cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Conflict and complementarity in Bamana farming: A case study of Soro, Mali.
Creators: name: Becker, Laurence C.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1989

description: This thesis analyses the conflict and complementarity of farmers' household labour organisation and land use patterns in a village case study of Bamana farming in Mali. Taking the household as the basic production organising unit, three themes in peasant agriculture are investigated: 1) the types of fields managed and worked by different household members, 2) the agro-ecology of the farming system, and 3) the balance of subsistence and commodity production goals. These human-land relations within a capital-poor peasant farming system are central to the development problems faced by a country with a national economy dominated by peasant agriculture. Drawing from an intensive study of a village 45 km from Bamako, data on all of the village's household and individual fields were collected to determine the characteristics of the fields and the relationship between the fields and the farming system. A combination of interviewing techniques and regular observations provided most of the raw data, which were supplemented with archival research and secondary source material. Within the farming system today, household heads have the greatest access to land and labour. For them, non-household production units are complementary only to the extent that they support the reproduction of the household as the first priority in agriculture. The personal fields of household subdivisions, often ignored in the literature on farming systems, compete for labour with the household labour group and therefore add a degree of potential tension to the farming system. The thesis concludes that in the case study village farmers have developed commodity production to complement subsistence production. Subdivisions of household labour groups produce fuelwood and market garden crops during time and in locations that do not directly conflict with household grain production. However, this apparent complementarity within a system of unequal access to land and labour is not without contradictions. These contradictions define some of the constraints on production at the level of intra-household farming relations.
PROFIT MAXIMIZATION FOR A PRODUCT-MIX PROBLEM IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE
Creators: name: Asore, Olorunfemi Bolaji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461204
subject: Programming languages
classificationCode: 490201
subject: Algebraic structures in mathematical physics
classificationCode: 490108
subject: Operations research
classificationCode: 401706
subject: Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation
classificationCode: 490411
subject: Real and complex functions (incl. several variables)
classificationCode: 460701
subject: Computer aided design

description: Yet despite strong global signals, policy incentives and certification of four additional bio jet production pathways, viable cost-competitive bio jet production facilities have been slow to materialize. To represent information two things are crucial involve which are process and communication. Operations research or mathematical optimization is the selection of the best element (regarding some criteria) from some sets of available alternatives. In writing this project, the researcher has raised the need for understanding profit maximization for a product-mix problem in small and medium enterprises and the procedure step of achieving a qualitative product-mix problem solution by implementing a model through the adoption of linear programming. An optimization problem consists of maximizing or minimizing a real function by systematically choosing input values from within an allowed set and computing the function's value. A physical real-time problem constitutes a tangible entity which is an abstraction of a conceptual model is solution providence of physical organization straight forward as formulas of relationship among a set of variables such as imploring a deterministic technique to study myriads of occurrence event accurately perfectly predicted by outputting a compute solution to a real-time problem.
Revision of the Staurosirella leptostauron complex (Staurosiraceae, Bacillariophyta) in Europe with the description of three new species
Creators: name: Vijver, Bart Van De
name: Kusber, Wolf-Henning
name: Jüttner, Ingrid
name: Schuster, Tanja M.
name: Williams, David M.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: araphid diatoms
subject: Bacillariophyceae
subject: new species
subject: Staurosirella
subject: type material
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Background and aims – Small-celled araphid diatoms form an important part of the diatom flora in our rivers and lakes. Although several of these species are frequently reported, their correct taxonomic identity is often obscured due to a lack of good knowledge of the original (type) material. Material and methods – Several historical (nineteenth century) original samples were retrieved from different European and North American diatom collections. The samples have been analysed using light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Key results – Staurosirella crux comb. nov., based on Ehrenberg’s Navicula crux, proved to be the oldest valid name for Staurosirella harrisonii, the latter now being considered a younger synonym. A new European species, S. neorhomboides sp. nov., is described to replace the name S. rhomboides, now considered a younger synonym of S. leptostauron. The North American populations of S. rhomboides and S. martyi differ sufficiently from the type populations and are described as new species: S. moralesii sp. nov. and S. manoyloviana sp. nov. The new combination Staurosirella informis comb. nov. is proposed for a taxon described in 1856 from the French Pyrenees as Odontidium informe. Staurosirella leptostauron turns out to be insufficiently described and is now documented for further use. Conclusion – The analysis of the original (type) material corrected several taxonomic errors and better characterised the morphology of several commonly observed Staurosirella species.
