cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Watery Incursions: The Securitisation of Everyday “Flood Cultures” in Metro Manila and Coastal Jakarta
Creators: name: Siriwardane-De Zoysa, Rapti
name: Sondang Fitrinitia, Irene
name: Herbeck, Johannes
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: This article explores the normalisation of urban flooding through two distinct sets of securitised practices in two Southeast Asian megacities – localised disaster management surveillance regimes and the policing of informal settlements in Metro Manila and northern Jakarta, respectively. As a point of departure, we problematise the question of how the incidence of recurring floods (and flooding) is diversely interpreted as both event and as an experiential reality, insofar as the manifestation of the floods never entirely occupies a state of either normalcy or exception. It is this fluid state of inbetweenness in which these diverse securitisation trajectories are explored. The first entails the recent emergence of Metro Manila’s disaster Command Centres, marking a break from conventional ways of responding to flood risks. The second case study engages with Jakarta City’s coercive use of its municipal police unit – the Satpol P.P. – in relocating urban informal settlers who have otherwise actively learned to reshape their familiarity to flooding as a non-issue in order to avoid being evicted. While the paper reflects on the formal structures of flood cultures, we illustrate how vernacular interpretations around security entrenched in notions of “living with floods” lead to broader questions of ontological normalisation regarding watery incursions – as both spectacular as well as mundane, routinised events.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 1-2 (2018): Everyday Security Practices in Asia
title: "SPECIALE", un projet de sciences participatives en nutrition humaine
title: "SPECIALE", A Participatory Science Project in Human Nutrition
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Brière, Léonie
name: Darcel, Nicolas
name: Maurice, Aurélie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Retour d'expérience sur un projet de recherche participative au sujet de l'éducation à l'alimentation pour les enfants.

Feedback on a participatory research project about food education for children.
Discriminant audio properties in deep learning based respiratory insufficiency detection in Brazilian Portuguese
Creators: name: Gauy, Marcelo Matheus
name: Berti, Larissa Cristina
name: Cândido, Arnaldo
name: Neto, Augusto Camargo
name: Goldman, Alfredo
name: Levin, Anna Sara Shafferman
name: Martins, Marcus
name: de Medeiros, Beatriz Raposo
name: Queiroz, Marcelo
name: Sabino, Ester Cerdeira
name: Svartman, Flaviane Romani Fernandes
name: Finger, Marcelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This work investigates Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that detect respiratory insufficiency (RI) by analyzing speech audios, thus treating speech as a RI biomarker. Previous works collected RI data (P1) from COVID-19 patients during the first phase of the pandemic and trained modern AI models, such as CNNs and Transformers, which achieved $96.5\%$ accuracy, showing the feasibility of RI detection via AI. Here, we collect RI patient data (P2) with several causes besides COVID-19, aiming at extending AI-based RI detection. We also collected control data from hospital patients without RI. We show that the considered models, when trained on P1, do not generalize to P2, indicating that COVID-19 RI has features that may not be found in all RI types.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Published in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) 2023
Dipeptide-repeat protein pathology in C9ORF72 mutation cases: Clinico-pathological correlations
Creators: name: Mackenzie, Ian R.
name: Arzberger, Thomas
name: Kremmer, Elisabeth
name: Troost, Dirk
name: Lorenzi, Stefan
name: Mori, Kohji
name: Weng, Shih-Ming
name: Haass, Christian
name: Kretzschmar, Hans A.
name: Edbauer, Dieter
name: Neumann, Manuela
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2015

description: Hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common genetic cause of frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease. Recently, unconventional non-ATG translation of the expanded hexanucleotide repeat, resulting in the production and aggregation of di-peptide repeat (DPR) proteins (poly-GA, -GR and GP), was identified as a potential pathomechanism of C9ORF72 mutations. Besides accumulation of DPR proteins, the second neuropathological hallmark lesion in C9ORF72 mutation cases is the accumulation of TDP-43. In this study, we characterized novel monoclonal antibodies against poly-GA and performed a detailed analysis of the neuroanatomical distribution of DPR and TDP-43 pathology in a cohort of 35 cases with the C9ORF72 mutation that included a broad spectrum of clinical phenotypes. We found the pattern of DPR pathology to be highly consistent among cases regardless of the phenotype with high DPR load in the cerebellum, all neocortical regions (frontal, motor cortex and occipital) and hippocampus, moderate pathology in subcortical areas and minimal pathology in lower motor neurons. No correlation between DPR pathology and the degree of neurodegeneration was observed, while a good association between TDP-43 pathology with clinical phenotype and degeneration in key anatomical regions was present. Our data confirm that the presence of DPR pathology is intimately related to C9ORF72 mutations. The observed dissociation between DPR inclusion body load and neurodegeneration might suggest inclusion body formation as a potentially protective response to cope with soluble toxic DPR species. Moreover, our data imply that alterations due to the C9ORF72 mutation resulting in TDP-43 accumulation and dys-metabolism as secondary downstream effects likely play a central role in the neurodegenerative process in C9ORF72 pathogenesis.
