cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving the Capabilities of Large Language Model Based Marketing Analytics Copilots With Semantic Search And Fine-Tuning
Creators: name: Gao, Yilin
name: Arava, Sai Kumar
name: Li, Yancheng
name: Snyder, James W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.1; I.2.7

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely deployed to solve problems related to marketing attribution and budget optimization. However, AI models can be quite complex, and it can be difficult to understand model workings and insights without extensive implementation teams. In principle, recently developed large language models (LLMs), like GPT-4, can be deployed to provide marketing insights, reducing the time and effort required to make critical decisions. In practice, there are substantial challenges that need to be overcome to reliably use such models. We focus on domain-specific question-answering, SQL generation needed for data retrieval, and tabular analysis and show how a combination of semantic search, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning can be applied to dramatically improve the ability of LLMs to execute these tasks accurately. We compare both proprietary models, like GPT-4, and open-source models, like Llama-2-70b, as well as various embedding methods. These models are tested on sample use cases specific to marketing mix modeling and attribution.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, presented at the 2nd International Conference on NLP & AI (NLPAI 2024)
Sybistroma nodicornis Meigen 1824
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sybistroma
Sybistroma nodicornis

description: 239. Sybistroma nodicornis Meigen, 1824 (Dolichopodinae)
= Nodicornis nodicornis (Meigen, 1824).
BG: Dolni Voden, West Rhodope Mts. (Kechev 2007, 2011b); Gradina floodplain forest (Kechev 2012b); Tekirska river near Chirpan (Kechev 2014); Basha near Chirpan (Kechev & Ivanova 2015a); GR: (Grichanov 2007); RO-DO: Hagieni Forest, Dobrodzha (Pârvu 1995a); Valea Teilor, Tulcea province (listed as N. nodicornis (Meigen) (Pârvu 2001)); RS: Ceremošnja (Pârvu 1997).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
Sybistroma obscurellus Dolichopodinae
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sybistroma
Sybistroma obscurellus

description: 240. Sybistroma obscurellus (Fallén, 1823) (Dolichopodinae)
= Hypophyllus obscurellus Fallen, 1823.
BA: Grab (listed as H. obscurellus Fall. (Strobl 1900)); BG: Dedovo village and Hrabrino village, West Rho-dope Mts. (listed as H. obscurellus (Kechev 2007, 2011b)); ETR: Kýrklareli, Demirköy, Yýldýz Mt. (Tonguç et al. 2009); GR: (Negrobov 1991); HR: Spring of Bijela rijeka, Plitvice Lakes; Middle reach of Bijelas rijeka, Plitvice Lakes; Middle reach of Crna rijeka, Plitvice Lakes (see Pollet & Ivković 2018).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
title: Mission impossible? Country-level coordination in the UN development system
Creators: name: Baumann, Max-Otto
Publisher: name: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01t3zke88
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Internationale Organisationen
subject: International Organisations

description: With its, on average, 18 entities in every developing country, the United Nations (UN) faces an enormous challenge in coordinating its development activities. Under the 2030 Agenda and its complex set of Sustainable Development Goals, coordination has become even more urgent. The UN Secretary-General has recognised this and has made better coordination the main thrust of his reform proposals, which were presented earlier this year. This discussion paper aims to contribute to the ongoing debates and negotiations in New York with a snapshot of country-level coordination in the UN development system. It is based on an analysis of five developing countries and focusses specifically on the working-group level of coordination. The findings are not encouraging: Notwithstanding positive examples here and there, UN country-level coordination can still be characterised as a burdensome extra process with little practical consequence, rather than a way of working together for better results. To analyse these deficits, the paper looks at the incentive systems under which UN entities and their staff operate. It reconstructs how (a lack of) formal provisions, accountability, staff capacities and administrative harmonisation drive or impede coordination. Looking only at the UN itself would, however, miss an important part of the picture, as the UN operates under the mandates and the informal influence of member states. The paper therefore also analyses how member states shape UN country-level coordination through the formal mandates they issue in the General Assembly and the boards, the funding they provide and the ownership they exercise on UN development activities. The paper concludes by offering nine recommendations that complement the reform proposals advanced by the UN Secretary-General.
description: Discussion Paper, 7/2018
Sybistroma setosus Dolichopodinae
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sybistroma
Sybistroma setosus

