cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Biologia di Xylocopa (Xylocopa) violacea (L., 1758): specie di fiori visitate dalla femmina (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Creators: name: Vicidomini, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: BIOLOGY OF XYLOCOPA (XYLOCOPA) VIOLACEA (L., 1758): FEMALE FEEDING FLOWERS (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE)

Forty-two species and varieties of flowers on which X. violacea usually forage were identified. The nectar and pollen of 10 of them are used for pollen past preparation (larval food). In February females come out of their winter shelters between 10:30 and 13:30 at T > 13°C; in March, instead, between 9:00 and 14:00, at T > 17°C. In April-July they emerge from the nests even before 8:00 and go back into the nests even one hour after sunset. In August-October they seldom come out, and in November-January they almost never leave their shelters. The most important flower species for X. violacea life cicle are: Lamium purpureum (pre-mating period); Vicia faba (mating period); Actinidia sinensis and Papaver rhoeas (nesting period); Ocimum basi- licum (post-nesting period). Literature data shows that the Leguminosae are the most important family for the Xylocopa genus. Pollination of the “usual flowers” is performed by the ventral region of the carpenter bee. The colors of the “usual flowers” are in decreasing order of fre- quency, white, pink and yellow. The foraging biology of X. violacea appears remarkably plastic.

Key words: Xylocopa violacea, feeding flowers, foraging biology, flower piercing Southern Italy.

Sono state identificate 42 specie e varietà di piante su cui X. violacea abitualmente foraggia. Di queste, 10 sono specie il cui nettare e polline vengono impiegati per l’elaborazione della pasta pollinica o cibo della larva. Sono state inoltre identificate 21 specie su cui X. violacea occasionalmente è stata osservata foraggiare. A febbraio le femmine escono dai rifugi invernali a T >13°C, tra le 10,30 e le 13,30; in marzo invece a T > 17°C, tra le 9,00 e le 14,00; se spira vento freddo o il cielo è nuvoloso, è molto improbabile che fuoriescano dai rifugi. In aprile-luglio, fuoriescono dal nido anche prima delle 8,00 e terminano anche 1 ora dopo il tramonto. In agosto-ottobre le uscite sono notevolmente rare. In novembre-gennaio le femmine non effettuano quasi mai voli. Le specie di fiori fondamentali per il ciclo vitale di X. violacea sono: nel periodo pre-riproduttivo Lamium purpureum; nel periodo degli accoppiamenti Vicia faba; nella fase della nidificazione Actinidia chinensis e Papaver rhoeas; nella fase post-riproduttiva Ocimum basilicum. Dalla bibliografia risulta che le Leguminose sono la famiglia più importante per il genere Xylocopa. L’impollinazione delle piante “abituali” avviene a carico della regione ventrale dell’ape carpentiera. Il colore dei fiori visitati è in ordine decrescente bianco, rosa, giallo. La biologia alimentare di X. violacea ne risulta notevolmente plastica.

Parole chiave: Xylocopa violacea, piante nutrici, biologia del foraggiamento, incisione dei fiori, Sud-Italia.
description: Entomologica, Vol 29 (1995)
Supplementary_Materials – Supplemental material for Perceived Family and Friend Support Moderate Pathways From Peer Victimization to Substance Use in Early-Adolescent Girls and Boys: A Moderated-Mediation Analysis
Creators: name: Vannucci, Anna
name: Fagle, Tessa R.
name: Simpson, Emily G.
name: Ohannessian, Christine McCauley
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_Materials for Perceived Family and Friend Support Moderate Pathways From Peer Victimization to Substance Use in Early-Adolescent Girls and Boys: A Moderated-Mediation Analysis by Anna Vannucci, Tessa R. Fagle, Emily G. Simpson and Christine McCauley Ohannessian in The Journal of Early Adolescence
Siteroptes avenae (Müller) (Acari Siteroptidae) e Fusarium spp. (Hyphomycetes Tuberculariaceae)
Creators: name: De Lillo, Enrico
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: SITEROPTES AVENAE (MüLLER) (ACARI SITEROPTIDAE) AND FUSARIUM SPP. (HYPHOMYCETES TUBERCULARIACEAE)

Siteroptes avenae (Müller) has been collected from wheat (Triticum durum Desf. and T. aestivum L.) in Mezzolara (BO) and Panocchia (PR) (Northern Italy). The species is reported for the first time in Italy. Laboratory trials have shown that it can feed and reproduce on pure culture of Fusarium culmorum Smith and F. poae (Peck); moreover it has been ascertained that the mite is able to disperse passively F. poae, F. avenaceum (Fr.) Sacc. and Harzia acremonioides (Harz.) not only on the body surface but also inside the female sporotechae.

Key words: fungus-mite inter-relationships, mite rearing, fungal dispersal, sporotechae.

