cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Neue Orientierung für den Umgang mit Klärschlamm in Bulgarien
Creators: name: Reichenbach, Jan
name: Roskosch, Andrea
name: Wagner, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: Bulgarien ist seit 2007 EU-Mitglied und damit verpflichtet, die gemeinschaftlichen Standards bei Abwasserbehandlung und Umweltschutz umzusetzen. Da sich ältere Planungsdokumente als überholt, der Wissensstand und die realisierte Klärschlammentsorgung als unzureichend erwiesen, wurde mit deutscher Beratungshilfe für neue Planungsgrundlagen und die Vermittlung umfassenden Wissens für ein zukunftssicheres Klärschlammmanagement in Bulgarien gesorgt. Ziel war es, den zuständigen Instanzen zu besseren Entscheidungen bei der Klärschlammbehandlung und Verwertungsplanung zu verhelfen. Auf politisch-rechtlicher wie auch technisch zeitgemäßer Basis, dabei auch aktuelle Entwicklungen im Bereich der EU-Umweltpolitik und Klärschlammtechnologien reflektierend, wurden situationsangepasst und zielgruppenorientiert die Unterlagen erarbeitet und in Englisch und Bulgarisch übergeben. Neben einem Nationalen Plan zur Klärschlammverwertung als Zentraldokument gehörten ein technischer Leitfaden zu Klärschlammverwertungsoptionen, ein Leitfaden zur Entscheidungsfindung bei der Erstellung von Verwertungsplänen durch die Kläranlagenbetreiber und eine Zusammenfassung des Nationalen Plans für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit dazu. Es wurde gezeigt, dass Bulgarien bei entsprechendem Vorgehen rasch auf die Deponierung des Klärschlamms verzichten und nachhaltigere Verwertungslösungen umsetzen kann. Auf einem Workshop in Sofia wurden die Dokumente vorgestellt und mit relevanten Akteuren abschließend diskutiert. © 2014 Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Juliaca Melichar 1926
Creators: name: Felix, Márcio
name: Silva, Adriane Pereira
name: Quintas, Victor
name: Pecly, Nathalia Hiluy
name: Froza, Joyce Adriana
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Juliaca

description: Key to Ecuadorian species of Juliaca
1a. Crown and pronotum dark brown to black with yellow, greenish-yellow, green, or orange transverse stripes or maculae.... 2
1b. Crown and pronotum mostly dark brown to black or white to brownish-white, not extensively marked with yellow, greenishyellow, green, or orange................................................................................ 4
2a. Mesonotum black; forewings with two transcommissural transverse stripes, yellow, greenish-yellow, or green.......................................................................................... J. sertigerula (Jacobi, 1905)
2b. Mesonotum yellow; forewings with brown and yellow to orange longitudinal stripes................................ 3
3a. Crown orange with anteromedian and sometimes posteromedian dark brown to black maculae; pronotum orange anteriorly with posterior half or third dark brown................................................. J. homalina (Melichar, 1932)
3b. Crown black with narrow transverse yellow stripe just before compound eyes, sometimes interrupted medially; pronotum black with broad transverse yellow to orange stripe on median third............................ J. quadrigula (Jacobi, 1905)
4a. Body mostly white to brownish-white with a conspicuous black spot on median portion of crown and no other markings..................................................................................... J. nigrosignata sp. nov.
4b. Body mostly dark brown to black with yellow or ivory maculae on forewing...................................... 5
5a. Forewing with large yellow macula on basal portion of clavus, sometimes extending posteriorly as a line along claval sulcus, and with or without elongated yellow macula on corium near claval apex................. J. carbuncula (Breddin, 1901)
5b. Forewings with large transcommissural yellow or ivory macula on median portion............... J. deanna Young, 1977
description: Published as part of Felix, Márcio, Silva, Adriane Pereira, Quintas, Victor, Pecly, Nathalia Hiluy, Froza, Joyce Adriana & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2025, Juliaca Melichar, 1926 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) from Ecuador: description of a new species and identification key, pp. 77-83 in Zootaxa 5604 (1) on pages 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/15012601
ComFace: Facial Representation Learning with Synthetic Data for Comparing Faces
Creators: name: Akamatsu, Yusuke
name: Umematsu, Terumi
name: Imaoka, Hitoshi
name: Gomi, Shizuko
name: Tsurushima, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Daily monitoring of intra-personal facial changes associated with health and emotional conditions has great potential to be useful for medical, healthcare, and emotion recognition fields. However, the approach for capturing intra-personal facial changes is relatively unexplored due to the difficulty of collecting temporally changing face images. In this paper, we propose a facial representation learning method using synthetic images for comparing faces, called ComFace, which is designed to capture intra-personal facial changes. For effective representation learning, ComFace aims to acquire two feature representations, i.e., inter-personal facial differences and intra-personal facial changes. The key point of our method is the use of synthetic face images to overcome the limitations of collecting real intra-personal face images. Facial representations learned by ComFace are transferred to three extensive downstream tasks for comparing faces: estimating facial expression changes, weight changes, and age changes from two face images of the same individual. Our ComFace, trained using only synthetic data, achieves comparable to or better transfer performance than general pre-training and state-of-the-art representation learning methods trained using real images.
description: Accepted to IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025
ESR 13: Topic introduction - Politics and governance in a circular economy
Creators: name: Yalcin Nur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Politics
Governance
Circular economy

