bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Gianfranco Agosti: Nonno di Panopoli, Parafrasi del Vangelo di San Giovanni. Canto Quinto. Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e commento
Authors: Accorinti Domenico
Published: February 2015

Gianfranco Agosti: Nonno di Panopoli, Parafrasi del Vangelo di San Giovanni. Canto Quinto. Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e commento. Firenze: Università degli Studi di Firenze; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità ’Giorgio Pasquali‘ 2003. 560 S. (Studi e Testi. 22.) 40 €
Maria Plaza: The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire .
Authors: Schmitz Christine
Published: February 2015

Maria Plaza: The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire. Laughing and Lying. Oxford: Oxford UP 2006. 370 S. 55 £.
Statius, Silvae 5. Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Bruce Gibson.
Authors: Rühl Meike
Published: February 2015

Statius, Silvae 5. Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Bruce Gibson. Oxford: Oxford UP 2006. LII, 492 S. 1 Abb. (Oxford Classical Monographs.).
Annarena Ambrogi: Labra di età romana in marmi bianchi e colorati.
Authors: Østergaard Jan Stubbe
Published: February 2015

Annarena Ambrogi: Labra di età romana in marmi bianchi e colorati. Roma: ’L’Erma‘ di Bretschneider 2005. 629 S. zahlr. Abb. (Studia archaeologica. 136.) 330 €.
Marie-Hélène Congourdeau: L’embryon et son âme dans les sources grecques (VIe siècle av. J.-C. – Ve siècle apr. J.-C.).
Authors: Wilberding James
Published: February 2015

Marie-Hélène Congourdeau: L’embryon et son âme dans les sources grecques (VIe siècle av. J.-C. – Ve siècle apr. J.-C.). Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 2007. 355 S. (Collège de France – CNRS. Centre de Recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance. Monographies. 26.) 30 €.
Christoph Kugelmeier: Die innere Vergegenwärtigung des Bühnenspiels in Senecas Tragödien.
Authors: Berno Francesca Romana
Published: February 2015

Christoph Kugelmeier: Die innere Vergegenwärtigung des Bühnenspiels in Senecas Tragödien. München: Beck 2007. 301 S. (Zetemata. 129.) 64 €.
Danièle et Yves Roman: Aux miroirs de la Ville. Images et discours identitaires romains (IIIe s. avant J.-C. – IIIe s. après J.-C.)
Authors: Kolb Frank
Published: February 2015

Danièle et Yves Roman: Aux miroirs de la Ville. Images et discours identitaires romains (IIIe s. avant J.-C. – IIIe s. après J.-C.). Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus 2007. 442 S. 18 Abb. (Collection Latomus. 303.) 63 €.
Winfried Held: Gergakome. Ein ‘altehrwürdiges’ Heiligtum im kaiserzeitlichen Karien.
Authors: Radt Wolfgang
Published: February 2015

Winfried Held: Gergakome. Ein ‘altehrwürdiges’ Heiligtum im kaiserzeitlichen Karien. Tübingen: Wasmuth 2008. XI, 220 S. 250 Abb. 1 Beil. 4°. (Istanbuler Forschungen. 49.)
Adam Drozdek: In the beginning was the apeiron. Infinity in Greek philosophy
Authors: Marcinkowska-Rosól Maria
Published: February 2015

Adam Drozdek: In the beginning was the apeiron. Infinity in Greek philosophy. Stuttgart: Steiner 2008. 173 S. (Palingenesia. 94.) 40 €.
Sencer Şahin, Mustafa Adak: Stadiasmus Patarensis. Itinera Romana Provinciae Lyciae
Authors: Petzl Georg
Published: February 2015

Sencer Şahin, Mustafa Adak: Stadiasmus Patarensis. Itinera Romana Provinciae Lyciae. Ïstanbul: Ege Yayιnlarι 2007. XXXVIII, 332 S. zahlr. Abb. 3 Ktn. 2 Beil. 4°. (Monographien zu Gephyra. 1.)
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre: Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis
Authors: Knauß Florian S.
Published: February 2015

Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre: Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2003. XV, 325 S. 103 Abb. 4°. 65 £.
Dominique Kassab Tezgör: Tanagréennes d´Alexandrie. Figurines de terre cuite hellénistiques des nécropoles orientales. Musée gréco-romain d´Alexandrie
Authors: Fischer Jutta
Published: February 2015

Dominique Kassab Tezgör: Tanagréennes d´Alexandrie. Figurines de terre cuite hellénistiques des nécropoles orientales. Musée gréco-romain d´Alexandrie. Le Caire: Institut Français d`Archéologie Oriental 2007. IX, 495 S. 87 Taf. 2 Pläne. 4°. (Études Alexandrines. 13.)
Maijastina Kahlos: Forbearance and Compulsion. The Rhetoric of Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Late Antiquity
Authors: Knöbl Ranja
Published: February 2015

Maijastina Kahlos: Forbearance and Compulsion. The Rhetoric of Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Late Antiquity. London: Duckworth 2009. XII, 259 S.
Sarah Iles Johnston: Ancient Greek Divination
Authors: Smarczyk Bernhard
Published: February 2015

Sarah Iles Johnston: Ancient Greek Divination. Malden/Oxford/Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2008. XIII, 193 S. (Blackwell Ancient Religion.) 16,99 £.
Francesca Schironi: From Alexandria to Babylon. Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812)
Authors: Valente Stefano
Published: February 2015

