cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5029-1
title: Indirect Harm and Positive Consequences Associated with Cannabis Use, 2001-2003

description: The aim of the project was to characterise patterns and consequences of cannabis use specifically in relation to work activities, academic performance, driving habits and sexual behaviour - situations in which the cannabis user may be at risk of indirect harm from their drug use. More broadly, the project also aimed to evaluate the impacts of cannabis use (positive or negative) on quality of life, and to examine whether developments in detection/law enforcement (e.g. workplace drug testing) would influence patterns of use. To this end, 100 regular users of cannabis (two to seven days/week) and 90 infrequent users (at most, four days per month) returned detailed questionnaires covering demographic characteristics, patterns of use, and the effects of cannabis use on general well-being, work/academic performance, driving and sexual behaviour. Respondents were from cities, towns and villages throughout England. Sixty respondents (30 from each user group) were later interviewed in depth on related topics, with a particular focus on the impact of cannabis use on their relationships with parents/partners. Eight respondents who had given up using cannabis were also interviewed to gain insight into reasons for quitting.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; This study uses a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methodology, and includes three quantitative data files (data from questionnaires and qualitative interviews) and one document comprising quotes from the interviews, available in Adobe PDF format.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5032-1
title: Southern Charities Project, 1800-1860

description: The Southern Charities Project set out to establish the meaning and role of charitable work in the antebellum Southern United States. As a by-product of this the numbers and locations of charitable societies were placed in a website for easy reference. Before this research the number of southern charitable societies was thought to be small, and concentrated in places such as Charleston and New Orleans. This dataset established that charities existed throughout the south, even in small communities.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5033-1
title: Health Survey for England, 2002: Teaching Dataset

description: The Health Survey for England (HSE), 2002: Teaching Dataset has been prepared solely for the purpose of teaching and student use. The dataset will help class tutors to incorporate empirical data into their courses and thus to develop students’ skills in quantitative methods of analysis.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; All the variables and value labels are those used in the original HSE files, with one exception (New-wt) which is a new weighting variable.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Users may be interested in the &lt;i&gt;Guide to using SPSS for Windows&lt;/i&gt; available from &lt;a href="http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/resources/statguides.asp" title="Online statistical guides"&gt;Online statistical guides&lt;/a&gt; and which explores this dataset.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The original HSE 2002 dataset is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 4912.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5034-1
title: Continuous Household Survey, 2003-2004
title: Continuous Household Survey, 1983-
title: CHS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Continuous Household Survey&lt;/i&gt; (CHS) is one of the largest continuous surveys carried out in Northern Ireland. The survey is designed, conducted and analysed by the Central Survey Unit of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). It is based on a sample of the general population resident in private households and has been running since 1983. The Survey is designed to provide a regular source of information on a wide range of social and economic issues relevant to Northern Ireland. The CHS is an important source of information in Northern Ireland and is used by many Government departments and Agencies. Regular clients include the Departments of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Culture Arts and Leisure, Regional Developments, Environment, Education, Employment and Learning and NISRA. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information about the series, including methodology, may be found on the NISRA Central Survey Unit (CSU) &lt;a href="https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/central-survey-unit/continuous-household-survey" title="CHS"&gt;Continuous Household Survey&lt;/a&gt; web pages.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.15468/dl.qv98xm
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 761 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "TaxonKey" : [
 "is Quercus oglethorpensis"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 761 records from 86 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031159-250920141307145/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5035-1
title: Transport and Ageing : Extending Quality of Life for Older People Via Public and Private Transport, 2000-2001

