bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Response of some upland rice varieties to drought stress
Authors: PURWANTO EDI , SAMANHUDI SAMANHUDI , EFFENDI YONIAR 
Published: December 2017

Purwanto E, Samanhudi, Yoniar Effendi Y. 2017. Response of some upland rice varieties to drought stress. Trop Drylands 1: 69-77. The study aimed to examine the response of upland rice varieties at germination stage on several PEG (Polyethylene Glycol) 6000 concentration levels and to determine growth characteristics, physiological changes and yield of upland rice varieties under drought stress condition in a pot experiment. The study consisted of two experiments; the first was to study germination and early growth, and the second was to study the vegetative and generative growth of upland rice under drought stress condition. Experiments I and II were conducted in a completely randomized factorial design consisted of two factors and three replications. In experiments I, the first factor was upland rice variety comprised of 10 varieties and the second factor was PEG concentration consisted of four levels. In experiment II, the first factor was upland rice varieties that responded the best to drought stress in experiment I, and the second factor was the drought stress treatment consisted of moisture content at 100, 75, 50 and 25% field capacity. The research was conducted at the Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology and the greenhouse of Faculty of Agriculture, Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta. The results showed that the germination and vigor index decreased with increasing levels of PEG concentration. PEG concentration of 25 g L-1 of water was the most optimum for screening drought resistant upland rice. In experiment I, Towuti, Situ Patengang, Kalimutu and Gajah Mungkur varieties showed the best response to drought stress. Increased intensity of drought stress resulted in a reduction of plant height, number of tillers, dry weight, relative growth rate, leaf area, number of grains hill-1, 1000 grain weight, dry grain weight hill-1 and root dry weight. The drought stress also caused an earlier flowering date and increased percentage of empty grain. Based on the dry grain weight hill-1, Towuti exhibited a higher drought resistance level than Gajah Mungkur, Situ Patenggang and Kalimutu.
Population analysis of Bali Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi Stresemann 1912) released in 2007 in Bali Barat National Park, Indonesia
Authors: HERNOWO JARWADI BUDI 
Published: December 2017

Hernowo JB. 2017. Population analysis of Bali Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi Stresemann 1912) released in 2007 in Bali Barat National Park, Indonesia. Trop Drylands 1: 83-89. The population of Bali Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi) has been released in the year 2007 in Bali Barat National Park should be monitored. Monitoring of the Bali Mynah (BM) population development was done in June 2008, June 2009 and October 2009. Monitoring method employed was direct observation focused on rations feeding site and surrounding areas at Tanjung Gelap (Menjangan Resort). The individual number that was released in June 2008 was 20 individuals, and that in June 2009 and October 2010 was, respectively, 20 individuals and 22 individuals. The Bali Mynah survival is approximately 77.27-110.53% in two respective years. The bird natality rate is 10.53%. The sex ratio is about 1:1 and birds age structure are 95.24% adult and 4.76% sub adult. The over-all population of Bali Mynah (BM) at Tanjung Gelap is in good condition. The important factors that support Bali Mynah survival in the wild habitat is through managed nest box, food rations, and BM safety.
Relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intentions of academics
Authors: Parasız Özgün , Koç Mustafa , Ilgar Ebru , Şahin Mustafa Yaşar 
Published: December 2017

In this study, it is aimed to determine the level of organizational commitment of academics working in Department of Physical Education and Sports and identify its relationship with the intention to cease of employment. Organizational Commitment Scale, consisting of 18 questions, developed by Meyer and Allen (1997), adapted to Turkish by Varol (2010) and Scale of Turnover Intentions developed by Rosin and Korabik (1995), adapted to Turkish by Tanrıöver (2005) have been carried out on 143 academics chosen via random sampling method in this relational screening model research. The result of the research has shown that sub-dimension of Emotional Commitment of academics’ constitutes the core element and intention to leave is low. Variables of gender and marital status are found to have no effect on the relationship between organizational commitment and intention to leave. On the other hand, academics with an administrative role display a meaningful difference. In regards to the correlation results within the scales, there is a negative and mid-level relationship between emotional commitment level and intention to leave, and a negative and low-level relationship between the level of normative commitment and case of employment.
