cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Raw_data – Supplemental material for Bionic research on spikes based on the tractive characteristics of ostrich foot toenail
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
name: Han, Dianlei
name: Yu, Guolong
name: Wang, Haitao
name: Liu, Haibao
name: Yu, Haibin
name: Li, Jianqiao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Engineering not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplemental material, Raw_data for Bionic research on spikes based on the tractive characteristics of ostrich foot toenail by Rui Zhang, Dianlei Han, Guolong Yu, Haitao Wang, Haibao Liu, Haibin Yu and Jianqiao Li in SIMULATION
sj-pdf-1-eso-10.1177_2396987320932069 - Supplemental material for Risk factors for intracerebral haemorrhage – Results from a prospective population-based study
Creators: name: Svensson, Edith H
name: Abul-Kasim, Kasim
name: Engström, Gunnar
name: Söderholm, Martin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eso-10.1177_2396987320932069 for Risk factors for intracerebral haemorrhage – Results from a prospective population-based study by Edith H Svensson, Kasim Abul-Kasim, Gunnar Engström and Martin Söderholm in European Stroke Journal
Excited stated quantum phase transitions and the entropy of the work distribution in the anharmonic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model
Creators: name: Zhang, Haiting
name: Qian, Yifan
name: Niu, Zhen-Xia
name: Wang, Qian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studying the implications and characterizations of the excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) would enable us to understand various phenomena observed in quantum many body systems.In this work, we delve into the affects and characterizations of the ESQPTs in the anharmonic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model by means of the entropy of the quantum work distribution. The entropy of the work distribution measures the complexity of the work distribution and behaves as a valuable tool for analyzing nonequilibrium work statistics.We show that the entropy of the work distribution captures salient signatures of the underlying ESQPTs in the model.In particular, a detailed analyses of the scaling behavior of the maximal entropy verifies thatit acts as a witness of the ESQPTs. We further demonstrate that the entropy of the work distribution also reveals the features of the ESQPTs in the energy space and can be used to determine their critical energies. Our results provide further evidence of the usefulness of the entropy of the work distribution for investigating various phase transitions in quantum many body systems and open up a promising way for experimentally exploring the signatures of ESQPTs.
description: 10 pages,6 figures
Clean_Supplementary_materials – Supplemental material for Risk stratification for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a real-world study based on locoregional extension patterns and Epstein- Barr virus DNA load
Creators: name: Zhang, Lu-Lu
name: Huang, Meng-Yao
name: Wang, Ke-Xin
name: Song, Di
name: Wang, Ting
name: Sun, Li-Yue
name: Shao, Jian-Yong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Clean_Supplementary_materials for Risk stratification for nasopharyngeal
carcinoma: a real-world study based on locoregional extension patterns and Epstein-Barr virus DNA
load by Lu-Lu Zhang, Meng-Yao Huang, Fei-Xu, Ke-Xin Wang, Di Song, Ting Wang, Li-Yue Sun and
Jian-Yong Shao in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Ovoviviparità in Aceria stefanii (Nal.) (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
Creators: name: De Lillo, Enrico
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: OVOVIVIPARITY IN Aceria stefanii (NAL.) (Acari: Eriophyoidea)

The author describes two nymphs present inside the body of a female Aceria stefanii (Nal.). This report is added to the very few others in literature about the development of the egg in the female's body.

Eriophyids usually are oviparous.

Viene descritta la presenza di due ninfe nel corpo di una femmina di Aceria stefanii (Nal.) (Acari: Eriophyoidea). Questa segnalazione si aggiunge alle pochissime altre reperibili in letteratura sullo sviluppo dell'uovo nel corpo materno. Ordinariamente i rappresentanti del gruppo sono ovipari.
description: Entomologica, Vol 21 (1986)
FINANCIAL VIABILITY OF A 30MW IN NYABARONGO IISOLAR PLANT
Creators: name: Akeza K., Saudah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Dividends
solar plant
Project profitability
Nyabarongo II

description: The financial viability of the Nyabarongo II 30MW solar Power Plant using FINPLAN was analyzed by exploring three scenarios to assess the impact on shareholder dividends and NPV and IRR in a solar power plant project. The first scenario involved access electricity prices, indicating that the base price of MW is 199 frw(0.14 USD) [c1] per kWh, which resulted in the highest dividends and the shortest waiting period for shareholders to access their dividends. The second scenario focused on changes in interest rate on which the project is being financed, revealing that all tested productivity increases led to higher shareholding dividends without resulting in a lager time before dividend payments. However, increasing in interest rate and 40%(7USD) above the base level resulted in early dividends and ensured better performance of the project. The third scenario is to assess changes in the operation and maintenance, demonstrating that a decrease in operation and maintenance activities was more profitable in the short term, while an additional level of operation and maintenance leads to low profitability.  The findings from study shows that at any operation and maintenance cost less that than the 3.9 million USD would be profitable and a 10% (4.29 million USD) increase in the operation and maintenance on operation and maintenance will negatively affects as NPV reduce by 40%. A reduction in the price of electricity from the base by 5% of 199 RWF(0.14 USD) [c2]  does not significantly impact on the project's profitability, as (NPV) and (IRR) as these indicator remain positive. On the contrary a decrease beyond this leads to negative profitability, with NPV turning negative and IRR dropping to zero. Finally, it was realized that the interest rate in the country does not have a significant impact on the profitability of the project upon changes in the interest rate. It was recommended to take The strategy in reduction of electricity prices to make it more affordable for consumers while ensuring project profitability , prioritize strategies to minimize O&M costs through the adoption of advanced maintenance technologies, such as predictive maintenance systems which extend the lifespan of equipment, regardless of interest rate changes as NPV and IRR remains strong,  while dividend payments are not significantly affected  which improves the financial viability and profitability of the solar power plant.

