cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Evaluation of a Community Service and Mentorship Program Linking College Students and Newcomer Youth: The Experiences of the Students for Education, Empowerment, and Development Program
Creators: name: Simsik, Michael J
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: community service
subject: mentorship
subject: college students
subject: Civic and Community Engagement
subject: Education
subject: Service Learning

description: This paper presents the evaluation process undertaken by a community service-learning and mentorship program. This program (called "The Giving SEED", or Students for Education, Empowerment, and Development) links college students with immigrant, refugee, and minority youth in an effort to help develop a multi-cultural model of mentoring while building community. A total of eighty-four youth in six different community organizations benefited from the mentoring of nearly thirty undergraduate college students during the evaluation period covered in this paper (January to June 1998). The evaluation process undertaken by SEED was built into all aspects of program activities and occurred at various venues including: meetings, community locations, and at a youth conference. The evaluation information was gleaned from a number of sources. Results of the evaluation revealed that students were very appreciative of the learning experiences resulting from their involvement in the service-learning courses. Students acknowledged that the SEED program provided them with the ability to reach out to the community and to practice the mentoring skills they acquired in class. The students also noted how learning at SEED became a two-way process, in that everyone involved learned from the activities. The mentoring relationship also created a special bond between youth and students. The evaluation also revealed student appreciation for the informal class structure and reflective pedagogy. Finally, the evaluation revealed that the mentoring and community activities begun during the Spring semester of 1998 should be followed up to sustain the momentum generated by this experience.
Comprehensive review of advances in life history of 35 seahorse species, drawn from community science
Creators: name: Camins Martínez, Elsa
name: Stanton, Lily M.
name: Correia, Miguel J.
name: Vincent, Amanda C. J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Marine community science presents an important route to gather valuable scientific information, while also influencing local management and policy, and thus contributing to marine conservation efforts. Because seahorses are cryptic but charismatic species, they are good candidates for engaging diverse people to help overcome the many gaps in biological knowledge. We have synthesized information contributed to the community science project iSeahorse from October 2013 to April 2022 for 35 of 46 known seahorse species. We then compared the obtained results with information in existing IUCN Red List assessments, executed from 2014 to 2017, to explore the potential of iSeahorse in expanding seahorse knowledge. Our results show updated geographic ranges for seven seahorse species, new habitats described for 24 species, observations outside the previously recorded depth range for 14 species, as well as new information on sex ratio for 15 species and on pregnancy seasonality for 11 species. As one example of the power of iSeahorse, contributed observations on Coleman’s Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus colemani) indicated that its geographic range is thousands of km2 larger, its habitat more diverse, and its depth range 0.12 times shallower than previously known. It is clear that iSeahorse is greatly expanding knowledge on seahorses, to a level that will help improve IUCN Red List assessments. The power of community science for marine conservation in general needs to be fully explored.
Amastus cuneolimbatus Toulgoet 1998
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Amastus
Amastus cuneolimbatus

