bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Preliminary investigation on the use of artificial substrates to favor Tritia mutabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) spawning in Central Adriatic Sea: a possible contribution to stock maintenance
Authors: Caprioli Ricardo , Giansante Carla
Published: November 2018

Tritia mutabilis, formerly classified as Nassarius mutabilis, represents an important but declining resource for small scale fishery in the central Adriatic Sea, likely due to overfishing. A preliminary investigation on the use of artificial substrates to favour its spawning was carried out in a coastal area off the Abruzzi region, central Italy. Between May and June 2015, five groups of six pyramid structures made of a steel frame covered by plastic net, with a \(0.5 m^2\) surface available for deposition, were placed on sandy bottoms at about 0.5 nautical miles from the coast and at sea depths
ranging from 5.5 m to 7.5 m. A density of T. mutabilis egg capsules \(> 1 per 100 cm^2\) was observed in two of the pyramid groups. The number of embryos present in each capsule ranged from 8 to 22 (mean number: 14). At the end of the study, almost all the capsules presented an apical opening and were empty, thus indicating successful hatching and larval release. This preliminary investigation shows that the natural deposition of T. mutabilis egg capsules can be facilitated by placing artificial substrates on sandy bottoms and it is conceivable that their use would contribute to maintain sustainable stocks of this species.
Monitoring the eutrophication using Landsat 8 in the Boka Kotorska Bay
Authors: Đurović Blažo , Đurović Igor , Joksimović Aleksandar , Crnojević Vladimir , Pestorić Branka
Published: November 2018

This study proposes a methodology for monitoring concentrations of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) and the state of eutrophics in small bays or in the immediate vicinity of the coast. This kind of monitoring is of interest since such areas have not been addressed well using the usual satellite methods (such as MODIS) due to inadequate spatial resolution. We present an estimation approach for Chl-a concentration based on Landsat 8 (L8) satellite images using the ground truth (GT) data for the day of overflight. Additionally, two classifiers (daily and yearly) of the state of eutrophication, that use the Chl-a estimated values, are presented. The accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated using the leave-one-out cross validation, and it is within limits theoretically expected of an L8-based approach. The results from the classifiers are compared with the GT data and it is shown that daily classifier is able to classify the area of interest with an incidence of false positives less than 2%.
İshâk Bin Hasan Tokadî’nin İlimler Tasnifi ve Mantık İlmine Dair Görüşleri
Authors: YILDIRIM Ali
Published: November 2018

Bu araştırmanın başlıca gayesi
İslam âlimlerinin ilimleri taksiminden kısaca bahsettikten sonra İshak
Tokadi’nin ilimleri taksimini ve bu bakımdan İslam müellifleri arasındaki
yerini belirtmeğe çalışmak ve mantık ilmine dair görüşlerini izah etmektir.
İslam dünyasında zamanla değişen ilim anlayışını tespit etmenin bir yolu da
İslam âlimlerinin ilim tasniflerine bakmaktır. İslam dünyasında salt ilimler
tasnifi yapılan çok sayıda esere rastlamak mümkündür. Bu çalışmada 17. Yüzyıl
Âlim Şairlerinden İshâk Bin Hasan Tokadî tarafından 1687 tarihinde kaleme
alınmış olan Nazmu’l-Ulum adlı mesnevi
türündeki eserden bahsedilecektir. Eserde çeşitli ilimler hakkında bilgi
verildikten sonra bunların öğrenilmesi gerektiği vurgulanmıştır. Bu ilimlerden
bir tanesi de Mantık ilmidir. Eserde kısaca mantık ilmini öğrenmenin önemine
değinilmiş, dilin kurallarını anlamada mantık ilmi ilk sırada değerlendirilmiş,
müçtehitlerin dinî konularda hüküm verirken mantık ilmine başvurduğundan
bahsedilmiştir.
Muhammed b. Ġāzî’nin Ravżatu’l-ʿUkûl Adlı Eserinde Geçen Arapça Şiirlerde Hikmet
Authors: GÜLTEKİN Aladdin
Published: November 2018

Hayatta kazanılmış tecrübe ve deneyimlerin bilgece
söylenmiş veciz sözleri olarak görülen hikmet, geçmişten günümüze kadar daha
çok öğüt verme ve yol gösterme amacına yönelik hakîm kimseler tarafından bütün
dillerde kullanılmışlardır. Arap edebiyatında hikmet, edebi bir tür olarak daha
çok şiirler vasıtasıyla günümüze kadar ulaşmıştır. Arap şairleri, şiir inşa
ederken bu şiirlerinin içine hikmetli sözler yerleştirmişler, böylece
şiirlerine ilgi çektikleri gibi onların edebi değerlerini de artırmışlardır.
Şiir içinde okuyucuyla buluşan bu hikmetli sözler, dinleyen ve okuyan kimseler
için bir tecrübe ve bilgi kaynağı olmuş, onların kalplerine nüfuz etmiş ve
akıllarında kalıcı olmuştur.

