cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Galactic Geons: Revisiting the Dark Matter Paradigm
Creators: name: Van Nieuwenhove, Rudi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: geon
galactic
dark matter
rotation curve
modified gravity

description: This study presents the mathematical derivation of geons, gravitationally stable spacetime structures, as an alternative to dark matter. Assuming galaxies are embedded in galactic-sized geons, the observed flat galaxy rotation curves can be explained without requiring the standard dark matter halo. This concept has been applied to the case of the Milky Way and profiles of density, pressure and rotation velocity have been derived, demonstrating a close correspondence with the observations. The geon’s Gaussian density profile naturally explains the flat central density cores observed in dwarf galaxies, providing a compelling solution to the core-cusp problem. Furthermore, the early formation of geons shortly after the Big Bang offers a framework for understanding the rapid emergence of massive galaxies, addressing the challenges posed by recent James Webb Space Telescope observations. These findings suggest that geons could serve as both the gravitational scaffolding for galaxy formation and a replacement for cold dark matter, unifying multiple cosmological phenomena under a single theoretical framework.
Representing U.S.-Korea Relations, 1871-1923
Creators: name: Song, Grace Ah Reum
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation shows the United States’ cultural imaginings of Korea from 1871 to 1923. The representations that the United States developed of Korea had consequences for how the two countries engaged with each other politically. From the 1870s until 1882 the United States media represented Korea and Koreans as “savages” and “barbaric,” justifying the United States’ violent actions in Korea during the Battle of Kanghwa (1871). After the Shufeldt Treaty was signed and until the turn of the twentieth century, the United States represented Korea as a country with the potential for development and growth in commercial relations. However, in 1905, Korea became a protectorate of Japan through the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth. In the aftermath, the United States’ media represented Korea as a state requiring tutelage from a stronger nation. Japan quickly annexed Korea to become its colony by 1910. In the years that followed, the United States’ public came to forget its prior history of relations with an independent Korea. I argue that while the United States public and government had viewed Korea as backwards and non-sovereign from the beginning of its formal relations, the idea of Korea as a “hermit kingdom” was not fixed from the start. It developed in the context of complex geopolitics and U.S. imperial ambitions. This idea of the “hermit kingdom” led to an active forgetting of a period in U.S.-Korea relations when Korea was an independent state. Without considering how the United States first created a representation of a “hermit” Korea in the nineteenth century, we cannot fully grapple with the history of sovereignty in Korea, the course of U.S.-Korean relations in the mid-twentieth century, or the long history of U.S. projections of power in East Asia.
Fair Evaluation of Federated Learning Algorithms for Automated Breast Density Classification: The Results of the 2022 ACR-NCI-NVIDIA Federated Learning Challenge
Creators: name: Schmidt, Kendall
name: Bearce, Benjamin
name: Chang, Ken
name: Coombs, Laura
name: Farahani, Keyvan
name: Elbatele, Marawan
name: Mouhebe, Kaouther
name: Marti, Robert
name: Zhang, Ruipeng
name: Zhang, Yao
name: Wang, Yanfeng
name: Hu, Yaojun
name: Ying, Haochao
name: Xu, Yuyang
name: Testagrose, Conrad
name: Demirer, Mutlu
name: Gupta, Vikash
name: Akünal, Ünal
name: Bujotzek, Markus
name: Maier-Hein, Klaus H.
name: Qin, Yi
name: Li, Xiaomeng
name: Kalpathy-Cramer, Jayashree
name: Roth, Holger R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The correct interpretation of breast density is important in the assessment of breast cancer risk. AI has been shown capable of accurately predicting breast density, however, due to the differences in imaging characteristics across mammography systems, models built using data from one system do not generalize well to other systems. Though federated learning (FL) has emerged as a way to improve the generalizability of AI without the need to share data, the best way to preserve features from all training data during FL is an active area of research. To explore FL methodology, the breast density classification FL challenge was hosted in partnership with the American College of Radiology, Harvard Medical School's Mass General Brigham, University of Colorado, NVIDIA, and the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute. Challenge participants were able to submit docker containers capable of implementing FL on three simulated medical facilities, each containing a unique large mammography dataset. The breast density FL challenge ran from June 15 to September 5, 2022, attracting seven finalists from around the world. The winning FL submission reached a linear kappa score of 0.653 on the challenge test data and 0.413 on an external testing dataset, scoring comparably to a model trained on the same data in a central location.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Développement d'un vérificateur embarqué pour la détection des vulnérabilités des réseaux WIFI
Creators: name: ELGORMA Mourad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: les attaques DDOS
WIFI-Détecter
Carte embarquée Beaglebone black
Vulnérabilités des réseaux WIFI