description: Amastus cuneolimbatus Toulgoët, 1998
Amastus cuneolimbatus Toulgoët, 1998c: 601.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Peru, Apumirac, Abancay.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 306, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Global Fisheries : Livelihood Impact of Overfishing : Technical Report : November 30 2022
Creators: name: Teh, Louise
name: Teh, Lydia C. L.
name: Sumaila, Ussif Rashid
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This technical report estimates the catch loss arising from overfished fish stocks and the socio-economic impacts associated with this catch loss. In this analysis, catch loss is defined as the difference between the maximum sustainable yield of a fish stock and its catch in the most recent year. We focus on 482 fish stocks identified as ‘overfished’ in the Global Fishing Index, a global assessment of the sustainability of over 1,400 fish stocks conducted by the Minderoo Foundation. For these overfished stocks, we estimate (1) the potential catch loss (in tonnes) from overfished fish stocks; (2) the landed value (in USD) of catch loss; and (3) the number of jobs associated with marine fisheries catch loss worldwide. Our results indicate that the annual estimated catch loss for 482 overfished fish stocks amounted to 15 million tonnes worldwide. This catch loss results in huge societal cost, translating to around US$39 billion in potential lost landed value annually, and an estimated 668,479 associated full time equivalent jobs. If all the overfished fish stocks were fished at MSY, all regions worldwide could potentially gain fishing jobs, with highest potential gains in Latin America and the Caribbean (24% above current jobs). Thus, our analysis emphasises the urgent need to immediately rebuild overfished fish stocks in order to recoup the current economic and social benefits that are forgone with catch loss.
Prevalence and risk factors associated with immunological non-response in HIV-1 infected patients treated with NNRTI based first-line drugs in south India
Creators: name: Jayaseelan Boobalan
name: Thongadi Ramesh Dinesha
name: Pachamuthu Balakrishnan
name: Kkanthamani Kanthamani
name: Sivamalar, Sathasivam
name: Kailapuri Gangadharan Murugavel
name: Selvamuthu Poongulali
name: Pradeep, Ambrose
name: Solomon, Sunil Suhas
name: Solomon, Suniti
name: Saravanan, Shanmugam
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Normally, in HIV infected patients ART treatment reduces the viral load and increases the Host immune response but in some patients pattern disrupted and they are known as Immunological Non Responders and leads to an increased risk of disease progression and death. In this study, we analyzed the prevalence of Immunological non responders and also the factors associated with this immune disconnect.
Evaluation of antimicrobial and disinfectant resistant bacteria isolated from the environment of a university health centre
Creators: name: Olayemi Ayepola
name: Egwari, Louis
name: Olasehinde, Grace
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The hospital environment continues to be a source of healthcare associated infections despite hospital infection control strategies. In addition there is an increased prevalence of antimicrobial and disinfectant resistant bacteria. This study was carried out to detect the presence of antimicrobial and disinfectant resistant pathogenic bacteria after the disinfection of the floors and surfaces in a University health centre in Nigeria. Environmental samples were obtained from different areas within the health centre such as the wards, theatre, treatment room, laboratory and the waiting area. Samples were taken from floors, door handles, patient beds, floors, table tops using moist sterile swabs. Samples were inoculated on appropriate culture media and isolates were identified using standard bacteriological methods. Antimicrobial susceptibility and disinfectant susceptibility tests were carried out using the disk diffusion and agar dilution techniques. The isolated organisms include Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase negative staphylococci, Klebsiella spp, Bacillus spp, Escherichia coli, Proteus spp and Streptococcus spp. Antimicrobial resistance was observed against penicillin, trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole, tetracycline, gentamicin and cefoxitin. Multidrug resistance was observed in S. aureus. Susceptibility to disinfectants varied with concentrations but there were resistance to certain disinfectants at the recommended dilutions. This study has shown that antibiotic resistant and disinfectant resistant organisms may persist in the environment after disinfection. Continual monitoring of the hospital environment is necessary to prevent infections caused by resistant pathogens.
Active veterinary and entomological surveillance to assess emerging vector-borne disease risk in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (Italy)
Creators: name: Morosetti, Giulia
name: Severini, Francesco
name: Bongiorno, Gioia
