bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Characterization of a protandrous hermaphroditic reproductive system in transitional and female phases of Norileca indica — morphological, histological and ultrastructural approach
Authors: Kottarathil Helna Ameri , Kappalli Sudha 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The present study explores the reproductive system of Norileca indica during its transitional and female phase at morphological, histological, ultrastructural and histochemical levels. The paired and symmetrical hermaphroditic reproductive system of N. indica in the transitional and female phases lies dorsally in the thorax on either side of the gut, each consisting of a three-lobed testis (with lobes t1, t2 and t3) followed by an ovary and then a vas deferens, which opens into the paired penes located at sternite 7; the oviduct, arising laterally from the ovarian lobe, opens into the gonopore located on the 6th pereonite. In the transitional phase, the gonads show a presence of germ cells at different maturation stages: spermiogenesis in the testes has already halted, while the ovary undergoes active vitellogenesis. Spermatophores are frequently seen in the vas deferens but seldom in the testes; the size of the oocytes then is 250-1200 μm. The gonadosomatic index (GSI) and nucleocytoplasmic index (NCI) range over 0.090-0.198 and 0.46-0.11, respectively. In the female, oocyte size increases to 1500 μm; the GSI ranges 0.019-0.235 and the NCI from 2.40 to 0.09; testes and vas deferens are not prominent. This paper discusses the possible role of protandrous hermaphroditism in the reproductive life of N. indica.
Extended larval development in the hololimnetic shrimp Macrobrachium pantanalense (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) reared in the laboratory
Authors: Marco-Herrero Elena , Anger Klaus , Hayd Liliam 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The postembryonic development of Macrobrachium pantanalense, a freshwater shrimp from central South America, was experimentally studied in the laboratory. In contrast to most other hololimnetic Caridea, this species passes through an extended larval phase with intraspecific variability in the number and morphology of stages. Here we describe the shortest developmental pathway comprising nine zoeal stages, the first post-zoeal stage (morphologically transitional between a late larva and an early juvenile), and an early juvenile with vestiges of larval traits. Post-zoeal development is characterized by a gradual reduction of the natatory exopods of the pereiopods (a larval character) and a concurrent transformation of the endopods to walking legs (juvenile trait). A comparison with the larvae of a closely related, often confused estuarine species from northern South America, M. amazonicum, revealed consistent interspecific differences, especially in the morphology of the fifth pereiopod, allowing for an unambiguous distinction of these two allopatric congeners.
Record of Parasesarma lenzii (De Man, 1895) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae) from the Cocos-Keeling Islands, with a redescription and designation of a lectotype
Authors: Shahdadi Adnan , Schubart Christoph D. , Ng Peter K. L. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The mangrove crab Parasesarma lenzii (De Man, 1895) s. str. is herewith recorded from the Cocos-Keeling Islands in the Australian Indian Ocean Territories. The species was originally described based on seven specimens from Aceh and Penang, six of which seem to be lost; and we here designate the extant syntype as the lectotype. A brief redescription of the species is provided, and in addition, a segment of the DNA sequence corresponding to the mitochondrial gene and barcoding region COI, was amplified from two individuals and submitted to GenBank for comparative purposes. Aspects of the taxonomy of this species are discussed.
New record of the non-indigenous copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913 (Calanoida, Pseudodiaptomidae) from the Guadalquivir Estuary (Gulf of Cádiz, SW Spain)
Authors: Reyes-Martínez M. J. , González-Gordillo J. I. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
This paper reports the first ocurrence of the Indo-Pacific copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus in the Guadalquivir Estuary (Gulf of Cádiz, SW Spain), and provides some data on its morphology. The record is based on hundreds of specimens (which include males, females, and ovigerous females) captured in October 2016 at the mouth of the river, a marine protected area under the Fishing Reserve regulation. This reports confirms the presence of a stable population of P. marinus in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, a locality intermediate between the previously recorded distribution areas of northern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, and thus allows an expansion of the hitherto known geographical distribution and supports, once again, the role that maritime transport plays as a vector in the colonization of new habitats by exotic species.
Record of Chaceon alcocki Ghosh & Manning, 1993 from the Arabian Sea, off Kollam, India
Authors: Josileen Jose , Maheswarudu G. , Sreesanth L. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The deep-sea crab Chaceon alcocki Ghosh & Manning, 1993 was recorded from the Arabian Sea off the Kollam coast, Kerala, India, in November 2015. A single female crab with 156 mm carapace width (CW), 146 mm carapace length (CL) and a total weight (TW) of 655 g, was collected from multiday trawl landings at the Sakthikulangara landing centre, Kollam, Kerala state. This species was first described by Ghosh & Manning in 1993, and the holotype, also a female crab, is kept in the Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata [formerly known as Calcutta].
To See Oneself as Seen by Others
Authors: Westerlund Fredrik 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
This article develops a new phenomenological analysis of the interpersonal motives and structure of shame. I pursue the argument that shame is rooted in our desire for social affirmation and conditioned by our ability to see ourselves as we appear to others. My central thesis is that shame is what we feel when, due to some trait or action of ours, we come to perceive ourselves as fundamentally despicable and non-affirmable. By showing how our urge for affirmation fuels and informs our self-perception in shame, the analysis provides a better understanding of the simultaneously interpersonal and personal character of shame. Furthermore, it sheds new light on some central aspects of shame that have been insufficiently understood: on the emotional charge and quality of shame, on the role played by our values and identity in shame, and on the continuity, differences, and transfers between personal shame, social shame, and embarrassment.
History from Within: Identity and Interiority
Authors: Proctor Hannah 
Published: June 2019

