bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
INFLUENCE OF EXTRACTION PROCESS ON YIELD, TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT, AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF AVOCADO (PERSEA AMERICANA MILL.) OIL AND STABILITY ASSESSMENT
Authors: CHAIYASUT CHAIYAVAT , KESIKA PERIYANAINA , Sirilun Sasithorn , Makhamrueang Netnapa , Peerajan Sartjin , Sivamaruthi Bhagavathi Sundaram
Published: October 2019

Objective: The present study evaluated the impact of drying and storage conditions on the quality of the avocado oil.

Methods: The fresh avocado was obtained from local farmers of Chiang Mai province, Thailand. The avocado pulp was collected and blended. The blended samples were dried at different temperatures (60, 80, and 100°C) and the oil was extracted by manual or mechanical pressing. The avocado oil samples were stored in clear and amber glass bottles at various temperatures (4, 30, and 40°C) for 3 months. The organoleptic, Folin–Ciocalteu colorimetric, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl and 2,2′-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid assay, and titration methods were used to measure the physical changes (color, odor, and precipitation), total phenolic content (TPC), antioxidant activity, and acid value (AV) and peroxide values (PVs) of the samples, respectively.

Results: The manual squeezing and mechanical pressing methods yielded about 1.17 and 24.91% of avocado oil from fresh, undried avocado flesh, and the pH of both samples was 5. The AV of manually squeezed and mechanically pressed oil samples was 2.91 and 2.88 mg KOH/g of oil, respectively. The PV of manually squeezed and mechanically pressed oil samples was 7.96 and 8.03 milliequivalent of oxygen per Kg of oil, respectively. The quality of the avocado oil dried at 60°C was high compared to other samples regarding TPC and antioxidant capacity. The storage of oil samples for 3 months at various temperatures and in different containers has not affected the quality significantly, except at 40°C.

Conclusion: The study proposed that the drying process at more than 80°C interferes with the quality of the avocado oil, and the storage conditions have a greater impact on the stability of the avocado oil. The storage at a low temperature in the absence of light may extend the shelf life of the avocado oil.
PREVALENCE OF IMPAIRMENT IN PULMONARY FUNCTION TEST IN SUGAR DISTILLERY INDUSTRY WORKERS IN KARAD TALUKA
Authors: PAWAR PRAJAKTA MAHADEO , SHINDE SANDEEP BABASAHEB
Published: October 2019

Objective: The objective of this study was to find the prevalence of impairments in pulmonary function test (PFT) in sugar distillery industry workers in Karad taluka.

Methods: A total of 88 sugar distillery industry workers, both male and female with 5 years of the duration of exposure to sugar distillery industry in Karad taluka, were selected as per the inclusion criteria in this study. They were aged between 40 and 60 years. The outcome measures were PFT and 6 min walk test. Based on the outcome measures and conclusion were made.

Results: The study showed that among the 88 workers, 34 workers had normal pulmonary function, 25 of them had mild obstructive type of pulmonary impairments, 26 workers had mild restrictive type of pulmonary impairments, and remaining three workers had mixed type of lung disease for PFT.

Conclusion: The total 61.36% of workers were suffering from various impairments in PFT. The study concluded that statistically significant impairments in PFT are existed among workers of sugar distillery industry from Karad taluka.
PHARMACOGNOSTIC, PHYSICOCHEMICAL, AND PHYTOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON STEM BARK OF ZANTHOXYLUM ARMATUM DC.
Authors: G JOTHI , K KEERTHANA , G SRIDHARAN
Published: October 2019

Objectives: To analyze the microscopic, macroscopic, physicochemical, and phytochemical standards of the Zanthoxylum armatum DC. (stem bark).

Methods: Pharamacognostic studies, namely macroscopic, microscopic, and powder microscopic analysis of stem bark were carried out. Physicochemical standards - ash content including total ash content, water soluble, and acid insoluble ash values, moisture content by loss on drying, solubility and extractive values of Z. armatum DC. were determined. Preliminary phytochemical screening, fluorescence analysis and quantification of alkaloids, flavonoids, phenol, tannins, saponins, and terpenoids were also studied.

Results: The macroscopic studies of stem bark showed the stem and its branches, armed with long, sharp prickles with variable size. The transverse section of bark showed the phellogen, phelloderm, cortex, phloem, and medullary rays that are characteristics to Z. armatum DC. The results of physicochemical standards give the identity and purity of the selected sample. Phytochemical studies revealed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols, tannins, saponins, and terpenoids.

Conclusion: The present findings provide the pharmacognostic, physicochemical, and phytochemical information about the stem bark of Z. armatum and this might be useful by providing additional support with regard to its identification and standardization parameters.
International Conference on Advances in Biosciences and Biotechnology – ICABB-2019
Authors: Sarethy Indira
Published: October 2019

International Conference on Advances in Biosciences and Biotechnology – ICABB-2019
ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF PHYTOSTEROLS FROM BIGNONIA VENUSTA (L.)
Authors: Sharma Manoj
Published: October 2019

Objective: To isolate phytosterols from Bignonia venusta (L.) and its antimicrobial activity.

