cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relations Between ASEAN and China. Two-level Games in Trade and Security
Creators: name: Dosch, Jörn
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2018

description: China’s role in Southeast Asia is of a multi-dimensional nature and, as in the case of all small and medium powers that are forced to deal with the presence of a great power in their midst, the Southeast Asian nations have to negotiate and mediate China’s presence. The resulting conduct of foreign policy, foreign economic policy and security policy towards China is no longer based on the strategic considerations of insulated government elites, but are the result of complex decision-making processes which are also influenced by non-governmental actors. Consequently, foreign policy-makers have to reconcile international and domestic priorities and demands. Loosely based on Robert Putnam’s analytical framework of “two-level games”, this article looks at two case studies which highlight the interlinked reality of international and national agendas. First, the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), which was initially and enthusiastically embraced by ASEAN for general political reasons, and second, the conflicts in the South China Sea where the Southeast Asian claimants are carefully trying to balance a multilateral approach towards China (via ASEAN) with their specific national interests.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 3-4 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Cambodia at a Crossroads. The Narratives of Cambodia National Rescue Party Supporters after the 2013 Elections
Creators: name: Noren-Nilsson, Astrid
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2018

description: Across Southeast Asia, election promises commonly centre on preferential access to state resources, rather than on policy platforms. In Cambodia, gift-giving practices have been a key strategy for the dominant Cambodian People’s Party to seek electoral support. The surge in support for opposition CNRP in the 2013 elections, campaigning on an anti-money politics agenda, raises questions about popular perceptions of political gift-giving. Building on interviews with pro-CNRP demonstrators in post-election Cambodia, this paper asks how the 2013 electoral outcome relates to transforming popular values by exploring CNRP activists’ narratives about who they are, the main problems facing today’s Cambodia, gift-giving practices and rights. It employs these findings to reassess Cambodian popular electoral culture, and reframe running debates about the relations between states and populations seeking to access their resources in the region.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 3-4 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Two new pregnane C21 steroids isolated from the roots of Periploca forrestii
Creators: name: Liu, Qian
name: Huang, Lie-jun
name: Jin, Jun
name: Jian, Jun-you
name: Gu, Wei
name: Yuan, Chun-mao
name: Hao, Xiao-jiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Two new C21 steroids periplosteroid A-B (1-2) and seven known C21 steroids (3-9) were isolated from the stems and roots of Periploca forrestii, among them, compounds 5, 6, 8 and 9 were firstly isolated from this plant. The structures of periplosteroid A-B were identified by comprehensive spectroscopic analyses, including 1D-NMR, 2D-NMR, HR-ESI-MS, UV, and IR spectral data. The results of cytotoxic activity showed that all the isolates exhibited certain inhibitory activity on six kinds of human tumour cell lines (786-O, MKN-45, 5637, L-02, MCF7 and 293 T).
The Dynamics of Social Change in Cambodia. Moving away from Traditionalism?
Creators: name: Karbaum, Markus
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2018

description: Despite enormous exogenous influence since the early 1990s and considerable changes caused by the economic rebound, Cambodian society still appears largely traditional and has taken only limited steps towards modernization. Although the motivation of the current regime – maintaining its hegemony – does not offer incentives for the evolution of modern attitudes, perceptions and behavior, the impact of a change in government would not be sufficient for a general shift. Instead, the level of education, likely to continue to improve, has already had a noticeable positive effect on attitudes toward a more modern way of life. By analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, the author examines the evolvement of religion, family cohesion, gender roles and equality, the hierarchic social order, economics, and politics to find evidence for the dynamics of Cambodian society.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 3-4 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Final Project Workshop: Towards an Effective NCD Surveillance System for the City of Pune, India
Creators: name: Kroll, Mareike
name: Butsch, Carsten
name: Kraas, Frauke
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Post-Bernardine complex in Wrocław – the history of transformations and the post-war rebuilding. The 1962 project of the eastern wing as a pioneering restoration solution
Creators: name: Grodzka, Elżbieta
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Edmund Małachowicz, Bernardine monastery, Church of St Bernard

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
Palimpsest in the transformations of the Cistercian abbey in Rudy after World War II
Creators: name: Dąbkowska, Monika
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: cistercian architecture, Rudy Raciborskie, restoration transformation, purism

