bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Invasion of Giant African Alien Land Snail Lissachatina fulica (FÃ©russac, 1821) in Sagar Island of India
Authors: Sajan S. K. , Tripathy Basudev , Sivakumar K. , Khatun Saheba
Published: September 2018

The extremely high reproductive capacity of Lissachatina fulica (FÃ©russac, 1821) caused serious effect on the local biodiversity and acts as a serious pest for agriculture, forestry and hamper the livelihood. The L. fulica from its route invasion from Kolkata has spread upto Himalayan region of India. Although, river Hooghly acts as a barrier for inland species, L. fulica now reported from the Sagar Island, most probably could be through sea transport or by human. Proper management and action plan for eradicate or control the population of L. fulica from Sagar Island is necessary for controlling further blowout of this invasive species.
Studies on Butterfly Diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) from Punjab Agricultural University Campus, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Authors: Pathania P. C. , Mangat H. K. , Sidhu A. K.
Published: September 2018

Thirty-three species referable to twenty-four genera belonging to five families, namely, Hesperiidae (1), Lycaenidae (6), Nymphalidae (14), Papilionidae (3) and Pieridae (9) from different localities of University campus were collected and identified. The details on their synonymy, material examined, and host distribution along with plants are provided. The photographs of the adults are also given.
Studies on the Intraspecific Variations in Rhyothemis variegata variegata (Linnaeus) (Odonata: Libellulidae)
Authors: Kirti Jagbir Singh , Kaur Simarjit , Singh Archana
Published: September 2018

Variations in the wing markings of male and female representatives of Rhyothemis variegata variegata (Linnaeus) collected from different parts of North-West India have been studied and illustrated in detail.
First Report of Drupella cornus RÃ¶ding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Muricidae), a Biological Indicator of Coral Reef Habitat of Lakshadweep Archipelago, India
Authors: Marimuthu N. , Tripathy Basudev
Published: September 2018

The present study infers that the impact of Drupella cornus RÃ¶ding, 1798, particularly on the coral, Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis and Solander, 1786) at Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep Archipelago, India. During the benthic reef monitoring in connection with the health of the reef ecosystem under Tourism Capacity Building project, it was identified as one of the biological indicators of the reef habitat. Further, the description and morphometric characters of the species were studied and presented in this paper.
Taxonomic And Ecological Studies On The Earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) Of West Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya
Authors: Kharkongor Ilona J.
Published: September 2018

The earthworms collected from the West Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya are dealt with in this paper. Besides the taxonomic identification of the earthworms in to 32 species fewer than 12 genera, 4 families and 2 orders, the species have also been assigned in to separate ecological groups. 6 species are epigeic or epi-anecic, 11 species are endogeic, 2 species are endoanecic, 5 species are endo-polyhumic and 1 species is endo-mesohumic. The list also includes 6 endemic species. Amynthas populosus is recorded for the first time from India, while 8 species are reported for the first time from Meghalaya. Out of the 32 species from the District, 31 species are recorded for the first time from West Khasi Hills district.
Notes on Specimens of the Glossy Mangrove Snake (Gerarda prevostiana) in the Collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata along with Past Records from India
Authors: Bag Probhat , Raha Sujoy , Deuti Kaushik
Published: September 2018

Based on six specimens of the Glossy Mangrove Snake (Gerarda prevostiana) present in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata the species is redescribed with scalation and morphometric measurements and compared with data of six other specimens lodged in other museums.
Diving beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae) of Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Authors: Ghosh Sujit Kumar
Published: September 2018

The present study deals with a small collection of diving beetles under the family Dytiscidae from different water bodies of Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh during 1982 to 1987. Till date, there is no published information available on this group from this national park even; the fauna of the state of Arunachal Pradesh has not been studied adequately. A total of 178 examples were studied for the first time which resulted in the identification of 10 species under 6 genera belonging to the 5 subfamilies of Dytiscidae. Out of ten species, 8 have been recorded for the first time from the state. The distribution of each species, recorded from the national park, in India is briefly summarized here.
First photographic evidence of Asian Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) from Neora valley National Park, Central Himalayas, India
Authors: Chatterjee Paromit , Mondal Krishnendu , Chandra Kailash , Tripathy Basudev
Published: September 2018

The Asiatic golden cat Catopuma temminckii also known as the Temminckâ€™s cat is a medium-sized wild cat distributed throughout South Asia. Asian Golden Cat is currently listed as Near Threatened in the IUCN Red List, and also listed in the Appendix I by CITES and Scheduled I in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 as the current population has been found to be declining due to habitat loss and poaching. It is a shy and elusive mammal, and very little information is available on its range, habitat and behaviour. The present study was conducted during the month of February and March 2017 as part of the Biodiversity assessment in the Indian Himalayan landscape through long-term monitoring protocol under the National Mission on Himalayan Studies, funded by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Govt. of India. During the fieldwork in Neora Valley National Park, camera traps were deployed to record presence of mammals and ground birds. An Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) was photo-captured in a single camera trap deployed in a trail in Thosum Beat of the Neora Valley National Park. The camera trap photograph confirmed the Asiatic Golden cat, presence in the National Park, and therefore, a long-term study in its probable habitats in South Asia may reveal its distribution, population status and ecology which will help towards long-term conservation of this species.
Species inventory of land and freshwater Molluscs from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states of India
Authors: Sajan S. K. , Tripathy Basudev , Biswas Tulika , Varadaraju
Published: September 2018

