cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lessons and current Challenges for Urban Sociologists. A Conversation with Robert J. Sampson
Creators: name: Morelli, Niccolò
name: Sampson, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sampson; neighborhood effects; urban sociology; social structure of the city

description: In this interview, Robert J. Sampson discusses main lessons and current challenges for urban sociologists, starting from his personal experience and perspective. The interview recaps his important works on factors and events that can determine criminal behavior, the important Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, that he led with his innovative theories and empirical results on violence, race and ethnic segregation, inequality, order and disorder in urban environments, and the shifting structure of community network. The interview also reflects on the process and encounters that led him to the formulation of a theory of race, crime and urban inequality with William J. Wilson (1995). Our discussion spanned over areas of research interests of Professor Sampson, including crime, disorder, life course, civic engagement, inequality, "ecometrics," and the social structure of the city, with particular attention to neighborhood effects. Finally, the interview deals with current challenges for urban sociologists, focusing on two main problems: poor quality of data and limit of funding.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
German regional variation of acute and high oral corticosteroid use for asthma
Creators: name: Nan, Cassandra
name: Schmidt, Olaf
name: Lindner, Robert
name: Ilgin, Yasemin
name: Schultz, Thomas
name: Gylvin, Lykke Hinsch
name: Bleecker, Eugene R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To improve understanding of real-world asthma treatment and inform physician education, we evaluated regional variation in asthma prevalence and oral corticosteroid (OCS) use across Germany. We developed a machine learning gradient-boosted tree model with IMS® Disease Analyzer electronic medical records, which cover 3% of German patients. This model had a 91% accuracy in predicting the presence of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We applied the model to the IMS® Longitudinal Prescription database, with 82% national coverage, to classify patients receiving treatment for airflow obstruction from October 2017–September 2018 in 63 regions in Germany. Of 2.4 million individuals under statutory health insurance predicted to have asthma, 13.7%, 18.7%, 36.5%, 29.4%, and 1.7% received treatment classified as Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Steps 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively. Approximately 7–15% of those at GINA Steps 1–4 and 35% at Step 5 treatment received ≥1 acute OCS prescription (duration <10 days). Of patients receiving GINA Steps 1–4 and Step 5 treatments, 1–3% and 86%, respectively, received ≥1 high-dosage OCS prescription. Cumulative OCS dosage and percentages of patients receiving OCS differed substantially across regions, and regions with lower OCS use had greater use of biologic therapies. Both acute and high OCS use varied regionally across Germany, with overall use suggesting patients are considerable risk of adverse effects and long-term health consequences. Supplemental data for this article can be accessed at publisher’s website.
IS THE EUROPEAN MIGRANT CRISIS ANOTHER STAGE OF HYBRID WAR?
Creators: name: Punda, Yurii
name: Shevchuk, Vitalii
name: Veebel, Viljar
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: This article provides an overview of the roots of large-scale migration flows to the European Union (EU) during the past ten years. In addition, the article also explores the potential link between such migration flows and modern hybrid warfare, characterised by the coordination of various types of warfare (i.e. military and non-military means, conventional and non-conventional capabilities, state and non-state actors, etc.), all employed with an aim to cause instability and disorder. In the 2010s, the migration flows to EU countries increased significantly, particularly from the conflict areas in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as well as from Albania, Kosovo and Ukraine. The analysis focuses on the question of whether the increase in migration flows could be linked to the ongoing confrontation between Russia and the West. Specifically, the article focuses on two particular cases: Syria and Ukraine. The article explores the commonalities of the resulting migration flows to the EU and proposes policy recommendations for reducing the negative impact of such events in the future.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 13 (2019)
Supplementary Data from Travelling beyond time: Shared brain system for self-projection in the temporal, political, and moral domains
Creators: name: Dafni-Merom, Amnon
name: Monsa, Rotem
name: Benbaji, Meitar
name: Klein, Adi
name: Arzy, Shahar
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: royal_soc_supplementary_methods.docx
The Empirical Investigation of Non-Linear Dynamics in the Social World. Ontology, Methodology and Data
Creators: name: Room, Graham
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Non-linear dynamics; co-evolving systems; autocatalytic sets; patents and technological innovation; contingent historical change

description: Across much of social science, linear models hold sway, but they have significant limitations. This article makes the case for studying social processes as co-evolving systems, involving non-linear dynamics. Co-evolution of species in the natural world is a blind process. In the social world in contrast, purposeful interventions by social actors are omnipresent, in their struggles for positional advantage. The article brings together co-evolving networks and purposeful social action in the "Contingent Historical Model". We seek to apply this model in ways that engage with both scholarly and policy concerns. If such investigations are to be fruitful, they must not only be elaborated theoretically, they must also be applied to empirical datasets. This article considers how this can be done, with what sorts of data sets and what forms of data analysis. It takes as its specific example the international datasets on patents, as revealing processes and patterns of technological innovation. It shows how such an approach can illuminate scholarly debates and develop indicators for policy makers. Finally, it offers an agenda for research into dynamic co-evolving systems across other empirical areas.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Geodromicus lebedevianus Roubal 1929
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Geodromicus
Geodromicus lebedevianus

