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Summary of raptor and owl ringing in Slovakia in 2011
Authors: Slobodník Vladimír , Slobodník Roman 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
The article provides basic information about the number, species and recoveries of ringed birds of prey and owl species in Slovakia in 2011 . The report follows similar papers from the following periods: 2002-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009 and 201 0. In 2011 a total of 61 0 individuals were ringed in Slovakia, of which 509 individuals were birds of prey (1 6 species) and 1 01 individuals were owls (9 species). From the total number, 426 raptor nestlings and 46 owl nestlings were ringed. In comparison with the previous year 201 0 the number of ringed birds of prey and owls increased by 11%.
Application of neural networks for the prediction of rock fragmentation in Chadormalu iron mine / Zastosowanie sieci neuronowych do prognozowania stopnia rozdrobnienia skał w kopalni rud żelaza w Chadormalu
Authors: Monjezi Masoud , Ahmadi Zabiholla , Khandelwal Manoj 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Most open-pit mining operations employ blasting for primary breakage of the in-situ rock mass. Inappropriate blasting techniques can result in excessive damage to the wall rock, decreasing stability and increasing water influx. In addition, it will result in either over and/or under breakage of rocks. The presence of over broken rocks can result in decreased wall stability and require additional excavation. In contrast, the presence of under broken rocks may require secondary blasting and additional crushing. Since blasting is a major cost factor, both cases (under and over breakage) create additional costs reflected in the increase of the operation and maintenance of the machinery. Quick and accurate measurements of fragment size distribution are essential for managing fragmented rock and other materials. Various fragmentation measurement techniques are available and are being used by industry/researchers but most of the methods are time consuming and not precise. An ideally performed blasting operation enormously influences the overall mining cost. This aim can be achieved by proper prediction and attenuation of fragmentation. Prediction of fragmentation is essential for optimizing blasting operation. Poor performance of the empirical models for predicting fragmentation has urged the application of new approaches. In this paper, artificial neural network (ANN) method is implemented to develop a model to predict rock fragmentation size distribution due to blasting in Chadormalu iron mine, Iran. In the development of the proposed ANN model, ten parameters such as UCS, drilling rate, water content, burden, spacing, stemming, hole diameter, bench height, powder factor and charge per delay were incorporated. Training and testing of the model was performed by the back-propagation algorithm using 97 datasets. A four-layer ANN was found to be optimum with architecture of 10-7-5-1. A comparison has made between measured results of fragmentation with predicted results of fragmentation by ANN and multiple regression model. Sensitivity analysis was also performed to understand the effect of each influencing parameters on rock fragmentation.
Aero-Aquatic Fungi Colonizing Decaying Leaves in Woodland Swampy Pools of Aukštadvaris Regional Park (Lithuania)
Authors: Svetlana Markovskaja 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Markovskaja S., 2012: Aero-aquatic fungi colonizing decaying leaves in woodland swampy pools of Aukštadvaris Regional Park (Lithuania) (Oro-vandens grybai kolonizuojantys pūvančius lapus užpelkėjusiose miško balose Aukštadvario regioniniame parke) - Bot. Lith., 18(2): 123-132.
Comparatively high diversity of fungi (26 species) decomposing leaf litter were found in small lentic habitats (swampy pools) in mixed Gubiškiai Forest of Aukštadvaris Regional Park. Together with widespread aquatic and terrestrial fungi, 14 species of aero-aquatic hyphomycetes were found colonizing freshly fallen leaves of Quercus robur, Tilia cordata and Alnus glutinosa in autumn 2011. Of these, six species, Ardhachandra cristaspora,Candelabrum spinulosum, C. clathrosphaeroides, Dactylaria fusiformis, Helicodendron tubulosum and Xylomyces giganteus were recorded for the first time in Lithuania. In addition, a noteworthy new aero-aquatic fungus, preliminary placed in the genus Pseudospiropes by morphological characterization, was found on decaying leaves of Quercus robur. New records to the country and rare species are illustrated, their morphological and ecological peculiarities are discussed herein.
Absconditella Lignicola (Stictidaceae) – Lichen Species New to Belarus
Authors: Bely Pavel 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Bely P., 2012: Absconditella lignicola (Stictidaceae) - lichen species new to Belarus [Absconditella lignicola (Stictidaceae) - nauja kerpių rūšis Baltarusijoje]. - Bot. Lith., 18(2): 164-165.
Absconditella lignicola Vězda et Pišút is reported for the first time in Belarus. It was recorded in one locality, growing on decaying pinewood on the opencast peatland in Brest region, the south of Belarus.
