cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Plant Heritage Award
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture
subject: AGROVOC: Local communities

description: The Plant Heritage Award was created in order to support awareness, engagement and action to preserve and use plant genetic resources. It was awarded for the first time in 2006. The candidates are proposed to the Norwegian Centre for Genetic Resources at the Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) and approved by its advisory board. The award is meant as an appreciation for special efforts that promote the goal of conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic diversity. It can be awarded to individuals as well as institutions and is not exclusively directed towards farmers. However, since it was established, several farmers have been awarded the prize, which consists of a unique lithography by a Norwegian artist as well as a diploma. Thus, the prize also recognizes the important efforts of farmers in addition to those of researchers and formal institutions in conserving PGRFA and ensuring sustainable use of those resources. It creates an annual event that gives an opportunity to strengthen awareness on the importance of conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, thus addressing the general public, other farmers as well as the political leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, amongst other public institutions.
Evaluering af fremførte og afkortede cykelstier
Creators: name: Sørensen, Michael W. J.
name: Jensen, Morten L.
name: Hansen, Winnie
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2020

description: Cykelinfrastruktur spiller en afgørende rolle i forhold til både at få flere til at cykle og få reduceret antallet af cykelulykker. Krydsene i byerne udgør en særlig udfordring, da det er her mange af de alvorlige cykelulykker sker, samtidig med at mange cyklister føler sig utrygge i krydsene. I vejreglerne for byernes trafikarealer anbefales fremført cykelsti med højresvingsbane fremfor afkortet cykelsti i signalregulerede kryds. Erfaringer fra Københavns kommune tyder på, at afkortet cykelsti er sikrere end fremført cykelsti. En gennemgang af en række kryds har vist, at krydsben med afkortet cykelsti har markant færre cyklistulykker end kryds med fremført cykelsti. Vejdirektoratet har på denne baggrund i december 2019 igangsat en evaluering af afkortede og fremførte cykelstier i signalregulerede kryds. Ønsket har været at få undersøgt, hvilken af de to løsninger for cyklister i signalregulerede kryds i byzone er den sikreste. Fremadrettet skal resultaterne fra evalueringen indarbejdes i vejreglerne, så de bliver til gavn for hele vejsektoren.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Evaluering af forsøgsordning med elektriske løbehjul
Creators: name: Sørensen, Michael W. J.
name: Jensen, Morten L.
name: Pedersen, Annette D.
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2020

description: I juli 2018 og januar 2019 begyndte forsøgsordninger for speed pedelecs, elektriske løbehjul (el-løbehjul), elektriske skateboards og selvbalancerende køretøjer, hvor disse køretøjer er blevet lovlige at bruge på offentlige veje og stier. Den første evaluering af disse forsøgsordninger er gennemført fra september 2019 – januar 2020. Via Trafik har haft ansvar for de dele af evalueringen, som omhandler registeret og selvrapporteret adfærd, sikkerhed og holdninger. Denne artikel omhandler udelukkende el-løbehjul, og der fokuseres på den del af evalueringen, som Via Trafik har udarbejdet.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Malignancy and immune disorders in patients with hereditary angioedema
Creators: name: Stepaniuk, Peter
name: Kanani, Amin
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is an inherited condition manifesting as recurrent angioedema episodes which is caused by deficiency or dysfunction of C1 inhibitor. Although complement dysregulation has historically been shown to be associated with various malignancy and immune disorders, it is currently not known if HAE patients are at an increased risk of developing malignancy or autoimmune conditions. Case presentation We reviewed the charts of 49 HAE patients and identified 6 patients who had a co-existing malignancy diagnosis (two with breast cancer, one with melanoma, one with pancreatic cancer, one with renal cancer and one with cervical dysplasia) and 6 patients who had a diagnosis of a co-existing immune disorder (two with rheumatoid arthritis, two with ulcerative colitis, one with chronic urticaria with hypothyroidism and one with Sjogren’s syndrome). Nearly all malignancy cases occurred in older HAE patients (> 50 years) and malignancy was diagnosed before HAE in 3 of the patients. Conclusions Our case series identified multiple hereditary angioedema (HAE) patients with co-existing malignancy and immune disorders. Based on these findings, we would advocate that physicians managing HAE patients should maintain a high index of suspicion for these conditions and that in patients with angioedema, C1 inhibitor deficiency and malignancy, a diagnosis of HAE should still be considered in addition to acquired angioedema (AAE).
title: Zur Erinnerung an Professor Dr. med. Max Cloetta-Spöndlin
title: geb. 21. Juli 1868 - gest. 23. Juni 1940, von Zürich und Bergün in Zürich
titleType: Subtitle
title: Abschiedsfeier im Krematorium Zürich Mittwoch, 26. Juni 1940
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fueter, Karl
name: Fischer, Hans
Publisher: name: Schulthess & Co.
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Cloetta, Max Arnold
subject: Zürich

