cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Technical Support/ Extension services
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: The National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) of Jordan promotes increased agricultural production while conserving natural resources and optimizing their use, and preserving the ecological balance. To achieve this, NARC has launched several projects to support farmers in both technical and logistics operations. For example, the Food Security Project in 2016, in which 200-250 field observations were established. The Field Schools Project is another important tool supporting farming communities that began in the growing season 2004/2005. In the beginning, it was limited to vegetables but later on, fruit trees and other crops were included. The aim was to integrate the researcher, agricultural extension agent and farmer into a pioneering agricultural experiment. Additionally, NARC has launched an Agricultural Innovation Incubator Initiative on February 26th, 2019, which aims to transform entrepreneurial ideas into real projects that enhance the national economy and contribute to sustainable development and create job opportunities and success stories about farmers.
title: Drought, windthrow and forest operations strongly affect oribatid mite communities in different microhabitats
Creators: name: Wehner, Katja
name: Simons, Nadja K.
name: Blüthgen, Nico
name: Heethoff, Michael
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: Climate change is enhancing the annual mean temperature and the risk for droughts and natural disasters. Hot and dry summers not only have a negative impact on forest performance, but also affect fundamental ecosystem processes such as litter decomposition and nutrient cycling and the organisms involved. Oribatid mites are sexually or parthenogenetically reproducing soil-living microarthropods substantially involved in these processes. We compare oribatid mite communities (abundance, species richness, effective Shannon diversity and life-history parameters such as sex ratio, gravidity, number of eggs) in four microhabitats (litter, dead wood, moss and bare soil) before (2016) and after a sequence of disturbance events (2020). These disturbances include the severe drought of 2018/2019 in Germany, a single summer storm event in August 2019, and subsequent forest operations in spring 2020. Abundance and species richness were reduced up to 87% in all microhabitats and so was the effective Shannon diversity in moss (65%). Communities in moss were most affected, while effects were buffered in litter. In litter and moss, sexual species suffered slightly more than parthenogenetic species. Life history parameters were largely unaffected. In bare soil, microarthropods were almost absent. Our study demonstrates that consequences of climate change – drought, windthrow, necessary forest operations – are not restricted to above-ground systems but also strongly affect soil-living microarthropod communities. If natural and human-introduced disturbances remain in the long-term, severe consequences for forest soil arthropods must be expected. Since life-history parameters were unaffected, species probably recover over time if climate becomes more moderate in the short-term.
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based DVFS Algorithm Frameworks
Creators: name: Yu, Ke
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Energy consumption is a key problem in modern society. Computing devices, e.g., personal computer, smart watches, data centers are widely applied. Therefore, how to reduce energy consumption in some specific scenarios becomes a crucial research question. We study Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) problem in periodical task scenario. We first analyze two classic algorithms step by step. Then, we propose our new solutions which consumes less energy in the same task set compared to classic algorithms. Furthermore, we use deep learning techniques in our learning based DVFS frameworks. The new algorithms and frameworks contribute to energy-saving society.
title: The political consequences of demographic change: empirical evidence from migration, naturalisation and pension reform in Britain
Creators: name: Pupaza, Elena C.
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2021

