bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Selection of a sustainability awareness project in an academic institution using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP )
Authors: Yadav Shiv Shankar Kumar , Gupta Hima , Bandyopadhayay Asit 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
The past decade (2005–2014) was the decade for the Education for Sustainability (EfS) declared by the United Nations, in view of the spread of sustainability awareness. The literature argued that one of the rapid ways of achieving spread of sustainability awareness is to educate students who are more adaptive and eager to learn and who could be turned into more aggressive and revolutionary spreading agents of the ‘sustainability awareness’ practices. In that too, lead might be taken by management and social sciences students because their working field is society itself, and thus they could be more confronted and inclined towards decision-making and social interactions role, as compared to other disciplines. This article demonstrates one of such efforts where selection decision about the sustainability awareness projects lies in root in an academic institution to make students learn about sustainable development concepts and practices. The finding of the study suggests that out of three significantly relevant projects the ‘Reuseactivity Project’ was found to be the best alternative when evaluated on multiple criterion like cost, faculty involvement, time and impact. The analysis used was the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), being one of the highly used multi-criteria decision analyses. The findings were further cross-checked under what-if (sensitivity) scenarios for its robustness amidst different criteria variations.
Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men's Homophobia as Gender Socialization
Authors: Pascoe C. J. 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
Popular and academic discourses frame bullying as something that one, often high-status, homophobic kid directs at another, often lower status, GLB young person, frequently with devastating results. This article unpacks current popular and academic discourses of bullying. In doing so it highlights the important role these aggressive interactions play in boys' gender socialization. Using a case study of homophobic bullying among teenage boys in adolescence this article suggests that studying homophobic bullying is less important as an individual pathology and more salient as a form of gender socialization and a mechanism by which gender inequality is reproduced. An inequality focused frame for bullying would privilege examining interactions, rather than individual qualities of bullies and victims; would investigate the various relationships in which these aggressive interactions take place, such as friendships rather than presuming a peer power imbalance; and flesh out a new vocabulary of bullying such that it is understood as a social problem that is not unique to young people, but reflects larger structural inequalities.
Entelechy and Irony in Political Time: The Preemptive Rhetoric of Nixon and Obama
Authors: Steudeman Michael J. 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
This essay makes two key arguments. The first is that preemptive politics often rely on strategies of rhetorical irony to cultivate perceptions of reasonableness, humility, and dialectical transcendence. As such, I expand the rhetorical conception of Stephen Skowronek's “political time” thesis to reveal its dimensions as a Burkean “ironic development.” The second argument is that Barack Obama's rhetorical strategy more directly fits the typology of preemptive presidents than that of reconstructive presidents, making him far more comparable in “political time” with Richard Nixon than with Ronald Reagan. I proceed to analyze the two presidential candidates' rhetoric in their first winning campaigns for the presidency to discern the extent of these parallels and reveal the applicability of an ironist political style in preemptive electoral situations. The essay concludes by examining the trajectory of liberalism in political time and the implications of this analysis for preemptive “wild cards” in presidential rhetoric.
Selling Democracy and the Rhetorical Habits of Synthetic Conflict: John Dewey as Pragmatic Rhetor in China
Authors: Stroud Scott R. 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
This study examines the case of the American philosopher John Dewey as rhetor and public intellectual in China in 1919–1921 to elucidate the lived rhetoric of pragmatism. In China, Dewey gave more than 200 lectures to large academic and general audiences on topics such as education, philosophy, and science. This lecturing activity represents a remarkable and complex rhetorical situation as it involves Dewey addressing an audience not familiar with his ideas and potentially open to persuasion. Using recently discovered lecture notes written by Dewey and translations from the Chinese interpretations of his lectures, I argue that his lectures evinced a pragmatist rhetorical style that attempted to reconstruct dominant habits of thought and communication among his Chinese audiences. In so doing, this study advances our understanding of Dewey as rhetor and the theoretical grounds of the pragmatist rhetoric of experience and synthetic conflict.
