cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ПАРАЛЛЕЛЬНЫЕ И РАСПРЕДЕЛЁННЫЕ АЛГОРИТМЫ
Creators: name: Косимова, Маржона
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Цель данной статьи заключается в обзоре основных принципов, технологий и применений параллельных и распределённых алгоритмов. Мы рассмотрим ключевые аспекты параллельных вычислений, такие как модели параллелизма, технологии MPI и CUDA, а также роль распределённых вычислений в контексте современных вычислительных систем. Особое внимание будет уделено примерам их применения в различных областях, от вычислительной биологии до обработки больших данных и искусственного интеллекта.
THE ENFORCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Creators: name: Page, Lisa Jane
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2000
Subjects: Legislation
Regulatory authorities
Local Environmental law

description: This is a digitised version of a thesis that was deposited in the University Library. If you are the author and you have a query about this item please contact PEARL Admin (pearladmin@plymouth.ac.uk)
description: Merged with duplicate record (10026.1/408) on 03.01.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: The control of environmentally damaging activities has become one of the most important areas for concern in recent years. The amount of legislation relating to this subject area has increased several-fold, with European Directives and domestic laws being introduced in response to pressure from a variety of avenues. Key studies on the enforcement of environmental law have been carried out. However, this work was undertaken prior to the expansion of legislative provisions at the start of the 1990s. In the light of this new legislation, new regulatory agencies, and changing public opinion, the following research aims were formulated: 1. To assess the approach to enforcement by regulatory agencies (co-operation versus confrontation). 2. To determine the extent and rate of utilisation of enforcement methods by the regulatory authorities, and the reasons for non-utilisation. 3. To determine which factors influence the strategic decision making process, and to measure the relative importance of each factor. 4. To investigate the types of enforcement policies prevalent in regulatory agencies and evaluate their varying levels of effectiveness. 5. To determine the level of consistency in the approach to enforcement within and between regulatory agencies. 6. To examine the consistency of the levels of penalties applied by the courts. 7. To suggest improvements to the system where required. The first phase of the research involved a postal questionnaire to local authorities. This was followed by structured interviews with NRA and HMIP personnel. An assessment of the consistency of the regulators' enforcement action was made through responses to a regulated community questionnaire, and an appraisal of the consistency of penalties applied by the courts was achieved by analysis of case reports. The main findings from the research were: I. Regulatory agencies, adopted a co-operative enforcement approach in the first instance, followed by more stringent action if required. 2. Most regulatory bodies did not use the full array of enforcement methods at their disposal. 3. A large variety of factors relating to the incident affects the decision making process. 4. Not all local authorities had an enforcement policy. Of those that did, a wide variation in the type of enforcement policies existed. 5. Regulators were found to be inconsistent in their enforcement practices. 6. The levels of penalties applied by the courts were also found to be inconsistent. Improvements to the system were suggested as a result of these research findings
Mapping Generic Territory: The Pedagogy and Practice of Travel Writing
Creators: name: Roberts, Zoe
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: travel writing
subject: pedagogy and practice
subject: ResM

description: This thesis engages with travel writing at two levels: pedagogically and practically. It discusses at length, the unique configuration of travel writing’s literary currencies and conventions. Primary linguistic data were collected from travel texts collated within a portfolio of the researcher’s own negotiated and sustained practice as a travel writer. Within this portfolio the researcher engaged with a variety of travel text types, including a travel blog, prose and a poem. A close reading of these portfolio texts is presented, along with the introduction of the Aim, Design, Assessment (ADA) apparatus – a tool developed to aid the analysis and understanding of travel writing for both writers and commissioning editors. The findings present the following conclusions; Travel writing’s pedagogy does inform the practice, by way of its generic currencies and their inclusion within a travel writer’s professional practice. Secondly, that the ADA apparatus is a tool that the practitioner has applied here with measurable success in changing and developing both her writing and her attention to language. Within its conclusions, the thesis reflects on the researcher’s ResM Travel Writing degree and provides suggestions of how the genre can be taught academically. It documents a set of practices that the researcher evolved to professionalise her own travel writing. This positions the work within the discipline of applied research, where the science of academic research disclosures can be recycled into the pedagogic education and professional practice of travel writing. Examining travel writing from an interdisciplinary perspective (Tourism Knowledge, Design & Literary Studies) it also contributes to the volume of new tourism knowledge and introduces travel writing’s role as a toureme conduit.
Developing Port Sustainability Awareness and Management: Systems, Processes and Planning
Creators: name: Karacay, Ridvan Anil
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sustainability
subject: Sustainability Awareness
subject: Sustainability Management Systems
subject: Port Sustainability Management Systems
subject: Port Sustainability Planning
subject: PhD

