cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The detection of cluster magnetic fields via radio source depolarisation
Creators: name: Osinga, E.
name: van Weeren, R. J.
name: Andrade-Santos, F.
name: Rudnick, L.
name: Bonafede, A.
name: Clarke, T.
name: Duncan, K.
name: Giacintucci, S.
name: Mroczkowski, Tony
name: Röttgering, H. J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been well established that galaxy clusters have magnetic fields. The exact properties and origin of these magnetic fields are still uncertain even though these fields play a key role in many astrophysical processes. Various attempts have been made to derive the magnetic field strength and structure of nearby galaxy clusters using Faraday rotation of extended cluster radio sources. This approach needs to make various assumptions that could be circumvented when using background radio sources. However, because the number of polarised radio sources behind clusters is low, at the moment such a study can only be done statistically. In this paper, we investigate the depolarisation of radio sources inside and behind clusters in a sample of 124 massive clusters at $z<0.35$ observed with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. We detect a clear depolarisation trend with the cluster impact parameter, with sources at smaller projected distances to the cluster centre showing more depolarisation. By combining the radio observations with ancillary X-ray data from Chandra, we compare the observed depolarisation with expectations from cluster magnetic field models using individual cluster density profiles. The best-fitting models have a central magnetic field strength of $5-10\,μ$G with power-law indices between $n=1$ and $n=4$. We find no strong difference in the depolarisation trend between sources embedded in clusters and background sources located at similar projected radii, although the central region of clusters is still poorly probed by background sources. We also examine the depolarisation trend as a function of cluster properties such as the dynamical state, mass, and redshift. Our findings show that the statistical depolarisation of radio sources is a good probe of cluster magnetic field parameters. [abridged]
description: Replaced with Published version (A&A). 32 pages, 34 figures
Micaria albimana O. Pickard-Cambridge 1872
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Koponen, Seppo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Micaria
Micaria albimana

description: Micaria albimana O.Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 * Material examined: 3 ♀♀, [10] S part Ussuri Reserve, 43°39'N 132º33 'E, 29- 31.07.1998, YM.; 3 ♂ ♀, [09] env. of Anisimovka Vill., 43º10'N 132°46'E, 24- 28.07.1998, YM.; 1 ♀, [17] Lazovski Reserve, Korpad’ Camp, 43º16'N 134º08'E, 6- 9.08.1998, YM. COM M ENTS. The first record in the province and the Far East, earlier was known to be distributed in southern Europe and Central Asia [M ikhailov, 1987, 1997].
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Koponen, Seppo, 2000, New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Maritime Province, Russian Far East, pp. 55-68 in Arthropoda Selecta 9 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.822713
description: {"references": ["Mikhailov K. G. 1987. Contribution to the spider fauna of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 of the USSR. I. (Aranei, Gnaphosidae) / / Spixiana. Vol. 10. No. 3. P. 319 - 334.", "Mikhailov K. G. 1997. Catalogue of the spiders of the territories of the former Soviet Union / / Sbornik trudov Zool. Muz. MGU. Vol. 37. 416 pp."]}
Elementi di drammi sacri in due processionali tardomedievali di Cividale del Friuli
Creators: name: Colantuono, Maria Incoronata
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: dramma sacro; Cividale del Friuli; processionale

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
L'interpretazione del testo letterario sottoscritto al musicale nei codici medievali di canto
Creators: name: Bianchi, Chiara
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: testo letterario; canto; Medioevo; tardo

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Clinically Relevant Changes in Family History of Cancer Over Time
Creators: name: Edwards, Karen L.
name: Griffin, Constance A.
name: Kasten, Carol H.
name: Plon, Sharon E.
name: Tomlinson, Gail E.
name: Finkelstein, Dianne M.
name: Domchek, Susan M.
name: Hill, Deirdre A.
name: Moorman, Patricia G.
name: Berg, Jonathan S.
name: Anton-Culver, Hoda
name: Strong, Louise C.
name: Lowery, Jan T.
name: Kinney, Anita Y.
name: Isaacs, Claudine
name: Horick, Nora K.
name: Ziogas, Argyrios
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Knowledge of family cancer history is important for assessing cancer risk and guiding screening recommendations.
Emergence of Exceptional Points in Periodic Metastructures with Hidden PT-symmetric Defects
Creators: name: Fang, Yanghao
name: Kottos, Tsampikos
name: Thevamaran, Ramathasan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the elastodynamics of a periodic metastructure incorporating a defect pair that enforces a parity-time (PT) symmetry due to a judiciously engineered imaginary impedance elements - one having energy amplification (gain) and the other having an equivalent attenuation (loss) mechanism. We show that their presence affects the initial band structure of the periodic Hermitian metastructure and leads to the formation of numerous exceptional points (EPs) which are mainly located at the band edges where the local density of modes is higher. The spatial location of the PT-symmetric defect serves as an additional control over the number of emerging EPs in the corresponding spectra as well as the critical non-Hermitian (gain/loss) strength required to create the first EP - a specific defect location minimizes the critical non-Hermitian strength. We use both finite element and coupled-mode-theory-based models to investigate these metastructures, and use a time-independent second-order perturbation theory to further demonstrate the influence of the size of the metastructure and the PT-symmetric defect location on the minimum non-Hermitian strength required to create the first EP in a band. Our findings motivate feasible designs for the experimental realization of EPs in elastodynamic metastructures.
Il monastero di Sant'Antonio in Polesine a Ferrara e l'iconografia della passione di Cristo
Creators: name: Caselli, Letizia
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: monastero; Polesine; Ferrara; passione; Cristo; iconografia

