cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Caring women: Gender, power and ritual in Gujarati households in East London.
Creators: name: McDonald, Merryle Ann
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: This is an ethnographic study which examines the way in which some Gujarati women living in east London create auspiciousness and care for the ritual, spiritual, social and moral well-being of their natal and conjugal households. Fieldwork was conducted in four local women's groups and in Hindu Gujarati households in the north and central areas of the London borough of Newham between July 1983 and September 1984. Additional data come from tape-recorded interviews and observations between Gujarati women and obstetricians at the local maternity hospital. Informants of both sexes acknowledged that it is women who are the agents with knowledge of many of the domestic rituals which are performed and that it is largely women who organize them. Both sexes also see women as responsible for transmitting this religious and Gujarati ritual knowledge to the next generation. This responsibility is spoken of as the dharma (duty) of women and of mothers in particular. The study addresses the question of how gender defines cultural constructions of responsibility. It considers ways in which notions of dharma (duty) and seva (service) inform ideas of femininity and masculinity, and suggests that gender inequalities are created through interpretations of cultural notions of sharam (shame), ijjat (honour) and man (respect). Within this framework, it examines the way in which informants create, negotiate and resist cultural categories. In their active responses, they both challenge and collude in dominant structures and discourses. This dissertation aims to contribute to research on the hitherto largely neglected arena of domestic religious life among Hindus in Britain. Specifically, it aims to contribute to studies of the role of Hindu Gujarati women in caring for households and families and maintaining and transforming their culture in this country.
title: A critical analysis of Islamic studies in Malay on contemporary issues : Malaysia approximately 1975 to the present day.
Creators: name: Abd Manan, Md. Zaki bin
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: My thesis is divided into six chapters which include a general overview of the socio-political and economic background of the Malay Muslim society, a definition of the term Malay and Muslim and the various interpretations that arise from these definitions, the changes experienced by the Muslim society before and after Malaysia's Independence, the importance of Islam in the everyday life of the Muslims, the subsequent developments of the Malay textual tradition starting from the coming of Islam to Malaysia until the present day. Chapter two deals (briefly) with 'Sastra Kitab' and discuss the efforts to re-interprete the meaning of the term 'Islamic literature' as a result of the Islamic resurgence in Malaysia that began in the early 1970's. The textual analysis in Chapter Three is the main part of my study. It focuses only on Islamic books written in Malay from 1975 to the present day (1992) and includes discussion of works on Theology, 'Akida', Islamic law, 'Fikh', Islamic Jurisprudence, devotion services, 'ibadat', 'mu'amalat', marriage, 'munakahat', criminal 'jinayah' and moral, 'akhlak'. Controversial issues such as al-Arqam, anti Hadith, the position of women, marriage, Islamic rule and administration (Islamic democracy, Islamic politics, Syura system, Islamic state) and Sufism are discussed in detail in chapter four. Chapter five analyse critically the Islamic books in Malay, as mirrors of society particularly their approach, nature and academic standards within the terms of Islamic teaching generally. In conclusion, I present general view on the future role of Islamic writing in the context of the development of Muslims society in Malaysia.
title: Tribe and state in Waziristan 1849-1883.
Creators: name: Beattie, Hugh
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: The thesis begins by describing the socio-political and economic organisation of the tribes of Waziristan in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as aspects of their culture, attention being drawn to their egalitarian ethos and the importance of tarburwali, rivalry between patrilateral parallel cousins. It goes on to examine relations between the tribes and the British authorities in the first thirty years after the annexation of the Punjab. Along the south Waziristan border, Mahsud raiding was increasingly regarded as a problem, and the ways in which the British tried to deal with this are explored; in the 1870s indirect subsidies, and the imposition of 'tribal responsibility' are seen to have improved the position, but divisions within the tribe and the tensions created by the Second Anglo-Afghan War led to a tribal army burning Tank in 1879. The contrast is drawn with the relatively good relations which were established with many of the Darwesh Khel Wazirs, some of whom had begun to graze flocks and cultivate land in the Bannu district on the north Waziristan border. However, clumsy handling of the latter led to a serious crisis in 1870, and the resulting efforts to improve tribal management are described. In conclusion, the nature of British frontier policy in Waziristan in this period is analysed, and the strategic, political, economic and cultural influences upon it examined; in particular ideas about how the tribes were organised and could be handled are investigated. Actual techniques of tribal management are described and their effectiveness assessed. Tribal reactions are briefly explored; the difficulties experienced with them are seen to have been due to factionalism and a general clash of cultures, as much as to their poverty. The relationship between the tribes and the government in Kabul in this period is also discussed. The implications for the general question of relations between 'tribe' and 'state' are briefly assessed, and the dialectical quality of the relationship emphasised.
