bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Nemo-Nordic 1.0: a NEMO-based ocean model for the Baltic and North seas – research and operational applications
Authors: Hordoir Robinson , Axell Lars , Höglund Anders , Dieterich Christian , Fransner Filippa , Gröger Matthias , Liu Ye , Pemberton Per , Schimanke Semjon , Andersson Helen , Ljungemyr Patrik , Nygren Petter , Falahat Saeed , Nord Adam , Jönsson Anette , Lake Iréne , Döös Kristofer , Hieronymus Magnus , Dietze Heiner , Löptien Ulrike , Kuznetsov Ivan , Westerlund Antti , Tuomi Laura , Haapala Jari
Published: January 2019

Abstract. We present Nemo-Nordic, a Baltic and
North Sea model based on the NEMO ocean engine. Surrounded by highly industrialized
countries, the Baltic and North seas and their assets associated with
shipping, fishing and tourism are vulnerable to anthropogenic pressure and
climate change. Ocean models providing reliable forecasts and enabling
climatic studies are important tools for the shipping infrastructure and to
get a better understanding of the effects of climate change on the marine
ecosystems. Nemo-Nordic is intended to be a tool for both short-term and
long-term simulations and to be used for ocean forecasting as well as process
and climatic studies. Here, the scientific and technical choices within
Nemo-Nordic are introduced, and the reasons behind the design of the model
and its domain and the inclusion of the two seas are explained. The model's
ability to represent barotropic and baroclinic dynamics, as well as the
vertical structure of the water column, is presented. Biases are shown and
discussed. The short-term capabilities of the model are presented, especially
its capabilities to represent sea level on an hourly timescale with a high
degree of accuracy. We also show that the model can represent longer
timescales, with a focus on the major Baltic inflows and the variability in
deep-water salinity in the Baltic Sea.
The CORA 5.2 dataset: global in-situ Temperature and Salinity measurements dataset. Data description and validation
Authors: Szekely Tanguy , Gourrion Jérôme , Pouliquen Sylvie , Reverdin Gilles
Published: January 2019

Abstract. We present the Copernicus in-situ ocean dataset of temperature and salinity (version V5.2). The ocean subsurface sampling varied widely from 1950 to 2017, as a result of changes in the instrument technology and development of in-situ observational networks (in particular, tropical moorings, ARGO program). The global ocean temperature data coverage on an annual basis grows thus from 10 % in 1950 (30 % for the North Atlantic basin) to 25 % in 2000 (60 % for the North Atlantic basin) and reaches a plateau exceeding 80 % (95 % for the North Atlantic Ocean) after the deployment of the ARGO program. The average depth reached by the profiles also increases from 1950 to 2017. The validation framework is presented, and an objective analysis-based method is developed to assess the quality of the dataset validation process. Analyses of the ocean variability are calculated without taking into account the data quality flags (raw dataset OA), with the near real time quality flags (NRT dataset OA) and with the delayed time mode quality flags (CORA dataset OA). The comparison of the objective analysis variability shows that the near real time dataset managed to detect and to flag most of the large measurement errors, reducing the analysis error bar compared to the raw dataset error bar. It also shows that the ocean variability of the delayed time mode validated dataset is almost exempt from the random error induced variability.
The competitive tier model – Element subtraction in German and Pomeranian
Authors: Postma Gertjan
Published: January 2019

Competition of segmental material is inherent to all proposals of phonological template satisfaction. Segments are aligned with a prosodic template and compete for prosodic space. This vowel competition for space is well-known from the Semitic languages. In this paper, we argue that competition is also present in West-Germanic languages, albeit in disguised form. Basing ourselves on new Pomeranian data, we propose a competitive vocalic tier on which elements compete for prosodic slots besides the well-known vocalic tier that allows for element coalescence. An axiomatic model is developed that predicts alternations such as the [ɑi]-[ɪ] and [e]-[ɪ] root alternation (German treten – tritt ‘(he) step(s), Pomeranian gaita-git ‘(he) pour(s)’). The model allows us to solve three riddles in German morphology: 1. the “epenthesis conundrum”, i.e. the anti-correlation between OCP-driven schwa epenthesis between root and suffix in German (rett[ə]t/*rett versus *rät[ə]t/rät) and root alternations in present tense verbs (alternating verbs): retten – er rettet, raten – (er) rät (Neef 1997; Trommer 2010; Scheer 2016); 2. the “imperative conundrum” (Raffelsiefen 2016), which describes a correlation within the class of alternating verbs: the correlation between |A|-subtraction in a subset of alternating verbs (geben – gibt ‘give(s)’) and ending-less imperatives in German (gib! ‘give!’); 3. the vowel shortening conundrum: change in quantity of the root vowel in function of the type of vowel alternation: [e:]-[i] versus [a:]-[ɛ:]. A formal model is presented that provides us with a calculus of coalescence and competition of phonological features.Languages: Standard German; Pomeranian; Dutch; Low Saxon; Limburgian; Frisian.
Racial Worldmaking
Authors: Jerng Mark C.
Published: January 2019

