The Wild Silkmoths (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Saturniidae) of Colombia: a database of occurrence points and taxonomic checklist

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5081 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-202
Author(s):  
ANDREA C. JIMÉNEZ-BOLÍVAR ◽  
LILIANA PRADA-LARA ◽  
RYAN A. ST LAURENT ◽  
RODOLPHE ROUGERIE
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Research ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Biological Collections ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Occurrence Records

Based on the review of literature and biological collections, information retrieved from public online databases, and from fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2020, we provide more than 3500 occurrence records and an updated checklist of Colombian Saturniidae, annotated with distribution data for all species. In the first checklist of Colombian saturniids published two decades ago, a total of 184 species were cited; in the current update the number has risen to 653 species/subspecies classified in 55 genera, representing all six recognized Neotropical subfamilies. The Andean and Pacific regions are the richest, accounting for about three quarters of all species listed herein. We call attention to the fact that for most speciose saturniid genera in the Neotropics, there remains a significant need for further taxonomic and systematic research with objective and integrative approaches. Likewise, it is necessary to continue the study of Saturniidae moths in Colombia, strategically increasing the sampling efforts in specific under-sampled natural regions to further document the diversity of this family in the country.  

Perceived Social Support and Resilience among Orphans: A Systematic Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Najmah Jameel ◽  
Shawkat Ahmad Shah ◽  
Showkat Ahmad Ganaie
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Systematic Identification

The present study is based on a systematic research review. The review of literature is an important component of the research process and should be carried out in an orderly manner. It is also known as the back bone of research study. It involves a systematic identification, location and analysis of documents containing information related to the research problem. The purpose of reviewing literature is to determine what has already done by the scientific community related to the research problem and to gain an impression regarding different aspects of the topic understudy. The major objective of the current study is to conduct a systematic review on Perceived social support and resilience among orphans. To go ahead with this goal, it was very important to collect the literature on; (A). Orphans (B). Perceived social support among orphans. (C). Resilience among orphans.

The Home Advantage In Sport Competitions: A Literature Review

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry S. Courneya ◽  
Albert V. Carron
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Clear Sense ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
Home Advantage ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

A home advantage in sport competitions has been well documented. The strength and consistency of the home advantage has made it a popular phenomenon in sport today. Very little systematic research has been carried out, however, and the home advantage remains one of the least understood phenomena in sport. It appears that much of the game location research has been arbitrary, and a clear sense of direction is lacking. The purpose of the present paper is to provide a conceptual framework to organize a comprehensive review of previous game location research and provide direction for future research. The review of literature indicated that the descriptive phase of inquiry has been completed, and it is time to address the underlying mechanisms responsible for the manifestation of the home advantage. Possible methodologies and areas of inquiry are highlighted and discussed.

scholarly journals GalliForm, a database of Galliformes occurrence records from the Indo-Malay and Palaearctic, 1800–2008

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth H. Boakes ◽  
Richard A. Fuller ◽  
Georgina M. Mace ◽  
Changqing Ding ◽  
Tzo Tze Ang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Historical Aspect ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Control Procedures ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Local Extirpation ◽  
Occurrence Records

Abstract Historical as well as current species distribution data are needed to track changes in biodiversity. Species distribution data are found in a variety of sources, each of which has its own distinct bias toward certain taxa, time periods or places. We present GalliForm, a database that comprises 186687 galliform occurrence records linked to 118907 localities in Europe and Asia. Records were derived from museums, peer-reviewed and grey literature, unpublished field notes, diaries and correspondence, banding records, atlas records and online birding trip reports. We describe data collection processes, georeferencing methods and quality-control procedures. This database has underpinned several peer-reviewed studies, investigating spatial and temporal bias in biodiversity data, species’ geographic range changes and local extirpation patterns. In our rapidly changing world, an understanding of long-term change in species’ distributions is key to predicting future impacts of threatening processes such as land use change, over-exploitation of species and climate change. This database, its historical aspect in particular, provides a valuable source of information for further studies in macroecology and biodiversity conservation.

scholarly journals Perceptions and Preferences of Urban Greenspaces: A Literature Review and Framework for Policy and Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Mahmoudi Farahani ◽  
Cecily Jane Maller
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Urban Greenspaces ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Increasing Process

