cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Private and non-commercial use project
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025

description: For subsistence and amateur farmers, the UPOV Convention of 1991 grants an exception for acts done privately and for non-commercial purposes. The Government of the Netherlands has supported the project ‘Private and non-commercial use’, which has been implemented jointly by the civil society organization Oxfam Novib and the sector association Plantum since 2017. The objective is to investigate the scope and possible implementation of this provision within the UPOV Convention of 1991, thereby trying to create clarity about the legal space of subsistence farmers to exchange and/or sell farm-saved seeds in the informal seed system. The project takes the views of stakeholder organizations (including governments, farmers, seed industry, civil society organizations and other international organizations) into consideration. Currently, the project is focusing on specific country case studies. By supporting this project, as well as stimulating the discussion on the private and non-commercial use exception on an international level, the Netherlands hope to create a constructive dialogue about the possibilities for subsistence farmers to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seeds.
title: Creation of a micro value-chain for a local variety of rye, the ‘Iermana’
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Income generation

description: This measure demonstrates the role that local authorities can play in supporting local development through on-farm conservation of traditional varieties. The objective was to support farming activities in marginal areas, rather than establishing some sort of an ‘open-air museum’. During the period 2013-2014, Agenzia Lucana di Sviluppo ed Innovazione in Agricoltura (ALSIA), an agency of the regional government of the Basilicata region supporting agricultural development and innovation, carried out a survey among farmers of the region to identify rye growers. Four farmers cultivating a total area of 2 ha with an old variety called ‘Iermana’ or ‘Germana’ were identified. In 2018, ALSIA succeeded in registering the local ‘Iermana’ rye variety on the Italian National Seed Catalogue in the ‘Conservation Varieties’ section. Activities for value-chain development allowed to increase the area cultivated with ‘Iermana’ rye from 2 to 15 ha, while the number of farmers cultivating the variety increased from 4 to 30. This success demonstrates the importance of the ‘conservation through use’ approach for the conservation of local PGRFA.
S2 - Supplementary_Table_1 from Generational shift in the migratory common noctule bat: first-year males lead the way to hibernacula at higher latitudes
Creators: name: K. A. Kravchenko
name: A. S. Vlaschenko
name: L. S. Lehnert
name: A. Courtiol
name: C.C. Voigt
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Effect of year on D2H.docx
title: Public access to seed of formerly protected varieties after expiry of the Plant Breeders’ Rights
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: In the U.S., seed samples of protected varieties are available to the public through the US National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) when the plant variety protection on the variety expires for any reason. At that point, seed samples are transferred to the NPGS genebanks and can be requested by farmers, breeders, and the public without restrictions for use in research, plant breeding, and education. The objective is to facilitate access to such seed for qualified variety developers, which will ultimately benefit farmers. This arrangement, which relies on an agreement between the Plant Variety Protection Office and the NPGS, has been in place since the mid 1970’s.
PTB-Prüfregeln: Meßgeräte für Gas: Meßgeräte für den Kohlenstoffdioxidanteil in Brenngasen
Creators: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2020

description: PTB-Prüfregeln, Band 24
Coevolution of Economic and Industrial Linkages within the Land-Sea Industrial Structure of China
Creators: name: Jin, Xue
name: Zhou, Shiwei
name: Sumaila, Ussif Rashid
name: Yin, Kedong
name: Lv, Xinman
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: The joint development of continental and marine economies has become an important driving force for the upgrading of industrial structures. However, because of the differences in resource endowment and development potential, developing industrial structures and the quality of economic development are uneven among regions. In this study, the added values of three land-sea industries in the three marine economic circles of northern, eastern, and southern China, were employed to clarify the evolutionary behavior of the industrial structure of these three circles on the land and sea; the synchronization, lag, equilibrium, and dislocation of developing the industrial structure were also explored which a gray relational model based on convex judgment and gray time difference analyses were used to construct a relational model from the static and dynamic aspects of the system, and the internal and external linkages of the industrial structure of the three circles were analyzed from the perspective of industrial correlation. The results show that: (1) Correlations among the linkages of the three economic circles in the marine industrial structure, both including and without temporal and spatial differences, and the marine feedback driver, differ markedly. (2) The effects of feedback for marine industrial development from the Eastern Marine Economic Circle were stronger, whereas those of the Southern Marine Economic Circle were weak and those of the Northern Marine Economic Circle were ambiguous. (3) A significant difference was observed in the degree of coevolution among the land-sea industrial structures of these areas. The Northern Marine Economic Circle exhibited a slightly higher degree of coevolution than the other two economic circles, showing a stable trend of coevolution and wide spatial development. The eastern and southern circles displayed high degrees of coordination in developing their industrial structures. The research results provide a reference for regional adjustment and optimization of industrial structure.