When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust practices of racial inequality. Racial Worldmaking argues that we do not just see race. We are taught when, where, and how to notice race by a set of narrative and interpretive strategies. These strategies are named “racial worldmaking” because they get us to notice race not just at the level of the biological representation of bodies or the social categorization of persons. Rather, they get us to embed race into our expectations for how the world operates. These strategies find their most powerful expression in popular genre fiction: science fiction, romance, and fantasy. This book thus rethinks both racial formation in relation to African American and Asian American studies, as well as how scholars have addressed the relationships between literary representation and racial ideology. It analyzes how genre and race build worlds. In doing so, it engages questions central to our current moment: in what ways do we participate in racist worlds? How can we imagine and build an anti-racist world?
Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation
Authors: Jerng Mark C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter discusses alternate histories of the Civil War in relation to U.S. Equal Protection jurisprudence and race discrimination law. It shows how the racial counterfactual shapes what counts as discrimination in an important anti-affirmative action legal case, Ricci v. Destefano. In particular, it analyzes the prominent use of racial counterfactuals by the Supreme Court justices in order to organize the perception of race. It then surveys alternate histories of the U.S. Civil War and describes their logics of narrative explanation. Finally, it turns to Terry Bissons’ Fire on the Mountain and Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood as examples of a strategic use of the racial counterfactual in order to envision different understandings of racial freedom and equality.
Alternate Histories of World War II; or, How the Race Concept Organizes the World
Authors: Jerng Mark C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter analyzes Korematsu v. U.S. for the development of the legal doctrine of “strict scrutiny” and how it shapes racial perception. It then surveys alternate histories of World War II, focusing on those modes of storytelling that dramatize the defeat of the U.S. by Germany and Japan. The chapter isolates a particular narrative technique - the index - as it is used across both legal storytelling and alternate histories. Finally, it engages Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle as an example of an alternate history that shows the limits of our capacity to imagine an anti-racist world.
“Dreaming True”: Playback, Immediacy, and “Du Maurierness”
Authors: Zieger Susan
Published: January 2019

Chapter four explores the phenomenon of “playback,” emerging into 1880s culture through the phonograph, as a wider fantasy of consumer and personal mastery. This fantasy was rooted in the longstanding idea of the mind as palimpsest and photograph, recording every single perception and experience. If true, then how could these stored memories be accessed? The cartoonist, novelist, and nonce media theorist George Du Maurier offered a literary answer in his widely cherished first novel, Peter Ibbetson (1891). The protagonist’s lover teaches him how to “dream true” or revisit his past experiences, while he is sleeping; through their clairvoyant connection, all their consumer experiences of music, food, art, and travel can be played back on demand. The conceit of disembodied playback changes the nature of human memory, converting it into information. The chapter traces Du Maurier’s fantasy of cataloging and filing experience to his career as a cartoonist for Punch. Because his cartoon aesthetic described the new breadth and immediacy of public feeling brought about by mass print media in the 1890s, it anticipates the affects that attend our own versions of playback.
The Union Saved Again
Authors: Brodrecht Grant R.
Published: January 2019

The fifth chapter explores the transformation of northern evangelical opinion regarding Andrew Johnson from 1866 to 1868 and their subsequent welcoming of Ulysses S. Grant as a two-time savior of the Union in the election of 1868. During the spring and summer of 1866, Johnson broke with Congressional Republicans over Reconstruction policy and began to lose the support of non-radical northern evangelicals in the process. Many northern evangelicals would feel compelled by Johnson’s stubbornness and southern recalcitrance to support the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and then Johnson’s impeachment in 1868. Northern evangelicals saw an image of themselves in Grant, and they envisioned the final healing of sectional difficulties in a Grant presidency along with the opportunity to focus on other problems threatening their country.
Pax Grantis
Authors: Brodrecht Grant R.
Published: January 2019

The sixth chapter shows northern evangelicals preoccupied during Grant’s presidency with managing various cultural, social, and political forces centrifugally threatening the Union. Their larger vision for national Christian oneness continued to subsume the ex-slaves. This was evident in several ways: first, many looked to the cohesive, homogenizing power that evangelicalism promised to provide the large and growing republic; second, predisposed to see Reconstruction end, particularly following the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, northern evangelicals were convinced that they had one of their own in the White House and thus supported Grant during the 1872 election against Liberal Republicans; and third, they regarded him as an ally when it came to addressing the potential threat offered by Native Americans and Roman Catholics. By the end of Grant’s presidency, the Union appeared restored, the nation had just celebrated its centennial, prosperity and oneness seemed to abound, and Americans felt at peace.
Conclusion: “The Nation Still in Danger”
Authors: Brodrecht Grant R.
Published: January 2019

