cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Policy dialogue to facilitate farmers’ participation in decision-making
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Decision making
subject: AGROVOC: Farmer participation

description: The Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy (CEPA) has been conducting policy advocacy on seed related policy and legal frameworks with a focus on frameworks recognizing and promoting Farmers’ Rights. In 2018, the Department of Agriculture Research Services (DARS) reviewed the Seed Bill; CEPA conducted an analysis of the draft Seed Bill and mobilized stakeholders, including farmers, to engage in a dialogue meeting with the Seed Bill drafting team. During dialogue sessions, CEPA played a facilitating role by conducting sessions in a local language to ensure that farmers could effectively participate. Major outcomes of the process were the observation that most of the concerns/issues raised by the farmers during the dialogue session were addressed in the revised Seed Bill document. A key lesson learned was that involving farmers to actively participate in policy dialogue increased the chances of influencing decision-making.
title: Strengthening local farmers’ seed systems through Community Seed Banks in Malawi
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: Biodiversity Conservation Initiative (BCI), a civil society organization in Malawi, partnered with the Development Fund of Norway (DF) to implement a Community-Based Agrobiodiversity Management project (2013-2016), which was extended for the period 2017-2020. DF provides the funding, while BCI directly implements the project targeting 2500 smallholder farmers.  The major objective is to increase adaptive capacity to climate change among smallholder farmers in Malawi through strengthening local seed systems with community seed banks as a major focus. Core components of the work include: (1) multiplication of locally adapted seed varieties such as finger millet, groundnuts, beans, green gram, sesame, sorghum, pearl millet and bambara nut; (2) maize varieties participatory variety selection; (3) community seed banking on a loan basis for enhanced farmer access of the materials and loan schemes for sustainability; (4) capacity development programs on quality seed production and enhanced crop production practices; and (5) seed policies, including Farmers’ Rights. Notable achievements of the work include the sustainable management of four Community Seed Banks in Rumphi district. Lessons learned include that capacity development of farmers in key areas, such as seed multiplication, collection and storage, appropriate storage facilities and economic incentives are important to effectively conserve crop genetic resources on-farm.
Effects of Vanadium incorporation on the Structure and Reactivity of NiFe Layer Double Hydroxides
Creators: name: Dissanyake, Prasadha Ronali
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis titled “Effects of Vanadium Incorporation on the Structure and Reactivity of NiFe Layer Double Hydroxides” is important in view of the current energy scenario of the world population given the existing most common fuel source is fossil fuels. This thesis is specifically based on the potential area of research where the researchers are focussing on the design of water oxidation catalyst based on abundant and cheap metal ions, iron, and nickel. Further efforts have been made to improve the efficiency of the NiFe-based double-layered hydroxides by systematic doping with vanadium. The catalysts have been intensely characterized by a number of analytical and characterization techniques, namely BET, XRD, TEM, ICP-OES, XPS, XAS to systematically analyse the functional effects of structural disorder in NiFe layered double hydroxides in presence of vanadium.
title: Context-driven choices: environmental valuation in the courtroom
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Sroyon
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2019