Security Perceptions and Practices of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Chakma, Bhumitra
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: This paper illustrates the insecurity perceptions and security practices of the Paharis, an indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh. It adopts an interpretive ethnographic approach in which it posits, based on fieldwork experiences, that the security perceptions of the CHT indigenous people are primarily formed by the experiences of marginalisation. Marginalisation has resulted mainly from the assimilationist nation-building policies and ill-conceived development projects pursued by first Pakistan and later Bangladesh, which have not only threatened the Paharis’ group identity but have also generated threats of violence in their everyday lives. The macro-level threat to identity and the micro-level threat of violence in everyday life operate in parallel and in an intertwined fashion. To cope with these threats, the Paharis have employed an array of different strategies at both macro and micro levels, which are analysed in this paper.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 1-2 (2018): Everyday Security Practices in Asia
Multichannel dual-mode pulse generation for DWDM and fiber-wireless system application
Creators: name: Bao, H. C.
name: Wen, Y. J.
name: Liu, H. F.
name: Nirmalathas, A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we propose a novel technique for the generation of wideband dual-mode pulses from a single subharmonically synchronous mode-locked laser diode (LD). The obtained pulse source exhibits high extinction ratio (>15 dB) and low timing jitter (<0.5 ps) over all the channels from 1550 to 1564 nm. The proposed scheme is cost-effective and a promising candidate as a pulse source for generation of carrier suppressed return-to-zero (CSRZ) modulation format in dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) systems and optical generation of millimeter-wave frequency signals in multiple channel fiber wireless systems.
“If It Happens Again”: Everyday Responses of the Ruszabon to Existential Dangers in Dushanbe
Creators: name: Boboyorov, Hafiz
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: This article discusses how Russian and Russian-speaking (Ruszabon) inhabitants of Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan, shape and maintain their securityscapes through languages, identities, memories, networks and physical structures of the urban space. Securityscapes are physically built and mentally imagined spaces securing individual or collective life from what people perceive as existential dangers. These dangers reflect both objective and imagined conditions threatening individual and collective extinction. Depending on different existential contexts, securityscapes serve either as distinct or as merged and intertwined spatial categories of individuals and collectives. When the Ruszabon face violence in public due to their ethnic and religious origins, they hide their identities or adapt their lifestyle to the hegemonic demands of the Muslim society. Social networks and the physical structures of urban neighbourhoods shape inner securityscapes, as reflected in the physical isolation of individuals and segregation of families, family friends and religious communities from the public. In particular, the memories of the interethnic clashes in the 1990s in Dushanbe, which are substantially influenced by political interpretations, condition and diminish the everyday practices and future expectations of the Ruszabon.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 1-2 (2018): Everyday Security Practices in Asia
Secure and Insecure Spaces for Uzbek Businesspeople in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Creators: name: Ismailbekova, Aksana