The Conclusion highlights the reality that Reconstruction had not turned out as most northern evangelicals had hoped. The Christian America envisioned by radicals, one which ensured an equitable place for the ex-slaves, had failed to materialize. Though legally in possession of political and civil rights, those rights were tenuous at best under southern governments, and there was little cultural or political will at the national level to ensure much more beyond nominal freedom. For non-radical northern evangelicals, Reconstruction also failed to provide what they had desired—an affective Christian-American oneness. This became clear in 1881 during the melodrama surrounding James Garfield’s assassination, when northern evangelicals looked to his death to forge an affective Union. The Conclusion also links Civil War-era northern evangelicalism to what would become fundamentalism, mid-twentieth-century neo-evangelicalism, the so-called Religious Right of the late-twentieth century.
Deprovincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar’s Dalit
Authors: Rao Anupama
Published: January 2019

This essay focuses on the inherent globality of anticaste thought, and underscores the significance of historical comparison (race, class, minority) in the writings of key thinkers who predicated radical equality on the annihilation of caste. The essay argues against culturalizing caste, which has been the dominant mode for apprehending its social specificity, and instead argues that efforts at political commensuration offer key instances for understanding heterodox histories and practices of subject formation. By placing anticaste thought within a global field of concern about historic dispossession and human emancipation, the essay also addresses the politics of the twentieth century through a genealogy of the exceptional subject, e.g., the Dalit [outcaste] or the remainder, and argues that this offers rich possibilities for enlarging the conceptual matrix of “politics” and political subjectivity.
Always the Other Who Decides
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2019

This chapter elucidates Derrida's utilization of psychoanalytic discourse throughout the Death Penalty Seminars. The chapter argues that Derrida's formulation of sovereign power is derived chiefly from Freud's Ur-Father. To this extent, sovereignty not only exceeds but actually precedes the onto-theological. While Derrida continually works to dismantle binary oppositions--between god and man and human and animal, for instance--sovereign power precedes these very oppositions. The chapter argues that sovereignty operates largely by creating the illusion of decision two absolutely and fundamentally opposed possibilities.
The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions
Authors: Howells Christina
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines volume 1 of Derrida’s 1999 – 2000 Seminars on La Peine de Mort in conjunction with Force de Loi (1994), Politiques de l’amitié (1994) and Voyous (2003). Derrida’s explicit purpose in these Seminars is to deconstruct the various discourses for and against the death penalty, to uncover why there has been, in his view, no properly philosophical argument against capital punishment, and, ultimately perhaps, to construct such an argument himself, or at least to reveal why such an argument is both necessary and impossible. The chapter focuses in particular on Derrida’s discussion of the role played by the exception in debates about the death penalty: exceptions to the main thrust of their argument, acknowledged by both abolitionists and by supporters of capital punishment. As well as exploring the implications of these exceptions for debate about the death penalty itself, the chapter also considers the light that the death penalty can throw on the nature of the exception.
Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions
Authors: Oliver Kelly
Published: January 2019

This chapter uses the botched execution to interrupt the fantasy of the possibility of a humane death penalty. While the practice of lethal injection is designed to make capital punishment seem humane by making death instantaneous, during botched executions, the condemned die in visible and measurable real time. The chapter additionally examines the structure of the seminars themselves, arguing that Derrida's constant digressions and asides themselves serve to conjure an alternative temporality, allowing him to construct his argument performatively.
Other Others
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

Denying existence to certain others, while still tolerating diversity, stabilizes a political order in a society; or does it? Addressing this classical question of political thought, Other Others intervenes both to the study of the Talmud and Jewish Thought in its aftermath, and to political theory in general. Braking through the horizon of the currently predominant approaches to the concept of the political in political ontology and political theology, the book turns to the Talmud. In light and despite these theories, the pages of the Talmud provide a (dis)appearing display of the interpersonal rather than intersubjective political, which entails a radically different take on what engaging others means in society. The book shows how philosophy- and theology-driven approaches to the concept of the political have tacitly elided a concept of the interpersonal political, which the Talmud exemplifies. Both addressing and resisting such an elision, the book rereads the Talmud, while at the same time and by the same move reconsidering contemporary political theory. At the center of the analysis are figures of excluded others – of the “other others” who programmatically do not claim any “original” belonging to a territory and therefore by the logic of the currently predominant schools of political thought are questionable in their right to exist. The Political moves from a modern political figure of “Jews” as such “other others” to the Talmud, arriving, at the end, to a demand to think earth anew, now beyond the notions of territory, land, nationalism, internationalism, or even beyond the scope of a territorialized universe.
Talmudic Self-Refutation (Interpersonality I)
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