L’acaro Siteroptidae Siteroptes avenae (Müller), raccolto da campioni di frumento duro (Triticum durum Desf.) e tenero (T. aestivum L.) prelevati a Mezzolara (BO) e Panocchia (PR), viene per la prima volta segnalato in Italia. Prove di allevamento di questa specie in laboratorio hanno consentito di: confermare la possibilità di alimentarsi e riprodursi su colture pure di Fusarium culmorum Smith e F. poae (Peck); accertare la dispersione passiva di F. poae, F. avenaceum e Harzia acremonioides (Harz.) mediante le sporoteche di cui le femmine dell’acaro sono provviste.

Parole chiave: allevamento di acari, dispersione dei funghi, sporoteche, simbiosi mutualistica funghi-acari.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
title: Clash of governmentalities : Liberal peace, Tamil freedom and the 2001-2006 peace process in Sri Lanka.
Creators: name: Nadarajah, Suthaharan
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation argues that the dynamics, trajectories and outcomes of the Norwegian-led intervention in Sri Lanka from 2001 to 2006 to end the protracted armed conflict in the island can be productively understood as a 'clash of governmentalities', as the result of the simultaneous pursuit of competing idealizations of how populations, territory and forms of political rule should be organized. The first part of the study explores the concept of governmentality and sets out what is meant by a 'clash of governmentalities', a notion that turns on the different exercises of sovereignty, discipline and governmental modes of power in the service of competing rationalities of rule. Governmentality, it is argued, provides a novel and insightful way of looking at the consequences of international interventions in sites of 'internal' conflict such as Sri Lanka. The second part of the study explores the Norwegian- led peace process in Sri Lanka to show how two governmental rationalities, here termed Liberal Peace and Tamil Freedom, clashed via a myriad of micro-practices and ultimately produced an impasse which led not to lasting peace, but renewed war. The thesis thus examines the consequences of Liberal Peace, a political rationality which posits economic interdependence, democracy and the rule of law as constituting the sustainable foundations for world peace, encountering other, 'local' governmental projects which are also trying, sometimes violently, to reorder places in the global South according to their own rationalities of rule. The thesis concludes with a brief discussion of how the concept of a clash of governmentalities lends itself to further empirical and theoretical research.
supplemental_materials_Troop-Gordon_and_Kaeppler – Supplemental material for Youth’s Expectations for Their Teacher’s Handling of Peer Victimization and Their Socioemotional Development
Creators: name: Troop-Gordon, Wendy
name: Kaeppler, Alexander K.
name: Corbitt-Hall, Darcy J.
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, supplemental_materials_Troop-Gordon_and_Kaeppler for Youth’s Expectations for Their Teacher’s Handling of Peer Victimization and Their Socioemotional Development by Wendy Troop-Gordon, Alexander K. Kaeppler and Darcy J. Corbitt-Hall in The Journal of Early Adolescence
dce_supplement_R1_2.18.2020.rjf_online_supp – Supplemental material for Preferences for Predictive Model Characteristics among People Living with Chronic Lung Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Creators: name: Weissman, Gary E.
name: Yadav, Kuldeep N.
name: Trishya Srinivasan
name: Szymanski, Stephanie
name: Florylene Capulong
name: Madden, Vanessa
name: Courtright, Katherine R.
name: Hart, Joanna L.
name: Asch, David A.
name: Ratcliffe, Sarah J.
name: Schapira, Marilyn M.
name: Halpern, Scott D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, dce_supplement_R1_2.18.2020.rjf_online_supp for Preferences for Predictive Model Characteristics among People Living with Chronic Lung Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment by Gary E. Weissman, Kuldeep N. Yadav, Trishya Srinivasan, Stephanie Szymanski, Florylene Capulong, Vanessa Madden, Katherine R. Courtright, Joanna L. Hart, David A. Asch, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Marilyn M. Schapira and Scott D. Halpern in Medical Decision Making
title: Reinventing the traditional Guangzhou teahouse: Caterers, customers and cooks in post-socialist urban South China.
Creators: name: Klein, Jakob Akiba
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2004