Introduction: B. venusta is an important medicinal plant known for its vast potential. It is a valuable plant which is commonly used in traditionalsystem of medicine for relieving pain and inflammation, as well as in a number of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity.

Methods: In the present study, phytosterols from B. venusta was identified and quantified in vivo. Phytosterols were identified using chromatographic and spectral studies.

Results: Trimethyl (3,3-difluoro-2-propenyl) silane, butanoic acid, 3-methyl-3-nitroso-, methyl ester, peroxide, dibutyl, and 1,2-epoxy-5,5-dimethyl1-phenyl-3-hexyne were identified by infrared and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). GC-MS profiling showed various compounds. It is the first report on phytosterols from the experimental plant. Further, we studied antimicrobial potential of isolated compounds against clinically important microbes.

Conclusion: B. venusta (L.) is an ideal source of phytosterols and act as antimicrobial agent
SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF FRACTURE BOTH BONES FOREARM WITH LOCKING COMPRESSION PLATE IN ADULT PATIENTS
Authors: BHARGHAVA VEM KRISHNA , KUMAR CHALLA SHIVA , MURTHY D SRINIVAS
Published: October 2019

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the time taken for surgery, tourniquet time, and clinical outcome in diaphyseal fractures of both forearms managed with locking compression plate (LCP).

Methods: Patients underwent open reduction and internal fixation with 3.5-mm LCP. Proximal radius was approached by dorsal Thompson incision and middle and distal radius by volar henry approach. A minimum of 6 cortices were engaged with screw fixation in each fragment. Ulna was approached directly over the subcutaneous border.

Results: Of 20 patients, 70% were men; fracture was the most common in second and third decades of life. Road traffic accident (50%) and fall (40%) were the main causes. Fractures at mid-diaphysis (70%) and transverse/short oblique (72.5%) were the most common. Closed head injury, unilateral pubic bone fracture, olecranon fracture, fracture of both bones of leg, and ipsilateral fracture shaft humerus were the associated injuries. There was no intraoperative complication. Superficial infection (n=01) and transient posterior interosseous nerve injury, in the immediate postoperative period (n=01), were the reported complications. Average time for surgery was 77 min (60–90 min) and that for tourniquet was 54 min (40–60 min). All had complete union in <6 months; 80% had healing in <4 months. 20% healed in 4–6 months. Excellent and satisfactory results were seen in 85% and 15% patients, respectively.

Conclusion: The 3.5-mm LCP, when applied properly, yields excellent outcome in fractures of forearm bones. The use of tourniquet, separate incisions for radius and ulna, and preservation of the natural curves of radius will reduce complications. Clinical outcome in terms of healing and union is excellent.
La relevancia del pensamiento de Gadamer en la filosofía: más allá de la modernidad y la posmodernidad
Authors: Velasco Gómez Ambrosio
Published: October 2019

This paper discusses some of the main contributions of Hans-Georg Gadamer to the philosophical debate at the end of the twentieth century. Two of his contributions stand out in the paper: Gadamer's criticism of dogmatic faith in the scientific method and his criticism of a transcendental a-historical individual subject. In the elaboration of such criticisms, there is an emphasis in the reconstruction of the concept of traditions, as well as the notion of phronesis. The paper concludes that these Gadamerian notions offer an alternative way of conceiving rationality, which overcomes the dilemma between the a-historical and universalistic views that are common in modern philosophy, and the historical, but relativistic, conceptions that dominate postmodern philosophy.
Hermenéutica e historicismo
Authors: Palazón María Rosa
Published: October 2019

The epistemologies had been based on a notion of time which registers the characters of change or recurrence of processes; in opposition to this, contemporary historicism and hermeneutics use the holistic or systemic paradigm to study contemporary differences and the deferring of processes. Gadamer supports the context-giving labor proposed by philological hermeneutics since it deals with historical change or deferring. He departs, however, from this tendency, for in his view historical interpretation is not exhausted in the context-giving labor. Gadamer's also differs from Dilthey's historicism, on the ground that the task of the historian is not to look back into the consciousness of an agent which has disappeared historically. Gadamer criticizes a version of historicism which does not take into account the historicity of the historian. That is, history is written from her present, from the effects of the historical processes which, in addition, imply the futuristic projections of the historian herself.
"'P' dice P"
Authors: Gallerani Cuter João Vergílio
Published: October 2019

The paper is an interpretation of the critique of the Russellian theory of judgment, in  Wittgenstein’s Tractatus [5.5422]. The author holds that the picture theory of language is the Wittgensteinian alternative to Russell’s theory of types, on which his theory of judgment is based. In other words, the idea that a picture cannot represent its own pictorial form, would avoid, with difficulties of its own, the vicious circle that Wittgenstein sees in the theory of types, namely to suppose that a description of the categorical structure of the world may establish the logical syntax of language. From this diagnosis, the author draws important consequences to illuminate the celebrated Wittgensteinian distinction between saying and showing, as well as the Wittgensteinian account of propositional attitudes.
Hilbert, Kant y el fundamento de las matemáticas
Authors: Torres Alcaraz Carlos
Published: October 2019