The chapter works through the emerging and disappearing notion of the political in the Talmud, with the notion and practice of refuting, and the underlying notion of interpersonality rather than intersubjectivity at the center. The analysis in the chapter advances through a case study of a particular notion of refuting in the Talmud, the notion of self-refuting or proving that an argument of one’s conversant is refuting itself. The chapter argues how neither political theology of Schmitt nor political ontology of Rancière suffice to account for interpersonal political relationships in self-refuting. In that venue, the notion of interpersonality emerges as essential for articulating the Talmudic political. That notion emerges by contrast with the intersubjectivity as the foundation of thinking the political in the modern political theory, implying as it does a fundamental loneliness of the subject, both of an individual subject and of a nation as a subject, as well.
Conceptions of the Human (Interpersonality II): The Limits of Regret
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

The chapter expands the notion of Talmudic refuting to translate it into a certain structure of personhood in an interpersonal relationship. It stages a conception of personhood, which neither “subjectivist” nor “relativist” notions of the humanity of humans can either fully grasp or fully efface. At issue is a possibility for a conception of humanity in general and of a human being that reaches beyond notions of “a human” as bestowing nonbeing on things, and in particular measuring their being. To advance this argument, the chapter engages with, and limits the applicability of, Alexey Losev’s Eastern Orthodox political aesthetics as a purported foundation of, or even a possible replacement for, political theology. The argument in the chapter arrives at the insufficiency of Losev’s political aesthetics to grasp Talmudic interpersonality grounded in self-refuting, or broader yet, in refuting as its foundation. That helps showing how Losev’s Eastern Orthodox political alternative for modern notions of either universal “human being” or of a modern notion of a “Jew” -- as not only its counterpart but also its root -- prove insufficient to grasp the interpersonal political the Talmud’s pages show emerging and disappearing.
Mis-Taking in Halakhah and Aggadah (Jewish Responses to Kant II)
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

The chapter accounts for how the rabbinic political was constructed and thereby productively lost in Jewish secularizing modernist thought and literature of Franz Kafka, Chaim Bialik, and Walter Benjamin. Modernist notions of logical implication, literary expression, and language are at the center of analysis in this chapter, as it articulates a crisis in the relationships between law and literature in how these thinkers navigate both the human condition and both the Jewish and general law as its part. The chapter further shows how a departure from neo-Kantianism in these thinkers lead to a reconsideration of the role of mistake and failure in human condition, and how their understanding of both mistaking and failing both purports to capture and misses the Talmudic understanding of mistake in terms of self-refutation. The result is a new vision of the otherwise purely logical notion of implication, a vision in which the very being implicit rather than explicit remains fundamental for human condition, and that no explication of the implicit can ever either replace or tame the power of the implicit in human condition.
Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake
Authors: Shoop Marcia Mount
Published: January 2019

Though Christian Theology profess a God who inhabits flesh, bodies have been historically and systematically ignored and reviled by many institutional expressions of this faith tradition. Even as many core Christian institutions resist the Incarnational symmetry between embodied practice and Christian theological professions, bodies explore and embrace healing modalities at the margins of Christian practice. Using the emerging wisdom of four particular healing explorations along the margins of Christian institutional life, this chapter explores the contours of Christian spiritual practices that fold out of trauma. By focusing on the institutional practices of Kevin Ladd with labyrinths, Shelley Rambo with the Warriors Journey Home project, Sr. Joanna Walsh with trusting touch, and my own Wandering Home Retreat for women, this chapter attends to these contours with an eye toward possibilities for institutional transformation around trauma.
Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the Cross
Authors: Scarsella Hilary Jerome
Published: January 2019

The discipline of Christian theology is itself formed around the traumatic narrative of Jesus’ crucifixion. Investigating trauma in order to provide useful accompaniment to trauma survivors is, therefore, theology’s starting point, not a secondary interest. Holding the narrative of crucifixion at its center, this chapter asks whether a discipline constructed in response to traumatic rupture is bound to exacerbate systems of retraumatization or has the potential to empower trauma survivors toward recovery. Building upon the scholarship of late 20th and 21st century womanist and feminist theologians and the significant risk of retraumatization, it engages contemporary psychoanalytic trauma theorists to argue that theology's strength with respect to trauma and contribution to the interdisciplinary task of supporting trauma survivors is its potential as a holding space for diverse stories of both traumatic rupture and recovery.
Market Humans
Authors: Narkunas J. Paul
Published: January 2019

This chapter describes how citizenship can be bought like any other commodity through H1B Visas as a marker of a new historical formation of the “Market Human.” Through an engagement of Antonio and Michel Foucault, the author describes a shift in governmentality from protection of citizens to producing “economic humans” who can plug into the market and view managing risk, including of their own lives, as a categorical imperative. The chapter delineates how the industrialization of subjectivities, thought, and affect continues to happen in the information age, dismisses arguments on the newness of the digital age and demise of the nation-state, and maps how the financial capitalist categories of risk management now delineate the life worth living. The chapter also speculates on why the impoverished align with market humans aspirationally and why they are willing to support policies that actually make their lives more precarious.
Human Rights and States of Emergency
Authors: Narkunas J. Paul
Published: January 2019