title: Office of Technology Transfer (OTT)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) includes an Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), the establishment of which goes back to the 1980 Steven-Wydler Act. The OTT is responsible for facilitating the adoption of USDA research discoveries, which ultimately benefit farmers with new varieties that are disease, pest, and stress tolerant and produce higher yields. This provides broad public benefits, including public release of information, tools, and solutions (e.g. germplasm, plants and other materials), adoption and enhancement of research outcomes by partners through collaborative research, formal cooperative research and development agreements, direct Federal, state, or local technical assistance, or through licensing of biological materials or protected intellectual property directly to not-for-profit entities and for-profit private sector firms.
Filipino Benchmarks for Measuring Sexist and Homophobic Bias in Multilingual Language Models from Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Gamboa, Lance Calvin Lim
name: Lee, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bias studies on multilingual models confirm the presence of gender-related stereotypes in masked models processing languages with high NLP resources. We expand on this line of research by introducing Filipino CrowS-Pairs and Filipino WinoQueer: benchmarks that assess both sexist and anti-queer biases in pretrained language models (PLMs) handling texts in Filipino, a low-resource language from the Philippines. The benchmarks consist of 7,074 new challenge pairs resulting from our cultural adaptation of English bias evaluation datasets, a process that we document in detail to guide similar forthcoming efforts. We apply the Filipino benchmarks on masked and causal multilingual models, including those pretrained on Southeast Asian data, and find that they contain considerable amounts of bias. We also find that for multilingual models, the extent of bias learned for a particular language is influenced by how much pretraining data in that language a model was exposed to. Our benchmarks and insights can serve as a foundation for future work analyzing and mitigating bias in multilingual models.
description: Accepted for presentation at The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM) at The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)
title: National Plant Germplasm System
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The earliest components of today’s NPGS date to 1898 and the USDA Plant Exploration Office and the National Small Grain Collection, with major expansions in the late 1940s with the establishment of four regional plant introduction stations and the interregional potato station, the National Seed Storage Laboratory (now the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation) in 1958, the cotton and soybean germplasm collection in the 1970s, and the mid-1980s with the addition of nine genebank sites with primarily clonally-propagated crops. Currently the NPGS comprises 20 different genebank sites, the GRIN-Global information management system, and 43 Crop Germplasm Committees.
Beyond Prediction: Supporting Clinical Decision Making in the Prevention of Aggression in a Forensic Mental Health Setting
Creators: name: Griffith, Jessica James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Aggression is a serious problem in mental health units, and prevention and containment efforts often rely upon restrictive interventions which have the potential to cause harm. Preventing aggression without use of restrictive practices requires routine accurate risk assessment accompanied by appropriate, timely, interventions. This study tested an electronic Clinical Decision Support System incorporating the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression and an Aggression Prevention Protocol (eDASA+APP) in two acute forensic mental health units for men. Implementation was associated with a significant reduction in the odds of the occurrence of aggressive incidents and a significant decrease in the odds of restrictive practices being used.
