bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
How bizarre!
Authors: Trotzke Andreas
Published: November 2015

This paper demonstrates that syntax-external factors at the level of pragmatics are responsible for certain constraints on word order variation in phrasal idioms. I propose a new constraint in this context by referring to the fact that idioms can be distinguished by the criterion of having either a plausible or a ‘bizarre’ literal reading. Since this constraint on topicalization of subparts of idiomatic strings cannot be accounted for in syntactic terms, this paper contributes to an understanding of how to approach marked word order options from a pragmatic perspective in general.
Let’s go look at usage
Authors: Flach Susanne
Published: November 2015

The English go-VERB construction as in I go get the paper every morning is said to be subject to the BARE STEM CONDITION, which states that neither verb can bear inflection (thus resulting in the ungrammaticality of *she went see/saw a doctor). Studies that address the constraint attribute it to underlying formal parameters, without paying attention to functional properties and/or usage events. The fact that we find occasional violations of the constraint in large amounts of data raises the question of the systematicity of this data and how to account for it. Arguing from a usage-based perspective, this paper assumes that the entrenched schema of go-VERB is hortatory (e.g., commands, advice, invitations), which make inflectional variants increasingly unlikely for semanticfunctional reasons. But where exceptions do occur, they are assumed to occur in contexts predicted by the construction’s semantics. These assumptions are borne out by data from a large corpus of web data. Potential counterexamples are tested for systematicity vs. random noise in (web) data using collostructional analysis and simple correlation measurements. The central arguments are thus (i) that the BARE STEM CONDITION is better conceived of as the result of go- VERB’s constructional semantics, and (ii) that rare exceptions can be framed in terms of likelihood of occurrence and distance from the licensing schema.
Decision Support System, Based on the Paradigm of the Petri Nets, for the Design and Operation of a Dairy Plant
Authors: Latorre-Biel J. I. , Jiménez-Macías E. , Blanco-Fernández J. , Martínez-Cámara E. , Sáenz-Díez J. C. , Pérez-Parte M.
Published: November 2015

Despite its worldwide presence, the characteristics of dairy industry may vary largely from one country to another and also between the different regions of a country. Farmers can form co-operatives or operate individually, while processors may transform very different amounts of milk into a diversity of dairy products. Moreover, the variety of dairy products that can be found in the market, the short-term expiry date of some of them, as well as the strong competition for a saturated market, lead to a complex environment, where the design and operation of the dairy factories require decision support tools for helping the decision makers. In this paper, it is considered the development of a decision support system for improving the survival chances of dairy plants in a competitive worldwide market. This tool is based in the implementation of an optimization process, where the performance evaluation of the feasible decisions is performed by means of simulation. The objective of the decision making covers the complete life cycle of the dairy plant from its design to its operation.
Die Entwicklung der italienischen Kriminalpolitik zwischen Bürgerrechten und Ausnahmegesetzgebung. Von den 60er Jahren bis zum Mafia-Notstand
Authors: Insolera Gaetano
Published: November 2015

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Kriminalpolitik Italiens in den drei Jahrzehnten von 1960 bis 1990. Das Thema wird in der Weise behandelt, dass die Transformationen untersucht werden, welche die verschiedenen Faktoren - Politik und Gesellschaft, Rechtsprechung, strafrechtliches Schrifttum - erfahren haben. Am Ende behandelt der Verfasser einige ausgewählte Themen, welche als „Lesarten“ der in den betrachteten drei Jahrzehnten stattgefundenen Veränderungen ausgewählt worden sind: die strafrechtliche Ausnahmegesetzgebung und der strafrechtliche „Garantismus“ mit besonderem Bezug auf Ideologie und Praxis der politischen Linken.
1.3 How hard is it to create values?
Authors: Dries Manuel
Published: November 2015

This article examines what Nietzsche might mean by the proposition that “values are created”. It further raises the issue whether there is a “hard problem of value” analogous to the “hard problem” in the philosophy of mind. Nietzsche could be seen as a philosopher who tried to shift people’s views about values away from any realist-objectivist intuitions. He was optimistic that these views could be eliminated, and that eventually most or all would come to conceive of values as perspectival and created. It is shown first that Nietzsche rejects value realism in favour of a compelling anti realist conception of value, which he takes to be superior due to one specific property of values, their “aliveness”. If there is a “hard problem of value”, however, i.e. that for the realist any created value simply does not count as a value, it is unclear if Nietzsche’s conception is constructive.
1.6 Nietzsche’s Highest Value (Affirmation of Life) and its Limits
Authors: Porter James I.
Published: November 2015

The highest value in Nietzsche’s scale of values is without exception life itself. This value asserts itself whenever a subject makes an affirmation (a “Bejahung”), which is the most fundamental expression of willing and of life. To will - to create and affirm value - is simply to affirm life. The most immediate source of this logic is to be found in Schopenhauer, but its conceptual roots go back to the rationalist philosophy of Leibniz and Wolff and then later to Kant, in the form of the determinative predicates and judgments of objects qua real. In this ontology, reality cannot be negated, just as in Nietzsche’s ontology even the negations of the will have an affirmative value that can be neither eliminated nor denied. The consequences of this position create dilemmas for Nietzsche’s subsidiary value-systems: for if no act of will can be seen as a diminution of life, what does it mean to condemn any given volition - any positing of value - by any subject whatsoever? The dilemmas prove to be the source of Nietzsche’s richest and most telling reflections on human agency.
2.4 Nietzsche über Werte. Zum kulturphilosophischen Aspekt der Rezeption
Authors: Reschke Renate
Published: November 2015