description: This thesis investigates legal cases involving environmental valuation, that is, the exercise of putting a monetary value on environmental goods, services and amenities. There is a vast economics literature on environmental valuation, but relatively little legal literature on the use of environmental valuation in the courtroom. Nevertheless, environmental valuation is relevant, or even central, to a range of cases – for example, when courts are called upon to prospectively (ex ante) evaluate a regulatory costbenefit analysis, or retrospectively (ex post) determine how much compensation to award for environmental damage. This thesis sets out to redress this gap by studying US and Indian court cases involving environmental valuation. In each of these jurisdictions, I analyse and compare prospective and retrospective valuation cases, which legal scholars have traditionally treated as separate spheres of enquiry. There are two analytical themes which tie the case studies together, and help define the approach I take in this thesis. The first is the framework of valuation choices: I characterise environmental valuation as a three‐stage decision process: whether to value or not to value, what values to measure, and how to measure them. A key contribution of my thesis, therefore, is to outline, define and systematically apply an analytical framework – that of valuation choices – in a range of cases spanning two jurisdictions and a variety of subject matter, thereby yielding valuable insights and trends with respect to judicial decision‐making on environmental valuation issues. The second integrating theme is the concept of context-driven valuation. I argue that in both jurisdictions and in each category of case (prospective and retrospective), courts have implicitly or explicitly been making valuation choices, and furthermore, that those choices have been context-driven, that is, impelled by, or justified in light of, context. Drawing on the case studies as well as literature on the judicial role, I argue for a recognition of judges’ own unique expertise at making context‐driven valuation choices.
title: Presentation of Farmers' Rights to representatives of organizations, producers, and citizens in general in Nicaragua
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: The Federation of Development Co-operatives (FECODESA), founded in 2007, is a third-degree co-operative organization, made up of 15 unions and central co-operatives and a specialised development organization known as Centro Para la Promoción, la Investigación y Desarrollo Rural Social (CIPRES). FECODESA represents 144 grassroots cooperatives and 5,802 members (2,911 women and 2,891 men). The objectives of the federation are to strengthen organizational capacities and entrepreneurship; to provide training and technical assistance for the production, marketing to its members; and to engage in political advocacy work. In this process, FECODESA has implemented different actions and strategies, such as the ‘Collaborative Participatory Plant Breeding Program’, which was initiated by CIPRES in 2000 and continued by the federation from 2014 onwards; this program has allowed, inter alia, to strengthen capacities and build alliances for the implementation of a strategy for conservation, development and use of local agrobiodiversity. Activities included participatory collection and conservation of local varieties; the development of new varieties of crops using participatory methods; local seed production; as well as local and national advocacy work to promote strategies and policies that are favourable to small and medium farmers in the country.
title: Strengthening seed delivery systems for dryland cereals and legumes in drought-prone areas of Uganda: the Cluster Granary Seed (CGS) project
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: This project implemented in Amuria, Kumi and Kitgum districts of Uganda led by the National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI) in partnership with World Vision Uganda, the National Plant Genetic Resource Centre and farmer groups. It started in 2016 with the goal to contribute to enhancing food security and climate-change adaptation in drought-prone areas by strengthening seed systems of target crops, including sorghum, finger millet, pearl millet, cowpea, pigeon pea, and groundnut. Specific objectives were to (1) assemble the diverse local and improved genetic resources of target crops; (2) establish an effective and sustainable seed delivery model for increasing access to quality seeds and (3) build the capacity of farming communities to produce and conserve such seed. Over 300 local and improved genetic resources of the target crops have been assembled and characterized through farmer-led demonstrations.  Thirty farmer groups are now producing and conserving quality seeds for their communities. A ‘cluster granary’ seed delivery model was developed and operationalized by 30 farmer groups. Overall, 600 farmers have directly benefited; indirectly, over 1500 households have benefited through seed sharing, training sessions, voluntary visits to demonstration sites, National Agricultural shows, World Food Day Celebration, ‘Plant Clinics’ and other agriculture-related events.
title: Site recognition of traditional agricultural systems
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Management techniques
subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture

description: In 2017, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), together with the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN), the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES), the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply and FAO Brazil, launched a call for the Traditional Agricultural Systems Prize. The initiative aimed to identify, recognize and protect traditional agricultural systems in which practices, places, instruments and ways of life contribute to on-farm conservation of PGRFA; it thereby addresses Brazil’s obligations under the ITPGRFA. The initiative builds on concepts developed under the National Immaterial Cultural Heritage Programme and the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme of FAO. The prize provides an opportunity for communities to present their initiatives for agrobiodiversity conservation. The organizers received 58 traditional agricultural systems, and selected 15 sites. Initiatives such as collective work, seed fairs, self-demarcation of traditional territories, among others, received the prize. The evaluation was done by a committee consisted of representatives of organizing institutions, universities and civil society organization. The prize includes a financial award and an opportunity for selected communities to participate in a workshop on patrimony and agricultural systems. A film, book and booklet were produced for promotional purposes.
title: How and Why are Women Using the Internet and is it Providing Them with Opportunities for Empowerment? A Study Undertaken in and around Kampala, Uganda
Creators: name: Caine, Amanda
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: There has been a rapid increase in internet penetration in Africa over the last decade. As women gain access to the internet, it is hoped that it will increase their opportunities for empowerment. However, whether and how the internet will lead to their empowerment is uncertain. This study aims to evaluate whether the internet is empowering non-elite women in and around Kampala, Uganda. It examines the gender dynamics that are affecting women’s use of the internet and the opportunities for empowerment that it affords. It also undertakes a contextual analysis of women’s use of the internet by exploring how the multiple identities of women and the context of its use are influencing its effectiveness. The research employs a grounded, iterative approach and uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to collect and triangulate the data. The study demonstrates that once women gain access to the internet it can provide them with opportunities for economic, social, political and psychological empowerment. The research suggests that the use of the internet is helping some women to bypass offline gender constraints particularly in terms of controls over access to information, the ability to freely associate with others and to express oneself freely. On the other hand, the research reveals that some gender norms are being replicated online and these act as barriers to women’s empowerment. Furthermore, there are particular constraints such as poor IT skills that prevent women from using the internet effectively and are hence increasing the digital gender divide. This study highlights the importance of understanding the complex relationship between the technology and the gender dynamics and context within which it is introduced, so that strategies can be developed that help close the divide rather than exacerbate it.
Integer factoring and modular square roots
Creators: name: Jeřábek, Emil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.1; F.1.3