title: Transfer of technology to farmers and its application for the conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (I)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: Farmers in semi-arid areas of Al Jaffara plain area, south of Tripoli, have no access to technology and always confronted with high prices of farm inputs. In 2018-2019, the Safit Station for Agricultural Research and Studies and the Animal Research Center re-launched the technology transfer programme in order to support farmers. This programme was implemented between 1991-2000, and was aimed to help farmers by applying appropriate agricultural techniques for cultivating crops in arid areas where they live, to learn how to apply a set of agricultural techniques and methods suitable to the arid lands, use of suitable seeds types and varieties, and more importantly, to increase their farm incomes. Initially, the technology transfer was done involving 49 farmers in 2018, and then in 2019, about 136 farmers were involved. This activity resulted to farmers’ enhanced understanding of the importance and necessity of applying agricultural techniques in their harsh and semi-arid environments, and enabled them to make choices and decisions in cultivating crops and varieties and applying appropriate agricultural technologies.
title: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)-Global system, originally developed in 1986 and updated and expanded in 2011, is a suite of software programmes for managing plant germplasm-associated information, facilitating plant genebank workflows, and providing a public interface for users to access plant germplasm and information. Users can search for accession information via its public website, fill a shopping cart with their desired plant germplasm, and have it delivered freely and without restrictions for use in plant production, research and breeding. In fact, in 2018 alone, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) distributed over 280,000 samples to fill more than 700 individual orders.
Canonical functions: a proof via topological dynamics
Creators: name: Pinsker, Michael
name: Bodirsky, Manuel
Publisher: name: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics
Year: 2021

description: Canonical functions are a powerful concept with numerous applications in the study of groups, monoids, and clones on countable structures with Ramsey-type properties. In this short note, we present a proof of the existence of canonical functions in certain sets using topological dynamics, providing a shorter alternative to the original combinatorial argument. We moreover present equivalent algebraic characterisations of canonicity.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2021)
title: Application of constitutional and human rights measures by the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras to declare unconstitutional the Law for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, based on the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: On 17 November 2021, the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras issued its judgment in the appeal of unconstitutionality against the Legislative Decree No. 21-2012 containing the Law for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants by the National Congress of Honduras on March 12, 2012. In this judgment, the Court applies several constitutional and international law measures that:

guarantee the right to life, human dignity, and the right of Honduran men and women to have an adequate standard of living;
guarantee the human right to food as the right of people to nutritious, healthy, and culturally adequate food;
recognize the obligation of the State of Honduras to conserve an adequate environment to protect the health of its inhabitants;
establish the duty of the State of Honduras to protect the native cultures of the country and farmers' rights as constitutionally and internationally recognized.

Applying these legal measures, the Court declared Decree No. 21-2012 unconstitutional and, therefore, the Law for the Protection of Plant Varieties. The Court points out that this law "faithfully reflects the guidelines provided by UPOV" and violates farmers' rights as recognized by the ITPGRFA and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
title: Transfer of technology to farmers and its application for the conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (II)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: From 2015 to 2019, the Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tripoli, in cooperation with Dalia Agricultural Investment Company, supported technology training programme to enhance the knowledge of farmers, to learn and acquire new skills and technologies, to increase their production and to be able to supply the local markerts with high quality products. The programme activities included training of farmers on growing, breeding and pruning fruit trees (e.g. grapes, olives, citrus fruits), so as to improve farm productivity and eventually to increase their household incomes. The training is comprised of inviting 40 to 50 farmers annually plus a number of interested participants from all over the country who were keen to learn fruit trees management. Key outcomes included raising farmers' awareness and learning the importance of the technical and scientific methods of fruit trees management.
A Recursive Framework and Contradiction Argument for Goldbach's Conjecture
Creators: name: Henry Glover, J. Henry Glover, Jr.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: We present a straightforward contradiction argument showing that every even integercan be expressed as the sum of two odd primes. Our approach leans on thestandard recursive definitions of integers and on the absolute properties of additionand multiplication for even and odd integers. By assuming a smallest counterexampleto Goldbach’s statement, we derive a contradiction with fundamental propertiesof number recursion and arithmetic. The logic implies that no even integer fails todecompose into two odd primes. Although this result stands in contrast to the widelyheld belief that Goldbach’s Conjecture is still open, we demonstrate how the standardaxioms and the principle of recursive construction close all potential gaps, indicatingthat Goldbach’s statement indeed holds.