Die Haupttendenz der Beiträge, Nietzsches Auffassung über die Werte (Entstehung, Inhalte, Wandel) im Kontext von Kulturgeschichte und moderner Kultur zu diskutieren, ist sehr produktiv. Die philosophischen Begriff e müssen aber historisch und inhaltlich konkreter bestimmt werden, um die Differenz zwischen Nietzsche und seinen modernen Interpretationen in den aktuellen Diskursen deutlicher zu machen.
2.6 Why Nietzsche Opposes the Creation of Values
Authors: Porter James
Published: November 2015

Values are not ex nihilo creations for Nietzsche; they are signs of a human, all-too-human perspectival limitation. The inability to live without values is not a value that is made; it is a condition under which life is lived. The very idea that values exist is imposed by our natural constitution and habits, not something we have any agency to control.
2.9 Defending the Creation of Values
Authors: Clark Maudemarie
Published: November 2015

Nietzsche claims that the philosopher’s task is to create values. Authors 1 [Henning Ottmann] and 2 [Martin Saar] interpret this in the most literal sense: philosophers are to confer value on things. 1.1 criticizes Nietzsche on that basis; 1.2 suggests that we ignore his pose as creator or prophet of new values and focus on more reasonable points he makes about values. No one defends value creation (VC) in the exact sense in which 1.1 interprets it, but other authors take the obvious objections to it as reasons to seek a different account of what Nietzsche means by it. I do this explicitly in 1.9, and others do so implicitly in their contributions. Here I focus on the criticisms of Nietzsche offered by 1.1 and how they might be countered by 1.3 [Manuel Dries]’s interpretation of what Nietzsche means by VC. I explain why 1.3’s interpretation is not sufficient, but how it might be supplemented by 1.9. I also use my account to answer 1.6 [James Porter]’s challenge concerning the limits of the affirmation of life.
3.2 Angriff als Verteidigung. Nietzsches Revolutionen
Authors: Saar Martin
Published: November 2015

Nietzsches Haltung zu den Werten ist kritisch, d. h. weder rein destruktiv noch rein affirmativ, sondern ,dekonstruktiv‘. Eine solche Haltung ist nicht widersprüchlich, aber unbequem, und sie hat existenzielle Folgen für das Subjekt, das sie - mit Nietzsches Hilfe - einnimmt und sich damit gegen die bisher geltenden Werte und Normen stellt und in diesem Sinne andere, ,neue‘ Werte braucht oder sogar schon lebt.
„Du solltest das Perspektivische in jeder Werthschätzung begreifen lernen“. Zum Problem des Perspektivischen in der Vorrede zu Menschliches, Allzumenschliches I
Authors: Dellinger Jakob
Published: November 2015

Der Artikel demonstriert, dass es philologisch problematisch ist, die berühmte Passage über ‚das Perspektivische‘ aus MA I, Vorrede 6, isoliert zu zitieren, wie als ob es sich um eine direkte Anweisung an den Leser handelte. Vielmehr sollten der Kontext der gesamten Vorrede sowie insbesondere deren narrative Struktur, Erzählverhalten und Figurengestaltung berücksichtigt werden. Die vorgeschlagene Lektüre zeigt dabei, dass die Aussagen über das Perspektivische im Rahmen eines Komplexes ineinander verschränkter Perspektivierungen ihrerseits perspektiviert werden. Diese selbstbezügliche Struktur ermöglicht nicht nur eine Interpretation der Passage als poeseologische Reflexion, sondern lässt die gesamte Vorrede als eine ‚Schule des Verdachts‘ erscheinen, die das Problem des Perspektivischen performativ vorführt.
Die Spuren von Nietzsches Schrei ben. Arbeit mit der KGW IX
Authors: Pichler Axel
Published: November 2015

Bei Nietzsches Nachlass handelt es sich um handschriftliche Aufzeichnungen, die komplexe Schreibprozesse dokumentieren. Die Spezifika dieser Schreibprozesse sind für ihre philosophische Deutung von hoher Relevanz. Der Aufsatz zeichnet sie anhand von zwei Aufzeichnungskomplexen nach. Das Notat N VII 1.141 f. belegt, dass Nietzsches Schreib-Denk-Praxis sich durch einen Prozess der performativen Durchdringung der eigenen Ideen charakterisiert. Diese Ideen können jedoch nicht ohne weiteres auf die veröffentlichten Schriften projiziert werden. Das Notat W I 4.34 f., eine Vorstufe von JGB 44, demonstriert, dass Nietzsches nachgelassene Aufzeichnungen eine andere Reflexionsform realisieren als die veröffentlichten Schriften: Als Handschriften besitzen sie eine topologisch-semantische Dimension, die wesentlich ihren philosophischen Gehalt bestimmt. Beide Aufzeichnungen dokumentieren einen Schreib-Denk-Prozess, der sich durch seine Offenheit zur Weiterverarbeitung charakterisiert. Aufgrund dieser Spezifika bedürfen Nietzsches nachgelassene Aufzeichnungen einer anderen Hermeneutik als die veröffentlichten Schriften. Eine solche erlaubt es, Nietzsches philosophische Entscheidungsprozesse in ihrer Genese nachzuvollziehen, was ein vertieft es Verständnis seines Philosophierens ermöglicht.
Friedrich Nietzsche and Jakob Wassermann: Brothers in Spirit?
Authors: Haberich Max
Published: November 2015