This chapter diagnoses how humanitarian non-governmental organizations are filling a vacuum created ironically by governments outsourcing their governing functions that marks a transformation of the Westphalian order of states by neoliberalism. The proliferation of non-state actors facilitates the politicization of human rights around how to recognize who or what is a human being endowed with natural rights, and who is a terrorist, outlaw, or posthuman. By tracing the connections between human rights and governmentality, human rights advocates must acknowledge their cozy relationship with powerful militaries, which has resulted in humanitarian interventions using the language of rights to justify neocolonial projects that often intensify human suffering. Humanitarianism may function as a deterritorialized form of governmentality that offers a theatrical illusion of protection and security, while undermining their possibilities structurally. Powerful states not only use human rights and humanitarian legitimations for their particularist geopolitical and economic ends, but also direct humanitarian NGOs strategically by proxy for their own interests. In the process the very idea of securing humans becomes instrumentalized as a form of outsourced governance that can be a model eventually for “expendable people” within nation-states.
Ahumans: A Guide to Nonmarket Living
Authors: Narkunas J. Paul
Published: January 2019

The conclusion brings together and extends some general lines of argument within the book. The book closes with several axioms to question the present reification of life and to offer strategies for non-market living, a user’s guide to living ahumanly that marks affinities and points of critique with new ecologies, disability studies, critical race theory, feminism, animal rights scholars, materialists and realists, and object-oriented ontologists.
Influence of Management Commitment and Organizational Structure on Application of ERP System & Its Impact on Quality of Accounting Information: A Survey in Vietnamese Telecommunication Enterprises
Authors: Hung Nguyen Thanh , Hong Mai Tran Thi , Duc Nguyen Le
Published: January 2019

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of management commitment and organizational structure to the application of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and its implications on the quality of the accounting information at Vietnamese Telecommunication enterprises (VTEs). In order to achieve the goal of this study, the researcher chooses to survey VTEs that uses ERP systems. A questionnaire was designed and distributed to a sample of accountants and financial managers who works at such companies. A survey with 286 usable questionnaire responses is used to test the research hypotheses. The results show that both management commitment and organizational structure affect the level of ERP application, in which management commitment is the most influential factor. In addition, the ERP application also contributes to improving the quality of accounting information. The research model used is the structure equation model (SEM).
Prevalence of Sexual Harassment of Female Students of Tertiary Education in Taraba State, North East Nigeria: Implications for Counselling
Authors: Onoyase Anna
Published: January 2019

The study was set out to investigate prevalence of sexual harassment of female students of tertiary education in Taraba State North East, Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The researcher used “Sexual Harassment of Female Students of Tertiary Education Questionnaire” (SHOFSOTEQ) to collect information for the investigation. The instrument was made up of 14 items and had a reliability coefficient of 0.85. It had content validity and language appropriateness. The researcher used three research assistants to administer copies of the questionnaire on the respondents. The researcher chose 2.50 as a benchmark for either agreeing or disagreeing with each of the items. The One-Way Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The study found out that: there is prevalence of sexual harassment of female students of tertiary education in Taraba State. Sexual harassment of female students’ were carried out through inappropriate sexual comments, unwanted touching of female students’ breasts, tapping of female students’ buttocks and enticing of female students with high scores for sex amongst other. The result also revealed that there is no significant difference among the respondents in the universities, polytechnics and colleges of education on the prevalence of sexual harassment of female students. One of the recommendations is that authorities of tertiary educational institutions should put in place adequate measures to ensure that lecturers do not leak examination questions to students.
Faculty members’ perceptions towards utilizing blackboard in teaching system at Hafr Al-Batin University, Saudi Arabia
Authors: Ibrahim Lobna Khamis , Mohamed Asmaa Ghareeb , Aldhafeeri Faten Mane , Alqdah Malik
Published: January 2019

Background and objective: The faculty members’ perceptions regarding Blackboard as the pedagogical management tool plays a vital role in learning and teaching process. Aim: To survey the perceptions of faculty members towards utilizing Blackboard in the teaching system at Hafr Al-Batin University.Methods: Design: Quantitative descriptive design was utilized depending on online surveys. Setting: The study was conducted in all Colleges of Hafr Al-Batin University. Participants: 174 faculty members from different colleges at the University of Hafr Al-Batin. Tools: Questionnaire consisted of two parts; the first includes the faculty demographic information and the second describes faculty perception in four sections; usefulness, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenges.Results: The study demonstrated that perceived “usefulness” and “enjoyment” were the most highly mean scores.Conclusions: The faculty members have a positive attitude towards the implementation of the Blackboard system. Recommendations: A great need for training of both faculty members and students in the Blackboard system regularly.
The impact of proliferation and cancer stem cell upon the resistence to chemotherapy in salivary mucopepidermoid carcinoma
Authors: Esmaeil Doaa A M , Ahmed Rehab Allah , Mourad Mohamed I , Gaballah Essam T
Published: January 2019