description: Inhalt: Abdankungsrede von Herrn Pfarrer Karl Fueter ; Ansprache von Herrn Professor Hans Fischer.
Atractides (Atractides) glandulosus
Creators: name: Jovanović, Milica
name: Manović, Ana
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hygrobatidae
Atractides
Atractides glandulosus

description: Atractides (Atractides) glandulosus (Walter, 1918)
New records — Serbia, Pirot, Visočica stream, 43.297° N, 22.6107° E, 24 Jun. 2022, leg. Pešić, Jovanović & Manović 1♀ (sequenced; Table 1).
 Remarks — The sequenced specimen from Serbia morphologically assigned to A. glandulosus was clustered within AEX4044, which, in addition to specimen from this study, includes ten private sequences retrieved from specimens from Italy, Bulgaria, Albania and Switzerland. New for Serbia.
Distribution — Southern, western and central Europe.
description: Published as part of Jovanović, Milica, Manović, Ana & Pešić, Vladimir, 2024, An updated checklist of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Serbia with new records revealed by DNA barcodes, pp. 9-20 in Ecologica Montenegrina 74 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.74.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13247880
Providing Conservation as "Title-To-Conservation" under IMACS
Creators: name: Dert, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In order to prevent the devastating effects of global warming on biodiversity and in turn on humanity, CO2 emissions and other forms of environmental damage must be all but eliminated, while environmental protection and restoration must be applied on increasingly larger scales. The methods described here are used under the IMAC system (1,2,3,4) and create both the vehicles and the incentives to provide very large amount of funding to finance all types of conservation, needed to attract industry to make the needed carbon sequestration investments and to create financial incentives for the various other types of environmental conservation organizations. As an essential element of the Environmental Impact Measurement and Conservation System (IMACS), the “Title-To-Conservation” (TTC), allows not only a fast reduction of net CO2 emissions, but a potential fast return to pre-industrial atmospheric conditions, while minimizing biodiversity losses. TTC represents the purchase and application of conservation in the name of the applying individual and is used to offset the exact amounts of environmental damage created by the product or service purchased. After calculation of the impacts of products and services, the required amounts of TTC for each impact type are purchased automatically as a 2nd purchase immediately following the primary purchase. After this 2nd purchase, the product or service is free of damaging impacts. The use of TTC will create very large market demand for all types of environmental (E) and later humane condition (H) conservation purchased by customers. TTC will need to be made available in any fractional amount and for an increasing number of types of conservation. The costs of the purchased conservation are paid by the seller using environmental (E) vouchers. Since participating sellers only pay E-voucher costs for “participating” products purchased by “participating” end-user consumers, the seller’s costs are initially very low, but create a strong incentive to become carbon neutral and to prevent other damaging impacts, eliminating future EH-voucher costs. For a supply chain layer with 100% participating actors, the EH-vouchers are forwarded along the supply chain to the retailer, resulting in each actor paying only for the EH impact damage they themselves created. By installing carbon neutral systems and otherwise preventing EH damage, the corresponding cost of EH-vouchers for “current damage” can be reduced to zero. The resulting savings remain and benefit participating sellers and buyers and work towards a rapidly more sustainable society. By providing a financial penalty to EH-damages done, equal to the cost of restoration of natural resources and humane conditions, the method solves the almost two centuries old “Tragedy of the Commons” (5) for which the concepts extend back to antiquity.

Contact: www.sustainoneworld@gmail.com
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) virens Neuman 1880
Creators: name: Jovanović, Milica
name: Manović, Ana
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus virens