Muhammed b. Ġāzî’nin Ravżatu’l-ʿUkûl adlı eserinde bu şiirlerin yoğun bir şekilde
işlendiğini tespit ettik. Bu çalışmada, söz konusu hikmetlerin Ravżatu’l-ʿUkûl ile daha önceki
kaynaklardaki benzer kullanımların ele alınması suretiyle değerlendirilmesi
amaçlanmıştır.
Perbedaan Estimasi Volume Perdarahan Antara Metode Tes Hemoglobin Dengan Metode Visual Estimasi Pada Ibu Postpartum
Authors: Panggayuh Ardi , Jupriyono Jupriyono
Published: November 2018

Error into account bleeding may contribute to an underestimation of the actual postpartum hemorrhage, postpartum hemorrhage late to recognize. This is especially prominent in order to deal with inadequate facilities where deliveries take place at home and the estimated blood loss using equipment that can not be trusted. In the order of these services, blood may be spilled on the floor, bags, and seep into the ground floor. In addition, estimates of maternal postpartum hemorrhage by midwives generally done by visual estimation, although the method is less accurate. In addition, it is often mixed with amniotic fluid and sometimes with urine, making it difficult to visually estimate by less skilled midwife. The purpose of research is to analyze the difference between the volume of bleeding hemoglobin test method with visual estimation. The population is pregnant women who entered the active phase of labor in BPM " Agustin Dwi Wahyuni ", in accordance with the specified inclusion criteria. Samples were taken from the majority population by purposive sampling, totaling 25. The instrument used to measure the hemoglobin level is HB meter "Family Doctor), the value of Hb levels during the first stage inpartu and Hb value after 2 hours post partum in g / dL. To find out the difference in volume between the test methods hemoglon bleeding by visual estimation used parametric statistical tests that the t-test, with significance α 0:05. The results were analyzed by t-test obtained t count 1,215 ;t table 2,145, so it concluded that the differences in methods estimate the amount of bleeding did not lead to differences in the average estimate of the amount of bleeding at 2 hours postpartum.; Keywords: Hemoglobin Test, Visual Estimation
Hubungan Pengetahuan Tentang Manajemen Bencana Dengan Prevention Masyarakat Dalam Menghadapi Bencana Gunung Meletus Pada Kepala Keluarga Di Rt 06/Rw 01 Dusun Puncu Desa Puncu Kecamatan Puncu-Kediri
Authors: Damayanti Didit , Wahyu R.G Pria , Muhanni’ah Muhanni’ah
Published: November 2018

Introduction: Disaster management is a dynamic, continual, and integrated process as to increase the qualities of the actions which are relevant to the process of observation and analysis of disaster as well as minimalizing the negative impacts, mitigation, readiness, early warning, immediate emergency, rehabilitation and reconstruction. The aim of this research is to analyse theconnection between disaster management and the prevention of community breakdown in order to face a volcanic eruption for every head of household. Method: The design of this research is correlational research with a cross sectional approach. The demographic group that is used for this research is the head of households in Rt 06/Rw 01 dusun Puncu desa Puncu, by using the purposive sampling technique which has been collected from the sampling of the 33 heads of households. Independent variable is the knowledge of disaster management, and the dependent variable is the prevention of community breakdown in the handling of the disaster. The data has been received by using the questionnaire, and the results have been analysed by using spearman rho test. Result:  As according to the statistics test, it is found that p-value= 0,000 on the significant level (α) = 0,05 and r = 0,752. It is concluded that there is a connection between knowledge and the prevention of community breakdown in handling of the volcanic eruption in Rt 06/Rw 01. This research shows that the level of knowledge within the community about disaster management and prevention in handling volcanic eruption has been increasing. Conclution: This is shown by the capability of the community in mitigating the effects of the disaster. It is hoped that the community will further engage in training education and simulation to reduce the negative impacts of a disaster. The location where the participants resideis Kelud Volcano, and it is therefore hoped that the communities are willing to participate in better handling of any disaster by joining the education training and simulation; Kata kunci : Pengetahuan, Manajemen bencana, Prevention.
Comparative Constructions in Tatar and Their Translation Methods
Authors: I. Khasanzyanova Gulnara , M. Bolgarova Ramziya , A. Islamova Elvira , Rami Ilsever
Published: November 2018

This article discussed the specifics of the translation of comparative constructions in literature from Tatar into Russian. It also suggested methods for the full-fledged translation of such constructions according to semantics and functional features of conjunctions. Postpositions were the main method to represent comparative constructions in simple and complex sentences in Tatar. Conjunctions, the instrumental case of the noun and other means, could further express the meanings of such postpositions when translated into Russian. The analysis of translation of comparative constructions helped to identify the integral and the differential in the semantics and functioning of the conjunctions, which not only connected the components of the comparative constructions, but also created imagery. Using comparative constructions, writers and translators could refer both to the general concepts inherent in their native culture, and to their personal worldview. This seemed possible only with a preliminary comparative analysis of the semantics and the structure of lexical units. Analyzing the translations of literary texts, some functional and semantic correspondences were revealed: comparative postpositions such as kebek, syman, kuk, etc. and Russian comparative conjunctions such as As if for sure, etc. (Eng. like, as if, kind of); relative pair words in Tatar and correlative pairs in Russian; affixes of adverbs such as -cha/-che, -day/- dey in Tatar and the instrumental case of the noun in Russian.
Models of Self-Regulated Learning in the Context of New Higher Education Standards Implementation
Authors: M. Sirazieva Liliya , R. Zamaletdinov Radif , A. Fahrutdinova Rezida , R. Fahrutdinov Rifat
Published: November 2018