description: Il est courant dans une institution de déployer plusieurs noeuds permettant l’accès au réseau local éventuellement à Internet. Des noeuds qui sont déployés de manière désordonnés et qui peuvent souffrir de vulnérabilités vis-à-vis de la sécurité et l’intégrité des données. Le projet vise à développer un dispositif à base d’une carte embarquée du type beaglebone black pour capturer l’existence des réseaux wifi à sa portée. Ce dispositif doit être capable de tester le niveau de sécurité du point d’accès détectés.
description: Vulnérabilités des réseaux WIFI-Carte embarquée Beaglebone black Pour la détection Les scanners des réseaux WIFI-Détecter les attaques DDOS.-Détecter les attaques MITM
title: National integration and the vicissitudes of state power in Ghana : The political incorporation of Likpe, a border community, 1945-1986.
Creators: name: Nugent, Paul Christopher
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1991

description: This is a study of the processes through which the former Togoland Trust Territory has come to constitute an integral part of modern Ghana. As the section of the country that was most recently appended, the territory has often seemed the most likely candidate for the eruption of separatist tendencies. The comparative weakness of such tendencies, in spite of economic crisis and governmental failure, deserves closer examination. This study adopts an approach which is local in focus (the area being Likpe), but one which endeavours at every stage to link the analysis to unfolding processes at the Regional and national levels. Part One of the thesis deals with the background to, and the trajectory of, the Togoland unification movement which surfaced after 1945. Both the appeal of the movement and its inherent limitations are attributed to the legacy of uneven development bequeathed by a minimalist colonial state. Having presented an overview of the movement, the third Chapter examines the intersection between local politics and the strength of opinion on the unification question in Likpe. The generational differences between the contending parties, which are related to educational indices, help to explain not only the victory of the Convention People's Party, but also the triumph of the integrationist ideal. Furthermore, it is possible to account for the greater receptivity of the Central Togo minorities in the light of the marks left by British administrative policy. Part Two assesses the impact of the deteriorating environment of the 1970s upon political consciousness in the Volta Region. The failure of the secessionist movement is examined, as is the contention that most rural communities preferred simply to retreat from the centre. Particular attention is paid to cross- border smuggling, which has been little studied, and to the political ramifications thereof. This section draws both on extensive interviews amongst the Bakpele, whose experience of these events is most distinctive, as well as on official documentation. Part Three considers the efforts of the Rawlings regime to more closely integrate centre and periphery, whilst returning to a nonstatist model of governance. The revolutionary phase and the subsequent change of direction are both examined through the prism of Likpe. An analysis is made of government efforts to stamp out smuggling with the active cooperation of border communities. The final Chapter evaluates local reactions to the political reform programme, which turned out to be supportive yet at variance with the official perspective. The introductory and concluding Chapters endeavour to tease out the implications of the study for the wider debate concerning the interaction between state and civil society in contemporary Africa.
Towards Provably Secure Encrypted Control Using Homomorphic Encryption
Creators: name: Teranishi, Kaoru
name: Kogiso, Kiminao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Encrypted control is a promising method for the secure outsourcing of controller computation to a public cloud. However, a feasible method for security proofs of control has not yet been developed in the field of encrypted control systems. Additionally, cryptography does not consider certain types of attacks on encrypted control systems; therefore, the security of such a system cannot be guaranteed using a secure cryptosystem. This study proposes a novel security definition for encrypted control under attack for control systems using cryptography. It applies the concept of provable security, which is the security of cryptosystems based on mathematical proofs, to encrypted control systems. Furthermore, this study analyzes the relation between the proposed security and the conventional security of cryptosystems. The results of the analysis demonstrated that the security of an encrypted control system can be enhanced by employing secure homomorphic encryption.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
title: A study of the plays of Chen Baichen.
Creators: name: Chan, L-Y. A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1991