title:   SIGNIFICANT LIFE EXPERIENCES OF KENTUCKY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTIVISTS
Creators: name: Howell, Jeri
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Community Leadership
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: The purpose of this study is to better understand Kentucky youth climate activism. The research questions explore how youth define their climate activism in Kentucky, their Significant Life Experiences (SLE) that motivated them to commit to climate activism, and what challenges and sustains their involvement. This qualitative study utilizes a blended framework of social/environmental positionality and political ecology to analyze 7 semi-structured interviews with participants between the ages 18 to 24 years old who are acting to address climate change in Kentucky. New contributions to the existing body of SLE literature are discussed.
description: © 2022 Jeri Katherine Howell
Media and government framing of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Stack, Michelle, 1967-
name: Wilbur, Amea
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: One understudied area of adult education and lifelong learning is the role of media as educator and policy player. This article describes how the authors used critical discourse analysis to examine how asylum seekers, migrant workers and their advocates have challenged long-standing discursive framings of them as benefactors of Canadian generosity, criminals, burdens or victims – during the first ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis points to the difficulties of navigating media engagement to advocate for individuals facing deportation from Canada, while also attempting to challenge the dichotomy of people seen either as worthy of dignity (those who work for low pay and in dangerous conditions to care for Canadians) or as unworthy (those who work on farms or who are not able to work). However, it also reveals the potential for critical lifelong media education to inform the work of adult educators across classroom, labour and social movement contexts to disrupt exclusionary and oppressive media and government narratives.
title: The 21st National Olive Festival and Rural Products Exhibition
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Income generation

description: The National Olive Festival and Rural products Exhibition is an annual festival organized by the National Agricultural Research Center (NARC), a scientific arm of the Ministry of Agriculture. To contribute to sustainable development goals and in compliance with the provisions of the ratified conventions such as the International Treaty, Article 9, Farmers’ Rights, by providing a marketing platform for smallholder farmers and rural families in the governorates and marginal areas. In 2021, the "21st National Olive Festival & Rural Products Exhibition" featured the various governorates’ olive oil production, including all the other traditional rural products for which it is famous and small economic projects on which rural families depend. The festival witnessed a significant transformation; more than 500 producers, including farmers, rural women, associations, olive mills, field schools from all governorates of Jordan, and some small companies, were present. Several projects within the Agricultural Innovation Incubator of NARC also participated in the festival. The festival was preceded by training courses and lectures for the various governorates, such as e-marketing training and lectures on agricultural topics designed for students from eight public and private universities. The festival also witnessed cultural, artistic, and poetic evenings, including a fashion show on traditional Jordanian costumes.
title: Application of constitutional measures for the protection of Indigenous Peoples and ethnic groups by Colombia’s Constitutional Court to declare a law enacted for the accession to the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention unconstitutional
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025

description: On 5 December 2012, Columbia’s Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a law (Law 1518 of 2012) by which the National Congress approved the country’s accession to the 1991 Act of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention). The Court declared the aforementioned law unconstitutional because the Indigenous Peoples and ethnic communities, as well as the peasant population were not consulted prior to its enactment. The central argument of the ruling was based on  the Political Constitution of Colombia (arts. 40-2, 329 and 330) published in the Constitutional Gazette No. 116 of July 20, 1991, as well as on the international law (International Labor Organisation (ILO), Convention 169. Article 6(1) of ILO Convention 169 provides that governments must "consult the peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures and in particular through their representative institutions, whenever consideration is being given to legislative or administrative measures which may affect them directly."
In reaching this conclusion, the Court took into account the profound connection that exists between the seeds and the identity and culture of the peoples protected by the right to participate in decision making or prior consultation. From there, it deduced the direct impact that the law could have on the fulfilment of seed rights, as well as the traditional practices and knowledge of ethnic and peasant communities.
Revenue System in Post-Maurya and Gupta Times (extract)
Creators: name: Jha, D. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Revenue system -- India

description: D. N. Jha, Revenue System in Post-Maurya and Gupta Times, new edition with foreword and an afterword by Vishwa Mohan Jha (Delhi: Manohar, 2020), pp. 321. ISBN: 9789390035229 Revenue -- India -- History.