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: Based on fieldwork in southern Kyrgyzstan in October and November 2017, this article explores at a micro-level the security practices undertaken by Uzbek people in Osh. It closely examines the experiences of Uzbek taxi-drivers, traders and businesspeople and thereby seeks to understand how and why local actors have managed to find creative ways to secure their economic activities. The business sector is the sector in which the Uzbek community is dominant, whereas the Kyrgyz community dominates the state structures. Historically, the two ethnic groups have lived side by side and have been in constant contact with each other through this state/business symbiosis. However, the conflict of 2010 drastically changed and destroyed this symbiosis, and with it threatened the Uzbek business sector. The examination of the security- making practices of the Uzbek businesspeople was guided through the prism of the theoretical framework of “securityscapes”.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 1-2 (2018): Everyday Security Practices in Asia
Securing an LGBT Identity in Kyrgyzstan. Case Studies from Bishkek and Osh
Creators: name: Bagdasarova, Nina
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: The high level of homophobia in society and a contradictory state policy towards sexual minorities define the specific mode of existence of the LGBT community in Kyrgyzstan. The need to socialise and spend some time together is a big part of building and maintaining an LGBT identity, which requires collective security practices. The concept of “securityscapes”, based on Arjun Appadurai’s idea of “scapes”, was used as a main instrument for the analysis of ethnographic data. LGBT people in Kyrgyzstan navigate quite complicated landscapes of security and insecurity, defined by encounters with various agents, and engage in different strategies of adaptation. During the field research two types of threats within LGBT securityscapes were identified: “outer” threats (such as the homophobic environment) and “inner” threats (such as some behavioural patterns that might expose community members to this hostile environment). LGBT people navigate within their securityscapes individually, yet community life requires specific measures. The collective securityscapes of the LGBT communities in Bishkek and Osh were examined, and it will be shown that despite the differences according to local conditions, similar strategies were developed in both places when responding to “inner” and “outer” threats.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 49 Nr. 1-2 (2018): Everyday Security Practices in Asia
Analysis of Different Material Theories Used in a FE Model of a Lumbar Segment Motion
Creators: name: Gohari, Ehsan
name: Nikkhoo, Mohammad
name: Haghpanahi, Mohammad
name: Parnianpour, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2013
Subjects: creep, dynamic loading, Finite Element Method (FEM), lumbar motion segment, poroelastic, viscoelastic

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2013; ISSN 1509-409X
การวิเคราะห์การแจกแจงความล่าช้าของเที่ยวบินขาออก
Creators: name: นิษฐเนตร์ ขจรเทวาวงศ์
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: การแจกแจงเบอร์
การแจกแจงล็อกเพียร์สัน ประเภทที่ 3
ประกันภัยการเดินทาง
แอนเดอร์สัน-ดาร์ลิง

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 6, 958-968
การเปรียบเทียบประสิทธิภาพสำหรับวิธีการเปรียบเทียบพหุคูณแบบอิงพารามิเตอร์และไม่อิงพารามิเตอร์ของแผนแบบการทดลองสุ่มในบล็อกไม่สมบูรณ์
Creators: name: ธวัชชัย แตงทอง
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: การเปรียบเทียบพหุคูณ
ความน่าจะเป็นของความผิดพลาดแบบที่ 1
กำลังการทดสอบ

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 6, 970-983
Apanteles Foerster 1863
Creators: name: Kallyadan, Sreejina Sreedharan
name: M., Nasser
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apanteles

description: Genus Apanteles Foerster, 1863
(Braconidae: Microgastrinae)
 The largest genus of Microgastrinae, Apanteles, contains more than 600 known species that can be found worldwide. Traditionally, all braconid species with an open forewing areolet were named Apanteles. The assemblage of species in the genus Apanteles is still enormous and diverse. Identifying Apanteles sp. poses a challenge due to the numerous similarities in their morphological characteristics (Fernandez-Triana et al. 2020). In terms of both economic value and diversity of species, Microgastrinae is by far the most significant group of parasitoids in Lepidoptera worldwide (Whitfield 1995, 1997). With the help of venom and the effects of polydnavirus (PDV) on the host’s immune and endocrine systems, adult female wasps typically oviposit into early-instar host larvae (although a few species have been known to oviposit into host eggs), where the wasp eggs hatch and larval development occurs (as summarised by Whitfield et al. 2018).