Of Jewish origin, Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) has been labelled a nationalist and reactionary author, even a precursor of fascism. The opposite is the case. Wassermann and Nietzsche have three crucial ideas in common: First, both thinkers off er a thoroughly positive assessment of ‘the Orient’. Second, both believed that the European Jews had the potential to overcome rigid, outdated moral structures and establish a more humane society. Nietzsche held that the Jews managed to preserve the classical heritage of Ancient Greece more authentically than Christian cultures. Finally, Wassermann conceived of the ‘Orientale’, a charismatic leader figure of Jewish origin, - heavily influenced by Nietzsche’s ‘Übermensch’ - who would overcome anti-Semitism, and eventually reconcile the German and Jewish cultures. Both figures are essentially aesthetic answers to very real social and cultural problems. When it comes to the dilemma of German-speaking Jews, it appears that Wassermann and Nietzsche not only had a general outlook, but also certain philosophical aspects in common.
Lebenskompetenzförderung wirkt, und wie?!
Authors: Pawils Silke , Wlodarcyk Olga , Metzner Franka
Published: November 2015

Lebenskompetenzprogramme zielen darauf ab, gesundheitsrelevante Lebensweisen zu verbessern sowie das Auftreten von körperlichen und psychischen Erkrankungen zu verhindern. Hierfür werden in den Programmen allgemeine Lebenskompetenzen gefördert sowie problemspezifische Fertigkeiten vermittelt. Die Entwicklung und Evaluation von Programmen ist insbesondere für Kinder und Jugendliche vorangekommen, sollte jedoch um weitere Themenfelder für Erwachsene und die Berücksichtigung von Nebenwirkungen ergänzt werden.
Zeig mir meine Grenze!
Authors: Jasmund Christina
Published: November 2015

Neben Geborgenheit und Fürsorge brauchen kleine Kinder ihre Bezugspersonen als Modelle für den Umgang mit den Dingen und Personen ihrer Lebenswelt. Ihre Rückmeldungen geben Kindern Sicherheit für ihr Verhalten. Klare Grenzen und Regeln bieten Orientierung und Kontrolle, auf deren Basis das Kind Selbstwirksamkeit und Entspannung finden kann. Das sich entwickelnde frühkindliche Autonomiestreben kollidiert dabei mit den externen Grenzsetzungen und führt aufgrund der noch fehlenden Emotionsregulation zu Frustration – eine schwierige aber notwendige frühkindliche Entwicklungsphase.
Das Selbstmanagement-Programm INSEA „Gesund und aktiv leben“
Authors: Seidel Gabriele , Haack Marius , Kreinhacke Maren , Dierks Marie-Luise
Published: November 2015

Die Gesundheitskompetenz von chronisch Erkrankten kann nachweislich durch die Teilnahme der Betroffenen an evidenz-basierten Selbstmanagementprogrammen gefördert werden. Bislang werden in Deutschland entsprechende Programme nur punktuell angeboten. Die Initiative für Selbstmanagement und aktives Leben INSEA hat das Ziel, das an der Stanford University entwickelte Programm CDSMP, in Deutschland INSEA „Gesund und aktiv leben“ genannt, über eine Nationale Koordinierungsstelle und verschiedene Standorte bzw. Organisationen in Deutschland zu implementieren und die Wirkungen zu evaluieren.
Renteneintritt – vom ‚kritischen Lebensereignis‘ zur neuen Lebensphase mit Potenzial
Authors: Mutwill Anna , Krauth Christian
Published: November 2015

Sowohl in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als auch in der Wissenschaft hat sich das Bild vom Renteneintritt als zwangsläufig eine Lebenskrise einläutender Einschnitt gewandelt. Derweil ist das Zusammenwirken der individuellen Determinanten einer erfolgreichen Adaptation an den Ruhestand nicht hinreichend erforscht. Der Renteneintritt stellt einen Prozess mit der Möglichkeit dar, bisher erworbene Lebenskompetenz zur Bewältigung zu nutzen und sie zum Zwecke persönlichen Wachstums weiter zu stärken.
Comparison in the extraction properties of Pu(IV) in piperidinium and pyrrolidinium nitrate anchored anion exchange resins
Authors: Selvan B. Robert , Suneesh A. S. , Venkatesan K. A. , Antony M. P. , Vasudeva Rao P. R.
Published: November 2015

Piperidinium nitrate (Pip − NO3) and pyrrolidinium nitrate (Pyr − NO3) functional groups were anchored on
a poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) matrix and evaluated the resultant anion exchange resin for the extraction of plutonium from nitric acid
medium. The distribution coefficient (K
d, mL/g) of Pu(IV) in these resins increased with the concentration of
nitric acid, reaching a maximum K
d at 7 M nitric acid, followed by decrease. The extraction of Pu(IV) increased
with the duration of equilibration followed by the establishment of equilibrium, occurred within four hours of equilibration. The
kinetic data were fitted with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order rate equations. The apparent plutonium exchange capacity was
determined to be ∼256 mg/g for Pip − NO3 resin and 285 mg/g for Pyr − NO3 resin at
7 M nitric acid. The radiolytic degradation of Pip − NO3 and Pyr − NO3 in presence of nitric acid
(7 M) was studied upto a dose of 200 KGy and the results are reported in this paper.
Überredung zum Glauben
Authors: Niehues-Pröbsting Heinrich
Published: November 2015

True to its semantic origin, the term ›pistis‹ indicates, in ancient Greek, a work of the ›peitho‹. Accordingly Aristotle’s Rhetoric explores the famous trinity of persuasion - ›logos‹, ›ethos‹, and ›pathos‹ - under the heading of ›pistis‹. As the Rhetoric is a study of man as much as a believer as in need of belief, it is only fair to ask what can be gathered from this work and from an investigation of the art of persuasion in general when it comes to Christian theology of faith. All the more so, because Christian thinking was not only shaped by ancient philosophy proper but also to a high degree by the rhetoric tradition; for the majority of the founding fathers of Christian theology were well versed in the subject.Via the topic of ›persuasion‹ versus ›force‹ I am tracing the influence of the rhetoric tradition right from the first theological thinkers of Christianity through to the Regensburg speech of pope Benedict XVI
Religio
Authors: Haverkamp Anselm
Published: November 2015