description: The aim of this project was to examine public and private transportation needs in relation to extending quality of life in old age. Specific objectives were:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to examine the attitudes and perceptions of older adults (baby boomers and older people) to continued driving in old age, the barriers to the use of public transportation, and the role of private and public transportation in quality of life in old age;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to determine the extent to which the transportation needs of elderly people are taken into consideration by age-based interest groups, pro-automobile lobby groups, health and social care organisations, car, train and bus manufacturers, local authorities and government;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to produce guidelines for local authorities, government organisations and manufacturers of trains, buses and automobiles, on the transportation needs of older adults.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; A multi-method approach was used in this project. The study was conducted in Paisley, rural Renfrewshire, and inner and outer London. The developmental studies consisted of focus groups and street surveys. A postal survey (5000 questionnaires mailed, with 1128 returned) and interviews utilising a quota sample (194 in Scotland and 109 in London) formed the main data source. Interviews were also conducted with a range of policy makers, implementers of transport policy, and manufacturers of transport. The data were primarily analysed quantitatively, though a basic qualitative analysis of the focus groups and open-ended questions in the main interviews provided some limited but rich information to conceptualise the data and to provide explanatory power. The interviews with transport policy makers, implementers, and manufacturers were analysed qualitatively. A summary of the qualitative information gathered has been provided.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5036-1
title: Polish National Election Study, 2001
title: PNES; Poland's Third Transition : Beyond 2001

description: The 2001 Polish National Election Study (PNES), with 2000 respondents, is part of a long running series. It is funded primarily by the Polish National Science Foundation (KBN) and is directed by Radoslaw Markowski of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The comprehensive questionnaire for this survey comprised questions on a range of themes specifically relevant to Polish public opinion and voting patterns, but also included a strong comparative element of wider interest.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; This ESRC project allowed a module of questions from the School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies, Glasgow University (SSCEES) to be added to the PNES, focusing especially on the SSCEES research themes of integration, openness and nationalism, bureaucratic encounters and corruption, and political trust.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The research proposal included four main aims and objectives:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt; to collect and make available timely data on public opinion in Poland at the time of a critical election, especially data on the ‘future oriented’ issues of integration, openness and nationalism, bureaucratic encounters and corruption and political trust;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to extend the range of previous (ESRC-funded) Glasgow University comparative studies of these issues from other post-communist electorates to include Poland;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to develop a deeper understanding of these issues, their inter-relationships and in particular their connection with the more immediate and concrete issues surrounding Poland’s European Union (EU) accession;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt; to consider the implications of the Polish findings for other states in central and eastern Europe, especially in regard to further European integration.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; All of the above aims and objectives were met. A wide range of EU accession-oriented questions were inserted into the 2001 PNES survey. These allowed the researchers to investigate Polish voters’ enthusiasm (or the lack of it) for accession in much greater detail than &lt;i&gt;Eurobarometer&lt;/i&gt; polls permit. In particular, we examined the criteria that voters used to make their EU referendum choice. Also, incorporated into the PNES survey was a module of questions on ‘bureaucratic encounters and corruption’ and ‘political trust’ which had been used in a 1993 ESRC-funded five-nation survey (led by Miller) within eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Qualified quantitative comparisons between Poland and other states in central and eastern Europe were possible. But in all cases, the theoretical applications of the Polish findings had a direct relevance for other central and east European states. Poland is not just another accession state; over half the entire population joining the EU in 2004 lives in Poland. So inevitably, Polish attitudes are even more typical of attitudes among the accession peoples than among the accession states.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5038-2
title: British Household Panel Survey: Waves 1-11, 1991-2002: Teaching Dataset (Social and Political Attitudes)
title: BHPS