name: Piffer, Christian
name: Binazzi, Raffaella
name: Simeoni, Josef
name: Gradoni, Luigi
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Several competent vectors of non-endemic diseases such as Canine Leishmaniasis, Dengue or Chikungunya, and West-Nile virus are now established in the northernmost area of Italian Alps. Although no infected vectors were collected, the risk of infection transmission is present and should not be neglected. The adaptations of the insects at the local ecology are evident and animal/human hosts are introducing the infections. Monitoring activities are essential for preparedness and control.
Circuits designed to evaluate the cosine and sine functions on the interval −π to π
Creators: name: Bobowski, Jake S.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: We present a pair of simple analog circuits designed to evaluate the cosine and sine of an input voltage that varies between −π and +π V. The circuit designs are based off of the Taylor series expansions of cos x and sin x about x = 0 (i.e. Maclaurin series expansions). For cos x and sin x, the series are truncated after the x6 and x5 terms, respectively. The coefficients of the various powers of x in the truncated series are fine tuned in order to give the best possible approximations to the trigonometric functions. The circuits are implemented using low-cost analog multiplier and operational amplifier integrated circuits.
Agency or Self-Run: the effect of consumer green education on recyclers’ distribution channel choice under platform economy
Creators: name: Zhong, Ling
name: Nie, Jiajia
name: Lim, Ming K.
name: Xia, Senmao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Consumer green education has significantly affected the green supply chain and recyclers have started to distribute remanufactured products via online platforms. Through a two-period game model, this study examines the effects of consumer green education on the recycler’s channel choice. The recyclers sell remanufactured products through either the E-retailer’s platform (Agency channel), or their own online platform (Self-Run channel). Surprisingly, our research indicates that a new product seller (E-retailer) can benefit from the remanufactured goods’ cannibalisation in the Agency channel, provided the consumer green education is under-developed. This finding challenges the traditional opinion that the cannibalisation causes loss of profit for new-product sellers. Besides, as the consumer green education effect increases, the recycler prefers the Self-Run channel even with high operational costs. This study provides new insights into the recyclers’ channel choice by considering the consumer green effect, thereby extending the research on the remanufactured products’ distribution channel strategy.
title: Modelling the deposition of the phosphorite layers in Malta and reconstruction of the fauna
Creators: name: Tischer, Lars
name: Jarochowska, Emilia
name: Bialik, Or
name: Jakob, Fabian
name: Zammit, Ray
name: López Correa, Matthias
name: Schulbert, Christian
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: There are several phosphorite layers within the sedimentary succession of the Maltese Islands. These are related to climatic and ocean circulation pattern changes in the Mediterranean through the late Cenozoic. To decipher the depositional environment and processes related to the emplacement of these layers, several samples were collected from Il-Blata tal-Melh, southern Malta. With the help of CT-scans of these samples, the organisms and clasts within the phosphorites could be reconstructed by segmentation. This enabled the identification of the coral Flabellum spp. and several other organisms such as bivalves, gastropods, serpulids, sponges, foraminifers and fish teeth. The faunal composition, especially the coral Flabellum spp. that were reconstructed from the scans indicates that the phosphorites originated from a deep-water environment with slow currents. The absence of algae in the samples indicates an environment below the photic zone and the formation of micrite between the components also shows that the deposition must have taken place below the wave base, which also fits to the deep-water environment. The corals of the genus Flabellum spp. prefer a fine-grained substrate and with the occurrence of the serpulids it may concern that the substrate was also a hard substrate. The samples contain multiple dark clasts, which were analysed with the aid of thin sections. These showed that they have different micritisation levels than the rest of the matrix and implied that they were derived from a different environment, located in a shallower area below the wave base and have been rounded by transport. The clasts were transported and then embedded into the deep-water environment. Subsequently, the organisms and the clasts were phosphatized together.
Artifact for On Automatically Generating Assertions for Validating Reported Failures in Android Apps
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: # Table of Contents