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Supplementary figures from It's a small world for parasites: evidence supporting the North American invasion of European Echinococcus multilocularis
Creators: name: Santa, Maria A.
name: Umhang, Gerald
name: Klein, Claudia
name: Grant, Danielle M.
name: Ruckstuhl, Kathreen E.
name: Musiani, Marco
name: Gilleard, John S.
name: Massolo, Alessandro
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Sample-size-based rarefaction and extrapolation sampling curves per subregion in Alberta, Canada; Figure S2. Genetic diversity of EmsB assemblages of Echinococcus multilocularis among sub-regions in Alberta, Canada from 2012 to 2017; Figure S3. Analysis of the spatial distribution of EmsB profiles of Echinococcus multilocularis collected in Western Canada from 2012 to 2017.
Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Surgery for Stroke Prevention in Hemodynamic Cerebral Ischemia: The Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study Randomized Trial
Creators: name: Videen, Tom O.
name: Adams, Harold P.
name: Clarke, William R.
name: Grubb, Robert L.
name: Powers, William J.
name: Derdeyn, Colin P.
name: COSS Investigators, for the
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic internal carotid artery occlusion (AICAO) and hemodynamic cerebral ischemia are at high risk for subsequent stroke when treated medically.
Phegea51-4. Stomopteryx flavipalpella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), een nieuwe soort voor de Belgische fauna
Creators: name: Pottier, Jonas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310913
subject: Invertebrate biology

description: In June 2022, an adult of Stomopteryx flavipalpella (Jäckh, 1959) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) was found in a light trap in Genk (Belgium, Limburg). This species is mentioned here for the first time from Belgium.
Micaria dives Lucas 1846
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Koponen, Seppo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Micaria
Micaria dives

description: Micaria dives (Lucas, 1846) * Material examined: 5 ♀♀, [06] Khanka Lake, SNW shore, 45º12'N 131º59.71'E, 17- 18.07.1998, YM. COMMENTS. The first record in the province and in the Russian Far East. Earlier known from Kyrgyzstan [Mikhailov, 1997], Tuva [Logunov et al., 1998], Shanxi and Hebei in China [Song et al., 1999] and Japan (Tsurusaki, personal communication). Found also in Indian Himalayas (personal data).
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Koponen, Seppo, 2000, New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Maritime Province, Russian Far East, pp. 55-68 in Arthropoda Selecta 9 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.822713
description: {"references": ["Mikhailov K. G. 1997. Catalogue of the spiders of the territories of the former Soviet Union / / Sbornik trudov Zool. Muz. MGU. Vol. 37. 416 pp.", "Logunov D. V, Marusik Yu. M, Koponen S. 1998. A check-list of the spiders in Tuva, South Siberia with analysis of their habitat distribution / / Ber. nat-med. Verein Innsbruck. Bd. 85 P. 125 - 159.", "Song DX, Zhu, M. S, Chen, J. 1999. The spiders of China. Hebei Science & Technology Press. 640 pp."]}
Critical phenomena in light-matter systems with collective matter interactions
Creators: name: Romero, Ricardo Herrera
name: Bastarrachea-Magnani, Miguel Angel
name: Linares, Román
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum phase diagram and the onset of quantum critical phenomena in a generalized Dicke model that includes collective qubit-qubit interactions. By employing semiclassical techniques, we analyze the corresponding classical energy surfaces, fixed points, and the smooth Density of States as a function of the Hamiltonian parameters to determine quantum phase transitions in either the ground (QPT) or excited states (ESQPT). We unveil a rich phase diagram, the presence of new phases, and new transitions that result from varying the strength of the qubits interactions in independent canonical directions. We also find a correspondence between the phases emerging due to qubit interactions and those in their absence but with varying the strength of the non-resonant terms in the light-matter coupling. We expect our work to pave the way and stimulate the exploration of quantum criticality in systems combining matter-matter and light-matter interactions.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Detection of Breast Cancer With Addition of Annual Screening Ultrasound or a Single Screening MRI to Mammography in Women With Elevated Breast Cancer Risk
Creators: name: Zhang, Zheng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Annual ultrasound (US) may detect small, node-negative breast cancers not seen on mammography (M). MRI may depict additional breast cancers beyond mammography and ultrasound (M+US).
Forecasting the Cross-Correlation of the CSST galaxy survey with the FAST HI Intensity Map
Creators: name: Deng, Furen
name: Gong, Yan
name: Wang, Yougang
name: Dong, Shuting
name: Cao, Ye
name: Chen, Xuelei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross-correlation of optical galaxies with the neutral hydrogen (HI) radiation intensity can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the HI intensity measurement. In this paper, we investigate the cross-correlation of the galaxy samples obtained by the spectroscopic survey of the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) with the HI Intensity mapping (IM) survey of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). Using the IllusitrisTNG simulation result at redshift $0.2 \sim 0.3$, we generate mock data of the CSST survey and a FAST L-band drift scan survey. The CSST spectroscopic survey can yield a sample of galaxies with a high comoving number density of $10^{-2} (\unit{Mpc}/h)^{-3}$ at $z \sim 0.3$. We cross-correlate the foreground-removed radio intensity with the CSST galaxies, including both the whole sample, and red and blue galaxy sub-samples separately. We find that in all cases the HI and optical galaxies are well correlated. The total HI abundance can be measured with a high precision from this correlation. A relative error of $\sim 0.6\%$ for $Ω_{\rm HI}$ could be achieved at $z\sim 0.3$ for an overlapping survey area of $10000 \unit{deg}^2$.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
Elementi di democrazia negli statuti comunali medievali: lo Statuto di Sassoferrato
Creators: name: Grégoire, Reginald
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: democrazia; statuti; comune; Sassoferrato