description: This BHPS teaching/sampler dataset contains only wave one respondents, and follows them for eleven waves, selecting broadly the same variables at each wave. There are some (fixed) variables which are only included at wave one, and there are a few variables which only appear intermittently, or are introduced later in the panel. The dataset contains a mix of original variables and derived variables. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; In order to reduce the complexity of the data's structure and to make the data more accessible to inexperienced users, the dataset is in a rectangular format. Users are not required to undertake potentially problematic record/file merges in order to analyse the data longitudinally. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Variable names are the same as those in the original BHPS dataset such that variables are prefixed A for wave one, B for wave two, C for wave three and so on. For example, the variable EAGE records the respondent's age at the date of the wave five interview.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Main BHPS&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The BHPS is carried out by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. The main objective of the survey is to further understanding of social and economic change at the individual and household level in Britain, to identify, model and forecast such changes, their causes and consequences in relation to a range of socio-economic variables. The BHPS is designed as a research resource for a wide range of social science disciplines and to support interdisciplinary research in many areas. The unique value of the survey resides in that fact that:&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;it follows the same representative sample of individuals - the panel - over a period of years; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;it is household-based, interviewing every adult member of sampled households; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;it contains sufficient cases for meaningful analysis of certain groups such as the elderly or one parent families; &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;it allows for linkage of data both from other surveys and from local area statistics. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The BHPS was designed as an annual survey of each adult (16+) member of a nationally representative sample of more than 5,000 households, making a total of approximately 10,000 individual interviews. The same individuals are re-interviewed in successive waves and, if they split off from original households, all adult members of their new households are also interviewed. Children are interviewed once they reach the age of 16; there is also a special survey of 11-15 year old household members from wave four. Efficient fieldwork practices, training videos for interviewers and regular contact with the panel members ensures that the sample remains broadly representative of the population as it changes over time.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; For the second edition (November 2011), erroneous syntax used to match files across waves has now been corrected.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5046-1
title: Elections to Town, Parish and Community Councils in England and Wales, 1998-2000

description: The project aimed to develop understanding of what participation is occurring in rural community governance in England and Wales, paying particular attention to the factors influencing the nature, type and level of participation for issues of democracy and accountability in rural governance. In order to achieve this aim, the project encompassed the following objectives:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to construct a database of parish, town and community council election statistics which will provide a national picture of participation in elective community governance across rural England and Wales;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to produce a descriptive representation of the nature and scale of voluntary participatory activity in rural community governance across England and Wales using ten surrogate indicators;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to analyse how and why participation occurs in particular geographic settings through the use of intensive case study research to construct detailed qualitative accounts of participation in selected communities (the qualitative research is not held at the UK Data Archive);&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to employ findings from the above research to develop an integrated theoretical framework for the analysis of the multiple nature of participation in rural communities and its implications for wider rural governance;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to employ the research findings in the context of policy initiatives to encourage participation in order to produce a series of 'best-practice' statements for use by public and voluntary sector agencies.&lt;/li&gt;
DOI: 10.15482/usda.adc/29175401
title: Data from: The impact and production of the Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) biological control agent Lygomusotima stria, is affected by the level of host plant fertilization

description: Old World climbing fern, is one of the worst environmental weeds of southern and central Florida, USA. The weed climbs over other plants, forming thick mats that block sunlight to native shrubs and trees. In the introduced range, Old World climbing fern invades much of the southern peninsula of Florida where cost-effective, sustainable control methods are needed. A potential biological control agent, the defoliating moth Lygomusotima stria was collected in Thailand and Singapore and was shown to be safe for release in the invaded range. Here, we report the results of greenhouse studies that examined the performance of the Lygomusotima stria larvae and their impact on the target weed when grown at a range of fertilizer and insect damage levels. The results indicate that larvae had greater survival when fed plants at the highest fertilizer level. Further, two generations of feeding by larvae decreased stem weights at the lowest fertilizer level and new shoot numbers. At higher fertilizer conditions, the plants were able to tolerate larva damage resulting in no significant changes in plant tissue allocations. By impacting stems and new shoots, these results suggest this insect will impede the ability of this weed to climb substrates especially in lower resource conditions.
DOI: 10.15482/usda.adc/29175401.v1
title: Data from: The impact and production of the Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) biological control agent Lygomusotima stria, is affected by the level of host plant fertilization