description: Buresh-Oppenheim proved that the NP search problem to find nontrivial factors of integers of a special form belongs to Papadimitriou's class PPA, and is probabilistically reducible to a problem in PPP. In this paper, we use ideas from bounded arithmetic to extend these results to arbitrary integers. We show that general integer factoring is reducible in randomized polynomial time to a PPA problem and to the problem WEAKPIGEON in PPP. Both reductions can be derandomized under the assumption of the generalized Riemann hypothesis. We also show (unconditionally) that PPA contains some related problems, such as square root computation modulo n, and finding quadratic nonresidues modulo n.
description: 24 pages; to appear in Journal of Computer and System Sciences
title: Farmers’ Rights of the Nations and Rural Native Indigenous Peoples
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: In February 2009, the Plurinational State of Bolivia adopted the new Political Constitution of the State (Constitución Política del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia). The new Constitution aims to build the new Plurinational State of Bolivia, respecting the economic, social, legal, political and cultural plurality of its inhabitants. It recognizes and accords the nations and rural native indigenous peoples eighteen rights, related to Farmers’ Rights, as set out in Article 9 of the International Treaty. The executive power of the state, through its ministries, has the obligation to enforce these rights. The fundamental rights of importance to the implementation of Article 9 as set out in International Treaty include: (1) rights to land and territory; (2) rights to exclusive use and exploitation of the renewable natural resources existing in their territories; (3) recognition of their ancestral knowledge and practices; and (4) participation in State bodies and institutions. Key results entail progress in the allocation of land titles, including to women; progress in establishing development plans for the sustainable use of natural resources, including strengthening institutions for monitoring and self-governance; ongoing process of ‘revaluation’ of indigenous knowledge and know-how; and increased participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives in democratic processes and institutions.
VCIOM-SPUTNIK Poll: January 2022
Creators: name: VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: President of Russia approval (1); Prime Minister approval (1); State Duma of Russia (2); political party preference (2); mass protests (2); Internet usage (1); watch TV (1); trade unions (1); judicial system (1); Russian Orthodox church (1); personal financial situation (2); employment (2); sources of income (1); most important problems (5); rise in prices, inflation (2); Russian ruble and US dollar exchange rate fluctuations (3); unemployment (2); take out loans (2); spend or save money (1); savings (1); economic policy (1); social policy (1); foreign policy (1); direction of country (1); life satisfaction (2).
title: The Three Sisters Project
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Management techniques
subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture

description: The ‘Three Sisters’ is an agricultural system in which corn, squash and beans are grown together. This type of system is very old and continues to be used in some communities and family gardens. From 2015 to 2018, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, which is a Department of the Federal Government, in collaboration with the Agricultural Society for Indigenous Food Products, implemented the Three Sisters project. Its main purpose was to study characteristics of varieties of corn, squash and beans and the products derived from them in order to develop added value for indigenous stakeholders, while also studying health benefits. Research activities included studies of traditional knowledge, e.g. on ancestral lineages of the Three Sister crops and their respective seed keepers, combined with studies relating to production, processing and use. Existing instruments identified in Canada were used in the project to select good practices. The project looked for principles, rules and mechanisms that enable Indigenous people to control the circulation of their resources and knowledge at each step of the research project (access, utilization and valorization), and also resulted in new knowledge on health and nutritional benefits and possible ways to protect and preserve genetic material of ancestral crop genetic resources.
title: Promoting the implementation of Article 9 through international cooperation and Official Development Assistance (ODA) (II)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Training
subject: AGROVOC: Capacity Development
subject: AGROVOC: Awareness-raising