This paper looks into Hilbert’s thought about mathematics and explores its relation which the philosophy of Kant. The focus of the research is in the role of axiomatic thinking and logical analysis in foundational studies. The paper concentrates mainly in Hilbert’s research regarding the foundations of geometry, and follows his main lines of thought up to his programme, which revolves around a consistency proof for the axioms of classical mathematics. A final analysis allows us to conclude that for him mathematics is, in a broad sense, “the science of that which is possible” in this point, Hilbert diverges from Kant, even though he considers that classical mathematics has in its core a content, a view which separates him from the extreme formalism some times ascribed to him.
Eduardo Nicol: entresijos de una poética fenomenológica
Authors: Landa Josu
Published: October 2019

Eduardo Nicol’s merit was to take on poetry as an unavoidable subject of his philosophic system. Likewise, he succeeded in his criticism —either outspoken or implied— upon Plato and Heidegger about the topic. However, his poetics demands a critical review. This article considers aspects such as Nicol’s slight acquaintance with thepoetry of avant-garde, his recourse to “the poetry” in abstract as the starting point for reflection on the matter, the distance between certain propositions of phenomenology and his own analysis of the poetic, and the lack of harmony between the Nicolean thesis on being and the world of poetry. This is not an obstacle to the author’s reckoning that Nicol’s ideas about poetry open up a passable path for those who take an interest in resuming his thought.
Martin Heidegger: en camino a la poesía
Authors: Martiarena Óscar
Published: October 2019

The author tries to show that Heidegger’s dialogue with Hölderlin’s poetry continues the project of a critique of metaphysics that the german philosopher presents in the first part of Sein und Zeit. By considering some of the fundamental texts of Heidegger, Martiarena suggests that the reflections on Hölderlin’s poetry are an essential part of Heidegger’s attempts at a critique of Western metaphysics, rather than a mere aesthetic consideration.
Baltasar Gracián: verdad y retruécano
Authors: Martínez de la Escalera Ana María
Published: October 2019

This work deals with the conflictive interaction between Philosophy and Rhetoric throughout the history of Western thought. It identifies and explains three moments of interpretation which are called “interpretative crisis” (Gorgias’ epoque, Dante’s epoque and Baroque spanish critique). It certainly aims to criticize the somewhat secondary status of Rhetoric, considered by academic philosophy as an “ornamental” discipline. Lastly, it tends to prove than most concepts and forms of argumentative thought have an originally rhetoric background.
Nietzsche en Deleuze: hacia una genealogía del pensamiento crítico
Authors: Sánchez Meca Diego
Published: October 2019

This article offers an innovative perspective from which Deleuze interprets Nietzsche’s thought and the relationship of this vision with the birth of Deleuze’s philosophy of difference. This philosophy incorporates Nietzschean topics as the genealogy of the Socratic reason, the Christian interpretation of  suffering, teleology, and the substantially reactionary occidental thought. The notion of difference allows us to understand the concept of time as the result of a game between forces, and the idea of the eternal return as a notion incompatible with the subject-object relationship, personal identity, and the dialectical comprehension of  history.
Ontología: ser, lenguaje e historia
Authors: Guerra Tejada Ricardo
Published: October 2019

The main theme of this paper answers the question about the different ways today’s philosophy can take. One of these is the ontology, as the fundamental way towards freedom. This paper presents a critical point of view against the usual way of thinking in science, in other philosophical areas and political or ethical positions.  Why do we write about freedom? Because it is the thinking and action’s oversight basis. We propose that the concept of freedom can create a new possibility for human being’s development. The end of metaphysics, the nihilisms, the death of God, the value’s crisis point towards new ways of thinking. The conclusion of this paper is that freedom is the ultimate ground in the frame of theoretical thinking (as well as of science and technical research, in art and poetry), and the fundament of daily action (ethical as well as political).
La imposible moral
Authors: Constante Alberto
Published: October 2019

The impossible moral in Heidegger is based on two fundamental facts: firstly, that Heidegger devoted himself to the theme of being. All other issues, thesis or questions derive from that fundamental and unique “question about the meaning of Being”. Secondly, the ontological question in Heidegger wasn’t the question for the entity, but the question for the Being. On these bases, “The impossible moral” in Heidegger arises from his initial ontological argumentation from which all other structures derive and that Heidegger tries to separate from each anthropological, psychological or biological matter. In fact, we may suggest that an ethical approach in Heidegger could only arise from the exegesis of the structural whole of the “being-in-the-world”. This would happen by apprehending the original being of the “being-there” as “care” that isn’t anything else that the manifestation of the following features: “being-with” and “being one’s self”. All these without forgetting that Being and time has an ontological fundamental intention. Finally, “The impossible moral” in Heidegger is given by his radical antihumanism.
Heidegger y el nazismo de Farías, o la agenda oculta por desacreditar un pensamiento superior
Authors: Villegas Montiel Francisco Gil
Published: October 2019