 The female Apanteles lays the eggs within the host larvae (Gupta et al. 2016). After 6–10 days of parasitisation, the Apanteles larvae will develop inside the body of the larval Lepidoptera until emergence (Boling and Pitre 1970). There are three larval instars in Apanteles. The hymenopteriform is the third instar (Figure 5 (a)). The pupa belongs to the exarate type, meaning that its appendages are free and not attached to the body. Shortly after emerging from the host, it develops inside the cocoon (Figure 6 (b)) constructed by the mature final-instar larva. They are solitary or gregararious endoparasitoids (koinobionts) of Lepidoptera larvae (Shaw and Huddleston 1991; Whitfield 1997; Whitfield et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Kallyadan, Sreejina Sreedharan & M., Nasser, 2024, Making shelter for enemies: parasitoid-induced shelter-building behaviour in Paraponyx stagnalis, pp. 658-673 in Journal of Natural History 58 (21 - 24) on page 661, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2345928, http://zenodo.org/record/13219611
title: Evolution support in heterogeneous service-oriented landscapes
Creators: name: Margaria, Tiziana
name: Steffen, Bernhard
name: Kubczak, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: We present an approach that provides automatic or semi-automatic support for evolution and change management in heterogeneous legacy landscapes where (1) legacy heterogeneous, possibly distributed platforms are integrated in a service oriented fashion, (2) the coordination of functionality is provided at the service level, through orchestration, (3) compliance and correctness are provided through policies and business rules, (4) evolution and correctness-by-design are supported by the eXtreme Model Driven Development paradigm (XMDD) offered by the jABC (Margaria and Steffen in Annu. Rev. Commun. 57, 2004)—the model-driven service oriented development platform we use here for integration, design, evolution, and governance. The artifacts are here semantically enriched, so that automatic synthesis plugins can field the vision of Enterprise Physics: knowledge driven business process development for the end user. We demonstrate this vision along a concrete case study that became over the past three years a benchmark for Semantic Web Service discovery and mediation. We enhance the Mediation Scenario of the Semantic Web Service Challenge along the 2 central evolution paradigms that occur in practice: (a) Platform migration: platform substitution of a legacy system by an ERP system and (b) Backend extension: extension of the legacy Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Order Management System (OMS) backends via an additional ERP layer.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 918
Mandy Sadan (ed.): War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar. The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994–2011
Creators: name: Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 48 Nr. 3-4 (2017): Myanmar · Bangladesh · Indonesia · Korea · India
Interactive user experience design: creating an effective online experience
Creators: name: Park, Ji Yong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Designing for user experience is central to good web design, particularly in e-commerce settings. However, the relevant dimensions and processes of designing for user experience have been variously defined. This project develops an approach to web design that defines the key dimensions of user experience, including interactivity, participation, and flow, and web site design of the user experience. The idea of Interactive User Experience Design is advanced as a model for designing from the perspective of user experience. The project reviews relevant dimensions of user experience, proposes a model integrating key design dimensions of this experience, surveys design literate university students on effective online experiences, and develops a prototype for a hypothetical commercial web site that incorporates elements of co-creation and identity play. This practice-based project contributes a new proposal for web-based design and new knowledge in the form of an approach to user experience design.
Institutional repositories and their 'other' users: usability beyond authors
Creators: name: McKay, Dana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: If institutional repositories (IRs) were all that their proponents could have hoped, they would be providing researchers with better access to research, improving institutional prestige, and assisting with formal research assessment. The reality, though, is that IRs are less frequently implemented, harder to fill, and less visible than their advocates would hope or expect. While technical platforms for IRs, such as DSpace and ePrints [8] have seen an abundance of research, little is known about the users of IRs, neither how they use IR software, nor how usable it is for them. IR users can be divided into three main groups: authors, information seekers, and data creators/maintainers; while authors are reasonably well understood, the latter groups are particularly under-studied. [Introduction]
Preliminary best practices in provenance of processing methodology to guarantee traceability and reproducibility of climate data and ways to communicate it in a user-friendly manner
Creators: name: Spinuso, Alessandro
name: Fiore, Sandro
name: Antonio, Fabrizio
name: Dessai, Suraje
name: Ehbrecht, Carsten
name: Pagé, Christian
name: Zimmermann, Klaus
name: Walton, Pete
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: climateeruope2
provenance

description: The document outlines the key requirements and challenges of ensuring traceability and transparency in climate services. It highlights the importance that the FAIR and Research Data communities, along with organizations like the IPCC and WMO, place on data provenance to support credible climate assessments and clear communication of data changes. Definitions of various provenance types are clarified, with emphasis on how they support data use and address specific issues. Standardization is identified as essential, and examples of climate services adopting these standards, both nationally and within the EU, are provided. The document concludes with a recommendation for continued collaboration to develop effective guidance on traceability in climate services
title: 01_2487
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: LaMOP

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Mechthild Exo: Das übergangene Wissen: Eine dekoloniale Kritik des liberalen Peacebuilding durch basispolitische Organisationen in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Mielke, Katja
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2019

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 48 Nr. 3-4 (2017): Myanmar · Bangladesh · Indonesia · Korea · India
Entrepreneurial education in the 21st century: evaluating the efficacy of models
Creators: name: Tanas, Janusz
name: Gillin, Murray
name: Dembeka, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Entrepreneurship overcomes the barriers and obstacles of class, race and gender (Aldrich et al., 1983; Hyrsky and Ali, 1996). Widespread entrepreneurship is fundamental to the creation and stabilisation of democracy and is essential to the creation of a middle class and avoidance of extreme polarisation between rich and poor (Kowalik, 2001). It is a vital component of national economic growth and development (Acs, Audretsch, Braunerhjelm and Carlsson, 2005; Carree and Thurik, 2003). Entrepreneurship encourages action, promotes job creation, consequently, improving the overall well-being of the entire country (Bednarzik 2000; Keister 2000). Entrepreneurial undertakings are an art and a science (Kasarda, 1992; Bridge et al., 1998). It is holistic, dynamic, unique and sensitive to a number of antecedent variables (Hofer and Bygrave, 1992). Despite the lack of a consensus on entrepreneurship two alternative perspectives on entrepreneurial education can be distinguished: (i) the American and (ii) European views. In America, it is very common to concentrate training efforts on specific steps in the firm creation process. Contrary, in Europe, where researchers cannot agree on the concept or the objectives that this kind of education should pursue (OECD, 1999; European Commission, 2003), the main objective is often more general concentrating on developing entrepreneurial personality and a concept of enterprise (Acs and Audretsch, 1990; Wennekers and Thurik, 1999).