As per the Article 7(a) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Identifying components of biological diversity importance for its conservation and sustainable use is the first step for in-situ conservation of the species. On the other hand, there are more than 50% of the faunal diversity, yet to be explored and documented, particular in country like India. From the biogeographic point of view, India holds major biodiversity with atleast four hotspots, beside biodiversity rich areas. The state of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are among them, which is least explored, in spite of the rich vegetation covers and deltoic areas and invertebrate fauna in particular have never received adequate attention from this landscape. Thus, the inventory of land and freshwater molluscs was carried out in some parts of the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state of Deccan Peninsula India as part of the faunal inventory of Eastern Ghats by ZSI, during August to September 2016, primarily to explore the diversity and distribution of malacofauna in the region. This paper deals with a total of 25 species (13 species of land snails belonging to 2 Order 6 families and 12 of freshwater molluscs belonging to 5 order and 8 families) identified and along with the current threats evaluated and conservation measures suggested.
First report of Patridge Sundial Snail Architectonica perdix (Hinds, 1844) from Northern part of East Coast of India
Authors: Tudu Prasad Chandra , Balakrishnan S.
Published: September 2018

Architectonica perdix (Hinds, 1844); the Patridge sundial snail is reported first time from Digha coast of West Bengal state, which is also the first report from Northern part of East coast of India. This species is formerly reported from Tamil Nadu coast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Fish Fauna of Dâ€™ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary and adjacent areas, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Authors: Dam Debashree , Kumar Anil
Published: September 2018

Dâ€™Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the eastern Arunachal Pradesh and known as bio-diversity rich area. Two field surveys were undertaken from 03.10.2006 to 23.10.2006 and 11.02.09 to 18.02.09 to study the fish diversity of this area. Analysis of the data revealed the occurrence of 18 species of fishes belonging to 5 orders and 7 families, including an interesting species namely Barilius arunachalensis. The area need to be surveyed extensively for a comprehensive record of fish fauna.
TURBINE BLADE REVERSE WITH CATIA SOFTWARE USING BEZIER CURVE
Authors: Dyah Kusuma Dewi  , Harry Purnama
Published: September 2018

Metode reverse engineering salah satunya digunakan untuk menduplikasi komponen-komponen yang akan dikembangkan dan diproduksi di dalam negeri, sehingga dapat mengurangi nilai impor dan mengurangi waktu tunggu pemesanan komponen. Komponen yang sering mengalami kerusakan adalah sudu turbin, baik pada turbin uap maupun turbin gas. Proses reverse engineering dilakukan dengan mengambil foto dari komponen tersebut menggunakan peralatan photo scanning. Hasil dari proses photo scaning tersebut berupa file dengan ekstensi .stl yang merupakan kumpulan point cloud. Selama ini banyak kesulitan yang ditemui dalam pemrosesan dari point cloud menjadi file CAD, terutama untuk komponen yang memerlukan presisi yang tinggi. CATIA merupakan perangkat lunak CAD yang digunakan untuk mengolah file .stl ini menjadi file CAD. Dalam penelitian ini metode pendekatan kurva bezier dipilih untuk teknik pemodelan dari point cloud. Dari pendekatan tersebut deviasi yang ditimbulkan dari hasil permodelan CAD dan Â komponen aktual menjadi lebih kecil dan dapat ditingkatkan sesuai dengan toleransi yang diinginkan.
MANUFAKTUR DAN ANALISIS KEKUATAN CABUT Ð-ANGKUR TERTANAM PADA BETON
Authors: Puguh Triwinanto
Published: September 2018

Seiring dengan kegiatan jasa konstruksi khususnya pada gedung bertingkat, dimana pada pemasangan penutup dinding luar atau cladding menggunakan Ð-Angkur. Fungsi dari Ð-Angkur adalah sebagai pengikat antara penutup dinding luar gedung dengan tepi lantai beton.

Pada studi ini dilakukan perhitungan kekuatan tarik Ð-Angkur secara teoritis dan pengujian kekuatan tarik Ð-Angkur yang tertanam pada beton. Perhitungan secara teoritis menggunakan teori geser kerucut penuh dan pengujian cabut dengan 3 buah sampel. Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa perhitungan kekuatan cabut Ð-Angkur adalah sebesar 59,60 kN dan hasil pengujian cabut Ð-Angkur adalah sebesar 36,22 kN. Dengan hasil ini maka bisa disimpulkan bahwa Ð-Angkur mampu menahan beban ijin 2 x 4,5 kN dengan factor keamanan sebesar 4.
PENGARUH PERLAKUAN PANAS PADA SIFAT MEKANIK DAN DAYA HANTAR LISTRIK PADUAN AlZrCe SETELAH HOT ROLLING DAN DILANJUTKAN DENGAN COLD ROLLING
Authors: Suryadi Syafar  , Mirza Wibisono  , Amilatin Rohmah  , Hernadi Hernadi  , Kirman Kirman  , Iwan Setyadi a
Published: September 2018