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is viewed as an important aspect of student academic performance and achievement. Over the past decades, the concept of SRL has been heavily researched, with many educational psychologists proposing theoretical models and setting up studies to test the theories and provide pragmatic information about SRL. The aim of this review was to analyze different models of SRL. To achieve this goal, three models of SRL developed by Zimmerman, Pintrich and Efklides were presented. All of the models had empirical evidence supporting the validity of some of their main aspects. As developing their models, both Pintrich and Zimmerman, and partly Efklides; drew on the same background theory and their models reflected Bandura’s 1986 Social Cognitive Theory, underlining social foundations of thinking and behavior. The terminology also varied from one model to another, but all the authors assumed SRL to proceed from a preparatory or preliminary phase, through actual performance or task completion phase, to an appraisal or adaptation one.
The European Middle Ages through the prism of Contemporary Japanese Literature: a study of Vinland Saga, Spice & Wolf and l’Éclipse
Authors: Danesin Maxime
Published: November 2018

Since the past few decades, the European Middle Ages have started to become a recurrent motif in Japan. Either depicted in historical works, appearing in a roundabout way, or even implied through archetypal backgrounds and characters in Medieval Fantasy, it has become a source of inspiration for Japanese authors and screenwriters, even taking a firm root in the video game industry — Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series acting as relevant touchstones. Regarding the field of Literature at large, countless manga are based upon its settings (Berserk, Akagami no Shirayukihime), as well as several light novels (Slayers, The Record of Lodoss War) and “pure” literary works—among them, the Akutagawa Prize’s winner in 1998, L'Éclipse by Hirano Keiichir?. Besides offering the elation of exotic stories and re-enchanting our world, this foreign exploration of The Middle Ages creates a new approach of its realities and myths, sometimes reorganizing them to the point of syncretism with Japanese values. Thus, from folktales to civilizations features, those transcultural medieval elements affect the perception of Europe in contemporary Japan. In this article, in order to highlight the interaction between this part of the European culture and Japanese literature, I study three examples of literary works representing The European Middle Ages: the historical manga Vinland Saga (Yukimura Makoto), set during the Vikings Era and using the literary features of the Icelandic sagas; the light novel Spice & Wolf (Hasekura Isuna), a unique tale depicting the medieval merchant world; and the novel L'Éclipse (Hirano Keiichir?), portraying a young Dominican in the fifteenth century thrown into the world of alchemy and metaphysics. I argue that they are not only transcultural works, but that they also offer new perspectives on understanding how European realities and myths are being adapted in Japan.
Scenes of Childhood: Exhibiting Childhood as National Imagery
Authors: Yamagata-Montoya Aurore
Published: November 2018

Japan, March 2006. After four months of high attendance, the exhibition Nihon no Kodomo: 60 Nen organized by the Japan Professional Photographers Society ends with a huge success. Just six months later, the exhibition was remodeled by the Japan Foundation for what would be a five-year-long world-touring exhibition, under the new name Scenes of Childhood: Sixty Years of Postwar Japan. The tour started in Jordan and toured 20 countries in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before closing in Cuba in September 2011. Within its Arts and Cultural Exchanges section, the Japan Foundation has developed a Traveling Exhibitions Program to ‘introduce Japanese arts and culture to overseas’ (Japan Foundation, 2016, n.p.) that runs about twenty exhibitions every year. Scenes of Childhood has been one of the most largely displayed and successful photographic exhibitions of the Japan Foundation in those last five years, following an interest for childhood and youth. I focus on this specific exhibition to analyse how a cultural institution like the Japan Foundation produces and exports a national self-representation using photographs of children. The photographs are exported not only as cultural objects, but also as testimonies of Japanese history and culture. Looking at them helps us consider what self-image Japan sends to the rest of the world. What does the exhibition say about Japan? What place does childhood occupy in the national imagery? I refer to both Western (Higonnet 1998) and Japanese (Jones 2010) models of childhood to consider how childhood is integrated within the national history and imagery. I focus especially on the assumed “innocence” of children to show how a national imagery is created. I argue that Scenes of Childhood promulgates an image of Japan that is that of a harmless, pacific and victim nation.
Beyond Time & Culture: The Revitalisation of Old Norse Literature and History in Yukimura Makoto’s Vinland Saga
Authors: Danesin Maxime
Published: November 2018

Due to unprecedented opportunities of global and cultural exchanges in the past decades, fragments of our past go beyond borders, nationalities and cultural differences. Contemporary popular culture is an important vector to convey them, even on the other side of the Earth, where European’s past can become the future inspiration for foreign writers and artists. And Japan is no exception. It has started to be filled with European images from the past, whether it is in the medieval-fantasy backgrounds of video games or in highly praised literary works. Japanese popular literature participates in this movement, assimilating and reorganizing European cultural elements, before sending back to us those same fragments, deformed and/or revitalised.
Amidst the various motifs extracted from our History and used by Japanese authors, one has caught our attention: the Vikings and their expedition to Vinland, in Yukimura Makoto’s manga Vinland Saga. Far from presenting stereotyped images of simple-minded and brutal Norse warriors, this historical work offers a new and foreign approach of Thorfinn Karselfni’ story and the two Sagas of the Icelanders mentioning him, the Grœnlendinga saga and Eiríks saga rauða. In this article, I study how Yukimura Makoto reconstructs the Icelandic’s Sagas and develops its historical context, in order to create his own rewriting of this famous Norse cultural element. By doing so, I argue that he provides the Japanese readers – and by ricochet European ones – with a transcultural and revitalised Old Norse Literature and History in the 21st century.
Brokers of “Japaneseness”: Bringing table-top J-RPGs to the “West”
Authors: Kamm Björn-Ole
Published: November 2018