Identification of drug-like molecules targeting the ATPase activity of dynamin-like EHD4
Creators: name: Mohd, Saif
name: Oder, Andreas
name: Specker, Edgar
name: Neuenschwander, Martin
name: Kries, Jens Peter Von
name: Daumke, Oliver
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Liposomes
subject: Drug screening
subject: Lipids
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Eps15 (epidermal growth factor receptor pathway substrate 15) homology domain-containing proteins (EHDs) comprise a family of eukaryotic dynamin-related ATPases that participate in various endocytic membrane trafficking pathways. Dysregulation of EHDs function has been implicated in various diseases, including cancer. The lack of small molecule inhibitors which acutely target individual EHD members has hampered progress in dissecting their detailed cellular membrane trafficking pathways and their function during disease. Here, we established a Malachite green-based assay compatible with high throughput screening to monitor the liposome-stimulated ATPase of EHD4. In this way, we identified a drug-like molecule that inhibited EHD4’s liposome-stimulated ATPase activity. Structure activity relationship (SAR) studies indicated sites of preferred substitutions for more potent inhibitor synthesis. Moreover, the assay optimization in this work can be applied to other dynamin family members showing a weak and liposome-dependent nucleotide hydrolysis activity.
Impact of the Juan Fernandez Ridge on the Pampean Flat Subduction Inferred From Full Waveform Inversion
Creators: name: Gao, Yajian
name: Yuan, Xiaohui
name: Heit, Benjamin
name: Tilmann, Frederik
name: Herwaarden, Dirk-Philip Van
name: Thrastarson, Solvi
name: Fichtner, Andreas
name: Schurr, Bernd
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: full waveform inversion
subject: flat subduction
subject: Andes
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: A new seismic model for crust and upper mantle of the south Central Andes is derived from full waveform inversion, covering the Pampean flat subduction and adjacent Payenia steep subduction segments. Focused crustal low-velocity anomalies indicate partial melts in the Payenia segment along the volcanic arc, whereas weaker low-velocity anomalies covering a wide zone in the Pampean segment are interpreted as remnant partial melts. Thinning and tearing of the flat Nazca slab is inferred from gaps in the slab along the inland projection of the Juan Fernandez Ridge. A high-velocity anomaly in the mantle below the flat slab is interpreted as relic Nazca slab segment, which indicates an earlier slab break-off triggered by the buoyancy of the Juan Fernandez Ridge during the flattening process. In Payenia, large-scale low-velocity anomalies atop and below the re-steepened Nazca slab are associated with the re-opening of the mantle wedge and sub-slab asthenospheric flow, respectively.
Supplementary_file_TAJ – Supplemental material for Current smoking, former smoking, and adverse outcome among hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Farsalinos, Konstantinos
name: Barbouni, Anastasia
name: Poulas, Konstantinos
name: Polosa, Riccardo
name: Caponnetto, Pasquale
name: Niaura, Raymond
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_file_TAJ for Current smoking, former smoking, and adverse outcome among hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Konstantinos Farsalinos, Anastasia Barbouni, Konstantinos Poulas, Riccardo Polosa, Pasquale Caponnetto and Raymond Niaura in Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease
sj-pdf-1-joa-10.1177_1932202X20929963 - Supplemental material for Validation of Instruments for Measuring Affective Outcomes in Gifted Education
Creators: name: Callahan, Carolyn M.
name: Azano, Amy Price
name: Sunhee Park
name: Annalissa V. Brodersen
name: Caughey, Melanie
name: Bass, Erika L.
name: Amspaugh, Christina M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-joa-10.1177_1932202X20929963 for Validation of Instruments for Measuring Affective Outcomes in Gifted Education by Carolyn M. Callahan, Amy Price Azano, Sunhee Park, Annalissa V. Brodersen, Melanie Caughey, Erika L. Bass and Christina M. Amspaugh in Journal of Advanced Academics
Supplementary_Figure_2 – Supplemental material for The role of mucin cell-free DNA detection as a new marker for the study of acellular pseudomyxoma peritonei of appendicular origin by liquid biopsy
Creators: name: García-Olmo, Damián
name: Olmedillas-López, Susana
name: Cortés-Guiral, Delia
name: Villarejo, Pedro
name: Rojo, Irene López
name: Guadalajara, Héctor
name: Gómez-Heras, Soledad García
name: García-Arranz, Mariano
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Figure_2 for The role of mucin cell-free DNA detection as a new marker for the study of acellular pseudomyxoma peritonei of appendicular origin by liquid biopsy by Damián García-Olmo, Susana Olmedillas-López, Delia Cortés-Guiral, Pedro Villarejo, Irene López Rojo, Héctor Guadalajara, Soledad García Gómez-Heras and Mariano García-Arranz in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Supplemental_Material – Supplemental material for Exploring Risk of Elder Abuse Revictimization: Development of a Model to Inform Community Response Interventions
Creators: name: Burnes, David
name: Elman, Alyssa
name: Feir, Beatrice Marie
name: Rizzo, Victoria
name: Chalfy, Amy
name: Courtney, Erin
name: Breckman, Risa
name: Lachs, Mark S.