Black America’s Double War: Ralph Ellison and “Critical Participation” during World War II
Authors: Werner Jansen B. 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
This essay analyzes Ralph Ellison’s 1943 “Editorial Comment” from the Negro Quarterly. In the editorial, Ellison highlighted the shortcomings of black America’s attitudinal responses to World War II; as a corrective, he offered “critical participation,” which entailed supporting U.S. and Allied principles while remaining vigilant against white supremacy. I argue that Ellison’s editorial signified more than just a meditation on wartime political strategies; it also marked the articulation of black community. Through a close reading of Ellison’s editorial, I contend that the text grounded black community in the enactment of self-conscious doubleness. Ellison’s appeal to self-conscious doubleness contributed to African American intellectual culture in that it outlined an innovative way for navigating the constraints of “double consciousness.” Rather than regarding doubleness as indicative of a static identity, Ellison engaged it as a source of dynamic rhetorical possibility.
Imagining Moral Presidential Speech: Barack Obama’s Niebuhrian Nobel
Authors: Rhodes Joseph , Hlavacik Mark 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
This essay continues the ongoing discussion Robert Terrill began and Joshua Reeves and Matthew May joined regarding the moral, philosophical, and rhetorical choices made in Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel lecture. We argue that Obama’s address is best understood as an articulation of Reinhold Niebuhr’s rhetoric of Christian Realism—Obama wrote the lecture himself and prepared for it by studying the influential theologian’s works. Importantly, Obama is not the first rhetor to use the moral and political thought of Niebuhr to situate his or her public address; the list includes Martin Luther King Jr., Saul Alinsky, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton. Yet Niebuhr’s vocabulary remains largely unstudied by public address scholars and rhetorical theorists. We argue that criticizing the moral and political judgments made in Obama’s address by the Niebuhrian standards the president sets for it provides an alternative method by which to evaluate the speech’s successes and failures. In so doing, we also provide the field of public address with its first account of the rhetorical possibilities and limitations of Reinhold Niebuhr’s work, specifically his vision of a “spiritualized-technician”—a rhetor who speaks the language of realism, idealism, and irony, to expand an audience’s moral imagination.
O władzy ludzi nad zwierzętami w kulturze zachodniej – perspektywa posthumanistyczna
Authors: Gajewska Grażyna 
Published: December 2015

In this paper, I discuss the problem of human ascendance over animals. The issue is particularly important and often addressed in contemporary intellectual current referred to as posthumanism. In this framework, the interest in humanity is not abandoned, but one departs from the anthropocentric approach. The prefix “post” denotes a shift of focus, from problems and intellectual positions which underline the privileged status of the human to non-anthropocentric attitudes. These are non-anthropocentric humanities, although the designation itself is paradoxical, and undermines the legitimacy of the humanities in general, since anthropos is the principal subject of research of the discipline and the humanistic approach. For those reasons, “non-anthropocentric humanities” and other ones as well, such as “non-humanist anthropology”, “anthropology of objects”, “anthropology of cyborgs” or finally “posthumanities” provoke reservations. Still, this is a problem which always appears when appropriate words are lacking to describe a set of new tendencies, directions of research or intellectual approaches which have not yet developed a suitable terminology. The prefix “post” suggests that new phenomena cannot be rendered by means of the former notions and categories; new methods which make it possible have to be sought. In the case of notions such as “non-anthropocentric humanities” and “posthumanities”, the important thing is that they forecast as change of the dominant in the tendencies, directions and methods of (post)humanistic studies. They do not draw upon humanism as a specific approach to the world in whose centre one finds the human being, but to the non-essentialist and non-hierarchically oriented posthumanism.
