cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2025.222
title: Assessing the impact of non-tariff measures (SPS & TBT) on intra-ASEAN rice trade, 2016-2023

description: This Independent Study examines how Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) specifically Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) affect intra-ASEAN rice exports (HS 1006) during the period 2016–2023. The study mainly focuses on major rice-exporting countries, including Thailand, Viet Nam, and Myanmar, and key importing markets within ASEAN such as Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore. Using secondary data from UN Comtrade, UNCTAD TRAINS/WITS (incidence measures such as Frequency Index (FI) and Coverage Ratio (CR) , the World Bank (GDP), FAOSTAT (production), and CEPII (distance), the study estimates multiple-regression gravity models to examine the trade effects of these measures. To complement the econometric analysis with implementation realities, semi structured interviews were conducted with Myanmar rice exporters, traders, inspection agencies, and government officials to identify key compliance bottlenecks and practical solutions. The quantitative findings indicate that these measures exhibit mixed and generally weak effects on intra-ASEAN rice trade flows. While some SPS and TBT (2) variables show expected signs, their statistical significance is limited, suggesting that these measures do not function primarily as direct trade-restricting instruments. Instead, SPS and TBT measures appear to affect trade indirectly by increasing compliance costs, administrative complexity, and shipment delays, which raise transaction costs without necessarily reducing overall trade flows. On the other hand, the qualitative findings also reveal that SPS and TBT measures affect trade mainly through increased compliance costs, procedural delays, repeated laboratory testing, documentation duplication, and uncertainty at border clearance points. All stakeholders who participated in the interviews identified time- and cost-related burdens. In addition, most respondents highlighted insufficient regulatory alignment and the absence of mutual recognition across ASEAN member countries as major contributors to trade frictions. Overall, the study concludes that NTMs can function as both trade-restrictive and trade-facilitating instruments depending on their scope, consistency, and implementation. The findings highlight the impacts of NTMs on the trade, the importance of regulatory harmonization, mutual acceptance of compliance verification results, and digital trade facilitation to strengthen intra-ASEAN rice trade and regional food security.
DOI: 10.3535/90j-4my-aj8
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2025.223
title: Business plan: bringing certified organic eggs to Zimbabwe's premium retailers

description: This business plan outlines the strategy for introducing certified organic eggs to Zimbabwe's premium retail market. The expansion will primarily address the market gap in certified organic egg availability in the premium retail sector, while addressing the need for health-conscious consumers who demand ethical and organic food products. The plan highlights the growing demand for healthy and ethical foods in Zimbabwe and the First-mover advantage opportunity in the premium retail sector. This study includes the market analysis, business models, and strategies to penetrate premium retail outlets while building brand awareness among potential consumers, along with a financial feasibility study for implementation. Additionally, the plan will examine potential scenarios, strategies, and key events necessary for successful business implementation in Zimbabwes premium retail landscape. A survey of 8 retail managers from the main 4 retail chains will be conducted to assess the business potential, as well as retailer willingness and procurement preferences in the new market. Also, a snippet consumer survey with 154 respondents was done to understand consumer perceptions, willingness to pay, awareness, and barriers to purchasing organic eggs. In addition, the study presents a financial feasibility analysis, including cost structures, revenue projections, and break-even assessment, to evaluate the commercial viability of the proposed venture.
DOI: 10.3535/7mn-pws-dlx
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.3535/g4y-k1z-mdh
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.3535/gsy-vwn-zw9
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.3535/h7m-fhz-2np
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2025.224
title: Medical assistance agency in Cambodia

description: Cambodia's healthcare system faces critical challenges including limited specialist access, frequent misdiagnoses, fragmented medical records, and unregulated referral brokers. These issues have driven approximately 250,000 Cambodians annually to seek treatment abroad, creating significant financial burdens on families. This study proposes the Medical Assistance Agency, a technology-enabled healthcare facilitation service that integrates licensed medical triage, AI-assisted provider matching, secure digital health records, and medical travel logistics. Through market analysis, financial feasibility assessment, and primary research on patient needs, this study demonstrates strong demand for a trusted, transparent healthcare navigation service. The findings indicate that the Medical Assistance Agency is financially viable and positioned to improve healthcare access while reducing the financial and emotional burden on Cambodian patients seeking quality care.
DOI: 10.3535/276-bdm-x4r
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2025.225
title: Drivers of cross-cultural adaptability among Myanmar nationals in global workplaces