description: Chen Baichen (1908 - ) was one of the most prolific playwrights in China during the 1930s and 1940s, which was the golden age of modern Chinese drama. His plays range from the most serious and pathetic to the fantastic and farcical, drawing material from legends, historical events, current and contemporary issues. The object of this study is to investigate the range and quality of Chen's plays, and thence to identify those characteristics which he shared with other modern Chinese playwrights and those peculiar to him. This thesis consists of six chapters. The first two are of introductory nature, giving an idea of the objective and methods used in the study, as well as some background information on Chen's life and his playwriting career. Chapters three to five carry the main emphasis of the thesis, dealing with Chen's plays written during different stages in his life. Each chapter is devoted to one period, and detailed analysis of Chen's plays is preceded by a general review of his plays written during the period. Nine plays, which are representative of Chen's development, are selected for detailed discussion. These plays reflect the wide range of Chen's works, which embraced the historical play, satirical comedy and serious drama. Heed is taken of the realistic aspects, as well as the aesthetic values of the plays, but the playwright's power of dramatic expression is given the main attention in the analysis. In addition, comparisons between Chen's plays and other plays written during the same period at-e drawn wherever appropriate, so as to give a fairer assessment Chen's plays. The concluding chapter. Chapter 6, sums up the characteristics of Chen's plays and assesses Chen's place in the history of modern Chinese drama. Chen was unique in his creation of a wide range of high quality plays, especially during the 1930s and 1940s when he enjoyed most creative freedom. But like most of his fellows, Chen's prolific period was followed abruptly by long years of quiescence. Creative freedom was smothered by contraints (external and internal), and Chen's greatest success in playwriting still lies in his pre-1949 works.
Unexpected diversity of moths (Lepidoptera) in the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle (Prov. Bolzano-South Tyrol, Italy)
Creators: name: Huemer, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: As part of comprehensive surveys of the moth fauna (Lepidoptera excl. Papilionoidea) of the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle, a total of 513 species from 48 families were recorded from May 2021 to November 2022. Of the ten most diverse families, Noctuidae encompass 100 species, followed by Geometridae (65 species), Tortricidae (53 species), Crambidae (32 species), Gracillariidae (29 species), Erebidae (29 species), Pyralidae (29 species), Gelechiidae (22 species), Nepticulidae (19 species), and Notodontidae (15 species). Phyllocnistis valentinensis M. Hering 1936 (Gracillariidae) and Apodia martinii Petry 1911 (Gelechiidae) are recorded for the first time in Italy. 13 additional species are first confirmed records for South Tyrol. Sixteen species are migratory, and further 11 species are neozoa, originating from other continents. In addition, 17 species of butterflies are listed from the study area. A detailed analysis of ecological guilds and the degree of phagism of all species underline the importance of semi-natural habitats. The most diverse habitats are dry grassland (263 species) and different forest habitats, especially oak forests (270 species). In contrast, the importance of intensively used garden areas for moths is low.
title: The law and policy of state enterprises in post-Mao China.
Creators: name: Fu, Tingmei
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1992

description: This research is aimed at analyzing the legal aspects of state enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China. It attempts not only to explain relevant laws and regulations in the context of China's complex economic, social and political environments, but also to reveal the basic nature and the practice of these laws and regulations. Since the late 1970s, considerable efforts have been made by the Chinese authorities to use formal laws and regulations to adjust different and often conflicting interests emerging in the course of the programme of reforms, and, in particular, to reshape and protect the rights and interests of state enterprises. Among the most noteworthy of the efforts at state enterprise reform are the official conferment of legal personality and management rights to state enterprises, the establishment of a director responsibility system, the adoption of a bankruptcy law, and employment of the contracting system for settling the government -- enterprise relationship. These attempts have had some effect, and state enterprises have gained the capacity to act as independent legal entities. Furthermore, state enterprises, in some places and from time to time, have come to possess a certain degree of autonomy which was impossible prior to the reforms. Nevertheless, these efforts have not been as effective and authoritative as they were designed and expected to be. Many enacted laws and regulations have not been followed in practice. Indeed, in many respects, they are readily undermined or even completely disregarded. The relevant laws and regulations are strongly policy-oriented. Being the mere embodiment of state policies, they can be easily undermined as a result of policy changes. The ineffective application of many laws and regulations is due less to the defects in their legal and technical provisions than to the ambiguity and uncertainty of the policies underlying state enterprise reform.
Aulosmilia magnifica
Creators: name: Löser, Hannes
name: Werner, Winfried
name: Darga, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Montlivaltiidae
Aulosmilia
Aulosmilia magnifica

