 17). Measurements are given in Tab. I. Etymology The name of the species has been derived from the name Ari.
description: Published as part of Haitlinger, Ryszard, 2001, Four new diarthrophallid mites (Acari, Mesostigmata, Diarthrophallidae) from tropical Africa, pp. 169-177 in Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum (Entomology) 10 - 11 on pages 171-172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7781787
Effect of Calcium Silicate from Cement Industry on Growth and Physiological Responses of Glutinous Rice cv. RD-Mae Jo 2 under Water Deficiency Conditions
Creators: name: Nitchanan Hayilate
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: glutinous rice RD-Mae Jo 2
water deficiency
calcium silicate from cement industry
physiological response

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 9, 3, 278-289
Nutritional Value of Fermented Soymilk Residue Using Aspergillus niger for Animal Feed
Creators: name: Nawinya Pimpa
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: soymilk residue
Aspergillus niger
nutritional value
rumen
digestibility

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 9, 3, 290-297