description: The project "Improving seed systems for smallholder farmers’ food security", funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), is implemented by Bioversity International in Bolivia, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Uganda, and Nepal with the objective of reducing vulnerability of smallholders by improving farmers’ access to diverse and adaptive crop varieties and quality seed and in local seed systems. The project started in 2013 and is now in its second phase (2017 – 2021). It focuses on enhancing capacity of smallholders and related institutions to produce seed of good quality in adequate quantities; developing seed marketing models to enhance value chains and improve seed delivery mechanisms; and improving quality of seed produced by engaging seed quality assurance organizations in the countries to develop alternative quality assurance mechanisms. More policy-related interventions around registration of farmers’ promising varieties and developing quality assurance mechanisms for farmer’s seed systems are also key aspects. Based on lessons learned the intervention strategy is guided by three principles: (1) the activities will primarily seek to ensure sustainability of the project’s interventions; (2) increased efforts will be made to inform and influence decision making processes; (3) actions will be adopted to ensure that possible gender differences are addressed.
title: Varieties for Diversity
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: In 2013, the German Plant Breeders’ Association (BDP), in co-operation with the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMEL) and the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), established the initiative ‘Varieties for Diversity’. The objective is to enhance the availability of improved varieties to anybody who would wish to use those for the purposes and under the conditions of the Multilateral System (MLS). Thereby, the Varieties for Diversity initiative aims at implementing the principles of the breeders’ exemption also to those who might not be able to access the varieties concerned under normal market conditions. The core component is that protected premium plant varieties of German breeders are included in the MLS of the International Treaty. The varieties, including their climatic adaptations, are comprehensively described to facilitate the targeted selection of suitable plant material. They are easily accessible to anyone who signs the Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA) through the German National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources. For the genetic resources themselves, no payment is charged, but the recipient may have to pay for shipping costs and the necessary plant health certificates. So far, more than 300 varieties of German breeders have been included in the MLS.
FUQAROLIGI BO'LMAGAN SHAXSLARNING XALQARO XUSUSIY HUQUQDAGI ROLI
Creators: name: Dilmurodova Malika Bekmurod qizi   TDTrU Iqtisodiyot fakulteti 3-kurs Yu-5 guruh talabasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada fuqarolik tushunchasi va uning yuridik ahamiyati, shuningdek, fuqaroligi bo‘lmagan shaxslarning huquqiy maqomi, ular duch kelayotgan qiyinchiliklar va bu muammolarni hal qilish uchun ko‘rilayotgan chora-tadbirlar tahlil qilinadi. Maqolada, fuqaroligi bo‘lmagan shaxslar bilan bog‘liq bo‘lgan masalalar, jumladan, ta’lim, sog‘liqni saqlash, va mehnat huquqlari kabi sohalardagi cheklovlar va ularning xalqaro va milliy huquq tizimidagi maqomi o‘rganiladi. Xususan, O‘zbekiston Respublikasida fuqaroligi bo‘lmagan shaxslarga berilayotgan imkoniyatlar va yuridik huquqlar, shuningdek, xalqaro konvensiyalar asosida apadritlar (fuqarosiz shaxslar)ning huquqlari ko‘rib chiqiladi. Maqolada, fuqarosizlikning davlatlararo muammolari, ularni hal qilish uchun amalga oshirilgan xalqaro qonunchilik choralari va mavjud amaliyotchiliklar haqida batafsil ma'lumot beriladi.

 