The Tendency Towards Secondarity in Managing Global Imbalances
Authors: Croitoru Lucian 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
In this study, we analyse the factors that have led to the fall of real interest rates on the long term. We show that this tendency, i.e. the fall in real interest rates, which began three decades ago in developed countries is well explained by the emergence and growth of the global saving glut. We formulate the hypothesis according to which the increase in the global excess saving is mostly the result of a process whereby countries place themselves on a secondary position vis-à-vis the US (i.e. secondarity) with regard to taking and managing risks which occur after a crisis. The ensuing peculiarity of global excess saving is that it is generated in an increasing number of countries or economic areas, with the overwhelming part located in a few of them, while the overwhelming part of the global deficit of savings is located in the US.
Secondarity is caused both by governments, which have sought to move to excess saving, as was the case of Asian countries (Bernanke, 2005), or to capping budget deficits, as it happened in the Eurozone and in the EU, and by the free choice of every economic agent in the private sector. Secondarity represents a major cause for a vicious circle in which the decline in interest rates to ever lower levels has led to the emergence of financial bubbles, whose bursting requires the further reduction of interest rates, thus generating new bubbles and so on and so forth. Misinterpreted in real time as the “Great Moderation”, this vicious circle went unobserved.
Physiological Threshold of Somatic Cell Count in Milk of Polish Heath Sheep and Polish Lowland Sheep
Authors: Świderek Wiesław Piotr , Charon Krystyna Małgorzata , Winnicka Anna , Gruszczyńska Joanna , Pierzchała Mariusz 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
The study was conducted on 320 sheep of two breeds: Polish Heath Sheep (PHS) and Polish Lowland Sheep (PLS). Udder health status was assessed based on somatic cell count (SCC) and bacteriological examination of milk. Cells of the immune system (leukocyte populations and lymphocyte subpopulations) were identified in the blood and milk of sheep by flow cytometry, using a panel of specific monoclonal antibodies and fluorescent dyes. The study showed that the highest proportion of neutrophils and a lower percentage of lymphocytes (CD4+, CD8+, CD19+, WC1-N2+) in milk and blood occurred in sheep of both breeds in which milk SCC ranged between 201 and 300×103 cells/ml. In light of existing research, these results suggest that fluctuations in somatic cell count of ewe milk are physiologically determined up to 200×103cells/ml and result from udder health disturbances above this level.
7. Associations between Polymorphisms in the DIO3 Gene and Reproductive Traits and Carcass Performance in Pigs
Authors: Oczkowicz Maria , Dunkowska Anna , Piórkowska Katarzyna , Mucha Aurelia , Tyra Mirosław , Ropka-Molik Katarzyna 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
Recently, DIO3 gene has been proposed as a candidate gene for litter size in pigs. Moreover, it was shown that polymorphism in this gene is associated with carcass traits. In this study we identified several SNPs within coding sequence of DIO3 by HRM method and performed association study between two polymorphisms and reproductive and carcass traits in pigs bred in Poland. Analysis of 350 pigs of Landrace and Large White breed revealed several significant associations for rs80999359, like period between the second and third parities (2IP)(P<0.0008) in the whole population, period between the third and fourth parities (3IP) (P<0.022), number of piglets born alive (L3NBA) (P<0.0084) and number of piglets at 21 days (L3NB21d) (P<0.0176) at the third parity in Large White as well as period between the second and third parities (2IP) (P<0.0012) in Landrace breed. The second polymorphism (rs80983654) was associated with 1IP (P<0.0218), number of piglets born alive at the fourth parity (L4NBA, P<0.027), number of piglets at 21 day at the fourth litter (L4NB21d, P<0.01), in the whole population, average number of piglets born alive (ANBA, P<0.01250), average number of piglets at 21 day (ANB21d, P<0.009), average interparity period (AIP, P<0.016), age at the first parity (1AP, P<0.003), (1IP, P<0.001, L4NBA, P<0.017, L4NB21d, P<0.005) in Large White breed. In contrast, we have found only few associations between DIO3 polymorphisms and carcass traits. rs80999359 was associated with backfat thickness (p<0.01) while rs80983654 with the weight of ham. Our results suggest that polymorphisms within DIO3 gene may be associated with reproductive traits.