title: Lettre de Jacques Leibowitch à la revue Nature
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-2019311113129848
title: Factors Influencing Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intentions in Abu Dhabi Police
Creators: name: Musallam, Mohammed
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

description: Employees are integral to the success of an organisation. Several factors enable employees to work effectively to the point where they can contribute to the success of the organisation. When such factors are absent, employees may find reasons leave the organisation. This research aims to identify and critically examine factors that influence organisational commitments and Employee Turnover Intentions (TI) in the Police. This line of inquiry is taken in order to develop a framework that may be utilised to reduce turnover in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Police. Through theoretical explanations derived from literature, certain factors such as workplace stressors, work control, job stress, job satisfaction and organisational commitment were identified as factors that may influence TI. The impact of these factors on TI and the interaction between these variables are tested in UAE police through eleven hypotheses. Quantitative research design was adopted to conduct the research through cross-sectional survey methodology. An online survey is administered to UAE Police, where 213 officers participated in the study. Data is analysed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM) to test and confirm the relationships between antecedents and predictors of TI. The results indicate that factors such as workplace stressors and job stress influence organisational commitment in the UAE Police. Results further reveal that organisational commitment and workplace both influence TI in UAE Police. The result also highlighted the role of organisational commitment as a mediator in the relationship between workplace stressors and TI UAE Police. The study implications indicate that the framework which is a contribution to theory may be utilised in developing personal and workforce resilience in the police in light of dealing with future crises.
Elasmus Westwood 1833
Creators: name: Kallyadan, Sreejina Sreedharan
name: M., Nasser
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Elasmus

description: Genus Elasmus Westwood
(Eulophidae: Elasminae)
 Species within this genus exhibit a dual role as hyperparasitoids targeting Apanteles genus species (refer to Graham 1976, 1995) and ectoparasitoids specialising in larvae of the wasp genus Polistes (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), as well as various lepidopteran families, including Coleophoridae, Tortricidae, Gracillariidae, Cosmopterigidae, and Gelechiidae (Yefremova and Strakhova 2010). Identifying characteristics of the genus include the female’s antenna with two anelli, a three-segmented flagellum, and a three-segmented clava, while the male possesses a trifurcate four-segmented flagellum and a two-segmented clava. The mesoscutum is densely covered with hairs, and the scutellum features two pairs of long setae. Notable wing characteristics include an elongated marginal vein, a short post marginal vein, and a slightly reduced stigma vein. The hind coxa is smooth, subdiscoidal (plate-like), and significantly enlarged, while the hind tibia exhibits short setae forming a continuous diamond shape. Colourations commonly involve yellow, black, and brown hues, often adorned with distinctive spots (Kim et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Kallyadan, Sreejina Sreedharan & M., Nasser, 2024, Making shelter for enemies: parasitoid-induced shelter-building behaviour in Paraponyx stagnalis, pp. 658-673 in Journal of Natural History 58 (21 - 24) on page 663, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2345928, http://zenodo.org/record/13219611
Mapping the Presence of the Korean Wave in North Korea
Creators: name: Milanowitsch, Bianca
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: This research note scrutinises the degree to which the Korean Wave – South Korean cultural exports, for example of pop music and television shows – has impacted North Korea. Hallyu, as the Korean Wave is also called, has reached the North through illegal trade, despite restrictions put in place by the regime, and has triggered a growing demand for South Korean productions. The South Korean government creates a presence in its northern neighbour by using Hallyu as a soft power tool that has become part of its foreign policy arsenal. The North has reacted to the influence of the Korean Wave with crackdowns and arrests, for example of government officials. Yet Hallyu may also serve the North Korean government’s aim of prolonging its authoritarian rule, by using the South Korean cultural presence as a justification for feeling threatened by foreign intervention.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 48 Nr. 3-4 (2017): Myanmar · Bangladesh · Indonesia · Korea · India
Genomic testing to determine drug response: measuring preferences of the public and patients using Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
Creators: name: Najafzadeh, Mehdi
name: Johnston, Karissa M.