Kalit so‘zlar: Fuqarolik, fuqaroligi bo‘lmagan shaxs, apadrit, huquqiy maqom, O‘zbekiston Respublikasi, xalqaro konvensiyalar, inson huquqlari, ta’lim huquqi, mehnat huquqi, sog‘liqni saqlash huquqi, fuqarosizlik, qonun oldida tenglik, O‘zbekiston Konstitutsiyasi, BMT Konvensiyasi, fuqarosiz shaxslarning huquqlari, investitsiya, O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Qonuni, apadritlarga huquqiy yordam, fuqarolikni tan olish.
title: Building a vibrant seed sector, improving access to quality seeds and connecting farmers to the market (ISSD Africa)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: ISSD Africa is a research project (2014-2017) coordinated by a consortium of Wageningen Centre of Development Innovation (WCDI) of Wageningen University & Research, the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), the Future Agricultures Consortium and Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development in Nairobi, Kenya, supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project united African seed experts, seed programmes and associated organizations in a community of practice, aiming to increase farmers’ access to quality seed through the development of market-oriented, pluralistic and vibrant seed sectors in Africa. The ISSD approach is a seed sector-wide, demand-driven and inclusive approach, designing interventions tailored to specific crops, value chains and seed systems. During the first project period, action learning focused on four themes: (1) promoting seed entrepreneurship; (2) increasing access to varieties from the public domain; (3) matching global commitments with national realities; and (4) supporting seed sector development under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and the African Union-lead Agriculture, Seed and Biotechnology Program. The community of practice provided a structure for experimenting, sharing and learning, enhancing collaboration and promoting synergy.
Electromagnetic Couplings of Axions
Creators: name: Sokolov, Anton
name: Ringwald, Andreas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: coupling, electromagnetic
charge, magnetic
axion, coupling
magnetic monopole
quantization
axion-like particles
electromagnetic field
effective Lagrangian

description: We show that, contrary to assertions in the literature, the main contribution to the axion-photon coupling need not be quantized in the units proportional to $e^2$. In particular, we discuss a loophole in the argument for this quantization and then provide explicit counterexamples. Hence, we construct a generic axion-photon effective Lagrangian and find that the axion-photon coupling may be dominated by previously unknown Wilson coefficients. We show that this result implies a significant modification of conventional axion electrodynamics and sets new targets for axion experiments. At the core of our theoretical analysis lies a critical reexamination of the interactions between axions and magnetic monopoles. We show that, contrary to claims in the literature, magnetic monopoles need not give mass to axions. Moreover, we find that a future detection of an axion or axion-like particle with certain parameters can serve as evidence for the existence of magnetically charged matter.
Three reasons why the Water Framework Directive (WFD) fails to identify pesticide risks
Creators: name: Arle, Jens
name: Weisner, Oliver
name: Liebmann, Liana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Wassergüte
Landwirtschaft
Süßwasserökosystem

