cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Where are ‘cultural’ and ‘social’ in ecosystem services: A framework for constructive engagement.
Creators: name: Chan, Kai Ming Adam, 1975-
name: Guerry, Anne
name: Balvanera, Patricia
name: Klain, Sarah
name: Satterfield, Terre, 1960-
name: Basurto, Xavier
name: Bostrom, Ann
name: Chuenpagdee, Ratana
name: Gould, Rachelle
name: Halpern, Benjamin
name: Hannahs, Neil
name: Levine, Jordan
name: Norton, Bryan
name: Ruckelshaus, Mary
name: Russell, Roly
name: Tam, Jordan
name: Woodside, Ulalia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Focusing on ecosystem services (ES) is seen as a means for improving decision-making. Research to-date has emphasized valuation of material contributions of ecosystems to human well-being, with less attention to important cultural ES and non-material values. This gap persists because there is no commonly accepted framework for eliciting tangible values, characterizing their changes and including them alongside other services in decision-making. Here we develop such a framework for ES research and practice, addressing three challenges: i) non-material values are ill-suited to characterization using monetary methods, ii) it is difficult to unequivocally link particular changes in social-ecological systems to particular changes in cultural benefits; and iii) cultural benefits are associated with many services, not just cultural ES. There is no magic bullet, but our framework may facilitate fuller and more socially acceptable integrations of ES information into planning and management. Copyright statement: “NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in BioScience. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in BioScience, 6, (8), (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.8.7¨
Impact of flow control on quality of service driven packet scheduling disciplines
Creators: name: Hayes, David A.
name: Rumsewicz, Michael
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we investigate the interaction between window based flow control and a recently proposed packet scheduling discipline designed for real-time services. The scheduling discipline, called the Dual Queue discipline, has been shown to provide greater flexibility than other scheduling disciplines such as fair queueing. However, its performance on non real-time services has not been previously investigated. We show that the Dual Queue's performance for non real-time services is again better than that of alternative approaches, which indicates that it will perform well in an environment of mixed real-time and non real-time traffic, such as the current internet.
Expatriating the Universal: A Decolonial Imagination beyond Authentic “Asia”
Creators: name: Hino, Aya
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2020

description: In the field of urban studies, there has been a call to develop “new geographies of theory” to accommodate “Asian” experiences of urbanisation in theory-building practices, which are said to have been based largely on “Western” experiences of urban space. In thinking about possibilities of a theory from “Asia”, this article, instead of arguing from within the field of urban studies per se, problematises the conventions of knowledge production today, including the division between the disciplines and area-centric research in the institutional formation of knowledge production, the separation of universal from particular forms of knowledge, and the isomorphism of “the West” with the universal and of “Asia” with the particular. In doing so, the author argues for the need to move beyond the notion of authentic “Asia” as an alternative locus of enunciation vis-à-vis “the West” and to expatriate the universal from the territorially bounded place. A theory from “Asia” should embody the liminality of “Asia” and “the West” and express the universal not as the transcendence of the particular, but as the manifestation of the multitude of alterity.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 3-4 (2019): Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia, Part I
Analysis of the influence of a metha-type metaphysical stem on biomechanical parameters
Creators: name: Pozowski, Andrzej
name: Ścigała, Krzysztof
name: Kierzek, Andrzej
name: Paprocka-Borowicz, Małgorzata
name: Kuciel-Lewandowska, Jadwiga
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2013
Subjects: metaphysial stem, osteointegration, primary stability, secondary stability, stem loosening, the finite element method

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2013; ISSN 1509-409X
Mandibular reconstruction-biomechanical strength analysis (FEM) based on a retrospective clinical analysis of selected patients
Creators: name: Jędrusik-Pawłowska, Magdalena
name: Kromka-Szydek, Magdalena
name: Katra, Magdalena
name: Niedzielska, Iwona
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2013
Subjects: bone grafts, mandibular reconstruction, finite element method - FEM, reconstruction plates, bone healing

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2013; ISSN 1509-409X
Area Studies for Urban Sustainability Research: Current Practice and Untapped Potential
Creators: name: Brombal, Daniele
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2020

description: This paper discusses the potential of Area Studies to inform scientific inquiry for urban sustainability. It draws from two strains of scholarship: the systemic and place-based research on sustainability and the post-1989 reflection on the conceptual foundations of Area Studies. The author starts from the assumption that Area Studies and sustainability research share a similar concern over place(s), shaped over time by human-to-nature and human-to-human relations. He then lays down two pathways for the contribution of Area Studies to urban sustainability research. The first reflects the role of Area Studies in overcoming disciplinary and sectorial barriers, fostering holistic understandings of sustainability. The second relates to the capacity for self-reflexivity inherent in Area Studies, which nurtures critical approaches to the study of sustainability. Once its epistemological and ethical potential is unearthed, Area Studies can become a thriving trans-disciplinary field informing socio-ecological transformations.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 3-4 (2019): Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia, Part I
A Green Transition? An Overview of Current Uses of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Shift from Fossil Fuels to Green Energy
Creators: name: Rensmo, Amanda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Extensive research on climate change over the years all points in the same direction; systemic action is increasingly urgent. As a response, substantial efforts have been launched for a transition from fossil fuels to renewable alternatives, which includes the electrification of the energy, transportation and industry sectors, among other solutions. Solar panels, electric vehicles and heat pumps are some examples in this so-called green energy transition.