description: Geodromicus lebedevianus Roubal, 1929
Geodromicus lebedevianus Roubal, 1929: 46.
Geodromicus (s.str.) lebedevianus: Shavrin 2022a: 475.
Material examined. KYRGYZSTAN: NARYN: 1 ♂: N Kalmak-Ashuu (pass). 3400 m a.s.l. 31.07.2009. W. Schawaller leg. (SMNS); OSH: 1 ♀: Lailak District, Sarken-Gush rivers. 2100 m a.s.l. 09.06.1996. A. Puchkov leg. (NMW).
Remarks. Geodromicus lebedevianus is known from several localities in Kyrgyzstan.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2025, New species and records of Omaliinae MacLeay, 1925 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the eastern Palaearctic region, pp. 157-168 in Zootaxa 5601 (1) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/14980663
Times, Noise and Institutional Complexity. A Comment on Graham Room’s Essay on the “Contingent Historical Model” of Social Dynamics
Creators: name: Squazzoni, Flaminio
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: institutional change; complexity; social evolution; time; noise

description: This comment on the essay “The Empirical Investigation of Non-Linear Dynamics in the Social World. Ontology, Methodology and Data”, by Graham Room, focuses on the challenge of understanding institutional change in complex social systems. It discusses the evolutionary foundations of Room’s “Contingent Historical Model” by questioning the bio-social divide on selection mechanisms. It concentrates on Room’s concept of temporalities of institutional change and discusses the role of noise.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Introduction to Otto Neurath’s “Bourgeois Marxism” (1930) and “Worldview and Marxism” (1931)
Creators: name: Scott, Alan
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Austro-Marxism; Karl Mannheim; logical empiricism; Marxist vs. bourgeois sociology; Otto Neurath

description: We are publishing two short pieces by Otto Neurath, a key figures in the Vienna Circle of logical empiricists, but also a social scientist close to the milieu of Austro-Marxism: "Bourgeois Marxism. A review essay on Karl Mannheim, Ideologie und Utopie" (Der Kampf, 1930) and "Worldview and Marxism" (Der Kampf, 1931). The translations are preceded by the editor's/translator's introduction. Neither piece seems to have been previously translated. The critique of Mannheim will be of particular interest to sociologists as it represents a trenchant response to Ideology and Utopia. For Neurath, Mannheim appropriates Marxist ideas for "bourgeois sociology" and metaphysics. The second piece presents a brief non-technical account of the logical empiricist interpretation of Marxism from which Neurath's critique is launched.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
INSIGHTS INTO THE IDEOLOGICAL CORE AND POLITICAL PILLARS OF ISIS
Creators: name: Sazonov, Vladimir
name: Ploom, Illimar
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: This article1 focuses specifically on the ideological core2 of ISIS3 and strives to explain it by showing that ISIS’s ideological core is rooted not merely in extreme Islamist views, such as radical Salafism and Jihadism4 or specifically Salafi Jihadism5 and Wahhabism, but they have also borrowed from certain elements of Arab nationalism. What is more, they have managed to skilfully design effective online information campaigns targeting different audiences. Finally, it must be borne in mind that there are also certain political facets in Islamic fundamentalism that cannot be overlooked. Those political facets, in turn, come with the inter-cultural historical dimension, whereby the changes within an specific religion should be seen in the context of wider cultural and socio-political changes and pressures.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 13 (2019)
Level of education and asthma control in adult-onset asthma
Creators: name: Ilmarinen, Pinja
name: Stridsman, Caroline
name: Bashir, Muwada
name: Tuomisto, Leena E.
name: Vähätalo, Iida
name: Goksör, Emma
name: Kankaanranta, Hannu
name: Backman, Helena
name: Langhammer, Arnulf
name: Piirilä, Päivi
name: Rönmark, Eva
name: Lundbäck, Bo
name: Nwaru, Bright I.
name: Wennergren, Göran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Education in itself and as a proxy for socioeconomic status, may influence asthma control, but remains poorly studied in adult-onset asthma. Our aim was to study the association between the level of education and asthma control in adult-onset asthma. Subjects with current asthma with onset >15 years were examined within the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden study (OLIN, n = 593), Seinäjoki Adult Asthma Study (SAAS, n = 200), and West Sweden Asthma Study (WSAS, n = 301) in 2009–2014 in a cross-sectional setting. Educational level was classified as primary, secondary and tertiary. Uncontrolled asthma was defined as Asthma Control Test (ACT) score ≤19. Altogether, 896 subjects with complete data on ACT and education were included (OLIN n = 511, SAAS n = 200 and WSAS n = 185). In each cohort and in pooled data of all cohorts, median ACT score was lower among those with primary education than in those with secondary and tertiary education. Uncontrolled asthma was most common among those with primary education, especially among daily ICS users (42.6% primary, 28.6% secondary and 24.2% tertiary; p = 0.001). In adjusted analysis, primary education was associated with uncontrolled asthma in daily ICS users (OR 1.92, 95% CI 1.15–3.20). When stratified by atopy, the association between primary education and uncontrolled asthma was seen in non-atopic (OR 3.42, 95% CI 1.30–8.96) but not in atopic subjects. In high-income Nordic countries, lower educational level was a risk factor for uncontrolled asthma in subjects with adult-onset asthma. Educational level should be considered in the management of adult-onset asthma.
THE SECOND “ARAB BELT” IN SYRIA IN THE MAKING?
Creators: name: Hanso, Hille
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: The war in Syria has reached a new phase, which has turned international focus towards the Kurdish minority and its ambitions to autonomously govern the Kurdish populated areas of Syria. The Kurdish empowerment and the rise of the PYD (Democratic Union Party), closely related to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), in the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State has resulted in the counter-mobilisation by Damascus and Ankara, the latter of which, in addition to its military incursion, is pushing to relocate millions of Syrian war refugees who have found shelter on Turkish soil back to Syria, more specifically to the envisioned “safe zone” in the border regions. Could this be a revival of the so-called Arab Belt plan of the 1960s and 70s, which aimed at dividing the Kurdish communities in the region?
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 13 (2019)
THE POLITICO-MILITARY ASPECTS OF RUSSIAN ENGAGEMENT IN THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR
Creators: name: Sliwa, Zdzislaw
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: The Civil War that erupted in Syria in 2011 has become a critical conflict in the Middle East, leading to the political and military involvement of the Russian Federation, the U.S., Turkey and other regional powers. Russia’s direct engagement against the opposition fighting the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has proved to be a game-changer, contributing to the fight against extremist movements, namely ISIS and other similar organizations. The conflict has highlighted the confrontation of interests among the nations involved (especially Russia and the U.S.) and the Russian desire to be recognized again as a global player. For the Russian armed forces, it has provided an opportunity to train its soldiers in combat and to test weapon systems in the conditions of real warfare. With its involvement in Syria, Russia has also gained access to the Mediterranean and the opportunity to extend the reach of its anti-access/area denial weapons systems and to verify the effectiveness of various war tactics and procedures still under development.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 13 (2019)
Bourgeois Marxism. A Review Essay on Karl Mannheim, Ideologie und Utopie (original edition in 1930, translated from German by Alan Scott)
Creators: name: Neurath, Otto
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020