description: The Water Framework Directive (WFD) demands that good status is to be achieved for all European water bodies. While governmental monitoring under the WFD mostly concludes a good status with regard to pesticide pollution, numerous scientific studies have demonstrated widespread negative ecological impacts of pesticide exposure in surface waters. To identify reasons for this discrepancy, we analysed pesticide concentrations measured in a monitoring campaign of 91 agricultural streams in 2018 and 2019 using methodologies that exceed the requirements of the WFD. This included a sampling strategy that takes into account the periodic occurrence of pesticides and a different analyte spectrum designed to reflect current pesticide use. We found that regulatory acceptable concentrations (RACs) were exceeded for 39 different pesticides at 81% of monitoring sites. In comparison, WFD-compliant monitoring of the same sites would have detected only eleven pesticides as exceeding the WFD-based environmental quality standards (EQS) at 35% of monitoring sites. We suggest three reasons for this underestimation of pesticide risk under the WFD-compliant monitoring: (1) The sampling approach - the timing and site selection are unable to adequately capture the periodic occurrence of pesticides and investigate surface waters particularly susceptible to pesticide risks; (2) the measuring method - a too narrow analyte spectrum (6% of pesticides currently approved in Germany) and insufficient analytical capacities result in risk drivers being overlooked; (3) the assessment method for measured concentrations - the protectivity and availability of regulatory thresholds are not sufficient to ensure a good ecological status. We therefore propose practical and legal refinements to improve the WFD's monitoring and assessment strategy in order to gain a more realistic picture of pesticide surface water pollution. This will enable more rapid identification of risk drivers and suitable risk management measures to ultimately improve the status of European surface waters. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd.
title: Western Wheat Breeding Core Support Agreement
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) is a farmer-funded and farmer-directed non-profit organization investing in agricultural research that benefits western Canadian farmers. Since 1995, WGRF and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) have collaborated on western wheat and barley variety development, through a series of collaborative agreements stating contributions of the parties and shared goals. The objective is to provide mutual financial and technical support and to facilitate the development of wheat and barley varieties for Western Canadian farmers with higher yields, improved agronomic traits, end-use properties, and better disease and insect resistance. The investment of WGRF relies on check-off payments of farmers in several provinces of western Canada on wheat and barley sold. This money is reinvested in the development of new wheat and barley varieties at AAFC. Farmers are part of the decision-making committee responsible to identify the needs of new varieties and traits creating economic, social or environmental be¬nefits. New varieties may be offered for testing purposes to farm¬ers who contribute to their evaluation. Key outcomes of the collaboration are wheat and barley varieties that are adapted to various agroecological zones ‒ more than 150 since 1996 ‒ and several research projects focusing on sustainable use of PGRFA.
Macular Hemorrhage Due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration or Retinal Arterial Macroaneurysm: Predictive Factors of Surgical Outcome
Creators: name: Pierre, Mitta
name: Mainguy, Adam
name: Chatziralli, Irini
name: Pakzad-Vaezi, Kaivon
name: Ruiz-Medrano, Jorge
name: Bodaghi, Bahram
name: Loewenstein, Anat
name: Ambati, Jayakrishna
name: De Smet, Marc D.
name: Tadayoni, Ramin
name: Touhami, Sara
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Objective: The study aimed to determine the outcomes and prognostic factors of vitrectomy, subretinal injection of tissue-plasminogen activator and gas tamponade in macular hemorrhage (MaH) due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or retinal arterial macroaneurysm (RAM). Methods: The study design utilized a multicentric retrospective case series design of consecutive patients undergoing surgery between 2014 and 2019. Results: A total of 65 eyes from 65 patients were included in the study. Surgery was performed after a mean period of 7.1 days. Displacement of MaH was achieved in 82% of the eyes. Mean best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) improved from 20/500 to 20/125 at month(M)1 and M6 (p < 0.05). At M6, BCVA worsening was associated with an older age at diagnosis (p = 0.0002) and higher subretinal OCT elevation of MaH (p = 0.03). The use of treat and extend (TE) (OR = 16.7, p = 0.001) and small MaH fundus size (OR = 0.64 and 0.74 for horizontal and vertical fundus size, p < 0.05) were predictive of a higher likelihood of obtaining a countable BCVA at M1. Baseline BCVA was predictive of postoperative BCVA (p < 0.05). Retinal detachment and MaH recurrence occurred in 3% and 9.3% of cases at M6. Conclusion: MaH surgery stabilizes or improves BCVA in 85% of cases. Younger age at diagnosis, better baseline BCVA figures, smaller subretinal MaH height and use of TE regime were predictive of the best postoperative outcomes.
title: Potato Accelerated Release Program
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Potato Accelerated Release Program began in 1998. It is a two-phase process to fast track the release of promising potato selections developed at the Fredericton and Lethbridge Research and Development Centres of AAFC to the producers. In phase one, 10-15 new selections are offered to potato producers each February for two years of non-exclusive field testing. These early favorites are typically at year six of a testing and selection program that traditionally took about twelve years. For a fee of $100 per selection, plus applicable taxes, growers receive a limited quantity of breeder's selection seed and non-exclusive rights to conduct their own field performance and quality evaluation trials for two years. In phase two, following the non-exclusive testing, AAFC invites potato producers to submit cash bids to procure a further three-year period of exclusive testing. At the end of this testing, or sooner at the request of the producer and farmers, an eight-year, renewable license to commercialize a selection may be negotiated. In 2018, in consultation with growers’ representatives, AAFC began the process of modernizing its potato breeding and commercialization programs. This process is currently still in progress.
Encephaloides Wood-Mason
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Patel, Heris
name: Trivedi, Jigneshkumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Inachidae
Encephaloides

description: Genus Encephaloides Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
Type species. Encephaloides armstrongi Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Patel, Heris & Trivedi, Jigneshkumar, 2025, Phalangipus somnathensis Sureandiran, Karuppasamy & Suyani, 2024 - a junior synonym of Encephaloides armstrongi Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Inachidae), pp. 594-600 in Zootaxa 5627 (3) on page 595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.3.13, http://zenodo.org/record/15326163
The Value and 21st Century Relevance of Industrial Design Education in Australia: A Competence Analysis Across Four Education Levels
Creators: name: Deighton, Kathryn W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research explored the value and relevance of Australian Industrial Design education at four different education levels. Surveys and interviews were used to identify the presence of skills, knowledge, and personal qualities recommended for 21st century citizens. The research found that Australian Industrial Design education imparts an extensive range of valuable capabilities to students, especially at university level. The findings support course writers in justifying changes to their curricula, and provide data that can communicate the value and relevance of Industrial Design education to policy makers and the wider community.
DEVELOPMENT OF SPEAKING COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH IN TEACHING THE STORY OF NAVOIY "ZAYD ZAHHOB"
Creators: name: Sulaymonova Nafisa Sattorovna NDPI academic lyceum teacher of native language and literature Navoi city
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This scientific article reflects on the methods of forming the elements of speech competence through an innovative approach in teaching academic lyceum students the grace of Alisher Navoi's literary heritage, the skill of choosing words, and the use of artistic image tools. It is shown that the charm of the masterpieces of art and speech art in Navoi's epic reveals the inner, hidden abilities of the students, and encourages them to think creatively and come up with creative ideas.