description: Arrenurus (Arrenurus) virens Neuman, 1880
New records — Serbia, Vlasina, village Milovanci, pond, 42.6786° N, 22.3602° E, 27 Jun. 2022, leg. Pešić, Jovanović & Manović 1♀ (sequenced; Table 1).
 Remarks — The sequenced specimen from Serbia clustered within ACS0772, which, in addition to specimen from Serbia includes also four specimens from the Netherlands morpohologically assigned to A. virens. New for Serbia.
 Published records from Balkan countries — Montenegro: “ Arrhenurus crassipetiolatus ” Thon (1903), Smit et al. (2000), Pešić (2002a).
Distribution — Western Palaearctic.
description: Published as part of Jovanović, Milica, Manović, Ana & Pešić, Vladimir, 2024, An updated checklist of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Serbia with new records revealed by DNA barcodes, pp. 9-20 in Ecologica Montenegrina 74 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.74.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13247880
Modeling and optimization of Demand side Management in Smart Grid
Creators: name: Sarker, Eity
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The current research work proposes an integrated framework for home energy management, which includes load scheduling based on different tariff rate and fulfilling the scheduled demand from renewables. The microgrid was mathematically modeled and the household loads were scheduled based on flexible pricing and time of use pricing tariff employing binary particle swarm optimization algorithm in MATLAB. The integrated impacts of DSM and microgrid were analysed for different households in terms of electricity cost reduction and the analyses suggested a significant reduction of total electricity cost by paying less for purchasing electricity and selling the surplus electricity to the grid.
title: Annual support to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Funding

description: Norway launched its annual contribution to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) during the official opening ceremony of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2008 to stress the importance of on-farm conservation of PGRFA, complementing ex situ conservation efforts, and to ensure financial support based on a predictable contribution to the BSF from a user country. At the same time, this annual contribution is done in recognition of the benefit of Norwegian agriculture of plant genetic resources that originate from other areas of the globe. To illustrate this argument, this voluntary contribution is related to the seed trade and equals 0.1% of annual seed sales in Norway. It is referred to in the State Budget, endorsed by the parliament. Norway considers it to be a use-based, voluntary monetary benefit sharing. In addition, the annual contributions give an opportunity to bring the issue regularly to the attention of the political leadership of the ministry.
Efficient wireless charging of a quantum battery
Creators: name: Hu, Ming-Liang
name: Gao, Ting
name: Fan, Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the wireless charging of a quantum battery (QB) via $n$ charging units, whose coupling is mediated by a common bosonic reservoir. We consider the general scenarios in which the charger energy is not maximal and the QB has residual ergotropy initially. It is found that the charging performance improves with the increase of the coupling strength. In the strong coupling regime, the charging time is insensitive to the charger energy, the number of charging units, and the residual ergotropy in the QB, while the ergotropy charged on the QB strongly depends on the charger energy and ergotropy, and the residual ergotropy in the QB does not help to enhance its performance. Moreover, the multiple charging units help to enhance the charging performance in the weak and moderate coupling regimes, while they are less efficient in the strong coupling regime.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures; Final version published in Phys. Rev. A
Calculation of Individual and Product Sustainability under IMACS
Creators: name: Dert, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The methods described allow the calculation of individual and product sustainabilities and of human conditions for all products, services and individual labor, in a globally standardized way. Product and service sustainabilities reflect the natural resource use, the environmental damage done and harmful or inhumane labor and living conditions that existed, to make, transport and sell the product or service. Individual sustainability reflects the degree to which an individual lives sustainable and is determined by the impacts of resource use and damage done due to individual consumption and conservation applied. The methods allow the calculation of product, service and individual sustainabilities per impact variable, for any of a dozen variables distributed over eleven impact groups, for any combination of impacts variables, including the use of a single sustainability value combining all impact variables. The use of a single sustainability value that can be printed on or scanned from the QR code on labels of participating products, makes it easier for consumers to compare and select more sustainable products and services and allows customers to become more sustainable themselves. It will also drive competitors to improve product sustainability, reducing costs and make increasingly more sustainable products available to the public.