description: This essay by Otto Neurath, titled "Bourgeois Marxism," is a review essay on Karl Mannheim's Ideologie und Utopie. It was originally published in 1930, and has been translated for the first time from German by Alan Scott.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Systemic Integration and the Need for De-Integration in Pandemic Times
Creators: name: Esposito, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Social Integration; Systemic Integration; Pandemic; Inclusion/Exclusion; Systems Theory; Globalization; Differentiation of Society

description: The condition of social isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic makes most of us aware of the value of sociality – which we now lack. But society is not only sociality, and in the current emergency we perceive it as global interconnectedness that makes the crisis spread from one geographical area to another and between different fields of society. The common response to a global emergency is a call for coordination – the idea that we should “tighten up.” In sociology, this reference to unity and coordination is discussed as integration. The paper argues, referring to systems theory, that the problem of our functionally differentiated society is not lack of integration, but rather an excess of integration. When there are difficulties in one area of society, all others are forced to make serious adjustments. In dealing with threats that come from the environment, the opportunities for rationality in society lie in the maintenance and exploitation of differences, not in their elimination. This hypotheses is discussed dealing with integration on three levels: 1) the consequences of the emergency on the relationships between different fields (or functional subsystems) of society: systemic integration; 2) the effects of the pandemic on the conditions of inclusion and exclusion of individuals in society: social integration; 3) the spread of the emergency in all regions of the world and the consequences for globalization: geographical integration.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Supplementary Material from Global analysis of acoustic frequency characteristics in birds
Creators: name: Sagar, H S Sathya Chandra
name: Anand, Akash
name: Persche, Maia E
name: Pidgeon, Anna
name: Zuckerberg, Benjamin
name: Sekercioglu, Cagan H
name: Burivalova, Zuzana
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Sagara_etal_PRS-B_SI.pdf
A Reply to Flaminio Squazzoni's Comment
Creators: name: Room, Graham
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Non-linear dynamics; co-evolving systems; autocatalytic sets; patents and technological innovation; contingent historical change