Francesca Schironi: From Alexandria to Babylon. Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2009. X, 176 S. 13 Taf. (Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts. 4.).
Claus Reinholdt: Das Brunnenhaus der Arsinoë in Messene. Nutzarchitektur, Repräsentationsbaukunst und Hydrotechnologie im Rahmen hellenistisch-römischer Wasserversorgung
Authors: Dorl-Klingenschmid Claudia
Published: February 2015

Claus Reinholdt: Das Brunnenhaus der Arsinoë in Messene. Nutzarchitektur, Repräsentationsbaukunst und Hydrotechnologie im Rahmen hellenistisch-römischer Wasserversorgung. Wien: Phoibos 2009. X, 252 S. 146 Abb. 51 Taf. 12 Beil. 4°
Wolfgang Oberleitner: Das Partherdenkmal von Ephesos. Ein Siegesmonument für Lucius Verus und Marcus Aurelius
Authors: Töpfer Kai
Published: February 2015

Wolfgang Oberleitner: Das Partherdenkmal von Ephesos. Ein Siegesmonument für Lucius Verus und Marcus Aurelius. Unter Mitarbeit von Alice Landskron, Dominik Maschek, Harald Müller, Anna Pyszkowski-Wyzykowski, Sirri Seren, Hilke Thür. Textband. Tafelband. Wien: Kunsthistorisches Museum; Phoibos Verlag 2009. 472. 288 S. 682 Abb. 2 Beil. 4°. (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums. 11.A.B.).
Anna Maria Ioppolo: La testimonianza di Sesto Empirico sull’Accademia Scettica
Authors: Bett Richard
Published: February 2015

Anna Maria Ioppolo: La testimonianza di Sesto Empirico sull’Accademia Scettica. Napoli: Bibliopolis 2009. 273 S. (Elenchos.) 30 €.
Zum Wandel von Krieg und Kriegslegitimation in der Neuzeit
Authors: Langewiesche Dieter
Published: February 2015

On the Transformation of War and its Legitimation in Modern Times

The history of war in the twentieth century is characterised by two overriding developments. 1. The state's monopoly over war declined. 2. The separation between combatants and the civilian population was systematically undermined. Thus two important developments that had been under way since the seventeenth century were put into reverse. The article first discusses the typical war of the twentieth century: namely the asymmetrical war. Then the anthropological factors common to the situation of human beings at war are summarised. The main part of the article recounts how in Europe wars for the purpose of state-building have been acknowledged as legitimate ever since the Middle Ages. But around 1800 the idea of the nation as the embodiment of the principle of legitimacy reached new heights, signifying a major international turning-point in the history of the legitimation of war. From then on the concept of a people's war or a national war dominated political thinking, though wars in Europe during the nineteenth century would henceforth be managed according to the tradition of ‹limited› war – one of the important achievements of that century in thinking about questions of nationality.
Censure et circulation du livre en Italie au XVIIIe siècle
Authors: Braida Lodovica
Published: February 2015

Censorship and Book Circulation in Eighteenth-Century Italy

During the eighteenth century some Italian governments changed the regulations concerning censorship, and asserted the state's role in the control of the production and circulation of books. Paradoxically, the existence of different regulations for censorship in Italy revealed itself to be an instrument of corrosion of the control mechanisms by making the access to forbidden books less difficult than in countries in which there was a centralized control system. In the years comprised between the 1760s and the 1780s there had indeed been transformations similar to those of other European countries, pointing towards that «revolution in readership » which had increased the occasions for having access to books; multipling the number of readers, discovering a new public, which was to have great importance especially in the nineteenth century: women readers, which publishers addressed with fashion journals and almanacs. In some Italian cities the opportunities to read had increased in the eighteenth century: in public libraries, in coffee houses, in literary societies, in the cabinets de lecture books and newspapers could be browsed and read without having to buy them. The urban guidebooks and the récits de voyage of foreign travellers (as the Spanish Jesuit Juan Andrés, and as Jerôme de de Lalande, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) are important sources that provide informations about cultural transformations as the opening of libraries, book collections both privat and public, for the selected public and the opening of new reading occasions for a wider public.
«Keines unserer Leben ist verschwendet, wenn wir auf dem Schlachtfeld sterben.» Militärausstellungen und Erinnerungsfeste im Japan der frühen Shōwa-Zeit
Authors: Hedinger Daniel
Published: February 2015

«None of Our Lives are wasted, if We Die on the Field of Battle.» Military Exhibitions and Memory Celebrations in Early Shōwa Japan

Exhibitions and enshrining ceremonies at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo were the dominant form of festivals in early Shōwa-Japan (1926–1945). The changeover of the Empire to a dictatorship, which has to be characterized – despite all criticism concerning this term – as fascistic, becomes manifest in the development of the two festivals since the 1920s. They started to be dominated by the military in the 1930s as the appearance of national defence exhibitions and the increasing emotionality of the celebrations at the Yasukuni Shrine demonstrate. In the process of militarization of the 1930s the two festivals played a major role. The exhibitions were used for the educational preparation of the war; and the festivals for the dead soldiers at the Yasukuni gave their sacrifice a deeper sense. In the 1930s and ’40s a radical functional change of both festivals occurred that highlights the ritual hegemony of the military during the two decades.
Die Feste der Macht und die Macht der Feste Fest und Diktatur – zur Einleitung
Authors: Rolf Malte
Published: February 2015

