bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Web-based Database for Drawings of Gods
Authors: Robert Zhargalma Dandarova , Dessart Grέgory , Serbaeva Olga , Puzdriac Camelia , Khodayarifard Mohammad , Zardkhaneh Saeed Akbari , Zandi Saeid , Petanova Elena , Ladd Kevin L. , Brandt Pierre-Yves
Published: October 2016

This original web-based database was developed at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) as part of the international research project “Drawings of gods”, which explores children's representations of supernatural agents. Its primary purpose is to store and organize data and metadata to be easily accessible to all affiliated researchers. However, anyone interested in the matter can view the drawings, as they were made publicly available. At present, our corpus is composed of over 5'100 drawings collected in different parts of the world (i.e., Japan, Russia, Switzerland, Romania, USA and Iran) and yet constantly developing.
Religious Schema within a Muslim Ideological Surround
Authors: Ghorbani Nima , Watson P. J. , Amirbeigi Mahmood , Chen Zhuo Job
Published: October 2016

With Religious Schema Scales in the West, Truth of Texts and Teachings correlates negatively with the commitment to interreligious dialogue recorded by Xenosophia. This measure of fundamentalism also predicts problematic religious and psychosocial functioning. The present project examined Religious Schema Scales in university students and Islamic seminarians in the Muslim cultural context of Iran. Truth of Texts and Teachings correlated positively rather than negatively with Xenosophia and predicted religious and psychological adjustment. The adaptive implications of Truth of Texts and Teachings were especially evident in Islamic seminarians. These results supplemented previous Religious Schema data from India and Malaysia in suggesting that fundamentalism may have more positive implications outside the West. Cross-cultural differences in fundamentalism more generally support arguments of an Ideological Surround Model that the incommensurability of religious and other social rationalities requires careful research attention.
Prayer and Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Religious Support
Authors: You Sukkyung , Yoo Ji Eun
Published: October 2016

We examined the associations of different types of prayer with subjective well-being—with a religious support as a potential moderator—in a sample of Korean adults. In a cross-sectional study, 468 participants completed measures of five prayer types (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, and reception prayer), subjective well-being, and religious support. After controlling for background variables, the thanksgiving prayers had positive associations and supplication prayers had negative associations with subjective well-being. In examining the potential moderating role of religious support, the current findings showed that religious support strengthened the relationship between reception prayer and subjective well-being, especially among individuals who perceived moderate and high levels of religious support. These findings indicate differential associations between prayer type and well-being in Korean adults.
A Story of Convergence of ipr Regimes: The ipr Chapter in the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Authors: Guo Shuai
Published: October 2016

The signature of the free trade agreement between China and Korea (China-Korea fta) on 1 June 2015 marked the first of this type in North-eastern Asia. Noteworthy is that Chapter 15 thereof, which has 31 articles, is dedicated to intellectual property rights (ipr). The ipr chapter covers general principles, copyright and related rights, trademarks, patents and utility model, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore, plant variety protection, undisclosed information, and industrial design. This paper examines the ipr provisions in the China-Korea fta against the background of the evolving international regime for ipr protection and particularly the ipr provisions in the existing ftas which China has concluded and those Korea has concluded respectively, and then provides a critical evaluation of the ipr provisions in the China-Korea fta. It argues that China-Korea fta is a result of the convergence of various ipr regimes that both countries are shaping separately or jointly, and may serve as a model for upcoming ftas.
Marasmius calvocystidiatus sp. nov. and M. horridulus (Marasmiaceae): characterization of two unusual species from central Amazonia
Authors: KOMURA DIRCE L. , OLIVEIRA JADSON J. S. DE , MONCALVO JEAN-MARC , MARGARITESCU SIMONA , ZARTMAN CHARLES E.
Published: October 2016

Two taxa of Marasmius sect. Marasmius are herein (re)described, reported from the Amazon forest. Marasmius calvocystidiatus is proposed as a new species on account of its glabrous (bald) pileus with smooth cystidia, some of them lobed or with coarse excrescences in the pileipellis. On the other hand, the only taxon of sect. Marasmius subsect. Horriduli, Marasmius horridulus is redescribed herein, highlighting its “hairy” pileus (similar to Crinipellis species) with abundant, dextrinoid, setiform hairs rising from a hymeniform to subhymeniform pileipellis composed of anomalous broom-cells. Molecular evidence (based on ITS data) indicates that both taxa indeed belong to Marasmius sensu stricto, and are immediate sister to each other in trees reconstructed by phylogenetic analyses accomplished in this study. Our phylogenetic hypothesis also suggests that M. calvocystidiatus and M. horridulus are close to M. purpureisetosus, a species with sparse setiform hairs and also anomalous thick-walled broom cells in the pileipellis, and to a group of species members of sect. Marasmius subsect. Rotalis. In this paper we present morphological descriptions, line drawings, color plates and a phylogenetic hypothesis in support of our findings for M. calvocystidiatus and M. horridulus.
Two new species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1929 (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from tributaries of the lower Amazon basin in Brazil
Authors: BIRINDELLI JOSÉ L. O. , TEIXEIRA TULIO F. , BRITSKI HERALDO A.
Published: October 2016