title: The Japanese experience in Britain, 1862-1876: Japan's cultural discovery of the Victorian world in the early years of overseas travel.
Creators: name: Cobbing, Andrew John
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: The overseas investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by early Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 1870s have left a unique record of life in the West as seen by visitors whose understanding of developments in the world outside had been limited by centuries of cultural isolation. Fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, they paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world, and London became the base of the largest group of Japanese students to emerge overseas. This thesis examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. The period addressed covers the unprecedented boom in overseas travel from its inception during the last years of bakufu rule, and through the first years of the Meiji regime until 1876, when new government regulations were already beginning to curb the numbers of Japanese students abroad. The study presents an analysis of the diaries in which many early travellers recorded their observations of life outside Japan. It also examines a selection of particularly significant published works that some wrote following their return, which gave readers in Japan their first detailed introduction to civilization in Britain. In addition to well-known figures such as Fukuzawa Yukichi. this features long-overlooked writers like Nomura Fumio and Nakai Hiroshi whose works were also influential in the early Meiji years. The experiences of early overseas travellers in the 1860s and 1870s led to rapid advances in Japanese understanding of the world outside. By examining in detail how first-hand observations enabled travellers to develop increasingly sophisticated views of the Victorian world, this study clarifies the underlying forces at work in shaping perceptions of the West as a whole during this most formative stage in the modern history of Japan.
title: Privatisation in previously centrally planned economies: The case of Azerbaijan, 1991-1994.
Creators: name: Wiesner, Lale Larissa
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: Privatisation is a central theme in discussions over the transition process of previously centrally planned economies (PCPE). This study examines the developments in privatisation in Azerbaijan, one of the last republics of the FSU to embark upon the road of privatisation. The aim of research was to obtain first hand information on the privatisation process and to construct a qualitative, contextual picture of the power struggle over property rights. Part one establishes a theoretical framework under which privatisation in PCPEs can be evaluated. It establishes that privatisation can be seen as an instrument to build up a sound system of enterprise control and initiate industrial restructuring, and thus enhance static and dynamic efficiency. The success and effectiveness of this tool is dependent on various factors, especially (1) the evolution of institutional preconditions, i.e. the development of the political, legal, and financial framework and other fundamental institutions of a market environment; (2) the question of the power of the state, i.e. is it a strong state, with agenda-setting power, or a weak state, susceptible to counterproductive rent-seeking activities of insiders; (3) the proposed methods of privatisation; (4) the process of contracting for property rights. By applying the theories of privatisation in PCPEs developed in the first part, the second provides an account of the Azeri privatisation process and its likely effect on static and dynamic efficiency placing special emphasis on institutional preconditions. Because of the nature of the proposed research, especially in grasping the institutional dimensions of Azerbaijan's transition, intensive fieldwork was regarded as part of an appropriate research design. The analysis is based on original Azeri documents and archival records, transcripts of almost 127 hours of interviews, and extensive field visits carried out between December 1993 and February 1995.
T-symmetry in String Geometry Theory
Creators: name: Sato, Matsuo
name: Tohshima, Taiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: String geometry theory is one of the candidates of non-perturbative formulation of string theory. In this paper, we have shown that dimensionally reduced string geometry theories have what we call T-symmetry. In case of the dimensional reduction in space-like directions, the T-symmetry transformation gives the T-dual transformation between the type IIA and IIB perturbative vacua. In case of the dimensional reduction in the direction of string geometry time $\barτ$, the T-symmetry transformation is independent of the T-dual transformation, and gives a symmetry that cannot be seen in the perturbative string theories.
description: 15 pages
Perspectives on Eriophyoid mite research
Creators: name: Nuzzaci, Giorgio
name: De Lillo, Enrico
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: The authors deal briefly with the current status of knowledge on Eriophyoidea (Acari, Prostigmata), which are obligatory phytophagous mites and attack many crops of economic value, and focus their attention on some points that they consider valuable guidelines for future scienti- fic progress.