description: This thesis, based on ten months of field research and archival studies in Guangzhou (Canton), centres on an ethnographic portrait of a 120-year old teahouse, a state enterprise which combines the functions of teahouse and restaurant in a single establishment with the help of 180 staff. I approach the teahouse as a complex, shifting social space embedded in wider discourses and historical processes, and use the ethnographic portrait as a basis for exploration into several themes in the anthropology of urban China. The first chapter provides an historical background and deals with the rise, fall and revival of teahouse culture in the changing uses of urban space in the twentieth century. Chapter two discusses sociability among teahouse regulars, and explores the teahouse as a site for the forging of social ties and the negotiation of class, neighbourhood and gender identities. In chapter three I examine the role of the state sector of the catering industry in recent discourses of nostalgia and tradition. The fourth chapter reveals the shifting nature of Cantonese cuisine within the contexts of globalisation and discourses of modernity. Chapter five considers the significance of gender, native place and age for structuring opportunities in the teahouse workforce. Chapter six looks at cooks' reactions to the ongoing reforms of the state enterprise, and situates these within the contexts of kitchen work and cooks' occupational identities. The underlying argument in the thesis is that social identifications and cultural discourses in contemporary urban China must be understood not only as grounded in the present, but also within complex histories of continuities, ruptures and reinventions. In particular, I argue that there is scope for rethinking Maoism as being not only destructive but also productive of cultural traditions.
sj-pdf-1-ltj-10.1177_0265532220932481 - Supplemental material for A meta-analysis of self-assessment and language performance in language testing and assessment
Creators: name: Li, Minzi
name: Zhang, Xian
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education
Language Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ltj-10.1177_0265532220932481 for A meta-analysis of self-assessment and language performance in language testing and assessment by Minzi Li and Xian Zhang in Language Testing
title: The city in the novels of Fu'ad al-Takarli.
Creators: name: al-Jamali, Sana'
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: This thesis examines how the Iraqi writer, Fu'ad al-Takarli, reveals the complex and intimate dynamics of Iraqi society from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s, in his three novels, Al Raj' al-Baid, Khatam al-Ram, and Al-Masarrat wed-Awja. The author's treatment of space and time throughout each novel is analysed - with particular reference to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of Dialogism - in terms of the significance of chronotopes; the relationship between a character, his environment, and the links between the dichotomies of public and private space and the historical political situation. The introduction provides the context to the three novels under discussion which form a trilogy. A summary of the contemporary history of Iraq, al-Takarli's place within the development of the Arabic novel, and a survey of the critical framework adopted by this study is presented here. The following three chapters each analyse one of the novels, charting the erosion of the city (Baghdad) as a haven of familiarity and culture via the emergence of an aggressive political force (the Ba'th Party), which takes advantage of social decay. The role of the city increases throughout the trilogy as it becomes a metaphor for the state' s manipulation of identity. This thesis advances the view that al-Takarli casts the city as a microcosm of the whole of Iraq and the members of the families he portrays as allegorical characters who represent classes, generations or physical embodiments of the nation. The conclusion sums up the trilogy's exploration of identity through geography and presents a case for its intended function as both a historical document and a remedial tool for overcoming the trauma of the past. It is argued, above all, that the novels emphasise the empowering idea of a unified cultural identity of the Iraqi people.
SUPPLEMENTARY_MATERIALS_2 – Supplemental material for Is There an Association Between Metformin Exposure and Frailty?
Creators: name: Dhanya Baskaran
name: Aparicio-Ugarriza, Raquel
name: Ferri-Guerra, Juliana
name: Raneem Milyani
name: Florez, Hermes
name: Ruiz, Jorge G.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, SUPPLEMENTARY_MATERIALS_2 for Is There an Association Between Metformin Exposure and Frailty? by Dhanya Baskaran, Raquel Aparicio-Ugarriza, Juliana Ferri-Guerra, Raneem Milyani, Hermes Florez and Jorge G. Ruiz in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
title: The politics of economic reform in the Philippines: The case of banking sector reform between 1986-1995.
Creators: name: Mikamo, Shingo
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: This thesis is about the political economy of the Philippines in the process of recovery from the ruin of economic crisis in the early 1980s. It examines the dynamics of Philippine politics by focussing on banking sector reform between 1986 and 1995. After the economic turmoil of the early 1980s, the economy recovered between 1986 and 1996 under the Aquino and Ramos governments, although the country is still facing numerous economic challenges. After the "Asian currency crisis" of 1997, the economy inevitably decelerated again. However, the Philippines was seen as one of the economies least adversely affected by the rapid depreciation of its currency. The existing literature tends to stress the roles played by international financial structures, the policy preferences of the IMF, the World Bank and the US government and the interests of the dominant social force as decisive factors underlying economic and banking reform policy-making in the Philippines. However, the excessive focus on these factors limits our ability to examine economic reform policy-making since they depict Philippine politics as a process in which policy outcomes are determined by relatively immediate expressions of either foreign-rooted or socially-rooted demands. This thesis will offer an alternative view, by seeking to show the merits of an approach which locates "policy elites and institutions" at the centre of the analysis of banking reform policy-making. It will be argued that the decisions of policy elites, including the President, legislators and state officials (Central Bank officials), and the interactions among them, which are affected by changing political institutions, are vital to explanations of the success or failure of banking reform. Political institutions strengthen or weaken the interests and capacities of presidents, the centre of Philippine government, in promoting reforms in the banking sector.
Supplemental Material, Interview_Guide - Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) Young Adults’ Relational Well-Being Before and After Taiwanese Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage: A Qualitative Study Protocol
Creators: name: Yu-Te Huang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental Material, Interview_Guide for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) Young Adults’ Relational Well-Being Before and After Taiwanese Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage: A Qualitative Study Protocol by Yu-Te Huang in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Supplemental Material, MI-2019-10-0046.R1___Supplemental_Material - Application and Evaluation of [99mTc]-Labeled Peptide Nucleic Acid Targeting MicroRNA-155 in Breast Cancer Imaging
Creators: name: Jiang, Yaqun
name: Gai, Yongkang
name: Long, Yu
name: Liu, Qingyao
name: Liu, Chunbao
name: Zhang, Yongxue
name: Lan, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, MI-2019-10-0046.R1___Supplemental_Material for Application and Evaluation of [99mTc]-Labeled Peptide Nucleic Acid Targeting MicroRNA-155 in Breast Cancer Imaging by Yaqun Jiang, Yongkang Gai, Yu Long, Qingyao Liu, Chunbao Liu, Yongxue Zhang and Xiaoli Lan in Molecular Imaging
Supplementary Information from Hierarchical Nested Honeycomb-based Energy Absorbers: Design Factors and Tailorable Mechanical Properties
Creators: name: Ghimire, Ashish
name: Hsu, Ching-Han
name: Lin, Chien-Chih
name: Chen, Po-Yu
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340402
subject: Biomolecular modelling and design
classificationCode: 400302
subject: Biomaterials