Two new species of Leporinus (Characiformes, Anostomidae) are described. Both new species are diagnosed by having one dark blotch on midline of anterior portion of the flank (between opercle and pelvic-fin origin) surrounded by five to seven dark blotches; and a subinferior mouth with three premaxillary teeth. Leporinus multimaculatus, new species, is distributed in small and medium-sized tributaries of the rio Tocantins and rio Xingu basins, and also in the rio Jari and coastal drainages of Amapá state, whereas L. torrenticola, new species, is endemic to the rapids of the rio Xingu and its main tributaries. The number of scale rows around the caudal peduncle is the main feature distinguishing L. multimaculatus from L. torrenticola. Comments on the diagnostic features of the newly described species are provided. In addition, the phylogenetic position and generic assignment of the new species are discussed based on available information from recent morphological and molecular analyses.
Two new species and new records of the genus Paraopisthosyllis Hartmann-Schröder, 1991 (Annelida: Syllidae) from northeastern Brazil and Philippine Islands
Authors: PARESQUE KARLA , MARTÍN GUILLERMO SAN , ÁLVAREZ-CAMPOS PATRICIA , NOGUEIRA JOÃO MIGUEL DE MATOS , FUKUDA MARCELO VERONESI
Published: October 2016

Two new species of Paraopisthosyllis are described herein, P. correiae sp. nov. (State of Pernambuco, NE Brazil) and P. kuluguhin sp. nov. (Philippines). Paraopisthosyllis correiae sp. nov. represents the first record for the genus in Brazilian waters and it is also the second species known to occur outside the Pacific Ocean. This species is characterized by having a marked color pattern, with a transverse red stripe between dorsal cirri on each segment and an inverted V anteriorly and a V posteriorly on some segments, small papillae on body, large, distinct papillae on dorsal cirri, compound chaetae with elongated, bidentate blades, shafts with moderate subdistal serration on margin, pharyngeal tooth located on anterior third of pharynx, near the pharyngeal opening, and reproduction by schizogamy. Paraopisthosyllis kuluguhin sp. nov. represents the first report of the genus for the Philippines, together with P. pardus, originally known from Australia and also found in the Philippines in the present study. This new species is characterized by its color pattern, with dark patches irregularly distributed on anterior segments, forming one anterior pigmented short band and two lateral areas on each chaetiger after the proventricle, club-shaped dorsal cirri, and short, bidentate compound chaetae. Our findings allow us to synonymize the genus Basidiosyllis to Paraopisthosyllis and represent the first report of sexual stolons (scissiparity) in this genus, which supports its allocation into the subfamily Syllinae.
За следите от Методиевия превод на Книгата на пророк Йеремия
Authors: Мострова [Mostrova] Татяна [Tatiana]
Published: October 2016

On traces of the Methodian translation of the Book of JeremiahThe article presents preliminary observations concerning the excerpts from the Book of Jeremiah in the Archival Chronograph (fifteenth century) and Vilno Chronograph (sixteenth century). According to their content, localization and linguistic characteristics, they fall into two main groups. Some of the excerpts are identified as chapters from the Slavic Prophetolo­gion and are connected with the translation made by Cyril and Methodius. Other chapters, which are not included in the Cyrillic and Glagolitic liturgical books, belong to the first, probably untranslated or now lost, part of the Book of Jeremiah. The excerpts that cannot be found in the Prophetologion also have archaic linguistic bases, connected to the translational techniques characteristic of the Cyrillo-Methodian translations, and differ considerably from the translation with commentaries that was made in Preslav. Whether these excerpts belong to an independent earlier translation, made by Methodius and his co-workers, or they are extracts from encyclopedic miscellany, they provide valuable material for the study of this biblical book and of the Old Bulgarian translation of the Old Testament. O śladach przekładu Księgi Jeremiasza autorstwa św. MetodegoArtykuł prezentuje wstępne obserwacje na temat fragmentów Księgi Jeremiasza, znaj­dujących się w zbiorach Archival Chronograph (XV wiek) i Vilno Chronograph (XVI wiek). Zgodnie z ich zawartością, miejscem powstania i cechami językowymi wchodzą one w skład dwóch głównych grup. Niektóre fragmenty są rozpoznane jako rozdziały słowiańskiego parimejnika i są związane z przekładem autorstwa śś. Cyryla i Metodego. Inne rozdziały, które nie weszły w skład cyrylickich i głagolickich ksiąg liturgicznych, należą do pierwszej, prawdopodobnie nieprzetłumaczonej lub zaginionej, części Księgi Jeremiasza. Fragmenty, które nie znajdują się w parimejniku, także mają archaiczną podstawę językową, związaną z technikami translatorskimi, charakterystycznymi dla przekładów cyrylometodejskich i znacznie różnią się od przekładu z komentarzami, powstałego w Presławiu. Bez względu na to, czy fragmenty te są częścią wcześniejszego, niezależnego tłumaczenia wykonanego przez Metodego i jego współpracowników, czy są fragmentami z encyklopedycznego miscellaneum, stanowią ważny punkt odniesienia do badania tej biblijnej księgi, a także starobułgarskiego przekładu Starego Testamentu.
Парадоксалната българска рецепция на Библията през епохата на Възраждането
Authors: Аретов [Aretov] Николай [Nikolaĭ]
Published: October 2016