Key words: Acarology, gall making, vagrants, morphology, anatomy, physiology, life history and reproductive strategies, ecology, plant pathogen transmission, taxonomy and systematics.

PROSPETTIVE DI RICERCA SUGLI ACARI ERIOPHYOIDEA

Gli autori riportano in breve lo stato attuale delle conoscenze sugli Eriophyoidea (Acari, Prostigmata), acari fitofagi obbligati che attaccano molte colture di interesse economico.

Aspetti che richiedono ulteriori approfondimenti di ricerca sono:

1) l’anatomia della maggior parte degli organi nei diversi stadi di sviluppo, e le differenze tra le forme svernanti (deutogine) e le forme primaverili estive (protogine);

2) le modalità di induzione delle malformazioni sulle piante, la definizione del ciclo biologico in moltissime specie e l’attitudine alla trasmissione dei virus e micoplasmi;

3) l’efficacia di utilizzazione degli eriofidi nella lotta contro le piante infestanti; 4) il ruolo degli eriofidi nelle catene alimentari di acari predatori;
 5) l’organizzazione di un archivio su supporto ad uso informatico.

Parole chiave: Acarologia, galligeni, vaganti, morfologia, anatomia, fisiologia, strategie rirpoduttive, ciclo vitale, ecologia, trasmissione di patogeni vegetali, tassonomia e sistematica.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
title: From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews: The external influences for change c. 1860-1960.
Creators: name: Summerfield, Daniel P.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: The arrival of a Protestant mission in Ethiopia during the 1850s marks a turning point in the history of the Falashas. Up until this point, they lived relatively isolated in the country, unaffected and unaware of the existence of world Jewry. Following this period and especially from the beginning of the twentieth century, the attention of certain Jewish individuals and organisations was drawn to the Falashas. This contact initiated a period of external interference which would ultimately transform the Falashas, an Ethiopian phenomenon, into Ethiopian Jews, whose culture, religion and identity became increasingly connected with that of world Jewry. It is the purpose of this thesis to examine the external influences that implemented and continued the process of transformation in Falasha society which culminated in their eventual emigration to Israel. The original research provides an in-depth insight into the processes which were set in motion among the Falashas during the course of the twentieth century. The thesis begins with a description of their religion, culture and identity before the Falashas' exposure to external influences, an analysis which is used to examine and interpret the modifications that subsequently took place in the Falashas' society. The missionaries' activities, which brought the Falashas to the attention of Western Jewry, are then examined. Considerable attention is devoted to Jacques Faitlovitch who was instrumental in developing the concept of an 'Ethiopian Jew.' His programmes and activities in Ethiopia and abroad, which were fundamental for the success of subsequent endeavours by Israeli organisations, are examined in detail. The Italian occupation of Ethiopia and its impact on the Falashas is also a topic thoroughly researched for the first time. Finally, the activities of Israeli organisations and their impact on the Falashas are examined. The conclusions of this thesis are based on the results of both archival research and interviews with Falashas and key personalities who worked with them before the 1960s.
title: In the Body
Creators: name: Hyon, Katherine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation is comprised of a collection of nine short stories concerning two young women raised in the same Korean American church environment.  In their adolescence, both women are exposed to the influence of a religious cult; one joins, the other does not.  This dissertation explores the crises that occur in the wake of a collision between culture and religion as each character seeks to find redemption and renewed faith in God, in family, and in herself.
Milnor Fiber Consistency via Flatness
Creators: name: Hof, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B07 (Primary) 32S30, 58K60 (Secondary)

description: We describe a new algebro-geometric perspective on the study of the Milnor fibration and, as a first step toward putting it into practice, prove powerful criteria for a deformation of a holomorphic function germ to admit a stratification on its domain partially satisfying the Thom condition and, more generally, to respect the Milnor fibration of the original germ in an appropriate sense. As corollaries, we obtain a method of partitioning the space of homogeneous polynomials of a fixed degree into finitely many locally closed subsets such that the fiber diffeomorphism type of the Milnor fibration is constant along each subset and a criterion under which deformations of a function with critical locus a complete intersection will be well-behaved.
description: 38 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication by the Journal of Topology
A new Eriophyid species (Acari Eriophyoidea) on Salsola spp. (Centrospermae Chenopodiaceae) and a new report for Aceria tamaricis (Trotter)
Creators: name: De Lillo, Enrico
name: Sobhian, Rouhollah
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: A new eriophyoid species is described and illustrated. Aceria salsolae n. sp. was observed on Salsola kali L. and S. australis Brown (Centrospermae Chenopodiaceae) in Turkey, Greece and Uzbekistan. Although the mite does not form galls, the infested plants were stunted, deformed, less spiny, and their vigor was impacted. Host specificity tests, carried out in Turkey, indicate that this species is a promising candidate for the biological control of S. australis in the U.S.A.

A. tamaricis (Trotter) has been also found on Tamarix smirnensis Bunge in Turkey. Key words: mites, Eriophyidae, weeds, biological control.

UNA NUOVA SPECIE DI ERIOFIDE (ACARI ERIOPHYOIDEA) SU SALSOLA SPP. (CENTROSPERMAE CHENOPODIACEAE)

E UNA NUOVA SEGNALAZIONE PER ACERIA TAMARICIS (TROTTER)

Viene descritta e illustrata una nuova specie di Eriofide. Aceria salsolae sp. n. è stata raccolta su Salsola kali L. e S. australis Brown (Centrospermae Chenopodiaceae), in Turchia, Grecia e Uzbekistan. Le piante infestate mostravano crescita stentata, deformazioni, minore spinosità e ridotto vigore. Prove di specificità dell’ospite, eseguite in Turchia, hanno evidenziato come que- sta specie sia un promettente candidato per il suo controllo di S. australis negli U.S.A.