 Taxation -- India -- History.
 Revenue.
description: The foreword and afterword by V. M. Jha extends to some 70pp; the foreword is largely historiographical; in the afterword, the author retranslates of some critical passages from the Arthaśāstra, including a new interpretation of slavery as depicted in this text.
Array-based compact data structures for triangulations: Practical solutions with theoretical guarantees
Creators: name: Castelli Aleardi, Luca
name: Devillers, Olivier
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2018

description: We consider the problem of designing space efficient solutions for representing triangle meshes. Our main result is a new explicit data structure for compactly representing planar triangulations: if one is allowed to permute input vertices, then a triangulation with $n$ vertices requires at most $4n$ references ($5n$ references if vertex permutations are not allowed). Our solution combines existing techniques from mesh encoding with a novel use of maximal Schnyder woods. Our approach extends to higher genus triangulations and could be applied to other familiesof meshes (such as quadrangular or polygonal meshes). As far as we know, our solution provides the most parsimonious data structures for triangulations, allowing constant time navigation. Our data structures require linear construction time, and are fast decodable from a standard compressed format without using additional memory allocation. All bounds, concerning storage requirements and navigation performances, hold in the worst case. We have implemented and tested our results, and experiments confirm the practical interest of compact data structures.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018)
Application of Wavelet Artificial Neural Networks in Forecasting Monthly and Seasonal Rainfall Using Temperature and Climate Indices: A Case Study of Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Ghamariadyan, Meysam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Prediction of rainfall is of great importance for agriculture and industry, especially for the regions with high variability of climate, such as Australia. It also gives a chance to the decision-makers to overcome uncommon events such as floods and droughts. The research develops a new predictive model to forecast monthly and seasonal rainfall in Queensland, Australia. The method used in this study is based on a hybrid artificial neural network called wavelet ANN. This research could benefit agriculture and the society of Australia by providing excellent rainfall forecasts by mitigating the impacts of flooding and droughts.
title: Implementation of farmers’ rights through the recognition of farmers’ seeds and provisions made for a discreet farmer seed system registration process, not linked to commercial seed and crop value chains
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: In 2003, the Brazilian government passed a Seed Law- Lei 10.711 Dispõe sobre o Sistema Nacional de Sementes e Mudas e dá outras providências that recognized farmer’s seed emanating from farmer-managed seed systems. According to this law, registration of local, traditional or Creole cultivars used by family farmers, Agrarian Reform settlers or indigenous peoples is not mandatory (Article 11.6) and there are exemptions for those who multiply seeds or seedlings for distribution, exchange or sell among themselves. The exemptions are for all farmers’ seed as long as they are traded and exchanged among family farmers (Article 8.3). Where farmers choose to register their seed in Brazil, several requirements are given by the Ministerial Decision 51/2007. Since the farmers’ seed sector is recognized as important and indispensable towards the attainment of food security, the national government launched the Food Acquisition Programme in 2003, which included the purchase and dissemination of farmer seed that was directly purchased from and distributed to farmers. This state support created a big incentive for local producers, especially family farmers, agrarian reform settlements and indigenous communities and populations, and it recognised the seed production protocols and activities of these communities. To further support the farmers’ seed sector, the Ministry of Agrarian Development supported seed fairs to promote the multiplication of local seeds.
title: Putting farmers and Indigenous Peoples’ access to crop diversity at centre in seed policy and practice
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The measure is a game changing solution presented to the UN Food System Summit 2021 calling for a fundamental re-think of how seed system development is supported globally. Our proposal is to ensure and promote – through legislation, seed policies and action – that farmers have access to a diversity of well adapted varieties of crops that meet agroecological, nutritional and cultural needs and preferences. Farmers’ seed systems are key to provide farmers with access to both local varieties developed over millennia of farmer selection and varieties developed with modern plant breeding. We call for a bottom-up demand-driven approach to seed security to complement the currently dominant top-down supply-side approach, thereby supporting farmers’ agency and recognizing farmers’ seed systems contribution to global food security.