description: Aulosmilia aff. magnifica (Duncan, 1870)
Plate 11: figs 1, 2
Material.
LFU 8336 SG 015003; two thin sections.
Dimensions.
(LFU 8336 SG 015003).
Remarks.
 The specimen differs from Aulosmilia magnifica by much higher septal counts.
Other occurrences.
Lower Cenomanian of the Western Tethys (Spain, France).
description: Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
Designing Optimal Key Lengths and Control Laws for Encrypted Control Systems based on Sample Identifying Complexity and Deciphering Time
Creators: name: Teranishi, Kaoru
name: Sadamoto, Tomonori
name: Chakrabortty, Aranya
name: Kogiso, Kiminao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In the state-of-the-art literature on cryptography and control theory, there has been no systematic methodology of constructing cyber-physical systems that can achieve desired control performance while being protected against eavesdropping attacks. In this paper, we tackle this challenging problem. We first propose two novel notions referred to as sample identifying complexity and sample deciphering time in an encrypted-control framework. The former explicitly captures the relation between the dynamical characteristics of control systems and the level of identifiability of the systems while the latter shows the relation between the computation time for the identification and the key length of a cryptosystem. Based on these two tractable new notions, we propose a systematic method for designing the both of an optimal key length to prevent system identification with a given precision within a given life span of systems, and of an optimal controller to maximize both of the control performance and the difficulty of the identification. The efficiency of the proposed method in terms of security level and realtime-ness is investigated through numerical simulations. To the best of our knowledge, this paper first connect the relationship between the security of cryptography and dynamical systems from a control-theoretic perspective.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
title: Divination in the Niger Delta with reference to Epie-Atissa community.
Creators: name: Fefegha, Sunday Alawei
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1988

description: This thesis focuses on various aspects of divinatory practices in Epie-Atissa, in the Central Niger Delta of Nigeria, which fall into two main categories, namely: the communal and individual or private types of divination. There are two main instruments for communal divination - the aganaga, 'ladder' divination and its variation, the ugbolo, 'staff' divination. The first is restricted specifically for post-mortem divination, which determines how the dead is buried, that is, if he or she died practising 'witchcraft', ida or not. This is ascertained through Utoken, 'the Earth goddess', to the 'ancestors', inibudu. The second, ugbolo divination is used in connection with other crisis related catastrophes, such as sickness, etc., except death. Both are restricted to communal 'shrines', ugula under the idiomu, operated by men only. The third are the individual or private types of divination which are open to both men and women diviners who make use of various instruments, under an elaborate, ritualistic system. When examined in the light of some of the prevailing theories on the phenomenology of divination in Africa, it was discovered that divinatory practices in Epie-Atissa fall within the categories of possession and intuitive types, with characteristics appertaining to them. Lacking, however, is wisdom divination which is practised among the Yoruba, notable of which is the Ifa divination, and also among the Ibo. An attempt has therefore been made to explain why this is lacking in Epie-Atissa. This thesis therefore assembles some of the most important types of divination in Epie-Atissa, describes, analyses and examines them in the light of various prevailing theories about divinatory practices. It is in several ways a typological study of divination which highlights the praxis, functions and characteristics of these various types of divination. It explains why people become diviners, the various clientele, the reasons for going to the diviners, and the economic importance of this occupation in Epie-Atissa.
Appendix_SPC – Supplemental material for Improving Foundation Year doctors’ confidence with routine suprapubic catheter change using an easily reproducible simulation model
Creators: name: Sathanapally, Ganesh SS
name: Henry, Mei-Ling
name: Burbidge, Oliver
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_SPC for Improving Foundation Year doctors’ confidence with routine suprapubic catheter change using an easily reproducible simulation model by Ganesh SS Sathanapally, Mei-Ling Henry and Oliver Burbidge in Journal of Clinical Urology
title: Mahmud Shaltut (d.1963), modern Muslim scholar and reformer.
Creators: name: Zebiri, Katharine Patricia
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1988

description: The thesis deals with Mahmud Shaltut (Shaykh al-Azhar 1958-63), an important contemporary Muslim scholar and reformer. Following a chapter on Shaltut's life and reform work at the Azhar, the material is divided into three major chapters, on tafsir, law and social issues. The chapter on tafsir describes the innovations of the Muhammad cAbduh school of tafsir and the work of certain key scholars prior to Shaltut, with a brief description of developments after Shaltut. A detailed analysis of his methodology with reference to form and content aims to show the extent of his contribution to that development. The chapter on law is divided into four sections: (1) the sources of law, where we see Shaltut's theoretical exposition of the workings of the Sharica; (2) Shaltut's fatwas, which illustrate his practical application of those principles; (3) penal law, chosen as a case study because Shaltut deals with it in considerable depth, and (4) comparative jurisprudence, an area in which Shaltut took an especial interest in connection with his work for al-taqrib bayna al-madhahib (the coordination of the schools of law). The chapter on social issues initially describes the normative values of Islamic society, then proceeds to describe aspects of the contemporary reality, with reference to the impact of imperialism and the religious response to the needs of the modern age in general. The ideal and the real are thus juxtaposed in a way which reflects Shaltut's own writings. In this area comparative analysis is of particular value in view of the widely differing responses to particular issues; we have selected for discussion controversial issues such as polygamy, birth control and financial transactions, in order to highlight those differences. An attempt has been made throughout to place Shaltut within the context of modern Muslim scholarship and to define his own contribution in each area.
Aulosmilia parkinsoni
Creators: name: Löser, Hannes
name: Werner, Winfried
name: Darga, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Montlivaltiidae
Aulosmilia
Aulosmilia parkinsoni

