cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Eestimaalaste moraalsete ja eetiliste hoiakute muutumine 1995–2020
Creators: name: Remmel, Meego
name: Lilleoja, Laur
Publisher: name: Usuteaduslik Ajakiri
Year: 2025

description: The change in the moral and ethical attitudes of Estonians from 1995 to 2020 This analysis highlights significant shifts in the moral and ethical attitudes of Estonians over the past 25 years, reflecting broader societal transformations. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a tendency towards conservatism, but this trend has shifted markedly towards liberalism in recent years. The last decade, in particular, has seen a notable increase in tolerance towards issues such as extramarital relationships, homosexuality, abortion, and euthanasia. These changes are consistent with broader European and North American trends.
A clear distinction exists between the moral and ethical views of ethnic Estonians and other language groups in Estonia, with Estonians tending to be more liberal. This difference is likely influenced by the general information environment rather than ethnic characteristics, suggesting that people’s attitudes are shaped more by the media and societal influences than by cultural or linguistic factors.
Religious affiliation and community involvement also play a crucial role in shaping moral and ethical views. Those who are actively engaged in religious communities, particularly in free church or Catholic contexts, tend to hold more traditional values. This is in contrast to those with weaker ties to religious institutions, who are more susceptible to secular influences.
The findings support previous research showing that active participation in religious life strengthens specific moral convictions and virtues. In contrast, weakened or severed ties to religious communities lead to a drift away from religious practices and values, resulting in a more secular and less morally defined identity.
description: Usuteaduslik Ajakiri, Vol. 86 No. 2 (2024)
The impact of lake discontinuities on nitrogen biogeochemistry in river networks
Creators: name: Grefe, Imke
name: Mackay, Eleanor B.
name: Wynn, Peter M.
name: Barker, Phil A.
name: Grant, Helen K.
name: Pereira, M. Gloria
name: Maberly, Stephen C.
name: Surridge, Ben W. J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: River networks connect terrestrial and marine ecosystems through transport of pollutants and nutrients. Lakes represent discontinuities within these river networks, which can be important biogeochemical hotspots, introducing substantial changes to the aquatic environment. Nitrogen is a key macronutrient that can potentially limit or co-limit primary production, but the processes that determine the fate of nitrogen during transport through river-lake networks are poorly understood. We studied three river systems and their lake discontinuities, spanning a range of trophic states and average water residence times, to understand the changes introduced to riverine nitrogen biogeochemistry by lake discontinuities. In-lake processes noticeably altered the concentration and speciation of nitrogen. Annually, lakes reduced up to 44% of nitrate compared to main inflow concentrations, while there was large variability in nitrate dynamics seasonally. The drawdown in surface nitrate concentrations resulted at times in phytoplankton co-limitation by nitrogen in-lake, as well as in the downstream river, where altered nitrogen patterns could persist for several kilometers. However, lakes occasionally subsidized N to downstream rivers as ammonium or dissolved organic nitrogen. Assimilation of nitrate in lake surface waters was one of the dominant processes impacting nitrogen availability; however, stable isotope data revealed an unexpected contribution of nitrification on nitrogen cycling in the epilimnion throughout the year and across trophic gradients. These changes in nitrogen concentration, as well as speciation introduced by lake discontinuities have potentially important consequences for the composition and metabolism of communities in downstream rivers and contribute to our fundamental understanding of freshwater processes.
Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) lucidula Erichson 1837
Creators: name: Janovska, Marina
name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Enushchenko, Ilya V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gyrophaena
Gyrophaena lucidula

description: Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) lucidula Erichson, 1837
 Material. Daugavpils Distr.: 40 spec.: left side of Daugava R. 16.06.2013. A. V. Shavrin leg. (cIE, ZMM); 15 spec.: Daugavpils, 7 km E Naujene, “Daugavas loki” NPT, ravine of Naujene, 55°55’27’’N 26°42’40’’E. Broad-leaved forest. 06.09.2014. R. Cibuļskis, J. Butova leg. (cIE, DUBC).
 Remarks. The species is distributed in Europe, Caucasus and Iran (Enushchenko & Semenov 2015). The species is here recorded from Latvia for the first time.
description: Published as part of Janovska, Marina, Shavrin, Alexey V. & Enushchenko, Ilya V., 2019, Faunistic Records Of Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) From Latvia, pp. 99-105 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12648951
Hidden results of functional diversity in macroinvertebrates: Trait-groups specific response to flow intermittency in lowland streams
Creators: name: Boda, Pál
name: Szeles, Júlia
name: Lukács, Áron
name: B-Béres, Viktória
name: Bozóki, Tamás
name: Fekete, Judit
name: Ficsór, Márk
name: Nagy, Alex Sándor
name: Várbíró, Gábor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: As global flow intermittency increases, understanding how macroinvertebrates respond at a functional level in streams becomes crucial for effective water management. This study investigates the functional response of macroinvertebrates to flow intermittency in Hungarian lowland streams over a 10-month period, comparing intermittent and perennial streams across the entire community, trait groups, and trait states. We aimed to demonstrate differences in functional diversity using metrics such as functional richness, evenness, divergence, dispersion, and Rao's quadratic entropy. For trait groups, we focused on both response and stable traits, anticipating greater differences in response traits. Additionally, we identified which trait states, as indicated by community-weighted means, contribute significantly to variations between streams. Our findings indicate that functional diversity in intermittent streams is generally lower or equivalent to that in perennial streams, suggesting disparities in functional trait composition. Significant differences were observed within trait groups, indicating specific responses of trait groups to intermittency. We identified resilience trait states—including current velocity, reproduction, respiration, female length, locomotion, substrate relation, aquatic stages, and resistance forms—that contributed to these differences. The three-level analysis revealed a hidden relationship: differences at the state level do not consistently manifest at the trait group or whole community levels. Investigating functional changes at the trait group or trait state level can serve as an early indicator of community shifts. Incorporating trait groups as indices into assessment frameworks could facilitate early detection of functional changes during bioassessment. We recommend considering trait groups when evaluating functional responses to flow intermittency in future studies.
Asbestopluma Topsent
Creators: name: Vacelet, Jean
name: Kelly, Michelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Cladorhizidae
Asbestopluma