description: 241. Sybistroma setosus (Schiner, 1862) (Dolichopodinae)
BG: Gradina floodplain forest, near Gradina village (Kechev 2012b); RO-DO: Hagieni, Constanta (Pârvu 1987).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
Challenging digital and mediatic binarity. Post-cinematographic experience in LuYang’s work
Creators: name: Fix, Adrian
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: Media archaeology transmediality, intermediality, transidentity, gaming

description: Through the corpus of Chinese artist LuYang, this article aims to prove how artistic practices involving transmediatic crossovers affect both the conditions of creation, circulation and reception of a work. Using tools of media archaeology, it compares two of the artist’s recent exhibitions and puts this corpus in perspective with previous historical examples, locating his work in the path of cinema as a “post-cinematographic.” It also examines how Postmodernism is impacting contemporary artistic practices in New Media, in production, content and form, disseminating its terms in both the work and the discourse of artists. Finally, this article also delves deeper into LuYang’s artistic practice and introspection and considers how (binary) digital devices are paradoxically used as media for individuals to express and affirm their sexual or gender identity beyond binary oppositions.
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Traversing across intermediality and transmediality in a choose-your-own-interactive-adventure television episode
Creators: name: Lazaridou, Eleni
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: interactive TV episode; in-betweenness; media convergence; algorithms; agency

description: Intermediality refers to the interconnectedness of media that depend on, refer to and interact with each other, both explicitly and implicitly (Jensen, 2008) and can be regarded as part of the emergence of a post-human entanglement of living bodies with technologies, because each mediates the other (Bignell, 2020: 2). This article seeks to examine the way that intermediality and transmediality are so closely interwoven in the interactive television episode Bandersnatch. This interactive narrative folds into its structure the results of the convergence of video game techniques and aesthetics in television series production, as an example of the conversion of the medium according to the demands dictated by the evolution of technology and the audiences’ new expectations and social needs and can function as the threshold towards a reassessment of intermediality. Bandersnatch, a video game based on a “choose-your-own-adventure” book of the same name, is remediated and re-articulated from the book to the designed video game as the key feature of the narration and, simultaneously, as the key element remediated and implemented into the whole interactive episode. This allegorical approach, deliberately created by the episode's creators, triggers a reflection on the fluid and malleable relations between media forms and the transformation of each medium identity. Under this digital circumstance, the sensory copes in direct contrast with the palpable, revealing a complex conception of transmedial encapsulated in intermedial within user-generated contents.
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Entre art numérique et monument emblématique, une expérience d’entre-deux, en faveur d’une inclusion sociale
Creators: name: Bennour, Mariem
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: Art numérique; espace; intermédialité; projection architecturale; spectacle

description: À l’heure où le monde est totalement fantasmé par le mythe de la culture numérique, la réflexion que nous souhaitons engager, tentera de dévoiler la relation qu’entretiennent l’art numérique et l’art de l’espace et ce, à travers la projection architecturale. Où le visuel et le symbolique se fusionnent créant un troisième espace entre le réel et le virtuel, le visible et l’invisible. À travers un monde fictionnel, instauré dans Living Architecture de Refik Anadol, notre recherche s’assignera la tâche d’analyser les pratiques émergentes dans l’activité artistique, dans lesquelles le numérique occupe une place prépondérante comme vecteur d’inclusion sociale. La révolution numérique a profondément modifié les structures perceptives et la manière d’être au monde de l’être humain. Induite par les nouvelles technologies, elle est désormais omniprésente. Les industries culturelles vont jusqu’à considérer le numérique comme un enjeu d’inclusion sociale. Pourtant l’art et le numérique ont souvent une connotation restreinte et entravée à leurs attaches natives à la question d’accessibilité. En effet, ceux-ci conduisent de fait à une forme de ségrégation sociale. Leur accès est réservé à une élite intellectuelle et économique. Les plus vulnérables, quant à eux, se retrouvent par conséquent exclus. Le concept « de l’art numérique » se trouve ainsi confrontée aux multiples défis sociaux. Conçue à partir des données climatiques de Barcelone en temps réel, l’œuvre de Refik Anadol vient en réponse à cette problématique. En effet, la projection architecturale Living Architecture encourage l’interaction entre l’art numérique et l’architecture en offrant des expériences culturelles accessibles à tous, quels que soient leur âge, leur origine ou leur statut social. Renfermant ainsi une dimension sociale importante. En somme, l’intermédialité entre l’art numérique et l’art de l’espace présente un moyen de rendre l’Art accessible à tous, de valoriser des monuments emblématiques et de promouvoir l’inclusion sociale. C’est une forme d’interaction qui peut contribuer à enrichir la vie culturelle, en offrant des expériences artistiques uniques et accessibles à tous.
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Les Perses de l'Occident de Sotiris Skipis: Une invasion barbare en Europe dans les années 1920
Creators: name: Ritsatou, Konstantina
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: Modern Greek Theatre; Pan-Germanism; racism; the Interwar Period