name: Rosen, Tony
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material for Exploring Risk of Elder Abuse Revictimization: Development of a Model to Inform Community Response Interventions by David Burnes, Alyssa Elman, Beatrice Marie Feir, Victoria Rizzo, Amy Chalfy, Erin Courtney, Risa Breckman, Mark S. Lachs and Tony Rosen in Journal of Applied Gerontology
Supplemental Material, Additional_Information_PPG-20-017_-_new_version - Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and associated social-ecological drivers in a karst region: A case study of Guizhou Province, China
Creators: name: Qiu, Sijing
name: Peng, Jian
name: Dong, Jianquan
name: Wang, Xiaoyu
name: Ding, Zihan
name: Zhang, Hanbing
name: Mao, Qi
name: Liu, Hongyan
name: Quine, Timothy A
name: Meersmans, Jeroen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Geography
Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, Additional_Information_PPG-20-017_-_new_version for Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and associated social-ecological drivers in a karst region: A case study of Guizhou Province, China by Sijing Qiu, Jian Peng, Jianquan Dong, Xiaoyu Wang, Zihan Ding, Hanbing Zhang, Qi Mao, Hongyan Liu, Timothy A Quine and Jeroen Meersmans in Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment
ECE_Impacts_on_SN_MANUSCRIPT_SUPP_R3 – Supplemental material for The Effects of Early Care and Education Settings on the Kindergarten Outcomes of Doubly Vulnerable Children
Creators: name: Schochet, Owen N.
name: Johnson, Anna D.
name: Phillips, Deborah A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, ECE_Impacts_on_SN_MANUSCRIPT_SUPP_R3 for The Effects of Early Care and Education Settings on the Kindergarten Outcomes of Doubly Vulnerable Children by Owen N. Schochet, Anna D. Johnson and Deborah A. Phillips in Exceptional Children
Supplymentary_Tables - Distinct Expression of miR-378 in Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate: A Cogitation of Skewed Sex Ratio in Prevalence
Creators: name: Xu, Yuzi
name: Xie, Binbin
name: Shi, Jue
name: Li, Jia
name: Zhou, Chuan
name: Lu, Wei
name: Xu, Fengqin
name: He, Fuming
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Surgery

description: Supplymentary_Tables for Distinct Expression of miR-378 in Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate: A Cogitation of Skewed Sex Ratio in Prevalence by Yuzi Xu, Binbin Xie, Jue Shi, Jia Li, Chuan Zhou, Wei Lu, Fengqin Xu and Fuming He in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002720935956 - Democratic versus Authoritarian Coups: The Influence of External Actors on States’ Postcoup Political Trajectories
Creators: name: Thyne, Clayton
name: Hitch, Kendall
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002720935956 for Democratic versus Authoritarian Coups: The Influence of External Actors on States’ Postcoup Political Trajectories by Clayton Thyne and Kendall Hitch in Journal of Conflict Resolution
title: The educational movement of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, 1858-1898.
Creators: name: Hassaan, Rahmani B.M.R.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1959

description: This thesis attempts to study the salient features of the educational movement of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, its origin and development at broad stages, and its important achievements. For this purpose the thesis is divided into five chapters and certain sub-chapters. Chapter one deals with pre-Mutiny Indian Muslim life. A brief life sketch of Sir Syed is given, tracing the development of his religious, political and educational ideas up to the Mutiny. Chapter two deals with the first phase of the movement, when Sir Syed's efforts were still to educate the Muslims according to the old ideals, though in politics he sought to bring about a better understanding between the Muslims and the British Government. Chapter three reviews and discusses the formation during his stay in England of Sir Syed's policy of regenerating the Muslims spiritually, culturally and politically through education on Western lines. Chapter four is concerned with the activities of Sir Syed after his return from Europe up to 1878, when the M.A.O. College took a tangible shape. It is divided into three sub-chapters so as to permit the tracing of Sir Syed's activities in different fields-political, social and educational. It closes with the foundation of the College. Chapter five deals with the progress and achievements of the M.A.O. College. Attention is also paid to such of Sir Syed's outside activities as accelerated his success with the College. In the conclusion the effect of the new evidence produced in the thesis upon the views hitherto held of Sir Syed's movement are finally reviewed.