description: Aulosmilia parkinsoni (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 c)
 * v 1848 c Placosmilia Parkinsonii – Milne Edwards and Haime: 235.
 v 1854 Placosmilia consobrina – Reuss: 84, pl. 5, figs 17–19.
 v 1862 a Placosmilia angulata – de Fromentel: 225, pl. 18, fig. 3.
 v 1903 b Platysmilia multicincta Felix (Reuss sp.) – Felix: 285, pl. 20, figs 2–5.
 v 1903 b Trochosmilia chondrophora nov. sp. – Felix: 327, pl. 24, fig. 12.
 v 1921 Trochosmilia osensis, n. sp. – Vidal: 4, pl. 3, figs 4–6.
 v 1930 Trochosmilia chondrophora Felix – Oppenheim: 483, pl. 31, fig. 8.
 v 2006 Aulosmilia cuneiformis (Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1848) – Baron-Szabo: 69, pl. 14, figs 2, 4.
 v 2013 Aulosmilia ? bipartita (Reuss, 1854) – Löser, Werner and Darga: 54, pl. 6, figs 1, 2.
 vp 2013 Aulosmilia ? consobrina (Reuss, 1854) – Löser, Werner and Darga: 55.
 v 2019 Aulosmilia parkinsoni (Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848) – Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 241, figs 381 a, b.
Material.
BSPG 1947 XVI 18, 1947 XVI 19, 1991 X 82, 1991 X 83, 1991 X 84; three thin sections.
Remarks.
 In Löser et al. (2013 c) this material was assigned to Aulosmilia ? bipartita and Aulosmilia ? consobrina. More recent research on the very variable genus (e. g. Löser et al. 2019) has shown that species must be understood in a much wider concept. Hence, the material is now nearly entirely assigned to Aulosmilia parkinsoni.
Other occurrences.
Lower Coniacian of the Western Tethys (France), upper Turonian to Santonian of the Central Tethys (Austria), Coniacian to Santonian of the Western Tethys (France), Santonian of the Western Tethys (Spain, France), Maastrichtian of the Western Atlantic (Jamaica), Paleocene to Eocene base of the Central Tethys (Austria).
description: Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
AI for Multitrack Music Mixing
Creators: name: Vanka, Soumya Sai
name: Martínez-Ramírez, Marco A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Music Technology
DDSP
Audio Engineering
Automatic Mixing

description: Music Mixing is essential in post-production, demanding both technical expertise and creativity to achieve professional results. This workshop explores recent advancements in automatic mixing, particularly deep learning-based approaches utilizing large datasets, black-box processing and innovative techniques like differentiable mixing consoles. Through a hands-on session with code examples, participants will learn about building, training, and evaluating these systems. Topics include intelligent music production, contextual importance in mixing, and system design challenges. Aimed towards researchers and professionals in digital audio processing, this workshop serves as an entry point for those new to deep learning methods for music post-production methods. The participation of the DAFx community is crucial as we collectively shape the future of AI-driven music mixing.
title: The development of Swazi cotton cultivation, 1904-85.
Creators: name: Sikhondze, B. A. B.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1989

description: Settler farmers in Swaziland failed in their attempt to confine cotton production to their estates partly because of capital limitations. During the First World War some Swazi had fought hard to legitimise cotton production by them, and this became manifest in the 1920s and 1930s when early Swazi cotton growing entrepreneurs emerged, particularly notable being the role of Swazi pastors of religion. But since the cotton price was low, Swazi advances were limited until the late 1950s when some growers made relatively great strides in cotton cultivation especially in the south eastern area. External brokers provided credit for prosperous growers while neglecting other groups, and their produce remained insignificant. Other cultivators among the progressive farmers already owned cattle which were invested in cotton production. Swazi exploitation of credit provided by brokers, the Colonial State, and Swazi Administration in the late 1960s, facilitated social differentiation among cotton growers. Properous growers began to purchase title deed land by the late 1960s, and more in the mid-1970s. At that juncture cotton production expanded due to its high price which attracted more growers from less suited parts of the territory. With prosperity in cotton, traditional cattle were cross-bred to sell for more money to finance cotton. Rich entrepreneurs added other businesses to cotton growing. Cotton expansion led to the formation of a cooperative in south east Swaziland to facilitate trade. To link the area to the rest of the territory, due to multiplied economic activities there, the infrastructure was improved, and economic progress was promoted. Schools, clinics and shops were provided by the cotton growing community.
title: A rural-urban environmental education divide?
title: A study of environmental science and studies degree programs in U.S. universities
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Butterman, Olivia Kathleen
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Environmental sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
Human ecology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
Environmental sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)
Human ecology--Study and teaching (Higher)