A. tamaricis (Trotter) viene segnalata per la prima volta su Tamarix smirnensis Bunge in Turchia.

Parole chiave: acari, Eriophyidae, erbe infestanti, controllo biologico.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
title: Characterization of photometers for high illuminance levels
Creators: name: Badermann, Haydee
name: Ledig, Johannes
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 621.3

description: Photometers measuring high illuminance levels, ranging up to 200,000 lux, often undergo significant heating during operation. This temperature rise affects critical components - the spectral matching filter, diffuser, and silicon photodiode - thereby impacting the accuracy of illuminance measurements and contributing to measurement uncertainties. The study investigates the temperature dependence of the luminous responsivity, showing that as temperature increases, the photodiode's sensitivity rises, and the transmission characteristics of filters may change, especially in narrowband spectra such as coloured light sources. The degree of this effect varies based on photometer design and materials. Thermostatic stabilization, commonly integrated into laboratory-grade photometers, regulates the internal temperature, minimizing deviations caused by ambient conditions and stabilizing measurements across high illuminance levels. Nevertheless, temperature effects cannot be fully neglected even with thermostabilisation. The findings highlight the necessity of understanding temperature effects to enhance accuracy and reliability in photometric calibration processes.
description: Lux junior 2024: 17. Internationales Forum für den lichttechnischen Nachwuchs, 6. – 8. September 2024, Ilmenau : Tagungsband, p. 1
title: Deixis (demonstratives and adverbials) in Hausa.
Creators: name: Buba, Malami
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: This thesis investigates deixis in Hausa. Specifically, it examines the deictic interpretation of Hausa demonstratives, adverbs and certain deictic particles within a systematic paradigm of referential interpretation. I show that the participant-based approach to Hausa deictic adverbials, first proposed by Jaggar and Buba (1994), can be extended to cover other (related) deictic elements. In that work, we demonstrated how the tripartite system of spatial, anaphoric and symbolic usage interacts with the speaker-proximal, speaker-distal and speaker/addressee-distal distinctions encoded by NAN- and CAN-adverbials. In this thesis, the same model is extended to explain the functional distribution of the related demonstratives WANNAN and WANCAN. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the notion of deixis, covering its definition and various manifestations in the referential subsystems of demonstratives, adverbs (and personal pronouns). Chapter 2 addresses the speaker-proximal demonstrative and adverbial deictics (e.g. nan 'here' [near me the speaker], wannan + NP, NP-n/r- nan/nan 'this NP [near me the speaker]'). Chapter 3 is concerned with the basically addressee-proximal deictics (e.g. nan 'there [near you the addressee]', wannan / wannan + NP, NP-n/r-nan 'that NP [near you the addressee]'). In Chapter 4, I look at the speaker/addressee-distal forms (e.g. can 'there [distant from speaker and addressee]', wancan + NP, NP-n/r-can/can 'that NP [distant from speaker and addressee]'), and their remote-distal counterparts (e.g. can 'over there [remote from speaker and addressee]', wancan / wancan -i- NP, NP-n/r-can 'that NP [remote from speaker and addressee]'). The functional distribution of the pre-head and post-head demonstratives is described and explained in terms of the semantic-pragmatic notion of presuppositionality. The core claims are summarised in Chapter 5, where I briefly address the implications of the findings for the Hausa system of deixis, and for cross-linguistic deictic theory in general.
Un caso di Ginandromorfismo in Coelichneumon rudis (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1847) (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)
Creators: name: Tarasco, Eustachio
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: A GYNANDROMORPHIC SPECIMEN OF COELICHNEUMON RUDIS (BOYER DE FONSCOLOMBE, 1847) (HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEUMONIDAE)

It is described a gynandromorph of Coelichneumon rudis (Fonsc.) emerged from a Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Den. et Schiff.) pupa collected in a Pine Wood of Apulia region (Southern Italy); the specimen, prevalently female, shows some male parts on the head and the torax.