The political commitment of Heidegger with nazism has been subjected, since 1946, to strong moral criticism. In 1989, Víctor Farías Heidegger et le nazisme, failed to submit any new hard data to what was already known since 1962. This article demonstrates that Farías’ book is biased and not conclusive as regards the “new” evidence submitted in it. Furthermore, neither Farías nor other “moral” criticisms of his kind have been able to demonstrate a direct link between Heidegger’s political commitment and his philosophical thought. Heidegger’s philosophy should be criticized, but in a rational rigorous argumentation, already proposed either by neoweberians or by Habermas.
¿Es relevante lo "dado" para la justificación?
Authors: Ornelas Bernal Jorge
Published: October 2019

My purpose in this essay is to bring to light the role played by experience in the justification process of empirical knowledge. Contemporary debate is dominated by two antagonistic sides: on one extreme we have the foundationalist empiricists for whom experience, the Given, is the epistemic foundation of all knowledge; and on the other extreme we have the coherentists who reject that experience has any room in the justification process. This paper attempts to present an alternative model of justification that gathers the virtues of both sides.
La muerte como última emoción
Authors: González Gallego Agustín
Published: October 2019

Life is always intermixed with death, it is never pure. Death is pure. Death doesn’t need life. It is its absence. To know that we are going to die implies to insert death in our own life. This absence-presence of death is what eventuates the symbolical play. This represents death from several fronts: the scientific, the cultural the philosophical. From the latter, death is thought as the only thing we have: this life.
Russell y Wittgenstein: sobre contradicciones y paradojas
Authors: Tomasini Alejandro
Published: October 2019

In this essay I present and contrast Bertrand Russell’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s views on the subject of paradoxes and try to show how and why, from Wittgenstein’s perspective, the difficulties that contradictions raise are rather pseudo-problems and, accordingly, what we need to get rid of them is not a theory but a grammatical analysis of the concepts involved.
Dos formas de escepticismo semántico
Authors: Smith Plinio Junqueira
Published: October 2019

The author distinguishes and compares two varieties of semantic skepticism. The first one, called scientific, is found in W. O. Quine’s intention of accounting for language —conveniently organized in purely extensional terms— as a complex of dispositions in verbal behavior. The second variety is present, according to this paper, in the Wittgensteinian problematic of following a rule. The author sustains that the basic weakness of the latter variety lies in its being based on a problematic theory —such as behaviorism; additionally, scientific semantic skepticism is open to the criticism that it cannot account of the normative aspect of linguistic practices.
Presentimiento de la ciudad fronteriza (sobre la Politeia de Platón)
Authors: Trías Eugenio
Published: October 2019

This essay tries to think with Plato (not against nor from him) the idea of justice, which structures the city and the human soul in the Republic, and the platonic self-critique displayed in several late dialogues, viewed as a basis for a philosophy that can make sense of human existence in the bordering city. The bordering city –itself a metaphor of Limit–, inhabited by intermediary characters (love and creation, reminiscence and reason, halfway between the Ideal city and the cave), is what makes possible the interchange between transcendent Being (the Good, Beauty, Truth) and Becoming (which characterizes human existence). The bordering city is Plato’s greatest discovery, through which we can think an alternative city and the corresponding human condition, and even the world (cosmos). Plato gave the necessary clues to come to this alternative conception, and his recourse to myth can be seen as a symbolic addition that allows access to truth. What is, what exists and happens, is an unceasing return of “archetypes” (ideas joined with symbols). This gives consistency to what is, what exists and what we ourselves are. Philosophical truth is the awareness of the fact that we live within these archetypes, relatively to which we determine and decide our existence. Still, Plato’s thought, as a philosophy of limit, remains distant from the sensible and changing individual, which can be recreated by Limit and the being of Limit. In fact, what is recreated in Limit is a being (perceptible by the senses, singular, and in change): a being of limit which, through ideas and symbols can become accessible to understanding.
La filosofía: amor de la verdad y práctica de morir
Authors: Marino López Antonio
Published: October 2019

This essay explores the difference between the erotic Socrates portrayed in the Symposium and the apparently anerotic Socrates of the Phaedo. The interpretation of the first dialogue is limited to a comparison between the Platonic Aristophanes’ doctrine of Eros and the “androgynous” version of Socrates-Diotima. The central thesis is that the Aristophanic version is truer to our erotic experience than Diotima’s, whereas the latter is a transformation of Eros from a generative into a contemplative power. Socrates’ Eros is shown as pointing beyond the body without losing its love of body: its love of the beautiful. The interpretation of the Phaedo, on the other hand, moves in the opposite direction: from the anerotic surface to its erotic depth. The primary aim is to show that its surface doctrine, which portrays philosophy as the practice of dying, does not contradict the doctrine of the Symposium because both coincide in depicting philosophy as the erotic desire to see the ideas. In the last section, attention is drawn to Plato’s enigmatic portrayal of philosophy as both passionate devotion to thinking and deep awareness of the insufficiency of logos.
La deriva sapiencial socrática: ironía, katalepsis, epoche
Authors: Landa Josu
Published: October 2019

