cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Knowledge, perceptions and practices regarding cancer screening among Garifuna women
Creators: name: Rockson, Lois E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Rationale for the studyCancer screening disparities exist among immigrant groups in the United States, yet the cancer screening behaviors of ethnic Black immigrants remains relatively unknown. Low cancer screening rates among ethnic Black immigrant groups are associated with various structural, and sociocultural barriers. These barriers may be the same for all ethnic Black immigrants but evidence is lacking. The Garifuna, an Afro-Amerindian Central American group experience structural forces in their homelands and settling communities in urbanized spaces in the US with little known of their cancer screening practices. The purpose of this study was to examine breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening practices among Garifuna women residing in the boroughs of New York City, and to identify any disparities in their cancer screening practices. The study examined levels of adherence to the recommended breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening guidelines and their association with demographic factors, access to healthcare services, perceptions/barriers, acculturation, identity and level of guideline knowledge. MethodThis study used a mixed method approach of interviews with eight key informants knowledgeable on the health behaviors of Garifuna women and surveying of four hundred Garifuna women, age 50 years and older residing in the New York City area. Content analysis was performed on key informant interview transcripts which confirmed survey sociocultural variable choices. Univariate analysis was used to describe the survey study sample and bivariate analysis to measure level of association between variables. Logistic regression examined the predictive nature of variables in explaining cancer screening adherence. ResultsFour hundred two Garifuna women completed surveys over a twenty-two month period. The results show that disparities exist in cervical cancer screening and are suggested in colorectal cancer screening. Models for colorectal cancer screening by colonoscopy and fecal occult blood testing were the most predictive of the cancer screening types with knowledge and health belief models having the highest predictive variability. ConclusionFurther studies on cervical and colorectal cancer screening among Garifuna women are recommended to identify additional barriers contributing to these cancer screening disparities, and to develop culturally appropriate interventions aimed to end disparities in this unique immigrant group.
Supplementary material for Modelling and parameter inference of predator-prey dynamics in heterogeneous environments using the direct integral approach
Creators: name: Dattner, Itai
name: Ezer Miller
name: Petrenko, Margarita
name: Kadouri, Daniel E.
name: Jurkevitch, Edouard
name: Huppert, Amit
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biotechnology

description: Additional explanations and simulations
Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs
Creators: name: Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
name: Gates, Grant F.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Disability studies
subject: David, King of Israel
subject: Bible. Old Testament

description: Royal illness and disability recur as motifs within the accounts of the Davidic monarchs provided in the books of Samuel and Kings. Recent work done on the intersection of disability studies and the Hebrew Bible provides a framework for tracing this motif throughout the history of the southern kingdom in 1 and 2 Kings. Under this framework, kings who are identified as acting righteously in the eyes of YHWH like their father David—Asa, Azariah, and Hezekiah—are kings who experience royal illness and disability. This paper considers how these instances of royal illness and disability informs the ideal for ancient Israel and Judah’s monarchs.
Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities
Creators: name: Dombrowski, Quinn
name: Dombrowski, Quinn
name: Estrada, Natalia
name: Knight, Kim Brillante
name: Knight, Kim Brillante
name: Mabuchi, Hideo
name: Martinez, Ciera
name: Martinez, Ciera
name: Smith, Nancy
name: Visconti, Amanda Wyatt
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: This special issue of dh+lib introduces our readers to how digital humanities can integrate data physicalization into the research process and how data physicalization is a form of critical making. Seven case studies are presented here, ranging from how we can use data physicalization to teach digital methods to how data physicalization can aid in the creation of research objects.
The 'great regression' and the protests to come in Latin America
Creators: name: Andrés Díaz Pabón, Fabio
name: Palacio, Maria Gabriela
Publisher: name: SALDRU working papers
Year: 2024