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Critics of ‘identity politics’ tend to assume that any exploration of subjective experience is tantamount to an affirmation of liberal individualism. This essay attempts to counteract that assumption through an analysis of case histories and research publications by twentieth-century psychoanalysts and psychologists. Such texts demonstrate the ways in which even the most ephemeral psychological experiences – dreams, fantasies, desires – are bound up with structural forms of oppression. Furthermore, these texts – through processes of abstraction, generalisation and classification – indicate ways in which interiorities clash up against externally-defined identity categories; oppression is lived but lived experience also exceeds and complicates identity.
Charming a Clogged Nose: A Late Coptic Magical Spell from Saqqara
Authors: van der Vliet Jacques 
Published: June 2019

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A reedition and analysis of a late (ca. 10th–11th cent.) Coptic magical charm found at Saqqara. The commentary links the charm to pre-Christian models and discusses the possible modes of transmission of traditional ritual knowledge in Christian Egypt.
Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah
Authors: Niehoff Maren 
Published: June 2019

AbstractThis article investigates whether Philo and the rabbis were intrigued by the same problems in the Biblical text and how they solved them. Three sets of questions and answers are studied, pertaining to the trees of Life and Knowledge as well as to God's famous saying “let us make man” (Gen. 1:26). Each cluster is investigated in its historical context and in comparison to its parallel in the other corpus. Philo and Genesis Rabbah operated in radically different environments. While Philo was directly familiar with Homeric scholarship and applied certain of its methods to Scripture, Genesis Rabbah emerged in an environment where Christian exegetes rivaled their study of the same text. Questions and answers were now raised concerning the same verses and helped to define boundaries between the different groups.
Soap Bars and Silk Cocoons: Microecologies of Connectivity in Late Medieval Mediterranean Architecture
Authors: Salgirli Saygin 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
This article discusses connectivity in late medieval Mediterranean architecture from a microecological point of view, as initially formulated by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell. Combining their approach with Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, it argues that Ottoman multipurpose buildings of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries operated as architectures of governmentality on a microecological level. Their composite architectures became relevant and meaningful through their penetrations into everyday experiences, and through their management of a multitude of relationships. On the one hand, this made them world-making institutions in their own localities, and on the other, imperceptibly connected them to distant corners of the Mediterranean, and to different but comparable experiences.
Surfaces for Reflection: Nanban Lacquer in the Iberian World
Authors: Luterbacher Samuel 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
In response to the arrival of Iberian traders and missionaries on the Japanese archipelago in the sixteenth century, local craftsmen developed a unique type of lacquer, called today Nanban, for European export. They adapted traditional techniques to produce chests, writing desks, reliquaries and oratories for this new peripatetic clientele. This paper will explore the assimilation of East Asian lacquered objects within the Iberian world, treating the physical and ontological transformations that occurred as they travelled throughout the vast Iberian mercantile empire in the Indo-Pacific. The very portability of such lacquered objects engendered new realms of artistic experimentation. Like the layered quality of lacquer itself, these mobile works served as vehicles of material assemblage and hermeneutic accumulation, gathering new receptions and identities as they traveled through these Pacific networks and beyond.
Post-Critical Beliefs and Religious Reflection: Religious Openness Hypothesis in Iranian University and Islamic Seminary Students
Authors: Ghorbani Nima , Watson P. J. , Sarmast Zahra , Chen Zhuo Job 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Negative relationships between Post-Critical Beliefs in Iran imply that Muslim perspectives are closed-minded, but positive correlations between Religious Reflection factors point instead toward a Muslim open-mindedness. The hypothesis of this study was that this contrast reveals the Post-Critical Belief of Symbolism to be a questionable index of Muslim open-mindedness. Iranian university students and Islamic seminarians (N = 296) responded to Post-Critical Beliefs, Religious Reflection, Religious Orientation, Quest, Rumination-Reflection, and Satisfaction with Life measures. The “openness” of Symbolism correlated negatively with the “openness” of Intellect Oriented Reflection. Other relationships broadly documented Muslim potentials for openness. Evidence of open-mindedness also appeared in contrasts between university students and Islamic seminarians. These results argued against Symbolism as a culturally sensitive measure of Muslim open-mindedness and supported the claim of the Religious Openness Hypothesis that traditional religions have at least some potentials for openness that can be obscured by contextual influences.
Trauma, Substance Dependence and Religious Coping: A Narrative Spiritual Appraisal in Faith-Based Recovery Programs
Authors: Sremac Srdjan 
Published: June 2019

