cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Treatment Algorithm in Cancer-Associated Thrombosis: Updated Canadian Expert Consensus
Creators: name: Carrier, Marc
name: Blais, Normand
name: Crowther, Mark
name: Kavan, Petr
name: Le Gal, Grégoire
name: Moodley, Otto
name: Shivakumar, Sudeep
name: Suryanarayan, Deepa
name: Tagalakis, Vicky
name: Wu, Cynthia
name: Lee, Agnes Y. Y.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Patients with cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) are at high risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) and major bleeding complications. Risks vary significantly between individuals based on cancer status, treatment, and other characteristics. To facilitate the evidence-based management of anticoagulant therapy in this patient population, a committee of 11 Canadian clinical experts updated a consensus-based algorithm for the acute and extended treatment of symptomatic and incidental CAT that was developed in 2018. Following a systematic review of the literature, updates to the algorithm were discussed during an online teleconference, and the algorithm was subsequently refined based on feedback from committee members. Clinicians using this treatment algorithm should consider bleeding risk, type of cancer, and drug–drug interactions, as well as patient and clinician preferences, in tailoring anticoagulation for patients with CAT. Anticoagulant therapy should be adapted as the patient’s cancer status and management change over time.
title: Establishing Community Seed Banks managed by Village Agricultural Committees in five villages of Sudan
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: Through the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) technical cooperation program, the State Ministries of Agriculture and Animal Resources of South, West and Central Darfur, together with local and international NGOs implemented a project aiming to restore and improve food security and livelihoods of vulnerable households in Darfur by enhancing crop production as well as livestock health and productivity; the project started in 2011 and targeted 22,300 households. Community Seed Banks were established in five villages and Village Agricultural Committees were set up and trained to manage the facilities. Thirty five tons of improved groundnut, sorghum and millet foundation seeds were provided to 2000 farmers for multiplication; altogether, 4800 farmers engaged in seed multiplication in all three states. Community Seed Banks facilitated the preservation and dissemination of improved seed varieties at village level in the longer term and improved food and livelihoods security of beneficiaries by increasing their access to quality seeds. Key lessons learned include that farmers benefitted from their enhanced capacities to save and exchange seed among each other.
title: Establishing community-based Seed Growers Groups (SGGs) to produce certified seeds of improved and traditional varieties
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: Establishment of Community-based Seed Growers Groups (SGGs) was one key activity of the Seed Development Project, which was implemented between 2012 and 2018 based on cooperation between government organizations and authorities of North and South Kordofan States with responsibilities in the areas of seed and plant genetic resources, together with several public and private sector partners, such as service providers and local extension teams. The objective was to increase crop productivity of smallholder farmers through adoption of certified seeds of crops grown under rain-fed conditions in both states. The Project had four complementary and reinforcing components: (1) strengthening the regulatory environment and relevant government institutions; (2) enhancing the performance of the seed production system by providing the necessary support; (3) market development, including through support to farmers’ groups and associations and private sector enterprises providing relevant technologies, goods and services; and (4) project management. 17 community-based SGGs including 853 farmers (38% women) were established and enabled to produce certified seeds of improved and traditional varieties; produced seed is sold to seed companies, neighbors and farmers in other areas of Sudan, such as West Kordofan and Darfur. These achievements have resulted in a significant improvement in food security nationally.
Boundary spanning for health - a framework and model to improve access to health services in high income countries
Creators: name: Wallace, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study provides a practical response to the problem faced by health services to engage with hardly reached people to reduce health inequalities and inequities. Evidence from an international two-case study in Australia and Ireland was used to develop the Community Connector Framework. This new conceptual framework includes a Model for Collaboration between health services and community connectors to cross boundaries and engage effectively, resulting in better access to health services, better service provision and ultimately better health.
title: Advisory bodies to the national PGR Programme
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Decision making
subject: AGROVOC: Farmer participation

description: The National Programme for Plant Genetic Resources was established in 2000. Since its inception, an Advisory Council has provided guidance on the programme’s strategic development. The Federation of Swedish Farmers (LRF) are represented in the Advisory Council together with a broad range of other stakeholders, incl. government agencies, private enterprises, museums, NGOs, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen). LRF Horticulture, re-presenting the horticultural industry, has been instrumental in re-introducing heritage cultivars to the domestic market. Their expertise has provided for sound plant nursery production and marketing. Until today ca. 235,000 plants of more than 150 cultivars (ornamentals, fruit trees, roses, vegetatively propagated food plants, etc.) have reached Swedish growers/customers. In addition to the Advisory Council, a number of crop expert committees have been established to support decision-making in the work of the National Genebank for vegetatively propagated horticultural crops. These expert committees are broadly composed, not least by farmers/nurserymen.
title: Kålrotsakademien (The Swede Academy)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Catalogues
subject: AGROVOC: Documentation