Japanese-language table-top role-playing games (TRPG) stayed mostly under the radar of gamers and scholars in Europe and the US until 2008, when a first English translation of such a game was released. TRPGs made by Japanese game designers had been overshadowed by their digital cousins, computer RPGs such as Final Fantasy, and Japan has subsequently been imagined as a digital game heaven. Instead of engaging a computer interface, however, TRPG players come together and narrate a shared adventure or story. Using character avatars and following often complex rules, their game world and the plot line of their play exist mostly in their imagination.
One of the first English translations of a commercial Japanese game was Tenra Bansh? Zero (Inoue, Kitkowski) in 2014, chosen for its “Japaneseness,” that is, a plethora of elements, such as samurai, Shint? priests, and creatures from Japanese folklore. Using Tenra’s English translation as a key example, this paper traces how “cultural brokerage” in the case of this game does not simply translate between cultures (e.g., a supposed to be authentic Japanese one and a vaguely “Western” one) but necessarily assembles and constitutes them as single coherent wholes. By tracking the translation process, this paper seeks to show that the “Japaneseness” of Tenra was its selling point but also nothing it simply carried with it: The “Japaneseness” of this game needed to be created first by telling a putative audience what “authentic” Japan looks like.
Japanese Pop Culture, Identification, and Socialization: The Case of an Italian Web-Community
Authors: Palumbo Fabio , Calabrò Domenica Gisella
Published: November 2018

Japanese pop culture has influenced Italy over the last thirty years. In the ‘70s anime started to fill the airtime of emerging private TV channels, marking the childhood of those Italians who grew up in those years and until the early ‘90s, when manga finally appeared in the Italian market. Globalization and the Internet have made other aspects of Japanese pop culture available to Italians and the rest of the world alike. It has resulted in a very active Italian fandom spanning different generations, and in a strong fascination with Japan.
This paper aims to provide insights into the way Italian fans perceive Japanese pop culture and Japan; on the kind of bonds with Japan they develop, and how they socialize. It does so by considering the biggest Italian web-community, AnimeClick.it, as a microcosm of the Italian fandom’s interactions and emotions. Privileging a qualitative method, it focuses on the people who give life to the website. Their images of Japanese pop culture reveal the recognition of a specific cultural odour perceived as pleasant, which translates into an interest in Japan. Those fans associate Japan with images of fantasy and charming mystery that nevertheless co-exist with perceptions of extreme difference, echoing the notion of Japanese uniqueness, so that Orientalist processes are re-enacted. There are intergenerational differences in the way fans have developed an emotional bond, and look at Japanese pop culture. However, these are mediated and transcended through their socialization and collaboration in the web-community, opening up new perspectives for the future evolution of Japanese pop culture’s influence in Italy.
The Visual Language of Comics, Neil Cohn
Authors: Ursini Francesco
Published: November 2018

Neil Cohn’s The Visual Language of Comics provides an interesting introduction to “Visual Language” (henceforth VL) theory, which is a theory about the “language” through which comics are produced and interpreted. The book presents VL as a theory that can capture the psychological and cultural aspects of comics’ creation and consumption. For instance, it offers [...]
Telling stories about the “Land of the Rising Sun”: Contemporary Italian literature re-inventing Japan
Authors: Palumbo Fabio
Published: November 2018

Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics (1975) points out that cultural units are organised networks of meanings, so that semantic fields pertain to a specific culture’s world view. Narrative processes participating in sensemaking take place within a cultural context, and can be studied via a diatextual approach to the discursive structures and the tools of Greimasian narrative semiotics. Contextualisation in narrative enunciations means not only using elements of actorialisation, spatialisation and temporalisation, but also ‘dramatising’ the relationship between Self and Other through «cultural metaphors» (Gannon 2011). This paper explores three authors’ texts from post-WWII Italian literature, showing three different representations or ‘narrative uses’ of Japan: Il re dei Giapponesi (1949), an unfinished novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini; If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979), Palomar (1983) and Collection of Sand (1984) by Italo Calvino; Silk (1996), a short novel by Alessandro Baricco. In these texts, I examine the distinct meaning of Japan’s metaphors, highlighting the different levels of exoticism in Japan’s description, and the different degrees of the subject's involvement in terms of their relationship with otherness (embrayage or débrayage). Japan can be used in literary fiction as a ‘pretext’ (Pasolini), as a setting (Baricco), or as a context (Calvino). In any case, it serves as a cultural metaphor: a rhetorical apparatus conveying portrayals of Japan to Italian contemporary culture with different degrees of verisimilitude, ranging from an almost fable-like scenery to a vague historical background and a peculiar biographical frame.
A study of Japanese animation as translation: A descriptive analysis of Hayao Miyazaki and other anime dubbed into English – ADACHI Reito
Authors: Tokuno Jamie
Published: November 2018

For years now, scholars have been calling for a more “critical consciousness” of how Euro-American translation theories are applied to East Asian translation studies (Wakabayashi 2012). Judy Wakabayashi suggests there is a need for empirical testing of western paradigms on Japanese translation research (Wakabayashi 2012, 34). To an extent, Adachi Reito’s book sets out to answer that call through the use of references to major western translation theories on an as-needed basis, including the theory of translation universals, Gideon Toury’s translation norms, Eugene Nida’s dynamic equivalence, and literal translation. However, the book does not offer [...]
Japan and Korea in the mirror of Cinema: Selfness and Otherness between mutual understanding and recurrent nationalisms
Authors: Palumbo Fabio
Published: November 2018