description: Topic introduction by ESR 13 Nur Gizem Yalcin on "Politics and governance in a circular economy". Talk delivered in the Network-Wide Training Event 1 of C-PlaNeT EU H2020 project.
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 859885.
Beyond Local Case Studies in Political Ecology : Spatializing Agricultural Water Infrastructure in Maharashtra Using a Critical, Multimethods, and Multiscalar Approach
Creators: name: Shah, Sameer H.
name: Harris, Leila
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Political-ecologists (PE) have powerfully illuminated dynamics responsible for the uneven distribution of resources and risk in society. However, localized PE approaches have been criticized as insufficient for producing careful generalizations needed to affect policymaking. We offer an approach to critically explore factors that shape the distribution of climate adaptation interventions – and their potential equity and sustainability-related implications – across larger, policy-relevant scales. Our methodology uses local fieldwork findings to inform secondary data collection and specify meso-scale regression models, which re-analyze, at larger spatial scales, potentially meaningful relationships between social, economic, and environmental factors and the distribution of adaptation initiatives. An epistemological heuristic is offered to navigate the consistencies and inconsistencies between local qualitative and meso-scale quantitative data to develop a more comprehensive, yet partial, understanding of scaled political-ecological relations. The integrative approach is applied to analyze how socio-spatial and biophysical characteristics affect the distribution of over 16,000 farm ponds across 352 sub-districts in Maharashtra – an emerging adaptation subsidized by the state government to reduce crop risks from precipitation variability. The degree of compatibility between local qualitative and regional-scale quantitative results can support the development of novel research questions and actionable science for policy change.
Fire retardant epoxy blends and composites using boron compounds
Creators: name: Mathews, Lalson Daniel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Epoxy resins are widely used for a variety of adhesive and coating applications. High flammability of the epoxy resins limit its usage and causes high risk of fire. This research focuses on improving the fire retardancy of epoxy resin using boron based compounds. A boric acid-glycerol complex and boron nitride nano-particle were used as fire-retardant additives in the epoxy system. The results show excellent improvement in fire retardancy of the epoxy resin. Majority of the fire-retardant additives are harmful to the environment, however the boron compounds are less destructive and impart better fire retardancy.
On attractor behavior in braneworld constant-roll inflation
Creators: name: Djordjevic, Goran S.
name: Bilić, Neven
name: Dimitrijevic, Dragoljub D.
name: Milosevic, Milan
name: Stojanovic, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate in detail the attractor behavior of some inflationary models based on braneworld dynamics under the constant-roll condition. We describe the dynamics of the models, assuming that the second slow-roll parameter remains constant during inflation. We show that the dynamics of the considered models have the property of a cosmological attractor.
Forschung an Pädagogischen Hochschulen: Kontroversen, Errungenschaften und Herausforderungen
Creators: name: Leutwyler, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Scientific Community
Erziehungswissenschaften
Bildungsforschung

description: Die Orientierung sowohl an der Scientific Community als auch an beruflicher Praxis ist für Professionshochschulen konstitutiv. Erst die Dualität von lokaler, professionsspezifischer Wirksamkeit und von internationaler, wissenschaftlicher Anschlussfähigkeit konstituiert eine Professionshochschule und damit den Hochschultypus der Pädagogischen Hochschule. Deshalb sind Pädagogische Hochschulen aufgefordert, das Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaftsorientierung und Berufsbezug zu kultivieren und professionell zu gestalten. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutiert dieser Beitrag aktuelle Kontroversen zur Forschung an Pädagogischen Hochschulen und beleuchtet bisherige Errungenschaften und anstehende Herausforderungen. Dazu nimmt er die Thesen zu Forschung und Entwicklung auf, wie sie an der Bilanztagung von 2008 erörtert wurden, und formuliert diese neu, um auf aktuelle Herausforderungen hinzuweisen und um Entwicklungsdesiderata für die Forschung an Pädagogischen Hochschulen zur Diskussion zu stellen.
description: +repphzhbib2020F
It's the Same Old Story! Enriching Event-Centric Knowledge Graphs by Narrative Aspects
Creators: name: Plötzky, Florian
name: Balke, Wolf-Tilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Our lives are ruled by events of varying importance ranging from simple everyday occurrences to incidents of societal dimension. And a lot of effort is taken to exchange information and discuss about such events: generally speaking, stringent narratives are formed to reduce complexity. But when considering complex events like the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine it is easy to see that those events cannot be grasped by objective facts alone, like the start of the conflict or respective troop sizes. There are different viewpoints and assessments to consider, a different understanding of the roles taken by individual participants, etc. So how can such subjective and viewpoint-dependent information be effectively represented together with all objective information? Recently event-centric knowledge graphs have been proposed for objective event representation in the otherwise primarily entity-centric domain of knowledge graphs. In this paper we introduce a novel and lightweight structure for event-centric knowledge graphs, which for the first time allows for queries incorporating viewpoint-dependent and narrative aspects. Our experiments prove the effective incorporation of subjective attributions for event participants and show the benefits of specifically tailored indexes for narrative query processing.
description: Accepted at WebSci'22, 10 pages, 4 figures
Prevalence of hepatitis C in the adult population of Bulgaria: a pilot study
Creators: name: Sperle, Ida
name: Nielsen, Stine
name: Gassowski, Martyna
name: Naneva, Zlatina
name: Perchemlieva, Tanya
name: Amato‑Gauci, Andrew
name: An Der Heiden, Matthias
name: Bremer, Viviane
name: Golkocheva‑Markova, Elitsa
name: Hristov, Kristiyan
name: Kaneva, Elena
name: Simeonova, Yanita
name: Tenev, Tencho
name: Varleva, Tonka
name: Duffell, Erika
name: Zimmermann, Ruth
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective This study piloted a European technical protocol for conducting chronic hepatitis C prevalence surveys in the general population. The pilot study took place in the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora in 2018, and results of setting up, conducting and evaluating the survey are presented. Results A probability-based sample of the general adult population was drawn from the local population registry, stratified by age and sex. A sample size of 999 was calculated, and accounting for 50% non-response, 1998 registered invitation letters were sent. Venous blood samples and questionnaire data were collected by the Regional Health Inspectorate in Stara Zagora. Blood samples were tested for anti-HCV, and if reactive for RNA. 252 (21.6%) of the participants were included in the study. Mean age and sex distribution differed between the participants (55.9 years, 60.3% females) and the total sample (48.9 years, 53.4%). The weighted chronic HCV prevalence among participants was 0.9% [95% CI 0.2–4.2%]. The approach of only sending registered letters contributed to a low response rate, and more efforts are needed to reduce non-response, especially among men and younger age groups. Results of the evaluation were integrated in the final technical protocol.
title: Multiphysical Modeling, Numerical Analysis and Experimental Investigation of Radial Air Foil Bearings with Beam-Type Supporting Structure
Creators: name: Bauer, Marcel
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2025

