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Tradition and Ethnographic Display: Defining the National Specificity at the National Art Museum in Romania (1906-1937)

After a long period of debates and several unfinished projects, the National Museum of Romania was founded in 1906. Under the direction of Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas (1872–1952), the newly created institution aimed at being the expression of the Romanian civilization and a depository of local traditions. It was also intended to be a documentary basis for study and research about Romanian art and culture. This paper aims at analysing first the strategies deployed by its director for the construction of a patrimonial collection, then the way it has become more visible through the selection of the objects, the structure of permanent display and the museographic practices. The project for the Muzeul National developed a complex narrative that mixed antiquities as well as religious, folk and modern art in order to define a national specificity and to support the idea of unity and continuity of the Romanian culture, from prehistorical times to the present. Despite its consequent historicism, Tzigara-Samurcas’ museographic conception nevertheless granted a central role to ethnography in a time when folk art unanimously appeared as an authentic production, the very expression of the ‘Romanian spirit’ and the main source of a new regenerated contemporary art. We intend to explore the relationship between the patrimonial practices developed at the National Museum in Romania and the dynamic and multifaceted concept of ‘specificity’. Finally, we will pay attention to the National Museum exhibitions that took place in Paris during the inter-war period as the promotion of an identity profile that revisited national stereotypes, myths of origin and local authenticity. By considering several critical texts, exhibition catalogues and diverse acquisitions, we will try to understand how the foreign audience pictured Romanian ‘national art’ during this period.
Self-evaluation as an Attribute of Formative Assessment of Students’ Achievements in Maritime Studies

Assessment of students’ achievements in higher education didactics and in maritime studies is considered as a problematic part of study process. Especially it is difficult to use assessment practically in order to improve students’ learning, for formative purposes. The role of formative assessment in the learning educational paradigm is essential. One of main attributes of formative assessment ‐ self‐evaluation of students ‐ has been chosen as the object of the research. For the empirical research, a case of full‐time studies of Marine Engineering was decided upon. An originally created questionnaire was used for the research. The characteristics of self‐evaluation, such as its frequency, forms, and content were analysed with the aim of finding out their influence on the improvement of students’ learning and effectiveness of maritime studies.
Dating Business Cycle in Oil Exporting Countries

In this paper, we empirically investigate the relationship between oil price changes and output in a group of oil exporting countries. The dynamics of business cycles in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Kuwait, Venezuela and Qatar are modeled by alternative regime switching models. We show that the extension of uni-variate Markov Switching model in order to include oil revenue improves dating business cycles in these economies. For all countries, the optimal specification suggested by the data is to consider three cycles or regimes, namely, high growth, mild growth, and recession. These three regimes can be associated to high positive oil shock, mild positive oil shock and negative oil price shock. An interesting finding of the paper is that there is a variety of relationships between oil price shocks and business cycles. Thus, in order to see the effects of an oil price shock one should take into consideration the economic regime when the oil price shock hits the economy. Therefore, it is not possible to talk about a general relationship between oil price shocks and macroeconomic variables for all the main oil exporting countries. JEL Classification: E31, E32, E52, Q41
Developing a Mathematics Lesson Plan based on Visual Learning Technology

Various researchers have highlighted the importance of the introduction of visual learning in mathematics. Visual representation in mathematics is important for teachers and for pupils in their teaching and learning of mathematics, respectively. Various visual learning platforms are used in mathematics. This research concentrates on 2-D and 3-D visual learning technologies such as MIT App Inventor and Kudo Game Lab for elementary school.
Fuzzy Control of Batteries Fast Charging for HEV in Regenerative Braking

In this paper, a fuzzy controller is constructed on the basis of the hybrid electric vehicle's (HEV's) batteries fast charging during regenerative braking. The proposed method is based on Mascc law and the mathematical relationship between open circuit voltage with the internal resistance model and charge efficiency. A closed-loop control system simulation model is accomplished in Matlab and the rate of electric energy recovery for HEV is calculated with different control strategy. It is shown that the rate of electric energy recovery with the fuzzy control strategy is increased by 8.41% compared with the constant current charge method in the same brake condition, thus the fuel economy is greatly improved.
Impact of Indigenous industrial compost on the growth of coarse and fine rice varieties under saline environment.