description: This thesis monitors the evolution of voting behaviour and public opinion as a function of the socio-economic composition of the electorate. While much research focuses either on public opinion data or electoral outcome data, I bring the two together, yielding a detailed analysis of behavioural and preference changes produced by some of the most fundamental policy decisions implemented over the past three decades in the United Kingdom (EU enlargement, Brexit referendum and pension reforms). Empirically, the thesis combines high quality sources of data from secure panel studies, population censuses, Freedom of Information requests, electoral results and other administrative databases, and applies cutting edge causal inference methodology to reveal how demographic changes in the country have shaped the political sphere. The first paper, “Pension Reform: Electoral Accountability with Time Lags", finds that voters become and remain disillusioned with politics when policies are implemented, and information is disseminated with a considerable time lag. In the second paper, “Migration: Low-Cost Flights and Far-Right Votes”, Joachim Wehner and I develop an instrumental variable approach and find that the spatial predictability of migrant settlement linked to pre-existing transport infrastructure has a large positive effect on changes in support for far-right anti-immigrant parties. In the last paper, “Naturalisation: Brexit and the Making of New Citizens”, I explore how the Brexit referendum could shape future electoral turnout and outcomes by changing the profile and incentives of the average naturalized citizen. The thesis makes three main contributions. Firstly, it challenges the assumption that voters react immediately when presented with new policies, especially those that have long implementation lags. Secondly, it provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how diverse actors respond to demographic changes. Lastly, it encourages the concomitant use of public opinion and observational data to study policy implications.
title: The Royal Decree 429/2020, of March 3, Regulation on Access to Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) is the responsible authority for international relations and State legislation such as related to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. In May 2020, the Official State Gazette published the approved Royal Decree 429/2020, of March 3, a new regulation which establishes procedures for access to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and measures relating to the implementation of Farmers´ Rights. The Regulation includes the following measures: • establishes access mechanisms to plant genetic resources according to relevant international treaties signed by Spain: the International Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol.• facilitates procedures for farmers to access PGRFA that are conserved ex situ for use direct for cultivation, provided that these varieties are not registered• takes into account the Directives 2008/62 / EC of the Commission, dated June 20, 2008 and 2009/145/E of the Commission, November 26, 2009• Creation of a new figure, that of the seed producer dedicated exclusively to the production and marketing of seeds of conservation varieties and varieties developed for cultivation under certain conditions. The requirements for the production and marketing of these varieties have less restrictions and limitations in terms of quantities and packaging.
title: Protecting seeds as commons with an open-source license
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: OpenSourceSeeds (OSS) is a European initiative of the German Association for AgriCulture and Ecology (Agrecol), launched in April 2017. It pursues the objective to protect agricultural seeds as commons. It helps to establish a commons-based seed sector as a second pillar next to the private seed sector. The initiative has four core components: (1) licensing new varieties open-source and documenting them in a database; (ii) propagating and introducing OS seeds to the market; (iii) raising public awareness for seeds as a common good; and (iv) research and Development on new concepts to finance non-private (IPR-free) plant breeding. Currently, it has 9 new varieties/populations licensed open source (3 tomato varieties, 3 wheat varieties, 1 sweetcorn, 1 pepper and 1 potato variety). These OS varieties are listed in sales catalogues. Lessons learned include that plant breeders to use the license takes time, developing new financing concepts for plant breeding is a key issue for success, and the principle of seeds as commons is quite popular among consumers.
Food Pantry Usage Patterns are Associated with Client Sociodemographics and Health
Creators: name: Long, Christopher R.
name: Narcisse, Marie-Rachelle
name: Rowland, Brett
name: Faitak, Bonnie
name: Bailey, Mary M.
name: Gittelsohn, Joel
name: Caspi, Caitlin E.
name: Niemeier, Jill
name: English, Emily S.
name: McElfish, Pearl A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Characterizing food pantry (FP) clients’ FP usage patterns may provide opportunities to tailor health-related interventions. Respondents (n = 245) at seven FPs reported their frequency and reliance on FPs and their sociodemographics, health status, and health-related trade-offs. Clients were categorized via latent class analysis. Higher FP usage was associated with being older, having a household member with heart disease, and putting off buying medicine to buy food. Lower FP usage was associated with higher levels of education and having a household member with cancer. Findings highlight the potential importance of measuring FP clients’ degree of FP use.
The Sizes, Growth and Reproduction of Arrow Worms (Chaetognatha) in Light of the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)
Creators: name: Pauly, D. (Daniel)
name: Liang, Cui
name: Xian, Weiwei
name: Chu, Elaine
name: Bailly, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: The Chaetognatha are a marine invertebrate phylum including 132 extant, carnivorous species in nine families and two orders, but with unclear protostomian affinities in the animal kingdom. We document the gradual recognition of the distinctiveness of chaetognaths by early taxonomists, with some emphasis on the often-overlooked studies by Chinese marine biologists. The carnivorous arrow worms are understudied relative to their importance in the marine zooplankton, where they rank second in abundance after the herbivorous copepods. Although arrow worms lack gills or other dedicated respiratory organs, we show that the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT) can be used to explain how temperature and respiration affect their growth and related life-history traits. Notably, we present a reappraisal of evidence for size–temperature relationships between and within chaetognath species, and for the relationship between their temperature-mediated oxygen demand and their growth patterns. Von Bertalanffy weight growth curves of Ferosagitta hispida (family: Sagittidae) based on earlier aquarium experiments by various authors are presented, which suggest (a) a good fit and (b) that the life span of chaetognaths is much lower than suggested by the authors of several published growth curves drawn onto length–frequency samples from the wild. In addition, we show that chaetognaths attain first maturity at a fraction of the maximum length they can attain that is similar to the corresponding fraction in fishes. Overall, we suggest that the manner in which the oxygen they require enters the body of small marine invertebrates, although often neglected, is a crucial aspect of their biology. In addition, based on our result that arrow worms conform to the GOLT, we suggest that this theory may provide the theoretical framework for the study of growth in the other water-breathing ectotherms lacking gills.
title: Implementation of the program Bioeconomy Brazil Sociobiodiversity
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Income generation