description: The focus of this work is on the numerical modeling of a journal beam-type air foil bearing. The force-displacement curves and the temperatures in the bearing are used as output values of the computation in order to investigate, evaluate and optimize the physical behavior. The development process of the simulation model is divided into several steps. 
It starts with a three-dimensional approach and a non-rotating shaft, focusing on the structural and contact mechanics. Long simulation times make model reductions necessary and are a core topic of this work in different sections. The resulting model uses Reissner's beamshell theory to calculate the non-linear foil deformations. With regard to contact modelling, a node-to-surface or surface-to-surface discretization is used depending on the contact pairs, so that precise and time-efficient calculations are possible. Just as important as the correct choice of physical equations is the consideration of manufacturing-related deviations in order to assess the sensitivities of the bearing. A selection of dimensional and shape tolerances in the bearing model shows their influence on the bearing behavior and is also important for validation. 
The next development stage of the bearing model includes the pressure build-up in the air film between the rotor and top foil. The Reynolds equation serves as the basis for this, preliminarily neglecting thermal effects. The need for optimization of the bearing under investigation can already be determined in this state, as the calculated pressure profile does not match the desired one. The locations of the calculated pressure peaks correspond very well with the wear marks of the experimentally investigated bearing and confirm the correctness of the simulation results. 
In its final form, the thermal aspects are also incorporated into the model, including the dissipation of heat in the fluid film and the heat transfer within the components. The temperature-related change in material properties and thermal deformations are also of interest for the bearing behavior. In order to avoid thermal instability, thermal management is an important part of the bearing design and is therefore also considered within the model as a cooling flow. Numerical studies demonstrate the significant effect of the cooling flow. 
Experimental investigations provide the basis for model validation and are carried out on two test rigs. These provide the opportunity to measure the force-displacement curves with the journal fixed and rotating and to record the bearing temperatures during operation. In general, the simulations agree well with the measurements. At the points of major deviations, the possible causes are discussed and mentioned in the outlook for future work.
KORPUS LINGVISTIKASI METODOLOGIYASI VA MATN TAHLILI
Creators: name: Kaxorova, Nargiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Korpus lingvistikasi - bu tabiiy ravishda uchraydigan og'zaki va yozma matnlarning katta, elektron to'plamlaridan foydalanish orqali tildan foydalanishning kompyuterga asoslangan empirik tahlillarini (ham miqdoriy, ham sifat) o'z ichiga olgan metodologiya. Korpus lingvistikasi tillarning tabiati, tuzilishi va qoʻllanilishini tavsiflovchi dalil manbai sifatida ogʻzaki va yozma matnlar toʻplamini toʻplash va tahlil qilishni oʻz ichiga oladi. Hozirgi korpus lingvistikasi tilning barcha darajalarini, jumladan, fonologiya, leksika, grammatika va nutqni o‘rganuvchi, lingvistik tavsif uchun empirik asos sifatida matnlardan foydalanishning uzoq an’analaridan kelib chiqdi.
Preservation of High Frequency Content for Deep Learning-Based Medical Image Classification
Creators: name: McIntosh, Declan
name: Marques, Tunai Porto
name: Albu, Alexandra Branzan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Chest radiographs are used for the diagnosis of multiple critical illnesses (e.g., Pneumonia, heart failure, lung cancer), for this reason, systems for the automatic or semi-automatic analysis of these data are of particular interest. An efficient analysis of large amounts of chest radiographs can aid physicians and radiologists, ultimately allowing for better medical care of lung-, heart- and chest-related conditions. We propose a novel Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)-based method for the efficient identification and encoding of visual information that is typically lost in the down-sampling of high-resolution radiographs, a common step in computer-aided diagnostic pipelines. Our proposed approach requires only slight modifications to the input of existing state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), making it easily applicable to existing image classification frameworks. We show that the extra high-frequency components offered by our method increased the classification performance of several CNNs in benchmarks employing the NIH Chest-8 and ImageNet-2017 datasets. Based on our results we hypothesize that providing frequency-specific coefficients allows the CNNs to specialize in the identification of structures that are particular to a frequency band, ultimately increasing classification performance, without an increase in computational load. The implementation of our work is available at github.com/DeclanMcIntosh/LeGallCuda.
description: Published in 2021 18th Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV). 8 pages with referances
SoftPool++: An Encoder-Decoder Network for Point Cloud Completion
Creators: name: Wang, Yida
name: Tan, David Joseph
name: Navab, Nassir