Ambrosetti–Prodi Periodic Problem Under Local Coercivity Conditions
Authors: Sovrano Elisa , Zanolin Fabio 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
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Internalization and the Philosophers’ Best Interest in Plato’s Republic
Authors: Strabbing Jada Twedt 
Published: December 2017

AbstractI argue that it is in the philosophers’ best interest to rule Kallipolis because that life is the best available to them. Although the life of pure contemplation of the Forms would make them happiest, I make the case that, on Plato’s view, this life is not an option for them because of the essential psychological connections that he posits between the individual and the city. To make this argument, I first draw on Plato’s city/soul analogy to explore why it is in reason’s best interest to rule the soul. The answer, I claim, rests in the interconnectedness of the three parts of the soul. If reason does not rule the soul, Plato says that reason will be ruled by another part of the soul and will be forced to serve the ends of the ruling part, which is worse for reason than ruling the soul. Similarly, the philosophers must rule or be ruled. I argue that, as we would expect from the city/soul analogy, Plato thinks that it is worse for the philosophers to be ruled by another part of the city than to rule Kallipolis. This is because, on Plato’s view, individuals internalize their culture, and if the philosophers do not rule, they internalize an unjust culture, which adversely impacts their ability to contemplate the Forms. However, if the philosophers rule Kallipolis, they internalize a just society, which best facilitates their contemplating the Forms. The upshot is that, due to the interconnections that Plato sees between psyche and city, he thinks that ruling Kallipolis is the best option available to the philosophers.
Encyclopaedism on the Fringe of Islamic Orthodoxy: The Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, the Rutbat al-ḥakīm and the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm on the Division of Science
Authors: de Callataÿ Godefroid 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Recent scholarship has brought important new insights into the chronology of the writing and dissemination of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (‘Epistles of the Brethren of Purity’). This new chronological perspective prompts us also to reappraise the pioneering role of the Ikhwān with regard to the problem of classifying knowledge. The first part of this paper will be devoted to this issue. We shall re-examine the tripartite division of science as purposefully designed by the Ikhwān in Epistle 7, as well as another classification in the form of an allegorical fable as found in Epistle 26, and which the Ikhwān have derived from Persian literature. The second part of our contribution will focus on the tenfold classification put forward by Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī (d. 353/964), now correctly identified as the genuine author of the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm (‘The Aim of the Sage’) and the Rutbat al-ḥakīm (‘the Scale of the Sage’) and, in all likelihood, as the scholar through whom the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ were first introduced into al-Andalus.
Kitāb al-Māʾ: an Arabic medical dictionary of the mid-fifth Islamic century
Authors: Bachour Natalia 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
In 1996, Hādī Ḥasan Ḥammūdī published an edition of a medical dictionary based on two manuscripts he had found in a private collection in Oran, Algeria. The dictionary was allegedly written by ʾAbū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-ʾAzdī, known under the name Ibn al-Dhahabī (d. 456/1064).
The transcription shows hamzat al-qaṭʿ but not hamzat al-waṣl, therefore: ʾabū but ibn.
The author of the dictionary acquired his knowledge in several regions of the Islamic world and allegedly studied with such famous scholars as al-Bīrūnī (d. 440/1048) and Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037). Complaining that his contemporaries frequently used non-Arabic terms, he decided to compile a dictionary, arranging the terms in alphabetical order by their roots, and explaining their medical as well as their linguistic aspects. He entitled his dictionary the Book of Water (Kitāb al-māʾ), after its first entry, on water (al-māʾ). This paper investigates the text with regard to its author, content, principles of organisation, authorities, and intertextuality, with the aim of verifying the authorship of Ibn al-Dhahabī and of better understanding the literary environment and the reading culture of the fifth century.
Standardizing Emotions: Aspects of Classification and Arrangement in Tales With a Good Ending
Authors: Behzadi Lale 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
This article links classifying activities to practices of emotion. Re-reading al-Tanūkhī’s collection al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda (“Deliverance after hardship”), it focuses on the arrangement of the book on the one hand, and on how the involved emotions are handled on the other. This double approach suggests that by connecting the fields “order” and “emotion” the scope of knowledge with regard to the Arabic scholarly tradition can be reviewed and extended. Against the background of the widespread impulse to arrange and classify, the emotional spectrum is given a framework which generalizes, even rationalizes, the feeling itself. In turn, emotional representations in the stories shed light onto the fragile mechanisms of encyclopedic presuppositions and on definitions in general. Since both concepts are affected and shaped by narrative structures, story-telling can be considered as a significant means of structuring the world.
A Chinese regard oblique
Authors: Lavagnino Alessandra C. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The wealth of topics and the vast range of themes dealt during the Zurich Workshop have stimulated me to propose some preliminary remarks coming from a Chinese point of view. The difficulty of dealing with different set of words and different way of classifying things makes it necessary to provide some basic information, sources and insights into how such fundamental issues as the power of writing, the categorisation of knowledge, and the preeminence of the role of the traditional Classic texts in intellectual, political and administrative life were developed in ancient China. The written language was an empowering language. The privilege of mastering the Classical texts and the ability to write elegantly made success in the imperial exams possible, allowing the scholar to become a member of the powerful élite. This explains the close link established in China between the exercice of power and the literary language. The need to provide the necessary tools to acquire this ability became the main incentive for the production of a set of texts such as dictionaries, glossaries, thesaurus, and encyclopaedias or “books according to categories”. In these texts the world of knowledge was ordered according to categories which were functional and useful for the preservation of imperial power in the hands of loyal bureaucrats, carefully selected through the perfect machinery of the examinations, to perpetuate the “mandate of heaven” throughout the centuries.