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Multikulti in Ladakh oder Ende des Shangri-la?
Creators: name: Maurer, Petra
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Das einstige Königreich Ladakh mit seiner multikulturellen und -religiösen Bevölkerung galt Fernreisenden lange als unzugängliches Shangri-la. Das änderte sich mit der Öffnung des Landes für die Touristen ab Mitte der 1970er Jahre. Innerhalb der Region nahmen die lange schwelenden Feindseligkeiten zu. Dafür gab es handfeste ökonomische Gründe, die mit der Öffnung zusammenhingen: Die kommerziell erfolgreichen ar-gon, Muslime mit einem muslimischen Vater und einer ladakhischen, zum Islam konvertierten Mutter, boten mit als erste den Touristen Unterkünfte oder ihre Fähigkeiten als Touristenführer an. Sie erweckten damit die Missgunst der Buddhisten, die der Regierung eine einseitige Bevorzugung der muslimischen Kaschmiris nachsagten.
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Modernisierung plus Traditionalisierung
Creators: name: Reifenrath, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Das Guinness Buch der Rekorde verzeichnet den 1995 eröffneten Swaminarayan-Tempel in einem nordwestlichen Stadtteil der britischen Hauptstadt London als den größten hinduistischen Tempel außerhalb des indischen Subkontinents. Ohne finanzielle Unterstützung von außen hatte eine hinduistische Reformgemeinschaft in der Diaspora die Mittel dazu aufgebracht, sich mit einer ganz im Gujarati-Stil gehaltenen Kultstätte ein viel besuchtes Monument des selbstbewussten Hinduismus in einer stark säkularisierten Umwelt zu setzen. Der folgende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit den Frauen, die sich in und um den Tempel engagieren, hier einen Lebensmittelpunkt sehen und ihre Identität mit der hergebrachten Tradition verknüpfen wollen. Bei allen von mir interviewten Frauen zeigte sich eine ausgesprochene Bereitschaft, westliche und säkulare Lebensformen selektiv anzunehmen, während gleichzeitig „Hindu-Identität“ unangetastet bleiben soll.
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Supplementary material from “Artificial light at night increases top-down pressure on caterpillars: experimental evidence from a light-naive forest”
Creators: name: Deitsch, John F.
name: Kaiser, Sara A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: A. Supplementary figures S1-S5; B. Supplementary tables S1-S8; C. Taxa-specific results – comparison between sampling methods, Table S9
Synthese von Dalits und Brahmanen?
Creators: name: Prasad, Chandra Bhan
name: Bellwinkel-Schempp, Maren
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Als Führerin der Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh ist Mayawati eine der prominentesten Dalit-Politaktivistinnen Indiens. Schon vor ihrem sensationellen Sieg bei den Landtagswahlen Anfang Mai hatte sie bereits in den 1990er Jahren zweimal auf dem Posten des „chief minister“ des größten indischen Gliedstaates mit seinen 170 Millionen Einwohnern gesessen – doch jedes Mal war ihre Koalitionsregierung nach kurzer Zeit und unter wenig erbaulichen Umständen wieder zusammengebrochen. Mayawati, die sich jetzt auf eine bequeme absolute Mehrheit der Parlamentssitze stützen kann, gilt als politische Interessenvertreterin der Dalits – oder, ihrem eigenen Programm gemäß, der Bahujan – das heißt, der marginalisierten Hälfte der indischen Gesellschaft. Ihre Hinwendung zur brahmanischen „vote bank“ hat sich nun als ein Erfolgsrezept erwiesen, das durchaus Schule machen könnte. In ihren besten Zeiten hatte auch die Kongresspartei geleistet, was jetzt der BSP zu gelingen scheint – die Vereinigung der Interessen derer ganz unten und derer ganz oben in der sozialen Hierarchie. Im folgenden Artikel, geschrieben noch vor dem Erdrutschsieg Mayawatis (vgl. Indienmeldungen), geht der Autor den Hintergründen des politischen Tauwetters zwischen den beiden entgegen gesetzten Polen der indischen Gesellschaft nach (die Red.).
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Birefringence induced by antiferroelectric switching in transparent polycrystalline $PbZr_{0.95}Ti_{0.05}O_{3}$ film
Creators: name: Biswas, Pranab Parimal
name: Milesi-Brault, Cosme
name: Martínez, Alfredo Blázquez
name: Aruchamy, Naveen
name: Song, Longfei
name: Kovacova, Veronika
name: Glinsek, Sebastjan
name: Granzow, Torsten
name: Defay, Emmanuel
name: Guennou, Mael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most characteristic functional property of antiferroelectric materials is the possibility to induce a phase transition from a non-polar to a polar phase by an electric field. Here, we investigate the effect of this field-induced phase transition on the birefringence change of $PbZr_{0.95}Ti_{0.05}O_{3}$. We use a transparent polycrystalline $PbZr_{0.95}Ti_{0.05}O_{3}$ film grown on $PbTiO_{3}/HfO_{2}/SiO_{2}$ with interdigitated electrodes to directly investigate changes in birefringence in a simple transmission geometry. In spite of the polycrystalline nature of the film and its moderate thickness, the field-induced transition produces a sizeable effect observable under a polarized microscope. The film in its polar phase is found to behave like a homogeneous birefringent medium. The time evolution of this field-induced birefringence provides information about irreversibilities in the antiferroelectric switching process and its slow dynamics. The change in birefringence has two main contributions, one that responds briskly (~ 0.5 s), and a slower one that rises and saturates over a period of as long as 30 minutes. Possible origins for this long saturation and relaxation times are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Effect of Silymarin (Milk Thistle) on Liver Disease in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Unsuccessfully Treated With Interferon Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Fried, Michael W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The botanical product silymarin, an extract of milk thistle, is commonly used by patients to treat chronic liver disease, despite scant and conflicting evidence of its efficacy.
Testimonianze di edifici religiosi del Medioevo veneto: la chiesa di San Salvatore a Montecchia di Crosara
Creators: name: Ferrero, Marco
name: Padoan, Alessandro
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: Medioevo; San Salvatore; Montecchia; chiesa