description: The Port Sustainability Management System (PSMS) is a well-known sustainability management system for smaller ports. Attempting to update and modify the PSMS for more global use, involves standardising requirements and needs and addressing certain areas where necessary. The primary aim of this thesis is to review the suitability of an existing bespoke PSMS with a view to facilitating additional applications in the port industry to enable wider perspectives for self-evaluation in terms of port size, type and governance. In addition, it aims to address the lack of a holistic approach in port sustainability management systems. The potential impact of this work is a finding that proposals to modify PSMS to suit applications globally, demand a broader perspective of sustainability management than that which suited smaller ports in the United Kingdom. Further, port self-assessments depend on their geographic location, size, type and governance type. The methodology adopted is appropriate to guide future bespoke applications of PSMS globally, which require minor modifications. These ensure reliability in terms of sustainability awareness, management, systems and processes in ports. To achieve this research aim, nine semi-structured interviews (three in the United Kingdom and six in Turkey) were conducted with selected experts. Thematic analysis is used to analyse the interviews and questionnaires allowing researchers to analyse and modify the current PSMS system. Whilst gathering data it emerged that each port has different priorities according to its size, type and governance. The results indicated that bureaucracy is a significant issue in the port industry and has negative influence on port sustainability management systems. It has been established through the interviews conducted that culture is one of the factors which needs to be considered, in order to make the PSMS a more worldwide approach to port sustainability management systems. Future research is needed to sample large sized ports around the world to update the PSMS. Secondly, it is quite important to keep the less developed countries in the equation in order to update the PSMS. The thesis was started before the Brexit negotiations that the United Kingdom has gone through, in the era of globalisation. Future research might aim to assess the influence of regionalism on the port industry specifically with regards to sustainability management systems.
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF DESTINATION MANAGEMENT ORGANISATIONS- THE CASE OF CHINA
Creators: name: Tian, Xiaoran
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Destination Management Organisation
Performance Measurement System
China tourism

description: This research investigates Destination Management Organisation (DMOs) in China, and looks at their functions and their adoption of Performance Measurement Systems (PMSs). A two-stage questionnaire survey has adopted to achieve the pre-determined aims of the research. Finally, ninety-three DMOs took part in the first stage survey and thirty-four DMOs were involved in the second stage survey. The key findings from the research are as follows. (1) Irrespective of their nature and level, Chinese DMOs attached most importance to the functions of “economic-driver”, “marketing” and “coordination & collaboration”. (2) DMOs attached a second level of importance to the functions of “operator”, “administrator”, “statistics” and “training”; however, particularly at municipality and city levels; also Chinese public DMOs paid more attention to these aspects. (3) Chinese public DMOs, particularly at provincial and city level, placed more emphasis on the functions of “regulator” and “legitimacy”. (4) Chinese higher-level public DMOs paid less attention to the function of “public awareness”, “funding” and “international relations”, however they did performed much better than non-public lower-level DMOs to these tasks. (5) Chinese governmental DMOs at higher-level, and private DMOs, were the best at adopting PMSs in their organisations. (6) The PMSs of Chinese DMOs paid greatest attention to measuring the aspects of “visitor”, “earning” and “marketing”, and medium levels of attention to the aspects of “stakeholder”, “operation” and “event”, and relatively low attention to evaluating their performance of the aspects of “employment” and “innovation” in their organisations. Finally, a refined PMS model that could be adopted by Chinese DMOs in the future was developed at the end. Based on the above findings, the refined model aimed to measure the performance of “stakeholders”, “employees” and “customers” by assessing the outcomes of the aspects of “management” and “marketing” for Chinese DMOs. The refined PMS model was developed and based on the top-down operation system that currently existed in China and was supposed to pursue every major aspect of the system for each stakeholder in the DMOs.
Employee flourishing: The application and efficacy of workplace coaching as a methodology for improving mental well-being
Creators: name: Sydenham, Alison Leigh
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mental Well-being
subject: Happiness
subject: Flourishing
subject: Coaching outcomes
subject: Coaching mediators
subject: Coaching efficacy
subject: Coaching, in the Workplace
subject: PhD