Results - Contains detailed breakdowns of the results of our preliminary, full, and validation studies, as well as the full versions of the two datasets we drew from

Pipeline Script - Reproduction package for our results. executing the python notebook here will run all of the same experiments that we ran.

example prompts - contains examples of each of the different types of prompts that we tested in our preliminary study

reproducing_script_project - contains the reproduction scripts and assertions for our full dataset + dataleakage validation set.

andror2plus_apks, fbaa_apks, unseen_data_apks - contains the apks for each of the bugs in our study, as well as installation scripts for each of them

fixed_apks - contains the fixed versions of the app for each issue in our study, along with installation scripts

reproduction_files - contains files which need to be loaded onto the emulator to reproduce certain bugs in our dataset, organized by issue

gpt_input - contains all of the input data for our method, including bug report text, xmls for each bug, the few-shot learning example, and BEE output

## Upon acceptance, we will submit this artifact for artifact evaluation and will include a detailed description of the content of the artifact and a step-by-step guide for reproducing our work.
Lessons learned for collaborative approaches to management when faced with diverse stakeholder groups in a rebuilding fishery
Creators: name: Deith, Mairin C. M.
name: Skerritt, Daniel J.
name: Licandeo, Roberto
name: Duplisea, Daniel E.
name: Senay, Caroline
name: Varkey, Divya A.
name: McAllister, Murdoch M. K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: There is increasing demand within fisheries management for the adoption of management approaches that incorporate in-depth stakeholder participation, scientific uncertainty, multiple objectives, and characterizations of risk. One such approach—management strategy evaluation (MSE)—relies on participation with fishery interest groups to consolidate knowledge of the fishery system, define goals, and evaluate feasible management options. However, the focus of much of the literature on MSE emphasizes steps in implementation and its practical application, despite the fact that technical aspects of MSE have the potential to alienate participants without MSE experience. Using the Units 1 and 2 Canadian Atlantic redfish fishery as a case study, we here describe lessons learned from the MSE developed for this rebuilding fishery, focusing on four key challenges: identifying participants for MSE processes; clearly defining their roles; educating participants on the purpose, benefits, and scope of MSE; and mediating disagreements to acquire critical cooperation, inputs, and feedback from the different stakeholder groups within the MSE process.
Past population control biases interpretations of contemporary genetic data : implications for future invasive Sitka black-tailed deer management in Haida Gwaii
Creators: name: Burgess, Brock T.
name: Irvine, Robyn L.
name: Martin, Jean-Louis
name: Russello, Michael A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Invasive species management practices often include genetic analyses to better inform decisionmaking and resource allocation. Yet, past management actions may artificially bias recovered patterns of genetic variation; for example a population bottleneck caused by contemporary culling may mirror some patterns associated with historical isolation. Here, we aimed to disentangle the impacts of past management activities from natural processes for Sitka blacktailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis), an invasive species that has been repeatedly culled on two islands, SGang Gwaay and Reef, within the Haida Gwaii archipelago (Canada). We applied a recently developed Genotyping-in-Thousands by sequencing panel to contemporary (e.g., blood, serum, tissue, muscle, feces) and archived deer samples, the latter collected prior to management activity within the system (c. 1997-1998), which allowed us to contextualize conflicting patterns of isolation and connectivity previously observed on SGang Gwaay and Reef. Successful genotyping (92.6%) and population genetic analysis of 292 individuals at 236 SNPs revealed signals of historical isolation on SGang Gwaay and Reef, provided evidence of a founder effect during initial colonization, and indicated an absence of ongoing gene flow. Furthermore, our spatiotemporal analyses consistently supported a priori predictions associated with bottlenecks within post-cull populations, such as within-island loss of genetic variation, elevated within-island kinship, and increased levels of among-island genetic differentiation. These findings are promising for future management of deer on SGang Gwaay and Reef, suggesting that eradications on these islands may be durable. More broadly, our work highlights the importance of understanding management history before interpreting contemporary population genetic data.
Endemic Mammals of Ethiopia (excerpt): Gelada Baboon (Theropithecus gelada)
Creators: name: Ethiopian Tourism Commission
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ethiopia
wildlife
National Parks Management

description: Ethiopian Tourism Commission. Endemic Mammals of Ethiopia. 1982. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Tourism Commission (EWCA). Transcript Gelada Baboon (Theropithecus gelada) Amharic: Gelada The Semyen highland massif is considered to be the finest scenery in all Africa and it is for this reason, and the fact that the area is the home of the Walia Ibex, the Semien Fox and the Gelada Baboon that it has now been gazetted as a national park. The Gelada is not in fact peculiar to the Semyen as is the exclusive Walia Ibex, but they are more numerous here than in their other habitats. Some live at Debre Sina not far from Addis Ababa and others at Debre Libanos on the way to the Blue Nile; there are also small populations in the Mulu and Bole Valley gorges. But in the Semyen there may be as many as 20,000, and troops of 400 together may be seen. They do not molest humans and, more surprisingly, the local people do not molest them. Thus they are very tame and will allow humans to approach quite close to the troop before moving nearer to the cliff edge.
title: Supporting multiple stakeholders in agile development
Creators: name: Patkar, Nitish Shriniwas
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems

description: Agile software development practices require several stakeholders with different kinds of expertise to collaborate while specifying requirements, designing, and modelling software, and verifying whether developers have implemented requirements correctly. We studied 112 requirements engineering (RE) tools from academia and the features of 13 actively maintained behavior-driven development (BDD) tools, which support various stakeholders in specifying and verifying the application behavior. Overall, we found that there is a growing tool specialization targeted towards a specific type of stakeholders. Particularly with BDD tools, we found no adequate support for non-technical stakeholders-- they are required to use an integrated development environment (IDE)-- which is not adapted to suit their expertise.

We argue that employing separate tools for requirements specification, modelling, implementation, and verification is counterproductive for agile development. Such an approach makes it difficult to manage associated artifacts and support rapid implementation and feedback loops.