Telah dilakukan percobaan hot rolling, dilanjutkan dengan cold rolling terhadap dua jenis sampel paduan AlZrCe dengan komposisi serium (Ce) 0,2% dan 0,3% serta komposisi Zr 0,13% yang sebelumnya diproduksi melalui proses gravity casting. Setelah proses rolling dilanjutkan dengan perlakuan panas terhadap sampel dengan temperatur pemanasan 150, 230 dan 350 Â°C yang ditahan selama 2 dan 4 jam. Untuk mengetahui perubahan sifat mekanis sampel telah dilakukan uji kekerasan dengan metode Vickers dan uji tarik. Untuk mengetahui perubahan struktur mikro dilakukan proses metaloggrafi sampel yang dilanjutkan dengan pengamatan menggunakan mikroskop optik (OM) dan scanning electron microscopy (SEM) mikroskop tarstem. Selanjutnya dilakukan pengukuran koduktivitas listrik menggunkan metode Edy current. Proses cold rolling setelah hot rolling meningkatkan nilai kekerasan dan kekuatan tarik sampel. Selanjutnya proses perlakuan panas meningkatkan nilai kekerasan kekuatan untuk temeperatur pemanasan sampai 230 Â°C selama 2 jam namun pada pemanasan pada temepratur yang sama selama 4 jam terjadi sedikit penurunan, namun cenderung meningkatkan konduktivitas listrik. Pemanasan pada temperatur yang lebih tinggi dengan waktu tahan yang lebih lama signifikan menurunkan nilai kekerasan dan kekuatan, namun signifikan menaikan konduktifitas listrik. Kadar Ce yang lebih tinggi signifikan meningkatkan kekuatan namun kunduktifitas listrik lebih rendah.
Optimasi Proses Epoksidasi Asam Oleat pada Scaling Up Sintesis Asam 9,10-Dihidroksi Stearat (DHSA) Bench Scale
Authors: Maisaroh Maisaroh  , Wiwik Handayani
Published: September 2018

Sintesis asam 9,10-dihidroksi stearat (DHSA) dari asam oleat terepoksidasi merupakan salah satu upaya yang akan meningkatkan penggunaan, diversifikasi dan nilai tambah minyak kelapa sawit. Scaling up proses epoksidasi asam oleat dari skala laboratorium ke bench scale (kapasitas 5 L) terjadi perubahan volume dan geometri dari peralatan yang akan mempengaruhi proses epoksidasi itu sendiri sehingga perlu dilakukan observasi terhadap parameter-parameter yang akan digunakan dalam basic dan engineering design. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah melakukan scaling up proses konsistensi dari skala laboratorium ke bench scale (kap. 5 L) epoksidasi asam oleat sebagai produk antara sintesis DHSA dalam pengembangan produk turunan kelapa sawit yang akan digunakan sebagai bahan kosmetik. Scaling Up epoksidasi asam oleat dengan asam performat yang dibentuk secara in situ dilakukan menggunakan reaktor 5 liter dengan perbandingan mol asam oleat : asam format : hidrogen peroksida 50% = 1 : 1,25 : 6. Produk epoksidasi ini akan dilanjutkan untuk dihidroksilasi pada sintesis DHSA sebagai bahan kosmetik.
Forty-Nine Years of Aramaic and Semitic Philology at Layard’s Home, Ca’ Cappello
Authors: Cussini Eleonora
Published: September 2018

Semitic Philology has been taught at Ca’ Foscari for almost fifty years in the unique setting of Ca’ Cappello, former Venetian residence of the archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. There, in a most inspiring environment for Semitists, from 1969 to present, seven specialists have taught Semitic languages and culture to generations of students. The broad scope of the subject represents the appeal of Semitic Philology to Ca’ Foscari students: to those interested in the history and languages of the Ancient Near East and to students who concentrate on modern Semitic languages and contemporary issues.
Chinese Studies at Ca’ Foscari
Lionello Lanciotti, Mario Sabattini and Their Legacy
Authors: De Giorgi Laura
Published: September 2018

The successful development of Chinese Studies at Ca’ Foscari was mainly due to the contribution of two eminent sinologists, Professor Lionello Lanciotti (1925-2015) and Professor Mario Sabattini (1944-2017). This paper offers a brief overview of their intellectual and academic experience in Venice and of their legacy.
Chinese Studies in Venice: A Timeline of Change
Authors: Brombal Daniele
Published: September 2018

Chinese Studies have historically been shaped by change in political, social, and scientific institutions. Since the ’80s, China’s emergence into the world stage and change in scientific paradigms have spurred debate about the epistemological foundations of the field. Sinologists have been confronted with the need of identifying pathways to ensure that the knowledge they produce is relevant for science and society. The engagement with theoretical and empirical approaches employed by different disciplines, most notably the social sciences, has been a key element to their endeavours. This paper contributes to this on-going reflection, by benchmarking recent changes in Chinese Studies at Ca’ Foscari University against global trends of evolution in area studies. Results show that the field has now multi-disciplinary features and has initiated a transition towards inter-disciplinarity. By endorsing the holistic approach to knowledge informing this transition, scholars in the field may strengthen the centrality of Chinese Studies in scientific production processes concerned with the sinosphere.
Logbook: a Tool for Learning Inside and Outside the Language Class
Authors: Menegale Marcella
Published: September 2018