Since Cicero (or, presumably, Varro) and, more recently, Benveniste and Agamben, the etymology of religio gave rise to speculations on the genealogy of theologies. The alternative of belief systems vs. binding forces offers insight into latent ambiguities barely managed in theological uses of rhetoric and misunderstood by secularization theories. The rhetorical format of religio in liturgy and cult - not to be confused with the rhetoric of religion - presupposes and maintains a precarious historicity of religions: of histories included or occluded, embedded or erased in religious beliefs.
Versifikationen
Authors: Soosten Joachim von
Published: November 2015

The Essay offers in prismatic perspektives the plurality and possible variations of using rhetoric figures in theology (Anselm von Canterbury, Dante) and theological reasoning about the status of rhetoric (»New Rhetoric«: Luther and Hamann).Why is the connection between theology and rhetoric so close and compact (Derrida and Apokalypse of Johannes)? It matters of the pecularity the obstinacy and obstacles of faith, truth and belief (pistis). To communicate belief means to communicate an uncommunicable: the secret of God. Faith, thruth and belief needs a space of resonance in an own way of expectation between desire, reasoning, recolletion and memoration. Rhetoric assists, more: it creates bemixt between faith as belief as a relief from the Other Outside - the desire, the reasoning and the suffer of Gods own reason in the traces, spots und scenes of human language: as a occasional chance in an open space of expectation. May be: rhetoric as »Super-Cali-Fragilistic-Expi-Ali-Docoius« (a untranslatable magic exorcism and experience in exorcism again) creates a lobby or subterraneous urbanity of desire of humanity as Gods own Desire.
›Moderne Religion‹ als Antwort auf die ›rhetorische Situation‹ des neuzeitlichen Christentums
Authors: Buntfuß Markus
Published: November 2015

The author argues, that the analysis of the »rhetoric situation« by Hans Blumenberg corresponds to the situation of modern christianity in many ways. From this, the author concludes that the theological responses to the problems of the modern situation of Christianity must be rhetorical analyzes. Therefore he interpreted F. D. E. Schleiermachers Reden über die Religion (1799) as a form of rhetorical and literary foundation of religion. Moreover, the author tries to show by the example of classic texts of modern theology, that modernization and rhetorization of religion and Christianity are closely related.
Das Wort vom Kreuz im Deutungsmachtkonflikt
Authors: Stoellger Philipp
Published: November 2015

Starting from the concept of ›Deutungsmacht‹ (interpretational power) the origin of christian theology in the rhetoric of Paul is analyzed. The power of words against the words of power is distinguished to show, how ›power‹ (potentia) works: as the power of showing, saying and monstration. The pauline ›word of the cross‹ is a paradigm for such interpretational power, figuring and transfiguring Christ as the Crucified. The word of the cross is the origin of christian theology as rhetoric - but always with the pretention to be autorized by God himself. The problems of autorization (apostolicity) seems to be a shift from the power of words to the words of power: a history of autorization, in which the ›historic Paul‹ becomes the ›canonical Paul‹, the ›imaginary Paul‹ and at last the ›pauline dispositive‹ of the church.Who is speaking when Paul speaks?
Literarische Kulturpolitik bei Lorenzo de’ Medici
Authors: Huss Bernhard
Published: November 2015

This article interprets Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Comento de’ miei sonetti as a tool serving a subtle strategy of politico-cultural self-fashioning. The Comento displays a great variety of divergent philosophical positions, which has created enormous exegetical problems to interpreters over the centuries. Lorenzo’s strategy aims, on the one hand, at boosting the status of his own lyrical production by means of a philosophical auto-exegesis according to the model of Dante’s Vita nova and Convivio, and, on the other hand, at demonstrating the Magnifico’s competence as far as the skillful handling of philosophical theorems is concerned. In doing so, Lorenzo evokes the platonistic topos of the philosopher-king, which clearly implies a claim to power, and simultaneously avoids raising this claim too riskily. This cautious procedure is analogous to modes of Medicean propagandistic self-affirmation in the fields of the visual arts and of architecture.
La propiedad y la lengua en la emergencia de los estados hispanoamericanos. Notas sobre Andrés Bello
Authors: Ennis Juan Antonio
Published: November 2015

The following paper attempts to offer an initial sketch of a research issue which centers on the different ways in which the development of specialized forms of language knowledge in the context of the emergence of nation-state structures in Latin America’s 19th century contributes to outline efficient apparatuses which are capable of determining political and epistemological forms of the object they describe, i. e. language. Concern over property and use, so as over the forms of legitimate possession of language, manifests itself in the remarkable similarity that their tropes, figures and expressions show in relation to those appearing in the texts devoted to order and regulate the state. As shall be argued here, this similarity goes beyond mere coincidence.