description: The study examines the contribution of Sotiris Skipis (1881-1952) to theatrical art, an aspect which has been neglected by contemporary research. It focuses on an almost unknown three-act drama of Skipis, which the present research retrieved from the rare collections of Greek libraries: Les Perses de l' Occident (The Persians of the West). The author published the work in Paris in 1917, before the bloodshed of World War I was beginning to wane, to openly condemn pan-Germanism and racism, even before the latter term prevailed. The paper explores the ideological, aesthetic, and dramaturgical substratum of the text reflecting the spread of racial theories in Europe is explored. It also interprets the reasons that did not allow for the stage realization of the play on Parisian stages at the time of publication, despite the warm praise from Parisian scholarship, and that it took more than a century to pull the play out of oblivion.
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Mathify: Evaluating Large Language Models on Mathematical Problem Solving Tasks
Creators: name: Anand, Avinash
name: Gupta, Mohit
name: Prasad, Kritarth
name: Singla, Navya
name: Sanjeev, Sanjana
name: Kumar, Jatin
name: Shivam, Adarsh Raj
name: Shah, Rajiv Ratn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid progress in the field of natural language processing (NLP) systems and the expansion of large language models (LLMs) have opened up numerous opportunities in the field of education and instructional methods. These advancements offer the potential for tailored learning experiences and immediate feedback, all delivered through accessible and cost-effective services. One notable application area for this technological advancement is in the realm of solving mathematical problems. Mathematical problem-solving not only requires the ability to decipher complex problem statements but also the skill to perform precise arithmetic calculations at each step of the problem-solving process. However, the evaluation of the arithmetic capabilities of large language models remains an area that has received relatively little attention. In response, we introduce an extensive mathematics dataset called "MathQuest" sourced from the 11th and 12th standard Mathematics NCERT textbooks. This dataset encompasses mathematical challenges of varying complexity and covers a wide range of mathematical concepts. Utilizing this dataset, we conduct fine-tuning experiments with three prominent LLMs: LLaMA-2, WizardMath, and MAmmoTH. These fine-tuned models serve as benchmarks for evaluating their performance on our dataset. Our experiments reveal that among the three models, MAmmoTH-13B emerges as the most proficient, achieving the highest level of competence in solving the presented mathematical problems. Consequently, MAmmoTH-13B establishes itself as a robust and dependable benchmark for addressing NCERT mathematics problems.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Generative AI for Education (GAIED)
title: Taxing carbon in developing countries
Creators: name: Pegels, Anna
Publisher: name: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01t3zke88
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimawandel
subject: Öffentliche Finanzen
subject: Climate Change
subject: Public Finance

description: Today’s development policy faces two interdependent challenges: poverty reduction and climate change. To meet the dual challenge of creating acceptable living conditions for billions of poor people and preserving these conditions for future generations, we must de-link economic activity from greenhouse gas emissions.
description: Two-Pager, 1/2018
An Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Among Perinatal Women in Malawi: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Pence, B.W
name: Mphonda, S.
name: Bengtson, A.M.
name: Go, V.F.
name: Kulisewa, K.
name: Verhey, R
name: Chibanda, D.
name: Hosseinipour, M.C
name: Udedi, M.
name: Filipowicz, T.R.
name: Meltzer-Brody, S.
name: Gaynes, B.N.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2023

description: Perinatal depression (PND) is common and an important barrier to engagement in HIV care for women living with HIV (WLHIV). Accordingly, we adapted and enhanced The Friendship Bench, an evidence-based counseling intervention, for perinatal WLHIV. In a pilot randomized trial (NCT04143009), we evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, fidelity, and preliminary efficacy of the Enhanced Friendship Bench (EFB) intervention to improve PND and engagement in HIV care outcomes. Eighty pregnant WLHIV who screened positive for PND symptoms on the Self-Report Questionnaire (≥ 8) were enrolled, randomized 1:1 to EFB or usual care, and followed through 6 months postpartum. Overall, 100% of intervention participants were satisfied with the intervention and 93% found it beneficial to their overall health. Of 82 counseling sessions assessed for fidelity, 83% met or exceeded the fidelity threshold. At 6 months postpartum, intervention participants had improved depression remission (59% versus 36%, RD 23%, 95% CI 2%, 45%), retention in HIV care (82% versus 69%, RD 13%, -6%, 32%), and viral suppression (96% versus 90%, RD 7%, -7%, 20%) compared to usual care. Adverse events did not differ by arm. These results suggest that EFB intervention should be evaluated in a fully powered randomized trial to evaluate its efficacy to improve PND and engagement in HIV care outcomes for WLHIV.
title: Inflation and Broadband Revisited: Evidence from an OECD Panel. A replication study of Yi and Choi (Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005)
Creators: name: Friesenbichler, Klaus
Publisher: name: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: E31
subject: O1
subject: O3
subject: Inflation
subject: Broadband
subject: Inflation