The bequest of Socrates was received in several ways. This article revises the “sapiential derivation” of Socraticism, according to the Cynic, Stoic and Skeptic schools. All these philosophical trends deepen the ethical turn that Socrates is thought to have given philosophy. The notions of irony, katalepsis and epoche, which derive from Socratic docta ignorantia, are examined closely.
El paradigma socrático
Authors: Rivero Weber Paulina
Published: October 2019

The paper starts from some contradictory interpretations of the character of Socrates, to think over the fate of this paradigmatic philosopher. In order to do so, it restates how this character brings forth two different and mutually exclusive forms of understanding the value of life in society, on the one hand, and the value of freedom of thought, on the other. Socrates is thus seen as the individual who lives the paradox of caring for life in society and attributing supreme worth to critical, autonomous thinking, which always opposes custom and social norms.
Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)
Authors: Luna Gustavo
Published: October 2019

In 399 b. C., a man was accused and sentenced to die because people thought he had the power to seduce young people with words, not beautiful but morbid, naked words. His candour and open manner were offensive in the eyes of ordinary people: he walked about naked (soul-naked) among the Greeks, uncovering all prejudice, just as the Divine Marquis of Sade would in an apparently very different field. Indeed, both thinkers do the same thing: they expose a real and deeply hidden tendency in men: not the desire of knowledge, but the desire of not knowing anything about their own souls. They expose what people want to keep in the dark: the certitude or the falsehood of their judgements, the limits and the pursuits of our thought. But no one can go over the limit and keep on living.
Homero y Sócrates: dos paideiai
Authors: Montemayor Alicia
Published: October 2019

For the Greeks, wisdom made the man. That is to say that to become an adult and to be considered truly human, one had to be well educated, which presupposed intelligence, mastery of one’s passions, escaping luck’s dominion. From archaic times, Homer was the basis for this paideia, which we see challenged in the Fifth century, during the so-called Greek Illustration. In Hellenistic times, Homer became literature, and philosophy, a way of life. Socrates’ influence on this change was enormous. His life was his work; he didn’t have to write to demand a radical change of the city’s institutions. What was perhaps impossible to foresee was that those institutions didn’t admit change; that religion couldn’t endure attacks from sophistic relativism and philosophical discussion, and that custom couldn’t hold after so radical a change in the goal of education. Soul, considered by many Socrates’ invention, caused this change.
El Sócrates de Nietzsche
Authors: González-Valerio María Antonia
Published: October 2019

The main object of this paper is an analysis of the critique against Socrates brought about by Nietzsche in Die Geburt der Tragödie. It claims that the central issue of this critique is the way in which Socrates and Plato considered the work of art. Hence it analyzes some of the consequences of the Socratic-platonic conception of art on the history of philosophy. Finally, the paper concludes that the Socrates created by Nietzsche as the result of his critique is actually a symbolization of the opposition between art and truth that philosophy has historically made.
Bergson y la crítica al esquematismo de la representación: la filosofía como máquina de plantear problemas y horizonte del pensar
Authors: Ezcurdia José
Published: October 2019

Starting from an analysis of the paradox of Zenon and the notions of quantitative and qualitative multiplicity,  Bergson establishes, on the one hand, the incapacity of rational knowledge to explain the real and, on the other, he emphasizes the form of intuition as an immediate apprehension that, due to a sympathy phenomenon, can grasp its own form like a duration which is intensity and creative display. In this sense, Bergson releases the philosophical analysis from the rational schematism and creates the horizon for the restatement of the problems that philosophy confronts, making from his doctrine a machine to raise problems and invite the thought to develop itself without the limitations of rational knowledge.
La razón melancólica
Authors: Marino López Antonio
Published: October 2019

In this article I examine the conceptions of the relationship among reason, happiness and philosophy as they appear in Plato, Aristotle, the epicurean and stoics, Hobbes, Pascal and Nietzsche. This outline is performed in order to show that, striktly speaking, only Plato and Aristotle consider that the philosopher can be happy.
Kant, la teoría de la relatividad y la filosofía de la ciencia de comienzos del siglo XX
Authors: Peláez Cedrés Álvaro J.
Published: October 2019

The rise of the Theory of Relativity implied not only a deep change in the conceptual structures of physicomathematics, but also broke out a series of reflections and discussions about the status of our conceptual scheme and its relation with the fundamental principles of physics. Kant maintained that the Newton’s physic laws had an a priori status, determined by the relation of these laws with the conceptual structures of  the transcendental subject. The present article attempts to illuminate some aspects of the discussion round about the epistemological impact on the Theory of Relativity. An important result will be that, in spite of the profound changes that physics displayed, the philosophers that were imbricated in that discussion did not abandon the spirit of Kant’s philosophy, but modified some of their fundamental notions so they could explain the changes they were attending. These modifications of the kantian paradigmcan still be defended as a way of elucidation of scientific knowledge.
El humanismo mexicano como humanismo analógico
Authors: Beuchot Mauricio
Published: October 2019