Andrés Bello’s can be seen as the paradigmatic case of the white Spanish-American Creole scholar playing a crucial role in both matters of language and law (he is the author of the two major works in Spanish for each branch, his Grammar of 1847 and the Chilean Civil Code of 1855), in relation to both tradition and literary history. Therefore, this paper is devoted to the analysis of these elements in a broad range of texts across Bello’s works, preceded by some general reflections on language and property and a contextualization concerning language-ideological debates on Spanish as a conflictive inheritance in the former Spanish colonies.
Booker T. and W. E. B.: A Mini-Sequence About the ‘American Dilemma’ for the Advanced EFL-Classroom
Authors: Freese Peter
Published: November 2015

Booker T. Washington’s controversial Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) and W.E.B. Du Bois’s scathing critique of it in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) represent two basic strategies in the fight for Black equality, which Dudley Randall later summarized and ironically contrasted in his ballad “Booker T. and W.E.B.” (1969). These three short and linguistically accessible texts form a promising mini-sequence for the advanced EFL-classroom, which cannot only acquaint the learners with major documents of African-American history, but will also make them realize that every individual text is embedded in an intertextual context.
Effect of Chromium and Cobalt Addition on Structural, Optical and Magnetic Properties of NiO Nanoparticles
Authors: Ponnusamy Pothapalayam Mahali , Agilan Santhanam , Muthukumarasamy Natarajan , Velauthapillai Dhayalan
Published: November 2015

Nanocrystalline nickel oxide (NiO), chromium and cobalt doped
NiO nanoparticles have been prepared successfully by chemical
precipitation method. NiO, Cr and Co-doped
NiO nanoparticles have been characterised using various
analytical techniques such as X-ray diffraction, FESEM, HRTEM, UV
absorption and M-H curves. The average grain size of NiO,
Cr and Co-doped NiO nanoparticles are
10.33 nm, 9.54 nm and 8.70 nm
respectively. The UV absorbance study shows a strong absorption edge
at 314.96 nm, 308.64 nm and 305.37 nm
respectively. The band gap values of NiO, Cr and
Co-doped NiO nanoparticles are 3.936 eV,
4.017 eV and 4.060 eV. The incorporation of
chromium and cobalt into NiO nanoparticles have strongly
influenced the magnetic behaviour and the material got converted from
super paramagnetic to ferromagnetic material.
FOXO factors and breast cancer: outfoxing endocrine resistance
Authors: Bullock M
Published: November 2015

The majority of metastatic breast cancers cannot be cured and present a major public health problem worldwide. Approximately 70% of breast cancers express the estrogen receptor, and endocrine-based therapies have significantly improved patient outcomes. However, the development of endocrine resistance is extremely common. Understanding the molecular pathways that regulate the hormone sensitivity of breast cancer cells is important to improving the efficacy of endocrine therapy. It is becoming clearer that the PI3K–AKT–forkhead box O (FOXO) signaling axis is a key player in the hormone-independent growth of many breast cancers. Constitutive PI3K–AKT pathway activation, a driver of breast cancer growth, causes down-regulation of FOXO tumor suppressor functions. This review will summarize what is currently known about the role of FOXOs in endocrine-resistance mechanisms. It will also suggest potential therapeutic strategies for the restoration of normal FOXO transcriptional activity.
Ferns and lycophytes from Jaú, São Paulo, Brazil
Authors: Mazziero Frederico Fregolente Faracco , Nonato Fabiana Regina
Published: November 2015

This work presented the inventory of ferns and lycophytes of Jaú, São Paulo state. Sixty-eight species of ferns and one of lycophyte were recorded, distributed in 16 families and 32 genera. The richest families were Pteridaceae and Thelypteridaceae with 15 species each, Polypodiaceae (7spp.), Blechnaceae and Dryopteridaceae (5 spp. each). The most common guild of life form was terrestrial herbs with 57 species, followed by epiphytes (6 spp.), arborescent, aquatic and lithophytes (2 spp. each) and hemiepiphytes and scandents with one species each. The analysis of the geographical distribution showed that 46% of the species (32 spp.) occur in the Neotropics, 20 species occurs in Southern America, eight are endemic of Brazil, five pantropical and four are exotic. This study can further collaborate in the protection and preservation of the few remnants which represent probably the last areas where some species of these groups of plants occurring in the municipality.
Squamate reptiles from Mauá Hydroelectric Power Plant, state of Paraná, southern Brazil
Authors: Alves de Souza Filho Gilberto , Stender de Oliveira Fernanda
Published: November 2015

The reptile fauna of some localities in Paraná is still poorly known. Most surveys were conducted in the central-north, central-south, and eastern regions of the state. Herein, we present a list of squamate reptiles from the Mauá Hydroelectric Power Plant along the Tibagi River, in the central-east region of Paraná. Samplings occurred from March 2010 to April 2015. We recorded 34 species: 24 snakes, eight lizards, and two amphisbaenians. Our work adds new knowledge about the reptilian fauna of the central-east region of Paraná.
Influence of thickness of a vertical core on the slope stability of earth and rockfill dams
Authors: Khanna Rajesh , Datta Manoj , Ramana Gunturi Venkata
Published: November 2015

An analytical study was undertaken to identify the zone within which the thickness of a vertical core has no influence on the stability of upstream and downstream slopes of earth and rockfill dams. Stability analysis was carried out for a 180 m high earth and rockfill dam on strong foundation. Dam sections having different core thicknesses were analysed, to identify the critical thickness beyond which the factor of safety of upstream and downstream slopes exhibited reduction for end-of-construction, steady-state-seepage and rapid-drawdown conditions. The influence of four parameters on critical core thickness was identified: dam height, relative strength of core to shell, pore pressure ratio ru and drawdown level. The study shows that the core does not influence the stability of outer slopes, if it is positioned such that its thickness is within 50% of the height of the dam. On the other hand, if the thickness of the core is above 150% of dam height, it causes a reduction in the stability of the outer slopes. In the intermediate cases, the magnitude of the critical thickness of the core depends upon the relative strength of the core to shell and the pore water pressure parameter ru.
The various committees associated with reservoirs
Authors: Hughes Andy
Published: November 2015

There are a number of committees associated with reservoirs – not least the main committee of the British Dam Society (BDS), a place on which any member of the BDS can seek to be appointed by offering himself/herself for election. The main committee is supported by the Finances and General Purposes sub-committee (F&GP), which includes the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Technical Secretary, the Secretary and invited members. Other sub-committees cover events, communication and education as well as the BDS biennial conference. However, there are other committees which members may not know about, understand how they are formed or recognise what their role is. This paper should improve people's understanding.
The Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
Authors: Porter David N.
Published: November 2015