           Key words: competence, listening comprehension, speaking, reading comprehension, writing, Zayd Zahhab, ruler, ship, idol, pagan
title: Farmer-breeder groups
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: The Association of Indonesian Seed Banks and Farmers’ Agricultural Technology (AB2TI) was established in 2012.  The main purpose was to enhance the knowledge and capacities of farmers in  plant breeding, e.g. crossing and selection, and to make them more independent in seed production. To date, farmer-breeder groups have developed 3600 varieties of crossed rice, mostly based on local germplasm. The association supports these activities by organizing trainings and supporting networking among members. Members of the association also sell the seed they produce to fellow members and farmers in the surrounding communities. Through these activities, farmers become aware of the importance of conserving local germplasm, and at the same time, has increased their economic opportunities.
Energy Storage
Creators: name: Colechin, Keelan
Publisher: name: UKERC
Year: 2025

description: The UK’s historic fossil fuel-based energy system could easily adjust to changing demand by ramping production up or down. This system provided electricity, heat and transportation fuels in a largely dependable and predictable way. Its reliability was underpinned by straightforward energy storage: coal piles (for electricity), pipes and chambers full of gas (for heat), and oil/petrochemical tanks (as transport fuels). But as the climate impacts of fossil fuel use have become clear, the energy system has begun shifting towards low-carbon alternatives—posing new challenges for how we store energy. Unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy sources like wind and solar are variable and less controllable. Solar generation fluctuates with daylight, while wind output depends on weather. These sources don’t always align with energy demand, which itself varies daily and seasonally (although demand for energy currently follows relatively consistent patterns). As a result, the system requires new forms of flexibility to avoid a host of technical, economic and social problems (Royal Society, 2023). Part of this flexibility will need to come from energy storage.
Round table presentation: Lourdes Armesto – Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Creators: name: Armesto, Lourdes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: gender equality
gender equality plan
superah2020

description: Presentation held by Lourdes Armesto (Agencia Estatal de Investigation) during the Supera Final Conference, organised by SUPERA on 25 March 2022.
Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Properties of Bioceramic Materials in Endodontics
Creators: name: Wang, Zhejun
name: Shen, Ya
name: Haapasalo, M. (Markus)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Microbes are prevalent in the root canals of necrotic teeth, and they are the cause of primary and post-treatment apical periodontitis. Bacteria can dwell within the infected root canal system as surface-adherent biofilm structures, which exhibit high resistance to antimicrobial agents. Bioceramic materials, with their biocompatible nature and excellent physico-chemical properties, have been widely used in dental applications, including endodontics. This review focuses on the application of bioceramic technology in endodontic disinfection and the antibiofilm effects of endodontic bioceramic materials. Different bioceramic materials have shown different levels of antibiofilm effects. New supplements have emerged to potentially enhance the antibiofilm properties of bioceramics aiming to achieve the goal of microbial elimination in the root canal system.
Poster presentation at Termis World Congress
Creators: name: Basoli, Valentina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The TERMIS Congress Seattle 2024 is a premier global event in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, bringing together leading researchers, clinicians, and industry experts. Hosted in Seattle, this high-impact scientific conference will showcase cutting-edge research, innovations, and breakthroughs in biomaterials, biofabrication, stem cell therapies, and translational medicine. Attendees will engage in keynote lectures, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, fostering collaboration and advancements in the field. During the event, the Phoenix-OoC project was presented to the audience, primarily through the display of the project's official link and flyers. Additionally, in-depth discussions were held with peers, fostering a deeper exchange of ideas and insights related to the project's scope and its collaboration with colleagues around the world. The presentation generated strong interest among the attendees, highlighting the relevance and impact of the project.
Bayesian constraints on covariant density functional equations of state of compact stars with new NICER mass-radius measurements
Creators: name: Li, Jia-Jie
name: Tian, Yu
name: Sedrakian, Armen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advancements in astrophysical observations of compact stars, particularly the new and updated NICER constraints, have provided mass-radius ($M$-$R$) data for pulsars spanning masses from 1 to $2\,M_{\odot }$. These data offer a unique opportunity to test modern theories of dense matter using multi-messenger constraints. Covariant density functional (CDF) models of nuclear matter, which capture a broad range of nuclear and astrophysical phenomena, provide a robust theoretical framework to interpret these observations. This study applies the Bayesian framework to a class of CDF models with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings, specifically those based on nucleonic degrees of freedom. By incorporating the latest multi-messenger constraints, we impose tighter limits on the parameter space of these models and assess their consistency with observational data. Our analysis advances previous efforts by refining the density-dependence parameterization and integrating recent $M$-$R$ ellipses. This enables more stringent evaluations of dense matter models in light of new astrophysical observations.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures and 5 tables
title: Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) initiative
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture
subject: AGROVOC: Local communities