Still, the notion of “green” is without a conclusive definition. To contextualize, pollution and biodiversity loss, apart from climate change, have been shown to threaten the environment, ecosystems and human wellbeing, jointly known as the triple planetary crisis. The three dimensions (and the solutions to them) are interlinked, as can be exemplified through the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). While they may provide important functions in the proposed green energy solutions to mitigate climate change (e.g. as binder in batteries), all PFAS in this immense chemical class are persistent, leading to significant, long-lasting pollution impacts. Thus, the question remains, can we make the current renewable energy transition a truly green energy transition? To address this matter, it is key to first understand if PFAS are essential in a green energy transition.

In this work, we present an overview of the uses of PFAS in several major energy technologies that commonly are rated as green. This includes, for instance, various battery chemistries, energy generation applications such as photovoltaics and wind turbines as well as fuel cells and electrolyzers of different types. Furthermore, we point to the need for transition to alternatives. The data were collected with an extensive literature review of both peer-reviewed literature as well as regulatory texts, surveying industrial and academic contributions to the field. In addition, interviews were conducted with both current industry parties which use PFAS and new actors providing alternative solutions.

Lastly, we emphasize the importance of highlighting the broader impacts, including PFAS pollution, associated with implementing green energy technologies to address climate change. This work contributes to this understudied field by providing knowledge and data that can be used to inform policy- and decision-making, such as improving recycling to mitigate potential emissions of PFAS or advancing alternative assessments of these technologies.
Rainer Werning / Jörg Schwieger (eds): Handbuch Philippinen. Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur
Creators: name: Széll, György
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Feasibility of the Enhancing Participation In the Community by improving Wheelchair Skills (EPIC Wheels) program: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Giesbrecht, Edward M.
name: Miller, William C.
name: Eng, Janice
name: Mitchell, Ian M.
name: Woodgate, Roberta L.
name: Goldsmith, Charles H.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Many older adults rely on a manual wheelchair for mobility but typically receive little, if any, training on how to use their wheelchair effectively and independently. Standardized skill training is an effective intervention, but limited access to clinician trainers is a substantive barrier. Enhancing Participation in the Community by Improving Wheelchair Skills (EPIC Wheels) is a 1-month monitored home training program for improving mobility skills in older novice manual wheelchair users, integrating principles from andragogy and social cognitive theory. The purpose of this study is to determine whether feasibility indicators and primary clinical outcome measures of the EPIC Wheels program are sufficiently robust to justify conducting a subsequent multi-site randomized controlled trial. Methods: A 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled trial at two sites will compare improvement in wheelchair mobility skills between an EPIC Wheels treatment group and a computer-game control group, with additional wheelchair use introduced as a second factor. A total of 40 community-dwelling manual wheelchair users at least 55 years old and living in two Canadian metropolitan cities (n = 20 × 2) will be recruited. Feasibility indicators related to study process, resources, management, and treatment issues will be collected during data collection and at the end of the study period, and evaluated against proposed criteria. Clinical outcome measures will be collected at baseline (pre-randomization) and post-intervention. The primary clinical outcome measure is wheelchair skill capacity, as determined by the Wheelchair Skills Test, version 4.1. Secondary clinical outcome measures include wheelchair skill safety, satisfaction with performance, wheelchair confidence, life-space mobility, divided-attention, and health-related quality of life. Discussion: The EPIC Wheels training program offers several innovative features. The convenient, portable, economical, and adaptable tablet-based, home program model for wheelchair skills training has great potential for clinical uptake and opportunity for future enhancements. Theory-driven design can foster learning and adherence for older adults. Establishing the feasibility of the study protocol and estimating effect size for the primary clinical outcome measure will be used to develop a multi-site randomized controlled trial to test the guiding hypotheses. Trial registration: Clinical Trials NCT01740635 .
