scholarly journals Watervogels – Wintering waterbirds in Flanders, Belgium

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 915 ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Koen Devos ◽  
Filiep T’jollyn ◽  
Peter Desmet ◽  
Frederic Piesschaert ◽  
Dimitri Brosens
Keyword(s):  
Data Use ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Ramsar Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Darwin Core ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Scientific Name

"Watervogels – Wintering waterbirds in Flanders, Belgium" is a sampling event dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains more than 94,000 sampling events (site counts), covering over 710,000 species observations (and zero counts when there is no associated occurrence) and 36 million individual birds for the period 1991–2016. The dataset includes information on 167 different species in nearly 1,100 wetland sites. The aim of these bird counts is to gather information on the size, distribution, and long-term trends of wintering waterbird populations in Flanders. These data are also used to assess the importance of individual sites for waterbirds, using quantitative criteria. Furthermore, the waterbird counts contribute to international monitoring programs, such as the International Waterbird Census (coordinated by Wetlands International) and fulfil some of the objectives of the European Bird Directive, the Ramsar Convention, and the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA). Here the dataset is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each event: a stable event ID, date and location of observation and a short description of the sampling protocol, effort and conditions (in the event core), supplemented with specific information for each occurrence: a stable occurrence ID, the scientific name and higher classification of the observed species, the number of recorded individuals, and a reference to the observer of the record (in the occurrence extension). Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/inbo/data-publication/issues. The following information is not included in this dataset and available upon request: roost site counts, counts from historical (inactive) locations and counts from before 1991. We have released this dataset to the public domain under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). We would appreciate it if you follow the INBO norms for data use (https://www.inbo.be/en/norms-data-use) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, do not hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via [email protected].

scholarly journals New records of the land and freshwater molluscs of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 985 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ward Langeraert ◽  
Dimitri Brosens
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
New Records ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Gran Canaria ◽  
The Public ◽  
Freshwater Molluscs ◽  
Darwin Core ◽  
Canarian Archipelago ◽  
Scientific Name

“Land and freshwater molluscs of Gran Canaria (Spain)” is an occurrence dataset containing 389 observations of 59 different taxa of land and freshwater molluscs encountered on Gran Canaria, an island central in the Canarian archipelago (Spain). Of these 59 different (sub)species, 27 are with certainty currently endemic to the island of Gran Canaria. Various sites were inspected in a period between 1988 and 2020. The dataset is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each observation a stable occurrence ID, scientific name, date, and location of the observation, as well as information on life stage and organism quantity. It also contains supplementary remarks on the determination and the observation itself and links to associated media. We have released this dataset to the public domain under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. The aim is to contribute to the knowledge on the ecology and distribution of these species on the island, such that it may aid conservation and research of these organisms in the future. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/BelgianBiodiversityPlatform/landsnails-occurrences

Long-Term Trends in the Public Representation of Science Across the ‘Iron Curtain’: 1946-1995

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin W. Bauer ◽  
Kristina Petkova ◽  
Pepka Boyadjieva ◽  
Galin Gornev
Keyword(s):  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Representation ◽  
Long Term Trends

scholarly journals Popularization of Materials about Life and Creative Work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn in the Ryazan Regional Library

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 701-706
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Antonenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Social

Public libraries, realizing their social functions, contribute to the social and cultural development of the region. One of their main functions is education, dissemination of knowledge that forms the culture of person and worldview attitudes. The article reveals the long-term activity of the Ryazan regional universal scientific library named after Gorky on the information resources representing the pages of life and work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Honorary citizen of Ryazan, the world famous writer and publicist, educator, public and political person. The author reveals the significance of creative work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn in the public life of Ryazan and the region; analyses the experience of library work with the documents from the library holdings. As example, the author presents educational projects implemented in the partnership with organizations and institutions of the city: the Scientific and educational centre for the study of heritage of A.I. Solzhenitsyn, the Ryazan Solzhenitsyn society, as well as with writers and local historians. The article considers classification of types of resources on A.I. Solzhenitsyn, including personal documentary sources of the writer’s life, the documents of book collections of libraries, bibliographic databases, catalogues and card files, electronic resources created by librarians; provides examples of the above resource groups, including electronic ones collected through partner organizations and posted on the website of the Ryazan regional universal scientific library named after Gorky.