description: Graham Room's reply to Flaminio Squazzoni's comment on his essay "The Empirical Investigation of Non-Linear Dynamics in the Social World. Ontology, Methodology and Data", published in Sociologica, 14(1), 2020.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
RUSSIA’S PURSUIT OF POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST: CONTEXT, STRATEGY AND METHODS
Creators: name: Ploom, Illimar
name: Sazonov, Vladimir
name: Veebel, Viljar
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: The Russian Federation has managed to take the world by surprise: first, by conducting a successful rescue operation in support of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, and second, by having become an indispensable power broker in the wider Middle Eastern region.1 As far as Syria is concerned, by the end of 2019, Assad’s regime had effectively been saved by Russia’s political and military support in the form of its direct intervention in the Syrian Civil War2. Russia’s decisive action in this situation enhanced its Status throughout the Middle East region. This article aims to ascertain to what extent has Russia’s conduct merely taken advantage of the vacuum left by the U.S. and the West, and to what extent can it be considered a premeditated and carefully considered plan that fits within Russia’s wider strategic objectives.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 13 (2019)
Macronutrients, vitamins and minerals intake and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a case-control study in Iran
Creators: name: Jessri, Mahsa
name: Rashidkhani, Bahram
name: Hajizadeh, Bahareh
name: Jessri, Maryam
name: Gotay, Carolyn C., 1951-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Although Iran is a high-risk region for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), dietary factors that may contribute to this high incidence have not been thoroughly studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of macronutrients, vitamins and minerals on the risk of ESCC. Methods: In this hospital-based case-control study, 47 cases with incident ESCC and 96 controls were interviewed and usual dietary intakes were collected using a validated food frequency questionnaire. Data were modeled through unconditional multiple logistic regression to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI), controlling for age, sex, gastrointestinal reflux, body mass index, smoking history (status, intensity and duration), physical activity, and education. Results: ESCC cases consumed significantly more hot foods and beverages and fried and barbecued meals, compared to the controls (p < 0.05). After adjusting for potential confounders, the risk of ESCC increased significantly in the highest tertiles of saturated fat [OR:2.88,95%CI:1.15-3.08], cholesterol [OR:1.53, 95%CI: 1.41-4.13], discretionary calorie [OR:1.51, 95%CI: 1.06-3.84], sodium [OR:1.49,95%CI:1.12-2.89] and total fat intakes [OR:1.48, 95%CI:1.09-3.04]. In contrast, being in the highest tertile of carbohydrate, dietary fiber and (n-3) fatty acid intake reduced the ESCC risk by 78%, 71% and 68%, respectively. The most cancer-protective effect was observed for the combination of high folate and vitamin E intakes (OR: 0.02, 95%CI: 0.00-0.87; p < 0.001). Controls consumed 623.5 times higher selenium, 5.48 times as much β-carotene and 1.98 times as much α-tocopherol as the amount ESCC cases consumed. Conclusion: This study suggests that high intake of nutrients primarily found in plant-based foods is associated with a reduced esophageal cancer risk. Some nutrients such as folate, vitamin E and selenium might play major roles in the etiology of ESCC and their status may eventually be used as an epidemiological marker for esophageal cancer in Iran, and perhaps other high-risk regions.
Geodromicus paramerus Shavrin 2000
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Geodromicus
Geodromicus paramerus

description: Geodromicus paramerus Shavrin, 2000
Geodromicus paramerus Shavrin, 2000: 87 [pars]; Cheng et al. 2020: 150, Shavrin 2022a: 494.
Material examined. CHINA: GANSU: 1 ♂: Lianhuashan. 2800–2900 m a.s.l. 23.07.– 01.08.2007. J. Martens leg. (SMNS); HUBEI: 3 ♀♀: Dashenongjia Mts., 31°5´N 110°3´E. 2100–2900 m a.s.l. 10– 14.08.2002. J. Turna leg. (NMW).
Remarks. Geodromicus paramerus is widely distributed in the eastern Palaearctic region and known from eastern Siberia and China.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2025, New species and records of Omaliinae MacLeay, 1925 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the eastern Palaearctic region, pp. 157-168 in Zootaxa 5601 (1) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/14980663
KAITSEVÄE AKADEEMIA ÕPPEJÕUDUDE ARVAMUSED PROJEKTI „VILISTLASE VARI“ MÕJU KOHTA ENDA PROFESSIONAALSELE ARENGULE
Creators: name: Ganina, Svetlana
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: The article provides an overview and an analysis of action research conducted in the framework of the alumni shadowing project implemented at the Estonian Military Academy (EMA). Participation in the alumni shadowing project provided an opportunity for the EMA’s faculty members to gain insights into the actual professional duties of EMA alumni by way of direct communication and on-site visits. Interviews with participating EMA faculty members and notes from the journal of the project’s coordinator were used as primary input data. For the purposes of this research, alumni were defi ned as students who had recently graduated from the EMA, and who had gone into active service with the Estonian Defence Forces after graduation. This article provides an overview of research conducted in the framework of this project that focused on the following three research questions: 1) How do faculty members define their professional development? 2) How do faculty members describe the effects of participating in the alumni shadowing project on their professional development? 3) What were the problems encountered by the faculty in the course of this project? The research indicates that the EMA’s teaching staff needs to gain a better understanding of the organisation’s perspective regarding their professional development, enabling them to plan their development more effi ciently in the long run. The results showed that participation in the alumni shadowing project increased awareness among the teaching staff regarding the actual service duties performed by EMA alumni, providing an impetus to revisit and review the contents and methodology of the courses they teach at the EMA. Furthermore, results indicate that the faculty members found that participation in this type of project provides an invaluable opportunity to support their professional development in the areas of specialised professional knowledge and teaching methodology. Therefore, we can conclude that participation in this type of alumni shadowing project could support the professional development of the teaching staff . However, this process seems to be effective only if faculty members understand the process of their professional development and how it affects the larger organisation. Alumni shadowing seems to be especially benefi cial if the teaching staff and the alumni who take part in such programmes have a clear shared understanding of their respective roles. Other contributing factors to the success of the project seem to be the establishment of mutual trust between the pairedup teacher and the alumnus, as well as the formulation of detailed professional development strategies for each member of the organisation’s faculty.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 12 (2019)
Geodromicus paramerus Shavrin 2000
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Geodromicus
Geodromicus paramerus