name: Tombari, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel convolutional operator for the task of point cloud completion. One striking characteristic of our approach is that, conversely to related work it does not require any max-pooling or voxelization operation. Instead, the proposed operator used to learn the point cloud embedding in the encoder extracts permutation-invariant features from the point cloud via a soft-pooling of feature activations, which are able to preserve fine-grained geometric details. These features are then passed on to a decoder architecture. Due to the compression in the encoder, a typical limitation of this type of architectures is that they tend to lose parts of the input shape structure. We propose to overcome this limitation by using skip connections specifically devised for point clouds, where links between corresponding layers in the encoder and the decoder are established. As part of these connections, we introduce a transformation matrix that projects the features from the encoder to the decoder and vice-versa. The quantitative and qualitative results on the task of object completion from partial scans on the ShapeNet dataset show that incorporating our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in shape completion both at low and high resolutions.
description: Accepted in International Journal of Computer Vision
Replication package to An Empirical Study of Bots in Software Development – Characteristics and Challenges from a Practitioner's Perspective
Creators: name: Erlenhov, Linda
name: Neto, Francisco Gomes De Oliveira
name: Leitner, Philipp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Replication package for the analysis from the survey results in the paper "An Empirical Study of Bots in Software Development –
 Characteristics and Challenges from a Practitioner’s Perspective"
‘It was hell in the community’: a qualitative study of maternal and child health care during health care worker strikes in Kenya
Creators: name: Scanlon, Michael L.
name: Maldonado, Lauren Y.
name: Ikemeri, Justus E.
name: Jumah, Anjellah
name: Anusu, Getrude
name: Chelagat, Sheilah
name: Keter, Joann C.
name: Songok, Julia
name: Ruhl, Laura J.
name: Christoffersen-Deb, Astrid
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Health care workers in Kenya have launched major strikes in the public health sector in the past decade but the impact of strikes on health systems is under-explored. We conducted a qualitative study to investigate maternal and child health care and services during nationwide strikes by health care workers in 2017 from the perspective of pregnant women, community health volunteers (CHVs), and health facility managers. Methods We conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) with three populations: women who were pregnant in 2017, CHVs, and health facility managers. Women who were pregnant in 2017 were part of a previous study. All participants were recruited using convenience sampling from a single County in western Kenya. Interviews and FGDs were conducted in English or Kiswahili using semi-structured guides that probed women’s pregnancy experiences and maternal and child health services in 2017. Interviews and FGDs were audio-recorded, translated, and transcribed. Content analysis followed a thematic framework approach using deductive and inductive approaches. Results Forty-three women and 22 CHVs participated in 4 FGDs and 3 FGDs, respectively, and 8 health facility managers participated in interviews. CHVs and health facility managers were majority female (80%). Participants reported that strikes by health care workers significantly impacted the availability and quality of maternal and child health services in 2017 and had indirect economic effects due to households paying for services in the private sector. Participants felt it was the poor, particularly poor women, who were most affected since they were more likely to rely on public services, while CHVs highlighted their own poor working conditions in response to strikes by physicians and nurses. Strikes strained relationships and trust between communities and the health system that were identified as essential to maternal and child health care. Conclusion We found that the impacts of strikes by health care workers in 2017 extended beyond negative health and economic effects and exacerbated fundamental inequities in the health system. While this study was conducted in one County, our findings suggest several potential avenues for strengthening maternal and child health care in Kenya that were highlighted by nationwide strikes in 2017.
A Unified Longitudinal Trajectory Dataset for Automated Vehicle
Creators: name: Zhou, Hang
name: Ma, Ke
name: Liang, Shixiao
name: Li, Xiaopeng
name: Qu, Xiaobo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated Vehicles (AVs) promise significant advances in transportation. Critical to these improvements is understanding AVs' longitudinal behavior, relying heavily on real-world trajectory data. Existing open-source trajectory datasets of AV, however, often fall short in refinement, reliability, and completeness, hindering effective performance metrics analysis and model development. This study addresses these challenges by creating a Unified Longitudinal TRAjectory dataset for AVs (Ultra-AV) to analyze their microscopic longitudinal driving behaviors. This dataset compiles data from 13 distinct sources, encompassing various AV types, test sites, and experiment scenarios. We established a three-step data processing: 1. extraction of longitudinal trajectory data, 2. general data cleaning, and 3. data-specific cleaning to obtain the longitudinal trajectory data and car-following trajectory data. The validity of the processed data is affirmed through performance evaluations across safety, mobility, stability, and sustainability, along with an analysis of the relationships between variables in car-following models. Our work not only furnishes researchers with standardized data and metrics for longitudinal AV behavior studies but also sets guidelines for data collection and model development.
description: NA
Spinturnix emarginata
Creators: name: Orlova, Maria V.
name: Dundarova, Heliana
name: Anisimov, Nikolay V.
name: Shakula, Georgiy V.
name: Baskakova, Svetlana V.
name: Shakula, Fedor V.
name: Shakula, Stepan V.
name: Kuzminov, Ilya V.
name: Boyarintsev, Daniel I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Spinturnicidae
Spinturnix
Spinturnix emarginata