description: Latin America was in turmoil in 2019. Protests raged across different countries and against governments across the political spectrum. Widespread mobilisation from social organisations denounced corruption and voiced various demands, including greater political freedoms, better and affordable public services, and the urgent need to tackle corruption and inequality in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Brazil. The region ended the year with unfulfilled promises of a new social pact, and the promise of intensified mobilisations.
Library Support of Publishing Activities in National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
Creators: name: M.  Druchenko
name: D. Solovianenko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Education

description: Experience of The Scientific and Technical Library activity at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” in development assistance of scientific serials of universities is presented. It was noted that “Library Publishing” model implementation enhances the partnership between the editorial periodicals of National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, closer alignment of the scientific serials level with international standards and improvement the Library importance in the University.Представлен опыт деятельности Научно-технической библиотеки НТУУ «КПИ им. Игоря Сикорского» в содействии развитию научных периодических изданий вузов. Отмечено, что внедрение модели «Library Publishing» способствует расширению партнерских отношений между редакциями периодических изданий НТУУ «КПИ», приближению уровня научной периодики к международным стандартами и улучшению значимости библиотеки в университете.Представлено досвід діяльності Науково-технічної бібліотеки НТУУ «КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського» у сприянні розвитку наукових періодичних видань ВНЗ. Відзначено, що запровадження моделі «Library Publishing» сприяє розширенню партнерських відносин між редакціями періодичних видань НТУУ «КПІ», наближенню рівня наукової періодики до міжнародних стандартів та покращенню значимості бібліотеки в університеті.
Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities
Creators: name: Berger, Claudia
name: Dombrowski, Quinn
name: Eichmann-Kalwara, Nickoal
name: Estrada, Natalia
name: Knight, Kim Brillante
name: Lach, Pamella R.
name: Mabuchi, Hideo
name: Martinez, Ciera
name: Russel, John E.
name: Smith, Nancy
name: Visconti, Amanda Wyatt
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: This special issue of dh+lib introduces our readers to how digital humanities can integrate data physicalization into the research process and how data
physicalization is a form of critical making. Seven case studies are presented here, ranging from how we can use data physicalization to teach digital methods to how data physicalization can aid in the creation of research objects.
New draft itemLibrary Support of Publishing Activities in National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
Creators: name: M.  Druchenko
name: D. Solovianenko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Education

description: Experience of The Scientific and Technical Library activity at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” in development assistance of scientific serials of universities is presented. It was noted that “Library Publishing” model implementation enhances the partnership between the editorial periodicals of National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, closer alignment of the scientific serials level with international standards and improvement the Library importance in the University.Представлен опыт деятельности Научно-технической библиотеки НТУУ «КПИ им. Игоря Сикорского» в содействии развитию научных периодических изданий вузов. Отмечено, что внедрение модели «Library Publishing» способствует расширению партнерских отношений между редакциями периодических изданий НТУУ «КПИ», приближению уровня научной периодики к международным стандартами и улучшению значимости библиотеки в университете.Представлено досвід діяльності Науково-технічної бібліотеки НТУУ «КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського» у сприянні розвитку наукових періодичних видань ВНЗ. Відзначено, що запровадження моделі «Library Publishing» сприяє розширенню партнерських відносин між редакціями періодичних видань НТУУ «КПІ», наближенню рівня наукової періодики до міжнародних стандартів та покращенню значимості бібліотеки в університеті.
Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater
Creators: name: Braun, Juliane
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Review of   Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer. University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.  The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214 pp.  Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. Edited by Jeffrey M. Leichman and Karine Banal-Giroux. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment; Liverpool University Press, 2021. 392 pp.
New records and an updated list of reptiles from Ba Vi National Park,Vietnam
Creators: name: Luu, Vinh Quang
name: Dinh, Tuong Sy
name: Lo, Oanh Van
name: Nguyen, Truong Quang
name: Ziegler, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Year: 2020
Subjects: Reptiles
new records
distribution
Ba Vi National Park