 [c1]Since you are also using USD in some parts of this abstract, convert this also into USD and put in brackets

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Pteroplius acuminatus Audinet-Serville 1835
Creators: name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pteroplius
Pteroplius acuminatus

description: Pteroplius acuminatus Audinet-Serville, 1835 *
 Pteroplius acuminatus Audinet-Serville, 1835:66.
 Material examinado: (500 m), 2 machos, 1 fêmea, 15.XI.1995, V.O. Becker col. (COVB).
description: Published as part of Martins, Ubirajara R. & Galileo, Maria Helena M., 2010, Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) Da Serra Bonita, Camacan, Bahia, Brasil, pp. 435-443 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 50 (28) on pages 435-443, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492010002800001, http://zenodo.org/record/13307892
Allocontarinia n.g., A. sorghicola (Coq.) n. comb. (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae)
Creators: name: Solinas, Mario
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: A new genus, Allocontarinia is erected to include a morpho-biologically very unusual (Allo- allos = strange), though much studied, Contarinina (sensu RiiBSAAMEN-HEDICKE 1925-39): the species sorghicola Coquillet (1898). Adult and larvae morphological studies on specimens from Italian fìeld samples and compared with originai materia! on slides borrowed from the U.S. National Mus. of nat. Hist. Washington, together with an important biological feature (puparium formation), prove that a new genus is needed for sorghicola, at least until a complete revision of the genus Contarinia is clone.

Viene proposta l'istituzione di un genere nuovo, Allocontarinia, per dare una collocazione sistematica più appropriata ad una Contarinina morfologicamente e biologicamente «sui generis », quale la tristemente nota specie sorghicola Coquillet (1898). Uno studio modologico di adulti e larve raccolti nell'Italia Centrale e confrontati con preparati originali della Cecidomia conservati nel U.S. National Mus. of Nat. Hist. di Washington, unitamente alla caratteristica biologica della specie di formare un pupario, indicano la necessità di spostare detta specie dal genere Contarinia in un genere a sé della stessa sottotribù Contarinina.
description: Entomologica, Vol 21 (1986)
Coleotterofauna del Massiccio del Pollino (Basilicata-Calabria) (Coleoptera)
Creators: name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Coleoptera OF THE POLLINO MASSIF (BASILICATA-CALABRIA)

Field data are presented on 745 species of Coleoptera, not recorded so far from Pollino Massif (Southern Italy). They include: a) 251 new records from Basilicata or Calabria, b) 22 species which were known so far only from single regions or islands of Italy, c) l recent new description, Agathidium montemurroi Ang. & Dmz., d) 4 new records from the whole Italy, Acrotrichis sitkaensis Motsch., Acrolocha amabilis Heer, Micropeplus latus Hampe, Ceutorhynchus angustus Dieckm., e) 182 species which exhibit their southern distri- bution limit on Pollino, f) 18 endemie species.

Owing to these new data, the coleopterous fauna of Pollino includes so far as many as 1824 species of 86 families.

Si riportano i dati di cattura relativi a 745 specie di Coleotteri non ancora segnalate per il Massiccio del Pollino, tra cui 251 specie nuove per la Basilicata o Calabria e 22 specie sinora note solo di singole regioni italiane o isole. Di queste ultime viene riportata la diffusione in Italia. Inoltre, i nuovi reperti comprendono 4 specie nuove per la fauna italiana, Acrotrichis sitkaensis Motsch., Acrolocha amabilis Heer, Micropeplus latus Hampe, Ceutorhynchus angustus Dieckm., e l specie descritta di recente come nuova per la scienza Agathidium montemurroi Ang. & Dmz.

Tenendo conto anche dei dati già pubblicati da Autori vari, si rileva che 182 specie raggiungono sul Pollino il loro limite meridionale di diffusione, mentre 18 specie risultano endemiche di tale complesso montuoso. In totale la coleotterofauna del Pollino conta finora 1.824 specie.

