bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Klasterisasi Desa Wisata Berbasis Ketahanan Bencana dan Masyarakat di Desa Kunjir, Lampung Selatan
Authors: Rusmiati Fadhilah , Persada Citra , Hardilla Dini 
Published: January 2024

Kabupaten Lampung Selatan melalui Dinas Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan Lampung Selatan pada awal tahun 2022 mencanangkan Desa Kunjir sebagai salah satu desa wisata unggulan. Sebelumnya Desa Kunjir juga terkena dampak tsunami pada tahun 2018 yang berdampak pada penurunan kegiatan wisata di Desa Kunjir maupun sekitanya. Sebelumnya penulis melakukan penelitian dengan hasil berupa penyusunan 4 (empat) zonasi kawasan pesisir Desa Kunjir. Dengan adanya arahan dari zonasi tersebut kemudian dilakukan pendataan terkait potensi pengembangan wisata baru serta aspirasi dari komunitas masyarakat. Tujuan penelitian ini menyusun klasterisasi desa wisata berdasarkan kondisi ruang wilayah serta tata lingkungan yang dinamis guna meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan metode analisis kualitatif dengan sumber data sekunder serta informasi dari responden yang terpilih secara purposive sampling dengan melakukan wawancara terstruktur. Dalam proses analisa dengan menggunakan hasil penelitian penulis terdahulu dan menggabungkan dengan hasil temuan penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian ini menghasilkan 4 (empat) pengembangan klaster wisata unggulan diantaranya Klaster Wisata Kunjir’s Giant Seawall, Klaster Kunjir Culinary Tour, Klaster Wisata Air Terjun dan Sumber Air Panas Kunjir Hot Springs, dan Klaster Kunjir Open Air Museum. Dengan demikian konsep klasterisasi desa wisata Kunjir tersebut dapat terlaksana secara rutin dan menjadi agenda wisata yang mampu dilaksanakan oleh Pemerintah Kabupaten Lampung Selatan
“The new modern”: The subjective motivation for wearing a veil in a Muslim-majority city, Langsa, Aceh
Authors: Fitria Syiva , Siregar Mawardi , Sembiring Masdalifah 
Published: January 2024

The veil-wearing is debated in various non-Muslim countries, yet it is indispensable to explore the veil-wearing in Muslim-majority country that upholds the ideology of religious moderation. Despite the fact that Langsa City implements Sharia law, women who wear veils encounter discrimination. While wearing veil, women are confronted with obstacles, but still preserve the veil. Thus, analysing the motive and the maintaining factor is crucial. This study investigates why people choose to wear and continue wearing veils. The current study is a qualitative study with an ethnographic approach. Data was collected using observations, in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGD) with 10 informants selected purposively. The results analysis revealed that the use of the veil does not happen suddenly but through a complex process. The motivation for wearing a veil is a spiritual force. However, other multi-factor underlines the decision to wear one. The factors are dedication to religious principles, protecting oneself, following one spouse's advice, and a desire to appear fashionable but yet respectful and Islamic. This study implies that there is a shift in perspectives regarding the veiling practice as a means of spirituality as well as a means of self-expression. Moreover, Islamic veils transcend Islamic regulations because women wear them for diverse purposes.
GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCE OF TWO ACCESSIONS OF SOME LEGUMES ON EXPOSURE TO HEAVY METAL IN LAFIA NASARAWA STATE
Authors: Mshelmbula B. P. , Ubani Uzoamaka , Kana H. A. , Bello S. , Tsaku N. A. , Zakariya Rebeccah , Sirajo S. , Alanana M. H. , Saudat I. , Ibrahim S. O. 
Published: January 2024