description: Geodromicus (s.str.) paramerus Shavrin, 2000
Geodromicus paramerus Shavrin, 2000: 87; Cheng et al. 2020: 150
Material examined. CHINA: GANSU: 1 ♂: Dalija Shan, 46 km W Linxia, 2980 m a.s.l., near small river in a pasture formation under quite close to the water, from soaking wet moss. 10.07.1994. A. Smetana leg. (MHNG).
Remarks. The species is known from Russia (Eastern Siberia, Buryatia) and China (Cheng et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2022, The bodemeyeri and the convexicollis species groups of the genus Geodromicus Redtenbacher, 1857, and additional taxonomic and faunistic data for some species of the Eastern Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), pp. 451-496 in Zootaxa 5213 (5) on page 494, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7381607
Geodromicus sibiricus Bernhauer 1915
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Geodromicus
Geodromicus sibiricus

description: Geodromicus sibiricus Bernhauer, 1915
Geodromicus sibiricus Bernhauer, 1915: 69.
For other references see Cheng et al. 2020: 159 and Shavrin 2022a.
Material examined. CHINA: HEBEI: 1 ♂: Mongol pass Chengde-Chifeng, 41°6´N 118°2´E. 30– 31.05.2002. J. Turna leg. (NMW).
Remarks. Geodromicus sibiricus is widely distributed in the eastern Palaearctic region and known from Siberia, Far Eastern Russia, north-eastern China and Korea.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2025, New species and records of Omaliinae MacLeay, 1925 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the eastern Palaearctic region, pp. 157-168 in Zootaxa 5601 (1) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/14980663
Proximity of public elementary schools to major roads in Canadian urban areas
Creators: name: Amram, Ofer
name: Abernethy, Rebecca
name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
name: Davies, Hugh, 1957-
name: Allen, Ryan W.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Epidemiologic studies have linked exposure to traffic-generated air and noise pollution with a wide range of adverse health effects in children. Children spend a large portion of time at school, and both air pollution and noise are elevated in close proximity to roads, so school location may be an important determinant of exposure. No studies have yet examined the proximity of schools to major roads in Canadian cities. Methods: Data on public elementary schools in Canada's 10 most populous cities were obtained from online databases. School addresses were geocoded and proximity to the nearest major road, defined using a standardized national road classification scheme, was calculated for each school. Based on measurements of nitrogen oxide concentrations, ultrafine particle counts, and noise levels in three Canadian cities we conservatively defined distances < 75 m from major roads as the zone of primary interest. Census data at the city and neighborhood levels were used to evaluate relationships between school proximity to major roads, urban density, and indicators of socioeconomic status. Results: Addresses were obtained for 1,556 public elementary schools, 95% of which were successfully geocoded. Across all 10 cities, 16.3% of schools were located within 75 m of a major road, with wide variability between cities. Schools in neighborhoods with higher median income were less likely to be near major roads (OR per $20,000 increase: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.65, 1.00), while schools in densely populated neighborhoods were more frequently close to major roads (OR per 1,000 dwellings/km2: 1.07; 95% CI: 1.00, 1.16). Over 22% of schools in the lowest neighborhood income quintile were close to major roads, compared to 13% of schools in the highest income quintile. Conclusions: A substantial fraction of students at public elementary schools in Canada, particularly students attending schools in low income neighborhoods, may be exposed to elevated levels of air pollution and noise while at school. As a result, the locations of schools may negatively impact the healthy development and academic performance of a large number of Canadian children.
Curcumin Inhibits Glyoxalase 1—A Possible Link to Its Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Tumor Activity
Creators: name: Tomé, Daniel
name: Santel, Thore
name: Pflug, Gabi
name: Hemdan, Nasr Y. A.
name: Schäfer, Angelika
name: Hollenbach, Marcus
name: Buchold, Martin
name: Hintersdorf, Anja
name: Lindner, Inge
name: Otto, Andreas
name: Bigl, Marina
name: Oerlecke, Ilka
name: Hutschenreuter, Antje
name: Sack, Ulrich
name: Huse, Klaus
name: Groth, Marco
name: Birkemeyer, Claudia
name: Schellenberger, Wolfgang
name: Gebhardt, Rolf