description: Figures
"Different in Two Ways": An Analysis of Black LGBTQ+ Youth Perspectives of the High School Experience
Creators: name: Mota, Dalia Juliet
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2024

description: This study seeks to address a critical gap in the literature by examining the experiences of Black LGBTQ+ students in schools, particularly regarding victimization and punishment. Through 21 in-depth interviews conducted with Black individuals aged 14-19, I explore how perceptions of racial, sexual, and gender biases influence students' understandings of their school environment. Findings reveal these students negotiate stigma according to the salience of their multiple marginalized statuses. Moreover, students who perceive racial differential treatment consistently disengage from the learning environment as a response. This research contributes to understanding how intersecting forms of oppression operate within school systems, shedding light on how Black LGBTQ+ students are marginalized and overlooked. This work aims to inform interventions and policies striving to create more inclusive and equitable school environments by situating perceived differential treatment within a broader cultural and societal context.
title: The Gandavyuha-Sutra: A study of wealth, gender and power in an Indian Buddhist narrative.
Creators: name: Osto, Douglas Edward
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2004

description: In this thesis, I examine the roles of wealth, gender and power in the Mahayana Buddhist scripture known as the Gandavyuha-sutra, using contemporary textual theory, narratology and worldview analysis. I argue that the wealth, gender and power of the spiritual guides (kalyanamitras, literally 'good friends') in this narrative reflect the social and political hierarchies and patterns of Buddhist patronage in ancient Indian during the time of its compilation. In order to do this, I divide the study into three parts. In part I, 'Text and Context', I first investigate what is currently known about the origins and development of the Gandavyuha, its extant manuscripts, translations and modem scholarship. Next, using a relative chronology based on current research into the origins of the Mahayana, I argue for the 3rd century CE, as likely time of origin, and suggest Dhanyakataka/Dharanlkota as the place of origin for the text. In part II, 'Structures', I examine the text's worldview and narrative structures. In chapter 3, I investigate the notions of reality, society and the individual. In chapter 4,1 outline some key concepts developed by the Dutch narratologist Mieke Bal (1997) and demonstrate how these concepts may be utilised in an analysis of the Gandavyuha. I begin part III, 'Forces', by considering Derrida's (2001) notion of 'force' as a critique of structuralism's overly 'geometric' model in the study of narrative. In an attempt to synthesise structure and force in part III, I examine the various structures outlined in previous chapters in relation to the themes of wealth, gender and power, as they unfold chronologically within the narrative From this study, I conclude that in the Gandavyuha, wealth functions as a sign of spiritual status, the significant number of royal female kalydnamitras reflects the importance of female patrons at the time of the text's compilation, and the spiritual hierarchy within the story mirrors the political hierarchies of Buddhism's Middle Period in India.
Data_availability_statement for Hydrophilic Polymer in Thrombus Specimens Obtained During Thrombus Aspiration in the Setting of Percutaneous Interventions in Japan
Creators: name: Miyaoka, Masashi
name: Hatanaka, Kazuhito
name: Nakamura, Naoya
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Data_availability_statement for Hydrophilic Polymer in Thrombus Specimens Obtained During Thrombus Aspiration in the Setting of Percutaneous Interventions in Japan by Masashi Miyaoka, Kazuhito Hatanaka and Naoya Nakamura in International Journal of Surgical Pathology
Online_Appendix_Danish_Field_of_Power_Final_2.0 – Supplemental material for The Established and the Delegated: The Division of Labour of Domination among Effective Agents on the Field of Power in Denmark
Creators: name: Lunding, Jacob Aagaard
name: Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman
name: Larsen, Anton Grau
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, Online_Appendix_Danish_Field_of_Power_Final_2.0 for The Established and the Delegated: The Division of Labour of Domination among Effective Agents on the Field of Power in Denmark by Jacob Aagaard Lunding, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard and Anton Grau Larsen in Sociology
“A Contest of Probabilities”: The Construction of Affordances in Lethal Injection Discourse
Creators: name: Silcox, K.T.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2024