To avoid dispersion of requirements and other software-related artifacts among separate tools, establish traceability between requirements and the application source code, and streamline a collaborative software development workflow, we propose to adapt an IDE as an agile development platform. With our approach, we provide in-IDE graphical interfaces to support non-technical stakeholders in creating and maintaining requirements concurrently with the implementation. With such graphical interfaces, we also guide non-technical stakeholders through the object-oriented design process and support them in verifying the modelled behavior. This approach has two advantages: (i) compared with employing separate tools, creating, and maintaining requirements directly within a development platform eliminates the necessity to recover trace links, and (ii) various natively created artifacts can be composed into stakeholder-specific interactive live in-IDE documentation. These advantages have a direct impact on how various stakeholders collaborate with each other, and allow for rapid feedback, which is much desired in agile practices. We exemplify our approach using the Glamorous Toolkit IDE. Moreover, the discussed building blocks can be implemented in any IDE with a rich-enough graphical engine and reflective capabilities.
Amastus inopinatus Toulgoet 2003
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Amastus
Amastus inopinatus

description: Amastus inopinatus Toulgoët, 2003
Amastus inopinatus Toulgoët, 2003c: 413.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia, [Cundinamarca] Gundinamarca, Choconta.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 306, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The Impact and Experience of Introducing Professional Midwives into Rural Government Hospitals in Bangladesh, a Mixed-Methods Study
Creators: name: Anderson, Rondi
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: The aims of this research were 1) to determine if introducing international standard midwives in rural sub-district hospitals in Bangladesh, both with and without mentoring, improved the availability and quality of maternal and newborn health care; and 2) to explore the experiences of the midwives, and the maternity staff and managers that they joined, following their introduction. Key objectives were to examine the enabling environment and document barriers and facilitators to midwifery-led care. This was a mixed-methods study that examined differences between hospitals grouped into three categories—without midwives, with midwives, and with midwives and mentorship. The quantitative component consisted of observations of facility readiness and clinical care to assess whether newly introduced evidence-based maternity care practices recommended by the World Health Organization were being implemented. In addition, maternity staff and midwives completed a written survey on their knowledge, perceptions and utilization of the new care practices. Qualitative focus groups and interviews were used to gain an understanding of the perceptions, attitudes and experiences among maternity staff and managers toward the midwives and the improved care practices. There were 641 clinical observations, 237 completed surveys, 18 interviews and five focus groups. A continuum was identified reflecting that the facilities without midwives were the least comfortable with and likely to implement the quality maternity care practices, and those with midwives and mentoring were the most likely to. In addition, perceptions toward midwives’ capabilities, both among midwives themselves and among the other maternity staff they worked with, improved with mentoring. The introduction of professional midwives was found to improve the quality of maternal health care in settings already staffed with doctors and nurses. The addition of mentors to support midwives potentiated the effect. Mentors strengthened capacity regarding new clinical practices, created enabling environments, and facilitated supportive transitions between the existing and new maternity staff.
Praxis Dialogues : Academic Engagements with Knowledge in the World
Creators: name: Group, The Dialogue
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This work consist of edited transcripts of dialogues with eight researchers-scholars-activists about knowledge practices. They include: Nicolas Crier, Nicholas Ubels, Dara Culhane, Shannon Walsh, Ana Vivaldi with Identidad Marrón, Caroline RunningWolf, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Kim TallBear (Leslie A Robertson, Editor and Introduction, i-xvii ). Funded by an ACEL grant from the Centre for Engaged Learning at UBC, this collection was created through a graduate course to be used as an online reading/teaching resource at UBC. [An updated file with revisions to the bibliography was uploaded on 2023-09-07. An updated file with revisions to image spacing was uploaded on 2023-09-11.]
Amastus ockendeni
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Amastus
Amastus ockendeni

description: Amastus ockendeni (Rothschild, 1909)
Halisidota ockendeni Rothschild, 1909c: 216.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Peru], [Puno], Agualani, Carabaya.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 306, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Amastus tolimae Watson & Goodger 1986
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Amastus
Amastus tolimae