Festivals of the Power and the Power of Festivals Festivals and Dictatorship – Introduction

In their own time dictatorships and festivals were often seen as intricately intertwined. Many observers later followed this line of interpretation. According to historians, the mass festivals in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and the Eastern European «people's democracies» encapsulate the mobilizing character of 20th century dictatorships. This article provides an overview of these approaches and sketches the areas of research most active today. It views celebrations both as displays representing the political regimes and as instruments used to forge the participants into new persons. On the one hand festivals communicated cultural norms, on the other they were meant to instill the regime's regulations via repetitive, ritualized performance. The article further focuses on the mechanisms of festival production, including the apparatus and historical actors involved. It shows that festivals never conformed entirely to the propagandists’ blueprints but rather were the result of cultural interaction, producing a hybrid festival culture. In conclusion the article touches on questions of cross-cultural comparison and the transfer of festival styles and know-how between different dictatorial regimes.
Agrarische Transition und industrielle Krise. Anti-Modernismus in Europa in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Authors: Mai Gunther
Published: February 2015

Agrarian Transition and Industrial Crisis. Antimodernism in Europe in the First Half of the 20th century

Agrarian transition is the phase when an agrarian society changes into an industrial one and both formations are in a state of social and especially cultural equilibrium. In Europe (and in the United States, Latin America, and Japan) transition was coeval with a dual crisis – on the one hand the worldwide agrarian crisis since the 1870s and on the other hand the «Great Depression» and global economic crisis. The «traditionalists» developed a ruralist ideology against de-agrarianization («agrarianism») while the «modernists» revised their belief in progress. Both ideological approaches converged in their search for paths to an «alternative modernity» that would combine (if necessary, by force) both principles.
Johann Sebastian Bach zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Konstruktion und Zurückweisung einer nationalen Identifikationsfigur
Authors: Hinrichsen Hans-Joachim
Published: February 2015

Johann Sebastian Bach between Germany and France: The Construction and Demarcation of a National Hero

In spite of a long lasting legend, Johann Sebastian Bach was never completely forgotten after his death. Nevertheless he was not publicly discovered as a composer of «great» music until the Berlin performance of the Matthäus-Passion in 1829. The reception of his music was shaped by the fact that his OEuvre did not include socalled universal works which dominated the musical life of the period (Symphonies, Operas). Like the instrumental works of Beethoven, Bach's great vocal compositions became in the German States a focal point of semi-religious and nationalistic musical reception. Emphasising Bach's «Germanness» in the public debates turned out to hinder his reception in various European countries. An assessment of Bach's music without anti-German prejudices was nearly impossible especially in Italy until the end of the 19th century. The reception of his music in France was characterised by the sophisticated construction of a French Catholic image of Bach to mark the differences to the exclusive German and Protestant constructions of Bach.
Das Europa der Nationalkulturen. Die Nationalisierung und Europäisierung der Oper im «langen» 19. Jahrhundert
Authors: Ther Philipp
Published: February 2015

The Europe of National Cultures. National and European Dimensions of Opera during the «long» 19th Century

During the 1830s and 1840s music was used by national movements in Central and Eastern Europe as a medium of nation-building. With the help of cultural associations and institutions this process shaped especially the musical practices, the repertoire and the reception of opera. «National» musical styles were canonised because of the international reception of particular pieces. This process is analysed here in a comparative perspective and within the conceptualisation of cultural transfers between Western, Central and Eastern Europe. In the course of the last third of the 19th Century an intensified exchange between national musical cultures converged in the repertoire and the reception of operas and thereby in the establishment of a common European cultural practice.
Rezeption und Einfluss der American Constitution in den deutschen Verfassungsdebatten, 1789 bis 1949
Authors: Fröschl Thomas
Published: February 2015

Perception and Impact of the American Constitution on German Constitutional Debates, 1789–1949

This article considers the impact of the American federal constitution of 1787 on German constitutional debates. Its prime chronological focus is on the nineteenth century, as this time period has so far received relatively little systematic scholarly attention. The article examines both the political rhetoric that emphasised – and often exaggerated – American influences and the practical impact these debates had on constitutions in German-speaking countries. The article highlights the extreme complexity of such developments, with very widely different perceptions of what ‹America› stood for, being used as a reference point in constitutional debates. The direct impact of American constitutional thinking on the structure and design of constitutions in German countries remained, however, very limited. It was only after the unconditional surrender of National Socialist Germany that a constitutional order emerged in the Federal Republic in 1949 that embodied significant elements of American (or more generally ‹Western›) constitutional thought, most importantly in the provisions for ‹basic rights› and a Federal Constitutional Court in the West German Basic Law.
Constitutions Éphémères, Structures Sociales Durables? A Propos D'un Paradoxe Français
Authors: Jones H.S.
Published: February 2015

Constitutional Transience and Social Stability? Perspectives on the French Paradox