description: The Swede Academy, with 18 members, was founded in 2015. Its purpose is to promote the cultural-historical and geographical links between the raw material, its properties and their expression in processed food products, dishes and meals, as well as related storytelling. An explicit goal is to spread knowledge about it both inside and outside Sweden's borders. The swede, or ‘rutabaga’, is the most internationally known cultivated plant of Swedish origin. It originated through several spontaneous hybridizations between turnip and cabbage in the 17th  century in the then eastern part of the country and has spread out over the world from there. The Academy attaches special importance to the cultural and geographical links of cultivated plants. The fact that the cultural geography contains linguistic dialectal dimensions is of particular value. Through dissemination of knowledge outside Sweden's borders, the Academy promotes Swedish food culture abroad. The Academy wishes to emphasize nuances of shade rather than overlapping great features. Credible stories about food evoke curiosity and create added value. Storytelling creates a strong weave of culture that binds people and phenomena closer together and builds pride from below. This, according to the Academy, is particularly important in an increasingly unidentified and globalized world.
title: The ‘Golden Pea award’
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture
subject: AGROVOC: Local communities

description: The ‘Golden Pea award’ is a recognition of those individuals that - often throughout generations - have contributed to the conservation of plant genetic resources. The award can be given to farmers, gardeners, private persons, and organizations alike. Since the first ‘Golden Pea’ was awarded in 2002, close to 50 caretakers of the green heritage have been lauded. The award is a collaboration between the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, coordinator of the national PGR Programme, and County Administrations that wish to participate. The Golden Pea award helps raise public awareness of PGR issues at the local and regional level.
title: ‘Naptek’ ‒ National Programme on Local and Traditional Knowledge Concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity, and ‘Pom’ ‒ Programme for Diversity of Cultivated Plants
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Catalogues
subject: AGROVOC: Documentation