The Second Revival of Astronomy in the Tenth Century and the Establishment of Astronomy as an Element of Encyclopedic Education
Authors: Thomann Johannes 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
In the fourth/tenth century a great number of new intellectual centers appeared in the Islamic world, and an increase in the number of persons involved in production of written works on mathematics and astronomy took place. One such new center was Aleppo under the Ḥamdanid ruler Sayf al-Dawla. According to al-Qabīṣī the generosity of Sayf al-Dawla led to the situation that ignorant people pretended to be astronomers or astrologer. Therefore, al-Qabīṣī argued, exams should be established for testing the level of competence and the completeness of knowledge of a candidate. Al-Qabīṣī was engaged in teaching by giving lectures based on a textbook, the Fuṣūl of al-Farghānī. This was a novelty in teaching astronomy, since before memorizing didactic poems and operating with astronomical instruments was the preferred method. While al-Qabīṣī’s aim in teaching astronomy was to train future professional astronomers and astrologers, in other contexts astronomy was a propaedeutic subject as part of the quadrivium. The philosopher Muḥammad Ibn al-Haytham (not to be confused with the mathematician al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham) wrote a commentary of the Almagest, in which his intention was “to elucidate subtle ideas for the benefit of students”, and not to go into technical details of calculation. Obviously his aim was to educate future philosophers in the “philosophical sciences” (mathematics, natural sciences and metaphysics). Some generations earlier, al-Fārābī wrote a commentary on the Almagest with similar intentions. His preferred subject was the geometric proof, while observations and calculations were of little interest. Astronomy was incorporated into a curriculum of general scientific knowledge, – similar to the curriculum of the Alexandrian schools in late antiquity –, and ancient Greek texts on astronomy were preferred. This development was indeed a renaissance in the sense Jacob Burckhardt used the term.
Sequential Bidding in Asymmetric First Price Auctions
Authors: Cohensius Gal , Segev Ella 
Published: December 2017

AbstractWe study asymmetric first price auctions in which bidders place their bids sequentially, one after the other and only once. We show that, when bidders’ values are drawn from uniform distributions and are asymmetric, i.e., there is a strong bidder and a weak bidder (the strong bidder’s distribution first order stochastically dominates that of the weak bidder’s), the expected revenue in the sequential bidding first price auction (when the strong bidder bids first) may be higher than in the simultaneous bidding first price auction as well as the simultaneous bidding second price auction. The expected payoff of the weak bidder is also higher in the sequential first price auction. Therefore a seller interested in increasing revenue facing asymmetric bidders may find it beneficial to order them and let them bid sequentially instead of simultaneously.
die cirkel sint ze hêre
Authors: Mentzel-Reuters Arno 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The article focusses on Walther’s verses dedicated to the conflict betweeen Philipp of Schwaben and Otto IV. (both ›Philippstöne‹ and the ›Reichston‹). There is no evidence in the so called ›Hofwechselstrophe‹ (9 III) for Walther changing courts after the death of duke Friedrich of Austria in 1198. This verse might as well signify a change of lyrical topics from mourning to political support of Philipp according to the position of the new duke Leopold VI. So the verses refering to Philipp do not represent Staufen propaganda but can be regarded as parts of courtly communication (Strohschneider) in Vienna and classified more cautiously as ›Staufen friendly‹. The opposition between laity and clergy as a leading motive can be detected not only in the ›Kirchenschelte‹ (›scolding of the clergy‹) of ›Reichston‹ verse II but even in the so far enigmatic verse on frôuwe Bône (›Lady Bean‹, 8 III,1–14). This casts a new light on the lines dedicated to the orphan (›der weise‹) and the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. When postulating that the orphan should be put on Philipp’s head to finish imperial desaster that is caused by poor kings harassing the empire and so called zirkel (›circles‹), he does not refer to inferior forms of crowns but to the clergy allies supporting Otto. In contemporary latin monastic writing ›circle‹ and ›crown‹ are used as metaphors for the tonsure and its surrounding hairline. This fresh sight spares from auxiliary constructions concerning with Walther’s biography, the role of ›Sangspruch‹ in political conflict and to the use of crowns in the Middel Ages.
Gattungsvagabund
Authors: Nowakowski Nina 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
›Der witzige Landstreicher‹, an early work in print by Hans Folz, is showing features of different literary genres, i. e. narrative, disputation and shrovetide play (Fastnachtspiel). Accordingly, it’s generic affiliation cannot be clearly determined. The generic hybridity of ›Der witzige Landstreicher‹ is amplified by remarkable medial aspects regarding the printing. This text is the first known print from the city of Nuremberg with a typographic dramatic format (Dramensatz), although it is not quite a dramatic text. Thus, this short text particularly makes comprehensible the generic permeability that is representing a characteristic feature of short german rhymed literature (Reimpaardichtung) in the late middle ages.