Economic implications of population ageing

2017 ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Andrew Mason ◽  
Ronald Lee
Keyword(s):  
Population Ageing ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The Public ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
To Come

For decades to come, population ageing will be one of the most important long-term trends affecting the economies of high-income and many developing countries. Government budgets are threatened as growth in revenue declines and growth in spending, particularly on pensions and healthcare, rises. The effects of ageing on the public sector are less important, however, than the effects on economic growth and standards of living. Slow growth in the working-age population is a serious concern, but three other ageing-related changes will have favourable effects. First, people are healthier and can extend their working lives. Second, older societies will be wealthier with ample resources available to fund needed investment. Third, smaller cohorts of workers will have benefitted from higher spending on their health and education. The decline in numbers may be more than offset by the increase in their productivity.

scholarly journals Information and Psychological War Linguistics as a Research Project at the Siberian Federal University: Problems and Achievements

2019 ◽  
pp. 1904-1921
Author(s):  
Aleksandr P. Skovorodnikov ◽  
Galina A. Kopnina ◽  
Anastasiia V. Kolmogorova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Public Character ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
War Discourse

The article discusses essential scientific problems within the scope of a young discipline “Information and Psychological War Linguistics” (IPW). These problems are based both on the analytical review of the scientific literature and on the authors’ observations. The following most significant problems of the IPW are defined: definition of the Information and Psychological War; classifications of its aims and objectives that, as a rule, are implicit in the war discourse; relationship between the object and targets of the IPW; hierarchy of targets; definition and systematization of criteria which might be used in order to identify the IPW texts; methodology of these texts analysis; determination of the IPW genre specifics; and classification of its speech strategies and tactics. The paper clarifies the definitions of some terms: Information and Psychological War, Information and Psychological War Linguistics, the object and the target. The following criteria for identifying IPW texts are distinguished: 1) the public character of the text as a focus on the mass addressee’s consciousness; 2) the inclusion of the text in one or another ideological discourse, characterized by its polemical nature and polarity of assessments; 3) the presence in a text of a socially significant political component related to the state power, government and / or people’s economic welfare, which are negatively represented in the IPW; 4) the prevalence in a text of a defamatory evaluative modality as well as the presence or possibility of the appearance of a protective text with a predominant apologetic modality; 5) the presence in a text of some tools specific to the IPW language: practices of speech aggression and / or speech manipulation; 6) more or less long-term repeatability of defamatory assessments in relation to the same target; 7) propaganda of a new value system contradicting the traditional one. These criteria should be taken into account in conjunction. Likewise, there is a problem of changes in the Russian language under the influence of the IPW, including those of a terminological nature

scholarly journals Carcass records of autumn-slaughtered reindeer as indicator of long-term changes in animal condition

Rangifer ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Olofsson ◽  
Öje Danell ◽  
Birgitta Åhman ◽  
Pär Forslund
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Skeletal Development ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Range Use ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Reindeer Population

This study investigates the possibility of using carcass records from the commercial slaughter of reindeer as indicator of long-term changes in animal condition and, thus, the condition and use of their snow-free pasture. The aim was to assess the suitability of this indicator for use within adaptive management programmes for reindeer husbandry grazing resources. Data comprising measurements of carcass weight, conformation and fatness taken from commercial reindeer slaughter between 1994 and 2007, were analysed in relation to year, slaughter date, herding district, population density, and three categories of animals selected for slaughter. The carcass measures were significantly affected by year, and the effects were strongly correlated among the three animal categories. There were generally positive trends over the 14-year period studied. We identified several factors that should be considered when using carcass data to indicate long-term changes in animal body condition: (i) slaughter date had different effects depending on animal category; (ii) reindeer population density negatively affected female and calf carcasses, but not male carcasses. The effects of herding district were similar for carcasses of calves and females, but differed between females and males. Some of the differences between animal categories may be due to differing timing of slaughter (point i above), by different slaughter selection among districts, or have ecological explanations, e.g. sex differences in range use. Uncertainties in the classification of animals when using skeletal development to discriminate between calf and yearling carcasses, may also add to differences among districts. That population density effects on body condition were detectable together with the similarities in the effects of year and general long-term trends between animal categories support the suggestion that carcass measures can be used to indicate general changes in reindeer body condition and range use.

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