description: Genus Asbestopluma Topsent
Asbestopluma Topsent, 1901: 23.
Type species: Cladorhiza pennatula Schmidt, 1875 (by subsequent designation).
Diagnosis. Cladorhizidae with palmate and/or arcuate anisochelae, and, in one case, the latter in combination with tridentate anchorate anisochelae (Lopes, Bravo & Hajdu 2011).
description: Published as part of Vacelet, Jean & Kelly, Michelle, 2014, A new species of Abyssocladia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Cladorhizidae) and other carnivorous sponges from the far eastern Solomon Islands, pp. 386-396 in Zootaxa 3815 (3) on page 392, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/228576
Feasibility of a web-based randomised controlled trial for a tailored physical activity intervention
Creators: name: Martin-Diener, Eva
name: Thüring, Nicole
name: Martin, Brian W
name: Bauer, Georg
Publisher: name: Rubmedia
Year: 2009
Subjects: active-online.ch Physical activity Internet Switzerland

description: active-online.ch is a freely available Internet-based physical activity counselling programme disseminated population-wide with a multimedia strategy. The feasibility of an Internet-based randomised controlled trial was tested in a small-scale study. Participants were recruited using print advertisements, Internet banners and e-mail messages. After baseline assessment, they were randomised to the intervention programme active-online.ch or a control website. Participants were re-contacted by e-mail after six weeks and six months for follow-up assessment. E-mail invitations in an administration unit and a print advertisement were most effective for recruitment. After six weeks, complete data was available from 76% of the original participants, after six month from 63%. 48% of the original subjects were women, 76% between 30 and 60 years old and 57% insufficiently active. At every stage of the study, the proportion of women in the trial decreased significantly. 35% of the participants in the intervention group completed the intervention programme. For future full-scale randomised trials using an Internet design, recruitment should be planned in view of the implementation strategy of the intervention. Expected adherence to both the study protocol and the physical activity intervention need to be considered when sample sizes are estimated.
Climate determines diversity but not abundance of nitrogen-cycling microorganisms in rivers across a latitudinal gradient
Creators: name: Ding, Bangjing
name: Liu, Wenzhi
name: Li, Jiaying
name: Wang, Shuo
name: Xiong, Ziqian
name: Lu, Mingzhu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: A central goal in microecology is to understand the ecological factors shaping spatial patterns of microbial communities and the underlying mechanisms. However, the biogeographical patterns of microbial functional groups involved in nitrogen cycling (e.g., nitrifiers and denitrifiers) and their drivers at a large scale remain poorly understood. In this study, we evaluated the geographical distributions of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in riparian rhizosphere soils, riparian bulk soils, and channel sediments of 30 river regions along a latitudinal gradient from 21.8°N to 45.1°N across eastern China. We found that the diversity of nitrifiers and denitrifiers exhibited a gradual latitudinal gradient, in direct contrast to no significant changes observed for their abundance along the same latitudinal gradient. Statistical analyses suggested that climatic factors (mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation) were the major drivers for the diversity of nitrifiers and denitrifiers, whereas soil properties were the key environmental factors shaping the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers. These results provide new insights into the biogeographical distributions and ecological drivers for nitrogen-cycling microorganisms in river ecosystems at a large scale and can help us to improve simulation models of the nitrogen cycle for accurately predicting the diversity of nitrogen-cycling microbes under ongoing climate changes.
Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) rugipennis Mulsant & Rey 1861
Creators: name: Janovska, Marina
name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Enushchenko, Ilya V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gyrophaena
Gyrophaena rugipennis