description: This note revisits the conjecture that the use of broadband internet lowers transaction costs and thereby inflation. Using a macro-economic panel of OECD countries, it replicates and expands previous estimations by Yi and Choi (2005). We confirm the direction of the results, but also highlight a series of conceptual and econometric issues in the original contribution that need to be addressed.
description: International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, 2018-1
title: Creating wealth without labour? Emerging contours of a new techno-economic landscape
Creators: name: Lütkenhorst, Wilfried
Publisher: name: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01t3zke88
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Technologie
subject: Innovation
subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Innovation
subject: Technology
subject: Digitalisation

description: This discussion paper reviews the topical debate around the implications of innovative digital technologies for future patterns of competitiveness, employment, equality, the international division of labour and resource efficiency. It focusses on digital production technologies applied in the manufacturing sector and adopts a global economic perspective in a 10- to 15-year time horizon. The leading research questions are: How is the digital revolution likely to impact the future of industrialisation? How will it affect the relative positions of developed and developing countries in global competition? What are the implications for industrial policy?

 The paper frames the digitalisation discourse in the context of the changing nature and sequencing of industrialisation (specifically the debate around premature deindustrialisation), its role in latecomer development, and the increasingly complex and blurred intersection between manufacturing and services – the so-called servicification of manufacturing caused by a growing role of embedded and embodied services as well as new service-based business models.

 In its policy part, the paper contains a detailed case study of the German “Industrie 4.0” strategy and platform. Following a briefer comparative look at similar approaches in selected countries as well as the coordination and harmonisation efforts at the level of the European Union, the paper derives more general conclusions on the role of industrial policy in steering the digital revolution in a socially desirable direction, preventing damaging consequences and promoting its positive impact. Special attention is given to the renewed significance of technology foresight exercises. Finally, the paper provides an outlook on the implications of the digital revolution for the prospects of latecomer industrialisation and the challenges that developing countries in particular are facing.
description: Discussion Paper, 11/2018
title: Investing in the behavioural dimensions of transnational cooperation: a personal assessment of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Programme
Creators: name: Fues, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01t3zke88
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agenda 2030

description: This text sums up the author’s personal experiences and insights as former staff member responsible for the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Programme, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development / Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) and implemented by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). The overarching goal of the MGG Programme is to enhance transnational knowledge cooperation for global sustainable development, based on a behavioural theory of change. As the extensive collaboration under the MGG umbrella demonstrates, partner countries share with the German side a preference for the global common good, despite the predominance of domestic concerns for poverty reduction and growth on their side. Over the years, MGG has generated a broad canvas of joint activities in knowledge creation, policy dialogue and training by engaging with a diverse set of actors from governments, think tanks, academia and, to a lesser extent, civil society and business. Two independent evaluations commissioned by DIE, as well as numerous statements by partners and alumni, provide ample evidence that the MGG Programme has fulfilled the defined goals. With an increased number of activities and integration of new sectors, it seems advisable to consolidate MGG by introducing formal arrangements for membership and governance through a memorandum of understanding to be signed by interested institutions.
description: Discussion Paper, 12/2018
Απο/Εν-δυναμώνοντας τον Κοινοτικό Διερμηνέα: Περί ρόδων, αρετών και υποκειμένων
Creators: name: Apostolou, Fotini
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: community interpreting; inter/cultural inter/mediation; subject; naming; Aristotelean virtues; Castoriadis