The 1975 Reservoir Act (1975) does not extend to Northern Ireland (NI) and there is currently no regulation of reservoir safety, which means that there is no statutory requirement for routine inspection or maintenance of the 151 reservoirs identified as holding 10 000 cubic metres or more of water. In early 2011, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) Rivers Agency, the flood risk and drainage authority for NI, established a Bill Team to take forward reservoir safety policy development. The draft legislation was approved by the NI Executive in November 2013 and was subsequently introduced in the NI Assembly in January 2014 as ‘The Reservoirs Bill’. The Bill has been scrutinised by the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee and this paper outlines their findings. The legislation cleared ‘Final stage’ of the legislative process on 24 June 2015. The Bill received Royal Assent on 24 July and is now known as the Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.
Technical visit: BDS conference 2014: report on conference tours
Authors: Hughes Andy , Butterworth Jonathan , Ayteo Matthew , Pepper Andrew , Walker Jon
Published: November 2015

This paper presents a single report that covers one preconference to Lagan Weir and four BDS conference tours: ‘The Mournes’ Silent Valley/Ben Crom reservoirs, ‘Upper Bann’, ‘North West’ Toome Sluice/Altnaheglish, and Carrickfergus’ Carrick System and Titanic's Pump house.
Real-time ultrasonic experiments and mechanical properties of soil and rock mixture during triaxial deformation
Authors: Wang Y. , Li X. , Zheng B. , Zhang B. , Wang J. B.
Published: November 2015

Non-linear mechanical behaviours of soil and rock mixture (SRM) are known to be the result of elasticity mismatch between soil matrix and rock blocks. Yet the rock–soil interactions, rock block interlocking phenomenon and their dependence under triaxial deformation are poorly understood. Here the authors investigate on the mechanical and ultrasonic properties of SRM by analysing the variation of ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) during triaxial compression. The results show that rock–soil interaction can be reflected by the variation of UPV during deformation. In this work, the change of UPV mainly depends on the axial stress level, and they present a consistent trend during deformation. With the increasing rock block percentage, both axial stress and UPV take on the fluctuation growth trend; the fluctuation is most obvious at the strain hardening stage. Internal friction angle increases with the increasing of rock block percentage, while the cohesion presents the opposite trend. The ultimate failure modes and crack coalescence behaviour were also evaluated, with the increasing rock blockpercentage, failure mode of SRM experiences such as shear failure and bulging failure.
Marieke Meeuwenoord, Het hele leven is hier een wereld op zichzelf. De geschiedenis van Kamp Vught; Eva Moraal, Als ik morgen niet op transport ga…. Kamp Westerbork in beleving en herinneringen
Authors: Moore Bob
Published: November 2015

Marieke Meeuwenoord, Het hele leven is hier een wereld op zichzelf. De geschiedenis van Kamp Vught (Dissertatie Universiteit van Amsterdam 2011; Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2014, 430 pp., isbn 978 90 234 8912 2); Eva Moraal, Als ik morgen niet op transport ga…. Kamp Westerbork in beleving en herinneringen (Dissertatie Universiteit van Amsterdam 2013; Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2014, 464 pp., isbn 978 90 234 8902 3).
Erik Somers, De oorlog in het museum. Herinnering en verbeelding
Authors: Hogervorst Susan
Published: November 2015

Erik Somers, De oorlog in het museum. Herinnering en verbeelding (Dissertatie Universiteit van Amsterdam 2014; Zwolle: WBooks, 2014, 478 pp., isbn 978 94 625 8005 3).
Marc Dierikx, Anthony Fokker. Een vervlogen leven
Authors: Van Loo Erwin
Published: November 2015

Marc Dierikx, Anthony Fokker. Een vervlogen leven (Amsterdam: Boom, 2014, 416 pp., isbn 978 90 8953 284 8).
André Bauwens en Hans Krabbendam (eds.), Scharnierend Gewest. 200 Jaar Zeeuws-Vlaanderen 1814-2014
Authors: Brusse Paul
Published: November 2015

André Bauwens en Hans Krabbendam (eds.), Scharnierend Gewest. 200 Jaar Zeeuws-Vlaanderen 1814-2014 (Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van West-Zeeuws-Vlaanderen 42; Aardenburg: Heemkundige Kring West-Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, 2014, 200 pp., issn 1381-9542).
Liesbeth Hoeven, Een boek om in te wonen. De verhaalcultuur na Auschwitz
Authors: Siertsema Bettine
Published: November 2015

Liesbeth Hoeven, Een boek om in te wonen. De verhaalcultuur na Auschwitz (Dissertatie Tilburg 2015; Hilversum: Verloren, 2015, 310 pp., isbn 978 90 8704 491 6).
THE INDEX EFFECT ON THE POLISH EQUITY MARKET BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE WIG20 INDEX
Authors: Miziołek Tomasz
Published: November 2015

The aim of this article is to examine, on the example of companies whose shares are to be included into the WIG20 index portfolio, whether the index effect occurs on the Polish stock market. Based on the study event conducted in 2010–2014 (first quarter) it was demonstrated that abnormal positive returns of new index participants occurred mainly before the announcement of the information about the new index composition. Cumulative abnormal returns were observed for 9 out of 11 analysed companies and the average cumulative abnormal return amounted to 3.38%. This means that on the Polish stock market, like on the foreign markets examined earlier, there is an anomaly in the form of the index effect.
IPO UNDERPRICING AND FINANCIAL ANALYSTS’ FORECAST ACCURACY IN POLAND
Authors: Pomykalski Przemysław , Domagalski Maciej
Published: November 2015