description: Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) rugipennis Mulsant & Rey, 1861
 Material. Daugavpils Distr.: 1 female: Daugavpils, 7 km E Naujene, “Daugavas loki” NPT, ravine of Naujene, 55°55’27’’N 26°42’40’’E. Broad-leaved forest. 06.09.2014. R. Cibuļskis, J. Butova leg. (cIE).
 Remarks. Transpalaearctic species, widely distributed from Europe to the Russian Far East. The species is here recorded from Latvia for the first time.
description: Published as part of Janovska, Marina, Shavrin, Alexey V. & Enushchenko, Ilya V., 2019, Faunistic Records Of Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) From Latvia, pp. 99-105 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12648951
Wie Altwerden zur Bedrohung wurde – die alternde Gesellschaft in Zeitungen
Creators: name: Torben-Nielsen, Karen
Publisher: name: Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2021

description: Wir fühlen uns jung, wie nie zuvor. Dennoch werden wir als Gesellschaft stetig älter. Der demografische Wandel ändert unseren Alltag mehr als wir jemals erwartet haben. Ein Forschungsteam unter Federführung des Institut Alters hat offengelegt, wie Zeitungen darüber berichten.
Community participation in landslide risk reduction: a case history from Central Andes, Peru
Creators: name: Klimeš, Jan
name: Rosario, Ana Marlene
name: Vargas, Roque
name: Raška, Pavel
name: Vicuña, Luis
name: Jurt Vicuña Muñoz, Christine
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2019
Subjects: Community-based risk reduction
Risk perceptions
Landslides
Participative methods
Local knowledge
Peru

description: This article describes the intertwined history of scientific research and landslide disaster risk reduction efforts in a small peasant community in the Rampac Grande of the Peruvian Andes. It was struck by a catastrophic landslide in 2009, claiming five fatalities and challenging local knowledge about landslide occurrence and mitigation practices. This article describes collaboration between a team of scientists, comprising both foreign and Peruvian experts and the local community, which started after the 2009 landslide and culminated during the disaster risk reduction (DRR) project which ran from 2016 to 2017. It illustrates the shift from refusing outside intervention to acceptance of the proposed measures and active community participation in their application and maintenance. This was achieved by rethinking the role of local and scientific knowledge during the process of DRR through enhanced communication and the appropriate use of the participative methods. Emphasis is placed on the crucial role played by community representative participation during formulation of the expected outcomes of the DRR, which leads to hazard reduction through the preparation of hazard maps and of the monitoring of landslide movement. Enhanced community development can also be evidenced by the construction of water tanks in the year following termination of the project. Despite the documented short-term success in landslide DRR, defining long-term exit strategy allowing the community to continue applying the measures with necessity of the minimum input from the outside actors is intrinsically difficult and still needs to be resolved.
Buitinga globosa Tullgren 1910
Creators: name: Bernhard A. Huber
name: Charles M. Warui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Buitinga
Buitinga globosa

description: 7. Buitinga globosa (Tullgren, 1910). Tanzania (Tullgren 1910; Berland 1920; Huber 2003a
sub Buitinga nigrescens).
Note
As indicated previously (Huber 2003a), this species might be a senior synonym of B. nigrescens (Berland, 1920). The first author has since seen what is left from Tullgren’s (1910) syntypes (2 ♀♀ without abdomens, from Kilimanjaro, Kiboscho, in ZMB 9870; and 2 ♀♀, 1 ♀ without abdomen and a possibly male prosoma without chelicerae and palps from Kilimanjaro, Kibonoto, in MNHN, AR 10388) as well as Berland’s (1920) male specimens (2 ♂♂ from Kilimanjaro, Marangu, in MNHN, AR 10378). Berland’s (1920) specimens seem to be correctly identified, and they correspond exactly to the specimens from Mt. Meru described as Buitinga nigrescens in Huber (2003a). The redescription of B. nigrescens in Huber (2003a) is thus probably based on a misidentification and refers to B. globosa. However, since no topotypical males are known of B. nigrescens (Mt. Kenya, “st. no. 39” at 2400 m a.s.l., now Naro Moru Track), and since newly collected males from other Kenyan localities (see B. nigrescens below) indicate that B. nigrescens might in fact be a valid species, the two species are not synonymized.
description: Published as part of Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-44 in European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29) on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.29, http://zenodo.org/record/1406636
Eesti elanike suhtumine kohustuslikku usundiõpetusse
Creators: name: Schihalejev, Olga
Publisher: name: Usuteaduslik Ajakiri
Year: 2025