description: The concept of agency and the position of the speaking subject in interpreting are key for an understanding of the interpreter’s role and the importance of codes of ethics, especially in community interpreting settings. The attempt to address these issues in an effort to establish a higher level of professionalism has been ongoing for many decades, but there is still a lot of controversy both in academic circles and in the practice itself. Scholars are still split between those who propagate a code of ethics which ensures accuracy, confidentiality, and impartiality and those who believe that the practitioner, under a different name (inter/cultural inter/mediator), is a mediator between cultures and thus, as the only agent of knowledge for all cultures involved in the exchange, should play a more interventionist role. And in the midst of this argument, all parties of the interaction (practitioners, users and providers of public services) may be deprived of their agency as speaking subjects. This paper will highlight some of the main arguments in this very sensitive issue and attempt an understanding of the significance of codes of ethics in dis/empowering the speaking subject, by taking a detour through the significance of Shakespearean names and Aristotelean virtues.
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Climate Adaptation Plan Use and Barriers to Adaptive Action in Two U.S. Cities
Creators: name: Davidson, Jasmine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: Climatic changes--Government policy

description: Across the United States, communities preparing for the impacts of climate change are creating climate adaptation plans and taking actions to address climate risk. This paper seeks to answer two questions: How do local government officials use their climate adaptation plans? What barriers do local governments face to taking climate adaptation actions? Interviews with local government officials and nonprofits working on climate adaptation in Denver, CO and Milwaukee, WI led to five key recommendations for planners hoping to facilitate climate adaptation in their communities: 1. Keep implementation top of mind in the plan-making process; 2. Ensure that adaptation actions address a range of strategy types; 3. Prioritize equity and environmental justice; 4. Identify co-benefits in adaptation projects to broaden appeal and enable collaboration; and 5. Advocate for staff and funding specifically allocated to climate adaptation.
Sound Design and Audiovisual Memory in the Instantiation of Digital Game Worlds: An Essay on Iconophonics
Creators: name: Luersen, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: sound design; audiovisual memory; digital games; technoculture; media studies

description: The article approaches the relationship between design, memory and technoculture through a conceptual discussion of audiovisual culture and the techno-aesthetic expressions of sound design in digital games. Hence, instead of describing it for its technical aspects, sound design is more broadly framed here as a technocultural practice deeply related to an audiovisual memory of media. The paper also presents the concept of iconophonics, by articulating this theoretical framework with an analysis of sound design features in five digital games: Jazzpunk (2014), Rayman: Legends (2011), South Park: Stick of Truth (2014), Inside (2016) and Spec Ops: The Line (2012).
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Sybistroma sphenopterus Dolichopodinae
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sybistroma
Sybistroma sphenopterus

description: 242. Sybistroma sphenopterus (Loew, 1859) (Dolichopodinae) - First record for European Turkey
= Hypophyllus sphenopterus Loew, 1859.
ETR: Site 22: 2♂.
BA: Vlašić (listed as H. sphenopterus Loew (Strobl 1900)); HR: Tufa barrier Kozjak-Milanovac, Plitvice Lakes; Dubočanka Stream, Papuk Mountain; Koran Village, River Korana, Plitvice Lakes (Pollet & Ivković 2018).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
“Who Does Not Have Access that Needs or Wants Access?”: Improving Access to Exercise Opportunities in Burke County for Older Adults through a Strategic Built Environment
Creators: name: Parlberg, Lindsay M.
name: Cheng, Tsaiwei
name: Fratus, Audrey
name: Caison, Bradley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: Through a lens focused on the development of a strategic built environment, this proposal provides frameworks and tools for generating, scaling, and sustaining interventions to enhance the physical, emotional, and social health and wellbeing of Burke County residents. The proposal recommendations leverage existing resources and identify specific community and population needs using public health and quality improvement tools and principles. By addressing obstacles in the built environment to exercise opportunities, particularly for adults over 65, the proposal emphasizes optimizing Burke County's abundant resources to promote physical activity. The narrative advocates for a co-design approach, involving residents in shaping interventions that resonate with their needs and goals. This strategy aims to transform Burke County into a model for age-inclusive public spaces that encourage active living, paving the path for a future where strategic planning and community involvement converge to foster a healthier, more active community for seniors.
title: Enabling factors for cooperation in the climate negotiations: a comparative analysis of Copenhagen 2009 and Paris 2015
Creators: name: Högl, Maximilian
Publisher: name: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01t3zke88
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimawandel
subject: Climate Change
subject: Regional Governance
subject: Global Governance

description: Discussion Paper, 14/2018
Exploring Intermediality in Art History and its Application in the Educational Sector
Creators: name: Veleni, Themis
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: Intermediality; Transmediality; Plurimediality; Multisensoriality; Μultimodality; Visual Arts & Music; Art Education