description: The literature concerning the well-being of the working age population demonstrates that being in good work supports health and mental well-being. However, there is a lack of preventative measures to facilitate this in spite of growing research into the measures and determinants of well-being. This thesis highlights the growing literature on the benefits of coaching and sought to determine the efficacy of workplace coaching as a methodology for improving mental well-being through addressing three key areas identified as gaps within the literature: Does participants’ well-being change as a result of a workplace coaching intervention; What changes to mental well-being occur as a result of workplace coaching; What are the contributing processes and causal mechanisms of workplace coaching? A critical realist, mixed methods research design was adopted which involved three phases of participants (n=47) who undertook either a coaching/training programme; workplace coaching; or no intervention (control). Analysis of the results demonstrated a significant improvement in the well-being of participants compared to the control group across a number of well-being outcomes, particularly that coaching had a direct positive influence on personal, physical and emotional well-being; resilience and self-efficacy, autonomy and engagement, and it is further suggested that there is a positive relationship between well-being and those working/ volunteering as a coach. The critical realist methodology enabled a retroductive approach to data analysis and identified the causal mechanisms of coaching. This explained that supportive challenge; listening skills; professional conversation; space; time and location of the coaching were all important factors that contributed towards well-being outcomes. The process of coaching was also identified along with the mediators of coaching (wellbeing recognition; perspective; goal clarity; resilience and self-efficacy; and motivation). Together these findings offer an explanation of the efficacy of coaching for mental well-being outcomes. Overall, the findings of this thesis make an original contribution to theory, literature and professional practice, in particular that there is a positive link between workplace coaching and mental well-being and that there are specific underlying causal mechanisms which impact on these outcomes. Two coaching models are proposed that can guide evidence-based coaching practice; these identify a coaching process that contributes to well-being outcomes, along with highlighting the underlying causal mechanisms and specified well-being outcomes that may be achieved through coaching.
Trachypithecus barbei
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus barbei

description: 13. Trachypithecus barbei (Blyth, 1847)
Common name: Tenasserim Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Distributed only in a small part of the transboundary Dawna-Tenasserim landscape between Myanmar and Thailand, and it is restricted to about 4000 km 2 on the Myanmar-Thailand border (Freund et al. 2021). In Myanmar, recorded an infant in Tanintharyi Nature Reserve in 2013 (Freund et al. 2021).
Remarks: T. germaini is commonly listed in Myanmar; however, this species is not present and its putative occurrence in Myanmar is based on the incorrect assignment of Pithecus pyrrhus atrior as a synonym of T. germaini instead of T. barbei (Roos et al. 2020). It is categorized as vulnerable by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 153, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Trachypithecus crepusculus
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus crepusculus

description: 14. Trachypithecus crepusculus (Elliot, 1909)
Common name: Indochinese Gray Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. In Myanmar, recorded in Kayin State (Mt. Muleiyit) and possibly distributed in Southern area (Roos et al. 2014).
Remarks: This taxon was formerly classified as a subspecies of T. phayrei and it is categorized as endangered by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 153, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Report on Stakeholder Forum activities
Creators: name: Lindemann, Tom
name: Häberlein,, Lisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report summarises stakeholder activities carried out as partof the ROSiE project. It starts with an overview of the role of theStakeholder Forum, its composition, and the recruitment of itsmembers. Thereafter, the report expounds the activities in whichthe entire Forum or some of its members were engaged in andpoints out how their contributions helped to shape projectoutcomes. This report aims to provide a concise summary ratherthan an extensive description of all stakeholder engagementactivities, as all major activities are elaborated and analysed indetail in other deliverables published by ROSiE. This text thereforecontains several references to other ROSiE outputs, wherereaders interested in a comprehensive analysis of the StakeholderForum's activities can find more detailed information. The finalsection of the report reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of stakeholder engagement through a permanent forum andprovides some tentative recommendations for other projects.
Trachypithecus melamerus
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus melamerus