INDIVIDUALIZED LASER-PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF POST-BURN SCARS
Creators: name: Umarkhodjaev, A.M.
name: Gulyamov, S.S.
name: Sadykov, R.R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Post-burn scars remain one of the most difficult challenges in reconstructive and aesthetic dermatology. They often lead to physical discomfort, psychological distress, and social adaptation difficulties, especially when localized on visible parts of the body. Standard treatment methods may not always be effective due to the individual characteristics of scar tissue formation, healing dynamics, and skin type. An individualized approach using combined laser and photodynamic therapy (PDT) presents a promising alternative. This dual-modality strategy enhances treatment efficiency through synergistic effects of laser ablation and cellular-level photochemical reactions induced by photosensitizers. Such an approach aims to optimize treatment outcomes and minimize side effects.
Heated high flow nasal cannula and bilevel positive airway pressure in pediatric asthma exacerbations
Creators: name: Nelipovich, Shelby
name: Ozdowski, Lauren
name: Smith, Michele E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Heated High Flow Nasal Cannula (HHFNC) and Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BPAP) are noninvasive respiratory support modalities used in pediatric asthma exacerbations. We aim to examine differences in characteristics and outcomes for patients admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) on standard therapy (ST) alone (continuous albuterol and systemic corticosteroids), ST plus HHFNC, and ST plus BPAP. This is a retrospective and prospective observational cohort study. Chi-Squared/Fisher’s exact and Kruskal Wallis tests were used for categorical and continuous outcomes, respectively. 129 patients were included. Younger patients were placed on HHFNC while more severe patients were placed on BPAP. A multiple linear regression controlling for age, sex, race, ethnicity, and exacerbation severity revealed that patients admitted on BPAP had a longer duration of continuous albuterol compared to patients on ST alone (p = 0.02). No differences were found in respiratory support escalation, duration of respiratory support, or adverse events. The BPAP group had the most sedation use and longest length of stay (LOS). Median hourly respiratory rates (RR) increased in the HHFNC group over the first 12 h of admission and remained stable or decreased in the ST and BPAP groups. This study found that BPAP use in pediatric asthma exacerbations is associated with increased exacerbation severity, longer duration of continuous albuterol, increased sedation use, and longer LOS. Although a multiple linear regression analysis was performed to control for multiple covariates including exacerbation severity, it is possible that intrinsic patient characteristics influenced these outcomes rather than BPAP usage.
Graph-theoretic insights on the constructability of complex entangled states
Creators: name: Chandran, L. Sunil
name: Gajjala, Rishikesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The most efficient automated way to construct a large class of quantum photonic experiments is via abstract representation of graphs with certain properties. While new directions were explored using Artificial intelligence and SAT solvers to find such graphs, it becomes computationally infeasible to do so as the size of the graph increases. So, we take an analytical approach and introduce the technique of local sparsification on experiment graphs, using which we answer a crucial open question in experimental quantum optics, namely whether certain complex entangled quantum states can be constructed. This provides us with more insights into quantum resource theory, the limitation of specific quantum photonic systems and initiates the use of graph-theoretic techniques for designing quantum physics experiments.
description: 18 pages. Accepted in Quantum Journal
Soil β-glucosidase activity, organic carbon and nutrients in plant tissue in response to cover crop species and management practices
Creators: name: Adewole T Adetunji
name: Bongani Ncube
name: Meyer, Andre H
name: Reckson Mulidzi
name: Lewu, Francis B
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Cover crop (CC) management can be improved to enhance carbon storage, microbial activity and fertility in agricultural soils. This study assessed the immediate effect of living CCs and residues, two termination stages (vegetative and flowering) and two termination methods (slash and spray) on soil β-glucosidase activity and soil organic carbon (SOC) levels in a pot experiment. Species tested as CCs were, vetch (Vicia dasycarpa Ten.), pea (Pisum sativum L.), oats (Avena sativa L.), rye (Seale cereal L.) and control (no CC). Delay in termination until flowering stage significantly increased C and C:N ratio content of all the CCs. Living CCs did not influence SOC but stimulated β-glucosidase compared to the control. At one year, rye and oats residues increased SOC compared to other CC residues, while β-glucosidase activity was greater under rye, oats and pea residues than vetch and control. Termination of CCs at flowering stage resulted in greater β-glucosidase activity and SOC levels than the vegetative stage at one year. Termination by slashing had a positive impact on SOC and β-glucosidase activity compared to spraying. The results of this study indicate significant (p < 0.05) sampling time, CC and termination stage interaction effects on SOC and β-glucosidase activity showing that these management factors are important for maximizing CC benefits and improving soil fertility.