CLAMP: differentiated capacity allocation in access networks
Creators: name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Hanly, Stephen V.
name: Mukhtar, Rami G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a solution for providing differentiated capacity allocation in an access network. The system is based on CLAMP, an algorithm that can differentiate between flows sharing the same FIFO queue. The system is suitable for access networks, such as those based on DSL and HFC modems and wireless LAN access points. The deployment of CLAMP is completely contained within the access network; no changes to the remainder of the network are required. CLAMP provides the opportunity to enforce local policies on TCP flows that originate from sources distributed globally. The performance of CLAMP is verified by both simulation and analysis.
Hell Gap Locality I; Unit S-12 level 0-4in; Feature 3.
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Archaeology
Hell Gap
Wyoming
Guernsey

description: Color slides taken during initial Hell Gap excavations 1961-1962 near Guernsey, Wyoming. Reference HELL GAP I: MAPS Row S (-9 to 18).
Conceptual Framework for Developing the Next Generation of Marine OBservatories (MOBs) for Science and Society.
Creators: name: Crise, Alessandro
name: Ribera D’Alcalà, Maurizio
name: Mariani, Patrizio
name: Petihakis, George
name: Robidart, Julie
name: Iudicone, Daniele
name: Bachmayer, Ralf
name: Malfatti, Francesca
Publisher: name: UNESCO/IOC
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Marine OBservatory
subject: Cyberinfrastructure
subject: Long-term sustainability
subject: Essential ocean variables (EOV)
subject: Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
subject: Parameter Discipline::Cross-discipline

description: In the field of ocean observing, the term of “observatory” is often used without a unique meaning. A clear and unified definition of observatory is needed in order to facilitate the communication in a multidisciplinary community, to capitalize on future technological innovations and to support the observatory design based on societal needs. In this paper, we present a general framework to define the next generation Marine OBservatory (MOB), its capabilities and functionalities in an operational context. The MOB consists of four interconnected components or “gears” (observation infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure, support capacity, and knowledge generation engine) that are constantly and adaptively interacting with each other. Therefore, a MOB is a complex infrastructure focused on a specific geographic area with the primary scope to generate knowledge via data synthesis and thereby addressing scientific, societal, or economic challenges. Long-term sustainability is a key MOB feature that should be guaranteed through an appropriate governance. MOBs should be open to innovations and good practices to reduce operational costs and to allow their development in quality and quantity. A deeper biological understanding of the marine ecosystem should be reached with the proliferation of MOBs, thus contributing to effective conservation of ecosystems and management of human activities in the oceans. We provide an actionable model for the upgrade and development of sustained marine observatories producing knowledge to support science-based economic and societal decisions.
title: Préface_Pour le photographe et le cinéman
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Préface
description: ID_PARA_00844
Hajo Frölich: Des Kaisers neue Schulen. Bildungsreformen und der Staat in Südchina, 1901–1911
Creators: name: Schulte, Barbara
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Linking Childhood and Adult Criminality: Using a Life Course Framework to Examine Childhood Abuse and Neglect, Substance Use and Adult Partner Violence
Creators: name: Minh, Anita
name: Matheson, Flora I.
name: Daoud, Nihaya
name: Hamilton-Wright, Sarah
name: Pedersen, Cheryl
name: Borenstein, Heidi
name: O'Campo, Patricia
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Child abuse and neglect, considered criminal acts under the Criminal Code of Canada, play an important role in substance use, violence, and other criminal behaviour in adulthood. We adopted the life course perspective to identify modifiable contextual influences and co-occurring individual, social, and familial determinants associated with adult criminality. Using in-depth interview data, a sub-sample of 13 women who had recently experienced intimate partner violence, recounted their experiences of childhood abuse, their own substance use or criminality, as well as implications of these factors on their children’s life trajectories. For the purposes of this paper criminality was defined as child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, illegal substance use and underage alcohol use. Our objective was to explore, in our data: (1) patterns and trajectories of criminality from childhood to adulthood among women who were victims of violence, and (2) cumulative effects of early life exposures on experiences of criminality; with the aim of describing the life course perspective as a useful framework to understand criminality along the life trajectory. The analysis was not designed to demonstrate causal connections between early childhood and adulthood experiences of criminality. Rather we generated qualitative and quantitative hypotheses to guide future research in the field. Implications for research and interventions are discussed.