Background and aim: Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a common salivary tumor that affects both adults and children. Proliferation is one of the most fundamental biological processes of growth and maintenance of tissue homeostasis. CD-44 may be used as an indicator of aggressive behavior of some human malignancy. Multidrug resistance is one of the major obstacles for successful cancer chemotherapy. The present study was carried out for evaluation of the biological rules and the clinicopathological significance of Ki-67, CD-44 and MDR-1 expression in the different histopathological grades of MECs.Patients and methods: Eighty paraffin embedded MEC tissues were collected and classified to three groups according to their histological grades. Tissue sections were stained with Ki-67, CD-44 and MDR-1 then examined microscopically and analyzedstatistically.Result: High grade MEC cases showed the highest expression for Ki-67, CD-44 and MDR-1. Additionally, significant differences were found between the histopathological grades as well as between lymph node stages of the studied cases and the expression of the three utilized markers.Conclusion: Ki-67, CD-44 and MDR-1can be used to evaluate the degree of differentiation and to predict the prognosis of MECs, furthermore, high grade MEC cases with high proliferative indices might be resistant to chemotherapy.
Determination of Healthy Life Style Behaviours of the Students in Middle-Adolescence
Authors: Tanır Halil
Published: January 2019

The purpose of this study is to determine healthy life style behaviours, such as average daily sleep duration, sporthabit, physical activity level and eating habits, of high school students in their middle adolescence (15-17 ages). Theresearch sample consists of 642 (n=338 male and n=304 female) volunteer students in a secondary educationinstitution in Konya city centre. The questionnaire formed by examining relevant literature has been used todetermine healthy life style behaviours.The average daily sleep duration of the students participating in the study is 8.30±1.26. 42.8% the of female studentsand 37.8% of the male students do not do sports. 69.8% of the female students and 74.6% of the male students usethe internet from their mobile phones during the day. The percentage of those who watch television 1-3 hours andmore a day is 85.6% for the female students and 81.6% for the male students. 28.2% of the female students and 30.2%of the male students skip meals. 38.8% of the female students and 36.1% of the male students have breakfast.Within the lights of the findings in the survey, it has been concluded that the students in middle adolescence do nothealthy life style behaviours sufficiently. The students do not consume the eatables that are healthy for them. Thefood stuffs, such as chips, chocolate, carbonated drinks and hamburgers, whose overconsumption is harmful to arefrequently consumed by students. It should not be forgotten that the eating habits obtained in the adolescence willaffect the adulthood period. Therefore, evaluating their nutritional status, adolescents should be gained adequate andbalanced nutrition habits. In the adoption of a healthy lifestyle, adequate balanced nutrition and physical activityshould be considered as a whole and, when required, a specialist health professional should be consulted for propernutritional advice.
Evaluation of Steroid Sex Hormone Levels in Cockatiels During Their Reproductive Cycle
Authors: Hong Hsin-Tai , Wu Chean-Ping
Published: January 2019

Sexual steroid hormone concentrations differ with respect to the different stages of animal life. For example, hormone concentrations in the reproductive stage show a periodic variation. Studies on variations in sexual hormones in parrots using non-invasive methods as well as the effect of nest-boxes in parrots are less. This study aimed to detect the levels of fecal steroid hormones during the cockatiel reproductive cycle and to investigate the effect of nest-box placement on reproduction. There were 24 mating pairs of cockatiels, and the study was conducted over 13 months. Based on their reproductive status, individual birds were divided into pre-reproduction (PR), incubation (IN), and parent period (PA) in the pre-test; then, the nest box was either temporarily removed for 20 days (RN) or continuously provided (pre-reproduction, PR). The estrogen concentrations measured in the last stage of the PR period and the initial stage of the IN period were significantly higher than those measured in the PA stage, and there were no significant differences in testosterone and progesterone concentrations throughout the reproductive cycle. The nest-box treatments (NB) indicated that eggs were laid 6-13 days after the new box was hung; however, in the pre-test, there was an interval of 30-40 days before the next mating pairs started the next reproductive stage or no reproduction. Estrogen concentrations in PR and testosterone concentrations in RN were significantly higher than those in the other periods during the nest-box treatments. In conclusion, estrogen showed the most significant change among the fecal steroid hormones measured. Nest boxes serve as a positive stimulus for parrot reproduction management and can help non-seasonal reproductive parrots to rapidly enter the next breeding cycle.
Effect of Calcium Hypochlorite in Drip Irrigation System After Application of Red Potassium Chloride
Authors: Suszek F. L. , Boas M. A. Vilas , Sampaio S. C.
Published: January 2019