description: During the past two decades, the Brazilian government has implemented policies addressing concerns of smallholder farmers, indigenous people and traditional communities living in close relation with biodiversity. In 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, launched the Bioeconomy Brazil Sociobiodiversity program. The program aims at promoting partnerships between the government, family farmers, small scale and medium-scale farmers, traditional communities and their enterprises, and the business sector. The programme further aims at promoting the sustainable use of sociobiodiversity and extractive resources, as well as the production and use of energy from renewable resources, while allowing the participation of the communities living closely with biodiversity in the productive and economic arrangements through the concept of bioeconomy. The program axes comprised of (i) productive structuring of the extractivism chains; (ii) medicinal, aromatics, condiment herbs and special teas of Brazil; (iii) sociobiodiversity routes; (iv) potentialities of Brazilian agrobiodiversity; and (v) renewable energy for family farming. With these axes, the Ministry intends to raise the income-generating capacity of farmers through the aggregated values of biodiversity.
title: Farmer participatory approach in increasing genetic diversity in farmers field with exotic taro plant genetic resources
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: The National Agricultural Research Institution (NARI) of Papua New Guinea (PNG), together with international partners, implemented a Participatory Plant Breeding project from 2011-2015 with the aim to increase the diversity of taro, which is the fourth most important crop in PNG. It also aims to address adaptation to climate change, pest and disease outbreaks and new market needs. In a survey conducted in 2013 and other previous documentation by NARI, it was found that the genetic diversity of taro in farmers’ field is very narrow; however, enhancing the diversity of this crop, which is mostly vegetatively propagated, requires specific technical know-how. The project thus brought together scientist working directly with local farmers in 18 village communities in three districts; around 300 farmers participated. The project included activities such as participatory evaluation of genetic resources, including from international collections, selection of breeding parents, crossing and seed harvesting and evaluation of progenies. Promising new progenies are the key outcome and were distributed to the village communities for on-farm evaluation, including for local adaptation and eating quality, based on farmers’ own criteria. Women played a key role in the process since they do most of the farming activities, such as planting, weeding and harvesting.
ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ВКЛЮЧЕНИЯ ВЫСТАВОЧНЫХ ПРОЕКТОВ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ В ПРОГРАММУ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ ГАРАНТИЙ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
Creators: name: КРЕСТЬЯНИНОВА НАТАЛЬЯ СЕРГЕЕВНА
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: ВЫСТАВОЧНЫЕ ПРОЕКТЫ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ПОДДЕРЖКА СОХРАННОСТИ МУЗЕЙНЫХ ПРЕДМЕТОВ
СТРАХОВАНИЕ КУЛЬТУРНЫХ ЦЕННОСТЕЙ
ДОЛГОВЫЕ ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬСТВА ПО ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМ ГАРАНТИЯМ
ОЦЕНКА РИСКОВ НАСТУПЛЕНИЯ ГАРАНТИЙНЫХ СЛУЧАЕВ
EXHIBITION PROJECTS OF CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
STATE SUPPORT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MUSEUM ITEMS
INSURANCE OF CULTURAL PROPERTY
PROMISSORY NOTES UNDER STATE GUARANTEES
RISK ASSESSMENT OF WARRANTY CLAIMS

description: Автором анализируются преимущества и актуальные проблемы создания программы государственных гарантий для российских музеев в качестве альтернативы коммерческого страхования экспонатов временных выставок. Рассматриваются особенности государственных гарантий, в частности, поправки в Бюджетный кодекс, которыми были созданы препятствия для обращения музеев за государственными гарантиями при организации временных выставок. Делается вывод о том, что для организации выставок предметов из российских музеев должен быть создан специальный закон.
К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ОБЯЗАННОСТЯХ ЗАСТРОЙЩИКА ПО ДОГОВОРУ О КОМПЛЕКСНОМ РАЗВИТИИ ТЕРРИТОРИИ
Creators: name: МАКСИМКИНА ЮЛИЯ АНДРЕЕВНА
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: КОМПЛЕКСНОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ ТЕРРИТОРИИ
ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОБЯЗАННОСТИ ЗАСТРОЙЩИКА
ОБЯЗАННОСТЬ В ОБЛАСТИ ОХРАНЫ ОКРУЖАЮЩЕЙ СРЕДЫ
ИНВЕСТИЦИОННЫЙ СТРОИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ПРОЕКТ
РЕДЕВЕЛОПМЕНТ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ЗОН
COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY
ENVIRONMENTAL OBLIGATIONS OF THE DEVELOPER
OBLIGATION IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
INVESTMENT CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
REDEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ZONES

description: Автором проанализировано понятие «экологическая обязанность». Выявлены существующие экологические обязанности застройщика по договору о комплексном развитии территории. Сделаны выводы о существовании двух основных экологических обязанностей застройщика и необходимости дополнения их, поскольку в стесненных условиях городской среды крупный инвестиционный строительный проект оказывает значительную нагрузку на окружающую среду, а существующие экологические требования к застройщику по договору о комплексном развитии территории не позволяют полностью устранить экологическую напряженность, возникающую в ходе реализации проекта.
La Neuroscience de l'Immobilité - S'ouvrir à la douce fécondité du rien faire
Creators: name: Attallah, Arnaldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: La relation entre l'inactivité et l'inspiration créative intrigue les penseurs depuis des siècles. L'idée que "ne rien

faire" peut être un catalyseur d'innovation semble contre-intuitive dans un monde qui assimile souvent la

productivité à une activité constante. Cependant, les récits historiques et les neurosciences émergentes

suggèrent que les périodes de temps d'arrêt mental délibéré sont cruciales pour favoriser les percées créatives.