One of the aims of language learning is that learners can apply outside the classroom what they learn at school and, vice versa, can use in classroom what comes from their experience in ‘real’ life, that is, outside school walls. However, as nearly a century of experimental research on the field has proved, knowledge transfer does not occur spontaneously, on the contrary, this capacity seems to be particularly complicated and difficult to encourage. It is therefore crucial to help learners gain awareness and make use of existing language learning opportunities as well as the learning strategies they can employ so to increase their capacity to make connections. Among the different tools that can be used to enhance both language competence and metacognitive awareness, logbook is considered one of the most handy and purposeful. This paper will try to explain what a logbook is and how it can be used with students with the intention to promote their language learning both in and out of the classroom.
Facilitating the Acquisition of L2 Italian through Traditional Folk Dance
Authors: Pagan Alessandra
Published: September 2018

Motor skills such as sport and dance help trigger informal, experiential pathways of learning. In particular, a humanistic, glotto-pedagogical approach through traditional folk dance may facilitate the acquisition of an L2 level of Italian, thereby giving rise to a form ‘parallel learning’ in which determined linguistic formulations become immediately linked to the subject’s direct, physical, lived experiences (perceptions-actions) and fostering synergistic collaboration between the hemispheres of the brain (as occurs in Total Physical Response teaching methods). Psychomotor research provides further indications on the use choreographic action to facilitate the teaching of Italian as foreign language through slow-motion, emphatic movement and vocalization, and the use of rhetorical figures, especially metaphors and idiomatic expressions which describe and interpret movement. Additionally, linguistic studies structured in this way lead to an understanding of the importance of non-verbal aspect of communication for the full comprehension of the message being conveyed.
Epidemiological profile of patients undergoing surgical treatment of ankle fractures in a tertiary hospital
Authors: Piccini Cleiton Francisco , Endres Gaston , Do Prado João Marcus , Scherer Mateus Breitenbach
Published: September 2018

Objective: To evaluate the epidemiological profile of ankle fractures treated surgically in a tertiary hospital.Methods: A retrospective epidemiological study was performed. The medical records of patients with ankle fractures who underwent surgery between January and December 2017 were reviewed. The parameters assessed included age, gender, injured side, exposure (open vs closed), Arbeitsgemeinschaft für steosynthesefragen (AO) fracture classification, trauma mechanism, time to definitive treatment, and early postoperative complications. Results: The male gender was predominant (64.6%). Twenty-two fractures (50%) resulted from traffic accidents, 16 (36.4%) of which involved a motorcycle. The mean age of these patients was 28.25 years. The AO 44-B ankle fracture was the most common injury (70.4%). Eight (18.2%) wereopen fractures. The mean time to definitive treatment was 5.9 days. Early postoperative complications occurred in two patients (4.5%). Conclusion: Ankle fractures treated in a tertiary hospital affect young victims of high-energy accidents, mainly involving motorcycles. Level of Evidence IV; Therapeutic Studies; Case Series.
Uso del suelo con fines urbanos en las terrazas y áreas marginales de los ríos Paraguay ‐ Paraná
Authors: Alberto  Jorge Alfredo
Published: September 2018

El paisaje resulta de procesos en continua interacción en el tiempo y en el espacio que quedan reflejados en los usos del suelo. De allí que el objeto de estudio de este trabajo se refierea las franjas próximas a centros urbanos, las que se encuentran sometidas al constante empuje del crecimiento de la ciudad a causa de la función residencial y de diferentes actividades complementarias (servicios e infraestructuras), que dan lugar a un espacio dinámico y complejo, ya que el intenso proceso de urbanización genera un sector especulativo que se apropia de tierras con renta agrícola para obtener renta urbana. Este “territorio de borde” está sometido a procesos económicos relacionados con la valorización capitalista del espacio, como consecuencia de la incorporación real o potencial de nuevas tierras a la ciudad. En el área seleccionada para su estudio, se observa que el crecimiento urbano implica la incorporación de nuevos territorios rurales en el complejo sistema que comprende un espacio en mutación, como lo es la ciudad y sus áreas de transición, sin tener en cuenta para ello las relaciones existentes entre las demandas que incorporan estas propuestas y la dinámica de los condicionantes naturales, conjuntamente con la dinámica propia de las actividades tradicionales previas a este proceso (agrícolas, ganaderas), lo cual complejiza las problemáticas ambientales derivadas de las transformaciones del espacio involucrado. El crecimiento de este espacio de transición del AMGR presenta cuatro formas espaciales básicas reconocibles de ocupación con fines urbanos, que son: desarrollo continuo de baja densidad, desarrollo en faja, desarrollo discontinuo o en “salto de  rana” y desarrollo disperso extraurbano. El  efecto de este fenómeno es el aumento de sistemas de infraestructura viaria y de movilidad intraurbana, que acentúa el crecimiento de la mancha  urbana concomitante con bolsas de marginalidad, vacíos urbanos y pobreza, a lo que se suman espacios urbanizados con un alto grado de vulnerabilidad hídrica. Esta  aproximación  de análisis sobre la ocupación de lo urbano sobre lo rural, con especial énfasis en los espacios  de transición, permitió deducir el comportamiento de la situación de la tierra, verificar la organización de la misma y los problemas que afectan al área  en cuestión.
What Shall We Do About Grit? A Critical Review of What We Know and What We Don’t Know
Authors: Credé Marcus
Published: September 2018