The upper cervical spine tumor pathology C1-C2 - therapeutic attitude
Authors: Serban D. , Calina N.A. , Exergian Fl. , Podea M. , Zamfir C. , Morosanu E. , Giovani A. , Checiu Gh. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Surgical treatment of upper cervical spine tumors, whether they are vertebral, epidural, subdural or intramedullary, raises technical and decisional difficulties regarding the approach of the region as well as in maintaining its stability.
The authors performed a retrospective study on C1, C2 spinal tumor pathology, managed surgically in the Spinal Surgery Department of Bagdasar Arseni Clinical Hospital, between January 2007 and December 2011.
We included in the study 44 patients, operated for C1, C2 cervical spine tumors, 23 men and 21 women with ages between 13 and 71 years. The pathology included 24 C1-C2 vertebral tumors, 11 subdural tumors, 2 epidural tumors and 7 intramedullary tumors.
Presenting symptoms were cervical pain, occipital neuralgia, medullary compression syndrome, and/or cranio-spinal junction instability.
The purpose of surgery was to establish a histopathologic diagnosis and to decompress the neural elements by attempting a total tumor removal as well as to stabilize the cranio - cervical junction in order to improve the patient's quality of life. The approach was chosen based on tumor location, prognosis and the need for fixation. For 6 patients an anterior approach was used, for 31 pacients we used a posterior approach and 7 patients required a combined anterior and posterior approach.
Neurological improvement was observed in 17 patients, with a mean increase of 8 points on ASIA scale, 7 patients worsened immediately postoperatively with a mean decrease of 10 points on ASIA scale, (2 patients died), and 20 patients without neurological deficits preoperatively remained unchanged. In all cases where the craniospinal junction instability was the cause of occipito-cervical pain we noted the disappearence of pain after surgery.
The development of new surgical techniques and fixation systems paved the way to a successful treatment for these difficult tumors, some of them considered inoperable in the past.
Captive Bodies: Victorian Construction of Femininity in Wuthering Heights and the Crimson Petal and the White
Authors: Petković Danijela 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
This paper argues that both Wuthering Heights (1847) and The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) investigate, expose and condemn the multifaceted inscription of a specific culture on the female body (via the construction of femininity)-the defleshing of female bodies, which in turn makes them docile (at least temporarily). With different degrees of explicitness, the two novels demonstrate how this specific--capitalist, imperialist, patriarchal--culture forces itself onto the bodies of girls/women: the legalized, scientifically justified process whereby female bodies, regardless of class, are defleshed, skinned alive and made to emit signs of subjugation to the patriarchal will--this being their assigned role, without exception, in various male-dominated economies.
Conceptualising Time and Space in Winterson’s the Passion and Written on the Body
Authors: Kriston Andrea 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Time and space are major themes in Winterson’s novels. My goal in this paper is to focus on the way these concepts are analysed from the perspective of two of her novels, The Passion and Written on the Body. Winterson succeeds in creating and conferring new values on these concepts in her novels, thus allowing them a different interpretation.
Ecofeminist Study of Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes in 1843
Authors: Palwekar Sanjay D. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
The present paper concerns itself with a great American feminist-writer Margaret Fuller. It is a critique of patriarchal industrial society. It is an expression of ecofeminist’s concern for environmental degradation triggered by rapid industrial and technological growth. It deals with her encounter with the external world, and her responses to the rapid material development in America. The article unfolds her concerns for humanity in general by endorsing a simple way of life, the idea which she shared with her friends Emerson and Thoreau, the great figures in American transcendentalism. This article is primarily about her delicate, feminine love for nature that she considered the only sustenance in her life.
“Look at Me!” Performing the Body and Self on Stage
Authors: Tóth Gabriella 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
The paper aims to explore some exemplary pieces of dramatic literature from antiquity and the Renaissance and especially from modern and postmodern works such as The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, ‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman and A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White by Adrienne Kennedy through the lens of body, disability and gender studies. While the paper mainly focuses on these three plays, it is not restricted to them. The pieces illustrate how the stage representation of physically or mentally challenged characters has changed and the process through which disabled performance has transferred into performative acts.
Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies
Authors: Cheang Wai Fong 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters.