description: Amastus tolimae Watson & Goodger, 1986
Amastus tolimae Watson & Goodger, 1986: 21. Replacement name for Halisidota tolimensis Rothschild, 1916.
Halisidota tolimensis Rothschild, 1916: 270. Junior secondary homonym of the simultaneously published Amastus tolimensis Rothschild, 1916.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia, [Tolima], Monte Tolima.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of female syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 306, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Trends in cocaine and crystal methamphetamine injection over time in a Canadian setting between 2008 and 2018
Creators: name: Bach, Paxton
name: Ti, Lianping
name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Cui, Zishan
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Fairbairn, Nadia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Objective: Unregulated stimulant use is rising globally, though trends in use of cocaine and crystal methamphetamine (CM), the two most commonly used unregulated stimulants in North America, are poorly characterized in many settings. In this study we examined patterns and associations between the injection of cocaine and CM over time in an urban Canadian setting. Methods: Data were collected from two prospective cohorts of people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada, between 2008-2018. We applied a time series analysis, using multivariable linear regression to detect relationships between reported CM and cocaine injection and year, controlling for covariates. Cross-correlation was used to evaluate the relative trajectories of each substance over time. Results: Among 2056 participants, per annum rates of reported injection cocaine use declined significantly over the duration of this study from 45% to 18% (p < 0.001), while rates of CM injection increased from 17% to 32% (p < 0.001). Multivariable linear regression showed that recent CM injection was negatively associated with recent cocaine injection (β = -0.609, 95% CI = -0.750, -0.467). Cross-correlation demonstrated that injection CM use was associated with a decrease in the likelihood of cocaine injection 12 months later (p = 0.002). Conclusions: These findings demonstrate an epidemiological shift in patterns of injection stimulant use, with rising CM injection associated with a corresponding decrease in cocaine injection over time. The development of strategies to help treat and reduce harm among the growing population of people who inject CM is urgently required.
Amastus muscosa
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Amastus
Amastus muscosa

description: Amastus muscosa (Rothschild, 1909)
Halisidota muscosa Rothschild, 1909b: 289.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Peru], [Puno], Agualani.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on 4 males and 3 females. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “Agualani, Carabaya, 9000 ft, wet s., March 05 (G. Ockenden)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a blue printed label “ Arctiidae, genitalia slide N° 3445” / a pink handwritten label “ Halisidota muscosa Type Rothsch[ild]” / a round red printed label “Type”, and designated it as lectotype. We have labeled it with a round blue label “ Lectotype ” and a white printed label “ Lectotype Amastus muscosa ♂ by Vincent & Laguerre” (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 306, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Supplementary document for High-contrast absorption magnetometry in the visible to near-infrared range with nitrogen-vacancy ensembles - 7359940.pdf
Creators: name: Schall, Florian
name: Hahl, Felix
name: Lindner, Lukas
name: Vidal, Xavier
name: Luo, Tingpeng
name: Zaitsev, Alexander
name: Ohshima, Takeshi
name: jeske, jan
name: Quay, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document including all figures and the PDF
Amastus maasseni
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Amastus
Amastus maasseni

description: Amastus maasseni (Rothschild, 1909)
Halisidota maasseni Rothschild, 1909b: 289.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Peru], [Puno], Limbani, Agualani, Carabaya.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Described from 3 male and 2 female syntypes (BMNH; one male syntype labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 307, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Implementation of CITES Appendix II listing for seahorses in the context of export bans and suspensions
Creators: name: Foster, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This study analyses the implementation of the CITES Appendix II listing for dried seahorses (Hippocampus spp.). Our focus is on (i) six jurisdictions that have long been net exporters of seahorses but have declared national bans or suspensions for such exports, and (ii) four jurisdictions that have long been key importers for dried seahorses. This study complements work on the trade in live seahorses (Foster et al. 2021).
Power Calculations for ILRLE3486/ECON3486 Example Project - Cross-checking: are two heads better than one?
Creators: name: de Koning, Bart Kasper
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This repository contains the relevant inforomation for the example project for Cornell ILRLE3486/ECON3486 course "Field Experiments in Economics and Business". The RMarkdown code provided will generate an HTML and PDF document summarizing the power calculations.
SIMULATION OF CRACK GROWTH IN MINI-C(T) FRACTURE TESTS IN THE DUCTILE-TO-BRITTLE TRANSITION USING A COHESIVE ZONE MODEL: APPLICATION TO REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL STEELS
Creators: name: Somera, Audrey
name: Frederic, Perales
name: Vincent, Pierre-Guy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The goal of this study is to simulate crack growth in miniC(T) fracture tests using a Cohesive Zone Model (CZM) in order to derive the evolution of the toughness in the Ductile-to-Brittle Transition (DBT) region. The calibration method used is adapted from [1] and only requires low-temperature experiments. For a given temperature, it is assumed that the cohesive energy increases with the fracture probability, and that the shape of the CZM traction-separation law varies from a triangle to a trapezoid when the cohesive energy is greater than a value identified using elasto-plastic simulations. The cohesive parameters are determined using two calibration procedures. The first is performed using two experimental load-displacement curves. The second involves finding the cohesive energy leading to the right fracture toughness value given by the master curve for three different temperatures and two fracture probabilities. An exponential evolution of the cohesive energy with temperature is proposed. Cohesive energy is also assumed to depend on fracture probability.Simulations of mini-C(T) toughness tests are then performed for cumulative failure probabilities of 2%, 50% and 98% at different temperatures. A good agreement is observed between the toughness computed from the simulations and the master curve approach.
Amastus nigrescens
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Amastus
Amastus nigrescens