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The purpose of this article is to understand how people with substance dependence problems employ testimonies of spiritual transformation to develop, cope and sustain a sense of personal identity and create meaning from conflicting (traumatic) life experiences. The quest to undo the struggling with substance dependence is seen as a spiritual attempt to reconfigure the person’s ‘spoiled identity’. Drawing on 31 autobiographies of people who recovered from substance dependence problems I analyzed their conversion testimonies in two European contexts (Serbia and the Netherlands, including a sample of immigrants). It draws on the observation that substance dependence often (though certainly not always) develops in response to life crises or trauma and identity confusion, while spiritual transformation, including religious conversion, can foster recovery. The study focuses specifically of the role of testimony in reconstructing a viable narrative of the self, accounting for trauma, substance dependence experience, and conversion and embedding in different social, cultural, and spiritual contexts. Finally, suggestions for the helping professions and care providers of substance dependence service will be offered.
Religious Commitment and Empathic Concern
Authors: Ziebertz Hans-Georg 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
There is very extensive literature on whether and how religiosity and empathy are related. Such research shows very different results, with some finding a positive influence while others seeing no influence. This paper presents research conducted on German youth (N=2157) regarding the question of how young people score on empathic concern and which concepts function as predictors. Therefore, different concepts on religious commitment are included, and in order to properly assess the meaning of religiosity in the social context of young people, socio-cultural concepts and socio-demographic characteristics are similarly included. The findings show that around two thirds of the respondents score positive or very positive on empathic concern, and that empathic concern correlates with both religious and socio-cultural concepts. Our regression analysis shows that among religious concepts the centrality of religiosity has the strongest influence (β=.220) and among the socio-religious concepts the students’ support for multiculturalism is the strongest factor (β=.195). Admittedly, the beta of sex is even higher, as being female shows the strongest influence on empathic concern (β=.265).
Introduction: Mediation and Negotiation in the Global South
Authors: Garcia Denise 
Published: June 2019

AbstractThe practice of international mediation is widely recognized as essential for international peace and security, and its advantages have been extensively acknowledged. It is also an integral component of international negotiation and the peaceful settlement of disputes. Nevertheless, most of the governmental and non-governmental actors involved in international mediation processes come from predominantly Northern countries. Very few states and civil society institutions from the Global South are engaged in international mediation initiatives or have invested in improving their national mediation capacities. Looking into the future, the involvement of the South in these efforts is needed more than ever. World leaders, from the North and the Global South need to revitalize principled commitments and allow great negotiators to come to the fore to reverse deadlocked and perilous situations in the search for peace and prosperity.
Les Sujets Soufis Dans la Miniature Medievale Orientale (Collection du Maténadaran, Erevan)
Authors: Amirbekian Raisa 
Published: June 2019

AbstractThe Matenadaran, Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is a unique repository of Armenian and Oriental manuscripts. The Oriental Collection of the Matenadaran (known usually as Arabo-Persian Collection), including manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Indian and other languages (total ca. 2,500), is formed over a long time and is regularly augmented by purchases and gifts. This collection covers nearly all subjects of human and natural sciences and culture, including theology, jurisprudence, Qur'ānic sciences, Tafsīrs, Hadīthes, lexicography, literature, poetry, history, politics, philosophy, logic, astronomy, magic, mathematics, medicine, veterinary, and agriculture. Among them there are some Sufi codices from the period of the 15th to the 19th century, illustrated and illuminated in the various ateliers in Iran and the region. The article presents the analysis of some Oriental medieval miniatures from the Matenadaran Collection connected with the Sufi motifs in their compositions. The most important are illustrative cycles of a copy dating back to 1848-1849 of the Commentaries of the Seven Qasidas by Husayn Ibn Ahmad al-Zuzani (Ms. no. 1610); of the Afghan manuscript of the 18th century Gulshan-i Afghan by 'Ali Akbar Oraqzay (Ms. no. 538); of a manuscript (no. 599) dated from 1841-1842 and containing the poem Yusuf va Zuleykha by 'Abd ul-Rahman Djami; and of a manuscript of 1629 (no.1036), the travel diary of the Iranian diplomat Muhammad 'Ali Bek Isfahani; as well a number of single miniature compositions from the collection of Louise Aslanian (Paris) (no.1999).
On the Ossetic Legend about Art&#0146awyz
Authors: Gevorgian Narine 
Published: June 2019