description: We report eight new records of reptiles from Ba Vi National Park, Hanoi, Vietnam: Gekko palmatus, Boi-ga guangxiensis, Gonyosoma prasinum, Lycodon futsingensis, L. ruhstrati abditus, Opisthotropis lateralis, Hebius cha-paensis, and Pareas hamptoni. Our findings bring the total number of reptiles recorded from Ba Vi National Park to 50.
LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN CIENCIAS SOCIALES: Sugerencias prácticas sobre el proceso
Creators: name: Alonso Velasco Tulcanaza, Kevin
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Este artículo busca resaltar los componentes mas importantes sobre el método científico en el fenómeno social con un revisión literaria, donde permite resaltar y comprender los diferentes aspectos al momento de realizar una investigación social.
La investigación en ciencias sociales: sugerencias prácticas sobre el proceso
Creators: name: Cerón, Zully
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Se describe cómo aplicar el método científico en investigaciones de fenómenos sociales, analizando cada aspecto teórico y metodológico, lo cual facilita la comprension de los pasos para una investigación, siendo una metodologia rigurosa y adaptada a los fenómenos estudiados o por estudiar.
07. Playfulness, imagination, and creativity in play with toys: A cultural-historical approach
Creators: name: Møller, Signe Juhl
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: The aim of this article is to present a wholeness perspective on the relation between creative imagination and children’s activity when playing with toys. This is explored through a case retrieved from a 4-month experimental research project, specifically from a social fantasy play session. In order to analyse and examine children’s play, the study builds on a dynamic model of human activity—a Vygotskian approach—placed within a contemporary cultural-historical framework. This is expanded upon with an analytical model that connects creative play with the concept of change in play. In this model of transgression, children’s playful activities are understood as the basis for the transformation of play during play. This model offers an opportunity to observe transformations through initiatives and negotiations of the play activity. In the study, toys are conceptualised by types of mediation; that is, as toys used for social fantasy play and as toys used for creative construction play. It is shown that a wholeness perspective on play and changes during play must take into consideration children’s transgressions and negotiation of these transgressions. This gives a potential to observe how these act upon cultural traditions and institutional practices as transgressions of the established life-world.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 111–128
TV Interview (North East Arts And Culture Show) for 'How I Left The National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel'
Creators: name: Mankowski, Guy
name: Swash, Olivia
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: W300 - Music

description: Newcastle-based author Guy Mankowski talks to Olivia Swash from the North East Arts and Culture Show about his novel How I Left The National Grid.
04. Imagination and emotion in children’s play: A cultural-historical approach
Creators: name: Hedegaard, Mariane
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: Interpretations of Vygotsky’s texts have generally focused on the intellectual aspects of children’s development, including his theory of play. This article presents a reinterpretation of Vygotsky’s theory of play and draws on this theory of art to include emotions as an important part of children’s play. I will argue that in play, children’s motives, emotions, and feelings are closely connected with the development of imagination, fantasy, and creativity. Four main points are put forward: 1) Vygotsky’s (this issue) theory of play foregrounds imagination as transformative of the relations between objects and meanings and between actions and meanings. It is important to include children’s emotions and feelings in the analysis. 2) Emotions and feelings may be included by including the way imagination transforms the tensions that children expressed in play between different motive orientations towards the play theme. 3) The relations between events and feelings may become transformed through children’s play so that emotions and feeling become released from events the same way that meaning in play are released from objects, actions. 4) Changes in the way children play throughout their life course have to be seen as an interaction between the institutional conditions and traditions and children’s motive orientation. Therefore, the way emotions and feelings become transformed in relation to events changes through children’s different life periods. These points are illustrated by drawing upon observations of children’s play activity in different age periods and in different contexts.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 59–74
05. Theorising digital play: A cultural-historical conceptualisation of children’s engagement in imaginary digital situations
Creators: name: Fleer, Marilyn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: In the early childhood education literature, a growing number of studies have referenced digital play. Many of these studies seek to describe how young children play with digital devices, notably, how they engage with different kinds of apps. This work collectively illustrates a range of play behaviours where a number of important understandings about how young children engage in virtual contexts are given. However, little theoretical work has been directed to determining if what children do on these devices would constitute play. This paper seeks to examine this literature and present a theoretical discussion on what might characterise a cultural-historical conception of digital play where the essence of digital play for children aged 3 to 5 years is considered. The analysis and theoretical discussion presented draws attention to the special nature of digital play as including an imaginary digital situation, the emergence of special forms of digital talk, digital placeholders and digital pivots to support imaginary play, and the intermeshing of digital play and social pretend play. Development of digital play, the dialectical relations between play–digital play themes, and the psychological dimensions of digital play were also noted as key for conceptualising digital play. Together, these ideas extend Vygotsky’s (this issue) original conception of play and capture new societal conditions where children readily access and engage in new forms of play on digital devices.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 75–90
03. Pretend sign created during collective family play: A cultural-historical study of a child’s scientific learning through everyday family play practices
Creators: name: Yijun Hao
name: Fleer, Marilyn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: Based on a cultural-historical perspective, where play is conceptualized as the creation of an imaginary situation, the study reported in this paper examines how parent–child playful interactions create shared imaginary situations for mediating scientific learning. The main focus of this paper is to reveal sign-mediated learning process through collectively participated family imaginary play. This study draws upon part of a broader research project, and in this paper we will focus on one 3-year-old child and his parents from a medium-sized city in Mainland China. The findings reveal that during collective family engagement, the pretend signs were not predetermined but were created, updated, and developed through sustained shared imaginary situations between parents and the child. A child’s scientific learning is supported and mediated as the pretend signs were formed and embedded with social meanings during parent–child play where the child’s reimagining of certain scientific phenomenon occurs. In this paper it is argued that a child’s playful learning can be analyzed as he or she is involved in the social practice of family play where the process of internal changes during reimagining appear as a form of self- regulation.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 38–58
00. Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue
Creators: name: Barrs, Myra
name: Veresov, Nikolai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1–2
V01 Robot traversing a rigid PLA track.
Creators: name: Cumming, Jack
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400303
subject: Biomechanical engineering