description: 15. Trachypithecus melamerus (Elliot, 1909)
Common name: Shan State Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Southwest China and East Myanmar (Shan State between the Ayeyarwaddy and Thanlwin rivers, with the Southwestern limit probably extending into the Kayah-Karen (Kayin) Mountains; Roos et al. 2020).
Remarks: Formerly listed as T. phayrei shanicus but now elevated to a full species (Roos et al. 2020) and currently listed as endangered by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on pages 153-154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
"ВЛИЯНИЕ МЕДИКО-СОЦИАЛЬНЫХ ФАКТОРОВ НА КАЧЕСТВО ЖИЗНИ ПАЦИЕНТОВ С ИШЕМИЧЕСКОЙ БОЛЕЗНЬЮ СЕРДЦА"
Creators: name: Кадомцева, Лариса
name: Мирзакаримова, Фарида
name: Поликарпова, Наталия
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной работе рассматривается влияние медико-социальных факторов на качество жизни пациентов с ишемической болезнью сердца (ИБС). ИБС является одной из наиболее распространенных сердечно-сосудистых заболеваний, и ее последствия значительно влияют на физическое, эмоциональное и социальное благополучие пациентов. Исследование направлено на анализ таких медико-социальных факторов, как доступ к медицинскому обслуживанию, уровень образования, социальная поддержка, экономическое положение и психоэмоциональное состояние. В ходе исследования были проведены опросы и интервью с пациентами, что позволило выявить ключевые аспекты, влияющие на их качество жизни. Результаты показывают, что недостаточный доступ к медицинским услугам и низкий уровень социальной поддержки негативно сказываются на состоянии здоровья и общем качестве жизни пациентов с ИБС.
Trachypithecus obscurus
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus obscurus

description: 16. Trachypithecus obscurus (Reid, 1837)
Common name: Dusky Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Malaysia, Thailand and Southern Myanmar (Lampi Marine NP; Bisi et al. 2019 and Proposed Lenya NP; Grindley 2019).
Remarks: It is categorized as endangered by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON CSR DISCLOSURE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM ISLAMIC BANKS IN GCC COUNTRIES
Creators: name: HARUN, MOHD SHUKOR BIN
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: AAOIFI
subject: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
subject: Content Analysis
subject: Disclosure Level
subject: Determinants
subject: GCC
subject: Islamic Banks
subject: PhD

description: The main aim of this research is to analyse the CSR disclosure and examine its determinants and consequences among Islamic banks in the GCC (Gulf Countries Council). In fulfilling the research aims, annual reports of GCC Islamic banks for the period 2010- 2014 are analysed using manual content analysis, which involves 195 observations of 39 Islamic banks. The CSR disclosure index is constructed based on 11 dimensions using AAOIFI standard no 7, 2010. An ordinary least square (OLS) regression is used to examine the determinants and consequences of CSR disclosure in the sample Islamic banks. The analysis shows a very low level of CSR disclosure (39.9%) among the sample Islamic banks. Using CG (corporate governance) mechanisms to measure the determinant of CSR disclosure, this current study finds a significant positive association between CSR disclosure and the size of the boards of directors of the sample Islamic banks. It provides evidence that stronger corporate governance is associated with a higher level of CSR disclosure. This current study finds a negative significant relationship of CEO. Duality and AC Size and CSR disclosure. However, the results show no significant association between CSR disclosure and other corporate governance variables. To examine the economic consequences of CSR disclosure, the study uses three different proxies of firm value (MTBV, Market Capitalization and Tobin Q). Using market capitalization proxies, this current study finds that there is a negative significant relationship between CSR disclosure and firm value. The study did not find any significant relationship between other proxies. This current study suggests that there is a need to improve the current CSR disclosure practice in GCC Islamic banks by imposing additional constraints on the board of directors’ characteristics. The results inform the global debate on the need for corporate governance reform in Islamic banks, by providing insights on the role played by corporate governance mechanisms in encouraging and enhancing CSR disclosure practice among Islamic banks.
Yield Curves and Macro Variables Interactions and Predictions
Creators: name: Bahaa Ali, Tarek
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Yield curves, Macro variables, Principal Component Analysis, Vector Autoregressive, Impulse Response Factor, Granger Causality, Variance Decomposition, eigenvector, eigenvalues, Equity Market, Foreign Exchange Rate, Inflation, GDP, Central Bank, Policy Rate, forecast error variance, Prediction, Forecasting, Neural Networks, Multitask, Singletask, k-fold cross validation, Sigmoid, Activation function, Optimization, Gradient decent, Classifier, K-nearest neighbor, Softmax
subject: PhD