The mutual representations and understanding of Korea and Japan can be approached by means of a socio-historical framing of the relationships between the two countries in the last decades, stemming from the tragic turmoil of World War II and the postcolonial heritage, including the ‘comfort women’ issue and the problems of the Korean minority in Japan, to the spreading of Japanese pop culture in South Korea and the ‘Korean Wave’ during the 1980s and the 1990s in Japan. Though nowadays resurgent nationalisms in both countries seem to highlight the limits of soft power in mutual acceptance, popular culture can be used as a privileged resource to investigate reciprocal representations between both societies. This paper aims to retrace the above-mentioned issues in a few selected recent Japanese and Korean movies, whose reception in Japan and Korea is connected to the audience sensitivity to the ‘Self and Other’ representations. The topic of the Korean minority in Japan is addressed through Hiroki Ry?ichi’s Sayonara Kabukich? (Kabukicho Love Hotel, 2014), partially shot on locations in Shin-?kubo, Tokyo’s Korea Town. On the other hand, the rediscovery of Korea’s colonial past, linked to the ‘comfort women’ issue, is seen through the lens of Choi Dong-hoon’s Amsal (Assassination, 2015) and Cho Jung-rae’s Kwihyang (Spirits’ Homecoming, 2016). Japanese and Korean contemporary filmography seems to reflect people’s present worries about a significant Other, geographically and historically linked to the Self, as well as to portray the ethnic and national identity rebuilding through a retelling of history.
The Correlation of Family Support and Social Support with the Adherence to Physical Exercise Among the Older persons with Hypertension
Authors: Putri Noor Rochmah Ida Ayu Trisno , Wati Dwi Nurviyandari Kusuma , (Corresponding author) Etty Rekawati
Published: November 2018

This study is to determine the correlation of family support and social support with the adherence to physical exercise among the older persons with hypertension. It was a descriptive analytical type of quantitative research with the cross-sectional approach. Data were collected from the working area of Tugu Community Health Center, Depok involving 108 older persons with hypertension. Two questionnaires were used to measure the characteristic of the respondents (questionnaire A) and family support, social support, and adherence to physical exercise (questionnaire B). The data

analysis included univariate, bivariate, and multivariate correlations. There is a signi fi cant correlation of family support and social support with the adherence to physical exercise among the older persons with hypertension. Family support has the greatest in fl uence on the adherence to physical exercise among the older persons with hypertension (β coeffi cient value: 0.381). The older persons with hypertension need a strong support from the family or closest friends to improve the adherence to hypertension treatments, one of which is physical exercise. Family support has the major infl uence on the adherence to physical exercise among the older persons so that the development of communitybased and family-based nursing strategies through the empowerment of the older persons care groups and family empowerment is essential to be carried out.
Case report on the use of a honey on diabetic foot ulcer patients
Authors: (Corresponding author) Suriadi , - Rhamdaniyati , Sudirjo Wuriani , Ali Sukarni , Nurpiyanti Arina , Kardiatun Tutur , Jiu Cau Kim
Published: November 2018

This article describes four infected diabetic foot ulcer patients who were treated with honey dressing as fragmented therapy. Quantitative and qualitative descriptions of the ulcer-healing process were documented. All four ulcers showed positive wound contraction and reduction in size, and clinical signs of infection were absent at the end of the follow-up period. Moreover, surrounding skin maceration and trauma were absent in all wounds. Adequate moisture control was also achieved, evidenced by a healthy red granulating base and a thin layer of clear light exudate in all fours cases. These reports provide little evidence that the use of honey dressing is effective in combating wound

infection. Honey dressing can be used to improve wound healing in chronic diabetic foot ulcers.
The effect of Trichoderma on the growth and development of tomato and bean under greenhouse and field conditions
Authors: Ban Gwendolyn , Akanda Shamsul , Maino Macquin
Published: November 2018

Trichoderma's plant growth stimulating effect is well-recognized besides its well-known role as a biocontrol agent against plant diseases. Two greenhouse and field studies were conducted at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (PNGUOT) to test the effects of Trichoderma harzianum on the growth of tomato and bean plants. Greenhouse potted plants were inoculated with three T. harzianum strains at 106 CFUmL-1, whereas, the field experiments were inoculated with T. harzianum strain LIPIMCO548 in rice bran at 0, 25, 50 and 75g/m2 soil. In the greenhouse experiments, Trichoderma inoculation increased the root and shoot length, and total fresh weight of bean plant up to 16.57, 20.79 and 21.37%, respectively over the un-inoculated control. For tomato plants, significantly higher (p ≤0.05, LSD) average root growth was observed when inoculated with T. harzianum strain CE262 over the control. On average, Trichoderma inoculation increased the root and shoot length, and the fresh weight up to 26.4, 9.6 and 18.8%, respectively over the control. Similar growth patterns were also observed in the field experiments. These results will be of immense value to vegetable growers in Papua New Guinea (PNG), especially to the intensive vegetable growing areas in the highland regions of the country.
Blood profile of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with aged garlic extract or humates with probiotics at different growth stages
Authors: Nicolas Honeylet
Published: November 2018

The study was conducted to determine the effects of supplementing aged garlic extract (AGE) and humates with probiotics (HWP), at varying growth stages, on the blood profile of Cobb 500 broilers. The experiment followed the 4x4 factorial in Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The feed supplement was used as factor A (negative control, with AGE, with HWP, and positive control or antibacterial), and the different growth stage as the factor B (brooder stage/0-12 d, starter stage/13-21 d, grower stage/22-28 d, and brooder to grower stages/0-28 d). A total of 320 male day-old Cobb broiler chicks (DOC) were randomly distributed to 16 groups with four replicates each. The supplements were given at 1g/kg inclusion rate. Supplementation has no effect on the erythrocytic indices, specifically the RBC count, hemoglobin, packed cell volume (PCV), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC). The results showed that with the supplementation of AGE and HWP, the erythrocytic indices were maintained within the physiological limits. Thus, AGE and HWP supplementation has no adverse effect on the blood profile of Cobb 500 broiler.
Climate change and forest governance: towards a sustainable forest management of the half mile forest strip and adjacent communities in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
Authors: Augustino Edina , Minja Gileard
Published: November 2018