Paradoxical Bulgarian reception of the Bible during the National RevivalThis paper is focused on the difficulties that Bulgarian reception of the Bible encountered in nineteenth century – the lack of older canonical translations and the opposition of the Ecumenical Patriarchate against new translations, which were associated with Protestantism. Some instances that illustrate the ideas of the Bulgarians from that period are presented. One of them is from Two Brothers (Dvama bratya; 1888–1889) by Iliya Blaskov – a semi-documental novel dealing with the fates of the author’s family. The author concludes that the image of the Holy Scripture that even pious teachers had at that time was vague and closer to folklore than to modern biblical notions. Paradoksalna bułgarska recepcja Biblii w czasie odrodzenia narodowegoArtykuł prezentuje problemy bułgarskiej recepcji Biblii w XIX wieku – brak starszego tłumaczenia kanonicznego, a także opór Patriarchatu Konstantynopola wobec nowego przekładu kojarzonego z protestantyzmem. W pracy omówiono kilka przykładów bułgarskich koncepcji przekładu Pisma Świętego. Jedna z nich pochodzi z utworu Двама братя (1888–1889) Ilii Błyskowa – quasi-dokumentalnej powieści opowiadającej o losach rodziny autora. Okazuje się, że obraz Pisma Świętego, jaki mieli w tamtym czasie działacze bułgarskiego odrodzenia narodowego, był bardzo mglisty i bliższy folklorowi aniżeli nowoczesnym kategoriom.
Наблюдения върху лексикалната вариативност при библейските цитати в Йоан-Екзарховия превод на De Fide Orthodoxa
Authors: Илиева [Ilieva] Татяна [Tatiana]
Published: October 2016

Observations on the theological terminology in the biblical quotations in John the Exarch’s translation of De Fide OrthodoxaThe paper presented here aims at comparing the theological terms as used, on the one hand, in the biblical quotations in John the Exarch’s translation of De fide orthodoxa and, on the other, in the Old Bulgarian (Grigirovich Prophetologion, Codex Marianus, Codex Zographiensis, Sinai Psalter, Enina Apostolos) as well as in some Middle Bulgarian (Bologna Psalter, Karpinski Apostolos, Ohridski Apostolos) Old Russian (Mstislav Gospels, Yurievski Gospels, Pogodinov Psalter, Chudov Psalter, Tolstoev Apostolos, Hristinopol Apostolos) and Old Serbia (Shishatovatski Apostolos, Matich Apostolos) monuments. Also taken in consideration are the respective parts in certain theological writings associated with the Preslav Literary Centre. Uwagi o terminologii teologicznej w cytatach z Biblii w przekładzie De Fide Orthodoxa Jana EgzarchyCelem artykułu jest porównanie terminologii teologicznej w cytatach biblijnych w przekładzie De fide othodoxa Jana Egzarchy, w starobułgarskich zabytkach językowych (Lekcjonarz Grigorowizca, Kodeks Mariański, Kodeks Zografski, Psałterz Synajski, Apostoł Eniński), w wybranych zabytkach średniobułgarskich (Psałterz Boloński, Apostoł Karpinski, Apostoł Ohrydzki), staroruskich (Ewangeliarz Mścisława, Ewangeliarz Jurjewski, Psałterz Pogodina, Psałterz Chłudowa, Apostoł Tołstoja, Apostoł Krystynopolski) i staroserbskich (Apostoł Sziszatowacki, Apostoł Maticia). Analizie poddano także poszczególne części wybranych pism teologicznych powstałych w presławskiej szkole piśmienniczej.
Kazalište kao stjecište kolektivne i privatne traume u Erigonu Jordana Plevneša
Authors: Baković Ivica
Published: October 2016

Theatre as the confluence of the collective and private trauma in Erigon by Jordan PlevnešThe text problematizes the concept of national history and trauma in the play Erigon, written by the contemporary Macedonian playwright Jordan Plevneš. The starting point of the analysis are some peculiarities of Plevneš’s poetics and of the theatrical conceptions of Antonin Artaud that are central to Erigon as well as the problem of the representation (and performance) of history in drama and theatre. In Erigon one can recognize the critique of eurocentrism and the European centres of power along with their influence on the forma­tion of political and historical processes in Macedonia and the Balkans in general. The main question concerns the societal role of political theatre and its power. Teatr jako ujście zbiorowej i prywatnej traumy w Erigonie Jordana PlevnešaTekst prezentuje koncepcję historii narodowej i traumy w sztuce Erigon autorstwa współ­czesnego macedońskiego dramatopisarza – Jordana Plevneša. Punktem wyjścia do analizy są cechy charakterystyczne poetyki Autora oraz koncepcje teatralne Antonina Artauda, które zajmują w Erigonie miejsce centralne, podobnie jak problem reprezentacji (i performansu) historii w dramacie i teatrze. W Erigonie rozpoznać można krytykę eurocentryzmu obecnego w politycznych i historycznych procesach w Macedonii, a także ogólnie na Bałkanach. Główne pytanie dotyczy roli teatru politycznego i jego siły oddziaływania na społeczeństwo.
Granice wewnątrz granic. Nowy regionalizm we współczesnej literaturze chorwackiej
Authors: Boguska Anna
Published: October 2016