Grit is a construct that is widely studied by educational researchers and that has generally been enthusiastically received by educational practitioners. This essay highlights that many of the core claims about grit have either been unexamined or are directly contradicted by the accumulated empirical evidence. Specifically, there appears to be no reason to accept the combination of perseverance and passion for long-term goals into a single grit construct, nor is there any support for the claim that grit is a particularly good predictor of success and performance in an educational setting or that grit is likely to be responsive to interventions. I describe avenues for future research on grit that may help to clarify if grit can contribute to our understanding of success and performance. These avenues include examinations of possible configural relationships between passion and perseverance, whether grit or grit facets represent necessary but not sufficient conditions for performance, interactions between ability and either grit or the facets of grit in the prediction of performance, possible polynomial relationships between grit or grit facets and performance, and improvements in the manner in which grit is assessed. Alternative predictors of performance that are more strongly related to success and performance and that may be more responsive to interventions are also discussed.
Towards a Sustainable Value Co-Creation Framework: Ethical Cognitive Couture, Cognitive System, and Sustainability
Authors: Padhi Prafulla Kumar
Published: September 2018

The aim of this paper is to develop a sustainable value co-creation (SVCC) conceptual framework in which ethical cognitive couture (ECC) brand stakeholders cocreate value for sustainability facilitated by cognitive system and ethical criteria compliance. As per most literature on service dominant logic (SDL) perspective, all providers are service providers, and service is the fundamental basis of exchange. Even though SDL paradigm has contributed to the conceptualization of “value co-creation”, so far, no academic research study has investigated the role played by the stakeholders in ECC products and services sustainability. Sustainable value cocreation (SVCC) - a business strategy focused on inscribing economic, socio-cultural and environmental issues by recognizing sustainable competitive advantage that bring about community benefit. The research methodology utilizes literature review, relevant databases analytics, and multiple case studies that facilitates broad keywords search, identify high quality peer reviewed papers to obtain perspective on ECC brands to conceptualize a SVCC framework. The contribution of this study provides valuable insights, for the first-time, bestowing new knowledge to the literature on sustainable value co-creation (SVCC) framework elaborating systematically the five building blocks - Risk, Exchange, Advantage, Communication, and Transparency (REACT) and practices adopted by the stakeholders for the ECC market. This comprehensive framework can serve as an education model and practice guide for academia, industry practitioners, policy makers and non-profit organizations.
Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Pemanfaatan Posyandu Lansia
Authors: Intarti Wiwit Desi , Khoriah Siti Nur
Published: September 2018

Posyandu elderly is a Community Center in the health care effort. The purpose of the research is to analyze the factors of gender, education, employment, family support, and distance support cadres of posyandu service quality towards the utilization of posyandu elderly health centers in the region North of Cilacap II. The type of research that used cross sectional observational approach to know the factors associated with utilization of posyandu elderly. Data analysis using statistical tests of correlation Pearson Product Moment on CI 95%. Statistical tests provide results significantly to gender p 0.182, job=0106, support family p = 0.481, support cadres p=0.443, quality posyandu p=0.558.
Gambaran sikap ibu nifas tentang inisiasi menyusu dini
Authors: Ernawati Dwi , Anjarwati Anjarwati
Published: September 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran sikap ibu nifas tentang Inisiasi Menyusu Dini (IMD) di RS PKU Muhammadiyah Bantul. Metode yang digunakan yaitu kuantitatif dengan desain deskriptif. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan dengan metode total sampling. Populasi adalah ibu nifas yang berkunjung di RS PKU Muhammadiyah Bantul dalam waktu dua bulan sejumlah 40 ibu nifas, sehingga diperoleh sampel sejumlah 40. Karakteristik responden dalam penelitian ini yaitu usia, pekerjaan, pendidikan, paritas dan penghasilan terhadap sikap ibu nifas tentang IMD di RS PKU Muhammadiyah Bantul.Â  Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ibu nifas memiliki sikap negatif tentang IMD
Pemberian MPASI dini pada bayi ditinjau dari pendidikan dan pengetahuan ibu
Authors: Nababan Lolli , Widyaningsih Sari
Published: September 2018