The aim of the research was to determine the growth and yield performance of some legumes upon exposure to heavy metals. seeds were collected from International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Wild beans included TVNU2 and TVUN16, Cowpea: TVU2 and TVU8 while Bambara: TVSU3 and TVSU7. Dried soil collected was filled into 24 plastic buckets. Four (4) grams of lead chloride was measured with the aid of weighing balance and was dissolved into 1 litter of distilled water. Another portion of distilled water without any additive was measured and used as control. The lead solution was used to pollute the soil and allowed to stay for 24hrs before planting in a screen house. 4g of heavy metal was introduced into 8kg of soil in a bucket with each of the legumes having three replicates and was laid in a Randomized Complete Bock Design. The data collected was analyzed using two way (ANOVA) and treatment means were separated by means of LSD where differences exist. At 14 weeks after planting, results revealed that among the Cowpea accessions, TVU8 performed better than the other accession in all the parameters measured. Among the Wild bean, TVNU2 did better in most of the parameters except number leaf and number of pod/plant while in Bambara groundnut, TVSU7 performed best generally.
EXTRACTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF OIL FROM DATE PALM SEED (PHOENIX DACTYLEPHERA) USING N-HEXANE
Authors: Alexander David Onoja  , Usman Salifu Oma , Abdullahi Aminu Sezor , Jacob Alifa David , Ocheme Gabriel Wilson , Sheneni Victor , Audu Ali Salihu , Jimoh Abdulazeez Enesi 
Published: January 2024

This research aimed to extract, characterize and identify oil components in date-palm seed The date-palm were collected after eating several date-palm (seed). The extraction was undertaken with the aid of a soxhlet apparatus and a solvent hexane was selected based on the fact that it has a very low value of toxicity and A huge retraction rate. The particles gotten from were separate units from numbers i.e. 710um, 1mm and 2mm mesh size mesh size, which 40g each were measured and subjected to the extraction steps and the following values of oil were obtained: respectively: 363, 3.49 and 3.25 with the smallest particle size producing the highest yield. , While the result obtained from FTIR analysis showed the following functional group results CH2, C=O, C=C, C-C, C-O. In the Oil Extract the physicochemical indicates acid value: 2.55mg/g, peroxide value: 1.40mg/g, Saponification value: 80.50mg/g, iodine value: 83.31mg/g, free fatty acid value: 6.71mg/g. However, from this analysis date palm seed oil has high oil value compared to other edible vegetable oil.
PROCESS FORMULATION AND USAGE OF CASTOR SEED OIL AND POLYVINYL ACETATE ADMIXTURE IN THE MANUFACTURING OF EMULSION PAINT
Authors: Ugbune Ufuoma , Okhuarobo Osamwen L. 
Published: January 2024

Paints are widely used for surface coating, they are made with combinations of different raw materials, for example polyvinyl acetate. The cost of this raw material is increasing daily in Nigeria due higher exchange rate of dollar to naira coupled with an increasing number of entrepreneurs using this material for paint production daily. This raw material is synthetic and not eco-friendly. Therefore, this research seeks to fill this gap by using natural material (castor seed oil) that is cheap and eco-friendly as combinatorial with polyvinyl acetate. Castor seed oil used for this research was sourced from a local market in Delta State. Castor seed oil was extracted using solvent extraction. Paint was produced using four different formulations; Paint produced was characterized using ASTM method. Results obtained from the work showed 43.5 yield of castor seed oil, results of opacity, viscosity, specific gravity, drying time and pH are in the range of 9.5-22, 0.92-0.94,1.01-1.15 gcm3, 25-30 minutes, 7.9-8.6 respectively. The combination of 60% Polyvinyl acetate to 40% Castor seed oil was more effective for paint production due to its low viscosity ( 0.920C) and high specific density (1.15 kg/L). Therefore, 60% Polyvinyl acetate to 40% Castor seed oil combinatorial is recommended for paint production for economic and environmental gain
Corpus Linguistics Strategies for Identifying Accepted Theories in Early Modern England
Authors: Shan G. G. 
Published: January 2024