Quantifying Crown Morphology of Mixed Pine-Oak Forests Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Creators: name: Uzquiano, Sara
name: Barbeito, Ignacio
name: San Martín, Roberto
name: Ehbrecht, Martin
name: Seidel, Dominik
name: Bravo, Felipe
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Mixed forests make up the majority of natural forests, and they are conducive to improving the resilience and resistance of forest ecosystems. Moreover, it is in the crown of the trees where the effect of inter- and intra-specific interaction between them is evident. However, our knowledge of changes in crown morphology caused by density, competition, and mixture of specific species is still limited. Here, we provide insight on stand structural complexity based on the study of four response crown variables (Maximum Crown Width Height, MCWH; Crown Base Height, CBH; Crown Volume, CV; and Crown Projection Area, CPA) derived from multiple terrestrial laser scans. Data were obtained from six permanent plots in Northern Spain comprising of two widespread species across Europe; Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.). A total of 193 pines and 256 oaks were extracted from the point cloud. Correlation test were conducted (ρ ≥ 0.9) and finally eleven independent variables for each target tree were calculated and categorized into size, density, competition and mixture, which was included as a continuous variable. Linear and non-linear multiple regressions were used to fit models to the four crown variables and the best models were selected according to the lowest AIC Index and biological sense. Our results provide evidence for species plasticity to diverse neighborhoods and show complementarity between pines and oaks in mixtures, where pines have higher MCWH and CBH than oaks but lower CV and CPA, contrary to oaks. The species complementarity in crown variables confirm that mixtures can be used to increase above ground structural diversity.
title: Community Seed Bank model as a platform for seed multiplication and distribution including adapted farmer varieties
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: This practice was conducted through the project "Harnessing dryland legume and cereals genetic resource for food and nutrition security and resilient farming systems in Malawi and Zambia" which started in 2019, and implemented by ICRISAT, together with the Department of Agricultural Services (DARS) in Malawi, the Zambia Agricultural Research Institution (ZARI) and farmer associations with funding from the Benefit-sharing Fund. The main objectives are to support farmers to sustainably use and conserve PGRFA for food and nutrition security and to build capacity of smallholder farmers to use improved varieties for food and nutrition security to enhance resilience in production in the face of climate variability, while realizing sustained incomes among women and youth.  The project promoted community seed bank modelling as a platform for seed multiplication and distribution. Activities include: organization of farmers’ seed clubs; training on seed production and agribusiness; and establishment of demonstration trials for seed production and dissemination campaigns. The main outcomes: farmers are supported to maintain and conserve agrobiodiversity in areas vulnerable to climate change and food insecurity; enhanced availability of quality seeds,  improved and/or farmer varieties and enhanced equity. The main lesson learned is that linking farmers to cooperatives and provisioning of appropriate training is important.