The study focused on the influence of climate change on forest governance at the Half Mile Forest Strip (HMFS) and adjacent villages in the Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. Specifically, the study identified the impacts of climate change on the HMFS and adjacent communities, and examined the people's perceptions on climate change in relation to forest governance. Further, the study examined the role of local institutions on forest governance and climate change resilience and adaptation strategies with associated policy interventions. The study adopted a mixed research designs whereby both qualitative and quantitative data were collected through different methods such as direct field observation, using semi-structured interviews, household surveys and focus group discussion. Data were analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software and excel programs. Findings revealed that climate change has affected the forest ecosystems, agriculture and water resources in the adjacent villages. Using the Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient, it was revealed that there was a negative correlation between the impacts of climate change and the current forest condition. Forest governance was perceived as a control mechanism for forest degradation whereby restrictions on the use of forest resource, afforestation, and reforestation were undertaken as measures to mitigate climate change impacts and build resilience in the forest sector and to adjacent communities.
MALİ MÜŞAVİRLİK MESLEĞİNİ TERCİHTE ETKİLİ FAKTÖRLER: İZMİR İLİ ÖRNEĞİ
Authors: NİŞANCI Zehra Nuray , İŞKARA Muhammet
Published: November 2018

Mali müşavirlik mesleği, Türkiye’de 1989 yılında 3568
sayılı kanun ile yasallaşmıştır. Diğer meslek gruplarında olduğu gibi mali
müşavirlik mesleğinin de tercih edilmesini etkileyen birçok faktör bulunmaktadır.
Bu araştırmanın amacı, Mali Müşavir olarak görev yapan meslek mensuplarının,
mesleği tercih etmelerini etkileyen faktörleri belirlemektir. Araştırma, İzmir
SMMM Odasına kayıtlı 342 mali müşavirin katılımlarıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Elde
edilen bulgulara göre, anne baba yönlendirmesi, okul arkadaşları ve
öğretmenlerin etkisi, rol modelin meslek mensubu olması, mesleğin kentli
mesleği olması ve gelirinin iyi olması, alınan eğitimin mesleğe uygun olması,
mesleğe duyulan özel ilgi, bağımsız çalışma imkanı sunması, gelecekte önemini
koruyacağı düşüncesi, baba mesleği olması ve şans/kader/tesadüf faktörleri mali
müşavirlik mesleğini seçmede önemli etkisi olan faktörlerdendir. Mesleğin
saygın bir sosyal statü sunması, sayısal alan olması, zihinsel özelliklere
uygunluğu, meslekte kolay iş bulabilme ve yükselme imkanının olması, fazla
sermaye gerektirmeyen bir meslek olması, masa başı işlerden olması ve çalışma
saatlerinin esnek olması faktörleri ise mali müşavirlik mesleğini seçmede önemli
etkisi olmayan faktörler olarak tespit edilmiştir.
XIII. Yüzyıl Erbil Kökenli Biyografi Müelliflerinden İbn Hallikân ve Eseri
Authors: KELEŞ Mahmut Recep
Published: November 2018

Birçok eski
medeniyete beşiklik etmiş olan Zap havzası, eğitim ve öğretim başta olmak üzere
tasavvufi bir merkez olarak ta ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bölge Musul ve Erbil gibi iki
büyük şehrin de etkisiyle gelişerek pek çok âlim, şair ve mutasavvıfın burada
faaliyet yapmasına neden olmuştur. Başta halifeler olmak üzere devlet adamları
ve zenginlerin himaye ve teşvikleriyle kurulan müesseselerde ilim, kültür ve
sanatta en önde gelen simalar yetişmiştir. Nakli ve beşeri ilimlerde yetişen âlimler
İslam dünyasının pek çok bölgesine gitmişler ve faaliyetlerini sürdürmüşlerdir.
Burada yetişen
meşhur âlimlerden olan İbn Hallikân, Erbil ve Musul’da öğrenimini tamamladıktan
sonra Eyyubi ve Memlüklü döneminin önemli âlim ve bürokratlarından olmuş ve
önemli işler başarmıştır. Bürokrat yönü ilmi yönünden bir adım ilerde olan İbn
Hallikân İslâm dünyasının Moğol ve Haçlı
istilasına uğraması, şehirlerin yakılıp yıkılması, âlim ve edebiyatçıların
öldürülmesi gibi çalkantılı bir döneminde yaşaması nedeniyle merak edilen
sorulara cevaplar vermek, şehirleri ve ülkeleri tanıtmak ve kültür hafızasını
korumak amacıyla Vefeyâtü’l-a’yân’ı telif etmiştir.