description: Questions over the inherent uncertainty about the capabilities and qualities of objects are frequently the central gravitational force that social discourses converge around. One such example is the legal debate over capital punishment, and the execution method of lethal injection specifically. Within legal disputes over whether certain lethal drugs used in executions constitute cruel and unusual punishment, lawyers representing both the State and those on death row use uncertainty to stake their own claims about what pieces of evidence do or do not mean. Through a qualitative content analysis of the briefs filed in Glossip v. Gross at the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, this research aims to answer the following overarching questions. First, how do legal actors use uncertainty to make claims about lethal injection drugs (LIDs)? Regarding LIDs as objects whose material qualities are themselves uncertain, what work do legal actors do to assert the existence of specific affordances? Finally, how do actors within legal discourses draw upon different forms of knowledge to make truth claims about things that are uncertain? This research is centered on the in-between space that links information and conclusion; the distance between known and unknown, and the work actors do in an attempt to resolve — or strategically not resolve — uncertainty. In my analysis, I find that the opposing parties leveraged uncertainty in similar ways, but for different interpretive ends. My research makes contributions to literature on the materiality of objects and the production of knowledge by giving attention to the work actors do to construct affordances based on ambiguous and/or limited information.
sj-pdf-1-asp-10.1177_0003702820932926 - Supplemental material for High-Throughput Analyses of Microplastic Samples Using Fourier Transform Infrared and Raman Spectrometry
Creators: name: Brandt, Josef
name: Bittrich, Lars
name: Fischer, Franziska
name: Kanaki, Elisavet
name: Tagg, Alexander
name: Lenz, Robin
name: Labrenz, Matthias
name: Brandes, Elke
name: Fischer, Dieter
name: Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-asp-10.1177_0003702820932926 for High-Throughput Analyses of Microplastic Samples Using Fourier Transform Infrared and Raman Spectrometry by Josef Brandt, Lars Bittrich, Franziska Fischer, Elisavet Kanaki, Alexander Tagg, Robin Lenz, Matthias Labrenz, Elke Brandes, Dieter Fischer and Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn in Applied Spectroscopy
title: The theory of Indian painting: The citrasutras, their uses and interpretations.
Creators: name: Nardi, Isabella
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2003

description: This study critically analyses the main concepts described in the Sanskrit texts on painting, the citrasutras. The citrasutras are a section of Sanskrit scientific literature analysing painting within the framework of Indian philosophical thought. This thesis explores the content of the citrasutras, critically examines the different ways in which they have been interpreted and used in the study of Indian painting, and suggests a new approach to reading and understanding them. One of the aims of this thesis is to draw together, examine and compare the concepts of the citrasutras such as measurement and proportion, and will also add, for the first time, the concepts of talamana and iconography to the theory of painting. This is to overcome the limits of current research, which considers concepts of the citrasutras separate from those of the texts on the theory of sculpture. It is argued here that this widespread approach is unhelpful if not misleading for our understanding of the theory of Indian painting. Another point raised by this work is that the texts have always been regarded as prescriptive compilations. This established view directly contradicts the central observation made in this study that the citrasutras present different views on Indian painting. This is evidenced by the many contradictions that appear in the study of the citrasutras, and in particular the discrepancies between textual images and extant painting. A key empirical basis from which the critical analysis and commentary of this study draw is the application of views and experiences of traditional painters living and practising their art today. Their accounts are drawn upon to furnish the argument of this study that the citrasutras are not to be considered as prescriptive guides for painters. Rather, the texts constitute a theoretical basis that should work in the mind of a painter and can therefore be translated into practice in various ways. It is hoped that the comparison and analysis of textual concepts will provide new insights into our understanding of the practice of painting and our interpretation of the citrasutras, and that an appropriate reading of the texts will bring us closer to appreciating Indian painting from an Indian perspective.
Tisanotterofauna in alcune aree cerealicole di Puglia e Basilicata
Creators: name: Marullo, Rita
name: De Lillo, Enrico
name: Tarasco, Eustachio
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: THE THYSANOPTERA FAUNA IN SOME CEREAL AREAS OF APULIA AND BASILICATA (SOUTHERN ITALY)

Studies on the occurrence of Thysanoptera in cereal areas of Apulia and Basilicata (Southern Italy) were carried out. Twentyfour species were recorded on durum wheat and associated weeds. On the basis of faunistic observations, ecological reports on Thysanoptera species of the investigated agro - ecosystems are provided. Eryngyothrips ferulae (Priesner) and Sitothrips arabicus (Priesner) are reported for the first time in continental Italy.

Key words: Triticum durum Desf., weeds, faunistic observations, Thysanoptera species.