description: Spinturnix emarginata (Kolenati, 1856)
 Material. 3 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ (Figs. 1 B, C; Table 1) ex Myotis emarginatus (Fig. 1D), from Bazhansay River (Kazakhstan, Karatau Mountains), 43°04′ N 69°54′ E, 27 VII 2022, leg. H. Dundarova, det. M. V. Orlova.
 Distribution. Kazakhstan (this study, new record). Russia (Crimea – Orlova & Orlov 2018, Dagestan – Orlova et al. 2021), Bulgaria, the Czech Republic (Dusbábek 1964), Hungary (Beron 1965), France (Deunff 1977), Spain (Peribañez- Lopez et al. 1989), Tajikistan (Stanyukovich 1997), Poland, Slovakia (Krištofik et al. 2012) and Serbia (Burazerović et al. 2017).
 Principal host. Myotis emarginatus (Orlova & Orlov 2018; this study).
 Other hosts. My. blythii (Burazerović et al., 2018), Rhinolophus euryale (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) (Beron 2020).
 Remark. Rare, poorly studied species probably distributed over the range of the principal host.
description: Published as part of Orlova, Maria V., Dundarova, Heliana, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Shakula, Georgiy V., Baskakova, Svetlana V., Shakula, Fedor V., Shakula, Stepan V., Kuzminov, Ilya V. & Boyarintsev, Daniel I., 2023, New geographical records of spinturnicid mites (Mesostigmata: Gamasina: Spinturnicidae) in Kazakhstan, pp. 105-112 in Ecologica Montenegrina 63 on page 106, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.63.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13246179
Umweltforschung im Überblick
Creators: name: Pipke, Larissa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Umweltforschungsdatenbank
subject: Informationsgewinnung
subject: Daten
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: Ob ⁠Klimawandel⁠, ⁠Biodiversität⁠, Ressourceneffizienz, ⁠Nachhaltigkeit⁠ oder Umwelttechnik, in UFORDAT sind alle Umweltthemen von A wie Abfall bis Z wie Zugvogel vertreten. Neben den übergreifenden Um- weltbereichen Wasser, Boden, Luft, Natur und Landschaft, Lärm und Energie finden Sie auch Forschungsprojekte zu Umwelt und Gesundheit, Umweltökonomie, Umweltrecht und weiteren Themen.
Biodiversity Credits to Fund Land-Use Change on the Table
Creators: name: Muller, Carla
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management