Influence of metal cations on inhibitor performance of gluconates in the corrosion of mild steel in fresh water
Authors: Otani Kyohei , Sakairi Masatoshi , Islam Md. Saiful 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe influence of metal cations on the ability of gluconates to inhibit corrosion of mild steel in a model fresh water was investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and immersion tests. The EIS and immersion test results showed that the corrosion inhibition of mild steel in model fresh water by gluconates was improved by metal cations that have a large value of corrosion inhibitory effect of cation,Y.The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis showed that metal cations that have largerYvalues are bonded on mild steel. It was thought that metal cations with largeYvalues and gluconates confer a synergistic inhibition effect on the corrosion of mild steel in model fresh water.
Gravimetric and electrochemical methods to evaluate the performance of corrosion inhibitors for galvanized steel strips
Authors: Rodríguez-Pérez Mayra Y. , de la Garza-Garza Maribel , Almeraya-Calderón Facundo , Artigas Alfredo , Monsalve Alberto , Pérez-González Francisco A. , Ramírez-Ramírez Javier H. , Colás Rafael , Garza-Montes-de-Oca Nelson F. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Corrosion inhibitors with Cr+6 and Cr+3 are applied on the surface of metals to increase their chemical resistance when they are exposed to severe degradation conditions. For galvanized low-carbon steel strip, these compounds are applied to reduce corrosion mainly during transport operations of this metal. The performance of corrosion inhibitors deposited on the surface of galvanized steel strip was evaluated through combined physical and electrochemical modeling. The physical model takes into account direct exposure of specimens to different conditions including simulated marine, industrial and rain environments for periods up to 8 weeks. The efficacy of the experimental method was also evaluated using polarization resistance and gravimetric means. A good correlation between the evolution of the degradation phenomenon obtained directly from the physical model and the electrochemical and gravimetric data was found. The results showed that this method is an effective tool that allows the comparison of the performance of different corrosion inhibitors that could be used to prevent surface degradation of galvanized steel strip.
“Transfiguration” and Actual Relevance of the Common Constitutional Traditions: Past, Present and Future
Authors: Pollicino Oreste 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
1. Declaration of intention. - 2. The past: common constitutional traditions at the genesis of the European integration process. - 3. From Maastricht until (the Charter of) Nice: the Common constitutional traditions’ present perfect - 4. After the entry into force of the Charter: common constitution traditions today: still a meaningful concept? - 5. Relevance of the common constitution traditions in the (next) future. - 6 Final remarks.
Peculiarities of Taxonomic Structure of Micromycete Complex in Root Zone of Sunflower in Conditions of Southern Steppe of Ukraine
Authors: Kostyuchenko N.I. , Lyakh V.A. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe taxonomic structure of microscopic fungi complex in root zone of sunflower under its growing in conditions of southern Steppe of Ukraine comparing with natural biocenosis and black vapor has been studied. Soil of background (natural biocenosis, rhizosphere), black vapor (arable layer 0–20 cm) and root zone (rhizosphere) of a sunflower hybrid Zaporozhsky-32 was investigated. Soil samples of sunflower rhizosphere were selected at the stages of 2–4 true leaves (May), flowering (June), head formation (August) and full maturity (October) during 2009–2011. Samples of background soil and black vapor soil were taken in the same terms as the crop. Almost throughout the entire vegetation period, the number of micromycetes in the root zone of sunflower did not differ from the natural biocenosis and black vapor, and only by the end of the vegetation it nearly doubled. Despite almost the same total number of identified genera, there are significant differences in genus composition of micromycetes isolated from background soil and root zone of sunflower. Micromycetes of the genera
Influence of nutritional status on postoperative outcome in patients with colorectal cancer – the emerging role of the microbiome
Authors: Weimann Arved 
Published: December 2017

AbstractMany patients with colorectal cancer are overweight. Even then, nutritional status is a frequently underestimated risk factor for perioperative complications. Enhanced Recovery after Surgery is the goal for perioperative management, and preoperative nutritional risk screening should be a standard. In case of nutritional risk, perioperative nutrition therapy should be started without delay and should follow recent guideline recommendations. The preservation of the microbiome has an emerging role in preventing postoperative anastomotic leakage and septic complications. The time window for recovery after neoadjuvant treatment for rectal cancer may be used for conditioning appropriate-risk patients in a “prehabilitation” program. In order to assess metabolic recovery and the prognosis for long-term survival, C-reactive protein/albumin ratio may be a promising parameter, which has to be validated in the future. This narrative review summarizes recent strategies and guideline recommendations.