description: Estonian Residents' Perspectives on Compulsory Religious Education
Religious education in the context of general education has been a controversial issue in Estonia for several decades. Although non-confessional religious education is included in national curricula for basic school and for upper secondary schools, the subject of religious education can be found as elective only in few schools, almost exclusively at upper secondary level. The article distinguishes between confessional and non-confessional religious education in Estonia. The main focus of the article is the attitudes to compulsory courses of non-confessional religious education based on the survey „On Life, Religion, Religious Life“ conducted in 2020. In doing so, attitudes according to respondents’ age, education, religious background and other questions are analysed. Strong support of churches may become obstacle to religiously sceptical people, especially if it is coupled with dis-support of educational authorities.
description: Usuteaduslik Ajakiri, Vol. 86 No. 2 (2024)
Machine learning modeling of lake chlorophyll in a data-scarce region (Northern Patagonia, Chile): insights for environmental monitoring
Creators: name: Caputo, Luciano
name: Molina, Cristian Rios
name: Ayllon-Arauco, Roxanna
name: Benavides, Iván Felipe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Among South American countries, Chile is highly susceptible to climate change impacts on water resources and ecosystems. Chilean lakes and rivers have been impacted by anthropogenic activities leading to chemical pollution and eutrophication. Concerns for conservation and management of water resources have led to the current development of regulations for environmental quality of Northern Patagonian lakes. In this context, we analyze historical limnological databases (1979–2022) for these lakes utilizing random forest (RF) models. After filtering, we retained data for 11 lakes including key variables of dissolved oxygen, conductivity, transparency, temperature, pH, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and chlorophyll a. This dataset yielded robust results, accurately predicting chlorophyll a concentration. Furthermore, we added lake geomorphological parameters, enhancing the performance of the model. Our study demonstrates the need to improve long-term monitoring programs, optimizing environmental data recording for efficient investment. We conclude that the studied lakes generally maintain their oligotrophic characteristics and are more sensitive to nitrogen than phosphorus loading. Our results highlight the need to implement adaptative management plans at the watershed level to regulate anthropogenic nitrogen contamination from agriculture, pisciculture, and urbanization. The features selected by RF, coupled with the assessment of historical trophic state variation, allow the establishment of permissible concentration thresholds for major nutrients and other sentinel variables, informing the development of regulations for environmental quality. Lastly, the enhanced performance of RF modeling that includes geographical variables demonstrates the need to standardize and integrate geographical data in monitoring practices.
Finanzielle Engpässe nach der Scheidung: ihr oder sein Manko?
Creators: name: Kessler, Dorian
name: Zimmermann, Barbara
Publisher: name: Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2017

description: Geschiedene Frauen sind häufiger auf Sozialhilfe angewiesen als geschiedene Männer. Neben den unterschiedlichen Erwerbskarrieren von Männern und Frauen ist dies auf die Unterhaltsrechtspraxis zurückzuführen, die das Existenzminimum des besser verdienenden Partners unberührt lässt. Das Zentrum Soziale Sicherheit hat erstmals berechnet, welchen Einfluss dies auf das Armutsrisiko von geschiedenen Frauen hat.
Eestimaa naiste usuga seotud hoiakutest „Elust, usust ja usuelust 2020“ põhjal
Creators: name: Soosaar, Rain
name: Kilemit, Liina
Publisher: name: Usuteaduslik Ajakiri
Year: 2025

description: Women’s Attitudes towards Religion in Estonia Based on the „Life, Faith and Religious Life 2020“ Survey


The puzzle of gender differences in religiosity, which are evident especially in Christian countries, have become one of the hotly debated topics in sociology of religion. The data from the 2020 Estonian survey „Life, Faith and Religious life“ show that while Estonia has been regarded as one of the most secularized countries in Europe, women still remain in most aspects markedly more religious than men. Most notably, Estonian women pray remarkably more often, but they also tend to self-identify themselves as believers, agree with Christian faith statements, appreciate church rites and hold New Age beliefs more than men. However, data from population censuses indicate the possibility of narrowing the gender faith gap in the future. Future qualitative research should find out, how these findings are related to different socialization of boys and girls in the past, as well as gender relations in contemporary Estonian society. Besides that,  comparison of gender differences in religiosity among Estonians and Russian-speakers as well as gender relations within largely traditionalist major churches are among the most urgent research topics in that field in Estonia.
description: Usuteaduslik Ajakiri, Vol. 86 No. 2 (2024)
Photochemical reactivity of dissolved organic carbon in subarctic lakes along a color gradient
Creators: name: Younes, Hani
name: Berggren, Martin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Lake–atmosphere carbon exchanges can be significantly affected by photochemical dissolved organic matter (DOM) mineralization. However, our understanding of how increasing allochthonous organic carbon input affects the photoreactivity of DOM per unit of absorbed incoming light is incomplete. Here, we measured the absorption of ultraviolet (UV) light and subsequent photochemical DOM decay in 148 lakes within the subarctic region of Abisko, Sweden. These lakes range from brown-water lakes with allochthonous input from mires to tundra clear-water lakes with relatively more autochthonous input. We used fluorescence excitation–emission matrix analysis to assess the DOM chemical composition to determine how increasing colored DOM (CDOM) affects photomineralization. We found that the photo decay rates in absolute values were positively correlated to CDOM. However, the photo decay per unit of absorbed light energy did not increase with increasing CDOM; rather, it showed a weak decreasing trend. Fluorescence analyses helped explain these patterns; humic-like fluorescent DOM, presumably of terrestrial origin, was associated with high absolute photo decay rates, but not generally with higher photoreactivity per unit of absorbed light energy than other types of DOM. The results suggest that even though increasing inputs of terrestrial substances lead to a higher abundance of photodegradable materials, CO2 emissions do not necessarily increase in lakes where browning limits the ability of light to penetrate deeper water.
CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE BILIARY SYSTEM IN THE SOUTH INDIAN POPULATION USING MRCP
Creators: name: Dr. Sameen Taj
name: Sakthi Ganesh Subramonian
name: Balaji Karunakaran
name: Gunapriya Raghunath
name: Yuvaraj Maria Francis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Anatomical Variations, Extrahepatic Biliary System, Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography and Medical Imaging.