Contributions to the biodiversity of Vietnam – Results of VIETBIO inventory work and field training in Cuc Phuong National Park
Creators: name: Raab-Straube, Eckhard Von
name: Di Vincenzo, Vanessa
name: Jahn, Regine
name: Lücking, Robert
name: Abarca, Nélida
name: Bollendorff, Sarah
name: Borsch, Thomas
name: Hein, Peter
name: Kürschner, Harald
name: Kusber, Wolf-Henning
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: VIETBIO
subject: Vietnam
subject: biodiversity discovery
subject: species inventory
subject: Cuc Phuong National Park
subject: MyFieldBook app
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: VIETBIO [Innovative approaches to biodiversity discovery and characterisation in Vietnam] is a bilateral German-Vietnamese research and capacity building project focusing on the development and transfer of new methods and technology towards an integrated biodiversity discovery and monitoring system for Vietnam. Dedicated field training and testing of innovative methodologies were undertaken in Cuc Phuong National Park as part and with support of the project, which led to the new biodiversity data and records made available in this article collection. VIETBIO is a collaboration between the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (MfN), the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin (BGBM) and the Vietnam National Museum of Nature (VNMN), the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), the Southern Institute of Ecology (SIE), as well as the Institute of Tropical Biology (ITB); all Vietnamese institutions belong to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). The article collection "VIETBIO" (https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.coll.63) reports original results of recent biodiversity recording and survey work undertaken in Cuc Phuong National Park, northern Vietnam, under the framework of the VIETBIO project. The collection consist of this “main” cover paper – characterising the study area, the general project approaches and activities, while also giving an extensive overview on previous studies from this area – followed by individual papers for higher taxa as studied during the project. The main purpose is to make primary biodiversity records openly available, including several new and interesting findings for this biodiversity-rich conservation area. All individual data papers with their respective primary records are expected to provide useful baselines for further taxonomic, phylogenetic, ecological and conservation-related studies on the respective taxa and, thus, will be maintained as separate datasets, including separate GUIDs also for further updating.
sj-pdf-2-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 - Supplemental material for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”?
Creators: name: Agar Marín-Morales
name: Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia
name: Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Natalia
name: Pérez-García, Miguel
name: Catena-Martínez, Andrés
name: Verdejo-Román, Juan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”? by Agar Marín-Morales, Natalia Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Miguel Pérez-García, Andrés Catena-Martínez and Juan Verdejo-Román in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
title: Brajabuli literature, its content and language, with special reference to Bengal.
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyaya, Tarapada
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1959

description: The subject of this essay is the Vaisnava literature of Medieval Bengal composed in the Brajabuli language. It is discussed in its three aspects; religion, literature and language. The songs, composed according to the conventions prescribed by the highest authority of the Gauraya Vaisnava school are primarily religious; and they are at the same time literary products some of them of great beauty. In them religious sentiment is expressed in terms of human emotion and passion. The language in which the poems are composed is used exclusively by the Vaisnava poets of the Caitanya sect and has especial features of its own. Therefore for a proper understanding of the works of the Vaisnava poets, these three aspects, must be all taken into consideration. The present essay is an attempt to do so. A summary of the previous work on Brajabuli is given in Chapter I. A survey of the extant materials of Brajabuli and the materials on which the present work is based, is given in the second chapter. In Chapter III is given the etymology, history and interpretation of the word 'Brajabuli'. Chapter IV contains a summary of Brajabuli literature of the provinces other than Bengal. In Chapter V the development of Brajabuli literature of Bengal is discussed. Chapters VI, VII, and VIII introduce the religious aspects, each dealing with a separate topic; the history of the Krsna legend, the Rasa aspect, and the story respectively. The form and style of the poems, like the language, has peculiar features which are considered in Chapter IX. Chapter X contains a summary of the earlier theories on the origin of the Brajabuli language. Chapters XI, XII and XIII, contain linguistic analysis under three main heads; Noun, Pronoun and Verb. Chapter XIV contains an interpretation of the linguistic facts described in the preceeding three chapters.