Una indagine sulla Tisanotterofauna in alcune aree cerealicole della Puglia e Basilicata ha evidenziato la presenza di 24 differenti specie su frumento duro e piante infestanti. Alcune considerazioni di carattere ecologico vengono riportate a riguardo. Eryngyothrips ferulae (Priesner) e Sitothrips arabicus (Priesner) sono riportate per la prima volta nell’Italia continentale.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
title: Colonialism and cultural identity : The making of a Hindu discourse, Bengal 1867-1905.
Creators: name: Chowdhury Sengupta, Indira
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: This thesis studies the construction of a Hindu cultural identity in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Bengal. The aim is to examine how this identity was formed by rationalising and valorising an available repertoire of images and myths in the face of official and missionary denigration of Hindu tradition. This phenomenon is investigated in terms of a discourse (or a conglomeration of discursive forms) produced by a middle-class operating within the constraints of colonialism. The thesis begins with the Hindu Mela founded in 1867 and the way in which this organisation illustrated the attempt of the Western educated middle-class at self-assertion. In constructing a homogeneous Hindu identity, this social group hegemonically appropriated the distinct traditions of subordinated groups. Crucial to this project was another related one - that of history-writing. History, it was felt, contained the essence of civilisation and culture. A refutation of colonial notions about Hindus and Bengalis had to be achieved through the fusion of the historical and the mythological which sought to displace colonial history-writing. The anxiety about an ineffectual male identity ascribed to the Bengali male by colonial discourse prompted the imaging of meaningful icons of resistance in the form of heroic womanhood. The links between the figures, i.e., of the motherland, the mother and the ideal wife, are therefore especially significant. No less important is the reformulation of an alternative heroic male identity out of the conventional Hindu institution of Sannyas or asceticism by Vivekananda. He forwarded a notion of spiritual conquest by addressing the universalist dimensions of Hinduism. The political implications of this constructed identity was clearly revealed in the cultural events that preceded the partition of Bengal as well as those that formed and directed the Swadeshi movement.
Functional anatomy of female sex pheromone gland of Mayetiola destructor Say (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
Creators: name: Solinas, Mario
name: Isidoro, Nunzio
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF FEMALE SEX PHEROMONE GLAND OF

MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR SAY (DIPTERA: CECIDOMYIIDAE)

The Hessian Fly (Mayetiola destructor Say, Diptera Cecidomyiidae) sex calling of males by females, known from long ago, has been recently demonstrated of being mediated by a female produced sex pheromone that has been chemically identified lately.

Following the investigation methods previously applied to study sex pheromone glands in other Cecidomyiidae species (i.e., Allocontarinia sorghicola (Coq.) Solinas and Dasineura brassicae Winn.), the female sex pheromone gland of the Hessian Fly has been identified through functional-anatomy, ultrastructural, and physiological observations here reported. The pheromone gland consists of the 8th-9th abdominal intersegmental membrane transformed epidermis. This appears quite different in virgin than mated females being in the former strongly hypertrophied and obviously atrophied in the latter.

Key words (in addition to those in title): Gross anatomy, histology, insect, midge, ovipositor, physiology, ultrastructure.

ANATOMIA FUNZIONALE DELLA GHIANDOLA A FEROMONI SESSUALI DI

MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR SAY (DIPTERA: CECIDOMYIIDAE)

Il richiamo sessuale dei maschi da parte delle femmine della Cecidomia distruttrice del grano (Mayetiola destructor Say, Diptera Cecidomyiidae), noto da lungo tempo, è stato recentemente dimostrato esser mediato da un feromone sessuale il cui composto principale è stato anche chimicamente identificato ultimamente.

Seguendo lo stesso metodo messo a punto dagli stessi autori per lo studio delle ghiandole a feromoni di altre cecidomie (Allocontarinia sorghicola (Coq.) Solinas e Dasineura brassicae Winn.), è stata identificata la ghiandola a feromoni sessuali della Cecidomia distruttrice del grano, mediante indagini anatomo-funzionali, ultrastrutturistiche e fisiologiche qui riportate. Detta ghiandola a feromoni risulta costituita dall’epidermide trasformata della membrana intersegmentale tra 8° e 9° urite, la quale si presenta fortemente ipertrofica nelle femmine vergini sessualmente mature, mentre si riduce bruscamente di volume e si atrofizza in seguito all’accoppiamento.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
Checklist of Palaearctic gall midges of subfamily Lestremiinae (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae)
Creators: name: Mamaev, Boris
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: CHECKLIST OF PALAEARCTIC GALL MIDGES OF SUBFAMILY LESTREMIINAE (DIPTERA, CECIDOMYIIDAE)

The Checklist bases on The Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera (Skuhravà, 1986) and the descriptions of new taxons of gall midges published during 1983-1994. It contains only valid taxons without references to synonyms. Geographical distribution data have been included only for species not mentioned in the Catalogue. References are limited to the period 1983-1994 .

Key words (in addition to those in title): valid taxons, geographical distribution.

CHECKLIST DEI CECIDOMIIDI PALEARTICI DELLA SOTTOFAMIGLIA LESTREMIINAE (DIPTERA, CECIDOMYIIDAE)

La Checklist si basa sul Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera (Skuhravà, 1986) e le descrizioni di nuovi taxon di cecidomiidi pubblicate nel periodo 1983-1994. Esso riporta solamente i taxon validi senza fare riferimento a sinonimi. La distribuzione geografica è indicata solamente per le specie non incluse nel catalogo menzionato. La bibliografia è limitata al periodo 1983-1994.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
New genus of Gall-midges, Dallaiella Mamaev, Gen. nov (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae)
Creators: name: Mamaev, Boris
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: NEW GENUS OF GALL-MIDGES, DALLAIELLA MAMAEV, GEN. NOV (DIPTERA, CECIDOMYIIDAE)

A new genus of gall-midges belonging to the subfamily Porricondylinae has been described with a new species, Dallaiella petrosa sp.n. This genus differs from other genera in the following characters: antennae of male with 2+11 antennomeres, ring-shaped sensoria on flagellomeres, strongly reduced eye bridge, narrow wings, vein M3+4 absent, tarsal claws simple, empodium well developed, tegmen of male genitalia with overlapping hooks.