The ever-increasing process of urbanisation across the globe has major implications for the environment, biodiversity and health and wellbeing of urbanites. Urban greenspaces are considered a promising planning tool in tackling some of the problems associated with urbanisation such as pollution and urban heat island effects. It is, therefore, important to understand what  encourages the extent to which urban dwellers interact with or use greenspaces. Perceptions and preferences are different ways of exploring how users interact with greenspace, but they are traditionally considered separately in extant research. The aim of this literature review is to synthesise the existing evidence for both perceptions of and preferences for greenspaces, highlighting crossovers and synergies between these two approaches. Drawing on a review of literature found in three online databases — EBSCOhost Web, Taylor and Francis Online and Elsevier —, the paper proposes a framework for understanding perceptions of and preferences for greenspaces which can assist policy makers and planners to develop and design greenspaces with higher efficiency and use or improve existing ones, ultimately improving the liveability of urban environments.

scholarly journals LEAN MANUFACTURING IN HEALTHCARE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Claudia Dias ◽  
Augusto Cunha Reis ◽  
Renata Pereira Oliveira ◽  
Úrsula Maruyama ◽  
Paloma Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Boolean Expression ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Healthcare Environment ◽  
Advanced Search ◽  
Online Databases

The healthcare environment aims at improving and quality in health management, with trends and practices in hospitals, institutions, clinics, laboratories and companies in this segment, with the purpose of bringing more comfort and better conditions in the care of patients. Faced with the difficulties of this area, it becomes increasingly important to reduce waste and improve processes. The goal of this paper is to carry out a systematic review of literature on the topic lean manufacturing in healthcare. The data were obtained from four online databases Web of Science, Science Direct, Emerald Insight and Scopus. Articles indexed in the last 10 years were selected (2006-2016). To select articles, an advanced search was performed using the Boolean expression "E" that combined keywords for better specific results. Professionals working in the health segment will have the concepts and applied techniques, in addition to the work indexed in recent years, which will facilitate the research and development of the work, translating into increased efficiency and ultimately, improvement for the population. Despite the importance of the theme, there are few lean manufacturing jobs applied in the healthcare environment. This research  can  stimulate future studies due to its applicability for the improvement of health services.  

scholarly journals Zuber’s Coronavirus Disease (COVID- 19) Standards for Hospitals

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Zuber Mujeeb Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
The World

Purpose: The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is affecting 220 nations and territories in the world. As of May 11th, 2021, there were 158,651,638 reported and confirmed cases of COVID-19 to WHO, out of which 3,299,764 were reported death to WHO. However, there are no defined, structured and concise Coronavirus Disease (COVID- 19) Standards for Hospitals in order to manage such cases in the hospitals by maintain quality, patient safety, risk management and patient experience. Objective: To develop Coronavirus Disease (COVID- 19) Standards for Hospitals. Method: This is a review of literature study and the data were collected with comprehensive searches in the online databases of goggle scholars and research gate. Conclusions: The study concluded with “Zuber’s Coronavirus Disease (COVID- 19) Standards for Hospitals.”

scholarly journals Zuber’s Ten Principles of Patient- Centric Patient Experience and a Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zuber Mujeeb Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Patient Experience ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Patient Centric

A patient-centric patient experience is a key to high-quality healthcare service industry since; it has been observed that the patients with good experience add trust, cohesiveness with treating the healthcare team and a better continuity of care, which leads to a better outcome and excels patient experience. Objective: To develop a patient-centric patient experience framework. Method: This is a review of literature study and the data were collected with comprehensive searches in the online databases of goggle scholars and research gate. Conclusions: The study concluded with “Zuber’s ten principles of patient-centric patient experience and a framework.”

scholarly journals Colombia’s bioregions as a source of useful plants

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0256457
Author(s):  
Nadia Bystriakova ◽  
Carolina Tovar ◽  
Alexandre Monro ◽  
Justin Moat ◽  
Pablo Hendrigo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Useful Plants ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Environmental Space ◽  
Medicinal Use ◽  
Moist Forest ◽  
Global And Local