description: This research is based on the yield curves and five macro variables, namely equity indices, FX rates, central banks’ policy rates, inflation rates and the GDP growth rates, for nine different markets, from different geographical regions. Our aim was to identify common trends in yield curves and macro variables behaviors, from two perspectives: the interaction and predictive power of the variables. Firstly, we studied the interaction between yield curves and macro variables based on: Granger Causality, Impulse Response Function and Variance Decomposition. Afterwards, we predicted yield curves based on ANN Regression Multitask learning, and lastly, we predicted our five macro variables based on three different ANN Classifiers, in order to generalize and present results that are not specific to a country, or region, or model. The most persistence trend, amongst the variables, was the association between the GDP, inflation, policy rate and the Level. Based on Multitask learning, we achieved a 1-mnth average yield curves prediction accuracy of 80.2% for all yield maturities and studied markets. Additionally, we found out that increasing the hidden nodes led to overfitting the data, hence, we recommend the use of a simple neural network architecture. Furthermore, we designed a model that computes the optimum number of hidden nodes based on: the number of input/output nodes and forecasted months ahead. The Independent Variable Contribution analysis increased the weight of Slope on average for all markets. Weighted KNN caused a deterioration in the prediction accuracy of macro variables, and K of KNN increased with the horizon forecasted. In terms of predictive power of the variables, the yield curve on its own had predictive powers over long term equity markets, and the policy rate seemed to be affected by macro variables in the short term. Furthermore, the inflation and GDP were dominated by their own past values.
Trachypithecus phayrei
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus phayrei

description: 17. Trachypithecus phayrei (Blyth, 1847)
Common name: Phayre ’ s Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Southern China. In Myanmar, recorded in Kachin State (Indawgyi Wetland WS), Kayin State (Moo et al. 2017), Rakhine State (Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range WS; Cremonesi et al. 2021).
Remarks: This species is categorized as endangered by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
EXPLORING LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITHIN LIFESTYLE SPORTS
Creators: name: Wallis, Laura Kate
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Lifestyle Entrepreneurship
subject: Lifestyle Sports
subject: PhD

description: This thesis has explored the concept of lifestyle entrepreneurship within lifestyle sports. It has built on the current research and literature in the area which to date has offered only competing and simplified versions of who lifestyle entrepreneurs are, how they can be identified, and how they enact entrepreneurship. Lifestyle entrepreneurship is described as an emerging concept, which has attracted attention due to the evolving nature of work and employment rolls. The context in which entrepreneurship is enacted is an important aspect of understanding the who lifestyle entrepreneurs are and how they can be identified. Lifestyle sports was selected as the context in which to examine this group of entrepreneurs; this is an emerging sub-section of the sport context which is categorised by masculine hegemony and rejection of rules and regulations associated with traditional sport. Lifestyle sports are categorised as alternative to mainstream activities, and are said to have more lifestyle focus for the participants. With their shared use of the term ‘lifestyle’ these two concepts have apparent connections, and the influence of context in which the entrepreneurs’ were embedded was observed to be a key feature towards understanding. The aim of this thesis was to explore the notion of lifestyle entrepreneurship within lifestyle sports. It aimed to address the complex issues of identification of lifestyle entrepreneurs, how they negotiate their work and lifestyles, and what this results in for entrepreneurial practice. The thesis took a mixed methods approach to the collection of data, through a pragmatic paradigm that took a grounded theory approach to developing a new conceptual framework. A questionnaire (n=80) and semi structured interviews (n=21) explored how lifestyle entrepreneurship emerges, and focussed on the ‘becoming’ of the lifestyle entrepreneur, and the interplay of lifestyle, sport, and work. The thesis has contributed to the field of research by firstly providing a more robust approach to identifying who lifestyle entrepreneurs are, and how they can be identified. Secondly, this research has recognised the key contributions to the entrepreneurs’ decision making and lifestyle orientation, which has impacted on the types of lifestyle entrepreneurs that can exist. Further understanding this emerging group of entrepreneurs supports the ongoing theoretical interpretation, and develops current thinking on this topic.
Trachypithecus pileatus
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus pileatus