Key words: gynandromorphism, ichneumonid

L'autore descrive un ginandromorfo di Coelichneumon rudis (Fonsc.) sfarfallato da crisalidi di Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Den. et Schiff.) raccolte in una pineta della Puglia (Italia meridionale); l’esemplare, di aspetto prevalentemente femminile, presenta alcune parti del capo e del torace con caratteri tipicamente maschili.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
Supplementary_table_1 – Supplemental material for Do toe blood pressures predict healing after minor lower limb amputation in people with diabetes? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Linton, Clare
name: Searle, Angela
name: Hawke, Fiona
name: Tehan, Peta Ellen
name: Sebastian, Mathew
name: Chuter, Vivienne
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_table_1 for Do toe blood pressures predict healing after minor lower limb amputation in people with diabetes? A systematic review and meta-analysis by Clare Linton, Angela Searle, Fiona Hawke, Peta Ellen Tehan, Mathew Sebastian and Vivienne Chuter in Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research
MPEC 2024-P143 : 2019 CP31
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2019 CP31

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Nuove segnalazioni di Nottuidi (Lepidoptera) per l’Italia meridionale
Creators: name: Parezan, Paolo
name: Scalercio, Stefano
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: NEW RECORDS OF NOCTUID MOTHS IN SOUTHERN ITALY (LEPIDOPTERA) (Contribution to the knowledge of Lepidoptera in southern Italy. XIX)

75 species are reported in the present paper, 11 of wich are new for southern Italy. Among them, one (Aletia (Aletia) languida) is new for Italian fauna, two (Parascotia nisseni, Metachrostis velocior) are new for continental Italy, two (Paradrina fuscicornis, Gortina borelii lunata) are new for central-southern Italy and six (Tathorhynchus exsiccata, Luperina samnii, Archanara geminipuncta, Hecatera corsica weissi, Leucania comma, Tholera cespitis) are new for southern Italy.

Moreover 11 species were collected for the first time in Campania, 12 in Apulia, 15 in Basilicata and 45 in Calabria.

Key words: Macrolepidoptera, new reports, faunistic.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
Supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Relations of Chinese Mothers’ Cultural Values and Parental Control to Early Adolescents’ Self-Construals
Creators: name: Chen-Bouck, Li
name: Patterson, Meagan M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160301 Family and Household Studies
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_material for Relations of Chinese Mothers’ Cultural Values and Parental Control to Early Adolescents’ Self-Construals by Li Chen-Bouck and Meagan M. Patterson in The Journal of Early Adolescence
New Eriophyoid mites (Acari Eriophyoidea) from Italy. II
Creators: name: De Lillo, Enrico
name: Fontana, Paolo
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Three new eriophyoid species, collected in Veneto (Northern Italy), are described and illustrated also using scanning electron microscopy. Aceria biradiatus n. sp. was found vagrant on Corylus avellana L. (Fam. Corylaceae). Cecidophyes campestris n. sp. was collected on Acer campestre L. and A. pseudoplatanus L. (Fam. Aceraceae); it was associated to a hypertrichosis on the leaves of A. campestre at the level of the nervature ramifications. Diptacus corni n. sp. was vagrant on Cornus sanguinea L. (Fam. Corneaceae).

Key words: hedges, phytophagous, alternative prey.

ACARI ERIOFIOIDEI (ACARI ERIOPHYOIDEA) NUOVI PER L’ITALIA. II

Tre nuove specie di eriofioidei, raccolte in Veneto, sono descritte e illustrate anche mediante l’utilizzazione del microscopio elettronico a scansione. Aceria biradiatus sp. n. è stato raccolto vagante su foglie di Corylus avellana L. (Fam. Corylaceae). Cecidophyes campestris sp. n. è stato rinvenuto su Acer campestre L. e A. pseudoplatanus L. (Aceraceae); le foglie infestate di acero campestre presentavano una leggera ipertricosi presso la biforcazione delle nervature. Diptacus corni sp. n. è stato osservato vagante su Cornus sanguinea L. (Fam. Corneaceae).

Parole chiave: siepi, fitofagi, prede alternative.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
Anatomia dei genitali interni e modalità di inseminazione in alcuni Coleotteri Anticidi
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: ANATOMY OF THE INTERNAL GENITALIA AND INSEMINATION MODALITIES IN SOME ANTHICIDS (COLEOPTERA)

Throughout the examination of 23 species of Anthicids, a comparative study is made of the internal genitalia in both males and females. The insemination strategies in this family are discussed on the basis of the anatomical data.

In most species, the male insemination device includes a powerful ejaculatory pump, of which three structural types can be divided. Two of these types exhibit the property of increasing their own muscular mass during the imaginal life, as long as the individual attains its own reproductive maturity. A further male evolutionary trend affects the ejaculatory duct length, which can be even 6 times as long as the insect body. A conspicuous equipment of male accessory glands occurs both Notoxinae and Microhoriini; it is related to the production of the abundant gelatinous sperm fraction. A pair of additional seminal vesicles is a characteristic feature of two species, Cordicomus instabilis and Formicomus pedestris.

Spermatheca of most species includes a membranous receptaculum, which is able to swell whilst it is filled with sperm. Filling does probably occur during the copulation, due to the pressure produced by the male ejaculatory pump.

Microhoriini exhibit a second type of spermatheca, which is lacking in its gland. Female genita- lia in this tribe do retain their ancestral bursa copulatrix, where one or more spermathophores are built during the copulation. Likely, the receptaculum filling is delayed (after spermathophores are dissolved) and it is probably accomplished by the musculature of the female genitalia.