Le stazioni esplorate dall'autore sono indicate in una cartina. In un'apposita tabella viene riportato il numero di specie note per ciascuna famiglia.
description: Entomologica, Vol 21 (1986)
Camprobe_JCU_Supplementary_1 – Supplemental material for Multicentre clinical evaluation of the safety and performance of a simple transperineal access system for prostate biopsies for suspected prostate cancer: The CAMbridge PROstate Biopsy DevicE (CamPROBE) study
Creators: name: Gnanapragasam, Vincent J
name: Leonard, Kelly
name: Sut, Michal
name: Ilie, Cristian
name: Ord, Jonathan
name: Roux, Jacques
name: Prieto, Maria Consuelo Hart
name: Warren, Anne
name: Tamer, Priya
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Camprobe_JCU_Supplementary_1 for Multicentre clinical evaluation of the safety and performance of a simple transperineal access system for prostate biopsies for suspected prostate cancer: The CAMbridge PROstate Biopsy DevicE (CamPROBE) study by Vincent J Gnanapragasam, Kelly Leonard, Michal Sut, Cristian Ilie, Jonathan Ord, Jacques Roux, Maria Consuelo Hart Prieto, Anne Warren and Priya Tamer in Journal of Clinical Urology
title: Urban water pricing : A critical-realist approach.
Creators: name: Eberhard, Rolfe
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2002