description: This study examines Global workplaces increasingly require professionals to navigate cultural differences with flexibility, resilience, and strategic awareness. However, limited research has explored how Myanmar nationalss develop and apply cross-cultural adaptability, despite a growing number working or studying abroad. This qualitative study examines the key drivers that shape cross-cultural adaptability among Myanmar nationalss in global workplace settings. Data were collected through the interviews and structured qualitative questionnaires from participants with diverse internationals and cross-cultural experiences. The study explores how individuals describe the factors influencing their adaptability, how past internationals exposure shapes their current adaptation strategies, what motivational forces drive their cross-cultural efforts and in what workplace situations they intentionally draw upon Cultural Intelligence (CQ). Findings contribute to an understudied area of cross-cultural research by offering insights into how Myanmar nationalss interpret and navigate cultural challenges in multicultural environments. The results also provide practical implications for organizations, educators, and policymakers seeking to strengthen the global readiness, well-being, and intercultural effectiveness of Myanmar professionals.
DOI: 10.3535/k9t-hcd-v6v
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.3535/wl9-2td-et5
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2025.226
title: Bumi Shanti Yatra: a sustainable green cottage and wellness retreat in Banyuwangi

description: The global tourism industry has experienced a gradual shift toward wellness-oriented and sustainability-focused travel, creating opportunities for destinations to move beyond conventional mass tourism models. In Indonesia, this shift is reinforced by national and regional tourism policies that emphasize environmental responsibility, community participation, and experience-based tourism development. Within this context, Banyuwangi, East Java, has gained recognition as an emerging destination due to its natural resources, improving accessibility, and designation as a pilot area for sustainable tourism initiatives. This study examines the business feasibility of establishing Bumi Shanti Yatra, a boutique eco-wellness retreat that integrates sustainable hospitality practices, wellness tourism, and local community engagement within a forest-based setting in Banyuwangi.The study adopts a business feasibility and planning approach supported by qualitative market analysis and secondary tourism data. Primary insights are obtained through in-depth interviews, while secondary sources provide information on tourism performance, wellness tourism trends, and sustainability frameworks. Strategic tools are applied to evaluate market positioning, operational design, and value creation, followed by a financial feasibility assessment using Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), payback period, and scenario analysis. The proposed business model emphasizes low-density development, environmentally conscious design, holistic wellness programs, and collaboration with local stakeholders to deliver authentic guest experiences.The financial evaluation indicates that the project is economically viable under the base-case scenario. Using a Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) of 10.74 percent, the analysis shows a positive Net Present Value and an Internal Rate of Return of 17.8 percent, exceeding the required rate of return. The discounted payback period is approximately 3.8 years, suggesting a reasonable recovery period for the initial investment. Scenario analysis further demonstrates the project’s resilience under conservative assumptions and its potential for stronger performance under favorable market conditions.Overall, the findings suggest that Bumi Shanti Yatra represents a financially feasible and strategically appropriate investment that aligns with evolving wellness tourism demand and sustainable development objectives. The project contributes a practical model for small-scale eco-wellness retreats in emerging destinations, supporting long-term destination competitiveness, local economic development, and environmentally responsible tourism growth in Banyuwangi.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2025.227
title: The digital health generation: how AI and beliefs shape functional drink choices among Bangkok’s Gen Z

description: This study examines the factors influencing the intention to consume functional drinks among Generation Z consumers in Bangkok, Thailand. The research integrates the Health Belief Model, product choice attributes, and AI health information seeking to explain consumption intention. A quantitative approach was adopted, with data collected via an online questionnaire from 334 valid respondents and analyzed in SPSS. Multiple regression and one-way ANOVA were employed to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings indicate that perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, and self-efficacy significantly influenced consumption intention, while perceived susceptibility and perceived severity did not. Among product choice attributes, only price and perceived value were significant predictors. In addition, trust in AI-generated health information and perceived usefulness of AI positively affected consumption intention, whereas frequency of AI use was not a significant predictor. Demographic differences were minimal. Overall, the study concludes that functional drink consumption intention among Generation Z consumers is driven primarily by perceived benefits, value considerations, personal confidence, external cues, and trusted information sources rather than perceived health threats. The findings provide theoretical contributions to health behavior and consumer research and offer practical insights for marketers, policymakers, and digital platform developers targeting younger consumers.
DOI: 10.3535/pt4-0sd-dga
title: Receptaculites sp.