Enterohepatic bacterial infections dysregulate the FGF15-FGFR4 endocrine axis
Creators: name: Romain, Guillaume
name: Tremblay, Sarah
name: Arena, Ellen T.
name: Antunes, L. C. M.
name: Covey, Scott
name: Chow, Michael T.
name: Finlay, B. Brett, 1959-
name: Menendez, Alfredo
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Enterohepatic bacterial infections have the potential to affect multiple physiological processes of the body. Fibroblast growth factor 15/19 (FGF15 in mice, FGF19 in humans) is a hormone that functions as a central regulator of glucose, lipid and bile acid metabolism. FGF15/19 is produced in the intestine and exert its actions on the liver by signaling through the FGFR4-βKlotho receptor complex. Here, we examined the in vivo effects of enterohepatic bacterial infection over the FGF15 endocrine axis. Results: Infection triggered significant reductions in the intestinal expression of Fgf15 and its hepatic receptor components (Fgfr4 and Klb (βKlotho)). Infection also resulted in alterations of the expression pattern of genes involved in hepatobiliary function, marked reduction in gallbladder bile volumes and accumulation of hepatic cholesterol and triglycerides. The decrease in ileal Fgf15 expression was associated with liver bacterial colonization and hepatobiliary pathophysiology rather than with direct intestinal bacterial pathogenesis. Conclusions: Bacterial pathogens of the enterohepatic system can disturb the homeostasis of the FGF15/19-FGFR4 endocrine axis. These results open up a possible link between FGF15/19-FGFR4 disruptions and the metabolic and nutritional disorders observed in infectious diseases.
Making Memory by Dissociating the Past from the Present: Narratives of Movement Intellectuals of the Post-Fukushima Protest Cycle in Japan
Creators: name: Wiemann, Anna
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: The impact of collective memory on mobilisation processes is an emerging research field in social movement studies. Adopting the perspective of “memory in activism”, which tackles the question of how memories of previous struggles shape present social movements (as proposed by Ann Rigney), this research note provides a first idea of the effect of the collective memory of the violent 1960s “New Left” protest cycle in Japan on the most recent protest cycle triggered by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. At their peak, these protests drew up to 200,000 participants during the summer of 2012 – a fact often downplayed in Western media coverage. As an access point to the study of the memory work pursued by and within the movement, this research note analyses written narratives of two activist intellectuals of the post-Fukushima protest cycle. The analysis shows a clear dissociation from the violent legacy of the 1960s that emphasises the distinctively peaceful character of the present protests and claims for them an equally important status in history.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Territorialising Chinese Inner Asia: The Neo-Developmentalist State and Minority Unrest
Creators: name: Köpke, Sören
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s claim to inter-ethnic harmony, the human rights situation of some of the PRC’s 55 official minorities is problematic. The article discusses minority unrest in relation to the ongoing transformation of the country’s Inner Asian frontier regions. Taking the three autonomous regions of Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia as case studies, it examines the long-running but recently accelerated processes of modernisation and ethno-political conflict. It argues that minority policy is driven by nationalist / neo-developmentalist motives aimed at both the expansion and intensification of Chinese power, and that this process can be termed state-led territorialisation. Programmes such as the Great Western Development and the Belt and Road Initiative are viewed through the lens of neo-developmentalist territorialisation, which is aimed at entrenching the Communist Party’s control of China’s frontier regions. This perspective provides explanations for conflict that cover several dimensions, from political, economic and cultural causes to ethno-political strife.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Sattras, Magical Power and Belief Narratives in the Context of Flood and Erosion on Majuli Island
Creators: name: Saikia, Baburam
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: Majuli is an island situated mid-stream in the river Brahmaputra, in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The island is bounded by the river Subansiri – a tributary of the river Brahmaputra – on the northwest, the Kherkatiasuti – a spill channel of the river Brahmaputra – in the northeast and the main Brahmaputra river to the south and southwest. The river usually brings floods every year. Inhabitants suffer badly as a consequence of widespread severe bank erosion, which causes serious damage to residential blocks, paddy fields, grazing land and open areas. More than half of the island has eroded over the last 100 years. The government’s role in terms of protection measures does not seem to be effective in controlling floods and stopping erosion. With land disappearing, there is a progressive loss of the traditional means of livelihood of the island’s people, leading to their displacement. During times of erosion, inhabitants offer their prayers to the river Brahmaputra to stop rapid destruction and protect them from catastrophe. A section of the population has set up a congregational worship of the river Brahmaputra, which is performed on the riverbank every year before the monsoon begins. The islanders’ relationship with the river is affectionate but also filled with hatred, depending on the activity of the river. This paper analyses the beliefs and narratives of the inhabitants of Majuli associated with the river Brahmaputra.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Nations Rebound: German Politics of Deporting Afghans