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
Gold open access at Charles University: Options of financing publication fees and discounts for CU authors
Creators: name: Grofová, Šárka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: open access
article processing charges
gold open access

description: Information leaflet on the possibilities of financing publishing in the open access mode at Charles University and an overview of discounts on publication fees with selected publishers. Web and print versions are available.
ROLF JORDAN / GUNNAR STANGE (Hg.): Aktuelle Herausforderungen der internationalen (Entwicklungs-)Zusammenarbeit in Südostasien. Nothilfe, Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung im Diskurs
Creators: name: Rothermel, Nina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
A novel CAD/CAM tool for excimer laser ablation-machining process
Creators: name: Mutapcic, Emir
name: Iovenitti, Pio
name: Hayes, Jason P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on the development of a novel software system for excimer laser ablation machining processes. The system's algorithms use the 3D geometry of a microstructure, defined in a CAD model, and parameters that influence the process (etch rate, wall angle, stitching errors, etc) to automatically generate a precise NC part program for the excimer laser machine. The algorithms and a prototype software system have been developed for the step-and-repeat laser ablation technique and extended to include the workpiecedragging technique. The latter, achieves both higher surface accuracy and smoothness within the sub-micron range. The algorithm enables various mask sizes to be used to control accuracy of the machined part and development includes tool path optimisation and processing time reduction. The software simplifies part program creation and is useful for excimer laser operators who currently use a tedious trial and error process to generate microstructure parts. The benefits of the software include more accurate microstructures and reduced overall costs of the process itself. The performance of the system has been verified by NC part program generation for several 3D microstructures and subsequent machining trials. The analysis of stitching and edge errors is reported, and comparisons of 3D models with the machined surfaces are given. Microstructures were analysed using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy (LSCM) and optical microscopy.
D4.1 Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan
Creators: name: Matulevicius, Raimundas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This document provides a detailed CHESS Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan. It describes the objectives, target audience, and strategic activities and links them with the CHESS key performance indicators. The document also explains the actions and instruments for communication, dissemination, and exploitation. It presents a project logo, presentation templates, reports and deliverables, project brochures and posters. The document also discusses monitoring.
BYUNG KHWAN KIM / GI-WOOK SHIN / DAVID STRAUB (eds): Beyond North Korea: Future Challenges to South Korea’s Security
Creators: name: Maull, Hanns W.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Supercurrent diode effect and magnetochiral anisotropy in few-layer NbSe2
Creators: name: Bauriedl, Lorenz
name: Bäuml, Christian
name: Fuchs, Lorenz
name: Baumgartner, Christian
name: Paulik, Nicolas
name: Bauer, Jonas M.
name: Lin, Kai-Qiang
name: Lupton, John M.
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Strunk, Christoph
name: Paradiso, Nicola
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: The supercurrent diode effect was recently observed in a Nb/V/Ta superlattice thin film with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. Here, the authors observe this effect in few-layer NbSe2 crystals driven by valley-Zeeman-type spin-orbit coupling and find that the effect is proportional to out-of-plane magnetic field. Nonreciprocal transport refers to charge transfer processes that are sensitive to the bias polarity. Until recently, nonreciprocal transport was studied only in dissipative systems, where the nonreciprocal quantity is the resistance. Recent experiments have, however, demonstrated nonreciprocal supercurrent leading to the observation of a supercurrent diode effect in Rashba superconductors. Here we report on a supercurrent diode effect in NbSe2 constrictions obtained by patterning NbSe2 flakes with both even and odd layer number. The observed rectification is a consequence of the valley-Zeeman spin-orbit interaction. We demonstrate a rectification efficiency as large as 60%, considerably larger than the efficiency of devices based on Rashba superconductors. In agreement with recent theory for superconducting transition metal dichalcogenides, we show that the effect is driven by the out-of-plane component of the magnetic field. Remarkably, we find that the effect becomes field-asymmetric in the presence of an additional in-plane field component transverse to the current direction. Supercurrent diodes offer a further degree of freedom in designing superconducting quantum electronics with the high degree of integrability offered by van der Waals materials.
Two Chrysobulls That Demetrios Chrysoloras Wrote
Creators: name: Dessilani, Matteo
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2025
Subjects: Late Byzantium; Thessaloniki; Archives de l'Athos; Holy Mountain; Great Laura; Batopaidi; Xeropotamou