Borders within borders: A new regionalism in contemporary Croatian literatureThe article is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of Croatian literature researchers’ reflection about regionalism in the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author observes that there is a tendency to see Croatian literature as one that produces two different models of texts in terms of poetics and philosophy – the northern, which is “Central European,” and the southern, which is “Mediterranean.” She then examines the coherence of the “ideal types” delineated by researches according to the themes and literary devices utilised, based on two short stories from 2006, by writers one of whom is from the northern and the other – from the southern part of the country. Granice wewnątrz granic. Nowy regionalizm we współczesnej literaturze chorwackiejArtykuł jest próbą syntetycznej prezentacji refleksji chorwackich badaczy literatury na temat regionalizmu w XX i na początku XXI wieku. Autorka wskazuje na istnienie tendencji do postrzegania chorwackiej literatury jako realizującej dwa odmienne – północny tj. środ­kowoeuropejski oraz południowy tj. śródziemnomorski – modele tekstów w zakresie poetyki i filozofii, a następnie na podstawie dwóch opowiadań z 2006 roku, napisanych przez pisarzy z Północy i Południa, sprawdza przystawalność nakreślonych przez badaczy „typów idealnych” do materiału literackiego.
Ważny wkład w badania nad paleotypią południowosłowiańską
Authors: Kryzia Władysław
Published: October 2016

An important contribution to the study of South Slavic palaeotypesA review of the new monograph on history of the Bulgarian language: Ivan Petrov, Od inkunabułów do pierwszych gramatyk. Konteksty rozwoju bułgarskiego języka literackiego (koniec XV – początek XVII wieku), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015. Ważny wkład w badania nad paleotypią południowosłowiańskąRecenzja nowej monografii z zakresu historii języka bułgarskiego: Ivan Petrov, Od inkunabułów do pierwszych gramatyk. Konteksty rozwoju bułgarskiego języka literackiego (koniec XV – początek XVII wieku), Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015, ss. 268.
Teoria w działaniu
Authors: Rękas Joanna
Published: October 2016

Theory in actionA review of the new monograph in anthropology of religion: Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska, Ukrzyżowani. Współczesne misteria męki Pańskiej w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2013. Teoria w działaniuRecenzja nowej monografii z zakresu antropologii religii: Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska, Ukrzyżowani. Współczesne misteria męki Pańskiej w Polsce, Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2013, ss. 351.
Pamięć o granicach. Demarkacyjna produktywność Wodzic w mijackich wsiach Bituše i Ehloec
Authors: Rękas Joanna
Published: October 2016

Memory of the borders: The demarcation productivity of Vodici in the Mijaci - inhabited Macedonian villages of Bituše and EhloecThe main aim of this article is to present ways of expressing the inner (religious) and exter­nal (ethnic) social boundaries of Mijaks, as they appear during the celebration of the festival of Epiphany (Revelation of Lord / Baptism of Christ in the Jordan / Vodici) in the villages of Bituše and Ehloec (Western Macedonia). The realization of this goal is based on the notion of the demarcation productivity of Vodici, developed based on Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy’s theory of ritual codes, with its semiotic foundations of Yuri Lotman’s signifying elements; insights concerning the relationship between rituals and social boundaries made by Anthony Cohen and Macin Lubaś; Clifford Geertz’s observations on the ritual ignorance of newly-created urban social patterns; the notions of collective memory of religious groups of Maurice Halbwachs; Paul Connerton’s commemorative ceremonies and the concept of media of memory, developed by Jan Assmann, Astrid Erll and others. The sources of analysis are the results of my fieldwork, i.e. participant observation and in-depth interviews (primary sources, 2012–2014), carried out in the mentioned villages, as well as secondary sources: printed materials, manuscripts, as well as audio and video recordings. Pamięć o granicach. Demarkacyjna produktywność Wodzic w mijackich wsiach Bituše i EhloecPodstawowym celem artykułu jest przedstawienie sposobów ekspresji wewnętrznych (różnowierczych) i zewnętrznych (etnicznych) granic społecznych Mijaków, ujawniających się podczas obchodów święta Epifanii (Objawienie Pańskie/Chrzest Chrystusa w Jordanie/ Wodzice) we wsiach Bituše i Ehloec (zachodnia Macedonia). Realizację tego zamierzenia autorka opiera na demarkacyjnej produktywności Wodzic, wypracowanej w oparciu o teorie: kodów obrzędowych Nikity Ilicza Tołstoja z jej semiotycznymi fundamentami elementów znaczących Jurija Łotmana; zależności między obrzędami a granicami społecznymi Anthony Cohena i Marcina Lubasia; rytualnej ignorancji nowo powstałych miejskich wzorów społecz­nych Clifforda Geertza; pamięci zbiorowej grup religijnych Maurice Halbwachsa; ceremonii upamiętniających Paula Connertona oraz mediów pamięci Jana Assmanna, Astrid Erll i in. Źródłami analiz są wyniki własnych badań terenowych, tj. obserwacji uczestniczącej oraz wywiadu pogłębionego (źródła wytworzone, 2012–2014), przeprowadzonych we wspomnianych miejscowościach, a także materiały zastane, drukowane, rękopisy, zapisy audio i audio-video.
The SCALEX Campaign: Scale-Crossing Land Surface and Boundary Layer Processes in the TERENO-preAlpine Observatory
Authors: Wolf B. , Chwala C. , Fersch B. , Garvelmann J. , Junkermann W. , Zeeman M. J. , Angerer A. , Adler B. , Beck C. , Brosy C. , Brugger P. , Emeis S. , Dannenmann M. , De Roo F. , Diaz-Pines E. , Haas E. , Hagen M. , Hajnsek I. , Jacobeit J. , Jagdhuber T. , Kalthoff N. , Kiese R. , Kunstmann H. , Kosak O. , Krieg R. , Malchow C. , Mauder M. , Merz R. , Notarnicola C. , Philipp A. , Reif W. , Reineke S. , Rödiger T. , Ruehr N. , Schäfer K. , Schrön M. , Senatore A. , Shupe H. , Völksch I. , Wanninger C. , Zacharias S. , Schmid H. P.
Published: October 2016