description: 18. Trachypithecus pileatus (Blyth, 1843)
Common name: Capped Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Northwestern Myanmar (Hukaung Valley WS; Naing et al. 2015 and possibly distributed in West of the Chindwin River).
Remarks: It is categorized as vulnerable by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Trachypithecus popa Roos, Helgen, Miguez, Thant, Lwin, A. K. Lin, A. Lin, Yi, Soe, Hein, Myint, Ahmed, Chetry, Urh, Veatch, Duncan, Kamminga, Chua, Yao, Matauschek, Meyer, Liu, Li, Nadler, Fan, Quyet, Hofreiter, Zinner and Momberg 2020
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus popa

description: 19. Trachypithecus popa Roos, Helgen, Miguez, Thant, Lwin, A. K. Lin, A. Lin, Yi, Soe, Hein, Myint, Ahmed, Chetry, Urh, Veatch, Duncan, Kamminga, Chua, Yao, Matauschek, Meyer, Liu, Li, Nadler, Fan, Quyet, Hofreiter, Zinner and Momberg, 2020
Common name: Popa Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Only occur in Myanmar; between the Ayeyarwaddy and Thanlwin Rivers in the Central Dry Zone (Mount Popa, Bago Yoma, Myogyi Monastery, PanlaungPyadalin Cave Wildlife Sanctuary, and Mount Yathae Pya) and into the western foothills of the Kayah-Karen (Kayin) Mountains (Roos et al. 2020).
Remarks: This is a recently discovered new primate species which is endemic to Myanmar (Roos et al. 2020). It is categorized as critically endangered by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Trachypithecus shortridgei
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Cercopithecidae
Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus shortridgei

description: 20. Trachypithecus shortridgei (Wroughton, 1915)
Common name: Shortridge ’ s Langur
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China and Northern Myanmar (Madwalrazi, Proposed Imawbum NP, Hponkanrazi, Htamanthi and Indawgyi Wetland WS).
Remarks: It is categorized as endangered by the IUCN.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Hoolock hoolock
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Hylobatidae
Hoolock
Hoolock hoolock

description: 21. Hoolock hoolock (Harlan, 1834)
Common name: Western Hoolock Gibbon
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Bangladesh, India and Western Myanmar (Southern Rakhine Mountain Ranges and West of the Chindwin River; Freund et al. 2021).
Remarks: Formerly considered conspecific with H. leuconedys and the Myanmar species is considered as H. h. hoolock (Roos et al. 2014).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
FACTORS IMPACTING THE ADOPTION IN SAUDI ARABIA OF E-GOVERNMENT, INVESTIGATED WITH THE USE OF FUZZY SET QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND PLS PATH MODELLING
Creators: name: Almamy, Ahmed
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: fsQCA
subject: Saudi Arabia
subject: PhD

description: The rate of citizens’ adoption of e-government (e-gov) is one of the prime indicators of the successful implementation of an e-gov system. An in-depth review of the existing e-gov adoption literature revealed that few studies had investigated e-gov generally in less advanced nations, especially in the context of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This study therefore aims to conduct an investigation into the adoption of e-gov and the factors that impact it from the citizens’ perspective. An adoption model that integrates the Technology Acceptance model (TAM), Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI), the Trust model, and the cultural dimension (Uncertainty Avoidance) were proposed and validated. The study is conducted deductively and the model was quantitatively validated by surveying 630 citizens of KSA. The data was analysed by employing two statistical packages, Warp Partial Least Square “WarpPLS” and Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis “fsQCA”. The findings of the study were that trust toward technology, trust toward government, relative advantages and perception of ease of use are significant antecedents of citizens’ trust toward relation to e-gov webpages. Furthermore, trust toward e-gov webpages, social influences, relative advantages, compatibility and complexity significantly affect citizens’ intentions to adopt e-gov. Interestingly, the findings of fsQCA, revealed no single variable strengthened citizens’ intention, but that a combination of variables did so. The study presents three configurations are that were shared by 82%, 74% and 18% of citizens respectively. The findings of this research contribute theoretically by developing an e-gov adoption model that investigates factors from TAM, DOI, and Trust, with culture as a moderator. They also contribute methodologically by utilising fsQCA to investigate the combined influence and the interdependent relationships between those factors and to provide different configurations of the factors given. The study also proposes practical managerial suggestions that could be considered as a guide to e-gov enhancement and promotion in KSA. Lastly, the limitations and the direction of further research are indicated.
Fossombronia pusilla Nees 1838
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Fossombroniales
Fossombroniaceae
Fossombronia
Fossombronia pusilla