Ce document explore les bases neuroscientifiques de ce phénomène, en se concentrant sur le rôle du réseau du

mode par défaut et les conditions qui facilitent l'intuition créative, y compris l'expérience commune de

"l'épiphanie de la douche".
title: Implementation of EU directives on conservation and amateur varieties, and preservation mixtures
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: Since 2009, Germany has translated several European directives, which aim to promote sustainable use of plant genetic resources, in national ordinances. Landraces and varieties naturally adapted to the local and regional conditions and significant for the conservation of plant genetic resources can be accepted for inclusion in the national list of registered varieties as ‘conservation varieties’. Vegetable varieties with no intrinsic value for commercial crop production can be registered as ‘amateur varieties’. Less stringent uniformity requirements apply to such varieties. Only limited amounts of seed of these varieties may be marketed. The seed does not require official certification but must meet the requirements for certified seed (agricultural varieties) or standard seed (vegetable varieties). The Federal Plant Variety Office (BSA) has registered 131 amateur and 48 conservation varieties as of June 2019.
СРАВНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ МЕТОДИК СТРЕСС- ТЕСТИРОВАНИЯ СОБСТВЕННОГО КАПИТАЛА КРЕДИТНЫХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ
Creators: name: БРАТАНОВ АЛЕКСАНДР АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ
name: КОСОРУКОВА И.В.
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: СТРЕСС-ТЕСТИРОВАНИЕ СОБСТВЕННОГО КАПИТАЛА
УРОВЕНЬ СОБСТВЕННОГО КАПИТАЛА ЮНИКРЕДИТ БАНКА
ТЕОРИЯ ЭКСТРЕМАЛЬНЫХ ЗНАЧЕНИЙ
ИНДЕКС ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКОЙ УВЕРЕННОСТИ
КОРРЕЛЯЦИОННОЕ СТРЕСС-ТЕСТИРОВАНИЕ
STRESS TESTING OF EQUITY CAPITAL
THE LEVEL OF EQUITY CAPITAL OF UNICREDIT BANK
THEORY OF EXTREME VALUES
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE INDEX
CORRELATION STRESS TESTING

description: В статье приведена сравнительная характеристика базовых методик стресс-тестирования. Построена регрессионная эконометрическая модель для оценки рисков банка, основанная на учете специфических для отечественной экономики факторов (в частности, цена нефти марки Brent, валютный курс рубля, индекс потребительских цен). В ходе применения этой модели для стресс-тестирования собственного капитала конкретной кредитной организации (ЮниКредит банка) по трем выбранным авторами методикам были определены проблемные вопросы их применения и предложены направления работы по совершенствованию методологии стресс-тестов.
ОЦЕНКА ЦЕЛЕСООБРАЗНОСТИ ВНЕДРЕНИЯ ИНСТИТУТА ЗАРАНЕЕ ОЦЕНЕННЫХ УБЫТКОВ В РОССИЙСКОЕ ПРАВО В КОНТЕКСТЕ ПРОФОРМ FIDIC
Creators: name: ВОДОПЬЯНОВ ЮРИЙ ВЛАДИМИРОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: ЗАРАНЕЕ ОЦЕНЕННЫЕ УБЫТКИ
ДОГОВОР СТРОИТЕЛЬНОГО ПОДРЯДА
НАРУШЕНИЕ СРОКА ИСПОЛНЕНИЯ ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬСТВ
КОМПЕНСАТОРНАЯ МОДЕЛЬ УБЫТКОВ
РАЗГРАНИЧЕНИЕ ЗАРАНЕЕ ОЦЕНЕННЫХ УБЫТКОВ И ШТРАФНЫХ САНКЦИЙ
ОТЛИЧИЕ ЗАРАНЕЕ ОЦЕНЕННЫХ УБЫТКОВ ОТ НЕУСТОЙКИ
PRE-ESTIMATED LOSSES
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT
VIOLATION OF THE DEADLINE FOR PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS
COMPENSATORY MODEL OF DAMAGES
DIFFERENTIATION OF PRE-ESTIMATED LOSSES AND PENALTIES
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRE-ESTIMATED LOSSES FROM FORFEIT

description: В статье исследована природа заранее оцененных убытков в английском праве. Проведен анализ российской судебной практики по вопросу их взыскания. Оценивая целесообразность нормативного закрепления института заранее оцененных убытков в российском праве, автор приходит к выводу об отсутствии к этому необходимых предпосылок и о наличии альтернативного инструментария.
ПРАВО НА ВИД: ПРОБЛЕМЫ ЮРИДИЧЕСКОЙ РЕГЛАМЕНТАЦИИ И ЗАЩИТЫ
Creators: name: КУЛАКОВСКИЙ ВЛАДИСЛАВ ВЯЧЕСЛАВОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: ЗАЩИТА ПРАВА НА ВИД
ВИДОВЫЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ ОБЪЕКТОВ НЕДВИЖИМОСТИ
ПРАВО НА ГОРОД
СЕРВИТУТ ВИДА
СОСЕДСКИЕ ПРАВА
НАРУШЕНИЕ АВТОНОМИИ ВОЛИ ЛИЦА
PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO A VIEW
SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF REAL ESTATE OBJECTS
THE RIGHT TO A CITY
AN EASEMENT OF A VIEW
NEIGHBORING RIGHTS
VIOLATION OF THE AUTONOMY OF A PERSON'S WILL