description: Why water? And why pricing? Many millions of poor people struggle to obtain ten litres of water per day yet much of the water currently supplied is used to support the meat-rich diets of the affluent, to fill their swimming pools and to irrigate golf courses for their leisure. These contrasts have never been more stark than they are today. Tensions and conflict over access to water, already prevalent in many regions, are certain to increase. In this context, what are the consequences of water pricing, what role should water pricing play and to what end? Pricing policy advocacy based on neo-classical economic theory asserts that the objectives of Pareto-efficient and sustainable resource use can be attained through much greater reliance on markets, privatisation and pricing, and that issues related to the distribution of resources are a separate, essentially political, matter. I contend that the theoretical basis of this policy advocacy is fundamentally flawed and that a more comprehensive theoretical framework is needed in order to understand pricing decisions, the affect of these decisions on different groups and the prognoses for change. In particular, these decisions and their influence need to be understood with reference to the specific political-economic context, both current and historic. The objectives of the thesis are thus twofold: to point out the weaknesses and fallacies inherent in the neo-classical theoretical framework underpinning current policy advocacy in the urban water sector and to develop a comprehensive theoretical and methodological framework for the analysis of urban water pricing. I make two original contributions to the literature on water pricing. I develop a methodological framework which is informed by critical-realism for understanding and analysing urban water pricing which is unique and specific to the urban water sector and I use primary and secondary data to demonstrate the implications of using this methodological framework.
title: The concept of danzo : "Sandalwood images" in Japanese Buddhist sculpture of the 8th to 14th centuries.
Creators: name: Boehm, Christian Matthias
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: This thesis examines Buddhist images known as danzo (sandalwood sculptures) in Japan from the 8th to 14th centuries in terms of the types of material used to make them, their distinctive form (as determined by iconography and style), and the religious functions for which they were used. All three of these fundamental defining elements are considered essential for a comprehensive understanding of danzo as religious icons, but for the clarification of crucial issues the first two chapters examine each of these elements separately. Chapters One and Two consider issues concerning definitions of materials, form according to different iconographic types and period styles, the expression of shogon (sublime adornment) and religious functions. Chapter Three provides a classification of the various types of dangan (portable sandalwood shrines). Chapters Four to Six examine the various iconographic types classified according to Nyorai, Kannon, and other Bosatsu and tutelary deities. This dissertation proposes a new definition of the form of danzo based on the distinction between the type-style and period-style, in which the expression of the aesthetic-religious concept of shogon is argued to be of central significance and danzo are considered as objects of shogon par excellence. Furthermore, textual evidence is presented to suggest that the two most common religious functions of danzo were as icons in ceremonies and for personal devotion for high-ranking monks, aristocrats, and members of the imperial family, which reflects the special sanctity ascribed to these images. The aim of this dissertation is to arrive at a more inclusive understanding of danzo as religious icons with distinctive material, formal and functional characteristics that define them as a unique group of religious icons within Japanese Buddhist sculpture.
Supplementary document for Fast and Slow Light in a Chain of Superconducting Split-Ring Resonators with Staggered Coupling Strengths - 7113372.pdf
Creators: name: Chang, Yu-Han
name: Abdelghany, R. A.
name: Peng, Wei Lun
name: Wu, Cen-Shawn
name: Kuo, Watson
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document
Supplementary document for Genetic algorithm-enabled on-demand co-design of optically transparent metamaterial for multispectral stealth applications - 7001619.pdf
Creators: name: liu, shiju
name: ye, zhiming
name: tan, ruiyang
name: han, mengqi
name: Zhuang, Haiyan
name: Chen, Ping
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Related equation
title: Turkish political culture and the European Union.
Creators: name: Grigoriadis, Ioannis Nikolaou
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: This thesis examines the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish political culture since the 1990s. While republican institutions and a multi-party political system were introduced in Turkey by the 1950s, political liberalism was the missing part of Turkey's substantive democratisation. The subject character of Ottoman political culture, compounded by the leading political role of the military and successive military coups, resulted in the consolidation of a republican political culture, which valued submissiveness toward state authority and did not favour citizen participation. The liberal deficit of Turkish politics became apparent with Turkey's decision to pursue membership of the European Union. Turkey's need to comply with the Copenhagen Criteria to achieve the start of EU accession negotiations meant that political liberalisation reforms were inevitable. This study embarks from an examination of the historical background to the political culture debate in Turkey. It then explores European and Turkish political cultures and draws a comparison between them. The core of this study consists of an exploration of the impact that Turkey's EU-motivated political reform had on civil society, state-society relations, the role of religion in politics and national identity. An assessment whether Turkish political culture has become more participant and citizen-centred is attempted in the concluding chapter. The theoretical framework of this thesis is informed by the work of Almond and Verba on civic culture. Historical institutionalist theories of European integration and path dependence theory are also applied to explain the role of the European Union in the liberalisation process of Turkish political culture. Putnam's work on two-level games helps explain the interplay of Turkish and European actors in the process of EU-Turkey negotiations, while his work on 16 social capital points at a feature, which can serve as the acid test for the emergence of a liberal, participant political culture in Turkey.
title: The Sacred Mugumo Tree: Revisiting the roots of Gikuyu cosmology and worship: A case study of the Gicugu Gikuyu of Kirinyaga District in Kenya.
Creators: name: Karangi, Matthew Muriuki
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: The aim of this thesis is to examine the Gikuyu traditional cosmology and worship, taking the Mugumo (Ficus natalensis / Ficus thonningii), a sacred tree among the Gikuyu as the key to understanding their cosmology. The research explores in depth the Gikuyu religio-philosophical world-view as an advent to preparing the ground for understanding why the sacred Mugumo played a paramount role in the life of the Gikuyu people. In the study of the sacred Mugumo the thesis examines a three-tier relationship relevant and integral to understanding Gikuyu cosmology: Ngai (God) as the Mumbi (the creator) together with the Ngoma (ancestors); the Gikuyu people, and finally with nature. The thesis focuses on the sacred Mugumo tree, taken as the axis of the Gikuyu religio-political configuration. Consequently, crucial questions are asked: what are the characteristics of this tree? What religious and political role does it play in Gikuyu cosmology and worship? In other words, what are its religio-political functions? What ceremonies and rituals were conducted around it and how does this sacred tree and the rituals associated with it validate the Gikuyu claim to land, political power, religious hegemony and identity? Using mainly the theories of V.Y Mudimbe, B. Berman, R. Horton, and an analysis of data collected in the Gicugu Division, Kenya, the thesis contends that the Colonial government, the Missionaries, the African scholars and the Gikuyu elders collaborated in the forging and invention of the Gikuyu identity. Thus emerges the present image of Ngai and the Gikuyu as we know them today. The crucial question addressed is whether this conception is congruent to the original Gikuyu understanding of Ngai. The findings indicate that the sacred Mugumo was mythically veiled both with religio-political power and used by the elders for social and religio-political control of the group. They also strongly indicate that it was this religio-political symbiosis which was celebrated, ritualised and revitalised around the sacred Mugumo tree. Finally, following the research findings, the thesis shows that the sacred Mugumo prepared the ground for the evangelisation in the Gikuyu land and the continuation of political hegemony based on power-knowledge and control. This critical analysis will lead us on the one hand to demythologise the colonial and missionary discourses based on epistemological dynamics about Gikuyu cosmology and worship which were in fact meant to create an identity of the oppositional "Other", and on the other hand provide conceptual tools for a contextualised evangelisation and the study of local religions.
Supplemental Material, Graphical_Abstract - Polyetherketone powder/epoxy blends with low viscosity and high mechanical properties
Creators: name: Li, Hong
name: Su, Hang
name: Wang, Letian
name: Sun, Lingyu
name: Yang, Jiping
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, Graphical_Abstract for Polyetherketone powder/epoxy blends with low viscosity and high mechanical properties by Hong Li, Hang Su, Letian Wang, Lingyu Sun and Jiping Yang in High Performance Polymers
Dysgonia algira L. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae - Catocalinae) dannosa a melograno (Punica granatum L.)
Creators: name: Sannino, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Dysgonia algira L. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae-Catocalinae) HARMFUL TO POMEGRANATE

(Punica granatum L.)

A report is made of larval infestations of Dysgonia algira L. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae- Catocalinae) occurring for the past few years on pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) in the countryside at Scafati and Nocera (Salerno, Southern Italy). The main aspects of the bio- ethology of this phytophagous are emphasized .