name: Peacock, Stuart J.
name: Connors, Joseph M.
name: Marra, Marco, 1966-
name: Lynd, Larry D.
name: Marra, Carlo A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The extent to which a genomic test will be used in practice is affected by factors such as ability of the test to correctly predict response to treatment (i.e. sensitivity and specificity of the test), invasiveness of the testing procedure, test cost, and the probability and severity of side effects associated with treatment. Methods Using discrete choice experimentation (DCE), we elicited preferences of the public (Sample 1, N = 533 and Sample 2, N = 525) and cancer patients (Sample 3, N = 38) for different attributes of a hypothetical genomic test for guiding cancer treatment. Samples 1 and 3 considered the test/treatment in the context of an aggressive curable cancer (scenario A) while the scenario for sample 2 was based on a non-aggressive incurable cancer (scenario B). Results In aggressive curable cancer (scenario A), everything else being equal, the odds ratio (OR) of choosing a test with 95% sensitivity was 1.41 (versus a test with 50% sensitivity) and willingness to pay (WTP) was $1331, on average, for this amount of improvement in test sensitivity. In this scenario, the OR of choosing a test with 95% specificity was 1.24 times that of a test with 50% specificity (WTP = $827). In non-aggressive incurable cancer (scenario B), the OR of choosing a test with 95% sensitivity was 1.65 (WTP = $1344), and the OR of choosing a test with 95% specificity was 1.50 (WTP = $1080). Reducing severity of treatment side effects from severe to mild was associated with large ORs in both scenarios (OR = 2.10 and 2.24 in scenario A and B, respectively). In contrast, patients had a very large preference for 95% sensitivity of the test (OR = 5.23). Conclusion The type and prognosis of cancer affected preferences for genomically-guided treatment. In aggressive curable cancer, individuals emphasized more on the sensitivity rather than the specificity of the test. In contrast, for a non-aggressive incurable cancer, individuals put similar emphasis on sensitivity and specificity of the test. While the public expressed strong preference toward lowering severity of side effects, improving sensitivity of the test had by far the largest influence on patients’ decision to use genomic testing.
Islam, Politics, and Cyber Tribalism in Indonesia: A Case Study on the Front Pembela Islam
Creators: name: Duile, Timo
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: At the end of 2016, Islamist organisations proved able to mobilise hundreds of thousands of people for political purposes in Indonesia. In order to explain their success, the role of social media should not be underestimated, as Islamic movements rely heavily on agitation in online media. This article sheds light on the example of the Front Pembela Islam, using one of the organisation’s Facebook pages as a case study. Within the algorithmic enclave of a cyber tribe, narratives and symbols are applied in memes. The research examines how narratives and symbols evoke emotions in online memes and offline banners, what narratives are addressed, and how the memes make claims regarding commonly acknowledged signifiers such as the NKRI, Islam and Pluralism. The guiding thesis is that these memes express not simply anti-pluralist or anti-NKRI notions, as opponents of these groups frequently assert, but rather combinations of robust nationalism and their alternative version of pluralism with conservative Islamic approaches. Nonetheless, threats and enemies are inevitably present as a constitutive outside and suggest a highly exclusive version of Indonesianness. Thus similar narratives and symbols applied in online media also emerge within public spaces, blurring the distinction between the online and offline realms.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 48 Nr. 3-4 (2017): Myanmar · Bangladesh · Indonesia · Korea · India
Economic assessment of transmission expansion projects in competitive electricity markets: an analytical review
Creators: name: Hesamzadeh, M. R.
name: Hosseinzadeh, N.