Contact: www.sustainoneworld@gmail.com
title: Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN) is an independent non-profit member organization established in 2016, into which several former ‘plant clubs’, originally initiated by the Norwegian Centre for Genetic Resources, were integrated. KVANN has a cooperation agreement with the Centre and receives annual grants from the Norwegian Agriculture Agency. The overall objective is to promote sustainable use of plant diversity for private use in Norway and to enhance public awareness and knowledge about plant breeding, conservation and sustainable use of domestic crops and plants. Main activities include distribution of seed and plant catalogues through which members can exchange breeding material among themselves. These catalogues also include plant genetic resources held by the Nordic Genebank (NordGen) and research stations of the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) system. KVANN also puts emphasis on raising knowledge and awareness about the need to protect traditional plant varieties and seeds, and organizes regular training courses and seminars on seeds, plant diseases, fruit grafting, potato seedlings etc. In addition, the association currently has the national responsibility to manage the distribution of potato seedlings to hobby growers in Norway. It engages with museum gardens and other public and private gardens for demonstration and awareness creation purposes.
title: Linking on-farm management and ex situ conservation at Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway offers storage facilities for duplicates of seed accessions conserved by national, regional and international genebanks, research institutes and NGOs. It thus serves as a ‘backup’ of the ex situ collections of the world. However, it is a major objective of the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food and its partners, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Genetic Resources Centre (NordGen), to strengthen the links between various conservation strategies, including in situ and on-farm conservation, and to highlight the complementarities of the various strategies. This has been done, for example, by inviting individual farmers and their organizations to present their work in official ceremonies, like for example the opening ceremony in 2008 and the 10th anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2018. In addition, storage is also offered for duplicates of unique seed accessions conserved by farming communities. Norway’s annual contribution to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF), announced at the official opening, is also meant to highlight the importance and complementary contributions of various conservation strategies.
Lepidochrysops Hedicke 1923
Creators: name: Verovnik, Rudi
name: Seizmair, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Lepidochrysops

description: Genus Lepidochrysops Hedicke, 1923
 Diagnosis: External characters: Palpus of medium size, first segment short, stout, second segment long and laterally compressed, third segment short and acuminate. FW with the apex angular, termen slightly convex. FW UNS bare from basal (D 2) and sub-basal markings (M 2). HW of oval shape, small rudimentary basal marking present at vein 7 (D 27), sub-basal markings (M 2) present, fragmented, macules present in the external spaces E 22 and E 21 c. Discal and external markings at M 1 and E 2 fragmented on both wings. (Cottrell 1965; Henning & Ball 2013). Male genitalia: Uncus present as a pair of lobes (uncus lobes). Subunci present, medially strongly curved, distally hooked. Valva simple, bare from processes, apex curved, angulated, basis broadened, attached to the basal plate of the juxta. Aedeagus firmly attached to the anellus. The portion posteriad from the anellus consists of two lateral parts and a medial dorsal part. Anterior portion strongly sclerotized, split into two lateral flanges (Cotrell, 1965). Female genitalia: Ovipositor lobes and posterior apophyses well developed. Anterior apophyses very short. Ostium bursae covered by a sclerotized genitalia plate. Colliculum present, ventrally with several sclerotized ridges. Ductus bursae constant in width. Corpus bursae slightly to moderately swollen, bare from signa (Cotrell 1965).
description: Published as part of Verovnik, Rudi & Seizmair, Michael, 2024, Notes on the genital morphology and phylogenetics of two Arabian species of the genus Lepidochrysops Hedicke, 1923 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), pp. 200-209 in Ecologica Montenegrina 72 on page 202, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.72.19, http://zenodo.org/record/13247937
title: Norwegian Community Seed Bank
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The Norwegian Community Seed Bank is a joint initiative of the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre, the Royal Norwegian Society, private sector partners and associations. The objective is to promote the use of traditional varieties, including orphan crops, where it is economically viable to do so, and to facilitate efforts that these varieties once more can become commercially interesting. After consulting with various partners, the Norwegian Community Seed Bank was founded in 2018. It is owned by a newly established cooperative with funding provided by the Norwegian Agriculture Agency and technical support by the Norwegian Extension Service. The Norwegian Community Seed Bank institutionalizes the previous on-farm conservation work done by individual farmers and gardeners, thus reducing the dependence on idealistic individuals, particularly since some of the most knowledgeable and active farmers are approaching the age of retirement. It can further help to enhance restoration, regeneration and reintroduction of traditional varieties stored in collections, e.g. of universities, to create awareness among farmers and to increase their interest in engaging in seed production and use of traditional Norwegian varieties.
Supplemental_data_ACCEPTED.docx
Creators: name: Blervaque, Léo
name: Pomiès, Pascal
name: Rossi, Elisa
name: Catteau, Matthias
name: Blandinières, Adeline
name: Passerieux, Emilie
name: Blaquière, Marine
name: Bronia Ayoub
name: Molinari, Nicolas
name: Mercier, Jacques
name: Perez-Martin, Antonia
name: Marchi, Nicola
name: Smadja, David M.
name: Hayot, Maurice
name: Gouzi, Fares
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This is supplementary data for the article : " COPD is deleterious for pericytes: implications during training induced angiogenesis in skeletal muscle", accepted in AJP - Heart and circulatory physiology.
title:   Increasing Accuracy in Police Report Writing
Creators: name: Greene, Zachary
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Educational sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: The current alternative thesis project consisted of creating an online learning course intended to increase the accuracy with which preservice and in-service police officers write police incident reports. The online course consists of 6 separate modules and utilizes principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA) to assist the learner in understanding and applying the content of the modules. Specifically, components of interactive computer training (ICT), consisting of video modeling, voice over narration, interactive activities, and self-pace module design were implemented in the design of the learning course. Opportunities throughout the course allow the learner to self-reflect, self-assess, and receive feedback.
description: © 2022 Zachary Greene
Annotation Model: Criteria for Linguistic Categorization in the Database "Adjective-Adverb Interfaces in Romance"
Creators: name: Gerhalter, Katharina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: corpus linguistics
linguistic annotation
Romance corpus
adverbs