Clustering of cardiometabolic and renal risk factors
Creators: name: Lhoste, Victor
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart diseases, kidney diseases, and cancer are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. NCDs are often the cause of a combination of risk factors, including obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and impaired renal function, which traditionally have been studied in isolation. This thesis adopts a data-driven approach by utilizing clustering techniques to analyze these risk factors jointly and identify cardiometabolic and renal phenotypes within populations. The first aim of this thesis is to identify cardiometabolic and renal phenotypes in the United States. I used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) spanning from 1988 to 2018, and identified ten cardiometabolic and renal phenotypes in the US population, highlighting significant health trends. Notably, there was a decrease in phenotypes associated with high blood pressure and cholesterol, con- trasted by an increase in those characterized by severe obesity and poor kidney function, indicating a shift from phenotypes with high blood pressure and cholesterol towards poor kidney function and severe obesity. In a second part, I extended this approach by developing a methodological framework that enables the comparison of cardiometabolic and renal phenotypes across multiple population subgroups and introduced a novel Bayesian hierarchical Gaussian mixture clustering model. I applied this model to data from three di↵erent age groups from NHANES data and illustrated the advantages of using this model rather than clustering these age groups together or separately. The identification of clinically relevant phenotypes and their trends in the US, as well as the development of a new model for a multivariate comparison of cardiometabolic and renal health across populations, provide a foundation for future research on NCD risk factors and their distribution in various populations.
title: A study of the composition and the sources of the "Chin P'ing Mei".
Creators: name: Hanan, Patrick
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1960

description: The authenticity of parts of the novel - a question which has never been settled - is here decided by means of a close textual study. A description is given from personal observation of the early editions of the Chin P'ing Mei, several of which, accessible only in China or Japan, have not been described before. By criteria of internal consistency, narrative as well as linguistic, it is shown that the text of Chapters 53 to 57, unlike their headings, did not belong to the original work. This conclusion also makes it possible to decide how the groups of early editions are related. From an examination of the early references to the novel, new light is cast on the date of its composition, as well as on the transmission of its manuscripts. The successful dating of a letter by the poet Yuan Hung-tao proves that the novel was already in existence in 1596. This letter, together with other references, indicates that two kinds of manuscript were in circulation from 1596, one half-complete, the other virtually complete. From the second, all our extant editions ultimately derive. Only a few of the sources of the novel have hitherto been described, and then usually without any attempt at evaluation. A collective study is made here of the sources, including many which are pointed out for the first time. Each is described and assessed for its bearing on the novel. It in shown that certain works, especially drama , song, and shuo-ch'ang literature, assume great importance, and have hitherto unrecognised influence on the Chin P'ing Mei.
title: Kufic tombstones in British collections.
Creators: name: Arif, Aida S.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1960

description: This is a study of Islamic stelae in British Collections, The first part of the study is an examination of these stelae so that it was possible to give a full description of their shape, material, lettering and place of origin. This has been followed by comparisons between them and representative stelae from other parts of the Islamic world. On reading the formulae and Qur'anic verses found on them, it became clear that they all followed a common pattern. Thus the Qur'anic verses are found on most of the stones, they are concerned with death, the hope of everlasting life in Paradise for the deceased and the Oneness and the eternity of God. On examining the stelae, especially concentrating on the name of the deceased, it was discovered that most of them were the descendants of Arab tribesmen who had come from Hijaz and Yaman and settled in Egypt, This is an historical point of great indication. The second part of the study is a publication of the stelae them-selves, where a translation of each is given together with a detailed commentary, Besides, some specific notes or their kufic script are made and it wag possible thereby to make a comparison between these stelae and other known examples of kufic lettering. Following this is a Chapter on epigraphic analysis and theories that have been held about it by Western scholars and Arab traditionalists. Stalae were divided from the epigraphic point of view and showed the whole range of development from the early primitive to mature writing. The masho and its complicated rules have been fully discussed. The last part comprises tables of the various alphabetical groups selected from our specimens and other stelae from North Africa and Sudan. After drawing these tables, it was possible for me to make my conclusions regarding the development of the kufic script in Africa during the period covered by those specimens.
An integral algorithm of exponential observables for interacting fermions in quantum Monte Carlo simulation
Creators: name: Zhang, Xu
name: Pan, Gaopei
name: Chen, Bin-Bin
name: Sun, Kai
name: Meng, Zi Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exponential observables, formulated as $\log \langle e^{\hat{X}}\rangle$ where $\hat{X}$ is an extensive quantity, play a critical role in study of quantum many-body systems, examples of which include the free-energy and entanglement entropy. Given that $e^{X}$ becomes exponentially large (or small) in the thermodynamic limit, accurately computing the expectation value of this exponential quantity presents a significant challenge. In this Letter, we propose a comprehensive algorithm for quantifying these observables in interacting fermion systems, utilizing the determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) method. We have applied this novel algorithm to the 2D half-filled Hubbard model. At the strong coupling limit, our method showcases a significant accuracy improvement compared to conventional methods that are derived from the internal energy. We also illustrate that this novel approach delivers highly efficient and precise measurements of the nth Rényi entanglement entropy. Even more noteworthy is that this improvement comes without incurring increases in computational complexity. This algorithm effectively suppresses exponential fluctuations and can be easily generalized to other models.
description: 5 pages, 2 figure
sj-pdf-6-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 - Supplemental material for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”?