description: This video shows the robot traversing a rigid PLA track with an actuation pressure of 70kPA. Initially vibrations are not activated and the the robot is seen struggling to move. It then starts to move forward when vibrations are actuated and reverses when the sequence is switched.
02. The history of the reception of Vygotsky’s paper on play in Russia and the West
Creators: name: Veresov, Nikolai
name: Barrs, Myra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: This article describes the responses of academic researchers and teachers to Vygotsky’s paper on play, published in Russian in 1966 and, in a new translation, in the present issue of this journal. That paper has had a major influence on research in play both in Russia and in the West. Its cultural-historical view of the development of play, and its key theoretical and methodological ideas, have continued to reverberate and to generate and influence a huge body of work. The article identifies the key trends in these responses to Vygotsky’s paper, reviewing the work by major scholars in this field, such as Elkonin, Leonte’ev, and Zaporozhets. The article also describes how Vygotsky’s ideas in this paper became the foundation of the national curriculum for early childhood in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. The article critiques some of the research which, using the 1978 translation of Vygotsky’s paper, presented his approach as that of a cognitivist or as a social constructivist and argues that these reflect a tradition in the West of simplifying Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory and methodology. It also reviews some contemporary studies by researchers working within the cultural-historical approach to play. These are making original contributions to the cultural- historical conception of play or bringing new insights into play as a leading activity in children’s development.International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 26–37
01. Play and its role in the mental development of the child (with Introduction and Afterword by N. Veresov and M. Barrs, Trans.)
Creators: name: Vygotsky, Lev Semyonovich
name: Nikolai Veresov (Trans.)
name: Myra Barrs (Trans.)
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3–25
CATE 2019: Integrated Foundation Years â€“ a success story for Lincoln University
Creators: name: Hopkins, Jayne
name: Davison, Ellie
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: X342 - Academic studies in higher education