This article analyses the Mexican Humanism as an alternative proposal to Heidegger's critique of European Humanism. Beuchot argues that Mexican Humanism has an analogical character, because Humanism of Indian and European culture converges and integrates here.
El vértigo de la filosofía
Authors: Grave Crescenciano
Published: October 2019

Este ensayo es una interpretación de Filosofía del futuro de Eugenio Trías como una propuesta de pensamiento trágico contemporáneo. Para ello, el autor, amparándose en la noción de viaje trágico, desarrolla la concepción del devenir como reiteración recreadora del ser singular que se pone a prueba en su enfrentamiento con la estructura de dominio y la promoción de la síntesis de producción y deseo en el ámbito ético y político.
Una extraña amistad: la identificación “amigo/enemigo” en el pensamiento de Nietzsche
Authors: Rivero Weber Paulina
Published: October 2019

Es bien conocida la manera en que el pensamiento de Nietzsche identifica un amigo como un enemigo, y puede ser el aspecto más polémico de su concepto de la amistad. En este artículo se abordan algunas ideas de dos pensadores que tuvieron alguna influencia en Nietzsche acerca de este tema: Emerson y Schopenhauer. Luego, se analizan en qué sentido el amigo puede ser un enemigo para Nietzsche, y algunas ideas acerca del pensamiento de Jacques Derrida y Paul Van Tongeren sobre este asunto. Se señala la diferencia entre la distinción del amigo como un camarada y el amigo como enemigo en la filosofía de Nietzsche. Finalmente, se cuestiona el significado de la ausencia de compasión en el pensamiento de Nietzsche.
Revolución y repetición
Authors: Chávez Tortolero Mario
Published: October 2019

This paper is a translation of the lecture given by Kojin Karatani at the Philosophy Department of UNAM. The author proposes a scientifically treatment of history, founded in the study of the repetitive structures, he especially shows the Modes of Exchange cycle, trying to complete Marx’s work, that concentrates on the Modes of Production cycle. The author holds the state is a subject along with capital, it has to be considered as autonomous, because it is an active agent in the capitalism repetitiveness. In addition, he makes a proposal to face the current stage, that has been located inside the repetitive structure, as well as the revolutionary movements of revolution against state and capital.
La identidad como respuesta: un acercamiento retórico-argumentativo a Rusticatio mexicana de Rafael Landívar
Authors: Rodríguez Beltrán Joaquín
Published: October 2019

This paper tackles Rafael Landivar’s Rusticatio Mexicana from the argumentative point of view, introducing it into what has been called the dispute of the New World. Rusticatio Mexicana is here interpreted as an answer to a series of ideas about the American continent which were popular at the time, this answer beingan example of how identities are built up by discourse.
La nación como relato
Authors: Colom González Francisco
Published: October 2019

The work explored the developments and paradoxes of the narrative construction of the nation. Focusing in historical examples, the author shows us the principal theories of the identity narrative and, at the same time, he linked them with the ideological problem of the construction of the nations in the modernity.
Presagios de independencia política en el Seminario y Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo en Valladolid
Authors: Rovira Gaspar María Del Carmen
Published: October 2019

In this paper I analyze and study the presages of the Independence or, like I like to say, the academic and intelectual revolution that happened in the Seminar and College of San Nicolas Obispo as an antecedent of the political Independence.
PENGARUH TEKNIK MIND MAPPING TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN MENULIS PUISI SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR
Authors: Dahliana Dina , Taufina Taufina , Nasrul Silviana , Sukandar Warlan
Published: October 2019

Abstract. This research is motivated by the low writing skills of poetry. This is characterized by students' poetry writing skills that are not productive, still informative, students are still difficult to express their ideas, and are less attractive to students because they only use one technique. One learning technique that can improve poetry writing skills is mind mapping techniques. Mind mapping is also a learning technique to stimulate students' imagination in generating ideas, recording and summarizing using mind mapping. This study aims to examine the effect of Mind Mapping Technique on Poetry Writing Skills of students in elementary school.This study was an experimental study of Quasi Experimental Design with Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The population in this study were all fifth grade students of class V. Sampling is done by saturated sample technique (total sampling), namely VB class as an experimental class and VA class as a control class. The experimental class consisted of 34 students and the control class consisted of 36 students. The instrument used to determine the effect of mind mapping techniques is observation and documentation. The experimental class was treated by using mind mapping techniques in poetry writing skills while the control class without using mind mapping techniques.Based on the results of the pretest obtained the average value of the experimental class 60 and the average value of the control class 64.2. From the results of the comparison of the two sample classes, there was a difference in value of 3.7, so it can be concluded that there is no significant difference between the two pretest grades, meaning that the two classes have the same initial ability. Next, learning was conducted using mind mapping techniques in the experimental class and learning without mind mapping techniques in the control class. After learning is given then in both classes posttest is conducted. For the experimental class obtained an average value of 82 and for the control class obtained an average value of 77.5. From the results of testing hypotheses with a significant level of 0.05 obtained a significant value of 0,000 because sig. <α, the hypothesis is accepted, so it can be concluded that there is an effect of using mind mapping techniques on students' poetry writing skills in elementary school. Keywords: Mind Mapping Techniques, Writing Skills, Poetry
PEMBERDAYAAN KETERAMPILAN BERTANYA SISWA MELALUI PEMBELAJARAN INOVATIF BERBASIS LESSON STUDY
Authors: Miharja Fuad Jaya , Hindun Iin , Fauzi Ahmad
Published: October 2019