description: There is no universal solution to financing land-use change in Aotearoa, according to new research, but new devices like biodiversity credits show promise, as do more traditional solutions like philanthropy and impact investing.A market for biodiversity credits is one financing option that could be instrumental in helping New Zealand farmers fund land-use change to meet environmental targets, according to a new study.The Options for Rural Investment project was carried out by Perrin Ag and GHA Chartered Accountants and Management Consultants as part of the Government’s Our Land and Water National Science Challenge.The year-long study evaluated 17 different funding models to support land-use change and saw researchers run a series of workshops with farmers, industry leaders and experts to understand the obstacles to land-use change and financing solutions that could overcome them. Funding models assessed by the research team ranged from traditional debt financing and private investment to creating a market for biodiversity credits.
Spinturnix myoti
Creators: name: Orlova, Maria V.
name: Dundarova, Heliana
name: Anisimov, Nikolay V.
name: Shakula, Georgiy V.
name: Baskakova, Svetlana V.
name: Shakula, Fedor V.
name: Shakula, Stepan V.
name: Kuzminov, Ilya V.
name: Boyarintsev, Daniel I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Spinturnicidae
Spinturnix
Spinturnix myoti

description: Spinturnix myoti (Kolenati, 1856)
 Material. 6 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂, 7 N 2, 5 N 1 ex Myotis blythii from Ak-Mechet’ cave, Baralday Rige (Kazakhstan, Karatau Mountains), 43°00′ N 69°42′ E, 24 VII 2022, leg. H. Dundarova, det. M. V. Orlova.
 Distribution. Widely distributed in Eurasia (from Great Britain to Japan and India). Northern Africa (Algeria).
 Principal hosts. Myotis spp. (Beron 2020).
 Other hosts. Barbastella barbastellus, Nyctalus noctula, Pipistrellus nathusii, Plecotus auritus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae); Miniopterus schreibersi (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae); Rhinolophus euryale, Rh. hipposideros, Rh. ferrumequinum (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) (Beron 2020; Stanyukovich 1997).
 Remark. Spinturnix myoti has been reported from Kazakhstan (Tagil’tsev 1971; Stanyukovich 1997).
description: Published as part of Orlova, Maria V., Dundarova, Heliana, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Shakula, Georgiy V., Baskakova, Svetlana V., Shakula, Fedor V., Shakula, Stepan V., Kuzminov, Ilya V. & Boyarintsev, Daniel I., 2023, New geographical records of spinturnicid mites (Mesostigmata: Gamasina: Spinturnicidae) in Kazakhstan, pp. 105-112 in Ecologica Montenegrina 63 on page 106, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.63.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13246179
Control of vein-forming, striped gene expression by auxin signaling
Creators: name: Krishna, Anmol
name: Gardiner, Jason
name: Donner, Tyler J.
name: Scarpella, Enrico
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Activation of gene expression in striped domains is a key building block of biological patterning, from the recursive formation of veins in plant leaves to that of ribs and vertebrae in our bodies. In animals, gene expression is activated in striped domains by the differential affinity of broadly expressed transcription factors for their target genes and the combinatorial interaction between such target genes. In plants, how gene expression is activated in striped domains is instead unknown. We address this question for the broadly expressed MONOPTEROS (MP) transcription factor and its target gene ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA HOMEOBOX FACTOR8 (ATHB8). Results We find that ATHB8 promotes vein formation and that such vein-forming function depends on both levels of ATHB8 expression and width of ATHB8 expression domains. We further find that ATHB8 expression is activated in striped domains by a combination of (1) activation of ATHB8 expression through binding of peak levels of MP to a low-affinity MP-binding site in the ATHB8 promoter and (2) repression of ATHB8 expression by MP target genes of the AUXIN/INDOLE-3-ACETIC-ACID-INDUCIBLE family. Conclusions Our findings suggest that a common regulatory logic controls activation of gene expression in striped domains in both plants and animals despite the independent evolution of their multicellularity.
Spinturnix nobleti Deunff, Volleth, Keller & Aellen 1990
Creators: name: Orlova, Maria V.
name: Dundarova, Heliana
name: Anisimov, Nikolay V.
name: Shakula, Georgiy V.
name: Baskakova, Svetlana V.
name: Shakula, Fedor V.
name: Shakula, Stepan V.
name: Kuzminov, Ilya V.
name: Boyarintsev, Daniel I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Spinturnicidae
Spinturnix
Spinturnix nobleti

description: Spinturnix nobleti Deunff, Volleth, Keller & Aellen, 1990
 Material. 4 ♀♀ (Fig. 2A; Table 3) ex Hypsugo savii (Fig. 2B), from Bazhansay River (Kazakhstan, Karatau Mountains), 43°04′ N 69°54′ E, 27 VII 2022, leg. H. Dundarova, det. M. V. Orlova.
 Distribution. Kazakhstan (this study, new record). Russia (Caucasus – Orlova et al., 2021; Far East – Stanyukovich 1997), France (incl. Corsica) (Deunff et al. 1990), Mongolia (Scheffler et al. 2012), Switzerland (Deunff et al. 1990).
 Principal hosts. Hypsugo alaschanicus (Scheffler et al. 2012), H. savii (Beron 2020; this study).
 Other hosts. Unknown.
 Remark. Rare, poorly studied species.
 Kazakhstan is a potential region for bat ectoparasite research. Of the three spinturnicid mite species recorded during our surveys, two species, Spinturnix emarginata, and S. nobleti, are new records for the entire country. The diversity and distribution of bats and their ectoparasites in Kazakhstan are still poorly understood. Further research on bat ectoparasites across this region is necessary to establish their host associations and distributions.
description: Published as part of Orlova, Maria V., Dundarova, Heliana, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Shakula, Georgiy V., Baskakova, Svetlana V., Shakula, Fedor V., Shakula, Stepan V., Kuzminov, Ilya V. & Boyarintsev, Daniel I., 2023, New geographical records of spinturnicid mites (Mesostigmata: Gamasina: Spinturnicidae) in Kazakhstan, pp. 105-112 in Ecologica Montenegrina 63 on pages 109-111, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.63.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13246179
Clarifying the Relationship between Homelessness and Private Rental Markets in Australia: Capabilities, Risk, Mobility and Geography
Creators: name: Batterham, Deborah Ann
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Scholars and advocates alike have argued that a lack of affordable private rental housing can precipitate homelessness amongst those at-risk and prolong it for those already homeless. In response, this thesis investigates the relationship between homelessness, risk of homelessness, and private rental markets in Australia with an eye to geography and mobility.
The thesis makes three key contributions: a new conceptual model of homelessness using the capabilities approach, a definition of homelessness risk, and greater clarity about the relationship between homelessness, risk and private rental markets in Australia. The findings suggest a range of policy reforms to better prevent and reduce homelessness.
Learning to Brachiate via Simplified Model Imitation
Creators: name: Reda, Daniele
name: Ling, Hung Yu
name: van de Panne, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Brachiation is the primary form of locomotion for gibbons and siamangs, in which these primates swing from tree limb to tree limb using only their arms. It is challenging to control because of the limited control authority, the required advance planning, and the precision of the required grasps. We present a novel approach to this problem using reinforcement learning, and as demonstrated on a finger-less 14-link planar model that learns to brachiate across challenging handhold sequences. Key to our method is the use of a simplified model, a point mass with a virtual arm, for which we first learn a policy that can brachiate across handhold sequences with a prescribed order. This facilitates the learning of the policy for the full model, for which it provides guidance by providing an overall center-of-mass trajectory to imitate, as well as for the timing of the holds. Lastly, the simplified model can also readily be used for planning suitable sequences of handholds in a given environment. Our results demonstrate brachiation motions with a variety of durations for the flight and hold phases, as well as emergent extra back-and-forth swings when this proves useful. The system is evaluated with a variety of ablations. The method enables future work towards more general 3D brachiation, as well as using simplified model imitation in other settings.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. Accepted at SIGGRAPH 2022. For videos, supplementary material and code, visit the following URL https://brachiation-rl.github.io/brachiation
Polyporogaster porosa
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Himantariidae
Polyporogaster
Polyporogaster porosa