description: As their foundation year alumni outperform direct entry students, closing and even reversing well known attainment gaps, the CATE award-winning University of Lincolnâ€™s Science Foundation Year team reflect upon the benefits of an integrated foundation year.
Administrative capacity or quality of political governance? EU Cohesion Policy in the new Europe, 2007–13
Creators: name: Neculai-Cristian Surubaru
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Administrative capacity or quality of political governance? EU Cohesion Policy in the new Europe, 2007–13. Regional Studies. The enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe offers new opportunities to examine the effectiveness of the European Union’s Cohesion Policy. This paper examines the management and implementation of Structural Funds in Bulgaria and Romania, two outlier but diverging cases, during 2007–13. Drawing on original empirical data, it argues that their variation in capacity and performance can be understood by examining how political factors influenced administrative capacity developments and the processes surrounding the absorption of funds. Taking stock of domestic political governance is essential as to explain the ability of new member states to manage European Union regional and Cohesion Policy.
CATE 2019: Integrated Foundation Years Ã¢â‚¬â€œ a success story for Lincoln University
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: X342 - Academic studies in higher education

description: As their foundation year alumni outperform direct entry students, closing and even reversing well known attainment gaps, the CATE award-winning University of LincolnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Science Foundation Year team reflect upon the benefits of an integrated foundation year.
Intra-Household Gender Disparity in School Choice: Evidence from Private Schooling in India
Creators: name: Soham Sahoo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Science Policy

description: This paper explores gender inequality within households in the decision of private versus government school choice in India. Using a three-period longitudinal dataset on rural households from Uttar Pradesh, a northern state of India, this paper estimates a household fixed effects model and finds that there is an intra-household gender bias of 6 percentage points in private school enrolment among children aged 6–16 years. Contrary to the trend in overall enrolment, the gender gap in private school choice is rising over time, and is more pronounced in villages with a larger cost difference between private and government schooling. This finding remains robust even after controlling for average school quality and considering potential endogeneity of the cost variables.
Sharing Distributed Energy Resources in Consumer Communities: The Design of Optimal Combinatorial Auctions
Creators: name: Abedrabboh, Khaled
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: The high penetration of renewable energy (RE) resources is essential in the move towards sustainable development. The integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), which include RE and energy storage systems (ESS) can have many environmental and economic benefits, in addition to their technical benefits. However, the high investment and space requirements, coupled with the low utilisation of these resources when individually operated, have motivated the design of market mechanisms for sharing medium-scale (10-100 kW) DERs. This can also open the opportunity for sharing economy and economies of scale. This research proposes novel game-theoretic, optimisation, and data science approaches to design local energy markets (LEMs) for sharing medium-scale DERs in consumer communities. In the first part of this thesis, the literature on LEM design is reviewed. These advances are classified based on four design criteria, and an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of these design criteria is provided. Flaws in the strategic modelling of consumers are highlighted by studying the utility function formulations used in the reviewed literature. A thorough critique of the proposed combinatorial market designs is also presented. The review of these approaches has revealed several concerns about their practical implementation. These include privacy concerns, sub-optimal market outcome, and failing to capture the complimentary nature of energy resources. In the second part of this thesis, a market framework for DER sharing between multiple DER providers and a community of consumers is developed. The proposed market is based on a novel combinatorial double auction (CDA) that allocates the limited DER resources efficiently without compromising the privacy of its participants. It also supports the environmentally sustainable behaviour of consumers. Nonetheless, developing optimal pricing strategies for DER providers remains a challenge. This is addressed in the third part of this thesis, where a novel two-stage LEM mechanism for sharing DERs is proposed, combining a combinatorial clock auction (CCA) methodology with an artificial neural network (ANN) implementation. In this approach, an iterative ascending price auction for each of the DER services is presented. Then, an ANN design that uses the price-demand bidding data to learn the strategic behaviour of consumers is proposed. Optimal pricing strategies for revenue-maximising DER providers are also investigated. Simulation results show that the proposed DER sharing mechanisms can greatly reduce energy emissions while also enhancing the revenues of DER providers, when compared with existing approaches from the literature.
Lincoln City Football Club: The role the club has to play in developing â€˜Brand Lincolnâ€™ and the cityâ€™s economy [Report]
Creators: name: Hunt, Abigail
name: Duignan, Michael
name: Taylor, Nick
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: N800 - Hospitality, leisure, sport, tourism & transport
N820 - Event management
N830 - Tourism