The aim of our study was to assess the importance of different Colombian bioregions in terms of the supply of useful plant species and the quality of the available distribution data. We assembled a dataset of georeferenced collection localities of all vascular plants of Colombia available from global and local online databases. We then assembled a list of species, subspecies and varieties of Colombia’s useful plants and retrieved all point locality information associated with these taxa. We overlaid both datasets with a map of Colombia’s bioregions to retrieve all species and useful species distribution records in each bioregion. To assess the reliability of our estimates of species numbers, we identified information gaps, in geographic and environmental space, by estimating their completeness and coverage. Our results confirmed that Colombia’s third largest bioregion, the Andean moist forest followed by the Amazon, Pacific, Llanos and Caribbean moist forests contained the largest numbers of useful plant species. Medicinal use was the most common useful attribute across all bioregions, followed by Materials, Environmental uses, and Human Food. In all bioregions, except for the Andean páramo, the proportion of well-surveyed 10×10 km grid cells (with ≥ 25 observation records of useful plants) was below 50% of the total number of surveyed cells. Poor survey coverage was observed in the three dry bioregions: Caribbean deserts and xeric shrublands, and Llanos and Caribbean dry forests. This suggests that additional primary data is needed. We document knowledge gaps that will hinder the incorporation of useful plants into Colombia’s stated plans for a bioeconomy and their sustainable management. In particular, future research should focus on the generation of additional primary data on the distribution of useful plants in the Amazon and Llanos (Orinoquia) regions where both survey completeness and coverage appeared to be less adequate compared with other regions.

MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS FOR MONITORING CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION AND COMPLIANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohlomi Terah Raliile ◽  
Theodore Conrad Haupt
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Machine Learning Applications

The construction industry has, for many years, been subject to stringent health and safety legislation for the protection of workers and the public. To ensure compliance, firms must invest a great deal in resources. However, with different legislative requirements, deadlines, and fragmentation, it is easy to overlook something or implement wrong frameworks. This study aims to investigate the applications of unsupervised machine learning (ML) on monitoring health and safety legislation and compliance on construction sites. The paper provides a systematic and comprehensive review of literature from previous studies on ML applications in construction between the years 2005-2020. A literature search from online databases was conducted using keywords. A two-step literature filtration process was used to obtain relevant publications to meet the selection criteria. The findings of the study suggest that, as technology advances shaping the future of workplace safety, ML can be used to monitor compliance and set out recommendations for future standardizations in construction. Adopting ML in the can be used to process masses of information at better speeds and accuracy to make decisions and identify anomalies that would not have been identified by humans, improving compliance. This study presents the first attempt on the applications of ML for monitoring health and safety legislation and compliance on construction sites. Future research proposes to develop a tool for contractors to use to monitor compliance.

scholarly journals Fungal literature records database of the Northern West Siberia (Russia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Filippova ◽  
Stanislav Arefyev ◽  
Elena Zvyagina ◽  
Vladimir Kapitonov ◽  
Tatiana Makarova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
Species Number ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
State University ◽  
Mycological Research ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
History Of ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Occurrence Records

Mycological research in the Northern part of West Siberia has now become sufficient for review and digitisation as over 460 scientific works have been completed mainly since the beginning of the 20th century. The history of research in the region started from isolated studies at the beginning of the 20th century, but regular and systematic research started from the 1970s. Over the following decades, several dozens of researchers have worked in the area, but the reported occurrences were scattered amongst a broad variety of publications, mainly hardly available. The great need in digitisation and accumulation of fungal records reported in published literature in a standardised regional database has now become evident. The «Fungal records database of the Northern West Siberia» (FuNWS) was initiated in 2016 according to contemporary biodiversity data standards (Darwin Core), to be compatible and accessible by the broad research community. The database has been supplemented ever since by the collective effort of specialists working in the area. According to the database summary report, there are 3358 fungal and fungus-like species revealed in the Northern West Siberia at present. The richest in species number classes are Agaricomycetes (60%) and Lecanoromycetes (33%) with a total of 25 classes represented. The FuNWS database was uploaded to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (Ygra State University Biological Collection publisher) on 11 November 2017 (earlier titled «Fungal Records Database of Yugra, FReDY») to provide open access to the data and its reusability (Filippova et al. 2020). This publication summarises the results of the digitisation of literature-based occurrence records of fungi and fungus-like organisms initiated in the Northern part of West Siberia for the first time in the history of mycological research. The bibliography of regional mycological publications was created to include about 460 published works (Suppl. material 2). In total, about 140 literature sources were digitised and about 22000 occurrence records were integrated into the FuNWS database (Filippova et al. 2020).

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