ScaleX is a collaborative measurement campaign, collocated with a long-term environmental observatory of the German Terrestrial Environmental Observatories (TERENO) network in the mountainous terrain of the Bavarian Prealps, Germany. The aims of both TERENO and ScaleX include the measurement and modeling of land surface–atmosphere interactions of energy, water, and greenhouse gases. ScaleX is motivated by the recognition that long-term intensive observational research over years or decades must be based on well-proven, mostly automated measurement systems, concentrated in a small number of locations. In contrast, short-term intensive campaigns offer the opportunity to assess spatial distributions and gradients by concentrated instrument deployments, and by mobile sensors (ground and/or airborne) to obtain transects and three-dimensional patterns of atmospheric, surface, or soil variables and processes. Moreover, intensive campaigns are ideal proving grounds for innovative instruments, methods, and techniques to measure quantities that cannot (yet) be automated or deployed over long time periods. ScaleX is distinctive in its design, which combines the benefits of a long-term environmental-monitoring approach (TERENO) with the versatility and innovative power of a series of intensive campaigns, to bridge across a wide span of spatial and temporal scales. This contribution presents the concept and first data products of ScaleX-2015, which occurred in June–July 2015. The second installment of ScaleX took place in summer 2016 and periodic further ScaleX campaigns are planned throughout the lifetime of TERENO. This paper calls for collaboration in future ScaleX campaigns or to use our data in modelling studies. It is also an invitation to emulate the ScaleX concept at other long-term observatories.
Tropical Cyclones Downscaled from Simulations with Very High Carbon Dioxide Levels
Authors: Korty Robert L. , Emanuel Kerry A. , Huber Matthew , Zamora Ryan A.
Published: October 2016

A method to simulate thousands of tropical cyclones using output from a global climate model is applied to simulations that span very high surface temperatures forced with high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). The climatology of the storms downscaled from a simulation with modern-day conditions is compared to that of events downscaled from two other simulations featuring 8 and 32 times preindustrial-era levels of CO2. Storms shift poleward with warming: genesis locations and track densities increase in subtropical and higher latitudes, and power dissipation increases poleward of 20°S and 30°N. The average latitude at which storms reach their maximum intensity shifts poleward by more than 1.5° latitude in the 8 × CO2 experiment and by more than 7° latitude in the 32 × CO2 case. Storms live longer and are more numerous in both of the warmer climates. These increases come largely from an expansion of the area featuring favorable conditions into subtropics and midlatitudes, with some regions of the Arctic having the thermodynamic conditions necessary to sustain systems in the hottest case. Storms of category 5 intensity are 52% more frequent in the 8 × CO2 experiment but 40% less so in the 32 × CO2 case, largely owing to a substantial decline in low-latitude activity associated with increases in a normalized measure of wind shear called the ventilation index. Changes in genesis and track densities align well with differences in the ventilation index, and environmental conditions become substantially more favorable poleward of about 20° latitude in the warmer climates.
Methods for Comparing Simulated and Observed Satellite Infrared Brightness Temperatures and What Do They Tell Us?
Authors: Griffin Sarah M. , Otkin Jason A. , Rozoff Christopher M. , Sieglaff Justin M. , Cronce Lee M. , Alexander Curtis R.
Published: October 2016

In this study, the utility of dimensioned, neighborhood-based, and object-based forecast verification metrics for cloud verification is assessed using output from the experimental High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRRx) model over a 1-day period containing different modes of convection. This is accomplished by comparing observed and simulated Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 10.7-μm brightness temperatures (BTs). Traditional dimensioned metrics such as mean absolute error (MAE) and mean bias error (MBE) were used to assess the overall model accuracy. The MBE showed that the HRRRx BTs for forecast hours 0 and 1 are too warm compared with the observations, indicating a lack of cloud cover, but rapidly become too cold in subsequent hours because of the generation of excessive upper-level cloudiness. Neighborhood and object-based statistics were used to investigate the source of the HRRRx cloud cover errors. The neighborhood statistic fractions skill score (FSS) showed that displacement errors between cloud objects identified in the HRRRx and GOES BTs increased with time. Combined with the MBE, the FSS distinguished when changes in MAE were due to differences in the HRRRx BT bias or displacement in cloud features. The Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE) analyzed the similarity between HRRRx and GOES cloud features in shape and location. The similarity was summarized using the newly defined MODE composite score (MCS), an area-weighted calculation using the cloud feature match value from MODE. Combined with the FSS, the MCS indicated if HRRRx forecast error is the result of cloud shape, since the MCS is moderately large when forecast and observation objects are similar in size.
Il partigiano Johnny di Beppe Fenoglio: Un caso letterario aperto
Authors: Catalfamo Antonio
Published: October 2016