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisa hubungan pendidikan dan pengetahuan ibu dengan pemberian MPASI dini pada bayi usia kurang dari enam bulan. Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan cross-sectional. Jumlah sampel 59 ibu yang memiliki bayi usia kurang dari enam bulan diambil dengan teknik consecutive sampling. Hasil analisis univariat dari 59 ibu yang memiliki bayi usia kurang dari enam bulan sebagian besar 32 (54,2%) memiliki tingkat pendidikan rendah, hampir sebagian 27 (45,8) memiliki pengetahuan baik. Hasil analisis bivariat diperoleh p-value=0,003 yang berarti ada hubungan yang signifikan antara pendidikan dan pengetahuan ibu dengan pemberian MPASI dini pada bayi usia kurang dari enam bulan.
Geography of Chinese rock and roll: cultural, political and economic forces intertwined
Authors: Wang June , Chen Li
Published: September 2018

This chapter mines the literature to bring out the richness and heterogeneity of Chinese rock. The first part charts the geography of music as the intersection of situated material space and networked topology. Chinese rock thus assembles disparate elements from the two wests: the capitalist-west and, the western China of the silk roads. The second part addresses the live rock scenes that has mushroomed in cities, some as forces of dissenters, some as state-sanctioned role models, or, as a hybrid form of both.
Экология грача (Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus, 1758) на северной границе его распространения (европейский северо-восток России)
Authors: Кочанов С. К. , Данилова Е. В.
Published: September 2018

В статье рассмотрены вопросы распространения, численности и биологии размножения грача. Установлено, что до 90-х гг. прошлого столетия в южных и центральных районах РеспубликиКоми происходил рост численности и расширение ареала этого вида. При этом залеты представителей вида регистрировали даже в окрестностях Воркуты. Позднее наметилась тенденция к снижению численности и сокращению ареала вида в регионе, основными причинами которой явились спад сельскохозяйственного производства, низкая успешность размножения на северной границе ареала и естественная динамика численности Corvus frugilegus.
The Internal Revenue Code as Sodomy Statute
Authors: Infanti Anthony C.
Published: September 2018

44 Santa Clara Law Review 763 (2004)This article represents an attempt to bridge the gap between gay and straight understanding of the Internal Revenue Code's impact on same-sex couples. Through a combination of personal narrative and legal analysis, I try to explain how, from a gay perspective, the Code can be viewed as just another manifestation of the fluid mixture of hostility, bewilderment, and discomfort that generally characterize society's reaction to homosexuality. By explaining the experiences behind my perceptions of the Code, I hope to help my heterosexual colleagues to understand just how demeaning and oppressive the Code can seem to gays and lesbians - regardless of any net financial benefit that same-sex couples may receive, or any net financial detriment that they may suffer, under the Code.
Decentralizing Family: An Inclusive Proposal for Individual Tax Filing in the United States
Authors: Infanti Anthony C.
Published: September 2018

2010 Utah Law Review 605 (2010)The debate in the United States over individual versus joint federal income tax filing is at something of a crossroads. For decades, progressive - and, particularly, feminist - scholars have urged us to abolish the joint return in favor of individual filing. On the rare occasion when scholars have described what such an individual filing system might look like, the focus has been on the ways in which the traditional family must be accommodated in an individual filing system. These descriptions generally do not take into account - let alone remedy - the tax system's ongoing failure to address the tax treatment of nontraditional families. More recently, scholars concerned with the sexual-orientation-based discrimination that pervades our tax laws have proposed extending joint filing to same-sex and, in some cases, unmarried different-sex couples. But these proposals are equally problematic because they merely widen the privileged circle by extending the tax advantages provided to traditional families to other relationships patterned after the traditional family (and only to such relationships). Especially in view of the growing complexity of family arrangements in the United States, I find neither of these proposed paths to be desirable. As an alternative, I lay out a third path in this article that has a different, more inclusive destination. Relying on the Canadian experience with individual filing and proposals there to move "beyond conjugality," I sketch the outlines of an individual filing system that, where appropriate, recognizes all economically interdependent relationships for tax purposes -- and not only those that are patterned after the traditional family headed by a married different-sex couple.
Victims of Our Own Success: The Perils of Obergefell and Windsor
Authors: Infanti Anthony C.
Published: September 2018

76 Ohio State Law Journal Furthermore 79 (2015)This short essay was spurred by the numerous celebrations of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Though the essay acknowledges the importance of both Obergefell and the Supreme Court's earlier decision in United States v. Windsor, it highlights the significant perils that these decisions entail for the LGBT community. In the essay, I use tax as a lens for describing some of the lesser-known perils associated with these decisions in the hopes of making those perils more concrete and easily understood by a wide audience of (tax and nontax) readers.
Muhammad's Social Justice or Muslim Cant?: Langdellianism and the Failures of Islamic Finance
Authors: Hamoudi Haider Ala
Published: September 2018