This article argues – against a widespread interpretation – that constitutions have been more than merely superstructural phenomena in modern French history. First, if constitutional texts have often been short-lived, the same is not true of the constitution more broadly understood. Secondly, even the texts reveal much more continuity than we usually imagine. Thirdly, constitutional texts have often stood at the heart of political conflict because of the historical baggage attached to them. In the nineteenth century it was, typically, liberals who tried to shift the political agenda away from an obsession with constitutional texts: it was a culture of civility that France lacked, they argued.
Das russische Verfassungsexperiment 1906–1918: Zum Verhältnis von Tradition und Modernität
Authors: Neutatz Dietmar
Published: February 2015

The Russian Constitutional Experiment, 1906–1918: On the Relationship between Tradition and Modernity

The revolution of 1905 turned the virtually unlimited autocracy of the Russian Empire into a constitutional monarchy. However, this experiment survived the fall of the Tsar in 1917 by only a few months and was obliged to give way to the Bolshevik dictatorship. This article investigates how far the failure of constitutionalism in Russia was due to the special circumstances surrounding the crisis of 1917, or whether it is better explained by the ill-conceived application of a notion imported from Western Europe that could not be grafted onto indigenous Russian traditions. The article discusses the competing concepts of Western-style parliamentarianism on the one hand and a ‹Russian› ideal of direct popular representation on the other (i.e. the ‹Zemskij Sobor› dating from the era before Peter the Great). It investigates the constraints within which the State Duma worked, and the social and political practice of Russian constitutionalism between 1906 and 1918, in order to analyse how deeply rooted constitutional concepts were in late Tsarist society. Special attention is paid to the following themes: the capacity of the Duma to address practical problems; the changing character of political culture; new forms of the public sphere and the growth of civil society; the relationship between parliament and the peasantry; the activities of both supporters of a parliamentary order and their right- and left-wing opponents; and finally the importance of ‹Russian›-style counter-proposals to ‹Western›-style constitutionalism during the crisis years of 1917/18.
Europa, Sklavenhandel und koloniale Zwangsarbeit – einführende Bemerkungen
Authors: Eckert Andreas
Published: February 2015

Europe, Slave Trade, and Forced Labour: Introductory Remarks

This article provides a general introduction to the theme of this issue and attempts to place the following papers better in context within the relevant historiography. It focuses on the slave trade and its abolition, the close connection between antislavery ideologies and measurements and the colonial expansion of Europe especially in Africa, the slow death of slavery and forced labour in colonial Africa, and finally on the current debates about the relevance of the slave trade and colonial forced labour for the history of Europe.
«Travail Libre ou Travali Forc»? – Die «Arbeiterfrage» im belgischen Kongo 1908-1930
Authors: Seibert Julia
Published: February 2015

«Travail Libre ou Travail Forcé»? – The Question of Labourers in Belgian Congo (1908–1930)

In 1908, the Congo Free State was transformed into a Belgian colony. This meant, in practice, the dissolution of King Leopold's regime of force, which was characterized by ruthless and brutal exploitation of the African workforce. The expansion of the colonial economy suffered from the shortage of voluntary African workers, so that after World War I the colonial state resorted to using forced labour. Specific local social and economic structures further hindered the integration of the African population into a European model of wage labour. Bad labour and living conditions, as well as low wages, represented other obstacles. The integration of the Congo into the world economy depended on the ability of the state and private companies to mobilize workers. These institutions managed this only through violence and force.
«Eine Millionen Algerier lernen im 20. Jahrhundert zu leben». Umsiedlungslager und Zwangsmodernisierung im Algerienkrieg 1954–1962
Authors: Feichtinger Moritz , Malinowski Stephan
Published: February 2015

«One million Algerians learn to live in the 20th century» Resettlement camps and forced modernization in the Algerian War 1954–1962

One of the most astonishing characteristics of the Algerian War of Independence against France is the combination between military struggle against insurrection and civil reform projects. One special aspect of this war allows us to identify the fusion of these two elements: French resettlement policy. The French army violently forced up to three million people to leave their villages. Afterwards, they were reassembled in especially built camps, called «camps de regroupement». At the beginning, these measures were purely military. But they were quickly developed and became a massive rural development program. The promise of a fast global modernization of all areas of life should transform the inmates of the camp into loyal supporters of the project of a French Algeria. The «camps de regroupement» can be described as laboratories of modernization in which apparently contradictory elements were combined in a singular and unique way. Among these elements: development aid, an extremely rigid population control and different apparently totalitarian measures of social engineering.
Industrialization vs. Agrarian Reform: West German Modernization Policies in India in the 1950s and 1960s
Authors: Unger Corinna R.
Published: February 2015

Industrialization or Agrarian Reform? West German Modernization Policies in India in the 1950s and 1960s

This article takes into view different West German positions on Third World modernization and studies how they translated into development programmes in India in the 1950s and 1960s. Two projects serve as case studies: The steel mill Rourkela embodies the industrialization approach favoured by representatives of West German business and economic interests, most of whom were convinced of the need for and the advantages of, industrialization as the most effective path toward overall modernization. The other case study is the agricultural co-operative project Mandi, which, in part, mirrored the anti-modern (and, in some instances, anti- American) critique of the Western modernization model and focused on gradual improvement instead of radical change. This approach rested on the belief in the need for a stable Third World order able to withstand communism and, linked to that, the fear of ‹overpopulation›. India's development and modernization policies and programmes are integrated into the discussion of the two case studies. In conclusion, the article considers the role of the Cold War and decolonization in modernization policies as well as the contrast between modernization theory and practice.
«The Revolution Has Been Televised…». Television as Historical Agent in the Romanian Revolution
Authors: Mustata Dana
Published: February 2015