description: Demetrios Chrysoloras (b. XIV cen. med.; d. after 1416) was a rhetor, a statesman and an anti-Latin theologian. A close friend of Manuel II Palaiologos, he served as mesazon of John VII Palaiologos in Thessaloniki (1403-1408). While holding the office, he composed two chrysobulls that the despot issued, in 1405 and 1407 respectively. These texts are here identified as Chrysoloras' works; the article also discusses their textual models (esp. Philo) and compares them with other works from the same author.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 15 (2025)
YOSHLAR ORASIDA HOZIRGI KUNDAGI PSIXOLOGIYANING O'RNI
Creators: name: Bayrbekova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada psixologiyaning yoshlar hayotiga ta’sir qilish darajasi, biologik va sotsial vaziyatlarda insonning irodaviy xususiyatlari va boshqa bir qancha psixologik xususiyatlari yoritib o’tilgan. Psixologiya bugungi kunda yoshlarning ruhiy farovonligi, rivojlanishi va umumiy salomatligini tushunish va qo'llab-quvvatlashda hal qiluvchi rol o'ynaydi.
To protect the original or a palimpsest – dilemmas of the redevelopment process of the historic garden in Białaczów
Creators: name: Milecka, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: monument, park, Białaczów, devastation, revalorization, authenticity

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
ZHENG YONGNIAN / LYE LIANG FOOK / WILHELM HOFMEISTER (eds): Parliaments in Asia. Institution Building and Political Development
Creators: name: Nelson, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
ZOLTÁN BIEDERMANN: The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India. Studies in the History of Diplomacy, Empire and Trade, 1500–1600
Creators: name: Mohanathas, Perathiba
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
title: Evaluation projets "Amorce 2018-2019" 2017
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Évaluation réalisée en 2017, concernant les projets "Amorce" prévus pour 2018-2019, dans le cadre du programme ATRI, initié par le LabexMed.
title: Balance or synergies between environment and economy
title: a note on model structures
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wolf, Sarah
name: Schütze, Franziska
name: Jaeger, Carlo C.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: The UN sustainable development goals contain environmental, economic, and social objectives. They may only be reached, or at least it would be easier to reach them, if instead of a trade-off between these objectives that implies a need for balancing them, there are synergies to be reaped. This paper discusses how the structures of economic models typically used in policy analysis influence whether win-win strategies for the environment and the economy can be conceptualised and analysed. With a focus on climate policy modelling, the paper points out how, by construction, commonly used model structures find mitigation costs rather than benefits. This paper describes mechanisms that, when added to these model structures, can bring win- win options into a model's solution horizon, and which provide a spectrum of alternative modelling approaches that allow for the identification of such options.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe, 126
title: The future of ancient DNA
title: technical advances and conceptual shifts
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hofreiter, Michael
name: Paijmans, Johanna L. A.
name: Goodchild, Helen
name: Speller, Camilla F.
name: Barlow, Axel
name: Fortes, Gloria G.
name: Thomas, Jessica A.
name: Ludwig, Arne
name: Collins, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Technological innovations such as next generation sequencing and DNA hybridisation enrichment have resulted in multi-fold increases in both the quantity of ancient DNA sequence data and the time depth for DNA retrieval. To date, over 30 ancient genomes have been sequenced, moving from 0.7x coverage (mammoth) in 2008 to more than 50x coverage (Neanderthal) in 2014. Studies of rapid evolutionary changes, such as the evolution and spread of pathogens and the genetic responses of hosts, or the genetics of domestication and climatic adaptation, are developing swiftly and the importance of palaeogenomics for investigating evolutionary processes during the last million years is likely to increase considerably. However, these new datasets require new methods of data processing and analysis, as well as conceptual changes in interpreting the results. In this review we highlight important areas of future technical and conceptual progress and discuss research topics in the rapidly growing field of palaeogenomics.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 908
The Loreto Holy House in Gołąb. Lost heritage
Creators: name: Michalska, Grażyna
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: Loretto Chapel in Gołąb, Lublin Rennaisance Style, renovation, conservation of monuments

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
The post-war reconstruction of J. Mamlok’s Department Store in Wrocław – an attempt at the palimpsest decoding
Creators: name: Kirschke, Krystyna
name: Olesińska, Joanna
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wrocław, post-war reconstruction, J. Mamlok department store, palimpsest

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
Bem’s Fort and the mausoleum of the battle of Ostrołęka. Memory of place – place of memory
Creators: name: Górski, Marcin
name: Rytel, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ostrołęka, fort, mausoleum, palimpsest, place of memory