Creators: name: Sökefeld, Martin
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: This article traces the development of German politics of deporting Afghans. Since the great influx of refugees in 2015 – which doubled the number of Afghans in Germany – the asylum acceptance rate of Afghan refugees has been reduced while at the same time the government has made efforts to increase the number of deportations, arguing that parts of Afghanistan are “safe” for deportees, in spite of increasing violence in the country. Using a logic of deservingness, politicians maintain that the only persons deported are those who refuse to “integrate”. In fact, however, more “well-integrated” Afghans are deported than persons with a criminal record. Within the context of an increasingly restrictive asylum system, the emphasis on deportations has to be understood as an attempt to counter the rise of right-wing populism in Germany. Yet activists who support individual refugees and rejected asylum seekers, trying to prevent their deportation, increasingly contest this approach. By pointing out that particular persons who are threatened by deportation are “well integrated” and therefore deserve to stay, these activists essentially accept and reinforce the logic of deservingness. The article argues that the deportee epitomises the current reterritorialisation of nation-states and global system of unequal (im)mobility.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Using foresight research in strategic marketing planning
Creators: name: Murphy, Brian
name: Meyer, Denny
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper demonstrates the usefulness of foresight research to measure attitudes as weak signals or indicators of the foreseeable future to inform and enrich the SWOT analysis within the Situation Analysis of the Strategic Marketing Plan, thus obtaining a sense of the future societal context for the marketing of an organisation’s products. A New Zealand attitudinal scenario survey is used as the foresight research example, augmented by conjoint analysis and structural equation modelling. This indicates a Labour Government promoted future macro societal context for organisational strategic marketing planning that is Triple Bottom Line orientated in terms of sustainable economic, social, and environmental development.
Coping with Insecurity: Labour Relations, (Im)mobility and Conflict-sensitive Employment in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Grawert, Elke
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: Forced migration studies and research related to the “new wars” paradigm have drawn attention to the modes of operation of war economies and the coercive labour relations involved. Field research findings by the author and an Afghan team in 2015–2017 on employment by local construction companies revealed that remnants of the war economy have persisted in Afghanistan’s fragile and violence-affected settings and continue to shape labour relations. To avoid acts of sabotage and fulfil construction contracts, relationships with local powerholders – politicians holding offices in government or Taliban leaders – are crucial for mobile Afghan companies operating on construction sites for limited periods. The research findings indicate that these relationships provide a field of interaction and negotiations about conflict-sensitive employment between company managers and local elders representing community interests – and through them, local powerholders. The involvement of elders affects the labour relations between company managers and local workers, both mobile and immobile.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Cyclical, Temporary, No Return. Multiple Navigational Strategies of Displaced Persons from Myanmar
Creators: name: Horstmann, Alexander
name: Rudolf, Markus
name: Schmitz-Pranghe, Clara
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: Displaced persons in and from Myanmar employ a wide array of coping and navigational strategies to secure their livelihoods and to find physical protection. Placing these in the context of the security situation in Myanmar, the paper demonstrates that organised violence and related concerns for safety are not only the main cause of displacement, but constitute an important factor that continuously shapes livelihood options and strategies for those who find themselves in cycles of protracted violence and displacement. The array of strategies is situated between or beyond the classic paradigms promoted by international refugee organisations: return, local integration and resettlement. Beyond aid and non-aid related strategies, we observed such vital coping mechanisms as cyclical return movements, the establishment of transnational networks and webs, and the development of self-established infrastructure. Return and local integration are two options in a continuum of strategies comprising cyclical and temporary return processes, transnational networks and patterns of de facto local integration. The cases presented show that refugees weigh the risks of return in relation to their current situation. Decisive factors include security, access to legal documents, public services and infrastructure. Our research showed that any dichotomy that contrasts non-refugees as masters of their own fate as opposed to displaced persons as victims without agency is obsolete. The coping patterns of displaced persons are highly flexible and adaptive.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