Creators: name: Agar Marín-Morales
name: Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia
name: Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Natalia
name: Pérez-García, Miguel
name: Catena-Martínez, Andrés
name: Verdejo-Román, Juan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-6-jiv-10.1177_0886260520926494 for “Would You Allow Your Wife to Dress in a Miniskirt to the Party”? by Agar Marín-Morales, Natalia Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Miguel Pérez-García, Andrés Catena-Martínez and Juan Verdejo-Román in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Supplemental Material, PennyPref_JM_Final_Web_Appendix - Penny for Your Preferences: Leveraging Self-Expression to Encourage Small Prosocial Gifts
Creators: name: Rifkin, Jacqueline R.
name: Du, Katherine M.
name: Berger, Jonah
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental Material, PennyPref_JM_Final_Web_Appendix for Penny for Your Preferences: Leveraging Self-Expression to Encourage Small Prosocial Gifts by Jacqueline R. Rifkin, Katherine M. Du and Jonah Berger in Journal of Marketing
title: Studies in the social history of the Umayyad Period as revealed in the Kitab al-Aghani.
Creators: name: Akel, Nabih
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1960

description: This is a study of some of the aspects of the social life of the Umayyad period. Its general subject is the life of pleasure and amusement and its main characters are those whose conduct and deeds were not in complete harmony with the strict teachings of Islam. Kitab al-Aghani provided most of the material for this study. The introduction deals with the life, cultural background and works of al-Isbahani. The material and sources of the Aghani are discussed in a separate section in this introduction. Chapter I is concerned with the origin of Arabian music, the general position of music and musicians in the Umayyad period, the factors that helped music to flourish, the social status of some of the musicians, and the houses of public entertainment and the slave-girls who worked in them. Chapter II deals with matters relating to wine-drinking and, in it, an examination is made of some of the wine-poetry of the period in order to draw a picture of the scene and etiquette at wine-parties. In Chapter III khunth, homosexuality and prostitution are discussed, and an attempt is made to indicate the factors that were responsible for the appearance of mukhannathun, pederasts and prostitutes in society. Chapter IV describes the attitude of the pious and the authorities to-wards the life of pleasure and amusement. The contrast that existed between the spiritual and ethical foundations of pre-Islamic Arab life and the teachings of Islam is demonstrated in this chapter in the motives that inspired the opposition of the nobles on the one hand, and the pious on the other. Chapter V is devoted to the study of the attitude of each Umayyad Caliph towards pleasure and amusement, the life at his Court and the Umayyad Court-etiquette generally.
Light Fields during Inflation from BOSS and Future Galaxy Surveys
Creators: name: Green, Daniel
name: Guo, Yi
name: Han, Jiashu
name: Wallisch, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial non-Gaussianity generated by additional fields present during inflation offers a compelling observational target for galaxy surveys. These fields are of significant theoretical interest since they offer a window into particle physics in the inflaton sector. They also violate the single-field consistency conditions and induce a scale-dependent bias in the galaxy power spectrum. In this paper, we explore this particular signal for light scalar fields and study the prospects for measuring it with galaxy surveys. We find that the sensitivities of current and future surveys are remarkably stable for different configurations, including between spectroscopic and photometric redshift measurements. This is even the case at non-zero masses where the signal is not obviously localized on large scales. For realistic galaxy number densities, we demonstrate that the redshift range and galaxy bias of the sample have the largest impact on the sensitivity in the power spectrum. These results additionally motivated us to explore the potentially enhanced sensitivity of Vera Rubin Observatory's LSST through multi-tracer analyses. Finally, we apply this understanding to current data from the last data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS DR12) and place new constraints on light fields coupled to the inflaton.
description: 53 pages, 18 figures, 8 tables; v2: minor corrections; v3: minor changes, matches published version
MSJ930371_Supplementary_Material – Supplemental material for A novel in-home digital treatment to improve processing speed in people with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study
Creators: name: Bove, Riley
name: Rowles, William
name: Zhao, Chao
name: Anderson, Annika
name: Friedman, Samuel
name: Langdon, Dawn
name: Alexander, Amber
name: Sacco, Simone
name: Henry, Roland
name: Gazzaley, Adam
name: Feinstein, Anthony
name: Anguera, Joaquin A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, MSJ930371_Supplementary_Material for A novel in-home digital treatment to improve processing speed in people with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study by Riley Bove, William Rowles, Chao Zhao, Annika Anderson, Samuel Friedman, Dawn Langdon, Amber Alexander, Simone Sacco, Roland Henry, Adam Gazzaley, Anthony Feinstein and Joaquin A Anguera in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
title: The impact of development aid on the resources of a recipient community in Bura Fuelwood Plantation Project, Kenya: Participatory research as an approach to development aid.