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
SABINE PREUSS (ed.): „Ohne Toleranz funktioniert nichts.“ Indisch-deutsche Technische Zusammenarbeit: Berufsbildung, Hochschule, ländliche Entwicklung (1958–2010). Reportagen, Interviews, Portraits
Creators: name: Scheu, Hildegard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
MATTHIAS SCHMIDT: Mensch und Umwelt in Kirgistan. Politische Ökologie im postkolonialen und postsozialistischen Kontext
Creators: name: Dörre, Andrei
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
IPBES First Global assessment – Supplementary materials of Chapter 2.2
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The supplementary materials of chapter 2.2 of the first global assessment:

2.2.1 Methodology

2.2.2 Indicators of ecosystem structure

2.2.3 Indicators of ecosystem function

2.2.4 Indicators of community composition - local scale

2.2.5 Indicators of community composition - regional scale

2.2.6 Indicators of species population - species persistence

2.2.7 Indicators of species population - geographic distribution

2.2.8 Indicators of species population - population size

2.2.9 Indicators of species traits

Appendix AA - DD

References
W-STEM Action Point after technical meetings in Torino and Dublin
Creators: name: García-Holgado, A.
name: García-Peñalvo, F. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: CBHE, EU, gender, STEM, W-STEM

description: The W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) had scheduled two technical meetings at the beginning of May 2020, the first one on May 4th-5th in Torino (Italy) and the second one on May 7th-8th in Dublin (Ireland). Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, these meetings were held online, but organized by the corresponding local partners, in the scheduled dates and maintaining the meeting goals. The action points after both meetings are presented.