The use of water in agriculture should be monitored in order to be more efficient, with irrigation being the largest consumer of water in rural areas. Small farmers who are part of family farming have few resources to develop profitable activities and aiming their well-being, have created family irrigation kits which is a small drip irrigation system. The systems durability depends of some factors like clogging risk of drippers, which is often caused by the quality of the water used or the application of fertilizers to the irrigation water. This research aimed to analyze a family irrigation system with application of red potassium chloride, followed by a chemical agent to clear drippers (calcium hypochlorite) with water application before and after the fertilizer and chemical products (four treatments). At the after, the evaluations were analyzed with statistical quality control charts where the problem was detected in the final of application of the fertilizer, and the process capacity was analyzed showing that it was capable and also was analyzed the degree of system clogging in relation to the obstruction with the fertilizer and clearing with the chemical agent, which resulted in the recovery of the irrigation system (initial flow and distribution uniformity same the final) with recommendations for the use of fertilizers by drip irrigation like open the end lines after the fertigation and dissolve the fertilizer fully before application.
Characterization of Physical-Chemical and Structural Soil Attributes in the Semiarid Region of the Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil
Authors: Lopes Thais Cristina de Souza , Portela Jeane Cruz , Melo Stefeson Bezerra de , Oliveira Valéria Nayara Silva de , Batista Rafael Oliveira , Gondim Joaquim Emanuel Fernandes , Cunha Maria Elidayane da
Published: January 2019

The study of the soil characterization and the relation of its attributes allows a systematic proposal of the local particularities, leading to adequate practices for maintenance and/or preservation of its productive capacity. In this sense, the aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of structural attributes in association with physical and chemical soil classes, using the multivariate statistical techniques to differentiate environments. The research was carried out in the Moacir Lucena Project, located in the municipality of Apodi, RN, Brazil. Three representative environments were chosen as follows: Profile 1 (P1)-Red-yellow Latosol-Area in recovery (1AR), P2-Haplic Cambisol-Lake Area, (2AL) and P3-Eutrophic Yellow Latosol-Cashew Tree Area (3AC). The soil samples were collected in the horizons of the studied areas. Ten (10) samples were collected per horizons in volumetric rings and in soil blocks (aggregate analysis), which resulted in triplicates in the laboratory. Structural, physical and chemical attributes were evaluated. The data were analyzed using multivariate statistical techniques, with correlation matrix, clustering analysis and factorial analysis performed by the extraction of the factors into principal components. The use of clustering analysis allowed the formation of four groups for soil classes and attributes; the inorganic fractions were determinant for environmental differentiation, where the sand was discriminant for the Red-yellow Latosol and the Eutrophic Yellow Latosol, and the clay and silt for the Haplic Cambisol. Higher similarity was observed in the transition horizons of the Latosols Class. The physical and structural attributes were determinant in the dissimilarity for the Haplic Cambisol, reflecting in physical restrictions to the plant growth. The factor analysis revealed that the variables particle density (Dp), Ca2+, Mg2+, sum of bases (SB) and cation exchange capacity (CEC) for factor 1, followed by pH, P, K+, total Sand, Clay and soil density (Ds) for factor 2 are important soil attributes to distinguish the studied environments.
Salts Waters and Biofertilizers in Jackfruit Seedlings Formation
Authors: Mesquita II Francisco de O. , Cavalcante Lourival F. , Alves Jackson de M. , Sousa Valéria F. de O. , Maia Jr Sebastião de O. , Batista Rafael O. , Medeiros Reinaldo F. , Azevedo Francisco R. de
Published: January 2019

The salinity is considered one of the main obstacles to agriculture worldwide, constituting one of the limiting factors to the growth and development of the plants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of salinity of irrigation water in the formation of seedlings two varieties of jackfruits, and with the application of common bovine biofertilizer and chemically enriched bovine biofertilizers. In this sense, an experimente was carried in greenhouse conditions, in the period from October 2015 to February 2016, in Areia County, Paraiba State, Brazil. The substrate used was a material collected of the first 10 cm of depth of a Dystrophic Regolitic Entisol. The experimental design was completely randomized in a factorial scheme 5 × 3 × 2, corresponding to levels of irrigation water saline of 0.5; 1.0; 2.0; 3.0 and 4.0 dS m-1, in soil without and with common bovine biofertilizer and enriched biofertilizer, tested with two varieties of jackfruit (jack-soft and jack-hard), and with six replicates. The biofertilizer after dilution in non-saline water (0.5 dS m-1), in proportion of 1:3, where was applied once to 10% of the substrate volume, two days before sowing. The increment of irrigation water salinity inhibited alls variables studied in the jackfruits plants, but with less intensity in the treatments with bovine common biofertilizer.
Molecular Characterization and Genetic Diversity of Yellow Passion Fruit Based on RAPD Markers
Authors: Campos Angélica Vieira Sousa , Peixoto José Ricardo , Faleiro Fábio Gelape , Vilela Michelle Souza , Pires Márcio de Carvalho
Published: January 2019