İbn Hallikan sözü edilen eserinde doğup büyüdüğü çevreye ve buradan
yetişenlere özel önem vermiş olduğu görülmektedir. Eserde Eyyubiler dönemi
emirlerinden İmadeddin b. Maştub, Adeviyye tarikatının kurucusu Adî b. Müsafir,
zahid Şeyhülislam el-Hakkârî ve Fakih İsâ el-Hakkâri gibi âlimler yer
almaktadır. İbn Hallikan, Hakkârili meşhurların yanı sıra Erbil ve Musullu pek
çok âlime yer vermiş olup bunların ekserisi kendi döneminde yaşayanlardan
oluşmaktadır. İbn Hallikan’ın bu bölgede faaliyet gösteren meşhurların çoğuyla
da görüştüğünden Vefeyatü’l-a’yan’ın bölgenin siyasi ve kültür tarihi
için önemli bir kaynak olduğu ortaya çıkmaktadır.
OSMANLI MAHKEMELERİNDE RODOSÇUKLU KADINLAR
Authors: ÖZABA Fatma
Published: November 2018

Çalışmamızda 17. yüzyıl başlarında Rodosçuk
toplumundaki kadın analiz edilmiştir. Kadın konusu incelenirken ana kaynak
olarak 1531 numaralı şer’iyye sicili kullanılmıştır. Bu
çalışma ile 1531 numaralı Rodosçuk şer’iyye sicili (H. 995-998, 1033/M.
1586-1589, 1623-1624) incelenerek elde edilen bulgular doğrultusunda Osmanlı
kadınının sahip olduğu sosyal, ekonomik ve hukuki haklar ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır.
Çalışma neticesinde Osmanlı kadınının toplumda sosyal, ekonomik ve hukuki
alanda aktif bir rol oynadığı ve 17. yüzyıl başında Rodosçuk’da kadınların
mahkemeleri etkin olarak kullandıkları görülmüştür.
Comparative Study on Surfactants Mixtures in Aqueous Solution at Atmospheric Pressure and 10 bar Reservoir Atmosphere
Authors: Elekes Andrea , Nagy Roland , Bartha László , Vágó Árpád
Published: November 2018

This paper considers anionic and nonionic surfactants, as candidates for crude oil production by enhancement applications. In this study some colloidal properties of surfactants were tested by conventional and new test methods. The oil in water type emulsions have great importance in the petroleum industry. The stability of crude oil in water emulsions are investigated in a wide range of physical and chemical circumstances. Investigations at 10 bar are needed to get knowledges on the real conditions of the given petroleum exploration processes. A special glass cell was used for the tests of the mixtures various crude oil-water emulsions under hydrocarbon gas atmosphere and for the oil disclapement efficiency. Based on the experimental results it was found that emulsifying capacity was changed significantly by the real process conditions. The decrease of the density of hydrocarbon phase was contributed to the overall reduction in the efficiency of emulsifiers also occurred. Based on the experimented data it is supported to pay more attention to apply the real test conditions or approximate the real values.
Bacteriological quality of dry powder milk available in local markets of Bangladesh
Authors: Afrin Nazia , Shilpi Rasheda Yasmin
Published: November 2018

Milk and milk powders are very rich in several nutrients and relished by everybody throughout the world. The present study was undertaken with the aim of investigating the bacteriological quality of locally available dry powder milk in Bangladesh. A total number of eight powder milk samples were collected from Gazipur city and its surrounding areas during the period from January 2017 to February 2017. The analysis comprised of enumeration of total viable bacterial count (TVBC), isolation of bacterial isolates and identification of pathogenic bacteria. Almost all the powder milk samples showed the total aerobic heterotrophic bacterial (TAHB) level above the standard acceptable range (>104 CFU/g). Both gram positive and gram negative pathogenic bacteria viz. Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Bacillus, pseudomonas sp. and Enterobacter sp. were isolated from studied samples through morphological and biochemical characteristics. Pseudomonas sp. were confirmed by API 20E. These results highlighted the necessity to maintain appropriate sanitary and hygienic measures at each critical point in order to safeguard consumers from food borne pathogens.Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. September 2018, 4(3): 267-273
Identification and antibiogram study of bacteria isolated from different street food
Authors: Khalif Mohamed Ahmed , Hossain Md Khaled , Rumi Nazmi Ara , Rahman Md Shajedur , Hosen Md Aoulad
Published: November 2018

Food borne diseases are an increasingly recognized problem involving a wide spectrum of illnesses caused by bacterial contamination of food.Microorganism poses potential human health problems and is mainly transmitted through consumption of contaminated foods .Bangladesh is one of the densely populated country where majority of the people consume cheap foods prepared in unlicensed food selling points. The objective of the present study was to investigate the microbiological quality of different street food (Amra, Fusca, Chanachur and Guava) sold by various street vendor at Dinajpur, Bangladesh. A total of 20 samples were collected randomly from street vendors and tested for the presence of bacteria following standard microbiological method used for isolation, enumaration and identification of bacreria. Among the samples all had bacterial contamination. The total viable count (TVC) in diferrent street food samples was ranged from 8.0 × 105 CFU/g to 6.7x107 CFU/g. Among samples Escherichia coli 7(35%), Staphylococcus spp. 6(30%), Klebsiella spp. 5(25%), Salmonella spp. 1(5%) and Shigella spp. 1 (5%) were isolated. Escherichia coli were found highest 3(50%) Amra samples and 2(40%) Guava samples, then another organisms Staphylococcus spp. was found highest 2(50%) Chanachur and 2(40%) Fusca samples and then Klebsiella spp. was found highest 2(40%) Fusca samples. Antibiotic sensitivity test showed that Shigella spp., Staphylococcus spp., Klebsiella spp., Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli were sensitive to Ciprofloxacin and Salmonella spp. were resistance to Gentamycin. All isolates found resistant to Cefixime, Cefalexin, Erythromycin, Fusidic acid, Cefuroxime and Aztreonam. All of the sample harbor multidrug resistant food borne bacteria which might cause public health hazards if these antibiotic resistance transfer to human.Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. September 2018, 4(3): 279-287
Present status of aqua-medicines used in aquaculture at Jessore sadar upazila, Bangladesh
Authors: Adhikary Ripon Kumar , Rahman Mizanur , Asif Abdulla Al
Published: November 2018