We review the theory and evidence on IPO activity and underpricing focusing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and confirm that many IPO phenomena in Poland are not stationary. Focusing on the behavioural reasons for underpricing, we investigate the accuracy of analysts’ valuations made prior to initial public offerings. Using a unique set of data, we find a disappointing lack of accuracy, not only in the results of valuations but also in the underlying forecasts of revenues.
INVESTOR EXPERTISE AND THE RATIONALITY OF DECISION MAKING
Authors: Rzeszutek Marcin , Czerwonka Monika , Walczak Magdalena
Published: November 2015

The aim of the paper is to is to explore the determinants of the rationality in decision making among polish stock market investors with different level of expertise with investing. Rationality in decision making was defined from the behavioral finance point of view and was operationalized as the frequency of some behavioral biases (see: the certainty effect) within decision making process. In particular, this study aims to investigate the degree of susceptibility the certainty effect among people of various levels of expertise with investing. As  there is still a lack of data studies in behavioral finance literature investigating the issues mentioned in this article (or existing results are ambiguous) we treated our study as an exploratory research.
SHADOW BANKING AS SEEN FROM A BEHAVIOURAL AND NEOCLASSICAL FINANCE PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Solarz Jan K.
Published: November 2015

Money is not merely a highly exchangeable commodity or the symbol of value established in exchange by utility-seeking individuals. Private money is a value sui generis that is established by reactions between issuers-shadow banking and users of money. These relations can be explained by the behavioral theory of finance and neoclassic theory of finance.Shadow banking and classical banking relations are characterized by the relations of both cooperation/trust and conflict/struggle, which give private money its value and produce the alternating phases of order and disorder.If the link between the public and the private sector is to be bypassed or severed, should this be seen as an exceptional emergency measure or the first step in radical structural change in the social relations for the production of money? The Neo-institutional answer on this question is that the shadow banking is now in the first phase of its institutionalization. Shadow banking is a  fundamental and systemic financial innovation. It encompasses all financial activity, except traditional banking, which requires a private or public guarantee and backing to operate.
WYKORZYSTANIE METOD SZACOWANIA PODSTAWY OPODATKOWANIA W PODATKACH DOCHODOWYCH W ŚWIETLE BADAŃ
Authors: Witczak Radosław
Published: November 2015

Jednym ze zjawisk obserwowanych w gospodarce są oszustwa podatkowe w podatkach dochodowych. Zjawisko to można ograniczać, między innymi, poprzez szacowanie podstawy opodatkowania. Przepisy wskazują różne metody szacowania podstawy opodatkowania. Pozwalają również na stosowanie metod innych niż wymienione w przepisach. Celem pracy jest ocena konieczności opracowania metod szacowania podstawy opodatkowania innych niż wymienionych w przepisach. Przeprowadzono analizę wykorzystania takich metod szacowania podstawy opodatkowania. Przedmiotem analizy były orzeczenia Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego wydane 2013 r. Organy podatkowe w prawie 80% przypadków zastosowały metody szacowania dochodu niewskazane w regulacjach. Niektóre metody szacowania dochodu (np. produkcyjna) określone w przepisach nie były w ogóle wykorzystywane przez organy podatkowe. Wynika to między innymi z braku porównywalnych danych. Zaproponowano zmiany dotyczące uszczegóło-wienia metod szacowania podstawy opodatkowania.
Etiología de la marchitez y pudrición basal de Jatropha curcas L. en Arriaga, Chiapas, México.
Authors: Salzar-Pinacho Wester Moises , Quiroga-Madrigal Ricardo René , Rosales-Esquinca María De los Ángeles , Garrido-Ramírez Eduardo Raymundo , Holguín-Meléndez Fransisco
Published: November 2015

En el municipio de Arriaga Chiapas, desde el año 2009 se ha observado la muerte de plantas de piñón (Jatropha curcas L.) de 1 y 2 años de edad, con síntomas de marchitez y pudrición basal del tallo. La incidencia registrada ha sido de hasta 85%; la virulencia del patógeno es muy alta ya que ocasiona la muerte de la planta en un lapso de 20 y 30 días. El presente trabajo se realizó en los años 2011 a 2013, para la determinación del agente causal presuntivo. Se realizaron en laboratorio aislamientos en medio B de King (BK) y cloruro de trifenil tetrazolio (TTC), posteriormente los aislamientos fueron sometidas a pruebas bioquímicas y pruebas de hipersensibilidad en tabaco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) cv. Xanthi. Los resultados obtenidos dieron positivos en cinco cepas a Ralstonia solanacearum (E. F. Smith 1896) Yabuuchi et al., 1993.
A comparative study on antioxidant activity and biochemical profile of exotic cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) clones
Authors: Amudhan M. Senthil , Apshara Elain
Published: November 2015

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Detection of chitinase activity and its characterization from Pseudomonas fluorescens of tea rhizosphere
Authors: Suganthi M. , Arvinth S. , Kumar R. Raj
Published: November 2015

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Use of Farmers’ Portal for dissemination of oil palm agro-management technology in India
Authors: Rani K.L. Mary , Prasad M.V. , Arulraj S. , Mounica B.
Published: November 2015