description: Автор рассматривает актуальные подходы к определению юридической конструкции «право на вид», ее правовую регламентацию и способы защиты в частноправовом (вопросы обязательственного и вещного права) и публично-правовом ключе. Приходит к выводу о том, что действующего нормативного регулирования недостаточно для последовательной юридической регламентации права на вид и определения законных механизмов его защиты. Предлагает вариант регламентации права на вид.
title: Community Seed Banks: enhancing local seed conservation
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The establishment of Community Seed Banks (CSB) has been undertaken by Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE) in collaboration with research institutions, universities, government and non-government organizations through various projects aiming to empower communities and small-scale farmers in Southeast Asia since 1996. CSB’s are collections of seeds that are administered by the communities and play a significant role in ensuring seed security, conserving agricultural biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge, and providing options for climate-change adaptation; they can also contribute to the realization of Farmers’ Rights. The main component of the practice was capacity development through Participatory Plant Breeding, Participatory Variety Selection and ecological management through experiential learning in Farmer Field Schools. In the Philippines, the CSB’s became a model of both climate resiliency and agrobiodiversity: mitigating drought through seed distribution to affected farmers in Bohol and enriching the local ‘Dinorado’ variety in North Cotabato. In Bhutan, there was a resurgence of local crop varieties and the inclusion of conservation of PGRFA in their national policies. The impact extends further in Thailand, enabling the revival of the local cultural festival ‘Bun Kao Mai’, a Buddhist celebration of bountiful harvest, excellent seeds and diversity in rice varieties.
title: The Resiliency and Thriving of Underrepresented Agricultural Educators
title: A National Mixed Methods Study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hickman, Caleb
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Community Leadership

description: Gay men in agricultural education do not have comprehensive support within the agricultural education profession. When gay men decide to become agriculture educators, they often keep their identity private. This national mixed methods study aims to seek if gay agriculture educators are resilient and thrive in rural communities. The thriving elements of spiritual influence, personal competence, peer support, and family cohesion were surveyed and analyzed using a resiliency lens. Findings include gay male agricultural educators thriving in a heteronormative profession. Recommendations include ensuring LGBTQIA+ teachers have a voice in agricultural education.
description: © 2022 Caleb Michael Hickman
title: Assessing the effectiveness of EU humanitarian aid. The cases of Myanmar, Lebanon, Mozambique
Creators: name: Morlino, Irene
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2021

description: The socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 have been felt worldwide, but especially in low-income countries. In these contexts, the effects of the global crisis have exacerbated the need for humanitarian assistance. While humanitarian programmes have become more critical, ensuring their effectiveness remains a challenge. The thesis investigates the factors that may affect humanitarian aid programmes’ effectiveness by looking at the European Union (EU), one of the top donors worldwide. Therefore, the two research questions are, firstly: why does the effectiveness of EU humanitarian aid programmes vary?; and secondly: What are the factors causing this variation? The research is meaningful because it addresses a critical, current challenge and because it also attempts to fill a gap in EU foreign policy literature by empirically assessing the external effectiveness of the EU ‘on the ground’ in contexts of wars and natural crises. It also assesses the relationship that it has with United Nations (UN) agencies and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in the field, in a sector, humanitarian aid, that has been overlooked as part of development aid. Following a precise definition of effectiveness and based on empirical data gathered through official reports, documents and interviews with UN, NGO, and EU officials, the thesis seeks to answer to the research questions by formulating three hypotheses on the factors that could influence the effectiveness and by empirically assessing them in the context of Myanmar, Lebanon and Mozambique, between 2015 and 2017. The hypotheses include: the EU Member States internal cohesiveness and coordination with Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) on the ground; delegation and coordination in the field between DG ECHO and UN agencies/NGOs; the national authorities’ attitude vis-à-vis EU humanitarian aid programmes. The research finds that the last two factors can be particularly decisive in the effectiveness of the programmes and proposes a formula for effectiveness. It suggests that EU humanitarian aid programmes should focus on resilience and preparedness, that the agents involved should closely coordinate, and the use of new technologies to speed up processes should be increased. Finally, the thesis suggests pathways to generalise these findings to non-EU humanitarian and to development actors, such as the World Bank.
title: Securing local seed systems through Farmers’ Seed Clubs
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: Empowerment of farmers has been an ongoing undertaking and objective in Mekong Delta since 1996, based on various projects and partnerships. One such initiative, implemented by the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute (MDI), in collaboration with Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE), included capacity development in rice breeding and seed production through experiential learning in Farmer Field Schools. As a result, over 300 seed clubs were formed across the Mekong Delta, which produced and distributed 158,000 tons of seeds of 77 rice varieties in 2018, benefitting 24,000 households. They supply at least 35% of the seed in the region and are recognized by farmers and local government authorities, such as Seed Centers, Extension Centers and the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) as important suppliers of good quality seeds. Furthermore, they developed 359 rice varieties, of which four have been registered and certified nationally, while five are in the process of registration. The contributions of seed clubs to improving seed systems and encouraging participation of individuals and communities in local seed production and distribution caused the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to issue Decision 35/2008/QĐ-BNN, encouraging local authorities to support community-based on-farm seed management.
A communicative and incremental approach for sustainable neighbourhood regeneration: case studies from Mashhad and Melbourne
Creators: name: Assadpour Zavehei, Naeimeh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Run-down areas in Iranian large cities such as Mashhad, the second large city in Iran, need urgent attention to solve their multi-dimensional problems. The usual large-scale urban intervention in Mashhad exhibits several shortcomings and lacks any innovative approach towards varied dimensions of sustainability, also fails to engage different stakeholders. This contrasts with the taken approach in Australian large cities. This thesis focuses on sustainable neighbourhood regeneration in Melbourne and Mashhad with a communicative and incremental approach. This research demonstrates how the chosen approach will achieve a greater sustainability for future regeneration projects in my cases and other cities.
СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЕ ПРАВО
Creators: name: РУЧКИНА ГЮЛЬНАРА ФЛЮРОВНА
name: АШМАРИНА Е.М.
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА
ПРАВО СОЦИАЛЬНОГО ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ
СОЦИАЛЬНОЕ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЕ ПРАВО
СОЦИАЛЬНЫЙ ПРОДУКТ
КОНСТИТУЦИОННАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА
SOCIAL ECONOMY
SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
SOCIAL ECONOMIC LAW
SOCIAL PRODUCT
CONSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS

description: В статье рассматривается сущность феномена «социальная экономика», традиционные и инновационные подходы к решению проблемы правового обеспечения социальной экономики. Для систематизации этого феномена предлагаются классификационные признаки, соответствующие различным критериям. При классификации по субъектному составу уделяется внимание социальной группе «пенсионеры», на которых распространяются различные виды льгот. Делается вывод о том, что сегодня регулирование социальной экономики целесообразно в рамках экономического права.
Understanding forest health with remote sensing, part III
Creators: name: Lausch, Angela
name: Borg, Erik
name: Bumberger, Jan
name: Schweitzer, Christian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Fernerkundung
Digitalisierung
Linked Open Data

description: Forest ecosystems fulfill a whole host of ecosystem functions that are essential for life on our planet. However, an unprecedented level of anthropogenic influences is reducing the resilience and stability of our forest ecosystems as well as their ecosystem functions. The relationships between drivers, stress, and ecosystem functions in forest ecosystems are complex, multi-faceted, and often non-linear, and yet forest managers, decision makers, and politicians need to be able to make rapid decisions that are data-driven and based on short and long-term monitoring information, complex modeling, and analysis approaches. A huge number of long-standing and standardized forest health inventory approaches already exist, and are increasingly integrating remote-sensing based monitoring approaches. Unfortunately, these approaches in monitoring, data storage, analysis, prognosis, and assessment still do not satisfy the future requirements of information and digital knowledge processing of the 21st century. Therefore, this paper discusses and presents in detail five sets of requirements, including their relevance, necessity, and the possible solutions that would be necessary for establishing a feasible multi-source forest health monitoring network for the 21st century. Namely, these requirements are: (1) understanding the effects of multiple stressors on forest health; (2) using remote sensing (RS) approaches to monitor forest health; (3) coupling different monitoring approaches; (4) using data science as a bridge between complex and multidimensional big forest health (FH) data; and (5) a future multi-source forest health monitoring network. It became apparent that no existing monitoring approach, technique, model, or platform is sufficient on its own to monitor, model, forecast, or assess forest health and its resilience. In order to advance the development of a multi-source forest health monitoring network, we argue that in order to gain a better understanding of forest health in our complex world, it would be conducive to implement the concepts of data science with the components: (i) digitalization; (ii) standardization with metadata management after the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles; (iii) Semantic Web; (iv) proof, trust, and uncertainties; (v) tools for data science analysis; and (vi) easy tools for scientists, data managers, and stakeholders for decision-making support. Quelle: https://www.mdpi.com
title: Construction of a database for farmer varieties/landraces in Japan
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Catalogues
subject: AGROVOC: Documentation

description: The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, in collaboration with the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), has started to create a database for farmer’s varieties/landraces in Japan since 2018. The database will store information on agricultural and consumption-related traits, origin, traditional usage and current conditions of farmers’ varieties/ landraces, with the aim to utilize the information for conservation, utilization and breeding purposes.
LEITURA E ESCRITA EM CRINÇAS COM AUTISMO: O TRABALHO PSICOPEDAGÓGICO A PARTIR DO MÉTODO FÔNICO NA CLINICA ESCOLA MUNDO AUTISTA
Creators: name: Jocirley de OLIVEIRA
name: Francisco Edviges ALBUQUERQUE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Autismo
Leitura e Escrita
Método Fônico
Psicopedagogia

description: RESUMO

 