Pedigree Analysis of Mangalica Pig Breeds
Authors: Posta János , Szabó Péter , Komlósi István 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
An effective gene conservation programme requires the knowledge of genetic variability of the population. The genetic structure of Mangalica pig breeds (Blonde, Red and Swallow-bellied) was studied from pedigree records. Herdbook data available up to 2011 of registered Mangalica pig breeds (Blonde, Red and Swallow-bellied) were analysed. The number of complete generations was 6 for Blonde and 5 for Red and Swallow-bellied Mangalica whereas the average complete generation equivalent was between 3.51 and 6.01. The average level of inbreeding of the reference population was low (4.07–5.87%). The investigated breeds could be considered as small populations based on the probability of gene origin. The most important ancestor contributed between 9 and 16% of the gene pool of the reference populations. The longest generation interval was found for the sire-to-son pathways whereas the shortest for dam-to-daughter pathways for each breed.
Numerical analysis of evaporation in microchannel under capillary pumping
Authors: Karwacki Jarosław , Nowakowska Helena , Lackowski Marcin , Butrymowicz Dariusz 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
The paper presents numerical simulation of two-phase flow in a heated capillary with evaporation on the meniscus. To solve the problem, a model of evaporation from meniscus was developed in which the dynamics of liquid-vapour interface is described by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The numerical simulations were performed using commercial software for 2D axially symmetric case. The flow evolution was analysed for different values of heat transfer coefficient at the capillary wall and inlet liquid mass flow rate.
Entropy generation in a condenser and related correlations
Authors: Askowski Rafał , Jaworski Maciej , Smyk Adam 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of relations describing entropy generation in a condenser of a steam unit. Connections between entropy generation, condenser ratio, and heat exchanger effectiveness, as well as relations implied by them are shown. Theoretical considerations allowed to determine limits of individual parameters which describe the condenser operation. Various relations for average temperature of the cold fluid were compared. All the proposed relations were verified against data obtained using a simulator and actual measurement data from a 200 MW unit condenser. Based on data from a simulator it was examined how the sum of entropy rates, steam condenser effectiveness, terminal temperature difference and condenser ratio vary with the change in the inlet cooling water temperature, mass flow rate of steam and the cooling water mass flow rate.
Selected aspects of operation of supercritical (transcritical) organic Rankine cycle
Authors: Mocarsk Szymon , Borsukiewicz-Gozdur Aleksandra 
Published: December 2015

AbstractThe paper presents a literature review on the topic of vapour power plants working according to the two-phase thermodynamic cycle with supercritical parameters. The main attention was focused on a review of articles and papers on the vapour power plants working using organic circulation fluids powered with low- and medium-temperature heat sources. Power plants with water-steam cycle supplied with a high-temperature sources have also been shown, however, it has been done mainly to show fundamental differences in the efficiency of the power plant and applications of organic and water-steam cycles. Based on a review of available literature references a comparative analysis of the parameters generated by power plants was conducted, depending on the working fluid used, the type and parameters of the heat source, with particular attention to the needs of power plant internal load.
Fighting in the Fightschools late XVth, early XVIth century
Authors: Jaquet Daniel 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
This article discusses the role played by Fightmaster (master-at-arms, Schirm- or Fechtmeister ) in the Fightschools (Fechtschulen ) taking place in the swiss cities at the end of the middle ages. The strong link between these lessstudied events and the practice of martial arts according to the technical literature (Fechtbücher) will be examined, as well as the figure of the Fightmaster.