In India, mobile   phones are widely used for effective communication of various agro-management   information to farmers. Oil palm is cultivated in India since two decades   under irrigated conditions. The crop being new, farming technology has to be   disseminated to field extension staff, growers and developers to take quick   and apt decisions. Farmers’ Portal launched by Government of India (GOI) for   farming community is also being used to disseminate the oil palm farming   technology to its stakeholders through short message services (SMS). Contents   prepared on various aspects on oil palm cultivation were published as text   SMS (568) to the unique mobile numbers (19,301) of stakeholders of oil palm   in India. Messages were published in four languages viz., Hindi,   English, Telugu and Kannada to reach the stakeholders in vernacular   languages. Stakeholders contact the Institute, seeking more information on   various farming practices of oil palm viz., planting, protection,   general information, fertilizer application, irrigation, harvesting etc.   Consultation was provided to 304 farmers who sought information on fertilizer   management (34.2%) followed by crop protection aspects (28.3%) and general   information (24.0%) on oil palm cultivation. Feedback received from farmers   showed that the SMS contents were useful in the following order: irrigation   (15%), fertilizer application (14%), disease management (8%), weed control   (4%) and all messages were useful (59%). Majority of the farmers (68%)   perceived the messages were relevant to their crop growth/stages and 33 per   cent farmers were adopting the practices sent through SMS.
LATENTNA STRUKTURA SRPSKE ADAPTACIJE INDIKATORA STRATEGIJA PREVLADAVANJA
Authors: Žuljević Dragan , Jovanović Veljko , Gavrilov Jerković Vesna
Published: November 2015

Indikator strategija prevladavanja (Coping Strategy Indicator – CSI: Amirkhan, 1990) je empirijski deriviran instrument namenjen proceni stilova prevladavanja stresa, odnosno nivoa zastupljenosti tri velika stila prevladavanja – rešavanja problema, traženja socijalne podrške i izbegavanja u ponašanju osobe suočene sa stresorom. Uprkos popularnosti i širokoj primeni u različitim kulturnim kontekstima, nalazi o njegovoj strukturnoj invarijantnosti na različitim uzorcima nisu toliko brojni i ne poseduju potpunu saglasnost. Ova studija imala je za cilj proveru psihometrijskih karakteristika, prevashodno konstrukt validnosti Indikatora strategija prevladavanja na uzorku nekliničke populacije mladih u Srbiji. Istraživanje je organizovano sprovođenjem dve studije. U Studiji 1 na uzorku od 327 ispitanika proveravana je konstrukt validnost skale eksplorativnom faktorskom analizom. U Studiji 2, sprovedenoj na uzorku od 1249 studenata Univerziteta u Novom Sadu, dodatno je proveravana konstrukt validnost instrumenta konfirmativnom faktorskom analizom. Ni eksplorativna ni konfirmativna analiza nisu uspele u replikaciji originalne strukture skale. Rezultati eksplorativne faktorske analize sugerisali su visoku heterogenost subskale Izbegavanje. Konfirmativna faktorska analiza sugerisala je skraćenje subskala Rešavanje problema i Traženje socijalne podrške sa početnih jedanaest na šest stavki. Za subskalu Izbegavanje najadekvatnijim se pokazao bifaktorski model sa osam stavki okupljenih oko generalnog faktora izbegavajućih strategija prevladavanja, uz izdvajanje specifičnih faktora Distrakcije, Iluzioniranja i Izolacije. Možemo zaključiti da ovakva adaptacija Indikatora strategija prevladavanja predstavlja pouzdan i validan instrument za procenu strategija prevladavanja. Ipak, u budućim istraživanjima treba dodatno proveriti validnost ovog instrumenta i detaljnije analizirati specifičnosti ponašanja u okviru izbegavajućeg prevladavanja na različitim uzorcima i podnebljima.
USPEŠNOST REPRODUKCIJE U ZAVISNOSTI OD BROJA ČULA KOJIMA JE MOGUĆE ISKUSITI POJAM
Authors: Popović Stijačić Milica , Filipović Đurđević Dušica
Published: November 2015

Problem ovog istraživanja bio je ispitivanje uticaja broja čula kojima se može iskusiti neki pojam na uspešnost njegove reprodukcije. Pretpostavili smo da će se pojmovi koji se mogu iskusiti većim brojem čula tačnije reprodukovati u odnosu na one koji se mogu iskusiti manjim brojem čula, kao i u odnosu na apstraktne pojmove. U dva eksperimenta primenjeni su zadatak slobodne i zadatak navođene reprodukcije. U prvom eksperimentu dve grupe ispitanika učile su liste parova asocijativno povezanih reči. U svakoj listi varirani su stimulusi po konkretnosti, a pored toga, liste su se međusobno razlikovale po konkretnim rečima. Jedna lista sadržala je parove konkretnih pojmova koji se mogu iskusiti sa mnogo čula (čarapa‒patika), a druga lista sadržala je parove konkretnih pojmova koji se mogu iskusiti sa malo čula (plakat‒bilbord). U drugom eksperimentu ispitanici su učili jedinstvenu listu sa sve tri grupe parova reči. Pored standardnog efekta konkretnosti i vrste zadatka, kao i njihove interakcije, zabeležen je i efekat broja čula. U skladu sa očekivanjima, ispitanici su bili uspešniji u zadatku navođene reprodukcije, uspešnije su reprodukovali konkretne nego apstraktne reči i uspešnije su reprodukovali konkretne reči koje označavaju pojmove koji mogu da se iskuse pomoću većeg broja čulnih modaliteta nego one koji mogu da se iskuse manjim brojem čulnih modaliteta. Efekat broja čula zabeležen je u dugom eksperimentu kad su ispitanici učili sve tri grupe pojmova. Prema našim saznanjima, ovo predstavlja prvu empirijsku demonstraciju efekta broja čula kojima se može iskusiti neki pojam na uspešnost u reprodukciji. Pored toga, u prvom eksperimentu zabeležen je i očekivani izraženiji efekat konkretnosti u slučaju zadatka navođene reprodukcije. Ova interakcija izostala je u drugom eksperimentu, usled čega je potrebno nastaviti istraživanje ovog fenomena.