description: The report acknowledges where Lincoln City Football Club (LCFC) is already making a positive contribution to â€˜Brand Lincolnâ€™ and the economy, but also seeks to offer suggestions on how they might enhance and develop this for the benefit of the club and the city. The report is exploratory in nature and rather than reporting simply on numerical evidence of impact, which is scant at this point in time and an initial investigation as produced here was required to ascertain which areas to examine, it seeks to consolidate knowledge about the current contribution of LCFC on â€˜Brand Lincolnâ€™ and the wider visitor economy and to suggest ways in which this could be enhanced and developed. The report is presented in four sections. The first is a short section to contextualise the research that has taken place. The following two sections are designed to provoke discussion between LCFCâ€™s Executive Management Team and spark ideas about new ways of capitalising on the clubâ€™s success and making a positive contribution to the cityâ€™s visitor economy. To achieve this we examine the current and potential contribution of LCFC to the city of Lincoln through engaging with cultural programming, leveraging fans, utilising fan zones, and the concept of the last mile in sporting events and venues. We then examine the current and potential economic benefits to the hospitality and leisure sectors in Lincoln, looking at food and beverage outlets and accommodation, and then retail and transportation. Finally we consider the potential for further partnership research between LCFC, The University of Lincoln, and Coventry University, as we believe there is further research potential in this area.
08. “It is through others that we become ourselves”: A study of Vygotskian play in Russian and Irish schools
Creators: name: Murphy, Colette
name: Doherty, Andrea
name: Kerr, Karen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: Fifty years after publishing his seminal work on play and its role in child development, Vygotskian theory is still highly influential in education, and particularly in early years. This paper presents two examples of full integration of Vygotskian principles into schools in two very different settings. Both report improvements in learning and in well-being, and exemplify the theory–practice–theory cycle, highlighting the development of new theoretical constructs arising out of putting theory firmly into practice. In both settings, the positive results have come from years of effort, in which school personnel who may have been skeptical at first, have been inspired by the impact of adopting Vygotskian play on the children they teach. The Northern Ireland study shows that at least some of the Golden Key principles (mixed-age play and enhanced home–school links) translate perfectly into very different cultural-historical contexts. International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 129–146
Microbial seed banks and ecosystem functioning
Creators: name: Lennon, Jay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 60504 Microbial Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: 60202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)

description: Presentation in "The role of microbes in biogeochemical cycles: linking responses to ecosystem processes and environmental change". American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA (2016)
Built & Archaeological Heritage Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan
Creators: name: Daly, Cathy
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: K990 - Architecture, building & planning not elsewhere classified
V450 - Archaeological conservation
V490 - Archaeology not elsewhere classified

description: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 established the requirement for a National Adaptation Framework (NAF). The 2019 NAF will be composed of 12 sectoral plans, of which built and archaeological heritage is one. All the plans have been written according to the Sectoral Planning Guidelines for Climate Change Adaptation produced by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE, 2018a). These guidelines detail a six-step process which has been used as a framework for drafting this plan and is also re?ected in its structure. The plan has been informed by existing research and has incorporated consultation with experts, stakeholders and the public throughout its production. It has also closely considered published plans from other sectors in order to promote consistency within the NAF and to ensure cross-cutting issues are highlighted.
Taxonomic resolution and treatment effects – alone and combined – can mask significant biodiversity reductions
Creators: name: Bozzuto, Claudio
name: Blanckenhorn, Wolf U.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Taxonomic resolution or uncertainty poses an important problem in biodiversity research. Assessment of biodiversity at the species level is most informative and preferred, but requires effort and expertise. Alternatively, researchers often bin species into higher taxa because they are unable to recognize them, or to save money and time. Here we analyse, by simulation and analytical modelling, the combined effects of dose-dependent mortality and taxonomic binning on biodiversity indices for a fictitious community of organisms. We asked (1) how binning species in a sample into higher taxa significantly affects biodiversity measures, and (2) whether dose-dependent mortality effects, alone or in combination with taxonomic uncertainty, are duly captured by classic biodiversity indices. Our study shows that haphazard binning into various taxonomic levels is legitimate and preferable to orderly binning (all taxa binned at the same level), because it provides the best resolution. We further show that binning will regularly obscure statistical detection of biodiversity differences, if only due to scaling of mean and variance. Also, treatment effects in combination with taxonomic uncertainty can introduce estimation biases of at times complex nonlinear and non-intuitive nature under any taxonomic resolution scenario, potentially including relative increases in the biodiversity index when intuitively decreases would be expected. We recommend being specific about the expected qualitative and quantitative effects of any treatment or natural comparison before formulating a hypothesis regarding biodiversity reductions. Our theoretical study should aid in this endeavour.
Built & Archaeological Heritage Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: K990 - Architecture, building & planning not elsewhere classified
V450 - Archaeological conservation
V490 - Archaeology not elsewhere classified