description: Abstract

Introduction: This study investigates into the importance of understanding anatomical variations in the extrahepatic biliary system, crucial for comprehending associated pathological conditions and surgical interventions. Despite being overlooked in medical education and practice, recent advancements in imaging technologies and anatomy studies have enhanced our knowledge of these variations. Aim and Objectives: The principal aim is to assess the anatomical variations of the extrahepatic biliary system. The objectives are to evaluate the morphological characteristics, variations and determine the extrahepatic biliary system using Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP). Methods: A retrospective investigation was conducted at Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, focusing on individuals with biliary tree variations causing obstruction. MRCP images of 115 patients were reviewed, with specific inclusion and exclusion criteria established. Results: Among 100 patients meeting the criteria, 38 exhibited anatomical variants in the extrahepatic bile tract, predominantly a looped entry of the cystic duct. The study highlights the value of MRCP in visualizing biliary anomalies and the most frequent variations observed. Conclusions: Anatomical anomalies within the extrahepatic biliary system, often underrepresented, were prevalent in this study. The research emphasizes the significance of understanding these variations for improved diagnostic accuracy and emphasizes MRCP's role in identifying biliary system anomalies. Overall, this study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of extrahepatic biliary system anomalies and their diagnosis using MRCP.
Machine learning modeling of lake chlorophyll content in a data scarce region (Northern Patagonia, Chile): insights for environmental monitoring
Creators: name: Caputo, Luciano
name: Molina, Cristian Rios
name: Ayllon, Roxanna
name: Benavides, Iván Felipe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Among South America, Chile is highly susceptible to climate change impacts on water resources and ecosystems. Chilean lakes and rivers have been impacted by anthropogenic activities leading to chemical pollution and eutrophication. Concerns for conservation and management of water resources has led to the current development of secondary norms for environmental quality of Northern Patagonian lakes. In this context, we analyze historical limnological databases (1979-2022) for these lakes utilizing Random Forest (RF) models. After filtering, we retained data for 11 lakes including key variables of: dissolved oxygen, electric conductivity, transparency, temperature, pH, total nitrogen, total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a. This dataset yielded robust results, accurately predicting chlorophyll-a content. Furthermore, we added lake geomorphological parameters, enhancing the performance of the model. Our study demonstrates the need to improve long-term monitoring programs, optimizing environmental data recording and decreasing costs. We conclude that the studied lakes generally maintain their oligotrophic characteristics, however further analysis suggests that these lakes are more sensitive to nitrogen loading than phosphorus. Our results highlight the need to implement adaptative management plans at the watershed level to regulate anthropogenic nitrogen contamination (from agriculture, pisciculture and urbanization). The features selected by RF, coupled with the assessment of historical trophic state variation, allow the establishment of permissible concentration thresholds for major nutrients and other sentinel parameters, informing the development of regulations such as the secondary norms for environmental quality. Lastly, the enhanced performance of RF modeling when including geographical parameters unveils the need to standardize and integrate geographical data in monitoring practices.
Arm oder nicht arm? Neue Zahlen zur Altersarmut unter Verwendung neuerer Daten und Ansätze
Creators: name: Hümbelin, Oliver
Publisher: name: Schweizerische Vereinigung für Sozialpolitik (SVSP)
Year: 2020

description: Die Schweiz gehört zu den Ländern mit einem differenzierten System der Altersvorsorge. Das 3-Säulen-Prinzip soll sicherstellen, dass im Ruhestand ausreichend finanzielle Mittel zur Verfügung stehen. Allerdings gelingt es längst nicht allen, während des Erwerbslebens ausreichend Vorsorgevermögen zu erwirtschaften. «Ein Leben lang arbeiten und im Rentenalter finanziell trotzdem nicht über die Runden kommen?» Das ist auch in der Schweiz eine Realität. Aber für wie viele trifft das zu? Ist die vierte Lebensphase in der Schweiz durch eine besondere Armutsgefährdung gekennzeichnet? In diesem Vortrag präsentiert der Referent Resultate aus einem laufenden SNF Projekt zum Thema «INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN SWITZERLAND». Der Vortrag beinhaltet eine Analyse unter Einbezug von neueren Daten und Ansätze der Armutsforschung.
Asbestopluma Topsent 1901
Creators: name: Vacelet, Jean
name: Kelly, Michelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Cladorhizidae
Asbestopluma