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Micaria japonica Hayashi 1985
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Koponen, Seppo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Micaria
Micaria japonica

description: Micaria japonica Hayashi, 1985 ** Chikuni, 1989: 121, f. 18; Namkung et al., 1995: f. 1-4. Material examined: 1 ♀, [03] Khanka Lata, SF. shore, 44º39'N 132°34'E, 15- 16:07.1998, YM.; 1 ♀, Lazo Town, Lazovka River valley, 43º23'N 133º54'E, 17.04.1999, YS. COMMENTS. The first record in Russia, earlier known only from Japan (Tsurusaki, personal communication) and Korea [Namkung et al., 1996). Rather close to M. tripunctata, also known from the Far East (see below), but can be easily separated by the considerably wider apical epigynal pocket, shape of tegulum and o f palpal tibia. Maybe conspecific with M.violens Oliger, 1983, described from the Maritime Province.
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Koponen, Seppo, 2000, New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Maritime Province, Russian Far East, pp. 55-68 in Arthropoda Selecta 9 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.822713
description: {"references": ["Chikuni Y. 1989. Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Tokyo: Kaiseisha Publ. 308 pp. [in Japanese]", "Namkung J., Im M. S., Kim S. T. 1995. One unrecorded spider of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Korea / / Ibid. Vol. ll. No. l. P. 39 - 42.", "Oliger T. I. 1983. New species of spider families (Pholcidae, Clubionidae, Agelcnidae) from the Lazovskiy State Reserve / / Zool. Zhurn. Vol. 62. No. 4. P. 627 - 629 [in Russian, with English summary],"]}
Identification of Lynch Syndrome Among Patients With Colorectal Cancer
Creators: name: Moreno, Victor
name: Gallinger, Steven
name: Le Marchand, Loic
name: Gunawardena, Shanaka
name: de la Chapelle, Albert
name: Hopper, John L.
name: Newcomb, Polly A.
name: Ahnen, Dennis J.
name: Castells, Antoni
name: EPICOLON Consortium, for the
name: Baron, John A.
name: Rustgi, Anil K.
name: Aaltonen, Lauri A.
name: Moreira, Leticia
name: Potter, John D.
name: Haile, Robert
name: Thibodeau, Stephen N.
name: Buchanan, Daniel D.
name: Ponz de Leon, Maurizio
name: Hampel, Heather
name: Lindor, Noralane
name: Balaguer, Francesc
name: Andreu, Montserrat
name: Jenkins, Mark A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Lynch syndrome is the most common form of hereditary colorectal cancer (CRC) and is caused by germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Identification of gene carriers currently relies on germline analysis in patients with MMR-deficient tumors, but criteria to select individuals in whom tumor MMR testing should be performed are unclear.
Le pitture murali della cripta di Aquileia nella cultura artistica bizantina
Creators: name: Mason, Mara
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: Aquileia; pitture murali; cripta; bizantine