By collecting references out of normative documents regarding those events, it is possible to sketch both the fighting praxis inside the fightschools and the expertise of the Fightmaster in relation with the town’s authorities. Doing so, the questions of the professional performances, the reputation and the representation of the Fightmaster will be addressed. This approach will be illustrated by the case study of a master at arms, Peter Switzer
Nutzungsgesteuerte Erwerbung an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB-PK): Vom Experiment in die Routine
Authors: Präßler Janin 
Published: December 2015

Zusammenfassung:
Die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB-PK) hat seit September 2013 drei unterschiedliche Modelle der nutzer- bzw. nutzungsgesteuerten Erwerbung erprobt: ein aggregatorenbasiertes PDA-Modell, ein verlagsbasiertes EBS-Modell und ein PDA-Print-Modell. In dem folgenden Beitrag geht es um die zentralen Ergebnisse und Erfahrungswerte mit diesen Erwerbungsmodellen. Am Ende steht die Entscheidung, ob dieses Erwerbungsinstrument vom Status „Pilotprojekt“ in die Routine überführt wird und nach welchem Modell. Dabei gehören die Qualität der Metadaten und die aktuelle Entwicklung des Marktes zu den großen Herausforderungen.
Synthesis and properties of novel reusable nano-ordered KIT-5-N-sulfamic acid as a heterogeneous catalyst for solvent-free synthesis of 2,4,5-triaryl-1 H-imidazoles
Authors: Mirsafaei Razieh , Heravi Majid M. , Ahmadi Shervin , Hosseinnejad Tayebeh 
Published: December 2015

AbstractA novel silica-bonded propyl-
Ramipril inhibits high glucose-stimulated up-regulation of adhesion molecules via the ERK1/2 MAPK signaling pathway in human umbilical vein endothelial cells
Authors: Kim Moo Hyun , Kang Hae Min , Kim Chae-Eun , Han Seongho , Kim Sung-Whan 
Published: December 2015

AbstractRamipril has recently been shown to have anti-atherogenic properties. However, the specific mechanisms underlying these effects remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of ramipril on induction of adhesion molecules in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) using high-glucose (HG) conditions and to investigate possible underlying molecular mechanisms. The effects of ramipril on expression of intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1, vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1 production, and ERK phosphorylation were examined in HG-induced HUVECs with inhibitors targeting the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway. HG induced the expression of the adhesion molecules ICAM-1 and VCAM-1. Pretreatment with ramipril drastically inhibited ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 production in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Moreover, upon investigating the effects of ramipril on the MAPK/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling pathway, we found that ramipril completely inhibited HG-induced phosphorylation of ERK1/2. ERK inhibitors completely prevented the inhibitory effect of HG. This study demonstrated that ramipril reduces HG-stimulated induction of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression via MAPK signaling, which may be useful for inhibition of atherosclerosis.
Relatively Orthocomplemented Skew Nearlattices in Rickart Rings
Authors: Cīırulis Jānis 
Published: December 2015

AbstractA class of (right) Rickart rings, called strong, is isolated. In particular, every Rickart *-ring is strong. It is shown in the paper that every strong Rickart ring R admits a binary operation which turns R into a right normal band having an upper bound property with respect to its natural order ≤; such bands are known as right normal skew nearlattices. The poset (R, ≤) is relatively orthocomplemented; in particular, every initial segment in it is orthomodular.The order ≤ is actually a version of the so called right-star order. The one-sided star orders are well-investigated for matrices and recently have been generalized to bounded linear Hilbert space operators and to abstract Rickart *-rings. The paper demonstrates that they can successfully be treated also in Rickart rings without involution.
Multi-Sorted Logic and Logical Geometry: Some Problems
Authors: Plotkin B. , Plotkin E. 
Published: December 2015

AbstractThe paper has a form of a survey on basics of logical geometry and consists of three parts. It is focused on the relationship between many-sorted theory, which leads to logical geometry and one-sorted theory, which is based on important model-theoretic concepts. Our aim is to show that both approaches go in parallel and there are bridges which allow to transfer results, notions and problems back and forth. Thus, an additional freedom in choosing an approach appears. A list of problems which naturally arise in this field is another objective of the paper.