AbstractThe Ossetic legend about Art&#0146awyz belongs to the well-known Prometheus cycle. It is a marginal mythological episode, recorded only in a single version in South Ossetia. It bears a close resemblance to the Armenian story about Artawazd, a mythical hero from the same Prometheus cycle, attested in Xorenac&#0145i and in the later Armenian tradition. The author tries to show that the Ossetic and Armenian legends are actually two versions of a single saga (with further transformation of the &#0147Scythian&#0148 (Ossetic) version on the Caucasian substratum), a common heritage of a lasting or a short-time Armenian-Scythian (Alanian) symbiosis in prehistoric period, presumably during the inroads of the Scythians to Armenia and to the South Caucasus.
On the History of Turkish Feminism
Authors: Safarian Alexander 
Published: June 2019

AbstractThe paper deals with the several aspects of the history of Feminism in the Ottoman Empire. It elucidates the early stages of the formation of the Feministic ideas and tendencies in the Turkish society at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Particular attention is paid to the social-political activities and the role of the Turkish women writers Halide Edib, Arife Hanım, and others. The author discusses inter alia the impact of the Armenian intellectual milieu and, especially, that of the Turkish Armenian women's literature on the inception and development of the Feministic literature in Turkey.
Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Organizations
Authors: _ _ 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The identities of Chinese immigrants and their organizations are themes widely studied in existing literature but the link between them remains under-researched. This paper seeks to explore the role of Chinese ethnicity in Chinese immigrants’ self-organizing processes by empirically studying Chinese community organizations in South Australia. It finds that Chinese immigrants have deployed ethnic identities together with other social identities to call different organizations into being, which exerts an important influence on the emergence and performance of the five major types of Chinese community organizations active in South Australia. Moreover, the ways in which Chineseness is deployed have been heavily influenced by three factors within and beyond the community. These factors are the transformation of the local ethnic-Chinese community, changing socio-political contexts in Australia, and the rise of China. In short, the deployment of ethnic identities in Chinese immigrants’ organizing processes is instrumental, contextual, and strategic.
The Growing Interest of Indonesian Students Studying in China Post Suharto Era
Authors: Gunawan Elizabeth Susanti 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
In the Suharto era (1966-1998), there were eight discriminatory regulations toward regarding Chinese Indonesians that effectively banned the use of Chinese language and culture in public. For three decades, these regulations forced Chinese Indonesians to forget about Chinese language and culture and embedded anti-Chinese sentiment into non-Chinese Indonesians. After the end of the Suharto era, some regulations annulled the previous regulations, thus allowing Chinese culture including Chinese language to be practiced in public again. It created an unexpected Chinese boom. An increasing number of Indonesian students went to China to study the Chinese language. Today, many Indonesian students (Chinese Indonesians and non-Chinese Indonesians) not only study Chinese but have started to enroll in various faculties for degree programs in Chinese universities. This article uses statistical data and interviews in an attempt to explain Indonesian students’ reasons for studying in China and their degree preferences.
Sing Us the Songs of Zion: Land, Culture, and Resistance in Psalm 137, 12 Years a Slave, and Cedar Man
Authors: Joerstad Mari 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
This article reads Psalm 137 in light of colonial appropriation of land and culture, contextualizing the violence of verses 8 and 9 as a response to exile and as a method of protecting Judean cultural practices. Two modern art pieces serve as points of comparison: Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave, and Joe David’s totem pole Cedar Man. The article concludes by considering how the violent language of Psalm 137 may guide contemporary ethical reflection.
Visual Environment of Jewish Learning in Twelfth-Century Rouen
Authors: Ward Susan L. 
Published: June 2019

AbstractThe visual environment circumscribes the qualities of education both in the present day and in the Middle Ages and in both Jewish and secular education. This was true in the 1980s when Margaret Olin and I met teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was true in medieval Rouen.In 1976 excavations in the courtyard of the palais de justice in Rouen uncovered the lower story of a building with Jewish graffiti that has been associated with Jewish learning. In the late eleventh and twelfth centuries Rouen was an important Norman center with a substantial Jewish community. The structure, now called the Maison Sublime, was associated with Jewish learning. Norman Golb has posited that the building was a yeshiva. While other scholars such as Bernhard Blumenkrantz and Dominique Pitte, have posited that the building may have been a synagogue or house, most believe it had an association with education. The Maison Sublime was built by the same masons who built the nearby Christian Abbey of Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville. Boys would also have learned writing as part of their Hebrew education. Thus the medieval Jewish community was educating their students in what would have been recognized as an up to date environment in twelfth-century Rouen.