Creators: name: Vainio-Mattila, Arja H.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1992

description: The purpose of this thesis is two-fold: to study the impact of a development aid programme on the resources base of a recipient community at the grassroots level, and the success of Participatory Research as an approach to the successful implementation of development aid. The case study is on the Bura Fuelwood Plantation Project (BFPP), which is located on the Bura Irrigation and Settlement Scheme (BISS) in Eastern Kenya. This study focuses on the problem of domestic fuel shortage with women as the main interest group. Participatory Research is used as an approach to assessing the impact of aid on the forestry related resources of the tenant farmers in Bura, and improved stoves are focused on as one domestic strategy to meet the fuel shortage. The hypotheses are that BFPP has had an impact on the resources the people in Bura have for creating their own development strategies, and that the Participatory Research Approach (PRA) can increase the recipients' access to and control of resources within the framework of aid. It is argued that aid programmes create space by establishing parallel structures to existing ones. The concept of Specific Interest Space (SIS) is developed on the basis of fieldwork in Bura to facilitate the analysis of space, in terms of control and distance, from the viewpoint of a group of people sharing a common interest In order to test the hypotheses the forestry related needs and resources of villagers in Bura are analyzed. This analysis focuses on gender, with emphasis on women's needs and resources. It is argued that BFPP introduces new technical, personnel and financial resources. But as the Project maintained control over these resources as well as gained partial control over resources that existed prior to the project, in some cases villagers' opportunities to design and implement their own development strategies in the forestry sector were diminished. The conclusion of the thesis is that the impact of development aid is strongest within a recipient community. Therefore development aid should be based primarily on needs and resources that exist within the community. It is also concluded that PRA can be used within aid framework to initiate and maintain dialogue between donors, implementors and recipients.
sj-pdf-1-asp-10.1177_0003702820930009 - Supplemental material for Infrared Optical Constants from Pressed Pellets of Powders: I. Improved n and k Values of (NH4)2SO4 from Single-Angle Reflectance
Creators: name: Johnson, Timothy J.
name: Diaz, Emmanuela
name: Hughey, Kendall D.
name: Myers, Tanya L.
name: Blake, Thomas A.
name: Dohnalkova, Alice C.
name: Burton, Sarah D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-asp-10.1177_0003702820930009 for Infrared Optical Constants from Pressed Pellets of Powders: I. Improved n and k Values of (NH4)2SO4 from Single-Angle Reflectance by Timothy J. Johnson, Emmanuela Diaz, Kendall D. Hughey, Tanya L. Myers, Thomas A. Blake, Alice C. Dohnalkova and Sarah D. Burton in Applied Spectroscopy
Gastrointestinal nematodes in German outdoor-reared pigs based on faecal egg count and next-generation sequencing nemabiome data
Creators: name: Fischer, Hannah R. M.
name: Krücken, Jürgen
name: Fiedler, Stefan
name: Duckwitz, Veronica
name: Nienhoff, Hendrik
name: Steuber, Stephan
name: Daher, Ricarda
name: Samson-Himmelstjerna, Georg Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pig
subject: Nematode
subject: FLOTAC
subject: ITS-2
subject: Deep amplicon sequencing
subject: Nemabiome
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Background There is a higher risk for nematode infections associated with outdoor-reared pigs. Next to Ascaris suum, Oesophagostomum dentatum and Trichuris suis, there is the potential of infections with other nodular worm species, Hyostrongylus rubidus, Stongyloides ransomi and Metastrongylus spp. lungworms. Next-generation sequencing methods describing the nemabiome have not yet been established for porcine nematodes. Methods FLOTAC was used for faecal egg counts of porcine gastrointestinal nematodes and lungworms in piglets, fatteners and adults individually. A nemabiome analyses based on ITS-2 gene region metabarcoding was used to differentiate strongyle species. Additionally, questionnaire data was analysed using mixed-effect regression to identify potential risk factors associated with parasite occurrences and egg shedding intensity. Results On 15 of 17 farms nematode eggs were detected. Ascaris suum, strongyles and T. suis were detected on 82%, 70% and 35% of the 17 farms, respectively. Lungworms were detected on one out of four farms with access to pasture. Strongyloides ransomi was not detected. 32% (CI 28–36%), 27% (24–31%), 5% (4–7%) and 3% (0.9–8%) of the samples where tested positive for strongyles, A. suum, T. suis and lungworms, respectively. The nemabiome analysis revealed three different strongyle species, with O. dentatum being the most common (mean 93.9%), followed by O. quadrispinulatum (5.9%) and the hookworm Globocephalus urosubulatus (0.1%). The bivariate and multivariate risk factor analyses showed among others that cleaning once a week compared to twice a week increased the odds significantly for being infected with A. suum (OR 78.60) and strongyles (2077.59). Access to pasture was associated with higher odds for A. suum (43.83) and strongyles (14.21). Compared to shallow litter systems, deep litter and free range systems resulted in significant higher odds for strongyles (85.74, 215.59, respectively) and T. suis (200.33, 623.08). Conclusions Infections with A. suum, O. dentatum, O. quadrispinulatum, T. suis, Metastrongylus spp. and G. urosubulatus are present in German outdoor-reared pigs. This is the first report of G. urosubulatus in domestic pigs in Europe. Metabarcoding based on the ITS-2 region is a suitable tool to analyse the porcine nemabiome. Furthermore, management practices have the potential of reducing the risk of parasite infections.