description: Chile is one of the six pilot countries of the FAO- Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded global project on conservation and sustainable management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), an initiative launched in 2002. After project approval, a discussion between 2007 and 2009, led by Ministry of Agriculture, regarding GIAHS conservation activities for Chiloé Archipelago follows. These discussions finally led to the designation of the Chiloé Archipelago in Chile as a GIAHS in 2011. The objectives of GIAHS initiative in Chile include (1) to support the conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity, its associated cultural and ancestral knowledge, and the goods and services it provides; (2) to develop and implement market strategies that support agrobiodiversity conservation, know-how and sustainable uses while improving local rural livelihoods; and (3) to incorporate conservation principles and agrobiodiversity valuation considerations into public-sector policies and programs. Activities relating to this initiative include capacity and awareness development, community seed banks, value-chain development and other value-creating and cultural activities (e.g. development of tourism) as well as participatory research. Lessons learned include that the sustainability of such initiatives can be enhanced by establishing governance structures that facilitate articulation of the different public and private actors; action plans further contribute to the sustainability.
title: Participatory plant breeding to develop improved varieties of rice
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: The Indonesian Center for Rice Research (ICRR) conducted trainings on the application of rice plant breeding technique to farmer groups, by applying participatory plant breeding approaches. The objective was to transfer techniques and skills to farmers on how to cross rice plants and identify advantageous lines. Core components included selection of parental lines, crossing techniques, selection, purification, yield observation, and multi-environmental trials. Breeding activities began in 2001 and farmers continued with selection activities independently from 2001 to 2009. In 2010, the Indonesian Farmer Community of Integrated Pest Management (IPPHTI) and the FIELD Foundation cooperated with ICRR to further develop the skills of farmer-breeders. In 2011, lines were purified and selected, based on yield observations. In 2012, some varieties were entered in the rice consortium program of ICRR on multi-environmental trials for potential high yielding and pest and disease resistant lines. In 2014, some of these varieties were proposed for registration and some were successfully released.
title: Direct numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer within channels of a supercritical CO2 cooler
Creators: name: Laurien, Eckart
name: Pandey, Sandeep
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 62
subject: 620

description: Conference Proceedings of the European sCO2 Conference3rd European Conference on Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Power Systems 2019: 19th-20th September 2019, p. 21
title: Innovative decentralised seed systems for bread-wheat evolutionary populations
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: Evolutionary Populations (EPs) of bread wheat, also known as Composite Cross Populations (CCPs), were used in a decentralised and participatory plant breeding Programme in the frame of the EU-funded research project SOLIBAM, starting from 2010. The population used was constituted at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria, with the aim to provide farmers with a highly diverse population that would enable to adapt to a wide range of environments and farming systems. The population was made from 2000 crosses derived from 200 parental lines. As part of another EU project (DIVERSIFOOD, 2015-2018), the Italian seed network Rete Semi Rurali (RSR) set up field trials at four locations to evaluate this EP alongside local varieties and variety mixtures. These trials included participatory evaluation and other on-farm activities, in which more than 350 farmers had participated. In 2017, the first batch of certified population seed became available on the seed market and the number of farmers who were able to access the EP (named ‘SOLIBAM tenero’) doubled. Furthermore, the EP started to enter both short and long value chains for the production of flour and baking products, such as bread or pizza.