The paper investigates the applicability of corpus linguistics to the construction of a database of intellectual history. Working with the Royal Society Corpus (RSC), it presents a series of corpus queries that can aid with computationally identifying potential instances of communal theory acceptance in England during the period of 1665-1800. These queries allowed to identify a set of noun-adjective pairs potentially synonymous with “accepted theory” and retrieve around 1,400 excerpts potentially indicative of instances of communal theory acceptance. The paper also discusses some strategies for identifying the epistemic agent, as well as the RSC’s place within the broader historical context. Finally, I argue that, in addition to exploring corpus linguistics strategies, methodologies for interpreting computationally retrieved data should also be developed.
Impact of grafting and deficit irrigation on yield of melon (cucumis melo l.)
Authors: Özbek Ömer , Kaman Harun 
Published: January 2024

An experiment was performed to evaluate the effects of grafting and deficit irrigation on yield of melon grown under different water stress conditions. The plant materials used in the study were Ünlü melon grafted on the rootstock of Ferro melon and ungrafted Ünlü melon species. Water was applied at the level of 80, 60 and 40% of the water applied to the full irrigation level (I100=100%). Grafting significantly affected the fruit number of the plants. The fruit number in the ungrafted applications was higher than that in the grafted applications. Effects of grafting application and irrigation level on fruit weight was significant. The fruit weight in the ungrafted applications was higher than that in the grafted applications. Outcome indicated that there was no significant loss in yield, fruit number, or fruit weight of melons under application of 20% water deficit to the plants. Findings also revealed that the amount of irrigation water for melon cultivation can be safely reduced by 20% under Mediterranean climate conditions.
Bangladesh J. Bot. 52(4): 925-932, 2023 (December)
Axillary shoot proliferation and regeneration of red rose [pisiformis (christ.) D. Sosn. An under thread extinction species endemic to Turkey
Authors: Özel Onur , Demiray Hatice , Eroğlu Volkan , Ecer Cihan 
Published: January 2024

In vitro propagation of red rose [Rosa pisiformis (Christ.) D. Sosn.] has great importance in rapid proliferation of species with medicinal features and in culture of healthy plants free from deseases. After a succesfully pre-sterilization procedure, experiments were maintained by two-phase: multiplication phase and rooting of microshoots phase. Micropropagation of Rose was improved, using its nodal segments under different combination of BAP (0, 1.0, 2.0, 0.6 mg/l), NAA (0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.01 mg/l) on Driver and Kuniyuki (DKW) and MS medium in multiplication phase and using distinct compositions of IBA (0, 1.0, 3.0, 5.0 mg/l) and DKW medium in rooting phase. The maximum number of shoots/per plant (22.6) with the highest number of leaves (222.6) were obtained in DKW medium supplemented with 0.6 mgl-1 BAP and 0.01 mg/l NAA. The leaf explants were also used to occur callus in MS with different combinations of BAP and NAA. Good callus formation was obtained with 1:2 ratio of BAP:NAA combination in MS medium. Furthermore, the highest root induction (100%) was achieved in DKW medium consisting of 1 mg/l IBA. The rooted plantlets were transferred to the field after acclimatized in greenfield conditions. The present investigation presents an in vitro protocol for R. pisiformis.
Bangladesh J. Bot. 52(4): 949-958, 2023 (December)
Nutritional and agronomic response of eggplant (solanum melongena l.) To the application of vermicompost, potassium and boron
Authors: Akter Nasrin , Syed Mahmud , Rahman Md Khalilur 
Published: January 2024