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Im Dienste der Elite?
Creators: name: Kürschner-Pelkmann, Frank
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Auf kaum einem anderen Gebiet zeigen sich die Stärken und Erfolge der indischen Kirchen so deutlich wie im Bildungswesen, und kaum irgendwo werden gleichzeitig ihre Schwächen und ihre ungelösten Probleme so sichtbar. Kirchliche Schulen und Hochschulen zeigen: Religion ist mehr als eine Option für das Jenseits und auch mehr als ein Instrument zum sozialen und ökonomischen Aufstieg – oder sollte es doch wenigstens sein.
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Ecclesiastici medievali e canto: arte, allegoresi e problemi pastorali
Creators: name: Cignoni, Francesco
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: canto; Medioevo; pastorale; arte

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Non-factorizable charming loops in FCNC B decays vs B-decay semileptonic form factors
Creators: name: Melikhov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare a non-factorizable charming-loop correction to an exclusive FCNC $B$-decay given in terms of the 3-particle Bethe-Salpeter amplitude (3BS) of the $B$-meson, $\langle 0|\bar q(x)G_{μν}(z)b(0)|B(p)\rangle$, with the corresponding correction to the $B$-meson semileptonic form factor. In spite of certain similarities, these two corrections are shown to have substantial differences: The form factor correction is dominated by the collinear light-cone configuration of 3BS: $z_μ= u x_μ$, $0 < u < 1$, $x^2=0$. In contrast, the FCNC amplitude is dominated by a different configuration with non-collinear arguments: $x^2=0$, $z^2=0$, but $(x-z)^2\ne 0$ (i.e., $z_μ\ne u x_μ$).
description: 10 pages, a few comments added, version accepted to PRD
Phegea51-4. A rare natural melanistic aberration of Melitaea trivia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) found during a spring field study in Dobrogea, Romania
Creators: name: Parmentier, Laurian
name: Van de Velde, Philippe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310913
subject: Invertebrate biology

description: During a field study in spring 2022 the goal was to monitor pollinators in underexplored habitats in Eastern Romania, Dobrogea province. Here, also different populations of spring butterflies were observed, including those of the Lesser Spotted Fritillary Melitaea trivia (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1975) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). In the Tulceae area, near Babadag, in broadleaved, deciduous woodland steppe with understorey vegetation and clearings, a rare natural melanistic aberration of a M. trivia male was found. Pictures of the aberration are shown and compared with upper- and undersides of typical wing patterns, and with similar artificial aberrations produced with injections of sodium tungstate in controlled lab conditions. Such aberrant morph types are discussed in relation to cold shock during the pupation stage and compared to melanistic specimens generated under artificially controlled conditions.
Zwei Jahrtausende alte Geschichte
Creators: name: Mentschel, Stefan
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Manipur ist seit 1949 Teil der Indischen Union. Doch das kleine Land kann auf eine eigene reiche Kultur- und Zivilisationsgeschichte sowie fast 2 000 Jahre als unabhängiges Königreich zurückblicken. Erste schriftliche Zeugnisse datieren auf das Jahr 33, in dem eine Dynastie begründet wurde, die bis 1891 die Geschicke Manipurs bestimmen sollten. Das Jahr 33 markiert aber auch den Beginn einer einzigartigen Religion, die unter dem Namen Sanamahi bis heute das Leben der Menschen in dieser Region prägt.
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Religiosität der Dalits als gesellschaftlicher Gegenentwurf
Creators: name: Bellwinkel-Schempp, Maren
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Die Dalits in Indien feierten im letzten Jahr ein großes Jubiläum – den 50. Jahrestag des Übertritts Dr. B.R. Ambedkars zum Buddhismus, den der bedeutende Unberührbarenführer und „Architekt der indischen Verfassung“ am 14. Oktober 1956 mit zahlreichen Anhängern in Nagpur im Unionsstaat Madhya Pradesh vollzogen hatte. Der Buddhismus war von Ambedkar für sich und die Dalits ausgesucht worden, weil er eine friedliebende und egalitäre Religion ist, die auf den Prinzipien der Brüderlichkeit und Nächstenliebe beruht und die mit ihrem rationalistischen Ansatz gut in die moderne Zeit passt.
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Vortex solitons in twisted circular waveguide arrays
Creators: name: Dong, Liangwei
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Torner, Lluis
name: Ferrando, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the formation of topological states in twisted circular waveguide arrays and find that twisting leads to important differences of the fundamental properties of new vortex solitons with opposite topological charges that arise in the nonlinear regime. We find that such system features the rare property that clockwise and counter-clockwise vortex states are nonequivalent. Focusing on arrays with C_{6v} discrete rotation symmetry, we find that a longitudinal twist stabilizes the vortex solitons with the lowest topological charges m=+-1, which are always unstable in untwisted arrays with the same symmetry. Twisting also leads to the appearance of instability domains for otherwise stable solitons with m=+-2 and generates vortex modes with topological charges m=+-3 that are forbidden in untwisted arrays. By and large, we establish a rigorous relation between the discrete rotation symmetry of the array, its twist direction, and the possible soliton topological charges.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters
INHALED HYPERTONIC SALINE IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN LESS THAN SIX YEARS OF AGE WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS: THE ISIS RANDOMIZED TRIAL
Creators: name: Ratjen, Felix
name: Rosenfeld, Margaret
name: ISIS Study Group, for the
name: McNamara, Sharon
name: Daniel, Stephen
name: Rowbotham, Ron
name: Brumback, Lyndia
name: Davis, Stephanie D.
name: Kronmal, Richard
name: Johnson, Robin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Inhaled hypertonic saline is recommended as therapy for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients 6 years of age and older, but its efficacy has never been evaluated in CF patients <6 years of age.
Karl Hescheler [1868-1940]
Creators: name: Kuhn-Schnyder, Emil
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Hescheler, Karl
subject: Schönenwerd
subject: Zürich
subject: Zoologe