description: The National Programme on Plant Genetic Resources (‘Pom’), focussing on the conservation and sustainable use of PGR as well as documenting relevant traditional knowledge, started in 2000. This programme is still ongoing, and the volume of publications targeting local and traditional knowledge (LTK) and cultivated plants is extensive. In December 2005, the Swedish government also launched the national programme ‘Naptek’ on local and traditional knowledge (LTK) concerning the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Naptek’s aim was to safeguard relevant traditional knowledge, innovations and practices in relation to article 8(j) of the CBD, adding work on article 10(c). From the start, the Swedish Biodiversity Centre coordinated the Naptek programme in direct collaboration with the Swedish Saami Parliament on issues concerning the Saami traditions. Other relevant tradition holders/stakeholders were also included in the process, e.g. farmers. The programme is now closed, but Naptek’s publication record is extensive; a follow-on programme under the Environmental Protection Agency strictly refers to the Saami community.
title: Law for Agrobiodiversity, Seeds and Promotion of Sustainable Agriculture (2017)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: This law was developed under the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and entered into force in 2017. The main objectives are to protect, revitalize and promote dynamic conservation of agrobiodiversity; ensure production, free and permanent access to quality seeds, including by strengthening scientific research and promoting sustainable agricultural production models. It also respect the diverse identities, knowledge and traditions that guarantee the availability of healthy, diverse, nutritious and culturally appropriate food to achieve food sovereignty and contribute to the ‘Good Living’ (‘Sumak Kawsay’). It guarantees the free use and exchange of peasant seeds, and establishes rules for the production, certiﬁcation and commercialization of certified seeds. The law is a normative instrument that would allow the conservation of diverse agricultural biodiversity species of nutritional and economic importance, as well as with  industrial potentials. The law consists of three chapters: (1) conservation of native seed; (2) regulation of certified seed; and (3) sustainable agricultural practices. It includes a clarification of rights in the context of PGRFA as well as provisions for the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, including monitoring, research and innovation activities; knowledge sharing and seed exchange. A technical committee is currently developing the implementation modalities of this new law.
The Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) and Checklist (PAMC): International consensus statement and user guide
Creators: name: Williamson, Chloë
name: Baker, Graham
name: Tomasone, Jennifer R.
name: Bauman, Adrian
name: Mutrie, Nanette
name: Niven, Ailsa
name: Richards, Justin
name: Oyeyemi, Adewale
name: Baxter, Beelin
name: Rigby, Benjamin
name: Cullen, Benny
name: Paddy, Brendan
name: Smith, Brett
name: Foster, Charlie
name: Drummy, Clare
name: Vandelanotte, Corneel
name: Oliver, Emily
name: Dewi, Fatwa S. T.
name: McEwen, Fran
name: Bain, Frances
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
name: McEwen, Hamish
name: Mills, Hayley
name: Brazier, Jack
name: Nobles, James
name: Hall, Jennifer
name: Maclaren, Kaleigh
name: Milton, Karen
name: Olscamp, Kate
name: Campos, Lisseth V.
name: Bursle, Louise
name: Murphy, Marie
name: Cavill, Nick
name: Johnston, Nora J.
name: McCrorie, Paul
name: Wibowo, Rakhmat A.
name: Bassett-Gunter, Rebecca
name: Jones, Rebecca
name: Ruane, Sarah
name: Shilton, Trevor
name: Kelly, Paul
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Effective physical activity messaging plays an important role in the pathway towards changing physical activity behaviour at a population level. The Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) and Checklist (PAMC) are outputs from a recent modified Delphi study. This sought consensus from an international expert panel on how to aid the creation and evaluation of physical activity messages. In this paper, we (1) present an overview of the various concepts within the PAMF and PAMC, (2) discuss in detail how the PAMF and PAMC can be used to create physical activity messages, plan evaluation of messages, and aid understanding and categorisation of existing messages, and (3) highlight areas for future development and research. If adopted, we propose that the PAMF and PAMC could improve physical activity messaging practice by encouraging evidence-based and target population-focused messages with clearly stated aims and consideration of potential working pathways. They could also enhance the physical activity messaging research base by harmonising key messaging terminologies, improving quality of reporting, and aiding collation and synthesis of the evidence.
title: Confined crystallization of spin-crossover nanoparticles in block-copolymer micelles
Creators: name: Göbel, Christoph
name: Hils, Christian
name: Drechsler, Markus
name: Baabe, Dirk
name: Greiner, Andreas
name: Schmalz, Holger
name: Weber, Birgit
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Nanoparticles of the spin‐crossover coordination polymer [FeL(bipy)]n were synthesized by confined crystallization within the core of polystyrene‐block‐poly(4‐vinylpyridine) (PS‐b‐P4VP) diblock copolymer micelles. The 4VP units in the micellar core act as coordination sites for the Fe complex. In the bulk material, the spin‐crossover nanoparticles in the core are well isolated from each other allowing thermal treatment without disintegration of their structure. During annealing above the glass transition temperature of the PS block, the transition temperature is shifted gradually to higher temperatures from the as‐synthesized product (T1/2↓=163 K and T1/2↑=170 K) to the annealed product (T1/2↓=203 K and T1/2↑=217 K) along with an increase in hysteresis width from 6 K to 14 K. Thus, the spin‐crossover properties can be shifted towards the properties of the related bulk material. The stability of the nanocomposite allows further processing, such as electrospinning from solution.
A study of pendular liquid bridge between two equal solid spheres
Creators: name: Feng, James Q
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pendular liquid bridges with concave meridians between two equal rigid spheres are mathematically studied emphasizing some less analyzed facts in the literature. Discrepancies from the numerical solution of the Young-Laplace equation are examined among typical simplifying approximations and a few curve-fitting formulas. An in-depth analysis is provided about the important role of separation distance between spheres played in pendular ring formation via capillary condensation at a given relative humidity and the strength of subsequent capillary forces. For most practical situations, the toroidal approximation could be reasonably accurate (especially with diminishing separation distance) and provide valuable mathematical insights at least in a qualitative sense with its relatively simple analytical formulas. Using the elliptic meridional profile generally offers more accurate approximations, but with such complicated analytical formulas that it would limit its convenience for practical applications. With a few examples, the present study shows that curve-fitting formulas cannot be perfect and, by their approximative nature, would always leave room for improvements; therefore, care should be taken when applying curve-fitting formulas, to avoid undesirable errors
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
Proto-Ong-Be
Creators: name: Chen, Yen-ling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Ong-Be; Hainan; Lingao; Kra-Dai

description: This is an updated version of my 2018 dissertation, Proto-Ong-Be, with some glossing errors fixed.
description: Fieldwork funded by Luce/ACLS and LFK Society for Chinese Linguistics; dissertation writing funded by Academia Sinica in Taiwan and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
title: La chacra – an alternative for the rescue, conservation and use of agrobiodiversity in Amazonian villages
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Management techniques
subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture

description: Starting from 2016, the Amazonian Research Station of the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP), a public research organization, in cooperation with the local governments of the three provinces of Sucumbíos, Orellana and Napo, has initiated work on the conservation of a traditional agrobiodiversity-rich production system known as ‘chacra’. The objective is to strengthen these production systems and to provide incentives for farmers through enhanced productivity and income generation from local crops. The chacra cultivation system is based on the integration of four components: human, plant, animal and geophysical (soil, water and air); a good integration of these components results in improved biodiversity-rich habitats. The chacra system plays an important role in biodiversity conservation and as a source of germplasm; it is further of importance for climate-change adaptation and differentiated value-chain development. Around 500 Amazonian farms have been reached by activities for strengthening the chacra system. Many of these farms cultivate local species to produce food, fibre, medicine, dyes and wood; in addition, activities for value-addition have resulted in processing and marketing of coffee from the chacra system; producers are currently participating in both national and international fairs.
title: Declaration of the territory of the Cotacachi canton, Ecuador, as cultural heritage for agrobiodiversity
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture
subject: AGROVOC: Local communities

description: The declaration of the territory of the Cotacachi canton, Ecuador, as cultural heritage for agrobiodiversity was started in 2010 and accomplished in 2014, following years of preparatory work done by the Unión de Organizaciones Campesinas e Indígenas de Cotacachi (UNORCAC), an association of farmers’ and indigenous peoples’ organizations, in collaboration with the Municipal Government of Cotacachi. The main objective is to promote agrobiodiversity conservation, along with related traditional knowledge and ancestral practices, as a strategy to defend collective economic, social and cultural rights of the indigenous communities of Cotacachi. Core components include the declaration of the territory as cultural heritage for agrobiodiversity and approval of a safeguard plan. The latter supports research and monitoring of agrobiodiversity; restitution of local seeds; training for seed producers and seed exchange fairs; marketing of agrobiodiversity products, valorization of traditional cuisine and gastronomic fairs; value addition to native crops; as well as awareness building and educational activities. Lessons learned include that actions taken should be led by participating peasant organizations; there should be a clear priority on farmers’ needs, especially needs of women farmers; furthermore, cooperation with research organizations is essential; research should have a direct and immediate relationship with farmers' needs.
title: Safeguarding Farmers’ Rights in Swiss intellectual property law
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025