Key words: Coleoptera, Anthicidae, internal genitalia, comparative anatomy, insemination.

Viene studiata la variabilità anatomica dei genitali interni maschili e femminili in 23 specie di Anticidi.

Nel maschio si individuano due tendenze evolutive: (a) potenziamento dell’ampolla eiaculatrice, (b) allungamento del dotto eiaculatore. Nella femmina, si individua la tendenza al possesso di un ricettacolo spermatecale capace di rigonfiarsi durante il riempimento.

I dati anatomici, coordinati con osservazioni su consistenza e localizzazione dello sperma, indicano due modalità di inseminazione: (I) uso di sperma libero, direttamente pompato dal maschio all’interno del ricettacolo della spermateca; (II) fabbricazione di spermatofori all’interno della borsa copulatrice e trasferimento dilazionato dello sperma nel ricettacolo per azione muscolare delle vie genitali femminili.

Parole chiave: Coleoptera, Anthicidae, genitali interni, anatomia comparata, inseminazione.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
title: An analysis of the emergence of early Masonic symbolism.
Creators: name: Pollard, Fiona E.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: The subject of this thesis is English Masonic symbolism set within the limits of the middle of the seventeenth to the late eighteenth century which allows for the study of the earliest sources. The objective of the thesis is to analyse and compare the sources of early Masonic symbolism to determine when particular symbols first appeared and how they developed into themes through the eighteenth-century. This study is placed within the historical context of the early development of Freemasonry, its background and the type of member it attracted, and also the contemporary intellectual milieu in which the symbols emerged. Before an examination of the sources is undertaken a discussion on the theory and meaning of the term symbol is provided. A number of theories and definitions are addressed from various fields of study, such as anthropology, psychology and theology. This in turn forms the basis of a definition of Masonic symbolism as it is to be used during the course of the thesis. The sources themselves are divided into two: literary and visual. The first are comprised of a number of manuscripts, which may be described as Exposures or Expositions of Masonic ritual, in the form of catechisms. The second are a collection of objects, engravings and drawings that clearly depict Masonic symbols. Data concerning the specific symbols from both these sources is collated and presented in tables. This format allows for a comparison between the appearance of symbols in literary form, as they are described in the Expositions, and as they are shown in visual form. The conclusions that are drawn from this study ascertain the nature of early Masonic symbolism and whether it emerged in spite of various contemporary movements and intellectual fashions, or that its development was in fact influenced by them.
title: Tense, aspect and modality in Khalkha Mongolian.
Creators: name: Song, Jae-Mog
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: This thesis investigates from a typological perspective the semantic and pragmatic functions of the grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality in Khalkha Mongolian. Chapter 2 surveys general theories of tense, aspect, and modality and gives a semantic characterization of the major categories. Chapter 3 introduces some distinguishing grammatical properties of the Mongolian grammatical markers discussed in the thesis, with their taxonomic classification. In Chapter 4, we characterize the so-called indicative suffixes as denoting a past/non-past opposition: Past (-laa, -v, -jee) and Non-Past (-na). We also propose that the three Past suffixes are different in evidentiality: -laa (Direct Knowledge Past), -jee (Indirect Knowledge Past), -V (Neutral Past). Chapter 5 looks at the so-called verbal noun suffixes. Unlike the indicative suffixes, the verbal noun suffixes mainly encode aspectual and modal distinctions: perfective/imperfective and realis/irrealis. The Perfective -san indicates that a situation is completed, whereas the Imperfective -aa expresses a durative or resultative meaning. Mongolian also has a Habitual aspect, expressed by -dag. All these three verbal noun suffixes are differentiated from the Irrealis -x in that the former basically represent a situation which has occurred already or is taking place at the reference time, whereas the latter describes a situation which is not yet realised. Tense, aspect, and modality are expressed not only by verbal suffixes but also by some periphrastic expressions in Mongolian. Chapter 6 discusses the most common of them, the Progressive construction -j bai-. Several interesting theoretical issues arise in connection with the tense, aspect, and modality categories. Telic situations can be divided into two different types, depending on whether the situation covers the state resulting from the completion of a situation or not. This distinction seems to be responsible for the ambiguity between a processive and a resultative reading in the Progressive. It is suggested that a similar distinction may be found in the perfective, between (i) the inclusive perfective and (ii) the exclusive perfective. The Mongolian Perfective -san belongs to the former. It is generally agreed that tense, aspect, and modality are closely related to each other and that the boundaries between them are not always clear-cut. This is once again confirmed in the study of Mongolian. The Mongolian indicative suffixes, whose main function is to mark tense, carry additional aspectual or modal meanings, and the verbal noun suffixes, whose main function is aspectual and modal, also carry temporal meanings. It is also observed that the evidential difference in the Past suffixes has different temporal implications.
title: Popular resistance to Zamindari oppression in eastern U.P., Northern India, 1920-60.
Creators: name: Gopal, Kusum
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1995