description: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 established the requirement for a National Adaptation Framework (NAF). The 2019 NAF will be composed of 12 sectoral plans, of which built and archaeological heritage is one. All the plans have been written according to the Sectoral Planning Guidelines for Climate Change Adaptation produced by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE, 2018a). These guidelines detail a six-step process which has been used as a framework for drafting this plan and is also re?ected in its structure. The plan has been informed by existing research and has incorporated consultation with experts, stakeholders and the public throughout its production. It has also closely considered published plans from other sectors in order to promote consistency within the NAF and to ensure cross-cutting issues are highlighted.
Method and apparatus for generating a virtual interactive workspace
Creators: name: Arrasvuori, Juha Henrik
name: J and Lucero KerÃ¤nen, Hannu
name: Jokela, Tero
name: Boberg, Marion
name: Pekka Holopainen, Jussi
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: I140 - Human-computer interaction

description: An approach is provided for creating a virtual workspace among devices based, at least in part, on location information. The virtual workspace corresponds to an application or a service common to the devices. Monitoring of the movement of one or more of the devices causes manipulation of the virtual workspace, the application, the service, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the movement. Example applications and services include media editing, media playback, image processing, social networking, and social control functionality.
Method and apparatus for generating a virtual interactive workspace
Creators: name: Arrasvuori, Juha Henrik
name: Ker�nen, Hannu J and Lucero
name: Jokela, Tero
name: Boberg, Marion
name: Holopainen, Jussi
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: I140 - Human-computer interaction

description: An approach is provided for creating a virtual workspace among devices based, at least in part, on location information. The virtual workspace corresponds to an application or a service common to the devices. Monitoring of the movement of one or more of the devices causes manipulation of the virtual workspace, the application, the service, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the movement. Example applications and services include media editing, media playback, image processing, social networking, and social control functionality.
Method and apparatus for sharing media in a multi-device environment
Creators: name: Lucero, Andres
name: Holopainen, Jussi
name: Arrasvuori, Juha
name: Jaakko, KerÃ¤nen
name: J Korhonen, Hannu
name: Boberg, Marion
name: Piia Pauliina Reponen, Erika
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: I140 - Human-computer interaction

description: An approach is provided for sharing media in a multi-device environment. A group of devices for sharing one or more media files is determined. A shared media manager causes joining of one or more displays of the devices. The shared media manager then determines to generate a common user interface for presenting the one or more media files on the joined one or more displays.
Method and apparatus for sharing media in a multi-device environment
Creators: name: Lucero, Andres
name: Holopainen, Jussi
name: Arrasvuori, Juha
name: Jaakko, Ker�nen
name: Korhonen, Hannu J
name: Boberg, Marion
name: Reponen, Erika Piia Pauliina
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: I140 - Human-computer interaction