The Cost of Legality: Navigating Labour Mobility and Exploitation in Malaysia
Creators: name: Franck, Anja Karlsson
name: Anderson, Joseph Trawicki
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: Through examining the experiences of Burmese migrant workers in Malaysia this paper analyses the complicated relationship between legal status and protection from violence and abuse. While legal status has often been promoted as a means to protect migrants, we suggest that legal status is actually pursued only at particular moments and on the basis of particular cost/benefit calculations made by migrants. Even as legal status offers some protection from state authorities, the linkage between legal status and employer sponsorship means that it also binds migrants to specific employers. Crucial to these calculations too is the cost of legal status for both migrants and employers, imbuing the relationship with financial risk on both sides and turning legal status into an expensive “commodity”. Therefore, while migrant labour is often constructed as being “cheap”, our study reveals that a key factor in the exploitation of migrants is that they are in fact so expensive to hire. Thus, as we argue here, it is important to look beyond a narrow focus on legal status and consider the basis on which such status is extended – especially as such status is increasingly predicated on a sponsoring employer and significant financial investments.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 50 Nr. 1-2 (2019): Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia
Admission to hospital for pneumonia and influenza attributable to 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 Influenza in First Nations communities in three provinces of Canada
Creators: name: Green, Michael E.
name: Wong, Sabrina T.
name: Lavoie, Josée G.
name: Kwong, Jeff
name: MacWilliam, Leonard
name: Peterson, Sandra
name: Liu, Guoyuan
name: Katz, Alan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Early reports of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic (pH1N1) indicated that a disproportionate burden of illness fell on First Nations reserve communities. In addition, the impact of the pandemic on different communities may have been influenced by differing provincial policies. We compared hospitalization rates for pneumonia and influenza (P&I) attributable to pH1N1 influenza between residents of First Nations reserve communities and the general population in three Canadian provinces. Methods: Hospital admissions were geocoded using administrative claims data from three Canadian provincial data centres to identify residents of First Nations communities. Hospitalizations for P&I during both waves of pH1N1 were compared to the same time periods for the four previous years to establish pH1N1-attributable rates. Results: Residents of First Nations communities were more likely than other residents to have a pH1N1-attributable P&I hospitalization (rate ratio [RR] 2.8-9.1). Hospitalization rates for P&I were also elevated during the baseline period (RR 1.5-2.1) compared to the general population. There was an average increase of 45% over the baseline in P&I admissions for First Nations in all 3 provinces. In contrast, admissions overall increased by approximately 10% or less in British Columbia and Manitoba and by 33% in Ontario. Subgroup analysis showed no additional risk for remote or isolated First Nations compared to other First Nations communities in Ontario or Manitoba, with similar rates noted in Manitoba and a reduction in P&I admissions during the pandemic period in remote and isolated First Nations communities in Ontario. Conclusions: We found an increased risk for pH1N1-related hospital admissions for First Nations communities in all 3 provinces. Interprovincial differences may be partly explained by differences in age structure and socioeconomic status. We were unable to confirm the assumption that remote communities were at higher risk for pH1N1-associated hospitalizations. The aggressive approach to influenza control in remote and isolated First Nations communities in Ontario may have played a role in limiting the impact of pH1N1 on residents of those communities.
Dynamical models with stellar evolution and binaries
Creators: name: Hurley, Jarrod
name: Shara, Michael M.
name: Aarseth, Sverre J.
name: Tout, Christopher A.
name: Pols, Onno R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The recent availability of the powerful GRAPE-6 hardware designed specifically to tackle the gravitational N-body problem, has coincided with the production of realistic N-body software that includes a detailed treatment of stellar and binary evolution.