description: Intermediality is one of the most intriguing and discussed concepts within the contemporary art world, with a rich history in aesthetics. As a modern and contemporary artistic practice has disrupted conventional boundaries and pushed the limits of perception, leading to the emergence of innovative art forms and genres and challenging our understanding of the meaning of art.  Intermediality is closely intertwined with multisensoriality, enabling artists to explore the use of different media, such as sound, light, and movement, in their works, leading to a truly multimodal experience for viewers. It has the potential to transform the way we educate ourselves about various subjects, including art, in a more comprehensive and immersive manner by engaging all our senses. In this article, I aim to explore the idea of intermediality from two different angles, by analyzing and classifying certain modern and contemporary artworks into different intermediality categories, and by discussing how intermediality relates to education, particularly within the context of the Master of Art Education program at the University of Granada. The postgraduate students of this course are provided with a methodology that helps them develop innovative learning activities centered around the idea of intermediality.
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Outcomes and adverse events in older acute lymphoblastic Leukemia patients treated with a pediatric-inspired protocol with Pegylated or native Asparaginase
Creators: name: Perusini, Maria Agustina
name: Andrews, Claire
name: Atenafu, Eshetu G.
name: Gupta, Vikas
name: Maze, Dawn
name: Schuh, Andre C.
name: Yee, Karen WL.
name: Bankar, Aniket
name: Davidson, Marta B.
name: Richard-Carpentier, Guillaume
name: Chan, Steven M.
name: Sibai, Jad
name: Schimmer, Aaron D.
name: Minden, Mark D.
name: Sibai, Hassan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: This retrospective report presents the outcomes and adverse events (AEs) observed in 73 patients aged 60 years or older diagnosed with Philadelphia Chromosome-negative Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Ph-negative ALL) treated with a pediatric-inspired protocol incorporating either Pegylated (PEG-ASP) or Native Asparaginase (EC-ASP). Notably, 61% of patients experienced AEs of Grade III-IV severity. The most prevalent AEs included thrombosis (35.6%), febrile neutropenia (38.4%), and transaminitis (34.2%). AEs did not translate into significant differences concerning overall survival, leukemia-free survival, or early mortality. Furthermore, we observed a reduction in early mortality rates (11% vs. 20%) and an increase in median overall survival (54 vs. 48 months) compared to our previous data. These findings suggest that the utilization of a pediatric-inspired chemotherapy protocol, with ASP, is an effective and well-tolerated therapeutic option for older patients with Ph-negative ALL. However, it emphasizes the importance of diligent monitoring and close follow-up throughout treatment.
EDUCATION QUALITY AND ACCESS: ADDRESSING LEARNING GAPS WIDENED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Creators: name: Quigley, Kaitlyn
name: Moody, Alicia
name: Nunnally, Breanna
name: Barnes, Nicole
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has tremendously impacted educational systems worldwide, including Burke County, North Carolina. In our study, we evaluate the educational gap that was developed due to disruptions caused by the pandemic, specifically in Burke County, North Carolina.  We evaluated the challenges teachers, students, and parents faced during interruptions that led to remote learning. This study aims to mend the educational gap developed and propose strategies to address these educational disparities.
Sympycnus cirripes Sympycninae
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sympycnus
Sympycnus cirripes

description: 243. Sympycnus cirripes (Haliday, 1851) (Sympycninae)
BG: Pirin Mts.; Markovo village, Smoljan, Pamporovo, West Rhodopes Mts. (Kechev 2005).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
Sympycnus pulicarius Sympycninae
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sympycnus
Sympycnus pulicarius

description: 244. Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallén, 1823) (Sympycninae) - First record for European Turkey
= Sympycnus annulipes (Meigen, 1824).
ETR: Site 22: 2♂; Site 26: 1♂, 5♀.
BA: Suha (listed as S. annulipes Mg. (Strobl 1900)); BG: Asenovgrad, Ivailovgrad (Beschovski 1967); Yun-dola, Hrabrino village, West Rhodopes Mts. (Kechev 2005); Basha near Chirpan (Kechev & Ivanova 2015a); Omu-rovska river near Bratya Daskalovi villages (Kechev et al. 2014); Sarnena Sredna Gora Mt., Chehlare, Naydenovo, Dolno Novo Selo and Gorno Novo Selo villages (Kechev 2016); “Sinite Kamani” Natura Park near Sliven (Kechev 2017b); HR: Plitvice (Coe 1960); Spring Jankovac, Papuk Mt.; Korana Village, River Korana, Plitvice Lakes; Majerovo vrilo, Gacka River; Mlinice, Krčić Stream (Pollet & Ivković 2018); NM: Ohrid Lake; Prespa Geul, Oteševo (listed as S. annulipes (Coe 1960, 1968)); RO-DO: Furnica, Dobrodzha (Pârvu 1995a, Skolka 2003); RS: Ceremošnja (Pârvu 1997).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
Introduction : les croisements intermédiaux dans les arts audiovisuels et interactifs
Creators: name: Kostopoulou, Loukia
name: Katsaridou, Maria-Ilia
Publisher: name: Syn-Thèses
Year: 2024
Subjects: Intermediality; audiovisual arts; interactive art; experimental cinema