L’autore, nel presente saggio, riprende la questione controversa relativa alla datazione de Il partigiano Johnny di Beppe Fenoglio, alla luce di una recente testimonianza del sociologo Franco Ferrarotti, che sostiene di aver incontrato lo scrittore di Alba nel 1948 e che questi gli parlò del suddetto romanzo, già in fase di composizione. Questa ipotesi contrasta con la tesi prevalente nell’ambito della critica precedente, secondo cui la composizione del romanzo fenogliano va spostata in avanti di un decennio. Conseguentemente essa ha suscitato un animato dibattito. L’autore, avvalendosi di un metodo critico integrale, che utilizza insieme elementi testimoniali, documentali, storico-filologici, stilistici, dimostra che la testimonianza di Ferrarotti ha un fondamento e non può essere liquidata sbrigativamente come frutto di “fantasia romanzesca”.
Educational research and the sight of inquiry: Visual methodologies before visual methods
Authors: Metcalfe Amy Scott
Published: October 2016

As visual methods are increasingly validated in the social sciences, including educational research, we must interrogate the sight of inquiry as we employ visual methods to examine our research sites. In this essay, three layers of engagement with the visual are examined in relation to educational research: looking, seeing, and envisioning. This methodological focus entails a commitment to theory, particularly visual theory, and researcher positionality, especially in relation to the literal and figurative aspects of one's viewpoint.
Towards a rhythmic account of working together and taking part
Authors: Springgay Stephanie
Published: October 2016

The idea that the world is composed of moving and constantly transforming materialities that are vibrant, quivering, and indeterminate has shifted how we think about human and non-human relations. Matter is not a stable entity, but one that is continuously vibrating and differentiating. This materialism is crucial for thinking about possible futures of educational research. In this paper, I turn to the materiality of rhythm, movement, and affect to suggest a more vital understanding of participation and thus politics. The paper takes as its starting point contemporary art that is often framed as collaborative, relational, or participatory. However, the dilemma with such art is that under the guise of collaboration, sociality, and inclusion participation becomes a method of appeasement as opposed to any real process of transformation. Participation is often instrumentalized in order to minimize conflict and friction, and reifies utopic notions of emancipation, voice, and agency. In this short essay, I want to consider participation's materiality. Rather than thinking of participation as democratic decision-making, can we imagine participation as an intrinsic mode of being where taking part is not something to opt into or out of, but a vital lived relation.
Habituating field scientists
Authors: Alcayna-Stevens Lys
Published: October 2016

This article explores the sensory dimensions of scientific field research in the only region in the world where free-ranging bonobos ( Pan paniscus) can be studied in their natural environment; the equatorial rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. If, as sensory anthropologists have argued, the senses are developed, grown and honed in a given cultural and environmental milieu, how is it that field scientists come to dwell among familiarity in a world which is, at first, unfamiliar? This article builds upon previous anthropological and philosophical engagements with habituation that have critically examined primatologists’ attempts to become ‘neutral objects in the environment’ in order to habituate wild apes to their presence. It does so by tracing the somatic modes of attention developed by European and North American researchers as they follow bonobos in these forests. The argument is that as environments, beings and their elements become familiar, they do not become ‘neutral’, but rather, suffused with meaning.
Integrated environmental policy: A review of economic analysis
Authors: Wiesmeth Hans , Häckl Dennis
Published: October 2016

Holistic environmental policies, which emerged from a mere combination of technical activities in waste management some 40 years ago, constitute the most advanced level of environmental policies. These approaches to environmental policy, among them the policies in integrated waste management, attempt to guide economic agents to an environment-friendly behaviour.

Nevertheless, current holistic policies in waste management, including policies on one-way drinks containers and waste electrical and electronic equipment, and implementations of extended producer responsibility with further applications to waste electrical and electronic equipment, reveal more or less severe deficiencies – despite some positive examples. This article relates these policy failures, which are not necessarily the result of an insufficient compliance with the regulations, to missing constitutive elements of what is going to be called an ‘integrated environmental policy’.

This article therefore investigates – mostly from a practical point of view – constitutive elements, which are necessary for a holistic policy to serve as a well-functioning allocation mechanism. As these constitutive elements result from a careful ‘integration’ of the environmental commodities into the economic allocation problems, we refer to these policies as ‘integrated environmental policies’. The article also discusses and illustrates the main steps of designing such a policy – for waste electrical and electronic equipment and a (possible) ban of Glyphosat in agriculture.

As these policies are dependent on economic and political stability with environmental awareness sufficiently developed, the article addresses mostly waste management policies in highly industrialised countries.
The Visegrad Countries and Visa Liberalisation in the Eastern Neighbourhood
Authors: Merheim-Eyre Igor
Published: October 2016

The four Visegrad states (V4) of Central Europe play an important role in facilitating closer relationship between the European Union (EU) and its eastern neighbours. In particular, they seek to achieve this through increased cross-border mobility as a means of supporting institutional reforms, sharing know-how, and promoting cross-border economic development. Such approach is of particular interest in highlighting the V4’s different response to preventing uncontrolled migration from the southern neighbourhood, in contrast to managing legal migration across the Union’s eastern border. Previous studies of the Visegrad states’ role in the eastern neighbourhood often point to the historical discourse, or simply assume unspecified existing “interests.” However, an assessment lacks into the extent to which the V4’s increasing role in the neighbourhood is based on a historical discourse seeking to revive past connections, or an interest (security)-based approach shrouded in normative agenda.