Adquirir as habilidades de escrita e leitura pode ser bastante difícil para as crianças em geral e no caso de pessoas com o Transtorno do Espectro do Autismo (TEA) pode ser ainda mais complexa. Na escrita, centra-se na ausência de: coordenação motora, planejamento motor, linguagem, organização e questões sensoriais. Já na leitura, ocorre desatenção ao focar em algo por muito tempo, em assimilar e memorizar sequências, como longas frases, números ou instruções em várias etapas. Dessa forma, o presente artigo objetiva apresentar o resultado de um trabalho psicopedagógico desenvolvido nos fundamentos do método fônico no ensino da escrita e leitura com uma criança do sexo masculino diagnosticada com autismo que é atendido na Clínica Escola Mundo Autista na cidade de Araguaína - TO. Assim, a abordagem utilizada foi a qualitativa e o método utilizado na pesquisa foi o estudo de caso, pois, permitiu investigar a evolução do participante, permitindo análise e a utilização de fontes múltiplas e de evidência. Como sustentação teórica, embasou-se em autores que já contribuíram com escritos sobre a temática. Como resultado, tem-se que o método fônico utilizado na alfabetização prioriza o ensino dos sons dos grafemas, começando com as letras mais simples (vogais) até as mais complexas (consoantes) até formar sílabas e palavras, favorecendo de forma significativa a aprendizagem da escrita e da leitura com crianças com TEA.
ПРАВОВОЙ РЕЖИМ ИМУЩЕСТВА ТОВАРИЩЕСТВА СОБСТВЕННИКОВ НЕДВИЖИМОСТИ И ЕГО ЧЛЕНОВ
Creators: name: САЯПИНА ТАТЬЯНА СЕРГЕЕВНА
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: ТОВАРИЩЕСТВО СОБСТВЕННИКОВ НЕДВИЖИМОСТИ
СОБСТВЕННОЕ ИМУЩЕСТВО ТОВАРИЩЕСТВА
ИМУЩЕСТВО ЧЛЕНОВ ТОВАРИЩЕСТВА
ИМУЩЕСТВО ОБЩЕГО ПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ
ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВО ОБ УПРАВЛЕНИИ В КОРПОРАЦИЯХ
КОРПОРАТИВНАЯ СОБСТВЕННОСТЬ
REAL ESTATE PARTNERSHIP
PARTNERSHIP'S OWN PROPERTY
PARTNERSHIP MEMBER PROPERTY
COMMON PROPERTY
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE LEGISLATION
CORPORATE PROPERTY

description: Автором проведен анализ правил, регламентирующих имущественную сферу товариществ собственников недвижимости (ТСН), результат которого показал, что в таких товариществах имеются собственное имущество, имущество членов товарищества и имущество, находящееся в общей долевой собственности. Сделан вывод о том, что в гражданском законодательстве России необходимо закрепить основные положения о составе имущества общего пользования членов ТСН, порядке определения и следования долей в праве общей собственности на такое имущество.
title: Participatory Plant Breeding in Lao PDR
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: In 2000, the Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE), an NGO operating at regional level, and the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) of the  National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) together with the Department of Agriculture in Lao PDR launched a program called Biodiversity Use and Conservation in Asia Program (BUCAP), which later merged with another program called Community Biodiversity Development and Conservation (CBDC), and implemented from 2006-2010. Activities centred around Farmer Field Schools (FFS) on rice breeding, through which farmers co-defined breeding objectives, and together with scientists of the ARC, identified suitable parent materials. Researchers and extension agents were trained as FFS facilitators, while policy makers from local and national levels were consciously involved in all key activities to raise awareness and generate support for the work of farmers on the ground. As a result of the initiative, 55 high performing rice varieties were developed, of which some exhibit adaptation to specific conditions, including tolerance to drought or acid soils; one variety was granted official release in 2018, while others are still going through the same process.
Development of novel methods for preparing and analysing gastrointestinal nematodes in livestock
Creators: name: Hedley, Nicole
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Diagnosis of gastrointestinal nematode parasites in livestock remains a challenge to farmers. To address this problem, several techniques for rapid and inexpensive analysis and diagnosis were developed or optimised, with a focus on non-invasive sampling. These included a commercial milk cream separator and manufactured devices to separate and purify nematode eggs, analysis via imaging recognition techniques and DNA-based diagnostics. The outcomes of these experiments were functioning image recognition software, and a rapid and inexpensive method for preparing nematode eggs for PCR with a custom set of multiplex primers targeting three common parasite species.
ОБ ОТДЕЛЬНЫХ АСПЕКТАХ СООТНОШЕНИЯ И КООРДИНАЦИИ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВА В ОБЛАСТИ БЛАГОУСТРОЙСТВА ТЕРРИТОРИИ И ДОРОЖНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ
Creators: name: БАШАРИН АЛЕКСЕЙ ВАДИМОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Имущественные отношения в Российской Федерации
Year: 2020
Subjects: ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВО О ДОРОЖНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ
ПОЛОСА ОТВОДА АВТОМОБИЛЬНЫХ ДОРОГ
БЛАГОУСТРОЙСТВО КАК ЭЛЕМЕНТ ГРАДОСТРОИТЕЛЬНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ
ГРАДОСТРОИТЕЛЬНОЕ ЗНАЧЕНИЕ ДОРОГИ
ОТВОД ЗЕМЕЛЬ ПОД ДОРОГИ
ПРАВОВОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО ГОРОДА
LEGISLATION ON ROAD ACTIVITIES
RIGHT- OF-WAY FOR HIGHWAYS
LANDSCAPING AS AN ELEMENT OF URBAN PLANNING ACTIVITIES
URBAN DEVELOPMENT SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ROAD
LAND ALLOCATION FOR ROADS
LEGAL SPACE OF THE CITY