Patterns and Representations of Shakespearean Love: Hubris, Infatuation, Agape in Hamlet
Authors: Foghel Bianca 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
The more conceptually elusive love has proven to be, the more it has whetted humanity’s appetite to try to narrow it down. Could one say that Shakespeare is one of the few personalities that managed not only to exemplify almost all recurrent patterns of love, but also to recreate them, in his case, within his plays? Is love weak, or is it so strong that it gives life to a character, only to overwhelm and destroy him/her later? Are there any archetypal emotional stages, or is it a fiery combustion? These are all questions which this paper will attempt to discuss with regard to Hamlet.
“In the Head of the Worthiest Women”: Amazon Queens and Performing Heroines in Jacobean Court Masques
Authors: De Benedictis Michele 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Queen Anne of Denmark’s role - as actress and patroness - in emancipating womanliness onstage by direct performance is strictly connected to the emerging trend of fashioning masques in the early Jacobean court. My paper will focus on the connection/contamination of this dramatic phenomenon with the current imagery of acting warlike heroines, conflicting Anne’s policy for entertainments with masculine and royal anxieties
Different Horrors, Same Hell: The Gendered Nature of Holocaust Suffering
Authors: Ghiţă Roxana 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
While most Holocaust memoirs and stories considered canonical present mostly the male viewpoint on loss and traumatic experiences, a shade is cast over women’s representations of the horrors of the Shoah. Although the suffering and horror experienced by both men and women cannot be quantified, women were subject to different traumatic experiences, as they were objects of hatred not only for belonging to an “impure race”, but also for being mothers and “sexual beings.”
The Innocent American Girl in Henry James’s International Novel
Authors: Lupu Diana-Gabriela 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
In his international novels, Henry James used the idea of innocence and loss of innocence in connection to his American characters, especially American girls, as opposed to the personality of the Europeans. He explored the differences between the two civilizations and the effect that these have on the identity of the innocent coming from the New World. Being presented by the author as childlike, unaware human beings, Henry James’s heroines come to Europe to learn something of ‘life’, but they can’t preserve their innocence as they are forced to recognize that the world is ambiguous, divided. Their drama is a result of their resistance to acknowledging the foreignness of the Other.
Visions of the Female Subject in the Borderlands
Authors: Ghiban Mocanu Maria-Cristina 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
Drawing on distinctions among concepts regarding the female experience, as well as on postcolonial theory, the proposed paper aims at identifying a series of specific features of the Chicano/a vision of the female subject. It also focuses on apparently irreconcilable differences between Chicano and Chicana literary strategies in dealing with feminine imagery, as well as on a taxonomy of female instances that could be configured in both literary and social spaces.
Measuring Evidence-Based Practice in Physical Therapy: Translation, Adaptation, Further Development, Validation, and Reliability Test of a Questionnaire
Authors: Bernhardsson Susanne , Larsson Maria E.H. 
Published: February 2013

BackgroundEvidence-based practice (EBP) and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are becoming increasingly important in physical therapy. For the purpose of meeting the goals of designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies to facilitate the development of more EBP in primary care physical therapy, a valid and reliable questionnaire for measuring attitudes, knowledge, behavior, prerequisites, and barriers related to EBP and guidelines is needed.ObjectiveThe 3 objectives of this study were: (1) to translate and cross-culturally adapt a questionnaire to a Swedish primary care context for the purpose of measuring various aspects of EBP and guidelines in physical therapy, (2) to further develop the questionnaire to examine more aspects of guidelines, and (3) to test the validity and reliability of the adapted Swedish questionnaire.DesignThis was an instrument development study with validity and reliability testing.MethodsA previously used questionnaire about EBP was translated and cross-culturally adapted to a Swedish primary care physical therapy context. Additional items were constructed. A draft version was pilot tested for content validity (n=10), and a revised version was tested for test-retest reliability (n=42). The percentage of agreement between the 2 tests was analyzed.ResultsThe development process resulted in a first questionnaire draft containing 48 items. The validation process resulted in a second draft with acceptable content validity and consisting of 38 items. The test-retest analysis showed that the median percentage of agreement was 67% (range=41%–81%). After removal or revision of items with poor agreement, the final questionnaire included 31 items.LimitationsOnly face validity and content validity were tested.ConclusionsThe final translated and adapted questionnaire was determined to have good face and content validity and acceptable reliability for measuring self-reported attitudes, knowledge, behavior, prerequisites, and barriers related to EBP and guidelines among physical therapists in primary care settings.