The article argues that while the V4 states might pursue visa liberalisation with the eastern neighbours for diverse reasons (ends), the four states employ a shared normative agenda (means), which includes (1) a shift from the “exclusive” impact of Fortress Europe towards “politics of inclusion” and (2) recognition of the transformational impact of cross-border mobility in areas as diverse as minority rights, promotion of democratic governance, and economic cooperation.
Quality of Life Trajectories Predict Mortality in Older Men: The Manitoba Follow-Up Study
Authors: St. John Philip D. , Jiang Depeng , Tate Robert B.
Published: October 2016

Objective: To describe quality of life trajectories of older men over a 10-year time frame in mental and physical health domains, and to determine if these trajectories predict death over a subsequent 9-year period. Method: A cohort study of Royal Canadian Air Force aircrew veterans. We used Short Form–36 (SF-36) measures of mental and physical functioning collected prospectively at six time points between 1996 to 2006 (734 men with a mean age of 85.5 [ SD 3.0] years in 2006) to determine trajectories. Continued contact with the cohort from 2006 to 2015 determined subsequent mortality. Results: Men were more likely to maintain high levels of mental functioning than physical functioning. Thirty-seven percent of participants maintained a high level of both mental and physical functioning. Declining function in either mental or physical function was associated with lower survival. Conclusion: Men who maintain physical and mental functioning have a lower mortality rate.
Identity and Eating: A Christian Reading of Leviticus
Authors: Davis Ellen F.
Published: October 2016

Israelites lived intimately with their livestock, as members of a single household, and this had an effect on their understanding of human identity—as Leviticus expresses it, of God’s call to Israel to be holy. Leviticus treats eating and ritual sacrifice as practices of embodied holiness, elements of an enacted symbol system designed to enable Israelites to live with integrity before God and in relation to nonhuman animals. The understanding expressed through that system is genuinely agrarian: humans find their wellbeing and their identity in relation to the wellbeing of the land and its nonhuman inhabitants. Through the Eucharist, Christians identify with Christ the Lamb. Understood in light of Leviticus, that identification challenges us to see the connection between sacramental eating and our relation to other animals.
Willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis among Black and White men who have sex with men in Atlanta, Georgia
Authors: Rolle Charlotte-Paige , Rosenberg Eli S , Luisi Nicole , Grey Jeremy , Sanchez Travis , del Rio Carlos , Peterson John L , Frew Paula M , Sullivan Patrick S , Kelley Colleen F
Published: October 2016

PrEP willingness may be different among black and white men who have sex with men (MSM) given known disparities in HIV incidence, sociodemographic factors, and healthcare access between these groups. We surveyed 482 black and white HIV-negative MSM in Atlanta, GA about their willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and facilitators and barriers to PrEP willingness. Overall, 45% (215/482) of men indicated interest in using PrEP. Engaging in recent unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) was the only factor significantly associated with PrEP willingness in multivariate analyses (OR 1.73, 95% CI 1.13, 2.65). Willing men identified “extra protection” against HIV as the most common reason for interest in using PrEP, whereas unwilling men most commonly cited not wanting to take medication daily, and this reason was more common among white MSM (42.3% of white MSM vs. 28.9% of black MSM, p = 0.04). Most men indicated willingness to use PrEP if cost was <50 dollars/month; however, more black MSM indicated willingness to use PrEP only if cost were free (17.9% of white MSM vs. 25.9% of black MSM, p = 0.03). Overall, these data are useful to scale up PrEP interventions targeting at-risk MSM in Atlanta and highlight the need for implementation of low cost-programs, which will be especially important for black MSM.
Two heretical thoughts on fusion and climate
Authors: Manheimer Wallace
Published: October 2016

This article explores two heretical thoughts regarding nuclear fusion as an energy source and the Earth’s climate. Nuclear fusion can only contribute to mid-century power by breeding fuel for nuclear fission reactors rather than providing steam to generate electricity. Converting 232Th and 238U to fuel for nuclear fission reactors is much less demanding. Fusion breeding could lead to sustainable, economical, carbon free energy with little or no proliferation risk. The second heretical thought involves climate. Assertions that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are leading to an environmental crisis can be checked out on the Internet. This paper suggests (1) the benefits of nuclear fusion can be realised long before it can economically generate steam and (2) the Internet search indicates that nothing in the past suggests that future climate will be significantly different before mid-century because of rising levels of CO2.
A study on the safety evaluation of buphrenorphine administered through an autoinjector compared with manual injection using haematological and biochemical variables in rats
Authors: Sheela D , Vijayaraghavan R , Senthilkumar S
Published: October 2016