description: This study examines popular politics in Uttar Pradesh with specific reference to Gorakhpur, Basti and Azamgarh bewtween 1920-60. The focus is on the politicisation of the kisans, ordinary men and women who were numerically the largest section of rural society. It is argued that their world views and political aspirations were informed by clearly defined notions of social justice and power relations, themselves based on particular problems stemming from the nature of julum, one of its meanings being the tyranny of the zamindars. This thesis makes extensive use of oral sources, utilising social anthropological tools and places greater weight on folk wisdom, local customs and cosmological beliefs. The social construction of gender is important to this study. It is argued that kisans' politics made no fundamental change to the pre-existing system of gender relations, because gender was not the object of protest. It is also argued that their political aspirations remained largely independent of official Congress politics: the kisans were not passive victims, but actively resisted and manipulated elements of elite domination by pronouncing their own goals. Although all kinds of popular associations with the environment, myths, legends and customs were used to mobilise the kisans, they realised their political identities not within the framework of the nationalist discourse, but against it. The Congress was forced to espouse the kisans' demand for outright land ownership and promise the abolition of zamindari in its bid to take over office. This study concludes by stating that the historical weight and energy of these popular movements decisively influenced the government and compelled it to adopt a socialist agenda.
Interoperable Research Infrastructures For Addressing Societal Challenges
Creators: name: Zhao, Zhiming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Interoperability
Environmental research infrastructures
Virtual research environment
Time critical cloud applications

description: Challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, pollution, and loss of diversity all threaten the natural ecosystems that human society depends upon. To understand these challenges and their impact, scientists need to observe the environment on a global scale, and understand the interactions between different environmental systems. Information technology facilities provided by research infrastructures (RIs) are increasingly used to support research across all disciplines of environmental science. However typical RIs are constructed for specific environmental domains, making it difficult to conduct interdisciplinary research. For new RIs, being interoperable with RIs from other domains is essential, as is contributing to cross-domain initiatives such as Copernicus and GEOSS.

Sharing solutions to common problems reduces development costs and promotes interoperability—many RIs face similar challenges, including: 1) how to identify and cite data; 2) how to control the quality of real-time data; 3) how to catalogue data to support discovery and access; 4) how best to support data processing with tools and remote services; 5) how to manage computing resources; and 6) how to record experimental processes so as to permit easy replication of results. Addressing these challenges in a standard way and having RIs then adopt the resulting solutions is challenging however. The specific needs of different communities result in often quite different priorities, and a lack of a shared conceptual vocabulary makes it difficult for developers to understand where commonalities lie. Moreover, the maturity of different RI projects vary, along with the adoption of existing standards by different communities.

In order to break the barriers between RIs and provide standardised solutions, a reference model guided engineering approach has been proposed in the EU H2020 ENVRIPLUS project within the ‘Data for Science’ theme. A reference model for providing a common understanding of the concepts and components of an environmental science RI will be produced based on analysis and review of existing RI projects. It will aid the development of solutions in six priority areas: identification and citation, curation, cataloguing, processing, optimisation and provenance.
sj-pdf-1-std-10.1177_0956462420921715 - Supplemental material for HIV testing among pregnant women with prenatal care in the United States: An analysis of the 2011–2017 National Survey of Family Growth
Creators: name: Babayemi O Olakunde
name: Pharr, Jennifer R
name: Adeyinka, Daniel A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-std-10.1177_0956462420921715 for HIV testing among pregnant women with prenatal care in the United States: An analysis of the 2011–2017 National Survey of Family Growth by Babayemi O Olakunde, Jennifer R Pharr and Daniel A Adeyinka in International Journal of STD & AIDS
MSJ921362_supplement_2 – Supplemental material for Thalamic energy dysfunction is associated with thalamo-cortical tract damage in multiple sclerosis: A diffusion spectroscopy study
Creators: name: Ricigliano, Vito AG
name: Tonietto, Matteo
name: Palladino, Raffaele
name: Poirion, Emilie
name: Luca, Alberto De
name: Branzoli, Francesca
name: Bera, Geraldine
name: Maillart, Elisabeth
name: Stankoff, Bruno
name: Bodini, Benedetta
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, MSJ921362_supplement_2 for Thalamic energy dysfunction is associated with thalamo-cortical tract damage in multiple sclerosis: A diffusion spectroscopy study by Vito AG Ricigliano, Matteo Tonietto, Raffaele Palladino, Emilie Poirion, Alberto De Luca, Francesca Branzoli, Geraldine Bera, Elisabeth Maillart, Bruno Stankoff and Benedetta Bodini in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X20931137 - Supplemental material for Galectin-3 protects against ischemic stroke by promoting neuro-angiogenesis via apoptosis inhibition and Akt/Caspase regulation
Creators: name: Umadevi V Wesley
name: Sutton, Ian C
name: Cunningham, Katelin
name: Jaeger, Jacob W
name: Phan, Allan Q
name: Hatcher, James F
name: Dempsey, Robert J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 110320 Radiology and Organ Imaging
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X20931137 for Galectin-3 protects against ischemic stroke by promoting neuro-angiogenesis via apoptosis inhibition and Akt/Caspase regulation by Umadevi V Wesley, Ian C Sutton, Katelin Cunningham, Jacob W Jaeger, Allan Q Phan, James F Hatcher and Robert J Dempsey in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
title: Zhao villagers: Everyday practices in a post-reform Chinese village.
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1995