description: In Switzerland, national measures concerning intellectual property rights that are relevant in the context of Article 9.3 of the ITPGRFA include the Federal Law of 20 March 1975 on the Protection of New Varieties (status as of 1 January 2011) and the Federal Act of 25 June 1954 on Patents for Inventions (Patents Act, status as of 1 January 2019). The so-called ‘farmers’ privilege’, allowing farmers to save and use seed and propagation materials from their own harvest, including of protected varieties, was introduced into both Acts in a similar way in 2008. Farmers who wish to make use of the farmers’ privilege do not have to pay any remuneration to the holder of the right, provided that they have previously acquired original seed or planting material placed on the market by the holder of the plant breeders’ right or patent, or with his consent. So far, the Federal Council has determined 23 plant species to which the farmers’ privilege shall apply. Furthermore, Article 9.1 f. of the Patent Act protects farmers from excessive claims in cases where the patented genetic information was bred into his/her planting material without his/her knowledge or against his/her will (e.g. by wind-pollination).
title: Harnessing dryland legume and cereals genetic resource for food and nutrition security and resilient farming systems in Malawi and Zambia
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: In 2019, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), together with the Department of Agricultural Services (DARS) in Malawi, the Zambia Agricultural Research Institution (ZARI) and farmer associations in both countries, and with financial support by the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty, have started a project aiming to enhance food and nutrition security and resilient farming systems through use of grain legumes and cereal genetic resources. Core components include (1) capacity development of smallholder farmers to use local and improved varieties to achieve food and nutrition security to underpin resilience in the face of climate variability; and (2) evaluation of wide germplasm across the region capitalizing on the material from ICRISAT genebanks followed by participatory selection and breeding efforts. These activities will be supported by outreach activities such as trainings, demonstration trials, field days etc., giving farmer organizations a key role. The project follows a gender-sensitive approach by ensuring female participation in livelihood-strengthening activities, such as training on climate-smart agriculture approaches, appointing women to leadership positions in farmer organizations involved in technology development and testing, and by targeting women for training on income-generating activities and business development, including seed production.
title: Protocol on in situ on-farm conservation of traditional crops
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: In 2013, the Department of Agriculture developed a protocol for in situ on-farm conservation of traditional varieties of crops, which focuses on traditional varieties, farmer varieties and landraces. The protocol was formulated based on the experience and lessons gained from a previous project on in situ on-farm conservation of local crops (rice, yam, taro and sweet potato) funded under the Benefit Sharing Fund of FAO-ITPGRFA, executed by the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) and implemented by the Institute of Crop Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños. The Protocol aims to provide guidance to stakeholders and institutionalize in situ on-farm conservation of traditional crops. The Protocol covers two main areas, technical (e.g. capacity development) and institutional (e.g. mainstreaming conservation and sustainability of traditional crop varieties in development plans at different administrative levels), and was agreed upon and adopted during a national stakeholders’ consultation attended by relevant national government agencies, including local government units, NGOs, civil society organizations and private companies. As a result, local government units expressed their willingness to conserve traditional varieties, continue the practice and provision of funds.
Normalize Then Propagate: Efficient Homophilous Regularization for Few-shot Semi-Supervised Node Classification
Creators: name: Zhang, Baoming
name: Chen, MingCai
name: Song, Jianqing
name: Li, Shuangjie
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Wang, Chongjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable ability in semi-supervised node classification. However, most existing GNNs rely heavily on a large amount of labeled data for training, which is labor-intensive and requires extensive domain knowledge. In this paper, we first analyze the restrictions of GNNs generalization from the perspective of supervision signals in the context of few-shot semi-supervised node classification. To address these challenges, we propose a novel algorithm named NormProp, which utilizes the homophily assumption of unlabeled nodes to generate additional supervision signals, thereby enhancing the generalization against label scarcity. The key idea is to efficiently capture both the class information and the consistency of aggregation during message passing, via decoupling the direction and Euclidean norm of node representations. Moreover, we conduct a theoretical analysis to determine the upper bound of Euclidean norm, and then propose homophilous regularization to constraint the consistency of unlabeled nodes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that NormProp achieve state-of-the-art performance under low-label rate scenarios with low computational complexity.
description: Accepted by AAAI 2025
title: IGEL - Fragebogenerhebung Lehrkräfte- und Schüler:inneninstrumente (Skalendokumentation)
Creators: name: Decristan, Jasmin
name: Hardy, Ilonca
name: Kunter, Mareike
name: Hertel, Silke
name: Klieme, Eckhard
name: Fauth, Benjamin Caspar
name: Büttner, Gerhard
name: Lühken, Arnim
Publisher: name: DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
Year: 2024

description: Individuelle Förderung und adaptive Lern-Gelegenheiten in der Grundschule (IGEL)
Hydryphantes (Hydryphantes) parmulatus Koenike 1912
Creators: name: Jovanović, Milica
name: Manović, Ana
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hydryphantidae
Hydryphantes
Hydryphantes parmulatus

description: Hydryphantes (Hydryphantes) parmulatus Koenike, 1912
New records — Serbia, Vlasina, Murinska reka, helocrenic spring and stream, 42.7083° N, 22.3733° E, 27 Jun. 2022, leg. Pešić, Jovanović & Manović 1♀ (sequenced; Table 1).
 Remarks — The sequenced specimen from Serbia clusters within ADL3822, which includes specimens of H. parmulatus from the Netherlands and Spain are available in the BOLD database. New for Serbia.
Published records from Balkan countries — North Macedonia: Schwoerbel (1963). Distribution — Central Europe, Balkan, Northern Africa.
description: Published as part of Jovanović, Milica, Manović, Ana & Pešić, Vladimir, 2024, An updated checklist of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Serbia with new records revealed by DNA barcodes, pp. 9-20 in Ecologica Montenegrina 74 on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.74.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13247880
title: Ejere Farmer Crop Conservation Association (FCAS) and Community Seed Bank
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The Community Seed Bank (CSB) in Ejere, Ethiopia, attracts many visitors each year, from Ethiopia as well as abroad, who wish to learn about their achievements and success. Through conservation and participatory improvement of local crop diversity and related activities, the CSB has significantly improved seed and food security, nutrition and livelihoods in the whole area. Initiated by USC Canada in collaboration with the then Plant Genetic Resources Centre, Ethiopia, in 1990, the work was later taken over by the NGO Ethio-organic Seed Action, with support from the Development Fund, Norway. The objective is to promote sustainable climate-change adaptation among farmer communities through enhanced capacity to sustainably manage, develop and utilize local agrobiodiversity as an adaptive mechanism to climate change. Core components include reintroduction of traditional crops, conservation, participatory varietal selection to adapt promising crops to changing environmental conditions and improve desired properties, quality seed production and distribution, seed fairs, training in advanced organic production methods and income generating activities. The success of the CSB has been achieved, inter alia, through awareness raising, competent supervision, solid research prior to project planning, financial support over a sufficient period of time and a democratic and transparent organization with good governance.
title: Recognition of farming communities through Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture
subject: AGROVOC: Local communities