title: Aspects of the temporal pattern of dry season fires in the dry dipterocarp forests of Thailand.
Creators: name: Kanjanavanit, Saranarat
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1992

description: This thesis reviews the role of fire, and especially its seasonal timing, in the moist savanna forests of mainland Southeast Asia, and, in particular, of Thailand. Based on one year's experimental field work carried out in Uthai-thani Province, West Thailand, the thesis investigates the development of conditions for burning and fire behaviour throughout the dry season. Spatial patterns of fire temperature and the duration of maximum temperature are measured, along with a wide range of other key variables, such as fireline intensity and speed of fire spread. The climatic preparation of fuels for ignition is also examined. It is argued that fire is endemic in this formation, although its character has changed much over time. Conditions for burning were found to be optimal in March (the late dry season), when fire occurrence and behaviour measurements were at their peak. Two ground cover fuel-fire regimes are recognized: 1) heterogeneous ground cover, with a high proportion of non-grass species, producing patchy, low temperature bums (≤650° C), except where conditions are very favourable, as in the late dry season; 2) homogeneous grass cover, notably of Heteropogon triticeus (R.Br.) Stapf.ex Craib, which tends to burn evenly, and extensively, with a high temperature (750-900°C) and speed of spread (0.6-3.0 cm s[-1]), when the grass stalks have collapsed after the arrival of the Northeast monsoon (early February - mid dry season). As in African moist savannas, short-term recovery shows a tendency for low temperature burns on partially dry grass to favour woody species, while discouraging grass growth. It is suggested that fire timing and placement can be used as an effective tool in ecological management, to: 1) prevent the extensive occurrence of destructive wildfires; 2) meet a range of different planning objectives. It is further argued that, since the fire ecology is local, the management pattern must also be devised locally. A change from central state control of policy is thus proposed. Key Words: fire ecology, fire timing, phenology, fire management, savanna forest, Thailand, Southeast Asia.
“I have to fight for them to investigate things”: a qualitative exploration of physical and mental healthcare for women diagnosed with mental illness
Creators: name: Zirnsak, Tessa-May
name: Elwyn, Rosiel
name: McLoughlan, Grace
name: Le Couteur, Esther
name: Green, Chloe
name: Hill, Nicholas
name: Roberts, Russell
name: Maylea, Chris
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services

description: Introduction: Women play a significant role in the management of their own healthcare and that of others, however women diagnosed with mental illness and physical health concerns experience significant health inequalities as compared to people living without mental health concerns. Methods: In this paper, we reflect on the experiences of 20 cis women diagnosed with mental and physical health concerns who agreed to be a part of this research. This qualitative study is part of the larger Healthtalk Australia research project which was not gender specific. Female participants shared many experiences of mental and physical healthcare in interviews with researchers that pointed to the need for a gendered approach to addressing health inequalities. Consequently, we iteratively consolidated transcripts of interviews with participants into thematic categories facilitated by NVIVO 12. Results: We identified two broad themes and a set of subthemes: in the doctor’s office – experience of labelling; negotiating medications; and interactions with physical and mental health, and outside the doctor’s office – responses to trauma, financial concerns, and reliance on participant’s internal resources to get healthcare needs met. Discussion: We conclude that participants in this study undertook significant work to manage their own healthcare needs, despite being challenged by clinicians and systems that failed to see them as whole people with expertise regarding their own health.