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of vermicompost (VC), potassium (K) and boron (B) on the growth, yield and mineral nutrient accumulation of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). Eight treatments were arranged in a completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications including control. Application of VC8K60 (T5) resulted in the highest plant height (60 cm). However, VC8K60B0.4 (T8) recorded the maximum leaf number (17 plant-1), leaf area (264 cm2), fruit petiole (4.15 plant-1), fruit number (3.50 plant-1), total fresh (143.15 g plant-1) and dry weight (16.4 g plant-1). Application of VC8K60B0.4 (T8) helped the improvement of the N, P, K, S, Fe and Zn concentrations of the roots, leaves and fruits. Result of growth, yield attributes and nutrient content varied significantly (p ≤ 0.05). Hence, to achieve higher fruit yield with higher nutrient concentration the soil should be supplied with vermicompost, muriate of potash (50% K) and boric acid (17% B) at a required rate. However, for a good recommendation field trials are needed in major agroecosystems of the country.
Bangladesh J. Bot. 52(4): 959-964, 2023 (December)
Selection of heat tolerant donor lines in indian mustard (Brassica Juncea L.)
Authors: Kaur Jasneet , Sandhu Surinder K , Rialch Indu , Singh Manpreet , Kaur Karanveer , Pal Lalit 
Published: January 2024

Heat stress during the post anthesis (seed filling) stage negatively influences the movement of photosynthates to the developing sinks and, thus lowering the seed yield in Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss]. The present studywas conducted with the objective to unravel the variability for terminal heat stress (THS) in a fixed diversitygenetic stock of 500 lines of Indian mustard. Germplasm stock exhibited huge variability for seed yield and its contributing traits with variable levels of yield reduction under late sown conditions. The per se yield based computed heat stress susceptibility index (HSI) ranged from 32.3 (highly THS susceptible) to -1.15 (THS tolerant). Based on yield reduction due to THS, 500 test genotypes were grouped into 10 classes and genotypes from each class wererandomly takento constitute a diverse panel of 96 lines. This panel was evaluated under THS by raising crop underpoly-tunnels during reproductive phase along with same set of 96 genotypes raised under normal field conditions (served as control). Based on agronomic advantage and HSI for economic traits, 23 heat tolerant donor lines were selected for utilization in commercial breeding programme.
Bangladesh J. Bot. 52(4): 1007-1013, 2023 (December)
Impact of water stress on morpho-physiological and biochemical traits in rice genotypes
Authors: Sheeba A , Selvi C Tamil , Yogameenakshi P , Bhaskaran M , Banumathy S 
Published: January 2024

Laboratory and field screening were performed in nine rice genotypes i.e., TM 12061, TM 12077, TM 12012, TM 14035, TM 16017, Senthuram, Vandhana, TKM 12 and Anna (R) 4 to assess their drought tolerant potential. For laboratory screening, the effect of different levels of Poly Ethylene Glycol (PEG) concentration viz., -0.2, -0.4, -0.6 and -1.0 MPa on germination, shoot length and root length were studied. There was a considerable decrease in the germination potential among all the genotypes with increase in PEG concentration. The TM 12077 showed higher level of tolerance to PEG induced drought stress showing 30.8 % germination with 3.2 cm and 8.85 cm shoot and root length, respectively at higher level of concentration (1.0 MPa). In the field screening under managed stress condition, TM 12077 and TM 12012 showed higher accumulation of proline (4.15 mg/g). Chlorophyll stability index was more than 80 % in the genotypes TM 12012, TM 12077 and TM 12061. The genotype TM 14035, the varieties Anna (R) 4 and Vandhana matured early in 115 days. Number of tillers per plant, number of panicles/sqm and yield/hectare were maximum in TM 12077. While considering both laboratory and field screening, the genotypes TM 12077, TM 12012 and TM 12061 were found promising for water stress environment and can be utilized as donors in the drought tolerance breeding programs. High heritability coupled with moderate to high GA as per cent of mean recorded for plant height, tillers per plant, chlorophyll stability Index and total chlorophyll content indicates the presence of additive gene effects and their improvement through direct selection.
Bangladesh J. Bot. 52(4): 1041-1046, 2023 (December)
Genotype and environment interactions of yield contributing characters of field mustard (Brassica rapa L.)
Authors: Mondal Susmita , Johora Fatema Tuj , Roy Goutom , Rahman Jamilur 
Published: January 2024