description: The examples in the database Adjective‑Adverb Interfaces in Romance (=aaif) are lemmatized and tagged according to a shared annotation model, using the same categories for different Romance languages and corpora. Thus, the annotation model offers a cross‑linguistic categorization based on the forms, functions and meanings of the heterogeneous and multifunctional word‑class adverb, which could also be applied to other languages besides Romance (e.g. for English). The following description of the tags and their definitions is an extensive repertoire of the possibilities offered by the aaif‑annotation tool and aims at a transparent and operational systematization.
title: Farmers' Rights to Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in Bulgaria (RIGHTS)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: The Norwegian Centre for Genetic Resources at the Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), together with the Institute of Plant Genetic Resources ‘K. Malkov’ in Bulgaria, participated in a project on the implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol (2015-2016). The purpose was to propose elements for a national strategy supporting Farmers' Rights in the context of the International Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol, both signed and ratified by Bulgaria. The Norwegian partner actively engaged in workshops and seminars and offered a study tour to Norway for a group of six Bulgarian representatives of target groups. They visited the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, NIBIO, farmers as well as organizations that are part of value chains using PGRFA. Further activities included developing a report on best practices for the realization of Farmers' Rights; a list of measures for implementation of Farmers' Rights; a draft strategy for PGRFA in Bulgaria; and capacity building workshops. The project activities contributed to enhancing awareness and capacities regarding key aspects of Farmers’ Rights, including methods to study policies and processes and to reach consensus on important topics and issues of relevance for farmers' access to PGRFA.
Moving from 'Talking To' Towards 'Learning With': Stories of International Schools' Partnerships With Parents in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Webster, Sandra Joy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research examines the perceived reality of family–school partnerships in Hong Kong international schools. It builds on Epstein’s work through a phenomenological, story constellation approach. While related concepts of education have expanded over time, the way schools interact with parents has not. Rather than a policy or program, family–school partnership is a willingness to share power; to move to a new paradigm of communication where trust is evident, all stakeholders’ input is valued and their voices are heard. This research has created a new template for family–school partnerships especially within the international school contexts and the schooling paradigms associated with such contexts.
title: Global consultations on Farmers' Rights
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: Norway, in cooperation with research organizations of the respective host country and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, has been involved in three global consultations on Farmers' Rights, which took place in Lusaka, Zambia in 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2010 and in Bali, Indonesia in 2016. All consultations sought to involve a wide range of participants, representing various stakeholders and regions. All consultations shared the purpose of producing constructive proposals to the sessions of the Governing Body regarding how to further enhance the implementation of Farmers' Rights. The second consultation consisted of an e-mail-based survey and an international conference with regional components, allowing more experts and stakeholders to participate. Participants actively engaged and shared views, experiences and examples of best practices relating to the implementation of Farmers’ Rights and discussed issues affecting their realization. Besides providing information to contracting parties and the Governing Body, these consultations have also strengthened the national implementation of Farmers' Rights in some countries and contributed to awareness raising among government representatives and other stakeholders. The documented experiences could thus serve as examples of options for encouraging, guiding and promoting the realization of Farmers’ Rights.
title: How to Approach Institutional Partnerships Program from the Perspectives of Socio-Cultural Differences in Management
Creators: name: Okhlopkova, Olga
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Partnerships
subject: Grant Writing
subject: Russian
subject: Culture
subject: Yakutsk State University
subject: Higher Education
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Education
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: Educational Leadership
subject: Higher Education Administration