Keterampilan berpikir siswa perlu dikembangkan melalui kegiatan pembelajaran yang inovatif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi manfaat penerapan model pembelajaran PBL modifikas pada mata pelajaran biologi melalui kegiatan lesson study. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di SMA Negeri 1 Malang dengan melibatkan terdiri atas siswa-siswi XI MIPA 10 sebagai subjek serta melibatkan empat guru dan empat dosen perguruan tinggi sebagai tim LS. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan bantuan instrumen lembar observasi pembelajaran serta lembar evaluasi guru. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penerapan pembelajaran PBL modifikasi berbantuan media “sangkar hati” diindikasikan mampu meningkatkan keterampilan bertanya siswa, motivasi belajar siswa, serta mengatasi alokasi pembelajaran yang terbatas. Melalui studi ini, diharapkan pengimplementasian PBL maupun penerapan kegiatan LS dapat dibiasakan diselenggarakan di berbagai sekolah
KEMAMPUAN MEMAHAMI BACAAN MELALUI TEKNIK SKIMMING DENGAN TAKTIK MENGGARISBAWAHI IDE-IDE KUNCI PADA SISWA KELAS IV SD NEGERI 11 PANGKALPINANG
Authors: Hendrik Maulina , Roslinah Roslinah
Published: October 2019

ABSTRACT Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan kemampuan memahami bacaan melalui teknik Skimming dengan taktik menggarisbawahi ide-ide kunci pada siswa kelas IV SD Negeri 11 Pangkalpinang. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif dengan model pra-eksperimental designs. Pra-eksperimental designs yang digunakan yaitu One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di SD Negeri 11 Pangkalpinang. Populasi penelitian ini seluruh siswa kelas IV yang berjumlah 37 orang. Teknik sampel menggunakan teknik sampel jenuh, maka sampel penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas IV berjumlah 37 orang. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan tes dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data menggunakan uji normalitas dan uji hipotesis. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa kemampuan memahami bacaan siswa kelas IV SD Negeri 11 Pangkalpinang melalui penggunaan teknik skimming dengan taktik menggarisbawahi ide-ide kunci meningkat. Hasil tersebut diperoleh dari rata-rata hasil posttest lebih besar dari pada hasil pretest. Demikian juga berdasarkan kriteria pada kurva uji hipotesis Related untuk sampel berpasangan yaitu thitung berada pada daerah penerimaan Ha, maka H0 ditolak, Ha diterima. Dari hasil penelitian diperoleh thitung-5,488 yang berada pada daerah penerimaan Ha. Kata kunci: Teknik Skimming, taktik menggarisbawahi ide-ide kunci, pemahaman bacaan ABSTRACTThis study aims to determine the ability to understand reading through the Skimming technique with tactics underlining key ideas in fourth grade students of SD Negeri 11 Pangkalpinang. This study uses quantitative research methods with pre-experimental designs. Pre-experimental designs used are One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design. This research was conducted at SD Negeri 11 Pangkalpinang. The population of this study were all fourth grade students totaling 37 people. The sample technique uses a saturated sample technique, so the sample of this study is 37 fourth grade students. The technique of collecting data uses tests and documentation. Data analysis techniques using the normality test and hypothesis testing. Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that the ability to understand the reading of fourth grade students of SD Negeri 11 Pangkalpinang through the use of skimming techniques with the underlining tactics of key ideas increased. The results were obtained from the average posttest results greater than the results of the pretest. Likewise, based on the criteria on the Hypothesis test curve Related for paired samples namely thitung is in the Ha acceptance area, then H0 is rejected, Ha is accepted. From the results of the study obtained thitung -5,488 which is in the Ha reception area. Keywords: Skimming techniques, tactics underlining key ideas, reading comprehension
Students as storytellers: mobile-filmmaking to improve student engagement in school science
Authors: Martin Kaitlyn , Davis Lloyd , Sandretto Susan
Published: October 2019