Pakistani rice is popular throughout the globe due to its specific aroma. Rice is categorized as salt-sensitive plant as its growth is significantly reduced under salt toxicity. The effect of exogenous application of indigenous industrial compost (IIC) on the coarse (IRRI-9) and fine (Super basmati-2000) rice varieties under salt stress was investigated in this study. IIC was applied at 0, 0.5 and 1.0% of soil weight, along with recommended chemical fertilizers in respective pots. Twenty-day old rice nursery was transplanted in glazed clay pots filled with normal (ECe = 1.70 dS m -1 ) and saline soil (ECe = 8.0 dS m -1 ) under flooded condition. Plants were harvested at maturity and different physiochemical parameters were recorded. Salinity stress was found to have significantly ( p<0.05) reduced both biological and paddy yield of rice, and the reduction was lower in coarse than fine rice. The compost application significantly improved ( p<0.01) dry matter four times as compared with control. In the same way, paddy yield increased three folds both under normal as well as saline growth medium. Na + concentration in shoots at 1% IIC in growth medium had a significant negative correlation (r=0.90, p<0.01) but potassium concentration proved a significant positive correlation (r=0.92, p<0.01) in both rice varieties. Enhanced salinity tolerance in rice by IIC application was attributed to increased K + uptake, thereby increasing K + : Na + ratio and lower Na + translocation towards shoot (sodium exclusion at the shoot level). It was concluded that indigenous industrial compost application improved the growth of rice
Expression of c-Type Lysozyme from the Fleshy Shrimp Fenneropenaeus chinensis Is Upregulated Following Vibrio anguillarum and Lipopolysaccharide Injection

Chicken-type lysozyme (c-lysozyme) is present in shrimp and is active against some bacteria. To further understand the regulation of c-lysozyme in the fleshy shrimp Fenneropenaeus chinensis, we determined the tissue-specific gene expression of c-lysozyme and the time-course of mRNA expression in response to Vibrio anguillarum and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection by quantitative reverse real-time polymerase chain reaction. The results showed that c-lysozyme was expressed in all tissues tested, including gill, eyestalk, eye, hemocytes, hepatopancreas, intestine, heart, and pleopod. It was most highly expressed in the intestine followed by the eyestalk, gill, hemocytes and hepatopancreas. The mRNA expression level began to decline in a short time after V. anguillarum challenge and was then upregulated by two fold or more at 24 h post injection (hpi) compared to that at 0 h. Expression was suppressed shortly after LPS injection and began to increase with higher levels of 5.8-, 5.2- and 8.4-fold at 24, 48, and 72 hpi, respectively. Higher expression was sustained and showed a gradual increasing trend until the end of the experiment (72 hpi). These results increase our understanding of the regulation of defense mechanisms and facilitate an evaluation of the effects of probiotics or immunostimulants in shrimp culture.
Multiband Bandstop Filter using an I-Stub-Loaded Meandered Defected Microstrip Structure

This paper presents a compact multiband band- stop filter (BSF) that utilizes I-stubs embedded within a meandered defected microstrip structure (MDMS). The proposed design for obtaining a single stopband is ana- lyzed by using a transmission line network model. On the basis of the single stopband structure, we designed and fabricated a dual- and tri-band bandstop filters operating at 2.5/6.78 GHz and 1.98/5.6/7.78 GHz, respectively, thereby exploring the concept of generating as many stop- bands by simply adding the same number of I-stubs. The proposed filter also features the possibility of tuning the resonance frequencies by varying the width of the I-stubs.
Enhancing Web-Security with Stronger Captchas

Captcha are used widely over the World Wide Web to prevent automated programs in order to scrape a data from websites. Captcha is a challenge response test used to ensure that the response is generated by a person not by a computer. Users are asked to read and type a string of distorted characters in order to ensure that the user is human or not. Automation is real problem for web application. Automated attacks can exploit many services: 1. Blogs 2. Forums 3. Phishing 4. Theft of data Registration Websites use CAPTCHA (completely automated public turing test to tell computers and human apart) systems to prevent the bot programs from wasting their resources. Today is the Era of where technologies are changes very rapidly. So spammers are hackers are also trying something new to cracking captcha. That’s why it is necessary to developing an advanced technology to generating a captcha. Just like simply generating a Captcha Images from text, or rotating an object within images.
Marketing Networking Dimensions (Mnds) and Smes' Performance: A New Conceptual Model