description: Jungermannia pusilla Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1136. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae rupibus, ericetis humentibus." RCN: 8138.
 Lectotype (Isoviita in Acta Bot. Fenn. 89: 22. 1970): [icon] " Lichenastrum exiguum, capitulis nigris lucidis, e cotylis parvis nascentibus " in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 513, t. 74, f. 46. 1741. - Voucher: Herb. Dillenius (OXF). - Epitype (Stotler & Crandall-Stotler in J. Bryol. 27: 73, f. 1D, E, F. 2005): Herb. Dillenius [sheet] CLXIII, n. 46. L. exiguum, capitulis nigris lucidis, etc., as Jungermannia pusilla (OXF).
 Current name:  Fossombronia pusilla  (L.) Nees (Codoniaceae).
 Note: See Stotler & Crandall-Stotler (in J. Bryol. 27: 71-73. 2005) who provide a detailed analysis of the typification of this name, reproducing the protologue (f. 1A) and, like Isoviita, treat the Dillenius plate (illustrated as f. 1C) as the lectotype. They also designate an epitype from the Dillenian herbarium, illustrating it (f. 1D, E) and reproducing an SEM image of a spore taken from it.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), pp. 599-607 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 603, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Hoolock leuconedys
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Hylobatidae
Hoolock
Hoolock leuconedys

description: 22. Hoolock leuconedys (Groves, 1967)
Common name: Eastern Hoolock Gibbon
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, India and Northern Myanmar (Hkakaborazi Landscape recorded by vocalization; Lwin et al. 2021, Proposed Imawbum NP; Nijman 2015, Hukaung Valley, Indawgyi Wetland, Htamanthi and Proposed Mahamyaing WS; Brockelman et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 154, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Lepidozia reptans Dumort.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Jungermanniales
Lepidoziaceae
Lepidozia
Lepidozia reptans

description: Jungermannia reptans Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1133. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae Ericetis udis." RCN: 8121.
 Lectotype (Isoviita in Acta Bot. Fenn. 89: 19. 1970): [icon] " Lichenastrum multifidum exiguum, ad basim florens, per siccitatem imbricatum" in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 494, t. 71, f. 24. 1741. - Voucher: Herb. Dillenius (OXF).
 Current name:  Lepidozia reptans  (L.) Dumort. (Lepidoziaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), pp. 599-607 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 604, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
MPEC 2024-L135 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 June 14)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Hoolock tianxing Fan, He, Chen, Ortiz, B. Zhang, Zhao, Lio
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Hylobatidae
Hoolock
Hoolock tianxing

description: 23. Hoolock tianxing Fan, He, Chen, Ortiz, B. Zhang, Zhao, Lio, H-B. Zhang, Kimock, Wang, Groves, Turvey, Roos, Helgen and Jiang, 2017
Common name: Skywalker Hoolock Gibbon, Gaoligong Hoolock Gibbon
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Distributed between the Irrawaddy-Nmai Hka River and the Salween River in China and Myanmar. Historical museum specimens are also known from further south at Gokteik, Shan State, northern Myanmar (Fan et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on pages 154-155, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Hylobates lar
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Hylobatidae
Hylobates
Hylobates lar

description: 24. Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771)
Common name: Lar Gibbon, White-handed Gibbon Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand. In Myanmar, recorded in Dawna-Tenasserim landscape (Tanintharyi Nature Reserve), Shan State and possibly in Mandalay Region (Shweudaung WS).
Remarks: There are five recognized subspecies and Myanmar has two subspecies: H. l. carpenter which distributed in Eastern and H. l. entelloides in Southern Myanmar (Roos et al. 2014).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 155, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
THE ROLE OF UNDERLYING MECHANISMS IN ACHIEVING CONSISTENT HYBRID COMBINATIONS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
Creators: name: Zellner, Michael
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Hybrid strategies
Competitive advantages
Strategy mechanisms