Buprenorphine drug cartridge was made for autoinjector device for use in emergency and critical situations to reduce the morbidity and mortality. Water-filled cartridges were prepared and buprenorphine was injected aseptically in the cartridge, to make 0.05 and 0.10 mg/mL. Rats were injected intraperitoneally, buprenorphine (0.3 and 0.6 mg/kg), repeatedly with the autoinjector and compared with manual injection (7 days and 14 days) using various haematological and biochemical parameters. No significant change was observed in the body weight, organ to body weight ratio and haematological variables in any of the experimental groups compared with the control group. Except serum urea and aspartate aminotransferase, no significant change was observed in glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, bilirubin, protein, albumin, creatinine, uric acid, alanine aminotransferase, gamma glutamyltransferase and alkaline phosphatase. The autoinjectors deliver the drugs with spray effect and force for faster absorption. In the present study, the autoinjector meant for intramuscular injection was injected intraperitoneally in rats, and the drug was delivered with force on the vital organs. No significant difference was observed in the autoinjector group compared to the manual group showing tolerability and safety of the buphrenorphine autoinjector. This study shows that buprenorphine autoinjector can be considered for further research work.
Deep fried edible oils disturb hepatic redox equilibrium and heightens lipotoxicity and hepatosteatosis in male Wistar rats
Authors: Narayanankutty A , Manalil JJ , Suseela IM , Ramavarma SK , Mathew SE , Illam SP , Babu TD , Kuzhivelil BT , Raghavamenon AC
Published: October 2016

Hepatosteatosis is a complex disorder, in which insulin resistance and associated dyslipidemic and inflammatory conditions are fundamental. Dietary habit, especially regular consumption of fat and sugar-rich diet, is an important risk factor. Coconut and mustard oils (CO and MO) are medium-chain saturated and monounsaturated fats that are common dietary ingredients among the Indian populations. Present study analyzed the effect of prolonged consumption of the fresh and thermally oxidized forms of these oils on glucose tolerance and hepatosteatosis in male Wistar rats. Thermally oxidized CO (TCO) and MO (TMO) possessed higher amount of lipid peroxidation products and elevated p-anisidine values than their fresh forms. Dietary administration of TCO and TMO along with fructose altered glucose tolerance and increased hyperglycemia in rats. Dyslipidemia was evident by elevated levels of triglycerides and reduced high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLc) levels in fructose and edible oil-fed group ( p < 0.05). Additionally, hepatic antioxidant status was diminished and oxidative stress markers were elevated in TCO- and TMO-fed rats. Substantiating these, hike in liver function marker enzyme activities were also observed in these animals. Supporting this, histological analysis revealed higher incidence of microvesicles and hepatocellular ballooning. Results thus suggest that consumption of thermally oxidized fats may cause hepatic damage.
Retirement Reversals and Health Insurance
Authors: Congdon-Hohman Joshua
Published: October 2016

This article uses the longitudinal aspect of the Health and Retirement Study to explore the characteristics associated with reversals in retirement (referred to here as “unretirement”). Through the use of survival-time analysis with time-variant covariates, this article shows that health insurance status and its source are significant predictors of unretirement decisions. The relationship is important, as the potential impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are considered. The analysis finds that insurance is equally as predictive of retirement reversals as other financial explanations such as pensions and wealth at retirement. The analysis also shows that health insurance sources play a particularly predictive role for early retirees and those who were previously open to the idea of working in retirement. Rough estimates suggest that the ACA might reduce the number of reversals by between two and four percentage points, which would translate to 80,000 and 170,000 retirees annually.
On the Optimality of a Consumption Tax
Authors: Young Douglas J.
Published: October 2016

Feldstein (1978) employed a simple life-cycle model to argue that a consumption tax would substantially reduce the excess burden of the current system of labor and capital income taxation. This note provides a general characterization of the optimal tax structure for this model. Maintaining Feldstein's other assumptions about parameter values, it is optimal to tax or subsidize capital income according to whether labor supply is an increasing or decreasing function of the wage rate.
Body dissatisfaction predicts inflammatory status in asymptomatic healthy individuals
Authors: Černelič-Bizjak Maša , Jenko-Pražnikar Zala
Published: October 2016

Body dissatisfaction may play some role in the pathophysiology of chronic diseases. This study examined relations between body dissatisfaction and circulating levels of inflammatory biomarkers C-reactive protein, tumour necrosis factor-α, interleukin-6 and anti-inflammatory adiponectin, and to explore positive changes in relevant lifestyle behaviour after these associations. A total of 33 asymptomatic overweight men and women were evaluated at the baseline and after a 6-month lifestyle behaviour intervention. Body dissatisfaction emerged as an important predictor of pro- and anti-inflammatory biomarkers and may promote the production of inflammatory cytokines by reducing the level of anti-inflammatory and increasing the level of pro-inflammatory cytokine production.
Mapping the Vineyard: Main Lines of Investigation Regarding the Parable of the Tenants in the Synoptics and Thomas
Authors: Lanier Gregory R.
Published: October 2016

The Parable of the Tenants (Mk 12.1-12; Mt. 21.33-45; Lk. 20.9-19; GThom 65–66) is one of the most debated of all the parables ascribed to Jesus. Situated at the intersection of a host of important issues in Gospels scholarship—ranging from the synoptic problem, to the use of the OT in the NT, to the historical Jesus—it has generated a seemingly overwhelming quantity of secondary research in recent decades. This article aims to help orient scholars to the main areas of research on the parable, focusing specifically on six topics: narrative outline, formative influences (social-historical setting and intertextuality), source-critical hypotheses, symbolic/metaphorical correspondences of the narrative elements, authenticity and the ‘original’ version, and broad lines of interpretation. The conclusion offers reflections on what the substantial research on the parable can tell us about parable interpretation in general.