description: Amastus nigrescens (Rothschild, 1909)
Halisidota nigrescens Rothschild, 1909c: 216.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Peru], [Puno], Agualani, Carabaya.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Described from 3 female syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 307, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Letter from John Blower to General Mebratu. Addis Ababa, July 16th, 1969
Creators: name: Blower, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1969
Subjects: Ethiopia
wildlife
National Parks Management

description: Letter from John Blower to General Mebratu. Addis Ababa, July 16th, 1969 (EWCA, “John Blower” Collection: BLO/4/Simien National Park). Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority. Transcript General Mebratu:
 SIMIEN NATIONAL PARK.
 In the course of our discussion this morning you asked me to give you a note of such matters connected with the establishment and development of the proposed Simien Park which I consider might usefully be brought to the attention of His Majesty.
 I think His Majesty is well aware of the background and of the urgent need for action, particularly to protect the small remaining population of Walia ibex and their habitat, and it is therefore pointless repeating it again. However, I suggest that His Majesty’s support in the following matters would be invaluable:
 1. Access road from Davarik to Sankaber (a distance of approx 30 kms)
 This road is the key to the development of Simien, and very little can be achieved without it since it is impossible to bring in building materials and other supplies, and the 6-8 hour mule ride is too much for the ordinary tourist. He had hoped that Engineers from the British Army would construct the road as a training exercise, and they have already carried out a survey in this connection. However, they have also undertaken to build a bridge over the Daua Parma River, and they say that they will be unable to assist with the Simien Road for at least a year, possibly longer. We cannot afford to wait, and it is therefore requested that His Majesty will give instructions for the IHA or the Army Engineers to construct this road and complete it as far as Sankaber by early 1970. This should be regarded as a top priority as no significant development will be possible in Simien until the road is completed.
 2. Resettlement of the people of Geech village;
 Geech is a small village with a total population of approximately 600 people situated in the centre of the comparatively small proposed National Park area. The people of Geech are causing considerable damage through cutting and burning of the little remaining vegetation in the Walia habitat, over-grazing by their excessive numbers of cattle, goats and sheep and by cultivating on very steep slopes, with resulting erosion of the soil. As a result the natural habitat of the Walia and other wildlife is being rapidly destroyed, and it is obvious that no successful National Park will be possible in Simien will possible unless the people of Geech village are moved and resettled elsewhere. It is suggested that a high level Commission should be appointed as soon as possible under the chairmanship of the Governor-General to examine this problem and to take the necessary steps. It is further suggested that orders should be given that no further cultivation is to take place within the proposed National Park after the present seasons crops have been harvested.
Understanding the fishers to change the fishery in the bottom trawl industry in India
Creators: name: Mangar, Roshni Sharon
name: Foster, Sarah J.
name: Vincent, Amanda C. J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This research analyses the nature of human dependence on bottom trawling as a necessary precursor to constraining its impact. Bottom trawling involves dragging a weighted net along the seabed, catching and/or damaging every organism in its path. Bottom trawling can negatively affect fishers, resulting in fewer opportunities for artisanal and small-scale fishers, diminished food security, increased human rights violations, and social and violent conflicts. This study focuses on India, where trawling started in 1956 and where 79% of total landings by trawls that targeted shrimp were already gathering unintended catches by 1979. While the obvious solution seems to be to limit bottom trawling, decision-makers are often challenged by conflicting economic, social, and environmental imperatives. The objective of the study was to understand fishers' motivations to start, stay in and stop bottom trawling to better address challenges faced by decision-makers. A mix of peer-reviewed and grey literature was used to conduct a systematic literature review. The results show that the