«The Revolution Has Been Televised…». Television as Historical Agent in the Romanian Revolution

The article analyses the role of television in the 1989 Romanian revolution. Based on documents of the Romanian secret services, audiovisual material and interviews with former television employees, it sheds new light onto the revolutionary events. The participation of television in the overthrow of Ceaus˛escu should be understood as the climax of a decade-long process of power struggles between audiences, Ceaus˛escu and the Securitate. The televising of the revolution was a central act in transferring elements from the Communist regime into the new era and representing them as the new democratic leadership. The article argues that television is a localised, naturalised and figurative agent. In order to understand the role of television in historical events, these different instances of televisual agency need to be addressed.
Association between serum vitamin D levels and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis and plaque burden/composition in young adult population
Authors: Satilmis Seckin , Celik Omer , Biyik Ismail , Ozturk Derya , Celik Kubra , Akın Fatih , Ayca Burak , Yalcin Burce , Dagdelen Sinan
Published: February 2015

Evidence suggests that low 25-OH vitamin D 25(OH)D concentrations may increase the risk of several cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes mellitus, obesity, myocardial infarction, heart failure and cardiovascular mortality. Recent studies suggested a possible relationship between vitamin D deficiency and increased carotid intima-media wall thickness and vascular calcification. We hypothesized that low 25(OH)D may be associated with coronary atherosclerosis and coronary plaque burden and composition, and investigated the relationship between serum vitamin D levels and coronary atherosclerosis, plaque burden or structure, in young adult patients by using dual-source 128x2 slice coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA). We included 98 patients with coronary atherosclerosis and 110, age and gender matched, subjects with normal findings on CCTA examinations. Patients with subclinical atherosclerosis had significantly higher serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, hs-CRP, uric acid, HbA1c and creatinine levels and lower serum 25(OH)D levels in comparison with controls. There was no significant correlation between 25(OH)D and plaque morphology. There was also a positive relationship between 25(OH)D and plaque burden of coronary atherosclerosis. In multivariate analysis, coronary atherosclerosis was associated high hs-CRP (adjusted OR: 2.832), uric acid (adjusted OR: 3.671) and low 25(OH)D (adjusted OR: 0.689). Low levels of 25(OH)D were associated with coronary atherosclerosis and plaque burden, but there was no significant correlation between 25(OH)D and plaque morphology.
Effect of seed priming with kinetin on germination indices and proline activity of Silybum marianum L. under drought stress conditions
Authors: Zavariyan Abolfazl Masoumi , Rad Mojtaba Yousefi , Asghari Mohsen
Published: February 2015

For investigation of the effect of seed priming by kinetin on germination indices and proline activity of Silybum marianum  L. under drought stress, factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with two factor includingdifferent concentrations of kinetin (0, 10 and 20 ppm) and different levels of drought stress including 0, -6 and -12 barat three replicates was carried out. According to the results, drought stress and kinetin individualy cause to decreases of germination percentage, germination rate, seedling length, seed vigor and seedling dry weight but uses of kinetin in drought stress condition improvment of them. Also, drought stress cause to increases of proline content and catalase activity. Therefore, seed priming with 10 ppm kinetin at drought stress was improved the germination indices of Silybum marianum L.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v9i1.11919 International Journal of Life Sciences Vol.9(1) 2015 6-11
Effect of seed priming by pyridoxine on germination and biochemical indices in Silybum marianum L. under drought stress
Authors: Zavariyan Abolfazl Masoumi , Rad Mojtaba Yousefi , Asghari Mohsen
Published: February 2015

In order to investigation of the effect of seed priming by pyridoxine on germination and biochemical indices of Silybum marianum L. under drought stress, factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with two factor includingdifferent concentrations of pyridoxine including 0, 0.02% and 0.04% and different levels of drought stress including 0, -6 and -12 bar at three replicates was performed. The results indicated that drought stress affected measured indices at P<0.01 and pyridoxine significantly affected germination percentage and rate, seed vigor, mean time germination, seedling length and dry weight at P<0.01 and peroxidase activity at P<0.05. Interaction between the drought stress and pyridoxine was significantly (P<0.05) affected of germination rate and seed vigor. The results showed that with increasing drought stress, germination indices were decreased and biochemical indices were increased. Seed priming with pyridoxine cause to improvement of germination indices and decreases biochemical indices. According to the results, seed priming with 0.04% pyridoxine cause to improvement of germination indices at drought stress conditions.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v9i1.11921 International Journal of Life Sciences Vol.9(1) 2015 17-22
Effect of seed priming by potassium nitrate on germination and biochemical indices in Silybum marianum L. under salinity stress
Authors: Zavariyan Abolfazl Masoumi , Rad Mojtaba Yousefi , Asghari Mohsen
Published: February 2015