description: This thesis takes a step beyond the current discussion on hybrid competitive strategies (HS) by identifying the underlying mechanisms and common elements of successful hybrid strategies. Reviewing empirical and theoretical literature revealed a significant gap in this respect. Therefore, the activity-based view of strategy is introduced to the discussion on HS. In a first step, four consistent and sustainable HS concepts are developed providing the basis for deriving specific HS models. A second step identifies commonalities among these HS types and theoretically derives a synthesized, common HS model. Thirdly, the critical realist stance was selected for answering this thesis’ research questions addressing consistent HS concepts, implementations, common activities achieving external and internal fit, as well as common capabilities and resources supporting these activities. In a case study approach, semi-structured, open ended interviews combining appreciative and laddering methods are conducted with twelve interviewees from five firms. The separate analysis of ladder elements and ladders allowed distinguishing constitutional from relational elements. Based on this, fourth, an empirically revised research construct is substantiated. This research finds HS firms applying intended and consistent, but mixed strategy concepts based on generating high customer benefits through combining competitive weapons of differentiation and price or total customer cost. Moreover, HS concepts centre on three strategic building blocks: customer centricity, fulfilment of customer needs and employee orientation. Additionally, the research indicates that firms apply activities primarily for achieving fit. While all firms combine both views, no activities are directed to both fit types simultaneously. Activities deploy capabilities and resources in general on two adaptive and two absorptive mechanisms. Several practical implications derive from this thesis. First, firms can apply the synthesized model as a kind of ‘blueprint’ providing orientation for how to combine competitive advantages. Second, policy makers can apply the outcomes as principles steering firms or industries to ‘higher’ levels of performance. Last, firm managers can adapt their own as well as their firm’s behaviour accordingly.
Scapania compacta Dumort.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Jungermanniales
Scapaniaceae
Scapania
Scapania compacta

description: Jungermannia resupinata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1132. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae rupibus." RCN: 8118b.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 491, t. 71, f. 19. 1741.
 Current name:  Scapania compacta  (Roth) Dumort. (Scapaniaceae).
 Note: Although Isoviita (in Acta Bot. Fenn. 89: 18. 1970) referred to the cited Dillenian figure as "probably the lectotype ", he also treated the name as ambiguous, following e.g. Evans (in Rhodora 8: 42. 1906). Scapania compacta (Roth) Dumort. has sometimes been taken up in its place but no formal rejection proposal for J. resupinata appears to have been made.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), pp. 599-607 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 604, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Andreaea undetermined
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Andreaeopsida
Andreaeales
Andreaeaceae
Andreaea
Andreaea undetermined

description: Jungermannia rupestris Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1135. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae frigidis rupibus humentibus." RCN: 8130.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 507, t. 73, f. 40. 1741.
 Current name:  Andreaea sp.  (Andreaeaceae).
 Note: The application of this name is uncertain, but it seems likely that it applies to a member of the Musci, in which case it would be a pre-Starting Point name, and of no nomenclatural significance.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), pp. 599-607 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 604, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Ochotona forresti Thomas 1923
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Lagomorpha
Ochotonidae
Ochotona
Ochotona forresti

description: 25. Ochotona forresti Thomas, 1923
Common name: Forrest ’ s Pika
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Bhutan, China, India and Northern Myanmar (West of the Nmaikha River, Kachin State; Lissovsky 2014).
Remarks: This species was described as a subspecies of O. pusilla in “ Wild Mammals of Myanmar ” (Tun Yin 1993).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 155, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Frullania tamarisci Dumort.
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Porellales
Frullaniaceae
Frullania
Frullania tamarisci

description: Jungermannia tamarisci Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1134. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae ad truncos arborum, rupes." RCN: 8125.
 Replaced synonym of: Jungermannia tamariscifolia L. (1755), nom. illeg.
 Lectotype (Stotler in Taxon 17: 637. 1968): Herb. Linn. No. 1267.24 (LINN).
 Current name:  Frullania tamarisci  (L.) Dumort. (Frullaniaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), pp. 599-607 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 604, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971