description: W-STEM (Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM) is a project funded under European Union ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education Programme (598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
On Wealth and Jealousy among the Khasis. Thlen, Demonization and the Other
Creators: name: Lyngdoh, Margaret
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The Khasis are an ethnic community in Northeast India numbering about 1.2 million. The majority of them are Christian converts who belong to two main denominations, the Presbyterians and the Catholics. The Thlen tradition of the Khasis represents belief in a demonic spirit who is satiated with human blood and in return gives wealth and good fortune to his keepers. Narrated as a folktale, this traditional practice assumes significance when beliefs embedded in the narrative are enacted in the social discourse of the Khasis. This article examines belief performance; it explores how the Thlen belief and narrative is used to create social division and justify ostracism, murder, othering and demonization.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Best of All Worlds: Rangfraism. The New Institutionalized Religion of the Tangsa Community in Northeast India
Creators: name: Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: In recent years, elites in many small ethnic communities in northeast India have made attempts to revive, reform and institutionalize their traditional religious practices in order to stem the tide of conversion to world religions and also to use their new religion as a marker for their ethnic identity. In this paper, I focus on the small Tangsa community, living in the northeast Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, and try to understand the processes and intentions that underlie the formation of their new reformed religion called Rangfraism. Friction with Christian missionaries and interaction with Hindu activists in this remote hilly frontier region have played a big role in the process of transforming their traditional system into their “new” religion. I try to ascertain which of the older practices have been retained, which have been adopted from other revival movements in the area and which have been appropriated from Christianity and Hinduism. While it will be clear that the leaders have attempted to take the best from all quarters in order to make their new religion more attractive, the analysis will also demonstrate how that very strategy has led to internal contradictions and, hence, to confusion and resistance.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Talom Rukbo and the Donyipolo Yelam Kebang. Restructuring Adi Religious Practices in Arunachal Pradesh
Creators: name: Scheid, Claire S.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: This article outlines the structural changes applied by Adi community activists to the indigenous faith of Donyipolo from the mid-1980s to the present. These new methods of worship, designed and implemented following the establishment of a religious governing body known as the Donyipolo Yelam Kebang, comprise processes that constitute a “formalization” or “institutionalization”: the Adi have consciously formatted their faith to mirror the composition of more mainstream religions in an attempt to preserve their heritage and to protect against conversion initiatives. The revival has served as a radical reconstitution of Donyipolo via the introduction of tangible religious representations (the canonization and printing of prayer texts; the introduction of iconographical depictions of deities; and the construction of prayer halls) into a traditionally oral religious landscape that was significantly more fluid. The movement stands as an example of indigenous creativity and adaptation, stemming from a focused community initiative.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Gut microbiota metabolism made simple: the SIMPLIFY extraction protocol - Poster Metabolomics 2024 (Osaka, Japan)
Creators: name: Örebro University
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: SIMPLIFY is a single extraction protocol compatible with several LC-qToF-MS methods for comprehensively analysing gut microbiota metabolites. As a proof-of-concept, we applied this protocol to analyse faecal reference material and faecal inoculum obtained from in vitro colonic fermentation of vegetables and dietary fibres, these later serving as proxies for analysing food and food ingredients, respectively. The faecal inoculum was obtained from in vitro colonic fermentation from different donors at distinct time points. The proposed extraction protocol, which consisted of a simple monophasic solvent system composed of methanol, isopropanol, and methyl tert-butyl ether was further utilized for non-targeted analysis of both endogenous and exogenous metabolites including primary and secondary bile acids, amino acids, terpenoids and polyphenols. The solvent system also provides a good recovery for lipids compared to a standard lipidomics extraction protocol. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the solvent system is suitable for targeted analysis of short-chain fatty acids, TCA cycle-related metabolites, and tryptophan metabolites upon derivatization. Using SIMPLIFY, we significantly reduced the sample amount needed for extraction, minimized overall analysis time and cost, and demonstrated its suitability for easy automation, thus representing a versatile and efficient approach for comprehensive analysis of gut microbiota metabolism.
Work and Play in Gamshahi. Performing the Indigenous Village in Eastern Gujarat
Creators: name: Alles, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Adivasis in eastern Chhotaudepur District, Gujarat, celebrate a whole-village festival known as Gamshahi or Gamgondriyo ideally once every five years, but usually at longer intervals. This article concentrates on the central ceremony, which takes place from Wednesday afternoon to roughly Thursday noon, traditionally between Divali and Holi, as determined by village leaders in consultation with a ritualist known as a badvo. It first describes Gamshahi as a realization of ritual scripts, then it analyses the celebration as ritual work nested within ritual play, both constituting a ritual spectacle. It does so in preparation for noting contrasts with another periodic festival that exhibits a similar nested structure, the Olympic Games. The contrast marks distinctive features of contemporary indigenous culture in India, at least of this indigenous culture, as distinct from globalizing modernity. The ultimate, as yet unanswerable question that it poses is, as Adivasis increasingly participate in this global culture, will they adapt, reassert, or relinquish traditional celebrations such as Gamshahi?
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
An exploratory investigation of key clinical and neuropsychological characteristics in children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and/or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Creators: name: Kolta, Marian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) are prevalent childhood disorders that are often comorbid. This thesis investigated demographic characteristics (including academic and intellectual functioning, parental psychopathology, family functioning, and social adversity status), clinical characteristics (parent and child-reported ratings of symptom severity), and the neuropsychological executive function profiles of visuospatial attention and memory constructs using a battery of computerised tests in age-matched children and adolescents between 7 to 16 years of age with a diagnosis of ADHD (n = 35), OCD (n = 29), comorbid ADHD and OCD (n = 34) compared with healthy control children (n = 32). The results indicate that children and adolescents with ADHD or OCD were qualitatively different on key phenomenological variables, while the comorbid ADHD and OCD group generally had additive symptomatology that reflected the independent contribution of symptomatic and functional impairment from each disorder. Children and adolescents with ADHD and/or OCD displayed shorter spatial spans compared to healthy control children. Relative to healthy control participants, both the ADHD group and comorbid ADHD and OCD group performed significantly worse on visuospatial spatial working memory and short-term recognition memory tasks, while the ADHD group and OCD group displayed attentional set shifting deficits relative to the healthy control group. The neuropsychological profiles of children with ADHD or comorbid ADHD and OCD are characterised by similar patterns of frontostriatal-linked dysfunction. Specific set-shifting and spatial span deficits in the OCD group contrasted with their intact performance on other tests of executive function, such as spatial working memory and visuospatial short-term memory recognition, and suggested only limited frontostriatal-linked dysfunction.
IPBES First Global assessment – Supplementary materials of Chapter 3
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The supplementary materials of chapter 3 of the first global assessment:

3.1 Quantitative analysis of progress towards the Aichi Targets

3.2 Methods for literature search for assessment of progress towards Aichi Targets

3.3 Extended review of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

3.4 Methods for literature search for assessment of progress towards SDGs

3.5 Further information on progress to the Sustainable Development Goals

3.6 Quantitative analysis of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

3.7 Extended review of the SDGs and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

3.8 Methods for literature search for assessment of progress towards other conventions related to nature and nature's contributions to people