Genotype-environment interaction is the norm of reciprocal action that determines the relationship between gene and environmental factors. Gene and environment interaction takes place when different environments affect the genotypes and vice versa. The investigation portrays the interaction between genes and environments of yield contributing characteristics of eleven genotypes of field mustard. Three seeding-time environments, viz., early, late, and very late of eleven mustard genotypes were laid out with three replications in a randomized complete block design. Among the three environments, which one was favorable and which was not was determined by their significant differences through a combined analysis of variance. The IPCA 1 (first interaction principal component axis) score of genotypes in the AMMI (additive main effects and multiplicative interaction analysis) of G×E interactions was estimated as an indication of the ability to respond to the environments and the performance with changing environments of the genotypes. Considering all the scores, Sonali Sharisha (SS-75), and BINA Sharisha-10 were found to be highly stable genotypes, while among the three environments, the environment-1 (early sowing) was found the best sowing time for raising and harvesting a good mustard crop.
Bangladesh J. Bot. 52(4): 1055-1065, 2023 (December)
Appropriate Selection for Numbers of neurons and layers in a Neural Network Architecture: A Brief Analysis
Authors: Aziz Asif , Khan Talha , Iftikhar Umar , Tanoli Irfan , Qureshi Asif khalid 
Published: January 2024

Identification of optimal number of neurons and layers in a proposed neural architecture is very complex for the better results. The determination of the hidden layer number is also very difficult task for the proposed network. The recognition of the effective neural network model in terms of accuracy and precision in results as well as in terms of computational resources is very crucial in the community of the computer scientists. An effective proposed neural network architecture must comprise the appropriate numbers of perceptrons and number of layers. Another research gap was also reported by the researchers community that the perceptron stuck during the training phase in finding minima or maxima for stochastic gradient to solve any engineering application. Therefore to resolve the problem of selection of neurons and layers an analysis was performed to evaluate the performance of the neural network architecture with different neurons and layers on the same data set. The results revealed that the justified network architecture would contain justified number of neurons and layers as more number of neurons and layers increase more computational resources and training time. It was suggested that a neural network architecture should be proposed comprising of minimum 2 to 5 layers. Entropy and Mean square error was considered as a yardstick to measure the neural network architecture performance. Results depicted that the an effective neural network architecture must initially be simulated or checked with minimum number of instances to evaluate the model.
Silvicultural Practices for Diversity Conservation and Invasive Species Suppression in Forest Ecosystems of the Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka
Authors: Suraweera Channa , Gallo Josef , Vacek Zdeněk , Cukor Jan , Vacek Stanislav , Baláš Martin 
Published: January 2024

Forest ecosystems in Sri Lanka are under pressure from intensive human activity and climate change. Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to autochthonous species and ecosystems. In Bundala National Park of Sri Lanka, there are efforts to control and limit the spreading of unwanted invasive Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. and Opuntia dillenii (Ker-Gawl.) Haw., which poses a significant risk to natural ecosystem conservation. Nine different treatment variants (four replications) were used to test which management approach provides the control of Prosopis juliflora. This research is based on nine repeated measurements from 2017 to 2021 on 36 permanent research plots (each 625 m2) with 27 observed plant species and a total of 90,651 recorded plant individuals. The results confirmed that the dynamics of species richness, heterogeneity, and evenness showed significant differences between treatments during the five years of dynamics. The lowest species diversity was found in the control variant, followed by treatments based on the hard pruning and thinning of Prosopis juliflora trees. In contrast, strategies emphasizing the complete uprooting of Prosopis juliflora trees, replanting, and support of the natural regeneration of native species showed high species diversity and a high overall number of plant species. Generally, treatments had a significant effect on species diversity and the number of individuals of Prosopis juliflora, while changes in the overall number of plant species were more affected by time and succession. Silvicultural treatments including pruning, uprooting, and thinning have proven to be essential tools for nature conservation across various sites, aimed at enhancing habitat diversity in the face of ongoing climate change.