Background: It has been widely acknowledged that SMEs need to develop a suitable marketing framework and networking is a useful way for SME owner/managers to expand marketing expertise and improve their performance. Aim: in this paper, regarding the dimensions of SMEs' marketing networking, the authors propose that four dimensions of marketing networking as important factors that have impact on SMEs' performance and their marketing activities.Method: through literature review, a model will be conceptualized by hypothesizing the relationship between marketing networking dimensions (MNDs) with SMEs' performance. Results: The study proposes a model to conceptualize the relationship between MNDs, marketing planning and SMEs' performanceConclusion: This paper explains the ways of exploiting MNDs as important factors in SMEs' marketing and the effect of MNDs on SMEs' performance. Possible application: Researchers believe that to build a model for MNDs-Performance relationship will be beneficial because it will provide some information for developing suitable marketing framework and improving SMEs' performance as a back-bone for the country's economic growth.
SHRIMP U-Pb and CAMECA 1280 oxygen isotope results from ancient detrital zircons in the Caozhuang quartzite, Eastern Hebei, North China Craton: Evidence for crustal reworking 3.8 Ga ago

The Caozhuang quartzite, located in Eastern Hebei Province in the eastern part of the North China Craton, has long been known to contain the oldest detrital zircon population in China. A suite of 30 zircons with preliminary ages >3.7 Ga were selected for detailed SHRIMP U-Pb and CAMECA 1280 oxygen isotope analyses. SHRIMP U-Pb dating reveals that ages range from 3860 to 3135 Ma, the former being the oldest 207Pb/206Pb zircon age so far obtained from the North China Craton. Values of δ18O range from 5.4 to 7.5 permil, similar to Archean igneous zircons worldwide, but the average value for the 30 zircons is 6.6 permil, which is ∼0.3 permil higher than suite averages for detrital zircons from the Jack Hills and Beartooth Mountains and nearly 1 permil higher than magmatic zircons from igneous rocks of the Superior Province and Barberton. These elevated values of δ18O suggest reworking of a significant amount of juvenile crust, older than 3.8 Ga, that underwent a low temperature supracrustal history and was distributed throughout the source region in north-east China.
Structural Changes of the Conditional Volatility of the Portuguese Stock Market

This paper examines the impact of the introduction of the futures market, on the volatility of the underlying Portuguese stock market. The simple analysis of variance is only the first step to a later undertaking of a much more robust methodology which involves the application of a GARCH model, with the main purpose of studying some potential changes on the structure of the conditional volatility of the Portuguese stock market. The results for the Portuguese market are not identical to those generally found internationally. The initial and simple analysis of variance seems to suggest a strong increase in the level of volatility. When a GARCH model is applied, with the main purpose of studying the evolution of the structure of the conditional volatility, a reduction in market efficiency, measured by its ability to quickly incorporate new information, is identified.
The direct and interactive effects of store‐level promotions on impulse purchase: Moderating impact of category familiarity and normative influences

Marketing literature conceptually and empirically establishes the direct effects of different variables on impulse purchase. However, the simultaneous interactions between variables influencing impulse purchase are yet to be studied. This paper measures the direct effects of store-level promotions, brand equity, and price consciousness and also examines the interactive effects of store-level promotions and the moderating influence of category familiarity and normative influences. The results demonstrate the importance of simultaneous examination of interplay between different consumer and store-level variables. Collectively, the results provide substantial segmentation opportunities for manufacturers of branded goods and retailers. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
TESTING DYNAMIC RULES OF ANIMAL COGNITIVE PROCESSING WITH LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION DATA

Identifying the cognitive capacity used by an animal to resolve its foraging task when facing ever-changing environmental conditions is a recent, central issue in behavioral ecology and cognitive science. Statistical confirmation of potential capacity through analysis of individual behavioral processes becomes an important research topic. New longitudinal data arisec as a sequence of global quality distri- butions, representing sparsely observed environmental dynamics. Such dynamics result from an individual animal's decision-making process as it explores a patch that consists of a fixed amount of hosts. Three dynamic rules having distinct de- grees of cognitive capacities are analyzed under a time-varying Markov structure. From the perspective of goodness-of-fit, two tests statistics are proposed for cap- turing different aspects of dynamic changes in the environmental. It is found that the test that best embraces the concept of distribution via the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve performs quite well.
Effect of Foliar Spray of Water Soluble Fertilizer at Pre Flowering Stage on Yield of Pulses