description: This thesis has two aims. Firstly, it aims to provide a detailed ethnographic account of a post-reform village in north-western China by approach of examining how the fields of social relations are formed by and through discursive representations of the village and how the formation of social relations and representations of the village are constituted in everyday practices. Secondly, this thesis also aims to reach wider theoretical issues, particularly issues concerning the debates about writing and fieldwork in contemporary anthropology, and aims to use a specific case study to raise, critically, questions about ethnographic writing on China. Writing in the wake of Foucauldian and renewed Marxist currents of radical critique from which comes the general claim of relating power to knowledge or to ideology, I take a 'practice approach' in this thesis to examine rural life in post-reform China as historically situated social practice. Focusing on the details of everyday life, I argue that, firstly, social action and its agents are mutually constitutive and, secondly, social, economic and political organisations as complex forms of practices are constituted in everyday practices. In the Introduction, I trace the regional tradition of ethnographic writing on China and illustrate my theoretical stance and the specific position from which I write. Chapter 1 provides a background of the village by way of presenting different narratives and representations about the village. Chapter 2 looks at kinship as a social practice and examines its changing strategies. Chapter 3 focuses on the tactics of marriage negotiation and shows that social relations are modifiable, alterable, changing processes. Chapter 4 looks at food and the way in which it is served on different occasions as a signifier of various kinds of social relationships. Chapter 5, as a core chapter of the thesis, examines the strategies and tactics of everyday practices through a series of detailed ethnographic examples. Chapter 6 looks at the village celebrations - weddings and funerals - as extensive forms of practices, which reveal more clearly 'the logic of practice' in post-reform rural China. Chapter 7, the last substantial chapter, focuses on the effects of the economic reforms on the village's economic and political practices, and shows the changing strategies in reordering and re-constituting the power relations in post-reform rural China. In my Conclusion, I point out the significance of my research as a critical understanding of both the actual socio-economic conditions of post-reform rural China and the regional tradition of ethnographic writing on China.
Supplemental_Table_1_xyz300951e870644 – Supplemental material for The insulin signaling pathway is dysregulated in cumulus cells from obese, infertile women with polycystic ovarian syndrome with an absence of clinical insulin resistance
Creators: name: Chehin, Mauricio B.
name: Fraietta, Renato
name: Lorenzon, Aline R.
name: Bonetti, Tatiana C.S.
name: Motta, Eduardo L.A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111402 Obstetrics and Gynaecology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Table_1_xyz300951e870644 for The insulin signaling pathway is dysregulated in cumulus cells from obese, infertile women with polycystic ovarian syndrome with an absence of clinical insulin resistance by Mauricio B. Chehin, Renato Fraietta, Aline R. Lorenzon, Tatiana C.S. Bonetti and Eduardo L.A. Motta in Therapeutic Advances in Reproductive Health
Supplemental Material, HF_Manuscript_(Journal_of_Comorbidity)_-_Appendix_B_NEW_Jan28,2020 - Improving the design of heart failure care from the perspective of frontline providers and administrators: A qualitative case study of a large, urban health system
Creators: name: Marani, Husayn
name: Baranek, Hayley
name: Abrams, Howard
name: McDonald, Michael
name: Nguyen, Megan
name: Posada, Juan Duero
name: Ross, Heather
name: Schofield, Toni
name: Shaw, James
name: R Sacha Bhatia
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, HF_Manuscript_(Journal_of_Comorbidity)_-_Appendix_B_NEW_Jan28,2020 for Improving the design of heart failure care from the perspective of frontline providers and administrators: A qualitative case study of a large, urban health system by Husayn Marani, Hayley Baranek, Howard Abrams, Michael McDonald, Megan Nguyen, Juan Duero Posada, Heather Ross, Toni Schofield, James Shaw and R Sacha Bhatia in Journal of Comorbidity