description: Since 2005, the Agricultural Planning, Economic and Rural Development Research Institute (APERDRI), a public research institute under the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the provincial local government units, farming communities and the World Agricultural Heritage Foundation (WAHF), have engaged in identifying Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in Iran. The overall goal of GIAHS is to mobilize global recognition and national support for farmers’ and indigenous communities’ contributions to safeguarding and dynamically conserving agricultural biodiversity and their goods and services.  In the course of the identification process, farming systems are assessed based on five criteria, including their contributions to (1) food and livelihood security; (2) biodiversity for food and agriculture ; (3) local and traditional knowledge systems; (4) culture, value systems and social organization; and (5) remarkable landscapes features. Farming systems that pass the assessment can be recognized as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Iran is a country with a long history of agricultural civilization; to date, three traditional agriculture: Saffron Qanat-based Agricultural Heritage System; Pomegranate Qanat irrigated Agricultural Heritage System; and MA layer Grape Production, are recognized as GIAHS sites.
Trafiksikkerhed og betydningen af fysiske elementer for personer med synshandicap
Creators: name: Bredmose, Annette
name: Rhiger Hansen, Anders
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2020

description: To undersøgelser fra VIVE, Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd, peger på at omkring halvdelen af personer med synshandicap oplever vanskeligheder ved at færdes i deres lokale miljø. Derfor har vi undersøgt trafiksikkerheden og vigtigheden af en række fysiske elementer i det trafikale miljø for personer med synshandicap fx ledelinjer, opmærksomhedsfelter, følbarhed af gangbaner og lydfyr. Denne artikel præsenterer resultater fra en undersøgelse, der er udfoldet mere i rapporten ’Kortlægning af fysiske elementers væsentlighed i trafikken for personer med synshandicap’ (Bredmose & Hansen, 2020). Undersøgelsen baserede sig på en spørgeskemaundersøgelse blandt alle danske O&M instruktører (Orientering og Mobility), som underviser personer med synshandicap i at færdes i deres nærmiljø. På den måde har vi udnyttet O&M instruktørernes stærke faglige vidensgrundlag og store erfaring, med udfordringer for personer med synshandicaps færden i trafikken.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Lebertia (Lebertia) glabra Thor 1897
Creators: name: Jovanović, Milica
name: Manović, Ana
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Lebertiidae
Lebertia
Lebertia glabra

description: Lebertia (Lebertia) glabra Thor, 1897
New records — Serbia, Pirot, Visočica stream, 43.297° N, 22.6107° E, 24 June. 2022, leg. Pešić, Jovanović & Manović 1♀ (sequenced; Table 1).
 Remarks — The sequenced specimen from Serbia was clustered within ACS0595 which includes specimens of L. glabra from the Netherlands, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Germany, Austria and Norway available in the BOLD database. New for Serbia.
 Published records from Balkan countries — Croatia: “ L. lineata “ K. Viets (1936), Pešić (2002b); Montenegro: Pešić (2004), Gerecke (2009); Macedonia: “ L. lineata “ K. Viets (1936), “ L. glabra, L. lineata “ Schwoerbel (1963), Gerecke (2009); Bulgaria: “ L. lineata “ Petrova (1971); Petrova (1976); Gerecke (2009); Greece: Gerecke (2009).
Distribution — Europe.
description: Published as part of Jovanović, Milica, Manović, Ana & Pešić, Vladimir, 2024, An updated checklist of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Serbia with new records revealed by DNA barcodes, pp. 9-20 in Ecologica Montenegrina 74 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.74.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13247880
Crowdsourcing Logistics in Cities
Creators: name: Fessler, Andreas
name: Haustein, Sonja
name: Thorhauge, Mikkel
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2020