In order to know the present status of aqua-medicines used in aquaculture activities in Jessore district, Bangladesh a rigorous investigation was conducted with fish farmers and representative of pharmaceutical companies from January, 2016 to May 2016. An extensive assortment of aqua-medicines was comprehended throughout pond prepation and water excellence administration by the agrarians. Amongst them Zeo-Fesh, Zeo Prime, Ecolite, Megazeo plus, Geotox, Jv Zeolite, Acmes, Benthos, Pond life, were extensively used in field level. Disinfectants has precise significance; far and wide used by the agrarians and the furthermost prevalent disinfectants are Pathonil, Timen, Fmsen, Virex, Aquakleen etc., the reimbursements of disinfectants are to inhibit dissimilar categories of bacterial, fungal and viral diseases resembling gill rot, tail rot, dropsy etc. to uphold sanitized circumstance in pond apparatus and floorings and in some circumstances use to treat disease. Numerous aqua-medicines were established in the aqua-medicines retailers that were informed to be used as noxious gas reducer. The obtainable deadly gas reducer were gastrap, gas stop, gasonex plus, ammonil besides that, remunerations of using venomous gas reducer are to eliminate the lethal gas like NH3, H2S, CO2 etc. since the bottommost of pond to diminish concentration of ammonia. For upgrading of dissolve oxygen level, Oxyflow, Oxymax, Bio Care, Bio-Ox, Oxy-Gold, Oxy-A, Oxylife were extensively used in the study area. A number of aqua medicines were found in the aqua-medicine enterprise used as growth promoter in addition to upsurge yield performance like, Megavit Aqua, Aqua Boots, Aquamin, Acimix etc. were extensively used in study area. Countless pharmaceutical companies have been chronicled to marketplace these aquaculture healthcare products. Furthermost of the products have been promoted from diverse republics like USA, Thailand, Malaysia, Belgium, and China and values were inconstant, but appeared to be reasonable to agrarians. The contemporaneous investigation pointed out numerous restraints concomitant with the use of such aqua-medicines, comprising nonexistence of methodological acquaintance of agrarians about use of aqua-medicines.Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. September 2018, 4(3): 288-297
Nanostructure-induced performance degradation of WO3·nH2O for energy conversion and storage devices
Authors: Hai Zhenyin , Karbalaei Akbari Mohammad , Wei Zihan , Cui Danfeng , Xue Chenyang , Xu Hongyan , Heynderickx Philippe M , Verpoort Francis , Zhuiykov Serge
Published: November 2018

Although 2D layered nanomaterials have been intensively investigated towards their application in energy conversion and storage devices, their disadvantages have rarely been explored so far especially compared to their 3D counterparts. Herein, WO3·nH2O (n = 0, 1, 2), as the most common and important electrochemical and electrochromic active nanomaterial, is synthesized in 3D and 2D structures through a facile hydrothermal method, and the disadvantages of the corresponding 2D structures are examined. The weakness of 2D WO3·nH2O originates from its layered structure. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analyses of as-grown WO3·nH2O samples suggest a structural transition from 2D to 3D upon temperature increase. 2D WO3·nH2O easily generates structural instabilities by 2D intercalation, resulting in a faster performance degradation, due to its weak interlayer van der Waals forces, even though it outranks the 3D network structure in terms of improved electronic properties. The structural transformation of 2D layered WO3·nH2O into 3D nanostructures is observed via ex situ Raman measurements under electrochemical cycling experiments. The proposed degradation mechanism is confirmed by the morphology changes. The work provides strong evidence for and in-depth understanding of the weakness of 2D layered nanomaterials and paves the way for further interlayer reinforcement, especially for 2D layered transition metal oxides.
High-mass Outflows Identified from COHRS CO (3–2) Survey
Authors: Li Qiang , Zhou Jianjun , Esimbek Jarken , He Yuxin , Baan W. A. , Li Dalei , Wu Gang , Tang Xindi , Ji Weiguang , Zhexeray Dauren
Published: November 2018

An unbiased search of molecular outflows within the region of the CO High Resolution survey has identified 157 high-mass outflows from a sample of 770 APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy clumps with a detection rate of 20%. The detection rate of outflows increases for clumps with higher M
clump, L
bol, L
bol/M
clump,

N

H

2

, and T
dust compared to the clumps with no outflow. The detection rates of the outflow increase from protostellar (8%) to young stellar object clump (17%) to massive star-forming clump (29%). The detection rate 26% for quiescent clump is preliminary, because the sample of quiescent clumps is small. A statistical relation between the outflow and clump masses for our sample is

log
(

M

out

/

M

⊙

)
=
(
−
1.1
±
0.21
)

+

(
0.9
±
0.07
)
log
(

M

clump

/

M

⊙

)

. The detection rate of outflows and the outflow mass-loss rate show an increase with increasing M
clump, L
bol,

N

H

2

, and T
dust, which indicates that clumps with outflow with higher parameter values are at a more advanced evolutionary stage. The outflow mechanical force increases with increasing bolometric luminosities. No clear evidence has yet been found that higher-mass outflows have different launching conditions than low-mass outflows.