3.9 Coordination between the CBD and other MEAs

3.10 The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 

3.11 The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

3.12 Polar agreements and cooperative arrangements

3.13 Methods for cross-cutting synthesis across goals and targets

3.14 Additional information on knowledge gaps

3.15 Supplementary references
Rajas, Adibasis and their Goddess(es). Dasara Rituals and a Sacrificial Polity in a Former Feudatory State in Odisha
Creators: name: Skoda, Uwe
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The article considers not only the frequently postulated link between king and goddess in India, but also the crucial alliance between Raja and Adibasis in a former princely state in north-western Odisha. The two elements together form a pivotal triangle in a wider sacrificial polity, i.e., the link between the latter is renewed and mediated through the goddess. The process is exemplified by the Dasara rituals and it is argued that these links continue despite the formal abolition of kingship. Historically, however, Dasara rituals have undergone several changes, which have left their mark on the performances. The recent industrialization in the area and its socio-economic impact are arguably driving the latest changes in this configuration.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Comparing current post-cardiac surgery delirium management practices to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) 2010 clinical guideline on delirium : diagnosis, prevention, and management
Creators: name: Gunning, Derek
name: Obal, Dianne
name: Chen, Cherry Xue Hong
name: Bell, Mark
name: Jillings, Carol
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: [This research poster is one of the Nursing Research Synthesis Projects in the University of British Columbia nursing student journal, vol. 1, issue 1 for 2012.][The complete version of the University of British Columbia nursing student journal is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42286]
Journey to the Center of the World. Indigenous Cosmogony of Kuttia Kondh in Odisha
Creators: name: Beggiora, Stefano
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Recent studies in anthropology have stressed the need to reconsider the issue of otherness and pluralism by drawing inspiration from indigenous ontologies and, thus, reassessing human/non-human relations. Starting from this premise, this article develops an analogous paradigm by offering the case study of ethnographic research on an aboriginal group (ādivāsī), the Kuttia Kondhs, living in one of the most remote and pristine jungles of India (Odisha). It presents a twofold journey through the symbolic analysis of the Myth of Creation (Kui Gaani) and the unprecedented documentation of a sacred site that is believed to be the centre of the cosmos. This is Sopāngaḍā, a sacred hill covered with forest, the womb of mother earth, from which beings emerged. One of the earliest pieces evidence is the close kinship and consubstantiality among human/non-human agencies composing the hill, a real living entity that embodies the ādivāsī macrocosm.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Abstract
Creators: name: Tushar Kumar
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Diagnostic Effectiveness
subject: Oral premalignant lesion screening
subject: Scoping Review
subject: Screening of Oral Cancer in Public Health
subject: VELscope

description: Introduction: Oral cancer, the sixteenth most common cancer worldwide, presents a significant health burden, particularly in regions like South Asia and Europe, due to risk factors such as tobacco use, betel quid, and alcohol consumption. VELscope, a diagnostic device, aids in early detection by identifying abnormal fluorescence in oral tissues. This scoping review will evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of VELscope in detecting oral premalignant and malignant lesions, identify research gaps, and provide insights into its utility in clinical practice.The objective of this scoping review is to comprehensively assess the available evidence regarding the clinical and cost-effectiveness of VELscope for detecting oral premalignant lesions, and oral cancer.
Method & Analysis: Adhering to JBI Scoping Review Methodology and PRISMA-ScR guidelines, we will systematically map evidence from peer-reviewed studies in English published until January 2025. Key outcomes include diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity, specificity) and cost-effectiveness. Databases such as MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus, Embase, and Cochrane will be searched, with screening and data extraction conducted independently by two reviewers by using appropriate software (e.g. Rayyan and Microsoft Excel). Findings will be synthesized using tables, figures, and a PRISMA flow diagram to highlight gaps and inform future research and clinical practice.
Ethics and Dissemination: This scoping review does not involve primary data collection; therefore, ethics approval is not required. The findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, presentations at national and international conferences, and workshops aimed at healthcare professionals and policymakers.
Keywords: diagnostic effectiveness, oral cancer, oral premalignant lesions, VELscope.
Housing Ancestors. The Reorganization of Living Spaces among the Birhor of Jharkhand and Odisha
Creators: name: Nadal, Deborah
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The Indian Government has defined the Birhor as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG). They live in small, scattered communities in Jharkhand and Odisha. Until the 1950s, their lifestyle was primarily nomadic and depended on the availability of forest game and market trends. The government of India then began to limit Birhor access to the forests, forcing them into low-skilled agricultural and mining jobs and settling them in resettlement colonies. The majority of the Birhor still live in these colonies, in houses that they use and inhabit, yet cannot completely appreciate. The reason for this lack of appreciation derives mainly from their religious beliefs and their cultural perception of living spaces. Consequently, many Birhor have made considerable changes to their allotted housing, not only to adapt it to their cultural concepts, but also to serve the perceived requests of the invisible, yet omnipresent, hapram bonga, spiritual ancestors, who are always treated with the greatest consideration in Birhor settlements.
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Music and Non-Brahmin Priests of the Bora Sambar Region in Western Odisha
Creators: name: Guzy, Lidia
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: This article discusses the crucial role of music played by non-Brahmin religious specialists in multi-ethnic and inter-communal interactions of local categories in the Bora Sambar region of Western Odisha, India. The particular ritual musical traditions display a local multi-ethnic pattern of ritual inter-communal communication as well as the crucial role of music and sound within the local indigenous ontologies of spiritual liberation especially visible in rituals of mourning, memory and healing. A local society is revealed through its musical patterns, concepts and diverse categories of musicians. In Bora Sambar musicians act as ritual specialists responsible for spiritual, social and cultural transformation processes.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
The methanolic extract of Cinnamomum zeylanicum bark improves formaldehyde-induced neurotoxicity through reduction of phospho-tau (Thr231), inflammation, and apoptosis
Creators: name: Sayad-Fathi, Sara
name: Zaminy, Arash
name: Babaei, Parvin
name: Yousefbeyk, Fatemeh
name: Azizi, Nasibeh
name: Nasiri, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: neurotoxicity
formaldehyde
Cinnamomum zeylanicum
tauopathy
spatial memory