Molecular genetic variability studies are essential to complement the agronomic characterization of yellow passion fruit genotypes (Passiflora edulis Sims). Therefore, this study aimed at evaluating the genetic diversity of 24 genotypes of yellow passion fruit obtained from a research program developed by the University of Brasilia and Embrapa Cerrados, using RAPD molecular markers. RAPD markers were obtained from eight decamer primers and converted into a matrix of binary data, from which genetic dissimilarities among genotypes were estimated, and clustering analysis was performed. A total of 54 RAPD markers were obtained, with 6.8 bands per primer on average. From this total, 46 (85.2%) RAPD markers were polymorphic. The OPD10 primer presented the highest number of polymorphic bands. The high percentage of polymorphic markers evidenced the existence of genetic variability among genotypes. Nei’s genetic distance between genotypes ranged from 0.043 to 0.451. Clustering resulted in the formation of at least five groups of similarity.
Physiological and Sanitary Quality in Cowpea Seeds Produced in Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil
Authors: Silva Ronimeire T. da , Lopes Maria de F. Q. , Andrade Francisco H. A. de , Bruno Riselane de L. A. , Fárias Otília R. de , Silva Toshik I. da , Souza Nelto A. de
Published: January 2019

The importance of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) to the Northeast region of Brazil is undeniable, it is a major crop in local family agriculture. As a result, the research aimed to evaluate the physiological and sanitary quality of local varieties of cowpea coming from the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The experiment was carried out at the Seed Pathology and Seed Analysis Laboratory, in Federal University of Paraíba, Campus II, Areia, Paraiba, Brazil. Six cowpea varieties (Baeta, Coruja, Sempre Verde, Epace 10, Feijão da Bahia and Pingo de Ouro) from rural Area of the municipality of Apodi, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.were evaluated  Seed physiological quality was evaluated by determining the first germination count (FGC), germination percentage (G%), seedling length (SL) and electrical conductivity (EC). The sanitary quality of the seeds was evaluated by the method of incubation in filter paper (blotter test). The experimental design was completely randomized, with 4 replicates. The Pingo de Ouro, Sempre Verde and Coruja varieties had germination percentages greater than the minimum standards required for commercialization, while the lower germination percentage and vigor of the Feijão da Bahia, Epace 10 and Baeta varieties may be associated with the presence of Aspergillus sp. and Penicillium sp.
ZAŁOŻENIA A RZECZYWISTOŚĆ
W OBSZARZE PLANOWANIA ZABEZPIECZENIA
MATERIAŁOWEGO WOJSK W WALCE
Authors: KURASIŃSKI dr hab. inż. Zdzisław
Published: January 2019

Artykuł dotyczy zmian, jakie wystąpiły w procesach planowania zabezpieczenia
materiałowego wojsk, wynikających z trwającej już od dłuższego czasu reorganizacji w SZ RP oraz nowych uwarunkowań związanych z nowelizacją strategii NATO.
Prezentuje założenia reorganizacji procesu dowodzenia wojskami w obszarze planowania ich użycia, a ściślej możliwości organów planowania zabezpieczenia materia-łowego wojsk uczestniczących w procesach decyzyjnych na szczeblach taktycznych,
a także ocenę wprowadzanych zmian i ich adekwatność w stosunku do potrzeb zapewnienia wojskom terminowych i odpowiednich jakościowo dostaw środków bojowych i materiałowych.
LOGISTYKA W WOJSKACH OBRONY TERYTORIALNEJ
Authors: PAWLISIAK dr n. społ. inż. Mieczysław
Published: January 2019

Powstanie nowego rodzaju Sił Zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej wymaga innego
spojrzenia na realizację zadań przez poszczególne pododdziały, oddziały i związki
taktyczne. Okazuje się bowiem, że to Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej mogą przyjmować
na siebie główny ciężar walki, przynajmniej w początkowej fazie wojny czy też konfliktu zbrojnego. Wychodząc z takiego założenia, należy podjąć szereg działań, w tym
w obszarze logistyki, które pozwolą zaspokoić potrzeby logistyczne pododdziałów
i oddziałów walczących na pierwszej linii. Wydaje się również uzasadnione, aby
tworząc nową jakość w Siłach Zbrojnych RP, jaką są Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej,
zapewnić im nowoczesny i przyszłościowy potencjał logistyczny. Powinien on być
adekwatny do wyposażenia bojowego, to jest cechujący się porównywalną nowoczesnością z wyposażeniem bojowym, a jednocześnie zdolny do realizacji zadań zabezpieczenia logistycznego.