description: Sonderdruck aus: Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, 31
Micaria tripunctata Holm 1978
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Koponen, Seppo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Micaria
Micaria tripunctata

description: Micaria tripunctata Holm, 1978 * Holm, 1978: f.1-5; Wunderlich, 1979: f. I7 a-c, 39; Platnick & Shadab, 1988: f. 6-9; Platnick & Dondale. 1992: f. 28-31. Material examined: 3 ♀♀, Lazovski Reserve, America Kordon, 43º16.5'N 134º03'E, 14- 17.05.1999, YS; 2 ♀♀ 1 ♂, Sikliote- Alinskv Reserye, Kabany Kordon, 45º08.3'N 135°52.7'E, 650— 900 m taiga, 30.06- 4.07.1999, YS. COMMENTS. The first record in the province and the southernmost point o f distribution. Trans-Palaearctic-West Nearctic boreal range: from Fennoscandia to Yakutia, and the Maritime Province, to the north to the Polar Urals, and to the south to Tuva and Chita Area [M ikhailov, 1987, 1997], In Nearctic known from A laska to northern Manitoba [Dondale et al., 1997],
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Koponen, Seppo, 2000, New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Maritime Province, Russian Far East, pp. 55-68 in Arthropoda Selecta 9 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.822713
description: {"references": ["Holm A. 1978. Spiders of the genus Micaria Westr. from the Tornetrask area in Northern Swedish Lapland / / Entomol. Scand. Vol. 9. No. l. P. 68 - 74.", "Wunderlich J. 1979. Revision der europaischen Arten der Gattung Micaria Westring 1851, mit Anmerkungen zu den ubrigen palaarktischen Arten (Arachnida: Araneida: Gna- phosidae) / / ZooL Beitr. (N. F.). Bd. 25. S. 233 - 341.", "Platnick N. I, Shadab M. U. 1988. A revision of the American spiders of the genus Micaria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) / / Amer. Mus. Novit. No. 2916. P. l - 64.", "Platnick N. I, Dondale C D. 1992. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) / / The insects and arachnids of Canada 19. Res. Branch, Agric. Canada, Publ. No. 1875. P. l- 297.", "Mikhailov K. G. 1987. Contribution to the spider fauna of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 of the USSR. I. (Aranei, Gnaphosidae) / / Spixiana. Vol. 10. No. 3. P. 319 - 334.", "Mikhailov K. G. 1997. Catalogue of the spiders of the territories of the former Soviet Union / / Sbornik trudov Zool. Muz. MGU. Vol. 37. 416 pp.", "Dondale C. D., Redner J. H., Marusik Yu. _ M. 1997. Spiders (Arane - ae) of the Yukon / / (ed. Danks, H. V.) Insects of the Yukon. Ottawa. P. 73 - 113."]}
Religion, Kultur und Nation im modernen Indien: Die christliche Konversion hochkastiger Hindus
Creators: name: Chandra, Sudhir
name: Wessler, Heinz Werner
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Gegen Ende des blutigen 20. Jahrhunderts wandte sich die kommunalistische hinduistische Gewalt plötzlich gegen die Gemeinschaft der Christen in Indien. Es begann in Gujarat im Westen und breitete sich bis nach Orissa im Osten aus, wo der Missionar Graham Stein und seine beiden Söhne lebendig verbrannt wurden. Indische Christen fühlten sich zum ersten Mal in ihrem eigenen Land unter Belagerung. Nach der Welle organisierter Gewalt gegen die Sikhs im Jahr 1984 und die Muslime 1990-92, diente dies ein weiteres Mal zur Vergewisserung exklusivistischer hinduistischer Ansprüche – z.B. der Anspruch, dass der Hinduismus Indien konstituiere, während die anderen religiösen Gemeinschaften unter seiner Schirmherrschaft leben müssten. Was die Sache noch schlimmer macht, ist die Tatsache, dass weit mehr als die unmittelbaren Verteidiger der Hindutva-Ideologie zu dieser Gleichsetzung von Hinduismus und Indien tendieren. Historiker betrachten vergangene Zeiten angesichts kritischer Ereignisse auf ihre eigene Weise. Während mich die Gewalt gegen Christen innerlich sehr bewegte, dachte ich an die vergessene christliche Präsenz bei der Entstehung des modernen Indien.
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Il simbolismo dei cibi sacri nel Medioevo
Creators: name: Francavilla, Gabriele
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: cibo; sacro; simbolismo; Medioevo

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Il linguaggio musicale delle laude cortonesi
Creators: name: Angeletti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: musica; laude; cortonesi; linguaggio