description: The introduction presents an overview of the concept of intermediality and how it is linked with other concepts such as experimentation, transformation, and liminality. Furthermore, the authors claim that intermediality in the post-media era revolutionises the notion of cinematic time and space and leads to an errant spectator, one that experiences various emotions throughout the viewing of an intermedial product.
description: Syn-Thèses, No 15 (2024): Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts
Sympycnus simplicipes Becker 1908
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sympycnus
Sympycnus simplicipes

description: 245. Sympycnus simplicipes Becker, 1908 (Sympycninae) - First record for Bulgaria
BG: Site 14: 1♂; Site 15: 1♂.
GR: Kerkini Lake (Kechev 2017a); NM: Ohrid Lake (Coe 1960).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
Prevalence of thalassaemia among childbearing-age Li and Han populations in Hainan Province
Creators: name: Tao, Fangchao
name: Lai, Yanquan
name: Chen, Jiaqi
name: Wei, Shijie
name: Zou, Yu
name: Lai, Yunli
name: Qin, Qiongzhen
name: Wang, Yufeng
name: Zhou, Wanjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Accurate epidemiological data are crucial for effective disease prevention and treatment. We conducted a large-scale survey to explore the thalassaemia prevalence and spectrum among the two major ethnic groups in Hainan Province. A total of 399,053 childbearing-age individuals of Li (n = 77,563) and Han(n = 321,490) ethnic groups were recruited from 18 cities and counties in Hainan, and their thalassemia genotypes were systematically screened and statistically analysed. This study revealed a significantly higher thalassaemia carrier rate in the Li (55.39%) than that in the Han (13.13%). Specifically, the carrier rate of α-thalassaemia was 46.39% in the Li and 10.02% in the Han. The predominant α-thalassaemia mutations were – α3.7 and – α42. in Li, whereas the main mutation were – SEA and – α4.2 in Han. For β-thalassaemia, the carrier rates were 1.68% in Li and 2.38% in Han, with CD41-42(-CTTT) the most prevalent mutation in both groups. The carrier rates of β-/α-compound thalassaemia were 7.32% in Li and 0.73% in Han. Additionally, there were regional differences in the distribution of thalassemia among the Li and Han within Hainan Province. Epidemiological characteristics and molecular spectrum of thalassaemia among the Li and Han ethnic groups in Hainan were revealed in this study. These findings can provide a scientific basis to develop and implement prevention strategies for thalassaemia in Hainan.
Sympycnus spiculatus Gerstacker 1864
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Sympycnus
Sympycnus spiculatus

description: 246. Sympycnus spiculatus Gerstäcker, 1864 (Sympycninae)
HR: Tufa barrier Labudovac, Plitvice Lakes (Pollet & Ivković 2018); SI: Postojna village (Postojne) (Coe 1968).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
Syntormon aulicus Sympycninae
Creators: name: Kechev, Mihail
name: Naglis, Stefan
name: Tonguç, Alper
name: Pollet, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Syntormon
Syntormon aulicus

description: 247. Syntormon aulicus (Meigen, 1824) (Sympycninae)
BG: Smolyan, West Rhodope Mts. (Beschovski 1967); GR: (Grichanov 2007); HR: Spring Preočani, Cetina River (Pollet & Ivković 2018).
description: Published as part of Kechev, Mihail, Naglis, Stefan, Tonguç, Alper & Pollet, Marc, 2020, Checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) of the Balkan Peninsula with first records for Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and for the European part of Turkey, pp. 436-472 in Zootaxa 4819 (3) on page 463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4397053
title: Repositioning but where: Is the UNDS fit for middle-income countries?
Creators: name: Schulz, Nils-Sjard
Publisher: name: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01t3zke88
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agenda 2030
subject: Entwicklungspolitik
subject: Agenda 2030
subject: Development Policy