name: Wolfs, P. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Restructuring of the electricity market has changed many aspects of the transmission system operation and planning. Reliability-Driven and Economic-Driven transmission expansion planning by regulated and private utilities are the substitutes of the traditional Cost-Driven transmission expansion planning. Reliability-based criteria for assessment of the transmission projects are almost well-developed while there exists a lack of a comprehensive framework for the economic evaluation of the transmission projects. Definition of a quantitative and monetary framework for economic evaluation of future transmission projects demands a detailed market analysis. In addition, specific characteristics and responsibilities of the transmission system in the open access structure must be understood comprehensively. To reaching the aforementioned goal, an analytical review on the existing economic assessment methodologies would be highly beneficial for the researchers in this area. Moreover, most of the review literatures on transmission investment in competitive electricity markets are general. These review literatures have tried to address all aspects of this challenging issue with devoting only few paragraphs to economic assessment of transmission projects. Given the aforementioned shortcomings, this article would bridge the gap by the following contributions: Firstly, reviewing available approaches for economic assessment of transmission projects based on research papers and industrial reports. Secondly, analysing the reviewed criteria critically by applying them to a modified Wood and Wollenberg 6-bus case study and Finally, summarizing the key components of a successful Economic Assessment Framework for transmission expansion or upgrade projects. Practical experiences of California Electricity Market, New England Electricity Market, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland (PJM) and National Electricity Market, Australia have been accommodated in the article.
Wetland Sanctuary Co-management and Conflict: An Exploratory Study of the Impacts of the Baikka Beel Project in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Khan, Nahreen I.
name: Ahmed, Kawser
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: In 2003, the Government of Bangladesh declared Baikka Beel, a 100-hectare wetland in the north-eastern part of the country, as a permanent wetland sanctuary conservation project intended to preserve its fish breeding and bio-diversity. Within the framework of the Borogangina Resource Management Organisation, a co-managed project was launched with the support of the USAID. Through a community husbandry initiative several NGOs and one multi-national company also took part in the project. Field research was conducted in 2012 to explore the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the co-managed project. The research revealed that the primary dependent group (i. e. the fishermen) who live in the surrounding vicinity were excluded from the co-management process and that the project impacted their economic, social, political and cultural lives considerably. The top-down approach apparently failed to persuade relevant stakeholders to buy in, resulting in a conflict among three relevant project stakeholder groups as they perceived and pursued their interests on a piecemeal basis.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 48 Nr. 3-4 (2017): Myanmar · Bangladesh · Indonesia · Korea · India
Paraphylax Foerster 1869
Creators: name: Kallyadan, Sreejina Sreedharan
name: M., Nasser
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Paraphylax

description: Genus Paraphylax Förster 1869
(Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae)
 Paraphylax Foerster (Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) is typically seen as parasitic on psychids, microlepidopterans, spider egg cocoons, and other ichneumonids. It is known from the Afrotropical, Australasian, Eastern Palaearctic, Oceanic, and Oriental regions (Yu 2013). The genus has also been recorded in the Neotropical region (González-Moreno and Bordera 2011). From India, Paraphylax varius (Walker) is described from the bagworm Metisa plana Walker (Kamarudin et al. 1996) and Heliothis armigera Huebner (Choudhary et al. 1983). Moreover, Paraphylax sp. is documented for the first time from Glyptapanteles trilochae (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) cocoons associated with the caterpillar of Trilocha varians (Walker) as a hyperparasitoid. However, the species identity could not be verified (Gupta 2013).
description: Published as part of Kallyadan, Sreejina Sreedharan & M., Nasser, 2024, Making shelter for enemies: parasitoid-induced shelter-building behaviour in Paraponyx stagnalis, pp. 658-673 in Journal of Natural History 58 (21 - 24) on page 663, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2345928, http://zenodo.org/record/13219611
Legacies of Military Rule in Myanmar
Creators: name: Gärtner, Uta
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: For more than half a century, Myanmar was ruled by the military. Even now, with a civilian government in power, the military exerts considerable political influence and sees its involvement in national politics as a fundamental task alongside defending the sovereignty and integrity of the country. This factual situation logically derives from the origins and development of the armed forces. A key factor seems to have been the period from 1958 to 1962: not only did the military elite experience governing success during the “Caretaker Government”, but also, following the return of authority to civilian political forces, these proved incapable of ensuring the stability and development of the country. The reluctance of the military leadership to fully hand over power to the NLD after the latter won the elections in 2015 seems to reflect the lessons they learned from this experience. This article examines, against the background of history, how the present diarchy evolved and may be seen as a logical feature of transition in the Myanmar Way.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 48 Nr. 3-4 (2017): Myanmar · Bangladesh · Indonesia · Korea · India
How confidence intervals become confusion intervals
Creators: name: McCormack, James
name: Vandermeer, Ben
name: Allan, G M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Controversies are common in medicine. Some arise when the conclusions of research publications directly contradict each other, creating uncertainty for frontline clinicians. Discussion: In this paper, we review how researchers can look at very similar data yet have completely different conclusions based purely on an over-reliance of statistical significance and an unclear understanding of confidence intervals. The dogmatic adherence to statistical significant thresholds can lead authors to write dichotomized absolute conclusions while ignoring the broader interpretations of very consistent findings. We describe three examples of controversy around the potential benefit of a medication, a comparison between new medications, and a medication with a potential harm. The examples include the highest levels of evidence, both meta-analyses and randomized controlled trials. We will show how in each case the confidence intervals and point estimates were very similar. The only identifiable differences to account for the contrasting conclusions arise from the serendipitous finding of confidence intervals that either marginally cross or just fail to cross the line of statistical significance. Summary: These opposing conclusions are false disagreements that create unnecessary clinical uncertainty. We provide helpful recommendations in approaching conflicting conclusions when they are associated with remarkably similar results.