Field experiments were conducted at Pulses and Oilseeds Research Station, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal during pre kharif, kharif and rabi seasons of 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 to study the effect of water soluble fertilizer spray on growth and yield of greengram, blackgram, lathyrus, lentil and chickpea. Pulses are mostly grown by the farmers without any fertilizer application, as positive effect of supplying legume plants with supplementary nitrogen was found to have beneficial effect on enhancing growth and increasing seed yield. Five sets of experiments were laid out in a split plot design with three replications viz. two levels of basal fertilizer application (F 0 - No basal dose of fertilizer, F 1 - Basal dose of fertilizer application @ 20, 40, 40 kg N, P 2 O 5 , K 2 O ha -1 .) as factor A in main plot and seven levels of foliar spray of water soluble fertilizers at pre flowering stage (no spray, 0.5% NPK(19-19-19), 1% NPK(19-19-19) , 2% NPK(19-19-19), 3% NPK(19-19-19), 2% DAP, 2% Urea) as factor B in sub plot. Significantly higher seed yield of pulses were recorded with application of 2% urea spray over basal dose of fertilizer application The lowest seed yield was recorded with no basal fertilizer and spray. Without basal dose of fertilizer application, 3% NPK (19-19-19) spray recorded highest seed yield. Under basal dose of fertilizer application, the results showed a gradual increase in yield with the increase in concentration of NPK (19-19-19) fertilizer spray up to 2%, Among the fertilizer spray treatments irrespective of basal dose of fertilizer application, urea spray was significantly better than all other treatments.
Characterization of the Effects of One Maximal Repetition Test on Muscle Injury and Inflammation Markers

We assessed the influence of the one repetition maximum (1RM) bench press exercise on the temporal profile of markers of muscular injury (creatine kinase CK activity) and inflammation (interleukin-2 IL-2, IL-1β, tumoral necrose factor-a TNF-α, IL-6, and C-reactive protein CRP). Participants were 11 healthy subjects both genders (eight men and three women), active, involved in strength training, for recreational purposes for more than six months. Characteristics of the volunteers were: age (21.5 ± 6.5 years), weight (70.1 ± 21.1 kg), height (172.8 ± 52.1 cm), and fat mass (14.5 ± 5.7 %). Sample blood was colleted before the 1 RM test and at 1 h, 24 h, 48 h, and 6 days after the test. Statistical analysis was performed using ANOVA with repeated measurements and Bonferroni post-test. There was a significant increase in the CK activity after 6 days of the test when compared to pre-test time, whereas CRP activity increased 24 and 48 hours when compared to pre-test period. There was not significant difference in the plasma cytokine levels. Although 1 RM test did not alter the levels of inflammatory cytokines, it can be observed through this work that this test can induce muscle damage, which would be a negative factor for athletes, since the muscle injury and inflammation are associated with decreased performance, especially strength and muscle power.
The effects of weather and climate change on cycling in northern Norway

Weather is identified as one of many factors that influence the demand for cycling. Weather patterns will change due to expected climate change. The aim of this article is to study the extent to which climate change influences the cycling frequency. The analysis in this article is conducted using an econometric model based on data spanning over four years on weather indicators and the cycling frequency in the Norwegian city of Bodø, which is located north of the Arctic Circle. According to the projections for climate change, both temperature and quantity of precipitation are expected to increase in this area during the next century. An important consequence of changes in the climate in the studied region is the reduced duration of what can be characterised as the winter season. However, this consequence is highly uncertain. When using Norway’s middle projections for climate change by 2050, the analysis shows a moderate increase in cycling frequency of 6.2%. For the reduced winter period, the cycle rate might be two and three times higher in 2050 compared to the current level. Both estimates assume that every other potential impact on cycling rates remain equal.
LOCATION-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE INSPECTION FOR SABO FACILITIES

Abstract. Infrastructure asset management is a framework for achieving sustainable infrastructure. Based on this framework, although we often generate a three-dimensional (3D) geometrical model as a base map in management, it is not easy to acquire details of asset attributes in 3D measurement. Therefore, we focus on field-based investigation and inspection using mobile devices, and aim at assisting investigators in infrastructure asset monitoring with location-based applications. In this paper, we propose and evaluate our location-based investigation application as follows. First, we propose an inspection flow suitable for field-based monitoring. Second, we develop a Web GIS application for field-based investigation with mobile devices. Third, we propose base map generation suitable for sabo facilities using UAV and terrestrial laser scanner. We conduct an experiment in a sediment-retarding basin consisting of dikes, bridges, and debris barriers, and explore some issues in infrastructure asset monitoring using mobile devices.
Asymptotically stable control for a nonlinear-based multirotor aerial vehicle model

The interest for multirotor aerial vehicles (MAVs) is currently growing due to their low cost, high manoeuvrability, simplified mechanics, capability to perform vertical take-off and landing as well as hovering flight. These characteristics make them a promising technology suitable for applications such as surveillance of indoor and urban environments. The present work faces the problem of controlling the attitude of a MAV by means of a linear feedback control which guarantees asymptotic stability when controlling nonlinear dynamics. The simulations show the effectiveness of the method.