"40 Cornell International Law Journal 89 (2007)Though it is advertised and promoted as the bulwark of an alternative economic system based on populist Muslim notions of social justice and fairness, Islamic finance as a practice has failed to meet these objectives. The causes of that failure and the question of whether alternative approaches are possible are the subject of this Article. The failure of Islamic finance to provide that which it promotes is the direct consequence of the application of an Islamic logic driven interpretive system through which rules are derived, which its adherents claim was formalized and systematized by the early jurist Muhammad Ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i. The system bears remarkable resemblance to the jurisprudential theories of Christopher Columbus Langdell in that particular cases (the reports of Muhammad, or hadith) are selected and then expanded into fundamental principles, or at least fundamental rules, through a doctrine known as qiyas, or analogical reasoning. The result is a financial system characterized by an incoherent web of rules, convenient and specific blindness respecting those rules in particular contexts, and deceptive and obfuscatory measures intended to lend the entire affair a patina of legitimacy as Islamic. Social justice and fairness are not significant components of the system. A principled alternative interpretive system, however, does seem possible so long as it remains within particular parameters, among them faithful adherence to Qur'anic verse, substantial respect for the hadith and sufficient systematization and methodological rigor to avoid what some Islamic jurists call subjectivity, or lack of interpretive control. Specifically, the Article engages and expands upon the ideas of Abdul Razzaq Sanhuri and Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr as potential avenues for reform that lie within these parameters. For the full text of the Article, please see 40 Cornell International Law Review 89 (2007)."
The House of Windsor: Accentuating the Heteronormativity in the Tax Incentives for Procreation
Authors: Infanti Anthony C.
Published: September 2018

89 Washington Law Review 1185 (2014)Following the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor, many seem to believe that the fight for marriage equality at the federal level is over and that any remaining work in this area is at the state level. Belying this conventional wisdom, this Article plumbs the gap between the promise of Windsor and the reality that heteronormativity has been one of the core building blocks of the federal tax system. Eradicating embedded heteronormativity will take far more than a single court decision (or even revenue ruling); it will take years of work uncovering the subtle ways in which heteronormativity pervades the federal tax laws and of identifying means of eliminating that heteronormativity. To further this work and in keeping with the theme of this symposium issue, Compensated Surrogacy in the Age of Windsor, this Article explores the unremitting heteronormativity of the federal tax incentives for procreation as they apply to compensated surrogacy, which is the only practical option for gay couples wishing to procreate.
Big (Gay) Love: Has the IRS Legalized Polygamy?
Authors: Infanti Anthony C.
Published: September 2018

"93 North Carolina Law Review Addendum 1 (2014)Within days in December, a federal judge in Utah made news by loosening that state's criminal prohibition against polygamy and the Attorney General of North Dakota made news by opining that a party to a same-sex marriage could enter into a different-sex marriage in that state without first obtaining a divorce or annulment. Both of these opinions raised the specter of legalized plural marriage. What discussions of these opinions missed, however, is the possibility that the IRS might already have legalized plural marriage in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last June in United States v. Windsor, which struck down section three of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In exploring that possibility, this essay continues my work analyzing the shortcomings of the IRS's implementation of the Windsor decision. The Secretary of the Treasury promised that IRS guidance would provide same-sex couples with "certainty and clear, coherent tax-filing guidance." To the contrary, I have explained that the IRS's guidance provides no more than the same veneer of clarity that DOMA did, because it leaves important questions unanswered, lays traps for the unwary, creates inequities, and entails unfortunate (and, hopefully, unintended) consequences. In this essay, I extend that analysis by explaining how ambiguity in the IRS's guidance may also have unintentionally opened the door to recognizing plural marriage for federal tax purposes."
Repugnancy in the Arab World
Authors: Hamoudi Haider Ala
Published: September 2018

"48 Willamette Law Review 427 (2012)â€œRepugnancy clausesâ€ -- those constitutional provisions that, in language that varies from nation to nation, require legislation to conform to some core conception of Islam -- are all the rage these days. This clause, a relatively recent addition to many modern constitutions, has emerged as a central focus of academic writing on Muslim state constitutions generally, and on Arab constitutions in particular. Much of the attention it has received has been enlightening and erudite. Yet one aspect of the broader repugnancy discourse that deserves some attention is an important, often de facto, temporal limitation on the effect of the clause. There appears to be a rising sentiment that repugnancy in the Arab world should not apply to legislation enacted prior to the date that the repugnancy clause was inserted into the constitution. Irrespective of electoral results throughout the region heavily favoring parties that seek a more robust role for shari'a in public life, the trend seem to be growing deeper roots. This is particularly ironic because the non-retroactive canon is fundamentally incoherent, both from the perspective of constitutional structure as well as substantive policy. As to the former, surely a constitutional amendment of this sort must generally have retroactive effect. It would make little sense to amend a constitution to grant all citizens equal protection under the law and then for a court to suggest that existing slavery laws might be exempted because enacted before the amendment in question. Such a result would be one that courts would generally resist to the extent it was possible to do so, given how much violence is done to the amendment by the limitations. This would seem to be no less the case for a clause requiring legislative conformity with Islam. Moreover, as a matter of policy, if there exists in any state a broad view that law should conform to Islam (a commonly stated Islamist position), and if that view is widespread (a fair conclusion given recent electoral results), then surely the advocates of that view should be as willing to apply it to past legislation as to future. Either the Islamicity of legislation is a cornerstone of the Muslim state or it is not. If it is, then the date of the legislation vis-Ã -vis the date of the repugnancy amendment is surely beside the point for the advocates of shari'a conformity. Indeed, the fact of the incoherence may well explain the reluctance to discuss it often, particularly openly. Ironically, however, despite the incoherence, the limitations on repugnancy have spread. Given this, this Article addresses how and why these limitations grew so popular, and what it might portend for the future of Islamist parties in the Arab world."
Arab Spring, Libyan Liberation and the Externally Imposed Democratic Revolution
Authors: Hamoudi Haider Ala
Published: September 2018