description: The idea of developing an analysis of institutional partnership program for my Master’s thesis came to me last fall, 2003 when CIE team started working on a grant proposal for a partnership program between the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Yakutsk State University (Sakha, Russia). The project was initiated by the CIE professor Gretchen B. Rossman and a group of international students from the former Soviet Union The project was developed by an open grant competition from Freedom Support educational Partnership Program with Eurasia. The FSEPP is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. The CIR team consisted of five international students from three new independent countries of the former Soviet Union. Most of them had had experience of working at higher educational institutions at their home countries before coming to study at U.S. University. The CIE team had originally started working on tentative projects with several institutions located in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia. The preference was given to Yakutsk State University as a new area to promote international partnership program. Another insight I received during my internship at Indiana University, Bloomington where I net the people working on Russian projects. A very strong impulse was given by the professors and the students at CIE who put forward an idea of launching a new experimental course in grant proposal writing. Writing a real grant proposal on a short deadline turned out to be a hard work. It was a great experience for me because I was working with my home university but being part of the U.S. university design ream. Now I think if it had not been my home university I would not have gotten so much experience. During our work I had to make a great deal of negotiating with Yakutsk design team vies electronic mail and international telephone talks. I would act as a cross-cultural interpreter for my Yakutsk colleagues so I started thinking of those cultural differences that we encountered in the course of the entire process of grant proposal writing. When one of my interviewees said in his talk: “I know there are some cultural thing that could explain why we act differently from our Russian Partner…”, I thought “ This is what I want to do”.
title: Collaborative research to assess germplasm for climate-change adaptation and food security in mountain areas of Albania
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: The Agricultural University of Tirana, through its Institute of Plant Genetic Resources and the Department of Crop Sciences and in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in 2015 started an initiative to characterize and evaluate Albanian germplasm and to promote the sharing of benefits arising from the use of these resources.  Core components of the collaborative research include: (1) identification of germplasm accessions from ex situ collections; (2) characterization and evaluation of stored and newly collected accessions; (3) identification of accessions of local crops resistant to climate change, pests and diseases; and (4) multiplication of identified accessions and the distribution of planting material to farmers. Results of this collaboration had improved the capacities of low-income farmers in mountain areas and staff of national institutions to better adapt to climate change; promoted conservation and utilization of locally adapted crop varieties; local seed systems were strengthened through on-farm conservation of PGRFA; and enhanced food security of poor farmers living in the mountain areas.
Shifting North American drug markets and challenges for the system of care
Creators: name: Krausz, Michael
name: Westenberg, Jean
name: Mathew, Nickie
name: Budd, George
name: Wong, James S. H.
name: Tsang, Vivian
name: Vogel, Marc
name: King, Conor
name: Seethapathy, Vijay
name: Jang, Kerry L. (Kerry Leslie), 1962-
name: Choi, Fiona
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Drug markets are dynamic systems which change based on demand, competition, legislation and revenue. Shifts that are not met with immediate and appropriate responses from the healthcare system can lead to public health crises with tragic levels of morbidity and mortality, as experienced Europe in the early 1990s and as is the case in North America currently. The major feature of the current drug market shift in North America is towards highly potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and fentanyl analogues. An additional spike in stimulant use further complicates this issue. Without understanding the ever-changing dynamics of drug markets and consequent patterns of drug use, the healthcare system will continue to be ineffective in its response, and morbidity and mortality will continue to increase. Economic perspectives are largely neglected in research and clinical contexts, but better treatment alternatives need to consider the large-scale macroeconomic conditions of drug markets as well as the behavioural economics of individual substance use. It is important for policy makers, health authorities, first responders and medical providers to be aware of the clinical implications of drug market changes in order to best serve people who use drugs. Only with significant clinical research, a comprehensive reorganization of the system of care across all sectors, and an evidence-driven governance, will we be successful in addressing the challenges brought on by the recent shifts in drug markets.
Reliability of cervicocephalic sense of force
Creators: name: English, Daniel
name: Weerakkody, Nivan
name: Zacharias, Anita
name: Green, Rodney
name: French, Tegan
name: Hocking, Cassandra
name: De-Noronha, Marcos
name: Rico-Bini, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4003
subject: Biomedical engineering
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: Abstract: Cervicocephalic proprioception (CCP) is an important assessment item for people with a range of clinical conditions, where reduced CCP is associated with neck pain and imbalance. Reliability has been established for a range of positional and movements tests, but there is limited data regarding sense of force, particularly across three planes of movement. The current test–retest study assessed reliability when evaluating sense of force in healthy adults (8 males, 6 females, mean age 31.50 years [SD 10.14]) over two sessions, 4–7 days apart. A force matching protocol was used to evaluate reliability of absolute error (AE), constant error (CE), and variable error (VE) for 10 % and 25 % maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) target forces for flexion, extension, lateral flexion, and rotation. Participants were strapped to a chair to limit trunk movement and data was captured using a compressive force transducer fixed to an adjustable wall mount. Six trials were performed for each contraction-type, totaling 72 submaximal MVCs per session. ICC estimates for AE (0.15–0.77), CE (0.01–0.85), and VE (0.00–0.83) were varied and confidence intervals were mostly wide. Considering lower limits of confidence intervals, CE had best reliability values generally, but more specifically the most reliable contraction type and movement was 25 % MVC flexion (ICC 0.85, confidence interval 0.54–0.95). This study found that reliability for sense of force testing was dependent upon contraction, type of error, and target force utilized. Further reliability analysis should be performed when applying this test to measure validity outcomes in clinical populations.
ТЕМА: Individual project on theme «Kluyveromyces, Walt 1956» (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Shchegolkova Victoria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Щегольковой Виктории по теме "Kluyveromyces, Walt 1956" в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
EVALUATION OF SPINAL AND TRUNK MORPHOMETRY IN MIDDLE-AGED AND ELDERLY WOMEN BEFORE AND AFTER MASTECTOMY
Creators: name: Axmedova, Sayyora
name: Xodjaeva, Dilrux
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study explores the changes in spinal and trunk morphometry in middle-aged and elderly women before and after mastectomy. Through comprehensive radiographic imaging and physical assessments, the study analyzes variations in spinal alignment, curvature, and trunk posture resulting from the surgical procedure. Pre-operative and post-operative data indicate significant changes in these parameters, highlighting the impact of mastectomy on body morphology. The study aims to provide insights into the physical consequences of mastectomy and to emphasize the need for targeted rehabilitation strategies to address these changes. The results are intended to guide clinicians in developing effective post-operative care plans for enhancing recovery and quality of life.
title: Zimbabwe Seed Sovereignty Programme: Increasing Resilience of the Resource Poor Farmers through Seed Sovereignty
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: In 2014, PELUM-ZWE, the Zimbabwe Small Holder Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) conceived the idea of a collaborative and strategic multi-year programme to strengthen Farmer Managed Seed Systems in Zimbabwe. In December 2014, theyinvited five organisations to establish a collaborative partnership that links isolated work on seed and respond to contextual factors affecting seed sovereignty. A multi-year programme titled the Zimbabwe Seed Sovereignty Programme (ZSSP) was born. ZSSP is underpinned by agroecological principles and its vision is towards seed sovereignty of farming communities who depend and rely their livelihoods on crop production. Its purpose is to protect and promote farmers rights. Core components included: (1) improving capacities to produce enough quantity, quality and diversity of locally suitable seed varieties to meet food and nutrition, cultural, agro-biodiversity and other livelihood needs of the participating farmers, (2) strengthening smallholder farmer solidarity, policy influence power and resilience in the face of climate change and climate change impacts and growing corporate control of seed, and (3) improving government recognition and support for farmers’ rights to seed, farmer-led community seed systems and associated seed sovereignty of farmers.
Palaeugoa Durante 2012
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Palaeugoa