description: Environmental Sciences and Studies (ESS) are an increasingly popular degree major on US college campuses. This research examines whether characteristics of higher education institutions, and the communities in which they are embedded, are associated with the existence and robustness of ESS programs. Given the close association of modern environmentalism with problems of urban pollution and an increasing rural-urban education gap, I ask whether the geographic location of a college or university affects the likelihood of having an ESS degree program and its strength. Using stakeholder theory, I test hypotheses with OLS and binomial regression for 2010 data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Stakeholder theory suggests that business entities are influenced by both shareholders and stakeholders, as well as the community in which a business is located. My study finds that rural universities are more likely to have ESS degree programs, but that the location of the university (urban-rural) is not a factor influencing strength of ESS programs. Results suggest the importance of institutional characteristics, demographics of student population, and community context in accounting for robustness and existence of ESS majors.
Pachygyra Milne Edwards & Haime 1848
Creators: name: Löser, Hannes
name: Werner, Winfried
name: Darga, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Montlivaltiidae
Pachygyra

description: Pachygyra Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 a
Type species.
 Lobophyllia labyrinthica Michelin, 1847.
Description.
Meandroid colony with long, straight or sinuous corallite rows, that are separated by a mostly wide coenosteum. Individual corallites cannot be distinguished. The corallite rows can be in the same level as the coenosteum, or can be elevated. In the latter case, the coral appears flabelloid. Columella lamellar.
description: Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
Appendices – Supplemental material for Developing a Unifying Model of Resilience in Dementia Caregiving: A Scoping Review and Content Analysis
Creators: name: Yuanjin Zhou
name: Ishado, Emily
name: O’Hara, Avery
name: Borson, Soo
name: Sadak, Tatiana
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, Appendices for Developing a Unifying Model of Resilience in Dementia Caregiving: A Scoping Review and Content Analysis by Yuanjin Zhou, Emily Ishado, Avery O’Hara, Soo Borson and Tatiana Sadak in Journal of Applied Gerontology
title: Indian monetary policy and the international liquidity crisis during the inter-war years (1919-1939).
Creators: name: Balachandran, G.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1989

description: This thesis examines the multi-lateral considerations that, in our view, underlay the formulation of monetary policy in India in the period between the two world wars. During and after the First World War, Britain faced a severe liquidity crisis. We argue that monetary policy in India was formulated to take account of this crisis. Traditionally, India was a large absorber of gold on the non-monetary account. The persistent aim of British monetary policy in the Indian context during the entire interwar period was that of not allowing India to set up a monetary demand for gold in addition to her non-monetary demand for it and secondly, through deflationary policies (including exchange rate adjustments), to limit India's non-monetary gold demands to the minimum. Indian gold exports during the depression, which gave room for manoeuvre in the management of the sterling after September 1931, were a logical sequel to this policy. The British liquidity crisis in this period took the form of her current account surpluses being inadequate to support a high level of overseas lending. Besides, in an uncertain financial environment, Britain was a large short-term debtor as the British bank rate acted as much to increase her short-term liabilities as it did by calling in her short-term assets. The British desire to return to gold at the pre-1914 parity required domestic deflation which itself was a matter of severe political contention. In the circumstances, Britain hoped her return to gold would be accomplished by a US inflation and US export of capital. Compounding this situation was the thinly veiled fear, in Britain, of the erosion of the key currency role of the sterling and the loss of its global financial leadership to the USA. Control over Indian monetary policy and its outcome proved valuable to Britain in this environment.
Sections and projections of nested convex bodies
Creators: name: González-García, I.
name: Jerónimo-Castro, J.
name: Morales-Amaya, E.
name: Verdusco-Hernández, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: One of the most important problems in Geometric Tomography is to establish properties of a given convex body if we know some properties over its sections or its projections. There are many interesting and deep results that provide characterizations of the sphere and the ellipsoid in terms of the properties of its sections or projections. Another kind of characterizations of the ellipsoid is when we consider properties of the support cones. However, in almost all the known characterizations, we have only a convex body and the sections, projections, or support cones, are considered for this given body. In this article we proved some results that characterizes the Euclidean ball or the ellipsoid when the sections or projections are taken for a pair of nested convex bodies, i.e., two convex bodies $K$, $L$ such that $L\subset\text{int}\, K.$ We impose some relations between the corresponding sections or projections and some apparently new characterizations of the ball or the ellipsoid appear. We also deal with properties of support cones or point source shadow boundaries when the apexes are taken in the boundary of $K$.
title: Issues in the analysis of Yoruba tone.
Creators: name: Oyetade, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1988