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
"Psalterium adinstar instrumenti musici nominatum esse dubium non est": esegesi dei Salmi e indagine organologica
Creators: name: Pasetti, Anna
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: esegesi; salmi; psalterium

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
Soziale Emanzipation und religiöse Konversion
Creators: name: Bellwinkel-Schempp, Maren
name: Hahn, Walter
name: Ilaiah, Kancha
name: Prasad, Chandra Bhan
name: Bhalesain, Praveen
name: Wessler, Heinz Werner
name: Mentschel, Stefan
name: Rimscha, Marina
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Im Oktober 2006 jährte sich die Konversion B.R. Ambedkars zum fünfzigsten Mal – wenige Wochen vor dem Tod des berühmten Dalit-Führers, ehemaligen Justizministers und „Vaters der indischen Verfassung“. In Indien wurde das Jubiläum auf vielfache Weise und vielerorts gefeiert. Die „Dalit Solidarität in Deutschland“ stellte ihre Jahresversammlung in Königswinter (1.-3.12.2006) daher unter das Motto „Soziale Emanzipation und Konversion zum Buddhismus: 50 Jahre Ambedkars Konversion“. Zwei illustre Gäste hatten den Weg nach Deutschland gefunden: Kancha Ilaiah (Hyderabad), bekannt insbesondere durch sein umstrittenes Buch Why I am not a Hindu, sowie Chandra Bhan Prasad, der seit 1999 in der eher konservativen Zeitung The Pioneer eine Kolumne unter dem Titel „Dalit Diary“ betreibt. Prasad gehört zu den prominentesten, aber auch provokativsten Stimmen der Dalit-Intelligenz. Ilaiah ist selbst Angehöriger der so genannten Other Backward Classes (OBC) und ist somit zwar niedrigkastiger Herkunft, aber kein Dalit. Im Folgenden ist die Schlussdiskussion der Jahresversammlung (gekürzt) dokumentiert. Teilnehmer: Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp (Anthropologin, Stuttgart), Walter Hahn (Koordinator Dalit Plattform Deutschland, Stuttgart), Kancha Ilaiah (Politologe, Hyderabad), Chandra Bhan Prasad (Freier Journalist, Neu-Delhi), Praveen Bhalesain (IT-Spezialist und Journalist, Nagpur). Moderation: Heinz Werner Wessler (Indologe, Bonn).
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
SFB1391_C05_Homepage UB-Ausstellung Co-Kreativität
Creators: name: Bauer, Matthias
name: Zirker, Angelika
name: Rogalski, Sara
name: Wetzel, Sandra-Madeleine
name: Herak, Yves
name: Felchle, Rebecca
name: Kunz, Tobias
name: Stövener, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Homepage zur Ausstellung „Co-Kreativität in der englischen Literatur im Wandel der Zeiten: von Shakespeare zu FanFiction“, die vom Teilprojekt C05 „Die Ästhetik gemeinschaftlicher Autorschaft in der englischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit“ des SFB 1391 im Juni 2022 in der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen kuratiert wurde.
„Konversion“ zum Islam versus „Neubestätigung“ des hinduistischen Glaubens
Creators: name: Schneider, Nadja-Christina
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: Anfang der 1980er Jahre führte die Verknüpfung des Konversions-Topos mit den global zirkulierenden Feindbildern des arabischen und iranischen Islams dazu, dass ein Kollektivübertritt von Dalits in einem südindischen Dorf erstmals im nachkolonialen Indien den tief sitzenden Übervölkerungskomplex der Hindu-Mehrheit durch die muslimische Minderheit auslöste beziehungsweise nachhaltig bestärkte. Missionarische Aktivitäten seitens muslimischer Organisationen sowie Übertritte von Hindus zum Islam führen in Indien immer wieder zu erbitterten Kontroversen.
description: Südasien, Bd. 27 Nr. 2 (2007): Kulturkampf und Vision: Religion im 21. Jahrhundert
Ipotesi sul progetto d'architettura nel periodo medievale
Creators: name: Sernicola, Roberto
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1998
Subjects: architettura; Medioevo; progettistica

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 1 (1998)
"Am I Private and If So, how Many?" - Communicating Privacy Guarantees of Differential Privacy with Risk Communication Formats
Creators: name: Franzen, Daniel
name: von Voigt, Saskia Nuñez
name: Sörries, Peter
name: Tschorsch, Florian
name: Müller-Birn, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Decisions about sharing personal information are not trivial, since there are many legitimate and important purposes for such data collection, but often the collected data can reveal sensitive information about individuals. Privacy-preserving technologies, such as differential privacy (DP), can be employed to protect the privacy of individuals and, furthermore, provide mathematically sound guarantees on the maximum privacy risk. However, they can only support informed privacy decisions, if individuals understand the provided privacy guarantees. This article proposes a novel approach for communicating privacy guarantees to support individuals in their privacy decisions when sharing data. For this, we adopt risk communication formats from the medical domain in conjunction with a model for privacy guarantees of DP to create quantitative privacy risk notifications. We conducted a crowd-sourced study with 343 participants to evaluate how well our notifications conveyed the privacy risk information and how confident participants were about their own understanding of the privacy risk. Our findings suggest that these new notifications can communicate the objective information similarly well to currently used qualitative notifications, but left individuals less confident in their understanding. We also discovered that several of our notifications and the currently used qualitative notification disadvantage individuals with low numeracy: these individuals appear overconfident compared to their actual understanding of the associated privacy risks and are, therefore, less likely to seek the needed additional information before an informed decision. The promising results allow for multiple directions in future research, for example, adding visual aids or tailoring privacy risk communication to characteristics of the individuals.
description: Accepted to ACM CCS 2022. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2204.04061
Team Infrastructure Roles in open research culture
Creators: name: Bennett, Arielle
name: Hostler, Thomas
name: Plomp, Esther
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Team Infrastructure Roles
Open Research
Open Science
Research Software Engineers
Research Community Managers
Professional Support