description: På baggrund af stigende pakkeleveringer fra e-handel og denne udviklings medvirken til stigende trængselsproblemer i storbyer, var hovedformålet med denne undersøgelse at vurdere potentialet og mulighederne for at gøre brug af eksisterende kapacitet i passagertransport til pakkelevering. Til dette blev der udsendt et online-spørgeskema til et repræsentativt udsnit af borgere bosiddende i hovedstadsområdet, der som minimum bruger offentlig transport i og omkring København én gang månedligt (n= 524). Spørgeskemaet belyser betydningen af personlige karakteristika som psykologiske og demografiske faktorer, i forhold til intentionen om at deltage i et offentligt transport-baseret crowdshipping-koncept. Overordnet viste undersøgelsen at 26,7 % af respondenterne svarer ”Ofte” eller ”Altid” til et indledende spørgsmål om hvor ofte de ville medbringe en pakke på deres mest benyttede rejse, hvor de kun kort er introduceret til konceptet. Desuden bekræftedes antagelser om at deltagelsesvillighed indgår i et omvendt proportionalitetsforhold med alder, således at den største villighed til deltagelse ses blandt de yngste personer, at der ses højere deltagelsesvillighed blandt studerende og at deltagelsesvillighed er højst hos de mest miljøbevidste personer. Desuden viser en lineær regressionsanalyse, at psykologiske faktorer som sociale normer, følelser af at være forbundet til andre ligesindede og positive følelser fra at have gjort en lille forskel. Også respondenternes forestilling omkring hvor let-/besværligt det er at deltage servicen ses signifikant forbundet med deltagelsesvillighed. Netop disse karakteristika er til stede i særlig grad hos den umiddelbart forestillede målgruppe for servicen; unge studerende.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
title: Capacity building of small-scale farming/indigenous communities to manage and conserve Agricultural Heritage Systems
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Management techniques
subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture

description: The project ‘Underpinning the Resiliency of Agricultural Heritage Systems and Rewarding Smallholders, Family Farmers and Indigenous Communities’ started in 2016, funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and implemented by World Agricultural Heritage Foundation (WAHF) in collaboration with national partners in China, Philippines and Tunisia. It aims at developing the capacities of custodians of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) to manage and conserve these systems, and to promote recognition and empowerment of smallholder family farmers, notably women, youth and indigenous peoples. Core components include (1) training of farmers and local custodians to assess, monitor and manage the resiliency of their GIAHS sites; (2) documentation of knowledge and best practices in conserving and managing GIAHS sites, particularly the biodiversity associated to them; and (3) networking and social media application (‘AgLegacy’ app) to share and disseminate knowledge between and among farmers to strengthen management and conservation of GIAHS sites. Key outcomes are enhanced understanding and awareness of the inherent values of traditional agriculture and associated ecosystem goods and services and of the important role of farmers and indigenous communities in this regard; and increased networking, sharing and exchange of knowledge between and among farmers, including through social media.
Collapse Behaviour of Limited Ductile High-Strength RC Columns under Multidirectional Earthquake Actions
Creators: name: Raza, Saim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Raza (2020) employed experimental, numerical and empirical methods to develop a fundamental understanding of the collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength reinforced concrete columns, designed as per Australian concrete standard, under multidirectional earthquake loading. The adequacy of the requirements of the concrete design standard in Australia was assessed and adequate design recommendations were proposed to ensure collapse prevention of such columns in a major earthquake event. The research outcomes are expected to have important implications for the earthquake safety of building stocks in Australia and globally.
title: Balancing Plant Variety Protection (PVP) and Farmers' Rights
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: Intellectual property rights protecting plant varieties are relevant regarding farmers' rights to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seeds. Norway became a member of UPOV in 1993, based on the 1978 Act of the UPOV Convention. Even though the 1991 Act was adopted by many other countries at that time, Norway chose to adhere to the 1978 Act. In 2004, the government proposed changes to the Plant Breeders' Rights Act and to join the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention. However, this proposal spurred public debate. After the election in 2005, the new government withdrew the proposed changes in the PVP legislation on the grounds that they limited Farmers' Rights. At the same time, the breeding industry was promised to receive stronger government support for the development of varieties that are suitable to Norwegian conditions and adapted to climate change. Based on this agreement, farmers in Norway could continue to save and use farm-saved seed and propagating material of protected varieties without paying any remuneration to the holder of the plant variety protection right.
Forlængelse af Farumbanen til Nordbanen
Creators: name: Kaas, Anders H.
name: Stemmann, Ute
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2020