description: After intense negotiations, the United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the reform
 of the United Nations Development System (UNDS). Most players in New York, including
 Secretary-General António Guterres and ambassadors to the United Nations, are optimistic
 that the UNDS will now take the multi-adjective route requested by the General Assembly
 (“more strategic, accountable, effective, transparent, collaborative, efficient, effective
 and result-oriented”).
 However, the reform’s actual litmus test will take place at the country level.
 Governments are expecting the UNDS to support the domestic implementation of the 2030
 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The ever-expanding and diverse family of middle-income
 countries (MICs), in particular are demanding increased and better engagement with the UN
 agencies, commissions, funds and programmes working on sustainable development challenges
 and opportunities. Indeed, the 2030 Agenda and the UN’s role in the agreement’s success
 are to a large degree dependent on progress in both lower and upper MICs.
 All essential elements of the 2030 Agenda are under stress in MICs: The MICs economies
 are transitioning from survival to prosperity; their societies are facing stark inequality
 and accelerated modernisation, and their ecosystems are under extreme demographic and
 economic pressure. MICs also are struggling with increasingly urgent cross-sector
 challenges, such as climate resilience, migration, security and rule of law.
 Despite the relevance and specific demands of MICs, the UNDS remains largely incapable of
 catering to their priorities at strategic and operational levels. The UNDS is not the only
 development actor that supports MICs in their efforts, but it needs to become a valuable
 partner for governments, especially in advising and supporting government-led
 implementation of the 2030 Agenda. To seize the momentum of global development, the
 ongoing reform must make the system “fit for MICs,” starting with the following fields of
 action:
 1.     Fully align with MICs priorities: the UNDS needs to be up to speed with country
 initiatives in terms of governance, planning, statistics and partnerships.
 2.     Provide relevant high-quality support: Beyond the poverty lens, UNDS should
 increase its capacities to deliver support that is relevant to complex national priorities
 of MICS.
 3.     Make financing a top priority: the UNDS has a key role to play in supporting MICs
 exposed to manifold financing challenges, from decreasing Official Development Assistance
 (ODA) to unsustainable debt.
description: Briefing Paper, 14/2018
title: Die Struktur der deutschen öffentlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Hintergründe, Trends und Implikationen für das BMZ und andere Bundesressorts
Creators: name: Bohnet, Michael
name: Klingebiel, Stephan
name: Marschall, Paul
Publisher: name: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01t3zke88
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Öffentliche Finanzen
subject: Entwicklungspolitik
subject: Mittelallokation
subject: Development Policy
subject: Public Finance
subject: ODA

description: Die Struktur der deutschen öffentlichen Entwicklungsleistungen (ODA) ist im Umbruch. Die
 Intensivierung der Globalisierung, die Verschärfung der Klimafrage sowie die
 Flüchtlingskrise trugen wesentlich zu einem bedeutenden Anstieg der deutschen ODA bei.
 Diese haben sich seit 2012 mehr als verdoppelt und beliefen sich 2016 auf 22 Mrd. Euro.
 Der Koalitionsvertrag zwischen CDU/CSU und SPD (2018) sieht ODA-anrechenbare Ausgaben als
 prioritären Bereich vor. Es sind deutliche Verschiebungen bei der ODA-Zurechnung auf die
 Aufgabenträger erkennbar. Der Beitrag des BMZ an der Gesamt-ODA ist 2016 auf 33 Prozent
 gesunken, der Anteil der anderen ODA-Leistungsträger betrug 2016 67 Prozent (andere
 Ressorts, EU-Haushalt, Schuldenerlasse, Bundesländer, Marktmittel, Flüchtlingsausgaben).
 Der Beitrag skizziert die Trends im Detail, liefert kritische Reflexionen zur
 ODA-Zurechnung und gibt dazu zwei mögliche strategische Interpretationen. Die erste
 versteht Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) nicht mehr allein als vergleichsweise kleines
 Handlungsfeld des BMZ. Andere Ressorts spielen eine wachsende Rolle. Die zweite betont die
 Schwierigkeiten, einen kohärenten deutschen entwicklungspolitischen Ansatz zu verfolgen,
 die mit den Verschiebungen der deutschen ODA und der Verteilung der Mittel auf mehr
 Akteure einhergehen. Deshalb besteht zusätzlicher Koordinierungs- und Abstimmungsbedarf
 zwischen den Ressorts.
description: Discussion Paper, 15/2018