The adults fly from May to September, with two freguency peaks in the end of June and in the second decade of August. The eggs are laid either separately or in groups of 2-4 on the underside of pomegranate leaves. The larvae which feed at night produce characteristic erosions on the leaves and sometimes skeletonize the twigs. In sumrner they pupate in silky white cocoons on the plant while in autumn in a cocoon at the crown of the host plant.

In the area under observation, the D. algira completed two generations in one year and overwintered as pupa in the ground.

The duration of postembryonal development, from the hatching of the eggs to their emergence from the cocoon under controlled conditions (RM 70-75%, 130 luxx 14 h/1) was greatly influenced by temperature, lasting 35, 46 and 68 days respectively at 30°, 25" and 21°C.

Vengono segnalate infestazioni ]arvali di Dysgonia algira L. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae- Catocalinae) verificatesi negli ultimi anni su melograno (Punica granatum L.) in agro di Scafati e Nocera (Salerno); viene messa in luce nelle linee fondamentali la bio-etologia di tale fitofago.

Gli adulti volano da maggio a settembre, con due picchi di frequenza a fine giugno e nella seconda decade di agosto; le uova vengono deposte isolate o in gruppi di 2-4 elementi sulla pagina inferiore delle foglie del melograno; le larve, ad attività trofica notturna. producono vistose e caratteristiche erosioni sulle foglie, talvolta scheletrizzando i ramoscelli;

in estate l'incrisalidamento ha luogo sulla pianta, in un bozzolo bianco sericeo, m autunno in una celletta nel terreno ai piedi delle piante ospiti.

Nell'area di osservazione la D. algira ha completato due generazioni nell'arco dell'anno, svernando da crisalide nel terreno.

La durata dello sviluppo postembrionale, dalla schiusura dell'uovo allo sfarfallamento. in condizioni controllate (UR = 70-75%; 130 lux X 14 h/ luce) è influenzata fortemente dalla temperatura, essendo risultata di circa 35, 46 e 68 giorni rispettivamente a 30, 25 e 2l°C.
description: Entomologica, Vol 21 (1986)
title: Tuberculosis: A disease of poverty; a question of control? A case study of TB in Malawi.
Creators: name: Hayward, Natasha D.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: Tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major threat in the developing world and is one of the leading infectious disease killers globally (UN 1999; WHO 2005). In Malawi, one of the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the National TB Control Programme (NTP) is struggling in a setting where an HIV pandemic combined with extreme poverty is undermining its efforts. There has been an upsurge in TB case rates and falling cure rates. Despite such deteriorating statistics, this programme is nevertheless regarded as a 'model' by the World Health Organisation (WHO 1995; WHO 2001), which applauds the early and sustained implementation of the DOTS strategy - seen as the most effective strategy for TB control. This apparent 'disconnect' between WHO praise for DOTS implementation and the deteriorating TB outcomes suggests that further investigation should examine why this is the case, and what can be done to improve it. This thesis, therefore, investigates tuberculosis and its control in the Malawian setting, and aims to understand it from the point of view of ordinary people who are most at risk, from the perspective of policy making and implementation, and from the experience of care providers. Using a qualitative case study approach in a severely affected country, it shows that the failure of TB programmes to understand in-depth the environment in which they operate will limit their ability to recognise and respond to the particular needs of their public with practical service provision options, thus contributing to continued poor TB outcomes. One of the overarching policy implications concerns the common reluctance of TB control experts to allow systematic social science research to uncover the complexities of the context in which they are situated. Biomedical control is instead promoted as a means to contain and avoid complexity, yet in doing so, ultimately precludes what may bring positive change.
R2_Supplemental_Materials – Supplemental material for Detecting changes between two strangers: Insight from a classic change blindness paradigm
Creators: name: Marquis, Alexandra R.
name: Sugden, Nicole A.
name: Moulson, Margaret C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, R2_Supplemental_Materials for Detecting changes between two strangers: Insight from a classic change blindness paradigm by Alexandra R. Marquis, Nicole A. Sugden and Margaret C. Moulson in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
sj-pdf-2-ajr-10.1177_1945892420932485 - Supplemental material for Association Between Deviated Nasal Septum With Inferior Turbinate Hypertrophy and the Risk of Male Infertility
Creators: name: Hsin-Chien Chen
name: Chi-Hsiang Chung
name: Wu-Chien Chien
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-ajr-10.1177_1945892420932485 for Association Between Deviated Nasal Septum With Inferior Turbinate Hypertrophy and the Risk of Male Infertility byHsin-Chien Chen MD, PhD Chi-Hsiang Chung PhD Wu-Chien Chien PhD in American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy
title: The culture and poetics of jazz improvisation.
Creators: name: Foreman, Iain
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2005