89 Denver University Law Review 699 (2012)Richard Albert wants to know what happened to our commitment to the democratic revolution, and I share his frustrations and his befuddlement. Indeed, I might phrase the question more broadly than he has, and ask precisely what has become of our commitment to democratic rule, however brought about. Contemporary events in the Arab world leave one more confused than ever as to America's understanding of its own role in supporting democratic orders. This is a matter that deserves more attention than it has been receiving. I consider Professor Albert's contribution important, and helpful in advancing the discussion in a positive direction. I only hope in these few pages to expound upon the ideas he has presented, and extend them into directions which he may not have anticipated, indeed which he might disclaim, but which must command greater consideration. In particular, I want to explore a central irony in our times concerning the externally imposed democratic revolution.
The Moonscape of Tax Equality: Windsor and Beyond
Authors: Infanti Anthony C.
Published: September 2018

108 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 110 (2013)This essay takes a critical look at the tax fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor, which declared section three of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. The essay is important because, while other federal laws will apply to some same-sex couples some of the time, the federal tax laws are a concern for all same-sex couples all of the time. The essay is timely because it addresses the recently issued IRS guidance regarding the tax treatment of same-sex couples. In this essay, I first describe the path that led to the decision in Windsor. Then, I turn to describing the ways in which the post-Windsor tax terrain may actually be worse for same-sex couples than the bleak tax landscape that they faced before that decision. Under DOMA, same-sex couples already faced a debilitating level of uncertainty in determining how the federal tax laws applied to their relationships. Post-Windsor, same-sex couples will see this uncertainty multiply -- even after receiving guidance from the IRS on the implementation of the Windsor decision in the federal tax context. They will have to grapple not only with lingering questions surrounding the federal tax treatment of relationships that are not recognized, but also with new questions regarding whether and how their relationships will be recognized for federal tax purposes. Moreover, it seems that dispatching discrimination designed to erode the progress of same-sex couples toward formal equality has served only to entrench the privileged status of marriage in our federal tax laws rather than fostering the recognition of a broader array of human relationships.
The American Commercial Religion
Authors: Hamoudi Haider Ala
Published: September 2018

10 DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal 107 (2012)To all but possibly the most senior of commercial law specialists, it is difficult to imagine American commercial life without the nationwide adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code. We would surely regard as impossible the idea that the vast economic success of the latter half of the twentieth century could have been achieved without it. The Uniform Commercial Code is our godhead, our sacred foundational document, our Holy Book of modern commerce, which brought us a form of economic enlightenment from the pre-Code Days of Ignorance. Our attachment to the U.C.C. runs far deeper than a mere rational commercial preference. It resembles more that of the faith of the religious believer. This presents a problem, however. Even if we assume that our faith in the U.C.C. has been over the past several decades salutary, and there are good and plenty reasons to believe that it is, and even if the uniformity that is its product has on balance permitted massive economic progress, our near dogmatic faith-like belief in the U.C.C., our Code, has hindered the very type of global uniformity, and the attendant benefits thereto, that it continues to enable in the domestic context. The Article will demonstrate this by focusing on two areas of attempted global convergence in commerce where cross border harmonization of domestic regimes has proved particularly problematic, albeit in different ways in each case. These areas correspond to the respective scope of two of the more hallowed Articles of the Code; namely, Article 2, which deals with the sale of goods, and Article 9, which deals with means to obtain security over debt. This Article also discusses what must be done if meaningful international harmonization is to be achieved.
Automatic place-value activation in magnitude-irrelevant parity judgement
Authors: Cipora Krzysztof , Soltanlou Mojtaba , Smaczny Stefan , Goebel Silke Melanie , Nuerk Hans-Christoph
Published: September 2018

Research on multi-digit number processing suggests that, in Arabic numerals, their place-value magnitude is automatically activated, whenever a magnitude-relevant task was employed: However, so far, it is unknown, whether place-value is also activated when the target task is magnitude-irrelevant. The current study examines this question by using the parity congruency effect in two-digit numbers: It describes that responding to decade-digit parity congruent numbers (e.g., 35, 46; same parity of decades and units) is faster than to decade-digit parity incongruent numbers (e.g., 25; 36; different parities of decades and units). Here we investigate the (a-)symmetry of the parity congruency effect; i.e. whether it makes a difference whether participants are assessing the parity of the unit digit or the decade digit. We elaborate, how and why such an asymmetry is related to place-value processing, because the parity of the unit digit only interferes with the parity of the decade digit, while the parity of the decade digit interferes with both the parity of the unit digit and the integrated parity of the whole two-digit number. We observed a significantly larger parity congruency effect in the decade parity decision than in the unit parity decision. This suggests that automatic place-value processing also takes place in a typical parity judgment task, in which magnitude is irrelevant. Finally, because of the cross-lingual design of the study, we can show that these results and their implications were language-independent.