description: 2. Polyporogaster porosa (Sseliwanoff, 1881)
Type locality: “Turkestan, Chinad (bliz Tashkenta)” (Sseliwanoff 1881b) and “Chinas [sic!] bl. Tashkenta” (Sseliwanoff 1881a) [Uzbekistan, Tashkent Region, Chinaz city, N40°56', E68°45'].
 Mesocanthus porosus Sseliwanoff 1881b: 231 (1♂, 2 ♀♀); 1884: 105–106 (1♂, 2♀♀).
 Mesocanthus porosus – Sseliwanoff 1881a: 25; Attems 1904: 115.
 Polyporogaster porosus – Silvestri 1919: 90; Lignau 1929: 163–164 (2 specimens); Titova 1978: 241.
 Polyporogaster porosa – Bonato et al. 2016; Bragina et al. 2020: 30 (1♀); Dyachkov 2020a: 63 (5 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀); 2020b: 81 (2 ♂♂, 1 ♀); 2021: 44 (1 ♂, 2 ♀♀); 2022b: 23 (3 ♂♂, 1 ♀); Dyachkov & Nedoev 2021: 44 (2♀♀).
 Previous records. Khovd Aimag: [KHo8] (Dyachkov 2021).
 Distribution. Kazakhstan (Bragina et al. 2020; Dyachkov 2020a), Uzbekistan (Dyachkov & Nedoev 2021), Tajikistan (Dyachkov 2020b), and Kyrgyzstan (Dyachkov 2022b); western Mongolia (Dyachkov 2021).
 Remarks. Mesocanthus porosus was mentioned as nomen nudum in Sseliwanoff (1881a), described in Sseliwanoff (1881b, 1884).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh., 2023, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Mongolia, pp. 221-241 in Ecologica Montenegrina 64 on page 228, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.64.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13246195
2013/14 New Zealand Smoking Monitor questionnaire and information sheet
Creators: name: Health Promotion Agency, Te Hiringa Hauora |
Publisher: name: Health New Zealand
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420310
subject: Health surveillance
classificationCode: 420312
subject: Implementation science and evaluation

description: The Health Promotion Agency (HPA) runs a continuous survey on behalf of the Ministry of Health (New Zealand Smoking Monitor - NZSM) to measure current and changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours relating to smoking and quitting. It offers a unique way to monitor trends over an extended period of time. The questionnaire for 2013/14 is included, as well as an information sheet that gives a brief overview of the survey.
Characterizing Work-Life for Information Work on Mars: A Design Fiction for the New Future of Work on Earth
Creators: name: Linder, Rhema
name: Hunter, Chase
name: McLemore, Jacob
name: Dutta, Senjuti
name: Akbar, Fatema
name: Grover, Ted
name: Breideband, Thomas
name: W. Borghouts, Judith
name: Lu, Yuwen
name: Mark, Gloria
name: Z. Henley, Austin
name: C. Williams, Alex
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction
classificationCode: 460809
subject: Pervasive computing

description: We present a design fiction, which is set in the near future as significant Mars habitation begins. Our goal in
creating this fiction is to address current work-life issues on Earth and Mars in the future. With shelter-in-
place measures, established norms of productivity and relaxation have been shaken. The fiction creates an
opportunity to explore boundaries between work and life, which are changing with shelter-in-place and will
continue to change. Our work includes two primary artifacts: (1) a propaganda recruitment poster and (2) a
fictional narrative account. The former paints the work-life on Mars as heroic, fulfilling, and fun. The latter
provides a contrast that depicts the lived experience of early Mars inhabitants. Our statement draws from our
design fiction in order to reflect on the structure of work, stress identification and management, family and
work-family communication, and the role of automation.
Escaryus chadaevae Titova 1973
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Schendylidae
Escaryus
Escaryus chadaevae