Thaipusam Kavadī – A Festival Helping Hindus in Mauritius Cope with Fear
Creators: name: Fibiger, Marianne Qvortrup
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: With Hindus in Mauritius as a case study, this article will show how Thaipusam Kavadī, a festival of piercing and procession of ancient Tamil origin, has become not only a modern expression of religious affiliation in diaspora, but also a way of coping with fear by trying to gain dispensation for possible religious or ethical misconduct in a time and a place where religion has become compartmentalised. To understand this development, the article gives a short introduction to the overall theme of fear, including theoretical considerations as a prism to understand the factors at play. This is followed by an introduction to Hinduism in Mauritius from a general point of view. Then, using a particular case study and participant observations as a point of departure, the article will explore how Thaipusam Kavadī is conducted and what kind of meaning the participants attribute to their participation.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 3-4 (2018): Fear and Fright in South Asian Religion and Society
When Fearful Ghosts are Married in Tulunadu
Creators: name: Carrin, Marine
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: In Tulunadu those who meet a violent death fighting for a just cause may become demi-gods, or bhūtas. Here, death is a kind of apotheosis, where those who fought against injustice become divine figures after death, receiving a cult in a shrine. Quite different is the story of those who simply experienced a violent death before they even managed to get married. They return as ghosts, pretas, and their kin suffer from their absence, but still fear the pretas and try to appease them by all available means. The paradox is that when pretas manifest themselves their unwanted presence is frightening, while at the same time their absence is experienced as grief. This creates a kind of double bind, which villagers may try to resolve by celebrating the marriage of ghosts, enabling their deceased siblings to marry. This marriage induces the families of bride and bridegroom to unite in their grief, while trying to appease the young ghosts who torment them. This ritual, often held secretly, was documented by a photographer from the fisherman caste who had himself experienced similar fear when his brother-in-law, still a bachelor, committed suicide. The paper reflects on the fear he experienced, wondering if the ritual could really appease the kin.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 3-4 (2018): Fear and Fright in South Asian Religion and Society
Using Microsoft Excel to model a tennis match
Creators: name: Barnett, Tristan J.
name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper demonstrates the use of Microsoft® Excel to generate the probability of winning a tennis match and mean length of the remainder of the match conditional on the state of the match. Previous models treat games, sets and matches independently. We show how a series of interconnected sheets can be used to repeat these results. We also set up a sheet which can give the required statistics using the full match, set and game score as the state. The exercise could form an interesting and useful teaching example, and allow students to investigate the properties of tennis scoring systems.
Water Spirit Possession among the Khasis: Representation of Fear through Narratives
Creators: name: Lyngdoh, Margaret
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: This article argues that genre markers employed in oral narratives about possession by water spirits serve to exemplify human / non-human relations in Khasi supernatural ontology. It is not the aim of this work to add to the existing corpus of theories on narrative genre studies, but to try to analyse how genre boundaries within the Khasi language help shape and articulate relationality, interaction and participation between humans and entities of water. The article elucidates the way in which the “supernatural” world is understood and mediated through the mechanism of fear and its absence, as manifested in the narratives. Through case studies collected during primary fieldwork from various interlocutors from different parts of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, attitudes towards entities identified as sourced from the Khasi traditional religion help to create and shape the “new” frames of Christianity, urbanisation and modernity within which these entities operate.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 3-4 (2018): Fear and Fright in South Asian Religion and Society
“A Very Naughty Place!” The Attraction to the Frightening Other Reflected in Narratives about Assam
Creators: name: Garigliano, Irene Majo
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: According to many Hindus, travelling to Assam, in North-East India, is dangerous. The Assamese woman might trap the male outsider, using her magic to transform him into a goat and turn him back into a man at night. Unable to leave, the man would become the sex-toy of his mistress. Fear is the emotion many Hindus once felt (and still feel) about remote Assam. Still, many set off on a pilgrimage to Assam’s most famous temple – the Kāmākhyā temple in Guwahati. In many narratives, Assam, though frightening, is the source of occult knowledge for those who are prepared to cope with such awe-inspiring power. Through the analysis of several narratives about Assam, the paper advances a reflection on our notion of fear and shows how the latter is often tightly connected to attraction. The narratives are taken from several field visits by the author and her research focusing on the Kāmākhyā temple, as well as common stories from Hindu folklore. Together they explore a frightening picture of Assam. To make sense of these data, the paper evokes the notion of śakti and analyses the way Assamese women are depicted in the narratives under consideration.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 3-4 (2018): Fear and Fright in South Asian Religion and Society