Key words (in addition to those in title): free living gall midges, Italian fauna.

UN NUOVO GENERE DI CECIDOMIIDI, DALLAIELLA MAMAEV, GEN. NOV (DIPTERA, CECIDOMYIIDAE)

Viene descritto un nuovo genere di Cecidomyiidae della sottofamiglia Porricondylinae, con una specie nuova, Dallaiella petrosa sp. n. Detto genere si distingue per i seguenti caratteri morfologici del maschio (femmina sconosciuta): antenne 2+11 articolate, flagellomeri provvisti di filetti (circumfila) appressi, ponte oculare fortemente ridotto, ali strette, nervatura M3+4 assente, unghie tarsali semplici, empodio bene sviluppato, forcipe copulatorio provvisto di tegmen con uncini sovrapposti.
description: Entomologica, Vol 30 (1996)
title: Personnel transfers and the geographical mobility of population: The case of Japan.
Creators: name: Wiltshire, Richard John
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: Personnel transfers within the internal labour markets of large multilocational organizations are shown to be the largest single cause of interregional population migration in contemporary Japan. The challenges which such transfers present to conventional migration theory are examined in the context of Japanese personnel management practices, especially the so-called "lifetime employment system". A typology of transfers under this system is developed, and a typical pattern of career mobility described. The incidence of personnel transfers is examined in respect of industry, company size and the personal characteristics of transferees, and the locus of real decision-making power is explored. The temporal and spatial characteristics of interregional transfers are described in detail. Two case studies illustrate the incidence of transfers in stable organizations and in industries undergoing structural transformation. The first case study, of the Ministry of Labour, reveals intricate relationships between geographical mobility and the career paths of senior government officials, while the second, which examines personnel transfers within the Nippon Steel Corporation, shows how transfers are incorporated within broader policies for structural adjustment. The housing needs of transferees are often met directly by the employer through the provision of company housing, a distinctive feature of the Japanese case, as is the prevalence of "partial migration", in which the primary migrant (the transferee) leaves his/her family behind for the duration of a posting. These aspects of the Japanese transfer system are examined in detail, before a concluding chapter sets the agenda for future research.
Broad-Range Directional Detection of Light Dark Matter in Cryogenic Ice
Creators: name: Taufertshöfer, Nora
name: Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice
name: Griffin, Sinéad M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose hexagonal ice (H$_2$O) as a new target for light dark matter (DM) direct detection. Ice, a polar material, is suitable for single phonon detection through DM scattering for which we consider light dark photon and light scalar mediator models. We report a rate sensitivity down to a DM mass of $\sim$keV, constituting a broader mass range than other promising candidates. We find better sensitivity for near-term experimental thresholds from the presence of high-frequency phonons. These advantages, and ice's availability, make it highly promising for single-phonon detection.
description: 4 figures
title: The influence of Chinese mathematical arts on Seki Kowa.
Creators: name: Jochi, Shigeru
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: I will consider the Influence of Chinese mathematics on Seki Kowa. For this purpose, my thesis is constructed in four parts, introduction, I the studies of editions; Shu. Shu. Jiu Zhang and Yang Hui Sum. Fa, II the conception and extension of method for making magic squares, and III the analysis for solving indeterminate equations. In the introduction, I will explain some similarities between Chinese mathematics in the Song dynasty and Seki Kowa's works. It will become clear that the latter was influenced by Chinese mathematics. Then I introduce some former opinions concerning which Chinese mathematical book influenced him. I shall show that two Chinese mathematical books, Shi Shu. Jiu Zhang and Yang Hai Suan Fa, are particularly important. Some Chinese mathematical books were republished and studied by Japanese mathematicians, but these two books were not accessible to Japanese mathematicians. Thus we must study them for considering questions of influence. I will consider two subjects, the treatment of magic squares in Yang Hui Suan Fa in chapter H and the method of solving indeterminate equations in Shu Shu Jiu Zhang in chapter III. Before considering the contents of these subjects, we must know more about the available versions of these two books in chapter I, otherwise we cannot know whether Seki Kowa could have obtained them. It seems certain that Seki Kowa studied the Yang Hui Sum Fa, but I cannot know whether he studied the Shu Shu Jiu Zhang. However, Seki Kowa's method of solving indeterminate equations is very similar to that of Qin Jiushao, especially when their methods of changing negative constants into positive are similar. Thus I would like to propose that Seki Kowa studied the Chinese method of solving indeterminate equations.
Durvalumab and guadecitabine in advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma: results from the phase Ib/II study BTCRC-GU16-043
Creators: name: Zakharia, Y
name: Singer, EA
name: Acharyya, S
name: Garje, R
name: Joshi, M
name: Peace, D
name: Baladandayuthapani, V
name: Majumdar, A
name: Li, X
name: Lalancette, C
name: Kryczek, I
name: Zou, W
name: Alva, A
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024
Subjects: Humans
Carcinoma, Renal Cell
Azacitidine
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
Antibodies, Monoclonal