description: Subgenus Asbestopluma Topsent, 1901
Diagnosis. Asbestopluma without spear-shaped microtylostyles.
description: Published as part of Vacelet, Jean & Kelly, Michelle, 2014, A new species of Abyssocladia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Cladorhizidae) and other carnivorous sponges from the far eastern Solomon Islands, pp. 386-396 in Zootaxa 3815 (3) on page 392, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/228576
Bubble sizes inferred from their gas composition in a temperate freshwater fish pond
Creators: name: Waldemer, Carolin
name: Schwarz, Michael
name: Lorke, Andreas
name: Boehrer, Bertram
name: Koschorreck, Matthias
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Rising bubbles play a fundamental role in emitting greenhouse gases from shallow waters. Their size is crucial for bubble dissolution, gas exchange with the surrounding water, and the release of gases into the atmosphere. However, little is known about bubble sizes in shallow waters. To address this, we investigated bubble diameters in a 1.2 m deep fish pond, employing 2 methods: first, we measured the bubble size distributions by optical bubble sensors; second, we used an existing single bubble dissolution model to determine diameters representative for the respective bubble size distributions at the water surface based on measured bubble oxygen contents and dissolved oxygen concentrations. Results from optical bubble sensors were relatively similar at all sites; however, subsequent analysis revealed problems, particularly in detecting small bubbles under turbid, shallow water conditions. Model-derived bubble diameters ranged from 0.5 to 10.5 mm, varied spatially within the pond, and displayed diurnal fluctuations. With increasing bubble flux, bubble diameters increased; bubbles at feeding sites were larger than in the open water area. A detailed sensitivity analysis revealed that, depending on the bubble size distribution, the uncertainty of the model increases with increasing water depth. For a typical bubble diameter of 5 mm, the simple method can provide robust estimates of representative bubble size in waters shallower than 50 m.
Buitinga lakilingo Huber 2003
Creators: name: Bernhard A. Huber
name: Charles M. Warui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Buitinga
Buitinga lakilingo

description: 13. Buitinga lakilingo Huber, 2003. Tanzania (Huber 2003a).
New record
TANZANIA: 6 ♂♂ 18 ♀♀ (21 vials, partly without date and altitude data) in ZMUC, Tanga Region, Lushoto Distr., Mazumbai Forest Reserve (4°49’S, 38°29’E), 1650-1730 m a.s.l., Jul. 1995 (ZMUC expedition).
description: Published as part of Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-44 in European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29) on page 7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.29, http://zenodo.org/record/1406636
Between a rock and a hard place’? The future of critical entrepreneurship research’
Creators: name: Dey, Pascal
Year: 2023

description: The title of my short input points to a critical impasse in which we currently find ourselves: On the one hand, it seems that critical research is becoming more acceptable in entrepreneurship journals, but this may come at the price of watering down the radicalness of one’s ideas and the political thrust of our agenda. On the other hand, there is the possibility of staying truthful to our critical commitments, while having to accept that this may prevent us from being heard by, – for lack of a better term, – ‘mainstream’ entrepreneurship scholars. Given these two options, where do we currently stand?
Replicate Measurements of Haemoglobin Mass during a Single Day are Feasible and Precise
Creators: name: Wehrlin, Jon Peter
name: Näf, Nicole
name: Steiner, Thomas
Publisher: name: Georg Thieme Verlag
Year: 2015
Subjects: CO-rebreathing method Altitude training Athletes Haemoglobin mass Reproducibility Technical error

description: Duplicate haemoglobin mass (Hbmass) measurements are recommended before and after altitude training sojourns to identify individual adaptations in athletes with a high level of certainty. Duplicate measurements reduce typical error (TE) and disclose measurement outliers, but are usually made on separate days, which is not a practical protocol for routine services in elite sport settings. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate whether it is safe (carboxyhaemoglobin<10%) to measure Hbmass twice on the same day and to compare TE with measurements made on separate days. 18 healthy men completed 3 different procedures to measure Hbmass twice a day with the carbon monoxide rebreathing method: A (Hbmass measured twice within 6 h), B (dito A, combined with 1 h of hyperoxic training between the tests), C (dito B, within 2 h). First Hbmass measurements of the 3 test days served as procedure D. Carboxyhaemoglobin did not exceed 10% in any procedure. TE and confidence limits for procedures A, B, C and D were 1.4% (1.0–2.1%), 1.1% (0.8–1.7%), 1.3% (1.0–2.0%) and 1.5% (1.2–2.1%), respectively. Duplicate measurements of Hbmass on the same day are feasible and show TE similar to triplicate measurements on separate days.
Acidota crenata
Creators: name: Janovska, Marina
name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Enushchenko, Ilya V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Acidota
Acidota crenata