name: Platzer, Mathias
name: Weiss, Thomas S.
name: Vijayalakshmi, Mookambeswaran A.
name: Krüger, Monika
name: Birkenmeier, Gerd
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background
Glyoxalases (Glo1 and Glo2) are involved in the glycolytic pathway by detoxifying the reactive methylglyoxal (MGO) into D-lactate in a two-step reaction using glutathione (GSH) as cofactor. Inhibitors of glyoxalases are considered as anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic agents. The recent finding that various polyphenols modulate Glo1 activity has prompted us to assess curcumin's potency as an Glo1 inhibitor.
Methodology/Principal Findings
Cultures of whole blood cells and tumor cell lines (PC-3, JIM-1, MDA-MD 231 and 1321N1) were set up to investigate the effect of selected polyphenols, including curcumin, on the LPS-induced cytokine production (cytometric bead-based array), cell proliferation (WST-1 assay), cytosolic Glo1 and Glo2 enzymatic activity, apoptosis/necrosis (annexin V-FITC/propidium iodide staining; flow cytometric analysis) as well as GSH and ATP content. Results of enzyme kinetics revealed that curcumin, compared to the polyphenols quercetin, myricetin, kaempferol, luteolin and rutin, elicited a stronger competitive inhibitory effect on Glo1 (Ki = 5.1±1.4 µM). Applying a whole blood assay, IC50 values of pro-inflammatory cytokine release (TNF-α, IL-6, IL-8, IL-1β) were found to be positively correlated with the Ki-values of the aforementioned polyphenols. Moreover, whereas curcumin was found to hamper the growth of breast cancer (JIMT-1, MDA-MB-231), prostate cancer PC-3 and brain astrocytoma 1321N1 cells, no effect on growth or vitality of human primary hepatocytes was elucidated. Curcumin decreased D-lactate release by tumor cells, another clue for inhibition of intracellular Glo1.
Conclusions/Significance
The results described herein provide new insights into curcumin's biological activities as they indicate that inhibition of Glo1 by curcumin may result in non-tolerable levels of MGO and GSH, which, in turn, modulate various metabolic cellular pathways including depletion of cellular ATP and GSH content. This may account for curcumin's potency as an anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor agent. The findings support the use of curcumin as a potential therapeutic agent.
Worldview and Marxism (original edition in 1931, translated from German by Alan Scott)
Creators: name: Neurath, Otto
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020

description: This essay by Otto Neurath, titled "Worldview and Marxism," was originally published in 1931, and has been translated for the first time from German by Alan Scott.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective
Creators: name: Romania, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: covid-19; social distance; Goffman; anomie; social theory

description: Social distance is a central issue in the institutional communication about COVID-19. The expression has often been improperly used as a synonym for physical distance. In this article, I will compare how international agencies have used the concept in their documents with Erving Goffman's sociological theory on social distance. The Canadian sociologist is, in fact, the author who has explored the sociological aspects of social distance most deeply. In the third section, summarising Goffman's work, I will try to define a possible research agenda to be developed in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic. Finally, I will analyse some elements of social change already visible in various parts of the world. The aim is to understand how COVID-19 could transform some social and ritual aspects of interpersonal distance. The main hypothesis is that in the immediate aftermath of this pandemic crisis, we will live in a period of moral inter-reign, in which we will experience a form of interactional anomie. This concept is also aimed at integrating the already rich Goffmanian theory on the interaction order, from a perspective that takes in account both the classic Durkheimian concept of anomie connected to dramatic social change and the Parsonsian theory of double contingency. I still do not know how long the pandemic will last and how many further quarantine periods will occur in the future. This is therefore more an exercise in sociological imagination (Wright Mills, 1959) than a sound, grounded theory.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Beware the Trolley Zealots
Creators: name: Eyal, Gil
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Trolley problem; utilitarianism; bio-ethics; coronavirus; Covid-19; pastoral power; frames