For investigation of the effect of seed priming by potassium nitrate on germination and biochemical indices of Silybum marianum L. under salinity stress, factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with two factor including different concentrations of potassium nitrate (0, 0.25 and 0.35 mM) and  calcium chloride (0, 150 and 250 mM) at three replicates was carried out. Results showed that salinity stress decrease the germination indices and amount of seedling protein and also increase the peroxidase activity. With using of 0.25 mM potassium nitrate germination indices were improved and peroxidase activity was reduced. Also, results showed that seed priming with 0.35 mM was not suitable. Therefore, seed priming with 0.25 mM potassium nitrate was improved seedling growth and germination indices under salinity stress.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v9i1.11922 International Journal of Life Sciences Vol.9(1) 2015 23-28
Genetic Variability Assay of Different Strains of Catla catla
Authors: Ali Md. Rayhan , Rahi Md. Lifat , Islam Shikder Saiful , Shah Md. Saifuddin , Shams Foyez Ibn
Published: February 2015

Genetic variation is a key component for improving a stock through selective breeding programs. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) marker was used to assay genetic variation in two river populations (Halda and Padma) as well as in three hatchery populations of the commercially important Indian major carp, C. catla. Five specimens of each population were collected from each location. Genomic DNA was isolated from the muscle tissue. Five primers were used and in total, 117 bands were obtained of which 51.57% bands were polymorphic. Overall proportions of polymorphism obtained from different populations were found to be 75%, 62%, 50%, 37.5% and 33.33% for BoluharBaor hatchery, Halda and Padma River, Kapotakkha hatchery, and Ma-Fatema hatchery respectively. The highest percentage of intrapopulation genetic similarity was found to be 61.81% in case of Baluhar Baor hatchery and the lowest was found to be 25.63% in case of Kapathakha hatchery. The highest percentage of interpopulation genetic similarity was found to be 85.21% between Kapathakha and Ma-Fatema hatchery population; and the lowest was found to be 46.00% in case of Kapathakha and BaluharBaor hatchery population.  The dendrogram on Average Unweighted Pair Group Method of Arithmatic Mean (UPGMA) showed two clusters, the Halda River and BaluharBaor hatchery population forming one cluster and the other populations the second cluster. Genetic variation obtained in different population of C.catla in the present study is highly satisfactory and indicates that the species can be very easily employed for exploitation for genetic improvement through selection.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/10.3126/ijls.v9i1.11924 International Journal of Life Sciences Vol.9(1) 2015 37-42
Modeling Regional Transportation Demand in China and the Impacts of a National Carbon Policy
Authors: Kishimoto Paul Natsuo , Zhang Da , Zhang Xiliang , Karplus Valerie J.
Published: February 2015

China's climate and energy policy commitments are stated at the national level, but they may have uneven impacts on the country's regionally heterogeneous transport system. This work quantifies the expected provincial-level response of freight transport to an economywide policy targeting reductions in carbon emissions intensity. The analysis applies the China Regional Energy Model, a multisector, static, global, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model representing 30 individual provinces with physical accounts of energy and greenhouse gas emissions. The structure of road and nonroad freight (and passenger) sectors, the preparation of transport activity data, and a policy similar to announced goals that specify a 17% reduction in the carbon dioxide emissions intensity of gross domestic product are described. In the national aggregate and in most provinces, the road freight sector is most affected by the emissions intensity cap. The road freight sector contributes 24%–-versus 18% from nonroad freight and 51% from nontransport sectors–-of a 5.1% reduction in national refined oil demand. Significant regional differences are found in the impacts of a national-level, economywide policy. Steep reductions in freight activity occur in some of the poorest provinces, partly because they offer low-cost abatement opportunities, and the resulting adjustments across the economy affect transport demand. This research contributes a new tool capable of capturing the transport impact of sector- and province-specific policies in detail and providing a rigorous foundation for future dynamic CGE analyses. Potential impacts of energy and climate policy on regional transport systems are important inputs to policy and infrastructure investment decisions at the central and local levels.
Daily Travel and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Passenger Transport
Authors: Buehler Ralph
Published: February 2015

Federal, state, and local governments in the United States and Germany have the goal of reducing petroleum use and associated greenhouse gas emissions from passenger ground transport. This paper compares trends of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from passenger transport in Germany and the United States since 1990. Germany reduced CO2 emissions from passenger transport at a rate faster than that of the United States–-even with controls applied for population growth, economic activity, and travel demand. Furthermore, for all indicators, CO2 emissions from transport were much higher in the United States than in Germany: 11.7 times greater for total CO2 emissions, 3.1 times greater per capita, 2.1 times greater per passenger kilometer, and 2.4 times greater per unit of gross domestic product. Also compared are U.S. and German policies that can help decrease CO2 emissions from passenger transport through improvements in technology, including fuel economy and CO2 tailpipe emission standards, vehicle registration fees and taxes, incentive programs for the purchase of fuel-efficient cars, and biofuel standards. Finally, policies in Germany and the United States that shape the relative attractiveness of driving, public transport, walking, and cycling are highlighted. The analysis concludes with policy lessons for the two countries.
Suitability of Maize-legume intercrops with optimum row ratio in mid hills of eastern Himalaya, India
Authors: Choudhary VK
Published: February 2015