description: An approach is provided for sharing media in a multi-device environment. A group of devices for sharing one or more media files is determined. A shared media manager causes joining of one or more displays of the devices. The shared media manager then determines to generate a common user interface for presenting the one or more media files on the joined one or more displays.
Urinary Minerals Excretion Among Malaysian Adults: A Descriptive Study
Creators: name: Palaniveloo, Lalitha
name: Noor, Noor Safiza Mohamad
name: Ruhaya Salleh
name: Mohd Fairulnizal Md Noh
name: Norhayati Mustafa Khalid
name: Nashrah Adillah Ismail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Urinary
Mineral
Excretion
Malaysian
Adults
Descriptive
Study

description: Introduction The minerals are essential trace elements which are important in human metabolism and prevention of chronic diseases. Studies have highlighted the role of minerals excretion in 24-hour urine as biomarkers for dietary intake assessment in the population. This study aimed to assess 24-hour urinary minerals excretion of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, iron, iodine, copper, manganese, selenium and molybdenum among Malaysian adults. Methodology This study utilised a 24-hour urine sample collected by the Malaysian Community Salt study (MyCoSS). MyCoSS was a nationwide cross-sectional study comprised of respondents ≥18 years old from urban and rural areas. A complete single 24-hour urine was collected by the respondents using two 2.5 litre screw-capped plastic containers. • The minerals’ level was measured using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS). • Descriptive analysis was conducted in SPSS Version 21. Results Of the 615 respondents in this study, 57.2% of them were females, of Malay ethnicity (61.5%), between the ages of 30-50 years old (38.9%), from rural areas (59.3%) and with overweight/obese BMI (56.6%). Median urinary excretion of calcium was 36.70 mg/day, magnesium (14.01 mg/day), phosphorus (185.33 mg/day), iron (11.14 mg/day) and iodine (32.28 µg/day), zinc (134.67 mg/day), copper (3.43 µg/day), selenium (8.29 µg/day), manganese (0.23 µg/day) and molybdenum (26.65 µg/day). Discussion Male respondents have recorded a higher excretion of all 10 minerals in this study in comparison with females. Kesteloot et al. (1990) attributed higher dietary intake of the minerals and differences in physical activity between men and women for higher urinary minerals excretion among men compared to women in their study. Kimira et al. (2004) reported a higher excretion of calcium (166 mg/day), magnesium (80 mg/day) and phosphorus (624 mg/day) among their female respondents in comparison with female respondents in our study . Higher intake of bread and dairy foods contributed to higher excretion of calcium while a high intake of vegetables, fruits and potatoes significantly contributed to higher excretion of magnesium and phosphorus in the study. Conclusion The findings of this study will compose the database of urinary minerals excretion of Malaysian adults for the benefits of the stakeholders in the Ministry of Health. • The data also will be useful in projecting the dietary intake of the minerals.
Helminths associated with terrestrial slugs in some parts of Europe
Creators: name: Filipiak, Anna
name: Haukeland, Solveig
name: Zając, Kamila S.
name: Lachowska-Cierlik, Dorota
name: Hatteland, Bjørn A.
Publisher: name: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Year: 2020
Subjects: Slugs
Arionidae
helminth parasites
nematodes
trematodes
tapeworm

description: A survey of helminths associated with terrestrial slugs focusing on the invasive Arion vulgaris and the native A. ater was conducted on populations from France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Poland. In total, 648 terrestrial slugs were collected from 18 sample sites, and identified by means of morphological examination, dissection of genitalia and molecular analysis using mitochondrial DNA. In addition to A. vulgaris and A. ater, also A. vulgaris/A. rufus hybrids and A. ater/A. rufus hybrids were collected. Helminth species were identified based on morphological features and sequencing of the 18S and ITS rDNA regions. The parasites included four nematode species: Alloionema appendiculatum, Angiosto-ma sp.,Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita, Entomelas sp., two trematode species: Brachylaimamesostoma, Eurytrema sp., and one cestode (tapeworm) species: Skrjabinia sp. Alloionema appendiculatum was the most common helminth in the investigated slug populations. Furthermore, we found higher prevalence of trematodes in the invasive A. vulgaris compa-red with the native A. ater, while differences in the prevalence for nematodes were not as clear.