description: How is the jazz language inventive in spite of the objective limits that delineate and govern it? This fundamental question is examined in light of the musical practices of young jazz musicians with whom I conducted fieldwork in Los Angeles from 2002-2003. Their insights enabled me to outline four dimensions of theoretical enquiry into improvisation: the formal, the historical, the phenomenological and the hermeneutic. By placing these four levels in a dialogue, a productive dialectic emerges which provides a rejoinder to deconstructive musicology's inability to understand the jazz language's capacity to transcend its structure and create and express new meanings. As improvising jazz musicians blur the distinctions between analysis and performance, the process of improvisation can also help to cultivate a more productive dialogue between the 'outside' and 'inside' of music, structure and experience, texts and extemporisations, and cultural reality and poeisis. The dissertation follows each of the four analytical-interpretive levels and explores the ways in which musicians relate to them. I begin with an analytical exegesis of the objective rules and codes which constitute the basis of substantial portions of contemporary jazz musicians' vocabularies. This discussion illustrates the symbolic nature of the jazz language and its role as a repository of shared understandings in which individuals and the jazz community form their stylistic identities. This analysis in turn engenders a historiography of the language and the process of canon formation. I illustrate this process by paying special attention to John Coltrane's composition 'Giant Steps', which I relate to Bourdieu's notion of symbolic capital. However, despite a growing anxiety among jazz musicians concerning the workings of power, ideology, and strategies to sound 'hip' in improvised performances, these same musicians were dedicated to experiencing improvisation beyond the inertia of power hierarchies and discourses. A phenomenological analysis, in response to this inertia, focuses attention on aspects of playing music as it emerges in play. However, rather than grounding these experiences within the realm of immediate, intuitive knowledge - which neglects the mediating role of the jazz language in shaping experience - I have found it necessary, through the final hermeneutical level based on Ricoeur's threefold mimesis, to return dialectially to the formal, analytical aspects of the jazz language as a symbolic system. This language thus enables us to both relate to the world and foster interpretive access to self-understanding. In response to the initial question, I illustrate that the transformative power of improvisation resides not in a representation or reduplication of cultural reality; rather it addresses itself to the deeply rooted potentialities of reality absent from the actualities of everyday life.
title: A descriptive grammar of Noon, a Cangin language of Senegal.
Creators: name: Soukka, Maria
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1999

description: Noon is a West-Atlantic language of the Cangin subgroup, spoken by 25 000 people in central Senegal, in and around the town of Thies. The aim of this study is to provide a full grammatical description of Noon, since no such study has been done on the language. We have not followed a specific linguistic model as framework, but rather tried to work from the classical approach of presenting the structures in the grammatical units of the language, from morphology to discourse, All analysis is presented with language examples from data collected in the Thies area over the years 1994-1998. The study is divided into 11 chapters, followed by a short interlinearised text sample with a free translation. The first chapter presents a brief overview of the phonology and the morphophonological processes that take place in affixation. Another important feature described in this section is the restricted regressive vowel harmony process, based on the ATR feature. In chapters 2-3, the nominal system is described, including the noun class system of 6 basic classes with which most nominals are in agreement. There is also a threefold locative distinction present in determined nominals. This locative distinction is further elaborated in the demonstratives. Chapter 4 treats prepositions and adverbs. In chapters 5-6, verbal morphology and the verb phrase are presented, A major feature of the Noon verb is the derivational affixation which, apart from carrying aspectual information, also has bearing on the valency of the verb. The conjugational system is based on affixation, but also on the use of auxiliaries and particles. Chapter 7 deals with conjunctions, particles and interjections, and chapter 8 treats clause structures: independent ones, both verbal and non-verbal, but also dependent clauses. In chapter 9, different simple sentence types are described, followed by the complex sentences, including serial and reduplicative types. Chapter 10 depicts some important features that occur on the discourse level such as the wider use of spatial deixis in temporal and textual references. Finally, in chapter 11 is presented a comparative view of some of the major dialect differences in Noon.
Supplementary document for Rapid, Autonomous and Ultra-Large-Area Detection of Latent Fingerprints Using Object-Driven Optical Coherence Tomography - 7139433.pdf
Creators: name: He, Bin
name: Shi, Yejiong
name: Sun, Zhenwen
name: Li, Xiaojun
name: Hu, Xiyuan
name: Wang, Lei
name: Xie, Lanchi
name: Yan, Yuwen
name: Li, Zhihui
name: Li, Zhigang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Optical Networks and Systems
Optical Technology

description: Typical OCT B-scan Images of bubble and dirt.
Supplemental_Material_Stossi_Resubmission – Supplemental material for Single-Cell Distribution Analysis of AR Levels by High-Throughput Microscopy in Cell Models: Application for Testing Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
Creators: name: Stossi, Fabio
name: Mistry, Ragini M.
name: Singh, Pankaj K.
name: Johnson, Hannah L.
name: Mancini, Maureen G.
name: Szafran, Adam T.
name: Mancini, Michael A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material_Stossi_Resubmission for Single-Cell Distribution Analysis of AR Levels by High-Throughput Microscopy in Cell Models: Application for Testing Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals by Fabio Stossi, Ragini M. Mistry, Pankaj K. Singh, Hannah L. Johnson, Maureen G. Mancini, Adam T. Szafran and Michael A. Mancini in SLAS Discovery
Osservazioni sulla bioetologia della Dioryctria pineae (Stgr.) (Lepidoptera: Phycitidae) e sul suo parassitoide Elachertus geniculatus (Ratz.) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Creators: name: Triggiani, Oreste
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIOETHOLOGY OF Dioryctria pineae STGR. (Lepidoptera: Phycitidae)