description: Hillerøds nye bydel Favrholm er under forandring og sammen med byudviklingen, nye arbejdspladser og det nye hospital planlægges også en ny togstation. Det skaber et potentiale for at forbinde jernbanen mellem Farum og Favrholm som vil koble områderne bedre sammen, samt styrke den kollektive trafik markant i området på både lokalt og regionalt niveau. Mulighederne for at have en god kollektiv trafik fra hele Nordsjælland ind mod København vil blive styrket markant og dermed brugernes oplevelse af en sammenhængende infrastruktur. Styrkelsen af den kollektive trafik i området vil være i tråd med Danmarks Klimamål og FN’s verdensmål. Dette indlæg sætter på et overordnet niveau en størrelsesorden på de potentielle effekter af en forlængelse af Farumbanen.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Hygrobates (Hygrobates) balcanicus Pesic 2020
Creators: name: Jovanović, Milica
name: Manović, Ana
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hygrobatidae
Hygrobates
Hygrobates balcanicus

description: Hygrobates (Hygrobates) balcanicus Pešić, 2020
New records — Serbia, River Nišava at the mouth of Gabrovački stream, 43.325° N, 21.9219° E, 23 Jun. 2022, leg. Pešić, Jovanović & Manović 1♀ (sequenced; Table 1).
 Remarks — This species was originally described by Pešić et al. (2020b) from Bulgaria. The sequenced specimens from Serbia clusters within AEG3198, which, in addition to the specimen from study, includes specimens from Bulgaria, Portugal and Italy morphologically assigned to H. balcanicus.
 Published records from Balkan countries — Bulgaria (Pešić et al. 2020b); Greece (Pešić et al. 2020b).
Distribution — Balkans.
description: Published as part of Jovanović, Milica, Manović, Ana & Pešić, Vladimir, 2024, An updated checklist of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Serbia with new records revealed by DNA barcodes, pp. 9-20 in Ecologica Montenegrina 74 on page 13, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.74.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13247880
title: Revision of regulations on plant variety release and the marketing of seed and seed potatoes
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: Until 2004, the Norwegian seed regulation did not limit farmers' rights to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seeds to neighbors. However, as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), Norway had to revise its seed regulations to comply with regulations of the European Union (EU); the revised regulation prohibited farmers to give away or exchange seeds. This situation raised concerns of farmers’, gardeners’ and civil society organizations as well as researchers in Norway and the EU. In 2008, the EU adopted a directive on conservation varieties, which entered into force in 2009. To comply with this new directive, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority proposed changes to three regulations, following an open dialogue with farmers’ organizations, other relevant organizations and researchers: the Regulation on testing and approving of plant varieties, the Regulation on seeds and the Regulation on seed potatoes. The purpose of these revisions, endorsed by the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food in 2010, was to better accommodate the use of a wider diversity of plant varieties with other objectives, like ensuring seed quality and health standards. "Contributing to in situ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA" was added to the objectives of the three seed regulations.
User preferences for future electric vehicle charging infrastructure: A Stated Choice Experiment for Danish EV users
Creators: name: Visaria, Anant Atul
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2020

description: While the adoption EVs is rapidly growing, the global EV stock is still less than 1% of car fleet. It is expected that in coming years, with improved technology, the battery size and in turn the EV driving range will increase. The fact that EV prices will reduce over time and many countries intend to set up policies to support the purchase and use of EVs, it is expected that the EV adoption rate will continue to increase. However, this also means that there’s a need for better planning, especially for the charging infrastructure, to improve and support the transition to e-mobility. There is a strong behavioral and social aspect associated with the use of electric vehicles. This study tries to develop a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the most relevant aspects. The findings presented in this paper focuses on understanding the preferences of Danish EV users.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
title: Participation in decision-making
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Decision making
subject: AGROVOC: Farmer participation

description: Farmers and their organizations have a multitude of channels to participate in and influence on policy processes in Norway. For ex¬ample, there are annual negotiations between the Government and the farmers’ unions, resulting in the Annual Agreement on Agriculture. This agreement stipulates the financial support to agricultural purposes. Farmer cooperatives are major actors in Norway’s breeding and seed sector, offering opportunities for participation; the major breeding company as well as the main seed distributing company are owned by such cooperatives. There are also projects for developing new varieties with a high level of farmer participation. In addition, farmers are represented in the advisory board on plant genetic resources at the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre, which aims to maintain close working relationships with farmer cooperatives and unions as well as with farmers who are actively involved in issues related to seed diversity and cultivation of traditional varieties. The reason is that all farmers do not necessarily have competencies or special interest in PGRFA. During the last few years, farmers cultivating traditional varieties, including loose networks of interested farmers, have become more organized. Through this development, it has become easier for the authorities to involve dedicated ‘diversity farmers’ in various processes.