description: This thesis presents an autosegmental analysis of the tonal phonology of Yoruba. It utilizes a fully specified matrix of Yoruba tone features by contrast with recent 'underspecified-autosegmental' accounts. My contention is that, in the bid to apply tonal underspecification theory to Yoruba, my predecessors have not provided a proper account of certain processes. The work is laid out in eight chapters. Chapter One gives a general overview of the whole work. Chapter Two provides a brief introduction to Yoruba and highlights the controversial and non-controversial aspects of its tonology. The claims of autosegmental phonology and its application and relevance to Yoruba are discussed in Chapter Three. Chapters Four and Five deal with explanations of tonal processes within lexical items and across word boundaries respectively. Processes of linking, delinking, relinking, spreading, and freeing involving High, Mid and Low tones provide evidence that, whatever the diachronic facts of the Mid tone, Yoruba is still better analysed synchronically as having an underlying three-term tonal contrast. Claims relating to the hierarchical representation of tone features and the theory of tonal underspecification and proposals for the representation of multiple tone heights are examined in Chapter Six. It is also suggested that the Yoruba Mid tone is not to be seen exclusively as involving a split in either the lower or the higher register; and the analysis of the Yoruba mid tone as null or zero is challenged on the basis of the data discussed in Chapters Four and Five. I propose that, though certain instances of Yoruba mid tone may be analysed as being derived, not all cases can be explained in this manner. Finally, I propose further that a "base three" tone feature system rather than a "base two" system be adapted to suit Yoruba. Chapter Seven examines tone deletion both in the underspecified-autosegmental model and in the present analysis. It is pointed out that the analysis of tone deletion within the underspecified-autosegmental model has a number of problems, and that it is preferable to distinguish "tone deletion proper" from cases of tone lowering and tone raising. Chapter Eight, which examines a number of residual problems relating to polarity in a three-term tone system such as that of Yoruba, concludes the thesis.
Supplemental Material, Supplementary_file_long-term_adherence_HF_(1) - Long-Term Adherence to Renin–Angiotensin System Inhibitors and β-Blockers After Heart Failure Hospitalization in Senior Patients
Creators: name: Xiwen Qin
name: Hung, Joseph
name: Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng
name: Briffa, Tom
name: Sanfilippo, Frank M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental Material, Supplementary_file_long-term_adherence_HF_(1) for Long-Term Adherence to Renin–Angiotensin System Inhibitors and β-Blockers After Heart Failure Hospitalization in Senior Patients by Xiwen Qin, Joseph Hung, Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Tom Briffa and Frank M. Sanfilippo in Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Pachygyra cucullata
Creators: name: Löser, Hannes
name: Werner, Winfried
name: Darga, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Montlivaltiidae
Pachygyra
Pachygyra cucullata

description: Pachygyra cucullata (Zuffardi-Comerci, 1930)
 v * 1930 Eugyra cucullata n. sp. – Zuffardi-Comerci: 15, pl. 3, figs 3, 8.
 v 2013 Pachygyra krameri Oppenheim, 1930 – Löser, Werner and Darga: 55, pl. 5, figs 5, 6.
 v 2019 Pachygyra cucullata (Zuffardi-Comerci, 1930) – Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 274, figs 442 a, b.
Material.
BSPG 2012 X 1; five thin sections.
Remarks.
 In Löser et al. (2013 c) this specimen was assigned to Pachygyra krameri Oppenheim, 1930. In 2016 it was possible to study the type specimen of this species and it transpired that it has much smaller dimensions as discernable from the publication of Oppenheim (1930).
Other occurrences.
Turonian to Santonian of the Central Tethys (Italy, Austria), upper Santonian of the Western Tethys (France).
description: Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
Supplemental Material, Appendix_A - What Is the Burden of Care of Nasoalveolar Molding?
Creators: name: Alfonso, Allyson R.
name: Ramly, Elie P.
name: Kantar, Rami S.
name: Wang, Maxime M.
name: Eisemann, Bradley S.
name: Staffenberg, David A.
name: Pradip R. Shetye
name: Flores, Roberto L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, Appendix_A for What Is the Burden of Care of Nasoalveolar Molding? by Allyson R. Alfonso, Elie P. Ramly, Rami S. Kantar, Maxime M. Wang, Bradley S. Eisemann, David A. Staffenberg, Pradip R. Shetye and Roberto L. Flores in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
Petrarch's Succession of Crowds: Inheritance and Readership from Lyric Sequence to Testament
Creators: name: Scharer, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2024