AND ON ITS P ARASITOID Elachertus  geniculatus (RATZ.) (Hymenoptera : Chalcidoidea )

Dioryctria pineae is an insect pest to pine cones of different species of Pinus (Pinus halepensis, P. pinea, P. pinaster). It is also present in Southern Italy where it has two generations a year, while in Centrai ltaly it only has one.

The first adults fly into the field during March-April and lay eggs on macrophyllous and pine cones. Larvae enter the cones and feed on fertilized ovules which are destroyed. When the larvae are mature they pupate in the soil and the adults of the first generation emerge from June to August.

Some larvae from the second generation develop in the pine cones partially destroyed by the former generation and the mature larvae overwinter in a cocoon in the soil and pupate in the following spring. A small percentage overwinters as last instar larva in dry pine cones.

Three parasitoids have been collected: Elacbertus geniculatus which parasitized up to 24% of last instar Iarvae of Dioryctria pineae during June-July, Apanteles dioryctriae, less frequent respect the previous one and only one sample of Temelucha decorata (Hymenoptera: Cremastinae) from one pupa of the D. pineae.

We have been growing E. geniculatus continuosly on larvae of Galleria mellonella in laboratory.
description: Entomologica, Vol 21 (1986)
Morfologia delle uova in alcuni Pselafidi (Coleoptera)
Creators: name: De Marzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: EGG MORPHOLOGY IN SOME PSELAPHIDS (Coleoptera)

On the basis of materials obtained in laboratory, eggs of 13 species, 5 tribes, have been examined, and nine egg forms have been recognized.

According to species, morphological variability affects: l) egg shape (spherical, sub- spherical, ellissoidal, egg-like), 2) corion structure (smooth, wrinkled, pimpled, reticulate), 3) presence of a tubercle, 4) presence of a filament, 5) colour (milk-white, whitish, ivory- or amber-coloured). Very characteristic feature of Pselaphus heisei is a fluid droplet (? mother's secretion) that covers every egg.

Both inter- and intrageneric variability has been found.

Viene documentata la variabilità morfologica delle uova in tredici specie di Pselafidi di cinque tribù. Essa si esprime nella forma complessiva dell'uovo, la struttura del corion, la presenza o meno di una parte filamentosa.

Di molto particolare le uova di Pselaphus heisei presentano una sorta di protezione fluida che ricopre le singole uova.
description: Entomologica, Vol 21 (1986)
L'acarocecidio indotto da Aceria caulobius (Nalepa) n. comb. (Acari: Eriophyoidea) su Suaeda fruticosa Forsk:, serbatoio naturale del predatore Typhlodromus exhilaratus Ragusa (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
Creators: name: De Lillo, Enrico
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: GALL. INDUCED BY Acena caulobius (NALEPA) N. COMB. (ACARI: ERIOPHYOIDEA) ON Suaeda fruticosa FORSK. , NATURAL RESERVE OF THE PREDACEOUS MITE Typhlodromus exhilaratus RAGUSA (ACARI:PHYTOSEIIDAE).

The predaceous mite Typhlodromus exhilaratus Ragusa (Acari: Phytoseiidae) has been found on spontaneous Suaedafruticosa Forsk. infested with gall-making Aceria caulobius (Nalepa) n. comb. (Acari: Eriophyoidea).

Morphological characters of A . caulobius are pointed out and illustrateci by scanning electron micrographs .

The predator, active ali year round, has been observed entering the perforated galls containing alive Eriophyids.

As S. fruticosa and the gall-making Eriophyid are abundant, mention is made of a possible employment of this predator against phytophagous mites infesting agricultural plants.

Si segnala la presenza dell'Acaro predatore Typhlodromus exhilaratus Ragusa (Acari: Phytoseiidae) sulla spontanea Suaeda fruticosa Forsk. infestata dall'Acaro galligeno Aceria caulobius (Nalepa) n . comb. (Acari: Eriophyoidea).

Dell'Acaro galligeno viene data una esauriente illustrazione arricchita da microfotografie riprese al microscopio elettronico a scansione.