The Mystery of the Buru: From Indigenous Ontology to Post-modern Fairy Tale
Creators: name: Beggiora, Stefano
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: This article offers an overview of the pantheon and religion of one of the most distinctive indigenous populations of Arunachal Pradesh in North-Eastern India: the Apatani. In particular, through an ethnographical field study on the distinctive culture of this ethnic group, the study aims to explain the symbolisms and functions inherent in the mythical figure of the buru, a kind of animal-chimaera, which plays a key role in the myth of the origins of the Apatani. At the same time, this study proposes a critical analysis of the results of Ralph Izzard’s exploratory expedition shortly after WWII, which discounted any possibility of investigating a cosmogonic myth, but strove to trace a legendary extinct saurian. The misinterpretation of the British expedition in the 1950s gave rise to a series of beliefs that in contemporary times (mostly in the West) have aimed to prove the real existence of the buru, extrapolating it from the folklore record. For this reason today the buru has become a sort of post-modern legend, or better a classical figure of cryptozoology, understood as pseudoscience and sub-cultural product. This essay tries to explore the issue through a religious and anthropological investigative approach.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 3-4 (2018): Fear and Fright in South Asian Religion and Society
Of Fear and Fright: Reminiscences from the Bangladesh Sundarbans in Colonel Ershad’s Time
Creators: name: Tambs-Lyche, Harald
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: In these reminiscences from the Bangladesh Sundarbans in the early 1980s, I recall the climate of fear that reigned in the area. Among the poor, every spring presented the threat of starvation and death, as their rice stocks became depleted and the price of rice became impossibly high. Rice became scarce, too, since much was smuggled to India at an even “better” price. For those who had a little land, there was the danger that rich neighbours would dispossess them by bribing the village accountant to change the title to the land. For the land-grabbers, there was the fear of vengeance from the Mukti Bahini, the clandestine freedom fighters from the time of the war of independence, who would sometimes kill the wrongdoers. For those who sympathised with the Mukti Bahini, there was the fear of the police. Even the schoolmasters were afraid, for the state coffers would run dry in the summer, and they would not get paid until the arrival of foreign aid money in January. And yet, in the midst of all this, there was the Jatra, the folk theatre, whose rehearsals were held clandestinely in spite of the curfew – proof of the people’s determination to enjoy life and art in spite of everything. This article, then, is a reflection on the courage exhibited by the residents of the Sundarbans in defiance of the omnipresent spectre of fear.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 3-4 (2018): Fear and Fright in South Asian Religion and Society
Fear and Fright in South Asia. Encounters with Ambivalence and Alterity in Vernacular Religion and Society
Creators: name: Beggiora, Stefano
name: Guzy, Lidia
name: Skoda, Uwe
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 3-4 (2018): Fear and Fright in South Asian Religion and Society
Gaining ground from standing your ground
Creators: name: Browne, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Sometime in the late 1890s Edward Andren, a sailor from Gothenburg in Sweden, jumped off a ship anchored on the northern coast of New South Wales. One of Australia's long line of unauthorised arrivals, Seaman Andren was apprehended and deported. But he tried again, and this time he wasn't captured. After settling in rural NSW, he became an Australian citizen---according to family legend---in 1903.
Rainer Werning / Helga Picht (eds): Brennpunkt Nordkorea: Wie gefährlich ist die Region? Berichte, Daten und Fakten
Creators: name: Suh, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 1-2 (2018): Everyday Security Practices in Asia
Toward a Model of Mobile User Engagement
Creators: name: O'Brien, Heather, 1977-
name: Absar, Rafa
name: Halbert, Helen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: In this paper we propose User Engagement (UE) as a conceptual framework for studying mobile information interaction. We redefine the six attributes of UE: focused attention, felt involvement, perceived usability, novelty, aesthetic appeal, and endurability for the mobile environment. We argue that mobile information interaction is an emerging area and situating it in UE can further research in this area.
Samina Yasmeen: Jihad and Dawah. Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e- Taiba and Jamat ud Dawah
Creators: name: Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 1-2 (2018): Everyday Security Practices in Asia