description: 3. Escaryus chadaevae Titova, 1973
Type localities: “Kemerovskaya obl., Prokopyevskiy i Novokuznetskiy r-ny” [Russia, Kemerovo Oblast, Prokopyevsky and Novokuznetsky districts] (Titova 1973).
 Escaryus chadaevae Titova 1973: 105 (20♂♂, 23♀♀).
 Escaryus chadaevae – Poloczek et al. 2016 (63 specimens): 117; 2021: 322; Nefediev et al. 2017a: 221.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh., 2023, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Mongolia, pp. 221-241 in Ecologica Montenegrina 64 on page 229, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.64.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13246195
Rebellion and Disobedience as Useful Tools in Human-Robot Interaction Research -- The Handheld Robotics Case
Creators: name: Mayol-Cuevas, Walterio W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This position paper argues on the utility of rebellion and disobedience (RaD) in human-robot interaction (HRI). In general, we see two main opportunities in the use of controlled and well designed rebellion and disobedience: i) illuminate insight into the effectiveness of the collaboration (or lack of) and ii) prevent mistakes and correct user actions when in the user's own interest. Through the use of a close interaction modality, that of handheld robots, we discuss use cases for utility of rebellion and disobedience that can be applicable to other instances of HRI.
Feltria (Feltriella) rubra Piersig 1898
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Smit, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Feltriidae
Feltria
Feltria rubra

description: Feltria (Feltriella) rubra Piersig, 1898
Material examined — Kyrgyzstan: Ala Archa NP, tributary of Archa River, 42º36.203’ N, 74º28.336’ E, 1877 m asl., 9.viii.2013, leg. Pešić & Smit, 1/1/0; Karakol region, upper part of the stream next to the road to May Saz pass, 42º25.029’ N, 79º02.658’ E, 3346 m asl., 12.viii.2013, leg. Pešić & Smit, 0/1/0; stream next to the road to May Saz pass, 42º25.002’ N, 78º58.097’ E, 2955 m asl., 12.viii.2013, leg. Pešić & Smit, 1/0/0.
Remarks —This species is most frequently recorded from many parts of Europe, but also from China (Li et al. 2022) and Indian Himalayas (Pešić & Panesar 2008). While males are clearly defined by the absence of a sexual dimorphism in the male III-L- 6 in combination with stout palps and a large dorsal shield excluding only Dgl-4+Dl-4, the identification of the female can be difficult (Gerecke 2012). However, the presence of a tiny, rounded Dl-1 lying in the membrane facing the anterolateral edges of the dorsal shield, a character not found in any other species of the genus, allows easy identification of females of this species (Bader 1977; Gerecke 2012).
Remarks —Europe, Asia Minor, India, China. New for Kyrgyzstan.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir & Smit, Harry, 2025, Two new species of the genus Feltria Koenike, 1892, with notes on the water mite fauna of Kyrgyzstan (Acari, Hydrachnidia), pp. 29-40 in Zootaxa 5604 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/15012488
Escaryus japonicus Attems 1927
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Schendylidae
Escaryus
Escaryus japonicus

description: 4. Escaryus japonicus Attems, 1927
Type locality: “Todohokhe. Hohango, Japan ” (Attems 1927).
 Escaryus japonicus Attems 1927: 299 (1♂).
 Escaryus japonicus – Attems 1929: 96; Titova 1973: 113; Dyachkov 2017b: 454 (7♂♂, 6 ♀♀); Nefediev et al. 2017a: 222 (18♂♂, 5 ♀♀); 2017b: 11 (7 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀); Nefediev 2019: 25 (16 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀).
 Previous records. Mongolia (Ulykpan 1988).
 Distribution. From European Russia (Titova 1973; Volkova 2016) through Siberia (Nefediev et al. 2017a, 2017b; Nefediev 2019) to Far East (Titova 1973) and Japan (Attems 1927); northern China (Takakuwa & Takashima 1949); eastern Kazakhstan (Dyachkov & Tuf 2018), Mongolia (Ulykpan 1988).
 Remarks. Precise location in Mongolia is unknown.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh., 2023, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Mongolia, pp. 221-241 in Ecologica Montenegrina 64 on page 229, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.64.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13246195
Strigamia pusilla
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Linotaeniidae
Strigamia
Strigamia pusilla

description: 5. Strigamia pusilla (Sseliwanoff, 1884)
Type locality: “Zaraysk, Ryazanskoy gubernii” [Russia, Moscow Area, Zaraysk Ciity, N54°45'55", E38°53'01"] (Sseliwanoff 1884).
 Scolioplanes pusillus Sseliwanoff 1884: 92 (4♂♂, 7♀♀).
 Strigamia (Linotaenia) pusilla – Dobroruka 1960: 17 (1♀).
 Strigamia pusilla – Poloczek et al. 2016: 117 (7 specimens); 2021: 322.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V. & Farzalieva, Gyulli Sh., 2023, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Mongolia, pp. 221-241 in Ecologica Montenegrina 64 on page 229, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.64.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13246195