Il predatore, attivo durante l'anno intero, è stato osservato visitare le galle forate e contenenti Eriofidi vivi. Rilevando l'ampia disponibilità della pianta spontanea e del galligeno, si accenna alla possibilità di impiego del predatore ai fini del controllo biologico di Acari fitofagi infestanti le colture agrarie.
description: Entomologica, Vol 22 (1987)
Structural and systematic review of Gephyraulus Rubsaamen (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Oligotrophini) with description of G. moricandiae sp. n. from Tunisia
Creators: name: Sylven, E.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: The genus Gephyraulus Riibsaamen, 1915, is here redescribed. In addition to the type species, G. raphanistri (Kieffer), two species have been assigned to this genus: G. diplotaxis (Solinas), here transferred from Paragephyrau/us Solinas, 1982, and G. moricandiae sp. n. In particular, the genus is characterized by the shape of the female uromeres VII and VIII, rogether forming (in resting position) a conspicuous swelling comaining most of the muscles for the regulation of the movemems of the oviposiror. The three species consti tute a distinct monophyletic group as indicated by obvious synapomorphies. Ali these species display a common behaviour as flower bud gall-makers on cruciferous plants .

Key words: Cecidomyiidae, Gephyrau/us, functional anaromy, taxonomy, phylogeny.

REVISIONE STRUTURALE E SISTEMATICA DEL GENERE Gephyraulus RÜBSAAMEN
 (Diptera, Cecidoymiidae, 0Jigotrophini) CON DESCRIZIONEDI G. moricandiae SP. N. DELLA TUNISIA.

Viene ridescritto il gen. Gephyraulus ROBSAAMEN, 1915, con aggiunta alla specie tipo, G. raphanistn' (Kieffer), di altre due specie: G. diplotaxis (Solinas), qui trasferita da Paragephyraulus Solinas, 1982, e G. moricandiae sp. n. In particolare, il genere risulta caratterizzato dal vistoso ingrossamento degli uromeri VII e VIII che insieme formano un «preovopositore:o peculiarmente adattato a far muovere l'ovoposirore nel modo appropriato e con la forza richiesta per violare i bocci fiorali serrati ed effettuare l'ovideposizione. Alcuni caratteri chiaramente sinapomorfici indicano che le tre specie costituiscono un gruppo monofiletico distinto. Tutte e tre le specie trasformano in galle i bocci fiorali di crucifere.
description: Entomologica, Vol 22 (1987)
Allocontarinia (Contarinia) sorghicola (Coq.) (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae): morfologia, biologia, danni, controllo
Creators: name: Isidoro, Nunzio
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Allocontarinia (Contarinia) sorghicola (COQ.) (MORPHOLOGY. ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOUR, LOSS ASSESSMENTS, CONTROL)

Results of personal investigations of the author on morphology (adults, egg, larvae, pupa), bionomics and contro! of the Sorghum Midge (AIIocontannia sorghicola Coq.) are reported, comparing them to the very abundant literature about the topics. The adults of A . sorghicola (type of a single- species genus) are characterized by the following features: body reddish with dark brown sclerotized parts, female about 1.90 mm long (ovipositor retracted) and male about 1.68 mm long. Head holoptic. Antennae (Figs l, 2, 7) with 2 + 12 segments.

L'autore riporta i risultati di uno studio monografico sulla Cecidomia delle spighette del Sorgo (Allocontarinia sorghicola Coq.), integrando le indagini personali con le conoscenze finora acquisite, sia sulla morfologia esterna degli adulti e dei vari stadi di sviluppo, che sulla etologia, ecologia, epidemiologia, diffusione, danni e controllo artificiale della Cecidomia medesima.
description: Entomologica, Vol 22 (1987)
title: Thai court singing: History, musical characteristics and means of transmission.
Creators: name: Swangviboonpong, Dusadee
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2000

description: This thesis deals with various aspects of Thai court singing, which is now widely found outside the court as well. Aspects include: genres; history; vocal techniques; performance contexts; influence of speech-tones on vocal melody; sources of vocal melody; degree of improvisation and variation; text setting; and teaching methods. Thai court vocal melodies that are created from khoonmelodies will share the lug tog(structural notes) with their khoonmelodies. Just as each instrumental melody created in this way will have its own characteristics, so too will the vocal melody. Each composer will create a different vocal melody from the same khoon melody according to their stylistic school and their own individual aesthetic. Although vocal melodies are not improvised, they can still vary in performance with the thaan(style) of the singer. This thesis explores the degree to which individual variation is possible, and the nature of that variation. Tanese (1988) proposed melodic formulae for the way Thai court vocal melodies are affected by the speech-tones of the lyrics. This thesis not only examines and adds to Tanese's formulae, but also shows an application of these formulae in the examination of metabole in songs. Word positioning has important implications for the use of yyan (wordless vocalisation), which has its own particular functions within a song, for example, allowing ornamentation that is free from the constraints of speech-tones. Different chan (metrical levels) of Thai court songs make use of different patterns of word positioning, and the patterns within each chanvary according to the number of rhythmic cycles in each thoon (section). The influence of the kloonpoetic form is found to be fundamental. Oral transmission is still the mainstay of the teaching of Thai court singing. Recent attempts at government homogenisation of teaching theory and practice are a threat to variety of styles and approaches in contemporary singing. Future research will be needed to assess the effect of these measures as time elapses.