description: Presentation by Esther, Arielle, and Tom for the OpenFest online Symposium: New Perspectives on Open Research (online, 7 September 2023). The rise of large research teams addressing complex challenges and a focus on improving openness of research has necessitated the growth of professional team infrastructure roles (TIRs) who support research through specialised skills. TIRs play an important role in ensuring the success of a research project. Nevertheless, contributions by TIRs are neglected in the current research culture that rewards publication authorship and competition instead of collaboration on diverse research outputs and processes, even when it comes to open science. This talk will introduce case studies of TIR activities, propose system level changes to recognise TIR contributions and invite attendees to reimagine their vision for the future of research and the people that contribute to the process. Acknowledging the contributions of all research roles will help retain skill and expertise, and lead to collaborative research ecosystems that are well-positioned to address complex research challenges.
Liturgia aquileiese e rito patriarchino in alcuni libri liturgico-musicali di Cividale del Friuli
Creators: name: Colantuono, Maria Incoronata
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1999
Subjects: liturgia; Aquileia; patriarcato; musica

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 2 (1999)
Teoria, produzione e ricezione della lirica romanza medievale. Alcune questioni di metodo
Creators: name: Lannutti, Maria Sofia
Publisher: name: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
Year: 1999
Subjects: lirica; romanza; teoria; Medioevo

description: I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, V. 2 (1999)
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Proton Therapy, or Conformal Radiation Therapy and Morbidity and Disease Control in Localized Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Goldin, Gregg H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: There has been rapid adoption of newer radiation treatments such as intensitymodulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton therapy despite greater cost and limited demonstrated benefit compared with previous technologies.
Odontodrassus hondoensis Saito 1939
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Koponen, Seppo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Odontodrassus
Odontodrassus hondoensis

description: Odontodrassus hondoensis (Saito, 1939)** Kamura, 1987: f. 1-8; Songet al., 1999: f. 264j, 265n. Material examined: 1♀, [21] Khasan Distr, env. of Andreevka Vill., 42º35-36'N 131°13'E, 11- 15.08.1998, YM COMMENTS. The first record for both the genus and species in Russia. Earlier known from Japan, Korea and Hubei, central China [Song et al., 1999],
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Koponen, Seppo, 2000, New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Maritime Province, Russian Far East, pp. 55-68 in Arthropoda Selecta 9 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.822713
description: {"references": ["Kamura T. 1987. Redescription of Qdontodrassus bondoensis (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) / / Proc. Jap. Soc. Syst. Zool. Vol. 36. P. 29 - 33.", "Song DX, Zhu, M. S, Chen, J. 1999. The spiders of China. Hebei Science & Technology Press. 640 pp."]}
Awareness, Knowledge and Perception of Forest Dependent Communities on Climate Change in Malawi: A Case of Mchinji and Phirilongwe Forest Reserves in Malawi
Creators: name: Chisale, Harold L.W.
name: Chirwa, Paxie W.
name: Babalola, Folaranmi D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Projected climate change presents many challenges and opportunities for individuals, households and wider society on how to adapt. Local knowledge is key to help smallholder farmers to cope with climate change and variability to attain sustainable forest management. However, there is limited understanding of what shapes human adaptation to climate change in various sectors at local level including forestry in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, this study explored the awareness, knowledge and perception of forest-dependent communities on climate change and variability around Phirilongwe and Mchinji forest reserves in Malawi. Empirical data was collected using household surveys (n = 422), key informant interviews (16), and focus group discussions (8). Results suggest that 60% of respondents in Mchinji were aware of climate change as compared to only 35% in Mangochi. Results record that respondents perceived increased erratic rainfall, high temperatures and strong winds and changes in seasons. The main factors influencing their climate perception includes possession of farming skills (p = .002), Education (P = .04), gender (P = .002) and possession of livestock keeping skills (p = .02). However, the cube root stratification method indicates that their level of knowledge falls in the low-level category. Although negligible proportion of climate skepticisms was exposed, a strong belief in anthropogenic causes of climate change and willingness to adopt environmental friendly intervention measures were revealed. However, the presence of the believers in the cultural and spiritual causes of climate change in the study area presents a challenge to mobilize them toward implementation of climate intervention measures and forest management. We therefore recommend their participation in the climate adaptation intervention designs and multiple use of various strategies and methods that will help to address their livelihoods at the same time improve their climate information and knowledge.