description: This essay draws on Mary Douglas' theory of institutional styles of thinking to analyze the debate about how and when the Coronavirus crisis can be brought to an end. The dominant approach, I show, frames the problem in utilitarian terms, akin to what is known among philosophers as "the trolley problem." I point out the pitfalls of this framing and contrast it with a counter-frame taken from the Judeo-Christian tradition of pastoral leadership. The lacunae of this institutional style of thinking are pointed out as well, in order to develop the critical distance necessary for a reasoned intervention in the crisis.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Testing and Being Tested in Pandemic Times
Creators: name: Stark, David
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: Testing; accountability; sociology of testing; COVID-19; pandemic; algorithmic selection; models; demonstrations

description: The coronavirus pandemic is witness to a great proliferation of two types of tests. The first type is testing – new medical diagnostic tests as well as epidemiological models that simulate and project the course of the virus. In the second type, actors, organizations, and institutions are being tested in this moment of social and political crisis. This essay analyzes the similarities and differences between these two major types of tests in order to understand their entanglements in the crisis. In the process, we find a great diversity of tests operating in multiple registers, themselves not clearly demarcated, often combining and sometimes conflating, for example, scientific and public discourse. The study opens by identifying three aspects of testing, drawn from the sociology of testing. First, tests are frequently proxies (or projections) that stand for something. Second, a test is a critical moment that stands out – whether because it is a moment deliberately separated out or because it is a puzzling or troublesome “situation” that disrupts the flow of social life. Third, when someone or something is put to the test, of interest is whether it stands up to the challenge. These insights serve as the building blocks for addressing three major issues – representation, selection, and accountability – regarding testing in the time of the coronavirus crisis.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
MEREDESSANT KUI TÕENÄOLINE OHT EESTILE
Creators: name: Gavrilov, Grigori
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: Estonia’s geopolitical location is the primary underlying factor dictating the country’s defence policy. Although all three Baltic states are connected to their fellow NATO allies in Europe via sea lines of communication, their only land connection with continental Europe is the vulnerable 65-kilometers long Suwałki Gap on the border between Lithuania and Poland. However, due to the physical geography of Estonia’s shoreline and rather considerable defi ciencies in the ability to defend its interests at sea, Estonia’s high value targets are exposed to amphibious assault. It is particularly alarming considering that the Russian Federation is in possession of a rather formidable naval force in the region and also maintains a rather large, although outmoded, amphibious force. Furthermore, Russia’s repeated attempts to modernise its amphibious fl eet indicate that the strategic utility of power projection from the sea is not lost upon Russia’s military and civilian leadership. Although there are few current sources on how Russian joint forces would conduct a contemporary amphibious assault, it is still possible to predict the most likely course of action due to the high dependence of its naval landing force on the technical features of their ships and vehicles. Considering that most of the hardware of Russia’s landing force is Soviet-made or Soviet-derived, it is likely that their tactics have not changed much. Thus, it is safe to presume that the Russian Federation would most likely conduct an amphibious landing by taking guidance from Soviet-era tactics deploying a combination of helicopter and ship-borne assault force up to brigade-size, comprising both naval infantry and motorized rifl e units. In such a scenario, the naval infantry would secure the beachhead in order to enable the main force to land and advance further inland. Consequently, it is paramount to survey the terrain in the area of interest from two aspects: (a) whether or not it supports the establishment of a beachhead of a predetermined size and (b) if that beachhead would allow for further inland advance. In case of armed confl ict, having a great number of vitally important targets that are not secured from a sea approach, facilitates swift advance on the part of the assaulting amphibious force, thus creating a fait accompli situation, which would be desirable from the Russian standpoint in case of a hypothetical conventional confl ict with the Baltic countries. The scenario described above, in conjunction with the fact that the Russian Federation still maintains a credible power projection capability from the sea, leads one to believe that the threat of amphibious assault against Estonia is not only technically possible but also operationally feasible
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 12 (2019)
Society After COVID-19: An Editorial Note
Creators: name: Esposito, Elena
name: Stark, David
name: Squazzoni, Flaminio
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19; pandemic; sociology; longer-term consequences

description: This editorial note turns the attention of sociology to the immediate and pressing present of the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim of understanding the potentially long-term consequences of this extraordinary moment. We suggest to focus on important topics such as the meaning of social change related to COVID-19, the newly emerging social practices due to lockdown measures, the emotional and cognitive impact of the absence of important social rituals, and the political and social effects of enhanced surveillance in our societies. We offer Sociologica as an open forum to host contributions on these topics or on other research questions connected with the COVID-19 crisis.
description: Sociologica, Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
Modeling the impact of supra-structural network nodes : The case of anonymous syringe sharing and HIV among people who inject drugs
Creators: name: Richardson, Lindsey, 1977-
name: Grund, Thomas
Publisher: name: Richardson, L., and T. Grund. Modeling the impact of supra-structural network nodes: The case of anonymous syringe sharing and HIV among people who inject drugs. Soc Sci Res, 41 (3): 624-36.
Year: 2017