description: This thesis gives a reading of Petrarch’s aversion to the legal profession through three overlapping paradigms: the testament, the final “sententia,” and the vulgar crowd. The first chapter looks at Petrarch’s testament as it relates to fourteenth-century will writing and inheritance-related metaphor. The second chapter focuses on Petrarch’s continual postponement of conclusive meaning and final adjudication as both notions become visible in the term “sententia.” The third chapter reads Petrarch’s engagement with unlearned masses in relation to the question of readership. Juxtaposing Petrarch’s lyric with his testament’s legal prose, I argue that “testamentum,” “sententia,” and “vulgus” are ambivalent and generative terms to approach Petrarch’s work.
title: African Christian theology : Processes of theological reflection in Zaire.
Creators: name: Gordon Molyneux, K.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1988

description: African Christian Theology' represents attempts on the part of African Christians to 'own' their theological reflection, rather than borrow it from others. This in turn means taking seriously their African heritage or 'identity'. Chapter 1 of the thesis examines the theological quest in the broader context of political, educational, literary, and religious factors in sub-Saharan Africa. All of these fields display a parallel search for 'personhood', a determination to move from being object to being subject. Considerable attention is paid to the causes and dynamics of religious Independency. 'African Theology' has not emerged from the Independent churches, but it is sympathetic to their cause and has taken up theologically some of their concerns. The remaining three chapters of the thesis are devoted to the one country of Zaire, and more specifically, to three contrastive 'styles' of theological reflection. It is the argument of the thesis that 'theologizing' is done in a wide range of sectors of society. Chapter 2 examines the most prominent and (to the West) most familiar of these processes of theologizing, - the academic and literary one. Selected to Illustrate this process is Kinshasa's Faculty of Catholic Theology. Reflecting the Faculty's historical links with the rigorous academic standards of its mother-university Louvain (Belgium), it has achieved international recognition as one of Black Africa's foremost centres of research and was at the centre of the debate on 'African Theology' in the 1960s. The Faculty's emphasis on publication has contributed significantly to the influence of the institution. Academic research and publication might constitute the most prestigious sector of the theological process, and the most 'exportable' in the international literary world, but It represents only a small part of the total scene of African Christians expressing and communicating their beliefs. Chapter 3 looks to the other end of the spectrum as it explores the area of 'oral theology' illustrated by the 'inspired' hymns of the Kimbanguist Church. The distinct characteristics of orality as opposed to literacy are considered. The oral sphere does not lend itself to neat, logical analysis as does the academic sector, yet it lies closer to the heart of spirituality, and to overlook it is to neglect a major aspect of African Christianity. Finally, Chapter 4 explores an experiment in Protestant contextual theologizing in North-East Zaire: seminars designed to effect an interaction between the gospel and contextual Issues. Involving participants who combined some theological background with close acquaintance with the 'grassroots' scene, these 'Gospel and Culture Seminars' might be placed somewhere between the oral and literary spheres. From this 'broad-spectrum' understanding of the total theological picture, the Conclusion seeks to draw out implications for theology Itself, for theological education, and for theological educators in Africa today.
Montlivaltiidae Gray 1842
Creators: name: Löser, Hannes
name: Werner, Winfried
name: Darga, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia

description: Superfamily Poritoidea Gray, 1842
Description.
Colonial (astreoid, plocoid) corals. Septa irregularly perforated. Symmetry of septa irregular radial or bilateral. Septa connected to each other. Septal distal margin coarsely dentated, lateral face with rare granulae, inner margin slightly swollen in places. Lonsdaleoid septa and main septum absent. Microstructure of medium-sized trabeculae. Synapticulae abundant. Pali present in some genera. Columella and endotheca present. Marginarium absent. Wall varies. Coenosteum generally present. Budding extracalicinal.
description: Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
Actinacididae Vaughan & Wells 1943
Creators: name: Löser, Hannes
name: Werner, Winfried
name: Darga, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Actinacididae

description: Family Actinacididae Vaughan & Wells, 1943
Description.
Astreoid colonies. Septa in a regular radial or bilateral symmetry.
description: Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796