description: Genus Palaeugoa Durante, 2012
 Palaeugoa Durante, 2012, European Journal of Taxonomy, 22: 5.
 Type species: Xanthetis spurrelli Hampson, 1914, by original designation (Durante 2012).
 Diagnosis. The male genitalia of the species of the genus are characterized by the combination of the following characters. (1) The uncus is short, dorso-ventrally flattened and fully fused with the tuba analis (this uncus structure is unique within the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex, but similar to certain groups of Cyana Walker, 1854 which have, however, only the tip of uncus separated from the tuba analis). (2) The transtilla either bears a large process in its diaphragmal part (in the P. spurrelli species-group) or on the anterior section of the editum (in the takanoi species-group), or its diaphragmal part is heavily spinulose and fused with the spinulose scobination of the anellus (the P. peregrina species-group). (3) The sacculus bears one or two processes, of which the distal one is well-separated from the distal section of the valva (‘cucullus’). The female genitalia are characterized by (1) the short or reduced apophyses anteriores; (2) the presence of an antevaginal plate (except in the P. peregrina species-group); (3) the tubular and membranous ductus bursae (in other species of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex, the ductus bursae is dorso-ventrally flattened and sclerotised, with the exceptions of the Oriental Barsochrista N. Singh & Kirti, 2016 and Nebulene Volynkin & Černý, 2018 where the ductus bursae is also membranous but short and broad); (4) the large appendix bursae having a very broad and membranous distal section, which is larger than or about the same size as the corpus bursae (this character is also unique within the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex and similar to that of the genus Cyana).
 Distribution. The genus is widespread in the rainforests of West and Central Africa reaching western Kenya (Kakamega Forest) in the east (Volynkin & László 2020).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2024, The genus Palaeugoa Durante in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 377-390 in Ecologica Montenegrina 73 on pages 378-379, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.73.23, http://zenodo.org/record/13247963
title: Promotion of the commercialization and added value of agrobiodivesity of indigenous communities
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Income generation