description: Accumulation of formaldehyde (FA) in the brain is linked to age-related neurodegenerative disorders, as it accelerates memory impairment through tau protein aggregation, inflammation, and nuclear damage. This study aimed to assess the possible effects of methanolic cinnamon extract (CE) on FA-induced neurotoxicity in rats. The animals were treated with CE (100, 200, and 400 mg/kg, P.O.) for 30 days following FA administration (60 mg/kg, I.P.) for 30 days. Briefly, spatial and inhibitory memory were examined by Morris water maze (MWM) and passive avoidance (PA) tasks, respectively. The Nissl, Hoechst, and Bielschowsky silver staining methods were also used to assess apoptosis and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the hippocampal CA1 region, respectively. Brain tissues were probed with an anti-phospho-tau (Thr231) monoclonal antibody to assess tau hyperphosphorylation. Inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) were also measured by ELISA assay. Western blotting was performed to quantify the amount of phospho-tau (Thr231), caspase-8, and caspase-9. The results showed that FA injection significantly caused tau hyperphosphorylation at Thr231 residue, which in turn disturbed the MWM performance. The ratio of apoptotic to intact neurons increased following FA treatment. The results of Western blotting indicated that the hippocampal levels of phospho-tau (Thr231) and caspase-8 were significantly higher in the FA group compared to the control group. The hippocampal levels of IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α in the FA group were also higher than the control group. Administration of 200 mg/kg of CE significantly improved the rats’ MWM performance, decreased the levels of phospho-tau (Thr231), caspase-8, IL-6, and TNF-α, and reduced the ratio of apoptotic to intact neurons. Overall, cinnamon improved cognitive performance in FA-treated rats by eliminating tau hyperphosphorylation, inflammatory cytokines, and nuclear damage.
description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc671; ISSN 1611-2156
Contemporary Indigeneity and Religion in India - Editorial
Creators: name: Alles, Gregory D.
name: Guzy, Lidia
name: Skoda, Uwe
name: Valk, Ülo
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: When we talk about contemporary indigeneity and religion in India, we are talking of around 100,000,000 people. This number is still a modest estimate for the more than 600 distinct groups in India, each with its own traditions, history, circumstances, and in some cases languages, that are encompassed by the word “indigenous”. As a small sample, we present local studies of groups of people stretching from Gujarat in the west (see Alles in this volume) through Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha in central-eastern India (see the contributions of Beggiora, Guzy, Nadal and Skoda) to Arunachal Pradesh (see Scheid and Barkataki-Ruscheweyh) and Meghalaya (see Lyngdoh) in the northeast. They are the result of a collaboration between the editors that began in 2011 at the conference of the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion and Culture in Thimphu, Bhutan and continues through the Adivasi Religion and Society Network (www.arsnetwork.org).
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 46 Nr. 1-2 (2015): Internationales Asienforum
Cutting Tool Development Using a Novel Non-traditional Manufacturing Process
Creators: name: Sameem, Aaqil
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401405
subject: Machine tools