Tina Gonsalves: unleashing emotion
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The beauty within. The English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins coined terms such as inscape and instress in the late 19th Century to capture the coherent inner wholeness or essence of a thing, whether it is a person, a tree or his favourite topic, nature. For Hopkins the world radiated its inner wonder through its external appearances. I'm not so sure about that anymore. In an age of digital simulation, reality is now codified as image, not reflected through its images. The once reliable equation of surface equals depth has abstracted into the deceptive algebra of CGI, the hyperreal, the simulacrum. But I'm especially dubious of the wisdom of this historical axiom, the beauty within, in the light of the ongoing work of media artist Tina Gonsalves. For the past decade Gonsalves has been wrestling with appearances, experimenting in a startling body of visual, interactive and time-based works with the aesthetic dilemma of expressing inner states, or, as she describes it, 'externalising the internal'.
The India-Myanmar Relationship: New Directions after a Change of Governments?
Creators: name: Gottschlich, Pierre
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: Despite a promising start after independence, bilateral relations between India and Myanmar have had a long history of mutual neglect and obliviousness. This paper revisits the developments since the end of colonial rule and points out crucial historical landmarks. Further, the most important policy issues between the two nations are discussed. The focal point of the analysis is the question of whether one can expect new directions in the bilateral relationship since the election of new governments in India in 2014 and in Myanmar in 2015. While there have been signs of a new foreign policy approach towards its eastern neighbour on the part of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it remains to be seen if the government of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy will substantially alter Myanmar’s course on an international level.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 48 Nr. 3-4 (2017): Myanmar · Bangladesh · Indonesia · Korea · India
Hyper-elastic Modelling of Intervertebral Disc Polyurethane Implant
Creators: name: Pawlikowski, Marek
name: Skalski, Konstanty
name: Sowiński, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2013
Subjects: constitutive equation, curve-fitting, hyper-elastic constants

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2013; ISSN 1509-409X
Chloroplast genome comparison and taxonomy assessment in Polygonatum sensu lato
Creators: name: 胡迎峰(Huyingfeng)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2025
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Multispecies
Industrial

description: The Polygonati Rhizoma have generated significant market interest for their medicinal and culinary applications. However, morphological similarities and shifting species boundaries complicate genera and species identification, hindering product development and utilization of Polygonatum sensu lato. Despite the widespread application of the chloroplast genome for taxonomic boundary revisions for Polygonatum s.l., a critical gap remains in the evaluations of genomic applicability and standardized pipelines for developing species-specific molecular markers to enable rapid species discrimination. This study aims to assess the support of chloroplast genomes in clarifying the current classification status of the genera and species of Polygonatum s.l., and develop a process for rapid identification of designated species from other species. 21 chloroplast genomes were sequenced and assembled. Phylogeny, multiple molecular species assessment methods, and an automated screening framework were employed for subsequent analysis. Comparative analysis revealed relatively conserved chloroplast genomes, with only notable variation in the length of IR and LSC regions. Integrating multiple methods, the chloroplast genome can validate 82.46% of the current classification status of Polygonatum s.l., and demonstrate stronger support (90.63%) for species represented by multiple sequences but only moderate support (70%) for those with single-sequence representation. This study established and validated a scalable framework for molecular marker development, spanning from the identification of species-specific SNPs/InDels to the design of high-resolution molecular markers, using Heteropolygonatum and three medicinal Polygonatum species as cases.