description: Digital Specimen for the physical specimen hosted at Tallinn University of Technology.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2025.228
title: Exploring drivers and barriers for MSMEs practicing circular strategies in Yangon

description: This study explores the key drivers, barriers, and necessary supports which influence the adoption of circular economy (CE) practices among micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) practicing circularity in Yangon, Myanmar. Using a qualitative research approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with MSMEs and ecosystem builders to capture firm-level experiences and system-level perspectives. The findings reveal that CE adoption among MSMEs is predominantly driven by economic and operational factors such as cost savings and resource scarcity, indicating that circular practices are largely necessity-driven rather than motivated by sustainability awareness. Market-related drivers remain limited, with branding emerging as the only notable factor, reflecting low public awareness and weak demand for circular products. The study identifies interconnected barriers across financial, technical, institutional, market, and cultural dimensions, including financial constraints, limited technical capacity, lack of government support, declining purchasing power, and low consumer awareness. Participants emphasized the need for coordinated support in the form of accessible finance, continuous capacity-building programs, market linkage opportunities, supportive policies, and improved infrastructure. The study contributes context-specific insights into circular economy adoption in a fragile and resource-constrained environment and highlights the importance of a coordinated ecosystem approach involving government, private sector actors, development organizations, and consumers to enable MSMEs’ circular transition and long-term business sustainability.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.sg58jn
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 253412 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "TaxonKey" : [
 "is Rhamnus cathartica"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 253412 records from 1448 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0005457-260221153910048/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.25921/ssdj-3497
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Brauning - Reting - JUTI - ITRDB CHIN048

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - temperature analyses NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08. July 2024: Elevation added by WDS-Paleo using get_elev_point() from the elevatr R package with the AWS Terrain Tiles (aws) and WGS 84 reference frame.
DOI: 10.25921/sf7t-b908
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Cook - Altai TUT2 (KURAY) - LASI - ITRDB RUSS233

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - temperature analyses NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08. July 2024: Elevation added by WDS-Paleo using get_elev_point() from the elevatr R package with the AWS Terrain Tiles (aws) and WGS 84 reference frame.
DOI: 10.25921/sjq1-sk02
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Weinan, China 140KYr Loess Physical Properties Data

description: The objective of this study is to construct a numerically dated chronology of the last interglacial paleosol (S1) in Chinese loess using luminescence dating. The recuperated optically stimulated luminescence (ReOSL) dating approach was applied to 18 closely-spaced (20 cm intervals) samples, with 15 of these collected from the S1 unit at the Weinan site, which is located at the southeastern margin of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). By using the multiple-aliquot regenerative-dose (MAR) approach, 18 fine-grained quartz ReOSL equivalent dose (DE) values, spanning about 249-466 Gy, were obtained. The validity of ReOSL MAR protocol was checked by dose recovery measurements and recycling ratio tests. By comparison of the dose-response curves of all the samples, we found that it is feasible to construct a standardized growth curve (SGC) for the ReOSL signal at the Weinan site. Considering the effects of pedogenesis of the S1 unit during formation, the dose rate during the last interglacial was corrected, which should be beneficial for constructing a more reliable chronology. Finally, a detailed chronology of the S1 unit was established. The results show that S1 was deposited between approximately 76-127 ka, which confirms the early suggestion that the S1 unit in Chinese loess corresponds to the whole marine oxygen-isotope stage (MIS) 5. The detailed ReOSL chronology of S1 indicates the consistency of the substrata of S1 with MIS 5a-e, but cannot determine whether they are exactly coeval. According to the present ReOSL age results, it is suggested that dust deposition is continuous at timescales larger than 14.1 ± 11.8 ky during the last interglacial and there is no hiatus longer than 4.4 ± 13.0 ky at the L2/S1 transition. Further work, e.g. minimizing the errors on ages and reducing the luminescence sampling intervals, is needed to understand the more detailed dust deposition conditions during the last interglacial in Chinese loess.
description: Physical properties data (magnetic susceptibility, mean grain size, carbonate content, bulk density) 
from the Weinan section (34°25'38.8"N, 109°34'37.4"E, elevation 660 m a.s.l.) in the central part of a 'Yuan' 
(stable loess tableland) at the southeastern margin of the Chinese Loess Plateau. 
 
A 14-m pit along the outcrop, recently made by a brickyard, was excavated at the Weinan section. Powder samples 
were collected at 2-cm intervals above the depth of 14.3 m for magnetic susceptibility and grain size analyses. 
 Luminescence samples were taken at 10-cm intervals above the depth of 1.4 m and at 20-cm intervals for the remainder. 
A total of 76 luminescence samples were obtained for OSL and ReOSL dating, and all OSL and ReOSL dates except those 
from the uppermost three samples were used for chronology construction using a five-point FFT smoothing method.
DOI: 10.25921/sjc5-w178
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Shao - Wulan WL3 - JUPR - ITRDB CHIN063

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - temperature analyses NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08.
DOI: 10.25921/ssxj-yq58
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Sano - Mu Cang Chai - FOHO - ITRDB VIET002

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08. July 2024: Elevation added by WDS-Paleo using get_elev_point() from the elevatr R package with the AWS Terrain Tiles (aws) and WGS 84 reference frame.