description: Old World climbing fern, is one of the worst environmental weeds of southern and central Florida, USA. The weed climbs over other plants, forming thick mats that block sunlight to native shrubs and trees. In the introduced range, Old World climbing fern invades much of the southern peninsula of Florida where cost-effective, sustainable control methods are needed. A potential biological control agent, the defoliating moth Lygomusotima stria was collected in Thailand and Singapore and was shown to be safe for release in the invaded range. Here, we report the results of greenhouse studies that examined the performance of the Lygomusotima stria larvae and their impact on the target weed when grown at a range of fertilizer and insect damage levels. The results indicate that larvae had greater survival when fed plants at the highest fertilizer level. Further, two generations of feeding by larvae decreased stem weights at the lowest fertilizer level and new shoot numbers. At higher fertilizer conditions, the plants were able to tolerate larva damage resulting in no significant changes in plant tissue allocations. By impacting stems and new shoots, these results suggest this insect will impede the ability of this weed to climb substrates especially in lower resource conditions.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.af86xz
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 21 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Ipomoea asarifolia",
 "Country is Chad",
 "HasCoordinate is true"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 21 records from 6 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031160-250920141307145/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5047-1
title: Foxe's Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition

description: John Foxe (1517-87) was one of the most influential writers of the English Reformation. In the forty years between 1547 and his death, he produced some forty works in English and Latin. However, both in his lifetime and since then, he has been principally known for only one of them, The Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs. &lt;br&gt; John Foxe fled to the Continent during the reign of Mary I, and on his return, wrote a history of the English Protestant martyrs from the 14th century to his own time. Usually known as The Book of Martyrs, it traces the triumph of Protestantism through the sufferings of English Protestants. &lt;br&gt; Some four hundred copies of Foxes editions of 1563, 1570, 1576 and 1583 remain, but most are defective to some extent, and all bear their original imperfections. Although microfilms of all the four original editions were available, and were adequate for general use, they too had their imperfections. The copies selected for filming were damaged and incomplete and many running heads and marginalia were omitted during photography. Moreover, these images were devoid of any commentary or apparatus, and well over a hundred years of Reformation scholarship had elapsed since Pratt completed his work. &lt;br&gt; Also a number of bowdlerised and abbreviated editions had been published in the twentieth century, particularly in the United States, and although there was little danger of these deceiving serious scholars, the proposal suggested that the time was ripe for the full text to reappear with a modern commentary.&lt;br&gt; It had also been recognised for some time that the Acts and Monuments is a major work of sixteenth century scholarship and a significant influence upon the development of the national identity. A reliable scholarly edition was urgently required. &lt;br&gt; In 1993 the British Academy established this project to produce a new edition. Originally, a paper copy was envisaged, however the scale of the project soon became too large to make this feasible. The 1583 edition alone is densely packed with information, including reference to hundreds of sources, some of them imperfectly identified. In scale it runs to nearly three million words. The Committee decided to switch its objective from a print edition to CD-ROM, which in turn would make a variorum edition feasible, embracing all the four original texts.&lt;br&gt; Due to technical developments and innovations in 2002, the committee, with the approval of the British Academy, decided to transfer the publishing medium from CD-ROM to an online edition.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5049-1
title: Retail Competition and Consumer Choice, 2002-2004

description: This project addressed the implication of the growth in concentration in food retailing in the UK – resulting from the consolidation and small store decline over the long term - with reference to its impact on consumer choice. The reference point of the study was the UK Competition Commission (2000) conclusion that the degree to which consumers will have adequate choice will depend on local circumstances. The project addressed this specific issue by exploring changing retail provision between 1980 and 2002 in an ‘average’ situation (Portsmouth), where extensive, large scale quantitative surveys of shopping behaviour were combined with qualitative studies to provide a richer understanding of different households' use and experiences of local retail provision.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The baseline for the core of the study was the replication of a survey conducted in Portsmouth by Hallsworth and reported in: Hallsworth, A.G. (1988) &lt;i&gt;The human impact of hypermarkets and superstores&lt;/i&gt;, Aldershot: Avebury. In addition, the approach and conceptual framework of the research were informed by two particular prior publications from members of the research team:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;Clarke, I (2000) 'Retail power, competition and local consumer choice in the UK grocery sector' &lt;i&gt;European Journal of Marketing&lt;/i&gt;, 34(8), pp.975-1002;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;Miller, D. et al (1998) &lt;i&gt;Shopping, place and identity&lt;/i&gt;, London, Routledge.&lt;/li&gt;