Maize (Zea mays L.) being a widely space crop were tried with different combinations of legumes cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp), frenchbean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and blackgram (Vigna mungo L.) as intercrops at different planting geometry to find out their suitability during 2009, 2010 and 2011 at eastern Himalayan, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Three experiments were carried out in sequence to identify suitable planting geometry to accommodate intercrops, screening best legume crops and subsequently best performed row ratio of maize and legume crops were intercropped in third experiment with 1:1, 1:2 and 1:5 row proportions. Sole maize gave the maximum grain yield with 4571.1 kg ha-1, whereas, stover yield was highest with maize-cowpea intercrop at 1:2 row ratios (8013.4 kg ha-1) and 57.1 kg ha-1 day-1 production efficiency followed by frenchbean and least with blackgram. Competition indices like land equivalent ratio (LER) was highest with 1:2 row ratio of maize-frenchbean (1.66), land equivalent coefficient (0.67). But, highest area time equivalent ratio (ATER) noticed with 1:2 row ratio of maizeblackgram (1.47). Relative crowding coefficient (K) and competition ratio were noticed higher with 1:2 row ratio of maize-cowpea, whereas, cowpea combinations has better crowding coefficient and blackgram combinations registered better competitiveness. Monetary advantage index (MAI) was 6433.2 with 1:2 row ratio of maize-blackgram followed by maize-cowpea and lowest with maize-frenchbean with the trend of 1:2>1:5>1:1 row ratios. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sja.v12i2.21916 SAARC J. Agri., 12(2): 52-62 (2014)
Production potential and Economics of hybird Rice under system of Rice intensification and its manipulation
Authors: Verma AK , Pandey N , Shrivastava GK
Published: February 2015

The study was conducted at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Chhattisgarh (21o16´ N and 81o36´ E) during wet season of 2007-08 and 2008-09 in silty clay loam soil to assess the effects of system of rice intensification (SRI) and its manipulation involving two age of seedlings (10 and 14 days), three manuring (organic alone, inorganic alone, 50% nutrients through organic + 50% nutrients through inorganic), two weeding practices (Mechanical weeding through conoweeder and chemical weeding), two water management practices (application of 2 cm water at hairline crack development stage and cyclic submergence of 5 cm water at 3 days after disappearance of ponded water) and one local recommended practices on hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.). The results revealed manipulated SRI (10 days aged seedlings+100% nutrients through inorganic or 50% through organic + 50% through inorganic + irrigation as per SRI) gave 13.52% higher grain yield and 16.80% higher net income over recommended practices of hybrid rice. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sja.v12i2.21919 SAARC J. Agri., 12(2): 71-78 (2014)
Effect of Potassium on Boro-fallow-t. Aman cropping pattern in old Brahmaputra floodplain soil of Bangladesh
Authors: Islam MR , Afroz H , Pervin R , Ansari F , Rahman MH
Published: February 2015

Field experiment was conducted at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) farm, Mymensingh during 2010-11 to 2011-12 to investigate the effect of different levels of K on Boro-Fallow-T. Aman cropping pattern in Old Brahmaputra Floodplain Soil of Bangladesh. There were four treatments for the first crop (Boro rice): T1 (Control), T2 (50% NPKS), T3 (75%NPKS) and T4 (100% NPKS). The 100% NPKS rates were recommended on the basis of soil test values. T4 treated plot of each block was further split into seven sub-plots to represent seven treatments (T4.1 to T4.7) for the second crop of T. Aman in the sequence. The results reveal that the grain yield of boro rice varied from 2.33 to 6.00 t ha-1 of which the highest yield was recorded with the application of 100% NPKS (T4) and the lowest with T1 (control). The effect of boro rice straw removal or incorporation was clearly visible on the following crop, T. Aman rice. The highest grain and straw yields of T. Aman were obtained with T4.4 treatment, where 75% straw was removed and 25% straw incorporated with soil. The lowest yield was obtained with the control crop without fertilizer or straw residues. The NPKS uptake by T. Aman rice and benefit : cost ratio supported the dominant performances of T4.2 (100% NPS + 50% K + 25% boro rice straw removed). The results suggested that it is possible to reduce K mining from soils as well as to reduce the rate of K fertilizer application, substituting by incorporation of rice straw residues in soil system. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sja.v12i2.21924 SAARC J. Agri., 12(2): 123-133 (2014)
Combining ability of different yield related characters in Rice
Authors: Hasan MJ , Kulsum MU , Rahman MM
Published: February 2015

Combining ability for yield and yield contributing character of rice was studied using five lines IR79156A, BRRI7A, BRRI33A, BRRI21A and IR75608A and four testers BRRI20R, BRRI31R, BRRI26R and BAU521R to produce 20 F1 in line × tester fashion. The variances due to SCA were larger than the variance due to GCA for all the characters which indicate the prevalence of non-additive gene action. BRRI7A/BRRI31R cross combination was the best specific combiner for grain yield/plant. The predominance of non-additive genetic components was observed for all the traits which indicated that the improvement of the characters with greater non-additive genetic component could be contemplated for the exploitation of heterosis. Estimates of GCA effects showed that maternal line BRRI33A and paternal tester BRRI31R was an excellent general combiner for improving yield contributing traits. The cross IR79156A/BRRI20R was found as good specific combiner for most of the yield contributing traits viz., panicle length, panicle weight, number of spikelet/panicle, spikelet fertility, 1000 grain weight, harvest index and grain yield/plant. The cross between good general combiners did not always produce the best specific crosses. Moreover, the predominance of the production of the best specific crosses from high × low and low × low combiners indicated the influence of non-additive and over dominant gene actions on the yield and yield contributing traits. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sja.v12i2.21926 SAARC J. Agri., 12(2): 143-153 (2014)
Phenotypic and Morphometric characterization of indigenous chickens at Jhenaigati upazila of Sherpur district in Bangladesh
Authors: Tabassum F , Hoque MA , Islam F , Ritchil CH , Faruque MO , Bhuiyan AKFH
Published: February 2015