description: The mechanical processes involved in mining, mineral and aerospace industries often cause
significant wear to the components and equipment. The premature wear and failure of
components can result in unscheduled downtime and derive non-negligible economic costs. It
is estimated that about half of the total maintenance cost in mining is due to the manufacture
of damaged parts and the other half due to downtime and labour. As a result, it is important to
identify methods of rapid manufacture of components without compromising physical
properties and wear performance.
To date, many researchers have used laser based additive manufacturing technology to
manufacture components using various alloy steels with hardness values of 1000 HV. This
study focuses on manufacture of cutting tools using carbide composites via Directed Energy
Deposition (DED) additive manufacturing technique to achieve hardness values exceeding
1100 HV with a homogenous microstructure. A set of commercially available powders were
identified, and comprehensive experiments were carried out to study the effects of process
parameters to obtain a near-defect-free deposit.
Following preliminary trials, the pre-alloyed Metco 1030 A powder, rich in vanadium carbides
and molybdenum borides, was chosen to produce defect free deposit. The claddings were
initially deposited on a 1020 steel substrate before substituting with a 4140-steel substrate. The
process parameters were optimized for component-level fabrication. Heat treatment
experiments were carried out to study the effects of tempering temperature on the laser cladded
deposits.
The laser cladded deposits were characterized in relation to the presence of surface and internal
defects, microstructure, chemical composition, and microhardness. Wear performance tests
were carried out in accordance with ISO 8688 standards.
The results from this study showed that DED can be used to manufacture a near-defect-free
cutting tool. Single track, single layer deposits showed a high mean hardness value of 1182
HV0.5. A tempering temperature of 550 °C for a duration of 90 min increased the overall clad
hardness by 10%. During wear testing, the additively manufactured tool showed a 1.5 times
higher wear resistance than that of a conventionally manufactured M2 High Speed Steel tool.
Weingartener Asiengespräche 2016. Asien im Fokus: Souveränität, Sicherheit, Nachhaltigkeit?
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Aurelia
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2018

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 47 Nr. 3-4 (2016): Internationales Asienforum
IPBES First Global assessment – Supplementary materials of Chapter 4
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The supplementary materials of chapter 4 of the first global assessment:

Appendix 4.1 - Supporting materials to section 1

Appendix 4.2 - Supporting materials to section 2

Appendix 4.3 - Supporting materials to section 3

Appendix 4.4 - Supporting materials to section 4

Appendix 4.5 - Supporting materials to section 5

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Historical Preconditions and Causes for the Political Development of Present-day Myanmar
Creators: name: Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar
name: Korff, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2018

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 47 Nr. 3-4 (2016): Internationales Asienforum
Evaluation of interspecific populations of grapevine in breeding for complex resistance to fungal diseases and phylloxera
Creators: name: Usatov, V. T.
name: Kireyeva, L. K.
name: Volynkin, V. A.
name: Klimenko, V. P.
name: Oleinikov, N. P.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Roentgenoscopy was used as a method to determine the quality of hybrid seeds and to predict the development of viable plants from interspecific hybridization. The seeds were grouped into five classes of quality (embryo classes) depending on embryo size and degree of endosperm development As the index number of a class increased, the proportion of plantlets and vigorous plants produced also increased. In order to evaluate genotypic peculiarities of the original forms and seedlings, the seedlings were studied at the juvenile stage of ontogeny. Analysis of development of the hybrids studied during 5-6 years under conditions of complex infection pressure at a special planting site made it possible to evaluate the degree of their resistance to phylloxera, pathogenic soil microflora and fungal diseases and to eliminate susceptible genotypes. The heritability of resistance to fungal diseases (mildew, oidium, grey rot) and phylloxera was studied, conclusions were made concerning the combining ability of the original forms, and these forms were evaluated as donors of the desirable characters. Using transgressive resistant hybrids as donors in backcrossing provided improved quality with a broad range of resistance variability, which made it possible to select promising genotypes.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 29 (1990): Vitis (Special Issue)
The language of entrepreneurship: Energetic information processing in entrepreneurial decision and action
Creators: name: Bradley, Raymond
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper builds on the quantum-holographic theory of intuition (Bradley, 2006) I presented at last year’s conference. It presents a theory of the distinctive sensory perception and information processing ability of serial entrepreneurs that is the basis of their intuitive skills and sets them apart from other business actors. In addition to providing an understanding of the psychophysiological basis of entrepreneurial ability, the theory explains why this ability in creative individuals, like entrepreneurs, is often denounced as irrational and subjective.