fishery and fishers chose to begin bottom trawling and stay in the industry primarily because of offers of subsidies, potentially better income, and likely profits. The bottom trawl industry persisted despite declining resources because of (i) the industries' capacity to exert power which allowed them to extend a sunset business, and (ii) poor enforcement of regulations that should have constrained trawling. We underline the entrenched nature of the trawl industry, where fishers were trapped in bottom trawling because of accumulated debt to people higher in the trade. Fishers stopped trawling when constrained by regulations, resource depletion, and low financial returns. Fishers' motivations to participate in bottom trawling varied according to their role in the trawl industry, with owners often reaping more benefits from trawling than the crew. Recognizing and addressing these results will be crucial in determining how best to constrain bottom trawling effectively.
Invertebrate assemblages of hanging and container litter on conifer trees
Creators: name: Yoshida, Tomohiro
name: Miyamatsu, Tomohiro
name: Ayabe, Yoshiko
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Arboreal litter provides a habitat patch for detritus-based invertebrates in the aboveground part of forest ecosystems and exists in two forms. Hanging litter (HL) remains attached to branches and tree trunks after foliage dies, or hangs as intercepted falling litter exposed to the surrounding air. In comparison, litter in container habitats (CL) is deposited in pocket-like structures, such as treeholes and trunk crevices, that are enclosed by woody substrates. In experiments using litter bags and artificial containers, we: (1) compared litter invertebrate assemblages among HL, CL, and forest-floor litter, and (2) evaluated the relative importance of patch size and resource quantity for litter invertebrate assemblages in HL on Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) trees. Our results showed that the moisture content of litter and collembolan density tended to be higher in arboreal container litter (i.e. CL) than in arboreal bag litter (i.e. HL). In the second experiment, the total abundance of invertebrates was influenced more by resource quantity (litter weight) than by patch size (litter bag area). Redundancy analysis (RDA) indicated that each major group (oribatid mites, collembolans, and Gamasida) was influenced by different environmental factors in the HL. Our findings indicate that: (1) HL and CL represent different habitat types for litter invertebrates; (2) the major invertebrate groups have different habitat preferences in the HL; and (3) the abundance of invertebrates in HL is influenced more by litter quantity than by litter density (litter weight per area).
Genetic variation and effective population size of a Myracrodruon urundeuva (Engler) Fr. Allem. provenance and progeny test
Creators: name: Martins, Karina
name: dos Santos, Winnie Silva Dias
name: Quadros, Taruhim Miranda Cardoso
name: de Aguiar, Ananda Virginia
name: Machado, José Arimatéia Rabelo
name: Sebbenn, Alexandre Magno
name: Freitas, Miguel Luiz Menezes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Ex situ conservation of tree species in provenance and progeny tests allow the estimation of genetic parameters for quantitative traits and are also useful for tree breeding programs. This study aimed at estimating the genetic variability of provenance and progeny test of Myracrodruon urundeuva and providing subsidies for ex situ conservation and the use of germplasm in breeding programs. We also estimated the variance effective population size (Ne) of seeds sampled from this test, simulating six different scenarios for test management and seed collection strategies. We estimated genetic parameters for diameter at breast height (DBH), total height, volume and fork in 31-year-old provenance and progeny test established with 91 open-pollinated progenies from five provenances, allocated in a compact family block design at Pederneiras Experimental Station, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The genetic-statistical analysis was based on REML/BLUP procedure. Significant genetic differences were detected only among progenies within provenances. Individual heritability was high for DBH, height, and volume. We hypothesize that inter-tree competition inflated these estimations and have, consequently, overrated the estimates for genetic gain. Thus, this test should be mainly used for conservation purposes. The estimates for Ne varied considering different scenarios, showing that female gametic control is the best strategy to achieve higher gains on Ne, being an important suggestion for the management and seed collection strategies in dioecious species as M. urundeuva.