Student engagement is an important predictor of choosing science-related careers and establishing a scientifically literate society: and, worryingly, it is on the decline internationally. Conceptions of science are strongly affected by school experience, so one strategy is to bring successful science communication strategies to the classroom. Through a project creating short science films on mobile devices, students' engagement greatly increased through collaborative learning and the storytelling process. Teachers were also able to achieve cross-curricular goals between science, technology, and literacy. We argue that empowering adolescents as storytellers, rather than storylisteners, is an effective method to increase engagement with science.
The board of directors and company performance in emerging markets
Authors: Otman Khaled
Published: October 2019

This study investigates the board directors and their effect on company performance in emerging markets, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Our findings robustly confirm that the UAE has adopted a board structure similar to that of Western countries. The results indicate the positive effects of leadership structure, board composition and audit committee independence on company performance. This is the first study to demonstrate that board structure is an important determinant in reducing agency problems and leading to improved company performance in unique ownership structures in emerging markets, such as exist in the UAE. It is also the first study to explore the board structure-firm performance relationship using a system-generalised method of moment’s estimator for the UAE market. The regulatory and policy implications suggested in this research are significant, not only for the UAE but also for application to other emerging markets. In this context, clear insights are provided for policymakers, regulators, managers, investors, and researchers involved in emerging markets.
Phenotypic correlation of traits of production and reproduction of Simmental cows in different regions of Serbia
Authors: Pantelic Vlada , Niksic Dragan , Maksimovic Nevena , Ostojic-Andric Dusica , Lazarevic Marina , Micic Nenad , Marinkovic Milos
Published: October 2019

The main goal of this research was to examine, using modern methods, the
variability of phenotypic correlations of production performances and
reproductive properties of Simmental cows reared on the farms of individual
agricultural producers, in different breeding areas of the Republic of
Serbia. The study of phenotypic correlations of milk performance and
fertility properties in different regions of Serbia was carried out on a
total of 3.056 primi parous Simmental heifers under control, with lactations
completed within one year. The examined animals were reared on different
individual farms, and mainly in very different conditions of housing and
nutrition, depending on the breeding area. The study of phenotypic
correlations included the following milk performance traits: milk yield,
milk fat content, milk fat yield, yield of 4% corrected milk; and fertility
properties: age at first calving and service period. The results of the
study among other things indicate that although the phenotypic correlations
between the fertility and milk performance properties show different degrees
of variation, they should be taken into account in the final assessment of
the breeding value of the animal, so that the breeding selection programs
are more comprehensively designes.
Microbial contamination of poultry litter during fattening period
Authors: Milanov Dubravka , Knezevic Slobodan , Vidakovic Suzana , Pajic Marko , Zivkov-Balos Milica , Aleksic Nevenka
Published: October 2019

The results of the research into the microbiological contamination of litter
used by broiler chickens are presented. Litter samples were taken prior to
the introduction of chicks (day 0) and in 7-day intervals until the end of
the fattening period. The total numbers of aerobic mesophilic
microorganisms, yeasts, moulds and Clostridium perfringens spores, and the
presence of bacteria of the Salmonella genus were determined. The total
microbial count in newly laid litter was 7 log10 CFU/g, which increased to 9
log10 CFU/g by the 4th week. However, at the end of the 5th week, it was at
the same level as in newly laid litter. C. perfringens spores, presumably
originating from chicks? faeces, were first detected on day 7. In the next 7
days their number increased, reaching 3-4 log10 CFU/g, and remained at
approximately same levels until the end of the research. The initial mould
contamination was 5-6 log10 CFU/g. However, from day 21 moulds were not
isolated, but only yeasts of the Saccharomyces genus. It is supposed that
these were deposited with chicks? faeces, due to their presence in complete
broiler feed. No bacteria of the Salmonella genus were ever isolated from
the litter. In conclusion, the total numbers of microorganisms in deep
litter reach their peak in approximately a month, which is followed by their
decrease. Deep litter is a favourable environment for probiotic yeast
cultures. Added to feed intended for broilers, they can positively influence
the microbial composition of litter, providing healthier environment to
fattening broilers.
Production of lactic acid by Enterococcus faecalis on waste glycerol from biodiesel production
Authors: Ciric Jovan , Jokovic Natasa , Ilic Slavica , Konstantinovic Sandra , Savic Dragisa , Veljkovic Vlada
Published: October 2019

Waste glycerol from biodiesel production is a valuable raw material that has been used to produce valuable microbial metabolites. In this work, the possibility of microbial utilization of waste glycerol obtained as a by-product in biodiesel production from sunflower and rapeseed oil by the lactic acid bacterium Enterococcus faecalis MK3-10A on a laboratory level was studied. For comparison, pure glycerol and glucose were used as carbon sources. The kinetics of the microbial biomass growth, the carbon source utilization, and the lactic acid production were monitored. The bacterium E. faecalis MK3-10A better grew in the media with glucose or pure glycerol as a carbon source, but the lactic acid production rate was the highest (14.6 mg/(ml/day)) in the medium with waste glycerol from the sunflower oil-based biodiesel production. Therefore, this waste glycerol might be a promising carbon source for lactic acidbacteria cultivation and lactic acid production.