Dynamic combination of authentication factors based on quantified risk and benefit
Authors: Han Weili , Sun Chen , Shen Chenguang , Lei Chang , Shen Sean 
Published: February 2013

ABSTRACTBy combining multiple factors during authentication, a service can provide better assurance of security. However, the users are likely to feel inconvenient, or even discard the service. This paper, therefore, addresses this issue and introduces a novel method, referred to as the Quantified riSk and Benefit adaptive Authentication Factors combination (QSBAF). QSBAF balances the requirements for both security and usability in the authentication of an information system and improves the system's ability to respond quickly to emerging risky events. In QSBAF, the authentication factors can be dynamically combined on the basis of quantified risk, benefit measurements, and combination policies. Furthermore, QSBAF provides an adaptive mechanism, which is driven by history data to justify the measurements of risk and benefit. In this paper, we use the online banking system as a typical scenario to demonstrate the usage of QSBAF. We also implement a prototype of QSBAF to evaluate the performance of its feasibility in real application scenarios. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Electrostatic solitary waves and double layers in a non-extensive dusty plasma with arbitrarily charged dust
Authors: ALINEJAD H. , TRIBECHE M. 
Published: February 2013

AbstractThe nonlinear propagation of dust ion-acoustic (DIA) solitary waves (SWs) as well as double layers (DLs) in a dusty plasma containing warm adiabatic ions, non-extensive electrons, and arbitrarily (positively or negatively) charged immobile dust are studied. Based on the energy-like integral equation, a new relationship between the localized electrostatic disturbances and dust polarity in the non-extensive dusty plasma is derived. It is shown that the effect of electron non-extensivity, in contrast to the influence of extensive electrons, is destructive for the formation of the SWs and DLs. It is also found that the negative (positive) dust number density raises (reduces) the possibility for the formation of these localized states.
Aquaculture Methods for a Genetically Managed Population of Endangered Delta Smelt
Authors: Lindberg Joan C , Tigan Galen , Ellison Luke , Rettinghouse Theresa , Nagel Meredith M , Fisch Kathleen M 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
In response to Federal listing of the Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus as a threatened species in 1993, intensive fish culture techniques were developed to provide a supply of fish for research activities. The Delta Smelt was listed as endangered by the state of California in 2009, and several agencies worked quickly to develop a captive refuge population under genetic management. Captive 2-year-old wild-origin Delta Smelt served as the founding population in 2008. Each year, 250 genetically selected, single pair crosses are made in vitro, and the resultant full-sibling families are combined to rear in multifamily groups. Typically, eight families are reared together from egg to adult stage, with 80% or more of the initial families represented at the adult stage. Multifamily rearing provides an efficient way of achieving a breeding population of 500 in a smaller facility. Juvenile survival increased from 18% in 2009 to 39% in 2010, as facilities and methodologies improved. Growth rate also increased significantly from 2009 to 2010 (from 0.19 to 0.25 mm/d). Subdermal alphanumeric tags identified individuals and allowed spawning of select individuals to preserve genetic diversity in the refuge population. Group marking, by adipose fin clip, provided efficiencies in time and space. Tagging and genetic analyses enabled in vitro spawning of recommended pair crosses each year. At present, we recommend completing the majority of spawning from February to mid-May and continuing to augment the refuge population with wild fish each year. The refuge population provides one type of safeguard against species extinction and provides an example for endangered fish culture.
Male ornamental coloration improves courtship success in a jumping spider, but only in the sun
Authors: Taylor Lisa A. , McGraw Kevin J. 
Published: February 2013

Abstract
In many animals, males display colorful ornaments to females during courtship, the effectiveness of which depends on the ambient lighting environment. While a variety of hypotheses exist to explain both presence of and variation in such traits, many propose that they function as signals and that their presence is required for or improves successful mating. In Habronattus pyrrithrix jumping spiders, males display brilliant, condition-dependent red faces and green legs to drab gray/brown females during courtship. We designed 2 experiments to first test if coloration is required for successful mating and then whether the role of color changes under varying light conditions. In Experiment 1, we paired individual males with virgin females under laboratory lighting and found that blocking either their red or green coloration, or both, had no effect on success (likelihood of copulation, copulation duration, latency to copulation, female aggression, or cannibalism) when compared with sham-treated males. In Experiment 2, we gave virgin females the choice between 2 simultaneously courting males, one with his red coloration blocked and the other that received a sham treatment, and ran trials outdoors in both the sun and the shade. Blocking red facial coloration reduced a male’s ability to approach a female, but only when courting in the sun. These results suggest that ornamental coloration is not required for mating in H. pyrrithrix, but that red coloration improves success in certain contexts. We discuss implications for the evolution of elaborate, multimodal courtship displays by animals that interact in variable environments.