description: Автор рассматривает вопросы допустимости применения понятия «автомобильная дорога» в городах и существующие ограничения на проведение работ в границах полос отвода автомобильных дорог, проблемы координации работ различных видов, наличия двойного согласования работ, затрудняющего их осуществление. Исходя из анализа соответствующих норм федерального и регионального законодательства делает вывод об их рассогласованности и предлагает возможные варианты координации законодательства в области благоустройства и дорожной деятельности.
How can we improve the experiences of patients and families who request medical assistance in dying? A multi-centre qualitative study
Creators: name: Oczkowski, Simon J. W.
name: Crawshaw, Diane E.
name: Austin, Peggy
name: Versluis, Donald
name: Kalles-Chan, Gaelen
name: Kekewich, Michael
name: Curran, Dorothyann
name: Miller, Paul
name: Kelly, Michaela
name: Wiebe, Ellen
name: Frolic, Andrea
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Medical assistance in dying has been available in Canada for 5 years, but it is unclear which practices contribute to high-quality care. We aimed to describe patient and family perspectives of quality of care for medical assistance in dying. Methods We conducted a multi-centre, qualitative descriptive study, including face to face or virtual one-hour interviews using a semi-structured guide. We interviewed 21 english-speaking patients found eligible for medical assistance in dying and 17 family members at four sites in Canada, between November 2017 and September 2019. Interviews were de-identified, and analyzed in an iterative process of thematic analysis. Results We identified 18 themes. Sixteen themes were related to a single step in the process of medical assistance in dying (MAID requests, MAID assessments, preparation for dying, death and aftercare). Two themes (coordination and patient-centred care) were theme consistently across multiple steps in the MAID process. From these themes, alongside participant recommendations, we developed clinical practice suggestions which can guide care. Conclusions Patients and families identified process-specific successes and challenges during the process of medical assistance in dying. Most importantly, they identified the need for care coordination and a patient-centred approach as central to high-quality care. More research is required to characterize which aspects of care most influence patient and family satisfaction.
Complex extension of optical flow and its practical evaluation for undersampled dynamic MRI
Creators: name: Ehrhardt, Matthias J.
name: Mauritz, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Reconstructing high-quality images from undersampled dynamic MRI data is a challenging task and important for the success of this imaging modality. To remedy the naturally occurring artifacts due to measurement undersampling, one can incorporate a motion model into the reconstruction so that information can propagate across time frames. Current models for MRI imaging are using the optical flow equation. However, they are based on real-valued images. Here, we generalise the optical flow equation to complex-valued images and demonstrate, based on two real cardiac MRI datasets, that the new model is capable of improving image quality.
title: Ratifying the Anthropocene: a study of the Anthropocene working group’s ongoing effort to formalize the Anthropocene as a unit of the geologic time scale
Creators: name: Damianos, Alexander
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2021

description: This thesis provides an account of the ongoing effort to define the Anthropocene as a formal geological unit. Coined in 2000 by the atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, the term ‘Anthropocene’ has become symptomatic of a critical-theoretical zeitgeist: from a warning concerning the “deep time” effects of anthropogenic climate change, to an epistemological critique of the “human subject”. It is a theme that has taken on significance in critical legal theory as well. I respond to these debates, focusing on a component of the Anthropocene thematic that is often overlooked: the political, legislative, and historical dynamics of geology as a scientific discipline. Beginning in the seventeenth century, techniques such as fossil correlation and the relative ordering of earth’s material deposits have redefined understandings of scriptural authority, bringing geoscience to bear on the predominant existential reckonings of the day. Since 2008, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), a team of geologists, Earth System scientists, historians, and also including a lawyer, have been compiling a proposal to include an Anthropocene unit within the Geological Time Scale, the formal guide for the designation of time and space over 4.5 billion years of earth history. Folding contemporary concerns and events into transhistorical deep time, the AWG’s formalization effort can be seen as an attempt to advance novel strategies of geoscientific classification in a manner continuous with contemporary social anxieties. Engaging the formalisation effort as a legislative exercise, I provide a genealogical account of the evaluative procedures in which the formalization of an Anthropocene unit is situated, and engage participant observation of the AWG, tracking the controversies, negotiations, and procedures involved in their effort to ratify a new geological unit. Ultimately, I argue that the effort to define an Anthropocene unit unfolds as a process of refiguring the significance of geoscience in society.