description: Epigenetic modulation is well established in hematologic malignancies but to a lesser degree in solid tumors. Here we report the results of a phase Ib/II study of guadecitabine and durvalumab in advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC; NCT03308396). Patients received guadecitabine (starting at 60 mg/m2 subcutaneously on days 1-5 with de-escalation to 45 mg/m2 in case of dose limiting toxicity) with durvalumab (1500 mg intravenously on day 8). The study enrolled 57 patients, 6 in phase Ib with safety being the primary objective and 51in phase II, comprising 2 cohorts: 36 patients in Cohort 1 were treatment naive to checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) with 0-1 prior therapies and 15 patients in Cohort 2 were treated with up to two prior systemic therapies including one CPI. The combination of guadecitabine 45 mg/m2 with durvalumab 1500 mg was deemed safe. The primary objective of overall response rate (ORR) in cohort 1 was 22%. Sixteen patients (44%) experienced stable disease (SD). Secondary objectives included overall survival (OS), duration of response, progression-free survival (PFS), clinical benefit rate, and safety as well as ORR for Cohort 2. Median PFS for cohort 1 and cohort 2 were 14.26 and 3.91 months respectively. Median OS was not reached. In cohort 2, one patient achieved a partial response and 60% achieved SD. Asymptomatic neutropenia was the most common adverse event. Even though the trial did not meet the primary objective in cohort 1, the tolerability and PFS signal in CPI naive patients are worth further investigation.
title: Anglo-Egyptian relations in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.
Creators: name: Mohsen, Ashraf Mohsen Mohamed
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: This thesis examines the reconstruction of Anglo-Egyptian relations in the aftermath of the Suez crisis during the period 1957-1961. The research starts by showing that this relationship was ruptured as a result of conflicts in the foreign policies of the two states. This rupture occurred during the period 1954-1956 despite the fact that all problems in the bilateral field between the two countries were settled in 1953 and 1954. The sudden rupture in Anglo-Egyptian relations created several problems in the field of bilateral relations. These problems generated sufficient pressure on the governments of both countries to force them to meet, negotiate and make compromises on their initial positions in order to reach an agreement. The research starts with an introductory chapter (Chapter One) which shows the development of Anglo-Egyptian relations up to 1957. The second chapter exposes the problems in bilateral relations between the two states as a result of the rupture in 1956, and their impact on both states. Chapter Three describes the start of the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, and how Egypt tried to reach an agreement with the United Kingdom in 1957. Chapter Four shows how an agreement was reached between the two states, the U.K.'s efforts to reach an agreement, and demonstrates the negligible impact of the conflicts in the foreign policies of the two states on the negotiations. The fifth and final chapter deals with the reconstruction of official relations and the impact of this on bilateral relations between Egypt and the U.K. and on the region as a whole.
title: Pollution theory and Harijan strategies among South Indian Tamils.
Creators: name: Sekine, Yasumasa
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1993

description: This thesis considers the concepts of purity and pollution in a Tamil village context from a cosmological or religious viewpoint. Thus it contrasts with the Dumontian understanding which I argue is dominated by a 'secular' point of view. This approach enables us to clarify the ideological situation of the village Harijans (ex-Untouchables) and to properly analyze their practices. This ultimately contributes to the still inadequate studies of Harijans. The reconsideration of pollution from a cosmological viewpoint, which leads us to focus on pollution associated with life crises and the cults of local deities, elucidates the essential (deep) dimension of pollution which I term "pollution". That is, "pollution" indicates the creative dimension of pollution which contains the logic of sacrifice. In this sense, "pollution" should be clearly distinguished from the shallow dimension of pollution, defined as "impurity", which has an unambiguously negative connotation as the opposite of "purity". Through a comparison of the practices of the dominant castes in the village (the Pillais and the Kallars) and those of the Harijans (the Paraiyars), in terms of funeral ceremonies, cults of lineage deities and the activities of the local Milk Cooperative Society, it is revealed that the dominant castes and the dominated Paraiyars primarily share a basic Tamil culture which holds "pollution" ideology as its fundamental value, even though the dominant castes manipulate the ideology of "purity-impurity" for their social domination. It is also argued that the practices of the Paraiyars can not be understood by a static and simplistic viewpoint, like that of consensus and disjunction theories, but that they should be interpreted as complex procedures which are strategies for seeking self-development. The findings of this thesis, therefore, are that between the dominant castes and the Harijans there is both cultural consensus based on "pollution" ideology and disjunction in terms of their interpretative and strategic manoeuvres.