description: Family farming practiced by the indigenous communities of the Cotacachi canton is characterized by being on a small scale, the use native seeds, led mainly by women, production is used primarily for self-consumption and a small amount intended for commercialization. With these characteristics, there were many difficulties to market their products at a fair price, there was no specific marketing mechanism for the producers. In 2006, the Union of Indigenous Peasant Organizations of Cotacachi, Ecuador in collaboration with the Community Organization of Andean Women began the peasant fair to sell directly to urban consumers. The objectives of this initiative include: generate economic income for farmers, especially indigenous women; promote a short marketing circuit for agro-diverse farms and promote peasant enterprises/companies that add value to the production of agro-diverse farms. Core components include: short marketing circuits - peasants' fair led by indigenous women, added value to native crops from agro-diverse farms and peasant business management. The initiative has had the following key outcomes: a peasant fair in operation, with the infrastructure of the peasant organization located in the urban part of the city of Cotacachi; 350 farmers, 85% being women, are selling their production directly to urban consumers; community organization of indigenous women has been strengthened; there is an increased income by 30% in participating families and two peasant enterprises that add value to native crops in operation.
Ordered Porous TiO₂@C Layer as an Electrocatalyst Support for Improved Stability in PEMFCs
Creators: name: Liu, Gaoyang
name: Yang, Zhaoyi
name: Wang, Xindong
name: Fang, Baizeng
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are the most promising clean energy source in the 21st century. In order to achieve a high power density, electrocatalytic performance, and electrochemical stability, an ordered array structure membrane electrode is highly desired. In this paper, a new porous Pt-TiO₂@C ordered integrated electrode was prepared and applied to the cathode of a PEMFC. The utilization of the TiO₂@C support can significantly decrease the loss of catalyst caused by the oxidation of the carbon from the conventional carbon layer due to the strong interaction of TiO₂ and C. Furthermore, the thin carbon layer coated on TiO₂ provides the rich active sites for the Pt growth, and the ordered support and catalyst structure reduces the mass transport resistance and improves the stability of the electrode. Due to its unique structural characteristics, the ordered porous Pt-TiO₂@C array structure shows an excellent catalytic activity and improved Pt utilization. In addition, the as-developed porous ordered structure exhibits superior stability after 3000 cycles of accelerated durability test, which reveals an electrochemical surface area decay of less than 30%, considerably lower than that (i.e., 80%) observed for the commercial Pt/C.
Remote Sensing of Environmental Impacts under IMACS
Creators: name: Dert, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Impact Measurement and Conservation System (IMACS) was developed to calculate environmental and human condition impacts and to apply conservation required to neutralize such impacts for products and services purchased by end-user consumers (1- 6). With its implementation, the IMACS system would allow the fastest return to the best approximation of pre-industrial sustainable conditions. All environmental impacts take place on a location. Location Based Impacts (LBIs) are environmental impacts assigned to parcels (land) or designated areas (marine). Under IMACS, LBIs are distributed in a dynamic fashion over the products made and services rendered using these areas. This article focuses on the use of remote sensing instrument systems used to accurately measure the underlying variables needed for parcel and designated area delineation and the environmental impacts taking place on them (LBIs). These impacts include landscape change and the subsequent use as cultivated area, changes in biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, fresh water consumption, soil and surface water acidification, soil & sediment loss, coastal area at risk of flooding, atmospheric ozone layer damage and include all applicable types of conserving impacts, including wildlife area conservation, carbon storage and protection of coastal areas from flooding due to sea level rise. Using currently available remote sensing technology and after training using ground data, area mapping, parcel delineation and the measurement of most environmental impact variables can be done using satellites, by using aerial sensors or by using combinations. Implementation of IMACS requires the development of data products that combine remote sensing based environmental data with civic databases (users of parcel and designated areas), allowing easy, automated and low-cost extraction of LBI data.

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