description: Acidota crenata (Fabricius, 1793)
 Material. Ventspils Distr.: 1 spec.: Moricsala NPT. 10.06.2005. A. Barševskis leg.; 2 spec.: same data: 29.05.2006. A. Barševskis, A. Bukejs, J. Laizāns leg.; R ī ga Distr.: 1 spec.: Olaine. 19.09.2006. J. Donis leg.; Valka Distr.: 1 spec.: Mežole. 18.09.2006. J. Donis leg.; 4 spec.: same data. 02.10.2006.; 1 spec.: same data. 5.09.2006.; Gulbene Distr .: 1 spec.: Lejasciems. Forest. 30.09.2005. A. Bukejs, A. Laizāns leg.; Aizkraukle Distr.: 1 spec.: NPT “ Aizkraukles purvs un meži”. 16.09.- 15.10.2008. A. Bukejs leg.; 1 spec.: Taurkalne. 16.06.2006. J. Donis leg.; Talsi Distr.: 1 spec.: Slītere NPT. 11.06.2005. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: same data. 29.07.2005.; J ē kabpils Distr .: 1 spec. Dunava. Pine forest, near bog. 01.- 15.04.2002. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: Dunava. 04.2002. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: Tadenava. 01.- 15.04.2002. A. Barševskis leg.; Prei ļ i Distr .: 1 spec.: Jersika, “Kurpnieki”. 21.11.2009. A. Barševskis leg.; Daugavpils Distr.: 1 spec.: 9.4 km N Saliena, 3.4 km NNE Geitvišķi, “Daugavas loki” NPT, 55º54’31N, 026º53’55E. 13.08.- 17.09.2008. A. Bukejs, A. Pankjāns leg.; 1 spec.: Elerne. 05.2002. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: Dviete. 01- 15.04.2002. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: Silene NPT. 10- 12.09.2002. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: same data. 11.06.2005.; 2 spec.: “ Ilgas ” NPT. 10- 12.09.2002. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: same data. Clearing, near pine. 15.11.2005. U. Valainis, A. Bukejs leg.; 1 spec.: Tukums Distr., Smārde munitipaly, Čaukciems. 15.09.2011. J. Prokopčika, K. Gulbis leg.
description: Published as part of Janovska, Marina, Shavrin, Alexey V. & Enushchenko, Ilya V., 2019, Faunistic Records Of Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) From Latvia, pp. 99-105 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12648951
Anthobium atrocephalum
Creators: name: Janovska, Marina
name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Enushchenko, Ilya V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Anthobium
Anthobium atrocephalum

description: Anthobium atrocephalum (Gyllenhal, 1827)
 Material. Ventspils Distr.: 3 spec.: Moricsala NPT. Traps. 05.2005. U. Valainis leg.; 3 spec.: same data. 04.2012.; R ī ga Distr .: 5 spec.: Olaine. 02.10.2006. J. Donis leg.; Salaspils Distr.: 3 spec.: Salaspils. 02.10.2006. J. Donis leg.; Madona Distr.: 1 spec.: Krustkalni NPT. 11.08.2005. A. Bukejs, A. Barševskis, J. Laizāns leg.; Tervete Distr.: 1 spec. “ Skujaines un Svetaines ieleja” NPT. Pit-fall trap. 30.05.- 20.06.2010. M. Kalniņš leg.; Aizkraukle Distr.: 3 spec.: “ Aizkraukles purvs un meži” NPT. 16.09.- 15.10.2008. A. Bukejs leg.; Talsi Distr.: 1 spec.: Slītere NPT. A. Barševskis leg.; 1 spec.: same NPT, “ Zilie kalni”. 04.10.2007. A. Pankjāns leg.; Daugavpils Distr.: 3 spec.: 2.8 km S Naujene, 1.5 km SSW Vecpils NPT, 55º54’71N 026º43’51’’E. 09.05.2008. R. Cibuļskis leg.; 3 spec.: Šēdere, “Straumēni”. Pit-fall trap near oak. 22.04.2007. M. Murd [Janovska] leg.; 5 spec.: same data, 55º54’30.8’’N 26º11’47.7’’E. Pit-fall trap near oak. 8.- 22.06.2013. M. Janovska leg.; 1 spec.: “ Ilgas ” NPT. 30.11.2014. A. Shavrin leg.
description: Published as part of Janovska, Marina, Shavrin, Alexey V. & Enushchenko, Ilya V., 2019, Faunistic Records Of Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) From Latvia, pp. 99-105 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12648951
Additional file 11: Figure S9. of Analysis of in vivo single cell behavior by high throughput, human-in-the-loop segmentation of three-dimensional images
Creators: name: Chiang, Michael
name: Hallman, Sam
name: Cinquin, Amanda
name: Nabora De Mochel
name: Paz, Adrian
name: Shimako Kawauchi
name: Calof, Anne
name: Cho, Ken
name: Charless Fowlkes
name: Cinquin, Olivier
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Parismi GUI screenshot. (PDF 1381Â kb)
When humans and computers induce social stress through negative feedback: Effects on performance and subjective state
Creators: name: Thuillard, S.
name: Adams, M.
name: Jelmini, G.
name: Schmutz, S.
name: Sonderegger, Andreas
name: Sauer, J.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022
Subjects: Social stress Negative feedback Performance Computer feedback Automation Interpersonal fairness