Weighted geometric set cover problems revisited
Creators: name: Har-Peled, Sariel
name: Lee, Mira
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2012

description: We study several set cover problems in low dimensional geometric settings. Specifically, we describe a PTAS for the problem of computing a minimum cover of given points by a set of weighted fat objects. Here, we allow the objects to expand by some prespecified δ-fraction of their diameter. Next, we show that the problem of computing a minimum weight cover of points by weighted halfplanes (without expansion) can be solved exactly in the plane. We also study the problem of covering ℝd by weighted halfspaces, and provide approximation algorithms and hardness results. We also investigate the dualsettings of computing minimum weight simplex that covers a given target point. Finally, we provide a near linear time algorithm for the problem of solving a LP minimizing the total weight of violated constraints needed to be removed to make it feasible.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012)
title: Participatory technology development and selection approaches to develop cultivars relevant to farmers’ needs
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: This practice was conducted through the project "Harnessing dryland legume and cereals genetic resource for food and nutrition security and resilient farming systems in Malawi and Zambia" which started in 2019, and implemented by ICRISAT, together with the Department of Agricultural Services (DARS) in Malawi, the Zambia Agricultural Research Institution (ZARI) and farmer associations with funding from the Benefit-sharing Fund. The main objectives are to re-introduce, conserve, disseminate or breed locally adapted varieties with farmers’ participation and other stakeholders in the agricultural sector, and to build the capacity of farmers and technical staff to be able to innovate and do research for food and nutrition security.  Activities include: development of improved materials in addition to farmer collections, and assessing the effect of PGRFA and/or cropping systems on the livelihoods of the farmers or community groups. The main outcomes: farmers are supported to maintain and conserve agrobiodiversity in areas vulnerable to climate change and food insecurity; research and development have been strengthened and accelerated to produce climate-ready crops, and the knowledge and skills of farmers and technical staff on the use of genetic resources for food and nutrition security has been enhanced. The main lesson learned is that farmer participation is key in technology development and delivery for impact.
title: Waste classification, sampling and analysis
title: Brochure Waste classification and analysis (English)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Zettl, Elisabeth
name: Milunov, Milos
name: Potrykus, Alexander
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abfallklassifizierung
subject: Abfalluntersuchung
subject: waste
subject: waste classification
subject: waste analysis
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: The aim of the EU waste policy is the promotion of the circular economy in order to conserve resources on the one side and to protect human health and the environment on the other side. Before the decision about appropriate treatment options of waste can be made the correct characterisation of waste is necessary. This brochure provides guidance on classification, sampling and analysis of waste.
title: Farmer Field Schools, as an extension approach to transfer technology transfer with the help of farmer to farmer trainers using demonstration centers as learning points
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: This practice was conducted through the project "Harnessing dryland legume and cereals genetic resource for food and nutrition security and resilient farming systems in Malawi and Zambia" which started in 2019, and implemented by ICRISAT, together with the Department of Agricultural Services (DARS) in Malawi, the Zambia Agricultural Research Institution (ZARI) and farmer associations with funding from the Benefit-sharing Fund.  The main objectives are to build capacity of smallholder farmers to use improved varieties for food and nutrition security to enhance resilience in production in the face of climate variability, while realizing sustained incomes among women and youth, and to improve community dialogue/farmer research network including gender mainstreaming. Activities include: practical evaluation of best technologies through demonstrations, in addition to technology and knowledge dissemination through business planning and gender training. The  main outcomes: enhanced farmers capacity of farmers to innovate and use of plant genetic resources for food and nutrition security; enhanced ownership and adoption of technologies; and enhanced equity and inclusion in the implementation of the programme. The main lesson learned is that the farmer field school approach is exemplary in the delivery of best-bet technologies whereby knowledge and skills are passed to farmers through a practical-based approach.
Dokumentation und Annotationsrichtlinien für das Korpus WroDiaCo Version 2.1
Creators: name: Wesolek, Sarah
name: Belz, Malte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Phonetic corpus
Spontaneous dialogue

description: Documentation and annotation guidelines for the Wrocław Dialogue Corpus. This phonetic corpus contains 8 sessions of 16 participants speaking Polish as native and German as a foreign language. Each session consists of a task-based spontaneous dialogue, a task-free spontaneous dialogue, and the reading of a word list.
Corrections to the Optomechanical Hamiltonian from Quadratic Fluctuations of a Moving Mirror
Creators: name: Butera, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the theory of the radiation pressure to include quadratic fluctuations in the position of a moving mirror. This enables the introduction of a generalized radiation pressure operator that captures higher-order effects in the mirror-field coupling. For mechanical resonators with frequencies comparable to the fundamental cavity frequency, the resulting corrections to the optomechanical Hamiltonian are quadratic in the standard radiation pressure coupling. These corrections are expected to play a significant role in the strong coupling regime of optomechanics, electromechanics, and superconducting circuit analogs.
description: 11 pages, one figure. Comments are welcome