description: Networks are well understood as crucial to the diffusion of HIV among injection drug users (IDU), but quasi-anonymous risk nodes – such as shooting galleries – resist measurement and incorporation into empirical analyses of disease diffusion. Drawing on network data from 767 IDU in Bushwick, Brooklyn, we illustrate the use of calibrated agent-based models (CABM) to account for network structure, injection practices, and quasi-anonymous transmission in shooting galleries. Results confirm the importance of network structure and actor heterogeneity to the magnitude and speed of HIV transmission. Models further demonstrate that quasi-anonymous injections in shooting galleries increase the speed of HIV diffusion and have the greatest impact on HIV seroconversion levels for IDU at the network periphery. Shooting galleries are shown to be transmission hubs that operate independently of traceable structural ties, linking otherwise unconnected network components. CABMs demonstrate potentially increased understandings of HIV diffusion dynamics by infusing computer simulations with empirical data.
A dose-response relationship between exposure to a large-scale HIV preventive intervention and consistent condom use with different sexual partners of female sex workers in southern India
Creators: name: Deering, Kathleen N.
name: Boily, Marie-Claude
name: Lowndes, Catherine M.
name: Shoveller, Jean
name: Tyndall, Mark
name: Vickerman, Peter
name: Bradley, Jan
name: Gurav, Kaveri
name: Pickles, Michael
name: Moses, Stephen
name: Ramesh, Banadakoppa M.
name: Washington, Reynold
name: Rajaram, S.
name: Alary, Michel
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The Avahan Initiative, a large-scale HIV preventive intervention targeted to high-risk populations including female sex workers (FSWs), was initiated in 2003 in six high-prevalence states in India, including Karnataka. This study assessed if intervention exposure was associated with condom use with FSWs’ sexual partners, including a dose-response relationship. Methods: Data were from a cross-sectional study (2006-07) of 775 FSWs in three districts in Karnataka. Survey methods accounted for the complex cluster sampling design. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression was used to separately model the relationships between each of five intervention exposure variables and five outcomes for consistent condom use (CCU= always versus frequently/sometimes/never) with different sex partners, including with: all clients; occasional clients; most recent repeat client; most recent non-paying partner; and the husband or cohabiting partner. Linear tests for trends were conducted for three continuous intervention exposure variables. Results: FSWs reported highest CCU with all clients (81.7%); CCU was lowest with FSWs’ husband or cohabiting partner (9.6%). In multivariable analysis, the odds of CCU with all clients and with occasional clients were 6.3-fold [95% confidence intervals, CIs: 2.8-14.5] and 2.3-fold [95% CIs: 1.4-4.1] higher among FSWs contacted by intervention staff and 4.9-fold [95% CIs: 2.6-9.3] and 2.3-fold [95% CIs: 1.3-4.1] higher among those who ever observed a condom demonstration by staff, respectively, compared to those who had not. A significant dose-response relationship existed between each of these CCU outcomes and increased duration since first contacted by staff (P=0.001; P=0.006) and numbers of condom demonstrations witnessed (P=0.004; P=0.026); a dose-response relationship was also observed between condom use with all clients and number of times contacted by staff (P=0.047). Intervention exposure was not associated with higher odds of CCU with the most recent repeat client, most recent non-paying partner or with the husband or cohabiting partner. Conclusion: Study findings suggest that exposure to a large-scale HIV intervention for FSWs was associated with increased CCU with commercial clients. Moreover, there were dose-response relationships between CCU with clients and increased duration since first contacted by staff, times contacted by staff and number of condom demonstrations. Additional program effort is required to increase condom use with non-commercial partners.
Gram-positive Stäbchenbakterien im Urin
Creators: name: Schwinge, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Aus Mittelstrahlurinen wurden die meisten Coryneformen isoliert. Eine Assoziation coryneformer Stäbe mit Kontakt zu Fremdmaterialien wurde ausgeschlossen. Der altersabhängige Nachweis coryneformer Stäbe aus Urinproben war für >60 Jahre zu verzeichnen. Bezüglich des Geschlechts konnte kein Zusammenhang zu Coryneformen gefunden werden. Zur Identifizierung der Bakterien ist die Massenspektrometrie eine zuverlässige Methodik. Die Gensequenzierung ist zur Identifikation als Goldstandard anzusehen. Eine Verlängerung der Inkubationszeit der beimpften Kulturmedien bringt nur wenig Informationsgewinn.
All supplementary information, figures, and tables from An experimental test of Lanchester's models of combat in the neotropical termite Nasutitermes corniger (Blattodea: Termitidae)
Creators: name: Clifton, Elizabeth M.
name: Lewis, Paul O.
name: Jockusch, Elizabeth
name: Adams, Eldridge
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is a pdf with details on the Bayesian implementation we used, details on the GLMMs, extra figures, and tables.