description: People increasingly work with autonomous systems, which progressively take over functions previously performed exclusively by humans. This may lead to situations in which automated agents give negative performance feedback, which represents an important work-related social stressor. Little is known about how negative feedback provided by computers (as opposed to humans) affects human performance and subjective state. A first experiment (N = 60) focused on the influence of human feedback on performance. After participants had performed a cognitive task, they received a manipulated performance feedback (either positive or negative) from a human (comparing to a control with no feedback) and subsequent performance on several cognitive tasks and the participants' subjective state was measured. The results showed that while negative feedback had a negative influence on several subjective state measures, performance remained unimpaired. In a second experiment (N = 89), participants received manipulated negative feedback by a human or by a computer (or no feedback at all) after having completed an ability test. Subsequent performance was measured on attention tasks and creativity tasks and participants' subjective state was assessed. Although participants felt stressed by both negative computer and human feedback, subsequent performance was again not impaired. However, computer feedback was rated as being less fair than human feedback. Overall, our findings show that there are costs of protecting one's performance against negative feedback and they call for caution regarding the use of negative feedback by both human and automated agents in work settings.
Anthophagus angusticollis
Creators: name: Janovska, Marina
name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Enushchenko, Ilya V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Anthophagus
Anthophagus angusticollis

description: Anthophagus angusticollis (Mannerheim, 1830)
 Material. Ventspils Distr.: 1 spec.: Moricsala NPT. 15.07.2008. V. Alekseev, A. Pavlova leg.; Madona Distr.: 1 spec.: Krustkalni NPT. 7.07.2006. A. Pankjāns, A. Barševskis, E. Rudāns leg.; Talsi Distr.: 1 spec.: “ Ances mezi un purvi” NPT. 27.06.2006. U. Valainis leg.; 1 spec.: Talsi 46 km, NNW, Slitere NPT 1.5 km NE, “Zilie kalni”, “Dāvida pļavas”, 57º38’02N 022º19’02E. Broad-leaved forest. 01.06.2011. R. Cibuļskis leg.; Daugavpils Distr.: 1 spec.: Naujene, Juzefova park. 25.05.2002. A. Barševskis; 1 spec.: Silene NPT, “Ilgas”. 08.2002. A. Barševskis leg.
description: Published as part of Janovska, Marina, Shavrin, Alexey V. & Enushchenko, Ilya V., 2019, Faunistic Records Of Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) From Latvia, pp. 99-105 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19 (1) on page 101, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12648951
Cost of living and its relevance for economic inequality: an admin-data approach studying the Swiss case
Creators: name: Hümbelin, Oliver
name: Farys, Rudolf
Year: 2023

description: In affluent countries, cost of living is an important component to assess economic possibilities of its population. However, in inequality studies this component is mostly neglected. At the same time, it seems clear that economic well-being is determined more by disposable income after basic needs are considered than by income earned exclusively. In this paper we develop a procedure to determine the impact of the cost of living on inequality of disposable incomes after cost of living. This includes spending on everyday goods, housing costs, health insurance premiums and taxes. These are the major unavoidable cost components that occur in Switzerland. To quantify the magnitude of costs of living on disposable income inequality we build upon a framework promoted by Reynolds and Smolensky (1977) that is widely used in distributional studies. For empirical analysis we use linked tax data that comprehensively depict the financial situation of about 3.5 million people in Switzerland. To model cost of living, we consider different scenarios, including minimum level of subsistence and average expenditures. Comparing the income distribution before costs we find an increase from 31.3 Gini-Points (GP) to 42.2 (+10.9) using minimum and 57.2 (+15.9 GP) using average costs. Overall, considering everyday goods (+5.7 GP to +15.5 GP) and the costs of housing (+6GP to +10.8 GP) are particularly noticeable. The cost of health insurance premiums are also associated with an increase in inequality (+3.7 GP to 4.7 GP), even when the equalizing effect of the premium reductions system is included (-0.8 GP to -0.9 GP), that is especially designed to support low-income groups. In contrast, progressive taxes significantly reduce income inequality (-3.7 GP to -4.2 GP). The analyses also show that the cost-of-living effects diverge particularly strongly for the poorest and wealthiest 10% of the income distribution. Although the highest-income group is disproportionately burdened by taxes, they are hardly affected by daily cost-of-living. In contrast, the two lowest-income groups are affected to a strikingly high degree. In the “average cost” scenario, 20% of the population could not afford necessary expenses. Finally, regional differences in cost of living do increase inequality in disposable incomes between cantons (+1.9 GP). This effect is largely due to different implementations of welfare instruments like taxes and the cost of health care premiums, while cost for daily expenses and houses affect the income distribution withing cantons similarly across cantons.
Additional file 1 of Hydrodynamic loading in concomitance with exogenous cytokine stimulation modulates differentiation of bovine mesenchymal stem cells towards osteochondral lineages
Creators: name: Goldman, Stephen
name: Barabino, Gilda
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S1. Experimental Condition Matrix. Table S2. RT-qPCR Primers. Table S3. Summary of Transcriptome Analysis after 2-Weeks of Culture. Table S4. Gene Regulation Ratios. (DOCX 21 kb)