The study was conducted at Rangtia, Shalchura and Dudhnoi villages under Jhenigati upazilla of Sherpur district in Bangladesh for phenotypic and morphometric characterization of indigenous chickens. Among three types of indigenous chickens, Non-descript Deshi were prominent (86%), compared to Cap Headed (10%) and Naked Neck (4%) and the overall mean body weight, back length, body circumference and pelvis width were 961.50 ± 17.79 gm, 152.70 ± 1.29 mm, 219.20 ± 1.89 mm and 25.57 ± .62 mm respectively. The prominent colors of plumage, shank, skin, earlobe and eggshell were multiple (24%), white (52%), white (89%), white & red (47%) and white (48%), respectively while 99% chickens had single comb. The highest correlation (0.70) was observed between body weight & body circumference followed by (0.36) between body weight & back length and (0.27) between body weight & pelvis width while eggshell color was significantly correlated with body weight (-0.48), body circumference (-0.41) and pelvis width (-0.26). However, comb type was significantly (p<0.05) affected body weight and pelvis width. But bird type had significant (p<0.05) effect on pelvis width only. Present study reveals that variations in some phenotypic characteristics have significant influence on the pelvis width and body weight while a little change in some morphometric traits may affect body weight of indigenous chickens in Bangladesh which may serve as important indicator trait(s) for future research on the conservation and development of indigenous chicken ecotypes in- situ. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sja.v12i2.21927 SAARC J. Agri., 12(2): 154-169 (2014)
25 années de QCA ( Qualitative Comparative Analysis ) : quel chemin parcouru ?
Authors: Rihoux Benoît , Marx Axel , Álamos-Concha Priscilla
Published: February 2015

Cet article vise à retracer le développement de l’analyse QCA ( Qualitative Comparative Analysis ), initiée par Charles Ragin il y a vingt-cinq ans. Nous examinons d’abord en quoi le contexte dans lequel ceci s’est produit a façonné QCA comme approche de recherche, et présentons les caractéristiques initiales de cette approche. Ensuite, nous présentons les principaux débats suscités par QCA et les réponses apportées, en particulier en termes d’innovations techniques. Enfin, nous examinons les différentes manières dont QCA, en tant qu’ensemble de techniques ( crisp-set QCA, multivalue QCA et fuzzy-set QCA ) a été exploité jusqu’à présent, en termes disciplinaires et en termes d’usages plus descriptifs ou explicatifs. Nous concluons par quelques réflexions sur les promesses, mais aussi les périls d’un mainstreaming de QCA alors que cette dernière est mise à profit de manière de plus en plus diversifiée.
Analyse sémiotique et politique comparée. Note de recherche
Authors: Delfosse Pascale , Frognier André-Paul
Published: February 2015

Cette note de recherche a pour but de dégager des formes diverses de coopération entre la sémiotique et la politique comparée. Elle identifie trois types (au moins) de complémentarité, qui seront examinés après un court rappel des fondements de l’analyse sémiotique, en référence à l’École de Paris, marquée par l’apport substantiel d’A. J. Greimas. Les deux premières complémentarités renvoient au type de processus explicatif. Les auteurs donnent tout d’abord pour exemple des études comparées qui procèdent par induction, le sens d’une production humaine se dévoilant grâce à des procédures qui remontent à partir du figuratif jusqu’au niveau du sens le plus profond. Ensuite, les auteurs renvoient à des études qui se fondent sur des modèles sémiotiques utilisés dans un cadre hypothetico-déductif pour expliquer des processus concrets. Les exemples politologiques auxquels il est fait référence dans ces deux parcours explicatifs consistent dans des analyses de textes, d’imageries politiques (comparaison d’affiches électorales), et des discours d’une campagne électorale. Enfin, la note renvoie à une troisième approche où l’analyse sémiotique intervient dans la critique et l’amélioration des questionnaires d’enquête sociologique pour s’assurer de leur validité et de la fiabilité. Le but est ici de faire correspondre le mieux possible le sens que les chercheurs donnent à leurs questions et celui que les répondants leur prêtent. Un sujet particulièrement important dans les grandes enquêtes comparatives internationales.
D'une convention à une autre : quand la rationalité « performe » le réel
Authors: Brisset Nicolas
Published: February 2015

Cet article utilise la notion de convention afin de préciser une condition nécessaire à la performation du monde social. On considère ici que l’influence des théories économiques sur le monde social peut être analysée en termes de traduction de conventions scientifiques en conventions sociales. Une telle perspective nous amène à souligner un élément essentiel d’une telle traduction : pour performer le monde social, une notion théorique doit dans un premier temps prendre une posture empirique. On étudie plus particulièrement l’exemple emblématique de la rationalité économique comme concept central d’un nouveau type de politique publique : l’économie des nudges . Classification J.E.L. : B41, C91, Z1.